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B-Z- -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 198 I Hll I'M ROLANP HEDlEY, A VIM ON THE TODAY WE'RE VISITING AN AMAZING CDUKTKi! A COUNTRY T1rr Ikt yL4C nrrrvr-nr IPSA SP60AL PlACEkHREPECPlE OW 2.3 VCRS PER HOME, APPROVE OF LIPOSUCTION, CANT GET ENOUGH POPCORN. UJA 63 OF US RARELY Briefly rnaavr eat YES. ITS-. Indiana 4 via Saiattun i I FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS TWO HOOSIER BANKS TO BE BOUGHT Liberty National Bancorp Inc. of Louisville.

Kentucky's third-largest bank, has reached an agreement to buy two banks in southern Indiana. The company, which already has five offices in southern Indiana, announced Saturday It will buy First National Bank of Charlestown and First Indiana Dank of Mllltown. First National, with nine offices in Clark. Floyd and Scott counties in Indiana, will be sold for $13.6 million, a Liberty spokesman said. First Indiana, with a single office, will sell 75 percent or its stock to Liberty for $31.68 a share.

A tender offer will be made on the remaining stock and. if all is sold to Liberty, the total cost of the deal will be $792,000. Liberty will also pay $425,000 for property leased by the bank from some of Its stockholders. Both Indiana banks are primarily owned by W. Bennett Collet Sr.

Metropolitan counties Sculpture- Continued from Page 1 assistants struggled to install about 35 clear-plastic buoys. "Time is our biggest surprise. We didn't think it would take so much time." The V-shaped artwork on the eastern edge of the Indiana Dunes National Park Is a startling contrast to the windswept dunes that line the lakeshore. To the west lie the smokestacks of Burns Harbor and to the east stands the cooling tower at the Michigan City power plant. Some might criticize the artwork in between as an intrusion on the pristine dunes.

"I hope it isn't. I look down the beach and see the smokestacks and the big industrial plants, and I think it is important to put in something temporary. Art is an ephemeral thing. It come and it goes," Engelke said. Site art like Engelke's has been done by various artists.

Perhaps the best known Is the work of Chrlsto. who wrapped some Florida islands with pink sheaths. The artist also explained he was motivated by a desire to display his craft to the public. "A painter might go out and paint the dunes, and I try to do to the dunes directly and Impose my own views on the site." The viewer must make his or her own interpretation. "The viewer and I work together In that sense," he said.

Engelke admitted he was apprehensive when he presented the idea to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. But he was pleasantly surprised after his first meeting with William Walters, director of the Division of State Parks. LA m. Artist's drawing of floating sculpture near Indiana Dunes National Park. GREENFIELD GETS NEW LOGO, SLOGAN A new logo and slogan have been developed for Greenfield to help the city promote its name and image for tourism and to attract new residents and business.

Historic buildings and the saying "Greenfield: Experience our past. Share our future." are within the drawing that comprises the logo. It was developed by Greenfield Revitaliza-tion the Chamber of Commerce. Riley Old Home Society and Greenfield city officials, with professional help from Design Group Inc. of Indianapolis.

Intended to portray a unified image of the Hancock County community, the slogan and logo are part of a long-range marketing plan for the city. And next weekend the picture will be used in advertising and T-shirts during the city's Riley Days Festival. The buildings in the logo are all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They Include the boyhood home of Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, the Hancock County Courthouse and the Spanish-style buildings of Ell Lilly and Co. research laboratories at Greenfield.

A silhouette of Riley is In the design. NEW FRANKLIN CENTER OPENS The Adult Child Mental Health Center's new Franklin Center was dedicated Sunday with an open house at the facility next to the Johnson County Memorial Hospital. The non-profit community mental health center, on a 2.8-acre site at 86 Drake Road, consolidates outpatient programs, substance abuse services, older adult services and day treatment programs that had been at two locations in Franklin. The building was constructed on land deeded by the Johnson County Commissioners. It had been scheduled to open in December 1986, but a fire last October delayed plans.

CARMEL TO CONSIDER "ESTATE" ZONING Whether Car-mel and Clay Township residents who want to live on "estates" of at least five acres or developers of such lots need special zoning protection will be considered Tuesday by a committee of the Carmel Plan Commission. A proposal for the special zoning category is intended to maintain rural-agricultural activities and single-family residential use of the large lots. It also would attempt to provide for privacy, use of recreational facilities, keeping of animals and preservation of wildlife. The public is invited to the meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Carmel Meeting Hall.

