The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 34, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 September 1984 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., September 5,1984

Editorials

They read The Mail-Journal Publishers and editors alike often wonder if anyone is reading what goes into the paper. MJ Publishers Arch and Della Baumgartner and Editor Jeri Seely are no different, we often wonder if anyone is reading The Mail-Journal. Are all of our efforts worth it? Last July we had that question answered, as least in part, when Mrs. Seely received a letter from the American Legion Auxiliary informing her that The Mail-Journal had won Indiana’s Best Local Editorial in the Interest of Youth award and had also won a National Golden Press Award, one of four — the other three being for radio, television and features. This is the second year in a row that The Mail-Journal has won the state competition. Last year Mrs. Seely received the state’s top award. This year’s winning editorial, “Don’t count the young folks out,” was written by Publisher Arch Baumgartner. Baumgartner was in Salt Lake City, Utah, yesterday (Tuesday) to receive his award during the 64th annual national convention. The trophy was presented by the National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Thomas Gear of Hampton, Va. With one million members in 12,000 local units, the American Legion Auxiliary is the largest of the nation’s women’s patriotic organizations dedicated to programs of service to the community, state and nation. Baumgartner’s winning editorial stemmed from a Syracuse Rotary Club meeting he attended along with members of Students Against Drunk Driving group from Wawasee High School. It is ‘reprinted to the right of this column. This newspaper is grateful to Eleanor Enyeart, president of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 253, for taking the time to read our newspaper and to enter the editorial in the competition. We care about what the youth are doing and we’re glad to know others do too! < * Gun time It’s appropriate to recall, at the beginning of the hunting season, that sportsmen are killed every year by carelessness with firearms. Hunters trip and shoot the hunter ahead, some shoot themselves while crossing fences. Others are shot by “unloaded” weapons in cars. Some are shot by triggerhappy hunters mistaking them for wild game. Safety with firearms can’t be stressed too much; as the expanded population and more leisure time and money send more and more hunters into the fields, the danger of accidents increases. School discipline The beginning of the new school year is a good time to reexamine the local atmosphere. Parents have an obligation to cooperate with school authorities, to make their task easier as they attempt to guide, train and educate the children of this community. ' Children must be well disciplined, as well as educated, for, if not disciplined, they can’t be educated. This is a point many parents in recent years (and some teachers) have lost sight of. Proper disciplining in school is also a prerequisite for social order in the years ahead. ' Food hope An idea just ten years old holds out greaChope for improving the world’s food supply dramatically — and perhaps preventing some of the starvation and malnutrition now expected in coming decades as population expands rapidly. Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, Peter Tonge reports that the hydroponics system of growing plants in soilless containers filled with a nutrient solution is a major success in its pioneer effort in Lucern Valley, California. Conceived in lowa a decade ago by William Skaife, this method is now proven. A dramatic utilization of it may lie just ahead. An experiment utilizing this method is currently being planned by the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific. Another trial system will take place on a Chicago rooftop, and others at Pittsburgh and Orange Lake, Florida. The evidence indicates strongly that all will succeed — if the example of Skaife’s Honeyacre Farm is followed. Skaife says a good hydroponics system can produce thirty times as much produce on a parcel of land as conventional produce farming methods. And he invites all skeptics to come and see his operation. We wish all products were as good as the advertisements suggests they are. Never tell anyone about your difficulties and you will not at their lack of concern. When people lose confidence in the leaders of the nation, the country is threatened with revolution:

What others say — ■ We're footing the bill for gourmet dining In the real world there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but among the government’s high-rollers there’s the cheap lunch - cheap because taxpayers are picking up more than 80 percent of the tab. The meals run the gamut from jumbo shrimp to sirloin steak. They are served in well-appointed executive dining rooms hidden away int he major departments of the federal bureaucracy, tastefully outfitted in crisp linens and expensive china and staffed by creative cooks and attentive waiters. There are 22 of these exclusive dining rooms scattered throughout the government — from the State Department to the Pentagon. Their clientele consists of the government elite, who earn from $60,000 to more than SBO,OOO annually. And their menu prices are bargains by any comparison. It may appear frivolous to some government bigwigs to complain about the relatively small expenditure out of a nearly S9OO billion budget. Yet how do we justify requiring taxpayers to fork over nearly $2.5 million in yearly subsidies to feed their government’s highest-paid officials? -THE LAGRANGE STANDARD .0

