Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 427, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 December 1985 — Page 5

People in the news Hemorrhage cause of actress' death NEW YORK (AP) Actress Anne Baxter, whose 45-year screen career included an Academy Award and the role of scheming ingenue Eve Harrington in “All About Eve,” died today, a lawyer for her family said. Miss Baxter, 62, collapsed with a cerebral hemorrhage Dec. 4 while walking along Madison Avenue She was admitted to the intensive care ward of Lenox Hill Hospital, where she died at 10:50 a.m., said attorney Henry A. Perles. She never regained consciousness. Most recently, Miss Baxter played the role of Victoria Cabot, a wealthy widowed hotel owner, in the television series “Hotel.” Miss Baxter joined the weekly show in 1983 when Bette Davis, who had starred as hotel owner Laura Trent, became ill. Miss Baxter, granddaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in Michigan City, Ind. She grew up in Bronxville and other suburbs of New York City, where she attended private schools. Miss Baxter made her Broadway debut at age 13 in “Seen But Not Heard,” and her feature film debut in 1940 in “Twenty Mule Team.” She went on to appear in such films as “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “The Pied Piper” and “Five Graves to Cairo” while under contract to 20th Century-Fox Studios. In 1946, Miss Baxter won an Oscar for best supportingnactress in “The Razor’s Edge.” She was nominated for an Academy Award again in 1950 for her role in “All About Eve,” in which Miss Davis played the aging star Margo Channing. Her other credits included the movies “The Ten Commandments” and “Cimmarron;” the television miniseries “East of Eden,” and an appearance on “The Love Boat.” • LOS ANGELES -- Dan Aykroyd describes his old friend and fellow veteran “Saturday Night Live” cast member Chevy Chase as “courageous” for hosting the revamped late-night comedy series recently. “I would be nervous,” Aykroyd says. “It’s tough to go back ...” Chase is quick to interrupt his buddy during an interview in Los Angeles. “I wanted to do it. I liked it,” he adds. Aykroyd counters, “Well, I’m going to wait a bit and see how they (the new cast members) do. I’d like to see them get a little stronger.” When actor Tom (“Splash”) Hanks takes to the “SNL” stage as the guest host at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, he is joined by a cast that Chase describes as having less energy and spontaneity than the original “Not Ready for Prime Time” players. While few of the new cast members have ever performed live on television, many of the newcomers are experienced movie actors, Chase notes. The original “SNL” crew wrote most of their own material. In fact, Chase was originally hired as a writer for “SNL” in 1975. Meanwhile Aykroyd is going to “watch and wait” before deciding about being a guest host on the revamped series. “Don’t get me wrong - I see nothing wrong with.doing television,” he adds. “That’s why I invented the Coneheads. I wanted to fill out the top of the screen with something.”

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procedures that should be in place. “NEW INFORMATION IS coming out almost daily,” Mrs. Boling told the board. “We’re working now on draft guidelines for our own corporation. Those guidelines will include basic facts about AIDS, as well as parental and school corporation responsibilities.” The policy guidelines, Mrs. Boling added, will detail procedures necessary on the part of corporation employees, including custodial and food service personnel, to protect everyone from contagious diseases, whether AIDS or others. Board members were given copies of the draft guidelines Wednesday night. Final action on the AIDS policy will be taken early next year. IN OTHER BUSINESS, the board: -Approved a request by the Assembly of God Church, 106 S. Spring St., to rent the middle school auditorium and three classrooms for use during specific hours on Sundays. The church’s heating system failed recently, Peck said. Assembly of

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everything will crest south of here, in Morgan County,” Strader told the BannerGraphic. “Big Walnut (Creek) was really backed up into the cornfields yesterday afternoon,” Strader added. Big Walnut indeed went over its banks near the Dunbar and Oakalla covered bridges and along West Columbia Street in Greencastle IN NEIGHBORING PARKE County, the high waters Wednesday closed numerous roads and threatened some of the area’s prized covered bridges. But as of Thursday morning, there were no reports of

