Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 14, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 September 1990 — Page 8

THE BANNERGRAPHIC September 19,1990

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Cloverdale Police Dept A one-vehicle accident Tuesday night south of Cloverdale sent one man to Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, via Lifeline Helicopter Daniel P. Moulton Jr., 32, Route 2, Cloverdale, was listed in serious but stable condition Wednesday morning according to a Methodist Hospital spokesman. The spokesman said Moulton was expected to be transferred out of the Adult Critical Care unit later Wednesday. ACCORDING TO a report by Cloverdale Marshal Jim Kabzinski, Moulton was northbound on U.S. 231, two miles south of State Road 42, when he swerved his 1979 Ford truck to the left. Moulton’s vehicle traveled 26 feet in the southbound lane, went in and out of the ditch on the side of the road and finally came to rest 27 feet from the edge of the road in a field. Moulton was partially ejected from the passenger’s side of the truck. HE WAS TAKEN to Putnam County Hospital and then LifeLined to Methodist Cloverdale Police and Fire Rescue and Operation Life responded to the accident. Sheriff’s Dept. A one-vehicle accident was reported Tuesday afternoon on Manhattan Road, a half mile north of U.S. 40. Dortha Adkins, 29, Brazil, was southbound on Manhattan Road in her 1986 Ford when she swerved to the left. Nora Nichols, 58, 316 N. College Ave., Greencastle, was northbound in her 1987 Ford when a collision occurred. A FENCE OWNED by Robert Huff, Route 2, Greencastle, was struck. According to a report by Deputies Mark Albright and Tom Helmer, Nichols complained of pain in the shoulder and upper arm. Damage to both cars was estimated at $2,500-$5,000. Brad Gillogly, 29, Route 1,

Putnam Patter

will not need your red flannels. The snows will fall on the unfortunates in other areas, cars will start on the first turn every morning and fuel bills will be low enough to keep us from abject poverty. THERE’S ALWAYS the danger, however, that a wooly worm could be a sort of freak of nature and as a harbinger of better times ahead, should have their weather license revoked. When these crawling critters have a splash of black at both ends with an orange band in the middle, he confuses those who expect a yes or no prediction. The way I understand it, the wooly worm wasn’t bom to live and die as a weather prophet. Some of them live to become butterflies who flit through skies that are blue and breezes that are warm. For other weather signs, we must look up. Some folks get all pimply when they see a flock of geese heading straight south. There’s a feeling that the head goose, or is it a gander knows something we don’t about the coming winter.

Obituaries Margaret Evelyn App

Margaret Evelyn App, 83, Greencastle, died Monday at the Medco Center, Danville. She was the daughter of David C. and Eva Ann (Stierwalt) Collier. She graduated from Monrovia High School and married Kenneth B. App on Oct. 1,1929. Mrs. App was a homemaker and a member of the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Survivors include four daughters, Lana B. Beck, Bainbridge, Sandra Z. Brock, Frankfort, Sharon A. Ensor, Greencastle, and Janet E. Draper, Nebraska; four sons, John B. App, Camby, W. Joe App, Greencastle, Escar C. App, Bainbridge, and Edwin E. App, Clayton; three sisters, Ilene Jes-

Services were conducted Sept. 10 from Prichard Chapel, Excelsior Springs, Mo., for Carl L. Brown, 75, Route 1, Fillmore, and Excelsior Springs. Graveside services were conducted at Sunset Hill Cemetery, Warrensburg, Mo. Mr. Brown passed away Sept. 7 at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. Survivors include a son,

