The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 12, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 April 1979 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 11,1979

Editorials Holy Week This is Holy Week in the Christian World. It is a week when Christians pause to reflect back on those events that took place nearly 2,000 years ago. Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday. Christians will gather in their respective churches to observe the love feast, wash feet and /or partake of the communion bread and cud. 4 It was on Thursday night that Christ prayed in the garden. It was on Thursday night that Judas betrayed him with a kiss. Special services are also scheduled in most towns on Good Friday. It is an especially nostalgic, or sad, day. It is the day Jesus was crucified. It is shortly followed by the glorious Christian Easter when Jesus rose from the grave. That gives Good Friday (some call it Holy Friday or Long Friday) a happy outcome one upon which the world of Christians has long based its faith. The Easter week end is a logical, appropriate time to recall and study the life and teachings of Christ. Leave it up to a woman I Now, we don’t want to get involved with woman’s lib or anything along that line but there is a saying that if you want something done in grand style you should leave it up to a woman.

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started she seemed to be everywhere, always working. Not only was she present in the gym for the bazaar, she was seen taking money in the cafeteria, helping with the auction, square dancing with a Lion Saturday night and serving chicken on Sunday morning. L We’re sure others join us in saying thanks Jean. It was a job well done! And, thanks too to all who helped with and supported the bazaar, each in his or her own way. Jean could never have done it alone. It took hard work and cooperation from the entire community. , We need action The town of Syracuse and Turkey Creek Township have been under the jurisdiction of the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission for a year and a half. During this time, the residents of these areas have been waiting patiently for a mobile home ordinance to be passed county wide. Before joining the commission Syracuse had its own plan commission and mobile ordinance. Members of the Syracuse Town Board felt, however, the town might be better served with the county organization, even though it did not have a mobile home ordinance as stringent as the one Syracuse had. The board said at that time it was under the impression an ordinance would be passed by the commission. „ Since last November the commission has been looking at various restrictions it could impose, but has not come up with anything all members could agree on. We feel it is high time the commission make some kind of a decision, whether to pass an ordinance or not. It is a major concern to this area. The residents have a right to some kind of action from the board they joined less than two years ago. I. Baseball time The baseball season is underway in the Major Leagues, signaling the end of the winter, approaching summer and conclusion of a school year. Major League teams will play 162 games and perhaps for the last year in two division leagues. There’s serious discussion today of expanding the leagues to three divisions. That would allow more teams to participate in the playoffs. Baseball is a garhe which doesn’t bar the small player (look how many Latins excell) and which enables players to utilize skill, timing and precision, as well as physical strength and bodily contact. As such, it has widespread, democratic appeal. It also enables every player on the team an equal chance to star offensively, another unique feature of baseball, a truly universal game. What others say — Just push a button In the not-too-distant future, you may go home from work, settle down in your favorite chair and flip on the television set. By punching different buttons, you can select your “reading” for the evening. It could be frontpage news, the stock market reports, sports highlights, women’s interest and maybe even the comics and classifieds. Great Britain got the jump on this country recently when it introduced its “electronic publishing.” The post office, which runs Britain’s telephone network, now offers customers 146,000 pages of computerized information. A touch of the finger brings this information to the screen via ordinary telephone lines. And, some 10,000 pages are to be added at monthly intervals. At this stage, cost of the service is high —about $2,000 for the set, or S4B monthly rental. There is a surcharge of about four cents per minute while “reading” the news. Although this “electronic publishing” will no doubt serve a purpose, we find little for the printed media to fear. After all, the newspaper is convenient for reading any place and is highly portable. You can’t say that for a S2OOO television set.

And leave it to a woman they did. Credit for the I success of the Milford Community Bazaar goes to Mrs. Glen (Jean) Treesh, a woman who saw a need I and did something about it. Mrs. Treesh, who is also president of the Milford Town Board, would be the first to deny that bouquets for the success of the bazaar should go to her. She would quickly want to name co-workers Mrs. Robert (Wilma) Ruch and Mrs. Donald (Monica) Bice and I the army of others (men and women alike) who volunteered time and talent to make the bazaar a ’ success. We too salute them and are quick to note that without all of them things would not have happened. We think others will agree it takes one person to coordinate activities and make sure everything gets | done. Jean Treesh was that person. She saw a ■ need. She opened her home for meetings. She spearheaded projects. Once the bazaar

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Letters to the editor Little Pushes

Dear Editor: I think this advice is good. I wonder if you would care to print it. Little Pushes So often because we cannot do the big things we fail to do the little things we can do. Someone said if you are waiting to do something great, you are waiting to pull down some evil.

