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Summer of variety at DePauw Programs for adults over 60, youth interested in college prep, Spanish and science courses, and camps for football, soccer, basketball, and athletic training will be offered this summer at DePauw University. In its first venture with a nationally known organization called Elderhostel, DePauw will provide a one-week program June 19-25 that combines education and hosteling. The residential program for persons 60 or older will offer non-credit courses in Chinese Life and Culture, Appalachian Insights and Physical Fitness & Your WellBeing. The courses, combined with a variety of social and cultural events, will be taught by regular members of the DePauw faculty. SPECIAL INTEREST activities will include swimming, tennis, campus tours, and a tour of Parke County’s covered bridges. In addition to resident enrollment, the university will also accept up to eight commuter enrollees. The cost for resident enrollment is SIBO. Commuter enrollments, which will cover classes and lunch each day, will be $55. Those who wish to enroll may call 658-4632. DePauw’s Options ’B3 program is for students who have completed the sophomore or junior year of high school One portion of Options ’B3 is a three-week program to develop writing, quantitative reasoning and oral communication skills. Students may select studies in the humanities, social sciences, or life sciences. Program dates are June 26-July 14 and the cost is $625. SCIENCE PRACTICUM is the second portion of the Option ’B3 program. Offered from June 26-July 8, it will explore the disciplines of physics, chemistry, computers, and the biological health sciences. Enrollment cost for this two-week program is $425. Courses in Option ’B3 will be taught by PePauw’s regular faculty. Students will live in university residence halls under adult supervision. Questions about enrollment should be directed to David Murray, director of admissions, 658-4006. A new program for high school students who have had one or two years of Spanish or Romance Language will combine two weeks on the campus and four weeks in Barcelona, Spain. STUDENTS WILL MEET two hours per day on the campus from June 19-June 30 and then fly to Barcelona where they will have language programs three hours a day five days a week from July 1-July 30. Time also will be devoted to cultural studies and organized activities including field trips to sites in the Barcelona area. Students will receive four hours credit for the six weeks. Costs for the six-week program will be $1,600, including tuition, room and board, and travel connected with the program. Those who are interested should contact Prof. Vincent Serpa, Romance Languages at DePauw, or Prof. Amir Rafat, director of off-campus study. Sport camps scheduled on the campus include: Col. 3, back page, this section

Out like wet lamb Cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of showers. Low in the low 40s overnight. Mostly cloudy again on Friday with a 30 per cent chance of rain. High Friday in the mid 50s Southeast winds at 10 mph during the period. Indiana Extended Forecast Cool Saturday through Monday. Saturday rain likely south and rain or snow north. Flurries north Sunday then a chance of rain or snow over all the state Monday. Cool with daily highs in the 30s north to 40s south and lows mid 20s to low 30s north Mid 30s to low 40s south. Abby A 4 Calendar A 4 Classifieds AB, A 9 Comics A 5 Crossword A 8 Heloise A 4 Horoscope A 9 Obituaries AlO People A 5 Sports A6.A7.A8 TV A 5

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Sewage plant saga A look inside project as construction nears the end

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor The symbolism involved may be off 180 degrees, but it doesn’t escape notice as one ventures forth for a tour of Greencastle’s new $6.2 million wastewater treatment plant. The wind is strong out of the west, making it easy to tell just what kind of facility you’re visiting. But it’s the snap and pop of a fluttering American flag that first captures your attention. POINTING UP AT THE flagpole, a deluxe model with space for the colors of both our nation and state, City Engineer Cliff Norton begins his tour: “We haven’t gotten our state flag yet,” he notes. His statement wasn’t dripping in sarcasm. It was just matter of factly said, yet the symbolism is there for the taking. And nothing could be more totally opposite than the roles played by state and federal agencies in this project. The long road from sewer ban to construction completion has seen various roadblocks at the State Stream Pollution Control Board. Usually a simple call or a brief letter would clear the air for the state. The EPA was another story. Greencastle’s city leaders knew long before even President Reagan perhaps, that the EPA was in turmoil.

