Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 1

"WaSMWaaWMWWaSMBMaaeaiWMIWSMMHHHSaHaaaHsaaMWasaSSaMSaaMasaaaaSMa Home Edition SHMBH goM igawg wws Oteal IM isindihw PggE wl 1 1 9 Journal and Courier Page A 10 A Gannett Newspaper Lafayette West Lafayette Indiana Vol No No 110 25 Cents Devine act saves life of abandoned child By KEN RAINS and MARY ASTENAU Staff Writers The 8 lb 3 12 oz baby is now in Home Hospital under the name of John Doe No one knows who his parents are but Lee Devine the man who found the baby abandoned in the laundry room at Georgetown Apartments South and saved its life feels like the father Devine 1873 Shoshone Dr went to the laun dry room about 2:30 am to wash his bowling shirt when he heard a noise looked in the corner and saw a pile of dirty clothes Upon closer in vestigation the 39 year old man discoverd a baby boy so fresh from the womb the placenta was still attached he said think that finders keepers holds in this Devine said this morning Devine said he went to pick the baby up and saw it was still covered with afterbirth He said the umbilical cord was draped around the shoulders and blood was dried on the head Devine wiped the head off wrapped it in his coat and ran back to call the police just shocked the hell out of he said Devine works the 3 pm to 1 1 pm shift at Alcoa and was getting ready for his morning bowling league Lafayette Patrolman Brian Baker was at Woolco Lafayette Square checking out an alarm when he got the 2:40 am call to go to Georgetown Apartments South got there in two minutes Devine saved the life no doubt about it The infant a male child had turned blue and he wrapped it in his jacket and got it Baker said said he first thought it was a puppy He checked it out and found the baby The umbilcal cord was still attached to the placenta and the blanket was wet from the mother's water and Baker said The baby was taken by ambulance to Home Hospital as police began to investigate the abandonment did a thorough investigation of the area We don't have any leads about the mother asking for the help Maybe someone out there has a friend who was pregnant and sudden ly isn't We'll check out all Baker said Devine has three daughters and said he always wanted a son As he talked this morning his 18 year old daughter called to ask him what had happened She told her father she would help with the baby if he could keep it Wiping the sleep from his eyes Devine said he See BABY OUND Pago A 2 Photo by Pat McIntyre 4 A I Mkh flH I4 i mHkiw LEE DEVINE IN THE APARTMENT LAUNDRY ROOM Georgetown site where he found the abandoned child rost warning issued by weather service If you have young growing in your garden it might be a good idea to cover them tonight A frost warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for this area A large cold high pressure system is moving out of Canada and heading this way It should drop temperatures locally into the mid to upper 20s tonight and early Tuesday morning The crop that could be damaged the most by the freeze would be asparagus However other garden crops such as peas young tomato plants and lettuce could be damaged if planted in low areas Richard Hayden of the Purdue University Extension Service said a 28 degree temperture could cause a 10 percent bud loss on some fruit trees A 25 degree temperature could cause a 90 percent bud loss 10 percent bud loss cause much of a drop in fruit pro duction but a 90 percent loss would definitely drop he said The average frost free days (50 percent chance of frost) locally are from May 3 5 There is a 10 percent chance of frost in the area bet ween May 8 10 according to the Purdue Weather Service County overrides APC Rainfall on weekend recharges farms with adequate moisture By TOM CAMPBELL Staff arm Writer Weekend rains although qualifying as something less than a or a still were a welcome sight to farmers Purdue agronomist Jim Newman said soils sur rounding the Lafayette area are all but adequate ly recharged with moisture In itself that qualifies as a miracle considering that March was nearly a rainless month had a very dry Newman 4aid this morning of the state received about half of the normal amount of rainfall and many areas of the state only received about a quarter of what they usually get in terms of monthly Newman added The Purdue Agronomy arm collected one half inch of rainfall in the past 24 hours Rainfall at the Purdue Airport totaled 20 inches Newman said the state has averaged about four inches of rain in April which is about normal for the month areas have had more than Newman said Columbus area got a real downpour riday night and 'they may have about six or seven inches this Newman said there also were some isolated areas that have received less than the normal amount of rainfall this month areas of Vermillion Warren and Benton counties on the western side of the state as well as some of eastern Illinois recovered from the dry March and their soils recharged with moisture al! the way Newman said just wasn't anything in the top two feet of soil in Newman said we re cor rected to about 90 percent of that right Newman said he expects the remainder of April to be cool and dry with one good chance of additional rain in the immediate future think we are going to see some temperatures on the cold side but 1 don't expect to see a lot of water in the next 10 days Newman said The best chance for the rain according to Newman will come in the next five or six days but Newman says he doesn't expect the rain will send farmers scurrying to their local hardware stores to buy instructions to build an ark According to Newman rainfall for the re mainder of April should total about one half inch Growth rate best since '78 Rezoning OK'd for church TV By LAURIE JENSEN Staff Writer Plans to start a low power TV sta tion near Elston for religious broad casting were revived today when the Tippecanoe County Commis sioners voted unanimously to ap prove rezoning of the site vote overrides a March recommendation of the Tippecanoe County Area Plan Commission that the rezoning be denied The rezoning to agriculture still requires a special exception from the county Board of Zoning Ap peals That may come up at the May meeting of the board The irst Assembly of God Church on the northeast comer of Beck Lane and US 231 has asked the ederal Communications Com mission for a permit to build and operate the station The broadcasts would cover a 15 mile radius The area plan commission voted 8 3 against rezoning the planned two acre site of the tower from residential and general business to agriculture An APC planner said denial of the rezoning was recommended because the area around the site is planned for residential