The Mail-Journal, Volume 17, Number 41, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 October 1980 — Page 2

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., Octobe. 29,1980

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Swiss Alps — (Continued from page 1) trees! This is the home town of our tour guide, Crissy Notari, and the headquarters of Danzas, the tour agency with which we were riding. Crissy’s eyes lit up as her favorite city came into view. It was in Lugano that Switzerland’s inflation again came home to us. While Della was getting her hair washed and set in a smart little shop Arch opted to go next door to have his hair washed and cut. “How much?” we learned to ask some days ago. Whereupon the mustachioed young barber told us, “34 francs." It didn’t take long to find out on our pocket calculator that this was s2l American. “Too much," Arch told the idled barber and went next door to tell Della of such preposterous prices. The young lady doing Della’s hair said she had a “friend" just a few moments walk away who would be cheaper. She called, was told Arch could get right in. When the “how much” question was translated we found this to be $17.50. With only four days to go, why not wait until we were home for a haircut we thought more reasonably priced? Lugano has to rank high on our list of favorite cities. It’s located on beautiful Lake Lugano and is called “the garden city.” And no wonder. Lugano has small parks galore, and all of them bedecked with bright flowers. The city budget must be laced with funds for city beautification. Along the bay is a walk of at least a mile long — or more, with two rows of shade trees, all of equal height. The Swiss call it a “promenade,” and we found many people taking advantage of this delightful walk, many of them single people, men and women, late at night. Lugano is often called the Rio de Janeiro of Europe, with an Italian flavor. It has excellent restaurants, historic monuments that spout water, all types of sports, cable cars into the nearby hills, and a city public transportation system that is easy to figure out. Here again we found no ticket takers on the street cars, but woe unto him who rides without a ticket and is caught! On To Zermatt From Lugano we had a big day ahead of us, headed north until noon, then southwest until we came to Zermatt late in the afternoon. From Zermatt we were scheduled for a cable ride (which was later cancelled) to the foothills of the famous Matterhorn. Our ride northward was uneventful but for the scenic beauty The roads must be put down as ingenious - excellent fetes of engineering - and we

wished our friend Bob Brown had been along to see them. Bob knows more about road construction ..than anyone we_ know. We drove up the Leventine Valley to the summit of the St. Gotthard Pass (6,916 feet ele.) and proceeded over the Furka Pass (7.970 feet ele.), to the world-famous Rhone Glacier for a visit to the Ice Grottos. When we arrived at Furka Pass it was snowing beyond belief! We could hardly believe that just hours earlier we were in a tropical climate. We walked deep into the hollowed-out glacier, left it quickly for the warmth of our bus. and on to Zermatt. At Tasch we boarded a train for a mountain ride to Zermatt — some 30 minutes — the engine stopping to engage in a cog located between the rails for traction. It was a smooth ride, but one had the feeling of going up, up and away. Zermatt is world famous as a tourist attraction. There are no automobiles here, only oversized golf carts as service vehicles, and horse-drawn vehicles. Something like Vail, Colo. Zermatt is delightful with its chalet-type buildings. We stayed at the comfortable Derby Hotel, with its small rooms to be sure, and undersized bathtub, something of a laughing matter. We had more fun visiting the shops at Zermatt. We walked along the street (no sidewalks), saw a small Germanspeaking boy, all bundled up and sloshing along in the snow and water. We just had to take his picture. His mother was enchanted with our interest in her son. She told us she was Finnish, came to Zermatt some years ago to ski, met a German, married him and stayed. She said she loved Zermatt — and we could too, with not too much encouragement. All the buildings in Zermatt had the traditional window boxes with colorful flowers streaming down, and seeing the flowers bloom in the snow was a sight to behold! Our group was scheduled to take a three-quarter hour trip to Gomergrat, a thousand meters above Zermatt, at the foot of the Matterhorn, but due to the heavy snow it was cancelled. However, as we waited for our train back to Tasch to meet the tour bus, we could see the famous Matterhorn emerge from the cloud cover. It lasted only a short while, then disappeared again. (Note: The trip to the foot of the great Matterhorn reminded us of the time in February of 1978 we flew out of Kathmandu, Nepal, over the Himalayas and viewed the majestic Mt. Everest, at an elevation of 29.028 feet, the highest mountain in the world.)

