Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 298, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 August 1989 — Page 16

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC August 24,1989

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City Police A 34-year-old Greencastle man was arrested on three counts early Thursday following a one-vehicle accident at Shadowlawn and Highfall avenues, City Police said. Steven E Litchford, 808 Hillcrest Drive, was charged with a felony count of drunk driving, operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of .10 percent or higher and leaving the scene of accident after the 12:50 a.m. mishap. According to Officer Randy Seipel’s report, Litchford’s 1979 Ford truck struck a Public Service Indiana utility pole and continued 150 feet east, coming to rest in the yard at 700 E. Shadowlawn. The driver was uninjured. DAMAGE WAS estimated at to Litchford’s truck, and S2OO-51,000 to the PSI pole. A two-vehicle accident caused minor damage at 8:15 a.m. Thursday on North Arlington Street, 10 feet south of Houck Road, SgL Carol Boggess reported. Marjorie WBod, 27, 913 Evensview Drive, Greencastle, was southbound on Arlington Street, driving a 1979 Chevrolet, when a 1987 Buick, driven by Keith Williams, 56, 234 Hillsdale Ave., Greencastle, turned in front of her, police said. Williams was northbound on Arlington Street, attempting to turn into the Cummins Clinic parking lot when the mishap occurred. DAMAGE TO BOTH vehicles was listed at S2OO-51,000. A 27-ycar-dd Reelsville man was arrested for driving with a suspended license following a twovehicle property-damage accident Tuesday morning, Greencastle City Police reported. Troy Pilkin was lodged in the Putnam County Jail on the driving-while-suspended charge. Sgt Carol Boggess also cited him for failure to prove financial liability (no insurance). Police said Pilkin was backing a 1979 Pontiac from the driveway at Delta Chi fraternity (also known as The Ranch), 912 S. Locust St, and did not see a southbound 1988 Toyota pick-up truck, driven by Robin Miller, 25, Route 5, Greencastle. SGT. BOGGESS SAID Pilkin backed his car into the path of the

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cornfield near the Putnam-Morgan county line. The 3*A-hour police search centered on that cornfield and 10 ISP unit*, a Putnam Cbunty Sheriff’s Dept, unit, and four Indiana State Fann K-9 unit* were mobilized in the effort

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copied and used by an entity for educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes. The county auditor maintains records co exempt property. Periodically, it is suggested these records of exempt property be reviewed to assure that exempt property meets the criteria for being exempt. WHILE THE ABOVE are recommendations for increasing the city’s assessed valuation, the study also lists priority recommendations in other areas. Those were addressed during a 30-minute presentation by Geo. Olive officials Dexter Cooley and Dee Moon, who were accompanied by Curt Coonrad, the Marion County auditor who served in an advisory capacity for the survey. ••Some of the recommendations in here (the report) you may find controversial after what I’ve heard here tonight,” Cooley said as his report followed some 90 minutes of annexation debate. “WE WERE NOT concerned with political implications,” Cooley explained, “only the business standpoint.” And to run Greencastle more effectively like a business, the study suggests the following priority recommendations for city: Because Of the unusually large decrease in net assessed value, the city should consider all methods of improving and monitoring assessed value. Consider hiring a fulltime planning commissioner whose duties would include planning and zoning administration and assistance with grant development Consider lobbying members of the County Council for enactment of CEDIT (County Economic Development Income Thx). Consider rate increases for both sewage and water utilities. HAVE THE CITY’S sewage and water utilities pay the city an amount in lieu of property taxes.

