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Cloverdale Schools To Get Tax Windfall
Cloverdale School Corporation will be the only area school system to receive direct results from one provision of the Tax Restructuring package recently passed by the Indiana Legislature.
A legislative report received this week from State Rep. John Thomas, (R-Brazil), stated, “Relief will also be given to school corporations having an assessed valuation per pupil of less than s 8,200.” Clo-
verdale School Corporation is the only county school system to fit into this category. The corporation’s enrollment of 1,049 students has an adjusted assessed valuation per pupil of s 7,048. Cloverdale
County May Recover Part Of Pennsy’s Debt
The 1973-74 slate of officers elected by the Greencastle Business and Professional Women’s Club are shown above during an installation at the DePauw University Memorial Student Union. From left are Mrs. June Parent, president; Miss Stephanie Vaughn, first vice-president; Mrs. Bemeice Lewis,
second vice-president; Mrs. Mavis Hendrich, recording secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth McCullough, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Evelyn Spencer, treasurer; Miss Leah Ciirnutt, parliamentarian, and Mrs. Harriet Sutton, director. Not pictured is Miss Helen Johnston, director. (Banner-Graphic Photo)
Public Hearing Set On Wabash Waterway
The Citizens’ Action Committee to Oppose Big Walnut Reservoir, Inc., is urging its members, as well as citizens of Putnam County and DePauw University students, to attend a public meeting concerning the development of the Wabash Waterway. The hearing, conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is scheduled for April 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Robert E. Green Auditorium at Vin-
cennes University. All that is necessary is for an individual resident to appear at the hearing, sign a card with a short statement, if possible, giving his or her views on the proposed channelization of the Wabash River. If an individual cannot personally attend the public hearing, a card or letter sent to Colonel Charles Fiala, Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 59, Louiseville, Kentucky 40201
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1000 Have Seen Good News Show
According to Dr. John Coomer, chairman of the scribes serving as greeters for the First Christian Church “Good News” experience, by Wednesday evening over 1,000 people had attended the preEaster event. Comments from visitors to the “Good News” presentation are 100 per cent favorable. Mrs. Harold Peters of Green-
such statements as, “It’s simply wonderful,” and “Very impressive.” Chairman of the church project, Mrs. J. L. Stamper, reported that dress clothes are not necessary to visit the “pilgrimage.” She further stated, “Good News serves as a moving message of truth for men, women and children.” Continuous 30 minute show-
castle described the participa- ings will continue until Easter tory drama as, “beautifully Sunday from 12 noon until 8 done.” p.m. On Easter morning the Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Perkins church will host “Good News” of Lebanon stated as they fin- guests from 5 a.m. until 8 ished the tour, “It is very in- a.m., with breakfast served at spiring.” Others have made Please Turn to Page 2
will do the job.
A spokesman for the zens’ Committee said
group takes the position the Cross Basin Canal for barge traffic is a major purpose for the Corps of Engineers’s plans for Indiana. Among these are 13 major reservoirs, including the bitterly-opposed Big Walnut Reservoir, 147 upstream watershed projects, including smaller dams, diversions, and channelizations, with a total channelization of 2,500 miles
of river.
The plans are opposed by citizen groups and environmentalists. This morning, the Associated Press reported the Department of Transportation and the Corps of Engineers have ordered a study of means by which the inland waterways, the Great Lakes and coastal waters might better be made into a national transportation system. A San Francisco firm, Bechtel, Inc., received a *140,000 contract for the study, to be completed next
January.
