The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 June 1987 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed , June 3,1987

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Editorial

Call for school board to slow down Public meetings in the three Wawasee Community School Corporation towns reveal that there is no absolute unanimity of thought on how best to solve the middle school problem. Many feel that Superintendent Roger W. Thornton and the school board are moving much too rapidly. We’re told it’s late, that we must decide on a solution to this problem RIGHT NOW. Dr. Thornton has suggested’that a decision should be made during the July meeting of the school board, less than 45 days away. We don’t feel this way. Rather, we think haste makes waste, and quick decisions made without full research and investigation will have an effect on generations to come. No one we’ve heard from denies that a near-crisis situation exists in the Syracuse elementary and junior high school. This overcrowded situation does deserve our full attention, but, has that school not been overcrowded for a number of years? North Webster parents feel their children may be short-changed if the second school is not built for a number of years. This may be true! Let’s make the right decisions. Syracuse attorney Steve Snyder addressed a large number of people from North Webster and Milford at the Milford Community Building last Thursday where this hurry-up attitude of Dr. Thornton’s and the school board were a major concern. Out of that meeting came a call for an investigation into legal ways to put off a hasty decision by the school board. The establishment of an independent feasibility study was called for. And anyone concerned about a rapid decision, was asked to attend the June 9 school board meeting in the administrative offices at 7 p.m. Few would deny that Dr. Thornton is right in stating future growth will be in Turkey Creek and Tippecanoe Townships. A recent report from Lt. Governor John M. Mutz states the three fastest-growing townships in the state of Indiana are Wayne (Warsaw), Tippecanoe (North Webster) and Turkey Creek (Syracuse). The single middle school concept appears dead as a doornail, leaving the two-school or three-school concepts alive. This is where the board’s decision rests at the present time. A two-school scenario was skillfully advanced by Dr. Thornton; no similar three-school scenario has been forthcoming. In other words, no alternate plan. This, even though the North Webster School Advisory Committee’s report stated, “We feel that a local school for each community would best serve the needs of our children.” And, the Milford report stated, “Construction of schools in each community with expansion and flexibility as considerations should serve these needs well.” The Syracuse committee, in a letter to the editor last week, went on record as favoring Dr. Thornton’s two-school plan. For these reasons, we are calling on Dr. Thornton and the school board to slow down and allow for further independent study on the middle school issue. If they prove unreasonable in this matter, they could create a mind-set of divisiveness that would be a good many years, if ever, in healing. And this, above all, is something none of us want. June 1-7 is fishing week Gov. Robert Orr has proclaimed June 1 through 7 as Fishing Week in Indiana and encourages Hoosiers to participate in this popular outdoor activity. In his proclamation, Gov. Orr noted that fishing has been an important part of the Hoosier heritage and has provided food and recreation for Indiana citizens since pioneer days. “It is vitally important that all Hoosiers develop an awareness and appreciation for theenjoyment that fishing brings,” Orr said. To help Hoosiers enjoy this sport, the Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Fish and Wildlife is offering freeinformation on fishing in Indiana. “Who’s Managing the Fish” and “Sportsman’s Access to Public Waters” are available free by writing to Publication, Division of Fish and Wildlife, 607 State Office Building, Indianapolis, Ind. 46204. /

What others say — People aren't junk Chances are, at some time in your life, you will be involved in a vehicle accident. You don’t think so? Statistics, used by the insurance industry to base your premiums, tell a different story. ~ The average American can expect to be in at least pne traffic crash in his lifetime. You have a 50/50 chance of suffering a disabling injury. There is also one chance in 50 you will become a fatality. ’ Due to the huge human and financial toll, Indiana has enacted a mandatory seat belt law for front seat passengers. The law goes into effect on July 1,1987. Every crash involves two separate collisions. The first is when the vehicle slams into an object and comes to a sudden stop. In less than it takes to snap your fingers, one-tenth of a second, the first crash is over. Unbelted occupants and loose articles continue to move forward at the same rate of speed. These objects are usually stopped by the dashboard, windshield, steering column or other occupants. This second impact is referred to as the “human collision.” An unbelted occupant, crashing at 30 miles per hour (MPH), slams into the surface with the same impact as falling from a three story buildings Put another way, the person is thrown forward with on 6 and one-half tons of force. Safety belts help occupants “ride down” the force of the crash by holding them in place and slowing them down with the car. During the second collision, belts help reduce the possibility of contact with either the interior or other passengers. Sudden crashes often throw unbelted occupants into others at great force, causing injuries to both. One myth says it is better to be “thrown clear” than to stay in the vehicle. Thrown clear into what? Traffic? A light pole? Trees? Hard concrete or asphalt? A visit to a junk yard will give you an idea of the safest place to be in a crash. Among all the twisted metal, crushed trunks and bent hoods one part of the vehicle remains relatively intact-the vehicle’s interior. Seat belt use works. In Canada, vehicle fatalities dropped 16 percent after a law requiring seat belt use went into effect. Likewise, Australia’s fatalities fell 23 percent and Great Britain’s 25 percent. Projections show that if all Indiana passengers wore their safety belts each year 290 lives would be saved and 7,900 injuries would be prevented. - HENDRICKS COUNTY GAZETTE

