The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 52, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 January 1979 — Page 10

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., January 17,1979

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ICrjzin around CU£

THIS PAST week end brought shades of last January when the midwest was the victim of one of the worst snow and ice blizzards in a century. Remember? They called it the Blizzard of ’7B. Well, what we went through on Saturday and Sunday night were not that bad in this immediate area, but elsewhere in the midwest the snowfall was devastating insofar as the movement of people was concerned. Particularly in Chicago, where there are beaucoup people, the 20-odd inches of snow- snarled traffic of all types. In our area there were reports of eight inches of snow, but a real lack of strong winds that accompanied last January’s snow. What drifting there was was quickly plowed out by city, county and state crews working around the clock. It would make one believe they are accustomed to heavy snows by now and any storm alert sent them into quick action. A real “thank you” goes out to these valiant workmen. However, it was cold over the week end — make no mistake about this. The lowest temperatures this column heard about were recorded outside a back w'indow of the home of Charlie and Nancy Searfoss on the County Line Road Would you believe 23 degrees below zero! Lois Schleeter. a resident of 213 South Huntington St.. Syracuse, had this cryptic rejoinder as she unmuffled her face after stepping inside: “No one will believe me when I tell them I had 20 below zero this morning.” Tom Gilbert, dispatcher at the fire station, reported 16 degrees below zero; while Suzie Runge, city hall employee, said she had 18 below at her Lake Wawasee channel home at 5:30 a.m. But school patrolman Joe Baumgartner, who has been working the corner of Huntington and Carroll Sts. for four years to guard the safety of youngsters crossing there, reported, “This is the coldest I’ve ever seen it.” adding. “It was real tough.” Joe has 40 to 50 children cross each morning and afternoon and he claims to “know them a(l." Monday morning he had to wait extra long, he commented, to see that they were all safely across Huntington Street. He got rides for several of them. Other reports kept coming in to a point where we lost track. Suffice it to say, “Baby, it is cold outside,” a remark we heard several times.

[FiWEii , I BAN KU J OF WARSAW At about 9 a.m. Monday a photographer for this column snapped a photo of the large time and temperature sign at the Milford bank. As one can see, it shows 11 degrees below zero, and

Lakeland school activities

THURSDAY, JAN. 18 4 p.m. — North Webster sixth grade boys basketball at Pierceton 4:30 p.m., — Milford seventh and eighth grade girls basketball at Nappanee 5 p.m. — Syracuse seventh and eighth grade boys basketball vs at Syracuse

BAKER'S FARM MARKET CHEESE COUNTY LINE OHIO COLBY $l9B $159 I LB. ■ LB. FARMER'S CHEESE S] 79 WILSON REDWOOD • BIRDSEED • BIRD FEEDERS Hwy. 13S 457-4041 Syracuse Open Year Round — Seven Days A Week 9-6

