The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 31, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 August 1981 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed.. August 19.1981

Editorials

Good examples The holding of the Art Festival at the Lakeland Youth Center and the Lions Club’s chili cook-off at the Syracuse Rubber Co. grounds are good examples of what the community can do to make the August pre-school Sidewalk Sales an ever-greater success. Sidewalk Sales garner considerable area publicity and bring a lot of people to town; it’s also a good time to hold other events like the art festival and chili cook-off. It was the second art festival and the first chili cook-off, and both went well. They appealed to different clientel, but each went well and were a credit to our community. It is our desire here to encourage both events to repeat their performance another year, and another and another. Both events will gain momentum, if this year’s performance is any criteria. And we will do what we can in these columns to help both events to promote their wares These two should give encouragement to others to tie into the community’s Sidewalk Sales — and give the people who live here permanently and those who are our summer guests one last shot at summer. About reading The television age has added hours to the time most Americans watch films and reduced the time many read. Newspapers and books have not been adversely affected; book publishing has enjoyed good health in recent years and new newspapers continue to spring U P ~ , Reading remains, despite television, the greatest pleasure and source of information to many millions. It’s.a pastime one can enjoy when and where he or she wishes. The selection of reading material, also, is practically unlimited. That being true, the reading public is to be encouraged to read worthwhile books. The recent trend toward permissiveness means almost anything can be printed today As a result, too many have turned to thrills, sex and formerlybanned fare as a steady reading diet. Columbus Sails . Although it’s generally recognized today that Columbus was not the first to discover America (the Scandinavians came hundreds of years earlier and maybe the Irish too), the Italian’s voyage opened up the New World. It was the most significant and meaningful. On August 3, 1941. Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain, on that historic crossing We celebrate Columbus Day in October, of course, when he finally reached an island in the Caribbean. Columbus thought he was off the coast of India — and called the natives Indians Christofero Columbo was born in 1451. day and month unknown, in Genoa, Italy, and changed his name to Christobal Colon when he entered the naval service of Spain Americans anglicized his name to Christopher Columbus. Columbus carried with him ninety crewmen and thirty friends on that August 3 sailing and reached the island of Watling which he named San Salvador. All his discoveries — he made three other voyages to the New W’orld — brought him no reward from Spain s monarchs, as promised, and he died a poor man in 1506 in Spain. Today there is dispute over where his remains are located. They were brought to Santo Domingo in 1542. When that island was ceded to France they were brought to Havana. When the United States shattered the Spanish in the 1898 war. the Spanish — they say — removed Columbus’s remains to Seville. In Santo Domingo they say°the bones taken to Havana in 1796 were not those of Columbus. And in 1936.’Santo Domingo placed Columbus’s remains in a new urn —they say. Old friends Old friends are perhaps the best friends and, for Americans, who are the most mobile, moving families in the world, special sentiment attaches to the old days, the home town, the school days friends — because they are often far away. That also applies to city dwellers, who often live for years in one part of a busy city, following a hectic business schedule, and who for years fail to visit former dear friends in the same city! Charles Hanson Towne wrote a poem about city friends who stay out of touch too long. He called it. Around The Corner. A city away lives an old friend. In this great country that has no end; Yet days go by and w eeks rush on. And before I know it a year has gone And I never see my old friend’s face; For life is a swift and terrible race. He knows I like him just as well. As in school days when I rang his bell. And he rang mine. We were younger then; > But now we are busy, often tired men... Ti red of playing the money game; Tired of trying to make a name “Soon.” I say, “I’ll call on him ” Its still just like it has always been. But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes. And the time between visits grows and grows. Then one day. from a city away. A telegram comes. He died today. I didn’t know it was near the end, Being out of touch with my late, good friend. What others say — Capital loss The loss of any newspaper must be lamented in the land where Thomas Jefferson said that public opinion was so important he would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. The loss is heightened when the victim is the second newspaper in the nation’s capital, the 128-year-old Washington Star. Its announced closing for financial reasons next month will leave what it jauntily called the Morning Monolith, the redoubtable Washington Post, without a scrappy competitor - and the public without a valuable source of diversity in news and commentary. The decline in America’s metropolitan newspapers may be offset in away by the rise of suburban papers and the availability of other news media. But in a city, especially a political city, there is really no substitute for a lively clash of ideas; and race for information that can be contemplated on the daily printed page. As the analysts go to work on why the Star failed, one thing is sure: with the disa]:*pearance of each paper that has fought the good fight, it becomes more necessary for the remaining informers of public opinion to police themselves for accuracy of facts, scope of debate, and fairness of access. — The Christian Science Monitor.

I ER of Col. Joe Gray represented the SyracuseWawasee Chamber of Commerce in the Lions' sponsored chili cook-off. Voice of the people . A column on the opinions of the people of the Lakeland area ... QUESTION: "If you had a chance to change anything in today's world, what would that be?"

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“I’d like to see more people being helped, environment changed to where things can grow freely instead of being cut down."

