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Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor The promotion of DAVID FEIL to vice president and manager of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Co. loan department has been announced by ROBERT L. MILLER, chairman and president of the bank. Feil joined First Citizens Bank in 1983. He is a graduate of Quincy (111.) College and has taken various American Institute of Banking courses. He is a member of the American Cancer Society board, American Legion, Greencastle 2001 Data Base Committee, Greencastle Economic Development Commission and an associate member of the Putnam County Board of Realtors. Feil, his wife Sharon and children Amy and Brian reside at 615 E. Walnut St., Greencastle. As announced in Friday’s BannerGraphic, Greencastle Decorating, 1002 Indianapolis Rd., has new owners. Greencastle couples JIM and DEANNA SUE GRIMES and GARY and BRENDA PERSHING has purchased the business from PETER STUART. A lifetime resident of Greencastle, Grimes has been employed at Greencastle Decorating the past 13 years. A 1961 Greencastle High School graduate, he served in the U.S. Navy submarine service and was a member of the Greencastle Police Department for eight years, including three as a detective. He serves as Cubmaster of Greencastle Pack 99. Grimes and his wife are the parents of two boys, Brad, 10, and Michael 7. BRENDA PERSHING, a 1972 graduate of the University of Evansville, is a Greensburg native and an eight-year resident of Greencastle. Her husband, Gary, is the Pershing portion of Hudkins-Pershing Accountants Inc., Greencastle. They are the parents of a son, Brian, 13. Mrs. Pershing, who will work fulltime at Greencastle Decorating, will specialize in new interior design ideas. Grimes, meanwhile, will maintain his role as manager of the business. DEBORAH J. WOOD, Center Harbor, N.H., a 1971 Greencastle High School graduate, received her master’s degree in education with a concentration in public school administration and supervision May 17 from Plymouth State College of the University System of New Hampshire. Currently a teacher at Moultonborough Academy in Moultonborough, N.H., she is the daugher of O’Dell and Dorothy Wood, 126 Martinsville St., Greencastle. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Anderson College in 1975. Several Putnam County students were graduated from Ivy Tech during 1986 commencement ceremonies May 15. They included: -KATHY ANN WINSLOW, Greencastle, associate degree, accounting technology. -MIKE D. WALLACE, Reelsville, associate degree, architectural drafting technology. -Banner-Graphic employee LINDA PEARL FREEMAN, Spencer; HERBERT E. HOFFMAN, Reelsville; NANCY ELLEN PERRY, Coatesville, and DEBORAH STEELE, Greencastle, associate

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Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of widely scattered thundershowers Saturday night and Sunday. Low 62, high on Sunday 82. Extended Forecast Scattered thundershowers

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degrees in computer programming technology. -JAMES L. FROST, RICHARD WARREN MISHLER and JERRY L. VOEGE, all of Greencastle, associate degrees in digital computer repair. -SAM BALLOU, JOHN P. ELMORE and MONTY J. RECORDS, all of Greencastle, associate degrees in electronics-communications technology. -RANDY ALLAN COX, Coatesville, and CHRISTOPHER R. PORTER, Greencastle, associate degrees in electronics-industrial technology. -DEBRA MAY PITTS, Greencastle, associate degree in marketing technology. -ROBERT L. CUMMINGS, Greencastle, associate degree in printing technology. -BRYAN S. STEELE, Greencastle, technical certificate in heating, air conditioning and refrigeration. -REBECCA MILLS, Poland, technical certificate, medical assistant. -GARY R. GOODMAN, Greencastle, technical certificate, photography. -DANA BASTIN, TAMARA ANN PORTER and MICHELE ELAINE RICHARDSON, all of Greencastle, and CAROL MYERS, SANDRA HAWKINS and KIMBERLY TANNER, all of Cloverdale, technical certificate in practical nursing. -SHARLA L. NEES, Poland, technical certificate in secretarialadministrative. SUSAN WILSON, Roachdale, a student at Ball State University, was recently initiated into Kappa Delta Pi, which was founded in 1911 at the University of Illinois, encourages excellence in scholarship, improvements in teacher preparation, distinction in achievement and contributions to education. Miss Wilson, a senior majoring in music education, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, Route 1. She is a 1982 graduate of North Putnam High School. MICHAEL CATANESE of Greencastle was named to the Dean’s List at Carleton College. The top ten per cent of the student body was recognized at the annual Honors Day Convocation on Friday, May 23. Catanese, a freshman at Carleton, is the son of Profs. Anthony and Margaret Catanese of Hillsdale Avenue, Greencastle. Army National Guard Private JAMES L. McQUEEN, son of John W. and Marti Pipes of Route 1, Bainbridge, Ind., has completed the basic field artillery cannoneer course at Fort Sill, Okla. During the course, McQueen was taught the duties of a howitzer or gun section crewman. They also received instruction in communications, maintenance and the handling of ammunition and explosives. He is a 1981 graduate of North Putnam High School. Spec. 4 DENNIS L. DEATON, son of Thomas and Flora Deaton, Route 1, Roachdale, has completed a U.S. Army basic non-commissioned officer course at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Soldiers developed mid-level management skills to be used in supervising and training small groups of soldiers in combat specialties. Deaton is a squad leader with the 21st Infantry.

