Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 242, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 June 1990 — Page 8

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC Jun* 18,1990

Obituaries Alva C. Huber

Alva C. Huber, 96, Cloverdale, died Sunday morning at Putnam County Hospital. He was bom May 20, 1894 in Owen County, the son of Daniel H. and Eliza (Frazier) Huber. On Feb. 4, 1913 he married Mahala McQuat. She died July 8,1967. He married Laura Evans on Nov. 16, 1968, and she preceded him in death June 6,1989. A retired farmer, Mr. Huber was a member of the Millgrove Methodist Church. Survivors include a grandson,

Richard Former

Visitation is scheduled 4-9 p.m. Monday (today) at West & Parrish & Pedigo Funeral Home, Spencer, for Richard Former, 43, Route 2, Spencer, who died Friday night at his residence. Bom Aug. 16, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Mich., he is the son of Herman and Doris (Rollers) Former. He was a fanner and a member of the American Sheep Breeders Association. He had

Lugar

former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee warned. INSTEAD, THE US. needs a detailed policy that will direct the nation to the forefront of the league of nations. It is a policy he admitted the Bush administration does not seem to have. “There is no plan for Eastern Europe that I know of,” Lugar said in response to a question from Ken Bode, a former NBC correspondent and director of DePauw’s Center for Contemporary Media. Lugar said the Bush administration has not developed that policy because Congress and the rest of the nation lacks a consensus vision of how the world is changing. But in Lugar’s vision of the new world, the United States is the only superpower and is the leading actor on the international stage. AND TO JOCKEY into that position, Lugar says America must maintain a strong military presence in Europe and Asia, though for different reasons. “We haven’t answered the questions of World War 11, let alone 2+4,” Lugar said, referring to a possible alignment of East and West Germany, which were split between the U.S., France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union as protectorates after World War 11. And that is not all. “The Soviet Union still has 12,000 to 15,000 nuclear missiles pointed at each and every one of us,” Lugar warned. “And they are not diminished” by policies like perestroika and glasnost. LUGAR ALSO CITED the Soviets’ hesitation to proceed with arms treaties. He said there will not be a START agreement this year, although one may come next year. And the Soviets remain unwilling to discuss the 380,000 troops they have in East Germany. The U.S. needs to keep a strong military presence in Europe and Asia for two reasons, Lugar said. First, an American presence might keep another power from needlessly building up its military, while allowing other nations to build down their fighting regiments. He noted that France and Great Britain both want to decrease the size of their militaries in light of

Auditions under way for ‘The Butler Did It’

Auditions for the Putnam County Playhouse production of “The Butler Did It” are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday (tonight) and Tuesday at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre on Round Bam Road. Directed by Brad T. Sandy, the play will be staged Aug. 10-11,16-18. Characters include spoofs on several well-known mystery writers. There are parts for five men and five women of highschool age or older. They include: Miss Marple, a society hostess; Chandler Marlowe, a mystery writer, Mabel Deupre, an adventuress, and Peter Flimsey, another mystery writer. THE COMEDY, set in an island manor to which the hostess has invited some of her friends to a party, is a satire of the mystery films and plays of the

Marvin Haltom, Route 1, Cloverdale, and a son-in-law, Chester Haltom, Cloverdale. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Melba Haltom, on April 17, 1987; two sisters, Mae Cassel and Ina Evans, and a brother, Leslie Huber. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Whitaker Funeral Home, Cloverdale, with Rev. Don Clark officiating. Burial will follow in Cloverdale Cemetery. Visitation is set for 4-8 p.m. Tuesday.

lived in the Cloverdale area. Survivors include his parents, Borcula, Mich.; his wife, Gail Allen, Spencer; two sons, Robert Former, Grand Rapids, Mich., and lan Former, Spencer; two sisters, Pat Sanborn, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mary Hamilton, Borcula, Mich., and a brother, Alan Former, Marcelona, Mich. He was preceded in death by a son, Aaron Former.

