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A2 SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2013 2nd THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR INDYSTAR.COM the news section PEOPLE Inquiry ordered for Paris Jackson By Anthony McCartney Associated Press LOS ANGELES An investigation into Paris Jackson's well-being has been ordered by a judge overseeing the guardianship of Michael Jackson's three children, court records show. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff 's order came after the 15-year-old was taken by ambulance from her home and hospitalized. Authorities have said they were dispatched to the home Wednesday on a report of a possible overdose. Beckloff has stated that he believed Katherine Jackson was doing a Paris Jackson Elmer Taflinger Is seen at his 90th birthday party. The artist, who died later that year, had a sweeping vision for the Ruins that was never fully realized, jerry clark the star 1981 photo good job of raising her son's children.

Tito Jackson's son, TJ, is co-guardian of the children. ON-BOARD ENTERTAINMENT A string quartet from The Philadelphia Orchestra made a 3-hour flight delay quite enjoyable for a plane full of passengers Friday in China. Two violinists, a cellist and a viola player were aboard the flight delayed on the tarmac in Beijing. They took out their instruments and played an impromptu concert. Passengers whipped out smartphones to record and post as the orchestra played from Dvorak's "American" string quartet.

Online: Go to lndyStar.com for a Ruins video. lift iff1 Today's birthdays: Comedian Jerry Stiller is 86. Comedian Joan Rivers is 80. Singer Boz Scaggs is 69. "Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams is 56.

Actor-director Keenan Ivory Wayans is 55. Actress Julianna Margulies Good Wife," is 46. Rapper Kanye West is 36. Compiled from Star news services Sarah Kunz looks over the renovation plans with Casey Cronin, president of the Friends of Holliday Park, along with Lisa Hurst on the grounds earlier this week. MATT DETRICH THE STAR PRAYER God, bless all who are dying.

When this life is done, shepherd them into the next life and keep them forever in your undying love. Amen. CORRECTIONS tues of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, and he excelled at drawing the human figure. (He hired as one of his models the body builder Mickey Har-gitay, a onetime "Mr. Indianapolis" who would later marry the movie star Jayne Mansfield.) Taflinger had considerable self-confidence.

His unpublished "Revolting Hoosier: A Modest Autobiography" stretches to 1,600 typed pages and includes the sentences: "I've found you out at last, ed another $80,000. No, said the park board. He suggested planting 50 trees, one for each state. He called for a performance stage, and stone monuments to both the evolution of the skyscraper and to fallen foreign empires. He wanted an ice rink.

"He kept having new ideas for the thing," said Taflinger's cousin James Taflinger, 93, "and it cost money, and the Parks Department wouldn't give him more money." "This project is what might The Star corrects its mistakes. If you spot something you believe is an error, call (317) 444-6000. LOTTERIES He corralled about two dozen very tall Greek columns from a convent on Indianapolis' Southside, four gigantic goddesses from the old Marion County Courthouse, a horse trough that had been at the base of a monument in Fountain Square, and various classical-looking bits and pieces from doomed churches. All of it went into the Ruins. In 1973, the Parks Department, as if to say: no more, had a dedication ceremony with Mayor Richard Lugar and other dignitaries.

Taflinger attended, was honored but, not one to go with the flow, would only go so far as to say he was "reasonably pleased." Two years later, he was back wanting more: a widening of Spring Mill Road to allow buses and more parking so that more people could attend bigger concerts at the Ruins; greater height for the fountain spray and proper skyscraper commemoration. He went away disappointed. By then, Holliday Park had other problems. It had become a place to buy dope and have sex with strangers, per Star stories from the time. An interactive plan Taflinger would have liked the new, interactive plan for the Ruins, James Taflinger said.

"He wanted people to be able to use (the Ruins), to do things in there. It was his idea to have ice skating." Taflinger never married and had no children. He died in 1981 at age 90 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. His headstone is maybe three inches high. Star researcher Cathy Knapp contributed to this story.

