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Journal and Courier Michigan City --r- Index Indiana asking for court review of inmate population reduction order Page A8 Obituaries Weather J16 JIB ff, A5 Tues November 8, 1933 THOMAS A. RUSSELL, Local Editor Telephone 423-5511, Ext. 243 What's A7 PMsrdiie-ro coshl Namesj of 29 candidates for PSC i vacancy released esr onUooSc INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A Crawfordsville lawyer and a Wabash College economics professor are among the 29 people who will be interviewed this week for three PSC openings. Republican Warren Shearer, an attorney, and Democrat Thomas Tiemann, an economics professor, have applied for the two open spots on the Public Service Commission-Others to be interviewed are a deputy attorney general, former president of the Indiana AFL-CIO and the state's deputy consumer counselor for Washington affairs. The names were released Monday by the PSC nominating committee, which will interview applicants Thursday and Friday in meetings open to the public.

Three candidates withdrew rather than have their names made public. The nominating commission must send three names for each of the three openings to Gov. Robert D. Orr, who makes the final choices. The PSC will expand from three to five members Jan.

1, and the resignation of PSC Chairman Larry J. Wallace Jan. 6 will leave another opening that is being filled as part of this process. By law, no more than three members can be of the same political party. Here is a list of those who will be interviewed, along with their hometowns, occupations and political affiliation.

denotes Republican; means Democrat; and I stands for independent. Mark Akers. R. Greenwood, director of industrial development for the Indiana Department of Commerce. See PSC Page A7 By DEB RIECHMANN Staff Writer In contrast to 40 months of recessionary blues, economists Monday drew a rosy economic picture for 1984 at the second annual Purdue-Indiana University business outlook panel.

Three IU economists and one from Purdue predicted for next year: Stable inflation and a slight rise interest rates. 80,000 additional jobs in Indiana. Vigorous consumer spending, expected to continue leading the recovery. A 4 percent to 5 percent growth of the estimated total output of the nation's goods and services. Capital investment by business, however, won't come right away, said Bill Satoris, IU associate professor of finance.

Businessmen still need more reassurance that the recovery is robust. Right now, 78 percent of the country's manufacturing capacity is being used, he said. About 82 percent plant utilization needs to be "kicked into" the economy, he said. So far, "crowding out" the government borrowing a lot of money to finance deficits has not been a problem, he said. Private credit has not been in demand and so two borrowing forces the government and industry are not fighting to borrow the same money, which would increase demand for money and push rates higher.

Past fluctuations in interest rates was like "riding on an escalator in a' two-story building," Sartoris said. "Interest rates are expected to rise from current levels, but only moderately without any serious adverse affect on spending levels." IU economist Morton Marcus, known for his expertise on Indiana's economy, said 80,000 jobs will be added in the state next year. One-third of these jobs will be in the durable goods industries, which make appliances, cars and lasting consumer goods. But Marcus said there was danger if Hoosiers forget what happened in Indiana during the recession. Marcus said he feared politicians, might make Indiana utility problems a political issue and not give it long-term decisions that are necessary.

Indiana's utility problems are an economic development issue and need to be handled properly, outside the political arena, he said. Around Jasper body tied to other murders here By JACK ALKIRE S5.VWWis.WWJMm niiiii 't I Staff Columrjist From Wire and Local Reports RENSSELAER Authorities say the death of a man whose body was found near Rensselaer Oct. 15 might be linked to homosexual murders in diana and Illinois. A trapper noticed bones' and 20 to 30 fragments of clothing and personal items strewn across an idle field at the site, l'i miles west of Rensselaer. to two years.

Spicer said he thinks there's a connection with the homosexual murders because the victim was stabbed and placed in a shallow grave, the same as four men whose bodies were found recently in Newton County. Pless, who did autopsies on the Newton County victims, aged 19 to 30. said those victims had died within the last year. Police believe the Newton County deaths might be homosexual-. related.

