Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 147, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 February 1985 — Page 1

With the new postage rate of 22 cents going into effect on Sunday and Monday being a federal holiday, Tuesday morning was the first opportunity for local residents to acquire new stamps. Penny Lents of Greencastle gets her money ready for some 22-cent Jerome Kern commemorative stamps as postal clerk Doug Hansel is eager to oblige at the Greencastle Post Office. (BannerGraphic photo by Bob Frazier).

Board of Health wants independent lab

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic Area News Editor The Putnam County Board of Health is continuing its move to see county officials apprpve hiring an independent lab to monitor the ILWD hazardous waste landfill located near Russellville. That determination was made Monday evening at a special meeting of Health Board members and Commissioners Don Walton, Gene Beck and John Carson. DISCUSSION OF A NEED to have the

Mutz Lincoln Day speaker here Feb. 26

Indiana Lt. Gov. John Mutz will be the guest speaker at the annual Putnam County Lincoln Day Dinner Tuesday, Feb. 26. The Putnam County Republican affair will begin at 7 p.m. in the DePauw University Union Building ballroom, county GOP Chairman Mary Jane Monnett has announced. In addition to the main address by Mutz, other party representatives are expected to speak and special recognition of GOP precinct committeemen and vice committeemen will be made. THE FETE WILL ALSO include punch served in the lounge before the banquet, with dinner music provided. Tickets are available from any precinct person at $lO apiece. For more information, persons may call 653-3141 or 653-3218. As lieutenant governor of Indiana, Mutz is entrusted with more responsibilities than any other lieutenant governor in the country. By virtue of his elected office, Mutz is president of the Indiana Senate, director of the Department of Commerce and commissioner of agriculture. As director of the Indiana Department of Commerce, Mutz oversees state divisions of industrial development, minority business development, community economic development, international trade, business and financial services, energy, tourism, economic analysis and agriculture. IN THE ROBERT ORR ad

45 will bring us alive

Mostly clear and cold overnight with low 20-25. Partly cloudy and warmer on Wednesday. High around 45. Winds light and variable. Indiana Extended Forecast Thursday through Saturday: Mild Thursday and Friday with a chance of rain statewide. Lows in the 30s and highs from the 40s to near 60 Thursday and from the 40s to low 50s Friday. A chance of rain in the central and southern sections Saturday and snow possible north. Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s and highs in the upper 30s and 40s.

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ILWD site independently monitored arose at a January meeting of the commissioners. Meeting with the board were Health Board President Dr. Donald Brattain and Health Officer Dr. John Ellett. Although the commissioners appeared to agree with a need to have the ILWD landfill monitored more closely, no mention of funding arose until Monday evening’s Board of Health session. Apparently, a $21,600 budget will be placed before members of the Putnam

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LT.GOV. JOHN M. MUTZ To speak here Feb. 26

ministration, Lt. Gov Mutz’ main role is the business of building new jobs. He is currently pursuing a new Japanese automobile plant and the Saturn division of General Motors for location in the Hoosier State. Mutz, who owns a Bartholomew County farm that has been in his family for more than 100 years, formerly chaired the State Budget Committee. He has served more than 12 years in the State House of Representatives and State Senate.

Index Abby A 4 Calendar A 4 Classifieds A 9 Comics A 5 Crossword A 9 Heloise A 4 Horoscope A 9 Obituaries AlO People A 5 Sports A6,A7,A8 TV A 5 Theaters AlO Worry Clinic A 8

County Council Tuesday afternoon. Council members will then determine if they will give approval for the establishment of a hazardous waste budget. According to Putnam County Auditor Myrtle Cockrell, the $21,600 proposed hazardous waste budget is broken down as follows: Supplies, $300; other services and charges, $21,100, and capital outlay, S2OO. REFERRING TO MONDAY evening s Board of Health meeting, President Brattain said, “We discussed the possibility of

DePauw boosts

goal to SIOO million

Because of what it terms “unprecedented generosity,” DePauw University’s Board of Trustees has raised the goal of its S9O million Sesquicentennial Campaign. THE ORIGINAL GOAL OF S9O million has been increased to SIOO million, according to Eugene L. Delves, Chicago, chairman of DePauw’s Board of Trustees. The private university’s campaign was initially announced in April 1983 when it was called “the largest ever undertaken by a comparable school in the history of higher education.” At that point the liberal arts college already had cash, or commitments in hand amounting to $52.5 million. “The unprecedented generosity of many DePauw alumni and friends has resulted in contributions and pledges of almost SB2 million since the beginning of the cam-

