The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 7, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 March 1980 — Page 4
THE MAILJOURNAL—Wed.. March 5.1980
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Editorials
Congratulations Jean and Al Congratulations go to Mrs. Glen (Jean) Treesh and Dr. T. A. (“Al”) Miller for being named “Co-Citizens of the Year” at the Milford Area Development Council’s annual banquet Saturday night. Both Jean and Al are deserving of the honor bestowed on them. Both have worked long and hard for the improvement of the Milford community. Dr. Miller, a Milford veterinarian for the past 20 years, served on the Milford Town Board for 11 years. He retired from the board on December 31,1979. For a number of years Dr. Miller was town board president. During his years on the town board he worked tirelessly to secure an EPA grant for the construction of the sewage plant which now serves the town of Milford. Ha also served on the Van Buren Township advisory board for a number of years. Mrs. Treesh suceeded Dr. Miller as Milford Town Board president. She is the second woman to serve on the board and the first to serve as the board’s president. She put in endless hours in 1979 working on the community bazaar which raised several thousand dollars for needed equipment for the Emergency Medical Services. a Go Warriors The Wawasee Warriors under Mike Jones will travel to Bourbon tonight (Wednesday) to meet the Tippecanoe Valley Vikings in the opening game of the sectional tournament. The Warriors go into the tournament with an unimpressive record. However, if they play with the same spirit and determined effort they have during the year, they could come home not only the victors of tonight’s game but with the tournament championship. Basketball fans in all 92 counties will be cheering for their favorite teams in 64 sectionals. We’ll be cheering for the Warriors because we know we’re backing a winner. The Red Cross During March, the American Red Cross makes its annual appeal to the American people for funds to serve the nation and its citizens in time of emergency. Everyone is familiar With the work of the Red Cross during war with the armed services. Everyone is familiar with the assistance it renders whenever disaster strikes. Emergency medical and nursing care is provided to victims and, in many instances, financial assistance is a vital part of the relief extended to unfortunate people. In commection with the annual appeal for funds, we should not overlook the important contribution made by volunteer workers, serving in communities from coast to coast. These individuals give hours of work without compensation and help to make possible the extensive assistance the Red Cross provides. Sneaking hurts unborn The latest evidence — which women of child-bearing age should pay careful attention to — shows that pregnant women who smoke and drink often damage their unborn’s health — and future health. Doctors who met recently at the 146th gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco agreed heavy smoking was causing many stillbirths, spontaneous abortion, and about one third of today’s premature births. Further, babies of smoking mothers who don’t suffer a worse fate are usually smaller, grow slower and more susceptible to disease than babies born from non-smokers, or women who stop smoking when pregnant. The score sheet on alcohol and pregnant'mothers is equally dreadful. About one third of all babies born in the U.S. with mental retardation problems are caused by heavy-drinking mothers. There’s now a medical term for this threat, so common has it become — fetal alcohol syndrome. In addition to mental retardation, heavy use of alcohol is producing babies who are seriously malformed — with shortened features, a pugnacious-looking face and eyes too close together. Doctor after doctor and study after study, in recent years, have sounded warnings. More and more are now convinced that babies of smoking and drinking mothers often never catch up in health and mental ability with offsprings of non-smoking and non-drinking Some are fatally affected, before birth. This vital information should be disseminated as widely as possible, and become common knowledge.
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The conscience of the athlete Athletes are sportsmen, but they are also citizens. Although some sporting officials and journalists speak of them as it they were noble savages, that is not the case. They have duties as well as rights, like the rest of us, and they live in the political world. Particularly is this so when they represent their country, rather than compete as individuals or in domestic competitions. The Olympic Games are the pinnacle of achievement. Athletes who go to Moscow this year will be participating in an event which has a triple significance: They will be trying to win, they will be carrying the Union Jack — and they will be contributing to the greatest occasion ever designed by the Soviet Union to demonstrate both to the world and to its own citizens that it is universally acceptable in the world community. The case against athletes fulfilling their allotted role in Moscow is being pushed very hard by President Carter and Mrs. Thatcher as one of many western responses to Soviet agression. Long before Afghanistan, The Sunday Times made the same suggestion, on the grounds that internal conditions in Russia are a gross affront to the Olympic spirit, and that a voluntary boycott would be suitable gesture of solidarity with those brave Russians who oppose their government. The International Olympic Committee should have thought of this six years ago, but the fact that they failed to do so can in no way be allowed to close the argument. This issue can be stated in several ways. Is the gratification of an athlete who has trained for four years really more important than the insult to the Soviet dissidents which his presence at the Moscow celebration would represent? Is it really more worthy to fulfill the Olympic calendar than to demonstrate to the Russians, in this small but mutually painful way, that we profoundly detest the way they treat their citizens? It is better to pretend that Soviet agression is not the business of athletes, than to show by our absence that we will not legitimise it? Some people will answer Yes to all three questions. Athletes who choose to go can take comfort from their support. The government, rightly, thinks otherwise. Although it cannot order a boycott, it can withdraw all financial support and should do so. All who agree with it should not hesitate to alert atheltes and their officials to the true nature of what they, perhaps unwittingly, are doing. If they insist on going, for bad but understandable reasons of ambition, they should at least consider ways of acknowledging their responsibilities as citizens when they are there. The clenched fist of the black power salute by American athletes at Mexico City made an unforgettable image. The Russians, so desperate for everyone to compete, cannot stop any athletes from making a series of similar demonstrations to show that there are limits to their complicity in a celebration of Soviet tyranny. The Sunday Times (London)
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Dr. T. A. Miller and Mrs. Glen (Jean) Treesh named "Co-Citizens of the Year" at Milford.
Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area . ..
QUESTION: “Do you think the production of synthetic and alternative fuels should be done by government research programs or private industries?"
Janet ELAM r 1 box 7 Syracuse (bookkeeper)
“I think private industry is the best. The government has too much control already. Definitely need some sort of alternative energy. I think this gasohol will be good once it gets started.”
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Bob BECHTEL r 4 Syracuse (meat manager)
“Government research, because profits from the research would be government controlled and not by private companies like we have now. ’ ’
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Carolyn STUMP Milford
“I guess by private industries. I just don’t think it should be government controlled. ”
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Sue BECHER 72772 CR 23 New Paris (clerk)
“I don’t know I never really thought about it. Government, I guess. It might get done a little faster. Private industries might exploit it like gasoline.” Barbara HENSON r 1 Milford “Private industry. It doesn’t give the government so much a hold over our fuel and resources.”
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Dale KIRKDOFFER Milford
“Both. The government L'n’t doing much about it and it’s private industry that’s doing it.”
Court news The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko county court, James Jarrette, judge: SMALL CLAIMS Complaint Don and Betty Nyce, r 2 Milford vs Sonna Treesh Plummer, r 6 Warsaw. The plantiffs demands judgment against the defendant in the amount of $734.77, for the costs of the action and all other relief proper. Comfortemp, Warsaw, filed a claim against Joe Hamsher, P.O. Box 327 Milford, $10.42 Joe Mater and As ociates filed a claim against Jeff and Vickie Lee Shepherd, r 1 box 564 Leesburg, $963.65 Bettye Jones, 1824 East Center Street, Warsaw, filed a claim against Rita Harwood, 504 First Street, Milford, $825 Violations Check deception — Sandra Ann Harrell, Milford, $89.50 Speeding — Darrel Bruegar, 26, North Webster, $45 MARRIAGE LICENSES . The following couples have filed for marriage licenses in the office of Jean Messmore, Kosciusko County Clerk: Merriman-Miller Brian Leßoy Merriman, 24, P.O. Box 179 North Webster and Sherry Leah Miller, 24, North Webster Loy-Spangle Jimmie Gene Loy, 21, Beach Grove and Deborah Lee Spangle, 20, North Webster ELKHART COUNTY COURT Marriage License The following couple has applied for a marriage license in the office of county clerk Peter Sarantos: Kepner-Phemister Steven L. Kepner, 19, 1408 W. Lincoln, Goshen and Catherine S. Phemister, 18, r 2 box 113 Syracuse GOSHEN CITY COURT The following violation has been paid in Goshen City Court: Failure to yield — Tonda K. Hewitt, 21, Syracuse, $36 Speeding — Mark A. Dunithan, 19, Syracuse, s4l; Donald W. Kennedy, 49, Syracuse, $36 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION The following couple has filed for dissolution of their marriage in circuit and superior-courts: Park! — Lloyd Parks, r 1 box 221-A, Milford and Lila J. Parks, Santa Ana, Calif. The couple was married September 28, 1978 and separated October 29, 1979. The plaintiff asks the court to dissolve his marriage, for all proper relief due him in the premises.
