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Fisher Urges Plan Begin On New City Building

In his annual report to the Greencastle City Council last ijight, Mayor Raymond Fisher called on the group to start preliminary plans for a new

city building.

In his report, the mayor al-

so recommended: • The annexation of a south and northwest portion of the city so that improvements can be made to South Jackson Street. • The city provide a sanitary sewer for Jackson Blvd. as soon as possible. He added that the region was annexed in 1955 and are long overdue for sewage facilities. •Continuing street improvements including curbs. Discussing the proposed

new city building, councilman Harold Stewart expressed support for the building and noted that such a structure is much needed. Fisher announced last year that the city purchased the lot to the south of the present city hall for use for a possible new

building.

Also in his year-end report, the mayor noted the city received a total of 594,833.45 in federal revenue sharing funds in 1973 and spent 521,170.61 for equipment.

He added the city has a balance in revenue sharing funds of $78,655.68 with 54,992.84 of that in interest earned from the deposited funds. In closing, Fisher stated, “I especially want to thank the city council for their cooperation and understanding for the nine months which I have served as mayor. “I want to thank the heads of all departments of the city and especially our clerk-treas-urer, city engineer and city attorney Rexell Boyd for their cooperation. “I am sure 1974 will be a good year." In other business, the council heard the annual reports

from the city departments with Police Chief John Pursell stating that his department received 1,807 complaints during the year and cleared 1,387 making 364 arrests with 316 convictions. “This is above the state standard in convictions,” the chief stated. During the year, Purse!! cited 161 property damage accidents and 69 personal injury accidents in the city for a total 230 accidents at 5144,220 in damages. Under the fire department report, fire chief Les Haltom noted 82 city, 40 township, 67 rescue and three mutual aid calls during the year.

Of the fire calls, 21 were city residential, 16 business and 45 miscellaneous. The chief cited nine fire calls to DePauw University and two rescue calls to the college. “Total fire losses were estimated at $52,755” for the city, the chief said. For the street department, street superintendent Dale Oler noted his men replaced two sewers for the year and said he would have a more complete report later since the report was not finished due to the many hours he put in directing the snow removal operations here. Thus far in January, Oler said there were 11 dogs taken

to Morgantown and six in the round at present. The council also heard from city engineer Cliff Norton who cited a total of 82 building permits issued in the city in 1973 for a total cost of $7,839,992. For December the engineer said there were two building permits issued at a cost of $34,000. The council also heard a complaint from Mrs. Nancy Wright about the safety of Locust Street near Hogate Hall where cars park along the street adding to the dangers of the crossing for children on their way to Rid-

path Elementary School. Pursell said his men will be keeping a close watch on the area but said there are yellow, no-parking lines along the POOR SAYS

street in front of the hall but the heavy snows have obscured the lines from those persons parking their vehicles.

Bowen Here For Dinner March 4 -Governor Otis Bowen will speak in Greencastle March 4, Putnam County Republican chairman Bob Poor announced yesterday. Poor said the governor will be in the city for the annual county Lincoln Day Dinner.

Weather Mostly cloudy with a slow warming trend through Wednesday. Lows tonight in the upper 30s to low 40s. Highs Wednesday in the upper 40s to low 50s.

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Phase Elective English Adopted By School Board At Meeting

In other school board ac- Future meetings planned tion last night, approval was by the board and the school given to purchase two new include a board of finance buses to replace a like number 'meeting Jan. 21 and a of older units. teachers conference Feb. 2. Superintendent Ross re- Ross said that the report of ported six lost school days be- the state fire marshal had cause of snow and ice on the been received and that assistroads. He told the board he ant superintendent Loyd was consulting with the state Hurst, maintenance supervidepartment of public instruc- sor Bob Dean and school tions to determine how this matter can be adj usted. Please turn to page 2, col. 4 New Dimension ’74 Intensifies Tonight

