The Independent-News, Volume 111, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 March 1986 — Page 4

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EDITORIALS

STILL TIME TO FILE! There is still time to file for the 1986 Primary Election. However, anyone wishing to do so must do so by Friday noon of this week. One can still file for all the offices that will be contested in the 1986 general election, and in the John Glenn School District, for the three school board positions that are open for election as well. The partial lists of candidacy filing this year discloses a count that shows many races not being contested in the primary election to be held on May 6 in an election where races from township level right on through United States Senator are being contested. Very often the most important battle is the one in the primary election, as the two major parties name their candidates for the fall election. If anyone still has any desire to file for candidacy, the time is now as filing for 1986 will end this Friday, March 7, at 12:00 noon in the local county clerk’s offices. THEIR TIME OF YEAR One has to be a little forgiving if many of the younger set seems just a little different at this time of year. In Indiana, and many other places as well, this is State Basketball Tourney time and for the players, students and those closely involved, this is their time of year. The tradition continues in Indiana where only one champion is crowned in the sport widely acclaimed in the Hoosier state. Almost all other states now play a class system, naming a number of champions in different classes, divided by student population of the schools. This is still the exception in Indiana where all the teams are drawn out and put into one pool which will, on Saturday, March 29, name just one champion of basketball for the year. Despite the fact that all but one team ends up a loser on the court, this system has always had the built-in feeling that the sectional, regional, semi-state and the state finals still produces nothing but winners. Going down to defeat in the last game for the seniors in this tournament, is not a sign of being a loser, but a sign of being a winner for competing in this, one of sports greatest single events. So you may have to forgive the young and the young at heart for the next couple or three weeks as this time of year, which belongs to them, is something long looked forward to . . . with both joy and sadness . . . as high school basketball comes to an end once again for so many in our home state. sHE ’WHEN—

1981 Members of the John Glenn Thespian Society will present "God’s Favorite’’, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, March 12-14, at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Members of the cast are Sherry Klinedinst, Cary Zartman, Diena Pletcher, Tim Hanson, Dawn Pletcher, Doug Campbell, James Godwin and Mike Elkin. Church Women United will be celebrating World Day of Prayer on Friday, March 6, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, north of Donaldson. The Polk-Lincoln-Johnson School Corporation Board of Trustees met on Tuesday and announced that a public meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m., at Urey Middle School for discussion of the renovation project for Urey this summer. 1471 Each Saturday, starting March 6, a series of stories will be read or told to young children, ages 3-5, at the Walkerton Public Library, from 10 30 to 11:30 a.m. "New Life Awaits", is this year’s theme for the year's World Day of Prayer to take place at 8:00 pm. at the Walkerton United Methodist Church. Plans for the fourth annual Walkerton Festival Horse Show to be held on Sunday, June 6, are underway according to Don Wray, chair man and 4-H Horse and Pony leader for Lincoln Township. At the market pork loins were selling fur 59 cents a pound; pork sausage at 69 cents a pound; cube steak at 99 cents a pound, smoked , hams at $9 cents a pound; slab bacon at S 3 cents a pound; three pounds of bologna fur SI 00, and a

dozen medium eggs for 39 cents. 1966 The North Liberty PT A celebrated Founder’s Day at the high school recently. Jack Hiler, seventh grade student at Polk-Lincoln-Johnson Elementary School, was revealed the winner of the Walkerton Junior Chamber of Commerce’s Independence Hall essay contest Wednesday at a special assembly. At the market three pounds of ground beef was selling for 99 cents; roiled beef roast at 87 cents a pound; swiss steak at 79 cents a pound; pork chops at 69 cents a pound; round steak at 77 cents a pound; bananas at 10 cents a pound; three dozen oranges for SI.OO, and a pound box of Ritz crackers for 35 cents. 1961 The preliminary hearing on the water injunction has been called for Friday, with a private hearing in the judge’s chambers as the attornies will meet with Judge Dempsey of the Superior Court #2, at 2:30 p.m. Busy minds and nimble fingers are being kept busy as March 18 draws closer, meaning the bazaar and smorgasbord time for the PT A. The fourth annual Minstrel will be held by the Walkerton Lions Club, on Friday, March 10, with a show and cast that promises to make this the biggest and best. Again under the direction of Walter Denaut, the dub has organized their case of end men. soloists and a chorus. The Scouts of Walkerton will be honored by the Walkerton Lions at their regular meeting as a pot luck dinner and visit from several VlP’s will make the big evening

