The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 31, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 August 1983 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., August 17,1983

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Editorials

Special ingredient for 'B3 Warriors Courageous. That’s the word Wawasee High School football coach Myron Dickerson uses in describing the 47 young men out for varsity football this season. Not skilled, not big, not experienced — not the hundreds of other words football coaches use to describe their team’s prospects. Courage doesn’t show up in the statistics, and it may not in the won-loss record either. It’s not in the football preview package in the M-J’s sports pages this week. And it might not be evidenced on the field at game time. But it’s there. “We don’t have any cowards out there ... the people who pulled gear I think are good, brave young men. I haven’t seen anybody shy away from anything,” said Dickerson. Eventually, it will show up. It just might lead to the attributes known to the better football teams, and, it could by the catalyst for far more important things than a game. Things like work, college, adulthood... Wawasee opens the 1983 football campaign at home this Friday, 7:30 p.m., against rival North Wood. The Panthers promise to be a formidable foe, just like the rest of the opponents on this season’s schedule. Wawasee will be grappling with the addition of new and younger faces as it comes to grip with the loss of 14 regulars to graduation last spring. The early start and lack of experience will be big obstacles for the Warriors. Obstacles which aren’t insurmountable, though, not as long as the Warriors have their courage. Exercise your reason As is the case with any public event, the Kosciusko County 4-H Fair was criticized by some and praised by others. Specifically offensive were midway rides and grandstand events such as the mud wrestling. According to Emra Stookey, fair board president, while the mud wrestling brought in a “good bunch of change,” it was a one-time event. The important thing to remember, continued Stookey, is that the “whole fair is 4-H.” Bringing in grandstand events and midway attractions benefits 4-H by producing funds for its programs. Granted, the mud wrestling cannot be classified as clean, wholesome fun, but worth noting is the fact that several of the queen candidates held their own mud wrestling contests as fund-raisers. One local resident who is active in church and other Christian organizations did not attend the event herself and was even “surprised at the people who went.” But those who did attend, who are also Christian people, considered the contest “funny.” Mud wrestling like the formerly popular wet T-shirt contests, is a new form of “entertainment” that will go as fast as it came. Fortunately as reasoning human beings, we have the option to choose whether or not to attend. For those who are interested in spending money to watch college coeds wallow in the mud, enjoy. And for those who are offended by the action, avoid. , While the fair board itself was “disappointed” in the midway company this year, Stookey assured the Fremont, Ohio-based group was aware of the dissatisfaction. Also to be remembered here is that the midway is another fundraiser for. 4-H and “as far as the payback is concerned, they are an honest group.” As was aptly stated by the local resident who has two children active in 4-H, “To really enjoy the Warsaw fair, you need to get involved in 4-H. I didn’t spend much time on the midway because the most fun is down around the livestock barns where you can see and talk to the people — 4-H should be the main interest of all fair activities.” Summer and school For millions of youngsters, August is a time when tragedy (or joy) overtakes them. For those who love the freedom of summer, hot weather and outdoors, and lack of study, school’s reopening is stark tragedy. For millions of others, who love school and association with friends and learning, it’s a time of joy. Geniuses and successful men and women have developed from both temperaments. Winston Churchill, for example, was a poor student. In today’s world, however, successful study is more important than ever. As the world grows more technical and complex and competition becomes greater and greater education becomes increasingly important. It is not only the best investment for the student but the best investment for adult citizens in their community. Therefore, accept the beginning of a new school year as a challenge, if you are of school age, and make the best of it. School years, and one’s youthful years in general, are not always easy years. But they are years of opportunity and challenge — and those who move out to meet the opportunity and challenge in school today are likely to be the leaders of tomorrow. Hint to pubic speakers: Profanity does not improve oratory. People tire easily when they’re doing something they dislike.

What others say — There must be a better way There must be a better way to select a 4-H Fair Queen than that used in Kosciusko County where the 1983 model was named Saturday night at the conclusion of the annual affair. How many of you can remember several years ago when Miss Carroll County was chosen with the fair almost over, like it was on Wednesday night? Yes, the honored young lady received many accolades, but the men and women who run the Carroll County 4-H Fair recognized a few years ago that, instead of the Queen contest being the conclusion to the fair it was a better idea to begin with it. Doesn’t it make sense that the newly-crowned Queen can really enjoy herself for the next six days? We believe it’s the only way to do it. After all, what happens if something happens to Miss Kosciusko County during the coming 51 weeks before the next fair begins. There are so many things which could happen and the young lady might never receive her proper recognition. Thank goodness our 4-H Fair Committee recognized this weakness and changed it a long time ago. We realize that it will be a difficult change to make, but surely something could be worked out.

