The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 14 February 1979 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., February 14,1979

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Editorials

A library for North Webster When people get together and work towards a common goal, good things get done. This is what is happening in the North Webster community as a new library gets ready to open its doors sometime in the future. Most of the credit for the library should go to Suzanne Shock, library aide at North Webster Junior High School, who had the foresight to see the need for such a facility. Many other people, however, have also given part of their time and money to this community effort. But a few include the Lions Club, who donated the building the library will be housed in; the Syracuse and Huntington Public Libraries, who donated books and sound advice; the North Webster schools, for holding various projects to raise money; and many other clubs and organizations, who donated money and supplies. Materials are still needed. Those wishing to donate equipment, supplies or advice should contact any member of the library board. More books and other reading material are also needed. Remember! You, the people of North Webster and Tippecanoe Township, will be the ones who will ultimately benefit from a new library. Support it! Have you voted? Do you live in the Milford area? If so, have you voted? Ballots are being published this week for persons to nominate the 1979 “Citizen of the Year” at Milford. Give it some thought. Who has done the most for this community during the past year? Then vote. It’s simple. All one has to do is fill out the blank and send it to the Milford Area Development Council. Then, go one step farther. Plan to attend the annual banquet set for Saturday, March 3, at 6 p.m. in the Apostolic Christian Church’s fellowship hall and join in the fun as the ninth annual “Citizen of the Year” is named. Remember: Ballots are due by Friday, Feb. 23. Today is Valentine's Day Did Valentine’s Day originate in ancient Rome as a festival dedicated to lovers? Or, did it originate in AD 496 when Pope Galasius of Rome set a day to honor a bishop named Valentine who was executed in AD 270? Or, did the name come from Saint Valentine who lived during Emperor Claudues’s time and who was imprisioned for marrying couples secretly when it was forbidden to get married? There seems to be no general agreement as to the origin of Saint Valentine’s Day as we observe it today. But, does it matter? All of the Roman customs carried over into today’s observance of Valentine’s Day are symbols of love. “Cupid” was a Roman god of love. The rose is the symbol of love. Birds, according to an old tradition, chose their mates on February 14. February 14 has lost much of the romantic characteristics of the old days. Popular in this country are the children’s Valentine boxes and the red, heartshaped boxes of candy and flowers for the older set. Webster says love is, “a deep and tender feeling of affection for or attachment or devotion to a person or persons... a feeling of brotherhood and good will toward other people . . . God’s benevolent concern for mankind . . . man’s devout attachment to God.” This editor likes to think of love as being those things fulfilled in I Corinthians 13:4-8, “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous eflr boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; ft is not irritable or * resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the Love bears all things, endures all things. Lover never ends... ” (RSV). \ Think how much better off this community would be if when we present our loved ones with hearts and flowers today we also show patience and kindness. What would it be like if we would think more of other people than we do of ourselves? What if we would put down wrong and call attention to that which is right ... not just on Valentine’s Day but at all times? Let’s all try it... we can make our little corner of the world an even better place in which to live. e Snowmobilers, helpful, inconsiderate Snowmobiling is a great winter sport in the Lakeland area. It offers fun and ; adventure in the out-of-doors. It’s a growing spprt with more and more participants each year. After the blizzards of 1977 and 1978, many people who reside around the lakes and in the country are purchasing snowmobiles as a matter of transportation insurance against the weather. In times of severe weather snowmobilers have rescued many from stranded vehicles and delivered food and medicine to people who would otherwise have to do without until the roads were plowed out. We salute them for jobs, past and present, well done. Most snowmobilers are helpful and considerate. Then, there is the other breed. The snowmobiler who thinks he owns the world. The one who thinks that since everything is covered with a white blanket he can go anywhere he pleases. This minority is giving all snowmobilers a bad name in some places. This breed of snowmobilers either doesn’t care, thinks it’s cute or doesn’t realize he’s doing damage to grass when he drives across the greens of area golf courses. | Most people wouldn’t think of driving his or her car across private property when the grass is green but think nothing of taking his or her machine across lawns when they are covered with snow, paying little attention to the fact that the runners on his snowmobile may damage small trees buried just below the top of the snow. We don’t know if this second group, and again we note it’s the minority and not the majority, doesn’t know or doesn’t care but we do hope they will take note and watch where they go in the future. What others say — Outgo exceeds income Hardly a day passes but what we read about the deficit spending of the government. Yet, how many people really understand the term “deficit spending.” To put the situation into perspective, consider that your family is trying to live on a budget of $1,500 a month. However, the income totals only SI,OOO a month. You and I both know it doesn’t make sense to spend SSOO you don’t have. Yet, the government continues spending what it doesn’t have and what doesn’t even exist. The difference is, when the government spends money it doesn’t have, it just makes more to pay the bills. That’s right, the government just prints up some new money and presto, the money appears. We all know what would happen to us if we “created” our own money to pay the bills. That’s right, we’d be spending time at a federal institution. The deficit spending by government provides the funds for programs from which there is no return. Revenue from taxes will only pay for so much, and as long as government continues to expand its programs, so will the deficit spending. Sooner or later the voting public will rise up and make sure their elected representatives understand they are no longer willing to pay for programs they can’t afford. Just like the family budget, when the outgo exceeds the income, something’s got to go. A lot of legislators may find themselves “going” in the meantime. The Danville Gazette

