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I NOTICE! I Turkey Creek township taxpayers who suffered property loss in last week's tornado and high winds may be eligible for survey and re-assessment of real and personal property partially or totally destroyed by the disaster. Such persons are urged to file a petition with the state board of commissioners for review. ALL PERSONS WHO QUALIFY ARE URGED TO CONTACT: I HARRY VAN HEMERT I I PHONE: 457-3224 I Now located in The House in the Village, between the I Ca Ivary Methodist Church and the Vi llage Hardware

planning coffee was held Tuesday at the Thomas Prickett home. V A bike-a-thon is tentatively in the planning said Terry, so watch for more on this. Adding insult to injury Wednesday was the pilferage of several places in the area hit in the evening tornado, including at the Blanche Mason house near the airport, less than 15 minutes after a portion of the roof was blown off. Close watch had to be made at the airport. as at tempts were also made there as big as backing a truck onto the premises and boldly walking toward damaged building and planes. While in most areas, nothing but praise was given for the numerous persons volunteering services in assisting those in need. Police chief Dale Sparklin and wife Melba even made coffee early Thursday and made the rounds for National Guard callees and other local volunteers and servicemen, while numerous homes were opened to those less fortunate. The big news in the Lakeland area during the past week was the tornado that swept through this area and did its fair share of destruction here. Hardest hit, of course, were Monticello, with an estimated 1100 million damages to the heart

of the city, and to Rochester, county seat of Fulton county. Smaller towns devastated by the tornado that struck without warning and came In a northeasterly path through the northern part of Indiana were Talma, southwest of Mentone, which was practically swept from the face of the earth, and tiny Larwill in the west part of Kosciusko county. It is in these small towns that our hearts go out, for much will never be rebuilt there. More nearly home, however, the tornado swept across Leesburg, doing inestimable damage to Larry Polk’s farm equipment center on road 15 south of town, and to Floyd Smith’s Leesburg Elevator along the Big Four railroad tracks. At Dewart Lake, the Leo Anglin bam went down, and a trailer court at Musquabuck Park was upturned. The two-year-old home of Wayne and Irene Bucher on Dewart Lake had part of the roof taken off and their pier and tall antenna were destroyed. As the storm proceeded in its path of destruction, it cut into the Syracuse area, south of town. Damage was done to farm buildings southwest of town, with the first damage noticed at the Sleepy Owl where a huge tree fell across the double-wide home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Harper, Owl owners. The Sleepy Owl, which suffered a January 22 fire and is being rebuilt, is located next to the damaged double-wide, but was not injured. As the storm gained its full force and fury, the wind and rain that fell on the area along with the swirling tornado funnel made driving impossible. No one realised the destruction the storm had wrought until it had cleared. The Dale Butt home on road 13 south of town was damaged. A garage was blown down and part of a back porch was torn off. Dale told friends, “I was so shocked all I could do was laugh." The storm crossed Lake Wawasee. dipping millions of gallons of water up and dumping it in the path of the storm. It reached land at the palatial Eli Lilly property, where it was reported 82 huge trees were felled. many of them laying across the metal fence that surrounds the property. Main buildings on the Lilly property were not damaged although a gazabo was blown down.

