Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 357, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 October 1985 — Page 1

Computer, robot aiding Hoosier Hospitality effort

rom Staff, Wire Dispatches FRENCH LICK-Greencastle’scomputer and Cloverdale’s mini-robot are making their presence known at the seventh annual Hoosier Hospitality Days going on this week at the French Lick Springs Hotel. A DOZEN GREENCASTLE business and government officials are manning the city’s castle-like booth, attempting to woo some of the 95 registered guests (another 76 guests are registered for INVEST INDIANA Thursday and Friday). While Greencastle is using an IBM computer to provide the facts and figures for potential industrial developers, Cloverdale

This was the scene at approximately 9:30 a.m. Tuesday (left photo) which greeted State Board of Health official Pat Carroll and county Sanitarian Vernie Zeiner, when both inspected

University must get proper permit

Board of Health closes down DPU transfer station

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic Area News Editor An Indiana State Board of Health official Tuesday closed a makeshift “transfer station” constructed and operated by DePauw University, after tons of trash filled the container and spilled over its side. Pat Carroll, a member of the State Board of Health’s Division of Land Pollution Control, said the university’s use of the transfer station must cease immediately until a proper permit is obtained. CARROLL, ALONG WITH Putnam County Sanitarian Vernie Zeiner, inspected the area - located just south of Blackstock Stadium parking lot - at approximately 9:30a.m. Tuesday. Within five minutes, DePauw University workers were at the site. One employee told Carroll and Zeiner they had just been instructed by DPU officials to push the refuse back inside the transfer station container. One worker drove to the area via a packer. The second employee piloted a

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is using an 18-inch robot known as “Cloverdale Tech” to greet prospects and invite them to the Cloverdale booth to watch a video about the potential of the southern Putnam County community “Their little robot runs out and passes a brochure to visitors,” Greencastle Chamber of Commerce President Harvey Pinney said Tuesday after returning from a two-day excursion to French Lick. “WE RE (GREENCASTLE) very for tunate to have this computer,” Pinney said of equipment on loan from IBM. “Several other communities are using computers down there, too, but our computer is programmed so uniquely...none of the

a transfer station located at DePauw University's Blackstock Stadium. A backhoe driver was summoned by DPU officials to pack the trash back into the container, until a local

backhoe, which was to be used to help contain the debris. DePauw University officials, one worker said, were contacting a local hauler Tuesday morning to totally remove the debris within the next hour. When asked, the employee said the transfer station was holding approximately three packer loads of trash. One packer load is equal to 34 tons. CARROLL, WHO TOOK photographs of the site for the State Board of Health records, said it should take “three months” for DPU to obtain the proper state permit. “Until then, DePauw will just have to haul the trash to some place else, probably Center Point,” Carroll said, referring to the Clay County town. That is the location most Putnam County debris has been taken to since the county commissioners closed the Putnam County landfill in June. The commissioners closed the county landfill, located near Limedale, because it was getting too costprohiDitive to operate. In addition, public sentiment about the commissioners plans

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TROOPER DAVE COLLINS 'We tightened down'

Putnam Patter

Relative smarts of pawpaw eaters

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor I wonder whether anyone has decided for sure whether a pig is as smart as some folks say it is, or as stupid as it would appear from some of its habits. For example, the porker’s intelligence moved sharply upward in my estimation when I learned it will turn up its snout at the pawpaw and leave it for some folks whose taste buds have not been properly

others has the capabilities that IBM has given us. “Today (Tuesday), we had a fellow come up and ask about taxes. We just sat him down at the computer and punched up a graph that shows him everything,” Pinney added. The Chamber president said Greencastle has registered 10-15 (as of Tuesday) potential industrial concerns at its booth. “There are probably a couple of those that we need to pursue,” he added. Some of the visiting businessmen are already committed to areas, Pinney said, while still others are merely dipping their toe in to test the water at this time.