A community pulling together

What a joy it is to live within a community where all can pull together so marveously. It isn’t possible to thank all the organizations and individuals enough. We have raised around $16,000 profit. Besides our own people from Milford, we had some help from Leesburg and donations from several stores at Syracuse as well. Those people who made cash

Open Door Weekly Report From Senator John B. Augsburger

The 1979 session of the Indiana General Assembly is now over, having adjourned sine die two minutes till midnight on Thursday, April 5, 1979. The legislature met for 60 of the 61 session days, completing its business in a flurry of activity. The last several hours of the General Assembly were spent in fast and furious negotiating and compromising between the powers in the House and Senate as one of the bills encompassed in the Republican Tax Package was brought back to life to provide Hoosier Taxpayers with additional tax relief. This relief will be provided by a 15 per cent tax credit on 1979 taxes. For individual families, earning SIO,OOO taxable income, this means about a S3O savings on next year’s taxes with continued relief of $lO annually thereafter. Under House Bill 2117, the Highway Funding Bill, the Senate added $169 million to the version passed by the House. (This $169 million is additional money to the road and highway fund to the earlier $19.1 million emergency roads appropriations made for local road repair by the legislature.) When coupled with revenues generated from the Motor Vehicle Highway Fund, this means that our state and local government units will spend about $485.8 million for roads in 1979-80, and $398.3 million in SO--81. Additionally, Indiana will receive approximately S3OO million in federal funds over the next two year period, making total road and highway spending over the next two years of over one billion dollars. This amount is a substantial increase over previous highway funding measures, and this legislation provides an additional $75 million of the present bienniel appropriation for road and highway repair and maintenance. Although this is not a long range solution to the highway funding problem, with sound fiscal management, the legislature hopes to be able to add additional money next year (possibly $25 to SSO million) to more adequately fund local road and highway repair and maintenance. I believe it is important to note the House Bill 2141 was defeated soundly in the House by the Democrat legislators. This only demonstrates to me that when the vote was called to dedicate a fixed increase in gas tax to the roads, the Democrats backed out on the funding issue to place the blame on others. This bill which

Perform the small things that are unseen and they will bring other greater things for you to perform. What can we do to make this a better world? An old proverb, “If everyone would sweep their own stoop, the whole world would be clean.” Isn’t this true. Sincerely, Libbie Lippincott

donations and the people who purchased our articles deserve special thanks. It would fill the whole paper if we listed the individuals so we will have to just make this general. We do live in the greatest community and are proud of what has been done. The good this has done shows how totally effective the community can be when we work together. Wilmatßuch Jean Treesh

would have been the first step in rectifying the highway funding measure was defeated 54 to 43 in the House. The remainder of activity this week centered upon the work of the various Conference committees are ad hoc committees appointed by the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tern in an attempt to iron out differences between house and senate versions of the same bills. This year, 69 bills were assigned to conference committees, 34 senate bills and 35 house bills. Conferees are usually those members who sponsored and authored the bills in each house. Among those bills which have cleared the remaining hurdles of the legislative process and which have been sent to the governor are these which would: — repeal Indiana’s Intangibles tax over a 15 year period. Presently stocks and bonds are taxed at a rate of one quarter of one per cent. Beginning in 1982. this would be reduced to 23.3 per cent of one per cent and would continue dropping until it reached zero in 1996. — prohibit brewers from selling to retailers. Under this bill, brewers would be required to sell only to wholesalers. — enact a “third generation” property tax control program for civil units of local government, based on assessment growth; — provide a 10 per cent homestead property tax credit to minimize property tax increases resulting from reassessment. This 10 per cent credit would be phased out over a five year period. — provide|hat the state pay up to S2OO every winter on the electricity and home heating fuel bills for elderly, blind and disabled residents who have low incomes. — permit property owners to file mortgage and other property tax deductions by mail, beginningnext year. I feel that it has. been a productive session, accomplishing continued property and income tax relief and providing increased funds for local schools and students, besides dedicating more money for mental health facilities. It has been a pleasure to serve you during the session and I hope I’ll have a chance to visit with you in the following months. If you have any comments on the 1979 legislative session, I would be interested in hearing from you. Please send any mail to the Senate Chambers, State Capitol, Indianapolis, Ind. 46204.

