The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 15, Milford, Kosciusko County, 10 April 1985 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 10,1985

Editorials

National library week You’re thinking of buying a new car, but you want one that won’t end up in the shop more than on the road. How can you find out your best bets? The time has come to buy a home computer. You want one that will balance your checkbook, store your Christmas card list and print out the labels, and play games too, but you don’t have a fortune to spend and you want to make sure the company isn’t planning bankruptcy soon. You don’t want to spend time and gas running to all the computer stores and listening to their pitches. Your home magazine subscription has gotten completely out of hand, and you know you can’t afford to renew most of them? You’re in the mood for some good escape reading — the kind you’ll stay up all night to finish, but will never pick up again. Where can you find it without spending what’s left of this week’s paycheck? You know the answer — your public library. This year Indiana is celebrating National Library Week by celebrating libraries and reading, through the theme “Libraries... for a Nation of Readers.” Whether you read for information, for education or for pleasure, your library is the cornerstone of information dissemination in your community. Your library can save you time and money by providing answers for comparison shoppers, statistics for budding economists, daydreams for everyone. You can find any kind of information on any subject. Check out a new record, read a best seller, find a great recipe. Reading is what libraries are about and next week, April 14-20, is an excellent opportunity to visit your library, if you don’t already, or say “Thanks for being there” if you are a regular patron. Tornado tips Tips weather experts offer Americans living in traditional tornado zones could save lives. Act quickly to reach a basement or low spot if a tornado approaches. (Weather advisories often contain alerts.) Open windows if there’s time, lie flat in the lowest, most protect location available. Be aware that the approach of cloud fronts produces tornadoes in spring and early summer. The leading lower edge of a cold front often pushes warm, moist air upward. This can begin a spiral of air, which may initially be horizontal but which can turn vertical, to produce the dangerous, skipping tunnel so frequently seen in midwestern and southern states. Tornadoes pass quickly but the velocity of tornado winds is greater than that in other storms. Inside the vortex of a vertical funnel there’s often a vacuum, which explodes closed buildings and homes by sucking the air from around them. Especially vulnerable are trailer homes, thin, wood frame houses and less solidly built structures. Stray pets In many communities there are those who feel dogs should “run free.” It’s a 3 pity to pen them up,“they suggest. But in more and more communities pet owners are being required to keep pets at home or on leash. This is a logical trend. No owner has the right to allow his pet to roam freely over others’ property, to frighten or attack them, occasionally in packs! That’s still happening in too many communities. Finally, pets are better cared for when kept at home. Flower time This is the time of year for garden enthusiasts to work toward the pleasures of flowers. There is much satisfaction in seeking to develop something of beauty, perfection in accordance with the laws of nature. While Mother Nature transforms the earth into new regalia, we can add to that beauty in this community.

What others say —

Inflation fight falls to . poor, middle-class < There are three ways to keep wages and prices from spiraling out of control. None works very well for very long. But each technique distributes the burden of fighting inflation differently. The Reagan Administration has chosen the most unfair. 1. Directly controlling wages and prices. We’ve tried this during wartime and then again during the early 19705. It’s difficult to administer. But if companies were taxed in proportion to their increases in wages and prices, we could, have a relatively automatic system of controls. Everyone would be covered, relatively equitably. The Reagan Administration opposes a Tax-based Incomes Policy, as this.is called. 2. “Breaking the back” of inflation by restricting the money supply and crating a recession. The Fed, under the leadership of Paul Volcker (a Carter appointee), did this between 1979 and 1982, and it seems to have worked, at least for now. The Reagan Administration supported the effort. But those who were drafted into this inflation fight were poor and working-class Americans who lost their jobs as a result. Unemployment reached 10.8 percent of the work force in 1981. Even now, over 8.5 million Americans are still out of work. 3. Increasing the value of the dollar, so that cheap foreign goods stream into America. This is the Reagan Administration’s latest form of wage and price controls. Reagan’s yawning budget deficit has pushed up interest rates and made America a favorite repository for global money. This has pushed up the value of the dollar and made American goods less competitive internationally. American workers won’t ask for higher wages and employers won’t raise prices for fear that imports will take even more of their market share. Fighting inflation through recession-induced unemployment or tradeinduced pressures puts the burden on those least able o afford it. Like the Reagan Administration’s other economic and social policies, these techniques are unfair. A Tax-based Income Policy would spread the burden of fighting inflation far more broadly. We should all be in the inflation fight, not just poor and workingclass Americans. -LAGRANGE NEWS

