The Mail-Journal, Volume 29, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 April 1990 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 25, 1990

Editorial

Milford-Fest volunteers needed Four years ago Milford put on a grand show for visiting residents of other communities, showing the hospitality and volunteerism that made for a successful sesquicentennial celebration. The town will have the chance to renew that enthusiasm May 26 when it hosts its first Milford-Fest. However, Milford residents are needed to come to the forefront to ensure another success. Milford hasn’t had a celebration the scope of the sesquicentennial since its completion, but now it has the opportunity to host an annual affair that is sure to draw more attention to the community. However, a community cannot bring interest to itself without first being interested in itself. A Milford-FesCjcommittee has been meeting on a weekly* basis to assure a fun time for all attending what may become an annual affair. However, the shortage of volunteer time has already resulted in a few setbacks. Milford residents of all ages are encouraged to contact Dennis Replogle, Barb Richardson, or another committee member to find out what they can do to make their town’s festival a success. Currently, the committee is seeking volunteers to paint several banners that will be used to promote the event. Numerous other preparations are to be made and demand the town residents’ help. Library lovers — this is your week ' Book lovers and information junkies — Rejoice! This is your time. April 22-28 is National Library Week. The local library is far more than a place to borrow books; although that’s a top priority. Music, videos, magazines and a variety of other media comprise the treasure trove of information and entertainment that can be found in even the smallest modern library. Programs for kids and other members of the community are also frequently offered — making the library a good deal for families. In fact, in these busy times, families can have fun together and enjoy learning experiences by visiting their local facility. Families can read, watch videos and listen to music they've borrowed from the library. That can mean a lot to parents and kids who are experiencing a quality time crunch. Yet, for all of their up to date, resources and technology, libraries haven't fundamentally changed all that much over the years. They still serve their most important, primary function — providing books to all kinds of people, from all backgrounds. Everybody is equal in a library. Books and much more are available at your local library. This week, go take a look at all the treasures you can find. Chances are; you’ll be back for more. Parents of middle school students — be aware! Parents have a lot of responsibilities and obligations competing for their attention. Family, work and household chores keep their schedules full and their minds whirling. So it's pretty hard to give up a Saturday morning without good reason. The Wawasee School Corporation has provided the parents of middle school age children with an excellent one — Parent Awareness Day, on April 28 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Wawasee High School. The purpose of the event is to educate parents about the middle school program and fill them in on the new middle school building, which is nearing completion. There's a full schedule of events on tap for Saturday morning. Topics such as ‘■Anatomy of a Middle School" and "Technology to Meet the Challenge for the 21st Century.” will be presented, as will "A Walk Through the Building.” The focus of these presentations will not. however, be limited to the building. In fact, the •■Anatomy” lesson will highlight the philosophy behind the middle school approach to education. Presentations on special education and athletics and intramural sports are also scheduled. In other words, a visit to Parent Awareness Day will be an education to those who attend. It's worth making time for. In the long run. giving up a Saturday morning to learn about a child’s education is a small investment of time with a big potential pay off. The person who always has bad luck may be specializing in it. What others say — On broken pledges The 20-year-old pledge of the Indiana General Assembly concerning the short session of legislature and what it should accomplish has become a tremendous joke as far as we can understand that pledge. Your legislative representatives certainly know and understand what has happened the past two decades to hold the "short sessions” every other year. When we, as voters, approved the sessions through a constitutional amendment, we were told that the short sessions were to be limited to critical, unforeseen budgetary adjustments and to true legislative emergencies. Each passing two years has seen that idea become further and further from the truth. When William Styring assessed the situation a?Ttexisted early this year, it became obvious that the amendment never should have been passed. The biggest problem we see with considering such things as collective bargaining and abortion in the short session is that they simply did not fit the type thing with which the amendment was sold to the voters. With a broken system, what can we expect next. Far from your mind may be the idea of a "long session” just as every other one is under the current system. But, we feel that is exactly what you are going to be hearing from your legislators. Not only that it could be requested, but we feel you will never hear any of those governmental wizards ask that the short session should deal with what was intended 20 years ago. All of us who voted for the amendment in 1970 created a monster with which we have to live. Hopefully, it will not become worse in the years to come. Oh, that it would return to its original intent. * ' - CARROLL COUNTY COMET

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Visit your area library during National Library Week — April 22-28. Court news

