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Caterpillar's Lafayette workforce approached a record 500 as worldwide sales of the plant's diesel engines, particularly ones used in newly developed portable electric generators, began increasing.
All stock in Warren Company, Inc., more widely known as Warren Paper Products Company, was sold to Random House, Inc., by Warren and Jan Eggleston, of West Lafayette.
Amy Sloan, 26, Lafayette, died in her sleep after a long battle with AIDS. Her public work helped correct rampant rumors and expand awareness of AIDS, earning her numerous honors including a Sagamore of the Wabash.
Loeb's Department Store in downtown Lafayette closed. Former general manager Edward S. Loeb, grandsom of one of the three founders, died on April 3, having sold the store late in 1986.
NEOAX Inc. purchased Fairfield Manufacturing Company from Rexnord for $70.5 million. The plant, employing 810, produces gears, shafts, differentials, torque hubs and drives. Rexnord had acquired Fairfield in 1976 from the estate of Eleanor Baird.
Lafayette School Corporation announced its decision to close Crouch Elementary School at semester end in May. Built in 1901 as a Fairfield Township school, Crouch became part of LSC after school reorganization in 1963. Soon debate began as to whether the township or school corporation owned the building and grounds.
Purdue University designated a new building as the Herbert C. Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, honoring the faculty Nobel Laureate.
Thousands cheered and a minority protested for several hours as U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrived at Purdue Airport, and later spoke in an assembly in Mackey Arena.
Louis A. Weil Jr., Journal and Courier publisher from 1954-1962, a Lafayette resident and philanthropist, was inducted in absentia into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in a dinner at DePauw University.
Pilot Emmett Jurgens, 62, Decatur, Ill., died when his private plane crashed after a landing attempt at Purdue Airport. His plane lost power in a try at landing in a farm field near Indiana 28 and County Road 1000-South.
Pillsbury Company will close its food processing plant, employing more than 200, on Concord Road in July. The plant had been making frozen, food-service and microwaveable entrees.
BACKGROUND: Journal and Courier page A3 contained attorney Charles R. Vaughn's comments about his clients Amy Sloan and Ryan White and their value to public education and understanding of AIDS.
Fire at a house at 1906 Stillwell St. took the life of Christina Kerfoot, 6.
Salin Bank, based at Indianapolis, announced that it would open a Lafayette branch in the fall in the vacated Baltimore Men's Shop building at Fourth and Main streets.
Groundbreaking ceremonies blending both the American and Japanese cultures and customs were held near Dayton, starting construction of the Subaru-Isuzu Automotive plant.
A "community priorities survey" conducted among readers of the Journal and Courier showed widespread concern about finding both temporary and long-range shelter for the community's homeless population.
Reflective of modern economic times, Robert J. Schaaf announced his decision to close the 80-year-old, family-owned Schaaf Drugstore at 1322 Howell St. Otto Schaaf had founded it in 1907.
A month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Rotary International affiliate clubs must admit women as members, the Lafayette Optimist Club said that it would welcome women as members.
St. Boniface Church will provide a winter-season shelter for homeless in an upper floor of its parish center. It will house up to 25 persons. Lafayette Urban Ministry the past two winters had housed a few homeless at its offices.
As part of Subaru-Isuzu plant construction, the Indiana Department of Transportation agreed to build a mile-long County Road 475-E to replace a section of County Road 500-E that will become part of the plant grounds. The state and county also will improve County Road 350-S, and extend it in a curving route to connect Indiana 38, near the new plant, with U.S. 231 South.
U.S. Census projections estimated Greater Lafayette Metropolitan Area population at 124,400, or 230th largest in the nation. Projections in 1984 had ranked the community 217th. Although it is growing, other regions of the nation appeared to be growing faster.
Tippecanoe School Corporation's board adopted a random drug testing policy for athletes and cheerleaders, leading to lengthy controvery. Two federal courts eventually rejected arguments from the Indiana Civil Liberties Union that the policy constituted unreasonable search and violated students' rights to due process. The ICLU said it intended to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case in 1989.
Donald "Joey" Haines, 33, a homosexual with AIDS-related health problems, was arrested on three counts of attempted murder by scratching, spitting and biting when a Lafayette police officer and two emergency medical technicians tried to help him. He threatened to infect the victims when they responded to a call about his suicide attempt.
Dr. William "Doc" Sholty has resigned as president of the Town of Shadeland's first governing board. He has had to sell his Lilly Road homestead because of water supply contamination. [Sholty BACKGROUND].
The Lafayette City Council adopted an amendment to the zoning code restricting places where adult entertainment businesses [bookstores, video stores, theatres, live shows, massage parlors] can operate. The measure, passed by Tippecanoe County, West Lafayette and Shadeland authorities, prohibits the businesses to operate within 500 feet of a church, school, library, public park, the courthouse square, or any agricultural or residential zone. Battle Ground is considerating adoption. The actions stem from the lengthy protests by Eric J. Haley and his Lafayette Citizens for Decency organization, working with Prosecutor John Meyers and others in governmen0, to restrict "indecent" businesses.
Purdue University enrollment reached a West Lafayette campus record of 33,174, highest since the 32,979 counted in the fall of 1981.
Record crowds enjoyed good weather at Lafayesta, the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art's 13th annual family arts and crafts conducted on the grounds of the Indiana Veterans Home north of West Lafayette.
BACKGROUND: The Journal and Courier, page A3, explained the complicated strategy by which the board of the Tippecanoe County Public Library formed a leasing corporation to sell $5 million in bonds, build the new library and lease it to TCPL for an extended period of years during which property tax funds will retire the debt.
In a reflection of Tippecanoe County's long but steady recovery from the economic recession since the early 1980s, county employment for the month reached an all-time high of 65,100.
Lafayette School Corporation dedicated the new Edgelea Elementary School, built beside the old one which had dated to 1954-55.
Mayors James F. Riehle and Sonya L. Margerum won re-election in Lafayette and West Lafayette, respectively, and met on Main Street Bridge for congratulatory handshake and promise to work for community growth for another four years. Riehle topped Republican Kenneth W. Ohl with 6,648 votes to 3,770. Margerum topped Republican Pat Carr 3,043 to 1,552. Lafayette victories by Phil Kelley, Ron Campbell, Johanna Downie, Ron Corbett, Barry Richard, and Jerry Ledbetter gave Democrats a 6-3 majority in the City Council. Democrats Linda Young, Dean Rothenberger, Larry Nelson, Joe Krause and Carmen Fabian gained victories for a 5-2 majority in the W.L. City Council.
Daniel Fogerty, 44, resigned as project manager of the Lafayette railroad relocation program. Mayor Riehle appointed assistant manager Elizabeth "Liz" Solberg, 45, to head the project.
Joe S. Dienhart, 83, Indiana football and basketball hall-of-fame athlete, St. Joseph College graduate, Purdue University athletic coach and administrator, and former mayor of West Lafayette, died in a Lafayette nursing home.