The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 5, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 February 1976 — Page 2

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., Feb. 25,1976

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Williams — (Continued from page 1) The committee has a land procurement subcommittee made Up of Karl Keiper. Nelson Beer and Dr. Jarvis Schafer, and a stock sales Committee made up of. John B Augsburger, C. J. Myers and Mr and Mrs Norman Lovell 'ij Eighty-five townspeople attended the “Citizens of the Year banquet j . <5 ’ Bloodmobile — (Continued from page 1) Lucetta Frarftz. with the names of those who have given generously through the years will be displayed Ralph Frantz. Warsaw, is still Kosciusko county's top blood donor, having given over 12 gallons Dr Norman I'phouse. Winona Lake, has given 10 gallons and Marvin W Becker. Warsaw, is a nine gallon donor Eight gallon donors are Dwight Bechtol. Burket and William A Outcalt, Warsaw Alton Bruner. Burket, is listed as a seven gallon donor Six gallon donors Warren Anderson. Joe Miller. Robert E Davis, F Eugene Fisher. Robert . M Hoppus. C Doug Kehler, the late Dr R M Whitney, all of Warsaw, Jam*s R Longenbaugh. formerly of Syracuse. Voyle L. Osborn, Leesburg, and Wiimer H Brubaker. South ' Whitley Joining the gallon donors for the year are Wallace E Z Ulery. North Manchester. 10 gallons. Maurice Beer. Milford, nine gallons, seven gallon donors are Lester A Young. S Richard Ellison. Edmond P Whitby, and

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Joe R Miller, all of Warsaw. G. Freeland Phillips, John E. Haney, and Lucill Brimm. all of Warsaw, have given four gallons D Randolph Ulrey, Stiver Lake is a six gallon donor Charles R Teeple. Leesburg, has given five gallon Three gallon donors are: Patsy Foreman, Guy Hygema, Wade Hall, Audrey J. Fancil. John W Ebert. William Huffer, and Katherine McQueen, all of Warsaw; Keith Hoffer. Atwood; and Donald E Poyser, Burket. Two gallon donors are: Willis E Alt. Jr., Lorenna Jaynes. Cora Baker. Lynn Cole, Bobby Lee Jones. Wilmer E Loher. Lane Anderson, and Dennis C. Cornelius. all of Warsaw; William R. Walter, Richard E. Boganwnght. and Ronald Roger SCott, all of Mentone. Charles F. Taylor and Maxine Laughlin, both of Syracuse; Daniel J. Grahill. William Lome Bartel, and Sharon White, all of Winona Lake. Leon Dee Whetstone and Menno Schwartz of Burket and Etna Green respectively. Also, giving two gallon are Miriam Speicher, Milford and Norman Druckamiller. Syracuse. The following from Warsaw have given one gallon: Brice Medlock. Pinny Breading. Michael L. Laney, Mildred M. Mahoney. Marie J. Holmgrain. Robert D Haney, Gerald F Schildroth. Larry Cripe and Robert C Cockburn One gallon donors from Winona Lake are: Janet E Hoxworth, Larry D Temple. Denise L. Plice. David Paul Staggers, Brent A. Freeman. Robert A. Skeen. Elizabeth Sue Bowman and Parry Absalom; Duane Ronk and Linda Ferguson, both of Pierceton. Everett E Warren, Michael L Gross, Virginia D Stevens. Milford E. Stephens, and Sylvia Dianne Warren, all of Mentone; Linda A. Green. Ray A. Haab and Edith Welty of Syracuse Also. Gerald Funcheon and Maryann Dowty of Syracuse; Carol L. Berkey, Alton Bouse, and Milton Bloom, all of Claypool; Samuel Lundy, North Webster; Donn D. Kesler. Milford; William O Troup, Leesburg. Robert S. Trump. Tippecanoe. Dorothy Schwartz. Joseph H. Schwartz. Marvin Mast and Mary J Mast, all of Etna Green. Donors, ages 17-86. may call

