Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 91, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 December 1981 — Page 1

Looking ahead

Ison reminisces, awaiting 40th and final school year

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FORRESTER ISON Educator for 39 years

Minnicktrial hearing rescheduled Monday

BRAZIL-- William Arthur Minnick’s day in Clay Circuit Court, originally scheduled for Monday afternoon, Dec. 21, has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 28 at 10a.m. CLAY CIRCUIT COURT Judge Ernest Yelton will preside over the special omnibus hearing which is expected to result in decisions on a trial date, preliminary motions filed by the attorneys, and discovery deadlines. Charges against Minnick, 18, 1011 Avenue F, Greencastle, stem from the murder of 24-year-old Martha R. Payne. Mrs. Payne was attacked at her 9 S. Locust St., Greencastle, home on Oct. 26. Autopsy reports

Lyon indicted for promoting prostitution

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A Marion County grand jury has indicted a Hendricks County sheriff’s deputy on charges of perjury and promoting prostitution. Richard A. Lyon, 36, wis indicted Tuesday by the panel, the third Marion County grand jury to hear testimony in the case. A resident of Coatesville, Lyon formerly lived in Greencastle and was graduated from Greencastle High School. Officials in Marion and Hendricks counties have been investigating Lyon’s activities since March. The Marion County investigation was begun at the request of

All blow, no snow Partly cloudy and cold. Low from the upper teens to the low 20s. Partly sunny with a 20 per cent chance of flurries on Thursday. High in the upper 20s to the low 30s. Outlook for Christmas: Cloudy and cold with a chance of flurries. Indiana Extended Forecast Mostly cloudy and cold Friday, partly sunny and a little warmer Saturday and Sunday. Chance of snow flurries north and central Christmas Day. Highs in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Lows in the mid to upper teens. Saturday and Sunday highs from the upper 30s to mid 40s. Lows in the 20s. Abby A 5 Calendar A 5 Classifieds AB.A9 Comics A 6 Crossword AS Heloise A 5 Horoscope A 9 Obituaries AlO People AIO Sports A7.AB jy A 6 Theaters AlO Worry Clinic AS

Banner Graphic Putnam County, Wednesday, December 23,1981, Vol. 12 No. 91 20 Cents

By BARBARACARHART Banner-Graphic Staff Writer CLOVERDALE-“01d teachers never die, they just lose their faculties” proclaims the sign in the principal’s office at Cloverdale Junior/Senior High School. The office has been occupied for 14 years by Forrester Ison who will leave (as opposed to lose) his faculty (the two-legged kind) and students in June 1983 after 40 years in the education field. The sign is a unique symbol of the way Ison looks upon the teaching profession - open mind, insert smile. In fact, he says one of the most important qualities in a good teacher is the ability to laugh (so to speak) all the way to the study hall. “TEACHERS HAVE TO HAVE a sense of humor and be able to laugh with the kids,” reasons the man who has the responsibility of orchestrating 600 students. Despite the fact Ison recognizes the need for humor, he believes all his teachers must be armed with another key ingredient -- a sense of responsibility. “Teachers have to be fair and firm,” explains Ison. “And I have to know that when

show a single stab wound as her cause of death. Minnick was questioned later and was arrested after he admitted to police that he was at the Payne home on the day of the slaying, although he denies the slaying. HE WAS ORIGINALLY charged with murder, robbery and unlawful deviate conduct. However, he pleaded not guilty to all three charges in an earlier arraignment in Putnam Circuit Court before Putnam Circuit Court Judge William C. Vaughn. After escaping from Putnam County Jail on Dec. 6, Minnick was additionally charged with escape, resisting law enforcement and battery with a deadly weapon.

Hendricks Prosecutor David Coleman. Lyon is accused of making arrangements for three prostitutes to attend a party held during the period of the Murat Shrine Circus in Indianapolis in 1979. “He is alleged to have contacted Janice Sue Powell, proprietor of the (former) Kingdom Health Studio in Hendricks County, and requested that she and other prostitutes attend and ‘work’ the party to be held in 1979 at the Meadows Motel (in Indianapolis),” said Deborah J. Daniels, a Marion County deputy prosecutor. She said Lyon allegedly contacted the women in Hendricks County, but met with

