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THE MUNCIE STAR MONDAY, Local January 27, Page 1992 6A Desperately Seeking? By CAROL SINGER Star St. Staff Reporter few emember Desperately years the ago movie Seeking of a Stormy Susan? If I made a movie, I Monday would call it Desperately Seeking a Husband. I'm not looking for a husband for the usual reasons like love, companionship and security although I wouldn't refuse those benefits. I'm seeking a husband stranger stopped and performed for the really important reasons, the surgery each time. I'm no like car maintenance.

Blanche DuBois, but I do When I was married to my frequently depend on the first husband, the only thing I had kindness of strangers. to do with my car was drive it I suppose I really shouldn't and occasionally fill the tank admit that. The next person who with gasoline. Although I was stops to "help" might help me and am a zealous feminist, I was into the next world. I understand more than happy to let my Ted Bundy appeared quite husband be more equal in this pleasant.

regard. Another reason I desperately My second husband expected need a husband is to contend with me to actually pay attention to my beast's constant minor health things like changing the oil and problems. It frequently develops putting air in the tires. He even strange coughs, tremors and wanted me to give the beast a digestive difficulties. bath.

Just imagine! Since I tend to diagnose and It was a brief marriage. treat myself for minor ailments, Now that I am single I also tend to ignore my beast's find myself totally in charge of complaints until a major illness this mechanical beast that occurs. One time, the patient delights in developing periodic actually became paralyzed. I illnesses. Since I.am absolutely could not make it move.

helpless in diagnosing Chevette I had to take the poor thing to sickness symptoms, either I end the hospital but the problem was up spending lots of money for a not as serious as I thought. The mechanic to cure the illness, or I doctor just gave it some keep driving the beast, praying medication transmission fluid. all the while it won't pass out on Now, I periodically refill the the highway late at night. prescription, and the beast is The most serious illness the fine. beast contracted was my fault.

I Within the last few days, 1 the let it run out of one of its vital need for a husband has fluids, oil, and it required major multiplied. Another transplant surgery to repair the resulting will have to take place before too defect. A husband would have much more time passes. made sure all fluids were As I was driving to Muncie injected at all the right times. from Portland the other day, I If I could find a husband to noticed strange noises coming take care of the beast's health, I from the beast's internal organs.

would even agree to cook his When I hit a chuckhole, a meals and wash his socks. That whole organ was torn loose. Now, would be quite a sacrifice for me, a muffler operation is indicated. since I don't cook my own meals. A husband could perform the Thank God for Portland's surgery a lot cheaper.

Paradise Pizza and Muncie's I really do love my little beast, Wendy's. but I also would love to keep my I do wash my socks. sanity, such as it is. There must Not only is my Chevette prone be a man out there willing to help to illness, it is also prone to me out. injury.

Twice this accident- OK, men, you have heard my waiting-to-happen broke one of compelling reasons for entering its appendages while on the into matrimony. I await your highway and expected me to calls. perform a transplant. And I promise I will give equal Those were times I fervently consideration to every proposal, deplored my single state. no matter how many I get.

Fortunately, I must have Carol Singer is The Star's looked helpless, because a kind Jay County reporter. THE RECORD SUITS FILED Circuit Court Globe American Casualty Co. vs. Geoffrey A. Hull complaint for damages.

Ronald D. Barton vs. Bobby E. King, complaint. Trevor and Susan Meadows vs.

Highley Real Estate Inc. and Jerry D. Highley, complaint. Union Federal Savings Bank vs. Tod A.

and Kimberly K. Phipps and J-B Agency, complaint. Superior Court 1 Beasley, Gilkison, Retherford, Buckles and Clark and Bruce Hardiman vs. Recovery Services International Inc. and Cigna Property and Casualty complaint.

Superior Court 2 State vs. Vincent Layne, forgery. State Pedro G. Isom, forgery. State vs.

Randy A. Hayes, battery, Superior Court 3 Richard D. Priest vs. Captain's Cove Marina, complaint. Superior Court 4 Jeff Mason Construction vs.

Zeni and Shepki Emini, complaint. Tammie A. Couch vs. Ruby E. Hague, complaint for protection.

Jodi Dishman vs. Larry Dishman, complaint for protection. BANKRUPTCIES (Filed in Indianapolis) Dean R. and Sandra D. Butler.

Richmond. Debts, $37,668. Assets, $321,201. Chapter 7. Luther M.

