The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 October 1984 — Page 5

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

(Continued from page 4) jHHKK&fI IT MAKES no rhyme or reason, but our attention was called to this upside-down state highway sign and we simply must chll it to the attention of our readers It was “planted” recently at the corner of Wood Street and State Koad 13 at the north edge of Syracuse. One neighbor said, ”The highway men showed up. pounded this sign in the ground and left.” As simph as that. Is this the kind of shoddy workmanship auto maker Lee lococa talks about 9 —o— IT LOOKS very much like Lakeland School

Local farmers attend FFR tour day

Farmers from the Kosciusko County area recently were the guests of the Kosciusko CountyFarm Bureau Cooperative Association. Inc . at the Farmers Forage Research (FFR> Farmer Tour Day at the research facilityin Battle Ground During the tour. FFR personnel discussed their exclusive research findings, including a new early maturing seed corn that was introduced after four

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Corporation Superintendent Don Arnold will not be leaving the area after all. when he retires from his 17-year stint as superintendent December 31. It looks more like he’ll walk across the street to another job very much to his liking. Arnold announced when he announced his pending retirement as superintendent, that he would go to work for a well known insurance company and in all probability leave the area. Don and his wife Nancy reside on the shores of Waubee Lake near Milford and are both reluctant to leave their home and the area for a variety of reasons. Insurance, however, it will be, as Arnold has tentatively signed- on with the well known HallMarose Insurance Agency of Warsaw, which plans to open an office in the Milford Branch of the First National Bank of Warsaw January 1. The agency has planned a move to Milford for some time, and the retirement of Arnold and his search for some other line of work, have merged into a mutually beneficial agreement. V —O'WAYNE BROCKETT, one of the prime movers in the new Turkey Creek Township Fire Station No. 2. claims work is progressing nicely on the two-bay station. “We still need a little money yet to complete the job,” he smiles. The 10 to 12 volunteers who will man the new station will work with Syracuse firemen in a training program, and they will be using the old township fire truck. AT A Tuesday morning meeting of Syracuse United Way Committee volunteers, held at the South Shore Golf Club. Chairman Robert Westfall expressed his thanks and appreciation that $4,330 has been collected in the Syracuse area to date. He said this is 72 percent of the $6,000 announced goal. Westfall said the total Kosciusko County United Way goal of $450,000 is over 71 percent completed with $320,694 85 collected to date. He said the current fund drive will close at the end of October

years of extensive research. This gene has just been incorporated into Co-op seed as FFR677 and is available to Indiana farmers through local Farm Bureau Coops FFR is a seed research cooperative owned and operated by ten regional cooperatives, including Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association. Inc. Coop small seeds, seed com and soybeans are developed by FFR. FFR's Battle Ground facility

serves as headquarters for FFR and the seeds developed there are specifically bred for use in Indiana. Throughout the day, farmers participated in wagon tours of the farm, visited seed demonstration plots and saw presentations on seed corn, soybean and small seed research. Kosciusko County Farm Bureau Co-op is a member of the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative system. Use tapioca in pies A teaspoon of tapioca used in place of four in a fruit pie will provide excellent thickening. Cheese adds spice to your apple pies When an apple pie is two-thirds baked, grated cheese sprinkled on the top will melt to form a nice topping for the pie. Simply sprinkle the cheese and return the pie to the oven.

DEEP POCKETS w L i Bk it \ F u jUa /i J! "n K * SB-10 MILLION \ t ,( L /‘•'CENSE yV \ X. ' TAKE A t— -y “ I'VE BEEN WANDERING- INDIANA! " •'X’*"" . -iX??-.''~~7~ ‘ "****- ■ x.l ’ *• > ’ * * .... j ' ~ - >v; ■. . . ... •; i MBBb /g® i— MB Ekl BkpMfl IPrfl • SIZEABLE CONTRIBUTION — Workers at the Dana Corporation plant in Syracuse have given the county United Way fund a big shot in the arm with their sizeable contribution. According to George Gilbert, United Way fund drive chairman, giving at the plant is up 91 percent from last year. Pictured above, Nancy Peterson, UAW Local 1405 representative at the plant, presents Gilbert with a check for the United Way. Pictured from left to right are Marilyn Bartman, Janie Gonzales, Sally Minnix, Peterson, Gilbert, Julie Niles, Lester Wright and Marilyn Byrd. Not present for the presentation were Stella Shepherd, Fay Church, Cindy Schwab and Josephine Kerns. (Photo by Tom Charles)

Schenkel is guest speaker

Chris Schenkel, well-known sports announcer for ABC-TV was the guest speaker for ladies’ night of the Lakeland Kiwanis Club, North Webster, on Monday evening, Sept. 17, at the Classic Restaurant. Schenkel said he was very proud of the United States and the outstanding performances of our country's participants in the summer Olympic games. He has been broadcasting sports for 24

Hiler, Barnes to debate

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, the Home Builder Associations of Elkhart, LaPorte, Kosciusko, and Saint Joseph Valley Counties will host their fourth annual combined general membership meeting in conjunction with the Third Congressional District's Political Action Committee. Congressman John Hiler and Michael Barnes will highlight the evening in a debate for “Meet Your Candidates" night scheduled for the Century Center in South Bend. A press conference is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. outside of the Green Room at river level, followed by dinner for the HBA's

