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TUESDAY GROUNDBREAKING — Principals in the 11 a.m. Tuesday groundbreaking for the new Miller’s Merry Manor at the south side of Syracuse are shown here. From left are realtor Harlan Steffen; Joe Grayrpresident of the Syracuse-Wawasee Development Company; V. Richard Miller ot

Plan $1,650,000— Syracuse health care facility

Groundbreaking for the new $1,650,000 Miller’s Merry Manor health care facility, at the corner of Pickwick Road and Old State Road 13 south of Syracuse, was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday. V. Richard Miller, chief executive officer for the fastgrowing health conglomerate, was on hand with a number of local people for the ceremonies. Miller also serves as an Indiana State Senator from Plymouth. The 66-bed facility, having difficulty in finding a suitable location in Syracuse, took a step forward recently when it purchased the tract of land, and reached an agreement with the Syracuse Town Board to upgrade Old State

From high school reporter to AP desk in New York

By ARCH BAUMGARTNER Publisher The Mail-Journal Earleen Fisher Tatro has come a long way since she wrote a column of school news for The Mail-Journal when she was a sophomore at Milford High School. That school column, which she continued the last three years of her high school career, sparked her in- > terest in journalism that has taken her to many of the world’s capitals as a correspondent for the Associated Press news service. Earleen, holding down the foreign desk for AP in New York for morning newspapers, spent three days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noble Fisher, of route 2, Milford, returning to New York Sunday night. She has held down the AP post in New York since October 1, following her return from Tel Aviv, Israel, where she was AP bureau chief for the past two years. Earleen graduated from Milford High School in 1964, before that school went into the school consolidation that eventually became the Wawasee School Corporation. Editors on The Mail-Journal recognized Earleen’s skill — flair, if you will —for writing and urged her to consider journalism as a career. Upon graduation from high school she went to Indiana University and graduated from its School of Journalism in 1968. During the last semester of her studies at IU, she worked on the AP desk at Indianapolis on a part time basis. She continued that job until 1971 when she accepted a post on the general AP desk in New York where she remained until 1977. Earleen then moved on to Cairo, Egypt, her first overseas assignment with AP. In 1980 she moved on to troubled Beirut, and in 1983 was sent to Tel Aviv, Israel, her last post until returning to the United States in 1963. ‘

Road 13 and make the corner a four-way stop. Professional Care “We are looking forward to serving the Syracuse community and surrounding area by offering its citizens the very finest in quality, homestyle, professional health care,” Miller commented at the groundbreaking. Besides private and semiprivate rooms, the 23,850 square foot facility will include a dining room, activity lounge, nondenominational chapel, plus a beauty/barber shop. Approximately 40 full-time employees will staff the facility when fully utilized. Annual payroll is estimated at $601,301.00. Bridgeport, Inc., of Fort Wayne is construction manager and

Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)

Plymouth, CEO of Miller’s Merry manor in charge of finance and development; Miller’s mother, Connie Miller, and his sister, Beverly Stevens, both of Warsaw; Robert Westfall, president of the SyracuseWawasee Chamber of Commerce; and Nancy Myers, the Chamber’s executive secretary.

Designmasters, Inc., of LaGrange is the architectural firm. The plant will be financed by Summit Bank of Fort Wayne, who will purchase all the Economic Development Bonds issued through the Town of Syracuse. Miller’s Merry Manor, Inc., is a family-owned business and has

North Webster public beach now a reality

By DEB PATTERSON Staff Writer North Webster will have a public beach! Dixie Haven

y. That gave her eight years of overseas work with the Associated Press. “So much has happened here (in Milford) during the time I was overseas,” she said, adding, “and this has kept me busy catching up.” All the foreign news that goes over the AP wires destined for American morning newspapers moves across Earleen’s desk. When asked how many people work for her, she noted that AP works 24 hours a day, and that shifts overlap, making it a difficult question to answer. Mrs. Tatro speaks with ease and obvious knowledge of the many capitals of the world, recalling dates and events of major occurrences without hesitation. Shiite Ascendency Earleen, in a Sunday afternoon interview, spoke of the strong ascendency of the Shiites in Lebanon, inspired by the radical Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and how this country’s problems have been compounded. Once beautiful Beirut has been caught in the religious crossfire, leaving it in shambles. “There’s never a clear winner in Lebanon,” she said. Earleen praised the work of emissary Terry Waite in his attempt to win freedom for the six missing hostages in Lebanon. She did note, however, that the recent letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury was signed by only four hostages, giving rise to doubts about the remaining two. She said it’s fairly certain that the diplomat involved was executed in October. Mrs. Tatro said the hostages have been held some 10 to 18 months and that Waite is searching for away for the kidnappers to save face in the release. “President Reagan has said ‘We will never negotiate with terrorists’,” she commented, and so this would tend to complicate the negotiation process. The letter to President Reagan demanded the release of 17 men in Kuwait, convicted of bombing the American Embassy there, in December 1963.

