The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 51, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 January 1978 — Page 3

Leisure Time

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On Thursday evening, Jan. 19, the Lakeland Kiwanis Club will present its third program of the “Travel and Adventure Series,” “Adventures in Colombia.” The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Wawasee High School auditorium. Presenting the evening’s program will be Romain Wilhelmsen, a resident of East Lansing, Mich. Wilhelmsen attended Saint Joseph’s College for two years and graduated from Pasadena Playhouse. He started his professional career on the stage. However, his heart was not in acting, so he left the stage for a life of adventure and exploration. When he had gathered gy ••' *1 /SME ROMAIN WILHELMSEN

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enough history <m the area to speculate where old treasures might be located, he set out to find and film them. His success has been phenemonal. He has not only found lost cities, missions and forts, but treasure, weapons of war and armor that had not been seen by white men for centuries. Colombia is a treasure chest of adventure that is criss-crossed by lofty Andean ranges, Shangrila-like villages and (tense tropical forests. It is the gateway to the Southern Hemisphere. It is a multifaceted coffee country with thatched hut villages, jaguars and crocodiles, floating

markets and snow-capped mountains only hours* from tropical beaches and cosmopolitan cities studded with 16th and 17th century architecture. Romain Wilhelmsen visits these fascinating regions and probes into the legends of an ancient area. ‘There is the legend of Lake Guatavita in which the “old ones” over a millennium of time threw their precious gold and emeralds. The Spaniards dredged out a half million dollars worth but there is much more there. Down the Amazon River, over three hours by plane from Bogota, is the Colombian border outpost of Leticia. Viewers explore the rain forest and seek out a strange tribe of shy Indian nomads living amid the exotic background of colorful jungle animals and luxuriant forests. Ttien the viewer joins Wilhelmsen in the unsurveyed southern mountains where in 1960 he was shot in a gunfight with Colombian bandits. From there the film goes to the Valley of the Jennifer Miller, Janelle Winters award winners Jennifer Miller of Cromwell and Janelle Winters, Leesburg, were two winners in the recent Multiple Sclerosis READ-a-thon program conducted by the Northern Indiana Multiple Sclerosis Society. Jennifer, from the Cromwell School, received dinner with Digger Phelps and the Notre Dame basketball team. Janelle, enrolled in the Leesburg School, received a stuffed dog. Over 15,000 students from 174 schools participated in the READ-a-thon raising a total of $90,000 for multiple sclerosis. Children read as many books as they could during a four to six week period and then collected money from sponsors on the number of books read. For Kosciusko County, 537 students completed the program reading 6,390 books and raising $7,224.62. A total of 14 schools participated in the program in the county. Garry Valentine at Camp Lejuene Marine Corporal Garry A. Valentine, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Valentine of r 1 box 634 North Webster, has reported for duty with force troops, at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. He joined the Marine Corps in March 1976.

mbia, S. A. Giants where huge 12-foot stone statues stand defiantly in the mountains defying all attempts to identify them. By jeep and pack train the viewers will follow this mystery into the back country and see the strange underground tombs and the remains of a vanished civilization yet to be investigated by an archaeologist.

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PICTURED ABOVE are members of the Syracuse basketball team. The picture was taken around 1918. In the front row are Emory Druckermiller and Andrew Hibner. In the back row are Joel Will (deceased), Orvat Klink (deceased), Guy Rarig (deceased) and Stephen Freeman. This photo was brought into us by Rock’s Antique Shop, located on Front Street. We’re sure many of our history buffs appreciate the showing of this picture. JANE GRADY makes a point that merits further discussion. Jane stood in her wrecked school bus last Thursday watching closely as Rick Littlefield, an army medic, gave first aid treatment to a youngster who was injured in the bus-truck crash that injured four of her young passengers. Jane has been driving school bus No. 37 for three years and had nothing but concern for her young charges. And she knew the route well that she traveled over these years. But on Thursday, the day of the accident, things were different. Her vision to the left was obscured by a large spruce tree and she was traveling uphill on an ice-covered road. She had to keep up her momentum in order to negotiate the hill to the south. Her judgment was good, but what she could not tell, is that a vehicle would be coming over the hill with no earthly way of bringing it to a halt. The crash that ensued brought about this crisis: Jane, as a school bus driver, is prohibited from leaving her school bus. She was lucky; there were homes nearby and people in the area who quickly came to her aid.

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To present program Representatives from the Kosciusko County Soil Conservation Service will speak Thursday evening at the Wawasee Adult Farmer class. Phil Braman and Robert Strombeck will be on hand to discuss current programs offered by the ASCS and to explain recent changes. Questions have arisen in the past few months regarding these changes. It is hoped that this meeting can answer many of those questions The program will begin at 7:30 p.m., in the agriculture classroom in the ag-auto mechanics building. All interested patrons are invited to attend.

