The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 24, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 July 1987 — Page 2

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., July 29,1987

Gear up for Kosciusko County Fair

< Continued from page 1) Band in activity tent (free dance) TUESDAY, AUG. 4 8:30 a.m. — 4-H Poultry and Pigeon Judging in poultry tent 8:30 a m. — 4-H Swine Show in show arena 9 a.m. — 4-H Rabbit Show in rabbit tent 9 a.m. — Open Pony Show in horse arena 10 a m.-10 p.m. — Exhibits open in Women’s Building 1-3 p.m. — Activities for the handicapped: Coin search, face painting, Presbyterian Puppets and tattooing in activity tent 4:30-6 p.m. — Max and His Music Machine in activity tent 6 p.m. — Cutie King and Queen Contest in activity tent 6:15-6:45 p.m. — Fun Fair Frolics: Demonstrations, contests, recipes and much more in Women’s Building 7:15-7:45 p.m. Kosciusko County Extension Chorus in activity tent 7:30 p.m. — Open Dairy Judging Contest in show arena 8 p.m. — “Atlanta" in grandstand WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 8 a.m. — 4-H Beef Show with 4-H Dairy Steer Show to follow in show arena 8:30 a m. — 4-H Dairy Goat Show in goat tent 9 a.m. —- 4-H Pony Show in horse arena 10 a m.-10 p.m. — Exhibits open in Women’s Building 12 noon-5 p.m. — Horse-drawn Wagon Rides (circle the grounds) 1 p.m. — Open Draft Horse Show in horse arena 1-— Clowns (ongrounds) 2- p.m. — Hamburglar and Games and Contests in game area back of Shrine Building 3 p.m. — 4-H Sheep Show in goat tent

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4-6 p.m. — Wally the Penguin (on grounds) 5 p.m. — Kiddie Drawing in grandstand 6 p.m. — 4-H Rabbit Royalty Contest in rabbit tent 6 p.m. — Deb Collier Dance Revue in activity tent 7 p.m. — 4-H Rabbit Illustrated Talks in rabbit tent 7:30 p.m. — Wool and Spinning Demonstration in sheep bam 7:30 p.m. — Open Livestock Judging Contest in show arena 8-10 p.m. — “Millstream” Band in activity tent (free dance) 8 p.m. — Winged Sprint Races in grandstand THURSDAY, AUG. 6 9:30a.m.-l p.m. — Registration 9:30 a m. — 4-H Dairy Show in show arena 10 a m.-5 p.m. — Horse-drawn Wagon Rides (circle the grounds) 10:30 a.m.-12 noon — Euchre Games and Liar's Contest in activity tent 12 noon-1 p.m. — Max and His Music Machine in activity tent . 1 p.m. — Tractor Operator’s Contest in grandstand 1-3 p.m. — Clowns (on grounds) 1 p.m. — Open Beef Show in show arena 1 p.m. — Introductions: 1987 Queen and Others in activity tent 1:30 p.m. — “Birdland Trio” in activity tent 2 p.m. — Drawing for Door Prizes in activity tent 2:30p.m. — “Melloaires” inac-' tivity tent 3 p.m. — Drawing for Door Prizes in activity tent 3:15 p.m. — “Name that Tune" in activity tent 3:30 p.m. — Drawing for Door Prizes in activity tent 4 p.m. — “Sing A Long" in activity tent 4 p.m — 4-H Supreme Showman Contest in show arena 6 p.m. — Cheerleader Contest in grandstand

6:15-6:45 p.m. — Fun Fair Frolics: Demonstrations, contests, recipes and much more in Women’s Building 7 p.m. — Chain of Lakes Chorus in activity tent , 8 p.m. — Grandstand Show: Bonnie Nelson in grandstand (free) FRIDAY, AUG. 7 9 a.m. — 4-H and Open Horses at Halter in horse arena 10 a.m. — 4-H Club Auction in show arena 6 p.m. — Presbyterian Puppets in activity tent 6:15-6:45 p.m. — Fun Fair Frolics: Demonstrations, contests, recipes and much more in Women's Building 7 p.m. — Lee Ann Stewart Dance Revue in activity tent 7:30 p.m. — Semi Truck Pull in grandstand 8 p.m. — Grassy Creek Cloggers in activity tent 9 p.m. — Pizza Eating Contest in activity tent SATURDAY. AUG. 8 8 a m. —’ 4-H and Open Horses Riding the day) 10 a m. — Open Dairy Show in show arena 10 am.-10 p.m. — Exhibits open in Women’s Building 12 noon — Open Sheep Show in goat tent 2-4 p.m. — Wally the Penguin (on grounds) 4-5:30 p.m. — Old Time Fiddler Contest in activity tent 6-7 p.m. — Contests: Watermelon Eating, Log Sawing, Nail Driving, and Watermelon Seed Spitting in activity tent 7:15-7:45 p.m. — New Covenant Gospel Quartet in activity tent 8 p.m. — Auto Races in grands tand 8:30-10:30p.m. — “Coda" Band in activity tent (free dance)

