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ht A fr-5 33 33fift -i i I irvsnrai ram AUGUST S3, 1 994 BEDFORD, INDIANA 350 VOL. CIV NO. B. Yes, Virginia, there is a sanity clause UAW workers walk off jobs in Anderson By Anthony Jewell Associated Press Writer ANDERSON United Auto Workers members walked off their jobs at GMs Inland Fisher Guide plant here this morning after talks failed to resolve subcontracting and health and safety issues. Weve had 15 days straight of negotiations and things started to fall through at about midnight last night, said Ron Gettelfinger, director of the UAWs Region 3, which is based in Indianapolis.

We made a final push this morning and it didnt work out, he said. Hopefully, when the smoke clears, the company will realize were serious and come back with better offers. The plant produces bumpers, exterior lighting and electronic light controls, and a shutdown in production could quickly stop the flow of needed parts to GMs assembly plants. Gettelfinger said he does not know how quickly the strike will affect other General Motors Corp. plants because he does not know now much inventory the plant has.

About 3,500 members of UAW Local 663 are on strike, Gettelfinger said. Theres a lot of issues that havent been solved with management on health and safety issues, said Darla Wensel, an assembly operator who has worked at Inland Fisher for 17 years. But the No. 1 issue is job security. Woikers poured out of the plant at 9 a.m.

and about a dozen workers gathered at each of the plants 10 gates carrying signs that read UAW on Strike. Other workers simply got in their cars and left the grounds. Jim Barton, a union member, said he was not surprised by the strike. I about half-expected it I kind of thought theyd reach some sort of agreement but Im hearing well be out a few days. So far this year, the UAW has struck at GM plants in Shreveport, Dayton, Ohio; and a technical center in Warren, in an effort to curb what the union says are GM plans to switch more production to nonunion workers.

By Mary G. Johnson Times-Mail Staff Writer Before she reaches 50, she said, she would do three things. Ride in a hot air balloon. Raft down the Colorado River rapids. Rise on a para-sail.

Virginia Harrison just turned 48. Virginia Harrison has always been pretty, polite, petite, poised, precise, properly dressed, rational, reasonable and certainly no reckless, romantic, risk-taking roller derby queen. Virginia Harrison is assistant manager of NBD Bank for crying out loud. Her husband doesnt understand it. Virginia has suddenly become adventuresome as she approaches the golden years.

I am having an extremely difficult time accepting the fact she has had such a change of attitude, said Don Harrison. Her fear of heights is so strong that he predicted she would want a ladder to climb out of the wicker basket below the 70-foot high, rainbow-colored hot air balloon. But the big beautiful balloon rose at Grissom Airport Monday evening, carrying two pilots from Balloon Odyssey of Louisville, plus Virginias good friends, Nancy Caudell and Ann Greenwell and, Virginia, too. She waved a brave farewell as video cameras recorded the take off. By 6:15 p.tuu.the balloon and its passengers were floating above the White River valley east of the Ind.

37 bridges. They dropped coins in the river and made wishes. Virginias only wish was that her coin would land in the water. This coin-tossing, balloonriding banker returned to earth exuberant It was great. I had a wonderful evening.

The weather was beautiful. It was just a real peaceful, calm ride. We saw three deer and a baby (deer) and we flew real low. We just drifted above the tree tops, said Virginia. From the air they saw Bedford North Lawrence High School, St Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Townhouse unit gets citys OK Times-Mail photo by Mary G.

Johnson readies for lift off at Grissom that ended in a Coxton Road ISP searches for clues in mans death to terra firma as her hot air balloon two friends went for a ride Monday pagne. -The first hot air balloon flight in 1783 ended when the balloon came down to earth in France. Peasant landowners, thinking a massive flying monster had arrived, attacked it with pitchforks and to make certain it was dead, lashed it behind two horses and drug it through the village, according to balloon pilot Stuart Crawford. pers. A crew recently filmed a brief reenactment of what police think might have happened that morning on the Radcliff Road.

In the reenactment, Wilson drops off his girlfriend and leaves for home. He is lured onto Radcliff for some unknown reason and attacked. Police speculated that Wilson must have luiown his attacker. The segment aired Monday night during the 11 p.m. news and again this morning at 6 a.m.

on Louisvilles WLKY-32. The piece also featured a brief interview with Wilsons parents, Darrell and Mary Ann. Crimes Stoppers is a program sponsored by the Jefferson County By Troy Guthrie Times-Mail Staff Writer Ingram Construction Company Monday cleared the last hurdle in placing more of what the company calls affordable housing in Bedford. The Bedford City Plan Commission Monday approved the site plan for 10 townhouse to be built at Fifth and streets so construction can begin. The commission members unanimously voted to approve the site plan because they consider Ingrams plans to be the most feasible for the lot that has a steep incline.

It is located across Fifth Street from Murray Forest Park and Stalker Elementary School. Phil Tapp with Bledsoe-Tapp and the projects design firm, said Ingram Construction is proposing a replat of four existing lots at Fifth and streets into 10 lots. Ingram Construction met with opposition when it began its last project in Bedford. Several Edge-wood Addition residents signed a petition and sought legal counsel earlier this year in an attempt to stop Ingrams plans to place a housing addition with smaller homes, that were also called affordable housing, near Edgewood. The Edgewood residents were concerned that the homes and future residents of the Woods Edge housing addition would detract from property values.

