The Mail-Journal, Volume 27, Number 49, Milford, Kosciusko County, 18 January 1989 — Page 4
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Editorial
Thank God for volunteers The.peace and quiet of a January Sunday afternoon was all too short. The phone rang. Judy Burke was calling. “Do you have a daughter named Jennifer? She’s been in an accident.’’ Mrs. Burke Jives less than four miles away at the intersection of 1300 N and 300E on the Milford-Syracuse Road, and we were at the accident scene within minutes. Weaving .through slowly-moving traffic on icy roads, a few miles can take an eternity. The flashing lights of several EMS and police vehicles in the distance compounded the anxiety. The more flashing lights, the more ominous the situation, you’re sure. At first hurried glance, the crumpled remains of my father’s car could only mean the worst was yet in store for us. But inside the ambulance, Syracuse EMTs were busily preparing our sobbing daughter. Jennifer, for a quick trip to the Goshen Hospital. EMT driver Denny Detwiler was at the wheel. Three hours in the emergency room for X-rays to confirm that nothing wa.s broken (how. I’ll never know/, four stitches in the left heel and instructions on how to doctor a concussion and bumps and bruises from head to foot, saw Jennifer home and in bed by late afternoon. But this is only part of the story. Bits and pieces started to fall into place as we talked to officials and technicians during the hours after the accident. Arriving Syracuse EMTs found Fire Chief Jerry Bird in the back seat of the demolished car with our daughter. After receiving several unwieldy punches from a semi-conscious Jennifer, Bird confirmed to the technicians that his charge was responsive and mobile. EMTs Phyllis Kuhn, Patty Hose and Cal Pangburn went to work with a backboard, neck brace and an assortment of straps and tubes. They knew what they were doing. Response time from receipt of the call at 12:23 p.m. was a scant six minutes. Quickly following were County Sheriff Ron Robinson, who had passed through the intersection only 10 minutes earlier, Syracuse Police Officer Jim Felkner, and "a host of Syracuse firemen including Tim Cox, Greg Miller, Howard Birkel, Joe Anderson. Scott Wallace, Kevin Grindle and John McCarty. Chief Bird tells us that the fire department reports to all personal injury accidents. Os the dozen or more officials and technicians who responded to Jennifer's accident, all except two or three were unpaid community volunteers; your jOends and neighbors who gave up part of their day to heip us. To them, we say “thank you.’’ Thank you for sharing part of your life with us and'others who need your help. Onlv last week this newspaper carried an editorial asking for volunteers for the Milford EMS. The service was.aSking for help to cover the community during the day when so many of the EMS members work and are away from the community. The closing paragraphs of “Crazin' around ’Cuse" this week point out the continual need for volunteer help on the Syracuse EMS and lists a basic EMT training course being offered by Goshen Hospital. The need for help becomes real and personal when an emergency confronts you and your family without warning. It’s not the person across the street nor the family in a neighboring town. It's you. And largely, that assistance comes from volunteers. So next time the word goes out that a local volunteer organization needs help, think twice before you pass it off to the next guy or claim you're too busy in this fast-paced world. There is a great reward of self fulfillment awaiting you. Just ask a volunteer — Ron Baumgartner
What others say — *• ■I - . Friends in high places Hi*re we are, in the final days of the Showman President, reduced to vaudeville. And the joke is on the audience. -- The skit runs like this Former National Security Council staff member Oliver North goes to trial accused, among other things, of taking sl4 million from the Iran arms sales £nd shipping it to the Nicaraguan contras. President Reagan dearly loves the contras and asked Americans to help them, but he says he didn’t know what North was doing in the White House basement. North's lawyer claims he n prove North's innocence by revealing government secrets. The judge won t iet the secrets be revealed only to him and the jury. The administration won't reveal them any other way. The prosecutor gives up and wants to drop the major charges. The judge won t do it unless the attorney general personally says the secrets must stay secret. The prosecutor says theattorney general will. So here's the punchline. The self-made secret agent who was supposed to protect national security and instead humiliated the nation on two continents is protected by invoking, ha, ha, national security. Even if the two main charges are dropped. North will face several more. North s lawyer Brendan Sullivan'Jr. claims national security should protect North against those charges, too, but the Justice Department expects they will be prosecuted. The public can hope so, but there's more at stake now than what North did and whether it was illegal. Is the Reagan administration using the shield of national security to protect state secrets or itself? Can anyone who is on the president s side commit a crime involving national security matters and then hide behind national security and a friendly president when the prosecutor calls 0 Congress is the logics! place to ask those questions. And the intelligence committees in Congress do review cases that were dropped because of national security. Congress can even legally reveal secrets but it s a complicated, unprecedented action. * Congress had better review this case closely, and soon. The rest of the North “ charges and related cases against three other men are still pending. And the public is waiting to know what are the limits to the bureaucrat who cries, “Nationalsecurity!” „ - FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE »- -
nn I 'V XX / \ \ « 1 11 C IB ' M — Inauguration 1989 The thoughts and prayers of all Americans will be in the nation's capital on Friday as George Bush takes his oath of office as President of the United States and Indiana's own Dan Quayle takes the oath of vice president.