this was at a time when the temperature was on the rise. —O—HARRY VANHEMERT will mark his 81st birthday Friday, the 19th, spending it at his Pottowatami Heights home. He is recovering from a nasty December 20th fall near the garage of his home, causing what he termed a cave-in of his chest cavity. Harry calls it.. painful. He broke three ribs, two of which have fairly well mended, but the other is the culprit in his current recovery program. He and Zora were to leave the following day to spend Christmas at Pella, lowa, with family and friends, but the fall caused a cancellation of these plans. He could not make the threeday state tax board meeting at Indianapolis’ Essex House early this week, but instead deputy assessor Charlene Knispel is working that side of the street for township assessor Harry. —o— WE RUEFULLY learned that the term "insurance adjuster” does not carry the esteem that the term "insurance executive” carries. Dave Smith will know what we mean. SPEAKING OF insurance executives, we learn John W. Walker, now a traveling insurance salesman for Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. in Fort Wayne, will not be returning to Syracuse to ply his trade, as rumored. John and wife Pat continue to reside in their W. E. Long Drive home. —o— A YOUNG man to watch is Don Blosser, not yet 20, who has been signed on as dispatcher at the fire station, replacing Doris Coburn. Asked how he likes his new job, he replies. “I love it." —o— THE COMMODORE Corporation has given a check for SSOO to the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce for its program to buy new and additional Christmas lights for the community. —o— THE HIGH cost of energy is being felt around. A local housewife has confided her plan to cut costs: By making her husband, herself and her two grown sons put 10 cents in "the cookie jar” each time they left a room without turning out the lights. She said. “The money is stacking up in the cookie jar, but there’s an awfully lot of darkness around our place.” —oANOTHER WAY to save is to buy your own wood stove and fire it by hand. If you follow this route, here are some of the hidden costs you might run into, as one fellow did: Item Cost Stove, pipe, installation, etc. $458.00 Chain saw 149.95 Gas and maintenance of chain saw 44.60 Four-wheel drive pickup, stripped 8,379.04 Four-wheel drive pickup, j maintenance 438.00 Replace rear window of pickup (twice) 310.00 ’ Fine for cutting unmarked tree in state forest 500.00 Fourteen cases of Michelob 126.00 Littering fine 50.00 Tow charge from creek 50.00 Doctor’s fee for removing splinter from eye 45.00 Safety glasses 29.50 Emergency room treatment (broken toes,

6:30 p.m. — Wawasee girls basketball vs Columbia City at Wawasee 6:30 p.m. — Freshmen basketball at Bremen 6:30 p.m. — Adult education at Wawasee LRC Annex 7 p.m. — Wawasee swimming at Concord 7 p.m. — Wawasee wrestling at

dropped log) 125.00 Safety shoes 49.95 New living room carpet 800.00 Paint living room walls and ceiling 110.00 Log splitter 150.00 15-acre woodlot 9,000.00 Taxes on woodlot 310.00 Replace coffee table (chopped up and burned while drunk) 75.00 Divorce settlement 33,678.22 First year total costs $54,878.26 Savings on “conventional” fuel, first year -72.37 Net cost of first year’s woodburning $54,805.89 (Wait till next year!!!) —o— ATTRACTIVE MARGARET Kaiser of Syracuse is the new Welcome Wagon hostess for the Syracuse area, who also plans to establish a Syracuse Chapter of the Welcome Wagon, a national organization. Persons desiring more information should call 457-4084. —O'MARY (MRS. Percy) Bartlett informs this column that responses are coming in for the plea for food or funding to feed the ducks on,the channel in Syracuse. Everett Ketring, another help-the-ducks advocate, is heartened by the public response to the plight of these colorful feathered birds in our midst. Brownie Troop 125 used their weekly dues of $5.40 to purchase feed for the ducks during the past week. —O—MAURICE KOHER, long time Syracuse postal employee, showed up for work recently with a beautiful “shiner ”. Denying any walked-into-a-door story, he said he had a minor eye operation that left him with the pronounced left black eye. —O'look FOR an announcement that a new real estate office will soon open at 1006 South Huntington Street, Syracuse. Called Miller Bros. Realty, it will be manned by Tom and Nancy Prickett, who are now associated with Lakeland Realty. The building housing the new business was formerly occupied by Aunt Donna’s and is now owned by Tom McClain. Sparkplug at Miller Brothers Builders, East Monroe St.. Goshen, (CR 34, across from the Elkhart County Fairgrounds), is. Rev. Harlan Steffen. He will remain at the Goshen headquarters of the going firm but work out of the local branch office. Parked car hit Charles H. Thomas, 30, r 1 Leesburg, was involved in a mishap in the 500 block of North Lake St., Warsaw on Monday, Jan. 15, at 6:45a.m. According to Warsaw City Patrolman Lance Grubbs, Thomas’ truck slid into the back end of a parked car, which was owned by Amos O. Music, 508 North Lake St., Warsaw. Thomas was traveling north when the accident occurred. BOOKED SATURDAY Arrested on Saturday by Syracuse police and booked at the county jail in Warsaw was Randy Leer, 20, of Rustic Manor Apartments, and Goshen. He was charged with contributing to the deliquency of a minor, and illegal possession of an alcoholic beverage. He was held in lieu of SSOO bond.

