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Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-graphic Managing Editor Greencastle Chamber of Commerce Executive Secretary JO AUVIL recently completed a one-week Institute for Organization Management at the University of Notre Dame. More than 300 voluntary organization executives from across the country joined Mrs. Auvil in attending the professional development program. During the five-day session, Mrs. Auvil spent 27 classroom hours in Institute course of study, which is designed to assist voluntary organization executives in improving knowledge and skills necessary to enhance their organization’s effectiveness. Coursework included management philosophy, interpersonal processes, government, law and organization structure, as well as more contemporary issues like economic and environmental concerns. DR. NICHOLAS O’NEIL, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert O’Neil, Carlisle, completed his residency in anesthesiology Friday, June 21 at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. He will be practicing at St. Elizabeth and Home hospitals, Lafayette. He and his wife Debi, (laughter of Dr. and Mrs. J.T. Vieira, Coatesville, and children Nicholas, 2, and Allison, 1, will be residing in West Lafayette. Graduating with honors recently from ITT School of Technology was MICHAEL D. TYLER of Bainbridge. Tyler earned a standing of third in his class of electronics technology. EDDIE SHELDON of Greencastle, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Sheldon, was one of 36 delegates to the 26th annual Rural Electric Membership Cooperatives (REMC) Youth Tour of Washington, D.C. He attends South Putnam High School. The group left Indianapolis on Friday, June 7, and returned Thursday, June 13. The tour is both a reward to the young people for their past accomplishments and an educational experience. Delegates are chosen by the Indiana Statewide Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives-the REMC’s state service organization and the State 4-H Department at Purdue University. Highlights of the tour were visits to many memorials and monuments, including a tour of the historic Gettysburg Battlefield, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Mt. Vernon and the U.S. Capitol. Mrs. DOROTHY A. STANFILL, an employee of the Indiana State Farm Correctional Facility in Putnamville, has been elected president of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs in Indiana. The election was held recently during the state convention at Adam’s Mark Hotel in Indianapolis. She is a member of the Vincennes Club. There are more than 5,000 members in the 128 BPW Clubs in Indiana, one of which is in Putnam County. SHIRLEY S. BAKER, Box 99, Bainbridge, was co-chairman of the Indiana Federation of Republican Women’s 25th biennial convention June 21-22 in Indianapolis. She is participating in the two-day meeting with Republican women from around the state. More than 400 persons were ex-
Headed toward the 90s
Tonight a 20 per cent chance of evening thunderstorms. A few may be strong. Partly cloudy and mild. Low 60 to 65. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Sunday mostly sunny and warm. High near 85.
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pected to attend the convention, which marks the golden anniversary of the IFRW. The convention opened Friday afternoon at the Adam’s Mark with a series of workshops. The agenda for Saturday includes an awards breakfast and a general session. During the business session, delegates will elect IFRW state officers. LARRY R. FISHER, 707 E. Walnut St., Greencastle, has achieved dean’s list status for the second semester in a row at Indiana State University, the last semester being the Spring Semester 1985. Fisher was also awarded membership in the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi on April 10. He is recently a recipient of a Louise F. Barton Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Indiana State University Foundation. He presently enjoys a cumulative grade-point average of 3.94 out of a possible 4.0. An area student recently received the Harry E. Smtih Memorial Scholarship from the Department of Industrial Technology Education in the School of Technology at Indiana State University. BENTON J. PITTMAN, Route 2, Greencastle, is a second-year recipient of the award. Pittman is a 1984 graduate of South Putnam High School. Selection for the award was based on letters of application submitted to the committee as well as class rank, SAT scores and overall grades in industrial arts at the individual high schools. SUSAN WILSON, a 1982 North Putnam graduate, was recently inducted into Clavia Chapter of Mortar Board at Ball State University in recognition of high scholarship, leadership, and service. Last November she was also awarded membership into Gold Key National Honor Society for high scholastic achievement. In addition to those scholastic honors, she was selected to be a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, a National Music honorary organization. Susan is the daugher of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Wilson of Roachdale and will be a senior next fall at Ball State University where she is majoring in music education. MICHAEL E. MEYER of Greencastle was one of 178 graduates at Hanover College Sunday, May 26. A physical education major, Meyer was affiliated with Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He was a member of the varsity football team and cited for postseason honors by the NAIA District 21 and the Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Meyer, 106 Taylor Place. Airman Ist Class THOMAS R. PITTMAN, son of Bonnie C. Hardwick, Route 3, Cloverdale, and Thomas L. Pittman, Route 1, Carbon, has been named outstanding airman of the month for the Chanute Technical Training Center. The competition was based on job knowledge, significant self-improvement, leadership qualities, ability to be an articulate and positive spokesman for the Air Force and other accomplishments. Pittman is an aircraft maintenance specialist at Chanute Air Force Base, 111. His wife, Patricia, is the daughter of Richard M. and Fran Callahan, Route 1, Cloverdale. He is a 1982 graduate of Cloverdale High School.
