The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 April 1987 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL-Wed., April 22,1987

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31 outstanding seniors ' A tip of the hat to Wawasee High School Principal Ned Speicher and other corporation officials and teachers who took the time to see the Academic Hall of Fame became a reality. Outstanding academic students were honored at a banquet held Saturday night. A total of 31 top students including covaledictorians Angela Barton and Jerrod Stoller and salutatorian Kristina Lange became the first inductees. For years outstanding athletes have been honored, but little has been said or done for students who achieve academically. That time is over. Athletes will continue to receive their just rewards, but top students, many of who are also athletics, will also be honored. An annual banquet will be held and an Academic Hall of Fame has been located in the commons area where all students inducted into the hall of fame from the 1986-87 school year and into the future will have their classes’ academic group photograph displayed. Names of previous graduating students who qualified will have their names engraved on an Academic Hall of Fame plaque and displayed on the wall. This project has the financial support of the community. Students honored at Saturday’s banquet received specially designed academic rings from Wawasee High School to honor them for their outstanding accomplishments, funding was through the high school and community donations. Congratulations to Scott, Angela, Amy, Sarah, David, Shelly, Renee’, Jack, Jennifer, Kristina, Tressa, Phil, Timothy, Eric, Mark, Russell, Heidi, Michael, J. Andrew, Todd, Kristi, Stephen, Debra, Julia, Stephen, Erik, Scott, Paula, Jerrod, Ann and Rhonda. Your 1987 class members and the Community §re proud of you. c Tomato time The National Gardening Bureau has declared 1987 the “Year of the Tomato.” That’s deserved recognition for the fact that the tomato is the most widely grown vegetable in American gardensyear after year. Second are peppers. Onions and cucumbers tie for third place. ph So what does one do in the “Year of the Tomato?” The answer is to plant tomatoes, which, by the way, until about 1820 were thought to be poisonous. If planting tomatoes, plant them after frost danger in a sunny area, well drained and with adequate humus. Water once a week if it’s dry, prune if you like, and fertilize with a general purpose fertilizer. Trucks and death Until the CBS television program “Sixty Minutes” emphasized it, many Americans didn’t realize drivers of huge tractor trailers on our highways often need only a driver’s license to get such jobs. Worse, they can get a driver’s license in a second state if a bad record disqualifies them where they live. As revealed in the investigation, the problem concerns both drivers and equipment. In Tennessee, which has established perhaps the best check system on tractor trailers, it has been found that most big rigs on the road today are deficient in brakes, lights, steering, tires, or some other safety factor. The next result is that the estimated 5,000 to 7,000 Americans who die in truck-car accidents each year include many who have been crushed without much chance to survive by rogue and unsafe trucks and unsafe drivers. Tennessee inspections show that a shocking percentage of drivers use various drugs and many are imbibing alcohol as they motor along the highway. Bills have been introduced in Congress to bring some order out of today’s chaos and to establish safety and driver standards. States should also act; federal laws may apply only to interstate trucking. Strong lobbies, however, have blocked reform on the state level in several states. One can sympathize with truckers, who have in recent years since deregulation been caught in a price squeeze. However if needed new laws are strictly enforced, the added costs of safety will be applied fairly to all.

What others say— The more the merrier Forget all the complaints about how inhumane it is to put those poor presidential candidates through a year and a half of fund raising and handshaking only to reward the winner with the hardest job on Earth. They love it. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be so many of them. In just the past week, two candidates formally started their campaigns; and two others said they will soon. That means the Republicans have Pierre du Pont IV, Alexander Haig and jack Kemp officially declared, Robert Dole, George Bush, Pat Robertson and Paul Laxalt being coy, and Howard Baker building his presidential image in the White House, the Democrats have Richard Gephardt, Bruce Babbitt, Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis, Paul Simon and Albert Gore Jr. out in the open with Sam Nunn, Jesse Jackson, Charles Robb, Bill Bradley and Joseph Biden biding their time. The grueling American presidential selection process suffers no shortage of masochists eager to endure it. The current system does create problems. It distracts Congress for two out of ever four years. The huge cost of campaigning and tendencies to go with politicians who have momentum wipe out too many candidates early in the primaries. lowa, New Hampshire and the South get more than their share of political attention. But by the time the primaries are over next year, the American people will have been given more information about more qualified candidates for president than at any other time in history. We will be able to select from agendas as diverse as Kemp’s and Jackson’s, from experience as notable as Bush’s and Nunn’s. We won’t be able to say we didn’t have a choice. While on this subject, special mention should be made of Paul Simon, the fine senator from next door in Illinois. Asserting the rights of workers to have decent jobs and calling for a long-term health care program for the elderly, Simon fills the role of the Democrat’s Democrat left open by Mario Cuomo’s decision to not run. Though’s he not telegenic or a great orator, Simon should do well in the t person-to-person campaigns in lowa and New Hampshire with his trademark bow ties and unaffected good nature. He has more solid political experience than any other leading Democrat, with 30 years as a clean-government champion in Illinois and 13 years in Congress, where he is influential on education and labor issues. He was one of the leaders in the Senate fight to save Indiana the embarrassment of Daniel Manion’s appointment as a federal judge. If the Democrats, especially in the South, do try to make their nomination a sectional issue, thWMidwest would have a fine standard-bearer in Paul Simon. - FORT WAYNE JOURNAL-GAZETTE

