The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 February 1980 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., February 27,1980

Editorials Rotary International is 75 years old I The Mail-Journal offers a tip of the hat to the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club which is cooperating with Rotary International in observing its 75th anniversary. Actual date of the anniversary is February 23, a date in 1905 when founder Paul Harris and several other Chicago businessmen got the idea for a “service The S-W Rotary Club made application for membership October 20,1947 with 21 charter members, and held a Charter Presentation Meeting at the Pickwick Lounge and Restaurant Wednesday, Dec. 10,1947. Its officers were: G. Laucks Xanders, president; Dale W. Sprague, vice president; Spencer L. Heeman, secretary; Elmer Stucky, treasurer; and Claude Fawns, sergeant-at-arms. Directors were: Dale W. Sprague. G. Laucks Xanders and J. Barton Cox, each for two years, and Ross Osborn, Charles Kroh, Douglas Pilcher and Court Slabaugh. Its charter members other than the above included: Nelson Auer, Keim Cripe, Jack Clark, Herschel D. Harkless, Embury G. Hilbert, Roscoe C. Howard, William W. Irwin, Madison F. Jones, Jack Kesterson and Gus and Chris Penagos. The club’s records burned in the Pickwick Block fire on New Year s Eve, 1971, and the club’s bell used today shows burn marks from that fire. Ralph F. Gates of Columbia City, Governor of Indiana, presented the address at the Charter Presentation. Fr. David L. Hyndman, a member of the S-W club, wrote a history of Rotary International and his local club which appears on page 1 of this issue. You've come a long way You’ve come a long way baby. All of us by now have heard this rather overused phrase coined several years ago to promote a cigarette. And yet, perhaps it is time that the phrase is dusted off and applied to Syracuse. From a sleepy little resort town attracting those with ample funds and time ‘ on their hands to a growing, vital community — this is the history of the Syracuse Community. There have been those who stood in the way of progress and yet Syracuse continued to grow — and prosper. The Wawasee Chamber of Commerce has been hard at work for the past several months on a community development program for the SyracuseWawasee area. Next Tuesday evening, the group is holding a dinner meeting at the Windjammer where Joe Lumm will address the subject of PROJECT PROUD (a Program to Revitalize pur Urban Districts). He will discuss what other communities are doing to produce a stronger economy and social progress. Syracuse has come a long from its humble beginnings and we applaud the Chamber of Commerce efforts towards a community development program and we urge Lakeland residents to attend this important meeting. March, 1980 Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries; . Bidding her earliest child arise, March! — Bayard Taylor. March is a turning-point, when winter at times begins to give way to warmer weather and the first signs of spring appear. In early colonial days, the year began in March. The name of the month comes from Mars, which m ancient Italian meaning was the name of the God of War. . , Spring officially begins on the 20th this year. St. Patrick s Day is the 17th and the month is a notable one for New York, Texas, Maryland and Massachusetts. Maryland Day falls on March 25, Albany became the capital of New York on March 10,1797, and the United States Military Academy was established at West Point on March 16,1802. In Massachusetts, Evacuation Day in Boston is commemorated on March 17. The so-called Boston Massacre took place in March of 1770. For Texas, March is historical. On March 2,1836, even while Santa Anna was beseiging the Alamo, Texas was declared independent of Mexico. March 6 is Alamo Day in Texas, anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, in 1836. Many birthday anniversaries occur in March. March 3 is the anniversary ot Alexander Graham Bell; March 7, that of Luther Burbank; March 8, that of Simon Cameron, who founded a political dynasty in Pennsylvania which lasted f or dos March 16, that of President James Madison; March 17, that of Roger B Taney fifteenth justice of the United Sates Supreme Court; March 18, that of Grover Cleveland, the only American President to serve two non-coraecutive terms as President ; March 19, that of William Jennings Bryan, and March 29, that of President John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States Girl’s Scout Day is March 12, and March 30 is the anniversary of the day m 1868 when Russia ceded Alaska to the United States for $7,200,000. What others say — Still skyrocketing Inflation is still skyrocketing. The Wholesale Price index rose 1.6 per cent in January, the Labor Department reports. I If the monthly rate stays at that level, it will mean a rate of 19.2 per cent for the year. Retail prices will swing into line within the next weeks and months. They always do. A 19.2 inflation rate would be the worst in the United States in modern times. The 1979 rate was 13.3. Everyone knows how that hurt. This spiraling inflation is caused by the expansion of an ever cheaper printing press money supply. The presses run overtime to make up for the federal government’s consistent runaway deficit spending, close to S3OO billion in the last \ The Carter administrationcontinues with its policy of deficit spending. The new budget calls for going sl6 billion deeper into the red in the next fiscal year. Wasteful spending habits on the part of Congress threaten to push new indebtedness much higher than sl6 billion. That is not the only bad economic news for average Americans. Along with shouldering a $616.6 billion federal budget with a sl6 billion deficit, they will be forced to pay an additional $lB billion in federal income taxes in the coming year because of incomes raised by their employers in the endless, hopeless race to catch up with inflation. This amounts to a sting on top of a sting. The blame must be fixed squarely on reckless Congresses and reckless presidents who simply refuse to eliminate fat from one bloated budget* after another. Billions are wasted. Billions are stolen. Estimates of the annual cost of waste, thievery and fraud in the federal establishment exceed SSO billion. Inflation-bitten, tax-gouged Americans would do well to reflect: If the federal budget were trimmed by that amount it would move into the black and inflation would stop. - THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR.

