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r- 4 J- -t Litiv rSu. a Recount Irregularity Bare HE NEWS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 103rd YEAR MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1972 PAGE 33 Don't Quote Me It's Just The System: Frustrated Fireman Marion County Election Board; O'Dell was appointed as a Republican and Mrs. Hollowell was appointed as a Democrat. The appointments by Niblack were made under state laws, which requires that one of the three members of the recount commission shall be a voting machine mechanic, and the others shall be of the opposite political parties. Records in the Marion County voter registration department reveal that Mrs.

Hollowell has registered as a Republican in the last three primary elections dating back to 1970. Earlier she registered as a Democrat, except in 1952 when she listed her party affiliation as Republican. Niblack told The News the Hudnut-Burton recount was a legal recount and was done according to law, and that appointment of the commissioners spe cifically followed the law. Niblack confirmed he appointed Mrs. Hollowell as a Democrat, adding, "I checked it out." When it was suggested the records of the voter registration department showed Mrs.

Hollowell as a registered Republican, the judge replied, "But she calls herself an independent Democrat. The record shows she has registered more times as a Democrat than a Republican. It doesn't make any difference what the law says, she was appointed as a Democrat, which she says she is." Mrs. Hollowell said she was appointed to the recount commission as a Democrat by Niblack. When questioned about her Republican affiliation for the last three years, she said, "Yes, the judge knew this.

He was told that I had voted in the last Republican primary. "This was something that was known if. a 4tf iipmnifwxxg, v. By DAVID MANNWEILER The announcement last week that Donald Bollinger was stepping down as the Fire Department's director of fire-prevention came as a surprise to most of the city's firemen except to those who have followed his frustrations. In customary language, Bollinger told the Fire Merit Board he wanted to transfer to a district post because "of the difficulties in meeting the demands of the office." For a man regarded as a "fireman's fireman." that didn't Mannweiler sound like Bollinger.

What he didn't tell the board was his frustrations with politics and bureaucratic red tape encountered as -he tried for more than three years to get a counytwide fire prevention code enacted. Shortly after Bollinger took the fire prevention job in 1968, he began trying to change the 20-year-old city fire ordinances. But he couldn't get legal help, he said, until after the disastrous fire at the Here Apartments. When he finally got a proposed code put together, it got stalled in the city's legal office. Then the 1971 General Assembly passed a statute saying no fire safety rules or regulations could be more stringent or less stringent than the rules passed by the Administrative Building Council.

"But," said "I don't believe any one agency can write a set of regulations that can coven, both small towns and Indianapolis. If you write the rules so they meet conditions in Shelbyville, they won't be good enough for Indianapolis. "If you write the rules for Indianapolis, they'll be too restrictive for Shelbyville." Bollinger also found frustration in his efforts to force 10 Indianapolis buildings to install standpipS systems, which are hydrants on each floor. He began that effort in July, 1970, and three build-' ings still haven't complied. "I don't know but what there might have been some politics played.

It shouldn't take-that long." Another frustration Bollinger encoun-v tered was that he wasn't under the control of the Fire Department but under tie Board of Safety. "They told me if the Democrats took over city hall, I'd probably be out," he said. He took a $1,600 cut in pay and the, loss of a city car to take a job as a district chief, "which is really a promo- tion since I couldn't go any higher under the Board of Safety. "I guess I also got tired of being on call 24-hour a day, seven days a week. When I went to the show or to church I always had my fire radio in my pocket with an earplug in my ear.

I was bring-. Looking south on Interstate 65 from 1-465. This section will open Friday South -65 Opening Will Slash Trip Time By ART HARRIS and JOE JARVIS Three recount commissioners named by Circuit Court Judge John L. Niblack to retabulate the vote for 11th District congressman in the Republican primary are all registered Republicans in an apparent contradiction to state law, it was learned today. The recount was sought by Dan L.

Burton, who in the officially certified vote tabulation of the May 2 primary lost to the Rev. William H. Hudnut III by 81 votes. The recount commission concluded its recount Friday and determined the margin of victory for Hudnut as 98 votes. The three recount commissioners appointed by Niblack were Mrs.

Cynthia Hollowell, 1315 E. 82nd; John L. Meeks, 728 Fayette, and Harold G. O'Dell, 5530 N. Arlington.

