35 or A reedom I Newspaper- 1 1 4TH YEAR NO. 2 80 ESI to begin 48th year Friday November 26, 1 93 1 Christina Basket "r) v. XT, x'li: By MIKE COFFEY Staff Writer The Seymour' Daily Tribune and American Legion Post 89; plan to spread some Christmas cheer by sponsoring their 48th annual Christmas Basket fund. The Basket Fund provides holiday food for the needy and fruit baskets to Jackson County's nursing homes. The Basket Fund also provides food for homeless persons and senior citizens in the area.
The project begins with fund officials collecting bids from local grocery stores for the baskets' food supplies. Once the bids are collected, officials check potential recipients' needs while shifting through requests. Donations come from several sources to finance the fund. Several days before Christmas the recipients are given certificates they can take to the stores for their basket collections. Persons must submit requests for food certificates to Seymour, P.O.
Box 566. The American Legion and the Tribune will not accept requests. Those requesting certificates must specify the number of people in the family, the number of children and their ages and the family's annual Written requests must be made and explained by the individual who is in need or unem-' ployed, has an extended illness or has low income. Bill Owens will start his eighth year as Basket Fund chairman. LeRoy Pollert has been secretary of the fund since it started in 1946.
The Basket Fund once included only those people living in the Seymour school district but now takes in all Jackson County residents because contributions are given from throughout the county. Last year the Basket Fund collected a record $9,007.98 which was $1,370 more than the previous record set in 1989. Donations will be accepted until Christmas. They may be given to the Tribune, 1215 E. Tipton or to Pollert at National City Bank, 121 N.
Chestnut St Persons donating money may signify a donation as a memor-iam but should do so by printing the names of those being remembered and hand it in with the donation. Anonymous donations also will be accepted. Tribnne photo by Jo Bobbins Thanksgiving feast Emerson Elementary School pupils Jared Karshner, 9, right, and Blake Everhart, 10, dig in during a Thanksgiving meal Friday at the school. The conclusion of a week of studying early Indiana history saw pupils' parents bring in a variety of food for the feast. Scientists clone first disease-resistant gene Local officials perform marriages people," Lewis said.
Brownstown Clerk-treasurer Pat Forgey, however, said performing weddings is not something she wants to attempt. "I have been asked," Forgey added. Burkhart said performing weddings rarely takes more than five minutes of his time. "It (performing weddings) does not bother me," Burkhart' said. "It's kind of fun.
I would love to know what percentage of these people-are still together." He said most of the people he marries are local couples, although he once married a couple from Illinois, who were avid race" car fans in town for a big race in Brownstown. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) The need for pesticides could be reduced in the future through the cloning of the first disease-resistant gene from a crop plant. The cloning is the first time a disease-resistant gene has been cloned and moved from one crop variety to another, according to researchers from Purdue and Cornell universities whose findings appear in today's issue of Science magazine. The technique known as "map-based cloning" adds genetic engineering to the long, painstaking process of crossbreeding to develop disease resistance in commercial tomatoes, the scientists said.
"The benefit to the general public is that disease-resistance genes already existing in plants By AUBREY WOODS Staff Writer A local couple wishing to avoid the time and expense of a formal marriage might want to talk with Seymour Mayor John Burkhart or city Clerk-treasurer Fred Lewis. Burkhart has performed 151 marriages since he took office on Nov. 21, 1991. Lewis has performed about 16 marriages since he took office in 1992. An Indiana General Assembly' decision in 1976 abolishing the "justice of the peace" system left ministers, county judges and clerks, and mayors and clerk-treasurers of cities and towns as the only people allowed to perform weddings.
Mayors are restricted to performing weddings within city limits, while clerk-treasurers may perform weddings outside city limits. "I see it as part of my job," said Burkhart, who does not charge -for performing weddings. "We are a fairly rural county and our standards are somewhat different than a metropolitan area. Unless you are a member of a church in our community, it is my feeling you will have a difficult time finding a pastor to marry you." Lewis has performed weddings in Medora, Brownstown and Reddington as well as Seymour and said he enjoys doing it "You meet some interesting Many find food, friendship due to efforts of volunteers Local elementary pupils tour county library I I County Clerk Max Pearcy said he does not perform weddings and has no interest in doing so. He added, however, that he has performed a couple in the past.
Pearcy refers most people who ask him to perform a wedding to Burkhart, Lewis or to a minister he knows is willing to perform marriages for people not asso- dated with his church. He added county Circuit Court Judge Robert R. Brown and Superior Court Judge Frank Guthrie do not perform weddings either. "Theyimayhave performed one or two for friends," Pearcy said. Aker asked.