—,l 11 f i ISSMI Dan VanLue, left, president of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club, and long-time club member Paul Levernier are shown beside the club's banner at their meeting place above the Kale Island Beacon where the club assembles each Tuesday noon VanLue has been vice president and a director before becoming president, and Levernier, a 28-year member, has been director, secretary, vice president and president of the local club. The club was officially founded at a Charter Presentation Meeting at the Pickwick Lounge and Restaurant on Wednesday, December 10, 1947. (Note: See accompanying editorial.)

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

QUESTION \ "What did you think of the performance of the United States'athletes in the winter Olympics?"

Maria Cruz Milford “Yes, they did good. They did good in speed skating. lISF ’ 1 JI Mindy Byrd r 4 Syracuse (secretary) “I thought it was terrific. I thought it was great and they did so well. They put so much effort to do so good for the United States.” ;• f • 1 ■ ■ Fred Yoder Syracuse (self employed) “I thought it was great, especially the hockey team. I think it did a lot in pulling the United States together.” Lloyd Mynhier Milford “What I did see was quite impressive. I watched the hockey game and downhill skiing. I thought they did a real good job.”

Robert Curtis 407 S. Harrison Syracuse (salesman) “I thought it was fantastic, really great. I just shut off the video tape of the games, especially the hockey team was really great.” Deloris Rangel Milford “I watched the hockey part. I thought it was great.” Larry Flannery Milford “It could have been better. The skaters did okay, but they didn’t show what they could have. Beth Heiden could have done better and the figure skaters could have i shown better. The skiers didn’t do i too well.” George Bushong r 5 Syracuse (barber) “Great, I thought they done a real good job. Watched all I could. I liked them all but I like the hockey team the best. Everyone liked the hockey. ’ ’ Charlene Woolson Milford “Better than I expected, very I good.” ‘ ■ i ' I ■ Jay Smith Milford “I thought it was a little disappointing. It seems to me the press kind of over rated them and they just couldn’t live up to it.” Bill Speicher Milford “I thought it was terrific.”

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THE SYRACUSE-Wawa-see Chamber of Commerce is to be commended on its efforts to. revitalize the community it serves along the lines of landscape beautification, roadside deanup, and so on. Its annual general meeting is being planned for Tuesday, March 4, at the Windjammer when Joe Lumm of the public relations department of the United Telephone Company will present: A Program to Revitalize Our Urban Districts. Lumm will present a program based on two small towns, under the heading of PROJECT PROUD, as follows: Small town “A” has a deteriorating quality of life, the number of families is decreasing the high school graduates move to greener pastures, industries leave for lack of services or employees, causing merchants to reduce their inventories and potential customers increasingly travel the convenient highways to greater selections of goods, services and high volume discount prices. The trains no longer stop, municipal services suffer from a lack of tax money and doctors and other professionals are difficult to retain in the community. The town became less and less profitable. Small town “B” has restored its quality of life. They are retaining the community’s income and talent. Increase trade permits the businessman to increase his inventories and services. The healthy economic atmosphere attracts new industry, the tax base is broadened, more payroll money is circulated and the economy is further stimulated. This small town successfully implemented PROJECT PROUD. Remember the date: Tuesday. March 4. Try to be there. 808 JONES, a well known and avid Notre Dame fan and booster of coach “Digger” Phelps’ fortunes, and sports fan and I.U. booster Bob Knudsen, a so-so fan of Bobby Knight’s, fell into a friendly argument on the merits of the two “famous” university coaches recently. It all ended in a wager of sorts (|5) whether either of the controversial coaches will hold their posts next year. Knudsen says, “Neither coach will be invited back for another season;" and Jones says, “Oh, yes, they will.” And therein hangs the fate of a new, crisp five dollar bill. THREE-LEGGED CHICKEN? We’ve heard of three-legged races and three-legged stools but what on earth is a three-legged chicken???? According to Darrell Bales, owner of in-creasingly-popular Bale’s Butcher Shop on Main Street, “A three-legged chicken is hard to catch, but we’ll use them ’cause the six-legged ones got away.” Actually, Bale’s is offering the three-legged birds (really it’s just an extra leg thrown in with the chicken package) especially for people with large families or for those white dark-meat lovers in the family. THREE FLAGS owner. Jack Oswald, enjoying the sunny climes of Florida for what he alone calls “a well deserved rest," posted up a target image of the Allytolah Khomeini on the door leading to his kitchen. The idea was OK for customers to vent their spleen on the bearded Iranian religious leader, but he forgot to provide the darts. What a shambles some of his more tempestuous customers could make of that door! ONE SYRACUSE housewife has been trying in vain for a goodly period of time to dissuade her husband from smoking. Asked about his wife’s progress in the art of friendly persuasion, he said, “She doesn’t care anymore if I smoke; in fact, she doesn’t care if I burn!" LOOK FOR an announcement in the next week or two concerning the sale of a Village business of long standing, and the retirement of one of the community’s well known entrepreneurs. AUDREY RUTH, of Next to New Shop in Wawasee Village, is instituting a “cottage industry” in the Syracuse community. In the five years she’s been in business she admits to having seen men’s narrow ties go to wide ties, and now back to narrow ties. And so she’s hired several local

