The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 November 1983 — Page 5

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

(Continued from page 4) BILL BEEMER, S-W Chamber of Commerce president, and Joe Gray, its ex-sec., were pleased with the turn-out of last Wednesday’s fall membership chamber meeting, with some 70 members in attendance. They were pleased to report an upturn in the local economy and the promise of a new 66-bed nursing home for the area, plus the announcement of a three-year $6.5 million rebuilding and restructuring of the old Oakwood Park on Lake Wawasee. The announcement that Oakwood planned to change its local image, to be more a part of the local community was pleasing to all who heard those words from Rev. Hunter A. Coipitts. A retired Muncie minister, Rev. Coipitts received national publicity when he raised $1,510,000 on the morning of December 16,1979 as the Muncie High Street Church’s portion of a $4.8 rebuilding program following damages done by a gas explosion in the church, the result of the 1978 storm “I’m not a fund-raiser.” says the good reverend, but he’ll tell you. that since the event of “Miracle Sunday.” he has had all sorts of fund-raising offers. If we were Rev. Bruce Ough, who is heading up the Oakwood project, we’d be mighty pleased to have Rev. Coipitts at our right hand. —o— GVS LISKE, member and past president of the Syracuse-Wawasee American Legion Post 223 which conducted the Friday Veterans' Day services in uptown Syracuse, was appreciative of the work Syracuse police officers did in traffic control that the services went on uninterrupted. — o— PETE SAVAGE, also known as “Choo-Choo” for his occupation as a railroad worker, is scheduled to leave Tuesday for a round-the-world trip of three months. His itinerary is as follows: Chicago/O'Hare to Frankfurt, to Vienna, to Belgrade, to Copenhagen, to Helsinki, to Tokyo/Marita. to Hong Kong, to Manila, to Singapore, to Sidney, to Auckland, to Fiji Islands, to Los Angeles, to Las Vegas, and back to O’Hare. He has made a number of overseas trips in recent years, this being his second trip to the South Pacific. -oDON’T BE too surprised if you hear an establishment uptown retail store is soon to change locations, but remain in the uptown area.

''rM?\ Sr J At—Xi\ k • < tF ■ Ifew <W ■»■ i -IR. -Me MW BRIDGE ON SCHEDULE — Construction of the new South Huntington Street bridge in Syracuse is on schedule, according to Ronald (“Lefty”) Howell, owner of Small Construction Co. of North Liberty, contractors on the job. Howell said he began the job on September 19 and is scheduled to have it completed in April. Traffic should be able to cross the new bridge by December 1. he said. He noted that “water has been good to us.” meaning it has been low and favorable to construction. However, the firm did encounter more concrete than has been anticipated in the old bridge they are removing. The crew is currently “doing decking” on the south span and removing old concrete on the north wall. Howell’s contract with the state highway department for the new bridge is $205,000. Auction on November 26 An auction will be held at 2p m Consignments or donations are day through Friday or evenings Saturday Nov 26 in Camelot welcomed Some antiques have and week ends by appointments Hall sponsored by the Inter already been received. No clothing please. For more in-, national Palace of Sports Items may be taken to the formation call the Palace, Palace from 9am. to 5 p.m. Mon- 834-7060. Your Water! I We can help you get cleaner, safer, and pure water by using filtration and 1 magnetics to take out microbiological contaminants, suspended solids, inorganic solutes, and organic compounds that are sometimes and increasingly found in our water supplies. Whether you use city or well water we help you clean up your water tailoring our filters and magnetic equipment to your problem. We make free water tests and estimate by appointemnt. Also you may rid yourself of the inconvenience, undesirability and expense of salt. Research proves it’s not healthy drinking or t cooking with sodium water. Our system uses NO salt and NO chemicals. I USE A NEW CLEAN WATER FILTER SYSTEM nit WAHRTFSTA ESTIMAH — ■ IlArnl Ta lAkhLimM ** WIQBI IQ IfIICHIQfIQ mOgnOTICSf IHCe roriirawn . P.O.BuU* Hon-Chemical Water ! Elkhart, IN 4isis Filtration, Conditioning ! I would like more information on Clean Water J Or Purification Available ■ R,ter Systems I NAME II Call | rooNt ! | 294-5212 a ammhss | ■ an ; zip 11 ElkhartßA.M.-6P.M. ■ TP JI Or Mail The Coupon LiMMHBUBMBBBBawiMWBeawiHIWiwJ I

