The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 47, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 December 1983 — Page 5
"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE”
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(Continued from page 4) It so happens that Ambassador Dolihois was born in Luxembourg, was reared in the relatively small Ohio town where he later became an imposing factor in the growth of its university. When President Reagan named Mr. Dolihois ambassador to this small country, it was a natural assignment. In fact, it was the first time America had named anyone ambassador to the land of his birth. Once all the introductions had been made, the ambassador spoke to our group for about 30 minutes. He said, “We’re living on top of the world and are enjoying every minute of it.” Hefelso called his assignment here a “perfume assignment.” The embassy is in an old, yet eminently comfortably, high ceilinged structure that was the former home of the German gauerleiter during the four-year occupation by the German Wehrmacht. Just next door is another such home that had been occupied by George Patton. He told us that General Patton is held in every high respect in Luxembourg, and that several towns in northern Luxembourg and Belgium hold annual festive observances in his memory. Being multi lingual, Ambassador Dolihois was called upon to act as an interrogator of Nazi war criminals, including portly Herman Goering. While early interrogation was done at Mundorf, just north of here, Ambassador Dolihois went to Nurenberg to work as interrogator through the famous war crime trials. His thumbnail observations of Nazi big-wigs were interesting as well as his other observations of the European scene. One was that the Soviets are spending more on propaganda than they are on missile! That struck us as odd, but, if so, tells quite a story. All of our group instantly liked Ambassador and Mrs. Dolihois, and felt exceptionally fortunate to meet this charming couple. The ambassador is fairly short, graying hair, perhaps in his mid-50s. He spoke forthrightly, answered questions directly, always with a twinkle in his clear blue eyes. Mr. Amos, the member of our party that made this rare meeting possible, is publisher of the Sidney, Ohio, daily newspaper, The Sidney Daily News, and of the three international-circulated hobby weeklies, Stamp world, Coin World and Car Parts, and is himself a graying gentleman, avuncular in nature and appearance, providing our touring group a touch of respectability. As we prepared to leave Luxembourg for a long, five-hour motor bus ride through northeastern France for Paris, we heard all sorts of complimentary remarks from members of our group about this tiny duchy, some even remarking they will have to return to spend more time here. The city of Luxembourg is fairly small, exceptionally clean and well groomed, multi-lingual, where a mono lingual person such as those in our group, can be readily understood. We even noted that the one daily newspaper we purchased, the Luxemburger Wort, carried page 1 stories in German and French, side by side. This paper, incidentally, is the one that carried the picture of our group, shown here. You can rest assured that at least no one in our group will ever confuse Luxembourg with Lichtenstein, ever again. We’ll drop you a line from Paris. Bye. —O’JUST TO test the memory of Some of the community’s self-styled old timers: We’re seeking the identity of a fellow in an old charcoal etching recently found in an old farm house near Poor Doll Bait Shop, east of Syracuse. The etching is in the hands of Keith Patton of that area and can be seen on demand. Believed to have been done in the 1890 s or early 1900 s, it is of a man related to the Morris or Morrison family. Anyone with information concerning the etching is asked to send it along to Box 373A, r 2 Syracuse.
