The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 40, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 October 1980 — Page 2

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., October 22,1980

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MUNICH’S RATHAUS — The Rathaus (town hall) on the Mariensplatz in central Munich is a place for people watching, and townspeople and tourists gather in huge numbers at 11 a m. each day to see the animated dancing in the huge Gothic tower.

j MAXIMILIAN I JOSEPH I • first King of Bavaria k ■ 1806 1828 j LUDWIG I King of Bavaria ’ . ’B2B 1848 LUHPOLD j. MAXIMILIAN II OTTO Prinzregent ot Baviaria King ot Bavaria K '"9 9™ Ce 1886—1912 | 1848 — 1864 1832—1862 LUDWIG 11. OTTO I King ot Bavaria King of Bavaria 1864 1886 1886—1913 lasting o?Baliana Mad King Ludwig 11, the fellow 1913-1918 who built the castles in the T medieval style. The true story of his death will unfold in five years.

KINGLY LINEAGE — This genealogical chart shows the dependency from Maximilian I. Joseph, who was named to the Bavarian throne by Napoleon Bonaparte of France, to "Mad” King Ludwig, the castle builder.

Germany — (Continued from page 1) The town square drew a big crowd every hour on the hour when the “mayor” came out of the Rathaus (town hall) bell tower to swig his tankard of beer. In another window opening a burgher looked on. All this relates to a tale set in the 17th Century, as follows: The story of the “Meistertrunk” happened during the Thirty Years’ War: In 1631 the Imperialist General Tilly had at last succeeded in taking the town in spite of its valiant defense. So he gave orders to plunder and destroy the town and to execute the councillors. The next day the cellarman offered Tilly a 3‘/4 litres bumper of heavy franconian wine as a welcomedrink. Tilly promised mercy to the town if one of the councillors managed to drink the wine in one mighty draught. Mayor Nusch actually emptied the bumper in ten minutes and thus saved the town from being destroyed. Then he slept three days and nights and died 37 years later, at the age of 80. When we finally reached Heidelberg, the famous German university city, we were at the north-most point in our seven-day German trip. Scholars from all over the world flock to study in the halls of Heidelberg University where professors conduct their classes in German but speak with fluency in a number of languages. What intrigued us w*as a visit to a castle, located across the Neckar River from the main section of the city, which was the seat of the prince-electors of the Palatinate (13th-17th centuries). Most of the castle stands in ruins, but it provides a historic vantage point from which to overlook the graceful city. We alighted from our coach to spend the early part of the afternoon touring the central city of Heidelberg on foot. The Hauptstrasse (Main Street) was about two miles long with shops on either side (no cars, please), with no curbs and people teeming from shop window to shop window.

We spent the night at Wurzburg, and this city has itsk distinctive European charm, but we were a tired lot, not much inclined for an evening stroll of points of interest. (Note: Herman said, “I've had it for one day!") Our tour missed Oberammergau, but ~dftl visit tiny, colorful Berchtesgaden in the Obersalzberg area. High on a mountain near Berchtesgaden is where Hitler had his “Eagle's Nest;” other high-ranking Nazis had elegant homes in the area. We didn’t visit the Eagle’s Nest, but took a winding road which Hitler had built through a dense forest to go to the underground bunker, composed of some 350 rooms. Our group went down some 400-odd steps, and back, which left several with severe claustrophobia and others with utter fatigue. While most of the rooms were sealed off, we did get the “feel” of underground living as most of the Nazi big-wigs had to put up with at the close of the war, in this area known at the time as The National Redoubt. We even saw the cage where Hitler kept his faithful German police dog, Biondi. On To Munich Our seven-day trip into Bavaria was so structured that we would spend two days in Munich (Munchen, with an umlaut (two dots) above the letter “u”), the capital of Bavaria. We could not have spent it better. We were up at the Platzl Hotel, easy walking distance from the Marienplatz, the town square in front of the Rathaus (town hall). We found the rooms less than adequate, but we were comfortable under the heavy downy “comforters.” Fact is, they could be uncomfortably hot at times. These comforters are covers filled with feathers or down and retain body heat, actually much warmer than electric mattresses. They aren’t heavy, but it would have been nice if we had a sheet with them, so when it was unduly warm we could at least have something to cover us with. Our rooms at the Platzl were below “standard,” as we had come to know standard. For Herman and Dorothy toilet facilities were down the hall,

