The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 33, Milford, Kosciusko County, 14 August 1985 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., August 14,1985

Editorials

Is a stoplight needed? There has been a particularly vocal hue and cry since the death last Thursday night of 21-year-old Christopher Beezley at the corner of SR 13 and the Bowser Road, south of Syracuse, that a stoplight is needed at this dangerous corner. We join those who are calling for a stoplight there, for we bear witness to the numerous accidents at this corner, as part of our beat to cover all sorts of local accidents. Syracuse Police Officer Bill Fisher says the local police records show there have been nine accidents at that corner from August 1984 to August 1,1985, with the Beezley death being the only fatality. “And this is only those accident covered by the Syracuse police,” states officer Fisher, “and does not account for those covered by county and state police.” The corner is on the edge of the Syracuse city limits. We’ll allow that last week’s accident was due to human error. So many such accidents are. But it appears to us that this corner is out of town far enough, that many drivers begin revving their vehicles up for the open road and become oblivious to crossing or oncoming traffic. We are strong in our feeling that a light of some sort is badly needed at this particular corner. If not a regular stoplight, what’s wrong with a caution, light — or a blinker of some sort? We’re aware that the highway department wants to keep the traffic moving, and it could keep moving with a blinker light. This corner is perhaps the most dangerous of any in the area, and deserves the immediate attention of officials in the state highway department. If need be, it should come to the attention of the governor’s office. We just happen to think the lives of our local people — especially the life of one so young and promising as Chris Beezley — is far too important to take casually, when something as simple as a mechanical stoplight or blinker light could prevent it. Hunt limits Too often hunters kill more than their legal limit of game. Those who persist in violating legal limits are guilty on two counts: the legal and sportsmanship count. It’s impossible for game wardens and federal officials to discover every violation, especially on land owned by those breaking the law. This is an appeal to hunters to observe limits and the law. In the long run, such a policy will pay dividends to everyone. 52 hours? A recent study concluded the average American family watched television 52 hours a week — or something close to that figure. One finds that hard to believe. For families in which both partners work, a seven hour plus daily average is almost impossible. Also, many families now limit viewing. Some rarely turn on television sets. That means that millions have to watch the tube twelve or fourteen hours a day. Not likely! Many homes may have television sets “on” for twelve hours a day but few would be watching all that time. There are too many other demands on time. So one must doubt the surveys telling us most families spend 52 hours a week watching the tube. That’s a good pitch for selling commercials at high rates. Better air e An Environmental Protection Agency requirement that refiners reduce the amount of lead in gasoline to 0.5 grams per gallon is now in effect. Next January that limit will drop to 0.1 grams per gallon. By that time cleaner air will become a reality for millions of Americans. Will lower levels of lead in “regular” harm older automobile engines? One AAA official recently said he thought‘o.l grams per gallon was enough to avoid damage to older engines, if they’re not used for towing or other heavy-duty uses. What will be the cost difference? As refineries switch from tetraethyl lead to more expensive additives such as ethanol or methanol, the cost of “regular”, will go up. That, in turn, is likely to discourage motorists from using leaded gas in engines not designed for it — and this will also lessen air pollution. Thus, by 1986, major progress toward cleaner air will have been achieved.

What others say — Enjoyable pasttime “Daydreaming is a harmless, enjoyable pasttime,” so says Donald E. Wood, editor and publisher of Automatic Machining. * He says there is nothing wrong with wistful thinking; he thinks it may, in fact, be beneficial to our souls. But everything cannot remain status quo. Sometimes a step backward is not the answer at all. Many people secretly wish that things would never change, but those very same persons have witnessed such great changes in their lives that it would have been impossible to make them believe they would have occurred those many years ago. We refer to the same type thing which finds going all the way to the top, such as the clerk who finally owns the company. He witnessed all those changes and rolled with the punch of each one until he “made it.” We, in the past 25 years, have seen people on the moon via TV and we have witnessed so many changes that it defies our recollection. Why shouldn’t things change? It’s called progress. And, that progress may be in business, government, industry or anything else you may choose to think about. A for instance! What has the automobile done for people? It’s given them ease of movement and changed business and employment on all levels. Sure, we all want the lowest prices when it comes to buying a new auto, groceries or whatever our needs. But, sometimes the lowest price isn’t the best, even though we often think so. Isn’t it amazing that we only look at what we think is best for us, regardless of what the situation may be. That’s called “being selfish.” And the pity is that we all fit that category. We want what’s best for us, individually. We don’t care about the other person at all. -CARROLL COUNTY COMET

lH r w| K| .■ fll K. <r -E 1 F* x 4 * - ■■‘m A light of some kind is needed at SR 13 and Bowser Road, south of Syracuse.

