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Showing off one of the Bainbridge Volunteer Fire Department’s trucks, Fire Chief David Wood explains some of the safety features for firstgraders at Bainbridge Elementary School this week. The youngsters, students in classes taught by Judi Blaydes, Nana Canada, Jan Pen-

Three awards for Main Street-related Greencastle efforts

Greencastle came away with three of 12 awards presented this week at the annual Indiana Main Street Conference. Domino’s Pizza, Barbara . Lane and Main Street Greencastle were honored, MSG * Project Manager Bill Dory told the Banner-Graphic. DOMINO’S PIZZA, located at the northwest comer of Vine and Poplar streets, was awarded the New Development Project, Dory said. Owner Mack Patterson of Champaign, 111., was on hand at the Holiday Inn Union Station to accept the award. Mrs. Lane, meanwhile, was honored individually for her involvement as board member, past president and director of Main Street Greencastle, as well as her efforts in first opening The Rocking Horse (with Bonnie West), and then purchasing and relocating the Sears store on the square in Greencastle. Main Street Greencastle itself, Dory explained, won the Business Climate Improvement award. CITED IN MAIN Street’s laurels was its joint effort with the Chamber of Commerce and Retail Recruitment Committee to secure Dollar General and other downtown businesses, the “Going Into Business”' workshop, publication of a merchants’ memo and sponsorship of Bob Sprague’s visit to speak to merchants about their businesses. Domino’s, Dory added, was nominated for an award because its Vine Street building is‘'‘much more sensitive” to the architecture of the neighborhood and

jGoing like 60 again

Increasing clouds late. Not as cool with low in die upper 3Qs. Partly sunny and cool with high around 60. Winds light and variable through the period. Indiana Extended Forecast Mostly clear and warmer Sunday through Tuesday. Highs from the middle 60s in the north to the lower 70s in the south Sunday, wanning to the lower 70s in the north to the middle 70s in the south by Tuesday. Lows all three days in the lower to middle 40s.

nington and student teacher Marsha Van Nest, were treated to the fire truck visit in advance of Fire Prevention Week, which is observed nationally beginning Sunday. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman).

surrounding business community than its normal structures. It proves, Dory said, “that fast-food operations need not operate out of a concrete-box building.” IN FACT, WHEN Patterson came to Greencastle to announce plans for the pizza business, he vowed it would be the “best-looking, free-standing Domino’s Pizza (building) in the country.” Dory noted that in nominating Mrs. Lane, he told Hoosier judges, which included former Greencastle Mayor Gerald Warren, that she is “representative of a lot of the merchants we have in Greencastle.” Mrs. Lane was one of the workshop speakers at the Main Street conference, which was attended by some 160 persons this past week at Indianapolis. THE THREE AWARDS for Greencastle push Main Street’s two-year total to five. In 1987, the Walden Inn and Main Street Greencaale’s CIP sidewalk project honored by the state group. Besides the Greencastle honors, other awards this week went to Elkhart Center Inc. and the City of Elkhart, The Carnegie Historic Landmarks Preservation Society of Moores Hill, Bluffton Revitalization, Historic Newburgh Inc. and the Town of Newburgh, CFC of Bloomington, the Commission for Bloomington Downtown, Frankfort Main Street and individuals Lou Dennis and Fred Carter.

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Berry Street caution urged Berry Street residents are asking for a little cooperation from the weatherman. And Greencastle City Police are asking a little cooperation from area drivers. AND TOGETHER they believe the rescheduled Berry Street Flea Market will go off without a hitch Saturday. The annua! Ilea market was dampened by continuous rains last Saturday and most residents of the South Side street have agreed to try again with their crafts, baked goodies and fleamarket items this week. Police Chief Jack Hanlon, meanwhile, asked that truck traffic refrain from using the residential area during Saturday event, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. He cited numerous children and pedestrians crossing the streets. He urged those who must drive in the Berry Street area to exercise “extreme caution” in watching for pedestrians. With it being Parents Weekend at DePauw, traffic is expected to be particularly heavy in the campus area. TWO MINOR TRAFFIC accidents occurred during the limited flea-market run last week and vehicles twice backed into each other, the chief reported.