When we left Zermatt the rest of the day was spent returning to Geneva, the city from which we began our 17-day trip It was an equally delightful ride, passing through Visa, Sierre, Sion, Martigny. Lausanne, and passing the shores of Lake Geneva (or Lac Leman, as the natives call it) to Geneva. For many miles before we arrived at Geneva we traveled in what was called the Rhone Valley, noted for its grape vineyards. There were literally miles of grapes planted from the roadside into the surrounding hills. No ground is lost. Many of the vineyards were covered with colored netting, and others with broad strips of colored ribbon, so as to prevent the birds from ravishing the grapes. We wondered: Who in all the world would pick these grapes, since migrant workers in Switzerland are unheard of. We were told the villagers turn out en masse at harvest time to harvest the grape crop. Switzerland does not manufacture sufficient wine for its own consumption, and has to import a considerable amount. This portion of our trip was back to the lowlands where the beautiful, flower-bedecked chalet homes were in evidence. We arrived at Geneva and Crissy had reservations at the Suisse Hotel for us. It was from this point that we returned home. Our plane took off at Geneva 45 minutes late due to what the Captain called “a computer mix-up,” and so we arrived late at Heathrow Airport in London. We missed our plane for Chicago in London, and following a hurryscurry trip around the airport with the aid of British Airways officials, we finally found ourselves aboard a flight to Toronto, Canada. At Toronto we had the same hassle to catch our plane to Chicago — and missed this flight, too! British Airways put us up at a Toronto hotel and we flew to Chicago the next morning, Saturday, Oct. 11, sans luggage. But the airlines are good about such things as that. Sunday noon our luggage was on our front porch at our Milford home. An Overview We always enjoy overseas trips — look forward to them, in fact — and are always glad to be home. That’s only natural. And this trip was no exception. What do we think of Switzerland? This is one everyone asks. Well, we liked it, found it colorful, clean, friendly — but expensive. The dollarfranc ration is $1 to 1.60 francs. Arch kept a hand calculator at the ready to compute prices in terms of hard-earned American dollars, and it proved handy to the point of saying “No” on more than one occasion. Switzerland does not have its

own gas or oil supply, but must import all such fuels. Public and private commercial buildings heat with oil principally, but the private homes heat in large measure with wood. Almost every chalet has a large woodpile nearby. The forests in Switzerland and Germany are clean, and the fallen timber is cleaned up on a controlled basis. Only such trees are as marked for cutting, or fallen trees or limbs so marked, can be cut up for firewood. Such a trip as we took gives one a good view of the people, but not of its industrial complex, for instance. The trip was far too short for any in depth interpretation of the country and its people. Since both our family heritages come from Switzerland, it was foreordained that we would like this delightful country. We also liked Germany and Austria. We found the three countries we visited friendly and clean. Some in our party said they found German salespersons “snappy.” We didn’t have that feeling at all. But one must remember it was the end of the tourist season, and, somewhat like the folks around home, we like to-see the tourists come, but it gets to weigh a little heavy toward the end of the season. As we left Switzerland, the kindest thing we could think of saying was their own “Auf Wiedersehn” — until we meet again! Election — (Continued from page 1) incumbent representative, facing Republican Ernest Niemeyer on Tuesday’s baUot. Fithian was bom in Nebraska and holds a PhD in American diplomatic history. He moved to a small farm near Lafayette in 1964 and serve on the staff of Purdue University until being elected to public office in 1974. Niemeyer is a graduate of Crown Point High School and has studied business law, business management and political Science at Indiana University Northwest and Purdue University in Hammond. Other Contests Few other contests appear on ballots being used in the Lakeland area. Incumbent Republican State Senator John B. Augsburger faces Democrat Gene Cogan in the race for the seat for the state senate from district 13. Incumbent Republican State Representative Thames L. Mauzy faces Democrat Kenneth Garrison. There are no Democrats on the county ballot, only Republicans. School Board Only one contest appears on the

a J 4 J wk w / |BBk ‘-fc 4 COORDINATOR — Hie Birch Bayh for Senator committee has announced the names of its county coordinators for Kosciusko County. They are Chuck Clover of 320 W. Main Street, Warsaw, shown above with Senator Bayh; and Pat Cooper of r 1 Warsaw.

