The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 July 1977 — Page 1

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VOLUME 14

J ,000 4-H'ers participating —

61 st Kosciusko County Fair opens next Monday at Warsaw

Over 1,000 Kosciusko County 4H Club members will join older citizens in exhibiting at the 1977 county fair next week. Each exhibitor has high hopes of walking off with the top honors and each knows he or she has J worked long and hard on the project or projects of his or her choice. The official opening of the fair will be at 7 p.m on Monday when the annual ribbon cutting ceremony will be held. The very first event of the fair, however, is slated for 1 p m. on Sunday when the4-H dog show will be held. A 4Hcat show will follow at 4 p.m. on Sunday and a gospel sing will be held from 6 to 9:90 p.m. in the grandstand A field and stock tractor pull is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Monday

Don Byrd preliminary plat approved by a 4 to 1 vote

After over a four-month delay, the preliminary plat for Country Club Acres, owned by Donald G. Byrd, Syracuse, was okayed by the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission during a special, called meeting Monday night Commission president Gale Creighton, said Monday's meeting was the first opportunity for the full board to meet and discuss the petition. He said there was no need to delay a decision an the matter, unless there were questions from the board members Ron Baumgartner, commission member, Milford, posed the question whether Byrd had met all the requirements, as statements to the contrary have been made Plan commission director Daniel Richards replied, “As far as we know, he does meet moat of the requirements." He added Byrd has complied with what has been done in "the past. Baumgartner also asked if any developments on changing the angle of the Wawasee Airport runway have occurred, since the topic came up during the last meeting. “Not as far as has been reported to this board,” Creighton answered. Another commission member, Jerry Grady, Syracuse, wanted allegations to the perc tests and septic systems not working clarified. Richards produced a spot check of some of the lots, made by health officer Carroll Sherman. which showed satisfactory results. Don Ahrns, Milford, commission member, then moved the plat petition be recommended to the county commissioners. All board members voted yes, except a no from Baumgartner and an abstention by Charles Brower, who surveyed the property Richard Ver Wiebe. Fort Wayne, attorney for Byrd, rose and saying he was sure he was out of order, requested Byrd be given seven permits to build, after four months, called “hardship permits.” under section 104 of the plan comnmsion ordinance. He stated Byrd had already obtained seven permits from Syracuse. (Continued oa page I)

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Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL <Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)

This is a new event for the Kosciusko County Fair. The 4-H tenure awards program will be held at 7 p.m. in the Warsaw High School with the 4-H fashion revue following at 7:30. The 4-H swine show and the open pony show will open Tuesday’s events at 9 am. Judging of poultry, rabbits and pigeons will be at 10 a.m. New this year at the fair will be demonstrations in the women s building. They will begin at noon on Tuesday and be held daily through Friday at 12 noon, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m Tuesday evening the 4-H sheep show will be held at 5 p.m. and an auto thrill show will be in the grandstand at 8 p.m. Kiddies Dby Wednesday is kiddies day. It is also beef show day with events

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GRAND OPENING — Tiffany Enterprises, located at 283 Pickwick Place in Syracuse, celebrated Its grand opening iastTbnnday. from 4 to7plm. Shown above to Dannette Rosner, owner and real estate broker, middle, and Phyllis Horvath, secretary, right, greeting Barbara Mort, manager of First Federal Savings A Loan, to the open

North Webster marshal is theft victim, men caught

Two county men were taken into custody Friday in connection with theft of merchandise from a dairy truck which is owned by North Webster Town Marshal Tony Strombeck. Arrested were Larry Ray Templeton. 19, r 1 Pierceton, and Ricky Gene Eby. 22. r 1 North weostw. Both men have been released on bond and are to appear in court on a specified date. Strombeck told county police that milk and cottage cheese had been taken from his dairy truck parked in North Webster A lead was given and warrants issued for searching of the Eby mobile home. f Eby told officers he knew the milk and cottage cheese were

beginning in the cattle area at 8 am. The 4-H pony show will begin at 9 a.m. and draft horses will be judged at 1 p.m. Another new event, 4-H goat judging, will be held at 7 p.m. and the grandstand event of the night will be harness racing which will begin at 8 p.m. Auction Thursday The 4-H dairy show will begin events on Thursday at 9 a m. The day has been designated as Senior Citizens Day. The annual 4-H livestock auction will begin at 5:30 pjn. Friday is the second kiddies day with events planned for the younger generation. Horses at halter will be shown by 4-H Club members at 9 a.m. and open class judging will follow at 1 p.m. The dairy show will take place all

stolen and stored the items in his refrigerator, however, denied any involvement in theft of the items. Templeton was arrested on theft of items valued at less than 1100. and Eby was charged with possession of stolen property. Syrotvse, Webster Daniel Dieterly, 18, r 4 Syracuse, and R. E Mullett, 19. North Webster, were involved in a two-car collision at the intersection of SR 13 and CR 400 N one mile south of North Webster at 4:03 pjn. Sunday. Both cars bumped at the intersection. Damage was set at 8200 to each car.

