The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 10

Monday, December 31, 1990 0 Seymour Daffy Tribune, Seymour, bidiana Weather and economy make rVniinnAil twit major, headlines in HH nlM An i 1990 novation of Seymour High School, More of the same surfaced in the area of prolonged contract he- gotiations with Seymour Educa- bers of the group's' original board of directors for her dedication and service to the fund since 1962. Ralph Allen, Seymour Oktober-fest board festival chairman for the past five years, stepped down. A survey of 12 city blocks found an additional 234 housing units not reported in the U.S. Census Trees, Ecology and Rivers) to oppose the landfill. Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Bartholomew County has agreed to request Bartholomew County appoint a new search committee to locate a site, if the SWDA does not purchase the lease option on Kenny Hunter's land by its January meeting.

Merchants expressed unhappi-ness with vandalism and disturbance problems in the downtown at night. They originally requested the council consider banning downtown parking from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.. That proposal was later dropped. A council committee met with city police and downtown merchants to address the issue.

I The council approved collective bargaining for city firefighters and police officers. The ordinance does not apply to the fire chief, deputy chief and police chief. The International Firefighters Association will be the sole bargaining agent for the fire department and the Fraternal Order of Police will be the sole agent for the police, unless the labor organization is withdrawn by a vote of the departments. In response to residents to halt the Loft's, a local tavern, alleged female and male reviews, council decided it was unable to legislate morality. Works Board The city purchased the Lynn Hotel from the Roy Newby estate for $35,000 but decided after a study that renovation would not Le feasible.

The board opened demolition bids and declared an emergency situation with the Lynn. Alan Killey has expressed an interest in purchasing and renovating the Lynn, and Seymour Heritage Foundation has expressed an interest in buying the Lynn if Killey decides not to. Chamber The Greater Seymour Chamber of Commerce conducted a feasibility study on a potential community' foundation and is r.ifttm if.ii: fiafifc I Schwarzenegger i i ivij 5 5T CINEMA II JI0ME CnALONe i awaiting Philip Hardwick's study report -Sylvia. Osipe became the first woman Citizen of the Year. Also cited were the John C.

Groub Co. Corporate Citizen of the Year; Stephen McGrew, Distinguished. Teacher of the Year; Pizza PalaceBumper's Night club, renovation award; and Wal Mart Distribution Center and Central Pharmaceuticals overall new construction award. A recycling task force was formed, sponsored by the chamber's community development division. Its first meetingis scheduled for Jan.

24. Parks Ground was broken for the new $1,535,987 Shields swimming pool anticipated to be finished in 1991 to replace the 'SO-yearld Shields Park pool. The department agreed to try several measures to protect elderly residents from harassment and will monitor the city's five parks from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. starting in the spring of 1991.

The department applied for a $179,000 matching grant to fund Gaiser Park improvements. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources approved a five-year master plan. Healthy Cities Officials conducted a ribbon-cutting for a $5,000 six-foot wide multipurpose gravel path running for Vt mile along Ind. 11. A housing subcommittee was developed, and a county landlord association was established with help from a landlord association in Columbus.

The housing subcommittee has worked toward creating low-income housing. Healthy Cities was a co-sponsor for the American Red Cross blood donation event at the Crystal1 Room in July and conducted walking events at local health fairs. Community The Seymour weather station was recognized for 100 years or more of record-keeping. Joyce Marley was recognied by past presidents of Jackson County United Fund and mem- SAME DAY SERVICE In Most Seymour Eye Clinic Paul R. LaShorne, O.D.

Optometrist Greg S. Densborn, O.D. Optometrist 316 W. Tipton 522-6794 P.M.-2:00 A.M. YEAR'S DAY an 8 percent rate increase in trash disposal Crothersville Community Schools received a 3R computer gram wm, uF a involving computers and working with reading, writing and arithmetic.

Nealann Cravens, who teaches computer classes, said that by next year the schools should have IBM, Apple and Mcintosh techr nology labs. High School Principal Fran Schill informed the Board of Trustees of the Principal's Technology Leadership Training Program, which he attended in November. The Indiana Department of Education program is designed to give principals added knowledge in technology and the use of computers. With what he learned at the program, Schill decided to implement a go-action plan, which uses three Mcintosh computers in setting up a record-keeping system. Schill also devised a new homework policy that will be written into the student handbook, setting responsibilities for faculty, students and parents regarding homework assignments.

"We felt the policy should reflect the importance of the parent's role in helping the child prepare the homework," Schill said. County Library The Jackson County Public library Board continued to work on its $3.5 million development project The Local Government Tax Control Board in Indianapolis gave its approval in March for the library to issue bonds for the project, including renovation of and addition to the Seymour building and construction of branches in Crothersville and Medora. Library Director Connie Ozinga told the board at its latest meeting she hoped to' have ETOundbreakinff at the Sevmour library on April 1. The branches are expected to be completed in the fall of next year, while the Seymour library is to be completed in late summer 1992. Hospital Jackson County Schneck Memorial Hospital unveiled its plans for a multi-million dollar expansion project that will close a block of Poplar Street in Seymour from Tipton to Bruce 'streets.

