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Page 2B The Star Press Wednesday, March 14, 2001 Deaths Eunice Jacobs, 77 MUNCIE 77. died 2001, in after an Eunice Jacobs, age Monday, March 12. Ball Memorial Hospital extended illness. Mrs. Jacobs was born in Morehead.

and lived most of her life in Muncie. She was a member of the Avondale Sympathy Club. She leaves a special niece and MRS. JACOBS caregiver, La- MRS. JACOBS vonne Bell (husband: Doyle), and their children, Karen Simmons (husband: Matt), Muncie, and Steve Bell (friend: Nancy), Eaton.

Also surviving are a sister, Vada Phillips, Mundelien, a brother, Cleve Estep, Mansfield, Ohio, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Merlin M. Jacobs, in 1993; her parents, Peyton and Myrtie Estep: three brothers, and one sister. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 15, in Elm Ridge Funeral Home.

Entomb- ment will be Elm Ridge Memorial Park. Calling will be noon-2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Cancer Services of Delaware Red Door. Vera Armstrong, 84 NEW CASTLE Vera Armstrong, 84.

died Monday in 1 The Waters after a long illness. She worked at U.S. Rubber Indianapolis, for 30 years. Survivors: a sister, Norma Henry: five nephews. William and Jon Baker and Tom.

Larry and Jerry Ledgerwood; two nieces, Linda Crawford and Johna Kent. Preceded in death: her husband, Maurice Armstrong; a sister, Leah McIntyre: and three brothers, John Bill and Phil "Ledgerwood. Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Hinsey-Brown Funeral Service. Calling: none.

Burial: 2:30 p.m. Monday in 'of Cemetery, Lizton. Memorials: any charity. Robert E. Shaneyfelt, 70 -WINCHESTER Robert E.

Shaneyfelt, 70, 453 S. Randolph County Road 100-E, died Tuesday in St. Vincent Randolph Hospital after a long illness. Services are pending at Walker Funeral Home. Sherman E.

Brown, 79 NEW CASTLE Sherman E. Brown. 79, died Monday at home. He retired from Chrysler Corp. in 1982.

Survivors: his wife of 6 years, Bessie M. Brown: five children, Lorene Ebbing Larry). Sue Stewart (husband: Robert), Betty Neal (husband: Charles), Jerry L. Brown (wife: Cheryl) and Thomas Brown: three stepchildren. James Brown, (wife: Mary), David Brown Linda Treese (husband: Cliff), and a sister, Mary Bertram; 23 3 grandchildren, and 31 great-grandchildren.

Services: 11 a.m. Thursday, Calvary Baptist Church. Burial: Hillsboro Cemetery. Calling: 4-8 p.m. Wednesday.

Hinsey-Brown Funeral Service. Dwain C. Campbell, 65 ANDERSON Dwain C. Campbell. 65, died Monday in St.

John's Health System. He retired from Delco Remy in 1990 and was a bartender at Wertz Bar. Survivors: four children, Brenda White (fiance: Stan Williams). Mark Campbell (wife: Dorothy). Dwain Campbell Jr.

and Steve Campbell (wife: Dawna): a brother, John Campbell (wife: Delores); and three sisters, Hope Naylor, Joann Houser (husband: William) and Maxine Potter (husband: Wayne), and eight grandchildren. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday, Robert D. Loose Funeral Home. Burial: Anderson Memorial Park Cemetery.

Calling: 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, at the funeral home. Dwight R. Layton, 83 NEW CASTLE Dwight R. Layton, 83, died Sunday in The Waters.

He was born in Monticello and had lived in New Castle most of his life. Surviving: his wife, Rosemary Morris Layton; a daughter, Pamela K. Groves: a son, Chris L. Layton: a brother, Wendell Layton: four grandchildren, and five great-granchildren. Memorial services: 4 p.m.

today, First United Methodist Church Burial: Lewisville Cemetery Calling: after services, Friendship Hall of the church Memorials: any charity Arrangements are being handled by Macer-Hall Funeral Home. Chattie Huddleston, 93 MUNCIE Chattie Rich Huddleston, 93, died Sunday in The Woodlands following an extended illness. A native of Pickett County, she was the daughter of Reuben and Loretta Garrett Rich and had been a Muncie resident since 1927. She attended schools in Tennessee and graduated from Livingston (Tennessee) High School. Mrs.

Huddleston was a housewife and a charter member of the West Side Church of Christ and the Warner Gear Sympathy Club Auxiliary. Surviving are two sons, Robert M. Huddleston (wife: Faye) and Gene Huddleston (wife: Barbara), all of Muncie; a daughter, Lauren Fisher (husband: Robert), Pagosa Springs, two others sons, William R. Huddleston (wife: Gail), Newtonville, and John R. Huddleston (wife: Elizabeth), New Boston, N.H.; 12 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; three great-greatgrandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Her husband, John P. Huddleston, died in 1981. She is the last survivor of several brothers and sisters. Services for Mrs. Huddleston will be at 10 a.m.

