Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 306, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 September 1988 — Page 1

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Two-day session ahead

County begins budget review

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic News Editor What is only now being considered in thought will turn to black-and-white answers Tuesday and Wednesday, as the Putnam County Council meets in special session to consider 1989 budget proposals. By law, the seven-member board must use those two days to allocate money to the various county offices and establish the total county tax rate, in addition to considering salaries for county employees. The board includes President Dick Asbell, Gene Clodfelter, Max Nichols, Bob Evans, Tom Gray, Jack Waldron and Dorothy Edwards. THE COUNCIL sessions, to be conducted in the commissioners’ office on the courthouse second floor, are open to the public. What will be interesting for the County Council to consider this year are requests for additional money from Cummins Mental Health, which is asking for $120,000 over a three- or five-year period, and the Putnam County Operation Life (OL) ambulance service, which is requesting SIO,OOO above its ’BB allocation. If approved, Cummins plans to use the Putnam County funding toward the construction and furnishing of its new $480,000 mental health building. The facility, which will serve Putnam County clients, is to be built just south of Putnam County Hospital on Medic Way drive. MEANWHILE, OL IS asking it be given a total of $82,000 in county subsidy next year. OL Executive Director Gary Gilliam, and a few members of the OL Board of Directors, met with the County Council Aug. 23 to voice that need. During the presentation, Gilliam offered counciimen information which showed surrounding counties pay much more than Putnam County for their ambulance service. In Clay County, $135,000 is set aside for emergency medical ser-

High school football action returned to Greencastle for the first time in three years Friday night as the Tiger Cubs battled Monrovia on the new playing field at GHS. Quarterback Chris Hutchings (15) gets second-half pass protection from Kevin Barnett (33), Jeff Rowe (68), Randy Pettit

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Rain may continue into evening with a few severe thunderstorms possible. Clearing and cooler overnight with low in the upper 50s. Chance of thunderstorms 50 percent. Becoming mostly cloudy on Sunday with a chance of afternoon thundershowers. Mild, with high in the mid 70s. Chance of thunderstorms 40 percent Indiana Extended Forecast Partly cloudy Monday with a chance of thunderstorms. Mostly clear Tuesday and Wednesday.

County Council budget review schedule set

The time schedule for offices to meet with the Putnam County Council this week has been announced by Auditor Myrtle Cockrell as follows: Tuesday —8 a.m., Tide IV-D Office. —8:15 a.m., Prosecutor’s Office. —8:30, Microfilm Office. —8:45 a.m., Auditor’s Office. —9 a.m„ Treasurer’s Office. —9:15 a.m., Recorder’s Office. —9:30 a.m., Sheriff’s Department and Jail. —lO a.m., Surveyor-Sur-veyor’s Stone Search. —10:15 a.m., Extension Office. —10:45 a.m., County Assessor. —ll a.m., Township Assessor. —11:15 a.m., Clerk’s Office. —11:30 a.m., Board of Health, Local Health Maint. and Hazardous Waste Fund. —1 p.m. County Court,

vices. Parke County pays $138,915, while Owen Countv funds its ambulance service for $142,000. AT AN EARLIER County Council meeting, Auditor Myrtle Cockrell said the state notified Putnam County it can only raise a maximum of $1,099,440 in property taxes. With the ’B9 budget requests totaling $1,226,612, the Council was earlier advised by Mrs. Cockrell that $127,172 must be cut from the proposals. However, that number could vary now in light of the recent lowering of the assessed valuation given to F.B. Distro regarding the former IBM plant it purchased. The facility, located east of Greencastle

(44) and Jamie Robinson (62) as he looks downfield for split end Joe Buis. They failed to make connections on the sideline pass during the Tiger Cubs’ 22-7 defeat. The new Greencastle football stadium and field will officially be dedicated during a

Cool Monday and Tuesday but warmer Wednesday. Highs Monday and Tuesday from 65 to 75. Highs Wednesday mostly in the 70s. Lows each day from 45 to 55. Abby A 3 Classifieds A6,A7 Comics A 3 Crossword A 7 Horoscope A 7 Obituaries A 8 People A 3 Sports A4,A5,A6 Theaters A 8

County Court Supplemental and SATP Program. —1:30 p.m., Circuit Court, Supplemental Probation Juvenile and Circuit Court Adult. —2 p.m., Green Acres County Home. —2:15 p.m., Plan Commission. —2:30 p.m., Cemetery. —2:45 p.m., Veterans’ Office. —3 p.m., Central Dispatch. —3:15 p.m., Civil Preparedness. —3:30 p.m., Aviation Board. —3:45 p.m., Comprehensive Services. —4 p.m., adjourn. Wednesday —8 a.m., Welfare Department —8:30 a.m., County Highway, Courthouse. —Following matters to be discussed include establishing cumulative funds, salaries and any additional budget discussion.

on Indianapolis Road, will operate as Charming Shoppes’ Midwest distribution center for women’s ready-to-wear clothing sold in its Fashion Bug and Fashion Bug Plus stores. ORIGINALLY ASSESSED at approximately $1.4 million, the company appealed to the Putnam County Board of Review. Following that appeal, the assessment was lowered to $1,019,930. It is uncertain whether iliat figure will be the final assessment on the property as the company does have the right to appeal to the state for a further reduction. To date, Mrs. Cockrell said she is unsure how that will affect Putnam

Putnam Patter

Quality education: Country style

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Editor There’s a heap of noise being made these days concerning quality education, or the lack of it, leading some folks to believe that something entirely new is coming over the educational horizon. Don’t be fooled by all this uproar. Quality education is older than your great-grandpa and had its foundations not necessarily in the halls of learning but in those small functional structures back in the sticks and called one-room schools.

