Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 301, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 August 1987 — Page 3

Almost adios for Amigo costume

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Souvenir hunters will go to all lengths, it seems, to grab a token of the Pan American Games. Amigo, the parrot mascot of the games, was temporarily without his head and feet for a few hours Sunday when a paperboy decided he wanted a part of the bird. The person who dresses up in the green feathered parrot costume left the bird’s head and feet in an apartment laundry room on the northside early Sunday morning, said Marion County Sheriff’s Deputy Jan Kistler. When the person returned, the bag containing the parts was gone. A piece of paper with a telephone number was left behind, Kistler said. The number led police to a westside apartment complex, where the paperboy admitted he took Amigo’s head and feet as

Dad's chicken coop booby trap backfires, kills daughter

GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) - S girl was killed Sunday afternoon when a bomb her father rigged to frighten thieves exploded at their Hancock County farm, authorities said. Linda LeAnne Cooley suffered severe lacerations on her back and died at Hancock Memorial Hospital in Greenfield after the bomb set by her father, Newton Cooley, exploded at the family’s chicken coop, police said. Cooley, 34, told Hancock County sheriff’s investigators the black powder and iron pipe bomb was intended “to scare off vandals that had been tearing up the barn and stea ling chickens. ’ ’ Sheriff Nicholas R. Gulling said Cooley had reported two break-ins in recent weeks at his farm about 4

Septic tank chore yields 120 pounds of silver

LAPAZ, Ind. (AP) What started out as a grimy chore for Will and Gretta Cole last week ended up being a quick boon to their bank accounts. The job also proved a local legend was true. The property on which Cole now lives with his sister and her fiance, Mike Anderson, used to be the home of Arthur Spreer, a reclusive man who died in his 80s in 1984. Local legend had it that Spreer, a plumber and a World War I veteran, buried a fortune

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Pan Am mascot souvenirs, Kistler said. The parts were returned to their owner, and no charges will be filed, Kistler said. “It’s definitely humorous,” Kistler said. “You might say it was one of the more lighter moments we’ve had this month.”

miles east of Greenfield. On Aug. 3 and 6, he told police, vandals had freed animals and left gates open and lights on. Cooley also received harassing phone calls at his residence, Gulling said. After the second theft, when 30 chickens were stolen, Cooley decided to install the bomb, which was set to go off when the door to the chicken coop was opened, Gulling said. “Every day he’d go defuse it so it wouldn’t go off when the kids were around,” Gulling said. “This morning, for some reason it didn’t get defused.” The bomb had been taped to the beam and covered by a bucket, leading police to believe Cooley had only intended to startle vandals with the sound of the explosion.

somewhere on the property. When the three began leveling off the backyard Thursday, their first job was to remove some 4-inch-wide pipes sticking out of the ground, which they thought were vents to the abandoned septic system they planned to remove. Anderson unscrewed one of the ends that was sticking up out of the ground. Inside the pipe, they saw old American silver half-dollar coins minted from 1892 to 1957. The galvanized steel pipes, about 5 feet long, were sealed on each

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Applications up at Indiana colleges

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) While applications for admission to Indiana colleges and universities are up this fall, some administrators say they’re unsure about how the turnout will be on registration day. “Where a student might have put in applications at one or two selective schools, they are now putting in three or four or five,” said Marilyn Dearing, guidance director at Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis and a member of the National Association of College Admission Counselors. “There really is a trend,” Ms. Dearing said. “You realize it when you’re filling out the recommendation letters.” While some students are trying to get into the best schools that will accept them and don’t mind sitting on several waiting lists until the last minute, others are shopping around for the best financial aid packages they can attract. “Parents and key influences guidance counselors and teachers are helping (students) understand they need to do this kind of shopping because it’s a buyer’s market,” said Phil M. Fair, director of admissions at Anderson College. Fair said when admissions end next month, he expects to have received about 1,450 applications, or 5 percent more than last year. At Butler University in Indianapolis, applications for enrollment were up 6 percent, according to Stephen Bushouse, dean of admissions.

end. “At first, we thought there was only a few (coins), but the whole pipe was full,” Cole said. Soon after, they dug up an identical pipe nearby, which also was loaded with silver half-dollars. Once all the pipes were opened, the trio found they had about 120 pounds of the silver 50-cent pieces. Included were turn-of-the-century Barber Liberty halfdollars, early 20th century Walking Liberty half-dollars and more recent Franklin halfdollars.

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“Demographics tell us that there are fewer students graduating from American high schools this year than last,” Bushouse said. “Then why are almost all the colleges in the United States receiving more applications? Nobody will know until we have registration.” The answer may lie in the fact that many colleges have stepped up recruiting efforts, some administrators say. Purdue University officials said they did more marketing outside Indiana than ever before, while Ball State University increased efforts inside Indiana. Some schools, like Indiana State University, targeted specific areas Gary and Fort Wayne, for instance for marketing efforts. For their efforts, Purdue admissions officials say applications were up 6 percent this year, while Ball State reported a 20 percent increase and Indiana State had an increase of nearly 10 percent. Although William C. Murray, director of admissions at Purdue, expects only slightly more than the usual 6,000 freshmen to enroll this fall at West Lafayette, other schools believe the increases in applications will follow through and translate into increased enrollment. Ron R. Koger, director of admissions at Indiana State in Terre Haute, said the university surveyed the first 2,000 students it registered and between 60 percent and 70 percent said they had applied only to Indiana State.

