The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 April 1986 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 16,1986

Editorials

Bombing Libya

A lot is being written and said right now about the propriety of the Monday night surprise bombing of select targets in Libya. It should be no surprise that the retaliatory bombings took place, given the circumstances of the indiscriminate terrorist attacks on American citizens abroad. The president has told us they have irrefutable proof of Khadafy’s fingerprints on the dastardly terrorist attacks, but no “smoking gun” has been produced. We’re willing to give the administration the benefit of any doubt, inasmuch as disclosing the proof at this time might disclose our sources of information. All sorts of speculations are being made, among them the prospect that by these bombings we only strengthen Khadafy’s hand in the Arab world. We’re not at all sure that the Arab world is monolithic, that they all favor the tactics of the man the president called the “Mad Dog of the Mideast.” Early assessments would indicate an overwhelming majority of the American people support the Monday action, even though many of our strong allies failed to join in this chorus of approval. Just how much should that really concern us? When Harry Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945 there was a similar division of world opinion, but from a strictly American point of view, we feel that action was a correct one. We were told Truman thus saved a million American lives, the price it would have cost to invade Japan. If President Reagan’s actions have the salutary effect we all hope for; it is an action well taken. We have to believe this to be the case, and thereby support the Libyan bombings. Accountability . One of the standards of conduct, and business, lost in this country in recent years is accountability. In generations past, firms built reputations on standing behind their products and their work. If something went wrong with a product, or something didn’t function properly, the firm involved made it good. That was the way to build a lasting reputation for reliability and a lasting business. It was the way to build a personal reputation of integrity. Unfortunately, this admirable standard is ignored by many today. A highway crumbles and state authority and the contractor blame each other. A home is bought and malfunctions are not promptly corrected, or even corrected at all, by the seller, cars are brought and — perhaps this is the worst area of lost virtue — dealers attempt to make as much money as possible on repairs rather than correct the malfunction at no cost to the buyer. Shoddy work, especially in car repairing, is commonplace. Many motorists dread entering a car garage, fearing that nonchalant mechanics will cause as much new trouble as they correct. The old sense of pride in work, of standing behind goods and services, is and was a highly desirable standard. Stress should be placed on accountability, by more firms ad individuals ; this is still the way reputations, and eventual profits, ar best made. Thinking The average American, perplexed by complex issues, finds it difficult to develop sound opinions in the face of partisanship, selective radio and television commentators, etc. There’s a tendency to accept, without question, any statement or assertion which fits in with what the individual wants to believe. Moreover, there is often considerable determination on the part of many to persuade everyone to fall in line. We should admire the stubborn independence of the hardy citizen who has the nerve to say, despite the popular flurry, “I don’t agree.” Such individualism and thinking is needed.

What others say — Love in the real world

There’s one thing that everybody needs, though from time to time we have strange ways of showing it. That thing is love. Now, love is a strange thing to be discussed in the pedestrian prose of an editorial. It is a topic better suited to poetry. Os course, that association creates sentimental and romantic images that are seemingly incongruent with the hard-headed realities of the pragmatic utilitarian times we’re living in. After all, this is the age that has brought us songs like “What’s love got to do with it” as a top pop anthem, a theme song for the so-called Yuppie crowd. The ancient Greeks were not as ambivalent about their concepts or as obscure in their definitions of love. In fact, they had three different words describing love, each with different grades of meaning. They had a word for passionate love; they had one for brotherly love, which describes warm affection to our nearest and dearest. And then there was a word for love that surpassed the other two. That type of love described a deliberate purpose to seek out the highest good for other people, whether they deserved it or not. It was a love not only of the heart but of the will too. Over the past 2,000 years this is the type of love that has been mostly highly evolved in the Christian idea of “charity”, of actively doing good things, of doing for others what you would hope they would do for you if you were down and out. It enables us to love our enemies, strangers, the unlovable. It is the hardest kind of love. It is also the kind that stimulates service. This concept of love can be applied to the great slogan of benevolent capitalism: Find a need and fill it. As a social ethic this would be high idealism and practical too. That is exactly what some people in the Brownsburg community have done in response to the problem of troubled youth. In Tuesday’s Guide-Gazette, and again in this edition, we have published a list of caring individuals and services who have offered to do one of the most important acts any of us will ever do: Listen. It’s not confined to Brownsburg or students. It is for those who need it. In the March 17 edition of the Parke County Sentinel Mary Jo Harney, the wife of Sentinel publisher Dick Harney wrote a column entitled; “I Had My Heart Broken.” In her column she wrote about the visit of

right or wrong?

