The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 March 1986 — Page 5

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

(Continued from page 4) report the Tombstone Epitaph, published biweekly by students of the University of Arizona journalism department, is still sought out by tourists. It’s page 1 left “ear” states “US Years In The Town Too Tough to Die. ” and in the right hand ear it states. “No Tombstone is complete without its epitaph.” as stated by its founder. John P. Chun when he opened its doors May 1.1880. The American West is well preserved in Tombstone’s original 1880’s buildings and artifacts, board walks, overhanging wood awnings, and all. Several townspeople dress in original garb and sit on the town’s benches, to add a little color, and they seem to get a kick out of being photographed with tourists. We crossed the border at El Paso, Texas, visiting the Mexican town of Juarez for a brief period. Matter of fact, we didn’t leave our car. The line up of cars to cross back into the States was considerably longer than the line to go over, we can tell you. Our “southern route” home took us to Fredericksburg, a town of about 3,000 descendants of the original German settlers, home of the “sweetest peaches on earth.” What impressed us was its inordinately wide Main and secondary streets — “wide enough to turn a full team around.”

Court news

City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Anita M. Hasse, 21, Syracuse, $52.50 Circuit Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding Complaint On Note Farmers State Bank versus Stookey Holsteins, Inc., r 2 Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $18,003.29 plus interest, attorney’s fees and all costs of action for past due promissory notes. Plaintiff is further seeking immediate possession of three motor vehicles. Complaint For Damages Wayne L. Blakesley versus Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Mishawaka. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of all damages arising from defendant’s refusal to pay for losses incurred in a fire Sept. 28, 1984, at the apartment building owned by the plaintiff, located aC 113 W. Main St., Syracuse. Complaint On Account Kosciusko Community Hospital versus Gumesinda M. Garza, Milford. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $105.48 plus attorney’s fees and all costs of action, for a past due account. Claim To Quiet Real Estate Title Immediatge Possession Os Real Estate And For Damages Betty Ford versus Stephen Dale Davidson; Vicky Rae Davidson; Steve Dixon; Eli S. Schmucker, doing business as Schmucker Excavating; and Enchanted Hills Community Association, r 1 Cromwell. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants to quiet title to Lot 1034 of Enchanted Hills Addition, plus immediate possession of real estate and for all damages, attorney’s fees and costs of action. Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding Complaint On Account Gast Fuel & Service, Inc. versus Darrell Wayne Hatcher, r 2 box 56-2, Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $10,450.23 plus interest, attorney’s fees and costs of action, fora past due account. Complaint On Account Gast Fuel & Service, Inc. versus June Morehead, r 2 box 59-2, Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $17,889.07 plus interest, attorney’s fees and all costs of action, for a past due account. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Aaron-Bucher Rodney Jay Aaron, 18, 513 S. Lake St., Syracuse, and Amy Elaine Bucher, 18, P.O. Box 97 Milford Wrigbt-McGinnes Robert Wesley Wright, 45, P.O. Box 610 Milford, and Robin Lynn McGinnes, 21, P.O. Box 131 Milford , Shriver-Conley Rick A. Shriver, 38, 639 N. Johnson St., Warsaw, and Janet L. Conley, 33, r 2 box 197, Leesburg Price-Mishler Philip Eric Price, 20,600 Front St, Syracuse, and Linda Kay Mishler, 17, 1802 Howard Ct, Goshen

We toured the ranch of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States, located on the Perdaneles River, just outside Johnson City, reportedly founded by Johnson’s ancestors in what they call Hill Country. Johnson City has about 856 inhabitants, but when the Johnson’s left the ranch, they moved to town, and LBJ grew up there and attended the small school. We had lunch in Johnson City: everyone claimed a personal relationship to the flamboyant president, or so it seemed to us. Johnson is buried in a fenced off area amid a clump of aging oak trees, beside his father and mother and other close relatives. The simple burial site seemed in keeping with Jis close familial connections. We later visited the Johnson Library and Museum on the campus of the University of Texas at Waco, which we found large, expensive and in exquisite good taste. Historians are on the eighth floor pouring over documents covering Johnson’s 40 years of public office. But three days of driving in Texas, particularly dreary and barren western Texas, found us wanting to leave. It was north to bustling Dallas where the traffic, both trucks and cars, was simply staggering, and finally Memphis, Indianapolis, where we stayed last Thursday night with daughter Jane (Mrs. Michael Yoder), then home on Friday.

