The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 July 1981 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., July 22,1981

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Editorials

A good program We feel it is time to make note in our editorial columns the good job being done by the Youth Employment Training Program teenagers and instructors this summer. YETP is a cooperative government program operated through Wawasee High School. Vocational director Richard Wysong is spearheading the program for low-income 16-and 17-year-old youths. He is working with three teachers — Barbara Brouwer. Terri Stevens and David Baumgartner. The program is slated to end on July 31 with much being accomplished in the three Lakeland communities through the efforts of the YEPT youngsters. They have maintained parks, cleaned streets, mowed ditches, painted public buildings and helped with clerical work for the towns. The program has three objectives: 1) to provide opportunities to explore a » variety of occupations; 2) to provide students with desirable work habits and positive attitudes; and 3) to provide opportunities to make a successful transition from school to work. It would appear these objectives are being met. The program is not like so many others, as Wysong stated in an interview a few weeks ago, “The kids have to work. ’’ We know this to be true because we have seen them on the job. Sen. Lugar on independent newspapers Indiana’s Senator Richard G. Lugar is a man after our own heart. He has sponsored an Independent Local Newspaper Act in the U.S. Senate /that could insure the independence of the local press for some time to come. He writes, “Long a mainstay of the American free press, the independently-owned newspaper is fast approaching extinction, now numbering fjewer than 600 in the (nation.’’ He goes on: “Many independently?owned newspapers have been purchased by newspaper groups. The groups have become involved in bidding wars to buy these newspapers, often pushing up the price by a large amount. This has made it difficult for a newspaper to transfer ownership to a family successor because the InteFhal Revenue Service values a newspaper at the price a willing buyer would pay for it. “To cite a simple example, a family-owned newspaper earning SIOO,OOO a year easily might sell at 30 times the earning rate, or $3 million. At the present 50 per cent estate tax rate, the owner would be required to provide an heir with $1.5 million just to cover taxes. "A locally-owned press is an important source of creative thought in a community and plays a key role in making our democratic process work. While group ownership also has its benefits. I do not feel that the federal government’s tax policies should make independent ownership virtually impossible. “The Independent Local Newspaper Act would enable owners of independent newspapers to prepay thier estate taxes during their lives and thereby avoid the drastic sanctions of estate taxes on their heirs. The bill is expected to cost the Treasury very little revenue, and enjoys widespread, bi-partisan support. Neither the American Newspaper Publishers Association nor any of the major newspaper groups have opposed it.” x Summertime No other season quite matches summer, with its outdoor fun, vacation water sports, camping, travel, lazy days and exotic nights./ Blue skies and sunshine, of course, cheer up those who get away from big cities to enjoy them; outdoor living is also good for the soul, and health. . ' Many return from long vacation trips exhausted. Careful planning, taking into consideration the need to conserve gasoline and nerves, can make summertime. 1981, better than usual. What others say — National spirit rising Americans seem to feel better about themselves and their country but things are still a long way from perfect. That’s the result of a Washington think tank survey to test the “Gross National Spirit. ” Usually our experts use the gross national product statistics in evaluating the economy and now they have come up with the ‘spirit’ evaluation, which may mean abbot as much or as little as our other data. The “Gross National Spirit” index, developed by the American Enterprise Institute, increased from an eight-year low of 956 in 1980 to 1,275 in 1981, according to its principal developers, Ben Wattenberg and Everett C. Ladd. The index has a theoretical top score of 2,400, but has gone beyond even half that figure only three times since 1974. Wattenburg is co-editor of Public Opinion, a bimonthly magazine published by the institute, a private policy research organization regarded as moderately conservative. Ladd is director of the Roper Center, a public opinion polling organization. , They combined answers to six questions that have been asked by national polling organizations for years in computing this new index designed to assess the overall national spirit. Each question was worth 400 points. The index showed the gross national spirit at 1,026 in the Watergate year of 1974, rising steadily to 1,162 and 1,274 through the Gerald Ford presidency and peaking at 1,404 in the first year of Jimmy Carter’s White House tenure. From the 1977 high, it dropped to 1,188 in 1978,1,047 in 1979 and 956 in 1980. The increase to 1,275 this year is encouraging. We hope it goes higher in 1982. Wattenberg said at a recent news conference the figures showed Carter was right when he diagnosed a “malaise” in the nation as his presidency wound down. Candidate Reagan criticized Carter for the statement but Carter was right, although it wasn’t a tribute to his presidency. These are the six questions Wattenberg and Ladd think should be asked by polling organizations in determining the gross national spirit. • Taken altogether, how would you say things are these days, would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy or not too happy? • We are interested in how people are getting along financially these days. So far as you and your family are concerned, would you say that you are pretty well satisfied with your present financial situation, more or less satisfied or not satisfied at all? • How do you feel thii.gs are going in the country these days, very well, fairly well, pretty badly or very badly? • Do you have a lot of confidence, some confidence or no real confidence that in a few years from now our country will be strong and prosperous? • Now turning to business conditions in the county as a whole, do you think that during the next 12 months we’ll have good times financially or bad times or what? • Do you approve or disapprove of the way the president is handling his job? President Reagan asked a question at the end of the campaign debate with Jimmy Carter that may have helped win him the election. He asked Americans if they thought they were better off at that time than they were four years earlier when Mr. Carter took office. He said if they felt they were better off, they should vote for Carter; if not, they should vote for him (Reagan). Obviously the people must have decided they were worse off (based on the low gross national spirit rating) because they voted for Reagan in big numbers. Although all of us have our own opinions of polls, it seems fair to say that the gross national spirit rating may be more important than some of the other evaluations our experts come up with. It’s how you feel that really counts. — THE GOSHEN NEWS