- CARROLL COUNTY COMET

IL ' WATER BREAK — The hot August days will make many a Warrior thirsty, as these football players testify. Coach Myron Dickerson's Wawasee football team is preparing for the earliest start in Indiana football history. The season opens with a home encounter against North Wood, Friday. Pictured are team captain Tony Blackburn (second from left) and Jeff Carden. (Photo by Gary Lewis) kA i i 457-36660 r M-J rillSe Ca 11658-4111, Ext. 17

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Nine years have passed since Richard Nixon became the first president to resign from office in order to escape impeachment. What are your feelings about Nixon today? Results of last week’s question: What do you think of the PSC’s approval of 20 per cent increase for Northern Indiana Public Service Company? I think it stinks. My NIPSCo bill has already doubled over last year. I’m not looking forward to paying an additional increase over that.. .1 don’t especially care for it. What can you do?.. .1 think it’s terrible. I don’t think they needed an increase.. .Well, I don’t think I should comment on that. I really don’t.. .It stinks. I think it is another in a long line of atrocities that the PSC has let NIPSCo get by with. . .It’s a bunch of bologna. They just keep coming back for more. . .It stinks. To be honest, I don’t have much to say about it beyond that.. .They should have said, “..., no!” Somebody’s got to do something to stop these utilities a little bit. They’re robbing the people.

Rev. Richey —

"Jesus Christ!"

If that title is offensive to you, come join the crowd. I just spent a week in the Elkhart General Hospital! One night, I was awakened, believing in my “pre-awakenening moments” that I was in a service of worship where I was hearing these happenings: The loud gong of a church bell symbolizing the beginning of our worship, and the words “Jesus Christ, Christ Almighty.” Then, I heard a little nurse, who was, with two or three other nurses, trying to turn my roommate so that his broken hip might be in a different position for awhile to rest him, and she said, in response to his language, “He’s my Saviour!” Then I came fully awake, only to discover that what I had thought was the pealing of a church bell was really my roommate beating his metal urinal on the hard surface of his bedside table, and the words were not, as I had thought “a part of litany, or call to worship,” but his words were curses — and her words were a witness to her faith in Jesus the Christ! This became a thrill to me, for the language and the action which had to be repulsive to this Christian nurse was accepted by her as the action and the language of a pain-wretched body of a senile old man. Her words were probably not heard by him, and even if heard, were not recorded by him. But I heard them, and I heard her very simple Christian witness in the midst of this turmoil, as did each of the other attendants who were seeking to relieve this old man’s exTHE MAIL-JOURNAL IUSPS 375 840) Published by The Mail-JouriMl every Wednesday and entered as Second Class matter at the Post OHice at Syracuse. Indiana 405*7. Second class postage paid at I*3 E. Main Street. Syracuse. Indiana 4*547 and at additional entry offices Subscription: 514 per year in Kosciusko County.- Si *SO outside county. POSTMASTERS. Send change of address forms to The Mail-Journal, P.O. Bex 188. Milford, Indiana 4*542. 10l ry

cruciating pain. That’s just like HIS GREAT LOVE! My hat's off to the fourth floor orthopedic group —a great group of dedicated persons, working in the ministry of healing and restoring these broken bodies and minds! Court news SUPERIOR COURT The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Robert Burner, judge: Complaint Counting House Bank vs Fee’s Apparel, Inc., doing business as The Attic, P.O. Box 417, North Webster. The plaintiff is seeking a judgment against the defendant for the sun of $1,712.38 plus interest to date, costs of action and attorney’s fees for a promissory note Support Annette L. Ratcliff vs Lorri Mae Pischke, r 2 box 78E Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking a judgment against the defendant asking fair and reasonable support for one minor child MARRIAGE DISSOLUTIONS The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Circuit and Superior Courts: Shoemaker — Laurel A. Shoemaker vs William D. Shoemaker, r 1 Leesburg. The couple was married March 21, 1964, and seperated July 31,1983. The plantiff is seeking custody and support for the couple’s two minor children Mock — Cheryl Mock vs Bruce Mock, r 2 box 554-A Syracuse. The couple was married August 14,1971, and separated August 3, 1983. The plaintiff is seeking custody and support of the couple’s two minor children CITY COURT The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Cynthia L. Harman, 33, Syracuse, S3B; Steven P. Hicks, 34, Syracuse, $43 plea a i n; e4, ernando Q Garza - 18 ’ Milford, $43 Disregarding automatic signal — Frederick L. Averv 43 Syracuse, S3B Improper tires (studded) — Tracy W Minnix, 20, Syracuse $34 ’

