The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 April 1987 — Page 18

THE MAIL-JOURNAL April 22, 1987

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Radon testing available

An inexpensive method of testing homes for the presence of radon is currently available according to the American Lung Association of North Central In diana and the Kosciusko County Health Department. • Because radon riiay present a health problem for some residents in the area, the organizations are providing a lists of companies which sell simple testing devices. The health department and the lung association are also putting together an information package free of charge to the public. What Is Radon? Radon is a radioactive gas that results, from the natural breakdown of uranium. It diffuses easLly through such materials as

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wood, wall board, concrete block and soil, but cannot be seen, smelled, or .tasted. Radon is diluted to such low concentrations that it presents no health danger. Indoors, however, it can become attached to small dust pa r tides and * accumu 1 ate. especially during cold-weather months when windows remain securely closed. “Exposure to radon over a 20-year period is usually considered highly risky. When radon-infected dust particles are inhaled, the may become lodged in the lungs, tissue and cause the development of lung cancer. « Although most homes do not have a radon problem, certain houses in various parts of the

United States may have high indoor radon levels due to natural deposits of uranium in the soil on which they are built. Attention to this problem first arose in the - late 196Qs when it was discovered that certain homes in the west were built with-materials contaminated by waste from uranium mines; -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that between one million and five million homes are probably at risk _ ■-. 6 . How To Test Your Home The testing devices, which are relatively inexpensive, are placed in your home’s lowest living level for a specified period of time. The monitor is then returned to the company for. analysis, it the results show that your home has a radon concentration high than three or four picocuries per liter, some basic corrective actions may be recommended. The Indiana State Board of Health recommends that if readings of eight or more are found, additional testing and or extensive action may be required. Radon Remedies To reduce the level of radon in your - home, there are several remedies you can follow. The quickest course of action for a tightly constructed .home is to ventilate the lowest level of your home such as a basement or crawl space. It is important to

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open vents or windows on all sides ot tne nouse to equalize, the air pressure. You can also use window fans to draw air into your home and out through facing windows. During extreme temperature months, however, - this method can substantially increase your heating or air conditioning bill. Air-to-air heat exchangers .provide the best costeffective solution. For more information about radon, contact your local health department or the American Lung Association of North Central Indiana, 319 S. Main St., South Bend, Ind. 46601 or cali (219) 287-2321.

It happened ... in Syracuse

10 YEARS AGO, APRIL 20, 1977 Saturday night Was Charter Night for the newly organized Kiwanis Club of Wawasee, and formal acceptance of the new 40-member service club was held at the South Shore club. Jim Tranter, Syracuse town board president, announced that the week of April 23-30 will be Clean-up, Fix-up Week in the Syracuse area. This announcement came at last night’s (Tues : day) Syracuse Town Board meeting held in the town hall.

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AREA FARMERS BUSY IN FIELDS — Jeff Dippon is shown incorporating anhydrous ammonia on a 40-acre field west of Milford on Monday, April 20.

