Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 361, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 October 1985 — Page 1

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'Hoosier' Hollar has plenty to yell about now By ERIC BERSNEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor DePauw University freshman Steve Hollar remembers reading his hometown Warsaw newspaper this summer and spotting a story about the movie “Hoosiers.” The casting call had gone out for young men in their late teens, skilled in basketball and long in Hoosier looks. “That’s me,” Hollar remembers thinking to himself. Today he’s right. HOLLAR HAS LEARNED THAT he will have a “major role” in the film to be shot on location in Indiana. “They called me Friday at home in Warsaw to tell me I had been selected for a major role on the ‘Hickory’ (High School) team,” Hollar told the Banner-Graphic Monday morning. The fictional Hickory High team, with a storyline based on the storybook 1954 Milan High School championship, will feature six Hoosiers and two professional actors from California. “They’re getting things rolling,” said Hollar, a starting guard on Warsaw’s 1984 state championship team as a junior. “I’m supposed to report Wednesday and (actor) Gene Hackman and the rest of the biggies will be flying in Thursday.” “HOOSIERS” WILL TAKE approximately seven weeks to film, with shooting expected to begin Oct. 21. Knightstown will be used for the Hickory Huskers’ home gym, while Brownsburg High School will provide a tournament trail setting and New Richmond in Montgomery County will serve as the fictional town of Hickory. All of meaas Hollar and the rest of the cast will be jumping around the state between now and late December. In order to play the role of movie star, the DPU freshman will be dropping out of school for the first semester. He plans, however, to be back in town for Winter Term and the second semester. “I really didn’t want to drop out for the whole year,” Hollar said, adding that he was to meet with DPU officials late Monday to secure his student status. “I’M REALLY HAPPY,” HOLLAR said, indicating his chance for one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities had come true. Plans to follow his father’s dentistry footsteps will be put on hold for a while. “I’m not complaining,” Hollar laughed, adding how he’s been told the actors will be paid union wages, “whatever union wages are...your guess is as good as mine.” Hollar, who averaged 10 points and a state’s-best nine assists per game during his senior year at Warsaw, was impressed by the basketball talent he witnessed during the tryouts at Indianapolis. “As far as a basketball reputation goes,” he explained, “there really wasn’t anybody like that there. You take a Jeff Grose (his Warsaw teammate and 1985 Mr. Basketball), he’s someone everybody knows. There was nobody like that there, yet they were all quality. I ought to know, fightin’ ’em all tooth and nail all this time.” INCLUDED WITH HOLLAR ON the Hickory team will be a farmer, another Hoosier who’s getting married and even a high school senior from L & M in Greene County. The central figure of the story-the Hickory version of Milan’s Bobby Plump-could be an Indianapolis Chatard student, Hollar said.

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Board of Works to ponder cable proposal

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor With the City of Greencastle’s cable TV contract termed “an open question until November,” the Board of Public Works and Safety will tackle the issue at its Tuesday meeting. During the 4:30 p.m. public meeting at City Hall, the three Board of Works members -- Mayor Gerald Warren, City Attorney Jerald Calbert and Councilman-at-large Bobby Albright - will ponder a cable TV proposal. It was at the September City Council meeting that the Council was told the Board of Works would review a contract

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extension proposal from Horizon Telecommunications and make a recommendation to the Council. THAT RECOMMENDATION could come during the new business portion of the City Council’s agenda for its 7:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting. Listed under new business is a report from the Board of Works. However, the City Clerk Janice Inman Mayor Warren does not anticipate making a decision on the matter during Tuesday night’s Council meeting. The city’s 20-year contract with Horizon will expire on Nov. 11. The Council has been debating for almost two years

