Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 128, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 February 1980 — Page 8

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State Police A personal injury accident in Chadd Valley on Ind. 240 occurred at 12:25 a.m. Saturday. Jack D. Stoneburger, 48. Toledo. Ohio, was driving a 1979 Ford tractor-trailer east when he lost the semi on a curve, hit a utility pole and overturned. He suffered bruises, neck and back pains and was taken to the Putnam County Hospital by Operation Life for treatment and examination. Trooper Gary Salsman of the Putnamville State Police Post investigated the accident. Trooper Ray Raney of the Putnamville State Police Past arrested two young men and lodged them in the Putnam County jail at 10:35 p.m Friday. . Randall J Holderfield, 20. Lafayette, and Gregory L. Berry. 19. West Lafayette, each were booked for possession of marijuana and for being minors in consumption of alcohol. Sheriff's Dept. An accident occurred in Jackson Township on County Road 600 East, 1.500 feet south of County Road 1050 North at 1:45a m Saturday. Bruce W. Cook. 27, Route 2, Roachdale, was driving a 1978 Oldsmobile sedan and Donald

Explosives topic of state police seminar

The Indiana State Police, in cooperation with the INCERT Clubs will be sponsoring a public seminaT on explosives and also on the use of propane gas. scheduled for Feb. 6. The seminar will be held at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy next to the Indiana Boy’s School about .a mile west of Plainfield THE PROGRAM is divided into two segments, one dealing specifically with propane, and another dealing with explosives. Specially trained experts will be on hand to speak on the

Dear Abby 'No gifts, please' Is it appropriate? DEAR ABBY: My wife and I will be married 40 years soon and plan to give a dinner party to celebrate this joyous occa sion. Our family and most of our friends are aware that this will be our 40th wedding anniversary, but we positively do not want any gifts! You once stated in your column that it was improper to indicate, "No gifts, please,” on an invitation. Later you not only reversed yourself but offered some excellent alternatives. What were they? KANSAS CITY INQUIRY DEAR K.C.: I have stated mauy times that any mention whatsoever of gifts was improper on an invitation. This includes the forthright “No gifts, please,” as well as the tasteless (in my view! suggestion that cash is preferred to any other type of gift. Many sent sample invitations in which gifts were mentioned. Below are two that changed my mind: “Mary and John Jones invite you to dine with us on the evening of June 1 at our home at 7:30 p.m. “It is in celebration of our 20th wedding anniversary. Your friendship is a cherished gift. We respectfully request no other.” ’The children of Alice and Donald Brown invite you to celebrate with them the 50th wedding anniversary of their parents. A reception will be held May 20, 5 p.m. at Hillcrest Country Club. “We request your help in compiling a book which recalls memories from our parents’ first 50 years of marriage. On the enclosed sheet, we ask that you write one memory or event that you have shared with them, and return it to us by April 25. We believe that loving memories they have shared with you, their friends, would be the most treasured gift they could receive; therefore, we request that no other gift be sent.” DEAR ABBY: Years ago, when married people were in vited to weddings, the invitations were addressed to “Mr. and Mrs.” Have times changed? Recently my physician husband received two wedding invitations addressed to him only. One was from a nurse, the other from a patient. He said both knew he was married. He attended both weddings by himself because he is dedicated to his profession; but 1 feel my not being invited, and his accepting without me, was rude. Can you update me on the present customs? INVISIBLE PARTNER DEAR PARTNER: Forget customs, etiquette and ail the rest. Kindness and common sense outranks propriety and tradition in my book. The invitations should have included you. But since they did not, your husband should have either requested permission to bring you —or stayed home himself. DEAR ABBY: Please settle an argument. Where I work, there is this woman who has silver gray hair but a young face and a good figure. She must be about 50 but looks younger. She has 12 grandchildren, but she swims with them, rides a bicycle with them and belongs to three bowl ing teams. She says she never babysits with her grandchildren unless there is an emergency. Everyone says I am all wet with my ideas but I think a grandmother should act like a grandmother and should be more proud of her grandchildren than her bowling score. A MOTHER DEAR MOTHER: This grandmother is acting like a grandmother. A modern one. Nowadays you can’t tell a grandmother by looking at her, and I say more power to her!