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years and the 1984 Olympics was one of the highlights of his.career. Schenkel mentioned that he was accepted extremely well in foreign countries, where he had served as a sports announcer. He had broadcast winter Olympics in Europe for ABC. In answering questions for the audience he predicted correctly that the Chicago Cubs would win in the Eastern Division of the National League He said that on

membership at 7:30 p.m. A. William Carson, executive director and lobbyist for the Home Builders Association of Indiana, will preside as moderator for the evening. Art Moser, Chairman of the Third Congressional Political Action Committee (PAC), will serve as master of ceremonies. Congressman Hiler and Mr. Barnes will be addressing their positions on key questions concerning the building industryrelated issues with regard to : interest rates, the deficit, government assisted housing, the Federal Reserve Board, mortgage interest deductions, and rental assistance.

several occasions he had broadcast sports events with Howard Cossell and he found it to be an interesting experience. Schenkel said he would miss Cossell on Monday Night Football. Schenkel explained that the cost of broadcasting leading sports events was extremely high. The cost for televising the 1984 summer Olympics was 800 million dollars for ABC. He believes that there are too many sporting events on TV on the weekends.

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|At Large. . . | ❖ A view of the political ♦ X scene in Kosciusko County I

ONE OF the chief issues in this year’s Indiana governor’s race will be the handling of the auto license branches, and well it should be. Perhaps we should say the “mishandling” of the license brandies. It has been sufficiently aired in the media about how several of the branches, notably Mishawaka and Muncie, have come up with substantial shortages of funds. How could this happen in the first place? It points to a highly inadequate accounting system of the branches’ monies. Money from the branches should be accounted for daily, with deposit slips being sent into an Indianapolis central accounting office. This should be obvious. The system is archaic, politically motivated, and renders a high degree of dis service to anyone in Indiana who drives an automobile. The very idea that in order to own and drive a car in Indiana a motorist must make a contribution to a (any) political party. No other state in the Union has such a system! As the accompanying cartoon suggests, it offers the incumbent political party a huge slush fund for its re-election campaign; and this borders on crass unfairness if not hypocracy. Governor On* is making no effort to address himself to this volatile issue, while his opponent. Democrat Wayne Townsend is making political hay out of the issue. We think the auto license branch revenues should go into the public coffers for the benefit of all taxpayers, not just to the benefit of the incumbent political party. What do you think? RONALD SHARP, well known gadfly of Kosciusko County Republican politics, has had a long-standing running battle with his former employer, the editors of the Warsaw Times-Union. He claims their attacks on him, leveled surrepticiously in the news column, are “pure tommyrot.” Sharp, a County Councilman who will end his term December 31, was defeated in the primary election for the post of County Commissioner from the Middle District. But it doesn’t stop there. His efforts to “answer” charges are not published in the Warsaw paper. He made an effort to refute their latest charge, that he is seeking a position as county “executive administrator.” Sharp has sent a letter to the paper and to a host of his friends where he wishes to set the record straight. He opened his letter by stating, “News must be slow this week because you have printed my picture twice in the last five days, which ranks me second to Mayor Plank. ” He adds, “You have repeatedly run accounts concerning me, which have cast me in a bad light, and when letters have been sent to you to correct these stories, you have refused to print them.” He noted that he is not interested in a position as county administrator, county executive, county manager or any other title to a position which the county does not need. “I have continually fought to prevent such a post from being created. In fact, during my primary campaign I advertised in your publication stating my opposition to a county executive. ’ ’ Sharp writes further: “I am not attracted by the prospect of employment with the county. Since quitting the Warsaw Times-Union, I have earned the money necessary to travel, publish books, and follow more closely civic and governmental affairs — which seems to make your publication nervous — rather than seeking another job to supplement my income. “After all the attacks your publication has launched upon me,l am bemused that it now insinuates that I have the qualifications necessary for a position of county executive. Since your allegation was first printed, many individuals have been disappointed when they learned I was not seeking such a position. They were concerned as to who would protect their interests. To me this was gratifying because that is what county officials’ goals should be — striving to meet the needs of the people of Kosciusko County — rather than self-serving.” Prior to the May primary election, the name of retiring County Auditor Jean Northerner was widely mentioned as a candidate for such an office. It was mentioned within Republican party ranks that she sought “to make a position for herself,” with the creation of this new county executive position. Os course Mrs. Northerner denied it, and the furor that erupted over this issue, plus several others, found her battling to hold onto her position as Republican County Chairman. She won that battle and has held onto her coziness with the T-U editors. Sharp and others on the County Council fought against the creation of such an overriding executive position in county government, and this was widely reported. The question arises, then, is this effort to put the onus on Sharp and, as he says, “cast him in a bad light,” any part of a get-even effort of Mrs. Northerner and her editorial friends, and to cast Sharp into eternal oblivion insofar as Republican politics in Kosciusko County is concerned? He seems to think so.

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