One arrested after accident in Syracuse

(Continued from page 1) Baker was west bound on East Main Street and was attempting to park on the north side of Main Street when the accident occurred. Damage to the van, registered to WOLT, 120 Northwest 12th Ave., Deerfield Beach, Fla., was estimated up to SI,OOO with no damage to the 1983 Ford pickup registered to Leisure Pools and Spas, Inc., 11l East Main St., Syracuse. North Webster youths held in robberies Four North Webster youths, including a juvenile, were taken into custody early Tuesday morning in connection with the attempted theft of articles from vehicles parked at the Goshen Holiday Inn. Ptl. Michael McCloughen stopped a van on US 33 south of College Avenue, Goshen, in which three of the youths were riding, Charles S. Gradless, 18, r 2 Black’s Mobile Trailer Court, North Webster, who was charged with receiving stolen property; Michael J. Stump. 20, r 2, North Webster, who was charged with theft; and a 15-year-old also from North Webster. n David D. Zentz, 18. r 2. North Webster, a fourth member of the group, was on foot when taken into custody later in the morning bySyracuse police. He was charged with theft and resisting law enforcement officers by fleeing According to Lt Edward Dunithan, he saw two youths by two separate vehicles parked in the south lot of the Holiday Inn According to Ptl. Wade Branson, a radio had been removed from the dash of a red pickup truck One of the youths fled and was picked up by the YWCA building by two youths in the van The other youth fled southeast on foot after Lt. Dunithan ordered him to stop and fired a warning shot. The three youths in the van were taken into custody by Ptl. McCloughen and Sgt. Sandra Snyder. Ptl Dunithan found .a license plate reportedly stolen from a Chevette parked at Concord Mall inside the van Other articles taken from vehicles parked at the south lot were found near the YWCA building. Zentz was returned to Goshen and was booked in jail along with Stump a-rrd Xlradless The juvenile/was released to the custody'bf his parents. A (1987 Oldsmobile owned byJim WiJjderom, Harbor Springs, Mich ,'had a hole punched hear the doorvlock and knobs were removed. \A vehicle owned by Christin K»ster. Fenton. Midi., had a face'plSte of a dash radio damaged. J Millions for education The IJouse overwhelmingly approved a sweeping education bill that renews and expands pro grams affecting most of the nation's elementary and secondary school children. HARTMAN'S USED FURNITURE Buy — Sell — Trade 457-4257 NOWPLAriNGI Spaceballs NEXT ATTRACTION Jaws IV (R) The Revenge Fri. Thru Thurs. 7:00 Sunday 5:00 & 7:00 Fri A Sat 7 8 9 Sun 5 7 89 Mon Thru ,hur ' 7i9 Village Video VHS tape Rental In Our Lobby No Membership Fee

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Hearing set for proposed length of school year

The State Board of Education will hold public hearings in South Bend, Indianapolis and Evansville during the month of August on the proposed rule governing the new length of school year requirements enacted by the Indiana General Assembly, Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans announced recently. The proposed rule would implement the legislature’s requirement that cancelled days be made up by the schools, beginning in the 1987-88 school year and that the school year be expanded to 180 days beginning in the 1988-89 school yea’r. The South Bend hearing will be held in the Bruggner Room, South Bend School Corporation, 635 S. Main St., South Bend, on Wednesday, Aug. 26. It will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. In addition, a final hearing will be held during the Board’s September 10, 1987, meeting. This meeting and public hearing will begin at 8:30 a m. in the fourth floor conference room at the Department of Education offices, 251 E. Ohio St , in Indianapolis. Proposed Rule (a) For the 1987-88 school year, each school corporation shall establish a school calendar that includes at least 175 student instructional days for all students grades kindergarten through 12. For the 1988-89 school year and each school year after that, each school corporation shall establish a school calendar that includes at least 180 student instructional days for all students grades kindergarten through 12. (b) A student instructional day is a day in which students are in attendance and that includes a minimum of five hours of instructional time in grades one through six and six hours of instructional time in grades seven through 12. (c) Instead of scheduling a full student instructional day, a school corporation may schedule two partial student instructional days. Each partial student instructional day must include a minimum of two and one-half hours of instructional time in grades one through six and three hours of instructional time in grades seven through 12. Only partial days which meet the requirements of this subsection may be used to meet the minimum requirements of this section. (d) Instructional time is time in which students are participating in an approved course, curriculum or educationally related activity under the direction of a teacher. Instructional time includes a reasonable amount of passing time between classes, Instructional time does not include lunch or recess. (e) An educationally related activity is a non-classroom activity, such as a field trip or convocation, that meets all of the following: < 1 > Is consistent with and promotes the educational philosophy and goals of the school corporation and the state board of education. (2) Facilitates the attainment of specific educational objectives. (3) Is a part of the goals and objectives of an approved course or curriculum. (4) Represents a unique educational opportunity. (5) Has been approved in writing by the local superintendent or the superintendent’s designee. (6) Cannot reasonably occur without interrupting the school day. Each school corporation shall maintain a record of educationally related activities. The record is open to public inspection and must conic in a description of the activity and a statement of the educational objectives of the activity. <f) Instructional time includes

