The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 23, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 June 1979 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., June 27,1979

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Editorials

We salute the Mermaid Festival Let’s all get together and give a rousing salute the North Webster Lions Club and the 34th annual Mermaid Festival. Nothing could be more fitting. A second salute is also due to the Palace oi Sports for its promotion of the festival via grants made each year and its King of Sports and Tournament of Knights. Each year the festival has drawn the prettiest girls of the area to the‘‘Queen of Lakes” contest and has commanded a dignitary who is often a state official or prominent politician from Washington, D. C. Two young women who wore the crown of ‘‘Queen of Lakes” have gone On to be crowned ‘‘Miss Indiana — Barbara Mougin, 1970 “Queen of Lakes” was 1978’s “Miss Indiana runner-up in the “Miss America” competition; and Terry Kaiser, 1975 Queen ot Lakes” is the current “Miss Indiana.” Now the festival also draws sports celebrities with this year’s King of Sports being Indiana State’s Larry Bird. The famous Mermaid parade will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The Tournament of Kinghts is set for 12 noon. We point with pride to North Webster and its Mermaid Festival and to the variety of activities for young and old alike that are taking place in that Lakeland town this week. We tip our hats to the many people who have been working all year to make the festival the success that it has become. Won’t you join us in giving the town of North Webster and its Lions Club a well deserved round of applause for this, the 34th Mermaid Festival. And the Wawasee Flotilla Festival, too Syracuse and the lakes community has a long history of summer activities, and its Fourth of July week end is perhaps a highlight of these events. The 1979 Wawasee Flotilla Festival is being billed as one of the best with a widening bill of activities. (Note: For a full program we would call the attention of our readers to a full page color ad on the front page of Section Two of this issue of The Mail-Journal.) It all starts Saturday night with the Flotilla Ball and events continue through fireworks at the Syracuse city park on Wednesday evening, July 4. We also point with pride to the Wawasee Flotilla Festival, and want to thank those few dedicated individuals who have worked so hard to “put this package together.” The festival this year can give the lakes area the much-needed stimulus it needs. We’ll be looking for a crowd at the numerous festival events, and especially at the Flotilla Parade scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 1. Roses, roses, roses ROSES, ROSES, ROSES — June is the month for roses and this is a special week. It’s A Rose for Friendship Week with today (Wednesday) being A Rose for Friendship Day. The special week is the brainchild of J. B. Hoy of North Webster who wants it to be the most meaningful, colorful and glorious weeks in the year for all. It’s a time to reach out and touch a life in a happy, gentle friendly way, states Hoy in a printed publication promoting the day. It has the overtones whispering of love with echoes of compassion. Hoy and backers of A Rose for Friendship Week urge everyone to give a rose in an act of kindness, thought or deed to those you meet daily. In A Rose for Friendship Day and Week people are extending a hand —a hand that wants to care and wants to share, a hand that’s showing love. We would urge everyone who has roses to share one or two this week as an act of friendship in observance of this special day. One of man’s most emotional needs is that of friendship, states the North Webster man. Yet all through the ages men have failed completely to honor friendship, and especially failed to give it to those who sometimes need it most. No nation in the world has ever approached this subject with the least concern, and, said Hoy, “I am appalled, ahd think it is high time we do something. This is an affront to God for He is the greatest friend of all.” “Rose” is a key word, a symbol, for in the face of a rose the heart of God is revealed. You see love, tenderness, kindness, thoughtfulness. A rose is for friendship, for remembrance, for forgiveness. In its larger meaning, a “Rose” for friendship can be an act of kindness, a token of remembrance, a compliment, or just a friendly word. Now is the time Now is thetime for the residents of the this area to push for signal lights and gates at every railroad crossing in Kosciusko County. We don’t know what caused Pamala K. Miller to stop on the tracks at the crossing south of Milford last week. We may never know. We do, however, feel that had the crossing been marked with flasher lights and gates this accident would never have happened. Many people fail to note the crossed arms marking a railroad crossing. And, while this was not the case in the June 10 car-train accident, many times the drivers of vehicles can not tell if a train is coming or not until he or she is on the tracks because of tree limbs, buildings, etc., blocking one’s view. Flashing red lights are easily seen and are needed at all crossings. Even if they only save one life they would be worth it.

