The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 39, Milford, Kosciusko County, 10 October 1984 — Page 5

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

(Continued from page 4) Elam wrote a piece for publication (at a later date) on Judge Ward, stating in the title “No More A Mystery Man.” Elam wrote, “Much has been written (including an outstanding, recently published HISTORY OF SYRACUSE, by Ronald and Joan Sharp, about these men (Ward and Crosson) covering their activities in the early days of Syracuse. Up to this time nothing was known of Mr. Ward before he arrived in Turkey Creek Township in the 1830 s .” Elam’s paternal grandmother was a Ward, all of which excited his interest in this familial lineage. “Why, I might even be a distant relative to (the late) Seth (Ward),” Jack joked. MR. AND Mrs. Joe Gray of Lake Wawasee returned home Sunday night from Washington, D.C., where Mr. Gray, a U.S. Marine Corps Col-

Cash register stolen from Syracuse firm

The following accidents and reports of theft were investigated by the Syracuse Police Department last week: Water World, SR 13S, Syracuse, reported a burglary at 7:45 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 5. A cash register, valued at $4,000, and a portable telephone, valued at SIOO, were taken. The cash register had $25 in it at the time it

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onel, Retired, attended the annual meeting of the Marine Corps Aviation Association. The group is made up of active duty and retired marines interested in marine Corps aviation. Colonel Gray met many old friends, including some as far back as 1944. He is a candidate for a seat on the board of the Marine Corps Historical Association. HERE’S ANOTHER case where the glare of publicity got quick results where needed. We refer to our photo and story in this column last week where state highway workmen posted a “STOP” sign on the corner of Wood Street and SR 13 north of Syracuse—upside down! On Friday, the day after The M-J hit the street, the workmen reappeared and corrected their mistake, as reported to us by Ruby (Mrs. Harold) Hartman of 119 Wood Street. Thanks, fellows.

was stolen. A vehicle driven by Melvin Gingerich, Syracuse, veered off the west side of Warner Road, at the intersection of 530E and damaged the front fender. The accident occurred on Friday, Oct. 5, at 7:55 p.m. Gingerich said lights from an on-coming car blinded him. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at SBOO.

Nancy Carroll, Syracuse and Toby Clark, Nappanee, were involved in a two-car accident on Monday, Oct. 8, at 4:51 p.m. Carrol was traveling south on South Huntington Street in Syracuse, when she stopped to turn left into a service station. She had her turn signals on. Clark’s vehicle hit Carroll’s vehicle in the rear. Damages to the Carroll vehicle were reported at $450.

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c >w' ? r ■ -* • -iimnH Mr | üßar r > ■-/ FFffl/rMKvICfW Vi - x KI I it yWBFpi i blMrtv \ w,* I |l ? JrVv*l RP;ijy W' ■v Wg/MMky. TgpWM I ■ COFFEE FOR CANDIDATE’S WIFE — Alberta Barnes, wife of Third District Congressional Candidate Mike Barnes, was the guest of honor at a tea in the home of Mrs. Jim (Wilma) Cox, Syracuse. Mrs. Walter (Opal) Miller was the co-hostess. Mrs. Barnes outlined her husband’s background and public service experience, as well as his views on the main issues in the campaign. The issues as he sees them are nuclear threat, education, jobs and unemployment, and leadership. Pictured above are Wilma Cox, Alberta Barnes, and Opal Miller. (Photo by Brenda Rhodes)

Democrats set October 7 as night of America for Mondale-Ferraro

INDIANAPOLIS - Sunday, October 7 has been announced as the date of America for Mondale-Ferraro, a nationwide grassroots fundraising effort expected to generate $5 million for the Democratic party’s 1984 Victory Fund. Ed Mahem, state coordinator, for the Indiana Mondale-Ferraro campaign, announced the date and said that thousands of Hoosiers would gather on the night of October 7 at some 250 home parties across the state. The parties will coincide with a 30-minute paid political broadcast, featuring Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, that will appear on ABC television network (Channel 6) from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Indianapolis time. “Across the state of Indiana on October 7 families, neighbors and friends will gather to watch our Democratic ticket on television and to talk about mobilizing the resources we need for victory,” Mahem said. “The hardearned dollars they give in small contributions to our party will help produce a large dividend — the biggest voter registration and Get-Out-The-Vote effort in Democratic party history. ” Get-Out-The-Vote Funds raised at the home parties in Indiana will be shared between the Democratic National Committee and the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee. Ninety-five percent of the proceeds from these home parties held throughout the state will be returned to the Democratic State Committee for the Get-Out-The-Vote program on election day, Novembers. The America for MondaleFerraro program is part of a larger $27 million Victory Fund drive that the Democratic National Committee has created for the fall campaign. The goal of the Victory Fund, according to Mahem, “is to raise the money needed to produce 10 million new Democratic votes on election day.”

