The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 21 November 1979 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., November 21,1979

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Editorials

That first Thanksgiving Two Indians with an English accent deserve much of the credit for the first Thanksgiving in America. They taught the Plymouth colonists how to make a home in the New World and helped them establish a peace that lasted for more than 50 years. The first to approach the colonists, reports World Book Encyclopedia, was Samoset, a chief of the Pemaquid Indians. He walked into the colony one day in March 1621 and unsettled the settlers by addressing them in English. Samoset, it turned out, had earlier met some English fishermen along the coast of Maine and learned some of the language from them. Two weeks later Samoset dropped in with his friend Squanto, a well-traveled brave of the Pawtuxet tribe. Squanto had been to England twice, once after having been kidnapped and sold as a slave in Spain by an English sea captain. He had returned to America in 1619. Samoset introduced the colonists to Massasoit, chief of the Plymouth area. With Squanto acting as interpreter, the chief and the Pilgrims concluded a treaty of friendship that lasted until Massasoit died in 1661. Meanwhile, Squanto went to live with the colonists, teaching them how to plant corn, pumpkins and beans and showing them where to fish. That year the Pilgrims had a bountiful harvest and Governor William Bradford declared the celebration that became the first Thanksgiving. Scoutmaster and assistant needed The town of Milford is in need of a Boy Scoutmaster and assistant scoutmaster. The word is being put out by the Milford Lions Club, sponsors of Boy Scout Troop 747 for many years. Club president Gervis Schafer made this fact clear at the club’s Monday night meeting. At a previous meeting the club heard an area Boy Scout representative point to the need for the club to provide more leadership of the local troop than merely paying their overhead. Consequently, president Schafer has appointed a club committee, consisting of Dr, T. A. (“Al”) Miller, Karl Keiper and Robert Cline, to search for these important youth leaders. No one would deny that leadership for our community youth is an important assignment and responsibility, and the Milford Lions Club plans to fulfill this responsibility. And so the word is out: If anyone has knowledge of a person or persons who will fit this bill, they are urged to contact one of the three above-named committee members. Buy American Americans can help their county by indirectly supporting the dollar and helping reduce the nation’s international trade balance, by buying Americanmade products. No one need be anti-anything. This is a matter of urgent economic need. Os course, the buyer is entitled to equal quality.'Usually that can be had — and often at better prices than imported products. The case of cars is an example. While interiors of European-made and Japanese cars are done nicely, for maintenance, U. S.-built cars usually beat imports, and beat European imports by miles. Foreign cars, often taxed on their horsepower annually, tend to have weak engines which must rev up quite highly. As a result, engine wear is considerable and noise too. Even the famed, much heralded Mercedes is a noisy automobile, compared to many American-built passenger cars. There is considerable snob appeal in some foreign cars. Manufacturers have fostered the image in their advertising — and pricing. And many Americans have paid through the nose for such “status” cars, when they could have obtained equal quality, or better, for a lesser price, and certainly less, and more easily obtained, maintenance. ) A Youth Wage? Every country in industrialized western Europe has a special wage scale for young people. In West Germany youths enter employment at wages from 60 per cent to 90 per cent of the adult wage rate, for example. In most western countries, this system is accepted as a sensible one. Young people entering into employment are usually less experienced and less productive — thus the lower wage, which takes into account that they are learning. In the United States today there some 1,500,000 unemployed teenagers. The teenage unemployment rate is twice the national average. For minority teenagers it is even higher. The respected Brookings Institute estimates that as the minimum wage goes up, teenage unemployment also goes up. The minimum will soon rise from $2.90 to $3.10. The answer is not to lower the minimum wage, or even to void its next increase. Part of the answer is a special youth wage, for a period of one year, lower than the adult minimum wage. Congressman Carroll Campbell (R-SC) and others have proposed such an innovation in minimum wage laws. Estimates are that the coming rise in the minimum wage, January, wifi push up youth unemployment by three to six per cent. With a recession also expected, it makes sense to enable the nation’s young people to get work —for the first year only —at a lower minimum, if that’s the only work they can get, or if that’s all they’re worth, or if that’s all some businesses can pay. That beats unemployment — and this system works well elsewhere.

