The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 6 December 1978 — Page 5

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SANTA WAS greeted in Syracuse on Sunday when he arrived by fire truck at 12 noon and stayed until 4 p.m. Youth of the community may see him again when attending the “Morning with Santa” event at Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Syracuse. The event, sponsored by the Syracuse Primary Mothers' Club, starts at 9:30 a.m. this Saturday. —o— TOWN SECRETARY Vella Baumbaugh was limping Friday morning following an early morning fall on ice and snow while feeding the ducks. WHAT DID we see? UFO’s? An area woman reported to Syracuse police on Thursday a bright flash in the sky over her truck in the area of the old gravel pit on the Milford-Syracuse road. That same night, two Syracuse women traveling northwest of Syracuse in the area of New Paris, saw a bright light in the sky which hovered over their vehicle. One woman even emerged from the vehicle to obtain a better view of the sighting which appeared to be super wide with a green light in the center and white all around it, and making a

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strange noise not comparable to that of an airplane or helicopter, only to have the object zoom away at a high rate of speed. NEW RESIDENTS in the Syracuse community are David and Marjorie Milbourn, who recently purchased the Carl O: Penn residence at 406 South Front Street and made the move from their Gra-Roy Drive home in Goshen to this community. Dave is a retired state police detective and also recently retired from Northern Indiana Brass Company in Elkhart as personnel director. Marjorie, a popular GOP vote-getter in Elkhart County, is currently completing her second term as Elkhart County auditor. BARBARA (MRS. Tom) Strickler, Girl Friday at Thornburg Drug, is still suffering from “pinched pride,” resulting from an early morning skid on the ice on Pickwick Road, near the old Chinese Gardens, in which her late model Mercury struck a utility pole, doing damage to the front right side of the vehicle. “Moments after my accident, here comes a county highway truck with sand,” so says the humbled accident victim. Her first reaction was that the damage was on the side of the car that would be hidden from

her husband when he arrived home. PERT PAT (Mrs. Douglas J.) Naylor, 4233 Abbington Ct. Westlake Village. Calif., is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Anglemeyer, at their home at 32 North Shore Drive, Syracuse. She arrived here last Wednesday and will remain until December 13, visiting while her father is convalescing from surgery performed last Thursday. AT THIS time it isn’t clear whether the Syracuse Town Board will pick a replacement for police chief Ron Robinson from within the department or from the outside. Board president John Cripe has told board members they “should be thinking about this.” He expects a decision within two weeks, in order that the new chief can go over his new duties with outgoing chief Robinson, who will become first deputy sheriff under sheriff-elect Al Rovenstine. Board member Darrell Grisamer returned home over the week end from a vacation with a daughter in South Carolina and with friends in Florida. No decision was expected without his input. It would appear a decision on the new chief will be forthcoming at the next town board meeting Tuesday. Dec. 19. However, after due consideration and cogitation with wife Joan, a State Bank of Syracuse employee, officer Robert Houser has decided to throw his hat in the ring for the ROBERTHOUSER

chiefs post. Houser became a reserve officer in 1970 and a patrolman in May 1975 when Robinson became chief. Inasmuch as he is the only one to have expressed an open interest in the job, it would appear he has a leg up on any other contestant for the job. He is a graduate of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, a 10-week course on law enforcement at Plainfield. Ind., put on by the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board. Robinson and others who have worked with Houser have high marks for the reserved, yet conscientious. Houser. This doesn't mean Houser has the job, however, as the Syracuse Town Board continues to probe other possible candidates for the post, SYRACUSE EMT members are busy this week making announcements in area churches, and distributing a Vial of Life to persons residing in Turkey Creek Township and being serviced by the Syracuse Emergency Service unit. Instructions are included with the vial which would aid anyone in a household needing service from the unit and would have information readily available when the technician arrives. The vial is obtainable free of charge from any EMT member, at the Syracuse fire station. The Mail-Journal office in Syracuse, at area churches and in Syracuse doctors offices. -oAG BEST in Syracuse is holding an annual clean-up auction this Saturday, starting at 11a.m. Their public auction ad in this issue shows it to be a “biggie.” —OHERE COMES Santa again as he arrives for his yearly visit at the Syracuse Public Library during the regular story hour time at 3:30 next Wednesday, Dec. 13. A film will be shown, followed by a visit from Santa with treats. —O'MARY (MRS. Ernest) Bushong was quick to our rescue

