inside Indiana American States Insurance Company, Indianapolis, said he supported a plan for automatic payment in cases where medical expenses do not exceed $2,000. The conference also heard speakers on such subjects as pension legislation and state taxation. Gallagher said about 18 per cent of all auto liability premiums paid to insurance companies go to payment of litigation in disputed automobile injury accident cases. He said the most expensive by far were the small nuisance claims. Gallagher said the jury system of settling claims should be preserved in larger cases.
Dies in crash By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday's Spotty snowstorm contributed to at least one Indiana traffic death. Mrs. Joanna Kosmicki, 42, Rt. 2, Pendleton, died when her car went out of control on a patch of snow and. crashed into a' ditch along a Madison County road one mile west of Pendleton.
An auto crash near Muncie killed the teen-age driver and injured a small boy waiting for a school bus. Phillip E. Sanders, 17, Muncie died when his car crashed into. a culvert just outside Muncie city limits. Police said a hub cap hurtled through the air and struck, 5- year-old Michael R.
MacDonald. The child was treated at a hospital and released. Steven Douglas, 18, Rt. 3, Sheridan, died in a car that overturned Monday night in a field along Indiana 38 about one mile southeast of Sheridan. Four other persons were hurt.
A car state police said was going the wrong way on 70 in Henry County crashed into a abutment, Frank, Greer, 39, of Oakland, Calif. Billy Livengood, 34, Veedersburg, died Monday in a Terre Haute hospital of injuries suffered Saturday in a two-car collision on U. S. 41 about miles north of Rockville. Support plan I INDIANAPOLIS.
(AP)' The president of the Insurance Institute of Indiana endorsed a modi-. fied no-fault insurance plan in speaking "to the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce annual public affairs conference here Tuesday. Edward P. Gallagher, who is also senior vice president of the In an interview following his speech, he said he did not believe there would be a lobbying effort for a modified plan in the 1972 session of the general assembly "because it is a short session." But Gallagher said he did foresee lobbying efforts in the future. for such a modified plan: a No-fault insurance has been adopted in five states.
The concept provides. automatic payment. to the holder of a policy who is injured in an accident. Gallagher. said that presently only.
about two per cent of the claims for injury end up in court. He said because of the high cost of the jury system about 85 per cent of all claims are paid outright "whether we believe we are right or wrong. Back delay INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A proposed regulation to grant a "period of grace" in enforcement of the 1917 Indiana law banning high phosphate detergents was supported Tuesday by representatives of industry and a conservation group. Both, however. gave, their approval with' reservations at a hearing by the Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board.
There was no immediate ruling. Detergents containing 'more, than 12 per cent phosphates will become illegal Jan.1. By Jan. 1, 1973, the legal limit drops to 3 per cent. The proposed regulation would give retailers and individual users a six-month period of grace to comply with the law and allow wholesalers three months, after the effective date.
Donald A. Tabbert, Indianapolis attorney representing ColgatePalmolive, told the board the company supports the regulation but still opposes the law E. Dustin, executive secretary of the Indiana Izaak Walton League, said, "I think we understand the proposal and the need for a brief period of grace." would "only "question whether or not the time allowed by the board is excessive and urge the board's review of the matter." he added. Chronicles Tribune MARION, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER.10, 1971 SECTION AREA NEWS District highway head INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Raymond J. Howe, appointed by Gov.
Edgar D. Whitcomb in: 1969 as superintendent of the Indiana Highway Commission's Greenfield subdistrict, has been suspended without pay, Commission Direc-. tor R.H. Harrell said Tuesday. Harrell said Howe was relieved of duties pending a state police investigation into an alleged "state-wide ring of people (who) may be taking or picking up stolen (state highway) equipment." The investigation -began last when two abandoned tractors were found by Greenfield police in a vacant building, he said.
the tractors. appeared to have a fresh coat of the serial numbers had been and their starting system was similar to those on state -owned Police said that. when they asked Howe whether he had any equipment missing he replied all vehicles were accounted for. State police obtained one serial number off one tractor. The number matched highway commission records which showed the tractor had been assigned to the Greenfield garage, State Police Lt.
Don Feeney said. do No arrests have been reported by authorities. Conference set 41 in damage INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Ar pre-trial conference will be conducted. in U.S. District Court Friday, in an attempt to settle 110 damage suits stemming from a Sept.
9, 1969, airplane collision that killed 83 persons southeast of a lis. Plaintiffs in the suits are seeking a total judgment of $93.7 million. If settlements are not reached, a series of trials will begin Feb. 22, Holder said. The lawsuits were filed after an Allegheny Airlines DC9 and a private plane flown a student pilot collided over London, southeast of Indian- case apolis.
