The Mail-Journal, Volume 10, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 July 1973 — Page 3

around * *~ w J The language arts department of Wawasee high school is being urged to institute a creative writing course to encourage students along the lines of setting down their thoughts on paper. The board and school staff are looking favorably on the idea, it’s all depending on the demand from students. NIPSComan Jay Peffley flinched at being called a veteran athlete and official in the paper a week ago, but actually he is all of this. Jay was an athlete for the Goshen Redskins when he was in - high school, and at least on one occasion pulled his team to victory over Elkhart in a crucial tournament game. When Jay graduated he officiated in games played in a 50-mile radius of his native Goshen with his brother

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Dale, former editor of The Goshen News. He has always had an avid interest in high school sports and is a real booster of the Wawasee Warriors in any phase of athletics. If you happen to be fishing on Lake Wawasee Thursday morning and see a couple fellows fishing in a boat who look mighty familiar, take a second look. They will no doubt be internationally famous racers Gary Bettenhausen and Billie Bukovich. The two racing pros are due to arrive in the area tonight (Wednesday), but we’re sworn not to divulge where they will be staying. Then, in the p.m. the two handsome young men will play golf at the South Shore. A humor note: Would you believe that a local motel has a sign in the lobby proclaiming you’re not at the “Syracuse Hellton”? Charlie Moses, known as “Old Man Moses” to his contemporaries around the Syracuse fire station, pretends to be “really put out” that Kathy

Anderson failed to receive due credit for the work she did in putting the recent police and firemen’s fair parade together. “She did half of the work,” Charlie says and should get half of the credit, along with her husband Joe who was parade chairman. The Andersons are neighbors of the Moses’s, residing at 621 Front street. A girl who can get 40 winks is not sleeping! Which reminds us: LaVada Dean, mainstay at the Syracuse license branch, had a birthday last Thursday. Which one, she isn’t saying. However, on Wednesday, the day before her birthday, a dozen American Beauty roses were delivered to her by a secret admirer. It was signed only “With Love.” And LaVada claims she doesn’t know who sent them. You believe that? Mrs. Rebecca Julier, 376 South Front street, Syracuse, is owner of a new Panosonic 12-inch television set, won at Greer’s House of Gems on a no-lottery drawing. The town of Syracuse stands to gain a new public parking lot on West Pearl street if and when a deal between the town and United Telephone Co. of Indiana goes through. The phone company owns two old houses on Pearl street (119 and 125) which they want to trade for a part of the hill parking lot located north of the utility company offices on North Huntington street. The swap would be of mutual interest and benefit to both parties, and open up some free parking in a more central location. >4 The deal should be heralded as a progressive move. The 45-year-ago column in this paper (Milford section) has an avid reader in J. B. (“Ben”) Wilson, Lake Wawasee resident for the past 20 years. Ben is town engineer for Syracuse, and is J. B. Wilson & Associates, 525 Board of Trade Building, Indianapolis. He was project engineer on road 15 for the state highway department when it was being built through Milford in 1928 — 45 years ago. At that time Ben made some acquaintances in Milford he has long remembered, and reads the “old news” to watch familiar names bob up now and then. Dal and Doris Anglin of Clunette (they’re Nancy Prickett’s parents) were pleasantly surprised one night last week when “about 100” friends showed up at the home of

their son Tom to help mark their 42d wedding anniversary. Perhaps an All-American athlete was born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rankin, in the person of little David Benjamin. Benjamin. His dad was something of an athlete in his heydey, and he’s now swim coach at WHS. But his grandfather, also named Dave Rankin, was a star high school athlete with the Warsaw Tigers and later with the Purdue Boilermakers. He’s now on the athletic staff at Purdue. Grandfather Dave was an AllAmerican, a fact which old time Purdue fans will remember. Betty Brammer is wearing what she calls “the new look.” This we heard: Anyone who can afford to stay at our lakes can certainly afford a regular garbage pick-up! A certain reference to those using the little cans for a garbage dumping ground. If you haven’t seen Camelot at the playhouse, you should. It is by far the best thing ever done by any Wawasee theater group dating back to Doug Cramer and his 1953 organization. It is showing Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights this week, certain to be sell-out nights. The board of directors of the Syracuse Lake Association has announced that its annual membership drive is underway. Initial contact with lake area residents is with a summer mailing — just released. The mailing is to be followed up with personal calls over the coming week end.

