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Crawleys leave city legacy of friendship and accomplishment By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor Greencastle without Evan and Gwen Crawley? It seems unimaginable. Evan and Gwen Crawley without Greencastle? It just won’t happen. Oh sure, the Crawleys pulled up their last stakes Tuesday and left for retirement in sunny Port Charlotte, Fla. They’ll be turning on the air conditioner while we’re shoveling the snow. They’ll be sipping ice tea while we’re slipping on iced streets. You’ve got to envy them. IT’S A BIG MOVE, leaving behind 70 years of memories and friendships. But the Crawleys are also leaving a part of themselves in Greencastle. And their friends surely know it. Robert Farber, for one, can’t drive past IBM without thinking of Evan Crawley. It was during Crawley’s two-term reign as Republican mayor (1951-1959) that IBM decided to locate in Greencastle. And the month after he left office, Mallory Capacitor Corp. announced plans to locate here, so undoubtedly he aided that decision. “That was his biggest contribution,” Farber mused, “that he was mayor when IBM came here. He was very helpful in moving the project along, working on the various arrangements that proved agreeable to IBM. “YOU’D HAVE TO SAY he and the City Council at the time did quite a job for the City of Greencastle.” Farber can testify to Crawley’s mark in at least two other areas, calling him a “pillar of strength in Gobin Memorial Church” and wondering what the Greencastle Kiwanis Club is going to do without one of its most faithful members. “The Kiwanis Club always counted on him to run the ice cream booth at the Fourth of July. I don’t know how we’re going to do that now that he’s leaving.” FARBER WAS ONE OF 65-70 persons who attended an open house in the Crawleys’ honor Monday evening at the home of Nancy and John McFarland. The amazing disparity in ages of those on hand only adds to the realm of those touched by the Crawleys. Reluctant goodbyes were said by a group ranging from 92-year-old Norma Garber to 3-month-old Annie Dudley. While Evan Crawley leaves his mark in civic accomplishment, Gwen will be missed in music and other circles. One of three daughters of DePauw’s legendary Van Denman Thompson (head of the School of Music for 19 years

Homecoming set at Greencastle High School

A parade, chili supper and pregame festivities honoring past cheerleaders will highlight homecoming activities this week at Greencastle High School. As has become tradition at GHS, homecoming annually honors some element of high school life. This year, all former varsity cheerleaders have been invited as special guests for the GHS-South Vermillion game Friday night. A PARADE, WITH floats from each class and several clubs will leave the GHS parking lot at 5 p.m. Friday. Featuring the school band and homecoming queen and princess candidates, the parade will move up Washington Street and around the square. With the homecoming festivities this year considered a part of the inaugural Greencastle Gaelic Festival, the parade will also feature the Chamber of Commerce’s castle float that made its debut at the Putnam County fair parade. Serving as grand marshal of Friday’s parade will be alumnus Ray Sears, a fourtime state track champion during his years at GHS. Sears, who now resides in Shelbyville, was honored in 1979 as the outstanding runner in the United States among men over 45.

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Cloudy Wednesday night with low in the low 40s. Very cool on Thursday with a 70 per cent chance of rain. High Thursday near 60. Indiana Extended Forecast Very cool Friday through Sunday with a chance for rain early Friday and again Sunday. Partly cloudy Saturday. Lows in the 40s Friday and Sunday and in the mid to upper 30s Saturday. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s.

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At 5:30 p.m., the school cafeteria will begin serving chili and sandwiches. IN A 6:30 P.M. CEREMONY, the old “Senior Hall” in the high school building will be renamed “Academic Honor Hall.” A plaque honoring scholars from the 198384 school year will be unveiled at that time, followed by a reception in the GHS library for those honored. Alumni may gather in the alumni reception center at the football field from 6:45 p.m. until game time to meet old friends and sign the register. Coffee will be served. At 7 p.m., ceremonies will begin to honor the returning varsity cheerleaders. The homecoming game begins at 7:30, with winners of class and club float competition, as well as the homecoming queen and princesses from each class, announced at halftime. QUEEN CANDIDATES ARE Dana Bastin, Dale Gossard, Melanie Murray and Sheri Swihart. Princess hopefuls are: Beth Clodfelter, Jill Gossard, Kristy Mays and Tracy Sutherlin, freshmen; Terri Allee, Jodi Gould, Michelle Jones and Kristy Maguire, sophomores; and Dina Duncan, Kristy Gould, Erika Greenawald and Laurie Lee, juniors.