What others say —

A growing problem

What does government regulation have to do with me? Many of us ask that. While red tape and filling out forms may be rough for the merchant and manufacturer that, after all, is one of the headaches of doing business. It doesn’t cost us anything. Or does it? The hard fact is that excessive regulation, which has multiplied in recent years hurts everybody; it doesn’t stop with the person or firm being regulated. The impact takes a variety of forms, but two stand out — inflation and unemgovernment piles on new rules and regulations, businesses have to spend money to comply. This boosts their costs and, if they don t want to go broke they have to pass those extra costs along in the form of higher prices to customers — to us. This isn’t theory. It’s reality. We’ve seen it happen, for instance when we buy a new car meeting all the latest anti-pollution, safety, energy-saving and you-name-it regulations. This occurs in industry after> dustiy adding fuel to the general inflation. Regulatory burdens also affect jobs. First, there are direct effects, such as an evor-higher minimum wage that prices youngsters and unskilled workers out of job markets and laws that mandate higher-than-average wages in construction Second, and perhaps more significant, is the long-range effect: draining o ff dollars and know-how and effort that would have gone into expansion of business and creation of new jobs needed for a growing work force. These are the things we should remember every time the bureaucrats and politicians ca n for another dose of government regulation, and we should ask ourselves, an d them, “Who is really going to get hurt?” — LaGrange Standard

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Twins Traci and Staci Ostendorf like the roses in the yard of their grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Ostendorf at Milford. Today is A Rose for Friendship Day — A Rose for Friendship could bring peace to all the world!

Letter to the editor —

Congressman Fithian explains canal vote to constituents

Dear Editor: Ever since my election to Congress. 1 have opposed giving up American rights in the Panama Canal. Regardless of how you feel about this particular issue. I am sure that you share my concern for a successful resolution of the issues involved in the Panama debate. 1 am not writing to you now to seek press coverage or to secure space in your “Letters to the Editor column; 1 merely want to acquaint you with my thinking on one of the most difficult votes 1 have faced in the past five years. As you know, the Carter Administration last year concluded negotiations on the Panama Canal which were carried on during the administrations of Presidents Johnson. Nixon and Ford The U. S. Senate subsequently ratified the treaties turning over canal ownership to the Panamanian government in the year 2000. and on April Ist of this year, the instruments of ratification were exchanged. I was disappointed by the decision to ratify the treaties. But nothing we might do now can keep the Panama Canal in American hands beyond the year 2000. The old treaties allowing us to be in Panama expire on October Ist, and the only authority we will have to keep American troops in Panama beyond that date will Im* based on the new treaties and on management legislation recently passed by Congress. Had Congress failed to pass the management legislation (also referred to as implementing legislation), or had we accepted language m clear violation of the treaties — such as the so-called Hansen Amendment — then our repudiation of the treaties would leave Panama free under international law to terminate the treaties. We would then face no choice but to withdraw all American troops from Panamanian soil, and to bring home the American personnel who manage and operate the canal. I think such a course would be disastrous. 1 believe that our military presence in Panama is vital to the defense of American interests at this time, and I want to keep the American flag flying there as long as we can. That is essential to prevent the influence of communism from moving into the canal zone. Our failure to fulfill our part of the treaties and keep our presence in Panama would increase Cuba’s influence there. And with our troops gone. Fidel Castro would have strongest military power in the area. Despite my opposition to the treaties, then, 1 was extremely reluctant to vote against the management legislation (H.R. 111). Nor could I support amendments such as Congressman Hansen's, which would violate the treaty and permit Panama to end the treaty and all American influence. As John Wayne noted in a telegram to me shortly before his death, by supporting the Hansen Amendment “we’re not being honest with ourselves or with others. " <■ Prior to the vote on H.R. 111, 1 randomly chose 100 people who

