The Mail-Journal, Volume 10, Number 40, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 October 1973 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., Oct. 31,1973

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8 « n S E a BI.L-U MnUlUßnßraiWH ■Hn ~ C7 ~t* -< ‘ •*' '* * ' WAWASEE PREP ADDITION — A major part of the expansion and remodeling of Wawasee Preparatory school on Lake Wawasee is the building of the expansive addition on the front, shown here. According to Joe Gray, spokesman for the school, the addition seen here will cost approximately 1175,000. The large building has been refinished on the exterior and the roof mansard, and all new windows have been put in, with funds raised through a Windows for Wawasee campaign. According to Gray, the entire refurbishing program costs between $325,000 and $350,000.

1 YEAR AGO, NOV. 1,1972 Rev. Robert Mundy of Syracuse has accepted the pastorage of the Kossuth Street Baptist church in Lafayette and will be taking over his new responsibilities on the first Sunday of 1973. James David Pifer, 27, r 3 Syracuse, became the county’s 20th traffic fatality last Friday morning when his car left state road 15 about one-half mile south of Milford and slammed into two trees on the Robert Kaiser property. The churches of the Syracuse Ministerial association will conduct a Thanksgiving unity service at Calvary United Methodist church on Wednesday evening. Bruce L. Cable, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cable of r 2 Syracuse, has been issued his

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certified public accountant certificate by the California State Board of Accounting. Law enforcement agencies arrested three area men and a 17-year-old North Webster girl in a drug raid early Saturday morning on Lake Wawasee’s south side, confiscating more than S6OO worth of drugs and equipment. The Syracuse town board of trustees held a called meeting at town hall Wednesday evening for the purpose of pressing town matters prior to the regular meeting scheduled for the third Tuesday in November. 5 YEARS AGO, OCT. 30,1968 New schedules for the four Baltimore and Ohio railroad passenger trains serving Syracuse became effective Sunday. Terry L. Ryman is on 3-week

leave from Fort Gordon, Ga. Obits: Mrs. Herman (Ruth) Huey, 62; and Rev. Clarence Bitzer, 71. Lt. Thomas N. Cramer has been assigned to the United States Air Force satellite center at Sunnyvale, Calif. Prof. William S. Benninghoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. William N. Benninghoff of Morrison Island, is visiting the Antarctic continent. Miss Sandi Lee Fick became the bride of David Lee Ulery on October 19 in Calvary United Methodist church. George E. Manis, Thomas M. Tuttle and Carl R. Tuttle II have been elected to the board of directors of the State Bank of Syracuse. 10 YEARS AGO, NOV. 1,1963 According to an announcement from Jack Elam and Frank Nyikos, the Syracuse-Turkey Creek United Fund drive topped the anticipated mark this week. Turkey Creek township will soon have a fire truck for the express purpose of fighting grass fires within the township. The Stiefel Feed Company was sold October 31 to VyLactos Laboratories of Des Moines, lowa, and will manufacture dry molasses feed for cattle. The Syracuse legion will hold a flag burning ceremony on Veterans Day. The possibility of having a drum-bugle corps sponsored jointly by sons of Legion and the Syracuse post, is being looked into. Miss Shirley Jean Yoder and Robert William Lusk were united in marriage October 26 in the Syracuse Methodist church. 20 YEARS AGO, OCT. 31,1953 Roscoe Mathews has been employed to operate the service department of Syracuse Auto Sales, according to an announcement by Fred Hoopingamer, owner. Mrs. E. T. Anderson left today by plane for Warsaw, Poland to rejoin her husband who is a member of the American embassy staff. William Jones, Jr., lake resident, fell this week while painting the exterior of his home, resulting in a wrist fracture and a minor head injury. Delayed, due to lack of sufficient labor, laying of the cinder blocks for the new post office, got underway yesterday. Ed Blocker has been elected president of the senior class at Indiana university. Installation of new booths has been completed in the Dixie restaurant, replacing those damaged when an auto collided with the firm’s plate glass window on September 22. 45 YEARS AGO, NOV. 1,1928 The Syracuse Dry Cleaning establishment is now open for business under the management of M. E. Mullett of Nappanee with Mrs. D. L. Gibson in charge of the place. The Willing Workers Sunday School class of the Church of God held its monthly meeting on Monday night with a backwards party at the home of Miss Esther Long. Dr. B. F. Hoy underwent an operation for gallstones at the hospital at Winnetka, 81., on Saturday. Voting for the November 6 election will be held as follows: First precinct, library basement; second precinct, James B. Traster home; and third, Alex Makane property. The Turkey Creek township Sunday school convention will be held on November 4 at Grace Lutheran church.

