The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 28, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 July 1981 — Page 4
THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., July 29,1981
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Editorials
County fair opens Monday p The 65th Annual County Science of Agriculture Fair and 4-H and Open Class Shows, commonly called the Kosciusko County Fair, is set to get underway at the fairgrounds in Warsaw on Monday. A pre-fair gospel sing is slated for Sunday as are the dog and cat shows. The 1980 Fair Queen, Kim Lotz of Silver Lake, will reign over this year’s festivities until the new queen is crowned on Saturday, Aug. 8. The contest is an annual event sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, in cooperation with the county fair board. . The fair will officially open at 7 p.m. Monday with the ribbon cutting. Also slated for 7 p.m. Monday are the 4-H tenure awards, followed by the annual fashion revue at Warsaw Community High School. Monday’s activities signal a whole week of special events and judging activities as well as a full midway of attractions. ■ \ 'Because the people must know' Public notices advertising plays a unique role both in American history and in the process by which this country’s democracy is preserved. Its one premise is that people must be informed if they are to govern themselves competently. Public Notice advertising first came into being with the Congress of 1792. That body, recognizing its responsibility to the people, required the Postmaster General to advertise for bids for the construction of new post offices. From that inauspicious beginning to the complex publication requirements in federal, state and local laws today, government officials have come more and more to understand their obligations to inform the public through Public Notice advertising. Newspapers over the years have been the vehicle by which these obligations have been fulfilled They will continue to be as long as the public demands that it be informed frequently and by the best means possible. We urge our readers to study the legal notices in this and the coming issues of The Mail-Journal. Last week we published the Lakeland Community School Corporation s annual report. The Warsaw School Corporation s annual report is in this issue Also in this issue are claims, budgets, additional appropriations, the delinquent tax notice and other notices that should be studied by taxpayers and in the various taxing districts in this county. Home gardens The rising cost of food, the prospect that prices will go higher, makes it prudent that more Americans consider the potential of the good earth. ; For very little effort, one can have as many potatoes, onions, tomatoes, beans, etc., as a family can consume in a year. The days of plows and mules are past, nor does one need a tractor these days to maintain, with relative ease, a good-sized garden — even an acre or more. The mechanical tiller, selling for a few hundred dollars, is the answer. • Small garden plots, even terraces, if properly cultivated, can produce a surprising volume of produce. With a tiller, an acre can easily be maintained in after-work hours. Gardening exercise is good, and fresh vegetables from a garden provide better eating, and saves money. Canning or freezing can be a family affair, rather than hard work. The satisfaction of knowing one has grown his ow n fruits and vegetables, and that there’s plenty, some to give away, is not the least of the gardener’s blessings. We odd our congratulations\ The eyes of the world are focused on an affair that is taking place today (Wednesday) in London, England. And as if our readers wouldn’t know, it’s the well prepared and well executed marriage of bonnie Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. It comes at a time when the world, and particularly England, needs a “lift,” from all the woes that beset mankind. Everyone wishes the handsome young couple well. We want to join this throng and say “congratulations” to the future King and Queen of England No problem of life has ever been solved by dodging facts and running away from the truth. What others say — The American way In an essay written for Time magazine. Lance Morrow has penned an eloquent tribute to the role of work ih human lives. “Work.” he writes, “is the way we tend the world, the way that people connect. It is the most vigorous, vivid sign of life — in individuals and in civilizations.” For generations, Americans subscribed to the work ethic. They believed that work had dignity and offered both respectability and opportunity. For generations, immigrants landed on these shores, grateful for the opportunity to work at whatever tasks were available to them. As Mr. Morrow says, “The work ethic is not dead, but it is weaker now.” The work of earlier generations resulted in a national affluence that cruelly spoiled us in the 19605. A noted sociologist at Yale University in a book entitled “The Greening of America,” told the young that they didn’t need to work anymore. He envisioned a life of leisure, of surfing on the Pacific coast. John Kenneth Galbraith, the noted liberal economist, sold the idea that we live in a postindustrial world. Many people got the idea that heavy industry offered tasks unsuitable to a sophisticated comfortable nation. In our factories, we suffered from crippling absenteeism. Politicians and union leaders talked of a shorter work week. Hard work began to get a bad name in fashionable, liberal circles. Magazines were full of articles about “dead end” jobs, as though work were unworthy unless it led to an office in the executive suite. Then came the federal government with handouts for those who didn't want to work. Millions of people were placed on the rolls to receive food stamps — groceries at taxpayer expense. This included strikers who had jobs but didn’t choose to work at them. And the legions of the overpaid disdained work. “Workers” on an automobile assembly line, receiving sl7 an hour and fringe benefits, declined to pay attention to their jobs. They turned out inferior products. Americans began to say to one another: “Don’t buy a car made on Monday.” Monday became a day of massive absenteeism at auto factories. In the 1980 s, there seems to be something of a return to the work ethic. Life is harder as a result of recession. Many citizens are aware that other, perhaps more energetic people, such as the Japanese and Koreans, have captured a large part of our domestic market. Americans understand that these people don’t stint their energies on the job. There also is a new resistance to welfarism. Many people today believe that it is time to insist that welfare recipients work for their benefits. Americans need numerous reminders that sloth —a disinclination to labor — is a deadly peril to a free society. The task for the eighties is to restore the work ethic to a position of primacy in our national life. — THE LA GRANGE STANDARD
-1 JI I l ..AJetolw £ i. . Silver Lake s Kim Lotz will reign over the 65th annual county fair.
