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Page A2 Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana, Friday, December 4,1998 Violinist Continued from Page A1 OBITUARIES Musician To Perfomi Dec. 12 In Delphi DELPHI Heidi Olson will perform "A Christmas Response" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, at Delphi Methodist Church. The 90-minute concert will include actors portraying various Biblical characters' responses to the birth of Christ as well as a variety of Christmas selections performed by Olson, She will be accompanied by her father, David, a pianist, and a number of other musicians.

Admission is free. and minoring in music. Two years ago, she landed a job at Camp Tecumseh working with its outdoor education program. As a special treat, Olson pulls out her violin and performs atcampfires. But those haven't been her only gigs.

The assistant outdoor education director also has played at the Delphi Public Library, a number of local churches and coffee houses as well as with the Lafayette Symphony, Lying on her couch one night, Olson says she had an idea. She wanted to give something back to the community that has been so welcoming to her. "So, I thought, 'Why not give a concert to bless the community during the Olson placed a call to Delphi Methodist Church and pitched the idea to the pastor, who, in turn, gave her the thumbs up. There was just one catch. She wasn't quite sure what kind of concert to perform.

That idea, she says, came to her later while she was jogging. Called "A Christmas Response," the concert will be broken down into four parts. And each part, she explains, will start with an actor portraying a Biblical character's response to the birth of Christ The first response will be that of obedience, humbleness and submission and will feature Mary and Joseph, Olson will then perform seletions such as "Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Away In A Manger." The second response will be praise and announcement with angels and shepherds and the music will include Come All Ye Faithful" and "Angels We Have Heard On High." And the third response of pride versus humility will be acted out by King Herod and the Three Wise Men, and the fourth one, praise and proclamation of the truth, will be told through Anna and Simeon and feature "Joy To The World." It's all an inspiration of the Lord, Olson says. "And it's just to bless the community and honor the Lord, who has given me these gifts and talents. So I want to do this to please Him." LOTTERIES, i as Hoosier lottery Thursday's drawing Daily Three: 6-0-3 Daily Four: 0-5-6-6 Lucky Five: 1-13-16-30-34- Saturday's drawing Lotto Cash Jackpot: $6 million Hoosier Lottery Hotline: (900) 420-CASH (There will be a tee lor this call) Powerball Thursday's drawing Cash 4 Life: 3-11-69-73 Saturday's drawing Powerball Jackpot: $12 million Illinois Lottery Saturday's drawing Lotto Cash Jackpot: $4 million GRAIN PRICES These are the Indiana cash grain prices as of closing Thursday, Information is courtesy of The Andersons' Clymers branch.

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5150 Photography Steve Summers Ext. 5142 Sports Dave Brown Ext. 5113 FAX Newsroom (219) 732-5070 Advertising-(219) 732-5050 Clara Ella Kroft Record Dorothy M. Swindell MARTINSVILLE Services for Clara Ella Kroft Record, 99, of Kennedy Living Center, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Neal Summers Mortuary, 110 E.

Poston Road. Mrs. Record died at 12:22 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1,1998, in Morgan County Memorial Hospital.

Born Aug. in Pulaski County, she was the daughter of Henry J. and Fredericka Wilhelmina Becker Kroft, On June 27,1928, in Morocco, she was married to William Jacks'on Record, who died 1953. She was a 1918 graduate of Winamac High School and a 1922 graduate of Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. Moving from Medaryville, Mrs, Record had lived in Martinsville since 1928 and had been a resident of the Kennedy Living Center for the past five-and-a-half years.