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operated licensed health care facilities since its founding in Warsaw in 1964. “Our philosophy of operation emphasizes professional quality health care personalized to meet a resident’s individual needs,” Miller stated. The Syracuse facility will be the 30th such operation in Indiana for Miller’s.

Resort was purchased by the Town of North Webster from Walter and Eileen Nellessen (Continued on page 2)

Colleague A Prisoner Mrs. Tatro said she knew hostage Terry Anderson very well. A native of Batavia, N.Y., Anderson headed the Associated Press office in Beirut when he was kidnapped on November 16,1985. She said she was forced out of Lebanon with three other AP correspondents in September 1979, and that the hostages were taken November 4,1979. Another interesting experience was three weeks in India in December 1984 where she covered the Bhopal gas leak at the large Union Carbide plant that caused the death of some 2,200 to 2,500 people in that city. During the same period she covered the 1964 election of Rajiv Gandhi for AP, and her stories on that interesting election reached newspapers across America. Earleen said she took a day off to fly to Agra, India, to visit the famous Taj Mahal, but was not able to visit Calcutta or other major Indian cities. Relations With Israel Mrs. Tatro commented on the recent news that one Jonathan J. Pollard, a South Bend native, was caught funneling secret government information to contacts in the Israel government. “We’re friends of Israel,” Mrs. Tatro commented, “but we don’t tell one another everything,” is how she explained that situation. Asked about the Washington Times, the daily newspaper in the nation’s capital, Mrs. Tatro said she knew a number of its editors, and called it a “solid” publication. It is owned by Sun Myung Moon, the Korean religious leader who recently spent some time in prison over an altercation with the U.S. attorney general’s office. “Washington is so hungry for a second newspaper,” she emphasized. About the new daily U.S. TODAY, she said, “it is certainly revolutionary.” The paper is a Gannett publication now in its third year, and purportedly has lost S3OO million so far, but has hopes of moving into the black within several years. Following a tour of the Milford plant of The Papers . Incorporated, Mrs. Tatro said, “My how things have changed around here since I wrote a high school column in my last three years of high school I ”

Sfouth Center to recover missing funds The Lakeland Youth Center, Inc., a non-profit corporation located in Wawasee Village, will realize full recovery of a shortage of 14,010, plus accounting and attorney’s fees, totaling $6,000, according to Steven Unruh, president of the Center that has served the youth of the Lakeland area for the past 20-odd years. The shortage came to light several weeks ago, when unpaid bills of the Center came to the attention of Unruh, Vice President Ron Baumgartner, Director Jill Stanley and other board members. Steven Kiser, treasurer of the Lakeland Youth Center, told the other officers that he had embezzled the funds for his sonaluse. When the shortage came to light recently, officers of the Youth Center took immediate action to have. Kiser’s books audited, followed by a meeting with f Syracuse attorney Steven Snyder to determine a course of action to make full recovery of the funds. Through attorney Snyder, the matter came to the attention of Kosciusko County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Miner. Miner agreed to waive prosecution pending a satisfactory out-of-court settlement between Kiser and the Youth Center board. In an agreement reached between the parties involved, Kiser agreed to pay the Youth Center SSOO on December 16,1985, and to a 'jy $l3O per week beginning next Friday and continuing thereafter until the full amount has been repaid. The weekly payments will be madeXo the Peoples State Bank of Leesburg by virtue of a wage withholding agreement with Kiser’s employer, ChoreTime/Brock (CTB) in Milford. If Kiser fails to make any payment as agreed to, the Lakeland Youth Center will be entitled to full and immediate recovery by virtue of civil action against Kiser. The repayment sum of $6,000 will carry with it an interest rate of 12 per cent per annum, such interest accruing as of Friday when the terms of this repayment were agreed to. Attorney Snyder informed the board that the Lakeland Youth Center would be entitled to civil relief against Kiser for a sum equal to three times the amount embezzled plus attorney’s fees and court costs if the case were taken to court. The officers of the Lakeland Youth Center assumed office January 1965 for a period of one year. Kiser lives at 103 East Shore Drive, Syracuse.