the Red Cross office in Warsawcollect and make an appointment to give. Walk-ins will be welcomed. 'Citizen of YeaF citation “Our citizen of the year has been in the teaching profession for 24 years As a teacher she has worked with over two generations of junior high school students, often going out of her way to help and council students, especially those experiencing unusual difficulties One person writes,‘Her patience and forbearance are a joy to observe and a challenging example to follow ’ Another says. ‘I have observed her car parked at the junior high on Sunday afternoons. There are very few teachers who will spend Sunday afternoon in their classroom planning for the upcoming week. I do feel she is a dedicated teacher and one who has attempted to help the culturally deprived, both in and out of the classroom ’ She has given freely of her own time to teach English to the Spanish speaking people in our community so that they maybetter their chances for jobs and further education She has always been very interested in helping anyone in need and as one person writes, ‘Never have 1 seen her spend money on herself when she knew someone else could use her assistance.* “Another person says, ‘I have seen her buy S2O or S3O worth of groceries for the needy in Milford, then go home and have a piece of toast and cereal; and afterwards sit down and pray that the needy she had just helped would have a better life . . .’ “Our Citizen of the Year is presently sponsoring a young girl from Ghana at Manchester college with both financial aid and clothing. Indeed, her interest in missionary work has taken her not only to different parts of the United States but to Africa as well, enabling us to proudly declare her to be both a Milford Citizen and a World Citizen. “It is with pride and much appreciation the people of Milford tonight pay tribute to this quiet, unassuming, dedicated person who has given so much of herself to others, the 1976 Citizen of the Year, Mrs. Dorothy Williams." WAR ENDS Cessation of hostilities in the Revolutionary War was signed by British and United States commissioners on Jan. 20, 1783. NAVAL RIGHTS The Senate on Jan. 20, 1887, ratified a renewal of the 1875 commercial treaty with Hawaii that gave the United States alone the right to build a naval base at Pearl Harbor.

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| The Co hi m n ■ A Sideshow Os Events In Milford

THIS COLUMN received a post card from Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bucher last week from Florida which stated the Mrs. (Irene) had walked into a beauty shop in Fort Myers Beach and there “laid a M-J. Small world." The Buchers are now back at their Dewart Lake home after several weeks in the south. OUR CONGRATULATIONS are added to those alreadyreceived by Mrs. Dorothy W'illiams who was named as Milford's “Citizen of the Y’ear” last Saturday- night Mrs. Williams is a Milford junior high English teacher and has given much of her time to further the education of others. When she received her unexpected honor of Milford “Citizen of the Year” Saturday night, her handsome family managed to appear from the outer room just as the presentation was being made. All her family but one, that is. Daughter Mary Ann and her husband. Paul Johnson of Indianapolis. did not arrive until the entire affair was over and almost everyone had departed. Reason: they had car trouble enroute to North Webster. Mrs. Williams reasoned: “But that was all right. We had a wonderful week end together” Her other children included son Ed and his wife Linda of Nashville, Tenn., and daughter Eleanor and her husband Max Ruch. 1920 Robin Drive. Warsaw. Almost overlooked is the fact that the new “Citizen" has nine grandchildren of whom she is duly proud. MY. HOW times have ehanged! George and Lillie Auer have resurrected an old hospital bill they received on February 28, 1936, from the old McDonald hospital in Warsaw, now the Alfran nursing home. The bill was for their son. Robert Eugene Auer, four years old at the time, and was itemized as follows: Dr. Baum. $3; intravenous. $1.50; room. 3 days $9. Total. $13.59. BILL LOCK turned into the “Candy Man" on Monday of this week as he gave pieces of candy to the girls in The M-J office. HOW ABOUT the spring weather we have been having? We spotted some golfers out one day last week. Women have begun their spring cleaning and are even out washing the winter's dirt off of windows. Youngsters are enjoying the warmer temperatures with outdoor games and here and there a kite or two is seen flying in the breeze. All in all. one can't help but wonder if we will have an early spring this year! THE SPEARMAN family out Dewart Lake way continues to keep up the family tradition of participation in state events. Father Bob was a member of the .Anderson high school team that won the state basketball championship back in 1946 . . . daughter. Lorene. won honors last year at the girls state track meet and son. Dennis, will be competing in the stale swim meet Saturday. Other sous. Pat and Tom. also were outstanding athletes while at Wawasee and younger daughter. Joannah. may

follow in her sister's footsteps on the track field. HELP IS needed by the Milford emergency medical group in the form of volunteer ambulance drivers. The volunteers must be 21 years of age or older and hold a public passenger chauffer's license. He or she must be within five minutes of downtown Milford and be able to pull duty from home or place of employment. Persons wishing to serve the community in this way are asked to attend the meeting at the EMS building on the second and fourth Mondays of each month Dennis Greider is graduate BILOXI Miss. — Airman Dennis C. Greider. son of Mr. and Mrs Ronald H. Greider of r 1 North Webster, has graduated at Keesler AFB, Miss., from the air training command’s basic course for electronic specialists. The airman, who received instruction in communications and electronics systems principles, is remaining at Keesler for advanced training. Airman Greider is a 1975 graduate of Wawasee high school. Leesburg UM church to have program on cancer March 23 The Leesburg United Methodist church will host a speaker from the Cancer Society on Tuesday. March 23. at 7;30 p.m. The speaker will give a slide presentation concerning cancer. Anyone interested is welcome.