Monday through Wednesday: Partly cloudy north Monday, otherwise mostly sunny each day. Lows in the 60s Monday. Highs in mid 80s to low 90s. Very warm Tuesday and Wednesday. Lows in the 60s to low 70s. Highs in upper 80s to mid 90s.
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17 school corporations now in cooperative
Archer to direct education service center
By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher David C. Archer, director of the Putnam County Area Vocational District since its inception in 1978, will leave that post to become executive director of the newly formed West Central Indiana Educational Service Center on July 1. The service center, a cooperative representing 17 public school corporations in a 12-county area, will be based in the Greencastle Middle School for its inaugural year. Cloverdale, Greencastle, North Putnam and South Putnam are among the member corporations. PURPOSE OF THE service center is to provide educational services to member school corporations that would not be available to schools on an individual basis. In addition to lower prices for supplies achieved through group purchasing, the cooperative will provide in-service programs for teachers, a portable planetarium for use by science departments at member schools and a number of other materials to be shared. In addition to Archer, the service center staff will include a secretary-bookkeeper and a route drive. The cooperative will have its own van for use in distributing materials and supplies among member schools.
Kevin Williams (front) measures strips of wood and Danny Burchett operates a saw as they prepare to replace louvers in a door at Jones Elementary School. The two men, maintenance department employees of the Greencastle Community Schools Corp., spent much of the week installing automatic doorclosing devices, replacing louvers and making repairs at Jones and in other city school buildings. The repair work, and other summer maintenance activity, will be finished before school resumes in August. (Ban-ner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier).
No tax return yet? It's conning in July
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nearly 600,000 individual taxpayers who filed their returns by the April 15 deadline but have not yet received a refund should be getting a check by the end of July, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday. IRS Commissioner Roscoe L. Egger told a House Ways and Means subcommittee that in the first two weeks of June, his agency had paid $5,985,000 in interest penalties to taxpayers for late payment of refunds. The penalty is 13 percent, compounded daily. By law, the IRS must make refunds by June 1 for tax returns filed by the April 15 deadline.. Late penalties paid by the IRS for the same two-week period last year totaled
Putnam Patter
When flies, not meters, were merchant woe
By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Sixty-three years ago, there were no parking meters in Greencastle, not enough gas buggies to make much of a dust and probably not enough complaint of broken sidewalks to make an issue of it. This doesn’t mean, however, that the summer of 1912 was a worry free time for merchants around the courthouse square. Far from it. There was a plague, not of locusts, but of houseflies that came uninvited into business establishments. WHAT THE MERCHANTS did about it is chronicled in the July 17, 1912 Greencastle Herald and reads like an early day Chamber of Commerce project. “Numerous fly traps have been purchased by the merchants and have been set in front of various stores,” so read the article. “These traps have proven very effective, many hundreds of the pesky flies being captured.” “When traps contain enough flies to warrant it, a fire is placed under the trap and flies are sent to their happy hunting
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DAVID C. ARCHER New job begins July 1
Recepient of bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana State University, Archer has cpent 14 years in public education. After teaching four years at Ben Davis High School near lndianapolis, he served two years as director of the Perry County Cooperative at Tell City. ARCHER HAS BEEN the only director
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$6,855,000, or nearly $900,000 more than this year. Egger could not estimate the total of interest penalties the IRS will pay this year. IRS spokesman Scott Waffle said that from April 15 to Sept. 30,1984, the IRS paid $209 million in all types of interest to individual taxpayers. Egger said that because of delays stemming from the updating of the IRS computer network, the agency still has not processed 500,000 to 600,000 tax returns filed by April 15. In some cases, he said, taxpayers were asked to send in a duplicate tax return because the original forms got lost in the new computer network. Rep. J.J. Pickle, D-Texas, the sub-
grounds. One trap, during the past few days, has been the death house for over a peck of flies.” Had this fly slaughter been instituted earlier, the total combined kill might have been measured by the bushel instead of the peck. WITH THE HORSE hitchrack around the courthouse square, many flies might have left their bamlot abodes for life in “high society” in downtown Greencastle. This uninvited invasion was nipped in the bud by a group of very determined women who crusaded for the elimination of the hitch rack around their new courthouse. Since most of the inbound traffic in the county seat was still by horse and wagon or buggy, country folks didn’t take kindly to eliminating their “parking places,” many just opposite to where they wanted to shop with their butter and egg money. After the town fathers bowed to what seemed to be the will of the majority, the hitch racks, pioneer versions of the parking meters, were taken out and farm
the Putnam County Area Vocational District has had since the four county public school corporations joined in its formation seven years ago. The program offers half-day classes to juniors and seniors in auto mechanics, auto body work, health occupations and the building trades. Vocational classes presently are located in leased quarters at 802 Indianapolis Road in Greencastle, but will move into the former Miller Elementary School building for the 1986-87 school year. Renovation of the 1966 addition to the Miller building for use as vocational classrooms already has begun with each member corporation paying a $12,000 share of the remodeling cost. The Greencastle Community School Corp. will lease the facility to the vocational district for $1 annually. “THIS WAS A VERY DIFFICULT decision for me, one I tussled with for quite a while,” Archer said. “I wanted personally to move into another direction in education and this position with the service center offers a new challenge for me. “I feel that our vocational education programs are on a strong footing now and a permanent fixture in public education in Putnam County. With the impending into the Miller building, which will help to make the program even stronger, it’s a good time for me to move on.
