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The winning combination at the Greencastle Development Center came to an end Friday when Reid Nolte (left) completed his final day as projects manager/grant administrator. GDC Director Dick Andis and Nolte have worked side

‘Odd Couple’ ends its run at the Development Center

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Editor Even dynamic duos split eventually. Jerry Lewis left Dean Martin. Simon and Garfunkel couldn’t bridge troubled waters. Paul McCartney broke ties with John Lennon. Heck, Batman was even big box office without Robin this year. And Friday, Greencastle’s dynamic duo of development Dick Andis and Reid Nolte came to an end. Like Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, we expected them to be around for the duration. “I’M JUST GLAD YOU didn’t say Heckle and Jeckle,” Andis laughed, alluding to the cartoon magpies who spawn continual chaos. To the contrary, it’s been strictly business at the Greencastle Development Center, where Andis will continue to serve as director. However, right-hand-man Nolte, with the title projects manager and the responsibility of grants administrator, finished his career at the GDC Friday. And come May 1, he’ll become executive director of the Sterling Industrial Commission in Sterling, a northwestern Illinois community approximately three times the size of Greencastle. He’ll work with a staff of two assistants in the hometown of Northwestern Steel & Wire. “It’s a good job, no doubt about it,” Nolte said, pondering his last official day in the GDC office. WHAT WILL HE MISS most about Greencastle and the GDC? “Honestly, I hadn’t even thought about it yet,” laughed Nolte, who has served the GDC the past 3 years. And in those 3 Vi years, the history of Greencastle was rewritten. We went from a company town to a growing community. Nolte refuses to take any individual credit for the turnaround since the IBM Corp, closing in March of 1987. YET HE IS PROUDEST OF his grant administration expertise that enabled the water loop project and Fillmore Road sewer and water work “to be brought in at a net cost to the city of seven cents on the dollar,” he said. “It was a million-dollar project and the city ended up having $72,000 in jt, which is practically nothing.” Nolte was able to combine state infrastructure grants and use recaptured funds loaned to new industries to make the project come along more economically. WITH A BACKGROUND that includes two

Going out like a wet lamb

Periods of rain overnight and again Saturday with a chance of thundershowers developing. Low around 50 overnight High Saturday in the mid to upper 60s. Easterly winds at 5-10 mph during the period. Chance of rain 80 percent through Saturday. Indiana Extended Forecast Sunday through Tuesday. Cloudy Sunday with a chance of rain. Lows Sunday morning from the middle 40s to the middle 50s; highs from the middle 50s to the middle 60s. Dry and cooler Monday and Tuesday.

by side since the Center opened in the fall of 1986. However, Nolte will be leaving to begin a new position May 1 as executive director of the Sterling (III.) Industrial Commission. (BannerGraphic photo by Gary Goodman).

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years in Japan and involvement of 20 years with the Japanese, Nolte was also invaluable in helping land Heartland Automotive, Happico and TechnoTrim for Greencastle. All three firms have either Japanese parent companies or are a Japanese-American joint venture. And Nolte’s Greencastle Audit, Greencastle Album, Labor Analysis and Housing Study have been valuable resource materials for the GDC and other groups. Among Nolte’s first concerns at Sterling will be finding someone to fill a 50,000-square-foot incubator facility, a building built in search of a tenant. But Nolte should be used to such challenges. Let’s digress to January 1987, just two months after IBM announced its intention to leave Greencastle. ANDIS CALLS THE STORY “an absolute classic that intrigues everyone” he tells it to. And he tells it often. The GDC director recalls how some 20-25 prospects were “besieging” the Development Center with interest in the IBM facility. He, Nolte and a number of community volunteers were up to their necks in answering questions, making contacts and trying to check any and all leads. “In the heat of all that,” Andis said, “Reid’s doing all this research and he comes in dangling this annual report, saying, ‘Dick, here’s one we really ought to go after.’ “I said, ‘Just hang onto it, and when things die down, maybe we can look at it.’” Things didn’t die down, of course. But within two weeks, the chief financial officer of the company Nolte was touting was on the telephone. IT WAS IVAN SZEFTEL of Charming Shoppes. And the rest, as they say in the movies, is history. Charming bought the IBM building and today is Col. 3, Back Page, this section

