The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 March 1981 — Page 4
THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., March 25,1981
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Editorials
'Congratulations Elmer' We feel the people of the Milford community made a right choice when they named Elmer Hartterthe 1981 “Citizen of the Year.’’ He joins a list of well-known residents of the community who have been so honored over the past several years. Elmer Hartter is a minister of the Apostolic Christian Church and the church’s deacon. He was a Sunday school teacher prior to becoming minister 30 years ago. He worked at the Ford garage for 46 years and has served the community as a town board member, fireman, library board member and represented Van Buren Township on the Kosciusko Community Hospital board. We add our congratulations to those already extended to Hartter on his being named 1981“ Citizen of the Year." Spring, 1981 By the calendar, spring came a day earlier than usual this year, arriving about noon (eastern standard time) March 20. It will last until June 21, when summer begins at 6:45 a.m. EST. The seasons varv greatly in a country as large as the United States. In the northernmost states’March is still, for the most part, a winter month. In the southern belt, spring becomes evident several weeks prior to March 20 In Florida, the orange trees have bloomed. In Minnesota, it will be April before many blossoms aA? seen. Nevertheless, there must be some standard measurement and by the calendar March 20 is the start of the season many think the most beautiful of the four. 4 Spring surely has an eternal meaning - the beginning of a life cycle. But it is a treacherous time for the elderly and frail — March claims more deaths than most months, because of widely changing weather and an accumulated physical toll taken bv the winter months. Spring is a time for pretty flowers, pretty girls in spring dresses, schooltime “spring fever” and dreams and plans of summer vacations and holidays. It’s also time for an annual house cleaning, painting, landscaping and repairing. Taxes and marriages ' For many years now. tax experts have pointed out to Congress the unfairness of present-day laws which penalize married couples when both hold jobs. It’s estimated that a couple earning $40,000. with both partners working, pays as much as $1,600 more in federal income taxes, compared to two individuals living apart or together, unmarried. Despite the fact that this inequity has been repeatedly pointed out, little has been done about it and today there are lawyers and tax experts making a living advising couples to live together unmarried or to get a divorce and continue to live together The 97th Congress should address and solve the problem of this tax inequity. The federal government should not be in a position of encouraging couples to live together.unmarried, thus discouraging marriage. The same condition in European countries has resultedin widespread disenchantment with marriage, and the same thing is happening in this country, though on a lesser scale as yet. Bills have again been introduced in the Senate "nd House this year to eliminate this injustice —by Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Md) in the upper body and Rep. Milicent Fenwick (R-NJ) in the lower body, The Reagan Administration has promised that its second tax proposal — its first was a tax cut — will deal with the problem One way or the other, the problem should be solved, and solved in the 97th Congress. Charles and Diana Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, has picked a bride after more than a decade of speculation She meets all the right standards — from an aristocratic familv. Protestant and well connected She is also distantly related to the late Winston Churchill, who was half American and she is not one of the idle rich. Diana Spencer is a kindergarten teacher, thirteen years younger, at 19. than her prospective husband. Considerable irtterest in Prince Charles’ life is natural in this former English colonv. although a majority of the population has long since become non-English. And there is still some interest and admiration in the royal family as an institution While we Americans could never accept a royal family, nor the class system as it still exists in England, there is something to be said for it in this age. when young citizens must look up to some example in setting their goals and standards. In dress, moral standards, manners and conduct, royal families like that m England often achieve something positive in their countries, and also act as a cohesive force in a society today torn with hardship, competition, worry and crime. And then all this is storybook stuff - picked by a future king to be a princess, and then queen... ett Forms, Forms! Congressman Skip Bafalis (R-Fla.) says one big reason Americans have seen productivity decline is the excess of federal forms everyone is filling in these days. Bafalis says it’s estimated that each year 1.276 billion man-hours are needed to fill in all these federal forms. U.S. business and industry would produce more, at less cost, if some of this paper work were eliminated, obviously. That’s why the Reagan Administration is going to war against excessive regulations and federal paper work And the agencies who are the biggest offenders are the Internal Revenue Sendee. Department of Transportation and Department of Agriculture. Most Americans would be delighted if the war began with the IRS. and if simpler tax forms resulted.