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Don't count the young folks out It’s too early to count the young folks out. Anyone with kids of his own is able to see the good qualities of teenagers, not just the part they are not so proud of. We submit that we think we have a bunch of good kids out there - always have had, for that matter. And this feeling was supremely bolstered recently with the forming of SADD — Students Against Drunk Drivers. It’s an outcropping of MADD — Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. Two high school students appeared before the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club Tuesday to explain SADD, and said they planned to approach other service clubs in the area to outline its goals. Which are: To help eliminate the drunk driver and save lives, to alert high school students of the dangers of drinking and driving, to conduct community alcohol awareness programs, to organize peer counseling programs, to help students who may have concerns about alcohol. The youths offer a Contract for Life, which a teenager and his or her parents can both sign. By it, the student would agree to call for advice and/or transportation at any hour, from any place if he or she has had too much to drink. And the parent would agree to come to his or her aid in any such situation, no questions, no argument. Dad agrees to pay the taxi fare. Discussion can come later. Who could knock SADD? The organizers of this movement at Wawasee High School are to be commended for their efforts. It could do wonders. Like we said, don’t count the young folks out.

Court news

Circuit Court Complaint To Foreclose Mechanic’s Lien Panel Craft, Inc. versus Elverado R. Ganz and Billie K. Ganz. The plaintiff is seeking sale of real estate and proceeds applied to payment of plaintiff’s claim of $4,705.42 plus interest to date of judgment, attorney’s fees and all costs of action. Complaint Mearle Lee Cornelius versus Harry Appenzeller and Bill Appenzeller, individually, and doing business as Lakeland Motors. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants and prays that actual damages be determined and that he be awarded three times the actual damages, plus attorney’s fees and all costs of action. The plaintiff allegedly purchased a 1982 Chevrolet with an odometer reading of 30,037 miles, when actually the mileage was in excess of 75,000.

Letter to the editor

Another opinion

Dear Editor: I felt an urgent need to write you and voice the opinion of what I consider to be many people. I am referring to the recent “Faith Assembly Bill” and the controversial workings of Rev. Hobart Freeman and Faith Assembly Church. I am a “word of faith minister.” I believe that what is happening is a reaction of fear among many people including the Indiana State Legislature. The Bible says in Romans 12:3 that God has “given to everyone the measure of faith.” We all have the same amount of faith. Some of us know how to use our faith, others do not. You would not expect your three-year-old child to drive the car. Likewise, if you cannot believe God to heal you of a sore throat, you cannot be expected to believe God to heal you of cancer. Rev. Freeman is not the healer, God is. The act of God healing someone is an every day happening. There are so many fundamentalist churches in this area that do not accept healing as part of their belief, but that does not mean its not in the Bible. What right do our lawmakers have to pass the Faith Assembly Bill? What right do they have to say you must take your child to the doctor in a life and death situation or so they say? What do you, Mr. Lawmaker have to say about the millions of aborted babies? They say “a fetus and a baby are two different things.” I beg to differ, human life begins at conception, and I can prove that in the Bible too! If I was to kill a six-week-old baby it would be murder but if it was still in the womb, it would be abortion. What about children who die in hospitals and physically and sexually abused children? Is there

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Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: • * Davis — Roger A. Davis and Ronda R. Davis, 136 S. Huntington, Syracuse. The couple was married June 21, 1980 and separated November 4, 1983. There is one minor child. I t * Marriage Licenses The following coupleq have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jean Messmore: Ralston-Lentz Richard K. Ralston, 41, P.O. Box 217 Mentone and Beth A. Lentz, 32, r 5 box 162, Syracuse Minnick-Ostendorf Michael Eugene Minnick, 37, r 7 box 464, Warsaw and Loretta Raye Ostendorf, 36, 204 S. Henry, Milford

anyone truly enforcing those laws? What about separation of church and state? Too many Christians have been sitting down too long. It is wrong to agree with the Faith Assembly Bill whether you go to Faith Assembly or not. If the lawmakers choose to clamp down on one group, soon they’ll clamp down on all groups, Pentecostal, fundamental or otherwise. We do not agree with telling someone they cannot go to a doctor. The many deaths are very unfortunate. But likewise, we cannot judge Rev. Freeman or his teaching according to Matthew 7:1. I’m praying for him. I believe he is truly a Christian, I cannot judge him, as a word of advice Psalms 105:15 says “touch not mine annointed nor do my prophets no harm.” If he’s right, great. If not, it should be between him and God. Let’s not be so quick to judge a church by the news media’s exploded viewpoints. Rev. Duane Bucher MOS A.Ministries County police investigate two accidents Two accidents were investigated by Kosciusko County police over the Labor Day Holiday. •The first accident involved Mark Dean, Syracuse. Dean was traveling east on County Line Rd. when he skid through the intersection at CR 900E. The Dean vehicle went through the yard of Virgil Boleck and hit evergreens. No damage estimates were available. •Kosciusko County Sheriffs officials also investigated a motorcycle accident on 1300 North, one-half mile east of Warner Road in Syracuse. According to police reports, Laron Gans lost control of his Honda motorcycle around 1:12 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2. Syracuse EMS arrived at the scene, but Gans denied treatment. It was reported that Gans admitted to drinking alcohol prior to the accident. Busy Beavers At one time or another, beavers have probably changed almost every watershed on North America. For example, a 1980 excavation down to bedrock revealed the area now called Boston common was created by busy beavers.

