The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 14, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 April 1986 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 2,1986

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Editorials They need your help, too Last year 1,734,604 volunteers served in 2,908 Red Cross chapters — making policies and administrative decisions, collecting blood, serving in health clinics, teaching safety and CPR, working in day-care centers and assisting the elderly. The most visible role of Red Cross volunteers in 1985, however, was providing disaster relief. In the months from June to December, 1985, the Red Cross expended nearly SSO million providing mass care to over 4 million people, giving financial assistance to some 31,000 families and sheltering over 90,000 people in more than 2,100 shelter locations. Disasters ranged from hurricanes and floods to family fires in Kosciusko County. No matter how large or small the disaster, Red Cross volunteers were there to help. The following statistics show that Red Cross has touched the life of every American or someone that they know: • Red Cross chapters — 2,908 • Red Cross Blood Regions — 57 • Volunteers —1,734,604 i • Student volunteers — 2,890,012 z • Blood donors — 5,474,513 • Services provided to members of the armed force veterans and their families — 2,866,167 • CPR certificates awarded — 2,347,572 • First Aid certificates awarded —1,525,014 • Other health certificates awarded The scope of these statistics make the Red Cross appear to be a huge organization. In reality Red Cross is the local chapter and volunteers who help to improve the quality of human life and enhance individual self-reliance and concern for others in Kosciusko County. Concern for others extends to relief operations worldwide including: the Mexico City earthquake, the Bhopal disaster famine in Ethiopia and other African countries as well as the TWA hostage situation in Beirut. The Red Cross depends on public support for its funding. The organization receives funds from voluntary contributions of the American people. A recent campaign slogan tells the story best, “Everyday someone needs us. That’s why we need you. April, 1986 You are the hope of beauty and the birth Os life and death — come, welcome home again! The second quarter of the year begins with April, which appropriately contains both April Fool’s Day and happy tax-paying day (on the 15th), when / millions of Americans make final 1985 income tax payments. ' On the 6th, in 1917, Congress declared war on Germany, which doomed the Kaiser and the German monarchy and eventually, indirectly, produced Adolph Hitler. On the same day in 1830, the Mormon Church was founded. The Greeks in America celebrate the 6th as the Anniversary of the Greek war for independence. On the 9th in 1865, General Robert E. Lee finally surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, perhaps the most ably-led in the nation’s history, at Appomattox, Virginia, to a generous U.S. Grant. The 10th is the birthday anniversary of the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth. The famed Halifax (N.C.) resolutions, calling for independence, date from the 12th in 1776, and largely influenced the Continental Congress later that year to follow the Halifax example. One of the greatest Americans, and for eight years (1800-1808) president, Thomas Jefferson, was born at Shadwell, Virginia, on the 13th in 1743. The Huguenot Society observes the 13th, the day of the signing of the Edict of Nantes, halting persecution of Protestants in France in 1598. Henry IV signed this act of freedom; Louis XIV revoked it in 1685, and persecution resumed.

What others say — Ploying Khodafy's game in the Gulf of Sidra

Every court in the world would say that the United States has a perfect right to retaliate against Libya when it attacks our planes flying over the Gulf of Sidra. Few people would even quarrel with our technical right to dispatch the 6th Fleet for exercises there. Col. Moammar Khadafy is about the only one who believes all the Gulf of Sidra belongs to Libya. But while this deadly exchange of missiles continues, Americans ought to be asking themselves this: What is the 6th Fleet doing in the Gulf of Sidra in the first place? Sure, we seem to have the right. The Reagan administration has repeatedly sent ships and planes past Khadafy’s "'line of death,” going back to 1981. The point, it’s said, is to show Khadafy these are international waters. But sooner or later Khadafy — whose grasp on reality is very much a question mark — was bound to unleash some of the new missile hardware he got from the Russians. So now what’s the point? We’ve got a lot of damaged ships and planes and Libya has lost temporarily a missile site or two. But have we advanced our Mideast policy in some important respect? Let’s just ask ourselves some basic questions about access to the Gulf of Sidra. It is really someplace where our commercial vessels must sail? No. Is the gulf a place we need to have open for strategic reasons? Only if we want to send an invasion force into Libya, which no one is even remotely contemplating. If getting access to the Gulf of Sidra is all that big a deal, the first step is to take up the issue in the U.N. Security Council or before another appropriate tribunal.

