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Monday, February 6, 1984 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Near Westsie Park May Ai million into the metropolitan economy. Many of i the. new jobs outside of the park will be in I- commercial establishments downtown or spread across the Indianapolis area. Transportation Impact On the IS to 20 'days each summer when the park attracts the most people, about 9,000 cars will travel to the i park. About 74 percent of the cars will use interstate highways to get to.

the park. Westside streets will be used by 16 percent of travelers, with the new part of South Harding seeing a traffic increase of between four and nine per- cent Heaviest traffic increases, however, will be i on West Street and Washington Street east of the river. Impact on Land Uses. Much of the com mercial development associated with the park will take place on the east bank of White River cause of Stringtown's proximity to the park and downtown. Some portions of Stringtown already have been purchased outright for the park.

Porter said the city should designate the tunvoTthe-century workinglass neighborhood as an historic district He said that would afford Stringtown the same protections and rehabilita-Uort incentives that help Lockerbie and the Old Northside, two downtown neighborhoods being v' But Evalyn Kraning. a member of the Stringtown Community Organization, said. "Those people are ready" for -the economic development she hopes the park will bring' Jo the Near Westside. Ammunition By DOUGLASS DAVIDOFF The new White River State Park's zoo and entertainment centers may produce few ill ef- feels for its Near Westside neighbors, officials say a.new report suggests. Many of the most severe effects caused by the 1200 million park will occur east of White Biver far from the neighborhoods, according to the study by the Indianapolis Department, Metropolitaa Development.

If what says in the study happens, it will be positive. tt will Jbe for the Near Westside, said Greg Porter, director of the Westside Cooperative Organization, a coalition of neighborhood groups. This (the, park is something we've: been needed for years," Porter said. He spoke in-an interview after the city's i report was released Friday at a meeting of neighborhood leaders: 0 The report was written for the White River Park Development Commission, (he state agen- cy developing the 267-acre park along White River 'No Impact' James Catt, a city planner who presented the Tpage report, told The News the park will produce "no impact" or "positive impact" in most Westside areas near the park. But the report, suggests a tender spot in the "Stringtown" neighborhood located west of Street between Washington Street and White River, just west of the new park.

Stringtown will border on the new Indianapolis Zoo, which will be a major component of White River Park. Among the changes could be commercial construction in south Stringtown by suppliers who want to be located close to the park, and real estate speculation as land values rise be Michael Vollmer. a former City County Council member from the Westside who has served as a neighborhood liaison on the state park's development commission, said the. new report provides ammunition for Westside residents who oppose expansion of Harding Street north of Washington Street, because it suggests the road is not needed to serve the park. But at the same time, the report says a new and wider route previously planned for South Harding between 1 70 and Washington is needed to serve traffic heading to the park.

Tho ronnrl nrpHirU conditions at the Dark in near downtown. Other possible commercial sites are at Harding Street's junctions with 1-70 and with Washington Street Social Impact Many new jobs may go to Near Westside residents, especially if neighbor- hood groups work with employers and residents. The park could provide employment for high school and college students, as well as for families that want to provide a second wage -T earner. 7 Impact on Historic Buildings. Because its present site is heeded for the park, the Metro bus system is moving its central garage to the historic Duesenberg plant site at Washington 1990, a year when it is expected to be largely developed.

The park is expected to draw more than three million visitors annually by then, with about two-thirds coming from outside the metropolitan area. Here are major findings reported by the city. Economic Impact More than 3,400 new jobs will be created here because of the park, including some 1,270 new jobs within the park. Many of the park jobs will be part-time, however. The park will annually inject more than $97 and Harding.

Metro is working to preserve some of the old plant Also the report says the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission should develop a plan to help Stringtown cope "with effects of real estate speculation and protect the neighborhood. Vollmer said much of the information in the new report is derived from other new informa tion which was unavailable at the time the park plans were first being shaped starting in 1979. Don't Intervene During Bank Robbery The NEWS Photo, Tim Halcomb in the classroom JoAnn Terry Grissom cates some victims including police review what happened to see Overcoming Life's Hurdles By NELSON PRICE Pardon the pun, but she has i. leaped over dozens of hurdles. Fvpn so.

both her son and robberies, the INB spokesman said, showed many did not want to discuss the incident with the news media. They were emphatic it she sard. "It's a fairly confidential process," said the bank spokesman. "As far as I know, we have not researched the effects of robbery trauma on employes. But if they request counseling, it is available." Reluctant To Talk "Some people are very reluctant to talk about it" the spokesman added.

A female employe of an Eastside cleaning shop that was held up was so traumatized she is considering quitting. She said she has nightmares about the incident. Bosley said his experience indi if they should have or could nave reacted differently. "People, police included, do what they have to do at the time. Split-second decisions have to be made.

No one is there to hold your hand," he said. Bosley said that in hostage situations "Cooperate that's the main thing. People should not resist. Generally, hostages are let go a short distance away. They are used as a temporary aid in escape, then let out of a car, or the robber jumps out of a car and flees." Bosley said resisting during a robbery is foolish, pointing out that robbers often are armed and dan gerous.