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Walton attends national gathering

Putnam County Commissioner Don Walton, rural Cloverdale, attended the 1990 National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference held recently in Washington, D.C. Walton, who also serves as president of the Association of Indiana Counties, was among nearly 2,000 county officials from all over the country who convened in the nation’s capital for a conference at the Washington Hilton Hotel. THE FOUR-DAY conference, which began March 17, featured presentations by three Cabinet members and key congressional representatives, including Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, Sen. Daniel

State Farm needs time to solve problems: Hanlon

By JOE THOMAS Banner-Graphic Assistant Editor PUTNAMVILLE Time might be something less than a precious commodity at the Indiana State Farm, since most of the men there measure it in years and not hours and minutes. And that is a good thing for Supt. Tom Hanlon, who has needed some time to solve some of the problems facing the medium-security prison. But as time goes by, solutions are coming closer, he indicated. For example, a year ago, Hanlon told a local service club that one of the biggest problems facing the ISF is the lack of meaningful jobs for offenders. During that luncheon speech in April of 1989, the ISF superintendent said he was working on a deal that would move a data entry operation to the prison, as well as some jobs supporting the garment industry. NOW HE SAYS the Indiana Department of Public Works has been to the prison and okayed the plans that will allow those jobs to move it. However, there still is no definite date on when they will arrive. Nonetheless, “they are closer to fruition,” Hanlon said, adding they will add between 100 and 150 inmate jobs. But that will not solve Hanlon’s unique unemployment problem. It is unique because, at least on paper, every one of the 1,650 inmates has a job assignment. “IF NOTHING ELSE, you can assign them to kitchen, dorm line or recreation,” Hanlon explained. However, many of those men are under-employed while some are spending their prison terms playing basketball in the new gym. That is the real problem Hanlon is trying to solve. And part of the solution are ideas that would bring a powdered-mix operation to the State Farm, as well as a fire extinguisher recharging operation. THOSE IDEAS “are just in the talking stages, now,” Hanlon said. The powdered-mix operation would put baking mixes and powdered fruit juices in other institutions, as well as in the ISF commissary, the superintendent said. While he thinks there are enough fire extin-

Voter registration, absentee ballot information released

Voter registration for the May 8 primary election is now open to the public until Monday, April 9, according to Putnam County Clerk Nancy Michael. Therefore, any person who is not already registered needs to do so as soon as possible to be eligible to vote on Tuesday, May 8, she said. ALSO, ANY PERSON who has moved within the county to another location will need to contact the Clerk’s Office to transfer their registration, Mrs. Michael adds. Meanwhile, absentee voting begins Monday, April 9 at the Putnam County Courthouse (on the second floor outside the Clerk’s Office) and will continue until May 7. Absentee voting will be available

P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Rep. Glenn English (D-Okla.), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Executive Director Frank Francois, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. Rep. Waxman told delegates that counties need to be heard on the proposed Clean Air legislation. Rep. Waxman also urged Walton and other county officials to tell members of Congress what tools they require to achieve clean air, including strong motor vehicle emission standards, national standards on emissions from solvents, paints and shellacs, and controls on smaller sources of pollution.

Fire victim, family in need of clothes, items

More specific information has become available on the clothing and household needs of the Cathy Rood family, which was burned out of its 309 Johnson St. home earlier this week. Mrs. Rood and her four children were left with essentially only the clothes on their back after fire destroyed their home. The Roods have been staying with Mrs. Rood’s brother since the blaze and are looking for a new place to live. She can be contacted at 653-2459. ALSO NEEDED ARE clothes for her children, ages 9, 2 and 14 months (twins). The twin boy and girl wear 2T clothes and children’s size 3 or 4 shoes. Her two-year-old son wears size 2T tops and boys’ size 5 pants. His shoe size is a children’s 9. The nine-year-old daughter

