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THE MUNCIE STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1991 PAGE A-2 New Castle Democrats Say Goodbye to 3-Term Mayor Bud Ayers Given Tribute at Party's Annual Fund-raiser program, including Congressman Phil Sharp and Indiana First Lady Susan Bayh and Rep. Doug Kinser, thanked Ayers for his public service as mayor. Joining Boles on the Democratic ticket are incumbents Jan Lavarn-way, clerk-treasurer, John Lansin-ger, city judge; and city council members Sandra York, ward Jo Ann Thurman, ward John Newby, ward 5, and Richard Hahn, at-large. Council candidates seeking their first terms in office include Robin Reno Fleming, ward Max Sutherland, ward and David Coatie, ovation for Mayor Bud Ayers, who is concluding 12 years as the city's chief executive. Ayers has left his mark on New Castle politics as the only person in the city's history to be elected to the office for three consecutive terms.

At the same time, Democrats welcomed the man who they hope will occupy that office in January, Sherman Boles, who defeated Ayers in the May primary election. Avers did something Friday night he probably hadn't foreseen doing, at least for a few more years endorse another candidate for the office. "I would suggest that we place real serious values on electing Democrats Nov. 5," Ayers told the crowd of about 350 Democrats. "And and I also want to personally and officially endorse Sherman Boles for mayor on Nov.

5." Ayers took the occassion to thank all of those who had supported him. He also complimented those who had headed city departments for their "hard work and dedication for the past 12 years." It has been a privilege for those 12 years, Ayers said, to serve the citizens of the city. "And I surely about being a Democrat." If someone was having trouble along the road, Boles said, "I believe a Democrat would stop and help you because that's what we're all about helping individuals out here in life." Boles said encourage Democrats to vote and maybe take a friend along. "We cannot lose any of these seats" in city government, Boles said. Democratic mayors have been elected every 4 years since the mid-1950s.

Several speakers on Friday's and graciously thank you for that privilege. "In bringing the administration to a close and leaving the mayor's office," Ayers said, "I want to bid a cordial farewell to the office and express to you, the citizens of this community, a genuine, sincere appreciation for all the years of friendship and support." The endorsement "is encouraging to me," Boles said, who is running for political office for the first time. 'I'm excited about this opportunity," Boles said, "and I'm excited By EtDON PITTS Star Slatt Reporter NEW CASTLE, Ind. Local Democrats, at their annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Friday Some Challengers Lead in Expenses ZzZXT? COLE BOLES -Wit Star Photo by John Crozier In Sight Equipment sits idle where site work is being done for a new Wal-Mart store on New Castle's west side. The department store will be built on the west side of Ind.

3, just south of the New Castle Plaza shopping center, 'The. store is scheduled to open next spring. The State night, said goodbye to one of their own who has made political history in New Castle. Democrats offered a standing Teen Charged With Break-in at Winchester STAR STAFF REPORT WINCHESTER, Ind. A Winchester 19-year-old is charged with burglary and theft for allegedly breaking into an apartment, taking a TV set and selling it.

Jason McNamara, 522 Western was being held Friday under $25,000 bond in the Randolph County Jail. Randolph Circuit Court Judge Zane Stohler set McNamara 's case for trial on Jan. 7. According to court records, McNamara allegedly entered an apartment at 401 George St. on Oct.

1. A police officer later determined entry was gained through a storm door that was removed from its track. Occupants of the apartment reported the TV set stolen. Police said McNamara allegedly took the TV set to Union City, Ohio, and sold it for $60. A juvenile suspect, who also is allegedly involved in the crime, told police he and McNamara used the money to buy "dope" to smoke.

15-Year-Old Pendleton Boy Dies in Wreck By JEFF BROWN Slar Stall Reporter ANDERSON, Ind. A Pendleton boy died Friday when he was crushed by the pickup truck from which he was thrown. Madison County Coroner Ned Dunnichay pronounced Joshua E. Hawhee, 15. Pendleton, dead at the scene of the 4:12 p.m.

