The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 49, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 December 1985 — Page 7

Community Corner

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Rotary told about SADD

Alan Tehan, program chairman for the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club meeting Tuesday noon, introduced Marilynne Curtis, guidance director at Wawasee High School. Mrs. Curtis introduced Traci Beaty, a senior, and Travis Marsh, a junior, who spoke on the subject of Students Against Driving Drunk. Both students are active in the SADD chapter at the high school. Miss Beaty spoke about the problems of students who drive and drink adding the group is organized as a peer counseling group to help students who may have concerns about alcohol. “Without a doubt, drunk driving ranks today As one of the nation’s most serious health and safety issues — accounting each year for an estimated 25,000 traffic facilities, hundreds of thousands of injuries and billions of dollars in economic costs to the society. Among no group is the problem more serious than among

The other kid

By CARLA J. GAFF Guest Feature Writer It’s always the other kid that’s too blame, explains your child when you question him about the broken rose bush or trampled down daisies. But in the case of Cory Havens it often is the other kid. His pet nanny goat “Heidi” has twins and as everyone knows, baby goats are called kids. Heidi had triplets in June of this year but only these two survived. Heidi and Cory have both accepted that and have found they have their hands full enough with the twins. “They’re really sweet,” explained Cory when I asked him what he thought off his new playmates. Cory is the son of Connie and Mike Havens of New Paris. The Havens have had pet goats before and are not unaccustomed to their climbing and continuous eating of anything and everything that gets in their way. Although, they all agreed it was hard to stand by while a friend disposed of the horns on the twins. A number of breeds of goats are domestically raised throughout the world, several million goats are estimated to be

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teenagers and young adults.” Miss Beaty went on to say that SADD was established in 1981 to improve young people’s knowledge and attitude about alcohol and drugs. This was to save their lives and the lives of others. The program has three major components: to help eliminate the drunk driver and save lives; to alert high school students to the dangers of driving and drinking; and to conduct community alcohol awareness programs. Miss Beaty also said drinking and driving causes accidents which cause death and injuries to the people who are drunk and to others as well. She stated of 60 children born today, one will die and three others will be seriously injured in alcohol related accidents and this will happen before their 20th birthday. Marsh reported the SADD chapter in Wawasee High is well and growing in size each year. “If you and a group are going out for

raised in the US each year. They are often used for meat, as milk suppliers, as pets, and even as a beast of burden. Will Eat Anything In Indiana, we see them in all the petting zoos we visit as goats are very friendly and easy to get along with. However, they will eat anything that does not attempt to eat them first so keep a hold of that purse, diaper bag, scarf, or whatever you’re carrying. The goat does not have sharp teeth like many animals. Instead they have what we would call a full set of molars. So if they happen to get a little bit of skin while they’re trying to eat the sweater your trying to wear, it’s not going to puncture the skin, just feel more like a pinch. Cory has his twins tamed to the lead rope. And because of their size, they are much safer for a child to play with than what a calf or a colt would be. However, there are disadvantages to raising goats just as there are to any animals. The most obvious, certainly, would be that of trying to keep them pinned up. The twins are already able to climb up their stall which is about twice as tall as they are because, like any

the holidays,” he suggested that a ‘“designated driver be named in the group who does not drink for the evening and who does all of the driving.” His main purpose for being at the meeting was to ask the business community for cooperation during the holidays and during the time of school functions such as prom night and graduation time. The Wawasee Chapter of SADD will have signs and other devices which they will offer to the community and asks for cooperation in posting them and distributing them throughout the area. Both students said they were not in the position of judging whether or not one should drink. The organization rather wants to make the community aware of the problems which arise from drinking and driving and through this awareness help to prevent injuries and deaths caused from the indiscriminate use of alcohol and drugs combined with driving.

goat, they can rise up on their back feet and place their front ones over the sides of the stall. So they cain stand there waiting for you when you enter the barn. They actually make very comical pets, that is when you’re not ready to kill them for eating all your flowers in one afternoon, or half of the garden, or the laundry that was hanging on the line when you left this morning. Cory and his folks have not yet decided what they’ll do with their twins as they grow older, however, being used for meat is definitely not one of the things they are considering at this time. Heidi and her twins are not as unique now as they would have been had the third one lived but the Havens are pretty pleased with their pets anyway, and plan to let Heidi have another try at triplets next year.

