Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 282, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 August 1979 — Page 1

Zaring earns top showman honor

By G. PATRICK GRIMES Banner-Graphic Staff Writer Max Allen (Jake) Zaring won the annual 4-H Grand Showman Award Friday night at the Putnam County Fair. Zaring, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Zaring of rural Fillmore, had won the showmanship award for Beef Cattle, and was therefore one of five contestants in the annual contest. Also participating were: Lana Tippin, Dairy; Dennis Steele, Swine; Peggy Evans. Sheep; and Mary Webb, Horse and Pony. THE CONTEST required entrants to display their showmanship talents with five different types of animals. Included were Dairy and Beef Cattle, Swine, Horse and Pony and Sheep. Each had to show one animal from each species before the judge, Ken McDonald, a member of the Purdue University animal science department. The five were judged on the basis of how well they handled the animals and how closely they followed the general rules of thumb for showing each animal. Judge McDonald commented before giving Zaring his award that his decision was based on the attitude and general knowledge of the participant, along with his ability to follow directions. “IT WAS A TOUGH decision because all of you did so well,” Mcbonald told the five

Hutcheson Home survived union dispute

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic Staff Writer Union members made their presence known even in the 1930 s when three representatives stormed into the office of a local doctor and demanded he stop work on one of the biggest projects in the county. The project was the construction of a home for the nursing staff of the Putnam County Hospital. The idea for the home was conceived on Jan. 28, 1908 when 26 Putnam County residents compiled the articles of association which stated a hospital would be established, along with “a school for the education and training of nurses.” TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS later, Dr. W.R. Hutcheson, and his wife, Adda, announced they would donate the land and would build the home. Dr. Hutcheson was a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine and did graduate work at the New York Postgraduate School and Hospital. He was the son of Phillip and Louisa Bence Hutcheson, early residents of Washington Township. Mrs. Adda Hutcheson was the daughter of T.B. and Alice Hazlett Farmer of Marion Township. She resided at Mt. Meridian before moving to Greencastle and marrying Dr. Hutcheson. THEIR EFFORTS TO construct the home became a reality, but not without much controversy. When the Hutchesons started to construct the building, cost of the project was estimated at $20,000. It was agreed the building and the land, located at 330 Greenwood Ave., Greencastle, would become county property upon the death of the couple. It was also agreed they would

No humor in humid Warm and humid through Sunday with a chance of isolated afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low tonight in the upper 60s. Highs Sunday around 90. Indiana Extended Outlook Monday through Wednesday will be a warm and humid period with little or no precipitation. Low will be in the mid 60s to low 70s, with hights in the 80s, except the extreme southern counties, where highs will reach 90. Index Abby A 8 Bridge A 4 Classified A6.A7 Comics A 4 Crossword A 6 Horoscope A 7 Obituaries A 8 Sports A 5 Theatres A 8 Worry Clinic A 7

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in front of a packed arena. “I think you can tell I’m stalling,” he joked before announcing Zaring’s name as the grand champion. Almost immediately the good sportsmanship and unity of the five 4-Hers came through, manifesting itself in the form of cheers, shouts and hugs for young Zaring. Most, obviously felt that the North Putnam graduate deserved the award, culminating his dedication and hard work in the 4-H program for the past 10 years. Zaring, whose whole family is involved with farming, won as a class grand champion with his Charolais steer, and sold it in Thursday’s auction for an excellent price. During the two-hour event, several awards and presentations were made while showmanship contestants were preparing for the next phase of their competition. The winners announced were: Andy Beck, Beef Barn Herdsmanship Award; Cathy Chadd, Sheep Bam Rookie Award; Janette Smith, Sheep Herdsman Award; Matt Kirkham, Dairy Herdsman Award; Sandra Rogers, Horse Herdsmanship; Rachele Vaughn, Horse Rookie; and Gene Winings, Senior Sportsmanship A want JEFF DAVIES WON the horse raffled off by the Horse and Pony Club, and Dor Jeffries won the TV the Sheep Barn raffled off.

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receive five per cent of the cost of the structure. Jane Hays, who resides in Greencastle and is a sister to Adda Hutcheson, remembers when plans were being made to build the home. “WHEN THE HOSPITAL was built, all the nurses were single women,” Mrs. Hays explained. The home was built out of a need to draw more nurses to Putnam County. Previously, the nurses stayed in quar-