Johnson, Anderson. Debts, $40,780. Assets, $3,250. Chapter 7. Gerald C.

and Helen L. Rees, Anderson, Debts, $27,233. Assets, $19,942. Chapter 7. John' T.

and Nikki L. Marlow, aka Deborah S. Baldwin Miles, Chesterfield. No debts or assets listed. Chapter 7.

David C. Clark, Anderson. No debts or assets listed. Chapter 13. Russell C.

Erickson, Elwood. Debts, $11,708. Assets, $73. Chapter 7. Harold L.

and Joyce M. Schuyler, Anderson. No debts or assets listed. Chapter 7. Rondall J.

and Catherine M. Green, Elwood. Debts, $49,460. Assets, $29,175. Chapter 7.

Michael F. and Cheryl J. Duffy, Albany, WORTH MENTION Delaware County Open Door Community Services Inc. has received a grant to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in Delaware County. Funds are available in three areas assistance, food assistance and utility assistance.

Anyone needing assistance can contact Open Door Community Service Inc, 424 W. Jackson or call 289-5966. 0 000 ALBANY The town council will have a public meeting at 7 p.m. next Monday to discuss the operator's assistance program at the sewage plant. Representa- 'Conspiracy' Ex-Congressman Sure of Mafia Involvement in Assassination INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Floyd Fithian, the former Indiana congressman who investigated the murder of John F.

Kennedy as a member of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, remains convinced mobsters were responsible. Fithian said he believed that elements of organized crime orchestrated the assassination. The committee's official conclusion in 1979, 16 years after the death, was with the president that Kennedy "was probably assas- equation, then Bobby sinated as a result of a conspiracy." Johnson would not "Put yourself back in that time," Fithian said. Personal Fithian, now an aide to Sen. Paul made it likely the Simon, said in an interview would not remain published Sunday in The Indianapo- general under the new lis Star.

"There had never been said. such detailed, intense pressure put "The motivation on the mob than what Bobby doesn't take a rocket Kennedy was putting on them. figure out," Fithian "Put yourself in the mob's posi- Conspiracy theorists tion. You are already getting has- suggested the mob sled by the Kennedy administra- destroy the Kennedy tion, but if you knock out the tion. Several Mafia brother, then what is the reaction of openly unhappy the president? You'll double the failure to overthrow activity." Castro, who had Organized crime was "politically nos in Havana.

sophisticated enough to know that was investigating "The motivation for doing it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out." Floyd Fithian Former congressman out of and Lyndon stay together," differences younger Kennedy U.S. attorney president, for doing scientist said. long have had a motive administraleaders were with Kennedy's Cuba's Fidel closed their casiRobert Kennedy James Hoffa the Teamsters Union, who was closely linked to the criminal underworld. Fithian, a Democrat, represented what then was the 2nd congressional district in northwest Indiana he in 1975-1982. He ran unsuccessfully against Republican Richard G.

it Lugar for the Senate in 1982. to Fithian in 1976 lobbied thenSpeaker of the House Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. for a place on the to select committee. A long letter describing his abilities as an academic researcher he taught history at Purdue University succeeded in landing him a spot.

The committee, which took testimony from 335 witnesses and of conducted 4,924 interviews, con- Star Photo by Perry Reichanadter Snow Fun Penny Portman prepares to go skiing year son, Michael, entertains himself on a Sunday afternoon in Tuhey Park, while her 4- sled. Puppy Dealers Dogged by Police By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One of two women who allegedly ran a puppy mill is being investigated in Indiana and at least two other states for similar complaints, authorities said. Police in Illinois said officials in Kentucky and Indiana have been investigating Patricia E. Rumph, 35, for allegedly selling sick puppies and misrepresenting their breeds. About 40 complaints have been filed against her in those states, officials said.

Rumph, who also is known as Patricia Fitch, and her sister were arrested late Friday. Caseyville, Ill, police refused to release the sister's name Sunday and would not comment on whether the women were still being held. Collinsville and Caseyville police said they arrested Rumph in the parking lot of a Collinsville restaurant as she was about to sell to undercover investigators a mixedbreed puppy misrepresented as a purebred. parts of the hospital. The work is estimated to cost about $27,000.