.43 n of Readers cu i Ls 2 I | Court news

County Court The following persons have been assessed fines and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Speeding — Paying $65 fines and costs were: Dianne Justice, Milford; David Culbertson, Syracuse Paying SSO fines and costs were: David Os bun, Leesburg; Todd L. Moerchen, North Webster; Terry L. Smith, Syracuse; Phyllis J. Roberts, Syracuse; Otto H. Miesel, Milford Paying S4O fines and costs were: Joseph E. Ott, North Webster Failure to dim headlights — Robert M. Galloway, Syracuse, SSO Failure to yield — Christopher W. Hare, Syracuse, SSO; Matthew J. Brandenburg, Leesburg, SSO Wrong way on one-way street — Joe J. Orris, North Webster, SSO City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Disregarding stop sign — Rebecca E. VanDiepenbos, 21, Syracuse, $45 Speeding — Michael J. DeWitt,

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A 36-page tabloid newspaper filled with advertisements and news items of “places to go and things to do” in Indiana has now been published. Counties included in this first time endeavor are Allen, Adams, Blackford, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Whitley

THE MAIL-JOURNAL (U.S.P.S. 3258-4000) Published by the Mall-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

17, Syracuse, S4O; Timothy A. Stump, 31, Milford, $45; Rosendo Banez, 47, Milford, S4O Violation of child restraint law — Joe C. Smalling, 29, Syracuse, dismissed False and fictitious registration — Kenneth S. Yates, 17, Syracuse, dismissed Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Hall-Needler Rickey Glenn Hall, 21, r 1 box 66, Milford and Niki Sue Needier, 17, r 1 box 172, North Webster Cender-Slabach Norman Ray Cender, 26, Gibson City, 111. and Karen Sue Slabach, 21, r 2 box 60, Milford Mozingo-Hamersley James Arthur Mozingo, 69, r 3 box 398, Syracuse and Charlotte C. Hamersley, 66, r 1 box 12, Warsaw Caskey-Kuhn Daniel A. Caskey, 42, P. O. 67 Milford and Carla G. Kuhn, 30, Ligonier Roulo-Bartman Donald Charles Roulo, 20, P.O. Box 196 North Webster and Michele Marie Bartman, 20, McHenry, 111.

and Elkhart. The Northeast Indiana Tourism Council is a new venture and the only one of its kind in operation in Indiana with Jenice Vondagrift, chairman and president of the council. In March, 125,000 copies were printed with another 125,000 copies to be printed in June. All printing was done at The Papers Incorporated printing plant in Milford. This is a free tabloid and may be picked up at places throughout each county and also on the toll road. Or it may be acquired by writing to the state park department. For further information, contact The Greater Warsaw Chamber of Commerce, 124 West Market Street, Warsaw, Ind. 46580. Phone: 267-6311. To switch U. N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, a “life-long Democrat” who has become a favorite of conservative Republicans, will complete her journey to the political right next month by switching per party registration to GOP.

