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THE TIMES Sunday, February W6 21 '76 Indiana Legislature Ends 7 slipped through the House 54-41. Two Republicans and 15 Democrats voted against it in the Senate, while eight Republicans and 33 Democrats opposed it in the House. Democratic leaders said they detested it, but the alternative was no new budget and automatic renewal of fiscal 1976 appropriations without provisions for inflation. Republicans said the program was one of fiscal restraint, heading off a general tax increase next year. "I am only hopeful history will not remember I was a member of the budget committee that helped draft this budget," said the normally conciliatory Sen.

Adam Benjamin D-Gary. "The alternative to this is when its chances are dim. Reassessment delay and tax relief died for lack of a compromise. Republicans rejected a final Democratic bid for $750 personal income tax exemptions taking effect in 1978, instead of 1977. There was one minor tax bill, and it was left over from last year.

The House Overrode Gov. Otis R. Bowen's veto of a bill exempting persons with household incomes less than $10,000 a year from the state intangibles tax, making the measure law since the Senate had overriden earlier in the week. The $3.4 billion budget, spending about $60 million more than the state will earn in fiscal year 1976-77 but still leaving a projected $43.1 million general surplus in June 1977, passed the Senate 33-17 and then since early last year, bitterly opposed the move initiated by fellow Democrat Michael K. Phillips of Boonville.

Harris said the bill helped those in upper-income brackets above $10,400 a year but did nothing for most of the unemployed. The final attempt to pass alcoholic beverage legislation was a Senate resolution aimed at restricting liquor sales by groceries and drug stores. The Senate tabled and thus killed it 27-22. An attempt to revive it a minute before adjournment failed when the Senate deadlocked 23-23, giving Lt. Gov.

Robert D. Orr. a brief scare before he realized 26 votes were needed to remove the resolution from the table. Orr then voted no for the record. bleak, unfortunate and unworkable," added House Ways and Means Chairman Spencer J.

Schnaitter, D-Madison. It was a similar story on unemployment compensation, when House Democrats broke a two-year deadlock by relenting and accepting this year's original Senate Republican proposal for a 15 per cent increase in maximum weekly benefits. The new benefit scale would range from a maximum $69 for a single person to $115 for a person with four dependents, and the minimum would go from $30 to $35 a week. Rep. Jewell G.

Harris, DGary, the House Labor Committee chairman who had been deadlocked on the issue with Sen. John F. Shawley, R-Michigan City, Ml INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -The 1976 Indiana legislature was over today, having ended a failure-pocked session that produced a new state budget and a 15 per cent increase in maximum unemployment benefits only because they were betteer than nothing. Extending themselves to the final minutes for the second straight year, the lawmakers quit on a sour partisan note with each side still accusing the other of bad-faith negotiating. The House, which stopped the clock briefly to make sure it had time to pass the budget, adjourned three minutes before the midnight deadline.

The Senate followed two minutes later, after one last attempt to pass some sort of legislation limiting competition in alcoholic beverage sales. The last-day scorecard showed the budget and unemployment compensation as successes and pari-mutuel betting, liquor and wine price-fixing, tax relief and property tax reassessment delay as failures. The Senate upheld Bowen's veto of the pari-mutuel bill' 2822, with two votes more to spare than when it sustained the governor on a similar measure a year ago. Bowen vetoed the liquor and wine pricing bill, which would have required out-of-state distillers to set minimum statewide retail prices, and an override attempt was left to next year's legislature, Becfcj Griggs, left, and Casey Rowland relive capture Bandit Catchers Return To Normal Lifestyle Attorney Files For judge Seat LIONS PLAN BREAKFAST DYER The Dyer Lions Club will sponsor a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Feb. 29 in the Lake Central High School at St. John. THESPIANS ONSTAGE MERRILLVILLE -Merrillville High School Thespian Troupe 1692 is preparing for a two-night talent review Friday and Saturday. "Revue '76 That's Entertainment" will feature a variety of acts, including piano and vocal solos, duets, comedy sketches and a pantomime.

Directors for the talent review are Joseph Morrow, Thespian sponsor, and Jim Waters, student director. family traditions of most rural Indiana families. Getting involved in the chase of the suspects just came naturally, they said. And they said they probably would do it again. "We probably would," Mrs.

Bowland said. "It would be instinctive for one thing the same as before." If they hadn't received so much attention, they probably would have forgotten the incident by now, the women said. CROWN POINT Dennis Kramer has filed for election as one of the judges in the small claims courts for Lake County. Kramer, a Crown Point lawyer, is one of three judges named by Lake Circuit Court Judge Felix A. Kaul.

Kramer filed with the secretary of state as a Democrat. Other candidates filing at Indianapolis Friday were Rudolph Clay, D-Gary) for re-election as a state senator from the 3rd District; Marion J. Bushemi, D-Gary, 3rd District representative, and Walter J. Roorda, R-DeMotte, 10th District representative. Alfonso King Alfonso II on Jan.

25, 1494, succeeded to the throne of Naples on the death of Ferdinand I. the United States reached the sisters. Some of the letters money, which Mrs. Griggs and Mrs. Rowland donated to a local girl stricken with cancer.

They appeared on ABC television's "Good Morning America," and Mrs. Rowland has taped a segment of "To Tell the Truth" which is to be seen in Indiana next month. Mrs. Griggs said she didn't appear on the game show because her husband feared reprisal from the Neither of the women is bothered by the thought they might be the targets of revenge. "I don't think TV appearances would make any difference if they wanted revenge," Mrs.

Griggs said. "Besides, they'd have to get practically the whole town of Amboy." The two women grew up on a farm in the area, although they didn't marry farmers, they both continue to follow the close-knit AMBOY, Ind. (AP) -After a flood of letters, phone calls, interviews and two television appearancestwo Hoosier sisters who foiled a bank robbery and snared a suspect are ready for a noraml life. Casey Bowland, 27, and Becky Griggs, 28, gained national attention Jan. 6 when they teamed up on two hapless bandits who tried to rob the Farmers National Bank in this community near Marion.

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