E. Winning, 17. also of Route 2, Roachdale, was driving a 1967 Ford when they collided. Deputy Sheriff Randy Cline assisted by Bruce Cooper, a reserve officer, estimated the damage at $750 to the Oldsmobile and S4OO to the Ford. No one was injured in the mishap. Real Estate Transfers Wildwood Lake Property Owners Assoc. Inc. to Maurice Clark et ux, warranty deed, lot 13, Plat 1. Wildwood Lake Subdivision. Wildwood Lake Property Owners Assoc. Inc. to Maurice T. Clark et ux, warranty deed, lot 14, Plat 1. Wildwood Lake Subdivision. Clarification The Steven D. Baker, listed in Putnam Scanner on Tuesday, Jan. 29 and charged with possession of a controlled substance. is not the Steve Baker of 1047 Ave. C. Greencastle. Hospital notes Dismissed Friday: Vicky Weier, Donnie Watkins. Mrs. Vivienne Delp and son, Susan Mahoney, Steven Sutton, Marion McQuade. Laura Duzan, Leona Cooper, Blanche Alkire, Estel Shonkwiler.

topics, and to give demonstrations. The discussion will include such topics as proper venting of propane gas. first response to a highway accident involving propane, and household storage and use of the gas. Persons qualified by the government to handle explosives will be on hand to explain the proper disposal of such materials during the seminar’s second segment. THE SEMINAR begins at 7 p.m. Feb. 6. and anyone interested is urged to attend.

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The Future Direction of elementary schools will be the primary issue again Monday night at the regularly scheduled meeting of the South Putnam School Board. The five-member panel will discuss the cost of operating a centrally located elementary school as opposed to the cost

term expired June 30, displayed a blueprint drawing of a 65.000-square-foot junior high building attached to a 25,000-square-foot elementary facility on the site. McCammack said at that time the drawing represented only a “potential utilization” of the land. IN SEPTEMBER, after worsening maintenance problems, especially at Belle Union and at the older of the two Fillmore buildings, the board announced its intention to pursue consideration of a centrally located elementary school by filing a general statement of intent with the Division of School Facility Planning and Accreditation of the State School Superintendent’s office. Speaking for the entire board, Landes emphasized the step was being taken only to gather information without any committment to construction. The board then contracted with James Associates, an Indianapolis-based architectural and engineering firm, to develop an elementary-junior high building report based on information supplied by the school corporation and the firm’s own experience in similar projects. AT A BOARD MEETING last Nov 5, Howard White, a representative of James Associates, presented three tentative construction budgets: -A 53,000-square-foot elementary building adjacent to the high school, combining Belle Union and Fillmore in kindergarten through sixth grade, at an estimated cost of $3.8 million. --A 92,000-square-foot building combining Belle Union and Fillmore and including a junior high school, at an estimated total cost of $6.6 million. --A 116,000-square-foot building combing Belle Union, Fillmore and Reelsville elementaries, and including a junior high school, at an estimated total cost of $8,350,000.

Fillmore family loses home, belongings in blaze

A Fillmore family lost its home and belongings during a fire which began early Friday morning. A spokesman at the Fillmore Volunteer Fire Department said the owner, Earl Johnston, was driving past the home around 9:42 a.m. when he noticed the blaze and alerted the department. The Greencastle Fire Department was summoned to assist at the scene. JOHNSTON'S WIFE and daughter also were not at home when the fire began. The family will be staying with relatives at Fillmore. The cause of the blaze was an electrical short in a kitchen stove, firemen said.

Teen-age brothers charged in attempts to kill parents

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two teen-aged brothers were arrested Friday after their parents told authorities the youths tried repeatedly for three months to kill them, police said. “You hear of child abuse every day,” said police Sgt. Donald M. Stanbrough, “but this is parent abuse.” The parents said the most recent murder attempt occurred last month when their sons, age 15 and 17, laced their coffee with rat poison and black gunpowder, police said. The family was not identified. The 46-year-old father told juvenile authorities that when he became violently ill after drinking coffee, his younger son admitted he had put poison in it in an effort to kill him

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White said remodeling of the Reelsville School for continued use would cost an estimated $600,000 AT THE NOV. 5 MEETING the school board also appointed an 18-member advisory committee of parents and teachers to study the schools issue. After a month of consideration, including tours to other area elementaries, committee members told the board Dec. 6 that their general consensus favored retention of schools in all three communities. Individual members made specific comments and different on some points, but support for the community schools concept clearly emerged. Consequently, at a Dec. 18 meeting, the school board asked James Associates to prepare another study, this one geared to the feasibility of maintaining schools at Belle Union, Fillmore and Reelsville. White appeared again at a Jan. 21 board session in the high school library to report that a plan involving three elementaries likely would be as financially feasible as building a single, larger school. THE PROPOSAL described by White would call for construction of a new school at Belle Union, renovation of the Reelsville building and remodeling and additional construction at the newer Fillmore building. That plan, which includes construction of a junior high wing at the high school, carries an estimated price tag of $6,183,000. With the junior high wing, the tab would be $4,968,000. White’s report reflected the board’s intent to equalize student populations at the elementaries, if three are maintained. At the Dec. 18 meeting during which the new report was ordered, the board directed James Associates to base its feasibility report on a projected student population of 240 at each elementary. That possible equalization of enrollmen-

Donations (either clothing or household items) have been requested for the family. Clothing sizes include: Man’s trousers, 32waist, 32-inseam; man’s size medium shirt; ladies’ small and medium clothing; and clothing for a two-year-old child. ANY CLOTHING or other donated articles may be taken to the Pete Johnston home at Fillmore. The home is located in the new subdivision just west of Fillmore. Donations may also be delivered to the Fillmore Volunteer Fire Department for distribution. Those interested in donating items can phone the fire department at 2466270.