The board also voted to hire the Reier Group of Med-Econ Greenville, Ohio, to provide anesthesia services during the absence of David Heaps, RCH anesthetist. 100 LYNN The Randolph Southern School Corp. board of trustees will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the superintendent's office, 1 Rebel Drive. An executive session will follow for the discussion of collective bargaining, pending or threatened litigation and the job performance evaluation of individual employees.

cluded in its 27-volume report that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the Texas School Book Depository and at least one other shot came from a grassy knoll to the front right of Kennedy's motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963. "When it gets to be more than three shots then it gets to being something involving more than Oswald, and that's the bottom Fithian said. Fithian, 63, said his biggest regret was that no federal criminal investigation resulted in any arrests or any apparent widening of the committee's findings. "The sadness is that we went that far with it and nothing more happened," he said.

"When we closed up, we sent the Justice Department a letter and said we found some very important leads. We urged them to take the leads and pursue it. There were a few meetings after that, but nothing happened. It went in the files." Fithian said he saw the Oliver Stone's current movie JFK but said he disagreed with it because it manipulated the past. House Vote on Boat Gambling Comes Today INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A proposal to legalize gambling aboard paddlewheel boats cruising the Ohio River faces a major test this week in the Indiana General Assembly.

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on House Bill 1188. Rep. Larry E. Lutz, the Evansville Democrat who sponsors the proposal, said last week that riverboat gambling proponents were getting close to securing the 51 votes needed to get the measure through the House. The proponents figure to be aided in their appeal for votes by House Speaker Michael K.

Phillips, D- Boonville. "I going to vote for it," Phillips said last week. Last year, a proposal to legalize casino gambling in Gary, French Lick and West Baden Springs and to permit riverboat gambling cleared the House on a 51-49 vote. Like that proposal, this year's gambling bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where casino legislation died last year. Senate Finance Chairman Lawrence M.

Borst, R-Indianapolis, said last week that he didn't plan to schedule a committee hearing on the riverboat proposal if it got out of the House. On Friday, Borst posted a committee schedule for this week that doesn't include a hearing on the riverboat bill. The Legislature is moving rapidly toward the end of its 30-day session, and it is possible the Finance Committee won't meet again after this week. Debts, $27,470. Assets, $11,955.

Chapter 7. Jerry G. Odell, Anderson. Debts, $25,717. Assets, $1,505.

Chapter 7. Malone F. Johnson, Muncie. Debts, $7,705. Assets, $1,060.

Chapter 7. Danny W. and Vicki L. Sapiro, Muncie. Debts, $29,985.

Assets, $36,796. Chapter 7. Willie D. Beaty, Muncie. Debts, $10,905.

A Assets, $15,220. Chapter 7. Willa F. Mann, Muncie. No debts or assists listed.

Chapter 13. Elizabeth S. Griggs, Springport. Debts, 156. Assets, $11,100.

Chapter 7. Michael R. Johnson, Knightstown. No debts or assists listed. Chapter 13.

Sheila F. Powell, Pendleton. Debts, $52,458. Assets, $5,892. Chapter 7.

Leah J. Thornburgh, Muncie. Debts, $10,037. Assets, $1,950. Chapter 7.

Kimberly Kim A. Harlow, Webster. Debts, $14,305. Assets, $5,205. Chapter 7, Thomas L.

and Delisa K. Ferguson Cox, Richmond. Debts, $65,701. Assets, $48,625. Chapter 13.

Robert C. and Carolyn F. Craig, Straughn. Debts, $42,652. Assets, $1,400.

Chapter 7. Cleora Habahee Weaver Thomas, Muncie. Debts, $29,979. Assets, $18,575. Chapter 7.

Ronald S. and Elena M. Hexamer, Anderson. Debts, $31,686. Assets, $27,900.

Chapter 7. Herbert (Herb) T. and Soo N. Smith, Anderson. Debts, $60,017.

Assets, $37,900. Chapter 7. Wayne M. Jr. and Tracie Anderson, Muncie.

Debts, $41,823. Assets. $34,468. Chapter 7. (Filed in Fort Wayne) Sharon L.

Marsh, Warren. Debts, $34,976. Assets, $1,000. Kevin D. Morrison, Montpelier, formerly doing business as Moe's Backhoe Service.

Debts, $11,667. Assets, $1,000. Janice J. Kavanaugh, Gas City. Debts, $55,566.

Assets, $61,000. Douglas W. and Nancy A. Hutson, Hartford City. Debts, $51,948.

Assets, $31,565. Donna Y. Lloyd, Berne. Debts, $10,780. Assets, $2,005.

Edward L. and Barbara E. Gifford, Marion. Debts, $45,370. Assets, $24,635.

