The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 1, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 January 1986 — Page 12

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — January 1,1986

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10 YEARS AGO, DEC. 31,1975 A new dentist has located in suit 211 at Pickwick Place in Syracuse. Dr. Randall S. Cory of Some have refunds coming Following are those people in Kosciusko County whose names are on the 1985 undeliverable tax refund list: Gary R. Dekeyser, Leesburg; Bounchan and Bounkeau Vongxay, Milford; Gary E. Bays, Barbara Boyer, Cathy A. Boyer, Norma Church, Richard L. Collins, and Ramey M. and Velvet A. Culbertson, all of Warsaw. Also, Richard E. and Evelyn P. Glover, Charles D. Hall, Morris A. Helton, Michael Hershman, Joe L. Howard, and Jay A. Johnson, all of Warsaw. Also, Charles R. Shepherd, Bret R. Shepler, Brendt L. Smith, Eng and Sarem P. Um, and Connie F. Wilson, all of Warsaw.

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Ligonier has located above Lake and Trail Sports. Mr. and Mrs. David McGrew of Syracuse were among Christmas day dinner guests of Governor and Mrs. Otis R. Bowen at the governor’s mansion in Indianapolis. Also in attendance, among the 35-40 other guests, were Mr? and Mrs. David McGrew, Jr., son and daughter of the above couples, and their children Richard Todd and Nicole Lee, all of Mission Viejo, Calif. The California couple will be returning to their home on January 2 following a two-week stay in Indiana. Michael Bitner of Syracuse has been mimed to the dean’s list at Purdue university for the fall semester. A 1974 graduate of Wawasee high school, he is a sophomore at the university and a political science major. Michael is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bitner. The December 18 meeting of the Kappa Omicron chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority was held at the home of Mrs. Thomas Hoover, Syracuse, with nine

members responding to roll call. Members of the Primary Mothers club at Syracuse report a very successful breakfast with Santa, held on December 13 at Saint Andrew’s United Methodist church, with over 165 in attendance. Mrs. Leroy Sweatland was publicity and ticket chairman, Mrs. Larry Clodfelter, food committee chairman; Mrs. Jim Owens helped Santa with goodie bags; Mrs. James Tranter, bazaar chairman; Mrs. Rick Baker, decorations; and Mrs. Jerry deSomer, Mrs. Lowell Ensinger, Mrs. Mike Mangus, Mrs. Jay Price, and Mrs. Jerry Kirkdorffer, a puppet show. 20 YEARS AGO, DEC. 29,1965 Mr. and Mrs. James Butt, Syracuse, entertained members of their family and guests on Christmas eve. Present were Steve Butt, Carolyn Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Butt and family, Mrs. Lucy Kegg and Mrs. Lois Schleeter, all of Syracuse; Mrs. O.C. Butt’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Myers of Dundee, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. George Butt of South Bend; Mrs. Schleeter’s daughter,

Sandra, and John Paxson, both of Dayton, Ohio; and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pavy of Lincoln, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Al Pletcher called later in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kroh, Syracuse, had as Christmas day guests, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Kroh and family, Mr. and Mrs. JOhn Kroh and family, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Myrick and three daughters, all of Syracuse; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kroh and family of Indianapolis; and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clashman of Middletown. Mrs. Alma Orn of Syracuse spent the holiday week end with her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. James Eyer, at Elkhart. Capt. and Mrs. Larry D. Nicolai and children, Heather and Jason of Fort Sill, Okla., spent the holidays with the former’s parents Mr. and Mrs] Harry Nicolai of Syracuse. 30 YEARS AGO, DEC. 29,1955 Dr. Wendel R. Shank, optometrist, announced the opening of his office in the State Bank Building Wednesday. A long-overdue reapportionment task was accomplished

yesterday by the Kosciusko County Commissioners when they added a fourth precinct to Turkey Creek Township. As redrawn, the precinct lines now provide for a voting population of between 500 and 550 in each precinct. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Snobarger, Mrs. Millie Snobarger and Mrs. Charlotte McSweeney were in Angola Sunday for Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Maloy. Mr. and Mrs. James Slabaugh of Fort Wayne visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Court Slabaugh, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Thornburg and Mr. and Mrs. Court Slabaugh were guests Christmas Day in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Thornburg, Jr. Christmas Day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Miner and family were Bimd Batta and Kulkip Mehta of India who are students at Indiana Technical College in Fort Wayne. Jim Gard was also a guest. Mrs. Bertie Stagg of Libertyville, Illinois, arrived Sunday for several days with her son and family, the Horace Gottschalks.