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“All along we thought it would be one of the guys from California,” Hollar said. “But at the last tryout they brought this kid in from Indianapolis that we hadn’t seen before. From the way they acted, he’s the one.” While Hollar has that fresh, Hoosier look the movie moguls were seeking, his 1985 hairstyle will be a thing of the past once production starts. “I have to get my hair cut,” he sighed “It’s either a flat top ora butch.” BY SECOND SEMESTER, HE hopes, it will be grown out again. Meanwhile, Hollar admits leaving DePauw for seven weeks won’t be as easy as it might sound. While Hollywood is beckoning on the outside, his heart is tugging back on the inside. “It’s funny, but I’m kind of depressed that I’ll be missing the basketball season,” said Hollar, who hoped to be a part of the Tigers’ 1985-86 cage fortunes. “When you're into basketball like I’ve been since the fourth grade, that’s tough to do ” One of the Hoosiers Hollar might run into when the cameras start rolling is Bloomington dentist Mike King, a 1979 DePauw graduate. King, now 28 and 27 when he tried out for a player’s role, is still in the running for a part as an assistant coach or referee. IF HE MAKES IT, OF course, it will mean a few weeks away from bicuspids and dental floss. “I’ll have to consider the financial obligations involved,” King told the Banner-Graphic. “But I’m still young and single.. I can take a couple of weeks off. Why not? ” King had the crew from Ken Carlson Co. fooled for a while at the tryouts. But after they took his picture, they realized the former Owen Valley High School starter was more than a teen-ager. “I lied about my age,” he admitted, noting that the casting people liked his Hoosier look but knew he had to be older. “They said, ‘What would you think about being a referee or an assistant coach?” WHILE HE AWAITS FINAL word on such a role, the dentist says he isn’t holding his breath. He did, however, bite his tongue during the tryouts. “While I was waiting to read the script, there were three of four DePauw kids there,” King said. “I heard one of them say something about eating burritos at Marvin’s. “I wanted to say something so bad, bit I had to bite my tongue or I’d have given myself away. But heck, I spent half my college career there at Marvin’s.” And for Hollywood, that’s probably as good a qualification as any.

whether or not to renew the contract or seek another carrier. And just last month. Fourth Ward councilman Bob Sedlack went on record as opposing any renewal with Horizon, based on its past performance of service with Greencastle. “CABLE TV IS A complicated issue,” Councilman Larry Taylor said at that meeting, “but I don’t think it’s as complicated an issue as we’ve made it out to be.” Since it appears no formal decision will be made Tuesday night by the Council - whether or not a Board of Works recommendation is made - the decision could come on the very day the contract ends.

Greencastle area residents are being asked to help out in the aftermath of the earthquake in Mexico City by contributing to the DePauw University Mexican Relief Fund. “We’re glad to have whatever contributions we can get,” said Ann Rambo, who along with the newlv formed Spanish Club at DePauw organized

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Area residents asked to help earthquake victims

Putnam, Parke sued for $1.7 million in 'B3 fatal

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic Area News Editor A $1.7 million civil lawsuit has been filed in Putnam Circuit Court on behalf of a Clay County teen-ager, who sustained “disabling” injuries following a Sept. 30, 1983 Parke-Putnam County accident that claimed the lives of two other passengers in the vehicle. Donna Goodhart, Brazil, names the defendants in the lawsuit as Putnam County Commissioners Don Walton, John Carson and Gene Beck, along with the commissioners of Parke County. THE SUIT MAINTAINS if the PutnamParke County Line Road - where the accident occurred - had been properly maintained, designed and marked, the chance of a mishap would have been nonexistent. According to records in the Putnam County Clerk’s Office, Goodhart, who was 15 when the accident occurred, was a passenger in a 1969 Chevrolet auto being driven by David L. Reed, then 16, Route 16, Brazil. The auto driven by Reed was northbound on the Putnam-Parke County Line Road, when the accident occurred approximately 200 feet north of the in-

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Stacy W. Hedges, St. Charles, Mo., was named homecoming queen at DePauw University Saturday. The DPU senior, who represented Delta Gamma sorority,

