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In Brief Lighter sparks Monticello fire MONTICELLO A home was destroyed after a child playing with a lighter set the house on fire Monday night Capt Dewitt Robinson the Monticello fire investigator said the child was playing with the lighter in bed about 8:30 pm when it ignited the bed sheets The boy tried to put the fire out with a glass of water but the flames spread Robinson said The boy and ran to another room to escape the 'flames Within minutes the smoke alarm woke up their fa ther Daniel Steele and sister who were sleeping in other rooms Steele ran to the room with a pan of water but stopped when he saw flames shooting out the doorway Robinson said He CTabbed the children and fled the now se with flames nipping at their heels Ohe his way out Steele alerted the family that lived in the lower half of the duplex cottage at 215 Indiana Beach Road and they too escaped uninjured Monticello firefighters battled the blaze for three hours The the Buffalo and Monon Volunteer fire departments assisted WBAA starts with national anthem WBAA hit the airwaves for the first time at noon Monday to the tune of Star Spangled sung by the Purdue University Glee Club The new university owned ra dio station will broadcast at 1013 18 hours a day from 6 am to midnight for the next several weeks with a classical music format Later this spring it will begin broadcasting 24 hours a day Within a few weeks the sta tion will be fully automated meaning that all of its pro gramming except newscasts willbe recorded in advahce The station shares studio and production space in the basement of Elliott Hall of Music with WBAA AM Programming began at noon Monday with interviews with the Purdue Class of 1942 which raised more than $200000 to pay start up costs of the station Man in hospital after gun accident GEETINGSVILLE A Clin ton County man was in stable condition Monday in Home Hos pital after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh Richard Barber 60 of Route 1 Box 83 Geetingsville was cleaning his Taurus 9mm semiautomatic pistol about 1:55 am Sunday when the accident occurred Deputy Rick Morgan of the Clinton County Sheriff De Eartment said Barber told him had removed a magazine from the gun and was in the process of removing a round from its chamber when the gun went off Excise tax refund law clears Sentate INDIANAPOLIS The In diana Senate approved a meas ure Monday that would speed upthe return of state auto excise tax refunds due Hoosier vehicle The proposal which passed the Senate 50 0 would affect Hoo siers who sell vehicles registered in Indiana then seek a refund for the state auto excise tax paid on that vehicle Public Meetings Today Lafayette board of works 9:30 am City Hall 20 Sixth St West Lafayette board of works 11 am City Hall 609 Navajo St Our Telephones Call Local Editor Christopher Celek directly at 420 5231 from 10 am to 6 pm weekdays: after hours call 420 5243 Outside Tippecanoe County call toll free (800) 456 3223 Our AX number is 420 5246 Inside Business A89 Deaths or The Record A6 Purdue A7 Journal and Courier Page A5 Tuesday ebruary 2 1993 Local State Inside Deaths A6 Business A8 County fires Cary Home director I By JOHN NORBERG Journal and Courier I The Tippecanoe County Commis isioners are looking for a new Cary iHome executive director after deciding not to renew the contract of the man who has held the job for 8V2 years Calling for a change in direction the commissioners will replace 1 Cecil Geary at the home for troubled youths aged 12 18 feel its in the best interest Government of Cary Home to get a new direc said Commissioner Hubert Yount who recommended the change feel there are things that need to be done with Cary Home to improve it and it would be better off with a new The move has been in the mak ing for two years Yount said and was the topic of a recent commis executive session Yount said the commissioners want numerous changes made at the home specifically more coop eration between the home and re lated agencies such as mental health facilities welfare officials and the courts developed a different philosophy on running Cary Home and we feel that a new person will be better able to do Yount said Geary said he was asked to re sign but did not something talked to me he said after the meet ing discussed this about a week ago They asked me if I wanted to resign and I said no They had the option of not reap pointing me a new group of commissioners and they look at things differently and so they want See CARY Page A6 Geary 1 '53 'T'fc I 44 water rate increase approved in Lafayette projects that will cost about $68 million Hayes YI The theme of the book according to Hayes: struggle on the part A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African Amer ican Studies is available in paperback through Col legiate Press 8840 Avalon St Alta Loma Calif 91701 or by calling (619) 697 4182 Eventually it will be available at local book stores for about $37 11 4 Drunken driver gets house arrest Another $138 million would be spent from smaller sewers and send it to the plant Accountants have estimated that rates would increase from $850 to $12 a month in 1994 arid from $12 to $1380 in 1996 Councilwoman Judy Rhodes said al though she voted for this increase she will be very critical when the time comes for another one think the community is very con cerned about the cost of the 20 year she said no part in the draft seen for any effort or money allocated to conservation also not asking another engi neering firm for a review of the plan and the cost taking the opinion of one firm and have not asked an independent firm to study By JENNIER SMITH the approval journal and Courier No audience members commented on The Lafayette City Council on Monday the proposal gave final approval to an ordinance that Lafayette citizens had a water could increase water rates by an average rate increase since 1987 If it is approved residents wouidn see another hike tor at least three years City officials have said the increase about $3 