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MARY MARTIN Wawasee Condominiums! (apartment manager)

“Economy, because I think it’s a disaster or hardship for so many people right now ” KATHY LEE.MON Lakes Village (teacher) “Teacher s pay.” JANETSABBY Milford (secretary) “1 would try to change people’s feelings from a negative feeling to a positive feeling to make the world a better place’to live ”,

Letter to-the editor

Special thanks

Dear Editor I appreciate very much your help in publicizing our art auction to benefit the North Webster Library Your pictures are always of an excellent quality and are an invaluable help in spreading information

Court news

The following couples have filed for marnage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jean Messm ore Shoemaker-Shafer Robert Franklin Shoemaker. 29. P.O. Box 441. Pierceton and Debra June Shafer. 17. r 1 North Webster Thacker-Le.Master Marvin George Thacker, r 4 box 259 Union Qty and Chippra A. LeMaster. 15. 19 North Shore Drive. Syracuse Timmons-Ferverda Ricky E Timmons. 21. 301 E. Prairie Street. Leesburg and Judith M. Ferverda, 18, r 2 box 130 North Webster Gay-Hippeasteel James R. Guy. 23. P.O. Box 108 Leesburg and Renee R Hippensteel. 30. 124 Parker Street. Warsaw Ewtmger-Adair David E. Ensinger. 21. r 1 Syracuse and Stephanie Dru Adair, 18. r 3 Syracuse DannydFMSharp. 25, P.O. Box 42 Syracuse and Victoria A Zimmerman. 19. r 3 box 227 Milford Haft-Ham mei Jeffrey A. Hail. 30, r 1 Milford and Lisa J. Hummel. 19. r 1 Leesburg

ANNA SPARDVTO Syracuse (high school student)

BECC \ STIVER Syracuse (student)

"The changes in the prices to make them lower. Really everything has changed.” LONNIE YODER Milford (homemaker) "It would probably be the economy that I’d like to see changed. DOUG RUCH Milford (mechanic) "I’d get nd of the free-loading dead beats that take advantage of the social programs. ’’

“The drinking age. Change it to 18

The library board extends you a special thanks for your most helpful cooperation You are concerned as we are in providing a better quality of life in the Lakeland area Gratefully. Mary (Mrs. Kip l Sullivan

Robin son-Hersh berg er Frances E. Robinson. 35. 218 North Street. Syracuse and Penelope M Hershberger. 39 Gardner-Curry Roland L Gardner. 26. 742 South Huntington Street. Syracuse and Susan M. Curry, 21. 742 South Huntington Street. Syracuse ■Pmark mr Thomas E. Kroh. 21. P.O. Box 97 Syracuse and Amy Leigh Speicher. 19. r 2 box 90 Milford TNI MAIL-JOUtNAL <USPS IBM) •attar at the Py*t OHx* at Svracvw. Indiana MSaT Secand dau postage paid at l«J E. Mam Street Syracuse. tnO»aa MS*.’ and at addttwnai entry aHkaa. SaßacrtptMn *ll par »d*r tat KeaciataM Caaoty *l* aatude coonty POSTMASTERS Sand cAange at address terms to The Matt Jevrnai. P.O. Bai IM. MiHard, Indiana MMI.

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

THE LONG week end just past was a busy time in the Syracuse community, what with Sidewalk Sales in the Village and Uptown area. All went well, too. so merchants reported of their pre-school sales. The weatherman cooperated for the most part, making the week end more delightful for those wrapping up a good summer season. Two events that helped round out the week end were the Art Show at the Lakeland Youth Center, and we were pleasantly surprised at the attention this brought and to the job it brought the local artists who displayed their talents. Mary Lib Fos Vink said it best when she looked over the par tings, then called the display. “Syracuse's Louvre.” Many people don’t realize some of these artists travel to various parts of the United States to gamer subjects for their easels. Others go big on local scenes, ones easily identified. Those displaying in the second such show bylocal artists included veteran Ken Harkless. Betty Deahl. Lucille Peffley. Marilyn Moore. Ginnie Kramer. Jean Miller. Kathy Schafer, Betty Appenzeller. Jimmie Crooks. Linda Burnworth. Jill Hammel and Jeff LeGro. Jill is a recent WHS graduate and an excellent portrait artist, will enter Grace College Saturday as an art student, while Jeff graduated from WHS this past year and shows outstanding promise. i j&fc ' ■ - PANCHO' SMITH ... he gave the c hili cook-off 'color'. ANOTHER EVENT that helped round out the week end was the Lions Club’s chili cook-off Its beginning was modest, but club members hope to make it a growing annual event. Merl Smith added considerable color by appearing in his outsized Mexican sombrero with a light blanket over his shoulder. All of this on the Syracuse Rubber Co.’s well groomed lot just west of their parking lot. The event attracted television Channel 22 s Bill Warwick who gave it a minute or so on the Saturday night news, and made a page 1 photo feature in Sunday's Fart Wayne Journal-Gazette Among those participating were Rick Silvani, of the editorial department of the Detroit Daily News, and Barbara Doerr, a News business writer. But we liked the sign Becky Skelton, of the P-J Pizza, held up: “Have you hugged your chili maker lately’” Would you believe someone showed up and asked about carry-outs? All this drew some 206 paid attendance in suite of menus that include muskrat, raccoon and other items some would consider non-edibles. 808 AND Rose Vfillits have returned to their Lake Wawasee home follow ing a try at the good life at Scottsdale. Artz Asked about it. Bob made it sound simple: “We just missed our friends here” IF YOU'RE at the South Shore Golf Course today > Wednesday i. you’ll have a good chance of seeing Indiana’s Governor Robert D. Orr. He'll 6e there playing in a whopping GOP fund-raiser, according to SS general manager Craig Perna. Fund-raiser, you; ask? How about this for a fee: $125 for singles, 11500 for a foursome! Registration anti lunch started at 11:30 this -morning, and play will begin at 1 p.m. with a shotgun start under Florida Scramble rules. The good governor will play No. 3 (a par 3 hole) with each foursome in the tourney, so says GOP state committee finance director Stephen Luther. Gov. Orr. who broke his ankle when he slipped on a persimmon while playing golf a year ago, is said to be happy to ifday golf to north central Indiana where that particular fruit doesn't grow. CHARLES O. Wainwright. WWI veteran and county service officer (’’off and on for 30 years”), pays little heed to the hue and cry of Viet Nam war veterans who claimed they’ve been overlooked and slighted by tlieir government and countrymen. Charlie has wnrted hard to sign np M todMtriM to the county to give Viet Nam vets on-

