The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 28, Milford, Kosciusko County, 26 August 1987 — Page 2

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., August 26,1987

. ~* 'SJB^^HB^^BBBrw^^—*• -*■- *■’■ . THREE INJURED — Three persons were taken to Goshen Hospital following a two-vehicle accident Monday, Aug. 24. at 11: 04 a.m., on US 6 west of SR 13. Melvin Frain, 76. 1962 By-Bee Court. Bitely, Mich., driver of one of the vehicles and a passenger in his vehicle, Audrey Frain, 64, 1962 By-Bee Court, Bitely, Mich., complained of neck pain. Douglas Wiggins. 19, Nappanee, a passenger in the other vehicle complained of pain to his back. Elkhart County Police report Lonnie Wiggins. 25, Nappanee, was west bound on US 6 and observed an east bound oversize load vehicle was partially across the center line. In an effort to avoid a collision Wiggins drove to the right and failed to see the Frain vehicle along the side of the road, striking the left rear of the vehicle. The Frains had stopped to eat their lunch. A witness to the accident told police the oversized load was not across the center line far enough for Wiggins to take the evasive action he did. Wiggins was cited for false registration. Damage to tfie 1965 Mercury Comet, driven by Frain, shown in the photo, was listed under S2OO and damage to thg/1973 Buick LaSabre. driven by Wiggins, was estimated up to SI,OOO. Investigating the accident were Elkhart County Police Sergeant Walter Miller and Syracuse Police Officer Calvin Kline. (Photo by Deb Patterson)

Four Warsaw bankers are named

Richard G. Adams, Neal M Carlson, R. Douglas Grant and Richard D. Mackey have been named to state committees of the Indiana Bankers Association The announcements were made by' IBA Chairman Patrick E McNarny, president. First National Bank of Logansport. Adams, executive vice president at Lake City Bank, Warsaw, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the IBA Commercial Lending School. The trustees coordinate the school, which will be next summer at the University of Indianapolis for the third consecutive year. Carlson, president of First National Bank of Warsaw, has been named to the budget committee. The committee is charged with making recommendations for budgeting procedures and accounting methods for the IBA. Grant, president of Lake City Bank, Warsaw, will serve on the conference program committee. This committee will help plan the IBA’s annual conference to be held next June in French Lick. Mackey, senior vice president of Lake City Bank, Warsaw, has been named chairman of the

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Budget approved at North Webster

No remonstrators were present at the hearing for the 1988 budget for the Town of North Webster, Monday evening, at 7 p.m. Town board members Sid Markley, Jr., Republican caucus on Thursday at North Webster A caucus for those registered Republicans in the Town of North Webster will be Thursday evening, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m., in Camelot Hall, according to Gary Eastlund, Republican tow chairman. Nominations for candidates for the three town board posts and clerk-treasurer will be taken that evening The Democratic party for the town will not be holding a caucus according to Judy Henwood Mrs Henwood is Democratic committee >

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and Robert James along with Eve Payne, clerk-treasurer, were present at the meeting. The town’s advertised budget for 1988 calls for a $3,353 tax rate per SIOO assessed valuation. This rate will raise $161,743 of the $287,904 budget. In a break down of the tax rate $2,318 will go towards the general fund, to raise $111,374; $.885 to the motor vehicle fund raising $42,395; and $.15 towards the cumulative capital development fund to raise $7,974. The remainder of the budget funds will come from state tax money allowed. The assessed valuation for the Town of North Webster in 1986, payable 1987, is $4,805,890 in which the budget was based on. Mrs. Payne stated the assessed valuation is expected to be higher than in 1986. The town board will meet next Monday evening, Aug. 31, at 7 p.m., in the town hall to adopt the advertised budget

