The Independent-News, Volume 108, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 February 1983 — Page 4

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- THE INDEPENDENTNEWS - FEBRUARY IQ. W

[EDITORIALS

A PERFECT EXAMPLE It is very well known now that people are unhappy about utility rates and the constant increase of these rates. The fact that utility companies are basically a monopoly makes it more of a touchy subject. And the current de-regulation of natural gas prices, which has been going on for several years and has more time before its completion, only esculates the rapidly increasing rates. Because of the nature of the business and the lack of competition, there are both federal and state commissions to supposedly control rates, increase, etc. This is where the bulk of the trouble originates. It is no secret the this year’s Indiana Legislature is concerned with this matter as much legislation has been introduced to deal with the Public Service Commission in one way or another. Many plans have been formulated and it appears that before the 1983 session is over, some reform will come at the state level in Indiana. However, there is still the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. And a story released on the major wire services this past week cites a perfect example of some of the ridiculous going on that can and does occur at a federal level. This particular release concerned a rate increase granted the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. This company asked for and received an increase of $528 million last October 1 by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This is one of the companies that serves Consumbers Power Co., of Jackson, Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., which in turn serves Detroit and Wayne County. There is no harder hit state in the union economically now than Michigan and Detroit and the surrounding area is racked with unemployment, hard times and bad business as everyone knows. What just came out however, is that in this increase there was allowance made for the customers to pay for, a sum of $1.3 million for a golf course, this course is for the employees of the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company, near Louisburg, Kansas. It was considered a recreational facility for the private use of the employees of the company. This is just one of many similar type operations that is allowed through federal control and until more scrutiny and correction of such acts occurs, the people should hollar and scream and do something about it in the future. The amount of the total cost compared to the increase isn’t much, but consider case after case after case of foolish spending, cuts that could be made here and there, etc., and you certainly would have a big “ball of string’’ if you rolled these pieces all together. In good times this possibly might have gone basically unnoticed. And certainly many more similar cases of ridiculous spending at someone else’s expense exist. It is time that some of the federal and state regulatory commissions are regulated. Maybe Indiana is going to head in that direction somewhat during this legislative session, but it will take a long time to sort out and act upon such federal fiascos as this. RP'remembe j rJW WHEN...

1973 Miss Terri Kincaid will leave Walkerton on February 7 for the state Junior Miss Pageant to be held in Frankfort. The Pageant will run from February 7 to 10. Miss Kincaid is the first Junior Miss from the Walkerton area and the local pageant is sponsored by the Walkerton Jaycees. At the market whole frying chickens were selling for 33 cents a pound; cut up fryers at 39 cents a pound; livers at 79 cents a pound; giblets at 49 cents a pound; wings at 29 cents a pound; pork steak at 79 cents a pound; whole pork roast at 75 cents a pound; tenderettes at 89 cents a pound; stuffed sausage at 79 cents a pound; five pound bag of flour for 59 cents; a gallon of 2 percent milk for 83 cents; a pound carton of cottage cheese for 33 cents; five sixounce cans of orange juice for $1.00; a half gallon of ice milk for 49 cents; cabbage, lettuce, carrots or cole slaw at three for 89 cents; 20 pounds of Michigan potatoes for $1.69 and two pounds of tomatoes for 89 cents. 1968 Word was released last Friday that North Liberty is to receive a new Post Office along with a couple of additions to the South Bend Post Office Department At Dave Ac Ray's Supermarkets. Walkerton and Koontz Lake, their advertisement reads as follows: whole frying chickens at 25 cents a

pound; T-bone steak at 99 cents a pound; sirloin steak at 95 cents a pound; three pounds of ground beef for $1.00; three pounds of wieners for $.100; ground chuck at 59 cents a pound; bacon at 39 cents a pound; a quart of buttermilk for 21 cents; three half gallons of chocolate skimmed milk for $1.00; three pound can of Chase A- Sanborn coffee for $1.69; a loaf of rye bread for 19 cents; five pounds of flour for 49 cents; three boxes of saltine crackers for 89 cents; celery at 25 cents; lettuce at two heads for 29 cents; and three 12 ounce cans of frozen Awake for 99 cents. 1963 Walkerton's B Team won an invitational tourney on Saturday at the Walkerton High School gym as they topped Grovertown and Tyner in their two games. Tyner won over Monterey in the first round. Sixteen members were present at the last meeting of the 4-H Termites, the woodworking class. Future plans were discussed. Fire broke out in the Woodrow Cochran home, three miles east of Walkerton, on Monday afternoon while no one was at home and had such a start before being discovered that the house was burned to the ground. The fire call came in after 2:00 p.m. by neighbors who con tacted the local department. Also responding to the call was the LaPaz Department. Ihe Walkerton Public Library

