The Reporter-Times from Martinsville, Indiana • 1

Mooresville board asked by PTO for crossing light meet with the bonding company attorney concerning this proposed prolect. Earl Adams made a proposal to the town to make grave openings for $200. This was tabled until a study of the budget and costs can be made. First 1983 county traffic fatality Wednesday a. m.

Maude M. Lanham, 70, 1275 Robb Hill Road, became Morgan County's first traffic fatality of 1983 Wednesday morning in a Jefferson Township car-truck accident. The driver of the vehicle in which she was a passenger, Robert A. Lanham, 75, Robb Hill Road, had a shoulder injury; he was transported by Al Ambulance to Morgan County Memorial Hospital, where he is listed in satisfactory condition today. The driver of the truck, John A.

Federsplel, 28, Plainfield, complained of head pain but refused treatment. The 10:23 a.m. accident was Investigated by Morgan County Chief Deputy Sheriff Robert E. Bauer. In the report, a witness stated that Federsplel, northbound on State Road 67 and approaching the south with State Road 39, had a green light.

Lanham, on 67, turned left on 39 Into Federspiel's path. The Lonham car was struck on the passenger Side by the truck; the car spun around and came to rest against a guardrail. The truck, owned by Mid State Skid and Pallet Plainfield, came to a stop about 388 feet north of the impact site. Washington Township firemen did a washdown on the roadway to disperse spilled fuel. Gregg Township firemen and civil defense personnel assis'ed in extrication of the victim.

Damage was listed as under $5,000 each vehicle. Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Lanham are pending at Neal and Summers Mortuary. By BECKY HARDIN Glenda Simpson was spokesman from Northwood Parent-Teacher Organization, and she asked Mooresville Town Board about progress of a crossing light at North-wood on Indiana Street. Steve Edwards, chairman of the board, said he had talked to Superintendent William Curry, who Is getting estimates on cost of the light.

The town will paint lines across the street as soon as weather Is favorable. Mooresville Development Co. has sold all of its land and wants to disband. The company owns a road near the sanitation plant and wants the town to take if over. The board instructed Bill Abbott to inspect the road to see if It meets standards as to width, also depth of blacktop and rock.

He will report at next meeting. A problem on Sweetwood of flood water was discussed. Town Attorney Tim Currens Is frying to determine if It Is the town's problem or the problem of the people who are flooded. Currens, Abbott and some of the board members will meet Friday at 6 p.m. with Davidson Industries concerning a second story.

The Mooresville and Brown Township Fire departments and other fire departments were put on notice concerning Insurance in case of fires. There is a lawsuit against the town. Currens Is preparing information for authorities on size of town. This Is in reference to the population, which varies according to different authorities. The post office estimated 7,600, although the census is less.

Citizens Bank, Federal Savings and Morgan County Bank were named depositories for the town. Edwards asked the board's permission to meet with several insurance agents with the expectation of getting bids on town employees' insurance. Explorer post Jim Bruner reported that the fire department hopes to organize an Explorer Scout troop. The number will be limited to 15. If the leaders do not have that many Interested, they will still work at it.

There will be a meeting April 23 for interested young people. Auditors are studying town records In preparation for bond issue. Currens will Blood donor program, dedicated to pastor, will be on Feb. 22 "We are hoping for an all-time high in the number of blood donors at the blood donor program on Feb. 22," Jeanne Masterson, recruiting chairman for the Martinsville blood donor program, said.

"There is always an urgent need for blood, and we are dedicating this drive to the Rev. Robert Voehl of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and hoping for his speedy recovery from his recent injuries." A number of local organizations, including Tri Kappa, Delta Sigma Kappa, Kappa Kappa Sigma, Lions, Optimist, Sertoma, Rotary, Evening and Early Edition Kiwanis clubs will compete for a new traveling trophy, which will be presented to the organization with the highest percentage of its members as donors. Blood donors are given cookies and a beverage after giving blood. At this drive they will receive homemade cookies prepared by members of Delta Theta Tau. All donors will also receive a coupon from Hardee's Restaurant for a free roast beef sandwich.

