The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 April 1978 — Page 10
THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., April 5,1978
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Three piece journalism William A. Blair, news editor of the Connellsville (Pa.) Daily Courier, wrote this article for his newspaper, we think the weekly can also say much of -the same. Here is the article: A journalist friend of mine used to quote a phrase from his one-time managing editor, outlining how to look like a seasoned reporter. “Wear rumpled suits that look like you’ve slept in them all night, carry a battered hat, walk with a limp and always have two dimes taped inside your wallet. That was a managing editor of a newspaper in Connecticut, speaking surprisingly enough, only three years ago. , The comment is surprising because that man hasn t * looked around him and seen the changes that have taken place in his field. When historians or sociologists look back upon the newspaper’s history, Watergate almost certainly will become the neat dividing line for most of their cis ssi£i c s t ions Pre-Watergate era still would have seen many of those rumpled-suit reporters hobbling around town trying to dig up stories, busily calling late-breaking news into rewrite men and deftly stealing stories from their competitors — sometimes by drugging their colleagues. . lt . . The days of Mickey Finn journalism, although competition remains keen, has gone the way of lead type. Most of those characterizations belong to the “Front Page” —a movie based on stories of the 1930 sby Ben Hecht. Today s journalist is exchanging his rumpled suits for three-piece ones, transforming from high school dropouts to college graduates with bachelor’s and sometimes even master’s degrees. Post-Watergate journalism is the day of ttye professional working at a profession — not a trade. Pay is getting a touch better than it was. Hours are defined into shifts with normal eight-hour days. Guilds have been formed. College courses are jammed with students dreaming of getting that one big story that will make their name as well-known as Woodward and Bernstein. Perhaps even more important to changes within the field are those that have taken place from without. Along with the new breed of journalists, Watergate also changed the public’s attitude toward newspapers. We re in what I tend to call the White Knight Age, where journalists are expected to be the champions of the people as they go about digging and exposing crime, corruption and scandal. The part is nothing at all new to the fiqld. It’s been happening all along. But now a journalist gains some public status during the tellings. And sometimes he can become a public figure himself. Whether that's good or bad, I can’t say. It certainly has its advantages and disadvantages. But while putting politicians on trial it also has forced newspapers to exercise more integrity because the public will just as quickly put the medium on trial. Each week some discussion arises about the ethics of newspapers - what it should and should not cover. When David Berkowitz was accused of being “Son of Sam,” the public and media members themselves began to wonder if it had been given proper play, or if matters just simply had gotten out of hand. One thing about the profession — it will always change. More eras will continue to follow the Watergate one. Ideas that are now gospel will become laughed at. Computers and other technology will keep making it faster to put a paper out. Scandal will still probably be a part of it. At least as long as the public keeps demanding it. But whatever the biases or drawbacks, I always like to remember a saying by Thomas Jefferson that hung on the wall of my old newspaper. Loosely paraphrased, it goes like this: Whether I had to choose a government without a newspaper or a newspaper without government, I would not hesitate to prefer the latter.
Gets suspended sentence
Robert Dewitt Martin, 23, r 1 North Webster, received a sixyear suspended prison sentence last Thursday in Kosciusko County Superior Court by Judge Robert Burner. In addition to his suspended sentence, Martin was placed on probation for two years and was ordered to make full restitution for cigarettes, milk and a broken window. He broke into the Glen Shear residence, r 1 North
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Webster, February 16, and took two packs of cigarettes and one gallon of milk. Martin was also ordered not to commit any additional alcohol offenses and was fined $lO plus court costs. Judge Burner suggested he participate in an alcohol abuse program. He was placedon probation in lieu of a prison sentence, because it was the first serious offense he had committed.
