Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 120, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 January 1986 — Page 1

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JAMIE HARRIS

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Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor SHADLA L. GROOMS and KAREN L. NAPOLI of Greencastle, both students at DePauw University, volunteered this semester for the university’s service programs for school children in the Putnam County area. Shadla is working in the Big Brother/Big Sister program, while Karen is involved in the Student Friend program. The Big Brother/Big Sister program provides children role models by offering the help of university students who visit their respective children at least once a week during the semester for either recreational activities or conversation. The Student Friend program is designed to help improve a child’s self-image and motivation by providing a support system in the form of a student-friend. The program works with the school systems throughout Putnam County. Both projects are operated by DePauw’s Community Services in cooperation with the Childhood Mental Health Committee of the Putnam County Mental Health Association. A sophomore at DePauw, Shadla is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grooms, Route 5, Box 145 and Karen, a freshman, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Napoli, 32 Edgelea Drive. DePauw’s Winter Term, held between spring ar, Isummer semesters, allows students' to broaden their education by providing experience in a business, profession or vocation of their choic. SANDY HORN, Fillmore, will be serving as an intern with the Department of Probation of the Putnam County Circuit Court during January as part of DePauw University’s Winter Term. Miss Horn will learn the basic steps involved in the basic steps involved in the juvenile justice process. Her duties will also include following up on probationers and typing court documents. Miss Horn is a senior at DePauw and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Piercy R. Horn, P.O. Box 114. SHELLEY HUNTER, Greencastle, will be working as an intern with the Women’s Sports Foundation this January as part of DePauw University’s Winter Term. Miss Hunter is a sophomore at DePauw and the daughter of Mrs. Marilynn B. Hunter of 612 Anderson St. , JAMIE HARRIS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Harris, 2041 Fairway Drive, Greencastle, is one of 52 Purdue University students who learned about the retail business firsthand as fall semester interns. She interned for L. Bamberger’s, a division of R.H. Macy & Co., Newark, N.J. Miss Harris and other Purdue seniors in the School of Consumer and Family Sciences earned wages and academic credit while they trained, rotating through various managerial positions. They gained such retail experiences as pricing, merchandise distribution, personnel and public relations.

White by dawn’s early light?

Light rain changing to snow flurries overnight, ending before dawn. Colder, with low 20-25. Northwesterly winds at 15-25 mph. Partly cloudy and cold on Sunday. High near 30. Indiana Extended Forecast Lows in the teens to the lower 20s Monday through Wednesday. Highs from the middle 20s to the middle 30s. Partly cloudy Monday. Chance of snow north and rain or snow south Tuesday and Wednesday.

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SHELLEY HUNTER

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Two are students are among 176 mid-year graduates at Vincennes University who received diplomas on Dec. 7. DAWN MARIE MANN, Cloverdale, earned her diploma in business management, while RANDY SCOTT FRANKLIN, Clayton, earned his in computer programming technology. Lt. Col. TERRY S. PEHAN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pehan, 700 E. Washington st., Greencastle, has been named 1985 Strategic Air Command Outstanding Missile Maintenance Personnel Award winner in the field grade manager capacity, SAC headquarters has announced. The colonel now becomes the SAC nominee for the Air Force level award. Col. Pehan has been chief of maintenance of the 394th ICBM Test Maintenance Squadron since June 12. The award is based on his achievements in that position and during his last assignment as commander of the 44th Organizational Missile Maintenance Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, S.D. Amaster missilier, Col. Pehan entered the Air Force in October 1967. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Central Michigan University and is a graduate of Squadron Officer School, the Air Command and Staff College and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. The citation commends Col. Pehan for “achievements that have resulted in greater productivity, more efficient and lasting management programs, a higher state of readiness for the Minuteman II weapon system and an improved standard of living for his people.” The citation adds: “He originated and implemented several programs which improved the technical capabilities of technicians, while simultaneously achieving superior alert rates.” LORA HALTOM, daughter of Charlotte Haltom, Spencer, will be a contestant in the Indiana Pork Industry Queen Contest Jan. 21-22. She is one of 32 contestants who will be competing for the honor of representing Indiana Pork Producers in pork promotions throughout the state in 1986. The Indiana Pork Industry Queen Contest, which is part of the Indiana Pork Conference is coordinated by Indiana Porkettes with Danita Rodibaugh, Rensselear, serving as chairman. The State Pork Industry Queen will receive a check for S3OO, a pigskin suede coat and will represent Indiana in the 1987 National Pork Queen Contest. KENNETH P. HUFFMAN, son of Nancy C. Huffman, Cloverdale, has been selected to enter the Navy for training, according to Navy recruiter ED BLAKE whose office is located in Greencastle. Huffman enlisted in the Navy’s Delayed Entry Program on Dec. 23, 1985 and will begin active duty Jan. 8,1986 with recruit training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Under the Navy’s DEP, individuals may delay reporting for active duty for up to one year to complete high school or take care of personal affairs.

