The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 February 1977 — Page 3

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to pay mounting gas bills, says "hogwash” to this type thinking. Like the gasoline shortage, when the price gets high enough there will be plenty of gas available to the consumer. The consumer is being faced with a rip-off of all times, and the whole thing smacks of collusion among the big oil and gas companies. Mail-Journal officials report an ink price increase during the past week of three cents per pound made almost simultaneously by three major ink companies — Flint Ink Corp., Sun Chemical and United States Printing Ink Corp. Why the increase at the samel time by three major ink companies. and why at the exact amount. No wonder the consuming public, is crying “collusion.” It looks like we need a Teddy Roosevelt right now, who had the courage to enforce anti-trust laws under conditions highly similar to those we have today. Good news! The severe winter weather appears to be subsiding. And everyone is glad about it. Stories of cars getting stuck in snow drifts, residents shut in. high fuel bills, and the general ouchiness of it all are legion. Working on a one-on-one basis, county and state highway plows have been out. and have done a magnificent job of opening the drifted roads. It appeared for a time that the roads were plowed

out one day. only to drift shut over night. On Wednesday night this humble scribe drove over the MilfordSyracuse Road at about 1® p m., and noted that in several places the road was a one-car only road. Then at 4:30 p.m. Thursday we became irretrievably stuck in fender -high drifts on the same road ... had to walk back to the Lee Cory home and call for help. It was all Ted Speicher’s four-wheel-drive could do to huff and puff us out of our predicament. As we talked to 85-year-old Cory, he recounted that in all his years this has been the most severe winter of them all. The next night we noted a west-bound car struck a 200pound hog near the Leon Tucker farm home as the hog scampered and slid in an effort to get off the road. / We liked what Melanie Love, pharmacist at Hook’s drugs, said as she meted out prescriptions in 45-degree weather, “We’d better cool it” if we want to conserve what natural gas we have. Leila Connolly (La Petite Shoppe, Pickwick Place) went to her Waubee Lake home last Wednesday and didn’t get back to work until Monday. A young fellow came along with a pick-up truck, hooked on and pulled her out. Asked how much he wanted, he said. "Oh. 120. I guess.” Leila reminded him it took only a couple of minutes to pull her out. gave him 15 and said "That’s enough.” But. in all, most people "have had it,” and are becoming irritable with the constant sub-zero weather. Others are heading south to get what relief they can. Unsung heroes during it all are the factories that are working limited hours with limited heat, but are keeping the production lines open as much as they can. Many jobs have been imperiled at a time when a man needs income the most. The local NIPSCo office has taken the brunt of a lot of the criticism due to high fuel bills and in some instances a curtailment of the natural gas supplies, as if they brought on the severe winters. One complaint they hear is, "Why are they having sporting events when there is insufficient fuel to go around?” The simple answer is that the school and gym are heated with fuel oil. of which there does not appear to be a shortage at this time. Bill Cable is one who went south, if for only a week. He has an acre of seed com planted near Homestead, Florida, in an experimental tract. He wanted to see how it was doing, and flew out of Baer Field. Fort Wayne, a week ago Wednesday just as the winds were beginning to swirl around the hangars on the field. His return was Thursday of last week. Bill reported conditions so severe in the Miami area that ready-to-pick tomatoes were frozen. The nature of the Florida frost was so compelling, he said, that new secretary of agriculture Bob Bergman was on hand to view first hand crop damage in the Sunshine State. Cable called on a number of locals, now enscounced in their Fort Myers Beach hideaways. He brings back a newspaper picture and clipping of the Ochopee’s

