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D-18 THE TIMES Sunday, December 16, 1984 Manager denies charges 'MM1ZC' 1 I I in I I for adjustmnent or $15 if a technician comes out to do the work. But Jostes said Friday the installation fee was noted in advertisements in The Times and two earlier mail fliers. The campaign, which began Nov. 26, ended with a "last chance notice" sent in the mail that did not note the installation charge, she said. "The ad wasn't deceptive," Jostes said.

"It was just a last reminder note. Anyone who calls for information is told about the installation charge. "Any time you are dealing with any company, you would assume that you would have to pay something to put on or change a service," she said. Jostes said she was aware that Balanoff contacted the company's 'CP -WC Jan. 8 hearing set marketing department about the advertisements.

If there is a problem with the advertising, the company would make "every effort to keep things clarified," Jostes said. "We have no reason to be deceptive," she said. "We want to build our subscribers and we want to keep them happy." The Hammond Board of Public Works and Safety agreed Thursday to send a letter to the cable company asking for an explanation. Balanoff suggested forcing the company to offer a free month of service to those who paid the installation Board President David Weigle said he didn't know if the city had authority to take such a step. Michigan shoreline near the Indiana-Illinois line.

Vandiver's mother-in-law, Rosemary Komyatti, and his brother-in-law, Paul also were convicted in the death. In Friday's order, the Supreme Court noted Vandiver's lawyer, Martin H. Kinney, has spoken with his client and reported that Van- diver "appears to be fully aware of his rights and is sincere in desiring to waive the right to appeal his murder conviction." The order directs Warden Jack Duckworth of the Indiana State Prison to bring Vandiver to the Statehouse Jan. 8 for a hearing on the issue. LEASE and SAVE Luncheon Students from Wilson School in Hammond held an international luncheon Friday to show off various ethnic heritages.

Joining in the fun were (from left): Ryan Sinkle, Melissa Harty, Monica Silva and Ginger Selan. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hammond man sentenced to death for the mutilation slaying of his father-in-law will have a chance to persuade the Indiana Supreme Court he wants to give up his appeal. In an order issued Friday, the Supreme Court set a Jan. 8 hearing to verify that condemned killer William Vandiver really wants to waive the appeal of his murder conviction. Vandiver was convicted Dec.

19, 1983, of murdering his father-in-law, Paul Komyatti Sr. The retired construction worker's body was cut up and placed in six garbage bags found along the Lake Collin McKinney SALES MGR. FOR ALL COMPARE OUR RATES NO DOWN PAYMENT LOW MONTHLY PAYMENTS LEASING DOESN'T TIE UP CREDIT SIMPLIFIED TAX RECORDS LEASING FREES YOUR CASH 9 OWN YOUR CAR AT LEASE END PLUS BENEFIT-WE BUY YOUR OLD CAR Ask for Collin McKinney FleetLease Mgr. 3 are finalists INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana's acting health commissioner, a deputy health commissioner from New Jersey and a California medical professor are finalists for the state's top public health job. Gov.

Robert D. Orr is expected to name the new state health commissioner before the Legislature reconvenes in January. The candidates are Dr. Themen S. Danielson, Indiana's acting health commissioner; Dr.

Allen N. Koplin, deputy health commissioner for New Jersey; and Dr. Woodrow A. Myers assistant professor of medicine at the University Qf California in San Francisco. The vacancy in Indiana's top health job came after Dr.

Ronald G. Blankenbaker resigned earner this year because of his complaint politics was playing too great a role in public health decisions. Stop discontinued The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District will discontinue its weekend stop at 23rd St.McCormick Place. The stop is being closed for safety considerations while construction work is taking place at McCormick Place. The construction forced passengers to get on and off the trains at track level instead of using the platform.

NICTD urges South Shore riders who were planning to use the 23rd Street station to use the 12 StreetRoosevelt road station instead. From this stop, riders can walk two blocks to the south entrance of the Field Museum and catch a 146 Southbound Chicago Transit Authority bus which will take them YOUR LEASING NEEDS (219) 931.5150 (312) 731-5110 5530 HOHMAN AVENUE HAMMOND, IN 46324 By MYLLNDA PERRY Times Staff Writer HAMMOND Deceiving the public is the last thing the city's cable television supplier wants to do, according to a manager for the company. Saadra Jostes, general manager of United Cable Television of Northern Indiana, denied charges that the statiop waged a deceptive advertising campaign. Hammond Councilman James Balanoff, D-2nd, accused the cable company Thursday of misleading the public by advertising one month of free service of either Home Box Office or the Disney Channel without mentioning an installation fee. The fee is $7.50 if the customer brings the cable control box to the company's office Ruling upheld INDIANAPOLIS Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Michael Packard has upheld the license suspension of a Hammond man convicted of reckless homicide.