David Toma, the former New Jersey Vice cop. who gave an impassioned talk to 1,800 students about helping them avoid and/or get off drugs and alcohol. Toma told the kids to share their pain, “he pleaded for them not to keep it locked up inside, ” Mrs. Harney wrote. Mrs. Harney, one of the original organizers of the Parke County Task Force on Drug and Alcohol Abuse that sponsored Toma’s talk, wasn’t already for the kids’ response. “Never in my life have I seen such pain and anguish,” she wrote as she described the young people who came forth with horror stories of broken homes and broken hearts, drug and alcohol abuse, physical abuse, sexual molestations and loneliness. Mrs. Harney concluded: “The members of the Task Force believed that David Toma would do some good in Parke County. But we were not prepared for the end result. We have worked for two years, but none of us realized the pain and the hurt our teenagers are carrying around with them. Toma has come and gone, but the work of all of us here in Parke County has just begun. He gave us the key and it is now up to us to keep working to help our kids and ourselves. It is up to us to give the answer to their questions, “Why should we go on?” “Toma gave us the answer... it’s love.” Love, that word for all seasons. How do we live it? Caring, listening, being there for someone who needs it. Love heals. For you skeptics, that is not just some mushy poetic metaphor. Medical research is beginning to confirm this. Experiments at the Menninger Foundation in Kansas have discovered that people with love in their lives have reduced levels of lactic acid in their blood, making them less tired. They also have higher levels of endorphins, making them euphoric and less subject to pain. Dr. Bernard S. Siegel, a pediatric and general surgeon has written that “unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.” So we would suggest to you that love has a lot to do with a lot of things. The people who have listed their numbers certainly hive acted on that premise. Tear out the list. Post it somewhere. If it helps one person it will be resounding success. Let’s practice what we preach. The world will be better for it. What’s more practical than that? THE GAZETTE, DANVILLE

Suspect sought in armed robbery

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 to the capture of fugitives. The following “Crime of the Week” was furnished by the Kosciusko Comity Crime Stoppers organization:

Court news

County Court

The following persons have been assessed fines and have paid those fines in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding. Speeding — Paying SSO fines and costs were: L. Line, 42, Syracuse; James L. Keaton, 34, Leesburg; Michael L. Murray, 34, Syracuse; Guy D. Cox, 20, Syracuse; Donald C. Route, 21, North Webster Disregarding stop sign — Paying SSO fines and costs were: Sonya L. Zentz, 18, Syracuse; Guy D. Cox, 20, Syracuse Disregarding automatic signal — Travis L Reiff, 18, North Webster Failure to yield — Kevin W. Hefner, 20, Leesburg, SSO No snowmobile registration — David H. Stell, 39, Syracuse, SSO Illegal consumption — Torjj Gail Conder, 19, Syracuse, $86.«) days KCJ suspended, 180 days probation; Joe Hernandez, 17, Milford, SB6, 60 days KCJ suspended, 180 days probation; Suzzane J. Hauntz, 18, North Webster, SB6, Sam Markly, 18, Syracuse, $36 costs. 60 days KCJ suspended, 180 days probation; Kathleen Kay Garman, 20, Leesburg, SB6 Illegal possession — Suzzane J. Hauntz, 18, North Webster, $36 costs, 60 days KCJ suspended, 180 days probation; Sam Markly, 18, Syracuse, SB6 Driving while suspended — Charles M. Edgar, 32, North Webster, SIOO, license suspended like period Minor in tavern — Kathleen Kay Garman, 20, Leesburg. $32 costs Check deception — Belinda K. Burke, Syracuse. $54 City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Paula M. Haatv 43, Milford, $52.50, Debbie L. Hunley. 18, Syracuse, $52.50; Alan C. Zerkel, 37, Syracuse, $57.50; Harlan W. Steffen, 51, Syracuse, $47.50 Violation of auxiliary lamps — Darin A. Hostetter, 17, Milford, $42.50 Expired driver’s license — Steven H. Vogel, 35, Syracuse, $38.50, proof of current driver’s license provided False and fictitious registration — John A. Gardner. 18, Syracuse, $42.50; Denise M. Current, 16, Syracuse, dismissed Failure to yield right of way—- — A. Hostetter, 17, Milford, $47.50 Blocking an intersection — Daniel E. Bartels, 19, Syracuse, $42.50; John A. Gardner, 18, Syracuse, $42.50; Stacie A. Boles, 16, Syracuse, $42.50 Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in Small Claims Division, Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Ford Motor Credit Company versus Date and Tilths Thompson; defendants ordered to pay $3,330.01 plus costs. Credithrift of America versus Adam Slone; defendant ordered to pay $453.23 plus costs. Jan Plew has received judgments against the following persons: Ernest Wycofif, $440; Kimberly S. Whitaker, $940; B. Dean and Geretta Greene, $380; Pat Julian, $B4l Patricia I. Shaske has received judgments against the following persons: Thomas and June Berry, $1,145.45; David Francis $2,508.12 Collection Bureau versus Billy and Alicia Crum; defendants ordered to pay $483.66 plus costs John A. Emslee versus Cub Cadet Corp.; defendant ordered to pay $473.19 phis costs. Morris Folk, doing business as Snap-On Tools, versus Dean Scholl; defendant ordered to pay $409.91 plus costs. Lakeland Animal Clinic versus Janet Tierney; defendant ordered to pay $32.90 plus costs. United Telephone Company versus John M. and Tammy I, Burnau; defendants ordered to

