The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 51, Milford, Kosciusko County, 26 January 1966 — Page 1
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VOLUME 4
Heated CATV Franchise Issue Divides City of Warsaw
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A WARDS NIGHT — Boy Scouts of the .Milford troop were honored last Thursday on awards night. The evening’s activities were held in the Masonic hall. Seated at the table are Earl Mon-
Milford Boy Scouts Hold Award Night, See Canadian Scouting Film
The Milford boy scouts held an awards night Thursday in the Masonie hall with several boys being advanced in rank. The evening was highlighted with a put luck supper for parents, scouts, organization officials. and invited guests Around 50 persons attended. Awards Awards presented during the evening were as follows: Tenderfoot awards — Mark Treesh and Jim Momn. Second class — Billy Leeman. John Leeman, Dick Wallace. Mark Mynruer. John Gorsuch and Tony Newman. / Merit Badges — Two to PaulS Roudabush. one for woodworking and one for dectricity. Den chiefs cords — Mark IB /• ", ■» JOHN R. (BOB) BAYNE 'Bob’Bayne To Enter Race For Sheriff John R. (Bob) Bayne of 1813 east Market street, Warsaw, has announced Ms intentions to file his candidacy for the office of sheriff cf Kosciusko county, subject to the j Democratic voters in the county in | the Tuesday. May 5, primary election. Bayne, who is now employed as a j service man for Ber&ch Vending Co., toe,, of Warsaw, served as first | deputy sheriff under sheriff Howard <Sam> Holbrook from January 1, 1959. to September 10, 1960. He plans to file his intentions with the county clerk shortly after Wednesday, Feb. 13. the legal day when filing begins. Candidates have until March M to file. Retired Gnard Captain Bayne. «. graduated from Warsaw, high school in 1989. and served for! 17 years in Company L of the National Guard, from which be is retired as a captain. He attended Milford high school in his junior year. He served four years in the U.S. army during World War 11. seeing action with the 29th Infantry Division in the European Theater of Operations He is married to the former Jean Hampton of London, England, and is the father of two children: a daughter Linda, a senior at Warsaw high school and a son Ricky, a first ; grader at Lincoln elementary school at Warsaw. Bte father is A. J. Bayne, r 1 Warsaw (Chapman I
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[ ey, conservation officer; Dean Wait lace, scoutmaster; Chuck Boddiger, ■ assistant; Allen Blauser and Paul • Roudabush. Standing are Mark Mynhier. Jim • Felkner, Don Lee man. Dick Wallace.
Trcesh. Allen Blaus.r and Paul Roudabush. Recruiting patches for two boys or more — John Leeman and Billy Leeman. Recruiting stripes for one boy — Dick Wallace. Don Leeman, Don Steffen and Paul Roudabush. The awards were presented during an investiture ceremony. During the ceremony Paul Kiser, a member of the scout committee. members of the committee. are: Luthur Stef fetv/Herbert Fdkner. Bob Geiger, Blauser, Paul Mathews Jierbert Stump. Vert Linsey and 'Glen Treesh S Entertainment ' Entertainment for the evening was presented by state conservation officer Earl Money who showed the film “A Canoe Trip in the Canadian National Park with Peru Explorer Scouts.” Floyd Thomas Is 'Featured In Farm Article | Floyd Thomas of Vienna, Md, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marian Deeter of Milford, was featured in a December news article in the Delmana Poultry and Farm —a farm supplement of The Daily Times of Salisbury, Md. i The article "Barley Bacon for Debnarva” tells of fanners who are feeding barley to their hogs. A photo of Mr. Thomas and other pork producers is featured. We quote from part of the front page story: 1 "Floyd Thomas of Vienna is another man in the hog business ‘sold’ on barley. He has 100 sows and will move 1.800 feeder pigs this year. His efforts are strictly a feeder pig deal. They are sold from 50 tn 80 pounds and offered al auction twice a month. "Mr. Thomas has 50 acres of crop land and puts tins in com. He sells the com and buys barley. ; In this area, he says, nearly every acre sf barley is followed bysoybeans. ■ "Although he doesn’t quite have | enough corn to exchange for the barley he needs, he does not exIpfa* any desire to espud his acreage of crop land " ’Maybe I am better off without more land,’ he said.” Vanderveer And Seviaon Join Syracuse C. D. I Charles Vandeneer and Gary Sevzson were sworn in as new members of the Syracuse civil defense unit Thursday evening by the unit’s diretcor. Floyd Schlotterback. Thomas Gilbert, chairman, pre sided at the meeting when a discussion was held on the progress at the civil defense building. The next meeting will be Febru ary 17, Treated At Hospital Karen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs James Bartley, Syracuse, was treat ed at the Goshen hospital for an ac cident at home Monday and rdeas led.
Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)
- Billy Leeman. Tony Newman, Jim , Morrm. Mark Treesh, Jan Beres, 1 John Gorsuch, Mike Mathews, Tim Stump, Don Steffen, John Leeman i and Grant Geiger. , A Mail-Journal staff photo.
il - Milford Youth Center News 11 About 60 members and guests en- . joyed the music of Jerry Bray. Jerry Gerber, Stan Hollar and Orville Miller Friday night. They did a ’ grand job and were enjoyed by all. . This Friday we are going to have ? another band. They will play from 8 TO until 12 with the admission price ’ being 50 cents per person. Members may bring one guest. “ Tickets for the dance may be purchased from Ruth. Ann Fox or at the door By Dick O’Blenis g ' ATTENDING TEACHER-LEADER-e TRAINING SCHOOL CLASSES u The following people from the First Brethren church at Milford will attend a series of Teacher-Leader-Training School classes, the first was held Monday evening, Jan. 24, at the Goshen First Brethren church. Rev. and Mrs. Frank Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rassi. Mr. and Mrs. Gail Geiger. Mr. and Mrs. Joe O. Estep, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Huber, Floyd Schuder. Mrs. Willard Templin, Mrs. Gordon Rhodes, Mrs. Hubert Cain. Mrs. Frank Scott, Mrs. • Warren Fisher. Jr., Mrs. Steven r Baumgartner, Mrs. James Hostetler and Mrs. Roger Baumgartner., Six meetings will be held, other 3 places being Nappanee, Warsaw, 5 Winding Waters (Elkhart), DutchUjwAAew Pans and Elkhart, r Rew Barker, pastor of the Milford ’ church, will conduct one of the classMAYNARD, Lari Au t T»Mr. and Mrs. Duane M. Mayhard of r 3 Syracuse are the par- . ents of a daughter, Lori Ann. born s Monday, Jan. 10. at 11.24 a. m. s in the Goshen hospital. Lori weighs> ed eight pounds, 10 ounces at . I birth. j I The baby's grandparents are Mr. j and Mrs. Allan Valentine of Burket and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Nine, , Syracuse. . * - d| f IE E \ -ydj,;.- mil, \ •I S *JK|E i f I »• ■ e I WigliiwEMßw -' L GEORGE LAMM DEAD—George t- Lamm, former Turkey Creek townK. ship mm! land dtenHkipcr fai _ IMJaw A jr UM? 3JrSCtE9C 3173, QM?Q F HlUi y • A fwW abitoaiy appear* on page X
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1966
Level Charges At The Mayor And Committee CATV To Have Affect On All TV Viewers Os County The warm and consuming issue of which of two companies will be granted a CATV (community antenna television) franchise for the city of Warsaw has been electrified by a heated session of the Warsaw city council last Monday night. At the and counter-charges were leveled, followed bj? a biased newspaper editorial, and the issue has caught the imagination and interest of all residents of Kosciusko county. This is so, since whoever is granted the coveted CATV franchise for the city of Warsaw will be serving all television set Owners of Kosciusko county. The issue is being brought up in other Indiana cities, and in all cases the by-word is “go slow, study the proposed franchises, then act in the best interest of the television viewers of the area to be served.” Not The Case Here This does not appear to be the case here. Rather, the effort seems to be to act behind closed doors, bar the press, and not to act in the public interest, in spite of an editorial to the contrary. The two companies asking the Warsaw city council, for a CATV franchise are United Transmissions, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Kansas. The other is Valley Cablevision Corporation of South Bend. The latter is a corporation formed by WSJV-TV, WNDU-TV and WSBT-TV all now serving this area witn daily television coverage. Speaking for the several groups before the Warsaw city council at last Monday night’s supercharged meeting were Brooks Pinnick, attorney for the Warsaw city council, John Widaman, attorney for United Transmissions, Inc., and Philip J. Hams, attorney for Valley Cablevision. Lurking iri the shadows is an editorialist who attempts to give the final word to the debate which by now has demonstrated a need for a more complete airing, by these words: “By such actions (Harris’ charges last Monday night) present representatives of Valley Cablevision Corp., may well have disqualified themselves, if not totally eliminated themselves from any further worthy consideration of favors the city might bestow.” The editorial, entitled “Unjustifiable,” appeared to be entirely unjustifiable, and carried the cloudy overtones of a threat to Valley Cablevision attorneys. One must enter into the sticky equation also the committee of mayor Joe Johnson to study the two proposed franchises: Councilman Joe Lessig, Charles Ker, Freeland Phillips, Ray (Pete) Strayer, Jr., and city attorney Brooks Pinnick. This, then, is