The project, estimated at around $19 million, will include a new surgery center, a new emergency services area, a new radiology department, a new intensive cardiac care unit, expanded space for medical-services support groups, a new ground-level entrance and 130 additional parking spaces. A planned second phase will include the addition of a medical services building for physician offices and space for community education programs and wellness activities. The project will be financed with hospital revenue bonds and with funds the hospital has estab- nsnea ior me project. Human interest Two-year-old Dillon Walls of North Vernon gained notoriety in April for saving his mother from choking to death on a piece of candy. "You know what?" he asked.

"I reached that candy out of Mommy's mouth." Matt Egloff, a Seymour High School athlete, gained recognition off the football field in March. Egloff, then a senior, was continuing his battle against dyslexia, an impairment of the ability to read. Egloff is now a freshman at Indiana State University on a foot ball scholarship. Seymour native John Mellen-camp captured the public's attention when he returned to his hometown to film "Souvenirs" from July to September. "Souvenirs is a motion picture being produced by Little Pictures a company formed by Mellencamp for the movie.

Officials were reluctant to discuss the film in any detail during their stay in Seymour. However, a press release said the original screenplay is a drama, about a famous singer who re- turns io ms nometown in rural Indiana to celebrate his grandfather's 84th birthday. The movie, which will star Mellencamp, Claude Akins and Mar-iel Hemingway, is expected to be released through Columbia Pictures sometime in 1991. In 1783, the Treaty of Fans between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War. in rural areas will receive street addresses next year as a result of the system.

Commissioners supported efforts of the Local Coordinating Council, a group aimed at directing substance abuse treatment and prevention efforts. The "board continued efforts to maintain and upgrade county roads and bridges. It received good news in November, learning the Build Indiana Fund approved its grant application to replace the Sparksville Bridge over the White River. Funding for the project is pending in the 1991 Indiana General Assembly. Hoosier Lottery earnings will finance the Build Indiana Fund.

County Council Jackson County Council approved a $6.09 million 1991 budget in September. Its effect on taxpayers was lightened a bit with implementation July 1 of a County Adjusted Gross Income Tax of 1 percent. The tax was approved in March, with councilmen diverting all county shares of the collections to property tax relief. Police Reported crime continued to increase, according to area police departments. Substance abuse and youth crime accounted for much of the activity.

"I think basically the crime problem in Seymour parallels the crime problem for everyone else," Officer James Lawson said. "Youth crime leads a lot of our criminal activity, in areas such as burglaries and drugs," he added. "I do think we're having a positive impact on drunken driving." A Seymour Police undercover drug operation led td the arrests of 50 persons in September on various charges including dealing in cocaine and marijuana. Underaged drinking at the Seymour Oktoberfest Beirgarten led to the temporary closing" of the business on the festival's busiest night Problems with youth crime led more than 20 area residents to meet in October to discuss the problem and a need for a juvenile detention center in the county! The county probation department is continuing to work with officials in Monroe County, where a regional center is being built. County Commissioners earlier in the year approved creation of a county Community Corrections Program, which will work with sentenced adult offenders as well as with juvenile offenders.

Nine persons died on Jackson County roads this year, an increase of three from 1989, the Indiana State Police reported. The number of traffic fatalities in the Jackson; Jennings and Bartholomew counties district increased by 13 to 32 this year. Of-. ficers were left without answers to explain the increase. One murder occurred in the county.

Cecilia Ross Sweany, 22, was stabbed to death at her Seymour Rl home near Redding-ton on June 2. Her estranged husband, Francis H. "Bo" Sweany 32, is accused of the murder. His trial is set before Circuit Judge Robert R. Brown on Jan.

8. Jackson County Police and Indiana State Police received helpin August from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Aug. 18, 1988, murder of Medora teacher Keyla R. Weddel, but the case remains unsolved without a suspect in custody. Fires The year began ominously for area firefighters with a $500,000 blaze at Vallonia Grain Co.

on Jan. 5, but fire activity cooled off afterward. Five fire departments assisted Driftwood Township firemen in battling the blaze that destroyed the firm's temporary holding bin. Vallonia Grain has since rebuilt the bin and has continued operations. Seymour Fire Department reported its number of runs was about average Big Blue Stores of Seymour lost one of its largest stores to a March 18 fire in Columbus.

The fire resulted in a loss of more than $2 million. Schools Seymour Community Schools saw progress in some areas and more of the same in others this year. Progress included expanding computer aided reading prog- rams, expanding Seymour Middle School to include sixth-grade das mi imnrAviniF atata mandated test scores and preparing for a re- tion Association. Talks began last summer. An agreement was for- mally approved Dec 11.