Richards-Munoz David A. Richards, Jr., 26, r 1 box 13, Leesburg, and Olivia Munoz, 26, r 1 box 13, Leesburg Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Doerscher — Richard A. Doerscher, r 2 box 196-2, Leesburg, and Teresa A. Doerscher,*r 2 Syracuse. The couple was married Aug. 23, 1982, and separated Aug. 1,1985. There are no minor children. Deck — Judith T. Deck, r 4 box 335, Syracuse, and Donald P. Deck, r 4 box 335, Syracuse. The couple was married May 1,1982, and separated Jan. 3,1986. There is one minor child. ■ ■ ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY — Dan Quayle (R) presented a written statement in announcing his candidacy for re-election to the post of U.S. Senator for the state of Indiana. In the statement Quayle pointed out the accomplishments of his office, citing such programs as the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), which overtook the CETA program and was authored by Quayle. The senator was elected to a first term in 1980 and seeks to repeat that feat in 1986.

Suspect sought in robbery at Warsaw

fiffiPERS Crime Stoppers, a non-profit organization involving the police, the media and the public in the fight against crime, offers anonymity and cash rewards to persons who furnish information information leading to the arrest and the filing of criminal charges against felony offenders and to the capture of fugitives. The following “Crime of the Week” was furnished by the Kosciusko County Crime Stoppers organization: The robbery of a Quick Mart in Warsaw is the “Crime of the Week.”

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Is? J 3 y z Ao la FILES FOR CANDIDACY — Patricia A. Brown, 48, 1561 SR 15 South, Warsaw, filed her declaration of candidacy on February 25 for Kosciusko County auditor on the Republican ticket. The political newcomer is giving the Republicans a choice in the May primary election. Mrs. Brown is a certified public accountant and practiced with Arthur Young & Company in Toledo, Ohio, prior to moving to Warsaw 20 years ago. She is a graduate of Plain City High School in Ohio and a graduate of Ohio University where she received her BSC degree. Her husband, Don Brown, is vice president of finance at Dalton Foundries, Inc. They have two children, Jennifer, a freshman at Depauw University, and Stephen, a sophomore at Warsaw Community High School. Mrs. Brown has been active in community services as past president and past treasurer of the Washington School PTA; on the board of the YMCA; current treasurer of the Kosciusko County Historical Society, of which she is a member; budget and admissions committee of the United Way; and past president and past treasurer of Tri Kappa, of which she is a member. She is also a member of First Presbyterian Church of Warsaw and Mother’s Study Club, honorary. She is running against Charlotte Mort, first deputy, in the primary. County auditor J. D. Geiger has chosen not to seek reelection but to seek the state representative’s seat currently held by Thames Mauzy.

Early Saturday morning, Feb. 22, the Center Quick Service located on East Center Street in Warsaw, was robbed by a person who came into the store and had his hand in his pocket as if he had a weapon. He then demanded all the money. This person is described as a white male, aged in his late teens or early 20’s, approximately five feet ten inches in height and weighing about 150-160 pounds. He was wearing a black nylon jacket with hood and blue jeans. After taking the money, he fled on foot. Persons with information concerning this robbery are asked to contact Crime Stoppers, toll-free, at 1-800-342-STOP. Crime Stoppers will pay up to SI,OOO if the information leads to an arrest or indictment. They only want your information, not your name.

NIPSCO responds to application for mandate

Fred F. Eichhorn, Jr., general counsel for Northern Indiana Public Service Company, said Wednesday, Feb. 26, “The company immediately responded to the adverse opinion of the Supreme Court of Indiana by filing a petition with the Public Service Commission of Indiana on January 7, to determine the effect of the Supreme Court decision on the question of rate refunds. “Responsive to the court’s opinion, the company wrote off the unamortized portion of the Bailly Nuclear-One expense in the fourth quarter of 1985 against its retained earnings. “The ex parte order of the commission on February 5, 1986, is not in accordance with the Supreme Court decision or statutory procedures. The company has a statutory right to appeal from that order and is appealing it. The appeal is no more a defiance of the commission than was the appeal by the City of Gary and the Citizens Action Coalition from the September 28, 1982, order of the commission. “On February 5,1986, the commission ordered NIPSCO to file rates which would produce jurisdictional electric revenues of approximately $948 million, which is sl3 million less than the $961 million allowed in the last rate order. However, NIPSCO’s jurisdictional electric revenues at December 31, 1985, were approximately $932 million or sl6 million less than the allowable jurisdictional electric revenue after the sl3 million for Bailly N-l is disallowed. “While consideration of refunds is clearly appropriate, a rate reduction is clearly not. The current rates were never before the Supreme Court. The rates before the court were on an appeal from the September 28,1982, order of the commission. The current rates were established on August 9,1984, by commission approval of an agreement between all parties, including the City of Gary and the Citizens Action Coalition. Since August 9. 1984, the company’s jurisdictional