Lakeland School Board Ballot. Candidates are Billy G. Little, James A. Redslob and Philip R. Payne. Little and Payne are incumbent board members. The contest looms between Little and Redslob, both seeking the one seat available for Van Buren and the east half of Jefferson Township. Payne has no competition. OK school — (Continued from page 1) making this a possibility for a storage area. The board discussed the price factor and talked about possibly cutting expenses in some area. Eight rooms in the junior high will be carpeted for acoustical reasons, with a price increase of SIO,OOO. All junior high rooms will also have television outlets, although the grade school additional classrooms will not. Two mechanical ladders will be present on the building for easier repairs, adding a total of SI,OOO to the building. “If we cut now, we re going to pay later,” commented Secretary Phil Payne. The board also decided to use the school name on an activities sign instead of on the building. The restroom and gym facilities will also be tiled, saving paint and labor expenses over the summer months between school years. Upon a guest’s suggestion, the gym will feature two jacks at the scorekeeper’s side to be used for an audio speaker system. Tied to the audio equipment will be an * additional jack, allowing a record player for such uses as the National Anthem. The board will pay $55,000 for the parking lot to be blacktopped instead of using stones. Brown explained to the group that SIB,OOO to $20,000 could be saved here with stones, but it would eventually cost more in the future. There will be no space for the track or football field. The school board is looking for additional land and believes there are several available options. Other matters on the agenda included an additional appropriation of money for the general fund. The general fund was approved, with $15,500 to administration; $12,000 to business; and $20,500 to central support services. The members also agreed on the transfer of funds. Money will be decreased from the certified salaries of the high school and summer school, attendance service and transfer tuition. An appropriation increase will be given to the school library certified and non-certified salaries, school library travel and superintendent and principal offices. The total appropriation transfer is $10,500. Transfers within the budget do not have to be advertised, and were not. G.E.D test diplomas were approved for two students following the recommendation by School Superintendent Don Arnold. The high school equivalency diplomas will be presented to Mitchell Allen Skinner of Cromwell and Sandra C. Koher of North Webster. The elevator installed at the high school this summer was the topic of discussion when Arnold reported that 10 students had used the facility. Two use the elevator because they are unable to use the stairs and eight because of personal accidents. The Future Farmers of America will attend the state soil judging contest Saturday, Nov. 1. Randy Warren made the official request to attend and accept responsibility for the students. Board member Carey requested that a follow-up on the event be presented to the board. A West Noble Study Council meeting will be held Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 p.m. It includes dinner and all school board members are invited. Bill Little and Marguarite Hoerr agreed they would definitely attend. Following the meeting, an executive sesison was held for school board members in regard to teacher negotiations Although school will be closed Veterans Day, November 11, the school board will still meet at 7 p.m. in the administration meeting.

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3 men seek school board seats

