The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 18, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 May 1979 — Page 13

It Happened .... In Syracuse

1 YEAR AGO, MAY 24, 1978 In a special meeting Tuesday night, members of the Lakeland Community School board of Trustees decided against any and all bids for FM radios for administrative vehicles in the corporation. Plans have been set for the Syracuse Memorial Day parade to be held Monday, May 29, starting at 1:30 p.m. by the railroad park on Medusa Street. Members of the Wawasee Kiwanis Club are making final plans for their second annual pancake and sausage breakfast, to be held at the Lakeland Youth Center from 6 to 10:30 am. Saturday. 5 YEARS AGO, MAY 23. 1974 The fifth Wawasee High School graduating class, composed of 206 seniors, participated in graduating exercises Sunday afternoon, the largest class to graduate in the new consolidated school. Members of the Syracuse Masonic Lodge 454 will observe their 100th anniversary Saturday, May 26 with a 3:30 p.m. rededication ceremony. Marta Juday, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Juday, r 3 Syracuse, graduated from IU Medical Center in Indianapolis Sunday with a B.S. degree in physical therapy. Members of the Lakeland school board met in special session Tuesday night and increased the pay scales 5*2 per cent for all certified and noncertified employees. UPTO SIOO TRADE IN ON SNAPPER COMET RIDING MOWER RUCH MOWER SERVICE Under New Ownership IsTwion - SoTT | 457 3044 | IjWawasee Village Syracuse

Let's Talk About AIR CONDITIONING Are You Asking More of Your Air Conditioner Than it Can Produce? You Could Be, and Not Know it. Y. I \\ KCr Block Out the Hot ou may be expecting too ■ Q?x A Kai u'r*' „ „ much from your air | Summer Sun. conditioner. It is a waste of J 77h HO The sun blazing through a energy to cool your home yr [ TFT S window, provides lots of heat, more than is necessary E+9 ~ That s fine in winter, but to be comfortable. not in the summer when Cooking. dish- extra heat means extra cooling washing and bathing as well f°r your air conditioner, as the hot summer sun add a surprising Check the Energy Efficiency Ratio You can begin with awnings. Awnings amount of heat to your home. (EER) when buying a new air conditioner. are available in a variety of new styles Read on for some summertime hints that Not all air conditioners of the same and materials that effectively block the hot may help you reduce the load on your cooling capacity are equally efficient. The summer sun. Use awnings on the east, air conditioning and save energy dollars. EER can usually be found on the appliance, south and west windows. - R if not. ask your dealer to explain it to Plastic or bamboo blinds, reflective Help By turning you. The higher the EER. the more efficient shades, Venetian blinds, and drapes will Ybur Thermostat Up. t h e conditioner. keep your home more comfortable while You'll save energy and money simply by Clean or change filters frequently, helping to take the heat off your air setting your air conditioner's thermostat to and be sure all baffles and vents on your air conditioner. Close the window coverings a higher setting, for example, 78 degrees. conditioner are free from obstructions. during the hottest part of the day. (In fact, each degree above 74 means from Be sure ceilings, walls and floors 3 to 5 per cent additional savings.) over crawl spaces are properly insulated. j . This will save energy-dollars and you nia - v he eligible for a tax credit on your. N - t ■ — -- > income tax return, also. ’ : r Limit Heat and Moisture f'/V iW ’ yf Any heat or moisture (humidity) you add ~ nyyf V\M ■ ‘ to your home adds to your airconditioner's Y’ • I ' cooling load. Your air conditioner 7 — yMg/Jw, • M A ,' J ‘J muSt remove this extra heat and moisture. SutChlHa ~~~ ■ ; \\ 'A LJ J■> ‘ Help your air conditioner work more AU-°WEPfI -A——» efficiently, save on your electric bill at the woF- ~ — -~ ! . same time, by not adding any heat or moisture to your home between 2 P.M. and Help Your Air Conditioner 6 P.M., the hottest part of the day. Help You. Most people are comfortable at 78 Consider all of the chores and appliances You can help your air conditioner cool degrees, so leave the thermostat setting at that can add heat and moisture to your y Our home, and you'll be more comfortable 78 degrees unless you plan to be gone home: cooking, baking, dishwashing. and sav e energy, for more than a few hours. Then, turn your clothes washing and drying, ironing, bathing thermostat up a few degrees. and showering. These activities add ummer i eveer. t When you leave on your vacation, turn significantly to your air conditioner s Air conditioning electric bills climb your air conditioner off. Give it a vacation, cooling load. during the warm months of the year. Almost too. Have a friend or relative turn it Try doing some of these household 75 per cent of annual cooling needs back on the day you return. activities in the cooler morning or evening occur in the three month period of June, hours! Some will not be as easy to July and August. Choosing and Maintaining reschedule as others, but whatever house- You can spread out the costs of air an Air Conditioner. ■ hold chores you can do before 2 P.M. conditioning—and your winter gas bills Choose an air conditioner big enough orafter6P.M. reduces your air conditoner's too—by joining NIPSCOs Equal to do the job, but not too big. Although a cooling load. You can also barbecue Payment Plan. It helps level those high-use larger unit may cool faster, it costs outdoors, use slow cookers, toaster-ovens bills—both summer and winter—over more to purchase, costs more to operate or microwave ovens. the entire year. and if too greatly oversized the unit It may not be easy to change old The Plan can begin in any month, may not run long enough to properly habits, or the time of day for your household Call your local NIPSCO customer service dehumidify the air. chores; but it will be worth the effort. ’ representative for all the details. == Norbhern Indiana Public Service Company This ad paid for by shareholders of Northern Indiana Public Service Company