She was a home economics and English teacher in Medaryville, Edwardsport, Eminence and Monrovia for several years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church, the Tri Mu Sunday School Class and the Pearce-Darby Church Circle. Mrs. Record also was a member of the Martinsville Women's Club, Department Club and the Order of Eastern Star in Medaryville. She also was a 4- leader for several years, She enjoyed reading and.

clipping newspaper articles for friends. Surviving are one son, William Jackson Record Martinsville; one daughter, Laura Ann Record Ervin, Winter Haven, six grandchildren, Robin Sundstrom, Massachusetts, Jeanne Smith, Louisiana, Bill Record III, California, Ann Comfort, New York, Jacque Bhalla, Connecticut, and Suzanne Reese, Florida; four step- grandchildren, Deborah Nash, Nevada, Kimberly Mendenhall, Ohio, Lynne Cox, Martinsville, and Keith Nash, Mississippi; seven great-grandchildren; and eight stepgreat-grandchildren. One daughter, Mabel Jane Record; three brothers, Frederick Arthur H. and Kenneth A. Kroft; and three sisters, Emma D.

Kroft, Mabel M. Kroft and her twin, Lillie C. Hartman, preceded in death. The Rev. Emery Parks will officiate at the services.

Burial will be in West Newton Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. until the time of services Saturday in the mortuary. Continued from Page A1 I Weinstein said they would rather see the entire kitchen area rebuilt, as proposed in the hospital's long-term master plan.

Borings drilled earlier this week in the kitchen located moisture underneath more than 10 places surrounding the area known as the dish room. The room is in the 1957 wing known as the building and is the oldest part of the facility. The kitchen is in the lowest portion of the building, and the outbreak of flies was traced to moisture under the surface of the floor. Further tests uncovered fly larvae several feet beneath the surface of the kitchen floor. Until the kitchen can be rebuilt, a stopgap plan will be used to provide food for patients, staff and visitors.

The board approved the temporary leasing of the former Al's Family Restaurant building for $3,500 a month. The move will allow the hospital kitchen staff to prepare meals at the restaurant on Burlington Avenue to be transr ported to the hospital. The lease is expected to run more than 90 days. Memorial President and CEO George Poor said the staff recommendation to rebuild the kitchen is "aggressive" but one that will solve short-term and. long-term problems for the hospital.

"Let's just cure the ills we've got in the area right now," Poor told the board. After the meeting, board members toured the kitchen area. Memorial has prohibited food, beverages and plants in the hospital since an outbreak of Phorid "humpback" flies became too much for hospital officials to handle. Memorial's Keith Dunkel said the hospital had already been pro-active in its pest management program before the small flies first appeared in the kitchen Nov. 12.

By Nov. 16, the problem had become so bad that the pest control firm that serves the hospital, Orkin, was called to the facility. Efforts to find problems with broken water or sewer lines were unsuccessful, and by Nov. 19, the kitchen was sprayed with a pest fog. The flies were still there a day later, arid on Nov.

23, the fog was sprayed a second time. By Nov. 25, the flies were found in an electrical access panel near the pharmacy. Two days later, when a block was removed from a wall in the food service director's office, thousands of flies entered the room. "You looked at the wall and it looked like pepper moving," Dunkel said.

By Monday, the problem had become so serious that despite the staff's best efforts to protect food, flies were found on hamburgers and salads. The kitchen was Dunkel said the kitchen area had odor problems for several years, but the odor was only in evidence at certain times of the year. The source of the water underneath" 1 the floor has not been determined. "The pests are really the symptom," he said. Dave Kitchell may be contacted at 7225000, Ext, 5150, or via e-mail at'.

MARION Services for Dorothy M. Swindell, 81, of Marion, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in St. Paul Catholic Church. Mrs.

Swindell died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1998, in Marion General Hospital. Surviving are several nieces and nephews, including her niece Joan Mucker, Logansport. Needham-Storey Funeral Service, North Chapel, is in charge of arrangements: Lester Henry Cair II ROCHESTER Graveside services for Lester Henry Carr II, 59, formerly of Rochester, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Rochester IOOF Cemetery Mr.

