The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 20, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 June 1981 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., June 3,1981

Editorials

Mosquito time With the coming of summer and the heavy rains of the past month the problem of mosquitos in the area promises to be a big one this summer. Fogging helps some, however, it is - expensive and many cities and towns, including Milford, have been advised by the Indiana State Board of Health against using this means because of the cost and the fact it is ineffective for the most part. The best method of controlling the pesty insects is to eliminate the breeding sites This takes work on the part of all citizens of the greater Lakeland community. . , Standing water should be removed, garbage should be taken care of in the proper manner and grass and weeds should be kept mowed and trimmed. If we all do our part, the song of the mosquito won’t be quite as loud this summer as it will be if we allow water to stand, do not dispose of garbage properly or do not keep the weeds and grass mowed. Watch out for kids on bikes The injuries to Brad Traviolia, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Traviolia of Syracuse, on brings to light the need for motorists to keep an extra eye out for youngsters as school is out for the summer and more and more children are on the roads walking and with their bicycles. Brad was lucky in the fact that he is still alive. He was however, taken to the Goshen Hospital where he is being treated for his injuries. Itliehoves us all to watch for all bicyclers, young and old alike, as the energy crunch has many adults walking and oh bicycles too. Parents, warn your children to obey4he rules of the road when they are riding bikes. Adults, remember those rules when you are on your bikes. Drivers, be constantly alert. ~ we don’t want to have to send another reporter to another bicycle-vehicle accident this summer. Where was the band? Although the Syracuse Memorial Day parade was praised overall, viewers question why the Syracuse Junior High School band did not participate. At least one resident was heard to comment on the fact the school should show support to the town. We would have to agree, the band should have participated in the parade and would urge school officials to consider this next year. June, 1981 - A ship at sea — and a bride in June — Ivy and bittersweet in Fall — But the bride is the loveliest of all — Anne Mary Lawler June brings as to the half-way point of 1981. By the end of the month, a fiscal year will have been completed. June brings with it summer (the 21st), commencements, weddings, school vacations and beautiful weather. It is, perhaps, the most welcome of all the months. The days are longer than during any other month of the year. The Allies landed in France on June 6,1944, in World War 11, the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. June is not a month of birthday anniversaries for famous Americans, but it contains patriotic days. The anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, fought on June 17.1775, is observed in Boston. The United States Government came into being in the month of June. 1788, _ when New Hampshire ratified the Constitution, the last article of which provided that, upon ratification by nine states, the Constitution would be activated. Father's Day also falls in June (the 21st) as does the birthday of the first and only president of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis, on the 3rd. Your dog In most communities there are many who feel their dogs should “run free.” But in more and more communities pet owners are now being required to keep pets at home or on a leash. This is the inevitable solution. No owner has the right to allow a pet to roam freely over others' property or frighten young and old. or at times attack them. Contentment is a matter of reducing your wants and desires. What others say — Art and apple-pie socialism President Reagan s proposal to reduce planned increases in federal spending for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities has provoked a loud chorus of boos from the artistic community Many artists fear that following these cuts the impressive public support for the arts in recent years will disappear as quickly as a one-night stand. We disagree. To draw a parallel, it seems to us this is a perfect example of how you can be in favor of institutions like motherhood and church; however, just because they might be threatened does not mean you have to save them by allowing Uncle Sam to become a mother and a preacher. By continually subsidizing one group of activities in our society (in this case, the arts >. simply because certain individuals consider them essential to society as a whole, we are institutionalizing a kind of apple-pie socialism. Several times in recent years different franchises in the National Football League, the National Basketball association and the National Hockey League have run into financial difficulties. But does that mean we should subsidize professional football, basketball and hockey? And once we do that, what’s next? The point is we live in a market system and there is absolutely no justification for the federal government getting involved, except to provide seed money as a means of generating enough additional voluntary support to keep these activities self-sustaining. For example, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has used a $2 million grant to launch a capital drive which has raised $21.5 million.. We believe there are four steps that could, and should, be taken to strengthen the viability of the arts while reducing federal subsidies. One. let’s stop throwing money away on utterly silly projects, such as taking pictures to capture the artistic effect of colored toilet paper thrown out of airplanes. Two, we must increase the market revenue of projects currently being or scheduled to be funded. Every small businessman in America understands that market promotion is one of his first responsibilities? Three, at the same time, we must reduce wasteful costs and expenditures of funded projects by careful budgeting of fees to actors, actresses and muscicians. Finally, we must all help promote increased voluntary funding of the arts, which is in the best American tradition. Americans are the most charitable ' people on earth, and the President himself pointed out that we have supported with voluntary contributions “more musical groups, more orchestras, more ballet, more opera, more non-profit theater, more cultural institutions like libraries than all the rest of the world put together. ” Certainly this is a far more preferable way to go than having government arbitrarily subsidize this or that group with involuntary contributions extracted through the tex system. Art for art’s sake, yes; art as a form of apple-pie socialism, no — FAIRBURY BLADE (Illinois)