THE EDITOR

Minutes of May 3 meeting

Dear Mr. Editor: So many people have called inquiring about the May 3 town board meeting, the only minutes of which have not been published that pertain to our problem with the board of zoning appeals that I’d like you to publish them. And I’d like to explain the fiasco with the board of zoning appeals. The minutes are as follows: "A special meeting of the board of town trustees of the town of Syracuse, Indiana, was held at the town hall in Syracuse, Indiana, on the 3d day of AAay, 1973, at B:4S o'clock p.m. All members of the board were present in person, such members consisting of Louis M. Kullema, Noble C. Blocker, Thomas Prickett and Darrel Grlsamer. Also present was Betty Dust, clerktreasurer, and town attorney, Bruce M. Frey. Additional persons in attendance at the meeting were the following members of the Syracuse town plan commission: Wilbur Smith, Joseph Gray, Joe Hughes, Maurice Crow, William Beemer, BUI Plpp, Donald Niles and Charles Miller. Additional persons present were Robert Reed, attorney, who was substituting for attorney Frey until he could attend this meeting, and Bill Peters and G. S. Harbison, town residents of Front St. Other persons In attendance were attorney Phillip E. Gutman representing Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Plnney, and Don Runge, building contractor for Mr. and Mrs. Plnney. "The meeting was called to order by Louis M. Kullema, president of the board of town trustees, who acted as chairman of the meeting. Betty Dust, clerk-treasurer, took and recorded the minutes of the meeting. "The president stated that the meeting had been called for the purpose of discussing and attempting to resolve a problem concerning a location improvement permit which had been issued to B. R. and Lola Plnney for construction of a group house of lots numbered 138,141 and 144 in Strombeck and Weaver's Second Addition to the town of Syracuse. It was Indicated that said permit had been issued by the building commissioner of Syracuse, and that thereafter such Improvement permit had been temporarily suspended by the board of town trustees by its action taken in Its meeting held on Tuesday evening, May 1, 1973 and that the board now considered said permit to be temporarily suspended. "Considerable discussion thereafter ensued concerning such permit and a careful examination of the requirements for a group house as set forth in the zoning ordinance was made. At the conclusion of such discussion, attorney Gutman stated that his clients, Mr. and Mrs. Plnney, only wanted to undertake a prelect that would be in the best interests of the Syracuse community and had no desire to be any party to the creation of problems, and that they firmly believe that they had at all times proceeded in the utmost good faith in applying for and obtaining the permit now Issued to them, however, that in the further interests of maintaining a harmonious relationship with all persons concerned with the location improvement permit now being discussed, Mr. and Mrs. Pinney were willing to stipulate with the board of town trustees that they would be willing to construct a group house containing not more than eight (8) family units on the above described real estate, and providing on said real estate at least one and one-half vehicle parking spaces for each family housed in said group house, with the understanding that such group house would also be in compliance with all other terms and provisions of the zoning ordinance of Syracuse provided the board of town trustees would withdraw Its suspension of said improvement permit. "The president indicated that he believed the aforesaid offer and stipulation presented by attorney Gutman on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Pinney was a good faith effort In resolving the problem and provided substantial compliance with the requirements of the zoning ordinance. At this point the president requested an Indication from the members of the plan commission as to their willingness to accept the aforesaid offer and stipulation for the purpose of guiding and assisting the board of town trustees In acting thereon. All members of the plan commission unanimously approved the acceptance of the aforesaid offer and stipulation as presented by Mr. Gutman and additionally both Mr. Peters and Mr. Harbison stated that they felt the proposal was acceptable and indicated their willingness to agree to same on behalf of the residents of the Front street area whom they were representing. "Thereupon, a motion was made by Noble C. Blocker, and seconded by Tom Prickett, and the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "BE IT RESOLVED: that the temporary suspension of the location improvement permit previously issued to B. R. and Lola Pinney for construction of a group house Io be contructed on Lots Numbered 138, 141, and 144 in Strombeck and Weaver's second addition to the town of Syracuse, Kosciusko county, Indiana, heretofore issued by building commissioner of the town of Syracuse, and thereafter temporarily suspended by this board of town trustees at Its meeting held on Tuesday, AAay 1, 1973, be and the same is hereby withdrawn and set aside, and said temporary suspension of said permit shall be of no further force and effect."

