The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 45, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 November 1983 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL - Wed., November 23,1983

Editorials

What happened to Thanksgiving? What happened to Thanksgiving? Twice during the past week this editor found herself face to face with this question. Thanksgiving in America dates from 1621 and the Plymouth Colony as the Pilgrims gathered to give thanks for their food and their new country. The first presidential proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln in October of 1863. Hie day was intended to be a day to pause and thank the Lord for what he had given in the past year. Shopping in a area store last week this editor overheard another customer ask the clerk to please wrap the gift she had just purchased for Christmas. He wrapped the gift in pretty, flowered paper, apologized for not having his Christmas paper out until after Thanksgiving and wondered how many people were already shopping for Christmas gifts. A short time later I opened my Sunday School material to prepare for teaching Sunday’s lesson. I couldn’t believe it! Instead of teaching the youngsters to be thankful on Thursday, the lesson was “God’s Promise to send His Son,” the introduction to the Christmas teachings. What is happening to Thanksgiving? We all know it’s sandwiched somewhere between Labor Day and Christmas but it seems to have been lost. Thanksgiving Day has become a day to take off work, eat a big dinner, watch the Thanksgiving Day parade on television while the youngsters wait impatiently for Santa’s arrival at the close of the parade and to yell for a favorite team during the football games of the afternoon. Give this some thought and tomorrow as you sit down with your family take time to be thankful. Take time to let God know that Thanksgiving isn’t lost, just a little misplaced. Kerosene heat Over six million Americans have purchased kerosene heaters since 1974. Before that time, they had been unpopular because they sometimes started fires. But the sharp rise in heating costs, and new safer and improved models, brought these heaters back into vogue. Are they really safe in newer, tightly insulated homes. Last year the magazine Consumer Reports warned they were “hazardous” because they produced carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and other harmful gases. However, a later Consumer Product Safety Commission report stated that, if properly used, they posed no undue health hazard. It’s recommended that a window be opened, or doors to adjoining rooms be left open, when they’re used. Kerosene heaters are more expensive to purchase initially than electric heaters but cost less to operate. Also, they provide a sure heating source in areas where power can be interrupted by winter storms. But there are dangers. And everyone operating a kerosene heater, or several of them, should always keep in mind that they consume oxygen. Safety operating instructions should be followed carefully, and the oxygen supply carefully monitored. They should never be left burning in bedrooms at night. Advent wreaths The time for Advent Wreaths is once again at hand. This year November 27 is the first Sunday of Advent, when many families will light one upright candle in a green wreath on the center of Sunday’s dinner table. From one candle burned on November 27, two on December 4, three on the 11th, these families will burn the traditional four candles December 18, 7 days before Christmas. All these observances are a reminder of the coming of the major ecclesiastical event of the Christian calendar. The Advent Wreath has become a colorful and happy means of remembering and preparing for Christmas in advance, and brings cheerful and Christian thoughts to the dining room of millions of families for weeks prior to Christmas. Os all the seasons and celebrations of the year Christmas is the most memorable and enjoyable, and the most meaningful, and there’s no reason why those of all faiths and creeds cannot enjoy the spirit and meaning of Christmas, which is primarily a message of love for one’s fellow man, even though there are many differences in religious convictions in this great, free country.

What others say — A4y cup runneth over My cup runneth over with thanksgiving for: T Temples and tabernacles and trumpets, twilight, turkeys and turtles, and Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done H Hugs and hellos, harvests, ham and honey, harbors and highways, and Hallowed Be Thy Name A Angels and ancestors, altars and anthems, America the beautiful, and Abide With Me N November, new moons, north winds, nest eggs, and Near My God To Thee K Kisses and kittens, kites and kangaroos, killdeers, kitchens and King Os Kings, And Lord Os Lords S Smiles, sunshine and starlight, seagulls and shells and sandpipers, snowflakes, soap, and the Star Spangled Banner G Gangplanks, goats and geese and ghosts, gardenias, the green, green grass of home and Give Vs This Day Our Daily Bread I Indians, igloos, ivory, ink, ice cream, and . • In The Beauty Os The Lilies ‘V Violets and violins, velvet and valentines, voyages, and Verily, Verily, The Lord He Is God I Icicles, islands, incense, Indian summer, and In The Beginning, God N Nickles and necklaces, nuts, nightingales, nurses, nutmeg, and Now Thank We All Our God G Goldenrods, gingerbread and giblets and gizzards, glaciers, gates and guestsand God Os Our Fathers God Bless America - BY THELMA S. HINSON

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK: When do you plan to put up your Christmas tree? Results of last week's question: Are our military forces becoming to spread out around the world? Oh my, 1 just finished watching the TOO Club and 1 don't think 50... No. we need to have them all over, that way we can take control of the problems. .. 1 think we should have our forces closer to home. . who cares about the other people in the world. .. Definitely... Oh boy. 1 really hadn't thought too much about it.. well, I'm not for it myself.. 1 don't know for sure, but I have had grandchildren over there, and if they won’t do it, who wi11... 1 don’t know, there's been a lot of talk lately, but 1 don't have a comment.. Oh— Gosh, I don't have an opinion on that. . . I don’t know if they are too spread out anyway...

