The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 34, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 September 1983 — Page 5

It happened... in Syracuse

10 YEARS AGO. SEPT. 7.1073 Wiley (Bill) Spurgeon Jr. a resident of Wawasee North Shore has been elected president of the Wawasee Property Owners association for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murray, r 4, Syracuse will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary at an open house at the home of the couple’s daughter, Mrs. Dallas (Kathy) McKibben, also of Syracuse. The Syracuse American Legion Post 223 installed new officers. President, Mrs. Bill Eyer; First vice president, Mrs. Joe Bushong; second Vice president, Mrs. Carl Myrick; third Vice president, Mary Kestler. John Whybrew, r 1 Syracuse was treated for a neck pain after losing control of his motorcycle on CRSSON. The cycle crashed in-

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to a field and caught fire. Harry Appenzeller is announcing a new Dodge auto dealership in Syracuse. It will be known as Lakeland Motors, on South Huntington Street. 20 YEARS AGO, SEPT. 7,1963 > An estimated $2,000 in merchandise was stolen from Tom Socks Sportswear, a clothing establishment in the Wawasee Village, south of Syracuse. The break-in occurred sometime between Sunday night and dawn on labor Day. Steven R. Yoder, is one of 18 prospective teachers of the deaf to receive a scholarship to study at Ball State. Mr. Yoder is the son of Mrs. Stanley Grimes, Syracuse and Ebert Yoder, Goshen. Mrs. Jean Rogers and daughter, Mrs. Donna Hostetler

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and children all of Syracuse attended the state fair in Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Chet Reed of Chet Reed Car Parts of Syracuse and Ligonier, entertained at their cottage for their employees and families. The Syracuse Saddle Club met on Monday, September 2, at the club house. The meeting was conducted by President Mrs. Cliff Detwiller. 30 YEARS AGO, SEPT., 7,1953 Dr. Charles Mathews, a native of Connersville, has joined the staff of Drs. Clark and Craig in a general practitioner capacity. - Mr. and Mrs. Charles O’Haver Sr., will observe their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday, September 13, at their home on North Harrison in Syracuse. A small English made car owned by Joe Bender, an employee of the Journal, displayed a degree of ambition Wednesday, when it voluntarily left its parking position. It rolled slowly but surely and came to an abrupt halt when it struck the rear end of another vehicle. An estimated damage of $35 was done.

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(Continued from page 4) them not to deface or mare it. Now less than a week later this kindly lady was seen scrubbing away at the front of the memorial because someone had taken a colored marker and wrote unseemly messages on it. THIS HUMBLE scribe has always subscribed to the idea that a man should have his locks trimmed in a barber shop — in a man’s world, in a manner of speaking. But this theory has been more or less exploded of late as men frequent beauty parlors to have their hair “styled.” Big deal! Well, last week we allowed ourselves to be persuaded to give these so-called stylists a try. “Put a little pizzaz in your life,” was the phrase that pushed us over the side. Heretofore, the only lady who ran her fingers across our “old gray head” - shades of Martha Fritchie - was the late Ethel Good, who ran a barbershop in Milford with her husband Harry. We chose Sandy Wappas of Village Hair Trends to do us justice — if indeed, justice could be done to this thinning pate. She smiled as she appraised the job before her, as if to say, ”1 really got my work cut out for me here.” First a wash, then a trim, then a blow dry, followed by more trim. The whole treatment. The real peace de resistance came when she applied what is loosely called “a tint. ” Tint or not, I didn’t recognize the fellow in the mirror until Sandy woke us up to say, “Now, how do you like that?” I felt transformed, we can tell you, and it made the fact that we’ll reach another milestone the first day of next month much less awesome.

Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher had as Sunday dinnerguests Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Baker, Mr. ami Mrs. Willard Conn and daughter all of Milford 50 YEARS AGO, SEPT. 7,1983 At an extraordinary meeting Friday evening, the Chamber of Commerce approved a tentative code submitted by the W. M. Wilt Company of Indiana. George Xanders, a prominent Democratic attorney of Syracuse was named as County Attorney of Kosciusko County. Xanders was the unanimous choice of the board. Harriet Bachman left for Bloomington where she will enter Indiana University this year as a freshman. Over 40 people attended a surprise birthday party for Mrs. Ella Robinson Sunday. She is one of eight children, five of her sisters and families enjoyed a basket dinner. Syracuse Day at the Worlds Fair to Chicago, Thursday, September 14. A special train Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offer the fare for adults $2.50, children $1.35 round trip.

As we left Sandy’s shop, she gave the occasion just the right glow by smiling and saying “Now you be careful out there! ” — AEB IF YOU notice Jay Peffley walking quite gingerly, it’s with good reason. Last Wednesday he stepped into his fishing boat at his East Shore Drive home, slipped when he stepped on a boat pillow, fell and broke three ribs on his right side. On Thursday he was X-rayed at the Goshen Hospital where it was determined the ribs were broken. CLEM LISOR, owner/operator of Sportsman Center in the Village for the past 30 years, calls this season’s business “one of the best I’ve ever had.” Clem has increased his inventory somewhat, but considers that only part of the story. He called last summer a good season, but this year’s business totals were considerably better. “I think everyone around here (who is in the recreation business) had a good summer,” Lisor concluded. MR. AND Mrs. Arthur (Orpha) Van Anda celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary on Saturday, September 3. Mr. Van Anda has been associated with the lake area for 73 years and he and Mrs. Van Anda have owned their present cottage in the Eli Lilly Addition, Lake Wawasee for 45 years. They are the parents of three children, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

“The Indiana hospitality and tourism industry would get a tremendous boost if schools didn’t open until after Labor Day,” Lt. Governor John Mutz said this week. He called for schools to push back the beginning of the fall term in order for Labor Day to again be the most active vacation season of the summer. Mutz said the school year should not be shorter. The school days now used in late August and early September would be made up in late May and early June. The lieutenant governor made the appeal for a later school start during a news conference held by the side of an empty public swimming pool in Ellenberger Park on the Indianapolis eastside. He said that if school were not in session this warm morning, the pool would likely be filled with youngsters and the lifeguard chairs manned by student lifeguards. “A survey taken by our Tourism Development Division

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shows that the number of visitors to several Indiana tourist attractions drops sharply, in early August, as families begin to prepare for the start of school,” Mutz said. “I’d like to see Labor Day be summer’s ’last hurray’ again. A more active Labor Day week end would help extend summer jobs for students and generate greater income for all the small businesses that depend on tourism.” He said Labor Day is potentially a much bigger period for travel and tourism spending than the weeks in May and June that would be required for school with the post-Labor Day start. “Far more people vacation in August, or would like to, than any other time of year,” Mutz said. Mutz is director of the Indiana Department of Commerce, which includes the Tourism Development Division. Lt. Governor Mutz cited a major southern Indiana tourism attraction that suffers a $245,000 drop in income in the two weeks prior to Labor Day . The number of visitors dropped in half beginning August 16 at another attraction. He said that families stop visiting tourist attractions before school begins because they begin budgeting for clothes, books and school fees. “We are really looking at two-three weeks of August as being lost to the tourism industry when schools start this early. Yet August is traditionally the biggest vacation month of the year. It’s obvious that tourism can contribute much more to Indiana jobs and revenue if it can build to a big Labor Day week end. ” Lt. Governor Mutz added that he still agrees with Governor Bob Orr that the school year should be increased by five days. Those days could be added in June, or some could replace current school vacation days, he said. Missouri is the first state to pass a law directing schools to open after Labor Day. It found that 75 per cent of the parents it polled favored the later school start. Job training oct effects Kosciusko County On August 25, the Northern Indiana Job Alliance and local elected officials announced that agreements had been reached for delivery of Job Training Partnership Act services in Kosciusko, Elkhart, Marshall and LaGrange Counties, effective October 1. The agreements, endorsed by both private sector representatives and government officials, will result in more than $1.5 million provided to the four counties for job training services during the nine-month period of October 1 through June 30,1984. The Northern Indiana Job Alliance, a newly formed group of business and community leaders, was appointed by the governor to administer the funding for the four counties. Local elected officials have been working with the alliance to ensure coordination in planning. The alliance and elected officials have selected Employment and Developmental Systems, Inc. to serve as grant recipient and administrative entity for the nine-month period. Job training services under this program will be locally available in each county beginning October 1. For more information on the program, contact: Philip Hoff, Employment and Developmental Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 785, Frankfort, Ind., 46401; or call 317-6594763. Northenor named to PSC panel Kosciusko County Auditor and GOP County Chief Jean Northenor was named by Gov. Robert Orr to a seven-member committee which recommends appointments to the state’s Public Service Commission. The committee, which was mandated by the 1983 Legislature, is made up of three appointees of the governor and one each from the legislative leadership of both parties of the Indiana House and Senate. No more than four committee members may be from the same political party. Orr’s other two appointees were Frankfort Mayor Mary Jane McMahon, a Republican who will serve as committee chairman, Grant W. Hawkins St., and Indianapolis Democrat and retired small-businessman. The seven members will serve four-year terms.

