The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 July 1980 — Page 2

. % THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., July 9,1980

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1 -J * aEa Ji -/ I*; THREE-WAY WINNERS — The Sea Nymph Division of MidasInternational C orporation entry in the Sunday Flotilla won first in the Industrial category, won the Commodore's trophy for a second time, and the Commodore’s traveling trophy. Their float — Back to Basics — won $250 for the Commodore’s trophy and SIOO for first in Industrial. From leftjape Paul Philabaum. Sea Nymph president: Margo Tarman. secretary; and Monty Gray, sales coordinator.

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ISs V. JB ‘X * r COMMODORE'S PLAQUE — Mrs. Web (Mary) Burton of Baltimore, Md.. is shown just after receiving the Commodore’s plaque in the name of her late father. Lou Craig, who was supposed to be this year’s Lake Wawasee Flotilla Commodore. Mrs. Burton expressed her appreciation in being able to receive the plaque in her father's name.

Flotilla — (Continued from page 1 > Island Beacon, trophy and $25. INDUSTRIAL - Ist, Sea Nymph Boat Co., trophv andsloo. RESIDENTIAL - Ist, “Keep Your Oil, Ayatollah, We Are Making Gasohollah," entered by Ted and Marge Rogers and Bob and Sandy McNary, trophy and $100; 2d, Mount Saint Helen's, entered by Frankes' and friends, trophy and SSO; and 3d, Kanata Manavunk. INSTITUTIONAL - Ist, Lakeside VFW, Post 1342, trophy and $100; 2d. Nappanee VFW, trophy and SSO; and 3d, Chamber of Commerce, trophy and $25. JUNIOR — Ist, Remember The Hostages, Scott Johnson, trophy and $100; 2d, God’s Blessed America, Mindi Wakeland and Jeanine Gunn, trophy and SSO; and 3d, “246 Days," Lance and Josh Lanta, trophy and $25. CLASSIC BOATS - Ist, 1937 Chris Craft, Gary Anderson, trophy and $100; 2d, Century Resorter “Norwegian,’’ Sharon Thorson and Pete Troup, trophy and SSO; and 3d, 1942 Chris Craft Cabin, trophv and $25. EARL MONEY AWARD - Kale Island Beacon, trophy only. COMMODORE'S TROPHY - Sea Nymph Boat Co., trophy and $250. This year the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette donated S6OO, to be divided SIOO each to the first place winners in each category. Journal-Gazette publisher Richard Inskeep is a summer resident of Lake Wawasee and has a keen interest in the success of the Flotilla. An anonymous donor contributed $250 for the Commodore’s trophy, and the Wawasee Property Owners’ Association gave SIOO, SSO to second place winner in the residential category, $25 to third place winner, and $25 for a special plaque to first place winner.

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Debris pick up in Milford, Syracuse is being planned Street department crews in Syracuse and Milford will be picking up debris from the storm in their respective towns this week. Vai Duggins, Syracuse Street Department Supervisor, stated all brush which is to be picked up by the department should be placed between the sidewalk and street. Any debris laying in the yards will not be picked up. Terry Beatty, Milford Street Department Supervisor, stated his crews will be picking up brush and asked that limbs and other debris be put near the street for pick up. He also added that if residents wish to haul the brush them sei w they can take it to the city dump, next to the lumber company. nw-rth of town.

Grow 'em and Show 'em theme for garden show

The annual flower show for the Syracuse-Wawasee Garden Club will be on Thursday. July 31 and Friday. Aug. 1, in the Calvary United Methodist Church, SR 13S, Syracuse. The theme for this year’s show' will be “Grow ’em and Show ’em.” The public is invited to attend from 2-6 p.m on Thursday and 2-5 on Friday General chairman of the show Re-elett — (Continued from page 1) Seven employment recommendations were discussed and approved by the board members Annie Bender will teach the fourth grade at .Milford and Arlene Berkey, first grade at Syracuse. Temporary contracts from August 25 to January 16 were issued for the upcoming school year until the previous teachers resume following maternity leave. First year Franklin College graduate, Cheryl King, will be the new special education instructor at Wawasee High School. Anna Kline was also hired at WHS as the first female math and science teacher in the high school. Teaching special education at North Webster will be Charles Packer. Packer has worked as an aide for Lakeland and will now become a full-time teacher. At North Webster Junior High. Kirby Stahly is hired for math. John Cowens will teach homebound instruction for Michael Compton which will not exceed four hours per week. The County Welfare Department will reimburse the school for this. Milford Elementary Principal Ned Speicher has been awarded a 104 month contract from his present contract of nine months. His $18,700 salary was approved. The wrestling and weight room at WHS was also discussed. The openness of the area represents problems with keeping people off the mats that are improperly dressed and also vandalism. It was recommended that a partition could be built with wire mesh to provide circulation and a partition Cost for the project will be checked with further discussion given at the following board meeting. The Lakeland Board will continue to meet the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the corporate office building in front of WHS Oswald in Florida Jerry Oswald, Melbourne Beach, Fla., son of Mr. and Mrs. John (Jack) Oswald, Syracuse, is on temporary assignment at Harris Control Computer Center in Melbourne with the Amoco Oil Co. He will be returning to Saudi Arabia later this year with his wife and daughter. Mrs. Oswald, the former Toby Schumm, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schumm, r 4 Syracuse.