Court news
City Court The following fine has been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Public intoxication — Roggie L. Looney, 32, Milford, dismissed County Court The following persons have paid fines and costs in Kosciusko County Court, Judge James Jarrett presiding: Speeding — Janet I. Lantz, 38, Syracuse, $65. Expired Plates — Phillip E. Johnson, 29, Leesburg, S6O. No Operator’s License — Phillip E. Johnson, 29, Leesburg, S6O. Failure To Yield — Tracie M. Leslie, 16, Leesburg, S6O. Operating While Intoxicated — Darrell D. Meek, 32, Leesburg, $453. driver's license suspended 180 days, K.C.J. 12 days. Goshen Division The following fines have been ' levied and paid in Elkhart County Court, Goshen Division: Speeding — Michael T. Benn-
Letter to the editor
Congratulations
Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to commend and congratulate the Syracuse Jaycee Chapter during Jaycee Week, January 15-21. Not only do the Jaycees provide valuable leadership training to their members, they are very active in the community — providing many services that would not otherwise be provided without the Jaycees. They also had a roadblock to
Leesburg women named USA editor
Tamra Orr of Leesburg has been named the United States Editor for the quarterly magazine Compleat Mother. This magazine is based in Canada and has over 1,000 subscribers in the U.S. now. In addition to this, Mrs. Orr is the editor of a monthly newsletter, Priority Parenting, and the editor of a reference book for parents called Not on the Newsstands, which has been favorably reviewed in a number of national magazines and is beHearing on SBOI6 rescheduled The hearing that was to have been held last Thursday in Indianapolis on DNR’s Indiana Senate Bill 016 concerning land usfiand controls of wetlands was postfXxjcd According to Wayne farmer, the hearing tentatively rescheduled forTnursday, Jan. 26, at 9:30 a.m. and will be held in the Indiana State House, room 401 D. Indianapolis. According to Sholtey, the senate bill has to do with wetland resource management and there is much concern over the wording of the bill, which is very vague. Interested persons are requested to attend the hearing or call their state senators.
ing, 23, Milford, $56; Elizabeth G. Kauffman, Syracuse, 19, SSB; Marla J. Steffen, 27, Syracuse, $63; Gregory P. Day, 23, Syracuse, SSB Superior Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko County Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint Campbell’s IGA, Inc., Milford, versus Annette R. Tipton, 13540 CR 48, Syracuse. Petitioner seeks $1,100.47 plus costs. Complaint Campbell’s IGA, Inc., Milford, versus Javier Melendez, 107 Benton St., Syracuse. Petitioner seeks $229.67 plus cost. Complaint Campbell’s IGA, Inc., Milford, versus Susan L. Morris, PO Box 297, New Paris. Petitioner seeks $306.03 plus costs. „ Complaint Campbell’s IGA, Inc., Milford, versus Dorothy Mast, PO Box 59, Milford. Petitioner seeks $326.56 plus costs.
raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association tyOn behalf of all our patients, MDA would like to thank the Syracuse Jaycees for their support and commitment to “Jerry’s Kids. ” Their help is our hope. Sincerely, DeAnna Crumback District director Mary Kay Barnes Program coordinator
ing sold in health food stores and bookstores across the United States. Mrs. Orr is also a freelance writer and has had articles published in a number of national magazines, including Living with Preschoolers, Family Life Today, Aim, New Families and The Family Reader. She is often featured in the regional newspaper, Indy's Child out of Indianapolis. Along with writing, Mrs. Orr also does public speeches on various topics of childcare and in 1988, she spoke to the National Health Federation, the Parents of Twins Club, the Lake Area Writer’s Guild and the Warsaw Christian Women’s Club.
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"CRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"
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YRACUSE PARK Department board members are striving to accomplish the goals set by the newly
aaoptedmaster plan. Two of the top items listed by those who returned the survey were Music in the Park and the construction of a new gazebo/bandstand at Lakeside Park. The music series for this coming summer has already been scheduled, with six concerts being offered. Funding will be through local business and industry sponsors, the Harkless Foundation, and grants (applications are currently being written). Now the park department is working hard preparing <pr the construction of the gazebo/bandstand this spring. Sam Leman, a local architect, designed the structure which has a unique design and detailing. A local contractor will be used for construction. The park department is hopeful that the kick-off of Music in the Park coincides with the dedication of the new structure. The park board (Kip Schumm, Shelly Hart, Jerry Claybaugh, Phil Stump, Don Cowan, and Carol Koble is town board liaison) is accepting donations toward the new. structure, with hopes of having funding secured by early spring of 1989. The present gazebo, a portabld unit which was donated by Commodore Homes several years ago, is for sale with the stipulation that the purchaser remove it from the site. Those interested may contact the park board. —o— WORD HAS it that Noble Romans was in town seriously looking for a site. —o— THE HOUSE next to the Liquor Locker on Huntington Street is being renovated by Chet Elder. Plans are for his real estate office to be housed along with a “service Shop” which at this time is unnamed. According to Elder, the property will be completely revamped with a stone front, new roof line, siding, and landscaping. The entrance will from SR I'3/Huntington Street after removing a large tree. The south-facing porch will be glass enclosed as seen on Rax Restaurants. An upstairs apartment will be retained. —o— LATE-BREAKING news from the Lakeland Youth Center left the Winter Carnival committee in a dither. A Sunday board meeting resulted in the decision that, primarily due to liability and secondarily to lack of available volunteers, they must withdraw from the 10th annual Winter Carnival activities, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28 and 29. The YC was scheduled to handle the sledding and ice skating events. Not to worry, however. A call to several local service organizations may find the popular events restored if one of their boards agree to assuming responsibility. According to YC director, Pam Howatt, some helping hands are ready to assist from the YC board. —o— THE KFC sign reads, "Closed for Remodeling”, the plan is to give customers better service and a finer dining atmosphere. The inside is being completely renovated and new equipment installed. Mark Jones, owner, says they will expand the parking lot by 11 feet, landscaping and relocating the sign. All this should take 30-45 days. —o— BIG BUCKS for big bucks. We understand that Rick Harris brought in the biggest buck while deer hunting recently — and won SIOO in the process! It was a contest between friends. —o— THE OLE switcheroo. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Donald Smith's house on East Pearl Street was torn down and a brancj new Liberty doublewide home put in its place. How it ever got through the Main Street repair project was baffling (was it airlifted??, until we learned that it was brought in “the back way” across the tracks-and placed on the site. THE SYRACUSE Police Department is off to a positive New Year's beginning. All officers now have new bulletproof vests; the new telephone system is in place and training is completed; and the department is modernizing its mug shot book. ■> WHAT’S MR. T doing in the UP?. “Watching the snowmobiles go by,” was Eleanor Moore’s quick reply about her boss, Bob Troutman, being off on a stag trip to Mainsing in northern Michigan. Bob travelled the 525-miles with Jerry Claybaugh, Scott Rogers, Dave Ridings, Jon Sroufe, and Roger Niles to find four foot of snow for the others to play upon with their snowmobiles. Because he is still recovering from shoulder surgery, Bob was an onlooker Reports are that they had such a good time they reserved the cabin already for next year’s trip!
