The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 1, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 January 1986 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., January 1,1986

Editorials

The year-end review Most newspapers publish some type of year-end review; be it Photo sections like ours or a listing of chronological events. Have you ever wondered why? We never really thought much about it, it’s just something that’s always done, until we read an editorial in the Avon-Danville Gazette last year. The editors of that paper offered the following suggestions. “1. Just to see what kept us busy all year. “2. This is a traditional slow-news time of the year and we need something to fill the pages. e “3. It gives us an excuse to be reflective and meditative. “4. A last opportunity to implant some events in our minds so we will remember them despite the aging process which erases some memory blanks. “5. Because everybody is in the holiday mood, and we have to justify spending our time at the office in order to get out of all the chaos at home. ‘ ‘6. Some readers expect it. “7- Finally, to convince ourselves that nothing really changes and that history does repeat itself. That the world is not much better off, or worse off, only to the degree that the characters change. “ As we worked on The M-J’s photo pages for this issue we pondered over these reasons and would have to cut our list after the first four and then add number six. It’s fun to reflect back to see what we’ve done during the past year and it is a traditional slownews time when boards have finished most of their work for the year, clubs will not meet again for another week or so, school is out for the holidays, etc. We like to be reflective and it’s fun to print summer photos when we have snow on the ground ... it reminds us of the fact that the temperatures will someday once again make it above the 32 degree mark. Memories need to be jogged and some readers do expect to find a review of some kind or another in this issue. It’s here... enjoy!

Resolutions At the beginning of a new year Americans make resolutions. Some greet the process with cynicism, knowing most resolutions will be broken, some after only a few days of 1986 have passed. But resolutions often signify that the maker is striving to better himself or herself. In that sense, they’re an indication of_an active mind, good intentions. New Year’s resolutions, then, whether kept or not, are a plan for better things in the future. That’s what life is all about — hope and effort for betterment. ’ What others say — We don 7 boo / How about you ? I’ve always thought of athletic contests and sportsmanship as going hand-in-hand but maybe I’ve been wrong. I love sports — have always attended as many games of our local school and our high school as possible (except maybe football which I just can’t seem to understand). And as I grew up at Wakarusa School — elementary and high school — I knew what sportsmanship meant. We didn’t boo; we didn’t swear at the referees; we applauded a good play by the other team; we didn’t scream uncontrollably when the other team was shooting a free throw; we didn’t act like maniacs during and after the contests. No one said we were perfect but I believe the folks in this area will verify that this community always had the best sportsmanship around — that was until just recently. People commented that they liked to play against Wakarusa teams and then against North Wood teams as the players and fans were so courteous. I know we weren’t perfect. Yes, we got angry when bad calls were made and disappointed when we did something wrong ... and yes, we did yell sometimes when we should not have done this. But games werefun — isn’t that what they are meant to be — we watched the games, we cheered with our cheerleaders, we encouraged our players, and we congratulated the other team on a good game win or lose. Now, however, that has changed. Our motto used to be — and rightly so — We don’t boo! How about you? Maybe our motto now is “800 all you want” and start early so your children will learn by the time they reach middle school to be unsportsmanlike. I can hardly believe now that when I go to a game — any game — eyen as low as sixth grade how the parents actually cuss out the referees and the youngsters “blow their tops” at any call — good or bad. Isn’t the sports scene supposed to be one of learning. Shouldn’t all kids at that age who want to be allowed to play in every game. How can they learn if the only goal is to WIN? I, personally, would like to see every kid play and every kid learn something. Certainly it’s nice to win. But no one will win if only a few ever get the opportunity to play and those few get ahgry whenever something does not go exactly as they plan. Coaches and teachers and parents should try to encourage all children at this young age to keep trying. They’ll make mistakes; help them to correct the mistakes without anger. And set an example. If parents get angry whenever a bad call or any call is made that goes against their child, then the child cannot learn wrong. He will follow that example and get angry himself, thereby ruining his learning capabilities. Os course, if we learn in sixth grade or before that the solution to every sports problem is to throw up our hands, or scream, or walk off the floor, that will continue into high school and beyond. And what happens when in your place of employment you pull these childish tantrums? Parents, teachers, all of us — it’s our responsibility to take the bull by the horns. Let’s set a good example for our children. Let’s allow them ALL to play. Let’s allow them ALL to make their own mistakes. Let’s not get angry at them or at the referees ALL the time. Let’s let them grow up to be good, responsible adults who work out their problems rather than just plain getting mad. And, please let’s bring the pride in sports and sportsmanship back to this community . . . Let’s once again make other schools glad to play Wakarusa or North Wood. Let’s once again bring back the old slogan with pride... “We don’t boo! How about you?” - THE WAKARUSA TRIBUNE

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A lone fireman is shown fighting one of the many fires which destroyed property in the Lakeland area in 1985.

