The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 19, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 May 1986 — Page 4
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., May 7, ISM ♦
Editorials
'Mother's Day
The observance of Mother’s Day is a recent one in the United States, having begun only in 1907. Then it was the idea of Miss Anna M. Jarvis, a Philadelphia school teacher, that at least once a year sons ana daughters should pay tribute to mothers. Miss Jarvis, a native of Grafton, West Virginia, arranged for special services in Philadelphia churches and suggested white carnations be worn by those attending. The observance, on the second Sunday in May (this year the 11th), spread to every part of the United States, and the fact that it became custom in all the states only four years after being suggested testifies to the sentiment for such an observance. In later years, the custom of wearing a white carnationon Mother’s Day was changed and those whose mothers were stilTalive wore red flowers instead of white. C First observed in the United States, Mother’s Day has become an international occasion: mothers in every area of the world are how honored each year on Mother’s Day. j More than anyone else, the mother who cares for both home and her children is destined to influence the character and futureof the country. And often this responsibility is combined with a backbreaking and steady ordeal of sewing, washing, mending, cleaning and teaching. It is to this mother, who dedicates her life to her home, her family and children, that the country owes a debt of gratitude. This mother represents the finest in our civilization.
Save a child
A recent Harvard study found that some twenty million Americans are not getting the proper amount of food. Even taking into account the usual overzealousness of college professors’ theories and moralizing, that means there are millions in this country going hungry from time to time. , Some of them should go hungry. They are too lazy or irresponsible to work, or they are drug addicts, chronicboozers, etc. But others are genuinely in need of help. ■ v . . .. America should think of this when all those emotional print and television appeals soliciting money to save a child in some far-away cornei-of the world appear. That’s a good thought, of course, but there are hungry children in this country. The old adage that charity begins at home has never been truer than it is today. The trouble with sending money to an address in some city is that one really can’t be sure of how it’s used. One doesn’t see many checks arriving from abroad to help hungry American children — probably for that reason. Americans are gullible, generous givers — and the notion still prevails iri this country that we are the richest nation in the world with the highest standard of living of any people, etc, But that’s no longer true. There are millions of underfed, sick, under-cared-for Americans — some in this community . Before sending off a check in response to a slick and emotional ad or commercial, look around this community. Your money can be put to similar use here, and probably better use, for there will be less administrative cost, and more certainty as to how it’s used.
Back the President
Americans debate foreign policy strategy and tactics in the best democratic tradition. When, however, the commander-in-chief commits American servicemen in a military operation, the nation also traditionally, rally behind him. All such decisions may not be perfect or even wise; on the other hand, every nation must have leadership and effective foreign leadership and effective foreign policy. They elect that leadership every four years, and can approve or reject it at the polls. If young men and women are to be expected to risk their lives in military operations, it is not asking too much to expect the civilian population to support them and their commanding officer in time of crisis.
Fishing time
JWhat is it about fishing that attracts so many? One expert claims it’s the instinct for hunting food — the basic drive to survive. Other factors are the break from the hectic pace of American life and the fellowship and beauty involved. The basic rules of fishing: Best time is at dawn and dusk. The hour after a changing tide (in salt water) is good. If fish are spawning, fishing is.almost invariably good, with any bait. The period just before bad weather is often good. If bad weather lasts several days, the period immediately afterward may be good. A steady barometer is not as good as a rising or falling one. Falling pressure is generally better than rising pressure. A slight wind to ripple the water is desirable. ,
What others say —
Your friend, the job
- - \ 4 „ , . On the wall of a great printing house where every employee must see it, hangs a nickel-typed motto which reads: “If you can better yourself, here or elsewhere, and you do not do it, you are a fool.” .The best type of employer never pins a good man down — he boosts him along. He takes pride in seeing him advance, either under his own guidance of that of another employer. - One of the most successful corporation heads of the country urges his subordinates to “organize themselves out of their jobs’ ’ —to put so much of their ability into the job in the way of systematizing and simplifying that they will not be needed. Then, says he, they are ready for another and bigger job, which in turn they can treat the same way. No job can help the holder to be a better one until and unless the holder helps the job to be rightly done. The interesting thing about any job is that to make it interesting one must take an interest in it. If one does, out of it he gets not merely a living in the way of wages or salary, but enjoyment, development and advancement. Any job is a good friend if treated in a friendly manner. Most of our waking time is spent with our jobs, and certainly there is nothing to compare with the feeling of having done a good day’s work. Pleasure comes from various kinds of play, but joy comes from creative labor. — THE SCRAP BOOK, TWENTY-FIFTH EDITION, 1964