Richard A. Clem of the Marion County prosecutor’s office, said the couple brought in the doctored coffee, and police lab technicians confirmed “high levels” of poisoned wheat, as used to kill rats, and various types of gunpowder were found in the beverage. A few nights before the poisoned attempt, the older son tried to set the house on fire, Clem said. Clem said he considers the parents “level headed” and “certainly not off the wall. There’s no explanation for this except the boys totally resented them.” The youths were ordered held in the Marion County juvenile center and slated to appear

of maintaining three. South Putnam School Board members, shown with Supt. James N. Hammond, third from left, include, from left, Lloyd Hayes, Sherman Hacker, David Landes, Ron Cook and Art Evans.

ts is one of the issues that has sparked the most intense debate at Reelsville, which has the largest student population of the three schools. THE JUNIOR HIGH aspect of the board’s overall decision has been shoved somewhat into the background by the more vocal debate over pros and cons of the elementary issue. However, some plan to separate junior high students from the mainstream of the high school population remains a very definite objective of the board and was one of the specific recommendations made bv the advisory committee in December. It’s a virtual impossibility that the state would approve junior high students at three different locations (if the elementaries were to remain at their present locations), so the most probable alternative appears to be some modification of the high school building to achieve a separate junior high area. At the Dec. 18 meeting, Supt. Hammond said one option might be the construction of possibly 10 classrooms on the east side of the high school. That, plus installation of new lockers and dual utilization of some existing facilities, could be one answer to isolation of the junior high, the superintendent said. LAST MONTH, the school board indicated it would like to be able to make a decision on the building issue within 30 days. Whether or not that goal can be met remains to be seen. Whether remodeling or new construction, monthly inflation increases continue to push prices upward. White warned the board in November that the cost of const ruction a new school likely would exceed $47 per square foot by summer. That, he said, is the best guess that can be made in an unstable economy.

Monday afternoon in Juvenile Court. County Prosecutor Steven Goldsmith said that after he and Clem complete an investigation. he may file attempted murder charges against the teens and possibly try them as adults. Stanbrough said the couple has other children, adding that in 30 years on the force “I can’t recall a similar incident that goes this far.” The World Bank, a United Nations’ agency, has loaned the government of Panama sl9 million to improve its agricultural output. The money will be used to renovate and develop cocoa, coffee, banana and oil-palm plantations.

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Obituaries Kenneth W. Belle

Kenneth W. *Belle. 64, Route 1, Reelsville, passed away early Saturday morning in Union Hospital at Terre Haute.

Rollie Raymond Coffman

Rollie Raymond Coffman, 83, 102 West Poplar Street, Greencastle, passed away early Saturday at the Putnam County Hospital. Born in Putnam County Sept. 16,1896, he was the son of William and Clara Coffman. He was retired from the Barnaby Saw Mill, where he worked for many years. Survivors include eight sons. Jack, Gene, Jim, Bill and Don, all of Greencastle, Gary, Plainfield, and Carlisle, Anderson; seven daughters, Shirley Sublett.

Punxsutawney Phil's forecast is phooeyl By DAVID TOMLIN Associated Press Writer PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog, peeked from his heated burrow today and predicted six weeks of snow, sleet and freezing rain for the nation. Members of the Punxsutawney Ground Hog Club dragged Phil from his hole on Gobbler’s Knob at 7:29 a m. to make the “prediction” for a crowd of about 1,000 of the freezing faithful. Club President Charles Erhard raised his earmuff next to Phil’s furry nose, listened, and then told the crowd the groundhog had seen his shadow and winter would continue. Erhard said Phil was “momentarily confused” by the mild winter weather in western Pennsylvania so far this year. But there was no confusion among spectators standing in freezing temperatures, their feet in an inch of snow. “We’ve really redoubled efforts to pay closer attention than ever before,” said Erhard, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club and, by virtue of his office, the only person able to decipher Phil’s cryptic utterances. “It’s really been just an extension of fall so far this year,” he said. “Not that Phil will be confused: he’s never confused But I don’t want to misinterpret him...”

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He is survived by his wife. Maxine. Services are pending at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale.

Karen Gorham, Mary Truesdale, Greencastle. Marcie Davies, Germany, Carol Love, Plainfield, Louise Laudig, Cloverdale and Helen Guy, Indianapolis; several grandchildren and other relatives. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home with Rev. Roy Shuck officiating. Interment will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 until 9 p.m. Monday.