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Ann V/’toniemi is representative of the 31 seniors who were inducted into the Academic Hall of Fame. Congratulating her is WHS Principal Ned Speicher. •

Court news

Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in Small Claims Division, Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Virginia Cain versus Nellie Ward; defendant ordered to pay $1,340.64 plus costs. Milford Motors, Inc. versus Robert Craft; defendant ordered to pay $650 plus costs. Cheryl Brunjes versus Kevin Be(j; defendant ordered to pay s32costs. Jajnes and Carolyn Conley versus Krista Hayes Jenkins; defendant ordered to pay $3,000 plus costs. Dian Adkins versus Tex and Donna Plummer; defendants ordered to pay $329.24 plus costs. Nicki Lincoln has been awarded judgments against the following individuals: Jeff Johnson, $97.80, Jane Morrison, $303, Ronald, Jackie, Chris and Shelly Neely, $643.60; Joyce Tran, $192. Virginia Cain versus Brenda L. Lowe; defendant ordered to pay $136.91 plus costs. Virginia Cain versus Nicholaus T. Hicks; defendant ordered to pay $266.90 plus costs. American Accounts versus Ed J. Gladieux; defendant ordered to pay $155.51 plus costs. American Accounts versus Timothy M. Levernier; defendant ordered to pay $973 plus costs. Patricia Williams versus Brian Hewitt; defendant ordered to pay $273 plus costs. Robert A. Richards versus James Rohrbaugh; defendant ordered to pay $2,525.39 plus costs. Joyce Iron & Metal versus World Wide Recycling, Inc.; defendant ordered to pay $2,338.66 plus costs. Dian Adkins versus Anthony R. and Patricia J. Rose; defendant ordered to pay $lO5 plus costs. Lake City Bank has been awarded judgments against the following individuals: David and Charlotte Jessie, $1,001; Ronnie and Sarah Zentz, $1,335.33; Larry Rose, $733.94; Carlton and Connie O’Haven, $2,426.77; Lewis and Brenda DeKnikker, $2,002.36. Suburban Acres‘Mobile Home Park versus Mark Lackey; defendant ordered to pay $lO9 plus costs. James L. Breading, agent for B’s Rentals, versus Elmer Swartz; defendant ordered to pay $3,000 plus costs. L & L Body Shop versus Susan Jodry; defendant ordered to pay S4OO plus costs. Northeast Indiana Water Sue., Inc. versus Lynn Longenecker; defendant ordered to pay $1,225.80 plus costs. Teachers Credit Union versus David A. Blake; defendant ordered to pay $5,323.05 plus costs. Roger K. Parnell versus Stuart A. Walker; defendant ordered to pay S9OO plus costs. Edwin and Valena Beigh versus Mike Jackson; defendant ordered to pay $1,013.50 plus costs. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Bornman-Hill Troy Patrick Bornman, 22, r 2 box 260, Syracuse, and Suzanne Kimberly Hill, 22, r 1 box 603, North Webster Renier-Parrett Robert Allen Renier, Jr., 34, r 4 box 130, Warsaw, and Sandra ■Kay Parrett, 28, r 2 box 52A, Leesburg Dant-Jesse Gary Lee Dant, 34, r 1 box 152, Cromwell, and Sue Marie Jesse, 32, r 1 box 152, Cromwell Shock-Wente James Robert Shock, 28, r Ibox 116, Pierceton, and Mona Lynn Wente, 25, r 1 box 589, North Webster Krizman-Reichard Joseph Michael Krizman, 23, r 4 box 3508, Syracuse, and Theresa Lynette Reichard, 22, r 1 box 301, North Webster Biller-Joyce Todd Steven Biller, 22, Nap-

