The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 13, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 March 1985 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., March 27,1985

Editorials

We vote for Wawasee After working with the Lakeland Community School Corporation since its formation several years ago, this newspaper is going on record as being in favor of changing the name of the corporation to the Wawasee Community Scjiool Corporation. The change would solve many problems and make it easier for those living in the area as well as those trying to decide which Lakeland School Corporation they were working with. If it weren’t for the Lakeland, School Corporation in LaGrange we would vote in favor of leaving things the way they are. However, we have listened to the radio on a number of occasions where the announcer has said, “there will be no school in the Lakeland Schools today.” If we didn’t catch the county we wonder which “Lakeland Schools” he was talking about. We have talked to others and know we are not the only ones to whom this has happened. Then there has to be frustrations in the central office of the corporation when state officials get confused and either send papers for the local corporation to LaGrange or send papers that should be in LaGrange to Syracuse. Therefore we are going on record as voting in favor of the name change as suggested by Don H. Arnold before he left his job as superintendent. We too feel it would be in the best interest of the corporation. I Support personalized license plates Indiana is one state that offers motorists a personalized license plate option as a means of raising funds for both political parties. We have long subscribed to the system as fair, equitable and in the best interest of good government. Whether a motorist chooses to purchase a personalized plate or not is entirely voluntary. Os the S4O cost of the plate, sls goes to the Democratic party and sls to the Republican party. It offers citizen-support to the party of our choice, giving less strength to political action committees (PACs). The income from the sale of these plates is about equal to that generated in some states from dollar check-off systems. It is a good program and should be defended, preserved and protected by every Hoosier interested in a fair, competitive, political system. Two respected non-partisan groups, the League of Women Voters and Common Cause, have expressed interest in license branch system reform while pointing out that they ’are not advocating repeal of the personalized license plate program. The General Assembly, in its zeahto respond to a public outcry for license branch reform, is likely to paint the ignoble branch system and the personalized plates with the same brush. They are as much alike as night and day. We believe the PLP program should be aggressively promoted to the citizens of this state as away to support a healthy political system through voluntary contributions. As this debate goes forward, I hope we look for additional ways, such as dollar check-on, tax credits, contribution and spending limits, dollar checkoff, and a state published election guide to further reform the way we finance political campaigns. PLP is a step in the right direction. If we fail to defend it, we may “throw the baby out with the bath water”. April Fool's Day There is no widespread agreement on the origin of April Fool’s Day. But, it is a day observed in most of the world. It’s customary in various countries of the West to tease friends with foolish pranks or jokes on the first day of April. Anyone fooled by pranks in France is called a “Poisson d’Avril.” This means an April fish. In Scotland, those caught by April Fool pranks are called April “gowks.” The gowk is a cuckoo. In the United States, there’s no particular term for anyone fooled on this day. /x/ Little children are delighted to “fool” their elders. And those who receive homemade candy and cookies may find they contain strange ingredients. What others say — Put it on the kids' tab Syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, when speaking to a group of editors and their spouses and guests in Washington, D.C. nearly two weeks ago, made a statement, “Put it on the kids’ tab! ”, which we think deserves careful scrutinization. He was referring to the fact that the United States and its deficit budget must be handled properly so that our children won’t be the ones who suffer from such great deficit. Anderson joined J. Peter Grace, both national figures deploring the waste in government. Two hours before Anderson spoke, Grace outlined the findings of the Grace Commission, which identified 2478 ways to cut federal spending and save billions of dollars. His subject is titled, “How to slash the deficit without raising taxes.” Even though he told many of those ways to the press group, he stressed that it was the people who will make the decision, if it is ever to be made. Anderson and Grace have formed the Foundation for Citizens Against Waste (CAW), a bipartisan lobbying group whose goal is to collect 50 million signatures on petitions demanding that Congress move on the commission report. “All the pressure groups on Capitol Hill today exist to spend money,” Grace explains. ‘‘We create one to save money. ’’ If the Grace Commission’s report was accepted for its total worth, Grace says that $424.4 billion could be saved over three years. That would be enough to wipe out the deficit without raising taxes. Grace also said, “We never said cutting spending would be easy — hard problems seldom are solved by easy solutions. But the time has come for Congress to stop clowning around and get serious.” Referring to his statement, “Put it on the kids’ tab!,” Anderson reflected the exact views of Grace. He added, “It’s time to use the scalpel and eliminate waste and fraud because Congress doesn’t know what it’s doing.” If you want to “blow the whistle” on government waste, which is exactly what Grace and Anderson say has to be done, you can help by pledging your full support. Telephone CAW (the toll-free number is 1-800-USA-DEBT), or write to foundation at P.O. Box 1000, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044. Also write your Representative and Senators and insist upon results. The whole answer is YOU — YOU are the one who must act if we are to have a balanced budget. — CARROLL COUNTY COMET