Friday in Parson 1 Mortuary with Larry Reynolds officiating. Burial will follow in Elm Ridge Memorial Park. The family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Thursday and prior to services Friday. Hubert Austin, 72 MUNCIE Former Muncie resident Hubert Austin, 72, died Saturday at home in Fort Wayne.

A Muncie native, Dr. Austin had been director of information systems at Ball State University and retired from Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne as director of information systems in 1989. Survivors: his wife, Jan Austin; a sister, Annette Housouer; a brother, Pete Austin, and nine godchildren. Services: private Burial: Greenlawn Memorial Park Calling: private Memorials: Parkview Home Health and Hospice, Fort Wayne D.O. McComb and Sons Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

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Johnson, 62, died Monday in Elkhart. She was born in Muncie and retired from The Indianapolis Star and News in 2000. Survivors: a daughter, Arlene Heaton (husband: David); a sister, Carol Rench (husband: Robert); a brother, David Barley; her grandmother, Lola Barley; two stepgrandchildren, and five stepgreat-grandchildren. Services: 1 p.m. Saturday, in the chapel of Gardens of Memory.

Burial: Cremation will take place. Calling: none. Memorials: Elkhart Community Hospice. Elkhart Cremation Services is handling arrangements Kenneth M. Rogers, 59 MUNCIE Kenneth M.

(Butch) Rogers, 59, died Tuesday in Ball Memorial Hospital. Services are pending at Meeks Mortuary. Services TODAY BARBIER, John Cecil, 7:30 p.m., Ballard Family Mortuary, Kahului, Hawaii. BREEDLOVE, Jay 10 a.m., Parson-Rust Funeral Home, Albany. DALE, Charles 10 a.m., Owens Funeral Home, Alexandria.

DAVENPORT, Jack, 1 p.m., Parson Mortuary. GATES, Larry 3 p.m., Meeks Mortuary. GREENE, Fern 11 a.m., Gant Funeral Home, Yorktown. HURST, Oral 1 p.m., Christian Congregation Church, Alexandria. LAY, 1:30 p.m., Asbury United Methodist Church, Portland.

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Meter pits are to be opened only by city employees. Anyone else will be fined $100 plus time and materials to repair any damage. The council also heard a report on neglected properties from city attorney Kevin Basey. He contacted four property owners who agreed to repair or demolish unsightly buildings as soon as possible. During a Board of Public Works and Safety meeting before the council meeting, members instructed city police to begin tagging abandoned vehicles.

If a vehicle does not have a valid license plate on it. it will be tagged, and the owner will have to move it, according to Mayor Tom McGeath. In other business, the board also learned that all three police cars are up and running. The tornado siren is operating, 'although the radio that will allow it to be operated from the Blackford County Security Center 7 miles away might not be installed for another 2 weeks. The board also approved the purchase of a washing machine for the volunteer fire department.

FROM THE WIRE SERVICES MORTON DOWNEY talk show host: LOS ANGELES Before Jerry Jones. there was a growling and show host who behind a haze of cigarette smoke. Downey, who over "Trash TV" in the 1980s and tried to clean up his act for a return. died of lung cancer and other respiratory problems, his family said Monday night. He was 68.

A chain smoker for years Springer and Jenny Morton Downey opinionated TV talk shocked viewers from DOWNEY until losing a lung to cancer, Downey was known for deliberately blowing smoke into the faces of guests who annoyed him when he was host of one of the most popular talk shows on television in the Downey was the son of popular singer Morton Downey and his dancer-wife. Barbara Bennett. He pursued, a number of professions including businessman, author, radio host, singer and songwriter. But it wasn't until the 1980s that he became a household name with The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

Debuting in the New York City area in 1987. it became a hit almost immediately and syndicated nationally the next year. In its heyday, he was known as "Mort the the host who mocked his sometimes bizarre guests as "slime" or "scumbucket" and argued frequently with members his studio audience, dismissing liberals in particular "pablum pukers." He also appeared as an actor in such TV shows and movies as Tales from the Crypt, Meet Wally Sparks, Revenge of the Nerds Ill. Predator and the new Rockford Files. HENRY LEE LUCAS, convicted murderer: HUNTSVILLE, Texas Henry Lee Lucas, who 18 years ago recanted confessions unsolved murder prison.

Lucas, who claimed he made fake confessions to make police "look was found dead in his bed Monday night at the Ellis I prison unit where he was serving sent tences for nine murders. the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said. He was 64. the convicted killer made and then to hundreds of cases, has died in LUCAS Lucas had recently complained of breathing problems spent a night or two in a prison hospital a few months ago, said Larry Todd, prison system official. Todd would not be more specific on the cause of death, although Lucas also had a history of heart problems.