There were no survivors. Defendants include Allegheny; Forth, and Brookside, owners. of the plane; the U.S. government; Merrill T. McCammack, air traffic controller at Weir Cook Municipal air-.
port at Indianapolis; and several insurance companies. The suits were, filed in 10 states but were transfered to Holder's court. Sixty of the 110 cases were filed in Indiana. Filings in other states were Connecticut, Illinois, 16; Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, 20; Tennessee, 1, and West 1. Cancer breakthrough hopes are voiced INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Recent breakthroughs in animal research indicate it may be possible to immunize individuals against certain forms of.
cancer, Dr. C. Chester Stock, director of the Walker Laboratory of the SloanKettering 2. Institute for Cancer Research, said Tuesday night. Stock spoke at the annual banquet of the Indianapolis Scientific and Engineering Foundation Inc.
He said it has been found that most cancers in an animals secrete antigens, a substance necessary for the body to produce disease-fighting antibodies. It has been observed under microscope that white blood cells of animals To sponsor supper FAIRMOUNT The Loyal Lodge. No. 868 will sponsor their annual Ham and Turkey Supper Saturday at the Fairmount Christian Church. attack some cancer cells, proving there is, defense mechanism in the body against some forms of the disease, he we have to find out is why these natural defense mechanisms are not strong enough to counteract the disease," Stock said.
"It may be that the cancers grow too fast." He estimated that there may be more than 100 types of viruses that cause cancer. A recent breakthrough at the SloanKettering Institute, he said, was the isolation of Hodgkin's disease cells, a form of cancer. Substances secreted by the diseased cells were believed to be cancer. "In the years and months ahead," Stock said, "there will be many advances toward. the cure of They will seem to be breakthroughs, Actually they will be the last small steps in the long journey by many 19-year-old man wounded Settlement seen in suit against La Fontaine firm By LELAND SPAULDING.
C-T State Editor LAFONTAINE Charges filed by the Department of Agriculture's Packers and operators Stockyards of a La Administration Fontaine, against stock- "the yard apparently are about to be dropped, according to an independent accountant working for the owners. A USDA press release dated Nov. 4 for release Tuesday evening stated that Royal J. Alexander and Alpha B. Alexander, operators, of LaFontaine Live Stock Sale, a posted stockyard, had been charged with violating financial, trust account and recordkeeping requirements of the Packers and Stockyards Act.
ya Accountant Willard Mattox, of Middletown, told the Chronicle-Tribune Monday night, however, that the tion had been solved and a verbal agree-. ment reached over the weekend with the state office of the Packers and Stockyards Administration, and that the USDA press release should never have been mailed. "We reached a verbal agreement on. Thursday and mailed the papers to the Washington office Friday," Maddox said. "We think we have the situation cleared up.
If the agreement proves sufficient, the. charges will be The Packers and Stockyards Administration's charges, according to Mattox, were filed October 15. Among the charges: reported -by. the USDA, and verified Monday night by Mattox, were that Royal J. and Alpha B.
Alexander: -Had current liabilities in excess of current assets by amounts ranging $28,000 to over $34,000, from March-31 through July 31, 1971, and has current liabilities presently in excess of current i assets; -Engaged in business as a market" agency and dealer in commerce on the above dates while their current liabilities exceeded their current assets: -Endangered prompt payntent to consignors by using money from the sale of consigned livestock to buy livestock as dealers; -Had shortages in their trust account of amounts from $46,000 to over: $51,900 on the above dates; -Issued insufficient funds checks to consignors for over $1,700 worth of live-" stock sold from February through March, 1971; -Failed to remit to consignors, when due, the net proceeds from the sale of over $7,500 worth of consigned livestock, in March and April, 1971; -Failed to keep complete accounts and records which currently disclose all transactions involved in their market' agency and dealer business under the Act. According to the USDA, market agencies and livestock dealers are required under Packers and Stockyards regulations current assets equal to or in excess of current ties. According to Mattox, the situation of liabilities totalling more than assets -developed when a "big buyer" in Ohio -bankrupt. invalidating about $45.000. worth of checks to the LaFontaine firm.
Mattox told the Chronicle-Tribune Tuesday night that a statement had been prepared by the Alexanders and approved for release by the Packers 'and Stockyards office in Indianapolis. The statement follows: management of the LaFontaine Stockyards neither admit nor deny the allegations in the complaint. A proposed settlement by the Secretary of Agriculture has been agreed to by the management and the custodial account for shipping proceeds has been made in accordance with provided by the Packers -and I Stockyards Mattox said the "custodial account for shipping proceeds" involved administrative procedures on consigned livestock. He added that the other charges in the complaint were in the process of being dropped: If the charges are not dropped, and are proven by the USDA; the Alexanders could be placed under a cease and desist order and their registration could be temporarily suspended, according to the USDA release, which was verified by Mattox. For trying to recruit doctors Physician faces impeachment CONNERSVILLE (AP) The Fayette Medical Society.
voted 7-4 Tuesday night to "impeach" Dr. George Ellis as the group's president. Ellis, who. had gone to Germany to seek foreign-trained physicians to practice in Southern Indiana, was asked to resign "because he didn't represent the society's way of thinking" regarding foreign doctors, Philip H. Willkie, president of Southern Indiana' said today.
