The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 March 1979 — Page 4
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., March 28,1979
Editorials j It's that time again It’s that time of the year again. Warm spring temperatures and sunny days have livened everyone’s hearts and spirits. Not all of spring is gladness. Spring often means heavy rains cause the lakes and creeks to rise. Last year, due to the heavy winter snowfall, many people who have homes on low grounds found water in their basements. Some parts of streets were also often found to be impassable with heavy amounts of water. Even with the efforts of Darrell Grisamer at Syracuse controlling the dam, it was many weeks before everything was dry again. This year we urge Grisamer and the townspeople of Milford and Syracuse to watch out! Now is the time to beware and plan ahead. Let’s not be “all wet” this year when it comes to high water and flooding of Turkey Creek. He served us well Darrell D. Grisamer resigned from the Syracuse Town Board last week after serving on the board for over seven years. We feel his leaving will be a loss felt throughout the community. Grisamer has served the town of Syracuse to the best of his ability. Throughout his years on the board, he has always had the town’s best interest in mind. Even when the “heat was on,” Grisamer remained a staunch figure, but one with a heart. He and his wife, Shirley, have bought a farm outside of Syracuse and plan on moving in September. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors and are glad to report Syracuse won’t lose him entirely as he plans to continue monitoring the town’s dam and lake water levels. With Grisamer’s leaving, there are only three filled seats on the town board. We urge the board to correct this situation and bring Syracuse back up to a full five-member board. We also urge the public to help fill these two empty seats. Fido belongs at home Spring is here! Each year the arrival of spring brings an over abundant supply of stray dogs. Even dogs with homes seem to stray more in the spring. Therefore, we re joining in the plea to ask dog owners to keep Fido at home! Some people have pets, other do not. Some people keep their pets at home, others do not. It is to the dog owners who allow their pets to run the streets that this editorial is written. It is because of these people Charles W. Hursh placed an advertisement urging people to “Please keep your dog at home.” That advertisement is to be found elsewhere on this page. Dogs provide companionship; they are protective of their masters, young and old alike; but they have their place — at home. Too many animals are “dumped out” at this time of the year so the “owners” do not have to pay the dog tax. That is an excuse. Most people can afford the small dog tax fee if they want to! Then there is the dog that has a home. He is a much loved family pet but he is “Happier when he’s free” so he’s allowed to run wherever he chooses. His owner doesn’t seem to mind the fact that he may choose to run across someone else’s garden, dig holes in someone else’s yard, destroy flowers and shrubs, etc. As long as the dog’s “happy ” why should anyone else care. For some reason or another people train their young children to stay home. But, those same people never think of giving their pets the same training. Pets can and will learn to stay at home if they are trained to do so. Remember, Fido belongs at home! Living without TV Ruth Johnson, writing in the “Christian Science Monitor” recently, described how her family had benefited by living without television. She and her husband made that decision 10 years ago. They are sure it was the right one. They wanted to maintain control over their children’s lives and didn’t want to subject them to 20,000 TV commercials a year. Many of the ads and programs on television today, they feel, portray attitudes, life styles and values that aren’t what they believe in, and which they don’t want their children to believe in. They found that when families turn over their children’s lives, to a large extent, to TV, letting them watch it five or six hours a day, the children miss more wholesome activities. They found school less interesting. The children no longer had time to quiz each other on spelling and math, to read each other’s books, to engage in many other desirable family activities. They also feel a house in which television is constantly on is a house full of noise pollution, which loses the beauty and benefit of peach and quiet. And they noticed that those who watched TV many hours each day became immunized against reality, being happy to sit for hour after hour watching people being knifed, shot, bombed, etc., on the screen. Though some criticize the idea, the Johnsons have found by living without TV, they live with so much more. Families which do not want to give up television all together might do well to limit viewing of youngsters and try watching Public Broadcasting programs. Others might do well to try the Johnsons’ way and eliminate television altogether. You would be surprised in the results! Reasons for carpooling Forming a carpool means substantial direct benefits to employees, not the least of which is money. Sharing a ride with just one person cuts your commuting expenses exactly in half .Add additional riders and you could be pocketing SSOO to SI,OOO a year. If carpooling allows you to avoid purchasing a second car, you’re talking about several thousands of dollars in savings. Other benefits of carpooling include the joy of less driving in rush hour traffic, the