Friday accident, police said later Friday. Officials said Hawhee died from internal injuries after being thrown from the 1977 Chevrolet pickup truck. Police said Nathan J. Owens, 15, Pendleton, was driving northbound on Madison County Road 525-W north of Madison County Road 400-S when he applied the brakes. The truck skidded 117 feet before suddenly veering off the road and rolling into a field, police said.

Hawhee was thrown from the vehicle, which rolled over him before coming to a rest on the passenger side. Owens and a second passenger, Seth M. Thomas, 15, Pendleton, suffered less severe injuries and were taken to St. John's Medical Center, where they were treated and later released. Owens complained of pains in his right leg and Thomas had a cut lip.

The accident was handled by the Madison County fatality team, the Madison County emergency management service, and the Pendleton fire and ambulance services. Many Candidates Miss Deadline for Financial Reports STAR STAFF REPORT Mayors seeking re-election in two cities in East Central Indiana are being outspent by their challengers. Financial reports were due Friday for candidates who are seeking an office with a salary higher than $5,000. The reports for candidates on the Nov. 5 municipal ballots covered campaign donations as well as expenses.

Henry County The Democratic mayoral candidate in the Nov. 5 city election has outspent his Republican opponent by more than 3 to 1. In campaign expense reports, which were required to be filed by noon Friday, Democrat Sherman Boles listed expenditures of $5,305.93 for the reporting period that started Jan. 1. Boles defeated incumbent Bud Ayers in the Democratic primary election last May.

Republican mayoral candidate James Cole, meanwhile, reported campaign expenses for the period of $1,691.43. The report filed by independent candidate Ben F. Loveless showed expenditures of $363.91. Only six of the 13 city council candidates filed campaign expense reports. Republican Kirk Robbins, candidate for city council in Ward 5, reported expenses of $543.27, the most of any of the six candidates.

Another Republican, Michael Thalls, council at-large candidate, reported spending $353.39. Republicans Ronald Green and Donald Neal, candidates in wards 3 and 1, respectively, reported no expenses. Democratic incumbents Jo Ann Thurman, council ward 3, and Sandra York, council ward 1, also showed no expenditures for the reporting period. Robert (Sonny) Dick, Republican candidate for clerk-treasurer, the only other candidate to file a report, also showed no expenses. Randolph County Democratic challenger Perry Miller has outspent incumbent Republican John Ford nearly 10 to 1 in the race for Union City mayor.

In his Oct. 22 filing, Miller reported spending $1,090.65 since Jan. 1 for such items as hats, flyers, cards, matches, buttons, photos and posters. Ford's Oct. 18 report shows spending of $92.59 this year for signs, cards and stakes.

Ford listed no contributors; Miller listed six contributors. Winchester Mayor Jack Fowler reported spending $541.85 through Oct. 11 on his campaign. Between April 13 and Oct. 11 he had spent $269.43.

Fowler listed only himself as contributor. Earl Junior Byrum, Fowler's Democratic challenger, reported receipts and spending of $468. Byrum reported spending on signs, cards, matches, buttons and pens. A report filed Aug. 7 showed Fowler's Republican challenger in the primary, Jane Marie Lind, spent $5,100 on her campaign in 1991.

Charles Taylor Setters, Democratic candidate for Union City judge, reported spending of $200 this year on his campaign. His Republican opponent, Larry C. Win-ningham, reported no spending. Both candidates for Winchester judge reported spending nothing on their campaigns. Incumbent clerk-treasurers in Union City and Winchester are both unopposed.

Both reported no spending on their campaigns. Blackford County Council member David Bennett is outspending Republican incumbent Kathryn (Kitty) Bonham in the campaign for Hartford City mayor. Since Jan. 1, Bennett has collected $4,205.10 while spending $3,679.15. Bonham.

a Republican, has collected $1,489.55 and spent $977.55. In the city's clerk-treasurer race, Democratic incumbent Martha Funk collected and spent $1,031.59. Funk's Republican opponent, C. Joyce Moyer, collected and spent $849.49. In Montpelier Mayor Kenneth Neff and his Republican challenger, Robert Wagner, along with Republican clerk-treasurer candidate Dennis Clouse, failed to file reports.

