Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 276, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 July 1987 — Page 1
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Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Editor Western State University College of Law in Fullerton has awarded a Juris Doctor degree to REX EDWIN BAKER. Baker has also passed the Indiana State Bar examination. Baker, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Verne Baker, Greencastle, was one of 294 graduates at the May 25 commencement exercises, which were the first ever held in the Orange County Performing Arts Center. The featured speaker was David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, vice chancellor of Cambridge University in England. With campuses in San Diego and Orange County, Western State University is one of California’s largest law schools. ROBERT P. SEDLACK JR., 533 Anderson St., Greencastle, is on the dean’s list at the University of Notre Dame for superior scholarship during the spring semester. The son of Robert and Ellen Sedlack, he is a 1975 graduate of Greencastle High School and is majoring in art at Notre Dame. The dean’s list comprises a select group of students who have maintained an average of 3.4 or better. JANAE BERRY, a graphic designer with her studio in Greencastle, recently received an award of excellence from the Arts Directors Club of Indiana for her business logo and letterhead design. She also received a national honor award for her letterhead design from Neenah Paper Co. Greencastle Chamber of Commerce executive secretary SANDI ULREY recently attended a week’s Institute for Organization Management at the University of Colorado. More than 300 voluntary organization executives from across the country participated in the professional development program. Greencastle Kiwanis Club President TIMOTHY CONWAY attended the 72nd annual convention of Kiwanis International July 5-9 at Washington, D.C. Other club representatives on hand were LARRY BOUSLOG, lieutenant governor of the Collegiate Division of Kiwanis. More than 15,000 Kiwanians and guests participated. Convention speakers included President
Seek shade Slight chance of evening thunderstorms developing. Otherwise, partly cloudy and continued warm. Overnight low around 70. Continued hot Sunday with mostly sunny skies and high in the low 90s. Chance of rain Saturday and Sunday, 20 percent. Indiana Extended Forecast Monday through Wednesday: Chance of thunderstorms Monday, then fair Tuesday and Wednesday. A little cooler in the north but. continued hot in the south. Highs from the mid 80s north to the low 90s south. Lows in the upper 60s to low 70s Monday, from 60 to 65 north to near 70 south Tuesday and Wednesday. Abby A 4 Classifieds A 6, A 7 Comics A 4 Editorials A 3 Horoscope A 7 Obituaries A 8 People A 4 Sports A5.A6 Theaters A 8
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Reagan, Sen. Richard Lugar, Barbara Bush and Dr. Otis Bowen. JOHN CAVANAUGH, Greencastle, recently received a diploma from the piano technology program of the North Bennet Street School in Boston. Following graduation, Cavanaugh will be employed by M. Steinert & Sons Co., Boston, a Steinway dealer. For three years nearly everyday, MARIA BASSETT came to the Head Start classroom to share her love and knowledge with the Head Start preschoolers. In the past two years alone, she volunteered nearly 2,000 hours of her time to help care for children, a career she hopes to pursue. We all have trials we have to overcome in life and Maria’s is cerebral palsy, out sne does so with courage and faith. This attitude was an excellent example for those Head Start children she touched while volunteering in Head Start. She’s had to move on with her family. Her father works for IBM. After extensive training in travel and tourism CYNTHIA A. PARKER of Greencastle is a successful graduate of Southeastern Academy, located in Kissimmee, Fla. To complete the program of study, Cynthia met the requirements for specialized occupational training plus work in business professionalism and career development. She is now qualified and ready to begin her career in the travel and tourism industry. PAUL L. WALTERS, 615 E. Washington St., Greencastle, is one of approximately 170 recipients of a new SIO,OOO University of Evansville United Methodist Scholarship to be awarded in 2,500 increments over four years. The scholarships have been awarded to graduating high school seniors throughout Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan and Tennessee, who will be attending the University of Evansville in the fall of 1987. Walters is a graduate of Greencastle High School where he was active in marching band, concert band, jazz band, journalism quill and scroll and was the announcer at Greencastle High School’s Girls’ basketball games and wrestling meets.
