The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 15, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 April 1986 — Page 5

Under the . . . Courthouse Dome < By Ron Sharp

DRUNK DRIVERS - The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department reported that 3266 persons were booked at the county jail for drunk driving last year. Os the 326, thirty were females and 296 were males. The sheriff’s report divided the DUl’s into categories for four-year periods.. The 25 to 29 year age group had the highest number of drunken drivers. There were 75 persons in this age group booked at the jail for DUI. The next group was age 21 through 24 where 69 were booked. Below is a chart showing the number of DUl’s in the various age groups: Age Number 17-20 44 21-24 69 25-29 75 30-34 43 35-39 33 40-44 26 45-49 20 50-54 6 55-59 2 60-64 4 65-over 4 There were seven drivers 17 years old and younger booked at the jail. There are more than 22,000 drivers in Kosciusko County. ELECTION OVERVIEW — (Republican May Primary) One of the races attracting considerable interest will be the State Representative’s race between Thames Mauzy and J. D. Geiger. Here are the “facts of life”: There is a caste system in the Indiana House of Representatives.. The Speaker of the House is “god.” He determines to which committee the proposed legislation is assigned. He also determines if a bill will be called up for consideration by the House. Another road block is the chairman of the committee to which the proposed bill is assigned. He also determines if a bill will be called up for consideration by the House. Another road block is the chairman of the committee to which the proposed bill is assigned. The chairman determines if the bill will receive a hearing in the committee. Committee approval must be secured, if the bill is to be considered by the House. Mauzy has the edge because he is a veteran of the “wars.” He also is a committee chairman. He has been a House member for many, many years. He can get bills through the House committees. Geiger will have little, if any, chance to get any bills out of committee. Rookies are expected to vote for bills that are favored by the “power brokers” and not be heard from in their first term. As for Mauzy’s seniority, an argument could be made that someone someday will replace Mauzy and we might as well start now. Plus for Mauzy: He has voted against tax increases. He also has voted to return power to the various local units. Geiger favored the Local Option Tax. he also was instrumental in the County Council’s doing away with the County Tax Adjustment Board. Due to the action of this board county taxpayers in 1985 had their property tax lowered by five cents per SIOO of taxable property. K An argument against Geiger: He favors taking away local control and turning it over to bureaucrats in Indianapolis. Another drawback may be that Geiger has not finished his term as Kosciusko County Auditor. He still has a year to go. None of the above is meant as an endorsement for either candidate. —o—- — BOX TO DETERMINE SCHOOL BOARD APPOINTMENTS — A drive is on by those who are dissatisfied with Warsaw Community School Board appointments. Warsaw community School board members are appointed by advisory boards and trustees of Wayne, Plain, Prairie, Clay and Lake Townships and the Warsaw City Council. Pressure has been applied in the past by those favoring building programs in the Warsaw Community Schools. This element has been dubbed by some as “the Big Spenders.” Targets are R. Wayne Snyder, William Dalton and Jack Burns. Dalton and Snyder have in the past selected school board members with more conservative views on new building construction. They are joined by Jack Burns. Wayne Township Trustee Ed Pratt has joined those who would continue building programs. He is one of five candidates for the trustee post. Pratt narrowly defeated patricia Phillips four years ago for the post. (Phillips is one of the four running this time against Pratt.) Pratt, a veteran politician, waited until the field had a number of candidates then filed the last minute. Plain Township Advisory Board members and the trustee will make an appointment to the school board within the next two years. Present board members Karl Stookey, Kenny Everest and Gary Tusing are being challenged. Indications are that they are more conservative in their approach to new building programs. Warsaw Community School administrators have outlined a $22,000,000 to $26,000,000 new building projects. OBSERVED ON PATROL — Mayor Jeff Plank has been seen cruising Warsaw streets after 10 p.m. The mayor is using his DeLorean ($40,000 to $50,000) auto for his project. The mayor’s new vehicle had tongues wagging down at Breadings. This has received more attention than Reub Williams’ white sports “Caddy” did.

Chimney fire damage

Up to $l5O damage was caused to the Christy Hoover residence, at the intersection of CR 900 N and CR 300E, when a chimney overheated Sunday night, April 5. The Milford Fire Department was called at 11:02 p.m., Sunday, when Hoover found that she couldn’t control the small blaze. Most of the damage stemmed from smoke that poured from the chimney, as 11 firemen responded with four units, including a

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pumper, van, pickup, and tanker. No injuries were reported and firemen left the scene at 11:55 p.m., relinquishing the flame shortly after arrival. According to Fire Chief Max Duncan, a furnace in the home could have been a source of the fire, which is still under investigation. Hoover, who was home with her three children, called a second party before she deemed it necessary to involve the fire department.