Niki Pawlicki completes exam for broker Niki Pawlicki, realtor with Todd Realty far the past two years, has received word from die Indiana Real Estate Commission that she has successfully completed the examination for real estate broker. Mrs. Pawlicki, a graduate of the University of Illinois, has also completed a number of courses sponsored by the Realtors National Marketing Institute covering the residential specialties. Prior to her association with Todd Realty, Mrs. Pawlicki was an educational specialist with the Chicago Board of Education. She and her husband, Richard, are local residents. “The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly." Henry David Thoreau
It Happened ... In Syracuse
1 YEAR AGO, APRIL 6,1977 Lisa Meek, alias the Easter Bunny, was in downtown Syracuse over the past week end to the delight of the younger generation. Two area women have joined the staff at First Federal Savings and Loan Association’s new Syracuse branch. They are Melinda Ensinger and Mary A. Waltz. Richard Lemberg, Syracuse artist, has recently had a ceramic sculpture entitled “Elephant” accepted by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art for Exhibition in the 42d annual Tri Kappa Regional Artist Exhibition March 25 through May 8. Mr. and Mrs. Jon S. Bushong of r 2 Syracuse have announced the engagement and coming marriage of their daughter Tanya Reni to Randall Lee Brown of 71695 CR 19 New Paris. 5 YEARS AGO, APRIL 4,1973 Ground was broken late last weds for the new cocktail lounge, on Pickwick Road in Wawasee Village. Paul Van Dyke, son of Mrs. Mary Van Dyke of Syracuse and chairman of the Kosciusko County district of Explorers, is being sponsored by the SyracuseWawasee Rotary Club for the 1973 National Explorer President’s Congress, Washington, D.C. Back from a three and one-half month California visit is Mrs. Earl Treadway of Dolan Drive. Nine-year-old Chris Beezley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beezley of r 3 Syracuse, was the winner of a large, plush Saint Bernard dog in a drawing held recently at the Pickwick Theatre in Syracuse. 10 YEARS AGO, APRIL 3,1968 Mrs. Richard W. Heyde, Syracuse, county president, opened the 50th annuaf con-
Letters to the editor
Neutronic plague!
Dear Editor: Neutron bomb latest ‘gift to civilization — to keep the peace’!! How can this mass murder weapon keep people from killing people? This ‘peacemaker’ will kill people and save property — great for property owners — if they survive radiation and fallout! All erf this promotion while we celebrate the resurrection of Christ the Lord, the Peacemaker whose way of life is seldom tried! Whom do we follow? The power and persuasion of the media and the warmakers — or the Great Peacemaker who speaks softly
Ralph Reiff qualifies for membership ,
Ralph Reiff, sophomore at Indiana Central University, in Indianapolis has qualified as a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association. He is now working towards his certification as a professional athletic trainer, by working with the Indiana Pacers as an
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New law office opens
A new law office opened this week in Syracuse by James R. Howard, J.D., located in Wawasee Village. Howard, a 1963 graduate of Syracuse High School, is engaging in the general practice of law. He has most recently been affiliated with a Fort Wayne law firm, which dealt in estate work and general practice. He was with that firm six months. The attorney is a native of Syracuse. He received his bachelors degree in business administration from the Indiana University regional campus in Fort Wayne. He also received his masters at that campus, in education. In August 1976, he was awarded his doctorate in law from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. Howard’s late parents, Roscoe and Bernice Howard, ran the Syracuse Electric Company for a number of years. He is not married and resides at 118 West
vention of federated clubs held in the Mentone Methodist Church March 27. Barbara Jean Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Fisher, r 4 Syracuse, received the cap of the Memorial Hospital of South Bend School of Nursing in a ceremony held Friday in the First Presbyterian Church, South Bend. Virginia Elijah of Ligonier was elected president of the Syracuse’s Women’s Bowling Association Monday evening at the actual city banquet held in Columbia City. Barbara Orr, well known for her work at Thelma’s Beauty Salon located near the Wawasee golf course, is in the first graduate of Amber’s Beauty School’s new instructor training program at Indianapolis. 20 YEARS AGO, APRIL 3,1958 Burns Van Sickle, well known Syracuse resident, will officially assume the position of Club Master of Syracuse Pack No. 56 at the forth coming meeting of the pack. Liberty Coach Company, Inc., Bremen, announces the completion of its brand new plant at Syracuse. The Syracuse plant has been in production during the past few months with production increasing as the plant neared completion. Qty postal delivery has been authorized for Syracuse by the U.S. Post Office Department. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ruch have announced that they are building a new shop in Wawasee Village next to the Wawasee Lumber Company where Mr. Ruch will conduct his lawn mower service. 45 YEARS AGO, APRIL 6,1933 The county commissioners decided late Tuesday afternoon to have installed, a steel arch 25
and in love for all peoples in need? When will we ever learn that wars are for the benefit of the powerful and the property owners? Isn’t it time to consider learning more about the World Disarmament Conference caning soon? This could be our last chance to save life and civilization as we Know it. Your views and convictions can be sent to your senators and representative in Washington. They need your sharing. George D. Weybright Syracuse, Ind.
