Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 309, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 March 1975 — Page 1

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Holding the Greencastle Sectional Championship trophy after North Putnam’s 74-60 win over the host Tiger Cubs in the final game are Jim Sharp, left; and senior members of the Cougar Sectional champions Rex Call, center;

And out of jail Mental Health groups probe ways to get ill into proper facilities

EFFORTS BY THE Putnam County Mental Association are continuing in an attempt to get persons who need immediate mental health care to a "proper facility” as soon as possible, the association said. Through its Jailed Persons Committee, the association is talking with area officials to probe ways to get mentally ill persons who would normally be detained at the Putnam County Jail to the best facility available as soon as possible, Rev. Frank Smith, chairman of the committee said. MENTAL PATIENTS who are housed at the jail are those who are held there until proper medical attention can be arranged or who are housed at the jail pending committment to a mental institution. The association noted the Jailed Patients Committee is responsible for “conducting programs and implementing plans to eliminate the practice of placing mental patients in the county jail.” AS SET UP “the committee shall do everything in its power to establish alternative methods of caring for the patient while awaiting commitment; and to speed up the process of commitment by visiting the jailed patient regularly, by establishing constructive relationship with the physicians,judge, county clerk, sheriff and the state hospital personnel to avoid needless delays and to aid the patient and his family in every possible way.”

DPU, Telesis corporation

sign agreement

An agreement reached between DePauw University and Telesis Corporation of Evansville, Ind., will make the campus a center for cablecasting in Under the agreement Telesis’ local affiliate, Putnam Countuy AllChannel Cablevision, will finance and install a cable connection between its headquarters and three buildings on the campus. The Roy 0. West Library, Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, and the soon-to-be-completed Performing Arts Center initially will be tied into the city’s cable system. As a result, spot and regular programming may originate live or on tape from these buildings and be picked up on cable television’s channel five. Campus convocations, concerts, lectures, plays, operas, and regular Sunday morning worship services from the church are among the events that may be originated from the campus for those on the city’s cable system. Qualified students under the direction of the University’s instructional media division, and other trained technicians will produce the campus-based programming. The University already owns the necessary video cameras, video tape recorders, lighting and related equipment which were purchased for the wellestablished instructional media system. The instructional media program presently has inter-building hookups between Asbury

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and Steve Bullerdick. The Cougars will face highly-regarded Lebanon in the second game of the Frankfort Regional Saturday. (BannerGraphic photo by Chuck Wanager).

This article written by Banner-Graphic City Editor Chuch Wanager. County residents needing institutional care are committed to the Central State Hosptal in Indianapolis. . On the Jail Committee with Rev. Smith are Putnam County Sheriff Jim Baugh and- John O’Nan, ACSW, accredited social worker on the staff of the Cummins Mental Health Clinic, serving Putnam and Hendricks Counties. REV. SMITH SAID the committee will be working with law enforcement officers, medical men, judiciary and others in the near future to map out a means to get immediate help to the mentally ill as soon as possible. The committee is to meet to “explain avenues and see if anything can be done constructively” on the matter of jail patients, Rev. Smith said. REV. SMITH NOTED that a meeting has been set for March 4 as a training session with O’Nan meeting with local law enforcement officials to teach them how to handle the aggreavated mentally disturbed persons. He said the meeting will also focus on facilities available to police for handling of the patients. At this time, the “best thing” that can be done for mental patients is for family members of friends to get in touch with the family doctor for help. Col. 4, back page, tms section

Hall, Harrison Hall, and the library. It also has portable capabilities adaptable to cablecasting. The instructional media program however, is an internal system. It is used primarily as a teaching aid to enable faculty and students to enrich their own teaching and-or learning experiences. Larry Spangler, Indiana Division Manager for Telesis Corporation, said tentative plans call for starting installation of the campus cable in March. Details of installation are being coordinated with Robert Gaston, director of the University’s physical plant. Spangler said programming should be possible for the first time in April. “We feel this will be quite a contribution to the community to view many things at the University that they might not otherwise be able to see,” Spangler said. Programs originating in Gobin Church would be immediately available for cablecasting, including the University’s Encounter Lecture Series and the church’s weekly worship services. Gobin Church minister, the Rev. Gerald Trigg, said cablecasting of Gobin Sunday services would begin just as soon as the systeir has been installed. Selected cultural events, lectures and Col. 4, back page, this section

