The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 23, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 June 1984 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL - Wed., June 20,1984

Editorials

Congratulations due Syracuse has its Scout Cabin, Milford and Oswego have their community buildings and North Webster has its Camelot Hall, therefore it is altogether fitting and proper that the citizens of Leesburg have a meeting place too. Congratulations are due to the Leesburg Lions Club for providing that greater Lakeland area community with a community building. The Lions/Community Building will be dedicated on Sunday with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. and an open house following. The Leesburg Lions, by the way, are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. It was the goal of Lions Club President Leo Anglin to complete the building during his year as president. Co-chairmen J. Robert Bishop and Charles E. Rule saw to it that his goal became a reality. The building is now ready for public use. It was built at an approximate cost of $37,000 with most of the labor being donated by members of the Lions club and citizens of the Leesburg community. It is a building for the Leesburg Lions and the entire community to be proud of and we’re guessing it will see a lot of use in the years to come. Preserve dedicated The Edmund and Virginia Ball Wetlands Nature Preserve at Camp Crosley, on James Lake/Lake Tippecanoe, was dedicated on Saturday. This marked the successful completion of a combined effort to save the wetlands. x A total of 219 acres have been set aside through the efforts of the the Muncie Family YMCA, the Lake Tippecanoe Property Owners, Inc., and the Nature Conservancy. Funding came from interested persons and a two-for-one financial commitment of the YMCA. It is important that the wetlands be preserved and this is another step in that preservation. The dedication was considered important enough that Indiana Governor Robert D. Orr attended. Orr presented the Balls with the Sagamore of the Wabash Award for their efforts. Jesus, TV and cash In Australia many take a dim view of U.S. television ministries. There’s even a move afoot tb ban them there. Some say they want all donations to stay in Australia. (The big TV ministries there are mostly those of famous Americans.) One Australian told an American reporter Aussies don’t link religion to material things, success or money. He believes Aussies see Jesus as one who was rejected, a have-not, who was crucified — not a money-oriented person building expensive complexes and running million-dollar enterprises. Others complain about a quick, transitory fix — via the tube. But in spite of this criticism, Americans are doing well selling religion on TV in Australia. So well that a government inquiry into their success is now in progress, amid complaints that American evangelists have seized upon Australia as a new market, and giving the gullible an overdose of high-powered, money-oriented gospel. There may be justification for criticism, but it would be a sad day for Australians and the world if ministers are barred from the air. * What others say — Reagan as peacenik Something is profoundly wrong when it takes an election year an American president can begin to talk some sense on the subject of U.S.-Soviet relations. And what’s wrong is that for three years the president has been out of step with his own people. Throughout, President Reagan has baited the Soviets with his Cold War rhetoric. He characterized the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and the “focus of evil” in the world. Reagan downplayed the importance of strategic arms talks. He scoffed at the nuclear freeze movement in this country and accused its European backers of being duped by the Soviets. He proceeded with the deployment of a new generation of in-termediate-range missiles in Europe, prompting the Soviets to pull out of arms control talks in Geneva. He continued to help poison relations. And he brushed aside suggestions of a summit meeting with Soviet leaders to improve relations. Then, last week, the president said he would welcome a summit meeting. “I am willing to meet and talk anytime,” he told reporters at his news conference. Suddenly, it seemed, everything was different — the tone, the words, the policy. The change marks the president’s response to the call last week of Sens. Charles Percy, R-111., and Howard Baker, R-Tenn., for an annual summit meeting between the leaders of the superpowers. Percy and Baker worried that U.S.-Soviet relations have reached such a low state that world peace is imperiled. Baker suggested the U.S. invitation should ignore the knotty problem of arms control and propose simply “to talk about the general world situation because we’ve got to figure out some way not to blow each other up.” The president’s change also reflects the political requirements of this election year. The Democrats are expected to hit Reagan particularly hard on his arms cbntrol policy — as well they should. Reagan’s vulnerability on the issue can be seen in recent Senate votes. Senators insisted on linking research funds for anti-satellite weapons to good-faith efforts to open talks on the issue this year. And they nearly killed funding for the MX missile system. But it’s not just the Congress or two moderate Republican senators or Reagan’s political strategists who are urging the president to change course on relations with the Soviet Union. The American people understand deep in their hearts and minds that the relationship with the Soviets is paramount. It transcends ideology. It transcends Central America, Lebanon and the Iran-Iraq war. That’s why Americans have voted consistently for a freeze in the testing and deployment of nuclear weapons. That’s why they have consistently told pollsters Reagan’s tough talk makes them nervous that they trust him less on foreign policy than in any other area. And the fact is that this president has done about everything in his power to sabotage the relationship, pursuing a defense buildup that’s made the world less secure and put the country over its head in historic deficits. Just because Reagan says he’s open to the idea of a summit with the Soviets doesn’t mean he has seen the light. But there is an election just ahead, and even if Reagan still is tempted to a policy of confrontation, he understands the American people prefer one of moderation and diplomacy. - THE JOURNAL-GAZETTE, FORT WAYNE