option of selecting riders, access to preferential traffic lanes in larger cities and parking for carpools and a guaranteed comfortable seat. When carpooling is popular, energy resources are saved, air pollution is reduced, traffic congestion is reduced and the cost of providing transportation-related services can be held in check. Why not try it, you may like it! What others say — Shades of Chicken Little Shades of Chicken Little — who ran around like a chicken with his head off proclaiming that the sky was falling. Now it’s shades of Schlesinger at the Department of Energy in Washington. Os course this refers to the current energy crisis. Is it fact or fiction. Americans have become skeptics when it comes to pronounced shortages, and who can blame them? Secretary Schlesinger is supposed to decide by April 1 whether to allocate oil shorten hours for gas stations, or impose mandatory controls. The Secretary has repeatedly offered public assurance that the shortage is for real. There is no doubt that loss of Iranian oil production imposes a hardship on this notion but again, we’ve heard of cutbacks on production before. Maybe Schlesinger isn’t playing Chicken Little this time, and unfortunately, we won i believe his sky is falling until it happens. Danville Gazette
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Open DoorA Weekly Report From Senator John 6 Augsburger Hj
The Indiana Senate has now completed 54 of the 61 session days, and this week considered a wide variety of measures, including the state budget, collective bargaining for police and firemen, utility regulation, a gallonage gasoline tax and several other measures. At this point, both the House and the Senate are considering the last of their own bills and are, for the most part, concentrating on bills which have passed and been sent over by the other house. This week the Senate finance committee continued its work on the state budget. The three budget bills that encompass the state’s biennial spending plan were voted out of committee on Monday and will soon be voted on by the full Senate. These bills were amended in committee and will thus have to be sent back to the House for their concurrence or their differences settled in a conference committee. In its present form, total spending for the biennieum is approximately $9 billion. This figure selective cuts from the House passed budget as well as an additional $l5O million for roads and highways. If this budget is enacted in its present form, the state will have an estimated general fund surplus in 1981 of approximately S6O million. Next week’s wrap-up will include a more detailed summary of the budget. In committee action this week, the Senate commerce committee voted five to two to recommend passage of H.B. 1630, which has become known as the “Christmas Tree’’ bill on utility regulation. This bill has already passed the House and now goes to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Also this week, the Senate defeated the collective bargaining bill for police and firemen. The bill. Senate Bill 392. was defeated by a 34 to 13 vote Other House Bills which passed the Senate this week include: *HB 1461, which stiffens penalties for removing a child from the state in violation of a custody order, passed by a vote of 42 too. *HB 1591, which changes the annual expiration date of a hunting license from the last day in December to the last day in February, which is at the end of the hunting season. *HB 2081, which stiffens penalties against a person over the age of 18 who commits battery on a child under the age of 13, passed by a vote of 44 to 4. *HB 1057, which allows the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to adopt a voluntary boat registration program to help reduce boat thefts, passed by a vote of 43-0. *HB 1015, which provides a method of determining when the Lieutenant Governor is disabled and for the appointment of an acting Lieutenant Governor should this occur. This bill passed by a 45 to 0 vote. There were two bills that I have 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 4*547. Second class postage paid at 103 E. Main street, Syracuse, Indiana 445*7 and at additional entry offices. Subscription: *lO per year in Kosciusko County, 512 outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of address forms to The Mail Journal, P.O. Box IM, Milford. Indiana 44542. /fCeCm
sponsored which have passed out of committee in the Senate, and will now proceed to the floor for full Senate approval. House Bill 1939. which I am sponsoring in the Senate, would allow out of state residents to hunt raccoons within Indiana if the state of their residence allows Indiana residents to hunt raccoons on the same basis has received approval in the Senate Natural Resources Committee, the bill would prohibit out of state residents from hunting raccoons unless the non-resident’s state allows Hoosier hunters to hunt raccoons in their states. The bill has received wide support of various hunters and sportsmen clubs and groups. A very important piece of legislation would increase the counties’ share of the inheritance tax. I have sponsored this bill which has received approval through the Senate Finance Committee. This bill would have the effect of generating thousands .of additional dollars for county governments throughout thestate. Under the present inheritance tax distribution formala. the state receives 92 per cent of the tax collected, with the remaining 8 per cent allocated to the county of the decendent. Under the provisions of my measure, the counties’ allocation would rise to 20 per cent in 1980. 