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

■ * ' Tom Stiw IT’S ALWAYS nice to see a local man (or woman) make good, and it’s equally nice when we can call our readers’ attention to this fact. This week it’s Tom Stiver, a resident of 10S South Harrison Street with his wife Karen and two daughters: Becca, 15, and Lori, 11. Tom is the very successful insurance agent for the American National Insurance Company, working under general agent Merle Holden of Nappanee, and was chosen from the company’s 10,000 such agents to be featured in the July issue of the company’s monthly magazine ANICO. Just what Tom’s insurance sales were the article fails to mention, but it was sufficient to land three ink sketches of him on the magazine’s front cover. (Note: See above.) Three other pictures of Tom appear inside the magazine to illustrate the three-page account. Stiver was a math teacher and coach at Syracuse Junior High School before going into the insurance business in 1979. Nine years of that was enough, be said, feeling he wasn’t going anywhere. He sought a job that paid commenserate with his work performance. The insurance business seemed the natural choice. With American National he qualified three times as a President’s Club member, twice as a VIP winner, twice as a regional leading agent, and once as the Company’s President’s Club Premium Vice President. His record also includes qualification for the marketing conferences in 1981 and 1982. Locally, Tom is superintendent of education at the Syracuse Church of God and as a board member of the Syracuse Nursery School. He also contributes considerable time and energy to local youth athletic programs. Not a bad record for one who got into the insurance business in 1979. “No doubt about it,’* the article continues, “Stiver has gained experience beyond his years and an insight into the insurance business which he shared (in an interview carried in the remainder of the article.)*’ IT MUST have been a good time for insurance men. Bob Troutman, who has been selling insurance in Pickwick Place for the past two years, and his wife Marge arrived home last Tuesday evening from a 10-day trip into France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the guests of Auto Owners* Insurance Company of Lansing, Mich. Their trip included a memorable excursion down the storied Mosell and Rhine rivers, and a three and one-half hour trip on the seven-car Orient Express, which was recently refurbished. THE LATE Christian Koher was honored posthumously last Tuesday with a handsome citation presented to his son, best known as “J.R.” by the Indiana Vocational Association, at the Convention Center in Indianapolis. Koher died March 19. He was one of 11 so honored in the state of Indiana. Koher had been a continuous, member of the Building Trades Advisory Committee and except for two years has served as chairman of the committee at Wawasee High School. He was chairman of the first vocational advisory committee at Wawasee and an active member through the years. He was well acquainted with vocational education, one to whom the superintendent dr principal could turn to for suggestions an advice, and he was always willing to speak on any phase of vocational education to students, committees, or service clubs. Besides, he served on many vocational evaluation teams throughout northern Indiana. His experience on these teams has helped him to be influential in his home community regarding vocational education. Richard Wysong, vocational director at the high School, David McGrew of Spencer, former director at Wawasee, and area directors attended the Indianapolis meeting. A JOGGER’S prayer: Lord, you pick ’em up and I’ll set ’em down. NOW IT can be told: the sale of the Keidaish Vending Company of Ligonier to Orman O. McKinley and Charles S. Plumer has been consummated. The sale has been pending for some weeks, was common knowledge, but according to the new owners, news of final sale arrangements was not ready for release until now. The company is named after its original owner, Fred Keidaish of Cromwell, but McKinley and Plumer made their purchase from Leon Vance, owner of the vending firm for the past five years. McKinley, a resident with his wife Rose Marie of the Oakwood Park area, is an Indianapolis

