The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 59, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 February 1987 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., February 11,1987

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Editorial St Valentine's There were three Saint Valentines, all living in the second half of the third century. All were martyrs and were connected in the popular mind with the people. In Middles Ages Europe, the day known as St. Valentine’s Day, the 14th, was associated with lovers. In the fifteenth century English writers refer to the day as one when birds choose mates. Costume balls are a feature of Valentine’s Day; in countries where Mardi Gras or Fasching celebrations are extravagant, there are gala celebrations day and night. However it came about, boys and girls soon began exchanging valentines. And hearts still beat faster when one’s best girl, or best beau, sends an especially lovely valentine. It’s good to be remembered and to be loved, and Valentine’s Day prompts such expressions. Lincoln -.. . ‘ Most historians rate Abraham Lincoln (born on the 12th in Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1809) one of the greatest American presidents. Understandably, this view is not universally held in the South, for Lincoln was firm in ordering his armies to invade that region when it sought to secede from the Union. Lincoln was a master pplitician and a public relations genius. Perhaps his greatest stroke of farsightedness in the war which erupted when he was elected was in maneuvering the South to fire the first shot. South Carolina cadets did so, at Fort Sumter, in 1861. Without this successful maneuver, it’s doubtful if the people of the North would have generated the will.to pursue the long and bitter war. Even with this carefully-maneuvered advantage (Lincoln had been warned by the Union command at Fort Sumter that to send ships to provision it would mean firing), the North was racked with misgivings about the war and there were riots in Baltimore and New York and in other cities. The next master stroke in international and public relations was in turning the war into a crusade against slavery. Although this was not his position at the beginning, and though he didn’t free slaves in non-southern states with his famed Emancipation Proclamation, the call for freedom in the South was so appealing and morally just that this doomed the Confederacy’s chances of obtaining recognition from England and France, then leaning toward recognition. Lincoln was a kindly, outdoor, folk-hero type and had he lived the Reconstruction, which brought such terror and vindictiveness to the South, would surely have been, to a large extent, avoided. February, 1987 The Trees Stand Wistful in the Square, Wearing a Half-expectant Air. ‘ — Anne Lawler. The name February derives from the Latin “Febrare,” meaning to purify, , and from church custom and superstitions. In the United States it is notable for containing the birthday anniversary of the father of this country, George Washington (on the 22nd). Candlemas, a purification feast, is observed by Roman, Anglican and Greek churches, and in others, on the 2nd. Many in this country know it as Ground Hog Day. The territory of Illinois was established in the 3rd in 1809. Roger Williams, a famous defender of freedom of religion, arrived in Boston (from England) on the sth in 1631. Ronald .Reagan, 40th president, was born in Tampico, Illinois, on February 6, 1911. Boy Scout Day, commemorating its American chartering, is the Bth, dating from 1910. William Henry Harrison, 9th U.S. president, was born in Charles County, Virginia, on the 9th in 1773. Thomas Edison was born at Milan, Ohio, on the 11th in 1847. Abraham Lincoln was born in Harden County, Kentucky, on the 12th in 1809, his ancestors having first settled in Hingham, Massachusetts (from Norwich, England). He lived later in Indiana and (at 21) moved to Illinois. James Oglethorpe landed at Savannah on the 12th in 1733 and founded Georgia. St. Valentine’s Day falls on the 14th, as well as Arizona Admission Day — dating from 1912 when Arizona became a state.

