The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 7, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 February 1984 — Page 5

The Dunham Lake tamarack swamp is a unique place

By ARTHUR CHANEY Guest Feature Writer The Dunham Lake Tamarack Swamp is located just off Kosciusko County road 350 N and 925E. One of the most unique places in Northern Indiana. This is where Dunham Lake is located. Surrounding this lake is a tamarack swamp. This is partially in Noble and partially in Kosciusko Counties. The farm where this is situated belongs to Celia Huish who, with her husband, purchased it in 1941. Part of the lake was in the original parcel of land purchased; but an adjoining 80 acres was later purchased so that the entire swamp could be owned by the Dunhams, Mrs. Huish’s first husband’ s name. The entire farm has 240 acres with the swamp, being about 72 acres and the lake possibly 8 to 10 acres of the swamp. There are about 20 to 40 tamarack trees in this swamp. While most people want to drain the swamp land, this owner wants it to remain in its primeval state. As Mrs. Huish tells the story, “There is now evidence that the lake shore has never been dug into at all. The shore of the lake has all of the animal life that was ever there. Shells can be found to show what was in this lake from the beginning of time Some college students, on a scuba diving experiment, located some sponges on the bottom of the lake which is about 40 feet deep in the deepest area. To say that the students were amazed would put it very mildly; and they were so delighted with their find that they told many biologists about it.” “Biologists have also discovered different species of water lillies that are not found in northern America. A northern orchid plant was found one time, and a biology class from Earlham college hunted until another was found near the first. Frequently during the summer season, many Canada Geese use this lake for nesting places and last summer (1983), at least 60 were observed flying out for the feeding ground at the nearby-

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game preserve. Several different species of birds uncommon to this area are seen flying into this original setting.” “The lake is ‘spring fed’ so it has no inlet; however,” Mrs. Huish remarks, chucklingly, “There is a beaver colony that dams up the outlet of the lake which I must have removed to keep the lake from overflowing; but almost at once it is rebuilt. It is a continual battle between them and me!” “The tamarack tree is not indigenous to this area, and according to Webster, this is as far south as it has ever been known to grow. Many years ago, there were several tamarack growing in the Gary/Whiting area, but were all cut down to clear the swamps. The tamarack is also known as the American Larch, and its native habitat is cold swampy land. It does grow as far as the ‘tree line’ into the north, but only extends south as far as the lower shores of the Great Lakes The trees seldom grow past the 24-inch in diameter measurements; and the trees in the Dunham swamp appear to be at the best about 14 to 16 inches across. These trees are not very tall as 60 feet in height is the extreme growth. The wood is very hard and durable; and in the ear-

Work-at-home schemes

Beware of advertised work-at-home projects to earn extra dollars, warns the Better Business Bureau. The project that you undertake may cost you far more than you earn — even before you start the job. The work-at-home frauds are out in full force, taking advantage of a tight economy with pro- „ mises of work-at-home riches for little time and effort expended. The unsuspecting have a potpourri of jobs from which to choose, anything from growing worms in their backyards to addressing and stuffing envelopes. The ‘‘catch’’ to these

ly days was used as utility poles and sailing ship spars. The trees grow very straight and are uniform in symetrical growth; not with durability of the tamarack wood is that some cottages were built in 1948 with the logs and many are still in good condition these 35 years later.” Mrs. Huish related, “There used to be an old time resident of this area who would come by and ask permission to go to the swamp and get some of the inner bark of the tamarack trees to make a remedy that was handed down from the Indians that was guaranteed to cure everything from ingrown toenails to biloius attacks. He gave me a bottle of this after he had made it; and from the smell, I don’t doubt his word, but I never did try it to prove his statement! ” This small area of original America can best be described as an almost ‘forgotten’ era. Mrs Huish and her two sons who live with her are to be congratulated on the preservation of this area in Kosciusko County. This ground is not for visitors to trample and disarrange. Any visitors must have written permission to enter and study. Os course there are some who think the property should be destroyed and misused. Shame, shame, ‘for only God can make a tree’.

