The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 November 1983 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL - Wed., November 3®, 1983

Editorials

Shop at home — The merchants of the Lakeland area are ready and willing to serve the Christmas shopping public and because the towns here are smaller they might even be able to save the shoppers from the maddening experience found in the larger cities and big shopping malls. The Lakeland merchants have their shelves stocked with merchandise for the holiday season and they deserve the support of the area residents. After all, how much do the merchants at the malls give to support Lakeland projects in the Lakeland area? Do they support school projects and events? Do they sponsor any of the Youth League teams? We could go on but the answer to all these questions would be the same — No! However, many of the area merchants support the schools, local service clubs and they are the ones who sponsor the Youth League teams. Shop at home — patronize the merchants who support you and your children. December, 1983 Hail To December! say they all. It Gave To Earth Our Christ, The Lord! - J. K. Hoyt December, the last month of the year, arrives with happy anticipation of Christmas, homecomings and celebrations. The children’s magic world of Santa Claus is played out on the anniversary of the birth of Jesus. December 7 is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in 1941. Martin Van Buren, Bth president, was born at Kinderhook, New York, on the sth in 1782. Delaware Day falls on the 7th. Wyoming Day is on the 10th and Indiana Day, on the 11th. Washington died on the 14th in 1799. On the 15th, in 1791, the Bill of Rights became a part of the United States Constitution. The Boston Tea Party was staged on the 16th in 1773. On the 17th in 1903, man made his first flight in an airplane at Kitty Hawk, N.C. On the 19th in 1777, Washington encamped his 11,000-man army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, after the British had occupied the capital; Philadelphia. The nation acquired the Louisiana Purchase on the 20th in 1803. Washington won the Battle of Trenton, N.J., on the 26th in 1776, a turning point of the Revolution. Woodrow Wilson, 28th president and one of the activist, moralistic presidents in the view of many, was born at Staunton, Virginia, on the 28th in 1856. Andrew Johnson, 17th president, was born at Raleigh, N.C. on the 29th in 1808. Toy sense Millions of parents are now in the planning or buying stage for Christmas toys. In recent years the quality of toys sold to the public has improved. But much junk still floods the market - and sits under Christmas trees every year. A word to the wise is thus in order now. Take a close look at all toys. If they appear fragile or flimsily constructed, opt for something else. One can be sure children will give most toys some abuse. Too often in recent years the delight of Christmas morning for millions of children has become empty by Christmas evening. The Good Old Days: When there were no deductions from a man’s pay until he got home. - Polaris, Pensacola Middle age is that period in a man’s life when he’ll do anything to feel better except give up what’s hurting him. - Bulletin, Great Lakes

What others say —

Missiles: Both sides pay a price for four years of failure at the arms talks The United States has begun its deployment of new medium-range missiles in Europe, as it has pledged for four years to do if negotiations failed to reduce Soviet missiles aimed at Western Europe. The Soviet Union, for its part, has responded by walking out of the medium-range missile talks in Geneva — though not the strategic arms talks. For years, Moscow had hoped to avoid arms concessions by marshaling European opinion against the U.S. deployment. To some extent its campaign worked as suggested by the massive anti-nuclear demonstrations in Europe this fall. But in the end, the key NATO governments resisted the street protests and remained with the “two-track” plan they devised in 1979 to counter the Soviet missiles. The Soviet Union’s last chance came in Tuesday’s vote in the German Bundestag. Within hours of the Germany’s endorsement of the American deployment, the Soviet Union followed through on its threat to break off the arms talks. Now that both sides have established their credibility by doing what they said they would do, perhaps after a breather of a couple months or so they can start over. So strained were relations between the super-powers, so politically loaded every move on the deployment question, that no agreement was probable this year anyway. That hardly rules out an arms control breakthrough next year. Whatever points NATO and the Soviet Union may have scored in sheer resolve, they are now both locked into positions that they had not sought and that run counter to their basic interests. NATO may have preserved its solidarity for now. But it has failed to achieve the aims of the 1979 agreement. Western Europe faces tGhe same Soviet missiles, it is receiving additional U.S. missiles and its citizens are divided as never before over the alliance’s purpose. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has been checked in its attempt to block U.S. deployment. And it cannot retaliate beyond such symbolic gestures as suspending arms talks without jeopardizing its lucrative ties with Western Europe. Moscow can ill afford to disrupt trade between East and West Germany. This has been a damaging process for both Washington and Moscow. Both could use a face-saving means of reopening the arms control issue. Soviet leader Andropov’s precarious health and President Reagan’s re-election effort make this more difficult. But the interests of both nations argue strongly in favor of starting over next year with a completely clean slate. - DETROIT FREE PRESS

