The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 15, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 May 1979 — Page 4
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., May 2,1979
Editorials Parking meters now village antiques With almost all area towns having removed their parking meters, maybe it’s time we did the same here at Syracuse. The meters have outlived their usefulness and are now considered antiques of a bygone era. What to do with them? Well, they could be auctioned off to the highest bidders. Some cities have done this and captured a little extra revenue. At one time parking meters were in vogue, and won cash-poor cities muchneeded extra revenues with which to meet ongoing expenses. Some cities - Goshen is a real good example - used the meter money to provide free off-street parking. Many consider this a real influence in keeping the Goshen downtown business district alive. Warsaw has solved the parking problem by removing the meters and instituting two-hour parking. Actually, this plan has worked splendidly and opened up downtown parking, according to Mayor H. Dale Tucker. At any rate, parking meters are anathema to the times. They have driven shoppers to the suburbs and to shopping centers by the numbers. More than that, they have become a despised handicap to any economic growth of downtown businesses. We would agree with those who say, as long as the police are not policing the meters anyway, perhaps we should remove them. 'Oklahoma' — fit or unfit? Following the review of the Wawasee High School play “Oklahoma last week this newspaper received a telephone call from an irate citizen who objected to the fact the reviewer said, “Lgreatly noticed in the dancers there were some who seemed unenthusiastic about what they were doing. Also in my opinion I feel the directors should have found other words to replace the use of the obscene language, especially with the impressionable children in the audience.” The Mail-Journal editor and publishers stand firm behind the reviewer. She was doing her job. What kind of review is it when only the good is told and not the bad? Does a teacher give every student in his class an A just because they show up? Those who deserve it receive the top grades, those who do not, receive lower grades. It is a learning process. That is the reason behind play reviews. It is hoped by mentioning the weak spots the young actors can profit and learn and the next presentation can benefit. Overlooked by the caller was the fact the reviewer noted the standing ovation was “well deserved,” and the paragraph stating the writer was, “ . . . impressed with the musical and what was done with the limited facilities the school has. The staff who worked with those involved in the presentation should be commended on a job well done ... the characters were well chosen for their parts and learned their parts well.” Overtones of self-righteousness came up in a number of local conversations following the presentation of “Oklahoma” and the “hells” and “damns’ which were sprinkled into the script. Should the high school drama class use such language on the local stage? At the risk of being accused of looking down bur noses and ignoring the realities of life, we would have to come down on the side of eliminating such a play from our high school cultural level or at least eliminating this type of language. “Why?” you might ask, when we see it in our living room almost daily via the television tube. And these are the realities, but such barroom language need not comt* from the high school stage. We might opt that smoking marijuana is also a reality, but we don’t want it demonstrated in a high school play. In this issue we've chosen to play the devil’s advocate and say “cut it out.” “Oklahoma” is considered a classic, to be sure, but let’s hold off a while longer. OK? We aren't the moral arbiters of the community, that’s for sure, and we recognize our necks are out a country mile. Let’s hear it out there — What’s your opinion? Should such language be allowed or not? Farewell, Marvella . . . well done The ongoing battle Marvella Bayh had with cancer and her recent death from the disease that has plagued millions, has drawn attention to the powerful influence a woman can be. She has received plaudits from the White House and from the national media for her work in recent years with the National Cancer Society. Indeed, her efforts in behalf of that group won her the