School remains open as— First snows blanket area

By MARK HUFFMAN Staff Writer. As the first blanket of snow covered the area late Sunday night the first groans and pains of winter became evident. While people bring out blankets of a different kind, to throw on their beds, they inevitably dream of that boot-shaped state where there’s no need to wear boots — Florida. The Chicago Bears, who were “booted” Monday night, may be the only group of people happy to leave the sunshine state, while barrages of other Midwesterners can be expected to visit after seeing the warm climate flaunted on national television during an otherwise anti-climatic game. Winter also rekindles a time when people tire easily and wish to stay chained to their homes, but it’s also a time to put kindling in the fireplace and chains on the tires. Power outages and downed trees, always a companion of the first “real” snow, were reported throughout Kosciusko County Sunday — with the worst complaints coming from parts of Warsaw and the southern portion of Kosciusko where three blown transformers took away power for about one and one-half hours

■ 1 Ob' 1 \ i T MB nur |V ~ >■ f v I | S * V f I LWk lIU ' I V. • 11 K '«■ ‘•JyFju ■ *"’< "' ! 77 ■■■■ t POST-GAME HONOR — Brad Traviolia (10) is shown receiving the Class AAA Phil N. Eskew mental attitude award following last Friday’s state championship game at the Indianapolis Hoosier Dome. From left to right are James Wahl of Northeast Dubois, who presented the award and Brad’s parents, Hal and Francie Traviolia. The Warriors lost to Indianapolis Roncalli, 37-3. “To win that award, you have to have those (scholarship, leadership and athletic ability) characteristics,” said Wawasee Head Coach Myron Dickerson. “Brad certainly has those.” Traviolia ranks fifth out of 206 seniors and is president of the class and the Varsity Club. He is also a member of the National Honor Society as well as being one of Indiana’s top wrestlers, finishing third in his weight class last year. He quarterbacked Wawasee to a fine 9-5 season. (Photo by Dave Straub)

ASSOCIATED PRESS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT EARLEEN FISHER TATRO

Sunday night. Temperatures fell to near zero while drivers’ temperatures rose well above that point as cars failed to start, doors remained frozen shut, and sliding through intersections became a new winter sport. While the first day of winter isn’t “scheduled” for another two weeks (Dec. 21) rescheduling of athletic events and other affairs can be expected sooner than expected — if that makes any sense. According to area radio stations, Kosciusko schools kept their doors open Monday — poor kids must have froze while some of our northern neighbors in Elkhart County closed shop for a day. If all this makes you feel miserable, you may feel better to know that you could feel worse if you take the following data into account: In Michigan’s upper Peninsula, more than 26 inches of new snow fell on Houghton; more than 1,000 holiday travelers were stranded in central Wisconsin as a foot of drifting snow shut down a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 90, and most roads in southeast Minnesota were closed, while the weather service reported 18 and one-half inches of snow by 6 p.m. Sunday, in Duluth, where it had been snowing continuously for 64

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hours, for a season total of 43.9 inches. I wonder if people in Minnesota and Wisconsin dream of coming south to Indiana for the winter. Mothers Club has speaker Lucy Johnson was the featured speaker at a meeting of the Junior Mother Club Nov. 18 at the home of Marilyn Nash, Milford. Johnson, wife of Cap Johnson, told club members about her three-month trip to China a year ago. While in Peking the Johnsons viewed the summer palace and Great Wall, as well as several Buddhas. The number of bicycles in the city was overwhelming, according to Johnson, who also marveled at a boat made of marble. She also showed souvenirs from her trip to the club members. It was announced thatthe next meeting would be a Christmas party, with caroling beginning from the Janet Hays home, Milford, on Dec. 16. Husbands are invited to join their wives far the meeting.