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House Votes to Tighten Restrictions on Abortions By BRIAN FRANCISCO Star Staff Reporter INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana House voted Monday to make it tougher for women to have abortions. "We cannot allow our state policy to be that we take a human life so lightly," said Rep. Frank Newkirk D-Salem, authored the main abortion bill. Newkirk's proposal passed on third reading by a 56-43 vote, making it eligible for consideration i by the Senate. House Bill 1034 would: Outlaw the use of public facilities and employees for abortions.

Require a woman to wait at least 24 hours after giving a physician her informed consent to an abortion. The physician would be required to discuss the risks of the operation and alternatives to abortion. Prohibit the abortion of a normal fetus after the 20th week of pregnancy except to save the woman's life or in the event the woman was the victim of rape or incest. East Central Indiana legislators split their votes by their political parties. Voting for H.B.

1034 were Republicans Jeffrey Espich of Uniondale, David Hoover of Ridgeville and Patrick Kiely of Anderson. Voting against it were Democrats Marc Carmichael and Hurley Goodall, both of Muncie; Douglas Kinser of New Castle, and Pete Beck and Tracy Boatwright, both of Marion. Only Carmichael joined the hour-long floor debate. "Indiana law is terribly restrictive the way it is," he said. "It is fine the way it is." Carmichael said Newkirk's bill discriminated More Legislative News on Page 3 Legislators Start Early, Work Into Late Night Bargaining, Budget Bills Among 190 Under Consideration By DOUG RICHARDSON Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana House, in record-breaking daylong session, approved bills Monday to mandate collective bargaining for most public employees and enact the largest supplemental budget in the state's history.

The House convened shortly after 7 a.m., the earliest starting time legislative veterans could remember, in order to tackle a calendar of 190 bills. The number of bills to be considered also was a record, according to veteran legislators. Lawmakers met before dawn and planned to continue work until midnight because Monday, the 16th working day of the 1990 session, was the final day for the House to approve its own bills. By 11:15 p.m., the House had voted on 170 measures. The collective bargaining proposal in House Bill 1307 cleared the House on a 64-32 vote, which sent the measure to the Senate.

Rep. Rolland Webber, D-Anderson, said his bill would "set Indiana in line with the rest of the Great Lakes states" and give workers greater ability to improve their salary and working conditions. Under the bill, collective bargaining would be mandatory for most state employees, all university employees including faculty members, most local police and fire workers, non-teaching public school personnel, Bureau of Motor Vehicle employees in license branches and lottery commission workers. Certain executive offices in state government and public safety workers for governmental units with less than 5,000 population would be exempt. Local governments could choose to opt in or out of collective bargaining for their other workers.

Impasses would be resolved through binding arbitration, and strikes would be punished with immediate fines against workers and their unions. Rep. James Davis, R-Frankfort, argued against the bill, saying it "will drive Indiana to a substantial tax increase during the 1990s." He said that if all workers covered under the bill regularly received 5-percent pay increases, the measure would cost state and local governments $149 million over the next decade. But Webber replied that Davis's figures were "from outer space or somewhere." He said it was unrealistic to think public employees would receive raises larger than those awarded to private sector workers in recent years. In other action, lawmakers voted 87-11 to send to the Senate a bill outlining a $214 million budget to supplement the $18.2 billion, 2-year spending plan approved last year.

H.B. 1157 originally was a Demo- Fatal Fire Deputy State Fire Marshall Bob Dean uses a fire hose to wash away debris Monday while searching for the cause of a house fire in Alexandria. The blaze killed three people, including a pair of newlyweds. Article about fire on Page 2. against poor women.

Rep. Robert Hayes, D-Columbus, said, "The choice "If we deny poor women the same clean, sterile, belongs to the woman," and warned, "This is the type professional care as offered their affluent sisters, of bill that will be decided at the polls" when House Indiana is going in the wrong direction," he said." members are up for re-election this year. But Newkirk said only one in every 15 abortions Thirty-five Republicans and 21 Democrats voted was performed in a public facility. for H.B. 1034, while 15 Republicans and 28 Democrats Rep.

