Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 302, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 August 1984 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, August 28,1984

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City Police A 1978 bronze Chevrolet Blazer was recovered late Monday morning just over a hour after it was reported missing by its owner, Gregory A. Ditner, Taylor Place, Greencastle. The vehicle was recovered behind the Phi Gamma Delta house, 916 College Ave., Greencastle, at approximately 11:30 a. m. When the owner arrived at the scene, he told Officer Carol Boggess and Det. Sgt. Rodney Cline of the Greencastle Police Department and DePauw University Chief of Security Grover Vaughn that there were several items missing. The stolen items included: Tapes, sunglasses, a Pioneer AM/FM cassette stereo, a Mcca equalizer, Automate speakers, a CB radio and golf clubs belonging to Ditner’s roommate Mike Parbs. No value was placed on the stolen items, according to the report. DePauw University student Gregory J. Whilhite, 446 Anderson St., Greencastle, reported that an equalizer and a fuzz buster were taken from his 1976 Cutlass parked in the rear parking lot of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. Officers Cline and Boggess indicated the theft occurred sometime between 6 p.m. Sunday and 8:30 a.m. Monday. Mark C. Blake, 21, 1216 S. Bloomington St., Greencastle, was issued a citation by Sgt. Ken Hirt for driving on an expired license plate on Berry Street at 8:40 p.m. Monday.

Obituary Margaret E. Huber Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday for Margaret E. Huber, 61, Fillmore, who died Sunday at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis. The daughter of Otha and Lola (Arnold) Miller, she was born June 15, 1923 in Putnam County. Her parents preceded her in death. Survivors include her husband, Conrad, Dunnellon, Fla.; a daughter, Linda L. Maggard, Alaska; two sons, Irvin L. Huber, Fillmore, and Danny A. Huber, Bainbridge; and six grandchildren. Other survivors include four sisters, Lela Brown, Indianapolis, Jean Hanlon, Marion, Wanda Mason, Fillmore, and Mildred Vincent; and four brothers, Ivan and Marion Miller, both of Cloverdale, Maynard Miller, Greencastle, and Kenneth Miller, Fillmore. Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home, Greencastle, with Rev. Robert Jones officiating. Burial will follow at Fillmore Cemetery. Friends may call until 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

DPU series Continued from page 1 look at Tinseltown’s brightest and brassiest stars, from Jean Harlow to Marilyn Monroe. Called “bedazzling” by the New York Daily News, McCorkle is a young singer who began her career in Europe and is now making a name for herself in the United States as one of the finest American “pops” singers of her generation. Compared to the Muppets and the Mummenschanz, the Compagnie Philippe Genty is a world-class French preforming ensemble that, according to Grocock, presents an act that is “imaginative, funny and sometimes astonishing like no other.” The presentation also drew high praise at Trinity University: “The imagination, timing, technique and just plain ‘show biz’ are not to be forgotten.. .a show that should be seen and enjoyed by everyone interested in having a roaring good time at the theater.” The Vienna Choir Boys are the most popular choir ever to tour America making more than 3,000 appearances since their first venture in 1932. Each season brings a new choir of boys carring on a centuries-old tradition. The Vienna Choir Boys present a program of costumed operettas, sacred songs, secular and folk music that will delight the entire family, Grocock promises. THE FINAL ACT ON the DePauw Performing Arts Series will be the Acting Company, the only national repertory company on tour as a touring arm of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Artistic director of the group is the highly acclaimed actor-producer-director John Houseman (Prof. Kingsfield of “Paper Chase” movie and television frame). The Acting Company will perform the Thornton Wilder classic American comedy, “The Skin of Our Teeth.” Persons interested in subscriptions for the 1984-85 DePauw Performing Arts Serie/’or tickets to single events may phone 658-4262 or 658-4828. Box office hours at the Performings Arts Center are 12.304:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday

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Clean-up on State Fair agenda

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Now that the 1984 Indiana State Fair is history, all that remains is a massive clean-up job and a smile on the face of Estel L. Callahan. Although the fair failed to set any attendance records this year, Callahan, who has served as secretary-manager for the past 12 years, says he’s not disappointed. “All in all, it was a great fair. Attendance was great,” said Callahan, who is relinquishing his post this fall. When the final figures came in, the 1984 extravaganza fell 20,000 people short of the all-time attendance record of 1,348,910, set in 1978. By the time the fair ended Sunday, 1,000 cubic yards of trash already had been collected and hauled off to a landfill, said

