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THE INDIANA I I i Friday, Saptembw 23, 97T Page 18 BY DANVILLE SCHOOLS These Homeowners Give A 'Dam' Petitions Seek Bus Switch 4 lights be installed on the buses if monej could be found in the school budget. One parent emphasized that th; group is "very interested in working irw full cooperation with members of the school board and with the superintend dent of schools Joan Knight, rural Coatestville, one Sen -V 1 (IT 1 4 Si" 9k Special to Tht Ntwi DANVILLE, Ind. Petitions are being circulated among parents of pupils in the Danville School System seeking a change in the school board's bus schedules. The petitions are being carried by many of 63 parents who attended a meeting Saturday night near here to discuss the issue. Some parents are concerned the present bus route schedule puts the system's youngest children those in kindergarten through the sixth grade at bus stops as early as 6:35 a.m.

Concerned parents feel it would be wiser to have pupils in the seventh through 12th grades ride the early buses. Parents at Saturday night's meeting expressed concern for the safety of the children. One parent cited a State Police safety report that the hours between dusk and dawn and from noon to 2:59 p.m. are high-accident periods times during which the system's youngest children would be waiting for or riding buses. The parents also expressed concern for children who have to cross U.S.

36 to board buses, saying some motorists disregard flashing red lights on stopped buses. It was suggested that strobe By STEVE COMBS Special Correspondent GREENFIELD, Ind. "Why do they want to drain the lake," said Vicki Snow after learning a dam holding back the water of the Sugar Hills addition lake is to be removed. Mrs. Snow, w'fe of State Police Trooper Terry and more than 20 other home owners in the Sugar Hills addition northeast of Greenfield may find their lakeside views dry if the Department of Natural Resources succeeds in getting a court order to have the dam removed.

In 1972 developers of the addition had an earthen dam constructed on New Ditch, a tributary of Sugar Creek. An application for the dam was submitted to the Department of Natural Resources in 1970. However, the Natural Resources Commission eventually turned down the request in 1975 and ordered the dam, which had been built in the meantime, removed. The Indiana Highway Commission also has entered the picture declaring the lake overflows and floods Fortville Pike, formerly known as Ind. 13.

"The road has never flooded," said Mrs. Snow. "The only hazard on the road is snow in the winter, now that the state does not take care of it anymore." The only road that has ever been flooded is the private road on the east edge," she said. "That's interesting. It's really scary.

It could really hurt our property value." Mrs. Snow explained she and her husband had thought of selling last spring but decided to wait. "Now I wish we had sold." Linda Myers, another home owner, said, "Well, the lake is what enticed us out here. I think we will fight it." "The only thing we know about it is I heard there were plans to drain the lake to clean out some stumps on the north end so people can water ski on it, Mrs. Myers said." Another resident who did not want to be identified said he knew nothing of the pending litigation.

"I'm a member of the Sugar Hills Property Owners overlook Sugar Hills addition lake in Hancock County. Jury Finds Logansport Man Guilty In Attach I.U. Study On Alcoholism 4 Association and was not aware of the problem." He also said he has never seen the county road (Ind. 13) flooded. The Department of Natural Resources filed a complaint last November for a mandatory and permanent injunction in Hancock Circuit Court.

The complaint was filed against Walter and Irene Higgs, Dorothy Jones and an Indianapolis engineer, Richard Stoeppelwerth, the designer of the dam. involved as alcoholism research trainees and are conducting projects through the mental health center. Trainee activities include work with alcoholic clients and their families, individual research activities, and observing the operations of the Halfway House, a residence facility for recovering alcoholics. Some of the varied kinds of research which have been conducted over the past three years are concerned with what effects an alcoholic parent has on adolescent daughters, attitudes of alcoholic treatment personnel, and social class distinctions in drinkers, especially women. "Each little study adds to our understanding of alcoholism," said Levy.

