The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 May 1989 — Page 4
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., May 31, 1989
Editorial
Accomplishing great things To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Such is the motto of the Wawasee High School Class of 1989. With 255 graduates taking the trip to the podium to collect their diplomas Sunday, they will take the first step toward adult life. They will no longer live by the class bell but will rely on the discipline that has helped them to earn those diplomas. Some will accomplish great things, such as raising loving families and undertaking various careers while, inevitably, a few will find their dreams turning to nightmares. The graduates will soon find out how well W’awasee High School has prepared them for the working world. Math class will be replaced by the everyday tasks of balancing a checkbook and adhering to a family budget. Expressing themselves in the workplace and corresponding with others will replace English class while history and government classes will enable the graduates to remain well informed and to continue practices of staying abreast of current events. College awaits many while others already have jobs prepared, but, hopefully, all 255 of the students will always act, dream, plan and believe. The Class Os 1989 is the last of its decade and has the opportunity to make its mark on another, with the 1990 s being the current graduates' time to accomplish great things. Payne an excellent choice, but. . . Last Tuesdav afternoon the Wawasee Community School Board of Trustees appointed Phil Payne to fill the vacancy created by the May 9 resignation of David Carey. A resident of Tippecanoe Township. Payne previously served on the board for 12 years, from July 1. 1973. to June 31. 1985. Payne commented after his appointment, “If I can help by filling out this term. I’ll give it my best shot ... If I can help. I'm willing." And we’re sure Payne will do more than just fill out Carey's term. He has demonstrated a continued interest in the school corporation by serving on the North Webster SAC committee since not seeking re-election to a fourth term in 1984. Following the four criteria set up by the school board members in executive session. Payne most certainly was an excellent choice. He easily fits all the qualifications, and having been away from the board for only four years, he should be able to catch the momentum of the board more readily than any of the other five past school board members from Turkey Creek or Tippecanoe township who were under consideration. And therein lies the rub. The board members were seeking a candidate who would not run for re-election in 1990 when Carey's term expires. This was their third criteria. Their reasoning was not to remove the voter s right to choose the new board member and they did not want to place the new member in what they perceived to be the favorable position of being the incumbent in the next election. Incumbency, however, does not guarantee re-election. As pointed out by Syracuse resident and past "board member John Kroh at the Tuesday meeting. Stewart Walker was appointed to fill the term of James Fry in August of 1978 and was defeated in November of 1978 when he attempted to be elected to the office. Even incumbency to the highest office in the land does not guarantee election. Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter both lost election attempts in the 19.76 and 1980 national elections. If Payne fulfills the board s third criteria and does not attempt to be elected to his appointed position next year, a new. and most likely inexperienced, board member will be elected from Turkey Creek or Tippecanoe township. If not now. then next term, a scant one and one half years away, the voters of the Wawasee School District will seat a new member, who in the words of board president Curtis E. Jordan, will be without “prior experience in school structure or budget. " Our feelings are then that the four members of the Wawasee School Board should have appointed its fifth member from that group of candidates who have not only demonstrated an ongoing interest in becoming an active member of the school board, but would also be in a position to carry on his or her commitment past the few short months that lie between now and the next school board election. - RON BAUMGARTNER
What others say — Gandhi lives — in China In all of human history, you will find no greater tribute to the power of nonviolent protest than the student-led demonstrations in China. These past few days, as we’ve all watched the developments in the world's most populous country, the spectacle of peaceful protest has left veteran journalists fumbling for words adequate to describe it all. Scholars who ve studied China since the days of Mao’s revolution have been confounded. * And if the simple notion of freedom still stirs in your heart, you’ve got to be humbled by these courageous students and their willingness to sacrifice themselves for democracy. If the students had resorted to violence, the army would have moved in immediately to mow down the protesters with AK-47s or to shoot the leaders and arrest their followers. The uprising would have been brief and had little if any support from the general public. Deng and China’s other hard-liners would have been more entrenched in power than before. But the students stuck to the non-violent script They marched. They chanted. When the troops first appeared in Beijing, they passed out sodas and snacks and gave on-the-spot lessons in Jeffersonian democracy. The students have been well organized. They have been well disciplined. They made rrfodest demands that struck a responsive chord throughout