The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 19, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 May 1980 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., May 28,1980

Editorials Parades honor war dead Thousands of people lined the streets of the Lakeland communities on Monday to pay tribute to the war dead and watch the parades move past as the sun shone brightly on Memorial Day. The people then turned out at the cemeteries where graves were bedecked with flags and flowers to listen to speeches from ministers and Legion officials about God, the USA and those who gave their lives for the freedom of this nation. \ Monday was a time for hope, a time for thanks, and a time for prayer. Drowning time Already drownings are occurring in the oceans, lakes and streams of the nation. A precaution swimmers might observe is to swim in groups, especially in the ocean. This provides a swimmer in distress immediate help and also protection from sharks. Sharks are quite often very close to ocean swimmers, despite notions to the contrary. If this is doubted, try fishing for them from the surf. It’s always shocking to read of persons who are unable to swim going out in boats without life preservers — and many drown in this way every year. Others underestimate currents or their ability or distance. Such mistakes are often paid for with life itself. A good choice We’re taking this opportunity to commend the Lakeland School Board on the naming of Ned L. Speicher to replace Lewis S. Immel as principal of the Milford Elementary School. Speicher is a Milford native and a popular man in the community and, what’s more important, he is qualified for the post above and beyond the required Educational courses. Persons watching Speicher work with the youngsters during the various school events can attest to that. Speicher’s dedication to the students is rewarding, it’s something often missing in teacher-student relations. Unlike someone new moving into the community, Speicher will not have to earn the respect of the youngsters. He already has it. We wish him well in his new position. June, 1980 A ship at sea — and a bride in June — Ivy and bittersweet in Fall But the bride is the loveliest of all I — Anne Mary Lawler The arrival of June brings us almost to the half-way point of 1980. By the end of the month, a fiscal year will have been completed for many, and 1980 will be in its second tiolf* # June brings with it summer, commencements, weddings, school vacations and beautiful weather, and in thus, perhaps, the most welcome of all the months. In this month the days are longer than during any other month of the year; there is more daylight and less darkness. June is not a month of birthday anniversaries for famous Americans, but it contains many patriotic days. The anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, fought on June 17,1775, is observed in Boston. The Allies landed in France on June 6,1944, in World War 11, which proved to be the beginning of the end of the European war. The United States Government actually began functioning in the month of June, 1788, when New Hampshire ratified the Constitution, the last article of which provided that, upon ratification by nine states, the establishment of the Constitution between the states would be effected. Father’s Day falls in June (the 15th) as does the birthday of the first and only President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, on the 3rd. What others say — Guidelines for reporting Your Indiana State Police have come up with information concerning accidents and your reporting them which we feel you need to review and remember. If you are involved in a traffic accident: — STOP: The penalties for leaving the scene of an accident are severe. — Telephone the nearest police the operator to contact the agency for you. — To call for help on a Citizens Band Radio: Break Channel 19 for KFP 2179 mobile or State Trooper. If no contact is made, break for any base station and you have them telephone the nearest State Police Post. • — Ask a bystander to aid in warning oncoming traffic. Often more serious injuries-are sustained by a second collision. \— Check and care for any injured; move only if absolutely necessary. Determine the exact time of the accident. — Get the names of as many witnesses as you can. Don’t leave the scene. — Make certain who was driving the other vehicle(s) involved. (They sometimes switch because of legal factors.) — Note the damage to other cars or property. Make sure the damage is not from a previous accident — When the officer arrives, he will call the wrecker you desire, notify relatives and arrange for transportation for parties involved, if necessary. — Have drivers license, vehicle registration, and insurance information ready for the officer when he arrives. — Relate the facts of the accident, as best you can remember, to the officer. Remember: Little is gained by attempting to “settle” who was the cause of the accident. That is the duty of the investigating officer. A few other items of extreme importance: When — The police must be called to the scene of any Fatal or Personal Injury accident. Accidents must be reported in writing, within five days, to the Indiana State Police if there is a death, personal injury or total damage of S2OO or more. How — Have this information ready to give to police: 1. Your name and address ; 2. The location and nature of emergency and if anyone is injured or dead; 3. The location and phone number from which you are calling. Remember — the accuracy of your call will determine the promptness of the officer’s arrival. . » Who — if an accident occurs outside the corporate limits: Call State Police. If within a municipality: Call the local police. If you don’t have the number of the nearest police agency, ask the operator to contact them for you. — CARROLL COUNTY COMET

if, ph The Milford Junior High School band was one of many bands to march in area parades.

Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area ... "How do you deal with your child (children) when he she (they) is (are) angry?"

«i MYRA Br GL’NDEN (children 1 M grown) * t — 1' U ; r “I just isolated them. I sent them to their rooms.” ALTHEA , 1 * HAIFLEY ** W 7 Syracuse > (housewife) < A ■■ “When they are angry I speak to them with a soft tone, no sense in me getting angry with them, and I’ll tell them first of all it is not pleasing to the Lord and it’s not pleasing to me. I check into the cause of the anger. If someone needs to be spanked I take care of that; if its a disagreement, we get that under control. No sense in putting myself in the same position.” (Michael, 29, Cathlene, 28,

I ’ A Congressman t Floyd r ♦ Fithian j } Reports W A Ju / i J i J ijsfm Ab

The House this week voted against a proposed change in the way natural gas is priced which would have meant higher prices for industry users. Congressman Floyd Fithian, who voted against the change, said the change would have particularly affected steel and similar industries. “These industries are already in trouble, and they cannot afford the extra burden this change would have placed on them,” he said. Authorizations for the Defense Department for FY 1981 passed the House this week, 338-62. Congressman Floyd Fithian voted for the bill, which increases defense spending 31 per cent over 1980 levels. The spending level set in the House bill was 13 per cent more than the Administraton’s request. Included were more funds for weapons procurement, for 164 aircraft not requested by the Administration and substantially more to beef up the Navy for shipbuilding. “This is the largest peacetime defense increase that we have had in 30 years,” Congressman Fithian said. “Funds for our

Dorothy. 26, Ruth, 23, Jean, 19, Mary, 17, David, 14 and seven grandchildren) LARRY COOK Syracuse (merchant) “I let them have their tantrum, then after it’s kind of blown over I try to reason with them.” (Mike, 18, Amy, 15) ANN " watts Cix X. Jk Warsaw (children |K - grown) jM “There’s different schools of thought on that now. I’m sure that I spanked. I think I sent them to their rooms when they misbehaved. Children were not allowed to express themselves like they do now. I lived by Dr. Spock.” MARY BAILEY Milford (children: Teresa 16, Terry 14, Michael 12and Rhonda 8) “I sit them down and try to show them they’re not suppose to act that way.”

readiness posture —for operations, maintenance and training — are up 13 per cent. The training function itself is up more than 19 per cent. “I think that this budget does, given the level of expenditures and given the real increases, meet our immediate needs of readiness, and it does help to meet our long-term national security goals,” Fithian said.