first Hubert H. Humphrey Inspiration Award. When she was stricken several years ago with cancer, she virtually divorced herself from her husband's political career and carved a career for herself — in speaking out to cancer victims. She was a real inspiration and hope. Anyone who knew this mite of a woman was taken with her beauty, charm and absolute command of the podium. She was a forceful speaker, and can be considered an inspiration behind her husband's brilliant political career. Birch knew that and gave her full credit. — She spoke in behalf of her husband right here in Kosciusko County on more than one occasion. First, you noticed her smile, then her beauty, then her compelling conviction in her subject as it swept across her audience. Finally, her voice lowered and you could hear a pin drop. Senator Bayh, a long time friend of the publishers of this paper, wouldn’t mind if we expressed our real feelings and said, “Wow, what a woman! ” We join the many thousands who have tried to put the real Marvella Bayh on paper and say, “Farewell, Marvella ... well done. ” What others say — Remove the temptation The familiar saying, “don’t tempt fate,” is excellent advice for motorists. ; Although many drivers take measures to keep their vehicles from being stolen, they unwittingly tempt thieves by leaving valuable articles where they can be seen by potential criminals. The following crime resistance measures may help protect valuables left in automobiles: • Automobiles should be locked when unattended. • Door lock buttons with knobs on the end should be replaced with the knobs that are tapered at the end since the latter are hard to pull up with a wire inserted through an opening in the window. • Valuables should not be left where they can be viewed by someone outside the car. Lock packages, coats, etc., in the trunk or hide such items under the seat • Tape decks and citizen band (CB) radios should be mounted out of sight if possible. Consider using a portable rather than permanently-installed antenna so it can be removed when a vehicle is unattended. The antenna can mark the car as a target for CB thieves. • Tape decks and.Cß radios should be permanently marked with a unique number traceable to the owner. Motorists should contact local law enforcement for advice as to which number (state driver’s license, etc.) should be utilized for this purpose since different numbers are used in different areas of the country. Decals indicating that all property within the vehicle has been marked with a traceable number should also be obtained and affixed to windows on each side of the vehicle. — Carroll County Comet
‘ •• B B * Syracuse parking meters — they should go! news
COUNTYCOURT The following fines have been assessed a fine in Koscuisko County Court. Loren Collier, judge: Speeding — Carl Gay, 26. Syracuse. $55 Operating while intoxicated — Marion Stahl. 54. Leesburg. $45.50 Expired plates — Carl Gay. 26. Syracuse, S4O No vehicle inspection — Gary Francis. 23, Syracuse ELKHART COUNTYCOURT The following fine was assesed in Elkhart County Traffic Court, Goshen Division: Speeding — Randy J. Strauss, 23, Syracuse,s37 CITY COURT The following fines were assesed in Goshen City traffic court: Disregarding automatic signal — Robert Delafuente, 18, Milford, $36 Deception — Anna J. Larimer. Syracuse, dismissed Public intoxication — Charlie E. Baker, 52, Milford, $3 fine. S2B cost, ten days jail suspended to return to VA hospital Speeding — John S. Bryan, 2?, Milford, $36; William L. Donat. 28. Syracuse. $36; Kevin J. Haines, 16, Milford, s4l Failure to yield the right of way — Roger A. Lambright, 28, Syracuse, $32 MARRI AGE LICENSES The following couples have filed for a marriage license in the office of Kosciusko County clerk. JeanMessmore: W ood w a rd-Woody Daryl Woodward. 32. r 1 box 115 North Webster and Debora Mary Wood. 25. r 1 North Webster Ca vender- DeSo in er James DeWayne Cavender 33. r 2 box 418 Syracuse and Ann Leona DeSomer. 31, r 2 Syracuse Black-DeLaCruz Michael Vernon Black. 23, r 1 North Webster and Ester DeLaCruz. 22, r 1 North Webster List-Woodling Robert Hans List. 25, r 1 Leesburg and Ida Ann Woodling. 22,942 East Sheridan. Warsaw Eyer-Lantz Richard Alan Eyer. 24, r 4 Syracuse and Pamela Kay Lantz, 22. r 1 Milford Golden-Davis Garry D. Golden. 33, r 1 box 19C, Milford and Sue Ann Davis, 27, r 1 Milford CIRCUIT COURT The following claims have been filed in circuit court. Gene Lee, judge: Vacate Chore-Time Equipment, Inc. and Brock Manufacturing, Inc., Milford vs the town of Milford, Kosciusko County and the citizens of Milford and Kosciusko County. The petitioners ask the court that after conducting the appropriate hearing on said