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EL PASO, Texas (AP) The Zale Corp. jewelry chain has donated a dazzling gold-and-diamond bracelet to Miss USA Laura Martinez Herring after officials in her home county refused to pay the $6,C00 bill for it. The 3.1-karat bauble was lent to Miss Martinez Herring from Zales before the Miss USA pageant in May. After she won the national competition, Mayor Jonathan Rogers and County Judge Patrick O’Rourke gave it to her and said private contributions would pay for it. But when the bill landed before the El Paso County commissioners Monday, the board called it an “inappropriate expenditure of taxpayers’ money,” Commissioner Mary Haynes said. Zales ended the embarrassing dilemma on Wednesday. “We don’t want anyone to be uncomfortable with something we intended as a gift. What we want to do is simply withdraw our bill and donate the bracelet as a gift,” said Bill Harris, Zales senior vice president for advertising and sales promotion in Dallas. Miss Martinez Herring was out of the country and could not be reached for comment. # LOS ANGELES (AP) Frank Sinatra, the original bobbysox idol, big band balladeer, entertainer and “Chairman of the Board,” turned 70 today, seemingly at peace and still active on nightclub and concert stages. Sinatra, also known as “01' Blue Eyes” and “The Voice,” planned to spend the day quietly at his Palm Springs home except for one engagement: a groundbreaking with his wife, Barbara, at the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, a refuge for sexually abused children. Having once retired amid much fanfare at age 55, Sinatra shows no signs of quitting at 70 He has concerts scheduled in Oklahoma City on Jan. 23 and New Orleans two days later, will appear at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, Nev., in February and the Atlantic City, N.J., Golden Nugget in March. On March 16, he will play a benefit for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at the Radio City Music Hall in New York Sinatra has had little or no contact with the news media in recent years, but there is evidence his fast-living days are over. In her current book, “Frank Sinatra, My Father,” Nancy Sinatra reports that “he no longer smoked He said, ‘Smoking is stupid.’ Just stopped, cold turkey, one day After 40 years of Lucky Strikes. He did not often drink occasionally a vodka and soda or a Jack Daniels with water and ice, which I rarely saw him finish.”

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God currently is constructing a new church building along U S. 231 south of the city. -Heard Mrs. Boling report that staterequired competency testing in reading, math and composition will be extended to sixth-graders in February Third grades, which took the tests last school year, also will take them in February. The testing procedure will be explained to teachers and parents of third-and sixth-graders at a 3:45 p.m. workshop Jan. 21 at Northeast School. -Adopted a resolution of commendation for Mrs. Crystal Berry, who will retire Dec. 31 as corporation treasurer after 18 years of service. -APPROVED THE TRANSFER OF Mrs. Judy Wehrheim, middle school secretary, to the corporation’s central office, and the hiring of Patricia K Smith as the new middle school secretary. In a related action, Nancy Johnson, who already is employed in the central office, was designated corporation treasurer -Approved a request by Mrs. Florence

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damage to any of the spans. December has a good start on duplicating November’s third-wettest month status locally. In November, almost 11 inches of rain fell in Putnam County, according to official records. And just in case any further proof is needed of Indiana’s bizarre weather patterns, a Putnam County man had the evidence. Harold Storm, who resides eight miles east of Greencastle and southeast of Fillmore, admits few residents will probably believe his tale.

By Bil Keane

LAURA HERRING 1985 Miss USA

Harlan, a teacher at Jones School, that she be allowed to attend a Soviet-American Seminar on Comparative Education Feb. 23-March 3, 1986, in Moscow and Leningrad Mrs. Harlan, who will pay her own trip expenses, will use four personal leave days, two professional leave days and one unpaid day. -Authorized a change in the time of next year’s high school commencement exercises from 1:30 to2p.m. on Sunday, June 1. The additional half hour is intended to provide more time for churchgoers to have lunch and get to the graduation. -APPROVED PECK’S REQUEST that an additional telephone line be installed at each elementary school, agreeing with the superintendent’s concern about emergency situations in which the single lines might be tied up. Present for Wednesday’s meeting were board members Richard Delp, Bayard Allen, Patricia Hess, Clyde Spencer and Ed Meyer.

“I WOULDN’T BELIEVE IT myself if someone else were telling it to me,” Storm told the Banner-Graphic Wednesday afternoon. He recalled how two weeks ago he found three spring mushrooms in his backyard. He thought that rare, but was even more astounded to find two more on Wednesday. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “They’re regular four-inch-tall spring morels...but I found them on Dec 11th. I put them in a plastic bag and put ’em in the freezer,” he said. “I want to have the evidence.” Evidence enough to show it’s going to be a long and unusual winter.

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