The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 13, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 April 1970 — Page 15

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VOLUME 7

Myy » Spring is here, to be sure, and ' so are the attending duties that caring for a home entail. • • • The truck strike, which is knotted around the city of Chicago. is being felt by local industry, we learned early this week. Materials are not flowing in, and in some instances they aren't flowing out. If it continues much longer, some local unemployment may result. Another tell-tale sign of the truckers' strike is the lack of trucks on busy road 6. Road 6 is a Tegular truck artery in and out of Chicago, and nothing but local trucks are seen on 6 right now. • • • One reason a woman’s work is

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Voters Taxpayers Os Turkey Creek Township This Should Be Os Great Concern To You The following is to show the results of the 1969 re-assessment of real estate, as was required by state law. A comparison is made with other townships that make up our Lakeland School District. J jind Improvement* Total Turkey Creek . . . plus 93.2% plus 27.1% plus 48.5% Tippecanoe plus 39.3% ' plus 6.6% plus 14.7% Van Buren plus 15.9% plus 10.4% plus 12.6% Jefferson East ...... plus 6.2% minus 10.1% minus 0.03% From a total of seventeen townships in Kosciusko county, 43 per cent of the total increase in land value was in Turkey Creek township. Why was our increase in assessed value almost three times the average for the county, and percentage wise, over five times the combined increase of the other units of our school district? Remember 75 per cent of our township tax dollar goes for the operation of our schools. The gross assessed value of Turkey Creek township was increased by almost five million dollars. Do you think we were that undervalued in previous years? The office of Turkey Creek township trustee is squarely responsible for the honest and equitable assessment of real estate for the purpose of taxation. The delegation of duty to other persons in no way lessens the responsibility of the trustee to assure that the work is done efficiently and with fairness. When the assessment involves a common basis of interest among several taxing units, in a joint undertaking, it becomes doubly that all concerned use the same yardstick in determining value. An appeal now being considered by the state tax commission, — can not hope for niore than an across the board token adjustment. This is usually a percentage increase for some townships and very seldom a reduction for anyone. Ten affected property owners may then object to the equalization by the state board, and here we go again. I invite your support in the May 5 primary, and if elected*in November, I pledge to put some good business practice back into the office of Turkey Creek Township Trustee. Thanks For Your Attention Joe D. Shewmon PAID POL. AD

never done is because she gives part of it to her husband. • • • Cliff and Marty Kinder are home from a Florida vacation following a fun-time of redecorating a new home they purchased at Naples. Making the trip with them was Marilyn (Mrs. Pauli Moore who furnished most (•‘all’’. Cliff says) of the ideas for the redecoration. • • • Bill Xanders, who admits to a “sensitive mouth.'* was chagrined Friday morning when he stomped into Dr. Eugene Yoder’s office only to find out he was an hour early for his appointment. “Horrors, what a mistake for me to make,” Bill chides. • • • [ Big Dr. Bob Tolan is busy handing out literature for the upcoming season at the Playhouse. A good bill is promised. Incidentally, the good Dr. is head of the chamber of commerce committee to prepare a promotional piece for the lakes area, and he reports good results to his early efforts. He is trying to make the brochure a little more all-inclusive than originally planned. • • • One of the nicest homes going up in the area at the present time is the one being built by Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Norris on old road 13, just south of the Pickwick Road.

