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Indiana Senate Dooms ERA by 34-16 Vote Rudolph Clay, Gary; and King Telle, Valparaiso, cast their lots with the losers. Sens. Ralph J. Potesta, Hammond; Ernest Niemery, Lowell; and Related stories: 2, 8 Adam Benjamin, Gary, were in the majority. THIRTY OF the necessary 38 state legislatures have already ratified the proposed amendment to the U.S.

senators rose at the same time to speak. SENS. JOAN Gubbins, Indi-ana-polis, and Merton Stanley, Kokomo, each tried to yield to the other Gubbins opposing the amendment and Stanley supporting it. Closing the lengthy debate was co-sponsor Robert D. Garton, Cor lumbus, who said the amendment is only an "extension and expansion of existing rights." Ohio is currently considering the amendment in its Senate Grove, said although he believes in equality, the amendment would require repeal of all federal and state laws distinguishing between men and women "regardless of how logical." Sen.

Leo Sullivan, Peru, said his mail had been running 99-1 against the amendment. SULLIVAN SAID 'arguments about the effect of the amendment are pointless since the Supreme Court would be the one to interpret it in court. "After what the court has done with prayer in schools, capital punishment The only suprise in Monday's Senate action was the margin. It was no secret the ERA was in trouble all along in the upper chamber. Arguments against the amendment ranged from the proverbial "Pandora's Box" to abdication of authority to Congress.

The resolution which guarantees full equality under the law regardless of sex allows Congress to pass necessary laws to carry out the intent of the constitutional amendment. Sen. Charles E. Bosma, Beech By JAMES PARKER Times Staff Writer INDIANAPOLIS-A battered Equal Rights Amendment went down for the long count Monday when the Senate voted 34-16 to kill it. Lake County senators split even on the issue.

In a verbal battle that lasted some two hours and sent 11 speakers to the rostrum, proponents of the controversial legislation saw the end of a "very long road" slip from view behind the already forming mist of "next year." Sens. William Christy, Hammond; 67th Year No. 243 Home Newspaper of the Calumet Region Hammond-East Chicago, Indiana; Calumet Gty-Lansing, Illinois, Tuesday, April 3, 1973 and abortion, I for one don't have that much faith in it," Sullivan said. Sen. Marie T.

Lauck, Indianapolis, spoke in favor of the amendment and said it had been part of her campaign platform. Sen. Herman J. Fanning, Terre Haute, opposed the amendment and said the congressional co-sponsor, Sea Birch Bayh, had admitted to him the amendment is merely a reaffirmation of the civil rights act and the equal opportunity law. There was a point of humor when two it 1- i i 'tF .4 i -k.

r.r. rri I y-rr; i.l I -s Conspiracy Told In Bribe. Trial I r' its' Mighty of water surrounds this West 111., home, as rescuers search for occupants. About 5,500 St. Louis-area are homeless and more rain is A Presidential disaster sector is sought, Story, Page 8.

rm: River being ordered to show cause why he wasn't paying the increases. Mayor Joseph Klen ordered Gavit not to pay the boosts in February, Gavit explained. Related Story, Page 9 Raskosky. displeased at the resistance to his pay demands, sought to learn the reasoning behind Klen's action by questioning Gavit. BUT ON THE advice of his attorney.

Kenneth Reed. Gavit refused to answer. A wall Alton, residents likely. order Gavit 'Must Pay' Judge Hikes By GABRIEL FAVOINO Times Staff Writer OMAHA Across the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, the Indian chiefs of Omaha once passed the pipe to signify peace. i Less than 100 years ago, cowhands yahooed through this town, shooting out the gas lights.

Now a gas pipeline company has developed a new way of life, the federal government claims. It's called passing out the loot. Five per cent is the going commission rate for bribing public officials, the government says. And the bribes can be depreciated as capital investments. SOME OF the money, the government contends, went to chiefs and former chiefs of the Calumet Region Hammond Mayor Joseph E.

Klen, 1 former East Chicago Mayor John B. Nicosia, ex-Hammond Mayor Edward C. Dowling, and the late East Chicago City Controller, George Lamb. According to the government's claim, Phosphate Ban Eased S-iecial to The Times INDIANAPOLIS-A partial phosphate ban will go into effect statewide, replacing the total ban now on the books. The House vote Monday on the Senate-approved bill was 86-7 allowing certain exemptions for industry, commerce, agriculture and special home use of phosphate detergents.

Although there have been several attempts to amend the ban to exempt even car washes and coin-operated laundries, little trouble has been anticipated. Any further amendments would have stalled the bill in a Senate-House conference committee. The detergent lobby that campaigned hard to repeal the ban entirely, adopted a hands-off stance in the final vote. Any amendments would have killed the bill leaving the stricter 1972 law in force. The old law that prohibits phosphate content in detergents entirely went into effect last Jan.

