The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 37, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 October 1987 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL- Wed, October 28,1987

Editorial

Important meetings slated The Turkey Creek Regional Sewer District has slated two very important public meetings in the coming week. Both will be held in the Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church. Both are for the people who own property around the Syracuse area lakes — Wawasee, Syracuse, Bonar and Papakeechie — and along Turkey Creek. It is important that one or the other meeting be attended by as many property owners as possible. Details of the sewer project for the lake will be discussed. The first meeting will be held on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 1:30 p.m. the second meeting will be held on Monday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. As noted in a front page article last week, a $3.6 million grant has been received from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the project. An additional $1 million is expected from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Grant requirements call for bids to be advertised by July 31, 1988, and substantial completion of construction needs to be done by September 30,1990. Currently, the project is in the design and construction phase and it is important that property owners cooperate. Easements are needed in order to meet critical deadlines. Property owners are therefore urged to make every effort possible to be at one or the other of the public meetings. Watch out for spooks and goblins Halloween — October 31, a day when youngsters go from door to door begging for treats and threatening to trick if nothing is produced by the person who answers the door. On Friday and Saturday nights young spooks and goblins will be on the streets of the Lakeland communities as they scamper about for treats, and what we trust will be no tricks. This will behoove drivers to take extra care. It also behooves parents to make sure their children are dressed safely for the night’s activities. Youngsters often wear costumes that cover their eyes and block their vision. Many costumes are long, causing yuuugbici blems walking. Others are cumbersome, creating problems as youngsters walk. Mom and dad should take care to watch what their youngsters wear. If at all possible costumes that eliminate blocked vision, walking problems and other problems should be worn by youngsters who will be on the streets. Younger children should be accompanied by older ones or by a parent. Instructions should be repeated on looking both ways before crossing the street. This will help, but we’re urging all drivers in North Webster and Syracuse to take extra care on Friday night and all drivers in Milford to give that extra attention on Saturday night so the youngsters may have a safe Halloween in 1987. TV music One thing visitors from Europe notice when they visit the United States is the bongo-level of music accompanying practically all commercial television. If there’s drama, a chase, or action, the music is always a weirdo combination of sound, including repeated rattles, hisses, etc. It isn’t music. It seems every producer today is blindly copying a trend that began a few years back when weirdo music (if it can be called music) was first used as a novelty on American television. Why not proven, beautiful music for most scenes, exciting proven classical music for climax scenes? The British and Germans are good at that. One reason British-produced programs are so often so much more pleasing is the good music - which comes with them. What made many westerns exciting fifty years ago was the good classical music used for climax scenes. Buck Jones always jumped the bad man in that same sandpile to the background of great classical music. One almost jumped out of his seat. The juice harp and hissing used on U.S. television today doesn’t have any impact, except negative. Has everyone in the U.S. television industry forgotten the world’s beautiful music, how much it adds to theater?

What others say — How to get into the paper

It has been remarked that a local newspaper is many things to many people —a conduit of information on society, politics, commerce, culture, history and education. It is also sometimes a source of frustration to people whose names and lives find their way into print (or should get into print, and don’t). Names get misspelled, events get unmentioned, favorite causes occasionally slip through the cracks. Inevitably, much of the information that appears in a small-town newspaper is not so much gathered on the streets by tireless reporters as it is submitted by readers. And though readers are wonderful and intrinsically indispensable, inevitably they have other things on their minds besides making life easy for newspaper editors. In newspaper heaven, editors open their mail to find news items and press releases that meet their every need. These items are typed, double-spaced on one side of sheets of clean, white typing paper. The spelling is correct, all details are present with respect to time and place, and there’s a telephone number of somebody to contact for more information. The angels keep fresh coffee brewed at all times in newspaper heaven, and the computer never eats the front page half an hour before deadline. In the real world, the coffee pot is often empty; the computer has a strange sense of humor. And information comes in every which way—- — the phone, under the door, written in crayon on pieces of paper bag. Vermont Standard composing room , foreman Tom Pearsons fondly remembers a display ad that came in one day scrawled on a hunk of clapboard. There are plenty of good reasons why information doesn’t always march in orderly ranks. Not everyone has a typewriter; not everyone understands the forces that come to bear on information as it enters the flow of copy in the newspaper office. The newspaper tends to have rules about how information should be submitted, and editors —who aren’t nearly as eccentric as they seem — usually have good reasons for the rules. On their first day of journalism school, Mure scribes get their heads pounded soft with the “five Ws and one H” that are supposed to in-

