Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 114, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 January 1982 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 22,1982

CONTACT sets officers for 'B2 CONTACT Putnam County Inc. held its first Board of Directors’ meeting of the year on Jan. 7, with its newly elected president. Rose South, officiating. Other officers for the year are: Vice president Betty Aker, treasurer Chris Berry and secretary Frances Hickman. JoAnne Robertson, executive director, introduced two new board members, John Stuckey and the Rev. Steve Hall. ROBERTSON SPOKE about CONTACT’S background as a Christian-based, telephone-operated crisis counseling center, which has served the Putnam County area for the past 34 years. CONTACT Putnam County is affliated with CONTACT USA. Inc., and LIFE LINE International. LIFE LINE began operation in 1963 in Sidney Australia as an outgrowth of the Central Methodist Mission and its Dr. Alan Walker, who sensed the desperate needs of people in the city and wanted a means of helping them ‘‘in the homes, just where they are.” The idea soon spread to other cities. Within three years there were 16 centers in seven different countries. Today LIFE LINE has centers in Canada, Japan, South and Central America, Taiwan, South Africa and the United States. It came to the United States in 1969 and is called CONTACT U S A. Inc., and there are now more than 100 centers in the United States alone. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING LIFE LINE and CONTACT have stressed the thorough training of their telephone volunteers. In Putnam County, as elsewhere, the training is comprehensive, covering approximately 50 hours of lectures, classroom discussions, experiential or growth exercises, role play, text assignments and apprenticeship in the phone room. This center has already sponsored nine such training classes. Its 10th class will begin Tuesday, Feb. 2 (7-10 p.m.) in Gobin’s Charterhouse Lounge. Anyone interested in becoming a telephone counselor may phone 653-2645 for an application blank and further information.

Cloverdale

money to solve. “Rural kids from my experience,’’ Coplen said, “don't have the problems that urban kids do. But, I am not sure that money is the entire answer.” Haag, however, sees the situation in a different way. “WHAT GRIPES ME,” the superintendent countered, “is that our kids are worth less financially to the government than those kids who live in areas where there are high property values.” Because 60 per cent of Cloverdale’s funding level originates with the state, state funding is also a concern of Haag’s. One of the most important variables in determining the state’s contribution to the corporation is the pupil count. According to the Digest of Public Finance in Indiana, corporations are appropriated SI,OBO per student per school year. To determine the total figure, corporations are expected to count the total number of students they are responsible for on a day set aside by the State Department of Public Instruction (second Friday of September). This year that day fell on Sept. 18. A report entitled Average Daily Membership (ADM) is sent to the state. Shortly thereafter, a final report is used which includes not only the total corporation student membership but also includes students enrolled in vocational, special education and other related programs. On this basis, the state will estimate the money available for the corporation to spend on pupil education.

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have been approved,” Euratte continued. “That's personal promotion. You could even say that is political.” Normally, even when considering denying a claim, the Putnam County Commissioners feel compelled to pay and do. The board has reasoned vendors will seek legal action against the county if the items are not paid for, since the claim is a county debt. BIT EURATTE SAYS that’s not the case, instead, payment can be sought from the officeholder who made the unwarranted purchase. “Well, at the point a claim is disallowed, it would become the expense of the sheriff’s office, if that is the agency that paid the purchase. “Of course, that’s assuming they (the commissioners) turned it down because they felt it (the purchase) wasn’t countyrelated,” Euratte noted. “I KNOW WHAT WE wquld do if we were contacted to make an audit...say something personal in nature was purchased by any department. We wouldn’t go back against the vendor. As far as we

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another special meeting will be set next week to name the five-member patron committee and prepare the additional appropriation request. BEFORE THE BOARD voted 5-0 to select the patron committee, Hammond clarified his proposal by adding: “I’m not thinking of a watchdog capacity. I think this board’s decisions have been made with honesty, integrity and above board. I think the committee could lend support and help keep other patrons informed. ” He cautioned that committee members should be aware that the consolidation project will require a great deal of time and numerous meetings as it progresses through a number of steps. Four of the board members, Landes (Washington Twp.), Sherman Hacker (Jefferson Twpj, Lloyd Hayes (Warren

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Shelie Nicholson, Route 3, Greencastle, a North Putnam High School freshman, recently received two top year-end awards from the Indiana Quarter Horse Assn. Shelie and her eight-year-old gelding, “Jest a Flash," were awarded 1981 Champion High Point Horse for Youth and 1981

