The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 30, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1980 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., August 13,1980

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Editorials Good luck Warriors The Wawasee Warrior football team will make their initial outing Friday night in the pre-season North Wood Jamboree. They will be under new head coach Myron Dickerson. Full of vim and vigor, the Warriors promise to be a team to watch this year. Friday’s game will give Warrior fans a preview of what’s going to happen on the Warrior football field this year. At the Jamboree, slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. will see North Wood and Wawasee team up against Northridge and Plymouth. The Warriors open their regular season on August 22 when they host arch rival Warsaw. We wish the Warriors the best of luck during the coming season. August 14 The end of the world’s greatest war came August 14,1945. President Harry Truman had authorized the dropping of two primitive atomic bombs and their devastating power, and the entrance of Russia into the war, were decisive factors in convincing the Japanese Emperor and government to ask for peace. From December 7, 1941, to August 14,1945, was less than four years but in that time the United States built a mighty two-ocean navy, an army of ten million men and women, a mighty air force that dominated the skies in Europe and in the Pacific, and developed the atomic bomb! It was an amazing accomplishment, an awesome display of national strength and unity. Some historians today think this might have been the nation’s high water mark. They point to the fact that today there’s another superpower, Russia, with greater nuclear power than we possess, with every prospect for outarming us in the years ahead. The historians also look to China as a future superpower. They question whether the United States is such a divided nation, soft and undisciplined economically, it’s ready to fall from the pinnacle of power. Whether pessimists prove right will be determined by the average American. In the past he and she have met the challenges of the time. The Challenge of the present is for Americans of all colors and faiths to build a united, free and strong nation — in the tradition of the nation’s past. If that can be done, the greatest time for these United States might still lie ahead. Biking: safe? In the present trend away from more gasguzzling cars and less unnecessary driving, millions of Americans have begun to look again at cycling. But it’s unfortunately true that the U.S. has not, generally speaking, provided the paved bike lanes so often found in European countries. There cars have not been so plentiful and people have always depended more on bikes — thus greater concern and provision for cyclers. As bicycle riding and touring gain popularity, more communities should provide safe and paved bike paths. They need not be more than a few inches thick and a few feet wide — and generally routed beside a paved road. Other steps which can make cycling safer, according to a recent study, are (1) — The wearing of bright-colored clothes. (2) — Obeying traffic regulations just as if in a car. (3) — Checking of bikes so that equipment works perfectly. (4) — Conservative riding habits and techniques. (In this connection, older riders have a lower accident rate than 16-20 vear olds 1 What is also needed badly in this country is more respect for cyclers. Because for decades we have seen mostly cars, and often only cars and trucks, on our highways, some drivers show little respect, or even annoyance, with cyclists, who have equal rights on most roads. Simple courtesy is the answer which can prevent a number of accidents. Productivity and hiring While few Americans favor discrimination in the form of unequal pay for equal work, or unequal job opportunity, a good case can be made today for the argument that, to increase U.S. productivity, employers should not have their hands tied too tightly in hiring. There should be no quota system in private employment, nor should there be any intimidation of employers who fire incompetents, whatever their race or color. There can be no protected class, no special treatment and no favored martyrs if this nation is to regain economic competitiveness. This is a vital necessity if the dollar is to be restrengthened, the national trade imbalance righted and economic stability achieved. The goal of employers must necessarily be to hire the most competent workers available. If any are found lacking, the answer is in job training, job education, federal help outside the private enterprise — not in forcing incompetent workers into private industries, with quotas, federal coercion or law suits. Sincere, sensitive, idealists would do well to stay out of politics. Unfortunately the man with the loudest mouth often gets the most attention. The individual who looks ahead and plans ahead will be the one to get ahead. Your own opinions are not as interesting to other people as they are to you., What others say — Job well done Residents of Wakarusa and the surrounding rural community can look back once again with great pride and a deep sense of accomplishment on the annual Elkhart County 4-H Fair which closed Saturday night at Goshen. As has been the case for several years, much credit for the success of the fair must go to adult leaders on the Fair Board, 4-H and FFA leaders and teachers, thousands of youths and their parents who participated in the many departments of the fair and all businessmen who supported the fair financially and in many other ways. Heading the hard-working, dedicated directors on the Fair Board this year was Herbert Maust of Wakarusa who provided a continuation of the leadership that has earned the Elkhart County exposition the reputation of being one of the finest county fairs in the nation. Numerous top honors and hundreds of other blue ribbon awards were presented to fair exhibitors from the Wakarusa community again this year with several preparing to go on to the Indiana State Fair competition at Indianapolis later this month. We wish all of them the best for that competition. Greatest of all the purposes of this or any fair must be the opportunity offered to young 4-H and FFA exhibitors to demonstrate the results of their year of work on many kinds of projects from which they gain priceless experience and knowledge to help them in their adult lives. And it is the continued support of those exhibitors through encouragement and attention all through the year and especially during the days of the fair that guarantees the participation of others in the years ahead. The Tribune, we are sure, expresses the feelings of all of our readers when we say congratulations to all who gained honors at the fair and to all who worked and supported the exposition in any way. — THE WAKARUSA TRIBUNE

AT 1 ■ ■ 11 - ... -IL; ' . .. The Wawasee Warriors football team is busy practicing for the coming season. The team s first outing will be the pre-season Jamboree on Friday night. The first home game will be August 22 when the green and gold host the Tigers from Warsaw. Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area . . .} QUESTION: "What do you think of 911 central dispatching for Kosciusko County police?"

r RALPH HAMELL 500 North 3 Harrison Syracuse (NIPSCo 1 ..... “I think it’s a very good idea. They should. A few seconds could mean a matter of life or death.” * ***• - BALES Goshen Bale’s Butcher Shop * “It would be a lot quicker and more efficient.”

