The Mail-Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 March 1974 — Page 1

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-. ?* \v 2 •' £ WEATHERHEAD FOREMAN RETIRES— Joy Sims of 2M South Han Ung ton street, Syracuse, became the first foreman to retire at the Weather head company’s Syracuse facility. His retirement, on March 1. brought to a close almost 22 years of uninterrupted service. He was the day shift foreman in the automatic screw machine area. Mr. Sims and his wife Catherine, plan to remain in Syracuse. From this area they will travel to visit their friends la other states. Mainly, they will travel, relax, enjoy life and Joy will spend some time fishing. On February IS. his final day of work. Joy was treated to cake and gif to by his fellow workers. He to shown above just prior to cutting one of the cakes.

Single-car accident results in minor injuries John W. Richards. 61, r 1 Leesburg, received lacerations when the auto he was driving struck a utility pole Monday at 6.55 am OTI SR 13, a half mile south of Nine road County police investigated setting damage at $1,200 to the

—KENYA, EAST AFRICA — Ninth In A S«ri«* Kenya, East Africa, called the ‘Switzerland of Black Africa ’

Uy ARCH AND DELLA BAUMGARTNER NAIROBI. Kenya. Africa. Thirsday, Feb 14 - The countries that make up the vast continent we know as Africa have many and varied faces, and Kenjta has a face all its own. completely dissimilar tram other countries. Kenya has been called by as many different names as there have been viators to this enchanting country One of the nicest compliments the country has received, to our knowledge, came from Raymond Wilkinson, East Africa, correspondent for the United Press International. bi the midst of a long conversation of assessment of East Wktoson* wakt** he thought of Kenys His answer wm net long

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car with only slight damage listed to the pole. Richards refused treatment ARRESTED FRIDAY Delbert E. Lechel. 47, r 4 Syracuse, was arrested at 10:30 p.m. Friday and taken to the county jail on a charge of public intoxication. Arresting officers were Sgt. Richard Mikel and patrolman Jerry Moser of the county sheriffs department.

in coming: “I think it is the Switzerland of Black Africa.” be Mid. We Re-Visit Kenya Coming back to Kenya and beautiful Nairobi is not new to us. for we were here in February 1971 We found it as enchanting as oetare. Our group of touring journalists arrived here on Monday afternoon from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. where we had spent several days. The contrast of the two countries and the two cities - Dar es Salaam and Nairobi - are many and extreme. We flew out of Dar es Salaam early in the afternoon on a Douglas DC-9 (again an American-made aircraft), landtag in Mombasa on the Kenya coast and later landing at the mniftro sii iHHMt fl v i

Psychiatrist speaks to Lions Milford Liens heard an interesting talk Monday night by William A. Kurosky, chief psychiatric social worker at the Five-County Mental Health Clinic at Warsaw. His remarks were concerning cases involving his office, and methods of treating mentally disturbed patients The sevenman clinic serves Kosciusko, Whitley, Huntington. Wabash and Fulton counties, with a population of 177,000 people. Most critical at this time are sufficient hospital beds to serve the needs of the five-county area, and he gave a boost for the proposed Kosciusko Community Hospital to alleviate this situation. The speaker was introduced by Lion Bill Little. Lion Paul Kizer reported on the sub-district convention held Sunday, March 10, at La Ville junior-senior high school, at which Milford Lion D. J. Seely was elected to the state cancer control board and Lion Paul Stilwill of the New Paris Lions dub was elected governor of district 25-G. # Don Wolferman acted as president in the absence of Lion T. A. Miller. He named a nominating committee of Max Beer. Phil Campbell and T. A. Miller

on to Nairobi. Out of Dar es Salaam the pilot told t M pawtowgero to look out the right land side of the plane to see snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro To our disappointment, it was Ttds grant mountain was first discovered by two English explorers about 1840. and when they went back to England to tell about the huge mountain they saw near the equator with snow on its caps, no one would believe them. Their story brought numerous explorers into Tanzania to see Mt Kilimanjaro Then along came the very successful American writer Ernest Hemingway with a book entitled ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro.' and since then Kilimanjaro has been an attraction that has brought many

