Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 74, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 December 1981 — Page 1

Given smooth pavement, Coreen Spears shows good form as she speeds along the streets of Roachdale. But with water soon turning to ice, Coreen will pack up the wheeled versions with other Putnam County youths, trading them for skates with blades of steel. She is the daughter of James and Connie Spears. (Banner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier).

Delinquent payment may come out of tax refund

If you don’t meet your child support payments, you may find your 1981 tax refund check taken from you, according to a notice from the Putnam County prosecutor’s office. BEGINNING IN January 1982, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department will be serving court orders on persons who may be delinquent on support payments to turn over all. or part of their tax refund so that it can be applied to their child support. During the next several weeks, the Putnam County Child Support Agency will be reviewing payment records so that persons who have missed payments during the past year will

No flurry of activity An 80 per cent chance for rain changing to light snow overnight. Low in the low to mid 30s. Partly cloudy and cold Friday with a 20 per cent chance of snow flurries. Indiana Extended Forecast No precipitation expected Saturday through Monday. Highs will be in the upper 30s to mid 40s, warming to the upper 40s to mid 50s by Monday. Lows will be in the 20s, warming to the 30s by Monday. Abby A 5 Bridge A 7 Calendar A 4 Classifieds A12.A13 Comics A 6 Crossword Al 2 Editorials A 8 Heloise A 5 Horoscope AI3 House Call A 7 Obituaries AI4 People A 7 Sports A9,A10,A11 TV A 6 Theaters Al 4

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be identified. The agency will then ask the court to issue orders prohibiting the disposition of the person’s tax refund and requiring the person to bring the refund to the court. IF A PERSON FINDS himself behind in payments, and has knowledge that his support rights have been assigned to the Indiana State Department of Welfare, he should make up delinquent payments immediately to avoid the possible loss of the tax refund. Persons having questions about the procedure should contact the Child Support Agency at 653-8929.

IBM sponsors appearance of science expert Dietrick E. Thomsen, senior editor of Science News, will lecture Friday at DePauw University. HIS 11 A.M. PUBLIC appearance in the Julian Science Center auditorium is being underwritten by IBM’s “Frontiers in Science” lecture series at the university. In his weekly magazine of 165,000 circulation, Thomsen takes on the challenge of making complicated scientific phenomenon understandable to educated laymen. He writes news and feature articles, mostly on physics and astronomy, but on other topics as well as occasion and events demand. Friday he will attempt to do some “demystifying” of physics. BEFORE JOINING Science News in Washington, D.C. in 1968, Thomsen was an editor of McGraw-Hill Book Co. “Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.” Prior to that he was a writer and editor for Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics. Thomsen did his undergraduate work at Middlebury College in Vermont, majoring in physics and Germany. Friday’s IBM-DePauw lecture is open to the public without charge.

Heating help to again be available here Project SAFE ’B2 will be available for residents of Clay and Putnam counties to help eligible low-income households meet the high costs of home energy. Eligibility will be based on the combined annual income of the household. ACTUAL BENEFIT AMOUNTS will be dependent upon the amount of money allocated by Congress, the geographic region in which the household resides, the income level, the ages of the heads of household and whether anyone in the household has a permanent disability. Applications can be filled out at all regulated gas and electric utilities as well as the Senior Citizens Centers in Greencastle and Brazil. SAFE personnel will be at the Putnam County Senior Citizens Center, located at 9 W. Franklin St. in Greem castle (north side of the Courthouse), on Monday and Tuesday of every week from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The telephone number for the Putnam County Senior Citizens Center is 653-8607. SAFE personnel will be at the Clay County Senior Citizens Center, located at 3 W. National Ave., (next to Chaney’s Jewelry Shop), on Wednesday and Thursday of every week from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The telephone number for the Clay County Senior Citizens Center is (812)-448-8848. FOR THOSE WHO ARE homebound and unable to get into one of the application centers they can call the Senior Center in their county to make an appointment for someone to come to their home to complete an application. Emergency assistance will also be available to those households that are eligibile for Project SAFE if they are in danger of having their heating or electric service disrupted. Application for Emergency assistance will be made only at the Senior Citizens Center on the appropriate days when SAFE personnel are there. Eligible households may receive assistance up to a maximum of SIOO. Eligible households with a head of household over the age of 60 may receive assistance up to a maximum of $125. FOR ADDITIONAL information, stop by the Senior Citizens Center on the days when SAFE personnel are there or call (812) 234-3517

McCown's arraignment delayed in County Court

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher A Clay County man, indicted by a Putnam County grand jury four weeks ago, still has not appeared in court to answer a charge that he illegally converted funds belonging to the Putnam County Learning Center Inc. ARRAIGNMENT OF Jim McCown had been scheduled Thursday morning in Putnam County Court, but was continued, pending scheduling of another date. A court spokesman said McCown, who reportedly resides in Brazil, has not been served a subpoena requiring him to appear in court. Law enforcement authorities in Clay County have not been able to locate McCown, the spokesman said, apparently because of an insufficient address supplied by the prosecutor’s office. A renewed attempt will be made to determine a specific location where the defendant can be found. McCown, former manager of a Greencastle service station operated by the

Clayton woman gets REMC job back, thanks to Supreme Court

By The Associated Press An Indiana woman fired \ l k years ago from her job as secretary with the Hendricks County Rural Electric Membership Cooperative has been ordered reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court declared in a 5-4 decision Wednesday that office workers who have access to confidential information are fully protected under federal labor laws. Hendricks County REMC provides electric power to a portion of Putnam County, including part of rural Greencastle. “It’s unbelievable,” said Mary M. Weatherman, 48, of Clayton, Ind. “It feels real great. I’m so nervous. I’m shaking all over.” She was fired in 1977 for signing a petition seeking reinstatement of a co-