Bainbridge was arrested at 10 p.m. Tuesday night for possession of marijuana over 30 grams, police said. HE WAS ARRESTED by Deputies Mike Biggs and Tom Helmer and is being held in the Putnam County Jail. City Police One driver was injured Tuesday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident on East Washington Street, 40 feet west of Durham Street, Greencastle City Police report. Karen L. Murphy, 48, 817 S. Locust Sl, Greencastle, was eastbound on Washington Street, driving a 1981 Buick Century when she noticed traffic ahead of her had stopped. She told Capt. Paul Wilson that she applied her brakes but was unable to step in time because of the rain-slickened roadway. The Murphy car struck a 1991 Chevrolet S--10 pickup truck, driven by Donald G. Campbell, 47, Terre Haute. Damage to the Murphy car was estimated at sl,ooo-$2,500, while damage to the Campbel vehicle was listed at S2OO-SI,OOO. Murphy complained of back pain and was treated by Operation Life personnel, police reported. Putnam County Court Small claims filed: Tuesday, Aug. 21 James and Jeanie Helton, Kevin and Tina Helton and Heather Helton vs. Jon and Melinda Dorwan; Kersey Music vs. Jack and Eva Bays; Mutual Hospital Services vs. the following: Tom D. Badgley, Edgar L. and Carolyn J. Baker, Jeffrey and Darla Brewer, Robert D. Buis, Steven D. and Edna A. Gorham, James D. Hayes, Darrell L. and Brenda J. Hinkle, Debbie L. Jones, David A. and Patricia Kelly, Arnold and Sharon R. Land, Nellie L. McCurdy; Anne J. and Joseph Miller, Jimmy and Cheryl Miller, Donald and Christy L. Pettit, Dale L. and Gwen Smith, Ralph A. Souders, Patricia Stowers, James L. and Christa J. Wright.

BUT ALL OF US know by now that the goose has never been given much credit for smarts. So who is to say that the leader of the flying wedge didn’t take a false reading on his inside compass and soared off into the blue yonder in the wrong direction. Not all who base their weather expectations on the sagacity of a goose are consistent in their thinking. Hopefully, a southbound flock could be confused, but their early spring return can mean nothing but better times ahead. I would never be one to completely downgrade the forecasting accuracy of the worm, or the goose, or even the sages on the courthouse liars’ bench. There are times when the three of them have a better record of success than the almanac. My personal forecast always comes a little later than those put out by nature’s other creatures. About the middle of May I don’t have to scratch my head too hard to remember the ups and downs of winter. But I guess no one ever bets on a sure thing anyway.

sup, Eminence, Louella English, Clayton, Floy Caine, Eminence; a brother, Clarence Collier, Mooresville; 30 grandchildren; 41 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. Mrs. App was preceded in death by her husband; a brother, Kenner Collier; a sister, Mamie Johnson; two grandsons, Nicholas D. App and Kenneth App, and a great-granddaughter, Summer Rose App. Services will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Hopkins-Rec-tor Funeral Home, Greencastle. Pastor Steve Alles will officiate. Calling will be 4-8 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in the Bainbridge Cemetery.

Carl L. Brown

Donald L. Brown, Warrensburg, Mo.; three daughters, Dottie Plattenburg, Excelsior Springs, Arlene Harkins, Branson, Mo., and Janette Furman, Leavenworth, Kan.; 16 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and friend Amelia Stedman, Fillmore. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society.

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Bank robbers

pered with this past April, he said. “They’ve got to know a little bit about the alarm system and the phone line,” Terre Haute’s Riggen said. “It’s just not something you can walk in and do.” Riggen, who has jurisdiction in both the Longden Branch theft and the July 20 armed robbery of Central National Bank’s Putnam Plaza branch in Greencastle, sees “amazing similarities” between the First Citizens incident and a Piqua, Ohio, case reported two weeks later. THE INCIDENT IN PIQUA occurred sometime overnight Aug. 20-21 at the Fifth Third Bank, located in a strip shopping area not unlike Putnam Plaza just off Interstate 75. They disabled the alarm. They went through the roof. They cut a whole at the top of the safe with a saw and/or grinder tool and used torches on the side. They pried out a shelf drawer. Only at Piqua, the bandits hit the bonanza. They made off with $350,000, according to the FBI. Authorities hope that $350,000 will tide them over for a while. Maybe even send them into early retirement. “It’s like hitting the lottery,” one veteran lawman quipped of the Piqua haul. “They’re definitely sophisticated,” Det. Dave Larger of the Piqua Police Department said, noting that the intruders characteristically left their tanks and ladder behind in the western Ohio bank. WHAT MAKES THESE cases tough to crack is that no one has seen the clever thieves. No one has spied a getaway car. No fingerprints have been left at the scene. The thefts have occurred in the dark of night like at 3:20 a.m. at which hour the timer was disabled in Delaware, Ohio. Chief Hanlon thinks “at least three” suspects were involved in the Greencastle heist. He believes they had one man on the roof there was only one set of footprints both on the roof and in the bank along with another man in front of the bank and one behind, all communicating via walkietalkie. Weeds matted down near the Aldi’s store and the

