Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 176, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 March 1980 — Page 8
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Sheriff’s Dept. Reth E. Andis. 18. 733 Ravenswood, Greencastle. was in--1 un'd in a one-car accident on the Airport Road at 11:45 p m. Friday She was driving a 1976 Ruick when she apparently lost control 500 feet west of 10th Street and crashed into a concrete bridge . She was taken to the Putnam County Hospital, then transferred to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis She suffered severe head lacerations, a broken jaw. leg lacerations and possible in ternal injuries, authorities said Poputv Sheriff Mike Riggs was the investigating officer He estimated damage to the automobile at $3,500 hut no estimate of damage to the bridge was revealed Riggs also worked an nr eident on the Manhattan Road 500 feet south of l.imedale at 10 p m Friday
Obituaries Rolla Francis
Roll a Francis. 89. Coatesville. formerly of Route l. Rainbridge. passed away early Saturday morning at the Putnam County Hospital Rorn in Rinard. 111.. Jan. 13. 1891 he was the son of Fred and Mary Mugrage Francis. He served in the U S. Ar my in the Meuse-Argonne offensive with the 78th Division in World War I He was a pipe puller, teamsters and farmer before his employment with the Marathon Oil Company and retired in 1956 as an engineer He was a member of the Barnard Mt. Olive Baptist Church, a 50-vear member of the Masonic Lodge, a 60-vear member of the American
Anna Giesseman
Mrs Anna M. Giesseman. 79. Cloverdale. passed away Friday afternoon in Cloverdale
Safety course for hunters is planned
The local Conservation officers. Putnam County Sheriff's Reserves, and Cherie Garber, lake manager at Glenn Flint Lake, will be offering a hunter safety course to the public. This program was designed by the Department of Natural Resources, and will be open to anyone 12 years of age or older. It consists of four two-hours sessions and an additional hour for the test THE CLASSES will be held at Glenn Flint Lake. 7-9 p.m. April 7-11 There is no charge for the
Dear Abby He shuns 'tacky' statue for birdbath
DEAR ABBY: I've been going with this man for the past year and I am very fond of him. I met him in church. He is thoughtful, kind, spiritual, generous and very honest. He also has a beautiful garden. Last Christmas I gave him a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in a small grotto, and I had our finest nursery plant ivy and holly in it. They also added a plastic leaf of poinsettia. The entire gift was about 30 inches tall. My friend had just returned from a church retreat, and I thought because of his spiritual interest my gift would be appropriate for his garden. When I gave it to him. he said, "Well, in the first place. I don't like religious statues, and in the second place. I hate fake flowers. I can't believe you actually would spend money to get that tacky thing planted. How much did you pay for it'.’" Abbs . I was shocked All I could think of to say was. "I love St. Francis of Assisi, so if you don't want it. I'll keep it. and you can go pick out a birdbath for your garden." He seemed to like the idea. Now I am having second thoughts. Should I keep the statue for myself and let him pick out a birdbath? Or should I tell him this is his gift he can take it or leave it. J.D. DEAR J.D.: You may have second thoughts, but you've already offered to keep St. Francis and let your rude and ungrateful friend pick out a birdbath, so I think you're stuck for the birdbath. DEAR ABBY I've read that Vitamin E is supposed to work wonders in boosting a person's sexual performance. Is there any truth in that? On a scale of 1 to 10. I'd sav I'm about a 2. NEEDS HELP IN LA JOLLA DEAR NEEDS HELP: If you believe Vitamin E will
He reported that Mark A. Jackson. 17. Route 2, Greencastle was southbound in a 1978 Ford and hit a sign post and utility pole. He was not hurt but damage was estimated at $4,500 to the car and $1,200 to the post and pole City Police George W Graham. 22. 513 Sycamore Street, Greencastle. was arrested by Officers Ernie Newby and Terry Kandall at 11 p m Friday Graham was stopped on Ind 240 East and ticketed for reckless driving Hospital notes Dismissed Friday: Hattie Raker. Cherri O’Neal. Christopher Thomas. Mary Crist. Sterling Trimble. Julie Leer. Freeda Humphreys. Frances Jenson. Wilford Deweese
Legion. Veterans of Foreign Wars and the World War 1 Veterans Survivors include his wife. Rosa; four daughters. Mrs Harold (Betty’) Jaynes. Brownsburg. Mrs. James • Barbara' Eaglin. Rich mond. Wash . Mrs William (Marjorie' Clones. Harrison. 0.. Mrs Gerald (Marilyn' Plasters. Coatesville; 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren He was preceded in death by a son. Rolla. Jr Services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at the Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home with burial in the Brick Chapel Cemetery 7 Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 8 p.m Monday
Services are pending at the Whitaker Funeral Home in Cloverdale.
