The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 12, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 April 1979 — Page 7

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THREE MORE HONORED — Names of three additional Wawasee High School graduates have been added to those named last week as having been initiated into the Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society at Ball State University on Sunday, April 1. The additional students are Eileen Harbes. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Harbes of r 1 box 247 Syracuse; Roger Baumgartner, son of Mr. and .Mrs. Roger Baumgartner of Main Street. Milford; and Rex Wuthrich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wuthrich, r 2 Milford. Miss Harbes and Baumgartner are pictured. Alpha Lambda Delta promotes a high standard of learning and encourages superior scholastic achievement among freshmen. Freshmen who achieve a 3.5 gradejioint ratio in the fall quarter or achieved a 3.5 ratio overall accumulative grade ratio at the end of the winter or spring quarters are named to the society.

North Webster youth booked

Michael Dean Boren, 17. r 1 box 83 North Webster, was arrested and booked in the Kosciusko County Jail, on Saturday, March 24. He was charged with the burglary at the home of Donald Mort, Blain St.. North Webster, earlier that day. Taken from the Mort home were five rings valued at an estimated amount of S3OO. I’he break-in occurred at 11:30 a m. March 24. Boren was arrested by Kosciusko County Patrolman Thomas Brindle and North People rarely get mad with anyone who says good things about them.

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Webster Deputy Marshal Frank Winters He was held at the county jail on the authority of probation officials. Fire destroys pump house Gary Green, Syracuse, called the Syracuse Fire Department to his home at 7:01 a m Friday. April 6. when his pump house caught fire When the firemen arrived the building was completely burned. They extinguished the remaining fire. Damage was set at $450 and the cause of the fire was believed to be from a heat lamp

Planners recommend local petitions in lengthy session

In a lengthy session last Wednesday. Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission members considered a variety of petitions from the Tippecanoe. TurkeyCreek and Van Buren Township areas. Several remonstrators voiced their opinions on a petition filed by C. D. Law-son to rezone two platted lots from a residential to a light industrial district in Turkey Creek Township. The land is located on the north side of Pittsburg Street, 171 feet east of SR 13. in Syracuse. Jack Wei Is. realtor representing Lawson, said the petitioner planned on using the area for an upholstery shop One Pittsburg Street remonstrator commented. "Everyone around here is against this. We all feel it s going to run our value down. This is a residential area. Let’s leave it that way. ” Another remonstrator present added. “We are an island of residential surrounded bycommercial and industrial enterprises.” The commissioners voted unanimously to deny the petition It will now go before t he Syracuse Town Board on April 17 for its consideration Open Space A petition by Dr. Otho Andrews for a preliminary plat of a residential subdivision, called Barbee Estates, in Tippecanoe Township, was approved The property, a 44.25 acre tract of land, is located on the south and east side of Barbee Drive (Bayfield Rd> and 300 feet, northwest of SR 13. Proposed in the subdivision is 89 lots with an average lot size of 16.000 square feet. Director Dan Richards said one problem with the petition is drainage. Another concern. Richards noted, was the lack of any open space. ”1 feel developments of this size should have open spaces set up with no development on it. ”

Syracuse library notes

By ROSALYN JONES Our library had a successful week for National Library Week. We received many of our overdue books back during our fine-free week; although not all. Our thanks to those who did return them. With inflation it is getting more and more expensive to replace lost or stolen books, so we do indeed appreciate getting all our books back. The next meeting of our “Books and coffee” discussion group will be Wednesday, April 18; at 10:00 am. This is an informal discussion group with a different book topic each month. People are welcome to join us any time. The discussion this month will be shared by everyone as we each briefly talk about a book recently read. Some new books in the adult department are: Skehan: “A Bullet For Georgie” (a novel with an inside look at crime and prisons) Fowler: “The Andreasson Affair” (non-fiction in which a woman tells of her abduction aboard a U.F.0.) Burgess: “Man Os Nazareth"

Three lots will be set aside as an open area. Also to be included in the plat is a retention pond for drainage. Another Tippecanoe Township petition, filed by Carl Willard, was approved. Willard asked permission to rezone a 19.31 acre tract of land from an agricultural to a residential district. The land is located on the north side of South Barbee Drive. 337 feet east ofCR6SOE The land has been used for pasture and beer cans litter the area. Willard commented. "All adjacent property owners have been notified. They were all thrilled to death that it would be taken over and straightened up. ” Preliminary Plats Three additional preliminaryplat petitions were approved by the commission. Robert Fearrin gained approval for a residential subdivision. entitled Carmel Addition to Dewart Lake, on a 11acre tract of land in Van Buren Township. The land is located southwest of the intersection of CP 1000 N and CR 400E The contour of the land is hilly. One concern to commissioners was the drainage and the placing of septic systems. Three lots will be set aside for a retention area with only 600 square foot size utility buildings to be constructed on the lots. Other conditions set up by commissioners included: The natural drainage pattern not be disturbed, the septic tank sites be located and the building sites be specified by setbacks. David Saviola. representing S & R Enterprises, was present to explain his petition -for a residential subdivision in Turkey Creek Township. The property, a 7.52 acre tract of land, is located on the west side of SR 13A. north ofCRIOSON. Proposed are 20 lots, with an average size of 15,000 square feet. Houses in a price range of $40,000 will be constructed.

