Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 June 1973 — Page 1
Weather Mostly fair and mild with little temperature change through Saturday, except chance of a few afternoon and early evening showers and thunderstorms. Lows tonight in the lower 60s. Highs Saturday near 80. Chances of rain are 20 per cent Saturday.
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EVENING EDITION
In Bowman Suit
Owen Judge Rules Deer ^ Creek Contract Legal
Owen County Circuit Court Judge William T. Sharp has ruled that Deer Creek Bridge engineer Kenneth Bowman did not sign an illegal contract with the former Putnam County Commissioners for the design of the bridge, as charged by Mrs. Marian Nelson in her suit against the engineer. Rescue Call
Made
Work crews on construction at DePauw University have had clear weather of late in which to continue progress on the several projects underway at the Greencastle college. Here workmen lay brick and stone for the new 5350,000 Lambda Chi Alpha chapter house. The work is being done
For Undeliverable Mail, Bergen Says
by Superior Lumber and Building Co. of Bloomington. A spokesman said that work is to be completed by November
of this year.
(Banner-Graphic Photo)
A rescue unit from the Greencastle Fire Department was called to the Glenn Flint home, northwest of the city, at 2:26 this morning. Mr. Flint, 77, was experiencing breathing trouble. He was given two tanks of oxygen and then taken to the Putnam County Hospital in the Hopkins ambulance. It was the 97th run of the year for the firemen who returned to the station at 3:13 a.m.
Mrs. Nelson had charged that the contract was illegal and that fees paid to Bowman should be recovered. However, Judge Sharp, in making his ruling following the May 10 trial, stated that “the method by which the County Commissioners of Putnam County awarded the contract...was not in keeping with the most sound business and public administration practices, however from the evidence presented in this case, the court could not find that said action was illegal... “Nor that the defendant Bowman should not be compensated in accordance with Bible Thought I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shall thrice deny that thou knowest me.-Luke 22:34. On guard! When we think we are strong, sin slips in.
his contract with said commissioners for work long since completed and paid for.” In announcing that the Owen court found for Bowman and against Mrs. Nelson, the judge did praise the Putnam County resident for her civic action. “The court in making this finding specifically wishes to commend the plaintiff (Mrs. Nelson) for her civic interest
and action as an interested and responsible taxpayer...” “We feel the suit had good results,” Mrs. Nelson said yesterday. “It brought attention to the misconduct of the former commissioners and we believe it helped to bring on the indictments against them. “I want to thank everybody who backed us financially in this action,” she said.
Shrine Unit Contracts Made
ticipants this year,” Scobee
said.
The fair parade this year has been scheduled for Sunday afternoon, July 29. Emmett Hunter of Central Insurance Agency is general chairman of the event.
“Dead Letter” Office Final Rest For Much Mail
At Gobin
Every working day, the Greencastle post office sends three or four pieces of mail to the Cincinnati branch of the postal service where they may come to final rest in what is commonly known as the “dead letter” office. John Bergen, Officer in Charge of the local post
office, says that his department is unable to deliver certain letters because there is no possible way to determine who the recipient may be or where he may now be residing. Some of the letters go to the dead letter office because names are illegible. However,
a greater number fails to reach the intended destination because the addressee is not living where the letter says he is. Many of the returns are greeting cards sent to hospital patients. Quite often, the address is not the permanent residence of the patient but a recuperating station with relatives or friends. In the case of the rural carrier, who de-
livers mail by name, there is no way to determine in whose box the letter should be put. City carriers have it a little easier in this respect. The name may not mean anything to them, but it doesn’t need to since they deliver by house number. Some undeliverable letters are addressed to transients who have been long gone with no forwarding address. Other
pieces of mail can not be delivered because the forwarding address of the recipient is no longer on file at the post office. “We keep them a year and then mark them off,” Officer-in-Charge Bergen said. The dead letter office gets only a fraction of the mail which can not be delivered on the first try. About 100 letters a day are returned to the
Queen Hopefuls
Soybean Move Prompts Local ‘Wait And See’
(This is the third in a series of features on the 10 candidates for the Putnam County Fair Queen contest to be held on July 30.) Miss Cynthia Sue Brown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Brown of Route 1, Fillmore, will compete in the 1973 Putnam County Fair Queen contest. Cindy is 18 years old and a 1973 graduate of South Putnam High School. As a student at South Putnam, she participated in chorus, Spanish Club, Pep Club, FHA,
GAA, Business Club, OEA and the Pep Band. She was also a member of the Senior Band, in which she played the clarinet. She served as a Candy Striper at the hospital and was on the newspaper staff at school. Cindy hopes to find secretarial work and suggests that she may possibly seek a business college. Cindy’s interest in the contest began last year when it was suggested by friends that she enter. This year, she was Please turn to page 2, Col. 2
