The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 April 1978 — Page 5

tfiUZIN AROUND

THE DIETING craze seems to have hit town again. Last week we heard the praises of the SLENDER NOW program from Forrest (“Bud”) and Mary Lou Smith, r 2 Syracuse. This week we hear from Mrs. Lucy Kammerdiener, 301 N. Harrison Street, Syracuse, who sings the praises of the Conway Diet Institute plan. She has been attending seminars each Tuesday night for a year and a half in Goshen under the leadership of Margaret Stutzman, who she says is “a gal with personality, plus who is full of encouragement and support.” Under this program, Lucy says she has shed over 80 pounds with less than 20 to go. She eats three well-balanced meals a day and doesn’t count calories. For breakfast, she feasts on fruit, <-gg, toast, milk, coffee or tea. Lunch consists of three ounces protein (chicken), vegetables, fruit and bread while dinner includes five ounces meat (no

Certificates Os Deposit Keep The Lakeland Area Growing

(Counting House (Bank Looks To Your Future With Interest a Certificates Os Certificates Os jn Deposit |j I Deposit 1J X7% 4 Tears A? 1 30 Months JR (/ IRA yr. // Account ¥» f Retirement) la fl insured Ju wMk Plans Jr / M Maturityjf/ |w ( Convenient Passbooks \ Open 9-6 | Issued For Your I Federal Regulations provide for a SIX DoyS A Week I \ Records J substantial interest penalty .in \ At |_ ocat j ons ) event of early withdrawal. Qfoutiting Buuae IBank lit. Jjs- Hl (fiamrint Square Millast «rantl| North Webster /./ Anting V* Warsaw M Hjottst H XfffK ffOIRAI otrosif INSURANCt COSrOSAfION

pork), vegetables, fruit, coffee or tea. She added that the Conway Recipe book offers a variety of tasty and calorie-counting dishes. Her daughter, who is 14, also attends the seminars along with other Syracuseans — Keith McDonald who is 50 pounds lighter and Joyce Shouse who has nearly earned her 50 pound award. Our own Arch Baumgartner visited one of the meetings with brother Ted, who is a regular member. The seminars are held in Goshen and Warsaw. Anyone wanting more information, should contact Lucy. OUR SYRACUSE office received a frantic call Monday afternoon by a lady wanting to take a classified ad out of ‘the paper* because the event's been cancelled.

It was too late to take the ad out, but we said we’d mention it in Cruzin. So, anyone seeing the ad for a chili supper at the North Webster Fire Station for Friday, April 14, from 4-8 p.m., please ignore it, the event has been cancelled! HARRY VANHEMERT doesn’t have to do it, but he’s just a politician at heart. Harry is passing out book matches in a “campaign” to retain his office as Turkey Creek township assessor. He is unopposed in the Republican primary, and no one has gone after the post in the Democratic column. He was originally appointed to. the job, then was elected over Joe Gray who made a token bid for the job. DON’T BE too surprised if you hear of a prominent local enterprise changing hands in the near future.

A NATIVE son returns. Jim Howard has come back to his native Syracuse to open a law office. Jim is a 1963 Syracuse High School graduate and an I.U. law school grad. He is an excellent photographer, having won numerous contests as a shutterbug. (Note: See his ad and news article on other pages of this issue.) HAVE YOU noticed area farmers in the field doing early spring plowing? Well, they are, except for those with low land. Most farmers admit to the frustrations of a long, cold winter and they’re anxious to get into the fields. It’s hailed as a sure sign of spring. ANOTHER SIGN of oncoming spring is the disappearance of the ice on area lakes. This week

