Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 65, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 November 1987 — Page 2

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Otis Bowen’s mother dies PLYMOUTH, Ind. (AP) Services are scheduled Monday for Pearl I. Bowen, 88, mother of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis R. Bowen. Mrs. Bowen died Friday in Pilgrim Manor Nursing Home here. The services will be 2 p.m. Monday in Leiters Ford United Methodist Church, of which she was a member. Calling will be from 2-8 p.m. Sunday and 9-11 a.m. Monday in Foster & Good Funeral Home. Burial will be in 1.0.0. F. Cemetery in Rochester. Mrs. Bowen, of Leiters Ford, died at 8:45 p.m. in the nursing home where she had been a patient three years. A native of Fulton County, she lived most of her life in Lake and Fulton counties. Mrs. Bowen’s parents, George B. and Eleria Wright, were farmers in Richland Twp. in Fulton County, and her father also was a mail carrier. On Dec. 25, 1915, in Leiters Ford, Pearl Irene Wright married Vemie Bowen, with whom she had five children. He died July 13, 1983. Mrs. Bowen and her husband both grew up in Richland Twp. and attended the same high school. Bowen taught school 43 years, was a basketball coach and owned and operated the Village Hardware in Leiters Ford. The Bowens returned to Lieters Ford in 1951 after Bowen’s teaching career took them to several Indiana cities. Their son, Otis, became a country doctor in Bremen and then served two terms as governor of Indiana. Besides Secretary Bowen, survivors include three daughters, Esther Bremer, Evelyn Amacher and Sarah Jane Scandling; another son, Richard; 16 grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren; 25 greatgrandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; and a brother.

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ROTC members from the Greencastle Christian Church will make the holidays a lot happier for Putnam County youth, following their donation to Operation Toys. ROTC, which stands for “Reaching Out to the Community,” collected several items for Operation Toys which, in turn,

Engine plant not future immediate plans for Fuji

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The president of Fuji Heavy Industries has put an end to speculation the company might add an engine factory to the SSOO million SubaruIsuzu automobile and truck assembly plant under construction in Tippecanoe County, aides to Gov. Robert D. Orr said. Fuji President Toshihiro Tajima told the governor Friday the company has no immediate plans for an American engine plant. But Tajima said Fuji would con-

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will be given to children in the community who otherwise would not have a Christmas. Heading the effort with ROTC members is Walter McCaslin, youth minister of the Greencastle Christian Church. (Banner-Graphic photo by Kathy Lewis).

sider Indiana a prime candidate for the plant should the company decide to build one later, Orr press secretary Dollyne Pettingill said. Pettingill, speaking by telephone from Tokyo, said Tajima told Orr that company officials want to wait to see how successful the Tippecanoe County facility will be and to monitor the Japanese yen’s changing relation to the American dollar before deciding whether to build an American engine facility. Orr met with officials of Fuji, Subaru’s parent company, during the last full day of his three-week trade mission to South Korea, Hong Kong, China and Japan. Published reports this week indicated Fuji, which owns 51 percent of the Tippecanoe County facility, would add an engine plant at or near the site near the small town of Dayton. Subaru-Isuzu had previously an-

Mall boycott proposed

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Support is widespread among residents to organize a boycott of a Mishawaka shopping mall that is prohibiting a holiday shuttle bus service, allegedly for racial reasons, according to the head of the South Bend-area Urban League. Interim Urban League President Carl E. Ellison predicted Friday that minority representatives might try to organize the boycott of University Park Mall the day after Thanksgiving traditionally the biggest holiday shopping day of the year.

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nounced it would import engines from Japan for the 120,000 cars and trucks expected to roll off the assembly line annually after the Indiana plant is finished in late 1989. Production is scheduled to be split evenly between Subaru cars and Isuzu light trucks and utility vehicles. Isuzu will own 49 percent of the SSOO million assembly plant. The plant is expected to employ 1,700 workers. A projected second phase of the project calls for doubling production to 240,000 vehicles per year and increasing employment to about 3,000, company officials have said. Orr has been meeting with Japanese businessmen during the last week. Orr left Japan today for a national governor’s conference in Santa Fe, N.M. He will return to Indiana Tuesday.

He said his group and the NAACP’s South Bend chapter are conducting separate investigations into allegedly derogatory statements made by mall managers concerning the shuttle service, which would have appealed to shoppers from South Bend’s predominately black and Polish downtown and near-westside neighborhoods. Black community leaders also have been meeting this week to devise a unified strategy, if no suitable response is made by the mall managers, Ellison said.

Document to cite heritage INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Participants in an international conference signed a document, named for Indianapolis, that aspires to bring together interest groups to work toward preserving the heritage of the Americas. The signing of the Indianapolis Declaration Friday was the final act of the three-day conference, which stressed the importance of a country’s heritage as an economic development tool. The document also was the first step of a five-year campaign in the Western Hemisphere to promote preservation of its heritage, described in the declaration as an irreplaceable estate.

