The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 23, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 June 1985 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., June 5,1985

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Editorials

Safe Boating Week Every week is a special week... every day is a special day... this week, in case you didn’t know, is National Safe Boating Week. It’s a week that needs to be observed in Kosciusko County because of all the lakes. This year’s theme emphasizes the dangers of combining alcohol consumption with operating a boat. President Reagan advises all boaters to wear personal flotation devices while on the water, citing U.S. Coast Guard statistics which state that 75 percent of those who died in boating accidents last year might have been saved had they worn a PFD, and warned that the use of alcohol and other intoxicating substances is a major factor in boating accidents and fatalities. Remember, drinking and driving don’t mix; neither does drinking and boating. Let’s keep our lakes safe this summer. Good luck golfers The Lakeland community once again joins in extending good luck wishes to a group of athletes from Wawasee High School. The WHS golf team is participating in the state tournament. < The young team earned the right to play in the meet which is being held at the Old Oakland Golf Course in Indianapolis with a 323 score and fourth place in Saturday’s regionals. ( Good Luck Warriors. <» ■ . On vacations Millions of Americans face summer with the unshaken conviction the entire family must be carted off, somewhere, on a two-week summer vacation at the beach, int mountains, and (or) with Aunt Hattie. Travel experts are now beginning to tell us vacations needn’t be far from home; in fact, they can be taken at home — if the routine can be broken. And if vacations are to include travel, it’s best not to undertake too much of it, or long travel tied to speed and strict schedules. If one can decide to rest, rather than push, the end result should be more enjoyable and recuperative. Gorbachev —- tough Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power is not producing hoped-for results. Perhaps naturally, Americans saw the younger leader’s assumption of power as a ray of hope. \ But an unemotional check of the record since Gorbachev assumed power shows only that he has a more westernized personality. He hasn’t differed in policy from the positions of predecessors. There are even ominous signs. A U.S. Army officer was shot and killed shortly after Gorbachev came to power. After what the State Department portrayed as something of an apology, Moscow flatly denied a conciliatory move. After the first round of nuclear arms limitation talks in Geneva, Gorbachev stated publicly that the United States wasn’t serious about limiting arms. Gorbachev took his time in responding to hints and appeal from Washington • for a summit meting. Now chances of a 1985 summit seem dim. A get-acquainted meeting is all many in the administration see for 1985. There has been no visible change in human rights policies (repressions) in the Soviet Union. The war in* Afghanistan against the natives has been stepped up since Mr. Gorbachev came to power, which isn’t encouraging. Accidents on our highways occur every day, not just during holiday weekends. What-others say — Student bloopers Jim Mattson, Orange Park, Fla., said he began keeping a list of student bloopers about four years ago when he was teaching in Exeter, NH. He now is updating the list with the help of his Orange Park students. Some of the classics include: ■ “The death of Francis Macomber was turning point in his life.” ■ “The difference between a king and a president is that a king is the son of his father, and a president isn’t.’’ ■ “A virgin forest is a place where the hand of man has never set a foot.” One of the teacher’s favorites: “In 1957 Eugene O’Neill won the Pullet Surprise.” -THE COUNTY PRESS — Lapeer County, Mich. Who took my money? Where in the world does all the money go? I can understand what is spent on groceries to eat... payments for the house to keep a roof over our heads... lots of payments make some sense. But just last week I went to the Indiana Department of Motor Vehicles to buy license plates for two cars and came out $253 poorer. And I didn’t even get license plates, just two little stickers to paste on the old plates. How can anyone justify taking all that money to put simple little paper stickers over old paper stickers? My mother-in-law, who lives in Ohio, often complains because their license fee was raised recently — they still pay less than S2O to put a plate on their car. Wonder if it’d raise her dander if she had to pay the outrageous fees we pay in Indiana. . * I’ve already paid tax on the car and tax on the gas I put in it and tax on the plates from previous years ... now I’m paying tax on the tax on the tax ... or something like that. And then I learn that at least a portion of this unearthly fee I paid is going to the Republican party and, of course, that does not please me ... after all, most everyone knows I do NOT support the Republican party. But then we won’t go into that until closer to some election. All I know is that my pocketbook was cleaned out at the license branch and I am still looking for someone who can really justify taking all my money for two little paper stickers... x Who took all my money... and why? -THE WAKARUSA TRIBUNE

June 2-8 is safe boating week.