Marjorie and Earl’s and our room, small to be sure, had no tub or shower. Such were many of the rooms furnished on the tour, and yet at times we had excellent rooms. It’s easy tu think of Bavaria in terms of medieval towns, old steepled castles, bearded peasants with quaint little hats with feathers, dressed in lederhosen and yodeling from mountain tops. But Bavaria is one of West Germany’s fastest-growing industrial regions, making 90 per cent of the country ’s ceramic and glass products, 40 per cent of the semi-conductors, 50 per cent of the aerospace manufacturing capacity; It is a major base for motor-vehicle production, and employs more than a fourth of all the people working in the electrical engineering industry. To quote an article in British Airways magazine High Life, “Mad King Ludwig (ID wouldn’t know the place.” Three-quarters of Munich was destroyed in W'orld War 11, and while there is still evidence of war damage, most of the buildings were skillfully restored. We had a well-informed tour guide who spoke fluent English and Spanish on our city tour, and we visited first the Schleissheim Palace, with its spacious interior and rolling gardens, one of the largest Baroque edifices in Europe. The guide traced Munich’s history briefly from Maxmilian I. Joseph (1806-1828) appointed to the throne by Napoleon to date. The town is studded with landmarks, buildings and monuments, broad streets (as well as mercifully narrow ones), so many points that such a quick tour is hard to assimilate. We were taken past the Olympic grounds, site of the 1960 Olympic Games, shown the 950ft. Television Tower and the unusual glass roof so constructed to give television cameras a natural light advantage, and past the huge apartment buildings built just for the Games. Little was said of the tragic and useless murder of Israli athletes by PLO terrorists during those Olymnpic games. Our bus hurried back to the Marienplatz, to be on time for the special event each day at 11 a.m. When the giant clock chimes in the ornate Gothic Cathedral in the town square, dancing lifesized figures come out to dance to a soft tune. Hundreds of tourists and townsfolks jammed the platz for this event each day. Cameras were heard clicking all around us. We viewed it all in a slight rain. Munich has an Old World charm all its own. In order to insure that this not be changed, there was a broad movement in the city against having the 1976 Olympics there. They argued it would change the city from “old” to “modern,” and in a sense this is a correct assessment. Visit Oktoberfest While we were in Munich the world reknown Oktoberfest was being held. Actually, it started the last Saturday in September — the day a group of Neo-Nazis exploded a bomb there, killing 13 and wounding some 156. The following day it was closed to visitors, but the next day, when it reopened, one would never know

