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(Continued from page 4) Whitehead claims there are about 100 such open-air planes in the entire country. There are two at Smith Field in Fort Wayne, one at Baer Field, Fort Wayne, one at Mentone, one at Hun* tington, and Adrian Zollinger has one, on Highway 33 just across the line in Elkhart County. Bob Baamgardt and Whitehead built the plane, with some initial help from Dave McGrew, and it became a real fixture around the area, appearing with regularity at air shows in northern Indiana. Baumgardt and Whitehead recently sold the “airship” and it is now seen in the friendly skies of Fort Wayne. —o— TEN-YEAR-OLD M. Russell Anderson, a fifth grader and sen of Doug and Carolyn Andersen, owners of the Wawasee Beat Co. and Southeast Bay Marina, was the youngest person to have an entry In the recent Lake Wawasee Flotilla, this column just learned. He operated a 1953 Penn Yan, a craft the Andersons purchased from Grace Macy of Macy’s Slip and one that had never been in the water before the Flotilla Day parade. Russell is knowledgeable about boats and boating laws, operating a boat under his U.S. Coast Guard certification. He won the certification under Sue Gaugler, the Coast Guard Auxiliary member who teaches boating safety to old and new boaters alike. In fact, young Russ assists Sue in her safety classes. -o— AT LEAST one Lake Wawasee fisherman (or fisherwoman) has a different point of view about how well the lake is patrolled than that reported in this column a week ago. Evelyn McCabe of Gary claims to have been fishing Lake Wawasee for the past 14 years (“mostly for crappies”), and she thinks nighttime patrolling of the lake is an abomination. Her husband is up for retirement from U.S. Steel after 42 years on the job, and they have been thinking of making their Lake Wawasee home their permanent residence.

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I Clean air I I and water 1 I are goals I I we all share. I ■ r I I? '“- -* ' <i -,< ;.#?'■ ■ J* HMTO r Br I 11 e ■ I That’s good to know! I Since 1970, when the Clean Air Act became effective, and 1972, when the Clean Water Act was passed, NIPSCO has invested approximately $244 million dollars in pollution control equipment. Over the next five years we will be required to spend approximately $325.4 million additional dollars foreven more pollution control equipment. Clean air is something we all would like to achieve. Unfortunately, the price we must pay to keep our air clean comes in the form of expensive capital investments and increased oper- -T IIUf «L ating costs, resulting in higher electric bills. Nil CO 1= . Yet, these are the costs we must all bear in order to achieve our goal— clean air and water! (That s good to knowt)

Mrs. McCabe claims boats operate at eight without lights, adding, “No one can teU me there are patrol boats out there at night. ” She adds words like “unbelievable,” “not safe oat there,” and that boats “are lipping aU over the place at night witbent lights.” This is a completely different story than that we received from the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department last week —a claim that 800 hours were spent last year patrolling Lake Wawasee (with two boats) and Syracuse Lake (with one boat). Maybe the patrol boats should spead mere time on the lakes at dusk and dark, according to Mrs. McCabe’s complaints. CERTAIN WAWASEE High School students and their parents may be in for a rude shock this school year when they come head-on with the new anti-drug, -alcohol program the school plans to implement. A student drug or alcohol user will receive a 15-day class expulsion: 10 days in the school’s inschool suspension (ISS) program and five days expelled from school altogether. And anyone found guilty of selling drugs or alcohol will be expelled for a full semester. Because of an athlete’s role model, they will be dealt with more severely. If found guilty of using drugs or alcohol, an athlete will not be eligible to participate in sports for a full calendar year. Previously, be was sidelined for a third of the season. The school board, teachers and students, all, support this new get-tough program. And it will apply to honor students as well as the marginal student, this column has been told. This doesn’t imply that the use of drugs and or alcohol in Wawasee High School is any worse than any other school, only that it won’t be tolerated. “It means what it says,” according to principal Dr. Howard J. Hull. Registration for the new school year for the upper four grades will be August 19. 20, 23 and 24. Teachers report August 20 and the first day of school is Monday, August 30.

Walker falls asleep; drives into cornfield Douglas J. Walker, 21, r 3 Syracuse, fell asleep while he was driving his auto on SyracuseWebster Road, west of CR 700E and ended up in a cornfied. His car sustained between S2OO and SI,OOO damage and the corn, belonging to Mike Grady, r 3 Syracuse, was estimated to have receive less than S2OO damage.

