The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 May 1980 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., May 7,1980

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Editorials

Mother's Day Sunday, May 11, is Mother’s Day! It is the day set aside to pay tribute to our mothers. The observance began in Philadelphia in 1907 when Miss Anna M. Jarvis, a Philadelphia school teacher, promoted the idea that boys and girls should pay tribute to mothers. She arranged for a special service in one of the Philadelphia churches and suggested white carnations be worn by those attending. The custom has since been changed and those whose mothers are still alive wear red flowers instead of white in honor of their mother. This editor asked several persons what their mother meant to them as a child and now as an adult and the answers received were almost identical. When a young child, mother was “always there when she was needed.’’ Today mother is “always there when she is needed.” Mothers shelter children, nurse them, hold them tight to still their fears. Mothers teach right from wrong and of Jesus and his love. She kisses away the tears, feeds her family, sees they have clothing and other needed items when the children are young plus so many things that are soon forgotten. When her children are grown she is still there. She listens when her children need to talk or reads their letters from Vnany miles away and always finds away to still the troubled heart. More than anyone else, the mother who cares for both home and children is destined to influence the character and future of the country. And often this responsibility is combined with a job. A job that is necessary to give her children food and clothing or a job that is necessary to allow her to give them the extras they could not otherwise have. Sunday is Mother’s Day, do something special to show her you care . . . you really do appreciate all that she has done and is still doing for you! <

'Take a Kid Fishing' The Indiana Department of Natural Resources urges the 700,000 licensed Indiana anglers to “Take a Kid Fishing” for National Fishing Week, May 12-18. National Fishing Week provides a chance for adults to share their knowledge and appreciation of the outdoors with young people, and at the same time instill a respect for our natural resources. An added incentive for taking part in National Fishing Week is that fishermen ages 16 and younger, are not required to buy an Indiana fishing license.

According to the Division of Fish and WHdlife, there are mapy areas throughout the state which provide excellent fishing opportunities. Fisheries biologists from the Department of Natural Resources report that May is an excellent time for many species of fish including bass, bluegill and crappie. Reservoirs, lakes, rivers and streams can produce good bank fishing and for those who want to ‘get away from it all,’ boat rentals are available at many of the state fncilitics For those of us lucky enough to live in the Lakeland area, “Take a Kid Fishing” seems a natural. This is the time of year blood rises in the veins of millions of fishing Americans. From now until fall fish will be caught by hundreds of people as they take to the lakes in northern Kosciusko County. To help the beginner, and remind the non-expert, here are basic rules of fishing: Best time is often at dawn and dusk. If fish are spawning, fishing is almost invariably good, with any bait. The period just before bad weather is often good. If bad weather lasts several days, the period immediately afterward may be good. A steady barometer is generally better than rising pressure. A slight wind to ripple the water is desirable. Ok, now let’s all get our rods and reels or an old cane pole and ‘Take a Kid Fishing.” Why not a beauty contest, too? Once upon a time, long, long ago, when the idea of a Lake Wawasee Flotilla was first conceived, known then as the Father’s Day Flotilla, it was glamorized with the addition of a beauty contest. In fact, a “Miss Lake Wawasee” was selected from among an ample amount of local beauties, and the winner went on to represent the lakes community at the North Webster Mermaid Festival. Our question would be: Why can’t we do it again? No one could question the fact that we have plenty of attractive young women in the area from which to draw entrants. When they did hold such a run-off years ago, it was held in the Lakeland Youth Center parking lot, and plenty of local people showed up to cheer the bevy of beauties on. Teri (Blue) Caskey was the first “Miss Lake Wawasee,” and Marsha Peffley was another. We’re for reviving the beauty contest. There are plenty of adult, beauties in the community to whom the Flotilla could hand this assignment. It would most surely be a success and give an added dimension to the Flotilla week end. Learn to get along with people; you’ll have to associate with them until you die.

