THE COURIER JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1992 3 INDIANA NEWS says he wrote on House bank written 65 "problem checks." He has not yet received the written transcript he requested from the House Ethics Committee, but he did receive oral notification of the bad checks, he said. "Previously, I had known of about six instances when the House bank called to inform insufficient funds," said McCloskey, who acknowledged last fall that there had been some bad checks. "Those were promptly covered," he said. "I was not notified of any additional problems. In all other in- stances, I did not receive a telephone call nor did any of my bank records reflect a problem." McCloskey said it is possible that a few of the 65 checks could be the result of errors by the bank.
He noted that he wasn't included on either of two lists released by the ethics committee of the top 24 or top 66 "worst offenders." Indiana Democrats Jill Long and Phil Sharp also acknowledged that they had written bad checks. Sharp said he had one or two overdrafts in the range of $200 to $300. Inmates in 4 institutions will be tested for drugs By DOUG RICHARDSON Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS The Department of Correction will begin random drug testing of inmates at the Indiana Reformatory and three other institutions late this month, officials said yesterday. Correction Commissioner James E. Aiken said 5 percent of the population at the four institutions will be chosen randomly for urine tests each month.
Previously, inmates were tested only if prison officials had reason to believe the prisoners were using illicit drugs. "We feel very strongly our correctional institutions should be drugfree environments," Aiken told the Board Correction. "This is not done to hassle people. This is done to have a secure environment." Aiken said the testing is scheduled to begin at the end of this month at the reformatory and at some units in the Branchville Training Center, the men's transitional center in Westville and the women's transitional center in Indianapolis. He said the eventual goal is to expand the testing to include all of Indiana's correctional facilities.
A prisoner who flunks a drug test would lose privileges, be separated from other inmates or lose earned credit time, which is used to reduce the time served. The testing was criticized by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, which frequently represents inmates in lawsuits against the state. "We're opposed to drug testing where there's no basis to assume the individual has consumed illegal drugs, and that's on the inside or outside" of prison walls, said Richard Waples of the ICLU. States that already conduct random drug testing of inmates include Ohio, Michigan and Colorado, and testing has been upheld in court, said Kevin Moore, spokesman for Indiana's Department of Correction. Inmates are also tested randomly at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, he said.
At the reformatory in Pendleton, the drug testing is part of a larger program to make the institution safer for both prisoners and prison employees, Aiken said. The prison has been under a lockdown since Nov. 2. Inmates are confined to their cells; they get just one hot meal a week; and their recreational, work and educational activities have been suspended. Aiken gave no indication when the lockdown might end.
He said officials have turned up "too many reports of people having to pay people for protection and people smuggling in lethal weapons. It's been going on for years." He also said prison officials want to crack down on gang activity there. "We are breaking the cycle," he said. "This is a difficult process that's going to take a long time." Also yesterday, the commissioner told the board that his agency is beginning to see some progress in managing the problem of crowding in the state's institutions. Through greater use of diversionary and community correction programs, the prison system is now down to 15 percent over capacity, compared with 23 percent over capacity three years ago.
The total population now is about 13,500, he said. He said community correction programs have about 57 percent more people than they did three years ago. "We're still in critical but stable condition," he said, "but we're off life support." CORYDON Grant will help workers at truck-frame factory By DAVID GOETZ Staff Writer A.0. Smith Automotive Products Co. has received a $170,400 workertraining grant from the Indiana Department of Commerce amid hints that more jobs could be in the offing at the Cordon truck-frame plant.
In announcing the grant, part of the $13 million distributed annually through the Training 2000 program, the Commerce Department said that A.0. Smith "intends to make substantial investments over the next several years" at the Corydon plant. "There will be new jobs, but as far as a total over the span of the grant, we can't say," said Chuck Wright, corporate communications manager at company headquarters in Milwaukee. "We do have some specific things in mind, but we're not at liberty to talk about them." Wright said the money will be used to continue training workers in communication and leadership INDIANA DIGEST Compiled by Ed Schueler The second annual volleyball tournament to benefit the Kentucky Cystic Fibrosis Services is Saturday at Silver Creek High School in Sellersburg. The first game will begin at 9 a.m.