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The building blocks being used are interim study committees. Established either by statue or resolution, these interim study committees are legislative vehicles designed to take an indepth look at issues so important to Indiana citizens. They have ui-partisan membership with equal representation of senators and representatives. Often they have ex-officio advisory members who have expertise in the area under study Information gathering, through solicitation of expert testimony, and, sometimes visitation of areas or sites that are important to understanding the issue. Answers will begin to consolidate into recommendations for both administrative and legislative branches. Legislators will rely on these recommendations as guidance for the introduction of bills. Fourteen statutory and interim study committees will be meeting this summer. These committees will recommend legislation that may affect the utility bills and taxes you pay, the education of your children as well as your job. One of the most important committees created in this last session of the legislature will study the funding alternatives for local units of government, including school corporations. The intention of this 19-member study committee is to find a viable formula to help solve the financing problems in each city, town and school district. The rate structure for local exchange telephone service based on usage will be studied for the next two years by a newly created committee. The eightmember committee has already held its first organizational meeting. Committee members expect to explore the effects of measured service on telephone customers and the quality of service they receive. This year they will hear testimony from the Public Service Commission and from the various telephone companies. Regional meetings around the state are being planned for next year to hear comments from the

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private sector on the matter. Proponents of measured service rates feel it is not fair for persons who make only a few local calls to pay for the cost of those that make many calls a day. Opponents not only argue that rates for most people would increase, but that it would have an effect on businesses and volunteer organizations that depend on the telephone. The avenue of the open door law is being paved by the Public Records Committee. They will study the rights of the general public concerning access to state and local government records, including death records. The committee has already met to hear testimony from state bureaus and officials. Other issues to be addressed by interim study committees include. health care costs, student financial aid, corrections, Indiana drainage code, water table study, local government and waste management, explore rising utility costs and keep tabs on nursing homes. This will give you an idea as to what the legislature is attempting to do to protect our citizens, state and local governments. Jean Northenor appointed to CDBG committee Jean Northenor. Kosciusko County auditor, has been appointed to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program Policy Advisory Committee by Lt. Governor John Mutz. The 10-member committee, which consists of local elected officials, will review and react to Indiana’s plan for the CDBG program. Last year federal legislation gave the states the option to take over administrative responsibility for the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program. Indiana is now designing the state program so it will demonstrate an awareness of local needs and develop creative responses to those needs, said Mutz. The Indiana Department of Commerce, which Mutz directs, will administer the program and its $30.7 million grant. “The purpose of the block grant program will remain the same, but we feel that the state is in a better position to operate it efficiently and effectively,” Mutz said. “It will help develop viable urban communities by providing decent /housing and a suitable living environment. It will also expand economic opportunities, especially for low and moderate income families. “We will emphasize economic development as a critical part of community development. Attention will be given to stimulating job creation and developing a suitable environment for new business location and expansion.” Office hours for Webster elementary The North Webster Elementary School Office will be open for the 1982-83 school term on August 12 and will be open each week day from 8 a.m. until 12 noon and from 1 p.m. until 4. These hours are in effect until school begins and the office will be closed on weekends. Families moving into Tippecanoe Township since school was dismissed June 4, are asked to contact the school at their earliest convenience if they have children who will attend the school this August. Anyone wishing to contact the school may do so by calling 834-7644 after August 12. Cinnamon secret Add one teaspoon of cinnamon as a “secret ingredient” for deepfried chicken. No catsup? Combine 1 cup tomato sauce or mashed canned tomatoes, 1 ¥4 cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons vinegar, ¥4 teaspoon cinnamon and a dash each of ground clove and allspice. Neat berries Cranberries will grind very neatly when frozen. Wash the berries, pat dry and freeze in plastic bags until ready for use.

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The Mail-Journal iMployee Sharon Stuckman Sharon Stuckman is the Girl Friday in the Syracuse office of The Papers Incorporated. She serves the public as a reporter, classified ad person and operates the firm’s office supply store. Before joining the staff of The Papers Incorporated on October 19, 1981, Sharon was employed by Yoder, Ainlay, Ulmer and Buckingham at Goshen and served as sports reporter for The Mail-Journal. She and her husband, Charles John, Sr., reside in the Syracuse area with their son, Charles John, Jr., a 1982 graduate of Wawasee High School. Sharon’s hobbies include roller skating, swimming, watching high school sports and reading.

Sharp continues education Ronald Sharp, Kosciusko County councilman, joined local government officials from northern Indiana in a one-day seminar on local economic planning and management July 29 in Goshen. The seminar is one of a series of local government continuing education programs offered regionally throughout Indiana by the Indiana Academy in the Public Service. Course instructor was Dr. Rahim John Amin, associate professor of business and economics at Anderson College. Frank Ryan, field representative for the Community Development Division of the Indiana Department of Commerce, served as the resource person. The program examines various ways local government can exercise leadership in community economic affairs and helps elected officials understand how a local economy works, how it affects and may be affected by government, and how to form a consensus on community economic needs and design and implement responsive programs. The Academy in the Public Service offers 10 seminars designed to assist elected officials in improving local government. Funding for the academy programs comes from grants by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the state of Indiana and private contributions by individuals and companies interested in the improvement of government.