throughout the state Monday and Tuesday and in the south Wednesday. Otherwise partly cloudy. Cooler in the north Monday. Highs, 75-85. Lows, 5565.

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This drawing by The Inter Design Group of Indianapolis shows the layout of the coordinated campuses for the new Greencastle Middle School and Greencastle High School. Excavation work to prepare the site is expected to begin next week

First phase of sll million project

Schools site work set to start

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher Construction is expected to begin next week on the campus portion of an sll million project that will yield a new Greencastle Middle School and an extensively remodeled Greencastle High School. Force Construction Co. of Columbus, Ind., already has equipment on the high school property in preparation for moving the first dirt under a $403,900 excavation contract approved earlier this month by the school board. The site work, which will significantly alter the present campus layout, will be completed in about 60 days. "WE HOPE TO GET STARTED the first of the week if all of the remaining paperwork comes together,” Supt. James Peck said, explaining that excavation will begin near the future location of the new middle school along Zinc Mill Road just north of the old Conrail Railroad right-of-way. During June and July, Force Construction will

Second lawsuit filed in 'B4l-70 accident

A second lawsuit has been filed in Putnam Circuit Court as the result of a fatal 1984 traffic accident on Interstate 70 in Putnam County. Roy and Nina Thomas, Watson, 111., are plaintiffs in a complaint filed this week against Donald L. Saylor, Route 1, Greencastle; Donald Kiger, Greencastle, doing business as Kiger Trucking Co., and BlamM'rucking, Inc., Route 1, Switz City. ACCORDING TO the lawsuit and police reports at the time, the Thomases were passengers in a car eastbound on 1-70 in

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Coffee's 'kick' is bad news for insects

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Don’t pour that leftover coffee down the sink drain! Instead pour it over your tomato leaves and send a note of thanks to the brainy boys for their efforts on your behalf. This benefit to gardeners of the human race applies only to “real coffee” that comes to you with the caffeine included if you buy it that way and doesn’t apply to coffee with the “kick” removed. WHAT HAPPENED TO coffee in the laboratory was the discovery that caffeine has an adverse effect on insect life that might make it a valuable pesticide ingredient. This discovery gets to the base of things. Before insects become bugs, they must become larvae which, as I am told, is a scientific name for worms. The Harvard-based study proved that a high concentration of powdered coffee or * tea, or some related compound sprinkled

and continue through July. The 73,500-square-foot one-story middle school will serve students in grades six, seven and eight, replacing the 69-year-old building near downtown Greencastle that has served as a high school, junior high and now a

prepare the existing football field for conversion to a parking area and do the preliminary work necessary to relocate the football field and a hard-surface metric track in an east-west direction parallel to McAnally Center. Other campus changes will include the creation of new parking along Zinc Mill Road, construction of new tennis courts west of the high school and elimination of the bumpy back road that connected the existing parking lot with Gardenside Drive and Hammond Drive. Much of the summer work will involve altering the elevation of land south and west of McAnally for the football, baseball and practice fields. STEVE WRIGHT, who will be the on-site project manager throughout excavation and building construction, said the center of the new football field will be about three feet higher than the present ground level. Wright is an employee of The Inter Design Group, and Indianapolis architectural and engineering firm that has designed the school building and remodeling