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SEN. RICHARD LUGAR Addresses DPU gathering

easing Soviet tensions. “We are the glue that holds that together,” Lugar said. And the same is true across Asia, where leaders “go to bed each night thankful for an American protectorate.” DOMESTICALLY, the U.S. needs to continue to reduce the federal deficit, but it will continue to walk a tightrope as it does so. Lugar pointed out that the deficit target for this year is $64 billion, while next year’s target is $32 billion. After that, there is not supposed to be any federal deficit under the constraints of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill. “But do you do that by continuing to cut spending or do you raise taxes?” Lugar asked. He noted that too many spending cuts could lead to a recession at home, while raising too many taxes could have the same effect And a weak American economy lessens the chances of a Pax Americana abroad. MASSIVE FINANCIAL woes like the continuing savings and loan crisis stress the budget process, Lugar noted, and likely “will be set aside” and budget summitteers figure out what to spend and what to fund.

19405. Sandy is making his directing debut with “The Butler Did It” He was assistant directorchoreographer for “Damn Yankees” last year and previously served as assistant director of “The Man Who Came to Dinner” and “Bye Bye Birdie!” Sandy has appeared in such productions as “The Wizard of Oz,” “Oklahoma!” and “Hello Dolly.” Keith Henson will be assistant director for “The Butler Did It” with Beth Woodard serving as production stage manager. FOR INFORMATION about tickets and productions, persons may contact the theater box office at 653-5880. The next PCP production will be the Vickie Parker-directed musical, “Showboat,” scheduled July 13-14,19-21.

Putnam scanner

Putnam County Sheriff An Illinois woman failed to stop for a traffic light at U.S. 36 and U.S. 231 Sunday and collided with another car, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department reported. According to Deputy Thomas P. Helmer, Lisa K. Kempthome, Freeport, 111., was northbound on U.S. 231 when she said she did not observe the automatic signal until it was too late. Thomas J. Kashman, Zionsville, was traveling eastbound with his family on U.S. 36 and said he had a green light when approaching the intersection. He said he was unable to avoid a collision with the Kempthome vehicle. Kashman’s wife Terri and son Christopher, 5, sustained bruises on their arms but refused medical attention at the scene. PUTNAM COUNTY Sheriff’s deputies also responded to an accident on County Road 600 E near New Maysville when Matthew Richter, 16, Route 1, Bainbridge, lost control of his 1986 Chevrolet Sprint. Richter stated his vehicle went out of control due to his inexperience in driving and was unable to regain control. He was not hurt in the incident A two-car collision also occurred Friday on U.S. 36 near Bainbridge. Michael G. Clifford, 33, Route 1, Bainbridge, failed to stop when Ronald Morey, 43, Oakley, 111. was making a left turn and a collision occurred. The cars went in to the yard at the Jim Lasley residence. No one was hurt in the incident. A SIMILAR COLLISION also occurred Friday on U.S. 231 in Greencastle. Taro Higashide, 17, 1904 Wildwood Drive, Greencastle, was waiting to turn onto U.S. 231 from the fairgrounds when Robert Patton, 63, Route 5 Greencastle, pulled to the deceleration lane going to the fairgrounds and a collision occurred. Sheriff’s investigators found 20 feet of skid marks from Patton’s car on U.S. 231. No one was hurt in the incident Robin C. Douglas, 8, was bitten by a German shepherd Sunday while riding her bike on Main Street in Fillmore, police said. According to a Sheriff’s Department report, the dog came up and jumped her. She suffered lacerations and swelling on her legs and ankles. THE DOG WILL BE held for a few days of observation and is owned by Howard Custis, Route 1, Fillmore. Lonnie Cheatham, Route 1, Reelsville, was arrested Friday for failure to appear. He is being held in the Putnam County Jail. City Police A 20-year-old Indianapolis man was arrested on alcohol-related charges early Sunday at Mason Drive and East College on the DePauw University campus.

Billboard locations, day-care home on Zoning Board agenda

The Greencastle Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a special session at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hafi. The agenda will include two items carried over from the board’s regular June meeting, a request by Whiteco Metrocom, Terre Haute, to put up billboards at three locations, and a request by Everett Reading to put in a swimming pool at 7 S. Central St. ALSO ON THE AGENDA for the public meeting is a special exception requested by Bennet E. and Sarah Whitlock to put a day-care home in an R-l (single-family residential) area at 907 S. Locust St. The Whitlock site is located across the street from Delta Chi fraternity (known as “The Ranch”) and in the block bounded by Ohio and Sycamore streets. Meanwhile, sites of the proposed billboards requested by Whiteco Metrocom were listed as: 703 N. Jackson St. (Andy’s Liquors), 502

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probably work less, and we’d pay off our farm (on Dunbar Hill) and buy some things for our families. “And we’d probably invest some because that million dollars wouldn’t last forever.” MEANWHILE, everyone at the Danville Post Office Monday wanted to know if she were “the Ava Wallace,” she said. And son Jeff, 14, said he plans to make a sign proclaiming "Ava Wallace is my mom.”