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Court news
City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Joe G. Salazar, 31, Syracuse, $47.50, plea bargain Disregarding official traffic control device — Kevin W. Davies, 21, Milford, $42.50; Philip L. Stutzman, 25, Milford, $47.50 Unsafe tire — Tony K. Vanover, 17,. Syracuse, $38.50, proof of new tires provided Unlawful riding/more passengers than provided seating — Jay B. Deckard, 17, Syracuse, $35 County Court The following fines plus court costs have been levied and paid in the Elkhart County Court Goshen Division Speeding — Judith I. Gibson, 30, Cromwell, $44.50; Maurice R. Snyder, 57, Syracuse, $47.50; Debra A. Lantz, 26, Milford, $49.50 Failure to yield right of way causing a property damage accident — Roxanna Lewallen, 39, Syracuse, $49.50 Marriage Licenses The following couples haXgapplied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Petro-Miniear Michael Douglas Petro, 24, 206 Smith St., Milford, and Miechi Tonna Miniear, 22, r 2 Leesburg Ruch-Keener Jeffery Allan Ruch, 21, box 451 North Webster, and Lisa Kathleen Keener, 20, 131 E. Boston, Syracuse
Letter to the editor
Effort made to beautify area
Dear Editor: Once again, the repulsive, hazardous, eyesore: The Boston Street Junkyard, is the focus of a concerned group of people. Last year about this time, concerned citizens of Syracuse signed a petition and pleaded with the town board and owner of the junkyard, Butch Plikerd, to put up a privacy and security fence on this unsightly and dangerous piece of property. City officials, county health officers, zoning commissioners, and citizens failed to persuade Mr. Plikerd to make any attempts at securing this area from children who use it as a play area; children who use it to hide and smoke pot and drink, animals that have attacked not only pets but children, and animals that forage for food on private property of surrounding homes. What a shame that Syracuse must endure this continuing offensive blemish. This weekend, Syracuse Junior High Builders Club began making a valiant effort to shield this eyesore from the road! These young people must pass the junkyard day in and day out during the school year, pity the folks who live on Boston street and view this daily all year long, whose property has devalued, and whose children and pets are exposed to this hazard year around. What must visitors think as they bring their youngsters here to compete in sports events? I have overheard such comments at these events as “What a nasty sight.” “Why does Syracuse put up with that?” “Are there rats in there?” “Those cars are going to fall on somebody some day.” This is a town disgrace! Junior High Builders Club has planted fast growing shrubbery
Marriage Dissolutions The following couple&have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Pollock - Shirley Ann Pollock, r 1 box 44A, Milford, and Gary Pollock, r 1 box 44A, Milford. The couple was married April 2,1979, and separated Oct. 26, 1985. There are two minor children. Greer - Debra Lynne Lozano Greer, 119 Portland St., Syracuse, and Charles Greer, r 1 box 219 C, Mentone. The couple was married Sept. 23, 1976, and separated Aug. 10, 1978. There are no children. Vander Reyden - Steven J. Vander Reyden, r 4 box 85, Syracuse, and Lynda F. Vander Reyden, 218 S. 10th St., Goshen. The couple was married Nov. 24, 1980, and separated Oct. 19,1985. There are no children. Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Legal Separation Donna J. Plummer, r 1 box 243 G, Leesburg, and Tex A. Plummer, r 4 box 266, Warsaw. The couple was married Dec. 21, 1979, and separated Feb. 5,1986. There are no children. Complaint On Checks Wawasee Service Center versus J.J. Bullock, P.O. Box 351 Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $2,173.35 for checks returned for non-sufficient funds. Complaint On Checks Augsburger’s Supervalu versus Julie M. Vale, 927 King Arthur, Cromwell. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $314.20 for checks returned for nonsufficient funds.
in an effort to beautify and shield this ugly area. This shows Syracuse what Builders Club is all about. An impressive group of kids with leadership skills, willing to work, think, and put forth positive, progressive, community-action oriented service! Let’s give these kids a round of applause for their foresight, action, and hard work! Their efforts will be appreciated greatly as these shrubs grow and help cover the blight from those who pass by and those who live on Boston Street! A continuingly concerned citizen Name withheld by request Larger sizes The larger woman has finally been heard and designers are getting into the larger sizes exclusively. Separates are always good for figures which aren’t balanced. For sportswear, a navy skirt with plaid camp shirt and contrasting knit vest is neat. A draped blouson chemise is a pretty dress-up look for the larger figure.