A SIGN of the times? ’Tis a sad note when a church litters the roadway with a permanent “temporary” sign. You can’t miss this one along SR 13 — in front of such a lovely new building addition, too. —o— ON THE other hand (cheek?), we are happy to report that Clippers has led the way by removing its sign from the ditch/highwey right-of-way, leaving only two merchant signs encroaching the roadway. The majority of merchants agreed several years ago to withdraw their signs from SR 13 frontage in order to spruce up the entrance to our community. Folks agree that the SR 13 corridor looks refreshingly welcoming without all the excess signage — let’s keep it that way. —o— IT’S A tough job — but parents have to do it. The "Toughlove” program helps parents understand what is happening, how to deal with it, and that they’re not the Only ones to face certain situations. According to program literature, “Toughlove” means that we allow our young people to experience the results of their behavior no matter how much we want to protect them. It means a willingness to allow our teenagers to pay fines for acts they have committed whether we think they have money or not. “Toughlove” means not protecting our adolescents from legal problems they have incurred whether we think they are guilty or not. “Toughlove’” means getting tough with ourselves and not being so quick to give away our TLC. This is hard medicine for parents to give and get This is why we need support from others in order to do what we know is right and loving. Soft love, however, often becomes part of the problem that keeps our teenagers and us from experiencing the real consequences of unacceptable behavior. The “Toughlove” program stresses the following in “Parents Helping Parents Beliefs”: 1. TTie basis of family problems are directly related to our society. 2. Parents are also people with human feelings. 3. Emotional and material resources for parents are limited. 4. Adults and children are not equal. 5. Parents and children afe not peers. 6. Blaming keeps parents powerless. 7. Our children’s behavior affects us. 8. Our behavior affects our children. 9. Taking a stand may cause a crisis, but from crisis comes positive change. 10. If you are working harder than your child. QUIT! 11. Parents need to give and receive support in the community in order to make constructive changes. , 12. Family unit is cooperation, not togetherness. The Lakeland Toughlove group meets at the Lakeland Youth Center every Thursday at 7 p.m. —o— PUT A little taste of summer in your winter. Sounds mighty inviting and that’s just what the Syracuse Jaycees are doing when they tell you about their chicken barbecue planned for Syracuse’s Lakeside Park on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 10 a.m. until ?, during the Winter Carnival. —o— GOT A little time? Do you enjoy talking to people and giving a helping hand here and there? Miller’s Merry Manor hap openings for volunteers who can spend a couple of hours or part of a day doing such services as delivering in-house mail Jsetting up chairs for special activities, just visiting and communicating, giving manicures — whatever you have to give, there’s someone eager to receive. Sometimes people just need a little fussjpg over and small attentions paid. A little goes a long way. You can obtain a trial run by calling Marge Hampton at Miller’s. 457-4401 A “°” DID YOU krfow that back in the early part of this century, the Department of Conservation (forerunner of the DNR) reported that stocking Lake Wawasee with walleye pike didn’t work out? We’re still playing the same song after ail these years, with the DNR attempting walleye stocking! —o—- . A "HERO'S” update: Todd Brill, nephew of Ginny Wixon and grand-nephew of Josephine Gilbert, who rescued two (and one-half) people from a submerged vehicle a year ago in the South Bend area, was a recipient of a Carnegie Award, which included about $2,500 in cash. His greatest reward, however, was when the rescued mother-to-be named her baby boy after him. —o— THE U.S. Geological Survey Department was in town recently to take readings from an instrument located in the small building at the Syracuse dam site. An attempt to determine just what was being measured led to a striftg of telephone calls, but no concrete answer. The majority opinion was that the lake level was being determined. Why? According to one source, the mean level for the lake is obtained by averaging the high and low water levels. Therefore, the readings must be obtained several times during (Continued on page 5)