The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 October 1976 — Page 1

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VOLUME 13

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Larry Conrad scores Bowen administration

Indiana secretary of state Larry Conrad brought his campaign for governor to Kosciusko county Saturday night and issued a ringing denoun cement of the Bowen administration. scoring the Bremen physician and his administration on numerous counts Conrad, campaigning at his best, told over 300 party faithfuls at the Shrine building at the county fairgrounds, that the Bowen tax plan served big corporations well, but did very' little for the "small man" of Indiana One corporation for example would realize a $6.1 million tax relief while "any relief most of us got was more than offset bydoubling of our sales tax.” Conrad added “And wait until your property is re assessed," he said, which will be increased from 40 to 100 per cent. Conrad called the new property tax "one of the most inequitable taxes in any state " He said Indiana has the 15th highest tax rates among the states of the nation Conrad added. “All of (Gov.) Bowen's moves are politically

' ■' '-in „ I' t ’’’ " r 11 !T ■ A2JP > SL .• -, -m i ■'.•■ ■■ ■ / IT .kF ■ 0 ■ .41 ■ Bm\ S ■■ XJI WwKl ’ >- V/WfCM / |K/jrlLJ.>Ja i ~ ■ ■■■ Al CONRAD WITH CANDIDATES — Larry Conrad. Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana. posed with county candidates and others following his address at Warsaw Saturday night. From left are Wayne Graff, candidate for state representative: Bonnie Hempton. candidate for flirty clerk; Marlene Walker, candidate for county treasurer. Larry Conrad; Elaine Belt candidate for county council; congressman Floyd Fithian, seeking re-election to the second district post; GeroM Romine, candidate for county council; Roger Phillips, candidate for middle district commissioner Bill Bibler. candidate tar county councilman; and Keith Hartke. son of the senior V.S. Senator from Indiana who is seeking re-election

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motivated ” Cites ‘Ribbon Cutting' Conrad also scored Governor Bowen on his trips around the state to cut ribbons opening new highways in Indiana Bowen should be paying more concern to the state's 600 unsafe bridges. 1,004 substandard bridges. 1.001 of which are in need of temporary repairs He talked about Bowen s slick advertising, and commented. “I can't get the governor to debate me " Conrad noted that utility rates in Indiana have gone up 17.3 per cent under Governor Bowen, adding that "Bowen has outspent the Democrats 3 to 1.” He said there is no unemployment program for Blacks m Indiana, then called unemployment our number 1 problem. “Unemployment is the root cause of inflation.'' Conrad added He cited a bureaucratic state government, commenting that from five to 15 per cent of the state budget could be cut byrestructuring the 419 state agencies Conrad said Indiana has 220.000 (Continued on page 2)

K. jWr w 14 1 -Ja i i AWARDS MONEY — The Milford Ums awarded subs of money Friday afternoon to the I*7l Queen of the Lakes and the Milford EMS. Jo Ann Rassi. as the queen, received s7to for winning her title and the queen conveyance contest during the North Webster Mermaid festival The Milford EMS received I2W in Miss Rassi* name. Attending the presentation are left. Oscar Schmucker. Marshall Estep, chairman of the queen committee; Jo Ann Rassi; John Perry president of the EMSs. and Terry Beatty. EMT and county representative of the EMS. The presentations were made on Lions world service day.

WEDNESDAY. OCT. 13, 1976

Milford town board approves park board

In a letter submitted to the Milford town board. Mrs. Dorothy Williams listed interested persons willing to become park board members — Marion Acton. D. G. (Bud) Seely. Levi Beer and Connie Smith, who were approved at the Monday meeting Possible committee members named in the letter are Mary Duncan. Jim Felkner, Devon Sorensen. Jim White and Mrs. Williams. President T A. Miller said that the committee could be determined by the board, named the Park and Recreation board, after state law title. Miller suggested the name, saying it may make in funding Discussed at the meeting was the possibility of town attorney Rex Reed writing up the by-law’s of the park board while meeting with them at an organizational meeting Miller also added that under the state law. the park board could own property and be legally responsible for grant application. A donation of S3OO from Brock Manufacturing company has been made for a park fund Jean Treesh said the board should send a letter of appreciation to the company. Miller asked the board members’ permission to press attorney Reed, who was absent from the meeting, on the annexation. as he believes it must be finished before the end of the year. The board members*, concurred. Brock Manufacturing also gave a <3OO donation to the town