Paula (Gordon) Frizsell —

Visits mother, relatives in Taiwan

I By JUDY STECKLY Staff Writer Wawasee High School graduate Paula Frizsell and her husband. Bill, are a successful American couple. They have good jobs — she at NIPSCO and he at Home Crest. They moved into a beautiful, spacious new home west of Goshen last year. Two sons, Christopher, three-years-old, and Chad, nine-years-old, make their life complete. While celebrating their wedding anniversary in January of this year, Bill and Paula began chatting with their Chinese waiter. The help he gave them changed their lives. Paula had always known she was adopted, and she had recently learned a little about her biological parents. Paula's father was an officer in the Air Force, serving in Taiwan when he and his wife adopted Paula. She was one-month-old at the time. Re died later, after they had returned to the United States. Paula’s mother remarried. Her name is now Kathryn Myers, and she has a Cromwell address. Bill, from Jackson. Miss., Was visiting a friend in North Webster when he met Paula. In 1974 they were married. At that time, Paula s mother gave her her birth certificate “and adoption papers. Since they were written in Chinese, Paula gave them little thought. Last fall, however, when she happened upon the large sheets of rice paper with the Chinese characters, Paula became curious. She took copies of the documents to Goshen College to be translated. She found out the names, ages, address and occupations of her natural parents. The waiter for the Frizsells' anniversary dinner was a Chinese student at Yale University. He was spending a year in the Goshen area to write a disserta tion on the life-style of the Amish people. As they talked of Paula’s adoption, he volunteered to translate a letter from Paula to her family in Taiwan, to be sent to the address that was noted over 30 years ago. The short letter included a wallet-sized photo of her family. Paula had little hope that she would receive a response, but about four weeks later she received an answer from her half-brother, Rui Shan! It began: “Dear Hsiu Jiao (the name Paula received at birth, pronounced Shoo Jou), “It’s a surprise to get your mail and photo. I feel very happy. Maybe this is arranged by God to let us get reunited after 30 years of absence. I’m very, very delighted." Rui Shan told Paula that she has eight brothers and sisters, and that her natural father died in 1981 He encouraged her to keep in contact with her family, “in spite of differences of language and customs.” ’ Rui Shan contacted Paula’s mother and sisters. Soon Paula received a letter from a sister expressing the tremendous joy that her mother felt upon hearing from her "lost child” as she sometimes spoke of her. The sister wrote. “The heaven has kind eyes,” for her mother was delighted to know that Hsiu Jiao was happy and well in America. After more correspondence, Bill and Paula decided they would like to meet Paula’s natural family, and they investigated the possibility of going to Taiwan. The airline they called said the current fares were the lowest ever offered, and that they would raise substantially at the NOW PLAYING! ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING pg - STARTS FRIDAY - Steve Martin In ROXANNE PG I Fn & Sat 7 49 Sun 5. 749 - , Mon Thru m| DOLBY STOEP | • Thur*. 749 M SELECTED THEATAES . Village Video VHS Tape Rental ° In Our Lobby No Membership Fee No, Webster * >34-4042 Open At 7:30 Show At Dusk Mannequin Project X

