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A12 The Republic, Columbus, Thursday, May 28, 1987 Area Deaths, Services Services Accidents hospitalize two drivers A motorcycle accident early today on Goeiler Boulevard seriously injured a Columbus man and a Wednesday morning wreck left a Taylorville woman hospitalized. STEVEN R. COWAN, 24, of Hawpatch Drive, was reported to be in serious condition today at Hospital at Indianapolis. He was taken there by Lifeline helicopter after initial treatment at Bartholomew County Hospital. Patrolman Gary Critzer, who investigated the 3:55 a.m.

cycle accident, reported Cowan lost control of the cycle on Goeiler Boulevard about 300 feet from its intersection with Tipton Lakes Boulevard. THE CYCLE WENT OFF the Retired barber Elmer E. Murray Reed Street Elmer Murray, 85, of Reed Street, died at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Bartholomew County Hospital. He had been in failing health for some time.

A graduate of Indianapolis Barber School, Murray was a barber in downtown Columbus 61 years before his retirement. He attended Seventh Street Church of God. Funeral service will be conducted by vthe Rev. Joe Taylor at 1 p.m. Saturday at ELMER E.

MURRAY C- 'Takin' it easy tends the University of Southern Indiana while Knoll attends Indiana University. School's out for Keri Pender and Laura Knoll who soaked up some rays Wednesday at Westlake in Evansville. Pender at New school building fund to give taxpayers better idea of projects Maurice E. Thompson Funeral service for Maurice E. Thompson, 75, of Cambridge Square, was conducted Wednesday by Dr.

William Griffith at Barkes Inlow and Weaver Funeral Home. Burial was a Garland Brook Cemetery. Pallbearers were Terry, Howard and J.B. Branum; Carlus Frazier, Troy Thompson and Alan- Watkins. Honorary pallbearers were David Thompson, Cecil Branum and Lloyd Crouch.

Thompson died Sunday at Bartholomew County Hospital. Walter G. Brown Funeral service for Walter G. Brown, 79, of Waycross Drive-, was conducted Wednesday by the Rev. Harold Armstrong at Barkes, Inlow and Weaver Funeral Home.

Burial was at Garland Brook Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. Thomas Dugan, Robert May, Charlton Walker, Joe Boaz, Gregory Brown and Dennis Shroyer. Brown died Sunday at Columbus Convalescent Center. Clarence W.

Young Funeral service for Clarence W. Young, 80, of Indiana 7, was conducted Wednesday by the Rev. Robert Synon and the Rev. John Bradertscner at Reed and Jewell Funeral Home. Burial was at Greenlawn Cemetery in Franklin.

Pallbearers were Aaron, Marlin and Craig Young, Lester William DeHart and Bob Swartz. Young died Sunday at Bartholomew County Hospital. R.H. Wilson EDINBURGH Funeral service for R.H. Wilson, 86, of West Park Drive, was conducted Wednesday by the Rev.

George Eagler at Eskew-Eaton' Funeral Home. Burial was at Rest Haven Cemetery. Pallbearers were Donald States, Robert Stine, Richard Neville, Ron Seals, Chuck Fulford, Steve Brown and Harris. Wilson died Sunday at Johnson County Hospital. Homer K.

Evans EDINBURGH Funeral service for Homer K. Evans, 60, of Shelbyville route 4, was to have been conducted today by the Rev. Bob Michaels and the Rev. Elza Michaels at Eskew-Eaton Funeral Home. Burial was at Nineveh Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Gary Bennett, Mike Sturgill, David Williams, Terry Gull, Jack Ross and Junior Hamner, Evans died Sunday at W.S. Major Hospital in Shelbyville. William Harrison, Korean armistice designer, dies United Press International PHILADELPHIA Funeral services will be held Friday tor Lt. Gen, William Harrison a decorated war veteran who headed the U.N. armistice team in Korea.

Harrison, 91, died Monday in Bryn Mawr, a Philadelphia suburb. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery after services at Memorial Chapel at nearby Fort Myer. Harrison was a direct descendant of President William Henry Harrison. He graduated in 1917 from West Point and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the cavalry. In World War II Harrison was assistant commander of the 30th Infantry Division where he became noted for showing up at the front to lead the troops with a Submachine gun in his hand.