Putnam Patter

Science to blame for leftovers

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Now we know why there is so much of the turkey that goes into leftovers to bore your appetite for days on end after Christmas. A full 80 per cent of your holiday bird’s total weight on the “hoof” is edible meat, assuming you gnaw it down to the bare bones. THOSE WHO DO PUBLIC relations for the turkey do a lot of gobbling to the effect that other meat-producing critters don’t do nearly this well. They gleefully tell us that 54 per cent of a beef animal never makes it to the table. And when pork people brag that they market all but the squeal, they are not thinking in terms of pork chops and ham. The turkey trade points with pride to the fact that after a long struggle for recognition, the turkey is now an allseason bird and that folks who get excited only during the year-end holidays are doing their stomachs an injustice. TO FURTHER THEIR CASE, those who spend full time “hawking” the turkey as a meat bird, rather than a Thanksgiving and Christmas centerpiece, say they have proof that we Americans are now eating about four times as much turkey per person as we did 40 years ago. Back in the 1940’5, each man, woman

they say they will be somewhere, they will be there.” ISON PROUDLY EXPLAINS that this year’s faculty more than fits his character sketch of a good teacher. He is equally proud of the relationship he has had with his faculty over the years. “If there is one thing that I have been successful in doing in 39 years,” Ison said, “it’s building a rapport with my teachers. My teachers knew I would back them and have confidence in them. I don’t tell them one thing and do another.” Ison believes teachers have a big impact on the attitude of students, and this year in particular, the impact has been very positive. “This year we have had a great bunch of kids with very few troublemakers,” he added. LOOKING BACK OVER the years, the principal believes that working with students is both his motivation and reward for staying in the profession. Ison, one of 13 children born Into an eastern Kentucky family, says he has seen very little change in children’s attitudes since his teaching days, which span geographically from Whitesburg, Ky., to

Be glad all that rain here Tuesday wasn't snow

From Staff, Wire Dispatches Wind, colder weather and snow flurries are expected to punish llth-hour holiday shoppers after yet another winter storm moved into Indiana. Motorists in southern Indiana were cautioned today to watch out for slick roads resulting from the freezing of large pools of standing water produced by Tuesday’s heavy rains and melting snow. Using the inch-of-rain-equals-seven-inches-of-snow formula, Putnam County would have been up to its eyeballs in snow Tuesday night. Our U/2 inches of rain would have been at least 10‘/ 2 inches of snow, on top of the 10 or more already on the ground from two previous storms. As another winter storm pushed into Indiana Tuesday, the National Weather Service issued a traveler’s advisory and winter storm watch for northern and central sections.

them at the motel on April, 27, 1979. He then allegedly “directed them inside for the purpose of prostitution between the women and some of the men at the party,” she said. One Hendricks County deputy told state police investigators he overheard a telephone conversation in which Lyon made arrangements for prostitutes to attend the Shrine festivities, according to an Indiana State Police report. Lyon also is charged with perjury in connection with his grand jury testimony June 9. He had denied asking two women to at-

and child in the United States ate only three pounds of turkey per year. This would indicate that no one felt the urge to buy until after the first snow. In 1980, each one of us is supposed to have consumed nearly 12 pounds of turkey. Perhaps in your afternoon stupor that will follow your holiday meal this season, your tummy may feel like you had eaten your whole dozen pounds at a single sitting. NOW, TURKEY PROMOTERS come up with other information you may not care about, but you’re going to hear about anyway, if you’re still reading, that is. Half of the turkeys raised go to market in one piece, with only feathers and innards missing. The rest are cut up and sold by the piece. Pieces that aren’t easily identified go into turkey dogs and other meat case by-products. By comparison, the turkey of pilgrim days was a mighty scrawny bird. Thanks to science, its 42nd cousin has lots more white meat and more massive drumsticks. IN COMPILING THEIR per capita turkey gains, those who prepared statistics no doubt got them at the market place by tallying how much customers toted home. In theory, buyers are also consumers, but in reality, this figure should be adjusted downward.

Decatur and Charlestown, Ind. “Kids today get into the same situations as they did when I was teaching,” Ison explains. “If there has been a change, it’s been that they are more concerned about what’s going to happen to them in the future.” ISON SAYS THE SCHOOL system has done an admirable job of helping students prepare for their future but he does have some reservations. He believes even today the curriculum is geared in a large degree to the college-bound student, despite the fact that only about 30-35 per cent of Cloverdale students go to college. “Sometimes I feel we teach collegebound students,” reflects Ison, “at the expense of those interested in vocational training.” Though Ison acknowledges that the vocational curriculum has improved over the years, it has become a victim like so many other programs of the Washington budgetary ax. Still, a wider variety of vocational courses and more equipment to aid in teaching them, is a Christmas gift worth dreaming about. Col. 3, back page, this section