assistant to trainer Dave Craig. This past season he was trainer for the ICU Greyhound basketball team and is now working with the Greyhound track team. Ralph is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reiff of the Barbee Lake area.
JAMES R. HOWARD Washington Syracuse. Helping Howard in his law practice is Donna Weaver, secretary-receptionist.
feet long with a stream width of 22 and one-half feet spanning the old boat channel where it cuts across the new Pickwick Road. George Eppert and Judd Searfoss caught 13 bass, the limit, in the Kettle, Tuesday. Otto Eisenlohr arrived from Indianapolis in his new Waco airplane, Tuesday afternoon, and landed on part of the South Shore Golf Course, near the R. B. Tuttle summer home. Carl Meyer of Fort Wayne has bought a lot of Black Point of Lake Wawasee, from Frank Yoder, and plans to build a cottage there. Six have licenses suspended by bureau Six persons from Kosciusko County have had their drivers license suspended by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles for drunken driving. From Warsaw are Michael R. Dixon, 301 S. High Street, from January 11, 1978 to January 11, 1979; Benny D. Fitzpatrick, r 8 Warsaw, from January 4,1978 to January 4, 1980; and Charles A. O’Dell, r 7 Shamrock, from December 28, 1977 to December 28, 1978.
Others are Eddie D. Howard, general delivery, Pierceton, from January 6, 1978 to January 6,1979; Lewis Myers, Jr., r 1 box 194 Claypool, from February 7, 1978 to February 7, 1979; and Donald L. Newcomer, 113 W. Carroll Street, Syracuse, from February 8, 1978 to February 8, 1979.
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Milford's Main Street
THE HOMER Hamptons of out Dewart Lake way have returned from a vacation in the sunny south with a fish story that they delight in telling. They took the Billy Joe out of Panama City into the gulf fishing. The captain of the boat was Joe Knowles and members bf the fishing party were from Indiana, Ohio, Alabama and Tennessee. They made a good team as they caught a total of 455 pounds of fish! The biggest fish landed was a Warsaw grouper or red snapper. It weighed 65 pounds and was caught by the Hamptons. It was a co-op effort on the part of the couple as Annie hooked the fish and Homer landed it. What did they do with the fish? They brought it back home to eat. what else! WE RECEIVED a letter in the mail this past week from Mrs. Tom (JoLene) Holderread who underwent surgery recently in Dallas, Texas. We don’t think she will mind if we share part of the letter with our readers. • “I am sitting up in a wheel chair and I hope to get my stitches removed this coming Thursday (March 30). I have not been told when I will be Indianabound. but I hope that it will be soon.” IT IS hard to believe but we broke records in the weather department last Friday. The official high for the day was 76 — first time it’s been in the 70s since last November. The record was 75, set in 1967. March not only came in like a lamb, it went out like one too. However, that lion was still out there ... he woke up Sunday and the area was hit with another ice storm ... can’t help but wonder if it’s going to be something to look forward to every Sunday for awhile. WE RECEIVED a telephone call from Jill Endicott from out Dewart Lake way on Saturday 'night. Jill was expressing her gratefulness to a young girl by the name of Jennifer who called her just to chat earlier in the day. Jill lives alone and is not in the best of health so is unable to get out as often as she might like. Her mother and father and brothers and sisters stop by for frequent visits, however, last