native, but has been coming to Lake Wawasee since 1948, moving here permanently last May. He was in a family manufacturing business in Indianapolis for 25 years, then for the past 10 years has been a commercial and industrial real estate broker. Plumer is a resident of r 2 (North Shore Drive, Lake Wawasee). where he lives with his wife Eleanor. He was a Reith-Riley Construction Company superintendent for the past 25 years. Their new company concerns itself with, as McKinley puts it, “games, food and drinks.” And it serves a five-county area: Kosciusko, Noble, LaGrange, Elkhart and Whitley Counties. They hope to move its headquarters from Ligonier to Syracuse in the near future. HERSCHEL AND Charlotte Wells, who reside in “The Castle” on East Medusa Street, have made it known they have purchased the lot on Pittsburgh Street, located just east of the Lakeland Standard Service station, and plan to begin work yet this month on a new triplex dwelling unit at that location. The ambitious couple is the owner of the Kentucky Fried Chicken and Gropp’s Famous Fish of Stroh, both located on SR 13 in the Village. JAY AND Lucille Peffley arrived home Sunday, a little weary of travel that took them to Seattle, Wash., where they boarded a boat for a seven-day trip to several Alaskan cities of interest. They made the Alaskan portion of their trip with Mr. and Mrs. “Cap” Johnson of this area and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Blair of Florida. All three couples were former Goshen residents where they were dose friends. DR. AND Mrs. Charles W. (Hulda) Hursh were delighted to have their daughter and her family and other guests at their 20 North Shore Drive home over the week end. There’s a good chance they’ll be seeing more of daughter Anita and her family in the future, inasmuch as she and her husband. Dr. William R. Cast, a Fort Wayne ear, nose and throat specialist, recently purchased the Hamacher residence on Lake Wawasee, near the South Shore Golf Course, as a retirement home. Anita will be remembered as “Miss Indiana, 1958” who went to Atlantic City to win the swimsuit competition plus a SI,OOO scholarship to DePauw University in that heralded competition of beauty and talent. She is now on a National Arts Commission, having dined recently at the White House at the invitation of Nancy Reagan. She keeps slim and trim by running five miles each day. Anita has a son Carter who is a student at Stanford University on a swim scholarship, a daughter who is a senior at Yale, and a 12-year-old daughter Meghan at, home. JIM TRANTER didn’t miss the chance to “needle” his friend Bob Jones, an ardent Notre Dame fan, with this one: “Notre Dame just hired a new football coach, an oriental, whose name is Win One Soon.” TOBY (SCHUMM) Oswald is scheduled to leave today (Wednesday) with her daughter Amanda for Saudia Arabia after spending the summer months here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Schumm of the Hunnicutt Addition. She and Amanda will be flying Swissair from Chicago to . Zurich, Switzerland, then on to Dhahran where they live. Her husband, Jerry Oswald, is employed there by the Ara-bian-American Oil Company (AARAMCO). En route to Indiana the Oswalds spent a week in Switzerland, arriving here June 9. Jerry returned to his job July 13, and Toby and Amanda stayed on to await the birth of Katrina Jean on June 26, daughter of Toby’s brother Kip Schumm and his wife Pam. f AMONG THE Wawasee High School football veteran, class of 1973, who will be honored Friday night at the halftime of the season opener against North Wood, will be Mark A. Reiff, now assistant track coach in charge of field events at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Mark, the son of Bob and Pat Reiff of near North Webster, and bis wife Susan, are spending several weeks here with his parents and with Susan’s parents, John and Shirley Connolly, at their 5M South Lake St. home. The Warriors finished a 9-1 season in 1973, undefeated during the season except for a 10th game forfeit to Warsaw in order to participate in the playoffs. Susan will begin teaching junior high reading and language in the fall at Notre Dame Academy at Waterbury, Conn., a 40-minute drive from New Haven. Like her dad, she is a runner and tries to get in 2 and one-half to three miles each day. GONE, GONE: The piece of Limerick, Pa., land that Ronald Bercek bought in 1980 doesn’t exist but the county wants to sell it off anyway because he hasn’t paid taxes on it. Two years after buying the land at a 1980 sheriff’s sale, Bercek was told by the Montgomery County Tax Claim officer the land didn’t exist. “They called me up and said it wasn’t there, that it was gone, poof,” Bercek said Wednesday. “I asked where it went and they said they had no idea but that my land no longer existed.” He was told he would not get back the purchase price or the 1202 in taxes paid on the 180-by-400-foot lot in a rural area. Henry Bissig, director of the county assessment bureau, said the property existed once but was absorbed by neighboring properties. He said Bercek has no recourse. A NUMBER of residents on the east side of Lake Wawasee are “mighty upset” about a (Continued on page 5)