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'Contract' On Informer Is. Probed THE NEWS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1974 1 05th YEAR PAGE 23 IN THIS SECTION Movies, Comics, Business, Sports, Herman Don't Quote Me VvJ. w. A 1 I I fetV A :7 4kv, It --V Oh, Eileen, You're As Contrary As Mary Big Hit At Show It's a Model A Ford Phaeton made by Classic Industries, West Palm Beach, priced at $7,900. The young woman is Linda East, the reigning Miss Michigan.

Show hours are until 10 tonight and 1 to 10 p.m. tomorrow. The NEWS Photo, Gary Moore. The Indianapolis Auto Show winds up its 8-day run in Exposition Hall at the State Fairgrounds tomorrow. While new oars are drawing big crowds, this reproduction of an oldie is a hit of the show.

State Funds To Schools Federally shared revenues earmarked for the general fund by the last Legislature, which are accounted for separately, apart from by the State Auditor's Office. They show the surplus last June 30 at $91.5 million, a figure that could drop to $69.4 minion by June 30, 1974, but grow again to $80.8 million by June 30, 1975, taking into consideration the $55 "I don't even know what to write! To get or not to get, that is the question (sic). Well I'll get on with it. I would like a dog (because my Dad doesn't care for dogs) and a football and a GREAT BIG SNOWFALL. P.S.

I'd like a girl friend for my hamster." This week, with lots of people mumbling and grumbling about the snow, Anne approached her mother, swallowed hard and confessed. "Mummy, it's all my fault. I wrote a note to Santa for a big snowfall and he gave it to us." Mother said she thought the public would understand. NAMES IN THE NEWS ROBERT IRELAND, the Muncie resident who told of his dissatisfaction with the Marion County prosecutor's office in this column on Monday, parked his car across from the City-County Building yesterday and today to display a rooftop sign asking for the return of the death penaltv. The other side of the sign said, "FRANK SWINNEY, confessed killer of six in '70, will not be sentenced for the murders of MABEL IRELAND-axed: JOHN STEVENS-stabbed, and JIM BANKS shot, or for arson or for car or personal property theft." Swinney, a Kansas convict, was scheduled to be sentenced today for killing Ireland's 14-year-old niece.

Ireland was unhappy that the prosecutor's office failed to inform him. of the progress of the trial and dropped three first-degree murder charges against Swinney in the deaths of Ireland's mother and the two roomers who stayed in her Mars Hill rooming house. WLW-I weatherman BOB GREGORY will join DR. WILLIAM GOM-MEL, chairman of Indiana Central College's earth science department, to teach a meteorology course this spring. Another new ICC instructor, in the physical education department, will be BECKY GRAHAM, Miss Indiana of 1973 Indianapolis attorney GORDON WISHARD has been appointed chairman of the young lawyers section of the Indianapolis Bar Association by president-elect DOUGLASS SHORT-RIDGE.

Wishard will be in charge of the local bar's speakers bureau HERBERT A. HUENE, chairman of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's 1974 operating fund drive, will announce plans for the drive next Friday at a wine and cheese tasting party at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Metropolitan Opera stars ROBERT MERRILL and RICHARD TUCKER and the ISO conductor and associate conductor, DR. IZLER SOLOMON and OLEG KOVA-LENKO, will be honored guests. In charge of the party will be PERCY SIMMON'S, honorary French consul in Indianapolis.

Indianapolis police officials were told by AARON YORK yesterday that thieves removed the furnace from 1109 N. Mitchner Bloomington Mayor FRANCIS X. McCLOSKEY has named former Democratic mayor MARY ALICE DL'NLAP to the city's planning commission. She succeeded TOM LEMON as mayor of By DAVID MANNWEILER Once around the pigeonholes on the desk: ITEM: Grady Franklin, public relations spokesman for Western Electric, answered his telephone with the usual 'Hello." "This is Eileen," the voice on the other end of the telephone said. "I'd like to speak to Mary." Franklin, sligntly annoyed that it was the sixth wrong number in two days, said, "You have dialed wrong.

This is me, not Mary." "Me who?" came the reply. "Me, Franklin," he said. The woman finally Mannweiler realized she had a wrong number but added, "I don't have another dime. What will I do?" Sensing her plight, Franklin volunteered to call the number she had tried to call and tell Mary to call her. He did that but no one answered.

Franklin called Eileen back and told her the problem. "Would you mind calling again in half an hour and tell Mary to call me," the woman wanted to know. Franklin dialed 30 minutes on a kitchen timer and placed the call again in half an hour. Again no one answered. When he phoned Eileen to tell her the situation, another female voice, more official than Eileen's, answered the telephone.