too-good-to-be-true offers usually involves a sign-up fee before the work starts. Advertisements that promise big dollars for a few hours’ work are often just lures by fly-by-night frauds to sell information on how to set up a business or conduct the same scheme as those who advertise it. And there is a charge for details. The ad for stuffing envelopes is a typical example. If you answer an ad for stuffing envelopes, you may get a bill for $8 to $25 for enclosed details on how to make money. If you buy this, you can get further details on how to get into the “business.” The “how-to” information usually costs several hundred dollars. To avoid financial loss, heartbreak, and lots of grief, investigate before you consider any work-at-home program. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. For a reliability report on a specific work-at-home company, contact your local Better Business Bureau. As a work-at-home checklist, the 888 offers this advice: always beware of companies that never offer salaried employment, but promise you big profits and part-time earnings. Walk away from any deal that requires money for instructions or merchandise before telling you how the plan operates or the name of the company. Five charged NEW YORK - Five people have been arrested on charges to trying to smuggle to China sophisticated electronic equipment that can be used in missile guidance systems, U.S. Customs officials announced recently. Sub launched NEW LONDON, CON. - The Navy commissioned the USS Georgia, the fourth in the nation’s fleet of Trident nuclear-powered submarines.

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SPECIAL MEETING - A special meeting between Governor Robert D. Orr and Easter Seal volunteer leaders will be Thursday, March I, at 10 a.m. During this meeting Indiana Easter Seal Child Amy Lawless, Noblesville, left, and Easter Seal Chairman Paul Page, right, will present Governor Orr with the first sheet of Easter Seals for 1984. Page, host of NBC’s Sportsworld and the voice of the Indianapolis 500, is serving his fourth straight year as Indiana Easter Seal Chairman. The Easter Seal Campaign will officially begin March 5 and continue through Easter Sunday, April 22. Over one million appeal letters will be circulated to residents throughout the Easter Seal Society. This is a special year for Easter Seals. This year marks the 50th edition of Easter Seals. The concept for the first Easter Seal was that a miniature poster could attract attention to the services provided and create a desire on the part of the public to support the Society. That concept proved to be a winner for the society and the millions of disabled people it has served. The campaign will provide the majority of funds the Easter Seal Society will use throughout Indiana to provide necessary aid to the disabled.

Farm Bureau to highlight commodity activities

Indiana Farm Bureau District 2 will meet Friday, March 16, starting with a pancake and sausage meal at 6:30 p.m., at the 4-H Center, Columbia City, according to Harold L. Myers of South Whitley, district director. To be featured are talks by Will Schakel, Indiana Farm Bureau commodity department director, speaking on “What are We Looking at?” and a livestock marketing Lxlk on “Adapting to Change” by Gene Shaver, Producers Marketing Association manager. Mark Rohrer of Goshen will Block extends fam programs sign up Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block extended the sign-up period for 1984 cotton, feed grain, rice and wheat programs through March 16. Sign-up was scheduled to end February 24. Block said he took these actions because many farmers have not been able to finalize crop operating plans including financing and lease arrangements. Since producers must sign a biding contract in the 1984 acreage reduction programs, with liquidated damages for failure to comply, they are reluctant to sign up until their operating plans are more complete, he said. “Both USDA and private sector analysts say that when most farmers compare these programs with their own operating plans, they will find participation is to their advantage,” Block said. “This extension will give producers the time needed to weigh the benefits of participation against the risks of no price protection which they would otherwise face.” Block encouraged farmers to avoid a last-minute rush to USDA’s Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Services county offices so that they can better serve each farmer. U.S., Brazil BRASILIA, BRAZIL - The United States and Brazil set in motion recently expanded cooperation in a variety of areas, including 'military technology and Brazilian participation in the U.S. space program. Cause of death MOSCOW — An autopsy repot on President Yuri Andropov confirmed that the Soviet leader suffered from a kidney ailment and received dialysis treatment, the official news agency Tass reported recently.