Court news

Circuit Court The following.complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand .presiding: Appeal Os Final Assessment Determination Skystream, Inc. versus State of Indiana, Board of Tax Commissioners. The plaintiff is seeking judgment to appeal the final assessment determination on improvements on real estate leased by the plaintiff at the Warsaw Airport, and to assessed value set be re-determined. Complaint For Damages. Christopher Henning versus Flloyd LeMasters, 109 West St., Milford. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for damages in the amount of SIOO,OOO plus all costs of action for an automobile accident June 26, 1983. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the

from the Syracuse Police log — Kids are soaping windows

The following information was obtained from the log of the Syracuse Police Department. May 28 7:15 a.m. — Subject requested information on cheese 9:46 a.m. — Subject advised of lost utility trailer plate 10:30 a.m. — Subject requested information on fishing license 1:32 p.m. — Subject requested would the ambulance pick up a patient at Goshen Hospital? 4:53 p.m. — Subject on station to show proof on rabie shots for dog 8:55 p.m — Subject advised need an officer at a business May 30 7:49 a.m. — Kosciusko County advised Warner Road will be closed next Monday and Tuesday, (June 3 and 4) by B & O Railroad 10:11 a.m. — Subject advised of dog attack on subject at Dewart Lake 11:01 a.m. — CB’er advised of oil spill on US 6 and CR 33 12:01 p.m. —Subject advised of possible stick of dynamite on SR 13 12:29 a.m. — Subject advised that ex-wife has daughter and will not return her 2:06 p.m. — Subject would like to borrow tables 2:24 p.m. — Subject advised of property damage accident near Louie’s Bar 2:34 p.m. — Subject advised of a theft of a billfold at a business 5:31 p.m. — Subject advised two boats running wild on lake May 31 11:35 a.m. — Subject requests information on fun permit 2:55 p.m. — Advised of high wind warning until evening 3:25 p.m. — Subject wanting to know if there were storm warnings 4:40 p.m. — Subject requested wanted to know if received report of stolen bicycle. Negative. 4:46 p.m. — Subject reported no electric on Boston St. 6:50 p.m. — Subject reports lock-out at Mary Ann’s 6:53 p.m. — Subject called in reference fire department burning his garage 19:26 p.m — Subject reported kids soaping windows 11:44 p.m. — Report of suspect in alley, Boston St. June 1 1:05 a.m. — ISP request assist, reference pursuit of suspect going south on SR 13. 1:06 a.m. — ISP advised subjects northbound from South Shore, lost vehicle 1:30 a.m. — Unit arrived at scene to assist in foot pursuit. 8:30 a.m. — Advised accident on Syracuse-Milford road

office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Dishman-Lursen Kevin Richard Dishman, 25, r 6 box 91, Rhonda Jean Lursen, 19, r 1 box 6, Leesburg Clark-Rowe Myron C. Clark, 45, P.O. Box 255 Milford and Jeannene Marie Rowe, 40, P.O. Box 255 Milford Clossin-Rose Brett Allen Clossin, 21, r 1 Leesburg and Dianna Sue Rose, 30, r 1 box 201, Pierceton Auer-Smith Jerry Lee Auer, 20, r 2 box 40C, Milford and Angela Kay Smith, 17, P.O. Box 495 Milford Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Maule — Diane L. Maule and Jon S. Maule, 613 Backwater Rd., North Webster. The couple was married Dec. 2, 1978 and separated May 24, r 1985. There are two minor children.