What others say — Just take the whole check Welcome to the new, simplified federal income tax code. In your first lesson, you were introduced to the new simplified federal income tax withholding allowance certificate. In the old days, before everything became simple, you had to tell your employer how many dependents you would claim on your income tax return. After that, the employer figured out how much to withhold from your paycheck and send to the Internal Revenue Service so that you wouldn’t owe anything at the end of the year. If the withholding proved too low, you could claim fewer dependents. If it proved too high, you could claim more. And then there was always the alternative of periodically paying estimated tax. Pretty complicated, right? Well your Congress, led by the Chicago’s Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has changed all that. The instructions for the new simplified employee’s withholding allowance certificate run to only two pages. They merely require that you fill out a simplified one-page worksheet that asks you among other things, to estimate your itemized deductions for the coming year (which require only a working knowledge of the new, simplified 274- page federal income tax code). Caution: Do not simply assume that next year’s deductions will be about what this year’s were. That won’t work, because everything has been simplified. The instructions are really quite easy to follow, for anybody who is an expert in the rules of three dimensional board games. Here is just one example: “Line E-Should I Stop Here? — You may stop here and enter the total from line E on Form W-4, only if you do not need to increase your allowances as explained between lines E and F of the worksheet.” Alternatively, you can proceed at warp speed in your time cruiser, unless you throw a six or three in your next turn with the dice, in which case proceed directly to the Black Hole. But relax, Get out your magnifying glass and enjoy your first next simplified tax form. And remember, “You may be fined SSOO if, with no reasonable basis, you file a Form W-4 that results in less tax being withheld than is probably allowable.” By the way, the presimplification tax returns for 1986 have been delivered, so if you want, you can just send the simplified W-4 with the mess of receipts from your bottom drawer to your accountants and let them worry about it. But, better check with them first to see if their bill is still going to be deductible. They’ll be able to find the answer in the new simplified tax law, also known as the Tax Accountant’s Welfare Aci Gi ISGSf . - — Chicago Ttmune

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What is love? "Love is giving mom roses and violets. Love is cooking with mom. Love is riding the snowmobile with dad" — Robby

Court news

Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: * Bowling-Joseph Timothy Earl Bowling, 24, r 3 box 561, Syracuse, and Donna Joseph, 23, Walkerton Shue-Zarse Gregory Alan Shue, 37, r 6 box 171, Warsaw, and Dawn Marie Zarse, 31,70696 CR 31, Syracuse Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in Small Claims Division, Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding : Robert M. Whitney, 11, Warsaw Chiropractors, versus David L. Morton; defendant ordered to pay $941.37 plus costs. State Bank of Syracuse versus Brian R. Stouder; defendant ordered to pay $286 plus costs. Beckman, Lawson, Sandler, Snyder and Federoff versus Stacy R. Sylvester Kline; defendant ordered to pay $396 plus costs. Franklin I. Saemann Trust, doing business as F.I. Saemann Real Estate, has received judgments, plus costs, against the following individuals: Mary L. Brantley, $975; David and Laura Meckley, $550; Rick Davis and Dave Perkins, $7lO. Amos and Anna Stump versus Michael W. and Marla P. Mullen; defendants ordered to pay S6O plus costs. Armstrong Jewelers, Inc. versus Bart and Cheryl Hoile; defendants ordered to pay $1,565.56 plus costs. Richard L. Goshert versus Bridgett Sloan; defendant ordered to pay $247.50 plus costs. Tom Berry Music Co. versus Bonnie Stevens; defendant ordered to pay $l3B plus costs. Robert W. Hagin versus Joe Weaver; defendant ordered to pay $55 plus costs. Russell L. Heyde, D.D.S., versus William D. and Judy H. Downhour; defendants ordered to pay SBS plus costs. Tom G. McClain versus Jan Wright and Lois Van Sickle; defendants ordered to pay $645.18 plus costs. Collection Bureau of Warsaw has received judgments, plus costs, against the following individuals: Joseph H. Bradshaw, $86.95; Benjamin R. Shafer, $247.96. Eugene R. Koser has received judgments, plus costs, against the following individuals: Clifford H. Mullins, SB9; Jerry L. Fink, $78.20; Robert Frink, $276; Jerry E. Brown, $2lO. David W. McCool versus Cynthia J. Lackey; defendant ordered to pay $731 plus costs. Tom Moore, doing business as Climate Control, versus Roger Lampbright; defendant ordered to pay $116.31 plus costs. DePlanty Sales & Service versus Rex Westerman; defendant ordered to pay $161.23 plus costs. Wickes Lumber Division, Wickes Companies, versus Rodger Southern, doing business as Southern Woodworking; defendant ordered to pay $1,002.63 plus costs. Mutual Federal Savings Bank versus Lori Grubbs; defendant ordered to pay $504.56 plus costs. Watts Medical versus Penny Oviedo Johnson; defendant ordered to pay $195.02 plus costs. County Court The following persons have paid fir.cc ""j* cost® in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding:

