The Mail-Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 January 1975 — Page 12
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., Jan. 1,1975
B The Column B A Sideshow Os Events In Milford
WE FOUND the following in the Akron-Mentone News and thought it worth passing on as we thought of Our Town when we read through it. A Little Town A little town is where you don't have to guess who your enemies are. Your friends will tell you. A little town b the only place on earth where people past middle age are called by their first names when they saunter down the street. A little town is where everybody knows everybody else's car by si«*M — and also where and when it goes. A little town is where few people can get away with lying about the year they were born. Too many other people can remember. A little town is where people with various ailments can air them properly to sympathetic ears A little town is where, when you get the wrong number, you can
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talk for 15 minutes anyhow. A little town is where the ratio of good people to bad people is something like 100 to 1. That’s nice to remember. A little town is where businessmen straggle for survival against city stores and shopping centers. A little town is where those same businessmen dig deep many times to help with countless fund-raising projects. A little town is where it's nice to be when rearing a family. A little town is where you don't have to lock your door every time you leave the house. AS OF today Van Buren township has a new trustee! He is Walter Wuthrich who lives in Our Town with his wife Martha. The Wuthrichs are well known by moat area folks and .the new trustee is ready to serve area residents. last official act of the immediate past trustee Maurice Beer was to present a check in
the amount of $3,000 to the emergency fund for needed equipment. The money was an excess from a fire truck purchased in 1971 and had to be cleared by the state before it could be used by the MET’s. SEE THE emergency vehicle report elsewhere in this paper. The technicians who are serving the community receive no compensation for their work. Since the community has been so generous in helping the program the MET’s thought it fitting and proper that a year end financial report be made. Milford police report arrests Milford town marshal Don Drake reports his department made three arrests over the past week end. They follow: Terry D. Marchand. 23, New Carlisle, was arrested at 2:30 am. Sunday on a charge of failing to appear and was lodged in the Kosciusko county jail at Warsaw. On Monday afternoon he appeared and was fined $52 for (hiving while suspended. $52 for unsafe vehicle. $52 for improper registration. $49 for failure to appear and $49 for contributing to the delinquency of a minor He was returned to the county jail for nonpayment of fine. Fred Hernandez. 32. Milford hotel, was arrested and appeared before justice of the peace Jim Brooks where he was assessed $34 for assault and battery. Ginaro C. Reynoso, 26. 156 W. Lincoln. Nappanee, was arrested for improper registration and no operator's license LAKELAND LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Moneyheffer and daughter. Sue. returned Sunday night to their home in Milford from Livingston. Mont., where they spent the Christmas holiday with another daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Henry (Linda) Miller and three daughters in that city. While there, they were abler to see portions of Yellowstone National park in its winter beauty. Burns Van Sickle, a former Syracuse resident and now of Leesburg, Fla., spent the Christmas holiday at Syracuse with family and friends, and left Saturday for his Florida home.
What others are saying — Showdown at Wawasee
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The population explosion around Lake Wawasee is becoming a major concern of residents of the lake area, and an 8-2 decision of the Indiana Natural Resources Commission against a housing development on Lake Wawasee's north shore in its present form, is welcomed. The last thing Lake Wawasee needs is more development. The state’s largest natural body of water already is ringed with vacation cottages and residences, and is so popular for recreational pursuits it almost has reached the point of saturation. So the Indiana Natural Resources Commission wisely voted 8-2 to reject a housing development for Wawasee’s north shore that would have “ increased the area’s density. The scheme, presented to the commission by Senate President Pro Tern Phillip E. Gutman, RFort Wayne, would have sliced 372 acres at the north end of Johnson’s Bay into residential lots and condominium sites capable of accommodating 350 families. Existing channels to the lake would have been widened to 100 feet and deepened to 10 feet. Sen. Gutman’s participation in this effort is disappointing for a couple of reasons. For one, he must be fully aware of the environmental concerns that led former Rep. Jack K. Dunifon. RFort Wayne, to introduce successful legislation setting some very rigid standards for lakeshore development. He also must realize the legislation was prompted by a proposed residential development at Lake James that would have linked a 17-acre boat basin to the lake by an artificial channel. The Natural Resources Commission first approved, then denied the Lake James plan after it became obvious the project would do irreparable harm to surrounding wetlands. “We just can’t have our lakes chewed up,’’ the commission chairman remarked at that time. That’s when the commission established a policy against approving “conceptual’’ plans that didn’t include supporting detail on the environmental impact. Yet Sen. Gutman was before that same commission last week asking its members to do just that. The commission refused to change its policy but did grant an “exception.” Fortunately the commission rejected the plans anyway. It did, however, stipulate the developer — Donald G. Byrd, golf pro at the Wawasee Golf and Country Club — could revise his plans and try again.
In a fine editorial that voices the opinion of many lake area residents. The Journal-Gazette of Fort Wayne said, "What happens at Wawasee may be a precursor of the direction of land-use planning in Indiana.” We reprint the entire editorial — "Showdown at Wawasee” — to our readers.) What happens at Wawasee may be the precursor of the direction for land-use planning in Indiana. 1 ' The second reason for dismay over Sen. Gutman’s participation in the case is even more obvious. It’s difficult to understand how the president of the Senate can represent a private developer in a controversial project such as this and remain unswayed on natural resource issues of similar nature before the General Assembly. The public interest fortunately is being guarded at Wawasee by the 400-member Wawasee Property Owners Association, which from the beginning has recognized the danger of a population at Johnson’s Bay. The organization’s board of directors went on record last spring “opposing all developments that will encroach on the wetlands and other natural areas’’ at the lake, either by construction of access channels or alteration of the shoreline. Granting “conceptual” approval of apy development specifically was condemned. The still existing threat to Wawasee isn’t a concern of the property owners alone. The same crowding of recreation areas and runaway development of suburban and rural areas is a common cancer on the landscape. What happens at Wawasee may be a precursor of the direction 9 for land-use planning in Indiana. Without effective state or national regulation, it will be up to a united citizenry to insure the preservation and wise use of the Hoosier land and lake heritage.
Reports theft of gun
Dennis Pinkerton, r 2 Milford, reported to county police last week that someone had taken a 22 caliber revolver from under the seat of his truck. The theft occurred sometime last week.
County police Sgt. John Hammersley investigated reporting the vehicle was not kicked at the time of the theft and the value of the gun was placed at SSO.
HAPPY WINNER — Eighteen-month-old Michael “Tray” Feaster, son of Michael and Nancee Feaster of r 1 Syracuse, is the happy winner of the baby of the year contest sponsored by the Beta Sigma Phi sorority. Kappa Omicron chapter at Syracuse. Proceeds collected from the contest will go to the elementary school at Syracuse toward purchase of a spiral slide. Judges for the contest were Mrs. Tom Hoover of the sorority; Miss Patty McCarty, an employee at Pilcher Shoes; Mrs. Vicki Rich of The Little People Shoppe; and “Chuck” Clevenger of Mr. Pickwick Men’s Wear. Mrs. HazeF Kline entertains family Mrs. Hazel Kline of Milford entertained her family at the Benton Community hall on Sunday, Dec. 22. A gift exchange was held, followed by a dinner. Later carols were sung. There were 21 family members present from the towns of Claypool, Middlebury, Warsaw, Goshen and Milford. LAKELAND LOCAL David Coy, son of the Wayne Coys of Syracuse, is expected home this week end from a holiday visit with his brother, Michael Coy and family, at Malmstrom air force base, Great Falls, Mont.
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