had written to me to ask that 1 vote against this implementing legislation < I have received more than a thousand letters on this single topic’ 1 sent each of these 100 individuals a four page explanation of the bill and ol the choices we faced, and 1 asked them to review the information and call me. free, to give me their advice More than half of those who called said that although they. too. opposed the canal transfer, they thought that I should support the implementing legislation. 1 decided to help pass the necessary legislation authorizing the U.S to stay in Panama for the next 20 years to run the canal and keep it open Prior actions of the executive branch and the Senate limited the options open to the House of Representatives to just two: either transfer the canal to Panama in the year 2000. or transfer it in 1979. My strong conviction is that it is in the military and economic interest of the United States to keep our forces in Panama and continue to run the canal for the next 20 years. H R. 11l was new legislation, quite different from the original administration bill <H.R. 1716’. HR 111 ensures that not one dime of taxpayer money will be paid to’Panama. In fact, it ensures that revenues will continue to flow into the U.S. Treasury from interest payments on our investments in Panama currently yielding us about $26 million annually. 1 firmly believe that my vote was in the best interest of the security of the United States and peace throughout the Americas. 1 hope this letter will enable you to better understand the rationale behind my vote. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you wish to discuss this issue further. Sincerely yours. Floyd Fithian Member of Congress Church services underway at Milford Junction Rev. Pearl Avalos is currently holding church services in the Pentecostal Church at Milford Junction with the public invited to attend. Services are held at 10 a.m. on Sunday and at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday.

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ONE WHO loses his sense of humor is lost. This is a philosophy Father David Hyndman would subscribe to; he has done well in keeping his sense of humor intact. Last Tuesday, in fact, when it was his turn to give a Rotary program, he exercised this sense of humor to its best advantage and turned the tables on his peers with the following limerick: Wehonor our friend. Nelson Miles Who's a man of wisdom and wiles When he isn't here We miss him most dear For he gives us an hour of smiles Then there is David McGrew Who will sell a dwelling to you But i« you're a Rotary brother You'd better not bother For you he's reserved a cage at the zoo. Joe Gray's our retired marine Who plays tricks with Varner's machine So when we're in song Something goes wrong ’ Costing Varner a bundle of green Lou Craig we must certainly mention He proves a gentleman's not in extinction Wherever you are o When he lights his cigar The club takes on an air of distinction. Dan VanLue is an expert in sonics And all kinds of other electronics I asked him to build something plain To improve my poor misused bom But he said that would be micrpbionics. Charlie Harris is certainly great And with great patience doth wait For he knows all our sizes For when the occasion arises To carry us offinacrate. Always Paul Penn's in control He knows how the temperatures go So when the temperature's freezing And people are sneezing « He leaves us to the cold and the snow Frank one and Frank two are a pair We're certainly happy they're here For with no plans and no money There's no one more sunny Than an ex-banker and ex-engineer . Our Bob is a man that we feel Keeps us upright and honest and real So that those who would stray Will invariably say. Hey. Bob. Let's make a Deihl! Jay Peffley is a NlPSCoexec Who for gas prices gets heck But those who complain He regards with disdain As a little lower than a pain in the neck. Tom Kitch isour uniformed man Who always does the best that he can We are quite proud of his fame For other coppers exclaim No one can catch as Kitch can LaMar Stoops has hung up the phone And he's left that business alone. Was it just that incidence Or perhaps just coincidence But my how that company's grown? Harry Bishop's been back for a while Forsaking Florida's style And we've all missed a lot That talent he's got For the flash of an occasional smile. Lewis Immel is nobody's dope As a principal he can certainly cope And when there is some work to do We can call upon Lou Like selling tickets to Sounds of Mope. John Call is a man among men Working with triangle and T square and pen He'll design you a lean to That you can move into That is. if you can afford it by then. Jon Dewart will sell you a machine That's purple or yellow or green With styling that's new And accessories too But that unfortunately consumes gasoline. Ken Harkless plays a big part In portraying history with art. But it's simply not true What some say to you That he's been in the town from the start. Then there's a young man named Randy Who around the bank is quite handy. With trusts and accounting And loans and some counting And sets out the bowls full of candy. Jerry Ganshorn'S our resident printer As well as his partner's keeper But it embarrasses him keenly When someone quite meanly Calls him a good Plummer's helper. Our music man's Varner Chance Who leads us in ditties and chants But when Joe does his thing We invariably sing So poorly that Varner rants. We have a pest man named Red Who promises to kill your bugs dead But what he's importing Does such cavorting You'll want your bugs back instead Bill Cable is never forlorn On his countenance there never is scorn For in bushels he measures All of life's treasurers And takes all with a kernel of corn. With precision Al Tehan works He can find where the trouble spot lurks He controls this whole group And keeps us Out of the soup No small task, in a club full of jerks. Dick Ditmer is cheery and sunny But guys, it just isn't funny When you come to the meeting And accept his fine greeting But x&)lect to pay him your money. It is not the aroma of grasses Or the stench of noxious gases But Gene Ludwig's all smiles When for miles and miles Over Syracuse wafts the smell of molasses. ' No Coho escapes from our Paul Levernier cathces them all And when they're abolished And suitably polished Their tails get rather tall. Arch Baumgartner, our perpetual guest. Isa man who is seldom distressed But he's been known to pout When his workers walk out Cause then he's a man who's de pressed. In the Air Force he spent quite a stint But now in his eyes there's a glint For when Jim Plummer's aware He makes sure that he's there Whenever there's something to print. Now our Paul Schmucker's a man Who will sell you insurance if he can But knowing us well As well as the rigors of hell Won't sell us a fire insurance plan. John Hagen is a lawyer by trade That's how all his money is made But about I.U. and Purdue He can certainly tell you The sports scores for the recent decade. Now David Hyndman is very secure He's handsome and brilliant and pure But I know you won't buy it So I won't even try it Or you'll call me a hind end for sure.