FlHthiari Reports

On August 16 in Reynolds, IN, one of the most comprehensive workshops on the practical aspects of gasohol will take place. The workshop will feature four panels of experts who will discuss how to make gasohol, gasohol’s profitability, permits needed and financial assistance available. More than a dozen top officials from the Energy Department, other agencies and the National Gasohol Commission will be on hand to answer questions. In addition, we will have on display more than 25 exhibits, including working stills and tractors, cars, a lawnmower and other equipment fueled by gasohol. A wide selection of pamphets and literature also will be available. I am sponsoring this workshop because I believe that Indiana farmers and businessmen can play an active role in the development of gasohol and other alcohol fuels. Recent actions at the federal level will greatly boost this development. High on the list of federal incentives is the passage of the Synthetic Fuels bill on June 26. The S2O-billion bill will establish a quasi-independent corporation to develop a synthetic fuels industry to reduce this country’s dependence on foreign oil. Included is $1.2 billion to spur the production of alcohol fuels. Another big incentive for alcohol fuels development was passed with the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in April. The act continued the four-cent-per-gallon federal excise tax exemption for gasohol through 1992, provided new income tax credits for alcohol-gasoline blenders and extended through 1985 tax credits for alcohol fuels production equipment. Two significant incentives took place earlier this year and helped to set the stage for enactment of

LORETTA FREE South Henry St. Milford (worker at Brock’s) “It sounds like a good idea. It seems like you could get a hold of someone quicker.” ARD E N MILLER Milford (maintenance If . » jH dept, at Goshen LI Hospital) x jB “I think it’s a very good idea. I think if they had one number instead of a whole bunch of numbers it would be easier to remember.” ROSE PAMER Milford (nurse’s aid) “It would be easier to remember if you needed to get a hold of the police.”

this important legislation. On January 11 the Administration announced a comprehensive National Alcohol Fuels Program, seeking to quadruple January 1980, alcohol production by the end of 1980 and setting a target for domestic production capability of 500 million gallons in 1981. In February the Office of Alcohol Fuels was created within the Department of Energy to promote ethanol production and to implement the DOE Alcohol Fuels Program. In addition, demand for gasohol at the pump has steadily increased, with the number of service stations throughout the country offering gasohol nearly doubling. The incentives discussed here are a few of the reasons why I believe we will begin to see an expanding role for alcohol fuels in our energy future. I urge you to become involved by attending the Gasohol Workshop August 16, in Reynolds, at the White County Fairgrounds, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

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tfiUZIN AROUND

THE WARM political winds of the state of Indiana, even to the top reaches of both political parties, are being felt locally, as political enthusiasts rush to assist their favorite candidates. Never overlook the influence of some of our local people, especially when the state and national tickets are in question as they are this year, and their power to “raise a buck” for their favorite candidates. It’s interesting to watch these influences at work, as they were, for example, at the plush Kiley residence at Pickwick Park Saturday night. Mike Kiley, master of the residence, was out to give a financial assist to his longtime friend, John A. Hillenbrand, of the highly successful Batesville. Ind., casket-making family, who has his eye on the Indiana governor's chair. A Democrat, this is Hillenbrand’s first try for a political office, he being the victor in a bloody Democratic primary election. All of this with the warm blessing of Louise Kiley, Mike’s mother and the Miss Lillian of the Kiley residence. Mike Kiley, a former Marion, Ind., juvenile judge, was a Culver Military Academy cadet with Hillenbrand. and the two handsome gentlemen have remained fast friends. Friends to the extent, to-wit. that they have served together on the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Commission John has been on the commission for some 14 years. 10 of which as chairman serving under two Republican governors. Bowen and Whitcomb. This is important to residents of this area in particular, since Hillenbrand and his commission engineered two important pieces of legislation through the General Assembly of interest to this lakeland community. One was the prohibition of further channelization around the lakes, and the other would guarantee the preservation of the wetlands around the lakes. At the successful gathering at the Kiley home. with candidate Hillenbrand were his charming wife Joan, sons John 111, 23, and Dan, 14, and daughter Holly. 15. Children not present were Ann, 22, Amy. 21, and Peter, 18. Anyway, somewhere between 35 and 40 well heeled Hillenbrand enthusiasts turned up at the Kiley residence to deposit SIOO checks in the Hillenbrand-for-Governor coffers and tip a glass of their favorite beverages with the Democratic candidate and to wish him well. One member of the party. Lake Wawasee resident and Milford industrialist Mike Umbaugh is a longtime close friend of Kiley’s, but they have one point where they’ve never been able to compromise. And that is their political affiliation. Mike Kiley is an ardent Democrat. and Umbaugh is an equally ardent Republican. But that’s the onlyplace they differ. The uncompromising difference is such that on Monday Umbaugh was co-host to a luncheon at the Warsaw Holiday Inn for Robert D. Orr, Indiana’s current Lieutenant Governor who is a candidate for governor. So there you have it: Kiley is stumping as hard as he can for Hillenbrand for governor and his good friend Mike Umbaugh is stumping equally hard for Orr for

