The Mail-Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Milford, Kosciusko County, 24 October 1973 — Page 1

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Some $406 in cash was taken from the store.

$ 406 taken from Campbell's Market

A thief or thieves entered Campbell’s Market on Main street in Milford sometime Monday night or early Tuesday morning and made off ,with $406 in cash. Over S2OO in change was included in the amount. Entrance was gained by prying the south door of the market open. This is the third time within a short period of time that an attempt has been made to gain entrance to the market. On previous occasions persons have tried to pry both the front and back doors open unsuccessfully. Both cash registers were pried open with paper money and change being taken. All checks

Car demolished in

A1967 Ford operated by Harold R. Huff of r 2 Syracuse was demolished last Friday when it struck a culvert and flipped upside down into the bedroom of a house owned by Mel Collier.

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which had been left in the cash register over night were left untouched as were a number of pennies and nickles. Desk drawers in the establishment were also ramsacked. Milford town marshal Don Drake and Indiana state police detective Norm Pierce are investigating the break-in. CASTRO OUSTED On Sept. 19, 1960, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and his staff were asked to leave a midtown New York hotel after they were discovered plucking and cooking chickens in the rooms.

The Collier home is located south of Syracuse just off of state road 13. Huff was thrown from the vehicle as it struck the culvert in the 6:30 a.m. accident. He was

TRICK °* -ttzJT UNICtF SET FOR MONDAY — The annual UNICEF drive sponsored by the Milford United Methodist church will be held at 6 p.m. this coming Sunday. Area persons are urged to turn on their porch lights as a welcome to the hard working trick or treaters. Halloween plans for area towns Lakeland area towns have set [Jans for trick or treating and clubs and organizations have announced special parties for the young witches and goblins of the various communities. The Milford and North Webster town boards have set Wednesday, Oct. 31, as the only night for trick or treating in their respective towns. The Syracuse town board is allowing trick or treating on Tuesday, Oct. 30 and Wednesday, Oct. 31. Community celebrations in the three towns are as follows: North Webster The merchants, Lions and Lady Lions join in North Webster each year to hold one of the biggest parties in the area. Youngsters will gather at 6:30 p.m. for the parade to the town parking lot where they will vie for over SSOO in cash prizes. An additional SBO will be given in the poster contest with seven categories plus a special contest (Continued On Page 4)

treated at the Goshen hospital for severe contusions and head injuries. Huff apparently lost control of his auto, which was southbound, running off the right side of the

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1973

Hope Nixon can avert constitutional crisis (An Editorial) Most Americans don’t realize how perilously close to a constitutional crisis of unprecedented proportions the country has come to with President Nixon’s adamant refusal to yield the controversial White House tapes. Now it would appear he has given ground and is yielding to orders of Judge John Sirica’s court to make the tapes available. Until this time the President has placed himself above the rule of law, even to the extent of firing highly esteemed prosecutor Archibald Cox and Indiana’s looming William Ruckelshaus in a shocking Saturday move. The firing of Cox and the resignation of his old Harvard law student Eliot Richardson in its wake is about all the American people can stand. On Sunday and Monday pressure on the White House has found vent in a series of resolutions in the congress asking for President Nixon’s resignation or impeachment. The very real spector of impeachment has caused the President to yield the tapes. The White House had certainly misjudged the temperament of the American people. And, even now, after the long hassel in which the President has sought time and again to subvert the real meaning and purpose of the special prosecutor, the American people have a tongue-in-cheek attitude that the tapes just might have been “doctored.” “Is there something in these tapes that will further incriminate the President?” This is the question on the tongues of a majority of the American people. Pollster Oliver Quayle said Monday morning that in a poll taken Sunday, after a traumatic Saturday afternoon and evening, it showed that 43 per cent of the American people favored the impeachment of President Nixon, with 42 per cent against. This alone must have frightened the President to reconsider his stand. If President Nixon is on solid grounds of “Presidental confidentiality,” it all remains fairly obscure to the American people. Not many went for the ruse to turn an edited version of the tapes over to able but aging Senator Stennis, who is still recovering from a January gunshot incident — least of all not Archibald Cox. Senators Ervin and Baker went along with this plan, not because it was wise, but in order to avert a constitutional crisis. In spite of all this, no one can be sure the constitutional crisis is over. Impeachment proceedings will continue to linger, and the tapes might just yield new charges against a president who appears to have been less than honest with the American people. It is the hope of all Americans that the President’s remarks tonight will work to quiet the temperament of the-American people. And if his remarks appear to be another slim flam, it could only arouse new charges. We certainly hope not.

