The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 42, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 November 1979 — Page 2

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., November 7,1979

J W RETIRED FROM POST OFFICE — Kenneth Willard, left and Maurice Koher, right, both of Syracuse, recently retired from their positions at the Syracuse Post Office. Koher, a distribution clerk, retired October 5 after 23 years of service. Willard, superintendent of postal operations, retired October 19 after 33 years of service. Both Koher and Willard stated they will be working around their respective homes and catching up on things that need to be done. They also stated that at the present time there are no future plans as to what they will be doing.

Postmaster Bushong urges use of ZIP codes on mail

Postmaster Avon Bushong of Syracuse is reminding customers that for the best service this Christmas season they should use ZIP codes, place their return address in the upper left corner of the envelope and use proper postage. “By following these suggestions,” the Syracuse postmaster says, Will be assured good mail service this holiday season.” It is important. Postmaster Bushong says, that families “double check” envelopes and cards to be certain that proper postage is affixed. Envelopes A r 1 i w 1 TREESH AVER Ward 2 Ward 3 ■■ * ■*’ jn ■ mm * LOZANO MILLER Clerk-Treasurer Ward 1 Milford — (Continued from page 1) Republican, by a vote of 127 to 115. Maria (Mrs. Alex) Lozano, a Republican, was successful in her bid for the office of town clerk-treasurer over Gloria (Mrs. Lark) Ruch, a Democrat, by a vote of 151 to 93. Mrs. Treesh was the only candidate on the Milford ticket who had ever sought or held a town office before. Lively Campaign The campaign for the several Milford offices became a lively one as it progressed. Mrs. Treesh, the town board president, had been a leading proponent in tearing down several old, dilapidated and dangerous buildings and in such things as updating and extending the town’s water and sewer lines. This active involvement has drawn a certain amount of flak, but she easily won re-election, indicating an approval of her actions. Barbara Richardson, a resident of South Main Street, became active and campaigned for the town board in an ernest and sincere manner. Robert Auer won the seat by a mere 12-vote plurality. According to election officials, there were 244 voters at Milford, and of this number 61 Democrats voted straight ballots, 43 Republicans < voted straight ballots, while there were 139 split ballots. There was one mutilated ballot. Two arrested for marijuana picking The Milford police department received a call at 8:15 p.m. Saturday from the county sheriffs department that marijuana pickers were reported at CRs 1200 N and 700 W. Town Marshal David Hobbs reported he went to said location where he found two subjects being held by area farmers. He arrested both men on charges of possession, a class A misdemeanor. „ Arrested and booked at the Kosciusko County Jail were Ronald Eugene Hershberger, 19, 111 South 28th Street, Goshen and Harry Bevers, Jr. 18, 102 North Ninth Street, Goshen. They were released on $l5O bonds. Hobbs said the men had several plants stuffed in a duffle bag.

without postage will be returned to senders, if possible, or delayed by postage-due procedures. When the return address is placed on envelopes bearing holiday greetings, it also helps remind friends of one's current address. And if the family to whom a holiday message is sent moved more than a year ago, it cannot be forwarded. With a return address such letters are returned to the sender with a notation that the following “order” has ex-, pired. Milford Lions discuss building Milford Lions members continue to grapple with the possibility of purchasing or erecting a building suitable as a meeting hall and/or a community building. At their meeting at the Milford Fire Station Monday night several possibilities were proposed by member Bill Stath, chairman of a building and grounds committee. No firm commitment was made by the club, but interest was heightened that some positive action should betaken. The prospect was raised last summer that the club should pursue the idea of a building of their own; since then several avenues have been explored, several coming from a survey made by Richard Roose of the junior high school faculty. He sent 770-odd questionnaires home with his students and over 200 were returned. Several of the proposals were made based on this survey. The Lions have over $5,000 in their building fund toward the purchase or erection of such a building. Boy Scouts James Molebach of Fort Wayne was present at the meeting to help the club in the pursuit of a new Boy Scoutmaster. The Milford Lions have sponsored a local Boy Scout Troop for years, but at the present time there is no active troop or Scoutmaster. Dr. Meyers , certified Dr. William L. Meyers of Syracuse has been named to the American Board of Family Practice as a result of passing a certification examination offered by the ABFP. He is now certified in the medical specialty of family practice. The intensive two-day written examination is designed to prove the candidate’s ability in the areas of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and community medicine. To qualify for the examination a physician must have successfully completed three yers of residency training in family practice. There are some 375 such training programs in teaching hospitals and university medical centers across the United States. ABPF diplomates also must continue to show proof of competence in the field of comprehensive, continuing care of the family by being recertified every six years. No other medical specialty requires diplomates to prove competence on a continuing basis. The latest group of diplomates brings the total number to more than 22,000. Most are members of the Academy of Family Physicians, the national association of family doctors. The Academy was the first national M.D. group to require members to take continuing medical study, and was chiefly responsible for securing specialty status for family practice. This year is the 10th anniversary of the specialty.