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petition according to law, that the said public right-of-way in the town of Milford. Kosciusko County. State of Indiana, be vacated and abandoned and that the real estate made subject to said public right-of-way, no longer be encumbered thereby. Complaint Joan Evelyn Koehlinger vs Ronald Arthur Koehlinger, r 3 box 90E. Syracuse. Plaintiff demands judgment against the defendant in the sum of $1,284 together with interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum on each missed installment from the date Os each such installment until date of judgment, together with attorney fees of S3OO. for the costs of the action and all other relief proper. Mount Wawasee, Inc. vs Lee Maliska. 1302 West Center. Warsaw. Plaintiff asks for judgment against defendant in the sum of $5,400 together with interest and for all just and proper relief. Auction planned The Kosciusko County chapter of the American Diabetes Association is planning a Public Auction and raffle in the near future. All proceeds will go to the American Diabetes Association. Funds for the association are used in the following manner: 21 per cent community service. 19 per cent professional education, 17 per cent public education, 14 per cent patient education, 12 per cent research, nine per cent management and general, eight per cent fund raising. Items to be auctioned are urgently needed. Persons with something to donate (there is a truck available for pick-up) are urged to contact one of the following persons as soon as possible: Jackie Kerlin, Silver Lake; Karen Schroeder, Waraw; Sandy Rose, Mentone. The support of the public is and will be greatly appreciated. Charged with conversion Patrick J. Meyers. 21. North Webster was caught early Monday, April 30, by North Webster Deputy Marshal Chester Richmond Meyers was charged with criminal conversion and held on SI,OOO bond. Minor crash in Syracuse Thursday An auto driven by Suzanne M. Wolfe. 38, r 1 Wawaka, hit the back of a 1978 Ford driven by G. L. Xanders, 65, r 4 Syracuse The accident was at the intersection of SR 13 and North Harrison St., Syracuse. Thursday. April 26. at 5:15p.m. Xanders was stopped to make a left turn off of SR 13 onto North Harrison St., when he was hit by Wolfe. Damage so Wolfe’s auto was estimated at SBOO and Xanders’ auto was set a $950 damage. Items stolen John Broutsas. Bruner Rd., r 1, Leesburg, reported to police the theft of two old copper wash tanks placed at the end of his driveway. The dirt was dumped out of the tanks. Bud Van Scoik, r 1 Leesburg also reported a sign was stolen. The chains holding the sign to a cross pipe had been cut. MILFORD MAN ARRESTED Ronald Slone, 21, of Milford, was arrested by Warsaw police over the week end on a charge of public intoxication. Slone was held at the jail without bond.
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AMERICAN JOURNALISTS are often accused of slanting the news, but how about Russia’s Pravda: Pravda’s editors reported a two-car race in which one car was American, the other Russian. Their report read that the Russian car did extremely well in thr race, coming in second, and that the American car. not doing so well, came in next to last. —b— SYRACUSE POLICE sergeant Lou Mediano gave up smoking five weeks ago, according to his own testimony, and in fact, has a sign posted behind his desk reading. “Thanks For Not Smoking " Yet there is an outsized ash tray on his desk Deputy B< b Houser, however, is quick to point out that the sergeant has taken to chewing Key snuff, somexyhat to the sergeant’s embarrassment. —o— POSTAL PATRONS are gradually getting used to the “post office on the hill. " The easy access of th? PO’s former location was convenient for coffee drinkers who frequented the Syracuse Ct.fe with regularity, but even the grumbling of this set of aging dissidents has subsided considerably in the week and a half and they have been forced to change their postal habits. What’s more important, it can be assumed, is larger, more convenient quarters for postal employees to dispatch their responsibilities, and for the growing number of vehicles that come to and leave from the local post office. Meanwhile, word