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Wednesday, April 27, 1988 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS D-3 LILLY ENDOWMENT AMOUNTS OF ANNUAL PAID GRANTS 2 postal officials promise 1987 $71 MILLION Lilly: Big grant hike in 1970s Continued from D-l iu it iu ittsuivt? dled. last y.ear after sporting The Indianapolis News A 1 The U.S. postmaster general and the Indiana postmaster pledged to resolve complaints of mismanagement at the Indianapolis Post Office after further study. Rep. Frank McCloskey.

said after a preliminary investigation that Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank promised him that meeting and communication procedures will change in the Indianapolis division. "I think it was a positive meeting (Tuesday). However, a long way to go before we know the full extent of the problems at the Indianapolis Post Office." said McCloskey, chairman of the House subcommittee on postal personnel and modernization. Full report due A full report Is due in about three weeks following a Postal Service Investigation into complaints of Job stress, mistreatment of employees and other problems.

Anthony J. Schiavone, postmaster of the Indianapolis division, said he and members of the National Association of Postal Supervisors will appoint a committee "to review the issues and to recommend corrective action where necessary." Two postal supervisors died of heart attacks earlier this year after complaining of stress on the Job. A third postal employee ynpes Keith Luse. a Lugar aid Keith Luse, a Lugar aide, said that Lugar office has received more than 100 complaints from postal employees, some as recently as this week. There are about 4,000 postal workers In Indianapolis.

In the GAO request, the senators and Jacobs said allegations by employees included "questionable and inconsistent application of hiring and promotion procedures, harassment, intimidation and physical abuse of employees, questionable application of equal employment and affirmative action policies (and) violations of civil rights." Linda Reidy-Colllns. president of the Indianapolis local of the American Postal Workers Union, said that this month one employ- ee was shoved in the chest and another was shoulder-blocked by managers, who have not been punished. Checks misplaced Henry said an internal inves-- tigation Is under way in one of those instances. Also Tuesday. McCloskey said the Postal Service had deter- mined why 9.000 Social Security' checks meant for southwestern Indiana were lost for five days.

He said a truck improperly-j tagged for repairs was loaded with new mail. Then it was sent. for repairs with the checks In- side. McCloskey said. Two postal workers have 5 been reprimanded as a result of the error.

Keller, City-County Council i member Susan Williams. Julia O'Connor of the Riley Area Revi-talization Program and Bob Beckmann of the Indianapolis Council for the Arts. Committed to downtown life i in general and theater in partic-ular, Keller sponsored the ana Repertory Theatre's entire 1987-88 season through a gift of an unspecified amount. He has bought and renovated about 38 buildings for downtown living. similar problems.

A petition allegedly has been promoted on company time to protest the rumored removal of a high-level official as a result of the postal controversy. One worker said employees were being coerced into signing the letter. The petition, obtained by The News, states that Daniel Presllla. director of Indianapolis city operations, "is being removed from his position as a trade-off for cancelling a GAO (General Accounting Office) investigation requested by Senator McCloskey's -office." McCloskey, who is a congressman and not a senator, said he did not request a GAO investigation. Sens.

Richard Lugar and Dan Quayle and Rep. Andy Jacobs asked for the investigation in a letter sent earlier this week. "We've had communications from the field in Indianapolis where people have told us they felt that he was being made a scapegoat whatever that means," McCloskey said. "We report those communications to the Postal Service." John Henry, Indianapolis division spokesman, said neither Presllla nor other employees have been removed from their positions. Presllla was in St.

Louis and could not be reached Tuesday evening. the theater's $250,000 fund drive. Donations will be sought from individuals, foundations and businesses. American States Insurance Co. has already donated $10,000, according to Basile.

A fund-raising "celebrity" auction is also scheduled Sept. 24. Among speakers at this morning's press announcement at the church were 'Mayor William H. Hudnut. Fonseca, Basile, such an organization if we wanted to continue the famHy tradition of being generous in public affairs.

The rising income taxes would otherwise make such a course impossible." the sketch quotes him as writing. The endowment was chartered, and its first board of directors' all family members convened in December 1937 to make its one and only grant of the year: $10,500 to the Community Chest, the forerunner of United Way. "The board set clear geographic priorities from the very beginning. Its first emphasis would be Indianapolis, then Indiana and, to a far lesser national and international projects." the sketch says. The sketch gives several reasons for that, including the fact that no other large-scale foundation had ever taken special Interest in Hoosiers, and that many of the Lillys didn't want to spread benefits too widely to have any effect.

The Lillys also wanted to pay back the city for what Indianapolis did for them, it says. The endowment was also quickly clear on program focuses, including education, religion and community services. But the organization was run informally in the early years. "According to a historical sketch, Eli operated the foundation's day-to-day business for slightly more than a decade 'out of the left-hand drawer of his the current sketch says. Changes in '40s That changed as the endowment's assets topped $50 million.

