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A2 Prices fflZoos ill iili 1 "rl" 1 1 VpLly Close look at wildlife -pkj and a lot more White Sox snap losing streak Wholesale prices show increase INDIANA The Vi 4 sections, 44 pages Home-delivered: 22 cents Newsstand: 25 cents Serving Northwest Indiana teel' imports US Trade Balance MARCH 1987 4 DEFICIT: $13.6 billion IMPORTS: EXPORTS: $34.7 billion Source: Dept. of Commerce IV i I Reagan's Voluntary Restraint Program, AISI said after studying Commerce Department trade data released Thursday. Imports in the first quarter took 23.1 percent of the market, down from 24.1 percent in the first quarter a year ago. Trade figures for other products were more encouraging as the biggest surge in U.S. exports in six years helped to narrow the nation's trade deficit to $13.6 billion in March from $15.1 billion in February, the Commerce Department reported.

The report was hailed by many economists as a sign that declines in the value of the U.S. dollar are finally beginning to pay off in easing the trade ml ft Most steelworkers support rejection If I It A jl jmA A McCOY By CURTIS VOSTI Business-Labor Writer EAST CHICAGO -Steelworkers heading into LTV Steel Indiana Harbor Works this morning voiced support for Thursday's rejection by local union presidents of $50 million a year in company cost-cutting proposals. "It should have been rejected," said Barron Rothchild, a member of Local 1011 of the United Steelworkers of America. "If it wasn't, we were going to reject it. Our president (John t.

I oano; uiu me rigui is, In a close 16-14 vote HARVEY Thursday, local union presidents from 24 LTV Steel plants nationwide rejected a package of cost cutting measures and new pension plans its negotiators hammered out with their LTV counterparts Tuesday after a month of talks in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. If they had approved the package, it would have gone to the rank-and-file for a vote and then to a bankruptcy court judge for final approval. Sako joined other District 31 presidents I9 ROTHCHILD i ft i--V 1- v-tln Copyright, 1987, The Timet What's right in Indiana ST. JOHN The Marian medal will be awarded to three St. John the Evangelist students who are Cadet Girl Scouts.

Julie ay lack, Theresa Schneider and Barbara Krantz will receive the award in special services Sunday. Index Advice Almanac Breakaway Business Classified Comics Crossword Horoscopes Illinois D- 9 D-10 D- 1 B- 6 C- 2 D-10 C- 8 D-10 B- 8 L.M. Boyd Movies Obituaries Opinion People Scoreboard Sports Television World news D-10 D- 4 C- 1 A- 8 A-10 B- 2 B- 1 D-ll A- 4 A- 2 Our phone numbers Top stories inside Man armed with a grenade at Poland's largest airport near Warsaw airport seized a passenger van and seven hostages, demanding to be flown to West Berlin. Page A-4 Surprising discovery by scientists might indicate an AIDS vaccine will not be as difficult to find as earlier believed. Page A-5 The 2 State 2-Step is off and running Saturday from downtown Hammond.

Page B-l Man who scored winning basket in the real ball game on which hit movie "Hoosiers" is based, talked to Region students Thursday. Page B-5 Discovery might indicate AIDS vaccine not be as difficult to find as earlier believed. Page A-5 Automotive Does your car need a tune-up? Or transmission work? Or brake repair? Check out our new Automotive Service Repair Directory for the fast, easy way to get help for your car today! See today's Classified advertising section. Loser's corner the boys in Helena (Mont.) High School who beat the heat in mini-skirts last month to protest a ban on wearing shorts to school. The youths won a change in the dress code.

But Mother Nature changed, too, and the day the 30 boys who challenged the ban in April by donning skirts could wear shorts, a cold front sent temperatures and pants legs plummeting. Regional forecast FL Wayne ammond 0 Forecast for overnight Saturday More weather, backpage this section Today Friday May 15, 1937 nJJNOIsXQiNDIANA if Of Danvia Springfield rj ff iEvansvllle' jump The significance of Canadian steel imports can be seen by comparing the figures with those for Japan. While Japan reduced its shipments to the United States 28 percent to 1.08 million tons in the first quarter, Canada's jumped 44 percent to 1.05 million tons, an AISI spokesman said. Canada is exempt from the VRA program, but the U.S. steel industry has been pushing for lower shipments or imposition of a VRA.

