The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 42, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 October 1984 — Page 4

■-Wed., October31,1984 riolo I Ira I I I ■ ■ z 7 ' . ?»(Msb •• '*> • - *■ ' rraro /, Delaney, Barnes s and Washington Post can’t beall bad. phia Inquirer, the Detroit Free Press, the wunneapons oiar anu tribune, the Milwaukee Journal and the St. Petersburg Times... just to name a few biggies. After weighing all the facts, These fiercely independent newspapers Shave come out editorially urging their readers to support the Mondale/Ferraro ticket in next Tuesday’s election We are following in these illustrious footsteps. in urging our readers to do likewise We go even further, and urge our readers to support the Townsend/Delaney ticket for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. We also ask our readers to support Michael Barnes, prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph L county, for Third District congressman. R Even the arch-conservative Chicago Tribune, that midwest bastion of right wing politics, found it difficult to support Ronald Reagan in its editorial columns, T and did so onlv with a litany of qualifications. Ronald Reagan has his good points and we’re searching for them. But we find his rhairman-of-the-board form of governing this country wanting. We — nor anyone else for that matter — know not who is actually running the country. The president has made a big deal out of invoking the good names of outstang ding Democratic presidents, e.g., F.D.R., J.F.K., Harry S. Truman, and Al Smith. He even did a number by riding the old Truman campaign car through Ohio over the same route Harry took. He didn’t mention the tribulations of Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, r Richard Nixon, Jerry Ford, or even “Ike” Eisenhower. We wonder why. (Note: See guest editorial under “What Others Say,” by J. W. Anderson, in the adjoining column.) Reagan’s ability to read a speech on the TelePrompTer is not to be matched, but his lack of knowledge of the issues becomes apparent when he gets into real hard-ball debating. This scares us. , < But what scares us more is his huge deficit and his strident rhetoric m dealing with the leaders of the Soviet Union. That, plus his insistence on an out-of-control arms race with Russia. . This absolutely has to stop. For the time is coming — and this is for sure — when one side or the other will want to try these mighty weapons out. And then it will all be too late. At the Tuesday noon luncheon before the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Chib, Congressman John Hiler spoke of the sure possibility of a terrorist group getting a nuclear weapon and exploding it, thus causing a world conflagration. The huge deficits are bad enough, but this and all else will matter little if and when we begin bombing one another with this megaton artillery. We don’t think the arms race is at all necessary. It’s ironic that President Reagan is the only modern president who has failed to meet with the Russian leaders. This is no way to run a country! His calling the USSR an “evil empire?apd the focus of all evil in the world certainly doesn’t advance the cause of peace. Reagan likes to talk about standing tall. We, and many others, don’t buy that sort of one-line politics. We get the idea both Reagan and Mondale are using far too much one-line oratory. As witness, “Where’s the beef?,” “There you go again,” and the age issue. Many of us (as we get a little older) wish they’d can ‘ t that age issue thing! Comedian Henny Youngman must be mad as hops as these fellows pre-empt his one-line territory. I’ th balanced, to full knowledge of the issues, schooled to presidency. We recommend him to our readers. Townsend/Delaney The Orr/Mutz four years in the state house have been fraught with disaster. We could not possibly recommend them for another four years to our readers. F < Governor Orris a post facto governor. He has a proclivity to appoint a committee when crises arise. As witness the high utility rates in Indiana. When heated opposition broke out in several northeastern counties in the state to costly utility rates, the good governor appeared, spoke in sympathetic tones, then returned to Indianapolis. If this committee ever reported back, we re not aware of it. Perhaps the governor could do nothing about utility rates, but it is his Public Service Commission, and he has to take the blame.. You gotta stand tall, ’governor. We don’t like his attitude toward the graft-ridden license bureaus of Indiana. It’s inconceivable that any one license bureau manager could make off with $300,000 and not be brought up short. Where were the governor’s accounting people all this time? We never have believed revenues from license plate sales should go to any political party. Doesn’t this money belong in the public coffers to help the state reduce its tax burden? We’d venture that the general public overwhelmingly thinks so. Indiana’s entire tax system needs an overhauling, in order to keep the businesses and industries from moving (wandering) out of Indiana. We’ve been losing more jobs than we’ve been gaining in Indiana, and this should be reversed. Republican corruption marches on. Philip Gutman, Republican senate pro tern, just lost his last court appeal on abribery charge. The Fort Wayne attorney has been disbarred. Martin (“Chip”) Edwards, now of the Syracuse community, followed Gutman as senate pro tern, and he, too, was hauled up on a bribery charge and recently completed his jail ‘ / Would you call this, phis the license bureau scandal, political corruption? . e would, and we think the people of Indiana are wising up to it. This is what hap* when either political party is in office too long, as has been the case right here fa Indiana. For these reasons and many other minor reasons, we urge our readers to 'rfveto for Wayne Townsend for Governor of Indiana and for Ann Delaney for Lieutenant Governor. Barnes Vs. Hiler W And now to the Barnes-Hiler race for Third District congressman. John Hiler is seeking his third term in the congress. On Tuesday of this week he brought his case before the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club. .tahn is a handsome young man, articulate, and has a good future in his famiMty business in LaPorte. We have never felt Hiler was in tune with the Third District where jobs have been leaving the district’s biggest city (South Bend) by Hiler was against the new ethenol plant near South Bend, a plant pushed by £ his successor, John Brademas. The plant, now in operation, not only brings jobs the district, but augurs well for the local farm population Hitar’s opponent, Michael Barnes, has made quite a name for himself as prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph County. He has become a proven vote-getter in the several times he went before the people of his home county. He has handled the many widely-publicized cases that came before his office with efficiency and success. Banzes is a man who gets things done. We have no hesitation, therefore, in commendfag the name of Michael Barnes to our readers in Tuesday’s race for Third District congressman. — AEB — Someone has rightly said that a bigamist is one who loves, not wisely, but too Never get the idea that all people have to think alike, act alike and believe alike. Government will cost more money as long as people demand more services,