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YOU WANT to know how your state legislators are doing at their job? The Sharp News Service*Ronald and Joan Sharp, 406 North Huntington Street, Syracuse.) has an answer for this question. State Senator John B. Augsburger led Kosciusko County’s five legislators in bills passed into law in the 1983 session of the Indiana General Assembly. A Syracuse and North Webster supermarket owner, he had 19 bills passed in the 1983 session. He was closely followed by Gene Snowden of Huntington with 18 bills, and by Richard Miller of Plymouth with 16. Representative Thames Mauzy, a Warsaw furniture retailer, has seven bills passed and Gregory Mishler of Bremen (Milford native son) had none. 6 But Augsburger was the most successful of those mentioned in steering bills through the Senate and House, but he did not lead the others in bills either proposed or supported. This honor goes to Snowden, an insurance executive, with 50. Snowden recently resigned his Senate seat to take a state position, the Sharp report goes on. Miller, an executive with the Miller Merry Manor nursing home chain, and Augsburger tied with the number of bills proposed or supported — each with 31. Mauzy introduced or supported 11 bills, with four for Mishler. One of the most important bills to come from the Indiana General Assembly in the 1983 session was the bill introduced by Mauzy. He sponsored a bill that enclosed a loophole in the handling of juvenile offenders on drunk driving. It is now possible for juveniles who are charged with drunk driving to be tried in courts other than juvenile. The Mauzy bill was carried through the senate by Augsburger. It was introduced at the suggestion of Kosciusko County law enforcing officers. Kosciusko County legislators proposed a total of 127 bills, of which 60 became law on Indiana books. —o— EVEN A community like we live in has its number of “sleeper” businesses. One such is Howard (“Red”) Long’s Ace pest Control, located on the east side of Lake Wawasee. Red’s not so little business got a very generous write-up in the October 1983 issue of the industry’s trade magazine Pest Control Technology. It came complete with two photos of handsome Red Long. The story of the article’s thesis is built around a new service Ace has to offer, called AC-12, which means literally “Ace 12-Month.” Long cites the lakes area as one of good summer business, not-so-good winter business, when cottages are closed and summer residents return to their winter homes. His staff of 12 technicians in the summer dwindles to about five in the winter, he says. The article cites the advantages of the year-around service, to both the customer and to Ace Pest Control. He has built in a “guarantee” to satisfy the doubters, but ads, “More than 85 per cent of the AC-12 customers have renewed their contracts.” To meet Red Long is to know he wouldn’t let a little thing like seasonal traffic variation slow his business down. -oCHARLES PARKER has been terminated from his position as executive director of the International Palace of Sports at North Webster, it was learned late last week. This fact was made known in a letter to directors, but no specific reason for the dismissal was given. According to Marilyn Thrasher> also associated with the
organization as secretary and director, will assume Parker’s responsibilities until a full time director can be found. Parker became executive director in February. Parker was North Webster town marshall and unsuccessful candidate for Kosciusko County sheriff on the Democratic ticket. His future plan are not know. —O—JOE GRAY is walking around (mighty proudly, we might ad) wearing a handsomely knitted sweater “done by my wife,” he ads. Joe calls the sweater “my Christ-Moose,” since the central figure on the bright-colored jobbie is a moose. —o— THE TWO best little salespersons of the Rotary Club’s fruit cakes are turning out to be Georgia Buster and Patti Richey. With the money going to one of their favorite causes, the Syracuse Scout Cabin, they have taken up the fruit cake cause with a vengeance — enough so to put most Rotary Club members to shame. —oMERL SMITH’S prowess as a baton twirler is destined for immortality. This fact alone should strike fear and trepidation in his heart. The photo of him twirling on the field in a recent Indiana-Illinois football game found its way into this column, then, at the urging of friend Hub Anglemeyer, was made into a large 18 by 22 photo. Now we learn Anglemeyer has had the large number framed by Jack Alfrey in a large, rustic frame. Merl, not to be outdone, autographed the picture, and it hangs in all its eminence in the Syracuse Case. —o— WISH WE’D said this. Paul Van Dyke’s definition of a joint bank account: You put the money in and your wife takes it out. —O—IT IS a sure sign of winter when area channels start to freeze over. Chilly temperatures over this week end provided a thin layer of ice on Main Channel, easily broken by fishermen and their boats. Syracuse channel still has a thin layer of ice along the sides. Information received indicated the channels have frozen earlier, in years past.