ANNA (MRS. John A.) Craw, sec.-treas. of the local Boy Scout board of directors, reports she’s , having difficulty meeting current expenses at the cabin with three organizations diverting their annual support to the Lakeland Day Care Center, also a worthy project. Donations coming in are as follows. Rotary Club. $200; Lions. $l3B. B & PW. $100; Senior " Citizens. S6O; Kiwanis, SSO; and Intermediate Mothers. SSO. for a total of $598 An ice cream social netted $245.62, for a total income of $843.62 NIPSCo bills at the cabin were $863.55. giving a current deficit of $19.93. according to Mrs. Craw's books'. The word is out. then, that any group with funds available would do well to support the Scout Cabin board. On the board besides Mrs. Craw, who represents the B & PW. are Freddette Money, representing the Senior Mothers* Club: Bill Coburn from the Lions, Charles Harris from the Rotary and Dick Keim from the Wawasee Kiwanis. PHIL BAUMGARDT. secretary < of the Papakeechie Protective Assn., hopes to have "the best ever” yard and Bake Sale at the Wawasee Hatchery Ponds on old SR 8, on Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1, from 9 a m. to 6 p.m. It’ll be their fourth such sale, and the public is urged to dropout. IT’S A great big "hats off” to Tim Moser, associated with the International Palace of Sports, for pulling off a very successful 5,000 meter race at North Webster Saturday morning. A total of 115 runners turned out for the first race of its kind. It’s a sure thing it won't he the last. The event was a prelude to this year’s Mermaid Festival. VACATIONERS IN the community are Bill and Marilyn King of Alexandria, spending four weeks on Papakeechie Lake. Bill is a 29-year employee of DelcoRemy at Anderson, and when retirement comes around next year the handsome couple plans to spend more time here. GRACE (MRS. C. D.) Lawson recently received her broker’s real estate license and will be associated with Thwaits Realty And the firm is searching for a location in the Village. BILL KERFIN. at 76. claims he’s "a quarterhorse” and can "run with the best of them” . . if it’s a short distance and all downhill. ATTORNEY JOHN C. Hagen fca proudly showing around four NCAA tickets for next year’s classic to be held at the Market Square Arena at Indianapolis. He said, “There’s one chance in 50 to get these tickets-, and 1 have four of them!” At S3O each, this is a prize win for someone as interested in basketball (principally LU.) as John is. He’s not telling how he came by the coveted tickets. — o— FRED MARTIN is the new state trooper in this area, being intreduced around recently by veteran trooper Larry Clodfelter. Trooper Martin hails from Indianapolis. —o— UNS E A SON AB L Y COO 1. weather has been given by local marina owners as the reason for the shortage of summertime visitors at our lakes. Week ends, when they do the majority oi their business, have been cool and windy. Forecasts, however, appear to be more favorable. Several marina operators have suggested that the critical gas shortage has kept visitors who come from far-away cities away from our lakes. But at the same time, the operators are appealing to local peple to do their vacationing on our lakes, and thus to save their own precious gas by not driving out of the area. Gas prices at the marinas have gone up. much like they have at service stations, but there appears to be ample gas for boats. Actually, marinas use an infinitesimal percentage of the gas being used in the total marketplace. We go along with marina operators: if you plan a vacation, why not do it right here at home? - o— TOWNSMAN CHRIS Koher.has thumbed his nose at the gas shortage, went out and bought two mopeds some time ago, and is buzzing around w ith wife Jean • on the town’s streets, somewhere between 20 and 25 mph. unimpeded by high gas prices. Son JR claims his-dad gets “upwards of