School Corporation Wawoseo Community School Corporation rmntmmmn Lakeland Community School Corporation Wawasee Community School Corporation Residents of the Lakeland Community School Corporation should let corporation officials know how they feel about changing the name of the corporation.

Chapman Lake home burgfarized

f®PERS Crime Stoppers, a non-profit organization involving the police, the media and the public in the fight against crime, offers anonymity and cash rewards up to Si,ooo to persons who furnish information leading to the arrest and the filing of criminal charges against felony offenders and to the capture of fugitives. The following Crime of the Week was furnished by the Kosciusko County Crime Stoppers organization:

Court news

Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint On Check Wawasee Service Center versus Marlene Ferguson, 831 Pixie Highway, Cromwell. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $288.40 for a check returned for insufficient funds. Wawasee Service Center versus David J. Hornett, 512 N. Branch St., Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $231.40 for a check returned for insufficient funds. Complaint For Damages Trisha Mullins versus Kosciusko County Board of Commissioners, Michael L. Weller and Maple Leaf Duck Farms, Inc. The plaintiff is seeking judgments against the defendants for damages and injuries received in an automobile accident August 10. 1982. Plaintiff is seeking damages against the defendants for the alleged negligent driving of Michael L. Weller, employed by Maple Leaf Duck Farms, and the negligence of the Kosciusko County Board of Commissioners to remove high foliage at the accident site. Damages sought in the complaint are: $300,000 from the Commissioners, $500,000 from Michael Weller, and $500,000 from Maple Leaf Duck Farms. Plaintiff is also seeking attorney’s fees and all costs of action. City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Disregarding stop sign at railroad crossing — George D. Weybright, 74, Syracuse, $36 Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County clerk Jeanne Weirick: Koher-Slone Martin M. Koher, 50, r 1 box THE MAIL-JOURNAL (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, s2l outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of ad dress forms to The Mail-Journal, P.O. Box IM, Milford, Indiana 46542

The burglary of a Chapman Lake home is the Crime of the Week. During a period between March 6 and March 9, intruders entered a residence located on Osborn’s Landing, Chapman Lake, by prying open a basement door. Taken in this burglary were eight guns and two ham radios. The guns included a Marlin 12-gauge pump shotgun, a Winchester Teddy Roosevelt commemorative 30/30 rifle, an L.C. Smith 12-gauge shotgun, and other guns manufactured by Browning, Winchester and Marlin. The radios inlcuded a Drake TR4 tranceiver and a KDK two-meter mobile radio. Persons with information concerning this burglary are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-342,-STOP. Crime Stoppers only wants your information, not your name.