Toward the end of the 1940s and beginning of the 1950s, the endowment hired a full-time staff person, set up its first independent office at Merchants Bank and began issuing annual reports to outline its standards and grants. The endowment also faced great change during the 1960s. Under the influence of general manager John S. Lynn, the endowment made grants to groups devoted to anti-Communist crusades, free-market economic the- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 '60 '65 70 75 '80 "85 '87 Source: Ell Lilly The News Graph Endowment leaders also felt Indianapolis needed its help, the sketch said. Between 1977 and 1987.

the endowment helped numerous new buildings and programs in Indianapolis, giving $25 million to the Hoosier Dome and other support to the new zoo. City Market, Monument Circle, the American Legion Mall and the downtown canal. "Some say we're spending too much on bricks and mortar and not enough on human services." Conner said. But there was such a need that buildings had to be built before the human programs could be put Into effect, she said. "Other programs were not cut to spend money on building purposes You can pay for a whole lot of research for what It costs to build one building." The endowment is still one of the few large foundations emphasizing religion, the sketch says.

And its $50 million Lilly Endowment Education Award Program for Indiana college students brought education grants ahead of community development in 1987. Conner started working on the sketch about a year ago. "I would have loved it if when I got hired, someone handed me a document like this." she said. "At least Internally, it needed to be done. The longer you let this period pass, the less you know about anything." Phoenix: Celebrity auction set Continued from D-l The Phoenix, noted for its productions of contemporary works, will close its fifth season there with its annual Festival of Emerging American Theater July 22 through Aug.

27. Basile to head drive Frank Basile. vice president of Gene B. GHck will head $80 rim 1 1 rr 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1937 '40 '45 '50 '55 ories and certain versions of Christian values. "Those kind of grants were 10 to 16 percent (of all grants) for that one decade of time," Conner said.

"That Is an interruption of the moderation that has characterized the endowment throughout Its history." She marks It as the only time the endowment has strayed from the founders' original "timeless mission." As the endowment was veering away from the arch-conservative grants, a 1969 change in tax laws required the endowment to begin giving away a larger percentage of its assets. About the same time, the endowment received the largest contribution from a trust established by J.K. Lilly Sr. "Between 1971 and 1975. grant payouts Increased fivefold, from the $10 million range to more than $50 million," the sketch says.

Focus on city The endowment also began making more international grants, to projects as far away as Africa. Then the endowment's assets plummeted In the recession of the 1970s. When they rebounded, most of the International grants stopped and the focus centered on Indianapolis again. That was partly because of a meeting between Eli Lilly and endowment leaders Just a year before his death in 1976. "As he had done several times earlier in his life, Mr.

Eli reconsidered the wisdom and effectiveness of scattering the en dowment's resources too wide ly," the sketch said. "It was a paper loss only." said spokeswoman Susan O. Conner. The 1987 annual report, which commemorates the endowment's 50th anniversary, notes that 11,341 Indiana undergraduates were given $6.3 million in the first year of the $50 million Lilly Endowment Educational Awards. Other educational grants stressed include $2.5 million for I-STAR.

an anti-drug effort that is expected to reach more than 25,000 Indianapolis adolescents over a two-year period. The annual report also highlights youth, leadership, cultural and other programs linked to the Pan Am Games. The Endowment also supported various museum expansions, neighborhood revitallza-tion projects and public policy studies. The largest community development grant approved in 1987 was $12.5 million for the new Eiteljorg Museum of the American Indian and Western Art. Cafe.

5478 Brookville Road. Doss was charged with murder and had been free on bond since March 25. In the incident Tuesday, witnesses told police that Doss was waiting outside the home of Gale "Buddy" Dean when Dean and Doss's ex-wife. Lisa R. Yant, 22, returned.

Police said Yant and Doss had been divorced about three months. Doss demanded to be admitted to talk to Yant, police said. "I saw a man go through the front door with a gun," said James Everts, who lives across the street from Dean. "I saw him come out running like hell." Police said Doss collapsed in a yard outside the house. While Doss was inside the house, a loud argument ensued and Dean tried to wrestle the gun away from him.

Llnd, who is Dean's roommate, shot Doss during the struggle, police said. $60 O40 2 20 1 1937 $13,000 ft Jr. $7 1 million given by Lilly Endowment Imagine a resort style randominium between Kevstone A raie By MARGARET PETERSON The Indianapolis News Lilly Endowment Inc. gave a record $71 million in grants In and. despite the October stock crash, had record year-end assets of $2 billion.

Those were among the details In the endowment's 1987 annual report, released today. The endowment also approved 683 grants totaling about $75 million, to be during the next one to three years. That includes about $40 million for community development, $20 million for religion and $15 million for education. The grant payment was up from $57 million in 1986. The endowment's assets at the 'end of that year were $1.9 million, and the figure rose to $2.4 billion by August 1987.

When the stock prices plummeted in October, the endowment's assets were cut by a third. But it had enough cash assets to avoid selling stocks, and the figure rebounded by the end of the year, Chairman Thomas H. Lake wrote in the report. and Myrtle Man confronting date of ex-wife shot to death By GREG HASSELL The Indianapolis News A Jealous man was shot and killed at an Eastslde residence after he violently interrupted his ex-wife's date. Indianapolis Police said Robert L.

Doss. 2100 block of North Gale Street, used a shotgun to force his way Into a house in the 3100 block of Priscilla Avenue Tuesday night. During the argument that followed. Doss. 31.

was shot in the chest. He was dead on arrival at Community Hospital at 10:30 n.m. Doss fired his gun in the Incident but did not wound anyone, said Detective Joseph Lackey. The man who shot Doss, 19-year-old Robert Llnd, has not been charged. Doss fatally shot 19-year-old Steven Viles Feb.

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