there was a bomb scare. There’s nothing like a Munich Oktoberfest — whether you’re a beer drinker or not. We two went to the grounds, which amounted to something like a state fairgrounds, via the city’s new subway, built especially for the Olympics. Entry to the grounds was free, a fact that drew a milling crowd of young and old. There were six major beer halls on the grounds, and many smaller ones, but the big ones would seat some 5,000 beer drinkers each. No chance to order a selected beer — just a huge litre (nearly a quart), served by buxom maidens dressed in Bavarian attire. We visited each beer hall but were unable to get a seat. It was something to see these “maidschen” carrying five or six tankers full of beer in each hand, forcing their way through the dense crowd. Watching the festive Germans sing to the tune of a large German ump-pa-pah band, and at the end of the song hoisting their beer into the air was a sight to delight most any visitor. All the attempts we made to get a seat were met with a fingerpointing “Nein.” noting that the tables were reserved. We milled around the grounds where eating stands served all kinds of food and soft drinks. We were told one beergarden, the Hirschgarten, seats 7,000 and serves 18,000 litres of beer in a single evening. A good opportunity for People Watching, we thought. Not far from our Munich Hotel, the Platzl, was the famous Hofbrahaus, where Hitler was reported to have gained his first attention with his harrangues to a drunken mob. We looked in but didn’t stay. King Ludwig’s Castles King Ludwig II of Bavaria, also called the “Mad King,” built three castles during his lifetime, 1864-1886, and we visited two of them. We missed the Herrenschiemsee, modeled after Versailles and erected on an island in the middle of the Chiemsee, but we did visit the inordinately beautiful Linderhof Castle near Oberammergau, where the Passion Play is held each 10 years, and the Neuschwanstein Castle, built in the style of a Knight’s Castle of the Middle Ages. Both were incredibly beautiful and ornate, with gold and mirrors everywhere one looked. When an attempt was made to throw the 41-year-old king out, he and his physician and personal confidant were found dead in a pool hear the castle. Archives to be opened in five years should disclose whether they drowned or were murdered. If you’ve seen the castle at Disney World near Orlando, Fla., you’ll know how the Neuschwanstein Castle near Fussen looks. These castles have been prime tourist attractions, and at today’s prices, they should be drawing amply from the pockets of the likes of us to replenish the state coffers. We had three different bus drivers on this 17-day trip, all Italian: Franco across the Switzerland lowlands, Salvatori into Germany, and Bruno through the Alps. They were all very able, but Franco sang along

with Italian opera songs over the bus loudspeaker system; Salvatori didn’t speak any English, but we had a feeling he understood us fairly well; and Bruno, he was the patient one, with the difficult, hair-pin turns in the Alps to keep his mind on his business. All were of great assistance to each of us. Salvatori, poor soul, was arrested shortly after we crossed into Germany for passing a truck on what amounted to a no-passing zone — no yellow line or anything like that. The two young German police were handsome, nice — but unforgiving. Salvatori paid the fine, then we all chipped in a mark and a half to bail him out. He blushed, was very grateful. Another time, when we left the German border for Austria, we were stopped for well over an hour, and the bus disc which records miles driven in Germany and at what speed had been tampered with, so said the two Gestapo-like officers at the border. Salvatori pleaded innocent, but they insisted on a 1,000-franc fine. This amounted to $625. They didn’t have it, so after all this dickering which seemed interminable, they settled for a lesser figure. Our guide, pretty little Cristina (we called her “Crissy”) Natori. said she had the feeling the German police didn’t like Italian tour drivers. Then To Austria Austria was also on our trip, to include the old cities of Salzburg and Innsbruck. Salzburg (salt town) has salt deposits in its environs, thus the name. It is also the home of the youthful composer Wolfgang Mozart of the last century, and no stop here would be complete without visiting the fourth floor apartment where the young musical genius was born and grew up. As early as five he played before the crowned heads of Europe. It was here that Arch got lost from our group. He was engrossed with a group of Russians in another room, waiting for our group to return; instead the group went down a back stairs. And so it was back to the Fitter Hotel on his own in a strange and unfamiliar city. The palaces, monuments, bridges, squares and gardens have caused Salzburg to be named the “Rome of the North. ” Our city guide told us about the peaceful state of affairs in Austria: “While the world is in turmoil,’’ he said, “Austria remains at peace with all countries of the world. ’’ Innsbruck. Too The second and last major city in peaceful Austria was to be Innsbruck, site of the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games. We came down on the romantic old city of Innsbruck from a highway through the surrounding mountains and got an excellent overview of the city that has attracted winter sports for years. The charm of Innsbruck cannot be overstated. Following an excellent dinner in an old hotel where Goethe, the famous German poet, once dined, we went to a typical Tyrolean show with only five in the cast. It was a show of yodeling. typical German songs, leg slapping, sole slapping, all to a fast beat. Finally, the national songs of a number of countries were sung, and representatives of , each nation usually stood and hoisted their glass. Our small group did the U.S.A, proud. En route back to the hotel we six walked the winding streets, and along the way stopped at one of their typical portable eat stands for a delicious hot dog. In the morning before leaving Innsbruck, we toured the city and had the sites pointed out to us We were impressed by the Maria-Theresien-Strasse in the Old Quarter, which like many German cities, converts into a pedestrial area at mid-morning. And so it was that we wrapped up our seven-day excursion into Bavaria and Austria and headed back to Zurich for the last four days of our 17-day odyssey. We loved Germany and wondered what a pity it was that we were hostile foes during World War 11. Jailed for break-in at shopping center Authorities arrested Lowell D. Deßossett, 15, r 1 box 120, North Webster, on Friday, Oct. 10, in connection with a Mid-Lakes Shopping Center break-in. North Webster police and Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department officers answered a call at 8:35 p.m. that a break-in was occurring at Howe’s Antiques, at the southwest end of North Webster. When police arrived, the store door was open with the burglary occurring from a roof area entry. Taken from the store and adjoining Army Surplus store were a pistol, blanks, two machetes, bayonet, knife and green flight jacket. A pair of blue jeans were left by the back door. A North Webster policeman found the boy walking near the store on SR 13 at approximately 10:15 p.m. wearing a flight jsckct. Deßossett also had the pistol and blanks in his possession. He confessed to the burglary on Sunday, Oct. 12. All the stolen items are believed recovered. The machetes, bayonet and knife were left by the store.