If getting access to the gulf is worth putting the lives of American servicemen in jeopardy, why not rally support in the international community before challenging Khadafy’s dare? One is left with two possible conclusions about the military exercise: Either U.S. intelligence failed to accurately assess the likelihood of Khadafy’s response or the administration deliberately provoked the incidents. Frankly, neither conclusion is very flattering. Here’s the problem. We have played into Khadafy’s hand. He gets to look like a hero to his people, so we reduce the chance Libyans themselves will rise up and install a moderate regime. Meantime, Americans living in Libya and throughout the Arab world have once again been placed in jeopardy. Will this military exchange cool Khadafy’s support of terrorists? Be serious. Will challenging him win us allies among the Arabs? Hardly. Will it in any way isolate Libya, so as to reduce its influence? No. For when all the smoke clears, Khadafy is likely to be standing mighty tall. We took on the United States, and even the Russians back off of that. Americans rightfully expect that President Reagan would take the appropriate military action necessary to protect our forces. But we deserve to know the whole story — all the facts need to come out. We also need to know that sending the 6th Fleet into Khadafy ’s back yard was the most prudent policy toward that regime. Events of the past 48 hours raise serious doubts. —THE JOURNAL-GAZETTE

WE’RE HURTING. Saving lives can be very expensive. The costs of our disaster relief and other humanitarian programs keep mounting. And we can’t afford to come up short. Please help. American Red Cross

Warsaw rape and stabbing

a rime 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 leading to the arrest and the filing of criminal charges against felony offenders and the capture of fugitives. * The following “Crime of the Week*’ was furnished by the Kosciusko County Crime Stoppers organization: The stabbing and rape of a

Letter to the Editor Stealing in the schools

Dear Editor: Every parent in this area should be made aware of the stealing going on in our area schools. There is not a school immune to it! There is not a student exempt from it! Yesterday my daughter had s4l stolen from her purse which was in a locker in the P.E. Annex at Wawasee High School. This is not the first time money has been stolen from her either! Last fall, during a football game, sls was stolen from her band locker. The dean of students at Wawasee High School told us, after the first theft, “there is no fund to return this money and unless YOU can find out who is doing the stealing, there is nothing we can do.’’This time I called the police and filed a theft report. I did not do that the first time. I though the school would Meeting kicks off 'Month of the Young Child' Syracuse Community Nursery School and the Lakeland Community Daycare Center hosted a parents meeting Tuesday evening, April 1 in St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church. The meeting was to kick off the “Month of the Young Child,” with the first week of April being the “Week of the Young Child.” Dr. Karen Doudt, professor of early childhood education at Manchester College, gave a program on how to teach children responsibility and how children learn. There were 50 parents present for the presentation. Sarah Guy new dispatcher at Webster North Webster Town Board members met in a special meeting Saturday, March 29, at 12 noon, for the hiring of a full time dispatcher for the North Webster Police Department. Acting upon the recommendation of Acting Town Marshal Matt Wagoner, the board approved the hiring of Sarah Guy as a full time dispatcher

Warsaw woman is the “Crime of the Week.” In June, 1983, a 19-year-old Warsaw resident was spending the night at a friend’s house located in the 700 block of Brown Street in Warsaw. As the young woman lay sleeping, an unidentified man cut the screen on a window in an adjoining bedroom, gaining entrance to the house. He then put his hand over her mouth and stabbed her. At this time she was told not to scream or he would kill her. He then stabbed her again and raped her. The assailant is described as a white male, thin build, and was wearing a white t-shirt. Persons with information concerning this attack 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 the information, not your name.

a be of some help — there was no help there. Parents, I ask you, isn’t it past time something was done? These kids cannot practice basketball, football, track or participate in any activity and carry a purse or wallet! Also they need a safe place for classrings, watches etc. Why can’t the schools provide a “property room” (a locker, lock box, desk drawer) for these valuables with one trustworthy kid or teacher or parent in charge? Sign in what you put there and sign it out again when you go home. As any good doctor will tell you, the best medicine is preventative medicine! A concerned parent Court news City Court The following fines were levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Wesley D. Coy, 18, Syracuse, $47.50, plea bargain, ordered to attend Defensive Drivers School; Richard A. Hirschler, 45, Syracuse, $57.50 No registration plate — James A. Dittmann, 19, Syracuse, $42.50 Disregarding automatic signal — Teresa L. Schrock, 19, Syracuse, $47.50 THE MAIL-JOURNAL (U.S.P S. 3258 4000) Published by the Mail Journal every Wednesday and entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana 46567. Second class postage paid at 103 E. Main Street, Syracuse, Indiana 46567 and at additional entry offices. Subscription: sl6 per year In Kosciusko County, $22 outside county POSTMASTERS: Send change of address forms to The Mail-Journal. P.O. Box 188, Milford, Indiana 46542

