Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 104, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 January 1983 — Page 1
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Who's news
Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor IBM Greencastle employee LYI.E PHILLIPS has recently been appointed department manager. Direct Customer Support. He held his previous position as staff analyst at Greencastle since 1979. Phillips initial responsibilities will include testing and acceptance of a new order entry system which will support the Direct Customer Service department. Phillips joined IBM in 1968 as a customer engineer in Sioux Falls, S.D., and later became a customer engineer field manager there before coming to Greencastle. Phillips resides in Terre Haute with his wife, Marge, and daughters Lynne, Lorrie and Stacey. FRANK NULL has recently been appointed general accounting manager at IBM Greencastle. He previously held positions as financial analyst in strategic inventory planning, physical inventory and financial planning at IBM Greencastle. , A Greencastle employee since 1961, Null’s current responsibilities include maintaining the site general ledger and providing accounting integrity for associated activity. Null lives at 1010 S. Locust St., Greencastle with his wife Rebecca and son John. FRED SCHMIDTKE has recently been appointed to a management position at IBM Greencastle. He has been named manager of System Programming. After joining IBM in Huntsville, Ala., as a computer operator in 1967 Schmidtke held various positions in computer operations, analyzing and education in Morris Plains, N.J., Lexington, Ky., Austin and Dallas, Tex. While in Dallas, he taught employees and customers nationwide on the corporate education staff. As manager of System Programming, his responsibilities will include adapting Greencastle for support of a large system center and support system installation. Schmidtke lives with his wife and daughter, Gail and Kimberly, in Greencastle. HOWDY THOMAS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Danny Thomas, 604 Primrose Lane, Greencastle, has been granted the Representative DeMolay Award by the International Supreme Council of the Order of DeMolay. The award is the highest selfachievement distinction a DeMolay can earn. Thomas is a sophomore at Greencastle High School and is presently serving as senior deacon of Omnes Chapter, Greencastle. He has earned several merit bars, the Hoosier Membership Award, and the Founder’s Membership Award. The Indiana Chapter of Electrical Women’s Roundtable, a national organization for women who are employed in the electrical industry or allied fields, met recently in Indianapolis. The guest speaker for the meeting was State Sen. Virginia Blankenbaker from Indianapolis, a home economics teacher until her election in 1981. Sen. Blankenbaker’s talk focused on the energy issue from a woman’s standpoint and the effect of legislative action. DOTTIE BUECHLER from Public Service Company of Indiana attended the meeting. The next meeting of the organization will be held on March 9.
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Tonight cloudy and cold. Low in mid and upper 20s. Winds light southeast. Sunday cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. High in upper 30s and low 40s.
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Women affiliated with the electrical industry or allied fields are invited to contact Mrs. Buechler for more information on the organization. Airman DUANE S. LEWIS, son of Janet K. Quigley of 1140 Avenue E, Greencastle. has graduated from the U.S. Air Force administrative specialist course at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Graduates of the sixweek course learned how to prepare Air Force correspondence and reports, and earned credits toward an associate degree in applied science through the Community College of the Air Force. Lewis is an administration specialist at K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Mich., with the 410th Combat Support Group He is a 1981 graduate of Greencastle High School. WILLIAM E. WITT, son of Geraldine F. Lawson, Crawfordsville, and Harold L. Witt of Coatesville, has been promoted in the U.S. Air Force to the rank of master sergeant. Witt is an aircraft maintenance technician at Scott Air Force Base. 111., with the 375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing. KEVIN MANMX, a 1981 graduate of North Putnam High School, is a member of the 1982 Earlham College football team. Mannix, who plays safety, is a sophomore at Earlham. His parents are Edward and Evelyn Mannix of Greencastle. MARK KAYS, Bainbridge, is a member of the 1982-1983 Ball State University marching band, “The Pride of Mid-America,’’ directed by Roger T. McConnell. Kays, who plays the tenor saxophone, performs with the band during home football game halftime shows and at other activities on campus. He is the son of Mrs. June Kays, Route 1, Bainbridge. Navy Seaman LONNIE L. BOYERS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Decker, Route 1, Bainbridge, has completed recruit training at the Naval Training Center, San Diego. During the eight-week training cycle. Boyers studied general military subjects designed to prepare him for further academic and on-the-job training in one of the Navy’s 85 basic occupational fields. Included in his studies were seamanship, close order drill, Naval history and first aid. Navy Seaman recruit DAVID S. McBRIDE, son of Rexford C. and Nancy E. Mcßride, Route 3, Greencastle, has completed recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. During the eight-week training cycle, Mcßride studied general military subjects designed to prepare him for further academic and on-the-job training in one of the Navy’s 85 basic occupational fields. Included in the studies were seamanship, close order drill, Naval history and first aid. Airman DANIEL S. CRAWFORD, son of Melvin E. and Donna J. Crawford, Route 6, Greencastle, has completed Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The airman, who is remaining at Lackland for specialized training in the security police field, studied the Air Force mission, organization and customs and received special instruction in human relations. Crawford is a 1980 graduate of Greencastle High School.