PUTNAM COUNTY, INDIANA, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1975

Chairman GFSLA

Collins elected to federal council

Ernest H. Collins of Greencastle, has been re-elected as a member of the Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council, it was announced by Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman Thomas R. Bomar. Collins will serve during calendar 1975. The Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council is a group of advisors empowered by statute to consult with and advise the Federal Home Loan

Ticket sales begin at North Putnam

With its win over Greencastle’s Tiger Cubs to notch the Greencastle Sectional Tournament Championship Saturday, North Putnam High School has announced the following schedule for ticket sales to the first round Frankfort Regional Tournament play this Saturday at 1:30 against Lebanon: Today, Monday, the school will begin selling its 1,045 tickets to reserve basketball and Freshman basketball team members, cheerleaders, varsity basketball team members’ parents, varsity cheerleaders, parents, and to the pep block by assigned

McKeehan retires at Welfare Dept.

Greencastle’s Grace McKeehan began her working career as a Kentucky school teacher and ended it Friday when she retired after 18 and a half years as a case worker for the Putnam County Department of Public Welfare. She came to the local department at the request of the late Fay Ray, who was then the director. At times, she had most of the county in her territory, but in more recent

Bicycle safety kids show slated

A Kids Show featuring bicycle safety will be held Saturday, March 15, at 1 p.m. at the Greencastle Junior High School auditorium on S. Spring Street. The show will be sponsored by the Putnam County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 92. Admission and popcorn will be free and three prizes will be given away. A boys , a girls bicycle, and a transistor radio will be awarded. The prizes were donated by Schultz’s Family Store and the Fraternal Order of Police. Also

Zoning meet cancelled

Due to a low case load, the session, the board announced. Greencastle Board of Zoning The board is to meet again in regular session Thursday April Appeals will not hold a March 10 at 7:30 in City Hall.

NP student in All-State band

ROACHDALE-Cindy Harbison, a senior at North Putnam High School, has been awarded membership in the Indiana AllState Band. Cindy was selected from several hundred musicians from throughout the state who participated in an audition held in January consisting of a solo on the Group I State Solo list and sight reading. The All-State Band, sponsored by the Indiana Bandmasters Association, will rehearse on Saturday, March 8,

Bank Board concerning the savings and loan industry and general business conditions. Membership of the council recently was expanded from a total of 18 to a total of 24 in recognition of growing diversity in the nation’s housing problems and the desirability of encouraging input from a broader representation of persons and organizations. The council now consists of 12 individuals appointed by the

seats. Also students with season tickets will purchase tickets today. Tomorrow, Tuseday, Adult season ticket holders may purchase tickets along with North Putnam School Corporation employes. Also students who do not have season tickets will buy theirs Tuesday. Wednesday, North Putnam School corporation residents who do not have season tickets may purchase tickets. And then on. Thursday, tickets will be sold to the general public.

years, she has worked in the adult category in the northern townships. Working with older people, she has encountered many cases of desperate need. As people have advanced in age, medical bills and living expenses have wiped out their meager means and they have had no where else to turn. In her 18 plus years with the welfare department, Grace McKeehan has found it hard to

the $25 Savings Bond winner will be announced for the Best Bicycle Safety Slogan.

