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Republic, Columbus, Monday, May 10, 1993 Evelyn C. Seward Funeral Tuesday favorite charity shared with Miss Funeral for Evelyn Chalmers Seward, 83, of Lafayette Avenue will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Myers. Funeral Service, Hathaway Chapel on Pearl Tom Pickett officiating. There will be no calling hours.

Private burial will be at City Cemetery. Memorials may be made to a Seward. She died at 12:05 a.m. Saturday, May 8, 1993, at a local nursing home. Miss Seward was a 1924 graduate of Columbus High School and a 1929 EVELYN SEWARD graduate of EVELYN SEWARD Butler University, where she majored in Latin and French.

She earned a master's degree in Latin from the University of Michigan in 1938, received a John Hay Fellowship to Columbia University in 1954-55 and also did post graduate work at Purdue and Indiana universities. She was honored May 3 as a Paul Harris Fellow by Columbus Rotary Club for her community involvement. She was a teacher in Bartholomew County schools from 1930 to 1972 and served in the WAVES from 1944 to 1946. Miss was a member of Columbus Christian Science Society, where she served as second reader, and of the Mother Church in Boston. She was a Sunday school teacher and a member of Business and Professional Women, Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Indiana Civil Liberties Union and the local and national chapters of the NAACP.

She was a member and past president of Delta Kappa Gamma sorority, was founder of Bartholomew County Chapter American Association of Retired Persons and served two terms, one as vice chairman, on the AARP state legislative committee. She was a member of of Women Voters and in 1974 was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She was a 50-year member, past president and past state legislative chairman of American Association of University Women, was a member and past president of Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association, was a member and former legislative committee chairman of Indiana Retired Teachers Association and was a life member of National Education Association and American Association of Teachers of French, of which she also was past state president. She was a member and past president of Indiana High School Press Association, a 50-year member of Women in Communications, a former member of the board of directors of Bartholomew County Humane Society and also had served on the Animal Control Commission and as a member of Bartholomew Consolidated School Board. She was a former liaison to the School Foundation.

She also worked for the Izaak Walton League, Environmental Defense Fund, Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wild Life and Arbor Day Foundation. She was the recipient of Bartholomew County Senior Citizen of the Year Award and Friend of Education Award from Columbus Educators Association and was named to Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. Education Hall of Fame. The Quill and Scroll chapter at Columbus North was named for her. Born May 22, 1909, in Columbus, Miss Seward was the daughter of Robert A.

and Hallie Brown Seward. She is survived by several cousins. Robert Chappell's brother Hobart Chappell Huntingburg Word has been received here of the death of Hobart Chappell, Area Counties Jackson Jackson County Schneck Memorial Hospital Friday Admittances Imogene Creech, Seymour. Gertrude Dowling, Crothersville. Roberta McKinney, Seymour.

Linda Clarkston, Route 4, North Vernon. Wesley Hall, 2, son of James and Julie Hall, Kurtz. Blake Wiison, 3, son of Betty Jo Wilson, Seymour. Dismissals Janis Bramiette, Seymour. Pearl Burton, Brownstown.

Mamie Gault, North Vernon. Joseph Guy, Crothersville. Jennifer Lewellyn and son, Jeffrey Grant Lewellyn, Seymour. Larry R. Hill Seymour.

Blake Wilson, son of Betty Jo Wilson, Seymour. Saturday Admittances Tabatha Fluhr, Scottsburg. 71, 5:20 of a.m. Sunday, Huntingburg. May He 9, died 1993, at Jasper Nursing Center.

He retired from the Indiana State Highway Department, was a Navy veteran of World War II and was Church a of member Christ, of Salem Veterans United a of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and Huntingburg Conservation Club. Funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Nass and Son Funeral Home in Huntingburg, Rev. Michael Thompson officiating. Calling will be after 3 p.m.

today. Burial will be at Fairmount. Cemetery. Military graveside rites will be conducted by American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars members. Mr.