Sanitarian finding county sewage woes

My BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic News Editor Putnam County Environmental Sanitarian Doug Van Demark is maljpg his presence well known in the county, and as a result, some residents and businessmen are feeling the sting of complying with local and state health regulations. At least, that was part of the message given Thursday night to Board of Health members, who met in regular session at the Putnam County Hospital directors’ board room. BOARD PRESIDENT Dr. Don Brattain said he had received a few phone calls about sewage situations Van Demark is currently looking into in the county. Those people, he added, indicated they were asking to comply with some measures never required previously. “We don’t want to get too strict with the people,” Health Officer John Ellett explained, “but we have to enforce the regulations that are there.” “Well, a lot of them were feeling

Parents, principals share education roles: Bennett

By JOE THOMAS Banner-Graphic Assistant Editor William J. Bennett told a DePauw University audience Thursday night that a strong family and a good principal are the keys to ensuring quality education for American children. Bennett, who resigned as U.S. Secretary of Education two weeks ago, spoke as the Timothy and Sharon Übben Lecturer in Meharry Hall in East College. ‘Tarents who stress education with a nearby school accessible to the student, with a good principal therein, is a good recipe for the future of quality education,” Bennett claimed. SUPPORTING HIS point, he said was a study he commissioned near the end of his three-year term as education secretary. His department studied the children of the socalled “Boat People” Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees who sought political asylum in the U.S. in the late 19705. Bennett pointed out that most of the “Boat People” were the poorest of the poor from poverty-stricken nations. Most of them could not speak, write, or understand English. Yet, 25 percent of their children have perfect grade-point averages in American public schools, while more than half of them have a GPA of B or higher. After seeing those results, Bennett said he commissioned a social scientist to figure out why that was the case. The social scientist said it was because the Asian families

Initial Triad city claims OK’d

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Editor Nearly $25,000 in engineering fees for the city Sewage Department was approved Thursday night by the Greencastle Board of Public Works and Safety. The bills were approved as part of a $100,483.25 monthly total of claims, as presented by SupL Charlene Nichols of the Sewage Department at the board’s regular monthly meeting at City Hall. THE FIRST PUBLIC disclosure of bills from Triad & Associates, Indianapolis, the city’s contracted engineering firm for the Sewage Department, included: tive services, billed at SSO per hour for 50 hours, Mayor Mike Harmless told the board. gineering work on the $150,000 College Avenue lift station and sewer project. services in regard to the smoketesting of South Side sewers. services to date in connection with the upgrading of the Fifth Street storm sewer project. “IT’S A LOT OF money,” Mayor Harmless conceded in holding up individual claims as

that they had systems approved before and they felt they should be approved again,” Brattain said of the phone conversations. ‘THE PROBLEM IS some of them have an open (sewage) drain going down into a ditch,” Ellett related. And in some cases, when the people were told that engineering drawings need to be done so the sewage situations can be taken care of properly, sane were intimidated by the expense, the health officer explained. Van Demark also noted “80 to 90 percent” of the systems do need repair “because they are discharging (sewage) openly.” “And some are without any type of finger system at all,” Ellett added. “It might take a couple of thousand dollars to repair them and some thought that was too expensive.” IN A RELATED vein, Van Demark is continuing to check on a situation in the southern part of the county where persons are using

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WILLIAM J. BENNETT Parents primary teachers stressed three critical values: Education achievement, hard work and family cohesiveness. He said they downplayed values such as fun and pleasure and material possessions. THE ROLE OF THE family in education is central in Bennett’s view of American schools. “Not every teacher is a parent, but every parent is a teacher,” he said, adding “the family is the first department of health, education and welfare, and we need to strengthen that institution.” He did not disqualify singleparent families as family units, pointing out he is the product of a

