The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 18, Milford, Kosciusko County, 18 May 1983 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., May 18,1983

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Editorials

Memories “We have journeyed together, now we shall part, holding our memories close to our hearts,” thus states the motto of the Wawasee High School senior class. This motto tells the story of high school graduation. Many of these young men and women have attended classes together during all four years of their high school careers, now they are parting and will have only their memories to hold them together as they go their separate ways. Wawasee’s commencement will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, in the high school gym. There are 198 candidates for graduation in the class and one honorary diploma will be presented to Jahannes V. Anderson, a foreign exchange student. Many will go on to colleges and universities, others will enter the work field, some the military services and still others plan to marry. After 12 years of schooling each of these seniors finds himself or herself on the threshold of tomorrow where new memories will be made. What they do now will depend partly on what their parents and teachers have taught them over the years and on how much they have applied themselves to learning what was being taught and the knowledge they have in store. Seniors, start now to follow your dreams — there is nothing you can’t do if you will but apply yourselves and the things you have learned and will learn in the future and remember that for most great things do not happen over night. Be willing to accept help. No one knows everything. You still have much knowledge to gain, many mistakes to make and many hills to climb. The road will not be easy but if you persist you will find the end and your dreams will become realities. Remember words like dependable, tranquility, preserverance and enthusiasm are important for all to remember. If you put them to good use this world will be a better place because of you. You will have left your mark and you will have many happy memories. How's that? In Phoenix, Giovanni Vigliotto was recently charged with bigamy. His defending lawyer said he was only in love with life (and women). Giovanni admitted the marriages. Where he seems to have gone astray was in disappearing (allegedly) with some $36,000 of his latest wife’s money after only two weeks of marriage. Giovanni admits using 52 aliases. He didn’t change his name for every marriage, he admits. (He married over 100 women in the last few years.) His lawyer says tlie women knew what they were doing, that Giovanni got them out of a humdrum life and made them queens (almost for a day), which women want. While one must admire Giovanni’s courtship techniques, one suspects women really want marriage and security most. But a lot of them must have wanted Giovanni too! Armed Forces Day Saturday, May 21, is Armed Forces Day. In cities and towns across the country, programs will include speeches, parades, open houses at bases, and ceremonies. There will be a general expression of public appreciation for the loyalty of our soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. We hope the programs will rekindle in th hearts and minds of all citizens an acknowledgement of the debt we owe service men today and in the past. Our hope must be that in case of peril in the future, brave and courageous men and women will carry on the U.S. tradition to preserve individual freedom. On this day we should especially remember those who gave their lives for our country, and the wounded and disabled who will, in many cases, not be present in the parades. Letxus also interest ourselves in the welfare of the surviving families of soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice.

What others say —

Soft drink industry gives corn farmers some "bubbly" A new market for corn has just opened its doors. PepsiCo, Inc., the only softdrink company to have not approved fructose (corn syrup) in their mainline bottled and canned primary product, last week end announced it would use 50 per cent High Fructose Corn Syrup — 55 (HFCS-55) in its bottled, canned, and premixed Pepsi-Cola and Regular Pepsi Free. What this means to corn farmers is a new market that will utilize 625 million pounds of HFCS, or approximately 19 million bushels of corn. This, coupled with Pepsi’s previous approval for 50 per cent HFCS usage in their fountain syrups, will make Pepsi’s total demand for fructose 750 million pounds or approximately 23 million bushels of com. Maurice Gordon, chairman of the newly-established Illinois Com Marketing Board and a farmer from Rantoul, told PepsiCo, Inc., “Illinois com farmers appreciate this new demand that your market has created and the impact it will have in the future.” According to a recent University of Illinois study, “Economic Impacts of Com Utilization in the Sweetener and Fuel Alcohol Industries,” a 10 million bushel increase in corn utilization will cause a per bushel increase in the price of com. Gordon commented that as a result of the Pepsi announcement, com prices should be affected by 1.5 t per bushel. The company says the move to utilize fructose in their soft drink will make Pepsi more competitive in the marketplace because of the cost reduction by using fructose. Earlier this year, Coco-Cola increased the amount of fructose in Coke from 50 per cent to 75 per cent in its fountain syrups. From this announcement, a projection of up to 200 million pounds of fructose or approximately 6.7 million bushels of com would be used. In the last two months, new markets for corn through the soft drink industry will utilize approximately 29.7 million bushels. Further approvals could result in even more com being utilized in Pepsi' products alone if the company approved a level of 100 per cent In the face of the enormous producing capacity of the U.S. com farmer, this 2t or 3t per bushel may not sound like much, but every little bit helps. - THE FAIRBURY (ILLINOIS) BLADE

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Congratulations Wawasee class of 1983!