Cromwell youth killed when project explodes

Sixteen-year-old Rodney Heintzelman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Heintzelman of Cromwell, was pronounced dead on arrival at Goshen hospital Tuesday night of injuries sustained while he was working on a chemistry project around 7 p.m. in the basement of the Heintzelman home. A main artery in the neck area had been ruptured by the blast. The youth and a friend, Scott Kay were working on a homemade bomb when an explosion occurred after tapping a filled copper pipe with a hammer. Kay is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kay of Ligonier. Young Kay was treated at the hospital and released for minor abrasions in the mishap. Also in the basement at the time of the explosion was young Jeffrey Heintzelman, brother of the deceased, who was not injured. Services Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Calvary Lutheran church, Cromwell, with Rev.

Plan commission to meet in November

A legal notice appears this week for a meeting of the Syracuse town plan commission at town hall, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, to consider a petition of Donald C. Gardner for a certificate of approval of the

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highway, skidding out of control after coming back on the highway. He then went off the roadway on the east side, struck the culvert and flipped over, landing in the bedroom of the

Graham Kleepsie officiating. Interment will be in Sparta cemetery at Kimmell. Rodney Alan Heintzelman was bom at Goshen on May 18,1957, to Roger and Charlene (Horn) Heintzelman and was a junior at West Noble high school. In addition to his parents and brother, he is survived by one other brother, James, also at home; and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Heintzelmain of Lake Wawasee. Friends may call at the Ulrey funeral home, Cromwell, after 3 p.m. Thursday. Gilbert named CD director Thomas Gilbert is the new city civil defense director at Syracuse replacing Charles Vanderveer who resigned effective immediately. Replacing Gilbert as acting chairman is Terry Rookstool.

preliminary plat to be known and designated as Seaview Estates. The tract of land in Turkey Creek township contains 17.90 acres more or less, subject to road rights-of-way, and consists of 36 lots with sizes and dimen-

house. There were no occupants in the house at the time of the accident. Neighbors said the house had just recently been vacated and several youngsters had been

xjz:., ' V TB fl MMMMTWMMMMH^^^? AT MAD MEETING — Howard Johnson, Kosciusko county welfare director, is shown seated in the center, following his remarks to the Milford Area Development Council last night. On the left seated is Merle Campbell, Milford grocer, and on the right is Edith Baumgartner, president of the Milford Senior Citizens club. Standing on the left is Maurice Howe, North Webster grocer and president of the Heart of the Lakes Businessmen’s Assn., and Faye Hollar, a member of the county welfare board.

Welfare director explains food stamp program

The Kosciusko county welfare office should be prepared to issue food stamps to the county’s poor by March 1, and certainly by April, 1974, county welfare director Howard (“Rosy”) Johnson told members of the Milford Area Development Council (MAD) last night at the Milford fire station. He repeated much of his position as presented to the county council a week ago, which was reported in these columns. Mr. Johnson said he had the approval of Iris county welfare board to ask the county council to advertise in December for startup funds for the new responsibilities of his office. JP BROOKS PERFORMS FIRST WEDDING FRIDAY Justice of the peace James Brooks of Milford performed his first welding last Friday night when he married George Castro Salimas and Maria Beatrice De La Funte. Both are from Milford. The wedding was held in the Brooks’ home. Car destroyed A1970 Font Mustang, driven by and owned by Dennis Rumfelt of Goshen, was completely gutted last night (Tuesday) when it caught fire and burned. Rumfelt vzas en route to the home of his brother, Dane, northeast of Milford at the time of the fire. The Milford fire department was called but the car was a total loss by the time they arrived.

sions, proposed streets, drainage and restrictive covenants and conditions to be imposed. All persons interested in said petition should appear at the meeting for an opportunity to be heard.

sleeping in the room where the car landed. Indiana state trooper Melvin Keplinger is investigating. The Syracuse first aid unit stood by on Friday morning.

He said initially it will cost from $25,000 to $30,000 to open the office and be ready to issue food stamps, but that cost to county taxpayers would be from $2,500 to $3,000 once the program is underway. County-Wide Meeting Mr. Johnson told his listeners there would be a public meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the REMC building in Warsaw at which state personnel would be on hand to explain the new food Stamp program. He urged anyone interested to attend. The food stamp program is not in use in 300 counties in the nation, 55 of them being in Indiana. He said public law 93-86, which will be effective June 30, 1974, makes the food stamp program mandatory. Mr. Johnson said, that in spite

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of his interpretation of the new law, the county council has received a letter from the Ihdiana Township Trustees’ Assn, asking the couhcil “to postpone any action on this matter until additional information is available as to projected cost to the county.” The Milford Area Development Council has been pushing for the implementation of the new food stamp program before it learned that public law 93-86 had been signed by President Nixon, as a matter of concern for the county’s poor. Mr. Johnson had words of praise for the county council for having the best interest of the county’s poor at heart. Other business before MAD was limited in order to give full time to Mr. Johnson.