County’s net assessed valuation, a figure on which all governmental and school budgets are based. But any lowering of the assessed valuation will create a rise in property taxes to offset the drop, the auditor explained. IT SHOULD BE noted the County Council’s Tuesday-Wed-nesday schedule for considering budgets and salaries will remain flexible. Still, more than likely the Council will follow its previous pattern of establishing budgets first, then considering wages for employees near the end of the sessions. Normally, the county commissioners make a recommendation to the Council regarding what raises, if any, should be given. However, the commissioners have not yet publicly announced any such proposal. Meanwhile, Auditor Cockrell told the Banner-Graphic earlier some county officeholders did not seek raises for next year, while others did for themselves and their staff. Persons who ask for no raise at all prohibit the Council from awarding any increase. FOR THE MOST part, the auditor said officeholders are asking (on the average) for SBOO raises for themselves and employees. At die Putnam County Highway Department, the ’B9 raise request is 50 cents per hour for the administrative employees and highway workers. (The highway department budget is funded differently than the rest of the county budgets for it receives operational revenue mainly from the gas tax, not property taxes). If no raises are given to county workers next year, there is still the chance of an increase via the county’s longevity program. Fulltime employees (and a few parttime workers), who have served at least a year with the county, receive a longevity raise of SIOO for each year of service. Longevity is awarded up to a maximum of $1,200.

Sept. 16 game with Northview. The Cubs have played all their games on the road during the high school remodeling and middle school construction project the past two years. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman).

NOW DON’T TURN up your nose or wrinkle your eyebrows when we link quality education with the conventional Three R’s of Readin’, Ritin’ and ’Rithmetic unless you have been one of us who were there. Then you will have understood. While waiting for computer mathematics to come along,, making much real thinking unnecessary, there was the math of the multiplication tables. We learned that two times two was four and that 12 times 12 was

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TIFFANY ANN DIBERNARDO Miss America hopeful from DPU

DePauw sophomore carrying Miss lowa title to Atlantic City

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Editor When Tiffany Ann DiBemardo did not show up for classes this fall at DePauw University, some of her Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sisters might have been surprised. After all, the 19-year-old from Bettendorf, lowa, was pledge class president last year. She was active on the Union Board and could be found incessantly studying voice at the Performing Arts Center. BUT IF THE GIRLS at the sorority house on College Avenue are ready to send out a search party, they had better head east. Their sorority sister is in pretty fancy company this week as one of 51 contestants vying for the title of Miss America 1989. When a national TV audience tunes in next Saturday night on NBC, the DePauw sophomore will be wearing the Miss lowa banner. It all started when an acquaintance back home urged Miss Dißemardo’s participation in the Miss Scott County contest after listening to her sing in high school musicals and summer productions at a bam theater in the Quad Cities area. TIFFANY STARTED getting serious about the idea last semester, enlisting Marcia

Coatesville Festival set to begin on Thursday

COATESVILLE The fifth annual Coatesville Harvest Festival, part of Hoosier Celebration ’BB, is scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 8-10 in Coatesville. Crafts, merchants and flea market booths will be open throughout the three-day festival. THE QUEEN CONTEST is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday. Food service will begin at 5 p.m., and all quilts and crocheted items need to be at the Evans Building, West Main Street, no later than 9 p.m. Quilt judging will begin at noon

Well, whatever it was then it still is now. We learned that grammar was not that gray-haired old lady who lived with grandpa but was a way to put words in proper sequences without slipping in an ’aint or messsing up those “doodle-like” characters called punctuation marks. WE LEARNED THAT the human body, like the Model-T Ford, is made up of many parts, and if you aren’t good to them, they may not be nice to you. The book

Roberts’ voice-training help at DePauw. And this June, she was crowned Miss lowa, singing “Cabaret” for her talent portion of the contest. She will sing another Broadway number, “I Go to Rio,” in the Miss America talent competition this coming week. The daughter of Melanie ;>nd Joe Dißernardo of Bettendorf, she left lowa at 6 a.m. Monday, 40 outfits among her wardrobe, as she headed for the Boardwalk at Atlantic City. The rest of the family will join her there next Wednesday, witnessing the Boardwalk parade and being part of the audience for the naming of the 10 finalists Saturday night. New to the pageant scene. Miss Dißemardo admits she’s enjoying the novelty thus far. “Every day has been a learning experience. Every hour a learning experience,” she said recently. BUT WIN OR LOSE, she will be able to draw on new experiences when she re-enrolls at DePauw to resume the international business studies she hopes to one day parlay into a career in a foreign embassy or public relations. But in the interim, she just have to settle for being the lowa and DePauw ambassador to Atlantic City.

Friday, followed by the crochet judging at 3 p.m. Food service begins at 3 p.m. also, and the apple baked goods will be judged at 4:30 :p.m. A jam session will be held on the outdoor stage beginning at 7 p.m. Singers and instrumentalists are welcome to join in the session. A talent contest in the community building is scheduled for 7 p.m also. The entry fee is $5. THE BABY CONTEST begins at 9 a.m. Saturday in the community building. Food service Col. 2, back page, this section

was called “Physiology and Hygiene,” with enough pictures to tell us how we were put together. We had to do much more than learn the 20-plus letters of the alphabet. We had to learn how to arrange them in a required course called spelling. Getting just one little letter out of place and you were retired from the spelling match. We learned the basics of law and order and that the way of the trespassers is hard. There were restrictions against “seat of the Col. 5, back page, this section