What others say —

A chilling fact “Fair trial will always win over free press, not because it is nobler in concept, or more central to the workings of democracy, but because whenever the choice has to be made it will be made by a judge.” This statement by Reuven Frank, senior executive producer and former president of NBC News, has a bone-chilling affect on a free press in America, but it is also a fact of life that cannot be overlooked. Frank, in addressing the Milwaukee Press Club earlier this year explained his closing remark by saying, “Freedom of the press is threatened by lawyers.” Frank added that the adversary system is the reason the law business and the news business are on a collision course. “Lawyers do not understand what we (journalists) do, because they do not think as we do. Their thinking is organized, ritualized and bipolar. Ours is disorganized, individual and multipolar.” Frank said. This is the heart of the problem, according to Frank. “Professionally, they (journalists) and Lawyers use different methods of thinking and have diametrically different habits of thought. That is why they cannot understand each other. And since reporters are under the power of lawyers, the difference is crucial.” , Journalists don’t like to hear such thoughts, but then, they are used to dealing with the facts. Efforts must continue to solve the differences between lawyers and journalists who wrestle with the fair trial - free press problem. Both are vital elements of our freedoms. — DANVILLE GAZETTE.

NOVEMBER 22.1979

Voice of the people

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

"What does Thanksgiving mean to you? What are you thankful for? How do you plan to spend this special day?"

Bonita Geiger North Webster “Thinking of the Pilgrims and how they got our country started I’m thankful for a free country, family and a home. I will be spending the day with my family.” jSffl J|m Rev. John McFarland Syracuse “A day of reminiscing about past blessings, receiving the program God has planned for us, enjoying the family and spending the time giving thanks for living in this great country of ours.” Thanksgiving is “being grateful to God for life and all its encounters, for the opportunity of being in the ministry, being a parent and serving my fellow mankind.” Rev. McFarland will be “spending the day at home with the children who will be able to be home. Some of the children are in college and far away and are unable to come home.” ■ m —n_ . Alice Burke r 1 Milford “Well, Thanksgiving means I’m very, very thankful for the many opportunities we enjoy in this country — freedom of religion especially. We’re going to spend Thanksgiving with family.”

QUESTION:

Roxanna Hadley Syracuse “We do on Thanksgiving what we should do all year long. I’m thankful for my family and friends, especially my grade A husband. We will be spending the day with my in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Brandon Hadley in Cromwell.” Kenneth Wright 203 East Street Milford “Turkey. I’m jjhankful for everything in general, I guess. Oh, I get a week off from work. I plan to go to the Smokey Mountains.” Donna L. Workman Syracuse “Since we’re farmers, the harvest means a lot, like the original Thanksgiving, especially if we have a good harvest and get it out of the fields. I’m thankful for my family and our health. My husband may spend the day in the fields if it isn’t finished. Our family is getting together on Sunday.” ■I "\ \ m afliil: jflHlr d Mary Beth Rohr Leesburg “I think of thanking the Lord for everything we’ve got in this country — our freedom, our food, our health. I plan to spend the day with my family.”