What others say — . The smart label Look inside your shirt collar. The label is likely to read “Tailored in Taiwan" or in some other exotic place where cheap labor abounds. Now, do you remember the screams for protection that came from American textile manufacturers when the influx of foreign clothes began? Well the American textile industry today is a good example of why protectionism doesn’t pay, of why free trade can benefit all concerned. American textile makers are producing profits —overseas. Sure, American textile firms are not making shirts or dresses. They have lost their business to such places as Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong. But that very foreign competition forced American manufacturers to modernize and produce textiles that could compete. And the American forte, reports the Christian Science Monitor, is sheets, towels, carpets and unfinished fabrics such as Denim. America is the world's premier producer of such products. Where would the American manufacturers be if everyone — including America - continually closed out foreign industry surely would be the worse for wear. — THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
Bl 9 II / Milford's 1981 '‘Citizen of the Year” Elmer Hartter with his wife, Flossie.
Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the peoole of the Lakeland area ...
QUESTION: . ’ “Who is the most important person in your life? Why?"
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TWILA COX Lake Wawasee (salesperson)
"My entire family. I couldn't single one out. There’s three of them How can you put value on your family” My whole being is around them.” CLEM LISOR Syracuse (store owner) “My wife. I think that because she is my motivation.” A CAROLINE STUMP Milford (homemaker) “My family." ERICA LOZANO Milford (five vears old) “My mom.”
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EVELYN STRICKLIN Milford (nine vears old) J "Jesus ”
Court news
COINTYCOURT Violations The following residents of Kosciusko County have had fines assessed and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court. James Jarrette, judge: Speeding — Rick Bowling. North Webster. $35. John Hayes. 17, Leesburg. $35; Billie Sullivan. 22. Leesburg. $35 Expired registration plate — Jeffrey Hamman. 28. Leesburg. $35 The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko County Court, Richard Sand, judge: Comptaint Beechwood Lumber Company. Inc vs S. J. and Company, 88 N. Shore Drive. Syracuse Plaintiff > seeks $3.288 38 owed on a delinquent account for materials purchased November 6.1979. Two arrested for stealing gas Two men were arrested at 4:10 a m Tuesday for stealing gasoline from tractors at Sharp Hardware in Milford. Hobbs stated when he approached the men they took off on foot and he enlisted the help of Rich Mikel of the county sheriffs department and Steve Knispel of Syracuse in making the arrest. Booked at the county jail on a charge of theft, a class A misdemeanor, were James C. Haines, 18, Richmond and Normand Ratcliff, 20, Milton. Both were held on $1,500 bond. A total of five gallons of gas was siphoned from the tractors.
TOM VANMETER r 1 Larwill (draftsman) “Jesus Christ. He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings He's first and foremost.” MARISE SMITH Syracuse (store owner) “Well I suppose at this particular time it would be my husband, of course I have, three lovely children and 10 grandchildren who are important to me. I suppose because they ’re the ones who make your life completely full and happy."