The armed robbery at a Warsaw service station is the “Crime of the Week. ’’ About 2 a.m., on Thursday, April 10, the United Oil Company station located on North Detroit Street, Warsaw, was robbed by a subject threatening the attendant with a knife. This subject is described as about 19-20 years old, and from 5’ 9“ to 6’ tall. He was wearing a black “Warsaw” jacket with orange trim. A quantity of money was taken in this robbery. Persons with information concerning this robbery are asked to contact Crime Stoppers They will pay up to SI,OOO if the information leads to an arrest or indictment. Call Crime Stoppers, toll-free, at 1-800-342-STOP. You will be

assigned a code number and will not have to reveal your identity.

pay $340.95 plus costs. John F. Garber versus Dean Greene, doing business as Greene’s Body Shop; defendant ordered to pay $2,644.14 plus costs. Paul D. Refior versus Steve Kiser ; defendant ordered to pay $383.24 plus costs. Lena B. Fennaback, D.D.S. versus John Lindsay; defendant ordered to pay $75 plus costs. WRSW Broadcasting, Inc. versus Harold Thompson, Wawa Drive-In; defendant ordered to pay $539.43 plus costs. Jane L. Heyde has been awarded judgments against the following persons: Bruce and Cheryl Biltz, $155; Irwin and Joyce Dougherty. $139; Kathy Chilcutt, $l9O Kevin Kosins, doing business as Kosins Kustoms, was awarded judgments against the following persons: John Hersha, $437.88; Bob Buhler, $70.07 Robert E. Snyder versus Barry Coy; defendant ordered to pay $212.28 plus costs. Lowell and Barbara Cummins versus Jerry L. Parker; defendant ordered to pay $3,000 plus costs. Roberta Edmundson Rose, M.D , Inc. has received judgments against the following persons: Sandra Stafford, $532; Bemadine Rogers, $242 Circuit Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court,, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint James E. Eckman versus Joseph Pirtle, r 2 box 411, Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for a monetary sum which would adequately compensate plaintiff for business diverted by defendant to another insurance company during employment with plaintiff; a permanent injunction prohibiting defendant from soliciting plaintiffs customers, plus all proper relief. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Hamman-David Gregory Jay Hamman, 32, Hillsboro, Fla., and Toni Mae David, 25, r 5 box 85, Syracuse Amadeo-Green Charles Edwin Amadeo, 111, 24, r 1 box 190, Cromwell, and Margaret Elaine Green, 27, r 1 box 190, Cromwell . Zeigler-Niccum Bryan Eugene Zeigler, 28, r 3 box 516, Syracuse, and Laura Jane Niccum, 26, r 3 box 516, Syracuse Wolf-Harley Scot Laine Wolf, 28, r 1 box H3A, Syracuse, and Jana Lee Harley, 24,3412 J. Lane, Elkhart Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Embree — Kristen Joanne Embree, r 3 box 663-A, Syracuse, and Steven Anthony Embree, r 3 box 663-A, Syracuse. The couple was married Jan. 20, 1979, and separated March 25, 1986. There are no minor children. THE MAIL-JOURNAL (U.S. PS. 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: 816 per year in Kosciusko County; J 22 outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of address forms to The Mail-Journal, P.O. Box 188, Milford, Indiana 46542