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By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor If you are bothered with the summer sniffles, an affliction most folks call a “nose-cold” in the winter time, perhaps it would be worth trying one of the folk cures endorsed by your ancestors. So, if the stuff you’ve been using on doctor’s advice hasn’t brought you back to the bloom of health, why not kick the traditional and begin using skunk oil? COST-WISE YOU would surely be ahead, for the cure is purely nonprescription. At this point don’t belittle what helped grandpa and grandma through their seasonal distresses way back when they may have thought “antibiotics” was a new kind of swear word their kids brought home from school. Skunk oil headquarters in most places was located near where there were fur buyers who were more interested in the animal’s hide than its inner parts. The oil was a byproduct which helped when pelt prices were
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In slaying of ex-Reelsville couple
Boruschewitz gets life term
By JOE THOMAS Banner-Graphic Assistant Editor LaWanda Boruschewitz, 39, Friday agreed to spend the rest of her life in an Illinois prison by pleading guilty but mentally ill in the Boone County, 111., shooting deaths of a former Reelsville couple. Boruschewitz admitted to firing the shots that killed Lee Ann Modesitt Brown, 23, and her 29-year-old husband, Johnny L. Brown, on Jan. 28, 1987. The couple were getting into their car after leaving the Golden Corral Family Restaurant in Belvidere, 111., a small north-central Illinois town about 10 miles east of Rockford, 111. THE AGREEMENT, negotiated between Boruschewitz’s public
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Putnam County 4-H'ar Jeff Greene of Fillmore doesn't seem too concerned as judge Bud Skaggs ponders the youngster's electric project Friday at the Community Building on the local fairgrounds. The judge asked the 4-H'er questions about his soldering techinques and workmanship before
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Four meetings Monday
Just because the Putnam County Fair will be in full swing next week doesn’t mean the rest of the schedule will come to a halt. In fact, in the City of Greencastle alone Monday, there are four, separate meetings governmental scheduled: -AT 8 A.M. MONDAY, the Greencastle Board of Works will hold a special session to discuss the interlocal cooperation agreement in regard to the Fillmore Road improvement project and the Shenandoah Division (Automotive In-
a mite low. These processors of nature’s gift to the cold-ridden ran a clean operation and were beyond the law, since they didn’t make strong curative claims for their product and medicine without a license. Patients bought and administered the oil at their own risk. A FUR BUYER, OR one of his flunkies, became pharmacists of a sort as they prepared the skunk oil for bottling. The source of supply was near at hand since there were many leftovers when skunk skinning was in season. Old-timers who made the stuff always contended it was prepared in a more sanitary way than most folks imagined. After the shunk was eased out of its hide, the oil processor performed a semi-surgical operation in which he at least washed his hands, before and after. Most of the fat used for medical purposes came from the inside of the rib cage and corresponded to what in a hog butchering situation would
defender, David Towns and State’s Attorney Roger Russell, allows the assailant to avoid the death penalty. During the hearing Friday morning, Judge David Englund repeatedly asked Boruschewitz if she understood the terms of the plea agreement. She repeatedly told the judge she did. Finally, Englund asked Boruschewitz to read the agreement aloud to ensure she understood it. She cried while reading the terms of the agreement. It calls for her to spend the rest of her life behind bars, and does not allow for parole. Boruschewitz shot the Browns repeatedly just as they were putting their then 16-month-old son, Kyle, in
declaring Greene a blue-ribbon winner. All 4-H projects were turned in Friday morning at the fairgrounds to be readied for display at the Putnam County Fair, which officially opens Sunday and runs through next Saturday. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman).
dustries) plant site. -At 7 p.m. Monday, the Greencastle Board of Zoning Appeals will meet at City Hall to discuss a variance in the off-street parking requirement for the proposed Domino’s Pizza business at the northwest corner of Vine and Poplar. -At 7:30 p.m. Monday, the City Plan Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting at City Hall. Included on the agenda for the public session are a preliminary plat request for Domino’s Pizza, secondary plat approval for Cummins
have been called leaf lard. At least that’s what our folks called it. Now, don’t start turning up your nose at this folk medicine. Those who used to make and sell the product swore that the oil had none of the “fragrance” for which a pole cat is infamous. THE STANDARD PROCEDURE was to take this fat scraped from the skunk’s insides and heat-render it in an old cast-iron boiler. Old-timers tell that this oil was very thick and some of it would sink to the bottom of the bottle. The buyer could do his own shaking when he got home. Some of these oldsters, who now brag on potential of skunk oil as a curative potion, will admit they never tried the stuff themselves, but testimonials from their customers, who kept coming back, spoke well for the product. MOST OF THESE old-time oil merchants are a little fuzzy when you ask how the oil was ad-
his car seat. The child was uninjured in the attack. SHE THEN GOT INTO her vehicle, which was parked a short distance away, and drove off. At least 10 eyewitnesses described her as a white female in her 30s or 40s. Police used the eyewitness descriptions to identify Boruschewitz, who was arrested the next morning at her home. No motive was ever found for the murders, Belvidere’s first in 10 years. However, Boruschewitz reportedly has said she heard voices telling her to kill the Browns. She had been under psychiatric care at the Ben Gordon Center in DeKalb, 111. She was indicted by a grand jury in
Mental Health Center’s proposed new building near Putnam County Hospital and an alley vacation request by Delta Zeta sorority. MEANWHILE, ANOTHER Greencastle City Council special meeting is slated for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30 at City Hall. On the agenda that night is the 1988 salary ordinance, a Cumulative Capital Development (CCD) ordinance and discussion of health insurance. With the exception of Monday night’s Council executive session, all meetings are open to the public.