Kt '/ fXB HIRMQw r ir North Webster and Milford residents met last week and voiced concerns over the Superintendent's proposal to build two middle schools for the Wawasee School Corporation.

Court news

Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: ( Smith-Bushong Brad Alan Smith, 26, 301 John St., Syracuse, and Julie Ann Bushong, 24, r 3 box 557, Syracuse Smith-Trauty Jonathan Keith Smith, 24, 313 Medusa, Syracuse, and Paula Ruth Trauty, 23, 313 Medusa, Syracuse Evans-Norris James Mitchell Evans, 20, r 1 box 182A, Syracuse, and Betsy Annette Norris, 22, Poneto Swartz-Fraser Ken Wayne Swartz, 21, r 3 box 484, Syracuse, and Shaila Ann Fraser, 19, r 3 box 560, Leesburg Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in Small Claims Division, Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette: Vera Maddox versus Richard Morris; defendant ordered to pay $16.32 plus costs. Wilma Bowers versus Steven Van Dyke; defendant ordered to pay $525 plus costs. Suburban Acres Mobile Home Park versus Burton Baker; defendant ordered to pay $32 court costs. Gary H. and Charlene Slone versus William D. Dilts; defendant ordered to pay $25 plus costs. Ray E. Plummer, doing business as Plummer and Company, Inc., versus Roy Swartz, doing business as Bankers & Builders, Inc.; defendant ordered to pay $265.47 plus costs. Ray E. Plummer, doing business as Plummer and Company, Inc., versus Roy D. and Marie M. Swartz; defendants ordered to pay $1,709.43 plus costs. Lori Hanke versus Angie Netherland; defendant ordered to pay $75.24 plus costs. Judy Wallace, doing business as JA- Business Service, versus Joe Baker; defendant ordered to pay $240.04 plus costs. Patrick C. Silveus versus Vivian Shamblin; defendant ordered to pay S4OO plus costs. Phyllis Gerstner versus Judy Linville; defendant ordered to pay $516.89p1us costs. American Truck Transport Equipment, Inc. versus Roger Berry, doing business as RCRS; defendant ordered to pay $1,036.54 plus costs. Patrick C. Silveus -sversus Garry Hackworth; NiCTendant ordered to pay $l9O plus costs. Smith Appliances versus Kim Graham; defendant ordered to pay slll plus costs. Constance K. Banks versus Chris Serafino; defendant ordered to pay $831.18 plus costs. Southside Heating Supplies, Inc. versus George Wiegand, doing business as Wiegand Service; defendant ordered to pay $2,552.63 plus costs. Diamond Fleet Service versus Ron Anglin; defendant ordered to pay $121.50 plus costs. Tom Moore, doing Climate Control, versus Ron Neeley; defendant ordered to pay $62.64 plus costs. Tom Moore, doing business as Climate Control, versus Eric Decker; defendant ordered to pay $110.40 plus costs. Smith Appliances versus Jim Chalfant; defendant ordered to pay $409.50 plus costs. Alfred and Janice Engelberth versus Steve and Pam Azbell; defendant, ordered to pay $1,319.26'p1us costs. Counting House Bank versus Stuart Leiter and Nicholas Hicks; defendants ordered to pay $4,735.28 plus costs. Joe Mater & Associates versus Franklin Dean Halexnd Priscilla Hale; defendant ordered to pay $1,425.17 plus costs Kay D. Smith, doing business as Smith Appliances, versus Andrew Goss; defendant ordered to pay $54.82 plus costs