IN EYE OF BEHOLDER: Beautiful or bountiful this wooden landscape

It's all in your perspective

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor Someone - certainly ranking somewhere between Yogi Bear and Yogi Berra - once intoned the logic: “It’s all in how you look at it.” In sports it’s easy to see. Just compare quotes. The winners and losers see the result from different sides, as in how wonderful the offense or how woeful the defense. DUSTY VASES AND WARPED wicker are just so much junk to the untrained eye. But just let an antique dealer within sight of them and watch his eyes become refinished with glaze. Give a man a wedding ring and I’ll show you a fellow with new perspective. Give a man a wedding ring, a teething ring and a 30-year mortgage and I’ll show you perspective with a new man. Such milestones in life tend to breed new perspective. REMEMBER YOUR FIRST apartment? The first time you had to do your own laundry? (Bet you forgot to sort it, didn’t you?) Children let us see the world in a new light. Why, I never dreamed what wondrous things Huggies and Pampers could be. Kimberly-Clark took up where Lewis and Clark left off. But new perspective doesn’t always require some monumental moment in life. It could be routine. Say the purchase of a wood-burning stove, for instance. THE ADDITION OF THE CRAMER wood-burner to our family -- and our garage -- seemed simple enough. I knew it would change my heating bills, but I didn’t know it would change my life. Yet, I must admit, I find myself lusting after hardwood. No, I don’t mean in the Hoosier Hysteria sense. I mean hickory, doc. Oak and maple will do. Better get Zacchaeus out of that Sycamore tree. Protect your poplar and hide your ash. Nature lovers cruise through the country, absorbing the splen-

Learning Center, was indicted Nov. 4 on a charge of criminal conversion relating to missing gasoline sales receipts. A State Board of Accounts audit revealed $6,548 missing between April 7 and Aug. 11 of this year. A SEVEN-PAGE AUDIT report, filed by field examiners Ronald D. Astin and John L. Swaim, lists the total value of gasoline pumped at the station during the audit period at $77,810.93. Total sales accounted for during that time - including cash, credit card and charge sales -- totaled $69,508.61, leaving a balance of $8,302.32 not accounted for. However, the audit also discovered $1,754.12 in unidentified bank deposits, leaving a net shortage of $6,548.20. The service station, located at the junction of Indianapolis Road and Franklin Street, is operated by the Learning Center primarily as a training program for the handicapped. Income is used to help offset

worker. The Supreme Court overturned the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago which reversed the National Labor Relations Board’s order that Mrs. Weatherman be reinstated. Besides getting her job back, she is to receive back pay plus interest and uninterrupted coverage in the company pension plan. She had worked for the REMC nine years when she was fired. Mrs. Weatherman was secretary of the co-op’s general manager, Wallace E. Dillon when employees petitioned than an injured worker, Lloyd Hadley, be rehired after his recovery. Mrs. Weatherman signed the petition on a Friday and was fired by Dillon the next Monday. When she asked why she was

dor of autumn leaves. I find my eyes checking the roadside for dead limbs. I find myself hoping for windy days and weak branches. There isn’t a large limb within arm’s length of the ground at our house. IT’S AMAZING THAT THIS wood stove could cause such an obsession. I mean, when we added a dishwasher, my wife didn't collect all the greasy dishes in the neighborhood. Although, come to think of it, she did microwave the entire refrigerator one Christmas morning. Let others covet thy neighbor’s wife. I lust after their woodpile. Others are ogling Christmas decorations this time of year. I'm checking out brushpiles and hollow tree trunks. I don’t know whether I'm a pyromanic or a woodaholic. THE OTHER NIGHT provided the stiffest test. We were curled up in wood-heated comfort, watching Sunday night television. The soon-to-be-three-year-old wanted to watch “Mary Poppins." Nothing unusual, mind you. But that darn Dick Van Dyke. “Chim-chim-i-ney" and all that. A chimney sweep, that’s it! That’s the solution. Mildmannered reporter to Sootman! But the smell of ashes brought me to my senses. And it’s a good thing, that roof is pretty high

operating costs of the Center, located at 630 Tennessee St. AFTER THE STATE AUDIT was made public, Center director Charles Schroeder said it was his agency which first discovered the discrepancy in the station’s books and called the situation to the attention of local and state officials. The Center’s books, which are maintained separately from the gasoline station, also were audited by the state and found to be in order. McCown is one of two individuals indicted by the grand jury last month. Mrs. Jean Hanlon, former assistant clerktreasurer for the Town of Roachdale, was charged with theft resulting from an alleged shortage of $2,057.14 in that office during 1980. Mrs. Hanlon first appeared in court Nov. 9, at which time her case was continued. She returned to County Court on Nov. 19 and entered a plea of not guilty. Her trial will be conducted early next year.

dismissed, Dillon told her it was because she could not find an insurance form about a week earlier. “I couldn’t find the form right away, but I eventually did about an hour after he asked for it,” she said. “So I knew that could not be the reason. I went to the National Labor Relations Board, and we won the case three times, but they (REMC) kept appealing.” The co-op argued Mrs. Weatherman was not protected by the National Labor Relations Act because she was a confidential employee, one who acts in a confidential capacity in dealings with the employer’s labor relations representatives. Confidential employees are barred from joining unions and are not entitled to some Col. 4, back page, this section

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