The Mail-Journal, Volume 27, Number 8, Milford, Kosciusko County, 6 April 1988 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., April 6,1988

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Editorial

Filling a need Milford businessman N. John Perry is to be commended for his efforts to fill a very real need in this community. A front page news item in this paper last week told of Perry’s plans for a day care center in Milford. The center is to be built as a wing on the Lakeland Loving Care Center and will fill not only the need of area mothers but also a very Teal need of the residents of the nursing home — that of having the opportunity to meet new friends and receive an extra measure of love. . Perry has done his homework and stated last week, “It’s something the town really needs, we don’t have one now and I’m sure many parents would like have someplace to take their children while they’re at work.” While this newspaper, and we’re sure Perry would echo our thoughts, doesn’t want to take anything away from the women who willingly open their homes to youngsters, we know the problems many mothers have in finding a person to take proper care of their children and we know they will welcome such a service in the community. The new center, when completed, will accommodate 60 children. It will also employ seven or eight additional persons, something that is a bonus to any community, and Perry is hopeful of starting a latchkey program for school children who currently go home to empty houses each afternoon. Both Syracuse and North Webster have day care centers and they are great helps for their communities. We feel a day care will be a step ahead for the Milford area, too. That $l5O billion The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been telling audiences this country spends $l5O billion defending Japan and western Europe, that with this sum saved he could undertake many social projects, which he feels would be a better use. If asked to break down this figure and show exactly how the U.S. is spending so much defending these two areas, Jackson would be hard pressed. The first difficulty is that U.S. strategic interests dictate that we help prevent western Europe from falling under communist control. With the added industrial capacity of western Europe, Russia would greatly exceed this nation in productive capacity. Thus, in helping in the defense of western Europe, we are looking after the future security of the United States. Some U.S. military strength positioned in Europe would exist in any event, though it might be stationed in this country or elsewhere if not in western Europe, But after saying that, it can also be said that Jackson has a point. It’s time that Europe and Japan, now thriving and industrially strong, to do more to provide for their own security. Japan, particularly, should move in this direction; but the Japanese constitution, which victorious American commanders partly fashioned after World War 11, bars such spending. How much money the U.S. could save, deemphasizing the employment of military strength overseas is questionable. But an educated guess is that, perhaps, twenty or thirty billion might be saved. This is a far cry from $l5O billion Jackson estimates. There is, however, waste in defense spending; if some of this could be eliminated, and weapons procurement processes improved, savings might be increased further. But there’s no way, realistically speaking, a savings of $l5O billion. That figure seems to include many billions of campaign oratory, of which all candidates have much to offer in election years;

What others say —

Whose Ear? What is a Hoosier? Well, it depends on who you ask. Perhaps the best explanation was propounded by James Whitcomb Riley, who, tongue planted firmly in cheek, suggested that the name grew out of frontier era barroom fights in which men would gouge, scratch and bite off the noses and ears of their opponents. A settler, wandering into a tavern after a fight, would find an ear on the floor, touch it with the toes of his boot and casually ask, “Whose ear?” As far as who is a Hoosier, one thing is now clear: Indiana Secretary of State Evan Bayh is a Hoosier. And he has been one for at least the preceding five years. At least that’s the conclusion of Shelby Circuit Court Judge Charles O’Connor, who ruled that Bayh meets the constitutional requirement to serve as governor of Indiana if he is elected. O’Connor read the pleadings, listened to the evidence, studied the case law and concluded: “Plaintiff’s (Bayh’s) numerous contacts with Indiana during the time period in question demonstrate his expressed intention that his Washington, D.C., employment was temporary and that he planned to return to Indiana. “Plaintiff, since his birth and through the present date, has always been a domiciliary of Indiana and a ‘resident’ of Indiana for purposes of Article 5, Section 7, of the Indiana Constitution. ” With all due respect, the judge might have saved himself a lot of time and trouble by simply asking Bayh to approach the bench and pronounce the word rural. Had Bayh replied roo-al instead of rural, the court should have immediately decided in his favor. At any rate, the State Election Board, or somebody, is certain to appeal O’Connor’s verdict. The good news is that obtaining a final verdict will obviate the necessity of having to go through this entire exercise later if Bayh is elected governor. While there may have been political motivations for challenging Bayh’s eligibility, there were also some very pragmatic and necessary reasons for confirming his eligibility now and not later. The bad news is that the appeal is going to wind up before the same Indiana Supreme Court that could not reach a decision on whether the courts or the Indiana Election Board had jurisdiction over the matter. Unable to reach agreement on the matter, the four-member panel decided that both could decide the matter. Wisely, the Election Board stepped aside to allow O’Connor to adjudicate the dispute. One can only hope that the Supreme Court can now come forth with a decision, and only one decision, on the merits of the case without spilling too many ears on the floor. Then Bayh and Lt. Gov. John Mutz can get on with the political kicking, gouging, biting and scratching that are the hallmarksof

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A new day care center will help many mothers.

