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Cheer Fund Breakaway A3 McMahon O-) ore damage to shoulder Donations pass $10,000 mark The joys of winter camping INDIANA TheP 4 sections 48 pages Home-delivered: 20 cents Newsstand: 25 cents Serving South Cook and North Will counties Copyright, 1986, The Time Jjfl). Given mmircler break 7(o(oW Former EC cop Cardona expected to be charged Friday December 12, 1986 By THOMAS FINN Times Staff Writer The exact nature of the lncrimiiiating evidence could not be learned, but it is believed to partly concern a bullet and shell casing that were found at the murder scene and were damaged while in the custody of East Chicago police. Another former East Chicago police officer was recently questioned about his ing, The Times has learned. New evidence uncovered by investigators will likely enable them to charge former East Chicago Deputy Police Chief John Cardona with the May 1981 slaying of Given, who was shot to death as he left a political fund-raiser at the Elks Building in East Chicago, sources said. CROWN POINT A major breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of former East Chicago City Attorney Jay Given is expected to result in a former police official being charged with the kill knowledge of the evidence tampering, sources said.

They said the officer, whose identity was not revealed, lied during earlier testimony before a Lake County grand jury probing Given's murder and in- See GIVEN. Back Page This Section Bank One commits to Gary What's right in Indiana HIGHLAND High school students Beth Clausen, Jim Jones, Sherri Roback and Norbert Viranyi have been selected to participate in a national program to promote interest in engineering, technology and science. The high school selected the students to participate in Inland Steel Chapter's JETS Program. Engineers will display their profession to the students through demonstrations and laboratory activities. By MYLINDA PERRY Times Business-Labor Writer GARY Bank One is promising to invest in Gary businesses and homes, settling a complaint by the open housing center that the bank engaged in discriminatory lending practices.

The Northwest Indiana Open Housing Center and Bank One will sign a five-year agreement next week at which time details will be made public, Janet Dermody, director of the center, said Thursday. "We are very pleased with the agreement," Dermody said. "It is very positive, it's a step forward. We think it will be good business for them (the bank) to get back into these markets." Because of the agreement, the open housing center Thursday withdrew a complaint it filed Nov. 14 with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland against Banc One the holding company for Bank One.

In its complaint, the center requested Banc One not be allowed to acquire American Fletcher National Bank in Indianapolis until the local bank agrees to meet the needs of low and moderate income Gary residents. See BANK, Back Page This Section "ZP i fx y.i I Weather bitter It's going to get colder before it gets warmer. The temperature Is expected to be a bone-chilling 10 degrees in Northwest Indiana with some snow caused by winds blowing over the lake tonight. Saturday will be the beginning of a slight warming trend. The mostly sunny skies are expected to produce a high in the mid-20s.

Rain or snow is possible Sunday with a high in the 30s. Fair weather is expected Monday and Tuesday with highs around 30. More temperatures and the national weather map on page A-16. Up In Smoke Times photo by John Smlerclok Munster police Detective Sgt. Michael Abbott seized by police during investigations, stood too close to the fire Thursday while Destroyed with the hemp and hash were Ab-burning 73 pounds of marijuana and hashisi.

bott's gloves and some eyebrow. Story: A-2. Index Advice B- Breakaway B- C-10 C-15 C- 1 C- 9 Business C-ll Family Obituaries Sports Television Theater World news The AIDS suppressor Researchers have a new theory on how the body can fight off the AIDS virus Classified Comics Editorial D- 1 C- 8 A-14 Rudy Clay sworn in early to keep Spann from staying on B- 6 A- 4 A- 2 Our phone numbers By MARK KIESLING and PETRA LUKE Times Staff Writers Immunew system New car directory Are you in the market for a new automobile but don't know where to start? Simplify your search by looking in the daily New Car Directory In the Classified Adverstising section of The Times. Check out the Car Search headquarters for the new car dealer of you choice. him.

