Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 45, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 May 1950 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MAY 2S, 1950

EDITORIAL TRYING TO ABOLISH TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES We think there is a definite campaign on among some state officials to discredit the office of township trustee, throughout Indiana, with a view towards giving the duties of the local government to a centralized officer at the county seat or to Indianapolis boards, ruled by state officers. We have seen evidence of this move from the state superintendent of schools. More recently a De Pauw University political scient-

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Ist stated before a league of woman’s voters convention that the office of Indiana’s trustees “was complex, confused and antiquated.” He suggested that townships be disbanded and their functions absorbed by counties. . In our opinion, the township trustee is giving more service, for less money than any other public official in Indiana. In our own township, the trustee receives a net salary of $>5.00 per day, for five days per week. This salary of SI2OO per year should be doubled by the legisla- ! ture to attract more men and wo- | men to run for this office.

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there will be in the future. Friends of local government must be prepared to fight for its existence in the next legislature. We seriously suggest that salaries of township trustees should be doubled, so that the office will attract better qualified men, and enable them to give it more time. These salaries were set up 40 years ago, and unless raised, may be the means of doing away with the office. Today, a man must be almost financially independent to take on the duties of a trustee. We have been very fortunate locally in the type of men elected for trustee, but this has not been so all over the state. The duties of a trustee are many — schools, assessing, and welfare mainly — and good men should be paid a fair salary. SYRACUSE LAKE The Ed Kleinknlght family has purchased the Clarence Snyder property on Front stret, and has started extensive preparations in modernizing. The street porch is being enclosed, making half of it into a bedroom, leaving the other half for a porch. The house will have a foundation, and refinishing will be done to the whole inside, mostly in knotty pine. There will be a furnace and a bathroom, and although the whole project will take some time, the Kleinknights hope to be established in their year round home, long before fall. Mrs. Edna Geyer is progressing nicely; from her recent illness, and is now visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Truman Ball, in Elkhart. When Mrs. Geyer returns to Syracuse, she will probably take up where she left off, in her own home, on Front street. Mrs. C. K. Kinder has her mother, Mrs. Dema Alfrey, Newtown, visiting in her home, for a few days. Everett Miner’s father. Mr. R. I. Miner, of Bear Lake, is a visitor in the Miner home, for a few days. Mrs. Guy Rarick, was a last Sunday afternoon caller, in the Miner home. GIRL SCOUTS ON HIKE Eighteen Girl Scouts met a t the Methodist Church last Saturday, before noon, equipped for a hike, including food. The hike was taken around Syracuse take, starting at the North Shore, stopping frequently to notice different birds, flowers, bushes, and trees. Mrs. Betty Kline, Girl Scout Leader, and Mrs. Hubert Anglemeyer, Co-Leader, were armed with books showing all these things, so as to be sure of naming each one, correctly. Mrs. Robert Brewster, Camping chairman, and Mrs. Sam Larson, Public Relations chairman also accompanied the :Girl Scouts. We may as well face it — Mrs. Larson got lost before the start, and saved a little shoe leather, by “hitching” a ride, to catch up. It was an enjoyable, and educational hike, rules were maintained, of keeping together, and watching traffic, and a long stop was made at the woods near the B. & 0., R. R-, for lunch. A fire was built, properly, and without the aid of paper, and wieners, and marshmallows were roasted. A rest period followed after lunch, and enjoyed, by some, searching the nearby woods, taking sunbaths, so if some Girl Scout shows up with an extra pink “midriff,” that’s the reason. At the R. R. bridge, a rest period was called, and some of the girls went wading. The adults enjoyed the hike, and it is believed that the girls did, also. Those on the hike were, Jane Kroh, Sandra Dietribk. Janet Kitson, Gleneen Peters, Phyllis George, Linda Fisher, Bea Bachman, Janet Weaver, Carol Weaver, Kay Adams, Shirley Knisley, Diana Place, Verla Carol Clayton, Janet Riley, Marlene O’Haver, Shirley Coy, Carol Hudson, and Sharon Miner. New nylon cord suits, just right for summer. Now in. Also red shorties at La Petite Shoppe.

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