Letters to the Editor 03-22-2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Daylight Savings - Daylight Savings Again - Whitko Jazz - Underage Use Of Tobacco - Hitchhiking - Census Results - Thanks To Firemen
Daylight Savings
Editor, Times-Union:I look forward to your News Views on Saturday, but I don't agree with your view on DST. Get in sync with the rest of the country, why? The fact is the continental U.S. has four times zones and Indiana just happens to be on the west end of the Eastern Zone, which makes our daylight hours skewed different than New York in relation to the work day. If you want more hours after work, just start an hour earlier! Are we on a different time than our adjacent states, of course we are. What do you want, to be with New York or Chicago. Take your pick. I prefer Chicago because the late news is on at 10 and not 11 in fact in the summer we are in sync with Chicago and in the winter with New York. Is that so hard to remember? Our work days will always have a gap or shortening when dealing with another time zone. The only slight reason for DST is more daylight after work which could help my business in golf. Indiana is far enough west to justify being in the Central Time Zone and not the Eastern Zone but then if we went to DST our summers would have the same hours after work we have now.
In short, let's not change.
Lee A. Webb
Pierceton
via e-mail
Daylight Savings Again
Editor, Times-Union:I usually agree with what Gary Gerard writes in his News Views in Saturday's paper, but I must comment on the one printed Saturday, 3-17-2001. First off I want to say that I do not want to change to Daylight-Saving Time (DST). I've done that in the past. It was a nuisance then and would be now. If all the other states know that Indiana is on EST, and has been for a long time, then they should be used to it by now and have adjusted. After all, it's only an hour. Your logic for changing is somewhat ridiculous. You say that everybody else is doing it and that we should too. Let me ask you this. There are a lot of people out there that are doing drugs. Do you? If not, why not? There are a lot of people getting drunk every weekend then driving cars, killing people, etc. Are you? If not, then why not? You say that not following everybody else in the free world makes Indiana look stupid. Who cares what the rest of the free world thinks about Indiana? Gary, I bet that if you ask your boss if he would allow you to change your clocks at home and go to work an hour different than the rest of us, he will let you do that. I know of a factory that has "summer hours." They go to work early and get off early if they want to. Go ahead and ask, but don't try to screw up the time for those of us who don't want DST.
I hope your next goal is not to make Spanish the official language for Warsaw.
While I'm here, I want to comment on an unrelated News View subject. The other day a letter was written suggesting that we get rid of the stoplights and use elevated highways for bypasses. I agree with that writer. Too bad we didn't do that when new U.S. 30 was built. Speaking of bypasses, why do we need a bypass for highway 15? We widened the road from Center Street to the funnel at CR 250N. Besides, if we want to bypass Warsaw, why not do as we have always done? Use U.S. 30 to CR 150W, over McElroy Hill/Fox Farm Road, to Old 30, west to CR 225W, to Ind. 25. From there you can get to Ind. 15 from CR 100S. If the county has extra money to burn, why not give it back to the county taxpayers? I would like to see a map printed in the paper for the unneeded proposed bypass.
R.D. Krebs
Warsaw
via e-mail
Whitko Jazz
Editor, Times-Union:Congratulations to the Whitko High School Jazz Band for an unforgettable performance at the Rolling Meadows Jazz Festival. The band recently traveled to Chicago to compete in this popular contest. The band received a Division II rating. Outstanding Musician Awards were given to Christy May (trumpet) and Laura Berner (alto sax), both juniors in the band. The band performed "Blues in Hoss Flat," "Autumn Twilight" and "Go Daddy-O." Keep up the great work!