Obituaries Blackburn B. Combs SerViceS Set Indianapolis Sierra it Continued from Page 1 good guys, and a lot of people in between." The conciliatory approach Graham takes does not sit well with some of his fellow environmentalists. "There are different poles within the environmental community," acknowledged Stant. "There are those that think we should be more confrontation-, al." Graham's pragmatic view may in part be due to a background that Involved both business and environmental protection. For 25 years, he worked in the construction industry in South Bend selling construction materials and later as a -construction project manager.

For 15 of those years, he also was active In the state Sierra Club. He has been chairman of the Hoosier chapter of the national environmental group for the past five years. chairman of the Sierra Club, Graham played a role In the formation of the state's new environmental protection agency. In 1983, Gov. Robert D.

Orr appointed Graham to an advisory panel that examined the state's environmental problems. That group's recommendation for a new state agency resulted In legislation that created the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Now, 15 months after its inception. Graham has joined the state agency he helped form. Graham acknowledges that some of the people he will be dealing with may not trust him.

ironically, for opposite reasons members of environmental groups because they think he has sold out and businessmen, because of his Sierra Club background. But he thinks those reactions will be in a minority. So far. Graham said, he has heard mostly positive comments his appointment. "No one has come up and said, 'Oh.

Bob. you sold out tp them." said Graham. As the new director of external affairs for the department. Graham has undertaken a challenging job. He joins the fledgling agency at a time when It is still struggling with many of the problems that plagued the State Board of Health when It held responsibility for state environmental protection.

Already, two of the five assistant commissioners appointed by DEM Commissioner Nancy Malo-ley a little more than a year ago have left the agency. Other key personnel. Including Graham's predecessor in the external affairs office, also have departed. The agency also has come under criticism from several vocal citizens groups, including the STOP group fighting to close Four County Landfill near Rochester. And an old.

ugly plague lack of funding has reared Its head again. After only a couple days on the Job, however. Graham had positive things to say about his new employer. "There's a lot going on here," he said. "There's a lot that even the chairman of the Sierra Club didn't know about.

The agency is doing a Job. Can it be done better? Of course it can. Any Job can be done better." In his new Job. Graham will operate a kind of outreach program for the department, meeting with industries, businessmen, environmentalists, citizen groups and anyone else Interested In the environment. Graham said he hopes to engender debate about "the way we live and its environmental impacts." Graham also intends to have some voice in policy-setting for the agency, using the things he hears from people out In the state.

"Maybe people will perceive me as someone from their camp who's In the middle of It." he said. And education, a second part of Graham's new job. could be his most important function. "We're Hoosiers. we're conservative." he observed.

"Just because the DEM was created, the state didn't flip over and become California. There has been a lot of environmental law written in the last decade, but it won't help until people understand 'it applies to I'd like to start the process of simplifying it." stand up to a lot of different conditions be It the heat or the sun, heavy rainstorms something that will last through a lot of waves," said Dow spokesman R. Mark Davis. Dow also donated $5,000 and provided housing at Michigan City for Engelke and his crew as well as technical support, Davis said. In addition to Dow, Purdue's Center for Artistic Endeavors is supporting the effort.

Engelke and his assistant, Chris C. Braund, who will live in a tent on the dunes overlooking the sculpture until it Is dismantled, assembled the 12-foot-tall cones over countless hours. Beulah M. Baker Sheridan, Ind. Services for Beulah M.

Shirley Baker. 77. Sheridan, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Kercheval Funeral Home, with calling from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

today. She died Saturday in Riverview Hospital, Noblesville. She was a member of Hills Baptist Church, Pickard. She was born in Boone County and had lived in Indianapolis 10 years. She was the widow of Sidney B.

Baker. Survivors: sons, Forest E. and D. Keith Baker; daughters, Clarabelle Cooper. Phyllis Marsh, Barbara Bragg, Jamie McKinzie and Linda Storms; brother.

Levi Shirley: 34 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren. Andy R. Cary Graveside services for Andy R. Cary. 81, Indianapolis, will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday in Park Cemetery, Greenfield, with calling from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday In Flanner Buchanan Farley West Morris Street Mortuary. He died Saturday in Methodist Hospital.

