The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 18, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 April 1986 — Page 5

“CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

(Continued from page 4) Real imagination was displayed by Robert and Sandra Borns when they presented the restoration concept to state and federal officials in a package they conid not tarn down. In the magnificent “headhouse** all the stained glass in the barrel-vaulted skylight and two 20-foot diameter “rose” windows, one on each end (3,003 square feet of colored panes) was removed, cleaned, then releaded and re-installed. The Union Station is ideally located, just across Capitol Avenue from the new Hoosier Dome, and there is ample valet parking to accommodate both the Station and the Dome. For a brief history of the Union Station. In 1853, four railroad companies that had before served passengers with individual terminals opened the first “union** station ever built. The Indianapolis Union Station had five tracks running through a brick and frame building that offered ’ passengers the convenience of a central transportation facility. Union Station’s majestic red brick and granite “headhouse**, recognized as one of the finest Romanesque Revival-styled structures in America, replaced that original building in 1888. Built at a cost of $1 million, its Grand Hall is one of the finest public spaces in the city. At the turn of the century, when railroading was king, some 500,000 passengers traveled through Union Station monthly. There were so many trains — almost 200 steamed through daily — that downtown streets were clogged with traffic. To overcome that problem, as well as the inconvenience to passengers who crossed any number of 12 tracks to board, the Union Railway Company planned a system of elevated tracks in a new two-story train shed. Construction of the Art Deco-styled shed that now contains the shops, restaurants and Holiday Inn-Union Station was begun in 1913. In 1918 the first train arrived at Union Station on the raised platform. Passengers then waited for trains in the Concourse, appointed with colorful terra-cotta tile, and used six stairwells to reach track-level above. The shed’s roof was added in 1922 — its construction was delayed by World War I. The advent of the automobile marked the end of six decades that saw Union Station develop from a small wood and brick framed building with five tracks into one of the busiest passenger transfer points in America. Thomas Edison had worked there in 1861 as a telegraph operator; he was fired for continually devoting time to “useless** experiments. Abraham Lincoln traveled through Union Station in 1861 after being elected President. Railroad service at Union Station dwindled steadily until 1970, when the structure had become a darkened ghost of its prosperous past. It was threatened with demolition after Amtrak facilities were moved into the Concourse area, but a local architect formed the “Committee to Save Union Station” and helped promote an adaptive-use project. In 1982 plans for a “festival marketplace” attraction were approved by the City and the restoration was begun. Union Station again is a focus of downtown activity, just as it was when railroading was King. ' UNDER “TID Bits**: Paul and Eva Penn are ® back >at their r 4 (south side of Lake Wawasee) home following a winter at Port Charlotte, Fla. Paul looks well and feisty for ail his 82 years ... Golf Club owner and restaurantear Tom Tuttle has been a patient at the Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital for several days undergoing tests. “Nothing serious,*’ wife Jane assures us ... Joe and Jean Gray of Lake Wawasee/ and Dick and Priscilla Ruddell of Indianapolis and Lake Wawasee were present Friday night at the white tie opening of the refurbished Union Station at Indianapolis .. .A sporty Honda Prelude has this on „ its vanity license plate: VROOM .. .Election day, next Tuesday, May 6, will see the Syracuse License Branch closed . . .A group of self-styled golf “pros’* returned Saturday p.m. from a week of golfing at Hilton Head Island, So. Carolina. They were John Kroh, Jon Sroufe, Gene Kay, Tim Hine, Jack Burns, Murray Rhodes, Ernie Rogers and Bob Bosstick, all sporting deep tans. Rogers called it a “week of R & R,” and we’re not quite sure what he means by that . . . John Kroh had been visiting his mother-in-law, Mrs. Inga Crawford, at Jacksonville with his wife Gail, then motored to Hilton Head Island to golf with his compatriots ... Don Kime of Oakwood Park may not be an ornithologist (his own words), but it’s our bet he knows more about birds and their habits than most anyone else in this area. See following items: LAST FRIDAY Hunnicutt* Addition residents/Jack and Genevieve Oswald spotted a Great Horned Owl in a large oak tree near their residence. It had been there three days, Oswald