STACKS OF CORRESPONDENCE, multitudes of sewer system studies and the like, as well as fistfuls of grant forms seemed to delay every move. For every action there was an equal and opposite inaction. Long before names like Gorsuch and LaVelle crept into headlines did Greencastle officials know of EPA personnel problems. The city’s grant once even hung in the balance as the EPA staff member assigned to it took an extended honeymoon vacation in The Philippines. With construction under way, workmen even encountered an old tank underneath where the electrical equipment area is now, Norton said. “It wasn’t on any of the

Weekend admission for now

State parks in area to resume fee charges

Entrance fees will begin to be collected at 17 state-operated parks on Friday, according to Jim Ridenour, director of the Department of Natural Resources. At the end of May, residents will be required to pay admission to more than 60 state parks around the state. “Our state properties are open throughout the year,” Ridenour said, “but at many areas we charge entrance fees only during the prime recreation months.” ENTRANCE FEES TO state parks are $1.50 per non commercial vehicle. Frequent visitors may purchase the Annual Entrance Permit for sls, while Indiana residents age 60 or older may pur-

SEWAGE PLANT TOUR: New lab with old office in background; blower cell a la ships at sea

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old plans.” But hopefully all those problems are now behind the project. And with an anticipated completion date about six weeks away, the new facility is getting finishing touches. At latest estimate, the new sewage plant is 97 per cent completed, according to Norton. PRESIDENT NIXON was in office when the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 became law and ultimately put a Stream Pollution Control Board sewer ban on Greencastle the following year. All new sewage hook-ons were prohibited, for the most part discouraging local industrial development and construction efforts. Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter all came and went, however, before the city finally signed the contract to build the wastewater treatment plant necessary to

chase a Golden Age Passport-good for unlimited entrances-for $5. Admission will be charged either on weekends, or a fulltime basis, Ridenour added. At the property manager’s discretion, gate operations may be suspended during times of inclement weather, or low visitation. At those times, entrance fees will not be collected, Ridenour said. Locally, residents will pay fulltime admission to the Raccoon State Recreation Area on May 6. The Lieber State Recreation Area will charge fulltime admission beginning May 13. In addition, weekend admissions will be charged beginning Friday at Turkey Run

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meet federal guidelines. In November 1980, as Ronald Reagan was winning a landslide election to the White House, Greencastle officials were signing the contract with Adrian Construction Co. of Davton. Target date for completion was set as Feb. 4, 1983. But the paperwork snags at Indianapolis and Chicago’s EPA office - coupled with a valve malfunction that flooded the basement and damaged electrical panels and other equipment - made Feb. 4 completion impossible. “THE FLOOD ALONE cost them 94 calendar days,” Norton said as he pointed out a bronze plaque at the entrance, denoting the names of the city administrators under whose tenure the project became a reality. The first floor, or upper office level, has already been accepted by the city, Norton

State Park, Lieber State Recreation Area and Raccoon State Recreation Area. RESIDENTS SHOULD PLAN to pay ad mission fulltime beginning April 15 at McCormick’s Creek State Park and Turkey Run State Park. Other state parks and admission fee dates were announced as follows: beginning April 1-Brown county state Park, Chain O’ Lakes State Park, Clifty Falls State Park, Indiana Dunes State Park, Lincoln State Park, McCormick’s Creek State Park, Potato Creek State Recreation Area, Shakamak State Park, Versailles State Park, Whitewater State Park, Monroe Reservoir, Brookville

notes. The section includes a reception area, conference room, records room, sewage plant superintendent Charlene Nichols’ office and her laboratory. As the tour progresses through the lab, workers outside are dismantling the old office and laboratory that were built on the West Columbia Street site in the early 1900 s. The old house adjacent to the location will also be torn down. The old main equipment building, however, will stay. It was built in 1963, Norton said, and has undergone modification in order to avoid the wrecking ball itself. FINISHING TOUCHES are being done to the grade-level floor and it is expected to be accepted by the city shortly. The area includes the garage, electric room, blower room, main control room and samples area. The last area to be ready, notes resident project engineer Jerry Main, will be the basement. He anticipates it will be June before all the bugs are worked out. To the south of the new building the treatment tanks are all new. The floor above holds gauges and panels that form the famed “tiertiary treatment” aspect of the project, or a third-stage of treatment that was missing from the old system. The final three per cent of the work isn’t as major as it is time-consuming, Norton said. “THAT CONSTRUCTION curve really flattens out like mad at the end of a project,” he said. “They still have some equipment to get working, some piping work...the normal end-of-the- job-type things that take an awfully long time.” Kind of like the rigamorole with EPA, eh? “Oh, they’ve got a new guy now,” Norton laughed Thursday. “He really is working on it. It’s supposed to be one of his priority jobs.” It had better be, with only three per cent left to complete.