Spectator admission is $1 per person. A lip-sync contest, sponsored by the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department, the Columbus Area Arts Council, The Commons Mall and Cardinal Communications, is set for 6:30 p.m. tomorrow on the stage at The Commons in downtown Columbus. Pre required. Admission is free, but canned food donations to Human Services Inc.
will be collected at the door. SOUTHERN INDIANA DEATHS Rep. McCloskey 65 bad checks Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Rep. Frank McCloskey said yesterday that he wrote 65 bad checks totaling $9,400 during a 39-month period at the now-closed House bank. "Obviously, this means that I was not paying proper attention to the details of my checkbook," said a statement from McCloskey, a Democrat who represents the 8th District.
He released preliminary findings of his transactions showing he had AROUND INDIANA AROUND INDIANA mended yesterday that Christopher D. Peterson, an AWOL Marine who twice won acquittals in shotgun killings, should die in the electric chair for the murders of a gas-station attendant and a motel clerk. A Porter Superior Court jury spent 85 minutes deciding on its recommendation after convicting Peterson Monday in the December 1990 slayings of Harchand S. Dhaliwal, 54, and Marie Meitzler, 48. Judge Thomas Webber will impose the sentence April 8.
If Peterson is not sentenced to death, he could get a 60-year prison term for each killing. He was charged in seven shotgun killings that took place in northwest Indiana in late 1990. He was acquitted at two trials on three counts of murder; his fourth trial, in the slaying of two brothers at their Gary tailor shop, is scheduled for April 20. Death recommended for man convicted of shotgun killings VALPARAISO A jury recom- Southern Baptist Convention plans evangelism blitz INDIANAPOLIS The Southern Baptist Convention has set a goal of converting 5,000 Indiana residents to Christianity this spring through a door-to-door campaign during the denomination's convention. A workshop in Indianapolis this week is teaching hundreds of Baptists to effectively witness their faith.
The evangelistic blitz, called "Crossover Indianapolis," is scheduled to begin June 6, three days before the denomination's convention begins. Church officials said they expect thousands of clergy and lay people to participate in the evangelistic blitz. Gary woman charged in daughter's death CROWN POINT A Gary woman has been charged with reckless homicide and neglect in the beating of her 23-month-old daughter. Lake County Prosecutor Jon E. DeGuilio filed charges Monday against Robin K.
Muhammad, 24, in the death of Toshiba Hardimon. Police were looking for her. Dr. Elliott Gross of the Lake County coroner's office concluded that part of the girl's liver had been pulverized and that her lungs, heart and other internal organs had been damaged. Authorities found the girl's body in an apartment last week along with four boys, ages 2, 4, 5 and 6.
The boys had been left home alone with the dead child. Ex-Ball State worker charged with stealing $105,000 from store INDIANAPOLIS A former employee of Ball State University was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday in the theft of $105,000 from the university's bookstore operations, authorities said. Roberta Fellerman, 45, of Muncie allegedly stole the money between January 1986 and October 1988. Purdue student died of gunshot wound LAFAYETTE An autopsy has concluded that a gunshot wound in the head killed a Purdue University graduate student whose body was found in a Quebec provincial park. The body of Lijuan Wang, 31, was mutilated after she was shot, police said.
A pathologist performed the autopsy Monday on Wang, whose body was found under a snowdrift in the park. Police do not know where or when she was killed. Her ex-husband, Weimin Wu, 28, has been charged with murder. Police believe he kidnapped Wang from Purdue on March 8, killed her and dumped her body in the park. Friends have told police that Wu had harassed and intimidated Wang before and after she divorced him in July 1991.
From Associated Press dispatches CLARKSVILLE Alda J. Bur. nett Taylor, 83, of 101 Virginia died Tuesday at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville. She was a native of Louisville and a member of American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliaries. Survivors: two sons, John T.
Taylor Sr. of Jeffersonville and Harold C. Taylor six grandsons; and a great-grandson. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Coots Funeral Home, Jeffersonville.
Burial: Walnut Ridge Cemetery there. Visitation: 4-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: the family. CORYDON Elsie E.
Bailey, 73, died Tuesday at Harrison County Hospital. She was a native of Harrison County and a retired employee of Arpac Co. Survivors: four sons, Larry Carlton Paul E. and William T. Stepro; five daughters, Joyce Florence of Louisville, Virginia Kintner of Albuquerque, N.
and Nancy Davis, Delores Smith and Betty Crone; a brother, Andrew Feller; a sister, Elizabeth McCormick; 17 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday, Gehlbach Royse Funeral Home. Burial: Hottel Cemetery near Cordon. Visitation: after 6 p.m.