Court news

County Court The following persons have paid fines and costs in the Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrett presiding: Speeding — Richard A. Lepola, 42, North Webster, $65; Tracy Kolbe, 21, Leesburg, $80; Michael Street, 39, North Webster, $80; Joseph D. Gephart, 61, Leesburg, $65 No Operator’s License — Sandra D. Smith, 20, Syracuse, S6O 0.W.1. — Charles E. Weise, 31, Syracuse, $303, driver’s license restricted 180 days, K.C.J. 6 days; Lowell Barefoot, 52, Syracuse, $353, driver’s license suspended 90 days, K.C.J. 12 days Check Deception — Deborah J. Glassburn, no age, Syracuse, dismissed Public Intoxication — Kelvin S. Stoner, no age, North Webster, $153; Michael C. Towne, 34, North Webster, dismissed Resisting Law Enforcement — Michael C. Towne, 34, North Webster, $153, K.C.J. one year suspended, one year probation. Criminal Recklessness — Michael C. Towne, 34, North Webster, dismissed. Contributing to Delinquency — David F. Coppes, 37, Syracuse, dismissed Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor — David F. Coppes, 37, Syracuse, $153, K.C.J. 8 days Small Claims The following judgements have been awarded in Small Claims Division, Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrett presiding: State Bank of Syracuse vs Robert and Patricia Brown. Plaintiff awarded $450 plus costs. Judy A. Brown vs Sharon Croussore. Plaintiff awarded $1,202.20 plus costs. Sasso Veterinary Hospital vs Ron Redden. Plaintiff awarded $223.68 plus costs. Sasso Veterinary Hospital vs Brad Niles, Lisa Niles. Plaintiff awarded $87.46 plus costs. Sue’s Creations, Steve Ward vs George Stidams, Joan Stidams. Plaintiffs awarded $223.65 plus costs. Steve Ward vs Pat Hull. Plaintiff awarded $94.35 plus costs. Steve Ross Chevrolet vs Glen Burkett. Plaintiff awarded $658.44 plus cost. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs George Aldrich. Plaintiff awarded $154.75 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Karen Avery. Plaintiff awarded $46.88 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Karen Baker. Plaintiff awarded $129.08 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Richard Baker, Penny Baker. Plaintiff awarded $65.25 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Raphael Bauanza. Plaintiff awarded $19.80 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Robert Belchak, Sue Belchak. Plaintiff awarded $120.28 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs June M. Bills. Plaintiff awarded $67.12 plus costs. Wawasee Communtiy School Corporation vs Connie Blankenship. Plaintiff awarded $109.50 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Lewis Blankenship. Plaintiff awarded $70.16 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Jerry Bodkin. Plaintiff awarded $76.45. plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Kenneth Boren. Plaintiff awarded $39 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Mary Burns. Plaintiff awarded $80.14 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Carlos Castro. Plaintiff awarded $171.89 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Jose Chapa. Plaintiff awarded $458.35 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs John Christian. Plaintiff awarded $140.30 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs James Close. Plaintiff awarded $52.50 plus costs. f

Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Connie Collins. Plaintiff awarded $103.25 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Alan Coplin, Rebecca Coplin. Plaintiff awarded $60.10 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Pamela Cucura. Plaintiff awarded $269.57 plus costs. Wawasee Community School Corporation vs Marla Deter. Plaintiff awarded $215.33 plus costs. Herschel V. Wells vs Charles Whisman. Plaintiff awarded $lB5 plus costs. Sears, Roebuck & Company vs Howard J. Ramsey. Plaintiff awarded $814.90 plus costs. Tom McClain vs David Hughes. Plaintiff awarded $1,120 plus costs. Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding.Complaint On Note To Foreclose Mortgage And Enforce Security Agreement Kuko, Inc., no address given, versus Verl G. Baker, Georgia E. Baker, Vickie Shoemaker, Treasurer of Kosciusko County and Turf Bar, Inc. Plaintiff seeks: Count I — judgement against Verl and Georgia Baker in the sum of $25,566.18 ulus interest, attorney fees, and costs. Count II — judgement against Verl and Georgia Baker in the sum of $25,566.18 plus interest, attorney fees, and costs. Complaint Gerald D. Reed, no address given, versus David Scheidt, r 4, Syracuse. Plaintiff seeks reasonable compensation plus costs. Complaint Chester D. Elder, no address given, versus Christian F. Koher, 619 S. Huntington, Syracuse. Plaintiff seeks: Count I — completion of sale, issuance of deed. Count II — restoration or costs thereof. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Upson-Hamiter Ronald Wayne Upson, 18, r 2 box 190, North Webster, and Lisa Dawn Hamiter, 24, r 2 box 190, North Webster. A Hostetler-Zimmer Ronnie Richard Hostetler, 39, 67 E. Shore Dr., Syracuse, and Letha Mae Zimmer, 40, 67 E. Shore Dr., Syracuse. Fervida-Hartman Kenton Lee Fervida, 19, r 2 box 58, Milford and Libby Sue Hartman, 21,63512 CR 111, Goshen Marriage Dissolutions The following couples have filed for marriage dissolutions in the Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Bender — Dennis L. Bender, r 4 box 100 E, Syracuse, and Connie S. Bender, r 2 box 580, Syracuse. The couple was married Oct. 21, 1972 and separated Feb. 1, 1988. There are two minor children. Sutton — Sarah A. Sutton, no address given, and Timothy L. Sutton c/o State Bank of Syracuse, Columbia City. The couple married Oct. 19,1980 and separated March 28, 1988. There are two minor children. Ort — Jeffrey Lynn Ort, r 1, Cromwell, and Coleena Kay Ort, r 1 box 601, North Webster. Hie cquple was married Nov. 30,1975 arid separated March 12, 1988. There are two minor children. (Continued on page 5)

