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Landfill operator 'bags' temporary closing Journal and Courier Lafayette Indiana West Lafayette Purdue University Tippecanoe County 1 Metro Thurs July 10 1980 By JEANNE PETRIN Staff Writer irst it is closed Now not The Tippecanoe Sanitary Landfill is scheduled to remain open riday de spite a statement Wednesday morning that it would close Operator Gerald Schlossberg called a press conference Wednesday morn ing to say he would close the landfill between 10 am and 3 pm riday Schlossberg explained three of his four employees would testify at his 11 am contempt hearing in Warren Cir cuit Court leaving an insufficient crew to operate the landfill Blit by Wednesday afternoon the closing plans reportedly were scut tled Reached at his Indianapolis home late Wednesday night Schlossberg verified that the landfill will be open all day riday He explained dis cussed this with (attorney) Louis Pearlman and he says one man I have to to the hearing SCHLOSSBERG SAID HIS decision had nothing to do with earlier state ments by Mayor James Riehle and county Commissioner William Van derveen questioning the legality of the proposed closing The contract with Schloss berg says contractor agrees that said landfill shall be open daily except Sundays and holidays from 7 am to 5 pm hours of operation may be changed from time to time with prior written consent of the commissioners and at no time shall a landfill be open for less than 10 hours a day the contract continues Schlossberg failed to contact the commissioners according to attorney Ron Melichar a partner of County Attorney rederick Hoffman Riehle contended Schlossberg had alternatives other than closing such as hiring additional employees for the day of the hearing Melichar and his partner David Luhman said they had not talked to Schlossberg or his attorneys about the closing before partner Edward Chosnek called lunch (Wednesday) to say he had talked to Schlossberg and the landfill will be open THE HEARING CONCERNS an Indiana State Board of Health petition alleging Schlossberg violated a pre liminary injunction requiring refuse dumped at the landfill one day to be covered before the next morning The injunction is an offshoot of a suit the ISBH filed against Schloss berg in ebruary That final disposi tion of that suit is still pending also in Warren Circuit Court One portion of the unsettled suit asks Special Judge Vincent Grogg to fine Schlossberg and Tippecanoe San itary Landfill Inc $10000 retroac tive to June 12 1979 for each time refuse was not covered daily at his North 9th Street Rd site A hearing on the fine is expected in September And for that September trial Schlossberg said he might again at tempt to close the landfill so employ ees can testify Aretz flying tradition continues ii Jhllk Staff photo bv John Norberg THINKING ABOUT THE WILD BLUE YONDER Anthony Aretz wants direct link between brain plane When in your blood The grandfather trained pilots in World War I managed the first airport in Lafayette and flew in summer air shows Now the grandson is a graduate of the United States Air orce Academy THREE GENERATIONS of the La fayette Aretz family have been involved in aviation Lawrence Aretz was alive when the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk son Don operates the family airport east of Lafayette And now grandson son 2nd Lt Anthony Aretz is going towork on computer systems for jet cock pits He hopes one day to work develop ing a system where a brain waves can control an airplane The come a long way with aviation Tony was a last month from the Air orce Academy He was an outstanding graduate in the psychology department THIS SUMMER studying at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio working on an advanced de gree in human factors engineering the study of how man interacts with his machines and environment for the pur pose of better designing machines Aviation is in his blood was in right at the start of aviation here He managed the first Lafayette airport then managed the Purdue Aiiport He flew wired together or in air shows He was friends with Ricken backer Wiley Post Amelia Earhart After World War II he founded Aretz Airport east of Lafayette Then Don took it over Now Tony whose family has been flying for more than 60 years has turned down a chance to fly for the Air orce do research instead Lots of people believe it thought 1 was a little he said typical cadet at the academy wants to fly But I've flown my whole life 1 really want to do re search if picked fl vine with the pilot shortage in the Air orce today be flying for at least eight years before let me do anything Tony had his first plane ride when he w'as 6 months old He started flying when he was 15 years old On his 16 birthday he got his private pilot license really enjoy Tony said Air orce flying is so regulated and controlled with Congress cutting back on fuel Pilots get to fly that much They just go from point to point GREW UP where with flying you go up and have fun like to go up and just fly around I like to navigate My dad owns a World War II trainer what I really like to fly just go up and do some steep turns fly around guess just the feeling you get up he said look out and you can see forever I just feel good up there It's hard to hard to get through a military academy Out of 1500 enrolled in freshman class 800 graduated an intense program BIG thing about it is you have any free Tony said have everything planned out for you have class from 7:30 to 3:30 intramurals from 4 to 6 then supper from 6:30 to 7 and mandatory study from 8 to study research program will be intensive too But it will be interest ing One of the big things in research today is flight with computers There are so many things for a pilot to do so many controls to watch In some planes it takes pilots too long to perform tasks TONY WILL work on simplifying that with computers be working on research at Wright Patterson Air Base near his stu dies at Wright State John Norberg Staff Columnist coming in the future of avia