'■ 7 • ms Standing water and weeds like those above should be cleaned up to rid the area of places for mosquitos to breed! Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area ... QUESTION: “How would you handle the Social Security problem facing America today?"

KERMIT TRASSLER Warsaw (security guard) “’ haven’t given it very much thought. I didn’t retire till 1 was 67 and I 'm glad I was able to work that long. 1 think you should work as long as you have the health I would consider giving benefits at 62 in cases of emergency. Cut out all these ones that are trying all these tricks to get social security when they’re not entitled to it

BRENDA BEAM Milford (sewer)

“What’s fair depends on the person’s income and how much they’re use to making. Certain people need more than other people."

HAZEL GASKILL North Webster I (clerk)

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I think it could be revised, but not to the point it would hurt the retired people ”

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J AMY REED Syracuse (student)

*‘l would feel those who have paid in so much, to let them have it when they retire, but I d phase it out slowly.” DALE KIRKDOFFER Milford "I’d use some of the money that Reagan has cut from the other programs to fund the Social Security system * Court news COUNTY COURT The following residents of Kosciusko County have had fines assessed and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, James Jarrette, judge: Speeding — Stanley Custer. 54, Milford, $35; Steven S. Hoopingarner. 22, Syracuse. S4O Expired registration — Gary W. Howard, 24, Milford, $35 Operating while intoxicated (property damage accident* — Rick S. Sands, 25, Leesburg, $298 phis driver’s license suspended for six months. Indiana State Farm suspended No opera tor’s license — Juliana M. Hartman, 28, Syracuse, $59 Disregarding step sign — Kenny Barron, 27, Leesburg, $37 Na registration plate — Michael C. Gibson, 29, North Webster, $35

BENITO CRUZ Milford < I niroyal)

"I don’t see any problem with social security." MARY PERRY Milford (homemaker) "I’d just try to find a better way so that senior citizens have a little more to live off of than they do now They deserve more.”

LINDA CROW Syracuse (store owner)

“I don’t know how to handle it. First of all you have to get rid of the weight put on businesses. That causes a big problem and makes it rough on the business people along with pension plans It would be a very good idea for the government workers to paysocial security taxes on their wages and enforce laws better on who receives it and who doesn't. ” NORMAN “STRING” OVERHOLSER Dewart Lake (car reconditioner) “I have no idea I don’t think we should take the money away from the children if something happens to their parents We’ve been putting money into it for years they should have something to take care of themselves if something happens to their parents ”

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“I really don't know. I have a long way to go. I hope. I feel its too bad if they have to cut Social Security, but something has to be done.” THE MAIL JOURNAL (U S P S 325 W) Published by The Mail Journal every Wednesday end entered as Second Claw matter at the Post Ottxe at Syracuse. Indiana MM2 Second class postage paid at I*3 E. Main Street Syracuse. Indiana MM2 and at additional entry offices Subscription. *ll per year in Kosciusko County; *l4outside county. POSTMASTERS Send change of address forms to The Mail Journal. P.O. Boa IM. Milford. Indiana MM2

