Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 101, Number 31, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 5 January 1978 — Page 3

Business ,

Gessinger honored by General Telephone Company

Robert E. Gessinger, a Service Supervisor-Facilities General Telephone, Elkhart, was recently recognized by the company for helping make this community a better place in which to live. Gessinger will receive special recognition and will be presented with an award from Albert E. Beckwith, president of the company, at the General Telephone North Central Division Awards Banquet. According to Gessinger, he probably would not have become so involved in doing things for others if it had not been for his son’s handicap. His 13-year-old was born deaf. It was approximately seven years ago that Gessinger became actively involved with a group of parents whose children attended the Indiana School for the Deaf at Indianapolis. He was selected to chair a committee to study ways and means of securing transportation for the children attending the school. Through Gessinger’s efforts the South Bend bus service for the Indiana School for the Deaf was established, the bus was chartered, and pickup points were established in South Bend and Rochester, Indiana, covering a seven-county area. Forty-four students rode the bus that first year with two chaperones accompanying them on every trip. Gessinger is presently maintaining close contact with legislators to try to get a 1978 House bill passed that will pay for transportation for the deaf children to the special school. Working closely with the South Bend

Miller attends sales convention

Wes Miller of Wes Miller Associates in Warsaw, recently attended the ITT Life Insurance Corporation national sales convention at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki in Honolulu, Hawaii. The convention was attended by 675 people to honor top sales achievers and to review new products and marketing techniques for the upcoming year. The ITT Life sales organization, which includes more than 5000 agents and general agents in 45 states, offers a broad line of life, accident, health insurance, and retirement plans to

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Speech and Hearing Center, Gessinger also helps solicit, pickup, deliver, install and maintain teletypewriters for the deaf. With the aid of General Telephone, he was able to obtain 28 model teletype systems for the students at the Indianapolis school to use in communicating with each other on campus. The Gessingers reside at 602 E. Marion St., Nappanee.

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assist individuals and businesses in financial planning. The company’s home office is located in Thorp, Wisconsin, and its executive and marketing offices are in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ITT Life is a financial services affiliate of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. It began operations in 1965, ana today has over, $2.4 billion of life insurance in force. The Wes Miller Associates agency serves 800 customers in five counties of Northern Indiana.

Free blood pressure screening at Thornburgs

Because almost one person in five suffers- from hypertension, an important risk factor in strokes, and heart disease, Thornburgs Walgreen Agency Drug Stores will begin administering blood pressure screenings to North Central Indiana residents beginning January 10th and continuing on a regular basis. The screenings are part of Thornburgs A.I.D.E. (Awareness in Detection and Education), a series of planned community activities to increase health awareness and detect unknown medical problems. The regular screenings will be administered by qualified personnel from Home Health Care Services of Kosciusko County, Inc. \ Uncontrolled hypertension is a killer and high blood pressure contributes to the deaths of an estimated 250,000 Americans annually, with many

Ganshorn receives award At the recent Kosciusko County Life Underwriters Ladies Night and Awards Banquet, held at the Warsaw Holiday Inn, Bert Ganshorn, area Life and Health Insurance agent, received The National Quality Award for 10 years. The honor is awarded by the National Association of Life Underwriters for quality business and outstanding service in Life Insurance sales. He also received the National Quality Health Insurance Award for eight years. Mr. Ganshorn is affiliated with Wes Miller Associates, Route 7 Warsaw.

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millions more suffering serious illness and disability. Hypertension can be treated and controlled, yet more than SO percent of the estimated 24 million people afflicted with the condition don't realize they have it. Left untreated, hypertension can lead to heart failure, stroke or kidney disease. Screening takes only a few minutes and results are obtained immediately. The screenee is informed whether his blood pressure is at an acceptable level or elevated enough to require consulting his personal physician. During the coming year Thornburgs will offer other in-store screenings, free health literature, active education programs and a speaker’s bureau as part of its A.I.D.E. program.

Employment hews

Last month Indiana State Employment Service offices made 10,231 job placements, some 3,279 more than were made during November 1976. Job placements the first eleven months of this year numbered 130,648, about 33,000 more than duria® the corresponding period in 1976. John F. Coppes of the Indiana Employment Security Division said employers listed 13,458 job openings with State Employment Service offices last month, 3,880 more than were listed in November last year. The average pay rate for openings filled by the agency during November 1977 was $3.24 an hour, an increase of .24 cents an hour over jobs filled in November 1976. Coppes said that last month’s placements followed the normal

Nappanee Advance-News Thursday, January I, 1978

Excise tax on phone bills is down

Inflation-battered consumers will receive some relief in 1978—8360 million in savings, thanks to the steady decline of the federal excise tax on telephone bills, United Telephone announced today. Beginning January 1, this tax drops from five per cent of the bill to four per cent. The decrease started several years ago at the urging of the telephone industry for Congressional action, and will continue declining one per cent annually until January 1, 1982, when the levy is eliminated. The tax savings represents the estimated difference between what customers would have paid in 1978 at the five per cent rate, and what they will pay at the new four per cent rate. About S6O million of the total will be

business cycle when some construction and outdoor jobs are curtailed by colder weather. Female job seekers accounted for 20 per cent and minorities 19 per cent. Unemployment insurance claims filed last week totaled 62,734, some 1,719 more than during the week before. John F. Coppes of the Indiana Employment Security Division said Christmas vacations in various industries and schools (affecting cafeteria workers) caused regular and special unemployment assistance initial claims to layoffs contributed to a/rise in continued claims. ' Coppes said all regular claims were 1,324 more at 52,221. The extended benefit claims total remained at 6,835

saved by customers of Independent telephone companies, according to estimates by the U.S. Independent Telephone Association. The remainder of the savings will apply to Bell System customers. The association represents the country’s 1,600 non-Bell System telephone companies serving more than 29 million telephones—one out of every five in the nation. The excise tax was first imposed by Congress during World War I as a “temporary” measure. Although repealed briefly after the war, it was reinstituted during the Depression and has continued ever since at rates as high as 15 per cent on local service and 25 per cent on long distance calls. From 1954 to 1971 it stood at 10 per cent.

Fitness for the office worker The Elkhart County Cooperative Extension Service will be offering the Lunch and Learn topic entitled “Fitness For the Office Worker”, Wednesday, January 11, in Room 204, County Courts Building, Elkhart, from noon to 1 p.m. Chuck Best of the YMCA will be the featured speaker. “If you have eaten a little too much over the holidays, and find yourself sitting a little too much now, you’ll be interested in learning some exercises that you can do right in the office, sitting”, explained Anita Angermeier, Coordinator of the Lunch and Learn program. The busy homemaker will also find these exercises helpful.

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