The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 November 1985 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., November 13,1985

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Editorials

Good luck Warriors • The year 1985 has been a good one to the athletes at Wawasee High School. The girls’ basketball team, the boys’ swim team, the boys’ wrestling team and the girls' golf team have all been represented on the state level. Now, the football team has won the sectional title and is hosting the regionals on Friday. Everyone in the school corporation is proud of what these young people have done and are doing. And, they have done it in a manner that makes everyone proud of them. They have shown the state of Indiana that Wawasee has a “class act.” As the football team members go into action at Friday’s game we know they will do their best to win and many M-J staff members will join other citizens of the school corporation to cheer for them. Go Wawasee... beat Kankakee/ Lincoln at Gettysburg On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln helped dedicate a national cemetery at Gettysburg —a seventeen acre cemetery where thousands of Civil War soldiers were then buried (Confederate dead were later removed to Richmond). Lincoln wasn’t the main speaker — Senator Edward Everett of Massachusetts had that honor. But Lincoln’s brief words have become perhaps the most famous in American history. In his message, Lincoln continued his international and national public relations campaign to turn the war into a crusade against slavery — “all men are created equal . . . government of the people, by the people and for the people,” etc. That was part of Lincoln’s campaign to win moral support around the world. The South, of course, was fighting for independence (Lincoln didn’t propose to abolish slavery when he took office as president in 1860) and the war began on the issue of secession — the right of a state to secede from the Union. A popular idea today is that the Civil War was a great conflict over ending slavery. Not really true — at least, that’s not how it began, though slavery was a hot political issue. Lincoln, the famous humanitarian, stressed the anti-slavery theme increasingly only after he ordered an invasion of the South; he launched full-scale war after South Carolinians fired on the flag, a poor bit of strategy which inflamed the North. But even in Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863), he didn’t free slaves in non-southern states, or in cities and counties which were Unionoccupied, such as New Orleans, Norfolk and several occupied counties in Virginia. Lincoln, of course, was ahead of most of his contemporaries in his devotion to individual freedom and broader democracy; and he assured victory for the Union by turning world opinion against the South with the slavery issue. Once the world saw the war as one between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces, the outcome was inevitable. The South’s only chance lay in winning diplomatic recognition from England and/or France, whereby those countries’ navies would insure delivery of food and supplies to a blockaded Confederacy. Lincoln’s, then, was no small accomplishment. Ist marines Throughout the history of the United States the flag and nation have been superbly served by the U.S. Marine Corps. The Corps dates from November 10, 1775. On this day the Continental Congress in Philadelphia authorized formation for two battalions to aid in the war against England. There had been companies of marines in America, but under British command, and the two battalions were the first American marine units. The first captain comnrssioned was Samuel Nickolas. He opened recruiting headquarters in the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, since considered the birthplace of the U.S. Marines. What others say — A plan to ponder State Rep. William I. Spencer, R-Indianapolis, may not have the right plan or the best plan for revamping Indiana’s vehicle license branches. But his proposal is at least creative and logical. Moreover, it was well received by the legislative committee studying branch reform, even though the same committee concluded its business last week without endorsing a specific plan. Spencer would turn the branches over to county treasurers, to run themselves or to hire someone else to run them beginning in July 1987. The treasurers would have authority to determine branch hours and the number of branches needed in their particular county. Increases in fees for branch services would be prohibited. Spencer also offered two ways to reduce long waiting lines at the branches. He would stagger license plate renewal dates from January through November, instead of the present January through June term, with some plates expiring in mid-month. In addition, driver licenses would expire on birthdates, instead of at the end of the birth month. Spencer’s plan is logical in that county treasurers already receive vehicle excise taxes and surtaxes, for disbursement to local units of government as replacement for the old personal property tax on vehicles. Thus there is already a duly elected official in has custody of a large portion of the receipts. The same official has a central office into which all funds can be channeled for daily deposit and maximum interest earnings. The legislative study committee obviously had reservations about the price tag on Gov. Robert Orr’s plan to make license branch operation part of state government. One estimate suggested that implementing the Orr plan would cost the state $3 million during the first year of operation. The Orr plan calls for a five-branch pilot program to help determine costs more accurately but the administration apparently has made little or no headway in looking for efficiency and economy. Two branch managers warned the committee to expect more employees, higher fees and reduced services if the Orr plan is adopted. The committee also reviewed a proposal by Rep. Dan Stephan, R.-Huntington, chairman, to create a state-level commission authorized to contact for the operation of branches beginning July 1,1988. The catch in that proposal is that branch fees would fluctuate, depending on cost reports by the State Budget Committee. Motorists wouldn’t know what to expect. t The legislative study committee now will compile its report and pass the hot potato on to the full General Assembly. Though nothing definitive was accomplished, the committee work did inspire the Spencer proposal. As outlined, the proposal appears the most direct, least expensive way of ridding the state of the present scandal-ridden system. It needs closer examination and considerable refining. But it offers a practical starting point for the next session of the General Assembly. -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR

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Good luck to the Wawasee Warriors in regional play this week.

