The Independent-News, Volume 120, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 March 1995 — Page 4

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- THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS - MARCH 30, 1995

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SOME DO . . . SOME DON’T This Sunday is the first Sunday in April. For most of the nation that means a time change from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time. However, for most of Indiana, it doesn’t mean a thing. Clocks will be set forward one hour this Sunday for most of the country which includes three small sections of Indiana. However, the rest of the state stays on Eastern Standard Time. What this really means, is for the next almost seven months, we will be on the same time as Chicago and not New York. However, Michigan will also be an hour ahead of us as is everyone to the east of Indiana. Five counties in the northwest corner of the state who observe Daylight time will be with the rest of Indiana at this time, including LaPorte, our immediate neighbor. The time issue was a hotly contested topic in the Indiana Legislature this session and did cause some red faces in the House of Representatives as they “passed” a bill calling for Indiana to go on Daylight Savings Time and didn’t know they were passing such legislation. They mistakenly thought they were voting on whether or not to further explore this issue through a referendum. Some quick action after they were aware of what had happened reversed the passage as a lot of Representatives wiped a little egg off their face. This time question might go on forever. The state determines what time we should observe, but the Department of Transportation on a national level decides where the time zone lines are. Add to that the close proximity some of our major cities have to neighboring states, and more problem comes in the time situation. However, we have come to live with this over the years and although slightly inconvenient, it is not as controversial as it was some years back when each county could select their own time . . . and even the state defied the dictates of the federal agencies at one time. It would be nice to have all of Indiana on the same time, but whether you like it or not, at least for the present, Indiana in most part remains on Eastern Standard Time year round, not chaning their clocks at all, while the three portions of the state closely associated with other states, continues to move their clocks forward and back each April and October. We haven’t heard the last of the time problem, but for this year it will remain the same. Whether you would want an additional hour of sunlight in the evening as opposed to the morning, is strictly each one’s own opinion. That is why you will hear pros and cons any time it is mention. After all, that is a what life is all about!

“New Ownen" In a couple of weeks, the Walkerton Livestock Auction will be under new ownership. Mr. Fisher will be the owner and Mr. Glass will still be around for harrassment. At least it won’t be destroyed like other businesses such as the Walkerton Elevator and the Hi De Ho Restaurant, at Grovertown. At times, I feel that we have an over abundance of quick marts. Sometimes progress can be a painful experience. Many times on my travels, I wander through rural areas and it is always a welcome sight to see the tower of an elevator rising above the farmland. I always feel welcome in these bastions of American culture. These agrarian folks are the foundation of our country. Without the raising of crops, there would be no raw products or foods to sustain our other industries. We need to remember the importance of agriculture, when a farmer wanders into a restaurant with manure or other odd smells on his or her boots. Come on out to the Sale Bam on Monday nights and get to know these fine folks. There will be flea market items, foods, hay, large and small animals, produce and a lot of people. Come on out just for the fun. I have my peas and onions planted. lam sure that the chickens and ducks will enjoy them as they pop through the ground. Gobbles and his french harem have been very active lately. We should have quite a turkey brood this year. The new Subway Shop has opened with a nice building and

quick service. Stop in and welcome them to the community, and be sure and buy! Change can have a very unsettling affect on an area, but it is necessary. We endure it so that we may endure. Sincerely, Nedra Williams “Deer Control” The Indiana Deer Hunters Association (IDHA) would like to make conservationists, naturalists and the citizens of our state, aware of House Bill 1097. This bill is a legislative effort to take the management of the state’s deer away from the professionals of the Indiana Department of natural Resources (IDNR) and put it in the hands of every landowner and farmer. House Bill 1097, authored by James Davis of Frankfort, as written, would allow landowners of any size land to kill deer year round with no limitations. Mr. Davis is also the author of House Bill 1096, in which he wants to allow retiring legislators to be able to take home the chairs they sit in at a cost to taxpayers of up to SSOO for each chair. House Bill 1097 is the result of a few farmers and their farm insurance lobby wanting to return to the mentality of the early 1900’s when every deer in the state was eliminated. The IDHA feels this bill is especially uncalled for in the wake of a record deer kill in the 1994 hunting season, and the IDNR’s efforts to reduce our state’s

deer herd. In the last three years, according to the IDNR, the herd has been reduced to over twenty percent. While the IDHA is sympathetic to the farmer who is suffering severe crop loss, we feel this legislation is unwarranted, particularly since the USDA has estimated crop loss in Indiana due to wildlife (all wildlife) at only one percent. The USDA has further told the IDHA that they feel, of that one percent loss, deer may contribute to only one third of this loss. The further irony of the argument of crop loss due to deer is the Indiana farmers experienced a record harvest in 1994. So much so that there is not enough space to store grain, and a lot of it is going to waste! There are currently several options open to farmers suffering crop loss. Besides normal hunting pressure, there are bonus county tags, depredation permits, and out of season control permits. If this bill were to pass, it would ruin our deer herd and still leave Indiana with too many deer in some areas and no deer in others. We think the public will find it extremely distasteful when landowners will be allowed to shoot does when they have fawns and the young fawns will starve to death without their mothers. We are urging the people of this state to call their state ligislators and urge them to defeat this bill or let the IDNR manage our state’s resource — not farmers and the farm insurance lobby. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me: Doug Allman, 16124 E. 126th Street, Noblesville, IN 46060, phone (317) 485-7103. Thank you, Doug Allman Indiana Deer Hunters Public Relations