the cast of characters caught up in the charges and counter-charges. ’• Asks Public Hearing Attorney Harris spoke before the city council for about 45 minutes last Monday night, following a written protest he had hand delivered to the mayor, Joe Lessig, chairman of the mayor’s CATV committee, council members and board of works and safety members, all of the city of Warsaw. Among other things, the protest set out that a decision to give the CATV franchise to United Transmissions, Inc., was made at a rump meeting of the mayor’s committee held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 11, when only the mayor and members Lessig, Phillips and Ker were present. Absent were members Strayer and Pinnick. It also stated — • 11181 there was no notice given the public of the meeting, • That the persons present at the meeting did not have before them any proposal of said United Transmissions, • That the officials have failed to comply with and were attempting to circumvent Indiana laws for filing CATV’ applications and for hearings, • That action was taken to deprive Valley Cablevision of their legal rights and to deprive the citizens of Warsaw’ their rights to be informed and to have an opportunity to file remonstrances and objections in the matter, • That United Transmission is an out-of-state corporation and has made no proof of its qualifications to do business in the state, • That United Transmissions and certain members of the Warsaw city council are attempting to deceive the public in believing United Transmissions is a “local Concern,” and • That an effort has been made to preclude the citizens of Warsaw from obtaining full and complete knowledge of the application and proposal of Valley Television and that it has qualified personnel and ability to provide a CATV system to the city of Warsaw superior to that which can be furnished by United Transmissions. The protest also said, at the direction of committee chairman Joe Lessig Hie press was excluded (Continued on Page 2)
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WHOOPEE! The Syracuse Yellow Jackets finally got off dead center! After a 29-game losing streak, described by one fan" as a “mighty long dry spell.” they won over neighboring Cromwell at the Syracuse gym Friday night.
County Receives *980,521 66 In Motor Vehicle Taxes
Kosciusko county and its incorporated cities and towns received S9BO, 521.66 during 1965 for road and street construction and improvement from state motor vehicle taxes paid by Indiana automobile and truck owners. A summary prepared by the long range planning department of the Indiana State Highway Commission shows that $797,166.52 went to the county, and $183,355.14 was distributed to cities and towns. Separate amounts received by the urban areas were as follows: Burket - $2,833.47 Claypool - 4,944.91 Etna Green - 5,284.04 Leesburg - 4,671,39 Mentone - 8,894.26 , Milford - 12,767.01 North Webster - 5.404 38 Pierceton - 12,974.89 Sidney - 2,275.52 Silver Lake - 5,623.20 Syracuse - 17,449.37 Warsaw - 79,14030 Winona Lake - 21,092.40
Hope To Establish Conservancy District
Public health authorities have determined that the health of persons residing in the vicinity of Lake Wawasee, the recreational facilities available and the general desirability of the area for resii dential purposes will require the development and tlx? uniform use of a sanitary sewer system. The Turkey Creek Development Corporation has employed J. B. Wilson and associates, consulting engineers, to undertake a study to determine the best method of providing such facilities. J. B. Wilson is a property owner and resident of the area. Diversified Utilities, Inc., at the present time, operates a sewer utility serving a portion of the properties adjoining Lake Wawasee. It has proposed that the sewer utility provide area wide sewerage facilities for the areas of Lake. Wawasee, Papakeechie, Syracuse. • and Boner. A hearing will be held before the Stream Position Control; Board of the state of Indiana on February 3 to determine whether. or not a program to provide a sewer utility exclusive jurisdiction for j the operation of sewerage facilities in the area shall be recommended. Feasibility report of the engineer employed by the Tiffkey Creek Development Corporation Has recommended that sewers be provided to the area by the creation of a Conservancy district. « Conservancy district is a governmental organization operated by a board of property owners appointed by the circuit court and provides sewer facilities as an agency of local government. It is necessary for the property owners in the area to determine the type of organization they prefer, which wil provide sewer facilities to the area, prior to February 3.