Court news

MARRIAGE LICENSES The following couples have filed for marriage hcenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jean Messmore: Heiman-Creigh Matthew W. Heiman. 22, 203 Church St., Leesburg and Ann M. Creigh, 21, 203 Church St., Leesburg Reed-Cannon Jack L. Reed, 42, r 1 Cromwell and Betty Elaine Cannon, 37, r 1 Cromwell Clouse-Richardson Todd Allen Clouse, 20, P.O. Box 185 Milford and Lori Lynn Richardson, 18, P.O. Box 185 Milford Kline-Predmore Theldon L. Kline, 59, 724 S. Lake St., Syracuse and Donna Eloise Predmore, 63, r 1 box 275 Syracuse MARRIAGE DISSOLUTIONS The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Circuit and Superior Courts: Dahlstrom — Richard M. Dahlstrom vs Anne T. Dahlstrom, r 1 box 158A Milford. The couple was married January 14,1956 and separated November 3,1983. There is one minor child. Young — Walter Young vs Sandra Jean Young, 813 Front St., Syracuse. The couple was marVandals ransacK pro shop Vandals struck early Monday morning, Nov. 14, at 4:20 a.m. at Maxwelton Pro-shop. Kosciusko County Patrolman Steve Knispel found a window had been broken and the shop ransacked. Knispel stated the suspect pulled a picnic table up against a wall and then climbed up to a window which was broken to gain entry. Once inside the building the golf bags were overturned. Nothing was reported missing and damage estimates undisclosed. Coble equipment reported stolen Don Vineyard of Fanning Cable Crew, Pier 222 Lake Wawasee, reported the theft of cable equipment from his truck at 12:43 pan. Saturday, Nov. 19l The truck was parked at Quackers. Vineyard reported the thief or thieves unhooked the rollers from the support cable fixed to the back of the track. Taken were seven to 18 yellow rollers, valued at approximately SSO each, and 30 black rollers, valued at approximately $35 each. The equipment belonged to Fanning Cable Crew.

ried November 20, 1982 and separated November 9. 1983. There are no minor children. Shoemaker — Laurel A. Shoemaker vs William D. Shoemaker, r 1 box 78D Leesburg. The couple was married Match 21,1964 and separated November 8, 1983. The plaintiff is seeking custody of the couple's two minor children. SUPERIOR COURT The following complaints were filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Robert Burner judge: Complaint Enchanted Hills Community Association, Inc. vs Stephen and Vicki Davidson, 1634 Beau Peep Lane. Cromwell. The plaintiffs are asking that the defendants be restrained from the use of property in violation of restrictions. The plaintiffs are further seeking a judgment against the defendants for the sum of $159.87 plus costs and attorney's fees for past due association dues CITY COURT The following fines have been levied and paid in the Nappanee City Court, Judge David Widmoyer presiding: Speeding — Gregory Haviland, Syracuse, $55, False registration — Helen Alcott, Syracuse, $45 Permitting violation of license — Daniel Miller. Milford, $45 CIRCUIT COURT The following claims have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Richard Sand, judge: On Account Universal Mines, Inc. and Shiman Colonial Company vs Gene L. Boyer, doing business as Boyer Jewelers, P.O. Box 302 North Webster. The plaintiffs are seeking a judgment against the defendant for the sum of $15,504.08 plus interest, attorney's fees and costs of action on a past due account Lucas County Welfare Department vs Jack Ray Cureton, r 2 box 113 Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking a judgment against the defendant for reciprocal support TNt MAR-JOURNAL (U.S. P. 5. 3258-4000) Published by The Mail Journal every Wednesday and entered as Second Class matter a> the Post Office a> Syracuse, Indiana 44MT Second class postage paid at E Main Street. Syracuse, Indiana MS47 and at additional entry offices. Subscription: SU per year t* Kosciusko County; 15.50 outside county POSTMASTERS: Sand change of address forms to The Mail Journal. P.O. Box 180. Milford, Indiana 46542

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

Fourth In A Series —

Journalists find West Germany 'humming'