Frances Slocum — The story of little Bear Woman'

By GINNY RICE Guest Feature Writer During her first five years, Frances Slocum lived an ordinary, peaceful life in her parents’ Quaker home at Wilkes Barre, Pa. Then, November 2, 1778, she was kidnapped by the Delaware Indians and renamed “Weletawash.” But she grew up to be so strong and proud that she was awarded a new name: “Maconaquah” or “Little Bear Woman.” The Indian life had become her way of life. And it would continue to be for almost 70 years. She married the war chief of the Osage Village, a Miami Indian called Shepoconnah. Together they had two sons and two daughters. When Shepoconnah later became deaf and resigned as chief, he and Frances moved south and established a trading post called “Deaf Man’s Village” about nine miles above Peru, on the “river on a slope:” the Mississinewa. The Indians of that area were quite wealthy and enjoyed a standard of living far excelling that of the white men in the same area. As her husband’s health

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Why sleep is so important

Sleep — that “knits up the ravelled sleeve of care” — it’s a wonderful invention! And it’s one of the most unusual things we do. Think of it. With all the interesting things and routine things we havgjo do, all the good books to read, conversations to finish, jobs waiting for us, we still have to stop every day, find some place to lie down — and go to sleep! How strange. Yet that daily sleep is absolutely necessary. Without sleep, strange things happen to us — physically and emotionally. In New York city, back in 1959, Peter Tripp was a well-known disc jockey. To benefit the Polio Fund, he planned to stay awake for 200 hours. Tripp set up a glass-walled booth on Times Square. Across the street in the Hotel Astor a special testing center was set up, with an impressive crew of psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical specialists. Tripp was given a preliminary check-up and his normal level of functioning was established.

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deteriorated, Frances took over most of the responsibility of running Deaf Man’s Village, which had become a social center for the white men and Indians. Shepoconnah died in 1833. It wasn’t until September 1837 that the true identity of Little Bear Woman was discovered. Her brother, Isaac Slocum, recognized her by a scar on her left hand. At that time, she was living in a two room cabin beside her husband’s burial place. When it was disclosed that she was a “white woman,” she was no longer eligible, as an Indian, for the pension made possible by the Treaty of 1826. The following year, John Quincey Adams eloquently defended her case in Con-

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Then during each day of his marathon he submitted to a battery of medical and psychological examinations, including tests of his mental ability. For more than eight days Peter Tripp broadcast his regular program from the booth on Times Square. And from the first night he struggled with the overpowering desire for sleep. Although in good health and on a high-protein diet when he started, he could not stay awake without company — and stimulants. After two days his mind began to play tricks on him. He saw cobwebs on his shoes. Specks on the table looked like bugs. He thought he saw a rabbit in his broadcast booth. He became so disoriented, wondering who he was and where he was — yet somehow he pulled himself together every evening for his regular broadcast from 5 until 8 p.m. Not many of us will try to stay awake for eight days like Peter Tripp. But the consequences of prolonged periods of going short

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gress. As a result, Frances was given 640 acres of land and permission to remain in Indiana. Little Bear Woman — Frances Slocum — died March 9,1847 and was buried next to her husband in the cemetery beside her cabin. In the Wabash area today, businesses, recreation areas, and memorials bear the name of Frances Slocum. Among these is the Frances Slocum picnic area and “Lost Sister Trail,” a conservation education trail near the east end of Mississinewa Dam. Special thanks to US Army Corps of Engineers and Miami County Soil and Water Conservation Committee for materials usedin compiling this article.

