The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 April 1980 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 2,1980

Editorials

It's Holy Week For Christians in the Lakeland area, and all over the world, this is Holy Week. Special observances are being held throughout the area as Christians gather together to observe Communion, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Individual churches will be observing the Lord’s Supper tomorrow (Thursday) as church members gather for communion services in response to Christ’s command in I Corinthians 11:24, “This do in remembrance of me.” Christ and his disciples gathered in the Upper Room on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread (Thursday, the 14th of Nisan, the Day of Preparation — Exodus 12:18) to observe the Passover. The Lord’s Supper is like a bridge spanning the entire interval of the church’s history on earth. One end of it rests on the shame of the cross; the other is planted in the glory of the everlasting. Most know the story that began on Palm Sunday and ended one week later, of Judas and the betrayal, of Gethsemane and the prayer of Jesus there, and of the trial. Sometime between 6 and 9 a.m. on Friday the final sentence was pronounced by Pilate and Jesus was turned over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified. They led Him away, obliging Him to bear (for Himself) His own cross, according to thecustom for criminals who were to be crucified. The destination was Golgotha, the place of the skull. . . . The work of redemption, which was the object of His earthly life, had been completed and the plan of salvation established. Nothing, had been left undone or unbome. His task was completed. “Father,” He said, “ifitothy hands’ I commend my spirit.” Fellowship was fully restored. He had finisheifthe work which the Father had given Him to do, and having said this, He bowed His head and willed to give up His spirit, sending it back to the Father. Many Christians spend Good Friday in worship. Services in Syracuse will be in the Church of God at 1 p.m. Services at Milford will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Bethel Church of the Brethren. While Friday was a sad day for the followers of Jesus, Sunday became a happy day and the most important day in the religious world. Easter Sunday Sunrise services are an important part of many churches’ observance of Holy Week. It was at early dawn when the women went to the tomb that was cut into a hillside and found it empty. Jesus had risen. What a glorious celebration! A celebration that continues today in the religious world. Attend the church of your choice on this week. Those calories The American Medical Association a few years ago published a guide to help Americans regulate their weight the sensible way. The guide debunks fad diets and easy solutions designed to solve overweight problems. What the AMA Guide says, in effect, is that one must change eating or exercise habits to lose weight — there’s no safe super-easy way. Protein supplements are not needed if one enjoys a normal diet. Basically, the best weight reducing program is a do-it-yourself program. The average individual needs 15 calories per pound of weight daily to maintain a stable weight. Each pound of fat stored by your body contains 3,500 calories. A 150-pound person (needing s 2,250 calories a day) thus must cut his calories by 7,000 a week to lose two pounds. The Guide suggests not losing more than two pounds, per week. It offers sound advice on how to burn up calories. Office work, for example, consumes only 120 to 180 calories an hour. Walking burns from 200 to 300. Running or swimming can burn up to 600 an hour. Reasonable limitation of calorie intake, and exercise, then, can easily control weight. April, 1980 You are the hope of beauty and the birth _ Anne Law j er Os life and death — come, welcome home again! The second quarter of the vear begins with April, which appropriately contains both April Fool’s Day and happy tax-paying day (on the 15th), when millions of Americans make final income tax payments for the year 1979. On the 6th, in 1917, Congress declared war on Germany, which doomed the Kaiser and the German monarchy and eventually, indirectly, produced Adolph Hitler. On the same day in 1830. the Mormon Church was founded. The Greeks in America celebrate the 6th as the Anniversary of the Greek war for independence. On the 9th in 1865, General Robert E. Lee finally surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, perhaps the most ably-led in the nation’s history, at Appomattox, Virginia, to a generous U. S. Grant. The 10th is the birthday anniversary of the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth. The famed Halifax (N. C.) resolutions, calling for independence, date from the 12th in 1776, and largely influenced the Continental Congress later that year to follow the Halifax example. One of the greatest Americans, and for eight years (1800-1808) President, Thomas Jefferson, was born at Shadwell, Virginia, on the 12th in 1743. The Huguenot Society observes the 13th, the day of the signing of the Edict of Nantes, halting persecution of Protestants in Ffance in 1598. Henry IV signed this act of freedom; Louis XIV revoked it in 1685.; The planets Can you name the planets in the sun’s solar system? There are nine, counting this earth. * The eight others are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Mercury and Venus are closer to the sun than earth, but all the others are farther away. Venus, Mars and Mercury, come closest to the earth in their orbits, in that order. Mercury is by far the brightest of the planets of the system, Venus next. All can be seen at various times of the seasons at night but Pluto, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn, in that order, are most difficult to locate, often requiring a telescope. In late March, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are seen evenings, thouglrSaturn may be less easily discovered. What others say — Risky involvement The United States is very much involved in the violent struggle between left and right in the small Latin American nation of El Salvador. The assassination of the country’s Roman Catholic archbishop at Mass Monday was the most dramatic in a wave of killings that have taken an estimated 2,00 Q lives since the beginningpf last year. Responsibility for the shooting of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero is put on the right-wing faction, which is battling leftists for control of the country. The archbishop was outspoken in favor of reform, in a country where ownership of 80 per cent of the valuable land is concentrated in the hands of 2 per cent of the people. The United States is backing the shaky centrist government. The Carter administration sees it as the best hope to keep El Salvador from being taken over by the Cuban-backed left. It’s a risky course that does not seem to be winning the United States many friends as El Salvador plunges toward civil war. To stand aside could mean allowing the Cubans a new power base in Latin America. But if the United States does not succeed in making the government it prefers secure, Americans may shortly find themselves regarded as ineffective meddlers in one more of the world’s poor nations. — The Elkhart Truth

