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Kim Duncan, a senior at Greencastle High School, was selected as the 1988 Homecoming queen Friday night. Miss Duncan, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Duncan, Route 1, Greencastle, saw the Tiger Cubs give her

JERRY GRIMES

Who’s news

Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Editor JERRY “PAP* GRIMES, 10 Paradise Lane, Greencastle, has accepted a position with his former employer, WFIE-TV, Channel 14, Evansville, as marketing manager. In that capacity, Grimes will head the Creative Services, Promotion, Commercial Production, Sales Marketing and Art departments at the TV station, which serves southern Indiana, eastern Illinois and northern Kentucky as an NBC affiliate. Grimes was employed by the station until March of this year, when he left to join his brother-in-law, MONTY MONTGOMERY, president and principle owner of Central Insurance Agency, Greencastle. Grimes is married to Lisa StewartGrimes, also erf Greencastle. The couple will resides at 4624 Trafalgar Square, Evansville, with their two sons, Camden, 5, and Benjamin, 1. JOHN McGAULEY, media relations director for DePauw University, has resigned to join a university relations consulting firm based in New Hampshire. McGauley, 35, joined DPU in September 1985 as director of news services and was promoted to media relations director in January 1988. He has joined the firm of Gehrung Associates, Keene, N.H. A graduate of St. Louis University, McGauley was involved in many civic and DPU activities, including serving on the committee that raised funds to purchase for the new aerial fire truck. He also served as campus adviser to Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Proses-

Rain possibly a factor

Tonight cloudy with a 20 percent chance of evening showers. Low in the upper 50s. Sunday partly sunny and warmer. High in the upper 70s. Indiana Extended Forecast Increasing cloudiness Monday. Chance of thunderstorms statewide Tuesday.

something more to smile about, as Greencastle pounded the Cascade Cadets for a 31-21 Homecoming victory. See sports, page A 4. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman).

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SANDY CASSELL

sional Journalists. McGauley joined DePauw after serving as a staff writer for the Associated Press in Chicago and as regional editor of the Quincy (111.) Herald-Whig. SANDY CASSELL, Eitel’s Rowers and Gifts’ design coordinator, has recently completed a special interest design seminar on contemporary wedding trends. Conducted by the FJD Academy, the hands-on seminar was designed to educate professional florists on current design trends in weddings and the techniques and skills necessary to execute the distinctive designs. Two Greencastle students have pledged Wabash College fraternities. TONY MEYER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Meyer Jr., 106 Taylor Place, has pledged Phi Gamma Delta, while THOMAS A. HOLTON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elven L. Holton, Route 2, has pledged Lambda Chi Alpha. Both are freshmen. MARJORIE WEAVER, an independent beauty consultant for Mary Kay Cosmetics, has recently returned from Dallas, where she participated in a three-day business management .seminar and joined more than 25,000 other consultants in celebrating the company’s 25th anniversary. Mrs. Weaver, Route 2, Coatesville, joined Mary Kay in 1983. She attended specialized classes in motivation and goal setting during the seminar that focused on developing consultants’ professional sales techniques, marketing and product knowledge.

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JOHN McGAULEY

Wants ‘home-like’ setting

Schwartz named to top shelter post

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic News Editor The Putnam County shelter to temporarily house the homeless has a new director, but is still looking for a home. Henrietta Schwartz, Greencastle, is the new shelter director. She, husband Eugene and children have made Greencastle their home for the past 26 years. MOST RECENTLY, Mrs. Schwartz has worked as vocational transition coordinator at Putnam County Comprehensive Services Inc. Educationally, she is Indiana certified and has worked in the past as director of the Gobin United Methodist Church nursery school. Mrs. Schwartz received her bachelor’s degree at Baldwin Wallace College. Her master’s degree was obtained at DePauw University. Her son, Stephen, is employed at Harbor Schools in Newbury, Mass., while second son, David, is a junior at DePauw. Daughter Katherine is a sophomore at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. PRIOR TO ACCEPTING the position of shelter director, Mrs. Schwartz was encouraged to apply for the position by her daughter, who read about the vacancy. “I had been involved with so many different types of social work situations,” Mrs. Schwartz began. “And, I have also worked with people who were handicapped or people with problems. I’ve seen the full gamut of these problems.” But the new director was also attracted to the job by the prospect of personally interacting with the people she will assist at the shelter in finding permanent homes. ‘1 THOUGHT IT would be an interesting way to help people and a challenge to see something hap-

Putnam Patter

Always heed katydid’s frost warning

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Editor Science has come a long way since the almanac was considered the last word in weather prophesy, but as far as anyone can determine, the katydid still holds the key when it comes to predicting a date for the first frost. Grandpa and grandma didn’t have to wait until their corns or

Commissioners are focus of civil lawsuit

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic News Editor A former Greencastle man is suing and seeking compensation from the Putnam County commissioners for injuries he sustained, following a West Walnut Street accident occurring two years ago. Douglas W. Grant, who now resides in Lexington, is hoping to win a judgment against Commissioners Gene Beck, John Carson and Don Walton after having initiated the lawsuit against the county. DAMAGES ARE being sought from the commissioners, the lawsuit points out, because that board constructed and maintains the roadway. Grant’s attorney, J. D. Calbert of Greencastle, filed the lawsuit in Putnam Circuit Court on behalf of the plaintiff. Calbert requested a trial by jury. The lawsuit states that “on or about Sept 20, 1986,” Grant was driving a Datsun, owned by Morris L. Butler, westbound on County Road 125 south (West Walnut Street Road). THE ACCIDENT occurred at a “point approximately one mile west of the Greencastle City limits,” according to the lawsuit There, the lawsuit states, “Grant was negotiating a turn in the road, when the right tire of his vehicle left the road and came into contact with a four- to eight-inch abutment caused by the berm dropping away