Industry leaders recommending 10 changes to journalism group

The Society of Professional Journalists, now headquartered in downtown Greencastle, should adopt a simpler mission statement, a committee of journalism leaders has proposed. THE STATEMENT should show SPJ’s commitment to “preserving the First Amendment freedoms by promoting and supporting the needs, interests and independence of working journalists and the practice and standards of quality journalism. ” The recommendation is one of 10 outlined Tuesday by the study group. The committee will make the recommendations to SPJ’s national board of directors at the society’s annual convention Oct. 11-14 in Louisville. The journalists studied SPJ’s programs and activities and considered ways the 81-year-old professional organization could serve the journalism community. THE COMMITTEE also said: Programming should be on the cutting edge of issues of compelling interest to working

Recycling

vironmental management and commerce. Grants ranged from SSOO to $15,000. In February, 11 communities received SIOO,OOO in grants. “INDIANA HAS SET a goal of reducing solid waste by 50 percent by 2000,” said Gov. Evan Bayh. The latest round of grants will help local programs begin or expand curbside and drop-off collection of recyclable materials; purchase equipment to crush glass, store recyclable material and load leaves and grass clippings for composting, and develop or promote

and Kellie Monnett, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Lincoln said he purchased five raffle tickets at the Cloverdale Travel Plaza on his way through town. The money raised from the purchase of raffle tickets helped fund the recent Fun Fest. (Banner-Graphic photo by Angie Howland).

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American Legion indicated those were surveillance locations for the gang. The chief believes they arrived in a truck “You don’t put a 20-foot ladder on your car” and parked and walked behind Mallory Capacitor Corp, to avoid the conspicuous presence of a truck at Putnam Plaza in the wee hours of the morning. “There’s also a possibility they disabled the alarm the day before,” Hanlon said, indicating that would have given the intruders a chance to rattle bank doors and windows to see if the alarm would go off. If it didn’t summon police automatically, the thieves knew they had been successful in disabling the warning system. THE SOPHISTICATION OF these crooks includes even their cutting tools. Hanlon explained that the Broco torch they left behind in one attempt reaches temperatures of 10,000 degrees at its cutting tip. “That’s tough enough to cut through the heat shield on the space shuttle,” the chief said, quoting from literature he’s received from the California company that manufactures it Police believe the latest series may be linked to an aborted attempt made in late 1987 at the Irwin Union branch bank Columbus, Ind. It was in Columbus that a hole was cut in the roof and thieves were cutting into the safe when they were scared off by the arrival of a custodian. Chief Hanlon has a videotape of that crime scene, which shows the torches, tanks, ladder, duffel bags, camouflage clothing and black spray paint left behind as the bandits made a hasty retreat. WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT officers repeatedly using such superlatives as clever, sophisticated and thorough, as well as some adjectives unprintable in a family newspaper, a catchy nickname seems in order here. Rooftop Robbers? Hole-in-the-Roof Gang? The Torch Trio? “Just call them thieves,” one Ohio officer suggested. “That’s what they are.”