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Expect crackdown on dumping along highways Turkey Creek township justice of the peace Christian Koher has announced that conservation officers in Kosciusko county, along with state and local police, are initiating a program to crack down on parties dumping assorted debris along public highways instead of using specified public landfill dumping areas. One such offender, George G. Richcreek, r 1 North Webster, was fined $29 in JP Koher s court in Syracuse on Tuesday morning of this week. Charges against Richcreek were dumping debris along the county line road (between Kosciusko and Whitley counties) about two miles east of North Webster. JP Koher said many such offenses were committed along the county line road in the area oi the Richcreek offense, with old pieces of furniture, old appliances, television sets, old bottles and other assorted debris being dumped wantonly. Such dumping has become a county-wide problem, but it has becomelncreasingly worse in the northeastern section of the county, Mr. Koher stated.

Fire bomb Augsburger's Food Palace at Milford

Minimal damage was caused early this morning to Augsburger's Food Palace in Milford when a person or persons unknown threw a fire bomb, sometimes called a “Molotov Cocktail*; at the south side of the

Kb ■ * • B. F IB J 4F I - 4 .BQ INSPECT DAMAGE — Rath Ann Stark, check-out clerk at Augsburger’s Food Palace at Milford, is shown with Dan Bess, assistant manager, inspecting damage done to the south side of the store by a fire bomb early this morning.

From the Kilimanjaro airport into Nairobi, Captain Knut Tveiten. a Norwegian, allowed Arch to sit on the jump seat between him and First Officer Meschach Kitto, a . black It’s a new experience, An* relates, to “sit up front and feel the surge of power” as the big jet lifts off the ground. Another thriD came when the fdane landed at ntainxM. vAbout 150 miles out of Nairobi ,< the plane passed over Amboaefi National Park, a desert-like area where big game is hunted with a camera. We visited Amboseli in 1971 on our NNA trip to these parts, and from the air it looked the same parched earth it did when we visited there. 3wUwVl A first-time visitor at Nairobi is suddenly struck by the beauty of

building' The incident was discovered by town marshal Don Drake as he was making rounds at 3:15 a.m. He called a county unit that was in the area and store manager (Continued on page 9)

this city From the airport into town the boulevards are lined with beautiful bouganvillia in many colors and tit great abundance. Our trips around the dty made us realize colorful flowers are everywhere, not only on the airport boulevard. All of Kenya has only 11.2 million people, mostly black, and it is black-run. Kenya won its independence from England December 12,1963, after years of what was termed “the Emergency,” a period of terror when the Mau Mau struck at the hearts of the white man. Robert Rourk told the story of the Emergency better than anyone in his popular novel “Uhuru." Since that time Jamo Kenyatta, whom the British had kept in prison for nine years, has been Prime Minister, and today Kenyatta at 83. isabove ootitics. 9

Meals on wheels will help elderly and ill stay home

Meals on Wheels which delivers hot meals to the elderly and ill at their homes is being sponsored by the Syracuse Primary’ Mothers club in the Syracuse area. The Syracuse club has been working with the Greencroft nursing home in Goshen for some time seeing that elderly persons and convalescents redeve hot, nutritious lunches in the comfort of their own homes and is now trying to expand the program to Syracuse. The meals enable many persons to remain in their own home rather than give up their independence to move to a nursing home, and, in some cases, shorten costly hospital stays. The Mothers club, under the leadership of Mrs. Tom Leonard who is also a member of the Tri Kappa Sorority of Goshen, is looking for volunteers to get the program rolling in Syracuse. Persons who can serve one or two hours a week or want information about having Meals on Wheels delivered to their home should contact Mrs. Leonard at box 596, Syracuse, or call the Saint Andrews United Methodist church office Monday thru Thursday between the hours of 8:30 and 11:30 a.m.