fuse the journalist’s work: who when, where, what, why and how. Those aren’t bad guidelines for press releases or community news items, either. Before you send it off to us in the mail, check it out one more time. Make sure everything is there. We hate taking news items over the phone, and you should hate it, too: so many opportunities for things to garble up good. A sparrow dictated over the phone can easily become a squirrel in print. It has happened. The main reason for rules, ultimately (with a nod toward making life easier for the editor), is to improve the accuracy of what appears in the paper. That’s why typing is important. You know the difference between how you write a P and a Q by hand, but we may not. In the typesetting business, Murphy’s Law constantly rears its ugly head over the handwritten copy that rolls in over the weeks and years; you can bet that sooner or later your P will become our Q. As for double-spacing, the editor will want to make changes in copy — whether for reasons of format, clarity, or brevity — and will need space in which to do this by hand. The more scrunchedup the editor’s efforts become, the more inscrutable the results are likely to be. Thus Mr. Hill becomes Ms. Hall, the bean supper becomes a bear slipper, or whatever. As for the phone number — well, it happens as sure as the surging tides that things get left out of press releases now and then. And sometimes the omissions can make a grown editor cry. Just when is this bake sale? Whose 50th anniversary was it, anyway? Make sure we can get back in touch with you. When submitting a photo, please write something on the back that will help us match it up with the right news item later. The popular image of journalists as a pack of hounds who don’t care about facts is a bum rap; most of us ink-stained drudges respond to our printed errors by wanting to crawl in a hole and croak. We’re saints, all right; no doubt about it. But we still need all the help we can get . TH -VERMONT STANDARD

Give Kids a Halloween ‘Treat’ O -THEIR LIVES - DRIVE CAREFULLY! IN COOPERATION WITH THE National Safety Council

Court news

County Court The following persons have paid fines and costs in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarette, presiding: Violating Seat Belt Law — Mary L. Hensley, 25, Leesburg, S2O. _ Speeding — Kelly S. Frank, 18, Leesburg, S6O; Suzette Henderson, 35, Milford, $65; James Edwards, 46, Leesburg, $65; Vincent Heyse, Syracuse, $180; Todd Wilson, 17, Milford, $65; Eric P. Schang, 30, Leesburg, $80; Patricia M. Frailey, 42, Syracuse, $65; Timothy W. iroup, 17, MUioru, wo, Kicharu Bellman, 16, Leesburg, $80; s Robin Stucko, 20, Leesburg, S6O; Daniel Brown, 35, Milford, $65; Thomas Clemens, 26, Leesburg, $65. No Operator’s License — Pamela Brennaman,. 28, Syracuse, S6O; Charles Baumgartner, 36, Milford, S6O. Disobeying Stop Sign — Denny Sanders, 42, North Webster, S6O. Improper Passing — Joseph Jenkins, 21, Syracuse, S6O. Expired License Plates — Kenneth Patton, 26, Syracuse, S6O. Littering — Ray J. Skelton, 21, Syracuse, SIOO. Expired Registration — Mary E. Garger, 30, Syracuse, dismissed. Goshen Division The following fines plus court costs have been levied and paid in Elkhart County Court, Goshen Division: Speeding — James J. Fidler, 27, North Webster, SSB; Rick A. Clipfell, 22, Syracuse, dismissed upon the motion of the deputy prosecuting attorney pursuant to, plea agreement; Brian D. Bartholomen, 28, Syracuse, $63; Lynn J. Bobeck, 24, Syracuse, SSB; Kristi K. Bartou, 25, Syracuse, SSB Driving with BAC in excess of .1 percent — Rick A. Clipfell, 22, Syracuse, $75 plus costs, 60 days in jail suspended on the condition the defendant be on probation for six months, follow standard probation terms, pay user’s fees, obtain an ECADAP assessment, attend DWI school, driver’s license suspended 90 days Small Claims The following judgments have been awarded in small claims division, Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrette presiding: Roberta Edmundson Ross, M.D., Inc. vs Dorothy Glassman. Judgment for plaintiff $267.60 plus costs. Thomas W. Holderread vs James Charters and Bradley Curtis. Judgment for plaintiff against Charters, $1,018.30 plus costs. Judgment for plaintiff against Curtis, $179.70 plus costs. Kosciusko Co. REMC vs Michael Knezerich. Judgment for plaintiff $1,957.83 plus costs. J & M Gravel Corp, vs Dean Green. Judgment for plaintiff $231 plus costs. Sears Roebuck & Co. vs Laura M. Coquillard. Judgment for plaintiff $1,048.87 plus costs. Joe Mater & Associates vs Gale Owens and Dana Owens. Judgment for plaintiff $367.50 plus costs. Tippecanoe Boat Co., Inc. vs Darrell Horton. Judgment for plaintiff $2,175 plus costs. Anna Paulus d/b/a Paulus Well Drilling, Inc. vs Quality Tread, Inc. Judgment for plaintiff $2,228.48 plus costs. Anna Paulus d/b/a Paulus Well Drilling, Inc. vs Thomas Berry. Judgment for plaintiff $304.20 plus costs. First Federal Savings Bank of Wabash vs Steven H. Kiser. Judgment for plaintiff $3,000 plus costs. F.D. Saemann Real Estate vs Jo Ellen Howard. Judgment for plaintiff $420 plus costs. Dennis Bender d/b/a Video Vender vs Lori Stump. Judgment for plaintiff sls# plus costs. Patricia Jo Williams vs Donald Barton. Judgment for plaintiff $305.01 plus costs.

