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Indianapolis Stuntman claims three world records Report By Tribune Correspondents THE TRIBUNE, TERRE HAUTE, THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 1977 NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (UPI) Nothing appears to be able to keep stuntman Bill Shirk out of action very long. The Indianapolis disc jockey and radio station owner walked into the old Hamilton County Jail Monday clad in ah athletic supporter and wrapped with 50 pounds of chains, leg irons and handcuffs and walked out less than four hours later. He immediately claimed three world records.

Shirk, 32, said he had previously set the record accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest escape from a straitjacket by wriggling out of one while suspended upside down from a helicopter at 1,610 feet. He also claimed the record for the fastest escape from a straitjacket last summer with a time of 8 seconds, but Monday he managed to get it off in 4.92 seconds. He used that to warm up for his attempt to break the record for an escape from behind two sets of cell doors, previously set in 1972 by Icelander Reynir Oem Leossen with a time of five hours, 50 minutes. time was 3:44:42. requires that you be searched and wear nothing but an athletic supporter when they put on three sets of handcuffs behind your he said.

specifications also are for leg irons and being tied with 5- and 10-mm chains weighing 44 pounds. we get that size chain so we used quarter- inch and half-inch chain weighing more than 50 pounds, which Guinness officials said would be all right because the specifications for them are higher than what Guinness Hamilton County Sheriff Larry Cook searched Shirk and fastened him in the chains and IN INDIANA, ILLINOIS 'Back-to-basics' not new; just recycled BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPI) The movement in American education is as old as the little red schoolhouse. not new; just being recycled said Josephine Spear, associate professor of education at Indiana University Bloomington. you talk about going back-to-basics, how far back are you talking she asked a recent English teachers conference.

And then cited these critiques of American education: 1890 the complaints drawn up by colleges against the high schools, it is the inability to write passably correct English that is most severely complained 1910 is a common complaint among businessmen that young people seeking employment are not well grounded in the 1917 every college in the country goes up the cry, freshmen spell, 1965 English language is dying because it is not being Menish resigns post MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) Donald L. Menish resigned Wednesday as director of development for Ball State University, effective Dec. 1. Menish said he will become vice president for development at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

He has been at Ball State since 1968 and also is executive vice president of the Ball State Foundation. Menish is a baseball umpire, formlery taught at Elmhurst High School in Fort Wayne and was sports director of radio station WIFF in Auburn. Bayh urges asylum for two refugees WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Birch Bayh, has urged the Immigration and Naturalization Service to grant political asylum to two Philippine refugees. Sergio Osmena IH, 33, and Eugenio Lopez 48, escaped from Fort Bonifacio near Manila last month after spending nearly five years in prison on political charges stemming from the declaration of martial law in 1972.

Bayh, who met with the two men in his Washington office, said a grant of political asylum would be the human rights commitment of official U.S. government Kidnapped child, mother reunited after three weeks of suspense By SANDRA BALMER Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) Malikah Cox, has two new teeth and a slight cold as souvenirs of being kidnapped at gunpoint more than three weeks ago, taken cross-country and abandoned in a Utah hospital. For the 8-month-old mother, Donna Green, 32, it was the end of three weeks of suspense and worry, even though she says she know who the kidnappers were or why they chose her baby. feel she shouted Wednesday upon her return to Chicago from Salt Lake City. I guess give her a Police and FBI continued to investigate the kidnapping, which they said appeared to be connected to associates of the father, a professional gambler.

Robert F. Cox Ms sponse. He refused to comment on the possible role of an associate, Bonnie Johnson, in his disappearance. The unpublished telephone number was listed on a note pinned to the baby in the lounge of Holy Cross Hospital that read, is the lost baby from Chicago, The Johnson woman was indicted last week on charges of participating in heroin traffic between Chicago and Indiana. After the baby was found Sunday night, a Juvenile Court judge in Salt Lake City ordered her held by juvenile authorities.