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Elderly man lives in house with 2 dead relatives

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An elderly Sunday school teacher was found dead along with the corpses of his sister and aunt in a house where, according to one investigator, time seemed to have stood still. The bodies of Carl Forchee, 77; his sister, Agnes Forchee, 80; and aunt, Charlotte Arlington, who was bom in 1882 and would have been 105 April 5, were found Friday in the home in northwest Indianapolis by a former state policeman who normally looked in on the elderly man. For perhaps two years Forchee had been living with the decaying bodies of his aunt and sister, police said. Sgt. David Wilks of the Marion County Sheriff’s Department said Forchee probably died Wednesday or Thursday, possibly of a heart attack or stroke. “It’s the most bizarre thing I have ever seen,” sheriff’s LL Joie K. Davis said. Autopsies on all three were scheduled today, but it appears no foul play was involved, said sheriff’s Sgt. Earl J. Cooper. “It’s just like you see in the movies,” said Cooper. “It’s unbelieveable how he could live in a house and go to sleep with two mummified bodies” in other rooms. Arlington was last seen about 10 years ago, Cooper said, and Agnes Forchee about two years ago. Cooper said it appears Forchee had been cashing the women’s retirement checks since their deaths. He said the house smelled of death and speculated Forchee withstood the stench by taking menthol lozenges. “We found lozenges all through the house,” Cooper said. “There must have been 12 to 15 bags unopened. The women were found in separate bedrooms, Cooper said. Each had been covered with blankets, and it appeared that they had been cared for after their deaths, he said. On Arlington’s bed, Cooper said, “were clothes laid out like she was going to get dressed.” Newspapers were piled everywhere in the house and garage. Cobwebs hung from ceilings in several rooms, police said. The garage contained a 1961

Officer shoots alleged poacher

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Department of Natural Resources has suspended for 28 days without pay a conservation officer who wounded a suspected deer poacher. Douglas R. Phelps, director of the DNR’s Divison of Law Enforcement, announced the suspension Friday for Officer Carl W. Frink, 53, of Veedersburg. A department firearms review board recommended the four-week penalty. PHELPS SAID Frink’s suspension would be effective at the beginning of the next pay period, Nov. 29. “Until the start of that next pay period, Officer Frink will continue

Studebaker Lark with only 20,000 miles logged on it. House furniture appeared to be from the 1940 s or ’sos. On a desk in the study was a Christmas card from 1978. It was unopened. The only evidence of a contemporary lifestyle in the house was a 13-inch color television set in the living room. It was on when police arrived. Forchee used to be active with the North Liberty Christian Church, where he was known as “the bubble gum man” to children who attended his Bible classes because he brought them bubble gum on Sundays. Forchee left the church during the late 19705, according to Donna Bernhardt, who attended one of the Bible classes he also taught for adults. He said he left “because his sister or aunt had a terminal illness” and he had to care for her, Bernhardt said. Forchee and his sister bought the one-story brick home in 1965, long before doctors and businessmen built country manors with tennis courts and horse stables tucked among the woods and fields surrounding the area. Martha Astor, the neighbor on the other side of Forchee, said she did banking and grocery shopping for him but he never let her into his house. Forchee called her daily just to chat, she said. Occasionally she would meet him by the fence separating their properties. They would talk, she said, but only about “world events,” never about “personal things.” Until August, Astor said, she went to the bank for Forchee once a month to deposit three checks two from Social Security and one from an Illinois teachers’ pension fund. Police said Arlington had been a teacher. She said the checks weren’t Forchee’s because he told her his Social Security was deposited automatically into his account. However, she said she could not remember to whom the checks were payable. Police said they believe the checks were in the names of the sister and aunt and that Forchee did not report their deaths so he could continue collecting their money.

to perform only administrative duties at the district office (in West Lafayette),” Phelps said in a prepared statement. The review board said Thursday that Frink, a 26-year DNR veteran, violated three department procedures when he fired a deer slug that pierced a van and struck driver Gene A. Keller, 34, of Covington, in the back. THE SHOOTING occurred Nov. 7 in a wooded area while Frink was trying to arrest three men he suspected of returning to claim the carcass of an illegally killed deer. Keller is hospitalized in good condition in Danville, 111., with a wound in the lower back. He was charged with illegal possession of a deer but has not been arrested, according to his attorney, Robert O. Williams of Covington. Keller referred calls to his attorney. Williams could not be reached for comment. A woman who answered the phone at the West Lafayette conservation office late Friday afternoon said Frink was not available for comment, and his home telephone number is unlisted. FRINK TOLD investigators he had intended to fire buckshot at the van to mark it for later identification. However, the shotgun chamber held a deer slug.