Stories from Wednesday, May 19, 2004

The late Phil Harris would have been very proud Tuesday night. Five more Linton-Stockton High School graduates were added to the long list of students who have benefited from college scholarships provided through the Phil Harris Scholarship Endowment Fund...

PAOLI - The Eastern Greene Thunderbirds (4-13) got a taste of a potential sectional foe on Tuesday when the T-Birds hosted the Paoli Rams. A run by Eastern in the seventh inning tied the game, but the Rams wasted little time in advancing the winning run across the plate in their half of the seventh for a 2-1 win...

TERRE HAUTE ---- After a half an hour delay due to lightning followed by a half an hour delay due to rain, the girls track sectionals at Terre Haute North High School were able to get underway. Linton-Stockton's track team pulled away with a fourth place finish with 52.5 points, behind Terre Haute North with 164, Terre Haute South with 142 and Northview with 85...

The Linton Miners' tennis team got its final workout of the season on Tuesday before they compete in the Northview sectional on Thursday with a road match against Owen Valley in Spencer. The Miners picked up a victory in one doubles, but fell in the other four matches to drop a 4-1 decision...

Caleb Dunkerly shot a five under-par 31 to set a new Linton Miners' golf record in the Miners' win over Terre Haute South, 141-145, at Phil Harris Golf Course on Tuesday. The team score of 141 was three under-par, which was also a record for a nine hole match...

Bernice VanWinkle, 64, of Elnora and formerly of Bloomfield, passed away at 9:55 a.m. on May 17, 2004 at her residence. Born Aug. 29, 1939 in Greene County, she had been married to Howard Ray VanWinkle, who passed away in 1984. Survivors include one brother, Charlie Vandeventer of Bloomfield; one sister, Gladys VanWinkle of Bloomfield, several nieces and nephews...

NEW ALBANY ---- Teddy Jay Rhodes, 47, of New Albany and formerly of Linton, passed away early Wednesday, May 12, 2004 unexpectedly at Clark Memorial Hospital, Jeffersonville. Born Oct. 13, 1956 in Linton, he was the son of Vilas Delpha Rhodes and Rae Angelo Rhodes...

Paul E. Poorman, 70, of Spencer, passed away May 15, 2004 at his residence. Born Nov. 1, 1933, he was the son of Earl and Mary (Woodburn) Poorman. He married Emma (Campbell) Poorman, who preceded him in death Jan. 24, 2001. He was a policeman with the Owen County Sheriff's Department, and the Spencer Police Department in the 1970s. ...

Tim Pinkham, Vincennes Sun Commercial Black Beauty coal miner Christopher D. Qualls, 30, Vincennes, died Tuesday morning when he was crushed to death at the Air Quality Coal Mine south of Vincennes. Vic Svec, a company spokesman, said Qualls was operating a continuous miner, equipment that digs coal in underground mines, and planning to do routine maintenance on it when he was crushed between the equipment and the mine wall...

Two men were in the Greene County Jail this morning following a late night drug bust Tuesday. O. Neil Strieby IV, 22 of Lyons, and James Henry, 23 of Newberry are both facing initial charges of possession of methamphetamine. Strieby was stopped by Lyons Town Marshal Craig Pierce on CR 200S because there was a body attachment against Strieby in Greene Superior Court...

An official with Republic Services Inc. ---- which operates the Worthington Landfill ---- said Monday there is no truth to the circulating rumor that his firm has immediate plans to close the Greene County facility and divert trash to the firm's new meg-landfill in southern Vigo County...

How can a few people, armed with saws, hammers and nails, make a difference in the world? Those few people are called Habitat for Humanity, and they indeed make a difference ---- one family at a time. Today, the Habitat for Humanity of Greene County is holding open house from 1-6 p.m. ...

Thanks to Greene County Farm Bureau Inc. six elementary schools in the county have materials for an accelerated reading program. Recently Ann Wilcoxen, women's leader for Greene County Farm Bureau Inc., presented a $500 check to each of those schools...

A drunk driving accident Tuesday afternoon has left two people dead. That can be an all-too-familiar lead into a story. Thankfully this story is about a mock disaster presented at Linton-Stockton Elementary about the dangers of drinking and driving...

A new director will take the reigns of the Greene-Sullivan Special Education Cooperative on July 1. Judy Flowers is coming into her new job with high hopes and a lot of work in front of her. She was introduced to the Cooperative and local school officials through an open house at the Cooperative's main office in Linton on Tuesday. The open house offered a comfortable setting for people to meet Flowers, and for her to meet the people she will soon be working with on a daily basis...

A rural Bloomfield woman was flown to a Louisville, Ky. hospital Tuesday night following a high-speed, multi-county chase that ended with a single-vehicle crash in Orange County. Tammy J. Neidigh, 42, Route 6, Bloomfield suffered severe head injuries when she lost control of her 1991 Jeep on State Road 37, one-mile south of Paoli at 6:58 p.m., according to Indiana State Police at the Jasper Post...

The Linton Miners used two innings of four runs, along with a solid outing from the pitching staff to defeat the Loogootee Lions, 9-5, in high school baseball action on Tuesday at Roy Herndon Field. Dan Allen was 3 for 4 with a home run, three runs batted in, and scored three runs on offense. Allen also picked up his sixth win on the season pitching into the sixth inning before being relieved...