CROP auction May 17

Only a few weeks remain until the ninth annual CROP Friendship Auction on May 17. The auction will be held from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. in the commercial exhibits building at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds. Organizers are anticipating a record number of quilts and also hope to raise a new high of $50,000 to help feed hungry people and support development projects around the world. The goal is approximately $7,000 more than the

David Robinson elected to health board

David Robinson, Syracuse, has been elected to the board of directors of the Mental Health Association in Indiana. His nomination was approved by the membership of the state mental health advocacy organization during its 35th annual meeting held in Indianapolis. JoAnn R. Median, St. Joseph County, was elected president and Marge Lee, Lawrence County, president-elect of the 30,000 member volunteer agency.

told a gathering of friends who showed up with their cameras to “shoot” the quiet visitor. When it finally fell to the ground (with a little help) it was stunned and easily captured. It was given to conservation officers who took it to the game hospital at Bristol. It has a wing span of 22 inches. Don Kime, a neighbor of the Oswalds, recognized the owl as an “endangered species.** For a time it created “Mg news” in that area, according to neighbors. ANOTHER BIRD story has to do with a male wood duck that found Its way down the chimney of the Oakwood Park home of Dr. Harold and Peart Hazenfield. “A rattling” alerted the couple to the intruder. This incident occurred on Friday night. “Doc” Was out on a civic assignment, so it was left to Mrs. H. to handle the situation the best she could. She called the “expert” — Don Kime. The colorful duck flew around the living room, and was finally corraled in the bedroom. Kime called it a “beautiful bird with coloring out of this world.” Again, here came the amateur photographers to do their thing. The duck was finally put on the limb of an outdoor tree on Sunday a.m. Two pairs of wood ducks were later spotted. Kime, in all his wisdom, said various and sundry wildlife made a “hotel” out of a tree near the Oswald home. He said tree trimmers in that area have raised hob with the wildlife habitat. He could trace the various tree residents through nuts, prints and nests. BILL CUTTER, former Syracuse businessman who was honored by the S-W Rotary Club at the South Shore Tuesday night by being presented with an honorary Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International’s most prestigious award, is almost solely responsible for the Rotary Park just south of the St. Andrews United Methodist Church. CBill promoted that park and ball grounds from the word go, even buttonholed his business friends in the community to pay SSO each to have their company’s name on a sign. He usually came around every second year or so to “renew” the sign. Rotarians honor one of their own in this manner, and they couldn’t have picked a better candidate than Bill for this single honor. JANE TUTTLE and Arlene Berkey are cochairmen of this year’s “Freshmen Welcome,” to be held at Wawasee High School Thursday, May 29, an affair set up to welcome and honor all the freshmen candidates from the Milford, North Webster and Syracuse schools. Besides a get-acquainted affair, it will feature games, relays, volleyball, a scavenger hunt and a dance. It is designed to make the transition from junior high to high school smoother and less frightening. This is the fifth year “Freshmen Welcome” is being held. Mrs. Tuttle says 18 teams are being set up with parent couple captains to carry the event off smoothly. Any parents interest in cooperating are being asked to contact the high school. More on all this later. TURKEY CREEK Township precinct/Republicans are still basking in the glow of their “Meet the Candidates” meeting at the Country Mouse last Tuesday. The affair brought out all the GOP candidates running for office and attracted some 80 well wishers. MY, HOW those balloons get around! Seven-year-old Dia Roberts found a card in the remains of a balloon found in a field next to her house at r 1 North Webster from LaGrange Park, 111. The card went air loft April 15, 1985, in recognition of National Library Week by the LaGrange Park Public Library, and was signed by Lisa and Bonnie Ressler. FROM OUR Say You Saw It Here First Department: Gaylord West, long time Ligonier resident, was elevated to president of the American States Bank of that city. He replaces Thomas E. Conner, who is being elevated to regional responsibilities with First Indiana Bancorp of Elkhart, with whom the American States Bank recently consolidated. Conner will continue to live in Ligonier and have offices in the Ligonier bank. This column reported this as an upcoming event several weeks ago. THE SYRACUSE PTO will hold its annual fish fry and book fair on Friday, 5-7:30gp.m., with tickets available at the Elementary School Library, any PTO member. Cotton & Cotton Insurance and the Lake City Bank at North Webster. In the past profits Went toward playground and VCR/equipment and similar needs will be addressed this year. Carry-outs, 4:30-7:30.