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streets of Syracuse and the neighboring countryside in a dazzling display to close the five-hour program.” That evening, to further mark the opening of the new theater, Ctovernor Townsend and a large number of selected guests (among them Philip and Louise Kiley) were on hand to view “Wake Up And Live,” a new Hollywood film featuring popular filmland gossip columnist Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and beauteous Alice Faye. The dinner f>r the visiting dignitaries was held at the Sergent’s Hotel. • In a small two-column ad in The Journal were listed theater prices as 15 and 35 cents. A. J. Lasky, Pickwick Club and Soda Fountain manager, advertised a noon plate lunch, served from 12 to 2:30 p.m., for 25 cents. All this time Syracuse and northern Indiana lakes boosterisir , as envisioned by W. E. Long, was to be enunciated in the columns of his newspaper, now. The Indiana Journal. Editor Weatherholb had the professionalism and appeared up to the task, but the fledgling newspaper lacked the advertisers sufficient to provide the revenue during this depression-ridden period to make the visions of benefactor Long come to fruittion. Long did install a new*automatic Cox-O-Type eight page printing press in the basement of the Pickwick Building in order to accommodate a bulging circulat ionas seen by his outsized vision for Syracuse and the lakes region. Editor Weatherholt made ample use of large, screaming headlines and what boiler plate news and photographs he could purchase from news services available at the time.(Note: See a page 1 Journal reproduction on page 4.) For a pericd he published a six- and eightpage paper circulating it free in 10,000 area homes. A half-page ad said the papers were going into homes in Goshen, Warsaw, Nappanee, Ligonier, North Webster, Syracuse, Leesburg, Milford, New Faris and Cromwell, and to lakes Wawasee, Webs ter, Tippecanoe and Barbee. A three-coli imn photo on page 1 of the Thursday, May 27,1937 issue shows a mountain of tied bundles of newspapers with newsboys gathered around, ready to set out on their daily deliveries. Among these young carriers were Lester Niles, George Harvey, Phillip Kern, James Hughes, Robert Hughes' John Hughes, Eugene Traster and Donald Niles. The “daily ” lasted for a brief period — perhaps six mcnths or less — then reverted to a weekly ,publica ion. Could W. E. Long’s vision of a free newspaper for the area have been a forerunner of the free newspapers common today? one might ask. Long continued his plans to reshape the Syracuse and 1 ikes community, bringing regular speakers fromis far away as Chicago to the stage of his Pickwick Theater to lecture on a wide range of topics. Another of his ideas included the changing of the town’s name from “Syracuse” to “Wawasee.” He put the full force of his energies behind this effort, even having his visiting lecturers plump for the name change. But somehow this never came •All the while 1 he Journal was beating the drums for the open ing of the new Pickwick Theater, this good local news was overshadowed by a larf er international news story. The huge German dirigible Huxfenbu y, named after the German War Marshal and known as the targe st rigid airship ever built, crashed in flames at Lakehurst, NJ.,« May 6,1937 killing Mos the 97 persons aboard. This captured inte -national headlines. No cause at the crash was ever given. It was about 804 feet long and could lift nearly 473,000 pounds. It was launched at Friedrichshafen, Germany, in April 1936 and had com tleted several transatlantic trips before its illfated 1987 journey Thought to be a new and revolutionary weapon in Hitler’s buildinf, war machine, the crash signaled the end to the bigdirigibles

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Congratulations: Our job is don* W« biw justly pratod of the Pickwick Block, from the oriftnal and beautiful Pickwick Tbeatar to the modern newspaper plant of the Indiana JooroaL Tbto amamac and vefu) buildinc. different from anythinc u> U* entire ■tate of Indiana, to a tribute to Mr. W. E. Long, the man whoee imacinatioo and determination made it possible. As far as vs and the world are concerned. Mr. Loot’s broadth of vaion took thia

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project and fostered its growth. It to •ov ready to rocaiee the plaudits and admiration es the thnMandi who will com to vender and depart inspirod by thia monument to a bravo personal and social outlook. Aa one builder to another, wo any to Mr. W. K. Long, builder extra-, ordinary. "Congratulatioaa on the Pickwick Keck.Hartaer Ceaetractioa C imp say. Freak Harteer. Plea. Soath Baad. lad. I .

off. As a matter of fact, the idea found considerable opposition by many of the town’s older citizens who by now were comfortable with the name Syracuse, and by many residents of Lake, Wawasee who wanted neither another name for their beloved lake, nor did they want to dilute the meaning of their name. “We were here first,” they seemed to be saying, and the idea of changing the town’s name died a natural death. J Lake Wawasee resident Jack Vanderford said this week he remembers; W. E. Long very welh “His name was William Edgar Long, but everyone called him ‘Ed’,” says Vanderford. Vanderford, who served on the Syracuse Library Board for years, also remembers the magnolia tree planted by Governor Townsend in the library yard. “It’s still there,” he says, “in the back yard.” Vanderford says Long pushed the magnolia tree as a distinctive Syracuse tree and urged people to plant them. There are a lot of them in Syracuse Lakeside Park, either planted by Long or at his urging, Vanderford noted. Vanderford said it peeved Long that he had to take guests to his home by passing the park, which at that time was the city dump. “Long always hoped his guests would keep eyes forward,” said Vanderford, as they went through the city dump. Long spearheaded a plan to beautify the dump-, by pulling a large hill across the street down to fill the dump. TodajTfhe old city dump is a beautiful much used park. The street, from the end of East Main Street past the St. Andrews United Methodist Church to a point where it meets the County Line Road, has been named after Mr. Long, known as the W. E. Long Drive. *' The city dump was then moved to a tract at the northeast comer of old US 13 and the Pickwick Road, which again, when that road opened across the channel, Long had to take his visiting guests past a city dump. Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds were used to fill in and beautify the tract now known as Syracuse Lakeside Park. Community oyster suppers and other fund-raising projects were arranged to raise more funds for the project. “Long put in |SOO of his own money,” recalls Vanderford. Much of the landscaping was donated, he said. Long was forever a man to put his money where his mouth is. And when his various projects didn’t move along at lliis expected pace, Long was often given to earthy prose. Long spearheaded a large nighttime parade of boats and floats on Syracuse Lake — “a real beautiful thing”, says Vanderford — but only one parade was held. It went the way of many another of Long’s costly ideas. Long eventually sold his Pickwick Park properties and built a large house in an area known as Bonnie Brae Manor, s;out]n of Syracuse. Long had many financial interests other than his copyright on the name Holsum Bread, and. his bread-slicing and bread-wrapping machines, and the money that seemed to come to him easily was as lavishly spent on projects that caught his eye—many of them right here tin Syracuse. * - • He admitted to losing money every day he owned the Pickwick Block complex, but this mattered little to him. His personality was meteoric Few had the spirit or wherewithal to catch his vision. p But his rich legacy lives on in the Syracuse community in many ways.

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