committee chairman, asked why. Egger responded that the original returns are “in the system someplace.” He said the IRS is asking taxpayers to help the IRS speed the process by filing a copy of the first return, clearly marked “duplicate” to avoid confusion with original in the IRS system. Egger said taxpayers eventually would get a refund if they chose not to file a duplicate return, but it could take longer. “We estimate that processing of timely filed 1984 returns will be virtually completed by the end of July,” Egger said. As of June 13, Egger said, the IRS processed 66,473,000 tax returns and wrote $54,758,237,000 in refund checks to taxpayers.
folks had to tie their horses to telephone poles or trees or in one designated lot “far” from the business district. AS I NOW REMEMBER it, matching wits with flies was a summer long battle with humans coming out second best most of the time. There was a saying around our house that when one fly was squashed with a swatter, 10 of his close kin moved in for the funeral-and stayed to take their chances as permanent residents. Since flies had more time than anything else, they would hold assemblies on a screen door, knowing from experience that sooner or later someone would open the door, even a little, and the advance contingent would zoom in. It isn’t exactly true that flies have no friends. Little kids, and others big enough to know better, would hold the screen door ajar while they decided whether they were coming or going. BY THE TIME THAT the lady of the house, who already had enough troubles, yelled, “either come in or stay out,” the
“This new position offers new goals to accomplish for myself,” Archer added. “And I’ll have an opportunity to work with kindergarten through 12th grade. I’m really looking forward to it.” IRONICALLY, ARCHER MAY eventually end up working in the same building where he would have been as director of the vocational program. While the Greencastle Community School Corp. is providing rent-free office space for the service center in the middle school for 1985-86, consideration already is being given to permanently locating the office in part of the Miller building. In addition to office space, the service center will require storage facilities for equipment and materials. A tentative operating budget for the West Central Indiana Educational Service Center’s initial year anticipated $150,000 in operating revenue. Of that amount, SIOO,OOO will be provided by the state, while the remainder will be raised via a $1.50-per-student fee assessed to member corporations. THE 17 SCHOOL SYSTEMS who have joined the cooperative have a combined enrollment of 30,000. Archer was selected as the service center’s first director from among 18 applicants.
Rehearsal for public on Monday A public dress rehearsal of a musical drama commissioned by Alpha Chi Omega national sorority will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Moore Theatre in DePauw University’s Performing Arts Center. There will be no admission charge. ON TUESDAY, more than 1,200 women from all over the nation who are attending the Alpha Chi Omega convention in Indianapolis will visit the DePauw campus to witness the world premiere performances of the musical, written by DePauw composer Dr. David Ott. Tuesday’s performances will be closed to the public. Alpha Chi Omega, founded at DePauw 100 years ago, commissioned Ott to create the musical drama for presentation during the sorority’s June 22-27 national convention. Orcenith Smith, director of the DePauw orchestra, will conduct the performance. The orchestra will be comprised of professionals from Indianapolis. Two young local musicians, Sherri Taylor of Greencastle High School and James Holland of North Putnam High School, are among the cast singers that also includes DePauw students and others from Chicago and Bloomington. THE MUSICAL STORY is of “Lucinda Hero,” a Hoosier girl trying to decide if she wants to go to college or stay home and mar.y her hometown sweetheart. The action takes place in the 1920’5. Dale Miller, head of theatre at Purdue University, will direct the production. Sets were designed by Van Phillips, lighting by Lee Watson, and costumes by Claudia Anderson, all of Purdue.
flies decided in numbers what they took for an open invitation. Most of the methods of getting the upperhand on flies depended on their cooperation. If there was fly paper, they were supposed to land on it. Any fly stupid enough to land was stuch in the gooey stuff that coated fly paper. This was as it should have been, but any kid who made the same stupid mistake would find the paper stuck firmly to the seat of his pants. Fly paper was not supposed to be put on chairs, but sometimes it was moved there temporarily to make room on the dinner table and then not replaced in time to prevent trouble. | THERE WERE OTHER ways to thin the fly population, but probably thf fashioned swatter, which didn’t kill at a time, brought the most satisfar an emotional release. If a fellow had gotten up on.i side of the bed and felt whole world, he by swatting flies