Elderly — (Continued from page 1) Visit Carpet Factory Our group visited a carpet factory yesterday morning and saw 1,400 workers turn out the most beautiful carpets in the world. No one will doubt that they equal or excell Persian carpets. This factory, hiring 50 to 60 per cent women, sells 90 per cent of its carpets to 100 foreign countries. Pay per worker ranges from 33 Yuan ($21.71) to 105 Yuan ($69.07) per month. A 6’x9’ rug takes three workers a month and a half to complete. We were given some idea of what makes up first quality rugs, then taken through the plant to see workers turning out their absolutely fantastic designs. We were impressed. One large rug hung on a wall that depicted in colorful detail The Great Wall of China. It was priced at 10,000 Yuan ($6,578.94). Add customs and freight to this and one has a rather expensive conversational piece. The leveling and scissor work that went into the finished product was absolutely professional. The carpet factory also has a nursery and kindergarten attached. The babies come to the nursery at 56 days old, when the mother’s leave period ends. We were shown the nursery, not one toy in sight, then the kindergarten where youngsters ranged from three to six years of age. These tykes put on a program for us, with six or seven of them dressed in bright costumes. They sang, danced and recited their pieces in clear, audible tones. “How they can get these young folks to perform like that is wonderful,” someone said over our shoulder. There was the usual round of applause, comments of “well done" and picture taking. Acupuncture, Too We visited the factory’s clinic, and noted they were prepared to give acupuncture. Three members of our party got a real acupuncture demonstration. Harriett Dokson on Pompano, Fla., and Florence Beatty of Corpus Cristi, Texas, both received acupuncture for arthritis of the thumb. Both questioned the results. Not so with Glaphyra (“Bucket”) Stafford of Springdale, Arkansas. Pushing 80 years of age. “Bucket” walked with a cane, said she couldn’t straighten out her left leg. After two needles in the back of her knee joint she said, “Why, I haven’t straightened out that leg for four months.” She held her cane in her hand and walked out. En route back to the hotel our guide r Tien Ching-yu told us the meaning of the stars in the Chinese flag. “The big star,” he said, “stands for the Communist Party. And the other four smaller ones stand for the workers, the peasants, the military and all others.” He then told us one must be an

J? ***** ■th/ VISIT RUG FACTORY — One of the most enlightening side trips was a tour of a Chinese rug factory in Tientsin. Chinese rugs, hand woven, are absolutely magnificent. In the foreground in the above photo a worker is putting the finishing touches to a small hand woven Panda rug.