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Migedt, r 4 Syracuse, announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan Mary, to Robert Penick 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Penick, 618 S. Harrison St., Syracuse. 10 YEARS AGO. MAY 21, 1969 Syracuse uptown merchants decided this week to wage war against parking meters in the uptown business district, petitioning the Syracuse town board of trustees for their prompt removal. The Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce, holding its first noon luncheon meeting last Thursday at the Driftwood Room of Wawasee Golf Club, heard an updated report on the annexation proposal being pushed by the Chamber. Clifford Byrd, 31. son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Byrd, Syracuse, has completed 1,000 miles of pedalling around Syracuse on a bicycle he received March 15, 1968. Wawasee High School athletic director Eldon Ummel presented certificates to 157 athletes at the first Wawasee athletic banquet last Wednesday. Daniel W. Ganger, 61, of Goshen, former Syracuse police chief, died Sunday in the Goshen Hospital. 20 YEARS AGO, MAY 21, 1959 Diplomas will be presented to ’ 46 seniors in graduation exercises tonight at the schoolhouse. Minlou Theatre Corp, has leased the Pickwick Theatre from Alliance Theatre Corp, of Chicago and took over management the first of May. Charles Harris, local funeral director, attended the 79th

convention of the Indiana Funeral Directors Assn, in Indianapolis Friday. Mrs. Paul Warner of Lake Wawasee has passed the Indiana state examination and received her license to sell real estate. This year marks the 45th year that Eli Lilly has been host to a group of lifelong friends who converge on Lilly’s Lake Wawasee home for their annual fishing party. 45 YEARS AGO, MAY 24. 1934 Stephen Freeman, Jesse Eschbaugh, Charles Purdum, Ralph Thornburg and Judge Donald Vanderveer were elected directors of the new State Bank of

'Quickie' to join 'Br( in skies over Syracus

Delbert Whitehead and Robert Braungart. Syracuse, spent 1.200 hours building the “Quickie." This aircraft was built during the winter months from a kit which was designed by a man in California. This type of craft is the third experimental type aircraft that has been constructed and flown by these two men. According to Whitehead the aircraft is to be certified within the week. In the winter of 1975-76 the two Syracuse men built the “Breezy,’’ their first experimental aircraft. The open plane is a pushertype aircraft with the pilot and passenger seated in front of the engine with

Syracuse at a meeting Monday. George Henwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Henwood, was accepted in the U.S. Navy on May 21. He is a graduate of Syracuse High School class of 1932. A rumor reached Syracuse yesterday that 27 children in Cromwell were ill with typhoid fever. A telephone call there proved this was not the case, two were ill with the disease. Mrs. Fred Clark and sons went to Bloomington Monday to spend two weeks with her parents there. The exterior of the Grand Hotel is being painted by Leo Druckamiller this week and the interior of NIPSCO’s office i§ being redecorated.

safety seat belts and the bare tubular framework separating them from space. “Breezy" has become a familiar sight in this area and has more than 500 hours flight. This aircraft is kept at the Wawasee Airport. The following winter they put together and flew an experimental Stitts. The ’“Quickie" is distinctly constructed with the use of styrofoam and fiberglass. The project was slow-going because neither of the men had worked with this type of materials before. This aircraft was periodically GT I reports increase in sales GTI Corporation reported sales of $5,108,000 for the quarter ending March 31, an increase of 24 per cent over the same period in 1978. Net income rose to $234,000, or lie-share, compared to a loss of $44,000 or 2e-share in the first quarter of 1978. Backlog at the quarter’s end stood at $5,900,000 a 38 per cent increase over the same period in 1978.

