The Independent-News, Volume 120, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 January 1995 — Page 4
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- THE INDEPENDENT NEWS - JANUARY 5. 1995
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YOUR NEW YEAR’S REMINDER With the start of a new vear and what sou could call a new era tor "The Independent News", we would like to take this opportunits to familiarize sou with our goals, our policies and new this seat, our rates and charges With both postal rates and production costs increasing, we hasc had to implement a rate increase, the first in several sears Irving to touch all the bases quick Is. first of all. "The Independent News" now carries an indisidual cops price of 35 cents at the mans vendor locations that sell our newspaper. Ihe vendors share equally in this increase, as thes also have gone some time without an increase The searls subscription rate for in state subscribers has jumped to $ll.OO with an additional $2.00 charge for mailing the paper out of the state part or all of the sear. However. “The Independent” will gladis follow sou if sou go to the warmer climes during winter months or of course is sent to mans former residents now residing in other areas Advertising rates hase gone up. not quite 10®». The basic local rate is now sl's per column inch, with a sliding scale for larger size advertisements. Classified rates have increased to $2.50 minimum. This still covers up to 25 words, with a 10 cent a word charge for more than 25 words Display classified advertising remained the same as before. $3.00 per inch for one insertion. Happy ads. one of our most popular items, hase increased to $2.50 basic price with adjusted prices for larger ads, those with multiple names, team members, etc., add $5.00 for a picture and any happs ad that adsertises anything, double price Happs ads are intended to be just that . . . messages of happiness. thanks, or whatever. We do hase to be aware of other intentions from time to time and hase had to withhold messages that do not meet these intentions. Several other miscellaneous charges remain the same. A card of thanks is $2.00 (unless very lengthy), memorials are $2.00 and paid notices of events whre admission is charged is $2.00. The goal of "The Independent-News” is to give you the news you and your neighbors and friends make. We are basically interested in news from the local angle, covering our Walkerton-Koontz lake-North Liberty-John Glenn School Corp. area. We are interested in the schools, the clubs and organizations, the individual’s news items, the churches, etc.. aps^33JZka!. We ate nut connected with any wire services or anyihing of that nature. We leave that to the daily papers. We strongly encourage your comments ... the “Voice of the People” articles, your viewpoint on timely matters. anyihing you feel you would like to share with the public. We do insist on signatures and away of contacting the person submitting such, even though under certain circumstances we will withhold a name on such an article. We strongly encourage your identification, however A story with a known source means a lot more (han an annonymous one. A major point we need to bring out and expand on is twofold: first, our deadline. Tuesday at 1:00 p m is our deadline for that week's news. Too many people are waiting until the lasi minute and once in a while this presents a problem We do make a final round of the schools and North Liberty early I uesdav afternoon, and there is a limit to just how much can ben taken at one lime and still meet our press lime Wednesday morning. Second: We do ask that classified advertising and happy .ids, along with other miscellaneous charges be paid tn advance. We do no accept these over the telephone and cannot a! ford to do book keeping and billing on such small amounts. Please do not expect us to accept such requests. It takes very little time and effort to help us in this matter and this is the main reason we can keep our rates so reasonable. We hope you will look at “The Independent-News" as \<)l R newspaper It is here for you to use one way or another We want you to use and enjoy it and we hope the advertisers will also, as they <an continue to use this, the only hvai hometown newspaper, to spread their message here at home .
