The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 20, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 June 1982 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., Jane 2.1982

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Editorials

Thermometer burned We did it!-Even though some said it couldn’t be done. It was done ! The citizens of Milford proved that a community working together could do anything it wanted to do and do it in grand style. A handful of Milford residents met in the home of Jean Treesh on March 23 to make plans to raise $12,000 for items needed to complete work on the community building. Someone suggested the $12,000 could be raised by May 31! Why not make a thermometer to keep track of funds and then burn the thermometer when those funds were raised? We printed this in our next issue. Many said it couldn t be done. Others said let’s do it and they did it I The first project was held the week end of Easter. The Memorial Day week end event was slated to go along with the bank's open house and annual events held each year by the merchants, MAD and the American Legion and to hopefully complete the project. Funds began coming in and the red mercury of the thermometer began to rise. And, rise it did, not only through the efforts of Jean Treesh and her co-chairman Marcy Haab but through the efforts of almost everyone in the community. It rose and rose until it went over the top Monday afternoon and the 5 p.m. burning of the thermometer took place on schedule proving you can do anything you set your mind to do even during a recession. Many people didn’t have the funds to make big donations but they could afford to make something for the bazaar or bake sale and then to purchase a pie or a loaf of bread or someone else’s hand-crafted item. Credit for the success of the event can not go to anyone person although the community should be ever grateful to Mrs. Treesh and Mrs. Haab for spearheading the event — hats off to all of us! We did it! Lawrence W. Shultz The name Lawrence W. Shultz doesn't mean much to the younger generation; but for those who lived around the Milford community in the 19305, ’4os and 'sos, it means considerable. For it was in those years that L W., as he was affectionately known, was seen everywhere. He died Friday, May 21, at age 91 at the Timbercrest Church of the Brethren Home in North Manchester, but his memory will live for a long time, both in that community and in the Milford community. As a young man L. W. became director of Camp Alexander Mack, located on the beautiful and quiet shores of Waubee Lake near Milford. Literally, he was Camp Mack. He WAS its director and builder. He literally scoured the fields of the area, digging out big rocks from which many of the Camp Mack buildings were built. Not only that, he mixed the cement in a small mixer, layed up the stones, figured out roofing angles and sawed boards and pounded nails. There was nothing this man could not and did not do around Camp Mack. He w as a worker with a brilliant mind, for his hobby was studying the history of the Church of the Brethren and w riting about it, and studying the history of the Miami Indians who at one time walked these lands. He also wrote about them. A man of letters, he never failed to drop into the main offices of The MailJournal when he was in Milford to talk about ’’old times.” He kept reminding this writer about the time, when printing was done from hot metal type, that the two of us worked late into the night toting the heavy forms of type, resulting in a hernia for this writer This recollection is much funnier now than it was in 1951. L. W. was also close to Manchester College, enough so to attract Dr. A. Blair Helman, the college's president, to preside at his funeral. This dedicated man led many guided tours to Europe to visit and re-visit the origins of the Church of the Brethren, and he also wrote about these. He couldn’t get away from books, and spent 17 of his years as Manchester College librarian. A tall man by intellectual standards, L. W. Shultz is a name that will live in North Manchester and around the Milford community for as long as there is a Manchester College or a Camp Alexander Mack. June, 1982 A ship at sec — and a bride in June — Ivy end bittersweet in Fell — But the Bride is the loveliest of all I — Anne Mary Lawler The arrival of June brings us almost to the half-way point of 1982. By the end of the month, a fiscal year for some will have been completed, and 1982 w ill be in its second half. June brings with it summer, commencements, weddings, school vacations and beautiful weather, and is thus, perhaps, the most welcome of all months. In this month the days are longer than during any other month of the year; there is less darkness. The great naval victory at Midway, which checked the Japanese eastward advance across the Pacific occurred on June 4,1942. The Allies landed in France on June 6.1944, in World War 11, which proved to be the beginning of the end of the war. The first battle of the Civil War was fought on June 21 near Manassas, Virginia. Father’s Day falls in June (the 20th) as does the birthday of the first and only president of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis, on the 3rd. Those whose values are based on money have lost their sense of values. What others say — ? *• Quoting public speeches There is a suit for copyright infringement against the Soho News in New York City for publishing nearly the entire text of a speech made at a public meeting. The plaintiff is Susan Sontag, the writer. The News’ managing editor says the forum was a public event to which the press had been invited and there is no restriction on the number of words thht can be quoted under those circumstances. -Plaintiff's lawyersays, “It’s simply a performance and not a dedication of a corffeht ” He added that a reporter attending a poetry reading by T. S. Eliot couHmot simply make a transcript and publish the poet’s work. A poetry reading usually involves previously published and copyrighted materials, so the analogy is not pertinent. But, if politicians or other public figures appearing in a public forum can control and restrict the reproduction of his or her statements, then another big chip will have been hacked out of the First Amendment. — Editor and Publisher

