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DENVER (UPS) — President Carter, mixing politics and energy on a fence-mending swing of the West, has earmarked an extra $100 million for research in solar energy, windmills and manure. Carter moves on to Los Angeles today, where, on the second step of a four-state Western swing he addresses the Bar Association and tours the Bradley Commmunity Center in Watts. Before departing Denver, Carter attends a prayer break fast and touches base with area environmental, community and government leaders. Carter holds a regional news conference in Portland, Ore., tonight (10:30 p.m. EDT). Standing bareheaded in a drenching rain on a platform at South Table Mountain in Golden, Colo., Carter an nounced Wednesday he had instructed Energy Secretary James Schlesinger to add $100 million to his budget for research in solar and other types of renewable energy, including windmills and manure. Ironically, the president’s appearance on the mesa was to celebrate “Sun Day’ with a tour of the temporary Solar Energy Research Institute, whose permanent home will be dedicated next year. Carter stressed the impor tance of solar energy as an alternative to high-cost foreign imports. “We must begin the long, slow job of winning back our economic independence,” he said, peering through the rain onto a sea of umbrellas. “Nobody can embargo sun light. No carter controls the sun. Its energy will not run out. It will not pollute the air. It will not poison our water. It is free from stench and smog. The sun’s power needs only to be collected, stored and used.” During the tour of the solar center, Carter expressed hope about the natural gas compro mise on Capitol Hill, but showed his frustration when he remarked ‘‘we’ve been waiting a year” to get Congress to act on energy legislation. Accompanying Carter in Colorado were Schlesinger, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland and Interior Secre tary Cecil Andrus, upswing of 1 percent last month. It was the largest gain in that category since a 1.7 percent advance in October 1974. This development may spark considerable administration concern because most of the overall increases in recent months have been blamed on food. In a demonstration of how the cost of living has inceased, the overall finished goods index stood at 191.4 last month. That means that goods which cost $191.40 last month were priced at $100 in 1967. Besides food, the Labor Department said, consumer durables such as automobiles, appliances and furniture, rose rapidly. In an unusual note, the department said the wholesale cost of jewelry accounted for about 0.3 percent of the overall April increase, which partly reflected the increase in gold prices during late 1977 and this year. But it was food costs that were the main culprit, the department said. Prices for processed poultry and pork turned up last month after falling in March. Fresh and dried fruits and vegetables, dairy products and miscellane ous processed foods rose more than in March, the department said. Prices for beef and veal and processed fruits and vegetables continued to increase, but by less than in March. The department said whole sale prices at the intermediate level, which are goods that need more processing before they are ready for final sale, slowed to an 0.5 percent increase last month, considera bly below the March advance By DON AUSTIN A 22-year-old former resident of Bartholomew County and his 17-year-old female companion have been arrested in Wynne, Ark., in connection with the double murder of E.J. and Faye Shasteen in their R. A. 2, Westport, home just over three months ago. Lyndale Ivy, now an Arkansas resident, and Teresa West of Lynne, Ark., his alleged accompliace in the brutal slayings, are being returned today to face murder charges in Jennings Circuit Court. Cross County (Ark.) sheriff Kenneth Shaw identified Ivy as an Arkansas prison parolee who had received a travel permit to go to Indiana at the time the shootings occurred. Murder warrants issued by the Jennings court at Vernon were taken by authorities to Arkansas and the pair signed waivers of extradition before a judge there Wednesday af ternoon. Indiana State Police Detective Jon Oldham informed the Daily News in a telephone call from the Arkansas town this morning. The suspects and state and local law enforcement officials are expected to arrive at Vernon sometime tonight, after leaving Wynne about 10 a.m. for the 10-hour drive back to Indiana. First word of the unexpected break in the perplexing case came Monday in a telephone call from Hank Williams, a police officer at Wynne, to Major Mike Coy of the Bar tholomew County Sheriff's Department. Det. Sgt. Oldham, who has been in charge of the lengthy intensive investigation of the baffling case, said Ivy admitted knowing Major Coy during interrogation about a burglary at Wynne and was tied to the murders through other in formation obtained. Some articles stolen from the Shasteen home in northern Jennings County have been recovered, he added. Accompanying Oldham to Arkansas Wednesday were Jennings County Prosecutor Norman Phillips, Sheriff Harold Campbell, Bartholomew County Sheriff Jimmy McKinney and Major Coy and Indiana State Police Sgt. Richard Barker of the Seymour post. Sgt. Oldham praised the Arkansas authorities for their alertness in recognizing the subjects as possible suspects in the double homicide, which resulted from information about the crime distributed over the nationwide police communications system. “It was an excellent example of solid police work and cooperation,” Sgt. Oldham said, adding he was very pleased to finally get the suspects into custody after the trail had grown rather cold. Authorities concentrated their investigation on a young couple seen in the area near the time of the killings, working up composite sketches of the two, and on a vehicle with out of state license plates, but had no other solid leads to work with and were stymied in their ef forts to solve the case until now. E.J. Shasteen, 48, and his 43- year-old wife, Faye, were found mortally wounded by .22 caliber bullet wounds, fired at close range, in the living room of their modest modular home at 8:15 a.m. last Jan. 31. Mrs. Shasteen had been shot three times and her husband twice. She was on the floor and his body was slumped in a recliner chair. Furniture covers had been placed over both bodies, which also puzzled authorities. A .22 caliber pistol, a rifle and a shotgun were reported missing from the home, but the house had not been burglarized. See SUSPECTS, Page 2
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Greensburg Daily News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Thu, May 04, 1978
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