The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 30, Milford, Kosciusko County, 18 August 1976 — Page 1

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AT WIESE PROPERTY SALE — Shown in the above photo is only part of the nearly 4M people attending the auction of the Norman Wiese property on Lake Wawaaee Monday night. In the photo on the right are from left. Philip J. Beer. Mary Jo Pelikan. Dean Kruse, new property owner Larry Hannah. Rusaeli Kruse and Phyllis Louden. In charge of the sale were Beer & Associates and Kruse Auctioneers of Auburn.

Wiese luxury home goes to consortium for *246,000

A The largest dollar sale of a private home in the lakes area in the memory of local residents occurred Monday night with the sale of the Norman Wiese home on the south shore of Lake ' Wawasee The large, five-bedroom home is located on CR 1050 N in what is known as Vawter Park Sale price: $246,000 The sale, conducted jointly by Beer & Associates of Syracuse and Kruse Real Estate 4 Auctioneers. Inc., of Auburn, was well advertised and drew nearly 400 bidders and interested spectators i Actual auctioneering was conducted by Russell Kruse and his two sons. Dean and Dennis The property has in excess of 142 feet of lakefront, is nearly three acres equally divided on either side of the road. The home has 6,000 square feet and a large garage area It has five bedrooms, eight baths and three fireplaces, and is of above average quality throughout. A new 72-foot metal storage building is located across the road from the house The house was built two years ago by Mr. Wiese, who has homes in Kokomo. Indianapolis and Florida. He was one of the founders and principal owners of the famous Ponderosa Steak House chain Haught by Consortium Bidding began at SIOO,OOO and rose at $50,000 increments to

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$200,000. then rose at $5,000 increments to $220,000 where bidding stopped Finally, bidding became unstuck and rose at $5,000 increments to $240,000. when it finally dropped to SI,OOO increments to the final sale price of $246,000 Successful bidder was Larry Hannah of Indianapolis., who is a director and chairman of the executive committee of the First National Bank of Kokomo. He was a former financial advisor to Mr. Wiese In actuality Mr Hannah was

Waubee Lake Association board reviews projects

The Waubee Lake Association board of directors met recently to review projects, memberships and the results of their chicken barbecue. Profits were just under SSOO and will be used to maintain the water improvement program and fish stocking in Lake Waubee The association is asking the public to assist it by keeping out of the settling pond constructed a year ago. Any member of the board will be happy to show the project to ihterested persons. The pit is deep and the ground mucky and soft and the association urges all to keep children from the area because of the hazard.

bidding for himself and a consortium of business men who proudly call ’themselves the "dirty dozen ’ They are E P McCarty. William E Chambers. James C Clark, Charles R McFall, Darrell P. French. Larry J. Hannah. Michael J. Kiley, Michael G. Schaefer, Carl R. Tuttle. Thomas M Tuttle. Michael Um ba ugh and Robert J. Williams No plans have been announced for the home, but it was assumed the group would make a private chib of the residence

Young pike are in the area now and will be released into the lake this fall. The association is prepared for spawning of more next spring The department of natural resources and the public health department have both been on the lake this summer, checking fish population and testing water content and purity. These reports will be made public when the results have been completed and reported. ARTICLES ADOPTED The Articles of Confederation was adopted Nov. 15, 1777.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18. 1976

Plan commission restricts Prep site

The unit plan for the former Wawasee Prep property as presented by International Constructors IV. was recommended denied by the Syracuse Town Plan commission last Thursday night, Aug 12. The commission did ask that a variance be granted with several specific limitations. The request is that the original petition be modified to a variance request under Article VI of the zoning ordinance, instead of under Specifications H of the ordinance. Tomorrow (Thursday), the adopted recommendations will be presented to the BZA at the Town hall. The petition for variance from Tnternatior...** Constructors IV. with Gorden E. Medlock. Bruce Baiden. Charles Pechette and James McCutcheon. will also be considered Included in the recommendation is that the construe* on on the site be limited to the present buildings. Permitted construction would be for 143 (Continued on page 2)

Art awards presented at Ptetcher Village festival

Awards were presented last Thursday. Aug 5. at the 14th annual Pletcher Village Art Festival. Amish Acres. Nappanee Announcement of the marketplace awards, cash prizes totaled over SI,BOO. was made by Dick Pletcher, festival director. The two best of show awards went to Jim Pearson, Bloomington, painting. two dimensional: and Fred Crane, Woodburn, necklace, three dimensional The top honor awards were decreased from 10 to five this year Winners are Roger Haas. TippCity, Ohio, painting; Marvin Calbreath, Nappanee, pottery ; Mark Brownstein. South Bend, pottery; Glenda Bronnenberg. Akron, weaving; and Debbie Pearson. Bloomington, macrame. Five honor awards were given to artists Grace Shock, Lafayette; Jean Parsons,

ft 2 • r Th wT FESTIVAL WINNERS — Award winners at the 14th annual Pletcher Village Art festival, Nappanee, and judges gathered after the announcement of the winners. Winners and judges are left. Jim Raymond. Saint Mary’s college: Fred Crane, three dimensional best of show; Dick Ptetcher, festival director; Patricia Stoker, total best of the marketplace; Jim Pearson, two dimensional best of show; Mart Johnson. Chicago Art Institute.