The study will examine changes in inland waterway use, brought about by advances in technology and the legal, regulatory and financial Please Turn to Page 2
New Writer Honors Announced For Three
Authors being published by Doubleday, The Viking Press, and W.W. Norton have been awarded the fourth annual Great Lakes Colleges New Writer Awards for 1972-73. Announcement of the honors for new books in the categories of poetry, short stories, and the novel was made by Elizabeth.Christman, competition coordinator and assistant professor of English at DePauw University. The winners and their books are: Poetry: Daniel Halpern for “Traveling on Credit” Novel: Inge Trachtenberg for “So Slow the Dawning” Short Stories: Clark Blaise for “A North American Education” Halpern earned his MFA in creative writing from Colum-
bia University in 1972. He is presently teaching at The New School for Social Research in New York City. In his book of poetry, one reviewer writes, Halpern is “a wry, unblinking appraiser of youthful researches into decadence. (He) draws one to the pages of his book as tenaciously as his action-seeking hitchhikers thumb their rides.” Trachtenberg, a writer who lives in Englewood, N.J., sets her novel in Berlin, the city of her childhood, in the 1930’s. The novel is her response to the persistent question of why German Jews in the Third Reich did not act sooner. Blaise’s short stories detail the various stages in the life of a young man learning to grow up and “fit in” in North America. Blaise was born in North
Dakota but grew up in the Deep South. He taught English at the University of Wisconsin and moved to Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1966. The Great Lakes Colleges New Writer Award is a recognition of excellence. It annually honors authors who are publishing their first work in the three specified literary genres. Entries in the competition must be submitted by the publishers. Beyond simply acknowledging outstanding creative writing, the competition is designed to provide the awarding group-12 private colleges and universities in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana-dia-logue with the winning authors. Please Turn to Page 2
Putnam County will recover at least part of a one-third million dollar debt as a result of the Tax Restructuring package that will soon be signed into law by Governor Otis
Bowen.
The money will be a portion of a state-wide reimbursement of money owed the local governments and school districts by the bankrupt PennCentral Railroad. Total debt to the county as a result of the Penn-Central bankruptcy including penalties amounts to $362,697.90. Townships directly effected by the bankruptcy include Greencastle, Marion, Floyd, Madison, Washington, and Warren, as well as the City of Greencastle. While no details as to how or when the money will be distributed are available at this time, a breakdown of amounts owed each township is available: Township Total Owed City of Greencastle $9,447.96
John Carson stated that the county governing bodies have not yet received an expected bulletin explaining the full effects of the recently passed bill. Until work is received from the State Board of Accounts and the State Tax Board, it will not be known how this reimbursement will be dealt with. Expecting notification from the two state boards within the next 10 days, Carson said that the county council and board of commissioners will be dis-
cussing the tax law and its application to the county at their May meetings. Besides the Penn-Central reimbursement, Carson stated that the council will have need to discuss a provision in the bill which gives the county council the authority to determine whether or not it wishes to enact a one-half-to one per cent tax on one’s adjusted gross income. If this local option is enacted, at least one-half of the tax must go for property tax relief.
Greencastle
Floyd
Marion Madison
Washington
Warren
$115,827.23 $19,075.34 $88,474.47 $61,875.11 $57,027.41 $10,970.38
Guests on the television show “Afternoon/6" Friday (April 20) will be Greencastle residents Jim and Sheila Coop-
er.
The Coopers will appear on the WRTV (channel 6) show to discuss their newly published book, “The Roots of American Feminist Thought”. The show is on from 12:30
p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The book, published by Allyn and Bacon, is an anthology of works written by feminists of the last two centuries. Originally book-length essays, all the selections in the Coopers’ new book have been
edited and abridged.
Say the Coopers in the introduction to their 300-page review of important con-
Adams and lodged in the Put- tributions to the development nam County jail at 8:30 p.m. of feminist thought in Wednesday. America: Smythe was booked for pub- “Although the conditions of lie intoxication, disorderly subjection and feminine reconduct and being a minor in sponse to it have varied, men consumption of alcohol. have dominated women in the
Putnam County Auditor
Plainfield
Man Booked
By Sheriff
A Plainfield young man, Maynard Smythe, 20, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Jim
Western world since ancient times. There have been important legal, educational, occupational, medical, and technological advances for women, especially since the eighteenth century. “Yet, nearly all (women) still face sexual discrimination, and the greatest number follow the traditional domestic route from cradle, to altar, to housework, and motherhood, and finally to grave. “A woman’s world, though it has improved, remains more intellectually limited, culturally derivative, socially atomized, geographically restricted, and economically dependent than a man’s of the same socioeconomic class. “Although improvement in women’s lot has not ended her subjection,” Jhe authors write, “modernization has shaken confidence in traditional beliefs concerning the biological Please Turn to Page 2
Among the large turn-out last night at the Indiana Gas Company’s pre-open house reception and buffet supper at its new Greencastle headquarters on S.R. 240 East, were, from left, the company’s president, J. F. Kavanagh,
Mrs. Virginia Sweet, commercial manager of the local office, and R. E. Wachtstetter, district superintendent of the Danville-Greencas-tle District. (Banner-Graphic Photo)
Superintendent Arthur Johnson reported that while he has not received a complete copy of the entire tax bill, he has been informed that the school system will be eligible for tax relief under this provision. Johnson stated, “In our last report from the Indiana State School Board Association there was no definite information on this aspect of the tax package and how it would ef-
fect us.”