ByKIMHIEBER Three men are seeking positions on the Lakeland Community School Corporation’s board of trustees in next Tuesday’s election — Billy G. Little, James A. Redslob and Philip R. Payne. Oily two of the three will be elected, and their term of office will not begin until July of 1981. Philip R. Payne of Tippecanoe Township needs only one vote to retain his seat. The contest at the polls will be between incumbent board president Billy G. Little of Milford and James A. Redslob of Dewart Lake. Each seeks to represent district three — Van Buren and the east half of Jefferson Townships. Current board members besides Little and Payne are John Kroh of district two (Turkey Creek Township), David Carey of district one (Tippecanoe Township) and MargauriteHoerr of district three (Van Buren and the east half of Jefferson Townships). Rules governing the election of school board members state that each district must have one board member and no district may have more than two. Therefore with Mrs. Hoerr on the board only Little or Redslob may be seated. Carey and Payne give Tippecanoe Township two members Kroh is the lone member from Turkey Creek Township. BUI Little Bill Little, 53, will complete 11 years on the Lakeland School Board at his current term s completion. As the current senior member, he’s been president six years and vice president for one. “There are basically two large responsibilities for school board members. The important possessions are children and funds. The school board is responsible for safeguarding the expenditure of public funds and maintaining a positive atmosphere for children,” explained Bill Little. He continued to tell that in his opinion, the school board is responsible for policymaking and should not attempt to inject themselves into day to day school activities. The reasoning for this is why administrators are chosen with care, to make daily decisions. Little graduated from Milford High School in 1945 and received an accounting degree from Indiana University in 1949. Little served as Milford clerktreasurer for one four year term. His employement experience includes four and one half years working for the European Edition of Stars and Stripes in Darmstadt. Germany. He followed his career with four years as field auditor, accountant, accounting department head, fiscal director and eventually comptroller. He later was employed as an auditor for 34 years with Daniel Chiddister, CPA, Goshen. Little is a former partner with Ron S. Clark, Milford, in an insurance agency now incorporated as Little and Clark. He also has a personal public accounting office in Milford. His service record includes an active duty in the US Coast Guard Reserve and an Army Field Auditor, in the fifth Army, Chicago. Little is a member of the Syracuse Grace Lutheran Church, Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite, Eastern Star, Milford Lions, Indiana Association of Public Accountants and the Independent Insurance Agents Association. He and his wife Edith M. have three children. One child, William Ellis (“Mac”) Little is a seventh grader at Milford. Two daughters are married. “The hardest school board decision is how to regulate the expenditure of dollars. We’re facing a large outlay of money for either school remodeling or rebuilding. It’s a tough decision,” Little commented. He hopes to be a participant in the Milford Junior High decision. “I’d like to be a part of the number of things we’ve started. I see the junior high level as the most critical. The students at this age are becoming aware of the expanding problems. It’s difficult to generate enthusiasm. We have so many extremes. As a nation we have overemphasized selfesteem and independent judgment. Schools can be overstructured. We must find a happy medium. There’s too much apathy and we must find away to motivate more students.” Little said. “Our good school system did not happen overnight. I would like to continue with it because I’ve enjoyed the work and have built up a certain familiarity with the problems and solutions. We also have a son, and from a personal standpoint I have always believed that a person

JAMES A. REDSLOB |R ..jgrWk I

owes responsibility to the community and should give as much as a person can.” he concluded. Jim Redslob Jim Redslob. 40. is a Dewart Lake resident looking for a Lakeland School Board position for the first time. Although he has never served on a school board previously, Redslob believes that he has fresh ideas to offer. “Having five children in the Lakeland school system has raised a lot of questions and has forced me to look for some answers,” Redslob explained. “I’m a proud and very active father that coaches and manages a baseball and softball team. I’m not just a spectator, but a concerned parent in education. I’m a die-hard believer in an all around basic education.” He was born in Bordeaux, France, attending Central Dauphon High School in Harrisburg, Pa., and Tri-State College in Angola. Redslob is presently employed with Meadow Acres Manufactured Housing, Lite-Breeze Mobile Homes Division. Pierceton, as a general manager. Since he has resided in Indiana, he’s worked in the retail and wholesale manufacturing housing industry. He was once employed with Redman Homes as a manufacturer’s representative in Topeka. For seven years he worked as a General Motors supervisor in Dayton, Ohio. He is a member of the Syracuse Lakeside Chapel, President of the Milford Boosters Club and a board member representing eight Indiana counties in the Indiana Manufactured Housing Association. His service record includes being a private at the Fort Knox, Ky ~ Army Reserve. His wife’s name is Katja (“Kay”) and they have five children. Daughters Cyndi and Lisa Clever attend Wawasee High School. Tim Clever and Michelle Redslob are Milford Junior High students and Michael Redslob is a fifth grader at Milford elementary. “I would like to help guide some decisions pertaining to the future of all children in the school system. As an adult I’m willing to listen to people’s ideas before, during and after the board meetings which I would be a part of,” Redslob explained. “One of the largest school board responsibilities has to do with continuing basic education and having a greater value on it. If I was on the school board now. the teachers’ negotiations would be one of the hardest problems to deal with. There are so many