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■r “My family, just because they 're my family." BONNIE NEWMAN Milford (homemaker) “My husband and my family next to God. Why? The answer is obvious.” PRICILLA MYERS Milford (retired) "Right now. the Lord and my family — my son. his wife and two granddaughters. They're very precious to me. ”
MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION The following couple has filed for dissolution of their marriage in Kosciusko County Circuit and Superior Courts: Martindale — Darlene Mar tindale vs William Cecil. Sj., r 1 box 191 North Webster The a couple was married August 8, 1958 and was separated March 11. 1981 Plaintiff seeks a dissolution, custody of and support for the one minor child, an equitable division of the property and costs M ARRIAGE LICENSES The fallowing couple has filed for marriage license in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jean Mess more: Stuckman-Kuffman Gary A. Stuckman. 25, r 2 Syracuse and Angela C. Kuffman, r 2 box 46 Syracuse
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WERE CONTINUING to hear comments about our Match the Lakeland Area Managers contest that made up our M-J centerfold last week. Comments ranged from “ingenious” to “who thought up that crazy idea?” We felt it fell somewhere between these extremes. We’ll chalk it up to the fact that we needed something to stimulate reader interest’during blustery, banal March: and it seems to have done that. The photos alone provided little or no clues to the people these babies turned out to be. My. how people do change! Knowing this in advance, we attempted to provide some clues in this column last week. While we thought the clues were limited, only teasers, one reader said, “You gave it all away by the obvious clues.” We hardly thought so. Anyway, were not providing any more clues. Tonight, Wednesday, March 25, is the deadline for entries to be turned in. Let us remind you again the winner (a drawing will be held in case of a tie) will receive a SSO gift certificate in any one of the par ticipating stores; second and third place winners will each receive a $25 gift certificate. And the one who wins the Cutest Baby Contest will receive a certificate for a dinner for two at a local restaurant So hurry. You have the rest of the day to enter your opinions Then, next week we’ll re-print the baby picture centerfold, along with recent photos of these entered. -0BARBARA STRICKLER. Girl Friday at Thornburg s has graduated from two crutches to one. in her convalescence from a broken hip sustained in a January 1980 fall on the ice near her Warner Road home She's back at her old stand, pushing cosmetics at Thornburg's. —o— A $20,000 remodeling job is underway at P.J.s Pizza in the Village by Paul and Jan Gilson, owners for the past two years. The Gilsons hail from the Findlay. 0.. area, and purchased the quick food outlet from George and Judy Keck. They’re putting on a new. steep gable roof, enlarging the seating capacity from about 30 to 50. and are considering a loft for added seating. They will be open this week end. then close until Thursday, April 23 Roach Bros. Construction is doing the work, and a neighbor. Gary Gerber, is helping. (Note: Mike Holman and Brendan Wall are on the roof in the accompanying photo.) -oHANDSOME JIM Thwaits graduated Saturday from the Palmer College of Chiropractic, at Davenport. lowa, and is scouting the area as a place to open his practice. He’s the son of Lawrence and Doris Thwaits and is married to the former Sally' Robinson of Goshen, in what is remembered as a “snow storm wedding.” -oTOWNSMAN .JACK Vanderford is telling this one around town on his good friend Bob Jones, claiming all the while that it is “absolutely true.” A wealthy gentleman with no apparent heirs was lying on his hospital bed, making plans to leave his considerable wealth to Purdue University. “After all. he reasoned, “they trained the astronauts, perpared deans to
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serve as secretary of agriculture, graduated engineers of note, and soon.” When Father Hesburg. head of Notre Dame, heard this, he sent Jones to see the dying man, to see if he couldn’t get some of that money for Notre Dame, Jones’s alma mater. “Why, boys and girls have to matriculate together at Purdue,’’ Jones said. “And what’s more, boys and girls use the same curriculum at Purdue.” Jones went on. “And as if that is not bad enough, they all have, to show their theses to the dean before they can graduate,” Jones put in as a clincher. “That so?” the dying man told Jones. “Well, if that’s the case. I think I’ll leave all my money to Notre Dame. ‘ Jones came away smiling; and Father Hesburg beamed. -oA reader points out that he thinks he knows why it has been so difficult to get the Huntington Street (Ind. 13) railroad crossing repaired satisfactorily If an account of last week's town board meeting is correct, the town and