The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 March 1978 — Page 18

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., March 1.1978

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This week's column was written by Dolores H. Bachelder, assistant vice president and manager of the Lakeland Branch of the Lake City Bank, North Webster. IS EVERYONE ready for a “mass exodus” to warmer parts of the US? Tired of all the SNOW & ICE . . . with perhaps more to come? Remember, dear old Indiana is famous for a big snow during the Sectional. After a few spills on the ice, I am ready for it to go away, too. But, ice can be an interesting subject . . . How many of the residents in this community realize where all of those ice cubes are made that are available in the Supermarkets, vending machines, as a bed for salad bars ... , We have a very fascinating t operation in North Webster, known as Reimer’s Ice Service, Inc. The “ice plant”, as I have always thought of it in my growing up years around North Webster, has always intrigued me. More so, after talking to Eugene Bontrager, Vice President and General Manager of Reimer’s. Some of the unusual uses of ice: 300 pound slabs are sold to large hotels for ice sculptures used as centerpieces at banquets and wedding receptions; crushed ice is used by the larger bakeries to control the temperature of their dough; contractors use ice in pured concrete to keep the concrete from flaking when temperatures are in excess of 80 degrees; and in extreme emergencies, bagged ice, being pure, can be melted for drinking water in disaster stricken areas. The plant in North Webster services four states and is presently constructing a new plant and storage area just north of North Webster, which will enable them to produce and store considerably more ice than in the present location. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Siders cut the first block of ice in May, 1936. At that time the plant was known

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as the North Webster Artificial Ice Company. In 1965, the operation was sold to Peter Reimer, who still remains president of the company. Stephen Bornman is secretarytreasurer. So when you are relaxing on your flight South, via Delta or United, take a quick look at those little cubes, slowly disappearing in your glass ... they were made in North Webster. Nothing can replace the days in the summer tho, when I used to go out and sit on the blocks of ice covered with sawdust that had been cut out of Webster Lake the winter before . . . dates me, doesn’t it? For some reason, we stored our ice in the wood shed. Oh, well, someday I’ll check out the reason for that with my parents. 1 can’t remember, but I’ll bet they can. FEE’S HIS ’n Her Shop owners, Tom and Peggy Leonard, are enjoying the Florida sunshine for a few days. CHARLES PARKER will be taking over his duties in North Webster, March Ist, as the new town marshal. Mr. Parker is retired from the Army, spending 10 years as an MP. He was also the former Army recruiter in Warsaw. Wawasee High students will remember his sons, Rick and Curtis. Rick is getting married March 18th, with Vincent Rhodes as best man. DID ANY of you know the Houston Toad is an endangered species, being protected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? The FWS has been trying to mark off boundaries that can serve as “critical habitats” for the toad. I wish the FWS would do the same for some of the snakes in our area. NEW OFFICERS recently appointed for the Heart of the Lakes Business Association are: Raymond C. Howell, president;

Dolores M. Bachelder, vicepresident; Tai Smith, treasurer; and Shirley Strieby, secretary. Officer and committee head meetings will be held the first Monday of each month. General meetings for all business people in the Heart of the Lakes area are scheduled for the first Monday in March, May, July and September. Anyone who isn’t already a member is more than welcome to attend the March 6 meeting. Providing public meetings are not cancelled due to the energy crisis, the meetings are held at the Counting House Bank, 7:30 p.m. BEVERLY AND Junior Hamman, Bill and Gwen Carter are heading North to Houghton Lake, Mich., today for some week end snowmobiling. Tell Jack and Blanche Rhoades we said hello. PAUL R. COY, Fire Control Technician, has been given an honorable discharge from the US Navy Air Force, after seven years. Paul, wife Colleen and daughter, Marsha are presently visiting Mrs. Barbara Leedy, but will be leaving for lowa to spend some time with Colleen’s parents. THE BETA Psi Chapter of Lambda Chi Omega Sorority honored Shirley Fidler with a surprise birthday dinner Tuesday night. Care to tell how many birthdays, Shirley? TOM FRIBLEY spent an extra four days at a motel in Philadelphia, but not by choice. Tom, an employee of Cooper’s and Lybrand, was a captive victim of the Blizzard of ’7B. Knowing Tom as 1 do, 1 think he would rather have been snowbound in North Webster. ANOTHER PLACE of business has changed ownership in town recently. Linda Broekers has taken over the management of Mister Charles Hair Styling Salon as of February 1. Linda is now calling the establishment House of Charles and plans to do some redecorating work. No other immediate changes in the operation of the business are planned. NOW COMES a letter from former resident Elaine Mullett of West Lafayette. It reads, “After finding this week’s Mail-Journal

in my mail box this afternoon, I decided it must be Friday. I have been working in the dormitorynext door this semester for three or four days per week as the management segment of the coordinated dietetics Program here at Purdue. With the recent energy crisis, the food service has had to conform to many cutback and conservation measures. “Between January’s snow storms and this month’s energy situation, we are really getting a variety of experience. So much experience that I sometimes lose track of the days. My weekly Mail-Journal is always a treat. It gives me a look at the area’s happenings that I would not find out about otherwise. “Keep up the good work. The guest writers of ’Cuse in the last two editions have been an interesting change.” MR. AND Mrs. Michael (Judie) Roberts of r 4, celebrated their second wedding anniversary last week end by staying at the Holiday Inn. LOVE FURNITURE is branching out!! This well-known furniture and appliance store in Syracuse is opening another such establishment in North Webster to be called Love 11.