3:35 p.m. — Report of dog being hit in front of high school 8:19 p.m. — Subject on station complaining about dogs barking 9:17 p.m. — Subject at business advised alarmed not turned on tonight 10 p.m. — Report of subject uptown driving wreckless June 2 2:10 a m. — Report of beach party at beach 2:21 a.m. — Advised subjects coming in by boat across lake at high-rate of speed without lights 10:04 a.m. — Subject requests information where his car has been towed 3:11 p.m. — Subject on station reference subjects in car threw rock and hit subject’s windshield and broke it, got license number. 4:52 p.m. — Subject reports kids jumping off bridge at Fish and Fun June 2 5:39 p.m. — Subject reports car broke down in front of Sportsman Bar. Advised she would have it fixed tomorrow 5:49 p.m. — Subject reported kids riding moped reckless 6:20 p.m. — Subject reported man hitting girl 6:24 p.m. — Unit arrived at scene 7 p.m. — Subject on station reported dog running loose in park 9:43 p.m. — Subject reported possible prowler on South Main Street 10:06 p.m. — Unit requests driver’s license information and check records for wanted information 11:43 p.m. — Party advised accident at Bollever Hill. Kosciusko County clear June 3 5:20 a.m. — Kosciusko County asked if unit worked an accident involving car-deer accident. Unit clear 5:43 10:43 a.m. — Liberty testing fire alarm

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"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

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Syracuse has its own missing tree caper. The beautiful 25 foot “Christmas tree” which was scooped from the new town hall site on Huntington Street in Syracuse has come up missing. The Syracuse Park Board had been offered the tree by the Syracuse Town Board and Alan Kitson, park board president, said they had decided they would place it at the Scout Cabin on West Huntington Street. As of Monday morning it seemed that no one on the Syracuse management team knew where the tree had been taken. Kitson and Carl Myrick, town board president, had conferred on Sunday and neither knew where it was. When asked by a Mail-Journal reporter, Jim Hughes, town board liaison to the park board, also did not know of its whereabouts. The photographer suggests they check with Bill Heiman, who is located north of Claypool.

WAWASEE DIBECTOBY 9 8 p I BM Lake Wawasee — A Way Os Life For All Seasons f JR< > ' ■■ ' ' '—s

THE WAWASEE Property Owners’ Association is easily the most influential organization in the area when it comes to the promotion and fostering the general welfare of Lake Wawasee, Indiana’s largest natural lake. Its lofty goals include: 1.) Fish Hatchery site development, 2.) Planning and zoning, 3.) Highway safety; and 4.) 911 Emergency numbers. The influence of this organization is often felt by such groups as the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The WPOA is currently issuing its seventh annual, completely updated, edition of its 1985 Wawasee Directory. While it contains some general information, the important part of the directory is its listing of individual cottages and homes by Pier number. The directory is really the brainchild of WPOA’s longtime vice-president Jack DeHaven, Fort Wayne auto dealer and Lake Wawasee resident, and it has been refined with each successive issue. \ “Pier numbers provide a logical way to find places on the lake and in its evirons,” it says in a forward. It adds: “Issuing the numbers and compiling a master list took a lot of doing, but the system works. By listing a Wawasee Directory such as this one, it is easy to locate, accurately, any property that is numbered in the Wawasee system.” Seventeen hundred (1,700) of the directories have been printed and are being distributed. Any corrections that need to be made, or additions thereto, should be directed to WPOA’s executive director Jane Nearing, or write P.O. Box 427, Syracuse, Indiana 46571. Os interest to a lot of the lake’s long time residents are the two pictures on the front of the directory. The top one is of the old Kale Island grocery store operated for years by the late Herb and Nina King. Son Dick worked there and had a large acquaintanceship around that area. When the Volstead Act was repealed in the early 1930 s and the sale of beer became legal, the Kings applied for and received a license to sell beer. This caused them to build a small screenedin addition to the original grocery store. And finally food was added to the bill of fare, and today the establishment is known as Don and Janet Hays’ Kale Island Beacon. The bottom photo is of “The Falcon," a passenger boat piloted by Jess Sargent. Jess’s first love was the building and operating of boats, while his wife, the former Laura Ballard, operated the Sargent’s Hotel on Warner Road. The old hotel is gone now, but the memories of Jess Sargent and his boats linger on. (Note: The photograph was actually taken from a 1950 postal card.)

