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-1 Assistant Managing EditorMetro: Martha Stsftens 4647430 Saturday July 2T 199l INDIANA EDITION Filmmakers find housing out of their league 1 BRIEFS By LOM NORWOOD JAMES Courier stall writer Cast and crew of "A League of Their Own" are in stiff competition with owners jockeys and trainers in town for the Ellis Park horse racing season The commodity vying for is short-term apartment leases and it looks as if the Ellis Park team is "Rumors appeared to be started about outrageously high rentals Owners of some homes we were considering renting started high numbers For ft that was a very unpleasant situation "They tartal making im fed maybe we weren't wanfr ed in Ms Davis Hanks and Madonna will be staying at larger secluded three- and four-bedroom homes withall the amenities Ms home will even have a swim? ming although it at the time she signed the Crews from Parkway Pools in Madisonville Ky are racing the dock to install a fiberglass in-ground swimming pod other Evansvile-area home by early August Cylinda Dugger whose family owns the pool company she and other employees have been taking a kit of ribbing since people in Madisonville learned of their connection with the movie "They walk in and ask 'Will prices will go up 10 per cent now that doing a pool for Madonna? she said problem if someone has come down to work for three Fink said Patty Wuertx executive director of the Apartment Owners and Managers Association of Evansville said apartment owners being inflexible "It just has to do with dollars and she said explaining that a six-month policy is considered flexible when most policies require a one-year lease Apartment owners do set aside corporate apartments to be leased on a month-to-month basis but many are already filled she said "This time of year with all the trainers and owners and jockeys in from Ellis Park taking up all those corporate apartments" she said Fink said finding homes for the movie's stars and some executives was a problem when they were being sought in late May and June because owners were expecting and sometimes demanding exorbitant foes as high as $10000 a month to rent their homes "No deal was struck at that number or anything dose to that said Fink Japanese mayor to visit city Mikio Ando mayor of Mino Cho Japan will visit Evansville early next week as part of an exchange program Rick Borries supervisor of social studies for the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corpi and Vanderburgh Cbunty commissioner visited town of about 10000 people last year and arranged for this visit Borries would like the two cities to develop a sister city relationship Ando is scheduled to arrive Monday and receive a key to the city from Mayor Frank McDonald IL He will meet with echoed and county officials on Mon-1 day that on Tuesday tour the Evansville Courier Ckx the Evansville Brewery Red Spot Paint and Burdette Park among other attractions He also is to be a guest on "44 Main on WEW-Ch 44 On Wednesday he is scheduled to try a round of golf at Helfrich Hills Golf Course before heading to Ellis Park The mayor does not speak English Maki Shiwachi Japanese teacher for the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp will translate during appearances in Evansville winning Movie publicist Stuart Fink said housing arrangements have already been made for Geena Davis Tom Hanlra ml Madonna the wmin characters in the movie about a 1940a baseball league But lesser-known cast members production workers and executives are still searching for a place to stay during the three months that Columbia Pictures will be filming in Evansville Cameras are set to roll here Aug 6 Fink focal apartment owners have shown an "inflexible attitude" about granting leases for just three months "I know if Bristol-Myers people have the same Indiana claims cut of funding by OSM unfair I i 1 KENTUCKY By JOYCELYN WIN NECK! Courier Washington bureau Two arrested In shooting MADISONVILLE Ky Police arrested two men Thursday in connection with the shooting of a 17-year-old in Madisonville on May 26 Reginald White 20 Madisonville was charged with first degree assault for allegedly firing a small caliber hand-1 gun that wounded Bryan Methany of Madisonville in the fog Police charged Charles Logan 20 of Madisonville with hindering apprehension of White by allegedly lying to police about the incident White and Logan were being held Friday in Hopkins County Marijuana plants olimlnatod Kentucky State Police chopped down 750 five-foot tall marijuana plants along the banks of the Pond River just south of White Plains Ky Friday afternoon State Police officers on air patrol over the river found the plants said dispatcher Bobby Carroll of the Madisonville post WASHINGTON Indiana officials aay the federal unexpected decision to pull its funding for mine subsidence insurance ignores recent serious efforts by the state to improve the troubled program "We have