Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 61, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 November 1990 — Page 14

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 13,1990

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City Police A three-vehicle accident resulted in several thousands dollars in property damage Monday morning on U.S. 231 South. It was one of seven accidents Greencastle City Police worked over the Veterans’ Day holiday weekend. According to Officer Don Rumley’s report, the 10:10 a.m. accident occurred as Roberta Crawley, 50, Bainbridge, was northbound on 231 and stopped to turn left into the McClure Oil station. The driver told police she thought she had employed her turn signal. However, Gerald Locke Jr., 42, Greenwood, said he never saw a turn signal. Crawley’s 1988 Chevrolet stopped suddenly ahead of him and all Locke could do, he said, was swerve his 1989 Kenworth truck to the right. THE TRUCK STRUCK the Crawley car in the rear, pushing it into the southbound lane of U.S. 231, where it was struck by a 1984 Chevrolet truck, driven by William E. Kirby, 65, Indianapolis. Damage to the Crawley car was estimated at $5,000-$ 10,000, while damage to the Kirby truck was listed at $2,500-$5,000. Rumley estimated damage to Locke’s truck at sl,ooo-$2,500. Major property damage was also reported in an accident at 1:12 a.m. Sunday at the American Legion post on Indianapolis Road. According to Sgt. Terry Eastham’s report, James Terry White, 43, Route 1, Reelsville, was driving a 1986 Ford F-350 boom truck, owned by PSI Energy. He tried to drive under the canopy of the Legion post entrance when the truck struck the structure. White, who was cited for leaving the scene of an accident, told police he didn’t think any damage had occurred. HOWEVER, THE police report indicates a beam holding the canopy was broken, guttering tom down and concrete blocks dislodged from the spot where the canopy was attached to the building. Damage to the Legion structure was estimated at $5,000SIO,OOO. Damage to the PSI-owned truck was listed at S2OO-SI,OOO. Two additional accidents were investigated Monday by Rumley. At 11:45 a.m., a minor twovehicle mishap occurred on Indianapolis Road, 125 feet east of Franklin Street as Glenda Mager, 33, Gosport, was motioned from the McDonald’s restaurant exit by another driver, only to pull her 1986 Chevrolet into the path of a 1988 Chevrolet truck, driven by Tim Powell, 37, Cloverdale. Powell was westbound in the lane that veers off onto Franklin Street when the collision occurred. Damage to both vehicles was listed at S2OO-SI,OOO. At 8:50 a.m., a 1990 Oldsmobile, driven by Beth A. Hurley, 33, Route 4, Greencastle, collided with a piece of railroad equipment crossing West Walnut Street at the CSX tracks, 300 feet west of Gillespie Street ACCORDING TO Rumlcy’s report, no red warning flasher was activated when a rail tic cart, operated by Scott Huddleston, 30, Romney, was crossing West Walnut behind another piece of railroad equipment. Hurley said she saw no warning signal and did not see the railroad tie cart as she drove her car over the crossing. Damage to the Hurley car was estimated at sl,ooo-$2,500, while damage to the CSX Railroad cart was listed at less than S2OO. A SATURDAY NIGHT accident resulted in the arrest of two 20-year-old rural Greencastle men, police reported Tuesday. The incident occurred at 10:29 p.m. as Mark T. Driggs, 22, Missouri, was backing out of the Andy’s Southside Liquors lot on Apple Street, 25 feet east of Bloomington Street. Driggs’ 1988 Volkswagen Rabbit was struck by a 1990 Ford truck, driven by Robert L. Richardson, 20, Route 5, Greencastle. Sgts. Mike Hanlon and Eastham said Richardson backed up from the stopsign at Apple and Bloomington, struck the Driggs car and left the scene. The collision was reportedly witnessed by a pair of reserve deputies. Richardson was charged with a felony count of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor and leaving the scene of an accident. HIS PASSENGER, William Sean Fox, 20, also of Route 5, was charged with illegal consumption by a minor. Damage to the Richardson vehicle was estimated at less than