Contact Star reporter Will Higgins at (317) 444-6043. Follow him on Twitter at WillRHiggins. Ruins Continued from A1 (Rome fell in the fifth century; Indianapolis was platted in 1820; future archaeologists who sift through our stuff won't know what to think.) After most of two decades of contentious back-and-forth between Taflin-ger and the city bureaucracy, the Ruins, capital were completed in 1973. Today, after decades of neglect, the Ruins are a dilapidated, weed-choked, fenced-off mess they are genuine ruins. They're about to get a thorough makeover that will bring them into the 21st century and render them more fun.

The Ruins didn't used to be much fun. You weren't allowed to climb on them. All you could do was look at them. The new design, the final project of the acclaimed landscape architect Eric Fulford, who died last fall, calls for the Ruins to become a playground, a small-scale water park, with a shimmer pool for kids to splash around in and more benches to sit on, and two performance stages. It will cost millions, but that is not a problem for the Ruins.

The nonprofit Friends of Holliday Park, a consortium of well-off Northsiders, many living in the lovely houses near the park, is privately raising $3.2 million. That's more than enough to do the job. Success would seem imminent the FHP already has $2.3 million in hand and now turns to members of the public for the final $900,000. (Roughly $875,000 of the $3.2 million total is earmarked for improvements to the nature center, and $500,000 will go into an endowment fund for Ruins maintenance.) To kick-start the final stage of the capital campaign, there's a free concert Thursday night at the site, 6363 Spring Mill Road. Exactly how beloved the Ruins are is hard to tell.

They've been essentially abandoned since the Clinton administration. Alexander Holliday, the grandson of the man who gave the park to the city, once said the Ruins reminded him of "the bombing of Dresden" and that his grandfather would have been appalled by them. But in 1994, when a plan for the park was introduced calling for the Ruins' dismantling, there was a public outcry. Clearly the Ruins benefit from their tony address. Riverside Park, at 29th and Riverside Drive, has a thing comparable to the Ruins, the Thomas Taggart Memorial.

Taggart, a late 19th century Indianapolis mayor, is considered the "father of the parks system," said James Fadely, Taggart's biographer. Yet after long hours of work by history-minded people and Indiana Landmarks, the state's leading preservation group, just $24,000 has been raised to save the Taggart memorial. At the Ruins, the plan is to begin the rehab next spring. The work is expected to take a year. "I've always found the Ruins inspirational," said Casey Cronin, the FHP president.

"And I love the story behind it." It's the story of the artist and the bureaucracy. A Hoosier returns Elmer Edward Taflin-ger was born in Indianapolis in 1891. He studied art in New York and in Europe, then returned to Indianapolis to teach and paint. Taflinger painted traditionally, realistically, and had no use for the abstraction and stark modernism gaining popularity in the '60s. He was no fan of Robert Indiana's LOVE statue, the Indianapolis Museum of Art's signature object since 1970.

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you men ot the Renaissance, you were humans the same as I and first of all, you were and "He follows me like a dog ever since Pop neutered him with a pen knife." (The Indiana Historical Society has a "This project is what might have been called a LISA HURST, Friends of Holliday Park member and Ruins donor have been called a said Lisa Hurst, a FHP member and Ruins donor. More than once an exasperated Taflinger walked off the job. "People were running down from the mayor's office suggesting this and suggesting that," James Taflinger said, "and Elmer was not a patient individual. "He was Elmer. That's the best way I can say it." Yet in fits and starts, Taflinger forged ahead.

He procured additional ancient-looking objects, salvaging them from ornate buildings that in the 1950s and 1960s, no longer fashionable, were being torn down in big numbers. The Indianapolis Star A GANNETT COMPANY Vol. 110, No. 334 Published daily and Sunday by Star Media, 307 North Pennsylvania Street, P.O. Box 145, Indianapolis, IN 46206-0145 STAR MEDIA KAREN F.

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Initially, in 1958, the Ruins' mission was simply to be a home for three giant statues, "The Three Races of Man," sculpted by Karl Bitters in the late 19th century. The statues needed a new home because the building they decorated, in New York, was being torn down. Taf-linger's proposal, on behalf of the city of Indianapolis, was among a half-dozen submitted to the statues' owner, Western Electric Co. It won out over proposals by Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Howard University, Miami University, Idlewild Airport (now Kennedy International) and the United Nations. Taflinger oversaw the placement of the "Three Races" atop giant columns made expressly for them in Holliday Park in 1960.

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