THE OCCASION wasn’t clear, but drug exec. Ralph Thornburg showed up for work early Tuesday morning with spatula in hand, plus all the proper ingredients, to cook a full-blown breakfast for store employees. , Friends are beginning to wonder if Ralph isn’t a frustrated chef, for this isn’t the first time he took his turn at kitchen chores. He doned a chef’s tall hat at last year’s Lions chib’s chili cook off in the Rubber Co. parking lot, and turned out a fairly good dish of chib, if highly seasoned. Where all this will lead to is anyone’s guess. —o— THERE ARE some ruffled feathers concerning the long closing of the South Huntington Street for the replacement of that bridge. The stream has been closed off and Turkey Creek is dried up, but the comments mentioned here are from Syracuse businessmen. While this is true. Ronald (“Lefty”) Howell, contractor and project manager, claims work is right on track and the bridge should be open for traffic by December 1. The entire project is to be completed in April. —o— JERI MEDITCH. 21-year-old daughter of Carl and Kay Meditch. 196 North Shore Drive, made the front cover of The Ball State Alumnus. 68,000 copies of which goes into the mail this week. She’s a Wawasee High School graduate of 1980 and a senior at Ball State University, chairman of that school's homecoming committee. In a posed photo, she’s holding a ball being kicked by assistant dean for student programs James Marine. Both are wearing painters’ caps, and Jeri does the cover proud. Inside the same issue in group photo is Kent Stichter, a WHS graduate in 1982 and son of Robert and Harriet Stichter of r 1 Milford. Kent is one of 16 to receive Whitinger scholarships for outstanding academic excellence. He’s a Warrior near-great. —O'JANIE FRICKE, our rural South Whitley friend who has been setting the world of country music afire, was featured in a full, four-color front page picture in Grit’s November 15th issue, plus a page feature story entitled, “She Whips Shyness in Rise to Stardom. ” It’s worth reading. In 1982 superstar Janie won the Country Music Association’s “Female Vocalist of the Year” award, an honor she repeated last month.

Milford Lions project—

Set up Drug Task Force at Milford

By JERI SEELY The biggest problem with drugs is a denial that the problem exists was stressed during last Wednesday’s viewing of “The Chemical People” an the Milford Community Building.” The twopart series and panel discussions were hosted by the Milford Lions with a task force meeting held last night (Tuesday). The goal of “The Chemical People,” noted First Lady Nancy Reagan, is to organize in an effort to get those who are suffering and those who can help together. Parents can’t face the problem alone. A task force, she said, is a group of people who agree to meet and work on a problem, knowing they won’t be successful overnight. The television program pointed out the fact that a task force has to remain open to points of view of others. Task force members shouldn’t get hung up looking for the problem and trying to find out who is to blame. A task force should think about a perfect community and work from there. Policemen can talk to school classes, mothers and grandmothers can deliver monthly newsletters and supervise activities for children to keep them busy. Offenders can be helped by the offering of a chance to enter a drug awareness class. Involvement and prevention were both stressed during the program. Parents were told to watch for symptoms of persons who are addicts. Some of those symptoms follow: • Closing doors to seek privacy •Separating themselves from others (friends, family) •Not interested in what the family is doing • Different friends • Bum holes in clothing • Redness of eyes and use of something to take the red out • Sleeping more than usual • Grades slack off “Kids are worth fighting for ... the problem won’t just go away,” said Sandy Duncan. “You have to do something about it,”

Letter to the editor

Teachers seek support

Dear Editor: Are you aware: (1) that the children in the Lakeland Community School Corporation are being taught by teachers whose salaries are well below the state average? (2) that most teachers in the Lakeland Community School Corporation are receiving less net income this year than last? Home Arts Club meets in home of Pauline Cormany The members of the Home Arts Club met at the home of Pauline Cormany recently with members learning a lot through discussions. The affair opened with the women pledging to the flag their allegence. This was followed with a short meditation concerning their gratitude towards God for little things. The women same the song of the month, “Come, Ye Thankful People.” Juanita Sparks opened the meeting, discussing the topic of hypertension and high blood pressure. Along with her remarks, she gave a brief way to control these problems through the help of each one’s personal physician. Vera Schell gave garden tips. She told how to control insect pests within home stored foods. After Nilah Jonasch reported on the loss citizenship, Mrs. Cormany spoke on salads and dressings. The women voted to give the mental health association a donation. Betty Eaton recieved the monthly prize. A pot-luck dinner will be held at Ruth Zimmerman’s home in December.