Official enrollments reported, 1 7 teachers' terms approved

The official enrollment in the Lakeland school corporation is 3.186. or a decrease of 33 students from last year, as reported to school board members at last nights Tuesday) meeting Other figures presented to the board were the totals of persons enrolled in adult education classes Attending credit-earning classes are 166 persons and 21 persons m non-credit continuing

Fji ’l I > Anyone interested in becoming an EMT and joining the Milford Emergency service can attend a school the end of October or first of November. The school will be at the Jefferson township school on state road IS, north of Goshen More volunteers are needed on the Milford Emergency service and to fill the class. Interested persons can contact John Perry or one of the Milford EMTs.

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to be used for police uniforms and clothing. Another matter decided by the board was the evenings for the children s Halloween party and trick-or-treating. Friday evening was designated for the party and Saturday evening from 5 to 9 p.m. for trick-or-treating. The Lions and American Legion and Auxiliary sponsor the party. Jean Treesh reported more people were moving in the apartments of the condemned buildings, which she informed county prosecutor Hearn. Hearn told her he was waiting for an inspector from Indianapolis to reinspect the buildings. Treesh continued, saying she called the inspector's office and was informed that he did not want to reinspect and all that is required is the signature of the town board president on the papers in Hearn s possession Using statistics obtained from (Continued on page 2) Public meeting set to hire attorney A public meeting will be held at Syracuse town hall at 7:30 tonight (W’ednesday) for the purpose of hiring an attorney to represent the BZA and plan commission The vacancy was created through the resignation of attorney Robert Reed on September 7. , An annual salary’ of $1,500 for the attorney has been set up by the town board through building permit fees collected.

education classes, for a total of 187 The board granted approval of adult education instructors Oscar Schmucker Elaine Hibschman. Gary Weeks. Rudy Cesco. Charlotte Hayden. Tom Robinson. Linda Kehoe. Jerry Minton. Connie Bailey. Lee Troyer. Jim White. Cliff Miller. Bernard Jones and Linda Hoy A partial payment of $31,230.25 to Pettigrew and Son Company. Inc. for the roof replacement at the Syracuse school was also approved Don H Arnold, school superintendent, reported that the work was close to completion The recommendation of Saihe Ringler as music and art teacher at Syracuse elementary school, to replace Miss Arlene Crist, was accepted by the board Crist resigned to assume a nonteaching position and the contract for Ringler is effective from October 11. Ringler has taught for two and one-half years in the East Noble area Diane Elliott was appointed t Continued on page 2’

v i* '| b \ - ® Ji / / M I **l3 1 I / -'IWWi £J| I / / HbmmH 118 Ks c / ▼ Mw l £ M3■f { I K w ■ 1 fl T/f \ I LIFE MEMBERSHIP — Outgoing president Sherman Bryant is shown above as he presents past international president Lorin J. Badskey with a life membership award. Both men are members of the Lakeland Kiwanis club of North Webster. Badskey’s honor is the 37»th given by the international organization. He also received a 30-year legion of honor award.

Lorin Badskey is given Kiwanis life membership

The Lakeland Kiwanis club’s ladies night held September 27 at Camelot hall turned into a surprise recognition dinner to honor Lorin J. Badskey of North Webster with a life membership, the 370th in the world. Badskey also received a 30-year legion of honor award. Several staff members were present from the international office in Chicago, including Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hapgood. Hapgood is associate secretary of the organization. He spoke, paying tribute to Badskey. citing his administrative leadership. Badskey served for eight-years on the board of trustees, as vice president treasurer, presidentelect and international president. More especially, Hapgood said, Badskey’s contribution in turning the organization around in growth and since then (1973) growth has continued, not the case m previous years.

Also, Badskey was tributed for the close unity he helped build the year he served as international president as that unity was worldwide.

