The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 February 1984 — Page 20

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., February 8,1984

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by the Milford Families In Action group with sponsorship by the Parent-Teachers’ Organization and the Milford Lions. In the absence of Milford Lions President Dr. Bruce Lamb, the ORBY program was introduced to the large crowd at last Thursday’s orientation meeting by the club’s first vice president. Dr. T. A. Miller. The session was opened by Ned Speicher, principal of the

elementary school. SPEAKING OF the Families in Action group. Miss Teen Indiana, 17-year-old Julie James of Warsaw. will be at the meeting slated for the community building on February 21. NOW COMES a letter from David K. Drawets of P. O. Box 56, Edwards, 111. 61528, requesting information on postal history and the collecting of postmarks. His letter follows: “I am a native of Indiana and am seeking those of your readers who are interested in postal history and the collecting of postmarks. “The Post Mark Collector’s Club has over 1,000 members from throughout the United States and Canada. We are a nonprofit group Os collectors interested in preserving this area of American history through town names, postal cancels, and postal history in general. “Our dub is also the sole support of the Pfund Memorial Post Mark Museum in Bellevue, Ohio, which houses the world’s largest known postmark collection. “This area of my home State does not have many members in our club and I am hoping a few collectors who do not know about our organization will see this and write to me for future information.” IT HAS been called to our attention that Bob Shively will celebrate his 80th birthday on February 13. His address follows for those who would like to send cards: * ~ Robert G. Shively Michigan Veteran Facility 3000 Monroe, N.E. Grand Rapids. Mich. 49505 A WARSAW firm, Hi-Tech, Inc., r 7 box 267. has informed residents in the immediate area of the previous Orn Nursing Home on North Main Street that it has tendered an option to purchase the property with the sole intent to convert it into a six apartment unit. A public hearing has been set for Monday evening, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. in the basement of the justice building at Warsaw before the board of zoning appeals. For the past several years, the property has been occupied by the Noble J. Swihart family. They recently moved to the Goshen area and the property is currently vacant. THE WEATHER seems to be on a yoyo with temperatures falling below the zero mark and then jumping into the high 30s and 40s almost every week recently. One can not help but wonder what will be next!

CONGRATULATIONS go to the girls' basketball team for winning the sectional tournament and to the boys’ wrestling team for winning the regional. The girls defeated Warsaw and Triton to win the sectional crown for the fourth straight year and the fellows won their second straight regional crown. Seems these two teams have a tradition going ... a tradition that makes everyone happy to live in Warrior country. Webster woman treated following 2-vehide crash Fay A. Iden, 45, r 1 North Webster, was treated and released from Kosciusko Community Hospital, following a two-vehicle accident Thursday, Feb. 2. The accident occurred on SR 13S, south of CRISON at 11:20 p.m. She suffered contusions and bruises to the knees. Also injured was Bobby F. Conley, 41, Pierceton. He sustained contusions and bruises to the left hand. He was treated and released from KCH. Kosciusko County Police report the North Webster woman was northbound on SR 13 and observed a vehicle with one headlight approaching her. She told police as the vehicle approached she could not tell which side of the road it was on and swerved to the left to avoid the collision. Kosciusko County Police officers Tom Brindle, Gerry Moser and Pierceton Police Chief George Alexander are continuing their investigation. SYRACUSE MAN BOOKED Anthony Hedges, 21, Syracuse, was booked in the Kosciusko County Jail recently on a charge of driving while intoxicated. He was released on his own recognizance.

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Custers relieved after trip to El Salvador

By CATHY BRILL Staff Writer Dwight and Annie Custer of 200 Van Buren Street, Leesburg, recently traveled to.El Salvador with their two daughters, 3%-year-old Kelly and 15-month-old Leslie. The trip was made in order to celebrate the Christmas holidays with Annie’s family. Mrs. Custer is a native of that country. The Custers admitted to being a little apprehensive about traveling to the nation, which is currently under attack by waring rebel factions, but explained they both feel better now having gone. Said Annie, “I’m glad I went, my mind is in peace.’’ One source of the couple’s uneasiness about the trip to El Salvador was the television film Choices of the Heart. The film aired in mid-December just prior to the Custers travels, and related the experiences of two nuns murdered in El Salvador. The airport shown in the movie was particularly frightening to Annie. It was pictured as a worn dreary place with signs of protest and armed guards everywhere, she explained. When they landed, she said, she was expecting to see that sort of thing, but the airport they saw was new and very clean. The Custers jokingly commented, there were more guards in the airport at Miami. Despite their fears, the largest problems to beset the Custers along their way were the crowded flight they took and the luggage that arrived two days after they did. They did, however, cross the Cuscatlan Bridge, which unites the eastern portion of the country with the western portion, shortly before it was blown up by the rebels on New Year’s Day. For the country the communication link the bridge represented was badly damaged, but officials allowed people to cross the river at a hvdro-electric

dam located near the bridge site. The bridge, explained the Custers, was replaced in less than 20 days. Most of the fighting, said Annie, is confined to the eastern states of her country. Since the Custers spent most of their stay with Annie’s family in the country’s capital city, San Salvador, they were away from the fighting on the Honduras and Nicaragua borders to the northeast. During their stay they were also able to visit her father’s 17-acre farm where many tropical fruits are grown and travel to the nearby western coast to visit the beach. The Custers, who feel the press is playing up the dangers in El Salvador, were told that very few Salvadorians are involved in the rebel efforts in the country. The rebels are mainly Guatemalans, Nicaraguan, Lebanese, Cubans, and now Viet-Cong guerrillas, brought in to teach the rebels new tactics, including how to dig tunnels from which to fight. The Custers stated that the Communist backed rebels are determined to ruin the economy of the nation in order to over throw the current regime. They explained, press coverage which exaggerates the danger is only helping to do this by destroying the tourist trade.

Dwight, who walked 35-40 blocks through down town San Salvador alone, admitted there have been changes in the nation since his visit in 1976 when he first met his wife. At that time a disgruntled feeling was just beginning to emerge primarily among the nation’s poor. El Salvador, like many Central American nations, is a country where most of the wealth is held by a very small percentage of the population. Today, instead of the three Texas Instruments Plants once located in San Salvador, added Dwight, only one remains and all American personnel is gone. The American Embassy is now surrounded by a 30-foot cement wall,

a reminder of the time not so long ago when rebels were still a force in the city. Outside the city there are occasional check points at which soldiers stop travelers. All signs of the changes, he explains. The Custers attributed the rebels being forced out of the city in part to the American backed training the government troops have been receiving. By the same token, the overall feeling toward Americans in the nation in exellent. President Reagan himself represents a source of hope to the people, said the Custers, since he launched the invasion forces in Grenada. But for now the people of El Salvador try to carry on life as

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usual and wait. Little of the Custer’s trip, however was actually political nor did it pertain to the war. It was simply a vacation, a reunion with Annie’s parents, brothers and sisters and a chance for her family to meet their youngest grandchild. As with any family reunion the couple enjoyed the new and different foods they ate and as with any vacation they enjoyed the change in climate. During their stay the temperature ranged from 60 to 90 degrees. Perhaps most importantly though, their vacation left the Custers at ease and diminished the fear they had felt for Annie’s family.