Also noticed errors

Dear Editor: In regard to the letter appearing in the October 24, 1973 issue of The Mail-Journal written by Lola Pinney, I would like to state that I too noticed there was an error. The suit is against the Board of Zoning Appeals not the town board. I, however, did not consider it a lie as a lie is usually intent to deceive and as there is no reason in the world to do such a thing, i| this instance, I do not believe it was your intent. The best of people make mistakes and if there had not been a number of mistakes made and the Board of Zoning Appeals had not tried to correct them this law suit would have never been instigated. What amazes me is that Mrs. Pinney can recall that you have “repeatedly published lies” concerning her problem with the Board of Zoning Appeals and that the May 3,1973 meeting has been

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"BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED: that the action set forth and approved in this resolution shall bring about a substantial compliance with the terms and provisions of the zoning ordinance of the town of Syracuse." The problem was legally solved at that meeting. As to the board of zoning appeals, quote from the published zoning ordinance book, page 7, “Composition and Appointment”. The board shall be composed of six (6) members, (5) of whom shall be residents of the town of Syracuse, and one of whom shall reside in the jurisdictional area outside of the town and none of whom shall hold other elective or appointive office, except that two (2) of the six (6) members shall be appointed from the town plan commission’s citizen membership.” At the June 18 meeting where the board of zoning appeals reportedly revoked our permit for 8 units, there were five members present, Joe Hughes, r 1; William Pipp, 806 S. Front St.; Charles Miller, r 1; William Coburn, 430 Dolan Dr. and Donald Niles, 319 E. Boston St. Three lived in Syracuse, two did not. Out of the five members four are also members of the planning commission. Here are two types of violations of the zoning ordinance. Further one of the five members is not only on the planning commission and a membier of the zoning appeals board, but he along with his wife belong to the Ad Hoc Group. The law calls this sort of collusion less-than-arms-length. In all fairness this member should have abstained in voting on this issue. Just as the correspondent who wrote all or most of the articles for the daily papers should have held her pen as she is the wife of the president of the planning commission. Isn’t it ironic that the very people who have done so much for this community should be so viciously attacked in public and in the press. People who for 15 years have been rehabilitating the slums of Syracuse, brought the first luxury rentals to town, given hundreds of jobs to townspeople and spent thousands of dollars that has helped businesses. People who have subsidized families in financial need, including the elderly people who lived at 807 Front St. until his death and have backed worthy business ventures. I have been a charter board member and secretary-treasurer of the Syracuse Community Development Corporation since its inception. Further, we have in our future plans to build a much needed medical center and a retirement community for elderly people on social security. And there is more. We are people who certainly don’t deserve to have their reputation irrevocably damaged by lies told in public meetings and written in the press for trying to build something beautiful in a rundown area. Sincerely, Lola Pinney

labeled “time and time again” a secret meeting. Under oath, on the witness stand, she seemed vague and unable to recall much that had appeared in the newspapers regarding the case. Under questioning by attorney Kiley she stated she only occasionally read the Warsaw Times and that her subscription to The Mail-Journal had expired. As to the May 3, 1973 meeting when the town board and plan commission unanimously granted the eight apartment permit, this permit was granted only after the Pinney’s attorney had assured them that there was sufficient ground available for 7% apartments and that if a variance of Vi was given to permit the* building of eight apartments it would be done in compliance with all zoning regulations. As Mrs. Pinney states in her letter that the minutes of said