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THE CRAWLEYS: Gwen, Evan

and university organist for 45 years), Mrs. Crawley has played the organ for more local weddings and funerals than anyone could ever tally. She had been church organist at First Christian Church the last 14 years and is the only organist Whitaker Funeral Home (now Bittles and Hurt) ever had since opening in 1954. “She made her own unique contribution to the community,” Farber praised. “She’s a true daughter of Van Denman Thompson.” MRS. CRAWLEY ALSO LEAVES behind her harpsichord at the First Christian Church, where it will be kept in the parlor, according to Dr. C. Thomas Steiner, minister there. “We were impressed that she gave her harpsichord to the church,” he said. But then the Crawleys have been famous for leaving impressions. Edith Browning knows. She has called on Evan over the years to do most of her handiwork. He is retired from King School Supply Co. “I’ll be lost without him, that much has already been established,” Miss Browning said Tuesday as the Crawleys were preparing to leave on the other side of town. “He (Evan) installed lockers in schools and erected bleachers and installed kitchens in the schools, so he had to know how to do about everything. ” HE DID. EVAN AND GWEN enjoyed the large 712 E. Seminary St. residence they called home for 41 years. They raised three sons-John, a White House Secret Service guard; Dick, an Indianapolis teacher and coach, and Evan Jr., a professional writer. They loved their huge front yard and the many antiques that were auctioned off last Saturday. “It’s such a sad thing to see somebody making decisions on things that have been such a part of their lives,” Nancy McFarland said after the auction, which was more like a reunion than a sale. But there was a bright side. The people who bought the Crawleys’ house also bought a little bit of Evan and Gwen. “THEY BOUGHT SOME OF the furniture at the auction,” Mrs. McFarland said, “so some of it is coming home and that’s nice.” Among other things, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Huffman bought an antique rocker that the Crawleys will have no room for in their retirement home in Florida. But here on East Seminary Street there is room for another family to grow. “The Huffmans have three young sons who’ll be resounCol. 1, back page, this section

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Putnam Patter

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor If a songwriter could get by with “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” then surely a few bars of "Pattering Through the Pawpaw Patch” should come in for honorable mention. In this case “patter” signifies forward motion like the patter of little feet rather than the pitter patter of raindrops on a tin roof. THIS COLUMN SEEMS to be justified by the ignorance concerning pawpaws

RAY SEARS Parade grand marshal

Pattering through the pawpaw patch

Eradication over, police concentrate on suspects

By BARBARA CARHART Banner-Graphic Staff Writer BRUNERSTOWN-Two heads are better than one is an old adage that has taken on new meaning for detectives of the Indiana State Police and Greencastle Police Department. The two agencies have combined resources in a continuing effort to track down the persons responsible for the estimated five-acre plot of marijuana discovered here Monday evening. Greencastle Police Chief Jim Hendrich told the Banner-Graphic Wednesday morning that State Police Det. Sgt. Jack Hanlon, along with Det. Lt. Charles Wood and Det. Sgt. Rodney Cline of the Greencastle Police Department, are following up leads and hope to have some indication on the ownership of the land in a few days. But first things first. THE MAMMOTH TASK OF collecting, spraying and burning the illegal weeds was undertaken beginning Monday evening and continued on through Tuesday as officers from both agencies arrived on the scene to help search the premises and confiscate the illegal crop. Some of the officers, Hendrich said, came to pitch in on their days off. Still others stood guard over the plot Monday evening as officers left at 7:30 p.m. Monday only to return Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. to confiscate the rest of the marijuana growing between rows of corn. “We (city police) just could not have done it without the state police,” Hendrich said, commending the state’s assistance. “And I know the county would have helped had they had the manpower. We’re out in the country and what people don’t realize is that there is only so many of us here to do the job ” THE JOB THAT WAS accomplished by police officers was a task already begun by the sowers of the seed earlier. “We found two bags of processed marijuana,” Hendrich explained, “and bags of fertilizer and plant bins in an outbuilding ( one of three on the property). ” Police also speculate that the fans in second-story windows of the house and the alarm system wired to the television set designed to alert the inhabitants to persons entering the property were also part of the operation. “It’s too big of an operation,” the police chief commented. “This is no Sunday picnic.” WHEN THE GREENCASTLE Police Department was first tipped off about the operation, Hendrich said, they did not visualize a plot as big as the one they stumbled across Monday. “They (informants) said it was big, but what’s ‘big’?” he questioned. “In a corn-