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JUST TO let people know there WILL BE a Mermaid Ball this year, in connection with the Mermaid Festival at North Webster. This word from Suzanne Shock, Festival Publicity Chairman. North Webster police chief Chuck Parker and his wife. Suianne, will be general chairmen of the event, to be held at Camelot Hall on Saturday, June 13, from 9 p.m. on. They have booked a Syracuse band called “Timepiece,” which they bill as “really sensational." They play everything from the Big Band sounds to tunes from the 40s and late hits. Tickets are on sale at T-G Music in uptown Syracuse and from North Webster Lions Club members. THE FESTIVAL will get a real boost at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. June 10, when Alice Rinker, a real Festival booster, will appear on Bill Darwin’s talk show on Channel 28. Elkhart. She’ll talk about the history of the Festival, and bring in such names as H. K. Larson, John Herrmann, Homer Shoop and others who nursed the mid-west's biggest show of its kind through its lean years. This year’s Festival has been stepped up a week — to June 13-' 20 — as they had to fit it in to suit the itinerary of the folks from Key City Shows. MARY SWAGER worked her last day Friday at the Pickwick Insurance Agency, now Pickwick Insurance Agency, Inc. She plans to work out of her home on r 1 (Yom well to continue to sell insurance, she commented as she gathered up her personal belongings to end a long career as an uptown insurance representative. Mary worked for 13 years as clerk and agent at First Charter Insurance Co. and a year and a half with Pickwick Insurance Agency, located in Pickwick Place. • Her husband Bob, a traffic safety engineer with the State Highway Department, investigating fatal accidents, has a year to go before retirement. The Trautmans and Boergers became new members of The Mail-Journal’s happy family of subscribers last week. (Just had to get that in.) They got acquainted with The M-J through its boxholder Early Bird edition, commented they “liked the paper better than their home town (Fort Wayne) paper.” Another new subscriber last week was Verda Clausman, and we seriously considered questioning her age when she applied for ' a senior citizen discount! —o— 1 LEONARD AND Shirley Greer showed up Friday morning at their regular coffee haunt in uptown Syracuse, with Lennysurprising compatriots with his new professor-like beard and mustache. i The Greers were in from their Fort Myers, Fla., home, and will be here briefly before departing for Santa Monica, Calif., where Lenny will complete a course in gemology at the Gemological Institute of America, there When they resided near Syracuse full time, the Greers were big in gemstones, rings, belt buckles, things like that. They made the trip from Florida in their big Airstream unit and will take it to California. THE WORD is out that the Syracuse Park Board could use rakes, hoes, push (power) mower, things like that, to maintain the town's city parks. Urging public participation in the program that promises to bring beauty on a more permanent basis to our parks are Alan Kitsou aad Kip Schumm, president and vice president, respectively, of the park board. A number of area youth will be working on the parks under the Youth Summer Educational Program, with instructor Dick Wysong, and they’ll be needing the equipment. Kip Schumm 1 says the youth will be taught to maintain the city parks and maintain the equipment, to give town fathers a more thorough knowledge of what is actually needed in terms of equipment and manpower to keep the parks — one of the community’s big assets — in apple pie order.

And. so. if anyone has the above-mentioned equipment, call Alan or Kip — don’t call this column! BUSINESSES AND organizations in the lakes area are getting the pitch from J. Thomas Lalley and James E. A. Dobbin in an effort to raise funds for the new 27.000 sq. ft. addition to the Goshen General Hospital. They have an effective slide presentation they show at the hint of a contributor. The hospital hopes to raise 93,819,000 for the addition now underway, of which >2,000.000 will come from a 15-year bond issue. 9819,000 from accrued hospital savings. Their campaign is to raise 91,000,000. They claim of the 16,175 patients at the hospital during the last two years, 1,476 (9.1%) came from Syracuse, and 304 (1.9%) from Milford, combined 1,780 (11%) from the two towns. INSTRUCTORS OF this year’s classes at Smith-Walbridge Camp, on Bonar Lake, are “warming up” in the early summer's sun waiting for students to arrive. Owner Merl Smith says early registration indicates enrollment will be down several hundred this year, no doubt reflecting the economy of the day. At that, they expect foreign students from Ireland, Norway 9 and Denmark. Son Gary, assistant director of bands at Illinois U., will serve at the camp following a two-week stint as drum major instructor at Santa Barbara. Calif., and a week at Bowling Green, Ky., and another son. Greg, drum major at Illinois U. for the past two years, will also take his turn at the camp. SYRACUSE FIRE Chief Ken Johnson is hobbling around with the aid of a cane. The reason why, he’s not telling, other than to state. “I've got a bum right , knee.” THE QUESTION is being asked. “Why don’t area farmers take it upon themselves to mow the weeds along the county and state highways’*” Apparently the state and county highway departments do not have sufficient funds to continue its weed cutting program, and farmers feel like it is not their responsibility. On Monday an additional twocent gas tax went into effect in Indiana, and maybe, just maybe, this will raise enough funds for the weed cutting program to continue. It’s a fact, some of the highway right-of-ways are looking real shaggy. \ 1 SYRACUSE/ KAY HARE, hostess at the South Shore Sunday brunch, turned up with a large lapel button — I (Heart) Syracuse — on her tunic. She wouldn’t tell where she got it, but wouldn't this be an excellent idea for the Chamber of Commerce to promote’ WORK WAS being done at Syracuse Lakeside (City) Park by several members of the Syracuse Park Board and others. On Saturday, for instance, they worked from 6:30 a.m. on setting a number of utility poles along the opposite side of the beach, to control parking more readily. They were set five feet apart, according to Alan Kitson, board president, and Kip Schumm. t vice president, and heavy cable betwixt the polls, allowing for two entrances to the parking area. Others who turned in a day’s work included Steve Knispel, operating Clair Mohler’s post hole digger. Harold Kline, Fred Avery and Dave Baumgartner. MOSCILINE DEATON was pleasantly surprised Sunday e when well wishers arrived at her home south of Syracuse to help observe her 80th birthday. Speaking to the charming Mrs. Deaton, one can easily see she is 80 years young — certainly not 80 years old! She and her constant companion. Edith Watkins, are