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HENRIETTA SCHWARTZ: Ready for challenge

pen...to see something move to fruition,” she added. Originally, the shelter was to be located on North Jackson Street in Greencastle. But details could not be worked out and interest has been shifted to another location. “We are looking at another possibility,” Sue Rice, who serves as

their rheumatiz began to act up to know that Jack Frost would soon put the double whammy on all things green and growing. ON THE EVENING they first heard the katydid sounding off, they marked their calendars for six weeks until frost. If records had been kept, the old folks would have realized that their tree-top weather prophets was sometimes a few

from the paved portion of the road to the edge of the highway.” That situation, the lawsuit continues, caused Grant to lose control of the vehicle. The car crossed the center line of the roadway and struck “another vehicle (traveling) on the opposite side of the road.” ACCORDING TO THE lawsuit, Grant lost control of the car he was driving due to the “negligent construction and maintenance consisted in part, but necessarily limited to the following: —“The construction of the road and curve in a manner that caused the radius of the curve (where the accident occurred) to change drastically in the middle of the curve without warning to drivers lawfully using the roadway; —“The improper maintenance of the berm on the road so as to permit a drop-off of approximately four to eight inches between the paved surface of the road, and the berm, at a point where Grant entered the curve just prior to losing control of his vehicle and crossing the center line; —“The application of asphaltic material on a portion of the berm on the road (outside the traveled paved portion of the road) at a point just prior to the entry of the curve as described above, which invited Grant and other persons to use said road to drive onto said berm. Thus, this led Gran —and other persons lawfully using the Col. 5, back page, this section

vice chairman of the shelter’s Board of Directors, pointed out “We have until 30 days (until around Oct. 16) to get something together.” UNLESS THE 30-DAY deadline is met, the shelter will lose $14,000 in grant money now held in reserve by the Department of

weeks off schedule. But actually, this was no big deal. The weather service can do but little better. By checking their records and by twiddling controls of their computers, they can come to conclusions which may be of little current wrath. Their methods of hedging may include: Records show that the average date of the first frost in

Two more referendums on general election ballot

In addition to Proposition One, known as the “lottery” resolution, Putnam County Clerk Nancy Michael notes that two more referendums will be on the Nov. 8 ballot Proposition Two, if approved, could amend the state Constitution to modify the Indiana Supreme Court’s jurisdiction for a balanced docket of civil and criminal cases. A PAMPHLET, distributed by the Public Affairs Office of the Indiana State Bar Association, notes the Indiana Supreme Court has been flooded with so many prisoner appeals that these cases make up 90 percent of its docket and add to its already high case backlog. Currently, the court’s hands are tied because of a provision in the state Constitution requiring that appeals from a judgment imposing a sentence of death, life imprisonment or imprisonment (for a term greater than 10 years) shall be directly taken to the state Supreme Court. Since that provision’s adoption, cases involving terms greater than 10 years have increased dramatically, the pamphlet notes. THIS HAS BEEN mainly due, the pamphlet continues, to a new Indiana Penal Code with its longer sentences and the Habitual Offender Statute, which provides for a standard of

Human Services. Although Rice says the Board of Directors has their eye on another location, the specifics have not yet been worked out “We just don’t know what will happen at this point,” Rice related. “So, if anyone out there has a house they might like to donate, or knows of a place where they might be open to let us do this, they might let us know.” What is needed, according to Rice, is a full bath upstairs and a full bath downstairs to provide facilities for men and women to use separately. There should also be some bedrooms on the same floor with each bath. MEANWHILE, THE NEW director says she is willing to take the story of the homeless and the shelter to any civic group or organization, who would like her to speak on the topic. To make those arrangements, persons may call Mrs. Schwartz at 653-4622 or Rice at 653-6904. In the meantime, Mrs. Schwartz has been meeting with representatives connected with the various social service agencies and others, preparing to have information ready on referrals for persons utilizing die shelter. “I do know most of these people in the social services area anyway,” Mrs. Schwartz related, referring to her Comprehensive Services background. "I can see that interaction and cooperation is necessary for us to prosper.” CONTACT HAS ALSO been made with the law enforcement agencies, who will also work closely with shelter officials when needed. But shelter officials, and especially Mrs. Schwartz, are not just Col. 3, back page, this section

your area falls between late September and mid-October. EVEN A MIXED-UP katydid could hit it this close. The problem is that this locust-like insect has no way to alibi itself out of a bad call. There’s no way it can make allowances for such variables as: Prevailing winds; expected and unexpected fronts; presence of volCol. 1, back page, this section

30 years added to a prisoner’s term. In 1976, it is noted in the pamphlet, the Indiana Supreme Court decided 137 criminal cases on direct appeal. By 1985, the opinions numbered 291 and there was a backlog of 400 direct appeals. The other side of the dilemma, the pamphlet points out, is that the court can accept for review but few civil cases. THE PAMPHLET NOTES if Proposition Two is approved, rally those criminal cases in which the sentence of imprisonment is for more than 50 years—plus the death sentence—will have direct access to the state Supreme Court. The state’s intermediate appellate court, the Court of Appeals, will review those cases involving imprisonment for less than 50 years. The state Supreme Court still may receive such cases on a transfer from the Court of Appeals, in the manner that it now receives civil cases from that court. PROPOSITION TWO reads: “Shall Section 4 of Article 7 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana be amended so that criminal appeals with sentences of 50 years or less follow the same path through the Indiana Court of Appeals to the Indiana CoL 5, back page, this section