Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 193, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 April 1985 — Page 1

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WILEY TEW

Who's news

Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor IBM Greencastle recently named WILEY TEW new products distribution project manager. Tew began his IBM career in Raleigh, N.C., in 1966. He started with IBM as a customer engineer and became a senior administration specialist in 1973. Then in 1977, Tew was assigned to his first management position as an administration operations manager, also in Raleigh. In 1979, he became an administration manager of the CSD branch office there. Tew moved to Greencastle in 1982 as an advisory systems analyst and became the National Parts Center support manager in 1983, the position he held prior to his recent appointment. Tew lives in Greencastle with his wife, Terrianne, son, Ken and daughter, Sherry. IBM Greencastle recently named FLOYD DECKER, MDC operations project manager, second and third shifts. Decker joined IBM Greencastle in 1954 as an analyst in the quality control area. In 1966, he became a department manager of the standard rotary press and then magnetic media products department manager in 1975. In 1979, Decker moved into the distribution area as the parts retrieval and storage department manager. His most recent assignment was as a personnel counselor in the employee relations department where he worked since 1983. Decker lives in Greencastle with his wife, Imogene and daughter, Susan. Greencastle Middle School student KIM ARCHER, daughter of Mike and Susan Archer, Route 4, Saddle Club Road, Greencastle, has been named a 1985 United States National Award winner in physical education. A seventh-grader, Miss Archer was nominated by her P.E. instructor, SYLVIA BOE. Kim will appear in the U.S. Achievement Academy Official Yearbook, published nationally. Criteria for selection include a student’s academic performance, interest and aptitude, leadership ability, responsibility, enthusiasm, motivation to learn and improve, citizenship, cooperative spirit and dependability. The academy selects USAA winners upon exclusive recommendation of teachers, coaches, counselors and other school sponsors. CHRISTY SCHLUETER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Schlueter, Route 1, Cloverdale, was recently elected house chairman of Alpha Gamma Delta international fraternity for college and university women. Miss Schlueter is a DePauw University sophomore. DIANE CHANDLER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chandler, Route 2, Coatesville, has been initiated into Alpha Chi, national honor society, at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Tex. Alpha Chi represents the top 10 per cent scholastically of all students on campus. The 1982 North Putnam High School graduate is a junior elementary education major. She is also a member of Kappa Delta Pi, education honor society. Elected treasurer of the junior class

Hear those mushrooms calling?

Tonight partly cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of thundershowers with the low 50 to 55. South wind around 10 mph. Sunday 50 per cent chance of thundershowers and cooler. High around 65.

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KIM ARCHER

at Indiana Central University recently was SUZANNE HERRICK, daughter of Alfred A. and Shirley J. Herrick, Greencastle. The 1982 graduate of Rockville High School is a marketing major. A dean’s list student, she is active in Phi Alpha Epsilon, freshman honor society, Alpha Psi Omega and Alpha Chi. LISA J. SUTTON, Route 1, Box 198, Greencastle, has been named one of the 98 outstanding students at Butler University for 1985. The group was chosen by fellow students and faculty on the basis of academic achievement and campus activities. The students will be honored at a banquet by the Butler University Alumni Association, which annually recognizes outstanding student achievement in the academic and extracurricular life of the University. RUTH PICKEL, Roachdale, is participating in the annual Ball State University alumni telefund drive. Participating students are selected on the basis of personal interviews. They work with staff members from the alumni and development programs office at Ball State. Miss. Pickel is a junior studying elementary education at Ball State. She is also active in Alpha Sigma Alpha social sorority. A 1982 graduate of North Putnam High School, she is the daughter of Max and Lelah Pickel, Route 1. Spec. 4 JAMES W. ARCHER, son of Herbert W. and Thelma L. Archer, Cloverdale, has been named outstanding soldier of the year for the 2nd Support Command in Nuremburg, West Germany. The soldier was picked from a select group of peers who were judged on military bearing and knowledge, professional skill and exemplary behavior. Archer, a utilities equipment repairer, is a 1982 graduate of Cloverdale High School. His wife, Osa, is the daughter of George M. and Esta G. Cummings of Cloverdale. Airman GARY D. NEELEY, son of Earl G. and Edna M. Neeley, 913 N. Madison St., Greencastle, has graduated from the U.S. Air Force jet engine mechanic course at Chanute Air Force Base, 111. During the course, students were taught repair and maintenance of jet engines with emphasis in ground safety practices when using ground support equipment. The airman is scheduled to serve with the 305th Field Maintenance Squadron at Grissom Air Force Base. He is a 1983 graduate of Greencastle High School. Army Pvt. SCOTT M. SMITH, son of Wanda L. Smith, Route 3, Greencastle, and James B. Smith, Holly, Mich., has completed a wheeledvehicle mechanic course at the U.S. Army Training Center, Fort Jackson, S.C. During the course, students were trained to perform maintenance and assist in the repair of automotive vehicles and associated equipment. Navy Fireman recruit CHRISTOPHER D. DIXON, son of Carl and Quannah Dixon, Route 3, Greencastle, has completed recruit training at Navy Recruit Training Command, Naval Training Center San Diego. During Dixon’s eight-week training cycle, he studied general military subjects designed to prepare him for further academic and on-the-job training in one of the Navy’s 85 basic fields.