auction brought in last year. About 40 members of various CROP auction committees have been meeting regularly at the Union Center Church of the Brethren near Nappanee to plan the event. As usual, the quilt auction, which begins on Saturday morning, is expected to raise the bulk of the proceeds. New this year, quilt buyers will be able to use VISA or Master Card for their purchases. Quilts will be displayed the Friday night before the sale as will other items to be sold. Food will also be available throughout the evening. * The Wasepi Blue Grass Gospel singers will perform in concert at 7 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, activities begin early with the potpourri auction, a flea market and booths selling baked goods, plants and books, in addition tothe quilt auction. A lot more food will be sold than last year including the additions of tacos, elephant ears, barbecued chicken and ice cream. For the fitness-minded, the 10K walk for CROP will be conducted within the safe and pleasant confines of the fairgrounds. Pledge sheets will be available at a number of area churches.

Church World Service is the overseas self-help development, disaster relief, and refugee resettlement arm for more than 30 Protestant and Orthodox Communions in the US. CROP is the name used to identify community fundraising and educational programs sponsored by Church World Service. The Indiana regional office is located in Indianapolis at the Interchurch Center, 1100 West 42 Street, (317) 923-2938.

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Behind the headlines — Hie new debale about welfare

By PHILIP C. CLARKE A new debate is raging these days over whether our welfare system creates more poverty than it reduces. The argument that much of our welfare spending is counterproductive is backed up by a recent study of Ohio University economists Lowell Gallaway and Richard Vedder, published by the National Center for Policy Analysis. According to their findings, “At least 5.7 million people are living in poverty by choice as a result of the generosity of public welfare. Each additional $1 billion in welfare spending increases the poverty population by 250,000. Put simply, “ say Gallaway and Vedder, “we are experiencing more poverty because we have been increasing the amount we pay people to be poor.” Statistics developed by Gallaway and Vedder “dramatically confirm that high levels of welfare benefits are not the magic road to eliminating

State Representative Mauzy confronts liability crisis

Indiana State Representative Thames Mauzy, chairman of the Insurance Corporation, attended a briefing held by Attorney General Edwin Meese 111 on Friday, April 25, in Washington, D.C.. The topic under discussion focused on ways in which to alleviate the liability insurance crisis that has been threatening the American way of life. Mauzy, who has concerned himself with this probleiji for

SUSPECT WANTED — This revised composite drawing of a suspect in the March 21 rape of a woman at a business in Syracuse has been released by the Syracuse Police Department. The suspect is a white male in his 30s, five feet nine or five feet 10 inches tall. Weighing between 160-179 pounds. The victim told police the suspect was wearing blue jeans, a blue or black *T* shirt with a pocket, and black shoes. The Syracuse Police Department is asking anyone who may know this man, or have seen him, to \ contact the department at Tutu named ' JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate \ and one of South Africa’s leading opponents of apartheid, was elected the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town in a move certain to bring the Anglican church in S. Africa into sharper political conflict with the country’s minority white government. Then! The saddest words of tongue or pen: “We sold the baby buggy, then...” —U.S.S. Arcadia.