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hauler could arrive to remove the debris. Carroll closed the transfer station Tuesday, saying DPU did not have the proper state permit for operation. DPU Physical Plant Director Jim

to construct a new landfill in Putnam County was negative, helping to halt that move. Referring to DePauw’s transfer station, Carroll said, “We may still go ahead and let them operate here, if they keep it up better than this and get the permit. Transfer stations are a good idea. “But right now,” Carroll said, looking over the mass of debris, “I’m going to recommend we shut it down.” THE STATE BOARD OF Health of ficials also informed one of the DePauw workers that a cover should be placed atop the transfer station each night. That would, he explained, help to curb any blowing papers from escaping the container and keep rats from getting into the uncovered garbage. Carroll was asked, in his opinion, if the DPU operation at Blackstock was indeed a “transfer station,” or more similar to trash dumpsters stationed outside many businesses. “This is a transfer station,” Carroll quickly clarified. “You have to have the proper permit for this and

Safety violations

Putnam buses among those failing ISP inspections

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - State police have inspected school buses in Morgan, Hendricks and Putnam counties, and cited almost half for safety violations. Some violations were so severe troopers would not allow the buses back on the roads. An administrator in a Hendricks County school district where five buses were ordered out of service had to borrow two buses from another school corporation to transport students. “We have had more turned down this year than in the past," said senior Trooper David L. Collins, who conducted inspections for the state police Putnamville district.

cultivated. HOWEVER, THE PIG'S brain power was doomed to take a downward turn when I learned that although the animal won’t eat a pawpaw neither will it eat a tomato. If this be so, this is an offense to the multitude of those who are tomato lovers and the action puts the pig’s capacity for smarts at a lower level. Maybe what this all boils down to is that in forming the pros and cons of this mat-

“AT THE SAME TIME,” the Chamber president added, “we hope, out of this group (the 10-15 Greencastle has wooed), some of them are talking very seriously. ” The State Department of Commerce is serving as host, inviting about 100 businessmen from across the country to the resort hotel for tennis, golf, boating and a sales pitch as Indiana promotes its cities’ advantages. “It’s sort of a shopping center for job development,” is how Lt. Gov. John Mutz describes the event, which looks more like a cross between a circus midway and a board meeting. The participating cities have set up their

zoning.” Zoning was the issue that kept Glenn and Norma Baker, who operate Baker’s Remove-All in Greencastle, from locating their own transfer station at 510 W. Walnut St., formerly H & G Concrete Products Inc. THE BAKERS DECIDED TO pursue that option on their own, after learning the commissioners were closing the Putnam County landfill this summer. But negative public reaction was quick, aborting the Baker’s plan because residents desire to keep the area more home-oriented and non-business like. Although the Bakers attended several city and county meetings on the idea, they later withdrew their offer. Since then, with no county landfill in operation, all trash must be hauled outside Putnam County. County officials left that responsibility up to individual homeowners. City officials, meanwhile, contracted with Baker’s Remove-All to haul city trash outside Putnam County. The Bakers have their own contract with the operator of the Center Point landfill to

He and five other troopers in the inspection team tried to find all the violations they could during annual fall inspection. “We tightened down,” he said. During 20- to 30-minute inspections on each of 372 buses, 175 were found with minor violations; another 14 buses were ordered off the road until their owners could make repairs. Some school officials said inspectors were inflexible in interpreting the state code, citing for violations buses that had silver tire rims instead of the prescribed black tire rims, tor example. Collins did not disagree. “This was not any spot inspection. They

ter, we have been trying to think like a pig, judging his likes and dislikes by our own. It comes as somewhat a surprise to learn that a pig is finicky about his eating habits since in all my associations with the animal I never saw one turn down anything that was placed before it and make a hog of itself in the process. BEFORE COUNTRY KITCHENS had modern ways to keep the garbage from taking over, standard equipment at the

own information booths in the hotel’s exhibition hall, and have sent delegations of local officials who buttonhole passing executives like polite carnival barkers. “You have to work the room,” said Portland Mayor James Luginbill, a regular at the event since 1983. “There’s a lot of competition here.” Like many cities, Portland has a videotape monitor and computer set up at its booth to display views of the city and information about taxes and available sites. Many of the booths also feature big maps proclaiming “Where We Are...” Lake County advertises itself as being “only 40 miles from Chicago,” while

Daugherty said the university will have its trash hauled away, until a permit can be obtained. (Banner-Graphic photo by Becky Igo).