Betsy May
Pierceton
Underage Use Of Tobacco
Editor, Times-Union:As a citizen of Warsaw I would like to know WHY we even have laws regarding underage tobacco use. On more than one occasion I have been driving through town and see kids that could never pass for eighteen walking down the sidewalk smoking. But the real highlight is to watch the city, county or state patrol car drive right past these same kids. Why is it that I never see where a citation or ticket has been issued for this violation of local state and federal law? If the city police would just patrol the alley behind my residence the would have a notebook full of citations. I don't know what is all taught in the DARE program,but I hope that they emphasize the dangers of tobacco as much as the other deadly drugs. Let's not forget the stores that sell to minors. Recently several convenience stores where fined for allowing this to happen. WHY? Warsaw police and we as parents should take a little time to curb this before they become addicted for life (a much shorter life).
Kerry Dohner
Warsaw
via e-mail
Hitchhiking
Editor, Times-Union:You've heard of terrible crimes resulting from hitchhiking incidents. Hitchhiking today is a "dangerous game" both for the hitchhiker and the driver. That is, when it comes to picking up strangers, the driver and the hitchhiker are taking a chance. At age 81, my hitchhiking days are over, but I can still feel for those guys who attempt to thumb their way in these trying times.
Not long ago, I was taking a ride with a friend when we approached a man and a woman standing along the highway holding the sign "We need help." Reclining at their feet was a big black dog. My friend said, "Well, they can't be too poor or destitute. They're supporting a dog." Those people could have been poor and still have a dog; in fact, they could have, out of desperation, shared their food with their pet. Furthermore, they could have been good, hard-working people who were broke and out of a job and were trying to get someplace where a job was waiting for them. But, who knows? Who knows for certain whether or not those people hitching a ride were on the up and up, or could have been dangerous?
When I was a youth in the '30s, I did a great deal of hitchhiking and my old thumb worked overtime while trying to get somewhere. In those days, for the most part, people hardly ever thought of the "evil" consequences that might result from hitchhiking. Furthermore, whenever I hitchhiked 50 or 60 years ago, there were all sorts of people from all walks of life who stopped and gave me a ride.
Late one night, an FBI agent came along. He pulled up, and with a friendly smile he asked me where I was going. I told him that I was headed for Leesburg, so he invited me to get in the car. He drove me home, and when we got to Leesburg he let me out, and said, "When I come this way again, if I see you on the road, I'll give you another ride."
Back in the '30s and '40s, even women were brave enough to stop and ask me to get in their car and thought nothing of it. Yes, for the most part, hitchhiking during the early decades was generally safe, although while thumbing a ride in the early '30s, I did experience a bit of tension when two guys gave me a lift from Leesburg to Warsaw and threatened me in an ominous way with the idea that they were NOT going to let me off at Warsaw. But somehow, I escaped being frightened of them, (I felt that a "Higher Power" was watching over me) so, when we arrived in Warsaw, they let me go. I expect that if a hitchhiker received such a threat today, the threat would be carried out with possible disastrous consequences resulting from that threat.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Census Results
Editor, Times-Union:It was interesting to read Brett Berlin's letter regarding the 2000 census. There is no way that Pierceton's total could be correct. People who have post office boxes did not receive census forms. When I inquired about this at the post office, I was told that they were only to be given to customers on the rural routes. If I had any more questions I should telephone the Census Bureau, which I did. The employee at the Census Bureau informed me that if we didn't get a form to fill out, someone would come to our house and count us. I told that person it didn't make sense to pay someone by the hour to go house to house when they could have put forms in all the post office boxes. To continue the census saga, no one ever came to our home or the homes of my neighbors with whom I checked. We obviously did not get counted. Does that mean we will not have to pay taxes? You can bet that we will be "found" at that time.
Joyce Kreger
Pierceton
via e-mail
Thanks To Firemen
Editor, Times-Union:We would like to express our gratitude to everyone involved in fighting the fire that destroyed our home at 3707 E. CR 400N on Feb. 24th.
The firemen did a wonderful job, there were so many involved. We also want to thank the EMS crew that came to assist when I had trouble breathing.
We don't want to leave anyone out, so we won't even try to list names. There have been so many friends and neighbors and even people we don't know who have helped us and offered their prayers, that we can't begin to thank you.
We greatly appreciate all the caring that has been shown to us.
