The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 April 1987 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 29,1987

Editorial

A special friend \ Webster says a pet is, “An animal that is . tamed or \ domesticated and kept as a companion or treated with fondness.” r Many pet owners will be happyJto know that May 4-9 is National Pet Week. - It’s a week set aside to give Freckles, Penny, George or Sam a little extra attentioq.A weekto show love to that special companion whose devotion quite often goes above and beyond many human relationships. Pets — be they dogs, cats, lambs, or snakes, offer companionship to many. Children love animals. Pets offer a great way to show youngsters, responsibility. A pet depends on its master or mistress for food, water, care and love. More and more, older people are turning to pets for needed companionship. -i - Pets guard homes from unwanted intruders. They protect their owners. _ At least one animal clinic recognizes the importance of these animals and is sponsoring special events on Saturday, May 9, including the traditional pet show. Remember, your pet is a special friend. Remember him or her during National Pet Week. U.S. males It has become the custom in this country to condemn males, whites particularly, for all the grievances and ills of the nation. A word in their defense is seldom heard. It was largely males mostly white males, who founded the country and wrote the nation’s Constitution, who wrote the laws and established the justice system we all enjoy today. That system is a historical hallmark of equal treatment and opportunity. It was largely males who hav'e elevated the status of women in this country above the level of those in any other country. Males have given females many advantages and preferences, some legal, in this country. That is true to such an extent that many noted foreign observers, including Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw, termed the United States the greatest matriarchy in history. Today the country is a society of equals under the law. Males still enjoy advantages/ especially in the private sector, but females enjoy others, some legalized. They may outweigh remaining male advantages. They are barred from combat, yet allowed to attend the military academies, a favoritism. They are and have been highly favored in child custody cases, on the assumption that the woman is more dependent. Though there have been a few highly-publicized “reverse alimony” awards in recent years, it’s still almost always the male who is required by courts to pay alimony to an “equal” in divorce cases. Males have gained more rights recognition in recent years in child custody cases, but still lose custody in the vast majority of such cases. In cases involving illicit sex, it’s almost always the male who is blackmailed. Very few married women are blackmailed by males. A surprising aspect of this discriminatory practice is that females engaged in such blackmail often emerge as celebrities, not scoundrels. In criminal cases, the wife who kills her husband and then charges mental of physical abuse surprisingly often escapes with a minimal sentence or none at all.. The courts have continued to assume women are somewhat helpless long after that condition has ceased to exist. In the field of employment, females now have solid law on their side, ancLcan even sometimes get preferential treatment. They still get preferential treatment by law enforcement officers, many males, and by the courts, in a number of other ways. Females are rescued first, along with children, in accidents and tragedies, as a matter of bourse. While there is still physical abuse of wives, about which much is heard, there is also physical abuse of males. Seldom considered is the physical accounting females would face if males reacted to them as they do to males. Females thus seldom have to back up words or actions physically. Finally, males, especially whites, are severely punished today if they speak out in favor of their kind. Yet females can champion feminine power, minorities can champion minority power, etc. Males dare not champion male preference and above all else, male white preference. If that happens, the victim often loses his job or is otherwise punished, perhaps rightly so. Nevertheless, the female or the minority espousing his or her cause with the same rhetoric isn’t condemned. U.S. males, especially whites, may have failed in many ways. But they have been predominant in building a democratic society that now offers equal rights and opportunity to all.

