The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 47, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 December 1972 — Page 7

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gs A SYRACUSE FIFTH GRADER LOOKS AT CHRISTMAS . . . Area residents basking in Florida might like to know the 28 mile an hour winds in five degree temperature gave our area a 33 degree below wind chill factor Saturday morning and drifts were tremendous. The South Bend mayor gave a snow emergency there with drifts as high as 8 feet. County highway trucks seemed to miss the Lakeland area during

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the ice storm last week but were out Saturday night in an attempt to remove the drifting snow. Joe and Olive Bushong were seen dining at the Kale Island Beacon Thursday noon — in observance of their 52nd wedding anniversary. Isn’t that great?! The newly formed Wawasee Snowmobile club and North Webster Snowmobile Association are sponsoring a snowmobile class on January 3 at the Lakeland Youth Center. Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra with Warren Covington has been booked for the January 8 governor’s inaugural ball at Indianapolis with television personality Durwood Kirby of Indiana serving as master of ceremonies. Eat your heart out. fem libbers. There’s someone moving in on your domain. Gerald Cramar, r 1 Syracuse, is an expert tailor and is taking

advantage of this unusual male hobby to fashion a wedding dress for his daughter Vicki, whose . wedding to Randy Bloom will take place at Rockford, DI., on Saturday, Dec. 30. What’s more, he is making the dress for wife, Evelyn, for the occasion. Friends have urged Cramar to “go into the business,** but he sews as a hobby and doesn’t plan to give up his job with Essex Wire in Fort Wayne. Pickwick theatre manager, Georgia Buster, was quite overwhelmed Monday night at a Christmas banquet at the Prep school. Seems she was presented with a Christmas plaque in appreciation from faculty and students of the school. There’s trouble at the Syracuse license branch. Well, not really, but there is a transition problem. Virginia (Mrs. Frank) Putt, who has been branch manager since April 1968, wants to resign the post. “This job has caused me troubles at home,’’ she laughingly states. “Even Frank (her husband) has been campaigning for Democrats so I would lose this job,** she says with a wink of the eye. Mrs. Putt took over the job in an emergency, agreeing to stay until someone could be found to assume the responsibilities. She has been ably assisted since taking over the job of LaVada Dean, who has worked in the license branch off and on since November 1951, and Sue Williams since September 20, 1972. The job, now, is to get someone with proper Republican credentials, who is capable and willing to accept the job. Mrs. Putt wants to resign December 31. Steve Sharp has expressed a desire, and Jack Vanderford has expressed a willingness to assume the bookwork providing LaVada and Sue remain at their posts. Others have expressed a mild interest. Truth is, there isn’t all that much profit in the job. Mrs. Putt did state she will sell nearly 6,000 license plates this year, that she has already sold 1,633 truck plates and 352 motorcycle licenses. With the enactment of a four-year driver’s license in 1970, this figure has been cut in half, she added. There’s a chance this part of the county will be without a license branch if no one can be

found to fill the post. “And this shouldn’t be allowed to happen, when one recalls how hard it was to get the license branch here in the first place,** an old timer remarks. Holidays call for centerpieces WEST LAFAYETTE — During the holiday season every hostess wants her table to appear exceptionally gracious. Hence, centerpieces are a focal point when guests come to dine or visit. ‘ But, for the best results, these table centerpieces should be planned in advance, counsels John A. Wott, Purdue university extension home environment horticulturist. First, take care that the centerpiece fits the table and is in proper proportion. Be sure the height is below the eye level of “ people to be seated at the table. For a base, use a low bowl, moss, or styrofoam, suggests Wott. Spray-type arrangements can be made in bowls, using a pin cushion holder. Use greenery which will last — such as fir, pine, or arborvitae. Needles of hemlock and spruce drop too easily. A simple method is to start with a piece of board. Cut so as to allow the evergreens to extend about six inches all the way around. Bore holes in the board for one, two or three candles. Sphagnum moss should be bound firmly to the board with string or wire. Make sure the moss is moist, but not wet. Styrofoam may be used in place of the board and moss placed around it. Shorten pieces of evergreen to the desired length, sharpen and stick into the moss. Starting at the outer edge, place pieces of evergreen — six or seven inches long — close together so as to cover the edge of the moss. Continue to fill with shorter pieces of evergreen until the moss is entirely covered. Then add candles of appropriate length. Finish decorating with cones, berries or ornaments. Evergreens are highly flammable when dried out, so be especially careful if the candles are lighted. Flame retardant chemichals may be used on the evergreens as a precautionary measure.