Independent mayoral candidate Robert Elliott was the only Hartford City candidate not to turn in a form. Renda Carnes, Democratic candidate for Montpelier clerk-treasurer, collected and spent $25 on her campaign. Jay County PORTLAND, Ind. Only one candidate in the Nov. 5 election has turned in a financial report.

Betty Miller, the clerk-treasurer who is running for re-election, submitted her report to County Clerk Jane Ann Runyon shortly before Friday's noon deadline, Miller is a Republican. listed the Vincennes City Democratic Committee as its source when no such committee existed that year. Dorm Fire Evacuates 100 Students INDIANAPOLIS A Marian College student suffered smoke inhalation Friday while trying to douse a fire in his residence hall that forced 100 students to evacuate. Indianapolis Fire Department arson investigator David D. Lepper said the fire was intentionally started in the laundry room of Doyle Hall, a coed residence hall.

Christopher A. Sobieszczyk, 20, was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation, Lepper said. The blaze was reported at 2:31 a.m. Lepper said it was started using paper and rubbish in the hall's laundry room. Lepper estimated damage at $10,000.

Live Grenade Found in Abandoned House GARY, Ind. A cleanup of debris near some bushes in front of an abandoned house in Gary uncovered a live World War II fragmentation grenade, its pin still intact, police said. "Once you pull that ring, if you don't put it back, you have 2 to 3 seconds before it detonates," said Gary police detective Bill Burns. "It can tear out a wall and kill people." Members of the city general services were cleaning debris from the front of the house and found the grenade Thursday. Burns, the police department's senior bomb technician, turned the grenade over to an Army disposal team from Chicago, he said.

ISU Student Suspect Free Pending Probe TERRE HAUTE, Ind. A judge allowed an Indiana State University student to go free Friday while an investigation into the fatal shooting of another student continued. Vigo County Prosecutor Phillip Adler said he would await results of the police investigation before deciding whether to file charges against Brian Hawker, 19. Hawker was arrested Monday night in connection with the fatal shooting of Randy Collins, 25, at his off-campus home. "The ultimate bottom-line question is whether this death was a tragic accident or something more than that," Adler said.

Vigo Superior Court Judge Michael Eldred allowed Hawker to go free after the state failed to file charges within the allotted 72-hour period. Hawker had been free since Tuesday, when his grandparents posted $50,000 bond. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Man Gets 50 Years for Wife's Death LEBANON, Ind. A Lebanon man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the contract killing of his former wife. John Mason, 53, was convicted in Boone Superior Court Sept.

27 of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Patricia Mason. Judge Jack O'Neill on Thursday ordered the term to be served consecutively with a 30-year sentence Mason faces for the earlier conviction of conspiring to have Mrs. Mason's boyfriend killed. Under the present formula for parole, Mason will not be eligible for early release until he's 93. At the 2-week trial, Boone County Prosecutor Rebecca S.

McClure had argued that Mason hired John Morgan, an Alexandria bartender, to kill Mrs. Mason's boyfriend, Gerald Lumpkin. Prosecutors contended the plot shifted from one to murder Lumpkin to a plan to kill Mrs. Morgan. Morgan was convicted of murder a year ago in Mrs.

Mason's death, which occurred in October 1985. Mason was convicted this year of the unsuccessful scheme to kill Lumpkin. Foundation Gets $6.7 Million Gift FORT WAYNE, Ind. Paul Clarke, retired executive with North American Van Lines, has made a gift with his wife of $6.7 million to the Fort Wayne Community Foundation. It will be used primarily to support programs for the disadvantaged and those with disabilities and is described as the largest single gift ever given to the foundation.

Clarke is a former executive director of the Community Foundation. Vincennes Mayor Loses Libel Suit VINCENNES, Ind. A special judge has ruled against Vincennes Mayor William D. Rose, who brought a libel suit against five people who alleged campaign violations on his part in the 1987 mayoral primary. Special Judge Marvin Stratton said Rose is a public figure, and "a qualified constitutional privilege is given to expression concerning public officials involved in matters of public interest." The suit was heard Oct.