Homemakers dine out Members of the Leesburg Homemakers Club met in a Middlebury restaurant on Wednesday, May 16, for their annual spring party. Devotions were given by Miss Faye Hollar. Mrs. Jack Hetler, president, was in charge of the business meeting when it was decided to give a donation to the Salvation Army. The program consisted of the reading of several poems. May birthdays were honored. A total of 24 members and one guest. Miss Peggy Tom. were present. The next meeting will be in the home of Josephine Hopkins at Winona Lake on June 20. eezy' e checked by the Federal Aeronautics Association while the construction was in process. Sunday morning. May 20, the FFA inspected the craft before the flight set that morning from Goshen. Mrs. Ashton crowned at Syracuse On Tuesday, May 1, in the rotunda of the State capital. Governor Otis Bowen launched a month for older Hoosiers with a proclamation. Throughout the month of May special programs, and special church services will honor senior citizens. At Syracuse, the Turkey Creek Senior Citizens crowned the club queen on May 17, she is Mrs. Florence Ashton, 77, r 2 Syracuse. On May 23, she along with queens from the county clubs will compete for the county crown. The county queen will next go to Elkhart as a candidate for area queen. She will represent Area 2 at the state contest held during the state fair at Indianapolis. Mrs. Ashton is the fifth queen for the local club Trim shrubs, bushes at Milford cemetery Levi Beer, president of the Milford Cemetery Board, is urging everyone who has shrubs or bushes at the Milford cemetery to trim them prior to Memorial Day.

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15-year-old Syracuse girl to visit San Paulo

Amy Bales, 15. daughter of Mr and Mrs. Charles Bales, r 3 Syracuse, has her ticket and passport ready for seven weeks in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The only thing missing is the vaccination required, before leaving June 11. She is a sophomore at Wawasee s High School. When she arrives in Sao Paulo it will be winter and she will be attending school there also. Her mother stated Amy will be staying with the Feliciano family whose son. Alexandre, was an exchange student last year at Wawasee High School. He stayed with the Bales family while here. During a three-week winter vacation in July she will visit Jordan Camp in the mountains and other areas besides Sao Paulo. She also may travel to Uruguay to visit Gabriela Corvino an exchange student who t attended Manchester High School last year and visited in the Bales' home. Amy is on no organized program. She will be receiving a small amount of money from the Lions Club of Laketon. She is hoping for support from other service organizations in the Lakeland area. She has already spoken to the Syracuse Kiwanis about her trip. Last summer she worked and earned over SI,OOO which will cover a majority of expenses for her trip. She has had two years instruction of Spanish and is hoping to learn Portuguese quickly while there. Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a large Wawasee's newspaper awards By PATTIE GERRITY The 1978-79 Wawasee High School Newspaper staff presented journalism awards Tuesday. May 15. The awards were. Best page editor, Mike Ray; best news story, Scott Wilson; best feature, Doug-Walker; best humor story, Doug Walker: and art award. Jeff Jorczak. Kay Kirkpatrick, the newspaper editor, gave the editor’s award to Mark Stiffler. Kay was also voted by the staff to receive the South Bend Tribune’s best staffer award.

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city with a population of over seven million Her mother stated it will be difficult for a young person from a rural area to move to a large city with a different culture, climate, language and customs. Amy is reportedly s, looking forward to the trip. Plans were set in motion for the trip over a ago and Amy is

Is there too much emphasis placed on the SAT?

By LINDA PERRY The use of the standardized test for judging student competency has long been a reality However, many educators have begun to question the validity of such tests, particularly when it comes to the SAT or ACT test which is necessary to get into most colleges. How accurate are such tests? Is too much emphasis placed on them 9 Max Ellen Medich, English instructor at Wawasee, feels that there is. She mentions a case of a daughter of hers who was a better student in English that in math but whose SAT scores showed just the reverse. Because this is a possibility with any student, she feels that overall academic records should take precedence over the SAT when it comes to college admission. Many school officials agree with her. In an article in “Changing Times," it was noted that even the best student can have a bad day or freeze up when confronted with a 100 question test that must be completed in 30 minutes. It is also pointed out that many strengths in special

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wanting to learn more about other nations first hand. She also wants to better understand the people, the educational system and the government of other nations. As a student at Waw. see High School, Amy has been in the photography club, foreign language club and on the tennis team.

areas and leadership, and motivation attained through extra-curriculars and jobs cannot be revealed in a standard multiple choice English and math test. Many students at Wawasee also have negative feelings toward the SAT. Amy Speicher and Rod Hamman both feel that too much emphasis is placed on the test because most kids don’t do the best they are capable of on these tests due to nervousness and lack of concentration after long periods of time. They feel that other factors should be considered before tests in determining a student’s potential Since many peoples’ reactions toward the test are negative, why are college bound students required to take the SAT? It is pointed out in the article that the test does serve an important purpose in that it tests each student equally, whereas grades do not because not all teachers grade and teach the same nor do they cover the same material. In other words, the SAT makes sure that the student knows what he has to know to succeed in college.