Marriage Licenses The following couples have filed for marriage licenses in Kosciusko County: Church-Stump Kurt B. Church, 30, r 1, box 113, Cromwell and Debra Ann Stump, 25, r 1, box 260, North Webster. Vuthrich-Coffing Andrew Joel Wuthrich, 21, P.O. Box 104, Leesburg and Lorilane Markay Coffing, 17, r 1, box 117, Pierceton. Nulf-Yarian Kent David Nulf, 22, r 1, box 575, North Webster and Diana Donnel Yarian, 22, 218 Maple St., Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Moyer — Beverly Ann Moyer, Kos. Co., and Meredith Lynn Moyer, c/o VA Medical Center, Fort Wayne. The couple was married November 21, 1966, and separated October 1, 1987. There are two minor children. Zarse — Tamara M. Zarse, r 3, 655 Happiness St., Syracuse and Richard Otto Zarse, Greenwood Apts., Leesburg. The couple was married September 20, 1986, and separated October 8,1987. Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint Augsburger’s Super-Valu vs Randy S. Bowman, P.O. Box 709, Pierceton. Plaintiff seeks $226.68 plus court costs of $55. Complaint Augsburger’s Super-Valu vs Donna Funk, 700 2nd St., Ligonier. Plaintiff seeks $294.35 plus $55 court costs. Complaint Augsburger’s Super-Valu ‘ vs Homer Peak, r 2, box 41, Syracuse. Plaintiff seeks $245 plus $55 court costs. Complaint Augsburger’s Super-Valu vs Carolyn J. Rollins, r 3, box 265, Syracuse. Plaintiff seeks $460 plus $55 court costs. Complaint Jim L. Newcomer and Helen M. Newcomer, Kos. Co., vs Albert R. Gaff, 6511 Hillsboro Lane, Fort Wayne. Plaintiff seeks damages: Count I, rescinding the contract and sale, and to place parties into status that existed prior to purchase agreement; for return of $170,000 paid by plaintiffs to defendant; for compensatory damages, attorney’s fees and costs of action and all proper relief. Count 11, for punitive damages; for plaintiff’s attorney’s fees and all other proper relief. Complaint To Contest Will James Allen Friend vs Eris N. Friend, personal representative of the Estate of Lester D. Friend, deceased, and Eris N. Friend, defendant, Epworth Forest Rd., r 1, box 226, North Webster. Plaintiff seeks judgement against Eris • N. Friend, as persona] representative of estate of Lester D. Friend, deceased and Eris N. Friend jointly and severally.