(novel of Jesus' life on which the television production “Jesus of Nazareth’: is based) Fischman: “Man Who Rode His 10-Speed Bicycle To The Moon” (fantasy) Straub; "Ghost Story” (a suspense novel) Bickham: “Dinah, Blow Your Horn” (a novel centered in a railroad family in which a boy matures) Mrs. Bjella will have a busy week this week. she had a program for Mrs. Koser and her Cub Scouts. This was to acquaint the boys with the how- it is used. The regular story hour will be Wednesday. April 11, at 3:30. And April 12 will be a program for Mrs. Ridings and her Cub Scouts, also to become familiar with the library. Films will also be shown for all programs. HELD IN JAIL Michael Byland, 17, r 2 Syracuse, was held in the Kosciusko County Jail, Friday, March 31, awaiting a court hearing on an earlier arrest for burglary.

The final preliminary- plat petition approved by the board was filed by H and M Company. The residential subdivision, entitled County Cove, is located on a 31.8 acre tract of land on the west side of the SyracuseWebster Road, one-quarter mile north of CR 1200 N, in Turkey Creek Township. Robert Reed was present to explain the petition. Proposed are 54 lots with a 19.500 square foot average size. Minimum 1 - square footage will be set aside for one and two story dwellings as follows — one story, 1.200 square feet and two story, 800 square feet. Also to be included in a list of restrictions is a one-car garage. John Pohl, adjacent propertyowner, was concerned about the division’s effect on the property values of nearby Wawasee Heights. He said. "Will we have bumper to bumper houses?" Reed explained to Pohl the County Cove will be “A quality residential subdivision.” Included in the plat will be a walkway to nearby Wawasee High School for pedestrian traffic. Fits Master Plan A petition filed by The Papers Incorporated, to rezone three platted lots from a residential and public use to a commercial district was granted. The area is located on the east side of Main Street. 132 feet south of Emeline Street, in Milford. Ron Baumgartner, commission member, explained the land will be used for additional parking and warehouse space. The property is adjacent to a commercial enterprise. Richards commented, “I think this pretty much does fit in with our master plan." The petition will now go before the Milford Town Board for its consideration. In other business, the commissioners voted to recommend to Superior Court Judge Robert Burner an easement vacation filed by James and Marion Tarr and Gerald and Carol Jarquay’ be denied. The easement, 15 feet wide, is located in Redmond Park, on the north side of Dewart Lake. Who Has Authority ? Finally, Mrs. Betty Dust, member, voiced her concern regarding the Department of Natural Resource’s recent approval for Chet Elder to build on his property located on Lake Wawasee. The DNR said Elder could not subdivide his land or develop condominiums, but should keep it as a family estate. This land had come under dispute because nearby residents said it should be preserved as a wetlands area. Mrs. Dust said. “I question the authority of the DNR to decide what structures can be put on certain land. Who has the authority?” Mrs. Dust added, “I don't question them building anything on the land. I question the DNR’s giving the authority.” Cinda Overmyer, ordinance administrator, said all use of land in Kosciusko County comes under the jurisdiction of the area plan commission, the board of zoning appeals and local town boards. She and Richards will draft a letter to the DNR stating this.

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By DEB FOX He’s not in the maple syrup business to get rich. Lloyd Ness, r 1 Cromwell, makes maple syrup as a hobby. For the past five years he has been making maple syrup from the 20 acres of hard maple trees around his home Ness, a school teacher for 22 years and a school principal for West Noble for four years, has already made 140 gallons this year and depending on the weather, may be able to make more. The first tap this year on his farm was March 11, a late season. “A good maple syrup season comes when it’s 25 degrees at night and in the 50’s during the day with the sun shining and very little wind." commented Ness. "This year when it got cold it stayed cold and the sap will only run when the weather changes from cold to warm.” Normally, according to Ness, you can start tapping trees around the first part of March. Taps Tapping the tree is the easiest part of the operation. To tap a tree, you drill a hole into the tree trunk and put in a spicket and hang the buckets. Ness also uses hoses which run the sap into tanks. These hoses are made to freeze when the temperature is at freezing and thaw with the ultraviolet rays of the sun in the morning. Sap is taken from the trees through the hoses by a generator used to create a vacuum, sucking the sap out of the trees, making it flow more freely. This is away of aiding the pressure already inside the trees. With 300 trees tapped, 260 of the trees are tapped by the pressurized hoses and 40 rave

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buckets. There are 70 buckets on the 40 trees and 510 taps with hoses on the remaining 260 trees Some of his trees are tapp'd more than once. A tree can have more than one tap for every additional five inches after the first 10 inches in diameter Making Syrup When the sap comes from the trees it is a clear liquid, almost like water After the sap is collected, the hardest pirt. it is boiled to evaporate the water The heat for boiling is either done by oil or wood. Ness uses oil After the boiling temperature has reached 219 degrees the syrup is removed until the temperature drops and then is taken into the bottling room and bottled at 118 degrees. One gallon of syrup is made from every 40 gallons of sap collected Ness's continuous flow system

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of cooking or boiling the sap makes up to three gallon an hour The most syrup he has ever, made was 177 gallons. Last year’s production made 100 gallons. All of the syrup he makes is sold to people who stop by his home at the end of the season. After the trees start to bud. the sap gets darker and has a bitter taste to it. This, after made into syrup is taken to Wisconsin and sold wholesale “The key to making good syrup is having clean sap and cooking it as soon as it is gathered and bottle it when it's hot,” remarked Ness. He will be speaking to the Tippecanoe Conservation Club, on Thursday, April 12. Besides making maple syrup / he farms 450 acres with his son, 280 acres he owns and the remaining acreage is rented

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