will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with an open house on Sunday . February 10. from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The public is invited. 1958 led Wesolek. 1954 graduate of North liberty High School, will make one of his feu appearances in the area this Saturday when Indiana State meets Valparaiso at Valpo in an 8:00 p.m. contest. Ted is a guard for the Indiana State Sycamores. Four local young girls are among the group of high school and college youths attending the Youth Seminar in Washington. D.C. this week. The group left on chartered busses from North Manchester College on Saturday. The purpose of the trip is to learn more about our government and a Christian responsibility to maintain a good government. Those attending from here are Rosalee Buss. Sharon Danner and Mary Houser, representing the Pine Creek Church of the Brethren and Charolette Mulvaney representing the North Liberty Church of the Brethren. 1953 Another disastrous fire struck North Liberty early Tuesday morning and completely destroyed the North Liberty Lumber Ac Coal Co. offices and yards. Only smoldering ruins remained. The loss will run to nearly $200,000. Dean Krom, manager of the yard, stated that rebuilding will begin shortly. The new 1953 Studebaker will be shown at the display room next week by Williams Supply Co.. Walkerton. 1943 Del M. Woodward, founder of the North Liberty News, died at his home in Englewood. Chicago. Sunday morning at the age of 72. Mr. Woodward learned the printing trade when a lad. working in the office of the Walkerton Visitor. Walkerton's first newspaper, founded by Henry Mintle. Later he was employed by W. A. Endley on the staff of the Walkerton Independent. the successor to the Walkerton Visitor. When he had gained sufficient knowledge in the trade he and his bride went to North Liberty, in 1895, where they founded the North Liberty News. He operated the News for 14 years and sold it to Mrs. S. R. DeCoudres and it has since become a part of the publications of the In-dependent-News Company. The rationing of fruits and vegetables canned in tin by means of a point system will begin throughout the nation March I. in an effort to have sufficient of these products to supply the armed forces of the allied nations and to guarantee that every family at home will receive its rightful share of these products. Registration of every family on the canned goods will start February 22 and continue through the week at the high school. Weekly Wrap-Up By Senator V. Richard Miller Drunk driving, unruly students, the prevention of future "baby doe's", small business regulatory relief, the abolition of a state judicial office and the issue of a state lottery were just a few of the issues dealt with in the Sta’e Senate in the fifth week of the Session. which ended Februarv 4. A bill stiffening penalties for drunk driving was approved by the Senate, by a vote of 47-0. Under the provisions of this legislation, (he minimum period of suspension of the driver's license for the first time offenders would be raised to 90 days. The bill also provides for an administrative revocation of driving privileges, allowing the bureau of motor vehicles to suspend the drivers license of persons who refuse to take or fail the breathali/er test. The bill is the product of a Task Force established by Governor Orr last vear to

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In the Main Street Gossip column of this newspaper this article caught our eye. How times do change! Thirty-nine years ago Tuesday. Ed and Mae Shirley came into Walkerton. Ed via bob sled from Plymouth, and Mac via the good old "Leave Early and Walk" (Lake Eric and Western train). They came here to start their oldage security program by means of a J-cent lunch room! They sold coffee for 3 cents and when Mac came into town all she could see from the train were pig pens and privies in everybody's back yard. She was ready to call the deal off right then, but wc stuck with it and opened the lunch room with an old pine board for a counter and a couple of broken coffee cups. Ed borrowed S2OO from h»s father-in-law to buy a few toughen the state's drunk driving laws. After an emotional debate, the Senate took the first step to strike out the constitutional prohibition against lotteries, passing an amendment to the Indiana Constitution. 28-22. Like all constitutional amendments, the resolution must be approved by two successive legislatures and by a majority of the citizens in a statewide referendum. The resolution now goes to the House where its future remains uncertain. The full Senate also passed and sent on to the House a bill aimed at preventing future "baby doe's" in Indiana. The measure allows for juvenile court intervention in cases where a handicapped or mentally retarded child's life is threatened through the deprivation or withholding of nutrition or life sustaining treatment. In a 43 to 5 vote, the Senate passed a measure that would allow school officials to remove from school unruly and violent lb and 17 year olds and force such students to attend night or adult education classes. Supporters maintain that the change in law could give school authorities the authority to remove a small number of disruptive students from the classroom who arc hindering the learning process of the majority of students. The Senate also passed a measure its supporters say could provide regulatory relief to the state's small business community through the exemption or relaxation of rules and regulations issued by state agencies. Under this proposal, state agencies would be required to issue a report on the impact its proposed rule would have on small business, and whether or not it would be practical to either exempt or issue a lesser standard for small business. The Senate also approved a measure abolishing the Office of Reporter of the Supreme and Apellate Courts. A legislative oversight committee studying efficiency in state government found that the work product of this office is being done more efficiently and timely by the private sector, and that the state could easily abolish the office. A savings of about $190,000 per year to the state is expected if this bill becomes law. All of the Senate passed legisla

groceries. There was no electric lights, no water except as wc pumped it out of the ground in the kitchen, no sidewalks, no nothing as we measure things now. The farmers hitched their horses in front of the place and the manure got as deep as the snow. They started their business in an old frame building about where the bank is now (where the Mission Thrift Shop is) and after a year or so there they moved into other quarters about where the Frank Lewis pool room now stands (now the 1.0.0 F. Lodge Hall). And then later they moved to what is today Karn's second store (pictured). In the 39 years they say Walkerton has been good to then’ and most of the other restaurants have come and gone but Shirlev's goes on. non now goes on to the House of Representatives for action there. In committee action, the Budget Sub-CommHtce of the Senate Finance Committee began holding hearings on the budget requests of various state agencies and departments. Testimony from these hearings will be used to set the priorities of Indiana's 1983-85 budget. which will be approved by the legislature sometime in April. Hearings will continue for several more weeks before a rough outline of the budget is drafted and presented to the legislators. I again remind residents to contact me if they have anv concerns or thoughts on issues before the General Assembly. The Senate toll free number is 1-800-382-9467. Correspondence can be sent to Indiana Senate. State House. Indianapolis. Indiana 46204. "Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted." Longfellow + WINTER 1 OVERCOAT. * Don't Go Out Without It. 01983 A H Robins Conkurner Procjuc u Dnnvon Richmond Vis gm 23230 wOiaJBwQ. o— I

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