Chappell was born Dec. 11, 1921, at Huntingburg, the son of Garrett H. and Minnie Hollander Chappell. He was the widower of Leola Andry Chappell. Survivors include a daughter, Cheryl Chappell of Indianapolis; stepsons, Ronald Cleveland of Jasper and George Cleveland of Jackson, sisters, Rosie Freson of Huntingburg and Jewel Jenkins of St.

Louis; brothers, Robert Chappell of Columbus and Jerry Chappell Pittsboro; six stepgrandchildren; and several stepgreat-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, Andrew "Jack" Chappell. G.C. Murphy retiree SEYMOUR Bryan J. Clark 68, of Miller Lane died at 11:42 a.m.

Saturday, May 8, 1993, at Jackson County Hospital. He was an Army veteran of World War II, a 45-year employee of the G.C. Murphy Co. a member of Seymour Moose Lodge and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m.

Tuesday at Voss Chapel, with the Rev. Roy F. Quanstrom officiating. Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and from 8:30 until service time Tuesday.

Burial will be at Riverview Cemetery. Military graveside rites will be conducted by members of Seymour Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans. Memorials may to the donor's choice of charities. Mr. Clark was born March 30, 1925, in Seymour, the son of Bryan W.

Evelyn C. Childs Clark. He married Ruth E. George Aug. 11, 1946, at Jeffersonville.

She survives. He lived in Jackson County most of his life. Additional survivors include sons, Stanley Clark of Newburgh and Terry Clark of Fort Pierce, brothers, Jack Lynn Clark of California, Joe Roger M. and Norman E. Clark, all of Seymour, and the Rev.

Ronald L. Clark of Booneville; and grandchildren, Doug Young, Nicole Clark and Kailee Clark. He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister. Bryan J. Clark Jr.

Seymour Gulf Oil Co. retiree William A. Habicht Seymour SEYMOUR William A. Habicht, 78, of West Fifth died 6:26 p.m. Saturday, May 8, 1993, at Jackson County Hospital emergency room.

A member of Central Christian Church, he was a retired construction engineer with Gulf Oil Co. Funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Myers Funeral Service, Burkholder Chapel, with the Revs. Clayton Boyer and Sam Davenport officiating. Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

today. Additional calling hours will be from. 2. to 6 p.m. Saturday at George P.

Kalas Funeral Home in Oxon Hill, Md. A memorial service will be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday at Henson Valley Christian Church in Oxon Hill. Memorials may be made to Central Christian Church or the American Heart Association. Mr.

Habicht was born in West New York, N.J., Feb. 8, 1915, the son of John 0. and Rose Buser Habicht. He married Dorthy C. Kendry Jan.

23, 1942, in Pennsylvania. She died April 18, 1990. He moved to Jackson County in June Helen Hobbs, Pekin. Darlene Vondielingen, Seymour. Blake Wilson, Seymour.

Births William and Tamara Eversole, Seymour, son. Michael and Sandy Klewitt, Seymour, daughter. Joseph and Ramona Lawson, Seymour, daughter. Dianne Taskey, Seymour, daughter. Dismissals Virginia Bowman and infant daughter, Carrie Marie Bowman, Brownstown.

Imogene Creech, Seymour. Sarah Jo Cox and Infant daughter, -Kirsten Emma Cox, North Vernon. Letita Gosman, North Vernon. Tracie Saliski and infant son, Tyler Wayne Sallski, North Vernon. Blake Wilson, Seymour.

Sunday, Admittances Joseph Beickman, Seymour. Births Lois Caudill and Gerald Boling, Brownstown, daughter. 1990 from Poseyville. Survivors include a brother, John Habicht of Avon, and a daughter-in-law, the Rev. Marsha Habicht Rodenberger, with whom he made his home; four grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; and two stepgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by sons, the Rev. Bill Habicht Jr. and Gwilliam Habicht. National Linen retiree Geraldine F. Harsh Texas Geraldine Faye Harsh, 71, of Harker Heights, Texas, formerly of Columbus, died at 7:45 a.m.