development Steve Speheger the engineer in' charge of planning the station for the church said he was pleas ed with the rendering of The CC has the applica tion for a permit on file Speheger said But the CC has been swamped with requests for low power TV permits and there is a good chance of a in getting that permit The decision may come as late as the fall of this year he added In other action the county com mission approved an agreement with the City of Lafayette to share the costs of resurfacing Ross Rd The cost is estimated at $140000 The commissioners also will be sending a letter to President Ronald Reagan and other government of ficials suggesting that the Tip pecanoe County Courthouse be used on a stamp to commemorate the contribution of county government to local governmental control Economy picks up WASHINGTON (AP) The national economy grew at a brisk annual rate of 65 per cent in the first three months of this year as recovery from last recession apparently picked up speed the Commerce Department reported today The increase was the biggest quarterly gain since the 9 percent recorded in the second quarter of 1978 department analysts said However economists inside and outside government are forecasting a quick slowdown in the growth rate over the next few months as in flation and high interest rates take their toll on consumer spending The new report said the gross national product the inflation adjusted value of all goods and services rose at a seasonally ad justed annual rate of 65 percent to $151 trillion in the first quarter of this year after rising 38 percent in the last three months of 1980 Continued strength in consumer spending helped keep the economy rolling in the first three months of this year the new report indicated Economists have said heavy retail promotional activities including the big auto price rebate programs have contributed to that spending 'Plastic check' newest By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer A growing number of Americans are paying for their purchases with a new kind of money called the debit card a sort of which provides an alternative to cash or credit The most widespread debit cards are the ones from Visa and MasterCard They are used in con junction with computer terminals When a customer makes a purchase and pays for it with a debit card the money is automatically transfer red from his or her bank account to the mer Charges for the service vary from bank to bank could take a debit card something like the Money Mover card and go into a jewelry store that would be on line with a bank computer You could buy your piece of jewelry and the price would be deducted from your bank Gordon Kingma senior vice president of Lafayette National Bank explained Although Lafayette National and other local banks have had 24 hour bank cards since the ear ly 1970s the introduction of a debit card that could be used at local shops is still down the road Kingma said Doug Adamson vice president and director of marketing for Purdue National Bank said PNB officials were studying debit cards and keeping abreast of trends associated with the cards steam Personal consumption expenditures rose a seasonally adjusted $544 billion in the first quarter the report said But that was almost $6 billion more than the increase in after tax income and most economists have predicted that Americans will not keep spending at such a brisk pace over the next six months or so Analysts in general are forecasting slow growth or no growth at all in the April June quarter with the economy possibly picking up again in the second half of the year money certain that coming" Adamson said reading everything we can get our hands Robert Ralston vice president of Lafayette Bank and Trust said he thinks the debit card will be everywhere" but said Bank and Trust officials have not yet considered its future introduction in the Lafayette area The Visa debit card was introduced five years ago but the real growth did not occur until 1980 time (for the debit card) has come" said Cynthia Chaddick of Visa certainly is pick Soo PLASTIC MONEY Pago A 2 Index 2 sections 32 pages Advice B7 Almanac A10 Bridge B9 Business A8 Classified B10 15 Comics B9 Crossword B9 Deaths A10 Gary Deeb B6 Living B4 816 MetroRegional A9 1 2 Movies The Nation A4 5 News of RecordyA10 Opinions A14 15 Sports Bl 3 TV TonightJB6 ashingtOn A6 7 Happening All The World A3 chuckle Music review: a conductor he 'must have a lot of music in him Hardly any has Orphans determined to stick together MIAMI (AP) Seventeen year old Terence Ross has grown up in a hurry since his mother died a month ago leav ing him and an older sister in charge of a family of seven in toughest housing project He used to get suspended for fighting and missing classes at Northwestern High School teachers say Part of the reason they say was that the family is so poor Ross dress as well as other kids looked likean outcast so he acted like an said school activities director Helen Davis Now she said he a wonderful little Ross also is determined to keep his family together make he insisted be weak at a time like this" When 38 year old Winifred Ross left for the hospital duririg an asthma attack last month she assured the children she would be fine next morning the doctor called me and told me Momma caught pneumonia and died" said Ross His older sister Sylvia 19 came home from Army duty in Germany to attend their funeral and help care for the children in their apartment in the James Scott project in Liberty City MBs Ross the oHIyTduir Intfifaffi ly has to report back to the service in July The family gets $300 a month in welfare Miss Ross hopes to kick in $250 a month Ross works three part time jobs all for minimum wage know a lot of people think the children should never be separated but I don't know who can accept six depen dent children" Davis said The youngest child Maritza is 9 On March 11 woke up and asked me if coming home today" said Terence told her Momma died and she started crying" Then there is Wandra 10 a budding artist whose portrait of her fourth grade teacher rarron the cover of The Miami Sunday magazine last year Teresa 12 likes to play the piano and' Cedric 14 is actor Jeffrey 15 has built a bicycle from scratch and hopes to do construction work someday None of them has ever known a father Two weeks ago Northwestern broke its rule prohibiting soliciting for the benefit of a student Some students went from classroom to classroom ex plaining the Ross family's predicament Half the school contributed quarters dimes and pennies for a total of 16566 Terence used it to pay the electric biU He bought a pair of shoes and put the rest in the bank when we really need i.