1. I The new bill when signed by the governor reinstates the 8.7 per cent allowable phospate content for certain uses, mostly for health reasons. INSIDE THE TIMES Senators try to seal a vexing information leak 6 Hammond schoolmen say no to income baring 9 5 Sections 36 Page 15c HOME DELIVERED FOR LESS Sales Consumers appear to be biting into the week-long meat boycott with determination, throwing off meat sales by as much as 80 per cent in scores of supermarkets from coast to coast. Some prices were sliced 29 cents a pound. "It's like my meat had some disease.

JNobodv 11 even touch it. comDiained a iiicau maiiagci ui uic new iuia area, where a check of supermarkets Related story, page 9 1 1 1 IT snoweu me ooycou 10 ue aooui ou per cent effective on the first shopping day Monday. A shopping-cart check in Idaho, found 22 out of 50 women had by- passed the meat counter. In Albuqu- -erque, N.M., only about a third of the shoppers in one store were taking home meat. A survey of six large Oklahoma City supermarkets turned up no customers -at the meat counter in three stores, only one woman at another and meat buying "about normal" in the other two.

MANY RETAILERS were saying it is too soon to tell how successful the boycott will be, since most housewives do their weekly shopping in midweek and many had stocked up on meat last week. But red meat prices were on the way down in a few stores by as much as 29 cents a pound. Effects of the boycott showed up everywhere along the line, from the stockyards to the packing houses. FLORIDA HIT BY BLACKOUT MIAMI (UPI) A huge power blackout struck south Florida today, knocking out electrical service from south of Miami to at last the northern end of Broward County. Florida Power Light spokesmen were unaDie lmmeaiateiy to pinpoint the cause of the power failure or to say nuw cAicusive 11 was.

There were unconfirmed reports of an explosion in the area of the south Dade County power plant. The power went off about 9:37 a.m. in the Greater Miami area, and also in Broward County communities. -Incnnh IfniirM fil fnrma TlllMnta lnl aide and ex-treasurer of the Illinois Democratic Party, died Monday in Chicago. Knight was indicted with former Gov.

Otto Kerner but never stood trial. Meat 1 II I 4" icn Omaha-based Northern Natural Gas two of its subsidiaries, and two company executives passed, out to obtain pipeline rights-of-way in the Calumet Region. The payments are supposed to have been made in 1966 and 1967. Today, the two executives, Delbert W. Calvert and James C.

Smith, and the three companies, went on trial in U.S. District Court in Omaha for bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and income tax evasion. Later, in Hammond, Calumet Region public officials will be tried. And in Chicago, two Illinois public employes, Gabriel Ditore and Herman Davis, will be tried on the charges. DITORE-WAS a permit engineer for the Cook County Highway Department and Davis, a drivers license examiner for the Illinois Secretary of State's" office, was a Robbins village trustee.

All were indicted by federal grand juries in Hammond on Sept. 8, 1972, and in Omaha on Dec. 7. Monday, a jury of seven women and five men and two alternate jurors were picked from a panel of 43. It took all day.

Remaining, after government and defense challenges, were five housewives, a self-described "homemaker and student," a bookkeeper, a self-employed business man, a salesman, a draftsman and a stenographer. The last two are the alternates. THEY WERE picked after examina tions conducted by U.S. District Judge (Continued on Back Page This Section) Letter Axes Razing Bids By NANCY BANKS Times Staff Writer CROWN POINT The two lowest bidders for Hammond Courthouse demolition were wiped out Monday by a "surprise" letter lowering the Vic Kirsch Construction Co. proposal by $4,000.

And Lake County Commissioners accepting the lowered bid and awarding the contract to the Hammond firm brought a charge of "favoritism" from Edwin D. Rose, vice president of Cleveland Wrecking Co. of Chicago. Rose's company had submitted the lowest bid of $36,670 for tearing down the old county courthouse at Hohman and Rimback in downtown Hammond. County Atty.

Joseph Skozen said Cleveland Wrecking Co. did not include a financial statement with its bid. Skozen also said the letter, included with Kirsch 's proposal to do the work for $42,500, was found after bids were opened. THE LETTER, dated March 26 when bids were opened said if the contract was awarded before April 9, Kirsch could do the work for $4,000 less. That made the company lower than either Cleveland or Brandenberg Demolition, of Chicago, which sumitted a $39,400 proposal.

Rose said his firm is one of the largest in the country, has been in business for 63 years, and has tackled such jobs as demolition of McCormick Place in Chicago. There's no question about our financial stability," Rose said. "It's an obvious attempt to give the contract to a favorite firm." "It's very unorthodox," Rose said. "We assumed since we were prequalified for Indiana work we didn't need the financial statement. That's always been acceptable before." SKOZEN'S interpretation of a letter, enclosed with Rose's bid from the Department of Administration for Indiana, was the same as that of its author, Samuel W.

