The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 33, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1986 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., August 13,1986

Editorial

S*T*O*P It s time for the people of the greater Lakeland Community to learn the meaning of a four letter word. S*T«O«P! And then, put it into practice. Stop, according to Webster, is to “cause to cease motion.” A like meaning is found in the Indiana Drivers’ Manual. Os course, you knew that all the time. Then, why do so many drivers fail to stop for stop signs? Don’t they care for their lives and the Eves of others? Stop signs have been placed at intersections for the protection of all. This editor has observed drivers all over the area who do not stop. Many don’t even bother to slow down, especially at railroad tracks where stop signs have been posted for the protection of drivers and passengers alike. What if you failed to stop and there was a train there, too? The engine of a train is bigger than a car. The train will win everytime. The only way the driver of a car can win that battle is to stop and give the train the right that the stop sign gives it. What about not stopping at country roads? Sure, you can see no one is coming most of the time. But what about the other times? The times when the com or a stand of trees block your view. What can you see then?. The scanner in our office is alive most of the day with accidents ... and, we can’t help but wonder how many of them would not have happened if one of the drivers had taken the time to S»T*O*P? President joins fight Something occurred last week that should give heart to all thinking Americans: the president of the United States joined his wife and millions of others in their fight against illicit drugs. It has been a long time a-coming, but it looks like we might be on our way to doing something about this menace to our country. House Majority Leader Jim Wright has termed it this way: “We’ve been trying to fight a bear with a flyswatter.’’ Columnist Carl Rowan has written, “The invasion of people bringing tons of illicit drugs (to our shores) is a far greater threat to America than the Sandinistas.” And yet the great hue and cry of the administration concerns the Communist threat in Central America. Drugs have invaded every strata of American life, even into our schools where our most precious natural resource is being “hooked” on drugs. The president’s initiative is one that will cost a bundle, and we can’t be sure how this will fly against the Gramm-Rudman budget cuts, but the American people must be willing to foot the bill, if this program is to get anywhere. The good news is that this anti-drug program is bi-partisan, and warrants the support of all of us. A $692 chopstick lesson It’s an old, old political story, but in an election year these things have away of coming to light. This time it’s U.S. senatorial candidate Evan Bayh, son of former Indiana senator Birch Bayh and candidate for secretary of state, who informed us about a $692 banquet Indiana taxpayers paid for Hoosier business and political leaders to teach them proper Chinese etiquette. Members of the trade delegation, led by Gov. Robert D. Orr, recently visited China and the Far East in an effort to promote trade with Indiana. Candidate Bayh contends the business men and political leaders are able to pay their own way and should do so. He said, “I don’t think it’s right at a time when we are cutting essential programs to spend nearly S7OO to teach these people how to eat with chopsticks.’’ Bayh said the banquet bill included $162 for drinks and a S9O tip. The governor’s office said they would willingly pay for their own drinks. Bayh listed the rip-off for his “Golden Faucet” Award, named for the golden bathroom fixtures installed at taxpayer expense in the state-owned home of the Department of Corrections Commissioner Gordon K. Faulker in Indianapolis. What others say — Schroeder demonstrated he was a special hero Sometimes heroism is dramatic. A solider in combat falls on a live grenade knowing he will perish but does it anyway to spare comrades’ lies. At other times, acts of heroism may seem to border on the mundane, even though they’re anything but commonplace. So it was with William Schroeder. Schroeder, 54, a retired federal worker from Jasper, Ind., had surgery Nov. 25,1984, after agreeing to have a permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7 pump, implanted. Schroeder survived 620 days. He died Wednesday at Humana Hospital-Audubon in Louisville, Ky.^where the surgery was performed, and his death was attributed to a series of strokes that restricted his breathing. He’d lived longer than anyone else with a permanent artificial heart. He will be buried Saturday in Jasper. Schroeder hoped for life, but he knew the score. Several days after the operation, he was jolly, walked a few steps from his bed to a chair, sipped a beer and announced, “I feel great.” And that made everybody who saw and heard him feel great, too. A little later he said he felt “fantastic,” good enough to “go out fishing and watch ballgames.” Schroeder sat for photographs sharing an embrace with his wife, Margaret, cuddling a grandchild, riding an exercise bicycle, those were the good times. The bad times were really bad for Schroeder and for everyone who cared about him and wanted to keep cheering him on. The later photographs did not lie. He suffered debilitating strokes and seizures. He sat, shoulders slumped, in a wheelchair. His memory was impaired, doctors said. It was heartbreaking, and there must have been those who wondered whether his sacrifice had been worth his suffering. „ L u No doubt, Schroeder had a sense of what we like to call a higher purpose. He demonstrated that, first by being willing to have his body turned into a laboratory to receive the plastic and metal heart. He also gave doctors permission to perform tests to enable researchers to determine the reaction of the body to certain drugs. Dr. Phil Dawkins, Schroeder’s physician before he received the artificial heart, said of his patient, “I think Bill was a very brave man.” He was certainly that Dr. William C. DeVries, the surgeon who performed the implant operation, says Schroeder came to care most about little things. He was grateful for Christmases, birthdays, time spent with his family. Schroeder volunteered, DeVries said, “because he loved life and the people around him, and he wanted to help others. ” It’s a testament those who loved this husband, father, grandfather and hero can rightfully cherish. There is none that is greater. J _ FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE

