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'r -y THE NEWS nd To 'Morality Laws Asked TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1972 4 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 103rd YEAR Don't Quote Me The abolition of laws which "legislate morals" was called for by youths attending a Youth Ministry Congress of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The congress, which ended yesterday at Marian College, also accepted a recommendation seeking abolition of all abortion laws "except for necessary medical regulations." The consensus was that the decision to seek an abortion should be made between doctor and patient and not be restricted issues as race and mindrity group relations, foreign relationships, education, poverty, drugs, ecumenical involvement and youth empowerment. It commended the church's general board for many of its recent decisions, including favoring some sort of qualified amnesty at the end of the war in Indochina and lifting the 10-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. In other action, the congress: 1 Urged equal representation of blacks and whites on policy-making bodies of the church. by "laws lawyers and legislators do not understand." The congress of 150 youths and adults also approved a recommendation approving abolition of laws gov-e I "unnatural sexual practices among consenting adults," except for rape or relationships involving minors.

National headquarters for the Disciples of Christ is in Indianapolis. It was stressed, however, that such a position does not mean approval of the actions now regulated by laws. The congress also considered such Magazine Writer Likes 500, Not City Hatcher Agrees With Nader On Steel Tax A In wr PAGE 25 but Lugar will decline after basking in the spotlight for awhile. Also in the planning stage is an effort for Lugar to give a seconding speech for PRESIDENT NIXON at the Aug. 21-24 convention DAVID K.

EASLICK, who left a post as president of Indiana Bell Telephone Co. to become a New York-based vice-president of American Telephone Telegraph will be in a leg cast for six weeks after cracking a bone in his foot while attempting to pull "some immense vines out of our local forest" ROBERT L. BIDLACK, city purchasing agent, is resting in St. Francis Hospital after complaining of chest pains after the GOP state convention Friday night The One Hand Clapping Award goes to CHARLES BOSWELL and his local workers in the U.S. Postal Service, for the 11 days it took an envelope to move from The News' downtown office to the 1100 block of North Alton, a distance of slightly more than V2 miles.

By contrast, a postcard sent to The News by JIM ABRAMS, a member of The News' copy desk, took exactly one week to arrive here today from Leningrad, Russia Capt. E. G. BUCK, who was executive officer at Naval Avionics Facility from 1965 to 1968, will relieve Capt. R.

R. GRAYSON as commanding officer of the facility on July 6 in an outdoor ceremony E. RONALD CULP, a former reporter for the Columbus Reoublic and a news aid to RICHARD BOEHNING, Indiana House majority leader, has been named assistant to the Republican majority of the New York State Assembly. Draftee Sentenced Louis W. Schakel, 22, 2919 S.

Post Road, has been sentenced to serve three years in prison for failure to submit to induction into the armed forces. Schakel had been convicted of failing to submit to induction March 12, 1971, as ordered by his local draft board. During the proceedings it was brought out he had sought conscientious objector status after receiving his order to report for induction. He could have been sentenced to the maximum of five years under the draft evasion statute. Federal Judge James E.

Noland sentenced Schakel. Killed In Blaze SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Jesse Grayton, 32, a South Bend construction worker, was killed yesterday in an explosion at the site of a project at the city's water sewage plant on the north-westside. Police said the explosion was believed to have resulted from an accumlation of gas. Grayton was hurled 25 feet by the blast.

Several other workmen were in the area, but none was hurt. By DAVID MANNWEILER Dishes from a reporter's smorgasbord: Item The movers and shakers at the Chamber of Commerce won't be too pleased with an article called "Middle America Has Its Woodstock, Too" in the current issue of Saturday Review. Author Jeff Greenfield, who was a speech writer for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, takes a slanted look at the 500-Mile Race (generally complimentary) and a tilted look at Indianap Mannweiler olis (caustically uncomplimentary), including this paragraph: "Why do the people come? Certainly, the city of Indianapolis is not part of the attraction.