No federal mandate for central dispatch

There is no federal mandate that requires emergency services for a particular area to be dispatched from any designated centralized point. Nor, according to tl.e Wawasee Property Owners Association, is any such mandate planned. “We got interested in this facet of federal intervention when the ‘9ll’ emergency phone number concept was first suggested for the county earlier this year,” said W. W Spurgeon Jr., president of the association which represents some 600 permanent and seasonal homeowners on Wawasee. “It was being hinted that the local (Syracuse-Turkey Creek Township) fire and police dispatching operation would be required to shut doum if the county went to a county-w’ide 911 emergency number,” he said. “That just isn’t so. We checked with an official of the Indiana Chapter of the Associated Public Safety Communications Officers, Inc., (APSCO) and he replied that not only was there no such mandate, there was none in sight and that none would likely occur because it would cause chaos in police and fire safety dispatching systems that have already been developed.” As an example, Spurgeon said, the impracticality of such a mandate could be seen because it would require Elkhart emergency services to be dispatched from Goshen, or vice versa, or Elwood police and fire calls from Anderson. He said the APSCO source noted that communities and groups of communities all had special priorities and problems in police, fire and ambulance dispatching, and that each community needed to work on its own priorities.

“That’s why we feel strongly that police and fire dispatching and ambulance assignments for the Syracuse-Turkey Creek Township area need to be kept

PHILIP R. PAYNE

people involved with stakes in it,” he explained. Although he finds the board basically sound, he thinks that fresh ideas will make it better, with his main focus on a better education. “During that six-to-eight month time span before taking office I plan on spending that interim period watchdogging for my owm experience,” he tells. “Fresh ideas are definitely of the utmost importance for the future of the Lakeland school system. Are the parents of the Lakeland school district completely satisfied now?” He concluded, “I personally have never been impressed with the way the public is informed. I would like to see to it that they are more informed instead of more surprises.” Phil Payne Phil Payne, a 48-year-old North Webster resident, was born and raised in Kosciusko County and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester (Hannah Wiemer) Payne. He attended North Webster schools until joining the Marine Corps for three years. Payne has been engaged in the plumbing, heating and airconditioning business for 25 years with Metcalf and Payne of North Webster. He is currently a member of the North Webster United Methodist Church, North Webster Lions Club, North Webster American Legion. Masons and Scottish Rite. He is married to the former Evalee McKee and is the father of four children. His eldest son. Steve, is a college student, while daughter Susan attends Wawasee High School, with Sandy, an eighth grader in North Webster Junior High and Sharon a third grade North Webster Elementary student. “There are some very important dp«isions to be made within the next five years. With my past experience on the board, I believe that I can be helpful in making those decisions. One of our largest responsibilities is establishing corporation policy and watchdogging costs,” stated Payne. He finds it difficult for the school board to establish salaries and believes that there are a few areas that need improving. “I’m hoping to maintain the same level of progress that has been maintained since* this corporation was established. One of the problems I see for the future will be the increased cost to the corporation from supplies, to utilities, to labor costs,” concluded Payne.

right here,” Spurgeon said. “Only we can give our own community "and its citizens the response they need and deserve. We support the ‘9ll’ emergency number when telephone technology here will allbw it, but think it’s a ‘must’ that this community’s ‘9ll’ calls be answered here. And they can be.” Book discussed by Columbians The Columbian Reading Circle of Milford met Monday evening in Warsaw at the home of Kathryn Patterson. The program for the evening was a group discussion led by Mrs. Dean Cousins of the book “A Walk Across America” by Peter Jenkins. . . Jenkins gives an account of his walking trip from New York to Louisiana. With his own feelings echoing the dissolutionment of this whole generation, Peter Jenkins sets out with his dog, Cooper, to walk across America and find out what this country is really about. Along the way he learns timeless secrets of life from a hermit mountain man, caused a happy local stir by living with a black family in North Carolina, worked to his limits in southern mills, almost died on a mountain top and had more than a lifetime of experiences. Now alive as never before, 5,000 miles and 35 pairs of shoes later, his faith and pride in his country were restored. After the program there was a brief social period with refreshments being served by the hostess. The next meeting will be in the home of Mrs. Ted Tobin on November 10. Mrs. Charles Greene will have charge of the program.