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 — The following persons have paid $65 fines and costs; Daniel J. Ray, 55, Syracuse; Heidi Beer, 18, Milford; Scott A. Knispel, 18, Leesburg Also paying a fine and costs was: Loren Hershberger, 27, Syracuse, SSO Disregarding stop sign — Paying SSO fines and costs were: Omer E. Yoder, 27, North Webster; Jerry S. Slone, 18, Milford False registration — John A. Nedd, 22, Syracuse, SSO Operating off-road vehicle on highway — Tammy J. Bryan, 27, Syracuse, SSO The following fines plus court costs have been levied and paid in the Elkhart County Court, Goshen Division: Speeding — Paul P. Davidson, 28, Syracuse, prosecuting attorney dismisses; John W. Jessop, 23, Milford, $3; Scott A. Harper, 22, Syracuse, $3; Stuart Lewallen, 25, Syracuse, $3 Improper display of registration plate — Stuart L. Lewallen. $25, Syracuse, $1 Violation of restricted license — Troy P. Ropp, 16, Syracuse, $lO Circuit Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint On Account . Georgia Pacific Corp, versus C.C. Housing Corp., P.O. Box 295, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $21,690.89 plus interest, attorney’s fees and all costs of action, for a past due account. Petition For Judicial Review David B. Minnix versus The State of Indiana. The plaintiff is seeking review of his status as a habitual offender and the reinstatement of his driver’s license. Complaint On Notes And Foreclosure On Security Peoples State Bank versus Energy Management Corporation of America, Wayne Rapsavage and Peggy A. Rapsavage, r 2 box 10, Warsaw, L. Ann Ulrey, r 8 Warsaw, C.J. Zimmer & Sons Co., and Leesburg Lumber, Inc. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $28,927.02 plus interest, attorney’s fees and costs of action, for a past due account. Reciprocal Support Amy Jo Gruber versus Richard Glen Bowling, r 1 box 578, North Webster, for reciprocal support of one minor child. City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Steven A. Meredith, 30, Milford, $52.50; Melinda L. Korenstra, 16, Syracuse, $52.50 Disobedience to an official traffic control device — Terry E. Bailey, 19, Milford, $42.50 Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Saul — Melissa Saul, 412 S. Lake St., Syracuse, and Bobby E. Saul, Yawkey, West Virginia. The couple was married Dec. 14, 1980, and separated May 1, 1985. 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 address forms to The Mall Journal, P.O Box 188. Milford. Indiana 46542

There are two minor children. Shoemaker — Richard Alton Shoemaker, r 1 box 87, Leesburg, and Sue Ann Shoemaker, r 1 box 87, Leesburg. The couple was married May 28, 1983, and separated Sept. 16,1985. Hancock — Sean Marie Hancock, no address given, and Maynard Hancock, 111 W. Church St., Leesburg. The couple was married March 4, 1975, and separated Oct. 30,1985. There are four minor children. Marriage Licenses The following couple has applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Wagoner-Barrett Mitchell Duane Wagoner, 22, r 2 box 24, North Webster, and Deborah Jo Barrett, 21, r 2 box 24, North Webster Serving our country MARK A. WEST Marine Lance Cpl. Mark A. West, son of Mike A. West, r 1 Milford, was recently presented the Command and Control Unit of the year award as a member of Second Light Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion, Third Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Ariz., from July 1,1984, to June 30 of this year. During this time, the Battalion achieved high standards of excellence on 12 exercises/operations. The Battalion was also in the forefront in the development of tactics to make maximum use of its newly acquired equipment and contributed to the development and successful testing of the Sparrow/Hawk missile feasibility demonstrations. A 1983 graduate of Wawasee High School, he joined the Marine Corps in September 1983.. ROBERT E. HECKAMAN Airman Robert E. Heckaman, son of LeVon V. Heckaman of Leesburg has been assigned to Chanute Air Force Base, 111., after completing Air Force basic training. During the six weeks at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, the airman studied the Air Force mission, organization and customs and. received special training in human relations. In addition, airmen who complete basic training earn credits toward an associate degree through the Community College of the Air Force. The airman will now receive specialized instruction in the aircraft maintenance field. His wife, Mary, is the daughter of Berdell Leiter of 1804 Oakwood Drive, Rochester. He is a 1977 graduate of Warsaw High School. County history book deadline extended The Kosciusko County Historical Society has extended the deadline for submissions of family histories for the Kosciusko County History Book. County residents now have until December 15 to submit a written history of their family to be included in the bode, scheduled to be published in 1986. Persons requiring help with their submissions should contact their township representative: Clay, Bernice Beigh; Etna, Becky Golden; Franklin, Freeman and Viola Gruenewald; Harrison, Eula Smith; Jackson, Eldred and Louise Metzger; Jefferson, Kenneth Haney; Lake, Iva Nelson; Monroe, Merl and Zola Wertenberger; Plain, Jean Lynch; Prairie, Marge Priser; Scott, Georgia Lutes; Seward, Eva Eherenman; Tippecanoe, Laurie Smith; Turkey Creek, Luella Longenbaugh; Van Buren, Charlotte Siegfried; Warsaw City, Janet Essig, Marolyn Ketrow; Washington, Sandra Frush; Wayne, Katie Ann Kintzel, Sarah Wolfe.