Edson, of the public works division. Edson said the letter, dated Feb. 23. 1972, found Cleveland Wrecking did not need to include a financial statement for work done through his department. Best Job HuntingLikely For 1973 College Grads NEW YORK (AP) Job prospects for students who graduate from college this spring are the best in four years, but the future may continue to present problems, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education said today.

"Although the short-term crisis is phasing out, the long-run situation still deserves careful study," the commission said in releasing a new report. The report said the job market for college graduates in both 1972 and 1973 made it clear that the poor employment prospects facing college graduates in 1970 and 1971 were in large part associated with the economic recession of those years. But the impact of economic recovery could be blunted during the remainder of the decade by a surplus of college-ed By BERNIE BIERNACKI Times Staff Writer HAMMOND City Controller Donald Gavit must give pay raises to Hammond City Court employes within a week or face contempt charges. City Court Judge Edward Raskosky ordered Gavit Monday to pay the increases or turn the money over to the Ike Superior Court until a decision on a case filed there is made. Gavit appeared in city court after MORE CLOUDS IN PROSPECT It'll be cloudy and cool tonight and Wednesday in the Calumet Region.

There's a 20 per cent chance of rain during the period. Daytime temperatures will be in the middle to upper 40s. Overnight lows will be in the upper 30s. Temperatures, weather map Page 8. Full Freeze Curb Eyed WASHINGTON (AP) A congressional effort to take the direction of economic controls away from President Nixon and decree a freeze on prices, rents and interest is approaching a House test.

The Senate rejected a similar proposal on Monday. The House Banking Committee, with exactly half its membership sponsoring such legislation, scheduled an executive meeting today at which the measure may come to a vote. Both proponents and opponents of the mandatory legislation said that some version of it is likely to be approved by the committee. Passage by the House, however, was considered more problematical. The Senate by a 39 37 vote, rejected an amendment that would have frozen at current levels prices, wages, rents and interest rates for 60 days.

The proposal was offered as an amendment to a bill raising from 50 to 70 per cent the federal share of costs of state meat and poultry inspection programs. That bill was passed and sent to the House. The Senate also rejected attempts to freeze prices of farm products at the Jan. 2 levels; to freeze them at current levels, and to limit meat exports while the ceiling on prices of beef, pork and lamb arc in effect. Gavit has been caught in a "political squeeze play" between the mayor and the city judge over who holds the court's purse strings.

Raskosky believes his department is separate from the mayor's domain and only he has the legal right to change his pay schedules. The judge claims the state tax board has given him approval to boost his employes' salaries. (Continued on Back Page This Section) ucated persons, if adjustments are not made, the commission said. Assessing individual occupations in the 1970s, the commission said prospects for teachers and college faculty members were dim. But employment prospects were bright for health care personnel and managers generally.

It also said employment opportunities for computer operators, office machine operators and recreation workers would go up steadily, and that prospects for engineers would go up and down. The commission said that while job prospects for women would be reduced because of fewer teaching opportunities than in the past, they would be enhanced by more opportunities in health care. used in the attack, and that could mean a total of 3,600 tons of bombs dropped. The U.S. Pacific Command in Honolulu, the official source of information on American air operations in Indochina, made its usual uncommunicative announcement that U.S.

B52s continued operations over Cambodia Monday for the 27th successive day. Military sources said some of the big bombers, along with Fill fighter-bombers, supported Cambodian government troops advancing into the Kirirom plateau 60 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. The government troops reportedly reached the plateau and found a deserted base camp of the Khmer Rouge Communists. But meanwhile other government forces south of Phnom Penh continued to retreat and abandoned the garrison town of Chambak, 30 miles south of the capital. U.S.

Pounds Cambodia Classified 25-31 Obituaries 4 Comics 22-23 Sports 17-20 Editorials 6 Theater 14 Illinois 10 TV 21 Letters 7 Weather 8 Markets 4 Women's 13 SAIGON (AP) U.S. warplanes, including every available B52 bomber in Southeast Asia, gave Communist forces in Cambodia their heaviest pounding of the war during the night. The bombing was part of the Nixon administration's campaign to force them into a cease fire, reliable sources reported today. The sources compared the bombing to the attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong last December that were aimed at forcing North Vietnam into a peace settlement. But the Communists in Cambodia are widely dispersed and have none of the industrial concentrations vulnerable to air attack that the North Vietnamese had.

The sources said they were unable to say just how many strikes U.S. pilots flew or how many tons of bombs they dropped. They indicated about 120 B.j2s wore Isn't It the Truth! There is no need to be fearful and duck when you come face to face with a creature of the Internal Revenue Service. If you have reported all of your income, taken no illegal deductions and paid the tax you owe, you then have a heart as pure as the driven snow and a conscience armed with the strength and guts of a bear. You can, if the need arises, Icok an IRS person straight in the eye and then spit in his face figuratively speaking, of course.

"The word 'plunder' Is a synonym for the taxes." Dictionary cf Opinions Phones WE 2-3100.