The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 51, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 December 1986 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., December 17,1984

Editorial

A job well done. . . All too often when teenagers do something wrong their names appears in print. But, when they do something good, nothing is printed, either because it is not news or the press fails to find out about it until it is to late. Not so this week! The students at Wawasee High School, especially the junior class, have done their job well and we want everyone in the Lakeland area to know. Each year for the past 19 years a penny pitch has been held at the high school as Christmastime with the money going to help the needy of the area. This year was no exception. But, this year records were broken. The drive came up with a grand total of $2,948. That in itself is great. But... . . . there is more to the story. The junior class raised $2,003.88 That’s 68 percent of the total. And, what’s more, it was all done with donations; no special projects were held. It was a time for giving. A time for sharing. They simply asked everyone they came in contact with, including their parents, to help by donating. As we noted in an editorial on December 3, the greatest gift we can give is the gift of sharing. Because of a job well done by the members of the junior class and the entire student body, faculty and parents, needy families will, indeed, have a Merry Christmas, too! Christmas trees Americans buy more Scotch pines at Christmas than anything else, a bushy tree which holds its needles well. Red and Norway pines are also bought but are losing out with growers because wet snows often damage them. Eastern and western white pines are also sold but many growers feel firs are best, since they hold their needles indoors longer. Balsam and douglas fir (not a true fir) are both popular. The spruces hold their needles a shorter time. They include Norway spruce, white spruce (less popular) and blue spruce, a very expensive tree. Here are some useful tips: 1. Bend a needle. If it breaks, don’t buy. 2. Bounce the stump. If needles fall, don’t buy. 3. Look at the stump. If not moist or sticky, don’t buy. . 4. Keep your tree green longer by cutting an inch off the stump and placing it in water or damp sand. Some add sugar, aspirin, etc., to the water. Firewood It’s time to burn wood again in stoves, heaters and furnaces. Wood is traditionally bought by the cord. A cord of properly dried hardwood equals in heating capacity (when properly burned) 130 gallons of no. 2 fuel oil. One can price oil in his community to determine relative cost. Wood should be cut six to ten months before burning. Thus, late winter and early spring are the time to cut wood for fall. Wood burning has its disadvantages. It requires more storage space, is often a hauling problem.-Wood fires must be regularly stoked and controlled. They can often be inefficient, or dangerous. They present ash removal problems. But the home using wood for heat isn’t at the mercy of a power company, the weather, or a delivery truck. Apple cider Cider is usually unpasteurized apple juice, and, of course, it will ferment unless refrigerated and drunk within about two weeks. Unfermented, fresh apple juice is, however, a fine drink and a healthy one. Experts blend sweet and tart apples to get the desired flavor. Obtaining the juice from apples is a two-part process. The apples are first ground into pumice and this is then crushed to extract the juice, which can run as high as ninety percent. Cider — without preservatives and unpasteurized — can be frozen, but one should allow a pint to each gallon for expansion. Also cider can be made right on up into the winter from stored apples. In fact, some believe that about February is the best time for making cider, with apples that have been properly stored and are then just reaching maturity. Santa Claus & While some in this country choose not to observe the Santa Claus tradition at Christmas, which is not to be criticized, for most American children Christmas Eve is a magic night unmatched the rest of the year. - How many have tried to stay awake Christmas Eve night, to hear Santa on the roof? How many have left food by the fireplace? How many have thrilled at the thought of a glimpse of him, in red and white? \ How many millions of letters have gone out to him, of hope for wonderful toys 7 . \ If it can’t last, and it can’t; if it isn’t real life, andit isn’t, it’s nevertheless a magic time of joy and excitement and wonderful anticipation for youngsters. What others say — — — War with Canada TRADE WAR? We’ve got one already, right at America’s border with Canada. Canada has put a 70 percent tariff on imports of American corn, enough to kill U.S. exports of com to