their country. They appealed to millions across economic and social lines — peasant farmers, factory workers, state journalists, businessmen. Interviewed on television, student leaders spoke better than passable English as they called up images of the 20th century’s greatest tacticians of nonviolence — Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. And what person with a television set was not touched by the pictures of many of the 3,000 students on their hunger strike? It is a moral force that the students have unleased upon their country. They’ve set a brilliant example in peaceful protest. Os course, the rest of the story may not play out for weeks, and it could yet turn brutally violent But the students have won the political debate. So persuasive have they been, in fact, it is now assumed that as long as the students and their millions of supporters do not resort to violence, the changes they demand are inevitable. In the meantime, they’ve proved this basic truth — that even people with so little experience with democracy in their long and glorious history still yearn for justice and freedom. And in these early days of May, the Chinese have helped us renew our own faith in those basics, which we cherish above all else. - FORT WAYNE JOURNAL-GAZETTE
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Congratulations Class Os 1989
Court news
County Court The following persons have paid fines and costs in Kosciusko County Court. .Judgo Janies Jarrett presiding: Speeding — Joseph P. Hutchings. 18. Syracuse,sßo. No Registration — Brian N. Goodman. 21. Milford. S6O. False Registration — Stacy Swinehart. 27. North Webster. S6O. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Peterson-Schroeder Daniel Jay Peterson. 27. r 2 box 299. X. Syracuse, and Jennifer Lynn Schroeder, 23. r 2 box 296. Syracuse. Neibert-Miller Robin G Neibert. 32.' r 1. Leesburg, and Patricia Ann Miller. 27. r 1. Pierceton Kipp-Free John Wesley Kipp. 20. Muncie, and Suellen Rae Free. 21. Pt) Box 163. Milford Jewson-Corhin Robert Raymond Jewson. 21. r !■ box 80E, Leesburg, and Paula Sue Corbin. 20. Box 283. North Webster Superior Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court. Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint On Written Loan Agreement State Bank of Syracuse versus Tara S. Denney. PO Box 615. Syracuse. Petitioner seeks: Count I — $1,364.66. interest and costs: Count 11 - $2,375.78, interest and costs: Count 111 $4,052.94. interest and costs Complaint West Bend Mutual Insurance Company versus Debra L Cassidy. 101 E Mam. Syracuse Petitioner seeks $1,509.36 plus costs
No injuries in car train accident
An Etna Green man escaped injury when his drove his auto into the side of a train at the B&O railroad tracks on CR 200\V near Milford last Wednesday. May 24. at 8:10 pm Sammy M Crieder. 41. was driving south on 200W when he struck the train totaling his 1979 Buick He was not injured Damage to the train was set at betweem S2OO-SI.OOO Investigating officer was
Seawall plan revised
On April 5. Public Notice No 89-IN-091 was issued for an ap plication submitted by Lester Ready. Valparaiso. for a Depart ment of the Army <DA> Permit, subject to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act <CWA < The original notice announced the placement of random earth fill material in connection with the construction of a seawall along approximately 547 feet of the applicant's lakefront property in Kuhn Lake, Leesburg. Kosciusko County The applicant's revised plans Report stolen bike The theft of a new white Max Aire freestyle dirt bike was reported by Barbara Howard, W Section Street, Milford The bike was taken from her yard at approximately 9 30 p m Wednesday, May 24 The bike is valued at tx tween $l5O to S2OO Milford Marshal David Hobbs reminds everyone to put all bikes away when they are finished riding to prevent more thefts
Circuit Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Legal Separation Susan C. Caldwell. 900 E. Greenhaus Dr, Apt. 28, Syracuse, and Robert Caldwell, 900 E Greenhaus Dr, Apt. 28. Syracuse. There are three minor children City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: \dotation of child restraint law — Jerry J Miller. 31. Milford, .$25. $25 suspended Speeding — David L. Glidersleeve. 42. Syracuse. $63; Diane Zimmerman. 36. Syracuse. S6B County Court Goshen Division The following fines have been levied and paid in the Elkhart County Court. Goshen Division: Speeding — Bobby D Ray. 30. Sx racuse. $3 plus costs Operating on expired interim plate — Shirley F. Pontius, 21, Syracuse. $54 Driving while intoxicated — Charles F Albaugh. 34. Syracuse, fined $2,000 with $1,700 suspended on condition that defendent report as ordered to the Elkhart County Sec. Center on July 1. and not commit a similar offense in one year Driving while license suspended _ Bobby D Ray. 30. Syracuse, fined $l5O with $125. suspended, one year jail sentence suspended on condition that defendent not commit a similar offense in one year
Milford Deputy Marshal Aaron Rovenstine Rear-end Accident Dennis Bender. 35, r 4. Syracuse, was driving south on US 33 and had stopped to make a left turn when his 1982 Buick was struck from behind by a 1989 Dodge Aires driven by Max Tinkel. 46, Eort Wayne. No one was hurt or cited. Damage was estimated at more than S2OO to each car. The accident happened on Tuesday. May 23. at 4:15 p.m.
for the proposed work is to shorten the length of the seawall to approximately 521 feet In addition to the backfill, the applicant proposes to dredge the lake in front of the wall, disposing of the dredged material on his property landward of the seawall Approximately 230 cubic yards of dredged material would be placed and seeded.