Court news

City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Starlet K. Tyson, 21, Syracuse, SSO Disorderly c o n - duct/unreasonable noise — Sandra D. Burkholder, 26, Syracuse, dismissed Battery on a police officer — Sandra D. Burkholder, 26, Syracuse, dismissed Criminal trespass/refusal to leave — Sandra D. Burkholder, 26, Syracuse, dismissed Possession of marijuana — Sandra D. Burkholder, 26, Syracuse, plea bargain, SSO Public intoxication — Sandra D. Burkholder, 26, Syracuse, S6O, 90 days in jail, suspended on condition defendant go thru addiction assessment and follow up, 90 days reporting probation per terms of probation Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Returned Check Wawasee Service Center versus Barbara Ann Goddard, r 1 box 265, Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of s2ll for a check returned due to non-sufficient funds. Complaint Lloyd M. Howard versus Robert D. Kissell, Warsaw Homes, Inc., r 2 Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant in the amount of $9,000 for damages Kil JIM JONTZ Senator Jontz seeks election to Congress State Senator Jim Jontz (DBrookston) has announced that he will seek election to Congress from the Fifth District to replace the retiring Rep. Elwood (“Bud”) Hillis. Jontz, who has served 11 years in the Indiana General Assembly, said he will base his campaign on a promise of hard work on behalf of all of the voters of the Fifth District — Republicans and Independents, as well as Democrats. “As a state legislator, I have not missed one day of legislative service in 11 years, and have missed only one recorded vote in the last 10 sessions of the Indiana General Assembly,” Jontz said. “This is an attendance record which no other legislator can match, and it would be my intention as a Congressman to maintain the same standards.” Jontz also said he hopes to be able to continue in Congress the efforts on behalf of consumers, the elderly, the handicapped, and working people which have characterized his record in the Indiana legislature.

resulting from incorrectly installed windows at plaintiff’s residence. Complaint On Note Cromwell State Bank versus Ray B. Frost, Frost T.V. and Antenna Service, SR 13S, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $89,454.31 plus interest to date of judgment, attorney’s fees and costs of action, for a past due note. Complaint For Revocation Os Acceptance Willodean K. Cochern versus Buzz Keck Motor Car Company, 401 S. Huntington, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking SI,BOO actual damages, SSOO incidental damages, $1,630 consequential damages and $25,000 punitive damages, plus attorney’s fees and all costs of action, claiming that the odometer on the automobile purchased from the defendant had been altered. Returned Check Augsburger’s Super Valu versus Jamie T. Wine, r 3 box 117, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $246.37 for a check returned for non-sufficient funds. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Vangundy-Pickett Jefferson Byrd Vangundy, 28, r 1 box 376, North Webster and Teresa Kay Pickett, 28, box 69 Roxbury Park, Goshen Nalongsakda-Khounemanivong Saly Nalongsakda, 31, r 1 Pierceton and Khamphoune Khounemanivong, 27, r 1 box 44E, Milford Smith-Hurd Kevin W. Smith, 20, P.O. Box 542 Syracuse and Gina Mary Hurd, 20, r 1 box 252, Milford Coffey-Morse John Kenneth Coffey, 20, 718 S. Huntington, Syracuse and Vickie Lynn Morse, 27, 718 S. Huntington, Syracuse Spear-Fernkas Phillip George Spear, 58, r 2 box 321A, Leesburg and Donna Louise Fernkas, 52, r 2 box 321A, Leesburg Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Glon — Dawn E. Glon, Syracuse, and John J. Glon, Jr., r 4 box 135, Syracuse. The couple was married Sept. 20, 1975 and separated July 24,1985. There are three minor children. Baker — Michael Bruce Baker, no address given, and Kathy Sue Baker, r 2 box 127A, Syracuse. The couple was married July 23, 1983 and separated Aug. 7, 1985. Sopher — Galen D. Sopher, r 1 box 594, North Webster, and Lucille M. Sopher, r 1 box 221-A, Milford. The couple was married Nov. 18, 1981 and separated July 25,1985. There is one minor child. 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 188, Milford, Indiana 46542