Circuit Court The following petition has been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court. Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint Ameritrust National Bank. Michiana, f/k/a First National Bank. Elkhart, also f/k/a State Bank of Syracuse versus SDA Industries, Inc. and Stephen O. Arnold. rural route, Syracuse, individually; Donna M. Arnold, rural route. Syracuse, individually; and First Federal Savings Bank, Goshen. Petitioner seeks: Count I — $54,370.09. interest, attorney fees, costs; Count II — possession of personal property, costs, attorney fees; Count 111 — foreclosure; Count IV — $54,370.09, interest, expenses, attorney fees, costs. Superior Court The following petition has been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint Lake City Bank. Warsaw, versus Charles E. Hart. PC) Box, Milford. Petitioner seeks $8,888.16. interest, attorney fees and costs. County Court The following persons have paid fines and costs in Kosciusko County Court. Judge Janies Jarrette presiding: Speeding — Homer J McKinley. 37. Leesburg. $65; Donald K Kintzel, 27. Leesburg. $80; Stephen Reed, 31. Syracuse. SBO. Expired Plates — Marty Welker, 30. Milford. S6O. Driving While Suspended — Joe Hernandez, no age. Milford. $l3B. driver's license suspended 90 days. Check Deception — Thomas I Welch. Jr., no age. Leesburg, dismissed Goshen Division The following area residents have had fines levied and paid in the Elkhart County Court: Speeding — John E. Peterson. 26. Syracuse. SSB; Nancy E Hickman. 33. Syracuse, $56;

Jailer injured in altercation

Kosciusko County Jailer Richard Waterson suffered a laceration above the left eye following an altercation by a jail inmate. Edward G. Newsome. 22. The incident occurred Tuesday. April 17, at 9:25 p.m. According to a report. Newsome requested Waterson to allow him to make a telephone call. Newsome was taken to the booking area to make the call and upon hanging up the telephone, turned around and hit Waterson Waterson’s glasses were broken

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Mary L. Miller, 23, Leesburg. $63; Cheryl R. Swartz, 44. Syracuse.s63 Operating on expired driver’s 'license — Cheryl R. Swartz, 44, Syracuse.ss4 City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Violation of seat belt law — Dawn M. King, 29, Syracuse. $25; Carrie L. Finney, 18. Milford. $25 Speeding — Michael D. Todd. 34. Syracuse, $53 Illegal parking in space reserved for handicapped — Marcia K. Carpenter. 30. Syracuse, dismissed Disregarding stop sign — Timothy R. Bushong. 29, Syracuse. $63 Leaky load — Charles K. Garber. 34. Syracuse. $lO3 Expired driver’s license — Marilyn B. Kirkwood. 38. Syracuse. $54 Marriage Dissolutions The following couple has filed for marriage dissolution in the Kosciusko Superior and Circuit Courts: Kaiser — Paula S. Kaiser, PO Box. Milford, and Greg L. Kaiser, rural route. Milford. The couple was married Oct. 2. 1976, and separated Feb 26, 1990. There are two minor children. Marriage Licenses The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Tash-Jarrell Jimmy D. Tash. 21. rural route. North Webster, and Sheila Gay Jarrell. 22. rural route. North Webster. Tyler-Myers Eugene L. Tyler, 26, rural route. Syracuse, and Deeana L. Myers. 29. rural route, Syracuse. Miiler-Losee Kim R. Miller. 36. Main Street. Syracuse, and Laura L. Losee. 28, rural route, Syracuse.

and he suffered a laceration above the left eye. Jailer Terry McCarty, who was in the next room, heard the commotion. and restrained Newsome from further attacking Waterson. Battery charges have been filed Newsome was adjudged mentally ill in March and ordered to be detained in Logansport State Hospital. He has been held in the county jail waiting for space at the state hospital.