Watching civilization take its downward slide

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Wilfred E. Hodler, r 1 Syracuse (Lake Wawasee), brought us the following article by columnist David Averill on the Opinion page of the March 29th issue of the Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle entitled “Watching civilization take its downward slide. ”) Do you sometimes feel that our society not only is rapidly deteriorating, but shows every sign of continuing its downward slide? It has occurred to me that this gloomy reflection may not be an accurate appraisal. Perhaps it’s a psychological manifestation of impending senility. No matter. I see what is out there and with each passing day like it less. The “let it all hang out” attitude, which appears to be widely accepted, is a constant irritation. This is a time when mediocrity is rewarded and superiority, at best, is viewed with suspicion. Our world is increasingly tailored to the needs, real or imagined, of mass mediocrity. There also is a lack of social and moral standard in much of contemporary America. There was a time when American products were the worlds’ best, representing an excellence other nations envied and strived to emulate. Today we re being challenged in world markets everywhere as the quality of our products declines. Taking pride in one’s work now is the exception rather than the rule. To do so is to risk being labeled a toady and a reactionary. Some years ago a chap with a large fortune and small grasp of

Letters to the editor

What Gorbachev is doing

Dear Editor: Gorbachev’s 27th congress marks the re-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev has denounced his predecessor Leonoid Brezhnev who had held his power for 18 years and didn’t mention Yuri Andropov and Chernenko because these tyrants didn’t hold power long enough to make history. Gorbachev called for overhauling the nation’s economic system to meet the requirements of their slave society. So their reform is no radical change at all, but merely a return to Stalin’s work-or-die policy of the past. However, Gorbachev has tried to discourage his slave labor force from spending so much of their earnings for vodka which has lowered the efficiency of > the labor. Gorbachev has given his KGB organization new training in frustrating all kinds subversion to protect the country’s sacred frontiers. Notice he uses the word sacred, despite the fact that USSR is officially an atheist empire that persecutes believers of all faiths. In fact, Communism or humanistic theology is the so called fake cult, no God, religion of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev has criticized Brechnev’s economic program, but never said one thing against his foreign policies or gave him any credit for establishing Soviet out post posts and client states in Nicaragua, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Vietnam,, Angola, Mozambique and Syria.

ere bolting For... MILFORD'S OLDEST LIVING NATIVE ... «s part «f Milford's Sesquicentbflnicl celebration! Just Send Pie Mail-Journal A Note Telling Us • Who The Person Is? • How Long They Hove Lived (Or Did Live) In Milford? • Where They Live Now? / • Who Their Parents Were? / • Did They Attend School Here? / t • ...Etc. ~ SEND TO: MILFORD'S OLDEST LIVING NATIVE" c/o The Mail-Journal P.O. Box 188, Milford, IN 46542 DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 2

What America must do. The United States and our NATO allies must fight back by improving each division of our military CIA and FBI. The shuttle disaster has taught the US much about he sensativeness of the rockets whidi are very vulnerable even a lazer beam directed in their direction or intercepted by a smaller rocket they will explode them. So this information is quite valuable in perfecting a protective SDI Japanese are thinking about SDI for their protection. The following groups of nations Italy, West Germany, France and Britain have endorsed the American development of strategic defense initiative. All I can say is May The Lord Bless those countries that are trying to keep their basic freedoms, free enterprise, speech, worship, trial by jury, and a wholesome appreciation of the God of our salvation especially at this Easter time. Sincerely, Byron Ulrich Source: American Sentinal Issue #379. Learned crime doesn't pay Dear Editor. One dark and rainy night, locked in a jail cell in Kosciusko County Jail, I finally decided crime doesn’t pay.