nUrflW ■W * ' ' ’ll SflOF . fF '< * i i * Srt ( f : iw*s » >■ •‘Wk/ I Aji H I K-/ id A BOOST FOR HILLENBRAND — John and Joan Hillenbrand, shown here on the left, were on hand Saturday night at the Kiley residence at Pickwick Park, Lake Wawasee, to give the Hillen-brand-for-Governor effort a real boost by greeting friends at a fund-raising gathering. Serving as hosts were Louise Kiley, center, and Mike and Carol Kiley.

ONE FOR THE MEMORY BOOK — The old lumber yard building on South Huntington Street is gone and the land recently cleared, but the memory lingers on. John Sudlow provided this column with the above photo of a time long since gone. Note the old delivery trucks, one a Chevrolet and the other a Ford, of early 1930 s vintage. Standing in the center is Perry Sprague, owner of the lumber yard, the other two gentlemen unknown.

governor. Both gatherings were fundraisers: Kiley was asking his friends to divvy up SIOO each for a drink with Hillenbrand. while Umbaugh was asking only $25 per ticket for a lunch with Orr. All of this nearly got lost in the rush of the week’s news at Madison Square Garden in New York where the Democrats are picking their candidate to run against Ronald Reagan for president. HANDSOME BILL Beemer doesn’t take much for granted, especially when it comes to financial matters as they relate to the operation of the Lakeland School Corporation. Bill has carved out a position for himself as something of an adversary to the school corporation’s rising costs of buildings and of doing the corporation’s business. He was on hand at a school board meeting at the cafeteria on Tuesday. July 28. where a new junior high school for Milford was being proposed. He asked a lot of questions concerning the possible renovation of the present structure at Milford. It appeared all the answers he received were wanting. His good friend on the school board. John Kroh, has encouraged Beemer to make his concerns known publicly. All this led to Kroh and Beemer visiting the Milford school property last Tuesday with one Carl Smith, 70, a retired school superintendent from Leavenworth, Kansas, who is visiting in the area. They found the school in excellent condition, although, much like was expressed at the July 28 board meeting, it fell short of present-day building standards. Smith could quickly see the difficulties of operating two separate schools at Milford, divided by a busy highway, and one failing to meet current building standards as set by the state. (Editorial: There’s nothing wrong, with a corporation taxpayer raising concerns he might have with the operation and/or cost of the school corporation. More should be doing this.) KAREN RINGGENBERGER hasn’t lost a bit of her natural beauty. She’s now Karen Strueh of 7350 South 35th East, Lafayette, and she and her husband, Terry who is assistant to the dean of agriculture at Purdue, have two small children.

Karen is the daughter of Gene and Sally Ringgenberger of r 2 Pierceton, and was 1966 Kosciusko County Fair Queen. She showed up Saturday night at the fair queen contest as one of the several former queens marking the 25th anniversary of the fair queen contest. Karen teaches home ec at the McCutcheon High School, named after the famed Chicago Tribune cartoonest John T McCutcheon. WISH WE’D said it first: If more people had just bought more “Billy Beer.” Billy wouldn’t have needed the loan from Libya. “Billy Beer’’ was the only thing that got lower scores than Jimmy. That must be what they call a “beer bust.” WHEN STATE Sen. John B. Augsburger and Oweita Gardner were married on May 13 in the Indiana State Capital Building chapel at Indianapolis, they were told they were the first couple to be married there. Officiating at the ceremony was Appellate Court Judge U'illiatn Gerrard of Warsaw and Indianapolis. Judge Gerrard was former Milford town attorney. Sharon (Dew art) Keller, formerly of Milford, sang for the wedding. She is on Lt. Governor Orr’s election staff. The Augsburgers are making their home in the new South Shore Condominiums. —o— THE ARTICLE in this column a week ago concerning the November election of members to the Lakeland school board created a little stir of sorts. James Redslob of r 5 Syracuse, who has a precinct 1 Milford voting address, has expressed his interest in running for the board from district 3 (Van Buren Township and the east half of Jefferson Township). He would be opposing board president Billy G. Little. The Redslob family has lived in the Dewart Lake community for 4' 2 years and he is general manager of Meadow Acres Manufactured Housing. He is vice president of the school's booster club and has had an abiding interest in school matters on the elementary, junior high and high school levels. Jim and Kay have five children, from grades 5 to 12. HARRY VAN HEMERT, retired Turkey Creek Township Assessor and enjoying “the good life,” might be going a little too far. — . (Continued on page 5)