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i 2 The Call-Leader, Monday, December 2, MonDay Obituaries- Beverly J. Powell Beverly J. Powell, 77, of Elwood, died Dec. 1, 2002, at St. Vincent Mercy Hospital.

Funeral arrangements are pending at Jackley-Landrum Funeral Home. Bernard Collis Bernard Collis of Alexandria, died Sunday. Funeral arrangements are pending at Harper Dunnichay Funeral Home in Frankton. Ralph L. Carter SUMMITVILLE Ralph L.

Carter, 74, of Summitville, died Nov. 29, 2002, at Community Hospital in Anderson. Born Feb. 5, 1928, in Tipton, he was the son of Glen and Alma (Dickison) Carter. He retired from Delco Remy in Anderson and was a veteran of World War Il serving in the United States Army.

He was married to Billie Ice Carter. who died in 2000. Survivors include three sons, Mark Carter of Tipton, Morris Carter of Alexandria and Michael Carter of Indianapolis; two daughters, Michelle Thomas of Summitville and Mary Calandrelli of Elwood; a brother, Eatel Carter of Hobbs; three sisters, Julie Evans of Mogadore, Ohio, Jeanette Delph of Muncie and Ruth McKinney of Anderson; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; and a granddaughter. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 4, at the Hueston-Whetsel Funeral Home in Alexandria. Burial will be in Grant Memorial Park. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Disabled Veterans Association through the funeral home. Glenna I. Lynch ALEXANDRIA Glenna 1. Lynch, 87, of Alexandria, died Nov. 30, 2002, at Alexandria Care Center.

Born April 15, 1915, in Anderson, she was the daughter of Henry and Nannie (Ireland) Sosbey. She graduated in 1933 from Anderson High School. She worked for Davies Roof- Highway continued from page one lis and the Mexican border and help control an increase in truck flow because of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement. Divided into 32 sections for construction, it is possible they Internet Holiday Special! LocalNet's Unlimited Internet access For One Full Year! Offer Ends TOTAL INTERNET software CD FREE makes connecting fast easy FIVE email boxes, Webmail, Instant Messaging and more! Immediate Access Sign Up Online www.localnet.com 765-552-2599 RELIABLE INTERNET ACCESS SINCE 1994 ing and Siding Company of Anderson and worked as church secretary at the Alexandria First United Methodist Church for 17 years. For more than 50 years, she was an active member of the Alexandria First United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women.

She was a charter member of the Alexandria Senior Guild and also a member of Kappa Delta Phi. Survivors include a son, R. Donald Lynch of Alexandria; six grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren; three greatgreat-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded i in death by her parents; her husband of 48 years, Ralph D. Lynch who died Nov.

23, 1998; a brother, Paul Sosbey; and a great-granddaughter. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, at First United Methodist Church in Alexandria, with Dr. Ray Probasco officiating.

Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Owens Funeral Home or one hour prior to the service Wednesday at the church. Memorial contributions may be made to the Renovation Fund of the First United Methodist Church through the funeral home. Billy Francis Owens CICERO Billy Francis Owens, 71, of Cicero, died Nov.

30, 2002, at Riverview Hospital in Noblesville. Born May 27, 1931, in Advance, he was the son of Paul and Beulah (Pittenger) Owens. He was a 1950 graduate of North Salem High School. He served three tours of duty with the United States Marine Corps and was a member of the Cicero Masonic Lodge, Cicero Order of Eastern Star, York Rite of Noblesville and the Cicero American Legion. He married Mary Jo Recobs June 12, 1953.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Steven William Owens of Cicero; two daughters, Elizabeth Anne Doss of Sheridan and Rita Kathleen Bures of Cicero; a sister, Virginia Owens Greathouse of Indianapolis; five grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by two brothers, DeVon E. Owens and Robert W. Owens. would not fully be linked until 2020, said James McDowell, a political science professor at Indiana State University.

So far, new construction has only started in Mississippi. In Indiana, state Transportation Commissioner J. Bryan Nicol long said a route would be selected by the end of the year. But last week he admitted the announcement could be delayed as the state examines a previously unstudied route backed by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA, in a recent report, objected to the environmental damage some of the shorter proposed routes would have on wetlands and forest.

