Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 98, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 December 1983 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 30,1983

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Sheriff’s Dept. County Road 550 East at its intersection with County Road 50 North was the scene of a twovehicle accident Thursday morning. Involved in the 10:30 a.m. mishap were a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Wayne Sprinkle, 27, Fillmore, and a 1975 Chevrolet pickup driven by Rita Corey, 24, Fillmore. The Sprinkle vehicle was eastbound on County Road 50 North approaching County Road 550 East while the Corey vehicle was eastbound on County Road 550 East approaching County Road 50 North. Sprinkle told Chief Deputy Robert Patton that he stopped at the intersection and looked both ways before proceeding into the intersection and striking the Corey vehicle. Corey told the officer Sprinkle did not stop at the intersection before proceeding. Two semi-tractor trailers owned by Yellow Freight were involved in a 4:21 a.m. accident Friday at the 36 mile marker, four miles west of Cloverdale, on Interstate 70. Truman Beaver, 54, Indianapolis, told Deputy Chuck Evens that his 1980 GMC tractor trailer had heater problems and he leaned down to make some adjustments. The driver also stated when he raised up again, he saw a 1978 International tractor trailer driven by Robert Moore, 31, Route 12, Brazil. Beaver said his vehicle struck the rear of the Moore vehicle. Moore told the deputy his vehicle had fuel problems and was traveling 45 miles per hour

School menus

GREENCASTLE Jan. 3-6 Tuesday-Pizza, corn, carrot sticks, apple, milk. Wednesday-Tacos, lettuce and tomato, green beans, brownie, milk. Thursday-Pork Manhattan, mashed potatoes, peas, bread, pudding, milk. Friday-Grilled cheese, tomato soup, tossed salad, peaches, milk. SOUTH PUTNAM Jan. 3-6 Tuesday-Pizza, French fries, seasoned green beans, applesauce, milk. Wednesday-Tenderloin on bun, buttered corn, diced pears, applesauce, cookie, milk. Thursday-Hot dog on bun, cheese potatoes, buttered peas, peach crisp, milk. Friday-Hamburger on bun, pickle slices, hash browns, mixed vegetables, sugar cookie, milk.

Celestial mirage offers new clue to fate of the universe CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) The discovery of a celestial mirage that magnifies the image of a quasar up to 10 billion light years or 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles from Earth gives scientists a new tool for predicting the eventual fate of the universe. A report released today describes a method for locating such optical illusions, called gravitational lenses. Scientists hope that by tracking them down, they will be able to measure the amount of matter in the universe. The figure is crucial to theories that predict the future of the universe whether it will keep expanding or will collapse upon itself in a cataclysm called the Big Crunch. The latest gravitational lens, known as 2016-112, is the fourth to be discovered since 1979. But it is the first to be located as a result of a systematic search. “They’re very interesting, because it’s a way of measuring the amount of matter there is in a way that’s entirely independent of anything that astronomers have used before,” said Bernard F. Burke of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scientists from MIT, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University used three telescopes to spot the latest gravitational lens, and they believe the same technique will turn up many more. A report on their work is being published in the issue of the journal Science released today and dated Jan. 6. “The first three were found by accident,” Burke said. “We thought it was time that we started to look for these gravitational lenses in a systematic way.” No. 2016-112 involves a relatively nearby galaxy and a quasar. The quasar, a star-like source of energy near the edge of the universe, is one of the most distant ever found. It is about 5 billion to 10 billion light years away from the Earth. A light year is 6 trillion miles. The galaxy is between the quasar and earth. Its gravity acts as a kind of lens that bends, splits and magnifies the quasar’s light. This creates the illusion that there are two quasars, not one. “Out of every 1,000 quasars, there ought to be two or three examples of these,” Burke says. “So we’ll press on and see if that's the case.”

