The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 40, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 October 1980 — Page 1

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VOLUME 17

Syracuse retail merchants catch Moonlight Madness

The Syracuse merchants will hold their first Halloween Moonlight Madness Thursday, Oct. 23, from 6 to 10 p.m. The merchants will also sponsor a Decorate a Pumpkin Contest with cash prizes for all ages. Most retail stores will close from 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday so merchants can get into their Halloween costumes in

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SCAREY-LOOKING MERCHANTS — Shoppers will encounter a lot of scarey-looking merchants t during Syracuse Halloween Moonlight Madness. Thursday. Oct. 23, from 6to 10 p.m. Merchants and sales clerks will be dressed in Halloween costumes and will sponsor a pumpkin decorating contest with cash prizes. Pictured above at The Country Mouse are "Raisen Man” Sherry Hoover of My Store and "Who Knows What It Is” Jeanne Gardiner of the State Bank of Syracuse. (Photo by Terri Chilcote)

Webster plans big Halloween party

A Halloween Party and Parade for the North Webster area sponsored tjy the Kiwanis Club of Lakeland has been scheduled for Thursday evening Oct. 30. The festivities will start with the judging of participants in Augs bur ger’s parking lot. Judging will start promptly at 6 p.m. and the parade will follow. In case of bad weather there will be no parade and the judging will take place in the North Webster School Gymnasium

GERAAANY — Second in a series

Bavaria, Germany, proves to be more than a sea of beer

By DELLA AND ARCH BAUMGARTNER

To spend seven days around Zurich, Switzerland, as originally planned, seemed like an awfully long time. The city was strange territory to our party of six; certainly there was something else we could do with this time.

Our Danzas guide, Elena Zwahlen, who had seen us across the lowlands of Switzerland, suggested we might want to use this time to tour Bavaria, in southern Germany. “It’s delightful this time of year,” she encouraged. We considered all the possibilities of “doing it on our own,” the renting of a van for six plus luggage, and it seemed more than we were up to. We already had one experience of toting our own luggage in Geneva when we found a “five minute walk” to be more like 30 minutes, and we didn’t want this

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preparation for Moonlight Madness. Many merchants will serve Halloween refreshments to shoppers. Syracuse Park Board members dressed as “good witches” and “bad witches” will rove throughout the stores handing out treats. In keeping with the spirit of Moonlight Madness, merchants

where the rest of the activities of the party are to be held. A parent or guardian should accompany each child participating in the Halloween Party and parade. Participants are to bring or wear tennis shoes for taking part in festivities on the gymnasium floor. Contests for the Halloween Party have been arranged as follows: Halloween Picture Contest will be held for Kindergarten and first

again. And then there were the tombuses that do it all for you, plus make housing and dinner arrangements — plus Fruhstuck (breakfast). This Fruhstuck is something, sometimes called a Continental Breakfast — coffee or tea, hard rolls, and butter most of the time. And so it was that we boarded another Danzas bus —a $300,000 Mercedes-Benz, ideally equipped to handle tour groups comfortably — at 8 a.m. in front of the Zurich Hotel for our sevenday trip northward. Anyone who hasn’t been in

f will not reveal what their special sales will be before 6 p.m. on Thursday. Shoppers will have to go into the stores to find out what’s on sale. Young and old alike can put their imaginations to the test by entering the Decorate a Pumpkin Contest. Persons wishing to enter the contest should take their decorated pumpkins to The

grade. Children are to furnish crayons and paper will be provided by sponsor. Prices will be given for each category, first through third place. A Jack-O-Lantern contest for grades two through five will be held. Contestants are to bring a clean uncarved pumpkin and sponsors will furnish the knives for the carving. Prizes for each of the four grade levels will be given in cash. (Continued on page 2)

Bavaria could not possibly understand the indescribably beautiful countryside that marks this quaint part of the world that blends the medieval with the modern. The first part of the day we went through the fabled Black Forest (Schwartzwald) with its dense trees, most of them towering pines that shoot up straight as can be for a hundred feet and over. This must be where utility poles come from, we thought. On To Fre.jurg Our stop the first night was at Freiburg, the old university city whose Albert Ludwigs University dates back some five hundred years. We arrived in mid-afternoon and were quick to strike out on our own to visit places of interest. We “bit the bullet” and rode in a two-seated cable car to “Castle Hill” (Schlossberg in the colorful