No more ambulance service —

'Decision irrevocable/ Mishler tells Milford citizen group

The decision of the Mishler funeral home in Milford to discontinue ambulance service, including transfer service, is irrevocable, Wade E. Mishler, owner of the funeral home told a group of Milford citizens at the Milford fire station last Thursday night. At a meeting called by the Milford Area Development Council, before whom Mishler appeared last Monday night to air the problem of ambulance service, were Van Buren township trustee Maurice Beer and two of his advisory board members, Milford town board president Dr. T. A. Miller, fire chief Harold Kaiser and two assistant chiefs, and MAD president John B. Augsburger. The meeting was chaired by Arch Baumgartner, a MAD member. Didn’t Ask Subsidy Dr. Miller took exception to a remark Mishler purportedly made before the MAD group that he had asked the Milford town board for a subsidy of some $6,000 to cover his ambulance service losses. Mishler said he had appeared before the Milford town board to inform the board that he was discontinuing ambulance service, and that he would consider some volunteer help. Since that August 7th meeting with Mishler and the town board, Dr. Miller said he has had no one step forward to volunteer their services. At a later point in the meeting last Thursday night, Mishler said he had received excellent on-the-spot volunteer help when needed, and that he had no quarrel there. Mishler told the group, however, that he would continue ambulance service for a 60-day period for SSOO per month, but that would be all. Several raised doubts that SSOO per month could be raised on a voluntary basis. Ralph Karstedt raised the question of a central telephone service as a solution, but the suggestion didn’t get off the ground, then trustee Maurice Beer asked Mishler flatly if he would not reconsider his decision, and Mishler said “No.” Beer also said he checked with the township attorney and found out the township could not subsidize a private business. Mishler said his ambulance appears adequate at present standards, but by January 1,1975 it would not be. Mishler said he had a call from former townsman Cleon Scott of Steuben county and was told this county purchased six station wagons and two vans and fully equipped them for county-wide use. Mishler said even this would be inadequate if and when proposed laws become effective in 1975. Dr. Miller said perhaps ambulance service should be channeled back to the hospitals, and Dr. Floyd Rheinheimer, Milford physician, pointed out that the private “Red Arrow” ambulance service in Elkhart county was going out of business. Greg Mishler, son of Wade, who operates a funeral home and ambulance service in Bremen, said he plans to continue in the ambulance service. He said he was considerably younger than his dad and that he has three times the volume of calls. He also said he collects 90 per cent of his accounts, while his dad collects only 40 per cent. ‘Dead Horse’ Milford fire chief Harold Kaiser, when asked if the fire department would consider establishing an ambulance service, said, “If it’s such a dead horse, what do we want with it?” And assistant chief Oliver Replogle said the fire department does not have the personnel to man an ambulance. Rev. Karstedt said it would appear the town of Milford has no alternative but to turn to outside service. Dr. Rheinheimer placed a telephone call from the meeting place to Charles Harris, Syracuse funeral director, who plans to continue his ambulance service. He asked Harris if he would

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respond to calls from Milford for ambulance service. Harris told him he would, as long as he is in the ambulance service, and providing he was available. Bristol Solution Mishler said he talked to Paul Dausman of Bristol who said that town has purchased two vans for about SIO,OOO, and that the 22-man fire department handle ambulanceruns. Calls go into homes of the firemen much as do fire calls, and that Bristol has a hookup with Elkhart police and Elkhart county sheriff’s department for back-up service. Dr. Miller suggested that Mishler ignore the 1975 laws, if indeed they are passed, and