should see the last of the ice on most lakes; and here again fishermen (the variety with boats) are out for some trolling. FRIENDS OF Bob Deahi (Ogden Island) are wishing him good luck with his trip this week to the Cleveland Clinic for a periodic check-up. Bob underwent open heart surgery 11 years ago at Cleveland. He admits to “a little angina,” cause for alarm and for this week’s check-up. Making the trip with Bob is his brother Anthony of Goshen, who had a similar operation two years ago. Bob tells friends this debilitating heart disease runs in the Deahl family. EVERYONE NEEDS a hobby, so says Wilfred Hodler, r 1 Syracuse (Lake Wawasee). His happens to be the restoration of a 1929 Dodge twodoor, listed as a coach. Wilfred has taken all winter to re-do the vintage car, with his wife Gloria doing the finish painting with an artist’s brush. On Monday the couple were off to Sturgis, Mich., to pick up some wooden spoke wheels for the car. “Parts are coming from all over the country,” Wilfred states. For a long time Hodler has been seen touring the community in a vintage Model T Ford, but the restoration of the Dodge is the first such assignment he’s undertaken. It’ll be done May 1. NELL AND Gary Webb, new owners of the Main Channel Marina, are planning an open house at their new enterprise April 29 and 30. They owned and operated the Wawasee Motel for a number of years, and sold it to Dave and Carolyn Smith when they purchased the marina. They took over the marina November 23. THIS IS spring vacation week for teachers and students in the area, and it’s “school’s out” at Wawasee High. This column has been told some students have taken advantage of the occasion to hit the trail for the Florida beaches, but we’ve not been able to learn who they are. TOM’S ELECTRIC has the stakes set for a new 40 by 60 warehouse to be erected on a sixacre tract on CR 650E, just off road 13 south of Syracuse. He’ll be moving his operation from Leland Addition (near Lake Wawasee’s west shore) to the new location sometime this summer. The location of his new site is just south and west of the Sleepy Owl, and across from the Roy Niles residence. Future plans call for a new residence for Tom and Marilyn and their young family of three children. GOOD NEWS for Tom, incidentally, is the fact that a principal employee of the firm of Tom’s Electric, Bill Rex, will soon be returning to the job. Bill, well known in the Lakeland area, underwent an emergency operation at Fort Wayne’s Parkview Hospital for a double aneurysm on February 28, and is making splendid recovery. YOU’VE BEEN told, now you have to suffer the consequences. Suffer, that is, if you fail to put money in the Syracuse parking meters and are ticketed. Due public notice has been given, and so Monday morning officer Jack Zimmerman was out liberally passing out tickets to delinquent motorists. THE MAIN structure for the new Kentucky Fried Chicken, on South Huntington St, Syracuse, went up Tuesday in all that rain. •Die sign heralded an April 1 opening, which has since been changed to “opening soon.” It’s safe to say opening will be at least 30 days away, but in time for the summer rush. SNOWBIRDS ARE returning from Florida in droves. A new arrival is Dr. George Warner and his wife, home Sunday from a winter’s stay at Winter Haven. They talked of a cool winter, “but better than it was in Indiana.”

They are at home at 300 East Carroll St., Syracuse. The Warners sold their large home on Waubee Lake sometime ago to move to Syracuse. Another returnee win be the LaMar S. Stoops, returning to their 88 East Shore Drive home from Woodsmoke Camping Resort, r 11, Fort Myers, Fla. THE SECOND District race for U.S. Congress promises to generate some steam later this year. Anyone interested in such things know incumbent Floyd Fithian will be seeking his third term unopposed, but he’ll have an opponent in the November general election. Also out in the primary are two other candidates, both also unopposed. They are Phil Oppenheim, North Manchester merchant who owns My Store in Pickwick Place, and Bill Costas of Valparaiso. Oppenheim is running as a Republican and Costas as an Independent. Costas failed to file his candidacy with the Indiana Secretary of State in time and was ruled out as a GOP candidate. Disturbed about “the state of politics,” this religiousoriented man didn’t want to be counted out of the race, so he came in as an Independent. Both men know they’ll have a race on their hands with Fithian, who proved himself an able grassroots campaigner in previous campaigns. Local Republican stalwarts are torn between Oppenheim and Costas, both of whom they like. County to receive *545,463 Kosciusko County will receive $165,210.90 in property tax replacement fund distribution, according to PTRF Board Chairman and Revenue Commissioner Donald H. Clark. This is an advancement on the Spring 1978 distribution. Clark explained that the law requires the state to distribute the funds by May 1 and November 1 of each year, but the board authorizes early distributions to aid counties faced with potential borrowing. Seed cleaners to begin work Monday, April 17 The Kosciusko Seed Improvement Association will operate their seed cleaners for cleaning soybeans again this year. Howard Ganshorn, Clunette, will operate the west side cleaner. Merl Wertenberger, r 3, Warsaw is in charge of operating the east side cleaner. The cleaning schedule will begin Monday, April 17 and continue through May 3. The cleaners are mounted on trucks and go directly to the farm to clean grain. Contact either Mr. Ganshorn or Mr. Wertenberger if you have soybeans to clean.

