Princeton Daily Clarion from Princeton, Indiana (2024)

September 17, 1999

Publication:

Princeton Daily Clarioni

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Princeton, Indiana

Issue Date:

Friday, September 17, 1999

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11

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NEWS Making Apple Butter tS JBr ggaByircRIB 'Aa ifja 'a SLk vufWuSflBiHk ijOEflK 2Mfe Xl X' ESSgBEfeWKSaft Rfcaha TMgf 9 BtefeoHaiHMMHr 'i' iaEMWlffyRiLwlr7w Tflk OHMEMfiffi' JMBw Dally ClarionRobbie Hammer Patoka United Methodist Church members John Hollen (left) and Ed According to the church's pastor Greg Davis the church will make Hale work on mashing some apples so they can be used to make approximately 600 pints 1 00 half pints and 200 quarts of apple but some apple butter at the church on Wednesday morning The church ter To inquire about purchasing some apple butter call the churcn has made and sold apple butter since I982 as an annual fund raiser office at 779 3693 Gov O'Bannon issues emergency order banning open burning in several counties PRINCETON DAILY CLARION RIDAY SUNDAY I7 I9 1 999 II Gunman's rage shattered night of celebration ORT WORTH Texas (AP) Police picked through Lar ry Gene trashed home and old journals on Thursday find ing holes punched in walls con crete poured in toilets and family photographs shredded but no explanation for why he opened fire in a church killing seven people and himself The 47 year old Ashbrook appeared to be very troubled man who sought to quiet whatev er demons that bothered BI agent Robert Garrity said know that ever know the answer to the question of why it Ashbrook dressed in blue jeans a black jacket and smoking a ciga rette entered the Wedgwood Bap tist Church in ort Worth on Wednesday evening as teen agers listened to a Christian rock band in the sanctuary In the church lobby Ashbrook confronted his first victims with a question: the Then he shot a janitor who approached him and killed two oth er people before walking into the crowded sanctuary The 150 teen agers gathered inside initially thought Ashbrook was part of a skit as he began curs ing and spouting derogatory com ments about Baptists They scram bled for cover as Ashbrook opened fire pausing at least twice to reload guy pointed at me and shot at an out of breath man told a 911 dispatch operator saw the flash of a muzzle and headed the other a woman here who looks like bleeding in the a church nursery worker told another operator Ashbrook lit and rolled a home Authorities said Ashbrook car ried two weapons a 9mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun and a 380 caliber AMT handgun Investiga tors found six loaded 9mm clips in his jacket pocket but were unsure if the 380 was fired inside the church Acting police Chief Ralph Men doza estimated there were 30 spent 9mm shell casings inside the church The 380 was purchased legally from a now closed flea market shop Mendoza said Officials still were researching the purchase of the 9mm Bomb making tools including i files pipes fuses and gunpowder I were found inside mod I est wood frame home in the work ing class suburb of orest Hill The journals some going back 10 years indicated that Ashbrook had been upset about his inability to keep a job Mendoza said Ash only known police record was a 1971 arrest for marijuana possession think he was just somebody who was a social Garrity said found evidence that he was a very emotionally disturbed Ashbrook never married or had children and he lived alone since his 85 year old father died in July While some neighbors had dis missed him as a harmless eccen tric others said he had became erratic even abusive after his mother died nine years ago she died Larry still had it together After she died he went said Karen Ivey a neigh bor for 19 years The death of Ash father who supported the son financially have driven him over the Mendoza said INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gov rank issued an emer gency order Thursday banning open burning in 38 southern Indi ana counties including Gibson because of the extremely dry weather and recent wildfires that liave now claimed one life conditions in southern Indiana are so bad right now that Jjlmost any open flame has the potential of starting a fire that Icould easily get out of control andendanger property and said in a statement' Indiana has recorded more than 800 wildland fires so far this year that have burned more than 3200 acres of wooded areas farmland and other open fields On Wednesday volunteer fire fighter Terri Hood of Jeffersonville