- , County Court yhe following individuals have been assessed fines and have paid those fines, plus costs, in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Speeding — Paying $53 were: Elmer W. Steele, 18, Syracuse; Judith Schrock, Syracuse. Paying S4B were: Ralph Prater, 23, Milford; Mary Smith, Leesburg. Driving with suspended operator’s license — Bruce L. Helton, 28, North Webster, $lO6, license suspended like period. Elkhart Division The following fines plus court costs have levied and paid in Elkhart County Court, Goshen Division: Speeding — Carolyn J. Streby, 43, North Webster, $61.50; Paul W. Beck, 38, Syracuse, $52.50 City Court The following fine has been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Criminal conversion — Gilberto H. Rico, 20, Milford, $205, 360 days to be served in jail including fine and costs Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko/Superior and Circuit Courts: ■* Bauman — Ronald Clair Bauman, Syracuse, and Susan Marie Bauman, Syracuse. The couple was married April 14, 1979, and separated April 18,1987. There are two minor children. Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint On Account Pulaski Memorial Hospital versus Stiles and Damon L. Stiles, r 1 box 270, Syracuse. The plaintifrjs seeking judgment against me defendants for the sum of $111.40 plus all costs of action. Estate The following estate has been filed in either Kosciusko Circuit or Superior Court and has an estimated value of at least SIOO,OOO, to be divided among the named beneficiaries: Hubert R. Anglemyer, died March 3, 1987, at the age of 72, leaving an estate valued at $383,707.41. Beneficiaries: Edgar A. Arigleniyer, son, Syracuse; Anglemyer, wife. Svracilse. Jeep fire causes S6OO in damages North Webster Fire Department was called to North Webster Marina at 12:16 p.m. Friday, May 29, where they found a burning 1982 Jeep. Damage was estimated at S6OO. North Webster Fire Chief Gary Hill reported the cause was from a fuel leak under the hood. The Jeep is owned by William Bechtal, Anderson.

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"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE" J a aS j • AT"' 1

THE SYRACUSE Alumni Association got a preview of things to come at its annual alumni banquet held Saturday, May 23, at the junior high gymnasium, which marked the 100th anniversary of the association. A surprise number was a hula dance by four young ladies who are members of the Lee Anne Stewart Dance School of Dewart i Lake. A variety of entertainment included seven groups of students ranging from 6 to 18 years of age. Our camera’s eye zeroed in on one number showing from left Abby Bultemeier of Milford, Erica Cooper and Tracey Gradle of Syracuse, and Melissa May of Milford, all six and seven years of age. Their number: a Hawaiian Ballet. TEEN AGERS are constantly complaining about not having anything to do, and there might be something to their complaint. After all, one of their most recent pastimes and avenues of meeting other young folks — cruzin’ in their cars — has been banned in Goshen, and a similar crack-down has been felt in Elkhart and along McKinley Avenue in Mishawaka. Soooo . . . moving into the breach is Jean M. Simmons of Winchester, who is sponsoring a teen dance from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. every Saturday’®" night starting June 20 at Tippy Ballroom, located on the south shore of Lake Tippecanoe. Old timers remember the days when Tippy was the place to go — not just on Saturday nights, but most any week day night. Devotees said they were going to “Yippie at Tippy,” and all the young folks knew it meant a night of wild dancing. Dal Crooke, owner of Tippy, kept the place well policed, and ruffians knew they would quietly be asked to leave if they got out of hand. Let’s see: this might be just what the doctor ordered to give teenagers a source of emotional outlet. YOU GOTTA hand it to those United Telephone Company people. They’re getting into the sesquicentennial act in a very visible way. Their community relations team is sponsoring a clean-up, paint-up, to be held Saturday, June 27. A part of the clean-up will be a painting contest of the town’s trash barrels, from 9 a.m. til noon at the Lakeland Youth Center, the barrels being provided by the town of Syracuse. Paint and brushes will be provided. Imagination is encouraged, and prizes, including sesquicentennial souvenirs, will go to winners. By this time Syracuse will know, who its new “Mayor” will be, and Hizonnor (Heronnor) will be on hand to present the prizes. The best is yet to come: hot dogs, pop and chips will be provided to everyone participating. i THE SESQUICENTENNIAL committee might have missed out on a good thing by failing to ask Paul E. Johnson of Oakwood Park to be a candidate for mayor in its ongoing contest for a leader to grace public functions for the forthcoming year. “I had a good notion to run,” he told this scribe on Friday. Johnson is a native of the Anderson area — “where I was a farm boy” — and was an agricultural engineer on the Purdue University staff for 37 years. We shouldn’t be passing up those senior citizens like that. DELAINE TURNER and her retired Marine Corps husband Jack are more than a little upset in having a Marine Corps flag stolen from their Wawasee Heights property sometime during the night of Memorial Day. A bank employee, Delaine told this column she is from a Marine Corps family (her dad is a retired Warrant Officer and her husband retired after 21 years as a Maiter/Sergeant). “It hurt me,” she said, especially since this occurred on Memorial Day and that they left the American flag lie on the ground. Both flags flew at half mast in honor of the 37