tion? going to have thought con Tony said probably be able to sit there and fly a plane with brain waves and to control weapons A pilot will be able to look at a target and think something and fire the The Air orce is researching along these lines now ONLY thing using brain waves for now is recording them while the pilot flies his Tony said check them and they can tell you when doing certain se quences of his flight Then if the pilot got shot they could tell that his brain waves are varying from the rgforded pattern Computers can detect this and put the airplane on auto In an emergency such as this they could program the plane to fly home long range but what working Tony said His grandfather trained pilots for the air corps in World War I His father was an Air orce crew chief on 29s during the Korean War NOW TONY Aretz is fulfilling the family tradition taking it one step further in Air orce research Who knows where all this might lead? Tony is a high flier He could have a career in the could go into industry interested in politics and afraid to say he might one day run for office Maybe Congress be surprised if he does And it all started from a grandfather who was a barnstormer love to do Tony said I could get a job doing that drop all this really light research Industry Congress Sure But when flying is in your blood there to stay Money 'bites' approved by TSC The dropout information was presented to the Tippecan oe School Corp board by Superintendent Kenneth Koger Wednesday night The report was prepared by TSC atten dance officer Howard Stouffer School related causes were listed for 79 student dro pouts Of the 79 39 students listed lack of interest in the school curriculum as their reason for quitting Also in the school related cause category 28 dropped out due to poor skills or past record of failure Six dropouts were for reasons of incorrigibility discipline or expulsion five had chronic attendance problems and one dropout listed dislike for teachers and or the school environment Seventeen of the 113 dropouts were in the non school related category of reasons and prepared by TSC attendance officer Howard Stouffer Specifications for a new roof on East Tipp Junior High School were presented and bid advertisement Origin nally expected to cost $240000 the new roof is likely to cost more like $295000 Gloyeske said Walter Scholer Asso ciates are architects for the roof job Some $70000 worth of pay for teachers was approved for distribution by the TSC board The money will be applied to the extra duty pay schedule employee group health and life insurance dependent health coverage long term disability insurance the mile age rate and retirement pay program Board members elected new officers Wednesday night Anne DeCamp was re elected president Gerald Risk was re elected vice president Glenn Jennings was named secretary of the board New board member Mary Lou Shamp was sworn in to neth Koger said the TSC cumulative building fund has money for both lighting and roofs are sufficient if you elect to do Koger said Koger said the lighting was considered as a result of parental complaints and because annears aDorooriate and proper as an additional East Tipp Hershey Klondike Elementary and Mintonve schools will get the new lights Harrison High School teacher Jim Hand asked the board if all schools in the TSC would receive emergency lights Koger said no that the schools chosen for the project were the ones in Hand said Harrison had emergency lighting but ap parently the system work a routine matter' for faculty members to be issued flashlights (at Harri her first term along with incumbents Harlow and Joseph Hand said The corridors at the school are dark he Albregts he power goes off The board met in a closed executive session before the One hundred thirteen students dropped out of TSC public meeting and reconvened the closed session following schools last term according to a report presented by Koger the public meeting By THOMAS A RUSSELL Board member Gerald Risk said he too would oppose Staff Writer the lighting if it meant roof repairs at Clarks Hill and West School buses began rolling toward a healthy bite of Point schools would be jeopardized Superintendent Ken iippecanue Mcnooi corp taxpayers money Wednesday night And a bite of lunch at TSC junior and senior high schools will cost students a bit more too At its regular meeting Wednesday night the board approved a move to develop specifications and advertise tor bids on 25 new TSC buses According to TSC transpor tation director Philip Mugg both gasoline and diesel en gine buses will be purchased Although no cost projections were given at the meeting Mugg said today that 66 passenger gasoline powered buses being considered cost $25000 $26000 each Diesel en gine 66 passenger buses cost $32000 $33000 each If the board decides to buy 20 gasoline engine buses and five diesel engine buses the minumum cost would be $785000 $815000 However the board said it wants to consider buying more than five dieselsl'so these minimums could be exceeded if figures hold true The TSC board increased 1980 81 school lunch prices for all but elementary students Junior high lunch will cost 60 cents up five cents senior high lunches will cost 75 cents up 10 cents and adult lunches will cost $105 up 10 cents Elementary school lunch remains at 45 cents Emergency lighting for four TSC schools appear to be much of an emergency to two board members Some $135000 worth of emergency lighting was approved on a vote of 5 2 with Richard Harlow and Glenn Jennings voting Harlow said he considered the purchase of the emer 113 children had dropped out of school by end gency ngnting completely out of bounds when other areas neeo it a lot Robert Gloyeske of Walter Scholer Associates who designed specifications for the lighting told Harlow he knows of no legal requirement to have the lighting installed TSC loses 113 dropouts in year At the end of the 1979 80 school year 3486 7th through 12th graders still were enrolled in Tippecanoe School Corp schools ive hundred twenty two