The woman said she didn't think she could help very much. "I'm sorry but this is Central State Hospital," she said. Item: Catherine LaMere, the 65-year-old Indianapolis' woman who had her stolen purse returned just before Christmas with a note of apology from the thief, offered in this column to help the thief out of his difficulty if she could. She got one call, from a young woman. She said she had taken the purse and would like to stop by Mrs.

LaMere's home for the "help," which she natural-Jy thought would be money. "I don't think so, honey," Mrs. LaMere said. "I have evidence now an older woman took my purse." The caller hung up. But now Mrs.

LaMere has been burned again, and has a new offer. While attending the Jaycees' annual New Year's Eve party at Union Station, someone lifted her camera. Return the camera, which was a present from her children, and she'll buy the thief a new one, she says. But above all, she wonders if the thief will please return the exposed film that was in the camera. She wants that more than anything.

Item: If you want to know who to blame for all that snow outside your door, blame 9-year-old Anne Steeb, 3618 Woodcliff Drive. Before Christmas vacation began, Anne's fourth grade teacher asked the class to write a note to Santa Claus. Anne replied: Eiteljorg, Benbow Fill Top Museum Posts Two Indianapolis police homicide detectives have been assigned to work with Federal agents to investigate the circumstances of the death of Hershial T. Barrick, an Indianapolis man who was found dead at his mother's home on New Year's Day, Barrick, 40, 9329 Mcadowlark, had supplied information to Federal officials concerning the theft of more than $50,000 worth of weapons from three Southern Indiana sporting goods stores. It is also believed that Barrick had testified to the Federal grand jury about the involvement of other individuals in the thefts, including Indianapolis underworld figures believed to be fencing the stolen firearms.

According to one source, law enforcement officials had received a tip that a "contract" had been put out to have Barrick killed. Federal agents and Indianapolis police would not comment on that report. Barrick's body was found in his' bed about 1 p.m. No marks of violence or other injury were found on the body, according to the Marion County coroner's office. Toxicological tests are being conducted to determine if Barrick died of a possible overdose, the coroner's office said.

The information supplied by Barrick was responsible for a Federal grand jury indictment naming Barrick and Wilbur D. Applegate, 40, 9100 block of Basin. They were charged with conspiracy to deal in firearms without a license. In an affidavit to agents of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Barrick said he, Applegate and Bobby Atkinson, who also was found dead in 1971, had burglarized sporting goods stores in Greendale, Columbus and Seymour in a 3-year period beginning in 1968.

The body of Atkinson, 38, 900 block of North College, was found in a remote lovers' lane area on a Morgan County farm near Mooresville on Oct. 9, 1971. He had been shot twice in the head. Indiana State Police investigators said the "prime suspect" in the murder of Atkinson was Charles Miller, 41, 4425 Mann Road. Miller, died Dec.

13, 1971, as the result of a "suspicious traffic accident," Marion County sheriff investigators said. Sheriff investigators said they had received information that the brakes on Miller's truck had been tampered with. The possibility that Miller may have been drugged also was rumored, according to the sheriff's department and Indiana State Police. $2,179,368 Listed In Goodrich Estate A partial inventory of the estate of the late Pierre F. Goodrich was filed in Probate Court yesterday, showing $2,179,368.21 in bonds, cash and other assets.

Goodrich, who died Oct. 25 at age 79, was an attorney, well-known business executive and son of a former governor. The partial inventory was filed by the special administrators for the estate, Mrs. Enid Goodrich, the widow, and the Peoples Loan and Trust Winchester. Judge Edward Madinger appointed the special administrators to handle estate matters pending the disposition of a lawsuit challenging the probating of Goodrich's will by Goodrich's only daughter, Princess Anne Goodrich Poniatowska.

Dearborn much a cosmic and historic gathering as a musical event. The 18,500 seats of the Chicago Stadium were sold out well in advance of the evening performance, a pattern to be repeated throughout the six-week, 21-city tour. Promoters say there were as many as 20 million requests for the 658,000 seats available, all of which were sold by mail order. Dylan was backed for most of the concert by The Band, a group that played behind him until becoming one of America's top rock groups in its own right. And most of the concert was rock, with either The Band playing on its own or Dylan playing with The Band.