end of July. The Frizsells made the decision to go! What did Paula’s mother, Kathryn Myers, feel about their plan? Paula said, “I’ve always been happy with my life here. I’ve wondered about my natural family, but I had no strong desire. My mother here said she was surprised we even wanted to do it. As I was growing up, looking different from the other children in school, I always wanted to be ‘just American.’ I didn’t want anybody to call me anything else. So things like that made her feel that I would probably never try to find my natural family.” But when Paula told her what they planned to do, “She was behind me all the way!” Bill’s parents, William and Frances Frizsell, Jackson, Miss., are members of the Broadmore Baptist Church. They arranged for missionaries to assist the travelers once they arrived in Taiwan. Paula has been able to determine much about her adoption. In China failure to give birth to a son was always considered the woman’s fault. With only four daughters, Paula’s father chose another woman who gave birth to a son a few days before Paula was born. Thus he divorced his first wife to be able to marry the woman who could give him sons. This forced Paula’s mother to seek work as a household servant to support her daughters. In despair she gave up her baby for adoption. Another Chinese custom concerning adoption is that even though the natural mother does not raise the child, she keeps in touch all of the time. Paula said, "She fully expected to see me grow up and to know me as I grew up. She went to the home where my parents had lived, and we had left.” When Bill and Paula landed in Taipei, Taiwan, after a 17-hour flight, missionaries met them and helped them board the correct plane to Tainan, the city where Paula was born. As they neared their destination, the excitement mounted. What type of reception would they receive? Mother-Daughter Meet Bill and Paula were met by Paula’s natural mother, her four sisters, their husbands and an interpreter. Paula said, “We were lavished with gifts! ” Bill added, “It was treated as a celebration —a homecoming after 30 years!” A sister asked Paula and Bill to change their hotel reservations to stay in one close to her home. They agreed, but secretly wondered how nice it would be. They were surprised to find that all of the city is quite modem, and that the standard of living is much better than they thought it would be. All of her family members had nice homes, with some more elaborate than others. Paula’s biological mother is Huang Jin Nuan, though Paula calls her “Mama,” the universal word for “Mother.” Jin Nuan is 64-years-old, in excellent health, and lives in her own home next to her number two daughter’s. The custom is. for the children to be sure their parents are cared for. Paula’s four sisters in Taiwan are: Hsiu Shia, Twaun Zsu, Hsiu Fong and Hsiu Chin. Their ages range from 45- 31 (the Chinese count the nine months before birth as part of their age). The three older sisters each have four children, and Hsiu Chin has two. Twaun Zsu has a son in the Army, as all boys in Taiwan go into the Army for two years at a certain age. Jin Nuan gave her “lost child” a gold necklace and Bill a ring. Her sisters and their husbands showered them with gifts including a silk blouse and skirt, a brass bull signed by a brother-in-law from his place of work, and plastic items from a business that another brother-in-law owns. The families of her father’s second wife also invited Paula to meet with them. The second wife presented her with a bracelet. Paula met the families of her three half-brothers, her halfsister, aunts, and uncles. Bill said, “When Paula’s father’s 81-year-old mother came into the room, everyone got very quiet, and the interpreter said, ‘Paula, this is your grandmother!’ It was really special.” In every home they visited, Paula and Bill were surprised to see an 11x14 framed enlargement of the wallet-sized photo she had sent to Rui Shan. The families had every day planned. When they went to a restaurant, they all enjoyed Paula’s fumbling with chopsticks. They really laughed when they saw that Bill could use

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BL. , * sir y ■ l ** ‘ i BLWL-. i I ' rMwHM PAULA’S TAIWANESE FAMILY — Paula Frizsell, front left, is wearing the silk blouse and skirt that her sisters gave her during her visit. She is sitting next to her natural mother, Huang Jin Nuan. Standing are Paula’s four sisters, from left, Hsiu Shia, Twaun Zsu, Hsiu Fong and Hsiu Chin. (Photo by Bill Frizsell.)

m Mo r - ' 1 L ’ - du. THE FRIZSELL FAMILY — From left, the Frizsell family includes: Paula; Bill; Christopher, three-years-old; and Chad, nine-years-old. (Photo by Judy Steckiy.)

them much better than Paula. Tainan Tour The group took Bill and Paula to many parts of Tainan, a city of a half-million people, to beautiful temples, and to Kenting National Park. Taiwan, with just over 14,000 square miles, has a population of over 18.2 million. In comparison, Indiana with 36,000 square miles has just over five million people. As they rode to the park, Bill and Paula noticed that every available square foot of land was used for growing food. The seeds were planted in exceedingly straight rows, by hand. Water buffalo were plentiful. At the park, the exotic flora, white sand beaches, and strange formations of coral were breathtaking. The family members stressed how much they love Taiwan and the freedom they enjoy. All have good jobs, homes and motor scooters or mopeds. Two have cars, though they are not necessary in the congested city. Most Taiwanese homes are narrow, of three levels, with the business often at one level. One of Paula’s sisters has a sewing shop with six employees making clothing for department stores of the modem malls in Tainan. The weather in Taiwan in July is extremely hot, with temperatures and humidity both at 100 often. A typhoon hit while Paula and Bill were there, but the mountain range along the western edge kept damaging winds away. The rain was very