Syracuse board to discuss policies There will be an open meeting of the Syracuse Town Board on Thursday evening, July 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the town hall. The meeting will be with all department heads and will be to discuss town policies.

is Mrs R. C. Tytler and Mrs. Ralph Clingaman is schedule chairman. The theme will include artistic design entries using both fresh and dried plant material. In addition, there will be the horticulture exhibit and educational displays. A meeting was held in the home of Mrs. Ernest Bushong on Tuesday. July 1, to finalize plans for the show More love life on the 47th floor The higher you work in an office building, the more likely you are to fall in love. At least that’s what the English magazine Weekend is reporting. Weekend says a research team studying the love lives of workers in skyscrapers in Rio de Janeiro has found only two in every 10 people working on lower floors were linked romantically to people in the same office. That figure rose to four or five out of 10 on the middle floors and it soared to nine out of 10 on the upper floors. The magazine quotes a psychologist, James Wynne, as reasoning the lofty romances occur because high offices help boost people’s egos and thus increase their chances of finding romance at work. Our underpaid labor leaders Oil-company executives salaries are notoriously high, but now a survey by Business Week magazine shows labor leaders aren’t exactly in the poorhouse either. Business Week says 20 per cent of the union officers it surveyed received more than SIOO,OOO in salaries in 1979. Here’s a sampling Frank Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters, topped the list with $296,854 followed by Operating Engineers President J C. Turner with $135,146 Other well paid labor leaders included Edward Hanley, president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees who received $130,495; Fred Kroll, president of the Railway and Airline Clerks with $118,572; and Angelo Fosco, president of the Laborers with $114,262. Chalk up one more for women If you want to prevent your belongings from being ripped off, don’t ask a man to guard them for you. A study at the University of Virginia has found that women are better at stopping thieves than men are. Psychologist William Austin, in a staged theft experiment, asked 352 male and female college students at separate times to guard his belongings, telling them he’d be back in just a few minutes. A posed thief came along trying to lift Austin’s things. He says 74 per cent of the women students actually tried to prevent the pseudo-thief from stealing the belongings while only 47 per cent of the men did.

NIPSCo hopes to restore all service by week's end

Most all electrical service, destroyed by Saturday morning’s wind and rain storm, will be restored by the end of this week. That was the prediction on Tuesday of this week by Harry Johnson, manager of the Goshen Northern Indiana Public Service Company district and of Jay Peffley. manager of the Syracuse office. At mid-week there were 50 to 100 homes out of service, many of them in the Morrison Island area on the east side of Lake Wawasee. Mr. Peffley said his workmen have been working valiantly to return service. He said he personally had received “literally hundreds” of call reporting outages, noting that crews have been restoring main lines first, then returning service to private residents. Mr. Johnson said he has had 14 emergency crews at work in his Goshen district, with every piece of equipment in service. He said.

Heavy storm damage at Syracuse, Wawasee

By DEB FOX Residents in Syracuse and Lake Wawasee continue to clean up the debris left by the devastating storm early Saturday morning, July 5. The storm hit the Syracuse area around 6:30 am. with winds estimated at between 50 and 70 miles per hour. Several residents commented they heard a terrible noise just before the winds came. The only confirmed report of a tornado was in the Young American Homes subdivision, Elkhart where several funnel clouds were sited. Most of the damage in the Syracuse area was uprooted trees, downed limbs, power and telephone outages and houses damaged from fallen trees. There were at least 12 vehicles damaged by trees falling. There are still some scattered electrical outages reported around the Syracuse-Lake Wawasee area, according to Jay Peffley. manager of the Syracuse Northern Indiana Public Service Company office. He stated a fourman crew worked in the Crow's Nest area and Morrison Island all day Tuesday, trying to restore power. He added the crew was the largest crew they have had together, due to the strike. With the restoration of electrical power in that area. United Telephone crews will be able to restore approximately 80 customers with phone service. Mary Ringler, 419 E. Boston St., reported a large tree fell in her yard and damaged several trees belonging to her neighbor, Frances Rogers. Tom Dunlap. Anderson, who was spending the week end in the Ringler home, had a tree fall on his Blazer truck. Mrs. Ringler stated the truck is drivable, but has a hole ip the top, broken windows and scratches. Louise Byland. 318 S. Lake Street, lost a maple tree, three feet in diameter. The tree fell on her car, which was a total loss. It also broke up her sidewalk. At the home of Mrs. George Warner, 300 Carroll St., a tree fell across the knocking the chimney into the garage. When the chimney fell through the garage roof, it damaged the auto inside, Harry Price, Jr., 612 Baltimore, reported a limb fell from a tree in his front yard, through his autq’s windshield, shattering the glass and damaging the dashboard. The hardest hit area in Syracuse was North Shore Drive, where numerous trees fell on houses. Mrs. Brad Schrock, 26 North Shore Drive, stated she had two trees fall, one tree fell