WEDNESDAY. JULY 27, 1977

day with Guernsey, Aryshire, Jersey and Brown Swiss being shown. The open sheep show will begin at 4 p.m. and the grandstand event of the evening is auto racing with time trials set for 6:30 and races at 8 p.m. The fair will close on Saturday night with the annual coronation of the Kosciusko County Fair Queen. The day is full of events with the Holstein dairy show and the horse show taking place all day. Time trials for the auto races which will precede the auto races will begin at 6:30 p.m. with the races beginning at 8 p.m. We have named just a few of the events which will take place at the 61st Kosciusko County Fair and Dairy Association Show, truly there is something for everyone at the fair!

Annual reports in this issue Annual reports for both the Lakeland Community School Carparatum and the Warsaw Community School Corporation are printed elsewhere in this issue. Both reports are lengthy and detailed. They tell how the tax monies were spent during the fiscal year which ended on June 30. They should be studied by every taxpayer in the corporation served by said school corporation. OKLAHOMA GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Groves has as their guests their relatives. Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Harvey of Claremore, Okla., on Monday and Tuesday.

Steam locomotive may go through Syracuse early, more on the train

The old time steam locomotive, scheduled to go through Syracuse twice on Saturday, July 30, might go an hour earlier than scheduled, and anyone wanting to make sure they witness the historic occasion should be at the local rail station early. This word came early this week from Peter Savage, who with some 20-odd years on railroading had fond hopes of being the engineer on the July 30 run from Chicago to Garrett and back to Chicago again. Savage is asking local people to “show up an hour early. He said the train was originally scheduled to pass through Syracuse going east at 1:30 p.m. and go through west bound at 4:45 p.m. Now Savage is telling local steam engine buffs to show up at 12:30 and 3:45 p.m. i To Stop Here It has been learned by The Mail-Journal that the train will stop in Syracuse on its eastbound aurney just long enough to pick op the mayor of Garrett so that he can ride the old locomotive f into his home town. Other Garrett dignitaries are expected to make the trip, it was also learned. At Garrett the trail will take on coal and water and the engine will be serviced, and the crew of five will be fed. The engine will be turned around for the return run to Chicago. Garrett is about 30 miles east of Syracuse. Right now, according to Savage, the locomotive is in Grand Rapids, Mich., where repairs are being made. Savage said the engine is having “siderod kouble.” More Information John Brewer, well known Lake Wawasee resident and steam locomotive buff, provided The Mail-Journal with additional information about the train that will pass through Syracuse on July 30. Below is a report as filed by Brewer: “the B it O Special which will be coming through Syracuse on July 30 and again on August 6 will be pulled by a 4-8-4 Northern type steam locomotive. “This engine is owned by Ross Rowland, and was originally rebuilt to pull the Freedom Train. The engine started out as a freight locomotive pulling coal trains on the Reading Railroad in the anthracite coal regions of eastern Pennsylvania. It was known as a T-l class engine and was built in 1944. “The engine generates 4500 horsepower and is capable of speeds of 70-75 miles per hour. Fully loaded with coal and water the engine and tender weigh over 350 tons. The main drive wheels hevea diameter of 70 inches. The 444 designation comes from the wheel arrangement of the engine, four lead truck or pilot truck wheels, eight drive wheels and four wheels on the trailing truck. “The lead wheels guide the locomotive into curves and through switches, while the trailing truck supports the firebox. This engine has a unique firebox known as a Wooter firebox designed to give a greater firegate area because it used anthracite coal. The firebox flues out to the sides of the engine rather than having straight sides as most steam locomotive fireboxes have. “Top steam pressure in the boiler is around 250-275 pounds per square inch. While not the largest steam engine ever built, this engine is one of the largest used by eastern railroads in the United States. “Much of this information is supplied by Dick Yeager of the Syca more Hollow Hobby Shop in

Fort Wayne. Dick worked on this engine for several days when it pulled the Freedom Train last year. According to Yeager, this is one of the largest operating steam locomotives that are still running in the country, and this engine should be good for several more years of service before needing complete major overhaul. “I would urge people to see it as it gdes through Syracuse for we have not had a steam engine here for many years, nor a passenger train for that matter either."