K KF I' I^-—L__; -'fgKHHuL * -■ — _ ■ ■ • *•^2? *4 ■ Working together YETP employees help clean-up the Lakeland area. e Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area . . . QUESTION: “If you had the opportunity to talk with anyone in the past history, who? What would you talk about?

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“Abe Lincoln. I think I’d ask him how he would have let the blacks go. A lot of people just turned them lose. I wonder how he would have gone about it if he would have lived.”

TONI LOSER Gaston (housewife)

“Dolly MadjSon, I’d ask her about the way of life back then because she was different in her own than anyone else.” /

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MILDRED GARD Epworth Forest (retired)

“When you get to be my age, you wonder about your parents and how they grew up and lived ’

Court news

COUNTYCOURT The following residents of Kosciusko County have had fines assessed and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, James Jarrette, judge: Violations Speeding — Delores Campbell, 43, Leesburg. $42; Lloyd E Stouder. 24, Leesburg, $42

Quayle names state director

WASHINGTON - US. Senator Dan Quayle has announced the appointment of Ronald L. Breymier of Indianapolis to be the state director for Quayle’s Indiana offices. Quayle, in making the announcement. said that Breymier “has over eight years experience in state government and has an academic background in public administration. He brings to the job a broad knowledge of the State as well as strong legislative and constituent services experience." Breymier is currently majority staff director for the Indiana House of Representatives. He has also served as director of the House Communications Division, and director of Constituent Services. As Quayle’s state director, Breymier will be responsible for overseeing the operations of all five state offices, as well as for representing the Senator at meetings which Quayle may be unable to attend. Breymier, 29, was born in Portland and attended Portland Senior High School. He graduated

RUTH OVERMYER North Webster (homemaker)

BETH BURKE Syracuse (cashier)

“I would want £o talk to President Franklin Roosevelt and ask him if he really died of an overdose.” STELLA DELCAMP Nappanee “I’d like to talk to my grandfather. He was bom in Ireland and he died when I was about three months old. I’d like to hear his Irish brogue DEB WEISE New Paris “It would be neat to talk to Daniel Boone. I’m related to him on my father's side. I’d talk about his adventures and hardships and tell him about our times now."

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"I’d like to talk to Noah and ask him what it was like all those months on the ark ’

Operating while intoxicated, property damage accident — Larry Hartman, 38, Leesburg. $250 plus driver’s license restricted for one year Rider on gunwale — Rich Diester. 17, Syracuse. $35 Disregarding automatic signal — Larry Hartman. 38, Leesburg, dismissed

Cum Laude from Ball State University with a bachelor of science in social studies and political science. He received a master’s degree in public administration from Ball State graduating Summa Cum Laude. Breymier. who lives with his wife Nancy in Indianapolis, will begin his duties on August 1.

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"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE” " A' B I-’ ’ ’ J \ 1 ■■ -• OL Z - 'TPROUD OF COCKTAIL NAPKIN — Proud of the cocktail napkin they just printed for the Presidential yacht, the USS Sequoia, are from left, office manager Tonda Hewitt, secretarytreasurer Karen Tranter, and Tranter Graphics. Ind., president Jim Tranter. T

