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7 Still falling J1 world scene worrii World scene worries Ailing Henry Mancini works while undergoing cancer treatments investors All-state Bearcat Bonzi named to two all-state teams Feud Owner, coach of Cowboys meet in private it Temasters: Dues clash WEATHER THE Home delivery 747-5717 Classified ads 747-5777 Star newsroom 747-5754 Fax it to us 747-5748 STAP dm i MMCIE CLOUDY, COLDER: Considerable cloudiness and colder today with a 30-percent chance of rain or snow showers in the afternoon. Highs from the middle to upper 40s. See Page 2A. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." II Cor. 3:17 MUNCIE, INDIANA MARCH 29,1994 Mum -i ifin.n m.

XT Shooting leaves teenager dead rlJ Police say youths handling revolver when gun went off By GREG MAYNARD Star staff reporter The faces of the youths sitting on 500-NRoyerton Road) gfr i-Mk-u I Airport I Muncie yl zf Jj I ytcGaltord Road L- rV''' 1 St lnwi.iiw''"" the trunk of the sports car in a well-kept north Muncie neighborhood Monday afternoon said pretty much all that needed to be said. Two girls huddled under a blanket in the chilly air, their eyes registering the shock of the tragedy that had occurred around Three boys sat together, their heads down and their eyes wet and red with tears. A few feet away, in a second-' floor bedroom of the large stucco home, a small blood stain was the only reminder of their friend who had just died. The youth, Ryan Christopher Williams, was shot once in the chest with a revolver, Delaware County Coroner Jack Stonebraker Jr. said.

Williams was pronounced dead in the emergency room at Ball Memorial Hospital. Williams was the 13-year-old son of Timothy and Patricia Williams, Stonebraker said. The youth's father is a Muncie dentist Williams died, investigators said, after three boys found a handgun in a drawer of the Noel Pooler home, 2701 Sun Valley Parkway. While handling the weapon, it fired. A lead and copper, hollow-point bullet struck Williams in the right side of his chest.

"The youths had been told they were not supposed to be upstairs in the house," Delaware County Police Chief Deputy Don Scroggins said late Monday. "They were supposed to be outside, but somehow they wound up up there and found the gun. The next thing everybody heard was a single gunshot." 35 CENTS Was option a $25,000 mistake? Board won't buy land by Pennville By BRIAN SAPARNIS Star staff reporter HARTFORD CITY, Ind. A load was taken off LOAD members' minds Monday. The Mideast Indiana Solid Waste District will not exercise its option to buy 216 acres at Jay County Roads 30 and 75 near Pennville.

That is welcome news to Penn-ville-area residents who formed Love Our American Dream. The group criticized the district for buying a $25,000 option and pleaded that the option not be exercised. The board's decision proved to be its only choice. The land was appraised at $750 an acre, district director Carter Leonard said. The board could not pay Decatur resident Arlen Mitchel the $1,000 an acre he sought because it was more than the appraised value.

The district could negotiate with Mitchel for a lower price or look for another site. District officials had said they wanted the site for recycling and applying yard waste. The board will evaluate the progress at a recycling center started a few months ago in Jay County's Knox Township before making a decision, Blackford County Commissioner Rex Chaney said. Dorothy Buschur said the land near Pennville was not suitable and would not permit the district to fulfill all of its long-range plan to reduce landfill-bound waste. She also cited concerns that water for several thousand people could become contaminated.

"I hope in the future when the board members make a decision of this mapitude, they investigate more," she said in a telephone interview. District officials pledged not to use the site as a landfill, but some were not convinced that promise would stick. Buschur said residents became alarmed during a September meeting when they saw a spot for a landfill marked on a map. She said that threw up a red flag. Chaney said the district "spent 6 months fighting an issue that did not exist." Leonard was asked why the district did not have the land appraised before it bought the option.

"It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback," he said, adding an appraisal would have cost $1,000. Did the district make a $25,000 mistake? "I don't think so; but then again, I'm the director," Leonard said. "That was a good piece of land and could have paid for itself." The district includes Blackford, Jay and Wells counties. Star graphic Scroggins said the weapon belonged to Pooler. It was a family heirloom that was kept in the top drawer of a four-drawer bedroom chest.

Pooler wasn't home at the time, although family members were there. The seven people there were mainly youths from the Country Village area. Pooler could not be reached for comment late Monday. "There were other people in the house other than the three boys, and they were just a group of friends," Scroggins said. "The boys were told not to be there, but they got past everybody and wound up there anyway." As the youths sat in the garage an hour after the shooting, one of the boys' mothers ran up to the scene.

"What happened?" she loudly asked the youths and the officers guarding the crime scene. As her son slowly replied his friend had been shot, the woman's face became red and she took a step toward the yellow tape preventing onlookers from entering the crime scene. The mother and son exchanged some heated, questioning words until police stepped in to calm the situation. The youths were taken to the Delaware County Justice Center to give statements and then released to their parents. I 1 3 jf- 1 .41 I tea raw 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS Devastated church Wreckage and the outer walls of the church was hit by a Palm Sunday tornado.

