The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 24, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 June 1986 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., 11,1986

Editorials

Father's Day

Mrs. John Bruce Dodd is thought to have done more to originate Father’s Day than any other American. The idea occurred to her in 1909 when she was living in Spokane, Washington. She suggested it to the ministerial association and proposed that fathers be honored on the third Sunday in June. In June of 1910, the first observance was held in Spokane and slowly the day came to be recognized in other cities, some thinking they were the first to do so. Most of the impetus for observing a day for fathers came from women, as did the custom of wearing red or white roses on the day. This year Father’s Day falls on the 15th and is especially appropriate in view of the flood of literature and films picturing dad as a chauvinist out of touch with his children. Fortunately, that’s an exaggerated protest, and the ties and socks father receives on the 15th will, in most cases, have been earned the hard way.

Thank you, Chris

Milford was so fortunate to get Chris Schenkel to come to its parade Saturday and to give the commentary for the passing parade. In spite of threatening weather, that later turned out to be a downpour at the tail end of the parade, a veritable superb crowd lined the parade route. We’re not fooling ourselves one bit: a lot of these people came to see the parade, but a lot came to see and hear Chris Schenkel. Chris is a native of tiny Bippus in Huntington County and is used to small towns. He understands neighborliness, and how people work together in small communities. He has risen to the pinnacle in television sports broadcasting, and his name is easily recognized around the world. Weren’t we fortunate, then, to get this superb broadcaster and gentleman to come to Milford Saturday? "■ The Milford Sesquicentennial Committee and its parade committee wants to say, “Thank you, Chris, for honoring Milford with your presence.”

Vitamins and you

A recent warning that too many Americans are taking huge doses of of a single vitamin, thinking it will prevent disease, should not mislead readers. The great majority of doctors, scientists and nutritionists agree that a vitamin supplement daily, the amounts needed by the body, does no harm. When taking a combination vitamin-mineral pill, one should sensibly avoid taking such pills on an empty stomach. It’s possible that some mineral in the combination will react adversely in one’s system. Trial and error will soon show if one or more of the minerals ingested is a problem. Because so many Americans have developed poor dietary habits, the recent warning about vitamins — from the UCLA School of Medicine — should be clarified, not misunderstood. That warning pertained only to massive doses of one vitamin as a cure for specific diseases or ailments. That applies to large doses of calcium and other minerals, but not to a daily ) vitamin supplement.

Longest Day

Forty-two years ago on the 6th of June the greatest amphibious assault in history began. U.S., Canadian and British troops led the assault across the English Channel against German defenders in France. That invasion, plus a larger Russian offensive far to the east, doomed Hitler and Nazi Germany. The Fuhrer had become the Napoleon of the 20th century by conquering practically all of Europe. , For Jews, the final assault of June 6,1944, was the beginning of triumph on the continent after years of unbelievable horror and persecution. On the beaches of France that morning many men and boys died, from many countries, but overwhelming Allied air and sea power insured the landings’ success. Germany was to fight on for eleven months, striking back at the United States in the Battle of the Bulge that December, but the 6th of June signaled the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

Humor

What this country needs amid cold, unemployment and deficits is more humor. One sees precious little of genuine humor on commercial television. Where are replacements for the venerable “Three Stooges?” For Charlie Chaplin, Ben Blue, Will Rogers, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Jack Benny? Today’s New York style humor, unfortunately adopted by television, often only is loudmouth yelling, coarseness and aggressiveness. In other words, common or cheap behavior poses as humor. No greatness exists unless it’s based upon principle and not upon profits. We have never been able to figure out the attraction which draws some couples together.