Willkie said Ellis paid tris own way to Germany and, as a representative of Court issues ruling on electrical service DANVILLE, Ind. (AP) Hendricks in the annexed area. Court Judge Richard J. Groover Groover said he would set a later Tuesday granted Public Service Indiana date for a hearing on a permanent the right to provide electric service in injunction. the newly annexed area around the Brownsburg High School.
DIES IN FIRE The ruling centered on a dispute KNOX, Ind. (AP) William Howe, between PSI and the Hendricks County 72, Knox, died Tuesday in a fire which REMC over installation of street lights gutted the interior of his house. Southern Indiana interviewed about 75 physicians. Ellis. invited some of the German doctors to come to Connersville.
where he has practiced for 25 years. Willkie said. Willkie, Rushville, banker and attorney and son of the 1940 Republican nominee for president, Wendell Willkie, has led a fight to obtain more physicians for doctor-deficit areas in rural and ghetto areas. He said Ellis had appeared before the State Medical Licensing Board and had agreed to testify in connection with a suit filed by a farm-labor-church-civil rights coalition seeking repeal of a twoyear postgraduate requirement for foreign trained doctors in Indiana. The medical society gave Ellis two weeks to resign or.
he. would be "impeached," Willkie said. Ellis was not immediately available for comment. Disagreement ends in 3 'suicide' "so we couldn't get in." We would holler at him," Ash said, "and he would start crying from within his upstairs apartment." Ash said they left' Mossburg's home at 10 a.m. and the sheriff returned to his office in the courthouse, and by that time Judge Morris Hall of Grant Circuit Court had issued a warrant for arrest.
There was no effort to take the warrant to Mossburg. Ash said, until, about 1 p.m. just minutes before he was fatally wounded. "We just couldn't go" in (the Ash said; "he just might shoot himself or us." We knew he worked at Anaconda 3 p.m." Ash said, I was going to send a man there in case he showed up. Marion police, upon requests from the sheriff's, enforced a sporadic watch around Mossburg's apartment.
Assistant Police Quentin Pettiford said. About :1 p.m., Pettiford said police received a Crime Stop call saying that Mossburg left his residence in his car and was traveling east on 45th Street. Police immediately patrol cars to the apartment and its general area in an attempt to capture Mossburg was a graduate of Eastbrook High School and he served in the U.S. Marine Besides his parents, other survivors include his sister, Marna, and one brother, David, both at home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.
Thursday at Devine Colonial Mortuary, 901 N. Western with the Rev. Ora Simmons officiating, and burial will be in Gardens of Memory. cemetery." Friends may call at the mortuary after.7 p.m. tonight.
A TWO PAGE 17 ins County Coroner Dr. Jerry: Tomlinson (Chronicle-Tribune Photo) Marion and Grant County police huddle said Bernard Mossburg, 22, S. around the scene where a Marion man Washington commitScene of death apparently, shot and killed himself ted suicide. Mossburg 19, 134 allegedly North, shot 1000 J. afternoon at 41st and S.
Wigger D. (John) Shields, streets. Although the autopsy won't be East; earlier Tuesday, and had completed until late Grant' the target of an all-out police search. A Pi 9 By DAVE KOERNER C-T Staff Writer A Marion man apparently shot and killed himself Tuesday afternoon along. side a south Marion street about six hours after he allegedly wounded a 19- year-old man during what Grant County sheriff officials termed a peak of.
a long domestic problem. Dead Bernard Mossburg. 22, S. Washington St. Grant County Coroner Dr.
Jerry Tomlinson labeled the death "tentatively suicide" and said that he will begin an autopsy early today with results expected by 10:30 p.m. Mossburg was found slumped over in his car by Marion police at 1:15 p.m. at 41st and S. Wigger streets, about six blocks from his apartment. ile sustained one bullet wound to the chest from caliber revolver.
Dr." Tomlinson said, "and he died only moments later." At 7:10 a.m.. Mossburg allegedly shot and grazed the shoulder of J. D. (John) Shields, 19, 134 North, 1000 outside the home of Mossburg's parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest T. Mossburg, 881 South, 350 East. "Shields was not believed to be seriously injured, for he was not immediately treated by hospital authorities or a private physician, and he reported to work later in the Sheriff liarold Ash Ash said Shields had been dating Mossburg's 17-year-old sister and that the two men "had had personal differ. ences several times." Shortly after the shooting, Ash and' deputies launched an all -out effort to apprehend Mossburg, who immediately, went "to his south Marion dence: Ash- said her and a male friend of Mossburg's arrived at the apartment between 8:30 and 9 a.m.
we had not warrant issued yet," the sheriff said, :13 or I.
