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27 THE TIMES Sunday, June 3, 1979 Color Indiana Shuns Gas Probe BEATING A MYSTERY 111 iO W' 'ftfc the number of complaints is rising. Gasoline prices have gone up 20 cents a gallon in Indiana in the last year and between seven and nine cents a gallon in the last six weeks, according to Hugh Orr, manager of the Hoosier Motor Club. Orr said some gas station operators may be charging too much, "but on the other end of the spectrum I think you're going to find more people who are afraid of charging too much because of the federal fines. To be on the safe side, they're charging a penny or two less than they think they can." Federal regulations set a ceiling on retail gasoline prices based on a station's gas price on May 15, 1973. HAMMOND A Korean woman was found beaten Friday in the lobby of the Howard Johnson's South Motel, 7813 Indianapolis Blvd.

Kim Ja Jeong, 26. is in fair condition with cuts and bruises at St. Margaret Hospital. A motel security guard found Mrs. Jeong wearing only her panties in the lobby.

He took her to her room and called police. Police had little information Saturday because Mrs. Jeong speaks no English. They suspect she was beaten in her motel room. why the states should do this.

It's a federal mandate. It's up to them to enforce it." A DOE spokeswoman said the department has only 50 auditors inspecting stations nationwide, with most of them concentrated in metropolitan areas. Between Feb. 15 and May 18, federal auditors inspected 2,256 stations and found pricing violations at 945 of them. However, no inspections were conducted in Indiana, despite 129 complaints of price gouging.

Fifty-six of the complaints were registered on DOE's toll-free hotline during a two-week period in mid-May, indicating NATIONAL Bff GET READY FOR SUMMER STOCK IIP NOW! Comes To'50' ST. JOHN After 10 years of black and white station breaks WCAE-TV Channel 50 took the final step to full color Saturday morning. Rep. Adam Benjamin D-Ind pushed the button on the station's new color film chain. The chain, valued at $73,940, will enable the station to have color station breaks and color 16-millimeter film.

The new piece of equipment includes film and slide projectors and a color camera. It is operated by remote control. "I have a bachelor of science degree in engineering and this was the first time I was able to use it," Benjamin said. The congressman said he supports Channel 50 in its efforts to improve public broadcasting in northwest Indiana. He said he will continue to work with the station to acquire necessary federal funds.

Benjamin said public broadcasting is important because (l is a unique blend of local and national programming. He said it should be supported locally by business and industry as well as by state and federal funds. Station Manager Lou Iaconetti said acquiring the film chain is the first in a series of steps to improve local programming this summer. According to the Channel 50 Chief Engineer Gary Smith, the station will acquire three new color cameras for remote and studio productions, a charactor generator for captioning over programs, and a new switcher, for intermixing iilm. slides and live camera action.

Schererville News about Schererville? Call Nanci Fromm, 305-8132, Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Despite mounting consumer frustration over high gasoline costs, neither the State of Indiana nor the federal government has investigated complaints of price gouging at Indiana service stations. The federal Department of Energy has offered to give slates the authority to inspect and fine stations selling gas above the retail price permitted by law, but only three states have accepted the of fer. "Frankly, there's just not the personnel here to do that kind of thing," said Mike Larason, an energy official with the Indiana state government. "Besides, I don't know Retrial Decreed CROWN POINT An East Chicago man, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, will receive a new trial in Lake Criminal Court. Judge James Kimbrough ruled Friday that Alfred Davis, 50, of 4117 Dearborn was inadequately re-presented by his attorney during his May, 1977, trial.

Kimbrough set the new trial for July 30. Davis was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder in the April 5, 1977, shooting death of John L. Simington in East Chicago. Davis had argued that his trial lawyer, Jay Given of East Chicago, suffered a serious illness prior to the trial and was unable to effectively represent him. The motion contended that Given's collapse during the trial led the jury to assume Given faked a heart attack to gain sympathy for Davis.

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Richard M. Brill of Griffith, is a finalist in the 1979 Miss Indiana National Teen-Ager Pageant at Indiana Central University in Indianapolis June 30. Miss Brill is sponsored by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 186. Food Stamp Sale Barred GARY A Gary grocery store has been disqualified from the federal food stamp program for violating regulations. A Grocery, 1601 Maryland was disqualified by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. The store, oened by Allen Rogers, is charged with repeatedly accepting food coupons in exchange for ineligible items, including cartons of cigarettes, rubbing alcohol, laundry products, bath soap, paper products, deoderant and household cleaning products. Disqualification will last one vear, until May 26, 1980. After that, the owner may apply for reinstatement in the program. Until the store is reinstated, it may not accept food coupons.

homes and apartment buildings. The developer is Paul Misch. Waste district trustees will discuss a proposed sewer tie-in for Westdale Estates to the Cedar Lake-Lowell Cooperative sewer system. The charge for the connection into the Cedar Lake sewer line will be $750. According to the agreement, the Lake Dalecarlia district will the Cedar Lake Sewer Waste Utility a rate equal to l'j times the rate Cedar Lake customers pay.

Earlier this week, the Fort Wavne Journal-Gazette, in a copywrighl story, quoted unidentified sources as saying police wanted to question Leslie in as many as nine other homicides, mostly involving hitchhikers in Florida and Georgia. Six days before his death, Leslie had told his sister in a telephone call that he was contemplating suicide, police said. Meeks said when Leslie called his sister, whose name has been withheld by police, he instructed her to open a sealed letter she was holding for him. The letter implicated Leslie in the slaying of Miss Biddle, but police at first could not confirm it was in Leslie's handwriting. In another development, a woman identifying herself as Leslie's sister, but refusing to give her name, called Fort Wayne radio station WMEE after Leslie's body was found and claimed she had almost talked him into surrendering until published reports of the police search for him appeared.

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