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Cliff Wogoman finds a rewarding experience

After a decade of serving on the Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department. Ctiff Wogoman continues to find his contribution to the community a rewarding experience “It was 10 years ago that a friend of mine who was on the department at that time con tacted me." Wogoman recalled "He said they had an opening on the department, and wanted to know if I would be interested. I was.” While each fire fighter's responsibilities obviously depend on the individual situations that arise, Wogoman said he most often is involved with the handling of the hose or operating the nozzle at the scene of an emergency Wogoman said the Oakwood Park fire a few yean ago stands out in his mind as the worst blaze he has taken part in battling. The chief rewards of being a volunteer fireman. Wogoman said, were "serving the community and knowing that you're

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"CRUZIN AROUND ’CUSE"

KNOXVILLE WORLD S FAIR— Tfcrteef the teaßnark structures of The 19R2 World s Fate- in Knoxville. TN form around the three-acre Waters of the World Lake. At left is the Sunsphere. St feet high, and the “theme structure” of the exposition. The five-level sphere, encased in glass made of 24karat gold dust, houses a restaurant and two cocktail lounges and observation areas. In the right foreground is the I.SM-seat Tennessee State Amphitheatre. The United States pavilion (at far right) will feature “tak-back computers.'* a “national energy debate” utilizing television screens and a new IMAX film, to be shown on a screen seven stories high and N feet wide. Downtown Knoxville forms the background at left.

By ARCH BAUMGARTNER KNOXVILLE, TENN. - They said it couldn’t be done, but the people of Knoxville, Tennessee, weren’t listening. When the people of this ‘ little town” of 183,000 set their minds to doing something, they do it right. They weren't listening, indeed, when they were told in 1>72 they couldn't pull off a World's Fair, that much larger towns had tried and didn't get the job done. It was at that time that 125 Knoxville businessmen met in a downtown hotel to discuss the idea, and before the meeting broke up they hid $400,080 on the table as seed money for what finally became the 1982 World’s Fair. “But don't tbinlr M wasn't a long pull." we were told by a Knoxville Chamber of Commerce representative one morning at a briefing at the huge. Pyramid-like Hyatt-Regency hotel before we went to the fair. He told us of how they planned the fair for 1980, but were “ bumped Yout of that time slot. And finally Knoxville was chosen over Los Angeles by the prestigious World Fair Committee, and given the 1982 time slot Energy The Theme The entire theme of the fair which has been attracting upwards to 88.888 visitors per day is Energy. The city's fair committee chose Energy as the fair's theme inasmuch as the wave of oar country's future is so wrapped around energy and its future implications; and. further, because Knoxville is situated so near to Oak Ridge and the long-disputed Tennessee Valley Authority. Knoxville is a beautiful city, nestled in a valley made up by the Applachian. Shenandoah and Smokie mountain ranges, and is the home of the beautiful University of Tennessee campus. In fact, at the fair’s edge is the 95.0(MH»eat university coliseum. The fair is completely a private venture, although some federal monies were attracted to building the site, such as urban renewal hinds. Our chamber of commerce friead total us the city saw an opportunity to dear out a blighted area — be called it a “muddy gulch, railroad yards, a depressed area used as a refuge for derelicts and stray dogs." But look at it now! The only thing that remains of “the old days'* is a single, little-used raihrood tracks down the fair's main thoroughfare. Our friend called the Knoxville fair an example of “instant renewal and development program.” It includes a packed 72 acres and b situated right in the center of town. He told us m all there was sllO million pledged for the fair, all of it private financing, from 43 banks at local regional, stole, national and in ternational levels However, the prestigious Chemical Bank of New York proved the big financial supporter to get the fair off the ground. There are 83 exhibits oa the grounds, representing 23 foreign countries. There are more foreign countries involved and exhibiting here than at any World's Fair in toe past 48 years. It has the largest amount of exhibits of any fate- since the New York World's Fata- of 1838.