What others say

Salute to school bus drivers

As the school year winds down, we d like to offer a tip of the hat to school bus drivers. Their sort too often goes unnoticed and unappreciated. School bus drivers are the first each day to see hundreds of students and the last. The tone they set can start a youngster’s day off right or wrong and end it on a pleasant note or downer. The man or woman who drives a school bus understands how hard it is to sit still after a day at school, yet must insist on it The driver develops a rapport with students that parents or teachers might never enjoy, somehow keeping to a schedule while making time to listen to students’ joys and problems, their good news and complaints. . It’s school bus drivers who brave the cold of a winter dawn, starting buses so they’ll be warm for students at the first stop. They, too, feel the ecstasy of victory and the agony of defeat as they transport athletic teams to contests around the state. Above all, they are responsible for the safety and well-being of schoolchildren each and every day. Too often their contributions go unrecognized, so let’s put an end to all that. PCC The Vermont Standard

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Court news

City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Candace M. Clevenger, 20, Syracuse, $47.50; Timothy A. George, 32, Syracuse, $52.50; Bernard D. Gardner, 32, Syracuse, $47.50 Failure of duty at property damage accident — Randy L. Schlemmer, 20, Syracuse, $77.50 Expired plate — Robert A. Larkin, 21, Syracuse, $63.50, $25 suspended Violation of oversize pernut — William K. Hoover, 32, Syracuse. $43.50 Disobedience to an official traffic control device — Guy D. Cox. 20, Syracuse, $62.50; Thomas E. Weeden, 22, Syracuse. $42.50 Leaving scene of property damage accident — Larry A. Dewitt, 51, Syracuse, dismissed County Court The following fines plus court costs have been levied and paid in the Elkhart County Court. Goshen Division: Passing violation — Merle C. Campbell. 78, Milford. $49.50 Speeding — David A. Snyder. 27. Leesburg. $49.50; Lowell T. Stidham, 53. Syracuse. $49.50 Check deception — Jacqueline Buckmiller, no age. Milford, prosecuting attorney dismisses; Jacqueline Buckmiller, no age, Milford, prosecuting attorney disihisses; Jacqueline Buckmiller, no age. Milford, prosecuting attorney dismisses; Jacqueline Buckmiller, no age. Milford, prosecuting attorney dismisses Illegal possession of alcohol — Troy Shane Morrow. 16. Syracuse, $36 costs. 60 days KCJ suspended. 180 days probation Illegal consumption of alcohol — Michelle B. Miller, 16. North Webster. SB6; Warsaw, SB6; Troy Shane Morrow, 16, Syracuse. SB6 Public intoxication — Jack Allen Schopf, 29. North Webster. $136, 6 days KCJ with good time credit Circuit Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint On Account Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. versus Jack Stookey, r 2 Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $1,163.63 plus interest, attorney’s fees and costs of action, for a past due account. Complaint Marjorie Nye versus Suzanne Ware, Indianapolis. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the return of approximately 20 historic photographs owned by the plaintiff and in the possession of the defendant, plus SI,OOO. Plaintiff is further seeking $3,500 damages against the defendant for criminal conversion. Superior Court The following complaints have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint “ Paul H. Davis versus Leon Vance and Lindy Vance, r 2 box 199, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $15,000 plus interest, attorney’s fees and all costs of action, for improvements and fixtures removed from real estate property. Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in Small Claims Division, Kosciusko County Court: State Bank of Syracuse versus Larry E. Wilson; defendant ordered to pay $169.98 pins costs. Floyd Hyden versus Claude Wood; defendant ordered to pay S9O ulus costs. Lite Breeze Trailer Cbwt versus Floyd Hyden; defendant

