The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 32, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 August 1979 — Page 4

Editorials

School bells are ringing — Lakeland school bells rang this morning, calling some 3,000 students back to the classrooms for another year of studies. Today is a day when tragedy, or joy, overtakes area students. For.those who love the freedom of summer, the hot weather and outdoors and lack of study, school’s reopening is stark tragedy. For those who love school and association with friends and learning, this is a time of joy. Geniuses and successful men and women have developed from both philosophies. Winston Churchill, for example, was a poor student. In today’s world, however, successful study is more important than ever. As the world grows more technical and complex and competition becomes greater and greater, education becomes increasingly important. It is the best investment not only for the students but for the adult citizens in the Lakeland area. Therefore, accept the beginning of a new school year as a challenge, if you are of school age, and make the best of it. If you are thinking about being a drop out please reconsider. It may sound good to you at this time but where will you be in five or six years? What can you do with your life if you don’t have a diploma? School years and one’s youthful years in general, are not always easy years. But they are years of opportunity and challenge — and those who move out to meet that opportunity and challenge in school today are very likely to be the leaders of tomorrow. Post office parking problem It’s difficult to say whether an editorial here on the parking problem around the new Syracuse post office will produce more light than heat, but we doubt it. The heat, of course, is coming from postal patrons who find the parking situation there “cramped,’’ “dangerous," even “short-sighted." Originally there were eight parking spaces, all on the south side of the new building, and one of these was for the handicapped (as required by federal law). Then, in an effort to give the area four more parking spaces, four concrete parking bumpers were installed on the south side of the parking lot next to the drive. This installation has tightened up the parking situation considerably. So much so, in fact, that a number of patrons have inadvertently driven over the new parking bumpers. We couldn’t tell you any complaints over the tight parking situation at the post office in this space that postmaster Avon Bushong has not already heard. And of course he has had nothing to do with planning either the new facility or the parking lot. This is the work of W. I. Klein Associates, consulting engineers of Cincinnati, Ohio. Postmaster Bushong admits that perhaps there was not enough land purchased in the first place, but notes that all the land that was purchased has been put to good use. A total of 14 parking spaces has been provided for postal employees — “and that’s not nearly enough," Bushong concedes. Bushong also points out that the new post office has 372 postal boxes while the old post office had only 324. His defense of the problems with the new post office and its parking problem is that he and postal department officials tried to find a suitable location in the uptown Syracuse area for a new post office but were thwarted at every turn when it came to pinning down a suitable location. Labor Day — 7 979 Labor Day — 1979, a time of joy, a time of sadness. Next Monday is Labor Day, a day when America pauses to honor the 6 workers, be they in factories, offices, schools, stores, etc. It is also the day marked as the official ending of the summer season as students return to school and families pack up and prepare to close their summer cottages for the winter season. Sofrie will be back from time to time on week ends while others won’t be seen again until Memorial Day and the close of schools for yet another summer. The purpose of this editorial is not to comment on the summer people but on the laboring force — the people for whom the day is named. The people who work to earn their living so they can put food on their tables and clothe their children. The people who get up at 5 and 6 a.m. in order to be at work on time. The people who give their employers eight hours work for eight hours pay. It is these people we salute. It is these people who have made America what she is today. It is these people who keep America strong. So, make Monday your holiday — you deserve it! Time to cut corners The time has come to cut corners — each year weeds and farm crops, especially corn, are allowed to grow high at intersections. We feel they should be cut back before a life is lost in an automobile accident because the driver couldn't see around the corner. We know if a farmer trims the corners of his cornfields he will lose money. But does he lose enough to make up for the fact that motorists can’t see? We think not. Therefore, we are asking farmers and other with corners that have views blocked to take time to “cut that corner’’ so we won’t be reporting a fatality because someone neglected to make it a little easier for the driver to see. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty — II Corinthians 3:17 We haven’t heard anyone come up with the most obvious reason why the government should not ration gasoline: It’s not the government’s gasoline. “Let the people know the facts and the country will be saved.’’ —- Abraham Lincoln