parent-teacher conferences that are conducted during a day in which students are in attendance for a part of the day. Instructional time does not include a full day of parent-tetchier conferences. (g) A school corporation may accumulate time that exceeds the minimum hours requirement of this section. A school corporation may use accumulated time: (1) as instructional time to replace instructional time lost because of an emergency which causes school officials to begin school later than the regularly scheduled time of day or dismiss school earlier than the regularly scheduled time of day; or (2) to conduct non-instructional activities during the school day. Each school corporation shall maintain a record of the use of accumulated time. The record is open to public inspection. If accumulated time is used to conduct non-instructional activities, the record must contain a description of the activity. If accumulated time is used to replace lost instructional time, the record must contain the reason the time was lost and the amount of time lost. Accumulated time may not be used to replace a full student instructional day lost because of an emergency which causes school officials to cancel school. Accumulated time may not be used in lieu of or as a replacement for any of the minimum student instructional days required by this section. Accumulated time may not be added to the instructional time in a partial day permitted under subsection (c) to equal a full student instructional day. (h) This section applies to every school as well as to every school corporation. Ci) The department of education may grant a waiver of the penalty imposed by IC 20-10.1-2-l(d) for a particular number of student instructional days if: (Da school corporation applies to the department for a waiver of the penalty imposed under IC 20-10.1-2-Kd) for a specific number of cancelled student instructional days; and (2) each of the particular number of instructional days requested to be waived was cancelled due to extraordinary circumstances. (j)The department of education shall consider the following factors in determining if extraor6 vandalism, theft calls answered by Syracuse police Syracuse Police investigated six calls concerning vandalism, thefts and damage to a portable sign during the past week. Brendan Clugston, Syracuse, reported his 20-inch Schwinn dirt bike was stolen from his home between 11 p.m Tuesday. July 21 and 6 a m. Wednesday. July 22. The bike was valued at $250. Vandalism to a fence behind Wawasee Electronics, West Chicago St.. Syracuse, was investigated with damage estimated at SSO. According to the report, someone hit a two-foot by six-foot area of a fence behind the business between 10 a m. and 2 p.m. Thursday. July 23. The theft of S6OO worth of stereo equipment from the vehicle of Craig Eby, Syracuse, is under investigation. Eby reported to police a cassette stereo and four speakers were stolen from his vehicle while parked outside his home between 3 a m. and 6 a m. on July 24. There was no damage to the vehicle. Linda Thornburg, Syracuse, reported the theft of S7OO worth of jewelry taken from her home bet ween July 18 and July 25. An unknown object was thrown at the back window of a 1981 Ford owned by Robert Owen, Syracuse, and shattered the window. The incident was reported sit approximately 9:15 p.m. July 26. No damage estimate was available. Syracuse Police Officer Calvin Kline discovered damage to the portable sign at Red-D-Mart, at 12:55 a.m. Monday, July 27. He reported it appeared as if something had ran into the sign. The sign is valued at $390.

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dinary circumstances justify granting a waiver under subsection (i): (1) the reason(s) for not making up the cancelled instructional days. (2) the length and amount of instructional time in the school calendar. (3) the reason(s) the days were cancelled. (4) the dates the cancelled days occurred. <5) the number of cancelled

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OLDEST SURVIVING REPTILE — A Suwannee cooler, one of the world’s 180 species of freshwater turtles, cruises the waters of Florida’s Rainbow Run. Webbing between toes speeds turtles through water, and a gill-like mouth cavity allows them to breathe. Contemporaries of dinosaurs, turtles are the world’s oldest surviving reptiles. < Photo by Bill Curlsinger. 1986 National Geographic Society)

