The Mail-Journal, Volume 18, Number 47, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 December 1981 — Page 1

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"TYT - r I w PMI Hi IB IH W Hi HI HI gp .' • -■ V| Mppp- tfiSjaen?H I sgSp //M j^’" t ■*] JB ■■ j-jt 1 r '"' A VANISHING SPECIES? — Robin Hanson. Lakeland School Corporation's only driver training instructor, down from eight instructors last year. Is the driver braining program doomed, to be relegated to the scrap heap? it’s a question that is worth asking as questions arise as to its value. Insurance Institute dents driver education program

If the Lakeland School Corporation Vohmteer Advisory Committee b in earnest about their mandate to get the most for the dollar spent for education, here's something they certainly will want to look into The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety claims high school driver education increases rather than reduces the accident rate among teen agers Their report was commented on in a page l article in the Saturday. Nov 28. issue of the Tampa Tribune, under the byline of staff writer Fat ti Breckenndge She wrote. As a result, the institute proposes eliminating high school driver education programs across the country " Reporter Breckenndge said if earned out. Hillsborough County <Tampa> would save at least sS2o.oot> a year — the cost of dnver education in their public schools The impact of Miss Breckenrtdges report is such that we feel it should be reported here in full The reason dnver education boosts the accident rate is because it substantially increases the number of 16- and 17 year-olds with dnver's licenses without reducing the number of accidents among teenagers, according to a new il-page report called “Teens and Autos: A Deadly Combination “ The report was prepared by the insurance institute —a national, independent. non-profit

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Medieval castle dinner an appropriate climax to an interestina tour through Ireland

By ARCH And DELLA BAUMGARTNER SHANNON AIRPORT, Limerick, Ireland, Monday, Oct. 12, 1961 — The first of our last two days in Ireland, for the traveling group of United States Journalists, was one dampened by a persistent day of drizzle.

While it may have dampened the day tor some, others took it in exuberant stride It was Saturday morning, the 10th. and our group was met outside the stately Great Southern Hotel at Kiliamey with three surreys that took us on a most delightful trip to Muckross House, an ancient castle erected in ISIS and faced with Portland stone. Cost at that time: CWy L 30.000, or W9.QO® at today’s rate

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organization associated with the insurance industry. "When high school driver education was eliminated from some school districts in Connecticut . there was a 57 per cent net reduction in licensure of 16and 17-year-okis from what would have been expected had driver education continued to be available.' the report said There also was “a com

Ask public participation on EPA grant The public participation meeting of the Syracuse En vironmental Protection Agency Grant will be held Tuesday evening. Dec 15. at the regular town board meeting The meeting w ill begin at 7 30 pm in the town hall The field data collected for the infiltration Inf to Analysis, w hich is part of the Syracuse Facilities Plan, funded by EPA and State of Indiana will be presented and discussed at this meeting Project status is that the field data has been collected for the analysis Comments, alternatives and suggestions from the public wUI be welcome and will be carefully considered in the preparation of the Infiltration Inflow Analysts Report

of exchange At the time the old building, with afi its spacious rooms, is administered by the National Parks and Monuments Service, and caters to tourists and other visitors, such as us It's difficult to imagine a structure like this built as a dwelling, however wealthy the owner might be. The rooms are large, with unusually high

mensurate reduction in crashes among this age group. ” it added. The report hsts dozens of other findings indicating teens are a hi oi-risk group despite the increased availability of driver education in schoote across the

80-acre Lee Cory farm sold to C. Beers for $220,000

At least a partial resolution of the tangled estate of the late Lee Cory was accomplished last week with the sale of his farm, located nearly two miles south of Milford Mr and Mrs Carlton Beer purchased the properties in eluding a house and numerous outbuildings, in a transaction on Monday. Nov 30 The land sold for its appraised price of $2,750 per acre, or $220,000 The land is adjacent to much of the 500 acres the Beers already own On Monday of this week Mr and Mrs Beer sold the farm to their son. Steve, who now resides on the old Arthur Gilbert farm This transaction involved a trade for approximately 40 acres es land which was originally part of the old Everett Butrick farm And at the same time the Lee Cory home and one acre of land has been sold by the Carlton Beers to Mr and Mrs Tom Speicher Speicher is employed in the capacity of pharmacist manager at Walter Drug Co in Milford

cethngs. and woodwork that defies the imagination. All the rooms have elaborate chandeliers. that at one time must have held candles And the floors, of course, are wooden. Inasmuch as it was raining, we bundled up for the trip of several miles from our hotel to the old castle in the horse-drawn surreys. The only time we dkhi't feel transfixed into the period of the ok) castle was when we passed through a residential section of the town of Killarney. We could hardly believe the setting of the ok) castle, on a tract of rolling land easily several hundred acres. We could look in all directions from our vantage point and see rolling green fields

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country. Among those findings are • “The death rates of drivers themselves were highest from 16 through 21, peaking at 18 and 19 Moreover, partly because young * (Continued on page 2)