Wed., September 7,1983 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Letter to the editor

What is the Legion?

Dear Editor: How thoughtful it is for the family of the deceased to request memorial contributions to a local organization in hopes that monies otherwise spent on soon to fade floral displays will in some small measure benefit the community. How thoughtless of the elected officers of these organizations to ignore the basic tenets of social etiquette. The Syracuse American Legion has received a number of contributions in memory of Harry Van Hemert. However, the officers of this organization have yet to advise Harry’s widow of

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U.S. SENATOR DAN QUAYLE’S visit to Warsaw last week to support Democrat-turned-Republican candidate Jeff Plank for the Warsaw mayoral race may have turned a few heads in GOP ranks statewide. Quayle, elected as a Republican in 1980 by beating out veteran Democrat Birch Bayh in the Ronald Reagan sweep, was on a Labor Day vacation visiting several different Indiana cities. His approach in the political rabble rouser, which Plank officials described as a community meeting, was to enlist his support of Plank based on the former Warsaw teacher’s age and aggressiveness. Quayle felt it was more valuable to the city of Warsaw to have a mayoral candidate young and aggressive because of the competition between U.S. cities to attract new industry. Plank, 35, believes in that formula, especially since Warsaw city politics have been dominated by the elder statesman Mike Hodges for several years. The senator’s message was purely Republican, however, and he did support Plank as the Republican candidate — making mention of a unified party in Warsaw — to the 150 people in attendance. But the senator’s message must have been a welcomed event for Plank, who could have been hurt rather than helped if Quayle chose to dwell on the importance of die-hard Republicans. WHILE THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES in Warsaw had the chance to meet a U.S. Senator, members of the Democratic party in that city can meet the state’s auditor, Otis E. Cox. Ronald Dirck, the Demos candidate for mayor, and candidates Virginia Summe, Jay Robinson, Bob Richmond and Bob Gast will most likely be in attendance at the annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Shrine Building. Joining the Democrats will be next year’s 3rd District Congressional candidates, Michael Barnes and Steve Ross.

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whom these contributors were from. This information would at least allow her to personally express her thanks to these people. Might we suggest that in addition to Close Order Drill, Flag Etiquette and Drum and Bugle routines that members of this organization avail themselves of a basic course in social manners. Perhaps the membership would be well to inquire of the Commander what the priorities really are. Is the Syracuse American Legion a comn nity oriented fraternal organization or just another place dispensing alcoholic beverage? Douglas O. Van Hemert

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