The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 23, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 June 1982 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., June 23,1982

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Editorials

Mermaid Festival underway The 37th Mermaid Festival is underway in North Webster and we are taking this opportunity to tip our hats to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parker, the members of the North Webster Lions Club and all of the committee members for the long hours and hard work they have put into continuing to make the festival a success. A tip of the hat too to the Palace of Sports and its personnel for the promotion of the festival through grants, the King of Sports and the Tournament of Knights. The festival draws the prettiest girls of the area to the “Queen of Lakes’’ contest and has commanded dignitaries of all kinds. Two young women who wore the crown of the “Queen of Lakes’’ went on to become “Miss Indiana” and represent the state in the “Miss America” contest — Barbara Mougin, who won the “Queen of Lakes” title in 1970 was “Miss Indiana” in 1978 and was first runner-up in the “Miss America” contest; and Terry Kaiser of Etna Green was the 1975 “Queen of Lakes” and the 1979 “Miss Indiana.” The festival also draws sports figures with the King of Sports. The 1981 “King” Wayne Gretzky was in North Webster on Saturday to receive his crown and was honored at a luncheon. The famous Mermaid parade will move out at 4 p.m. Saturday with the Tournament of Knights slated for earlier in the day. A new queen will be crowned Saturday night. Yes, we point with pride to North Webster and to the Mermaid Festival and the variety of activities for young and old alike which are taking place there this week. Won’t you join us in North Webster this week for the 37th annual Mermaid Festival — it’s an event no one will want to miss. •- Bravos And Boos ? ‘ (Contributions from readers to "Bravos and Boos > 'W&\ Cp) ' are welcome: publication will be at the editors dis- T 'i ty) c ret ion.) ( ( //• •d'KW'Oi tommnn or. o».<l -okr-g pl<x» >►>•»» do«» BRAVO to all the money making projects currently underway at the Mermaid Festival -± many a Lions club, sorority, church or other non-profit organization or group will benefit frc<n the support received this week. BRAVO to the state of Indiana for planned improvements at the old fish hatchery site on Lake Wawasee. BRAVO to Jim Lauer of the engineering firm of Philip L. Schnelker. Inc., for coming to Milford last week to answer questions for citizens on the new sewer system being installed. BRAVO to those who donated to the Lakeland Daycare Center. The final effort is on to complete the drive by July 1 and it would appear if people don t stop giving now the goal will be met. 800 — summer arrived Monday but the temperatures are still a bit on the cool side. p 800 to the fact no one turned anything in for this column this month! 800 to the weeds in the garden and all the high grass growing along the roadways. j

What others say — Extra money in our pay checks Most of us will get a $6 pay raise’ starting July 1. It isn't really a pay raise but our pay checks will be an average of $6 fatter each week because Reagan s'income tax reduction. This is the second phase of the 3-10-10 tax reduction approved amid much controversy a year ago in Congress. But don’t feel too good about the $6 increase or too bad about Uncle Sam s big reduction in income. Americans will still pay more taxes this > ear than last year. So the tax cut isn’t really a cut. It’s simply a reduction in the increase Uncle Sam takes from our pay. It’s like the budget cuts. Congress doesn t really reduce the budget, it simply reduces the amount of proposed increase. In case you haven't guessed. Congress likes to spend money and isn t about to stop now ’President Reagan talks boldly about budget cuts and tax reduction but his programs have been far from drastic, despite all the moans and groans from liberals who want more aid programs for every segment of society. A big part of the problem is Social Security. We keep paying more in taxes despite the ‘tax decrease’ because of the big increase in Social Security taxes eacn year. The additional cost this year for a family of four with a total income of about $25,000 is about $135, which is slightly more than the net increase in taxes. And bracket creep boosts other taxes. Despite all those confusing statistics, the addition of several dollars in our pay checks after July 1 will be welcome just the same. We've gotten used to the increase in withholding taxes already this year, so now it will seem good to get a little more of our money to take home. Some experts believe the additional money may stimulate some revival in the economy. With every worker getting several more dollars a week, it’s a solid bet that this additional money will wind up circulating through our economic system. Most of us spend about all we earn. The administration is counting on us to buy more goods and stimulate production in our factories. Thus far, President Reagan’s economic plan has had rocky going. The president gets high marks for bringing down inflation and in ‘cutting’ taxes. These are two very important areas and sagging sales in many industries, especially automotive and housing, have kept us in this recession long after many experts thought our economy would be heating up again. All is not lost, but it’s difficult to find too many people excited about Reaganomics. Republicans are hoping the economy makes a rapid turnaround before the November elections to save their control of the U.S. Senate. Most people are aware that our government must stop spending so much money and taxing us so heavily. But many people don't want any handouts cut, want increases in Social Security and a strong defense. Republicans and Democrats don’t have the courage to get Social Security under control, so they were forced to reduce proposed increases in handouts and defense. Bigger cuts are needed in all areas if this nation is to get the federal budget under control. It’s encouraging we finally have an administration attempting to put the reins on spending and taxes, rather than continuing the decades-old plan of tax increases and high budgets... and higher deficits. — THE GOSHEN NEWS