TV fact or fiction, it's true Deadman tells no tales

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor While much of America watched a controversial made-for-TV docudrama last week with intense interest in the outcome, it was minute detail that had a DePauw University graduate on the edge of his seat. A.C. Nielsen TV ratings numbers indicate that the CBS film “The Atlanta Child Murders” was a hit with the national audience. But Dr. Harold Deadman and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have yet to cast their vote. DEADMAN, A CHEMISTRY and mathematics major who was graduated from DePauw in 1963, has spent the last 10 years in Washington, D.C., chasing down miniscule mysteries for the boys J. Edgar Hoover made famous. The DePauw University alum was a prominent prosecution witness in the 1982 murder trial of Wayne Williams, \yho was convicted of killing two men (age 21 and 27) and implicated in the death of 26 other Atlanta area children from 1979 through 1981. It was the arrest and trial of Williams that CBS turned into last week’s controversial docudrama. Contacted at his Washington office, the Woodbridge, Va., resident acknowledged that he watched the twopart, six-hour dramatization. He didn’t say much other than that. “I have to reserve comment,” he said. “Really, I can’t comment on my involvement at this point. “THE FBI HAS NO OFFICIAL response,” he added in a terse statement that would have made FBI Director William Webster (himself a former president of the DePauw Dads Assn ) proud. "I’m not even sure there’ll be an official response,” Deadman added, “maybe later.” An expert in textiles, Deadman previously worked with dyes and chemical additives at E.I. du Pont de

having outside labs to monitor. After the commissioners give their consideration tonight, and if they get the motion through, we will be meeting in another couple of weeks to set it up." What the Health Board hopes to do is to decide between two or three independent labs, who have expressed interest in monitoring the ILWD site. “We would like to have the sludge monitored and also the wells, Brattain explained. Col. 1, back page, this section

paign,” the board’s resolution on raising the goal stated. “WITH THE INCREASING need of endowment for scholarships, with hundreds of alumni and friends yet to participate, and with the sesquicentennial of the university concluding in June 1987-2 years hence-the board of trustees proudly accepts this new challenge,” the resolution continued. The campaign’s objectives, President Richard F. Rosser said, continue to include endowment for student scholarships, academic programs, salaries and professional development and research, special projects, equipment and renovations, as well as direct support of annual operating budgets through the Annual Fund. James J. Kelly of Chicago is national chairman of the fund drive.

Daze Work

Nemours & Co. Now, however, he specializes in using sophisticated laboratory equipment to analyze the physical and chemical properties of what the FBI refers to as “trace evidence.” If you don’t remember the Wayne Williams case or didn’t watch “The Atlanta Child Murders,” it is im- • portant to know that synthetic fibers were germane to District Attorney Lewis Slaton’s case against Williams. Fibers collected from the bodies of Nathanial Carter, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, were said to be similar to fibers collected from Williams’ home. IT WAS DEADMAN WHOM the prosecution called upon to help determine the similarities among various fibers. It was no doubt more dramatic in the film version when a police technician lifted a green fiber from a slain boy’s sneaker. Looking at a doubting detective, his TV line was: “What do you wanna bet when we find the killer, he’s got a green carpet?” He went on to talk technically about tri-lobular fibers with one leg shorter than the other two. Sarcastically, the TV detective asked, “What kind of lint have you got in this case? ”