Meeks was appointed as a voting machine mechanic employed by the Gas Utility Services' Fees Near Citizens Gas Coke Utility will put a new schedule of charges for all services into effect Saturday, including charges for services that have been free, it was announced today. Victor C. Seiter, general manager, said the charges were being instituted "in fairness to all utility customers." Utility records have shown that about 20 per cent of the utility's customers are responsible for 80 per cent of the service calls, Seiter said. "With costs increasing as they are, and the need for rate increases in the future, we feel that those who benefit from the service should pay for it. Otherwise all customers share in the cost of free service through higher rates," he said.

Services that formerly were free but will now have charges include adjustments for ranges, water heaters, clothes dryers, gas grills and incinerators. The utility previously has charged only for service to furances, air conditioners, gas lights and swimming pool water heaters. After Saturday, Seiter said, the majority of service calls will be billed on a labor and material basis, with a minimum service charge of $7 to cover the cost of traveling to the job, truck costs, billing costs and 15 minutes of labor. charges of $2 per quarter-hour of labor will bring the iirst-hour rate for one man to $13. Each additional hour of labor will be billed at $8.

Seiter said there will be no charge for emergency calls "that have a bearing on the specific safety of our customers or the general public." He said the utility will "do whatever work is necessary to render the situation safe, without charge," in such events. Any corrective work to a customer's appliance under such circumstances will be billed at the regular rate, he added. "Should the utility need to interrupt gas service for work on its system," Seiter continued, "service will be restored at no cost to the customer." Julie To Give 4-H Awards At Purdue Till Ntwt turfll WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Julie Eisenhower will attend Indiana's 54th annual 4-H roundup tomorrow night, E. L.

Frickey, state leader-youth at Purdue University, said today. Nearly 3,000 youths are on Purdue's campus for the three-day roundup. Mrs. Eisenhower, who is President Nixon's younger daughter, will arrive on campus early in the evening and attend a reception with top 4-H members and repre Julie Eisenhower sentatives of Purdue's administration. She then will attend a general "share-the-fun" session in the Music Hall, speak briefly and present leadership awards.

Two outstanding Hoosier 4-H members will serve as escorts during her campus visit. They are David Savage, rural Russiaville, and Susan Stephenson, rural Salem. Savage, who will be a sophomore at Purdue this fall, is chairman of the state 4-H Junior Leader Council, and Miss Stephenson is one of the young persons who will preside at the session tomorrow night. Mrs. Eisenhower will leave after the program.

Evening Prayer With joy and with sorrow, God, we come to the-end of this day. We rejoice in Your grace and In the opportunities we have had. We ask You to forgive us where we have failed and Rone astray. May the night bring us rest, through Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.

REV. F. W. WIEGMANN Downey Avenue Christian Church by the judge when he appointed m. I am an independent Democrat registered as Republican in Washington Township because I got tired of voting for persons I did not know.

I don't want to put the burden on him (Niblack), but it was pointed out to him very clearly because I didn't want to jeopardize the recount in any she said. Mrs. Hollowell told The News, "The judge said it didn't make any difference because I come from a long line of Democrats. I've been a Democrat a lot longer than a registered Republican." Records in the voter registration department show Mrs. Hollowell's husband has been a registered Republican since 1948.

A year ago Mrs. Hollowell was appointed by Niblack to the County Welfare Board, also as a Democrat. i i t3lt- Tht NEWS Photo, Bob Doepperl. and there were no traffic signals, no service stations, no crossroads. The portion of 1-65 from the interchange at 1-465 to Greenwood is a six-lane divided highway, while the balance of the 30-mile strip is a four-lane divided highway.

First road contract was let for the new section in May, 1968, Highway Department officials reported. Total cost of $35 million includes road, bridges, engineering, construction, utility adjustments, signing and right-of-way. Cost per mile was put at $1,116,000. Motorists from either the Northeast or the Northwest will use 1-465 around the city to reach the 1-65 interchange about a mile north of Thompson Road south of the city. Any traffic from inside the city can best reach the 1-65 interchange by entering 1-465 at any point and continuing the interchange marked Louisville or 1-65.

Highway officials point out that with the opening of the 30-mile strip of 1-65, a total of 104 miles of 1-65 have been opened to traffic since March, 1969. Construction is several years away for completion of 1-65 through the heart of the city, forming a part of the interstate inner belt. nersville and Bedford won pedestrian safety citations. All awards and citations were made on the basis of pedestrian casualty records and accident prevention programs. Evaluation was made in each of the prevention areas of safety legislation, enforcement, traffic engineering, community co-ordination, school traffic, public education and records.