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TUESDAY WAS the big moving day for the law office of Beckman, Lawson, Sandler, Snyder and ■'ederoff into their new facilities. While a lot of items are still boxed, the office is open and ready for business. if i E -J* * r 'ii Those entering the office will find brick pavers have been installed. These pavers follow the scheme planned by the SyracuseVVawasee Beautification Committee to replace the concrete sidewalks in the business area. Blake Shortill of Stone Wall Masonry. Elkhart, is shown preparing the sidewalk for the laying of the pavers. —o— ANOTHER BUSINESS has closed its doors in Syracuse. Main Street Video, 102 W. Main Street, closed for business Easter weekend. According to owner Louisa Murray, parking problems for customers and business being slow led to the store's closing. Murray was renting the building from Tom McClain. —o— DO YOU have your boat registered yet? While many police departments and conservation officers have been busy checking identification numbers on boats and trailers because of the new registration, many do not have the registration resolved. To assist with the registration, conservation officers will be inspecting the boat hull numbers on Saturday, April 28, from 11) a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Wawasee Lake Fish Hatchery Parking Lot. Those persons with their boats already in the water, but still needing to have the hull numbers verified, may come by water to have the registrations checked. Because of new legislature, the registration of boats is being handled by the license bureau. To ensure the proper forms are in a boat owner's possession, owners should check with the local license branch. Boats manufactured before 1973. those purchased out of state, and boats with assigned hull numbers must be checked. —o— RICK BAKER can no longer be found at Wawasee Golf Club Baker has taken a job working for Mike Smith at his business in Cromwell. —o— PEOPLE TO volunteer the use of their piers on Syracuse Lake are being sought by Pam Howatt of the Lakeland Youth Center. The piers are needed to allow youngsters participating in the fishing tournament on Saturday, May 19. a place to fish. The tournament is being cosponsored by Ed Bogart of Fish ’N Fun. Those wishing to volunteer the use of their piers can contact Bogart or Howatt. While talking about fishing, the LYC will sponsor a fishing clinic on Saturday, May 12. Conservation Officer Carl Hepler will instruct the class. —o— A GROUP of 12 men kicked off the golf season with their annual trip to Hilton Head Island. S.C., April 14-21. This is the fifth year the group has made the trip. Those who went along from Syracuse were: Jon Sroufe, Murray Rhodes, Tim Hine, Greg Smith, Jerry Johnson, John Kroh, Don Deck, Ev Gans. Jim Caskey and Ernie Rogers. The group was joined by Skip Lepolea of Jackson. Miss., formerly of the North Webster area, and Ron Whitaker of Parkersburg. W.Va . formerly of Warsaw. According to what information was received. they all came hack as winners and the

weather was as beautiful as that which is being experienced this week. —o— THE HARTINGS, Ed and Mirna, are quite proud of their son-in-law, Craig Ladwig, Fort Wayne. He recently wrote an editorial about newspapers and how the corporate-owned papers don't write editorials like the locally owned publications. His writing stated the editorials of the corporate-owned papers are more of the middle-of-the-road type editorials, instead of coming out and saying what is meant. This editorial was published in the April 17 issue of The Wall Street Journal. Ladwig was an associate editor for the News Sentinel in Fort Wayne. He is now the executive director for Indiana Policy Review Board.Ladwig had written the editorial as a tribute to a friend from Kansas City, who was an editor, upon his death. This piece was published in several newspapers, including one in Detroit. Officials from The Wall Street Journal contacted Ladwig for permission to publish the editorial. —O'BILL DIXON has notified The Mail-Journal that his family has filed an application with the FCC to operate a radio station in Syracuse. —o— DON’T FORGET the Syracuse Police Department Auction tonight (Wednesday), at 5 p.m., at the police station. Auctioned off will be a 1985 Ford LTD Crown Victoria, bicycles, fishing equipment, night lights, adding machine, radios, cassette equipment, a television and numerous other miscellaneous items. —o— THIS YEAR'S Spring Clean-up in Syracuse has been postponed. Due to the shortness of funds to pay for trash pick-up this year in the town's budget for these items, the clean-up week will not be May 7-11. THE DATE of May 12 for the spring cleanup that the chamber of commerce announced last week has been temporarily put on hold. When the Town of Syracuse announces its spring cleanup week, a new cleanup date will be announced by the chamber. —o— THERE IS an unusual item on display in the Syracuse Town Hall. A toter for garbage is displayed just inside the west doors of the town hall. According to Elgie Tatman, clerktreasurer, this toter is being considered for use by the town board. If the board decides to go with Borden Waste-Away. these toters would be used in place of the garbage bags. However, persons would have to buy the toters. The toters would also limit the amount of trash picked up. —O’word HAS been received that CSX has given permission for use of the old railroad depot as a depot again for Amtrack services, if officials will locate space for the railroad company to house their offices. The depot is currently being used for some railroad offices. —o— MANY HAVE noticed the red and white big top next to Precision Marine on South Huntington Street. It marked the location of an open house for Precision Marine this past weekend. Owner and manger Mike Zelinski was very pleased with the large crowds that came. Zelinski owns the business with Al Tehan. —o— THE SYRACUSE Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service has been busy since the first of the year. According to a report released by Jerry Byrd, fire chief, the fire department responded to 17 fire calls between January and March. Seven of those fire calls were in the town limits and 10 were in the township. There were 25 personal injury accidents during that time period. The fire chief made 10 courtesy calls, the first assistant fire chief, two, and the second assistant chief, one. The fire department assisted other agencies on two occasions. The EMS had a total of 147 ambulance calls and 13 calls for transportation of patients. There were 65 calls within the town limits and 82 calls in the township. —o— CONGRATULATIONS TO Curtis Nicolai, Kasey Kern, and Britt Berkey on their recent awards in the Elkhart County 4-H/FFA Dairy Judging and Livestock Contests. (Continued on pages)