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Plan commission officers named Officers of the Kosciusko county area plan commission were elected earlier this month. They will serve for the next year. Elected were: President — Gale Creighton Vice president — Ron Baumgartner Secretary — Victor Virgil Representative to board erf zoning appeals — Robert Bruce Bruce, from Claypool, is a new member of the commission, been elected by the council of towns as its representative. Youths apprehended in theft case Two Elkhart county youths are to appear in juvenile court in Goshen on March 6 after signing statements in connection with the theft of over SIOO worth of ice fishing equipment from a fishing house at Macy’s Slip. The father of one of the youths brought his son to the Syracuse police station regarding the theft reported last week to Syracuse police of the equipment. The ice fishing house was owned by Richard Bell of Syracuse. The youth involved another juvenile who later sighed a statement of the theft. Kosciusko county officer Tom Kitch and Syracuse officer Joe Thornburg investigated the incident. EMT UNIT RESPONDS The Syracuse emergency unit responded to a call at 1:06 Tuesday afternoon for James Perry. 34, of r 1 Columbia City and an employee at Wawasee Electronics at Syracuse. He reportedly received a shock from equipment he was working with, lost his balance and fell to the floor. A small burn to the left hand was sustained in the mishap. Perry was transported to Goshen hospital. PEACE’ ANNOUNCED President Nixon on Jan. 23, 1973, announced a peace agreement under which North Vietnam would release all American prisoners of war and the United States would withdraw all its forces within 60 days.

j-t.?— t.r—t.y— Congressman Floyd SE ' L Fithian I Reports

Many small towns in the second district may lose their post offices, if the U.S. Postal Service goes along with a recommendation to close 12,000 rural post offices nationwide. I am opposed to such largescale closings of postal facilities. In almost every town meeting I conduct in communities throughout northern Indiana each week end, the citizens I represent speak up and voice their views against reductions in mail service. I agree with them. Controversy began last summer, when the general accounting office reported that SIOO million could be saved if all fourth class and half of all third class post offices were closed. Later, the postmaster general told congress that policies concerning post office closings would be relaxed due to “the grave financial situation in which the postal service finds itself.’’ Certainly all of us agree that the postal service budget needs to be trimmed. But the money that would be saved by closing all these small post offices would amount to just less than one per cent of the postal service budget. I question whether that savings justifies asking two million rural families to do without their community post office. In many small towns, post offices are more than places to pick up mail. They serve as community centers, gathering points where neighbors come together to converse about their crops, their families and the weather. Post offices really are the heart of rural towns. This proposal to close post offices sounds all too much like so many examples we see all the time of rural areas receiving second class treatment from the federal government. Rather than closing rural post offices, I believe we should investigate

ways to streamline all postal operations. We should demand full accounting for the spending of the Washington bureaucrat at the head of the postal service. Moreover, the 1970 postal reorganization act forbids the closing of small post offices solely because they operate at a financial loss. Delivering the mail is a service which the federal' government should provide for citizens in all areas, not just those areas where enough people live to make mail delivery profitable. The law requires that before small post offices can be closed, an “alternative form of service” must be available which would maintain the current level of postal service or improve it for the residents of the area. It seems unlikely to me that closing post offices would improve mail service in rural areas. I will work in congress for any legislation which would prohibit wholesale shut-downs of small post offices. We should set out now to improve postal service, not downgrade it. NEW TITLE Henry VIII on Jan. 23,1542, took the title King, instead of Lord of Ireland. THE MAILJOURNAL Published tw The Mail Journal every Wednesday and entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse. Indiana *4547 Second class postage paid at 103 E. Mam street. Syracuse. Indiana 44547 and at additional entry offices Subscription: St 00 per year in Kosciusko county, SO 00 outside county twf