WPOA — (Continued from page 1) Bishop said Mrs Dust indicated that citizen input was desired, both from seasonal and permanent residents. “We’re all for the “911” idea,” Spurgeon said “But there are just so many services provided here that could never be provided for us by a Warsaw dispatcher that we plan to resist routing our “911” calls anywhere but here. And current telephone technology is developing to the point that if this is not possible now, it soon will be.” The WPOA noted that there would be some cost savings if the local dispatching office were closed, “But we really doubt that the savings in dollars would be significant when weighed against the myriad of services that the local dispatchers perform.” Spurgeon said. “To them, Syracuse and Turkey Creek Township have top priority, and they also handle calls from Milford and work with Tippecanoe Township and North Webster. Warsaw can’t assign us top priority, and shouldn’t. We’d just have to take our place in line at busy times.” Resolution The full text of the WPOA’s resolution on the central dispatching issue follows, as passed September 20 at a meeting of the board of directors. Board members are Bishop, Helen K. Alfrey, H. Don Carl, Robert Jones, Jack DeHaven. John Brewer, Richard Ruddell, Charles Walker, Jr., David Grandstaff, Richard Henderson and David Eckrich. The resolution: “The Wawasee Property Owners Association opposes any plan or proposal now or in the immediate future which would result in the shutting down of the emergency police fire first aid dispatching center now operated at the Syracuse* Fire Station by Turkey Creek Township and the Town of Syracuse. “We do support modernization and upgrading of such center, and we do support the concept of the “911” emergency telephone number by which local emergency calls could be routed to this dispatching center. “But we do not think it is in the best interest of the SyracuseWawasee and Turkey Creek Township communities to transfer all dispatching services from here to a central dispatching facility in Warsaw, now or in the future. “We believe this for a number of reasons: “ — Considering the total appraised valuation of property in Syracuse and Turkey Creek Township, the cost to residents and taxpayers of maintaining a dispatching office here is minimal. “ — Despite claims of electronic aids and training sessions for dispatchers who would be located nearly 25 miles from our community, we do not think that such a system can replace local knowledge of the community that is now available in our own dispatching center. “ — A number of calls made to police, fire an.± ambulance agencies are not full-blown emergencies. Persons call to seek information about their local government, for assistance in locating individuals or places, to report limbs down, lost dogs and missing car keys, and for many other reasons. A local dispatcher can handle numerous calls like these. A central county emergency dispatcher could not — and should not. “ — There is no way a Warsaw dispatcher can know if Syracuse firemen or EMS crews are responding to a tone-actuated alarm — or have even received the alarm, for that matter — until they go ‘on the air.’ Currently, in the event f alarm or alert malfunction, the operator is immediately aware. And alarms and alerts, no matter how sophisticated, do malfunction. The only recourse a Warsaw dispatcher would have if Syracuse did not respond within a reasonable time (one minute? five minutes?) would be to dispatch fire or ambulance equipment from North Webster or Milford, and write off Syracuse for that particular occasion. Firemen know how minutes count, and this would be exposure to unnecessary risk for local taxpayers and embarrassment for local firemen, who might find Milford firemen being sent to a major Wawasee blaze before Syracuse firemen were even aware of it! “ — The Syracuse emergency dispatching center monitors Citizens Band Channel 9 for emergency traffic from vehicles and boats. Many emergencies from farms, Highways 6, 13 and 15 and the lakes are reported in this manner. Vehicle, farm and boat CB mobile units do not have adequate power to be picked up in Warsaw, some 20 miles away, so this service would be lost forever unless some other nearer CB operator happened to be monitoring channel 9 and could relay the traffic. “ — A number of citizens in need of assistance actually go to the Syracuse fire station in person. The dispatcher can then obtain the degree of assistance that is necessary. Persons seeking such assistance are often in various states of nervous