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

ONE OF the fastest growing businesses in the Syracuse area is Tranter Graphics, located at 507 North Indiana Avenue, at the north edge of Syracuse. The specialty printing firm opened its doors in July of 1980, and has seen nothing but growth until now it has 27 employees and is bursting at the seams. So much so, in fact, that a 6,000 sq. ft. plant addition is in the planning stages. Owner Jim Tranter got his baptism in printing at his dad’s Royal Imprints in Ligonier when it opened in 1964, and when it was sold to Carlson Craft in 1980, Jim moved to Syracuse to hang out his shingle. A specialty firm. Tranter Graphics prints colorful napkins for a national market, and prints plastic and styrofoam cups, etc. This is a larger market than most people realize. (Note: Only one per cent of the firm’s business is in Indiana.) His dad’s company, on the other hand, specializes in printing for department and stationery stores, other printers, like that. Jim, Sr., and Mrs. Tranter are now residents of Vero Beach, Fla. ONE OF the big public service projects of the Syracuse Lions Club is the club’s annual sight and hearing screening clinic. Last year it was only a hearing screening clinic, at which 35 people of the community were examined, which co-chairmen Dale Allen and Hubert Anglemeyer considered excellent. With the expansion this year, to include sight screening, they hope for a larger group of people to show up for examination. The time and place: 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the St. Andrews United Methodist Church north of Syracuse. There is no charge involved. Allen and Anglemeyer said qualified professionals will be on the job to handle the technical work. They are Dr. Wendel R. Shank, well known Syracuse optometrist, and Dr. Tom Tarman, a Wakarusa optometrist, for sight screening, and Karen Judy and Gwen Mills, of Wawasee High School, forbearing. DID YOU ever hear of Grandma and The Owl and The Pack Rat?'Possibly not, buUyou will. These two unlikely names are names being given to two new businesses in North Webster, to be opened May 4, in the building on the west side of that town’s uptown business block formerly occupied by The Palace of Sweets and run by Gene and Sheila Berghorn. Sheila has told friends she plans to open The Pack Rat, to sell antiques, crafts, gifts and peuter, along with the part time help of her husband. Gene is now an auto salesman with Bruce Petro in Warsaw. Grandma and The Owl will be opened by Sue Kruger and Jayne Gault, selling collectibles, gifts and country crafts. Both businesses will display and sell items collected over a long period of time. ROBERT W. KNUDSEN — no one calls him that; it’s always a more personal “Bob” — associated with the internationally known E. I. DePont Denemours, Inc. for just short of 34 years, has told friends he plans to retire April 30. Bob has been with the company’s division of photo and electronic systems, with x-ray imaging and non-destructive testing (NDT), working with prime government contractors. Much of his work has been with NASA and the space program. He began with DuPont in Los Angeles, later moving to Cleveland, and in recent years has worked out t of Syracuse. He has given slide programs to various area service clubs on his work. What does a busy 60-year-old man do in retirement? “For one thing, Mary Jane and I are going on our second honeymoon,” Knudsen said. It looks like plenty of travel is in their future, too, visiting their scattered brood: Joyce, in Indianapolis, Diane (Major, USAF Rick) Cressman, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Bob, Jr., Columbus, 0., Ted, science and PE teacher at Patterson, La., and Judy C\rs. Al) Johnson, of Boulder, Colo. TREE SURGEON Larry Weaver claims his record is good when it comes to felling trees. He’s had only two mishaps in 29 years, he claims. One of these was a large tree to cut down at the Bill Cable home on North Shore Drive several weeks ago. It came crashing down and caught the corner of the next door garage of Ernie and Julie Rogers. Hie weight of its huge trunk moved the garage slightly and did roof damage to the extent of sl,ooo-plus. When we caught up with it, the Rogers’ favorite son Scott was on the garage roof, hammer in hand, making much needed repairs. 808 AND Audrey Ruth have purchased the home of Steve and Mary Ellen Roderick at 301 Lake Shore Drive, near South Shore Golf Club, and plan to remodel it before moving there. Dr. Kenneth and Ruth Webster (he’s the new school superintendent) have purchased the Sunset Park (south end of Lake Wawasee) home of Ruth Sellers of Goshen. And also at Sunset Park is the sale of the home of Bruce and Char Ough to Mr. and Mrs. John Harris of Fort Wayne. Rev. Ough, former executive director of Oakwood Park, has become associated with the lowa United Methodist Annual Conference at Des Moines, lowa, and they are moving to that city. OUR COMMENT in this column that Syracuse has no one-way streets brought a quick response from Margaret Nichols. She reminded us of two: On West Pearl Street from Dolan Drive to SR 13 or Huntington Street, and the other is Medusa Court behind the Liquor Locker. Even native-born Margaret overlooked the short portion of Front