"In addition to the problem of drinking, we are concerned with the problems of learning and thinking." Students also have collected data for various smaller studies with subject populations other than those coming through the center. These include research at Fairbanks Hospital at Indianapolis, an alcoholic inpatient treatment center, and at Veterans Hospital, Indianapolis. Residences of the organizers of Saturday night's meeting, said some parents contacted the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Harold Negley about the issue. As far as we she said, "this, is the only school system in the statef where they have the smaller children going the earliest to school "We would like to get the schedule reversed." she said Between 40 and 50 parents appeared at the Danville School Board meeting last week to ask for a change in the route schedule. They were told that it would not be possible to change the schedule this year, but a change could be made next year The board called for the formation of a citizen study committee to review the problem and to submit recommendations before the start of school next fall.

Another meeting is scheduled for" 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Windy Knoll; Auction barn west of here on U.S. 36. The victim testified earlier that the-', attacks took place while she was living' -in the Camden home of her uncle and aunt, serving as a babysitter for the couple's children. She said she was upstairs with the children on June 15, 1976, when Benn let himself into the house and confronted her in a bedroom.

Benn allegedly sent i the children downstairs and assaulted her. Friends To Pay 5 For Ads On Missing Coed BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -r Friends of a missing Indiana University student have begun a fund drive to pay for newspaper and television advertising in the hope of locating her State Police said, however, have no new information on the disap- pearance of Ann Louise Harmeier, 20, Cambridge City. She has been missing since Sept. 12 when she failed to to campus.

fi Her disabled car was found side Ind. 37 near Martinsville, butj police haven't been able to take the --case much further than that. Foul play is suspected, a police spokesman said. Friends of Miss Harmeier have. raised $400 to buy newspaper space and television time, and a $5,000 reward fund has been raised.

Bargersville Fest 1:1 SMCltl It Tht Ntwt BARGERSVILLE, Indi The Bargersville Fall Festival will get begin tomorrow at 10 a.m. Features of the festival will be a fish fry and a parade. A festival queen will be crowned at 7 p.m. today. Semi-Annual Sale LADIES' HIGH HIGH FOOTWEAR QUALITY FOOTWEAR Factory Seconds end Special Purchase of Well-Known Brands' $16.95 to $32.95 Values NOW ONLY I DRESS CASUALS AND SANDALS OVER 1,000 PAIRS Many small sizes and narrow widths.

Brands Specially Priced 4 anything about it until we started getting inquiries from the media. Now, we have hired an attorney." The addition is on a 177-acre tract and many of the homes are valued at $60,000 and higher. Sam Graves of the Indiana Attorney Generals office said a pretrial hearing will be held Nov. 4. "The trial could take place sometime after that." ICItnton TiPonMad Dela- Mont gomery lEoone Hamilton Suburban Henry HendrickslMarion JHa ncoc Ex-Johnson Demo Chief Is Found Guilty Special to Tht Newt FRANKLIN.

Ind. Richard Craig, former Johnson County Democratic Party Chairman, was found guilty of shoplifting and given a 21-day suspended sentence. Johnson County Court Judge Baron O. LaGrange fined Craig $10 and court cost of $29 and suspended the fine. Craig, 39, Greenwood, was arrested March 25 by Greenwood police at the request of security guards at the L.S.

Ayres Co. store in the Greenwood Shopping Center. Security guards charged he took a $20 pair of slacks from the store. Craig formerly was charged with violating the Offenses Against Property Act. LaGrange, a Republican, in explaining his decision, said Craig had no prior criminal record and he thought the shoplifting incident was unfortunate and did not think it would happen again.

Lawrence Seeks Hike In Water Rates A proposal to increase water rates 45 percent in the City of Lawrence has been submitted to the Public Service Commission. As an example, Mayor Morris Settles said the users of 10,000 gallons of water per month will be paying $6.95 if the rate increase is approved. The present rate for 10,000 gallons is $4.80. Swzs also said the city will received grant for the installation of railroad crossing signals and gates for the crossings at 46th and 47th streets in Lawrence. He said both streets have blind crossings.

The funds for the project will come from the Railroad Rehabilitation Safety program. Tht NEWS Phots, Rodwr Birchfltld I MonroelBrown Bartho-j lomew Special to Tht Nam Bloomington, Ind. "Despite the fact that alcoholism is one of the world's oldest problems, we still know very little about it," said Leon Levy, director of the Indiana University Psychological Clinic and professor of psychology. Since 1975, Levy has headed a research program for the I.U. Department of Psychology in conjunction with the Bloomington Community Mental Health Center.