The Leesburg Lions/Community Building will be dedicated at 1 p.m. Sunday with an open house to follow. M-J Pulse caii^mSt. 17 What would you do if there was a tornado in Kosciusko County like the one in Wisconsin? At first I would just be frightened, but would take my family to the basement for safety. . . I don’t know. I guess I would open all my windows and try to find the safest place in the house. I don’t have a basement. . . I probably wouldn’t be prepared. I don’t like to think about tornados. . . Well, I’ve been in areas where tornados went through before, and I was just lucky they didn’t hit where I was at. . . This may sound silly, but I would want to get some pictures of it. It would just be so remarkable. . . I would go down in the basement and cover myself with a matress or something heavy to be protected from glass and flying debris. . . If I were out driving, I would find a dry ditch. If I were at home, I would go to the basement. . . Court news J 1

Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk, Jean Messmore: Fodor-Eiler Michael J. Fodor,' 32, r 2 box 104, North Webster and Cindy F. Eiler, 30, Goshen Fugate-Tinsley Benjamin Fugate, 18, 435 Kohler Rd., Syracuse and Peggy Sue Tinsley, 22, 435 Kohler Rd., Syracuse Politano-Oswalt Domenic Alan Politano, 21, r 2 box 452, Leesburg and Sondra Dee Oswalt, 20, r 2 box 190, Claypool Sponseller-Flueckiger Steven Joe Sponseller, 24, r 2 box 45, Leesburg and Jennifer Kay Flueckiger, 20, r 2 box 45, Leesburg Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Robert Burner, judge: Complaint On Charge Account Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc versus Robert R. Hughes, P.O. Box 291 Milford. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $2,293.52 plus attorney’s fees, interest and costs of action for a past due amount on a charge account

Letter to the editor

Let them keep their problem

< Dear Editor: Attention to the residents of North Webster, Tippecanoe Township and Tippecanoe Lake! I am writing this letter to bring to your attention the following problem. On June 6 the APC approved the rezoning of 33.26 acres from agricultural to light industrial, and on June 8 the county commissioners upheld the APC’s recommendation. At the June 6 meeting a letter was read from Myron Clark, president of the North Webster Town Board, stating that the town would consider the possibility of running the town’s sewage system out to the industrial park. This property is in Turkey Creek Township. To do this they will have to add on to the present plant and put in two pumping stations at the site, all at the expense of Tippecanoe Township. All of the people north of town along SR 13 must hook onto the sewage line. Turkey Creek Township would get all of the tax dollars not in Tippecanoe Township. There is a drainage problem at the sight. A 24-inch tile will have to be put in for drainage, which goes into a ditch that runs behind and south of the sight and ends up in Tippecanoe lake. Now do you want all of this waste ending up in your lake, of course this would be an easy way to keep away the summer residents, or do you want your tax dollars raised for their THE MAIL-JOUtNAL (U.S.P.S. 3258-4000) Published by The Mail-Journal every Wednesday and entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse. Indiana 46567. Second class postage paid at 103 E. Main Street. Syracuse. Indiana 46567 and at additional entry offices. Subscription: sls per year in Kosciusko County; sls outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of address forms to The Mail-Journal. P.O. Box IM. Milford. Indiana 46542. 10