Thank you very much and God bless.
Brad, Sherri & Chris Johnson
Warsaw
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Daylight Savings
Editor, Times-Union:I look forward to your News Views on Saturday, but I don't agree with your view on DST. Get in sync with the rest of the country, why? The fact is the continental U.S. has four times zones and Indiana just happens to be on the west end of the Eastern Zone, which makes our daylight hours skewed different than New York in relation to the work day. If you want more hours after work, just start an hour earlier! Are we on a different time than our adjacent states, of course we are. What do you want, to be with New York or Chicago. Take your pick. I prefer Chicago because the late news is on at 10 and not 11 in fact in the summer we are in sync with Chicago and in the winter with New York. Is that so hard to remember? Our work days will always have a gap or shortening when dealing with another time zone. The only slight reason for DST is more daylight after work which could help my business in golf. Indiana is far enough west to justify being in the Central Time Zone and not the Eastern Zone but then if we went to DST our summers would have the same hours after work we have now.
In short, let's not change.
Lee A. Webb
Pierceton
via e-mail
Daylight Savings Again
Editor, Times-Union:I usually agree with what Gary Gerard writes in his News Views in Saturday's paper, but I must comment on the one printed Saturday, 3-17-2001. First off I want to say that I do not want to change to Daylight-Saving Time (DST). I've done that in the past. It was a nuisance then and would be now. If all the other states know that Indiana is on EST, and has been for a long time, then they should be used to it by now and have adjusted. After all, it's only an hour. Your logic for changing is somewhat ridiculous. You say that everybody else is doing it and that we should too. Let me ask you this. There are a lot of people out there that are doing drugs. Do you? If not, why not? There are a lot of people getting drunk every weekend then driving cars, killing people, etc. Are you? If not, then why not? You say that not following everybody else in the free world makes Indiana look stupid. Who cares what the rest of the free world thinks about Indiana? Gary, I bet that if you ask your boss if he would allow you to change your clocks at home and go to work an hour different than the rest of us, he will let you do that. I know of a factory that has "summer hours." They go to work early and get off early if they want to. Go ahead and ask, but don't try to screw up the time for those of us who don't want DST.
I hope your next goal is not to make Spanish the official language for Warsaw.
While I'm here, I want to comment on an unrelated News View subject. The other day a letter was written suggesting that we get rid of the stoplights and use elevated highways for bypasses. I agree with that writer. Too bad we didn't do that when new U.S. 30 was built. Speaking of bypasses, why do we need a bypass for highway 15? We widened the road from Center Street to the funnel at CR 250N. Besides, if we want to bypass Warsaw, why not do as we have always done? Use U.S. 30 to CR 150W, over McElroy Hill/Fox Farm Road, to Old 30, west to CR 225W, to Ind. 25. From there you can get to Ind. 15 from CR 100S. If the county has extra money to burn, why not give it back to the county taxpayers? I would like to see a map printed in the paper for the unneeded proposed bypass.
R.D. Krebs
Warsaw
via e-mail
Whitko Jazz
Editor, Times-Union:Congratulations to the Whitko High School Jazz Band for an unforgettable performance at the Rolling Meadows Jazz Festival. The band recently traveled to Chicago to compete in this popular contest. The band received a Division II rating. Outstanding Musician Awards were given to Christy May (trumpet) and Laura Berner (alto sax), both juniors in the band. The band performed "Blues in Hoss Flat," "Autumn Twilight" and "Go Daddy-O." Keep up the great work!
Betsy May
Pierceton
Underage Use Of Tobacco
Editor, Times-Union:As a citizen of Warsaw I would like to know WHY we even have laws regarding underage tobacco use. On more than one occasion I have been driving through town and see kids that could never pass for eighteen walking down the sidewalk smoking. But the real highlight is to watch the city, county or state patrol car drive right past these same kids. Why is it that I never see where a citation or ticket has been issued for this violation of local state and federal law? If the city police would just patrol the alley behind my residence the would have a notebook full of citations. I don't know what is all taught in the DARE program,but I hope that they emphasize the dangers of tobacco as much as the other deadly drugs. Let's not forget the stores that sell to minors. Recently several convenience stores where fined for allowing this to happen. WHY? Warsaw police and we as parents should take a little time to curb this before they become addicted for life (a much shorter life).