4 in Knox Superior Court. After the 1987 campaign, the defendants alleged that Rose distributed campaign material which Director Defends Prison Rules Ex-iuk Official Wants Out Early (oitfQfiou oft. KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) A former Campbell, 50, said he believed that through in-home detention, he' would be able to sell his properties and reach a settlement to pay restitution. He went on to say that the state Department of Correction "is unable to provide much support for rehabilitation, and unfortunately does more to warehouse inmates than anything else." The granting of in-home detention would not change the length of Campbell's sentence, it would only get him out of jail.

Indiana University-Kokomo official serving a 10-year prison term for misappropriating school funds wants to serve the rest of his sentence on in-home detention. Richard L. Campbell has completed 32 months of his sentence at the Atterbury Correctional Unit in Johnson County. In a request filed with Howard Superior Court, Campbell said he needed to make restitution with a bonding company, but all of his money is "tied up in equity in some real estate." HARTFORD CITY Soil conservation service district conservationist Darrell Brown has accepted a position with the organization's district staff in Huntington. He will assist farmers in complying with the 1985 and 1990 farm bill rules.

Brown has been district conservationist at the Hartford City office since 1988 and has been an advocate of no-till farming in Blackford County. He and his wife, Connie, will continue to reside in Blackford County and farm in Harrison Township. kept too long in isolation. The ICLU will decide next week whether it will sue the state to correct the alleged problems. "That's their observation," Wright said.

"I have no comment on that." He did, however, take issue with Rep. Anita Bowser's comment that the inmates were living, in dehumanizing conditions at the prison. "I don't see them as being dehumanizing at all," Wright said. "I see them as being controlling. "The purpose of this program is to attempt to have these offenders understand they are in a prison, and prisons have rules and regulations," Wright said.

"The people we have here have, over the years, demonstrated they don't care about rules and regulations. They set their own, and that is the way they govern their lives," he said. "We do not permit that to occur." The MCC, which opened in April, houses the state's most-incorrigible inmates. "The purpose off this program is to attempt to have these offenders understand they are in a prison, and prisons have rules and regulations." Charles Wright, director Maximum-security prison inmates' conditions are dangerous, Wright said. A court injunction would have to be obtained to force-feed the inmates, however.

Wright allowed a group of American and Indiana civil liberties union attorneys and a state representative to meet Wednesday with the inmates. The ACLU and ICLU representatives said they had found possible constitutional violations at the center, including inmates being WESTV1LLE, Ind. (AP) The director of the state's maximum-security prison denied allegations Friday that inmates were living under cruel and dehumanizing conditions, but he stopped short of calling futile a monthlong hunger strike by prisoners. "I'm sure they don't believe it is," Charles Wright said. Sixteen inmates at the Maximum Control Complex, which is about 30 miles southwest of South Bend, began their hunger strike Sept.

23 to protest alleged human rights and constitutional violations. As of Friday, four inmates continued the protest. Wright said nurses and other prison staff had urged the inmates to break their fast. "We certainly would hope that it would end. We don't want to see anyone hurt themselves," Wright said, but added, "We didn't put them on the hunger strike, and we can't force them to come off of it." Medical intravenous solutions are on hand in case a contract physician determines that the i Try TM in Prison, Muncie Doc Says INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A group of Indiana business leaders and professionals is calling for the implementation of transcendental meditation throughout the state correctional system.

"Nearly 20 years of experience teaching the program in over 100 prisons in the United States and worldwide has shown the TM program to be the single most effective approach to solving the problems of recidivism, prison overcrowding, inmate violence, substance abuse and staff burnout," said John Peterson, a Muncie physician and president of the Indiana Association of Professionals Practicing the Transcendental Meditation Program. A proposal calling for the use of TM in the state prison system will be presented at a news conference in Indianapolis next Thursday. MOORELAND The annual Mooreland Community Lions Club Halloween Party will be at 7 p.m. today in the Mooreland fire station. There will be costume judging and games, cash prizes for costume contest winners, free coffee, cider and doughnuts..