Muncie Evening Press from Muncie, Indiana • Page 2

The Muncie Evening Press Saturday, September 15, Page 2 1990 uncie Hoosier land English is headed for higher ground 'Tjx yk and tearing them down or moving them, probably to a site about two miles east of the present town. The condemnation ordinance forces an "involuntary relocation" on all affected residents. It will prevent property owners from building new structures or making major improvements on existing buildings. Town officials said the step was vital because it clears the way for 29 homes and businesses with federal flood insurance to receive U.S. funds for the value of their property.

The entire project, including building roads and a new sewer system, will take three to five years and require about $6 million in local, state and federal funds, officials said. Extensive studies by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources determined that there was no feasible way to protect the town from periodic flooding of the Little Blue River and its tributaries, Merrilees said. ENGLISH, (AP) English residents are braced for the emotional and expensive work of tearing apart their town and rebuilding it on higher ground, council president John Merrilees says. "We really don't have any options other than stay here and be flooded again," Merrilees said Friday. "We're just keeping our fingers crossed that we wont get flooded again before we're relocated." English was flooded twice in the summer of 1979 and twice over the past summer.

This year's flood renewed talk of moving the Crawford County town. The Town Council voted unanimously Thursday night to condemn more than 100 buildings, including about 70 homes, that lie in the flood plain that is the center of town. The vote marked the next major step toward relocation after the council's June 26 vote to move the town. The southern Indiana city of 650 expects to receive federal aid to help pay for buying the buildings Enthusiastic walkers participate in the UniverCity 90 Fun Walk festival on the Ball State campus this morning. Evening Press Run.

The 8 a.m. athletic event opened the week-long academic photo by David Thurston. LIKE SELLING 30 MILLION RECORDS Doo-woppers have lot to bark about Cancer claims girl one month after Disney trip "I know there's a market for us, so we'd appreciate our fans coming over onto our bandwagon." Hudson couldn't be reached for comment, but friends said he receives few royalties from "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight." a hike McGuire Sisters hit No. 1 with their tepid version. Carl Rainge said his nephew in Japan called to tell him he recently purchased a Spaniels album there.

When Vee Jay, Carter's and Bracken's record company, filed for bankruptcy, an employee bought all the master tapes at a court auction and has released them over the years. "None -of the artists have received a cent," Porter said. After a five-year battle, a judge ruled the group could re-issue its own material; Almost a month after her visit to Disney World, Deborah Burton, 18, died at home of cancer. In early August, The Muncie Evening Press reported that Burton was making a trip to Disney World with her family, funded by the Burton Indiana Children's Wish Fund. Upon returning from her trip to Florida, Burton was to go into the hospital.

Burton found out she had bone and muscle cancer a year ago 9 if a ft'' i Happy "2l8t" Birthday Amy Terrell Love You Like A Mom Dad! A Grand Opening Man charged with car theft after collision Grand Opening Specials 2-Liter Pepsi ,........99, 2a99 Take James "Pookie" Hudson, first tenor Ernest Warren, baritone Opal Courtney, James Cochran, Lester Williams, bass Gerald "Duck" Gregory, second tenor Willie C. Jackson and Carl Rainge. Some members of the group still live in Gary and all retain close ties to the city. Porter said he doesn't remember when the phrase "doo-wopp" was first uttered "because it was just a sound and it wasn't a big issue when it came up." It's a big issue now, though, at least to Robbins, a Boston-area concert promoter who said doo-wopp "is part of my life." He defined doo-wopp as a type of music that began with street-corner crooners singing without instruments. "It's the vocal harmony of groups heard during the '50s and early '60s and is typified by an attempt to create the sound of instruments with vocal.

harmonies." As a teen, Robbins started The Interludes, a group that he admits will never be nominated lor any hall of fame. But other performers of the genre, he said, "have never gotten the recognition they deserve and are living in anonymity. I give the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland credit for some of the things it's done, but artists from the doo-wopp era weren't included. "They were ripped off by producers and didn't get the money or the fame, and people covered their records and earned most of the money," he said. He and Porter cited The Spaniels biggest hit, "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight," as an example of the exploitation endemic to the recording industry during the 1950s and early 1960s and which some claim still exists.