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Court news

COUNTY COURT The following violations have had fines assessed in Kosciusko County Court: Speeding — Jimmie Shaw, 17. North Webster, S4O; John Staffel, 21, Syracuse, $35 No vehicle inspection — Michael Troyer, 18, Syracuse, $35 No operators license — Debbie Pearson, 15, Leesburg, $55 No snowmobile registration — Robert Nordin, 18. Milford, $35 Expired drivers license — Weldon Lockhard, 23, Syracuse, $35 False registration — Weldon Lockhard, 23, Syracuse, $35 The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko County court, Loren Collier, judge: SMALL CLAIMS Complaint Morris Folk, r 9 lot 131 Suburban Acres, Warsaw vs Mickey Reinhardt, r 1 Millers Landing, North Webster. The plaintiff demands judgment against the defendant in the amount of $78.94; costs of the action and all other relief proper in the premises. CIRCUIT COURT Claim Filed The following claim has been filed in Circuit Court, Gene Lee, judge: The Dalton Foundries, Inc., Warsaw vs Ron Hoppas, president, Local 6805Tpnited Steelworkers of America*. P.O. 80x305 Warsaw; John VaeleVrr 1 P. O. Box 94 Pierceton; Melvin Shaw, r 7 P. O. Box 49, Warsaw; Billy Adams, r 2 P. O. Box 108A. Pierceton; Don Neher, r 2 P. O. Box 24 Pierceton; Paul Popenfoose, P. O. Box 36 Shamrock Trailer Park, Warsaw; Don Ransome, P. O. Box 794 Winona Lake; Earl Snell, 108 Pope Street, Winona Lake; Shirley Green, r 2 Warsaw; Ron Koehlinger, r 3 P. O. Box 275 Syracuse; Carl Pace, r 2 Country Estates, Pierceton. Plaintiff asks the court for temporary restraining orders without notice for a period of five days from the entry thereof and that the court affix a hearing on plaintiff’s petition and that upon hearing the court grant a temporary injuction herein until final hearing of this action, that the defendants and all of them and all of the members of the defendants association and it’s respective officers, agents, servants, members, employees, successors and all other persons in active contact and participation with them be enjoined and restrained from: Using violence or intimidation by force of mobs or otherwise or other unlawful means upon the employees of the plaintiff’s company or to those seeking employment with the plaintiff’s company or to those lawfully entering the plaintiff’s company plant. Trespassing upon the plaintiff’s premises and from in any manner obstructing, blockading, barricading or otherwise impeding free access over and across the premises to all persons having lawful business on plaintiff’s premises. From preventing and attempting to prevent by mass or mob THE MAIL-JOURNAL (U.S.P.S. 325-840) Published by The Mail Journal every Wednesday and entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana 46547. Second class postage paid at 103 E. Main street, Syracuse, Indiana 46567 and at additional entry offices. Subscription: $9 per year in Kosciusko County; Sll outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of address forms to The Mail Journal, P.O. Box IM, Milford, Indiana 46542.