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"GRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"
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BY NOW most everyone has seen the WANTED posters in a number of public places in the community. They show an affable Syracuse Elementary/Junior High Principal, John A. Naab, riding a bicycle — complete with training wheels (see above). Principal Naab has been entered in the annual Rotary Bike-A-Thon, to be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 10, starting at the St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church. It’s this way: Naab and school superintendent Ken Webster will be riding for the Syracuse PTO, to help raise SSOO to pay for sand blasting and repainting the Syracuse school’s spiral slide. The Slide is one of the most popular pieces of equipment on the playground and is in need of a paint job, so says Arlene Berkey; one of those who is pushing the fund drive. The Bike-A-Thon is sponsored each year by the S-W Rotary Club, with proceeds going to a number of community projects. A drawing will be held following the ride, prizes being savings bonds. , The PTO fed 702 at its Friday night fish fry in the school cafeteria, netting them over $1,500. So, it’s fairly safe to say their fund drive is going full steam ahead. DEE STIVER, of North Shore Drive, arrived home late last week from Mission. Texas, where he wintered. In late April he attended the Legions of Golf at Onion Creek Golf Course, Austin, Texas, where he watched many of the big name golfers play. ALONG WITH the annual Syracuse High School alumni banquet at the school on Saturday. May 24, wiH be a class reunion of the class of 1936 (56 years) at 3:30 p.m. at the home of Pauline (Hibschman) Firestone for a time of reminiscing and remembering. Anyone who has at any time gone to school with members of this class is invited. The group will go from the Firestone home to the regular banquet. For more info contact Mrs. Firestone at r 4 Syracuse. All alumni reservations should he in by May 14 to Mrs. R. C. Tytler, r 4, Box 354, Syracuse, 46567. J. B. HOY, of Tippecanoe Lake is overjoyed to learn from Third District Congressman John Hiler that a long article written by Edith Gray of Goshen on behalf of his “A Rose For Friendship” has been entered in complete form in a recent issue of the Congressional Record. The article appeared in this space in the Wednesday, February 12, issue. Congressman Hiler mailed Hoy a copy of the CR that contained the piece. The LaPorte congressman wrote Mr. Hoy as follows: “I read with great interest Edith Gray’s fine article concerning your committment to the concept of ‘A Rose For Friendship*. The story was very well-written and a fitting tribute to your ‘dream’.” “I have taken the liberty of sharing your story with my colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives. Your story was printed in the April 15,1986 edition of the Congressional Record, which contains the proceedings and debates on the floor of the House, and is now a permanent part of history. Also, I requested that formal copies of the presentation be printed, and I am enclosing them as a memento of our friendship. ” ITS MUSHROOM time again! Roland Gardner, r 4 Syracuse, showed up Friday morning with some 36 nice sized mushrooms he said he found “north of Syracuse.” They were of the yellow variety. A week earlier he said he found over 260 gray mushrooms in the same area. We can expect to be hearing a lot of such stories in the near future. EARLY PLANS are being made for a formal dedication of the new Syracuse Town Hall on South Huntington Street, to be held on Sunday, June 1, from 2 to 4 o’clock. Public notice will be made in several weeks. x JACK MASON has opened a relaxation and hypnotherapy clinic in the Huntington Building in uptown Syracuse, and is teaching classes in hypnotherapy, he has announced. His notice states he is a qualified instructor of hypnosis, certified by the National Society of Hypnotherapists, the American Council of Hypnotherapist Examiners, and by the California Council of Hypnotherapists.