Final score: Syracuse 74, Cromwell 69. It wasn’t all easy, as Cromwell grabbed the lead once in the third quarter. See full account of the game on page 2. A huge bonfire after the game marked the victory and gave fans
Motor vehicle taxes consist of license fees, motor fuel taxes, public service commission fees, court fees and state police miscellaneous receipts. They are distributed quarterly from the Indiana motor vehicle highway account. During the year, October 1, 1964. to September 30, 1965, a total of $52,868,250.85 was distributed to the 92 counties and $33,264,514.18 to 545 cities and towns for a total of $86,132,765.03. The Indiana State Highway Commission received $69,306,736.03. According to research studies by the American Trucking Associations, Indiana’s trucking industry is responsible for 37 per cent of the state’s vehicle taxes. Funds are allocated to counties on the basis of the number of vehicle registrations and miles of roads and to cities and towns on a population basis. Other recipients of vehicle tax funds are the Indiana state police, the county engineer fund, the Indiana Office of Traffic Safety, Purdue university and some state pension funds.
Public Meeting | A public meeting will be held February 1 at 7:30 p. m. in the Syracuse town hall at which Senator Nelson G. Grills and an attorney experienced wnth the operation of sewer facilities and Mr. J. B Wilson, professional engineer, making the feasibility report, will be present. They will explain briefly the various types of programs for supplying sewer facilities to properties in the area and will be available for answering your questions. Prior to February 3 the property owners of the area will be permitted to indicate in a petition I whether or not they prefer a local government agency or a utility to I provide sewer facilities for their . property. The petition will be made available to the Stream Polution Control Board at its meeting. In Whitley County Hospital j Mrs. Ray Ferguson of North Webster entered the Whitley County hospital Sunday afternoon. She is to undergo major surgery today (Wednesday).
Syracuse Youths Figure In Tuesday Accident
Approximately $7Mf damage was listed to the 1965 Plymouth driven by Miss Melanie Walters, 16, of r 1 Syracuse, Tuesday evening when the car skidded out of control on ice and snow at a curve on Warner road at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday. Miss Walters and her passenger, Roger D. Stiver, 17, r 4 Syracuse, were traveling west on Warner road about 1% miles east of Syracuse on North Shore Drive when Miss Walters attempted to pull to the far
Boost ' > The \ Lakeland Area
- and team members a rallying point. Syracuse school photographer Tim I Yeager was on hand to take this I phqto, showing from left coach Ken > Workman, and players John Longenbaugh, Bob Pilcher, Dick Bushong, ■ Floyd Rensberger, Max Brockets i and Dave Wickstrom.
To Establish New Parish Near Syracuse It was learned this week that a new parish for the Catholic church will be established in the near fu- : ture. The church, to be dedicated to St. Martin de Porres, will serve the residents of the Syracuse-Wawasee areas. » An announcement in the Sunday, Jan. 23, “Sunday Visitor” states I “There is no truth in the report that the Pierceton Parish — or any i other — will be closed.” The article i is written by Bishop Leo Pursley in his weekly column. Land Acquired Land has been acquired for the new parish which will be located on Indiana 13 about three miles south of Syracuse. The three and one half acres purchased includes a house. Improvements on the property are expected to begin soon. Meeting At Seminary Until the new parish is completed . area worshipers are attending weekly Sunday mass in the chapel of Our Lady of the Lake Seminary at Wawasee. Father Eugene J. Zimmerman of the St. Francis Xavier church, Pierceton, officiates at the masses. The services are held at 10:30 a. m. each Sunday. About 65 Syracuse families are registered for the proposed parish with about 200 persons participating in the Sunday mass. Tippecanoe Jwp. Report Published The report for the township of Tippecanoe for the year 1965 appears elsewhere in this issue. It is signed by trustee Willis Whisler. The report shows a total balance on January 1, 1965, of $21,063.37 with receipts of $43,953.02 and disbursements of $55,835.27 for a December 31 balance of $9,181.12.
right for passing of an oncoming car near a sharp-curve. In attempting to do so, she lost control, skidded to the extreme left and struck a tree. Miss Walters and her passenger were both taken to Goshen General hosjHtal for treatment. She sustained numerous lacerations to the head, face and right knee. Stiver received I a bump to the head and complained i a severe pain in the left leg. •I Ligonier state police investigatedr
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