Failure to check deer — Douglas J. Hardy, North Webster, SSO plus SSOO replacementfee. Failure to tag deer — Larry D. Sult, 41, Syracuse, $76. Operating motor vehicle while intoxicated — Trisha L. Thornburg, 17, Syracuse, $253.50, license suspended 90 days, 6 days KCJ; Robert D. Swenson, 45, Syracuse, $303.50, license suspended 90 days, 6 days KCJ; Geoff S. Yergey, 24,, Leesburg, $278, license suspended 90 days, 6 days KCJ; Ramona Beezley, 44, North Webster, $253.50, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ; James A. Gussy, 43, Milford, $428, license suspended 180 days, 12 days KCJ. Also, Ricky D. Slone, 27, Syracuse, $378, license suspended 180 days, 10 days KCJ; Patrick J. Morr, 24, Leesburg, $428, license suspended 180 days, 12 days KCJ; Kent Lee Howell, 21, Leesburg, $328, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ; Lyman H. Stuby, 39, Syracuse, $328, license suspended 180 days, 6 days KCJ. Public intoxication — Lesa S. Campbell, 25, Milford, $100; Kent Lee Howell, 21, Leesburg, SB6. Illegal consumption — Myron Pamer, 20, Syracuse, SB6. Speeding — Paying $65 were: Trisha Thornburg, 17, Syracuse; Roger Northrup, 29, North Webster. Expired registration plate — William J. Beaty, 22, Syracuse, $53. No operator’s license — William J. Beaty, 22, Syracuse, $53. Expired snowmobile registration — Jerome E. Grant, 29, Leesburg, $63. Inducing minor to possession of alcohol — Michael Hernandez, 23, Milford, $135. Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint To Quiet Title Thomas Xanders versus Northern Indiana Conference of United Methodist Church, PO. Box 869 Marion. The plaintiff is seeking judgment to quiet title to real estate in Turkey Creek Township, plus all costs of action. 0 Complaint Phyllis Gerstner versus Stuart A. Walker, r 1 box 20-A-l, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $5,000 for damages to rental premises. Complaint Phyllis Gerstner versus Kenneth H. Hall, 1U N. Harrison, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $2,400 in past due rent, plus interest, attorney’s fees and all costs of action. (Continued on page 5)

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"CRUZIN ‘ _ AROUND 'CUSE"