Voice of the people A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area ...
QUESTION: “What will be the future of the institution of marriage and the family in general life?
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CINDY HOOVER cosmotologisy
"I think it is going to be better than in the past and people are going to be willing to work at making it last. We’ll see less divorces.” SUZIE DOVE Milford (student) '“"“Marriage will always be here, just maybe not as many.”
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ECHO TUSING Milford (retired!
“I hope it doesn't die out. I hope people don't keep living together and never get married" Court news The following residents of Kosciusko County have had fines assessed and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, James Jarrette, judge: Speeding — Kenneth Feits, 58, Syracuse. $37; Chris McConnell. 19. Leesburg. $37 Disregarding automatic signal — Mark K Kissel. 19, Leesburg Public intoxication — Maria Aquilar, 20. Milford. $37; Emilio Salinas, 36. Milford, $54 Insufficient lifesavers — Susan Richf y. 19. Leesburg, $35 Unsafe start — Jeffrey Zellinger, 19. Syracuse. $47 MARRIAGE LICENSES The following couples have filed for marriage licenses in the office of the Kosciusko County Clerk. Jean Messmore: Deeter-Davis Nick A Deeter. 20. r 1 Leesburg and Paula Jane Davis. 20, r 9 Warsaw Gibson-Meyers Billy D. Gibson. 19, r 1 North Webster and Mary P. Meyers, r 1 North Webster Paulson-Sims Adam V. Paulson, 19, 4304 E. Boston Street. Syracuse and Deanna June Sims. 19, 4304 E. Boston Street, Syracuse
KATHRYN KNISLEY Syracuse (clerk) “I don’t know, if you look at the young people now getting married there are more separations and divorces than my generation or before. It seems marriage just isn’t as lasting as before.”
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LAVRA KROH Syracuse (clerk-studenl
“I think the younger generation will be getting married sooner. It seems like a lot are now having to get married It seems like my age group is getting engaged and w aiting two to three years before getting married. ” J ACK DOTSON Silver Lake (pipe welder) “I would think marriage will always be around It’s slipping nowadays but it’ll always be a way of life.” DIANE OLSON Milford (homemaker) “If they’re true to they’re vows a couple s marriage will last. If people are truthful and honest to one another marriage will last. I think the family will still be very important. People should have God in their family. With God in the family, it will last." .ANNIE REPLOGLE Milford (inserter) "At the rate it’s going, not too much. But I think it will finally evenoiM." TNI MAIL-JOURNAL (US.PS.32SM) PvbiisM by The Matt Jawaal »v«ry entered as Second Oom mjhv me OHic» at Syracuse. indidMM A65A7 Sacsod class pcsta«* pa* •* l«3 6. Mam SZtm*. Syracwsa Indiana and at sddituxU entry atttevs. Sabscriptian »12 per year to Kasciuske County, Si« oatside county. POSTMASTERS Send cbanpe o< ad* ress terms to The Mail-Journal. P.O. •u 4, MUM. > "* M * MI '
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f—HHPr « I fl ■ ' MM I JML fl ■ jßi?| ,< m I ‘AwkS * Il 1 f W jf ■ '•flk'-- '''"‘•lß ■■ OUb ' n " r ' * ' I, AT AN EARLIER AGE — This photo shows Sam Swedarsky at his desk at the Syracuse Iron. Metal and Auto Wrecking on Boston Street not long after he opened the business here in 1930. And the inset shows Sam at a much earlier age.