ISU to aid middle school building project

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher Although the land issue remains unresolved, the Greencastle Community Schools Corp. is moving ahead with plans to construct a new middle school south of McAnally Center. The school board Monday night approved Supt. James Peck’s recommendation that the corporation enter into a $6,600 contract with the Bureau of School Services at Indiana State University for the development of written educational specifications for the project. At the same time, ISU will help to define educational objectives involved in a proposed remodeling of the existing high school building and the development of coordinated but separate campuses for the middle school (grades 6-8) and the high school (grades 9-12). BOARD MEMBERS ALSO authorized the appointment of three committees, each having 15 members, to work on educational specifications for the two schools and the adjoining campuses. Each committee will be headed by an ISU representative and will include school administrators, teachers, parents, students and other community representatives. “These committees will be advisory in nature, and I underline advisory,” Peck told the board. “Any decisions (about the building program) will rest with the board” The superintendent reported no new developments in the corporation’s effort to acquire aoout 15 acres south and south west of McAnally Center from France Stone Co. for inclusion in the proposed middle school building site. France Stone reportedly has not yet responded to a purchase offer from the corporation. The amount of that offer has not been disclosed. IN DECEMBER, THE school board directed its attorneys, the Indianapolis firm of Abbott Rund Small & Goerges, to accept “any reasonable counterproposal” that might be made by France Stone, but also adopted a resolution to pursue acquisition of the property through eminent domain if sale negotiations fail. If the school corporation moves to gain the 15 acres via eminent domain, it will have to demonstrate in court that the land is essential to the building project and to the best interests of taxpayers. “These are the two things we can do to get the building project started,” Peck said in recommending the contract with ISU and the establishment of the advisory committees. “We need to set a goal of having the 1028 hearing in June. That timetable depends on resolution of the land issue, but we need to start gathering information.” The 1028 hearing is a public meeting required by state law at which the school

S. Jackson St. area closed South Jackson Street, between Hanna and Walnut, will be closed to traffic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, according to Greencastle Street Commissioner Jim Wright. The street closing will allow city crews to repair chuckholes on South Jackson Street in the first of a citywide repair effort. “That’s where we’ll start,” Wright said of the South Jackson Street area “You can’t even dodge ’em (chuckholes) there.”

corporation is required to explain all facets of the project in detail, including its educational objectives, cost and impact on the local property tax rate. FUNDS FOR THE ISU contract will come from a $247,000 appropriation from the corporation’s cumulative building fund approved by the school board last August. That money also is designated to pay for land acquisition, architect, legal and financial consultant fees, soil borings, boundary surveys and other elements of preparing for actual construction. Voting to approve the ISU contract and creation of the advisory committees were board members Ed Meyer, Bayard Allen, Patricia Hess and Dale Pierce. Not present was board member Robert Delp In other action Monday night, the board approved extension of Project Primetime to the second grade next fall. The statesponsored program is designed to increase the amount of teacher attention per pupil by restricting classes to an average of no more than 18 students in lower elementary grades. GREENCASTLE JOINED most other public school corporations in the state by starting Primetime in first grade last fall. Locally, that meant increasing the number of first-grade classrooms from five to eight and hiring three additional teachers. Peck proposed that Primetime be continued in both first and second grades for the 1985-86 school year as long as the state continues providing SIB,OOO for each additional teacher hired to accomplish the 18:1 classroom ratio. Because there is no state money to cover the cost of extra classrooms or equipment, the board also approved Peck’s request that paperwork be initiated for a $30,000 additional appropriation to pay for building remodeling and purchase of desks, chairs, chalkboards and other equipment. The superintendent did not specify the number of additional second-grade teachers or extra classrooms that will be Col. 2, back page, this section

BESIDES THE CARPET fibers, it was hair of a Malamute or Siberian Husky that was collected from the bodies and the Williams home. To defense lawyer Alvin Binder (Jason Robards to the TV audience), it was “scientific showmanship.” To Deadman, it’s a living. During his actual testimony, the DePauw University grad, who later added a doctorate in organic chemistry from Southern Illinois University, warned Atlanta jurors that fibers “are not like fingerprints. They are not indisputable evidence.” HE UNVEILED SETS OF highly complex charts to explain FBI analysis of synthetic fibers and hairs. His complex testimony that included discussion of such aspects as “isotropic refractive index” and “optical properties of textile fibers.” Anytime two people touch, he said, they leave behind tiny reminders when they part. If both are clothed, Deadman told the jurors, tiny fibers that have worked free from the fabric are left behind. And in the end, Deadman testified, according to a Chicago Tribune account of the trial, that fibers are circumstantial evidence. They can be part of a criminal case, but not the exclusive evidence of conviction. THE INESCAPBABLE CONCLUSION of last week’s film was that Williams, sentenced to two consecutive life terms, was actually innocent. The conclusion set off a storm of protest in Atlanta, left viewers puzzled and prompted debate over the merits of such docudramas in which fact is often stretched by elements of fiction. Deadman’s appraisal? “I really can’t comment,” he reiterated. Deadman, it is true, tells no tales.