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WE DIDN’T say it first but we wish we had: That State Road 13, from the uptown Syracuse stop light to the south city limits is becoming a veritable Wall Street. What would lend credence to this is the growing number of financial institutions along Road 13. First, it was only the State Bank of Syracuse, then its Village Branch and several years ago the First Federal Savings & Loan of Wabash. Syracuse Branch. Now. there is mounting evidence of two other branch banks along the growing number of businesses on this strip of prize real estate. —lt was learned early this week that the First National Bank of Warsaw has purchased an acre and a half tract of land on the northwest corner of the Bowser Road and State Road 13 (across the highway north of Wawasee Bowl) for the purpose of building a Syracuse branch to service their customers in the growing lakes area. Neal Carlson, president of the First National Bank of Warsaw, told this column that before the week is out he plans to file an application with the Comptroller of the Currency (an agency under the Treasury Department) for such a bank charter. Ground breaking for the branch would depend upon the expeditious handling of the application in Washington. The tract of land in question was last used as a used car lot by Wyant Chevrolet of Syracuse. The First National Bank of Warsaw has its main bank on the corner of Buffalo and Center Streets, has two Warsaw branches and branch banks in Milford and Claypool. The bank, chartered in May of 1937. has in excess of SIOO million in assets and is the youngest major bank in Kosciusko County. The second branch for the local Wall Street is likely to be the proposed branch of the Counting House Bank of North Webster, long on the front burner but moved to the back burner when the sale of the bank by its president and chief stockholder J. Homer Shoop was proposed. Several years ago the Counting House Bank purchased a 12-acre tract of land on the west side of State Road 13 just south of Wawasee Bowl for a branch bank and mini shopping mall. Neither has been built. New owners of the progressive North Webster bank, which has a prestigious branch at the north edge of the city of Warsaw, include Wayne Roe, a resident of North Shore Drive. Syracuse, Robert Marcuccili of Marion, senior vice president and director of the Citizens National Bank of Marion; David DeHart, also of Marion, chairman of the board of the Leiters Ford State Bank. Homer Shoop will remain on the bank’s board of directors and as an advisor. A spokesman from the Counting House Bank said as late as this week that the Syracuse branch was still very much in the plans of the new management of the North Webster bank. —o— TONY CLOUSE, one day recently ran from his job as social studies teacher in the Milford Junior High School, to his home in Wawasee Village, a distance of about six and a half miles, huffing a little and puffing a lot, but a fitting climax to his physical fitness program that saw him lose over 40 pounds and considerable girth.

RICHARD TAYLOR, r 5 Syracuse, is proud of this 8-point buck deer he shot Saturday a.m. just two miles west of Syracuse. “It’ll be good eating,” he said, noting that it is corn fed.

MARY LOU Mason has in her hand an invitation to a meeting of Democrats in the Washington Hilton Hotel on December 5 where President Jimmy Carter will announce his intentions to seek re-nomination as president. She was a sizable contributor at a Carter-Mondale fund raising meeting at Indianapolis recently, thus the invitation. . MEANWHILE, HER hubby Jack will open, with his partners, a third gambling casino in Honduras on January 28, at Lake Yojoa. —o— THE ELECTION of Betty Dust as Turkey Creek township trustee to replace ailing Joe Shewmoii did not meet universal approval of her Republican peers, this column has learned. Her election was by the following precinct committeemen at a meeting last Monday night at the home of Jack Ridings: Susan Myrick, Jack Vanderford, Frank Putt, Charlene Knispel, Betty Dust and Jack Ridings. The first secret vote was 3 to 3, with Betty receiving 3 votes to 3 for town board president Paul Isbell. A second vote was 4 to 2 with Betty w inning over Isbell. County Republican chairman Ed Pratt presided at the meeting, but he had no vote in the matter, thus could not break the tie vote. Several who objected felt there was no publicity on the upcoming vote, and therefore there was no public input into the matter. C’est la guerre. GUESS WHO is celebrating its sixth birthday December 1? It’s Gulliver’s Travel Agents, a first of its kind in Syracuse. Six years ago on the first Saturday in December the occupants of the newly completed Pickwick Place building in uptown Syracuse officially opened for business. At that time Gulliver’s shared with a bookstore -a second floor unit •directly over My Store. Three years later and pinched for space, Gulliver’s moved to its own office on the first floor. The original staff of two had added a third person and today the staff has increased to four agents and a bookkeeper. To celebrate this sixth birthday on Saturday. December 1. Gulliver’s is holding Open House from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its office. 109 Pickwick Place. The public is invited to come see the office, visit with the staff and enjoy refreshments. —o— MY STORE, also a charter member of the Pickwick Place group, is celebrating its anniversary. And across the street on Huntington, The Stout Boutique is observing its sixth anniversary. —o — SYRACUSE IS growing in all directions and uptown Syracuse is still very much alive. If you don’t believe it, just check the parking lots in the uptown area as well as Main and Huntington streets. You’ll see cars aplenty any day of the week except Thur-