Putnam Patter Journal promotes tomato acid

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor We always knew that tomatoes were good and good for you, but we didn’t know just how good until after reading a dissertation from Hall’s Journal of Health. In an 1867 reprint of excerpts from this journal, we learned that virtues of the tomato are not in its beauty or taste, but in its acid, the one component folks with tender insides try to avoid. MANY OF THOSE who are acid-shy turn to yellow tomatoes on the assumption that they are more acid-free. Someone who talked like he knew said that all tomatoes have a like amount of acid, however, some have more sugar to counteract it. Whatever the truth of this observation may be, the tomato is still at the top of our list of garden goodies. We’ve yet to meet one we didn’t like, unless the color was grass green. The Hall Journal’s health writer goes into a long-winded treatise on the beneficial effects of acid before he gets to the role of the tomato. “CHEMICAL PHYSIOLOGY has demonstrated that all acids have the effect to clear the bile out of the system by stimulating the liver to increased ac-

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ters outside of Greencastle. This arrangement became an inconvenience when the nurses had to respond to emergency calls and was keeping nurses from coming to the hospital to work. The hospital was paying approximately SI,OOO a year for the nurses to stay at homes in the county. The annual payment to the Hutchesons would be around the same amount, hospital administration members said. SO, IN APRIL 1937, the construction of

tivity,” the article read. “It is the excess of this bile in the blood in the spring of the year which makes it impure, as some call is ‘bad blood’ or thick blood, and which our grand-dams used to seek to thin, or purify by drenching us with sassafras tea or choking us with powdered brimstone in molasses.” Our researcher tells us that brimstone is sulphur. We’ve heard for a long time that sulphur and molasses would work some of the wintertime out of the system and now we know the specifics. “HENCE IT IS BY an unappeasable instinct nature yearns for something sour in the spring,” the article continued, ’’and we are impatient for the early fruits and berries and first spinach, not because of the spinach itself, but because it is known to be eaten with vinegar and it is the acid that is craved.” (And we always thought vinegar was put on to kill the taste of the spinach.) People feeling a bilious attack coming on crave something that is sour, the writer continued. And here he endorses the tomato. “It is the pleasant acid of the tomato which makes it healthful as a blood purifier; so pleasant that large quantities

Commissioners seeking more space, hospital bids

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher Faced with an ironic paradox of unwanted space and not enough room, the Putnam County Commissioners will look for solutions to both problems when they convene in regular session at the courthouse at 9 a.m. Monday. On the one hand, Commissioners Don Walton, Elbert Irwin and Gene Beck will try a second time to sell the old county hospital property, although prospects of sealed bids appear as dim as they did when the first solicitation was made in June. Bids can be received until 10 a.m. Monday when, if there are any, they’ll be opened and read. THE PRICE TAG ON the entire package, which includes the hospital, administration building and heating plant, remains at a minimum of $400,000, but this time the county advertised separate base prices for the two main buildings. The commissioners will accept a minimum bid of $70,299.18 for the administration building and heating plant and $329,700.82 for the property containing the hospital building. But as was the case in June, the sewer ban currently in effect against the city of Greencastle is expected to discourage bidders. Anyone who might buy either building couldn’t connect them to the existing sewer system without special per-

the home began. Dr. Hutcheson hired workers for a rate of 50 cents an hour, while team workers were to be paid $5 a day. A few days after construction began, three Terre Haute union men came to Dr. Hutcheson’s office and presented him with a list of demands. The men demanded Hutcheson immediately lay off the workers, agree to only employ men who were sent to him by Col. 3, back page, this section

can be taken without oppressing the system.” Since you can’t spit out tomato seeds like you do those of the watermelon nature has also made good use of them, according to Hall’s article. Since they are indigestible, they are cheap substitutes for those TVtouted miracle combinations, some spelled backwards, some forward, all guaranteed to take over when nature goes on the blink. “IF WOMEN, CHILDREN, sedentary men, invalids and persons in poor health generally can be induced during the warm weather to live almost wholly on coarse bread, samp, hominy, wheat-on grits with fruit, berries and tomatoes, an incalculable amount of summer and autumnal disease would be avoided,” the article concluded. Some of the above terms may deserve clarification. A sedentary man is one who sits a lot, probably whittling and telling lies on a courthouse bench. Samp is cornmeal mush and the change of name doesn’t make it better eating, in my opinion. Coarse bread surely refers to cornbread. which is also on our least preferred list. Maybe without knowing it, we have eaten “wheat-on grits” but never before have we heard of such a combination.

mission of the State Board of Health. The Commissioners haven’t indicated what they might try next if Monday’s session doesn’t produce any bids. ALSO ON THE AGENDA is con sideration of more room for the Putnam County Court, where Judge William C. Vaughn 111 will become fulltime judge on Sept. 1 when legislation dividing the ClayPutnam County Court into separate courts becomes effective. On that same date County Court will assume jurisdiction in Class D felony cases, meaning the number of criminal jury trials probably will increase. But the lack of a jury deliberation room and the location of the court on the ground floor of the courthouse next to the east entrance are serious problems, according to Judge Vaughn, who will meet with the commissioners Monday to discuss possible relocation of the court. “I’m certainly not trying to dictate anything to the Commissioners,” Judge Vaughn explained this week. “I just want to discuss with them the needs of the court and ways we might go about solving our space problem.” IN A LETTER TO THE Commissioners on July 18, Vaughn said lack of a jury room is his most pressing problem, but added, “I believe it to be in the best interests of the people to adequately plan for the future.