ordered to pay $819.38 plus costs. Lila Vandermark versus Claude McKinney; defendant ordered to pay $450 plus costs. Collection Bureau has received judgments against the following persons: Cheryl Ann Englehardt, $812.38; Lloyd and Shirley Hall, $491.57; Barbara Engstrand, $391.99; Carl E. Brown, $753.29; Gary and Shelly Dilley. $1,773.05; Ricky D. Slone. $3,000; Henry Adams, $462.11. Robert E. Snyder, doing business as North Webster Blue Flame, versus Jeff Mettler; defendant ordered to pay $589.96 plus costs. Lori Hanke versus Ed Sikora; defendant ordered to pay $66.21 plus costs. Lori Hanke versus Kim Bean; defendant ordered to pay $68.99 plus costs. Robert K. Rawlings versus Gerald L. Miller; defendant ordered to pay SSOO plus costs. Rabb Soft Water versus John Stealy; defendant ordered to pay $46.70 plus costs. Janet Petro versus Clarence Arms, defendant ordered to pay $291.29 plus costs. Kelly Buis versus Charles Rogers;' defendant ordered to pay $66.28 plus costs. << Sallie Brown versus Lisa Whisman; defendant ordered to pay $95 plus costs. Patricia I. Shaske has received judgments against the following persons: Robert E. Stephens. $1,737.10; Deb Groneke. $62.14; Linda E. Shepherd. $305.89. David Wayne Coppes versus Leola Raphael; defendant ordered to pay S3O 62 plus costs. The following small claims have been filed in Elkhart County Court, Goshen Division: R. M. Long. 308 S. Main St., Goshen, has filed claims against the following including court costs and interest: Hazel L. Jensen also known as Hazel L. Jensen White, r 2 box 10C, Syracuse, $876.03; Weldon J. Lockhart. P.O. Box 472. Syracuse, $850.99; Robert William Lockhart and Penny M. Lockhart, r 2 box 355, Leesburg, $733.15; Donald Orvill Richards, r 1 box 128 North Webster. $500.85; Jeffrey Wayne McKeand, r 2 box 540, Syracuse, $1,005.98. Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Wooten — Anita L. Wooten, 201 N. Lake, Syracuse, and Michael D Wooten. 201 N. Lake. Syracuse. The couple was married April 25,1981, and separated May 28, 1986. There is one minor child. * Grevenstuk — Deborah J. Grevenstuk, no address given, and Mitchell G. Grevenstuk, 106 East St., Milford. The couple was married May 28, 1983, and separated May 24, 1986. There are two minor children. Womacks — Linda D. Womacks, no address given, and Bill C. Womacks, r 3 box 181, Syracuse. The couple was married Aug. 19, 1984, and separated May 3,1986.

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"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

