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SECTION fete BOONEHAMILTON MARON COUNTYB-2 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1992 Judge denies wrongful intent pay for fees for the Florida bar exam, he said. Drury said Yosha had no cases pending in his court at the time of the loan, although after reviewing judicial conduct codes, he said he would not now accept a loan in the same situation. "In 1986 it didn't occur to me that there would be anything wrong," Drury said. He said not reporting Yosha's loan for four years was a mistake. "Somehow, I should have flagged (the loan) in my system, but somehow I missed it and did not report it," the judge said.

The panel will make a recommendation to the Supreme Court, which will rule on the case within 40 days. The court could remove Drury from the bench. Kidd, repeatedly referred to Large as a "strongman" in the situation. Drury testified that he used Large as a middle-man to hide the loan from another girlfriend, Marsha Frank, Drury's court reporter. "Ron didn't want Marsha to know," Large testified.

"Banking in Boone County, in my opinion, is not very confidential." Drury's attorney. Bill Marsh, said the commission must prove that Drury willfully broke the rules. "There is no evidence of harm to anyone or to the system," he asserted. Some of the loaned money was used to pay college tuition for Drury's children, to pay back other loans, for the judge's 1986 divorce settlement and to Commission's attorney calls him 'meanspirited' By JEFF ZOGG The Indianapolis News Boone Circuit Judge Ronald Drury testified that he would not do today what he's accused of doing before accept unreported loans from friends and girlfriends. The 44-year-old judge, testifying Wednesday before a special three-judge panel appointed by the Supreme Court, denied any wrongdoing.

The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications brought seven counts of alleged misconduct against Drury for not reporting at least $15,000 in loans he received in 1986 and 1990 on his 1990 statement of economic interests. Commission attorney Charles Kidd referred to Drury as "vengeful," "mean-spirited," "dishonest" and "one who preyed upon those around him for money" in his closing arguments Wednesday. In 1986, Indianapolis attorney Louis "Buddy" Yosha loaned the judge $2,000. Drury did not report the loan until he paid it back in 1990. Maria Albano, a Lebanon preschool teacher and girlfriend of the judge, and her mother, Bonnie, said they loaned Drury money in 1990.

The loans also went unreported. Drury said he was under the impression that the loans were not required to be reported. In March 1990, Maria Albano loaned Drury $3,000 through a mutual friend, William Otis Large. i Lebanon teacher contract issues remain unsolved f'vxs -J assess ywj DAVID MANNWEILER Some Indy cars live on Don Cummins' drive-it-' around car sits in his drive-' way in Eureka, Calif. His 1 1977 Vollstedt Ground Effects 'Special Indy car, "the last 'Offy to run Indy," sits in his garage.

He bought it in 1983 to make it a street-legal, take-it-to-the-grocery car. He'll sell it to you for $40,000. Jerry Eisert's car sits in his driveway in Fallbrook, Calif. His 1966 Indy car sits in his garage. He bought it because he built it to run at the 500-Mile Race.

It did, six times. It's a "roller" now, minus engine and transmission. He'll sell it to you for $35,000. Don Swanson's car gets to park in the garage at Swan-son's home in San Diego, Calif. That's because he keeps Geoff Brabham's Coors Light Silver Bullet 1985 March, "the first Indy car to use a Judd engine," at his downtown shop where he keeps his IMSA race car.

He had a $43,000 price tag on it in January. It's down to $35,000 now. Under the gavel A little closer to home, the Kruse auction people will wheel four Indy cars under the gavel May 16 and 17 in Auburn. There's Mario Andrettl's 1986 Lola T8600. Steve Chas-sey's 1987 March C25, an 8-cylinder Chrysler that ran at Indy in 1930.

1931 and 1932 and Al Unser 1982 Dom-inos Special. The Chrysler is billed as "the first car entered at the Indy 500 from South America" and a car that "ran the entire 500 miles." "It's unbelievable the price of old Indy cars if there's a history or a name connected with them," commented Bill Marvel of the United States Auto Club. A brand new Lola chassis no engine runs $380,000 at Indy this year. When it's a year old. It will be worth half that and the depreciation drops off quickly as it ages.