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Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor Remember former Greencastle resident 808 HAMONTRE, the exowner of the old Putnam County Graphic? Hamontre was later production manager at the Courier-Tribune in Bloomington after the Graphic was purchased and merged with the Banner. And after the Bloomington newspaper folded in 1973 he went on to work for another paper chain in Cincinnati. Now, a news release from the public relations staff for Big Red Q Quickprint Centers of Toledo, Ohio, lists Hamontre “as part of a growing trend in Indiana and the nation called ‘business format franchising.’” The press release says Hamontre last year bought a Big Red Q Quickprint franchise in Indiana University Big Red country, namely Bloomington. The news release continues: “Hamontre, in fact, calls his choice of franchises, an instant printing shop, a recession-proof business. ‘We print business forms, sales leaflets, newsletters,’ Hamontre says. ‘Companies and clubs need printing regardless of the state of the economy. Our business keeps getting better.’” The printing franchise operates much the same as the fast-food burger and chicken chains, with local dealers paying a certain monthly percentage to reap the benefits of a nationwide namfr and advertising program. TIMOTHY G. BEER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome H. Beer, 806 Cameron Drive, Greencastle, and a senior at Greencastle High School, has completed a unique week of “camping” at Rose-Hulman Insitute of Technology near Terre Haute. It was called Camp Retupmoc and, according to promotional materials, is a “week as tough as a buffalo hunt.” Actually, R-E-T-U-P-M-O-C is C-O-M-P-U-T-E-R spelled backwards and is the way RoseHulman has chosen to tell high school students about an intensive one-week experience with computers, the people who build them, and people who make them do useful things. Students were introduced to computer programs in a language called BASIC. No previous knowledge of computers or experience in programming was necessary, and students with background in computing were met at a level of challenge. Participants write their own programs for solving problems and spent some of their spare time playing the numerous computer games which Rose-Hulman students have developed through the years. PENNY GRAY, Cloverdale," is among the group of eight girls from the Covered Bridge Girl Scout Coun-

“The present County Court facilities are adequate for traffic and small claims and minor criminal trials,” Vaughn said in his letter, “but are far from ideal. Because of the noise generated by a great deal of firstfloor pedestrian traffic, jury trials are difficult to properly conduct. It would, therefore, be my recommendation that future remodeling plans for the courthouse include locating the County Court on another floor. The third floor might be a good location allowing both courts to be centrally located, if space is available and if the present available space is remodeled. “There are many obvious advantages in having both courts on the same floor,” Vaughn added, “and after careful thought this would be my advice, even though there may be alternatives. ” SIX-MEMBER JURY trials have been conducted in County Court with jurors utilizing the courtroom for deliberations. But Vaughn said that practice is far from ideal and shouldn’t be used in criminal cases. The original old courtroom on the third floor seldom is used because of poor acoustics. On most occasions Circuit Judge Francis N. Hamilton conducts both civil and criminal cases in a smaller courtroom on the same floor.

Tim Beer "camps” at computer with Rose-Hulman's Dr. John Kinney at hand. cil trekkng to Wyoming. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray and is a member of Cadette Girl Scout Troop 107. The group plans to spend one week at Girl Scout National Center West near Ten Sleep, Wyo. This 15,000-acre expanse of scenery offers archeology, horseback riding, fishing, ecology, hiking and photography. The group traveled west via sight-seeing stops in the Black Hills, S.D., Yellowstone National Park and a raft trip on the Snake River in the Grand Tetons. MELANIE D. PRICE. Route 2, Cloverdale, is enrolled in the Lincoln Hills YCC Camp at Branchville, Ind. The camp is sponsored by the Tell City District of the Hoosier National Forest and campers are doing needed conservation work on the Tell City District while learning about the environment and earning money. Miss Price will be working on projects in recreation and timber. Timber projects will include pine tree pruning, and insect and disease control. In recreation she will help rehabilitate picnic and camping pads and build walking trails. MARY RUTH JONES, a former resident of Fillmore and a junior at Indiana State University, was among Terre Haute students on the dean’s list with a grade average of 3.75 and above out of possible 4.0 for distinguished honor roll. JOHN SCOBEE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Estal Scobee, has returned home after completing four years with the U.S. Air Force. Scobee, a 1975 graduate of South Putnam High School, spent his last two years stationed in Italy. Marine Pfc MARK E. JONES, son of Cletis E. Jones, Route 3. Cloverdale, has been promoted to his present rank while serving with the First Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif. Jones joined the Marine Corps last December.