Bette Kiilion-

In her eight-year role as library aide, Bette has envisioned the library to be a great stage upon which many characters audition in front, of a captive and imaginative audience. “WHEN I READ THE children a story, I can tell right a way if I am losing them,” Bette explained. “Anytime there is too much description of something they can’t identify with, they drift off.” Bette added that children tend to like adventure, animal stories and humor. “And children like to be made to laugh and cry,” she explained. “They like emotional things that stir them up. There has to be some realism in their fantasy too.” Bette says its a “miracle” that the school hired her eight years ago to lure the little ones with tales and poetic verses. “IT’S BEEN SUCH AN education to read to these kids,” Bette explained. “You learn what kids really like.” Through the years, the human-like qualities of her animal characters have stirred many a student who has passed through an elementary recess playground into a junior high study hall. “I still have students today,” Bette, who has performed substitute teaching duties for years at Reelsville Elementary, said, “who still come in and ask me about Nib-ble-E-Gnaw.” HER OWN FAMILY, Bette explains, has been a proving ground for her poetic prowess, although few can elicit more than a yawn from her grandchildren when prodded by outsiders about their granny’s literacy success. “I think basically children take you for granted,” Bette claims, admitting though that one of her daughters sent flowers when she signed her Harper and Row contract. Recalling an incident with her granddaughters Amy and Adell, Bette said the girls’ school librarian once spotted a poem of hers and brought it to Amy and Adell’s attention. “The lady said, ‘I bet you are really proud of your grandmother,” Bette related, smiling. “And Adell turned to Amy and said, ‘Amy, are we?’ Amy just nodded.”

City budget

Radio operators-Personal services, $44,784. Fire department-Personal services, $178,049; supplies, $10,530; other services, $4,300; capital outlay, $70,000; total, $262,879. Fire department budget includes a proposed $40,000 capital outlay for hazardous materials equipment and $30,000 for pumper conversion. Police department-Personal services, $185,368; supplies, $16,455; other services, $10,000; capital outlay, $3,227; total, $215,050. Meter police-Personal services, $18,278; supplies $500; total, $18,778. Parking meters-Supplies, $4,500; other services and charges, $10,960; total, $15,460. Sanitation department-Personal ser-

800 S. Main St., and the new Greencastle law office of Terre Haute attorney Darrell Felling, 802 S. Main. Felling's office can be reached by calling 653-5555. (Ban-ner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier).

Jesse W. Stuckey, buildings and grounds superintendent. But that was just the beginning. Stuckey estimated it would take three to four days to clear the remaining refuse from the fair grounds. That refuse was left behind by 1,328,476 people over the course of 12 days, the third highest attendance total ever, the fair press office said. The 1984 attendance was more than 150,000 better than last year, when 1,172,620 visited the fair, the press office said. The 1977 fair, an 11-day event like 1978, saw an attendance total of 1,333,570. The fair was expanded to 12 days in 1982. Fair publicity director Lew Breiner said this year’s fair might have broken the

ONE OF BETTE’S treasures is a poem she wrote entitled “High House,” which was decoupaged by her son Tom and is displayed above her typewriter. “I wrote the poem about the tree house on stilts my son built for my grandchildren,” Bette remembered, “and they wrote and said they wanted a picture of the house to print with the poem.” Not only did poem and picture get published, but the editor asked for Tom’s blueprints for the playhouse and all three were printed together in a magazine spread. WHAT MAKES BETTE write and write and write is a question simply answered by the witty author herself. “I just figure it’s the only thing I do halfway right,” Bette laughed, “so I better stick with it.” Such comment inspires masterpiece comebacks from Bette’s husband Bill, who gave his author-wife a characteristic ribbing for becoming the celebrity. “He (Bill) doesn’t show his emotions,” Bette explained, “but he did tell me if you are going to keep me in my old age, you better write more than one book! ” ALTHOUGH BETTE enjoys romping in childhood rhythm, she finds writing a lonely art. “You just don’t find many people, at least that I know, that write children’s books,” Bette related. She counts, a friend in New York who published a book entitled “Mr. Cinnamon” as a favorite person to talk shop. Bette explained her friend recently died of cancer and her world now is devoid of that type of writing fellowship. Despite the solitude, Bette insists that writers are no special breed. “I THINK SOME people feel writers are overrated,” Bette offered. “They’re just ordinary people who like everyone else has to change diapers and put up tomatoes.” Her best writing, Bette admits, is tapped out with one hand on the ironing board and the other pecking out rhythm on the typewriter. “I do my best writing over the ironing board and, oh yes, over the sink,” Bette laughs. “You know, I don’t have a dishwasher, but If I did there would go my

vices, $87,749; supplies, $26,150; other services and charges, $198,725; total, $312,624. Sanitation department budget includes landfill cost of $15,500 and all city utilities costs. Motor Vehicle Highway (Street depart-ment)-Personal services, $108,866.20; supplies, $22,100; others services and charges, $28,200; capital outlay, $29,360; total, $188,526.20. Street department budget includes capital outlay proposals of $12,000 for a new backhoe and $2,000 for a roller. Local Road and Street-Total, $16,000. Park-Personal services, $17,617; supplies, $3,225; other services, $9,101; capital outlay, $3,100; total, $33,043. Pool-Personal services, $12,130; supplies, $8,500; other services, $4,150; total, $24,780.

