The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 47, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 December 1978 — Page 12

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., December 13,1978

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JUDY (MRS. Bruce) Grindle of Syracuse is the talented artist of the painting of the young boy holding a puppy, which has been presented to the youth department at the Syracuse Public Library. Friends and neighbors of the late Leonard Barnhart collected monies which were presented to the library for a memorial tribute to the deceased school teacher, and the money was used to purchase the picture. A suitable frame is yet to be purchased for the painting. —o— STEVE AND Betty Keim are busy getting established in their recently purchased home, that of the late Ruth Meredith and husband Merton who has moved to an apartment complex. -oFOUR UPTOWN Syracuse merchants are announcing a Moonlight Sale this Thursday night between the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Special discounts and bargains in time for Christmas are being announced by Bales' Butcher Shop, Curtis TV Sales and Ap-

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pliances, My Store and The Stout Boutique. —o—- — THWAITS is still speaking euphorically about a trip he and Doris took to the colorful state of Arizona, traveling in their small Cessna 260 single engine plane. And Thwaits has a lot of very good candid color photos of the places they visited to back up his account. One flight in their own plane took them below the rim of the Grand Canyon — and he has the pictures to prove it. They met L Z Lambert in Phoenix, who showed them around. L Z is a realtor and a brother to .0 A, the latter a real estate partner of Thwaits’. —o—- — SEN. John B. Augsburger is spending more time, when he’s home from his duties with the legislature in Indianapolis, bagging and carrying out groceries in his store in Wawasee Village. It’s popular now for politicians to do on-the-job stints, giving them an insight on how the other half lives.

THE WAWASEE Warriors took on a corps of new enthusiastic supporters with their impressive (75-66) win over the favored Warsaw Tigers here Friday night. It was a big boost in the stock of coach Mike Jones. -oROTARIANS WILL get some inside information on the business and personal implications of the Revenue Act of 1978 at their Tuesday meeting when Jack Lawson will speak on the subject. He is associated with the Fort Wayne law firm of Dunten, Beckman. Lawson, Fruechtenicht and Snyder, who have a Syracuse branch office. —oTHE SYRACUSE Lions will change their meeting place after the first of the year, meeting the first and third Wednesday nights at 6:30 p.m. in the private dining room on the second floor of the Kale Island Beacon. The S-W Rotary Club meets at the same place each Tuesday noon. i —o— MORE ON Syracuse Lions: Their annual Christmas tree sales at the Thornburg parking lot is going well, so says George Bushong and Ray Buhrt, on duty there Monday evening. They began with 300 trees, priced at $6.50, $8 and $lO, with their biggest day Saturday when they sold 51 trees. —o— IT WAS nice to see Diana Leamon back on duty at the NIPSCo office on Monday following an absence of six months, a leave taken prior to and following the birth of a son. Christine Clodfelter subbed for Diana, helping Barbara Vitaniemi hold down the fort. -o—“FARAH FAUCETT” was advertised on the local theatre marquee last week, presumably Farah Fawcett Majors. —o— LONGTIME SYRACUSE resident Hattie Brown remains a resident of Fountainview Nursing Home on College Avenue, Goshen, and sends her Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greetings to friends and relatives this year, byway of The MailJournal. —o— ALSO LAID up at the present time is Nelson Miles of Syracuse Lake, currently residing at the VA hospital in Fort Wayne. -oRON GREIDER, the North Webster Electrolux agent, is pounding the pavement to meet a sales quota which would net him and Mrs. Greider a 16-day vacation in San Francisco. —oNORTH SHORE Drive resident Frank Putt is getting around with the use of a cane since his return from Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Frank is slated for a double hip operation about mid-January. —oIN A personnel re-alignment at the Muncie Star and Muncie Evening News, Wiley W. (“Bill”) Spurgeon, Jr., editor of the Star,

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has emerged as executive editor of both the Star and Evening News. Bill is well known in the area, principally as a summertime resident on Lake Wawasee. He is a local historian of sorts and has presented a number of fine programs on local history and lore, studding remarks with trivia that makes for an interesting program. Publisher James C. Quayle, dad of Fourth District congressman Dan Quayle and son-in-law of the late Eugene Pulliam, is owner of the Huntington Herald-Press and Wickenburg Sun in Arizona. He plans to devote his time to other publishing interests. Eugene S. Pulliam, Jr., is taking over Quayle’s Muncie responsibilities. Does this mean we’ll be seeing less of Bill Spurgeon around the lakes area? This is a question we’ll want to pose to Bill when we next see him. —o—- — NAME of Warren Swartz can be ruled out as the new Syracuse chief of police, replacing Ron Robinson, who leaves December 23, to become, on January 1, the new captain to incoming county sheriff Al Rovenstine. The Elkhart County Sheriffs Merit Board Monday night named Lt. Swartz lieutenant of the security division in that county, a new post. Swartz, a former resident on Pickwick Road, at one time expressed an interest in being Syracuse’s new chief. On Tuesday night the Syracuse Town Board held an executive session to further discuss Robinson’s replacement. At the time they have under consideration the names of Robert Houser, who has openly expressed a desire to be chief, and department member Louis Mediano, who has, in two stints, a total of just over a year and a half with the department. It would appear that board members John Cripe, Darrell Grisamer, Paul Isbell and Forrest Smith will announce their decision at their next meeting Tuesday, Dec. 19. Robinson will continue to make his home on South Harrison Street in Syracuse and will continue through his new post to render police service to this area. —o— BY NOW Jack Mason, the gambler headquartered in Honduras but with ties in the Syracuse area, is scratching his head, wondering why the election bet he paid off to the “Rovenstine people” has caused all the fuss it has. He took 20 minutes in a longdistance telephone call to this column to ask this question last week. “What have I done wrong?” he asked a number of times from his Honduras retreat. He added, “Everyone keeps saying, ‘support your candidate’ and when you do they blast you.” He supported his candidate (Al Rovenstine for sheriff) and how, to the tune of $2,798, or $1 per vote

