The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 February 1984 — Page 5

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(Continued from page 4) ‘SCHOOL CLASS discipline is a snap at the North Webster Elementary School,” so says principal Dick Long, and with good reason. 9 He has devised a plan that might catch on when it becomes widely known and solve a lot of headaches for principals the country over. Long calls it. simply, a “Good Citizen of the Month Award,” and one student is chosen from each class each week Actually, the names are drawn out of a box, and winning the award has nothing to do with grades, but is based on class attitude and discipline Winners are taken to Mike’s Soda Shop on the north edge of North Webster and given a dish of ice cream. This thing is bigger than one would think. The North Webster PT A has gotten into the act and foots the bill for the treat. Winners of the award for a four-month period were taken by principal Long and two bus drivers to Mike's Soda Shop <see photo) last Wednesday, and more well-disciplined, happy faces have seldom been seen in one place at one time Think about it. Maybe principal Long just might be onto something here. -O - ' . PENNY HECKAMAN of Phoenix Island (l.ake Wawasee) might have a bright future ahead of her as a newspaper reporter. She sat up in her bed at the Elkhart Hospital at

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about 9 a m. Tuesday, reached for her bedside telephone and called The Mail-Journal to report she had given birth to a daughter, Alexandra Paige, at 2 a.m. She and Larry have three other children: Brooke Hayward, Lisa Layne and Adam Ivo. The former airline stewardess and Larry are owners of The Laundry Basket in the Village. -0DO YOU live in the country and have a straydog problem? If you do, and don’t know what to do about it, that’s just tough. Or at least this seems to be the attitude of the Kosciusko County Humane Society, which pleads a lack of funds for its inability to round up countryside strays. A so-called “mad dog” has been running loose in the Kanata Manyunk area near Lake Wawasee, to the point where Barb Myers is “a prisoner in her own home,” according to her husband Dick, owner of the Anchor Man in the Village. County sheriff Al Rovenstine says stray dogs is out of his area of jurisdiction, that his advice is to take the dog into a city, or the county, dog pound. Now, really, Al! Round up a possible mad dog, load him in your car for a trip to town! If no one will touch the problem, for whatever reason, perhaps it should be addressed to candidates running for commissioner from the northern district. They can at Jeast “promise” to do something about stray dogs.

St. Joe prosecuting attorney —

Barnes vying for Democratic congressional nomination

Michael P. Barnes, the Saint Joseph County prosecuting attorney, who recently announced his intent to run in the May 8 Democtatic primary for the third district congressional seat, was in Milford Friday for an informal visit. This was just one of the early stops for Barnes along what may result in a hectic campaign trail. Barnes, who has, two Democratic contenders, Steve Ross and David Barrett, in the race which will eventually pit one of them against incumbant Republican Congressman John Hiler, welcomed the opportunity to disscuss his political philosophies. “I think there are some very basic decisions that have to be made for the district. I have three big areas I usually talk about. The economy, with reguard to the budget, the deficits. Have the present economic programs been fair? And who has been made to shoulder most of the burden of the recovery?” Barnes went on to say, “I cannot and will not go against things being better and the economy recovering, of course, but as prosecuting attorney I don’t think I have begun to see what kinds of problems this present style and approach to our ecomomic problems has brought.” “The second (problem area) I always speak about, is making our world safe and that incompasses ... the nuclear issue, defense department and budgets, how the present congressmen present kind of a rigid philosophy of government ... I think my style is more appropriate.” Barnes’ third area of concern, “The application of our laws and regulation in reguard to regulatory agencies, human rights, those sorts of very broad issues.” Governmentally, Barnes stated his belief that his post as prosecuting attorney has prepared him for the congressional seat in the areas of how government works and how it effects the people. Barnes added, that his life experiences and his perspective on life have also prepared him for congress. “I was born and raised in a rural community, acquired a certain degree of education. Also life experiences have enabled me to see a broad spectrum of people and all citites of our district to hopefully better understand howto solve their problems,” he stated. Barnes views the 3rd congressional district as a microcosm of the mid west, and targets certain problems of the area as those he would like to aid in correcting. “The industrial base is erroding and we have to make investemnts in education and research,” he said. “We talk about the education issue overall and how it applies to our future and the future of our children within the district. Jobs, all these things are interrelated and tied together. We just can’t have applied to our people and our problems this rigid style (of government) which simply lets the people with the capital dictate all of the time. It (the current government) has had a very dissatisfactory effect on a lot of people in this district,” Barnes explained as the major problem.