NOVELIST THOMAS Wolfe developed the literary theme, “You Can’t Go Home,” but this has been disputed ty Eric N. van der Water, R.A., of Ne w Britain, Pennsylvania. Van der Water is a well known engineer in the East vho attended school here with the Syracuse High School class of 1938, which was observing its 59th year anniversary However, van der Water did not graduate with the class here. His family moved to Michigan v hen he was in his sophomore class. He wrote a nice letter to this column, stating, he was “greeted by people I’d net seen for 52 years. I was s urrounded by good will and generosity.” “At first most of us 50-year graduates didn’t know van der Water.” said Robert Insley of 212 Dolan Drive and a member of the class himself. “But as soon as he began to talk we remembered him.” The banc uet had 170 reservations, Insley said, and of his diss of 32 members (1986) seven are dead and 25 s till living. Os this number 17 attended the class reunion. Earlier, in the afternoon, class members githered at the home of Pauline (Hibschman Firestone, at CR3oEast (R 4 fora time of re-ac quaintance and reminiscence. Van der Water’s letter follows: “I went sack to Syracuse, Indiana, on Saturday, May 24, 1986, to be greeted by people I’d not seen for 52 jears. I was surrounded by good will and generosi :y. “The oc< asion was the 50th reunion of the high school class of 1936. Class members and their spouses first met at the home of a member for an afternoon of refreshments and much chatter. Os the 37 who graduated only about 20 were present (less, 1 think i. “At 7:00 p.m., there was a banquet in the gymnasium of tlie school that had been the juniorsenior high. The playing floor was covered with people seatei at tables enjoying fried chicken and other good food. Only then did I learn that the town has an annual old grad’s banquet for any and all who ever graduated from the 12th grade up through 1961. I estimate the gathering was 150 more or less. So. I was greeted by many others who had kno * n our small family before we moved to Muskegon. Michigan, in ’32-’33. “Hal, you say. You've caught me out! I was NOT a graduate. I had not corresponded with anyone in th it class over the span of years — bow. then, was I nvited? I remembered a person who would surely know of plans for a reunion and wrote to her without a street address. She put me in touch with the reunion committee. “I stayed two more days and met and talked with many a ther friends of those halcyon days (an ad in the local paper from 1936 offered an Essex Terraplane for $595 and business telephone numbers were single digits!). “So, yo« see, one can go home again.” 808 AND PAM Westfall (NIPSCO) and Bill and Miriam Cable (State Bank of Syracuse) arrived home early Friday morning from Las Vegas where they attended the annual convention of Rotary International. They were among 22,000 Rotarians <nd their wives, representing clubs worldwide, i or the June 1-4 affair. Westfail. incoming president of the SyracuseWawasee 4)-member Rotary Club, and Cable represented the 57-club District 654, which comprises the n< rthern third of the state of Indiana. The international convention adopted PolioPlus, a plan to wipe out polio by the year 2005, the centennial anniversary of Rotary International. The organization expects to raise $l2O million for this cause. Their new president is M.A.T. Caparas, Manila, Phi ippines. MOTHER DUCKS can be found in the strangest places. Galen and Mary Aera would believe this anyway. The Acras are from Leo and have a cott ige on Webster Lake, just behind the North Webs :er school. One da; last week, when Galen was cleaning out the gutt ?rs at his house, he spotted a mallard duck sitting on a nest of eggs behind a chimney. The nest w: s of maple tree seeds, he said. Thinking this quit e unusual — which it was — the Acras phoned this column concerning their find. “THE IIGGING should begin on the new addition to the Syracuse fire station today (Wednesday),” said Turkey Creek Township Trustee Lou Kuilema. Actual preliminary work was begun Monday me ruing following a get-together of all the contract ors for an early meeting of the minds. The work a nounts to two new bays on the south side of the jresent station, an office for the fire chief, and sleeping quarters. Trustee Kuilema said the w<m k is scheduled for completion the end of Septembc r. AI.SO TODAY is the 21st birthday of Althea Minnix of < ountry Meadows Trailer Park north of Syracuse. . In expert and cheerful waitress in the Syracuse Case, Althea has won the respect and good will iff the host of regulars at the morning KoffeeKla ches.

HffiHKtrm Gray is MSU graduate

William £. Gray, r 1 box 9A. Syracuse, was among 4,518 graduates > participating in spring term crmmencement ceremonies at Michigan State University East Lansing. Gray obained a bachelor of arts degre ! in social science-law