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she continued, “and a task force is away to show kids we really care.” Prevention is the obvious beginning and the long term solution said Nancy Reagan. She urged people to start educating elementary students, stating educating youngsters is the key to prevention. Peer pressure was discussed with positive peer leadership being the key. There are better ways to get high* Teenagers on the program listed books, dancing and movies as some alternatives to drugs. One young man brought a laugh from the crowd with “basketball and girls*” Prevention is the best medicine — communities were urged to set up drug policies in schools and to hold community parties for youngsters. Police in some communities increase patrols after games and other events where drugs are prevalent. At the conclusion of the program the questions were ask, “Do we know what our kids are doing? ... What kind of example do we set?” Panel On last Wednesday’s panel were Dr. William Percy, new Milford physician; Myron Dickerson, Wawasee High School coach and dean of students; Dick Roose, Milford Junior High teacher and guidance director; Tom Speicher, Milford pharmacist; and Sgt. Tom Kitch, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department. Each was ask to comment on the film. Dr. Percy said he felt it very inspiring but took issue of a task force setting up a ways and means program for funds to help pay for treatment. He said AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and AlAnon would do the same type of job at no charge. They are good and they can be found near-by. Dickerson said WHS principal Dr. Howard J. Hull had taken positive steps since coming to Wawasee with punishment being more severe. He too agreed with AA and Al-Anon being the best choice for young people. He has talked with several families who

(3) that the Board of School Trustees of the Lakeland Community School Corporation is in a position to improve this deplorable situation substantially? Most of us know excellent, dedicated teachers who have found it necessary to leave the profession because of inadequate pay. Let us not see this happen here in the Lakeland community School Corporation. Let us support our teachers in their quest for a just salary increase. Our children will be the losers if we don’t. Citizens who are concerned about the education of the children in the Lakeland Community Schools should let the Board of School Trustees know that Lakeland teachers deserve a fair settlement. Crisis committee, Lakeland Community Education Association: Casimir Szynal Donna Yargosz Jane Wieczork Betsy Hoffman Anna Clay Jodi Pearl Noreta Mort Richard Edwards Travelogue at . Rotary meeting Arch Baumgartner, publisher of The Mail-Journal, presented an European travelogue at the Tuesday luncheon meeting of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club. The slide presentation and narrative concerned the Baumgartners’ visit to six European countries with the National Newspaper Association in October. It had particular emphasis on the European Economic Community (EEC) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

|| >r ap MP—-■UBK-STbsSESKS TO FORM TASK FORCE — Following a successful two-part television viewing and panel discussion of “The Chemical People” the Milford Lions spearheaded a meeting on Tuesday. Nov. 15. the forming of a task force. The meeting was slated for 7:30 p.m. in the community building with all interested persons invited to attend. Shown above is Milford Lions President Dr. Bruce Lamb and panel members at last Wednesday’s program. On the panel from left are Dr. William Percy, new Milford physician: Myron Dickerson. Wawasee High School coach and dean of students; Dick Roose, Milford Junior High teacher and guidance counselor; Tom Speicher. Milford pharmacist; and Sgt. Tom Kitch of the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department.

