Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 3

7 could have won ithian but won't run can Staff Photos by Paul Rakestraw But Montfort is 'happy LEA loses dispute over contract Utilities claim service improvements PSI REMC propose swap of areas Cyle accident injures two 3 we came to Lafayette in 1938 I saw this place how elegant and well proportioned it she said Thursday afternoon told my husband you buy me that LOYD ITHIAN within In southern Tippecanoe and northern Montgo mery County customers affected by the switch are those living near Linden New Richrhond Romney and Odell In their request to the commission PSI and Tipmont said slightly more than one half of the each company would pay slightly higher annual bills or the 283 customers who would switch from the REMC to PSI: 151 customers would pay an average of $1581 a year more 128 customers would pay an average of $4113 a year less And for the 332 customers who would switch from PSI to the REMC: 181 customers would pay an average of $5764 a year more 151 customers would pay an average of $3397 a year more i During cross examination by Deputy Public I Counselor Thomas unk both REMC and PSI spokesmen said a major factor but not the only I reason behind the exchange are several legal actions now pending The proposed swap includes agreement by sides to drop various petitions and lawsuits against the other involving the affected territories Wilbur Hancock Lafayette area manager for PSI and William Erickson general manager of the REMC both testified the exchange will provide better electric service and allow faster emergency repairs In each case the areas to be exchanged IriWTolxr onck ciirmnnnai Kx tamtnni in tHr UiV OU11VUUUVU MJ LV14 11V1J 111 W1UV11 LI1V other company operates Tipmont REMC also has proposed to adopt four new schedules of rates to provide for PSI custom ers who presently have special charges for certain kinds of outdoor lighting and for roadway signal equipment owned by the Indiana State Highway Commission There has been some objection by PSI customers in the Odell service area to the exchange A petition bearing some 40 names was noted at the hearing and officials said the protest largely involved fears the REMC cannot make emergency repairs as quickly as PSI which is the largest electric utility in the state Love luck (and a ghost?) preserve Lafayette mansion Stanley Ault But one thing remains the same the old Taylor house is loved And it annears will continue to be getting too old to care for Mr Ault said of his 13 room home we decided that it should be preserved We sell it to anyone who wants to cut it into more THOUGH THE home stood va cant for 20 years miraculously the fireplaces with beveled edged rriir rors above the deep ornate poplar mouldings the walnut winding staircase the iron and marble man tles the indoor and outdoor shutters remained unscathed man who once lived around here said there was a ghost in the house and all the kids bother Mrs Ault said saved this And just as miraculously the original interior remained essen tially unchanged except when the fireplaces were converted to gas in the The scene at Earl Avenue and Twenty second Street looked a lot wane at 10:21 pm Thursday than it turned out to be for a motorcycle rider and his passenger The driver Kevin Thacher 23 Litchfield HL was treated and released for minor injries at Home Hospital and his passenger Edward A Smith 23 Gillispie HL is in satisfactory condition recovering bom a bactured left arm Witnesses told Lafayette and Tippecanoe County Police the motorcycle was southbound at a high rate of speed on Earl Avenue when it failed to negotiate the curve into Twenty second Police said the motorcycle struck the curb became airborne for 48 feet struck the ground and was airborne again for nearly 50 feet (Photo by Jay Jackson) hard nosed campaign and that divide the In the news conference at India napolis International Airport ithian said he came close to entering the race after receiving support from labor teachers and fanners had to make a decision four weeks he said would have run I came within an eyelash of entering the Part of his motive ithian said By BILL OAKES I Staff Writer Although convinced he could win his nomination in 1980 2nd Dis trict Congressman loyd ithian said today he be a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial race ithian made the announcement in Indianapolis at the start of a six city swing through the state today ending in Speculation that he might run began just prior to re elec tion last November to a third term in the US House of Representatives by the largest margin ever recorded by a Democrat in the 2nd District Today he gave as his major reason for not running the need to avoid a party fight in the 1980 primary that would hamper the Democratic nomin chances of victory in the fall looked at it politically and it looked he said I believe I could have won in the primary and always believe that But to do that would have taken a very hard nosed campaign and after a divisive pri mary not sure I could have gotten everybody and everything in the party together again in time for the At the same time ithian said he received a lot of