Lake Village, where the four Newton County bodies were found, is about 15; miles from Rensselaer. Spicer said earlier that there are no; missing person reports in Jasper County. i Jasper County Coroner Stephen upivut ft uim AvAvriiuajr bite uiuucuuiicu victim had been stabbed. The decison was based on forensic evidence studied by Dr. John Pless at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis.

Pless said the victim was a male, 18 to 26 years old, who had been dead one Committee sets aside Clinton PIK director Shirts take off on Grenada It's amazing how quick this country's entrepreneurs take advantage of national events. While our forces are still swabbing out their rifles from the Grenada invasion, a New York firm has come out with a logo T-shirt commemorating the affair. The T-shirt says across the Country Went to Grenada and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." The logo is highlighted by three bullet holes. If you want one send $7.75 (whee) to Satin Ed- die Productions, Box 155 Rouse Point, N.Y. 12979.

The guys who created the shirt, Stan Schacter and Robert Mazliach. said $1 of the purchase price will go to the Red Cross International Relief Fund. A former local artist, Carol Heath, recently exhibited her work at Elliott Gallery on Hutchinson Island, Fla. Her friends around Lafayette received formal invitations from the Historical Society of Martin County, Carol is now Mrs. Edward M.

Albrecht of Pen-sacola, Fla. Locally she attended Oakland School and graduated in 1938 from Jefferson High School, where she started her art work. Things about the outdoors you may not know: Even the tamest buck deer can turn mean enough to charge humans in the fall, especially if he hasn't found a doe to mate with. (You can understand his frustration.) Dinosaurs have come and gone, but the horseshoe crab is still around and it looks the same as it did 300 million years ago. The term "acid rain" was coined more than 100 years ago by British chemist Robert A.

Smith: He noticed that rain of the industrial town of Manchester became acidic. The sting of some south Pacific jellyfish called sea wasps, can kill a human in less than 20 minutes. So you think you live in cramped quarters? Cave-dwelling bats may roost at densities of up to 300 per square foot. A single cave may house more than 40 million bats. The Air Force shoots dead chickens from a cannon to learn how to bird-proof planes.

The four-pound chicken carcasses are shot into engines, windshields and landing gear to re-enact birds smashing into jets, which can cause serious accidents. 1ft 'm 7W 1 and a difficulty "his ability to communicate with the county committee." Johnson said. Knapp said Bower 'seemed to be hassling his office employees." "It's been going on for several years and was getting worse, and we decided to put a stop to it," Knapp said. In June, Bower dismissed an office -employee. Program Assistant Sherry Clark, who then contested the dismissal -with the USDA Equal Employment Opportunity office.

Clark would not comment on the case See ASCS. Page A7 Tractor accident fatal to farmer KENTLAND Police say a farmer died of head injuries when his tractor overturned Monday afternoon in southern Newton County. Cecil Whaley. 77. of Kentland, died at 3 p.m.

as he drove his tractor on his -farm at County Roads 1125 South and 675 West. Police said Whaley. who was carrying a load of barbed on the tractor, fell off when the right rear tire of the vehicle hit a rock. Indiana State Police at the Lowell Post said he died from the impact of hit- Va irmnnH Ho w9 nnf. rtinnprf By DAVID SMITH Staff Farm Writer FRANKFORT The director of Clinton County's Payment-In-Kind program was dismissed despite recommendations from state officials that he be retained, a state official said Monday.

Bill Bower, former executive director of the Clinton County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service, was dismissed Sept. 2. He had been county administrator of ASCS programs, including the 1983 Payment-In-Kind crop reduction program, for the past 10 years. Bower was dismissed by a three-member ASCS committee after he allegedly "hassled" his fellow office workers, according to Kenneth Knapp, Clinton County ASCS committee president. Indiana ASCS Director Bill Johnson said Monday a state panel considered Bower's dismissal on Sept- 22 and asked the Clinton County committee to "reconsider" the dismissal.