Two-car accident in parking lot Alice E. Karesh. 33. Syracuse, backed her 1972 Chevrolet into a 1976 Ford driven by Edna G. Dider. 32. also of Syracuse, at Saturday in die Burger Dairy Store parking lot south of Syracuse. There were no personal injuries and damages were SSO to the Karesh vehicle and $125 to the Dider vehicle. Area residents pay fines in Elkhart county Douglas V. Brown. 19, Milford, was fined $39 in Goshen city traffic court for driving 63 in a 45 mile zone at 1800 Elkhart road. Two Syracuse residents paid assessments of $34 each. They were Karin C. Lamle, 17, r 3, violation of the vehicle inspection law and Dianne E. Grothaus, 28, r 1. disregarding a traffic signal light at Main and Madison streets.

Middlebury; Kenneth Collister, Elkhart; Judith Young. Fort Wayne; and John Roberts, Larwill. Honorable mention ribbons were presented to C. Deitchley, D. Carlson. Mishawaka; Ruth Hamilton. Fort Wayne; Irma Dempsey, Indianapolis; Marybeth Ridley. South Bend; Susan Feece. Walkerton; also Nancv Dickson. Elkhart; Irene TbUer. Battle Creek Mich:. Carla Pendleton, Elkhart; Stephen Haskin. South Bend; Ken Guyer. Lexington. Kent. The best of the marketplace award was given to Patricia Stoker. Gaston, for her total booth presentation. Other booth presentation awards went to John Henney. Kendallville. top honor award; and Robert Staton. Millersburg, honor award. Judges of the work by 158 artists and craftsmen entered in the festival are Jim Raymond. Saint Mary's college and Mark Johnson. Chicago Art Institute.

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Highway bridge construction progressing on schedule

Construction of a new overpass bridge to replace the built bridge, one mile north of Milford, on state road 15 is on schedule The State Highway commission felt the old bridge needed replacing and bids were taken on the project. Phend and Brown. Milford, was the low bidder and is doing the work at a cost of $1,172,470. Bob Brown. Phend and Brown, said that construction began on the bridge in October 1975. Since that time a temporary roadway has been paved west of the construction area so traffic can use the old bridge. And roadway

Jack Mason sells controversial lake property to unnamed group

In a pre-trial conference before LaGrange circuit court Judge Jade P. Dunten. to be held at 2:30 p.m. today (Wednesday) in the court of Judge Gene B. Lee at the court house building at Warsaw, the names of the developers to whom John (“Jack”) Mason has sold his controversial lakefront property will be revealed. Mason has told friends early this week that he has sold his property, approximatley an acre and a half, with about 500 feet of lakefront tor a group of unnamed Fort Wayne developers He also revealed that he sold the propertv "for more than SSOO and less than SI,OOO per front foot.” Tired of Controversy Mason's filling in of the controversial - land which has channel and lake frontage blew into a cyclone of resentment between Mason and neighbors in the Ogden Island area on the near east side of Lake Wawasee Mason said on Tuesday, “I’m tired of the controversy and decided to sell my property. I had a good offer and decided to sell.” However, he would not reveal the names of the new owners He said he was asked not to reveal the names, but added the names would become known at the pretrial conference in Warsaw this afternoon. He said actually the land is in the name of his wife, Mary L. Mason, and Richard C. Ver

OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION SITE

bed and foundation for the new bridge was made. Tomorrow (Thursday) the first concrete will be pouted for the bridge. Then new pavement will be done to complete the road on the new bridge and the shoulders finished. The temporary road and the old bridge will then be torn out. “Were on schedule,” says Brown. The work is done on a work day schedule, meaning that on days when the crew does not work because of weather, the allotted work days are not used up. The scheduled completion date of the project is the end of October 1976.

Wiebe, a Fort Wayne attorney and past president of the Northeastern Indiana Civil Liberties Union. Irate neighbors in the Ogden Island area brought the Indiana Department of Natural Resources into the controversy, who in turn brought in the United States Carps of Engineers. And the acceleration of a federal stream and pollution act, which was to become effective (Continued on page 2)

Filling on Lake Wawasee halted V.S. District Judge Robert A. Grant of South Bend issued abaft order on filling operations along the Johnson Bay and Conklin Bay areas of Lake Wawasee on Friday. Judge Grant’s preliminary injunction was issued feltowing testimony he heard in the case early in July. The order was issued specifically against Donald Byrd and Chester and Carol Elder, developers who were engaged in filling tow lands, termed •‘wetlands.’* for housing developments. The Elders and Byrd received zeopies of the stop order from their attorneys on Tuesday of this week.

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Monthly police report released The monthly report for July has been released by the Milford police department. A total of 131 calls were answered, eight warnings, three accidents, five dog calls, two fire calls, one robbery, three burglar alarms and five arrests were made. The total of miles for the month were 2,001 with chief Melvin Jordan driving 1,412 and Robert Wood, 589 miles. Gasoline for the month was 284.5 gallons at a cost of $184.40. Maintenance on the cruiser in July was new brake shoes and complete overhaul of brake system, $144.82; replaced steering box, SB6; and a tire, $26.

Mr. Pickwick sale now in progress Mr. Pickwick Men’s Wear, located in Pickwick Place in uptown Syracuse, is selling out in a sale now in progress. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Clevenger opened the business in November of 1973, featuring a fine line of men’s clothing. Mr. Clevenger said this week he plans to have the sale finalized by September 4. He and Mrs. Clevenger have no definite plans for their immediate future. Proposed budget at Syracuse library up only one cent The proposed budget for the town of Syracuse’s public library has been set at $19,105. This will require a levy of eight cents. The current levy is seven cents. The budget, published elsewhere in this issue, is signed by Jack Vanderford, president; M. A. Vanderveer, secretary; and Robert W. Knudsen, treasurer.