Funds come from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. "What made our application attractive to the NIAAA and what made this a good place to conduct alcoholism-related research was the cooperation we at the university have with the mental health center," Levy said. The Alcohol Research Project, now in its third year, has as its overall goals development of sound research projects around the many questions generated through providing an alcoholism treatment program, broadening the research program of the center, and providing research training for advanced clinical psychology students. Nine Indiana University pre- and post-doctoral students in psychology are By BETTY LOU SMITH Special Correspondent DELPHI. Ind.

A rural Lneansnnrt man was found euiltv of rane hut ac quitted of sodomy today in Carroll Circuit Court. The iurv recommended a two-vear sentence for Raymond Benn, 59, on the rape cnarge. uetense attorney Charles Scruggs said Benn will appeal. Benn later will face three more sex-related charges. Court dates in Carroll Circuit Court have been scheduled for Oct.

11 on a rape charge and Nov. 28 on a sodomy charge. Trial is unscheduled on yet another rape charge. Investigators said Benn allegedly posed as a Ku Klux Klan leader and forced women members to perform sex acts with him. He was charged with rape and sodomy in a series of alleged attacks on an 18-year-old woman who was living with relatives in Camden.

The woman said Benn forced her to have sex with him 40 to 60 times from June 1976 to October 1976. The case went to the jury yesterday at 2:25 p.m. after final arguments. The jury delivered its decision at 2:17 a.m. today.

In final arguments, prosecutor Louis Mullin told the jury that testimony given by Benn, his wife and his son Casper was conflicting. Each told the court a different alibi story involving a birthday party given for Casper Benn on June 15, 1976, the day of the alleged attack. Mullin said. He reminded the jury that Benn, not -the victim, was on trial, and called the defense's arguments "slick" and sinister." Scruggs questioned whether Benn, who says he is permanently disabled because of a stroke and heart disease, would be able to perform sex acts as the victim alleged. He said Benn was not "a Casanova, a Don Juan, a Joe Namath or a Jack the Ripper." LADIES' QUALITY Stoepplewerth has asked that he be excluded from the suit, contending he did not construct or own the dam.

Joan Perkin, president of Sugar Hills Property Owners Association, and her husband own the easment of the dam along with another couple, Mr.and Mrs. Robert Gayer. "We have known about it forever," said Mrs. Perkins. "But, we did not do "An important part of the research training is recognizing what needs to be studied, what are the questions that need to be asked." said Levy.

"I do not believe alcoholism is a single disease or said. "A great many things need to be studied to collect a sufficiently large enough data bank to determine the kinds of treatment which prove effective." One problem in recognizing the alcoholic for research purposes is that, although many people seek services from the mental health center, not very many present drinking as their, most immediate problem, according to Levy. 6 Plead Innocent In Marijuana Case Speciil to The Newt NASHVILLE, Ind. Six Brown County residents have pleaded not guilty in Brown Circuit Court to charges filed against them in connection with the illegal cultivation of marijuana. Walter Davis, 46, and one of his sons, Paul.

24, a former Brown County Sheriff's Department dispatcher, pleaded not guilty to charges of growing a controlled substance and possession of marijuana Tuesday. Trial for them was set Dec. 7. Wayne Young, 28, and his wife, Mary, 25, pleaded not guilty to possesion of marijuana. Brown Circuit Judge David T.

Woods set their trial for Dec. 15. Charles Mount, 36, and his wife Cynthia, 28, pleaded not guilty to cultivating and manufacturing marijuana. Their trial dates have not been set. Hearing Set SMCltl to Tht Ntwt Greenfield, Ind.

Judge Beamer Davis of Hancock Circuit Court has scheduled a hearing on a motion to dismiss in the suit filed against the city of Indianapolis by the Professional Fire Fighters Association in connection with the firemen's bargaining for pay increases. AIR SHOW AT PLAINFIELD FEST SMCltl to Tht Ntwt PLAINFIELD, Ind. Plainfield's Screaming Eagles Radio Control Club and its Barnstormers Air Show Team will present a miniature aircraft air show at 2 p.m. tomorrow and at 3 p.m. Sunday at Lovell Field.

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