But one can easily imagine a situation where a driver’s inability to leave the scene would put him (or her) in a real bind. Standing there in the wrecked bus, Mrs. Grady lost no time in making a pitch for radios for Lakeland school buses. “We really need them,” she insisted. What the public did not know, is that Lakeland bus drivers had presented request for bus radios to the school board for the past two years, and had been turned down each time. This year the drivers asked superintendent Don Arnold and business manager Marion (“Bud”) Lantz to bring it up again. They did not, thinking it would be turned down again. A CB club at North Webster had offered to give CB radios to (at least some) drivers, but this jesture was also turned down by the board. The board’s reasoning: that it would create a clatter on the air waves that could only be confusing, and in some cases create panic among parents where it need not be. Superintendent Arnold said he saw a real need for radios on school buses, but not CB radios. He said he would favor a tower at the school and radios in the individual buses to provide contact with the school. This makes sense. The accident last Thursday involving Mrs. Grady and her bus-load of youngsters had no long-range consequences, it would appear, but it points up a possibility that could be dangerous and unwarranted. It’s a safe bet the issue of having some type of communications in Lakeland school buses won’t be easily swept under the rug.

Ivy Tech survey is underway

A survey of needs of the Warsaw community began the first of this week, as the next step toward obtaining Indiana Vocational Technical (Ivy Tech) classes in Warsaw. Following a meeting last Thursday of Ivy Tech representatives Dean Walter Moore, assistant dean Gene Glod, both of South Bend; Dean Mearie Donica and assistant dean Robert Metter, Fort Wayne; and Robert C. Miller and H. Dale Tucker, Warsaw mayor,

(NOTE: See late breaking story on school board asking for bids on bus radios on page 1, this issue.) It appears Mrs. Grady’s plea will not go unnoticed!. WE KNOW of a local situation where a retired minister of one denomination is filling the pulpit temporarily in a church of another denomination. “It doesn’t seem fair,’’ said one coffee drinker, knocking out the ashes of his caked pipe. Another said, “I don’t see anything wrong with it. It all depends on what it pays.” IF THERE is snow on the ground, you can look for 2,000 to 3,000 snowmobiles to gather at North Webster on Sunday, Jan. 22, in what is billed as the Sled-o-Thon for the Heart Fund. The event is sponsored by the Lakeland Snowmobile Club and the Indiana Snowmobile Association, according to Phil Rinker, that community’s prime mover in this sort of thing. Along with this the .NW Lions are planning a pancake and sausage breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. that day, public invited. LOCAL DRUG firm exec. Ralph Thornburg has done a good job as president of the Kosciusko Community Hospital board of directors, it would appear, inasmuch as the board has under consideration re-electing him to that office for another one-year term. THE SYRACUSE Town Board will re-organize at its January 17th meeting, and it would appear at this point that David Nine, a board member since January 1,1976, is slated to be the board’s new president. Nine, 37, has expressed an interest in the position, while other board members have eschewed the office. Darrell Grisamer, for example, a board member since January 1, 1972, issued a Sherman-like statement, concluding, “If elected, I’ll resign from the board.” John Cripe has expressed no interest, and Clifford Nicodemus said, “No, not me; you can bet on that.” Present board president James C. Tranter said he enjoyed the position,, but that business commitments dictate that he not continue in that capacity. “I would like to continue on the board,” he said, adding, “at some point in time I might even serve as president again.’ 1 Tranter, meanwhile, considers the purchase of the old Syracuse Rubber Co., complex on South

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the survey was announced as the next step in determining whether the classes are needed and the community response. Ivy Tech personnel began researching the community earlier this week to determine the availability of facilities, the number of faculty available and the community response. During a luncheon Thursday, the Warsaw Cqinmunity Scnools offered the facilities of Warsaw Community

