State Friday, Jan. 29, 1988 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 5 Roofer ordered to repay customers SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (AP) An Indianapolis roofing contractor accused of defrauding 24 custom- en has been ordered to provide refunds and pay penalties to the state, Attorney General Linley E. Pearson says. Pearson filed suit in Shelby Superior Court against Michael Immel and his company, Immel Roofing and Sheet Metal, alleging numerous violations of the state's deceptive consumer sales act.
Under the judgment, Immel is to refund $14,037 to 17 consumers. Dual job holding ruled out by state INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Attorney General Linley E. Pearson says the Constitution prohibits people from holding more than one lucrative public position simultaneously. Pearson offered his official opinion Thursday to Rep. M.
Tracy Boatwright, D-Marion, who asked whether someone could serve on a town board and an township advisory board at the same time. Pearson also said a person may not waive payment for one office to get around the law. State seeking aircraft plant EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Indiana may win an $8.5 million aircraft plant through some "friendly persuasion" by Gov. Robert D.
Orr and Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz, Avtek Corp. Chairman Robert Adickes said.
Previously, Adickes had insisted the state guarantee $12 million in bonds to gain the high-tech plant. However, after a meeting this week with Indiana economic development officials, Adickes softened his position. If Orr and Mutz want Avtek in Indiana, "they've got it," he told The Evansville Courier. Gunshot wounds caused death FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Police say they believe a house fire was set to cover the murder of a 39-year-old man.
The body of Lawrence A. Lightning, found in a burning house, had three wounds, police said Thursday. The body was found at 12:20 a.m. Wednesday in a bedroom of his home by firefighters. Allen County Deputy Coroner Robert Cummins was unable to determine when Lightning was shot or how long he had been dead.
Revised bill opens door to dual campaign INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hoosier voters could cast a ballot for one person for both the Legislature and Congress in the same election under a revised bill on its way to the Indiana House. The House Elections Committee voted 9-1 Thursday for a rewritten version of Senate Bill 96, sponsored in the House by Rep. Richard M. Dellinger, R- Noblesville. As amended, the measure would permit a state representative, or senator to seek re-election and run for a congressional seat in the same election.
At present, the state lawmaker could run for one position, not both in the same year. The amendment on state legislators was added to a bill that also permits candidates to appear on the Indiana ballot for two federal offices in the same election. "This would allow a state representative to run for Congress without giving up his seat," said Rep. J. Jeff Hays, D-Evansville, who sponsored the amendment.
"If Sen. (Richard) Lugar can run for Senate and vice president at the same time, why can't a representative run for Congress?" he said. Hays' amendment passed on a 5-3 vote. Dellinger said the intent of the bill was to permit prominent Hoosiers such as Lugar, a Republican, or Rep. Lee H.
Hamilton, to accept a vice presidential nomination without automatically giving up his seat in Congress. Both Lugar and Hamilton have said they aren't interested in their parties' vice presidential nominations this year. Both are running for re-election. Under S.B. 96, an official elected to both offices then could chose which position to serve in and resign said.
from the other, Dellinger Current law precludes a candidate from appearing twice on the fall ballot. "It puts a real burden on a dedicated public servant to roll the dice," Sen. William Soards, R-Indianapolis, the Senate sponsor of the bill, said of the current law. At the suggestion of Elections Committee Chairman Jerome J. Reppa, R-Munster, the panel deleted a phrase that would have permitted a member of Congress from also appearing on the ballot for president in the fall campaign.
Reppa said that anyone nominated for the highest office in the nation should be expected to concentrate only on seeking that position. Slaying suspect nabbed at bus stop INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A man police sought in the slayings of three Indianapolis men stepped off an interstate bus and was immediately arrested by police detectives in Amarillo, Texas, authorities said. Indiana State Police told Amarillo authorities that Kevin E. Conner, 22, charged with one Indianapolis slaying and a suspect in two others, had boarded a California-bound bus in Terre Haute that would make a rest stop Thursday afternoon in Amarillo. "Our homicide unit here arranged surveillance.
He was apprehended shortly after 1 p.m. as he deboarded the bus," said Lt. Jimmy M. Stevens of the Potter- Randall (counties) Special Crimes Unit in Amarillo. The suspect, who allegedly told friends he "wanted to go out fighting, like Conan (the Barbarian)," was unarmed and arrested without incident, Stevens said.
Conner, accompanied by an unidentified man, bought one $122 ticket for San Bernardino, at 2:35 p.m. Wednesday at Terre Haute. About 24 hours later, Conner was being held without bond in the Amarillo City Jail, charged with slaying Anthony W. Moore, 24, of Indianapolis, whose body was dumped Tuesday in Hendricks County. Charges pending in D.
Voge, against Conner are the slayings of Bruce 19, and Steven J. Wentland, 19, both of Indianapolis, authorities said. Two friends of Conner were arrested Thursday and charged with assisting a criminal. Parents seek resignation Residency seen as threat SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Indiana Democrats' hopes of capturing the governorship are vulnerable to a threatened GOP challenge of Secretary of State B.
Evan Bayh's residency, says Bayh's only remaining Democratic opponent. Stephen J. Daily said Thursday the state Republican Party is certain to make good a threat to challenge Bayh's eligibility for office. State GOP Chairman Gordon K. Durnil contends Bayh lived in Washington in 1983 and so fails to meet the state constitutional residency requirement.
He has said the Republican Party will sue to have Bayh declared ineligible to run. Daily, former mayor of Kokomo, said Democrats can't afford to enter the fall election campaign "with a cloud" over, the The constitution requires a candidate for governor to live in Indiana for five years before election. Bayh says he meets the requirement. "It could be a disaster for us if we do not get a clarification on Evan's eligibility," said Daily. ANDERSON, Ind.
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The nine-member task force, an arm of the Anderson Human Relations Board, is made up mostly of parents whose youngsters have reported racial problems at their schools, according to spokesman Gregory E. Brown. "These problems have the black community in an uproar here," Brown said. Perry, a 16-year-old junior, said Held directed a racial slur at him last month during halftime of a basketball game. DAVIS CLEANERS only at our: Home Ave, Hotter St.
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