truck. The collision resulted in an estimated $2,500-55,000 damage to Miller’s pick-up and $1 to the Pilkin car in the 11 a.m. accident. A three-vehicle collision was reported at 4:32 p.m. Tuesday at East Washington Street and North College Avenue. Macon Cory, 26, Frankfort, was attempting to cross Washington Street, driving a 1983 Pontiac Trans-Am, when he pulled into the path of a 1985 Ford Escort, driven by Brandy O’Brien, 17, 836 Stadium Drive, Greencastle, Reserve Officer Donald Pearson reported. THE IMPACT OF the collision sent the O’Brien car into a 1980 Mercury, driven by Neda Ray, 64, Greencastle. The Ray car was stopped southbound at College and Washington. No damage estimates were available on the three vehicles. A third property-damage accident occurred at 10:40 a.m. as Orville Nodley, 64, Route 1, Greencastle, was eastbound on Liberty Street He told Sgt Boggess that the windows of his 1981 GMC truck were steamed up, limiting his vision as he attempted to pull out onto North Jackson Street Nodley pulled his truck into the path of a northbound 1986 Chevrolet van, driven by Douglas Katich, 21, Crown Point DAMAGE TO THE Katich vehicle was listed at 51,000$2,500, while Sgt Boggess listed damage to the Nodley truck at S2OO-$ 1,000. Robert E. Smith, 43, Indianapolis, was issued a pair of tickets by Reserve Officer Pearson at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. Smith was cited for speeding (46 mph in a 30mph zone on South Jackson Street) and for having a false or fictitious registration. A pair of speeding tickets were issued Wednesday by city officers. At 4:23 p.m.. Reserve Officer Donald Pearson cited Darrell Keck, 29, 21 Beveridge St, Greencastle, for 55 mph in a 30-mph zone on South Jackson Street Robert Burton, 17, Route 2, Greencastle, was ticketed by Pearson for 46 mph in a 30-mph zone on South Jackson Street at 7:15 p.m.

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HOWEVER, SGT. Strader believes the 19-year-old was able to elude police before they could establish a perimeter around the cornfield. He is believed to have made off m a stolen 1978 Ford four-wheel-drive truck owned by Maurice Scott, Route 1, Fillmore.

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Review annually all use fees and service charges. Review current trash collection fees of $5 per month for adequacy Consider changing method of charging fees for fire protection to the township to a method which would more adequately cover the costs of services rendered. Consider charging a filing fee to have property declared an economic revitalization area in order to obtain a property tax abatement IF GRANTS cannot be obtained, consider issuing general obligation bonds to finance needed projects. CITY OFFICIALS “have done a good job of cash management,” Moon said, noting that changes initiated in investments and spending over the past couple years have paid off. The accountants advocated raises in water and sewer rates not increased, respectively since 1982 and 1980 to help increase revenues. “It’s something the city should consider,” Moon said, suggesting a more-detailed study by local officials. The city’s $5-per-household trash-collection fee was also seen as in need of an increase. However, Mayor Harmless noted that the city’s present contract with S & H Disposal is in the first of its three years. “FOR RIGHT NOW $5 is covering the cunent contract,” the mayor said, stressing that residents will not see an increased fee in the immediate futtre. Cooley gave the city high marks in securing grants, but said the city ranks “very low” in income tax revenue per capita ($51.52) The city’s $2.59 tax rate was the lowest of the five towns surveyed. The average, Harmless noted, was $3,079. WHILE THE STUDY notes

Art center exhibition to open Aug. 26 A mini show of photogravures by internationally known Robert Mapplethorpe will open Saturday, Aug. 26 and continue through Sept. 6 at DePauw University’s Emison Art Center. THE EXHIBIT WILL feature five erf Mapplethorpe’s figure photogravures from the university’s permanent collection. It is open and free to the public. Mapplethorpe has an international reputation as an outstanding photographer. Last year his works were exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York City, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and National Portrait Gallery in London. His images include still lifes, portraits, flowers, figure sand erotic subjects. The latter photographs are at the center of the controversy about cancellation of a showing of his photographs at the Corcoran Gallery erf Art in Washington, D.C. John Russell wrote in the New York Times that Mapplethorpe’s “portraits reveal compassion, tenderness and sensuality and his erotic images are presented with candor, directness and simplicity of expression.” THE EMISON ART Center gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 ajn. to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 5 pm. Bake-off set at Coatesville Harvest event COATESVILLE The annual Coatesville Harvest Festival bakeoff is set for 11 am. Friday, Sept. 8 in the Coatesville Community Building. Baking categories are cakes, cookies, fruit pies and breads. Cream pies cannot be accepted due to lack of refrigeration. ALL ITEMS WILL become the property of the festival and will be auctioned at 7 o’clock that evening during the talent contest Proceeds will be donated to the festival. A children’s division has been added this year for those 14 years old and under. Other divisions include men and women 15 years and older. Prizes will be awarded for first and second place in each category and division, and there will be one overall grand champion. ENTIRES MAY be brought to the community building 6-7 pm. Thursday, Sept 7 and 9-10:45 am. Friday, Sept 8. There is a $1 entry fee per item.