worked with them listened to their concerns and tried to many of them Indiana Department of Insurance spokesman David Reddick said Friday He said the state admits the program suffered from lack of attention when it waa begun in 1986 "But in the last year and a halfi worked diligently at trying to turn that around We feel very frustrated that we have put that kind of effort into it and to suddenly have the Office of Surface Mining say going to terminate us within 30 Reddick said people from the insurance and natural resources departments are working on a strategy to appeal the surprise action by OSM Director Harry Snyder Snyder notified Indiana and Ohio that their federal grants for mine subsidence insurance were being pulled because the states taking necessary tepa to make the funds self-sustaining The federal program to help states begin insurance funds was to provide money from 1986 to 1994 Indiana waa to receive a total of $2L8 million but ao for has used only about $300000 "You can see by amount of money that they really done that much with the OSM spokesman Alan Cole said He said OSM officials have done "quite a few things over the past four years including numerous working visits with the Department of Insurance and Department of Natural Resources identifying Police probe sniper attacks LAWRENCEBURG Ky Police on Friday were still piecing together evidence about sniper attacks on the Blue-grass Parkway but had not determined what kind of weapon was used Three people were wounded early Thursday morning when they were hit by gunfire apparently from a highway overpass just west of Lawrenceburg The victims a Paris man and a couple from Bardstown were traded at a hospital in Versailles and released Courier photo by KEVIN SWANK Hamburger robot senting a hamburger ketchup mustard pickle buns cheese and onions and place them on top of each other in a selected order Keith Benedict an instructor in engineering and technology at USI is teaching the class which continues next week Bret Slebe 1 2 of near Mackey Ind operated a robot to make hamburgers as part of the Super Summer program at the University of Southern Indiana Students worked together to write computer programs that make the robot pick up circles of plastic repre Bus driver guilty of child molestation Spartan Printing Is for sals SPARTA HL World Color Press Inc is looking for a buyer for its Spartan Printing division the company has announced "We will try to sell Spartan Printing through an employee and community participation plan said Richard Cassady regional manager of Spartan and vice president of World Color Press "Then if need be we will look outside for a I Shelby who was hired as a bus driver cin September 1986 resigned from the school corporation in May His route served an elementary school Wnrlfar this month another corpora? tion school bus driver Phyllis Rafferty waa charged with child molesting in Posey County School officials said a decision on Mrs status with the corporation will be made soon Court documents said Shelby is accused of molesting the girl on several occasions diving the past year The victim was not a passenger on bus route according to school records Gary Staley administrative assistant of supportive services for the school corporation said Shelby was relieved of driving duties after charges were filed earlier this year A former Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp bus driver has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he molested a 14-year-old girl Wilbert Shelby Sr 62 of 512 Iincoln Ave is to be sentenced Sept 9 in Vanderburgh Circuit Court Under the plea agreement Shelby would face two yean in prison Shelby was charged with three counts of child molesting involving a girl 14 Book profiles Indiana Klanswomen in Indian mound move rapped SPRINGFIELD DL Supporters of the excavated Indian burial exhibit at Dickson Mounds criticized Gov Jim Edgar on Friday for reconsidering last year's decision to keep the exhibit open Rep Bill Edley said Edgar is responding to the United Indian Nations in Oklahoma and other American Indians outside Illinois who oppose the Dickson Mounds Museum of skeletal remains of more than 200 Indians who lived in the region hundreds of years ago By The Associated Press I and exploring ways to correct But he said OSM got little response from the state The OSM action follows a report from the General Accounting Office the inves-' tigative arm of Congress criticizing Indiana for not doing enough to publicize the mine subsidence insurance program and not having enough participants to make it stable without federal funding Snyder cited as one reason for his ao-tion toe failure ky the Indiana General Assembly to pass a law making the insurance automatic for homeowners in the 26 affected southwestern Indiana counties He also said two state departments insurance and natural resources done a good job of coordinating Reddick said past between the two departments are