Letters to the editor

Elementary, junior high schools important to high school success

Dear Editor: We greatly appreciate the space given to the recent report regarding “Excellence in Education.” From my point of view, I was especially grateful for the references to the high schools in general and Wawasee in particular. What the report did not emphasize and I did not elaborate upon is the tremendous importance of the elementary and junior high schools in our successes at the high school. Without question the areas of academics, athletics, morals, and citizenship as well as the

Information not factual

Dear Editor: Letters of criticism have appeared in The M-J lately, directed at efforts to upgrade fire protection in the southeastern and eastern parts of Turkey Creek Township.

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Larry Barrett wanted to help

Larry Barrett, has been a member of the North Webster Fire Department for the past two years and a driver for the North Webster Emergency Medical Service for that same time. He joined the fire department because he wanted to try and help in anyway he could. This was also his reason for joining the EMS. Barrett remembers the several bad accidents he has had to attend, and stated “I’m trying to do the job and I like helping people.” His hobbies include fishing whenever he can and taking it easy. He has lived in North Webster for the past four years and previously lived at Barbee Lakes area for four years. Barrett and his wife, Sharon, are the parents of Tim Barrett and Sherri Mock. Sherri lives in Pierceton. He is employed by

other areas of excellence we lay claim to, received their good grounding in the hard work, determination, and planning that exists in grades kindergarten through eight. We reap the results of their efforts and too much credit cannot be given to the selfless teachers and administrators at those levels of education. Our thanks and recognition go to those professionals. Sincerely, Dr. Howard J. Hull Principal

The issues raised in the letters are perhaps valid but much of the material in them purported to be factual is not. The record needs to be set straight. (1) There is no plan to create a (Continued on page 5)

LARRY BARRETT

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"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

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THE STORY of 17-year-old Guy Cox, the Wawasee High School sophomore of 601 North Indiana Avenue, and his luck with a fish pole, was so good that we thought we should run a picture of him and his 10-pound, twenty-five inch brown speckled Trout. (Note: See above.) THE DEATH last Tuesday of Annabelle (Mrs. Dr. Herschel R.) Coil at the Modesto (Calif.) Memorial Hospital brought to mind better days when Annabelle served this community as local license branch manager, Western Union operator and proprietress of a ladies’ apparel shop, all at 102 West Main Street in the building now occupied by OOPS TOO. Indefatigable Annabelle was an avid worker in local Republican circles and won the license branch managership for these efforts. After a brief time, one Walter W. Pauli, recently retired from the U.S. Navy, hit town, purchased the Syracuse-Wawasee Journal and cut a wide, if questionable, swath with county Republican big wigs. His aim was to support his income from The Journal with license branch fees. Publisher Pauli went over the heads of Turkey Creek Township Republicans to gain the license branch, to his eventual rue, for they were out to “get Pauli,” (for this political indescretion) and indeed left no stone unturned to accomplish this fete. They eventually had their way, had the license branch returned to Annabelle after several years of Pauli’s mismanagement — all of this further widening the split between Warsaw Republicans headed by the Morrison Rockhill-Ear) Himes cabal and Turkey Creek Township Republicans headed by ex-Journal publisher J. Barton Cox, no friend of Pauli’s and others, long since absent from the local political scene. At any rate, Dr. Coil eventually closed his optometric office in Fort Wayne and moved his office to Syracuse, in the same building in which Annabelle had her dress shop, license branch and Western Union service. The Coils continued to live above the building. When the Democrats eventually claimed the state house at Indianapolis, Annabelle lost her license branch managership, and she and her husband moved from the community. One thing about Annabelle Coil: she was a Syracuse-firster. She claimed credit for getting the speed limit on State Road 13 south of town reduced to 55 miles per hour when that seemed an inordinately low speed. At that time the Coils lived on the curve, and she could not contenance cars whizzing past her home dangerously. Annabelle promised everyone within hearing distance or within reach of her telephone a lively day. She had a twin sister who died of a similar illness as Annabelle. Annabelle had lived for some time at Manteca, Calif., but her body was returned to its final resting place at the Oakhill Cemetery in Plymouth. SATURDAY, MAY 21 is a red letter day for Syracuse senior citizens, for they will crown one of their own “Senior Citizen Queens.” It’s to be Rosa Schafer, a resident of the Milford-Syracuse area, who will receive the crown from Fla wry Smith. Mrs. Schafer will compete for county “Queen” in Warsaw on Wednesday, May 25. This is the ninth year a local senior citizen will be crowned, the first being Georgia Buster in 1975. Georgia went on to be county and eventually area queen. The latter was composed of five counties — Kosciusko, Elkhart, Marshall, St. Joseph and LaPorte Counties. All local queens are living but Valerie Hughes. BETTY GANGER, secretary to North Webster Junior High School principal Wendell Bryant, called our attention to the fact that Harold Hoeflinger, who was involved as an accomplice in the April 19, 1933, robbery of the State Bank of Syracuse, was released after serving a stiff sentence at the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, then went on to do a commendable job rehabilitating prisoners. According to prison superintendent J. R. Duckworth, Charles Hoeflinger, the bank robber, was released on parole October 11, 1943 and discharged from parole October 25,1944. Harold, an unwitting accomplice, was 24 years of age at the time of the robbery, and served as pick-up man at the corner of roads 6 and 13 north of Syracuse, for his uncle Charles: who was the actual robber. Charles was sentenced to two terms of 20 years each, but the fate of his brother Harold was less certain. The old files of The Journal, resurrected by librarian Roselyn Jones, stated Harold’s part in the robbery constituted a felony, which carries a sentence of two to 21 years in prison. The newspaper article stated Harold was “to be brought before the judge on Friday.” He could learn nothing further about his sentence or life’s