South Putnam OEA Rock-A-Thon set

Plans for South Putnam Office Education Association’s fifth annual Rock-A-Thon for the Special Olympics are nearly complete. Approximately 12 rockers are gathering pledges from teachers, students and the com-

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SCHOOL CORPORATIONS jockey for additional money when they have students enrolled in special education and vocational training which are not considered as part of the traditional curriculum. Because of the financial advantages of having a big pupil count, Haag knows of at least one corporation outside of the county that “puffs up their pupil counts.” But, he vehemently adds, that Cloverdale School Corporation does not follow this practice. He believes that conservative budgeting is always the best policy. Because of the variables mentioned and countless others that affect the financial management of a school corporation, Haag hesitates to play the role of forecaster concerning the future of the Cloverdale School system. Survival, he implies, depends on successfully trimming the budget bulk. “YOU JUST HAVE TO find little ways of cutting,” the superintendent says. “I have to first find ways to cut maintenance and utilities.” Coplen, however, says survival hinges on the changing of traditional attitudes. “We’ve always been used to thinking bigger and bigger,” the education consultant said. “People have been slow to realize that we have to cut back. ’ ’ ONE OF THE CUTBACKS Coplen refers to is the reduction of the academic work force and says that it is a sometimes necessary but always sensitive option to consider.

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would be concerned, that value was received from the vendor. It wasn’t through any fault of his. So, we would make a charge against the individual officeholder.” Whatever is purchased by any officeholder should be documented and become part of a special record, the State Board of Accounts representative added. All expensive and material items purchased with county funds should be recorded on a fixed-asset record, Euratte said. It’s a way the county can insure countypurchased items stay at county offices. “WE HAVE PRESCRIBED a fixedasset record which the county auditor is suppose to keep,” Euratte explained. “The auditor is the record keeper for the county. All claims go through the county auditor so he would be the most logical person to keep a record of all fixed assets. “And if he is keeping a record, as he is required to do, then there will be a record of the equipment. It’s suppose to be a permanent record which is ongoing in nature. It’s just a matter of updating your new acquisitions.

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Twp.) and Spencer (Marion Twp.) will select a committee representative from their respective communities. Board president Ron Cook, a Washington Twp. resident who serves in an at-large capacity, will choose one person as an atlarge member. IN OTHER ACTION Thursday night, the board accepted a $12,500 bid from H D. Schneider Electric of Indianapolis f.,i installation of smoke detectors and an automatic fire alarm system at Belle Union Elementary School. The bid was the lowest of six submitted. The system was ordered by the State Fire Marshal as a condition of keeping the half-century-old building in operation. Indiana law requires that classrooms for kindergarten, first and second grades be located at ground level, but the design of

munity for the Tuesday, Jan. 26 event. At 2:05 p.m., students will gather in the commons area as Mike Steele, DePauw University basketball coach, officially starts the 1982 Rock-A-Thon. It will continue throughout the as-

“Riffing (reduction of work force) of teaches,” Coplen explains, “is something most corporations have not experienced before. It is very difficult.” At least for the present, Haag does not believe he will have to cut the Cloverdale staff to balance the budget. Coplen also said school corporations need to change their attitude that money is the answer to all their dilemmas. “WE’VE HAD THE SITUATION,” ex plains Coplen, “that if you throw money at the problem, it will be solved.” Haag says he is confident that with at least half of the $22,000 in cuts already made, the corporation will make it financially. But, he says, he is concerned about the impact constant financial adjustments will have on the children. “I think the major concern should be the kids,” Haag explains, “but sometimes I think it really is just staying within the budget.” Coplen is also concerned. “We’re at a crossroads,” he says. COPLEN BELIEVES FUTURE financial security hinges on whether the state government can climb out of its economic slump. He says state Superintendent Harold H. Negley is “trying to get more money for schools,” but adds, “right now, there is no more money to be had.” Coplen’s school survival kit includes some words of advice-hold on and hope. “We’ve got to hold for about three years,” Coplen estimates, “and hope the economy turns around.”