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We have chosen this photo of Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, Israel, the site of the Cenacle (Room of the Last Supper), the Dormition Abbey and King David s Tomb, in honor of Holy Week. The photo was taken by the Israel Government Tourist Officer

Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area ... "What is Easter? What do you like about this holiday? What special way will your family celebrate it?"

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JOSH LANTZ Syracuse (4th grade) X

“It’s when you get to be with your family and stuff. I like the Easter Egg hunts. Probably have a dinner together with the family.”

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LARA TRACEY Syracuse (4th grade)

“When Christ arose from the dead. You get a lot of candy. Lots of times we go to South Shore and have an Easter egg hunt.”

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I x STEPHANIE I SMITH Syracuse I (4thgrade)

“The day Christ arose from the dead. You get candy. We celebrate it at home, being together.” REV. PAUL TINKLE Milford (pastor of Milford First Brethren Church) “Easter to me means the resurrection of a living Christ for me and anyone else who responds and accepts. I think the holiday as such spreads light on the entire Christian spectrum. To me, it’s a newness of life for the Christian and a victory over Satan. Locally here, we're involved in our Maundy Thursday communion service at the church and the Milford union service on Friday and at our own church, we have an Easter sunrise service and the regular worship service on Sunday. After that rather full • week end, my wife and I will THE MAIL-JOURNAJ. (USPS 325 840) Published by The Mail-Journal every Wednesday and entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana 46567. * Second class postage paid at 103 E. Main Street, Syracuse, Indiana 46567 and at additional entry offices. t Subscription: sll per year in Kosciusko County; sl3 outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of add ress forms to The Mail-Journal, P.O. Box 188, Milford, Indiana 46542. Ow xgjpijgX

< travel to Fort Wayne to be with our daughters and their families.” -i W ARREN ALFELD North Webster (second grader) “Jesus rose from the dead. We find eggs My whole family gets and tries to find chocolate bunnies.”

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ERIC STEVENS ’ North Webster (second grader)

“That’s hard. I don’t know. We usually color eggs and stuff. We’re going to be gone this Easter. We’re going to Florida.”

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PAUL SLITER (janitorial service) Milford

“One thing is that we get the grandkids together and have a good time with them. That’s what ’ we plan to do this year. ”

TRACIE MILLER North Webster (second grader)

• “(We celebrate Easter) ’cause summer is here and rabbits are coming around. We sometimes go to my little grandma’s which is my dad’s grandma and we eat supper and then we find eggs and open them up and eat candy.” CHARLENE WOOLSON Milford (retired teacher) “I would say that it means we have the opportunity for eternal life through the resurrection of Christ. I’ll spend most of the time in services.”