week her relatives were all out of town and things got a bit lonely. Jill was therefore delighted when the young MisS, who is estimated to be about three or four and who would only give her name as Jennifer, called. When Jill answered the telephone Jennifer said, “Hello, how are you today?” She continued by saying, “I just called to find out how you were.” She then proceeded to chat with Jill for a time, giving the indication she did not know the young woman from Dewart Lake but had just dialed a number and happened to dial her number. At any rate. Jill was delighted in the fact the young girl, whom she pictures as a curly headed blond with pretty dress, brightened her day. WHILE IN our Goshen office last week we found ourselves in trouble as we tried to reach a business via the telephone. W’e kept getting that well loved recording that the number is no longer in service —for a large firm that was in business last week? So, wishing to make sure we had the right number we dialed information to seek help . . . The answer we received from the operator gave us our laugh for the day. In response to our question on the correct number for the business came the reply. “You had better check on it because I don’t know!” A FAMILY carry-in dinner is being planned at the United Methodist Church on April 16 at 6 p.m. Arch and Della Baumgartner will show slides of their trip to India. MRS. ERNEST BAILEY of Our Town has in her possession a poem from her neighbor girl, Lori Richardson. Lori wrote the poem after Mrs. Bailey’s husband died. She shared it with us and we in turn would like to share it with the others in Our Town who knew Ernie Bailey. Lori is in the sixth grade and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Richardson. It follows: I know a man that’s dear to me, He is my nicest friend you see. He died one winter’s day, Unexpected and much to soon. And, Oh I wish he hadn’t died. But he left us with much pride. People think he was so funny, ‘Cause he was as sweet as honey. Everyone did love him so, Shy or why did he have to go.
I know a man that’s dear to me, He is my nicest friend you see. He died one winter’s day, Unexpected and much to soon. DICK DAHLSTROM of west of Milford has been promoted to vice president of marketing of Ziggity Systems. Inc.. Middlebury. Ziggity manufactures unique water flo regulator and the E-Z poultry drinkers for both cage and flock birds. YES, RAYMOND and Tina Pinkerton were completely surprised by the Milford Lions Monday night. However, they knew something was up. Long time friend Otto Wiggs had called and suggested they dine out in honor of the April 6 birthday shared by Wiggs and Pinkerton. Nothing funny there ... but wen he suggested a time to leave, etc., the couple put two and two together and decided their cousins were trying to pull something on them! The Pinkertons will observe their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house on Sunday in the Apostolic Christian Church fellowship hall. GLENN PRICE, home from Sarasota, Fla., after the winter, states he and wife Kate have, purchased a condominium in that Florida city. It’s just down from where Ted and Helen Baumgartner own a condo. DON’T FORGET . . April showers bring May flowers! A LETTER from Joseph Poynter tells of his retiring on January 1, 1977, after completing 22 years with the federal government and 144 years at the Masonic Home in Franklin. Poynter, a former Milford resident, states he plans to visit his hometown this year. CANCER CRUSADE chairman Harold Young reports a total of 38 persons worked in Van Buren Township and Milford, collecting $1,030.71 for-this year’s crusade. Minor truck fire this morning Syracuse Volunteer Firemen responded to a truck fire at 8:06 a.m. this morning, Wednesday, in the parking lot at Hook Drugs. Damage was estimated at $25 to the truck owned by the Dana Corporation and driven by Matt Solomon of Syracuse. Cause of the fire which had been extinguished by the time firemen arrived, was caused by a short in the dimmer switch wiring.