On Wednesday, after a 15- minute hearing to satisfy state officials that the child will have an acceptable home, Malikah was returned to her mother. The FBI in Washington, using footprints and birth records, had identified the girl as Malikah Cox. She was found common-law husband, Sunday night by a nurse in a spoke reluctantly with a re- 'lounge at Holy Cross Hospital porter Wednesday night from the family's home, while a plane carrying Ms. Green and Malikah was landing at International Airport. He chose to watch local television coverage of the homecoming.

a behind-the-scenes man. just not my style to be out there with the TV Cox said. like a fly on the just sit back and watch Earlier, Chicago Police Lt. Joseph Beazley said Cox failed to cooperate with their investigation and that a lie-detector test showed him to be withholding information about the child's abduction. free to say anything they Cox said in re- good condition.

health was a concern since she is allergic to milk. On Oct. 7, she was taken by two men and a woman at gunpoint from a baby sitter at the home of her father. The abductors told the sitter that the child would be returned when her father my old The term generally refers to a wife or girl friend, but also denotes illegal drugs or a gambling debt. Cox, 32, told police he was a professional gambler.

He insisted he did not know what the kidnappers wanted, although police said ransom messages demanded a kilogram each of heroin and cocaine. No arrests have been made. German, British and American handcuffs before locking him in a cell on the second floor of the 105-year-old building. The building has not been heated since the jail moved to new facilities, and Shirk had to contend with cold and damp as well as a cell door, a cell block door and an outer steel door. has a tendency to hold cold longer than most other materials and it felt awfully cold against my bare he said before heading home to nice long, hot Skirk, who was buried in a coffin for 79 hours earlier this year, said he is already planning two more feats, one for New Eve while hanging more than 200 feet from the atrium ceiling of an Indianapolis hotel.

He said next year he will attempt to cross the Atlantic in a helium-filled balloon even though no one has made it in 15 attempts and five persons have been lost at sea. Aging agency opens branch SPENCER. Ind. Area 10 Agency on Aging has opened a branch office at 17 N. Fletcher Spencer.

Pat Sheese is office secretary while her assistant is Sheila Richardson. Also housed in the building will be Outreach workers, Ross Edwards and Glenn McNeil. The agency is seeking volunteers to assist senior citizens of the area. Student cooks at Northwood: Grist for gripes By HOWARD STEVENS Tribune State Editor WEST BADEN, Ind. Nobody, but nobody gripes more about the food served up than college students.

But not at Northwood Insitute where food, the culinary arts and hotel management are the three major fields of study. In fact, the guy who gripes here may get it tomorrow. Half the student body cooks one day, the other half tomorrow. bite the hand that feeds you could well be the code of the day. A swing down the cafeteria line in this southern Indiana college might produce this kind of diologue: try some of the oyster stew.

I made it and its good for team did the veal cutlets. like coffee, Cooks spend four hours a day working at the various stations in beautiful kitchens. In addition, they carry three academic classes each term. Lab classes are considered the foundation of their education no matter whether they become chefs or hotel managers or food equipment salesmen. The schedule is hectic.

The first breakfast lab starts at 6 a.m. Students are turned out in whites and they work at assigned stations under the supervision of an instructor. students are your customers. Treat them accordingly. Prof.

Eldred Paulson, tells freshmen, instructional schedule is built around a two- week menu cycle. No dish is duplicated during the two weeks except staples like potatoes or rice. During each cycle, a student draws a new station. Salad, meat vegetables and baking are the major areas. At the end of the week, Friday, students get a break in the routine.

They critique, demonstrate and hear guest lectures. As the course winds down, menus get more difficult and complex. Gourmet items are added as well as international foods. Low calorie plates also appear on the menu for those students who want to watch thier weight. Waiter! Over here, please.

A pinch of salt. THIS IS THE PLACE The beautiful Northwood Institute campus should inspire a cook to turn out his best offering. The school at West Baden, Ind. specializes in hotel management, culinary arts, and restaurant expertise. The site is one of the prettiest in southern Indiana.

Farmers face stiff prices, less cash for own products By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The main reason farmers complain these days about their financial Thompson chides Bakalis Ann Harmeier's friends design reward posters SPRINGFIELD. 111. (AP) Gov. James R. Thompson has chided his gubernatorial opponent, Comptroller Michael J.

Bakalis. for not coming up with a of his own on criminal justice reform. Thompson's comments came Wednesday after Bakalis a day earlier had urged Democrats to fall in step behind the banner of controversial title to reach a consensus on good anti-crime legislation. He was the first ranking Democrat to suggest that the legislature should hand Thompson the Class title he covets. situation is that the things they percent from the $4 85 farmers buy cost more while the things got the year before.