Activities to bo feature for special week
In celebration of National Nursing Home Week (May 11 - 17th) Kenney Retirement Community, Ligonier, will host a variety of activities all through the week. The celebration begins with a Mother’s Day tea. Kenny Powers Jr. will be performing for residents and their families. Church service will be provided by Pastor Bill Hughes of the United Methodist Church. Other
FROM THE “Tid Bit” Department: Merl and Maggie Smith of East Shore Drive are home from a winter’s stay in Florida. When told he was missed during the winter months. Merle replied, “Yeah, I know. You didn’t have old Merl to kick around anymore” ... Bill Hartman has closed his uptown Hartman’s Used Furniture and reopened at his home on the Dewart Lake Road, specifically 14 miles west of Syracuse on the MilfordSyracuse Road to CR 300E, then south 7. mile... If you had trouble getting a M-J last week maybe it was because Theda Cutter Sought them all up to mail to friends and relatives “all over the country.” It featured hubby Bill as a new Paul Harris Fellow of Rotarian International . . . Arlene Berkey and others responsible for the Friday night PTO fish fry at the Syracuse school cafeteria were pleased with the turn out ... A Saturday, May 24 auction at 10 a.m. at the North Webster Palace of Sports Bldg, is to raise money for that community’s proposed daycare center. Donations needed. Call 834-2648 or 835-2906. Needed: Some history-minded townsperson to assist in restoring the grave of Samuel Crosson, one of the town’s founders. Should be done in time for town’s sesquicentennial celebration next year . . . There’s been a changing of the guard at the uptown flag pole. The report to this desk is that the former Rotarian responsible for raising the flag in the morning and lowering it in the evening has. been derelict in his responsibilities for a long series of reasons. Be that as it may, Pickwick Place business men Mike Tallon and Bob Troutman have volunteered' to assume these patriotic responsibilities*. . . Another report that will be of interest to local Rotarians concerns the condition of me uptown parking lot where they installed the handsome (and expensive) memorial plaque to the old high school building situated there in years gone by. The area is cluttered with pop cans, for reasons it is difficult to understand, and the grass needs more (attention than it has been receiving.. ' • I ■ ' A LETTER has gone out from Rev. O. Rex Lindemood, pastor of the North Webster United Methodist Church for financial support for a daycare center for that community to open in June of this year, on a To Whom It May Concern basis. It’s in response to community needs, Pastor Lindemood writes, noting that the center will be open Monday through Friday, 6 to 6, for children ages two through school age. Initial start up costs are expected to exceed $30,000. They’re banking on a lot of community support. FATHER DAVE Hyndman of the AU Saints Episcopal Church, by now recognized as the S-W Rotary Club’s poet laureate, usually comes up with a gem on appropriate occasions. > * He didn’t fail his fellow Rotarians last Tuesday night on the occasion when the group singled out Bill Cutter as a new Paul Harris Fellow. Fr. Dave rose, and with his customary eloquency, read the following for a somewhat flustered guest of honor: • A POEM His girth bespeaks his love of butter, We know him well, his name is Bill, Not aU the falsities that Levernier can mutter Are true of him who we know as Bill. The 49er’s sought gold at a mill named for Sutter, But he’s not quite that old. our dear friend Bill. His fishing prowess is just above the gutter. But when the salmon are running, so is Bill. And when cooking those fishies, his kitchen’s a chatter. But we like eating those beasties, so thank you Bill. * | And if after eating those prizes your tummy’s a flutter, It’s not indigestion, it’s just cooking by Bill. Oh, his generosity’s as long as you can drive with a putter, But a hole-in-one ace to his friends is Bill. There are many more great qualities that we could utter. But suffice it to say. he’s our boy Bill. After searching the dictionary, 1 pause with a shudder. 1 can’t find one more word that rhymes with Bill. From near and far, or short and wide, we love him still, .j So all hail and honor, to our Rotarian Cutter. This poem’s at an end, it’s been quite a silly one. But congrats to the Harris, Fellow we know as William. - ° = THE INDIANA Air Guard will provide four jets for a Lake Wawasee fly-over at 12 noon Sunday, July 5, according to Robert McNary. The annual Flotilla will follow the fly-over. Details are being worked out for the annual highlight. JOHN AND Melba Kussmaul re-opened their Jot ’Em Down Store on Barbee Lake on Tuesday of this week, following a winter’s vacation period. They originally purchased the store in 1973, then t John became Tippecanoe Township Trustee from 1975 to 1978, while Melba minded the store. John plans to continue working with (Jerry) Badskey Realty as a salesperson. r —o— REV. AND Mrs. Ross D. Cook of Fremont, Ind., were in Syracuse Tuesday afternoon visiting friends. Rev. Cook was former pastor of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Syracuse, and has been pastor of the Freemont United Methodist Church since last June.
activities for the week include daily exercise class, resident pie bake? Bible Study, piano enjoyment, Wolf'family singers, and a resident bowling tournament. On Thursday, May 15, Jim Gawthrop and Nancy Justus, retirement counselors, will be speaking on “Living in a Retirement Community” at the Ligonier Nutrition site. To conclude the week’s festivities there will be an open
house on Saturday from 1 — 4 p.m. with popcorn, blood sugar tests, and tours of the Cottage Apartments. » J) Kenney Retirement Community, located off Lincolnway West, consists of Kenney Healthcare Center, offering 24 hour skilled and intermediate nursing care for short and long tsrm needs, and 25 apartments designed for independent living.