Court news

Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint For Injunction And Suit On Account Enchanted Hills Community Association, Inc. versus James R. Lupke, Sr., P.O. Box 545 Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for an injunction to remove a pickup truck, trash and refuse from Lots 44 and 45 at Enchanted Hills Subdivision, and enjoining defendant from any further u& of said property. The plaintiff is further seeking delinquent dues, maintenance, attorney’s fees and all costs of this action. I City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Steven E. Flory, 25, Syracuse, $52.50, Paul D. Reimer, 34, Syracuse, $47.50 Failure to use headlights when required — Michael W. Brian, 22, Milford, $38.50 Improper turn at intersection — Tony K. Vanover, 17, Syracuse, $42.50 Circuit Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint Prescotech, a company of Gerlach Industries, Inc., versus Classic Formed Products, P.O. Box 356 Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $15,723.60 plus interest, atIce covered roads, driver inattention cause of accidents Ice covered roads and driver inattention contributed to two separate rearend collisions in Syracuse last Monday, Dec. 23. David A. Dishman, 25, r 2 box 22, North Webster, was driving south when his vehicle entered the Pacer Service Station drive on SR 13 and collided with a truck parked near the pumps at 3:30 p.m. Up to S2OO damage was reported for the 1976 Ford driven by Dishman and the parked vehicle —a 1972 Chevrolet pick-up, driven by Michael A. Richardson, 25, r 3 box 2208, Syracuse. No injuries or arrests were reported, according to Syracuse Police. Marion L. Lilly, 23, r 3 box 528, Syracuse, was traveling south on Main Street when he lost control of his vehicle on the ice-covered road and struck a parked vehicle, registered to Firestone Construction, 600 N. Huntington St., Syracuse, near the Portland Street intersection. Up to SI,OOO damage was reported to both vehicles. No injuries or arrests were reported.

torney’s fees and all costs of action, for goods received by the defendant from the plaintiff. Complaint On Note Peoples State Bank versus Billy G. Coburn, 430 Dolan Dr., Syracuse, and E.C. Poole, r 4 Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $20,064.80 plus interest to date of judgment, attorney’s fees and all costs of action, for a past due note. County Court The following persons have been assessed fines and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: * Driving left of center — Randy A. Bartels, 18, North Webster, SSO Disregarding railroad crossing arms — Lonnie E. Headley, Jr., 30, Syracuse, SSO Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Rosenberg-Myrick Dov Rosenberg, 23, Middletown, N.Y., and Cynthia Lee Myrick, 22, 418 Harrison St., Syracuse Archer-Grugel David Joseph Archer, 28, r 6 box 187, Warsaw, and Holly Elaine Grugel, 28, r 5 box 325, s Syracuse - > , Smith-Coy Roger Samuel Smith, Jr., 19, P.O. Box 432 Syracuse, and Stacy Ann Coy, 18, P.O. Box 432 Syracuse Tessin-Kozik Donald William Tessin, 41, r 1 box 529, North Webster, and Ellen Marie Kozik, 41, r 1 box 529, North Webster Thomas-Shaw Dewitte C. Thomas, 70, r 1 box 282, Syracuse, and Dorothy M. Shaw, 63, r 2 box 187, Pierceton Hickman-Kirkwood Danny M. Hickman, 38, r 4 box 371-1-10, Syracuse, and Nancy Ellen Kirkwood, r 4 box 371-1-10, Syracuse Holmes-Regenos John Richard Holmes, 19, r 2 box 238-2, Leesburg, and Tracy Darlene Regenos, 20, r 2 box 238-2, Leesburg Clouse-Polston Brian Lee Clouse, 19, 210 S. James St., Milford, and Angela Sue Polston, 19, 210 S. James St., Milford

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AS THE INDIANA JOURNAL SAW IT — MAY 20,1937