The extended forecast for Monday through Wednesday calls for sunny days and clear nights. High will range from the mid 30s to the mid 40s with lows in the 20s.
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Focus on $3.3 million building project
South Putnam hearing Jan. 20
By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher A public hearing on the South Putnam School Corporation's plan to build a $3.3 million elementary school has been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. 20. The 1:30 p.m. session will be conducted at Belle Union School. A required legal notice of the hearing appears in today’s Banner-Graphic. MANDATED BY INDIANA LAW for any building project of $1 million or more, the informational hearing will encompass all aspects of the proposed school, including the need for the building, its cost and subsequent impact on the property tax rate. The hearing had been set for Dec. 21, but was postponed. As approved unanimously by the five-member school board last July, the projects calls for construction of the school on land the corporation owns immediately southeast of South Putnam High .School. Designed by James Associates of Indianapolis, the 32.600-square-foot building would provide one classroom for each level, kindergarten through sixth grade. In addition, the single-story structure would include an instructional materials center (library), remedial
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Lottery, drunken drivers are focus of Friday bills
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The subjects of lotteries, electing judges to the state’s highest court, and voters making or repealing law are among the latest crop of proposals under consideration in the Indiana General Assembly. Sixty-four proposals were introduced Friday. Among them are bills that would jail first-time drunken drivers and impose heavy penalties for manufacturing and selling armor-piercing bullets. Sens. Lillian M. Parent, R-Danville, and Gene Snowden, R-Huntington, want to amend the state constitution to allow the General Assembly to remove any judge or prosecuting attorney by impeachment or upon joint resolution. The two also want to remove the gover-
Putnam Patter
Kitchen wood box, kindling and kittens
By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor The brainy ones say that perpetual motion is impossible, but keeping the wood box full used to come mighty near making liars of them. Size and location of the wood box dependedjon kitchen arrangements. Ours was at the fire end of the kitchen range and would hold a sizeable amount of wood, enough to keep mother’s fires going until her wood carrying crew got home from school the next evening. NO MATTER HOW long the returning schoolboy dillydallied in changing into his working clothes, it was never too late nor too dark to fill the wood box. When two schoolboys were involved,
speech and reading areas, a learning disabilities room and administrative offices. The gymnasium also would be used for lunch seating, with the food service area positioned adjacently. A stage along the south side of the gym floor would double as the location of art and music classes. THE JAN. 20 PUBLIC HEARING is the last procedural hurdle the corporation must clear before advertising for bids for construction. In addition to hiring James Associates to design the proposed facility, the school board has retained Geupel DeMars Co. to serve as construction manager. The estimated project cost of $3,290,000 includes $270,000 budgeted for construction management fees and another $145,000 for architectural and engineering fees. Depending on the time required to arrange an anticipated bond issue to finance the project, the school board plans to have the new school ready for occupancy by the fall of 1984. At that time, the corporation plans to close Belle Union School while continuing to Operate Fillmore and Reelsvilie schools. The plan at Fillmore is to close the older of two buildings and house all students in the newer structure.
nor’s power to appoint Supreme Court and Appeals Court judges and give that duty to the voters. Currently, the governor appoints judges and justices nominated from three candidates chosen by the Judicial Nominating Commission. Voters periodically cast ballots on whether to retain the judges and justices. The two senators are proposing splitting the state into geographic districts from which voters would elect a Supreme Court justice. Appeals Court judges would also be elected by voters in each appellate district. The proposed amendment would allow the governor to designate the head of the Col. 2, back page, this section
there would be a clothes-ehanging contest in which the winner could be the loser. The kid that emerged first, or the one mother saw' first, would be tagged for wood box duty. Sometimes the changeover from school clothes ended in a tie in which there was a difference of opinion over who last filled the wood box. It was a small matter of labor relations and one which often vexed the head negotiator. THE PUBLIC HEARING was short and to the point. It mattered little who was last or first, and to quickly end the confrontation both kids were told to head for the woodpile and be quick about it. A woodpile under a heavy mantle of snow' is a most discouraging sight and un-
Sole saver
County's 90,000 pairs of shoes keep city repairman whistling