475. North Webster and Melodie K. Slone, 35, r 6 box 528, Warsaw Steinhoff-Packard Robert Michael Steinhoff, 18, Edwardsburg, Mich, and Jeaneen Kay Packard, 19, P.O. Box 17 North Webster Kaiser-Leever ■ ’> John Richard Kaiser, 25. r 2 box 22, Milford and Toni Kay Leever, 27, r 2 box 22, Milford Long-Morehouse Eric Lee Long, 22, 507 N. Huntington, Syracuse and Rhonda Jo Morehouse, 19, 507 N. Huntington. Syracuse Brinkerhoff-McVey Jeffery Carl Brinkerhoff, 23. Nappanee and Brenda Jean McVey, 19, box 575, Syracuse Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Circuit and Superior ! Courts: Schaaf — Mary Jo Schaaf and Dennis K. Schaaf, r 1 box 256. North Webster. The couple was married Aug. 11, 1979 and separated March 15, 1985. There are two minor children. Charters — Phillip E. Charters and Sue E. Charters, r 1 Milford. The couple was married April 23, i 1966 and separated March 18, 1985. There are two minor children. Warsaw man injured when car hits pole Daniel J. Willour, 22, r 1 box 205 Warsaw, suffered a possible fracture or dislocation of his shoulder or upper arm in a one-vehicle mishap Saturday evening, March 23, at 11:25 p.m. The accident was on Kuhn Road, near Barbee Road, south of North Webster. He was transferred from Kosciusko Community Hospital to Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne. Kosciusko County Police report Willour vtas southbound on Kuhn Road when his vehicle went off the west side of the roadway, striking two Northern Indiana Public Service Company poles, hedges and an incinerator before the vehicle came to rest against the home owned by Walter Gesaman. Damage to the vehicle was estimated up to SI,OOO as was the Gesaman home-. However damage to the NIPSCO poles, a United Telephone Junction Box and yard, owned by Gesaman, ' was estimated up to $2,500 to each. Willour was cited following the mishap, however the exact charges were not available. Kosciusko County Patrolman ’ Michael Hobbs investigated and was assisted by Dale Bollinger, North Webster Police Department.

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WITH ALL this talk about girls’ basketball, most people have either forgotten or are too young to know that neighboring North Webster had a very good basketball team 60 years agb! ■ ( They were considered hot stuff in their day, dressed in their “middies and bloomers,” recalls Gladys (Strombeck) Culver, a r 1 North Webster resident and a member of the team. North Webster was one of the few small towns around with a girls’ squad, and they played such other girls’ teams as Leesburg, Atwood, Claypool and North Manchester, according to Mrs. Culver. Their games were usually played in tandem with the boys’ game. Mrs. Culver, a lifelong North Webster resident, where she taught elementary school for 36 years, recalls members of the above team very well. Margaret Payne, left in the back row, for instance, is a great-aunt of Sandy Payne, the spritely little guard that provided much of the spark for the Wawasee High School team this year that became runners-up at the Indianapolis state finals recently. Identification is as follows: Front row from left, Gladys (Strombeck) Culver, Ethel (McClintic) Hite, Lulu Kuhn, and Donna (Hall) Robbins. Back row from left, Charles Gross, principal, Margaret Payne, Mary Bakala, Freda Earll, captain, Wauneta (Angel) Likens, Izeta Crouch, and Guy Bushong, coach. The year 1925, the year the above photo was taken, was the year the Milford boys’ team went to Indianapolis to compete in the “Sweet Sixteen,” and the following year, 1926, Syracuse went to Indianapolis. All of which leads one to believe basketball — girls’ and boys’ — was very much a part of community life around here 60 years ago. THE LADY Warriors received the support of a loyal, if belated, fan in the final hours in their journey to a state championship. As most everyone knows by now, the final victory eluded the spunky girls, but they did return from Indianapolis with their heads high and a handsome trophy in their possession. The fan was Ruth Webster, wife of the school corporation’s new superintendent, Dr. Kenneth Webster. She flew from St. Petersburg, Fla., where she was in her final three weeks of teaching kindergarten, to Indianapolis, to see the Lady Warriors win over Austin in the afternoon, 56 to 54, but lose to Crown Point, 31 to 48, in the evening finals. It was a special flight for Mrs. Webster to see the game, for she later flew back to Florida, for three moreweeks in the classroom before coming to Syracuse to make her home here with her husband, and to be close to her daughter, Kim (Mrs. Steve) Conrad. mT - z - --. it. EmaEaBBI THE LAKELAND School Board .of Trustees plans to raze the property shown above located at 137 West Boston Street, which it purchased recently from Edgar Kuhn for SII,OOO. The property is at the entrance to the Syracuse Elementary and Junior High School, and has been a long-standing problem to the school. The old house is occupied by the Ruggles family at the present time. The school board plans to tear the old house down and widen the entrance to the school, giving patrons and school bus drivers easier access to the school. Assistant Superintendent and Business Manager George Gilbert said the Syracuse PTO has plans of eventually erecting an attractive sign where cars turn off Boston Street. THE LADIES of the Wawasee Lakeside Chapel, especially those with a deft penchant for handling the needle, will meet from 9 to 3 today (Wednesday) at the Chapel to work on blankets, crib sheets and comforters and other items to be a part of the Ethiopian Airlift April 15. The ladies meet the second Thursday of each month, but today’s meeting will focus on items for the Ethiopia disaster area.