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“America for Mondale-Ferraro is important in two respects,” Mahern said. “Not only does it help to raise money for the Indiana state-wide ticket, but it will help produce people at the grass roots who will be part of our massive voter turnout operation.” The Democratic Victory Fund and national America for Mondale-Ferraro coordinators are working with state parties to

Time to reserve license plates

Commissioner Michael M. Packard of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles announced that time is running out for any individual wishing to re-reserve a Personalized License Plate for use in 1985. The deadline for rereserving a plate purchased last year is October 31. If a personalized plate is not re-reserved by this date, the initial applicant loses the exclusive right to this specialized plate for the upcoming calendar year. The plates being ordered for 1985 may have a maximum of seven positions and one space, provided they are being reserved for passenger cars, recreational vehicles or those trucks up to and including, 11,000 pound classifications. Motorcycle personalized license plates will only be allowed a maximum of six positions including spaces due to the smaller size of the plate. The public must specify what type motor vehicle the plate is being purchased for at the time the reservation is made. Once a personalized license plate has been declared as a specific type plate (either for a passenger car or a truck), this plate can only be used on that specific type vehicle. It may not be transferred from one vehicle type to another. The fee for reserving or rereserving a personalized license

organize the 20,000 home parties. Persons interested in hosting an America for Mondale-Ferraro home party should contact Steve Mappes at the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee and he can be reached by calling (317)236-0802. Two hundred and fifty of these parties are being scheduled in Indiana. Each home party will try to generate at least SSOO in small contributions.

plate is payable at the local license branch at the time the reservation is made. This fee is charged in addition to any excise tax and license plate fees incurred at the time of registration. Initial reservations for 1985 Personalized License Plates can only be accepted at statewide license branches until December 31.

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| At Large. .. | <♦ A view of the political X Y scene in Kosciusko County v

TURKEY CREEK Township Assessor Charlene Knispel says, no indeed, she is not trying to build an empire for herself in Syracuse. She had been obliquely accused of this “creeping bureaucracy” at a recent budget hearing before the Kosciusko County Council by councilman Matt Dalton. It all came about when Mrs. Knispel sought to get additional office help for what she considers an increased work load for her office. At the present time she has Marian Ridings as her first deputy, Betty McCullough as her second deputy and Susan Myrick as part time clerical help. Mrs. Knispel thinks it would be cheaper to the taxpayers and increase efficiency in her office to use Mrs. Myrick as a third deputy, and that she could give her time off during slow periods. The township assessor points to a veritable “boom in additions and new homes in the past two years” in Turkey Creek township, caused by a better local economy, lower interest rates, a move to the lakes, a sub-dividing of lake and home-building lots, and more yet, additional work mandated by the legislature. She said, further, that her office has become “a mini-court house,” with people expecting her to answer problems that they should rightly take to the court house in Warsaw. Certainly this is a service residents of Turkey Creek Township appreciate. All the more reason the township assessor’s office should be moved to larger, less cramped quarters such as has been suggested in the proposed new Syracuse Town Hall. POLITICS MAKES the strangest bedfellows. We aren’t the first ones to notice this or to say it. But we are variously reminded of it. We’re still reeling under the fact that Warsaw has as its mayor a Democrat turned Republican, plus other similarities among the mixture of court house politician^. Even President Reagan admitted in the Sunday night debates to having been a long-time Democrat, claiming he “never left the party,” but that the party left him. We have a similar case in the Syracuse community, with golf club owner and pro Don Byrd sponsoring a Governor Townsend Open on Thursday, October 18, hoping to raise $50,000 for the Hartford City farmer who wants to unseat incumbent Robert Orr in his bid for reelection to the governor’s office. And, of course, Wayne Townsend is a Democrat. What makes this seem strange is the fact that Byrd supported John Snyder, former Indiana state treasurer, in his bid to unseat Governor Orr in the May primary election. Snyder is a Republican and did not fare all that well in his bid against his former croney in the GOP ranks. Strange? “Not at all,” says Byrd. Byrd calls himself apolitical, which Webster’s dictionary says means having no direct interest in politics. Byrd claims he’s “for the best man for the office.” Byrd claims to have been maltreated in a proposed land development plan he had, and claims cronyism as an underlying factor. He lays much of the blame at the doorstep of the so-called “Dirty Dozen, ” a group of young upwardly mobile businessmen who are not adverse to a fast shuffle of the cards, so says Don Byrd. Some of their dealings have been unraveling. Byrd claims a tie between this fast-moving group and Governor Orr’s office in the state house. How solid his claim is, is not for us to say, but his problems with his land development seem real enough. Byrd can talk by the hour about the malfeasance of the Orr administration, and he will, too, with anyone who cares to listen. Otherwise, Byrd has been a successful golf club owner and operator for the past 31 years. His Wawasee Golf and Country Club on the north shores of Lake Wawasee easily ranks as one of the best and best maintained of any in the country. Few will dispute that. Which brings us to the Governor Townsend Open on October 18. Byrd hopes to raise $50,000 for Wayne Townsend’s political coffers. He has sent invitations to golfers throughout Indiana, and expects a crowd for the open golf meet. State Senator Townsend himself will appear on the ninth green —a 200-yard, par-3 hole —to putt for each golfer. An ad elsewhere in this issue details the open, but suffice it to say a Booster Club member can participate for SSO, all the way up to a Gold Sponsorship member for SI,OOO and over. There will be an open buffet, prizes, lots of trophies, merchandise awards and a new automobile for any hole-in-one. Byrd is evei&considering giving away a luxury trip, but he’ll have to tell about this. Meanwhile, just to prove Byrd is “apolitical” as he claims, he has had REAGAN-TOWNSEND bumper stickers printed, and will give them to anyone interested. “I’ll bet you’ve never seen anything like that before,” he says. And he’s right.

September summary Lores Steury, Goshen College weather observer, gives us this weather summary for September, 1984. September averages a temperature of 63.2 degrees; September 1984 registered 62.4 degrees, only .8 degrees below the normal. » September 2 was the warmest with 89 degrees, winding up the month on September 30 with the coldest temperature at 35 degrees. Precipitation was 2.95 inches above normal at 6.15 inches, normal average is 3.20 inches. Accumulation from January 1 to September 30 was 26.78 inches compared to a normal of 26.33 inches for the same time period. ' There were five days in September with thundershowers, nine clear days, 14 partly cloudy, and seven cloudy. There was no killing frost recored in September for this area.

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