By BARBARA CARHART Banner-Graphic Staff Writer His boots are made for walking and that's just what he does to and from the bank But if you think the man behind the strut is a local financier or entenpeaneur, your only half right. You see. Bob Henderson. owner of Henderson’s Shoe Repair, is the closest Greencastle has come to sporting a shoe repair magnet. Actually, despite his spry health, the 52-year-old banker-turned businessman leaves the shuffling to the bank to his wife Anita. But. he is close behind equipped with his mallet and “Pussycat” soles just in case. SOLE SAVING isn't exactly the title of the script Henderson wrote for himself but neither was being a wilder, bread truck driver and Central National Bank loan officer. Determined to be his own boss, Henderson points with pride that in the nine months since he opened his shop, many worn but cozy shoes have been saved the fate of disposal in the old-shoe graveyard. In fact, Henderson displays a couple pair of his own shoes refurbished with new soles and old-fashioned shine to describe why his dynasty won’t die. The reason is simple: there’s safety in numbers. “There’s 30,000 people in Putnam County each owming on the average of three pair of shoes,” the Indianapolis-born
Question? Comment? Gripe? Call toll free to Statehouse
Toll-free telephone numbers are available for use in contacting legislators during the current session of the Indiana General Assembly. IN THE HOUSE, where Rep. John Thomas (R-District 44) represents all of Putnam County, the number is 1-800-382-9341. Operators will be on duty from 8:30 a.m. until 30 minutes after adjournment each weekday. The Senate number, 1-800-382-9467, may be called from 9 a m. until 4:30 p.m. each weekday. Putnam County is represented by three state senators, all Republicans. Lillian Parent’s District 24 encompasses Franklin,
der such conditions, mother's wood carriers grumbled about labor conditions bordering on the inhumane. Their logic fell to pieces when it was pointed out that they rolled in the snow on their “free” time. Custodians of the wood box were also on the dry kindling detail. Mother had a hard enough time getting the kitchen range up to biscuit-baking heat without the additional aggravation of no dry cobs to give the fire a quicker start. IN THE WINTERTIME, dry cobs didn’t come from the hog lot or horse troughs. The kindling scavengers had to dig through the mangers or barn halls to come up with enough to meet minimum requirements of the firemakers. Cobs were in father’s department. He
According to construction cost estimates provided by James Associates, the total figure includes $1,580,000 for what has been termed “basic construction at SSO per square foot.” In addition, the project budget provides $250,000 for site development, $150,000 for utilities (sewer lines, electrical, water, gas lines, etc.) and $125,000 for built-in special equipment. I)R. WILLIAM WILKERSON of Indiana University, a recognized expert on public school finance, has estimated that the project, as proposed, would increase the corporation’s propety tax rate by a gross amount of $2.06. That projection is based on an anticipated corporation assessed valuation of $25 million by 1984. The construction proposal now pending is the third specific approach tried by South Putnam since the school board began an assessment of its elementary facilities in September 1979. An attempt to merge Belle Union and Fillmore schools into a new facility east of Mt. Meridian failed in 1981 after the State Board of Health determined the groundwater supply to be inadequate. A later vote by the board to consolidate all three elementaries was scarpped early in 1982 in favor of the pending project.
businessman reasoned. “If two pairs wear out, that's 60.000 pairs of shoes." Henderson believes that among the 90.000 pairs of beloved shoes out there in the county, an increasing amount of them are expensive shoes. And expensive shoes. Henderson surmises, mean extensive repairs...or something like that. "THE PRICE OF good leather shoes has increased 83 per cent." he explained, "and people justify paying $25 to get them rebuilt." And. of course, any shoe repairman worth his weight in leather knows the benefits of the supply and demand theory. “In the 1930 s. there was a shoe repair shop for every 3.000 people." he said. “Today, there's one for every 27.000. When I was a kid. there were two in Greencastle.” Current trends also help ring the cash register bell. Though the Vine Street cobbler dismisses the notion that he is a trendsetter himself (his first pair of cowboy boots dates back several years before John Travolta made the Urban Cowboy a surburan hero), the Putnam County-raised Henderson believes there are a few trends in the shoe repair business that spell nothing but M-O-N-E-Y. “THE TREND NOW is to go back to buying good shoes and to take care of them," he explained. “The biggest thing to Col. 3. back page, this section
Floyd and Jackson townships, while Ed Pease’s District 37 takes in Cloverdale, Jefferson, Marion and Washington. District 38, represented by William Dunbar, includes Clinton. Greencastle, Madison, Monroe, Russell and Warren townships. BECAUSE THE toll-free lines are used by callers throughout the state, messages should be brief. All messages are given to the representative or senator for whom they are intended. Letters should be sent to individual legislators in care of the House or Senate, State House, Indianapolis, Ind. 46204.
kept an open can of coal oil in the kitchen and let the cobs soak in it overnight. These were safe to use as fire starters without danger of explosion, since all live coals of the evening before were dead and stone cold in the morning. The wood box was a good place for mice to settle down for a more comfortable winter. The house was never too well secured or w interized, and any mouse too dumb to find his way in was so stupid he ought to freeze anyway. OUR PARTICULAR wood box, however, w-as 100 per cent mouse free. One of our cats had house privileges, so the smarter mice sought cat-proof hiding places. There were times when the wood box Col. 2, back page, this section