Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 205, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 April 1985 — Page 1

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Ground was broken Friday at the corner of Seminary and Vine streets in Greencastle to mark the start of construction of a three-story country inn. Symbolic first shovelfuls of dirt were turned by Richard Rosser, president of DePauw University; City Councilman Bob

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Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing EtiiUn Judge WILLIAM C. VAUGHN 111 of the Putnam Circuit Court has been selected for promotion to the rank of captain in the U S. Naval Reserve. Capt. Vaughn, a veteran U.S. Navy fighter pilot and 19-year veteran of the United States Navy and Naval Reserve, is currently a member of General Volunteer Training Unit 1315 in Indianapolis and also serves with GV-TU-1315 Law. Judge Vaughn, a graduate of Villanova University, Indiana University and Indiana Judicial College, was commissioned in the Navy in 1965, after serving in college as Naval Reserve Training Corps midshipman. After completing flight training, Vaughn became a pilot with carrier fighter squadron VF-103, deployed on the U.S.S. Saratoga in the Mediterranean, spending time in Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Malta and Greece. During Capt. Vaughn’s Reserve career, he has drilled with various fleet air composite squadrons in Virginia, Texas, Nevada, Florida, Michigan, Arizona and California, as well as in Alberta Province, Canada. Capt. Vaughn has more than 3,000 flying hours to his credit and holds the Naval Reserve Meritorious Service Award, National Defense Medal, Navy “E” awarded to VC-12, Sharpshooter Pistol award and Sharpshooter Rifle award. Judge Vaughn was one of only three commanders elevated to the rank of captain from those drilling at the Indianapolis Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center. He has been judge of the Putnam Circuit Court since 1981 and for five years previous to that he was Putnam County Court judge. JULIANNE RAINBOLT, Greencastle, is one of 35 Ohio Wesleyan University students who has been inducted into Mortar Board. Mortar Board is a national honor society for seniors who demonstrate superior scholastic ability, outstanding leadership qualities and dedication to community service. New members are elected to membership at the end of their junior year. Miss Rainbolt is the daughter of Mrs. Martha Rainbolt, Greencastle. SHARON LYNN GARRETT, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey A.

Nice Sunday on tap

Tonight mostly cloudy and mild. A 30 per cent chance of showers Low around 55. North wind 5 to 10 mph. Sunday partly sunny and mild. High 70 to 75.

Banner Graphic Greencastle, Putnam County, Saturday, April 27,1985, Vol. 15 No. 205 25 Cents

STEPHEN SPENCER

Garrett, Route 1, Cloverdale, has been awarded an academic scholarship by Marian College of Indianapolis. A senior at Cloverdale High School, she will receive a Marian scholarship based on high school academic performance. Students qualifying for a Marian scholarship must have in excess of a 3.0 gradepoint average and be in the top 20 per cent of their class. Miss Garrett plans to major in elementary education. CHARLES R. FARBER, Indianapolis, has been elected to the board of directors of Peoples Bank & Trust Co., Indianapolis. The action was taken at the board’s annual meeting April 19. The son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Farber, Greencastle, he was graduated from Greencastle High School in 1968 and holds the B.S. and MBA degrees from the Indiana University School of Business. Farber joined Peoples Bank and Trust Co. in 1972, and is now executive vice president. STEPHEN L. SPENCER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Spencer, rural Greencastle, has been named an alternate to a NROTC Scholarship Marine Corps Option for majoring in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University. Spencer is guaranteed a three-year scholarship in the same field if not given a four-year scholarship. Three Greencastle students have been named to the honor roll at Butler University. Maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for a minimum 30 credit hours has yielded honor-roll status for: LISA J. SUTTON, Route 1; ROBERT A. SCHROER, Route 2, and BETH A. HAMPTOM, Route 2. Lance Cpl. ELBERT DEWAYNE LOGAN, U.S. Marine Corps son of Elbert and Diana (McCullough) Logan of Houston, Tex., is now stationed in Korea. The Logans are formerly of Greencastle. The Marine is the grandson of Leona McCollough and Ralph and Lucie Logan of Greencastle. Marine Lance Cpl. DAVID A. SILLERY, son of Charles W. and Wilma J. Sillery of Route 5, Greencastle, has been promoted to his present rank while serving with 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC.

Partly cloudy Monday. Chance of rain developing by Tuesday or Wednesday. Lows each day from the middle 40s to the lower 50s with highs from the upper 50s to the 60s.

Albright and Fred Silander, Vice President for Finance at DePauw, during the public ceremony. The inn, which will offer 55 guest rooms and suites, will be financed by a group of private investors (Banner-Graphic photo by Beckylgo)