S2OO, while damage to the Driggs car was listed at S2OO-$ 1,000. A pair of Friday evening accidents were reported by City Police. At 6:19 p.m., Amy Small, 16, 630 Medallion Drive, Greencastle, was attempting to pass a bus parked at the curb at Seminary and Locust streets when the right front comer of her 1986 Plymouth Voyager struck the rear of the 1979 International bus, owned by Richard Patten, Route 1, Tangier, and operated by Connie J. Fisher, 38, Bloomingdale. DAMAGE TO THE Small car was estimated at Sl,ooo-$2,500, while Officer Darrin Cox listed no damage to the bus. Capt. Paul Wilson worked a twovehicle mishap at Maple and Main streets at 4:37 p.m. Friday as Tisha Chew, 21, Route 1, Reelsville, attempted to pull out of a driveway at Maple Terrace Apartments. Her brakes were ineffective, she said, and her 1983 Chevrolet Chevette entered the street in front of a 1986 Pontiac, driven by Wayne R. Runnells, 54, 611 Howard St., Greencastle. Damage to both cars was estimated at S2OO-$ 1,000. CITY OFFICERS MADE a pair of alcohol-related arrests Sunday morning. Eric N. Stisser, 19, Bishop Roberts Hall, DcPauw University, was arrested at 3:29 a.m. at Wood and Washington streets. Officers Eastham and Hanlon charged Stisser with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor. At 4:04 a.m., Matthew Cobaugh, 20, Oxford, Ohio, was arrested by Sgt. Hanlon on Locust Street. Cobaugh was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and illegal consumption by a minor. One traffic citation was written Sunday by city officers as Paul D. Clark, 23, 411 E. Walnut St., Greencastle, was ticketed by Sgt. Hanlon at 2:28 a.m. for disregarding a stopsign at College Avenue and Hanna Street. Sheriff’s Dept. Blinding lights from an oncoming car caused a one-vehicle accident Monday, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department reports. Herman A. Campbell, 88, Route 3, Greencastle was attempting to turn right onto County Road 350 North from U.S. 231 when he was blinded by lights from a southbound vehicle at 7 p.m. Monday. Campbell told Deputy Tom Helmer that he became disoriented and while turning his 1981 Oldsmobile, he drove off the road, striking a highway reflector pole and stop sign before finally coming to rest atop a concrete drainage structure. Campbell’s car sustained an estimated S2OO-SI,OOO in damage. A BLOWN TIRE caused another one-vehicle crash at 12:30 a.m. Monday. Mitchell S. Miller, 28, Route 3, Greencastle said he was southbound on U.S. 231 near County Road 100 North when the left front tire of his 1984 Chevrolet Chevette blew out. The car swerved to the left, hit a bank and turned onto its top. Mitchell was injured in the incident. A LADOGA WOMAN was victim to a burglary and theft incident at her residence Monday. Roberta Crosby, Route 2, Ladoga, reported that subjects entered a locked rear door of the house and took a Sharp VCR and a kerosene heater. Estimated loss was listed at $650. Crosby told Deputy Michael Biggs she has had several unreported thefts in the past. The case is under investigation. SEVERAL PEOPLE were arrested over the Veterans’ Day holiday, Putnam County Jail officials reported. Mary Butterfield, 23, and Dean Thibodeau, 21, both of New Hampshire, were arrested for theft at 8:30 p.m. Sunday by Sheriff Gerry Hoffa and Deputy Danny Wallace. They are currently housed in the Putnam County Jail. Laura L. Pinney, was arrested 8:15 p.m. by Greencastle Police Officer Paul Wilson for a violation of probation. Timothy J. Schurick, 611 S. Chicago Ave., Brazil, was arrested by Cloverdale Patrolman Ken Grundlock at 11:58 p.m. Sunday for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He registered a .14 in blood-alcohol content testing (.10 is considered legally intoxicated in Indiana). Schurick has been released from the jail.

Cloverdale Continued from Page 1 shored up. “If you had known about that wall before,” Ranard said, “You would have been holding your breath until you signed the contracts, hoping it would stand up.” He said it had been shored up to keep as much weight as possible off of it until it can be replaced. THE WALL WILL BE replaced with an eight-inch wall reinforced with grout and steel, Ranard said. He said he thought that would be a stronger wall than the 12-inch thick wall that was planned. And it is preferable to Verkier, the general contractor. To put in a 12-inch thick wall, Ranard said, a ditch at least five feet deep and at least five feet wide would have to be dug so workers could get down deep enough to make the wall 12-inches thick from bottom to top. The wall is the third change order so far in the project, and Ranard said the school system has yet to spend more than $3,000 on change orders. Ranard and McKinney both said that was an unusually low amount for a project of this size. RANARD SAID HE DID not expect many more change orders and those that have cropped up have not caused a delay in the project. But one change order still looming is one at the elementary school, and it could cost as much as all of the other change orders combined. A new drainage swale will have to be constructed on the southeast comer of the elementary. That is the end near the classrooms. McKinney said he is currently negotiating with Odle, McGuire and Shook over the cost of that work, though. “I think the school system has a point when we say that should have been foreseen,” McKinney said. THE PROBLEM IS that the four new classrooms and two new restrooms that are going to be tacked on to that end will be built over the current drainage swale. That means draining water will have to be re-routed, and and new swale will have to be built to handle that. McKinney said the CCSC is willing to share that cost with the architects, but does not feel that the entire cost should be covered by a change order affecting the money behind the project. Other school board action will be covered in a future article.

