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e B a I I s t -a t e W'EDNESDAY Muncie, Indiana June 25, 1986 Volume 65, Number 158 trike against 1: AT & T lingers ief Reporter Until local contracts are agreed upon, American Telephone and Telegraph orkers won't return to work even though the three-year national contract as tentatively negotiated June 17, according to a union spokesman. d Nationally, 155,000 AT&T workers went on strike June I when their ;e. hree-year contract expired. Negotiations have been . going on almost 24 n ours a day at the local headquarters .m N ew J ersey. The Communications Workers of America union is waiting for six local nit contracts to be tentatively agreed upon before voting on the n_ational ontract. The union workers will go back to work the day after the unit con acts are tentatively accepted, said Brett Berty, an AT & T spokesman. The union also has contracts expiring August 9 with other major tele hone companies, Berty said. ko Bernice Garner, vice president for CWA Local 4850 (Indianapolis), sa!d ten he six "local" divisions were created during the monopoly breakup January fim , 1984. ~e Each unit is negotiating to satisfy its individual needs, Berty said. Some , h rogress has been made and Berty said he expects a tentative settlement 1va oon. A deadline for a settlement went unheeded Saturday at midnight. Garner said union concerns include job security, cost of living adjust TALKING ABOUT THE STRIKE while she pickets the AT&T office on West Main Street, ents and benifits. AT&T employee of 32 years Dorothy Bannister, left, works her four hour shift Tuesday af :he Since the AT&T breakup, 24,000 employees have been slowly laid off ternoon. At r-ight is a 9roader view of the downtown AT&T picket line. The strike is in its Inc! rom the computer unit, Garner said. Other workers fear for their jobs, par 25th day. He! ially due to technology making jobs obsolete. BY JENNIFER FLOWERS/ Chief Photographer d 1 AT&T lists future job openings and provides retrainililg to improve job curity, Berty said. Long distance operators want to continue working six-hour shifts while eing paid for eight-hour shifts, but AT&T would like to change the policy, Dining Service exempt from new tax erty said. Operators have been paid under this schedule for the past three ears. BY GLORIA ECHOLS use as a civic center. package liquor stores will be exempt from the tax Neither Garner or Berty were able to name all six of AT&T's local divi- Staff Reporter The Delaware County tax is expected to gener while taverns will not be. ate between $600,000 anct $700,000 per year. Coulter was told by Kelly Stanley, chairman of On-campus dining facilities won't be affected There is no clause in the tax bill stipulating when the civic center task force, that conventioneers by Delaware County's new !-percent food and the tax will be repealed, but the county council are more likely to spend their food and beverage beverage tax, according to county councilman can repeal it at any time. money in restaurants and taverns, and owners of Brad Razor. The county council unanimously Razor said because there were no problems get those establishments will therefore help pay fo r briefs passed a food and beverage tax bill Tuesday and it ting the tax passed by the council, the next course their own increased business. goes into effect August I . of action will be to get started on the center. Coulter added he wanted to go on recqrd as fa >U · The excise tax w ill only apply to those food es First among the council 's agenda is appointing voring the tax. :t SUSPECT RELEASED: A suspect was released after ques tablishments which currently pay a tax, Razor nine members to a Delaware County Civic Center Basil Davis, president of United Auto Workers lionioning by University Police early Monday evening after being iden said. Ball State is exempt from the tax. Authority. The authority will oversee renovations Local 499 Retirees, also questioned the cou ncil )Uf tified in an exposure case. Students who purchase meals at the Tally will of the old post office. The city is buying the build before it approved the tax. He asked why the com According to Sgt. Max Short, Denise Schuck reported a male subject on a have to show valid school identification to avoid mg from Henry and Whadan McKay of munity had little input into the decision to im bike had exposed himself to her in the alley behind her West Main Street the tax. However, meals bought off-campus will Anchorage, Alaska, for $225,000. After the pose the tax. :he home. be subject to the extra !