The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 7, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 March 1968 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., Mar. 27, 1968

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Tlm? Mail c Fj»Jonriial PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat. 1888) Syracuse-Wawatee Journal (Eat. 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567 M Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana Subscription: $4.00 per year in Kosciusko County; $4.50 Outside County EDITORIALS

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Go ahead—be a big plunger and take an active interest in your community. Be proud that you are an American with certain rights and take advantage of them. You say, “Let the other guy do it!” Fine, but what do we do when we run out of other guys? And, after you let the others do the work, do you set back and complain about what has or hasn’t been done? How many times have you said “No!”, when asked to serve on a community service project committee? Os course, you can’t say yes all the time but do you say no all the time? That’s not good either. Your community needs you—not just John Doe and Mary Smith but you. If you let all the work to John and

Change Indiana's Constitution? . - We Hope So

. The committee to study the executive and administrative branch of Indiana Government will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, April 24, at 9:80 a.m. in the house chambers of the state capitol building. The committee, which was established at the March 11 meeting of the constitutional revision comjmission, is charged with the responsiwbility of studying the executive and adnministrative articles of the present constitution in order to determine whether any section requires updating or amendment. The public hearing has been scheduled to elict the public interest in revising these particular portions of the constitution and to gather concrete suggestions regarding possible change. Any interested individuals or group wishing to be placed on the agenda for this hearing should contact Miss Marcia Oddi, legislative council, room 301, state house, Indianapolis, for further information. Former governor Mathew E. Welsh is serving as chairman of the committee.

Viet Nam Issue Still Grips Our Nation

By Frank A. White After a political binge that rivaled Hoosier basketball frenzy it is natural to inquire, "Where do we go from here?” Paragraphs tnat follow touch on some of the good- that may now come from the anger, frustration and violence of this mo-~ ment of history. The Hoo’sier Day columns have contended consistently that the war in Viet Nam, claiming over 600 Hcosier lives, 20,000 in the nation, and bleeding our economy, is the biggest issue of the present political campaign. It is the biggest, local, state, national and international story day by day L Os concern'to every thinking person, is the disunity that grips American people over Viet Nam, all the way from Congress to the grass roots. What is the impact of the political eruption on the battle of the "hawks” and the "doves”? I believe we will all agree, or at least most of us, that candidates for President Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon

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Mary, soon they’ll be “spreading themselves too thin” and they won’t be doing a good job either. You see, it takes all of us! There’s an old saying that goes, “If you want a job done ask a busy person.” The busy person knows where he is headed. He knows how much time he can spend on each project and when it’s time for the job to be finished it is done . . . One reason so many people don’t get a job assigned to them finished is because they keep putting it off. They don’t allow any time for its completion. Community activities can be fun and rewarding! Why not try them—take the plunge and say “Yes” next time you’re asked to help.

The present Indiana constitution was adopted in 1851 and is therefore 117 years old. It truly needs updating in many places. Even the lawmakers of the 1800’s revised and in fact adopted a new constitution. We do not advise this as we think the priceless rights the founders of this state gave us should be preserved, but, we do think revisions are in order and needed. The state’s first constitution was adopted in 1816 with the siecond being in 1851, just 35 years later. We have since come 117 years with the same laws. How can the legislative bodies of today be expected to conduct the multi-million dollar business that makes up the Indiana government in the same number of days our forefathers took 100 years ago to run a state made up of small settlements and wilderness. We say they can’t. Or least they can’t do it properly. This is why we are in favor of updating the constitution where it need be—giving the legislature a longer period of time for its session or allowing it to meet every year. This, too, could eliminate the need for special sessions and the like.

are proponents of the "hard line" in Viet Nam. They are generally considered! “hawks", in an effort to stop communism takeover. It likewise appears clear that U. S. Senator Eugene McCarthy and Senator Robert Kennedy have tapped a major artery of opposition to our being in Viet Nam, and our conduct of the war “peace” or “dove” candidates for the highest office of our nation. • It is logical to conclude that in the some five months until the national Democratic convention in Chicago and that of the Republicans in Miami, there will be a clear referendum of the American public in regard to Viet Nam, and our conduct of the war and possible withdrawal. To me "a crowd 1 ” of presidential candidates, instead of a contest between two of the same mind, may be beneficial. We have just witnessed another disgraceful chapter in which a minority of Wisconsin university Students shouted down Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman. We of Indiana went thru that when a mere 200 or so Indi-

ana university students hurled insults at Speaker, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and battled police over Dow Chemical Company job recruiters on the campus. It is easy to lose one s perspective and to bitterly condemn the permissiveness of university authorities. However, consider that the extremists of the far left, the unwashed 1 and unshaved hippies, at I.U. who denied freedom of speech and of listening, were less than 250 among 27,000 students enrolled in the proud institution. It Seems to me. McCarthy and Kennedy, hold promise of channeling dissidents among our college students into more constructive channels. It is one of working in a political campaign, even if too young to vote. Students can see action and work for reforms by backing candidates and thru legislative processes. Senator McCarthy has emphatically disowned the student demonstrators at Wisconsin who showed such discourtesy to a cabinet member speaker. Senator McCarthy with humor and dignity has gone about building his campaign among students and intellectuals, having been once a professor himself. The trend to make it a “crowd’ of alternates exists on the Indiana state level as well. We have five strong candidates in the run-