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Plaudits from the annual Music Festival held Friday night at WHS auditorium are still being heard. A combined effort, the music departments of all the corporation's schools participated. nearly 1,000 students in all. One quickly gets into difficulty trying to single out praise, as it was all, well, just superb! • * • Unofficial remarks from chamber of commerce members would indicate that possibilities for annexation becoming a reality are about 50-50. Reason: Most chamber members were amazed at the force of objectors at the town board meeting last Tuesday night. This represents a “minus.” But the insistence on the part of several town board members that annexation is a “must" for the future welfare of the town of Syracuse represents a "plus.” Take your choice. i* • • The measure of a man is not the number of people who serve him, but the number cf people be serves. • • • We re wondering who the cigarsmoking lady was who was seen in the uptown area <in her car) recently? Any idea? • • • Mark Randall of r 4 Warsaw mastered a hole-in-one Thursday while playing golf with members of the Wawasee high school golf team at South Shore Golf club. Pro Steve Roderick reports young Rcndall made the 165 yard shot on the fourteenth hole with a four iron. ♦ • • Mary (Mrs. Glenn) Popenfoose is announcing the opening of her new hobby shop, to be called Mary's Hobby Shop, this Friday at her home located four and one-half miles south of Syracuse on SR 13 and three-fourths miles east on 1000 N. Mary says she plans to go into ceramics, leather craft, shell craft, crocheting and you name it. Her hours may vary’ with appointment but plans now call for an 8

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a m. to 5 p.m. schedule with evening hours on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. • • • Earth Day last Wednesday was observed by many in the area including one small, lone, youngster around six years of age, observed with bag picking up litter along the roadside at Maxwelton golf course on North Shore Drive of Syracuse Lake. A group of 35 young persons, under the direction of Rev. Harlan Steffen of Wawasee Lakeside Chapel, worked Wednesday evening to complete a previous project of cleaning the roadsides on the east side of Lake Wawasee from the railroad to state road 13. Rev. Steffen reports the area was cleaned beyond the railroad about a mile towards the Syracuse airport and the east side of the lake, lacking a short distance of reaching road 13. Refreshments were enjoyed following the clean-up. • * • Work is progressing on the north shore of Lake Wawasee by the county highway department and property owners for a drainage system to take care of water on the road area. This has been a threat for sometime and should prove to be quite an improvement. * • • The Lakeland Supply and Hie Mail-Journal office is taking on a new look with gay colored carpeting laid during the week end and a new’ front door to be installed soon. I ♦ * » The Byron Connollys received a pleasant and enlightening surprise over the week end —namely a half hour visit with their son Tim by telephone. Stationed at DaNang since December, young Connolly was promoted to sergeant on March 8. • • • About 135 Wawasee Prep students took part in a major clean-up of an area just south of the seminary and across the road from the lake front, making it look mighty nice. ♦ ♦ • The unidentified photo across the top of page 1 of The M-J last week, of two farmers plowing ground, caused considerable guessing. To allay all suspicions, the two farmers w’ere Whitko school board president Maurice Scott and his son Jim, plowing a field on the /west side of road 13 in Monroe - township south of Pierceton. Jim is a Purdue junior and returns each week end to farm several

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farms. In the background is the farm owned by Luther and Virginia Vance, well known Black Angus raisers. * ♦ ♦ State representative Ralph Heine can attest that running for public office even in Indiana's rural area can cost money. Ralph represents Kosciusko. Whitley, Huntington, Wabash, and Fulton counties in the state legislature. He said there are 16 newspapers in his district, five dailies, a bi-weekly and 10 weeklies. A two column by six inch ad in each of these papers runs over S4OO. be said. • • • Conservation officer Earl Money lost his boat. He tells a long story about it, fixing the blame pretty well, but the lakes are going unpatrolled as Earl is land-bound. CLUES TO KIND OF DEAL YOU CAN GET AT SERVICE STATION MADISON — There are clues, visible before you drive in, to the kind of deal you will get at a service station, according to three University of Wisconsin researchers. Profs. Gilbert A. Churchill. Jr., Neil M. Ford, and Urban B. Ozanne of the Graduate School of Business analyzed data on 434 stations in the Pacific Northwest collected over 86 consecutive Friday evenings. If it’s a matter of price only they found, stations that sell minor brands are a penny or more lower per gallon. Price differences between stations selling major brands are almost impossible to find. The big firms meet the competition by staying even. Chances of getting a lower price are a little better where facilities, pumps, and restrooms are substandard, “a little shabby,” the researchers noted. Lower prices also were observed at stations just outside the central business districts on heavilytraveled streets. If trading stamps are given, the station is most likely to have prices on a level with the competition or slightly below, the experts learned. Prices were collected for regular grade gasoline only. Profs. Churchill, Ford, and Ozanne collagorated their findings in a scholarly article titled “An Analysis of Price Aggressiveness in Gasoline Marketing,” published this month in the Journal of Marketing Research.