It is too risky to assume a robber is unarmed or that a gun in the hands of a bandit is not real or not loaded, he said. bandits, police say. The police academy, 901 N. Post Road, uses a mock bank and stages fake holdups as part of its training of new officers, Bosley said. The Indianapolis Police Department also has psychiatric counseling available for its personnel in event of traumatic effects of robberies or other conditions affecting officers, Bosley said.

"They can discuss whatever they wish, the counseling is available," he said. An Indiana National Bank spokesman said the bank also has counseling available to its personnel for work-related problems, including trauma from robberies. Victims who are not police officers or bank employes and suffer post-robbery trauma must seek their own medical counseling, he said. "We have our own trauma treatment in the Police Department." check of persons involved in By ROBERT CORYA What should you do if you find yourself caught in the middle of a Dank robbery? "The public should not panic," said Sgt Michael Bosley of the Police Training Academy. "Try to remain as calm as possible and do what you are told to do." Bosley was asked, in light of a recent rash of holdups of financial institutions here, how the public and bank employes should react if they are confronted by a holdup situation.

In addition to remaining as calm as possible, the public should not attempt to intervene, he said. "The John Wayne syndrome (playing hero) we dont recommend it Leave police work to police," he said. Witnesses should try to remember physical descriptions of robbers and conversations during the robbery that might help identify the daughter seem destined to follow in -JoAmi Terry Grissom's footsteps. Her track record stretches from her days as a student at Attucks High School Robertson and I graduated the same year, in 1956, and we both made the '60 Olympic to her current life. In the "masters" division (ages 40 tQ 44) at national track and field evenli.

Mrsi. Grissom, who recently turned 45, set for American women in the long jump, triple jump, I CAPITOL TYPEWRITER high jump and shotput summer. Mrs. Grissom. a education teacher; at.

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Grissom's routine these days involves lifting weights, 30 minutes of daily rope jumping and periodic jog-' ging-- Broad shouldered and 5 foot 8, Mrs. Grissom began running and leaping as a grade school student after noticing "I could beat a lot of people in races. I also had plenty of natural ability to jump." In those days, however, training opportunities and financial backing for women athletes were minimal For example, she was able to attend college only because a sympathetic coach arranged for her to receive a basketball scholarship "meant for males.1 Mrs. Grissom can tick off dozens of encounters with racial prejudice.i Typical was a return bus trip with 40 other athletes from a track meet in Oklahoma during the mid-1950s. "It was raining cats and dogs, and we stopped at a diner in Illinois," she recalled.

"(The restaurant manager) wanted to feed us on the bus, but my coach said no. Either, we would eat inside or we would not eat there at all. "Seeing the 40 of us, the restaurant manager didn't want to lose that much business. So he said, 'You can come in. but you all have to sit In 1976, Mrs.

Grissom filed a 8230,000 suit against Indianapolis Public Schools and the Indianapolis Education Association. She alleged racial discrimination in promotions and duties at Shortridge High School, where Mrs. Grissom then served as a guidance counselor. The suit eventually was settled out of court "I guess I'm too outspoken," Mrs. Grissom said with a sigh.

"I just want other people to treat me as I treat them." She describes herself as content at School 37, 2605 E. 25th. explaining that elementary school students are more receptive to instruction, and direction than adolescents." As far as rearing future Olympic athletes (Mrs. Grissom is convinced, son one day will possess the ability to compete in the games, if he desires), she offers the following advice: -1 "Last year, when LaWayne was 9. he didn't want to run, and I said 'OK, no problem.

Parents should not push." Always remember, she said, that; sports are supposed to be fun. 1 ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER PRINTING CALCULATORS NEW RECON Olympic Adler Casio Victor From $19.95 UVIIUUI Wi, youthful glory at the Olympic games. An Olympic hurdler at the. 1960 games in Rome (where she set a record for American women in the 80 meter hurdles) and at the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo. Mrs.

Grissom has been selected to serve as an official in this summer's Olympics in Los Angeles. She is the only black and the only woman among the 12 Hoosiers chosen as Olympic officials. "We didn't know what steroids were at least the girls on the American team didn't know," Mrs. Grissom recalled, laughing at the contrast between Olympic games now and then. 1 "We (women track and field ath-', letes) didnt even lift weights then.

"And, as for advertising (en- dorsement possibilities for athletes), honey, there were none. We had to I make the Olympic team just to get a pair of jogging shoes that weren't bought by our college." Born in near-poverty and edu-i cated at Tennessee State University i on a basketball scholarship techni-I cally meant for men, Mrs. Grissom achieved perhaps her greatest sue-icess in the 1963 Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where I she won a medal in the 80-meter hurdles. Two years her son, LaWayne, then 8 and a student at School 113, was cross-country cham pion at the National. Track and Field Association in North Carolina Her 17yearold daughter, Ver nice, also runs, competing as a track and field athlete at Indiana State University.

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