eastbound when the accident occurred. County Court A public intoxication charge filed against Gerald W. Bird was dismissed during an initial hearing Dec. 27. No probable cause was found to pursue prosecution, according to court records. New arrival Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Kelso of Indianapolis are the parents of a daughter, Jessica Marie, born Dec. 16 at Methodist Hospital. At birth, the baby weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. Her mother is the former Diana Gaston of Cloverdale. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gaston of Cloverdale. Paternal grandparents are Eva Richards of Heritage Lake and Jim Kelso of Indianapolis. Notice Because of the New Year’s Day holiday, no trash route will be run in Greencastle on Monday, Jan. 2 Street Department Supt. Jim Wright said Monday’s route will be run in conjunction with Tuesday’s normal route. Correction The spelling of the name of a driver involved in a Tuesday afternoon accident on Castlebury Drive was incorrect. The driver of the 1978 Chevrolet involved in the 2:45 p.m. accident was Terry L. Shamel, 28, Greencastle. Her name was incorrectly listed as Terry L. Samuels, 48, Greencastle. Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Thursday: Jon Caldwell, Harry Surber and Carrie Cue.

CLOVERDALE Jan. 3-6 Tuesday--Ham burger sandwich, macaroni and cheese, buttered corn, peach cobbler, milk. Wednesday-Fish and cheese sandwich, French fries, green beans, cupcake, milk. Thursday--Chili and crackers, peanut butter sandwich, pickle spears, apple half, milk. Friday-Pizza, hash browns, broccoli, fruit roll, milk. NORTH PUTNAM Jan. 3-6 Tuesday-No school. Faculty in-service. Wednesday-Pizza, French fries, buttered corn, fruit, milk. Thursday-Chicken noodle soup, grilled cheese sandwich, pickle spears, apple pie, milk. Friday-Salisbury steak and gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls and butter, jello with topping, milk.

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Dr. Charles Mays of DePauw University is doing research which he believes shows that passive smoking (inhaling the smoke of others) may seriously affect reproduction and later development. Mays, using this laboratory equipment, exposed three generations of mice to passive smoke and

Smoking

terfering with lactation and consequently with the growth and survival of mouse offspring. MAYS HAS BEEN WORKING on this project in DePauw laboratories since 1978. He said he became interested in the project because of his family history. “My father was a three-pack a day smoker.” Another reason Mays became interested in the experiment was that while much research has teen done on the effects of active or mainline smoke during pregnancy, little has been done on the effects of passive smoking during pregnancy, he said. Mays said he found very little information to guide him on the subject of passive smoking. He did discover a 1940 study that was similar, but it lacked a con-

Drinking

driver,” the judge added. “When habits and behavior start to change, then you’ve really got something effective going. ” While police throughout the nation brace for the weekend period that begins at 6 p.m. Friday and continues to midnight Monday, a national expert on alcoholism says many drunk-driving casualties could be prevented if people would just plan ahead. “THE ONLY TRUE SOLUTION is to plan your evening in advance,” said Dr. Thomas Walker, executive director of the American Council on Alcoholism. “If you think you’re going to drink too much, arrange for other transportation home. “When drinking, keep in mind that hard liquor, beer and wine all pack alcoholic

Elderly

Clodfelter said those connected with the aged are very concerned about it obtaining approval from legislators. “The Aging Network felt this is of extreme interest and people are in favor of a better abuse law. “A lot of times people are just not aware

Four officials are sued

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Four former or current public officials have been sued for money they allegedly owe the state following State Board of Accounts audits, Attorney General Linley Pearson says. Pearson said the largest suit filed Wednesday was for $27,042 against Doris J. Porter, the Harrison Township trustee in Howard County. The Board of Accounts audit charged that Mrs. Porter endorsed checks made payable to poor relief recipients and vendors and issued checks to pay her personal utility bills and son’s rent. Pearson said the state also sued Dr. Timothy Raykovich, a former member of the East Chicago Sanitary District, for

found their litters were smaller and the survival rate lower than that of a control group. Mays is chairman of the department of biological sciences at the Greencastle university. (Photo courtesy of DePauw News Bureau)

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trol group and consisted of only a few animals. The h-40 experiment did, however, provide an idea for a smoking box in which to perform the tests. The box has a lower level where the mice were kept during the smoking period. This level was screened off at the top where a burning cigarette on a metal rod provided the smoke. “I TRIED TO DESIGN this experiment so I would have a good control group, observe more than one generation, and have an adequate sample size,” Mays said. He used hundreds of mice and tested between 20 and 40 litters within each generation. He plans to continue his studies on passive smoking. He has one publication on the research to date and will submit some of his recent results for publication this spring.