“There’s no reason for it to get away,” Euratte said of county-purchased equipment. “And I know from an audit standpoint, we would come in and test the assets.” UNDERSTANDABLY. FOR county government to operate efficiently, it takes all levels working together, Euratte emphasizes. “You’ve got to have local control. The Board of Accounts can’t be making all local decisions.” But, according to Euratte, government can be only as effective as the man behind the stamp. “It gets down a lot of times to the individual commissioner and how he feels about reviewing claims. You get some commissioners that probably check them very close. You may have someone else who just probably routinely affixes approval to it. “BUT REALLY, IT IS the commissioners’ responsibility. That’s why we have commissioners approving claims. I mean, if it’s just a procedure of affixing your signature to it, it’s meaningless,” Euratte concluded.

the Belle Union building does not allow that arrangement. Hammond reported that he, board president Cook, corporation attorney Roy Sutherlin and Putnam County sanitarian Vernie Zeiner had met with the State Fire Marshal’s staff and the State Board of Health on Monday regarding statemandated remodeling and repairs at all three elementary schools. AT ISSUE, HE SAID, is a determination of what work is necessary to insure health and safety while delaying other items that might not be needed if a new school is completed in two years. James Associates was directed to prepare a cost estimate of all work ordered by the state. It will then be reviewed by the corporation and state officials to decide what work, if any, can be delayed, pending construction of a new building.

Reserve Champion All-Around Gelding. Shelie and "Jess" also received year-end awards in eight youth and adult class events. During the year, the pair won four AllAround Youth titles and two Register of Merits from the American Quarter Horse Assn.

ternoon and during the Green-castle-South Putnam varsity basketball game, ending at 10 p.m. For more information or to voice a tax-deductible pledge, persons may call 653-3148. APPEALPLANNED NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) The Hamilton County prosecutor plans to appeal a ruling forbidding his use of an electronic slot machine as evidence in a gambling case against the American Legion postatNoblesville.

Wallace rides again

The Central Regional office of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has announced that Joe Wallace, 860 N. Jackson St., Greencastle, has agreed to the chairmanship of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Bike-A-Thon in Greencastle again this year. THE FUNDS raised in this year’s event will go to support the hospital’s programs of research, patient care and education in catastrophic diseases which affect our children. St. Jude’s is non-

Chemical 'cooker' blamed in fatal Parke County blast

ROCKVILLE (AP)- Too much pressure in-a chemical cooker is being blamed for the explosion in the Woodland Feed Co. north of Rockville Wednesday thaTlwiled one man and seriously injured another. ALTHOUGH NO DAMAGE estimate is available, the blast leveled a brick building adjacent to Sugar Creek Lumber Co., which also was extensively damaged, accoring to Parke County Sheriff D. Michael Eslinger. Joe P. Whittington Jr., 21, Kingman, was killed when a mixture of sawdust and chemicals exploded in a crooker. The cooker was estimated at 30 feet tall and 20 feet in diameter. Judson G. Brown, an engineering consultant from Hanover, Mass., is in guarded condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital at Danville, 111., with burns on his face, hands and

Brick Chapel Continued from page 1 the Performing Arts Center on the DePauw University campus. The group, in addition to the band “Stageway,” will offer Putnam County residents a chance to hear a collection of gospel, country-western fifties and Top 40 music. Stageway, based in Wisconsin, includes three of Lane’s children. Son Philip Lane plays rhythm guitar and provides vocals, while daughters Sheila Lane and Connie Lane Klein are vocalists. STAGEWAY ALSO INCLUDES Dan McGarry, drums: Dave Schulta, bass; and Stephen St. Pierre, lead guitar.

SATURDAY, JAN. 23 9:30 - ? Sponsored by: OLD TOPPER TAVERN (NQ Cover Charge) Don’t miss Hot Licks, Big Roy, Little King, Ham Bone and Hot Rod Kersey!

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GREENCASTLE Jan. 25-29 Monday - Turkey manhattan, mashed potatoes, peas, bread, pudding, milk. Tuesday -- Spaghetti and meat, vegetable salad, garlic bread, peaches, milk. Wednesday - Pork fritter, mixed vegetables, French fries, cookie, milk. Thursday - Fried chicken, buttered rice, green beans, bread, fruit Jello, milk. Friday -- Chili and crackers, peanut butter sandwich, pickle spears, apple crisp, milk. SOUTH PUTNAM Jan. 25-29 Monday -- Hotdog, hash browns, green beans, pudding, milk. Tuesday -- Spaghetti and meat sauce, tossed salad, garlic bread, apple crisp, milk. Wednesday -- Barbecue sandwich, trail-cut potatoes, pickle spear, diced pears, milk. Thursday -- Pizza, French fries, corn, cookie, milk. Friday -- Taco, lettuce, cheese, mixed fruit, milk. CLOVERDALE Jan. 25-29 Monday -- Weiner sandwich, French fries, applesauce, cinnamon roll, milk. Tuesday - Vegetable soup, peanut butter sandwich, celery sticks, cake, milk. Wednesday Turkey manhattan, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and butter, jello with fruit, milk. Thursday -- Tenderloin sandwich, tater tots, buttered corn, pudding, milk. Friday -- Tomato soup, toasted cheese sandwich, carrot sticks, apple cobbler, milk.

