Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 44, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 October 1989 — Page 1

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The final coat of blacktop Is applied to the east side of U.S. 231 (North Jackson Street) at Daggy Street Wednesday morning as Sonny Bass of Dalton Asphalt Corp., Cloverdale, rolls the surface flat. Plans Wednesday were to resurface the east side of the highway from the Monon Grill north to the square and the north side of Washington Street from the square to the Clark station. The - $999,000 project began in July and is expected to be completed by month's end, Greencastle Mayor Mike Harmless said late Tuesday. Fauber Construction Co., Lafayette, is presently finishing up curb work along State Road 240 and U.S. 231. The mayor confirmed that curbing along Indianapolis Road will be completed on the south side, but not the north side of the road since runoff water drains along the south side of the highway on the city's East Side. (BannerGraphic photo by Gary Goodman).

That’s the ticket City Police stepping up citations to slow accident rate

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Editor * The police-blue Ford Crown Victoria is perched atop a rise, nestled under the shade of an old oak tree on the former Castle Crafts property on Greencastle’s East Side. Assistant Chief Jim Hendrich definitely isn’t hiding. To the east, congested traffic bobs and weaves its way toward town, dodging turning vehicles at Marsh and United, braking for cars pulling out of Judson Drive. Conversely, to the west, vehicles freed of the confines of the “Y” intersection bottleneck, sprint up Indianapolis Road toward the Greater East Side. As they hit Kentwood Drive, the Doppler radar unit in the police cruiser picks them up. THE FLASHING NUMBERS read like figures from a Miss America contest: 42 ... 32 ... 38 ...40 ...26 ...39... The speed limit is 30, although it's rare indeed you’ll see a ticket written for less than 10 miles over the limit “We get a lot of 50s out here. Fifty miles an hour is not uncommon," Hendrich says, keeping one eye on the radar unit If nothing else, the visibility of the police car is a deterrent itself. Passing drivers crane their necks to check the officer’s reaction, their feet simultaneously tapping the brake, as evidenced by shrinking numbers on the radar readout “SOMETIMES THEY WAVE,” Hendrich smiles, knowing that drivers somehow believe acknowledging the officer’s presence may save them a traffic ticket Does that tactic work? Hendrich gives you that “get-real” look. His lips form an “O" preceding his clipped reply: “Nope.” It’s 3:30 now on a crisp autumn afternoon. Traffic from the high school is snaking up n irst

Clear overnight with low 4550. Sunny and continued mild on Thursday with high in the mid to upper 70s. Near calm winds during the period. No precipitation in the immediate forecast Indiana Extended Forecast Friday through Sunday. Mostly sunny and continued mild Friday and Saturday. Partly cloudy Sunday. Highs each day in the 70s, lows in the 50s.

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Street Factory shift-change traffic is increasing the beat along Indianapolis Road. HENDRICH HAS BEEN “running radar," as the police call it more than an hour now. He’s written two tickets. One for a Castlebury Apartments resident doing 47 mph, the second on a Cloverdale woman at 46 mph. “I feel like we’ve been a good deterrent,” the 20-year police officer says after interrupting his routine to help a stalled motorist push her clunker off First Street until a family member arrives with jumper cables. “As a general rule, days we run radar, we don’t work any accidents. People see you with cars pulled over and they tend to slow down. It always made me a little nervous when I saw someone else pulled over. “It boils down to the fact that we either write tickets or work wrecks," Hendrich simplified. CITY POLICE OFFICERS can tell you the high-accident areas in town without even pausing to ponder it. “Wood Street, Judson Drive, 10th Street and First Street... where we’re always at," Hendrich said. “Really, if we wrote all the tickets we legally could, the public couldn’t stand it.” Traffic patrols have been concentrating on Indianapolis Road, trying to get the public used to

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Autumn heralds season of sniffles