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

I _ I ** 4 oXa ’* MOwifeA, Mi nSBfEb M I ’ o .fu • !" Mi ■'’ W I itrW- * MANY LOCAL people remember Fred (“Shorty”) Searfoss as the owner/operator of the small service station on the southeast corner of Pickwick Road and Old State Road 13 (where Joe and Ethel Hughes reside), but no one seems to know who the fellow is who posed with Searfoss for the above photo. The Searfoss Standard Station was a popular place prior to the extension of SR 13 past Chicago Street, when motorists going to Lake Wawasee or other points south had to pass that corner. Can anyone remember who the “mystery man” is? A STOP light at the busy corner of State Road 13 and the Bowser Road is edging closer to reality, thanks in no small part of the urging of Carolyn G. (Mrs. Douglas) Anderson of the Wawasee Boat Company. Mrs. Anderson has been pushing for a light at this corner for some time in view of the many accidents there. On October 18, she received a letter from Clinton A. Venable, chief of the Division of Traffic of the Indiana Department of Highways, a copy of which went to John P. Isenbarger, director of the Indiana Highway Department. The letter follows: "Dear Ms. Anderson: "The traffic control study which you requested after talking with Mr. Lindsey at our Fort Wayne District office has been completed. The Division of Traffic has received and reviewed the District's study report and recommendations. ‘We find that the traffic using the intersection substantially fulfills the minimum requirements to allow us to proceed with the planning and design work needed before a signal is installed. Considering that it often takes 10 to 12 months to develop an installation project, we are proceeding now in anticipation that increased traffic volumes will fulfill the minimum conditions by next summer’s construction season. A restudy will be conducted late next spring to verify the need. "We appreciate your taking the time to contact Mr. Lindsey and write the follow-up letter. Thank you for sharing our concern for highway safety. Very truly yours, Clinton A. Venable Chief, Division of Traffic” WITH FORMER Governor Otis R. Bowen being in the national news for having been named Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Reagan Administration, area people are rushing to recall their relationship with the popular governor. Jack Vanderford, long a “power” in Turkey Creek Township Republican affairs, remembers introducing Bowen at the Syracuse High School auditorium, way back when Bowen was a state representative from Bremen. He capped his introductory remarks with the thought that he might, just might, someday make a good candidate for governor of Indiana. Bowen remembered that chance remark, and recalled it to Vanderford on several occasions. Vanderford had no idea at the time how prophetic his remark was. JOE GRAY was a victim of the flash floods that raised all kinds of havoc in Virginia last week. He took an Amtrak train out of Warsaw a week ago Saturday for Washington, D.C., where he attended a meeting of the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Society, returning via Amtrak. Inasmuch as the railroad was washed out in several places in Virginia, his return trip was rerouted through Philadelphia. Earlier reports were that the flood was an afterglow of Hurricane Juan that did such damage in Louisiana. ALL THIS talk about the theft of a hindquarter of Elk involving several Warsaw hunters in Colo; rado. brought to mind a story Thornburg Drug

Apply potash and phosphorus to fields now

By VICTOR R. VIRGIL Extension Agent Should farmers apply phosphorus and potash to their corn and soybean land this fall? Fall and winter fertilization can be a tax deduction this year if you need expenses to reduce income this year. It assures that the nutrients will be in place next spring for rapid seedling growth or cool, moist conservation tilled soil with heavy surface residue.