The sale of the land and farm buildings does not complete the settlement of the Lee Cory Estate, however The property was originally deeded to the World Missionary Press near New Paris, whose principal is Watson Goodman Mr Cory resided in a small duplex building on the grounds of the World Missionary Press from June 1979 until his death Cory's only heir, Neal Cory, contested the will of his father, with the assumption that his father was influenced in his final years to will his belongings to the World Missionary Press Neal Cory said this week there has not been a final disposition of the estate but that he felt and hoped it would be settled out of court Neal said his father and mother had lived on the farm in question since 1924 Mr Cory died January 1.1900. at 88 years of age The sale erf the farm was handled by Thwaits Realty. New Paris

looking like lush lawn and reflecting many of the 40 shades of green Johnny Cash wrote and sang about To the side of the castle, several hundred yards distant, was a lake of easily 100 acres that appeared untouched, unspoiled by human habitation. There were absolutely no boats, no evidence of human habitation — or pollution as we have come to know it. To Ride The Ring Our bus ant) Hughie the driver met us at the cast ie and was to take us on a 100-mile trip known as the ride around the ring, known as the Ring of Kerry Arch opted out an this ooe, but Della joined the others. After all it had

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Robert Auer resigns from Milford Town Board

By TERRI CHILCOTE The Milford Town Board regretfully accepted the resignation of Trustee Bob Auer at its regular meeting Tuesday evening, Dec 8. . In his letter of resignation. Brakes put on student drivers The Lakeland School Corporation, faced with decreased funds, is already taking steps to eliminate much of the cost of its driver training program and yet let it remain intact. * According to assistant superintendent George Gilbert, last year the program employed eight teachers and cost approximately $43,460. of which $12,915 was funded There was zero funding for the summer of 1981 He noted that most of eight instructors were high on the teacher salary scale as well. Under this year s program there is no federal funding, and so the program has been cut to one instructor. Robin Hanson, who is employed as a full time driver training instructor. His salary: » $13,320. Last year the summer program had 180 students and this year there are only 102 students. Students cannot drive behind the wheel until they reach their 15th birthday, says Mr. Gilbert, cause for the decreased enrollment in the program. The $20,000 budgeted for the program this year breaks down as follows: $13,320 for instructors salary; $1,200 for car rental; S6OO for insurance; $2,000 for gas and oil; $250 for ment; and SI,OOO for maintenance. Each student tn the program is being charged S4O whereas he paid SSO for the summer program in years past Students must have 30 hours of classroom study, six hours of observation time and six hours behind the wheel. Mr Gilbert said the program this year would coincide with the school year, but may run over several weeks into the summer months He calls the program as redesigned an improvement over the okl program, inasmuch as students will be learning to drive on ice and snow during the winter months Mr Gilbert is a supporter of the driver training program. Told of the adjoining article, he said he thinks the driver training program a vital and important program and would hale to see it discontinued entirely.

been three weeks of go. go. go for us and it was beginning to show. Other than the persistent rain that marred good picture taking, the trip was one of the most scenic days we had enjoyed thus far It included the back roads of the mountains that surround KiUarney It offered az. occasion for some to drink tb? übiquitous Irish Coffee while the women got in what they loosely term as "shopping " Meanwhile, back at the Great Southern Hotel. Arch had occasion to enjoy a brief lunch by himself and to look over the ok) structure that is one of a chain of six of the very finest hotels. Again, the ok) buikfing gives (Continuedon page!)

Auer cited health reasons as his reason for stepping down. He stated he regrets his term of office has been short and has enjoyed serving the Milford community. “We have enjoyed working with you,” said Board Trustee Jean Treesh Auer's resignation becomes effective January 1 The Democratic county chairman will call a caucus which will appoint Auer's successor. Elected to the town board in

'*■ L r.-l y I , 'I It' J . "m M MERCHANTS ELECT OFFICERS — The Retail Division of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce elected Diana Walker, left, as president and Jeattnie Gardiner, right, as vice president. Outgoing President Joyce Smith is in the center. Mrs. Walker owns T-Shirts Cnlimited and Mrs. Gardiner is employed by the State Bank of Syracuse. Mrs. .Smith of the Country Mouse steps dow n after serving three y ears as the retail division president. (Photoby TerriChikote) Diana Walker elected retail division president

Bv TERRI CHILCOTE Diana Walker, owner of TShirts Unlimited, was elected president of the SyracuseWawasee Chamber of Commerce Retail Division Monday evening. Dec 7. Jeannie Gardiner of the State Bank of Syracuse was elected vice president. She has been serving as secretary-treasurer and will continue the treasurer s duties The election of officers was held following a pizza smorgasbord at Das Keller in

IRISH LANDSCAPE — Typical Irish landscape — small fields separated by hedgerows.

November. 1979, Auer's term would have expired in 1984. Ordinance Signed The town board read and signed a new ordinance that requires landlords- to provide sewer hook-up or town-approved septic tank system and running water for their rentals. The ordinance must be read publicly two more times before it will be voted on and made into law The ordinance states: "All owners of residential rental units

Syracuse at 6 p m Roses were presented to outgoing President Joyce Smith for serving three years as president Following the business meeting. Sgt Tom Jack, public information officer for the Indiana State Police, presented a program on traffic safety. According to Sgt Jack. 57.000 American soldiers were killed during the Vietnam War; whereas. 50.000 Americans are killed each year in traffic accidents Sgt Jack explained how stress

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is often a factor in causing traffic accidents “When we have wrecks. I think a lot of them are caused by stress," he stated He advises motorists to try to relax while driving “If you get into a stressful situation, try not to drive if you can help it,” he cautioned Sgt. Jack concluded his presentation with a humorous film about stress and driving The next meeting of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce Retail Division will be Monday. Jan. 11. at 6 p.m. at Das Keller