Meanwhile, the American Institute of Imported Steel, which represents im- See STEEL Back Page This Section 4 loading 22,000 tons of steel onto the Federal Saguenay, a Liberian vessel at Burns International Harbor, said James Hartung, director of the port. Loading is expected to be completed today. USX spokesman George Kuebler would not comment on the nature or the circumstances of the shipment, except to say the steel is bound for Japan. JAY GIVEN By JAMES KANE Times Business-Labor Editor WASHINGTON Steel imports from Canada jumped sharply in the first quarter of 1987, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported Thursday. "The total from Canada in the first quarter of this year was 44 percent higher than the first quarter of 1986, despite the announced intention of authorities on both sides of the border to bring this situation under control," said Thomas C.

Graham, chairman of AISI and president of the USS division of USX Corp. Imports from other countries declined, but the total level of imports continues to exceed the 20.S percent goal of President Maury Richards, of Local 1033 in Chicago, and Edward Cook, of Local 3069 in Gary, in rejecting the proposal. Rirharrls sairl tnriav the presidents were willing to accept trie pension and insurance proposals, but balked at the craft combination and manning reduction proposals. "I certainly would like the company to make more sacrifices," Richards said. "We've already given enough." The rejection throws the negotiating process into limbo.

"Right now, the ball's in the company's court," Richards said. PIERCE Though LTV Steel President Davis Hoag said Thursday it was not in its immediate plans, the company could ask the federal bankruptcy court judge to void the current contract between the union and the company, which was signed 13 months ago. Hoag expressed disappointment with the rejection, but said said the company will See MOST Back Page This Section was nth. On the negative side, only 6.7 percent (18,822) of the Gary-Hammond area black population lived outside the core city. That compares with 69 percent of blacks in Miami living in suburban areas.

Indianapolis offers less suburban opportunities for blacks with only 3 percent living in the suburbs. The figures are for 1980. "One can only conclude from this analysis that Indiana hasn't been particularly successful in developing a significant black middle-class population in terms of suburban residency," Hodgkinson says. "However, when economic level is used instead of residency, the picture improves strikingly for Indiana blacks." Hodgkinson says there are two theories for the high Indiana black income ratings: the small number of suburban blacks are all millionaires or it is possible in Indiana to be black, live in the core city and lead a See GARY Back Page This Section Another witness a convicted thief also stepped forward in December, saying he saw Given arguing with the prime suspect inside the Elks Building moments before the shooting. But still, no one's found the proverbial smoking gun.

East Chicago Police Chief Augusto Flores has worked the case for six years. He said progress was made in the past year, "but not enough to get excited about." Flores said not a day passes when he doesn't think about the case. "I wish a priest or someone like that would come forward and say he saw the whole thing. But I guess that only happens on Kojak." Indeed, the Given case reads like a LA- Gary-Hammond blacks mostly confined to city I 5 5 if Times photo by John J. Workln Unusual Indiana export steel is loaded on ship bound for Japan U.S.

steel rare export By THOMAS INKLEY Times Staff Writer The Gary-Hammond area has a significant black middle-class population that is largely confined within those cities rather than suburban areas, a state-commissioned study says. The study, "Indiana: The State and Its Education System," addresses Indiana's educational and economic problems, focusing on the Indianapolis and the Gary-Hammond metropolitan areas and the state's growing minority population. "Minority no long equals poor," says Dr. Harold Hodgkinson, author of the report and a senior fellow at the American Council on Education. He says the Joint Center for Political Studies found that in 1986 more than 12 percent of working black males make more than $50,000 a year.

In his report, funded by a grant from the Eli Lilly Foundation, Hodgkinson cites the Gary-Hammond area's 10th spot in a national ranking of metropolitan areas based on the income levels of blacks. Indianapolis Six-year-old murder unresolved PORTAGE Finished steel from USX Gary Works is expected to begin its journey to Japan later today or Saturday, the port director said. The shipment is a suprising reversal of the normal practice, which is for finished steel from overseas to be unloaded at American ports. Since Tuesday, longshoremen have been classic mystery. Despite the presence of 200 to 400 people at the rally, there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, which occurred in a foyer.

The prime suspect is John Cardona, a former deputy police chief. Though he has maintained his innocence, Cardona failed a polygraph test on the murder and refused one on the evidence tampering a decision that cost him his job. Cardona owned a Detonics Eistol a rare, expensive gun believed to the murder weapon. While no murder See SIX Back Page This Section By RICHARD BRYANT Times Staff Writer EAST CHICAGO One of the more notorious murder mysteries in Region history occurred six years ago tonight when flamboyant attorney Jay Given was shot while leaving a crowded political rally at a downtown club. Today, police and prosecutors still are pondering: whodunit? Hints of a major breakthrough in the case surfaced last December, but it led only to perjury charges against a man who told police what they knew already that the murder bullet was tampered with while in East Chicago police custody..