What others say —

Savings discouraged There is much we can do to expand industrial capacity and give new life to the economy of the United States. Although this may seem an unusual time to discuss the necessity to save and invest, inflation must be stopped. Although people have less dollars to save, saving — or the lack of it — can affect the value of our dollars. Jobs and the ability to compete with other nations of the world are affected by saving. Today the saving rate in the U.S. is six per cent of disposable income, a twenty-eight year low. West Germans save about fifteen per cent and the Japanese twenty-five per cent. The major reason we save less is because our laws encourage spending, rather than saving or investing. Money Americans earn and spend is taxed once by the federal government and money deposited in savings, or invested, is taxed over and over — first in income tax and then in yearly taxes on interest and dividends. Other major nations thrive because of savings. The correlation between rates of saving and investment and the rate of productivity is direct. Much of the money saved in other countries is used to purchase new plant and equipment and to replace aging facilities. Many American plants are years and years older than those of foreign competitors. Adequate capital available has resulted in increased rates of productivity in Japan (nine per cent) and West Germany (five and one-half per cent). While here at home our rate of savings finds increases in productivity almost non-existent. It’s time that tax laws are revised to encourage savings and investing. It must be done soon. If not, the rate of productivity in this country will continue to decline, and with it, our standard of living. Without the proper funds, there can be no new jobs; even those jobs which presently exist are not safe. — CARROLL COUNTY COMET

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K. JBW Ba v Bi B * * B B - w 1 ' JR . * B v 1 Mrs. Jan (Connie) Kizer of r 1 Warsaw, Heron Bay, Little Barbee Lake, holds her six-week-old daughter, Carissa Marie. Carissa is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kizer of Florida. Paul was Milford's postmaster from 1965 to 1978. Both Connie and Paul's wife, Kathryn, will be honored on Sunday, Mother's Day.

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

QUESTION "What do you like about being a senior citizen?"

MARGARET NICHOLS Medusa St., Syracuse “You can say all the things you wanted to say all your life. You can do what you want and people will say ‘Oh, don’t pay any attention to her she’s a senior citizen.’ I love it and I’m glad I made it.”

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BILL PIPP Front St.. Syracuse

“I think'lT’s nice being a senior citizen. I don’t have to take orders from anyone, except my wife, I can do anything I want to do when I want to. They can’t fire or hire me and I get a check every month.”

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CHRIS KOHER Syracuse

“Why you have all the advantages of the world over the young whipper snappers. I think they have the advantages of a lot of years and wisdom young people have to learn as time goes on. ”

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EVA ZARTMAN Milford

“You’d better not ask me, because I’m not a senior citizen.’ MARGE RADKE Waubee Lake Milford “I just love being retired. It’s a great time of one’s life.”

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LOU SHIVELY Milford

“If you don’t make your own life, it’s boring. Don’t sit around home and complain that people aren’t interested.”

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CHESTER FOWLER r 2 Milford

“It’s the same as always. I don’t see any difference. If I hadn't hurt my back, I’d wouldn’t be a senior citizen. I’d be right on working.”

LES SCHOOMAKE Milford

“I can’t find nothing to do; although, there’s plenty of things to be done.”

Hospital week to be observed “We’re America’s Health Team” is what Kosciusko Community Hospital and 6,000 other hospitals across the country will be saying to their patients, staff and communities during Nationl Hospital Week, May 11-17. “Our 1980 National Hospital Week theme compares the hospital to a well-trained and coordinated sports team,” said L. Milton Holmgrain, hospital administrator. “We think of the hospital staff as a team where each member contributes his or her own special abilities to achieving the hospital’s goal which is, of course, the highest possible quality of care for our patients. And, in a more general sense, the entire hospital funcitons as a leading member of the community health team working to build a healthier way of life for everyone.” National Hospital Week is sponsored each year by the American Hospital Association and its approximately 6,000 member hospitals to foster better communications and understanding between hospitals and their patients, their employees and the communities they serve.