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this week in identifying the picture given us of a 9xll hardboard calendar issued by J. W. Rothenberger Syracuse undertaker, bearing a 1909 calendar. The picture of the yUUng girl at the top of the calendar at the blackboard in school and writing “My papa's an undertaker” was just that, being Miss Katharine Rothenberger. daughter of J. W. and longtime resident of the Syracuse community until this past year when she sold her lake home to reside in a retirement home in Muncie. The picture calendar was taken to Johnnie Augsburger at his Syracuse grocery by a person saying it had been purchased at a South Bend auction sale. —O'TOM SOCKS Sportswear is holding its second annual Men's Night this Thursday evening to give men a chance to buy a Christmas gift for that special lady. Refreshments and door prizes will be given away during the night. -oTHE HIGHLY-touted euchre tournament being held at the Elks Club in Goshen will be held up for a time, due to the fact that Hubert Anglemeyer, former Goshen resident now residing at 32 North Shore Drive, Syracuse, underwent surgery last Thursday and has been temporarily sidelined. » According to Goshen jeweler Sidney Sorg. a friend of Anglemeyers, the latter is in the semi-finals of the tournament and the outcome of the event will have to await Anglemeyer's return to the tables. THE STRAY cat that appeared at the door of the State Bank of Syracuse when the bank opened Tuesday morning was quickly befriended and named FDIC. It was fed ham and other leftovers from the employees' decorating party the night before and is now cuddled up before the fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Steve L. Kiefer, r 2 Syracuse. Mrs. (Effie) Kiefer, who just couldn’t resist the woeful eyes of FDIC, is a bank employee. —o— UP WENT the Christmas decorations in Syracuse during the week end and Santa greeted youngsters in specified areas all over town on Sunday afternoon. —o— THE RADIO Shack, which recently moved to new quarters at 300 South Huntington in Syracuse, has purchased the Melody Center inventory adding records, stereo equipment and tapes to their line of goods, and will be holding a grand reopening this Thursday. Friday and Saturday. —o— A BAGEL, is a bagel, is a bagel, thought this humble scribe, but found out differently last week when invited to partake of a fresh bagel direct from Chicago and only three hours old. We found the bagel, defined as a hard glazed doughnut-shaped roll by Webster, to come in a variety of flavors and could not begin to sample all, but topped with fresh creamed cheese with chives really did the trick. Not only delightful, we found the product to be most filling (and undoubtedly fattening) but would accept the invite again at WHH at no reluctance. —o— DEVELOPER TOM McClain is 44 today (Wednesday). A GOAL in the minds of Meyer and Marge Maidenberg, r 2 Syracuse (Morrison Island, Lake Wawasee) is to re-visit Havana, Cuba. They were there 25 years ago and remember it as a pleasant place to visit. In fact, when they were there a quarter century ago, Mrs. Maidenberg underwent emergency surgery and was operated on by Cuban doctors. —o— THE GREAT to-do about Kosciusko County GOP chairman Ed Pratt taking the $2,798 from gambler Jack Mason of Syracuse on the night of the recent election has put chairman Pratt on the spot (more than he had ever expected), and has been an embarrassment to Republicans of the county. Almost all Republicans within gunshot of the event at the Atwood Case, owned by sheriff-elect Rovenstine, on the night of November 7, want to disavow any knowledge of the GOP “slush fund.” It has caused inner circle eyebrows to be raised, as to the motives of it all. Most of the speculation concerning the