Indiana Hunter Education Course. Hunters and persons interested in firearms safety and responsibility may enroll for this course by sending a postcard or letter to Floyd Suitors at Route 2. Box 676. Greencastle. 46135. Enclose your telephone number and Officer Suitors will advise you of the exact location of the course. All students who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate, a certification card, and an Indiana Hunter Education patch.
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Members Of The St. Jude's Bike a thon committee met recently to finalize plans for the Sunday, May 4, event to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Committee members are pictured from left: Jan Battin, secretary; Joe Wallace, chairman; Ann Cox, prize
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Junction, a $lO gift certificate from Moore’s Shoes, a sls gift certificate from Rio’s, $25 check from Lone Star Industries, a sls gift certificate from Ace Hardware, two free meals from Torr’s Restaurant, a paint roller set from Sherwin Williams, a microwave set from Horace Link Co., a shirt from Prevo’s. a bike light from Headley’s Hardware, banks from Central National Rank, two hats from. First Citizen’s Bank, three pocket radios from Brvon Bemis. and airplanes from John Noak of State Farm Insurance. “We hope to have the largest turnout ever for the bike-a-thon this year and are also sponsoring a poster contest to involve the local students in publicity, as well as. the ride.” Wallace added. “We have asked all local and county
Gas routs Seymour residents
SEYMOUR. Ind (AP> - Fumes from a recycling plant in Seymour underscore the need for improved handling of hazardous wastes, says Sen Richard G. Lugar R-lnd. About 100 persons left their homes several hours Friday after state health officials found gas rising from some of the 50.000 55-gallon barrels at Seymour Recycling Co. Seymour Police Chief Jim Bullard said the fumes w ere not extremely hazardous but made breathing in the area uncomfortable. The barrels containing the acid were removed from the plant site, he said.
Lugar says he's available
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - If he’s asked. U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind.. says he wouldn’t mind adding his name to the presidential ticket as the N 0.2 man. Indiana's junior senator told reporters at his Indianapolis office Friday he would consider running for vice president with
‘‘work wonders” it could. DEAR ABBY: I am planning my wedding and have a very important decision to make. I am 28, and this is my first and (I hope) only wedding, and I want it to be perfect. I am having six bridesmaids, a maid of honor and a matron of honor. All the girls in my wedding party are either a size 8 or 10 with the exception of the girl who should be my matron of honor, who is at least a size 20. I was her maid of honor when she was married four years ago. She has always been a little on the plump side, but since her marriage she has gained about 40 pounds. I hate to exclude her from my wedding party, because we grew up together and she has been my closest and dearest friend, but I don't want to embarrass her or myself on what should be the most beautiful day of my life. What do you think? , UNDECIDED BRIDE DEAR BRIDE: Ask your closest and dearest friend to be your matron of honor and don’t give it another thought. True beauty comes in all sizes. DEAR ABBY: If a baby is born on February 29, when should we celebrate his first birthday? On February 28 or March 1? WONDERING DEAR WONDERING: The day following February 28, which would be March 1 unless it’s a leap year. Do you wish you had more friends? For the secret of popularity, get Abby’s new booklet: “How To Be Popular; You’re Never Too Young or Too Old.” Send $1 with a long, self-addressed, stamped (28 cents) envelope to Abby, 132 Lasky Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212.
chairman; John Beardsley, food and sup ply chairman; Julia Hardwick, registration committee, and Mike Rokicki, prize chair man. (Banner Graphic photo by Agnes King).
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schools to encourage their students to par ticipate in a poster contest publicizing the event and the winner of the contest will receive a $5 gift certificate from McDonald’s The posters should be turned in at the local restaurant no later than April 4. when the winner will be selected and the posters distributed ALSO THIS YEAR THE school with the most bike participants will receive a plaque for their school presented by Mike Rokicki of State Farm Insurance. “We are most optimistic about this spring event and hope that area students will take advantage of the opportunity to help out a good cause and win a few of the excellent prizes awarded by area merchants,” Wallace concluded.