Concord FRIDAY, JAN. 19 6:30 p.m. — Wawasee basketball at Goshen SATURDAY, JAN. 20 All day — Wawasee girls basketball invitational at Concord 9 am. — Junior Varsity wrestling invitational at North Wood 9 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. — Seventh grade basketball tourney (boys) at Syracuse 9:30 am. — Freshmen basketball 4-way tournament MONDAY, JAN. 22 10-11 a.m. — Syracuse sixth grade girls basketball vs Milford at Syracuse 3:45 p.m. — Milford seventh and eighth grade girls basketball vs Bremen at Milford 4 p.m. v- Syracuse sixth grade boys basketball vs Pierceton at Syracuse 6 p.m. — Milford seventh and eighth grade boys basketball at Warsaw 6 p.m. — Syracuse seventh and eighth grade girls basketball at

Also in the South Huntington St. building will be Tom Stiver of Fort Wayne, handling insurance. —O'ROSE GARDEN owneroperator Donna Conder closed the doors of her business in Pickwick Place last Saturday, and is looking forward to spending some time in their newly acquired home in Ligonier, getting organized, decorating, and the like. ate JERRY HULL ■W * V MW jK.; '4 DENNIS BURCH First National names two Dennis Burch and Jerry Hull. First National employees, have been elevated to officer status, Robert E. Boley, executive vice president, announced today. Dennis Burch joined the agricultural loan department of the bank on December 1, 1975. Burch, former Kosciusko County Agent for youth, is a graduate of Tyner High School, Tyner, and received his bachelor of science degree in agricultural education from Purdue University in 1970 In 1973 he earned his master of science degree in animal sciences from Purdue. As assistant vice president. Burch heads First National’s agricultural loan department. He resides with wife Linda and daughters Dawn. Deanna, and Deborah at r 1 Mentone. Jerry Hull, a 1964 graduate of Warsaw Community High School, joined the bank’s personal loan department on January 1, 1975. He was subsequently named an installment loan officer and in July of 1978 was transferred to the bank’s operations department. Named assistant cashier on January 1, 1979. Hull is in charge of the bank's Master Charge and Visa program, 24 Hour Teller operation, and acts as purchasing agent for bank supplies. A former student at Ball State University at Muncie and a 1967 graduate of Sams Technical Institute of Indianapolis. Hull resides with wife Karen and family at r 9 Warsaw.

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Pierceton 6:30 p.m. — Wawasee gymnastics vs West Noble at Wawasee 6:30 p.m. — Concerned Citizens Forum LRC Annex TUESDAY, JAN. 23 4 p.m. — Milford sixth grade boys basketball at New Paris 4:30 p.m. — Syracuse seventh and eighth grade boys basketball at Goshen Whiteman 6:30 p.m. — Wawasee swimming at Plymouth .♦ 6:30 p.m. — Freshmen basketball vs Concord at Wawasee 6:30 p.m. — Wrestling at Whitko 6:30 p.m. — Wawasee girls basketball at Plymouth 6:30 p.m. — Adult education classes at Wawasee LRC Annex WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24 4:15 p.m. — Syracuse seventh and eighth grade girls basketball vs Bremen at Syracuse 4:30 p.m. — Wakarusa seygnth and eighth grade girls basketball at Milford 7 p.m. — Intramurals at Wawasee