Billboard Suit The Metropolitan Development Commission tiled a lawsuit today against the Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co. of Indianapolis, seeking the removal of a billboard being erected near the intersection of Interstate 465 and U.S. 31 South. The suit, filed in Superior Court 4, alleges that the billboard is not properly located. William McMurtrie, manager of the advertising firm, said he was surprised "that the commission has filed suit." He said, "We work with the commission very closely and, in fact, have been talking about this particular sign, both last Friday and today." He explained that the sign being erected replaces a nearby billboard that was damaged in a storm.

E. W. Lausch, attorney for the commission, said Naegele did not obtain a permit from the commission for erection of the new sign. He said he was unaware of any conversations between the firm aid the commission. ing my wife home a sick stomach all too often.

"I guess maybe it was nobody's fault, really. It's just the system." NAMES IN THE NEWS LOUIS B. RUSSELL the Indianapolis industrial arts teacher who is the world's longest surviving heart transplant pa-tient, visited SIDNEY KEOUGH at Newton, yesterday, five days after Keough became the 192nd person to survive a heart transplant operation Seeress JEANE DIXON will be parade marshal at the Flora Centennial at 2 p.m. next Sunday Celebrating their 22nd wedding anniversary yesterday were Indianapolis insurance man RALPH "Buckshot" O'BRIAN and his wife, DORIS Dr. OTIS R.

BOWEN startled some Republicans at last Friday's state convention by appearing in a new suit with flare-leg trousers. The GOP gubernatorial candidate recently bought five new suits, aids said, and, four of them are flared EDWARD A. JESKI, manager of Indianapolis'. Federal Building, has won an award from the General Services Administration for having the cleanest building in the six states in Region 5, and now is shooting for the national honors. The region's small office award went to Fort Wayne, making this the first year a state has won both the large and small office region awards ROY D.

HICKMAN, i of Rotary International, will speak tomorrow at noon at the Civic Center to the Downtown Rotary Club. ELDON CAMPBELL, president of the local club, told members there won't be a July 4 meeting and added, "Drive carefully and remember that he who comes forth on the 4th with a fifth may not come forth on the 5th." WHERE ARE THEY NOW7-J. Griffin Crump was a member of The News copy desk when he was appointed exec-. utive director of the city Human Rights Commission in 1963 by Mayor Albert H. Losche.

In March, 1971, Crump resigned over a budgetary dispute. He had sought a budget for 1971, nearly twice the 1970 budget allocation, be Crump cause the Indiana Civil Rights Act of 1969 had expanded the commission's authority to include all of Marion County. Crump said without the increased budget, the commission could not hire enough personnel to expand its activities. If he expanded the work with the same staff, he argued, he would dilute the over-all effectiveness of the commission. After leaving the commission, Crump worked as a private consultant before becoming a contracts complaint specialist for the Army's office of contracts compliance at Fort Harrison.

Selassie: On to Yugoslavia defeating 107 boys and 9 other girls. "All the boys are jealous," Miss Wallers said after the final race. Author PEARL S. BUCK, whose "The Good Earth" won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize in literature, celebrated her 80th birthday in Philadelphia. Miss Buck has turned out 84 books during her writing career.

She spent 17 years in China with her missionary parents, and said last week that another story she culled from the memories of her time there will lie published soon. The Nallimal Federal ion Of Press Women has admitted a male photographer to membership. PHIL WEBBER, a photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, became the federation's first male member when the organization opened Its enrollment to men. fetes it Lil jr. i FronltlinL fnj, 44 EJntwrg hfJl lcolumbu sic fefldLi-ii A trip that took up to eight hours to drive a few years ago will be made in half the time on a tank of gas and a candy bar, beginning late this week with the opening of another section in Interstate-65 south of Indianapolis.

A lrive that took 35 minutes Friday, will take 25 minutes when the 30-mile section of 1-65 is opened( linking 1-465 on the city's Southside and Tay- lorsville, where 1-65 continues to Louis ville. Thus it's possible by using the 1-465 bypass around Indianapolis to drive from the Indiana Toll Road at Gary to the Ohio River, or vice versa, without a traffic signal. That's a distance of about 270 miles which can be traveled in about four hours. The grand opening of the 30-mile section is set for 10:30 a.m. Friday, at Ind.