The storm toppled four huge trees on the Wawasee golf course, and many trees along Ogden Island were blown down and across the highway. The sound of power chain saws rent the air all day Thursday as volunteer workmen turned their shoulder to the task of clearing paths for vehicles. Many wood and metal fences along the Ogden Island road were damaged by falling trees. The small Wawasee Airport, owned and operated by Charlotte Kell, suffered an inestimable loss. Ten small airplanes on the ground, in hangers, were totally destroyed, including one owned by Mrs. Kell and one leased by her. Her private home had part of the roof torn off. Mrs. Kell was returning by auto from a trip when she heard about the Indiana storm on the radio, and was unable to reach her family by telephone until she had reached Indianapolis. She said this week she would rebuild the airport, although it would take time. The 15 hangers that were completely destroyed were her main source of income, so this will have first priority in rebuilding. She had one of her own planes in South Bend for inspection, so it escaped injury. She said. "I have every confidence everything will go OK.” From that point the storm went northeast and toppled huge semitrucks on road 6 before reaching Ligonier. At Ligonier trees were uprooted and farm buildings left in shambles in a path that went north of the city. The huge Monsanto plant had a wall cave in and part erf a roof was torn off the Sorg company. The Perry school north of Ligonier was badly hit. perhaps beyond repair. Credit is given custodian Jake Mast for his valiant effort in getting youngsters into a locker room, perhaps saving many lives. And the storm went to Topeka and north to the Sylvan Lake area near Angola, leaving in Its wake destruction that is beyond estimate at this point. • Valiant soldiers were volunteer workers. Governor Otis R. Bowen called out the National Guard to prevent looting in the devastated areas. Real soldiers were the utility men and telephone company repair crews that worked around the clock to restore service. The city of Warsaw, while not hit by the storm, was without power for several days. A miracle, one keeps hearing, is that there was not more personal injury, particularly in view of the fact the storm came on so suddenly and without much warning. Insurance adjusters were swarming over the devastated area in an effort to make on-the-spot accommodations wherever possible. Tom Gronendyck of North Webster, one such adjuster, said “it’s a real mess. We’ll be at least a year clearing up all the claims." US Senator Birch Bayh flew by army helicopter to Monticello, Rochester and Atwood Friday afternoon to personally witness the damage and to offer words of encouragement as far as federal disaster assistance is concerned. He said low cost loans would be offered by the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, and he bad with him Eugene E. Morath. Jr., of that department, to offer reassuring words of federal assistance.

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HUD is expected, to offer mobile homes to those without homes for one year, then offer the homes to those people at a reduced rate, he said. Senator Bayh said he introduced an amendment before leaving Washington asking an additional HOT million assistance to disaster victims, then learned on Friday that Monticello alone has. a loss of that much. On the lighter side, if one can interject such a note in face of the disaster, small boys with toy guns had their fun hiding behind trees in the Sleepy Owl area playing cops and robbers with armed National Guardsmen. In Ligonier “Mike" Hooker, wife of physician Don J. Hooker, said she and her husband were planning a poolside party and were planning some surprises, adding, “But this is ridiculous." Kathy Kell weathered the storm and woke up Thursday to her 18th birthday. Her aunt, Mrs. Tom Deßrular, employee at the Ligonier police barracks, had baked Kathy a birthday cake which was at the barracks. On a routine flight in a police helicopter, a thoughtful officer brought the cake to the airport and personally {resented it to startled Kathy... something of a first for her. There is an unending flow of personal accounts that anyone can hear by engaging in a conversation with almost anyone in the area, and they will be told and retold as long as the April 3, 1974 storm is a living memory. The Streakers finally got to Syracuse when two males with paper sacks over their heads made their entrance Saturday night at Merrill’s lounge at the south edge of Syracuse, and streaked through the establishment to the back door and out again. When being told of this, our reporter inquired if they wore tennis shoes and was informed by the lady telling of the incident, “I didn’t notice." Mildred and Ray Denzel of Papakeechie Lake have returned from a winter spent at Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Leonard Greer, owner of Greer’s House of Gems, said he is contemplating selling his uptown business due to his frustration over the parking meter problem. He claims the meters are driving business out of town faster than he can promote it, but that other merchants cannot see this, or refuse to commit themselves. (Note: Monday noon uptown merchants voted eight to nothing in favor of having the meters taken out.) ’ Don Frantz, county agent scheduled to retire May 1, has held a civil defense card for 25 years and only a week ago turned it in, thinking he’d have no further use for it. Then the tornado strack. He added, "It took some real talking to get into Atwood" to offer his services to that stricken community. Col. Joe Gray, GOP candidate for Turkey Creek township assessor, said he has no organization behind him in his campaign, “but that I will have plenty of help.” He has been on the plan commission since October INS, secretary for two years and president for six years. As the May 7 election approaches, there appears to be a real rhubarb developing between Democratic county chairman

