The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 July 1977 — Page 1

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BBB& ( a : ral 11 fl I Im ■ K NEW LAKELAND REALTY OFFICES — The old, abandoned Union 7S service station on the corner of Huntington and Benton Streets in Syracuse has been purchased by David McGrew from owner Robert Penick 11, and is being remodeled for new offices for Lakeland Realty, a firm Mr. McGrew heads. At the present time the offices of the real estate firm are in the McGrew residence at 313 South Huntington Street. The old station had two overhead hoists in place which were removed by townsman Lawrence Firestone. One went to the auto mechanics department of Wawasee High School and the other to Mr. Firestone.

Progress Days discussed, Sidewalk Days are planned

A wrap-up meeting on Flotilla Progress Days was held by various Syracuse uptown merchants. village merchants, town board members and interested persons-last Wednesday night in Das KeUer Restaurant Les Webber, chairman, opened the meeting by saying he felt the event was a success and emphasized all the publicity and hard work that went into it. He passed out a financial report showing how much money was made over the three-day period. A total of 25 merchants made a committment of WO each for a total of $1,500 So far, a total of $1,305 has been received, with $420 still outstanding Advertising costs came to a total of $578.40 which then left a balance of $726.60 which, when added to the $420 still outstanding, comes to a grand total of $1,146.60 profit. Mim Speicher, My Store, gave a report on lent usage; Margaret Freeman. Gulliver’s Travels, on prizes; and Fred Curtis, Curtis TV and Appliances, gave a report on rides. "Good Sales" Webber opened the floor for

Remonstrance filed against physical education facility

Construction on the new physical education facility for Wawaaee High School, scheduled to begin July It, has been halted due to a remonstrance filed in the county auditor's office against the addition The physical education facility b an addition to be built in accordance to Title DC, which states that girl’s physical education facilities should be equal to the boy's. Bids for the addition were opened on May » and approved on May 27 coming to a total of *2,060,000. A lease agreement was also entered into with Summers and Company. Inc. of Fort Wayne for the facility on May 27 at a total of n >30,000. Don Arnold, superintendent, says this remonstrance will be sent to the state tax board for further action. The board will probably hold a hearing at the high school in about 30 days, Arnold said, even though no notification has been received from te state m yet.

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comments. Mrs. Speicher said, “We did have good sales all three days. I feel it was a great success and could be a lot better if we all work together.” Margaret Freeman agreed with her saying business at Gulliver's Travels was tremendous Joseph Gray, executive, secretary for the Chamber of Commerce, also had a comment to make. “I feel this is an effort which should encompass the whole area. I would like to see this thing grow to where it’s not uptown, something for the whole area.” David Nine, Syracuse Town Board member, expressed the same opinion as Gray saying, “at one time dunng the year, all Syracuse merchants should get together and have one big sale." James C. Tranter, town board president, also said, “I would like to see the community as a whole come together. Everybody works together and it’s Syracuse, Indiana." Sidewalk Qiyi Many merchants felt a sidewalk days should be held sometime in August with the whole town participating. John Glon of Glon Furniture said the

Dan Mort and Gregory Smith, both from North Webster, were the two who filed the remonstrance. A petition was filed in the county clerk’s office with 31 names on it, all but three from the North Webster area The other three names were from

'People should have say' says Mort on facility

People's choice and adequate gym facilities were two reasons cited by Don Mort of North Webster who, along with Gregory Smith, also of North Webster, filed a remonstrance against the Lakeland Community School Corporation on the new physical education facility set to begin construction July 1& The remonstrance was filed in the county auditor's office last week. A petition with 31 signatures was filed. The remonstrance will next go to the state tax board for further action.

village merchants are planning some kind of sale in August. It was generally agreed the town as a whole should get involved in this. Linda Kroh, Star Store, said these sidewalk days should have two purposes — to get everybody here and to help everybody. She also said the merchants should have more items up for sale so people will drive from out of town. After considerable discussion on the date of the days, it was unanimously decided to bold the event on the week end of August 18,19,20. Les Webber was named chairman with Mim Speicher and John Glon co-chairmen. It was decided the group would be called the Syracuse Merchants Association. All of the funds left over from the Progress Days will be put into another account and the village merchants will pay an equal amount for advertising. Tranter summed everything up at the close of the meeting by saying, “this is the kind of thing we have to do to bring this community together." Approximately 40 Syracuse merchants attended.