Canada. Outrageous? Canadians point to an import fee the United States slapped on Canadian softwood lumber last month. Six. months ago the United States put a tariff on Canadian shingles and shakes. Canada retaliated with import fees on books, magazines, computer parts and semiconductors. Take that. Same to you. And pretty soon the United States and its biggest trading partner are slicing away chunks of our mutual commerce as if we could live in isolation from one another, although of course we can’t. These retaliation are taking place at the same time the United States and Canada are attempting to negotiate a more open trading policy. Maybe each side is trying to show how much harm we are capable of doing to each other if open trade isn’t followed It ’s tempting to pick out certain areas such as automobiles, textiles or the U.S. lumber industry and say we will protect these. But no part of the U.S. economy is isolated from the rest. Retahatam soon strikes firom another direo tom The war with Canada, still in the skormishmg stage, illustrates what a policy of protectionism would bring If we can’t work ent reasonable trade arrangements with Canada, how will we mamge with thereto of the worM? -THE ELKHART TRUTH

Thanks to the WHS students many will have a Merry Christmas this year. Court news

Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in Small Claims Division, Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: American Industries versus Pamela Blosser; defendant ordered to pay $1,158.07 plus costs. Collection Bureau versus John Bryant; defendant ordered to pay $158.19 plus costs. • f County Court The following persons have been assessed fines and costs and have paid them in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Insufficient lifesaving devices on board — Paying $67 were: Steven Reeder, 28, Milford; Ed D. Burchard, 22, North Webster. Driving while suspended — Debra D. Zeil, 25, Milford, $lO3, license suspended like period; Anthony Clifford Lude, 19, Syracuse, $l2B, license suspended like period. Operating without ■ financial responsibility — Angie J. Anderson, 18, Leesburg, $83.50. Leaving scene of property damage accident — Ray J. Skelton, 20, Syracuse, $lO3 and license suspended six months; Christopher A. Pruitt, 19, Pierceton, $83.50; Geraldine L. Burr, 23, Syracuse, $93.50. Operating while intoxicated — Debbie Templeton, 23. Leesburg. $278, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ; Michael D. Pederson, 18, Syracuse, $278, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ. Frank E. Sammons, 23, North Webster, $278, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ; Roger Allen Galloway, 16, Syracuse, $328, license suspended 90 days, 6 days KCJ; Samuel L Hamman, 111, 35, Warsaw, $278, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ; Steven T. Hatcher; 21, Leesburg, $328, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ. Public intoxication — Paying $36 was Frank E. Sammons, 23, North Webster No operator’s license — Paying $68.50 was William J. Beaty, 22. Syracuse. Possession of lead shot in steel shot zone w/hunting waterfowl — John A. Rupprecht, 28, North Webster, s7l. Littering — James E. Alford, 37, Cromwell, $132. Operating boat in excess of 10 mph — Anthony G. Herman, 49, Leesburg, $67 1 . No boat registration — Roland J. Sholl, 55, Syracuse, $67. No boat stern light — Larry A. Baumgardt, 38, Syracuse, $67. Skiing without observer — David Zipful, 44, Syracuse, $67. Illegal consumption —Anthony Clifford Lude, 19, Syracuse, SB6, license suspended 90 days, 6 days KCJ. Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Shock—Linda L. Shock, no address given, and John G. Shock, r t box 3778, North Webster. The couple was married Jan. 4, 1986, and separated Nov. 18, 1986. There is one minor child. Superior Court The following petitions have been filed: in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint x Augsburger’s Super Vain ver sus Sunee Stepp, 2188 E. Winona Aw., Warsaw, for $279.79 on a returned check. Complaint Augsburger’s Super Valu. versus Todd Eyer, 21)1 E. Boston St,. Syracuse, for $404.91 on a returned check Coinplhint Far Foiwdttsure Os Kral KMute Contract Charles Rock, Jr. versus John E. Holloway, Jt., 312 N. Indiana Aw., Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking foreclosure of a real estate contract to satisfy judgment in the amount of $14,015.25 plus interest, attorney ’s fees and all costs of action. Complaint William Holcomb and Leann Holcomb versus Paul Thomas, r 5 box 197, Syracuse. The pltontiffs are seeking judgment against the defendant in the amount of $15,0W for damages resulting from the killing of the plaintiffs dachsund by the dtefemfant’s dog on Nov .7,1985, Complaint Wawasee Service Center versus Jamas Di Tilbury, 824 Pixie Way,. Cromwell, for $22750 mt a returned check.