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1985 RECREATIONAL FACILITIES OPEN AT POTATO CREEK — As the landscape around Potato Creek State Park comes alive with the arrivial of warmer weather, so too do many of the park recreational opportunities. APPLICATIONS BEING TAKEN FOR SUMMER JOBS — The St. Joseph County Job Training Program announces that applications are now being taken for summer jobs and educational opportunities for youth. This year the Summer Youth Employment Program will provide young people between ages of 14 through 21 with parttime work and school opportunities. In order to qualify, a young person must be economically disadvantages, and a resident of St. Joseph County. TO FORM T-BALL LEAGUE IN WALKERTON — Due to a lack of Little League baseball opportunity for the five to seven year old children in Walkerton, the Walkerton Jaycees are forming a T-ball bracket. All children ages five to seven (and eight after May 31, 1985) and their parents should attend one of two half-day Saturday sign-ups. We will also be looking for coaches and umpires for the bracket. All interested parties should attend one of the sign-ups. Entry fee will be $15.00 per child which covers uniform and equipment. 1970 TWO BREAKINS IN AREA RESULT IN LARGE LOSSES — Two area breakins the same night in Walkerton and North Liberty resulted in considerable loss to Hiler’s Foundry in Walkerton and the North Liberty schools in North Liberty. Both occured during the night Friday. At the foundry, a calculating machine valued at S6OO was taken. Very little damage was done other than breaking of glass necessary to enter different areas. The entrance and theft was discovered at 3:00 a.m. by an employee. The North Liberty School suffered vandalism along with loss. Entry was made in the elementary school through a classroom window. From a closet off the principal’s office, audio visual equipment valued at $650 was taken along with a radio belonging to a student and a movie camera belonging to a teacher. In addition, glass in a trophy case was broken to secure a shovel used in ground breaking ceremonies which in turn was used to prey on a vending machine. Furniture in the teachers lounge was also damaged, a cabinet tipped over and two doors had broken glass and another a wooden panel broken out to gain admittance to the various rooms. Damage estimates totaled at least S2OO. This was discovered Saturday morning. Both cases are still under investigation. 1945 SHOWING AT THE RIALTO THEATRE — Friday and Saturday, “Gildersleeve’s Ghost” staring Harold Peary; and “40 Thieves” starring William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy with Andy Clyde and Jimmy Rogers. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, “30 Seconds Over Tokyo.” The thrilling true story of the men who died and the heartbeats of the wives and sweethearts they left behind, with Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Murdock, Scott McKay, Gordon McDonald, Don DeFore, Robert Mitchem, John R. Riley, Horace McNally and Spencer Tracy. Wednesday and Thursday - From Burlesque to Big Time!, a calvacade of shows and show folks: “Show Business,” starring Eddie Canter, George Murphy, Joan

Davis, Nancy Kelly and Constan Moore. More big hits are coming - B< Hope in “The Princess and tl Pirate”; Dorothy Lamour and E die Bracken in “Rainbow Island Judy Garland in “Meet Me In J Louie”; Bing Crosby and Bel Hutton in “Here Comes T Waves”; and “National Velve with Mickey Rooney. FROM THOMAS E. GORDON GAMBLES STORE — Palmoli 1 soap, bar 3c (limit 4 bars with 5 purchase); rubbing alcohol, bot I 9c (with 25c purchase); pock combs, 2 for 5c (with 25c pi chase); men’s work socks, pair (limit 3 pair with SI.OO purchas* 3-piece bowl set, shatterproof gls 17c; earthenware casserole, 1 quart 23c; coffee maker, drip, 8 c size $1.49; glass washboard, hea plate, 79c; Rinso, large size 1 (limit 2 with SI.OO purchase); h forks, 4 feet, 3 tines, steel, ea. $1.35; milk cans, 8 gallon $4.89] gallon $3.98.

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DEAR DOCTOR DONOHUI Can you give me some informatio on pseudogout? Why do they ca it that? What triggers an attack Is there any cure or drug to ea? the pain? It is very painful. DEAR READER: The term “psei dogout" distinguishes the illne: from classic gout, the kind th results from piling up of uric-aci crystals in joints. In pseudogout, tl same kind of joint pain occurs, b the villain is calcium-pyropho phate-dihydrate crystals. . ;I < * Wi In regular gout, the crystals - urates — results from a high cot centration of uric acid in the bloo< The excess acid eventually crysta lizes into needlelike joint deposit the immediate cause of pain. In psei dogout, it’s excess calcium that se ties out into painful joint-cloggin deposits. Urates reflect an inability to handl the uric acid debris from norm: death and renewal of body cell Pseudogout might reflect an overac live parathyroid gland, whose hot mones are supposed to keep bloo calcium in check. Any gout can take some time t develop to the point of pain. In cal cium gout, the most frequent site i the knee. Regular gout might signa its presence with a sharp attack o pain in the great toe, although pail from standard gout can arise in anj joint. An acute attack of either kind o gout can be triggered by trauma such as an injury or joint stress fron a long walk. Anti-inflammatory drugs such as indomethacin usually bring pseudogout inflammation and pain undei control. With regular gout, special drugs are used either to modify the uric acid buildup problem or to prevent pain from acute attacks. For more details, see my gout report. You can order by writing: Dr. Donohue — No. 13-WS, Box 5539, Riverton, N.J. 08077-5539. Enclose $3 and a self-addressed, stamped (52 cents) No. 10 envelope. ©1995 by King Features Synd It takes three years of time an effort, science and nature, plus lot of luck, to produce a perfet cultgured pearl. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. —Ralph Waldo Emerson