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"GRUZIN AROUND 'CUSE"
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TULUM — Topside "cruises" included a visit to Tuluin. a Mayan ruin perched on an abutment of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula on the Caribbean.
i EDITOR'S N()TE: This week'sguest writer is Dr David W. Robinson, a resident of the area for the last 11 yegrs. Dr Robinson worked with area schools as a psychologist and is now in private practice > Bv DR. DAVID W. ROBINSON
HERE IS much to be written in the theme of “Cruzin' Around ’Cuse", and having been a part of this area
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since 1930, I could probably match stories about Lake Wawasee and Syracuse with the best of ’em. I wasn’t born here. My parents were lakers or, as they said, “part time residents and full time taxpayers”. My wife and I were smart enough to move here as residents some 11 years ago. a decision we’ve not regretted. But for today, I want to write about a recent cruzin’ around the Caribbean on a cruise ship whose concept bodes to be a forerunner for all lovers of water sports who might want a break away from our chilly months. We spent a week on the Ocean Spirit : a 457-foot long, totally remodeled full line cruise ship which carries within its hull eight new completely outfitted 30-foot scuba dive boats The ship also carries an ample number of ski sleds, sun fish, paddle boats and even a mini submarine, all for the passengers and all without extra charge, except for the sub The company called Ocean Quest sails the Ocean Spirit each Saturday out of New Orleans. Currently the itinerary calls for one day in Cozumel, two days on the reef at Belize (the second largest barrier reef in the world, bettered only bv the reef off Australia > and a day off Cancun. We were told that in the future the ports of call might be changed, at least to exclude one or two ports of Mexico, They have a strong union of divers and dive boat operators which does not want competition Because of that, one day we had to dive from old wooden Mexican dive boats The one I was on contained no equipment except tanks lying on the deck three deep, a square oil skin tarp over head and a motor that w as runn ing on at least half of its cylinders We admitted that the boat and its local crew "had character I'm glad that it was not my first dive It made my other days of diving from the Ocean Spirit dive boats extra special The concept of the ship is a natural for couples who love the water but who may have different water interests. I scuba, my wile snorkels and both of us like some shore scenery which for her included a tour, of the Belize zoo. which contained only animals and birds indigenous to the country , and of Belize City . Both of us toured the Mayan ruins at Tulum on ( ancun and snorkeled in the Xel-Ha lagoon. Being on the ship, we had our food and lodg ing ail taken care of It had a swimming p<x>l. casino, movie, discotheque, aerobics and all the usual cruise activities The food was good, ample and almost always available. Although we had assigned tables for dinner, breakfast and lunch were open seating. At dinner, it was suggested that men wear shirts with collars and the women wear skirts or slacks (a great sacrifice).
TYPICAL BELIZIAN RESIDENTIAL-BUSINESS.
It would take another article for me to write about the beauty of. the corals and fishes, the great reef and the shoals, but I can't stop now without some words about the ship and crew. There is room for about 340 passengers, and a crew of 170. We had virtual full access to the ship. No part of the ship was ever really closed to us. day or night, including the pilot house. We were asked to tie escorted by a crew member with us if we wanted to see the engine room. Another sacrifice! Bi - -i/k B THE WRITER CHECKING OUT. A SUNKEN SHIP The officers were Italian and the waiters were Portugese, the crew were oriental and Philipino. With no exception, including those w hose job seemed to be handling the anchors and cleaning the decks, everyone was friendly . One or two seemed to have trouble saying “hello” but no one had trouble smiling. Like all cruise ships, there were several prices of cabins, but so far as the availability of the ship, there were no second class passengers or closed areas. The purser was our host, not our keeper. The maitre d' encouraged our special menu desires. The cruise director was seen day and night and never once tried to hustle the wares of a port of call shopkeeper who might return a gesture of appreciation (percent) to him. Several of the officers. including the ship doctor, were certified divers and on occasion did dive with us. Each of the eight new dive boats was manned by two rated dive masters and a local diverguide. On each dive, one stayed on the boat and the other two dived with the passengers when requested, or by themselves just for the fun of it. We had a full spectrum of dives available. I happen to like to stay at the 30=50 feet depth to enjoy more color, but many stayed actively down on the reef, lie were asked not to dive below 150 feet. I should note that this testimonial is unsolicited I eally am not on the Ocean Quest payroll and receive no benefits for writing this, unless.it can be to encourage some of my fellow book a cruise on the Ocean Spirit Months ago. actually the day I read their advertisement. I called to reserve our trip The experiences during the week exceeded our expectations Bon voyage! —o—- - DWR i < onlinued on page 5)