panee, and Sara Elizabeth Joyce, 19,204 E. Vanßuren, Leesburg County Court The following persons have been assessed fines and costs and have paid those fines and costs in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Speeding — Steve Prado, 18, Leesburg, S6B. Sam Markley, 19, Milford, and Jennifer Morgan, 18, North Webster, $53. Robert Bosstick, 25, North Webster; Ed W. Hearn, 17, Leesburg; LoriWildman, 24, North Webster, S4B. Disregarding stop sign — David S. Delagrange, 17, Syracuse, $53. Unsafe movement — Willis Hamilton, 23, Milford; $53 False registration — Willis Hamilton, 23, Milford, $53 Failure to yield right-of-way — Brian Smoker, 27, Leesburg, $53 Expired license plates — Mary E. Smith, 39, Leesburg, $53 Goshen Division The following fines plus court costs have been levied and paid in • Elkhart County Court, Goshen Division: Speeding — Tony K. Vanover. 18. Syracuse, $57.50; Ray A. Teepie. 26, Milford. $57.70 Marriage Dissolutions The following marriage dissolution was granted in Elkhart County Circuit Court: Young — James A. Young, r 2, Runaway Bay, Apt. 70, Syracuse, and Roberta M. Young, 65877 SR 15, Goshen. The couple married July 23, 1976, and separated Jan. 11.1987. Superior Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint State Bank of Syracuse versus Charles J. Stuckman and Sharon L. Stuckman. r 3 box 226A, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $1,544.81 plus prejudgment interest and all costs of action. Complaint The Wise Company, Inc. versus Sea Nymph, Inc., Paul Phillabaum and Kay Neely, 801 E. Chicago St., Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $58,058.65 plus interest to date of judgment, attorney’s fees and all costs of action. Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Reciprocal Support Mary Ann Method versus Norman Lee Method, r 3 box 556, Syracuse, for reciprocal support. . Complaint On Account The Elkhart Clinic versus James L. and Evelyn Spitler, r 1 box 288, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $384 plus all costs of action. U.S. to pay dues UNITED NATIONS - The United States, which withheld part of its assessed fees and pushed the United Nations near bankruptcy last year, intends to pay its full dues in 1987, U.S. Ambassador Vernon A. Walters said. THE MAIL-JOURNAL (U.S.P.S. 3258-4000) Published by the Mail-Journal every Wednesday and entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office ot Syracuse, Indiana 46567. Second class postage paid at 103 E. Main Street, Syracuse, Indiana 46567 and at additional entry offices. Subscription: sl6 per year in Kosciusko County, $22 outside county. POSTMASTERS: Send change of address forms to The Mail-Journal, P. 0.. Box 188, Milford, Indiana 46542. *

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IF YOU’RE traveling in the Sunrise Beach (Lake Wawasee) area and think you’ve seen a railroad caboose off in the distance, it’s no aberration. It’s for real. It is really a railroad caboose. Unusual though it might be in that posh residential area, it has been quite an attraction, and, for that matter, has had its share of neighborly detractors. The caboose, almost a relic of the past (most trains passing through Syracuse nowadays do not have the colorful cabooses as their last car), is the property of George W. and Beverly Griffith of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Griffiths are longtime summer residents of Sunrise Beach, just off Ogden Island and at the mouth of Johnson Bay. Griffith is a General Motors executive who received the caboose as a retirement gift. Asked what, he would prefer as a retirement gift, he was not long in answering — “a caboose.” He headed GM’s hydramatic (transmission) division for some years, and retired in early October 1985. GM is generous with their execs who retire, and in this case, the unusual retirement gift included moving it onto the site with a 40-ton crane. The caboose sits proudly on standard rails on a bed of standard railroad ballast. •- j • Griffith, a close friend of University 'of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, has had Schembechler and a number of other notables to his Sunrise Beach home and has had them drive a spike into the caboose a sort of a lark. The caboose has been completely restored into a guest house, albeit a small guest house. The unit is completely plumbed, and has other interior appointment^sufficient to make it quite liveable. It bears the" - Chessie Railroad number 19149 R. —o— POLITICAL COLUMNIST David Broder, commenting on the large number of candidates coming out of the woodwork for president, from both parties, comments, “Having more presidential candidates than it takes to play almost any of America’s favorite team sports except football has certain advantages. It simplifies life for the program chairmen of all the Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs in lowa and New Hampshire. Finally, they will have enough speakers to go around." —o— GOLFERS WILL be interested to know they can have some fun golfing at Maxwelton Golf Club on Saturday, April 25, and at the same time make a charitable contribution to Saint Jude Children’s Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee. The ladies of Gamma Sigma Sorority in Syracuse are planning their first annual golf outing to benefit the' Memphis hospital on that date, rain date May 2. Ann Hapner, Beth Skaggs and Kay Hare are the prime movers of the event. They note: S4O entry fee includes green fees, tart, prizes and an evening dinner. —o— GOOD TO see Paul Penn home from Port Charlotte, Florida, and at his Lake Wawasee home along with wife Eva. —o— KAY HARE, of Runaway Condominiums, and her mother, Joan Spurgeon of Muncie, left Sunday for a three-week trip and cruise that will take them to Japan and China. They flew from Indianapolis to Detroit, then direct to Tokyo, Japan, where they were scheduled to spend two days before beginning their two-week cruise. Their cruise is scheduled to begin at Kobe. Japan, on April 23 and last until May 7. Other major points of interest include Nagasaki, Japan, site of the August 1945 atomic bomb destruction, to Pusan, South Korea, to Peking