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What others say — Dead Democrats are good Democrats By J. W. ANDERSON Ronald Reagan recently referred to the “good and decent Democrats of the JFK, FDR, and Harry Truman tradition.” He also has high praise for Hubert Humphrey, Al Smith, and even for Jefferson who was so hated by the clergy of his day. Every now and then Reagan quotes Franklin Roosevelt with approval, but he seldom if every quotes Harding, Coolidge, Eisenhower, or Hoover. At a recent meeting celebrating the birthday of Al Smith, the Republican candidate for president was applauded and the Democrat candidate was booed. How times have changed since the viscious campaign against Smith and against his wife. The president that Gerald Ford admires most is not some Republican but none other than Harry Truman. When Truman was president, the kindest thing these recent admirers could say about him was that he was not big enough for the job. When Truman retired Douglas McArthur, the Chicago Tribune’s attack on Truman knew no bounds. He was referred to as an insect. A few years later it praised Truman for relieving McArthur of his command. Not only have the most hated Democrats been sainted, but the most bitterly attacked measures of the New Deal are now accepted. The New Deal may still on occasion be referred to as a misfortune, but the Securities and Exchange Commission, public housing, and unemployment insurance are still firmly in place. Once established, rural electrification and old age pensions are difficult to abolish, but old age pensions have been increased beyond any thing that Roosevelt contemplated. Insurance of bank deposits has not only not been discontinued, but it has been expanded. Insuring bank deposits up to $5,000 has been increased to the astronomical figure of SIOO,OOO. It is not unusual for people to change their minds, but to change so drastically over such a short period of time is not common. It took the church several centuries to rehabilitate Galileo. Now that Hubert Humphrey has been declared a saint, will his disciple, Mondale, be beatified shortly after his death? When Jimmy Carter dies, if he too is not cannonized, perhaps he could at least be declared decent.

