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The Vidette Messenger, Valparaiso, Monday, June 30, 19M 3 Local news 33 blamed for house fire Mitch Gy lord RUNNING AMERICAN Ciinrn r--, ANTHEM 9:30 SCARED rj (reia Robert Redlord Rodney LEGAL Dangerfield 9:45 EAGLES 9:30 TDD RUM EndsTues! Ally Sheedy EndtTuei! lUr UUI1 1 30- 3 35 SHORT Tom Cruise 5 40-7 45 CIRCUIT Kelly McGilhs tiv 9 45 UHOU" 9:30 1 nwwn f.rn, Transit funding shy base CHESTERTON The lack of a solid base of local funding for mass transportation is the biggest mass-transit problem facing the region, said a planning official. The lack of "any real, solid local source for public transit" is a big problem identified at a workshop Thursday, said Steve Strains, director of transit services for the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission. In a meeting with a dozen bus system and South Shore passenger service officials, NIRPC and its consultant Booz, Allen Hamilton, Inc. of Philadelphia targeted several issues of concern for mass transit in Porter, Lake and LaPorte counties. With only frozen property taxes as a base of funds locally, Strains said, the participants expressed concern about finding other sources.

No solutions were offered. Recommendations will be made by the consultant in its report due early next year. In addition, the $2 million this year from the state of Indiana is far short of meeting the region's needs, said Strains, and funds also are dwindling. The meeting was the first of several to prepare a development plan to direct NIRPC's public transportion efforts into the 1990s. "This program will guide the development and implementation of public transportation for the next five years" beginning in 1987, said Strains.

Other issues of concern, he said, were the lack of a regional system to transport the public, little cooperation between private transportation operators and liability side of the home was scorched by flames and portions of the roof were damaged, Stowers said. Damage to a Porter Beach home and its contents from a fire early Saturday was estimated at $35,000. The year-round home at 220 Bote Drive is owned by Glen West of Chicago and rented by Bruce Bassett of Portage. The fire began inside the front door at the top of the stairs, according to Porter Fire Department officials. Cause of the blaze is unknown.

Porter firefighters were assisted by Chesterton and Burns Harbor fire departments. A 1985 Porter fire truck, driven by firefighter Thomas Bernth, 23, sustained $300 damage when Bernth backed the truck into a parked car owned by Porter Fire Chief Ray Wesley. Wesley's 1981 Pontiac also sustained about $300 damage, police said. A Westchester Township mobile home, owned by Joseph Gall, was destroyed by fire this morning. The home at 1685 Hale northeast of Chesterton, was unoccupied at the time of the blaze.

Loss was estimated at $10,000. Cause and origin of the fire are unkown. who was retiring after more than 30 years in! Congress. A winner over Edward Kelly in 1968, Landgrebe defeated Phil Sprague of Michigan City in a close race in 1970, winning by 1,204 votes. He then beat Fithian in 1972 before losing two years later.

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Valparaiso Children by Carolyn Matthews Staff writer Two children playing with matches and gasoline are be lieved by officials to have started a fire Sunday that destroyed two-thirds of a Union Township home. A Porter Beach home and a Chesterton mobile home were also damaged by fire Saturday and today. The Union Township fire began in the garage and quickly spread through the home of Joseph Ellul, 419 Saginaw, causing extensive damage to the dining room, living room, kitchen and family room. Two vehicles were destroyed in the blaze. A damage estimate was not available.

Ellul's 3-year-old son, Joey, was playing in the garage with Derrick Stodden, 5, of 422 Saginaw, police said. The children poured gas onto the garage floor from a can hanging on the garage wall. Joey Ellul then brought out matches from his house and the children started the garage ablaze, police said. The children ran to a neighbor's house to alert them of the fire. Landgrebe Continued from page 1 In a 1974 Associated Press interview, Landgrebe was quoted: "Don't confuse me with the I will not vote for impeachment.

