Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 118, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1986 — Page 1
Candidate filings for county election begin Feb. 5
By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher Add to death and taxes one more certainty of life: an election in every evennumbered year. A dozen major Putnam County offices will be on the 1986 ballot for the May 6 Democratic and Republican primaries and the Nov. 4 general election. THE FILING PERIOD FOR declarations of candidacy will begin Feb. 5 and extend until noon on March 7 in the county clerk’s office. Three state offices-secretary of state, treasurer and auditor-will be on the 1986 bailot, as will the U.S. Senate seat now
Harlan to leave highway post as state subdistrict superintendent
By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic Area News Editor After approximately 13 years with the Indiana State Department of Highways, John Harlan, Greencastle, will be leaving his duties as subdistrict superintendent, a position he has held for the past nine years. Harlan began his association with the Indiana State Highway in January 1973, serving as the administrative assistant to the district engineer at Crawfordsville. LATER, HE WORKED FOR some 2M> years as the license branch supervisor of the Seventh District License Branch. It was in 1976 that he came to Putnam County and Greencastle, serving as the subdistrict superintendent. Harlan’s responsibilities included staffing supervision and operations of state highway matters in seven counties. “It includes all of Putnam County,” he noted Thursday morning, “in addition to about 80 per cent of Hendricks County and smaller parts of Morgan, Owen, Clay, Parke and Marion counties.” As with anyone in that position, Harlan’s main goal has been to see roads are maintained properly. “That is always the first
Rocking in the new year in a Putnam County Hospital rocker are the first baby of 1986, Michael Lee Wells, and his parents, Doit and Brenda Wells, 91 Frazier St., Greencastle. The new arrival weighed in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce and was 21 % inches long at birth. Michael Lee arrived at 4:25 a.m. New Year's Day. His birth will entitle his parents to several gifts from Putnam County merchants and the BannerGraphic. (Banner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier).
Rain 50-50 proposition
A 50 per cent chance of light rain with snow flurries possible by morning. Low in the low 30s overnight after a daytime high in the mid 40s. Mostly cloudy on Friday with a few snow flurries and temperatures falling into the upper 20s. Indiana Extended Forecast Mostly sunny days and clear nights Saturday and Sunday. Partly cloudy on Monday. Highs mostly in the 30s and lows from the teens to mid 20s.
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held by Republican Dan Quayle. The Seventh District Congressional seat, which encompasses Putnam and 13 other west central Indiana counties, will be at stake again. Since 1967, the congressional post has been held by Republican John Myers. Two state legislative offices will be on the county ballot. One is the 38th District state senate seat currently held by Republican William Dunbar of Terre Haute, which includes Greencastle, Clinton, Russell, Monroe, Madison and Warren townships. The other is the District 44 state representative post held by Republican John Thomas of Brazil, which involves the entire county.
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JUDGE OF THE PUTNAM Circuit Court will be on the ballot this year, as incumbent Republican William C. Vaughn 111 enters the final year of the six-year term to which he was elected in 1980. Eleven other major county offices, all involving four-year terms, will be at stake too. Prosecuting Attorney Del Brewer, a Democrat already has announced he will not be a candidate for a third term in 1986. One other personnel change also is assured: County Clerk Sharon Hammond, a Republican now in the final year of her second term, is prevented by state statute from seeking a third consecutive term.
public in mind, “not just with the roads, but budgetwise as well. We always try to keep the concerns of the taxpayers in mind and to help them.” That effort was probably never more evident than with two very critical times in Harlan’s career where public safety was uppermost in his and his staff’s mind. One situation was the blizzard of 1978. “That has to be the No. 1,” Harlan said. “But my workers responded very well to that. In fact, everyone in the community responded very well. “I think people sometimes don’t understand just what my workers go through,” Harlan noted. “Many of the men couldn’t even get home for three or four days during the blizzard.” BUT WHAT HELPED HARLAN and his state workers most of all during that time and others was the total cooperation the department received from the Greencastle Street Department and the Putnam County Highway Department. “We have always had very good cooperation with them,” Harlan said of the two agencies. Col. l, back page, this section
New state laws affect banks, public records
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-The new year will ring in a new era of interstate banking for Indiana and its neighbors. Among more than two dozen new laws with a Jan. 1 effective date is one which wiU-give out-of-sate banks access to the Indiana market provided Hoosier banks have access to theirs. Other new laws will impose an excise tax on short-term car rentals and will require courts to hold public hearings before case records can be sealed. THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE in its 1985 session enacted a major revision of the state’s banking laws to permit cross-
OTHER COUNTY OFFICES UP for election this year and their incumbents, are: -Sheriff, Gerry Hoffa, Democrat. -Recorder, Rose Buis, Democrat. -Assessor, Charlotte Gould, Democrat. -Surveyor, Alan Stanley, Republican. -Commissioner, 2nd District, John Carson, Republican. -County Council, Ist District, Gene Clodfelter, Democrat. (Clinton, Russell, Franklin and Jackson townships.) -County Council, 2nd District, Max Nichols, Democrat. (Monroe, Marion, Floyd and Jefferson townships.) -County Council, 3rd District, Richard
Filling portable air tanks is much easier at a fire scene now that Greencastle firemen have constructed a portable air cart from discarded pieces of equipment. Demonstrating the process are (from left) former fireman Bob Lady, Capt. Pete Patterson and fireman
Air supply . City firemen breathe new life into recycled junk