Veterans, task force topics for Kiwanians

Steve Blake, head of the Kosciusko County Juvenile Justice Task Force and David Jewel, administrator for the Veteran s Hospital. Ann Arbor. Mich., were speakers at recent Wawasee Kiwanis meetings. Jewel is the son-in-law of Jack Oswald, Syracuse. Blake spoke on how the organization plans on helping the youths of Kosciusko County cope with the many problems that can confront them. He is presently awaiting licensing from the state for a shelter in the county to

12 on ISU dean's list

The Indiana State University. Terre Haute. Dean's list for the 1978 fall semester contains the names of 47 12 students from Kosciusko County who have achieved academic distinction. County students who cached honors are: Claypool — Kathee Jo Schilling. r 2 Milford — Amy S. Vanlaningham. r 1 North Webster — Patricia Joy Hougey. r 2 Pierceton — Angela Kay Bryant, r 1 Milford reviews fire contract Members of the Milford Town Board met with representatives from the fire department and Van Buren Township Advisory Board last Thursday night at the fire station to consider a new fire contract. The town has annexed more area from the township. Walter Wuthrich, township trustee, felt because of this, the contract should be reviewed The board decided more information should be gathered before a decision is reach&i. Another meeting has been scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12. in the town hall. In other business. Town Marshal David Hobbs was given approval to purchase over S4OO worth of equipment including uniforms, a flashlight and an accident kit. Present at the meeting besides .town board members were: Merl Rink. Bob Beer. Bob Ruch. Bill Leamon and Max Duncan

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house up to 10 juveniles who are having problems at home and school. This will be done through objective counseling not only for the youth but also for the parent in bridging the “generation gap.” In Jewel’s speech, the main emphasis was on the veteran himself. He stated the fact there are over 29 million veterans and their families living, making up more than 50 per cent in the U.S. population. Jewel also stated the Veteran’s Hospitals are a major contributor of surgical research and in the training of medical students.

Syracuse — Richard A. Kitson. 418 Parkway Dr.; David Craig Koble; Dawn Adele Price, r 5; Terry Lee Smith, 513 Front Street Warsaw — Kimberly Ann Nikolaev, 260 Gilliam Dr.; Kim Page, r 2; Diane L. Savage, 601 Pam St.; and Brian Wiard, 207 N. Columbia Bryant, Kitson, Koble. Savage and Wiard are on the distinguished honor roll. Grades at ISU are computed on a 4.0 scale and honor students are those who earned a grade point average of 3.50 or higher. The distinquished honor rolls lists students with grade point averages of 3.75 or above and the honor roll includes students with an average of 3.50 to 3.75. The honor listing is prepared for students carrying 12 or more semester hours (pass-fail courses are not computed) and it does not included students who are engaged in student teaching during the semester. Liquor licenses are approved for area businesses Kosciusko County Alcoholic Beverage board members recently approved a new Sunday sales liquor, beer and wine retailer license application submitted by Mary C. Stafford, president of Captain Charley’s Windjammer Inc., r 3 SR 13 Syracuse. The board also decided to recommend approval of the license to the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commision. A license renewal was also approved for the Novellis Resort Hotel Lounge and Restaurant, Inc., also known as the Yellow Banks Hotel, r 1 North Webster, liquor, beer and wine retailerhotel.

PRESENT AWARD — Steve Blake, left, head of the Kosciusko County Juvenile Justice Task Force, was presented an appreciation award by Wawasee Kiwanis President Ron Roberts. APPRECIATION AWARD — David Jewel, right, administrator for the Veteran’s Hospital. Ann Arbor. Mich., receives an appreciation award from W’awasee Kiwanis President Ron Roberts. f

Burglary at Syracuse Enterprises

Syracuse police continue investigation into a burglary and theft discovered at 8:15 a m. on Tuesday. Jan. 9, at Syracuse Enterprises. 301 Medusa Street Discovery of the Episode was by Fred Wolford, with entry

being made through a south front door of the business Among items taken was $5 from a candy box, $25 value placed on a Bradford AM clock radio, and a Demount 8-track stereo with two speakers, valued at $l5O. , >