He received the Purple Heart for a wound received during fighting in France. After the war, Harrison served under General Douglas MacArthur in Japan and in December 1951, became deputy comander of the Eighth Army in Korea. In 1952, he was named to head the U.N. team negotiating an armistice at Panmunjom, Korea. Before retiring in 1957 he was named commander in chief of U.S.

forces in the Caribbean. road and flipped several times, landing on top of Cowan who suf fered serious head and leg injuries Cowan was not wearing a helm The accident is under investigate Injured in a 10:27 a.m. accident' Wednesday at U.S. 31 and Main Street in Taylorsville was Delores Smith, 52, of Taylorsville. She was.

admitted to Bartholomew County Hospital for head injuries sustained in the accident, but a report on her condition was not available today. THe BARTHOLOMEW County. Sheriff's Department reported that Smith was stopped on Main Street waiting to cross the northbound lanes of U.S. 31 to go southbound. She pulled onto the highway and was struck on the driver's side by a northbound car driven by Diane J.

Zurbrugg, 31, of Indiana 7. Smith said she couldn't remember what happened prior to the collision. Zurbrugg, who wasn't' hurt, said she saw Smith pull out and tried to avoid the collision by braking but was not able to do so. 2 men lock nurse in closet, flee with mental patient United Press International SALT LAKE CITY Two men, one carrying a pistol, locked a nurse in a closet and fled with a 29-year-old female patient from the psychiatric ward of Holy Cross Hospital Thursday, police said. The armed man said he was the patient's boyfriend and "wanted to marry her," hospital spokeswoman Marcie McCleary said.

It was not known whether the patient, Debra McBride of Salt Lake City, who was referred to the locked psychiatric unit by a physician, left voluntarily or was forced to go with the men. The 4:10 a.m. incident was reported after the nurse was released from the closet nearly 20 minutes after the three left the police Lt. Joel Campbell said. Officers later arrested an unidentified 19-year-old suspect.

The others were still being hunted. The quality of life reflected in a town's apperance, can be a critical consideration for expansion-minded businessmen, he noted. THERE SEEMED LITTLE doubt among the people who attended the luncheon that the bricks, light posts, trees, and other amenities Gove proposes for the business district would improve the town's quality of life. Just as Caton had predicted, however, opposition developed to the parking proposal. Gove wants to ban angle parking on Main Cross and allow only parallel parking.

The width of the sidewalks could then be expanded from the present eight feet to 10 feet or 12 feet. Schaffer's wife Vicki, said many customers of Schaffer Drugs at 101 E. Main Cross, are ill and thus wish to park as close as possible to the store. at. Barkes, Inlow and Weaver Funeral Home on Washington Street where calling hours will be from 4 to 9 p.m.

Friday and from 11 a.m. Saturday until service time. Burial will be at Garland Brook Cemetery. Born Dec. 11, 1901, in Newbern, Murray was the son of James and Dora Cohee Murray.

He married Thelma t. DeSpain Arnold on Sept. 9, 1950, and she survives. Other survivors include two sons, Ralph D. Murray of North Vernon and Earl L.

Murray of Bloomington; a foster daughter, Ruth Pedigo of Columbus; two brothers, Ross Murray of Indianapolis and Ray Murray of Hope; three sisters, Retta Settles and Ruth Hill, both of Columbus, and Faye Michaels of Hope five grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. Retired insurance salesman Joe W. Reed Charleston Square Joe W. Reed, 82, of Charleston Square, died at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday at Columbus Convalescent Center following a lengthy illness.

Reed retired in 1972 after 32 years as an insurance salesman for Empire Insurance Co. in Indianapolis. He was a member of Bloomington United Methodist Church at Bloomington. Funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Reed and Jewell Funeral Home where calling hours will be from 4 to 8 p.m; Friday.

Entombment will be at Garland Brook Mausoleum. Born Sept. 30, 1904, in Hope, Reed was the son of Rufus and Lucinda Snyder Reed. He married Thelma L. Fox on Oct.

22, 1925, in Indianapolis and she survives. Other survivors include a son, Richard F. Reed of Columbus; a daughter, Betty Butcher of Law-' rence; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Decatur county native fc Harry D. Elliott Meeker, Okla.

WESTPORT Harry D. Elliott, 66, a former resident of the Letts community in Decatur County, died at 9 p.m. Tuesday at his home at of Meeker, Okla. He had been a resident of Lincoln County, the past two years. Funeral service will be conducted by the Rev.

Ted Miller at 2 p.m. Saturday at Sardinia Baptist Church where Elliott was a member. Burial will be at Westport Cemetery. Calling hours at Bass Funeral Home in Westport will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and at the church Saturday from 1 p.m.

until service time. Elliott was born Oct. 28, 1920, in Decatur County, the son of Sam C. and Mable Dugan Elliott. He mar-, ried Grace Leach Oct.