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Country Mouse, My Store or The Stout Boutique, where they will be displayed, before 4 p.m. on the day of Moonlight Madness. The Syracuse Park Board’s “good and bad witches” will judge the pumpkin contest with the winning pumpkins being displays .in the windows of The State Bank of Syracuse. There will be two divisions in

Masked gunman makes off with $ 950 in cash

An armed masked thief took off with $950 in cash after robbing Carma J. Schrock, 32, r 4 Syracuse, Monday afternoon. Oct. 20, at her home. The thief remains at large. Authorities say the suspect, described as five feet, 10 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds.

WPOA for 911, against closing down area dispatcher

Opposition to any plan or proposal “now or in the future” that would close down the Syracuse Turkey Creek firepolice dispatching office has been reco r ded by the board of directors of the Wawasee Property Owners Association. The organization has some 600 members around and adjacent to Wawasee. ’ . The president of the organization, Wiley (Bill) Surgeon, Jr., says the organization is reacting to a

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REBUILD CROSSINGS IN MILFORD — Conrail is rebuilding the first four crossings in Milford and completed the crossing on Fourth Street this morning (Wednesday). The crossing on Catherine Street will be completed by Friday according to Conrail officials. The next crossing to be fixed is on the Syracuse-Milford Road. It will be completed by next week. Conrail is placing new ties and raising the crossing along with smoothing the crossing. Shown above. Conrail workers are putting new ties in the Fourth Street Crossing. (Photo by Deb Fox) 6

brochure). a real thrill. Dorothy and Marjorie declined the pleasure with a firm “thanks but no thanks,” Brother-in-law Earl was in the car just behind us, hanging on to his strap for dear life, riding high above terra firma. He confessed to a teethchattering ride up, and made the ride down with equal trepidation. At the top of the hill was a restaurant where burghers were having their afternoon “cake and coffee.” This area provided an equally good perspective for a look at the red-roofed buildings that seemed to surround Munster, the centuries-old cathedral. There was already good evidence that Herman was getting his fill of cathedrals (“they all look alike,” he said), and he didn’t make this part of the tour with us. Outside the ornate cathedral was Munsterplatz, where

the contest — adults and youngsters. In the adult division, a SSO cash prize will be awarded to the Best of Show. A $25 gift certificate will be given to the adult showing the Most Imagination and $lO cash prizes will be awarded for the Happiest and Scariest pumpkins. In the children’s division. Best of Show will receive S2O with the

waited in the woods behind Schrock’s house until she left the home and then walked to the car parked in the driveway, taking the money from the woman. He is reported as having a nickle plated automatic and wearing a ski mask, black gloves, blue jeans and blue jacket. Schrock had an estimated

proposal, now under study, that all emergency calls be routed into, and all emergency equipment (police, fire, ambulance) be dispatched by a central office in “;e new Kosciusko County Jail at Warsaw. He said the WPOA in no way opposes the establishment of the “911” emergency telephone number concept here or anywhere in the county. That would be part of a proposal currently being studied by county officials along with the central

hundreds of people milled around. Little “eat stands” were pulled into the area where one could get a hot dog and saurkraut or other like items to eat. (Note: Those German people are great on hot dogs or brautwurst and sauerkraut.) Rothenburg ob der Tauber Rothenberg, on the Tauber River, figured next in our itinerary. It is the best known city on the so-called Romantic Road, so named because of its lovely, well-preserved medieval towns, many of which have survived much as they appeared in the Middle Ages. It has been described as being “like a stage set from Wagner’s Meistersinger”, surrounded by thirteenth century fortress walls and watchtowers It is a 'photographer’s delight, with narrow cobbled streets, historical inns, gabled patrician houses, wrought-iron lanterns

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Most Imagination receiving sls. The Happiest pumpkin will win $lO and the creator of the Scariest will receive $5. The merchants will hold a costume contest among themselves at Das Keller after the stores close at 10 p.m The park board will serve as judges and award prizes.