I I Would Like To Announce I I I Have Opened A | I ICaiu (Mice I I • I

I In Wawasee Village | Syracuse, Indiana | ' Engaging In , I I General Practice Os Law | I Sarnes B. Howard, 3.5. I I 457-5448 J

Wed., April 5,1978 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

U.S. Postal Service to test overseas electronic service

The U.S Postal Service has unveiled plans to test an international electronic message service utilizing satellites to transmit messages between the United States and overseas locations. The program will be in cooperation with the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), the pioneer in global satellite communications, and would involve five or six other nations. “There is an indicated need in today’s society for a less costly and more rapid exchange of information, particularly in international communications,” Postmaster General William F. Bolger said in announcing the project. “This venture with COMSAT demonstrates the Postal Service’s commitment to explore exactly what its role should be in electronic communications.” The contract signed by the Postal Service and COMSAT calls for development of an international electronic message service system and a one-month operational demonstration. It also includes joint Postal Service - COMSAT planning for a proposed field trial of a pilot system. A decision on whether to proceed with the field trial will be made before the expiration of the contract. The system will utilize the satellites of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) and COMSAT-operated United States earth station facilities to send messages electronically between two sites in this country and several overseas locations. INTELSAT is an international organization composed of 101 member nations that owns and operates the INTELSAT satellites. Bolger said the Postal Service has been investigating the use of electronic technologies to process and transmit mail since 1969 and is currently considering ways it might usefully become involved in electronic transmission systems within the United States. “I believe the experience the Postal Service will gain from this international electronic message program will give us important knowledge to aid our thinking about a domestic electronic system,” Bolger said. “Above all, our international program with COMSAT will give us the ability to judge how

(XX3S3S3CXXXXXXXSX3C WE'LL Bl GOOD TO YOU j Worlk Tax, 'f, QmW* WORTH TAX SERVICE takes ! W? » time to ask and to answer tax { V «—» Jr questions that save you money. / i Even if you use the "short * j < form" you may qualify for { / k * & earned income credit, child |i j - 'x* / care credit, moving expenses, F v "-i college credit, income averaging, etc. We are excited j about saving your taxes, we / work FOR YOU I > “I've been impossible since I learned Im worth $750 as a tax deductionMß ; a,// Q ! j -77r77 sTiovt Tit -7ojc ( j 3 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU ) SYRACUSE BRANCH MAIN OFFICE CLAYPOOL BRANCH « J 113 W. Main St. Lakeview Shopping Ctr. 205 E. Section St. f 457-2315 2205 E. Winona Ave. 566-2980 j Open 9 A.M.-9 P.M. 267-4687 Open Evenings & f J Mon. Thru Sat. Saturdays j AAon. Thru Sot J DAY SERVICE

potential users will react to an actual working system.” Bolger stressed that the COMSAT venture was a test only and that a decision about its continuance as a permanent service would be made during the proposed year-long field trial. The system envisaged will scan the original mail document provided by the sender and convert this information into digital electrical signals. By means of terrestrial and satellite con munication links the signals will be transmitted to receiving earth stations in overseas locations. There, a facsimile copy will be made (providing an exact duplicate of the original document) and delivered to the addressee through the traditional mail systems in those countries. New York and Washington are being considered as the sites for the U.S. transmission pants. Bolger said an international approach to an electronic communications system has appeal because it can cut the delivery time over the longer distances intercontinental mail has to travel and eliminate the roundabout routing that mail between countries often must undergo. . The program calls for a phased approach to the development of the service that the Postmaster General said would “maximize the technical, operational and economic chances of success of the venture.” The contract signed today by the Postal Service and COMSAT sets a ceiling of $895,000. It covers the costs for the project with COMSAT through the one-month demonstration phase and up to the scheduled field trail. That one month demonstration — projected to take place in February, 1979 — will not use actual mail. Demonstration material from businesses and government will be solicited for handling and transmission in this phase, Bolger said. The field trail is scheduled to begin about a year from now and would last for approximately one year. The schedule for the program currently is as follows: March 28,1978 — Contract with COMSAT signed. March, 1978 - January, 1979 — System planning and implementation. February, 1979 — One-month demonstration March, 1979 - February, 1980 — Possible field test.

5