Monday through Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild Monday, then a chance of showers and cooler Tuesday and clearing and cool Wednesday. Highs 60 to 70 Monday and 55 to 65 Tuesday and Wednesday.

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FLOYD DECKER

Last-minute oav raises included

House OKs sls billion budget

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana House took less than 10 minutes to approve a $15.2 billion state budget that includes last-minute pay raises for legislators and a $1.5 million party house for the Governor’s Residence. “I’ve never spent sls billion so fast,” quipped Rep. Stephen C. Moberly, RShelbyville, after the House voted 84-16 to adopt the conference committee report on House Bill 1458. The measure will be considered by the Senate Monday, the final day of the 61-day session. Also awaiting Senate action is H.B. 1514, the school finance bill, which was passed by the House 62-38 just before the budget was put up for a vote. The action came just before midnight Friday as House Speaker J. Roberts Dailey, R-Muncie, rushed the two spending bills through his chamber. No more than a handful of legislators were allowed to speak on the measures. The compromise budget bill contains nearly S9O million less than the version which passed earlier in the session. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Patrick J. Kiely, R-Anderson, said the cuts were necessary to ensure that the state’s general fund has an adequate

1966 addition to Miller School, as seen from Robe-Ann Park

Vocational school, special ed office at Miller by fall of 'B6

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher Part of the Miller Elementary School building in Greencastle will be reopened by the fall of 1986 as the location of the Putnam County Area Vocational School and the administrative office of the PutnamWest Hendricks Special Education Cooperative. EARLIER THIS MONTH, North Putnam joined Cloverdale and South Putnam in signing a sl-a-year lease agreement with the Greencastle Community Schools Corp. for use of the newer part of the Miller building as the vocational school site. The section to be used, a 1966 addition that includes classrooms and a small gymnasium, will be remodeled for vocational classes in auto mechanics, auto body, health occupations and the building trades. The original Miller School building, which dates to 1928, will remain closed. In a separate project not related to the

Putnam Patter

Stealing Old Dewey a stupid mistake

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Everyone in Greencastle and for miles around knew Dr. George Worth Bench, an early day physician and they were equally acquainted with Old Dewey, the 25-year-old buggy horse who pulled him on his rounds. Putting these two facts together, it wasn’t the smartest thing that anyone could do to steal Old Dewey in daylight, but some unnamed persons, said to be from the Greencastle area, tried it-and lost. IT WAS ABOUT 5:30 one evening while the doctor was talking on the telephone that the unknown person “borrowed” the doctor’s transportation and headed south on Bloomington Street at top speed. Among those who saw the thief leave town, according to a newspaper account, were Dr. W.R. Hutcheson and Jake Hirt. Business began to pick up when Dr. Bence

working balance between now and mid--1987. The budget bill includes the cost of a new school funding formula which will guarantee a minimum increase of 6 percent for all but the highest spending school corporations. Legislative roundup Page A 4 H.B. 1514, which includes a 30-step mathematical formula to distribute state aid to Indiana’s 304 school corporations, will add $412 million in new school money from state and local tax sources over the next two years. State and local spending for schools currently is about $1.9 billion a year. The bill sets a statewide average spending goal of $2,250 per pupil in the first year and $2,400 the second year. The minimum per-pupil expenditures are $1,900 the first year and $2,100 the second year. It authorizes school corporations with general fund tax rates of less than $2.40 to raise them to that level in two years. Rep. Bradley Fox, R-Rome City, the sponsor of the school funding bill, said the bill will

vocational program, part of the new Miller addition also is expected to be remodeled to house the administrative office of the Putnam-West Hendricks Special Education Cooperative. That office, directed by Susan Crosby, presently is located in a modular building at Bainbridge, overseeing special education programs in all four Putnam County corporations plus the Mill Creek School Corp. in Hendricks County. For the 1985-86 school year, the vocational program will remain in leased quarters at 802 Indianapolis Road in Greencastle, where it has operated since its inception in 1978. ABOUT 145 JUNIORS and seniors from the four county school corporations are enrolled in half-day vocational classes. Students spend three class periods, either in the morning or afternoon, at the vocational school, then attend regular classes at their respective high schools during the remainder of the day.