County Court The following persons have been assessed fines and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, James Jarrett, judge: Fishing without a license — Vannie C. Swinehart, New Paris, s6l Driving while suspended — Robert A. Mansfield, Syracuse, $lO2 fine, driver’s license suspended like period Fishing in state waters — Randy L. Wise, Syracuse, s6l Marriage Dissolutiohs The following couples have file for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Glaze — Gail A. Glaze and James P. Glaze, r 3 box 378, Syracuse. The couple was married Sept. 3, 1977 and separated May 26, 1984. There are two minor children. City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Unlawful riding of vehicle — Denny K. Harrington, 18, Syracuse, S3B

benefit. This is a group from Syracuse that is behind all of this not North Webster. I say let them keep their problems up there not here. So come on people of Tippecanoe Township let’s get together and attend the next town board meeting on July 2 and keep this mess out of our township. A concerned Tippecanoe Township Citizen 20 on dean's list at BSU Twenty Kosciusko County students have been named to the spring quarter dean’s list at Ball State University. To qualify for the dean’s list an undergraduate must earn a grade point average of 3.6 to 4.0 and carry 12 or more hours of academic work for college credit. Following is a list of county students: Syracuse — Karen S. Tunis, r 3 box 495; Julie L. Brandon, 319 Medusa St.; Josette M. Glon, r 4 box 351A; Patricia L. Greene, r 5 box 333; Rhoda A Hapner, r 3 box 588; and Shari A. Miller, r 5 box 314. Warsaw — Cynthia A Bolinger, r 7 box 38; Kimberly A Canan, 1310 Oriole Dr.; Diane J. Dobbins, 2133 Brookview Dr.; Richard J. Dobbins, 204 Tyner St.; Daniel H. Hampton, r 6 box 518; Connie L. Mirmix, r 1 box 385; Shannon L. Rhodes, 1309 W. Oriole Dr.; Chris J. Rogers, r 9 box 128; Debra K. Rogers, 511 S. Union St.; Scot W. Vankirk, r 1 box 400; and James A. Burnett, r 4 box 69. Pierceton — Toni L. English, P.O. Box 198, and Amber L. Perry, r 3 box 31. Growing Fast Seedlings are growing six times faster than the normal rate in a special chamber operated by a Minnesota reforestation project. By placing paper birch and white spruce seedlings under 1.000-watt arc lamps, the statefunded project produces six-inch trees in about four months, compared to two years required in a nursery.