Goshen United Methodist Church are all that Storms killed 43 and injured scores in several remain Monday after the Piedmont, southern states. See Page 3A. 2nd district hopefuls trade barbs at end of forum By EIDON PITTS said, "ought not be balanced on the backs of the poor. Every child ought to have the same opportunity as all of the privileged persons on this stage Democrat Joseph Hogsett, Indiana secretary of state, noted he was raised and lived in nearby Rushville. "My philosophy of government is very simple: Do more for less," Hogsett said, "To do that, it takes imagination, courage and determination." During the forum, sponsored by the New Castle Courier-Times, candidates fielded questions about health care, jobs, the deficit and national debt, taxes, free-trade and even abortion from a panel of media representatives.

from the liberals. "I want to go to Congress because I'm not a politician," Robert Marsh, a retired Madison County autoworker told a sparse audience of loyal Republicans and Democrats. He is president of the Madison County Taxpayers Association. "I'm one of you," he said to the audience, "who decided to get up out of that seat." Democrat Al Simmons, president of the Madison County Urban League, admitted his was not a household name. And, he said, after making sure everyone in the audience knew his name, "Now I won't have to worry about being unknown." The national budget, Simmons County Democratic Party chairman, angrily told Mcintosh he took exception to the candidate's reference during a comment on health care to "Hillary Rodham Kevorkian." "That's a disgrace to our first lady," McCall told the candidate.

And another GOP candidate, Eddie Traylor, former Air Force pilot and Pendleton businessman, appeared to take exception to media attention that Mcintosh has been receiving. "I'm just as good and as concerned a candidate as Mcintosh," Traylor said. Traylor noted during the forum that he was a "Ronald Reagan Republican." Now, Traylor said, "it's time to. take back the country aspire to be that district's voice in the House of Representatives." "I'm from Indiana," protested Mcintosh, a lawyer and aide to former Vice President Dan Quayle, as he stood, pointing a finger at Frazier. "We've been campaigning for 2 months, and I need to clear up the record." Moderator Jim Robbins had to interrupt to allow the closing statements to resume.

Mcintosh noted after the forum that he grew up in Indiana and now lived in Muncie. "The time I spent away from Indiana was working with a Hoos-ier vice president," he said. "I'm very proud of that" And after the event ended, Eugene (Bud) McCall, Henry Star staff reporter NEW CASTLE, Ind. A 2-hour public forum for 2nd district congressional candidates at Bundy Auditorium Monday night ended with several exceptions. Republican David Mcintosh, who already had given his closing statement, stood again after fellow GOP candidate Bill Frazier finished to take exception to Frazier's comments about Mcintosh's residency.

"I cast no aspersions on anyone, certainly not my friend David Mcintosh," Frazier, a Muncie farmer and businessman, said in closing. "But as a lifelong resident of our district, I am deeply troubled that someone can move into a district and in less than 2 months, I Classified ads 1-4D Waiting to wed Ages of people in the U.S. getting married in lj ZZ9 '1986 T-r 20-24 i 1 Ant 344pPS A Under 20 yfA Comics 6C Deaths 1D Editorials 4A Ann Landers 5A Local news Lotteries 2A Markets 4-5C Sports 1-3C TVtheaters 6A Dead man's car stolen from funeral WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) Alfred A. Mandella loved his car so much his family included it in his funeral procession.

But the shiny, cream-colored sedan also looked pretty special to a thief. The car was stolen Saturday while parked outside the church during Man-della's funeral. Family members couldn't believe it. "I guess you have to be very careful, even at your own funeral," said Man-della's niece, Delores Kachajian. Mandella, 77, a retired truck driver, once won a first-place award for his driving and safety record in a competition with 3,000 other truck drivers.

The Teamsters union also had honored him. "They took them down without telling us," said Kiwanis member Anita Danner. She said the signs were up for about a year and did generate tourism in the area. Chris Ramsey, of INDOT, said the state must enforce its rules because the signs were placed on state property. Consequently, the state could be liable for accidents caused by the signs.

The state objected to the signs because, they were not erected on safe, "breakaway" posts, Ramsey said. Ramsey maintains that state is not necessarily saying refusing the signs. "All we've been asking for them to do is to apply for a permit," she said. Club members said they applied for a permit, but Ramsey said the department returned the application last fall asking for more information. It was never sent back to the state, she said.

Vevay in lather over Burma-Shave signs VEVAY, Ind. (AP) Residents of this Switzerland County town have worked themselves into a lather in a dispute with state officials over Burma-Shave signs. The Burma-Shave jingles, once a popular rural American attraction, were put on signs by the Vevay Kiwanis Club in an effort to attract tourists. The consecutive roadside signs read: "Passing Cars, When You Can't See, May Get You, A Glimpse, of Eternity. Burma-Shave." The signs seem harmless, but the Indiana Department of Transportation wants them removed.

INDOT says the club never obtained a permit. Ail but one series of the signs were taken down last summer. Z29 OA IV. 65 1 30-34-1 1908 5.0 1.0 I 4544 5.8' 20-24 31.5 I 65f 1.0 Und9r20 11.8 Volume No. 117, No.

363 1994, The Muncie Star Source: The American Almanac Star graphicEMILY HOLMES.