“Social programs, he said, have been made to bear the brunt of the cuts. While I understand .. . that they are easy targets sometimes, I think they are affected really disproportionatly with reguard to the defense budget. ” He would like to see this change. Education, one of the areas Barnes feels correlates directly to the mid-west and the erroding industrial base, is one topic which he feels merrits addressing. There are 22,000,000 functional illiterates, high school test scores are dropping, and perhaps most frightning, perspective teachers' SAT and ACT test scores have dropped. Average scores on the tests are well below Russian, West German and Japanese children’s scores. Teachers qualified to teach math and sciences are scarce, Barnes stated as the root of the problem. The remedies to the education and further economic problems, Barnes believes, can come from adding dollars to the educational budget. This will allow monies to be targeted to the math and science programs to bring children to a comparable level with students of other nations; he explained. It will also provide funds for incentives to help attract the most qualified teachers to the math and science areas, according to the Democratic contingent. Barnes stated that the current *'congress, however has voted against educational programs repeatedly. Barnes feels that this must change in order that the economy in relation to industry and education be improved He proposed the funds to further education be allocated from other areas. “It’s a matter of priority,” he said. By looking at the entire budget and particularly defense spending the funds for education can be reappropriated without increasing the budget, he explained. Michael Barnes and his wife, Alberta, reside in South Bend with their two sons, Tim, seven, and John, three. Alberta, a former teacher, is now helping full-time with her husband’s campaign. Barnes currently holds the post of Saint Joseph County prosecuting attorney: an office he has held since Jan. 1, 1978, after serving as assistant prosecuting attorney for five years. Barnes won a three-man primary for the party's nomination and later the general election by 13,000 votes to secure the post

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in 1978. In 1982 in his second contest for the prosecuting attorney’s office he ran unopposed by either a Democratic or Republican candidate and led the county with 49,000 Votes. A graduate of Ambrose College in Davenport, lowa, and the University of Notre Dame Law School, Barnes believes that the people of the 3rd district should be aware of his governmental experience in decision making. “I think that it is a matter of how government works, how it effects people,” he says in summerizing his political ideals. Teenager escaped injury when car slid out of control Lyle J. Oiler, 17, 15626 US 6 Syracuse, was not injured when his auto slid out of control on CR 33 in Elkhart County. The accident occurred at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1. Oiler was northbound on CR 33 north of CR 50 in Benton Township when his 1963 Nova slid out of control due to ice ruts. The auto veered off the right side of the road, crossed the road, struck a highway department sign, and came to a stop on its side in a ditch. Elkhart County Sheriff’s Cpl. Lon Smith investigated and estimated damage at more than S2OO. Parked car damaged Frank Double, r 4 box 92 Syracuse, reported to Syracuse Police Saturday, Feb. 4, at 11:04 a m. his auto had been hit while parked in the 100 block of South Huntington Street. Double told police the vehicle was parked on the west side of Huntington Street, across from Syracuse Cleaners, when someone hit his left rear fender. Syracuse Police Officer William Selvey estimated the damage at SIOO. Shook-up The earthy themes of ancient hula horrified New England missionaries. Even a decade ago a public performance might have embarrassed some hawaiians. Can crusher A Virginia company is marketing a new type of vending machine It takes in empty soda pop cans, crushes them and gives the customer a nickel or dime.