What others say —

Mr, Chairman. We move . . . Mr. Chairman. We move that this meeting be called to order. Mr. Chairman. We move that a resolution of commendation be adopted citing those who have refused to bend or bow to pressure from the equal rights movement to amend or change a law in regard to sex differentiation. At the recent 20th annual convention of the National Association of Parlimentarians, it was resolved that usage of the term “Chairman” be employed instead of “Chairperson.” The resolution explains that Parlimentary law has a language all its own. In olden times, the one presiding at a meeting was the only person provided with a chair, while others sat on benches. Hence the presiding individual was called the * chairman. It is also pointed out that no parlimentary law authority or dictionary recognizes the word “Chairperson.” The terms “Mr. Chairman” and “Madame Chairman” have long been accepted to differentiate between sexes. We applaude the NAP’s action and join it in emphasizing that the word “Chairman” belongs to the title of office, the same as the title of “president” or “secretary.” Mr. Chairman. We move that this meeting be adjourned.— Danville Gazette

■ r \ m. *Ni itm m Remember: School opens today and the buses are rolling once again — drive carefully.

Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area ...

How do you buy your back-to-school supplies?

Barbara Dickinson Milford “My boy has a birthday in October and I buy him things then. I usually start him out with what he has. You never know what supplies they need until they bring a list home from school. I usually buy in town.” Ann Cavender Syracuse She has five children to buy back to school supplies for. ages six. eight, nine. 10and 14. “I start about a month ahead and after that just pick up things when on sale. Before school starts 1 pick up all odds and ends. I take all the kids at once. ” Judy Mast Nappanee “I usually get them enough to start them out and then add to it as time goes on. I watch for sales. I usually go out of town (to buy supplies). I look for clothes that are sturdy and going to hold up. I buy them a little big so they have room to grow. I bought coats last year and saved them for this year.” Courtney Blue Syracuse “We try to stock up over the summer and look for sales. We have one daughter. ” Betty Otis New Paris “I s,pread it (buying school supplies) out. 1 shop through the Sears catalog mostly. For the boys, I look to see if they (clothes) can take the wear and tear. I make a lot of my own (clothes). Not where ! shop, I haven’t (found prices higher this year than last year.) ” M SSLMarsha Houston Syracuse “I usually get them at one time, I always watch for the sales.” She has a daughter five and also stated, “I have a thing about last minute buying, hate to fight the crowds, even for holidays I shop two months before.” Glenn King Goshen The Kings have a daughter who is 14. “She gets some of the stuff herself, her mother buys some and I buy some and go for the sales when buying. It works out pretty good with one child, it isn’t too difficult.”

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■Pk '-- iJr" Jackie Foltz r I Milford “I spread it (back-to-school buying) out. I can’t afford it all at once. I buy locally-everything. 1 look for good quality. I look for dresses. I don’t like to see my daughter in pants, not for school anyway 1 didn’t find a real big increase (in prices), but enough.” Suzette Henderson r I Milford “We buy (clothes) up at the mall. Mostly (get clothes at the beginning of the school year). The heavy stuff we get in the winter. 1 look for things that will last. Joe is always hard on the knees. By the end of the school year. I’ve always put patches on his knees. No (prices weren’t higher this year), because when we bought them last year there was a special sale right before school like this year. The prices will probably go up though.” Janet Bowser r r 5 Syracuse “I wait to see what the school supplies them. I’ve bought school clothes, but that’s about all. I buy mostly out of the catalog. 1 start them out with three sets of clothes, enough for three days and buy as I need them. I look for double knees in jeans.” Stanfield Turner, CIA Director: “The President will not sign a treaty unless it’s adequately verifiable.’’ Juanita Kreps, Commerce Secretary: “I don’t believe the first quarter economic ! growth slowdown will lead to the recession that some predicted for later this year,” Scott M. Mat he son, Utah Governor: “Residents in southern Utah heard ‘there is no danger’ every day there was a test.’’ Jimmy Carter, President: “I am winning support for my proposal to tax the unearned profits American (oil) producers will get. . 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*507. Second class postage paid at 103 E. Main street, Syracuse, Indiana 4*5*7 and at additional entry offices Subscription: $lO per year in Kosciusko County; sl2 outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of add ress forms to The Mail Journal, P O. Box 188, Milford, Indiana 4*542.