Maurice Sheutz was arrested at 1:31 a.m. by Officer Randy Seipel and DePauw Security Officer Donald Pearson. HE WAS CHARGED with public intoxication and being a minor in consumption of alcohol. Police officials said additional charges are pending further investigation by DPU Security. One minor weekend accident was reported by city officers on the IGA parking lot at 4:29 p.m. Friday. According to Assistant Chief Jim Hendrich’s report, Robert E. Greene, 35, Route 1, Bainbridge, was backing a 1984 Ford F-150 truck when his attention was diverted by pedestrian traffic. Greene told police he didn’t see that a 1982 Chevrolet Camaro, driven by Kevin Stevens, 18, Route 2, Coatesville, had pulled into the parking lot. THE RESULTING collision caused an estimated S2OO-$ 1,000 damage to the Stevens car and less than S2OO damage to Greene’s truck. Four weekend traffic citations were issued by city officers. The latest came at 12:10 a.m. Monday when David R. Johnston, 29, 2 E. Poplar St., Greencastle, was ticketed for speeding by Sgt. Mike Hanlon. Johnston was cited for 52 mph in a 30-mph zone on Bloomington Street. Officer Hanlon also ticketed Chris L. Beck, 18, Route 3, Greencastle, for speeding at 12:02 a.m. Sunday on South Jackson Street. Beck was cited for 59 mph in a 30mph zone. OFFICER SEIPEL cited Ryan M. Pitcock, 17, Route 6, Greencastle, for speeding at 10:40 p.m. Friday on East Washington Street. Pitcock was ticketed for 49 mph in a 30-mph zone. Lynda Watson, 17, 800 N. Maison St., Greencastle, was cited at 2:43 a.m. Friday for operating a motor vehicle while never having received a license. She was ticketed on Washington Street by Sgt. Hanlon. Indiana State Police About SSO from two small banks in the residence of a Greencastle man were reported stolen to the Indiana State Police at Putnamville Friday. Charles Reeves, Route 3, told police the suspects cut a back window screen and entered his home. Police have no suspects in the case. Putnam County Court Small claims filed: Thursday, June 7 Terry K. Custis vs. Cross Road Auto Sales; Avco Financial Services vs. the following: Gary D. Ashby, Delbert K. Clevenger, Mark D. Mason; Fillmore Elementary School vs. the following: Rex Hudson, India Lewis, Cheryl Sutherlin; Putnam County Operation Life vs. the following: Lilly M. Miller, Stanton and Jenny Lambert, Rufus Hooten.

Bloomington St. (Andy’s Southside Liquors) and 815 N. Jackson St. (Muffler Connection). AT THE JUNE 5 meeting of the Zoning Board, Whitecom representative Dennis Sonntag, regional lease manager, said the doublefaced signs would be 12 x 24 feet, with one steel support pole. Maximum height allowable would be 35 feet The billboard request was not officially considered June 5 because adjacent property owners had been formally notified of the Whitecom project. The same reason scuttled Reading’s pool plans at the June 5 meeting. The board also questioned the fencing he had planned around the pool. City Attorney Larry Wilson indicated the fence would have to be chain link. JINSIE BINGHAM chairs the Zoning Board, with Warren Harlan, Terry Hall, Jerry Rud and David Wood as members.