30 per cent in 1981,40 per cent in 1982, and then be set permanently at a 50 50 basis with the state after 1983 If this bill is enacted, the 13th District would receive approximately the following additional revenues after the four year phase-in period : KOSCIUSKO: $150,000 NOBLE 100.000 STEUBEN 51,000 LAGRANGE 32.000 If you have any comments or questions on the matters discussed above or on other issues, please call the Senate’s toll free number, 1-800-382-9478. Auto rolls onto railroad tracks An auto left the roadway, went into a ditch and rolled oveitonto the railroad tracks at the crossing of Armstrong and Base Line Roads east of Leesburg last Sunday. Patrolman Roger Fellows investigated and reported the vehicle, registered to William E. Patterson, r 1 Pierceton, was westbound on Armstrong Road. It was apparently traveling too fast to negotiate the turn. No damage estimate was given Changes in VA loan program If you’re a veteran considering the purchase of a mobile home, you should be aware, of some changes in the Veterans Adminstration’s loan guarantee program. VA officials say statutory loan maximums ($12,500 for singlewide mobile homes, $20,000 for double-wides) have been eliminated. Now the maximum guarantee is $17,500 or 50 per cent of the loan, whichever is less. Recent Congressional action has also increased the maximum loan term on single-wide mobile homes from 12 years, 32 days to 15 years, 32 days. Eligibility has been cut from 181 days of active duty time to 90 days, with at least one day having been served between August 5, 1964 and May 7,1975. For more information, any veteran interested in the loan guarantee program may contact the nearest VA office.
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THE PHOTOS that appeared in the Decern her 17,1978, issue of The MadJoumal of the old Vawter Park store (later known as Louie’s Bar and Grill), given us by John SudJow, brought back many memories to Ida Deardorff, 401 South Main St., Syracuse, and her two sisters, Mrs. Margery McClintic of Portage, Mich., and Mrs. Reb<;cca Julier, of Grant Street, Syracuse, and Lake Worth, Fla.
Mrs. Deardorff. who sends us the two above photos, writes, “Dad is standing in the doorway of the Vawter Park store. Hie has a mail sack in his hand. He left a sack of mail there and picked up a sack to bring to the post office in town. He did the same at the ‘smallest post office in Indiana’ at the Sargent Hotel.” She adds. “In the second picture Dad is standing at the right of the group of people. He has a mail cap on his head. The horse at the left of the picture (Bird > is one of our horses he drove on the route. When Ford cars came in about 1911 or 1912 he bought a car * to use on the route. In the summer Margery used to go ai ong to help, for mails were heavy. We had some nice hotels on Wawasee then. Many people were coming and going. The B & O had special rates for their trains to our lake. ” Mrs. Deardorff's father, the late J. VV. Deardorff had a 25-mile route (Route 2 out of Syracuse> for years, first driving it with a horse, using several relay horses to complete the route. And. as Mrs. Deardorff notes, he finally purchased a Ford car to make his appointed rounds. Mail carrier Deardorff was the first mail carrier around Lake Wawasee. The above two column photo shows the intrepid carrier making hi? rounds in a horse and buggy type arrangement. The scene is bleak, indeed. The photo was taken in June 1909. The one column photo is of the post office at the old Sargent Hotel, called the “smallest post office in Indiana." Mrs. Deardorff does not identify the person in the photo, nor does the card have a date on it. Memorabilia of this type brings back memories for Mrs. Deardorff, one of the communities oldest citizens, as it must for others. —o—.A NEW industry began operation the last v/eek in February in the old IXL building at the south east side of Goshen with four local people forming UM AX Corporation. Principals in the new business are Andrew Pfefferkorn, BelRohr Park, r 2 Leesburg (Lake Tippecanoe); Thomas C. Gerstner, . 194 North Shore Drive, Syracuse; Charles (“Bud”) Miller, r 1 Syracuse; and William F. Charlton, r 1 North W'ebster. All four are former AVeatherhead Company employees of long standing: Pfefferkorn was the plant's most recent plant manager; Gerstner was manufacturing group manager with authority over the Syracuse and Antwerp, Ohio, plants; Miller was plant superintendent, and original employee at the Syracuse plant; and Charlton was with the plant for 24 years, most recently as comptroller. They are manufacturing screw machine parts in the plant of 68,000 square feet, with Weatherhead as their single largest customer. —o— WORD IS that Dannette Rosner will be closing her real estate agency in Wawasee Village, known as Tiffany, Inc., and following a two-week vacation, she will join forces with another popular local agency. Dannette first opened shop in Pickwick Place, then purchased the building in the Village formerly occupied by the Tool Shed. The building was remodeled suitable to her needs, beautifully so, we might ad. Recently, however, Dannette became ill and was forced to be away from her business for a long period of time. , / — o— CARL K. DOTY, vice president of R. R. Donnelley <lt Sons Co., Chicago-based printing firm and a former resident of Tippecanoe Lake, has been appointed director of the company’s new gravure division. Mist recently, he was vice president of sales for the firm’s catalog group and before that he was director of its gravure plant in Warsaw.