The store in Webster will open this Saturday with the grand opening to be held in about a month or so. Gerald and Dina Hubartt are owners of the stores.

Labels for Education program is underway

The Labels for Education collection drive is nearing completion at Syracuse Elementary School. This is the fourth year the school has participated in this program which is offered to elementary schools by the Campbell’s Soup Company. The school receives free audiovisual equipment in exchange for labels collected from any of the Campbell’s soup or bean cans, and this year for the first time, labels from Franco-American cans. The goal this year is 15,000 labels, for which the school would receive a cassette player-tape recorder, four headsets for a listening center and a record player. So far around 9,000 labels have been collected. Deadline for the drive is March 11. Mrs. William (Twilla) Cox is directing the collection and bundling operations, representing the Syracuse PTO. Anyone can participate by sending labels to the school at 201 East Brooklyn Street, or by taking them into the school office

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Kindergarten survey underway at Syracuse The Syracuse Elementary School is presently conducting a survey of families in Turkey Creek Township to determine kindergarten enrollment for the 1978-79 school year. A survey letter has been sent home with elementary students, but since this letter would miss those families with no children in school, these families need to pick-up a survey letter by either going to or calling the school. Children are eligible for kindergarten at Syracuse if they live in Turkey Creek Township, or Pinecrest Trailer Court, and if they are five-years-old on or before September 1. Parents of children who did not attend kindergarten this year, but who plan to enter the first grade in September, should contact the school to arrange for readiness testing. The Syracuse kindergarten round-up will be held Monday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Pre-enrollment procedures will be taken care of at that time. Syracuse driver in accident A 1978 Ford Van driven by Terry A. Rookstool, 31, r 4 Syracuse, was involved in a twovehicle collision at the North driveway of Gladiator Inc., along CR 1, in Cleveland Township in Elkhart County at 11:45 a.m. last Wednesday, Feb. 22. Rookstool’s van was hit by a semi-tractor trailer operated by Andrew L. Johnson, 36, of Richard, Va. Damage was set at S3OO to the van and SIOO to the trailer.

or sending them with students. Only the front part of the label is needed. State advancement gives county funds Checks for S2O-million were sent to 92 Indiana counties last week as an advancement on the spring 1978 distribution from the property tax replacement fund, PTRF board chairman and revenue commissioner Donald H. Clark said. Kosciusko County received $165,210.90 “The 92 checks amounted to $20,394,479.67, which represents 15 per cent of what the counties will be receiving from the PTR fund this spring. Another 15 per cent advancement has been authorized for March,” he added. Clark explained that the law requires the state to distribute the funds by May 1 and November 1 of each year, but the board authorizes early distribution to aid counties faced with potential burrowing. The estimated 1978 PTRF distribution will be $270-million.

Objections filed with state on nursing home ruling

Objections have been filed with the secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health concerning the findings of planner recommendations refusing to amend the state plan, in order to revise need figures on nursing care needs in Kosciusko County. A hearing has been set for March 8. The amendment proposed was refused, but under the Administrative Procedure Act, objections could be filed 10 days after the hearing ended. William Christen was the hearing officer who delivered the outcome to the state board of health. The amendment is being sought by N. John Perry and Rev. Orvil Kilmer, both of Milford, in order to obtain certification for Medicare and Medicaid patients in a 74-bed nursing facility they propose to construct. A study by Continental Manors, Inc., outlined the service area of the facility as a population of 11,207, with 1,233 aged 65 or older, creating an estimated bed need of 105. The service area is drawn so it includes six townships in Kosciusko County and three townships in Elkhart County. It outlines a bed need of 85, with the county requiring 535 beds with 354 beds currently existing and 179 needed. The Northern Indiana Health Systems Agency said the estimated need figures of the CM study exceeded the bed need by 57 for the county. The NIHSA also cited the cities of Warsaw, Nappanee, Ligonier and Goshen near the defined service area as having existing facilities, with an excess of 63 betfc by 1978 in Elkhart County. Conclusions reached by the hearing officer were: “That the proposal of Continental Manors, Inc., to amend the state plan, which includes a formula for need and a population concentration that differs from the approved formula, lacks sufficient supporting facts to support a change in the method to determine need ... and that such ’ a projected need is not supported by any past experience based on actual need for the involved population group that would warrant the adoption of a changed formula. “That the population projections in the ‘service area’ lacks mathematical verification or exactness and also includes areas of the state that are clearly within the ‘service areas’ of other nursing facilities.” The letter listing the objections to the conclusions was sent

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matter showed that processes established under federal Medicare and Medicaid legislation to determine need were followed. “There is nothing in the federal (or state) laws or regulations to prevent the construction of the facility in the event that need is not proven. However, the owner cannot be reimbursed by the federal government for that portion of revenues which would be assigned to paying the capital debt incurred in the construction of the project,” the governor’s letter adds. Perry said an idea to build a 40bed facility with the remainder of the 74 rooms to be rentals to senior citizens would not be 1 economically feasible. He explained the revenue from the ; rental rooms would not be as i much as the nursing rooms, [ which would create more revenue through medical costs. i No injuries in : two-vehicle crash ; in Goshen Friday I Luba M. May, 26, 14394 US 6 Syracuse, was involved in a twovehicle mishap in the 2000 block of West Wilden Avenue in Goshen ! at 6:40 am. Friday. a I May was driving from the i driveway of a mobile home park when she collided with a car > driven by Cathy P. Mullins, 27, , 2502 West Wilden Ave. Goshen. i Damage was set at S4OO. No one ! was injured.

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