For mothers with young children, a baby-sitting service will be provided. Blood donors must be from 17 to 65 years of age and in good health. A mini physical, including pulse rate, temperature, blood pressure and blood cell count will be given prior to giving blood. All types of blood are needed, but the Central Indiana Blood Bank indicates that O-negative, A-negative, B-negative, and AB-negatlve are in short supply. The donor program is from 1 to 7 p.m.

at Central School. Donations in 1982 The central Indiana Regional Blood Center collected 98,763 blood donations in 1982, according to Donald R. Franklin, executive director. Of these donations, 1,522 were from Morgan County. The total donations from the 25-county area also set a record as the highest number collected in any year.

Each donation is approximately one pint of blood and can be safely donated to healthy individuals. "We are very pleased that over 1,400 business. Industrial, educational, religious and other organizatons were willing to host blood drives last year," Franklin said. "In 1983, we will need the continued support of our blood donor clubs, as well as new organizations hosting blood drives, in order to meet our goal of 119,000 blood donations." The center is a not-for-profit blood collection organization with headquarters at 2859 N. Meridian Indianapolis.

Receives Army medal Spec. 4 Willie G. Guy, son of M.G. and Wilma J. Guy of Paragon, has been decorated with the Army Achievement Medal at Fort Riley, Kan.

The medal is awarded to soldiers for achievement or meritorious service and acts of courage. Guy is a cannon crewman with the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery. He is a 1981 graduate of Martinsville High School. Deaths Maude Robb Hill Rd. (Information on pagel) William Moon, 59, Mooresville Kathleen Frischie, 82, Brownstown Bess Lawton, 94, Indianapolis Ella Spencer Minnie Williams, 79, Spencer (Information on page 5) turing business was the last in the Western Hemisphere to make oak liquid-tight kegs in sizes under five gallons.

Part of the machinery is in Missouri and the balance is in Port Antonio, Jamaica. The company, established in 1869, worked 300 employees at a peak period. Sertomans provided investment advice "The best tip on investing is for you to follow the FLAG approach: FORGET economic forecasters. Maintain LIQUIDITY in investments programs. ACCUMULATE good things at the right price and get involved in GROUP investments." That's what George Steel president of Planned Investment Co.

Inc. of Indianapolis, told Morgan County Ser-toma members at this week's meeting. Steel has 33 years in investment sales and his firm deals in primarily long-range investing. He said the down slide in business actually began nearly four years ago, but it is on an upturn. He told Sertomans he beleived the reason for the turnaround included the major focus on productivity increases in United States industry and the positive effects of Reaganom ics." He feels the best buys for long term investments at the present time are stocks In major U.S.

corporations. Other investments which he felt are attractive are tax exempt bonds and limited partnerships. Membership committee member Jim Martin explained the ground rules for new Sertoma members to earn the GEM (Good Enthusiastic Member) award for which they are eligible for during the first year. Club President Mel Ficklin provided an update of progress at the new School of Hope-Rehabilitation facility north of Martinsville. The club has pledged $1,500 toward the project and expects to raise it by mid May.

The new building should be operational by the end of March. Member Jim Mclish, also the director of the Morgan County Rehabilitation Services, has embarked on a project to obtain pledges over the next three years which will provide about 20 percent of the total funds needed to purchase the property. He says the state will provide the remaining 80 percent of the money. Glen Inman reported on the HAM-FEST which is to be at the fairgrounds and National Guard Armory on March 13. Sertomans will sponsor the event, and invitations have been sent to 4,000 licenses ham radio operators in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio.

Club members will serve breakfast and lunch to the large numbers who are expected to attend. Feb. 23 was the date set for the next meeting at Kentucky Fried Chicken. ACCORDING to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, when Yuri Vladmirovich Andropov succeeded to the dictatorship of the Soviet Union, he declared, "I pledge to devote all my energy, knowledge, and experience to the successful implementation of the program of building Communism." Mindszenty people even hint that Leonid Brezhnev's death wasn't totally natural. (Whittaker Chambers reported how one of the master achievements of the Soviet bureaucracy is "committing a natural It is known that Andropov arranged the murder of a KGB general who acted as Brezhnev's inside informer in the secret police.