He was born In Cumberland County, and lived In Indianapolis 45 years. He had been a factory worker for International Harvester now Navistar International 23 years, retiring in 1968. He was the widower of Frankie Armstrong Cary. Survivors: daughter. Alma Logan: one grandson; one great-granddaughter.

Levi T. Etter Greenwood. Ind. Levi T. Etter, 90, a lifelong Johnson County resident, died Sunday In a Greenwood nursing home.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Flinn and Magulre Funeral Home, Franklin, with calling from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. He had been a self-employed contractor, retiring in 1970.

He was a member of Mount Pleasant Christian Church, American Legion Post 205 of Franklin, and the Forty and Eight. He was an Army veteran of World War I. Survivors: wife, Fay Paris Etter; son, Wayne Etter: daughters. Janice Griffith and Betty Costln; sister, Dulcie Canary Harter; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Jennie Hankins Jamestown, Ind.

Services for Jennie Camplln Hankins, 81, a lifelong Jamestown resident and retired elementary school teacher, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Porter Funeral Home. Calling will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

She died Saturday in Witham Memorial Hospital. She taught at elementary schools In Advance, Dover and Jamestown, retiring after 41 years. She was a graduate of Butler University and had attended Indiana State University. She was a member of Jamestown United Methodist Church and Order of Eastern Star. Survivors: daughter, Carol Ann Hankins; sisters, Roberta Mucho and Nina Jones.

"He said this Is another way to perceive beauty and nature and that's what the state parks are all about," Engelke said. Engelke also had to secure approval from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard. And notification was made to the Save the Dunes Council and other environmental groups. The artist also convinced Dow Chemical Co. that the CALIBRE polycarbonate sheets manufactured by Dow's Engineering Thermoplastics Department and used in tumblers and appliance housings would be the perfect material for the sculpture.

"Dan needed a material to for women slain in home on Eastside Services for Mary E. Knight McCarty, 56, and her daughter. J. McCarty. 21.

both of Indianapolis, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in North Eastwood Christian Church, of which they were members. Calling will be from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday In Feeney-Hornak Shadeland Mortuary.

They died in their Eastside home Thursday or early Friday, according to Indianapolis police, who are investigating the deaths as homicides. Mrs. McCarty recently became a bookkeeper at the Beech Grove Health Care Center. She had been a bookkeeper about 20 years In health care centers owned by ARA Services Inc. She was a native of Buffalo, N.Y., but lived In Indianapolis most of her life.

Miss McCarty had been a cashier about three months for Central Hardware Co. and formerly was a lifeguard In the Natatorlum at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. She was a lifelong Indianapolis resident and was a member of the church's choir. Survivors for Mrs. McCarty: daughter, Valerie Kern; sister.

Nanclanne Turner: brother. Gary L. Gowan; stepfather. Loren G. Gowan.

Survivors for Miss McCarty, besides her sister, Mrs. Kern: father, Harold L. McCarty; stepmother. Alice McCarty. More obituaries on Page D4 Laura E.

Chafey Services for Laura Elizabeth Sloop Chafey, 79. Bradenton. will be at 2 p.m. today in Brown Funeral Home, Bradenton. She died Friday In Blake Memorial Hospital, Bradenton.

She was born in Greene County and lived in Indianapolis from 1945-71 be-' fore moving to Florida. She had been a third grade teacher 30 years, the last 18 years at the Delaware Trails Elementary School before retiring in 1970. She graduated from Madame Blaker's Teachers College and Butler University. She was the widow of Frank A. Chafey.

Survivors: son. Frank D. Chafey; daughter, Shirley J. Surdi; three grandchildren; one great-grand daughter. MISS CIRCLE CITY CLASSIC CROWNED Sharl Hubert, a senior at Ben Davis High School, was named Princess Circa of the Circle City Classic in a pageant Sunday afternoon in the Madame Walker Urban Life Center.

Among her prizes were a $700 college scholarship and a color television. She will preside over a gala Friday night at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis and a parade beginning at noon Saturday at North and Pennsylvania streets. But the main attraction is the 4 p.m. football game between Tennessee State University and Central State (Ohio) University at the Hoosier Dome. First runner-up was LaRae Simpson, a senior at Ben Davis High School.

She received a $250 scholarship and other gifts. Second runner-up was Erica Lusco of Wilkinson. She is a senior at Eastern Hancock High School. She received a $200 scholarship and other gifts. NEW CATHEDRAL KITCHEN HAS GRAND OPENING More than 60 people attended the grand opening celebration Sunday at the new Cathedral Kitchen, a volunteer-run feeding program for the homeless.