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Donald C. Kime is a many faceted man, being a nature bug, pastor emeritus of the Nappanee United Methodist Church, amateur photographer, who resides in semi-retirement at Conklin Bay, Lake Wawasee.) I AM a man with many hats! “Arch, there is a story about the hats, and how the gray iron campers kettle came to be mine, — now is not the time to tell it”. The recent deaths of two of the finest gentlemen that ever lived around Lake Wawasee, Joe Gray and Ken Harkless; remind me. I have no “continuing city here,” I look for one to come. The gray cast iron campers kettle holds eight quarts. The casting was made with three stubby legs on the bottom. These are for the purpose of keeping the kettle from tipping over when placed on a hot bed of coals. The lid is ingenious, if you turn it up-side-down and place it over a bed of hot coals, you can make the best pancakes, one at a time, and I have done so many times. A stew cooked over an open wood fire has served a patrol of eight hungry Boy Scouts on numerous camp out occasions. This stew would make Jack Oswald’s mouth water. I rub the kettle’s soot free sides and the “Geni” appears before me in a cloud of mist. He points to an eight-year-old boy clad in blue overalls and a faded blue shirt. His left hand is in his pants pocket clutching a quarter and a dime. He is standing on an old wooden dock extending over the water. Moored on one side of the dock, are clusters of quaint lapstrake boats. The sterns 1 (transom) on the boats are narrow and ride high out of the water, so does the bow of the boats, and the strakes make a graceful curve. The shape of these picturesque crafts are a boon to the fisherman who must row his boat any distance to fish. At this period in time, Ole Evinrude was tinkering with his little gasoline powered engine, — the first outboard motor. / Taking up nearly all the space on the other side of the dock was the, “Red Wing,” long and sleek. It was one of the first and finest gasoline powered launches on the lake. The dark red paint, the long lines, gave the boat a racy look. The owner and driver of the launch did not ignore the boy’s intense curiosity. He swung back the hatch cover to reveal the spring valve lifters bathed in oil and moving up and down in a tuned symphony of a throbbing exhaust. The seats were placed crosswise in the boat. You could either climb over the gunnel or be helped to your seat. The boy parts with his quarter, the price of a ride around the lake. He climbs in with the other passengers, the motor throbs, the propeller churns as the old cement block hotel at Oakwood ’ landing fades into the distance. As the boat proceeded along the south-east shore the boy noted there were few houses between Oakwood and a point just east of the old dance hall. He imagined Indians peering out of the woods that came down to the shore. The boat docks at Buttermilk Point (Ogden Island) and the passengers embark and climb the shaded hill. There at a stand you could buy a tall glass filled with cold buttermilk. The buttermilk had been cooled with the ice that had been cut from the lake in winter and stored in a near by ice house for summer consumption. The boy parts with his last dime for a tall glass of buttermilk. Another attraction that drew the summer vacationers to Buttermilk Point were the tiers of cages that housed a few native wild animals. The boy pulled a cookie from the right pocket of his overalls, dipped it in the milk and proffered it to the raccoon. Shape, size, form, texture, movement, color, and habitat of the little animals he had stalked on his grandfather’s farm were photographed in his mind, and remain today as vivid and real as they were then. His interest oniy brought to him a feeling of regret that the little creatures had to be confined to a cage, so people could see them. k The launch continues around the north east shore or the lake past the old Sergeant Hotel, a Baltimore & Ohio railroad stop for vacationers from Chicago. Kale Island was a wilderness. Years later he would be given a painting of the island in all of its natural beauty. The donor, Charles Hartman then president of an Indianapolis firm manufacturing a nationally known line of wardrobe and steamer trunks. The launch trip ends at the Oakwood landing. The boy departs after one more fond look at the launch “Red Wing”. He is richer in experience but depleted of cash. Thirty-five cents was a small fortune for a boy to possess at that time. I have allowed no grime or soot to accumulate on the “Spider Legged Kettle.” Another rubbing of its surface and the “Geni” returns again. The early morning east-bound local passenger train is standing at the Elkhart Station. Beside the open door of the baggage car are two baggage trucks. A skinny boy is catching long thin wooden cases painted red, bearing the insignia in white letters on the side A&P Tea Co. They are filled with bread. Baked at the company bakery in Chicago during the wee hours of the morning, they were hauled to the station, put aboard the local for their final destination in stores located in towns and cities along the right of way. _ Every passenger train stopped for a five minute inspection. There could be no idle moment in transferring the bread cases. On the adjoining east bound track the famous name train of the age “The Twentieth Century Limited” pulled in on its last divisional lap to Chicago. The observation car with its canopy and gleaming brass railing surrounding the platform usually came to a stop adjoining the baggage car of the east bound local. Between the two trains and the baggage truck there was hardly enough room for a person to walk. The bed of the baggage truck