“We are most anxious to know the details of the bill so that we will be able to interpret it in the light of our own school,” he continued. The superintendent went on to
value per per pupil is over the stipulated *8,200 minimum. Highest such figure is found in the North Putnam School Corporation. Adjusted assessed value per pupil there is *12,006. The system has an enrollment of 1,693 students. Following the North Putnam School Corporation in the amount of adjusted assessed value per pupil is the Greencastle school system. With a total enrollment of 2,280 students, the adjusted per pupil amount is *11,680. South Putnam School Corporation follows in third place county-wise as the adjusted assessed value per pupil in that
Local Authors To Appear On TV Show
state that until he and the Clo- school system is *9,406. Enrollverdale School Board of Di- ment in South Putnam rectors is further informed on schools totals 1.367. the tax provision the school Adjusted assessed values corporation will not be able to per pupil in nearby school sysdetermine the amount of relief terns is: Crawfordsville, it will be eligible for. *11,290; North Montgomery, He further speculated that s 7,874; and the corporation would be hear- ^ ^ 8,567. Plainfield School ing something from the State Corporation is also eligible for Board Association within the re l ie ^ un der the provision, next week to ten days. “After . A11 local scho01 corporawe have been informed as to tlons be receiving some unthe possible amount we will be ex P ect ^d monies with the paseffected, we will then be more t ^ ie Tax Restructuring able to determine in what di- P ac a ® e Acc ° r dmg to the rerection the relief will take us,” P° rt receive d Irom Rep. Johnson said. Thomas, “school corporation
and local government will re-
Other countv schools are in- ceive partial reimbursement of eligible for the property tax re- the loss of tax support due to lief provided in the new law be- the insolvency of the Penncause their per pupil assessed Central Railroad.” Tomorrow Is “Good Friday”
Just outside the walls of the old city of Jerusalem is an eroded hill that bears a resemblance to a skull, and is called Golgatha. It is said that upon this hill stood three crosses the day that Jesus was crucified. That agonizing day that Christ died is referred to today as “Good Friday”. Mark 15:16-28 & John 19:38-1*2 from The LIVING BIBLE Then the Roman soldiers took Jesus into the barracks of the palace, called out the entire palace guard, dressed him in a purple robe, and made a crown of long, sharp thorns and put it on his head. Then they saluted, yelling, “Yea! King of the Jews!” And they beat him on the head with a cane, and spit on him and went down on their knees to “worship” him. When they finally tired of their sport, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him again, and led him away to be crucified. And they brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha. (Golgotha means skull.) Wine drugged with bitter herbs was offered to him there, but he refused it. And then they crucified him —and threw dice for his clothes. It was about nine o’clock in the morning when the crucifixion took place. A signboard was fastened to the cross above his head, announcing his crime. It read, “The King of the Jews.” Two robbers were also crucified that morning, their crosses on either side of his. And so the Scripture was fulfilled that said, “He was counted among evil men.” Afterwards Joseph of Arimathea, who had been a secret disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jewish leaders, boldly asked Pilate for permission to take Jesus’ body down; and Pilate told him to go ahead. So he came and took it away. Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night, came too, bringing a hundred pounds of embalming ointment made from myrrh and aloes. Together they wrapped Jesus’ body in a long linen cloth saturated with the spices, as is the Jewish custom of burial. The place of crucifixion was near a grove of trees, where there was a new tomb, never used before. And so, because of the need for haste before the Sabbath, and because the tomb was close at hand, they laid him there.
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