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His tall, attractive daughter, Donna Marie, was a Wawasee High School graduate with the class of ’74. where she was a star on the swim team. She swam Lake Wawasee in the multiple sclerosis fund drive in record time, friends recall. Donneliey’s will break ground this summer, with a start-up scheduled for the fall of 1980, for a new catalog-insert division in South Carolina, near Spartansburg, according to the American Printer and Lithographer. March issue. Donnelley is a leading commercial printer in the United States. MRS. JOHN (Leilani) Nemeth, former receptionist at Elder Realty, 718 So. Huntington St., Syracuse, has passed her real
Court news
COUNTY COURT Speeding — Johnnie Manges, 20, Syracuse, S4O; John Mock. 27. North Webster. S4O; Linda Glassley, 17, Syracuse, S4O; Jack Baker, 33, Syracuse, $35 Improper passing — Larry Kinsey, 42, North Webster, S4O Failure to carry registration — Franklin Krantz. 35, Syracuse, $35 No vehicle inspection — Garry Shively, 18, Syracuse, $35; Charles Baker. 23. Leesburg. $35 Disregarding stop sign — John Mock, 27. North Webster. $35 Speeding — Filena K. Baker, 23, Syracuse,s4l Elk co court The following persons have been fined in Elkhart County traffic court.
Doll house sales boom —for adults
The Wall Street Journal reports that in a time when most people can’t afford to buy their own home, the doll housing market is booming. The Journal reports that a mania for miniature dwellings is sweeping the country; that builders often can’t keep up with the demand; suppliers are fretting about shortages of material; and that thousands of homeowners are eagerly planning their next move into a dwelling with more space, more style and probably a bigger charge account debt. The newspaper says that just as in the housing market, the prices seem to be outrunning the pocket book of the average buyer Neiman-Marcus offers a 10-room doll house with parquet floors, handstained wall paneling and working fireplaces, for $30,000. The newspaper says that about
Unlawful To Allow Dogs To Stray Beyond Premises “It is unlawful for any owner to allow any dog to stray beyond his premises unless under the reasonable control of some person . . ." Taken, in part, from Indiana State Law Acts 1937, Chapter 133, paragraph 13, page 766, amended 1978. The problem is straying dogs, as well as stray dogs. PLEASE KEEP YOUR DOG AT HOME! Most dogs seem to enjoy tearing open plastic garbage bags and using the bushes and grounds of others as toilets. Many dogs enjoy intimidating bicycle riders and joggers! Vegetable and flower gardens are tempting places for dogs to tramp and dig holes to bury that precious bone. Again, now and in the future, PLEASE JCEEP YOUR DOG AT HOME! i Respectfully Gtizons Fur Better Dog Control
estate sales exam and has joined the firm as a salesperson.
Speeding — David D. Woods, 34. Milford. $35; Terry A. Rookstool. 32. Syracuse, $35 On Account Little and Clark, Inc . Milford vs Joe W. Baker, 70767 SR 15 New Paris. Plaintiff demands judgment against the defendant in the amount of $4,814.81 plus the costs of the action and all other relief proper in the premises. MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION Rivera — Ramiro M. Rivera Jr.. Milford and Peggy J. Rivera, box 48 Milford Married September 13. 1975. the couple separated March 15. 1979. Petitioner asks for a dissolution of the marraige with respect to custody and support and for all other relief proper in the premises.
60 per cent of those purchasing doll houses will admit they are buying them for themselves, and not for their children. Dentist visit to be no sweat Those of you who cringe at {he thought of a trip to the dentist take heart! A new method of removing tooth decay has been marketed in Japan and may be available for use in the US within two years according to the Food and Drug Administration. The new' procedure involves injecting a chemical solution which penetrates the decayed area but leaves the healthy part of the tooth intact. The chemical apparently softens the decay and allows it to be dug out by a dentist with little or no drilling which translates into less pain and fear for the patient.