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ning for governor. Three are Republicans and 1 two are Democrats. On both national and state level’s the issues, so sharp edged to so many, will be debated in public. New York’s governor, Nelson Rockefeller, had courage to face up to the fact that most Republican party leaders showed Nixon preference. Rockefeller is still a potential and his statesmanship will be felt in the forthcoming G. O. P. convention of his party. The choice of candidates we have in the USA fe in contrast to the one party techniques of the Iron Curtain’ countries. If we tire of the political ballyhoo with employment at an all time high, and overall prosperity highest in history, we have alternates. We can tune it out and read the comics. Indiana’s two color Outdoor Indiana magazine has 22,003 paid subscriptions. It costs $3 per year and 1 can be obtained by Sending check or money order to the State Department of Conservation. State House. Indianapolis, Ind. 1. and Social Security Q—Experience can be a very expensive teacher. I am 68 years old and never signed up for medicare. During the past year I paid out $l,lOO in doctor bills. I now want to enroll in medicare as my condition requires continuing doctor care. Can I sing up now? A—Yes. You have until April 1, 1968, to sign up. You would then be covered beginning July 1, 1968. Q—l will be 65 in a few months. What will I need to prove my age when I sign up for social security? A—You will need your birth certificate or a baptismal certificate established before age five. If neither of these were recorded at that time, you will need some other proof recorded early in your life. A grade school record or an early census record can be used. Please check with your social security office before you reach 65 if you are having difficulty in getting these proofs. Mrs. Glenn (Myrtle) Hill returned to work on a part-time basis last Thursday. She is much improved.

trnziNJO? AROUND Damon W. Casey, Syracuse agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, went into the SyracuseGoshen taxi business last week — briefly. A derailment along the B & O line at Alida, Ind., some 70 miles west of Syracuse, forced the re-routing of the eastbound B & O Capital Limited, which serves the local station at 7:19 p.m. nightly. The train was detoured for one day (March 12) over New York Central system lines from Gary through Elkhart, Goshen and Waterloo, Ind., then down a littleused NYC line to Auburn, Ind., and back onto the B & O track. Bypassed were B & O passenger stations at Syracuse, LaPaz, and Garrett. The Capital made its Syracuse stop at the NYC’s long-abandoned Goshen station. There were no passengers departing on the train that night, but Casey returned to Syracuse with two inbound customers. Passengers usually handled at LaPaz and Garrett were similarly taken care of by B & O personnel at South Bend and Auburn. sj: * Jjt County extension agent Don Frantz cited some interesting figures on in-migration of Hoosier counties at the meeting last Monday night at the Shrine building where a hearing was held before the county Farm Bureau concerning the building of a new hospital in Kosciusko county. The figures, covering a period from April 1, 1960, to July 1, 1966,

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are from the Indiana Board of Health, and shows- Kosciusko county to be fourth in in-migra-tion growth during this period. They are as follows: Porter County 10,200 Allen County . 3,400 Monroe County 3,200 Kosciusko County 2,400 Hamilton County 2,400 Porter county is benefiting from the Dunes area growth, Allen county from the natural Fort Wayne area growth, Monroe from the Monroe Reservoir and Indiana university, and Hamilton county from an Indianapolis overflow. Kosciusko county has its lakes, excellent farm land and is becoming a rapidly growing industrial community. * * * A number of local people will remember- Dr. James Armstrong, who is now a Methodist minister in Indianapolis. Mrs. Ruth Meredith, for one, remembers him as one of her second grade students. He was a high school commencement speaker here several years ago. Dr. Armstrong cropped up in the news last week again when it became known that lie is vice president of the Hoosiers For a Democratic Alternative. * * * Big John Laßue of the Weatherhead Co. removed the heavy cast from his left foot Saturday after lugging it around for six weeks. John, who is winning the battle of the calories, broke a bone in his foot when he stepped into a hole while fighting a grass fire. * * ❖ A note we appreciated came from Frank A. Rehrer, who just returned from wintering in California. He said, "I herewith extend my words of congratulation to the Baumgartner family for the bold step it took in converting to the offset process for producing The