WILLIAM VAUGHN

Open house will follow program

Central Elementary dedication May 5

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher Central Elementary School, the product of a s*^-year effort by the South Putnam Community School Corp. to define the scope of its elementary facilities, will be dedicated Sunday, May 5, during a public program in the school’s gymnasium Dr. C. William Day of Indiana University, who served as educational consultant for the $3.2 million project, will be keynote speaker at the 1:30 p.m. program. The building then will be open to the public from2:3oto4p.m. NEARLY 170 STUDENTS have attended classes at Central Elementary since April 1 when the 32,500-square-foot building replaced Belle Union Elementary School. Transfer of furniture and equipment from Belle Union was completed during the last week of March while pupils were on spring vacation. The May 5 dedication will feature a slide presentation by Principal Bruce Bernhardt who photographed stages of the school’s construction. Also during the program, a representative of the Division of School Facility Planning and Accreditation, Indiana Department of Education, will present Central Elementary’s official commission. Students will play a part in the dedication ceremony. Third-grader Wendy Teipen will lead the pledge of allegiance to the flag, sixth-grader Robert Priest will offer the benediction and the Central Elementary Choir will sing ‘ ‘America the Beautiful,” “We are the World” and “Golden Dream America.” PRELIMINARY DESIGNS for the Central Elementary building, prepared by James Associates of Indianapolis, were first approved by the five-member school board in November 1982, four months after the board decided to replace only the 60-year-old Belle Union school while maintaining elementaries at Reelsville and Fillmore. Two earlier board decisions, which subsequently proved to be infeasible, had called for Belle Union and Fillmore schools to merge into a new building along U.S. 40 east of Mt. Meridian, or all three elementaries to be consolidated into a single building on the Central Elementary site. Although the corporation plans to maintain its current three-elementary alignCol. 5, back page, this section

Putnam Patter

When dynamite blasts rocked Belle Union

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Grass is beginning to show green on a landscaped area where once the Belle Union School stood proud, and the day may come when memories and traditions of the Jefferson Township educational facility will lie forgotten beneath the sod. Time and changing conditions signaled the end of the 60-year-old brick structure. Its pupils have been transferred to the new Central Elementary School of the South Putnam system and the building reduced to rubble and hauled away. SINCE THE SCHOOL stood down the road a little ways from Belle Union proper, losing of the school will have little effect and is not likely to change the status quo of the peaceful little town that has managed to survive while many other little towns that sprang up in the past century are now no more.

Ground broken for country inn

Detailed designs of a three-story country inn to be -located between downtown Greencastle and the DePauw University campus will be presented May 2 during a public meeting of Main Street Greencastle, Inc. Ground was broken Friday at the inn site, a vacant lot bounded by Seminary, Vine, Center and Indiana streets. Construction will begin next month and is expected to be completed in the spring of 1986. MORE SPECIFIC design information about the 42,000-square-foot inn, as well as a completed urban design plan for downtown Greencastle, will be reviewed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Meharry Hall in DePauw University’s East College. Drawings and other exhibits will be open to the public half an hour prior to the start of the meeting. Plans for the country inn were announced last June by Ploshay & Taylor, Inc., project manager. Financial arrangements for the $3 million project

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According to old-timers, however, there was a time when the term “peaceable” was not applicable to Belle Union and surrounding areas. Law and order locked horns with evil forces. This is substantiated in an “explosive” story which appeared in a 1913 issue of the Greencastle Herald Newspaper. No one in his right mind would have called Belle Union a sleeping little burg on that April night more than 70 years ago when the populace was awake and milling around in the dark. MOST OF THE TOWN’S residents could snooze through a variety of night noises, but when charges of dynamite rocked the town, people’s feet hit the floor, lamps were lit and the curious ventured out to see what had happened. As it turned out, the explosions were a blow struck against evil as Belle Unionites saw it.. The blasts destroyed two pool

Architect's sketch of country inn

were completed this week with the signing of 12 limited partners, a private investor and equal commitments by Central National Bank, First Citizen’s Bank & Trust Co. and Greencastle Federal Savings Bank for required debt financing. The inn will be built on land leased from DePauw University. Featuring 55 guest rooms and suites, the primarily brick structure will have a dining room, lounge and private board room for more formal dinners and meetings on its main level.

tables and halted the establishment of a pool hall in their midst. Word that a pool hall might be coming had circulated for several weeks. Petitions made their rounds and those who signed agreed to boycott the place should it ever come. THE TOKEN PROTEST did nothing to discourage those who planned to open the pool hall, and on April 1 the two pool tables were hauled in by wagon and were to be placed in a room rented from Dr. W.A. Moser. But the doctor was out of town and left no key to the room. Under the circumstances, they decided to store the wagon and its contents under a shed, and then make the transfer to the proposed pool hall the next day. It was near midnight when the blasts, which had been masterminded by persons unknown, blew the tables to smithereens and put the pool hall out of business before

THE DINING ROOM will seat about 80 persons in a split-level arrangement with a raised deck around the north and east sides leading to a porch extending around the northeast corner of the building. A lounge located near the center of the main floor will accommodate about 50 people. The primary meeting room will seat about 190 in banquet style, but will be designed so that it can be divided into three small rooms.

Principal Bruce Bernhardt and secretary Sandra Parker look over the agenda for the May 5 dedication program at South Putnam Central Elementary School. The 1:30 p.m. program in the school gymnasium will be followed by an open house from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Located adjacent to South Putnam Junior-Senior High School at the junction of U.S. 40 and U.S. 231, the 32,500-square-foot school replaced Belle Union School. Nearly 170 students in kindergarten through sixth grade have been attending classes at Central Elementary since April 1. (Banner-Graphic photos by Becky Igo)

it even started. In relating details of the Belle Unionites’ triumph over “evil,” the Greencastle Herald recalled a similiar incident in 1881 in which dynamite was also used to “clean up the town.” TWO BUILDINGS in the east part of town were operating as drugstores, but everyone in Belle Union knew that back rooms were loaded with “thirst-quenching liquor.” A few days before these stores were scheduled to "go out of business” sudden like, a prominent resident of the town, who preferred to remain nameless, visited friends and asked: “Don’t you think these drugstores have been in Belle Union long enough?" Those who thought so were asked to donate 50 cents “just to get rid of the stores.” Whether these half dollars were Col. 1, back page, this section