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whallops. One and one-half ounces of 80proof liquor, one 12-ounce can of beer and a 5-ounce glass of table wine all contain the same amount of alcohol,” Walker said. The rate at which alcohol is absorbed into the blood stream depends on a number of factors: An individual’s weight, the amount of food in a person’s stomach and how quickly the drinks are consumed. The human body burns alcohol at the rate of about one ounce per hour. Ninety per cent of the alcohol is broken down by the liver and the remaining 10 per cent is eliminated via the lungs and kidneys. FORGET ABOUT such so-called remedies as cold showers, fresh air, black coffee and exercise, Walker advised. They have no effect on blood-alcohol content.

of these cases,” Clodfelter pointed out. “You just don’t hear about them. People say, ‘No, not here in Putnam County.’ But it is here. The new law being proposed is not a complete solution, but it will be a start.”

$7,391. The suit and audit allege the sanitary district paid for a rented automobile and costs for Raykovich as well as for one of his medical malpractice insurance payments. J.A. Spencer, the mayor of Auburn, was sued to recover $4,259 in interest the city paid to purchase a fire truck, Pearson said. The interest payments were more than the amount approved by the State Board of Tax Commissioners, he added. The state also sued Lawrenceburg City Court Judge Clotilda Schreiner for $3078, he said. The audit report alleged the judge had committed errors in deposit records totaling $1,340 and that $1,378 in receipts were missing.

Market reports Grain prices at Greencastle elevators (less applicable freight and handling charges) Friday were steady at: Beans-$8.41 Shell corn-$3.58

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No one understood 'Got my mind back,' says teen-ager hit by multiple allergic reactions

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Cheri Morell, a Crawfordsville high school student, received a doctor’s prescription some youths would covet drop out of school. For 16-year-old Cheri, though, the order wasn’t a welcome one. But it’s helped her gather her wits. Cheri’s problem was an allergy, and not just a normal one. She was allergic to just about everything at North Montgomery High School allergic to the building materials, to other students, even to herself. “I’m basically desperately allergic to everything,” she said. Allergists call patients with her problem a “universal reactant.” She is allergic to broad variety of chemicals, foods, pollens and even her own hormones. Cheri ’3 allergies became evident when she was in fifth grade, and by junior high she found she was bothered by perfumes and hair sprays other girls used in the locker rooms. But the real problems didn’t begin until high school.

Halt physical erosion: Lone Star's Stewart

Special to the Banner-Graphic In a just-published report to shareholders, Lone Star Industries chairman and chief executive officer James E. Stewart said that sound public works programs at all levels of government are the clear and obvious answer to both unemployment and our old and crumbling infrastructure. “Not ‘make-work’ programs, but well-conceived, long-range plans to restore and improve our public facilities nationwide.” LONE STAR INDUSTRIES operates a major cement manufacturing facility in Greencastle, with 142 employees. “We can’t pat ourselves on the back for a minor decrease in unemployment this year,” Stewart said. “Ten million people in America still can’t find work. “Our future also rests,” he continued, “on a sound infrastructure.- safe and adequate water supplies, sewage disposal, highways, bridges, railroads and mass transit. “WHAT WE NEED IS a fresh review of our national economic priorities and a fresh resolve to put first things first,” Stewart said, citing that: •Our Federal Interstate Highway System was never finished. Eight thousand miles of it now badly need repair,