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

At Large. . . “A view of the political scene in Kosciusko County”

THE ANNUAL Lincoln Day Dinners are sprouting up throughout Indiana, as they are across the nation, marking the birthday (February 12) of Abraham Lincoln, 13th President of the United States, and the first Republican president of the new political party. This has always been a big occasion for the Republican Party when they shout the praises of their party’s history. It has always been a big thing, also, for Republicans of Kosciusko County, for each February they have turned the occasion into a real down home Pow-Wow, a time when spirits are high — high enough that they can comfortably reach into the pockets of the faithful to swell the party’s coffers to sustain a vigorous fall election campaign. This year the Lincoln Day Dinner will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the Shrine building at the county fairgrounds. Tickets are going out and the drum-beat is beginning to be heard. A big-ticket speakers is usually sought to attract the faithful, and so it is this year. Lieutenant Governor John P. Mutz will come into Warsaw by plane in the late afternoon of the gathering, taking with him State Senator John B. Augsburger of Syracuse. Also on the plane — if she can commandeer a seat on the small craft — will be Sharon (Dewart) Keller, a close aide to Lt. Gov. Mutz and daughter of Randall (“Tim”) and Gwendolyn Dewart of Milford. County Chairman Jean Northernor is reported to be highly pleased with the interest in the affair. And she should be, for she has apparently sufficiently bent the ear of her new boss, R. Douglas Grant, new president of the Lake City Bank, persuading him and his charming wife Jacque to hold an Open House, a fund-raiser (at $25 per couple) for the evening’s honored guest at the Grant home at 1107 Country Club Lane from 4:45 to 6:15, just prior to the big event at the fairgrounds. The interesting thing about this is, that Grant is a well known Democrat, albeit low key. Before coming to the Warsaw banking scene Grant was a vice president of the St. Joseph Valley Bank of Elkhart (now the Midwest Commerce Banking Company), and as an activist in that community’s affairs he headed up the drive to re-elect Third District Congressman John Brademas of South Bend on several occasions. Brademas was House Whip (number 2 man), just under Tip O’Neill at the time he was defeated by John Hiler. Congressman Hiler is seeking his third term in this fall’s election. —oMAURICE BEER, well known Van Buren Township farmer, said last week he had “second thoughts” after he hadannounced his intentions to seek the office of Kosciusko County Commissioner from the Northern District. Then he said to himself, “I’m in this thing, now I’m going to give it my best shot! ”

Waukee Lake residents await public hearing

The Waubee Lake Association held a board meeting at the home of Bill Troup, president, on Jan. 30 with the following officers present: Phil Price, secretary/treasurer; and board members Jim Stork, Jim ShOwalter and Leon Newman. In old business, the group started discussion with insurance on the weedcutter. Stork said he would investigate on how much is needed and what type of coverage is necessary. After the investigation, Stork will report back to the board. Troup reported he is still pursuing every avenue to obtain a public hearing concerning Maple Leaf Farms’ dumping into Felkner ditch. The state board of health promised the group a public hearing, but no date has been set. Henry Kissinger and Central America Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that he and members of his commission on Central America favor a peaceful political solution to problems in that region but the Soviet Union and its surrogates won’t allow it.

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Troup said he tried to receive help through state representatives; but to no avail. The group recommended he send a registered letter to each representative. v In other action, Troup reported the drudging permit for cleaning the kettle has been issued by the state. Bud Sawyer will do the work in the near future. Some discussion on the feasibility of using a suction hose to remove some of the silt further out in the kettle was held. The Outboard Motor Committee reported the purchase of a 1982, 7'z horsepower Evinrude motor for the weedcutter. The motor was purchased from Patona Bay and according to reports is “just like new.” The minutes of the last meeting were reafi and approved with Price giving the treasurer’s report. It was also announced the membership count is up this year to 74.

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