What others say — Stop! Look! Listen! ; IT'S A GAME: I PLAY---- ) X YON MIGHT WIN ’ ? f./gk. THE OTHER! rA. nx- Mesner ~ — SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE

' W /n I Pets and kids go together

Court news

Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Wellman-Wentzel James R. Wellman, 36, 624-1 Baltimore St., Syracuse, and Sharon Kathleen Wentzel, 45. Union, Mich. County Court The following persons have been assessed fines and costs and have paid those fines ahd costs in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Speeding — Paying $53 were: Danny J. Manges? 20, Milford; Vaughn Atchison, 36, Cromwell; John W. Jessop, 24, Milford. No registration plate — Merne Wright, 17, Milford, $53. Illegal consumption — Paying SB9 were: Sam W. Markley, 19, Milford; F. Charles Gray, 18, Syracuse. Operating motor vehicle without ever having driver’s license — Tysen A. Green, 16, North Webster, $71.50. Leaving scene of property damage accident — William L. Medley, 25, Milford, SB9. Operating motor vehicle while intoxicated — Willis Hamilton, 23, Milford, $2Bl, license suspended 90 days, 6 days KCJ with good time credit ; Rex C. Lewallen, 22. Syracuse, $331, license restricted 180 days, 6 days KCJ with good time credit. Littering — F. Charles Gray, 18, Syracuse, $45. Goshen Division The following fine plus court costs was levied and paid in Elkhart County Court, Goshen Division: Speeding — Kara A. Kauffman, 18. Milford. $52.50 Superior Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint Augsburgers Supervalu versus Deborah Richards, r 5 box 1238, Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking : judgment against the defendant j for the sum of $507.12 plus all costs of action. Complaint On Account Montgomery Ward and Company, Inc. versus Janet Sue McCormick, 125 W. Washington St., Syracuse. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $1,109.91 plus prejudgment interest, attorney's fees and all costs of action. Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit, Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint George Stidams and Joann Stidams versus Charles Martin and Adele J. Martin, r 1 box 643 G, Leesburg. The plaintiffs are seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $75,000 plus attorney’s fees and all costs of action, for damages and injuries incurred in an automobile accident Sept. 27,1985. Complaint For Damages Aetna Casualty & Surety Company versus Barth, Inc., Milford, and General Motors Corp . Chevrolet Motor Division, Detroit, Mich. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $48,500 for the loss by fire of a van owned by the plaintiff’s insured and pur chased from the defendants. Complaint On Contract Ford Motor Credit Company versus John E. Stapleton, 106 Prairie, Leesburg. The plaintiff is seeking judgment against the defendant for the sum of $4,152.52 plus all costs of action. Complaint First National Bank of Warsaw versus All Unknown Claimants. The plaintiff is seeking an order determining First National Bank to be the Owner of a 1976 Monarch mobile home, currently located at Village Green Mobile Home Park, Mishawaka

Petition For Writ Os Certiorari David M. Whitesell and Richard Whitesell versus Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals. The plaintiffs are seeking judgment to show why a writ of certiorari should not be issued concerning the March 19, 1987, decision drying a special exception to establish a mobile home pa rk within an agriculturally zoned area. » Complaint Jeanne Weirick and Hartford Insurance Company versus Judy Ellen Myers and Jerry Myers, r 2 box 58, Syracuse. The plaintiffs: are seeking judgment against the defendants for the sum of $46,431.75 in actual damages, $12,800 damages in fraud, $5,000 attorney’s fees, plus all costs of action, for fees for fishing licenses and proceeds received by the defendants and not returned to the plaintiff. Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Jernigan — Laura L. Jernigan, no address given, and William M. Jernigan, r 1. North Webster. The couple was married June 28,1985. and separated-April 13,1987. Xermillion — Jacquelynn Mary Vermillion, Syracuse, and Tony Vermillion, Cromwell. The couple was married Oct. 29,1983, and separated March 6, 1987. Coleman — Sandra Jane .Coleman, no address given,and Kendall Ray Coleman, ho address given. The couple was married March 15.1980, and separated October, 1985. There are two minor children. * City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Douglas C. Gerstner. 19. Syracuse, $65.50, license suspended for 30 days; Jay A. Kaiser, 25, Syracuse, $50.50; Ivy J. Mikolajczak, 31. Syracuse, $50.50. ordered to attend Defensive Driver's School Public intoxication — Kristy K. Hoover, 25, Milford, $l3B, 180 days in jail suspended on condition defendant abide by all court orders and not commit another alcohol-related offense for one year, receive addictions assessment and follow up with recommendations for treatment, pay user’s fees, one year probation per terms Cromwell driver arrested for recklessness A Cromwell resident was arrested by Syracuse Police last week after allegedly forcing two motorists from Syracuse'Webster Road last Friday morning, April 24. Two Syracuse residents reported being forced off the side of the road by another car at about 8:15 Friday. Scott Huffer was arrested by police for criminal recklessness and reckless driving after further investigation.