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Editor All these glorious cool nights of early autumn may make sleeping a pleasure, however, judgment is always in the offing as the season approaches toward the onslaught of the sniffles which in a warmer setting were considered an allergy. Now it most likely will turn into a nasty cold that may linger on and on. REGARDLESS OF what the

Student’s suicide shocks DPU campus Wednesday

By BECKY IGO Banner-Graphic News Editor A 21-year-old DePauw University student reportedly took his own life Wednesday morning, while alone in his second-floor dam room at Lucy Rowland Hall, 415 S. Locust St. Police had not released the student's name as of press time Wednesday morning, pending notification of relatives. HOWEVER, CHIEF Jack Hanlon of the Greencastle City Police, said the student is from Scottsdale, Ariz. “It looks like suicide, but an investigation is still pending,** Hanlon told the Banner-Graphic. Hanlon also reported the student apparently took his own life with a shotgun. “IT WAS ONE shot, aimed

Pair caught in Texas

Farm escapees recaptured

By JOE THOMAS Banner-Graphic Assistant Editor PUTNAMVILLE Rodney C. Tharp and Jason Eaton, two Indiana State Farm inmates who escaped Oct. 13 have been apprehended near Dallas, Tsx., and are awaiting their return to Greencastle. WHEN THE TWO men get back, they will face escape charges for the incident that gave them about a week's worth of freedom. Tharp, 19, Texas, was sentenced April 20 from Cass Superior Court fa burglary. He was serving 10

driving slower. The traffic congestion will only get worse out east, Hendrich reasons, with the Round Bam Road apartment complex opening 100 units this winter and the new factories adding more employees almost daily. Hendrich, Chief Jack Hanlon and others have been pleading with the State Highway Department io lower the speed limit in front of Putnam Plaza, where it begins 50 mph for eastbound traffic. Meanwhile, westbound driven, accustomed to that 50-mph range all the way out to Chadd Valiev, often enter the East Side shopping area at 100 fast a clip, police believe. BESIDES INDIANAPOLIS Road, Franklin Street, South Jackson and Shadowlawn have been known speed zones because of their long, straight corridors. “There’s a 40," Hendrich says as a red car heads east without even a glance in our direction. A station wagon registers a worried 41. The driver’s glance fixes on the police car as he prays its red lights won’t appear. So interested is he in what Hendrich’s doing, the station wagon nearly runs into the back of an Indiana Gas Co. truck that’s stopped to turn left onto Greenwood Drive. “The traffic is faster here coming from the west," Hendrich says, reasoning that a “long, clean shot from McDonald’s" is enough to influence any speedometer. JUST THEN A RED Chevrolet Cavalier crests the hill in front of us. The radar locks in at 54 mph. “She’s excited," Hendrich says as the driver glances his way. “No doubt we’re (she’s) in a hurry." And the chase is on. It’s not really much of a chase though. The red Cavalier is already stopped in front of Robo Car Wash before traffic clears enough for CoL 2, back page, this section

wooly worm had to say about the mildness or severity of the coming winter, the cold may limp along through Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and then, like the tropical storms, it will pick up in intensity through the first third of the new year. The cheapest, and probably the most effective cold remedy is human sympathy. It won’t cripple a single germ, but when others, for whatever motive, are willing to

through the mouth, that went through the back of the head," Hanlon, also a deputy coroner, said. The call came in to authorities at approximately 9:40 ajn. Wednesday with DePauw Security, Greencastle Police, the Putnam County Sheriff's Department and Putnam County Operation Life ambulance service responding to the scene. DPU Directa of Security Doug Cox said authorities are unsure who made the initial call to police. “We are still putting that information together,’’ he advised. Cox added that the Student Affairs Office is in the process of locating the victim's parents. Meanwhile, interviews with Lucy Rowland students living on the same floa as the victim continued Wednesday morning.