Phone bills they sell bring in less money, in 1975 rose to $7.90 a month, a Take monthly telephone bills 10 percent increase, and the price of wheat. Last year, wheat on Oct. 15 The Agriculture Department was $2.69 a bushel, a drop of says that the average phone bill mor than 35 percent from the of farmers this year was $9 62 a same date 1975. Phone bills month for local service, a 7 1976 averaged $9 a month a percent increase from $9 a previous month in 1976. Thus, according to depart- Meanwhile, according to the ment figures, wheat prices as department latest monthly of Oct.

15. had dropped more price report issued Monday, than 53 percent from what they wheat at the farm nationally on were three years ago. Oct. 15 brought farmers an av- Telephone bills in the same erage ot a bushel. A year three vears rose more than 34 ago.

wheat was $2.59 a bushel, percent as telephone bills Put another way, a farmer climbed 7 percent, wheat prices three years ago could pav his 13 percent. monthiy telephone bill with While the telephone and about 1.5 bushels of wheat. Last wheat comparisons may not be month, it took almost 4.3 -recise economic indicators, bushels ey do illustrate what mosi farmers have experienced in a cost-price squeeze in recent years. Going further back to Oct. 15.

1974, wheat averaged $4.85 a bushel at the farm nationally. That was a 14.9 percent increase from $4.22 a bushel a year earlier. telephone bills in 1974 averaged $7.16 a month, an 11 percent increase from 1973, according to department CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind. (UPI) Residents of Ann hometown meet tonight to design posters announcing their $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer. re going ahead with the reward said David Weston, chairman of a steering committee organized originally to search for the 20-year-old coed after she vanished Sept.

12 north of Martinsville. The committee more than a week ago decided tentatively to post the reward if a man being held in a Texas jail is not charged with Miss death. So far, state police have not filed charges. Weston, an elementary school principal, said the committee would meet tonight to design the reward poster and make plans for its distribution, especially in the Martinsville area. Members of the committee will distribute the poster door- to-door, Weston said.

The cash is part of money originally raised to finance search efforts for Miss Harmeier. but after her body was found last month the steering committee decided to offer the reward. In all, about $15,000 was raised, of which $1,000 was spent on earlier search efforts, leaving $4,000 to finance the new posers and perhaps billboards. At Indianapolis, Capt. Stanley Kenny of the Indiana State Police said four detectives are assigned full time to the case.

trying to come up with some good Kenny said, but so far nothing has been found to justify charges. The man held in El Paso, Texas, Joseph Mazer, 23, Portland, has admitted the slaying of a Pennslyvania woman in Ohio, Kenny said, not talking about anything had litterally hundreds of calls and followed up dozens of Kenny said. pretty well checked leads on known sex offenders in Morgan County and also Paris mayor, officials enter protest PARIS, 111. Paris Mayor Steven Thompson and Commissioner Terry Sturgell have met with Carter Administration officials to protest the anti-competitive pricings on import products. Thompson said national officials assured them that there will be more vigorous enforcement of laws prohibiting importers from selling products below cost in the United States.

The meetings followed an announcement by Zenith Radio Chicago, that it is laying off 5,600 workers because of Japanese import competition. More than 700 workers are scheduled to be laid off at the Paris Zenith plant. comparing the case with other states on the possibility of finding similar he said. Miss Harmeier, whose body was found in a cornfield north of Martinsville, had been strangled and apparently raped. She apparently was abducted or accepted a ride after her car stalled along Indiana 37 as she drove from Cambridge City to Indiana University at Bloomington.

The body was found several miles from where the car stalled. Weston said the reward probably will have a time limit. If not paid, the money will be used to finance some type of education program a versus type of foundation. er mmmmw to Department re- We cannot afford to prolong cords. Wheat prices gained the issue or delay its resolution more than phone Dills that year.

because of Gov. Thompson's demagogic and adolescent Bakalis had said. In an interview, Thompson responded that he no longer insists that the Class phrase be a part of a measure approved by the General Assembly if it contains substantive provisions acceptable to him. glad that Mr. Bakalis has decided finally to speak out, he still told us what he considers a sound criminal justice Thompson said says, want a sound and he say one word about what a sound proposal In 1975.

however, wheat averaged $4.02 at the farm on Oct. 15, a decline of more than 17 Father, son exhibit at Nashville NASHVILLE. Ind. Watercolors by Steve Polomchak and his son. Mark, will be on exhibit at the Brown County Art Gallery through Nov.

