Evansville Courier and Press from Evansville, Indiana • 1

THURSDAY i25 cents Evansville Indiana February 28 1985 Vd 141 No 46 FINAL EDITION Georgetown Wins Page 20 Serving the Tri-State since 1845 Faurmra aid! MBs Henry Cabot Lodge dies of heart failure ition are "never going to become ration officials said Reagan might veto the bill Reagan likely to veto 'survival' loan plan BEVERLY Mass AP) Henry Cabot Lodge the Boston aristocrat who battled the Soviet Union in the United Nations and served In fact after the action on the first deputy White House press secretary Marlin Fitxwater expressing disappointment at the outcome of the Senate vote said: "In all likelihood WASHINGTON (AP) The House and Senate ignoring the wishes of President Reagan endorsed separate legislation Wednesday to provide credit-poor farmers with federal loan money and interest subsidies in time for spring planting Backers claimed the action if it becomes we'll the bill if it reaches Reagan with the amendment still attached- million to "buy Interest rates for farmers who have exhausted their loan sources It later approved 50-48 legislation to give farmers immediate advances on crop loans that normally would not come until harvest At the same time the Democratic-dominated House voted 11 8-103 for a bill similar to one of the Senate amendments of fering advances of up to 50 percent of next fall's price-support loans to farmers unable to get loans to plant this spring That measure which also boosts money available for loan guarantees by $3 billion was sponsored by Rep Tom Daschle D-SD The Senate amendments were tacked onto a bill offering $175 million in non-food aid for drought-ravaged African countries which also passed 62-85 and was sent to a conference with the House which has passed similar legislation The House credit MU still must go to the Senate for a vote Dole predicted the amendments passed over With his career the three-term -UJ senator and 1980 vice md-den till candidate changed his famous image as lsola- tionista He backed the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the Senate and headed the U8 delegation to the Vietnam peace talks in Paris in 1969 He also served as ambassa- dor to Germany and presidential envoy to the Vatican Lodge led the drive to elect Dwight Eisenhower as president in 1952 losing his own Senate seat in the process to a young Bostonian named John Kennedy His sharp wit made him a tourist (Coatiaeed ou Page 8 coL 1) law would help farmers survive another year rKan But Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole R-l X- two terms as ambassador to South Vietnam I as U8 involvement deepened in Southeast Asia died I Wednesday He was 82 Lodge died about 6 pm at his home in Beverly after suffering from congestive heart failure according to his son George The spokesman said the administration remains "steadfast in the belief there is a program out there that should be The White House had lobbied against any changes in federal credit help for farmers The administration is rushing to pit in place Its own much-modified loan-guarantee program which President Reagan contends is adequate to save those farmers with the best chance of long-term survival (Csatiaaed an Page I col 1) said the action represented an early loss of discipline in a year when Congress must bold the line on the budget t- "We demonstrated willing to face up to the Dole told senators adding a billion-plus (dollars) to our By 54-45 the Republican-controlled Senate approved a measure that would provide $100 depot at end of line i V' T- History crumbles with each swing of wrecking ball By KIT WAGAR £i'v -'0 Evansville lost its last railroad station Wednesday when demolition began on the old Louisville A Nashville station on Fulton Avenue The station which saw its last passengers depart in 1971 was ordered raxed by its owners after a report showed Insufficient land was available for a proposed headquarters and garage for the city bus system all saddened at the prospect of not see prospect of not seeing this building reused for another purpose whether it be a mass transit center or Mayor Michael Vandeveer said "We were just unaMe to put together the state local and federal money to salvage The steel ball crashed into the 82-year-old lime- nail crowd gatb- stone building at about 19 un A smal lV sV I They recall a period long past By RICH DAVIS end during the day to watch and lament the demise Demolition stopped for the day shortly before 4 pm An hour later small groups of people were picking through chunks of broken stone and harda of twisted metal hoping to find a gargoyle that had fallen intact from the building They said they would use the gargoyles which dominated the southern and northern ends of the depot as garden or yard decorations The building was once transportation link to the world but deteriorated after it was closed Evansville Materials Inc which bought the property in 1974 had repeated problems with vandalism and vagrants In 1978 company officers agreed not to ram the building to give city officials a chance to renovate it City officials tried to get a federal transportation grant to renovate the depot and build a maintenance garage for the Metropolitan Evansville Transit System That plan was scrapped in 1980 because the cost was deemed too high The plan was resurrected two years later but went nowhere Most recently Vandeveer had tried to combine a federal mass transit grant with private investment to come up with about $4 million needed for the project Nearly $2 million would have been needed to renovate the building which would have housed private offices as well as the METS headquarters Vandeveer said every effort was made to save the building The listing on the National Register of Historic Places made investors eligible for tax credits of 25 percent Vandeveer said all the tools were in place but tbe basic ingredients never came together "We hied things in good times we tried them in bad times and it