the Indiana Highway Commission have been dealing with the wrong railroad! At the meeting, the board was advised that the highway department was not satisfied with the crossing repair done last summer and would “take the matter up with Conrail. ” Conrail is a federallysubsidized railroad that took over the lines of the bankrupt Penn Central System in 1976. The trouble is. it doesn’t come through Syracuse The railroad running through Syracuse is the main Chicago to Pittsburgh line of the Baltimore and Ohio, until last year a whollyowned subsidiary of Chessie System (which also owned the Chesapeake and Ohio) and since then a part of CSX Corp., formed by the merger of Chessie with several other railroads in the southeast. ConfaH. which loses money at the rate of millions of dollars a day and is federally-subsidized, has nothing to do with Chessie or any of its subsidiaries, all of which are solvent (the parent firm pays dividends). Closest Conrail tracks — to Syracuse are a north-south line through New Paris and Milford and east-west lines through Ligonier and Goshen to the north of Pierceton and Warsaw to the south. Maybe if the town and the highway commission knocked on the right door, that crossing would get fixed a lot quicker. —o— EMPLOYMENT IN the Syracuse area remains strong, in spite of reports to the contrary. Evidence of this is the fact that Sea Nymph, a local boat builder with a national market and reputation, wants to start a second shift, needs at least six people, and is hard put to fill the positions. This, from Glinda Ousley, personnel manager. She said they need riveters and buckets at plant 4. the canoe plant, but that they want someone “who wants to work.” Mrs. Ousley said they are having problems finding qualified people, who are willing to work and will stay on the job for more than just a few days. -oA NUMBER of local basketball fans had occasion to speak to Bob Heady, coach of the Shenandoah team, at the state tourney at Indianapolis Saturday.
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He said his small school has less than 600 students. Heady’s son, Scott, just six feet tall, was easily the outstanding Shenandoah player, and made the allstate team. Those who knew Scott as a seventh grader when his dad coached at Wawasee recall him as showing signs at that age as having great possibilities on the basketball court. Shenandoah lost ot Vincennes in the second afternoon game, 5372, and Vincennes went on to win ova- a tired Anderson team in the evening, 54-52. to win the state crown. —o“IF IT weren’t so serious, it would be real funny.” commented one koffee klatch observer of the incident last week involving a local physician and an athletic administrator at the high school. The comment went on, “Boy, could Art Buchwald make a good column out of that one.” It ran something along the line that if the physician is reprimanded by the court and given a minimal $25 fine for his aggressiveness, he might justify his conduct by saying, “OK. ail right, but it was worth it.” Does it follow, then, that for $25 anyone could go to the school and indiscriminantly strike a teacher or school administrator? Could we have a week’s special, something like the specials the grocery stores offer each week — maybe to take a punch at two teachers for $37.50! Maybe some enterprising printer could make pads of gift cerificates, giving the coffee swiggers a real laugh, and a chance to offer the $37.50 special to their more aggressive friends to take their frustrations out on teachers, coaches, the works. 7 This thing could be real serious. Next thing they’H want to do is issue such a gift certificate to punch out our most obdurate newspaper editor. And we wouldn't want that, now. would we 0 — O'RETIRED JUDGE Arthur A. Osbourn. North Webster, commented about the Warsaw Tigers games. “Too bad those Tigers, after taking out my old high school Marion, couldn’t have won just two more. But. nicesesson!” —o— CHUCK AND Debby Baldwin, serving with the United World Mission, are now studying the French language in Peseux, Switzerland, through a private tutor until formal schooling begins April 23. The Syracuse couple recentlyexplained in a letter they were invited to play the card game “Uno” with the Juvet family in Peseux. The Juvets were introdcued to Uno by previous missionaries. The Juvets speak French and no English and the Baldwins speak English and no French. "Grocery shopping is an interesting experience Eating the groceries is an even better experience . . Swiss chocolate, Swiss cheese, Swiss bread and pastries...” they explained. -oNIPSCO RATE hike petitions will continue. The companyproposed a 13.3 per cent utility rate increase. Over 50.000 signatures were collected throughout Northern Indiana Public Sen ice Company counties as of Monday, March 23. People are also encouraged to write the Public Service Commission in addition to signing petitions around town. (Continued on page 5 k