Badskey is an industrialist and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the LML Corporation. Columbia City. Beyond being active in LML, he serves as vice president of the Carefree Travel. Inc , Chicago; director of the Counting House Bank, North Webster and Warsaw; president of the Badskey. Schubert. Reiff Realty corporation; a partner in the Badskey-Badskey Realty Company , director of the International Palace of Sports Foundation; director of Future Farmers of America foundation of Indiana; and member of Riley Memorial hospital association. Indianapolis He is listed in Who’s Who in the World.

Os most recent interest, he is author of the book “unaccustomed as i am" published in 1974 under the pseudonym of Justin Lee. Officers Installed

New officers far 1976-77 were also installed during the evening. They follow:

President — Stu Walker President-elect — Jay Boyer Vice president — Dick Long Secretary — Jon Roberts Treasurer — Dave Everts Board of directors for one year — Phil Mock. Duane Leedy and Theo Thomas Board of directors for two years — Dean Jessup, Ron Richey and Larry Stackhouse Board of directors for three years — Bill Sincroft. Hoy

and Dean Hartle International staff members attending besides Hapgood were Fay H McDonald, director of administration and Mrs. McDonald; Richard A. Misch. director of membership and personnel; John L. McGehee, director of public relations; A. G. Terry Shaffer, director of program development and Dwight F. Galhvan, trustee of Kiwanis international from Bluffton, who presented Badskey his legion of honor. Present from Indiana district

Talk Lake Geneva plan for three area lakes

The idea of adopting a so-called Lake Geneva plan for the purpose of mapping the control and orderly growth of a three-lake area came under close scrutiny last night (Tuesday! when the Syracuse town board met with Turkey Creek township trustee Roy Price and his advisory board and several other interested citizens. Such a plan was recommended to the two groups by David Stoops, president of the Lakes Study Fund, and by David Keller, a Fort Wayne attorney with Papakeechie Lake interests. Appoint Task Force The end result of the meeting was the appointment of a task force, composed of Syracuse town board president James C. Tranter, township trustee Roy O. Price and David Stoops, for the purpose of making a decision on the advisability of adopting such a plan Stoops said he visited the Lake Geneva. Wis., area some time ago and ran onto their plan for environmental development by accident. But he saw the similarity of their situation to the local situation, and he felt he

g. f t Ymi can be a part of The Maii-Joumal’s salute to the Wawasee winter sports season, by sponsoring an ad in the upcoming 12-page. pall-out, “keep to your scrapbook** supple menL This very inexpensive ad will include your name and any message or note of praise that yon wish to relay to any or all of the Warriors’ teams. Each team will be assigned specific pages, so whether it be the basketball, swimming, wrestling or gymnastics team, with which you are most concerned, your ad can be on that page. Call The Mail-Journal, today, at either Milford or Syracuse, to set up your congratulatory ad. It costs so little and it gives the athletes a sense of appreciation for all theto efforts and sacrifices.

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were Mr and Mr. Glenn A. Claybaugh, governor, Evansville; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Thompson, governor-elect, Bloomington; Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Mason, secretarytreasurer, Shelbyville; Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Mills, past governor, Gary; Mr. and Mrs. William Leiber. international relations. Gary; Mr. and Mrs. David Holderman. Lt. governor, Goshen. Several inter-clubs were also present from the surrounding area.

should bring their ideas back home for study and con(Continued on page 2) Firemen’s Auxiliary plans trip to Loop Members of the Syracuse Firemen’s Auxiliary met Tuesday. Oct. 5 and learned of the trip to the Chicago Loop on December 9. The women are to meet at the Wawasee Village hardware at 7 a.m. with the bus to be back there by 7 p.m. The ladies said there were 11 extra seats and persons interested in joining the group may do so by calling June Penick by mid-October. The women were fitted and paid for their auxiliary coats. A bazaar is being planned for November. Persons with canned goods and new or repairable toys they wish to donate should leave them at the fire station These will be used as gifts for families who need them this year. Barb Gramme took grafts to the meeting and the ladies worked on them for the bazaar.