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

THIS PHOTO may not be news anymore, but it provides one last look at the East Main Street building that the bank is tearing down to make room for a parking lot for its employees and customers. Sturdily built in 1901, the old structure has resisted the wrecker’s ball and hammer, as contractor Don McCulloch will attest. A number of factors entered into the decision to tear the building down — the cost of remodeling the old building for one, the lack of demand for uptown buildings for another, and finally the need for more uptown parking. Sidewalk superintendents who watched the building come down provided a running commentary of observations, all the way from nostalgic overtones to “let’s get on with it,’’ as other communities have done, and close this chapter of the uptown’s history YOUNGSTERS LEARN to drive awfully young in Syracuse, or so Gil Combs, co-owner of Phillips 66 south of town, would have us believe. He cites two incidents that could have had tragic consequences. Last Monday two toddlers were in the front of the family car as mother went into the station to make a quick purchase. The kids pulled the gear shift into drive and when Gil finally caught up with them, they were in the center of busy SR 13. The other incident occurred last Wednesday, again with two toddlers in the back seat. Combs said their car “jumped into gear.’* finally coming to a stop against the service station. And as if this were not enough, NIPSCOman John Nemeth was involved in a near-miss with a truck at that same corner on Friday, ending up in a ditch. No one was hurt. } —O—JOE BAKER is doing his thing with the heavy equipment at Kellie’s Family Dining in the Village. It will end up as a 30 x 60 parking lot on the north and west of Kellie England’s eatery. Kellie purchased the business from Carl Hepler last November and boasts of increasing the business considerably, necessitating additional parking. WHEN THE two big trees just south of the Syracuse fire station were cut up and on the ground it looked like enough wood to accommodate the entire community next winter. The two trees were felled last Thursday evening by fireman Larry Weaver, who also happens to own the Wawasee Tree Service, and on Friday the job of cutting up the trees fell to Mike Roberts. Berg Ragan and Blaine Sawyer. The reason for the tree removal was to make room for the new two-bay addition to the town's fire station. Turkey Creek Township Trustee Lou Kuilema said bids were being taken at the present time for the much-needed addition to the fire station, and that they would be opened at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Aprils. This is one -project Kuilema wanted to see completed before he bowed out as trustee. He’s now serving the fourth year of his first four-year term, and has no idea of seeking re-election, he told this column. Alice Johnston, a South Harrison Street resident, has filed for Turkey Creek Township Trustee on the GOP ticket. She’s a legal secretary by profession, the community from Toledo, 0.. but has lived/in a number of Ohio locations. She has worked/part time in attorney Robert Reed’s office. Townsperson Betty Duty of 107 West North Street, now in her last year as Kosciusko County recorder, has filed for re-election. She is being opposed in the May primary by June Johnson, a clerk in the office of the county health department. 808 AND Betty Deahl of Ogden Island. Lake Wawasee, are home from their winter’s vacation in Florida. They deserted their old habitat. Sanibel Island, for a place on Gasparello Island, to the north, and found it less crowded, although there is a building craze there similar to many other Gulf-side locations. ALSO HOME from Gasparello Island are Bob and Mary Jane Knudsen of 167 North Shore Drive where they spent their time at the pleasant little village of Boca Grande. The Knudsens deserted their former digs at Longboat Key for the lesscrowded island and its eight-mile bicycle trail.