"I struck out when I put my car up for sale in April. Nobody even made me an offer," said Eisert, a former Indy chief mechanic. "A lot of guys buy these old Indy cars to run in vintage races," he said. In no hurry now Cummins bought his 1977 Indy car "when Corvettes went to $30,000. I thought I could do better than that, and I started looking for an Indy car to make street-able and license.

"That was all well and good except this thing was a Dick Simon car. and he must have been a lot thinner than I am because I had a little difficulty getting in and out of the car. "I could see myself at Safeway trying to get out of the car and then get back in it with my groceries. There's not much trunk space In an Indy car, either." Cummins is certain he could have made the race car Into a street car with a Chevrolet engine. "I did a lot of research on it.

I would have had to raise it up on the springs to get the chassis height up level with wheel rims, which Is where the law Is. Other than that, it was Just a matter of lights and bumpers and that type of thing. "Having the car up that high would have canceled the ground effects, obviously, but I was not going to get going fast enough to need them." By ROD ROSE News Correspondent LEBANON, Ind. A fact finder from the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board heard nearly three hours of testimony in Lebanon's teacher contract dispute Wednesday. Wilma Van Scyoc moderated a discussion between Lebanon Classroom Teachers, represented by Rich Cornstubble and the school corporation, represented by professional negotiator Jerry Robbins.

Although the school board announced two new proposals, which brought it closer to the teachers' positions, the sides still remain apart on 14 issues. Teachers seek a 4.5 percent increase in salary and in the pay for extracurricular activities. The board offered to include teachers who are on temporary contracts and teachers who are employed part-time in the new contract. There are still differences over changes in planning periods, a new evaluation procedure for teachers, a bargaining rights Final results in Boone show minor changes The Indianapolis News LEBANON, Ind. Final tallies in the 10-way race for the three Republican nominations for at-large Boone County Council seats show Barbara Gray.

Robert Dull and Stephen Clifford to be the nominees. Gray received the most votes with 2,665, followed by incumbent Dull with 1 ,999 and Clifford with 1,841. Initial results showed Clifford ahead of Dull. Other candidates and their totals are John Smith with 1,414, Daniel Murphy with 1 ,378, Richard Wait with 821. Ben Harmon with 809, Barney Roscoe with 558, Bruce Thompson with 469 and Daniel Schmalz with 308.

Uncontested winners were Republicans Connie Jo Lamar for Auditor, incumbent Recorder Mary Alice Baldwin and Incumbent Treasurer Marylyn Smith. No Democrats filed for county offices in the primary, but the party may file candidates for the fall general election. 'Coach' in parade Craig T. Nelson, star of the ABC show "Coach." will participate In this year's 500 Festival parade. Nelson will be Joined by 22 floats, 24 bands and dozens of Walt Disney characters when the annual parade starts at 12:30 p.m.

May 23. In addition to acting. Nelson also races and formed Screaming Eagle Racing Team Enterprises. For tickets or more information, contact the 500 Festival Associates at 636-4556. CORRECTIONS Daniel H.

FltzGlbbon was reelected to the Lawrence Township School Board in Tuesday's election. He and Carlyn E. Johnson both Vere elected from District 3. Incumbent James H. Da clause, the Inclusion of substitute teachers in the contract, methods of assigning teachers to summer school, setting aside of in-service time during the school year, creation of job-sharing positions and other issues.

Robbins said the school district will run a deficit in several months in the coming year and faces the prospect of a significant shortfall in state funds for the 1992-93 school year. "We continue to have mandates from state and federal government but the money doesn't follow." he said. Cornstubble claimed the board could have transferred 15 percent of the money in the capital projects fund to the general fund, which would have allowed the school corporation more flexibility in bargaining and still allow a net tax cut of more than $383,000. Robbins said the board had been warned by the State Tax Board not to take that step. He claimed the district's fringe benefits "are very competitive with community standards." He suggested, "Let's leave everything else and concentrate on the salary schedule." A beginning teacher in the Lebanon system with a bachelor's degree and no experience now earns $21,001 a year.