Street that is one-way. This was brought to our attention by Dick Prescott, the airline pilot who lives at 300 Front St. Now... near as we know, that’s it. A PLEASANT conversation between this office and Caroline Pressler, P.O. Box 798, Arkansas,. Texas, over the failure of her M-J arriving bn time. “I miss that paper. It’s the way I keep up on things back home,” she said. She said she lived on the Syracuse-Webster Road and moved to Texas for her arthritis in 1984. She admitted to being an active 70. . * REMEMBER WHEN school teachers, the principal, the lawyers and doctors were all older than you are. And now, as if all at once, they are all younger. It gives one a new perspective . . . even a dim feeling that one might be getting a little older oneself. This occurred to us last week when we learned that our state senator, Johnnie Augsburger — youthful looking with his tight perm hair-do — became a grandfather. Could it be? we asked ourselves. He admits that it’s all true. The young man in question is Drew Lincoln, born at 12:32 a.m. Thursday, March 28, at the Goshen Hospital to Jim and Kim (Augsburger) Evans. On closer inspection, young “Abe” Lincoln Evans is not the first grandchild of the senator’s. He has a brother Jonathan, 2, and a sister Karissa, 4. O FT wk - J /Ji I wS! I■ 1 V I'' .3 * - m fl ■ a • • > ~ * W J*' ' ■ * wrwjXgMWll i Ml AT FIRST it looked like there might be a big break in the Hulley murder case or the missing SB,OOO at the State Bank of Syracuse branch bank, the way police cars were swarming around town Monday morning. But nothing like this. Since those two cases focused the attention of local, county, and state police on the community, a convenient rendezvous post has been the front office of attorney Robert E. Reed, at 122 West Main St. We were assured the Monday morning meeting was “to exchange information” on the two abovementioned cases, plus many other unsolved law violations in a broad surrounding area. There will be more of these exchanges, we were informed. WINSOME SUSAN (Schacht) Gerhard is promoting a Happy Pebble, and with it the guarantee that ownership of this colorful, magical pebble will make one happy, healthy, and full of positive thoughts. On sale at Hair Force in Pickwick Place, “The Happy Pebble stands for all good things on earth,” so says Susan. She is here with her first customer, Syracuse fire chief Joe Anderson. COME APRIL 1, the Florida “snowbirds” migrate to the north like their feathered friends. This has been the case this past week. To name a few, Hub and June Anglemeyer of North Shore Drive are home from a long winter in Stuart, Florida, where they had close contact with Sid and Nelson Sorg of the Goshen and Elkhart jewelry stores bearing their name. Bob and Betty Deahl of Sand Point (Ogden Island, Lake Wawasee) arrived home last week at mid-week from Sanibel Island, across the big bridge from Bradenton, Florida, from a stay of nearly two months. That’s the American hideaway of former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Over North Webster-way Paul and Lois Royer arrived home last Wednesday from a winter’s stay at Bradenton. Paul is a longtime science teacher in the North Webster and Wawasee High Schools, and Lois taught in the North Webster elementary schools for more years than she wants to admit. In the same community J. B. Hoy and his Budapest-born wife Helen are home from about six weeks in Florida. A month was on an off-shore island near St. Petersburg, and two weeks was motoring around the Sunshine State. J. B. is a young 79 years of age, remembered as the fellow who promoted the “Rose For Friendship” theme. ELEANOR BATES, of 724 South Front Street, could be seen several blocks away. Last Thursday morning she donned her track sweats for her first trip from her home to the Lakeland Youth Center for a beginners’ work-out program. Color of her so-bright uniform: Warm red, according to the printer’s color chart. You’ll have to , take our word for it — it could be seen several blocks away. ANOTHER OF life’s little gems: Life in Russia isn’t very complicated. Everything is either forbidden or compulsory. PLANS ARE loosely drawn at the present time, but there’s talk at Augsburger’s Super-Valu (Continued on page 5)