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WSiEis &NBBT' THIS SUNDAY, April 15, is Easter Sunday. We urge everyone to attend the church of his choice. Recently, one of our reporters was asked by an area woman why the celebration of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection is held on a different Sunday every year. We were puzzled, too, and did a little research. Here are a few of the interesting facts we were able to dig up: According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Easter is. “The original name of a pagan vernal festival almost coincident in date with paschal festival of the church.” Webster goes on to say the word. “Easter,” comes from the word, "Eastre," or dawn goddess. Also quoted in Webster’s definition is the following: “An annual Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, held on the first Sunday after the date of the first full moon that occurs on or after March 21.” A peek into the World Book Encyclopedia explained the reason why Easter is held after March 21. It seems the first Nicene Council in A.D. 325 set the method. The council determined Easter should be held after the vernal equinox, on March 21. So, Easter can be held anytime between March 22 and April 25. Here are the dates set for Easter up to the year 2000: 1980April 6, 1981-April 19, 1982-April 11, 1983-April 3, 1984-April 22, 1985-April 7, 1986-March 30, 1987April 19, 1988-April 3, 1989-March 26, 1990-April 15, 1991-March 31, 1992-April 19, 1993-April 11, 1994April 3,1995-April 16,1996-April 7, 1997-March3o.l99B-April 12.1999April 4 and 2000-April 23. Further research discovered more about the goddess Eastre (also spelled Eostre). Eastre was the Teutonic goddess of spring whose festival was celebrated in the spring. Her name was given to the Christian festival, as it was she. according to legend, who opened the portals of Valhalla to

receive the White God and Sun God, representing purity and light. Valhalla was the great hall in Norse myth where Odin received the souls of heroes fallen bravely in battle. Easter has many traditions and customs associated with it, some dating back hundreds of years before the time of Jesus Christ. The Easter egg became associated with Easter back in ancient times when the Egyptians and Persians dyed eggs in spring colors and gave them to friends as gifts. Throughout the years, the dying of Easter eggs became a tradition, which many children still enjoy today. Another association the egg has with Easter is the following: Eggs were forbidden to be eaten during Lent, but were traditionally served on Easter Sunday. Besides the Egyptians and Persians, the Greeks and Romans also enjoyed eating eggs annually in spring festivals. Today, one popular Easter egg custom is Easter egg rolling. This event is held annually on the White House lawn in Washington, D.C.. the Monday after Easter. Os course, we can’t forget the Easter Bunny, who brings eggs and chocolate treats at Easter. It seems the rabbit, the symbol of birth and new life in ancient Egypt, started his yearly rounds in Germany. According to legend, a poor woman dyed eggs during a famine and hid them in a nest as an Easter gift for her children. Just as the children discovered the treats, a big rabbit leaped away. So, the children thought it was the rabbit who brought the eggs to them. One other possible connection the rabbit has to Easter is the fact in ancient times, the rabbit was the symbol of the moon. And, since the moon determines when Easter is to be held, people started associating the rabbit with Easter. Easter has many other symbols. Probably the most im-

portant is the cross, which represents the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his victory over death. One art of the traditional Easter dinner is hot cross buns. Lamb is also associated with Easter. Lamb, the symbol of Jesus, is a traditional Easter food and comes from the Jewish Passover. The Jews sacrificed a lamb during the Passoyer ceremony in the temple of Jerusalem. Some of the early Christians I interpreted the sacrifice of the paschal lamb as a forecast of I Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. White Lillies are another important Easter symbol. These white flowers, representing i purity, can be found adorning many altars on Easter Sunday. I There are many additional customs and traditions popular to Blaster around the world. Sunrise services symbolize the resurrection at sunrise. This . practice is observed in practically all churches today as a symbol of hope, inspiration and faith. ! For a complete listing of local Easter services, turn to the ' church page. ’ —LW —o— THE NEW bright young face at the Counting House Bank at North Webster belongs to Tom Prichard of r 6 Warsaw, serving as vice president. Tom and his wife Judy and two children. Jason, six. and Lisa, two, reside at Chapman Lake, coming to the community from Anderson where Tom was assistant vice president and consumer loan manager for the Citizens Banking Company for six years. He is a Ball State University graduate and is currently in the graduate school of consumer banking at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Lakeland Kiwanis. —o— BAUBLE-J ANGLING Winston Gants, a comedian of sorts, sidled up to the teller's window manned by Ann DeSomer Saturday morning and contemplated the unusualness of her last name. “DeSomer," he said, “what are you going to do when de winter conies?” —o—“MOST DISAPPOINTING,” said Syracuse postmaster Avon Bushong. He was referring to his plans for moving the post office to its new location north of the business district on Saturday.