IF YOU should ever be invited aboard the Presidential Yacht, the USS Sequoia, for a cruise on the Chesapeak Bay and are given a cocktail, take a second look at the small blue napkin you'll be handed. The napkin was printed right here in Syracuse, Indiana. Recently Tranter Graphics. Inc., 507 North Indiana Avenue, received an order for 10,000 cocktail napkins for the Sequoia through Advertising Specialty. Distributors. Bethesda, Maryland. (Note: The USS Sequoia w as sold by President Carter as an economy measure. Later its private owner sold it to a group oL wealthy friends of President Reagan, and it was recently offered to Reagan for his private use. all at no expense to the U.S. taxpayer.) Thanks to presswomen Cindy Simpson and Kathy Solina this story came to our attention through Tranter Graphics office manager Tonda Hewitt. Then this column visited Tranter Graphics last Thursday. Pam Blosser was operating a pneumatic foil stamping machine that produces the unique napkins, one at a time. The beautiful napkin, in a deep blue background, has a gold presidential seal prominently embossed. But this is only part of the story. Tranter Graphics, located in Syracuse for just a year now. is a spinoff of Jim Tranter s dad's specialty printing company in Ligonier, and hds been filling similar unique napkin orders during this time Would you believe they’ve done a similar order of cocktail napkins for Coldwell-Banker Realty Co. of Chicago, the firm hired to sell President Reagan’s J 1.9 million ranch home in California? Look at some of these orders For example: the Houston Ballet Co. ordered napkins featuring J. R. Ewing; Charlie the Tuna for Starkist Tuna Co., of Tuna Street. Terminal Island. Calif ; Rolls Royce Motors of Florida; Sheer Energy-Leggs. Vic Tayback of the popular Alice television show ; E. F. Hutton, the financial brokerage firm that people listen to; the Duke's Corral of Harlan. Ky., featuring John Wayne; Chicago Bears-WBBM Radio. Chicago; American Tourister. the luggage company; and ABC Wide World of Sports This list could goon. In fact, when this column asked for examples of their work, office manager Tonda Hewitt just kept pulling orders out of her file cabinet. Jim Tranter, president of the unique company. has been telling friends in the industry for some time that the future in printing as he sees it will be in the specialty field. To watch his little nine-person operation grow, it would seem there's little doubt about it. In a sense Jim. who was formerly Syracuse Town Board President for a short period of time, comes from a family of printers. His brother. Dave, operates a weekly newspaper at South Whitley. Argos and Culver with the same enthusiasm that Jim handles his small specialty business here in Syracuse. All this is very fine, but the real insurance for the success of Tranter Graphics. Inc., rests with Jim's wife. Karen, secretary-treasurer of the firm, who oversees the company’s finances, to be sure more money comes in that goes out -oSEEN: FRANK Ridenoure. 92 North Shore Drive, is seen riding his little gas-saving moped around town. He picked the little jewel up at Sebring. Fla., last winter and claims he gets 140 miles per gallon of gas! —O'TIM HAMMAN, a May graduate at Grace College, was at the home of his parents, the Bob Hammans of 311 South Huntington Street, and made the two-mile Pioneer Days road race Saturday morning, placing 4th overall of the 200odd runners. He made the ran in 9:59, only slightly back of Jeff Shoemaker of Mentone, who made it in 9:32. Tim will teach second grade and coach running, track and soccer at Mansfield < O.) Christian School this fall; but will reside in nearby Crestline, O. Also in the Saturday race were young Troy Minton, son of the Jerry Mintons, and Steve and Scott Badskey, children of the Jerry Badskeys of North Webster. -oA LARGE, black, sleek, seven-passenger

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FRANK LOGAN Syracuse (dairyman)

imp? ■ I—PAM BLOSSER OPERATING THE PNEUM ATIC FOIL STAMPING MACHINE Cadillac was parked in front oi the Country Mouse Friday, bearing the license plates QQQQI, State of Illinois Upon inquiry, the family revealed it also laid claim to license plates QQQ. QQQQ -* and C-7. the latter a medical plate. The car's owner is living temporarily on “the east end of the lake," and added, “we re not celebrities." —oTHIS indebted to Merl Smith for a copy Halftime Highlights of 19X0. a fine record of musical numbers played bv the famous University of Illinois Marching Band during halftime of various home football games. This is the second time we have been so favored. Os special interest to Merl and Maggie, of course, is the fact that credits on the back of the packaged piece name their two sons — Gary as one of the two music arrangers and director of the’ Marching Illini. and Greg as one of t\\o drum majors. -o—"WHERE’S ROBERT Drudge?" is a question being asked by those coordinating the Syracuse High School Class of 1961 reunion. Drudge is the object of a search by Charmaine Egolf. 236 North Street, as the only member the class has not b£en able to locate, to notify of their Saturday. July 25. reunion Her search for Drudge in the Fort Wayne area, his last city of residence, yielded a lot of dead ends but no Drudge. -o“GENTLEMEN LIGHT your fires' ” This will be the crv to begin the Lions- 0 sponsored chili cook-off. to be held Saturday, Aug. 15. in conjunction w.ith Sidewalk Days. Place: the Syracuse Rubber Co. parking lot. Larry Cook, publicity chairman for the affair, calls it a “first'' for his local Lions clubhand is rounding up participants. ‘Wanna ]<Hn/" ne is z asking anyone who will listen, in his effort to make' the project a success. The winner will go to a state cook-off at Indianapolis in September, and that winner will go to the national cook-off in San Diego. All this, in cooperation with the National Kidne> foundation. Larry contends. And there's more. If you like chili, drop by and sample a bowl, proceeds going to the Lions. Participants will have four hours from fire lighting to judging, and can have a 10-member support team. It’s something new. for sure, for our community, and should attract some genuine interest SIGN IN front of Three Flags reads: Due to high wind, now Two Flags. —o— SYRACUSE BARRISTER Laucks Xanders plans to move his office from the Clark-Xanders building at 303 South Huntington Street to the Charter Building at 116 East Main Street, on Friday of this week. He has had his law office at the South Huntington Street location since he and the late Fred Clark built the building in 1947 and moved to it on June 1 of that year. Laucks recalls the dedication of the building as “big news” at that time since there wasn’t much building going on in Syracuse or anywhere else at that time. Xanders advertised a large safe for sale in a recent issue of The Mail-JournaT’and the several (Continued on page 5)