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BICYCLE SIDECAR — This young mother is taking her youngster to day care center on her bicycle sidecar, a common sight along the streets of Tientsin as in other Chinese cities. This scene reveals a predominance of bicycles, few cars. In the background here is a tour bus.

athiest to belong to the Communist Party, and readily confessed he is an atheist. What ensued was a heated argument between Tien Ching-yu and members of our party, in particular Father Irving Deßlanc of the Lake Charles, La., Catholic Diocese. It ended only because we arrived at our hotel. Tien then said he could not argue his premise well with us because he didn’t understand English very well. To the surprise of many of us. when all this was recounted to our tour director. Carolyn Mann, the tall, attractive, tour manager of our group, she admitted being an athiest, later amending it to “agnostic.” Carolyn said she grew up in a very strict Southern Baptist home, but found hypocracies in her fundamental religious teachings. But more, Tien told us that afternoon that he was a member of the Chinese Red Guard, a firebrand group of young radicals who forced their way into homes, stole what they could and wantonly raped the countryside. Much of this had tacit governmental sanction. “This is a part of my life of which I am not very proud,” Tien confessed. Visit Commune Yesterday afternoon we visited a Chinese commune and got a look at a little known facet of Chinese life. We were given a brief session with the overseer of the 1,200 hectare farm, then we toured the grounds and its facilities. We heard an aged Russian-built diesel tractor chugging along in the field pulling a 12-bottom plow, but this was the only piece of equipment we witnessed. The fields had many people working, but precious little equipment. Tien, our guide, came along to interpret as we went through a hen house of 12,000 chickens laying eggs that come out on a conveyor belt, Chore-Time style. The house takes two people to man it. We looked at this and couldn’t help but think of the market China could open up for Chore-Time and Brock manufactured equipment. These were part of the commune's 70,000 layers, and then there were the hens that lay eggs for their large incubator house W'e were shown the brood sows, and here again they were confined much as they are on American farms, according to Paul Marcantel, our farm expert, who claims to have Brock equipment on his Welsh. La., farm. One large sow had given birth to 12 little pigs that morning, and we kidded Paul about bringing this quota up to 20! The commune has 30.000 people living on it —a virtual city, and it is reasonably self-sustaining. We were taken to a machine shop, repair shop, past a power plant where they generate all their own electricity. And of course we were shown some rabbits, imported from California. Visit Typical Home We all wanted to visit a typical commune home, and got our

chance here. We were taken into a small, three-room adobe home (built in one day by 40 workmen, we were told) and the lady of the house generously showed us around. The floor was of poured concrete. On one side was a bedroom, on the other a living room, and in between was what would pass for a kitchen. A large kettle the size of a lard rendering kettle was over each fire, with chimney pipes running out under a 6xlo’ kang (bed) and up through a flu. There were eight members to this family and they have two such dwelling places. They are clean and comfortable and are owned by these people. With their passing, the housing units will go to their children. • On the living room wall are pictures of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Chairman Hua Qua-Teng and on another wall of Chou En-Lai, the Chinese leader who passed away several years ago. The man of the house works in the city and rides his bicycle eight miles each way each day, while the lady of the house works in the fields. Garment Shop If there's such a thing as reaching a production quota, certainly the 220 working in the commune's garment factory can reach it. We did a walk-through of their facility, inasmuch as time was running out, and we were pleased with what we saw. Each woman had her own sewing machine and had it humming. They were producing and packaging garments for China and for export at a rapid rate. They would turn around quickly, give us a furtive smile and a cordial “nee how” (hello) and return to their work. We asked our guide how much they make on these jobs. His reply: About 40 Yuan per month (or $26.32). When our American workers feel they are terribly underpaid, they should think about this. For some reason a movie we were scheduled to see last night was cancelled, and so it amounted to a free evening — something we've had little of since leaving the United States. Like all these Study Tours, if one does any note taking and writing, one’s time is fairly well taken up. Another part of our group went to a cusine Chinese restaurant for dinner. Cost: 25 Yuan ($16.45) each. We heard this and began to wonder if the Chinese are learning about U.S. tourists. We are scheduled to depart for Peking at 12:46 p.m. by train, arriving there at 2:44 p.m. We’re looking forward to our visit to the historic Great Wall. LaGrange circuit court judge injured LaGrange Circuit Court Judge Jack P. Dun ten sustained cuts to his face and hands in an accident at the Milford overpass, on SR 15N Wednesday. Oct. 31. He was treated in the Goshen Hospital. Dunten’s front windshield of his auto was smashed when a tire flew off a semi-tractor trailer. The auto then traveled to the left side of the road, but avoided a collision with another vehicle. The driver of the semi, Lewis B. Flohr 111, 25, West Lafayette, continued south in the rig but was stopped at Milford by another driver who informed him of the accident. Kosciusko County Police Captain Ron Robinson said the tire had been placed between a miniature combine and the trailer. Robinson surmised the tire flew off and struck another . tire, then flipped into the air before landing on Dunten's windshield. Damage was estimated at $1,500 to Dunten's 1979 auto. The semi-tractor trailer is owned by North American Plant Breeders, Brookston. Assisting Robinson were State Troopers James Kaylor, Leonard Massenburg. Milford Marshal David Hobbs and Deputy Marshal Randy Veach Milk support price increase The government’s support price for milk was recently increased from $10.51 to $11.22 per hunderedweight. The price is for manufacturing milk, with a milkfat content of 3.5 per cent, produced in the year which began October 1. The law required that milk be supported at a level between 75 and 80 per cent of parity to assure an adequate supply of milk. This level must reflect changes in the cost of production and assure producers adequate income to help them maintain production levels sufficient for now and the future. The higher support level is not expected to have any appreciable effect on consumer milk prices. Market prices for butter and cheese are already above the new support price. However, in some locations non-fat dry milk prices qre below the $11.22 support price. Under the dairy price support program, the government buys butter, cheese and non-fat dry milk to enable manufacturing plants, on the average, to pay producers at least the support price for their milk.