meeting, “are duly recorded in the Kosciusko County Court”, I am sure they must be. Slie certainly verified her facts before submitting the letter for publication, therefore it should be a relatively easy matter for Mrs. Pinney or any other interested party to check on whether or not her attorney did so stipulate. It is also very easy to check and see if this stipulation has been followed. The foundation is in with utter disregard as to set backs required by the zoning laws. A survey by a licensed surveyor reveals there is not enough ground available for building 7% apartments but only for six. It would be a good idea for any one interested in this controversy to read up on our zoning laws. ONLY the board of zoning appeals may grant a variance. The building commissioner, town board or plan commission, singly or collectively does not have this power. This whole situation is a “comedy of errors”, the building commissioner issued an illegal permit for 12 apartments, because of this he was suspended. The town board then appointed themselves temporary building commissioner and then proceeded to issue another illegal building permit but on a smaller scale for eight apartments. The Pinneys were in error for even applying for a permit without first ascertaining they had ground enough available for such a structure. The residents of the area are now paying for all these mistakes and errors. Attorney fees and even the survey of the land was paid for by these bystanders because they wanted to protect their homes. Is This Fair? Eleanor B. Pipp Cited in Goshen following accident Randy D. Strieby, 22, r 3 Syracuse, was cited by Goshen police for disregarding an automatic signal following a two car accident at* Main and Jefferson streets in Goshen at 9:59 Saturday night. Police said Strieby’s 1968 Chevrolet drove through the intersection striking a 1968 Plymouth driven by Frederick Suffern, 22, of the Hattie hotel, Goshen. Damages were set at S7OO.

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SAE holds - (continued from page 1) Kim Shipley was crowned queen after bringing down the house and capturing the laughter of the judges with her answer to the question: Should ghosts own laundermats? Her answer was, “Why not, Nixon can be president, can’t he?” Runners-up in the contest were: Cindy Hyndman, first; Debbie Miller, second; Lynn Helvey, third; and Roz Long, fourth. Crowning of the queen was by Becky Hinderer, last year’s queen. The SAE sponsored and organized SWAP day as its project last Thursday, for National Education week. Members served as guides for the day and provided breakfast for the teachers prior to school. The day was termed a success as many parents, relatives and interested adults participated, fighting lockers, getting lost and doing their best not to flunk out of class in only one day. SADAT ELECTED Anwar Sadat was elected president of the United Arab Republic in national elections on Oct. 15, 1970. LEGALS NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the Board of County Commissioners of Kosciusko County, Indiana, will from this date until November 13,1973, at 2:30 E.S.T., receive sealed bids on the following. (1) KCB-106: Replace existing bridge structure across the Tippecanoe River located on County road 125 N, two tenths of a mile west of county road 875 W. Remove existing structure, construct new

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three span structure, approaches end miscellaneous Items. (1) SION AND GINBWAL STORAOB BUILDING: Furnish all material and labor to construct an all steel, pre engineered building 70' x 200' Building to be constructed at county road 300E and Old road 30. Detailed plans, proposal and specifications are on file at the County Highway Department, county road 300E and old road 30E. R. R. No. 1, Warsaw, Indiana. Bids must be filed In the County Auditor'* Office on Form No. 96 proposal form and accompanied by bld bond or certified check for 10 per cent of bid. The Commissioners reserve the right to relect any or all blds. Lawrence Butts Auditor of Kosciusko County, Indiana 0.31-N.7 NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Turkey Creek Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana, that the Advisory Board of said Township at the Town Hall of Syracuse, Indiana, at 7:30 o'clock P.M. on the 14th day of November, 1973, will consider the following additional appropriations which said officer* consider necessary to meet the extraordinary emergency existing at this time. Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Fund: An additional appropriation of *25,000 to provide for the rental and purchase of a new semitractor truck for the Turkey Creek Township Fire Department. Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have a right to be heard thereon. The additional appropriations as finally made will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, which Board will hold a further hearing within fifteen (15) days at the County Auditor's Office of Kosciusko County, Indiana, or at such other place as may be designated. At such hearing taxpayers oblecting to any of such additional appropriations may be heard and interested taxpayers may Inquire of the County Auditor when and where such hearing will be held. Joseph Shewmon Township Trustee 0.31-N.7

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