Santa is beginning to make visits to the Lakeland area as he listens to the wishes of good boys and girls. Above a group of youngsters and parents are shown as they waited their turn during the jolly man's visit to Syracuse last Saturday. h a i i 457-3666 Or M-J PUISe Call 658-4111, Ext. 17

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: How do you explain Santa Claus? Results of last week’s question: When do you plan to put up your Christmas tree? I’m not getting a Christmas tree. .. Where at? . .. Whenever I buy one ... What Christmas tree? ... It depends on how tired lam — but hopefully Sunday ... Whenever 1 feel like doing it. .. Whenever my husband gets out of his lazy chair and does it... I’m going to wait for Santa Claus to do it — Since he’s coming to our house, he might as well put the tree up as we 11... My husband has to bowl Sunday, so 1 don’t know exactly when... It’s already up. .. Usually 1 wait until the first snow of the season, and then put it up. That was last night —1 better get it up soon ... Next week ... I don't know, maybe next week, or even the week before Christmas ... I don’t know if I want a tree this year. Christmas is not a season for tree's, but a time that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. I’m tired of seeing everyone get so ritualistic and forget the true meaning of Christmas ... Tonight! ...

Rev. Richey — It didn't happen, because ... it couldn't happen

After being declared legally blind in June of 1982, I had a rather unique experience in “the dawn’s early light” of October 25, 1983. I was standing at the back door of a rural home. I turned my face and lifted my heretofore blind eyes to the sky to discover that I could see clearly! The stars twinkled brightly just like when I was a kid! 1 wondered if my worst eye could see. So, I completely closed my right eye and, sure enough, from my left eye I saw clearly the stars in the heavens above! I spent some time enjoying this, and marvelling at the experience, especially in light of all I had learned in the past one and one-half years about the impossibility of such a thing ever happening to me again! I watched the sky, appreciating God’s handiwork in the heavens and in me. When the sun began to shine, I looked out across the meadow’ and could see the grass, the details of fences and fence posts, trees in the distance in all the variations of the beautiful fall coloring. Then, four friends came and I got in the car with them to go to

Court news

SUPERIOR COURT The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Robert Burner, judge: Promissory Note State Bank of Syracuse vs Joseph A. Donnersberger, John H. Huber, Darlene K. Lasky, all of Michigan City, The plaintiff is seeking a judgment against the defendant for the sum of $17,969.18 plus attorney's fees, interest and costs of action for a promissory note CITY COURT The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Michael L. Hartley,

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school. They were going to work The driver, whom 1 knew well, stopped at the gate of one of the industries, took five barbecued chickens from the trunk and delivered them to the gate-man. He got back back in the car and we proceeded. In my mind, 1 was running through the day’s activity. I remembered that I didn't have a class in the last period and therefore would be free to go home after the 1 p.m. class session. I would call Mary as soon as 1 arrived so that she could pick me up and make an appointment with the opthalmologist. I could see and I had to know why. Then, Mother Nature called and 1 awakened to find that nothing had changed. 1 was still legally blind. I returned to bed, trying unsuccessfully to muffle the sounds of my grief. I had returned to the world of the blind after a brief, and unreal, encounter with what most of us take for granted for most of our lives! It didn’t really happen because it couldn’t really happen! Doggone it!