Pastor Harlan Steffen and his wife Evelyn are encouraging the effort and working with the ladies, giving special credit to Evelyn Smith, Irene Yoder and Virginia Ranke on the project. IT’S GOOD to see Claude Heckaman back on his feet again, even if he must use a cane. He and his wife Stella reside on the Pickwick Road, on r 1 Syracuse. < Claude underwent painful surgery on his right knee on January 11 at the Elkhart General Hospital, and wants his friends to know he’s making good recovery. Claude is a native of Hepton, a village that is located several miles southwest of Nappanee that has almost ceased to exist, and owned the thriving Heckaman Ice Cream Company in Nappanee for 20 years. They have been residents of the Syracuse community for a good many years. SYRACUSE POLICE DEPARTMENT Syracuse, IN 46567 WARNING This Vehicle may be impounded if it is not removed within 24 hours DAY TIME I? AM. *»ONTH ‘“"'V P.M. DATE //_ • ■ MAKE MODEL LICENSE NO OFFICER BADGE NO L— f , —L_ BEGINNING MONDAY, April 1, Syracuse police will begin a crack-down on improper parking within the city. Police Chief Warren Swartz unveiled a plan before the Syracuse Town Board last Tuesday night to tag cars improperly parked. He said autos are to be parked on the right side of the road, according to state law, unless it is a oneway street (of which Syracuse has none) and is properly marked. The 4”x4” chartreuse tag shown above will be placed on the window on the driver’s side, chief Swartz noted. Fine for the first offense: $5. BLANCHE MASON, of r 1 Syracuse (Sunrise Beach, Lake Wawasee), has her own tried and true prescription for staying young. “I don’t hang around old people,” she said. Blanche, well known as a lifelong resident of the lakes area, will be 92 years of age September 26,1985. But more than that, she said a serious illness of a grandson had brought her into touch with the 4 Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. “Riley has become one of my favorite charities,” she is proud to relate. She’s the active one. She proudly shows friends a letter from President Ronald Reagan, dated February 19, telling her she had been nominated for membership into the exclusive Republican Senatorial Inner Circle by Indiana Senator Richard G. Lugar, and that she had been accepted. It boasts such well known names among its membership as John Connally, Gene Autry, Moya Lear, Ted Turner and J. W. Marriott, the president’s letter states. Accordingly, she is invited to the-Vice President’s Gala, hosted by Vice President George and Barbara Bush, at the J. W. Marriott Hotel in Washngton, March 31-April 1. Such speakers as Robert Dole, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Donald Regan, James Baker 111, Pete Domenici, Barry Goldwater, Robert McFarlane, Robert Packwood, , George Shultz and Alan Simpson are scheduled speakers at the Monday, April 1, meeting. In his letter to Mrs. Mason, President Reagan wrote, “Nancy and I will do our part to personally thank the Inner Circle when we host the Fall meeting later this year.” At 92 years of age, Mrs. Mason is weighing whether or not she should make the trip to the nation’s capital. A NUMBER of residents on both Syracuse Lake and Lake Wawasee are mighty put out over winter fishermen leaving their fishing shacks or parts thereof on the lakes. “Comes thaw time and (Continued on page 5)