What You Think December 1983 The Most Read Articles By Mail-Journal Readers
For the third month in a row and the fifth time in the nine months the Readers Survey has been taken, Cruzin Around ‘Cuse proved to be the most widely read item in The M-J. During November the popular column received 17 votes. Also receiving 17 votes was letters to the editor. In second place with 16 votes was editorials; followed by weddings and engagements with 15. The complete break down follows: v Feature storiesl2 School newsl4 Letters to editorl7 Main Street 3 Hospital notesll Obits„ 10 Editorialsl6 Court newsl2 Unsung heros 8 Cruzin’l7 M-J Pulse 3 Political reports 2 Weddings and engagements .. 15 Horoscope '.. 1 Extension news 6 Sports 13 North Webster,. 10 King Arthur,....' 6 Church page 5 Milford Old News 3 Syracuse Old Newsll School and town board meetingsl3 Police logl2 Crossword 2 Calendar 3 Club news 5 Classifiedsl4 Suggestions and comments are as fo|lows: Dear; Staff, Thank you so much for making the paper such a joy for us who are so many miles from home. Love reading about my son and his family and lots of good friends, makes me feel like I am home once a week. The paper couldn’t be any better. Classified Ads — pictures of real estate. Need much improved coverage of activities of local civic organizations in Syracuse. Depends on how much time I have to read newspapers. Suggest you drop the horoscope. Re: Milford Main Street. I don’t like the long articles in this column that should be feature stories located elsewhere in paper. Keep this for “newsy” tidbits about Milford happenings and Milford people that wouldn’t ordinarly make a news story. I would be very helpful if you would publish when they are going to open the dam at Syracuse. We like it all. We like it all. Timely warning You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Sim, Sac City, la. Generosity Many a man’s charity is to give unto others the advice he can’t use himself.
EVERETT KETRING wants it made known that those who contributed corn this week for the ducks in the channel along South Huntington Street were Herbert Lane, Joe Baumgartner and himself. Feeding the ducks during the winter has been a longtime interest of Ketring’s. • —o— A NICE note from Rev. and Mrs. J. Ross Richey thanks The M-J for printing Ross’ “meanderings” for a number of weeks. Ross writes: “I appreciated working with you when I pastored Syracuse and again at Leesburg. Fact is, Mary and I have a great many friends in each community and loved our time of service each time. “A blind friend of mine was recently married, as the result of the follow through on your Singles Only column! Mary and 1 attended their wedding at Greencroft in Goshen. “Friends of ours from Syracuse, now living in Naples, Florida - sent me a Braille Scrabble game as the result of seeing in The Mail-Journal that I had lost my vision! It’s amazing the coverage you have, and thrilling too, for it is by far the best way to keep in touch with friends of your area.” THE SNOW and resulting ice that blanketed the area with a sudden rage on Tuesday wasn’t all bad. It left the front of the large Dana Corp, plant with a picture post card appearance. This photo could have been repeated numerous times throughout the Lakeland area. The flip-side of the coin is the fact that a number of cars slid off the road and fender-benders were reported over the area. It was the season’s first real snowstorm, following Friday’s also proved a hazard to motorists. /
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Drunk driving laws
In response to widespread misinformation and confusion, Indiana State Police Superintendent John T. Shettle announced that State Police and all law enforcement agencies are actively enforcing drunk driving laws. The Governor’s Task Force to Reduce Drunk Driving has made recommendations on a piece of legislation known as the Habitual Traffic Offender Law. The law is presently the subject of litigation and is “on hold.” Many people mistakenly believe that the entire work of the Task Force is also on hold, and Shettle said this is not true. In fact, September, the first month that the new Drunk Driving Law was on the books, showed the highest number of drunken driving arrests made by state
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It happened ... in Milford
10 YEARS AGO, DEC. 5,1973 Mrs. Charles Kerlin, who will retire as Milford’s librarian on December 31, was honored at a dinner last Thursday at a Middlebury restaurant. The Lions grapefruit will arrive in Milford this week and will be delivered on Saturday. Currently the Lions Club members are also planning to have trucks full of grapefruit located in the uptown area where people can buy them. The Milford fifth graders enjoyed a swimming party at WHS on Tuesday morning. They were awarded this “treat” as they were named the top salesmen of the school’s candy sales a few weeks ago. Members of the Silver Thimble culb of Milford held their annual Christmas party last night (Tuesday) in the fellowship hall of the Apostolic Christian church. 20 YEARS AGO, DEC. 5,1963 During a short meeting held after the December meeting of
police in the history of the organization. “The HTO statute and activities associated with it are in no way going to affect the Drunk Driving Law or enforcement of the law,? Shettle said. The aim of all traffic law enforcement is to affect drivers’ behavior. Shettle said he hopes that with public information and awareness efforts being made by police agencies coupled with the Governor’s Task Force to reduce drunk driving, driver behavior will be affected to the extent that those who drink will not drive afterwards. The goal is to keep the highways safe for all and reduce the toll of injury and death that results from a few individuals in our society who drink and drive.