being worked out He pointed out it was the Insurance Department that introduced and fought for the legislation which waa passed by the House and killed by insurance agents in the Senate He also said the department spent $60000 last year promoting the program and was planning another round cf publicity Rep Frank McCloskey D-Ind talked to Gov Evan Bayh about OSM concerns Friday and planned to urge OSM to give Indiana a reprieve said his aide Paul Weber "This may serve as a warning shot to stimulate aggressive and straight-forward action to assure this program survives for the Indiana property owners who need Weber said The OSM notification leaves the door open for an appeal and working but the situation One OSM official expressed guarded optimism that the situation would be resolved favorably There are 24225 homeowners eight percent ofthe 297540 eligible enrolled in toe program Homeowners pay an additional $22 a year for the mine subsidence premium It is offered in 26 counties in Southwestern Indiana where mine subsidence is arisk The money goes into a fund operated by the state The fond pays for subsidence damage up to $50000 IgiiHDjANAlMJ liaVwd by the University of California Ptesa Besides describing the part women played the 228-page volume describes the rise of the Klan during the 208 and focus- es on Indiana where the men and women of the KKK were more powerful than in any other state Ms Blee estimates that the Indiana KKK may have had a half-million mem-bora during the 1920a half of them women That would mean she continues that about a third of all the females in the state belonged Only Protestant whites were eligible for Klan membership Both the KKK and the KKK which were separate organizations but worked closely together were ao socially pervasive and so highly regarded in many Indiana that they were part of the fabric of daily life There were "Klan at county fairs Klan meetings were held in such public places as "lodge halls church vestries dubrooms YMCAs and YWCAs Klan lecturers spoke to schools and in school Most of the women she talked to for the book Ms Blee said "describe the heyday of the Klan as a time of fun and spectacle When asked to recall the feeling of being present at a cross burning a woman from northern Indiana responded Oh it waa fun And the way they wrapped it in gunnysacks and soaked it in ofi and then those guys went up and lit it and it waa just a fun thing to Ms Blee who lives in north end grew up in Fort Wayne ImL attended Qnrtwlie there and grad-natad from Indiana University She went to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin where she got her and PhD Twenty-eight people responded to her requests for information about the WKKK including 18 who agreed to interviews When she tried to question the beliefs about Jews Catholics and blacks Ma Blee said "they told me I understand They said things like The Catholics were out of and You would do the same under the same circumstances When she asked about violence "They nothing bad ever happened that no harm ever came to good Most ofthe Indiana communities where the Klan was strongest were homogeneous with very few if any blacks Catholics or Jews Most Klan members were not poor and they were not directly threatened in any obvious way by minorities i said' "Theyjust had a world and they wanted to maintain Ms Blee said Court to listen to arguments INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear arguments on issues raised in the Sue Ann Lawrence right-todie case be- fore deciding whether her death rendered the issues moot In a two-page order the highest court said it has scheduled one hour of oral arguments in the case Wednesday The court had planned to listen to those arguments this week but canceled that hearing after Ma Lawrence died July 18 LEXINGTON Ky Kathleen Blee was prepared to hate and fear the elderly Hoosiere who helped her with her study of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s Instead the University of Kentucky professor was astonished at how normal they were "My own commitment to progressive politics prepared me to find these people strange even repellent I expected no rapport no shared assumptions no common- ality of thought or she said "What I found was more disturbing Many of the people I interviewed were interesting intelligent and But as Klan members they had actively hated and worked against Jews Catholics and blacks in their TnHinna communi-ties during a time when the Klan controlled Hoarier politics economica and social life "I think it says something about what nice everyday normal people would do under abnormal rircumstances Good people sometimes do bad Ms Blee said Ma Blee 38 an associate professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky authored "Women of the Wim Racism and Colder in the recently jnib- li tr 1 If you have a touch-tone phone you may leave news tips or comments about lore! news coverage by calling (812) 421-1180 ext 1006.