"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

F J »3 I F j I S JI M ftW 1 TWENTY-TWO-YEAR OLD John Heckaman has a sense of local history that very few adults have. And no wonder. He gets it naturally. John is the son of David and Connie (Sudlow) Heckaman, and the grandson of John and Anna Sudlow. John Sudlow is the area’s number 1 collector of local memorabilia, and would figure high on the list of local historians. Sudlow s interest in the area, especially Lake Wawasee, is rapidly being rivaled by grandson John Heckaman. This came to light when young Heckaman was seen tearing down the ornamental tin that made up the ceiling and part of the sidewalls of the double uptown building recently demolished to make room for a bank parking lot. When one asked the 1982 Wawasee High School graduate what he planned to do with the metal, he said something about keeping it. “I might want to build a house around here some day, and I might find use for it.’’ he said. He has the metal stored above his dad’s pier shop on Old SR 13 south of Syracuse. John found a small sheet of paper behind one strip of tin that listed 48 local names along with their two- and three-digit telephone numbers. His grandmother Anna Sudlow thinks this might have been the entire list of phone subscribers at that time. John also found painted on one of the stucco walls the month and year, September 9,1901 (the year the building was built), and the names Harkless. Snavley and Lotty W. Blanchard. Heckaman thought he struck pay dirt when he came across the name Harkless. He contacted East Main Street resident Ken Harkless. an octogenarian and native of the Syracuse community, for clarification. Harkless said his father, the late Sheldon Harkless. operated a tin shop on Main Street, where the license branch is now located. He told Heckaman. “It (the old building’s tin ceiling) could have been the work of my dad, but 1 can’t be absolutely sure of it.” Heckaman's interest in ornamental tin ceilings was fired up several years ago when the old opera house building on Milford's Main Street was torn down. He salvaged much of that metal and has it stored away for future use. MEANWHILE, GRANDPA Sudlow hasn’t remained idle. John and Anna have kept busy. Home in mid-March from six weeks at Surprise. Arizona, where they camped with friends they had made on two earlier sojourns (1979 and 1981) into Mexico. , ’ At the present time John is restoring an old row boat. Anna describes it this way: “Columbus didn’t come over in it, but almost.” SPEAKING OF folks returning home. Jack and Dorothy Vander ford arrived home last Thursday from a two-week tour of the south where they took in historic sites in several states, including Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Os particular significance to Jack — who is a Purdue engineer graduate was the George Catlett Marshall Space Center at Huntsville, Alabama. He told friends he didn’t realize the enormous size of the shuttles, their boosters and other pertinent equipment. LOIS SCHLEETER, 213 South Huntington Street, returned home last Wednesday, along with Jimmie and Audrey Butt, of 455 Medusa Street. Lois made her home in Englewood, Florida, in a small home which she dubbed “the Doll House.” while Jimmie and Audrey resided at nearby Rotunda West, both a short distance south of Sarasota. They left here in late December and were in Florida “in time to celebrate New Year’s Eve there.” so said Lots. THE KOSCIUSKO County Alcoholic Beverage Board put its stamp of approval at its last Wednesday meeting on a wine retailer’s permit for Vincent’s in Syracuse, recently opened in the Village. The permit is issued to Classic Development Corp., which also owns and operates the Classic Restaurant in North Webster. Ray Gans president. Vincent’s is managed and operated by Vincent and Nancy Leo. and serves Italian and American food. SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Jack Anderson has taken up the cudgel against Vice President

