Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 46, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 February 1952 — Page 6

Your Home-Town Newspaper By R. Elizabeth Reynolds. (From The Christian Science Monitor, Jan' ’2B, 1952). “There isn’t a thing in the paper today,” you say as you lay your home-town newspaper on the floor. You wonder why there is nothing in it about your freind’s son, who day before yesterday., was made vice-president of a bank in a metropolis miles away, or about the party the people up the street gave last night. In fact you tell yourself that you can think of a half-dozen local stories the people down at the newspaper office passed up. How right They surely passed up a of good stories. But fault was not altogether theirs. You, as a member of the community, have a responsibility to your newspaper. It can serve local needs only in proportion to the cooperation it gets from the members of the community. National, interna-tio-nal- and most of the state news comes in over leased wires. Local news is a different matter. Part of the responsibility for it is yours. Never get the idea that the editor of your newspaper is interested only in certain people in your "town. On the contrary, he is interested in everyone who subscribes to his paper. Both the wealthiest woman in town, who lives in the largest house in the swank residentail district, and the poorest man, who lives in the smallest house on a side street, subscribe for the paper and pay the same price for it. In the eyes of the editor both subscribers are important. Getting back to those stories the newspaper passed up — just how did you expect the folks at the office to know about your friend’s son? The father was justifiably proud of his son, but did he or any of his friends think to tell a reporter so that even acquaintances could share the new vice-president’s pleasure in his good fortune? No, they fed the grapevine and probably criticized the newspaper, too. How about that party of your neighbor’s. How do you know that the society editor didn’t call the lady? “Please don’t put our party in the paper,” perhaps she begged when she was asked about it. “We didn’t ask three couples we’re indebted to, and—well, you understand.” You, too, realize the importance of selfpreservation socially speaking as well as otherwise. Maybe you think to yourself. “I don’t like the editor and his policies.” What if you don’t always agree with him? Have you ever thought how little you really agree*with your best friends? Yet you don’t ignore or criticize them constantly just because you fail to see eye to eye with them, do you? Give the editor a break. In many easels the newspaper editor is far more conscientious in promotnig tjie interests of his home town than he is given credit for being. If he weren’t public spirited he -wouldn’t be in the newspaper business. “He’s running the paper for the money he can make,” you say. Os course he wants to make money. Who doesn’t? But he chose the newspaper business because he likes it. And any man or woman who can make money in the newspaper business can make money in some other line of work in which he would pot have to deal with so many different personalities, many of them sensitive folks. Yet the edtior of a newspaper chose this particular means of making a living, for in his way , he wants to help the town in which he lives. “I don’t like the way he goes about helping the town,” you continue. Maybe his way may be nearer right than you think. He knows a great dehl about your town. He knows much of the inside workings of its big and little businesses, of its clubs and. lodges, of its churches and amusement places and of its people. Have you ever considered the services the newspaper renders you, the reader? For one thing, it helps you save money. When

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you read the ads, you learn where you can find bargains without wearing out the leather or using up tires and gasoline. Then in the classified ads you find an abundance of help and sometimes even a laugh. Remember the times you needed someone to do chores around the house and found just the right man through the classified ads? Have you forgotten the time someone advertised a room for rent to a business girl with kitchen privileges? Your newspaper also keeps you . informed concerning happenings in your town, even if the news is not so complete as you would like it. You learn about projects of civic clubs. You find out how the schools are progressing. You read news of the courthouse. In fact, you know many things because of your local newspaper. In the society section you are told something of what goes on among the people who entertain in your town. Remember how you had a pleasant chat with friends from out of town because of a little item which stated they were the guests of some people you know? The hosts couldn’t call every one of the visitors’ friends, but the newspaper cheerfully spread the word around for them. The newspaper gives much free publicity to worthy organizations. Some coat hangers are needed by a veterans’ hospital near by. The local committee has a quota to fill. What does the chairman do? She just calls the newspaper office and explains, “Our society needs hundreds of coat hangers by a week from today. You’ll give us a couple of good stories requesting people to bring coat hangers to headquarters before then, won’t you?” “Where’s yesterdays’ paper?” you ask. “I want to find out what time my lodge meetings is.” You wonder about church services on Sunday morning. From your newspaper you learn not only about Sunday services, but also about church meetings during the week. “The junior class is presenting its annual play at the high school auditorium Friday evening,” the play director explains to the reporter. And another front page story is born. Does the newspaper charge for this publicity. Os course not. When you give a story to the paper, don’t forget that there are four things a reporter must know — who, what, when and where. Check the material you prepare to be sure that you have answered all four questions. A newspaperman works eternally against time. He can’t tell other persons to get information you have forgotten to include. Always before him is the old deadline that changes not. And time si always a-wasting. Keep in mind also that the newspaper is in reality a public utility and must be treated as such. Gas has to be lighted before it furnishes heat. Electricity must be switched on before it gives light. Water has to. be turned on before it flows from pipes. News has to be given to the newspaper before it can be put into print. And therein lies your responsibility, as has been mentioned before. S. S. CLASS MEETS The Golden Rule Class of the E. U. B. Church met in the Lakeside Church basement for their monthly party Monday nite. This was a Valentine party with the class members plannnig refreshments and entertainment. 18 were present, thirteen of the 14 class members, and five guests. A card from Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Gray who have been in Titusville, Fla., states they are going now to Miami, Fla. The largest trout Mr. Gray has caught this year is 4 pounds and six ounces but he keeps hoping for a really big one.