Mail-Journal. The paper’s appearance has been greatly improved. ( Wishing every possible success t for you in publishing your excel- 1 lent weekly newspaper”. ♦ * * A number of uptown business 1 firms were surprised to see the front of their business houses painted on the stage backdrop 1 at the high school auditorium at I the “Pops” concert. ] Among them were Red Marlin’s Pickwick, W. R. Thomas, Bon- 5 Len, Pilcher’s, Auto Parts, the s Bank, NIPSCo, Burkholders Drug, 1 the Star Store and Bushong’s Bar- 1 ber Shop. t S« t { The month-long reign of Ron Hibschman and Arthur (“Red”) Weber, Nappanee, as regular doubles division leaders in the American Bowling Congress tourney has ended. A team from Detroit, Ted Bakatselos and Tony Wray, rolled a 1,296 Wednesday, 13 pins better than the Hoosiers’ score that had stood since February 20. The Hoosiers dropped to second. Bakatselos was a member of a Detroit team that won the regular division team all-events title in last year’s ABC championships. * * * Did you know . . . . . . that just 16 years ago today, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the treason conviction of “Tokyo Rose”, who was guilty of flooding the airwaves with propaganda for the Japanese during World War 'll? Did you know also that the American people own nearly $52 billion in United States Savings: Bonds today, compared with only S3O billion at the end of World War II; and that this total is constantly rising? .$• $ $ Bob Ellis, Syracuse’s first Viet Nam casualty, was a quiet, unassuming young man whom many adults got to know at Wawasee golf course. He would have been pleased with the simplicity and serenity of his burial services Friday afternoon at the Syracuse Church of the Brethren and later at the Syracuse cemetery gravesite. CIVIL DEFENSE UNIT MEETS City director Charles Vander-, veer presided at the regular March meeting of the Syracuse civil defense unit Thursday night. He reported that Milo Clase, county director of civil defense, who had been involved 1 in an accident Wednesday at Warsaw, was home from the hospital but would be unable to appear at the meeting as had been Scheduled. Reports were heard and two letters read: One from the Business and Professional Women’s club concerning “Civic Night in Syracuse” and one from the Syracuse - Wawasee Water Safety Council.

PUBLIC AUCTION OF FINE ANTIQUES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE MAE* WALTER SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1968 10:00 A.M., EST 4-H FAIR GROUNDS COLUMBIA CITY, INDIANA IN LARGE MODERN HEATED BUILDING LUNCH WILL BE SERVED — PLENTY OF CHAIRS Location of Fair Grounds — At West Edge of Columbia City, go to Junction of US 30 and State Road 109, then West on US 30 to first road to left then South % mile to Squawbuck Road MANY COLLECTORS ITEMS Early American Pressed Glass Goblets: Ironstone Plain White and Tealeaf — Haviland China — Cup and Saucer Collection Many Haviland. Paperweights, Cut Glass — Some signed: Signed Stuben, Aurene, Latique, Tiffany — Amberina, Rubina Verde, Burmese, Mother of Pearl Satin Glass, Greentown Glass, Signed Carnival Glass. Parian Figurines, Bristol. Wedgewood, Majolica, Flow Blue, Willow, Enoch Woods Ware. Signed Cameo Glass. Many Hand Painted Plates. Staffordshire Patch Boxes. Pearl Handle Knives and Forks. Silverware, Pewter and Jewelry. Brass Miniature Bee Hive Candlesticks (very rare). Very RareRibbed Anethyst Perfume Bottle with stopper by Henry Steigel. Walnut Bedside Table; Console Table; Folding Rocker; Walnut Cane Seated Chairs and Rocker; 5 Rush Bottom Arrow Back Chairs; Beautiful Walnut Roll Top Desk and Cabinet. Sugar Bucket; Butter Molds; Candle Molds; Flat Irons. Picture Frames and Prints, some Godey over 100 years old; 2 Electrified-Bracket Lamps with Reflectors; Old Picture Albums. Many miscellaneous antique items not mentioned. Terms: Cash. Not responsible for accidents MAE WALTER ESTATE DAVID M. WALTER, Executor Sale conducted by Schrader Bros., Columbia City, Indiana Phone: 244-7135 Clerk, Ray Hivel> DOORS OPEN 8 A.M., MARCH 30, 1968 SALE STARTS PROMPTLY AT 10:00 A.M., EST Note — This sale consists of fine old antiques in excellent condition. — DON’T MISS THIS SALE —

Earl Cooper reported that the CD would handle the traffic for the Pops concert at the Syracuse high school bath nights. Bill Nolan and Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy were accepted as new members. The meeting was adjourned to meet at the fire station at 8 o’clock. Cadet Kramer Home For Spring Vacation Cadet John Kramer of the U. S. air force academy, Colo, is spending spring vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Kramer, Syracuse. Cadet Kramer will return to the academy to complete his first year. WHO WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" PLAN TO SEE "Civic Night In Syracuse" Friday, March 29 8 p.m. Syracuse High School Auditorium 15 Participating Organizations Sponsored By SYRACUSE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION Adults: SI.OO Children: 50c Prje-School: Free