-percent tax. county commissioners, mayor and county coun "The retirees and poor people are going to be a! Short said the description of the bike the suspect was riding does match Earlier this year the state legislature passed cil agree on a person, the project will begin. hit the hardest on this," Davis told the council. that of the BMX model ridden by a man who exposed himself several times bills enabling Delaware and Allen county coun Louis Coulter, owner of The Chug on North According to Stanley, the center will create 14 0 during the 1985-86 school year to Ball State students. cils to adopt restaurant taxes. Revenue ra1sed Martin Street in The Village, was present at Thurs new jobs when it opens next summer. Within "The description of the bike does match," Short said. "However, the sus through Delaware County's tax will be used to day's meeting to represent the Delaware County three years from opening, the center is expected LS' peel in this case has light hair whereas, the other had dark hair." buy and renovate the old Muncie post office for Taxpayers Association. He voiced a concern that to generate $21 million in convention trade. The matter remains under investigation, according to Short. CONFERENCE CRIME: Members of the International Trespassing Thespian Troupe, staying at Dehority Complex for a conference, re ported to University police early Tuesday morning that a male subject had broken into their room. troubles Project Start According to Sgt. Max Short of University Police, two girls told police a male subject had cut the window screen and entered their room at about 2 a.m. The suspect took several personal items including cash and jewelry, pit owners suggested sex and tied the girls up with torn or cut strips of sheets from their beds. BY CHRIS BAVENDER Students offered 2nd chance The suspect stayed in the room until 5 a.m. and then left. The girls then Chief Reporter Marek said there is no fi nancial aid available specif freed themselves and called police. BY CHARLA ALLEN ically for Project START. Diving into cool water can be a No description was available and the matter is under investigation, Chief Reporter "There is no financial aid available. There's a need great way to cool off on a hot sum ccording to Short. for financial aid . Many of the minority students can't mer day. But if you're thinking of Incom ing freshmen who choose to get ahead or afford to participate," Marek said. Friday is the last day to withdraw swimming at the stone quarry at catch up academically through Project START make WITHDRAWAL NOTICE: David Davis, minority enrollment director, agreed from classes this session. Students must have permission from their in Cornbrt>ad Road and Hoyt Avenue, some trac;leoffs, but may gain a college degree in ex that "from a minority perspective, the cost of partici structors. however, Muncie police suggest you change for spending summer days in indoor class think again. rooms. pating is prohibitive." DEBT COLLECTION UP: INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Collec The quarry, owned by Muncie res Some students don't mind giving up bronzed skin Last year out of 91 START students, eight were m i tion of delinquent federal loans in Indiana's southern district has increased idents William and Robert Moffitt, is or summer employment, like Anita Horwitz, who de norities. Six were black; one was Hispanic; and o ne tenfold over the past six years, officials say. strictly off-limits, according to Dep-' cided to start her college career early. was Indian. In the federal fiscal year 1985, government attorneys here made cash uty Chief Marvin Campbell of the "It 's better to get started this summer. If you wait According to Clarence Casazza, director of student collections of more than $2 million as a result of debts owed to 17 federal Muncie Police Department. No tres till after summer you get too lazy because you're not financial aid, START students can get fi nancial aid. agencies, U.S. Attorney John Tinder said. In 1980, the total was just under passing signs are posted and articles used to studying," Horwitz said. "They can get a loan or a job w hile they're here fo r $200,000. in Muncie newspapers have warned Unlike Horwitz, some students aren't in Project that program," said Casazza. The debts are for a variety of government loans, including small busi violators they will be prosecuted. START to get an early start on their college careers. Casazza said that if a student is he re in the summer nesses, housing, and student loans. ''The quarry is not owned by the Some students are in START to prove to themselves half-time, they can qualify fo r a Guaranteed Student An additional $355,000 was collected in criminal fines and about $2 city, " Campbell said.