RE-ELECT MAUZY wwß i tJbfl L jB B ■jfl STATE REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCED QUALIFIED DEPENDABLE Paid For By Thames Maury, P.O. Box 1503, Warsaw. IN 46580

poverty.” For example, the ten states that spend the least on Aid to Families with Dependent Children showed considerably more progress in eliminating poverty than the nation as a whole. A recent Heritage Foundation study reached similar conclusions. It found that a very small proportion of the poor persists in poverty. For example, fewer than 11 percent of poor adults who did not work in 1984, cited as the reason their inability to find employment. The actual poverty population, said the Heritage study, is “largely unemployable” and includes 39 percent children, 10 percent elderly and 8 percent disabled. Full-time, year-round workers — the so-called “working poor” — comprise only 6 percent of the poverty population. And workers who experience periodic spells of unemployment, including part-time workers and others involved in seasonal employment, represent another 10 percent of the statistical poor.

some time, stated that it is costing taxpayers over 70 billion dollars per year to resolve these lawsuits, a principle reason for the skyrocketing liability insurance premiums. He also expressed his belief that the crisis should be attacked not only from a national level, but also from the level of each individual state. In support of this theory, Assistant Attorney General Richard Willard, chairman of the Administration’s Tort Policy Working Group, presented the legislators with eight basic reforms of tort law, as a complementary response to the action the states should and are already taking. The eight reforms include the following: Retain fault as the conventional standard of liability; Insist that the link between a defendant’s action and the harm to a plaintiff be established through credible scientific and medical evidence; Eliminate the joint and several liability doctrine, which permits a defendant only partially responsible for an injury to be held liable for the entire amount of the judgement; Limit punitive and noneconomic damages to $100,000; Permit damages for future economic harm amounting to

Corvette stolen from * Syracuse

The theft of a Corvette in Syracuse is the Crime of the Week » On April 24, the theft of a Corvette was reported as having been taken from inside a building at Heckaman Marine, SR 13, near the south side of Syracuse. This vehicle is described as being a_ 1977 model, black in color. It is valued at more than SIO,OOO. If you have information concerning this theft, call Crime Stoppers toll free at 1-800-342-STOP. If your information leads to an arrest or indictment, Crime Stoppers will pay you up to SI,OOO. Cash rewards on other felony crimes and the capture of fugitives are also given. When you call you will be assigned a code number and not asked your name.

Likewise, alarming accounts of massive incurable unemployment among the nation's youth, particularly among the big-city minorities, also appear to miss the point. According to Herbert London of New York University, the constant complaint of social reformers that there are no “real jobs” for the young is “pure and simple bombast.” Based on his own survey, London, who also is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a prominent research organization, fdUnd that today many jobs are going begging, especially in the fast-food industry. “In fact,” he said, “most chain store managers complain there aren’t enough kids applying for the jobs that are available. And these are not ‘dead-end* jobs” Jor those willing to work up. Concluded London: “The youth unemployment problem is largely fiction. If kids are ready to work, there is work for them. And if they work hard, there are financial rewards available to them.”

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over SIOO,OOO to be paid periodically; Prevent double recovery by taking into account collateral sources of compensation for the same injury ; Schedule attorneys’ contingency fees so that lawyers* fees bear a more reasonable relationship to their actual work; And develop alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as binding arbitration and mediation.