Albright acting mayor

Mayor hospitalized at Indy

Greencastle Mayor Gerald E. Warren became ill last Friday morning and has been hospitalized at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, for tests and to begin a recuperation period which could extend until late autumn, according to an announcement made public Wednesday by City Clerk-Treasurer Janice Inman. Mayor Warren, she said, hopes to be at home in the next two weeks, subject to his continued progress. Although the mayor’s condition was not originally diagnosed as a heart attack, tests confirmed Monday that he did suffer a slight heart attack, city officials said. IN MAYOR WARREN’S absence, Coun-cilman-at-large Bobby G. Albright is serving as mayor pro tern under an arrangement suggested by Mayor Warren and approved by the Ctiy Council at its reorganizational meeting last January.

among the citified segment of the community, those who are devoid of facts many of us in the country learned before we got out of the second grade. Probably one of the best ways to set the record straight is to explain where pawpaws are not likely to be found and this will prevent needless looking by the uninformed masses. You don’t find them around stumps like you do mushrooms, and on the other hand, they are seldom found in trees more than 30 feet tall. Except in the deep woods, the

Det. Sgt. Jack Hanlon shows height of plants

field, you can’t see to the other side.” Hendrich said as soon as officers arrived they knew reinforcements were needed. “We found one patch,” the police chief explained, “then another area we used the bushog on and the state police chopper uncovered more.” THE FIRST HANDPICKED loads Monday evening covered the west bay of the police station, Hendrich said. “Of what we picked, it would weigh about 300-400 pounds dried,” Hendrich added. “That’s about $1,200 a pound on the street.” When the harvesting was completed, police had picked three truckloads, burned a load and stored two loads for evidence, Hendrich said. According to the police, the fresh

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Albright will preside at weekly staff meetings and over sessions of the City Council, should Mayor Warren not be able to attend. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Hall is at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9 at City Hall. Albright and Police Chief Jim Hendrich visited the mayor in the hospital Monday

crop can be confined to shrubbery of a sorts. NEITHER WILL YOU find them underground like peanuts, spuds or sweet potatoes. When in their ripeness they leave the shrub or tree, they can be found resting calmly in grass or leaves. Pawpaws are called fruit, probably because there is nothing else edible with which they can be classed. You are apt to be disappointed if you fall for the grower’s line that they taste like bananas. And, I may add, don’t get carried away

marijuana plants dry down 30 per cent. “BUT THE PROFITS are well worth the investment they made,” Hendrich said, referring to the subjects running the operation. Efforts continue now, the police chief added, to uncover the owner of the property which includes the house, three outbuildings and forty acres of tillable land. “We are going to start interviewing people in the next few days,” Hendrich concluded. “We’re not in the business of running out and confiscating the illegal contraband and forgetting about it. These people need to be arrested. “Some of it (marijuana) would have found its way here (Greencastle),” the police chief added.

morning and reviewed city concerns and plans with him. ASKED ABOUT HIS temporary duties, Albright said, “My job is to see that the business of the city continues smoothly while Dr. Warren gets well. He is still the mayor and while we don’t have the benefit of his advice every minute, as we have had in the past nine months, he still will be very much involved in the major decisions and any other matters he feels up to tackling.” Albright urged that the public direct any questions or concerns to the mayor’s office at City Hall, to Mrs. Inman, or to himself, rather than Mayor Warren’s residence. “We wish him a speedy recovery,” Albright concluded, “and want the citizens to know that the city employees and Council members will do their best to see that everything runs smoothly until Mayor Warren is back in the office, which we hope will be very soon.”

BOBBY G. ALBRIGHT

by claims that the flesh of the pawpaw is a flavorful custard, that is, if you have in mind butterscotch, chocolate, vanilla or tapioca puddings. Taste-wise, the pawpaw stands alone. If the taste reminds you of something else you have eaten, what you are eating is not a pawpaw, and it might be wise to have a stomach pump handy just in case you are making a dangerous experiment into the unknown. I’VE YET TO SEE pawpaws on the Col. 1, back page, this section