ICISJZIN around CUSE

AH, SUMMER! High temperatures this week are proof enough that summer is here, and the return of the socalled "snow birds" from the southland In considerable numbers is another. But then, we’re told we should stop and smell the roses. And as such there are considerable roses coming into full bloom to smell. The tulips, moreover, are out in full fashion and color, and a real sight to behold. One such tulip patch is in front of the Bertha Montel residence, at 601 South Main Street, on the southwest corner of South Main and Brooklyn Streets . Mrs. Montel was found cultivating her “garden patch’’ on Monday morning. She said the flowers and her garden are her “thing." On Saturday her son came to Syracuse from North Manchester to plow her garden. Her well-painted home is set off with colorful red. yellow and salmon tulips, and daffodils from bulbs that came from Holland. She got her tulip bulbs from a Grand Rapids, Mich., garden club of which she is a member. Mrs. Montel said. “I love working in my yard.” and it certainly shows. This isn’t to overlook others in the community who have colorful flower gardens. Look at them; they’re all around us. to think of it, this might provide a good theme for the Proud folks of our community to latch onto. It costs so little and gives the community such beauty. On the Monday morning Today television show, host Tom Brokaw told about the tulip festival in the little town of Pella, lowa (Harry VanHemert’s home town) and how they have promoted the tulip. Perhaps more well know’n is the tulip festival coming up at Holland. Mich., and Van Wert. Ohio, has its peony festival. Couldn’t we do the same? — o — SYRACUSE LIONS president Jim Tranter informs this column that more local organizations should avail themselves of the community service sign across from city hall on South Huntington Street. It’s open to any non-profit group and more should take advantage of it, so says Tranter. And it’s all free. — 0 — SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT Don Arnold this week gave high marks to Hal Traviolia' as a classroom teacher and said he was happy when Traviolia decided to remain in the Lakeland School system. The former coach came under some fire during the past week (see story on page 8). Likewise, Arnold had high marks for Traviolia’s wife Frances, teacher in the Syracuse Elementary School. Commenting on the “static” a high school coach receives, especially when his team is experiencing a poor season, superintendent Arnold confided, “Yes, and it (coaching) amounts to only 10 per cent of his total salary,” then adding, “and 90 per cent of the grief.” — o — WHEN RON Silveus read the account of the demise of the old Sargent’s Hotel and Pavilion, written especially for The MailJournal by Bill Spurgeon, which appeared in the April 23 issue, he was caught up by the name of George Juday which appeared on one of the boards in the Pavilion now being torn down by Darrell Grisamer and John Nemeth. Ron said his mother, the former Eleanor Zarse, now in her early 70’s and a resident of Fort Wayne, was raised by Mr. and Mrs. George Juday of Cromwell. He said Mr. Juday was an accomplished carpenter and obviously worked on the construction of the Pavilion in 1930, the year it was erected. Silyeus said his mother was a young Chicago girl known as a "fresh air kid,” one brought into a rural environment for several weeks in the summer to escape city living for a time. Mrs. Silveus made her home with the Judays in Cromwell. Ron says, “As I understand it, it was love at first sight for both my mother and the Judays. At any rate, my mother continued to make her home with the Judays.” — o— HIGH COST of gas getting you down?

If so, you might consider what two young Schoolcraft, Mich., youths have done to overcome gas costs. Craig Baughman. 24, a recent Western Michigan U. grad, and Ken Lockwood. 21, both natives of Schoolcraft, stopped in at Cherrie Caldwell’s Syracuse Case on a bike-hike from their home to Virginia and back. Both on 10-speed bicycles, complete with extra clothing and sleeping bags, when we spoke to them over a mid-morning snack, they had made 60 miles, averaging 12 miles per hour. The two handsome young fellows planned to make Wabash yet that day. Their route wifi take them through Kentucky. Tennessee and to the JamestownWilliamsburg, Va„ area and on to Virgina Beach. They plan to ride 1,500 to 2,000 miles on their gas-free trip, and to spend from $lO to sls per day, all told. Gas costs: “Absolutely zero." both young men echoed. — o — THOSE INQUIRING concerning the whereabouts of Gene Hall, 171 North Shore Drive, will be happy to know he's well and working at 538 South Main Street, South Bend. Gene has been with a Goshen firm. Thermal Insulators, Inc., for about a year and for the past six months has been in charge of their new office in South Bend. The firm is an insulating contractor, working with commercial establishments and residents. Gene makes the trip to and from South Bend daily, with no idea of moving closer to his new job. Mrs. (Vera) Hall is secretary at the Lakeland School Corporations administrative office. — o — IF YOU should pass the North Shore Drive-In. located on Pickwick Road between Syracuse Lake and Lake Wawasee, and hear some hammering and sawing, it is Jim and Betty Witman at work redoing the establishment for summer business. Witman has a background in the mobile home industry and at one time he owned and operated seven Pizza houses in and around Elkhart. The couple resides several miles west of Milford and will have easy access to their new drive-in and boat-in venture. The sale was made by O. A. Lambert of Skylark Realty. Lambert and Witman are longtime friends. — 0 — HARRY VANHEMERT, long-