Carr died at 4:07 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, .1998, in John Peter Smith Memorial Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas. Pastor David Dittman will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 9 a.m.

until the time of services Saturday in Foster Good Funeral Home. Proposals Continued from Page A1 school earlier and seek funding for all-day kindergarten. Reed said the proposals were "investments, not expenditures" to better prepare children for their academic years; "What we want to say is our doors are open, come to us, bring us your children and we will work with them," she said at a Statehouse news conference packed with lawmakers, educators and parents. Caston Elementary School kindergarten teacher Marilyn Pace, who remembers when the legislature first phased the enrollment cutoff from Sept. 1 to June 1, said she prefers the Sept.

1 cutoff. She added that the shift to June 1 the earliest enrollment cutoff in the nation was made against the recommendation of a lot of early childhood educators. For Pace, the issue boils down to experiences: A lot of children don't get important developmental experiences at home. "We can provide the experiences that they're not getting," she said. But and it's a very important "but" Pace only favors pushing back the enrollment cutoff if schools keep providing "developmentally appropriate" programs.

Youngsters should not be asked to do first-grade work in kindergarten, she said. "We cannot expect kids to do 7- and 8-year- old tasks when they're 5 years old," she said. Galveston Elementary School kindergarten teacher Patsi Hendricks, on the other hand, does not want to see the enrollment date pushed back to Sept. 1, aaTft M. Over the last 25 years, she IwSiWrcea the program becommgTnoTe academ- "ierlSTEP test scores, in part, have fueled the change.

Even though those tests are given to third- and sixth-graders, not kindergartners, "the pressure to improve still filters down," Hendricks said. And though teachers try to make all activities developmentally appropriate, kids still need a certain amount of skill development to do certain tasks. "I just think that the majority of them are going to be more successful," Hendricks said. In her experience, kids that are a little older are more ready both skill wise and emotionally and more able to be successful. They're more ready to separate from their parents and stay on task, she said.

Hendricks added that since the enrollment cutoff changed to June 1, she and Southeastern's other kindergarten teachers have only had one child they considered retaining. Before the switch, they had several youngsters they considered holding back. She said she has never seen a child hurt by being a year older when they start kinder. garten, but she has seen them hurt if they're not quite ready. They see they're not quite able to do tilings their classmates do, she said.

"They put pressure on themselves," she said. Hendricks and Pace might disagree about the enrollment cutoff, but they both think that full-day kindergarten would be a positive change. "A full-day program, I think, would be much more child-oriented because you'd have much more flexibility and more time for pne- on-one instruction," said Hendricks, who unsuccessfully proposed a full-day program at Southeastern a couple of years ago. Pace, who teaches Caston's extended-day kindergarten class, approves as long as it remains optional for school corporations. "Again it gives them experiences that they may not otherwise be getting," she said.

Proponents of the legislation have said that school corporations will still be able to choose whether or not to offer full-day programs something about 65 of the 294 corporations currently provide. But Eastern Pulaski Superintendent Dr. Bob KHtzman doubts that full-day kindergarten would be truly optional. He said parents will pressure schools to offer full-day programs- "I think parents are going to see the value, he said, "They're going to want (their children) to get in school to get a good education." Conceptually, full-day kindergarten is hard to argue against, he said. He added that in today society, many parents have to work and are not home to provide young children with educational experiences, such as cooking with them and reading to them.

It makes sense, then, that schools would be the ones to provide the experiences, Klitzman said. "But at what price?" he said. "The expenses as you look at it go on and Eastern Pulaski, for example, would have to undertake a $2.25 million building project to offer full-day kindergarten. That's the estimated cost of building and equipping the four more classrooms needed to accommodate morning and afternoon kindergartners at the sanietirne. Miami County Woman Killed In Crash PERU Leta M.