Wednesday. ELIZABETH Virgil C. son, 72, Route 1, Elizabeth, died Monday at his home. He was a native of Hulen, a retired employee of CSX Railroad Co. and a Navy veteran of World War II.
Survivors: his wife, the former Eunice E. Klass; three sons, Clinton Simpson of Chicago and Calvin H. and Dean Simpson; a daughter, Tana Miller; his mother, Mary Simpson of London; three brothers, Harry Simpson of Carson, the Rev. Jim Simpson of Frazer, and Harold Simpson of East Bernstadt, a sister, Lillian Williams of London; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Funeral: 11:30 a.m.
Thursday, Seabrook Funeral Home, New Albany. Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitation: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday and after 9 a.m. Thursday.
HOLLAND Paul E. Satkamp, 75, died Sunday at his home. He was a retired employee of Holland Dairy a farmer and an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors: a brother, Willie Satkamp of Union City; and five sisters, Edna Williams of Campbellsburg, Grace Katterhenry of Tell City, Jeanie Cook of Boonville, Elsie Kamman of Holland and Ruby Katterhenry of Huntingburg. Funeral: 2 p.m.
Wednesday, St. Peter Lutheran Church, Stendal. Burial: church cemetery. Visitation is at Nass Son Funeral Home. JEFFERSONVILLE John P.
Mooney, 35, of 606 Dellinger died there Monday. Clark County Coroner Edwin M. Coots said the death was a suicide. Mooney was a native of New Albany and a pressman for Hamilton Printing Co. in Louisville.
Survivors: two sons, Zachary R. and Ian N. Mooney, both of Clarksville; his parents, John and Mary Mooney of New Albany; two brothers, Thomas and Christopher Mooney; and three sisters, Maureen Shirely of Cloverdale, Peggy White of Carmel and Mary Pat Mooney of Louisville. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, Holy Family Catholic Church, New Albany.
Burial: St. Mary Cemetery, New Albany. Visitation: Kraft Funeral Home, New Albany, noon-9 p.m. Wednesday. JEFFERSONVILLE Della Thurman Walker, 83, of 512 Crestview Court, died Tuesday at Wedgewood Manor Healthcare Center.
She was a native of Edmonton, and a member of Grace Union Baptist Church of Sparksville, and American Association of Retired Persons. Survivors: a son, Lewis H. Walker; three daughters, Mabel I. Haworth of Clarksville and Minnie L. Pangburn and Maxine Hobson; a sister, Dora Jessie of Edmonton; 13 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
Funeral: 10 a.m. CST Friday, Grace Union Baptist Church in 6:15 p.m. Lift Me Up Support Group. Visiting Nurse Association of Southeastern Indiana, 1806 E. 10th Jeffersonville, 7 p.m.
The group is for all caregivers family members of chronically ill or handicapped people. Our Place Drug and Alcohol Education Service Inc. First Presbyterian Church, 222 Walnut Jeffersonville, 7- 9 p.m. This is a family program of drug and alcohol education and awareness for children and young adults ages 5-19 and members of their families. (A Metro United Way agency.) For more information, call 923-3400.
Overeaters Anonymous. St. Paul Parish House, 1015 E. Main New Albany, 7 p.m. Rauch Industries Parent Support Group.
Melhiser, Endres Tucker Building, 301 E. Elm New Albany, 7:30 p.m. Indiana Digest contains news and announcements from Southern Indiana. Send items to Indiana Digest, The Courier-Journal, 525 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky.
40202, or call 582-4234. SOUTHERN INDIANA Emma M. Abel, 83 Elsie E. Bailey, 73 Mrs. Homer C.
Borders, 84 Helen M. Briscoe, 86 Harold A. "Red" Ems, 85 Mary B. Gohmann, 89 Harold Oscar "Whop" Harpe, 77 Ruby Velda Brown Vaughan Herron, 86 Glenna Vausha Larkin, 83 John P. Mooney, 35 James K.
Muntz, 85 Alma B. Reily, 95 Paul E. Satkamp, 75 Virgil C. Simpson, 72 Alda J. Burnett Taylor, 83 Della Thurman Walker, 83 Louisville-area deaths, Page B4 Sparksville.