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THE NOMINATION of a full slate of Democratic candidates for the North Webster town board of trustees and for clerktreasurer has caught that town’s entrenched Republicans a little off guard. After all, there hasn’t been a Democratic slate advanced for town offices in 20 years, it was learned this week. . And so Republicans were quick to pick up the fact that the Democratic town chairman, John Harwood, is now living in Woodland Acres, the posh addition just south of Wawasee High School. Contacted about this this column learned that Harwood, who lived on Morton Street in North Webster for the past three years with his wife Susan, is contemplating building a new home in the Warren Addition at the northwest edge of North Webster, and he hopes to be into his new home by early December. It was subsequently learned that if Harwood were not moved permanently back into Ward I. which ward he was to represent as a town board candidate, by September 1. he would be ineligible to seek the office of town trustee. As a result of his inability to make the move by Sept. I, he tendered bis resignation on Sunday night as a Democratic candidate. George Burns, a lifelong North Webster resident, in his early 60’s, was named to be a Ward I candidate. Diana (Mrs. Wayne) Jemigan was elevated from the town's Democratic vice chairman to chairman, replacing Harwood, and town Democrats are now seeking a new vice chairman. Harwood is employed as an engineer for the United Telephone Company and works in Nappanee. and has injected a real competitive spirit in the North Webster political arena. —o— THE HIGH price of gas is being seen all around us. Bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles are being seen in ever-increasing numbers. This week Gaylord Jones was seen riding around on a new fivespeed bicycle. “I’m doing my part,” Big G says with a wry smile, while his Lincoln Continental rests in all its majesty in the garage. —o— IF YOU’RE a woman and are interested in physical fitness, we would call your attention to the first in a series of four articles appearing in this issue of The Mail-Journal on the subject by Donna Johnson. She gives women’s fitness classes four days per week at the Lakeland Youth Center. Donna and hubby R. G. (“Jerry”), residents of North Shore Drive, have become regular fitness sadists. —o— CYNTHIA FRY might be following in the political footsteps of her father, the late Ray Frevert. Last Thursday night, at a Republican town caucus, Mrs. Fry consented to be her party’s candidate for town clerktreasurer. She was nominated by the present clerk-treasurer, Betty Dust, who is completing her second term in that office. Mrs. Fry is employed in the bookkeeping department of Thornburg Drug Co. in Syracuse. Her dad was a two-term town board member in the 19405, having also served as board president for a time. He passed away in 1963. He was instrumental in bringing the Weatherhead Co. plant to Syracuse. Mrs. Fry did similar work for three Turkey Creek township trustees: Matty Jones, Harold Kuhn and Joe Schumon. And thus she appears well qualified for (he job she seeks. Runing for the town board of trustees on the same ticket are Steve Butt, Bill Hess, Carl Myrick, Clifford Boyer and Joe Morgenthaler. —o— AL TEH AN is a happy man: He’s doing what he likes to do best — work on automobiles. A1 is owner and working manager of Precision Automotive on West Chicago Avenue, Syracuse,. “I got into this business as a hobby,” he says, adding, “I graduated from North Central High in Indianapolis, then went to Indiana State to study dentistry.” Ai came to the lake area

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YOUNG FISHERMAN AT WORK — Saturday morning eight-year-old Robert Nelson of Fori Wayne, visiting with his grandparents. Dick and Jean Nelson of Ogden Island, was found fishing off the Venetian Isle bridge on Casandru Drive, plying his trade but with no special luck. The young fisherman is the son of Pat and Betty Nelson of Fort Wavne. -