picketing, violence, intimidation or any threats thereof to any person, including but not limited to non-striking employees. From advising, encouraging and assisting other persons to do and perform the things otherwise prohibited by the court’s order. For the court to fix the proper number of pickets and the proper place for picketing. That the court grant such other and further relief as plaintiff may be entitled to in equity and that upon a final hearing said injuction be made permanent and that the plaintiff have at that time such other and further relief as it may be entitled to, including damages for illegal and unlawful actions taken and engaged in by the defendants. MARRIAGE LICENSE The following couples • have filed for a marriage license in the office of county clerk, Jean Messmore: Breske-Lawrence James Richard Breske, 43, r 2 box 24 Syracuse and Ruth Irene Lawrence, 36, Syracuse Custer-Kunkle Jon Raymon Custer, 24, r 2 Leesburg and Laura Mae Kunkle, 21, r 1 Warsaw Conrady-Heil Garry Michael Conrady, 25, r 1 North Webster and Julia Jane Heil, 25, r 4 Syracuse Marquardt-Stutzman Robert Vern Marquardt, 34, r 2 box 446 Syracuse and Laura Annette Stutzman, 27, Syracuse Umbaugh-Williams John Todd Umbaugh, 25, r 2 Syracuse and Carolyn Williams. 29, r 2 Syracuse Miner-Witham Daniel Wayne Iviiner, 31, r 1 box 125 D, Milford and Carolyn Sue Witham, 27, Milford GOSHEN CITY COURT The following persons have been assessed fines in the Goshen City Court: Failure to have vehicle inspected — David M. Hall, 17, Milford, $32 Expired inspection sticker — Michael J. Brown, 27, Syracuse, $32 Speeding — Michael J. Brown, 27, Syracuse. s4l; Derick J. Norskog, 23, Syracuse, $36 Operating unsafe vehicle — Paul K. Newcomer, 20, Syracuse, $36 BARBEE STORE HAS WINDOW BROKEN John Kussmaul, r 1 Leesburg, reported to police that a window was broken at the Jot-Em-Down Store, r 1 Warsaw, sometime Friday evening, Feb. 2. The store is located at Barbee Lake. Kosciusko County Patrolman Thomas Brindle investigated. BOOKED AT J AIL Calvin Kent Schell, 18, North Webster was booked at the Kosciusko County jail on a county court warrant last Wednesday for criminal conversion, and later released on his own recognizance. Schell was charged with taking part in a January 24 theft of a snowmobile from the cottage of Stephen Davis near Stonyridge Hotel. Youth booked for theft at deputy's shop A 17-year-old Syracuse youth was taken into custody by Kosciusko Gpunty officers on Friday on of theft from Lake Wawasee. Waterson is a reserve deputy with the county. The youth was later released to his parents. The youth was charged with taking $65 in cash and possibly some cigarettes. Entry was „ gained by breaking a back window and crawling through an opening. A lock was also forced on an attached shed at the business.