was killed while helping fight a field fire that burned more than 400 acres over five hours in Clark County just north of Louisville Ky The fire apparently started when a four wheel drive vehicle backfired in a field of dry com stalks lames spread north to south throughout an area almost two miles wide and about a half mile long west of State Road 62 order prohibits open burning as well as discarding matches ashes and any other burning materials Cooking out on a charcoal grill is still permitted but afterward all embers should be soaked with water and feel cool to the touch ields in Indiana are virtual tin derboxes because of this drought the worst in at least 11 years order covers the fol lowing cotinties: Bartholomew Brown Clark Clay Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur Dubois loyd ranklin Gibson Judge throws out $290 million in punitive damages against ord lawyers chanted the A second juror said heard Bronco when he swerved to avoid a van he was passing The vehicle rolled over killing mother Salustia 40 his tatner Ramon 39 and his brother Ramiro 18 Ronio then 19 and his two sur SAN RANCISCO (AP) A Modesto judge overturned a $290 million damage award against ord Motor Co on Thursday rul ing that a dream and a TV show tainted deliberations about three deaths in a rollover accident with a ord Bronco Superior Court Judge Roger Beauchesne granted ord a new trial on the punitive damages say ing jury misconduct may have influenced the July 12 verdict He also reduced $5 million in compen sation awarded to surviving family members by $469000 The judge upheld the unanimous finding that a defective roof was responsible for the deaths of a husband wife and son when their ord Bronco overturned on a freeway in June 1993 During deliberations one juror about an episode of Minutes which a report about fires in ord Mustangs included callous remarks by Lee lacocca the former ord executive who introduced the Mustang and later became chief executive of Chrysler Both jurors submitted state ments saying they based their ver dicts solely on the evidence pre sented in the trial ord spokesman Jim Cain said the ruling was gratifying but the company maintains the Bronco defective and may appeal the case further The $290 million verdict had been the second largest of its kind coming just two weeks after a Los Angeles jury awarded $49 billion to six people who were severely viving sisters Evangelina 14 and Maria 8 were slightly injured Their lawyers argued that ord knew the roof was unsafe but decided to save the extra cost of reinforcing it with steel a change made on post 1979 Broncos The witnesses included a for mer ord executive vice president who said company officials knew the roof was irtually certain to fail in a rollover ord asserted that the roof was sound and met federal safety standards blaming the deaths on Romo and the driver he was passing Laurence Drivon a lawyer for the Romos said lawyers will review the ruling before decid ing on their next step allegedly talked about a nightmare in which children of the jurors were killed in a ord Bronco that was rolling over while the burned when their Chevrolet exploded in a rear end collision Juan Romo was driving the 1978 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Pedicurist Toni Estes Errin Williams Princeton will be hosting bur open house serving 3 refreshments 500500 200 500 Stop See 1 1 our beautiful larger new salon enjoy Refreshments with i ui Nail Techs MflSMgfi Mirhpl Ip Vickers Tamar Dilbeck Eltefroligist Ernn Williams Becky Truxal Stylists Lowp Charlotte Htnxley Julie Tate Andrea Mills Jill Kennard Paula Allen Rachael Hope $500 off Electrology Session Expires 10 31 99 cn4a ttemUM 1 coupon per uuMunici Princeton IN 385 3500 16th fes AM to 1 PM WIk ins Oly fonnihgi A Afl Therapeutic Relaxation Massages5O0 temporary Body Art by A Z) I fill xf Ifr xTA A 1 Zf In the weeks after his death Ashbrook wrote rambling letters to the editor of the ort Worth Star Telegram discussing encounters with the CIA psycho Greene Harrison Jackson Jeffer made pipe bomb down an aisle at son Jennings Johnson 'Knox one point It exploded but did not Lawrence Martin Monroe Mor harm anyone gan Ohio Orange Owen Perry Seven people choir members pinio cmtt Crummr seminarians and hieh school stu Sullivan Switzerland Vander dents were killed Seven others logical warfare being assaulted by gurgh Vigo Warrick and Wash were wounded three seriously co workers and being drugged by ingtori Ashbrook then killed himself in a police I Love Our New On line Look! 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