The Mail-Journal, Volume 10, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 18 July 1973 — Page 3

AROUND :;®IR' After all is said and deme, there’s more said than done. — Anon If you live around the greater Lakeland area you certainly must feel the crunch of street fairs, sidewalk days, festivals, Pioneer days, et cetera. This can only mean we’re living in a thriving, throbbing area, and we wouldn’t want it any other way. Take, for example, the real biggie: the now-famous Mermaid Festival at North Webster. That event which literally attracts 10s of thousands to the area from all over the mid-west, just completed one of its most successful. Surely the Festival would head the list. Then comes Sidewalk Days in various “towns, including Wakarusa and Goshen this past week end with Ligonier having a similar community promotion scheduled for August. Leesburg Days were a week ago, and of course the Bremen

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firemen's whing-dlng drew its native son, Gov. Otis Bowen, as a parade attraction. Nappanee is slated for Sidewalk Days this week end. Two big fairs are ahead of us,. which are always big attractions — the Kosciusko county 4-H fair and the Elkhart county 4-11 and Agricultural Exposition. The Elkhart county event comes first, earmarked foi* July 30-Aug. 4, followed by the free Kosciusko county fair a I week later, Aug. 6-11. They are both always real biggies. Incidentally, the Elkhart county event marks its 100th year with this year’s fair, and Special medallions are being sold in limited quantity of a Centennial Seal, struck by Tan Wilder of Goshen in an open contest. To do the job what folks in this area call "the Goshen fair" has set up a communications center for reporters and photographers for the area news media. This is a real first. Well, it all just about inundates us here, trying to give sufflcient support and promotion to all these Lakeland promotional activities. But it looks like we like it. There are plenty of jobs open in trailer factories driving nails, but we don't seem to be rushing to make any applications. Rev. Marvin Jones, the redhaired kindly pastor of the Saint

Andrews United Methodist church in Syracuse, and Rev. Ross Cook, pastor of the Calvary EUB United Methodist church in Wawasee Village are the best of friends, seen often drinking coffee about town and swapping tales of the cloth. Jones kiddingly calls Cook “our Village competition." Bob Heche, former mayor of Salinas, Ohio, comes up with some real goodies. Now he’s wearing a dark sweat shirt with the following inscribed in large white letters: Sin City, Salinas, Ohio. “I just wouldn’t dare wear this back in Salinas," he admits. Merrill Norris is doing a real fine job with his new Merrill’s Cocktail Lounge on the Pickwick road. Incidentally, across the road from Merrill’s is the new Hook's Drug store, to open in from four to six weeks, and just east of that a foundation is being readied for a 100 x 100 foot building. We hear it's to be a large Ben Franklin store. Who among you knew movie acta* James Gamer’s real name is Baumgartner and that he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian. That’s what one learhs by watching the late Johnny Carson show. Seen in Ligonier on Friday, the 13th: A man joking with passersby about his lack of superstition, and to prove it he walked under a large aluminum ladder propped up against the Banner drug store. What he didn’t see was an unattended bucket of paint teetering from the top rung of the ladder. Recently Nancy Searfoss found a balloon in the side yard of her Syracuse Lake home which left the Immanuel Christian Reformed Bible School at Oak Lawn, 111. It was sent up June 29th by Sandy Jankowski, a fourth grader. The card on the balloon said, "If finder sends back name and address, as a token of appreciation, he or she will be sent a note, with the card from the greatest distance receiving a special prize." If you want to join the "Windows For Wawasee” select group, here’s your chance. Wawasee Prep hopes to install 180 new windows as part of their remodeling program, and they are seeking donors. At SIOO per window, all you have to do is contact Col. Joe Gray. Pete Luttman, former owner of Gambles in Syracuse, is back in business, according to a letter he’s sending out to old customers. He’s planning to open in a new location soon, but is keeping it a secret fa* the time being. The Claypool Centennial really put it all together. They had a real old fashioned celebration, feeding 1,200 at the Friday night