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COUNTY SHARES OF PROPOSED 1952-1953 FEDERAL BUDGET GOST COMPARED TO ASSESSISD VALUE OF PROPERTY PORTION /29 ? 4% AND PER- ,27.49 50.1%, EACH SSS-T*"” J J COUNTY 5S *“ "***" p*** REPRESENT ' 208 - 1(23.5% RATIO OF COUNTY SHARE OF Zg?? ,28.2% PROPOSED , L, 31.6%, 293, 1952-53 ■ FEDERAL COSTS Ta f4%3~-'WW* ASSESSED VMli .293% VALUE OF . WfOTM'* ALL PROPSTATEWIDE sets 442%. ,2194 AVERAGE KO 283%, RBR IJtWKSfir , 41 - 6 * I 293%, 30.3%, C \,344% ,444% L fe-zzzzxT lig jogo J Manati ft 0.19 1 ■■' 7 -t 38 ' 3% L-.38. 1 >%] 42.5%y 32.2%, VteAV p3LS%L‘ 6 Compiled by 4 Rejearch Department I r WDUiUK STATE L* CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Kosciusko county ci t iz e n s’ share of the cost of proposed spending by the Federal government for the single fiscal year beginning July 1 is eqiiivale’t to approximately 23.2 per cent of the total assessed value of all real estate and personal property in the county, accordirg to an estimate of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce reflected in the above chart. The State Chamber calculates that: (a) Os the total of .'>85,444,000 spending proposed lecently to Congress by the President, the share of the cost to I e borne by Indiana people as a vhole would be $1,982,300,000; (b) The share to be borne by this county would be $15,164, 595; (c) At the proposed rate of spending, Federal government costs to the county’s citizens over a period of only abor t 4% years would approximately equal the assessed value of s.ll their prop-

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erty — $6(5,256,3'82 (valuation on which property taxes paid in 1951 were based). “The ratio of proposed Federal spending to property valuation varies in the different counties because of a number of factors,” the State Chamber explained. Among these are variations in property wealth as compared to population, in average levels of income, and in percentage of cash value at which property is assessed (the statewide average for real estate is 30.3 per cent).” R. H. McMurtrie of Huntingburg, State Chamber president, commented: “These multi-billion dollar Federal spending figures reduced to an understandable local basis illustrate the seriousness of the budget-reducing job faced by Congress and the administration. This country cannot continue with higher and higher public debt piled on top’ of ever-in-creasing Federal taxes without leading us to economic disaster and perhaps loss of our freedom itself.”

mani scaffold branches of the young tree. The young tree will eventually have early, summer, fall and winter varieties of yellow, green or red colored fruits. As the tree develops more mam branches, other varieties may be budded or grafted into the new growth and the number of varieties possible is unlimited. Some gardeners have 28 to 30 different sorts on the same tree.