"They didn't reconsider," Johnson said. Bower has appealed his dismissal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and could not be reached for comment Monday or this morning. Johnson noted the firing of an executive director with Bower's length of service was "real unusual." "I think it was a difference of opinion flwmmi 'w x- StaH Photo by Tom Campbell Tennis, anyone? Five-year-old Brian Hronchek has all the style of a polished tennis player, right down to sticking out his tongue. But his results leave a little to be desired, as he pops this shot straight up in the air.

Hronchek was enjoying the unseasonably warm weather, playing tennis recently with his grandfather, Bob Gambill, in the parking lot of West Lafayette's Burtsf ield School. yv under the vehicle. crack break Deni iewer era WL tables sludge disposal; trap proposal dies Campbell voted "no" on the cut Monday, saying city utilities should not cater to "special Earlier in Monday's meeting, Campbell had proposed an across-the-board cut for sewage-rate payers, but it was defeated. Monger, who attended the Monday meeting, said the vote showed the Democrats "lack of concern" for senior citizens. "The proposal was accused of being political.

Well, that (vote) was political with a capital 'P'. Evidently, some arm-twisting went on," he said. Campbell denied there had been any pressure on him to change his vote. has been none. I have talked to (Lafayette Mayor) Jim Riehle twice in the last month and at no time were more than 10 or 15 words said about (the cut)." Campbell said.

Lafayette residents pay $1.64 plus 94 cents per 1,000 gallons of water they use each By JIM COX Staff Writer Second District Councilman Ronald Campbell returned to the fold Monday to help fellow Democrats on the Lafayette City Council kill a plan to slash senior citizens' sewage bills by one-third. The Democrats needed every vote in their 5-4 council majority to defeat the amendment. The plan had been attached to a proposal to cap 1984 sewage rates at the 1983 level. That proposal passed. The idea of slashing rates for the elderly surfaced from the mayoral cam-paign of Republican Timothy Monger.

GOP Councilman Robert Miller surprised the council by introducing it at the council's October meeting. Council Republicans passed the amendment on first reading in October with the help of Campbell's vote. "I thought it was worthwhile investigating at the time," Campbell said Monday. traps were not painful. Then another trapper showed her a "killer" trap that snaps and squeezes an animal's body.

If the leghole trap is banned, the trapper's only alternative would be to set these killer traps, Boes said. On the sludge issue, Dave C. Roberts, 7316 N. County Road 75 handed petitions carrying 1.000 signatures of people opposed to the city's plan. The city recently bought the land for $108,000 to develop as a sludge disposal site.

Residents of the area object to the idea because they say it would present health hazards, odor, heavy truck traffic and devalue surrounding real estate. Roberts also said the group was concerned that too much sludge might be dumped onto the land, causing the sludge to enter streams in the area. showed up to defend the use and sale of steel-jaw leghold traps within "rWest Lafayette city limits. The issue died because no councilman would second the ordinance, sponsored by Councilman Carmen Fabian. Others were present to argue against the traps, which clasp an animal's leg between two steel bands and hold it until the trapper returns.

The traps don't kill the animal, but often catch and cause injury to domestic pets, they said. And opponents claim the traps are inhumane, and result in animals gnaw ing off their own limbs in efforts to escape. After the meeting, Howard P. Boes, 5511 Division Road, a farmer, who traps for a hobby, asked the mayor to stick her fingers in a leghold trap. She did.

He sprung it closed to demonstrate that the By DEB RIECHMANN Staff Writer Animal traps and sludge lured about 150 people to a lively, election-eve meeting of the West Lafayette City Council. About 100 people showed up Monday night to voice a united "no" to a city sludge disposal plan. The council wants to use 36 acres near homes northwest of Battle Ground as a place to spread part of the' 40,000 gallons of liquid waste generated daily in the city. After hearing three spokesmen for the citizens' group argue for nearly an hour against the sewage disposal plan. West Lafayette Mayor Sonya Margerum decided to put the issue on a back burner for more discussion.

She said the city would review the group's alternative The rest of the crowd, including three young people wearing fox fur jackets. I' -t Vi.