Court news

Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint For Voluntary Dissolution Os Corporation Ray E. Plummer versus Plummer Haines Co., and Todd E. Haines, r 1 box 592-29, Leesburg. The plaintiff moves the court for

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an order for the appointment of a receiver to conduct a final and complete liquidation of Plummer Haines Co.. Inc., and for an order decreeing said corporation dissolved and for all other proper relief. Complaint On Account Cargill Nutrena Feed Division versus Donald Wuthrich and Douglas Wuthrich, r 2 box 138, Milford. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $16,974 plus interest to date of judgment, attorney’s fees and costs of action, for a past due account. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jean Messmore: Wagoner-Sincroft Dennis Kirby Wagoner, 36, box 177 North Webster and Anita Meriam Sincroft, 40, r 1 box 356 K, Leesburg Templin-Ferverda Scott Alan Templin, 19, r 2 Leesburg and Amy Lisa Ferverda, 17, r 2 box 130, North Webster May-Salyer Donald E. May, 31, r 1 box 261, Milford and Serita Salyer, 28, r 1 box 261, Milford

"CRUZIN AROUND /CUSE" X

ill yd i 10 AV j 71 PATTY RITCHIE, manager at Syracuse Case, and Steve Ralston, cook, were into the swing of things last Thursday for Syracuse’s Moonlight Madness celebration. Both were dressed up as clowns and received quite a few remarks from customers stopping by. “Is it Halloween already?” was one of the most popular comments heard by the pair. Patty stated everyone who came in had a good laugh and a nice time. Their costumes were unique as Patty wore a yellow top with yellow shorts, red leg warmers and fuzzy slippers. Her costume also included a rope used for curtain tie-backs and a horn. But that’s not all; she had green hair with a hat and wore facial make-up giving her face a bronze look Now. Steve used his imagination, as he wore a ladies', brightly printed dress. For an added item he wore silver Christmas garland and for earrings, Christmas balls of gold nylon. Oh yes, he even was wearing make-up. NOW THE Syracuse Case was not the only place where strangg looks were being given Several other businesses in town were dressed in the Moonlight Madness spirit. A hobo was seen walking down Main Street and was told that was a unique costume. His reply? That it wasn’t a costume at all, but was all he could afford by working for the town. EVEN THOUGH the Moonlight badness celebration ended Thursday evening with a bigbash, employees of the State Bank of Syracuse didn’t get a chance to participate, as the bank was closed Thursday. Most of the people visiting the bank on Friday were greeted by costumed tellers dressed as clowns, sailors, a pumpkin, ghost, an ape woman, and yes. even an alien punkster. —o— THE "SPEAK OUT" column in the MailJournal's sister paper, 'the PAPER”, for Kosciusko County is gaining strength at the Syracuse office. A number of calls were received over the weekend, however one call was cut off. for some unknown reason, in the middle of the comment. It may be suggested that if you do not see your comment in the next issue to either call “Speak Out” again or inquire why it wasn’t in. RAILROAD CROSSING gates and signals for the former Ind. Alt. 13 crossing at the northeast edge of Lake Wawasee are being sought actively by the Wawasee Property Owners Association. "This crossing is getting an increasing amount of traffic almost continually,” said .Wiley W. (Bill) Spurgeon Jr., president of the Property Owners Association. 1 "A committee for the association has met with the appropriate people in the Indiana Department of Highways in Indianapolis and it found out that almost 100% federal funding is available to put gates and signals at this crossing." Spurgeon said. "We have formally requested that the Kosciusko County Board of Commissioners place the crossing on its priority list for gates and signals so they might be installed within a year." Spurgeon said the crossing, which is used by school buses several times a day; is dangerous "for several reasons. One, the railroad has raised the track profile so high in that vicinity that the crossing is at the top of a rise, and a driver cannot look east and west down the tracks until his vehicle is almost on the crossing. Two, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is well-maintained and is doing a lot of business, so there are numerous trains, operating at fairly high speeds, on the line." A third reason the crossing is dangerous. Spurgeon said, is that the railroad line curves southward just east of the highway crossing, and westbound trains cannot be seen at all until they are only several hundred feet east of the highway. “We hope the commissioners will act favorably on this project and the state will expedite it,” Spurgeon said, “before a tragedy occurs." The WPOA president said he believed the Lakeland School Corporation and the Enchanted Hills Association also supported the safety devices. IF YOU’RE not a fisherman, this won’t interest you. Yet, many of our readers are fishermen and are interested to know many nonresidents are wandering Indiana to fish.