a month for the average user is necessary to pay for nine waterworks African American Studies to a and their descendants Hayes said roomful of people Monday at Pur The book is a progression of es Black Cultural Center says about ancient African history put it together because there Western European domination of were no introductory texts that were Africa early migrations to America Hayes said enslavement resistance and recent Hayes the chairman of the Black history of blacks in America Caucus of aculty and Staff has The theme of the book according been at Purdue since August 1991 to Hayes: struggle on the part The more than 600 page book is a of black people against Western collection of essays and articles cultural domination and for human written by a broad sample of critical rights socio economic development thinkers on the subject of Africans and collective By JOE GERRETY Journal and Courier When loyd friends and colleagues tired of him complaining about the lack of a complete text book for his introductory African American studies course they told him to produce one It proved to be good advice Hayes an associate professor of Af rican American studies and political science introduced his anthology A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in Victim urges light sentence By PAULA JARRETT journal arid Courier A man who lost his leg in a drunken driving accident urged a judge Monday to go easy on the driver who hit him in August 1 Judge Greg Donat of County Court 1 sentenced Dean Wimmer to one year on house arrest He also ordered him to pay $115000 in restitution to the victim Part of the money will pay for a prothesis Wimmer 23 1319 Indiana 25 Lafayette pleaded guilty to drunken driving causing serious bodily injury for his role in the Aug 2 accident on Wabash Avenue Wimmer crossed a double yellow line about midnight and smashed his car head on into a Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Harley Seabolt blood alcohol level measured 018 percent Sea was 017 percent He too has been charged with an alcohol related felony Both men have prior convictions for drunken driving Seabolt 35 testified from a wheelchair Monday about the five surgeries he has endured since the wreck The left leg of his blue jeans was folded up to the knee arid tucked under his thigh in the wheelchair He quietly told the judge that he could no longer work the construction jobs held before the wreck His injuries were serious enough to get him an emer gency helicopter ride to Meth odist Hospital in Indianapolis where he spent the next two weeks He spent another two weeks at St Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center in Lafayette after that been a long process been very emotional at Seabolt said have no ani mosity towards Mr Wimmer I just want to get on with my lifbx I feel jail time woulcNserve any purpose in this Donat said he likely would have added some time on the work release program to' Sentence but Sea attitude convinced him to settle for the less serious house arrest lawyer Steve' Knecht said that the accident was a major tragedy that had convinced Wimmer stop drinking and deal with his al coholism The most expensive is the repair of the tragedy nas maue my Columbian Park Reservoir which will cost realize how dangerous about $174 million alcohol is Knecht said Consultant Ed Guntz of HJ Umbaugh Wimmer will be able to con and Associates accounting firm said the tinue to work while on house rate increase will generate an additional arrest His license was $125 million in 1993 suspended for two years He The waterworks projects will be paid for also was fined $500 and or through an estimated $8 million bond is dered to pay $313 in court sue costs WL bungee ban closer The tie is almost broken between West Lafayette and bungee jumping The city council took the first step Monday in banning the activity in the city passing the proposed or dinance 6 1 on first reading If it passes again next month the law will make it illegal to operate or assist in bungee jumping allow bungee jumping to occur on any property in West Lafayette and par ticipate in bungee jumping Violators will be fined $2500 for each offense Council members decided they Could not ensure the necessary de tailed inspections of the jumping equipment outlined in the regulation ordinance could be performed be cause of' the limited police depart ment resources Lori McClung Journal and Courier of 44 percent The ordinance which passed 8 0 will be considered by the Indiana Utility Reg ulatory Commission sometime this month The increase cannot go into effect without New anthology shows Hayes as good as his words City councils OK utility increases Average West Lafayette sewer bill rising 37 By LORI McCLUNG million in improvements for the waste joumai and Courier water treatment plant West Lafavette sewase bills will in crease an average of 37 percent a month on sewer lines that collect wastewater startiTKr in Mnrrh The West Lafayette city council unan imously approved an ordinance Monday authorizing the rate increase The in crease will be used to pay for the dis connection of foundation drains iri 33 homes in Bar Barry Heights and other subdivisions to alleviate flooding prob lems It will cost an estimated $546 million to pay for the disconnections Land other short term projects The average residential bill will in crease $230 from $620 to $850 The average customer puts 5000 gallons of water into the sewer system Additional rate hikes are expected over a 20 year period to pay for about $27 I million in other sewage system improve ments The largest project would be $14 Just hanging around jEpr 4 'ML' WOK 'W Iras f' 'J' A By A CampbellJournal arid Couner Suspended upside down on her legs Amanda Bowers tries out the Super Lunar Climber on Linnwood Elementary playground for the the first time Monday The advisory council recently bought $5000 of play ground equipment and balls for the students airfield Contractors Inc installed the equipment iiiii 1 or Delivery of 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