CPR COURSE IS SET AT MILFORD _ Members of the Milford Area Development Council are sponsoring CPR courses on August 9 and 19. Ciasoeo wfli begin each evening at 6 p.m. and wffl be held tai the Apostolic Christian Church’s Feßewship Hall. At least 19 persons need to regtoter before the course row beheld. ■! —i-44i- — * y rw-r*— am ivinuLF prcsraßOK IK ci 4 y rncc or other MAD officiate — Sally Becky DoU or Brace

No town board meeting to reverse zoning decision

By ARCH BAUMGARTNER A last minute effort by a group of Syracuse citizens whose identity remains anonymous to “keep local control” of planning for Syracuse and Turkey Creek Township proved abortive this morning, when a public notice for a Saturday town board meeting failed to materialize The effort was to get the town board to meet prior to the Sunday night deadline of transfer of jurisdiction from the Syracuse Plan Commission to the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission, and to reverse its decision. A public notice for such a meeting would have to be made three days prior to the town board meeting, meaning, in effect, the notice would have to appear in this issue of The MailJournal. No such notice has been offered for publication as late as 11:30 a.m. today. According to Indiana statute, it would require a two-thirds vote of the town board to reverse a previous ordinance, meaning it would require a vote of four of the five town board members for such a reversal. And this vote appeared unbkeiy, in spite of pressures that mounted on town board members as late as last evening. Grtoamer Statement Os the five board members, Clifford Nicodemus is vacationing in California and could not return for a meeting. Member David Nine is vacationing in southern Indiana, and could return if necessary. The other board members, president James C. Tranter, Darrell D. Grisamer and John Cripe, have shown little if any interest in changing their previous decision, least of all if certain changes in the Syracuse Plan Commission’s proposed zoning ordinance are not completely deleted. These ddetkms would include parts of the zoning ordinance the town board has termed “no growth provisions.” With pressures mounting as the

DOUBLE VISION?? — Passersby at the Intersection of East Main Street and Harrison Street, Syracuse may believe they are having vision problems. No, it’s just the new street signs being installed, in this case, next to the old one

August 1 deadline neared, town board members have held steadfast to their previous commitment. One member, Darrell D. Grisamer, immediate past president of the board, has felt inclined to issue a public statement in support of his position. It appears elsewhere in this issue. Grisamer, who shows fatigue from lack of sleep over the thorny issue, said when be released the statement: “This statement is much more mild than the first draft.” During the past several weeks following the decision of the Syracuse Town Board to dissolve the Syracuse Plan Commission and join the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission, there has been any number of clandestine meetings of board members with plan commission members and other interested community citizens of considerable influence, many of them on an impromptu basis. Every sort of compromise has been sought tq resolve the impasse. Board president Tranter, when asked about the meetings and what was discussed, said, “There have been so many meetings and so much discussed and so many compromises offered that it has all run together. It’s hard for me to sort it all out.” It was learned, however, that at a number of meetings a compromise would have three members of the plan commission resign along with three town board members who are members of the plan commission. It was not stated publicly who the six persons in question were. It appeared as late as Tuesday p.m. that the effort at a compromise would bear fruit as interested parties, not members of either the town board or plan commission, plumped for a Saturday morning special town board meeting. This morning board {resident Tranter said he would not be adverse to a Saturday meeting, (Continued on page 2)

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Grisamer gives position on planning (EDITOR’S NOTE: Darrell D. Grisamer, member of the Syracuse Town Board and immediate board past president, has issued the following statement concerning his position on the dissolution of the Syracuse Plan Commission in favor of the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission as the governing body for Syracuse and Turkey ! Creek Township in matters! of planning. He said gross misunderstandings have made i| necessary for him to clarify his position publicly.) I have decided that the people should know to what lengths the Syracuse Town Board has gone to keep local control of zoning over all of turkey Creek Township, even to the point of offering to exchange resignations. ' Nothing has worked, so as of today I see no way out except to accept county zoning control. Sometime ago a group of five township men met at length with board members to see if there was anything they could do to help control locally. They offered to work as intermediaries between the town board and those behind the scenes. The town board had adopted an ordinance to accept county jurisdiction as of July 7, 1977. The group asked for more time in order to deliver what they thought they could accomplish, so the board delayed the effective date until August 1. The town board agreed that since there was such an impasse between the two groups on the plan Commission the board would keep control locally if the resignations of three specific members of the plan commission were produced and in return the three town board members (Continued on page 2)