33, Syracuse, $43; Douglas C. Gerstner, 16, Syracuse, $43 Disregarding signal indicating approach of train — Ken M, Allen, 21, North Webster, $43 MARRIAGE LICENSES The following couples have filed for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jean Messmore: Goddard-Rice David Lee Goddard, 18, r 1 Leesburg and Barbara Ann Rice, 17, 113 E. Van Buren, Columbia City Kosen-Welborn James Edward Rosen. 46, r 1 Urbana and Jennifer Greta Welborn, 27, r 2 box 415 Syracuse Hartman-Champion Richard Alan Hartman, 29, r 1 box 12 Cromwell and Cynthia Marie Champion, 27, r 1 box 12 Cromwell Car destroyed by fire at Lake Wawasee Syracuse firemen were called by Eric Long to Pier 12, Lake Wawasee, at 1:30 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 27, when the catalytic converter on his car started a fire. Damage was estimated at $2,500. The firemen stated when they arrived the car was totally engulfed in flames.

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

Fifth In A Series — Journalists find Germany prepared

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth letter Della and Arch Baumgartner have sent to their grandchildren. Jennifer Baumgartner and Jason Yoder, on the European Economic Community and North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries in Europe. and concerns itself with a visit to Cologne, Germany, and Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.) TRIER, GERMANY, Monday, Oct. 17,1983 — Dear Jennifer and Jason: Our group of traveling journalists is still in Germany, and we thought we should write you before all our notes get cold, in order to let you know what we've been doing the past several days. Since we wrote the last time from Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, we made an exciting trip down the storied Rhine River, visited Wiesbaden, spent Saturday night in a mountain lodge overlooking the Rhine River as it made a sweeping bend at Rudesheim, visited Worms, a winery and the Gutenberg Museum. All of it very interesting and exciting in itself. Down The Rhine It’s no big deal to make a trip down the Rhine River anymore, since so many major companies have spotted this as something they can offer their sales people or favored customers. But it was new to us, and we enjoyed it. It will remind you kids a lot of the trip Jennifer and Criss made on the Delta Queen on the Mississippi River just over a year ago. The Rhine River is one of the big rivers of the world, ranking right along with the Mississippi River in the United States. We got on a fast-mov-ing hydrofoil at Bonn and before one could say heraus mit ’em, we were sailing down the river at some 40 miles per hour. We were absolutely amazed at the amount of traffic of all kinds there is on the Rhine. River travel is more than most people would ever suspect. We had separate seats, and grandpa sat with a young German couple who was traveling from Bonn to Wiesbaden on a trip he had won m some sort of contest. The friendly young couple are scuba divers and belong to a club of over 300 members. It gave grandpa a real good chance to brush up on his German, and the young people made the most of the occasion to brush up on their English. The two hours-plus were spent well. All along the trip barges, laden with goods, were coming and going, and, with the aid of a useful little map we purchased on the boat, we could identify the towns as we passed along. One town leads into another the full length of the area we traveled, and a number of them were identified by prominent signs facing the water. We passed Remagen, where the bridge was captured intact by the Allies during World War 11, the last such bridge. After the war, the Remagen bridge finally collapsed and was replaced by U.S. Army Engineers. We disembarked from the hydrofoil at Wiesbaden, the city where the freed American captives from Teheran were flown for a medical check-up before returning to the United States. Wiesbaden has been an important town in German history. We arrived at mid-afternoon Saturday and were surprised to find the stores closed. We did walk through part of the business district, to find the stores full of excellent and exciting merchandise. We went over to a store that advertises “the biggest cuckoo clock in the world.” The face of it takes up the full front window. It makes for a good rendezvous point for the locals. Up To Rudesheim It isn't far from Wiesbaden to Rudesheim where we were to spend the night in a mountain lodge. But on the way from Rudesheim to the lodge we visited the famous Niederwald Denkmal - well known as the Watch On The Rhine -a large statue dedicated to the Chancellor Otto Bismark who is credited with uniting the several German provinces into a federal republic. The monument is absolutely enormous. It is lighted at night and rests in the bend of the Rhine River and can be seen for miles. Rudesheim is only one of many cities and towns to be seen from this vantage point. The mountain lodge where we spent Saturday night was in a remote wooded area high up in a mountainous area. It reminded us of fat old Herman Goering, head of the German Luftwaffa (Air Force), who took such delight in taking his friends to a mountain lodge for rest and relaxation and hunting deer. Once you are there, there isn’t much to do but take a brief walk in the woods. No radio, no television. One has to re-learn the art of conversation. On Saturday night our guide, Mila Slatina (she asked to be called “Millie” > took a group of us into Rudesheim for a night on the town. She took us through a crowded little street to a popular and equally crowded night spot where everyone drank wine and danced to the tune of an upbeat German band. When we Americans came in we were obviously recognized, for the band struck up “Dixie”