distress. To drive to the fire station and find it closed and locked with only a telephone outside would be subjecting such individuate to additional stress; they might attempt to drive to Goshen to the hospital and have an accident en route, for example And, should they opt to use the telephone (presuming it is operable) to call the Warsaw center for assistance, it would then result in the Warsaw center not being able to appraise the extent of help that is needed, meaning that full fire and ambulance crews will be called out when perhaps one first-aid corps man would be able to handle the problem “(It should be noted that the Syracuse dispatching center involves three counties, in that Syracuse telephone subscribers to the north, in Jackson and Benton Townships of Elkhart County, also depend on it for emergency assistance, and Cromwell telephone subscribers in the eastern part of Turkey Creek Township of Kosciusko County are served by the Syracuse EMS and jointly by the Syracuse and Cromwell fire departments.) “The basic concept of “911” is that in major cities, it makes every pay telephone a police callbox or a firm alarm box; anyone can call “911” without using a coin to actuate the phone. There are fewer than 10 outdoor pay phones in Turkey Creek Township; most of these are inoperable due to vandalism at one time or another. We doubt that many emergency calls are made from coin telephones in this area, but we do not dispute the usefulness of “911” number being easy to remember and dial from any phone. We would propose that its use for emergency calls to the local center be explored, and that if it is not deemed worthwhile to pursue, that a rotary dialing regular emergency number with at least 3 lines be installed at the local center, to replace the three non-rotary lines now in operation there.” Halloween — (Continued from page 1) A Masquerade contest will be held by grade categories and there will be, pre-school and kindergarten; first and second grades; third, fourth and fifth grades; and sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Prizes for each of the four masquerade contest categories will be given. A large prize will be awarded for the best contestant in the Masquerade contest. The Lakeland Kiwanis Committee members in charge of these North Webster Halloween festivities are General chairman John Harwood; George Lung, judges; Jim Salisbury, refreshments; Richard Long, facilities; Robert Merchant, public relations; and others assisting the general chairman are Steve Jordan, Howard McCain, Luther Allen, Roger Miller, Dave Stookey, George Switzer. Jack Maule, Jerry Badskey and Phil Mock. Anyone desiring further information on the Halloween Party and parade should contact Chairman Harwood, North Webster. Resolve — (Continued from page 1) one inside the park be capped or cut off. He stated this is too small of a hydrant and could not be used by the fire department. However Duggins stated the water department uses the small hydrant, to flush out the water in that area. Johnson stated as far as he was concerned the other hydrant, which is near the roadway, is on public property and was put in during the annexation of that area. As for Turtle Bay being charged with these hydrants, it was a mistake by the town on the invoice and will be corrected. Town limit signs will be placed in Lingofelter Park by the street department in the near future. Both Hess and Duggins went out to that area and looked for likely places to place the signs. Reed suggested if there is no room on the north side of the road going into Lingofelter Park, near Oakwood, the sign could be placed on the south side of the road if there’s a place available. During the last regular meeting the board’s attention was brought to the alley by the old Ford garage which runs from the access road to CR 30E. Several residents in that area requested it be reopened. The board decided to let the alley go as it is since it has been that way for a number of years and many residents have used it as part of their yard. New Business Darrell’s PDQ Serivce requested to be paid for the month of October nine days early, on October 22. The board approved the early payinent since it would not by any problem to the staff. Several letters were received by Carl Myrick, town board president. One letter was from REMC stating the exchange of service in the Wawawee Heights area in electricity. This area will be taken over by Northern Indiana Public Service Company. A letter was received from NIPSCo