sectarian, non-discriminatory and provides total medical care to more than 4,200 patients. At St. Jude, scientists and physicians are working side by side seeking not only better means of treatment, but also the cause, cure and prevention of these terrible killers. The funds raised in the bike-a-thons this spring will assure the continuation of the life giving work at the hospital. This will mark the fourth straight year that Wallace has headed the St. Jude effort in Greencastle.

chest and a broken right ankle and left kneecap. WHITTINGTON, WHO worked parttime for the western Indiana Feed company as a carpenter, was the son of the mill’s owner, Joe P. Whittington Sr. The mill, relocated about 12 miles north of Rockville on U.S. 41, was being converted to a gasohol blending facility. Memorial services for Whittington, a lifelong resident of Kingman, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Kingman Chirsitan Church, where friends may call after 9a.m. until services. HE WAS BORN AT Crawfordsville. Survivors include his parents, Joe P. and Janet Lowe Whittington Sr.; three sisters, Jean Costello, Lori Poer and Judy Whittington; and two grandmothers, Irene Whittington and Helen Lowe.

Obituaries Margaret E. Sanford

Margaret E. Sanford, 89, Greencastle, died Thursday evening at Heritage House Convalescent Center. She was born near Limedale on Nov. 8,1892, the daughter of Charles and Etta (Whitehead) Cooper. The deceased was a member of the Limedale Community Church. She was preceded in death on Feb. 26, 1956 by her husband, Basil Sanford. Survivors include a son, La verne, Greencastle; a daughter, Mrs. Roy

lona C. Tharp

lona C. Tharp, 88, Route 5, Greencastle, died Thursday evening at Putnam County Hospital. She was born on July 6, 1893 in Putnam County, the daughter of Greenberry and Minnie (Bray) Williams. The deceased married Marion Tharp on Feb. 23, 1913. He preceded his wife in death in 1963. Mrs. Tharp was a member of the Mt. Meridian United Methodist Church. In recent years, she attended the First Baptist Church, Greencastle. Survivors include a son, Harry Tharp, Route 1,

At the library

JAN. 23-29 Saturday, Jan. 23 - Free films for children, 11 a.m. “The Cuckoo Clock that Wouldn’t Cuckoo,” “The Deer and the Forest” and ‘Dragon in a Wagon.” Thursday, Jan. 28 - Story Hour, 10 a.m. *** BOOKMOBILE SCHEDULE Monday, Jan. 25 - Russellville School, 9:15-11:15 a.m.; Russellville Downtown. 11:30-12 p.m.; Van Bibber Lake, 12:30-1 pm.; Greencastle Senior Center. 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26 - Eventide, 8:45-9:15 a.m.; Sunset Manor, 9:30 a.m.; Learning Center, 10-10:30 a.m.; Greencastle Nursing Home, 10:45 a.m.; Castlebury Apartment Office, 11II :30 a.m.; Canterbury Estates, 11:30-12. Wednesday, Jan. 27 - Bainbridge School, 9:15-1:30 p.m.: Morton, 1:45 p.m. Thursday. Jan. 28 ~ Bainbrigde Utilities, 9 a.m.; Bainbridge Downtown, 9:30-10:30 a.m.; Groveland, 10:45-11:15 a.m.; Heritage Lake, ll:30-12:30p.m.

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(Charlotte) Stewart, Newport Richey, Fla.; a sister, Helen Lawson, Limedale; two brothers, Arthur and Chester Cooper, both of Greencastle; six grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Services will be held at 11 a m. Monday at the HopkinsRector Funeral Home, Greencastle. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery. Friends may call 2-8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Fillmore; three daughters, Edna Roach, Fillmore, Juanita Goodman, Route 5, Greencastle, and Faye Fulkerson, Monticello; nine grandchildren, 17 greatgrandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. Services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday at the Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home, Greencastle, with Rev. Paul H. Bowen officiating. Burial will follow at New Providence Cemetery. Friends may call 3-9 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

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