reality fulfilled a cherished dream by purchasing a moribund weekly newspaper. This made him a publisher, a title filling him with self-esteem. Unfortunately he knew nothing about news business. Shortly after he hired me to manage his new obsession 1 was visited by a prominent clubwoman, the kind sometimes described as underworked and overprivileged. She had prepared an article on exceptional children for publication in the paper. At the time I wasn’t as familiar with sociological jargon, as I later became. Under the impression that an exceptional child was one who was exceptionally intelligent, I began reading the article. To my dismay, I learned she was writing about kids who were exceptionally fouled up. From that day onward it has been a losing battle on the semantics front. Just about every organization in America has evolved its own pretentious vocabulary designed to impress everyone that something profound is occurring. Plain, unadorned English is the enemy of pomposity. This is why bureaucrats and politicians never use 10 words to make a statement if they can stretch them to 100. Abuse of language now has become commonplace among supposedly educated people. I find it incredible that millions nightly watch the mindless junk passing for entertainment on television. Most of it is so bad that by achieving mere mediocrity it would be vastly improved. . Most nationally televised news programs consist of interviews with semiliterate rock stars, movie actors of dubious talent and authors of “how to” and “tell all” books. To this melange of informational swill, add a host of imbecilic commercials plus a few fast news items, and you have the national news. Wonderful!

My mind began to bring back the crime I committed, I feel I had suffered as a result of an evil way. I was sent here to the, Indiana Women’s Prison to pay for a crime, that I know a lot of people do everyday, but, just haven’t been caught, but I was. Someone deep down inside, was telling me there was a better way of life. I just have a few months left of my time to do. I know my life will be different when I am released, because of what I have learned in this place. I have learned from my mistakes. From the time I was 18 years old, I have done a lot of drugs and a lot of drinking which it has gotten me into gambling and also stealing, and now at the age of 25, I have done those crimes and now am in prison. I have stolen my last thing, because I went to far, I stole from people I had called my friends, which I know they will probably never forgive me. But they know who they are and I would like to say “lam sorry, please forgive me.” I want to tell everyone out there, this place is not Heaven and it’s not Hell, but it has brought me closer to God and he has forgiven me from all my sins. And people he will do the same for you, if you would only ask him to forgive. Thanks you for reading my feelings. Debora L. Smith *

first National seeking old county photographs

First National Bank of Warsaw is seeking photographs to be included in a unique 1987 calendar being prepared in celebration of the bank’s 50th anniversary. The bank will pay SSO for each black and white photograph that is used in the publication. All photographs will be returned and each applicant will receive a copy of the printed calendar. The bank is requesting photographs taken between 1910 and 1945, which depict scenes in Kosciusko County. First National Cancel MAD meeting The Saturday, April 12, meeting of the Milford Area Development Council has been cancelled. Meetings will again resume on schedule with the Saturday, May 10, meeting at 9 a m. in the community building. Members of this council as well as any persons interested in participating in community activities are encouraged to attend in May. The council will be discussing the Memorial Day barbecue and the upcoming Sesquicentennial.

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Wed.. April 9.1986—THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Anyone not titillated by choreographed violence replete with groans, screams and gouts of blood, or by sexual antics presented with varying degrees of explicitness, is unlikely to enjoy many of today’s movies. Our sense of values seems to be rapidly disappearing along with other qualities once taken for granted. Everything is askew. Public school teachers and university professors are paid less than carpenters or truck drivers. Many professional athletes receive more than $1 million annually. Recently a third-rate third baseman with the Detroit Tigers, whose batting average last year was a weak .237, pouted for a considerable period because he was offered only a paltry $350,000 to play this year. At the same time a teammate, an outfielder, was piqued because management only offered him $3.9 million for three years. He wanted a five-year contract worth $8 million. When the bargaining ended at deadline, the third baseman had a new contract worth $360,000 and the outfielder reluctantly agreed to one granting him $4.1 million for three years. The fans will pay for this through increased ticket costs. • Mediocrity, or worse, seems to have penetrated all levels of American society. It is most visible in government. We began our experiment in democracy under the leadership of superior individuals — Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, the Adams family and others. Some 200 years later the White House is occupied by and Nancy. This is progress? There is an adage, popular among Europeans, that “God protects fools and Americans.” I hope it’s true — particularly the part about Americans.

Bank of Warsaw was opened in May of 1937, so photographs from that year are especially desired. Any picturesque view of Kosciusko County will be considered including: farms, industries, street scenes of Warsaw and surrounding communities, parks, lakes or businesses. First National Bank of Warsaw officials say they hope “county residents will search their attics

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and photo albums for fine quality photos that have not been previously published.” The bank will issue a receipt and return the original photos to their owners. Persons interested in submitting photographs for the calendar should contact Judy Cole, First National Bank of Warsaw, P.O. Box 1447 Warsaw. The deadline for submission of photographs is April 30.

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