Putnam County on Sept. 28,1984. The car in which they were riding was one of several stopped on the highway because of another accident, the complaint says, when it was struck from behind by a truck that had in turn been struck by another truck driven by Saylor. The complaint identifies Saylor as an employee of the Kiger and Bland firms at the time of the accident. All three defendants are charged in the suit with carelessness and negligence resulting in

on tomato leaves caused these larvae to curl up and die. Reducing the stuff down to near the human level, about 10 cups of coffee contains enough caffeine to give these crawling critters the jitters (coffee nerves) which keeps them from eating right and stunts their growth. THERE WILL COME A time, so the study predicted, when commercial pesticides will be no more or their labels will, by law, have to list the percentage of caffeine included Some of the tests have shown, that certain commercial pesticides developed a killer rate 10 times greater when caffeine was added to the mixture. A concentration of caffeine from tea leaves or coffee beans is said to have sent tobacco worm larvae to their final resting place. Apparently their insides could tolerate nicotine in its growing state, which says something about the potency of caffeine.

severe and permanent injuries to the plaintiffs. THE THOMASES were passengers in the car with another couple, William and Alice Smallen, Fredricktown, Mo. According to police reports, a semi driven by Saylor did not stop in time when approaching the line of stopped vehicles, skidded 500 feet and struck a stopped semi driven by Robert Gordon, Indianapolis. The impact of tlie collision forced Gordon’s truck onto the top of the

WHITE FLOUR BEETLES AT first seemed to take caffeine into their systems with no side effects, but after continued applications, the stuff acted as a birth control, which served the same purpose. Now that caffeine has given coffee a bad name, you might be interested to know just what it does to a worm’s innards. For this I quote directly from my information article. It reads: “The caffeine and related chemicals apparently work by inhibiting an enzyme responsible for disposing of hormones used in communications between the insect’s nerve cells. The hormones accumulate in the insect’s nervous system, disrupting behaviour and eventually causing death.” DON’T WORRY. I CAN’T understand it either. But anyway you slice it, it would seem that caffeine still has a long way to go before your family doctor will give it his blessings.

middle school. Renovation at the school will include about 20,000 square feet of new construction, as indicated by the diagonal lines. Total estimated cost of the building and remodeling work is just over sll million.

projects and will supervise their construction under terms of an 1859,000 contract with the school corporation. As the site work prepares to get under way, Inter Design also is in the final stages of completing blueprints for actual construction of the 73,500-square-foot middle school (for grades six, seven and eight ) and the high school renovation project. Those blueprints, which are due to be submitted to the school hoard about June 18, will be used to solicit bids from building contractors. So far, approximately $2.5 million has been appropriated toward the estimated sll.l million total project. That figure includes an Indiana Common School Fund loan of $1,065,000, which the school corporation will repay at a 7 percent interest rate, and about $1.5 million from the corporation’s own cumulative building fund. THE REMAINDER OF THE MONEY needed to Col. 2, back page, this section

Smallen car, police said, crushing the roof and pinning its four passengers inside. Mrs. Smallen was killed and her husband was injured. In January, Smallen filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Saylor and the two trucking companies. The Thomases’ complaint, filed by Greencastle attorney David Wilson, does not seek a specified damage award but demamds “judgment in an amount commensurate with the evidence.” The lawsuit also asks for a trial by jury.

The next time your dbctor reads the rioi act and warns you to drink decaffeinated coffee or else, you might suggest in defen se that those who drink their brew straight shouldn’t have worms. As I understand it, this study on caffeine as an insecticide was started a few years ago when the price of coffee and the price of gold were farther apart than they now are. At the present shelf price of coffee, it wouldn’t be financially feasible to add a dash of caffeine to commercial fertilizer which already costs an arm and a leg. MY GRANDMA NEVER heard of caffeine but she was careful not to spill any coffee when she filled grandpa’s cup for fear it would raise the paint on her dining room table. This is probably the reason she boiled and reboiled it in an enameled gallonsized coffee pot. Mere aluminum wouldn’t have been strong enough to contain it.