Chamber talks about promotions In a brief meeting last night, the Syracuse-Wawasee chamber of commerce outlined plans for sales promotions for the community of Syracuse. Leonard Greer was named chairman of a committee on sales promotion. He hopes to outline plans for at least six such retail promotions for the year ahead, coinciding with certain calendar periods. He will name those to work with him on the committee. Other Committees Steve Butt was named chairman of a finance committee and Rick Pinney chairman of an advertising research committee. Each chairman will flush out his committee with his own appointments. Chuck Clevenger, owner of “Mr. Pickwick Men’s Wear” in the Pickwick Block, said stores in the block are planning a grand opening soon and it could coincide with a promotion planned by the chamber. The meeting was chaired by Tom Prickett, owner of “Tom Socks Sportswear” in Wawasee Village. TEMPERANCE BRIGADE On Feb. 22, 1931, a group of women in Florida organized a “Carrie Nation Brigade” to fight bootleggers and speakeasies.

He has been described to us as “a deity.” Everyone loves Jomo. While there is a Parliamentary system of government here in Kenya, no one doubts but that Kenyatta is the all-powerful head of the government. There is voluntary censorship of the press, radio and television, but no one seems to mind awfully much. There are a million radio sets in Kenya, we were told at a at the U.S. Embassy ves;terdav. and only 22,000 television sets, so it’s easy to see radio and the newspapers have the greatest impact here. Kenyatta is smart. After independence, rather than follow a course of bitterness toward the English, he told his people “let’s build on what we have.” There is a move, however, to move blacks inio the shops and to move Indians out. In this land Indians are

*4 t " ' V Sv ' i ’ ' i k iJ&Li v ? K Il St 2^-J IWBWWI .., I I Eo ■ I b y I l| ; J B ‘MEALS ON WHEELS' — If you are about to be a recipient of the new “Meals on Wheels'* program being instituted, more than likely one of these two comely local ladies will be calling on you. On the left is Mrs. Larry (Christine) Clodfelter with Mrs. Liwell (Melinda) Ensinger, member and president respectively of tlie Primary Mothers* club, the sponsoring organisation of “Meajs On Wheels.**

Darrel Grisamer board president

The first order of business of the Syracuse town board last night was to vote Darrel Grisamer in as the board’s permanent president. He has been acting as temporary president for the past several months until board strength could be brought up to a full five-member complement. To Seek Bids Chief of police Dale Sparklin, who is also president of the town’s park board, asked permission to seek bids for new rest rooms at railroad park, and permission was granted. Mrs. Chet Elder, speaking for Syracuse-Wawasee chamber of commerce, requested permission to erect a billboard sign north of Syracuse at the town’s water tower. It would be similar to the sign on road 13 south of town. The board took the matter under advisement until members could talk to area residents to get their opinions. Parking in front of the Boy Scout cabin was discussed fur-

ther. The l>oard agreed that a request should be made of the scouts or Camp Fire Girls to make a permanent sign to be posted on the cabin, asking motorists to leave the area in front of the cabin open for scout business only. A reques; for a town ordinance, was made on this matter of parking, so town police could enforce it. The board will request a representative of Renner (Continued on page 9)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE Precinct committeemen in the Lakeland area are reminding all eligible voters that Saturday, March 23, is the last day to register to vote with the committeemen. Persons not making this deadline will have until April 8 to register at the courthouse where registration is done in the county clerk’s office.

the shop keepers. In neighboring Uganda to the north, General Amin has thrown the Indians out overnight We noticed ill most shops run by Indians there is at least one black employed. Indians call this “good policy.” The British Iniilt a strong civil service in Kenya and telecommunicatiais superior to most african counries. They built railroads, and later airports, and taught the native blacks to fill a role in society. The English certainly did a better job here than the Frerch or Belgians did in countries they colonized, and Jomo Kenyatta and the well-read Kenyans know it, too. The buildings are beautiful, and the streets are clean and well-scrubbed. There are no stop lights, at least none that we have

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