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1 Tee hum Home Newspaper of the Calumet Region 3 sections-30 pages 25 cents Copyright, 1U83, The Times NS.L. Church of Virtues wants WCAE T(o(oy By MICHAEL WATERS Times Staff Writer Monday May 23, 1983 Central School Board, which holds the license, decided it could no longer afford to help fund the station. The school board will meet in a closed session tonight to discuss proposals from both groups. St. Jacques, who lives in Chicago Heights, said his church has about 200 members.

They offer spiritual counseling to the elderly and middle-aged people out of work. The denomination has no church "We don't buy brick and mortar," St. Jacques said and generally meets in nursing homes or private residences. St. Jacques said Channel 50 would be an ideal vehicle for getting the church's message to shut-ins: "My church's goal is to reach people who are locked away with the boob tube as their onlv friend." he said.

"I want to drag them out. You can't help them if you can't find them," he said. "The job is to get them to understand there is somebody out there to help them." But St. Jacques said he would devote "maybe an hour" of daily program time to his church's message. Most of the broadcast day, he said, would be spent on local entertainment, sports, news and informational programs.

St. Jacques said he would continue to carry some Public Broadcasting System shows, but not as many as Channel 50 did. A big reason Channel 50 failed, he said, is it ran too many PBS shows aired at different times by (Continued Back Page This Section) The Right Rev. William E. St.

Jacques says he's not looking for an electronic pulpit in his bid to resurrect WCAE-TV. "I'm not interested in making a bunch of gospel films," said the co-founder and superior general of the Church of the Cardinal Virtues. "I don't want a soapbox. I just want it (the station) to enrich everybody's lives." St. Jacques and his church are one of two groups trying to take operation of the defunct public broadcasting station.

Channel 50 went off the air May 2 after the Lake station What's right in the Region The Hammond Parent-Teacher Association has raised nearly $1,300 for the Officer Friendly program. The PTA, led by Environmental Committee Chairman Barbara Hooper, held a recycling program at 16 Hammond schools. Nearly 70,000 pounds of paper and 404 pounds of aluminum were collected and sold to raise money. The drive raised $1,298.57 for the Hammond Police Department's Officer Friendly program. inspections A cluster of thunderstorm cells lying over eastern Texas and southern Oklahoma bring scattered rain.

A narrow band of bright clouds extend across northwestern South Carolina while diffusing low level clouds. By LORI OLSZEWSKI Times Staff Writer Hammond will have one of the most extensive enforcement efforts a blanket inspection of all of the city's 100 service stations and their pumps. It has received $27,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Indiana State Board of Health to purchase equipment and hire an inspector. In the past, the EPA's Washington office had the sole responsibility for the investigations.

Such an EPA investigation resulted in fuel-switching charges against seven gasoline wholesalers and 10 retailers in the Chicago area in March. "That gave everyone a taste of what (Continued Back Page This Section) Service stations in Lake and Cook counties face mass inspections in a crackdown on the illegal sale of leaded gasoline as unleaded. In addition, some federal money has flowed into local and state agencies to help enforce the federal law that prohibits the removal of anti-pollution devices such as catalytic converters from cars and trucks. "This is going to make sure it's not an unregulated wasteland out there," Ronald Novak, director of Hammond Air Pollution Control, said. Weather- Clear Mother Nature keeps scheduling nice weather on the weekdays and cool, rainy weather on the weekends.

That trend will continue in the Calumet Region, with highs in the lower 70s Tuesday under partly cloudy skies. The National Weather Service predicts the low tonight will dip into the Nice weather with little chance of rain is expected for most of the week. More temperatures and national weather map on Page A-12. For 24-hour weather information, 895-2600. Feud turns bloody BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Twenty-three people have been killed and 100 remain captive in a bloody feud between rival Christian and Druse militiamen.

The fighting is taking place in the Israeli-occupied central Lebanese mountains, police said today. The victims were nine Christians and 14 Druse seized in a two-day wave of gunpoint abductions that police said threatened to shatter a shaky cease fire between the two sects in the Chouf mountains southeast of Beirut. The bodies were found Sunday near the Christian village of Deir Durit and the Druse village of Kfar Heim, police said. Some people simply couldn't save face at the Northern Indiana Art Fair last weekend in Munster, Flo (Rosebud) Krol masks Racquel Ortegon's (right) true features at one of the exhibits. Funny face LAKE DALECARLIA: One Year Later Index Advice Business Classified Comics Editorial A-9 Family A-4 C-l Mini Page B-7 C2 8 Obituaries C-2 B-8 Sports Bl-4 A-10 Theater B-4 Accelerating cancer A sttrdy ol lake Dolecorl.o resident since l70 show (hot by vear diagnosis the fate ot concer is increasing While numbers on bars ore opptommate percentages ot total canter cases tins IS 70 Cancer registry urge 7' 73 74 75 76 '7 78 71 80 81 Our phone numbers BY THOMAS INKLEY Times Staff Writer 219-932-8200 Want ads: 8a.m.