A reminder from Senators Richard Lugar and Dan Quayle (R-Ind): Time is running out to register for the September I Indiana Conference on Federal Procurement and Export Opportunities to be conducted in the Indianapolis Convention Center in Indianapolis. The conference is being cosponsored by Senators Lugar and Quayle, in cooperation with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Commerce, Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, Indiana Manufacturers Association and the Indiana Department of Commerce. “This special, day-long conference should help Hoosiers learn how to sell their products or services to the federal government or to one of its contractors," Quayle said. Items stolen Kevin Harney, r 1 Milford, recently reported the theft of a tape player valued at S2OO, two speakers valued at S2OO, a tape case valued at $240, four tapes valued at S4O, a toolbox and tools valued aVSSO and his wallet. The items were taken from his car. Four hubcaps belonging to Trent G. Sheets, r 2 Milford, were recently taken from his car. The hubcaps were valued at $390. Lea mans booked Carl Lea mans, Jr., 18,113 West Main St., Syracuse, was booked recently into the Kosciusko County Jail on a charge of theft.

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Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), a member of both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Agriculture Committee, has said that “there will not be support for American foreign policy initiatives in the hinterland of our country unless the President actively works for more grain exports.” Lugar said the administration “has to stop this chatter about grain embargoes in terms of exotic foreign policy signals and symbols and negotiate a new long term agreement with the Soviet Union to sell our grain at the highest possible price. ” Speaking at a hearing he was chairing of the Senate Banking Committee’s International Finance Subcommittee, Lugar called for legislation 15 other farm state senators and he have introduced to restrict the President’s authority to interfere with valid export contracts. “Without a healthy export economy, the American farm sector will be in perpetually poor shape,” Lugar said. “We must pursue farm exports in a highly competitive world market, a market in which consistency and reliability are major factors in

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And Senator Lugar added, “Too many small businesses miss out on sales opportunities because they don’t know how to go after government contracts. ’ ’ They pointed out the conference will also include a session designed to stimulate and enlarge the role of small business in the export-import > field. Experts from a variety of government agencies and prime contractors will take part in the contractors will take part in the conference, including Corporation, General Dynamics, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, Northrop and many other major companies. AU branches of the armed forces will be represented including the Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman, Jr., who wiU be the keynote speaker at the conference luncheon. Senator Lugar wiU open the day-long event at 9 a.m. and Senator Quayle will preside at the luncheon. * Beginning at 9:30 that morning, U.S. military and civilian agency representatives and commercial contractors will be available for individual counseling, while a series of workshops will cover such topics as how to prepare a federal contract bid, export opportunities for small business, and Indiana Department of Commerce commercial services. Information can be obtained by writing Indiana Procurement Conference; One North Capitol, Suite 200, Indianapolis, Ind., 46204.

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securing foreign business. I have introduced S. 2357 to provide the world this needed reassurance about American intentions to be a reliable agricultural exporter The bill provides that no restrictions shall be imposed on valid contracts for six months following the announcement of export restrictions.” Lugar said the American farmer is still suffering from the effects of the “misguided Carter grain embargo because there is no guarantee that we will not have another embargo at any moment." “The President himself may not be adverse to another embargo; but scarcely a day passes that we do not see further speculation by some foreign policy source about how costly another embargo would be for the Soviet Union,” Lugar said. “Our European friends, for example, raise this subject repeatedly as a reproach to our raising questions about their provision of financial credits to the Soviet Union. The difference is that we will not be loaning the Soviets any money to buy our grain; we will be taking their money for our grain. ” Representatives of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Soybean Association, the National Corn Growers Association, the National Association of Wheat Growers, and the National Grain and Feed Association testified in favor of Lugar’s bill at the hearing. Unemployment claims fail Unemployment insurance claims fell 3,321 last week to 114,916 reported the Indiana Employment Security Division. Harry T. McFarland, director, said the decrease was the first of several anticipated decreases in the next few weeks which can be attributed to the ending of the extended benefit period July 17. All regular claims totaled 94,614, only 17 more than during the previous week, said the director. Milford teenager uninjured in* one-car crash Rodney L. Pippenger, 17, r 1 Milford, escaped injury in an accident last evening (Tuesday). when the car he was driving struck a tree on South Main Street in Milford. Pippinger, who was traveling north on Main Street, told investigating officer David Hobbs he was traveling north and had no control over the front of his vehicle. It went to the right of center, jumped the curb, traveled 89 feet and struck a tree, then traveled another 94.4 feet before coming to a stop. The vehicle was a total loss. An unknown amount of damage was caused to the yards of Billy G. Little and Neil Olson and to the tree on the Olson property. Hobbs said no tickets were issued because of the wet conditions.

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