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seamstresses to re-style large ties into the latest fashion. Price: $2. How’s that for beating inflation? JOHN CONNOLLY, 500 South Lake St., temporarily unemployed. has been working for his brother-in-law Max Duncan on his farm south of Milford. Both men have taken to growing Kenny Rogers-type beards, John to the point where some of his friends did not know him. THINKING IS the hardest work there is, which is probably

Court news

MARRIAGE DISSOLUTIONS The following couples have filed for dissolutions to their marriages in Kosciusko County Circuit and Superior Courts: Knisley — Darlene Knisley, 711 North Huntington, Syracuse and Glen Knisley, 449 North Huntington, Syracuse. The couple was married August 2, 1974 and separated August 30, 1979. The petitioner asks the court to grant her a decree of dissolution, for an equitable division of the property, proper disposition of the custody and support of the minor child, for attorney fees, for the costs of the action and all other relief proper. Bales — Janet L. Roush Bales, r 1 box 114 Milford and Dennis W

ANOTHER VIEW . . .

By DAVID W. ROBINSON

Most adults and parents have a pretty good understanding of morality; that is, basic right and wrong. Theirs may not be the same as yours or mine, but it is a concept which regulates at least, their lives. How does morality develop? How do you train it? It is well accepted in developmental psychology that a child’s basic concepts of morality, his understanding of what is right and wrong are developed during the first seven years of life. Also there is a brief period especially good for training around the time of puberty. This period has not been given as much discussion, but it is important. During the first couple years of a child’s life, his awareness is focused only on himself, his needs and his immediate desires. It is necessary and correct. In years three to five or six, the child expands his awareness, his vocabulary, and his knowledge of his neighborhood. He learns of relatives, and new friends. Through them and his parents he gets his concepts of what is right or wrong. Whether we like it or not, we teach by personal example. The child learns from what we do and how we do it; not so much by what we say and how we say it! As an example, many adults who abuse their children were themselves abused as children. By that I mean physically abused — child beating. It may be hard to comprehend how a child who suffered beatings could possibly pass the same agony on to his own child. The reason is all too obvious. When the parent was developing his concept of morality he was abused. A concept of morality was taught which later regulated his life. For a lighter example, consider this: The child plays with his crayons and on occasion, perhaps by chance, draws on mother’s walls. If she is a “good mother”, she will tell the child to stop and at the same time give him a coloring book so he can re-direct his coloring to something more acceptable. If the child goes back

why so few engage in it. LOOK FOR a new restaurant to open in Wawasee Village in the near future, if current plans develop. TWO SYRACUSE youths, students at Ball State University, Muncie, are initiates of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. They are Logan Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Jones, and Doug VanLue, son of Mrs. John VanLue. Both are home for spring break.

Bales. Milford. Married June 25, 1977, the couple separated February 2, 1980. The petitioner asks the court to grant a dissolution of her marriage, for equitable division of the property and all otherA-elief proper in the premises. Marquardt — Laura Marquardt, r 2 box 579 Syracuse and Robert V. Marquardt, r 2 box 446 Syracuse. The couple was married February 6. 1979 and separated February 4, 1980. The petitioner asks the court to grant her a dissolution of her marriage, for the custody of the minor child, for the respondent to pay support and equitable division of the property along with the costs of the action and all other relief proper in the premises.

to the wall, mother’s attention may be a bit more severe, even to the point of spanking, use of a stern voice or in another way conveying that mother said “stop” and that is what she meant: Stop — don’t do it! The child usually gets the message. As the child goes through those years, he learns how letters are made and how words are formed. He finds out that “stop” can be read as a word. Now consider the parent driving him down the street. As the car comes to one of those red signs at the corner, the child reads the word “stop”. The parent slows down but then goes on through without stopping. Does the child learn a moral lesson? How about the child who is told not to cheat in school; not to take things that aren’t his. What happens when the family discussion at the supper table centers around how the parent snookered the government in filling out the income tax, or how the tool laying on the counter was brought home from the factory hidden in the lunchbox? These are the real lessons in morality we teach our children. They will form the basic concepts 1 of right or wrong throughout their ! life. There seems to be another brief period between that time of childhood and adolescence when concepts of morality also can be ; taught. Generally this is during the junior high school years. He needs especially then to be surrounded by the highest moral examples. The concepts of morality at that age usually relate to social interaction, boy and girl identification and sexuality, not so much in terms of behavior as of their roles and rsponsibilities in being young males and females. Morality training is not the sole responsibility of the parent; but it is the primary responsibility of the parent. It can be shared with teachers, church leaders, adult relatives, adult neighbors and parents of the child’s friends — but the child’s own parents com'e first!