The Republic from Columbus, Indiana • Page 8

A8 The Republic Columbus. Saturday. November 10, 99o adouLAIBS feelings Exhibit expresses State Associated Press of Damien Center, has entered an obituary page he has assembled from newspaper death notices. All the people on the page had AIDS. Many of them were Gencius' friends.

With a kind of black humor, he House Democrats choose leaders INDIANAPOLIS House Democrats chose their leaders Friday as they prepared to claim outright control of the legislative chamber for the first time in 14 years. "There's a lot of jubilation," said Rep. Michael K. Phillips of the Democratic caucus' unanimous choice to be speaker of the House. "It's been years, since the last election when we could have a sole speaker of the House." In to Phillips, the new leadership team will include a new floor leader.

John R. Gregg, a third-term representative from Sandborn, won a three-jway race for floor leader, defeating Reps. Hurley Goodall of Muncie and Jesse M. Villalpando of Griffith on the first ballot Ex-clerk charged with embezzling SOUTH BEND A former clerk at First Source Bank of South Bend was charged Friday with embezzling' $95,891 from the attorney James G. Richmond announced.

Jennifer Rankin, 36, of Osceola, was charged with two counts of embezzlement by a bank employee. If convicted, she would face up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Woman arrested on robbery charges EVANSyiLLE A Boonville woman was arrested onbank robbery charges after marked money was used to post bond for her boyfriend, a Vanderburgh County Jail inmate, police said. Vickie S. Alexander, 35, who police say goes by the name of Carmen Alexander, was arrested at her home late Wednesday by Evansville police and the FBI.

Police probe Lake County shootings GARY Lake County hope an FBI psychological profiLe-- if INDIANAPOLIS Alan Edwards points to a color photograph' he took one -morning, just as the edge of the sun peeked over the horizon. The contrast between the blackness of the earth and the early morning sky represents the turn his life has taken since he discovered two years ago that he has AIDS, "All the time I was growing up, I was told I'd always be a nobody. I lived in darkness. But I'm doing things now helping people that I wouldn't have done in the past There's still hope. There's still a new lite," he said.

Edwards' photograph is part of a three-day art exhibit, "Drawing The Line Life Death" that opened Friday night at the Damien Center, an AIDS education, and counseling project of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches in Indianapolis. Edwards, 40, became a staff assistant for care coordination at the center after learning he had acquired immune deficiency syndrome. He is a participant in the center's Art Expression Group, which people with AIDS create visual images to express their feelings about the disease. Ray Gencius, a member of the exhibit's organizing committee and public relations director for Indiana Cares, a fund-raising arm nas piacea nis own omiuary among them, laced with epithets he's heard people use when they talk, about people with AIDS. The inspiration for the piece came from the importance of the obituary page since he learned he had AIDS two years and six months ago, Gencius said: "I turn to this page almost immediately every morning," he said.

i Gencius, also is entering several of his pastel and acrylic crayon drawings in the art exhibit In the past two years, Edwards said, 75 people he and Gencius met through Damien Center programs have died. The number includes most of the people who sought help at the center at the same time they did. "Ray and I are about the healthiest people here," Edwards says despite the length of time they've had AIDS, TheJ art exhibit includes 58 works by people who themselves have AIDS or HIV infections, their spousesfamilies i will help them track down a man who randomly shot at five i people, killing two, the night before Halloween. The shootings happened within three hours in Griffith. St John and Cedar Lake.

Associated Press Ray Gencius stands among several of the pastel and acrylic drawings he has entered in the Damien Center's three-day art exhibit by AIDS victims, their families and friends. From Wire Dispatches Petersburg tornado survivors fflOLMS 0 plPp Area Deaths plan Thanksgiving celebration TRANS TUNE SPECIAL Associated Press PETERSBURG Tornado survivors plan a giant (FLUID INCLUDED) inspect th transmission change th fluid adjust the bands (where applicable) adjust th linkaga C3' Farms in Washington, will be served at Pike Central High City leaders began planning the event in It was inspired by Vice President Dan Quayle, who toured the damage and told residents about Lynn, a northern Indiana town hit by a tornado several years ago. Residents there celebrated their survival with a special Thanksgiving, he said. St ra i a i ove seemed like the appropriate time for the town, which has been rebuilding for months, to pause and take stock of its blessings. 1725 25th St.

Columbus 376-9418 Locally owned and operated by Tom Sharp i Chi I Memorials may be made to the Mount Zion Methodist Church. Born Jan. 17, 1907 in Jackson County, he was the son of Andrew and Mary Ann Lucas Cockerham. He married Mabel J. Baughman Nov.

9, 1929 in Jackson County. She survives. Also surviving are sons Thomas Cockerham of Medora and Neal Cockerham of Brownstown; a daughter, Sue Hattabaugh -of-Medora; a brother, Jackie Cockerham of Medora; a sister, Goldie Baughman of Medora; nine grandchildren, 11 greatgrandchildren, two great-greatgrandchildren, and several and step-greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by -two sons, a brother, eight sisters and two grandsons. Arrangements incomplete Thanksgiving celebration to thank God and scores of volunteers for helping their town recover fronr ji devastating June storm.

Everyone who helped the southern Indiana town of about 3,000 survive and rebuild is welcomer said the" Stratton, w-hb heads the Petersburg Disaster Relief Fund. "It's to say thank you to God and the entire area," he said. For weeks after the storm, donations of food, water, clothing and building supplies poured into the town from across Indiana and neighboring states. Hundreds of volunteers cooked meals and cleared debris. Recent advertisements in six newspapers invited the volunteers to return for the Nov.

18 celebration. About 3,000 people are expected, Stratton said. A free Thanksgiving dinner with turkeys donated by Perdue cninr Citizens Special Discount hunareas 01 uw" Why Wait: 7 Good Reasons to act today: Died Friday Edna Oliver Funeral Monday Funeral for Edna Oliver, 93, of Pearl Street wiH be conducted by the Rev. Robert Langdon at 1 p.m. Monday at Barkes, Inlow and Weaver Funeral Home on Washington Street, where calling will be from 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday and noon to service time on Monday. Burial will be at Garland Brook Cemetery. Mrs. Oliver died at 1:50 a.m. Friday at Bartholomew County Hospital.

-She was a member of Parkside Baptist Church, Born May 16, 1897,. in Ellettsville, Mrs. Oliver was the daughter of Harvey and Viola Polley Crum. She married Raymond Oliver in 1917. He died in 1958.

Surviving- are daughters, Lucille Phillips and Mamie Taylor, both of Indianapolis and Violet Powell, Betty Cardinal, Mary Seeley and Norma Lienhoop, all of Columbus; 16 grandchildren; and several great-and General Motors retiree Henry W. Cockerham Medora Henry W. Cockerham, 83, of Route 1 Medora, died at 10:30 p.m. Thursday at Jackson County Schneck Memorial Hospital. Cockerham was retired -from -Fabricast, a division of General Motors at Bedford.

He also worked at Morgan's Canning Factory, Vallonia Nursery and Crane Naval Ordinance. He was member of the Mount Zion Methodist Church, where he was superintendent several years. The service will be at Winklepleck-Weesner Funeral Home at Brownstown at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. Hugh Reynolds and the Rev.

Kay McCory officiating. Calling will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday and from 9 a.m. until the service Monday. "Burial will be in the Smallwood Nellie P.

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