Once a route is selected, transportation officials have cautioned that construction in Indiana could take years. The interstate is projected to create 27,000 jobs by 2025, resulting in $11 billion in additional wages, according to a government study. But opponents question the quality of the jobs, saying any form of economic growth would be in the form of truck stops and CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAYS December 3rd 4th MUST PRESENT COUPON OFF ONE ANY Good Dec. 3rd Dec. 4th Only Excludes previous purchases, layaways sale items.

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Township Assessor Jerry Zuber said he figured the maps were safe downstairs from his office in Allen County Assessor Mike Ternet's City-County Building office. But at some point earlier this year the maps disappeared, according to a police report Ternet filed Nov. 21. "I have no idea what happened to them," Zuber said. "We can have new ones made, but that's one that we could have used." The maps, valued at $10,000, were among the first sets made after appraisers determined new property values for all land in Wayne Township.

Not only were the new property values marked on the maps, but neighborhoods were delineated so similar homes would be priced in proportion to one another, Zuber said. Those features made the maps an improvement 'over older copies that are already in the office, he said. The maps are heavy and cumbersome, and would not have been easy to get out of the City-County Building, he said. "I would think that they'd have to be hauled out somehow," he said. "And that would take some work." Other items also have turned up missing from the county assessor's office, but nothing as valuable as the map books, the police report said.

It seems unlikely that the disappearance resulted from a break-in, said John McGauley, spokesman for the county commissioners, who are in charge of security for the building. Why anyone would want the Wayne Township maps also has Zuber confused. Except for a few out firms looking to plan developments in Fort Wayne, the maps could not be considered valuable, he said. ward Kennedy, failed in 1980 to win the presidential nomination, as did Paul Tsongas in 1992. Gov.

Michael Dukakis a Kerry mentor won the 1988 nomination, but lost by a wide margin to Bush's father. Democrats are expected to have a crowded field of candidates. Vermont Gov. Howard Dean already is running. Former Vice President Al Gore, the 2000 nominee, and North Carolina Sen.

John Edwards expect to disclose their plans after the Christmas holidays. Outgoing House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri is expected to begin telling colleagues whether he plans to run. Also considering the race is Gore's running mate from two years ago, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, who has said he would not run if Gore does. verizonwireless 4600 MINUTES $40.00 Includes Nationwide Long Distance DIGITAL VIEW Satellite Sales Installation 1900 South Anderson ELWOOD Behind Dairy Queen 765-552-7340 ARE YOU READY FOR TOMORROW'S JOBS? Get the affordable, quality hands-on training need to get ahead you offered at a campus close to home! CLASSES BEGIN JANUARY 13.

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accumulation, where lows are forecast to dip and skies on Tuesday will accompany cold temperatures Sunny northwestern Indiana counties. continued snow showers over middle 30s. Flurries in the northwest on Highs will be in the 20s to and 20s. Tuesday night will accompany lows in the teens and The extended forecast calls for cloudy skies on Wednesday from the 20s to the upper 30s. Lows Thursday, with highs ranging will be in the middle teens to lower 20s south.

On Friday, lower 40s. Lows are forecast in cloudy skies are expected to accompany lingerpartly ing temperatures in the upper 20s to the teens. Funeral services will be 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at Hartley Funeral Homes Cicero Chapel, with the Rev.

Andrew Marshall officiating. Burial will follow in Cicero Cemetery. Graveside military rites will be conducted by the Cicero American Legion and the Cicero VFW. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Kidney Foundation, Victory Chapel Community Church or Cicero United Methodist Church, Hartley Funeral Homes, P.O. Box 407, Cicero, Ind. 46034. Annabelle H. Kaiser died 29,.2002, at ManorCare 'Health Services in Anderson.

Born Sept. 22, 1912, in Pulaski County, she was the daughter of William and Amelia (Good) Huse. She married William F. Kaiser. He died May 20, 1979., She was a lifelong resident of Frankton, where she was the first U.S.

