The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 30, Milford, Kosciusko County, 15 August 1979 — Page 1
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VOLUME 16
Big things to happen as —
Syracuse plans for Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sidewalk Days
Big things are being planned in Syracuse this week the merchants go all out for the annual Sidewalk Days on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Merchants in the town of Syracuse and in Wawasee Village will be offering their wares at special sale prices. Most merchants will be open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. Joining in the activities will be a number of clubs, organizations and and four area marinas. The marinas will be sponsoring a boat show with boats on display along SR 13 south of the stoplight. Cooperating on the show are the Wawasee Boat Company, Main Channel Marina, Griffith’s Wawasee Marina and Plaza Marina. The crafty clan will be located at the youth center where craft items will be on sale all three days. Also located at the youth center will be items offered for sale by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. Crafts will also be located in the uptown area. Gama Sigma Sorority will be selling elephant ears at Thornburg’s all three days. The Business and Professional Women will hold a bake sale in uptown Syracuse ; on Saturday and Kappa Omicron Sorority will have a chicken barbecue from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday. The Syracuse Boy Scouts will have snocones, hot dogs and bake sale at Klink's Market all three days. Jerry Popenfoose will be displaying leather goods. The Syracuse fire department will hold a hog roast on Saturday from 11 a m. until 6 p.m. at the fire station. T G. Music will feature a free street dance on Saturday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. behind the old post office. Bands to be featured are List Brothers, bluegrass; Hickory Wind, country; and Lost Cause, rock. Sid’s Sound will supply the PA system. The United Pentecostal Church will feature tacos, a flea market and bake sale at the church oir Friday and Saturday. A solar heat display by Miller Heating and Air Conditioning will be featur ed on Saturday. And, the youngest businessperson of all, 10-year-old Stephanie Crow, will have a lemonade stand at the Star Store. ACCIDENT IN PARKING LOT An accident occurred at Hook’s Drug store parking lot, Syracuse, at 8:23 p.m. August 11, when Laura L. Firestone, 431 East Boston Street, Syracuse, operating a 1969 Chevrolet, backed from a parking space and backed into the parked car of Shelby Reynolds, 675 Warren Ave., Wabash.
Tonight's meeting to decide on new county facilities
An important public meeting will be held jointly tonight (Wednesday) by the Kosciusko County board of commissioners and the county council, at the commissioners’ room at 7:30 p.m., for the purpose of considering the issuance of general obligations bonds in an amount of just under $3,000,000 for the purpose of building a new jail facility and enlarging the space for the county court house.
Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 18881 and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL I Est. 1907)
t B War < yu “tH a At x'> v" !N ' ~wEmt FIRST SIDEWALK SALES — Syracuse Retail Merchants, a division of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce, will be sponsoring it’s first sidewalk sales this week end in Syracuse and Wawasee Village. Shown above are members of the sidewalk sales committee. Seated in front are Joyce Smith and Jeanne Gardner. Standing are Linda Crow and Bonnie Workman. Other committee members are Tim Robie and Jean Rogers.
Worland, Walker elected to Wawasee Lake board
Richard D. Worland of Wawasee’s South Shore area and Charles Walker of the Crow’s Nest area were elected directors of the Wawasee Property Owners Association at the organization’s annual meeting Friday night. They succeed Barbara B. Tully and George Poole, both of whom were first elected to the board in 1973 and who had served the maximum of two three-year terms. On her election in 1973, Mrs. Tully was the first woman to serve on the association’s board. Re-elected directors of the association were Robert Jones of the Nordyke Park area and John Brewer of Waco Drive. Brewer, the association’s vice president, was named to his second term on the board and Jones had previously bfeen elected to the board in 1978 to serve the unexpired term of William Salin. More than 150 persons attended the organization’s annual dinner and program at the South Shore Pavilion. The program was a special one,
The public is invited and urged to attend the meeting. Proposed Building The proposed building will be located on ground across Lake Street in Warsaw, west of the court house, on property purchased by the county. A tunnel , will connect the two facilities. The two-story building, as designed by the Kalamazoo, Mich., architectural firm of Cain & Associates, will include the