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

THIS COLUMN seems to be doing its thing lately with amusing tidbits of days gone by. And the contributions are plentiful, some good, others descending directly to the Round File. Jack Vanderford, local library board president among his many talents and responsibilities, offered the following piece from the October 10, 1910, issue of The Syracuse Journal. Jack came across this piece while browsing through the dusty Journal files in the library, and took occasion to make us a copy of it, albeit mighty dim. He confesses the library’s up-to-date Canon copying machine suffers from lack of use and from insufficient changing Os its chemicals, thus the dim reproduction. „ What rivets Vanderford’s attention to this piece is that it quotes a neighboring weekly. The Milford Mail, now The Mail-Journal, questioning the quality of the water around the community, and the rising interest in women’s rights, what with a woman, one Geraldine Ferraro, running for vice president of our mighty country. This continues to sit hard with much of our country’s senior male population. Well, enough of this. Now to the 1910 Journal article: rIT IS UNCALLED FOR A woman wants to vote, but should we have another war, is she willing to ride a horse astraddle, bite off the end of cartridges with her teeth, make long marches, lay on the ground, and shoot to kill? The Milford Mail springs the above and we are inclined to believe that the water is bad around that town. She is perfectly willing to do all the above things if necessary but it is not so long as there are so many worthless men to be killed off. She is likewise willing to stay at home and run the farm and care for the children and perhaps suffer several hardships while the husband and son go forth to save the country. She is likewise willing to go to the front and care for the sick anddy ingand then after the war is over she is willing to do on almost nothing or perhaps support a husband who is unable to work and to whom the government pays: a paltry sum while the politicians squander the money in various ways too numerous to mention. Yea, and she is willing in this glorious time of peace to suffer unknown privation and perchance to earn the greater share of the living, while her lord and master sits around on store boxes, or wastes his time and money in saloons, poolrooms or poker dens and then on election day goes forth to cast his vote to keep this country from going to the dogs. — Wolf Lake Trolley —o— THE PAINT used by the Indiana State Highway Department to paint crosswalks and other road markings on state roads must have been purchased from the low bidder. “Why,” you ask. Only several weeks ago highway department workers were in Syracuse painting the marked areas with a bright white paint. Only thipg wrong, the paint failed to hold. And today the markings are faded to the point where they were before the job was undertaken. I Maybe they can blame the new type paint “gun”jused to paint the markings. Following the paint application, a blast gun' was used to quick-dry the area so cars could drive over the markings immediately. —o— ANOTHER ONE that continues to come to our attention is the weed growth in certain areas in the community, one being the area surrounding the empty lot on West Main Street, just west of the theater. Attention, Syracuse Street Department. That, too, rates a “Boo.” —o—- - MAYBE ALL we’re doing is complaining, but we’re prompted to call attention to the importance of learning to swim, especially if one lives on or near any of the area lakes. This applies to young and old alike. This was pointed out vividly when Shirley (Mrs. Forrest) Stahley of Kale Island was on a small body-sized inflated raft recently and wandered out over her head into deep water. The raft capsized and Shirley, a non-swimmer called for help. As it turned out Don Merryman, a Fort Wayne businessman who lives near the Stahley residence, had just arrived from Fort Wayne, and was called to the scene. He threw his watch into a flower pot and came to Mrs. Stahley’s rescue, clothes and all. Mrs. Stahley took in more than her share of water, and was taken to the Goshen Hospital for an overnight stay, but, in spite of being shaken by the experience, is none the worse for wear. There’s that lesson: If you can’t swim, don’t wander out into deep water where you can’t touch bottom. —o— AN AREA saleswoman, a little on the short and stout side but who made up for this with vim and vigor recently landed a big account.

Humanly speaking — Confused about akohoism ...?