(EDiTOTS NOTE: This « she fcurfh letter Della and Arch Baumgartner have sent to their grandchildren. Jennifer Baumgartner and Jason Yoder, on ih» Evropeon Economic Community and North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries in Europe, and concerns itself *>th o visit to Cologne. Germany, and Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.) BONN, GERMANY, Saturday, Oct. 15,1983 - Dear Jennifer and Jason: This is the fourth letter we re sending you. and it comes from Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. We came here from Brussels, Belgium, from which place we sent our last letter. European trains are ordinarily a model of efficiency. with nice short, well organized 2-minute stops. Our group of 32 threw the rail system into pandemonium as we got on with our hand luggage and heavy baggage at Brussels. Each compartment seated six people but you also had to have your luggage in this room. Getting off the train at Cologne, Germany, was super (as you'd say. Jason) as we got ourselves organized. Women went off the car at one end with hand luggage while the men went off the other end with heavy suiteases, using a bucket brigade system. Once most of the heavy luggage was off the train and on the ground, word came through that it was on the wrong side of the tracks. So back into the train it went, and a similar bucket brigade was formed to take the luggage off the opposite side of the train. That's one time the overland express had to make up some time between stops. The ride of several hours took us through the lush countryside of Belgium, over which territory Hitler moved his crack Panzer troops in order to avoid the Maginot Lines which was thought to be impregnable to any German offensive. As our train sped through one clean, orderly small town after the other, we noticed at one point a sign which noted we were just eight kilometers south of Bastogne, Belgium, where the now-historic Battle of the Bulge was fought during World War 11. Enter Cologne The rail station in Cologne, Germany, where our train ride terminated, is located in the center of the city and next to a busy shopping are at the foot of the centuries-old Cologne Cathedral. Every visitor to Cologne is automatically taken to the Miedeval Cathedral. No one is ever prepared for what they see in the size and magnificence of the Cologne Cathedral, to say nothing of its high stained glass windows. Our guide gave us an excellent tour of the building and an explanation of how the cathedral was one of the oldest in Europe, and was the center of medieval culture and religion in central Europe since the time of the Romans. He also told us the Allies during World War 11 bombings did not destroy the venerable cathedral, while destroying 90 per cent of the rest of the city of Cologne. On the northwest corner falling bombs did do some damage It has been bricked up "temporarily,” and will one day be fully repaired. It's a tribute to the real precision bombing skills of American aviators and navigators that this old landmark was left almost untouched while the rest of the city came tumbling down. A bus tour of the city of Cologne ended with a brief trip along the Rhine River , through a thriving section of the industrial Ruhr Valley, to Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany The visit to these two cities and the short trip down the Autobahn gave us a quick prewgw of how Germany, our fiercest enemy War 11, has bounced back to become a leader in the bulwark of nations that make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Economic Community, We finally arrived at our destination in Bonn, the clean, well appointed Hotel am Tuplenfeld (or Hotel on the Tulip Field), where we were to make our home for several days for conferences with two Associated Press officials and officials of the German government. Remember Marshall Plan The German officials we spoke to all spoke well of the United States and seemed to be forever thankful for the American Marshall Plan which set this country on its feet, lifting it from the utter devastation in which it found itself at the close of hostilities ending World War 11. Divided into two separate Germanys. to be sure, these industrious people in West Germany of which Bonn, the birthplace of composer Beethoven, have bounced back to become a viable nation of people almost unprecedented in history. Asked how the map of Europe would look today had there been no Marshall Plan and no NATO, one official told us Germany would be a satellite of Russia. Thomas Fenton, head of the Associated Press bureau in Frankfurt, and David Minthorn, AP news editor for Germany and Central Europe, came the 90 miles to Bonn to meet with us yesterday morning for breakfast. It proved a straight-forward interview, sort of a one-to-one, at which we received some very straight answers. AP's ill employees work with a German free press which serves the 60 million German people, 82 per cent of it being covered by AP. The two newsmen addressed their remarks to the placement of Pershing 11 intermediate missiles on German soil that has raised something of a ruckus here. Obviously, there is a sentiment against this, since any conflict that might arise from these missiles would occur on German soil. We were told the Russians have some 300-odd SS-20 missiles, also of medium range, facing Germany across the border. It seems strange that the Russians would point missiles toward the West and yet deplore similar missile placement "But who really knows the Russian mentality was an apt reply we heard. Eater The'Greens' And here enters a group known as the "Greens,” an environmentalist group, small but highly vocal, who have managed to win several seats in the Bundestag, the German parliamentary body. These are the ones seen demonstrating against the placement of missiles in GermanyOne speaker told us they would turn Germany into an agrarian society, much like our Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthal proposed after World Warn. The "Greens” don’t carry much weight, actually, but the Russians are playing up to their fears, and have sent a group of highly skilled speakers into Germany to exploit this sentiment to maximum