quoting prices on street lights in Lingofelter Park. They stated there should be four lights placed in the park at a cost of $344.66 per year for all four lights with no installation fee. Myrick suggested this not be taken as a project until 1981 since the town is over drawn on its electric budget already and will have to be finding money to pay the rest of the year’s bills. McGrew suggested the town look into federal funds which are available for hydroelectric generating power. He add'xi this may be feasible for the town since there used to be a plant in town. Another letter was received from the Wabash Valley District Solid Waste Company which includes Kosciusko County. The letter informed the board that Charles H. Purdum Jr., is a representative for Koscisuko County and the town will be kept informed of what is happening. Milford Town Board members invited the Syracuse board to. attend a dinner at Harper’s Beach Bar on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 6:30 p.m. Senator John B Augsburger will speak. Department Reports Johnson requested the purchase of new protective clothing totaling $840.60. Included in the request were three new fire coats at $486; two dozen fire gloves, $98.80; two pair fire boots, $157 80; and one case of fuses. S9B. The board approved this request, providing money is available. It was also suggested the fire department get togehter with the police department in ordering the fuses. Robert Houser, police cheif, stated that officer Dan Gallmeier wanted the board’s permission to attend a homicide and suicide school if the money was available. The cost would be $283, plus motel and food. A recommendation was asked by the board of Houser, who stated he couldn’t see any advantage of * sending an officer to a school of this type becausae of the fact there have been no homicides in this area and only one suicide in the last five years. The request was denied. Houser asked for darkroom equipment which totaled $1,200, including supplies. The department has $542.60 of the total amount from thp special accident report fund and a donation by Mrs. Emma Rock. The balance of the request needed is $657.40. This request was tabled until next month. Kip Schumm, park president, reported on the park clean-up Saturday and what was accomplished and added the board will be assisting the merchants in Moonlight Madness, Thursday and have been asked to help in coordinating activities for the Winter Carnival. The next regular board meeting will be November 18, at 7:30 p.m at the town hall. Syracuse police report Syracuse Police Chief Robert E. Houser submitted his report of September police activities to the Syracuse Town Board Tuesday s evening, Oct. 21. The Syracuse Police Department answered 111 calls, drove 4,669 miles, rendered 34 courtesy calls, assisted two ambulance calls and made 12 title checks. The department received three public accident reports which included three property damages involving five vehicles and amounting to $1,200 damage. One personal injury involving one vehicle and amounting to $4,500 damage occurred. Syracuse police received 10 theft reports amounting to $2,315 loss and $315 was recovered. Four vandalism reports amounting to S6B loss, three missing person reports, 30 miscellaneous complaints and 10 dog complaints were received. Five dogs were impounded. Arrests made by Syracuse police officers involved eight felonies and one misdemeanor. Two warnings and two parking citations in no parking zones were issued. Syracuse regular police officers worked seven and one-half hours overtime and spend two hours in school. Reserve officers worked 40 hours overtime and spend 83 hours in service training. Minor accident as driver starts car in Milford There was minor damage in a two-car mishap, Monday, Oct. 20, at 1:40 p.m. in Milford. The accident occurred on Main Street in front of the former Newman’s Barber Shop. PreciUano Barrera, 43, Milford, was driving north on Main Street when his auto was struck by the auto driven by Charles D. McKibben, 36, Milford, owned by Robert Brooks, Milford. Town Marshal David Hobbs reported McKibben, who was parked, had the auto in reverse, was starting the auto, forgot to put in the clutch, and the vehicle jerked backwards into Barrera’s auto. Damage was estimated at S4OO to Barrera’s auto with paint damage to the back of Brook’s auto.