was level with the floor of the observation and baggage car. The famous stars of the silent screen rode on the “Twentieth Century Limited”. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, and the bashful brunette with long black curls and big green eyes, Mae McAvoy. There was genial, handsome Tom Mix, Charley Chaplin and fellow comedian Fatty Arbuckle. The newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hurst might appear and the steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie. It was a thrill to exchange greetings with them. One morning as the Century rolled to a stop, the lad had a strange feeling someone was looking at him. He looked up to see leaning against the 1 brass railing of the observation car, a tall frail man. His eyes seemed to penetrate you. It was John D. Rockefeller, Oil Magnate. “Do you attend school,” he asked the lad. The boy replied that as soon as the bread was loaded he would change his clothes and freshen up a bit in the express office. Then he would walk five blocks to arrive for his first class at Elkhart High School. John D. reached into his vest pocket to pull out one of those famous new Rockefeller dimes. He had to stretch his long thin arm out to the outstretched hand of the lad. “Study Hard” he admonished the boy as the wheels of the Century began to move. Every crew that pulled one of the New York Central’s limiteds, either had been given a John D. dime or hoped to be given one. At the completion of a trip by train, John D. would walk up to the engine cab, shake hands with the crew, thank them for a safe journey, and present each with a new dime. The “Geni” said, “I am getting tired, if I loose my patience, as you continue to rub the kettle, who knows what I might reveal”! The gangly youth was almost a man. It was imperative that he return to Syracuse, and Lake Wawasee with its beautiful shore line, glistening waves, and sandy beaches. He was drawn to the place like a ten penny nail to a magnet. He would let his hair grow longer because he knew that at a certain date he could have his hair cut at Bushongs’ Barber Shop. Then, there were three chairs in the shop. The late, genial conversationalist Joe, proprietor, had the first chair, his son George, the second, and the youngest son Jon, the third chair. Jon decided before he was 40 to change careers. When your name was called you might say “I am waiting for”, and then you gave your preference. George and Jon never minded that the man waited for their father Joe. George still cuts the man’s hair though it is sparse and gray.' They have exchanged fish! George has given him slabs of trout he caught on one of his fishing trips on Lake Michigan. George receives, in return, a mess of frozen blue gills caught on Lake Wawasee. They are all standards to insure no ril bing from George. Avon, brother of George and Jon, and former Syracuse postmaster sometimes reminisces over a cup of coffee. The kettle is rubbed and the gray sides shine. The “Geni” has never failed him and will reveal more. World War II has ended. Ed and Virginia Caskey arrive from Mishawaka, as the new managers of Oakwood Park and Hotel. Behind the hotel are moored at the docks a dozen steel fabricated row boats. They were manufactured by the Pioneer Tank and Boat Company of Middlebury. These boats are one of the concessions rented from the hotel desk. Fiber glass and aluminum made boats were gradually making their appearance. The “Geni” torments him by showing a young man and young lady in one of the steel boats rowing through the channel, then across Syracuse Lake to the dock at the end of Main street. Their destination is the soda fountain at Thornburgs drug store. At that time the young man could be at the lake at least two weeks during the summer for good reasons. He was directing the Intermediate Boys Gamp, “Camp Oaks”. In addition to his duties as director it was his responsibility to gather softball equipment, boat oars from the Smoker Oar Factory, at New Paris. On impulse, he purchased a large rubber raft on sale at an Army and Navy Surplus store. It was on sale for *2O. The Camp Truste.es turned down the proposition with good reason. The camper fee per week for each boy was *l2 dollars. Ten dollars went for food, and the remaining two dollars went Tor insurance, incidentals, and camper certificates. Dr. A. Hunter Colpitts, John Beam, Ed Caskey formed a company to bail out the director. They called the rubber raft the “Ca-Be-Ki-Co”. The hotel desk would handle the rental of the rubber raft at one dollar per hour. The raft proved to be a novelty and a great attraction. It was in demand by youth as well as men and women who wanted to row a navy rescue craft from World War 11. At the end of the summer season “Ca-Be-Kl-Co” company met to divide the profits. More than *2OO was split between the four owners. The late Ken Harkless owner of Wawasee Boat Company carried a line of beautiful lapstrake boats. They ranged in size from the 22-foot inboard to the little 13-foot Leader. They were manufactured by the Lyman Boat Company, Sandusky, Ohio. The young man has visions of a boat, not made of galvanized iron, but a wood lapstrake boat powered by an outboard motor. «. He is at Harkless Harbor standing on the dock talking to Dale Butt, Ken!s manager. Before them is a used Lyman Leader up-side-down on a pair of saw horses. The young man has his profit from the rubber boat sale plus a few more dollars. A deal is on and the young man pays *BS for the lapstrake Leader. At this time Ken comes on the scene as the deal is closed. He said to Dale with a twinkle in his eye, “Why don’t you throw in a pair of oars, Dale”? Beside the fact that he bought a bigger Lyman from Ken later a bond was created by their Interest in photography. Both owned Leica (Continued on page 5)