The Council’s November regular meeting is also Nov. 11. “That would be right down to it,” Mrs. Inman said, “unless they would decide to hold a special meeting.” BESIDES CABLE TV, the Board of Works will discuss several other topics Tuesday afternoon, including: - A Fire Department volunteer reserve ordinance. - Coordination of procurement practices. - An emergency generator to serve central dispatch. - Emergency criteria. Col. 4, back page, this section

the fund drive. Rambo is an instructor in the Romance Languages Department. Contributions, which are tax deductible, can be sent to Ann Rambo at Room L 33, East College, DePauw University, Greencastle. The money will then be forwarded to the American Red Cross.

tersection with West Walnut Street. Due to the “negligent acts” of the Putnam and Parke County commissioners, the suit says, the road was “designed and maintained as to be hazardous to people traversing upon said roadway.” SPECIFIC POINTS IN the lawsuit point out the Putnam and Parke County commissioners: - Failed to give warning of the hazardous and dangerous conditions of the road. - Had a stop sign there, but let it be removed. And, even after the accident, did not place a new stop sign or warning sign at the location. -- Failed to properly enact their duties of properly designing, constructing and providing a warning on the road as to its condition. AS A RESULT OF THE accident, Goodhart “sustained severe and permanent injuries, required hospitalization, incurred pain and suffering and has been disabled as a result of her injuries,” the the suit says In addition, she will require continued medical expenses in the future due to her injuries, according to the lawsuit. Goodhart’s attorney, William G. Brown,

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Brazil, has filed for damages of $1.7 million. The amount is to also compensate Goodhart’s parents, Robert and Edith Goodhart, for the loss of their daughter’s services, the suit says. In specifically detailing the alleged problem connected with the PutnamParke County Line Road’s design, the suit notes that immediately south of the County Road 75 and West Walnut Street intersection, the road is covered with an asphalt surface. HOWEVER, THE SUIT continues, immediately after crossing the County Line Road and West Walnut Street intersection, the County Line Road “precipitously narrows into a gravel road.” The narrow gravel road north of the intersection has an approximately 45-degree grade, according to legal documents. Therefore, the road was “so maintained and designed that it is hazardous and requires the reasonable and ordinary care that a warning sign, or stop signs, should have been placed south of the interse _tion.” As Reed’s Chevrolet traveled the roadway, the car became airborne. That Col. 4, back page, this section IMA AC P's Freedom Fund dinner Saturday On Saturday, Oct. 12, the Greencastle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will host its 21st annual Freedom Fund Dinner THE DINNER WILL BE held in the ballroom of the DePauw University Student Union Building at 6 p.m. with Carl E. Radford Jr. as the guest speaker. Radford, 34, is a native of Indianapolis. He and his wife, Portia Elaine Radford, are the parents of three sons: Carl E. 111, 10, Christopher, A., 6, and Cameron A., 3. He attended Indianapolis public schools and was graduated from Broad Ripple High School in 1969. In 1973 he was graduated from Ball State University, having majored in business administration and political science. At present, he is employed as a computer specialist at the Naval Avionics Center. Radford is now serving his second term as president of the Greater Indianapolis NAACP Branch, is cubmaster of Cub Scout Pack 454, and is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. In 1984 he won the award for Outstanding Men in America and also in 1984 he was given an achievement award by the Civil Rights Indiana State Conference of NAACP Branches. The Prince Hail Grand Lodge, F and A.M. of Indiana presented him with the Freedom Award in 1985. HIS NAACP BRANCH recognitions, during his presidency, include the Kivie Kaplan Life Membership Award, Kansas Col. 4, back page, this section

Former astronaut Joseph P. Allen Jr., a veteran of two space shuttle flights, holds the prestigious Old Gold Goblet following its presentation Saturday during the DePauw University's Old Gold Day luncheon. A native of Crawfordsville who is now an executive with a Houston space industries firm, Allen is the son of former longtime Greeencastle residents J.P. and Harriet Allen. (DePauw News Bureau photo by Mary Rector).