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PAUL LEVERNIER, at age 63, has decided to hang it up. He’s sold his Custom Crest Car Products, Inc., a well established Wawasee Village business enterprise specializing in automotive beautification products, on Friday and plans a “career” of retirement. By no means has Paul stood still in his lifetime; rather, he has developed a whole array of hobbies that will last him a good while. “Fishing, woodworking, to mention a couple." he comments. “I’ve got plenty things to do. in fact I'll never get around to all of them," he adds. We can only wish him and Mrs. Levernier a happy and fruitful retirement. the S-W Rotary Club for the coming year, to be voted on by the general membership, were: President, James Plummer; vice president, Paul Schmucker; secretary, Randall Sneller; and treasurer, William Cable. Sneller and Cable are currently serving in the offices they were nominated for. MR. AND Mrs. Lawrence Thwaits, r 1 New Paris, attended capping exercises for daughter Patti last Wednesday night at Bethany College. She graduated with a nurse’s degree at Ivy Tech. Lawrence, the good-humor man, told Patti that at 22 years of age it was about time she “flew the nest." He good-naturedly placed a ladder up to her bedroom window, and when the humor of the moment eluded the attractive Fairfield High graduate, he presented her with two new suitcases for graduation. MR. AND Mrs. Devon Greene have sold their Wakarusa Restaurant (Raymond’s) to Brent Gall Os Nappanee and the final transaction is soon to take place. Green says business at Raymond’s has increased each week since the first of the year, and boasts of serving 279 a week ago Saturday night. They have operated the place since a year ago September. Greene, matre d* at South Shore dining room for several seasons, will be back at the same spot when they open April 1. So will the crew from Deer Creek Country Club at Deerfield, Fla., including: Tom Tuttle, Bill Galloway, Steve Roderick, Harry Gladieux, Ray Dean (“Punk”) Hile, Larry Griffith and Ray Yoder. THE SYRACUSE Post Office has for sale a souvenir folder of the winter Olympics at Lake Placid and three stamps commemorating Letter Writing week. They also have available the 6th edition Stamp and Stories Book which shows every US postage stamp design reproduced in full color, 1980 stamp values, latest prices and first day covers, plate block stamp pictures, stories with history behind a stanip and more. Also the new copy of the National Zip Code and Post Office Directory is now available. So says Syracuse PO Officer In Charge Dan Nichols. s The Milford Post Office has all the above, less the souvenir folder of the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, according to clerk Don Charlton. THE SNOWMOBILES haven’t been put away for the season yet, but this year’s Lake Wawasee Flotilla is already meeting, with ambitious Jeff Wells at the helm. One thing: They are in search for a theme. So if you have any ideas, turn them in to Jeff. % Another: They want to hold the Flotilla dance at the South Shore Pavilion — no cover charge. Jeff and his committee is determined to get a crowd,, one way or another. The week end will include fireworks as usual, the Sunday, July 6 Flotilla on Lake Wawasee. The M-J sponsored Road Race will be held again —for a third time. How the sponsors will top the Senator Lugar entrant of last year is hard to tell. ■ Jack Wells wants to promote classic boats in the Flotilla again this year. That, too, will make the third year for classic boats. These gems have added significantly to the appeal of the Flotilla, according to Wells. HANDSOME DAVE Arnold, personnel manager at the local
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PAUL LEVERNIER Dana Spicer Axle plant, is leaving the area to take a similar post with the corporation’s Fort Wayne axle facility. The local plant now operates with a minimal 72-man crew, but ordinarily would boast employment of 350 to 400, while the Fort Wayne plant now employs 1,200, normal capacity about 3,000. IT WAS good to see Lew Craig show up at the Syracuse Case’s Breakfast Club Friday morning following a period of several weeks when he was recovering at his Lake Wawasee home from a severe heart attack. His good friend and neighbor Bob Easton brought him to town. » Lew said his good news for the day was that he would be able to drive his car again. QUOTE OF the week: State Representative Thames Mauzy of Warsaw said* “If you take all the lawyers in the country and lay them end to end it might be a good thing.” THE MOVE to condominium living throughout the country has been contageous. This has even been the case in the lakes area. The latest move in this direction is the conversion of Heil’s Haven from rooms and small efficiencies to condominiums. Owners Jim and Jane Fry are now in the process of making the conversion, and hope to eventually sell 11 condominiums. They will continue to live in the main house on the grounds, located on the south shore of Lake Wawasee. SOMEHOW A large photo of the Goshen Redskins basketball team (circa 1942) turned up on
ANOTHER VIEW . . . V By DAVID W. ROBINSON
By DAVID W. ROBINSON