ANOTHER VIEW . . . Bv DAVID VV. ROBINSON

Several years ago I wrote my first article on what I then called The Male Menopause. Youth is so impetuous! Since then my studies on the subject have continued But the title has been changed to read, “The Mid-Life Crisis”. When responding to my wife’s question of why the topic interested me, I noted that the subject of a mid-life adjustment or crisis might face me someday. She smiled. In this column last week, reference was made to a peak in divorces at the silver anniversary period, and a shot was fired at the insensitivity of the wife as “the cause”. Surprisingly, I had no pickets at our house after that one came out. Most of us peg the beginning of The Mid-Life period between 37 and 42 years. It can run a dramatic course in about three years, but sometimes takes longer. The lingering effects, according to one author can last 20 years or more. That is doubtful. Those lingering effects may well be new phases mislabeled. Frequently the first symptom of the mid-life syndrome in males is a drive for change. I remember well Dr. Margaret Meade, in an Emory University speech, saying to the ladies that they must expect their husbands to change something when they are about 40. She told them it would be something big, like his job, his house, his wife; and they might as well be prepared. This does put the lady of the house in a tough position. She is caught as an image to her husband somewhere between his mother who is “old” or gone, and his daughter who is gone or going. It isn’t easy to live such divergent roles under the best of physical condition. The wife at this period is having her conflict and physical change reactions too. But as noted, the focus here is on the husband. The classic conditions which cause the anxiety in the mid-life male were suggested last week. They will not be repeated. But what can be done by both

time Turkey Creek Township Assessor (in fact, the only one the township has ever had), plans.to resign that post in June, and the likely successor will be Charlene (Mrs. Loren) Knispel, who has been VanHemert’s Girl Friday for a long time. Actual approval of Mrs. Knispel will be in the hands of the township precinct committeemen and -women, with the appointment coming from the chairman of the Republican Central Committee. Harry and Zora have sold their home near Syracuse City Park to Mr and Mrs. Robert Jensen and have moved to the Greenhaus Apartments. Harry plans to be less active in his well deserved retirement years _o — POLITICS GETS in your blood, so says Mrs. Mellie Mishler, of 39 North Shore Drive (r 4) Syracuse. She will be 89 in August, and her late husband. Jesse, schooled her in their early married years on the importance of voting. Accordingly, Mrs. Mitchell showed up at Precinct 1 (the Methodist Church) at 10:30 Tuesday morning to cast her vote for her choice of candidates on the Republican side of the ticket in the primary election. Perhaps she is the oldest resident to vote in Tuesday’s primary in Turkey Creek Township — o — SYRACUSE TOWN clerktreasurer Cynthia Fry said. "Talk about a country girl, you should have seen me when I was in Indianapolis last week and saw (for the first time) the state capitol building. It’s just beautiful!” she exclaimed. She was there on town business — o — WALTER P. and Gwen Williams, of r I Syracuse (near Bonar Lake), are the composers of a very handsome song book they have put on the market, under the heading “Sing About Jesus!” The 48-page song book was copyrighted in 1979 and has been well received The Williamsons write. "We wish to dedicate this book to the many friends we made while singing ht the various churches in our conference, and the many souls who found Christ precious to their hearts in those meetings."

partners to help each other in this phase of life. Somehow they’ve helped each other through earlier phases or they wouldn't be together now. New or renewed attention to diet, weight and general health is dominant. Without attention to optional health, all other suggestions pale... too! More than before, the man needs to talk about his accomplishments ; his mistakes and failures too. For example, he wants to hear himself say there were reasons his and others, for not having climbed higher on his ladder of success. He wants to talk about them with his wife; not just hear about them from her. It is not failure that is the point of focus; it is fear of failure and fear of shame that generally keeps him from starting the discussion. It is needed especially in this peroid to attend to succorant needs. Tenderness in terms of bodily contact, is urged. That is needed now even more than in the earlier years of marriage. This complicated subject cannot be dealt with in detail here, but a couple important yet unrelated facts may imply its severity. Schizophrenia, a form of psychosis, hits a frequency peak in men at 38 years. Suicide peaks in very early adulthood in men, and again at about 52 years. Coronary problems evolve at about 40, and all of them are not the result of bad diet, big bellys and booze. Insecurities of youth and young adulthood are unpleasant. Coupled with a loss of earlier energy these fears and insecurities can become produc-Jion-debilitating. When looked at in a happy, healthy accepting manner the years of the mid-life can still be seen as a crisis period. When it is worked through, it will be remembered as happily as the memories of the child-raising years or even those good old days, whatever they were. Maybe then we will realize that regardless of how good they were, the year in which we re living is really the best one ... so far.