-J’fl fli I | H fl DONATES EQUIPMENT — Chore-Time Equipment. Inc., Milford, recently presented Wawasee High School with several thousand dollars worth of display scenery and backgrounds. Shown above are Steve Bailey. Wawasee High School choral director; Alan Zerkel, drama director, Henry Smith, principal; John Replogle, service manager for Chore-Time; and Dick Gentry, plant manager. The display material is to be replaced with new scenery at Chore-Time. The scenery will be used for high school drama productions, music and art programs, academic and athletic displays, proms and graduation exercises. The material includes backgrounds and pillars and columns in various sizes, complete with a lighting system. The scenery gives Wawasee. for the first time, professional equipment for a multitude of display purposes.

Evaluation shows Syracuse's good points and liabilities

Leaders of the SyracuseWawasee community met Tuesday, Oct. 30'. with members of the Indiana Area Development Council to discuss assets and liabilities of the area as a business community. The evaluation was provided with the help of Allen Ludwig of Elkhart and John Frick of South Bend, members of the Indiana Area Development Council, which provides the service to cities and towns to help them with planned and organized growth in their area. Various community leaders discussed what services are available and what is needed in the area if Syracuse is to grow in a planned manner. Assets of the area include a good balance of people in town to fill vacant jobs. As a result of University Club open house Saturday Members and guests of the newly-launched University Club in the Pickwick Place were treated to a gala open house. Saturday, November 3 from 4 to 8 p.m. The event featured a wine and cheese tasting party as well as a tour of the facilities. The club room, former location of the Top of the Stairs Booksellers and Gulliver’s Travel Agency, has been completely redecorated and rennovated. Changes include a complete kitchen and bath facility, a games area, a lounge and TV area, and an informal dining area. The lounge area is furnished with massive, hand-hewn furniture. Featured in this section is a wide-screen 'projection television capable of reproducing larger than life images in color. The games area features massive felt-topped gaming tables in hexagon shapes. t The open house is the first of a series of activities and events planned for the University Club. The next scheduled event is a general membership meeting on December 13. 1979. The overall theme of the organization is communication and fellowship between business and professional people in the Lakeland area. Post offices announce Veterans' Day schedule The Milford and Syracuse Post Offices have announced the schedule for the Monday, Nov. 12 observance of Veterans' Day which falls on Sunday. Milford Postmaster H. C. Colwell said there will be no regular residential or business deliveries and normal lobby window services will be closed. However, the lobby will be open for lockbox service from 7 a m. until 9 a m. and from 3 p.m. until sp.m. Veterans’ Day mail pick-up from collection boxes will be on a holiday schedule, as posted on the individual boxes or determined by calling the post office. Normal mail service will resume on Tuesday. Nov. 13. Postmaster Avon Bushong of the Syracuse Post Office reminds Syracuse customers that the lobby will be open as usual (7 am. to 5 p.m.) during the Monday, Nov. 12, observance of Veterans’ Day. Mail will be received and dispatched as any other week day and mail will be processed to the post office boxes, but there will be no rural or city delivery on that day.