is that the bank has sold < or verbally agreed to the sale of) the old quarters on South Huntington Street. At this time, when i he prospective new owner is out of town, the bank chooses i per haps wisely) not to reveal the new owners identity. We are informed, however, that it is not a retail business, but that the structure will be used as a storage point l>y its new ow ner. —O—SYRACUSE JUNIOR High principal Robert Hamman has his summer's work all lined up for himself He'll work with Realtor Dave McGrew (Lakeland Realty) selling real estate in the lakes area. A native of Remington. Ind., on SR 24. he lias a business administration degree from St. Joseph College (1958) at Rennsselaer. then took a conversion course for an elementary administrator s degree before coming to Syracuse as junior high principal in 1968. He passec his state broker's exam at Notre Dame on February 25 following an eightweek course in real estate sales and management at IUSB j —o— WE RE GETTING the nucleus of an English community with Jack and Marjorie Fowler moving to Papakeechie Lake some time ago. They hail from Warrington, near Liverpool, in the northwest section of England, first living in Vandalia. 111., then moving to tie lakes community. Mr. Fowler is associated with the Goshen Rubber Co. They made immediate friends with Don and Rowena Impey when moving, here. Mrs. Impey is a London naive. and it was good for them both to mark such things as their Christmases together. (Note: See the story on Mrs. Impey receiving her U.S. citizenship papers last Tuesday on another page.) —o— AS WE hear it: The Lakeland school administration has under consideration the use of a professional bargaining team the next time wage contract negotiations come up with the teachers’ un on and other schooloriented personnel. Such a professional bargaining group is usually made up of lawyers and tend to be more lenient with taxpayers' dollars. BILL HARTMAN, who with his wife Ruth operate the Hartman Donut Shop on South Huntington Street, is tobbling around by means of a pair of crutches, doing his level best to juggle the coffee cups. Reason: A week ago, while using his metal detector around an old building at the area game preserve, he accidentally stepped on a well-hidden board with an exposed rusty nail. He reports the nail ran an inch into his right foot And of course he had the usual tetanus shot for lock jaw. et cetera.
Meanwhile, wife Ruthie came to the rescue to open up said donut shop in the mornings and to keep the coffee brewing for the day-long turn-over of customers. —O'CHARLIE FRUSHOUR turned up the collar on his red sports jacket, hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets. It was Monday p m. and it was 42 degrees outside He peered over his glasses and said. “It was nothing like this in Tampa yesterday ." Charlie was at a Men’s National Bowling tournament, where he was a tourney official, and he reported temperatures at 82 degrees. —O-— MIKE AND Tanya Swihart, residents of South Harrison Street, home from a four-day vacation trip to Hawaii. Mike is an Eby Ford Employee at Goshen and Tanya works in the bookkeeping department at Thornburgs Drug. —o— NEIGHBORS ON South Front Street had words of praise for police officer Robert Houser concerning his handling of a difficult situation last Thursday evening when a young couple hit a tree at 606 South Front St. —o— RESIDENTS OF the lakes area will have an educational and cultural opportunity Sunday. May 13. when The Choralaires, a vocal group made up of people from throughout the county, will appear at St. Andrew s United Methodist Church Junior High English teacher and St. Andrew's organist Russ Sonafrank heard the group at the World Headquarters of the Free Methodist Church recently and suggested a local appearance. The idea caught on. At the program Sonafrank will play the church’s new Allen Computer Organ, according to Chris Koher and Mary Bushong, who are spearheading the appearance here. A free-will offering will go toward the church's organ fund. —o - PAUL ISBELL, president ot the Syracuse Alumni Association, and his fellow officers are busyplanning for the coming banquet This year’s event will take, place in the Syracuse Junior High School on Saturday . May 26. - O'Il E. (“'RED”) Long, r 2 Syracuse, is still smarting over an $Bl fine he paid to the Rotary club “sheriff” a week ago when his daughter Sherri (Mrs. Jerry) Cappertt of South Bend gave birth to