summers and says. “I loved it here.” He always liked to work on cars, and so now he has eight mechanics at his busy place of business repairing and finetuning vehicles. S' He water skis on Lake Wawasee mornings and runs with his inventory man. Curt Stucky. at the Wawasee track field after work each evening, “I can still do a mile and a half, but not as easy as I did at North Central.” where he graduated in 1964. he says. —o—--808 HECIIT. now a resident of North Shore Drive and former mayor of Celina, 0., comments on the current jogging craze: “I have a complete jogging outfit, shoes and all, and when I get theurge to jog, I put in on. lie down until the urge goes away.” Another, hearing this one fellow commented, “Why, yes, I hear even Jimmy Carter has taken up running.” Still another interjected. “He’s running all right, with Ted Kennedy right behind him. " ~ —o — IF INDIANA University basketball coach Bobby Knight should need a defense for his difficulties in Puerto Rico, he would have to look no further than Syracuse. Here he has a strong defender in local attorney John C. Hagen, an IU graduate himself and an avid follower of Big Red. Knight was fined SSOO and given a six-month jail sentence in absentia by a San Juan court for reportedly resisting an officer. Governor Bowen, also a Knight fan. has refused to extradite the explosive 11' coach on grounds that his offense was a misdemeanor, which dot's not justify extradiction. Hagen claims Knight was caught in a three-waV political squeeze in Puerto Rico when the IU team was in a practice session for the Pan-American Games. '> J\ Our advice: Don’t ask Hagen’s opinion of the affair if you aren’t prepared to hear the w hole story. -O—IT WOULD appear Syracuse

aBAYH - lines From Washington by U.S. Senator Birch Bayh ■'

For many, Labor Day represents the last chance to take a vacation, to enjoy the pleasures of a leisurely summer excursion to the beach or the woods. It Is the opportunity for "one last fling" before the school year begins again. There are times, however, when a vacation should be the last thing on one's mind. As I travel around the State of Indiana, I have had the opportunity to speak with many people from different walks of life. I have met with union leaders, working men and women, farmers, local community officials and a good many other individuals who all tell me the same thing: they are deeply concerned with our energy problems and the state of our economy. They are also concerned that these problems are not receiving the attention from their elected leaders that the issues deserve. I also am concerned with this, and that is why I voted against the Congress’ August recess. In late July, important

Republican candidates for town offices will take office by default, thus saving townspeople, the expense of a city election They 4ded a full slate of candidates for the five seats on the town board of trustees and for clerk-treasurer last Thursday night at a .caucus held at the town hall (Note: See page 1 article, t Town Democrats had until Saturday night to hold their caucus but none was held. Democrats (and Republicans) look to longtime Democrat Kill Coburn to call the town meeting, but it would appear he failed to generate enough interest ainoifg his fellow Democrats for the caucus. —o — JACK MASON, the Honduras gambler who raised such a ruckus in Kosciusko County when, he paid off an election bet of $2,790 to Republican coffers when Al Rovenstine defeated incumbent John Hammersley by that many votes, was in town during the past week, leaving this morning (nr Honduras. Mason said he was here for a department of natural resources hearing, which was postponed indefinitely, He poo-poos the thought that he was trying to influence gambling in this county under Sheriff Rovenstine. "AI knows, better than this." states Mason. He adds. "I didn't know gambling was so lucrative in the county that anyone would go to the lengths I've been accused of going to put gambling in.” Mason just purchased a house at Palm Beach Gardens. Fla., where he will be spending some time He is affiliated with a gambling consortium w hich owns two casinos in Honduras and will be starting a third on September 12 They also own a Holiday Inn with a casino in Curosou. a popular Caribbean island, and are looking at Abidjan. Ivory Coast. Africa, as a possible future location. , - , G. William Miller. Chairman. Federal Reserve Board: “1 don’t think the Federal Reserve Board should 4 try to cool the economy with higher interest rates.”

energy legislation was pending before the Senate - legislation that will certainly have a major effect on the people of Indiana. Yet, action on these proposals has been delayed while some of my colleagues go to foreign countries on fact finding tours. Clearly, it is important for an elected official to meet as frequently as possible with his or her constituents, and I find these meetings to be extremely beneficial in carrying out my responsibilities in the Senate. One of these responsibilities is to deal effectively with the pressing issues facing us. With gasoline prices breaking the dollar per gallon mark, with food prices at the grocery counter going through the roof, with the cost of just about everything quickly outdistancing the average Hoosier’s paycheck, we must take some kind of action that will effectively deal with these problems. Action cannot be taken, and legislation cannot be passed while the Congress is in recess.