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THE WAN, discouraged look on the faces of most realtors of late have turned to smiles ... and for good reason. The local real estate market has been looking up. A survey among several local realtors reveals that a number of factors have combined to make this so. Among them, of course, is the opening of the lake season. But perhaps more than that is the dramatic drop in interest rates. Taking a more dismal outlook was Ernie Rogers, of the real estate firm of Fry, Wells and Rogers. He said, “If mortgage rates drop to eight per cent, it will make very little difference until people get back to work.” And of course he’s right: The local labor' market has been depressed, and a large number of local people are actually out of work. These people are husbanding what income they do have, and are certainly not in the market for a new home. But this aside, Rogers said interest has picked up in the last several weeks, both with listings and showings of properties. He pointed out that mortgage money (FHA) has dropped from 16.5 per cent to 11.5 per cent. He added that the decline in Money Market (six month notes) interest rates from nearly 16 per cent to 7.753 this week, has taken the pressure off of Savings and Loans, and has freed up some mortgage money. Ric Schaekel of Beaty’s Century 21 echoed Rogers’ point of view almost entirely, stating, “We had good listings in January and February, then nothing, but now it is coming back again. ” Schaekel predicted August, September and October should be real good months in the local real estate market. He also called “motive” the most important thing in forcing a seller to ask a fair, competitive price for their properties. Schaekel said appreciation of property is slowing up, not the 10 to 15 per cent increase of the past several years. Then there is Dave McGrew of Lakeland Realty, on South Huntington Street, Syracuse, who agreed with Rogers about the depressed local labor market and its effect of the real estate market. “People are leary,” said McGrew. In some instances, he noted, a wife might be layed off and the family income diminished. This can depress the entire local economy, he noted. McGrew, who is strong in the sales of commercial property, said, “things are beginning to pick up,” but added that there is very little new building right now. “Banks are still asking a high interest rate,’’he lamented. McGrew said, “We were making sales (of real estate) when interest went as high as 13 per cent, but that was the cut off.” When it went beyond that, we suffered, he added. He predicted interest would have to drop to 10 or 11 per cent before anything really happens in real estate sales. Meanwhile, interest is still high at lending institutions, all three realtors agreed. The local Wabash Federal Savings & Loan is asking 13 per cent and four points for a 90 per cent approved loan, and 12.5 per cent and four points on an 80 per cent approved loan. Warsaw Federal Savings & Loan has no money to loan, while Peru Federal Savings & Loan is asking 14 per cent and three and a half points on a 90 per cent loan, and 13.5 per cent and two points on an 80 per cent loan. Banks are more reluctant to enter the mortgage market in any big way, would rather make short-term loans on autos, boats, the like. Although the State Bank of Syracuse quoted Tuesday their current mortgage rate is 14% per cent plus four points on a 25-year, 70 per cent loan. The survey indicates a brighter future in the local real estate market, but not a return to the lush period that saw so many realtors climb aboard when the goose hung high. Realtors will all tell you there are some good real estate buys in the area right now, and while many are reluctant to buy it could be a good period to speculate. There’s an old adage, that a good time to buy is when someone wants to sell, and a good time to sell is when someone wants to buy. NOW WHAT -a coin club!

That’s right, says Larry Cook, owner of Cook’s Rare Coins in Pickwick Place. The club, known as the Syracuse Coin Club will meet Tuesday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Larry’s place. JACK VANDERFORD. a resident of the old Ideal Beach area on Lake Wawasee. showed up at the Syracuse Case last Wednesday morning with an eight ounce (that’s a half pound, folks!) mushroom. Case owner Cherrie Caldwell said, “Where did you find that. Jack?” “In your yard,” replied Vanderford. He lives next to Cherrie. A NOVEL idea just struck us: Suppose we sponsored a mushroom contest, giving a modest prize for the biggest (or most!) mushroom(s) turned in by a certain date (all entries to become the property of the sponsor of the contest.) The question is — would it have any chance for success? ODE TO retired postmaster Avon Bushong: Old postmasters never die: they just lose their zip. THE HIGHWAYS and byways are full of joggers (so they tell us) getting ready for the Road Race at Syracuse City Park on Saturday, July 5. Those who want to lose weight for the occasion are given this formula: Take your weight, multiply it by 15, and this gives you the amount of calories needed to maintain one’s present body weight. Cut off 1,000 calories per day, or 7,000 per week, this is equivalent to two pounds weight loss. This will give you an 11pound weight loss, the better to allow you to complete the grueling race, especially to mount heartbreak hill. One townsman, realtor O A Lambert, girding himself for the upcoming Road Race, is losing (a little) weight, and has his own theory to support his loss: “Simply throw the salt shaker away .”