The Pollywog Inn, r 2 Syracuse, was granted a new Sunday sales liquor license at the regular meeting of the Kosciusko County Alcoholic Beverage Board last We d nes day mo "a: r. g, April_l3 Mr. and Mrs. Noble C. Blocker of South Lake Street, Syracuse, will observe their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house for friends and relatives, Sunday, April 24,2 to 4 p.m., at Fellowship Hall, Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church, SR 13 Syracuse. f Syracuse Chapter No. 283, Order of the Eastern Star, met last Wednesday evening for the first meeting of the 1977 season. Worthy Matron Arlene Mohler opened the meeting with a reading on the meaning of Easter. During a meeting of the Syracuse Wednesday Afternoon dub last: week in the >heme of, Mrs. Ray Buhrt, members went "Strolling Down Memory Lane" with Miss Katherine Rothenberger and Mrs. J. M. Rapp as guides. 21) YEARS AGO. APRIL 19. 1967 At the regular April meeting of the Syracuse town board last evening Charles (Bud) Miller was appointed to the Syracuse plan commission. _ Bob Wiles of Syracuse. winner of three races at the New Paris Speedway last week end. will be among the more than 50 drivers competing each week end at the quarter-mile track as racing shifts the rest of the season to Saturday nights. Tom A. Knoop, is the new manager of the W. R. Thomas Store in Syracuse, taking the place of Larry Briggs, who moved to Eaton Rapids. Mich., where he will manage a Thomas store. Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Kammerdiener, Mr, and Mrs. GeoegtT Lewallen. Syracuse. Mi/'and Mrs. George Lewallerp-df ~ New Paris, were Sunday evening callers es Mrs. Vern Lewallen. Bristol. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy of Syracuse- were recent\ dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bearfoot of r 3 Syracuse. Mrs.- William Rogers, Mrs. Mae Rinker, Mrs. Winifred’ Fredericks. Mrs. Frarik G. Bieber. Mrs. Leonard Kauffman, Mrs. Donald White and Mrs. Bessie Plicard. all of the Syracuse area, attended at TOPS convention recently in the Murat Temple, Indianapolis. The valedictorian of the Syracuse graduating classes Cheryl Lee Peffley, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Peffley of r 4” Syracuse. She plans to enter Western Michigan University following graduation. 30 YEARS AGO, APRIL 18. 1957 Carolyn Ross has purchased the restaurant on South Huntington Street formerly owned and operated by Marge Funk, and opened for business this mor-

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ning. To be known as Carol’s Fine Foods, the restaurant is completely re-decorated and will be serving from 6:00 a m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday thru Thursday. Temporary plans are to remain open until 2:00 amtr-Friday and Saturday and to be closed all day Sunday. Mrs. E. L. Fosbrink was elected president of the' ParentTeachers Association at the regular meeting Tuesday night. Mrs. Robert Martin was named vice-president, Mrs. Ralph Thornburg, secretary, and Harold Arnold, treasurer. Serving on the nominating committee were Mrs. Clifton Kinder. Mrs. W, T. Jones. Jr., and Wayne McMillan. jjMrs. A. W. Sutton, James W. Sutton and Frank Garten, all Os Indianapolis, were dinner guests of the William T. Jones. Jr., family on Saturday evening, where they, celebrated the birthdays of Mr. Garten and Mrs. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn King of Nappanee, spent Thursday with their daughter, Mrs. Max Ganshorn of Syracuse. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stahley of Syracuse Lake were Mr. and Mrs. George Laymoh of Mishawaka. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Laymon and Jack, Jr. of Niles, Michigan and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Warstler of Mrs. Mary Ringler and daughters, Mrs. Lloyd Hunter and Mrs. Fred ..Personette, left this morning for Chicago where another daughter. Joan, will join

Telephone service rattles Indiana

The people don’t" want it . . . companies don't want it . . the legislature doesn't want it. . yet local measured telephone service "iS-ga+ning-'a foothold in Indiana, says the state's largest smallbusiness organization. Local measured telephone service (LMS), the term for pricing local telephone calls by the minute, is heavily denounced in survey after survey, accordingly the National Federation of Independent Business/Indiana. Nearly everyone feels it will result in higher kOMI telephone bills and penalize consumers talking to relatives or shopkeepers talking to their customers. But the lawmakers are opening the door to LMS through some unusual legislation, says NFIB Both the House and Senate passed a bill (HB — now in "conference — that bans LMS outright until March 1989. At the same time, however, it provides for LMS tests in five designated communities (Bedford. Kokomo. Martinsville, Michigan City, and Paragon). Under this test. LMS rates are/ optional for consumers but mandatory for business. At the end of