hl. -. It says S e T*O*P* but many people do not obey.

Court news

City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Dawn E. Schueler, 22, Syracuse,ss7 50 Expired operator’s license — Stanley R. Myers, 40, Syracuse. $38.50' Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court. Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint To Compel Inspection News Publishing Company. Inc. versus Gerald A. Eastlund. Kosciusko County Coroner. P 0. Box 301 North Webster. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant to allow inspection by the plaintiff of autopsy and other public documents pertaining to the death of Hobart Freeman and Brooke Tindal. Complaint State Bank of Syracuse versus Auto Owners Insurance Company, Lansing, Mich The plaintiff is seeking judgment declaring coverage for plaintiff’s errors and omissions exists under policy of insurance from defendant, plus damages in the amount of $41,367.29 incurred by plaintiff as a result of defendant's refusal to honor policy Superior Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint Wawasee Lakeside Dental, Inc versus Debra McNamara, also known as Debra McDonald, Ligonier. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $842.28 plus costs of action for a past due account. Complaint Wawasee Lakeside Dental, Inc. versus Calvin L. Carr, r 3 box 558A, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $598.15 plus costs of action for a past due account. Complaint Wawasee Lakeside Dental, Inc. versus Paul Juday, Goshen. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $338.79 plus costs of action for a past due account. z Complaint Augsburger’s Supervalu versus Marie Mikoch, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $379.78 plus costs of action for a returned check. Complaint Augsburger’s Supervalu versus Pamela S. Neal, Knightstown. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $397.51 plus costs of action for a returned check. Complaint Wawasee Lakeside Dental, Inc. versus Michael Curtis, Albion. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $246 plus costs of action on a past due account. Complaint Wawasee Lakeside Dental, Inc. versus Paul D. Williams, 711 N. Huntington, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $363.88 plus costs of action on a past due account. Complaint Wawasee Lakeside Dental, Inc. versus Judy Myers, r 2 box 58, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $215 plus costs of action for a past due account. Complaint Wawasee Lakeside Dental, Inc. versus Karen K. Winter, box 24