ANOTHER VIEW . . . By DAVID W. ROBINSON

This column began last winter shortly after my doing the “Cruzin” piece for Arch. It was decided that eight articles be written. Upon completion, Arch asked for eight more. We have had a good and pleasant arrangement, but this is the last of this series. My thanks to Arch and Della for the opportunity to write them. I have had several teasing-type discussions with friends that this last article should be on the subject of sex. Well, here it is! The theme is ... to put sex back in the bedroom, where it belongs; and to treat the subject with the dignity it deserves! We are about 40 years into the current sexual revolution. Sigmund Freud may have fired the first shot but World War II and Alfred Kinsey launched the first battles. Like so many revolutions which are based on emotion rather than survival, there has been no victory nor will there be. There are at least two fronts of this sexual revolution. The first is, freedom for sex. Put another way: The battle cry is that sex should be free — uninhibited. This is heard from the “do your thing” bunch. Practitioners in my field should support this “freedom” battle camp. It has produced for us a large number of people with severe guilts who need professional attention. Other members of this same camp cite the benefits of sexual investigation such as was found by anthropologists studying the Trobi-Islanders. Young people there experiment with numerous partners. The proponents of this note that the language of their culture does not contain the words divorce or murder. They don’t tell us that in that culture, the young people do marry. And that there is no such thing as adultery. Anyone who practices extra-marital hankypanky is simply — put to death! Nor do they tell us that when the wife becomes pregnant, all sex stops and remains stopped until after the woman finishes nursing her child. That frequently extends for two or three years after the birth. Maybe the proponents of this camp want “the best” of both cultures. They neglect to see that the sexual practices of those “heathens” are rigidly bound by expectations of responsibility — or else! They neglect or turn away from telling us of the guilts and severe insecurities that so often come when responsibilities of commitment are loosely developed. They like the word freedom, not

LEE SCHACHT, former owner of the Liquor Locker, is back in the Syracuse area, hoping to dispose of one or two of her rental properties before returning to her new home in Del Ray Beach. Florida, where she spent the past winter. DOT AND Dee Stiver, r 4 Syracuse, just might have a good idea in their suggestion that a local group sponsor the erection of a band shell at Syracuse City Park where band concerts could be held, reminiscent of the old band concert days (of the 20s and 30s) on the uptown streets of Syracuse. f DICK AND Bee Brown, of 7057 E. 47th Street. Indianapolis, were in town over Memorial Day visiting with their daughter and son-in-law and family, Clifford and Sherry Wogoman, 726 North Huntington Street. Dick is in the construction business. Bee works for a Jeep agency, and even though they’ve been gone from here nine years. Bee says. "Syracuse is still home to us.” CARROLL AND Carol Koble are the outdoor type. On Memorial Day they rode their bicycles to Milford for the MADsponsored Chicken Bar-B-Que, then rode home, about 13 miles in all. BELINDA BOYER. A member of the recent WHS graduating class, is resting for several days at the r 5 home of her parents. Jimmy and Carol Boyer, suffering from a bump on the head and a severe headache, resulting from a fall at the Syracuse cemetery Monday during Memorial Day services. Belinda was a member of the American Legion color guard and fainted in the 80-degree heat. Her mother said she is remaining in a dark room for several days, until her severe headaches subside. She was taken from the (Continued on page 5)

the phrase . . . responsible freedom! The second front in the sexual • freedom battle is unisex, or asexuality. The battle cry of that group is that men and women are the same or at least equal sexually. Didn’t any of those people “play doctor” when they were five years old? Somewhere along the road of life they should have at least observed animals and birds; their courting and nesting behaviors. The phrase “all men are equal” is incomplete. It should continue to read “under the law”. And probably that isn’t 100 per cent correct. No self-respecting psychologist could join this camp. Our whole field is based on the law of individual differences: Not the “law” of sameness. Equal pay for equal work makes sense. Equal opportunity to succeed and equal opportunity to fail makes sense also. If you read current law, even failure isn’t permitted; at least not until arbitrarily set quotas are met. What these flag wavers could better say is that we shouldn’t stereotype or brand something as “woman’s work” or “man’s work”. Sexuality exists no differently than polarity. Its ultimate purpose is the propagation of the species. Humans and a few other “high order” animals practice sex for reasons other than procreation. But in all cultures I’ve studied, desintegration of the society begins when responsibility for one’s behavior, including one’s sexual behavior, ends. If sex is put back in the bedroom, what would take its place in TV, the movies and the other popular media? Probably fantasy, and that isn’t all bad. There is an important place in good mental health to fantasize. Remember the moderation-in-all-things lesson. Maybe we have not exercised our imagination. In its place we have over-exercised our actions. Balance is the goal, not the wide-swinging pendulum. Although it may be oblique to this specific subject, I can’t close this series of articles without a thought on marriage. Instead of giving another view of a subject, this will have to be couched in an advice theme. The bottom line of advice on marriage is: 1. Fall in like with him/her. 2. Fall in like with his family. 3. Get married. You will then fall in love. Sexuality as part of that type of developed relationship will be perceived much more fully — much more freely — much more responsibly, and with much more joy-