(Fla.) post office which view for the dubious honor of being the smallest PO in the U. S. It is 7 by 8 feet in dimensions, was once a fertilizer storage shed. According to postmaster Evelyn Shealy the office serves 350 families and its mailmen cover 122 miles that stretch deep into the Everglades. Avon Bushong and his mailmen don’t know how good they have it! So says Gaylord Jones, who saw to it that the above mention clipping hit our desk. And then there is Louis Hare, owner of Louie’s Bar and Grill, who sent word home about a hole-in-one he made at the Bay Beach country club at Fort Myers Beach recently. He was with Bob Smith. More recently he played with three Milford friends, Bud Dippon, Bud Campbell and Paul Mathews. But, back on the home front, we ‘ noted that St. Andrews United Methodist Church pastor Phil Frew asked his parishioners to “sit close to one another” in their unheated church Sunday morning. The boiler was broken, and worshippers were sitting with coats and hats on. Rev. Frew called it “the Lord’s work” and added that the togetherness would not hurt anyone. In spite of the cold, some 200 were in attendance. Out jat Ben Franklin’s store clerk Ellen Savoy was making up packages for spring sale, and, would you believe, the packages contained tomato, carrott and other seeds for spring planting. It seemed like an anachronism. We had a nice note from Bi(l Spurgeon, eidtor of The Muncie Star, noting that their Saturday edition contained only 12 pages, and they cut their run from 31.00® to 21,000, since there was no way to make rural deliveries. Bill ends his little missle with “Think Spring!” In efforts to give credit due to those people who helped through the times of emergencies during the past snow storms, we printed some incorrect names of dispatchers at the fire station, and left out one name. It was Carl (Hub) Wilkinson, not Carol Wilkerson. and Helen Frushour. not Helen Fleischauer. who served beyond the call of duty. Virginia fgjjbert. who was off during the week end during which many emergencies occurred, has all through the past two weeks served the community by calmly carrying through with her dispatching duties. Snowmen were seen during the month of December when the first snow fell, but Deb Dull has brought to our attention that it has been over a month since snowmen have been observed. Odd isn’t it, now that we have plenty of snow, the newness and excitement of playing in the snow has worn off. During this time of severe weather conditions we’d like to "pat the backs” of two local Syracuse residents who since November have been making dally calls to approximately 10 shut-ins in the area. Ernest Urschel and Georgia Buster have taken a half an hour to an hour each day to check the needs of shut-ins. Their thoughtfulness is appreciated. Volunteers! Calling all volunteers! Georgia Buster has indicated the’need for 10 volunteers of any age to help at the REAL nutrition site. She needs two people a day to work at least one and a half hours. If anyone can help, please contact Georgia. Marise s Ladies Apparel, in the Village, is taking on a new interior look with the installation of paneling and a suspended ceiling And, due to the cramped conditions during remodeling, all merchandise is being sold at half price as compensation for the minor inconvenience Plans are in the making for the Syracuse Business and Professional Women s Club (BPW) to get involved tai an upcoming “COMMUNITY A-FAIR.” Resident humorist Jack Wells is asking friends. “Are you buildingyourArk?” adding, “if it ever gets 50 or 60 degrees out, you’ll need one for the flood.”

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r & i iM SE^EBEiR^Z j W '• MH HANOVER COLLEGE PRESENTS FAMILY COMEDY — In the Hanover College Theatre production of Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor.” a Russian peasant woman (Tracy Brunner) firmly demands justice of a very surprised bank official (Skip Holmstrom). The comedy will be presented Saturday, Feb. 19. at 7:30 p.m. in the Wawasee High School auditorium.

Hanover College Theatre to present 'The Good Doctor'

“The Good Doctor,” a recent Broadway hit by Neil Simon, dean of comedy for the American theatre, will be presented at 7:30 p.m., February 19, at the Wawasee High School auditorium under the sponsorship of Theta Sigma Chapter of Psi lota Xi. It is with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Indiana Arts Commission that this delightful family comedy is being brought to the Lakeland Community in Kosciusko County. “The Goal Doctor” is based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov, the great Russian dramatist of the late 19th and eariy 20th century. As staged by Hanover College Theatre the play is a series of short and highly entertaining scenes which range from the pure farce of a social climber who inadvertently sneezes upon his pompous superior, to the bittersweet portrait of romance during life's golden years. Os particular delight to the young as well as the young-at-heart is the story of a man who earns his living by selling tickets to watch his own drowning in a nearby river. Other scenes depict broad comic aspects of humankind — there is the banker who suffers doubly from the gout and the attacks of an irascible lady depositer; and the sexton who is terribly afraid td take his monumental toothache to an inexperienced dentist. Throughout the evening the drama is supported by orchestrations composed especially at playwright Simon’s request by the talented Broadway musician. Peter Link. In one particularly poignant scene the play moves completely into the realm of musical comedy as the characters break into song. Once again New York’s most successful practitioner of comedy has concocted an evening of sheer delight, rich with laughter and even graced with a tear or two. It is a worthy successor to his earlier hits, “Barefoot In The Park” and “The Last Os The Red Hot Lovers”. The play is intended to be general family entertainment, but it is suggested that adults and children over twelve will ap-