Long time Wawasee Lake resident Jack Vanderford remembers Jess Sargent as “the best — boat builder I ever knew.” / Jack and Syracuse barber George Bushong both remember, the Sargents. They also remember the three passenger boats that were in evidence on the Big Lake for a long time. Besides Sargent’s Falcon, there was the Robert E. Lee, operated for years by “Shorty” Brakes, and the Deluxe, operated by the Huston Winters family. A ride around Lake Wawasee was “something like 35 cents,” Vanderford remembers. He said Jess Sargent advertised a “Sunset Ride" around the lake on his Falcon, and would make the trip if he had any passengers or not. The Robert E. Lee was ill-fated and burned, and an unlikely fate was in store for the Deluxe. It was moored on the St. Joseph River in South Bend, tore loose from its mooring, and crashed over the dam and into oblivion, remembers Vanderford. On the back of the Wawasee Directory is a nice picture of the Lake Wawasee Safety Patrol Team along with its three patrol boats. In the picture are Terry McCarty, Don McCulloch, Tom Kitch, Dick Waterson, Joe Thornburg and Warren Swartz. MAY 25,1935, is a long time ago — 50 years, in fact — but it is well remembered by Ted Schaefer of Warner Road, Lake Wawasee. 9 At that time Schaefer was a young, 35-year-old moving picture news/photographer for Pathe News stationed in Cincinnati, Ohio. Pathe News was a regular weekly feature in local movie houses, and was a prime source of news for a lot of the American population. I This was the night the lights went on at the Cincinnati Reds ball park, the first lighted ball field in the United States. “It was known as a ‘Redland Field’ then,” Schaefer remembers, changed later to Crosley Field. That first game under lights was between the Cincinnati Redlegs and the Philadelphia Phillies, but Schaefer can’t remember who won. • He also remembers the Redlegs’ gifted manager Larry McPhail as “one of the greatest fellows and most gifted storytellers I ever knew.” Schaefer chuckles when he remembers how McPhail held the attention of a group of young newsmen with his account of how he (then a World War I army major) and several others unsuccessfully tried to kidnap Kaiser Whilhelm of Germany. Schaefer has in his possession the sports section of the Friday, May 24,1985, edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer, which carries a facsimile of the front page of the Saturday morning May 25, 1935, issue of The Enquirer, detailing the events of that 50-year-ago event. » THE DEATH on May 27 of Joseph A; Gremelspacher, 80, at a Frankfort retirement home caught a number of Lake Wawasee residents, who knew this interesting man, by surprise. He spent his summers for many years on the lake’s north shore, at Pier 781 along Bishop Road. A quiet man, he was not widely known in the are*, but was director of the Indiana State symphonic, marching and basketball bands from 1939 until 1970. He is remembered in the music world as the composer of the ISU fight song, “March Oa, March On, You Fighting Sycamores.” Before joining the ISU faculty, he was of music at Crawfordsville High, 1929-’39, and previously taught in Marion County and at Rockville in Parke County. . T ’ Gremelspacher was a serious gardener and his flowers and blooming plants decorated both Sides of Bishop Road along his property. He whs an ardent supporter of the Wawasee Property Owners Association’s various activities. -o---MEMBERS OF the Wawasee Yacht Club afe tooling up for a big 50th anniversary bash, to be held July 6. The Gold Cup lightning race will begin at 11 a.m. and run the length of the lake. Socihl hour 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., dinner 7to 8:15 p.m. * 1 Kale Island resident Paul Hess will review the history of the Yacht Club. Frank Yaggi, Goshen Hospital administrator, is serving as general chairman. AND SPEAKING of yachting, insurance mqn Bob Troutman and his wife Marge arrived home last Wednesday a.m. from Florida where they were yachting with friends in a Morgan 45-fobt sailboat, touching a number of points on the state’s west coast. TWO NEW waitresses at the Syracuse Case are Beth Myers and her daughter-in-law, Althea (Rogers) Minnix. They have taken the job vacated by Patti Richey, who is now an employee at tile Commodore Corp, on West Brooklyn Street. Beth is a former Kale Island Beacon waitress. RAY YODER has his restaurant, The Other (Continued on page 5)