encouragement to remain a congressman from Demo crats around the district really do have several fine candidates in the race and I was concerned about the uncertainty of the Larry Conrad ithian said Conrad a former secretary of state and two time Democratic hopeful for governor has been rumored to be seeking the nomination a third time said very early I run in a race with both Hillenbrand (Bates ville businessman John Hillenbrand) and Conrad and Larry made up his mind ithian said Hillenbrand has been quietly cam paign for governor for almost a year although still an unannounced candi date and generally is considered the front runner Because Hillenbrand has been campaigning so much longer than anyone else ithian said that too was a deciding factor have to take seriously anyone who has raised $215000 a year before the election It was our ithian said time you face those kinds of resources you have to run a bypass the association by calling a meeting of teachers on Dec 21 and giving them a contract offer before the LEA negotiating team had heard it Hatch said that on Sept 6 the LEA offered to withdraw a proposal on procedures for laying joff teachers in exchange for a one year contract The LSC which had wanted a three or four year contract accepted and the parties later signed a tentative agree ment on those items On Nov 7 the hearing 'examiner said Montfort and the LEA revoked that agreement and asked for more money than it had it in previous nego tiations actions he said constituted bad faith bargaining The hearing report said teachers had complained to the bary gaining team about dropping its pro posal on procedures for laying off teachers and that the bargaining team feared ratification would be jeo pardized without such a provision Teachers ratified an agreement on March 8 that included a layoff pro cedure as well as a 752 percent pay increase retroactive to Jan 1 THIS WEEK the Area Plan Com mission unanimously approved a proposal to rezone the house for business Mrs Calvin Schrag plans to completely restore the home and use its first floor for a small antiques shop There are two apartmentsupstairs The Lafayette City Council will decide the issue soon i or Mrs: Ault the home was a TODAY THE soaring trees and sprawling grounds crossed by worn red herringbone brick walks are still there a haven for birds and squir rels and tulips and cool summer breezes The house too remains with its 1865 addition its white ma rble fireplace mantels parquet floors 12 foot ceilings and walls case of love at first sight four bricks thick There have been changes many changes no longer the country estate it was when Taylor a successful La fayette grain and horse dealer built house? it Lafayette in 1800 a canai town or 6129 souls has grown up around it A gasoline station claimed a part of the front yard Salem Street cuts across the south 18th Street has inched up the west THE AULTS ON THEIR RONT STEPS They want their house preserved was couched in self interest The General Assembly must re apportion congressional districts in the next session and ithian said it is impor tant Democrats control at least one house of the legislature He also said his decision rule out running for other statewide offices in 1980 While speculation was growing about his interest in the gov race ithian also was men tioned as a possible US Senate can 5 didate if three term Democrat Birch Bayh seek a fourth term ithian has said all along however that he thinks Bayh will run again despite the recent death of his wife Marvella from cancer ithian stressed the fact that he would not endorse any candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial race although former State Sen Graham Richard of Wayne the first an nounced candidate has traveled to Washington DC asking for support State Sen Wayne Townsend of Hartford City also has announced his candidacy for governor and former Lt Gov Robert Rock now mayor of Anderson is rumored considering a run for governor in the Democratic primary Republican Lt Gov Robert Orr is the only active GOP candidate for governor and is the obvious favorite of party leaders across the state By KEVIN CULLEN Staff Writer a shady quiet flower filled 19th century oasis in the middle of a noisy busy 20th century world And it may stay that way In the beginning in 1850 Stephen Taylor bought that tree filled tract facing the old Logansport Plank Road cleared a spot among the sweeping oaks and walnuts and built his magnificent two story brick and stone Greek revival mansion story goes that the yard went south almost to Union Mrs Ault said one lady got tired to driving her buggy all the way to Union to get' to her house so she just drove over the yard That was the beginning of Salem In the past 25 years 18th Street has been widened twice cutting from the west yard and a very picturesque mulberry tree and our old hitching Mrs Ault lamented in the name of pro WHEN THE Aults finally decided to sell the old homestead just decided to find the right people hate to ever see it tom down enjoyed it said Mr Ault who retired in 1966 from the Purdue me chanical engineering faculty Mrs Schrag says getting an old Lafayette home is real dream come true The Aults