The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 52, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 January 1977 — Page 1

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VOLUME 13

' ' B ■I I GE J iMi 1 J|| FIRE — A fire at Spanky’s Plita, State Road IS north of Milford, was extinguishrd tn the Milford Volunteer Fire Department at approximately 9 pm. last Thursday night. Roth fire units of the department responded to the fire, created when a neon light shorted out behind the chimney. Firemen opened the ceiling tile on the inside of the building and opened the eave on the outside, said chief Bill Leemon. About >2OO damage was done to the building owned by Richard Felkner. Max Beer leases the building for a business.

'Rhubarb' involves resignation of four Syracuse firemen

The-Syracuse volunteer fire department, at its regular January meeting, to be held on Wednesday, the 26th. will face the problem of replacing several department members who have resigned The resignations of at least two of the department s members came as protest resignations. The Mail-Journal learned this week Another was because of too heavy a responsibility on one member. and a fourth resignation is pending " Penicks Resign The resignations of Robert L. i Pemcjk 11. a resident of 618 South Harrison Street. Syracuse, and former fire chief, came January' 1 in a letter to Larry Weaver, new chief as of the first of the year And the resignation of his son. Robert L Penick HI. a resident of 607 South Harrison Street. Syracuse, came before the end of the year, prior to the resignation of his father and without the knowledge that his father planned to tender his resignation The third resignation was that of chief of police Ron Robinson, who resigned in a letter to the fire department on December 28. Robinson said he has been a member of the Syracuse fire department since 1967, allowing for the vear he was deputy county sheriff from 1973 to 1974. He said, with his town board meetings, fire department meetings, traffic committee meetings and EMS meetings, in all amounting to 10 meetings a month. “1 just dofl t have time to do a good job in them all.” He said his resignation from the fire department was effective January I The fourth resignation, that of fireman Michael Price, a resident of 600 Front Street. Syracuse, is pending, he told The Mail-Journal this week. He said he is a sales representative for the Prairie Fanner, a farm magazine, and will be working, mostly in Fort Wayne “1 won’t be doing the department any good", be said when delineating reasons for his fire department resignation. (Continued on page 2)

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'3 r l , ’ ' • ' f i . • I / / , - il >ii - / J- - Zfw/ - .>/ZvZ T '■l. • ':n... f -t.<!"■/. ■'/ 't'-- .a■: ' :■ >: f ' ! INVITED TO CARTER INAUGURAL — Twolocal men received invitations from the 1977 Inaugural Committee to the Jimmy Carter inauguration where Carter will be sworn in as the 39th President of UnitedlStates at Washington, D. C„ on Thursday of this week. A copy of the (invitation appears above. The recipients were Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cable. 13473 CR 48. Syracuse, and Mr. and Mrs. Arch Baumgartner of Milford. Cable is chairman of the board of the State Bank of Syracuse, and the Baumgartners are publishers of The Mail-Journal. Cable thinks his close association with Third District Congressman John Brademas (D) and Congressman George Brown (D) of California won him the invitation. The handsome invitations invite the Cables a id Baumgartners to view and take part in two major inaugural events: The Inaugural Ceremony, which will take place at 11:30 a m. Thursday. January 20. and the Inaugural Parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, which follows at 1:30 p.m. January* 20. Neither the Cables or Baumgartners plan to attend the historic It was learned that several parties in the area received invitations from the Democratic National Committee to attend the inauguration Released on bond A Leesburg man. Terry Lee County jail ’ Myers. 44. r I was released on Myers was arrested for $l5O bond at the Kosciusko deceptive issuance of a check.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 1977

Worst winter in a century

According to national weather men, the weather we have been having is the worst in 100 years..Area residents awoke to 20 below zero temperatures Monday morning, combined with a wind chill factor somewhere between 40 and 50 below zero. Junior Coy; r 3 Syracuse, recorded a low Monday morning of 24 below zero. Other residents reported similar. Lakeland Community Schools closed for the second Monday and Tuesday in a row. when roads running north and south drifted shut in some areas. The fear of children standing in the cold to wait for the buses, some of which would not start, added to die decision. Membership drive for chamber The board of directors of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce plans to make a membership drive, as a main point of business at a meeting held last Wednesday noon. Chamber president Ted Rogers asked for volunteers to serve the membership committee, but in the absence of any, he asked the board to conduct the drive. Col. Joe Gray, executive secretary for the chamber, (jointed out that there are 15 less members than a year ago. Larry Baumgardt, John Call and Bill Beemer were named to a committee to arrange for the erection of an informational standard on road 13 across from town hall, following a report on cost and placement of such a sign by Mr. Call. He said such a standard would cost $45. Larry Baumgardt noted that he has contracted for the repair of chamber highway signs on road 13, both north and south of town, and that the work would be done in the spring. The chamber's new four-color brochures were handed out and others are available for distribution, according to Joe Gray. Five hundred of them have been sent to the state department of commerce for distribution s Discuss EDC Praise was given the town board for establishing an economic development commission and the board ramifications of its work in approving $350,000 tax-free bonds for the new Premiere Corporation on West Brooklyn Street were noted. Rogers expressed the hope that other similar industries could be attracted to the community through the efforts of the commission. Mrs. Don Hayden, owner of Wawasee Airport, told chamber members she would be glad to secure Henry Kaamier. state aeronautics director of the Aeronautics Commission of Indiana, as a chamber speaker at a future date, and she was given the go-ahead in the matter. Mrs. Hayden said the airport runway could be paved as a major improvement. She said she had tried to purchase a threeacre tract of land along the B & 0 Railroad in years past, in order that the east-west section of Eli Lilly Road could be extended along the tracks, allowing for a dosing of the north-south portion of the road and a lengthening of the runway to the east. She has been unsuccessful in this project, she noted. Chamber president Rogers called attention to the devastating April 3,1974, tornado that raised havoc with the airport and its hangars, noting that all this damage has long since been replaced. Rogers also said the town's Christmas decorations have been taken down and stored.