Phase Elective English, a teaching program designed to make the subject more meaningful to the student, was adopted last night by the Greencastle School Board. Presenting aspects of the new teaching method were Mrs. Alfred R. Peterson, English department chairman in Greencastle High School and Dr. John Coomer, G.H.S. vice-principal. The program is divided into five phases according to the needs of the individual with Phase One designed for the slow reader or the apathetic student needing additional motivation. Phases two and three are tailored to the average student and phases four and five are for advanced or honor course students. Mrs. Peterson emphasized that this teaching method does not do away with the basic fundamentals of English. The student will, however, be allowed to choose his electives according to his interests. A test survey revealed that the majority of students would choose courses which would help them in areas of English where they feel they are weak. While a choice w ill be given the student, his selection of electives will be preceded by counseling with the English staff. He will be advised of courses w hich will best serve him beyond high school. Phase Elective English, according to Mrs. Peterson and Dr. Coomer, has been tested in many schools with excellent results. The local school’s English department has made an extensive study of the method, which, since it now has board approval, will become a part of the English curriculum in September, 1974. The need for a new approach in the teaching of English, according to Mrs. Peterson, is apparent in the fact that nationwide, the average student is showing less and less interest in the subject. This is shown by lower scores on pre-college tests. It was pointed out that there is a weakness in vocabulary. Students are speech orientated, doing more listening and less reading. A great number of local students polled indicated an interest in courses which would improve their ivocabularies.

Greencastle’s Chamber of Commerce will move further into its New Dimension ’74 program when the annual dinner meeting of the organization is held at 6:30 p.m. today in the DePauw Student Union. Mace Aker, retiring president of the chamber, w ill review accomplishments of the past year and will relate them to the New’ Dimension ’74 effort which was launched more than two years ago. Accepting the challenge of this program will be James N. Cook, w ho will be guiding the chamber as president in the coming year. Cook has become acquainted with this program through serving as a director on the chamber board and also serving as vicepresident of the group for the past year. As associate director of alumni affairs at DePauw, Cook was assigned as chairman of the university relations committee of the chamber of commerce for the past year.

Advance ticket sales are beginning today for the annual chili supper and fun festival at Northeast ElementarySchool to be held Saturday, Jan. 26. Serving hours for the chili meal will be from 5-7p.m. and the game rooms will open at 5:30. Co-chairmen for the annual event are Mrs. Don Hiss,

Among the highlights of the past year has been the renovation program, known as Greencastle Uplift, and chaired by Ken Eitel, Sr. Through the efforts of this group, a number of local business firms have effected new fronts and interiors. Other officers to be installed tonight will be James Jones as vice-president. Jones is owner and proprietor of Moore’s Shoes. Mrs. Flo Morrison, chairman of the Retail Merchants committee and manager of the Golden Rule, will be installed as treasurer. Continuing as secretary will be Winifred Neal. Guest speaker at tonight’s - chamber dinner will be Mrs. Josephine Hauck, Executive Director for the “500” Festival Associates, Inc. She will be introduced by Keith Monnett. Offering the invocation and benediction will be the Rev. Frank Smith, pastor of the Greencastle First Baptist Church.

Mrs. Don Mundy and Mrs. TomGreenawald. Tickets for the chili supper may be purchased from any Northeast student for the price of $1 for adults and 75 cents for children 12 and under. In addition to the pickpocket man, the country Please tivn to page 2, col. 4

Ticket Sales At Northeast

City-County Library Sets Hours Schedule

Welcome to the Greencastle-Putnam County Library! Mrs. Lucille Lancaster, pictured, and the other librarians will be working later hours beginning this week to accomodate the community's readers. The new hours are: 8:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays; 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturdays. So if you need something to do on these cold winter evenings come pick out a good book to read. (Banner-Graphic Photo) GREENCASTLEGRAD

The Greencastle-Putnam County Library announced hours changes as the year begins “for the greater convenience of people working during the day.” As scheduled now, the library will be open from 8:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursdays and from 8:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. The facility will remain open from 9 to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The new hours structure makes possible for opening of the library at 8:30 on days when it did open at 9:00 and closing a half hour later on days when it did close at 5 p.m. “With our earlier hours we hope that persons traveling to work can come by to return books and then on their way

home they might come in and browse,” Ellen Sedlack, librarian said. The librarian said the new hours do not involve extra energy consumption because the facility is heated by 8:30

and the thermostat will be dialed down at 5:15. “We are very conscious not to have lighting waste so we feel the new schedule will not involve any excess energy use," Mrs. Sedlack said.

‘Corky’ Lamm, DePauw Grad, Dies

Veteran sports columnist and writer for the Indianapolis News, Robert Corwin “Corky” Lamm, died Sunday night at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Lamm was 58. Lamm was four times named Indiana sportswriter of the year.

H. Philip Maxwell Dies

H. Philip Maxwell, former editorial promotion manager of the Chicago Tribune and director of the annual Chicagoland Music Festival in Soldiers’ Field is dead at 72. Maxwell was bom in Greencastle, Aug. 16, 1901, the son of Harry L. Maxwell, a Methodist gospel singer and Grace Beck Maxwell, a high school English teacher.