This is perhaps the worst metropolis in the entire United States a city with endless miles of indifferent gray structures, Burger Chefs and Kentucky Fried Chicken stands and a political climate that welcomed such spasms of paranoia as the Klan during the twenties and the Birchers in the sixties." Item A solar eclipse, which used to terrify man and send him scurrying into the hills to escape the wrath of the gods, will occur July 10, but Indianapolis will have only about 60 per cent of the sun blacked out. "It will definitely be darker than usual," said Dr. Martin Burkhead, an astronomy professor at Indiana University who plans to take a busman's holiday to Canada to see the total eclipse. The sun will begin to "disappear" at 2:20 p.m., be a mid-eclipse at 3:30 p.m. and return at 4:40 p.m.

Item The U.S. Department of Commerce's Census Bureau says the average family income in Marion County in 1969 was $10,819, compared to $9,970 for the state of Indiana. The per capita income for the county was $3,534. NAMES IN THE NEWS A homemade bumper sticker on the rear of a Corvair traveling south on Pennsylvania today in the downtown area read "Free MARTHA MITCHELL" Republican national committeemen L. KEITH BULEN says the Indiana delegation to the GOP National Convention will nominate Mayor RICHARD LUGAR as a favorite-son candidate for vice-president Rate Hike Asked The Indiana Public Service Commission has been asked to approve a rate increase by the Greensburg municipal water utility.

Under the proposed rates, users would be charged for the first 500 cubic feet of water used monthly at a rate of 80 cents for each 100 cubic feet. The increase would boost the minimum monthly residential charge for water users to $2.40. i 1 Hi 3 Roof Good 91 Years CRAWfORDSVILLE, Ind. The Rev. Larimore K.

Wickett stands in front of the 91 -year-old Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church in Crawfordsville-. The original slate roof on the church is being replaced. The church bell, installed when the structure was built in 1881, still calls the church's 750 members to worship three times each Sunday. The NEWS Photo, George Tilford. WASHINGTON (AP) Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, has called "largely correct" charges by consumer advocate Ralph Nader that U.S.

Steel's Gary plant is underassessed by at least $100 million for tax purposes. Hatcher told a Senate subcommittee yesterday his city is pinched between inadequate financing and the fear of losing its biggest employer, the steel null. He said the Gary Works might be underassessed by as much as $152 million and undertaxed by as much as $25 million a year. Hatcher blamed a fiscal crisis due to inadequate tax receipts as the hub of a recent schoolteachers strike. He said it was hard to settle because of a lack of money to pay higher salaries.

'Corporate Arrogance' The mayor said U.S. Steel's refusal to allow the city to inspect its books and its attitudes on local building fees "is corporate arrogance of the worst sort." Hatcher added that he understood the company's desire to keep a competitive position in the steel industry. He told the committee company officials have implied if the city succeeds in its taxing goals some of the plant's functions will be moved elsewhere. W. A.

Walker, chairman of the U.S. Steel Finance Committee, said charges by Nader and others are unsubstantiated and based on "misunderstandings." Thomas Fadell, Calumet Township (Lake County) assessor who actually assesses the Gary Works, said figures showing underassessment and undertax-ing are "fabrications." Fadell said the committee picked a bad example because "U.S. Steel in Gary pays more property taxes proportionately than any other steel mill in the United States." Muskie Is Chairman Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, is chairman of the subcommittee.

Fadell said he believes the tax controversy in Gary grew out of local politics. "This hearing reflects a political con Evening Prayer God, there is much over which I am powerless, much I cannot control; sometimes life seems insane. Grant me the courage to surrender my life and will to Your care, and so receive Your gift of serenity. Amen. The Rev.

John G. Barrow, Rector St. Alban Episcopal Church Figure In Car Theft Ring Trial Is Guarded 2 Defeated a recommendation seeking equal male-female representation on the congress steering committee and other delegations. 3 Sought a 20 per cent youth representation on all church boards by 1975. 4 Urged support of the lettuce boycott in an effort to gain recognition of the farm workers' union and to work for better conditions.