WAWASEE LAKE Kale Island. — Mr. and Mrs. Jap Jones brought Indianapolis guests to‘their place for the week end. They were the Jones’ son, Marvin and Mrs. Jones, and Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Carr and daughter, Miss Pauline. The Carr’s operate the Claypool Hotel and Pauline is a radio broadcaster. One of her interesting jobs is interviewing guests in the Claypool dining room, currently at 8:45 in the morning. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are evidently chefs, according to Jap Jones, for when they come to Wawasee, one or the other does a specialty, this time it was pheasant. Mr. Jones says he is getting to the place where his son Marvin, suggests his dad had better be careful in claiming his age the same as has been for several years, for Marvin himself is somewhere near that age, now. Ogden Island. — The John Stockberger s were at their lake home Sunday, to check on conditions. Buttermilk Point. -— Mrs. Ike Klingaman* has been removed from the Goshen hospital to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Caddie Knapp, at Gas City, Ind. Mrs. Klingaman’s injury was first thought to be a broken hip (from a fall), but the break is below the hip, a leg injury and she was doing well enough to be able to make the trip. Bill Li, of the Mandarin Inn, expects the new venture (of the Mandarin Inn’s management), the purchase of the Marine Club near the South Shore, to be ready for business in May or the first of June. The Pagoda Inn, (its new name), has an entire new kitchen and some remodeling done of the other part, to be followed by more extensive remodeling possibly next winter. The parking lot will be leveled off, and covered with crushed stone. Both Mandarin and Pagoda Inn’s will operate under the same management. Ogden Island. — Little Gregory Smith, son of the Orrin Smith’s, is doing very well from his recent stay in the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, from a virus infection. Mrs. Smith remained with him most of the time. Robbie was cared for in the Charles Hensler home in Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Hensler is a sister of Mrs. Smith. Mr. and Mrs, Owen Rupert, Orrin’s parents, of Fort Wayne, were week end guests, on their way to Florida. The Rupert’s will stop in Alabama for a visit with Mr. Rupert’s brother, A. Rupert, and family, and then tour Florida until early in June. Galloway’s Point. — Bill Hare’s mother. Mrs. Raymond Hare, of Nappanee, has been staying with her son and family during Kent’s illnes. Bill and Mary Hare are in charge of the Galloway Grocery while Mary’s parents are in Florida. Vicinity Wawasee Yacht Club. —Mrs. Margin Levernier was in

Lansing recently, returning with her son, Robert Levernier, who was here on a short visit. Mrs. Levernier enjoyed some time with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levernier’s new daughter, Julia Roberta, who is now five weeks old. Martin Levernier accompanied Laucks Xanders this week on a business trip to Florida, and to visit the George Xanders. Highland View. —Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laird were Sunday hosts to Mr. and Mrs. B. Fitzgerald and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jewett. Mr. and Mrs. Laird, accompanied by Jack Bird, went to Fort Wayne Tuesday, to a distributor’s meeting of the O. C. S., at the Van Orman Hotel. COUNTY MEETS BLOOD QUOTA Kosciusko county residents gave 132 pints of blood to the American Red Cross blood program, Friday, February 7, at the Masonic temple in Warsaw, surpassing the community’s quota by seven pints. Donors from Syracuse were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hudson, Mrs. S. A. Bauer, Mrs. Ray Meek, Mrs. Harold Kitson, Mrs. Hubert Anglemyer, Mrs. Royal Borton, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Blakesley, and Miss Connie Weingart. Those from Lady of the Lake Seminary were Rev. Frank Pitka, Rev. W. J. Straka, Rev. Henry Mehr, Rev. Marvin Tellers, Rev. James Cashman, Paul R. Bueter, Thomas Harrington, George B. Kashmer, Clifford J. Roell, Francis Stelmachowicz, George Loner.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1»52

ary thrombosis. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frushour, at the week end were Mrs. Frushouri's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huffer, and her sister, Mrs. Gordon Pettier, and Mr. Pettier, of Etna Green. The Van Sickle’s have hopes of Jay Van Sickle, wife Dottie, and Jayette, Lynn Ellen and Jan Ellen, for a visit before long. Jay, technical sergeant at Fort Worth, Texas, gets his First Lieutenant’s bars shortly and is expecting a furlough thereafter. The Burns Van Sickle’s had Sunday guests, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Young, and Tommie, of Goshen. We now have two lines of preteens and sub-teens dresses for girls. Mrs. M. Louise Connolly.