A teacher with a master's degree, 30 hours of additional education and 16 years' experience will earn $40,111 this year. The board has proposed a 2 percent hike on the base salary. Cornstubble said, "The corporation has not kept pace with teacher salaries in relation to its revenue." Lebanon school salaries have dropped steadily in state rank for the last four years, he pointed out. Van Syoc said she will prepare a report for release in about 30 days. BIBLE VERSE Psalm 62:7 On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge In God.

We are made complete only insofar as God Is complete, for it Is in God's wholeness that our wholeness is possible. God does not derive deliverance and honor from us, but we from God. Prepared by Philip Gulley vie, who ran in District 1, also was re-elected. A story in The News Wednesday incorrectly reported that D. Jeff Hartling, who ran in District 2, had been elected.

Newspaper publisher George Wltwer's name was incorrect in a story in The News Wednesday that listed possible running mates for Republican gubernatorial nominee Llnley Pearson. CLARIFICATION A story In The News Wednesday described a dispute at a polling place between precinct committeeman Earl McCloud and the teen-age son of Debbie Goode, a supporter of state Senate candidate Eunice Trotter. The story did not mention that the teenager was struck by McCloud before the youth began Jumping on McCloud's car. Rich MillerThe Indianapolis News Lyn St. James is preparing to be the second woman ever to race in the 500-Mile Race.

Driver St James guided by the desire to do well By SUZANNE McBRIDE The Indianapolis News It has been a long trip. At 16, Lyn St. James saw the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time. At 32, she drove in her first professional race. And now, at 45, St.

James is racing around the Speedway track, preparing to become only the second woman ever to drive in the 500-Mile Race. "My dreams are reality to me," St. James said. "I dream the things that I want to be rather than dreaming things that are so far-fetched. I want to qualify well and finish well.

"I feel very confident that we'll qualify. I came here to qualify and race. I didn't come here to attempt to qualify." One of this year's 12 rookie drivers, St. James has spent the last four years getting this far. Last year, after spending all of March trying to line up national and local sponsors, St.

James watched the 1991 race from the stands. Until a few months ago. when J. C. Penney agreed to sponsor St.

James in this year's race, it looked like 1992 was going to be a repeat of 1991. "I've had some pretty big dreams. Becoming a professional race car driver is a pretty big dream. "I had more people tell me I couldn't do It, than tell me I best official time on the 2.5-mile track is 219 mph. which she drove Wednesday.

"I'm only thinking about May 24," she said. Everything else the presidency of the Women's Sports Foundation, her Ft. Lauderdale, public relations and marketing firm, consumer advising and television commentary will have to wait. St. James has "not a clue" about what she'll do May 25, although she expects to be sleeping and watching race tapes.

And St. James will be thinking of the people like Indy 500 champion Parnelli Jones who believed In her long ago. In the mid-1980s, Jones asked St. James as she walked through Gasoline Alley, 'Why don't you come here? You could do this." He was like a solo voice at that time," she said. "From time to time, people might (have said) that, but most of the time it was more unobtainable, it was more una-chleveable.

It sat out there as being, 'Wouldn't It be wonderful but more than likely It will never happen in your "That's pretty powerful to me. I'm still amazed. But when I'm on the racetrack. I am not amazed. When I'm on the racetrack, I'm totally consumed: at home, comfortable In doing my Job." TRACKSIDZ could.

I had more people including my own inner voice saying, 'I don't know. I don't think you can do this. I don't think you can make this Since she bought her first car a Pontlac Catallna 2 2 in 1965. St. James has wanted to race in the Indy 500.

A Wil-loughby, Ohio, native, she is a boarding school graduate and accomplished pianist. She studied at the St. Louis Institute of Music. And she's determined to drive not watch the race on May 24. "I will know if I put on a good race.

I'll know If 1 put on a good qualifying. It doesn't matter (what) position. It's when you know you gave everything you had, and It was your best. If I do that, then 1 will be very proud for my sponsors and proud for me." StJames expects to qualify this weekend or May 16-17. Her.