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present a report on district Rural Youth organization activities. Mrs. Richard Strayer of LaGrange will give a women’s department report. . Young Farmer activities of Farm Bureau will be outlined by Mike Yoder of Middlebury, who with his wife, Rhonda, serves on the district Young Farmer committee. Paul Faulkner, manager s os Producers Marketing Association at Columbia City, will present a report of activities at this livestock market during the past year. Announcements of interest to Farm Bureau members will be brought by fieldman Gary Harding. Farm Bureau members from Elkhart, LaGrange, Steuben, Kosciusko, Noble, DeKalb, Whitley and Allen counties will be attending the dinner meeting.

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AVAILABLE TO SPEAK TO GROUPS — Greg VanDeWater, as part of his 4-H achievement program, is now available to speak to organizations and groups in need of programs. Through his involvement in 4-H, Greg attended the 4-H State Junior Leadership Conference last summer, sponsored by the Indiana Kiwanis Clubs, and was selected to serve on the IBM State Junior Leader Council. He is also on the State 4-H Speakers Bureau and was one of fifteen 4-H’ers chosen from throughout the state to attend the Indiana Youthpower Conference held recently in Indianapolis. Greg is president of the senior class at Tippecanoe Valley High School and a member of the varsity basketball team. He is a 18-year member of the Atwood Neverquitters 4-H Club and b presently serving hb second year as president of the Kosciusko County 4-H Junior Leaders. Interested groups may contact Greg VanDeWater at r 5 boa 237, Warsaw, or by calling BW-2474.

The $9,609 wrench; why it's time to reform defense spending

By RICHARD A. VIGUERIE WASHINGTON, D C. - Screws, $37 each. Claw hammers, only $435. And hexagonal wrendies for the bargain pri ce of $9,609. It is amazing how wasteful a bureaucracy can be, whetier it is dispensing federal grants to starving poets or propping up the price of milk — or buying tools and spare parts for the armed forces. Liberals tend to respo;id to stories of waste in defense spending by proposing that vhole weapons systems be eliminated. The B-l bomber, the MX, cruise missile, battleships, and other military hardware are targets of this “meat-ax” approach to controlling the defense budget. Conservatives must respond not by giving the Pentagon a blank check, but by develop ng a system of defense that is es ficient and effective. The defense budget is bloated all right; the Grace Comn ission has described in great detail the ways in which some $92 billion in defense costs could be saved over a three-year period. Bu don’t blame our boys in uniform. The fault lies mostly with

It happened . . . in Milford

10 YEARS AGO, FEB. 27 Jay Gould, 73-year-old WOWO farm commentator, who spoke at the Milford Area Deve opment Council “Citizen of the Year” banquet Saturday night, said when he turned 65 he was called to Westinghouse headqu< rters in New York and “given the gold watch and all of that.” Then he said, they told him he could keep his job for as long as he wanted it.” Members of the Columbian Reading Circle met Monday night in the home of Mrs Mervin Misheler and honored a fellow club member, Mrs. Herbert (Edith) Baumgartner, who had been named Milford’s “Citizen of the Year” on Saturday night. The Busy Bee Club met Feb. 20 in the home of Mrs. Don Ahrns at Milford. The meeting was opened in the usual form by Mrs. Delbert Moneyheffer. 20 YEARS AGO, FEB. 27,1964 The Milford Construe ion Firm of Phend and Brown was successful bidder for the road 15 strip of blacktopping from a point south of Milford to the Elkhart County line just north of the Milford Junction overhead. A group of Milford High School sophomores, juniors and seniors, chauffered by Jerry Bushong, drove to North Manches er Saturday, Feb. 22, to see Tri Alpha Player’s production of “Haihlet". Mrs. George Dye of Dundee, Miss., arrived in Milford Sunday evening for a two week visit with her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Bailey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Hernandez of Milford are the parents of a daughter born Wednesday, Feb. 19, at the Goshen Hospital. 36 YEARS AGO, MARCH 4,1954 Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Haab will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sunday, March 7, by keeping open house from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at their home onehalf mile west of Milford. Their friends and the public in. general are invited. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Free have announced the e tgagement of their niece Miss Ada Lou Winters to John ADw ne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Porter Allwine, of Goshen. The wedding date has not been set. Alice Geiger was voted Girl Stater at the regular meeting of the Milford unit American Legion Auxiliary, Tuesday evening. Carolyn Crafton will be alternate Mrs. Noble Fisher, Girl State Chairman read the list of names of junior girls eligible for Giris State.