100 miles per gallon.” and Chris says. “Shucks, I do a lot better than that.” ,-O—THERE WILL be thirty (count 'em 30!) queen candidates in this year's Mermaid Festival Queen of the Lakes contest, and anyone who saw them at a preliminary review with the judges last night ‘Tuesday) at the M & M Restaurant is in full agreement that they make up the most striking bevy of beauties in many a year , This is the largest number 61 queen candidates since 1966 when they had 13 candidates. In fact, the number shrunk to 15 one year recently when "we practically had to drag candidates in of f the street." according to one Festival promoter. Pity the judges this year when they have to make their final queen selection. —o WISH WE'D said that: Trade the Saudis a bushel of wheat lor a barrel of oil. Court news SM ALL CLAIMS The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko County Court. Loren Collier, judge. Complaint Kosciusko Community Hospital. 2101 Dußois Drive. Warsaw, has filed claims ors the following: John Dove. P.O. Box 607 Milford. $314.55; Sandra Harrell. P. (). Box 57 Milford, $235.25; Donald Black, r 2 North Webster. $758.60. Tom Constant, r 1 Leesburg. $834.40 Violations Cruelty to animals — Jarier DeLaFuente. Milford. S3O Speeding — Cutberto Gonzalez, 29. Milford. $45; Earl Shepherd. 17. North Webster. S4O; James Coon. 18. Leesburg, S4B; Galen Sopher, 18. North Webster. S4O; Sylvan Schwegman, 37, North Webster. $45; No vehicle inspection — Steven Smith. 27. Syracuse, $35 MARRI AGE LICENCES Huff-Bales Keith Eugene Huff. 28. r 3 box 139 Syracuse and LuAnn Bales. 24, r 2 Syracuse Peterson-Burtch David Harold Peterson, 19 r 4 Syracuse and Julie Ann Burtch, 18. r 4 box 405 Syracuse Parsons-Stallman Wayne Martin Parsons, 27. 216 W Beardsley. Elkhart and Dawn Sheree Stallman, r 2 Syracuse COUNTY COURT The following fines have been assessed in Elkhart County Court: Speeding — Joseph C. Hill, 17. Leesburg.s3s Failure to have vehicle inspected — Daniel O. Walker. 20, Syracuse. $33 Goshen City Court The following fines have been assessed in Goshen City Court: Failure to have vehicle inspected — Cletus H. Mast. 20, Syracuse. $32 Unlawful operation of rejected vehicle — Scott L. Faulkner. 21. Syracuse. $36; BrianS. Smith. 18. Syracuse. $32 Disobeyed stop sign — Dixie D. Doerscher, 23. Syracuse,s36 Speeding — Todd E. Manges. 17, Syracuse, s4l; Cynthia A. Likens. 23. Syracuse, $36; Steven R. Linn, 24, Syracuse. s4l; Terry J. West. 33, Syracuse. $36 Fithian to be in county During the upcoming Independence Day holiday. Congressman Floyd Fithian will visit 11 of the 14 counties in Indiana's Second District. In Kosciusko County, the Congressman will participate in ftie Mermaid Festival Parade in North Webster, at 4 p.m., Saturday, June 30. On Monday. July 2. at 7 a m.. Mr. Fithian will address the' membership of the Warsaw Kiwanis Club at John Wong's Restaurant. Warsaw. At 8:15 am., he will visit with management personnel at the Zimmer plant in Warsaw. The Congressman will present a United States flag tp the manager of the Bio Met Factory of Warsaw, in recognition of the first anniversary of/the company’s operation, on Highway 15 South at 11:15 a.m. Purdue graduate Sandra Gerencser. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gerencser of Milford, graduated from Purdue University on May 13 with a bachelor of arts degree from the school of humanities, majoring in public relations, radio and television.