ministered, but most agree it must have been used externally, in their opinion, it must have been a rub-on. A possible exception to this theory is the incident of a father who came late at night to buy some skunk oil since his kids had the croup. The next day he returned to say they were better. You can never argue effectively against success! In farming communities, skunk oil had more than curative qualities working for it. It was used to soften harness leather and even shoe leather. It was to be used sparingly or according to instructions, for if too much of it was applied, the leather became as limp as a rag. NOW, IF YOU ARE still turning up your nose at the very thought of using skunk oil for any purpose, stop and think a minute. When was the last time you heard of a shunk having a chest cold, or the croup, or the summer sniffles? So don’t belittle that which you have never tried.
February, but had to undergo a battery of psychological tests and examinations to determine her fitness to stand trial. Four psychiatrists and psychologists agreed she was competent to stand trial, leading to her subsequent arraignment on two counts of murder on July 17. At that time, she pleaded not guilty to the charges. IF BORUSCHEWITZ HAD gone to trial on the charges and been found guilty, she could have been sentenced to death by lethal injection. Mrs. Brown is the daughter off Larry and Janice Patrick Modesitt, Reelsville, while Brown is the son off William and Norma Wallace Brown, Route 15, Brazil. 'BB budget $3.7 million at North By BECKYIGO Banner-Graphic News Editor The North Putnam School Board gave its approval Thursday night to advertise a 1988 general fund budget totaling $3,750,064. The budget calls for a tax rate of $4.87 per SIOO of assessed valuation based upon net taxable property totalling $36,875,665. Last year’s rate was $4.64, according to Supt. Tom Rohr. RATES PROPOSED IN the 1988 budget include a $2.58 cent general fund, a 75-cent debt service fund, a 65-cent cumulative building fund and an 88-cent transportation fund. In making its determination Thursday night, the school board gave approval for a public hearing on the 1988 budget to be conducted at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20. At 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27, the board will meet in special session to formerly adopt the 1988 budget. Both meetings, which are public, will be conducted in the North Putnam Jr.Sr. High School library. IN OTHER ACTION, the board approved the 1987-88 student handbook for junior-senior high school students as presented by High School Principal Bill Schad. In addition, the board approved the 1987-88 athletic handbook as presented by athletic director Phil Myers. In other matters, the board accepted the resignation of Bruce Farley as varsity baseball coach effective July 2. Later, the board filled that position by appointing Bill Chestnut. OTHER ATHLETIC appointments for 1987-88 include Tom Roach, cross country; Ron Price, varsity volleyball; Bev Kahle, assistant volleyball; Diane McMurtry, junior high volleyball; and Ken Boruff, girls swimming. Also, Mike White, Dan Nelson and Harold Roe, all assistant football coaches; Matt Griswold, assistant football coach; Bill Brothers and Brian Moore, junior football coaches; Ken Boruff, boys swimming, and Bill Chestnut, assistant varsity basketball coach. The board also named George Smith as seventh-grade basketball coach, Bruce Farley as golf coach, and Ron Price as soccer coach. In previous auction, the board placed Rick Malone and Bruce Farley under contracts as varsity football and varsity basketball coaches respectively. LATER, THE BOARD was informed the recent vandalism occurring at the Bainbridge Elementary School totaled $32,155.60. Rohr said contact has been made with the corporation’s insurance carrier, but information as to how much the insurance company will pay on the damage is unkown at this time. The superintendent did say the building is now in “fairly good shape.” However, the hallway floor of the Bainbridge School, which was damaged due to acidic cleaning chemicals being poured on top of the surface, is yet to be repaired. Rohr noted the hallway flooring Col. 5, back page, this section