Warsaw. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $182.26 plus costs of action for a past due account. Complaint Northeast Lindsay Water Service, Inc. versus Larry Kuhn and Susan Kuhn, r 1 Cromwell. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $465.40 plus costs of action for a past due account Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in Kosciusko County Court, Small Claims, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Whitko High School has received judgments, plus court costs, against the following persons. Frank and Margaret Hall, $49.65; Paul and Carol Meade, $35 costs only; Mary Schmitz, $32 costs only; John and Bonnie Prater, $25.94; O.C. and Carolyn Jarrell, $67. South Whitley Elementary School has received judgments, plus court costs, against the following persons: Ronald Peconga, $39.47; Kay Strycker, $25; Dennis Bowers, $76.40. South Whitley Middle School has received judgments, plus court costs, against the following persons. Arnold Tolson, $20.95; Willy McKenzie, $21.95; Carl Thomas, $39.90; William Rose, $30.95; Glen Elder, $31.95; Paul Meade, $27.65; Ronnie Peconga, $39.90; James Collins, $30.95. Pierceton Middle School has received judgments, plus court costs, against the following persons: Carl and Shirley Thomas, $27.45; Claude and Mary Wood, $33.15. Pierceton Elementary School has received judgment, plus court costs, against the following persons: Basel and Evalee Hale, $34; George and Linda Hester, $45; John and Bonnie Prater, $71.30; Howard and Michele Johnson, s3l; Jerry and Dalecarlia J. Warner, $52.85; Bob * and Rhonda Hurt, SB9; George and Elinor Francis, $79.10; Scott and Karen Brandel, $79.10; Ronald and Alberta Mast, s3l, Ricky and Martha Bays, $41.80; Patti Shafer, $34; Tommy anc Lulu Burkett, $37.30; Frank anc Marge Hall, s3l; Tim and Debbie Richardson, $92.30; Garry anc Sherri Hackworth, $105.30 Claude and Mary Ann Wood $96.40. Paul Fulp versus Melvin Boroff; defendant ordered to pay $536.44 plus costs. Sonny Nellans versus Sonya Roberts; defendant ordered to pay $104.69 plus costs, Doral and Eula McFarren ver sus Paul Radcliffe; defendant ordered to pay $202.80 plus costs. (Continued on page 5)

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"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"

. \:-a.W.wgRPI IF WE RE belaboring the point in continuing to call attention to several of the town's more unsightly areas, so be it. We now call attention to the high weeds between the highway and the limited access road in the Village. There’s been a soft-spoken (one might say “silent”!) brouhaha over the Chamber of Commerce-inspired effort to have the signs along the highway in the Village removed from sight. Several merchants, rather than suffer in silence, have refused to mow the weeds in front of their places of business. All this has provoked an as-yet-undefined counter move by chamber members. One maneuver they are toying with, is having T-shirts made, with prominent lettering on the front, stating “Chamber of Commerce Ground Crew,” to be worn by several C-C members while they are mowing the grass in front of the errant merchants’ stores. o— LAST MONDAY night's annual meeting of the Syracuse Lake Property Owners’ Association was considered a success by any and all standards. Held at Maxwelton Golf Course, it was more than a good meal and good entertainment, according to outgoing secretary-treasurer Niki Pawlicki. The large crowd of property owners who have the health and welfare of Syracuse Lake as their prime interest heard a barbershop quartet — the Promissory Notes — and elected a new member to the board of directors in each of three districts, as follows: District 1— Brent Kaiser, who will serve with Pat Bitner and David Cotton; district 2 — Sharon Brannock, who will serve with Kip Schumm and Kay Caskey; and district 3 — Ric Schaekel, who will serve with John A. Naab and Harold (“Cap”) Johnson, Jr. Niki P. has resigned as sec.-treas. after 10 years of exemplary service, turning the chores over to Elaine (Mrs. Art) Schenck; her neighbor on South Front Street. Mrs. Schenck is a former long time vocational director in the South Bend Community School Corp, and is eminently qualified to handle the affairs of the SPOA. —o—- — VANITY license plate: Cancer cures smoking. —o—“SPEAKING OF writing coaches, I'm sure they all would be delighted if everyone in the various news media would learn to use that übiquitous word properly. “'‘Media’ is a plural word; it refers to more than one thing. The singular is 'medium.' A newspaper is a news medium; newspapers, radio and television make up the news media. A medium IS; the media ARE. Got it? Good. Now will somebody please explain it to Bryant Gumbel?” — Grace Notes, The Indiana Publisher, Hoosier State Press Association. t CORPORATE SPONSORS and individuals who underwrote the middle-of-the-lake fireworks this fourth of July have continued to receive favorable feed-back, and in all likelihood the event will be a continuing affair.