The barrels were filled with an acid that reacts with water by giving off fumes. They had been stored under a leaky roof at the plant, authorities said. Fumes were discovered Friday by a representative of the State Board of Health and another official making a routine inspection “Seymour Recycling was an accident waiting to happen,” said Lugar, who was contacted at his Indianapolis office by a Seymour resident after the incident. “This underscores the need for more enforcement authority. state or federal, to insure hazardous wastes are not
any of the three top Republican presidential contenders. He said he expects Ronald Reagan to be the GOP nominee but added he would consider serving on a ticket with former U.N. Ambassador George Bush or Rep. John Anderson. R-111., if they asked him. “Any Republican who has
treated casually .” Rep Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., announced Friday he had asked the federal government to pro vide financial assistance to cover the costs of cleaning up a chemical waste dump at the recycling company. He said he has asked for funds usually used by the Coast Guard to finance clean-ups of chemical and other spills in navigable waters. Such funds may be appropriate because of the proximity of the Seymour plant to the White River and the possibility of seepage from the plant polluting the river.
been mentioned is infinitely preferable to Jimmy Carter," he said. Last week, Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., speaking in Fort Wayne, said Lugar would be a good choice for the vice president spot. Lugar headed Baker’s presidential campaign before the Tennessee senator withdrew. In other matters Friday, Lugar had a gloomy view of the nation’s economic picture. "The high taxes and high interest rates of the Carter administration will assure a recession, and there is no hope of a balanced budget, no matter what the president says." Lugar said he voted against the windfall profits tax of $227 billion, which passed the Senate this week. He called it "the iargest single tax increase ever on the American people." A PRIZE PACKAGE TUUSA, Okla. (AP) Sue McDannold, a freshman majoring in communications at Tulsa University who'also works as an assistant sports information director at the school, was recently selected Miss Teen USA. She won $25,000 in prizes, including a car, a trip to Hawaii, and a full scholarship to Tulsa.
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Hoosier happenings REWARD POSTED SPENCER, Ind. (AP)-A reward has been established to aid the investigation of a $1 million arson fire at a Spencer supermarket An anonymous Spencer couple established the reward at Owen County State Bank with a SIOO donation The money is to be paid for infor rnation leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for the Feb 24 fire LUGAR PROTESTS WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Richard G Lugar, R Ind , wants to cut the amount of money the federal govern ment spends on lamps, couches arid desks. “There is enough government fur niture in storage to last for years,” Lugar said Friday He is cosponsoring legis lation to eliminate all fur niture funds for the rest of this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. The bill also would reduce by 75 percent the ap propriation for courtroom rental space PORTGETSGRANT BURNS HARBOR, trid • AP) The Economic Development Ad ministration has awarded a $2 million grant to the In (liana Port Commission to help finance an expansion project at the Burns Water way Harbor The money will tie combined with $4 46 million from the Indiana Port Commission to pay for a dock, railroad tracks and internal roads to serve a new grain terminal and other im provements at the harbor HSU APPOINTS MUNCIE. Ind.'APi Dr Robert E. Linson was ap pointed Ball State University vice president for university relations at Friday’s trustees’ meeting. Linson. 57. is assistant vice president for alumni affairs and development programs. LAYOFFSORDERED ANDERSON. Ind 'APi Deleo-Remy officials say indefinite furloughs have been ordered for 145 workers at its plant in Anderson. Judy Merritt, a spokeswoman for Delcoßemy, a division of General Motors, said Friday the layoffs were necessary because of lagging automobile sales. The newround of furloughs, effective Monday. April 7. bring to 2,905 the number of laid-off Delco employees.
Students may vote at home College students who want to vote in their hometown in the primary election May 6 still have time to apply for an absentee ballot, according to State Rep. John Thomas < R-Brazil». Thomas said application for absentee ballots may be made through the mail or in person at the county clerk's office, and the ballots themselves will be mailed beginning April 7. Since the primary voters must declare party affiliation. Rep. Thomas said there is a blank on the absentee application to indicate whether a Republican or Democrat ballot should be sent.