documented by Triad engineer Jim Frazell, “but it is money well spent.” Also among the more than SIOO,OOO in claims was a $9,299.48 bill from Public Service Indiana. That is down approximately $3,000 for the month, but part of the time the digesters at the sewage plant were being serviced and were not using electricity, it was explained Thursday night. Another noteworthy Sewage Department claim was a $2,855 bill from Deeds Equipment, Indianapolis, for use of its vactor in cleaning out the digester. If the city had its own vactor (a SIOO,OOO piece of equipment approximately), that bill would obviously been unnecessary, Mrs. Nichols noted. WATER DEPARTMENT claims for the month of September also approached SIOO,OOO. Approved unanimously was $93,635.95 in claims submitted by Water Supt. Leon Phillips. Most noteworthy among the water claims was a $10,033.80 bill from Limedale Ditching, which included work on water lines along Madison Street prior to resurfacing, the mayor noted. And approximately $30,000 of the Water Department total is due to bond and

property as an “open dumping ground.” As the original owner is no longer in the county, relatives are attempting to clean up dumping ground, which Van Demark said is the size of “a football field.” Giving the relatives a 30-day period to clean up the site, Van Demark is to return later this month to inspect the site once more. “WHAT PROCEDURE will you use if it’s not cleaned up?” board member Dr. Greg Larkin questioned. Van Demark said he would first check on the situation and try to work with the relatives as much as possible. However, if the problem is still pretty advanced he will consider legal means. “It’s a mess and it’s bad,” Van Demark said of the area. “There is just about everything in there ... abandoned vehicles, a vacant structure, a shack further on back.” VAN DEMARK SAID the site clean-up will be expensive, but he

home broken by divorce. Despite that handicap, he managed to attend Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., earning a degree in philosophy. He completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas. BENNETT SAID every phase of the American education system, from elementary schools to higher education, needs to improve. Among his complaints: • U.S. elementaries often offer dull reading material to its youngest students. • They create a fourth-grade slump by repeating much of what children studied in grades 1-3, boring students and putting them “on the long road to dropping out” • Middle school curriculums need to introduce more rigorous courses, such as algebra, earlier than they do. • High school need to toughen their graduation standards to include more study of English, math, science and foreign languages. • Colleges and universities need to check the current rate of tuition hikes which see some small, private colleges doubling tuition every eight years. • They also need to create an effective system of evaluation so as to ensure the quality of their education is worth the cost of the tuition. HE CREDITED INDIANA as one of the top eight or 10 states in the union in education reform because it “has more ideas than Continued on Page A 6

interest transfers, City Cleric Judith Berry advised. Meanwhile, Harmless said the leaf vacuum the city ordered from Best Equipment Co., Indianapolis, is still on the assembly line, awaiting its diesel engine. The leaf machine was supposed to be delivered last week and now appears destined for deliverv later this month. THE MAYOR SAID he wiU know more about the status of the leaf vacuum in time to inform the City Council at its Tuesday night meeting, so that alternatives can be weighed for early-season leaf collection if necessary. At the 45-minute meeting, the mayor also updated the board on the status of several city projects. Among them are: The Big Water Loop: It has been tested and accepted into the city’s water system and all the East Side industries, Harmless said, “are just thrilled with the water capacity now available to them.” He also advised that project engineer Alan Stanley and the contractors will walk the entire line Tuesday to inspect the work. Resurfacing of Alton Pond Road and other repair work, including private property, will follow completion of a checklist derived from Tuesday’s exContinued on Page A 6

will woik with the owner’s relatives. Meanwhile, Van Demark also reported to board members he is receiving a la of complaints regarding housing. ‘The county does not have any ordinance on housing and I feel that is something we should strive to develop,” he suggested. “I see a real need out there in Putnam County for a housing ordinance.” LATER, ATTENTION focused upon Putnam County Food Sanitarian Greg Neese. He reported Putnam County’s Food Ordinance had been passed by the county commissioners and is now in effect Neese said the procedure he uses is that following an inspection, and if corrections need to be made, a reasonable amount of time is allowed for that to occur. If not a certified letter is sent to the establishment calling fa more direct action. “As a whole, most people are willing to work with us,” he said. Col. 2, back page, this section