preciate it most. Tickets may be purchased the night of the play at the Wawasee Auditorium or from any member of Theta Sigma Chapter of Psi lota Xi or by calling Mrs. Gilbert Waltz of North Webster.

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14 YEARS AGO, FEB. 14.1963 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carl Overstedt of Milford announce the . engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Jean, to Frederick John Vlaskamp, son of Mrs. Frederick John Vlaskamp, Sr., of Kettering, Ohio, and the late Mr. Vlaskamp. Miss Overstedt is a graduate of Milford high school and is a student at Memorial School of Nursing ai- South Bend. Mr. Vlaskamp is a graduate of Fairmont high school in Kettering, and is now a senior at Ohio Sjate university. He is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fatemity. A June 9 wedding is planned by the couple. 24 YEARS AGO, FEB. 12,1953 Fourteen friends of Michelle Conn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Conn, helped her celebrate her fifth birthday Saturday afternoon,.February 7. The guests were Donald Bucher, Dennis Michael, and Joan Buhrt, Loretta and Roberta Laughlin, Junior and Allyson Anglin. Jeffrey and Judy Dippon, Deborah Bess. Rita O’Brian, Dennis Chambers, and Darla Sue Nelson. Richard Silveus, son of Mrs. Mary Silveus. of Pierceton, formerly of Milford, was one of four county soldiers in an auto accident Sunday night near St. Louis while returning to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. One of the youths suffered a broken arm. They were taken to a St. Louis hospital for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Levemier announce the birth of a son. Timothy M., Monday, February 9, at the Goshen hospital, weighing eight pounds, seven ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Martin W. Levemier of Wawasee. and Mrs. Cloyse Thomas, Milford, are the grandparents. 30 YE ARS AGO, FEB. 13, 1947 Wilbur Baumgartner, owner of the Baumgartner Coal & Ice Co.,

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reported this week that the ice house was completely filled on Wednesday of this week, with very nice 10-inch ice. They began the harvest last Thursday and worked that day and Friday. A 35-mile-per-hour northern wind drove them off the lake Saturday and Sunday. Work was resumed on Monday and the annual job was completed on Wednesday. Fuller Bros, in Milford is selling Coffee for 47 cents a pound. Potatoes, 49 cents pk.; Celery, 14 cents lb.; Oranges, 39 cents doz.; Apples, 3 lbs. for 29 cents, Cauliflower, 16 cents lb.; Cabbage, 6 cents lb.; and Radishes. 2 bunches for 15 cents. 40 YEARS AGO, FEB. 11,1937 Farmer Walter Phillips reports the purchase of a nice, new, shiny pitchfork, to be presented to his wife when her birthday occurs in March. Since Mrs. Phillips has become a farmerette, Mr. Phillips has taken the stand of giving things practical. Thus far the winter of 1936-37 has been as much of a freak as its predecessor. A year ago the East was having the heaviest snows and the lowest temperatures since Washington's army nearly froze to death at Valley Forge. This year there have not been a dozen really cold days along the whole Atlantic seaboard and no snow to speak of. California has been suffering from the coldest winter in years and Florida is baking in the highest temperature on record. GOVERNMENT AID Sixty-three per cent of Americans polled believe it is appropriate for the government — state or federal — to help families pay the cost of a college education. RALEIGH GUILTY Sir Walter Raleigh was found guilty of treason Nov. 12,1603, for an alleged plot to make peace with Spain.

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