MAGNOLIA TREES IN FULL BLOOM — Local residents who marvel at the beautiful magnolia trees in full bloom at Lakeside Park, are to be reminded they are the original handiwork of the late W.E. Long, Chicago bread wrapper and bread slicer king who built the original Pickwick Block in uptown Syracuse in the late 19305. Long converted the city dump into the beautiful park it is today, with the help of Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds, and beautified it with the small magnolia trees. It was his vision to make Syracuse the magnolia capital of the midwest. When he invited thenGovernor M. Clifford Townsend to Syracuse on March 22, 1937. to dedicate the opening of the Pickwick Theater, he prevailed on the good governor to plant two magnolia trees behind the Syracuse Public Library. They are also in full bloom at this time.

(Beijing), to Dalian, China, then to the southern city of Shanghai, the south China city of 11.5 million, and finally to Hong Kong where the group will spend two days and nights prior to returning home on May 9th via San Francisco. ACTUALLY, KEN and Esther Curtis did not lose their son Bob to brother Fred. If that all sounds confusing, we would note that a cutline under a three-column photo in the Kosciusko County issue of “the PAPER” last week showed Fred and Bob Curtis in a promotional piece and referred to Fred as Bob’s father. The Curtises are well known in this community, where Bob has held forth as owner of Curtis TV and Appliance Co. on Pickwick Road <r 1) since 1979 and most local readers recognize the error for what it is — an error, —D'members OF the Calvary United Methodist Church, who just a week ago held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new $400,000 wing, were surprised last Friday evening to find their large church picketed by Robert Stichter, a r 2 Milford religious activist, and members of his family and others. The picketing infuriated a number of passersby, not necessarily members of the church. No one was quite sure why the Calvary Church was the subject of picketing, but they aren’t alone in this regard. In recent months, the Stichters have held similar “vigils” at a number of other churches in Kosciusko and Elkhart Counties. - n Q 7’ ■... :■ HERE WE go again! Residents of Medusa Street and other side streets in that area are up in arms again about the large number of out-of-town cars and boat hitches that park along streets in that area. For the most part the cars and hitches belong to bass fishermen who take advantage of the boat dock at Henry Ward Park (formerly Railroad Park), and come from such distant points as Fort Wayne and South Bend. Residents whose ire the large group of cars incur are concerned that less than free passage along Medusa Street could be tragic in the event of fire or a similar emergency in that area. No easy solution is discernible. —o— DON’T BE surprised if you hear in the not too distant future that members of the Herbert Kuhn American Legion Post 253, North Webster, have a new home. Tentative agreement has been reached with officials of the above post and Ray Gans, owner of the Classic Restaurant at the south edge of North Webster to exchange properties. At the present time, the North Webster Legion Post is located in a two-story building, kitty-corner across East Washington Street from the North Webster Post Office. At the present time the decision in the exchange rests with the Kosciusko County Alcoholic Beverage Commission, to give its approval. The Classic Restaurant has a four-way alcoholic beverage license .(which includes carry-out) and the Legion Post has a three-way license. The ABC will hear the request at its June meeting. The Herbert Kuhn Post 253 at North Webster, with its 614 members, is the fastestgrowing post in the county, ■ according to commander Roger Cormican, and badly needs additional room. —o— THE ECUMENICAL spirit prevails among candidates for mayor of Syracuse, the town’s main line fund-raising effort in its sesquicentennial observance. t Monday someone noticed Jeanne Gardiner, a candidate herself, making badges for Bob Troutman, one of her opponents for the honorary (Continued on page 5)