1956 Ihe Chapter Star Farmers Award was won by Howard Borton of the local FFA. He will receive a small plaque and the local chapter will also receive a plaque to be hung in the agriculture room. At the market chickens were selling for 47 cents a pound; chuck roast at 39 cents a pound; picnic hams at 29 cents a pound; pork cutlets at three pounds for SI.00; slicing bologna at three pounds for SI.00; hamburger at 35 cents a pound; club steak at 49 cents a pound; and swiss cheese also at 49 cents a pound. The committee in charge of the street and store decorations for the forthcoming Centennial celebration in Walkerton, announces they are now in the process of obtaining old objects of interest for display in the various store windows of the local merchants. Thursday, March 1, just one hundred years since men started shaving in these parts, the men folk will stop shaving (well . . . most of them) by decree of the Centennial Whisker Chief of Walkerton, Dave Lawrence, and his committee. Yes sir. starting Thursday, the Centennial Gestaop will have a weather eye open at all times for the men folks who don’t wear whiskers and the women who do wear cosmetics of varying degrees. 1951 March 2, at 6:30 p.m., the Town Cub for the Walkerton Women’s Cub annual Bennedict’s Frolic was held. The annual affair affords members and their husbands an evening of food, fellowship and lots of fun. A total of 8,483 Indiana residents signed commitment cards last week expressing their desire to join with an Indiana Methodist Church. The action was the result of the Indiana Area Week of Visitation Evangelism lay evengelistic effort held recently. During the lay evangelistic effort, 5,999 teams of Methodist laymen visited 21,653 Hoosiers, of this number 5,352 wished to join a Methodist Church by profession of faith and 3,131 by transfer of membership. 1946 A large bam on the Charles Cingenpeel farm, three miles north of Walkerton, was completely destroyed by fire Thursday evening. The Keen Teen Cub has been making rapid progress in preparation for the Keen Teen Follies. This program consists of enough different types of entertainment so as to provide complete enjoyment for everyone between the ages of 12 and 102. . Henry Sieben mark, State Commander of the American Legion, will be in Wakerton tonight to attend the induction ceremonies of the World War 11 veterans who will be formerly initiated into the Orville Easterday Post Home. Ruth Waldron and Florence Carke will represent Walkerton High School in the plane geometry division of the State Mathematic contest sponsored by Indiana University and Notre Dame will host the contest. 1941 R. W. Wolfram, of the Walkerton Lumber and Coal Co., was named president of the Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan Retail Lumber Association, in an annual convention, held in South Bend. Copies of the official 1941 State Highway Map of Indiana are to be available for distribution about mid-March. At the market colby cheese was selling for 23 cents a pound; a carton of cottage cheese for 10 cents; smoked picnics at 19 cents a pound; two pounds of bologna for 25 cents; and two pounds of pure ground beef for 39 cents. 1931 St. Joseph County Commissioners awarded five road contracts, totaling 557,04.3 at their regular meeting Monday evening. There were 57 bidders present.