Burial: church cemetery. Visitation: Coots Funeral Home, 5-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. MADISON Emma M. Abel, 83, died Monday at King's Daughters' Hospital.
She was the former Emma M. Williams, a native of Martin County and a member of Kent Baptist Church. Survivors: two sons, Richard Abel of Maryville and David Abel; 12 grandchildren; and nine greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, LytleGans-Andrew Funeral Home.
Burial: Ames Chapel Cemetery, Paoli. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. Wednesday and after 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society.
MAUCKPORT James K. Muntz, 85, died Tuesday at Washington County Hospital in Salem. He was a native of Cynthiana, a retired farmer and a member of Hyghland Christian Church. Survivors: five sons, Charles R. Muntz of Pekin, James R.
Muntz of Salem, Carl D. Muntz of Lanesville, Joseph E. Muntz of Milltown and Paul Muntz of Corydon; four daughters, Mary Alice Bolen of Pleasantville, Margaret Schoenbaechler of Louisville, Sue Tyree of Elizabeth and Della Muntz of Henryville; 29 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. Visitation: Beanblossom-Cesar Funeral Home, Corydon, after 1 p.m. Thursday.
MITCHELL86, died Medical She was tian Church. Survivors: sister, Lillian 11 grandchildren; great Graveside Thursday, will be no neral Home Helen M. Briscoe, at Bedford (Ind.) a member of First Chris- a son, Gene Briscoe; a Howell of Monroe, grandchildren; 19 greatand three great- service: 1:30 p.m. Mitchell Cemetery. There visitation.
Chastain Fuis handling arrange- ments. MITCHELL Alma B. Reily, 95, died Monday at Bedford (Ind.) Medical Center. She was a retired elementary teacher for Mitchell Community Schools, where she taught 25 years, and a member of the National, Indiana and Lawrence County Retired Teachers' associations. Survivors: a son, Paul E.
Reily of Tampa, a sister, Blanche Boyd; and a granddaughter. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, First Baptist Church. Burial: Mitchell Cemetery. Visitation: Chastain Funeral Home, 3-8 p.m.
Wednesday. NEW ALBANY Harold A. "Red" Ems, 85, died Monday at Green Valley Convalescent Center. He was a native of New Salisbury, a retired salesman for the old Day Lumber an Army Air Corps veteran of World War Il, a member of Culbertson Baptist Church and Floyd County Post 3281 of Veterans of Foreign Wars, and past master of Pythagoras Masonic Lodge 355. Survivors: a son, Robert A.
Ems of Indianapolis; a stepson John W. Lee of Palymra; a friend, Geraldine Monihon, who cared for him; and a grandchild. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, Seabrook Funeral Home. Burial: Edwardsville Cemetery.
Visitation: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-9 p.m. Wednes- day. Memorial gifts: the church. NEW ALBANY Mary B.
Gohmann, 89, died Monday at Green Valley Convalescent Center. Survivors: a daughter, Patricia Heustis of Louisville; a son, Edmond Gohmann 10 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. Memorial service: 9 a.m. Thursday, March 26, Holy Family Catholic Church. Burial: New Albany National Cemetery.
There will be no visitation. Mullineaux Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Memorial gifts: charity. NEW ALBANY Glenna Vausha Larkin, 83, formerly of New Albany, died Tuesday at her home in Louisville. She was a native of Kentucky.
Survivors: several nieces and nephews. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church, 1104 S. Sixth St.
in Louisville. Burial: Fairview Cemetery. Visitation: Seabrook Funeral Home, 2-9 p.m. Thursday. PEKIN Mrs.
Homer C. Borders, 84, died Monday at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. She was the former Pearl E. Short, a retired employee of Smith Cabinet Manufacturing Co. in Salem, and a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church.
Survivors: two daughters, Frances E. Brown and Marie Hollowell; six grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Thursday, Dawalt Funeral Home. Burial: Olive Branch Cemetery.
Visitation: after 2 p.m. Wednesday and after 9 a.m. Thurs- Hospital. She was a native of Crittenden County, a retired bookkeeper and accountant in Evansville, and a member of First Baptist Church in Evansville. Survivors: a son, Don L.
Vaughn of Evanston; a daughter, Dr. Barbara J. Vaughan of Chicago; a brother, Buster Brown of Marion, two sisters, Sara Arflack of Marion and Janie Allen of Evansville; eight grandchildren; and three Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday, Gilbert great Funeral Home, Marion. Burial: Repton (Ky.) Cemetery.