rural Syracuse. Add Meaey To Project Arnold feels this delay will add on extra dollars to the project. He said, “An extended delay in the project will undoubtedly add extra dollars." The superin(Continued on page 2)

Mort said he feels with an expenditure of this size, the people should have the choice about whether to construct the new facility or not. He also feels that the corporation has adequate gym facilities now. “People have got to speak out I think there's going to be more of it. I think it’s time to stop some of this stuff.” Five Gyms The remonstrator said the corporation presently has five gyms (Continual on page 2)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1977

Steam engine buffs can see locomotive on July 30

Steam engine buffs will be interested in knowing they can view the Chessie System Steam Train Special passing through Syracuse on Saturday, July SO, not once, but twice, during the afternoon. If running on schedule, the steam train should pass through Syracuse going east, at 1:30 pm., and westbound at 4:45 pm,, according to a release from engineer Peter Savage of north of Syracuse. A railroad engineer for the past 20-odd years, Savage is hoping to be the engineer for the run, however, does not know if he will be scheduled for the trip.

KCH to get $10.6 million bond

Next Wednesday, July 27, final steps to complete a bond issue of $10.6 million for the Kosciusko Community Hospital, Inc. (KCH), Warsaw, will be taken in Chicago. L. Milton Holmgrain, KCH administrator, has stated ItL bond issue is not an indication of the non-profit hospital incurring financial difficulties. The issuance of the bonds, already sold, was okayed by the Kosciusko County Hospital Authority and the board of trustees, to close out an $8.87 million bond issue. A portion of the new issue will be used to pay for the issuance and purchasing of new equipment for the hospital. / NEW FSAL EMPLOYEE — Mrs. James (Miriam) Johnson, above, a resident of the Syracuse community since June 1, 1977, is a new employee at the First Federal Savings * Loan of Wabash, Syracuse Branch, located in Wawasee Village. The Johnsons moved from Goshen to r 4 Syracuse with their two children: Michele, a sophomore at Wawasee High School, and Michael, a seventh grader at Syracuse Junior High. Mrs. Johnson has had 16 years* secretarial experience, and will be working with Mary Waltz and branch manager Barbara Mort. JlAmnflhAdh I KRTwI bwwT ifwllrw Thieves entered a house southeast of Milford last week and took a portable radio and a two-pound box of cottage cheese. The bouse is owned by Maple Leaf Duck Farm. Entrance was made by knocking in a window screen. In this issue . . . Item Page Obituaries, Births Court Sews 4 Community Corner • Gruzin 8 Lakeland Living Ml The Column 12 Sports 14-15

Chicago-Garrett Schedule on the old B 4 0 rail is from Chicago to Garrett and back to Chicago. Literature on the trip, tour 21, says “powered by Chessie system 4-8-4, no. 2101, ride behind the locomotive that served as American Freedom Train during 1975-76.” Tour 23 on the system on Saturday, Aug. 6, is the same as tour 21, however, times will need to be verified. The Chicago post office has authorized a special postmark for cancelling mail aboard the system on tours 21 and 22, the later being Chicago and Hartford. Mich., and back to Chicago.

About six and three-quarters percent is the interest rate on the issue, with a different rate, depending on the series and term. The interest rate will help the authority save $172,000 during the 31-year span of the bond issue. This preliminary estimated saving prompted the authority to act on the issue. Smith, Barney, Harris Upham and Co., and Wauterlek and Brown, Inc., of Chicago are underwriting the issue. During the first year of operation, KCH made a profit of nearly $70,000 which will be used to purchase equipment. The total income of the facility was $4,327,211, with expenses of $4,257,995.

Bill Brown released

Bill Brown is free and walking the streets of Milford! Brown was taken into custody Sunday night, July 10, and confessed to county sheriff’s deputies to breaking and entering into one Milford home and two Milford business establishments. In addition, he confessed to the theft of a station wagon owned by Mr and Mrs. Arnold Doll, r 1 Milford. He broke into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Baumgartner and made off with approximately $125 in cash and Mrs. Baumgartner’s billfold containing valuable personal effects. % He confessed breaking into the offices of Little and Clark Insurance Agency on Road 15 and taking about S4O in cash, and breaking into the Farm Bureau Co-Op offices on Main Street in Milford and making off with an undetermined amount of money. Released On Friday Only two months from his 18th birthday, Brown was remanded to the custody of his mother, Jacqueline Collins of Milford, at 8:20 a.m. Friday. His father is a