Huntington Street for a new town hall as a crowning achievement of his administration. “This thing (the building purchase) is one of the best moves we’ve ever made,” he said. The town is paying $87,500 for the multi-building facility and parking lot, and it has an actual value of from $150,000 to $200,000, depending upon whom one talks to. The town hopes to pay for at least half of it through various grants. The Rubber Company never put the buildings up, for sale publicly, but tilted heavily toward selling it to the town of Syracuse. It should take three months to make improvements before the town facilities can be moved into their new home. No one will deny that the town didn’t make a wise move in purchasing the Rubber Company !ile - SYRACUSE WILL soon have a 32-unit mini-warehouse, according to Paul Beezley of Wawasee Home Services. He [dans to erect a 40 x 150 building on road 8 across from Marineland Gardens for such a facility. If it goes well, he has plans for enlargement, he told this column last week. UNDER THE new sunshine law, or open meetings law, passed last year by the Indiana legislature, all meetings are to be announced two days prior to the meeting date and this information given in written notice to the media. Our Syracuse office received notification last Thursday of all regular meetings scheduled for the Syracuse Town Board for 1978. These meeting dates are as follows: January 17, February 21, March 21, April 18, May 16, June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19, October 17, November 21 and December 19. If any special meetings are called, the same two day notice will be given. CALLING HIMSELF an “on the fence Democrat,” Meyer Maidenberg stood in the Syracuse license branch Monday holding his new personalized license plate in front of the photo of Governor Otis R. Bowen. Having some fun with his friend Jack Vanderford, Maidenberg said, “Jack was too stingy to give me a seventh letter on my plate, so I had to spell ‘Grandpa’ ‘Granpa.’ ” He knew, of course, that the personalized plates could have only six letters. IT SEEMS we made a slight error in last week’s Mail-Journal. We reported that the safe purchased by the Syracuse Town Board was an 800 pound safe. Town President James C. Tranter corrects us by saying it actually is a 1,683 pound safe. There’s an interesting story connected with the safe. It seems the town got a SSO discount because no one could open the safe even with the combination written right on it Noone, that is, until David Nine, town board member, tried. He opened it, no problem at all, but kept kind of quiet about the whole thing so the town could get the SSO off. Original price of the safe was $l5O. The town only paid SIOO. MRS. ROY Miller would like to give some credit to the Syracuse Post Office. It seems she put some money in an envelope in her box at the post office wanting to get some stamps. Well, it seems the post office thought her envelope was

High School for use. Dean Moore stated he believes the classes could begin as early as March, when the next Ivy Tech quarter gets underway. Such classes would be offered on a full-time basis in Warsaw, with limited courses. “I would think that we’ll probably have a campus or satellite or whatever you want to call it by next fall,” predicted Mayor Tucker. “Cause I tell you the response is really tremendous.”

regular mail and sent it to South > Bend for processing. « When they realized their mistake, they called to South Bend and the envelope was quickly returned. Mrs. Miller says this is truly commendable considering there was no address on the envelope. All in all, we, along with Mrs. Miller, commend the post office for “a job well done.” WAWASEE H[IGH School basketball and football fans don’t fully appreciate the dispatch with which they are able to move into and out of the school’s big parking lots. This came to light this week when we heard a conversation about fans who were “stymied” when trying to leave a sporting event at a neighboring school. Credit, of course, goes to the Syracuse Civil Defense unit headed by Tom Gilbert. Tom, head of the CD unit for the past 19 years, is likely to be re-appointed by the Syracuse town board on Tuesday to another year's term. Those unsung heroes stand out in the cold for hours while fans are in the warm gym and their pay is a token. So, here’s an idea: next time you go to the school for a sporting event and see one of the CD members doing their job, roll down the window and say something like, “Hi, fellow, we appreciate the job you’re doing.” That’s really all the pay they want. AMONG THESE men are Tom Gilbert, Paul Van Dyke, Eli Kauffman, Don Wooten, Clair Mock, Don Robinson, Don Blosser and Paul Maring. ROSE AND Bob Willits (Lake Wawasee) celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary by taking their two younger children, Cindy and Jim, with them to California and Arizona over the holidays. They reported seeing very little of Old Sol and that a welcomed inch of rain fell while they were in Phoenix. The children flew home early when the flu bug got to them. / A NOTE from Audrey and Harry Bishop from Flqrida makes us wish we were there. Audrey writes, “We feel so fortunate to be here in our own Shangri-La in Kobe Sound. Harry is feeling much better and is almost his old self again. We fish and sail and just enjoy every minute of living.” She also noted daughter Denise and Arthur E. Nash, Jr., were married Christmas Eve and are living in Nashville, Ind., while Art is finishing his studies at I.U. THE NEW 52 by 120 pole building being erected at American Industries is part of an expansion program that will lead to a Spring announcement of a new American Industries Home Center, according to Ev Ganz. Several booked Several area residents were booked at the county jail over the ' week end. Steven Ray Caudill, 18, r 1 North Webster, was charged with battery (bodily injury). He was released on SI,OOO bond. Gerardo Isidoro Bahena, 24, of 206 Southeast Street, Milford, was held in lieu of SSOO bond for battery (Class B misdemeanor). Bridget Jean Wolford, 19, North Webster, was charged with public intoxication. She was released on $250 bond. Also bbked was Lonnie James Godfrey 16, r 1 Cromwell, who was cßrged with failure to comDlJwith a county court or ‘ der H was released on SIOO bond, I

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