The biggest cheer of all from a crowd that cheered all night came in the middle of a song written in 1963 when Dylan observed: "Even the president of the United States sometimes has to stand naked." In Rome, ELIZABETH TAYLOR had a kiss for SOPHIA LOREN and a hug for director VITTORIO DE SICA on the set of "The Voyage," RICHARD BURTON'S latest movie. Miss Taylor, who rejoined her husband last month after a brief separation, raised a glass of Italian champagne to the two actors and gave a toast "to your marriage" referring to the roles Burton and Miss Loren play in the film. In the movie, on a short story by LUIGI PIRANDELLO, the lovers never marry, however; their romance ends with Miss Loren's death of a heart attack. Miss Taylor said she had recovered from her Nov. 27 operation for removal of an ovarian cyst, and "I feel absolutely marvelous." Excess Shifted State Budget Director Edison L.

Thuma said today he is transferring $55 million from the government's general fund surplus to a special reserve set aside for state school tuition support payments. The school fund reserve already has a balance of $45 million. The decision, apparently made at the request of legislative members of the State Budget Committee, will provide a fiscal cushion for the 1975 Legislature when it tackles school financing problems for 1975-77. Current revenue forecasts indicate the state will have sufficient funds to cover appropriations approved by the last Legislature for 1973-75. The decision to reduce the growing general fund surplus may also discourage extensive spending in the current session of the Indiana General Assembly.

Thuma, in a report to the House Ways and Means Committee, said the surplus could still total $80.8 million by mid-1975 after taking into consideration the $55 million transfer and also after taking into consideration additional spending requests of $24.5 million that are being considered by the current session of the General Assembly. The budget agency figures include Warden Says Disturbance At Prison Averted MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP)-War-den Russell Lash said today a major disturbance at the Indiana State Prison was averted last night when officials received word that a group of six inmates were planning to take control of a cell house. Lash said late in the evening, prison and state police officials received information "from many inmate sources that a group of six inmates in cell house were planning to take control of that cell house and murder two inmates, one white and one black. "The takeover was to occur at 11 p.m.

and the plan included the barricading of the cell house door, throwing Molotov cocktails (gasoline bombs) at the correction officers as they entered the cell house, and making a list of demands which included talking to a U.S. marshal and a Federal judge. "Correctional officers entered the cell house by surprise at 9:30 p.m. and were able to recover many knives, gallons gasoline, paint thinner, and the note listing the demands," Lash said. "The six instigators are currently locked in the prison seclusion unit awaiting a due process hearing." Lash said the prison officials were shaking down the entire institution this morning in a search for additional contraband materials.

Trucker An Illinois truck driver was killed yesterday when his truck plunqed 55 feet off an Interstate 94 bridge in Portage after he tried to avoid a small car skidding on the snow-covered highway. State police said FRANKLIN D. THOMPSON. 36, Alsip, 111., was west-bound on the interstate when a small foreign car in front of him went out of control on the slick pavement and veered into his path. Investigators said Thompson swerved to the left, losing control and crashing through the railing of the 1-34 bridge over 20.

The cab of the semitrailer truck landed upside down, state police said. Collector-entrepreneur Harrison Eitel-jorg and Indiana National Bank president John R. Benbow have been named chairman and president, respectively, of the board of governors of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Eiteljorg and Benbow both fill a vacancy caused by the death last month of Henry F. DeBoest, who had been president of the' board for three years and chairman since the death of the late Herman C.

Krannert. Other officers of the board include: Edward B. Newill, vice-chairman. Mrs. Robert W.

Greenleaf and Mrs. Bowman Elder, vice-presidents. Mrs. Hiram W. McKee, secretary.

Mrs. Erwin C. Stout, assistant secretary. Don B. Earnhart, treasurer.

Clarence W. Long, assistant treasurer. Eiteljorg, a noted collector of Western and African art, among other objects, has been a governor and trustee of the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 1960. He owns the Gallery of Western Art and Museum in Steamboat Springs, and is chairman of the boards of the 2850 the Reliable Coal Mining Co. of Chicago and the Florida Commercial Development Corp.

He is a member of Delta Kappa Sigma, the Hundred Club of Indianapolis, Woodstock Club, Meridian Hills Country Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Traders Point Hunt Club. Benbow, in addition to being president, chief operating officer and director of Indiana National, is a director and member of the executive committee of the London, England, Interstate Bank Ltd. and a director of Baker, Mc-Henry Welch and Exception Lexington, Ky. In a resolution expressing sorrow at the death of DeBoest in an auto -accident Dec. 22, the board of governors cited his "more than a decade of distinguished and dedicated leadership with rare personal warmth," and noted that the three years in which DeBoest served as board president "witnessed (the museum's) growth to a great institution of national and international importance." "His contributions to the museum, to million transfer and also supplemental appropriations of $24.5 million in the current legislative session.