Sunday, May 9, 1993, at Santa Fe Hospital in Temple, Texas. She retired from National Linen Co. Funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at Myers Funeral Service, Reed and Jewell Chapel on 25th Street, with the Rev. Virgil Clotfelter officiating.

Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be at Scipio Cemetery. Mrs. Harsh was born Feb.

8, 1922, in Hoopson, the daughter of Lee Clarence and Ruth Marie Johnson Dowling. She married Charles Frederick Harsh June 16, 1943, in Oakland, Md. He died Nov. 22, 1989. Survivors include a daughter, Ruthann Hayes of Harker Heights; sons, Marvin Lee Harsh of Scipio, Mark Wayne Harsh of North Vernon and Charles Dwight Harsh of Ogilville; a stepson, Robert Harsh of Barberton, Ohio; a brother, Clarence Dowling of Paris Crossing; seven grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Naomi Voss. Arrangements incomplete Mabel A. Otte Seymour SEYMOUR Mabel A. Otte, 90, of North Pine Street died at 7:50 a.m. Monday, May 10, 1993, at Jackson County Hospital.

Arrangements are incomplete at Myers Funeral Service, Burkholder Chapel. Retired loan officer Mabel G. Hammond Elizabethtown Mabel G. Hammond, 92, of Elizabethtown died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 8, 1993, at Columbus Convalescent Center.

She had worked as a loan officer and retired from American Loan Co. She was a member of Esther Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star at Hope. Funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Myers Funeral Service, Hathaway-Myers Chapel on Pearl Street, with the Rev. Robert Lay officiating.

Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. An Eastern Star memorial service will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be at Springer Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the donor's choice of charities. Miss Hammond was born May 5, 1901, in Elizabethtown, the daughter ofT Thomas C. and Nellie Maude Akens Hammond. She is survived by a sister, Doris McGuire of Columbus; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by five.

brothers and three sisters. The deadline for obituary information is 9 a.m. Monday through Friday for the weekday and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday for the weekend editions. Information generally is provided by the funeral home.

Accounts from family are accepted for out-of-town deaths. The Republic will verify and edit information submitted. Photographs, either black-andwhite or color, are accepted for all obituaries. Service reports, a brief account of the service which includes pallbearers' names, are published after the funeral. Obituaries and service reports are a free service of The Republic.

Obituary number: 379-5635. Dismissals Trina Lush, Seymour. Tamara Eversole and Infant son, William Earl Eversole Seymour. Lori Hopper and Infant daughter, Lexi Eleni-Dayle Hopper, Seymour. Accidents Sunday 5:25 a.m.

200 block of West Fifth Street, Seymour: Richard K. Piaffenberger, 29, Seymour, and parked vehicle registered to Roger D. Coomer, Seymour. 1:30 p.m. Foods Plus parking lot at Village Center, Seymour: Sharon K.

Koester, 49, Seymour, and vehicle that the scene. Fires Sunday 1:31 p.m. Seymour Fire Department called to 632 S. Vine construction fire. 1:57 p.m.

Seymour Fire Department called to vehicle fire at (See AREA, Page A9) Associated Press Rosanne Harvin, 62, sits in her swing in 32 years. She and others must leave after Maysville, S.C. She has lived on the farm for being told the farm is being sold. Sale of South Carolina farm uproots families By Colette Baxley Associated Press MAYESVILLE, S.C. It's not having to move now that bothers the aged men and women who've lived and worked for decades on the Mayes family cotton farm.

It just hurts that Bill Mayes Jr. gave them only 15 days to get out. Being uprooted are about 16 people, mostly widowed, women and men and couples in their 60s and 70s. There's also a young family with five or six children. All are black and live rent-free except for one white man.

He rents his house and works in town, but he, too, must go. Their houses dotting the property are ramshackle, but tidy with flowers carefully planted in some yards. Built of wood, brick or cinderblock, some stand by dirt roads, others by pavement. Many lack plumbing. W.M.