RSVP to honor Dr. Wedel; lecturer

RSVP-In-Putnam County will host an “introduction to Greencastle” honoring Dr. Cynthia Wedel, associate director of the center for a Volunteer Society. The public is invited to join the Senior Volunteers and meet

in Indianapolis and present a public concert in Clowes Hall on Sunday, March 9 at 3 p.m. The conductor of the band will be Col. Harpham, Director of the U.S. Marine Band. Cindy is first chair clarinet in the North Putnam High School Band and will be a featured soloist with the band in their Variety Show to be presented on Friday, March 14. She is also a member of the National Honor Society, swing Col. 3, back page, this secton

Federal Home Loan Bank Board from leaders in business and the professions (contrasted with six appointments previously) and 12 savings and loan executives elected by the Federal Home Loan Banks.

Winners of the first bicenntenial project of the cultural arts committee of the Extension Homemakers Association are, from left, Mrs. Mary Ellen Glidewell, Greencastle; Mrs. Keith Opdahl, Greencastle, and Mrs. Cecil Arnold, Fillmore. With the winners are Mrs.

keep up with the changes. The increase in red tape, bringing with it forms to complete and regulations to observe, has robbed the case worker of time she needed to help people. Daughter of a family doctor, Mrs. McKeehan graduated from Corbin, Ky. High School and received enough additional schooling in Kentucky’s Berea College to qualify her for a school. She earned $75 a month as an elementary teacher.

The show is open to all Putnam County boys and girls from six to 16 years old.

Dr. Wedel on Wednesday, March 5, at 1;30 p.m. . in the Senior Center, 9 W. Franklin St. Dr. Wedel presently serves as National Chairperson of the volunteers for the American Red Cross, is a leader in the World Council of Churches and is a past president of the National Council of Churches. She is in Greencastle to deliver the Mendenhall Lecture Series at DePauw University. The informal welcome will feature a brief introduction of Dr. Wedel and the opportunity Col. 3, back page, this section

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Council members are carefully chosen to represent the board interest of the public and to apply specialized experience and considered judgment of home financing problems.

Quilt winners

Mace Aker, committee chairman. The winners show their prize winners design in the quilt design competition last Tuesday at the fairgrounds. (Banner-Graphic photo by Chuck Wanager).

Whatever plans Grace Harmon had for her future changed when she met Paul McKeehan, who had come to Kentucky to visit relatives. They were married and prior to

Inside-Out Area deaths Cecil J. Clones, 60, Roachdale; Marne Wood, 80, Greencastle; Clara Mae Lemon, 28, former Putnam County Resident. Warmer Partly cloudy today, tonight, and tomorrow with lows tonight in the teens. Highs Tuesday are forecasted for the upper 30s. Indiana Extended Outlook Partly cloudy with a warming trend Wednesday through Friday. Highs Wednesday and Thursday in the mid-30s to upper-40s. Warming to the low-50s Friday. Lows in the low-20s to low-30s by Friday. For the record

Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Saturday: Patricia Davis Catherine Miller Ruth Eisenmenger Rose Elmore Elsie Culley Joan Rogers Jeanne Albright John Vermillion Allan Eichsteadt Grace Lowes Clarence Knauer Dorthoy Hudgens Walter Dorsett Mrs. Sandra Hagan and son Mrs. Glenna Gorham and

World briefs A budget cut proposed by the Ford administration could mean an increase in the cost of school lunches. Government officials estimate the price hike could result in a 24 per cent drop in the number of students buying school lunches, Index to inside pages

Abby A 2 Bridge B 4 Calendar A 3 Classified B 5 Comics B 4 Editorials A 4 Family Living A2,A3

Collins was reelected by member institutions of the Federal Home Loan Bak of Indianapolis, which serves the thrift industry in Indiana and Col. 3, back page, this section

his passing, they lived on a farm west of Brick Chapel. Their daughter, Alice, is assistant principal of Elkhart Col. 3, back page, this section

son Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Sunday: Wanda Grimes Connie Spear Harold Hardman Wanda Burnham Russell Frazier David Young Samuel Brann, Jr. Kenneth Thurman Roy Flint Alda Wheeler Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Elliott, Greencastle, Route 3, a girl.

Horoscope B 5 Letters A 4 Obituaries A 6 Sports 81, 82, 83, Bft TV 84 Worry Clinic B 4 Heloise A 2