Visitation: Zoercher-Gillick Funeral Home, 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, and at Gilbert Funeral Home after 10 a.m. Thursday. TELL CITY Harold Oscar "Whop" Harpe, 77, died Tuesday at Fifth and Lafayette streets of stillundetermined causes. He was a retired employee of Tell City Chair a former employee of George Hess Construction and a member of Tell Senior Citizens Club.
Survivors: his wife, the former Alberta Kuntz; a son, Richard Harpe of Terre Haute; a daughter, Debbie Stuffel; a brother, Hap Harpe; a sister, Lucille Hess; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, Zoercher-Gillick Funeral Home. Burial: Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation: 2-9 p.m.
Wednesday and after 9 a.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: Evangelical United Church of Christ. day. TELL CITY Ruby Velda Brown Vaughan Herron, 86, died Monday at Perry County Memorial skills and quality-control monitoring.
Classes will include blueprint reading, welding, basic math, maintenance and robotics. Some of the money will go toward three new training rooms at the plant, which has 180 employees. Wright said A.0. Smith has used a team concept at the plant since it opened in 1989. Workers make many day-to-day decisions about maintenance and quality control themselves, he said, "controlling their own work environment." The classes will fulfill the goals of the Training 2000 grant program, Wright said, because it will teach things the workers can use anywhere.
"These are the kinds of skills that, once they learn them, they can apply to any manufacturing environment." A.0. Smith makes frame assemblies for the Ford Explorer and Ford's medium-duty trucks; both types of vehicles are assembled in Louisville. An adult Easter craft workshop on how to make rag bunnies will be offered at 6:30 p.m. March 24 and March 31 at Green Tree Branch Library, E. Ind.
131, Clarksville. The rag bunnies require no sewing and can be completed in one session. The workshop is free, but participants must pre register and pick up a list of supplies. For information or to register, call Kathy Sands at 282-0066. The American Red Cross blood.
mobile schedule for tomorrow includes: Floyd Memorial Hospital, 1850 State New Albany, from p.m.; and Red Cross Center, 409 E. Seventh Bloomington, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. MEETINGS TOMORROW Alcoholics Anonymous. Keep it Simple Open Discussion Group, 10:30 a.m.; Court AA Open Speaker Meeting, 6:30 p.m.; and East End Open Speaker and Open Discussion groups, 8 p.m., all at Floyd County Token Club, 117 E. Main New Albany; Old Northside Open Discussion Group, St.
Paul Carriage House, 219 E. 11th New Albany, 8 p.m. Clarksville Kiwanis Club. Denny's Restaurant, 943 E. Ind.
131, Clarksville, Link sought between man and murders of gay males Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS A former Ohio man arrested this week in the death of a jewelry designer probably can't be linked to the earliest in a series of 10 slayings of gay males in Indiana and Ohio during the 1980s, an investigator said yesterday. But the investigator, Detective William H. Harrison of the Marion County Sheriff's Department, said he planned to meet with police in both states to determine whether the arrested man, Christopher C. McClain, 21, might be linked to some of them. McClain was arrested Monday and charged with murder after he allegedly confessed to the slaying of Larry A.
Shaw, 37, of Indianapolis. Shaw was killed last month on a secluded street near Indianapolis International Airport. The two had been lovers, although McClain had a "hate for hom*osexuals because of molestation all his life," Harrison said. McClain has denied involvement in any of the 10 slayings, which occurred between 1982 and 1990. The victims were teen-agers and young men whose bound bodies were found in Central Indiana and western Ohio.
Authorities believe the slayings are linked. But Shaw told investigators last fall that McClain had admitted killing two people in Ohio. At. the time, police McClain were investigating Shaw's com- McClain plaint that McClain had tied him up, beaten and robbed him. Harrison said McClain has denied he killed the two people in Ohio.
"We are looking at him as possibly being linked to the hom*osexual killings because of certain similarities," Harrison said. Those include McClain's own hom*osexual relationship with Shaw, the use of rope to bind Shaw during a robbery and the fact that McClain lived in Painesville, Ohio, before moving to Indianapolis last year. "It is just speculation that he had anything to do with it. He's only 21 and some of these date back to 1982," Harrison said. "I don't believe that he would've been involved in (the early slayings)," the detective said..