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While Ava will be joining Phyllis Maxwell of Rockville; Anthony A. Bruce of Danville; Robert McCawley of Columbus; C. Dean Howard of Sullivan, 111., and James Farmer of Charlestown Saturday, it should really be husband John in front of the Channel 4 TV cameras. It was he who bought the winning entry ticket in Greencastle and put his wife’s name on it. Not bad for a ninth anniversary present

Surprising humor saves ‘Gremlins 2’

Editor’s note: Gordon Walters is professor of romance languages at DePauw University, where he teaches a variety of courses in film, including History of Film and Film Criticism. Walters has written on film for several publications and is a regular contributor to “Cinema Annual.” By GORDON WALTERS Banner-Graphic Film Critic “Gremlins 2” is a surprisingly successful little movie, but much of its comic punch may whiz right past the kids and tickle attentive parents. The film is a tad too long and director Joe Dante could have exercised a bit more restraint during a climatic pursuit sequence, but “2” is cleverly written by Charles Haas and designed (by James Spencer). The protagonists of the original film, Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) and Katie Beringer (Phoebe Cates) are back again, along with their too-cute Mogwai pal, Gizmo. Gizmo is actually the least interesting focus of the movie. BILLY AND KATIE work for a Donald Trump/Ted Turner caricature transparently named Donald Clamp, and “2” scores rips at ruthless tycoons, corporate heartlessness and the rudeness of New Yorkers. Clamp’s base of operations, for example, is a giant mid-Manhattan tower, Clamp Centre, in front of which is the mogul’s symbolic logo sculpture: a huge clamp squeezing a spinning globe. The megalomaniacal developer’s employees have no privacy and their individuality is stifled. In this atmosphere, young lovers Billy and Katie try to make their way in the world. GIZMO TURNS UP in a Chinatown shop owned by a geezer (Keye Luke, for heaven’s sake) who resists Clamp’s offers to buy his property. The old man winds up dead and Gizmo winds up in Clamp Centre, first in the hands of a crazed scientist, Dr. Catheter (Christopher Lee; no kidding). Viewers who have seen “Gremlins” will already know how gremlins can multiply and what havoc

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little less than twice the size of Greencastle by population. Seymour boasts 16,000 city residents, with 38,000 in Jackson County. And like Greencastle, Seymour is not on any major waterway. Plump did chuckle at the mention of North American Stainless’ water needs. “AS FAR AS I KNOW,” he said, “there are no plans to divert the east fork of the White River through Seymour.” It appears as though some officials particularly in Kentucky are misinterpreting the company’s water needs for transportation purposes, while it appears more likely that those desires will be quenched by a municipal water

Financial news you can use

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they can wreak. It happens again: before long, Clamp Centre is filled with the nasty creatures, and the object of much of the story is efforts to bring things under control again. Most of the fun of the film is to be found in the oddball characters, like Catheter and his Tweedle-Dum and Tweedie-Dee twin assistants; like Fred (Robert Prosky), a TV horror-show host who longs to be a newsman; like the Julie Child type who boozes on cooking sherry. Real-life movie critic Leonard Maltin shows up as himself, centerpiece of another Clamp Communications Network show, ‘The Movie Police.” AND THERE ARE any number of darting throwaway jokes in the form of various musical motives, a reference to an atmospheric Canadian restaurant where “they clean the fish right at your table,” a completely gratuitous shot of a group of mimes who pile out of a police paddy wagon. The topical humor and touches of off-color stuff here and there, which adults will find funny, aren’t really aimed at children. Some youngsters may find the effectively menacing gremlins a bit frightening, although they will delight viewers with a mischievous sense of humor. The puckish juice of the movie rises to the top near the end, when the gremlins mass in Clamp Centre’s lobby for an extravagant, Busby Berkeley-type musical production. ♦** “Gremlins 2” is currently playing at Ashley Square Twin Cinemas in Greencastle.

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system that can supply enough volume for its processing needs. Greencastle officials, in fact, have indicated that the company has yet to fully express its water and sewer needs. IN FACT, IT WAS only this week that city officials had their first briefing meeting with the Indiana Department of Commerce regarding the proposed project. So it’s too premature for anybody to reach for that $222 million poker pot in the middle of the table. Lots of time to hold ’em. Plenty time to fold ’em. And of course, there’H be lime enough for counting, when the dealin’s done.

Hospital notes

Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Thursday: Rose Covert, Twyla Morton and son, Mabel Vermillion, Thelma Wertz. Dismissed Friday: Gwendolyn Glendenning, June Hoffeiditz, Reta Jones, Kenneth Monday, Clifford Phillips, Lilly Russell. Dismissed Saturday: John Funk, Madelin Jarvis. Dismissed Sunday: Leia Gott, Jerry Morris. Birth: June 12 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Morton, Box 366, Gosport, a boy.

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