Court news

MARRIAGE DISSOLUTIONS The following couples have filed for a dissolution to their marriage in Kosciusko County Circuit and Superior Courts: Stump — Carol Stump, r 2 Milford and John Stump, Warsaw. Married April 4, 1979, the couple separated October 1,1979. The petitioner asks that the marriage be dissolved, that the respondent pay support for the minor children, also that the respondent would be responsible to pay petitioner’s attorney’s fees, for the costs of the action and all other relief proper. Wolfe — Mary Helen Wolfe, r 1 Pierceton and Richard Allen Wolfe, r 2 North Webster. The couple was married November 22,1972 and separated September 25, 1979. The petitioner demands judgment against the respondent by requesting a dissolution of the marriage, for the respondent to also pay for the petitioner’s attorney services, for the support of the minor children who are in the custody of the petitioner, for an equitable division of the property, for costs and for all other relief proper in the premises. Ritter — Joyce E. Ritter, Syracuse and Guy M. Ritter, Las Vegas, Nev. Married October 24, 1975, the couple separated September 8, 1978. The petitioner requests a dissolution of the marriage, for the custody of the minor child, for the respondent to pay a reasonable amount of support, for equitble division of the properties, attorney fees and

sday when the bank is closed all day and a few of the stores close in the afternoon. OVERHEARD: For those who like to talk and talk, this old adage should appeal: The steam that blow’s the whistle will never turn the w heel. LAST WEEK was National Education Week and an opportunity for parents to visit schools and do such things as have lunch with their children to sample the fare the young folks are fed. This writer had such an occasion at the Syracuse junior high school cafeteria when he joined grandson Jason Yoder and other young members of Jane Wieczork’s first grade in the school cafeteria. It’s a unique experience, we can assure you, and we’re happy to report excellent food coming out of Katherine Earnhart’s kitchen. —o— LOUISE AND Jim Purvis are now settled in Crystal River. Fla., according to a letter received last week from Louise, former reporter for The South Bend Tribune and The MailJournal. Louise and Jim sold their home on old SR 13 south of Syracuse and now make their home in Florida. Louise, an inveterate newshawk, took a job with the Suncoast Sentinel in Crystal River, a Citrus Publishing Co. publication, a semi-weekly local publication, and her daughter Julie (Handgen) Steetzel moved from Denver to take a job as a reporter. feature writer, photographer and editor with the Beverly Hills Inquirer, also a Citrus publication. Louise writes: “I am feeing we}l and so is Jim. He has been busy getting a workshop built for his rock shop hobby and is now working on an addition to our mobile home, with the help of a neighbor and friend. “Crystal River reminds me a lot of Syracuse. It is a small town that is really growing and new businesses are moving in all the time, as well as new residents. We live just a little ways outside the city limits, so are close to shopping, etc. My office is downtown and about the same distance from our home as was the™lailJournal office.” Louise and Jim live at: Rt. 4, Box 770, Crystal River, Fla. 32629. —o— HANDSOME TIM Schwalm, a junior and an architectural student at Ball State University, Muncie, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Schwalm of 68 North Shore Drive and of Goshen, is planning to join a group of other students for a five-week trip to mainland China. He has been studying and talking to whomever he can for background information on China. Tim is also the grandson of Merle and Florence Schwalm, also residents of North Shore Drive and world travelers in their own right.

for the maiden name of Odiorne be restored to her. The following claims were filed in circuit court, Gene Lee, j udge; Reciprocal Kristine Helen Salas Robertson vs Marshall Salas, Jr., Syracuse. The plaintiff demands past payments of $2,733.42 from 9-1-73 until 7-31-79 be paid plus $65 a month from that date to present, for the costs of the action and all other relief proper in the premises. Deborah Goff Davies vs William Abraham Davies, r 1 box 61 Milford. ’Hie plaintiff demands payment 'of $1,076 from November 1, 1978 until April 30, 1979, for the costs of the action and all other relief proper in the •-premises. The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko County Court, James Jarrette, judge: SMALL CLAIMS Complaint Stover Hire, P.O. Box 395 Syracuse vs The Guide, r 2 Syracuse. The plaintiff demands judgment in the amount of $47.70, for the costs of the action and all other relief proper in the premises. Howard H. Haab, r 2 box 88, Milford vs John S. Bryand, 922 North Main, Goshen. The plaintiff demands judgment' against the defendant in the . amount of $348.56, for the costs of- - action and all other relief propel in the premises.