work rehabilitating prisoners after serving his prison term. SEEING HENRY Smith - not as a banker but as a bus boy — was a novelty to some who saw the ex-high school principal “do his act” at the annual Lake City Bank-Creighton Brothers breakfast at the Shrine Building at the county fairgrounds last Wednesday. Henry was appropriately backed up by his female colleagues — Kaye Hare, Arlene Dellinger and Pam Unruh. Somewhere between 1,200 and I, were served, it was reported. BUSINESS NOTE: The relatively new Premiere Corporation, located on West Brooklyn Street and manufacturing windows for the mobile home and recreational vehicle industry, has been purchased by a Texas firm. Premier has four plants in all, operating its Syracuse plant with some 80 employees. The company has been pulling out of the economic slump with flying colors, we’re informed. What’s more, the company’s name has been changed from Premiere Corporation to Kinro, Incorporated. Other than that, everything remains about the same. Bob Williams is plant manager. A LITTLE “did you know” thrown on our desk: • An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal, and, • Dogs may be excellent companions for children — but not substitutes for parents, and, • A perfect example of minority rule is a baby in the house, and, • Human beings, like chickens, thrive best when they have to scratch for their food, and finally, • A budget is what you stay within if you go without. BEING IN the newspaper business, one learns much information through fellow publications. Upon recently reading the Carroll County Comet, it was learned that Larry and Linda Thompson, formerly of Nappanee, are selling their funeral home business in Delphi and plan to move back to Nappanee and assume responsibility for the Wright-Yoder Funeral Home. While official papers won’t be drawn up until later this summer, probably around the first of July, the future sale seems to be common knowledge in Nappanee. The Yoders, Carl and Wavy, are very active community people. Among other hobbies, Carl enjoys flying a plane and Wavy is a vital part of the Nappanee OES. Since one of our reporters, personally knows i the Yoders and drives past the funeral home twice a day, more information about the pending salp will be reported later. While we re on the topic, not only is the Nappanee operation family run, but Carl is a brother to Milo Yoder who operates the Yoder-Culp Funeral Home in Goshen. — G. W. PRINTERS* INK seems to run thick in the veins of members of the Tranter family. Jim has developed a unique specialty printing service. Tranter Graphics, at 507 North Indiana Avenue, and his younger brother Dave is publisher of the Tribune-News, serving Pierceton and South Whitley, both in the Whitko School District. The weekly publication has a circulation exceeding 2,000, and is planning to observe its 100th anniversary on Tuesday, June 7. Founded as the South Whitley Magnet in 1883, the name has been changed to the Whitley County News, and in 1914 to the South Whitley Tribune. When the old Pierceton Press, a weekly publication serving Pierceton and published by publishers of The Mail-Journal, ceased publication in 1971, following 21 years of service to that community, Tranter expanded his South Whitley news coverage to serve Pierceton as well. WHEN ONE steps into the office of William C. Stucky, comptroller at Classic Formed Products in the Industrial Park, one feels he’s in the presence of a nautical enthusiast. For his walls are fairly replete with photos and artifacts of the world of sailing. No doubt, Bill and his family which shares his interest in sailing, were on hand over the week end when the Wawasee Yacht Club opened. Stucky, a native of Berne, Ind., resides in the Goshen area, and came to this general area as an employee of Weyerhauser Co. of Middlebury, then worked with Commodore Corp, before moving next door to Classic Formed Products. WHEN DR. Wendel R. Shank, Syracuse optometrist, had the old house on South Huntington Street torn down, located just north of the fire station, rumors multiplied that he was about to build a new office. “Not true,” says his longtime secretary Jeanne Insley. She noted, however, that the good doctor has not closed off his options for a new building sometime in the future. Dr. Shank, born in Wakarusa, graduated from Goshen High School, opened his office here, above the bank, in 1956, and has been located in the Huntington Building for most of his active years in Syracuse. NOTICE THE nice red and white petunias in the uptown pots? They were the gift on Saturday of Maribell Baker of Baker’s Market on SR 13 south of town. She provided the flowers as a gift to the town and individual merchants planted them. LIBERTY HOMES, Inc., which is making a major building renovation at its big Syracuse plant, announced this week net sales for the first quarter of 1983 of 124,169,009, an increase of 11, over the same period last year, with net (Continued on page 5)