Oldest surviving reptiles, turtles made for endurance

I NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ! NEWSSERVICE i Their ancestors roamed the earth some 275 million years ago. even before the Appalachian Mountains were formed. The first recognizable member of the species appears in the fossil record about 185 million years ago, many eons before the-.peak of the dinosaurs.. Today, long after the dinosaurs' demise, the turtle remains, its dome still perched on its back. "Turtles seem to have hit on a good, conservative thing." says Dr. Archie Carr, a world authority on them. "Turtles clung to their basic structural design, while many other animals experimented their way into extinction." Many unique features help the turtle survive in an increasingly hostile world, writes freshwaterturtle specialist Christopher P. White in the January 1986 National Geographic. Very Flexible Neck • The turtle's protective shell actually consists of twojiarts — the top half, called the carapace, and the lower half, the plastron. Eight vertebrae in this reptile's neck, compared with the seven of most mammals, allow most turtles to told their necks and retract into their shells. Most turtles also can retract all four limbs as well as their head between the two shells. In addition to breathing through a set of lungs, freshwater turtles can use their mouth cavity in gill-like fashion Water is drawn through the nostrils, oxygen absorbed in the mouth, and the water expelled. A few turtles can even absorb small amounts of oxygen through their skin while submerged in.mud. Aquatic turtles have little in common with the poky tortoise that almost lost the race to the hare. They're extremely fast. The smooth spftshell turtle, for example, can outswim the speedy brook trout. Webbing between toes increases swimming speed while allowing some species to walk underwater to browse. The world's 180 kinds of freshwater turtles include animals patterned with* dots, splashes and hieroglyphs. The spotted turtle, for instance, is sprinkled with dozens of yellow polka dots. The markings on the juvenile map turtle resemble contours on an ancient chart. Freshwater turtles vary in size from the stinkpot, a three-inch-long variety that exudes a musky fluid when disturbed, to the alligator snapper, a giant native of the south-central United States that can weigh up to 250 pounds. Snaps Off Fingers The bite of the alligator snap per is legendary. "Late one night 16 years ago," related a veteran

days. (6) the number of schools affected. (7) the existence of a current collective bargaining agreement which was in effect prior to the applicability of P.L. 390-1987 and which prohibits the school corporation from making up cancelled student instructional days. (k) A decision of the department of education under this section may be appealed to the state board of education. J .

Florida turtle hunter, "my son and I pulled an old 75-pound alligator snapper out of a swamp. Like a fool. I put the snapperright behind me in the boat. After a time we got stuck in some reeds, so I reached back for a paddle and slam! — something hit my hand so fast 1 didn't know what had happened. Then all of a sudden there was blood everywhere, and my son was shouting. Dad, two of your fingers just dropped into the bottom of the boat!’ " Those who dare to*peer into an alligator snapper's mouth would see a rose-colored wormlike appendage projcc'ing from its tongue, used to lure minnows Dissected stomachs of alligator snappers have turned up baby alligators, raccoons, snakes, acorns, shoes and other turtles. The increasingly rare alligator snapper is still legally hunted in many states. A few other species, such as New England's Plymouth red-bellied turtle, are in more serious trouble. Considered endangered sipce 1980, a few hundred red-bellies survive in glacial ponds with the help of conservationists. One threat to some freshwater turtles’ survival is a slow rate of reproduction. Mating can be elaborate. Each species has a courtship ritual of its own. Common snapping turtles, for example. face each other and sweep their heads from side to side in opposite directions. After several minutes, the two turtles return their heads to dead center and stare at each other for a while, before mating. • The male red-eared slider tickles the female's neck as he swims backward and she forward. The two eventually sink to the pond bottom, where they mate. Coolers Court Author White, diving in a Florida river, is the first to fully describe the courtship dance of the peninsula cooter: “The female is as large as my diving flipper, the male less than half her size. He rides like a hitchhiker atop her carapace, while green strands of algae resembling gossamer threads trail from their shells. . . " With forefeet pressed to each side of her yellow-and-black neck, the male gently tickles her with his needle-sharp claws. Like kites reeled in on a string, the pair drifts slowly downward, shells immobile but legs and tails parading. . . "Suddenly the male cooter slides backward on his mate's shell, his tail curving beneath her own. At this moment, mating takes place. The pair passes by. oblivious of me in the trance of their embrace. . ." Egg laying can be nearly as ritualistic. Many females dig a chamber near water's edge, lay their eggs and cover the nest. At least three varieties, however, practice triple clutching. They lay most of their eggS'-in a main nest and then add two smaller pockets for one or two eggs each. Some scientists believe the pockets are decoys, designed to distract predators from the main clutch, but Archie Carr has doubts. "Two or three eggs in little side pockets aren't going to fool a hungry raccoon — they probably act more like a beacon,” he says. It’s still a mystery, and I've been losing sleep over it for 30 years."