SYRACUSE-WAWASEE ROTARY CLUB, INC. BIKE-A-THON ‘ For SYRACUSE-WAWASEE COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS date: May 10,1986 (May 17 Rain Date) time 1 : 8:30 A.M. Registration — 9:00 A.M. Bike-A-Thon place: St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church 0/ Syracuse) , distance: Six Mile Route (May Be Repeated) ’; 5 ' ' The top individual will be able to choose from Savings Bonds (S2OO, SIOO & SSO), a BMX Bike, Walkman Stereo and others. Company-sponsored riders will vie for trophies while the top three riders sponsored by clubs will be awarded cash prizes of SSO, S3O & S2O. - OTHER PRIZES - Every Rider WHI Receive A T-Shirt Collect $l5O And Receive A Sweatshirt Get SPONSOR SHEETS At Schools, Churches, Radio Shack, State ' Bank Os Syracuse, Lake City Bank Or A Rotary Club Member '> • ' SPONSORED BY SYRACUSE-WAWASEE ROTARY CLUB

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Library

By DONNA ANGLE librarian

Many of our patrons are sharing with us their excitement of and anticipation for summer travel plans. If you are in that forsaken group who are vacationing right here in “beautiful downtown Milford,** let me invite you to read a book which will help you travel in your mind’s eye to Albemarle County country during the Civil War. “High Hearts,” by Rita Mae Brown, is the story of the Chatfield family. On April 12, 1861, GenevaChatfield marries Nash Hart in Albemarle County, Virginia. Five days later, Virginia secedes from the Union and Nash joins the hastily organized Confederate Army. . Geneva being raised on her daddy’s plantation is an accomplished equestrienne. She cuts her hair, dons a uniform, changes her name to Jimmy, then enlists in the calvary to be with her beloved. This works out fine, until Nash, with his poet’s sensitivities, recoils from the horrors of war, while Geneva is invigorated by the chase and the fight. If Nash isn’t going to be a man, she’ll show him how. Thus begins the story and it’s complications. The book is not only interesting historical fiction, but may peak one’s interest to become involved in the real history our town of Milford will celebrate June 1-7 during the sesquicentennial. New To Children’s Collection New books recently added to the children’s collection include: “Susanna of the Alamo” by John Jakes, “Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady” by Doris Faber, “Eleanor Roosevelt, with Love” by Elliott Roosevelt, “Jupiter” by Seymour Simon, “What is It?” by Lesley Firth, “Your Former Friend, Matthew” by Lou Ann Gaeddert, and "Brother to the Wind” by Mildred Pitts Walter. The Newberry Honor books are “Dogsong” by Gary Paulsen and “Commander Perry in the Land of the Shogun*’ by Rhoda Blumberg. The Caldecott winner is “The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg and the Caldecott Honor is “The Relative Came” by Cynthia Rylant. Parents are reminded that Story Hour sessions are over. However, the preparation for the library’s annual summer reading program is in full swing.

Your school-aged children will be visiting the Children’s Room during May to receive details. As they pass that information on to you at homo, I hope you will oneburige your reader to become a part of Camp-Wanna-Read-A-Watch for upcoming info about sign-up, activities, program sessions, and further detaib, as well.

Letter to the editor Disagrees Dear Editor: In Wed. April 9 issue of the Mail-Journal, in the “Cruzin Cuse” column, mention was made of Rev. Phil Frew. I do believe the person writing this column went a little too far when he stated Pastor Frew was the “absolute best” minister in this area. I agree he is one of the best. We have lots of good ministers in our area. Name withheld by request £> ————— (EDITOR’S NOTE: Agreed.) | LAKECINEMAS I The Color Purple ♦* * * * W WJ ’( gTxMW H °9«' ebert f,| 4 Sa, 7 15 Only Sun 3 15 4 7,5 All Seats $2 00 Till 3 A5 Or SolO Out Weeknights 7 15 01 The Hand mmumn— * Fn & Sat 7 4 9 P M Sunday 3 4 7 PM □ZHSEEII All Seats $2 00 Till 45 01 SolO Out ■ Weeknights 7P M \ p.o.w. The Escape ■ Fn 4 Sat 7 4 9 Sun 3 4 7 MmlmMiaM aii seats $2 00 Till 3 30 Or SolO Out Mon Wed 00 ■MMmHIB Gung Ho Fn 4 Sat 7 15 Sun 3 15 4 7 15

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