Circuit Court ► The following petitions have ; been filed in Kosciusko Circuit t Court, Judge Richard Sand > presiding: Reciprocal Support f. Denise Brousseau , versus Gregory Haase, r 2 box 196 C, ; Leesburg, for support of minor child. i Complaint On Real EMate Contract And Foreclosure Miriam Roush versus Robert S. Pojeta, r 4 box 188, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking foreclosure of rqpl estate contract to satisfy judgment in the amount of--525,838 12 plus interest, attorney’s fees and all costs of action. City Court The following fine has been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Public intoxication — Arlen V. Tackett, 36, Syracuse, SBS, 30 days in jail suspended, six months probation, pay user’s fees, at- . tend GAP and pay for services, use no alcoholic beverages No nrrests, no injuries at Syracuse Three accidents were investigated by Syracuse Police this week, with no arrests or injuries being reported in any of the incidents. Up to SI,OOO in damages was caused to a 1976 Buick, driven by Mary C. Walgamuth, 21, r 1 Wawasee Circle 36, Cromwell, when a deer entered its path. Walgamuth was westbound on US 6at 7:16 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13. when the deer crossed in front of her vehicle. She attempted to brake but couldn't avoid hitting the animal. A blown tire caused a onevehicle accident at 12:53 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 14 on W.E. Long Drive, s-outhof Elkhart/Kosciusko County Line Road. Roger K. Purnell. 27. r 1 box 182. Cromwell, was traveling north on W.E. Long when a tire on his 1977 Chrysler Cordoba blew, causing him to strike four mailboxes on the east side of the street. The mailboxes suffered up to S2OO damages, while no damage was listed for the car Heavy frost contributed to a accident at 6:55 a.m. Monday, Dec. 15, on private property, 80 feet north of CRI2OON and CR4SOE. Raul L. Zarate. 26, p< box 42H. Milford, was traveling north on CR 450E, approaching CR 1200 N. when he applied the brakes and started sliding due to heavy frost. The automobile slid through the intersection and hit the southwest corner of a house on the north side of CRI2OON. Up to $2,500 in damages was caused to the house, owned by Rolland Wogomon, box 592, Syracuse, while his lawn suffered up to $75 in damage. UP to $2,500 in damages was also caused to the 1983 Chevrolet Blazer, driven by Zarate. Janet Lilies suffers minor injuries Janet Liles, 42, 301 E. Washington St., Syracuse, suffered minor injuries in an accident Monday, Dec. 15, at 7:59 a>m. The accident occurred on CR 33, two miles north ofc Syracuse. She was treated at Goshen Hospital. Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department report toe Liles’ 1975 Pontiac was struck by a 1978 Plymouth driven by John L. Galloway, IT,. tin B. Court, Goshen, a f ter his car crossed the centerline.