After com iTV vV promises between Ingram and the Edgewood residents, the city approved the project Now, Ingram is planning one structure with 10 single-family units. Ingram is looking to sell the three-story (including basement garages) units with the yards both in front of and behind them. The owners will be responsible for maintaining the yards. The building will be a frame structure with brick veneer on the lower level. Farmers Home Administration (FHA) will make 100-percent loans on the two-bedroom dwellings that will be priced in the selling range with manageable payments, said Ron Killion of Ingram Construction Co.

Tapp said the project will result in some infrastructure enhancements for the targeted area. The 12-foot-wide alley on the west side of the property will be widened to 18 feet, which will allow two-way traffic behind the units. The wider alley will be important, Tapp said, because the units will have garages in the lower level. Off-street parking will also be available on the east side of the units, he added. Ingram Construction received an easement from the owner of the property on the west side of the proposed townhouse lot so a storm sewer can be installed across that neighbors property.

The new storm sewer will alleviate some ponding see Townhouse back page "i Si. 4 -i' 1 Vv 0 -f By Doug Bennett Jr. Times-Mail Staff Writer SELLERSBURG Indiana State Police detectives hope the reenactment of the mysterious murder of a Millersburg man will bring forward witnesses in a case where there seemingly are no suspects. In the early delmar wilson morning hours of June 12, a passerby discovered Delmar Wilsons INDEX Virginia Harrison waves farewell Municipal Airport Harrison and cow pasture. even Lehigh Portland Cement Co in Mitchell.

They went south of White River, then floated back north, coming down in a cow pasture on the Warren and Carol Brown residence on Coxton Road. They were just very gracious people, said Virginia. And the air-arrival guests were prepared to toast their hosts because the balloon carried cham body in a car on a rural roadway between Fredericksburg and Hard-insburg. According to autopsy reports, someone had shot the 20-year-old Wilson in the face with a shotgun from close range. Police said Wilsons foot was still on the brake of his parents 1987 Chrysler and the vehicles headlights were still burning.

Police found no weapon at the scene nor did investigators find any evidence that Wilson had been robbed. Nearly three months later, police have little else to go on, according to ISP Sgt. Charles Maxey. As a result, Maxey said police decided to air a segment on Crime Stop- Gov. Michael S.

Dukakis. In 1785, U.S. naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry was bom in South Kingstown, R.I. In 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

Psa. 41:1. WEATHER Fair tonight Low in the low 60s. Partly sunny and a little warmer Wednesday. High 85.

So Crawford carries champagne in the basket (plus soft drinks) so he and his passengers can toast the owners of the land when they come back to earth. Last night the soft drinks were in great demand. A dozen children followed the balloon and were there for the landing. Crawford let the kids ride in see Balloon back page Police Department. We told them that we really did not have anything going on it and we needed help, Maxey said.

We have used Crime Stoppers a couple of times in the past. They have made this available to us so we contacted them. Previously, the ISP used a Crime. Stoppers segment to feature the murder of a Louisville cab driver whose body was found near Palmyra. Maxey said police didnt receive one call after the segment aired and the murder remains unsolved.

He hopes for better results this time. see Unsolved back page vice, leaving his fish in his parents care. By 1971, Carolyn and Oren had more fish than they knew what to do with. They had been taking weekend trips, buying unusual fish as part of their family entertainment. We had 55 gallons in our home, Carolyn said.

We had fish tanks every where. A tropical fish salesman, noticing how large their hobby had grown, suggested the Elliotts open up a tropical fish store. They did and have sold tropical fish, tanks, and supplies in a garage next to their home for the past 23 years. Carolyn Elliott is the primary shopkeeper while Oren repairs parts for customers. Buck and his daughter, Roni, have been working in the store to give Carolyn a see Fish back page Family finds fish business a good catch By Loretta Brown Times-Mail Staff Writer MITCHELL Customers of Gregs Fish House travel the extra smiles to buy tropical fish because they know the effort will be returned.

Located in a garage at 1116 Orchard St, Mitchell, Gregs Fish House supplies enthusiasts with any kind of tropical fish from gold fish to African ghost knife to elephant nose to zebra plecos. Service doesnt end when the sale is closed, a feature customers appreciate and one that attracts them to the business. The business, owned by Oren and Carolyn Elliott actually started out as a hobby. Their son Ronnie Buck in 1962 brought home the familys first guppies when he was 16 and working in a pet shop. In 1967, he was drafted into the ser On Aug.

23, 1927, Italian-bom anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 payroll robbery. In 1977, Sacco and Vanzetti were vindicated by Massachusetts Times-Mail photo by A.J. Mast Gregs Fish House, operated out of a garage in Mitchell for the past 23 years, attracts customers as far away as Evansville. Ronnie Buck Elliott assists his mother, Carolyn (left) in running the business. i A.