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The firemen's waterball contest was just one of the many Mermaid Festival events held over the past week end. The festival continues at North Webster through Saturday. Court news

The following area residents have had fines assessed and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court Jim Jarette. judge: Disregarding stop sign — Jonthon Richardson. 16. Milford. SSO Expired license plate — Jerry Method. 44. Milford, S4O. False or fictitious registration — David Snyder. 24, Leesburg. SSO No operator’s license — Pamela Kreischner, 31. Leesburg. SSO Operating while intoxicated — Emilio Salinas, 37. Milford. $252 plus driver s license suspended; John W. Michael. 56. Syracuse. $352 plus driver’s license suspended for 60 days; Devin

Unsung heroes — ■ t ML B \ i Ku i JB JIM MCCLINTIC Jim McClintic has been fireman for 21 years

Though he has retired after a lengthy career in mobile home manufacturing. Jim McClintic remains active as a member of the Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department. A lifelong resident of Syracuse, McClintic is currently in his 21st year as a fireman. "It’s given me alot of satisfaction," he said. “There’s something about serving your community, and helping people in trouble. It’s hard to describe after all this time. It just sort of grows on you” McClintic said he would like to see more young people become involved with the department. While the firefighting equipment has been modified over the years, McClintic feels that the Syracuse Fire Department has had very adequate vehicles and tools since he joined the force in the early 19605. McClintic said the Pickwick fire in downtown Syracuse on New Year’s Day 1971 stands out as the worst blaze he has participated in battling.=

Knisley. 27. Milford. $252 plus driver's license restricted for one year Speeding — Charles Teeple. 57. Milford, SSO; Larry Fifer, 31. Milford. S4O, Doris Engelhaupt. 29, Leesburg. SSO; Ray A Gerber. 22, Syracuse. $65; Andy Shearer. 24. Milford. S4O; Lori Baker. 17. Milford. $65 Public intoxication — Buddy G Manges. Syracuse. $Bl Fishing without a license — Dean L Anderson. 18. Syracuse. S4O. Donald L. Anderson. 39, Syracuse. S4O Operating a watercraft without enough life saving devices Suzanne Brock. 32. Syracuse. S4O. Battery — Arden D Baker. Milford, dismissed

i Capable of driving all of the > emergency and fire vehicles ; owned by the Syracuse departs ment, McClintic also serves the > community as a driver for the EMS squad He resides in Syracuse with his ■ wife. Laura.