An autopsy was planned. There no immediate word if any relatives might claim his remains. If Lucas's body is not claimed, the state will bury him in an in Huntsville. Inmates, cemetery arrested in June 1983 for the slaying of a 75-year-old Montague County woman. During a court proceeding there shortly after his.

arrest, he confessed to the murders of hundreds of women. In recent years, Lucas insisted he committed just one murder, killing his mother in Michigan in crime for which he served time in prison and a Michigan mental hospital. Besides the life term for the Orange Socks killing, Lucas had six other life sentences and 210 years in prison for three other slayings. ROBERT LUDLUM, author: NA- PLES, Fla. ert Ludlum, Borne series Matarese Suspense novelist Robauthor of the Jason of spy thrillers and The Circle, died Monday.

He was 73. Henry Morrison. Ludlum's literary agent since 1967. confirmed the author died, but declined to give details at the request of Ludlum's family. Morrison said the family in Naples where Ludlum died planned to issue LUDLUM LUDLUM and a daughter.

a formal statement Tuesday. The cause of death is believed to have been a heart attack, said Matthew Shear, a representative of Ludlum's publisher, St. Martin's Press. Ludlum started his career in the theater, working as an actor and a producer until he published his first book, The Scarlatti Inheritance, in 1971. Government secrets and corruption were a recurring theme in his spy adventures, which were known for unbelievable twists and turns that kept readers turning pages and critics sometimes rolling their eyes.

After his first two novels, Ludlum wrote The Matlock Paper and Trevayne under the pen name Jonathan Ryder. In 1974, he published The Rhineman Exchange as Michael Shepherd. His works also included The Holcroft Covenant. The Icarus Agenda, The Prometheus Deception and The Apocalypse Watch. As an actor, Ludlum performed minor roles on Broadway and appeared in television dramas in the 1950s.

He opened the Playhouse-onthe-Mall in Paramus, N.J.. in 1960, where he produced The Owl and the Pussycat, which featured thenunknown actor Alan Alda. Ludlum met Mary Ryducha at Wesleyan University. The couple married in 1951. the year Ludlum graduated, and they pursued their acting careers.

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It's important to know that hundreds of deer farms already exist in Indiana, Sellers said. In addition, backers of HB 1661 point out that hunting deer in enclosures is already allowed in Indiana during deer hunting season, though critics say the practice is allowed only because of a loophole in the rules. DNR proposed closing the loophole last year with a new rule that was opposed by deer growers. "If the rule is not implemented, the business of raising deer and shooting trophy bucks under wire will expand in both number and in acreage during the next decade," the proposed rule read. "During each of the last 2 years statutes have been proposed in the General Assembly to promote the hunting of deer in enclosures.

The proposed rule would have the opposite effect of the proposed legislation." Mitchell, DNR's deer. biologist, declined comment on HB 1661. But he confirmed that he testified against a similar bill last year, when he told legislators that interstate transportation of deer provided the opportunity to move diseases from state to state. "I said I was very concerned about that, based on conversations with the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study," Mitchell said. Once a sickness like chronic wasting disease spreads to wild herds, there is no chance of stopping it, Mitchell said.

Why didn't Mitchell testify this year? According to Sellers, he wasn't asked to do so. "The legislature has heard from Jim in the past on this issue, and he has very eloquently stated his concerns, as have others at DNR." Sellers said. "We didn't really have anything new to offer this year, and we are deferring to the state veterinarian representative did testify on HB Like Sellers, Bret Marsh, state veterinarian, said it was important to realize that Indiana already was home to hundreds of deer and elk farms. HB 1661 is awaiting action in the Senate. Sen.

David Ford. R-Hartford City, who is general counsel to Indiana Farm Bureau, said he would probably give the bill a hearing if it was assigned to his Natural Resources Committee. The bill addresses "almost two different issues that could be treated separately," Ford noted. One issue is domestic deer farming, the other confined hunting. "People are raising deer, elk, reindeer and so on, but that is not being controlled for disease the way domestic livestock are." Ford said.

"The other issue is deer hunting preserves." According to DNR, 68 percent of Hoosiers surveyed in 1993 by Indiana University opposed big-game hunting in fenced outdoor enclosures. "I think what they'd like to do is bring in exotic animals from Africa or Europe to keep their hunting business going year round, after the antlers fall off the trophy white-tailed deer," IWF's O'Neill said. "One thing that really bothers me about this is what I'd call the theft of a natural resource or public trust. The other is calling this hunting when it's actually not." Corrections The Star Press makes every effort to publish fair and accurate information, and it is our policy to acknowledge and correct errors promptly. Readers are urged to call mistakes to our attention by telephone, 747-5754, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

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