Cynthia Sue Brown
Reactions from spokesmen at two Greencastle Grain Elevators is one of a “wait and see” attitude to the action taken yesterday by the Chicago Board of Trade in temporarily halting trading in soybeans and soybean products. “We have to find out how the market will be set up after this liquidation period is over,” John Aker, of the Farm Bureau Co-op said. In response to a government request to slow trading of soybean and soybeans products futures, the board directors ordered transactions in the items coming due in July, August and September to continue for liquidation purposes only. Aker noted that after the three month period he thought there will be a market for new beans and added that there probably won’t be any real problem in “setting the market back up.” “1 don’t think there will be any new problems but right now, I can only speculate on what will happen,” Aker said. He noted that this is the first time this has happened for soybeans in the modern history of the board. “It’s going to take the speculator out of the market and take a lot of trading out of beans. So the only trading
going on will be what’s needed. “We won’t be able to get bids from the Board of Trade, which has been sort of a guideline. We will get bids but they will be derived from different sources. So there might be some interesting bidding going on.” Aker added that the immediate local effect of the action was that it lowered the market $1. John Poor at Poor & Co. noted that the board’s action has left him in a position where he does not know “if I can get a price for the beans” but added that the elevator
will probably be able to bid new beans. In imposing the limitations, the board’s directors dusted off a rule used about a year ago to restrict wheat futures transactions. It had not been used for about 20 years before that. Soybeans and soybean meal have figured prominently in a worldwide hunt for high-protein livestock and poultry feeds. Prices of these items in the cash market have been rising steadily since last fall. The highest price ever paid Please Turn to P»ge 2, Col. 7.
sender for more complete address. “This points out the importance of putting a return address on every piece of mail, Bergen noted. For some reason or other, persons who send greeting cards often fail to include their return. In addition to the return address, another way to keep your correspondence out of the dead letter office is to mark it “in care of’ a regular patron on the rural route. This takes care of minor children in the family or persons outside the family who may be in temporary residence there. When letters hit the dead letter office in Cincinnati, they are opened. If there is enough information inside the envelope, the letter will get to its destination. If not, it will go into the big waste basket.
Contacts are being made with Shrine units throughout the state and indications are that many of them will send entries to the Putnam County 4-H Fair Parade, Gerald Scobee, president of the Putnam County Shrine Club, has
announced.
Confirmed todateisanen-
try from the Murat Minicycle (jllOStS
club of Indianapolis. However, letters have been sent to various units and many of them have indicated by phone that they plan to participate. Scobee said that approximately 12 Shrine groups had entries in the parade last year. One of these included the minibike team of the local Shrine Club. “We expect to increase the number of parPutnamville
Fish Fry
Tomorrow The annual Putnamville Fish Fry has been set for Saturday at the Putnamville School grounds with serving
starting at 5 p.m.
“We will have good food, homemade pies and country and western entertainment,” Charles Cooper, chairman of the advertising committee for the Warren Township Lions
Club noted.
The township organization is sponsoring the event.
A movie full of ghosts and equally weird human beings in a strange old house is on the program at Gobin United Methodist Church this Friday evening. A short film about highway construction will also be on the agenda. The church offers this community recreational opportunity to everyone while no commercial theater in town is open. The Spring Street door of the CAM building opens at 6:40 for the
7 p.m. showing.
The Junior High Fellowship is selecting the films and asking for 50 cent contributions to help meet the cost of film rental. They give free popcorn to donors. They cannot announce the titles of the films because of restrictions accompanying the film rental, but they can guarantee an entertaining
evening.
Property Damage Brings Police
Greencastle police were called to the scene of a property damage accident at the intersection of Washington and Jackson Streets. No injuries or citations were reported, but damage was estimated at $750 to a Pontiac driven by Marvin R. Overshiner, 29, 0 f 1040 Avenue D., Greencastle. Damage was estimated at $50
to the 1964 Oldsmobile driven by Myrna A. Sterchi, 18, of Route 1, Quincy. The Sterchi vehicle was westbound on Washington Street, while the Overshiner Pontiac was traveling ast on Washington. As the Sterchi car attempted a left turn onto Jackson Street, Overshiner preceded east into the side of the Sterchi Oldsmobile.
Kenneth Eitel Jr., advertising manager and coordinator for Greencastle’s Horace Link and Co., accepts the plaque presented by Indiana Gas for the local company’s May gas range promotion. Horace Link won the top prize in the gas range promotion category of
the Indiana Gas ad promotion contest—was first among 172 dealers in the state. Kenneth Kinman, dealer relations manager for Indiana Gas makes the presentation for the company. (Banner-Graphic Photo)