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“LaJted State* LSI Aaaociatfam" We’re looking for over 200,000 men Maybe many more. And they are already qualified by having verged in the U S Navy or Coast Guard in World War 11 But besides that they served in the Navy Amphibious forces On landing ships, from the largest LSI to the smallest LCM — or on the many support ships lake the largest landing craft, the LSI — which stands for Landing Ship. Tank It was about 327 feet long and fifty feet wide That’s longer than a football field, goal posts and all. The crews
quickly named them Large. Slow Targets They were not fast, but they were without equal on invasions imagine a ship that size nding up on the beach, opening it's bow doors, lowering a ramp and men and machinery pouring out m a tidal wave of fire power. An LST rode high in the water, had a fiat bottom, earned a crew of about 110 men and a cargo of some 300 fighting men and equipment. And when that was done, they would spend weeks ferrying supplies to the troops — until the next invasion They have been compared often to huge floating bath
tubs with decks They were not graceful and they could make some people long for land in a heavy sea — but they were beautiful. And they were home to more than 200,000 sailors during WW 11. The Navy built more than 1.000 and it is estimated that an average of 200 men spent part of their Navy time on each LST. When you add that to the host of other Amphib ships and their support fleet, there is probably far more than a quarter of a million men involved. Looking for all LST shipmates. World War II to present date for reunions with your shipmates. The next reunion will be in Cincinnati. Ohio. August 29 - September 4. 1995. Contact L’SS LST Association. P.O. Box 16'438. Oregon. Ohio 43616-'438; Phone 1-800-228-58'0 Or Bob Garner LST46I HC 52 Box 362 Hemphill. TX '5948 Phone 409-5'9-3'32. NAMED TO DEAN’S LIST AT ROSE-HITMAN Timothy D. Pletcher. 505 Indiana Street. Walkerton, son of Dirk and Kay Pletcher, has been named to the dean's list for the fall quarter of the academic year at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology . Pletcher was among 436 under graduate students who earned at least a 3.3 grade point average (on a 4 0 scale), according to Jess R. Lucas, vice president for student affairs Rose Hulman is a private engineering and science college that has been cited by U.S. News & World Report and Money Magazine as one of America's best colleges Rose-Hulman. which has an enrollment of 1,300 students, will enroll women m its undergraduate programs for the first time next fall. The college offers degrees in chemical, civil, compete?, electrical and mechanical engineering; applied optics; chemistry; computer science; economics; mathematics; and physics. Pletcher is a junior seeking his degree in chemical engineering. It makes all the difference whether you hear an insect in the bedroom or in the garden.
Hollywood — HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'll be coming to you each week from this city of shakes and quakes, fires, floods and nots. but still the most glamorous place in the world And so The holidays are over, the decora lions are down, and talk now is all OSCAR The push is on for that little gold, baldheaded statue who wears a reel of film in lieu of a fig leaf Ads tn the trade papers, hand shaking, word-of-mouth campaign ing. screenings The big night is Monday, March 27th. and we'll be talking a lot about what's happening before then Meanwhile. Faye Dunaway brought down the house at the Divine Designs Gala to raise funds for AIDS Project Los Angeles when she said “I had a hard time getting here through all that traffic I should have known to avoid Sunset Boulevard" (Os course you're al! aware of her being dismissed from the cast of Lloyd-Webber’s Sunset Boulevard musical ) Finally got around to seeing “Interview With A Vampire" and I cannot understand ail the fainting and screaming m audiences For me, it was a hooty camp Everyone could tell those rats and animals the boys so juicily bit into were fake, and the blood that “runneth from the bites" into the necks of maidens and etc was probably a good hearty burgundy This could account for the glazed look in the vampire's eves Word is Della Burke has lost all that blubber and has made a pilot for a new senes Husband Gerald Mc-
| This Week In History
On January 3. 1777. George Washington defeated Lord Cornu al lis at Princeton January 3. 1777. Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes January 8. 1815. unaware of the peace treaty signed in Ghent on December 24. some 5.300 British attacked L S entrenchments near New Orleans, resulting in over 2,000 casualties for them and 71 for the Americans January 5,1914, Ford Motor Co raised its basic wage rates from $2 40 for a nine hour day to $5 for an eight hour day January 8. 