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"CRUZIN around'CUSE"

WE’VE HEARD it before, and now we’re hearing it again: Why doesn’t the Garden Club or some other group promote a program for planting flowers along the ditches of either side of SR 13 in Wawasee Village? Not a bad idea — not bad at all. It might be a little late for this year, but something that should be on the agenda for one or more of the local clubs next year. PETE SAVAGE is making early plans to depart in November for a trip that will leave Miami, take him to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Camp Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, and finally to Perth, Australia, then to Bali, Indonesia. He’ll be home in April. Australia has been a favorite haunt for peripatetic Pete. HERE’S A good one a local person told on himself. A friend of Elkhart Mayor James Perron, who is seeking re-election as mayor and no doubt needing some cash to defray expenses, dropped into the Mayor’s office on Second Street in Elkhart last week. He gave the cash donation to the Mayor’s secretary, then left. Our friend found a $5.00 parking ticket on his car, whereupon he returned to the Mayor’s secretary and told her she could either tear up the parking ticket or deduct the amount from the donation he had just made! Now there’s a Geezer for you. FRED PHANEUF was recently named "Employee of the Month” at Augsburger’s Super Valu stores. He works at their North Webster store. But more than that, Fred "has a dream” he wants to fulfill, and that is to form a men’s choir to sing in churches, service clubs and other similar groups. Phaneuf states, “I know there iMEy «»•>««» thing (the choir) could become a reality to bring satisfaction to a lot of people.” Phaneuf is making his appeal through the Good Neighbors column in this week’s issue of ‘the PAPER.’ He’s asking that anyone interested in such a choir to drop him a card: Rl, P.O. Box 56, North Webster. WHAT’S COOKIN’ with Pat and Jake Bitner? It might be a lot, as they have just purchased Tom’s Donuts in the Village and took possession last Thursday. They made the purchase from Dave Moyer of Kendallville. Pat is office manager for Coldwell Banker/Beer Realty, a job she is doing well at and plans to keep. Jake has had a long history of working in the mobile home industry, but considers this new enterprise more local, perhaps — just perhaps — with a little less pressure. At this time the new owners are going under a major renovation of their new acquisition. HERE’S ABOUT the last on the subject of acronyms, at least we hope so. DINERS are for Double Income, No Engagement Ring for those living with Significant Others. Try ADOADID for size, meaning, Another Day Older And Deeper in Debt, or SISGIAIA for Single Income, She Gets It All in Alimony. Former school administrator Lewis Immel said the acronym POSSLQ was used during the 1980 census taking —for Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. c In the mail came the unsigned mention of a Bob Swift column in the Miami Herald mentioning WOOFS, for Well Off, Over Forty. This is what DINKS will evolve into — but lonesome — if they do not convert to the traditional family structure. Ever hear of MILLKS (Minister’s Income Lousy, Lots of Kids), or SLAHS, for Still Living at Home. How about SLAPS, Still Living at Parents, or YAPSAH, Young Affluent Professionals Still At Home? There’s even a subspecies known as HAD IT, for Home Again, Divorced, In Tears. Then how about DIDDS for Doctor’s Income Divided by Divorce, or OOM-PA-PA for Older Orthodontists Moodily Paying Alimony to Persons Alone. Or this final last one: DINKS might consider that some day they’ll become STINGS — Still Two Incomes, No Grandkids, or GONGS, for Growing Old, No Grandchildren. That’s all, Folks! A NEW couple in the community are Carol and Bryce Rohrer, residents in the South Shore Condominiums. Carol was the former Carol Roose, interior decorating consultant tor Pletcher Furniture in Nappanee, and her husband, Dr. Bryce, a Wakarusa native, is on the staff of Oaklawn Psychiatric and Community Mental Health Center, Inc., in Goshen. WAWASEE HIGH School will be minus one of its high level secretaries for several weeks, due to major foot surgery. When she returns to

lions to sponsor cholesterol testing

In conjunction with the flea market, sesquicentennial time capsule burial, and other activities to benefit the new Tippecanoe Township Community Building, the Lions club is offering a free cholesterol test for anyone who attends the festivities. Chem-Elec, Inc. of North Webster has developed and will