And he knew how to use the secret police, though he couldn't always guarantee their success: "It is and the evidence is overwhelming that Andropov's KGB was involved with the Bulgarian secret police, which the KGB controls, in the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul 1 1 "This involvement is one of the biggest stories in the entire history of Soviet intrigue and subversion, which the free world press has attempted to Ignore." (And so have free world governments, including lamentably, the Reagan regime in Washington.) ANDROPOV has performed proficiently not only inside the Soviet Union and among the captive nations. He moves the secret police into the almost overt Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and developed the KGB's expertise in "espionage organization outside the Soviet Union. Terrorists, assassins, and 'third world' guerrilla fighters are trained by the KGB to 'liberate' their countries into the Soviet camp. "The KGB also directs the secret police networks of other Communist countries, such as Cuba and Bulgaria. In turn, the Cuban secret police aid in the subversion of Central and Latin America, and the Bulgarians have been exposed as directing the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II." Though papers like the Wall Street Journal and the St.

Louis Post Dispatch describe Andropov as "a man amenable to reform," a "closet liberal," who "wears flawlessly tailored dark suits and looks more like a professor than a policeman," he directed the cat's-paw crushing of Poland after the Solidarity revolt. He orchestrates the nuclear freeze choir, that includes bishops of the Pope's own church, leaders of the Protestant churches enrolled in the National Council, professors by the thousands, and campus rioters by the stadiaful. It's a demonstrated fact that the Communists, through subversion and bribery and extortion, have taken over complete control of the press in Greece. By watching the coverage of the nuclear "freeze" movement in the United States, one might wonder whether they don't have a pretty good hook in some of my supposed colleagues, especially those on the richest papers and most lavishly programmed television news services. Soviet manipulation of American peaceniks is almost as well documented as their efforts to kill the Pope, and just as frequently shrugged off or denied by the Kremlin's usefOl fools.

rsk MSD Board to meet The Metropolitan School District of Martinsville's board of trustees will meet tonight, at 7:30 p.m., in the administration office. They will discuss grants, the instructional media center, girls softball, a change in the West Middle School wrestling coach, and a report from the Young Authors Planning Committee; and have a board of finance meeting to consider depositories for school funds. ALLEN DALE GIBBS, son of Ruthie and Vernon Gibbs of Maple Turn lane, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army in a ceremony on Feb. 1 at Fort Bragg, N.C.

His wife Deborah and three daughters, Melissa, Jennifer and Jamie were present for the occasion. Gibbs has served two tours in Vietnam and spent three years in Germany. He recently spent nine months in Norfolk, V.A., attending a college. Among his awards are Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster. Purple Heart with two oak leaf clusters, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Silver Star and the Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster.

He has completed the Canadian Jump School course in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to receive his Canadian jump wings. Gibbs is presently assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, as provost marshal. He and his family spent a few days with his parents, and also with Mrs. Gibbs' parents. Dr.

and Mrs. Fred J. Lindsey of Maumee, Ohio, following the ceremony. Announces for mayor Guy Fogleman announced today that he would be a candidate for mayor on the Democrat ticket in Martinsville's May primary. Fogleman lost to the mayor by 103 votes in the November 1979 election.

Fogleman's parents were the late Jacob and Mary Lula Collier Fogleman. His wife is the former Betty L. Rhorer. They are parents of a son, Guy Franklin Fogleman, and a daughter, Jane L. Fogleman, and they have two grandchildren.

A lifelong resident of the city, Fogleman graduated from Martinsville High School in 1942 and from the Indiana College of Mortuary Science in 1967. He and his wife own and operate the Fogleman Funeral Home, formerly Wilhite and Son. As a community and civic leader, he has iust concluded a term as president of the Evening Kiwanis Club. He is a member of Indiana Funeral Directors Association and various Masonic bodies. New filing Robert L.

O'Neal, 640 E. Washington has filed in the office of Morgan County Clerk Joan Grey for city councilman in the fourth district. O'Neal is a Republican. MEMORY GARDENS Management Corp. has announced the recent purchase of Nebo Memorial Park located on State Road 252 east of Martinsville.

MCMC has over 30 years' experience operating cemeteries and presently owns and manages 14 cemeteries in seven midwestern states, including Forest Lawn Memory Gardens on State THE OLD BUCKET factory is being razed; and, if good working weather continues, the job will soon be complete. Owners are Mrs. Allan Smith, New York City; and Mrs. J.W. Hussey and Tom Hussey, Martinsville.