have been to AA with successful results. The dean of students noted all schools have problems and said he was glad to see young people at the Wednesday meeting. Last year more young ladies than men were caught at Wawasee with drugs. One had from 300 to 500 pills taped to her socks and another had a three by five bag full of marijuana. Alcohol is the greatest problem at the present time. When it is suspected a student is drinking the parents are contacted. Most of them are receptive. Parents can then check and most. Dickerson said, are concerned. Most seek help. Roose said he felt natural highs were important ... noting the kids of today need something like “basketball and girls” to fill their leisure time. He said they had a guest speaker at the junior high school last year on drugs and alcohol who said the number one drug is alcohol. Others on the panel agreed with this. Roose said he agreed with the prevention part of the program with the answer being in educating. Students need to be helped to stand on their own two feet. He also noted the first five years of a child’s life is the most important, therefore families should be educated and then in turn educate the younger children. Prevention, he said, is obviously the beginning of the long-time solution. Junior high youngsters, he continued, are between the ages of 11 and 15 and find peer pressure strong. They are not kids and they are not grown ups. They are caught between. They have different problems than they have ever had before Roose said the staff is interested and very concerned and they are taking both an indirect and direct ways of trying to help the students. He said the staff is interested and very concerned and closed with the fact that Bob Long's eighth grade science clades spend time at the close of the school year discussing drugs and their effect. Speicher agreed with the others on the program and said the drug store deals with alcohol and appetite supersessions which can be abused. He said codeine is found in some medicines that people have to sign for and he related the fact drug store employees will not sell medicine of that type to people they do not know. Speicher also said there is legal drug abuse with persons going to three or four physicians for perscriptions. The pharmacists try and make the physicians aware of this when it happens. He feels many times the kids who turn to drugs and alcohol are those were are very insecure and feel a need to be accepted. Kitch said the police began to develop a closer relationship with the schools in 1975, noting those kids who break the school rules are the ones who break the civil laws. He said Judge Robert Burner and the probation department worked with Henry Smith and are | MONK THROW ( BLANKET ; t ■ "I j ( Mod* By Ftoldcrast Mills For 1 i "LG. Hook" < This 100% Acrylic 50x60 Blanket 9 > Throw Will Moko A Porfoct Gilt | For A Booling Or Lak* Side ... f < Popular R«d/Whito/Bluo Colorings J S 27 M I j M Y Store gl ■to •<■

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now working with Dr. Hull and Dickerson and a trust has evolved between the two units where they try to compliment each other and keep an open line of communication. He said it’s sometimes easy to identify the problem but they don’t always have an answer. He complimented WHS for having the in-school suspension program and said the school is very forward in working on drug programs, stressing again the importance of education. Kitch said the judge is limited on what he can do with a juvenile. They (juveniles) have to be treated different according to state law. He can warn the juvenile and send him (or her) home, he can put a juvenile on probation, he can send a juvenile to a licensed group home or he can send a juvenile to the boys’ or girls’ home. Lamb then ask the question, “What can we as a community do?” Dickerson said he really felt young people need to be involved in as many things as possible and still get their school work done. This, however, is not the complete answer. Kitch was questioned on the four alernatives for a judge in Indiana and ask if there are alternatives in Kosciusko County as shown in the film. Kitch advised there were and named Oaklawn, Bowen Center, family physicians and taking the person from the family and putting him with someone else. Questioned on what is available in the county Kitch again named the Bowen Center. AA and AlAnon, which works with anyone who has a drug dependancy. Dr. Percy again reinforced the fact that if people know about drugs, talk about drugs and don’t deny drugs are around they will win the battle. The straight life vs the stoned life is always better, he said. Drugs give fun, enthusiasm and accelerate for a short time but it’s a short term gain for a long time pain, commented the doctor, who added the straight life has all of the joys to offer. He said people should be

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good example to their kids and to neighbor kids, saying alcoholics and divorce are bad examples. Again a stress was made of the fact that alcohol is the drug that is most widely used throughout Kosciusko County. Parents, it was noted, need to help. While not many smoke pot. many use alcohol and set a bad example. One person present noted that when he came to the meeting he thought lots of people would be in attendance, however, few were there. It was noted at 8 p.m. at night only a few business establishments are open* in downtown Milford. Kitch said teachers can be the best people to help people. He urged parents to talk to three or four teachers to get a good idea about how their kids are getting along. “What’s next?” was ask. “If we care about our fellowmen and neighbors we won’t be afraid to become involved,” came the reply. Another said the older persons should make themselves available to help younger parents Parents could be educated on what they should look for. People could help in school. Milford Marshal David Hobbs said there are programs the town, county and Indiana State Police could give at school. Kitch and Hobbs noted the new laws now put drivers under 18 in the adult catagory and they receive the same penalties as adults when caught driving under the influence. Lamb said it was the objective of the Lions to “get the ball rolling.” Discussion was held on the Parents in Action group at Wawasee and on the Students Against Drunk driving and of the fact these groups are good and should be used for resource, however, Milford, as a community, should do the work to help the problem here and not rely on others. A decision was made to hold a task force meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to continue discussions on what can be done in Milford

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