plurality Rovenstine won over incumbent sheriff John Hammersley. Mason said he and Republican county chairman Ed Pratt, who is taking most of the heat for accepting the Mason money, play golf together occasionally and will bet small sums — "like $lO or $15.” Whoever wins, they put the money into the Republican treasury, Mason said. He added that he was pulling for Rovenstine in the sheriff’s race and wanted to bet Pratt SSO or SIOO, but Pratt refused. It was at this time that Mason threw out the sl-per-vote challenge to Rovenstine. Mason said he “wants everyone in the county to have fair and equal treatment.” and reiterated his right to support the candidate of his choice. His falling-out with sheriff Hammersley came when the sheriff arrested three workers on a Mason development site on Ogden Island on Lake Wawasee “The way he (Hammersley) treated these men was shabby and unconstitutional,” Mason said. Mason had been a Hammersley supporter four years ago. Mason is a registered Democrat, but that has never bothered him from supporting the candidate of his choice, as the Rovenstine support indicates. Meanwhile, the controversial money Mason gave to Rovenstine. picked up by chairman Pratt, handed to treasurer Pauline Jordan, and by now securely deposited in county GOP coffers, has caused an embarassment to county Republicans. It is generally conceded the continuing publicity is to build a fire under the Pratt ouster movement by Republican forces in Warsaw, which by now is fairly obvious. Pratt, too. is holding his ground, and compares the windfall with that of a preacher that accepts the Sunday receipts on face value, not asking where the money conies from. The real analogy of this alludes us. Unless there are other developments in Mason’s civil rights suit against DNR biologist Carl Eisefelder. Mason said he would not return to the Syracuse area until January 18. Fence damaged at campground site Damage was estimated at $175 to a fence at the Jellystone Campground south of North Webster sometime during the week end. Kosciusko County officers theorized that a vehicle apparently slipped through the intersection at a high rate of speed and hit the fencing, then left the scene. Accident occurs on slippery pavement Damages were set at S6OO in a two-vehicle mishap in the parking lot at Switches in Goshen around 1 p.m. on Monday, involving a vehicle from Syracuse. Barbara Weaver, 28, of NewParis reported she was unable to brake her 1977 Ford Van enough to stop and struck a 1972 parked Pontiac owned by Ruth A. Charles of CRI46 at Syracuse. Goshen police investigated.

Milford man in US 30 accident Clifford D. Wolf, 40, Milford, was westbound on US 30 on Warsaw’s east edge, when the brakes malfunctioned on his truck, causing a collision with a car driven by Tony A. Mangas. 29, Columbia City. The accident occured at the intersection of US 30 and Parker St., Warsaw, late Saturday afternoon, Dec. 3. Warsaw city police Sgt. Doug Brumfield said that Mangas had started to cross the highway on Parker St. when he was hit. An estimated SSOO damage was reported by police to the Mangas' car and S3OO damage to Wolf’s truck. The Christmas Tree In Germany, the Tannenbaum. or Christmas tree, is decorated with handcarved toys amidst great secrecy. On Christmas Eve, lighted candles are placed on the tree, to the delight of youngsters. In Poland, lighted candles are also traditional on the Christmas tree, along with brightly colored paper ornaments. Don’t Open Until January 6th In many countries, Christmas celebrating continues until January 6th, which is known as Twelfth Night, the feast of the Epiphany or Three Kings' Day. Because this is traditionally the day that the Wise Men presented their gifts to the Christ Child, many countries exchange their gifts at this time.

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your staff for publicizing the 1978 campaign. The news releases and photographs appearing in the paper’ and The Mail-Journal certainly helped to- tell the story of the services and programs our member agencies — and of “People Helping People.” Sincerely, Timm Bledsoe, 1978 General Chairman and Jim Benzenberg, Executive Director, United W’ay of Kosciusko County "Nothing is more common than a fool with a strong memory." C. C. Colton