purchasing agent Larry Mellott tells about the problems he had in sending the meat of a dressed antelope home from Colorado. Mellott makes an annual trip to hunt in the Colorado wilds, around Kaycee, with his close friends Ed Johnston and Wayne Noble. Larry bagged an antelope, had it dressed,packed in dry ice and shipped home “express... perishable." “Airlines make their mistakes, tooß Mellott told his friends, when pointing out the delay in routing that rendered his cherished antelope meat worthless when it finally arrived at Fort Wayne. EVERY ONCE in a while you find you win one and you lose one. We're referring, of course, to the loss of Pastor David M. Hudson at the Syracuse United Pentecostal Church, who will be moving to a charge at the Riverside Apostolic Church at Morgantown, W. Va. That’s a loss. The one we’re winning is the arrival some time ago of Pastor Ron Blake, of the Syracuse Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Ron is a tall, handsome, personable, go-go sort of fellow, and above all he’s enthusiastic about the proposed church his flock plans to build on a 9.35-acre tract of land on the northeast corner of SR 13 and Old State Road 8, just across the highway east from the Harris Funeral Home. They hope to break ground in the spring. Rev. Blake is proud of a two and one-half year term of duty just outside a military base at Corpus Christi, TX, where his church instituted a housing and job placement program for the poor as a pilot program. The program was watched carefully by government officials, he said, and has been emulated all over the country as a viable means of approaching a very vexing problem. WE HAD a chance to see the last rose of summer from the garden of June and Bob Laudeman, being given to Donna Mangona of the State Bank of Syracuse, at their Halloween treat day at the bank October 25. The deep, dark red rosewas named Wawasee Chief by June during the summer of 1984 when she was a Jackson & Perkins rose panelist. This was the only name out of the five she sent in that was accepted. She received five unnamed roses that spring to plant, care for, keep records on and finally name. June’s “Profile: The Rose lady ', was published in The Mail-Journal on September 11. At that time she had given 180 roses to friends during the summer. Since then she has given 70 more roses away, for a total of 250 to 90 individuals. “It’s a nice hobby we both enjoy,” says our flower girl. “After the Japanese beatles left, the fall roses were gorgeous. I’ve been taking roses to school when I go to substitute teach, and the secretaries enjoy them. I gave assistant principal Donn Kesler several Wawasee Chief roses, and he remarked he thought I named them correctly,” says June. THE WAWASEE High School vocational program is right on top of the fast-moving computer age, according to director Dick Wysong. It has a vocational computer program, and a wellorganized computer club. So proud are they of their program that an open house is being planned for Thursday, Nov. 21. It’s one anyone in today's business world should want to attend. For further information, call Wysong at 457-3147, extension 202. WOULDJA LIKE to swing on a star? That appears to be the theme of the 1986 Syracuse/ Wawasee Winter Carnival, being planned for Saturday and Sunday, January 25 and 26. Lakeside Park will be the scene of ice skating and sledding events, snowmobile races, ice fishing and other wintertime sports activities. It’ll be the seventh annual such affair. Among the events will be a kick-off fireworks, and for this the committee needs money, money and more money. According to the committee's first newsletter, donations can be sent to State Bank of Syracuse, P.O. Box 127, Syracuse, Indiana, 46567. NOW COMES word from ‘Pete’ (“Choo Choo”) Savage from Dublin, Ireland, where he is (or was) on his first leg on a round-the-world tour, which was to take him to Scotland, London, Brussels, Paris, Rome, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Australia, and home through Los Angeles and Las Vegas, by February 3,1986. He wrote he wanted to see “the sun go down on Galway Bay," and that he was crossing the English Channel by boat. A side trip to New Zealand the Fiji Islands was “very iffy.” A Chessie Railroad employee. Savage into something of a world traveler the past several years. IN EARLY October Tranter Graphics was contacted by All-State Insurance to manufacture 1,200 caps, 1,200 T-shirts and 1,200 windbreakers for insurance company adjusters and members of the catastrophe team, all in connection with Hurricane “Gloria.” Tranter is proud of a nice letter from the Allstate office at Northbrook, 111., on the courteous and prompt delivery. He said their Chicago facility worked all night the previous Friday and Saturday to fill the order. The devastating hurricane hit New York, New Jersey and the New England States.

Fertilizer applied before tillage gives the best mix of phosphorus and potash in the soil. Equipment operated on fall-dry or winterfrozen soils causes less compaction than spring applied fertilizer on wet soils and eliminates spring compaction which stays around ' to affect root growth. Any feed operations that can be accomplished this fall provides more time next spring for early planting and tillage operations.

Another question to ask is whether fertilizer costs will increase over winter. About a third of the people I’ve talked to say yes, a third say no, and the other third say they don’t know. With the amount of participation that should be generating by the government program and the acres that should be idled, supplies should be adequate and any price increases should be minimal.