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

KIP SCHUMM, among his many talents and responsibilities, is finding himself playing mom for a four-week period with year-old Katrina while his wife Pam is taking a speed-up course in genetics at Ball State University at Muncie. Pam, who had been teaching biology at Wawasee High School for the past ten years, is one of 37 high school teachers in the country to be selected for the program. She received a high recommendation from principal Dr. Howard Hull as a candidate for the program, and her other qualifications obviously met with the approval of the Ball State board of review. Pam is finding the program challenging, to put it mildly. She has to read about 200 pages a day and report daily. Kip is finding his new chores as house-mom equally challenging. He’ll only admit to its being “a little hectic.” Aside from that, Kip is an advertising sales representative for The Papers Incorporated. —o— IF YQU should notice some activity in the near future along the Chessie System railroad right-of-way going through Syracuse, you can bet you’ll be seeing more of it. As near as we could learn, the MCI tele-com-munications system that we’re beginning to learn about through its concentrated television advertising will be running a fiber-optic line along the railroad, originating in the east and terminating at a point outside Nappanee. MCI is destined to be the major competitor of American Telephone and Telegraph (ATT) in supplying long distance telephone service to users. All of this has been made possible through the de-regulation of such public services. Workmen of the Syracuse Northern Indiana Public Service Company have already extended underground electrical service to a point just south of the old Wawasee Airport where MCI plans to build a small building (about 20 by 40 feet) as sort of a way-station in its mid-west operation. -oDR. FRANK Piaskowy, the Doctor of Osteopathy who has had the Syracuse Community under consideration as a possible site to establish his medical practice, may also be considering a move to the Dunlap community, it was learned during the past week. A group of Goshen investors headed by Max Golden, a furniture store owner, is building a new medical facility that may include a specialized care hospital in Dunlap. The Dunlap Urgent Care Center is a first phase of the Dunlap Medical Plaza that will operate under the name of Dunlap Medical Plaza, Inc. Nice thing about this move, is that it is equi-distant to the Goshen and Elkhart hospitals. Syracuse is without a building that would be suitable for a doctor’s office, and this presents a major hurdle when one shows a prospective new doctor to the area as a possible location. The drive to bring another doctor to the Syracuse community has been a major effort of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Piaskowy was in Syracuse for further discussions last week. He is temporarily working in the emergency room at the Goshen General Hospital. —oA LITTLE known fact concerning voter apathy and cost per vote in the recent Indiana primary election was revealed this week by the Indiana Election Board. Would believe only about one out of three registered voters cast their ballot in the primary, at an overall cost of $3.06 per vote? While Indiana’s 92 counties reported a total voter registration figure of 2,971,656, the number of voters actually participating in the primary was reported at 1,234,367. In comparison, the combined cost for all 92 Indiana counties to conduct the primary election, as mandated by law, was $3,771,196. —o— ANOTHER INTERESTING fact: Did you know bluegills in northeast Indiana lakes reach seven years of age? Most bluegills caught by fishermen on area lakes are 3-6 years old. The same is true of other fish species. Bass, perch, and other sunfish seldom live past age 6. Few crappies live past 4 or 5 years old. —o— THE FLOTILLA Committee each year seeks out unusual boats or entries to give the classic event a little extra pizzaz. they could have an unusual entry this year, by longtime Lake Wawasee resident Jack Vanderford. Jack, a Purdue U. engineering graduate, was given an old 1913 Evinrude outboard motor to see if he could get it started. Not only did he get it started, but has been putt-putting around the lake in front of his Ideal Beach borne. He’s toying with the idea of putting the motor in this year’s Fourth of July Flotilla. It’s working flue now, but woe be unto Jack if he should suddenly need parts for the old motor!

Distinguished students listed at Purdue

A total of 3,248 Purdue University students, including many local people, received distinguished-student rank for the spring semester of the 1983-84 school year. The students represented the top 11 percent, scholastically, of the 30,067 undergraduates on the West Lafayette campus during the second semester. To qualify for distiguisbed ranking, a student must have a grade index of at least 5.5 (B+) of a possible 6 (A) in no fewer than 14 academic credit hours. The student may have no grade below 4 (C).