Eisenhower, 73, of Route 5, Peru, was pronounced dead at the scene of an accident at the intersection of U.S. 31 and Miami" County Road SOON, at 1 p.m. Thursday. According to Indiana State Police, Peru Post, Eisenhower was driving her car eastbound on county road 500S, attempting to cross the southbound lanes of US 31, when she pulled into the path of a pickup driven by Lee Mitchell, 20, Kokomo, Eisenhower's car was struck broadside at the driver's door, coming to rest in the center of the median of the highway, just south of the intersection. Eisenhower was wear- ing a seat belt but died from internal injuries and blunt force trauma, according to investigators.

Mitchell was treated at Dukes Memorial Hospital, Peru, for minor head and neck pain. Mitchell was wearing a seat belt, which prevented him from suffering more serious injuries, according to the State Police report. Two passengers in the pickup, Paul Kilcline, 20, and Micah Vandiver, 19, both of Kokomo, were -wearing seat belts, and escaped without injury, according to the report. Drama Continued from Page A1 Depression-era family that includes grandma and grandpa, and both have the same general store man, Ike Godsey. But there are differences, too.

No one onstage will utter that famous TV line "Goodnight, John-Boy" because there is no John-Boy. Rather, the father and son are called Clay and Clay-Boy. And their last name is Spencer, not Walton and they live, of course, on Spencer's Mountain. Not that the name changes bother Schuttrow's students of the entire cast, only one had seen an episode of "The "I told them it would not be a bad idea to watch (the show) to get a feel for the Depression-era setting," he said, adding that he warned that it wasn't the authority on how they should play their characters. He wanted them to do it more to get a sense of the feelings, dress and manner of people in 1933, and the kinds of issues they faced.

Even so, those who have taken his advice came back wondering why they weren't doing the same thing their TV counterparts were, he said. When the play opens, it's Christmas Eve, 1933, and the Spencer family is preparing for the holiday. They're also waiting for father Clay (played by Jared Simmermaker), who has been away at work, to return home. As it gets later and later, and Clay still hasn't gotten home, characters start having conversations that reveal their thoughts and insecurities. Especially important is Clay- Boy (played by Craig S.

Cbtner), who has been having a rocky relationship with his father. Want To Go? Winamac Community High School will present "The Homecoming" at 2 p.m. Sunday in the school's socialtorium. Tickets, available at the door, cost $5 for adults and $3 for students. Cotner is one of several students with hefty parts who are relative newcomers to the stage.

"This will be his first major role," Schuttrow said, adding that several student actors have never had roles or had only small ones before. "We just had a huge freshman class this year." Indeed, 57 students turned out for auditions, and most are in the cast of 40. The cast also includes Savannah Hoover, Olivia: Gerry Pratt, Matt; Andrea Cowley, Becky; Peter Zahrt, Mark; Christ! Shorter, Shirley; Tim Weldon, Luke; Ashley Loehmer, Jennifer; Erin Burton, Pattie Cake; Daniel A. Fishtom, Grandpa; Genny Weldon, Grandma: James Alexander, Birdshot; Emily Zahrt and Jenna Field, City Ladies; Levi Baker, Charlie Sneed; Avery Bailey, Sheriff; Michael Pearce, Ike Godsey; Brandon Pickett, the Rev. Dooly; Tristan Scheffer, Youne "Joseph;" Amy Ewing, Young "Mary;" Cerra Chaz Caldwell, Miss Emma Staples; and Arin Ralstin, Miss Etta Staples.

Playing townspeople are Emma Burns, Tristan Scheffer, Amy Ewing and Amanda Laubhan. Laura Crist, Nora Ress, Jennifer Prado, Jeremy Rife, Marci Sutton, Christy Jones, Shannon Bums, Karen Murphy, Laurie Utes, Nicole Seaman and Stacy Bucinski are both townspeople and churchpeople; and Anne Rebeck and Anna Gilsinger are churchpeo- ple. "They 'have 'to recognize problem. It Ctrnirnuetf from Page who work with, domestic violence victims, knows the frustration of wanting to help those who won't take it. Women will leave the abuser and the task force will set up shelter for them, and, a week later, they're back with the batterer, Sabatini said.