guishers in state government to make that program a success. Still another thought is using ISF inmates to assemble the kits offenders receive when they are first brought into the system. Those kits are similar to what the military passes out to new recruits when they first arrive as basic training. They include toiletries, shower shoes and a small sewing kit, among other practical items. That idea, too, is in the talking stage. “WE CAN GET ONE or two of those and be where I’d like to be,” Hanlon said. Though he does not have firm figures, he said he thinks he might have as many as 400 un-der-employed inmates who could benefit from these jobs. But complicating Hanlon’s economic development programs is the spectre of another 200 inmates that might be moved in to the Farm. The Department of Corrections is currently considering asking

to any voter who will be be out of Putnam County on May 8, or who will be confined due to illness or injury, Mrs. Michael said. IN ORDER TO procure a ballot, an “Application for Absentee” must be completed. Persons having questions, or who need an absentee voter application, should contact the Cleric’s Office at 653-2648. For those people who are confined, the Clerk’s Office will be sending a two-person team —consisting of one Democrat and one Republican—who will deliver ballots to residences between April 26 and May 7. Voters who will be out of the county on primary election day between the hours of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (when the polls are open),

MEANWHILE, Rep. Moynihan voiced his concern for the Social Security Trust Fund because the money in it is being spent as though it was general tax revenue. Moynihan called using the money is this way “underhanded and deceitful.” Francois, a NACo past president, said in his presentation that on the 3.9 million miles of streets, roads and highways, 86 percent of all private movements occur by vehicles. “We need to do more to keep transit legislation moving,” Francois said. Also, Francois noted the transportation policy is an effort by the administration to bring different groups together and to develop a

wears size 12 clothes and women’s size 3 shoes. MRS. ROOD HERSELF is also in need of clothing and wears size 40 tops and pants, size 12 and 408 underclothing. Local churches, she reported, have donated a sewing machine, while others have provided a kitchen table and chairs, along with bunk beds. Still needed to set up housekeeping are another single bed, stove, refrigerator, dishes, blankets, towels, sheets and other household goods. ANY ITEMS THAT anyone can donate may be taken to 9 S Arlington St., Greencastle. “People have just been wonderful,” the fire victim said in expressing her thanks. Cause of the fire is still undetermined. The house and contents were listed at a total loss, with value estimated at $25,000.

Federal Judge Willliam Steckler to raise the population cap from 1,650 to 1,850. In fact, the DOC asked the 1990 General Assembly to approve an additional $1.14 million for ISF, should Steckler approve the population increase. However, the DOC has not yet filed it petition in federal court, and Hanlon says the department remains unsure if it will. BUT HE KNOWS what those 200 men mean to his plans. “Additional offenders make it more of a priority to get these (jobs) on line,” he said. And thanks to Alan Matheney, Hanlon has fewer road crews to place men on as the DOC has tightened security and placed harsher restrictions on who qualifies for such job assignments. Matheney is the Correctional Industrial Complex inmate who received an eight-hour pass last Col. 2, Back Page, this section

should come to the courthouse between 9 am. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday to vote. THOSE PERSONS who will be out of the county during polling hours may also come to courthouse between the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 28 or Saturday, May 5 to cast their ballot. Meanwhile, Mrs. Michael announces there have been some location changes made to polling places. Those changes, in addition to a complete listing of polling places, will be announced in the near future. Also, information regarding changes made due to redistricting will be featured in future BannerGraphic articles.

new strategy. “AH of us are willing to do ow share, but the federal government needs to do its share,” he asserted. HUD SECRETARY Kemp told delegates our country needs to look at people in terms of their potential and their desire to succeed. “The fault line in American Society is not left and right, or Democrat or Republican,” Kemp said. “It’s between people who believe in other people as a resource ... it’s an elitist who sees the poor as a drain to our country and not as a resource.” Kemp concluded by saying we have to work harder to provide “affordable housing and increase opCol. 6, Back Page, this section