“I don’t know what more we could have done if we had no strike bn our hands.” Some 4,000 NIPSCo employees are now in their fifth week of a strike that promises to be prolonged and volatile. On Saturday the service in Wawasee Village was out from the Dairy Queen south and places like Augsburger’s Super Valu store and the South Shore Country Club, both of whom consider the Fourth of July week end one of their busiest and most important and profitable week ends of the summer season, were crippled by lack of electrical service. Under the circumstances, the strike and widespread damage of the storm, emergency crews worked a miracle by returning service as rapidly as they did Mr. Peffley said. “In my 41 years with the company I’ve never seen storm damage like we had on Saturday. ” And district manager Johnson, in Syracuse on Tuesday to assess progress on

through the house into a guest bedroom and bathroom The other tree rested on the roof. ..At Kanata Manayunk residents dipped water from the creek and boiled it for use, because of the electrical outages. Augsburger’s Super Valu. Syracuse, lost approximately $4,500 in meat and frozen food, along with some bakery items, when the electricity was out in that area for approximately 12 hours. Forrest Coles, store manager, stated the meat was sent to a rendering company and the frozen foods were dumped Community Helps Out Boy Scout Troop 728 helped clean up at .Natticrow Beach after the high winds. The boys helped clean-up trees, limited traffic to residents and carried wood. Reports list those youth who helped as Travis Marsh. David Brokers, Dorian Carpenter and Jim Doege. There have also been reports from utility crews and the town street department about the tremendous help received from area people in cleaning up. Phil Hoy. assistant district manager for United Telephone, stated the people were very helpful by pitching in and bringing his United Telephone Crews food and drink. Vai Duggins, street department, stated people were helping his crews clear the streets and cutting up large trees. All Crews Out United Telephone and NIPSCo had all available crews out working over the week end and the first part of the week. NIPSCo crews replaced 25-30 utility poles which were knocked down by the winds or falling trees. The crews also replaced transformers which were damaged by lightning and fixed downed power lines. Peffley, stated the strike had some effect in the area in connection with restoring the power. UTS crews have been working from sun up to sun down since Saturday restoring telephone service, fixing downed lines and replacing poles. On Saturday and Sunday, a large number of UTS crews were at Morrison Island. Lake Wawasee. working. Hoy stated crews out of Syracuse took care of 100 out-of-service calls Saturday, 140 on Sunday, and 140 on Monday. There were 80 complaints which were not taken care of as of Monday, due to electrical lines down near the telephone lines.

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service restoration, said it is the worst storm he had ever seen At one time the company reported 11.500 to 12,500 customers out of service. Meanwhile. a union spokesman, Fred Hershberger, president of Local 12775 of the striking Steelworkers Union, said the company should have obtained a court order to force striking workers to help restore power to thousands of residents , whole electricity was-knocked out ’ by the week end storm. An editorial on page 5 of this issue of The Mail-Journal notes that the striking workmen missed a perfect opportunity to win popular support for their cause by not declaring a brief moratorium on their strike and return electrical service, then return to their post as strikers. (Note: A picture page appears on page 3 of this issue, telling with pictures only a brief part of the storm damage as it appeared in the lakes area.)

Dispatchers Busy . Along with the telephone company ancf NIPSCo the dispatchers at the Syracuse Police and Fire Stations were kept busy with residents calling and complaining about power being off. Debra Dull, dispatcher, reported on her shift that morning. 7 a m. to 3 p.m.. there were over 200 calls. The dispatchers also received a number of calls concerning tree limbs and power lines blocking roadways and tree limbs down on hot wires. The fire department was out on three calls Saturday dealing with electrical fires. All three calls, one at Ogden Island. Quackers Lounge and Baker’s Market, were caused by limbs falling on electrical wires and causing arcs Earlier the department received a call from Baker's Market when the transformer near there caught fire, several minutes later the fire went out by itself. CD Does Its Job Tom Gilbert, civil defense director of Syracuse, stated Tuesday, that all CD personnel were out and working in clearing the streets in Syracuse and cutting up trees. CD personnel were also out at the Crows Nest and Morrison Island helping in the clean up process. Monday evening the CD and Syracuse Fire Department went out to Morrison Island to pump water for the residents who were still without electricity. The big generator from the County CD was sent to Morrison Island and the Cromwell Fire Department spent the evening charging freezers on the island. Street Department Does Job Crews on the street department were busy clearing the roadways of trees and cleaning up limbs. Duggins stated the town had no problem with the water plant when the electricity was off. He added the water and sewer plants had auxiliary motors running and the engines in the well houses were diesel engines. For the rest of this week, street department crews will be picking up brush from the storm and Duggins asked that residents of the town, wishing for brush to be picked up. to place it between the sidewalk and the street. He added the street department will not go onto a person’s property to pick up the limbs and other debris from the trees. (See related storm photos on page 3.)