No December Deaths Here

While Indiana reached, its lowest December traffic toll in 29 years last month due to the combination of the energy crisis, Sunday closings of service stations and heavy snows, Putnam County had a perfect score with no deaths on our county’s roads. State Police Supt. Robert L. DeBard said the 86 traffic deaths recorded last month was the lowest number since 1944, when 76 deaths were reported. The figure was 50 fewer than December 1972. The lowest toll ever recorded in Indiana during the month of December was 57 in 1942. The highest number was 158 in 1967. “The energy crisis-the uncertainty of finding ready fuel supplies-has lowered traffic Please turn to page 2, col. 6

He died Saturday of a heart attack at Countryside, 111. He attended public schools in Greencastle and was graduated from DePauw University in 1924. He married Helen Purcell of Vincennes. Mrs. Maxwell is a 1923 graduate of DePauw and survives. She now lives at 10735 5th Ave., Bldg B, Apt. 303. Countryside, 111. After graduating from DePauw, Maxwell worked for the Greencastle Banner and Herald, the Brazil Daily Times, the Terre Haute Star, the Indianapolis News, the Spencer Evening World, The Seymour Daily Tribune and the Louisville CourierJournal. He joined the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune in 1929. The newsman also has conducted two half-hour radio shows on WGN radio, Chicago; both sponsored by the Tribune. On “Citizens of Tomorrow," he took the role of the Principal Of Air and on “Youths Look Up,” that of the visiting Sunday school superintendent. More than two and a half million people have attended the festivals sponsored by Chicago Tribune Charities, Inc. during the last thirty years and nearly one half million young people participated in the two radio shows. Maxwell retired from both his Tribune and festival positions. The Maxwells have com-

posed several songs--she the music, he the lyrics. Among their compositions are “Wheels A-Rolling,” the theme song of the Chicago Railroad Fair Pageant; “Toast to Music,” “It’s Sing to Victory” “All My Love, Dear,” a ballad; “Autumn Ballett," and “Campus Days.” The Maxwells also wrote “Give Us a Campus,” dedicated to DePauw. They also wrote, “I’m A Little Christmas Tree,” and “A Cloud for A Pillow,” dedicated to the Haili Choir, Hilo, Hawaii. Two other numbers for which he wrote the lyrics are “Indiana,” music by Noble Cain and a band selection, “There’s Something About a Band,” with music by Richard W. Bowles. The newsman also published a book of verse, “One, Two, Three, Strike!” He also was a lecturer and master of ceremonies and with his wife presented motion picture travelogues. In recognition of his accomplishments in the field of music, Maxwell has received three honorary degrees of Doctor of Music, from the Sherwood Music school, Cosmopolitan School of Music and the Chicago Conservatory College. He also received a citation from the National Federation of Music Clubs. DePauw University in 1959 honored him with an honorary Doctor’s Degree of Literature.

He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Delta Chi fraternities. He belonged to the Presbyterian church, the Masonic order, is a member of the Indiana Society, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and was an honorary life member of the Moose Lodge and belonged to several musical and Please turn to page 2, col. 5

Following his graduation in 1937 from DePauw, he was sports editor of the Anderson Herald for six years. The Richmond native was known almost as well for his artistic ability with brush and pen as for his sportswriting, and his cartoons were familiar features on The News' sports pages. He won prizes for his photography and art work as well as his news stories. Twice his columns were chosen to be published in a collection of America's best sports stories. Lamm covered Big Ten football for the newspaper, but was equally at home on other assignments. For 30 years he was a regular at Indiana high school basketball tournaments. He followed Hoosiers everywhere, from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to the Olympic Games in Rome. Lamm was graduated from Cambridge City High Please turn to page 2, col. 6

Semester On Time At North Putnam

Charles Frazee, superintendent of the North Putnam McDonald Back At State Farm A former inmate of the Indiana State Farm who escaped from the Putnamville penal institution in May, 1972, is back in custody again. State police at the Putnamville Post have received word that Francis C. McDonald, 60, was arrested by Please tunuo page 2. col N

Community Schools, has announced that, despite the closings of school recently due to bad weather and road conditions, they will begin the second semester on schedule. This means that, for all general purposes, the second semester in the North Putnam school district officially began yesterday. He explained, however, that the first two or three days will be devoted to finishing the first semester by taking exams. The new classes will begin either Wednesday or Thursday and report cards from the end of the first semester will be issued Tuesday, Jan. 22 in all of the North Putnam schools, he added.