Just Vandeveer said Some feathers ruffled The loss of the landmark IAN depot to the wrecking bad may have ruffled the feathers of human onlookers Wednesday but not a couple of the buikSng's resident pigeons Most onlookers were interested in saving the gargoyles (Courier photos by Sonny Brown) Each swing of the 1 000-pound wrecking ball was painful to the small crowd that gathered on Ohio Street on Wednesday afternoon to watch the old LAN depot come down Dust flew In their eyes as musty wood cracked and chunks of limestone crashed to the ground Most of the pigeons who'd made the 82-year-old building their home since the last passenger train left in 1971 were gone Rosemary O'Daniel president of the Evansville Museum board found out about the demolition as she drove by and pulled her car of to the side of Fulton Avenue (CsaUaued on Page 5 cel 1) Demolition began unexpectedly despite the interest generated by the seven-year effort to save the building Officials with Evansville Materials said they did not know why the city did not announce that efforts had failed Company President Neil Mulzer said be understood that city officials gave up trying to save the building recently when they learned that tl the property was impractical as a garage for the METS (Can tinned on Page 5coL 1) Congress' budget office sees no relief on Said George Shultz: "When you compare me to to Senator McCarthy I resent it House Demo likens Shultz's tactics to Sen McCarthy's The CBO In the first complete congressional analysis of Reagan's latest budget proposals said the projections of declining deficits after 1986 are baaed on brighter economic conditions than those foreseen by congressional economists million in covert aid to the contra guerrillas fighting to overthrow the Sandinlsta government in Nicaragua "It is you who began the escalation of Kostmayer told Shultz "You have raised the ante There is a lot of Red-baiting going on' Under questioning by Kostmayer and other ed back from congression- Democrats Shultz pulled! WASHINGTON (AP) In a preview of the coming congressional battle over Nicaragua Secretary of State George Shults faced accusations Wednesday of by Democratic House members who said the administration is distorting events in Central America The secretary found himself in the midst of an explosive confrontation before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing where his pftowinta on Nicaragua and Cuba were compared with the tactics of Sen Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s An angry Shultz replied to Rfp Ted Weiss D-NYj "It is the ultimate perversion to say that an attack on the tactics in Nicaragua is comparable WASHINGTON (AP) Federal deficits are likely to remain above $180 billion through the end of this decade even if Congress adopts all the spending cuts sought by President Reagan the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday In a 141-page review of the $974 billion budget for fiscal 1986 beginning Oct 1 the CBO questioned the contention that adoption of the budget would cause the deficit to decline gradually to $82 billion by 1990 Instead the deficit would drop from its current level of Just over $200 billion to about $186 billion and "remain at about (that) level through the CBO Director Rudolph Penner told the Senate Appropriations Committee The emotional exchange with Weiss began after Shults questioned about worldwide efforts to cut off the flow of illegal drugs by the State Department said Nicaragua and Cuba are raising money by directly or Indirectly supporting the illegal drug trade in Central America Weiss said the scale of the illegal drug sales in the two countries is compared to the amount (4 heroin cocaine and marijuana shipped into the United States by American allies of which Shults made no mention "It reminds me of the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954 in which McCarthy as a way of getting at the Army went after a young recent law graduate who asked the senator you no decency? be said al testimony and a speech in San Francisco last week in which he said the Sandinistas have become a totalitarian regime dominated by the Soviet Union Weiss said while the Nicaragua government has refused to enact democratic reforms it still permits publication of an opposition newspaper and ran an election in which one-third of the voters opposed the Sandinistas while in El Salvador there is no opposition press In response units said "It is not that they (the Sandinistas) have created a totalitarian regime but they are in the For instance although both the administration and the CBO predict that Interest rates will remain between 8 percent and 85 percent throughout 1985 "the administration assumes that real interest rates decline steadily after the budget office said Administration projections also assume lower inflation rates and more rapid growth in the gross national product throughout the decade than those foreseen by congressional analysts to Senator McCarthy When you compare me to to Senator McCarthy 1 1 resent iti Later President Reagan top administration figures were criticized by Rep Peter Kostmayer D-Pa for an intensive campaign designed to build support for restoring $14 am update Nation Also Secret Service agent who saved Reagan's life is retiring Page 2 Today's weathar Illinois congressmen make a pitch for GM's Saturn plant Page 8 Tri-State Scientists again study effect of air pollution on crops Page 7 Sports Reitz and Memorial 'win In Evansville sectional action Page 20 Aces will close out the season tonight on the road Page 20 ISUE win would ensure at least share of conference title Page 21 BMBBaBBBmaMMB Evawaviflas Sunny mild Indiana: Warmer Kentucky: Cloudless RHnoie: Bright dsy World Chernenko responds to letter from US veterans group Page 3 Mora on Pago 14 CHARLES KRUTZ Portrays Bach 18 US BISHOPS IN SALVADOR Negotiating far peace Paga4 Syrian hijackers release hostages and surrender Page 4 PCS ICWS 07 rSIKZD II C0L03.