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s Ut -.Ji w viMgggisaKil Bl \ NIEDERWALD DENKMAL — WATCH ON THE RHINE and later “God Bless America. ” Everyone sang, then clapped their hands. We figured it as a real salute to German-American friendship. A little side room had its own small band and back there they were drinking beer and singing. No one can say the German people don’t have fun on Saturday night. We were to learn more about Millie our guide as time went on. It turns out she is a Baroness, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat. Millie said she was educated in Moscow, Poland and Paris and spoke seven languages fluently. Her family was attached to the court at Vienna, Austria, during the time of Emperor Franz Joseph. On To Worms Several more things were on the Sunday afternoon agenda that we had been looking forward to. At Worms - an odd name for a city, if you ever heard one! we saw the big cathedral where Martin Luther's manifesto was symbolically tacked up on the church door, and where the reformer preached. (Note: Millie told us this historic religious event actually occurred at Wittenberg, Germany. located in the eastern sector of Germany. Our group was about “cathedraled out” and it was raining slightly, plus the fact that we had a schedule to keep, so we didn't go into the Worms cathedral, but suffice it to say the big cathedral is an important centerpiece to the Province of Hessen. In front of the cathedral is a large cross split in two and painted red, symbolizing the schism in the church due to the reformation movement begun by Martin Luther. In spite of this fact, Germany still has about 40 per cent of its people who are Catholic. Gutenberg Museum Not far from Worms is»the city of Mainz, well known for its being the home of one Johannes Gutenberg, the fellow who invented movable type, and thus revolutionized the use of the printed word. And so, it’s little wonder that our group, all of us journalists, were anxious to visit the Gutenberg Museum to see where printing, one of the single biggest inventions in the history of mankind, had its beginning. Major printed works of six centuries, including the original Bible, are on display in this rare museum, plus a large display of early printing equipment. The most remarkable part of Gutenberg’s life is that he cast the individual lead letters, set up a page of the Bible, printed it, redistributed the type, then set up another page, and so on. He even had to process an ink, something unknown at the time, to do his printing. Little is actually known about Johannes Gutenberg, other than that he was bom in Mainz in 139 T and died there in 1468. No ones knows where he is buried. He took three years to print the original Bible, copies of which are actually priceless today. Visit A Winery We are truly in a wine-making country. We first became aware of this on our trip up the Rhine River where we saw mile after mile of grape arbors covering the flowing hillsides. How these grapes are picked has always been a mystery to us; we were to learn that students are out of school for something like a three-week period - sort of a “vacation” - during which they take to the grape fields to earn a little extra cash. “Germany sells wine on a world market,” we were told by Martin F. Hammel of the Emil Hammel & Cie Weingut Weinkellerei at Kirchheim, near Kaiserslautern. Young Martin, fluent in - (Continued on page 5)