David Minthorn told us two-thirds of the Germans are against the missiles and that the same number are for NATO. "They have a right to be afraid,” he emphasized The Pershing II intermediate missiles are to go into place yet this year, and it could have a chilling effect, perhaps even derail, the forthcoming Geneva Disarmament Talks. The two AP men said the placement of missiles in Europe make for the most impretant issue in Germany today. In spite of all this ruckus. Germany is strongly pro-American today. We were told the Pershing 11 each has one warhead, whereas the comparable intermediates SS-20 on the Russian side carries three warheads each. Fear continues to be Russia's biggest tool, and they use it against both West and East Germany This country continues to be divided into two separate republics, with the East fiercely pro-Russian Dialogue must continue between the two peoples, inasmuch as each side has relatives in the other side. Visas can be obtained to go to the West for such things as funerals, but otherwise with difficulty. Russia has a bristling array of weapons facing Western Europe and 400.000 troops on the border facing West Germany Reagan 'Mistake' Mr. Minhorn told us President Reagan made a terrible mistake when he made a speech about a nuclear war. This scared the hell out of these people.” he said. The reaction here was such that he’ll never do that again. The German people generally favor Reagan's stance toward Russia and applauded his reaction to Russia's shooting down the Korean airliner. A comment was made about the amateurishness of American politicians, whereas European politicians are “professionals.” In a remark about German mentality and orderliness, one of the AP men said he receives threats and sneers for jaywalking! We do that all the time at home, don't we? It was pointed out to us. that inasmuch as fear and intimidation is Russia's biggest single weapon, if missiles are not allowed in Europe, it will be proof positive that the U.S.S.R. played its best card and that it worked. While things looked humming to us, we were told Germany has 8.6 per cent unemployment, and that their heavy social programs are a drain on their treasury. We were surprised to learn the AP people work 10,12 and 14-hour days. but get seven week's vacation. A Mercedes 240-D, manufactured here and a real big seller, sells for about SIO,OOO in Germany. In the U.S. it would bring $22,000 or more. To bring the Mercedes to the U.S. one would have to install the anti-pollution exhaust system, however Mercedes cars are seen everywhere, even used for taxi cabs. Generation Gap The AP men told us what we had heard here before: that there is a real generation gap between the country's leaders who remember World War 11 and the American help during the recovery years under the Marshall Plan. Schools are failing to educate the younger generation on this part of their country's history, it was noted. We had a real honor shown us when Peter Lorenz, parliamentary state secretary, appeared before us in the Reichchallencery building yesterday morning. A real "pro”, he spoke in German and had a very able interpreter read back his remarks to us. He said a large majority of the German people are behind the military alliance and friendship with the United States. He paid tribute to the two million Germans living in isolation in the U.S.-British-French sector of Berlin, "living in a hostile environment. ” "Bonn is our capital,” he said, "but Berlin remains important as an industrial and cultural center of Germany.” And he stressed the importance of a policy of cooperation between the two German states. He said it is the job of the government and the media to inform the people about the United States role in bringing peace to Europe. Here for the first time we heard talk about the desire of the two German peoples to be reunited and to live together. A strong western alliance and a strong Europe is the wish of all Germans. Most Germans think of the German-U.S. relationship as one of two partners. But again we heard talk of the high United States interest rates and what havoc it had wrought on European industry. High interest rates are blamed on the large budget deficit. This is the same talk we heard in England. Economy. E-W Relations In the same Reichchancellery room we were to hear Dr. Reideger Thiel, expert on European economic affairs, and Dr. Anton Rossbach, expert on East-West relations, both Germans. They spoke of President Reagan's flexible European policy, but that the U.S.S.R. has remained inflexible, with a policy of allowing no INF (intermediate neuclear force) deployment in Europe. The two speakers said they anticipate "disturbances” if the weapons are deployed in Europe, noting that Russians have promised “counter measures,” but no one is quite sure just what this means. Germany is optimistic that whatever this means, it will not disrupt East-West relations. The experts told us Russia is a super power only in military terms - “otherwise it is a developing country.” Most of its wealth is used to build up its military machine. They spoke of isolationism in the United States as "the other side of the coin” of neutralism in Germany Dr. Thiel addressed his remarks to the economy and noted, as we had heard before, that the EEC is running short of funds. (Note: Most EEC funds come from tariff duties and an added value tax ) "If we are asked to limit our production, we will also have to limit imports,” he said. He said Germany was the largest contributor to the EEC with six billion marks, while England contributed the equivalent of only five billion marks. These two men agreed NATO is the only guarantee of a free Europe, adding something we were glad to hear - that "danger of war was never more remote than it is today " Russia's ultimate aim is to get the United States out of Europe. When we left the Reichchallencery, a new, shining building, we toured the office of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer - also known as "Das Alta,” meaning the old one, for he held that office when he was in his 90s. His former office is now a museum. Adenauer was the longtime mayor of Cologne. (Continuedon pageS>