honoring past officers and directors of the association. Those present who were honored included past presidents Harry Alfrey, Karl Freese, Irwin Deister and Robert Deahl; longtime secretary-treasurer Jack C. Vanderford; widows of two former presidents, Mrs. Paul (Clare) Warner and Mrs. James (Nora) Kirkwood; former directors George Ramey, Kenneth Harkless, Ronald Silveus, Dr. V. Logan Love, Dr. Ralph M. Martin, Frederick Pfeiffer and Michael J. Kiley; and Mrs F. McKinley Blough, widow of a former board member. Association president Wiley W. (Bill) Spurgeon conducted the annual business meeting, and Jack DeHaven was recognized for past and continuing efforts to number all piers abutting on Wawasee and adjacent channels and for publishing the first lake directory in several decades. A program on Wawasee history was presented by Spurgeon, and a film of the lake in the middle
justice building, housing the circuit, superior and county courts and the new county jail. Hie justice building will face Lake Street and the jail will face Main Street, according to Jean ' Northenor, county auditor. Earlier the commissioners purchased what has become known as the Menzie property along Main Street east of the court house for $175,000, but have since decided not to elarge the old
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1930 s was shown and narrated by Vanderford. The color film is a copy of an original Wawasee promotion film owned by James Fick, and Fick lent the original to the Syracuse Public Library so that a copy could be made. It shows a number of past and present landmarks on the lake and in Syracuse. The Wawasee Property Owners Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the presentation and orderly development of the lake. It has more than 500 dues-paying members. Officers in addition to Spurgeon and Brewer are Meyer Maidenberg, treasurer; and Jane G. Nearing, secretary and assistat treasurer. Directors in addition to Worland, Walker, Jones and Brewer are Marilyn Feighner, DeHaven, Richard Ruddell, David Eckrich, H. Don Carl; Dian Holdeman, Jack Lawson and Douglas Schmahl. Mrs. Holdeman was chairman of last week’s dinner meeting.
jail building, but rather to sell off the Menzie property, hopefully at no loss to the taxpayers. At the pesent time,according to auditor Northenor, the county is paying about $20,000 annually in rents,/with important county serves scattered from one another. More recently the county has purchased the Blue Bell building on the comer of Lake and Main Streets, an apartment building , and the Bash residence on
Street lights topic before town board By TERRI CHILCOTE The Milford Town Board passed a motion to install three new street lights in the Meadow View housing addition and move the ward boundary line, pending legalization, one block over from Emetine Street to Catherine Street at its Monday night meeting. Board members had previously agreed to install four street lights in Meadow View but decided upon three in an effort to cut down on the town’s lighting costs. One street light will be installed at the intersection of CR1250 and Kinwood Drive, one on Kinwood Drive before the loop and one* light one third of the way into the loop from the north. The previous Northern Indiana Public Service Company rate of $62.40 per 175-watt street light is no longer in effect. The rate has been hiked to $72.59. The town’s 1980 lighting bill will be 0,724 for 60 175-watt lights and 16! 400-watt Sights. Terry Beaty of the street and water department will see about re-positioning existing lights in more strategic positions in hopes that some of the lights can be removed. In an effort to balance the number of voters, because of the annexation of surrounding areas, the board motioned to move the ward boundary line one block over from Emeline Street to Catherine Street. This would only affect city elections and would not change precinct lines. The town attorney, Tim Blue, will find out if this can be done by board action or if an ordinance is needed. The fire contract has been set at 65 35, the town of Milford paying 65 per cent of the operational cost and Van Buren Township paying 35 per cent. Dr. T. A. Miller said Jefferson Township, served by Milford Fire Department, fire funds should continue to be split half and half between Milford and Van Buren Township. The board passed the motion. Blue will bring a drafted fire contract to the next board meeting. Della Baumgartner asked the town attorney if an ordinance has been written regarding the demolition of unsafe buildings. Blue said he was unfamiliar with the issue but would check his files and see that one is written if it has not already been done. Mrs. Baumgartner pointed out that she has asked Attorney Rex Reed several times before and each time was told the ordinance was in the process of being written. None has been delivered. Blue promised he would do something about it immediately. Mrs. Baumgartner is seeking demolition of the old hotel, owned by Frank Hernandez of 1621 Henry Court in Kalamazoo, Mich., and the H & H Machine Welding building, owned by Rolland J. Hamsher. These (Continued on page 2)