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: This week's column was written by Rev. Paul Steele of the Calvary United Methodist Church. Rev. Steele served the North Webster Church prior to moving to the Syracuse community a tow months ago. |fi Several thoughts occur regarding the kind of fire truck or equipment needed for the excellent volunteer fire department such as we have in Syracuse . . . New equipment needs to be bought in line with existing equipment . Satisfy insurance requirements ... Be easily adaptible to equipment already in use . . . Truly upgrade present equipment . . . Close consultation should be held with volunteers who are actually fighting the fires, for they know what is needed in terms of getting the job done quickly and efficiently. BUT WE are sure that the situation will never get as bad as in the story of a volunteer fire department which needed new fire hose. The problem was simple. If something wasn't done quickly, men and equipment would get to a fire and the hoses would burst. There developed in the community a great debate, with the usual experts on either side, between those who warned blue circled hose and those who wanted red striped hose — same quality, same kind. The debate raged on for a year, until one cold morning in winter when a big fire came. The hose was laid and the water was turned on and all of it burst! THE NEXT time your new car gets stalled in traffic (it’s usually because of pollution controls), think on the irony of it all. First the federal government declares that we need to cut down on pollution in the air. So we have someone in Washington (whose salary we are paying) telling auto-makers in Detroit to put on the non-workable polution controls which decrease gas mileage, cause stall-outs, inflate repair bills on carburetors, and raise the epithet quotient! (Look that one up.) Then after decreasing gas mileage and increasing gas consumption along with innumerable trips to the repairman, the same government says we have to cut down on gas consumption. To do that, the government says we need $1 a gallon gas. Meanwhile, someone is supposed to fight inflation! My solution is to try gas-ohol. Not much, but it is a try! And in the spring, 1 am going to try walking to work. I am never very sure which is the most profitable business in the world — the automakers, the oil companies, or the baloney-slicers in Washington. Perhaps Nelson Rockerfeller was right. He wanted to start a billion dollar energy development fund six or seven years ago, and no one was listening then. WHILE THIS writer has an attitude towards Little League much like the movie “Bad News Bears”, we need to hear some words in favor of lights at the newly-constructed Vega Field. Federal Revenue Sharing has been used for everything from establishing public parks to policemen’s salaries. The money has been appropriated and will be spent somewhere. If a community refuses to seek such funds, the same dollars are spent elsewhere. The main intent of Federal Revenue Sharing is to provide seed money for developments which have community benefit. Operations and upkeep of a project are to be carried by the community after the initial, and many times substantial, investment. Syracuse is the only town in about 15 surrounding communities that does not have a lighted Little League Field. Little League has grown from 75 kids five years ago to over 300 this past summer, with another 100 desiring to play. Because of time factors and darkness, all games were cut last summer from one to three innings. Last year, profits from special projects and concessions were around $2,200. (Therefore, there is enough money to pay for the estimated S6OO-700 light operating costs.) While NIPSCo estimates the cost of lighting installation to be $10,400, donations and the right kind of help could cut this cost considerably. A portion of Federal Revenue. Sharing is a very logical source of money for engaging Little League age youngsters in worthwhile activities. Personally, I would far rather see our taxes go here than to another prison or another

missile. ANOTHER GOOD candidate for Federal Revenue Sharing might be the Syracuse Day Care Center. The Day Care Board has been asked to seek a ground-floor facility by the State of Indiana. The number of kids taken care of is limited to 40, with many more seeking application. Ways and means are sought to accomodate upto 100 children for the five day, 6a.m. to6p.m. program. A NON-CANDIDATE for Federal Revenue Sharing is the planned Oakwood Park Adult Learning Center. Primary solicitation of funds is made through the United Methodist Church, but any donors are welcome! The development committee met recently and hopes to be able to hire a director soon to develop plans and programming for the future. Pleadges and contributions are coming near to the three-fourths needed before construction can begin. An adult retreat center of this nature promises to bring more new people to this area and will contribute to a bright economic future for the community. LAKELAND YOUTH Center, along with the Syracuse Ministerial Association, is promoting a Dartball League. Dartball is essentially baseball, but played with darts. Through a generous donation, a Dartball board has been ordered, and will soon be