State park notenough INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A state study shows a shortage of public land around Lafayette for Hoosiers for relaxation, and a proposed 2,500 acre state park for the area won’t solve the problem. Federal guidelines say Indiana needs 20 acres of land per 1,000 people. That means the triangular area reaching from near the Illinois border to Kokomo and south to the Marion County line should have 7,200 acres of public recreation land to handle the population. Responding to a 1982 legislative resolution, the state Department of Natural Resources has proposed a 2,500 state park that includes a 300-acre lake along Sugar Creek in the Buck Creek-Americus area of Tippecanoe County. The state recreation study was released last week

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“Two weeks into school I felt like a very dramatic thing happened, like somebody unscrewed a cork and was just draining energy away from me,” she said. “I blamed it on being a new student. With this disease it’s so easy to make excuses.” A few weeks later she had her first seizure when another girl used powder in the dressing area after gym class. She started having several a week, she said. “I finished my freshman year, but my grades went from As and Bs to Cs, Ds and failing. May parents couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I’d always been a pretty good reader. I always understood things pretty well. Suddenly, I could read but I couldn’t tell what it meant,” she added. No one seemed to understand what was happening. “I called her ‘Lunchy’ because she was always ‘out to lunch’ ” said her father, William Morell. “The kids called her a ‘space cadet.’ After diagnosing her severe

and 2,000 more pass their designed life span every year. •Thirty per cent of our federallyinspected flood control dams have been determined unsafe. •Two-hundred-thousand bridges in America are known to be deficient - half of them unsafe. •Thirty per cent of our railroad trackbeds need rehabilitation. •MORE THAN HALF of our cities and towns have never met the requirements of the 12-year-old Clean Water Act, and most of them operate their sewage disposal facilities well above their optimum capacity. “Isn’t it better to build than to sit idle? Isn’t it tetter to pay for honest labor than to compensate for unemployment?” Stewart asked. “We can no longer afford to squander the hopes and energies of our jobless, or risk great potential disasters in further infrastructure failures,” he noted. “We must halt the erosion of America’s physical and social well-being.” LONE STAR INDUSTRIES is the country’s leading producer of cement, readymixed concrete, sand and gravel, and a major source of crushed stone, precast concrete products and other construction materials.

DePauw calendar JAN. 3-7 TUES. (JAN. 3)--Christmas Recess Ends-Winter Term Begins. --12 noon, Tiger Talk, Union Building, Room 221. --1 p.m., Movie: “Inside, Looking In, and Sometimes Out,” Library Auditorium. -7 p.m., Movie: “Blackmail,” (1929), Science and Math Center Auditorium. WED. (JAN. 4)—l p.m., Movie: “Triumph, But the Struggle-AAU Junior Olympics,” Library Auditorium. -7 p.m., Movies: “Managing Stress,” and “Booze and You’s,” Library Auditorium. -7:30 p.m., Movie: “Panique,” (French with English subtitles), Science and Math Center Auditorium. THURS. (JAN. 5)--7 p.m , Movie: “Dos Brot des Backers,” Library Auditorium. -7 p.m., Movie: “Sabotage,” (1936 with Sylvia Sidney), Science and Math Center Auditorium. --9:30 p.m., Movie: “Obsession,” Science and Math Center Auditorium. SAT. (JAN. 7)—3 p.m., Men’s Basketball: DePauw University vs. Manchester College, Lilly Center. -7 p.m., Movie: “Obsession,” Science and Math Center Auditorium.

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allergy problem, doctors decided she should stay out of school. “The doctors said clean out your life for a year. Your body’s a disaster. Clean it out and start over,” Cheri said. “Lots of people who didn’t know her family well thought she was on drugs,” Morell said. “Instead of trying to help, many people turned into amateur psychologists. They are really incredibly ignorant about the scope and nature of this disease.” Cheri does her schoolwork at home or with tutors in “safe buildings,” which usually are old structures made mostly of wood. She avoids the school with its walls made with for maldehyde and ethanol substances to which she is violently allergic. And to avoid living in an environmentally pure bubble, she injects herself daily with chemicals that build her tolerance to chemicals around her. “It’s not a normal life and there aren’t many friends, but I’m happy,” she added. “I’ve got my mind back.”