By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor In recent weeks, a $400,000 fund drive and an aerial ladder truck have been hot topics as the community rallies behind an effort to increase Greencastle and Putnam County fire safety. Pledges and contributions have pushed the ambitious total past the halfway mark in the aftermath of the tragic Sept. 24 fire that filled Beth Anne Brewer and destroyed all but the facade of the old opera house. The fundraisers’ hard work and perserverance are paying off. Persistence and hard work, meanwhile, are paying off in other ways at the Greencastle Fire Department. IT DIDN’T TAKE A SIOO,OOO contribution from DePauw University or a $50,000 pledge from IBM to bring the city’s newest piece of firefighting equipment to life. A little ingenuity and an estimated $1,300 in wisely-spent funds have transformed a pile of discarded junk into the equivalent of a $60,000 mobile air cart. Greencastle Fire Chief Bob Elmore likes to call it a “recycled hodgepodge. ” “There’s a little bit of everything in that trailer,” Elmore told the Banner-Graphic recently. “A lot of sweat...a lot of swearing. It looked like ‘Elmore’s Folly’ for a long time there, I’ll tell you. It looked like the Wreck of the Hesperus.” But Elmore’s plans didn’t go down with the ship. Instead, the air cart has been an active piece of equipment in the past few months, supplying oxygen to firefighters not only in Greencastle, but around the county. THE ROOTS OF THE AIR CART and its phoenix-like ascension from the ashes of the 1982 Montgomery Ward fire tell the story. The trailer was discarded by the Greencastle Sewage Department when an attached rodding machine went kaput. Firemen-turned-mechanics dismantled the augering device and stripped the trailer to its frame. Some fittings came cheaply from government surplus. Steel for the flooring and
county banking, either by establishing branches or purchasing existing banks. Another provision, which was effective Wednesday, cleared the way for limited interstate banking with bank holding companies from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. The law imposes limits on acquisitions by the out-of-state banks. Initially an out-of-state bank can control no more than 10 per cent of Indiana’s bank deposits. That limit will rise to 12 per cent on July 1,1987. The state Department of Financial Institutions must approve any acquisition of an Indiana bank by an out-of-state bank.
Hassler, Republican. (Cloverdale, Madison, Warren and Washington.) -County Council, 4th District, Richard Asbell, Republican. (Greencastle Twp.) ALSO ON THIS YEAR’S ballot will be the offices of Greencastle Twp. Assessor, township trustees, township advisory board members and-in the primaryprecinct committeemen for both parties. Eight school board seats will be involved in the Nov. 4 general election, but the filing period for those positions will not begin until August. Three of the seven seats on the Cloverdale Community Schools Corp. board will be before voters in November. They are
Steve Campbell. The trailer used to make the cart once carried the Sewage Department rodding device, while the truck that tows the cart to fire scenes is the converted Putnam County Civil Defense truck. (BannerGraphic photo by Bob Frazier).
wiring were purchased, while the air tanks are rented. Leftover paint coated the equipment. And $950 of the $1,300 total came from liquidated funds when the Putnam County Fire Chiefs Association was disbanded (and reformed into the Putnam County Firefighters Association). Those funds were donated to the City of Greencastle for equipment purposes. Larry Shipman, scuba expert and volunteer fireman, donated his expertise, as well as the fill panel. And each city fireman put in labor on the project, Elmore said. COMPLETING THE RECYCLING EFFORT, the air cart is towed behind truck No. 5, which Elmore says is the old Putnam County Civil Defense truck that has been restored for the purpose. Yet this air cart project probably never would have gotten off the ground if it hadn’t been for the June 1982 Montgomery Ward fire. It was that pre-dawn blaze that sold local firefighters on the value of airpacks and a mobile fill unit. “It was that and the fact that in January of 1984, it was made mandatory that anyone going into a structure fire be equipped with an airpack,” Elmore explained. “We had to come up with something that would give us a greater air supply” Under the old method, the city’s air tanks had to be refilled at the station. And once the bottles at the firehouse were empty, they had to be unfastened from the wall, loaded on a truck and carted to Terre Haute for refilling. SHIPMAN HELPED THE FIRE department see a better way. It was his equipment at the scene of Montgomery Ward fire that literally helped Greencastle firemen breath easier. Shipman’s air compressor system, designed for scuba-diving tanks, served as a “mother bank,” Elmore said. “If it hadn’t been for Shipman and his portable compressor, we’d really have had some trouble,” the fire chief said, explaining how the refilled air tanks allowed firemen to Col. 1, back page, this section
The department can hold public hearings on the proposed acquisition and take testimony from shareholders in the acquiring bank and the target bank. IN DECIDING WHETHER to approve an acquisition, the department must consider such factors as the financial stability of the applicant bank, the interests of the depositors or creditors of the target bank and whether adequate services will be offered after the acquisition. Motorists who rent cars for less than 30 days will be hit with a 4 per cent excise tax. The money will be deposited in a state fund and distributed twice a year to county collected.
those now held by Daryl Branneman, Cloverdale Twp.; Kenneth Kahlenbeck, Jennings Twp., Owen County, and Lawrence Hughes, Taylor Twp., Owen County. In the North Putnam Community School Corp., the November school board election will include three of seven seats: Clinton Twp., now held by A 1 Gray; Floyd Twp., held by Mary Martin and the Jackson Twp. seat held by Joseph Crosby. TWO OF FIVE SEATS ON the South Putnam Community Schools Board will be on the November ballot. At stake will be the Jefferson Twp. seat now held by Sherman Hacker and the Warren Twp. seat occupied presently by Sandra Langston.
treasurers based on where the taxes were collected. A new provision in Indiana’s open records laws will require hearings before courts can seal a record not specifically declared confidential by state law. Notices of the hearings must be posted in the courthouse. The law specifies that parties to the case and members of the public must be allowed to testify and submit briefs at the hearing. A decision to seal a record must be supported by legal findings that the interest of 1 ( page, this section