Index Abby A 8 Classifieds A 7 Comics A 6 Crossword A 6 Horoscope A 7 Obituaries A 8 People A 6 Sports A4.A5 TTieaters A 8 Worry Clinic A 7

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TERRY PEHAN

Bellmore murder trial set to begin

From Staff, Wire Dispatches MARTINSVILLE-Jury selection is slated to begin Monday in the murder trial of an ex-Cloverdale man. It is the first of two murder trials scheduled this month in Morgan Circuit Court at Martinsville. According to a court spokesman, more than 100 prospective jurors have been summoned to appear before Judge James E. Harris in the trial of Larry Bellmore, 38, whose last address was listed as Indianapolis. He formerly operated a hamburger stand and video game parlor at Cloverdale. BELLMORE IS ACCUSED of the June 30 stabbing death of Donna L. Denney, 47, who was slain at her home south of Martinsville. Twice postponed, Bellmore’s trial date of Sept. 23 was delayed after defense counsel Ron Tedrow complained that authorities had been uncooperative in providing him with the evidence the state holds against Bellmore. A Nov. 12 trial date was subsequently postponed when Tedrow’s motion to dismiss the death penalty charge in the case. That was upheld by Judge Harris, although the death penalty request was later refiled by Morgan County Prosecutor JaneCraney. Morgan County authorities have charged Bellmore with murder, believing

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It was classic action at the Putnam County Classic Friday night as the four county high school teams took to the hardcourt at McAnally Center. Greencastle’s David Rushing (left photo) shoots over Cloverdale's Craig Whitaker for two of his 29 points in the Tiger Cubs' 70-63 win, while Brian Meek (right) goes up over North Putnam's Chris Lyons to score two for the South Putnam

Putnam Patter

Baking powder makes biscuit cooks wary

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor If your Putnam County greatgrandfather had been a steady reader of the 1888 Greencastle Banner, he might have been more than a little suspicious of great-grandma’s breakfast biscuits. Not that there was any real reason to mistrust her cooking intent, but she was a victim of circumstances and part of this was the fault of her husband. PROBABLY TO SAVE a few hardearned pennies, he had brought home an off-brand of baking powder and what he had been reading later made him wonder about the honesty of people in general. His cause for alarm came from newspaper articles warning that a certaing brand of shysters had been putting stuff in their baking powder that would slowly but surely poison the unsuspecting biscuit eaters. Cream of Tarter, the ingredient which is supposed to make biscuits rise instead of staying flat like hoe cakes was the stan-

Jury to be sequestered at hospital

Taking a page from last fall’s William Minnick retrial, Morgan Circuit Judge James E. Harris will use Morgan County Hospital to sequest the jury that will hear the Larry W. Bellmore case. Last September, a Lawrence County jury hearing the Minnick retrial case was lodged in a medical clinic that is used as a support building by Bedford Community Hospital. That case, in which the jury again convicted Minnick of the 1981 slaying of Greencastle housewife Martha Payne, established the sequestering precedent, Judge Harris said. He explained the reason for using Morgan County Hospital at Martinsville is its availability. Harris said, “Many

he stabbed Mrs. Denney 11 times in the chest with a double-edge knife in what police theorize was a bungled plot involving two other former Cloverdale men. AUTHORITIES SAY THE plot was the brainchild of David B. Young, 44, the victim’s former fiance. He and his son, David Wesley (Wes) Young, 19, entered into plea-

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Eagles. Lyons had 22 to lead North, while Meek keyed South's comeback victory with 25. The tourney was scheduled to kick off the season last month, but was postponed because of South's participation in the football playoffs. Full details on the County Classic are on Page A 4. (Banner-Graphic photos by Jeff Siner).