Some classrooms in the Wawasee High School were warmed to only 40 to 50 degrees the first of the week. Superintendent Don Arnold said classes in such rooms would be moved to other rooms until the situation improves Several businesses in the. area were shut down and activities cancelled or sparsely attended Motorists had problems starting the cars, or found themselves stranded where the weather interferred. An all-time high was reached in gas sendouts with 1.293 billion cubic feet delivered in the 24-hour period ending at noon Monday. Gas service was reduced to industrial customers by the public service company, who also asked customers to reduce their usage by 20 per cent for the rest of the week. By Tuesday, the temperature had mitigated to eight below zero, with snow falling throughout the day. Accumulations of one to three inches were expected. The predicted high for Wednesday is five above zero, after lows of from five below to zero in the early morning hours. Entry gained • at Thornburgs Syracuse police blotter reports a break-in at Thornburg Drug Store at 1:47 a.m. Monday, according to a report by police officer Robert Hauser. A cement block was thrown through the large door on the south side of the store, and some merchandise was ‘ disturbed,’’ giving proof that entry into the store was made. The store has been plagued by two entries in recent weeks through a roof vent, but this was the first through a security door. Officer Hauser responded to the alarm, but thieves were gone when he arrived. No determination could be made of missing merchandise. Joe Lumm to speak at Industrial Park meeting, April 12 Members of the Milford Area Development Council’s Industrial Park committee will <- have Joe Lumm as its speaker at its April 12 meeting. The meeting, to be held Monday night, was cancelled because of poor attendance due to the sub-zero weather Lumm is public relations administrator for the United Telephone Company and is being brought before the park committee by Phil Hoy, a telephone company Nappanee district representative. He will talk on his company’s computer tie-in with Washington. D. C., computer to search out areas where federally funded projects suitable to a given community are available Annual reports being published Attention of the taxpayers is being called to the annual reports in this newspaper of the various civil units of the county, including towns and townships. Several have already been published, others appear this week and still others will appear next week. All must be printed prior to the end of the month. The annual report is a public regulation by Indiana statute and shows the receipts and disbursements of the various taxing units for the year 1976. The publication of these reports are to give the public information on where tax monies are being spent and deserve close attention from all taxpayers.

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HarbofSide sewage problem town board topic of discussion

Dumping of raw sewage on the ground at Harbor Side condominiums on Lake Wawasee was a prime topic of discussion before the Syracuse town board last night. Jack Reece, a resident of Harbor Side and a member of its board of directors, was on hand to ask the town board concerning connecting Harbor Side’s sewer lines onto the city lines. Reece said he and others had been told by developer/Tom Leonard that he had a contract with the town for the hook-up, but town board members have been stating the hook-up would be made at such time as the town’s sewage treatment plant could handle the additional load. Can Handle Load Town engineer Jerry Lessig tcid the town board the plant can handle the sewage load now, that it wouldn’t amount to much more than a thousand gallons per day. At the present time the facility is handling about 200.000 gallons of sewage per day and that this J (Continued on page 2)

TL- F Bl RNHfV B °' B . 888. 1. BE ’ POLICE FORCE SWORN IN — The entire Syracuse police force was sworn in last night at town hall fallowing the town board meeting. Seated from left are Robert Heuser, chief Ron Robinson and Joe Thornburg. Standing, I to r, Jack Zimmerman, Charles Lantz, Danny Gallmeier and Thomas J. Catt. Attending law enforcement academy at Plainfield is officer Louis Mediano.

ABC denies application

In a letter received by Dr. Homer L. Burke, M. D., Milford, from James D. Sims, chairman of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the application for a license for Star Club, Inc., has been denied. Sims wrote that since the matter was a new license permit request, the state board must concur with the decision made at a public hearing December 8, by the Kosciusko County Alcoholic Beverage Commission, to deny the application. Approximately 45 persons from Milford attended the hearing; the majority speaking against the application, which was referred to at that time as an application for a beer and wine retailer license for the Hickory Lounge, Inc., along with a transfer to the Star Club, Inc., Milford. After one and one-half hours of debate, the county board denied the application. Gene Duffin, attorney for Star

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Club, Inc., president Joe Hamsher announced an appeal would be filed with the state board (Continued on page 2)

FRA ratified by Senate, 26-24 Freshman Senator John B. Augsburger, Republican from Milford, voted in the minority yesterday, when the Indiana Senate voted 26-24 to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Thames Mauzy, Republican representative in the House from Warsaw, voted against the amendment last week. The Senate vote yesterday made Indiana the 35th state to ratify the proposed Constitutional amendment. Three more state ratifications are needed before the amendment becomes Constitutional law.