journalists. SPJ should strengthen freedom of information efforts at local and state levels and publicize its efforts. SPJ should nurture student journalists as an important component of its future. SPJ should prioritize its efforts, to concentrate on freedom of information, ethics and professional development and to emphasize the issue of multi-culturalism. SPJ should make its publication “The Quill" the voice of journalism with a focus on SPJ priorities. SPJ should consider fewer issues with greater impact. SPJ should focus chapters and the national organization on the same priorities. SPJ should work toward a single graduated dues structure. SPJ should create a category of non-voting associates to include public relations practitioners and all other former members not practicing journalism. SPJ governance should be placed in the hands of a reconstruc-

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tured, representative board. Bylaws and board elections should remain a convention decision. MEMBERS OF THE Industry Advisory Committee were David Lawrence, publisher of the Miami Herald-, Paul Steinle, president of Steinle Communications and former president United Press International; John Sicgenthaler, chairman and publisher of The Tennessean in Nashville and editorial director of USA Today, Katherine Fanning, former editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Russell Pulliam, an editorial writer for The Indianapolis News', Jean Gaddy Wilson, executive director of New Directions for News, a newspaper industry think tank at the University of Missouri; Paul Davis, news director of Chicago’s WGN-TV; and Otto, associate editor of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. Fanning said the recommendations are “an opportunity to become relevant to the news industry into the 1990 s and the next century, a very integral, important element”

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Continued from Page 1 to keep working,” he said. “But more money needs to be spent on the arts.” Chiarella began working on his craft at an early age. When he was nine years old, the Chiarella family went to Italy and he said instead of sightseeing, he chose to read. He said his father used to tell him adventure stories and he would rather read than watch television. But it was not until the second semester of his senior year at St. Lawrence University that he actually put his ideas down on paper. He enrolled in a creative writing class and attributes his current success to his first writing professor. CHIARELLA WAS graduated from the small liberal arts school located in Canton, N.Y., with a painting major and went on to graduate school at the University of Alabama.

After his stint in the South and graduating with a masters of fine arts, Chiarella got his first teaching job and came to DePauw in 1988. He teaches a variety of classes, including Introduction to Fiction and Poetry, Contemporary American Literature and Senior Seminar. For Chiarella’s students, every day is an adventure. During his Creative Writing class, he sends his students to a restaurant to write down 50 different smells. Those adjectives are then used in student’s stories. ONE CAN EVEN see Chiarella sitting in the comer of McDonald’s or the Monon Grill with pen and paper doing his own composing. “1 have to lock myself away and write.” In his student evaluations, some of his students describe him as a “grouch.” He replies, “Well, maybe I am,” but this carefree guy just enjoys going with the flow of life. He said living in Greencastle has helped him with his success. “This is such an appealing place to live because I can be friends with professors of sociology, psychology, math and also with police and firemen,” he said. BESIDES BEING IN the classroom, Chiarella can also be found shooting hoops during the noon lunch hour with other DPU professors and playing on Jerry’s Foreign Auto Service softball team. He said he also wants to find a bowling team. Chiarella said his career is very important to him but the most important part of his life is his wife and their nine-month-old baby boy, Gus. “I find my center in my family and not in my career,” he said. But he feels fortunate to be working at DePauw and living in Greencastle. “I have a double life here,” he explained. “I can be a father and husband and also a teacher. I feel my life is completely balanced.” AND HE ATTRIBUTES his successful writing career to the community. “I’ve gotten more written here than many of my friends because of the support I’ve received,” he said. “It’s so nice to come into a state and learn that I’m a valuable member of an artistic community.” Chiarella is rewriting the book one more time and he said hopefully it will be ready to go in a year. Until then, his hair will continue to grow and from now on, he said he will analyze what dares he accepts.

Hospital notes

Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Sunday: Margaret Eisele and son, Kathleen Hudson, Arthur Stewart. ♦ * ♦ New Arrival Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wood, Fillmore, announce the birth of a son, Zachery Cole, bom Aug. 21 at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis. A sister, Jessica, welcomed him home. Maternal grandmother is Amelia Stedman, Fillmore. Paternal grandparents are Albert and Dolly Wood, Bainbridge.

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