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THE CURRENT publicity and forthcoming events that will mark the Syracuse Sesquicentennial have meant many different things to many people. To Emery L. Druckamiller of 311 North Washington Street, Angola, and his wife, the former Emma Lee Rapp, both Syracuse natives and graduates of Syracuse High &hool, it recalls to them the salad days wheh high school basketball was king. sC And it has special meaning to Druckamiller who was easily the best and most versatile basketball player this community ever produced As he scored basket after basket for his Yellowjackets, his high school sweetheart and lifelong companion sat in the bleachers of the drafty old gyms of the early to mid-1920s to cheer him on. One day last week was a day of remembrance, as Mr. and Mrs. Druckamiller showed up at The Mail-Journal office with a large packet of memorabilia, including yellowed newspaper clippings and old faded photos. The above photo of them, a handsome couple in their mid-80s who seem to be enjoying life to its fullest, was taken on this occasion. Among the clippings and old photos was a letter from former teacher/coach Calvin E. Beck, now a resident of the Kenney Retirement Community at 200 Circle Drive, Ligonier. Beck coached Druckamiller, and ended a long, handwritten letter to him with this sentence: “Let me say again, Emery, you’re the best athlete I ever coached. The best ever to come from our county or state.” Druckamiller graduated from Syracuse High School in 1922, and is now 85 years of age, but his memory of those early years is undimmed as he recounts victory after victory. Like many early hardwood stars he perfected his basket-shooting skill “back of the barn” and carried it on to the Indiana University campus at Bloomington where he was a regular on the basketball and baseball teams from 1922 to 1926. In his senior year (1926) he was captain of the baseball team. In 1925 his team won the Big Ten championship. “Drucky” was captain of his high school basketball team all four years, winning the county tourney in Pierceton in 1922, defeating Warsaw 20-19. In his junior year — when Druckamiller was named to the all-state basketball team — the Yellowjackets won the county, sectional and regional tournaments, defeating Crawfordsville 20-17 in overtime play in the regional at Lafayette. Druckamiller remembers this game well inasmuch as he made 18 of the 20 points! In those days anyone could shoot the free throws, and Emery was the best on his team, allowing him to run up his points. In the “Sweet Sixteen” state tournament Syracuse lost to Huntington, 16-20, with “Drucky” making all 16 points. He said, “At five feet, seven and one-half inches, I was just too small for that kind of tall competition.” He returned to coach at Syracuse two years, from 1926 to 1928. He said in 1927 Syracuse won 17 of 20 games, ending the year by winning the sectional. Then in 1927 they won 18 of 20 games and won the county tourney. He went to Angola in 1928 where he taught for 35 years at the high school and coached baseball and basketball for 14 years. He then coached at Tri-State University at Angola from 1938 to 1948, and for five years of that period he continued to teach at Angola High School. In 1953 he returned to the high school at Angola to coach baseball and basketball for another five years. He was then appointed athletic director in the Metropolitan Schools of Steuben County, retiring in 1962. If that’s not a stellar career in baseball and basketball to be proud of, we don’t know what is. Druckamiller has a “young” brother Leo, 81, residing at 95 East Shore drive, Syracuse, and a sister, Mary Kelley residing in the Leisure Living Apartments at Milford. (Note: An effort is being made to have Emery Druckamiller ride in the sesquicentennial parade on Saturday, July 11, along with his former coach, Calvin Beck.) SYRACUSE MAYORAL candidates are being pressed as to what their campaign planks in the current race for the mythical office will be. Bob Troutman tells voters, if elected he plans to re-open Syracuse International Airport