work she will be the proud owner of a “bionic left foot.” Those are her words. ONCE A runner, always a runner. This applies in great part to Tony Clouse, Milford Elementary School teacher. Tony’s last marathon was the Detroit Marathon, held Sunday, Oct. 18. It proved one of the most interesting marathons Tony has ever run in, and he has run in a good many. The Detroit affair began at Windsor, Canada, and the 3,000-odd runners-ran through the Detroit Windsor tunnel and finally across the bridge to Belle Isle, a Detroit suburb. Tony’s time was three hours, ten minutes, according to his wife Connie. With the Clouses were runner Joe Dervin, a Goshen NIPSCO man, and his wife Patty. Joe’s time was just behind Tony’s: three hours, twelve minutes. The two runners, plus several other area runners, jog around Lake Wawasee each Sunday morning, for a total distance of 18 miles. This has been going on for so long that it is almost a tradition hereabouts. At least Tony and Joe are eyeing several other marathon races to participate in. THIS COLUMN mentioned earlier the work of the Hex Grange in converting an ordinary, weedy, somewhat dismal parking area at the corner of SR 13 and US 6 into a tidy, neat little park, replete with flowers and picnic tables. The project was timed to be completed for Syracuse’s sesquicentennial observation July 3-12, and so it was. The area boasted a nice “Happy Birthday, Syracuse” sign. Much credit for this must go to Milly Ginger, secretary of the Hex Grange and also secretary of the State Grange, but she is quick to give credit to her husband Bill, the Grange’s Community Services chairman. There’s enough credit to go around, for these two inspired the Other 42 membsrs ?* Innhin in and get the job done. And now this: This little project won a “first” among the other 18 Granges in the State of Indiana. With it came a S2OO savings bond. Then, as a first place winner, the local project will be Indiana’s entry in November’s National Grange contest. The national contest will be held Nov. 11-15 at Syracuse, New York, and will be attended by Bill and Milly. First place winner in the national contest will receive a SSOO savings bond. ALL ONE has to do is keep his ears open, especially during the past week or 10 days, to find out who the big holders of stocks are. There’s nothing we can say here about Black Monday, and the week that followed, that hasn’t already been said more eloquently. But there are plenty of people with the jitters, totting up their estimates of what they are now worth, now that the dust has settled — if in fact it has settled. We’ve heard remarks, when the telephone rings in the coffee shops, “Oh, Oh, Bob (or Jack or Fred), your broker wants you on the telephone.” PROOF OF real growth in Kosciusko County, and especially in the northeastern part of the county, is evidenced by the fact that the Syracuse Post Office is scheduled to add two new rural routes the first of the year. There are now five rural carriers, and this new figure will give the local office seven carriers. The same is true for the Warsaw Post Office. That PO is scheduled for six new rural routes. Most of this growth is in the rural areas of the county and not as much in the city of Warsaw and in the rural towns as one would think. Kosciusko County is one of the fastest growing counties in the state of Indiana, a fact that gives rise to a number of other problems that are being faced and will have to be faced in the future. DOROTHY AND Jack Vanderford returned to their Route 4 (Lake Wawasee) home Monday night following a two-week vacation trip to the East. They made their Washington, D.C.-area residence at Arlington, Va., across the Patomic River from the nation’s capital. While they visited many historic sites, Jack spoke highly of his trip to the Space Center and the Smithsonian Institute. He said if you spend a minute at every individual display in the Smithsonian, it would take one 88 years to see them all! a Jack’s a tough one to get a news item out of. Does this make him a Geezer? ■' A FEW local polemics might result from the race for two town offices in the Tuesday, Nov. 3, election. For clerk-treasurer Democrat Mark Tatman, 34, a Syracuse native with 10 years’ accounting experience, is challenging Republican Sharon Batesla. And Kenneth Johnson, 48, also a Democrat, is challenging incumbent town board member Joe Morganthaler. Johnson, a 25-year resident of Syracuse, is a former Syracuse fire chief, now a sales representative for a fire equipment company. Watch this race.

soon be marketing a home test for determining cholesterol levels in the blood. Chem-Elec personnel will be on hand to administer the tests free of charge to all interested persons from noon until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7. n These and many other activities will be held at the community building located across from the Lions dub grounds In

North Webster. The hours will be from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. with the burial of the time capsule at 4:30. Homemade foods, cheese balls prepared by the North Webster Lady Lions, and live music will round out the event. Flea market booth spaces are still available. Space reservations can be made by calling Sue Mitchell at 834-4402.