Stanley Nice and sheriff Dave Andrews. Nice feels Andrews has not done enough for the party in developing a Democratic candidate for sheriff this time around. (Note: Andrews* deputies are Republicans, and Andrews, who originally asked his men to get behind one candidate from among the deputies, has seen a proliferation of candidates coming out. thus fragmenting the vote.) At Atwood, when U.S. Senator Birch Bayh appeared to view the damage on Friday, Nice whisk Bayh off in an open air convertible while sheriff Andrews was left waiting with the sheriff’s car on the ready. Andrews left the Atwood scene in disgust. Uptown merchants, up in arms about the “eager beaver" approach to parking meter enforcement. They think chief of police Dale Sparklin lacks compassion in his enforcement, and they further think the 81 fine is ridiculous. Then, to top this, chief Sparklin asked the town board last Tuesday night, “while you’re in the mood to spend money," to buy him a speed gun for $1,002.50. Many townsmen, and this writer figures prominent among this group, think Sparklin is too loose and fancy tree with his eagerness to dispense the little yellow tickets. And, moreover, a speed gun is outrageous. NO ONE WANTS Gestapo-like tactics in local law enforcement. The Syracuse town board showed eminent good judgment in tabling the request for a speed gun. Chet Elder of Elder Realty tells us his Rock Addition has had approval of the plan commission and town board and that work is beginning on clearing for streets, sewers and water. All necessary signatures have been obtained for the selling of deeds on the 23 lots, many of them lakefront. There is a dwindling number of lakefront lots available on either Syracuse Lake, where the Rock Addition is located, or Lake Wawasee, incidentally. Now comes the tale of a woman streaker in a business establishment in North Webster over the week end, but it seems this streaker was known by many. Hmmm! Don’t forget the bake sale Saturday in the Village byStoe business women’s club! A sunny 31 degrees this morning said the weatherman and going into the 50’s, 70’s tomorrow with thundershowers scheduled Parked car is damaged Syracuse police received a report at 5:45 p.m. Friday of a parked 1964 Corvette belonging to Michael Smith of Corvettes, Inc., West Chicago street, Syracuse, being hit by an unknown vehicle. The auto was parked in the upper parking lot at Syracuse, one block north of Main, and damage was set at S3OO. Vandalism reported to machinery in parking lot Approximately S2OO in damage was reported to authorities when a fork lift in the upper parking lot at Syracuse, and being used in construction work at the new telephone company building, was damaged over the week end.

FOOD AND CLOTHING AVAILABLE TO TORNADO VICTIMS Persons who are victims of the recent tornado are advised that considerable food and dlothing has been turned in to the Syracuse American Legion hall for local distribution. Anyone who considers themselves eligible for emergency food or clothing is asked to come to the Legion hall and make their desires known.

Items stolen from cottage Virgil Reynolds of r 3 Syracuse reported to the sheriff's department this week that his cottage on Dewart Lake, which had sustained considerable damage in the Wednesday night tornado last week, had been entered and a number of items stolen. Included in the missing items were a 19-inch Sylvania television set, a slalom ski, two pair of concave skies and three ski jackets. Pellet penetrates home window Sunday Syracuse police were called to investigate a hole through a front window at the Ed Sims home on Huntington road at Syracuse around 12:10 p.m. Sunday. A spokesman reported a car had just passed the home when the sound of glass was heard and the hole in the window discovered. Damage was set at SSO. CREW COUNT A total of 41 astronauts was involved in the 30 space flights in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s manned program which began with Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight in May, 1961, through the final Sky lab mission which splashed down in the Pacific on Feb. 8. — CNS

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