5 Asked state youth committees to study welfare and support reform. A study of environment was dropped for lack of interest by the participants. troversy that started in 1970 when it became apparent that I would not support the re-election of the mayor of Gary," Fadell said. He contended a Hatcher financial aid, accountant Arnold Reingold, "fed phony figures" to Nader and others and "made slanderous comments about me personally." Reingold said the possible underas-sesment and undertaxing figures cited by Hatcher were based on public figures which might be reduced through legitimate company expenses such as pollution control. Muskie said a team of Senate investigators believe they have substantiated some of Reingold's findings but have not yet reached conclusions.

The candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination said Gary was not chosen for the committee's first study because its tax problems are unusual, but he acknowledged the attention to Gary came after Nader's charges, which he said "cannot be ignored." Far-Eastside Man Killed As Speeding Auto Slams Tree A 29-year-old Eastside man was killed shortly after 2 a.m. today when his speeding car skidded in the 800 block of Mitthoefer Road and struck a tree. Sheriff's Deputy Carold Baker said ROBERT J. BUTCHER, 10046 E. Troy, died instantly when his speeding southbound car went out of control, skidded nearly 400 feet along the road, and through a field before slamming into the tree.

In another crash, HENRY JONES, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Jones, Harmon, was killed last night when a southbound camper truck was struck in the rear by a semitrailer truck on Interstate 69 a mile south of Markle. The father, his wife Marie and two other sons suffered minor injuries. The semi driver, Lonnie Scabaugh, 32, Oak Ridge, was not hurt.

ELWOOD GROVE, 56, rural Howe, was killed yesterday when a road construction roller he was driving left the berm of a Lagrange County road, overturned and crushed him. MARK V. MOSBURG, 18, rural was found dead in his overturned car along a Fayette County road about 6 miles west of Connersville yesterday. Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Moster Sons Mortuary, Rushville.

The school corporation's tax rate is $4.95 per $100 of assessed valuation. Shooting Probed ELKHART, Ind. (AP) Police continued an investigation today of the fatal shooting of Kent Smith, 21, at his Elkhart home. Police said an autopsy performed late yesterday indicated Smith had been dead about eight hours when they were called to the house by his 15-year-old brother. Strike At Fruehauf FORT WAYNE, Ind.

(AP) Production workers have gone on strike at Fruehauf Corp. of Fort Wayne, manufacturer of semitrailers for trucks. Members of Local 776, Allied Industrial Workers of America, voted 309-174 last night against a contract proposal. The old contract expired at midnight last Thursday but was extended briefly. Heads Board WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.

(AP) -C. II. Lawshe of Purdue University has been named first chairman of a new board of directors for the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System. The board, comprising the vice-presidents of the four state universities, Vincennes University and Indiana Vocational Technical College, replaces an advisory council of 19 specialists. The defendants are charged with operating a car theft ring that is alleged to have received cars stolen in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Indiana and conspiring to dispose of them through the Indianapolis Auto Auction and dealerships operated by Bayer and Kennedy.

Bayer operated State Wide Auto Sales at 960 S. Keystone and formerly at 541 E. New York; and the Kennedys operated Southside Motors at Route 8, Indianapolis, which was identified as a field. At the time of the defendants' arrests in December, authorities said 44 automobiles had been recovered with a retail value of more than $100,000. An amendment indictment, filed at the beginning of the trial, alleged the conspiracy operated by altering vehicle identification numbers on the stolen automobiles.

Then, using false and fraudulent Kentucky certificates of registration and title, Indiana certificates of title were obtained for the automobiles. People In The News Let There Be Light, Said Bobby: My Kind CITY, STATE SUMMARY Set At Conner Prairie A Bowling Green, man has been granted protective custody after pleading guilty in Federal Court to his part in an interstate car theft ring. Claude L. Dillon 22, received the protective custody after changing his plea to guilty before Judge S. Hugh Dillin yesterday.

A second defendant, Barry L. Clayton, 26, Nashville, also changed his pW to guilty yesterday at the outset of the trial against three others. Three defendants, Max J. Bayer, 31, 837 N. Tuxedo; Jimmie Dale Kennedy, 23, 1504 N.

Wallace, and Jimmy Thompson, 33, rural Rockfield, are on trial before Dillin. A sixth defendant, Marvin L. Kenedy, 49, same address as his son, Jimmie, was separated from the others pending medical examinations. He is said to be in poor health. Man Charged With Murder In Shooting A 27-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder today when he returned to a near-Northside bar where police were investigating a double shooting.