fish fry and 1,500 at the Saturday chicken barbecue. In all there were 118 units in the two-hour parade that extended a mile through the south central Kosciusko county town. Attending a Rotary meeting is no place for anyone on a diet. Ginny Peters and her flock at Maxwelton golf club house know how to feed a bunch of hungry Rotarians, calories and all. Board Now 5— (Continued From Page 1) Republican Central Committtee’s recommendation. After both men had been accepted by the board they were sworn in by Frey and took their seats on the board. Frey asked if the board wished to select a president at that time or if the members wished him to ci*itinue to chair the meeting, giving them time to re-organize. Frey was asked to serve as chairman for the remainder of the meeting. 1 Board member Darrell Grisamer reported the street lights at Fourth street and Harrison court had been installed and are working. Permission was granted the clerk-treasurer to transfer $75 from the plan commission’s contractual fund to printing and advertising. Col. Joe Gray asked if anything had been done about appropriating money to pay for printing of the new zoning ordinances. Clerk-treasurer Mrs. Betty Dust said there were no unappropriated funds available for the books at this time. Mrs. Dust told the board the town had received $63,256.63 in the June tax draw. Os this amount $3,518.70 went to the cumulative fire fund, $37,687.40 to the general fund and $22,050.53 to the street fund. See also asked permission to transfer the $6,000 borrowed earlier from the general fund for the street fund back to the general fund. Permission was granted. Persons present asked what the money just received would be used for and were told it was money to operate the town on for the next several months. Law Suit Attorney Frey told board members he had seen a copy of a law suit which is to be filed against the board of zoning appeals by Lowell and Bellmont Pinney asking for the reinstatement of their building permit for the proposed eightunit apartment on Front street. The permit was revoked at a recent meeting of the board. Frey told the board his law firm would have a conflict of interest in the suit and the town would have to find another attorney for this suit. He recommended the board take action on finding an attorney as soon as possible since it would only have 20 days after the suit is filed to make an appearance. If an appearance is not made the town could lose the suit by default. Joe Hughes also commented on the fact he thought if the members of the board of zoning appeals had to go to court he felt the town should reimburse the members for time lost from their jobs since they served on the appeals board without receiving wages or salary. Noble Blocker asked the board to appoint someone to replace him on the scout cabin board. Haffner was named to succeed him. Discussions were held on replacing members who are no longer on the plan commission. Town board members asked for a list of those to be replaced on both the plan commission and the board of zoning appeals. Town Manager? Board member Tom Prickett asked what the town was going to do about a building commissioner. Hughes thought a fulltime commissioner should be hired with a proper wage being paid. Mrs. Dust said the plan commission has not been on the tax rate up to this time and a fulltime commissioner would have to be put into the budget. She also commented on the fact the tax rate has been frozen. Hughes and Col. Gray asked manager who could serve as building commissioner with

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Father Robert Rossi new Prior at Wawasee Prep

The Crosier community at Wawasee has elected Father Robert Rossi as their new prior at a community meeting on Monday, July 16. The former prior, Father David Suelzer, had resigned on June 25 to take up a counseling position at the Marathon County Health Care center in Wausaw, Wisconsin. Father Rossi comes from Braddock, Pa., (near Pittsburgh) where he was born on May 17, 1942 and where his mother, Teresa, is still living. Father Rossi has three brothers and three sisters. His father, Nick, is deceased. As a child he attended the North Braddock-grade school. ' Attended Seminary As a teenager Father Rossi attended Our Lady of the Lake Seminary (now called Wawasee Prep school) for four years of high school and two years of college from 1956 to 1962. He graduated as valedictorian of his class. In August of 1962 Father Rossi entered the Crosier Novitate in Hastings, Nebraska for his oneyear formation program to enter the Crosier Order. He went on to finish his last two years of college at the Crosier House of Studies in Fort Wayne from 1963-65, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. From 1965-1970 Father Rossi completed his four years of graduate studies in theology at the Crosier House .of Studies, graduating with an STB (Bachelor of Sacred Theology) degree through the Catholic university of Washington, D.C., with one year off in 1967-68 to teach theology at the Archbishop Stepinac high school in White Plains, N.Y. During the summer of 1966 Father Rossi attended the Javeriana university in Bogota, Columbia as part of a student cultural exchange program set up by St. Francis College of Fort Wayne. In August of 1966 he took his solemn vows into the Crosier Order. During the 1968-69 school year Father Rossi taught parttime at Wawasee Prep school, commuting back and forth from about the township funds since much of the building commissioners work is done there. They were told the township rate is also frozen. The use of revenue sharing funds for this purpose was questioned. Mrs. Dust said the government has recommended no funds be used for projects which will carry on after the five year period for the providing of the funds. At this point Col. Gray said he thought if the town was going to become a city in the future this would be a good time to work toward a city manager who could also serve as building commissioner. Much discussion followed on the possibilities of a town board members agreeing something should be done as soon as possible to get things started in the right direction. Board member Charles Haffner suggested as a first step the town contact one of the universities to see if there was any information available on ways to set up such a program. This is to be done. Charles Leary of the Leary Construction Co., Inc., of Greenfield was present and asked the board to sign a contract for the painting of one of the town’s standpipes. He said the last time the work was done was in 1967. Leary’s contract price was for $1,680 for the painting and cleaning of the tank with repairs, if needed, being extra. Since water commissioner Harley Conrad was not present at the meeting board members held the contract that they might talk with him before having the work done. Wilbur Smith asked about furnishing copies of building permits to the township free of charge since Harry VanHemert was charging the plan commission 50 cents for each copy. Frey said he would discuss this with the board after the meeting. With this action the meeting adjourned.