Reservoir and Patoka Reservoir. •Fulltime beginning April 15-Brown County State Park, Indiana Dunes State Park, Potato Creek State Recreation Area and Spring Mill State Park •Fulltime beginning May 13-Chain O’ Lakes State Park. Clifty Falls State Park, Quabache State Recreation Area, Pokagon State Park, Shakamak State Park, Versailles State Park, Whitewater State Park, Wyandotte Woods State Recreation Area, Monroe Reservoir, Brookville Reservoir, Hardy Lake State Recreation Area and Patoka Reservoir

Utility bill for fresh credibility By JAN CARROLL Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Advocates of a controversial utility financing technique called on the Legislature today to enact a bill “to bring a fresh credibility to the state utility regulatory process. ’’ But the reforms sought by the Hoosiers for Economic Development Committee are radically different than the ones advocated by the consumer-oriented Citizens Action Coalition. Hoosiers for Economic Development oppose a proposal endorsed by Gov. Robert D. Orr and CAC that would prevent Utilities from applying for another rate increase within 12 months of the date the last one was granted. The group also opposes a legislative prohibition on utilities recovering the cost of construction work in progress, known in legislative shorthand mCWIP. Utility reform legislation died earlier this session, although it is expected to be resurrected in some form in a HouseSenate conference committee. Donald W. Tanselle, president of Merchants National Bank and co-chairman of the committee, said his group wants the Legislature to change the law so that utilities can recover the interest costs related to construction projects before the plants come on line. In addition, the group favors a law that would phase the value of new construction into the financial base used for figuring utility rates, to minimize “rate shock” when a huge construction project comes on line. Hoosiers for Economic Development shares a common ground with Orr and Citizens Action Coalition on at least one recommendation: that utilities be required to prove to the Public Service Commission that a plant is needed before construction can begin. “We believe these principles remain valid and are in the public interest,” Tanselle told reporters at a news conference. The chief of Indiana’s third largest bank cautioned that some utility legislation touted as being lro-consumer may actually wind up costing ratepayers more. He said that’s because the nation’s bond houses will perceive Indiana’s utilities to be riskier investments and thus lower their bond rating , which will raise the borrowing costs for those utilities. “A rating drop of even one grade can add hundreds of millions of dollars in bond interest on a major project,” he said. “This already has occurred in Indiana and there is risk of additional declines.” Tanselle said his group hasn’t taken any direct steps to persuade legislators to their position. “Our purpose is not to lobby.” he said. “Our purpose is to bring the citizens of the state of Indiana to focus on issues of economic development in this state. We believe one of those issues is a reasonably priced, assured source of utility energy in the long run.” Greencastle bus plight due for TV The plight of Greencastle in the present wave of bus deregulation was expected to be part of a segment of the TV program “Good Morning America” Thursday. HOWEVER. A CHANGE in scheduling Wednesday afternoon bumped the bus segment from the program. On Wednesday’s show, host David Hartman had talked of the upcoming segment, mentioning Greencastle as one of the cities to be featured. According to producers of the series, the feature is expected to air sometime next week. Greencastle is one of several Indiana cities in danger of losing bus service as Greyhound tries to weed out what it terms “unprofitable” routes. However, the local fight to save the line, including the hiring of a lawyer by DePauw University interests, has captured media attention. It remains the lone mode of transportation for many students and otters who travel to and from the State Farm facility at Putnamville. A HEARING BEFORE the Public Ser vice Commission on the proposed bus route changes has been scheduled for 10 a.m. April 12 at Indianapolis.