"Two weeks. And well put a card in the back that tells you when, it's due." Aker also told the pupils about the library's Bookmobile which carries books throughout the area. "If "you can't come to the library you might be able to make it to the Bookmobile," she said. "If you have a library card." The pupils visited the section of the library where the children's room was located before the expansion project "You can come up here to find stuff, too," Aker said. "But tell you most of the stuff up here is too old for you.
This is for middle school and high school The $2.9 million expansion project included construction of the Crothersville and Medora "branch libraries. The renovated Seymour branch opened in September 1992. "You'll have to come back and See PUPItS Page 4 offer the best forms of pest control for agriculture," said Greg Martin, assistant professor of agronomy at Purdue University and lead investigator on the three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation. Martin, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell when the project began, said to- matoes were chosen for the study because the fruit has a very good genetic map, because it is a commercially important crop and because its genetic material is easier to manipulate than that of other important crops. Martin said his further research, funded by another National Science Foundation grant See SCIENTISTS Page 4 Organizers said more than 35 -turkeys, 60 pans of stuffing and 80 cans of cranberry sauce were served to about 300 people.
"I'm thankful to be on this, planet because a lot of people have not made it as far as I have," Anderson, said. "My best friend died in a car accident this summer. I think about how he didn't get an opportunity to finish college I wanted to show how thankful I am for my opportunity." More, than 15,000 to 20,000 meals were served at a cost of $20,000 at the annual Rev. Mozel Sanders Thanksgiving Day dinner in Indianapolis. Sanders started the dinner 23 years ago for about 400 poor families and it has since grown to be a Thanks-; giving tradition in the state capital.
"If we don't have anything else in this city, we've got people who are willing to give," said caterer Steve -JohnsonTwho supervised dozens of volunteers as they carved turkey breasts, cooked green beans, potatoes and corn-bread stuffing, and ladled the steaming food into plastic foam boxes. Those boxes were taken to waiting cars and vans for delivery to people throughout the city who had telephoned, their orders, to Arsenal Technical High School. The annual Thanksgiving dinner at St Mary's in Fort Wayne Jiad a bitters weetjaste forsome parishioners. Fire destroyed the See VOLUNTEERS By The Associated Press Hundreds of volunteers across Indiana joined together in soup kitchens, church, basem*nts and school cafeterias to make sure there were no empty stomachs or lonely people on Thanksgiving Day. Tfou can say what you want about the young people, but these here are great.
If this is a cross section, then we have nothing to worry about," said Dan Potosky, who helped out at the Lake County Knights of Columbus dinner in Hammond. More than 100 Lake Central High School students joined Potosky and other volunteers to feed 400 people Thursday: Some of them gave out food, others greeted visitors at the door. And some decided to; sing Christmas carols, even though that holiday was still a month away. "I think more people should help out during the year," said Lake Central junior Sara-Phil- lips, 16. "There are a lot of people who are less fortunate.
They don't have a family that can help them ouL -V. I -1)- -J By MIKE COFFEY Staff Writer Seymour elementary school pupils were walking on the moon recently when they toured the Jackson County Public Library branch in Seymour. Julia Aker, children's librarian, led the pupils in singing "Singin in the Kitchen" and "Walkin' on the Moon" before the pupils toured the library Nov. 16 as part of children's book week. "If you're 6 then you're old enough to get you very own library card," Aker told Joyce Mel-lencamp's kindergarten class from Margaret R.
Brown Elementary School. "We want you to be Readero-sauruses this week," Aker added. "We have lots" of dinosaur stuff here for you to read." Aker showed pupils around the children's library section and -pointed "out the Easy Series and asy Readexiooksior beginning, "readers. "Do you know how long you get to keep the books you check out?" Inside today Classified Comic 5 Crossword 5 Family 9 Markets 4 Recordbpok 3 Sports -jWKjssre-14'- Weather 3 to Aullliik iit.ii.-i i i Her sentiments were echoed by Purdue University senior Tracy Anderson. She decided she should do something besides sit in her dormitory room with the" pile of books that kept her from So Anderson got up early, studied a little bit before lifting weights, and then headed to the Central Presbyterian Church.
LShe.was one of about teers at the dinner sponsored by the Lafayette -Urban Ministry and the Downtown Ministries Association. Robert Wallace Jr. Lying to. mother. bothers teen.
See page 5. Sports Panthers use quick start coast in opening gamer-See page 14. Volunteer Howard Matbis, left, spoons a helping, of green beans for. the. annuaLMozel Sanders dinner-Thursday in Indianapolis.
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