"regulars” at Jack Oswald’s Three Flags, and Mrs. Deaton is constantly hounding Jack with, “Why don’t you make zucchini ice cream for a change?" Well, Jack did, and brought Mrs. Deaton some •at her birthday party Sunday. STANLEY NICE of Warsaw, who is chairman of the Kosciusko County Democratic Central Committee and currently mobile office director for Congressman Floyd J. Fithian, might be looking 'for another job in the ' near future. Cong. Fithian, now in his fourth term, had his Second District carved up by the Republicancontrolled state legislature recently. He has been a thorn in the GOP side, having taken the so-called safe GOP district which Charlie Halleck held for 35 years and turned it into a district of his own. Democrats like Fithian, and so do a lot of Republicans, for it was Republicans who helped give him the office in 1974 when he took it from Earl Landgrebe, who said on the Barbara Walters network television show, when she pointed ' out certain things about then President Richard Nixon, "Don’t confuse me with the facts.” Anyway, in the new redistricting, the northern half of Kosciusko County, including Warsaw, will be in the Third District, now held by 28-year-old Republican John Hiler. The southern portion of the county, including Prairie, Etna, Harrison, Seward and Franklin I Townships, will be in the Second District, now held by Republican Elwood (“Bud”) Hillis. Fithian’s home township — Tippecanoe — will be in the Seventh District now held by Republican John Myers. All this notwithstanding, our prediction is: Don’t count Floyd Fithian out. He may turn up as a candidate for governor, and the way things are going with the Orr administration right now, he might just win that office, too. HILARY BACHMAN is owed a thank-you for his letter to the Mail-Journal telling the history of the area now known as Railroad Park. Certainly, as the Park Board seems to feel. Railroad Park is not a very glamorous name: it brings to mind thoughts of a place where one might be sent to jail without a trial, or where one might expect to see historic transportation equipment on display. r ' The fact remains, however, that it was through the cooperation of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, tnd especially its local representative. Ernest O. Buchholz, that we have a park there at all. It was obtained at a bargain price and has been a useful park area. ~ Why not name the park after some local figure? Crosson Park, where the Scout Cabin and dam are located, is named for one of the town founders. For starters let me suggest Buchholz Park, to honor not only Ernest O. Buchholz, who served as town clerk-treasurer longer than anyone (the 1930 s until his death in 1961) but to honor his father, H. W. Buchholz, who held town office in the early 1900 s. The Buchholz family came , here in the 1890 s from Hoytville, Ohio, when H. W. Buchholz was named B&O agent here Under his supervision the current B&O station facility was designed, constructed and opened for use in 1916, to serve thousands of people who used B&O trains to and from here He helped put Syracuse on the map during his tenure as B&O-agfitrff which lasted until his retirement in 1937. Ernest Buchholz, born in 1899, worked for the B&O all his adult life, serving as a pinch-hitter railroad agent all along the Chicago Division from South Chicago to Garrett. He helped guide the town of » Syracuse through some trying times: the modernization of the fire department in the late 19405, the first major water works expansion at about the same time, the second major sewer project in the late 19505, the B rebuilding of the tire department in the early 19605. He was an , immensely knowledgeable and helpful man. a kind person who always had time to pass the time day and a humanitarian who helped kids and adults alike if there were an indication of real need. H. W. Buchholz died in 1952; Ernest, nine yean later. It would seem that sufficient time has passed to view their contributions to the community in penpective, and honor them in some suitable way.