20. The art has won him numerous awards. His son is a graduate of Indiana University but studies with his father. County needs officer ALBION. Ind (UPIWanted: Health officer for Noble County.

Caution: Previous occupant of office quit because he thought he was underpaid. The labels go hand-in-hand as the Noble County commissioners continued their search for a replacement for Dr. Robert Ryan who posted his tried to talk one of them into assuming the office, but everyone rejected his offer. Ryan first threatened his resignation in April and made a bid to the county council to raise the salary to $12,000 a year. But the members turned down that request.

Dr. Helen Schiebner, director of local health services for the State Board of Health at Thompson's measures would resignation for the job effective told NnhlP rmmtv eare a special category of Monday at midnight. claiming Revival at Carbon church; guest parson CARBON, Ind. Members oi Carbon Methodist Church are sponsoring a revival through Nov. 13.

Rev. Lawrence Conrad of Newton, 111. is the guest minister. Mr. and Mrs.

Phil Sahtros of Harmony called on his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Salitros. Florence Blake of Cooper Tower accompanied Pauline Parsons and Gertrude Pell to Greencastle where they visited Mr. and Mrs.

Willard Miller. create a special category Class crimes carrying sentences of from six years to life upon conviction. However, a person sentenced to the minimum six- year term by a judge could be out of prison in three years if he were a model prisoner. Proposals sought by liberal Democrats also would stiffen felony sentences, abolish parole and make revisions in the penal code to insure the rights of prisoners. Meanwhile, House Speaker William A.

Redmond, the most vocal opponent Class said he did not think statements put him in conflict with other Democrats, Redmond consistently has criticized the Class felony the nearly $6,000 a year the part-time job pays was not enough for the responsibilities it carried Apparently the 11 other licensed physicians in the county follow the same line of reasoning because Ryan said he officials Tuesday that the county department could not operate without a health officer. She volunteered to meet with the council in attempt to obtain a higher salary for the office. Duties of the county health officer included the signing of burial permits. Male elementary school teachers assured of a job: IU educator BLOOMINGTON. Ind.

(AP) Men seeking employment as are of Thompson's elementary school teadiers measures calling the itle a virtuallv job public relations vehicle designed to boost the political prospects. graduation, educators at Indiana University said. The demand for male elementary teachers has been developing over the past dec- prospective teachers. tell our young men their best bet is elementary teaching we do everything but promise them a says education division chairman Philip J. Hobbs at IU-Kokomo.

However. he admits that some reluctant because this is some- ade. said John Sikula, chair- thing they've just never thought man of the education division at about before IU Northwest in Gary. "Until about the middle of the 1960s, roughly 80 percent of the elementary teachers nationally were Sikula says. majority are still females, but there is no doubt about it: males are wanted and needed at the elementary level years, elementary teaching was nat considered very said William Voorhies, director of educational placement on Bloomington campus.

shift we are seeing now may be just a part of our rapidly changing Teacher educators from Bucking history can have an other impact on a male teacher's career that both Voorhies and Hobbs are quick to point out. The fastest way into school administration if that is a goal is through the elementary teaching ranks. There are many more elementary schools than high schools, they note, and the turnover rate at the administrative level is higher. as well as women are seeing opportunities in new explains education counselor Conni Dubick at IU- South Bend. happening in both directions, and this is very throughout the eight-campus IU good and most system are finding that even in Marriage may be one of the a tight job market, young men problems of a female seeking qualified to teach elementary employment, said Kenneth grades will be hired.

At both Keller, chairman of the educa- MOTHER, CHILD REUNITED Donna Green, 32, holds her daughter, Malicah, nine months, as they are reunited in Sait Lake City. The child was taken at gunpoint from her home in Chicago Oat. ordeal. Malicah gained two front teeth during the 4P the Indianapolis and Fort Wayne campuses of Indiana- Purdue University, educators say there are more openings for male grade school teachers than can be filled in those cities. The demand is creating changes in the career advice handed out by educators to tion department at the IU- Purdue campus in Fort Wayne.

of them are restricted by Keller said. male teacher, on the other hand, is more free to move to where the job Ms. Dubick agrees that the flexibility of young men is a big factor in teacher placement.