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At Large. . . I | “A view of the political II scene in Kosciusko County" | 1 ' — ™ K JEFFREY W. PLANK, Warsaw’s Mayor-elect, will take office on January 1 on a high note, it became clear this week as the incumbent city administration prepares to leave office under a cloud of suspicion. In fact, eight members of the Hodges administration face charges before a grand jury as this news column sees its way into print. The outcome is uncertain, but if the charges made by the state board of accounts of misappropriation of funds and responsibilities and of malfeasence of office stand up, it would smack heavy of cronyism at the least, and could amount to a jail term at its worst. Mayor-elect Plank plans to take a lesson from all this. He is promising a “dean” administration, something that Dwight W. Eisenhower said when he took over the presidency in early 1953, that his administration would be “as clean as a hound’s tooth. ” Plank didn’t go this far, but he did promise a clean, effective administration for the city of Warsaw. He has been a citizen of Warsaw for only 13 years. He is originally from Angola, took his undergraduate work at Manchester College and some graduate work at Indiana University at Bloomington. His ties with the Warsaw community, historically, are tenuous. He has no relatives here, no old high school cronies, no euchre buddies — in short, few obligations. And this frees his hand considerably to do what he is promising. ' This is not a put-down on Mayor Mike Hodges. He has served the Warsaw community well. He is the only five-time mayor in Warsaw’s history. Mike has been a successful businessman in Warsaw in the construction business. He’s a real take-charge sort of fellow. And he handled the city’s business the same way. Mike got the job done, when there was a job to be done. No one can fault him for that. But sometimes this go-go attitude gets one into trouble as he travels free and easy on a day-by-day basis. The state board of accounts demands more accountability than Hodges gave the office. They stuck to the letter of the law, whereas Hodges bent the law a little in his own pursuit of serving the city he has loved for a lifetime. Plank is not making too much of Hodges’ trouble. He is yet to prove himself. And perhaps he can (and will) caution his selected city workers that, one step out of line, and out they go. Certainly, Plank is about to enter the city’s highest office with the best wishes of the entire city. Now it’s up to him to prove himself.
the Milford town board Merrill Rink was named chairman of the new board. Mrs. Darrel Orn has accepted employment in the office of Sharp Hardware in Milford. Mrs. Orn replaces Mrs. Clifford Replogle. Mr. and Mrs. Seth McFarren of Milford plan to leave Sunday for Bonita Springs, Fla., where they will spend the winter. Coach Jim Alien’s Milford Trojans fell short by 10 points last Wednesday night when they tried to win their fourth game out of five against the Pierceton Cubs. 30 YEARS AGO, DEC. 3.1953 Milford Brownies Troop 2, met on Tuesday afternoon in the American Legion Hall, President, Jennifer Sunthimer, chose four girls to lead the opening cermonies: Joyce Rassi, Pledge to the American flag; Carol Rassi, America; Dana Sue Levernier, Brownie Oath; and Sharon Baldack, Brownie song. Guest of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gilbert at dinner Sunday were their son, Arthur, I.U. student; Miss Grace Noss; and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Shuder. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Powell, South Bend, are parents of a son, Jon Lewis, born Wednesday,
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Nov. 25, at St. Joseph Hospital, Mishawaka and weighing eight pounds and two ounces. Mrs. Powell is the former Ellen Cunningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Cunningham, Milford. The paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Russell Powell, of Ossian. 50 YEARS AGO, DEC. 7,1953 Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Love entertained relatives at a turkey dinner, Thursday. Edwin Neff, a teacher at Howe Military Academy, spent the Thanksgiving school vacation with his mother, Mrs. Nelson Ludwig and husband. Members of the Pep club met Wednesday and elected John Haab and Faith Ryman as the new cheerleaders. Ray Miller bagged two nice mallard ducks early last Thursday morning. Four ducks were knocked down with only three shots, but only two of them could be found. ■ We Cater For All Occosions Large Or Small Call LMa Crane 11M49-533S Or Free Cnfetfer 219-I2S-9132
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