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B2 TuMday. October 28. 1986 South Band Trtbuna INDIANA 1 -J Cox on political deductions Gagman status tied to vote I.U. seeking funds for Wells program i INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana University would recruit 50 ex- ceptlonal students to enroll at the Bloomington campus each year and reward them with four years of free undergraduate study under -a new $35 million program. University and state officials announced Monday that a fund-rals- ing drive has begun to bring In private donations for the Herman Wells Program for Outstanding Young Scholars.

The program, named after the former I.U. president, would be designed for superb students who will be provided an exceptional variety of creative challenges, said Indiana University President John W. Ryan. The first group of Wells scholars is expected to enroll in the fall of 1989, said Donald C. Danielson, vice chairman of the Campaign for Indiana fund-raising drive.

The money-raising effort for the Wells program will be integrated with the five-year Campaign for Indiana, Danielson said. Donors have already pledged about $4 million of the $35 million needed to endow the Wells program, he said. The Campaign for Indiana, which began last year, has received $137.8 million in gifts and pledges. The goal of the drive is $203 million, Danielson said. About $20 million will be needed to endow the Wells scholarships, which would pay for the students tuition, fees, room and board, books and spedal activities.

The balance of the $35 million would endow related activities such as establishing endowed chairs for professors and granting special 7 stipends for retired faculty who serve as program mentors. Ryan said the university hopes to identify gifted students during their high school careers. Students would be judged on demonstrated academic achievement and leadership potential Danielson said. About 75 percent of the scholarships would likely go to Hoosier students, Ryan said. Wells, 84, a native of Jamestown, was president from 1937 to 1962.

He also was interim president in 1968. Since 1962, Wells has been chancellor of the university. tive and reprehensible, Cox said. Cox said his refusal to withhold the contributions for the parties, In most cases a traditional 2 percent, will be reflected In state paychecks Issued Wednesday. Republicans have contended that Cox Is announcing the change as an election campaign gimmick and likely would resume the collections, either because of a court suit threat or to help the money-short Rooster Democratic Party, after the election.

But Cox said his decision Is final. He also sakl his action ispopular with the vast number of Republican patronage workers In state government who have been displeased with the deductions The only negative reaction has come from Mr. Durnil Cox said The deductions have Involved about 4,100 state employees. Cox said his order affects 4,031 Republican contributors and 51 Democratic contributors. Those numbers reflect the overwhelming GOP control of state government Cox said most of the Democratic contributors are employees in his office.

Annual contributions through the payroll deduction system amount to about $360,000 for the Republican Party and about $6,000 for the Democratic Party, according to Cox. Cox stressed that he wasnt suggesting that the employees or others not contribute to political parties. But he said such contributions should be completely voluntary, not based on a payroll deduction system that still has aspects of the old 2-percent-club system through which patronage employees once contributed in order to retain their jobs. State Auditor Otis Cox, the lone Democrat bolding an office to be voted on statewide in Indiana In the Nov. 4 election, said Monday that the outcome of his bid for re-eleo-tkm wlD determine whether the auditor will be the bagman for the political parties.

Cox announced last week that his office was halting the practice of collecting payroll deductions from state employees for the two major parties. State Republican Chairman Gordon Durnll whose party receives most of the money collected through the payroll deductions, threatened to go to court to force Cox to resume the collections. And the Republican nominee for auditor, Ann DeVore, Indicated she would resume the collections, If elected to replace Cox. At a news conference In South Bend, one of a series he held around the state Monday, Cox denied that he, too, would resume the collections after the Nov. 4 election, If he wins.

I will not permit the deduction of political contributions from state employees paychecks," Cox said, and thats a promise. Plainly stated, I do not believe the state government of Indiana should be used as an Instrument of any political party." While signing up for the payroll deductions for a political party Is voluntary, Cox said he objected to Republican contentions that collecting the political contributions Ip that manner Is the same as deductions for the United Way. I find this analogy to be Insensi Marshall panel OKs 1 million bond Trlbuna Photo RON RYBACK State Auditor Otis Cox speaks to reporters at a news conference in South Bend, Monday. Indiana briefs No progress made in Sprague talks no objection from the public, although Don Ecker, Democratic candidate for First District com- missioner, asked several questions. Ecker asked what effect the, bond issue would have on the tax rate, and what the plans were for 41 the jail Several councilmen noted that nothing concerning the jail'" was before the council now.