I'm going to stick with my president even if he and I have to be taken out of this building and shot." Later, Landgrebe, when asked about the quote, said it was accurate but misunderstood. "My contention was we had been preoccupied with 'get-Nixon long enough." Fireworks Continued from page 1 "There's a tremendous amount of this coming up," Rapp said. "They're going to these gun shows and buying grenade casings and filling them up with powder and homemade fuses." The danger is that the weapons, even when handled by experts, are extremely volatile. "What's happening is that the fuse is burning down to the powder and the thing is detonating before they can throw it," Rapp said. "We have been seeing more of these in the last couple of years than in the 15 years I've been with the bureau," said Charles A.

Petersen, resident agent in charge of the ATF's Indianapolis office. "We seized 28 rearmed grenades in Martinsville last fall, along with a live claymore (anti-personnel) mine, 5 pounds of military C-4 explosives, several pounds of commercial explosives and several machine guns." Edward A. Tilford III, a truck driver who ran a small licensed firearms dealership from his home, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Martinsville case in November 1985. Tilford, 43, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis on Jan.

21 of this year to possession of four unregistered machine guns. He was sentenced in March to 60 days at a work-release center and fined $1,000. Illegal fireworks manufacturers have also been uncovered, the federal agents said lflst WCCk A July 17 trial is set in U.S. District Court in South Bend for AMMIN MAIMIi-f VIIITMT CA ALL SHOWS Representatives Today Del Johnson Carl Willis K. Scott Dodrill 462-0591 MEMBER FSLIC Three Year Term Certificate The home was engulfed when Joseph Harden, a county police officer, arrived at the scene.

was told by neighbors that someone was still inside the home. Harden suffered smoke inhalation during what turned out to be a cat rescue. He heard whining noises coming from the home and pulled a screen from a southeast window. He was preparing to go inside when a large cat jumped from the window. No one else was inside the house.

A neighbor was babysitting Joey Ellul at the time of the fire, said Union Township Fire Chief Charles Stowers. Harden, 37, and Union Township firefighter, Lawrence Crosby, 36, of 355A Salt Creek Parkway, were treated at Porter Memorial Hospital and were released. Neighbors armed with garden hoses fought furiously to keep flames from spreading to a neighbor's home 20-25 feet away, Stowers said. At least five neighbors strung garden hoses from nearby residences and homes across the street and sprayed the side of Alvin Fite's home at 421 Saginaw. Two neighbors climbed to the roof with hoses to try to keep the side of the home wet.

The In 1973 while serving in Congress, Landgrebe became ill and was a patient at Bethesda Naval Hospital about 10 days. Among the persons visiting him in his hospital room was Nixon, who also was a patient at the time. Landgrebe was elected to the Indiana Senate in 1958 and was re-elected in 1962 and 1966. In the second year of his third term, he ran for the 2nd Congressional District seat then held by Charles A. Halleck, a Granger man accused of making M-100 firecrackers at his home, said Rick Jancha, an assistant U.S.

attorney. Jackie E. Bixler, 44, was indicted May 9 on one count of manufacturing explosives without a license and two counts of dealing in explosives. "They're equivalent to a quarter-stick of dynamite," said Rapp of the fireworks Bixler is charged with making. "They could kill you." In a case from South Bend, police last year seized about 50 pipe bombs made from copper tubing, Petersen said.

No arrest has been made but investigators said they have a suspect. "He was selling them to various people, including kids, as fireworks," Petersen said, adding that in both that case and the Granger case, the devices were loaded with black powder "which is particularly dangerous. "Normally firecrackers are made with flash powder," he said. "Black powder is a much more powerful explosive, easier to detonate and more sensitive." People buying such fireworks ought to remember something else, said Petersen. "Because they're manufactured illegally there is usually no quality control and that makes them particularly dangerous." He said M-lOOs are usually black or silver, about three-fourths of an inch in diameter and about 1 inch long.

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