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■r lit? ~ R I? COMMERCIAL CONDOMINIUM — The Pickwick Block, long a Syracuse landmark, has been converted into a commercial condominium. According to Frank Bush, Todd Realty Commercial Investment Division, who handled the transaction, the new owners are made up of former tenants as well as new investors in the property. Former tenants who purchased their individual units include Johnson's Book Store, Gulliver’s Travel Agency, the Das Keller, Dr. Randall Corey and the United States Twirling Association. New owners are BHT Investments, who own the location of My Store, which will remain in the complex: the law firm of Dunten, Beckman, Lawson, Fruechtenicht and Snyder, who will occupy the former Rose Garden location; Gregory Mosher of Fort Wayne, who purchased the former Connelly Dress Shop; Dr. Stephen Hunt, who will occupy the former Pickwick Papers location; BHT Investments, who will convert the former Top of the Stairs Book Store location and Tiffany, Ltd. location to apartments. An owners group, known as the Pickwick Block Association, was recently formed. Officers are: Gene Berghorn of Das Keller, president: Dr. Randall Corey, vice president; and Jack Crum of United States Twirling, secretary-treasurer. Currently, rennovation and maintenance projects are underway at the complex •
Skier suffers massive injuries during show on Lake Wawasee
Harold John Goebel, Jr., 18. 11923 Indigo Dr., Fort Wayne, a summer resident of r 1 Syracuse, is listed in serious condition in the intensive care ward of the Goshen Hospital. Goebel was involved in a water skiing accident, Saturday, Aug. 11, at 3:20 p.m. on the west side of Johnson Bay, Lake Wawasee. He sustained massive internal injuries. ' ~ & Goebel was injured while performing in a ski show for the Wawasee Ski Club. During the show he was to ski under two jumping skiers at a high rate of speed. He did this and skied directly into the port side bow of a
Board studies elevator for Wawasee High School
Members of the Lakeland Community School Corporation’s board of trustees are studying the installation of an elevator at Wawasee High School in the not too distant future. Schools with second stories will be required by the federal government to install elevators after July 1, 1980, so handicapped persons can get to any place in the building. The installation of an elevator was one of several items discussed by board members with Kenneth Brown of Everett I. Brown Company, architects and
Washington Streets, a parking lot from the Gafill Oil Co., plus three properties on Washington Street between Main and Fort Wayne . Streets. The latter three properties are expected to become a paricing lot. Mrs. Northenor said the new facility will cost something over $7,000,000, including the land purchase. Os this amount $5,063,000 is for new construction, $250,000 for new furnishings, $335,000 for architectural fees,
boat owned and operated by Harold D. Jewitt, 47, 516 Roxbury Ct., Fort Wayne. The Jewitt boat was anchored just off the end of the ski jump. Pulled From Water Goebel was immediately pulled from the water by Melinda Ensinger, driver of the ski boat, and an ambulance was called for transportation. Jewitt’s boat had originally been anchored out of the skiers path but, because of the choppy water, the boat drifted towards the path they would be taking in the show. According to Kosciusko County Reserve Officers Terry McCarty and Joe Thornburg. Jewitt’s boat drifted because it
engineers of Indianapolis, following a recent study of the corporation schools to bring them up to federal regulations regarding the handicapped and to see what, if anything, could be done to save energy. Brown presented his firm’s recommendations which included the elevator at Wawasee High School and one at the Syracuse Junior High School. He said only one junior high in the corporation has to offer access to the second story since handicapped children from the entire
and about $60,000 for the tunnel under Lake Street. An additional expense is the renovation of the existing building, including an elevator, handicapped accessability and space conversion, in the amount of $300,000. Cumulative Fund Mrs. Northenor credited previous commissioners and councils with foresight in establishing a cumulative building fund. The cumulative
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was inadequately anchored. Ensinger, 41. r 1 Syracuse, was pulling the skiers at approximately 30 miles per hour. Thomas Tuttle, r 4 Syracuse, is the owner of the 1977 Correct Craft boat-. Brian Simmons and Richard Swihart were the two jumping skiers. Damage to Jewitt’s 18 foot boat was set at approximately SSOO to the left side of the bow which had a cracked hull. There was no damage to the Ensinger boat. Officers investigating were Indiana Conservation Officers Lyle Enyeart and Steve Seemeyer. State Trooper Lynn Wampler and McCarty and Thornburg.
corporation may be transferred to said building. Brown’s report showed an estimate for a new elevator for handicapped access to the second floor possibly be located in the teachers’ workroom. It would come out in a storage room and classroom and corridor qn the second floor. It would require cutting through the second floor, some block work, relocating a classroom door and other miscellaneous work in addition to foundation work, machine room, (Continued on page 2)
court house fund will have $2,953,146 and the cumulative jail fund $1,074,997 at the time of building. She added, however, that $185,000 is due on properties purchased. The cumulative fund will pay for approximately 60 per cent or the cost of the new facility. Construction is scheduled to start no later than April 1, 1980, with the completion date set at September 1,1981.
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