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Grand jury will probe charges in 'slavery death'
NOBLESVILLE, Ind (AP) A grand jury will be asked whether state officials, as well as an elderly Sheridan couple, should be charged in connection with the “slavery death” of 74 year old retarded man. Ham ilton County Prosecutor Steven R. Nation says Nation's comments came Fri day, just after retired banker Willard Stafford. 75, arid his wife. Oliver, 74. pleaded iri riocent to reckless homicide, manslaughter and neglect charges in connection with the death Stafford and his wife entered their pleas at a brief arraign merit hearing before Hamilton Superior Court Judge Donald E Foulke. and remained free on $50,000 bail If convicted, they could face a five year prison sentence arid a SIO,(KHI fine on the homicide charge and a two-year prison term on the neglect charge The charges stemmed from the death of Virgil Stuart, one of three mentally retarded people who lived for years in a dirty trailer behind the Stafford home in Sheridan The .5 foot 8 inch Stuart weighed 67 pounds when he died earlier this month of mal nutrition and pneumonia at a Nohlesville hospital March 7 The other two retarded per sons were Stuart's brother Charles, .57, and Wanda Wat kins, 65 Charles Stuart has been in a nursing home for sev oral years.
Local DeMolays celebrate week
Last week was DeMolay Week in Greencastle. and for the members of Omnes Chapter it was one of their best celebrations Already qualifying for the International DeMolay Week Award of Excellence, Omnes Chapter also hopes to improve upon last year’s third-place ranking in the state contest. The DeMolays raised funds for the week-long event by collecting more than 800 returnable bottles. They commenced the celebration by attending services at Sherwood Christian Church on Sunday. March 16. followed by a graveside memorial service for Dad John Schmitt. AS MASONIC service projects. Omnes Chapter treated its sponsor. Temple Lodge No. 47. F. & A.M.. to refreshments, and held a work day at the Masonic Temple. As a civic service project, several cards in downtown Greencastle had their windshields cleaned by the DeMolays. On Monday. March 17 Phil Asbell, a freshman at Greencastle High School, was initiated into the Order of DeMolay. Senior DeMolays assisted in the initiation ceremonies, and were recognized for their continued support of Omnes Chapter.
UNION VALLEY INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH BELLE UNION Everyone Welcome To The Service! EVANGELIST FRED VAUGHT and girls from Good Samaritan Girls' Home of Trenton, Georgia, will have services on Saturday, March 29th, 7 P.M. Union Valley Independent Baptist Church, Belle Union. Joe Cooper, Pastor Everyone is invited to attend this special service.
SUNDAY SPECIALS CURB AND CARRY OUT ONLY 3 Pc. Chicken Y/ V Roast Beef '>Sl9s > homemade dressing T ■ n Roast Beef over homemade noodles Cinnamon Biscuit Choice of 2 sides:
• Mashed potato and gravy • Bean salad • Potato salad • Slaw • Applesauce
DOUBLE DECKER DRIVE-IN Curb & Carrv-Out Only
The three were used as vir tual slave laborers ori the farm, living in the trailer, working from dawn to dusk and getting dog food mixed with their mor nmg cereal, authorities said at the time the St a (fords were arrested Foulke set May I as the date for a preliminary hearing, and Hamilton County Prosector Ste ven R Nation said he would present the case to the grand lury early next month Nation said that depending on the results of the grand |tirv probe, other charges might be filed against the stqte officials responsible for allowing the Stafford's to have custody of the mentally retarded persons The three moved to the Stat ford farm in the mid 1950’s after being patients at a stale mental hospital in Fort Wayne In an interview with reporters after the brief arraignment session. Nation sat'd he was still checking into reports that the Staffords also cared for chit dren and to determine where the children are now Defense attorneys Michael Howard of Nohlesville and Mike Andreoli of Lebanon said after the hearing thev would ask the case to be transferred t 0 another countv for trial The two defense attorneys said the extensive pre-trial publicity would make it extremely difficult to get a fair trial for the elderly couple in Hamilton County
Other DeMolay Week activities included a special patriotic slide presentation. Parents’ Night, and the annual volleyball tournament between the DeMolays and the Job’s Daughters of Bethel No 78. The DeMolays received the traveling trophy for the second straight year with victories of 15-3. 15-7 OMNES CHAPTER concluded its 1980 DeMolay Week celebration on Sunday. March $3. by participating in the ninth annual Indiana DeMolay Congress at Decatur Central High School in Indianapolis GHS Music Boosters will meet The Greencastle High School Music Boosters will hold their monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday. March 31 in the music room at GHS. According to Carol Hovasse and band director Phil Chilcote. “this is a very important meeting.” Topics will include presentation of the nominating slate of officers for next year, future fund-raisers, the upcoming awards banquet and discussion of a trip for the band and choir.
• Cottage cheese • Pickled beets • Spiced apple rings • Homemade noodles • Peaches