Although many area fields are getting this final operation before planting, some of the low ground needs more drying weather before it can be plowed. (Photo by Glen Long)

them for a trip to Fort Leonard Wood to visit Mrs. Loren Neibert (Wanda Ringler) and her hus- . band. 50 YEARS AGO, APRIL 22, 1935 A long time community plan of promotion and publicity -r6-r Syracuse and Lake country was outline Sunday afternoon, to about 40 members of the Syracuse-Wawasee Community Chamber of Commerce by W. E. Long, local financier and builder. Thornburg Drug Company, owned and operated by Ralph E. Thornburg and Charles Kroh, on Main street here, are remodeling the interior and exterior of their drug store. Work has been started upon repairing streets and alleys here, by town workmen, following an order issued Tuesday night by iKvni.beri; of thesßov.nJJoard. It is explained a number of streets are in a bad state of repairs, and must be placed in good and passable condition before the vacation season opens. Extra men have been hired to do the work. Fifty-six quarts of Wall Eyed Pike fish eggs have been received at the Lake Wawasee State Fish Hatchery, according to Maurice Lung, superintendent, and have been placed in the hatchery house where they will be hatched artificially. This is the only species of fresh water fish found in Indiana that can be hatched under

two years, consumer LMS is prohibited but business LMS can be allowed statewide by the' Public Service Commission "This unusual legislation opens the door to LMS telephone service.” says NFIB/Indiana Director Edward Bowman. "It grants permission for LMS business service which may continue and possibly even expand anywhere in Indiana afterwards. And. it builds evidence and creates pressure for residential local measured service after the twoyear ban ends. , "Small business is clearly angered with the law’s double standard,'' Bowman says. "We’re even madder about the legislature's disregard for business community opinion and their opening the door to statewide LMS for business in 1989." He pointed to an Indiana

UTS announces installation of new equipment at Syracuse

United Telephone of Indiana will be activating new digital switching equipment for customers in the Syracuse exchange on May 16. announces Nanette Vetor-Frantz. community relations manager for United. The new equipment is the most

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artificial conditions. The eggs number about 180,000 to a quart. Mr. Lung said. The old established drug store owned by F. L. Hoch, for a number of years, this week to Ted Castle C. iiiibish of Bristol. Indiana. Construction of a new and modern comfort station and public rest room has been started in the grade school building here, on Main street. The Town Board of Syracuse has awarded a contract to Harry Bunger of Cromwell, low bidder to use a part of the Town Hall, located in the school building, for the purpose of providing a public comfortstation. Public schools will dose here Friday and Commencement exercise will be h :!' J Any ninht There are fourteen girls and ten boys members of the graduation class, according to Court Slabaugh, school principal. They are: Lucille Osborn, Geneva Rogers. Mary Simon. Edith Stabler, Ruth Wiggs, Natalie Wolf. Wyvona Greider. Betty Mae Hughes. Edna Mae Hurtig, Martha Jane Kern. Christine Kline. Meredith Mench. Howard Juday, Dale Miller. Kenneth Nic'olai, Randall Slusser. Lucy Bachman, Celia Bell Disher, Allen Bickel. James Butt. Keith Cripe. Ezra Halsey, Earl Held and Lavon Insley.

University survey of 400 registered voters last month, conducted for the Indiana Realtors Association. Two-thirds were clearly against local measured telephone service, another 18 percent were neutral or undecided, and only 16 percent favored it. An NFIB/Indiana survey of its small-business- members this year finds 68 percent against State Realtors survey echoes these findings. Bow mag says the State Legislature "should take the public seriously, ban local measured telephone service, carefully monitor any tests, and not eliminate the ban until evidence supports it being in the public interest. " NFIB/Indiana is the state's largest small-business organization with 12,000 members.

advanced technological switching equipment available and will offer several advantages to United’s customers. It handles a larger volume of calls in a faster, more efficient manner and with less noise. The computerized equipment needs energy to operate and requires less maintenance. It needs less floor space because it is so compact pansion. Some exciting new services will become available to customers with the conversion including Call Waiting. Call Forwarding. ■ Speed Calling and Three-Way Conference Calling. Customers in the Syracuse area will be required to dial the complete seven-digit number when making a local call. Another difference with the new equipment is the dial tone which is so quiet that customers maythink their phones are not working More information regarding the new equipment and additional services will be provided closer to-the conversion date.

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