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electric revenues have been less than the revenues allowed under the August 9, 1984, order, even after the allowed revenues are adjusted downward by sl3 million to eliminate any revenue allowance for amortization of Bailly N-l. “The only proper subject of inTownships may now have parks They may not have cities but that won’t stop some townships from establishing parks since Senate Bill 170 slid successfully through the House of Representatives. Representative Thames L. Mauzy (R-Warsaw) supported the bill which he says will give townships the flexibility to establish parks on their own. “There are many townships in this state which have a large population spread out far enough to make incorporation into a city or a town impractical,” said Mauzy. “Thus these townships lack the proper governmental bodies which can establish parks, despite the presence of a sufficient population to support and use a park. ’’ “Senate Bill 170 will give these townships lacking the ordinary means for establishing parks the flexibility to do so.” added Mauzy. Mauzy said the township advisory board and/or the township trustee can determine suitable locations and work out the specifics of management and maintenance. The townships, however, must still meet the provisions set by the general park and recreation law for establishing parks. “This measure is one I think the public will back one hundred percent.” said Mauzy. “Parents, children, old, young, we all love parks. Why should people living in townships without cities suffer simply because they haven’t incorporated?”

quiry for the commission following the court decision is the treatment of refunds for the period from September 28, 1982 to August 9, 1984. The company has at no time failed to comply with a court order, and its lawful appeal from an unlawful order of the commission is a statutory right given to all parties in commission proceedings.” Items token from sign company A theft and possible theft were reported Monday, March 3, and last Wednesday, Feb. 26, respectively, as Syracuse Police exhaust all possible leads in the cases still under investigation. In the Monday incident, police responded to an 8:24 a.m. call of a theft at Butler Signs, r 4, Syracuse, only to find that evidence had been razed by citizens previous to their arrival. The suspect was reported to have entered through an unlocked window, sometime early Saturday night, March 1, taking a kerosene heater, valued at $l5O, and one cassette-stereo, valued at S6O. Boxes, which had been displaced as a result of the break-in, were replaced by Butler personnel previous to the Syracuse Police’s involvement, while footprints leading to and from the window were also overridden with other prints before the police’s arrival. In a separate incident, reported Feb. 26, Lawerence Brainard, of the Village Butcher Shop, Pickwick Road, stated that money had been taken or misplaced between Jan. 2 and Jan. 31. An envelope, containing about $660, had been laying on a table behind the store’s meat counter previous to its absence, according to Syracuse Police. Prepare beds Prepare beds for planting spring annuals early enough to allow the fertilizer and soil to become well blended.

Wed.. March 5.1986—THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Augsburger votes no to license branch reform bill

INDIANAPOLIS - Changes in Indiana’s license branch system will be made at the expense of Indiana taxpayers. This, according to State Senator John Augsburger (R-Syracuse) will be the result of House Bill 1400 which gained the approval of the Indiana Senate February 28. Augsburger opposed the license branch reform bill, in part, because he feels the new system will reduce citizen control and, at the same time, raise license fees. “Citizen-elected officials have traditionally set license fees in Indiana and established policy for branches, giving the citizens of our state a high degree of control over the decisions made,” Augsburger commented. H.B. 1400 calls for the creation of a Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commission consisting of four members appointed by the governor and chaired by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. This appointment process, according to Augsburger, will reduce the control of the citizenry by reducing the power of those they elect to represent them. “By expanding a state agency, we will expand the need for additional employees and increase the cost to the taxpayers of this state,” Augsburger stated. “Four branches in district 13 are likely to be closed as a result of this bill, creating an unnecessary inconvenience for many rural Hoosiers. ” Augsburger explained that the conference committee report which gained Senate approval near midnight Friday was prepared by four legislators from

Open Door Report from Senator John B. Augsburger

large metropolitan areas. “I am sure the men who wrote the report were representing the best interests of their constituency. However, I can’t support a s measure which raises costs and lowers service for the people of our area,” Augsburger explained after casting his “nay” vote. The legal changes called for concerning the contribution of license branch funds to political parties were also a deterring factor for Augsburger. While H.B. 1400 does prohibit political committees from accepting contributions from license branch bank accounts, it still provides that money raised from the sale of personalized license plates will be split 50/50 between the two major political parties. “If we are going to remove the influence of politics from our license branch system, let’s remove it completely,” Augsburger stated. “Approximately $500,000 is collected each year from the sale of personalized plates. People who buy these special plates will still be contributing to political parties, they will just have no control over which party they contribute to. ” Had visa cancelled Diane Dieterly, who was intending upon leaving for the Philippines with the Peace Corps, has had her visa cancelled into that country due to its political difficulties. Instead of completing her work in the Philippines, Diane Dieterly will be leaving on April 13 for Tanzania, East Africa, to teach the residents about fisheries.

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