1918, President Woodrow Wilson set out his 14 Points for peace January 1, 1931. the London Naval Reduction Treaty took effect January 5,1939. President Franklin D Roosevelt asked for a hike in the defense budget January 6, 1941, President Roosevelt outlined the Four Freedoms essential for all American in a speech to Congress freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and fear January 3, 1959. Alaska was ad mitted into the Union as the 49th state January 3, 1961. the US severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba after disputes over nationalizations of U S Firms, the U S military presence at Guan tanamo base, etc January 5, 1970. L nited Mine Workers official Joseph A Yablonski, his wife and daughter were found shot in their Clarksville, Pa . home. UMW chief W A (Tony) Boyle was eventually convicted of the murders January I, 1975. former Attorney General John Mitchell and ex presidential adv isers H R Haldeman and John D Ehrlichman were found guilty of cover-up charges in the Watergate affair January 4, 1980. President Carter announced punitive measures against the USSR, including an embargoon the sale of grain and high technology, in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan January 8, 1982, the 13 year-old lawsuit against ATAT by the Justice Department was settled. ATAT agreed to give up the 22 Bell System companies but in return was allowed to expand into previously prohibited areas including data processing, telephone and computer equipment sales, and computer communication devices January 5, 1987. Presi dent Ronald Reagan produced the first trillion-dollar budget January 8, 1987, Dow Jones closed at 2002 25. it’s first finish above 2000 January 6, 1989. the Labor
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Raney also has a pilot airing as “Jake Lassiter ” It w as shot in New Orleans where the Mcßaneys have a home in the Vieux Carre I can'l quite figure how a film with Paul Newman. Jessica Tandy her last). Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis misses all along the way "Nobody's Fool" seemed to me to be more a scries of vignettes, all well acted, but not grabbing However, several people 1 talked to at ihe press screening said they “didn't want it to end ” So I guess “chacun a son gout" could apply here Bob Hope, Ann Jillian, Virginia Mayo. Phyllis Diller plus a pack of family and friends helped Dottie Lamour celebrate her 80th birthday at the dedication of Rue de Lamour, a street named after her at L'niversal Studios Interesting in that Dotti made most of her movies (including ail those “Road" pictures with Bing and Bob) at Paramount Didya know there are THREE “Miracles on 34th St There's the original feature with Edmund Gwenn as Santa, then I had forgotten the TVcrsion starring Sebastian Cabot as the jolly old fellow, and now the latest version with Sir Richard Attenborough making wuh the ho hos Those ho-hos could very well land him an Academy nomination nod He is that good BITS N’ PIECES: Mickey Rooney has a new mystery novel out titled “The Search For Sonny Skies" about a child actor who disappears and surfaces 40 years later Ever notice ’he resemblance between Brad Pitt and Rob Lowe 1 Same
Department reported that unemployment was 5 3 percent, a 14 year low. at the end of 1988, for the whole year, the economy grew 3 8 percent, the most in four years
To Your Good Health by Pau! G. Donohue, M.D.
DEAR DOCTOR DONOHUE. Any thing you w rite about PMS interests me. I just turned 43. Up until six months ago, I suffered with severe PMS for 10 years. It started after the birth of my third child at age 32. So I can relate to the man who wrote you about his wife, 42, who is unbearable two weeks of the month because of her PMS. It sounded exactly like my story. Thanks to a wonderful doctor, 1 no longer suffer with it. He put me on Paxil. Your advice about exercise and diet modification was good, but it did not do the trick for me. ith the drug, I may have a day or two of mild irritability, but that’s all. I would love to think my letter might help someone else enjoy their lives a little more. JI Ik t Hr 1 /JK rY* RM DEAR READER Thanks for your thoughtfulness It's characteristic of many readers to want to tell others of their good fortune in v anous matters I'm pleased to leam of the great help Paxil — paroxetine — has been for you But I don't want my readers w uh premenstrual syndrome to think the drug is a universal antidote to the problem It is far from that Paxil is a well-known anti-depres-sant — an instance where a drug designed for one purpose apparently helps in treatment of another one. For a discussion of PMS symptoms and treatments, see my report on the subject Others who wiul a copy can write: Dr. Donohue — No. 36-WS, Box 5539, Riverton. NJ 08077-5539. Enclose S 3 and a self-addressed, stamped (52 cents) No. 10 envelope. C 1995 bs K.n< FcaturM Synd
Hui V\ J| - * s' t V• < V I • Phy Uis Diller mouth, same jaw line My final comment on Burt and Loni $15,000 A MONTH FOR CHILD SLP PORT' I know whole families who go longer on less How much dors one small boy need’’ And who's the producer who thinks nobody knows about his nice nice sessions with ladies who aren't his wife 1 I’m told there wasn't a dry eve among cast OR crew when Kate Hepburn played some of her scenes in Truman Capote’s “One Christmas" Charlie Sheen pulls down $4 million for his role in the upcoming film. “The Shadow Pro gram " C I hy k ijsf I SywJ