record except for the relatively low turnout on the final day. He said three factors were working against the fair Sunday, including the absence of big-name entertainment. Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz, the state’s agriculture commissioner, noted that attendance was down this year at state fairs in Kentucky and Illinois. “An upswing in Indiana this year reflects a more aggressive marketing effort by our state fair and Indiana’s improving economy,” he said. The lieutenant governor predicted that improvements planned for the fair and its grounds will build interest and “we will see record attendance figures set many times in the next several years.”

creative ability.” Bette says her characters are often placed in “yuky” situations, toiling at tasks scorned by their human counterparts. THE AUTHOR HAS PUT Pudgy Bear in many such predicaments, including sweating out diets, straining at yard sales and shirking at the dreaded task of spring cleaning. “I have a poem that’s been sold but it’s unpublished now,” Bette explained. “It’s Pudgy Bear does spring cleaning. I like it because everybody tells you they’re doing spring cleaning but you fend up doing what you want to do which is probably not your spring cleaning.” Though Bette admits to coming up with “catchy” names, the character creator par excellence gives Pudgy and his pals credit for creating themselves. “I just give them a crazy name and they end up writing themselves,” Bette advised. IN THE MEANTIME, Bett’e is busy waiting for her full-color hardbound first to become a reality. Not only is she sweating waiting for publication of the book, she is also anxious about a return to work which could meet or surpass the quality of her inital offering. As part of her contract with Harper and Row, Bette must give first crack at any forthcoming books to the New York publisher. “I used to think all I really wanted was just one book of my own,” Bette chuckled, holding up her index finger. “But now, I’m scared to do it again. I ask myself, ‘Can I sell a second book?”’ Odds are, if Pudgy were a betting bear, he would put down his last bush of berries on Bette. Meanwhile, Bette is enjoying that fact that someone bearing a publishers name forked over a hefty advance (“which I socked away into the bank”) for her life’s work. And, that’s got to make both Pudgy and Bette very happy. The bear will probably gets his fill of berries and Bettewell, she can still hover over her ironing board, churning out the memories.

Forest Hill Cemetery-Personal services, $73,651.27; supplies, $7,650; other services and charges, $6,140; capital outlay, $11,338; total, $98,779.27. Capital outlay in cemetery budget includes $7,500 for land development. Firemen’s pension-Persona 1 services, $86,500. Policemen’s pension-Personal services, $28,000. The proposed General Fund amounts to $966,105.25 (of which $795,375 must be raised through taxation for a General Fund tax rate of $2.10). Other proposed rates for funds to be raised via taxation are: MVH Fund, .25; Park Fund, .07: Pool Fund, .05; Cemetery Fund, .14; Firemen’s Pension Fund, .10; Police Pension Fund, .04 for a total proposed rate of $2.75.

Senior focus Get ready for 'Operation Toys'