years and was expected to be released Aug. 5,1993. Eaton, 23, Effingham, 111., was committed from Hendricks Circuit Court, Marion Criminal Court VI and Boone Superior Court I fa four burglaries throughout all of 1988 and was scheduled to be released Jan. 17,1994. HOWEVER, IF they are convicted on the escape counts, each man could face as many as eight more years behind bars. The pair was first noticed missing during an evening inmate count Oct. 13 in Dormitory Two, where

Halloween costume party, finger-painting, pumpkin contests set

Official trick-or-treat time in Greencastle isn’t until 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, but there will be plenty of Halloween activity in town even before those ghosts and goblins appear. The fun all starts tonight (Wednesday) when Central National Bank hosts its fourth annual Halloween Costume Party. The event is slated 7-8:30 p.m. at the Community Building on the Putnam County Fairgrounds. YOUNGSTERS age 13 and under and in costume are invited, with costumes judged in two age groups (5 and under and 6-13) with SSO Savings Bonds awarded to the scariest, funniest and most original in each group. Door prizes, refreshments and entertainment will also be featured. The first 200 youngsters at Wednesday’s party will receive a free pumpkin from the Greencastle Moose Lodge and John Wood Produce. Those pumpkins, as well as any others, can be entered in a pumpkin-judging contest 2-4 p.m. Saturday on the courthouse lawn. Age groups are 3-5, 6-9, 10-12 and 13-18. First-place winners will receive S2O, with $lO for second place and $5 for third. Pumpkin-decorating win-

commiserate you should be able to hang in there until things get better. For as long as most of us can remember, folks have mistakenly moaned that they have caught a cold. Nearer to the truth would be that the cold has overtaken them. WE HAVE BEEN told that a cold is an ailment which rightfully belongs to someone else, and once we have it, we can pass it along to someone else. It makes some sense to say that the common cold can be

HANLON SAID ONE student had asked the victim for a cigarette right before the suicide occurred, but there was nothing to indicate anything was wrong. “There were a couple of notes left behind," Hanton reported, which may assist police in being able to determine what prompted the act. An autopsy will na be perfamed on the body, Greg Monnett, deputy comer, told the BaimerGraphic just before noon Wednesday. “It was conclusive it was (a) self-inflicted (gunshot wound)," Monnett advised. MEANWHILE, a few students inside Lucy Rowland were visibly shaken, waiting in the hall outside their dorm rooms and glancing toward where authorities stood as CoL 2, back page, this section

they were housed. State Farm officials do na know what time they left the grounds. Supt. Torn Hanlon speculated they climbed to the roof of the barber shop building, and began jumping rooftops until they were ova the security fence. HANLON BASED HIS speculation on a sheet rope guards found on top of the barber shop building, indicating Tharp and Eaton may have climbed down along a drainpipe. After gaining their temporary CoL 3, Itack page, this section

ners will have their entries dispteyed in the windows downtown. ALSO ON TAP 2-4 p.m. Saturday is a Greencastle Merchants Association-sponsored window finger-painting contest Children should come prepared to paint (with smock and rags) designated windows on the square. Paint will be provided. Registration for the windowpainting project will be on the east side of the courthouse lawn. All youngsters who register to paint will receive coupons from McDonald’s. Prizes will be awarded in three categories ages 3-5,6-8 and 9-12. First Citizens Bank will award a $lO savings account in each category for first place, while second-place winners will receive a T-shirt from Central National Bank. Thirdplace winners will earn a T-shirt from First Citizens. Rain date for Saturday’s scheduled activities is Sunday, Oct. 29. MEANWHILE, 5-7 pm. Saturday, Moose Lodge No. 1592 will hold a haunted house open to the public. Visitors will be admitted viar a canned food donation.

trafficked by a common carrier. In the respect, a cold is something like love, you can give it away to all and sundry and still have plenty left over for yourself. According to another of our strictly non-medical sources a bad cold (whoever heard of a good one) is something like juvenile delinquency. It results partly from questionable associations. YOU GET A LITTLE too close CoL 2, back page, this section