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THE INQUIRY concerning the bricks and other materials in the old nptown school building goes on. We learned from Wilfred E. Hodler that the large upright pilasters in front of the building were purchased by the late Seth Warcl and finally became a part of the front of Ward’s Lake Wawasee library. And about the bricks, now comes Bob Inis ley, of 212 Dolan Drive, who says they were used to build the four-unit Treadway Apartment House, also on Dolan Drive, in about 1955. Cliff Cripe, now of Melbourne, Florida, and his father-in-law, the late Earl Treadway tore the old school building down and used much of the materials, including the bricks, for the handsome apartment house. Nancy Searfoss, Treadway ’s daughter, states her parents were fascinated with the beauty of what was then a race of running water, at one time used to run toe generators at the town Is pumping station on West Main Street. Along the race were all sorts of wild flowers, providing a pretty setting for the apartment building Treadway proposed. It was nostalgia time for many who grew up in Syracuse and had as their favorite swimming hole the area at the south end of Dolan Drive, where a steel truss bridge crossed the narrow span of running water running off the channel where it entered Turkey Creek. Young swimmers really “arrived** when they got up enough nerve to dive off the top of the Meel trusses. They hated to see the old race go. LOIS AND Maurice Koher, 700 South Huntington St., left Sunday for Phoenix Ariz., where they will spend the winter months, returning to Syracuse at mid-March. Their grandson, Todd Line, drove them through, planning to make his permanent home in Phoenix. The Kobers will be in Apartment 11, at 3405 East Osborne Road, near their daughter Elaine Line. Lois Koher is retired as head nutritionist at the Wawasee High School cafeteria, and Maurice has been flagman at the corner of Boston and Huntington Streets for a number of years. Lavon Davis will act as his sub until Koher returns home. FOR A good many years neighboring Columbia City, the county seat of Whitley County, has been a model for decorating a relatively small town fo»* the holiday season. And this year is no exception. In fact, it seems like Columbia City is going all out this year, according to Glen Frank of that city's Chamber of Commerce. At an estimated coM of $26,509 (SB,OOO in cash and services and $6,000 raised by the chamber in donations), more than 100 new electric fixtures were purchased for display in the court house square and mounted on utility poles in and around the city. A trust fund has been set up at a local bank, under the umbrella of the John Adams Trust Fund, to assist in raising the additional funds needed. You won’t see these decorations driving down US :io. but will have to go uptown. And it’s worthy it. we’re to|d. MIKE UMBAUGH and Tom Tuttle, local businessmen, were guests of ABC sportscaster Chris Schenkel in his private plane a week ago on a Florida trip where Schenkel narrated the Ladies Professional Golf Classical Clearwater. Both Umbaugh and Tuttle were thrilled at the number of golf ’greats’’ they were able to meet through Schenkel. While they were in Clearwater they had dinner one evening with Dr. Kenneth E. Webster, former Wawasee School Corporation superintendent. AT LEAST one person we spoke to last week was heartened by an Ann Landers column that pointed to many artists, musicians, scientists and writers who did their best work when they were in their 60s or 70s. Our friend said he could feel the sands of time running out, and got a lift out of Ann s comments. She wrote that the German play wright Goethe completed “Faust” after he was 80, and Judge Learned Hand completed 50 years of: service in 1959 at 87, while Amos Alonzo Stagg was still coaching football at 100. Then she added Grandma Moses, Winston Churchill. Vladimir Horowitz. Albert Einstein, Admiral Hyman Kickover, Pope John XXtll, Pablo Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright. Carl Sandburg, JuMice Louis Brandeis. And she could have mentioned Bob Hope, George Burns and Konrad Adenauer,, who was German Chanceller at 92. Good going, Ann. IT'S BEEN hospital news concerning three Syracusans during the past week, and good news at that. Merl Smith and Ralph Bushong share room 302 at the Goshen Hospital, and each is making excellent progress to restored good health. Merl Smith entered the hospital on Monday. Dec. 7, suffering from a Mood dot on the lung. Me is reporting some weight loss and fully expects to be home today (WednctUay). Bushong, a sixth grade science; teacher bln the Syracuse school, rare the hospital hriday. Itushong, a 1 runner for his own. always aartin? oi Something this to

NqpjMNssis • • • stavMfi ut Christmas Something equally as welcome each member can have the feel- "adopt” a. child: through some as- a purchased gift at mg of having a part in this star- organization by giving a small Christmastime would be a gift of mg plan. amount each month for the needs one’sttme. There may be a disadvantaged. of: a certain child. One’s children city child who would tove to have might ready enjoy having a pert* Invite a foreign student or a a Christmas gift certificate to by giving a small part of their new couple in the community to vitinghim/tar fora vacation at a allowance or money that they share in a family Christmas din- family ’s summer cottage or have earned to chin in with the ner. Discuss this with the rest et country home. rest of the family toward thisprothe family, first, in order that The family might like to ject

