Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 93, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 December 1981 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 28,1981
Holiday crashes kill four By The Associated Press Four persons have been killed in holiday traffic accidents on Indiana roads, state police say. State traffic safety experts had predicted 15 people would die on Hoosier streets and highways during the 102-hour holiday counting period which ended at midnight Sunday. The four fatalities raised the 1981 traffic death toll to 1,147 compared with 1,167 by Dec. 28. 1980, authorities said. Daniel Press, 36,' of Newburgh died Saturday night when his car spun out of control on a curve on Indiana 662 about one mile west of Newburgh in Warrick County, state police said. In another accident Saturday, Margaret E. Bennett, 38, of Clinton was killed after she turned into the path of a truck on Indiana 37 on the MarionJohnson county lines. The two other reported victims of holiday traffic accidents are Clarence Stephens, 18, of Indianapolis and Candace Wyatt, 19, cf South Bend. Stephens was killed early Saturday when the car he was riding in went out of control and overturned in a ditch in Indianapolis. Ms. Wyatt died Thursday night when her car collided with a Conrail freight train at a grade crossing in South Bend, authorities said.
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Bound, thrown from bridge
Rape victim survives icy river
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) A suburban Indianapolis woman saved herself from drowning by grabbing a tree limb after three men who raped and robbed her, bound and pitched her from a bridge 80 feet into the icy waters of the White River, police say. The 26-year-old victim was treated for frostbite and shock at Morgan County Memorial Hospital here Sunday after freeing herself from her constraints and grabbing a tree branch which she used to pull herself to shore, state police said. That limb “more or less saved her life,” said Trooper Bruce A. Canal. “Somebody was on her side. That’s all there is to it,” said Morgan County Sheriff’s Deputy James Hicks about the woman’s survival. The woman was thrown from the bridge near Martinsville, about 25 miles southwest of Indianapolis. Investigators said the woman
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was abducted after arriving at her apartment in Greenwood, just south of Indianapolis, late Saturday night by a three men, one of whom put a knife to her throat. “He told her to cooperate and she wouldn’t get hurt,” said Canal. The man with the knife led her back to a car where the other two waited, police said. After driving for about 45 minutes, the woman was taken to a white house near the
Williams jury selection underway
ATLANTA (AP) Prospective jurors summoned for Wayne B. Williams’ double murder trial probably already have formed opinions about him and the 28 killings that haunted Atlanta, a prosecutor acknowleges. But “the legal standard is, can you put your opinions aside and make your decisions on the evidence presented in court?” said assistant district attorney
Marion-Johnson County line. There she was raped by each of the three men and robbed of her purse containing SBO. The men then drove the woman to the bridge over the White River, bound her hands and threw her into about 20 feet of water, police said. Canal said the woman was tied loosely and was able to free herself after falling into the water. She then grabbed the tree branch and pulled herself to shore, he said.
Gordon Miller. One-third of the 700 prospective jurors were expected at the Fulton County courthouse today, the first day of Williams’ trial. Defense lawyers and prosecutors will be allowed to question prospective jurors individually. But first, Superior Court Judge Clarence Cooper will question them in groups of 48 to determine if they have
The victim walked to a nearby road and flagged down a motorist, who took her to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department and then to the hospital. Canal said he believed the woman’s assailants intended to kill her, making it look like suicide. They apparently intended for her to free herself of the constraints before being carried away by the swiftmoving water. The assailants remained at large.
knowledge, friendships or general biases that would keep them from being impartial. Williams, a 23-year-old black free-lance cameraman and selfstyled talent promoter, is charged with murdering Nathaniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, two of 28 young blacks whose deaths have been investigated by a special police task force. Williams pleaded innocent.
Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael, Oscar-winning songwriter, dies
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Oscarwinning songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, who made gentle wryness his trademark and turned out perennial favorites such as “Stardust” and “Georgia on My Mind,” is dead at age 82. The millionaire singer, actor and Academy Award-winning songwriter had been rushed Sunday morning to Eisenhower Memorial Center, where he died soon after in the emergency room, said hospital spokeswoman Helen Eckert. “He died at 10:22 a.m. He had a cardiac problem,” Mrs. Eckert said. “Stardust,” his first major hit, was a lengthy, romantic song that in one respect violated the rules of popular songwriting at the time it ran 64 bars when most publishers insisted 32 was the limit. His succeeding hits generally had less of a dream-like quality, and usually were either bittersweet or down-home, folksy compositions that evoked more of the Deep South than Carmichael’s native Indiana. Many such as “Lazybones,” “Small Fry,” “Rockin’ Chair” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” a 1951 Academy award winner reflected a gentle wryness that was Carmichael’s trademark throughout life. He primarily was a composer, with lyrics to his tunes supplied by such giants in the field as Mitchell Parish (Stardust), Johnny Mercer (Lazybones), and Frank Loesser (Small Fry.) Once a lawyer, Carmichael branched out into several musical fields after becoming known as a songwriter. He drew applause from critics for several acting performances in films and on television. In recent years, he divided his time among his Hollywood penthouse, a $145,000 home in Palm Springs, Calif., and Las Vegas, Nev., strip hotels. He had real estate holdings in Palm Springs and Las Vegas and a rare coin collection valued at $25,000. He often had long lapses in his writing. “I really should have written two or three times as many songs by my age,” he said in 1969. “But songwriting can sometimes be murder.” Tanned and dapper in his latter years, he said songwriting kept him young. When he turned 70, he said, “I’m too busy following the melodies in my heart to feel it.” Born in Bloomington, Ind., on Nov. 22, 1899, Hoagland Howard Carmichael was interested in music as a youth but initially turned to law, hoping to find job security. He opened an office in West Palm Beach, Fla. But he had left a song, “Washboard Blues,” with a publisher, Irving Mills in New York. One day in 1927, in a record shop near his law office, he heard “Washboard Blues” played by Red Nichols and His Five Pennies. “That did the trick,” Carmichael later recalled. “Red’s record was all the incentive I needed to go north again.” One night he was having dinner with Don Redman, musical director of McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, when he was asked about his activities. He pulled out a new instrumental work with no words, only the title, “Stardust.”
Reagan home in California
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“I wasn’t sure what it meant, but it just seemed like a nice title,” he said later. Redman recorded it in October 1928 at a fairly fast tempo. It didn’t become popular until Isham Jones’ New York dance orchestra recorded it featuring Victor Young’s violin. Mitchell Parish added lyrics. Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby recorded it, and the song was on its way. Armstrong and Carmichael teamed up on “Rocking Chair” in 1929, one of the first hits by an interracial vocal team. “Lazy River” came from a melody written by Sidney Arodin, a young New Orleans clarinetist, for which Carmichael wrote a verse and lyric. “Georgia” was introduced to entice his publisher to pay Carmichael $35 weekly against royalties for “Stardust.” Although he introduced dozens of other songs, none had the impact of the original four blockbusters. Yet it wasn’t until 1951 that he landed an Academy Award for “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” in the film “Here Comes the Groom.” Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics. He made sporadic appearances in television dramas and specials. He appeared in the 1944 film “To Have and Have Not,” which starred Humphrey Bogart, and in the 1952 “Las Vegas. Story,” among others. Carmichael married in 1936, to Ruth Meinar-' di. They had two sons, Hoagy Bix and Randy, who became a talented pianist. In 1956 she obtained a divorce, testifying her husband had' been “cold and indifferent” to her for three years. After a 15-year-romance, Carmichael’ married a second time, in 1977, to Wanda' McKay. He is survived by his wife and two’ sons.
Springs estate of publisher Walter Annenberg. Reagan brought with him 36 bills passed at the end of the congressional session and shortly after he arrived at his hotel the White House press office announced he had signed three of them. Among those still to be signed, probably on Tuesday, are the defense appropriations bill, foreign assistance legislation, the Social Security minimum benefit and aid to
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miners with black lung disease.The president, on his sixth .- visit to his home state this year, planned today to fly by Marine Corps helicopter to his randh . near Santa Barbara, about 100 miles north of here, while hjs wife, Nancy, remains behind; for the day. Deputy White House press .• secretary Larry Speakes said that while in California the president would, “spend time on the State of the Union message” ' • after “receiving a number of ideas from staff and Cabinet'’ • members. “I would judge he’H write most of the State of the • Union himself,” said Speakes.' - > The speech to a joint session of Congress probably will be delivered on Jan. 26. Speakes said the president* will “probably do some budget* review, although most of it is* already done.” And Reagan himself told; reporters aboard Air Force; One: “We’re pretty much solid; on that.” The fiscal 1983 budget, which; goes into effect Oct. 1, will be; unveiled in late January or; early February. By some; estimates, it will produce a; deficit that could exceed $lPO' billion, despite the president’s; effort at trimming spending in-; creases. Reagan, speaking to repor-I-ters briefly on the airplane,' acknowledged that he had', received a response to a letter' he sent Soviet President Leonid ■ Brezhnev about the crisis in'; Poland. He refused to discuss details •; of Brezhnev’s response but said of the Soviet Union: "Witji'; them, it’s always negative.” *•; But one administration of-*; ficial, asking that he not. heidentified, said Brezhnev "did ; not completely close the door onj! further discussions.”