“Center Comments,” submitted by Jackie Campbell, director and Beth Shaner, assistant director of Putnam County Senior Center It’s again time to start on “Operation Toys.” For those who are not familiar with the Senior Center project, it was started to help needy children of Putnam County have a Merry Christmas. Because of the economy, many families were not able to provide Christmas presents for their children and the Center staff offered to do something about it. LAST YEAR MORE than a dozen senior citizens volunteered time and material to redo used toys so they look like new. The entire community responded to a plea for toys and they were able to help 120 children. These names were referred by other social service agencies who deal with families in need. The names were carded and checked to make sure there were no duplications and then two gifts for each child were selected (according to age and sex) and gift wrapped with a name tag. Many were delivered by volunteers, the rest were picked up at the Center by the parents. If you belong to an organization, or as an individual would like to make a contribution of toys, material, yarn, wood or cash, contact Jackie or Beth at 653-8606. If you are a senior citizen and would like to volunteer your time to help make or repair toys, call Jackie or Beth at the above number. THIS IS A GOOD PROJECT to “get involved” with, make yourself and a lot of kids happy this Christmas. *** "RSVP REFLECTIONS,” submitted by Mary Skidmore, RSVP director Greencastle has been home to Clarice Liptrap for 50 years. Born in Corydon, her family moved to Benton County when Clarice was three years old and there she grew up, graduated and was married in 1928 to Chester Liptrap. In 1934, with daughter Deborah, the Liptraps moved to Greencastle where Chester was employed by the telephone company. For a short time Clarice was a telephone operator but her last 13 working years were spent at the curtain factory. AFTER HER HUSBAND’S death in 1981, Clarice became an RSVP volunteer. She has served at the Church World Service, Storeroom, commodities distribution, Kitchen Band and many fundraising events. Congenial and hard working, she is a pleasure to have around. Thank you, Clarice. *** “Feelings" by E. G. Wishart If we want to be loved, we must reveal ourselves. If we want to love someone, they must allow us to know them. As obvious as this may be, many of us go through life avoiding such disclosures. In fact, most of us practice concealment by playing roles. We claim to have certain feelings which we actually do not have, we profess to be loving when we’re full of hostility, calm-when in reality anxiety is nearly overwhelming us, and to believe in things when in truth, we do not. EVEN WITH THOSE persons we care most about, we share little of our true feelings, beliefs or needs. Perhaps because we want so much to be loved, we fear the truth that may come with openness and consequently we present ourselves as the sort of person we believe would be accepted and loved-and we attempt to hide the things we think would damage that image. Another reason we try to conceal ourselves is the fear of change. For most people, change is frightening and we want to think of ourselves as “constant.” We’ve molded our image and seem to believe we are all that we ever could be, when in

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Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Monday: Dortha Penn.

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reality our needs, desires, goals, values, behavior, and feelings change with experience and age. Still another reason we fail to expose our real self is that we don’t really know how; we’ve never been taught how; in fact, we learned more about how to conceal our true identity. The result being that we continue to accept and play our roles. And our society encourages, in fact, pressures us to suppress all the emotions and characteristics that it considers “unacceptable.” Of course, there are times when honest leveling isn’t possible and role playing is appropriate in the social system we must be a part of and which requires certain discipline. THE KEY IS “appropriateness”-to be private when we wish, but also able to be honest and open, without fear. We are human beings, alive, always growing and full of feelings-feelings that may be labeled “comfortable” or “uncomfortable”, “pleasant” or “unpleasant,” but not “good” or “bad.” Feelings are perhaps our most personal possessions and when they are not managed appropriately, they can be devastating. We must be able to identify our feelings, accept them as an integral part of us and manage each one as it comes, avoiding suppression when possible, and then go on to the next feeling--for with certainty, it will come. *** The Food Pantry and Storeroom need grocery bags. You can bring them to the Senior Center 8 a m.-4 p.m. Monday thru Friday. *** Sept. 3 is Labor Day and the Transportation Program, Nutrition, RSVP and the Senior Center will be closed for the holiday. *** SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS are: Charles Coffman 9-1, Lucy Garrett 9-1, Martha Ellen Johnson 9-1, Susan Midgett 9-4, Edna Hamm 9-5, Hobart Martin 9-7, Viola K. Roberts 9-7, Elizabeth McCullough 9-7, Barbara Carpenter 9-9, Betty Wheeler 9-9, Edna McKeehan 9-10, Russell Beatty 9-12, Florence Lady 9-13, Marjorie Wells 9-13, Ozella Wren 9-13, Fern Blythe 914, Nell Lawrence 9-15, Clarice Liptrap 916, Robert Swick 9-16, Ruth Arnold 9-17, Delores Rowings 9-17, Velma Huckleberry 9-18, Myrle Day 9-20, Louise Knauer 9-21, Helen Goff 9-24, Amy Irwin 9-26, Helen Mason 9-26, Wilma Handy 9-27, and Clara Justus 9-28. *** HAVE YOU BEEN IN the doghouse because you forgot a birthday or anniversary? The purchase of an RSVP Birthday Calendar would prevent this kind of oversight. They make nice, inexpensive Christmas gifts. Cal! 653-3011 to order your calendar or drop in at 9 W. Franklin at the Senior Center. *** SENIOR ACTIVITY SCHEDULE Wednesday, Aug. 29-9:30 a m., coffee hour; 11:30a.m., lunch. Thursday, Aug. 30-9:30 a m., quilting; 11:30a.m., lunch. Friday, Aug. 31-10 a.m., crafts; 11:30 a.m., lunch; 1 p.m., Banner-Graphic project; 6:30p.m., bingo. Monday. Sept. 3-Center closed for Labor Day holiday.

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