Larry Nunemaker, owner of Nunemaker’s Coin Shop in Bremen, said the silver probably is worth about SII,OOO in bulk form. The Coles and Anderson cleaned the coins Thursday night before taking them to a bank safe-deposit box Friday. Cole said that in the past, others had tried to find the buried money. But the hiding place remained a secret until Cole decided to dig up that old septic tank.

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'Robo Cop' rates as 'neat movie'

Editor’s Note: Gordon Walters is professor of romance languages at DePauw University, where he teaches a variety of courses in film, including History of Film and Film Criticism. He has written on film for “Magil’s Survey of Cinema: Foreign Film,” and is a regular contributor to “Cinema Annual.” Walters reviews will appear in the BannerGrpahic on a regular basis. By GORDON WALTERS Banner-Graphic Film Critic Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s thriller, “Robo Cop,” is yet another futuristic film, like 1981’s “Outland,” which draws on the traditions of the Western. “Robo Cop” is cleverly written, relentlessly but appropriately violent, well-cast, well-paced and animated by quirky humor. Writers Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner take us to a Detroit of some years up the road, a city which is nothing more than an anarchyridden battle zone. The maintenance of law and order has been farmed out to a private concern called OCP, which has been able to find profits in the service sectors which nobody else wants any part of. “Business is where you find it,” says OCP official Dick Jones (Ronny Cox). "OLD DETROIT” WILL eventually be razed and replaced by Delta City, the concept of a group of ruthless businessmen run amok. The quality of life in general means nothing to OCP nor does the importance of the individual (when a malfunctioning robot blows an OCP junior executive to smithereens, attention focuses on the glitch in the machine): Profit and professional status are all. Meanwhile, the Detroit police serve as demoralized, expendable foot-soldiers in the streets. Neumeier and Miner want to reassure us though that human values -- love, friendship and loyalty -- can survive amidst urban decay, murder, mayhem, cybernation and corporate power struggles. The heroic vehicles of “Robo Cop’”s humanistic message are two police officers, Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) and his partner, Ann Lewis (Nancy Allen). Alex is literally shot to pieces by a most convincingly brutal villain, Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith). BEFORE MURPHY is brain-dead however, OCP comes to the rescue with a new scheme, and Alex Murphy becomes... Robo Cop! The catch is that, while Robo Cop is outfitted with a bullet-proof body and is programmed to be a state-of-the-art lawman, vestiges of Alex Murphy’s sub-conscious remain in the man-machine. Robo Cop retains images of Alex’s family, his home and of his terrible destruction at the hands of Boddicker and his thugs. The computerized cop prowls Detroit, mechanically aborting

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crimes in progress (he puts an end to an attempted rape with awesome marksmanship), blows evil creatures away and then twirls his pistol before bolstering it in a cavity in his thigh. ANN TRIES TO REVIVE Robo Cop’s identity as Murphy and hides him from the assassins who pursue him. Ultimately, with Lewis’s help, Robo Cop/Murphy emerges victorious from a “High Noon”-style shoot-out in a bleak industrial complex. What makes “Robo Cop” something more than an action film - - although the movie’s high-tech production values and effects are admirable -- is its mordant dark wit. We catch several glimpses of TV news of the future, which is even more watered-down than it is in 1987. Three-minute “newsbreaks” seem to be the rule - “You give us three minutes, we give you the world,” says a smug talking-head of an anchorman. And in “Robo Cop’”s world, Pretoria, South Africa is an armed camp, war rages in Acapulco and hundreds of people - including two former presidents of the U.S. - are killed in Santa Barbara when a space-weapons test goes haywire. COMMERCIALS ON the tube, which feature the latest family game craze, “Nuke ‘Em,” and a doctor who pitches the virtues of an ar-tificial-heart factory, suggest that insensitive viewers deserve the tur-moil-filled existence which they endure. “Robo Cop” might have been an even better movie than it is il Neumeier and Miner had developed this potential for social criticism and endowed the relationship between Murphy and Lewis with greater depth. Weller, who is a good actor (as we saw in “Shoot the Moon”), has very little opportunity to demonstrate his ability because “Robo Cop’”s explosions, blood and flying bullets and body parts monopolize our attention. But action pretty much pays the rent in Hollywood. Still and all, Verhoeven and his crew earn our respect with their inventiveness and sometimes subtle visual touches. Neat movie. ♦** "Robo Cop” is currently playing at Ashley Square Twin Cinemas in Greencastle.

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