Reason: The road around the new post office was a sea of mud on moving day. “Cars sink out of sight if they drive around the post office”, Bushong said. The building is completed, however, and ready for occupancy. New plans call for moving two weeks hence, Saturday, April 21. —O—WORD IS that owners of the present post office building, the State Bank of Syracuse, have the building sold and the new owners will take possession on or about May 1. You can look for more on this in this column. —o— SPRING MEANS, among other things, that they are returning from the southland. Betty Brammer is back in town, for one. from her Muncie home, and is awaiting completion of remodeling of a home she purchased on Ogden Island before she returns to the area permanently. —o— SECOND DISTRICT Congressman Floyd J. Fithian, in another of his Town Meetings, spoke before 38 townsmen at the St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church Saturday morning. He came in for some sharp questioning, a lot of it concerning the energy crisis, which is beginning to have its worrisome aspects. In a show of hands the overwhelming majority favored less government control of energy — no rationing. Another was the rapid rise in the cost of housing. —o— THE ANGLEMEYERS (Hub and June), of North Shore Drive, arrived home fast Wednesday from South Padre Island, near Brownsville, Texas, where they were vacationing since the last of January. Also with the Anglemeyers were the Sidney Sorgs of Goshen and the Nelson Sorgs of Elkhart. The Sorgs are of the well known Goshen jewelry family. —o— SYRACUSE JUNIOR High

School secretary Jean Kober and Lakeland school nurse Mary Robertson spent their spring vacation in Hawaii (eight days) and Las Vegas (three days). They stayed in the posh Pacific Beach Hotel on fabled Waikiki Beach. During their stay they rented a car for four days and touched on all the vacation spots on the island of Oahu, including the Polynesian Cultural Center and other points of interest. Oh, incidentally, they were accompanied by Chris Koher and Jim Robertson. —o— THE NEED for a sidewalk leading both directions from Wawasee High School along the Syra-Web Road came up for discussion again, this time brought up by Jerry Grady. Turkey Creek Township representative on the Area Plan Commission, at their meeting in } Warsaw last Wednesday afternoon. Syracuse attorney Robert Reed was representing owners of the Bertha Searfoss estate at a hearing on a preliminary plat and brought the sidewalk issue up almost parenthetically. Reed commented that at one time the Syracuse Lions Club had funds for such a sidewalk from the school into the busy corner of the Syra-Web and MilfordSyracuse roads. But somehow the land was not purchased, nor was the sidewalk built. Everyone would agree that the hazard of life and limb of students walking to and from the high school is enormous. Attorney Reed is on the right track. The time will come when the sidewalk will be built, rest assured, but it may take more of the prodding attorney Reed is willing to give to get the job done. —o— LEAD ARTICLE in our Can-You-Top-This department: Fred Person net te told his boss Pete Luttman he has 11 granddaughters, all under six years of age. Court news COUNTY COURT The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko County Court, Loren Collier, judge: SMALL CLAIMS Complaint Thornburg Drugs, Syracuse, filed claims on the following: Susan Baugher, r 1 Leesburg, $19.65; Laura Coquillard, 113 W. Carroll, Syracuse, $24.24; Teresa Harrington, r 2 box 342-C Syracuse, $38.58; Eli Kauffman, 513 S. Main, Syracuse, $33.90; Randy Keene, r 1 North Webster, $14.99 Jay Busscher, 200 S. Huntington, Syracuse vs Paula The plaintiff demands judgment against the defendant in the sum of $924.98, cost of the action and all other relief proper in the premises. Violations Public intoxication — Bacilisno Martinez, 35, Syracuse, $35 Violation of beginner’s permit — Terry Minnix, 16, Syracuse, S4O Marriage Licenses Hymer-Messenger Harold Justin Hymer, 19, r 1 box 957 Cromwell and Pamela Joan Messenger, 19, r 1 box 867 Cromwell Hire-Jones Millard Stover Hire, 41, P.O. Box 668 Syracuse and Kay Diane Jones. 26, P. O. Box 668 Syracuse GOSHEN CITY COURT The following violatiors were assessed fines in Goshen City Court: Speeding — Norman R. Fleenor. Jr., 26, Syracuse, $32; Keith E. Strauss, 23, Syracuse, $32 ELKHART COUNTY COURT No registration plate — Lorraine J. Morgan, 17, North Webster, $35 Following too closely — Laverne T. Luck, 23, Syracuse, $36 THE MAIL-JOURNAL (U.S.P.S. 325 M 0) 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 44547 and at additional entry offices. Subscription: SlO per year in Kosciusko County; sl2 outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of address forms to The Mail-Journal, P.O. Box IM, Milford. Indiana 44542. . isv* cm 10l hl