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bureaucrats and with politicians who are supposed to make sure the bureaucrats do their job. As Richard Halloran wrote in The New York Times, “Congress retains obsolete spending programs and [military] bases or adds items the Pentagon does not want, all intended to protect jobs back home in electoral districts.” Thus, a substantial portion of the defense budget is not spent on defense at all, but on projects to help Congressmen get reelected. When the House Armed Services Committee cut the defense budget for Fiscal Year 1983, it added $296 million for military construction projects not requested by the Pentagon. Districts represented by Congressmen on the Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee (3.2 percent of the House) got 58 percent of the add-ons, according to Congressional Quarterly. Likewise, in the 1982 budget the Senate Armed Services Committee added $152 million in funding for non-requested projects; 88 percent of that money went for projects in the home states of members of the committee. Congress seems unable to pass

50 YEARS AGO, MARCH 1,1934 Mr. Northcott, better known as (“Tubby”) has taken a position as salesman for the Chatten Motor Sales. Mrs. Bushong, the county health nurse, has been examing all of the grade school children. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson of Long Island, New York, visited the school on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Robinson is a niece of Mrs. Eherenman. In the tourney held at Wolf Lake last week, Milford A.C. slipped in their Sunday afternoon game with Winona by a small margin. They defeated Albion on Wednesday night, Larwill on Friday night, and lost to Winona Saturday afternoon. Two arrested for illegal consumption Craig A. Cripe, 20, 16536 CR 50 Syracuse, and Travis L. Walter, 18, 1103 S. 16th St., Goshen, were arrested by Goshen Police for illegal consumption of alcoholic beverages. The pair was arrested at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Walter, who was also cited for disregarding a stop sign, and Cripe were stopped in the 400 block of West Lincoln Ave., Goshen, and were taken into custody after police found beer in the auto.

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a military budget on time. It continues to use annual budgets and frequent supplemental appropriations, and the armed forces never know very far in advance how much they will have to spend on a given project. Therefore it is difficult for the military to buy goods in large quantities or to buy at a time when the price may be low. Meanwhile, Congressional committees and subcommittees try to manage military purchases down to the smallest detail, making it impossible for the agencies to manage resources effectively. The purchase of weapons is so far out of control that, in one study of more than 150 recent procurement programs for weapons, only one - the GAU-8 anti-tank gun — came in under budget and on schedule. According to former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer, weapons cost could be trimmed 10 to 30 percent if mistakes were caught before production began. Congress refuses to let the Pentagon kill wasteful projects or shut down needless bases. And instead of eliminated subsidized commissaries surrounded by competing private supermarkets, members of Congress work to extend commissary privileges to (for example) former spouses of servicemen. It is time for the Reagan Administration and members of Congress to join together to reform military sending. Detailed management of projects can be left to the appropriate government agencies instead of various Congressional committees. Congress can stop funding projects the Pentagon does not want, and it can pass a two-year defense budget. The armed forces should stop paying contractors a percentage of their costs as profit. The services should coordinate weapons purchases, eliminating needless duplication. And, whenever feasible, purchases should be conducted by competitive bid, with specifications drawn as broadly as possible to encourage competition. Many supporters of a strong national defense have been too eager to approve military spending without question and too willing to give the Pentagon bureaucracy whatever it wants. That must change. The American people will support defense spending adequate to meet the challenge we face, but only if they are convinced that their money is being spent wisely and well. To many Americans, it appears that only liberals are interested in cutting waste, mismanagement, and inefficiencies from the defense budget. Conservatives must be concerned about waste in the defense budget as well as in welfare programs.

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