That song, written by Hudson, hit No. 24 on the Billboard record charts when recorded by The Spaniels in 1954. Later that year, the Lottery numbers By The Associated Press Here are the lottery numbers drawn Friday in Indiana and its neighboring states: INDIANA Daily 3 634. Daily 4 3913. OHIO The Number 063.

Pick-Four 6329. Cards 2 of hearts, 6 of clubs, 8 of diamonds, 8 of spades. MICHIGAN Daily Game 154. Daily-Four 0026. Keno 8, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29, 38, 43, 44, 48, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 76.

ILLINOIS Daily Game 885. Pick-Four 8699. Little Lotto 7, 16, 17, 29, 32. KENTUCKY Kentucky Cash 080. iTi ill mtt 2 Will ou be prepared to send our child or grandchild to college? A young Muncie man was jailed Friday evening after the stolen car he was driving hit another vehicle at Second and Madison streets, according to city patrolmen.

Toney Lindsey, 21, 808 S. Elm was arrested on charges of auto theft and leaving the scene of an injury accident. Police said Lindsey was east-bound on Second when he failed to stop at Madison because his brakes failed. The car Lindsey was driving hit another car broadside about 5:25 p.m. That car was driven by Lee Anne Hirtzel, 35, 219 N.

Pershing Drive. She was listed in good condition this morning at Ball Memorial Hospital, where her 1-year-old daughter was treated and released. Police said Lindsey fled after the accident, but was apprehended shortly after that The car he was driving had been reported stolen from a Selma man. Traffic accidents Friday Iod 1 west of County Road 400-S, 11 a.m. By BARRY SAUNDERS Post-Tribune GARY, Ind.

(AP) What Gary quintet has sold more than 30 million records over three decades, is popular worldwide and was nominated last week for induction into the Doo-Wopp Hall of Fame in Boston? If you said the Jacksons, turn in your membership to the Casey Kasem Fan Club, because you're wrong. The group is The Spaniels, and they were doo-wopping when Michael Jackson was barely moon-crawling, much less moonwalking. The Spaniels, founded in 1952, was comprised of five Roosevelt High School students. There were various personnel changes over the years, but the group remained a quintet noted for its smooth harmony. That's the reason they were among 32 groups nominated for the hall of fame, said Harvey Robbins, the founder and president of the Hall of Fame association.

Robbins called The Spaniels one of the original doo-wopp groups. Donald Porter disagreed. "The Spaniels are THE original doo-wopp group," said Porter, who joined the group in 1956, four years after it was founded by five Roosevelt High School students and signed by producers Vivian Carter and her husband, James Bracken. "We were the first; ones to incorporate that phrase doo-wopp into our records, and our songs reflect this. It was a phrase that was inadvertently made up and put in in the place of actual words." Porter, a security guard in Boston, said he and the group the original members and the three who replaced them over the years are preparing to return to the studio to record and to performing later this month.

In addition to Porter, who joined the group when he was 19, The Spaniels consisted of lead vocalist Thunderstorm knocks out power About 2,000 Indiana-Michigan Power Co. customers on the city's southside lost power during a brief thunderstorm Friday afternoon. spokesmen said the outage occurred after strong winds toppled a tree near the company's substation along 21st Street There were also about 20 other scattered outages throughout the city. Winds peaked at 1:20 p.m. at about 49 mph, according to Paul Shanayda, student manager of Ball State University's weather station.

Rain accumulation ranged from about half-an-inch to an inch. GoodaH appointed Rep. Hurley C. Goodall, D-Muncie, was among 20 people appointed Friday by Gov. Evan Bayh to the Indiana Economic Development Council.

The council monitors and evaluates the state's economic development programs. Each member was appointed to a one-year term. The council includes representatives of business, labor, government and academics. College Funding Seminar this month. With her trademark Tweety Bird hat, Burton bad finished her senior year at Southside High School despite frequent trips to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.