servicemen killed in the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf. She said her dad has a new marine flag in the mail to replace the stolen flag. ALSO, THE name Thomas Harding was inadvertently left out of the military unit parading in Syracuse on Memorial Day. Harding, a WWII veteran having served in Europe with the First Infantry, is a member of the Wawasee American Legion Post 223 and Lakeside VFW Post 1342, sponsors of the Memorial Day observance, and a regular in these parades. IF BILL Beemer looks a little more like Gabby Hayes every day, there’s good reason for it. An up-front sort of guy, this new growth of beard is Bill’s way of quietly prodding the sesquicentennial committee to sponsor a beard contest. And he may just have gotten the job done, if not through the sesqui committee. The Rotary Club has agreed to take on the project, and to raise some money at the same time. But there’s a catch. Anyone (presumably a man) without a beard or a badge will be assessed a minimum fine and thrown in jail until he comes forth with the fine. This could get real knotty, for anyone who just happened to leave their billfold at home. - •' THERE’S ACTION at the old town hall. Workmen moved in last Thursday, dug a foundation for the new police department garage and poured the foundation. Chief Bob Ziller says it’s' to be a two-car garage, measuring 22x42, with a large storage area to house stolen property. The garage will be brick, compatible with the present town hall. It’s located just across the alley east from the Syracuse Town Hall, on a site where the late J. Barton Cox at one time published his eight-page tabloid paper, The Syracuse-Journal, and where later the late Harold Kitson had his heating and plumbing shop. THERE ARE reported to be 250 realtors in Kosciusko County, more than there are in the city of Indianapolis! LATEST JIMMY/Tammy Faye Bakker joke. They scraped all the make-up off Tammy Faye and found Jimmy Hoffa there. Gross? You bet. —o— THE MODERN Serf: During the Middle Ages, serfs were required to work three months a year for their masters. Today, the American taxpayer toils about four months a year to pay his taxes. —o— The NORTH Webster Mermaid Festival Committee is gearing up for its 42d consecutive event that brings literally thousands of people to the small lakeside community. This year the festival will be tied in with North Webster’s sesquicentennial celebration. This being so, ohe can reasonably expect to see a bigger and better Saturday parade and a larger number of entries in their Queen of the Lakes contest. According to Richard Runyan, of the sponsoring North Webster Lions Club who is also serving as the festival’s general chairman, D.G. (“Bud”) Seely, well known Milford Lions Club member and former governor of District 25-G (1972-73), will serve as master of ceremonies for the parade. Seely will be following in the footsteps of such notable MCs are WOWO’s Jack, Underwood, who held that job for a good number of years, and ABC’s Chris Schenkel, to name a .few. ( . WITH FRIENDS like this Jack Oswald doesn’t need any enemies. The weekend was moving time for Jack, from his Hunnicutt Addition home to the former Fred Byland home in Hawaiian Village. The smaller house would not accommodate all his furnishings, and some were left in his open garage. Along comes someone with a Garage Sale sign, and soon the passersby stopped to inventory his “sale items.” GEORGE PAVEL, owner of the Barbee Hotel, and Tsi Sou, plan to open a wholesale egg roll business in the. 13 Center in about two months, selling directly to supermarkets. Pavel has owneyf the Barbee Hotel for 26 years, and has his parents, Andy and Mae Pavel, operate it. JOHN B. Augsburger, owner of Augsburger’s Super Valu Stores in Syracuse and North Webster, has purchased three private homes south and west of his North Webster store. He plans to double the size of that store, breaking ground in the fall. Buoyed up by a report from Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz that the three fastest-growing townships in the state of Indiana are Wayne (Warsaw), Tippecanoe (North Webster), and Turkey Creek (Continued on page 5)