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The question of installment buying of consumption goods was thoroughly thrashed out by members of the high school debating teams before the members of the Walkerton Chamber of Commerce at their last meeting. The depression has hit very hard 30 families in Clay Township and the residents of Walkerton and North Liberty have collected a truck load of food and clothing which will be taken to the trustee’s office and later distributed to these needy families. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Youth Crime Youth crime continues to plague our nation. As the cost of maintaining our prisons and juvenile home increased, the hope for a real solution to the problem seems to become more distant. But we cannot write off these losses as if they were merely part of the normal expense of a modern society. The problem of youth crime threatens the very heart of our American way of life. We must never forget that problems created by man can be solved by man. We as a society have kept our heads in the sand, refusing to face up to the great shame involve in this nation's tragic increase of crime among the young. We call for more police and more prisons and stricter laws. But the truth is that the trouble is not going to go away just because we scream about it. Something must be done. As a lawyer, prosecutor, public defender, legislator/representative and senator, county and juvenile judge, and judge and chief justice of the appellate court, I have been dealing with juvenile crime for many years. At the invitation of the United Nations Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, I participated in the first United Nations SecreUry Conference on Crime and Delinquency held in Geneva, Switzerland. There we learned the answer. And in my book. Delinquency: There Is An Answer, I have summarized many of my proposals for legislation. Ido believe there is a lot we can do for I am convinced that all those kids need is a chance to make something of themselves. We can start by insuring that formative years of our children are not wasted in what I might call over-schooling. I want to see more direct measures of change in the schools. We have to go to the heart of the matter and consider the betterment of the whole child, thus preserving this country's greatest resource, the American children. When I was serving on the bench as a Juvenile Court Judge, I saw many troubled boys and girls but I never ran across a case that could not have been prevented. The type of things we did to prevent trouble were plain and simple. For one boy we found a tutor to help him in his math. For another we got him into a local athletic program. Another was helped by finding seme part-time job. Prevention is the only solution. Shuting the bam door after the horse has bolted will do no one much good. Children and all of us suffer a terrible tragedy when there is no other answer to the problem than emprisonment and punish-

ment, which is to say expense to the taxpayer. Money and support are needed to start programs that work with teenagers before matters get worse. As a society we must act before it’s too late; and so too as concerned citizens we must act in individual cases before it is too late. Problems created by man can be solved by man. We ought to spend time and money or the little things that mean so much to kids instead of budgeting for more prisons when it's then too late. There are of course no simple solutions. However, the problem has become so grave that we cannot continue to ignore it. We must respond now. not later. The trouble with us has been we have hoped too long that the problem will go away. It won't go away till we make a real effort to creat preventative programs, locally and nationally, and not wait until the boy gets into trouble and wait until he goes to an institution at the expense of $20,000 a year to the taxpayer. As Juvenile Court Judge, our county had the lowest delinquency rate in the state and nation. John S. Gonas, Democrat for 3rd District Congress MOILENHAUER TO RUN FOR SHERIFF On Tuesday, February 18. at 1:00 p.m., Mike Moilenhauer announced at a press conference that he is a Republican Candidate for Sheriff of LaPorte County. This announcement was made at the Republican Headquarters in LaPorte, stating that he had filed for that office at 10:00 a.m. that day. In his statement he said he had been with the LaPorte County Police Department for over 18 years, being a uniform division partolman for nine years. On January I, 1976, he was promoted to the rank of Detective Sergeant in the Plain Clothes Investigation Division. On December 1, he was again promoted to the rank of Captain in the Uniform Division, and is now a Uniform Shift Commander, supervising a shift of one sergeant, seven patrolmen and two communication officers each day. He presently heads a "Fire-Arson Investigation Unit" consisting of two other trained investigators and himself. A graduate of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy for Indiana Police Officers in 1970, he has attended and graduated from numerous other specialized training schools and seminars since the academy. Moilenhauer is 41 years old. married, has two children and four step-children. He and his wife, Sharon, reside at 1805 “L” Street, LaPorte, and is a member of the Salem United Methodist Church. He was a member of the United States Army National Guard for six years, receiving an honorable discharge in 1971. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge 619 in Walkerton; Scotish Rite, South Bend; and the Orak Shrine, Michigan City; the Fraternal Order of Police. Lodge 54, LaPorte; Indiana Sheriff Association; National Sheriff Association; and also the Republican Men's Gub.