An estimated 200 homeless people also were served lunch Sunday at the new kitchen In the lower level of the former Cathedral Elementary School, 1340 North Pennsylvania Street. The Cathedral Kitchen had been in the nearby Cathedral Social Center. The new space was offered to volunteers by the Rev. Gerald A. Gettelfinger of SS.

Peter and Paul Cathedral. Members of the Sheet Metal Workers Local 20. Painters Local 47, Electricians Local 481, Bricklayers Local 3, Carpenters District Council and Plumbers Local 440 volunteered their time to get the facility ready. Cathedral Kitchen serves hot meals to more than 200 people every Sunday. Weekly cooking, and serving crews are drawn from volunteers from Catholic parishes throughout Indianapolis.

The program began in January 1983. Services for Blackburn B. Combs. 68. Indianapolis, will be at 1 p.m.

Thursday In Stuart Mortuary, with calling from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday. He died Saturday In St. Francis Hospital Center.

Born in Hazard, he lived in Indianapolis 15 years. He had been employed by Reilly Tar Chemical Corp. 10 years, retiring In 1982. Previously, he had been a coal miner 33 years. He was a member of Town Mountain Baptist Church, Hazard, and a member of its choir and brotherhood.

He was an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife. Anna M. Williams Combs: sons, Michael B. and Cannon R.

Combs; daughters, Ellena Combs and Pamela S. Dixon; sisters. Edna dinger and Fle-dia Cornett: brother, Will Lunce; two grandchildren. Billie F. Foster Services for Billie F.

Foster. 55. Indianapolis, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday In Dorsey and Doty Mortuary, with calling from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

today and 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. He died Saturday In Methodist Hospital. He was born in Huntsville, and had lived in Indianapolis since 1958.

He had been manager of a Blue White service station 10 years, retiring in 1977, He was a member of Tuxedo Park Baptist Church, of which he was a deacon. He also was a member of Irvington Masonic Lodge, Irvington Chapter of the Order of the East ern Star, Scottish Rite, High 12 Club and Murat Shrine. He was founder of Man of Job Scholarship Fund of Indiana and past associate guardian at Irvington Job's Daughters Bethel 18. Survivors: wife. Margaret Osborne Foster; daughter, Mary E.

Foster; stepmother, Margaret Foster. Bradley R. Harris Morristown, Ind. Services for Bradley Ray Harris, 25, Morris-town, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday In Carmony Funeral Home, Shelbyvllle.

with calling from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. today. He died Saturday morning In an automobile accident In Hancock County. He was a member of the Sons of the American Legion, Wlllard Hensley Post in Morristown.

He was a drywall hanger for Building Service Drywall In Indianapolis. He was born in Shelbyville and lived In Morristown most of his life. Survivors: father, Dan R. Harris; stepmother, Sandy L. Harris; mother, Nancy L.

Tribby Johns; stepfather, James R. Johns: brothers. Brian R. and Jeremy D. Harris; sisters.

Laura L. Shannon, Melissa Woolard and Jill R. Johns: grandparents. Warren and Betty J. Tribby, Ruth Harris.

Judgi if Continued from Page 1 the (tax) court will have," Long said. He noted the tax board has appealed several of Fisher's decisions to the Supreme Court, including one concerning whether a fraternal organization qualified for property tax exemptions. Fisher said he expects cases to be appealed. "I'm an unknown and the bar still needs to know whether I'm on track or not. and the only way you're going to find that out is in the Supreme Court." One ruling by Fisher already has been upheld by the state's highest court.

Other appeals are pending. "If I keep up the line of affirmances, everybody Is going to have more confidence in my decisions and, likewise, if I get reversed, I'm going to know that I need to think about- something, a particular issue, a little bit differently." Revenue Commissioner M.F. "Bud" Renner Is convinced the. Tax Court "is going to help us out." But he noted the effect of the court has not hit. He predicted the reassessment will engulf the court with cases.

In fact, Renner believes the court should be expanded from one Judge to three. Fisher said the attorney general's office forecast he would average a caseload of about 150, Instead of the approximately 60 cases pending. "I'm not so sure we'll get that high because we are moving them faster (than the local courts did)," he said. Fisher. 47, will face a retention vote in the 1988 general election.

If voters retain him. Fisher, who is married and the father of two children, will have a 10-year term on thj bench..

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