More rusty water problems reported to Milford board

The final budget hearing before action on the 1988 town budget is taken was held at the Milford Town Hall Monday night, Aug. 24, with no remonstrators in attendance. Final action on the budget will take place Monday, Aug. 31, at 6:30 p.m. in the town hall. Utilities superintendent Dallas Winchester II reminded residents that water hydrants would be flushed tomorrow (Thursday), while he reminded the board that residents at the north end of West Street were having more problems with rusty water. He agreed to re-set a pump for a

heavy. By the end of the week, the Americans and the Taiwanese could converse somewhat without relying on their interpreters. As Paula said, “It’s amazing what you can do with just hand gestures!” She added, “We could feel the warmth of the family. We were whole-heartedly accepted without reservations.” Bill said, “Our visit went incredibly well!” On the way back to the airport, Paula and her mother were both tearful. Paula decided to see what the others would do first as a farewell, for she had read that Chinese people are not outwardly affectionate. However, she found herself in a loving embrace, with pleas to come back again. Os course Bill and Paula invited all of her natural family to visit them too, but only time will show if that is possible. Taipei, Too The Frizsells returned to Taipei one day early so they could visit the National Palace Museum. The recorded history of China goes back 5,000 years, making it the oldest civilization. Creating and preserving precious art has long been valued. When the Japanese were attacking China, trainloads of treasures were moved from the central museum. Again when the Communists were about to control mainland China, Chaing Kai-shek sent 4,800 of the 20,000 steel cases

slower re-charge, while longrange plans would call for a filtration system, the elimination of dead-end lines, or upgrading the distribution system. The board will determine what action to take at a later meeting. In another matter, a water leak problem on SR 15, near the Emeline Street intersection, will be contracted out through the state highway department. Vibration from heavy trucks have made it necessary to lower a 460 feet section of line, which would cost the town up to $3,200. Winchester also noted that catch basin work on SR 15 and Emeline Street is continuing, prompting the board to allow the department to keep a part-time

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containing the most valuable objects to Taiwan where the Nationalists established themselves. Much of the art is still in cases in corridors of the mountain behind the National Palace Museum, kept at a steady temperature, with dehumidifiers along the aisles. But many beautiful items are on display. Bill and Paula were impressed with the incredible art, especially the miniature carvings such as the olive pit used for a boat. The boat’s passengers have facial expressions only seen through a magnifying glass. Truly amazing are the ornate ivory balls carved within each other from one piece of ivory without any seams. This art object took three generations to complete. And Paula’s sister and husband gave them two reproductions of beautiful ancient paintings shown in the museum. Now that they’re back in Goshen, Paula and Bill will continue to learn about Taiwan. They want their sons to be proud of their heritage from both continents. Gifts they brought for the boys included encased butterflies, toys and flash cards of pictures with Chinese words and English pronunciations. Paula will use the flash cards too, when she studies Chinese at Goshen College this fall. The correspondence will continue. Perhaps one family will help two nations have a greater understanding and appreciation of each other.

employee for an additional amount of time, which was not specified. The cumulative sewer fund rereinstatement and the first hearing for the capital improvement fund will also be acted on at the board’s meeting next Monday. Beautification meeting postponed A beautification meeting slated for last Monday evening, Aug. 24, was postponed due to unexpected circumstances. Bill Beemer, chairman of the SyracuseWawasee Chamber of Commerce project, stated another meeting will be called in the near future.