John A. Myers, Markle. Debts and assets not listed. tives from Indiana Department of Environmental Management will be present. The meeting will be at 210 E.

State St. 0 0 0 000 000 000 COWAN The Monroe Community School Corp. board of trustees will meet at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 5 in the office of Supt.

Larry D. John. An executive session will follow. Randolph County WINCHESTER The Randolph County Hospital Board agreed last week to have engineering work done for the installation of emergency sprinklers in Indiana Attorney General Linley Pearson filed. a lawsuit against Rumph about 2 weeks earlier.

Pearson said in the suit that Rumph placed newspaper ads offering particular breeds of puppies for sale and arranged for customers to meet her in parking lots. Customers who took the puppies to a veterinarian because of sickness were told they weren't the breed advertised, Pearson contended. Many of the puppies allegedly suffered from worms or other diseases. After Rumph's arrest in Collinsville, police found 45 puppies and three bitches in a room mobile home in Caseyville. Feces littered the mobile home floors and the diseased and emaciated animals were found without food or water, Madison County Humane Society officials said.

The dogs were in small plastic travel cages stacked on top of each other, the humane society said. Several larger steel cages were Blackford County HARTFORD CITY Adult education classes will begin Feb. 10 at Blackford High School. For information or to sign up for any course, contact Jean Ann at (317) 348-7560. Courses include: Keyboarding (Typing 1) is designed to acquaint non with the keyboard and help them develop touch-typing skills.

The 5-week course will meet 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Cost of the course will be $30, plus $3 for and usage. Word Processing for those persons who have had some training or background in WordPerfect 5.0/5.1. The 5-week course will meet 6-8 p.m.

2 days a week. There is a registration cost of $30, plus $3 for supplies and usage. Basic Woods for Women is for women who realize that woodworking can be as enjoyable and practical for them as for men. This 10-week course found lined with urine-soaked newspapers. Both women were charged by Collinsville police with selling animals without a license, a misdemeanor.

The dogs were taken to the humane society's shelter in Edwardsville. Police said officials with the Illinois Department of Agriculture had been investigating the puppy mill for months, but were unable to locate it. Police first learned of the puppy mill after a St. Louis man complained that he hadn't received registration papers for a dog he purchased from Rumph, who called herself Fitch. The man learned of the puppy from a newspaper ad and picked up the animal in the restaurant parking lot.

About six complaints were taken Saturday from people who said they bought dogs from the women, and police continued to search for victims of the alleged scheme will meet from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. The cost is $30, plus $3 for usage. Beginning Computers is for those with little or no computer experience and will cover basic operating practices and simple programming. The course will meet from 6-8 p.m.

Mondays and Thursdays for weeks. There will be a registration cost of $25, plus $3 for supplies and usage. 0 MONTPELIER The Montp lier-Harrison Township Publ Library will celebrate its 85: anniversary Saturday with an ope house at 2 to 4 p.m. The new libra addition will be featured. Henry County KNIGHTSTOWN The Charles A.

Beard Memorial School Corp. board of trustees will meet in executive session at Because the riverboat bill has a financial impact, it would have to win the Finance Committee's blessing to advance to a vote by the entire Senate. Without the committee's approval, the proposal still could be revived later in a HouseSenate conference committee. But even if the bill could clear all of those hurdles and emerge from the Legislature, there's no guarantee Gov. Evan Bayh would sign it.

Bayh, who hasn't favored past casino gambling proposals, has said he is "somewhat skeptical" about riverboat gambling. In addition to the gambling legislation, the Legislature could consider more than 150 bills today in a marathon meeting. Midnight is the deadline for the House to finish work on its bills and the Senate to cast final votes on its measures. 6 p.m. Tuesday in the school office to discuss strategies with respect to collective bargaining and pending litigation and the evaluation of individual employee job performance.

000 NEW CASTLE The board of trustees of Henry County Memorial Hospital will meet at 8 a.m. Friday in the administrative board room of the hospital. An executive session to discuss medical staff and personnel matters will be at 7:30 a.m. Readers with a news tip or an event to be publicized can contact the metro desk at 747-5755 or 1-800-783-7827 after 2 p.m. daily.

Those with Hartford City, Montpelier, Upland or Matthews phone exchanges can reach The Star by calling 348-1499, and those in the Winchester calling area can reach The Star's office there by calling 584-1500. Items about coming events should be mailed to the metro desk, P.O. Box 2408, Muncie, 47307-0406..