KAREN HOWARD Milford (sitter)

the-job training. “After all,” Wainwright says, “the government pays 80% of the salary for six months — not bad.” in Wainwright’s words. As yet he hasn’t signed up a single vet for the program, and he’s disappointed. Interested? Call Charlie at 267-4444. ext. 240. JACK CRUM, a resident of East Shore Drive and executive director of the 13,000-member U.S. Twirling Association, got a full measure of hype on page 9 of last Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune in a full six-column article on twirling by columnist Jack Mabley. Mabley was in Indianapolis watching 7,000 twirlers competing for cups, medals agfl. ribbons in the U.S. National Open Baton TwirpffghChampionship. t 'T (Note: Jack Crum’s office is on the second floor of Pickwick Place, just above Gulliver’s Travels.) • Crum stated to Mabley that there are a million twirlers in the U.S. who enter competition, and another two million who twirl for the exercise and challenge. Mabley writes: “This has to be the only sport in which there is a class with an age range of zero to 8. They haven't had any zeroes yet, nor 1 or 2-year-old entrants, but they had a 3-year-old.” Crum’s audience with his huge mailing list is not local, and so many people don’t know of him or his operation. It would do well if more of us got to know of his influence in the world of baton twirling. You can bet the Tribune article by Jack Mabley will find a hallowed place on the walls of Jack Crum’s office in Pickwick Place. THE NEW County Building, now under construction and located across Lake Street from the Court House in Warsaw, is scheduled to be complete and the keys turned over to the Kosciusko County Board of Commissioners sometime in October. This according to Loren Knispel of Syracuse, who is senior maintenance operator of the several county-owned buildings. Knispel gave this writer a quick once-through on Thursday of last week, and it was noted that the building, to house four court rooms, the clerk's office and adjoining security-safe jail and sheriff’s department, is shaping up real well. In fact, the mammoth heating and air-conditioning units are being tested — and a good day (at 80 degrees!) it was to test them. too. The building will have several elevators for the convenience of the public and the staterequired facilities for handicapped people. A large, air-conditioned tunnel leads from the court house building to the new County Building, and it's a safe guess it’ll get plenty of use. particularly on rainy days and in the winter. Knispel promised a public showing of the new facility, some 30 to 60 days after the keys are turned over by the contractor, and after a thorough shake-down by county employees. AU this new building is being coordinated with a re-do of the Court House following the neardisastrous fire some time ago. An aside: County auditor Jean Northenor is proud as punch that her name is to appear on the new building's legend, hoping her grandchildren can one day view it with considerable pride. ONE DAY last week Tom Tuttle took this scribe on a golf cart tour to see what’s happening at South Shore Green, and we were pleasantly surprised. A dirt road was cut through the area, including a large wooded area, opening up to six cul du sacs where room is allotted for five houses on • each cul du sac. They open up to the seventh fairway at South Shore with a splendid view. Another road making a circle to the west wiU accommodate 24 lots, making a complex of 54 lots, easily the largest such development in the area at the time. The same developers now own the eight-unit Pine Terrace Apartments, turned into condominiums. which they include in the South Shore Green package. In all. 62 living units are under their umbrella. Tom Tuttle considers this a 10-year development. in view of the tight money market at the present time. FRIENDS OF Hub Anglemeyer are happy to see him up and around following a scare be gave (Continued on page 5) HOUSE TO BE FEATURED — This new Commodore Carp, built house, located in the HiU View Subdivision north es Syracuse, was developed for a major editorial feature in Better Homes and Gardens, a nationally distributed home farhian magazine, some time early in 1662. This ward comes from Commodore headquarters fa Syracuse. Commodore manufactured the house fa a cooperative venture with the magazine and Armstrong World Industries. Plaqj call for the 1.248 square foot house to be produced to Commodore planta all over the country fa 1182.