18, 1941, at Bedford, and she survives. He was a graduate of Jackson Township High School and was a retired truck driver. Other survivors include a daughter, Ruthie Gallaway of Meeker; three sons, Jerry Elliott of New Castle, David Elliott of North Vernon and John Elliott of Meeker, and five grandchildren. By Amy Kantor The Republic Members of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Board have taken the first step in dismantling the fund they use to finance construction projects and have replaced it with a new fund intended to give taxpayers a better look at how their money is spent. THE BOARD TUESDAY approved a new capital projects fund that will replace the longstanding cumulative building" fund used in public school budgeting.

The school board will hold a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday at 2650 Home Avenue to start establishing the new guidelines. A three-year plan of school building and equipment projects must be presented to the public each year and a public hearing must be held every May to make this information available. School corporations must tr mmm I United Press International $100 of evaluation to $1.25 per $100, as the school corporation proposed. WHEREAS THE CBF restricted schools to financing projects in 11 specific categories such as site acquisition, remodeling and purchase of new instructional equipment, the capital projects fund allows schools to spend money in additional categories without dipping into the general fund, explained David Anderson, BCSC business manager.

The new capital projects fund provides school boards the opportunity to finance "a significant amount of equipment purchases that were previously funded in the operating fund, more commonly called the general fund. It is critical," school board member Leo Krulitz told other trustees as the board discussed the new policy for the first time. Gove architect who developed the recommendations, on June 8. IT IS LIKELY THE possibility of using sales tax revenue-to finance part of the project will be discussed then. Caton said legislation passed by the General Assembly this year for Indianapolis' proposed downtown mall allows Indiana towns to set aside some sales tax proceeds to pay for development bonds.

Tax increment financing is another possibility that Caton said should be investigated. He said it allows tax revenues from new developments to be set aside until they are needed to pay back money borrowed for improvements in infrastructure. And though the primary purpose of the project would be to create a more pleasant atmosphere for shoppers, Schaffer thinks it may also attract economic development. also show each year an expectation of how they will get money to fund these projects for the coming three years, according to the new rules. SINCE THIS WOULD be the first year of the capital projects fund, school corporations can hold hearings in June.

The capital projects fund will replace the CBF in all Indiana schools by 1991 The BCSC will do that at 7:30 p.m. June 15 when it gives the public an opportunity to comment on projected construction outlays and any tax rate changes that could accompany building plans through the next few years. The current CBF tax rate is $1 per $100 of assessed property, an amount reached last winter after senior citizens and farmers protested that they did not want the rate jacked up from 75 cents per struction costs alone without allowing for inflation is $671,890. Caton said he expects the town will make the changes over a period of years rather than all at once. THE DRAWINGS Caton took to the chamber luncheon were merely concepts of how the downtown might lock if the recommendations are acted upon.

Caton and Chamber President Tom Schaffer, told the audience no definite plans have been developed. Public input is being sought so that whatever is eventually undertaken has broad-based community support. Caton strongly endorsed a revitalization effort backed by both public and private funds. He said financial support could be solicited from local business and industry. He is to go before the Edinburgh Town Board with Mark Harsha.

the Old-time main street proposed for Edinburgh Johnson County's oldest downtown will become one of its most attractive if plans presented at Wednesday's meeting of the Edinburgh Community Chamber of Commerce become a reality. John Caton of Gove Associates, an architectural and engineering firm, proposed during the meeting that Edinburgh's downtown utility wires be buried, it's angle parking eliminated and its sidewalks bricked. THE GOVE VICE PRESIDENT also recommended that Hawthorn, Linden and Locust trees be planted and that old-fashioned street lights be installed. Gove, which has developed similar proposals for other Midwestern communities, has worked with the chamber since 1984 on plans for Edinburgh's business district. The firm's estimate for the con GARY DAVIS MUSIC MAKERS OFFERS: LOWEST RENTAL and DISCOUNT PRICES FAST, LOCAL SERVICE NO INTEREST or MONTHLY (C.M.P.) REPAIR CHARGE (Comprehensive Maintenance Program) NO MIDDLE-MAN COMMISSION TO PAYi COLUMBUS' ONLY FACTORY AUTHORIZED BAND INSTRUMENT DEALER FREE USE OF INSTRUMENT WHILE YOURS IS BEING REPAIRED CHOOSE NEW OR USED INSTRUMENTS FROM: ARMSTRONG BUNDY CONN GEMEINHARDT GETZEN HOLTON LEBLANC LUDWIG VITO YAMAHA CL.