The committee today also was briefed on the recently revised general fund revenue forecast which indicates income tax collections may not come up to earlier expectations, but sales tax collections, because of inflation, will exceed expectations. Benbow Eiteljorg this community, state and nation were great and well-known," the resolution said. City Boy, 4, Dies Of Dog Bites A 4-year-old Northside boy died of dog bite wounds in his neck today after he was attacked by a 120-pound St. Bernard while playing outside with friends, police said. The child was identified as David Little, son of Mr.

and Mrs. C. S. Little, 5601 Broadway. Police said the boy died at Winona Hospital after being bitten.

Investigators said the boy was visiting at the home of David Marr, 3245 N. Pennsylvania, owner of the dog, when he was bitten about 10 a.m. Lt. Harold Lyell, head of the Indianapolis Dog Pound, said police had to shoot the dog with a tranquilizer gun after the incident. A first shot failed to tranquilize the dog, however, and a second shot, which was fatal to the dog, was necessary, Lyell said.

He said after the first shot of tranquilizer, a rope was tied to the dog's neck and it attempted to chew through the rope before it was shot with an overdose. Hendrickson, 62, is reported in serious condition in Bloomington Hospital. Oliver was not hurt. KENNETH C. BROOKS, 39, 6614 Margaret Court, died yesterday in the Hancock County Hospital at Greenfield of injuries suffered Wednesday when his car collided with an auto driven by Donald T.

Griffith, 21, rural Greenfield, at the intersection of Ho Hancock County roads about 3 miles southwest of Greenfield. Griffith suffered minor injuries ISADORE MARCl'S, 70, 4154 Edge-mere Court, died Wednesday in Methodist Hospital ol injuries suffered Inst Saturday when his northbound car slammed into a utility jkiIc in the block of North Illinois. People In The News Losers Are Winners At By JACK ADAMS Reasoning that "fat guys don't do much," Mayor ORVILLE L. HUBBARD of Dearborn, has put city officials on a crash diet. "You have to lose weight if you want to work here," the 70-year-old mayor told the 19 city department heads at a recent weigh-in at City Hall.

lie gave them until Jan. 15, the date their reappointments take effect, to trim down from two to 10 pounds. Hubbard, who weighs 283 pounds and stands 5 feet 11. has set an even tougher goal for himself. "I'll tell you this: If I'm alive on Dec.

31, 1974, 1 will be 75 pounds lighter than I am today," he vowed. HENRY KISSINGER, following his boss' example, is flying on regular flights these days instead of private planes but there are compensations. "They don't have stewardesses on Air Force One," Kissinger told reporters at the Western White House before boarding an American Airlines flight to Washington, ending a five-day stay. "The food is better, too," he said. FBI and Secret Service agents prowled through the airport for an hour before Kissinger's arrival, hunting for threats to Kissinger's safety, and six carloads of agents surrounded his auto as he was driven directly to the boarding ramp.

Kissinger was also asked about reports he is planning to marrv his long-time friend. NANCY MAGINNIS of New York. "I would not make any comment on my personal plans," he said, blushing a bit. JUDY AGNEW has returned to Dies Avoiding Car Mrs. Agnew back to chores.

household chores after being one of the busiest official wives on the Washington social scene. The wife of former Vice-President SPIRO T. AGNEW is "enjoying being a housewife, cooking for the family and overseeing the house." said Mrs. Anew's secretary, MARY DEE BEALL. Agnew resigned from office Oct.

10. Mrs. Agnew, 52, married 31 years, with four children and two grandchildren, has always been a homebody. For the first time in years, she got into full gear at Christmas and cooked a turkey dinner for 17 relatives. But the Agnew hous is no ordinary one it cost $190,000 and is still surrounded by Secret Service guards.

ROB DYLAN, the pop culture hero of the '60s, embarked on his first (our of the '70s, a tour that has become as The unidentified motorist wase car skidded in front of Thompson's truck was not hurt. CARL G. GRESSIN, 54. MLshawaka, was killed yesterday when he was knocked down by one auto and run over by a second car at the intersection of two Mishawaka streets. Police said neither of the two drivers was held.

MRS. MARTLN (JENNY HEN-DRICKSON, 71, Sandborn, was killed yesterday when a car driven by her husband, 62, collided head on with a semitrailer truck on U.S. 231 about 4 miles north of Spencer. State police said the truck was driven by John Oliver W. 3'st.

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