identical triplet boys. Happy to acknowledge the occasion. actually. Red says the incidence of this is one in 300,000. Their weight, says Red. are three pounds, 13 ounces: four pounds, four ounces; and four pounds; and their names are Jason E„ James E.. and Jeffrey E. Sherri is a 1972 graduate of Wawasee High School. —o— THE OLD Star Store will soon be used as a shoe clearance center warehouse for Pilcher shoes. The store is expected to open within the next couple of weeks on Saturdays. The Star Store was located at 108 E. Main St . Syracuse. Doug Pilcher, owner of the shoe store, will be running some advertising on his expansion soon. —o—VARNER CHANCE admonishes his obese friends: It’s not the hours at the table that make one fat. it's the seconds. —o— THE PUBLIC auction held at the Lakeland Youth Center Saturday and sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of W awasee netted just over $1,500. according to club treasurer Bob Marion. It was their first such sale and it drew 71 bidders. Auctioneer O A Lambert “did his stuff.” according to one bidder. Biggest item was a boat that sold for $820.00. In a flurry of benevolence Monday night the Kiwanis board of directors voted to give $1.2(8) to community projects as follows: $650 — To Lakeland Youth Center on a matching fund basis w ith the Kosciusko County United Fund. S3OO — To the Little League. SIOO of which is to sponsor a team and S2OO toward the purchase of diamond lights. S2OO — To FFA to help send a delegate to a Washington, D. C.. convention. sss — To 4-H to helo send a
delegate to a Lafayette 4-H camp They also voted to help the Little League Boosters' Club maintain their field north of town. B Tv I B I KIWANIS LT. Gov. Sherman Bryant is shown here as he speaks to his home club, the Kiwanis Club ot Lakeland, during the club's 10th anniversary celebration last week Bryant reviewed the history of the club. -0EMPLOYEES OF the Counting House Bank at North Webster were informed in a meeting Saturday afternoon that their bank had been sold to a Leiters Ford. Ind., holding companyheaded by Ed Stanley. Stanley, who is president of the Leiters Ford bank, was introduced to Counting House Bank Employees by Torn Prichard, vice president of the bank The bank, which has a branch on the north edge of Warsaw, has been headed by J. Homer Shoop for many years, as its president. Television sportscaster Chris Schenkel is chairman of its board of directors. Mr Shoop and his bank have been the major influence in forming and continuing- the., growth of the now-famous Mermaid festival, and converting the tiny town of North Webster to a historic community with its King Arthur theme. More details in the sale of the bank could not be learned. but z w ill be brought to our readers in a later release. Traffic survey conducted by Syracuse police A survey was conducted by the Syracuse Police department of the traffic use on four streets with railroad crossings. Louis Mediano. Syracuse Police Sergeant has released the following findings after a four day total: The north and southbound lanes of Huntington Street, from April 20-24 showed a total of . 43.098 autos. The -north and southbound lanes on Main Street for that same period totaled’ 25,458. The Seventh Street crossing, north and southbound lanes totaled 6,782 autos and Oak Street crossing showed a total of 1.124 autos in the north and southbound lanes. Mediano reported that all crossings are in poor condition and the Oak Street crossing shows an abnormally low traffic count. One possible reason why this is sowas believed because of the extremely rough traveled portion of that crossing and the unusually high slope of the roadway preceding the crossing Milford firemen attend IUPUI fire school Members of the Milford Volunteer Fire Department attended the two-day fire school held at the Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis on April 21 and 22. Those attending were Mike Charlton. Steve Miller, Keith Hunsberger and Jim Amsden The state fire school provides opportunities for many of the firefighters to become current on the latest firefighting procedures and use of the newest equipment on hazardous materials, community disaster planning, rural firefighting, aircraft fire and rescue procedures, and accident and life hazards to the, firefighters. Government experts and representatives of industry and professional firefighters were on the staff of instructors who held the various work shops.