Councilman Harriet Scheetz said the new bond issue would cause an increase in the tax rate for a few years, but the rate should drop in 1990 when the county-building bond issue is paid off. The planned work at the court- house includes construction of an addition on the north side that will house the clerks office and County Court plus space for an additional court, and the remodeling of the Circuit Court and Superior Court areas of the courthouse. Discussing the project and bond issue. Councilman Frank Kleinke said he hoped the county could -move along with the project He said there had been a lot of meet-' ings on the project and the people he had talked to were generally in favor of it Ecker commented that people he had talked to were opposed to the project -The next action will be advertising a legal notice of the councils action. This will start the 45-day period during which remonstrances to the bond issue can be filed.

On other issues, council memr bers said they will attend budge? hearings Wednesday by the State Board of Tax Commissioners to object to the appeal by the county, Welfare Department The council in September cut the departments operating balance, and the Welfare Department is appealing the cut The council appointed Council, man John R. Zentz as its spokesman for Wednesdays hearing. PLYMOUTH An ordinance approving a $3.1 million bond issue and appropriating the money from it was approved Monday by the Marshall County Council after some delay. The delay was because the ordinance, prepared by County Attorney James Easterday, in one section gave the amount as $1.8 million. The council had the auditors office retype it to change the figure to $3.1 million and adopted it with the provision that the ordinance not be sent to the State Board of Tax Commissioners unless the change has the approval of Easterday.

Councilman John R. Zentz told the council he was uncomfortable changing the ordinance without Easterdays approvaL Easterday was attending a seminar in Indianapolis on Monday, and the council was unable to contact him immediately. But Mary Haas, county auditor, did talk to him Monday afternoon and was told by him that the $1.8 million figure was an error and the ordinance had been properly passed by the council Money from the bond issue will be used to help finance the courthouse construction project and the council adopted the ordinance after receiving petitions signed by 236 people requesting the bond issue. Another 31 names on the petitions were disallowed because the signers were not property owners. The number of signatures originally was given as 222, but another petition was brought in after the council meeting had started, and it was accepted.

The petitions were formally presented to Ernest Probst council president, by Glenn Overmyer, president of the Board of Commissioners. The ordinance was passed by the council unanimously and there was By THOMAS PLISKE Tribune Correspondent MICHIGAN CITY No progress was made Monday in settling the Sprague Devices strike despite a call by federal mediator Ted Kieffer for a lengthy negotiating session. After a three-year contract expired in March 31, Machinist Local 1078 struck at midnight of May 31 after two months of extended negotiations failed to produce a new contract. The union action fell into the category of an economic strike, a strike over such issues as wages and benefits. In economic strikes, management has the right to hire permanent replacement employees.

The company took advantage of this right about a week after the strike began. Of the 66 original union members working at the plant on Eastwood Road, 50 have been replaced by permanent-replacement employees and 16 union members are crossing picket lines. Ann Samick, business agent for Local 1078, reported that no progress was made Monday in discussions of the fate of the replacement workers, the major stumbling block to a settlement The union still demands that the replacements be fired to pave the way for union members to return to their old jobs. Management continues to Insist on retaining the replacement workers while offering to place union members on a pref- Ward ads; from Page B1 to run when campaign planners feel it is necessary. He said the ads would be removed only if Johnson Controls promises to not move the Goshen jobs to Mexico.

Ward said Hiler should have met with company management and employees to see what could be worked out to save the jobs. He also said pushing for changes in the governments tariff code would make it less economical for companies to move jobs to Mexico. Ward denied the charge by Hammond that the commercials were Project Self-Sufficiency to target 600 families INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The state is launching a program to provide guidance counseling to nearly 600 Indiana families receiving federal housing assistance. It is hoped recipients will become more self-sufficient, both economically and socially, said Martha D. Lamkin, a spokeswoman for the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development Lamkin, director of the state HUD office, said under the program, called Project Self-Sufficiency, cities will form task forces to help families with coordinated assistance. The program has been tested for two years in several cities nationwide, including Bloomington and Evansville. Indiana will be the first state to implement a statewide program, Lamkin said. Recipients of federal housing aid under llUDs Section 8 program will be eligible to receive health and job counseling, as well as help in child care, budgeting and transportation. Lamkin said more than 20 public housing authorities in Indiana have agreed to participate in the program, which will last 15 years.

The communities are Anderson, Bloomington, Cannelton, Columbus, Elkhart, Evansville, Fulton County, Greencastle, Hammond, Knox County, Kokomo, Lafayette-West Lafayette, Logansport, Mishawaka, Peru, SL Joseph County, South Bend, Tell City, Vincennes and Warsaw. Mutz dedicates roadway, site of 82 span collapse EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) The last section of a northwest Indiana roadway where a bridge collapse in 1982 killed 13 workers has been opened for traffic. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, LL Gov. John M.