808 AND Marilyn Smith have purchased the 212 South Huntington Street property from Stan Schopf and are doing extensive remodeling. It is remembered as the home of the late J. W. Rothenberger, and is considered one of the town’s oldest residences, according to Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Dr.) Fosbrink, a neighbor. Bill and Betty Nolan now occupy the house. Friends of the new owners, Bill jokes “I’m being evicted.” —O'REX AND Ann Yentes of Babson Park, Fla., spent the weekend in Syracuse attending the wedding of Ann’s brother, Mike Skevington and visiting friends. Rex is now assistant professor of travel and tourism at Webber College at Babson Park. He’ll be remembered as working at Gulliver Travel Agency in the Pickwick Block from 1973 to 1978. He then moved to St. Louis to work for Capital Airlines, then bought Gulliver in 1980 and returned to Syracuse. —o— WITH APOLOGIES to Jay Peffley for giving him the wrong name in a news in last week’s paper, concerning his retirement from the Syracuse Library Board, we’ve known for a long time his name is not “Jack” Peffley. The error, even tho it was in small type, caught the eye of his legion of friends and has been a source of good-natured ribbing. But Jay has long since learned to “take It,” having been a NIPSCO official for a good many years. Sorry. Jay. —O'BILL BEEMER, the new man on the Kosciusko County Alcoholic Beverage Commission, quickly found himself sitting on one of the most-hotly contested cases last Wednesday he is likely to encounter in the year he will serve on the commission. It was his first meeting with the commission. “I knew there would be a crowd,” Beemer said, adding that he was surprised to find a stan-ding-room-only audience. The case involved a package liquor license request by Norman and Lu Lovell of Milford. A large group protested the granting of the license, and submitted a petition of some 800-odd names. The Lovells had .a petition of some 300-odd names? favoring granting of the license. Bill Little, who spoke against granting the license, was said to be a member of the board of directors of another Milford business which sells alcoholic beverages. This statement came from the Lovells’ Indianapolis attorney, and found its way into a news item in another area newspaper. Little said he was given no chance to correct the statement. He did tell The Mail-Journal later that he was secretary of the Walter Drugs, Inc., a Milford drug store which handles package liquors, some 22 years ago when it was incorporated. Little noted that was a long time ago, and that he has not been on the firm’s board of directors for many years. He is a public accountant and assisted in the incorporation of Walter Drugs, Inc. Little is also president of the Lakeland Schoo) Board and te seeking re-election to the board. —o— SYRACUSE ELEMENTARY school principal, John A. Naab, named last week to’ the Syracuse Library-Board, found some down-home humor in the following piece which he passed along to this/Column for publication: / * Thank God — For Small Towns You know you’re in a small town — — When Third street is on the edge of town. — When you write a check on the wrong bank and it covers for you. — When you miss a Sunday at. church and receive a get-well card. — When a 55 year old farmer is still referred - toas “Young Johnson.” _ — When someone asks you how you feel and listens to what you say. — When the nicest house in town has a beauty shop on the back porch. — When you drive into the ditch five miles out of town and the word gets back.before you do. — When you can’t walk for exercise because every car that passes you offers you a ride. — When you dial a wrong number and talk for 15 minutes anyway. z — When you speak to each dog you pass by name, and he wags at you. — When everyone’s cap has a seed com emblem on it. — When you don’t use your turn signal because everyone knows where you are going. — When a crowd gathers on Main street and looks toward the fire hall when the whistle blows. — When the banker will figure your income tax if you help him sort through the shoe box. * s - Thank God for small town. And the people who live in them.

Listed by home towns, the following are distinguished students: Claypool — Deborah Jean Harman, r 2 and Diane Kay Hathaway, r 1 box 17 Milford — Annette Sue Beer, r 1, box 250; Heather Mary Beer, r 1, box 175 and Norine Gale Sorensen, r 1, box 154A Mentone — Sharon Lynn Surface, 207 N. Broadway St. Pierceton — Tony D. Caudill, r 2 Syracuse — Timothy Ray Butt, r 3 box 466; Carla Sue Darr, 424 Dolan Dr.; Kevin James Fry, 200 E. Carroll; William Lee Harting,

518 South Harrison St.; Vince Aaron Price, r 4 box 157 and Michael Lee Vanderveer, r 4. Warsaw — Bridget Alicia Corbett, r 7 box 380; Erin Antony Handgen, r 7 box 395; Tommy R. Heckman, r 6, box 363; Jo Hoskins, 1301 W. Cardinal Dr.; David Alan Leedy, r 8 box 214; Corinne Paulette Maheu, r 3 box 57 Lake Sharon; William C. Man- ‘ ning, Jr., r 8, box 391; Elsie Marie Nyenhuis, r 5; M.S. Rookstool Seiler, r 6; Deshawn L. Van De Water, r 5, box 237, and Sandra Rose Yarger, 2822 Patterson Rd. Winona Lake — Margaret McCleary, 215 Lakeside Dr. "