44 and 1-65, a mile east of Franklin. On hand will be Gov. Edgar D. Whitcomb and Ruel W. Steele, State Highway Commission chairman, plus other Highway Department officials and a score or more of dignitaries including legislators, mayors and presidents of chambers of commerce and town boards up and down the line.

A trip from Thompson Road to Tay-lorsville on U.S. 31 took 35 minutes one day last week. Encountered on the four-lane divided highway in the 30- People In The News Let There Be Light, Said Bobby: My Kind CITY, STATE SUMMARY City Red Cross Seeks Funds Tht NEWS Mp. Tom Johnson Broken line shows area to be opened. mile stretch were 19 traffic signals, many crossroads, driveways to service stations, drive-ins and other businesses and varying speeds ranging from 35 to 65 miles an hour.

The 30-mile drive at the same time on the new portion of 1-65 took 25 minutes. The speed limit was 70, are being used in the area, until the bathhouse is completed. When the beach opens officially, admission for children 7 to 12 years old will be 25 cents at all times. Adult admission will be 50 cents on weekdays and 75 cents on weekends and holidays, and children 6 and under will be admitted free when accompanied by an adult. 2 Autopsies Set M1SHAWAKA, Ind.

(AP)-Autopsies have been ordered on the bodies of two men, found yesterday in separate rooms of their apartment over a tavern in downtown Mishawaka. Investigators said there was no smell of gas in the apartment. The men were identified as Jerry Lamphier, 73, and William Webber, 40. Good Pedestrians Indianapolis has won an award of merit for pedestrian safety in the 33rd annual American Automobile Association pedestrian safety inventory. The award, according to James W.

Parks, executive vice-president of the Hoosier Motor Club, was one of 239 awards and citations presented to winners among the 2,146 U.S. cities participating in the safety judging for 1971. Beech Grove was awarded a special citation for pedestrian program activities and Noblesville, Rushville, Con- By L. T. BROWN A friend of BOBBY FISCHER, America's challenger for the world chess championship, says Fischer, wants "everything perfect" for his match against BORIS SPASSKY of the Soviet Union.

And the type of lighting proposed under a six-figure television contract is not so perfect, said the friend, FRED CRAMER, past president of the U.S. Chess Federation. "Fischer won't play under anything but fluorescent lighting it is very important to him," Cramer said in New York before flying to Reykjavik, Iceland, where the 24-game matdi begins Sunday. The television people, Cramer said, have "insisted" they must use additional incandescent or tungsten-halogen lighting. Fischer was to have flown with Cramer but canceled at the last minute.

His whereabouts, presumably under fluorescent lights, was not disclosed. Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God and King of Kings, Emperor HAILE SELASSIE of Ethiopia has ended a four-day trip to France with a visit to the tomb of President Charles de Gaulle at Colombey-lcs-Deux-Egliscs. De Gaulle's son, Rear Adm. PHILIPPE DE GAULLE, greeted the African ruler during his visit. Selassie's next stop is Yugoslavia.

An 1 1-yoar-old, 115-pound liberated lady rode to victory in the Phoenix (Ariz.) Soap Box Derby. "Well, I'm proving girls aren't so dumb," JANE WALTERS said as she climbed into her sleek orange coaster car for the championship race against MIKE BRENTON, 13. She streaked over the finish line Inches ahead of her final competitor, An urgent appeal was issued today by the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Red Cross for funds to aid in the relief of flood victims in the Eastern states. Richard A. Steele, chapter chairman at Indianapolis, said the center here has been asked to raise $77,140 as part of a nationwide campaign to raise the Red Cross disaster fund to $10 million.

A preliminary survey taken by the Red Cross indicates more than 30,000 families in the Atlantic seaboard states will need extensive Red Cross help. About 112,000 flood victims are being housed in more than 300 Red Cross shelters from Florida to New York. All donations large and small will be appreciated, and are urgently needed. Checks can be sent to the Red Cross Chapter at 441 E. 10th.

Free Swimming Official opening of the Eagle Creek Park Beach, already two weeks overdue, may come by this weekend, according to Department of Parks and Recreation spokesmen. Chief source of the postponement is a transformer, necessary for operation of the facility's bathhouse, which hasn't been received by the park. As a result, swimming has been and will continue to be allowed, but with no admission charge because of the incomplete facilities. Hark spokesmen said portable toilets.