By DONALD D. GRABER, M.D. Bowen Center Staff Psychiatrist “I’m convinced I was born an alcoholic,” stated the young recovering alcoholic woman. “You can’t be an alcoholic until you abuse alcohol,” said the wellknown physician. “The alcoholic drinks because of problems,” said the social worker. “An alcoholic drinks because he is an alcoholic,” stated the recovering alcoholic doctor. “Drinking is only a symptom of underlying

When complimented by her boss she said, “You bet, those tall skinny gals don’t have it all! ” —O—WE’VE KNOWN for some time that Ralph Thornburg, ex drug exec., is a frustrated cook. He has donned a chef’s tall, white hat for several years to ply his kitchen expertise at the local Chili , Cook-off. Last year he attended the “nationals” at California, something he intends to do again this Novembers. But first he wants to participate in the big Michigan Chili Cook-off, coming up soon at Farmington (near Detroit), Michigan. This state event is one of the biggest, with some 25,000 attending, Ralph says. This time he’s taking his wife Marge along “as first assistant cook.” —o— SINCE WE learned and wrote in this column about flags being stolen from the Lake Wawasee property pier 627 of John and Mary Kiely on Waco > Drive, we were saddened to learn that on the same night flags were stolen from the pier of Mike and Carol Kiley of Pickwick Park. It was the Sunday night of the opening of the Los Angeles Olympiad XXIII. Mike, former Marion juvenile judge, is an LU. grad, but showed no partiality toward rival Purdue or Notre Dame. He had flags of all three schools waving majestically on his pier, and was himself put out that anyone would stoop to this petty vandalism. Perhaps there were other flags stolen — but of all nights to do it, when the opening of the Olympian Games seemed to spell American Patriotism with a capital “P”. —o— WE WEREN’T the only ones a little confused to see the big Cadillac limo tooling around town, bearing the Indiana license plate ARIZ 1. Jean Miller, of Pearl Street and a wintertime resident of Scottsdale, Ariz., thought Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt was in town. ?Was that really Governor Babbitt’s car,” she wtmdered. It turned out to be Dave Coppes, a Scottsdale resident who spends some time in this area each summer. This big limo is a 1973 Cadillac which belonged to Dave’s late father, Claude Coppes, of Nappanee and Pickwick Park. -oSEEN IN a Wawasee High School office: Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost. —O’DON AND Janet Hays have all the work done on the remodeling of their Kale Island Beacon, and have been enjoying a brisk summer business. When pointing out the various and sundry new things in the building, Don makes note of the fact that they have installed those “new and efficieht” toilets. “It takes only a gallon and a half of water to flush them,” he notes. “If everyone on the lake did as much to combat pollution,” says Hays,” our problem would be considerably lessened." -oA NEW novelist to watch is Sandra Wilkinson, daughter-in-law of Jean and Azzie Wilkinson of Tippecanoe Lake. Her newest novel is “Death on Call, A Hospital Thriller.” It’s on sale at the South Shore Gift Shop. Sandy is an RN, having served in a variety of nursing and management positions since graduation from the Christ Hospital School of Nursing in Cincinnati, 0., and the University of Colorado. She; is currently an associate administrator at Whidden Memorial Hospital, Everett, Mass. She lives north of Boston with her husband, Robert, and their daughters. It’s billing states, “Death On Call”, is terrifying. It can happen in your community, in your hospital. ’ -oLOU ANN Yoder’s popular Shrimpboat may have some in-house competition by April of next year. Her husband Ray Yoder again has become owner of The Guide, on the east side of Lake Wawasee, this time by default, and he has plans of rebuilding the place. Ray had planned to leave today (Wednesday) for Florida to resume his job at the Deer Creek " Country Club’s racket club. However, he has had an attractive offer to work at the Hidden Woods Country Club, on Highway 441, about eight miles northwest of Deer Creek, and this >ffer is uppermost in his current plans. ’-, The Yoders are remembered as former owners of The Frog Tavern. SEVERAL NORTH Webster townsmen who have set as their goal the raising of SIOO,OOO in federal matching funds for a public beach on Webster Lake’s west shore have proved themselves to be a hearty lot. Taking advantage of the Labor Day weekend influx of traffic, the posted themselves on both sides of the SR 13 stop light and made their pitch for funds. Friday night alone they averaged $159 per hour, and are well on their way to reaching their goal, according to general chairman Steve Beavers.

psychological problems,” suggested the psychiatrist. “To search for causes of an alcoholic’s drinking enables him. to rationalize it and undermines sobriety,” stated the alcoholism counselor. “Alcoholism is a mental illness,” stated the attorney. “Alcoholism is* a physical disease,” said the judge. “When drinking causes problems, drinking is a problem,” stated the reality tnerapist. I have read or heard all of the above and much more about alcoholism that is often confusing

and contradictory. Many psychiatrists (and current state law) define it as a mental illness. However, only approximately 7 to 20 percent of alcoholics have diagnosible psychiatric illnesses other than alcoholism. Most pro* fessionals in the addictions field insist that alcoholism is a “disease” and demand the dignh ty of medical diagnosis, hospital or residential treatment and insurance coverage. Yet they also believe the most effective treat- * (Continued on page 5)