ONE OF Syracuse’s oldest businesses was sold last Tuesday. Sam Swedarsky has sold his Syracuse Iron, Metal and Auto Wrecking company, located just off the 300 Block on Boston Street, to Richard (“Butch”) Plikerd. Possession was immediate. Swedarsky came to the Syracuse community in 1930 from South Bend and entered into what was known in those days as “the junk business.” He has become a well known figure in the Syracuse community. * Fifty years in business in the same location is a long time, perhaps longer than any other person in business in the community today, he observed. Swedarsky was born in Poland October 8,1908 and came to America when he was ”12 or 14 years of age,” he observed when commenting on the sale of his company. His family settled in South Bend where there is a large Polish community. As a Polish youth Swedarsky learned to speak Polish. Russian. German. Yiddish, and finally, when he came to America. English. His business flourished in the 1930 s and 1940 s when he would purchase old vehicles or vehicles that had been wrecked to a point where restoration was impractical. Then he sold parts from the old and wrecked cars. In those days, many people served as their own mechanics and flocked to Sam Swedarsky’s junk yard for inexpensive auto parts. At one time he had six employees besides himself. Figuring among these were Herman Johnson, who had been with Swedarsky for some 30 years, and Dallas Strieby, Harvey Speicher and the late Harlan Byrd. Others had worked at Sam s junk yard off and on over the years Friends often chided Swedarsky that he should not consider himself a “junk man:” rather he should refer to himself as a “reclamation expert." •‘Sam and his 38-year-old son Larry plan to leave the community to make their home somewhere in North Miami, or at least in that part of Florida where they have relatives In the meantime, the Swedarskys have sold much of their personal belongings at their very fine home at 244 East Boston Street, preparatory to making the move. Mr. Swedarsky’s wife Lillian passed away nine years ago, and this has left a void in the life of father and son Swedarsky. and the move to a warmer climate sometime in August seemed a natural one. The Syracuse iron. Metal and Auto Wrecking company, then, is being taken over by younger hands. The new owner. "Butch” Plikerd. has been a mechanic for the Phend & Blown Construction of Milford for over two years, and plans to continue on that job, and to handle his new business with the assistance of three younger brothers — Kenneth G. k M. Philip A., 26. and M. Alan. 23.
<pJU< vir i ' jj| . tfehi SAM BOWS OUT — Sam Swedaraky. owner of the Syracuse Iron. Metal and Auto Wrecking in Syracuse, shown here second from right, b congratulating Richard (“Butch”) Piikerd. the new owner of the business. From left are M. Alan Piikerd. ZVPhilip A. Piikerd. 2d, “Butch.” Sam. and Barley Grimes, step-father to the Piikerd brothers. A fourth Piikerd brother. Kenneth G.. 3d. will assist his brothers in getting the business off the ground.
Other wrecker services in Kosciusko County and elsewhere have prospered in the past and are prospering today, and there’s little reason why the same won’t be true at the Syracuse Iron, Metal • and Auto Wrecking under the able and willing hands of the four Plikerd boys. _ VINCE LEO. the new owner of the Syracuse Case in uptown Syracuse, is planning a remodeling program for his new enterprise. He will begin this week, he commented, by insulating the building, with his ultimate plans to include a face-lift of the building’s exterior. Vince was former general manager of the Goshen Holiday Inn for Bob Brewster, a Syracusan who is sole owner of the popular spa CONTRIBUTED: IT used to be that Dad dealt our discipline to Junior. But the electric razor took' away the strap, furnaces took away the woodshed, and tax worries took away his hair and the* hair brush. That’s why kids are running wild. Dad ran out of weapons. IF YOU passed the Wawasee Boat Co. from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday and heard some quickstepping country music, it was eminating from the firm’s storeroom where some 100 members and family members of the Wawasee Boating Assn, was observing its annual get-together. Marge Kinnear of Indianapolis and Lake Wawasee was acting as caller and Carolyn Parmerlee, late of Muncie and now of the’Leland Addition (Lake Wawasee), was playing the pjano. Her son Steve was on the drums. Almost as to top this. Vic Rigsby of Cromwell, last year’s state champion fiddler at the state fair, favored the group on the fiddle. The social affair included members of the Wawasee Yacht Club, with Vic Boerger of Fort ’ Wayne, new Syracuse insurance man, as Commodore. Larry Baumgardt is Commodore of the W'awasee Boating Assn and Carolyn Anderson is social chairman. THE CROMWELL businessmen and women know how to treat a person who has been a good citizen and businessperson in their midst for a good number of years. They completely surprised Dale Griffith, who with her late husband Oliver had operated a drug and sundries store in Cromwell since 1940. On Saturday night son Dick and his wife Barbara of Carmel and their son Mark and his wife Cindy Renshaw of Indianapolis had a time taking Dale to the Cromwell school for the celebration Dale was met by a long red carpet, about which she remarked. "They must* be having something special going on here." And indeed it was something special. About 125 people responded to honor Mrs. Griffith who has continued to operate the store as Griffith Sundries since her husband passed away May 5, 1975. She recently closed the business in (Continued on page 5)