At the close of operations in 1980, the manufac- Help on electric bills for elderly, disabled announced by utility A community service program that will make $250,000 available to help elderly and disabled customers of Public Service Indiana pay their electric bills this winter has been announced by the electric company in cooperation with the American Association of Retired Persons. Hugh A. Barker, chairman of RSI, said that directors of the utility have authorized a dollar-matching plan that will offer a helping hand to those least able to cope with rising energy costs (Please turn to page two to finish) County fire fighters meet The Morgan County Firefighters Association met at city hall Wednesday evening. The get-tocerher was hosted by the Martinsville Fire Department. The 40 offenders represented all fire fighting agencies in the county.

Martinsville Fire Chief Gary Austin remarked that he met some of the chiefs for the first time; and that the local department has only recently been active in the association. Aim of the group is close cooperation in fighting fires. Inventory lists are being traded, so that needed equipment or supplies can be quickly made available. In another matter, the chief announced that he was preparing a campaign against house fires. "We are quick to guard our houses against burglars, but we have a long way to go toward fire safety," he said.

Named to dean's list Jacqueline Schlegel, a business administration major at Milligan College in Tennessee, has been named to the dean's list. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Schlegel, 4655 Flake Road.

Students on the list earned a semester grade point average between 3.75 and 4.0. Milligan College is located midway between Johnson City and Elizabethton, and is a four-year coeducational college of arts and sciences. Road 135, Greenwood. James R. Meyer, left, general manager of Forest Lawn since 1978, was appointed vice president of Nebo Park, and Dave Moffatt, right, who has been with Forest Lawn since 1976, will assume the duties of property manager.

Nebo Memorial Park's new general office is located at 570 E. Morgan St. Park board okays use of diamond for groups The Jimmy Nash City Park Board has approved requests from three organizations wanting to use the diamond this spring, summer and fall. A summer girls' softball league will use the diamond two nights each week, while the Martinsille High School girls' fastpltch team will also be allowed to use it two evenings per week. The fastpitch team was also given permission to reserve the diamond for about six home games during the school year.

Martinville Junior Football League will be permitted to use the diamond area from Aug. 1 to Nov. 1 from 4 to 8 p.m. The next board meeting will be changed from March 14 to March 15 at 7:30 p.m. In the Bray Law Office.

Information clarified about farm assessments Recently, according to County Assessor Phil Deckard, there has been some wrong information passed out concerning the farm assessments of area farmers who participate in the newly presented government's Payment-In-Kind program. This program is for farmers who have either a wheat or corn base. The farmer agrees to set aside a portion of his wheat or corn base and not plant his full crop. For doing this, the government will then repay the farmer for portions not planted in what has been designated "a payment in kind." In other words, said Deckard, the government will repay the farmer in actual crop, either wheat or corn. For instance, if the farmer plants only 50 percent of his regular crop, the government will repay the farmer 80 percent of his yield in actual corn.

Now, according to Deckard, the assessor's office will only assess the farmer for the crops in his actual control or possession on March 1. Therefore, he stated, if the farmer signs up now for the PIK program, but does not receive his corn or wheat until October (the earliest date indicated), the assessor's office will not assess him for his crop until March 1 of next year, to be paid on the following year. Deckard said anyone with questions may contact him In the assessor's office, 342-3489, or Ruth Hammonds at the ASCS Office, 342-5594. Weather Local temperatures 24-hour low 30, 24-hour high 53, current (11:45 a.m. today) 38.

Precipitation yesterday: Zero. Barometric pressure 29.90 humidity 80 at 7:30 a.m. today. Winds: Calm. Readings by Marshall Gregson.

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Ensembles oolng to state: Madrigals; Men's Ensemble. RATING II Soloists: Peggy Bower, Ray Doss, Sharia Gafford, Teresa Colllar, David Obarhottzar, Dan Clark, Diana Thomas, Shally Peftkord, Julia Hendrickson, Greta McWilliams, Donna Raguta, David Hoffman. Cialra Kattman, Tanya Kltchan, Kris Zagar, Janet Warner, Jennifer Walters end Kim Berry. Ensembles: Women's Large, Woman's Trio; Mon's Duet; Women's Trio; Large Mixed Ensemble; Women's Trio, Men's Barbershop. Washingtons Birthday Specials Pages 7 8.