-*r —d\ / 7 Z\ «*•*“*■' yty -"May -fl|^,& •J - . US PAVILION AT KNOXVILLE WORLD’S FAIR— View from the "Waters of the World" lake of the United States Pavilion at the IM2 World’s Fair. The six-story structure forms the centerpiece of the World** Fair, and features an IMAX theatre with the world's largest movie screen ... seven ’ sUries high and M feet wide. The World's Fair runs through October 31.

My. Such Roads Different things impress different people, but. we were'taken by the network of new roads that wind around the central city of Knoxville. Beautifully done, they wind around every, which way, and took half of the state's highway budget to complete the job. without which there would be incalculable confusion with this many people coming into this relatively small town from all directions. The fair expects to have nine million visitors and possibly 11 miltion before it closes. With this one can imagine the room rates Our very comfortable room on the fourth floor of the 10-year old. Hyatt Regency goes for SB2 per night plus 4 per cent state tax We had fun with the check-out girl about her rates, and were told we should feel fortunate, inasmuch as some private homes are renting rooms out at SIOO per night There were all sorts of news stories afloat about the housing rip-off in and around Knoxville. There were stories, also, concerning pick-pockets early on after the fair's opening, but a crack-down on this sort of thing brought it under control. Sunsphere An Attraction The long lines continued to gather early for an overview of the fair from the observation room of the Sunsphere. The theme structure for the 1982 World's Fair is the 268-foot sphere, topped by a giant globe encased in glass manufactured with genuine 24-karat gold dust (Note: See accompanying photo ) The energy-efficient glass gives the sphere a distinctive glow visible for miles, and inside the sphere is a two-level restaurant and three observation decks affording a commanding view of the 72-acre. mde-long fair site. Like Seattle's Needle, the Sunsphere will remain a Knoxville fixture for years to come. Another overview can be gained by riding the chairlift which goes almost the full length of the grounds. Ghnt Ferris Wheel And there's plenty for the kiddies to do. including the area with the rides of all sorts. Drawing one to this area like a magnet is the “world’s largest fenris wheel.” We failed to learn the height of the ferris wheel but were told it tops the 288-foot ferris wheel we rode at the park in Vienna. Austria, just a year ago. Those who rode the ferris uheel to top of the Sunsphere had breath-taking views not only of the fairgrounds but also of the city of Knoxville. Unfair Publicity Our chamber of commerce friend told us about the slings and arrows th<f fair promoters have had to put up with He singled out Newsweek Magazine for one. and the Wall Street Journal for another. He said a Page 1 story in the Journal called Knoxville “the scruffy little city on the Tennessee River.” and went on with a less than promotional theme The city latched onto the '.'scruffy little city" theme and everyone from the city's fathers to hotel clerks began wearing outsized buttons with “KnoxvjHe. toe scruffy little city” emblazoned in full color. (Continued on page 5)