An additional two inches of snow fell from South Bend to Monticello Tuesday night. Up to four inches of additional snow was predicted early today in northern Indiana •ind up to three inches for central Indiana. Tonight will be mostly clear, but colder with temperatures ranging from the mid teens in northern Indiana to the mid 20s south. Flurries are to return for Christmas Eve and Christmas day. The weather service said a low pressure center moving across extreme southern Indiana would cause the snow in the Indiana today. State police late Tuesday reported no weather-related fatalities or serious accidents. Patchy, dense fog early Tuesday caused hazardous travel conditions in central Indiana. Visibilities were less than a quarter mile at Indianapolis and Lafayette.

tend the party, although evidence shows he made arrangements for Ms. Powell to attend the party, according to the charges. Lyon declined comment on the indictment, and referred questions to his attorney, Ken A. Elmendorf. “We’re disappointed, naturally, but now we’ll just have to defend him,“ Elmendorf said Tuesday. Hendricks County Sheriff Ray Daugherty was out of town and could not be reached Tuesday for comment. His chief deputy, Marc. A. Sullivan, said no decision on any disiplinary action aganist Lyon had been taken.

Just because the turkey in its savory oven-baked glory graces the Christmas feast, this doesn’t necessarily mean that nothing but bones will be left when the meal is over. There are all sorts of ways to disguise turkey leftovers, but even these have their limits, and the family dog may have to be whistled in at the finish. TURKEY AS A SUMMER dish isn’t an altogether new idea. Our family once went on a July turkey eating binge, all because a 20-pound gobbler got too smart for his feathers. * A foul-tempered fowl, he chased the timid out of the barn lot and did battle with all others. One day he took on a horse and when the fracas was over, his head was squashed beneath the horse's hoof. Mother force-fed her family until they rebelled and then cold packed the rest, which, I suppose, we saved for Thanksgiving and Christmas, if we didn’t run short of vittles earlier. HISTORY TELLS US Ben Franklin campaigned to make the turkey our national bird. Had he succeeded, it would now be a breach of patriotism to eat such a protected species. Somehow, baked eagle as a substitute doesn’t do anything good for my appetite.

Daze Work

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor Could it be that another year has come and gone since we last talked to dear old Santa Claus and asked him to be so kind as to fulfill a few of our wishes? ‘Tis true. And we’ve been making our own list.. .and checking it twice. We already know who’s been naughty and nice, so forget that stuff. It’s too late for apologies or payola...well, too late for apologies anyway. WE DON’T WANT MUCH this year, Santa. (By the way, we’re still waiting on last year’s requests - Bo Derek, a video recorder, a month in Hawaii... All we can remember you coming through with was the metal detector.) This year we’re keeping it simple: A safe arrival for the fourth Bernsee, dry weather for Christmas travel and and a dead oak, felled, split and stacked next to the garage. The simple requests, however, are over, oh-fat-one. In this year of Atari, Rubik’s Cube and Strawberry Shortcake, we may be asking a lot by requesting you fill the following orders for some of our friends: The Greencastle City Council: A Pac-Man game for City Hall and SIOO worth of slugs. STREET COMMISSIONER Jim Wright: Leaves that self-destruct, snow that melts before it hits the ground and dogs that lock themselves up in the city, pound. Mayor Jane Harlan: A Harlanomics policy. Jinsie Bingham: Some ‘Chamber’ music for radio station WJNZ. Cliff Norton: A map of Kentucky...without boundary lines. SOUTH PUTNAM Board: A trip in the Way-Back machine to pre-consolidation days. An alternate: The deed to Miller School. Richard Rosser: A year without rush week, hell week or weekend nights. Nick Mourouzis: An encore, please. Pat Aikman: Front-row tickets to a Johnny Cash concert - anywhere but Folsom Prison. Mike Steele: Occupancy of the Lilly Recreation Center before Bowman Gym floods out. COMMISSIONERS Don Walton. Elbert Irwin and Jim Malayer: A Rubik’s Cube, disguised as the old hospital. Mary Frances Strain: 100 shares of Alcoa stock and an economic development bond to call her own. Joe Wallace: Anything he wants. Not to mention a cause worthy of his efforts. Lloyd Ellis: Reason to believe the Grinch hasn’t stolen Christmas (or his decorations). 1 Barb Lane: Sarcasm lessons and a crash course \ in how to say no. ' AL TUCKER: ANOTHER shot at Brazil and Don ' , Hein’s home telephone number. \ Col. 3, back page, this section \

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