When she received her diploma at graduation this past June, her classmates gave her a standing ovation. By August, Burton had lost a lot of weight as well as her hair, and walked slowly and with a limp, but she hadn't lost her sense of humor, according to those around her. "She's got one hell of an attitude," her father, Delbert Burton said in August "She's one in a million." Obituary on page 5 Car driven by William M. Bartlett, 7J BougainviUea Terrace, struck Fire alarms Friday 1.06 p.m. 13M Abbott St, mistaken alarm.

1:15 m. 2601 W. Chelsea Road, malfunctioning alarm 5:17 p.m. 407 W. Adams.

St. false alarm. Today 2:14 a.m. County Road 500-N and Walnut Street, minor fire in greenhouse at Waldo's Greenhouse. Ambulance runs Friday 11:10 a.m.

Ind. south of the Muncie Bypass, traffic accident call canceled. 3 06 p.m. Wheeling Avenue and McGal-liard Road, illness, patient taken to BMH. 5:30 p.m.

816 S. Madison St, traffic accident, two patients taken to BMH. 6 01 p.m. McGalliard Road and Granville Avenue, traffic accident call canceled. 7 09 p.m.

Main Street Flea Market 1710 E. Main St, injury, patient taken to BMH. 1:40 p.m. 700 N. Walnut St, illness, paUent taken to BMH.

8:02 p.m. 1813 W. Ninth St, illness, patient taken to BMH. 11:31 m. 2007 S.

Penn St, illness, paUent taken to BMH. Today 12 23 a m. 1100 N. Central illness, paUent taken to BMH. leave traces of blood to accompany other props indicating a struggle at his Shelbyville wholesale appliance store.

He also admitted telling a friend that he planned to stage his own death so that his family could collect on a $2.5 million insurance policy. Becom said he promised to give his friend $10,000 for his help. Becom denied any attempt at insurance fraud. He has already served seven months in the Marion County Jail and will be eligible for release in a month. Wilson, complaint.

Kleenco doing business as Superior Linen, vs County, appeal of denial of claim ana complaint Kimberly A. Cline vs. WGE Federal Credit Union, complaint. American Family Insurance Group vs. Charles W.

Brooks, complaint. GTE Mobilnet vs. Medlaster Service complaint Beneficial Indiana Inc. vs. John Hill and Paul Gregory, complaint.

State vs. Mark T. Clevenger, driving while suspended, driving while intoxicated. State vs. Richard M.

Drew, driving while intoxicated, driving left of center. State vs. Danny R. Bartlett disorderly conduct, public intoxication. Slate vs.

John Henry, driving while intoxicated State vs, Rodney A. Barber, driving while intoxicated, improper taillights. State vs. Kevin E. Pensinger, driving while intoxicated.

State vs. Jeffrey L. Cole, criminal mischief, public intoxication, minor consuming alcohol. State vs. Rebecca Redding, check deception.

Ex-Muncie businessman who faked kidnapping is sentenced 4 1 Thursday, Sept 27th 7:00 P.M. Muncie Public Library John F. Kennedy Branch I700W. McGalliard SPEAKERS: Michael T. Downham, CFP And A Representative From Ball State Office Of Financial Aid College costs are already so high and predicted to surge even higher.

Many people look at the suggerlng cost I projections and ust give up, assuming they can never save enough. Learn the best way to save, apply for financial aid and what scholarships or grants are available to meet those rising costs. DIE 320 S. High Street Pepsi! SB) kr. i I I Seating Is limited, please make reservations by September 24th by stopping In any Muncie Federal office or by calling 741-1 5S0.

SMC is a subsidiary of Muncie Federal Savings. 25 Miles Ei 01 Muncie Moa-Thur. Frl. 0-1 of I i' i -V i i INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A former Muncie and Shelbyville businessman who faked his own kidnapping earlier this year has been sentenced to eight months in prison. William Donovan Becom, 39, also was fined $10,000 Friday by U.S.

District Judge S. Hugh Dillin. Becom staged his own kidnapping Jan. 10. A month later, FBI agents arrested him outside a Columbus, Ohio apartment, which he was renting under the name of a friend from Shelbyville.

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