Congressman "JgW T Floyd ’jL * Fithian Reports 5

When the tractors rolled into Washington last week, national attention once again focused on farm economics. As in the 1977 tractorcade, members of the American Agricultural Movement this year succeeded in reminding American consumers of the problems faced by agricultural producers. But who could have imagined a few years ago the scenes which we have witnessed recently on television news programs? We have seen police swinging billy clubs not at anti-war protesters, as we saw so frequently in the Sixties, but at farmers — many of whom strenuously opposed those demonstration methods 10 years ago. Tear gas wafted over the Mall not to dispel violent youths, but to break up a boisterous crowd of farmers, many of them middle-aged. A tractor was burned in the shadow of the Capitol. Police officers were roughed up. Police cars were vandalized and public property was destroyed. Not all of the farmers in Washington last week participated in those militant actions, of course. And we must remember that the right to assemble and speak one’s mind is protected by our Constitution. The farmers were exercising their rights as American citizens. As a member of the House Agriculture Committee and a farmer myself for many years, though, I heard the questions of people who saw the farmer demonstrations on television read about them in the newspapers. I was asked, “Is this the American farmer speaking? Do these demonstrators represent your Indiana farm constituents?” I hesitated to answer, because anyone who thinks he can speak for all farmers either doesn’t understand what an independent breed we are or is just deluding himself. As I reflected on what I had seen in Washington, though, I concluded that the farmers in the tractorcade had both helped and hurt the cause of American agriculture. The farmers on the Mall did themselves no favor by adopting such abrasive techniques. They got attention, all right, but I wonder whether it is the kind that is likely to do much good for the cause of improving farm income. On the other hand, the demonstrations in Washington reminded consumers of some of the problems facing farmers today. Average yearly price increases for corn and wheat since 1967 have been roughly one-half the increase in prices paid overall by farmers. Although net farm income reached the second highest mark in our history last year, we still have a long way to go before health is restored to the U.S. farm economy.

available to travel from church to church with the hopes of building up interest and develop into a league. Players can be anywhere from eight years old to 80 years young. THERE WAS a certain little boy who was lost in the huge church building after Sunday School. He was paged over the publicaddress system and was suitably impressed. “Yes, God.” he answered, "I’m right here.” (What a wonderful place to get lost in!) SPEAKING OF summer baseball why not think spring? It is just around the corner. An Elkhart Garden Club member sa w a purple finch a couple of weeks ago. And purple finches are supposed to be the earliest arrivals. When the birdies begin to come back, it makes me think of the limerick: “Spring is sprung. The grass is riz, 1 wonder where the flowers is?” CONTRARY TO implications given in a news item which appeared in this paper several weeks ago, the Commodore Corporation, Inc.. Syracuse, has not acquired Vega Corporation’s headquarters in Syracuse. Commodore is taking over buildings in the Vega Industrial Park. Vega Corporation is alive and well and has added several new products to its line as it remains an important part of the RV industry.

Even under optimistic projections, more than one-fifth of the farmers working today will leave the farm in the next 20 years. Farms have been going out of business at a rate of 2,000 per week since 1950, leaving in their place big farms controlled by distant corporate interests, in many cases. This is disturbing for those of us who care about the rural way of life as we know it. It is distressing, too. when we call that smaller family farms are most frequently better practitioners of conservation methods and more productive than big farm units. The problems facing American agriculture today will not be solved by tractorcades and militant demonstrations. We must instead take steps farmers more of a voice in shaping U.S. agriculture policy and take specific steps to help preserve the family farm. I will be meeting with northern Indiana Farmers on February 24th in Winamac, in the annual second District Conference. We will be discussing some of the key agricultural issues confronting us today and some potential solutions. Finding those solutions won’t \ be easy, but the process should begin with face-to-face conversations between farmers and policymakers, not with hand-to-hand confrontations between farmers and police. LEGAL NOTICE GIVEN ON SNOWMOBILE AUCTION Notice is given this week by DAGCO at Syracuse of a public auction of a 1975 Mercury SnowTwister Snowmobile on Saturday, March 3, at 10 a.m. at 1025% South Huntington Street in Syracuse. A claims and mechanic’s lien is held. Mail service to Iran suspended Suspension of civilian mail service to Iran has been extended to cover surface mail, the U.S Postal Service announced today. The effect is to eliminate all civilian mail service between Iran and the United States. Airmail service to Iran was suspended January 9. ® Postal officials said the latest action was taken because of the. lack of reliable air and surface transportation either in or out of that country. The suspension means no U. S. post office will accept civil mail bound for Iran until further notice. Mail currently in the postal system destined for Iran will be returned to sender. Postage will be refunded for mail returned because of the suspension of service.