S ' LLW v n " 'B * I ■ I ■ AT WAWASEE BOATSHOW — The weatherman cooperated splendid with owners of Wawasee Boat Co., and Merrill's Marina last week for their annual boat show. Sunny skies and warm, balmy weather brought our record crowds to see what is new in the marine world. Manager Bob Willits said Virginia Creps of Ligonier won a half horse Johnson motor at Wawasee Boat Co.. Rosalee Spear of Yarnelle Point. Wasaw, won a S2O gift certificate at the gift shop, and C. M. Weddell of r 4 Syracuse won a three horse Johnson motor at Merrill’s Marina.

Fight Against Pollution A Non-Controversial Topic

POLLUTION conjures up a picture of a factory down the road belching smoke or a plant pouring raw chemicals into the nearby river. The fight against pollution appears to be a popular noncontroversial subject for debate by politicians. Like being against sin and for motherhood, a stand against pollution is not subject to criticism. Few apply the problem to their own lives or take the discussion as personal criticism. Second District Congressman Earl F. Landgrebe pointed up the importance of the individual’s role in a successful pollution war. He said: “Experience has shown that relying on the Federal government to do the whole job in any effort is like signing that project’s death warrant. This is especially true in the area of pollution, which starts at the most basically local level." President Nixon recognized the importance of the individual effort in his State of the Union address when he said: “Each of us must resolve that each day he will leave his home, his property and the public places of his city or town a little cleaner, a little better, a little more pleasant for himself and those around him.” One individual's contribution to the overall problem was emphasized by results of a recent

national survey. The widely publicized slogan. “Every litter bit hurts,” was proven in the survey of roadside litter conducted by the Highway Research Board of the National Academy of Science in co-operation with 29 participating state highway departments. They found the American motorist drops an average of 1,304 pieces of litter for every mile of the interstate and primary highway network each month, or 16,000 pieces per mile per year. Litter accumulates at the rate of about one cubic yard per mile each month. Paper items accounted for 59 per cent of the total litter, 16 per cent were cans, 6 per cent each for plastic items and bottles and jars, and 13 per cent miscellaneous items such as discarded tires and junk washing machines. The automobile engine is a major contributor to our foul air. The number of cars in the country has increased from 25.8 million in 1945 to 80 million in 1967. The pollutants that spew forth from the exhaust pipes are said to be the greatest single polluter of the atmosphere. One automobile traveling 30 miles in 30 minutes burns over three times as much as earth’s oxygen as is consumed by 100,000 people during the same time period. The auto industry is turning out new cars at the rate of 7.5 million a year. If the rate continues we will have more cars in 1975 than we had people in the United States in 1920. These cars and trucks pour out 66 million tons of carbon monoxide, 6 million tons of nitrogen oxides and 190,000 tons of lead compounds into the air. Congressman Landgrebe offers a few steps that can be taken by

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every individual to join the fight. His suggestions include: Don't be a litterbug yourself. Go for a “litter walk” picking up candy wrappers, beer cans and other offensive objects. It is good exercise and helps clean up your own environment. Keep your automobile engine tuned. This will not only make for a smoother running car and save on gasoline, but also cuts down on air pollution. Encourage your children or friends to consider a career in the field of pollution control. Throw autumn leaves on a compost heap instead of burning them. You have created something useful in creating a compost pile and not polluted the air. Know your community’s pollution laws and obey them. After checking on yourself, check to see whether local industry, power plants and government agencies are complying with the regulations. City governments dumping raw sewage into streams and lakes have been found to be even bigger offenders than heavy industry. As Landgrebe concluded, no one has to wait for a political appropriation to start. The whole idea of “voluntarism” is one approach to pollution control and we should use imagination to come up with new ideas and launch our own private war on the problem.

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