I think because of all the public controversy, this would be an ideal time to kill him and let speculation run rampant." With Clay's swearing-in, Democratic precinct committeemen from the 1st Commissioner's District would fill a vacancy should something happen to Clay. Clay was shot at three times in front of his home on West 10th Avenue in Gary Monday night by two men in a late model Chrysler who had apparently been waiting to ambush him. One reportedly shouted, "Are you Clay?" and when Clay answered that he was, the man opened fire with the shotgun, hitting Clay in the arm and buttocks. Clay crawled under some bushes at a neighbor's house, and the attackers fled when a friend of Clay's walked onto the scene. Clay was taken to Methodist Hospital Northlake Campus, where he was treated and released.

Allen announced he is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Clay's attackers. Allen said this morning the fund has grown to $4,000 and is expected to top $5,000 by the day's end. CROWN POINT Following Monday's apparent assassination attempt, Lake County Recorder Rudolph Clay was sworn in as 1st District County Commissioner today. "If he had not taken the oath and he should die, most likely the current officeholder (N. Atterson Spann) would stay over through the next term," which ends in 1990, said Indiana State Elections Board Executive Director Laurie Christie.

State Rep. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, administered the oath in the recorder's office at 11 a.m. Clay said this morning the assassination attempt was "a two on the scale of one to 10" as a reason for the early swearing-in. "The main reason is that I just want to get sworn in as quickly as I can. I feel it is in the best interest of my family and the community." But Calumet Township Trustee Dozier T.

Allen, a Clay ally, said this morning, "I would think this is a reaction (to the shooting) and I think it is very wise, and I applaud Helper T-cells govern the components of the immune system AIDS virus attacks the helper T-cells, reproduces and destroys the host as it spreads to other cells Men say North controlled funds Khashoggi is a wealthy Saudi arms dealer who said he acted on his own in the deals, and not on behalf of his gov By JIM DRINKARD The Associated Press ernment. The pair said they did not know that up to $30 million in Loser's Sergeant Major, a cat depicted in a controversial military painting, who may be stripped of his rank because a real sergeant major objects. "The Induction of Sergeant Major" by artist Willard Kolstad depicts three National Guardsmen in battle fatigues, one of them holding a cat that has a medallion around its neck inscribed "Sergeant Major." Kolstad received a $4,000 commission for the painting from the State Department of Military Affairs. It hangs in the new National Guard Armory in Kenosha, Wis. At a hearing Wednesday Sgt.

Major William Villnow asked Kolstad to demote the cat and change the painting's title. He said he thought the work was masterful, but said he feared some people might interpret the work to mean that he and others of his rank were animals. Kolstad said he was only trying to inject a note of humanity by showing a citizen-soldier cradling the feline. proceeds from the sale had gone to help Nicaraguan Con tra rebels. And they left unclear how much President Reagan and Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini may have known about the deal.

North was fired from his NSC job on Nov. 25, when Attorney General Edwin Meese III revealed the diversion of money to the Contras. Meese said then that North was "the only person in the United States government that knew precisely about" the arms deal and money transfer WASHINGTON Ousted White House aide Oliver North apparently controlled Swiss bank accounts through which up to $35 million was deposited in the secret Iran arms deals he coordinated, say two key middlemen in the transactions. North, a Marine lieutenant colonel then on the National Security Council, seemed to be acting largely on his own, the pair said in a television interview detailing for the first time North's purported role in the affair. The businessmen, Manucher Ghorbanifar and Adnan Khashoggi, said in an interview Thursday on the ABC-TV program "20-20" that Iran initiated the contacts in the summer of 1985.

They said then-White House national security adviser Robert McFarlane responded by asking for Iranian help in releasing hostages in Lebanon and that the Tehran government then suggested Washington send arms to Iran to help it in its war with Iraq. Ghorbanifar is an Iranian businessman whom Khashoggi described as head of European intelligence for the prime minister of Iran. Mir Hossein Mousavi. to the Contras. North himself has not commented on his role.

Khashoggi said he believed that Reagan approved the arrangement before the first shipment to Iran, which he said was in August 1985. An American hostage, the Rev FA Benjamin Weir, was released on Sept. 14, 1985. Suppressor T-cells emit a substance that prevents virus from spreading to other cells The pair, interviewed in Khashoggi's Monte Carlo apartment, said some money for the weapons was depos Related story: Page A4 See MEN, Back Page This Section.