The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

35' A Freedom I Newspaper 110TH YEAR NO. 230 Saturday, September 30, 1 989 I Cokntrfyiace jr Add mayor to candidates seeking seat Hill is vacating Bailey is visiting Hungary this week with Healthy Cities Indiana was unavailable for com-'ment. He will return to work Tuesday. In July, Bailey said his sights were fixed on the 1991 mayor's -race. Other persons who have expressed an interest in the cam- paign to replace Hill are Jackson County Public Defender Joseph M.

Robertson, former District 66 representative Bill Bevers and Jackson County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Loren Rueter. Rueter said Friday he still plans to run for thereat but added his employment with the prosecutor's office could cause a change in plans. "As I speak now I am still planning on running," he said. "Whoever else runs will be factor, but just one of many for me to consider. by DAN DAVIS Staff Writer Seymour Mayor William W.

Bailey has apparently Had a change in heart in terms of his political future. Questioned earlier this year, "Bailey said he would not seek the Democrats' nomination to run for state Rep. Baron P. HUTs District 66 seat. But such a race is now in the two-term mayor's plans.

Hill will not seek election to a fifth term in order to run for the U.S. Senate. Another Jackson County man who is considering a run for Hill's House seat said Bailey telephoned him last week with his decision. And his secretary, Martha Mclntire, confirmed that verdict Friday: he told me Monday that he will run," Mclntire said. "The state representative seat has to come secondary to what I need to do with my career as far as an attorney," Rueter added.

Robertson, said he has yet to make a decision. "I'm still waiting to see many horses are going to fill the field," he said Friday. Factors under -consideration are whether Bailey or Bevers plan to run arid the impact a candidacy would have on his law practice and National Guard obligations. Robertson has said he would support a Bever candidacy. He served as the Seymour pharmacist's campaign coordinator in an unsuccessful 1984 challenge -of state Sen.

Joseph V. Corcoran. Bevers said Friday he must determine whether he can find' See MAYOR BAILEY Back page New owner to expand WJCD W-ivrrn w. New subdivision under way by MIKE RASCHE Staff Writer Former city resident Charles Jenkins views his business' purchase of Seymour radio stations WJCD and WJCD-FM on Tuesday as a "dream come true." "We hope to be able to take over the stations sometime in November," Jenkins said. If South Central Indiana Broad-casting purchase is approved by the Federal Communications Commission, officials plan several changes.

Those changes include increasing the FM station's wattage and providing 24-hour service for both the AM and FM stations. "We want each station to be unique and have its own identity," said Jenkins, South Central president. "The AM station will have a separate format appeal than the FM station. I think the Seymour community really deserves two good radio stations. "Efforts will be made to determine what music formats are the most-listened to and the ones the greater majority want to hear.

We are going to try to get the input from the people of Seymour and see what they want." Input, Jenkins said, will also come from WJ.CD's present staff "We will see how many want to remain," he added. The two stations are expected to employ a total of 10-12 persons. Currently the AM station signs off at 6 p.m. and the FM station at 10 p.m. What will not change, Jenkins said, is the coverage of high school football and basketball games, news and weather.

South Central Indiana Broadcasting officials plan to improve the quality and distance of WJCD-FM station by increasing the power to 50,000 watts. The station's former owner, the A.C. Baker Broadcast Corp. has been granted a construction per mit to increase the wattage. South Central will make the power increase.

"We would like for the FM station to serve Seymour and the surrounding areas," Jenkins said. Originally from the Sellers-burg area, Jenkins resided in Seymour in 1961 while working full time as news director for WJCD FM and AM. He started his broadcasting career working part time at WJCD-AM in 1959 while a student at Indiana University. "Besides doing the news, I did a little of everything, including the play-by-play for basketball and football games and some disc jockey work," Jenkins said. "It was great experience.

I always really liked Seymour when I was there and I have a warm place in my heart for that community." See WJCD Back page four of the planned homes have been bought and he plans to build two more. Nineteen homes are intended to be built within the first year of Coventry's existence, he added. "We sure have had a lot of people call about the homes," Greemann said. Jerry Tracey, proiect en by MIKE RASCHE Staff Writer A Seymour real estate business is developing a residential subdivision on property where the city's famous train robbers once lived. Greemann Real Estate is the developeFfor Coventry Place expected to have 61 single-family residential lots with homes costing from $80,000 to $150,000.

The minimum-sized home will be 1,600 square feet. The houses are intended to fill a void in area housing, according to Tom Greemann, Greemann Real Estate owner. He said 40-50 eom- gineer, said gas lines and sewers are being installed and streets are being built. Before construction work started on Coventry Place, Seymour City Council approved placement and Seymour Board of Pukiltt UArlre QnH Qafatir. Seymour city limits, on the former Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.

Greemann estimated completion of Coventry Place in three to five years. There will be 27 acres in the subdivision and an additional seven used as a buffer zone. "It is a place where they' can build and" be secure in property value," Greemann said. He added the property offers utilities, closeness to school and beautiful surroundings, which will include trees planted as a subdivision backdrop. "Towns now grow adjacent to where the housing is nicest," Greemann said.