students graduated But Battle Ground firemen to get new station JmStm IrareM Si nL Sr THIS IS WHAT NEW BATTLE GROUND IRE STATION WILL LOOK LIKE Battle Ground area volunteer firemen should have a new fire station by mid October Tippecanoe Township Trustee Harry Holt said earlier today he expected to sign a $94440 contract this afternoon with low bidder John Bodine Inc West Lafayette for the construction The new 60 by 80 foot red brick 8 bay facility will go up at North and Winans streets just north of the present three bay fire station The Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners agreed to allow the township to beyond the tax freeze to fund Holt said The trustees are borrowing $100000 at 7 percent interest from Purdue National Bank to finance construction site work and engineering he said The tax rate should increase about 12 cents per $100 assessed valuation for property owners in the township to repay the loan according to calculations he supplied earlier All five of the townships fire trucks previously scattered between three buildings will fit in the new station with room to spare Holt said The township trustees also are considering buying one or two more trucks he said 'Nosy project working fine By BYRON PARVIS Staff Writer Does the new Lafayette Police Department Neighbor" project work? A Lafayette woman who is away from home most days reported this week that it certainly does work And it works very well even if only against what appears to be a crime in progress It seems the woman who lives just off of 9th Street near the country club hired a teen age boy to mow her lawn Before leaving for work the woman told the boy there were three bags of trash on the back porch that should be placed along the street for collection When the boy tried to open the screen door it was locked The woman had forgotten to tell him about it The boy then raised the screen on a nearby window order to unlock the screen door when a "Nosy witnessed the maneuver and called police The boy was able to explain why he was at the home and the case was dust'd The Nosy Neighbor project was recently inaugurated by Lafayette police to curtail home burglaries and vandalism former bank VP begins sentence By KEN RAINS Staff Writer James May a former Lafayette National Bank vi president who admitted embezzeling S5OUWXJ to pay gam bling debts isserving his4 year sentence al the honor farm of the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute May 33 reported to the institution on June 30 and is in orientation and classification programs that will lead to a work assignment A federal directory describes the honor farm as a faciln to incarcerate convicts who ha an extensive crimi nal history It is a fenced minimum security facility which holds more than 200 prisoners May pleaded guilty in US District Court in ort Wayne on April 16 to four charges of stealing $32 WK) through four fraudulant loan transactions made in 1978 and 1979 Em offense carried a maximum 5 year prison sentence a $5ikhj fine or both May could have been sentenced to a maximum of 20 years and fined $2(1 (KXI When sentenced May 16 May told the US Judge Jesse Eschbach that he had started gambling and got in over his head He admitted making fake loans by approving fake applications and forging signatures to checks he cashed He said none of the people listed on the loans were involved in the scheme ederal prosecutors agreed not to prosecute May foranv other crimes he may have committed while al the bank in exchange for his plea of guilty He agreed to he lp recover missing funds A source close to the investigation said May faced the possibility of being accused of 43 thefts involving more than $500000 May was employed at the bank for 10 years and was promoted to vice president in October 1979 School tax levy adjusted for WL By KEVIN CULLEN Staff Writer The West Lafayette School Board kept busy Wednesday night adjusting the maximum tax levy discussing initial steps toward selecting a new schools superintendent considering possible teacher reductions and electing new officers Ina 22 hour meeting at the Education Center the board unanimously approved an adjustment in the local tax levy for 1980 designed to bring in an additional $35000 Identical action in 1979 added $22000 The move allowed by the General Assembly despite frozen levy legislation of 1973 will not change the $416 per $100 assessed valuation charged West Lafayette prop erty owners said Business Manager Henry Paloncy City assessed valuation the value given taxable property for taxation purposes rose from $41 million to about $70 million during a recent reassessment In 1979 the school tax rate was $679 per $100 assessed valuation Though a replacement for retiring Supt Bruce Moore be named until April 1981 initial steps were taken to get the ball rolling Mariellen Neudeck board member and spokesman fora four member superintendent selection committee said suggested criteria have been developed for use by the board in selecting a new schools chief Moore 66 has headed the 2000 student six school sys tem since 1968 He was chosen over 18 other applicants following a 10 month search in 1967 and 1968 In other action Board Vice President Leon Tracht man was elected president for 1980 81 $750000 suit filed over serving drinks A Delphi couple are named in an unusual Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 damage suit in which it is alleged they negligently served drinks to a friend who was later in volved in a fatal traffic accident The suit was filed today in behalf qf the family of Shirley Godby 34 Delphi who was killed in a March 9 accident on Ind 25 two miles west of Logansport Her husband Ralph Godby and four daughters seek $7500000 in damages from the driver Robert Pifer 26 an the couple Lee Wayne and Pamela Sue Hoard all of Delphi It is alleged in the suit that the Hoards negligently served Pifer intoxicating beverages at a party he attended and left before the accident Pifer it also is alleged acted with wanton misconduct and was at fault in then accident.