have loved it and so do She plans to move her Memory Lane Antique Shop from Battle Ground to the home this winter or next spring after complete renova tion she said ONE ROOM will be a Lafayette West Lafayette Purdue University museum she said She plans to have it named to the National Register of Historic Places protecting it from federal demolition lovely: There many left like she said A REMINDER LAAYETTE'S PAST The Taylor Ault House at 911 18th St built in 1850 By GREG PIERCE Staff Writer Lafayette School Corp negotiator Ed Eiler says bad faith bargaining by the teachers association in November 1978 disrupted contract talks and led the corporation to take actions that got it in trouble A state hearing examiner Ken Hatch of the Indiana Education Em ployment Relations Board ruled Thursday that the Lafayette Educa tion Association and its chief spokes man Bob Montfort bargained unfair ly! last November by trying to renegotiate signed tentative agree ments The ruling does not affect current contract negotiations outside of pro hibiting such actions in the future The school board scheduled a closed door meeting for 5 pm today to continue negotiations The two sides last met Wednesday night when a potential settlement collapsed Montfort said Thursday he is his organization lost the case claiming the ruling will work to the advantage of teachers all ver the state it could be temporarily Montfort said after learning of the ruling glad to see this ruling because it will stop the revoking of agreements and changing of positions by the employer that is prevalent in Eiler said because of the action in 1978 the board had believed it necessary to communicate its position directly to the 477 teachers That resulted in the board being found guilty of an unfair labor practice of its own On May 5 Hatch ruled that Super intendent Robert Kessler had tried to THE LOGANSPORT Plank Road is now Elmwood Ave and the ad dress is 911 18th St for the past 25 years the home of Mr and Mrs Party leaders are happy Democrats in the 2nd District and Lafayette were happy to hear that Congressman loyd ithian be a candidate for governor in 1980 Gene Kopczak District Democratic chairman said meet his decision with mixed feelings There is no doubt in my mind no matter what loyd decided to do he is capable of doing it He could be president he has the capabilities for that job a way like to see him as governor but at the same time 1 would hate to lose him as our Kopczak said gives us the kind of representation in Congress that 1 think anyone else has he wants with he said State Democratic chairman Don Michael whose effort to become state chairman last year was boosted by ithian said he consulted on decision he said never really thought he would Lafayette Mayor James Riehle a Democrat who received a re election endorsement from ithian said he was glad to hear ithian will not seek the gubernatorial nomination think loyd is a great congressman and I think it was a wise move on his part to remain in Riehle said By GENE POLICINSKI Two subdivisions on the north side of West La Gannett News Service fayette also are included in the switch and would INDIANAPOLIS A swap of 615 customers and move from REMC service to PSI Officials for both small service areas in Tippecanoe and Montgomery utilities said the areas recently were annexed and counties would take place between Tipmont REMC under state law PSI will have the right to take and Public Service Indiana Inc under a plan legal action to assume service rights in the area presented Thursday to the Indiana Public bervice Commission No decision was reached at a commission hear ing A final ruling is expected within the next two months ThP two electric suooliers have proposed ex changing several areas in the two county region in residential customers involved in the transfer to a move they claim would improve service iu xus tomers and avoid several costly court battles The REMC Rural Electric Membership Cor poration also would pay PSI about $103000 in an exchange of equipment involved in the swap Included in the trade is a section of land in West Lafayette bordered by the Wabash River and South River Road between the municipal sewage treat ment plant and County Road 300 West The area currently is served by Tipmont REMC although PSI has all other service inside the city The undeveloped tract contains two private wells which provide water for an Eli Lilly arid Co manufacturing facility vz7 ri May 18 1979 been the first real bathtub in La fayette it was a puusneu wuvucit uaui tub apparently with a pump that carneu waivi uuiu mu umuiii Mrs Ault said THE GROUNDS too escaped de struction with the grape arbor 20 varieties of trees the walks even Sixteen years later they bought it the old coachman house next door remaining MRS AULT said that when the Legends have grown around this original Taylor died he left the piece of past home to his only daugther Lillian Taylor Carpenter who lived in New York and in Europe during the late and early Upon her death the family re moved the original Taylor furniture as well as what was believed to have JK Wife i 'BE! fKi HlV Ji 'x Jg ''WWl A vt' j' MMgMUUIJmmLlJMggMggggggg8888g8M A VZ 1 iJ a I a.