that general obligation bonds might be considered where grants are not available for projects like a new pool, city hall or city garage. Moon tempered the recommendation. “It’s not really a recommendation” he told the City Cotmcil, “but something to be considered. Presently you could borrow $580,000 (via the G.O. bond route).” In summary, Cooley said he hoped that the city “take some of the recommendations and carry them out” All five cities, the Geo. Olive Co. partner said, have “similar problems with some differences. But all are looking for additional revenue,” he said. MEANWHILE, the Council adopted its 1990 budget on second and final reading. The total $2,126,362 city budget (of which $1,059,998 is to be raised via taxation) was approved on a 3-1 vote with Councilmen Bob Sedlack, Sheri Roach and Sue Murray in favor and Councilman Tim Conway voting against (presumably because of the inclusion of a fulltime city engineer at a total $30,000 salary). Councilman Mike Rokicki was absent The budget ordinance, 1989-20, calls for a 1990 tax rate of $3.82, which is intentionally high. City Clerk Judith Berry said, because of the uncertainty over reassessment The city budget will also face cuts from the Putnam County Tax Adjustment Board and the State Board of Tax Commissioners before becoming effective. IN OTHER BUSINESS, the Council passed Ordinance 1989-21, which adds a fulltime city engineer to the 1989 salary ordinance. The ordinance passed by a 3-1 vote, with Conway the lone dissenter. The City Council, as reported in Wednesday’s Banner-Graphic, also passed all four ordinances for annexation on second and final reading.

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Kyleen Jensen, Greencastle, is the winner of the best-of-breed award at the Indiana State Far Rabbit Show. The Putnam County 4-H’er showed the top Standard Chinchilla rabbit at the fair. The Indiana

Don the Baptist

Detro was returned to court on May 5 and May 17, each time refusing to give his real name, each time receiving additional jail time. At the May 17 hearing, Detro received his first 90-day sentence. ACCORDING TO Hendricks County Jail officials, Detro reads the Bible aloud for hours while he is awake. He has been evaluated by health professionals, but the sheriff’s department declines to release their results. In addition to his Hendricks County hearings, Detro appeared in Putnam Circuit Court on May 25 on charges of failing to pay child support. Special Judge James E. Harris found Detro to be in contempt of court and sentenced him to 90 days in the Putnam County Jail. Detro’s jail time in Putnam County will be served without good

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State Fair continues through Aug. 27 at the State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. (Photo by Purdue University Agricultural Communication Service).

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time credit and after his stay in the Hendricks County facility. MEANWHILE, last May, another Putnam County resident, identified as “Warren of Nazareth” sent a letter to the Hendricks County courts when paying his traffic ticket, the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department reports. “Please accept my offering and sacrifice of $56 for my transgression of the laws of this world. In this life, a heavy foot is a heavy burden to bear,” the man noted. “Please send my greetings and blessings to Don the Baptist for he is one of Putnam County’s chosen few.” Until otherwise proven, the Hendricks County courts, the sheriff and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles still consider Don the Baptist to be Donald E. Detro, Bainbridge.

Suzuki violin classes to be offered Starting the first week of September, the Greencastle Suzuki Violin School is offering classes for interested beginners and continuing students. STUDENTS ARE encouraged to participate in both group and private lessons. Group lessons are offered on Monday evenings Private lessons are set for either Tuesday evenings or Saturday mornings. Students will learn skills such as memory retention, music reading, group performance and solo performance. Instructors this year are Nancy Shively, a violin student at Indiana University under Mimi Sweig, and Allison Edberg, a doctoral candidate in violin performance. THE SUZUKI VIOLIN School is sponsored by the Greencastle Community Orchestra. Interested persons may contact Shively at (812) 336-3523 or Jan Hodges at 653-4506.

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