Mayes patriarch of the family that gave its name to the town of 800 chartered in 1896, told them they could live here always. But soon after he died last month at age 72, his son decided to sell the family's thousands of acres here in the state's flat rural middle. On April 29, he knocked on doors to deliver the bad news. The eviction is upsetting to people who relied on the elder Mayes' promise. "I couldn't believe it," said Rosanne Harvin, 62, a farm resident for 32 years and a cotton picker for half that.

offered to pay rent. But he said the (prospective buyer) didn't want nobody on the Harvin said she was paid $2 for every 100 pounds of cotton she picked, a job she had until tractors replaced the women in 1976. "I picked more than 200 pounds a day," she said. Bill Mayes Jr. decided to sell the farm, in part because of the expense, said his lawyer, Bill Robinson.

"It's just difficult now to finance a large farming production as the Mayes family Mayes was reached Friday at his home here but declined to Associated Press Edmund Boatwright, 69, gestures as he talks in his living room. He is being forced from his years. answer any questions. "We have to refer everything to our attorney," was his only response. "They had to make a decision this year whether they were going to borrow the funds to farm again or whether they were just going to discontinue Robinson said.

Edmund, Boatwright, 69, said he the farm for 40 years and is uncertain of finding another job, much less a new home. "I'm an old man. They don't want to hire me now," he said. He and his wife, Mary, live on Social Security. Their single-story cinder-block house has cold running water only because he installed plumbing.

Blind in one eye, his wood home is little more than a shack. The floors are clean and bare. Mayesville, S.C., home after 40 fireplace is charred and crumbling. He secures the place padlock on the front door. "The old house, it ain't much good anyway," Boatwright said.

"But you just can't walk out in the street and find something overnight. I'll just depend on the good Lord to take of Said 72-year-old Vermelle Temoney, "The only thing I hate to do is pick up my things and go." She said she picked cotton' and pulled weeds on the farm for 35 years, earning 25 cents an acre, Just who will buy the land and for how much wasn't clear. Robinson said several investors were interested, but nothing was settled. For more than a century, the Mayes have ranked among South Carolina's largest cotton-growing families, Robinson said. Pentagon celebrates tes 50 years By Donald M.

Rothberg Associated Press WASHINGTON A community of 25,000 with a rich history that includes names like Eisenhower and shall, Bradley and Powell, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is housed in a single monumental building the Pentagon. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will join several of their predecessors in the building's five-acre center courtyard to mark the anniversary. As a building, the Pentagon got off to a rocky start.

Congress was skeptical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to spend $35 million for a massive structure to house the nation's burgeoning military establishment. "We might not need all that space when the war comes to an said Rep. Everett M. Dirksen, R-Ill.

"What will we do with the extra space?" His concern seemed well founded. After all, the five-sided, five-story structure across the Potomac River would be the world's largest office building. It would cover 29 acres and contain 6.5 million square feet; of which 3.8 million was usable for office and storage space. It included parking for 10,000 cars and its own indoor shopping mall, one of the first in the nation. But the military's need for space was clear.

It was the summer of 1941, and the United States was heading toward war. In 1940 there were fewer than 500,000 people in the armed forces. In 1943, the number topped 9 million. The War De- Pentagon facts Some facts and figures about Floors: 5 Stairways: 150 Escalators: 19 Elevators: 13 Windows: 7,748 Restrooms: 280 Drinking fountains: 685 Gross floor area: million sq. ft.

Office and storage space: million sq. ft. Land area covered by building: acres Center court area: 5 acres. Outer circumference: 4,605 ft. Length of corridors: 17.5 miles.

Peak Population: 31,419 in 1952. Current population: about 25,000. Parking spaces: 10,000. Projected construction cost: $35 million. Actual construction cost: $87 million.

Projected cost of renovation: $1 billion over 10 years. partment, as it was then called, had 24,000 and civilian buildings in Washington area. employees operating, out of 17 the Pentagon: MD. MD. 5 16th VA White Ave.

House Washington D.C. Arlington Pentagon 3 MD. N.J. D.C. W.

VA. VA. DEL 45 mics Map Area 45 km Blanchini Today, the Pentagon is one of 127 buildings housing 130,000 Defense Department in the capital area..