Parents wanting Seymour High School to adopt soccer as a sanctioned sport were again disappointed in August, but the question could get a look next year, trustees said. Economic Seymour received bad economic news concerning two area employers this year. Holm Industries Inc. of Scotts-burg announced in October that it would close its newly acquired Pantasote Inc plant at Freeman Field in December because of a decline in business, idling 240 workers. Pantasote had lost its major customer earlier in the year to Holm.

Holm announced it had plans to employ as many workers as possible at its Scottsburg plant. Contel of Indiana's future in Seymour remains questionable with Contel merger with GTE Corp. of Atlanta in July. The; firm is uncertain how the merger will affect Seymour-based employees. Rose Acre Farms Inc.

estimated it would lose $5 million in the wake of a salmonella bacteria scare at part of its Cort Acres facility near Cortland. USDA tests of the flock were taken Dec. 10, and the results have not been completed. Brownstown received some good economic news, however, with the announcement this summer that Russell Stover Candies Inc. would locate a freezer distri: bution center at its industrial park.

Russell Stover is the park's first tenant. Silgan Plastics Corp. on O'Brien Street south of Seymour announced in December that it would invest $750,000 in equipment to enhance its plastic container manufacturing operation. The improvement is expected to result in 30 more jobs. Brownstown Kansas City-based Russell Stovers Candies Inc.

announced plans to locate a freezerdistribution center in Brownstown Industrial Park. In early December, Kieffer Papers Mills Inc. announced plans for a $20 million-plus expansion at its facility, including a paper mill and waste paper recycling plant. Kieffer's new free-standing plant would be designed to turn post-consumer waste paper into marketable pulp for sale to fine paper makers. Brownstown Central Community School Corporation Board of Trustees gave Superintendent Dr.

Robert Burton approval to be-gin a feasibility study for a Brownstown Elementary School addition. Although corporation officials do not expect a major increase in enrollment over the "next few years, they said they feel the addition is needed to supply room for additional programs now being mandated by state and federal governments. Construction is expected to begin this spring. Burton submitted his resignation to the board in December, telling trustees he was resigning after 15 years because he wanted to retire. The board has not named a replacement Freetown Elementary School was selected as a Four-Star School for 1991, the second time in three years the school received the award.

Brownstown Public Library Board approved purchase of a 150-by-150 lot at Sugar and Spring streets on which to construct a new library Crothersville Crothersville Town Council, chose Liberty Group Insurance of Indianapolis for coverage of town property and buildings. The firm specializes in governmental coverage and provides films, written materials, seminars and suggestions to the policyholder. Cost of the policy was well under that paid under the town's previous policy with another company. The council decided against adding earthquake coverage. The town received a grant for a grit removal and dechlorination project.

The council plans to for- mally award the project contract to Mitchell and Stark Construc- tion Medora, on Jan. 3, after all funding is complete. The town rnrmwflrt its contract with Rippke of Indiana despite Bureau's preliminary count Ground was broken for 37 apartment units. The complex at Oak Street and Marley Lane targeting elderly, handicapped and disabled persons will be known as Village Apartments of Seymour n. Jackson County Industrial Corp.

will expand its marketing efforts for prospective businesses in the United States and Europe with the aid of a grant of $50,000. A toy lending library program began for home day-care providers participating in the Seymour Area Day Care Inc. program. Seymour Fire Department began providing smoke' detectors for the area's needy through proceeds from the collection of aluminum cans. Seymour Tubing Inc.

completed its $14 million first phase facility. Officials hinted plans are underway for an $11 million expansion. Seven homes in Meadowlark Place and Coventry Place were shown in the city's first Parade of Homes in May. Jackson Park Cinema added a second screen. The Indiana Supreme Court denied Onyx Paving Inc's request to review its case against the city of Seymour.

Because of the court's denial, an Indiana Court of Appeals decision will become effective to reverse a Jackson Circuit Court ruling requiring the city to pay Onyx $121,600. Seymour Area Day Care Inc. began before- and after-school day-care programs at three Seymour elementary schools. The widening to five lanes of Tipton Street from Conrail Railroad tracks to Poplar Street was finished in the spring. Village Green Mobile Home Park began adding 116 units off South O'Brien Street A new ranger station at Hoosier National Forest, Brownstown District, opened in June.

Spaceguard, a Figgie International plant at Interstate 65 and U.S. 50, started operations, employing 50 persons. 'Commissioners Jackson County Commissioners focused on current issues as well as on 1991 this year, preparing for a county operated ambulance service and moving to meet a state law requiring a solid waste management district by next July 1. Following a public hearing in November, commissioners approved a solid waste fee of $3 per ton to finance establishing a waste district and plan. At the same meeting commissioners passed an ordinance establishing the Jackson County Ambulance Services Authority, outlining an 11-member board and funding for the service, which will replace Med-Aid Services Inc.

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