Kerry Dohner
Warsaw
via e-mail
Hitchhiking
Editor, Times-Union:You've heard of terrible crimes resulting from hitchhiking incidents. Hitchhiking today is a "dangerous game" both for the hitchhiker and the driver. That is, when it comes to picking up strangers, the driver and the hitchhiker are taking a chance. At age 81, my hitchhiking days are over, but I can still feel for those guys who attempt to thumb their way in these trying times.
Not long ago, I was taking a ride with a friend when we approached a man and a woman standing along the highway holding the sign "We need help." Reclining at their feet was a big black dog. My friend said, "Well, they can't be too poor or destitute. They're supporting a dog." Those people could have been poor and still have a dog; in fact, they could have, out of desperation, shared their food with their pet. Furthermore, they could have been good, hard-working people who were broke and out of a job and were trying to get someplace where a job was waiting for them. But, who knows? Who knows for certain whether or not those people hitching a ride were on the up and up, or could have been dangerous?
When I was a youth in the '30s, I did a great deal of hitchhiking and my old thumb worked overtime while trying to get somewhere. In those days, for the most part, people hardly ever thought of the "evil" consequences that might result from hitchhiking. Furthermore, whenever I hitchhiked 50 or 60 years ago, there were all sorts of people from all walks of life who stopped and gave me a ride.
Late one night, an FBI agent came along. He pulled up, and with a friendly smile he asked me where I was going. I told him that I was headed for Leesburg, so he invited me to get in the car. He drove me home, and when we got to Leesburg he let me out, and said, "When I come this way again, if I see you on the road, I'll give you another ride."
Back in the '30s and '40s, even women were brave enough to stop and ask me to get in their car and thought nothing of it. Yes, for the most part, hitchhiking during the early decades was generally safe, although while thumbing a ride in the early '30s, I did experience a bit of tension when two guys gave me a lift from Leesburg to Warsaw and threatened me in an ominous way with the idea that they were NOT going to let me off at Warsaw. But somehow, I escaped being frightened of them, (I felt that a "Higher Power" was watching over me) so, when we arrived in Warsaw, they let me go. I expect that if a hitchhiker received such a threat today, the threat would be carried out with possible disastrous consequences resulting from that threat.
Don Kaiser
Warsaw
Census Results
Editor, Times-Union:It was interesting to read Brett Berlin's letter regarding the 2000 census. There is no way that Pierceton's total could be correct. People who have post office boxes did not receive census forms. When I inquired about this at the post office, I was told that they were only to be given to customers on the rural routes. If I had any more questions I should telephone the Census Bureau, which I did. The employee at the Census Bureau informed me that if we didn't get a form to fill out, someone would come to our house and count us. I told that person it didn't make sense to pay someone by the hour to go house to house when they could have put forms in all the post office boxes. To continue the census saga, no one ever came to our home or the homes of my neighbors with whom I checked. We obviously did not get counted. Does that mean we will not have to pay taxes? You can bet that we will be "found" at that time.
Joyce Kreger
Pierceton
via e-mail
Thanks To Firemen
Editor, Times-Union:We would like to express our gratitude to everyone involved in fighting the fire that destroyed our home at 3707 E. CR 400N on Feb. 24th.
The firemen did a wonderful job, there were so many involved. We also want to thank the EMS crew that came to assist when I had trouble breathing.
We don't want to leave anyone out, so we won't even try to list names. There have been so many friends and neighbors and even people we don't know who have helped us and offered their prayers, that we can't begin to thank you.
We greatly appreciate all the caring that has been shown to us.
Thank you very much and God bless.
Brad, Sherri & Chris Johnson
Warsaw
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