morality of it all began right within these same circles. One high GOP office holder in the county quietly told this column that the continuing publicity about the “slush fund” is a vendetta of the Warsaw newspaper to “get” chairman Pratt, and the faux pas on Pratt's part gave them a golden opportunity. While one insider said it was an initial step of the Warsaw paper’s to relegate Pratt to the GOP scrap heap, another said he was receiving a “political spanking.” The Warsaw paper hasn't felt kindly toward Pratt since he made the comment that Reub Williams. Times-Un ion publisher, “dug a hole for himself (concerning rescinding the local option tax) and didn't know how to get out.” (Note: The T-U has plumped against the option tax, got candidates to run for the county council against it, and finally got the local option tax defeated.) Chairman Pratt claims most people in Kosciusko County prefer the option tax to higher property taxes, and that rescinding the local option tax is a mistake and a charade against the taxpayers of this county. This is a split in county GOP ranks that has not year been resolved. Meanwhile, a story has been circulating that gambler Mason, by now secure in Honduras and very unpopular with most Kosciusko County Republicans, tried to give incumbent sheriff John Hammersley some money for his first campaign for sheriff four years ago. Sheriff Hammersley said Monday this is not true. It is true, however, that four years ago Mason tried to dictate the name of the sheriffs captain (first deputy), through a third party, claims Hammersley. but the sheriff would have no part of it. “In fact,” he said, “1 practically threw him (Mason) out of my office over the matter.” When sheriff Hammersley arrested several workers on a Mason development on Ogden Island, Lake Wawasee, Mason and Hammersley had their real parting of the ways. "That’s when Mason began his vendetta against me,” said sheriff Hammersley on Monday. Sheriff Hammersley has been mum through all this giving and taking of money episode, but he promised to have “another side” of the story to tell once he’s out of office after the first of the year. Reservations needed for low numbers The Syracuse License Branch will again have some new low numbers available for license plates this year, according to branch manager Roxanne Hadley, however, they must be reserved and persons wishing to do so may call the Syracuse branch. Mrs. Hadley also reminds persons wishing personalized plates for 1979 that they must be ordered by December 31. Minor damage reported in 2-vehicle mishap There were no injuries and only minor damage reported in a twovehicle mishap in Warsaw on Wednesday afternoon involving a Syracuse woman. Drivers of the vehicles were Debra Neterer, 20. of r 4 Syracuse and Betty J. Miller, 20, Claypool. Warsaw police estimated S2OO damage to the car driven by the Claypool woman which slid into the rear of the vehicle operated by the Neterer woman, at the intersection of North Detroit Street and Gilliam Drive at the north edge of the city. Damage to the car driven by the Syracuse woman was set at $25. Car hit when leaving alley Ginger L. Price, 30, r 2 Milford, was traveling through the alley next to C. S. Myers Ford in Milford, which intersects with Catherine St., when her auto was hit on the front bumper, as she edged the car into the intersection, by a truck driven by Robert Duncan, 33, r 1 Milford. The accident happened at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29. Milford Marshal David Hobbs said the Price car could not see the road clearly because of two autos which were double-parked close to the alley intersection. Duncan’s truck received S2OO damage and the Price car received no damage.

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k XI r I ■ 's! §. ■’ GUEST AT KNUDSEN HOME — Narayan Rao, Prakash. Technical Liaison Manager. X-Ray. Du Pont Far East. Inc., is visiting this week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Knudsen. 167 North Shore Drive, Syracuse. A resident of Madras, located on the Indian Ocean in southeast India, Prakash arrived in the United States last week to attend a Chicago radiology convention, and arrived Friday at the Knudsen home. He attended the Wawasee-Concord basketball game at Concord on Friday night. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Prakash visited Du Pont offices at Kokomo. Indianapolis and Cincinnati. On Saturday night he telephoned via satellite, to his family in Madras, talking for six minutes. Cost: $lB plus 10 per cent tax. Mr. Knudsen has introduced Mr. Prakash to many of his friends in the community. In the above photo, the two men are looking over a booklet published by Mr. and Mrs. Arch Baumgartner, publishers of The Mail-Journal, who had visited India in February of this vear.

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Curtis TV and Appliances. Nappanee and Syracuse, has the most talked about new appliance. Burglary at Milford Steven Ray Pier, 29. Milford, is being held in the Kosciusko County Jail on $5,000 bond on charges stemming from a burglary of a mobile home located at 316 Williams St., Milford. The mobile home is owned by Ron Davidhizar of Goshen and was broken into sometime between November 1 and November 29. Pier was booked on a warrant from the Kosciusko Superior Court for burglary and theft. Milford Marshal David Hobbs investigated the break in last month and stated that entry into the trailer was made through a window. Taken from the home was a lawn mower, furnitue. a chrome vent cover over a stove, a roll of Lewis brand carpet, hand tools, bathroom stool water tank, miler box and saw.

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the portable heater. Last winter Curtis TV introduced the KeroSun heaters from Japan and they ' proved to be a sellout success. Curtis TV says it has had nothing but compliments about this fuel-saving, high efficiency heater The heater burns almost odor-free, and there are not dirty soot or ashes as with wood or coal burners. The heaters run on kerosene and produce as much fumes as one burner on a gas range. .A pushbutton battery powered igniter eliminates the use of matches. Costing only three to four cents an hour, the heaters are economical to run, too, and will produce 8,000 to 18,000 BTU of heat for as long as 28 hours. Kero-Sun can be used as supplementary heaters for the home or garage. And they are great for commercial uses. Many contractors use them on job sites and farmers have used them to keep cattle from freezing. The Kero-Sun makes an excellent heater in such emergencies as the bitter cold and power failures we experienced last winter.

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