Clothing prices zoom It isn’t easy being a consumer these days. Prices are higher you look — and that includes clothing prices, too. In fact, estimates are that wholesale clothing prices are as much as 10 to 30 per cent higher for fall stock this year than last year, says Mrs. Billie Chambers, extension clothing and textiles specialist at Purdue university. “This means,” she continues, “that consumers will pay an increase of two to ten dollars for much of the clothing they buy this fall,” Mrs. Chambers predicts. “For example, one sportswear manufacturer’s average price was $7 last fall; this fall the same manufacturer’s average price has risen to $8.75.” The estimated increases are likely to hit almost every type of apparel — from school clothes for the kids to a new suit for Dad, from a winter coat for Mom to new shoes for everyone. Mrs. Chambers points out that there are several reasons for the expected increases. Among the reasons she lists are piece goods shortage, higher fabric costs, and increased labor costs. In addition, the devaluation of the dollar means further price increases for imported items such as hides, leather goods, and knit items, she notes. Also, manufacturers are paying more than ever for raw materials. Mrs. Chambers says that the cost of raw wool has risen about 161 per cent in the past 15 months'. And as the apparel industries meet the pollution control and safety standards, which become effective during the next five years, production costs will soar, the specialist claims. “The added cost will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.” To help keep clothing prices at a reasonable level — and to keep the consumer buying — the clothing industry may find ways to cut corners. The clothing and textiles specialist notes that some manufacturers are substituting less expensive materials for more expensive ones. They are using imitation leather and suede in place of the scarce and costly genuine. Synthetics and blends are replacing more costly wools and cottons in some lines. And fake fur is replacing real fur on many garments.

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Budget up—(Continued from page 1) The debt service fund rate was set at 88 cents, an increase of three cents and is due to all bond payments being made from debt service funds and none being paid from cumulative building funds, as iri the past. The cumulative building fund ratd of 40 cents remains the same as last year? A_ public hearing on the proposed budget will be held at 7 pim. Aug. 30, at the administration building. In other business, the board accepted the low . bid of Vic Trippel Plumbing and Heating of Mishawaka to replace the boiler at North Webster for the amount bf $32,600 and Walter Lunsford was employed for the 1973-74 school year to teach social studies at Wawasee high school. and assist in football and wrestling. Mr. Lunsford is a 1973 graduate of Indiana university. Also, the board approved an agreement with Ira C. Mast which designated the Lakeland Community School Corporation as escrow agent for funds retained from construction payments of the agriculturalmechanics building. There's a future in fishing By JOHN SINOR x , Copley News Service Sunny days and I see by the journals that sunny Miss Janet Lynn just signed a contract for $1,45 million to do some ice skating for the next three years. I said to the children: “Why don’t you dig out your skates. You haven’t practiced in a long time.” They looked at me as if I were bananas and put on another record. The future does not look too sunny. I don’t imagine there are any $1.45 million markets for kids who know all the intricacies of operating a stereo. Once I had a daughter who said she was going to be a movie star when she grew up. I looked fondly on that child and volunteered to be her personal business manager. I said I would sit out by the pool and do all the difficult paper work. Well, this child is not much of a child anymore, and now she has decided she wants to be a veterinarian. I said to one of the older boys: “What are you going to be when you grow up? Have you thought of medical school? Do you know what brain surgeons make?” He said: “I don’t know if I want to go to college or not. I know where I can get a job as a busboy.” A couple of the boys are IN college. One of them is majoring in philosophy. When he told me that, I opened the classified section to the “Help Wanted” ads. Just as I thought. Not one single “Help Wanted-Philoso-pher” ad in the entire paper. I said: “Do you know there’s a real shortage of work in your line?” He gave me a philosophic little smile. The oldest boy has completed three years at the university. He is majoring in drama. (I thought to myself: “Well, there’s a chance.”) Then he came home and said: “I don’t know if I’ll go back to school next year or not I’m not sure I want to act, anyway. Maybe I’ll just bum around for a couple of years. Take a look at life, you know.” I said: “You might talk to your younger brother. He may be able to get a busboy’s job for you.” I went down the line to the youngest boy in the house. I said: “What about you? Do you want to be any kind of a professional when you grow up?” He said: “I might like to be a professional trout fisherman.” His eyes gleamed a little. So did mine. I said: “OK, but it’s going to take a lot of practice. We’d better get started this weekend.” And the future suddenly looked rosier.