Red Cross spring meetings conducted

American Red Cross Services of Ft. Wayne is conducting spring meetings throughout their blood region, which includes Kosciusko, Marshall and Elkhart counties in District 2 and six counties in District 3. Norma Anglin, executive director, Kosciusko County Chapter of the American Red Cross, was the guest speaker recently for meetings in Logansport and Plymouth. The topic was “How to Conduct a Successful Holiday Bloodmobile.” On New Year’s Eve, Kosciusko

THE IMAGE Group, Inc., is bursting at the seams at its Village location, and is considering three or four sites as a possible future home. The owners have been reworking their former uptown location, at the corner of South Huntington and Pearl Streets, for uptown office use. Their business has been enjoying extraordinary growth, and growth possibilities are high on the agenda in their considerations to relocate. EVERY NOW and then residents who live along the Milford-Syracuse road can be heard decrying the heavy traffic passing their otherwise quiet, pastoral env irones “But the traffic seems to be getting faster and heavier.’* we heard one such resident complain. And certainly there's validity to this claim. Traffic between the two communities has increased. One good reason is new industry in Milford and Syracuse. Another, of course, is Wawasee High School and the increasing number of students who ■ drive to classes daily. Milford has its big Brock and Chore-Time plants that employ a large number of Syracuse people, and Syracuse has its Dana and Liberty Homes plants that employ Milford people. This is just to mention the larger plants. To add insult to injury. Wawasee High School lets out at about the same time the factories let out. And all this together makes the MilfordSyracuse road a zoo for several hours, beginning at about 3 p.m. each day. One of the most recent complaints to come to our delicate ears was from Louise (Pinkerton) Hoopingarner, who lives with her husband Stan just a short distance out of Syracuse on that busy thoroughfare. When told that she lives in a 40 mph zone, Louise states, “That doesn’t seem to matter; no one pays any attention to that.’’ She and Stan have complained to local police, the county sheriff's, department, even to state police officers. “It doesn’t help.” she laments. She said one young driver came crashing through the fence on her farm and narrowly missed the big barn. He made a hasty U-tum and spun back into Syracuse. The Hoopingarners are only part of a chorus of complaints concerting this heavy, speeding traffic, who claim keeping their fences in repair is only one of their problems. Noise pollution, certainly, is another. Don’t be surprised if the residents along this road, for years known as the Stringtown Road, don’t join together and form a group like “SOS” — Save Our Sanity Why not? Everyone else is doing it. THE PUBLICITY in this column last week concerning the Lakeland Daycare Center in Syracuse, and its backlog of nearly 100 who are seeking their services, brought to our attention the fact that a similar daycare center is in the planning for the North Webster community. Rex Lindemuth. now in his eighth year as*pastor of the North Webster United Methodist Church, tells us he and an active board of directors plan to open the North Webster United Methodist'Community Daycare Center in early June in the educational wing of his church. “I’ve never been involved in anything that I’ve been so enthused about,” is the way Pastor Lindemuth put it. Their center will need 40 to 50 children to break even, and they are seeking United Way funds to assist families with more than one youngster. An annual budget of nearly $200,000 is being projected, he noted. The Kosciusko County Health Department has told the group they are equipped to handle 75 children. All this will need state approval and licensing. Rev. Lindemuth said the mere fact that the first child on the Syracuse backlog list has been there for 18 months, tells a big story about the x need for additional facilities in the area. Serving on the North Webster board are: Cochairmen Gayle Harris, a North Webster fifth grade teacher, and her husband Don, and Charles Packer, a Milford elementary teacher, and his wife Ginger; and Jody Miller, secretary, and her husband Gary, Joyce Maule, treasurer, and her husband Jack. Jan LeGarda. Dr. Jack Parr, and Pastor Lindemuth. HENRY (“HANK”) Whelan, manager of Pacific Molasses, just south of the tracks on SR 13, retired as of quitting time on Monday of this week. Hank, a resident of Nappanee, reached the mandatory retirement age for his company (65) on March 13th. Whelan, who has been with the company for 24 years, oversaw a major rebuilding of the company’s Syracuse facility in the amount of $3 million plus. He will remain with the company for another year as a consultant. He has been an active member of the S-W Rotary Club and is a past president.

County collected 210 pints of blood in six hours, the highest holiday collection in the Ft. Wayne Blood Services Region, which includes 37 counties in Indiana and Ohio. The Red Cross has also released information on the Emergency Disaster Relief campaign, which was launched November 7. The campaign has generated a gross amount of $18,037,005, of which 46 percent has been raised through general public contributions. According to American Red Cross officials, as a result of

disasters occuring subsequent to the date of the beginning of the campaign, projected disaster expenditures have risen to $57.6 million, leaving an estimated deficit of $26.9 million by June 30. Adding the $13.5 milion needed to restore the disaster revolving fund to its July 1,1985, level, the disaster funding needs of the American Red Cross have been reassessed to be S4O million. The board of governors of the Red Cross has actively encouraged chapters to redouble their efforts to raise 200 percent of the original campaign goal.