He emphasized Coventry will, be near Sunset Parkway, Crestview Subdivision and Sherwood Terrace (the area behind Seymour High School. Construction on several Coven' try homes will start within two weeks, Greemann said. The Coventry'Place developer added Stardust writes 'The End A A I 11 .7 1 1 ft approved an agreement for the employees have gone to "by Florence Carter and stands other areas to reside. street lights. Greemann said does not foresee any problems in reselling the homes, "We have always been able to get rid of upper-range homes through good times and bad," he have just been through the worst recession (during the 1980s) since 1933 and we came through it okay." Greemann Real Estate purchased the property from Dr.

Paul Schneck. The Schneck family purchased the property from the Reno family in 1850. The Reno gang has been credited with the world's first armed train robbery on Oct. 6, 1866, about one-half mile east of what was Inside today car to shut off its lights or lower its trunk lid. Boyfriends and their girlfriends will no longer neck in the screen's glow, and blankets will no longer cover the beds of pickups on dawn-to-dusk nights.

"I hate it," current operator Di-ann Corwin said of the decision she and her husbandySteve made 4ast week. "It'sad. It's part of us, and I'm sure we're going to miss it." Economics and economic development forced the decision that the Corwins debated this movie season. "The ground there is just too valuable, for one thing," she said. "It's not practical for a theater to operate on property that valuable.

"Lighting, property taxes, rent," she added. "There's just a number of things that hurt us." Corwin has heard of no plans for the property, which is owned by DAN DAVIS Staff Writer The lights and sounds and smells from Seymour's Stardust Drive-in fade forever tonight, signaling the curtain call of an era that ended in many U.S. cities years ago. The theater near the U.S. 50 and Interstate 65 junction will present its final shows at dusk tonight, "The Karate Kid Part III" and "Ghostbusters II," darkening the screen that has flashed brilliantly with biblical figures, bandits, cops, cowboys and ghostbusters for 40 years.

No longer will children swing beneath the screen as John Wayne rides into the sunset. No longer will flying hamburgers, hot dogs, pizzas, popcorn and soda pop beckon hungry and thirsty movie goers. Horns will no longer sound, cajoling the projectionist to start the film or screaming at another along a corridor of mushrooming development. The Seymour native grew up' seeing movies at the Stardust, but she can't recall the first movie she saw at the theater. Clint Eastwood and other action films were her favorites, though.

And the most successful film at the Stardust under the Corwin's 15-year "That's easy," she said. "'Smokey and the Bandit' had the largest crowds that drive-ins ever saw for a continous week-long draw." Corwin said crowds started to drift away from drive-ins in the-late 70s. "People started having more activities to do, and VCRs have hurt us, too," she said. But drive-ins have recently seen a slight resurgence in See STARDUST Back page Classified 9 Horoscope 4 Comics 8 Hospital 3 Crossword .9 Landers 2 Deaths 12 Police 3 Family 2 Sports 6. Heloise 2 8 Bonn seeks easing of East German refugee situation at embassies.

See page 4. Brownstown and Jennings County football teams lose in Friday night action. See page 6. i County tO air The weather PPPnmnS 'Tonight becoming partly cloudy. Mild.

Low in the middle to i Jackson County Commission- upper 50s. Light wind. Sunday ers will consider appointments partly sunny and warmer, for a community corrections. Downtown morning temperature is un-program planned for the COUnty ofncial. Other readings are from govern-When they meet at 9 a.m.

Tues- nk' observer Ruth Everhart at day at the County Courthouse. A Probation Officer Larry Jf-fj Spurgeon plans to discuss com- 53 missioners' appointments toa 16- w. f.y memher advisorv board that will Precipitation none memDer advisory Doara mat win River 3 96 feet and failing See COUNTY Sunset today 6:29 p.m. Back page Sunrise Sunfo 6:40 a.m. Jackson Notebook The ordinance was proposed to meet increasing costs of trash removal.

If passed it will assess residents $2 per month for the service. Gym sound on agenda Medora Community School Corporation Board of Trustees will discuss the sound system in the new gym, school curfew and reinstating piping when it meets for a regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Superintendent Kenneth Kidd will request the board to allow him to advertise foij additional appropriations. The board will also make decisions concerning personnel appointments. Among those appoint' ments is the junior varsity basketball coach.

General equivalency diplomas will be awarded. The board will meet in executive session at 7 p.m. to discuss personnel and legal matters. Executive, sessions are closed to the public and press. Meeting changed at G'ville Crothersville Town Board has rescheduled its regular monthly meeting from Monday to Thursday.

witha special hearing on a proposed trash ordinance scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. -j In the regular meeting, Irene McKain, Jackson County, building commissioner, will discuss Crothersville having its own zoning. "I'm going to talk to them about either coming all the way in with the planning and zoning commission or pulling out and" making their own ordinances," McKain said. The board will also decide which day to conduct trick-or-treat and which day to conduct the semiannual trash pickup. A public hearing will then be conducted on a proposed trash ordinance that will assess fees to town residents for trash pickup services.

Tribune Hie photo by Jim Banks watch "The Black Cauldron" and "Just the Way You Are." A good crowd flowed into the 550-spot Stardust Drive-In on July 20, 1986, to.