Anita Bowser, D-Michigan City, said, voted against it. One Democrat was absent. "Restrictive abortion laws have something to do with By a 59-39 vote, the House approved a bill women's relative lack of power." requiring a fetus viability test after a woman's 20th If an embryo and a fetus are protected by the law, week of pregnancy. Carmichael, who voted against Bowser argued, "Eggs and sperm are surely alive." the bill, said genetic defects often didn't show up until She wasn't endorsing Newkirk's view that life 24 weeks. began at conception.

By a 77-21 vote, the House voted to make it a class "We do not have fetuses in the census nor do we felony for a physician to knowingly and intentionallow fetuses to be counted for tax exemptions," ally perform an abortion because of the gender of the Bowser said. unborn child. A physician who does so could face 8 Yet Rep. Richard Dellinger, R-Noblesville, asked, years in prison. "Doesn't it seem horrendous when a robber kills a Rep.

James Davis, R-Franfort, suggested a pregnant woman or a mother-to-be is addicted to woman who chose a gender-selection abortion should cocaine?" be subject to criminal prosecution. THE "Where the VOL. 113-NO. 307 MUNCIE, MUNCIE STAR Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is -II Cor. 3:17 INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1990 The Muncie Star 25 CENTS cratic proposal but it was rewritten last week with Republican amendments that increased the amount of money the bill would appropriate for public education.

"I don't like all the changes that were made but sometimes it's better not to take your bill and go home," said Rep. B. Patrick Bauer, a South Bend Democrat who sponsored the bill. "I think we should keep this moving to the Senate and perhaps to a conference committee." But Rep. Patrick J.

Kiely, R- Anderson, said the bill was better with Republican changes. "I hope it stays intact and goes to the governor's desk, and he can decide then whether we need a supplemental budget," Kiely said. The spending plan, which Bauer said was far larger than any past supplemental budget, would appropriate $100 million for corrections, including $56 million for a new prison; $33 million to cover medical costs caused by the repeal of federal catastrophic health insurance; over $20 million for public education; $10 million for a home health care program for the elderly and disabled, and $10 million for state employees' salary increases. In other action, the House approved I bills that would: Ban smoking in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Create a fifth three-member district of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Require each county, either singly or in conjunction with other counties, to form solid waste management districts. Two similar bills approved would also require those districts and the state to fashion long-term programs for handling solid waste. Reorganize the office of the Utility Consumer Counselor by transferring to that office 39 positions currently under the Utility Regulatory Commission. Reorganize management of the Indiana State Fair by replacing the current fair board with two bodies an appointed commission that would oversee operations of the fairgrounds and an elected body that would put on the fair. Create program to give state low-income students college who scholarships live to to up a pledge, made in the eighth grade, to finish high school and remain drug free.

Permit the sale of bonds as an option to finance prison construction. Allow a jury to impose a life sentence without parole as an alternative to the death penalty. Some bills failed on the deadline day. Among them were measures to ban random drug testing, require the operator of a boat to have a valid motor vehicle driver's license or have someone in the boat who does, ban the sale of fireworks illegal to use in Indiana and make it a crime to sell a ticket to a sporting event at a state-supported college for more than the ticket's face value. Star Photo by David Thurston Defense Cut, Aid Raised Bush Budget Cites 'Remarkable' Changes in World WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush on Monday Congress a $1.23 trillion budget for fiscal 1991 that keeps new spending below inflation and recognizes "remarkable changes" in the world by scaling back defense and rewarding emerging democracies.

Bush called the spending plan an "investment in the future," but Democrats in Congress pounced on it as not bold enough on defense cuts and too harsh on- social programs. They also disputed the president's contention that his budget would halve the deficit, to $63.1 billion, saying its economic assumptions were too optimistic. "This is a take-two-aspirin and call-me-in-the-morning budget," said Rep. Leon Panetta, chairman of the House Budget Committee, which opens hearings on the new budget today. Fights loomed with the Democratic-controlled Congress on a range of fronts: Bush's desire to cut Medicare and capital gains taxes, to close military bases he considers outmoded and, on the other hand, to preserve some expensive weapons.

Bush would increase spending on space, education, the environment and the war on drugs. Losers, this year, are Medicare, college student loans, farm subsidies, energy conservation and mass transit. The president's budget for the Jail Project's Overseer Wants Court to Hear About Problems By SETH SLABAUGH "The defendants could choose to allow the Star Staff Reporter scheduled completion date to pass and wait for the County government officials and others responsi- court, on its own volition, to inquire into the issue of ble for construction of the Delaware County Justice compliance," McNeely wrote. "I would assume that Center apparently will have to explain in federal the attorneys for the defendants would not view this court the reasons for the project's delay and cost as a desirable alternative for their clients." overruns. McNeely also recommended that attorney Fergus U.S.