Post Mistress of the Frankton Post Office. She retired after 37 years service. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Elwood. Survivors include a daughter, Ella Kaiser of Frankton; a sister, Lucile Banker of Frankton; a half brother, Dewey Huse of Lafayette; a sister-in-law, Ruth Powell of Elwood; special friends, D.J.

and Nora Braddick of Frankton; special furry friend, Pebbles; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband. Funeral services were today at Harper Dunnichay Funeral Home in Frankton, with the Rev. Alvin Covell of the Frankton Christian Church officiating. Burial was in the of 100F Cemetery in Frankton.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Madison County Humane Society. FRANKTON Annabelle H. (Huse) Kaiser, 90, of Frankton, Services Funeral services for Dewey Rich, of Tipton, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Leatherman-MorrisBoyer Funeral Home in Tipton. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Tipton.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Kerry continued from page one Bush, asked Sunday night about the prospect of running against Kerry, smiled at reporters but said nothing. Kerry, a 58-year-old former prosecutor first elected to the Senate in 1984, has said for the past year he was seriously thinking about a run in 2004. He was unopposed for re-election in November to a fourth term the first Massachusetts senator in 80 years with no major-party opposition.

An official announcement of his candidacy is months away, Kerry said. Exploratory committees are established by budding candidates mainly to raise money, finance travels around the country and help gauge voter support. "When you really get into the formal stage, which I am now entering, you find out who's prepared to be there, you see if you can raise the money," Kerry said. "It becomes real." The best-known Democrat to emerge from Massachusetts is President John Kennedy and Kerry did not shy from invoking his memory. But other Bay State Democrats have not fared as well in national elections.

Kennedy's brother, Sen. Ed- Teen driving deaths high in Indiana, despite 1998 law FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Teenage driving deaths remain high in Indiana despite a 1998 law that further restricted the driving rights of 16- and 17-yearolds, a newspaper reported Sunday. Automobile accidents are Indiana's No. 1 killer of teens, and the state ranks fourth in the nation for the number of 16-yearolds killed in crashes each year, The Journal-Gazette said.

In 1999 the most recent year for which figures were available 30 percent of Indiana's 16-year-old drivers were involved in a crash, far more than any other age group. The newspaper also said drivers younger than 18 account for about 1.9 percent of the state's licensed drivers, but 7 percent of the drivers involved in car crashes. Also, the crash rate for 16- and 17-year-old drivers in Indiana continues to be 50 percent higher than drivers in the 18-20 bracket, and nearly three times as high as the overall state average. Teens "don't have an appreciation for the speed and power and force and how quickly things can go wrong," said Sen. David Ford, R-Hartford City, who helped write the state's graduated driver's license law in 1998.

But during 1999, the first year the law was in effect, teen fatalities rose to 151, compared with 138. a year earlier. Lottery SATURDAY INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Here are the winning numbers selected Saturday in the Hoosier Lottery: Daily Three-Midday: 7-4-8 Daily Three-Evening: 0-9-2 Daily Four-Midday: 0-3-4-1 Daily Four-Evening: 4-2-7-0 MAX 5-Midday: 1-13 MAX 5-Evening: 4-12 Lucky 5-Midday: 1-2-5-6-9 Lucky 5-Evening: 6-7-13-17-30 Hoosier Lotto: 8-9-14-33-37-47 Estimated Hoosier Lotto jackpot: $9 million Estimated Powerball jackpot: $69 million POWERBALL DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) The winning numbers drawn Saturday night in "Powerball" are: 1-4-19-21-29 Powerball 8 Estimated jackpot: $68.2 million And while the number of accidents has declined slightly, so has the number of licensed drivers in those age groups leading the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute to conclude the graduated driver's license law had only a small effect on dangerous teen driving. Final statistics are not yet available for 2000 and 2001. "It's hard to say whether a particular law works," said Sen.

Tom Wyss, R-Fort Wayne, who sponsored the law along with Ford. "It's always a combination of things. Even if we can't prove it with empirical data, there's nothing wrong with this law." Lawmakers tried to stem nighttime crashes by prohibiting drivers younger than 18 from driving during curfew hours, except to travel to school, work and religious activities. They also tried to encourage safety by requiring all passengers to wear seat belts. The third and most controversial part of the law was meant to limit driver distractions.

That provision bars a teen from having passengers in the car during the first 90 days after getting his or her license, unless a licensed driver who is at least 21 also in the car. DeKalb County Sheriff-elect John Dennis said he does not think the law is helping or hurting. He said teen crashes are up this year in his county, and he doesn't know the answer to preventing them. Power Play: 2 SUNDAY INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the Hoosier Lottery: Daily Three-Midday: No Sunday drawing. Daily Three-Evening: 8-3-9 Daily Four-Midday: No Sunday drawing.

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