WHEN MIKE Kiley, a well known resident of Marion and Pickwick Park (Lake Wawasee), recently brought a copy of an invitation his parents had received to the formal opening of the Pickv/ick Theater in Syracuse to our office, we noted it listed the date as Saturday evening, May 23d, at eight o’clock. But the year was missing — which gave us cause to go to the basement of the Syracuse Public Library to search out the microfilmed copies of the old newspapers for the year of the Pickwick Theater opening. Kiley’s parents were Philip and Louise Kiley, prominent residents of the area. < Louise is deceased. The Thursday, March 11, 1937, issue of The Syracuse Journal carried a story on “The W. E. Long Theatre Block,” listing Frank W. Hartzer of South Bend as general contractor, with Syracuse electrician Roscoe E. Howard as being in charge of the (modern) lighting that went into the new structure. Along with the story was an ink drawing of the facade of the new building. W. E. Long was a Chicago resident who made his fortune in the bread business, having eventually invented a bread slicing and a bread wrapping machine. Holsum bread was his product, and he was veil on his way to establishing his fortune as a young man. Long had adopted Syracuse and began a program of rebuilding the tiny lake town into the “Playground of the Midwest,” and the “Gateway to the Land of Indiana Lakes.” He had moved into Pickwick Park’and took a little island near his home and transformed it into what became known as the Chinese Gardens, with a beautiful oriental bridge leading to the fairyland island. Long had a fascination with the, name “Pickwick,” from Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. Accordingly, it became Pickwick Park, and tliie new uptown Syracuse complex was to take on the name “The W. E. Long Theatre Block.” The theater became the Pickwick Theater and the lounge became the Pickwick Lounge and Supper Club. I»ng began with the purchase of the old wood structures on the north side of Main Street, just west of State Road 13. The buildings were razed to make room for the new structure, designed in English Tudor styling. Above the building were apartments, bowling alleys in the basement and the complex accommodated the theater, and store builcings along Main Street and “up the hill” along SR 13. In the basement was printed The Syracuse Journal, a splashy eight-page weekly designed to promote Long’s several projects to remake the sleepy little town, then laboring in the deptis of the Great Depression for survival, as wen! most other communities. , « •> Ixmg had the money, and so the town welcomed an infusion of outside interest to make this dream of a new tomorrow come true. yi-ong imported F. AHan Weatherholt of Cumberland, Maryland, as editor of his Syracuse Journal. Weatherholt brought a certain professionalism to The Journal, otherwise a small, provincial weekly newspaper serving the town of about 1,800 people. One of his headlines read “Community Follows W. E. Long Leadership.” Across the bot-

tom of page 1 was the boxed line, “Indiana’s Newsiest Weekly Newspapers." The good services of W. L- Pracht of St. Charles, Illinois, were engaged as manager of the new theater, soon to open. The several issues of The Journal that followed told that Ross Osborn and Son, uptown hardware dealers, would furnish all the hardware for the new block, and that the Wogoman Gift Shop was to furnish all interior decorations. The March 25,1937, issue of the paper reveals that its name has been changed to The Indiana Journal, and it became known, in editor Weatherholt’s view, as the “Voice of the Hoosier State.” ' The March 25th issue announced the Journal name change in a three column, page I article, and expressed grandoise visions of serving an area far greater than the town of Syracuse. First, it had northern Indiana in mind, then came his “Voice of the Hoosier State,” and later the entire midwest. »- A left hand column on page 1 began to appear, presumably written by editor Weatherholt, and in the Thursday, April 22 issue, he announced that Indiana Governor M. Clifford Townsend had bfeen invited to the Theater’s May 22d opening. ' In due form the invitation went out to Governor Townsend, a popular Democrat, and his confirmation was received. All appeared in readiness for an opening of the W. E. Long’s Pickwick Block and new theater, with all eyes for many miles around focusing on this auspicious occasion which was cast and being directed by one man — the flamboyant neuveau riche W. E. Long. It was his day. The governor ’s letter of confirmation came to T. Colwell, president of the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. A large wooden arch had been constructed across State Road 13 at the Main Street crossing announcing Syracuse as the “Gateway to Northern Indiana . ” announcement in The Journal feveab ed that the governor’s remarks would be heard over WLW Radio, Fort Wayne, easily another milestone for the occasion.* At 4 o’clock on May 22, all was set for a large parade up SR 13 to the arch where Governor Townsend would make his remarks, hailing the good works of the town’s new benefactor, Mr Long, and commenting on the impact all of this could have on tourism in northern Indiana, the state and midwest. He cut a “silken ribbon" to officially open the lake tourist season. The speaker was introduced by Dwight H Green, formerly of neighboring Ligonier and former U.S. Attorney for the northern district of IHinois. Green later became governor of the state of Illinois. Also on the speaker’s platform were Lt Governor Henry L. Schricker, who later became governor, and Donald Stiver of Goshen, iMiom director of job safety and first head of the new In diana state police department. The governor planted a hardy magnolia tree the official symbol of the lakes region as promoted by Mr. Long, on the grounds of the SyracwC. Public Library. The tree still stands at the rearof the library. w The exact words of the governor were reported in The Journal, nor was there a tion of the parade, other than to I were military units in the parade. It’seolmnniSl I mention that “many searchlights swept I (Continued on page 12) \ \ I