District Court Special Master Lee McNeely Kear, representing commissioners and the sheriff, and has suggested that county officials ask the court for a Donald Dunnuck, representing county council, "make hearing within 2 weeks. their clients aware that since they will not be able to In a letter to county attorneys, McNeely said it had comply with the court's earlier orders, and since they become apparent that the county would not be able to all possibly face the contempt citations as a result, comply with U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans some considerable effort must be made to explain Barker's order to complete construction this May. to the court's satisfaction why the earlier orders could Officials do not expect the courts-and-jail complex not be complied with." to be finished until early 1991, and they do not expect County council was added as a defendant several to finish moving into the structure until several years after the lawsuit was filed. months after that.

McNeely also suggested that the county ask Barker presides over a lawsuit filed in 1978 by Barker to tour the justice center so the court "can inmates against the sheriff and county commission- acquaint itself with the physical condition of the ers. structure." The case forced the county to tear down its jail, McNeely's letter also stated: "The hearing before renovate a former commercial building on Riggin the court, if requested, will undoubtedly be viewed as Road into a temporary jail and build the justice a most serious matter. I would assume that the center. (See JAIL on Page 10) A Total Loss Glade Cooper looks at her belongings in despair as Eaton firefighters fight a 5- alarm blaze at her home with help from the Dunkirk, Albany, Hamilton and Hartford City volunteer fire departments. The blaze Monday totally destroyed the home of John Cooper, and his wife, Glade.

Their son and his wife and child also lived in the home on Delaware County Road 1100-N east of Delaware County Road 350-E. Article about fire on Page 3. fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 calls for $36.5 billion in spending cuts and other deficit-reduction measures. It projects a 7 percent increase in revenues, to $1.17 trillion, without a general tax increase and just a 3 percent boost in overall spending more than a percentage point below the current rate of inflation.

Bush proposed defense spending of $292.1 billion, a cut of 2 percent measured against inflation; while boosting foreign aid to Eastern (See BUDGET on Page 10) Index BSU's Butts finding success off the court also. Page 11 49ers, Broncos review rout of Super Bowl XXIV. Page 1 11 Dow rebounds from slide, ends down 5 points. Page 15 Noblesville man sentenced for defrauding bank. Page 20 Area News ...2 Lotteries Classified Neighborhood ....6 Comics 19 On Record Sports Deaths Television.

............9 Editorials Theaters Focus Weather 10 Landers Week Ahead ....9 Chance of Rain Today is expected to be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of light rain, a high near 40 and a low in the upper teens to around 20. Details on Page 10. Woman Believed Fire Victim Was Shot Before Fire Started By RANDY RENDFELD Obituary on Page 7 Star Staff Reporter WINCHESTER, Ind. The death of a rural Winchester woman last week i is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Monday. An autopsy determined that Etta Mae Alexander, 44, R.R.

1, Winchester, had been shot twice before her mobile home apparently was set on fire Thursday night. Alexander's body was burned so badly she could be identified only through dental records. Nonetheless, the autopsy report of Michael Clark, forensic pathologist at Indiana University Medical Center, determined she was shot once from the front in her shoulder. A second upward shot from the back hit Alexander's heart. The autopsy report also noted Alexander inhaled no smoke, indicating she died before flames consumed her.

The caliber of the gunshot has not been determined. "We can tell that a flammable liquid was used as an accelerant," Maj. Jay Harris of the Randolph County Sheriff's Department said Monday. "Whether it's diesel fuel, gasoline, kerosene until we get lab results back, we won't know." No motives were known Monday night. Harris said Alexander worked a day or two each week as a cook at the Cafe, 110 N.

Main St. Harris said Alexander received food stamps, and he doubted robbery would have been a motive for her slaying. Alexander, a native of Wells, Texas, moved to Winchester from Texas 2 to 3 years ago. Harris said Alexander was so badly burned "it made you not want to have a closeup lens on your camera." Whether an assault was of a sexual nature could not be determined because of the burned condi(See WOMAN on Page 10) AP.