dard adopted by baking powder purists. THE PROBLEM AROSE when the un scrupulous had been slipping in such cheaper compounds like alum and lime as a cost cutter. Alum was selling for three cents a pound while lime was a little cheaper but it added weight to the finished product. So to scare biscuit eaters into buying only pure cream of tarter baking powder, aroused newspaper guardians of the public health launched a crusade for purety, claiming that certain corrosive poisonous compounds in baking powder were “so detrimental to health that no housekeeper will admit them to her kitchen knowingly.” Under a headline reading: “Gift of poison,” the newspaper took certain merchants to task for using advertising gimmicks to swindle honest people into buying baking powders which had been adulterated and therefore dangerous to health. THESE ADULTERANTS, SO read the

hospitals now have space that is not being used for patients.” The practical decision was to take advantage of the bed space and the comparative lower costs, he said. Already, county officials have been asked to appropriate about $50,000 to cover costs of the trial, expected to last two weeks, Harris said. Much of the expense will be the legal and administrative costg, not living expenses for the jurors. The hospital will charge $35 a day for double occupancy rooms they will offer in one wing of the building. Chain motels in nearby Bloomington charge about $45 for double occupancy. While Martinsville’s independent motels cost as

bargain agreements with the prosecutor’s office and were scheduled to testify against Bellmore. The elder Young, however, committed suicide in October after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit serious bodily injury. Bellmore and the younger Young were allegedly to receive SSOO each to rough up

public warning, are responsible for the bitter taste of biscuits and contribute to indigestion, dyspepsia and other ailments. And more than that, the dough lacks the levening power and biscuits fail to rise like they should. The baking powder battle was spreading in from the east. An Ohio State Dairy and Food Committee tasted 30 brands of baking powder and found 20 of them to contain alum, “a substance declared by the highest medical authorities to be injurious to health when used in food,” so read their claim. Further from the east came news from New York that the state had enacted a Food Adulterant Act to protect the public, whether baking powder was bought from bulk or by the can. A couple of manufacturers accused of adulterating their product argued that alum was exempt from the law since of itself it wasn’t human food. The judge ruled that indeed it did become food when put into biscuit dough.

little as $23, it is harder to monitor the jurors because of the motels’ layouts. Breakfast will be continental-style before the jurors are led across town to the courtroom. Other meals will be provided at restaurants, the judge said, adding that jurors may watch television or bring videocassette recorders for their rooms. Cost isn’t the only reason that the hospital will be the jury’s home. Harris said other sequestered juries in Morgan County had stayed in motels in Bloomington, about 15 miles away. He said the distance created transportation and scheduling problems during trials.

Mrs. Denney’s son, whom Young blamed for the couple’s break-up. Young then believed he could console the woman and reconcile their relationship, authorities say. In admitting his part in the incident, the 19-year-old Young, a former Cloverdale Col. 3, back page, this section

Huffman hypocrite on ancient oath The Hippocratic Oath - that august document now nearly 2,500 years old - may not have been so popularly followed among ancient physicians, says a DePauw University professor who will teach a course this winter entitled “The Spirit of Ancient Greek Medicine.” Although scholars aren’t sure how extensively the oath was used in ancient medicine, “It probably wasn’t adhered to by a lot of doctors then,” but instead may have been guidelines established by a small group trying to upgrade medical ethics and practices, says Carl Huffman, assistant professor of Classical Studies at DePauw. “THE DOCTOR IN the ancient world was not on the kind of pedestal they are today. Their ‘cure rate’ wasn’t very good and if you got sick there wasn’t much they could do. The dividing line between a quack and a doctor was a fine one,” Huffman said. “Medicine was making the transition from magic,” he said. Huffman’s course, part of the Winter Term at DePauw during January, will feature the Hippocratic Oath, as well as other ancient Greek writings on medicine, and compare the ideal with the reality of Greek medicine. MUCH OF THE OATH outlines generally how a physician should conduct himself, rather than specific rules of practice, Huffman said. For instance, it prohibits doctors from intentionally harming a patient, abusing confidentialities of a doctor/patient relationship or taking adCol. I, back page, this section

THE BANNER CRUSADE against adulterated baking powder had its more hopeful side. Not all manufacturers were crooks. Some had the public welfare in mind and their product was above reproach. Baking Powders bearing the brand names of Royal and Dr. Price were guaranteed to be free of any harmful substances. Just maybe they were given a clean bill of health since their makers were among the paper’s major advertisers. All shady operators got their advertising free and under major headlines and on the front page of the paper at that. ALL THIS FUSS ABOUT impurities in baking powder probably has little interest today. Considering the time and trouble it takes to make baking powder biscuits from scratch, those who would try it would have to rise up earlier than usual or be late to work with an excuse the boss would take with a grain of salt.