Elderly abuse topic for Thursday meeting

“Elder abuse has been virtually ignored by the federal government, even in the face of mounting evidence of its scope and severity. Without meaningful federal support to prevent, detect and treat it, elder abuse .... remains a national disgrace.” This is a statement from a House subcommittee report last May. THE COMMITTEE reported an annual increase from one million cases to 1.5 million in the last 10 years, adding that it is estimated that only one in five cases were reported in 1980, while only one in eight are reported now. In its survey of social workers and states the panel found thousands of accounts of abuse from theft of Social Security checks to violent physical abuse including murder and rape. In 1988, there were 2,662 reported cases of elder abuse in Indiana. Based on the national ratio of reported to unreported cases that would mean there were more accurately 133,145 cases that year. OFTEN THE ABUSERS are the children on whom older persons are dependent. The committee illustrated such abuse with photographs of persons who had been kicked and hit by their adult children or attacked with knitting needles and knives. Other incidents reported were of cars being stolen and food being denied as well as neglect of other basic needs.

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An Indiana Main Street Public-Private Partnership Award was presently recently to Main Street Greencastle and other organizations involved in the Partnership Center at 2 S. Jackson St. Accepting the award during the fifth annual Indiana Main Street Conference at Indianapolis are (front, from left) Bonnie West, Main Street Greencastle president; Jerry Williams, Putnam County Foundation treasurer; Ken Eitel, Main Street Greencastle chairman; (back, from left) Tom Boese, Main Street Greencastle vice president; Cindy McCammack, Main Street Greencastle project manager; Bob Evans, Putnam

Main Street committee. “It has been a very successful program here,” she said, “and I feel very comfortable in being able to attain those goals for die community.” In recent years, Miss McCammack said she’d sneak a peek downtown on periodic trips to visit her grandmother or father Glenn McCammack of Belle Union and mother Jackie Wilson, now of Boone County. Her mother, a Greencastle native, is the daughter of Raymond and Lucille Spurlock. And on those recent visits, Miss McCammack liked what was going on in Greencastle. So much so, that she’s not only decided to work in the heart of the city but to live here as well. “ALL OF MY PERSONAL and professional needs will be within walking distance,” she says of her nearby apartment. Citing the importance of the Courthouse, library and post office as traffic generators and the stability of downtown anchors like Sears, Dollar General and J.C. Penney, the future is as bright as the past in her eyes. “I have no doubt in my mind that Greencastle will continue to grow into an enthusiastic and viable retail and service center,” she stressed. “There are certainly a lot of opportunities ahead of us. “It’s good to be home.”

The most commonly reported types of abuse are physical violence and financial abuse, followed by psychological abuse and denial of basic human rights. WHAT CAN WE DO tc prevent such abuse from continuing and increasing.? “Report it,” counsels Virginia Sinn, investigator for Adult Protective Services in Putnam and five other counties. BECAUSE OF ITS concern in preventing and reducing family violence, Putnam County Family Support Services (PCFSS), a United Way Agency, partially funded by Indiana Human Services, in cooperation with the Putnam County Council on Aging will present an evening of information on Elder Abuse with Virginia Sinn as the featured speaker. The meeting will be held Nov. 15 at Putnam County Senior Citizen Center, 9 W. Franklin St., Greencastle. At 6:30 p.m., PCFSS will hold its annual membership meeting. All those who are members of PCFSS are urged to attend in order to approve the budget for next year, vote for new officers and approve new board members. At 7 p.m., the program on elder abuse will begin. THE PUBLIC IS urged to attend in order to learn more about the extern, of the problem, the law, how to report and what happens after a report is made.

County Foundation president and chairman of the Policy Committee for the Putnam County Partnership for Community Development, and Nelson Ford, representing Greencastle Chamber of Commerce as Policy Committee member, Putnam Partnership. The Partnership Center houses the offices of the Greencastle Development Center, Main Street Greencastle, Putnam County United Way, Greencastle Chamber of Commerce, Putnam County Foundation and the Western Regional Office of the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana.

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Main Street reception set 5-7 p.m. Thursday Main Street Greencastle Inc. invites the public to attend a 5-7 p.m. reception honoring its new project manager, Cindy McCammack, Thursday, Nov. 15. The reception will be held at the Putnam County Partnership Center, 2 S. Jackson St., Greencastle.

Obituary Amy R. Shipley Amy R. Shipley, 5, died Thursday in Crown Point, Ind. She was bom in Indianapolis June 12, 1985. Her parents are Gary D. Shipley of Crown Point and Rhonda Hanlon Shipley, Indianapolis. In addition to her parents, survivors include two sisters, Danielle and Krista Shipley, both of Crown Point; her grandparents, Bob and Hope Hanlon, Coatesville and Alex and Bulah Shipley, Clayton; her great-grand-parents, Randy Daniel and Lee and Katie Hanlon, all of Coatesville. Private graveside services were held Monday at Coatesville Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Ronald McDonald House, 1235 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis. Wingler Funeral Home, Coatesville, handled funeral arrangements.

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Hospital notes Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Sunday: Rosemary Suzette Bault, Spencer. Dismissed Monday: Catherine Alexander, Greencastle; Jessie Lucas, Cloverdale.

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