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GATES SCHENKEL . CHASE TWO OLD broadcasting pros were on hand Saturday at North Webster’s International Palace of Sports and later at the Tippecanoe Country Club for the induction of 21-year-old Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton (Canada) Oilers, professional hockey team, as 1981 King of Sports, a kick-off event for this year’s North Webster Mermaid Festival. The broadcasters were Hillard Gates of Fort Wayne’s Channel 33 WKJG-TV, who marked his 42nd year last Thursday with that station. Hillard, who handled the Saturday induction at the Palace of Sports with absolute professionalism, working on short notice when Chris Schenkel could not make the engagement The other was Schenkel himself, a resident of Lake Tippecanoe, who flew in early Saturday morning from Las Vegas where he had been announcing several fights for ABC television. Chris and Hillard jointly handled the event at the country club. Gates is well known throughout the midwest having broadcast state basketball tournaments at Indianapolis since 1941, and doing the same on television since 1954. He is a charter inductee in the Indiana Broadcasters Hall of Fame, so named in April 1981, and is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, both of which he is very proud. y Schenkel has been with ABC since 1963, and has been named National Sportscaster of the Year four times, was elected to the National Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1980. A third sportscaster, perhaps a little less well known, on hand at the country club Saturday to introduce King of Sports Gretzky, was Bob Chase, formerly with WOWO and more recently known as sportscaster for the Fort Wayne Komets. These three men have a long history of working together and each has added to making the Mermaid Festival and its attending events a success —oRON V. and Ginny Kramer. 131 North Shore Drive, are making plans with high expectations for a two-month fall trip to Europe where they will visit their two sons and their families. The senior son is Lt. Col. Thomas Kramer, M.D., a Syracuse High School graduate in 1964 and a 1968 graduate of the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo. Col. Tom and his wife Debby of Indianapolis and their two young daughters reside at Ramstein, Germany. AFB The other son is Captain John Kramer, a career pilot flying C-9 ambulance planes. He is a 1967 SHS graduate and a 1971 graduate of the Air Force Academy, and is stationed at Rhine-Main AFB at Frankfort. Germany. Capt John and his wife Grace of Green Bay. Wise., are expecting their first-born. A third son. Ronald, graduated from Syracuse High School in 1962 and is an electrical engineer residing in Goshen. Ron Kramer is taking a well deserved rest, having joined the Weatherhead Co. on November 1. 1951. helped purchase materials for their original building, and retired June 1, this year, as head of purchasing and production planning. Ron joined the Colorado National Guard as a young man. and when it was pressed into federal service, he went into the pilot training program, and rose to be a B-24 Squadron Commander flying out of England over Germany. He was shot down while bombing the rail yards at Liege. Belgium (then a Major), on May 9,19 M. He was a Prisoner of War in Germany for a year and left the service to return to Syracuse as a Lt. Colonel. The Kramers have visited friends in England several times since “the big war,” but it is their first trip to European soil, the first ever for Ginny and the first for Ron since being a prisoner in Germany. —o— WAWASEE HIGH School principal Dr. Howard J Hull is doing what he can to tighten the reigns and bring some semblance of control over what he considers a blatant “rip off” where students and parents are involved. He cites the example of one company contacting honor students to insert their names in a Who’s Who type of book — ala cost of $25. Dr. Hull wants it known that Wawasee High School is in no way connected with such firms, but that the sales pitch used by their sales representatives implies this is true. -o— [• JOHN C. Hagen. Syracuse attorney, has a collection of witticisms which he calls ’ Hagenisms “ Examples are: “This man is so snafued he could screw up straw berry shortcake.” and, “The biggest trouble with dying is that it causes everybody so much trouble, but it usually bongs a family together for a last time,” (his grandmother Clark s favorite, at age 92), and, “You’ve been talkin’ and I’ve been thinkin’ and it’s my thinkin' that thinkin* beats talkin’.” —o— THE SYRACUSE-Wawasee Area Development Co., Inc., founded in 1980 by public-