REV. ERNEST Jenson of rural Leesburg preached his initial sermon Sunday at the Syracuse Church of the Brethren at 215 West Main Street, and was voted in 100 percent as the church’s interim pastor. The Jensons reside just north of the Tippecanoe Golf Club on 400 East, on a 17-acre tract. They have a daughter Jill, who will be a senior at Wawasee High School. Two other children are David, 43, of near Columbus, 0., and Marie (Mrs. Gary) Tom off r 3 Syracuse. Rev. Jenson is taking ever the pulpit hrom Rev. John McFarland, who has become the pastor at the Flora. Ind.. Church of the Brethren. Bev. McFarland and his wife Naomi are the parent* of eight children, ranging in age from 16 to 28 years. He preached his first sermon at Flora on Sunday. June 1. AT LAST physical fitness is proven to pay dividends. This past Sunday morning, at 6 a.m., like almost every Sunday morning of the year, a handful of runners left the Syracuse Lakeside Park for a 16-mile trek around Lake Wawasee. Leading the pack were Tim Miller off North Webster and Doan Spilman of Goshen. As the two runners approached SR 13 from South Shore Drive, on the west side of Wawasee. SpHnaan spotted a wad of folded green. Stopping dead in their tracks, Spilman gathered up s9l in small bills and Miller picked up another S3O and two expired airline tickets to Fort Myers, Florida. Hard on their heels, but too late to help gather up the windfall bonanza, were Tony Clouse and Tom Francis of Syracuse, Joe Dervin off Goshen, and late entry Ron Baumgartner of Milford. For years physical fitness buffs have expounded on the benefits of exercise: Sleep better, weight control, lower blood pressure. The list goes on and on. And now a new dividend has been added to the list — cash, cold hard cash. THE RECENT Syracuse High School alumni banquet has sparked anew the interest of one old graduate in what happened to the basketball trophies the school won in the early 19205. This man is Emery L. Druckamiller, perhaps the most outstanding basketball player Syracuse (if not Kosciusko County) ever produced. “Drucky” has a vested interest in those oM trophies, since he was the sparkplug that took his Syracuse team to victory after victory. He would like claim them, either for himself or for the Kosciusko County Historical Society. From time to time the Syracuse High School Alumni Association has displayed the old trophies at their annual banquets, and either gave them away or auctioned them off. This is an appeal, then, to anyone who knows of their whereabouts to contact Emery Druckamiller at his Angola home. A diminutive player (5*8”) by today’s standards, “Drucky” was nevertheless a deadly shot with a basketball, and was quick on his feet. He recently visited his 1919 coach. Cal Beck, at an Elkhart rest home where Cal resides, and they rehashed old times. In his reminiscences with local fans. Beck couldn’t help but repeatedly refer to his star player, Emery Druckamiller. Druckamiller often sneaked into the uptown Syracuse, low-ceilinged gym to practice shooting baskets. “Hour after hour, day after day,” is the way he tells it, “until I was absolutely sure of myself.” He remains the only Kosciusko County basketball player to make the all-state team, and this was when he was a junior. He captained the Syracuse team all four years he played. His team in 1921 went to Indianapolis as a member of the socalled “Sweet Sixteen” after winning the county tournament. They played in the old Sale Pavilion in Milford, on the southeast corner of Emetine and James Streets, now the home of the Levernier Body Shop. That team was coached by the late Court Slabaugh. later to become Syracuse principal. As a freshmen “Drucky” was chosen for the all-sectional team in South Bend in 1918-19. He led his team to another victory in 1922, over favored Warsaw. ' He is quick to mention the other players: Orvil Klink, guard; Everett Evans, center; Guy Rang, guard; and Fred Couts. forward. Subs were Roy Klink, guard; Paul Riddle, center; and Andrew Hibner, forward. Couts is the only other living member of that outstanding team, now a resident of Lakeland, Florida. Druckamiller served as the sixth man on the IU basketball team (his height was a matter of consideration, he said), and was captain of the IU baseball team in 1926. having led the Indiana nine to the championship in 1925. He was named Big Ten second baseman. He later went to Angola where he coached and set remarkable records, capturing many successive Steuben County crowns. He resided in Angola 54 years. But back to the old trophies. The point off this item is to appeal to anyone who knows of their whereabout to contact Druckamiller. BUZZ KECK, of Buzz Keck Motor Sales in Syracuse, escaped injury in a three-vehicle accident near Indianapolis last Wednesday when he was caught in a severe thunderstorm. Critically damaged was the 1986 Buick Park Avenue he was driving.

democracy. Degree candidates included 3,309 bachelors, 818 masters, 98 doctoral, three educational specialists, 122 doctors of osteopathy, 82 doctors of medicine, 88 doctors of veterinary medicine, and two doctors of musical arts.

Commencement ceremonies for individual colleges were held May 31, June 6 and T. including separate exercises tor ati advanced degree candidates. All graduating students were vocation June 5.