noticed that his favorite horse was not at his hitching post. Although the thief must have been well out of sight by the time the theft was discovered, it was surmised that he might be headed for Brazil via Bloomington Street and the National Road, (State Road 40). ON THIS ASSUMPTION, calls were made to the Manhattan and Reelsville areas to be on the look out and head the thief off at the pass. In the meantime, Sheriff Theodore Boes cranked up his automobile and went south at full throttle. Sure enough, folks at Manhattan on the National Road had seen a stranger driving Old Dewey, also at full “throttle.” But he had already passed this check point and headed west into the sunset. As the sheriff neared Pleasant Garden on the National, he caught up with his quarry. By this time, Old Dewey was feeling his 25 years, quite an advanced age for a horse, and he was in no shape to keep

mean a statewide average property tax increase of 4 percent the first year and 4.2 percent the second. “The freeze is dead on property taxes in this formula,” House Minority Leader Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, warned. The changes in the budget would leave the state with a general fund balance of $19.3 million on June 30,1985; $52.2 million on June 30,1986; and $57.2 million on June 30, 1987. Those balances, when combined with roughly $l5O million in the “rainy day” fund, would give the state surpluses equal to about 5 percent of its budget, Kiely said. One budget item added at the last minute was the plan to boost legislative expense allowances and give $2,000 annual pay raises to legislative leaders. Lawmakers currently receive $65 a day, seven days a week, when the Legislature is in session and when they are on official legislative business during the off-season. That would be raised by more than 15 percent to $75 a day. In addition, 14 legislators in leadership positions, from the speaker of the House and the president pro tern of the Senate to the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means

At its regular monthly meeting earlier this week, the Greencastle School Board authorized advertisement of a $165,000 additional appropriation from the cumulative building fund, part of which will be used to restore and remodel the Miller building. A local hearing on that request will be conducted during the board’s May 8 meeting. When the school was abandoned in 1981 because of declining enrollment throughout the corporation, some fixtures were removed for use in other buildings. Supt. James Peck said those items will be restored, plus some of the rooms in the 1966 addition will be divided to better suite the needs of vocational classes. Overhead garage doors, provided by the South Putnam Community Schools Corp., will be installed in the gymnasium to permit its use for auto mechanics and auto body classes. AFTER THE VOCATIONAL program moves into the Miller building, all four Col. 1, back page, this section

ahead of a chugging gas buggy. REALIZING THAT HE had lost the race, the thief abandoned the buggy and made a run for a nearby woods. The sheriff likewise abandoned his vehicle and took off for the same woods on foot. When a ground search failed to spot the thief, the sheriff began to look elsewhere in the same area. This paid off as he found his man up in a tree and took him into custody. At this point in the story, it wasn’t learned how the thief got back to the county seat, but it is assumed he rode in “style" in the sheriff’s automobile. APPEARING BEFORE Judge James P. Highes, the thief pleaded innocent since, he said, he was too drunk to realize what he had been doing. The judge was not impressed and handed out a sentence of three to 10 years in the reformatory. Townspeople speculating on the exciting incident noted that the thief had made two big mistakes: Stealing a horse that everyone could spot as he escaped, and

Committee, would get $2,000 more a year. The extra pay for leadership positions ranges from $1,500 to $3,000 above the base legislative pay of $11,600 annually. The budget language would push the leadership differential to $3,500 to $5,000 above the base. Another appropriation debuting Friday was a request for a $1.5 million party house to be built south of the Governor’s Residence on North Meridian Street. The one-story structure would be used for meetings, receptions and dinners too large for the residence itself. The need for such a structure was never mentioned in any of the budget hearings in the House or Senate. Sen. Michael Gery, DWest Lafayette, a budget conferee, asked, “Is this a need that just surfaced in the last two or three days? It just seems strange to me that we’d throw in an item like this at the last minute.” Mark Lubbers, press secretary to Gov. Robert D. Orr, said the idea for a reception center was part of the original plans for the Governor’s Residence and has been talked about for several years. “I do not have any answer why it was this late in the (legislative) process in being introduced,” he said.

'Week of the Child'set to begin April 29 Face painting, a puppet show and balloon launch are just some of the upcoming highlights Putnam County children and parents will have an opportunity to observe during the “Week of the Child” beginning April 29 through May 5. Plans for the week are just beginning, according to Margaret Berrio, associate professor of psychology at DePauw University. TO HELP WITH THE program, Mrs. Berrio is asking that any person or organization, who provides educational or social services to young children, contact her at 312 Harrison Hall, DePauw University. “What I need is one page of information that may be sent to me by local nursery schools, babysitters or others who help young children in some way,” Mrs. Berrio explains. This information will be printed and provided to visitors attending “Week of the Child” activities. The information is planned to be distributed from 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, May 3 at the DePauw University Union Building. The deadline for submitting information to Mrs. Berrio is Monday, April 22. DURING “WEEK OF the Child” activities, a special event will be held at Bowman Park on the DPU campus on May 1. A rain date of May 3 is planned. Children will be invited to participate in several activities, including the balloon launch, and will be greeted by Homer the Owl, clowns and other visitors. The event is planned for preschoolers and very young elementary age children. More information regarding the event will be announced at a later date.

number two, daylight was no time to steal a horse. Had the thief waited until dark he might have gotten away free. Born in Louisville, in 1846, the future doctor and his family came to Putnam County in 1853 and settled in Washington Township. AT THE AGE OF 23, he embarked on a medical career and was graduated in 1871 from the University of Virginia. He first put out his shingle in Carbon, Clay County, and there practiced eight years before coming to Greencastle. Although he built up a practice as almost everybody’s doctor hereabouts, he found time for other interests, including politics and farming. He was president of the Pleeze Co. which locally manufactured a drink promoters hope would one day outsell Coca Cola. Among his community service contributions was the endowment of the German Library at DePauw University.