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» AL JURADO Syracuse (4th grade)

“The day Christ came back to life. Usually most of the family gets together. We usually roast a turkey or something. ”

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WE’VE HEARD of money not growing on trees but Easter eggs growing on trees is a bit unusual. And yet earlier this week, we saw this handsome Easter egg tree “growing” in the Bob Laughlin yard, 400 North Harrison Street. There is at least one other egg tree — decorated with handmade eggs. That one is in The Mail-Journal office here in Syracuse. Nancy Searfoss, who used to be the Office manager, made the eggs herself and decorated the tree. It’s nice to have talented people around! Wonder if the Laughlins and Nancy are related to the Easter Bunny? * LOOK FOR a big. life-sized Bunny Rabbit on the street in uptown Syracuse following Good Friday services Friday (from 3 p.m.) and again on Saturday morning and afternoon. Briar Rabbit, as we are apt to see it, is the product of the imagination of the girls at My Store, and will lend some real-life meaning to the Easter season. THE LOCAL VFW chapter is sponsoring an Easter Egg Hunt Saturday for local kids from ages three to ten. Reginning at 3 p.m., the search will take place at the Gus Grissom Scout Camp on CR 500E, three miles south of Wawasee High School. The Lakeland area is blest with active, interested service organizations and we think the VFW’ is to be commended for sharing its time with the kids. POPULAR BEAUTY spot. Kathy’s Beauty Bazaar, in the 13 Center, has changed its name to Village Hair Trends. They have a catchy motto: ‘‘lf your hair style is not becoming to you. you should be coming to us! ” Not bad! WE HEARD a funny quip the other day attributed to Father Kenneth Serrazine. He says that the Syracuse Post Office is the one place in town that miracles occur every day. Residents pull up to * the “Handicapped Parking’’ spot and by some miracle, or whatever it is, get out of their cars and walk into the post office! AREA BIBLIOPHILES and bibliophages (let’s see you look those two up!) will be happy to note that Johnson’s Book Store opened for the summer yesterday, April 1. Owned by Goshen resident John Hile, the popular book nook closed for the winter months but is back by popular demand. —o— IF THE Wawasee Property Owners’ Association has its way Turkey Creek Township may be keeping the old pumper and housing it somewhere on the east end of Lake Wawasee'. A letter has been sent to Turkey Creek Township Trustee Betty Dust expressing this desire with the property owners offering to help raise funds toward additional costs incurred if the pumper is kept for service. THOSE ! WHO watch the comings and goings of the year’s ice on Lake Wawasee and Syracuse Lake tell us that Sunday was the last day for ice on either lake. This signals the beginning of the summer and boating season. IF REAL Estate sales are slow right now before the spring and summer season, it might be a good time for local realtors to get their vacations behind them. Or so it would seem at Wawasee Realty. Phyllis Louden left Saturday with son Scottie, about 10, for a week in the Florida Keys, and Jeannine (Mrs. Doug) Schrock and children Pat and Heather plan to leave next Tuesday, for two weeks with her parents at John’s Island, Fla. Jack Reece got home oh the 18th from a Round Robin excursion of the Sunshine State, and Mary Ann (Mrs. John) Slott and daughter Jennifer returned on the 25th from three weeks in Florida. That leaves Pat Shriver and Judy Gregory minding the store. THERE’S MORE than a little interest being built up for the Saturday, July sth, Road Race to be held around Maxwelton Golf Course and around Syracuse Lake, as in the past two years.

7,~~ /— EASTER EGG TREE? An addition being planned is a walk-a-thon of people who consider themselves not able for the race but would like to participate as walkers. They would step off and do the 3.3-mile trek around the golf course, moments after the gun signaling the race. It should take them an hour of brisk walking, according to Donna (Mrs. R. G. “Jerry”) Johnson who is interested in such things and promises to help organize it. Hopefully, David Blackwell. WHS bandmaster will bring out the school’s jazz band and play the theme song to the popular movie “Rocky” in the home stretch as the school’s pom pon girls ( eight) do an accompanying exercise routing. It’s all a part of a big Fourth of July week end being planned. —o— LOCAL STORE owners are reporting an increase in traffic in their stores in the last couple of weeks. That’s a sure sign of spring. Other signs around the area: Vicki in the M-J office says that a lot of local residents are returning to Syracuse and the surrounding towns. She says that a lot of change of address forms are coming in the office from Florida and all those other warm vacation spots around the coun- ( try. The grass is getting greener and some residents report that crocuses .and tulips are breaking through the ground. Won’t be long now until we see boats on the lake and kids at their favorite swimming spots on the lakes. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? —o— LOCAL JEWELER Fred Byland and wife Jerry returned recently from vacationing in Florida. On the way down they stopped in Virginia Beach to see

ANOTHER VIEW . . .