Called to the Playboy's Bar, 468 W. 21st, about 2:15 a.m. police found Paul H. Carson, 30, 700 block of North Belmont, dead with a bullet wound in the left side of his head. They also found Rachael Slaughter, 30, 2110 Allfree, who was taken to General Hospital in satisfactory condition with a bullet in her right thigh.

Witnesses told police a friend of the injured woman had shot Carson, then wounded Miss Slaughter when she tried to protect him. Arrested was Frank Martin, 2100 block of North Wendell. Arrested In Death Nathaniel Dennis, 27, 2346 N. Arsenal, faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of a 16-month-oId girl. Police said Dennis was arrested last night after the child, Articia Leslie, died of multiple injuries at Methodist Hospital about 4 p.m.

yesterday. The baby was the daughter of Inez Leslie, 21, who police said lived with Dennis. Dennis told police the child was injured when she fell from a crib while he was baby sitting. He later told police the child fell down a section of stairs. Hospital sources said the child suf-fcred a broken arrn and multiple bruises on her head and body.

STATE DEATHS ON PAGE 14 rli 1 i 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 match 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. Conquering Lion of Hie Tribe of Judah, Elect of God and King of Kings, Emperor HAILE SELASSIE or Ethiopia has ended a four-day trip to France with a visit to the tomb of President Charles de Gaulle at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. Do Gaulle's son, Rear Adm.

PHILIPPE DE GAULLE, greeted the African ruler during his visit. Selassie's next slop is Yugoslavia. An ll-ycar-old, 85-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 ns she climbed into her slock orange coaster car for the championship race against MIKE BRENTON, 13. She streaked over the finish line Inches ahead of her final competitor, defeating 107 boys and 9 other girls.

Big 4th An old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration' has been planned for the Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement. The historic restoration of an early Indiana settlement, located on Allison-ville Road 6 miles north of 1-465, will return to yesteryear when Independence Day was a family affair. There will be foot races, tugs of war, log sawing contests, watermelon eating contests, three-legged races and sack races. The flavor of the period that evoked the founding of our nation is preserved and will be an integral part of the annual celebration. Tour buildings will be open from 9:30 a.m.

to 2 p.m. The games and contests will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Guides in costume will be stationed on the tour as usual, and they will lend additional flavor to the activities, as well as giving information about the eight buildings on the tour and life as it was in Indiana in the early 1800s. For this special event admission will be $1 for adults and 50 cents for children 6 to 18. Delegates Challenged Henry Mills, a vice-president of the Indiana National Association for Advancement of Colored People, said yesterday he Is challenging the selection of Miss Jani Gant, Gary, as a dele-gate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention.

Both arc black, but Mills is a supporter of Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Miss Gant supports Sen. George Mills says he was selected by the Black Caucus, of which he is a member, for the at-large slate but was not included in the final slate. Democratic State Chairman Gordon St. Angelo undertook to balance the 19 at-large national convention delegates to provide six blacks and 13 whites.

He originally had tried to have seven McGovern delegates but this figure was cut to five during prolonged negotiations on the eve of the June 20 state convention. No Pay Raise Special to Thi News LOGANSPORT, Ind. The board of trustees of the Caston School Corp. has rejected teacher salary increases for the 1973 school year. Caston is the first school corporation in the county to hold the line on teacher salaries.

Pay boosts already have been granted teachers in the Lo-gansport and Southeastern school corporations. School Supt. Byron Bunker said the teachers will get their normal increases, however, based on an added year of teaching experience. These range from $289 Under the salary schedule to remain in effect next year, a beginning teacher with a bachelor's degree will receive $7,100, increasing to $9,500 after 12 years' experience. The range for teachers with a master's degree is from $7,500 to $11,800 after 20 years.

Selassie: On to Yugoslavia "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 8()th 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 be published soon.

The National Federation Of Press Women has admitted a male photographer to membership. PHIL WEBBER, a photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, became Hie federation's first male member when the organization opened its enrollment to men. iW if. il 1 -i.