spirited citizens from the area to plan economic growth of the community, has issued an attractive little brochure in which it outlines its progress and makes a pitch for minimal financial support for its continuance. It has relied heavily on volunteer support, and so the funding is not great The brochure states S-WADC has 1) produced an attractive community brochure; 2) compiled a complete economic profile of the community; 3) discussed expansion plans with local industry; 4) promoted the area to outside interests looking for growth potential in our area; 5) established a professional business library; 6) worked with state, county, and local agencies for procurement of funds to gain access to industrially zoned land within the town limits that is presently inaccessible; 7) worked with the local school in preparing youth for jobs in the area; 8) worked with the Adult & Continuing Education Program within the schools, to meet the re-training needs of business and industry; 9) worked with local merchants and SCORE representatives. Anyone interested in supporting the S-WADC is asked to write box 398 Syracuse, or call 4575637. -O’BILL SPURGEON, whose real name is Wiley W. Spurgeon, Jr. and whose fulltime job is executive editor of Muncie's two daily newspapers. The Muncie Star and Muncie Evening Press, will be reviewing Enchanted Hills Playhouse plays again this summer for the Mail-Journal. Byway of background, he writes: “If the Syracuse-Wawasee area had had a summer theatre each year since 1953, and if all my years since then had been sgent in Indiana, I'd be embarking on my 30th season of summer play reviews hereabouts. “But there were some gaps in both. “In the late 1950 s there was no summer theater here, and there was a smaller gap in the mid-19605. “My first review was a play called ’Claudia.* It was presented in a tent erected in a field just east of the Crow’s Nest Bam. The producing organization was the Culver Playhouse, and one of the resident producers at the time was a just-out-of-coilege young man named Doug Cramer. ”1 believe Cramer, now the producer of the Love Boat and a number of other television products, had a Cincinnati background. “He and his group, which had some DePauw students and some Ball State students, would ’start* a play at Culver, pipy it for a week there, and then play It for a week (Tueaday through Saturday) here. While one play was in its second week here, another was in its first week at Culver. ' “I was a student at Washington and Lee University in the early 1950 s and wrote to J. Barton Cox in 1952 about writing a bit for what was then the Syracuse-Wawasee Journal. I started as a summer columnist, and when theater came to Wawasee, I took on the reviews. “In 1954, the Journal was under new ownership but my summer employment continued. So did my reviews. Right after the Fourth of July a windstorm took the tent away and the company moved into the bam itself. “I did a few reviews in 1955 and so did Jane Bachman, a Butler student also at the Journal. She is now a vice president of Scott-Fores man, the textbook publishers. “There was no summer theater here 1956-61, and when it started up again in the old bam at Enchanted Hills, I was newspapering out west. When I returned to Indiana for the 1967 season, the bam was dormant. In 1968 it was converted from in-the-round to proscenium, and they’ve not missed a season since, although there have been three separate organizations including the one now headed by Jill and Bob Stover.” Bill was editor of the Journal 1955-61, when it merged with the Mad to become the MailJournal. His theater credentials include a pre-natal walk-on part in 1933 with Muncie Civic Theatre, when his mother had a small role in a play prior to his birth four months later, some acting and tech work in high school, a part in the Cramerdirected “The Happy Time” here in 1953. and “some tech work and a few parts” in Muncie Civic Theatre productions 1968-82. / He just retired from Muncie Civic’s board of directors after serving 11 years, including six as president, and wanting to keep his hand in, is currently the organization’s treasurer. It is one of the oldest and most active civic theaters in the state, owns a quarter-block in downtown Muncie including its 500-seat theatre, and is a consistent prize winner in Indiana Community Theatre League competitions. ( -o— THE DISPOSAL of refuse around the lakes is an ongoing problem, as a Waverly Beach (Lake Wawasee. SR 13-A) found out one day last week. He saw a late model Huntington car drive up, open his car trunk, then lift the lid of our informant's Stuckman dumpster, and throw two large bags of garbage in. “Hey. friend, that’s my dumpster. You have the choice of taking your garbage with you or leaving two dollars on its lid,” so said our informant. In reporting this infraction to us, we were told of this type of wanton disposal being a growing problem —oTHIS COLUMN received an anonymous call last week concerning the hours the Syracuse post (Continued on page 5)