To enforce curfew at Milford It has been brought to the attention of the Milford Police Department that many of the private citizens, as weU as the town** merchants, are disturbed by the number of young people hanging around the streets after hours and late into the night To avoid any confusion, the police department to reminding the public that the curfew law states that any person under the age of 13 who is not accompanied by hb legal parent or guardian must be off the street, highway, public butidteg or other public places between the hours of !•:« P-m and 5 a.m. This state law continues to say that any person between the ages of 13 and 1« who fa not accompanied by Us legal parent or guardian must be off the street, highway, public bu&dtag or ether public places between the hours of 11 :O1 p.m. and 5 a.m. on Monday thro Thursday and 1 a.m. and 5 am on week ends. This law will be enforced in Milford. To further aid bi this riteation, the police department has avnitahto “No Loitering” signs that may be obtained by any person er individual wishing to stop in and pick one up at the -

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Plane crashes on Milford strip

A middle-aged Galion, Ohio, father and his son narrowly escaped injury at 11:15 a.m. Monday when the small Cessna 150 they were attempting to land at the Weisser airport north of Milford was blown into a corn field and crashed. How they managed to walk away from the crumpled aircraft without a scratch is unexplainable. Witnesses to the accident were

resident of Missouri. Kosciusko County Juvenile Officer Tom Roe told The MailJournal a week ago the people of Milford could rest assured the Brown youth would not be released until he was brought to trial. Mr. Roe also said he would press the court to treat the Brown case as an adult case. When asked by a reporter from The Mail-Journal early this week why Brown had been released contrary to word given by Roe a week ago, the juvenile officer said “there is an authority higher than I am in these cases." The case was to come before Superior Court Judge Allan A. Rasor. It would appear, then, that Judge Rasor issued the order to have Brown released. A bearing in the case has been set for Monday, July 25, before Judge Rasor, following proper notification of both natural parents'. It would understate the case to say that many residents of the Milford community are deeply upset at the release of Brown in light of his past activities, nocturnal and otherwise, in the Milford community.

Herman Weisser. owner of the farm, and his friend Marshall Estep. I’hey were feeding fish in the artificial lake on the Weisser farm when the aircraft approached the field from the north then went airborne again and attempted a landing from the south. It was then that the plane crashed. Going To Nappanee The pilot, Ray H. LaChance, is vice president of the Galion; Packaging Company, and was flying to Nappanee on business. With him was his son, David, 20 years of age. Pilot LaChance is 47. Mr. LaChance said he has over 1,000 hours of flying time, and said he was at a loss to explainthe nature of this accident. He said he landed at Milford inasmuch as there appeared to be a severe storm in the Nappanee area. He was landing normally, he said, but when the plane arrived at a level of the tall corn 3 ’ S JEFF WELLS

New loan officers at State Bank of Syracuse

The State Bank of Syracuse has named Jeff Wells and Don Smead new loan officers effective Monday, July 11. Wells, a 1972 graduate of Wawasee High School, will be in charge of commercial loans Prior to his promotion, he was in charge of installment loans. The new officer has been with the bank since November, coming from Tri-State College where he majored in business administration. He is single and resides at r 3 Syracuse. Don Smead, who joined the

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field on the west, the plane veered into the corn and his left wing clipped several rows of com, causing him to lose control of the craft. Herman Weisser, a pilot himself, said he saw another small craft crash in a com field many years ago just west but across state road 15, from the ° Monday crash. In that accident the late John Robinson, Milford banker, and his brother Harlan, a high school classmate of Herman’s, now of Indianapolis, were passengers. Both of them walked away shaken but uninjured. This accident occurred in the late 19205. Token into custody Syracuse police report they have taken a 14-year-old Syracuse youth into custody on the charge of theft. The boy was arrested on Monday, July 18. He was later released to his parents custody. n ajh t / - Ji DON SMEAD

bank on July 1, has been named new loan officer in charge of installment loans. Prior to - joining the bank, Smead worked as loan officer for the Saint Joseph Valley Bank in Elkhart. Smead has been in the banking field for 10 years. He is a graduate of Elkhart High School and has completed various banking courses. He and his wife, Pat, are temporarily residing in Elkhart with their five daughters. He hopes to be moving to the Syracuse area in the near future.