this, unemployment in the Syracuse area is very low. A good adult education program and technical training plus the good quality of education in the local schools are definitely an asset to the community. Liabilities in the Lakeland area were also discussed. The group agreed that the lake area could utilize more parks and that it would be desirable to expand facilities at the airport. As it is now, area businesses must go to Fort Wayne or South Bend for cargo service to move their goods. A large number of students leave the area after graduation to seek employment elsewhere. The group felt that this was a liability. Adequate overnight facilities are not available for businessmen and guests visiting the syracuse-Wawasee area.

I* i • I \ I ‘ 'jml-L'Eapte afe . -rr (SMSES* V® z, ■ i .■ J MHh * £ x it ■ J i L nrr til COMPLETE CONDO FINANCING — Completing the financing for the South Shore Condominium in Indianapolis last week were the principals shown above: From left Harlan Steffen, realtor and developer with Miller Brothers Realty: Kent Day, American Fletcher Mortgage Company: Jack Lawson, attorney; Lewis Bagaloff, former owner of the South Shore property: and Amos Miller, builderdeveloper with Miller Brothers Builders, Inc.

First South Shore Condominium scheduled for February completion

The first units of the South Shore Condominium Development. now in progress of being built, will be completed in February, according to builderdeveloper Harlan Steffen. He said on Monday that all the basements and foundations for the complex are in and that the

Hagen elected Ligonier mayor

Twenty-eight-year-old Steven C. Hagen proved a dark horse candidate in Tuesday’s election in the ci.y of Ligonier, when he defeated incumbent mayor. Dr. Floyd F. Warren, now serving his first term in office. A total of 870 votes were cast in the Ligonier election. Hagen made his daily four-mile run Tuesday morning along the back roads of Ligonier before casting his vote, according to his father, former Noble county circuit court judge John C. Hagen, with whom Steve has been associated in their Ligonier and Syracuse law offices. Young Hagen’s candidacy was considered a joke by some when he first filed, but his entrance in the Ligonier mayoral race soon became a force to be reckoned with. He graduated from West Noble High School and the Indiana University law school at Indianapolis in 1978. Lois Renner defeated Martha Hicks for Ligonier clerk-

Mail-Journal classifieds get results

Frick and Ludwig will submit a written evaluation of the area based on what the committee discussed The Community Evaluation Committee will then meet to set up short and long-term goals for the future growth of Syracuse. The Syracuse-Wawasee community was represented by Jim Caskey, State Bank of Syracuse; Barbara Mort. First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Wabash, Syracuse Branch manager and Chamber of Commerce president; Paul Isbell. Town Board President; Jay Peffly, NIPSCo; Helen Alfrey. community representative; Joe Gray, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; Alex Christofides. Alma International: Phil Hoy, United Telephone; and Dave Arnold, Dana Corporation.

first multi-unit building is being framed in. He added that during the past week financing for the project was closed with the American Fletcher Mortgage Company of Indianapolis, which will insure the completion of the entire project by June of 1980.

STEVEN C. HAGEN Ligonier Mayor-Elect treasurer, and four of the city’s councilmen seats went to Democrats while one remained in Republican hands.