totfthk catena on Monday morning. June (Mrs. Hubert) Anglemeyer underwent major surgery for an arterial bypass at the Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne last Wednesday and is reported to be making good progress. She expects to be released later this week. THIS MIGHT have been a mild winter so far, but we have word that ice boats are already appearing on Syracuse Lake. Several small, oneman DN ice boats appeared Sunday afternoon on the west side of the lake on ice that couldn’t have ’ been more than two to three inches thick. Lake Wawasee, being a much larger (and open) body of water, was not frozen over the weekend, but is expected to freeze over soon. The DN model ice boat, popular on local lakes, will participate in the Winter Carnival the last week in January, along with the Arrow model, a one- or two-man craft. IF YOU’RE a Wawasee Warrior basketball fan and missed the Friday night game against Warsaw, you certainly missed a dilly. \ Coach Gary Goshert, a Warsaw High School graduate, a school where his dad earned his spurs, must have been delighted to pull off this win. Almost no one expected the Warriors to win over what appeared a much taller opponent. It was sort of a nip and tuck game, with the Warriors trailing 14-19 at first quarter’s end, and were still behind at half-time, 32 to 33. At the end of the third quarter, however, the tenacious boys in yellow and green led by two points, 48 to 46. It was the last seconds that had the audience on its feet. Behind one point, Tim Mangas rolled in a back-hander to give the Warriors a 63-62 lead. The crowd was on the floor but one second remained on the scoreboard. The referees cleared the floor to run off the final second. Warsaw threw the bail in, a Tiger took a quick shot from mid-court, which barely missed. Wow! It was a big night for the Warriors. Three Warriors proved real stand-outs: Tim Mangas with his 21 points; Fred Steffen with 16 points proved an absolute dead-eye, quick as a wink; and Darrin Atwood, a smaller guard who garnered 10 points. If it was surpassed in excitement at all, it was by the Junior Varsity, whose game against the Warsaw JV ran into three overtimes, a record for the big Wawasee gym. ONE MORE time: Beware of the deceptive slick roads. This was the case Monday morning, when the roads seemed dear, but a skift of ice caused a number of cars to veer off the road. Most accidents were minor, however SOMETIME AFTER th? first of the new year Syracuse will have a new and completely different business. Joan Pasko plans to open a complete interior design business that will go by the name of Interiors By Design. Her location will be the front part of the uptown building that until recently was occupied by Charlie’s Ladies Apparel. Tim Yeager purchased the building from Charles Rock, and will operate a camera shop and studio in the other portion of the building. Joan Pasko said this week she will specialize in complete interior design service, including window treatment, carpeting, wail coverings, furniture and accents. She has been in the area since 1980 and has been working out of her Venetian Island home, to establish her services in the community. She bought our Designers Touch in Warsaw two years ago. Joan hails from Wisconsin but worked in the Chicago area for four years before coming to the Syracuse community. She had a year's experience with Pletcher’s Furniture in Nappanee and another year with NTA Engineering, another Nappanee firm. IT WON’T be until after the first of the year that the general public will get a look-see at the new fire station addition on South Huntington Street in Syracuse. Turkey Creek Township Trustee Lou Kuilema said this week he plans a public open house (perhaps for just one day) of the new facility. The addition was designed by James .Malcolm & Associates and was erected at a cost of nearly $135,008, but gives the town and township one of the best and most up-to-date fire departments iit the area. Look for the date of the open house. CAROL KROH. daughter of Charles F. and Sara Kroh of North Shore Drive, has been appointed a division manager for Princeton Pharmaceutical Products, a division of Squibb United States. Holder off a BS degree iir biological sciences from Indiana U-. Carol will supervise representatives ami field operations, including sales and training and marketing in the Detroit area. Princeton Pharmaceutical Products was created by Squibb to provide drug therapies in cardiovascular and other areas and to use state-of-Ute-art cammiiiniteatiqas technology in disseminating product and disease information to physicians. Kroh joined Squibb in 1975 and has served as a full line representative and professional sales representative She won the Squibb Go-Getter Award for outstanding sales performance in 1985. and waived the Squibb Go-Getter Runner-Up AwardinW. (Continued on pages)