Mutz officially opened the final strip of the Cline Avenue Extension, a 5.2-mile expressway linking the Indiana Toll Road and U.S. 12 in Lake County. The realization of this project demonstrates this states strong commitment to northwestern Indiana and its future growth, Mutz said, pointing out that the expressway will both lower costs of shipping and help attract businesses to an area characterized by heavy industry. The $240 million project was the site of a tragic accident on April 15, 1982, when a 50-foot-high bridge ramp collapsed while under construction. In addition to 13 workers who were killed, at least 17 others were injured when concrete piers buckled and two ramp sections fell during concrete pouring.

When the accident occurred, about 50 men were working on the decking above. Another 30 were on the ground below. The bridge, now completed, connects Riley Road with a bridge over the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal In January, a Jasper Circuit Court jury determined that four companies named in a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed by the widow of a state inspector were not liable for the bridge collapse that killed her husband. Another company, Superior Construction Co. of Gary, reached an out-of-court settlement in the case.

Other lawsuits are pending. Hoosier fanners making hay while the sun shines WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Indiana farmers pushed up harvesting operations last week because of improved weather and field conditions, Purdue University reports. The com harvest advanced to 60 percent complete, about four days ahead of the 50 percent harvested in 1985. The norm is 55 percent, agricultural statistician Michael A.

Hunst said Monday in Purdues weekly crop report By area, the com harvest averaged 50 percent complete in the north, 55 percent in central counties and 75 percent south. The soybean harvest was 75 percent complete, two days behind the 80 percent harvested for both last year and the norm, Hunst said. Seeding of the 1987 winter wheat crop was 70 percent complete, only eight days ahead of the record slow progress set in 1977, when 60 percent was seeded at this time, Hunst said. Progress of seeding was about a week behind the 80 percent seeded a year ago, which is also the norm. Fdrty percent of the wheat crop had emerged, well behind the 70 percent that had emerged a year ago at this time and the 65 percent norm.

Stands of wheat that had emerged were rated 2 percent poor, 37 percent fair and 61 percent good. The 61 percent good rating compared with an 88 percent good or better rating a year ago. Rye seeding was 90 percent along, one week ahead of the 85 percent seeded last year at this time and matching the norm of 90 percent, Hunst said. erential hiring list. However, another problem has surfaced.

Samick said management is calling for elimination of the union-shop clause in the contract Attorney Ron Snyder of Indianapolis, Spragues chief negotiator, said today the company is suggesting a modified maintenance of membership clause, and that demand has been on the table since June. Under the clause, a member of the union at the time of any new contract must maintain union membership, but anyone who is not a union member does not have to join the union if he or she wishes not to do so. What the clause essentially means is that the 50 replacement workers now employed at the plant would not have to become union members if a new contract is signed. As for the 16 union people now working, it may or may not be that they have resigned their union membership. If they have retained their union membership, they would have to continue this membership under any new contract Snyder explained that the modified maintenance-of-membership clause was prompted by the fact that the union is antagonistic to the replacement employees and management does not want to subject the replacement to that type of union relationship.

At the end of Mondays session, no new talks were scheduled. being used for political gain. My first goal was to keep 200 jobs in Goshen, and that still is my goaL When I get to Congress in January, that is still something that I want to do. Ward faces Hiler in next Tuesdays general electioa Johnson Controls, with about 1,000 workers in Goshen, is the citys largest employer and the third-largest employer in Elkhart County. They manufacture temperature-control devices for buildings as well as electronics components.

Bremen Police Station. Brown would not call the fire arson, but said the fires cause was not apparent Naturally, theres something suspicious or we would have figured it out he said. Brown added suspicious did not necessarily mean arson. Brown said investigators today plan to talk with neighbors about what they saw or heard early Monday when the fire broke out Arthur Bustamante, the victims husband, told police he smelled smoke in the home around 12:35 a.m. Monday.

While downstairs, the fire broke out Bustamante was unable to get hack upstairs. Two neighbors called the Bremen Fire Department at 12:35 am Investigators seeking cause of fatal Bremen house fire BREMEN Investigators of the fatal house fire here Monday began piecing together evidence trying to determine its cause. Gloria Bustamante, 47, died early Monday when fire struck her home at 313 N. East SL She died in her upstairs bedroom. An autopsy, originally scheduled for Monday, was being performed today in South Bend, according to Bremen Police Chief John Brown.

Dean Byers, Marshall County coroner, said her death was caused by the fire, but an autopsy was needed to determine the exact cause. Brown said Bremen, Marshall County and State Fire Marshal investigators will begin putting the evidence together today at the Tribune Photo RICHARD 8ALOMON Petitions asking for a $3.1 million bond issue are accepted by Ernest Probst, president of the Marshall County Council, from Glenn Overmyer, right, president of the Board of County Commissioners. Seated is Mary Haas, county auditor. i.