Or they will call the hotline to tell their story, "but they don't want to do anything about it." If they do leave, "a high percentage of the victims will go back to the abusers," she said. It's all a part of the continuing cycle that goes from times of happiness or "honeymoon" period to tension building to an actual beating. As time progresses, the cycles begin to pick up speed and won't end unless the victim leaves permanently or is killed in the process, Sabatini explained. Like Sabatini, Jeffrey Stanton, prosecuting attorney for domestic violence cases, experiences the same frustration. Frequently, battered women will file charges against their partner, then come in the next day and try to drop the charges, he said.

In fact, Stanton estimates about one out of four victims drops charges in a case. If it does reach the courtroom, often victims won't show up to the trial, refuse to testify or change their stories to protect the perpetrator, said Stanton. "At times I feel discouraged. "My job is not to convict every person who walks through the courtroom. My goal is to find the truth," he said.

"There are times when a man and a woman will get up on the witness stand and you don't know who is telling the truth." However, Stanton understands the reluctance for women to convict their batterer. Their self- esteem is so low, they don't believe they can make it on their own. They have become solely dependent on the abuser. And in the end, the charges are dropped and the victim returns to the abusive relationship. In those cases where a victim stays in those situations, "we just have to be supportive and listen," says Sara Kirkwood.

an outpatient therapist at Four County Counseling Center in Logansport. You can't just tell victims to leave a situation because they probably won't listen, according to Kirkwood. They already are constantly being bossed by their abuser, and don't want to be told what to do by others. 'Try to let them know their options," she suggested, and be there to listen to them. When they are ready and comfortable to leave, they will.

FUNERAL NOTICES 'k'deslre to do-sometrung Sometimes it will take several times for a victim to leave pennanently. A battered woman will go back and forth, but during that time she is building her courage. Each time she leaves she realizes that she can be independent, thus making the next time she leaves easier, according to experts. It's not only married women who are torn by leaving their relationships. Often high school girls are affected by domestic violence, said Sabatini.

With those situations, the girls feel peer pressure to stay will a popular, abusive boyfriend. "We're very aware to the fact that controlling behavior begins at the school level," she said, which is why the task force tries to send its message to students. That's part of its goal to make the public aware that domestic violence is out there affecting a variety of people and it is a crime. one has the right to hit another individual," said Sabatini. and no one has to endure the abuse.

Domestic violence will always plague Logansport and communities like it, she said. Hopefully, the awareness of it will help people recognize it is a problem. But the problem isn't going to go away overnight, according to Cass Superior Court Judge Douglas Cox. Over the years, Cox has seen the number of domestic violence cases coming through his courtroom increase. Why that is so, he cannot explain.

However, he feels it is an issue that can be controlled. "I think it's possible, but it's going to take more than the interference of cops and courts," he said. Education is going to play a large role. People are going to have to be educated on how to treat each other, according to Cox. 'In his court proceedings.

Judge Cox tries to incorporate that education in the sentencing of patterers. While each sentencing is on a case-by- case basis, rehabilitation through counseling is often ordered. However, the reality of it is that the success rate of batterers to become nonviolent is slim. The best society can hope for. Cox said, is to take the children out of those violent situations in order to prevent die cycle from passing on to the next generation.

Kristina Baker may be contacted at 7225000, Ext. 5148 or via e-mail at Davis ROCHESTER Services for William Paul Davis, 50, of 1895 W. Olsen Road, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Foster Good Funeral Home. Burial will be in Leiters Ford Cemetery.

Friends may call one hour before the services today in the funeral home. Doty WINAMAC A committal service for James William Doty, 34, of Demotte, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Reed Cemetery. Frain Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Gosman MONTICELLO Services for Elsie M.

Gosman, 90; of 1120 N. Main will be held at 2 p.m. today in Voorhis-Draper Funeral Home. Burial will be in Riverview IOOF Cemetery. Friends may call one hour before the services today in the funeral home..