Circulation: 219-932-3112 Disease Control and the State Board of Health, Niemeyer said. "A better system to allow for analysis is definetly needed for us to keep on top of this problem," he said. "Hopefully, it will lead to research in the state so we can really do something about this problem." Niemeyer said he lost a relative to cancer. Bosma also has a personal interest in the cancer information center. His mother died of cancer and he has a relative with cancer, he said.

But the real motivating force behind the proposed legislative study committee was a lone lobbyist who has been waging a one-man effort to establish the cancer information center. The lobbyist who asked not to be identified lost a wife because of (Continued Back Page This Section) Dalecarlia significantly higher than expected when compared to national norms. Lake Dalecarlia is in Niemeyer's legislative district. A report by the National Centers for Disease Control issued by the Indiana Board of Health on May 11 confirmed the extraordinary Hodgkin's Disease rate at Lake Dalecarlia reported by The Times. The CDC recommended the incidence of Hodgkin's Disaese at Lake Dalecarlia be monitored for five years.

It also recommended a cancer registry be established in Indiana. The Board of Health has urged establishment of the registry for several years. "It became clear as information about Lake Dale became available there was a need for coordination of figures from the National Centers for 9 a.m. p.m. NewsSports: 219-932-3106 Other calls: 219-932-3100 Toll Free Numbers Calumet City, Lansing, Dolton, South Holland, etc.

312-375 2679 Crown Point, Hobart, Merrillville 219-738-2762 Lowell, Cedar Lake, Shelby, 219-696-0030 INDIANAPOLIS Indiana is on the verge of joining other states in establishing a cancer information system. The Legislative Council is expected Wednesday to approve forming a committee to study the feasibility of a cancer information center in the state. Similar centers exist in Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio. Twenty states operate the informational systems funded by a combination of federal and state money. Sen.

Charles Bosma, R-Beech Grove, sponsored the legislative proposal for establishing the system in Indiana. The proposal was co-sponsored by Sen. Ernest Niemeyer, R-Lowell, he said, after a study by The Times found the rate of Hodgkin's Disease at Lake Federal study concluded: Hodgkin's Disease rate very high Other cancer rates not significantly increased Legislators study information needs Ability to interface with hazardous materials information systems. Two members of the committee will be appointed by the House Speaker and two by the Senate President Pro Tern. A nine-member advisory committee to the study committee will be appointed by the health The nine members will represent: A local health department, a hospital with a cancer diagnostic and therapy service, a public institution participating in cancer research, physicians specializing in oncology, the State Medical Association, the State Dental Association, a lay organization involved with cancer and the support of concer patients and the State Hospital Association.

INDIANAPOLIS Four legislators will pursue specific considers toward establishment of an Indiana cancer information center: The data they will study includes: Cancer information requirements. Reporting requirements. System designn and development. Implementation and operating costs. Loser's corner NASA and a textbook publisher.

Both muffed the question of which was hotter Mercury or Venus. James Brown, a student at Eisenhower Elementary School in Clearwater, told his teacher that his textbook was wrong to say that Mercury was hotter than Venus, and he wrote to McGraw-Hill Book Co. in New York. John F. Mongillo, editor in chief of McGraw-Hill's science department, thanked James for pointing out the error.

He promised tht the next edition of the book would be corrected to show Venus is hotter than Mercury. Then the National Aeronautics and Space Administration got into the act, with a NASA spokesman in Washington saying, no, the Mariner 10 spacecraft proved Mercury was hotter than Venus. On Friday, NASA spokesman Charles Redmond admitted someone made a mistake. "Apparently (the spokesman) was using old data," Redmond said, adding that the highest recorded temperature for Mercury is 1,630 degrees, compared to 1,673 for Venus. abitual criminal convictions rise i 41 7 I A high-speed chase through the east side resulted in the arrest of Anthony, 26, and Rodney, 27, both of Gary.

The brothers were convicted on the rape charge earlier this month. The sentence in Indiana for Class rape is six to 20 years. But the prison sentences for the Thomases are certain to be more than double that. That's because Anthony and Rodney Thomas were also convicted of being "habitual criminals." And in Indiana, (Continued Back Page This Section) By THOMAS HOULIHAN Times Staff Writer CROWN POINT Last Dec. 29, Rodney and Anthony Thomas picked up a 15-year-old girl as she stood waiting for a bus at 19th Street and Broadway in Gary.

Police said she was forced into the brothers' car at gunpoint and driven to the east side of Gary. There, she was raped repeatedly. A few hours later, two policemen on patrol saw the girl in the back seat of the Thomas' car shouting and screaming. President Reagan took to a sea of graduates rreSKien I Sunday at Seton HaiJ University in South Orange, I New Jersey He challenged them to help build a Challenge brignt (Uture lne United States..