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WORKMEN FOR the Phend & Brown Construction Company of Milford finished blacktopping West Carroll Street in Syracuse last Thursday, to complete 10 blocks of blacktopping within the city. Shown above are workmen finishing up the Carroll Street portion of the project. According to clerk-treasurer Jennifer Lewis, the cost of the 10-block project is $75,000 and included portions of Lake, Carroll, Benton and Lynwood Streets, and that block-long portion of the limited access road past the present town hall, from Lynwood Street south to County Road 1200. More town roads are to be included in the package and will be completed when funds are available. —o— MPX a '■ ■By 3 ■ J > > will is Mr • v *11! THIS SEEMS to be the season for the big ones! First, here comes Syracuse postmaster Tony Rudasics with two outsized hen-of-the-woods mushrooms he claims to have found in the local environs, last Wednesday. He isn’t telling exactly where he found them. The one on the left is eight pounds, the other one 17 pounds — and they are edible, he claims. ■ I I a i fi’'- ■ yV 1 1 T j ■' 1 I CLOSE ON Tony’s heels come two Ohio men, vacationing with their families for the week near the Crow’s Nest, with a 10% pound channel catfish they pulled in off their pier Friday morning. In the above photo are Gene Hoge of Wooster, 0., left, with Pete Thompson of Canton, O. Pete claims to have caught the prize fish on an eightpound test line and Gene netted it with a net he got from the Lakeside Bait Shop (formerly the Poor Doll Shop). They brought the 28-inch bruiser in following a two-and-one-half-hour struggle. Thompson claims the fish to be a “premier catfish, clean, the best, and very edible.” PATRONS OF the Wawasee School Corporation were to receive their annual Reporter, a 16-page tabloid paper detailing all the information pertinent to the beginning of another school year. Just short of 10,000 of the newsy little papers were mailed out by the school administration, and it will behoove patrons, especially those with youngsters in school, to hold onto their copies. It represents a gold mine of information, useful most of the year. It notes that corporation schools are to open Friday, Aug. 23, with the first student day set for Monday, Aug. 26. That’s this month, folks! Former superintendent Don Arnold got up the idea for the small paper a number of years ago, gave it its name, and it was an immediate success,

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4. and has been continued. Other area school corporations have followed suit, and have been sending out like publications. i —o— RICHARD E. AND Mary Ellen DeMotte have to be the happiest — and luckiest — people in Cromwell, Indiana. They had telephone confirmation last Wednesday of an earlier letter from Best Western'lnternational of Phoenix. Ariz., that they had won the hotel chain’s Grand Prize Sweepstakes of a trip around the world! ? Their name was picked by random selection, they were to learn. As near as they could ascertain, their name was from a stay in a Best Western Hotel in Valdosta, Georgia. Vhey usually stay out two nights en route to Fort Myers, Florida, each winter — at Valdosta, and at Jellico, Tehnessee. A telephone inquiry with the managers of the Jellico Best Western confirmed that they were the winners of the Grand Prize and letters and telephone conversations with the firm’s head office in Phoenix outlined the prize in greater detail. Their letter from Phoenix was signed by Thomas W. Staed. president of Best Western International. The Cromwell couple plans to leave on Tuesday, September 10th, for the 21-day round-the-world trip for two, which will take them from Fort Wayne to New York, to London, to Dublin, to Paris, to Vienna, to Zurich, to Aukland, New Zealand, to Sidney, Australia, and finally to Acapulco, Mexico, then home. Extended stops will be in Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Mexico. What’s more, they will be given SI,OOO cash spending money. DeMotte, 74, retired as an employee in the collection department of the Indiana Toll Road, said he didn’t remember ever signing up for any prize, but allowed that he and Mrs. DeMotte are “kinda looking forward to the trip.” Os his 19 years with the Indiana Toll Road, part of his work has been in the varipus toll road booths. Mrs. DeMotte was an elementary teacher in the Cromwell school and in the West Noble School Corporation after consolidation. The DeMotte s reside on North Jefferson Street, which is just north of the town's main business block. —o— THE DRIVE for funds to complete the beach project at North Webster is in high gear, and there’s little doubt that it will not be completed as scheduled. Completed, that is, if the women of that community have anything to do with it. A prime mover by anybody’s standards has to be Rinker Family Store owner Alice Rinker. She disdains credit, however, stating that Fran Schenkel is the one who provides punch to the drive. Fran’s husband, well known Chris Schenkel, has told Alice, "I’m going to have Fran get a real estate license. I didn’t know she could sell like that!” —o— EVE PAYNE, now in her 10th year as North Webster’s clerk-treasurer, is “so proud” The Mail-Journal has been giving wide coverage to the activities of her favorite town. The reason: “Now we can read what happened in North Webster 10 years ago. ” She is less known for doing her civic duty as c-t than she is for being the wife of former school board member, Phil Payne, and the proud mother of Sandy Payne, the spritely little member of the girl’s state runner-up basketball team. HATS OFF to the S-W Chamber of Commerce for initiating a monthly newsletter to keep members informed on a variety of subjects. Problem is: They don’t have a name for it as yet, and are asking members for suggestions. Turn your favorite name into Bob Westfall, president, or Bill Beemer, secretary. The first one came out last week under the heading WHATYAMAYCALLIT. We all know we can do better than that, but at least that’s a start. '-oTALK IS being heard that the chamber should get back of some sort of stop light or at least a caution light at the dangerous corner of State Road 13 and the Bowser Road (at the Wawasee Bowl) where Chris Beezley was killed in a carmotorcycle accident last Thursday night. The crossing has seen a number of very serious accidents. As someone at the Thursday night scene said, it’s at a point south of town where people are revving up their vehicles, and that a light would at least serve as a caution. (Continued on page 5)