take city trash there for burial Zeiner told the Banner-Graphic Tuesday he received a complaint about the DPU transfer station soon after the Putnam County landfill was closed. “They’re (DPU) doing the same thing that other businesses - like IBM - are doing,” the sanitarian said. “IBM HAS A DUMPSTER, but they don’t have to have a permit,” Zeiner pointed out. “But the state decided DePauw’s situation was different because they didn’t have their’s fenced in or in a closed-in area.” Zeiner said he contacted Carroll about the DePauw University transfer station last Thursday. “They’re (DePauw) not supposed to have garbage in it, but they get some in there for some reason or another,” Zeiner said. “A lot of dorms and other buildings have garbage disposals so you’re going to get some in there.” Zeiner added he didn’t consider the matter to be “too much of a problem,” especially since DePauw University ofCol. 2, back page, this section

knew three months in advance when we were comining. I made a strict interpretation of the state code in each case and followed it. After all, I have three children who ride buses to school." He said that most of the buses that failed the inspections were not unsafe or a danger to riders. The most serious violations were found at Northwest Hendricks School Corp., Collins said. His team ordered five of the 20 buses used there out of service. Another 10 were found with small violations. All the buses were returned to service about a week before a reinspection MonCol. 2, back page, this section

end of the coal ranges was a five gallon bucket which was a collection point for used dishwater of anything else that was too far gone for human consumption. When the bucket was filled to within a scant half-inch of the rim, it was my job to take it out for the pigs. This was precision work and woe be to the carrier who spilled a drop until he was at least off the porch. Generally, the reason the bucket was Col. 1, back page, this section

Bloomington hails itself as “close to everything, next to perfect. ” Michigan City is “the city that forgiveth thy taxes,” and Decatur passes out metal rooster paperweights to remind visitors it has “something to crow about.” Rick Diamond, a Florida plastics engineer scouting sites for a $6 million assembly plant, said he found the friendly competition among the various cities amusing but informative. “Every state has its own way they try to get to you,” said Diamond, who has visited six states on behalf of his Miami-based General Plastics company. “Indiana is Col. 2, back page, this section

Attorney leaps right into action Old Zoning Board complaints return Bv ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor Zoning Board Chairman Robert Loring had assured the board’s new attorney, Diana LaViolette, that a simple four-item agenda would be an easy way to break in Tuesday night. And Loring was right. The board breezed through requests for a mobile home placement, church addition and swimming pool construction. And a fourth request, concerning a new garage, never even materialized HER ZONING BOARD career barely 30 minutes old, Mrs. LaViolette must have been ranking Loring with the greatest of soothsayers. Then the other shoe dropped. Dr. Boyd Knuppel and Mitchell Kelly, 1023 Avenue C, stood to address the fivemember Greencastle Board of Zoning Appeals. Their complaints targeted the parking of garbage trucks and disabled vehicles on Avenue C in Commercial Place. The problems may have been new to Mrs. LaViolette, but they have been an ongoing concern to the Zoning Board. Kelly even produced a copy of the letter former board attorney Rob Bremer had written to Glenn Baker in regard to the presence of garbage trucks The trucks are being parked, along with dumpsters, Kelly told the board, on property that formerly housed the PSI substation until 1977. KELLY SAID HE LIVES 300 feet “from the garbage dump, and that’s what it smells like.” Knuppel charged that Baker is “uninhibitedly using his property as a truck terminal for his garbage trucks.” Knuppel said the issue was raised more than 30 days ago about the operation existing in an R-2 (residential) zoning district. “We’d like to see some enforcement,” the local veterinarian added. Loring said he was uncertain about the parking problem since Baker, who was not present to give his side, is using his own property and the trucks are apparently properly registered. THE ZONING BOARD chairman turned to Mrs. LaViolette and asked her to followup on Bremer’s correspondence and check out any possible violation. “With a change of attorney, this will take a little time,” Loring said. Knuppel and Kelly also raised the issue of disabled vehicles parked outside Commercial Place dwellings. Dr. Knuppel referred to a recently passed Plan Commission disabled vehicle definition. Once that definition is incorporated in the city zoning ordinance by City Council confirmation, city police can take action against owners of such disabled vehicles, Loring noted. Loring was right about the opening portion of the meeting being routine Without a discouraging word from board members or remonstrators, the following projects were approved unanimously: - Placement of a mobile home at the southwest corner of U S. 231 North and Doc James Road by Margie Guilliams. She said a new 1985 mobile home v ill be placed on a lot purchased from Harry Moore in the C-3 (commercial) district. “This is the only lot available I could find where I could buy, sire said, adding that it is “very hard to find a lot set up for a trailer around here.” - CONSTRUCTION OF A 24 foot circular swimming pool by Mr and Mrs. Stephen Black, 242 Hillsdale Ave., in an R--1 district. The pool will be placed 164 feet from the rear lot line and will have fencing Col. 5, back page, this section 1