Bv DAVID W. ROBINSON

Alcoholism has been called a family disease or illness. It affects more than the health and strength of the suffering individual. Os all family members who suffer, the child of an alcoholic may suffer most. Parents don’t wait until their children are grown before becoming an alcoholic. The kids I refer to are minors, the younger child who can’t and isn’t ready or able to break away or go out on his own. These are the ones shipped around to relatives and foster homes at the break up of the family. They are the ones who love the alcoholic parent as well as the non-alcoholic parent. They see the family break up and can do nothing about it. All of that is bad enough, but unfortunately it is only a part of the child’s suffering. A common theme that runs through the th nking of children who have an alcoholic parent (or two) — is that they are to blame for the parents drinking. They really believe they are guilty for their parent becoming alcoholic. It is likely that the child is taught this. As the parent goes through the stages of heavy drinking to problem drinking to addictive drinking, he sees himself as less and less valued. That’s pretty tough for anyone to take. When the self evaluation is done under the influence, it’s scary! The alcoholic parent then blames others. He blames adults who can see through that line, and the child who can’t. There still is that parental love and it, even more than romantic love, is blind! A further complication of that guilt is given by the non-drinking parent. Using my example of the male alcoholic, the wife in her torment tends to blame the child indirectly. Somehow or other she gets the thought across that if it wasn’t for the children, she would just leave and start a new life without her alcoholic husband. Even at the teenage level, children of alcoholic parents adjust their social lives to reduce their own guilt. They will select

their daughter and were stranded by the blizzard that struck that town. Fred said it was really strange to see 20 inches of snow on the streets in that Virginia vacation spot. MRS. LUELLA Longenbaugh has a pet rock which isn't all that unusual considering the pet rock craze of a few years ago. Yet her rock is unique: it’s a gallstone that doctors found when she was (hospitalized three weeks ago at Mayo's. She went there for other surgery and the doctors came : across it in the process. They were all surprised: she said that she had no idea that it was there. She said that she’s feeling fine now and is glad to be back home. She carries the pet in her purse. Ask her to see it sometime. —o— WINNIE SROUFE says that she was about to give up on keeping a pet last week when her second kitten in several months disappeared. The first one never did turn up. The second one did in the classified section of The MailJournal. She was all smiles when she came into The Mail-Journal office in Syracuse to tell us that her “baby” had been recovered. —o— FOR, THE first time in the short history of the Kosciusko County Court there will be a contest for that office in the Tuesday, May 6. primary election. The race is on the Republican side with the incumbent judge, James C. Jarrette, being opposed by David M. Whitesell. Judge Jarrette assumed the post some time ago by virtue of an appointment by Governor Otis R. Bowen when Judge Loren K. Collier resigned for health reasons. Both candidates for the office are, young, able, and promise a vigorous campaign. Jarrette, a native of Fulton County, is 31 and has lived and practiced law in Kosciusko County for about a year. Whitesell is several years j older than his opponent and has also practiced law in the county for a few short years. No opposition candidate on the. Democratic side has surfaced! W’hitesell is campaigning vigorously on a door-to-door basis, hanging his cards on door knobs where folks aren't at home. He claims today (Wednesday) to have knocked on every door in Milford, North Webster, Leesburg and Syracuse. Jarrette, on the other hand, (Continued on page 5)

or reject school friends and dates as the result of this guilt. They don’t want their friends to know. They don’t date in fear of the alcoholic parent not liking the date. They don’t want to rock the family boat anymore and thereby increase the drinking. Doing so would make them feel more guilty for the drinking. This article has used the father as the example of the alcoholic.' Although I have no data to support it, I believe guilt is even greater in the child of an alcoholic mother. Referring only to numbers and the severity of guilt of children and teenagers I’ve worked with, that seems to be the pattern. The guilt is more severe because the child feels that the mother doesn’t love him, and because of that, she drinks. Our society makes excuses for the father being aloof — cold natured — business like. It doesn’t for the mother. She is to be tender and warm, not self abusive or offensive. When that tenderness is absent due to alcohol, the child blames himself for her being unloving. And again my question of this, column: what can be done about it? All of our local church leaders know how to direct and assist the child. Alcoholic Anonymous is a giant among agencies which does real service to a suffering person. Teenagers can and do sometimes attend the open, meeting of AA. Al-anon was developed to aid husbands and wives of those in AA. Alateen works specifically with teenage children of alcoholic parents, as well as teenagers with other problems related to alcohol. These are only some of the several excellent groups which assist families * of alcoholics. Maybe now we need Al-Achild or Al-Akid too. Children of alcoholics are not kept out of these service groups. But they need more, because they hurt more. They don’t understand their guilt. They can’t do much to alter their lives. They shouldn’t have to wait until the parent hurts badly enough to seek help. These kids need their help while living with the drunk!