Fort Wayne. Ordained in 1970 Father Bob Rossi was ordained a priest on May 31,1970. His three years of ministry to date have been at the Crosier Seminary at Onamia, Minnesota where he has been a teacher of religion and a spiritual counselor to the seminarians. In September, 1971 Father Rossi was appointed Spiritual Director of Crosier

State Bank Na. 305 CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF STATE BANK OF SYRACUSE OF SYRACUSE IN THE STATE OF INDIANA AND DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARIES AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON JUNE 30, 1973 ASSETS Cash and due from banks (including $ none unposted debits) $ 804,561.03 U. S. Treasury securities 1,957,800.00 Obligations of other U. S. Government agencies and corporations 200,000.00 Obligations of States and political subdivisions .. 2,403,384.13 Other securities (including $ None corporate stocks) ... None Trading account securities 1 None Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell . None Other loans . . 14,650,686.11 Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and ■ other assets representing bank premises .... 24(2,782.04 Real estate owned other than bank premises ... 77,679.41 Investments in subsidiaries not consolidated .... None Customer’s liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding None Other assets 103,845.85 TOTAL. ASSETS $20,440,738.57 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations $ 4,164,279.17 Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations *. 11,775,818.62 Deposits of United States Government 220,915.69 Deposits of States and political subdivisions ... 1,066,053.90 Deposits of foreign governments and official institutions None Deposits of commercial banks None Certified and officers’ checks, etc 164,759.71 TOTAL DEPOSITS $17,391,827.09 x x x x x (a) Total demand deposist $ 5,189,947.37 x x x x x (b) Total time and savings deposits $12,201,879.72 x x x x x Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase 1,250,000.00 Other liabilities for borrowed money .......... None Mortgage indebtedness None Acceptances executed by or for account of this bank and outstanding None Other liabilities 335,495.36 TOTAL LIABILITIES $18,977,322.45 MINORITY INTEREST IN CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARIES None RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES Reserve for bad debt losses on loans (set up pursuant to Internal Revenue Service rulings) .... 135,732.98 Other reserves on loans None Reserves on securities None TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES > ... $135,732.98 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital notes and debentures $ 50,000.00 Equity capital, total 1,277,683.14 Preferred stock — total par value None (No. shares outstanding $ None) Common stock-total par value SIO.OO ; 191,100.00 (No. shares authorized 19,110) (No. shares outstanding 19,110) Surplus 650,000.00 Undivided profits 401,583.14 Reserve for contingencies and other capital reserves 35,000.00 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS , $ 1,327,683.14 TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $20,440,738.57 MEMORANDA Average of total deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call date $17,623,136.06 Average of total loans for the 15 calendar days ending with call date 14,525,966.13 Unearned discount on installment loans included in total capital accounts None I, Robert L. Jones, President, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that this report of condition is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. Correct —Attest: ROBERT L. JONES THOMAS TUTTLE Directors WILLIAM H. CABLE CHARLES M. HARRIS PAUL A. LEVERNIER GAYLORD E. JONES i CARL R. TUTTLE II KENNETH W. HARKLESS (SEAL) State of Indiana, County of Kosciusko, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of July, 1973, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank. My commission expires June 4, 1977. JOANN HOUSER, Notary Public

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Seminary and College Chaplain of the Crosier Junior college. He is presently pursuing a 5-summer program in religious studies toward a MA degree at St. Louis university. Two years remain in this degree program for the new prior. Father Rossi’s main pastoral experiences have been as a week end parish assistant. He has also given lay adult retreats, conducted CCD programs and has participated in adult education programs. One of Father Rossi’s personal

interests is Yoga, which he practices daily. He has also been interested in working with minorities. His experience so far has been with Spanish migrant workers and with the American Indians. Father Bob Rossi will arrive at Wawasee Prep by August 1 to take up the duties of being prior to the Crosier Community. Installation ceremonies took place today (Wednesday) July 18th at 8 p.m. when Father Rossi made a brief visit to his new religious community.

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