George Bush’s tour of the Middle East “in order to stabilize oil prices,’’ and we agree with Anderson completely. Bush obviously represents Texas oil interests, and he was all smites white the American consumer paid exorbitant prices at the gas pumps; now that gas prices are affordable. Bush is out there in an effort to prop prices up. Here’s what Anderson had to say m what he called a mini-editorial: “Former oil tycoon George Bush deserves a handful of sand in his crankcase as he tours the Middle East trying to ‘stabilize’ (that is, raise) world petroleum prices. We’re not wholly insensitive to the plight of to-.-dependent V.S. oilmen, the local communities that suffer when Big Oil does, and even the bankers who made foolish loans in anticipation of everhigher oil prices. We'll try to disrememher their insensitivity during their fat years to the financial battering of motorists and oil-burning home owners. But it’s hard to swallow the view that U-S. interests should be aligned with the oil sheiks.” THE INTERSTATE highways between x several points in Florida and this area were jampacked with motorists during the past week, according to several local people who were coming home from the Sunshine State. Two things: First, it’s that time of year when the so-called “snowbirds.” those folks who spent the winter months in Florida, are returning home: and the other, are the students coming home from spring vacation. Most of them stayed the limit, coming home on Saturday and Sunday, to report for class Monday morning. This wasn’t limited to students only. A number of teachers were also in Florida for their spring break, too. TOM AND Patti Jackson are in the process of putting the finishing touches to their fine new home on Cherokee Road. Kanata Manayunk. Lake Wawasee. and are planning a public open house sometime in May. SUNDAY A.M. was a high moment in the life of Ora Miller of North Webster. He was 70 on Saturday, and to observe the three-score-and-ten birthday on Sunday, granddaughters Donna Conder and Kathy VanDiepenbos and great-great-grandson Travis Green met Miller and his wife Ullah at Kellie’s Family Dining in the Village for breakfast. Ora. a retired Western Rubber Company employee, was served a cake with a single lighted candle. JOHN CALL, a well known architect of this area, has been doing something many of us would like to do: he has taken two years off from his profession to travel the high seas in a 46* SparkmanStevens sloop — named, yes, that’s right, the “Wawasee”. He and his wife Karen began their six-week search in England, and continued it in Spain, France and Italy, until they finally ran across their choice, a custom built sloop in Brescia. Italy, near Milan. Right now the sloop is docked in Miami, but only after serving lhe Calls and a limited crew in an odyssey that took them through the Mediterranean Sea, after a brief stay at the Balaeric Islands, down the Atlantic side of Africa, across the mid-Atlantic to Antigua, Bermuda, and finally to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Karen flew home, joining her husband on this side of the Atlantic. - V Call speaks euphemistically of his trip since purchasing the “Wawasee.” He and a crew of four left Gibraltar February 1.1985, went to the Canary Islands and docked at Tenerife, before crossing to English Harbor. Antigua, where they docked on March 5, last year. They spent three months in the Caribbean, sailing from St. Thomas to Bermuda, leaving for Halifax in August of last year, where they spent a month. The crew left for Miami in September, last year, arriving in January of this year. Call has an idea of putting the “Wawasee"” on the market after his love affair with it and the high seas has run it? course. “And if it doesn’t sell. I might bring it through the St. Lawrence Seaway to Chicago, to try the market there.” he commented. He spent several days in the Syracuse/Lake Wawasee area with the Gordon Medlocks, leaving Tuesday for Miami. JOVIAL 808 Troutman has said “No.” In a Sherman-type statement, Troutman has categorically refused to assume the position of secretary of the Syracuse-Wawasee Area Development Company. “I’m in too many things as it is,” is his reasoning. The directors met at the bank’s upstairs rooms la?t Tuesday night, and advanced a slate of new officers, with Bob Westfall as its new president. Since Troutman’s unequivocal statement, the directors are in search for a new secretary candidate. NATIONAL RIFLE Association members are “coming out of the closet” in numbers since last week’s legislation loosening control on gun sales. A bumper sticker seen this week announced. “Insured by Smith & Wesson.” Another sticker said. “I’m Saving The Statue of Liberty.” AN UNKNOWN motorist hit a deer in front of Baker’s Farm Market south of Syracuse early Monday morning. When Dick Baker opened his market at about 7:45 a.m. he saw the deer on the ground in front of the store. He called a conservation officer who took care of the matter. A recent newspaper article pointed up the seriousness of the car-deer accident problem. There are some 6.000 deer roaming northeastern Indiana the article noted. A 1982 (most recent) statistic from the Department of Natural Resources, shows that 2,767 deer were killed in -u---traffic accidents throughout Indiana that year. Kosciusko County Sheriff Alan Rovenstine states 40 deer have been killed in accidents so far this year in the county; a like number has been kilted in Wabash County. State Farm Mutual Insurance Co. in Bloomington. 111., claims there are some 6.000 such ac(Continued on page 5)