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TEVEN C. Smith, State Bank of Syracuse’s internal auditor, took it on the cheek when Nappanee’s very own

uaverne-Laverne came visiting to give him a proper send-off. Smitty’s coworkers wanted to give him something to remember them by when he started his new job with First National Bank of Elkhart, SBS’s sister bank. IT’S FOR the birds. J.B. Hoy, creator of “A Rose for Friendship,” is a man of many interests and talents. His latest endeavor is the fine crafting of wren houses, numbered and initialled. This writer was the happy recipient of number 113 which features a peaked roof, air holes for circulation drilled beneath the eaves, and a floor which can be dropped for cleaning out at the end of the season by merely removing two small screws. This well-thought-out little birdhouse came complete with verbal instructions on placement (7-8’ up in a tree) and direction to face the opening (south). The house is secured, a “for rent” sign is in place. Now we wait for a pair of sweet singing wrens to come a tweeting! —o— RETURN OF the cruisers. Great weather and smooth sailing is reported by Bill Beemer as he and wife, Barbara, along with Bob and Sandy McNary, Ernie and Julie Rogers, and Ted and Marge Rogers end their Caribbean sailing vacation. ■TTTfIHfnH OUR MINISTERIAL association is praiseworthy for creating an ecumenical vironment in which everyone can share not only special church services — such as Easter Sunrise, summer Boat In — but in assisting those who have special needs. How many towns can boast such a cooperative and successful venture? —o— MISHLER FLAG flying high. State Senate hopeful, Greg Mishler, presented an American flag to the Town of Syracuse. It will fly proudly over the State of Indiana flag which he recently gave the town. —o— WHAT’S HAPPENING to our KFC? Reports are that our local Kentucky Fried Chicken may close at the end of this week Owner, Robert Vore — Plymouth optometrist — remains unavailable to answer questions posed by staff, according to sources. It was rumored that the business was being looked at by Jim Yoder, owner of Nappanee’s KFC, and by the Staffords, former owners of The Windjammer here in Syracuse. In the meantime, staffers are finding work elsewhere. LAST CALL! Mike Flumbaum, Syracuse Jaycees, reminds all individuals and businesses who may not yet have been contacted about sponsoring a coupon in the Jaycees’ coupon book to contact any Jaycee, or him at Vintage Instant Print. The books are on deadline for printing and should be out by the latter part of May. -JOGLAST WEEK in this space we recounted how The Mail-Journal hit the big time for not knowing the difference between the word “erotic” and “erratic,” when we printed a saucy item of how Syracuse police officer Ron Moser reported seeing a truck driving in an erotic manner instead of the correct erratic manner. We took full blame for the error, exonerating officer Moser of any false reporting. Ron never — but never — would have made this mistake. Through our 50-odd years of newspapering on the local beat, we’re sure we have done worse — even though we don’t like to admit it. Our pick-up came, however, when we discovered, through the “generosity” of our friends, that this provided grist for a full > newspaper column by wordsmith James J. Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick writes two columns a week that appear in dailies throughout the nation: one entitled “A Conservative View”; the other (the one we made reference to), “A Writer’s Art.” How this item came toKilpatrick’s desk is uncertain. Either one of our local friends and critics mailed this M-J to Kilpatrick, or it came to him through one of any number of clipping services. We liked his column — perhaps for the simple reason that he lumped our small weekly with a number of giants in the field of journalistic rectitude.