Youths apprehended following break-in and theft attempt

Three area young men were apprehended by Syracuse police and booked at the county jail following an early morning break-in and theft at Don’s Sunoco station in Syracuse on Thursday. Taken into custody were Kim Richard Miller, 19, 506 South Main street, Syracuse; Donald L. Nyce, Jr., 18, r 1 Syracuse; and Gary Lee Johnson, 17, r 1 North Webster. Syracuse police officer Joe Thornburg received a call from an unknown informant around 12:45 a.m. when a “suspicious person” was seen around Doti’s Sunoco, 900 South Huntington street. As officer Thornburg entered the service station drive, young Nyce was reported as running from the station with Thornburg immediately giving chase on foot through ice covered ground. A

NEXT WEEK IN THE LAKELAND SCHOOLS Today 9 a.m. — Syracuse elementary Christmas convocation Thursday 7 p.m. — Adult education at WHS (machine shop in room 303) Friday 6:30 p.m. — WHS basketball vs Northridge at Wawasee December 21-January 2 Lakeland schools Christmas vacation — no school December 28-29 7 p.m. — Holiday basketball tournament at Wawasee — North Wood, Whitko, West Noble and Wawasee Intangible gifts Among the treasures and pleasures of Christmas, gifts loom large —as all who greet the Yuletide as a season of laughter and a time to be glad of heart well know. Tangible gifts, large and small, have their place in the holiday scheme of things. They’re the outgoing expression of the generous Christmas spirit. It’s the intangible gifts, though, that seem to shine most radiantly, Christmas after Christmas. The delighted smiles of children and the wonder in their eyes, the privilege of aiding the less fortunate, the opportunity to cherish and strengthen friendships and family ties, the renewed spirituality, the solid foundations of health, happiness and love, faith and hope—these are the intangible gifts. Blessed indeed is the Christmas that brings an abundance of such gifts!

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make do with what facilities are available in Milford. Arch Baumgartner said he had faith in private enterprise, that someone would move in to fill the void in the field of ambulance service. Glennis Stump, who manages the Om nursing home, said she was deeply concerned about the loss of service, since she thought she used this service more than anyone in the community aside from Dr. Rheinheimer. When pressed as to what he would do in an emergency, Dr. Rheinheimer said. “I will call Harris first, and if he can’t come I’ll call someone in Warsaw.” Rev. Karstedt said, “I have a

warning shot was fired into the air by the officer after he called three times for the young man to halt and he did not. Nyce was captured on Pittsburg street and sustained minor scratches to the arm received during several falls on the ice. The officer fell once. Officer Lawrence Firestone was called to assist with Nyce' while Thornburg gave chase to Miller, driver of Nyce’s auto, and Johnson, who were taken into custody at Medusa and South Huntington streets while looking for the third member of their group. S2O Cash A tire tool was used to gain entry of the front door of the station, operated by Don LeCount, and S2O in cash was taken from the cash register. The money was recovered, as were money bags which contained only sales receipt slips, no cash. Nyce and Miller were released on bond and Johnson, a curfew vi&lator twice before at which time he was released to custody of his parents, was turned over to the juvenile authorities.

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feeling discontinuing ambulance service will hurt the funeral home business,” but Mishler said he disagreed with this. It would appear, from what came out of the meeting, that each family in, the Milford community will have to seek its own solution when ambulance service is needed. Dr. Rheinheimer and others expressed thanks to Wade Mishler for the service he has provided over the years, in the field of ambulance service. Attending the meeting besides those mentioned were Harold Young, Merl Rink, Max Beer, Bill Leeman, and police chief Don Drake.

NKWB from the Services New address for Ronald Fishbaugh HM-3 Ronald Fishbaugh has recently been promoted to his (resent rank and is en route to the Philippines to join his ship, the U.S.S. Oriskany, now in the Tonkin Gulf. He spent a 30-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Fishbaugh of r 1 North Webster and would appreciate hearing from his friends. His address is: HM-3 Ronald Fishbaugh 315-587-645 U.S.S. Orikany CVA 34 F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif. 96601 Christmas In Milford Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Laßlance of Massachusettes are arriving Friday to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Levi Chupp of Milford. They will also be visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Randall Clouse and family of Milford.