This is true, according to biologist Jed Pearson’s "Fishing News for the Natural Lakes Fisherman.” Joe is Tri-Lakes Fisheries Station biologist, r 4 Columbia City. “Fishing in Indiana is really catching on,” says Bill James, Chief of Fisheries with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, "as more and more non-residents are coming here to fish." Sales of non-resident fishing licenses have almost doubled since 1978. Last year 124,377 nonresident anglers bought licenses to fish in Indiana, up 24% from the previous year. One out of every six license buyers are now non-residents. "The Lake Michigan area is the biggest draw of non-resident fishermen," James says. "Each year more fishermen try their luck catching salmon, laketrout and skamania steelhead." James says Brookville Reservoir in southeast Indiana near Cincinnati draws many Ohio fishermen. The reservoir offers fishing for walleyes, striped bass, muskies, and crappies. Franklin County, where Brookville Reservoir is located, saw an upsurge of 94% in non-resident license sales last year. < In seven northeast Indiana counties, nonresident fishing license sales rose 34% last year. Steuben County, which accounts for over half of the non-resident license sales in the region, boasted a 41% gain in the number sold. In Kosciusko County, sales jumped 33%. Noble County was the only northeast Indiana county where non-resident fishing license sales dropped last year, down 15%. The drop was in sales of 1-day fishing licenses. However, nonresident annual fishing licenses more than doubled in the county. IT’S NOT true that Tom Prickett is going to paint a white LU. emblem on the chimney of his home south of Syracuse. His house is a bright, brick red, so half the job is done for this fan of Bobby Knight's. A VERY familiar face has been missing during the past week behind the prescription counter at Thornburg Drug Company’s Syracuse store. Charles F. Kroh, better known as “Jim” to his many friends, has resigned his job with Thornburg's after 23 years’ association with the drug firm that was partially owned by his family. He has taken a similar position with an Elkhart-based drug chain with stores in Goshen. Jim graduated from Syracuse High School in 1943, from the Purdue University School of Pharmacy in 1960. While he was a pilot in World War 11, he'chose to return to Syracuse and work in the local drug store. ’ On January 19th of this year John F. Kroh purchased the interests in Thornburg’s held by Ralph Thornburg, Lucy Kroh and Jim Kroh. to become sole owner. The new alignment behind the prescription counter, as noted in a photo announcement in last week’s Thornburg ad in this newspaper, will consist of Steven Kroh, Lynn Fellows, Sandra VanLue and John Kroh. POLITICAL NOTE: Ninth District state senatorial candidate John Sime of Plymouth has scored incumbent Dick Miller, also of Plymouth, for putting his campaign signs up on state highway right-of-way, and that highway department officials have chosen to ignore this fact. We have news for Sime. Signs have been up on state highway right-of-way south of Syracuse for years. And, likewise, the state highway department, after repeated protests by the local chamber of commerce, has chosen to ignore this fact. SYRACUSE LICENSE branch manager Roxanna Hadley and her husband Carl, recently retired, are expected back in town by November 1 after a month-long vacation in tiny Mascot, Florida. The store, however, has been left in good hands, with Donna (Mrs. Richard) Workman and Joella (Mrs. Michael) Johnson in charge. The Hadleys and Workmans are looking forward to spending their retirement years in Mascot. JACK H. TRACEY, a resident of the Willow Grove area where a bridge controversy continues to brew, has taken out some of his frustrations the old fashioned way— mounting a one-man protest. Two years ago when the'Kosciusko County Highway Department and Department of Natural Resources went at it over the prospects of widening the narrow bridge, neighbors who had to cross the bridge felt they were the forgotten partners, the losers in the flap, as it were. The bridge was taken out, a large steel culvert put in, and fill dirt making the road passable. The water has been allowed to stagnate, as a result. A post facto permit was granted for the culvert. Anyway, Jack Tracey continues to be frustrated. He has a sign painted and he put it up, stating something along the line that the bridge is a monument to the ineptitude in cooperation (or lack thereof) and work of the Kosciusko County Highway Department and the Department of Natural Resources. THE NEW Business and Editorial section of the morning Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette features Rene McPherson, former head of Dana Corp, in its Sunday, Oct. 28, edition. The account, by Lynne McKenna, concerned a speech 60-year-old McPherson made earlier this month to a group of students, faculty and business people at Defiance (Ohio) College. It’s worth reading. It gives McPherson high marks for his employer-employee relations, and tells that companies like Dana have a responsibility to prepare for economic depressions so as to present a soft blow for anyone laid off during such (Continued on page 5)