Packard's ruling upholds a proposal from BMV Hearing Officer Dave Nelson that John Best 6325 Garfield have his license suspended for six months in connection with a drag racing incident that resulted in the deaths of three people in Calumet City in March 1982. Best had managed to escape the license suspension because of a mixup in the transfer of court records from Illinois to Indiana. By the time Indiana found out about Best's convictions, the possible 18-month suspension he faced had elapsed. Nelson proposed, after a hearing last month, that Best be suspended six months for each count, the suspensions running concurrently. Packard upheld the proposal "in its entirety." The November hearing was in part due to the persistent efforts of Don Koerner, 238 Willimas Hammond, the father of one of the victims, who brought the matter to the attention of Indiana officials.

During the hearing, Best pleaded with Indiana Deputy Attorney General Arthur Small that he be allowed to continue to drive for work purposes. Small at that time indicated Best might qualify for a hardship license. Nelson said the BMV had not yet received any application for hardship license, which would be forwarded to the BMV from the Lake County courts system. PERM SPECIAL Reg. $30 Wave.

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Chief Fire Inspector Carmello Ricciardi said a cause for the blaze hasn't been determined, but arson has been ruled out. The building and all its contents files, accounts and other documents were consumed in the blaze, Walker said. 254 arrested LOWELL Ah Indiana State Police Driving Under the Influence Task Force made 254 traffic arrests last month, according to a state police spokesman. Sgt. Larry Dembinski, public information officer at the Lowell post, said the task force made up of six state police officers from Lake and Porter counties made 66 driving under the influence arrests, six criminal arrests and issued 225 warnings.

Coordinated by Sgt. Robert Seifert, the task force patroled Indiana roads in search of drunk drivers during the last two weeks of November, Dembinski said. Couple guilty CROWN POINT A Lake County Criminal Court jury has found a Hammond couple guilty of charges of molesting two children. The jury deliberated three and a half hours late last week before finding Ellen and Melvin Pet-terman, of 48 Waltham, guilty of sexually abusing a 10-year-old Hammond boy and his 11-year-old sister. The crimes allegedly occurred March 19 at the Pettermans' former residence at 50 Webb St.

Judge James Letsinger scheduled sentencing for Jan. 9. Ellen Petterman is 37, and Melvin Pet-terman is 39. They could each receive up to 20 years in prison. Gary; Roosevelt Haywood, former Gary city councilman; David Coins, an administrator for Gary Methodist Hospital; and Byron Florence of East Chicago, a member of outgoing Congressman Katie Hall's staff.

HALF EM CCTII ETACIkm directly to McCormick Place. Building burns HAMMOND A vacant building, the scene of several previous arson fires, has apparently finally been destroyed by another possible arson blaze. The fire department was called to 7740 Columbia Ave. early Friday morning to fight the fire in the two-story structure. The fire was started in two places, the department said.

The spokesman said fire fighting efforts were hampered by a train, which delayed one truck five minutes in arriving at the scene. No injuries were reported; an investigation was to be conducted. Loan sought GARY The Lake County Welfare Department will finish the year $600,000 in debt, according to its director. After that bleak assessment by Lake County Welfare Director Michael Madalon, the welfare board late last week approved seeking a $3.5 million dollar loan from the county general fund in order to open 1985 with a balance, and to have enough money to make January Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) benefits. Madalon said the loan is temporary, because the department should, by the end of January, receive $10 million in tax anticpa-tion warrants approved last week by the county.

Offices to move EAST CHICAGO The law offices of W. Henry Walker Sr. and Associates will be moved to the First National Bank Building, 3701 Main St. A Dec. 3 fire destroyed Walker's Chicago precincts will elect a new councilman to serve the remaining two years of Clay's term.

Clay said he is supporting R. Louis Gonzalez, assistant admissions director at Calumet Col-. lege. Gonzalez is also director of the Alliance of Hispanic Students, a group which registered more than 700 East Chicago voters in this year's election. Clay said he knows these potential candidates have contacted precinct committeemen for support: Lewis Thomas, former president of the Central Labor Union and a precinct committeeman in powwr wenng ow conditioning, hnfwj gloM, options Soociol Koto an Spociol Oroorod Core.

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