Good comments were heard at both the Wawasee Property Owners* Association annual meeting at South Shore and again at the Syracuse Lake Property Owners’ Association annual meeting atMaxwelton. The sponsors will be looking for wider sponsorship next year, with an eye to making the Big Bang Boom even longer and better Tom Tuttle, one of the movers and shakers, said they began shooting off the fireworks in the middle of the lake 20 minutes early, since the Cromwell fireworks were over so early. The sponsors were afraid of losing their crowd. Tuttle says next year it will go off on time, and hopefully be twice as large. The three large pontoons are paid for, representing a one-time expense If these expectations materialize. $20,000 worth of fireworks could go up next year Would it not be a good idea to incorporate the efforts of the Cromwell Fire Department in this plan? WHICH BRINGS us to the much-heralded idea of a 27-year-old Warsaw insurance agent, Brendt Smith, who wants to swim in 52 of Kosciusko County's 100 lakes on Labor Day, to raise money for the American Cancer SocietySmith, a competitive swimmer at Illinois State University, got the idea of going for a place in the Guinness Book of Records and raising public consciousness on the cancer issue at the same time. Smith wants to swim the 52 lakes in one day, but has not made it clear how much swimming he will do in each lake. “Why just 52 lakes?” one wonders. This is how old Smith’s dad was when he died of cancer on July 28. just three years ago. ’ The fact that there isn't such a category in the Guiness Book of Records doesn’t seem to stop Smith in his determination. He hopes to raise at least $3,000 by public subscription for his efforts, and if publicity counts, he should far exceed this amount. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources conservation officers are working with Smith, who hopes to begin at 5;30 a.m. on Labor Day in the southwest corner of Kosciusko County, and end up on Lake Wawasee Good luck, fellow! ALL OF which makes us wonder about Lake Wawasee’s “other names.” It has been called “The Big Lake,” the “Nine Mile Lake,” the “29 Mile Lake,” “Turkey Lake.” just to mention a few. Lake historian Jack Vanderford says Lake Wawasee was originally Turkey Lake, and that Eli Lilly (the elder) “stole” the name Lake Wawasee, which on original area maps was the name of what is now Waubee Lake, about a mile southeast of Milford. The Big Lake is reference to the fact that Lake Wawasee is the largest natural lake in Indiana, and 29 Mile Lake refers to the length of its shoreline. Nine Mile Lake would refer to the longest distance across Lake Wawasee. But this is quickly disputed. Vanderford said the length of Lake Wawasee is more like four and one-half to five miles and not nine miles at all. Here's where another native, realtor Ernie Roger, comes in to note that the nine miles refers to the distance from the Syracuse Lakeside Park to the fish hatchery site. But regardless of all this, the name Lake Wawasee has endured — to become recognized throughout Indiana and the midwest, and to have a well known school named after it! JOE AND Patti Elam of Lubbock, TX, left Sunday to return home following a brief visit with Joe's parents. Jack and Janet Elam of Pickwick Road. On Saturday night they attended the 10th anniversary get-together of Joe’s class of 1976, Wawasee High School, at the Syracuse-Wawasee American Legion Hall south of Syracuse. Joe is the diving coach at Texas Tech at Lubbock, and has been assisting a coaching friend at the University of Miami, Fla., while the latter has been on an extended duty. LITTLE JESSICA Marie Knispel missed her own baby shower, but by only two minutes! The five-pound, 12-ounce girt was born to Steve and Janet Knispel of Warsaw at 2:02 p.m. Sunday at the Whitley County Hospital at Columbia City. All the while her grandmother, Turkey Creek Township Assessor Charlene Knispel, was busy at her home at CR 530 East planning a 2 o’clock baby shower! Needless to say the shower was disrupted. Steve is a deputy in the county sheriff’s department at Warsaw. IF YOU ring up the Syracuse Town Hall on the telephone and someone answers “South Shore,” don’t be alarmed. It’s probably Julie Taubert, who also works another job at the South Shore. —o— WHEN JAPANESE bombers zoomed in on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, everyone was caught off guard — even the student editors who put out The Indiana Daily Student, the student paper at Indiana University at Bloomington. The alert students got out an EXTRA, a fourpage paper with only its front page devoted to the surprise Japanese attack. The other three pages were old news they had standing from a previous press run. Across the top screamed a line in an inch and three-quarters bold type: War Declared. And right under its flag were two, two-inch lines of type: JAP BOMBS KILL 350 AT PEARL HARBOR. We were to learn later than many more than 350 were to lose their lives. What made us think the student editors were caught off guard is the fact that all four pages car(Continued on page 5)