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on sleep do affect the lives of millions of people. Shift workers, medical students, soldiers in combat — often show personality changes due to sleep loss. And these can range from irritability and transient mental confusion, to serious psychological problems or the onset of disease. Some tried to adapt themselves to as little as possible. Little “catnaps” scattered through a 24-hour period was one suggestion. Some use coffee and other stimulants to help prop eyes open — so we can work when our bodies are crying for restoration. Research has identified different stages of sleep which we normally go through — repeating the stages four or five times each night. The first is a light sleep, as we begin to drowse. Stage two is deeper, more relaxed, eyes rolling slowly. WE may twitch suddenly or awaken to a noise — and insist we haven’t been asleep for the last ten minutes! If undisturbed, we settle into stage three, very relaxed, breathing evenly and slowly. Temperature and blood pressure declines as heart rate slows — and we can sleep through a thunderstorm without awakening. Then we sink into stage four, the deepest, most restful level, “the sleep of the weary,” one researcher calls it. Ordinarily a person devotes a large portion of his sleep time in the first half of the night to stage four.” (SLEEP, p. 69) This is the sleep we need in order to be restored and energized for the next day. After an hour or ninety minutes, we drift back up to stage one, but this time to dream. This stage is characterized by rapid eye movements and may last ten or twenty minutes before drifting down to the deepest sleep again. Our bodies have an established daily rhythm of peaks and valleys which is very difficult to change. Drugs and stimulants defeat us in living compatibly with our bodily rhythms. So it’s important to stay in tune with our own rhythms — and get some sleep when we need it! For your free leaflet “Sleep” write to: Margaret Foth, Box 22, Harrisonburg. VA 22801. Legion Auxiliary has Christmas party American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 226, Milford, held its Christmas pot luck dinner on December 2 with 14 members attending. Glennis Stump, chaplain, gave grace. A short business meeting was conducted by President Treva Borkholder. It was noted that the Legion/Auxiliary Christmas party will be held Saturday evening, Dec. 7, at 6:30 at the Milford Fire Station. All Legionnaires and Auxiliary members should bring their children and grandchildren as Santa Claus will be there with gifts. A potluck dinner will be held with turkey, ham, coffee and punch being furnished.

After the business meeting, there was an exchange of gifts by the members present. Mrs. Stump won a three candle Christmas table decoration as door prize. This was made by Kelly Vanlaningham, a junior member.

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Wed., December 4,1985 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

LOUISA'S LETTER

Dear Louisa, I am a teacher and it amazes me to see how some parents treat their children. Some of them are over protected but the vast majority show neglect. I wonder if the parents ever find out what the weather is before they send the little tots off to school? In this state we may have very cold weather one week and then suddenly it will become very warm. Some children come with heavy turtleneck sweaters on hot days and if there is a sudden change we may find them the next day with no sweater or windbreaker at all. Consequently there are pupils who miss many school days because of colds and pass the colds on to others. There are other parents who talk about the children to me in their presence, inferring that the children are stupid or bad. Os course, I stop them as quickly as I can but I know that the child has been hurt by his parents. A child needs praise for what he can do and not criticism. A child will try to do his best if he knows the people he loves have faith in him — not because he is afraid. Other children come to school

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having dressed and washed themselves which is very evident to the teacher. Now I think it is important for a child to have some responsibility but a first grader should have his clothes put out for him and his mother should see that everything is right before he leaves home. This little attention by the mother makes a child feel cared for and loved. Mother sees that his hair is brushed and he has the proper coat or sweater according to the weather. Now I know what some mothers will say to this — “How if you had breakfast to make and four children and a husband to get away before eight-thirty in the morning?” My answer to this would be to set your alarm clock and get up in time so that you will not be in a rush. When you have children you have that responsibility and hose who do not accept it do not deserve to have little ones. Teacher—Ga. Answer: I think you have said it all. Louisa Address: Louisa, Box 532, Orangeburg, S. C. 29115

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