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TO & THE EDITOR

Answers Blocker's comments

(EDITOR’S NOTE — The following letter was received this week from Mrs. William Pipp. It was written to Noble Blocker after he resigned from the Syracuse town board and we felt it of interest to the general public and are therefore printing the copy sent to us by Mrs. Pipp.) Dear Mr. Blocker: After reading your comments in the Syracuse paper I feel you are laboring under a misapprehension as to the duties of a Town Board. You stated that the Town Board was hampered in performing “more important duties” by groups appearing at the meetings with their problems. Those “problems” should have been of prime importance to the Board. Without residents and property owners there would be no Town and no voters and no need for a Town Board. The duties of the Town Board, as elected officials, are to serve the best interests of all the people. It is just as important that the rights of the people already in the Town be protected as to annex another area into the Town. By our Zoning Laws there should never have been a permit for a 12 apartment building to be built on the Front street site. When it was issued through error it should have been revoked immediately. When the people of this area appeared before the Town Board the first time they fully expected this to be the only time. Because the Town Board refused to do their duty the only recourse the objectors had was to continue in their efforts to halt a flagrant miscarriage of justice. At said meeting the Board was instructed, per a phone call, by a lawyer to revoke the permit. If this had been done and the permit re-issued, J through correct channels and legally, as .to size, set backs, etc., there would have been no further trouble. Instead the board took it upon themselves to temporarily revoke the permit and then reinstate it, still not in compliance with the Zoning Laws. It cost the property owners in the effected area over SSOO to try and force the board to do its duty and still they failed. The board even refused to read, accept or reject a petition presented by the group, which had been obtained at the instructions of an attorney as the legal way to handle the situation, an attorney hired at the advice of the town attorney as the correct procedure for the objectors reaching their goal. It was only by going to the Zoning Appeal Board that justice was finally obtained. \ I am sure that not one person } present at the meetings you mentioned wanted to be in a hot, stuffy, overcrowded, noisy

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meeting room each evening anymore than you wanted them there. You gave us no choice. I know, in my case, it was entirely against my nature. At 57 years of age, I had never attended a Town Board meeting, never written a letter to the editor, never carried a petition, never collected money, but when your home and way of life are at stake and “your back against the wall” you learn to fight back. I believe a public apology is in order, to the groups who attended the meetings. We did not hinder your carrying out important

duties, we only tried to get you to perform certairf important duties. I am very unhappy that it was necessary for me to write letters, carry petitions, etc. I also ’ disliked having my name appear in the paper so frequently and therefore I am writing this letter to you personally rather than answer your accusations in a letter to the editor but I do intend to see that Arch Baumgartner receives a carbon so that he can draw his own conclusions as to who is right and who is wrong in this situation. Mrs. William Pipp 806 S. Front St. Syracuse, Indiana Reports theft of boat and motor The sheriff’s department was notified Thursday by Bayne Freeman, r 2 Leesburg, that a 12 foot aluminum boat and hp motor were stolen from Tippecanoe Lake sometime Wednesday night. An investigation is continuing.