We Americans do a good job teaching a baby to be a baby and teaching a child to be a child. Generally we do a fair job in teaching a teenager to be a teenager and not much of a job at all in teaching a teenager to be an adult. Today and next week this column will be directed mainly to the teenager and his family. It is unpleasant to hear parents say they just can’t talk to their teenage child, or when the parents say that their teenager rents say that their teenager won’t talk with them. It stings when parents say that they don’t understand their teenager. My response to that one is — have you tried — really tried — or do you expect your teenagers to understand you? A frequent complaint young people have is one of not being able to “communicate” with their parents. If fault must rest with either side, the parent gets the heaviest portion. Their role in raising a teenager is that of being a leader... in the form of mother or father; nothing else. In early years, children learn to relate to the mother figure. She is with them more hours each day. As children reach the early elementary school years, they really want to learn something from the father figure in the house. Then the children want to try their wings with their fellow youngsters. It is hard for some parents of early teenagers to realize that it is not a situation of fault when the child doesn’t want to go visit grandma this week end like he used to enjoy doing. It’s really not resentment when the child doesn’t want to go on a family vacation. It is not rebellion when the child wants to be with kids his age rather than his parents. In the early teenage years when fads are so dominant, these trends are very evident. The fads really say the child wants to be accepted by his fellow age group. As the child grows into middle teenage, his vocabulary has expanded as well as his awareness of the world. Now he really wants
the wall of the Syracuse Case Saturday morning, and there in front row center was townsman Larry Claybaugh, a NIPSCo employee out of the Goshen office. I The team was Elkhart County sectional tourney winner that year, and big Larry is remembered by Redskin followers of that era as the star of that team. No one is sure how that photo turned up at the Syracuse Case, but Mrs. Claybaugh just smiles knowingly when asked about it. JOHN KROH, in charge of the Fourth of July Fireworks at Syracuse City Park for the past several years, has a new idea to give the event “class” this year. He wants to raise enough money to purchase large, three-foot sparklers, give them to lake front residents, to be fired at the end of the regular fireworks, as sort of a grand finale. John is usually assisted by Tom Prickett. IF DANA plant manager Richard Rice was watching Meet The Press (channel 22) at 11:30 a.m. Sunday he saw Louisiana Senator Russell Long expounding on how American industry should be given a more accelerated depreciation schedule for new plants and a greater investment tax credit on new equipment. This, he said, to compete on a more equal footing with foreign competition. C' These were the identical words Rice told State Senator John B. Augsburger and State Representative Thames Mauzy in a legislative session held at the Dana plant on Friday. FILINGS AT the county courthouse this week include Terry E. Duggins, r 2 South Whitley and Daniel Kirkham, r 2 Pierceton, for the Whitko Community School Board; and Merle R. Holden, r 3 Nappanee, for the Jefferson West-Scott seat on the Wa-Nee School Board. Also, Jerry L. Helvey, r 1 box 533 Leesburg, has filed for the post of Republican delegate to the state convention from Tippecanoe 111 and IV. Harold E. (Gene) Cogan of P. O. Box 440 Avilla filed for the nomination of Democratic State Representative from district 13. Filing for Republican Precinct Committeeman from this area was John Kussmaul, r 1 box 158 Warsaw, for Tippecanoe’s third precinct. Thomas Anglin, r 4 box 167 Warsaw, is seeking the nod for the opportunity to represent the Republican party on the ballot as councilman-at-large.
to test some of his thoughts, at least on occasion, with the wise ones, the seers, his parents, the adult generation. It is then that we parents seem to forget about their roles of leadership. The single most important thing that a parent can do to communicate with a teenager is to listen. How strange it is to use the word “listen” in defining communication. So many parents feel that the way to communicate is to talk. It isn’t! If you want a formula, talk once, listen twice! The child has gotten a lot of talk in his earlier years from them, his teachers and his religious leaders. At the time of his midteenage life, he wants to hear the sound of his own voice and have it interpreted (briefly please) by the older generation, as well as by his own generation. Then he will test one interpretation against the other, and in time will form an opinion. When we let our leadership guard down, we parents tend to give moral lectures to the teenager. For example: If the teenager does, on occasion, admit that he made a mistake or somehow says he did something wrong, we take that example out of a whole conversation and use it as the basis for lecture. We tell him he shouldn’t have done it, — how could he have been so stupid, — or re-hash the misdeed over and over hoping that he will learn not to do the misdeed again. Sorry parents: That approach doesn’t teach the teenager much except that he shouldn’t tell you that he — or his friends did something questionable. Many centuries ago Marcus Aurelius said “in all matters beware of the extremes”. Even before that, the New Testament admonished to have moderation in all things. During the time of leading teenagers, we need to be more moderate in the use of our voice, more tolerant in the use of our ears, and more aware that we are the leader. And incidently, that’s the way they want it. More about the teenagerparent roles next week.