with no customs inspections. He has also named a committee to have a stop light installed at the busy bowling alley corner. When he was told the light is already up, Bob said, “My, that committee worked fast!” —o— SANDY’ WAPPES moved her Village Hair Trends to a new location last week. She's now located in the south part of the Wawasee Realty Building. She confessed to having turned in two times at her old location, prior to getting it “fixed” in her mind that she had a new location. Incidentally, it's larger and lighter. It's nice. —o— SARAH (MRS. Dan) Bauer of Quaker Haven Camp, an the east side of Dewart Lake, received a most pleasant and surprising Easter Sunday present. She and Dan were at Disneyworld at Orlando, Fla., when her name was drawn for a prize of a trip for two to the Bahamas for four days and three nights. It’s Disneyworld’s 15th birthday in Florida, and every 15 minutes a name of a visitor is drawn out of the hat. Each day a similar trip is given, plus another for a new car. The Bauers have until 1990 to take their trip, and plan to do so in September 1988. Sarah is the daughter of Jerry and Letitia Dain, Quaker Haven managers, where Dan is assistant manager. Sarah is an RN on the surgical floor of KCH, Warsaw. The trip is worth $450 per person. —o— EARLE AND Jo Waltz, Lake Wawasee, heard from their younger son, Jim. wholeaches geology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, that while raking leaves in front of his home this week, he turned over a canoe and underneath he accidentally uncovered a nest of three baby rabbits about 3 inches long. Fearing the mother might not return to a disturbed nest, he took them in the house, made them a new nest, and now the family is taking turns feeding them with an eye dropper, all day and all night, and they’re doing fine. Last spring a wobbling, disoriented goose came up to their door and when an old sweater was put down for a bed, she promptly laid an egg, but then waddled away. Jim took the egg to the incubator department at the University where he and fellow students hovered over the process for days. When the hour came the gosling wasn’t strong enough to crack the egg, so the expectant fathers were pretty sad. too because she had a "congratulations on the new baby!” card ready to mail. -o- , LAFF (LEARNING Adventure For Fun), a reasonably new program of the Calvary United Methodist Church south of Syracuse, continues to draw growing crowds of people, principally but not exclusively retired people who refuse to sit in the old rocking chair and stare at television. It’s a real credit to those who sponsor the continuing program and who mak’e it a moving and interesting part of the community. Its appeal is to like-minded members of outlying communities. LAFF has a whole series of programs, contemporary and historic in nature. Since LAFF is conducted in a church, one might think it is heavy laden with church themes and thus tend to shy-away. Not so. • ■ If anything, it leans toward the historic, with emphasis on the history of our location and on that of Kosciusko County as a whole. This writer had the good fortune to appear before some 35 members of LAFF last Thursday and had a delightful time reviewing the history of small town newspapers and their history within Kosciusko County. Such an assignment sends one into a flurry of research that might be more beneficial to the speaker than it is to the audience. But we enjoyed it, at any rate: it brought the good programs of LAFF to our attention. If you're interested, don't call us. but write to Calvary United Methodist Church, R 3, P.O. Box 21A, Syracuse, Ind. 46567, or talk to Pastor David C. Maish. REALTORS CLAIM, a sure sign of spring is the fact that real estate starts to move. There's evidence of this during the past week Jack and Genevieve Oswald have sold their home in the Hunnicutt Addition to a Mr. and Mrs. Mauhorter of Nappanee, and they have purchased the home of Fred and Gerry Byland on CR 530E. in Hawaiian Village. The Bylands, on (he other hand, have purchased the Woodland Acres home of George and Barbara Vitaniemi. The Vitaniemis plan to build a new home just south of the high school. These several moves are slated for mid-or late-June.