$1,300 in her possesion and was on the way to the bank. The money was receipts from the Syracuse Eagles Lodge. The thief left approximately $350 in checks. Syracuse Police officers, along with Kosicusko County Sheriff’s department and Indiana State Police are continuing their investigation.

dispatching concept Harry Bishop, a member of the WPOA bo? rd, has discussed the matter with Turkey Creek Township Trustee Betty L. Dust. Bishop said he stated the WPOA’s concerns over the future of the local dispatching office to her, and pointed out that the association believed the local office was vital to this community and that “911” calls from this area should be routed here rather than to Warsaw. (Continued on page 2)

and signs and graceful fountains. Practically the entire town is classified as a national monument. The east chancel of the old St.-Jakobs-Kirche (church) was built in 1311, with additions being made down through the centuries. The Twelve Apostles Altar, built in 1446, is considered the finest high altar in Germany, and the wood carvings are enough to attract visitors from all parts of the world. It was well worth the mark and a half to tour this marvelous church. We then decided to negotiate the 200-odd steps to take us up into the town’s tallest tower. The last few steps were narrow, oneway, ladder-type steps. The whole trip upward was not for the faint-hearted, but it provided a magnificent view of this old walled city. (Continued on page 2)

Trick or Treat hours set in Lakeland towns « Halloween is Friday, Oct. 31, and little goblins will be haunting the streets looking for treats In North Webster, trick or treat hours are from 7 to 9 p m. on Halloween night. Syracuse’s trick or treat hours will be 6 to 9 p.m. on October 31 Milford trick-or-treaters will be out from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Halloween. In Leesburg, youngsters may trick or treat on Halloween from 6 to 9 p.m.

Resolve Syracuse tap-on, fee problem

By DEB FOX The Syracuse Town Board agreed to let the nine property owners in Kitson Park pay the town the tap-on fee for their water and sewer hook-up and then let Richard Ness file a claim with the town to receive his share of the money. This action was taken during the regular board meeting Tuesday evening. Ness installed the sewer and water lines in Kitson Park and put in all the taps, at a cost less than the town could do. He stated at the last regular meeting. September 16. he wanted to know if he could take the expense off the tap-in fees and pay the balance to the town. The SI,OOO tap on fee charged town residents goes to help pay the sewer capital investment as well as some of the cost of actually making the tap and materials. Robert Reed, town attorney, checked with Herschal Umbaugh, consultanton the water and sewer rates, who recommended two ways which these property owners could pay the town without changing the present ordinance. The first way. which was highly suggested by Umbaugh. was for the residents to pay the fees and then Ness file a claim to get his money back The other way would be for the clerk to set up her books with the balance owed the town would only be paid and the rest would be a credit. The balance owed the town is S7OO on the sewer and $l4B on the water, out of $1,300 tap-on fees for both. Ness stated he likes Umbaugh s suggestion and would be assured of getting his money back. A copy of the mintues of last night’s meeting will be sent to Ness to show the residents of Kitson Park. Trick Or Treat Night Set The board set aside Friday. Oct. 31, from 6-9 p.m. as trick or treat night in the town of

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KING LUDWIG’S DREAM — The unfinished castle at Neuschwanstein looks like something straight out of Disney World in Florida. It is certainly the most photographed castle in Germany. He built two others. (See details in story)

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Syracuse. Residents in the town are asked to take their children out on this night only for trick or treating inside the city limits. In other board business. William Hess asked if an ordinance could be written, or something done, about people dumping their trash near the disposal plant. He added the street and water department, along with the police department, has been working to keep that area cleaned up and has put up a chain,’closing the drive back to the disposal plant. He also asked if the only way someone could get in that area, after hours, is by receiving permission from superintendent Vai Duggins and then allow only burnable things to betaken in. Hess also stated he would like something done about the semis parked at Crosson Park, taking up towm parking and park parking. Reed will be drawing up an ordinance prohibiting trucks over one ton parking in any city parks. Dave McGrew suggested the sweeper be “fired up" and clean up the sand on Huntington Street which the state dumped in when patching the road. He added he will be calling the state and see who’s responsibility it was for fixing the railroad tracks correctly. Duggins replied that the sweeper could not be used in cleaning up the sand and it would have to be done by hand. . Business continued from last month was discussed. The sewer line at the Mary Ringler residence. Boston Street, has been dug up and there is nothing wrong with the tow n’s part of the line During the September meeting Mrs. Ringler complained about the sewer backing up in her basement. Kenny Johnson, fire chief, has checked the two fire hydrants in Turtle Bay and recommended the (Continued on page 2)