All we can add to what has already been said is “Thanks, Mr. Kilpatrick. Let us know how we can help out again.” TAKEN IN in a backhanded sort of way is an item on Page 1 of Section C of last Wednesday’s South Bend Tribune by Linda L. Jones. It concerns a fellow Syracusan — Bud Smith by name — and his appearance the previous night before the Bremen Kiwanis Club’s Land 0’ Lakes division. The packed meeting was held at the Bremen Kopper Kettle Restaurant. Now, anyone who knows Bud Smith well knows he has his own sure-fire way of captivating an audience. He’s a natural at spinning a yarn. Fact is, one listens to Bud, getting deeper involved in his narrative, until he isn’t quite sure at what point he realizes he’s “been had.” Well, {Linda Jones’s article starts out, paragraph 1, “Bud Smith is a liar.” Paragraph 2, “And a pretty good one at that.” Smith recounts how he and a friend set out to do some fishing at their favorite spot on Ogden Island, Johnson Bay, on Lake Wawasee, when they encountered an unbelievable storm. In what Smith vouched for as an honest-to-goodness true story, he said “the weather went crazy.” He said he and his friend looked over on Ogden Island and saw a dog chasing a cat. “They were both walking,’.’ Smith noted. When the weather lifted, they noted a farmer cultivating a field of corn with a mule. The mule thought the popcorn was snow, so he laid down and froze to death. Finally, he tells of a tree whose branches ex- • tend over the rising flood waters. He saw a walnut sitting atop the rock underneath one of the tree’s drooping branches. A squirrel went out on a long limb and in an effort to get the walnut, fell into the water and, attempting to swim ashore, was drowned, when a large pike pulled the squirrel under water to his certain demise. Quoting Smith further: “Now I wouldn’t have believed this if I wouldn’t have seen what happened next, but pretty soon, here came that pike back out of the water. He slithered up out of the water and put another walnut on that rock and there went another squirrel.” His fellow members voted Smith of the Wawasee Kiwanis Club the Tall Tale Teller of 1988. Beware of Smith, or pretty soon he’ll have you doing it too! (Note: We’ve been told that Bud will be demonstrating his talents at the Mock Twins’ fundraising dance at the American Legion on April 15. S’pose he’ll have some tall tax stories?) ORMAN O. McKinley, formerly of Syracuse : but now an employee of a well known implement company in Fort Wayne, had one occur to him that he doesn’t want to talk much about either. (Will that sentence stand your scrutiny, Mr. Kilpatrick?) McKinley and several fellow employees were assembling a piece of farm equipment they sold to a local farmer when it became lunch time. McKinley had a number of small parts in his jacket, but felt they could complete the job in no time at all. While they were eating lunch, some wag stole 0.0.’s jacket, parts and all. What to do? Make a trip back to Fort Wayne for the muchneeded parts. What else? McKinley just had to tell this one on himself. —o— RAY YODER has “sold out” his Florida holdings, and is back in the Syracuse area “to stay.” Other returnees from the Sunshine State repeat tales of high school and college students being in all Florida cities. The Jack Vanderfords, spending a brief time in Panama City, said that panhandle city was literally overrun by vacationing students. —o— DON KIME, whose columns on assorted subjects appear occasionally in The Mail-Journal, is scheduled to fill the pulpit at the Nappanee United Methodist Church in the near future. Kime lost his wife earlier this year and filling area pulpits is just the therapy he needs. A PLEASANT note in a get-well card to this bedridden scribe from Shirley and John Connolly, 500 South Lake Street, reminded us again how those little old Mail-Journals get around. Shirley, a Milford native who has been reading the paper since her school years at Milford, has taken to bundling up copies to send to daughter Susan and her husband Mark Reiff, both 1974 graduates of Wawasee High School. Mark is the son of Bob and Pat Reiff of North Webster and was a sports powerhouse at Wawasee along with an assortment of brothers who were able to hold their own at most any sports event. Mark is the “strength coach” at Long Beach State at Huntington Beach, Calif., south of Los Angeles, while Susan is a teacher at a Hebrew Academy in the same area. Anyway, after Susan read The M-J’s she bundled them up, gave them to Mark to read on his trip to New York where he attended an important track meet. It was there that he met Dave Wollman, another Wawasee High School athlete who made quite a name for himself in high school sports. Dave is the son of Bill and Adell Wollman, formerly of Milford. > It turns out, Dave Wollman is a coach at Stanford University at Stanford, just south of San Francisco. Like a letter from home, Dave promised to read the papers on hisflight back ttu the West Coast. t Shirley ends her welcomed note:, “Those Mail-Journals surely transversed the continent several times!”