The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 14 July 1982 — Page 1

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VOLUME 19

President Walker quits — Syracuse retailers change summer sale dates to August

By GARY LEWIS Syracuse-Wawasee retail merchants changed the dates for the 1982 sidewalk sale days to August 12, 13 and 14 and Diana Walker, president of the retailers, announced her intention to resign from her post in the regular meeting Monday morning. The merchants discussed the original decision made last month which set the sidewalk sale days on July 29. 30 and 31. The July dates were decided upon after a calling committee findings for a consensus on a date. The committee's findings were disputed by Gene Smith, Marise s clothing store; and Bob Pilcher. Pilcher ’s shoes. Resignation According to a letter of resignation secretary Jeannie Gardiner read to the group. Mrs Walker made the decision to resign because of personal reasons. “I have served in a number of civic, church and social organizations but this has been the most frustrating." she said. Elected as president in January, Mrs. Walker said she has enjoyed being involved with the Chamber of Commerce but her term as

Chamber elects officers

Four officers were elected to the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce in a meeting last Wednesday Elected for the fiscal year 1983 were: Henry Smith, president; William Beemer, vice president; James Caskey, secretary; and Robert Mauzy, treasurer. Mauzy's election to treasurer will be' the 17th year he has served at that post He asked that another member be found for the following year Joseph Gray reported on the status of the Ra ns bottom Landfill in Packerton which has been given two and one-half years to relocate. The group voted to write a letter expressing concern to the town board of Syracuse, the dty council of Warsaw and the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce that the County Commissioners find a permanent solution to the problem.

■■. . : c J ? , : ; ; ■< ,/H, ? t a ■ I ■ y STREET PAVING IN NORTH WEBSTER — Pbead and Brown, contracted by the Town of North Webster to tn ke care of paving the streets in the town have just finished paving Huntington Street, east to Fisherman’s Cove. They also completed tbe paving of Blane Street, south to Huntington Street, and bi the near future will be doing chip and seal oa some other streets in town. (Photo by Sharon Stockman)

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president has been ‘‘very frustrating.” Mrs. Walker is presently secretary of the Syracuse Park Board and has served as president of the ParentTeachers’ Organization at Syracuse. She has also been involved with the Lakeland Daycare program, the youth center, a philanthropic sorority and a home economics chib. New Chamber of Commerce president Henry Smith was in attendance at the retailer’s meeting and invited Mrs. Walker to attend a chamber board of directors meeting. He also asked her to postpone her decision to resign until the end of the week. Walker said she would attend the meeting but that she still intends to resign Her successor is yet to be named. Sale Dates Changed Tfle sidewalk sale days change was approved in an unanimous voice vote by the merchants in attendance. A second motion was approved which established the second week of August as an annual date for the sales. Like last year’s sidewalk days, the sales will coincide with the Lions Club Chili cook-off. “It is just too early for me to

Gray said the extension puts the problem back to where it was > JB HENRY L. SMITH ... new Chamber president

put out goods.” said Smith about the July dates. “I really cannot do it. Once I mark it down. I can’t put it back up,” he said. Smith said he called on 11 merchants and told the group that most said they would be happy to go along with the August dates. He said the merchants always use to have the sale days in the the last week of August. The merchants changed that date to the second week of August in order to compensate for changes in the starting dates for school. The establishment of a set date for the sale days each year was given support because of the possible participation of the Ben Franklin and Hook’s Drugs stores. The stores are not able to participate in the sidewalk days presently because they must have an advance date in order to petition the company. With a set date. however, the managers will be able to petition for full participation in the sale days. In other business, Smith and Pilcher were appointed to investigate the possibilities of television advertising. All the merchants in attendance agreed that further investigation into the (Continued on page 2)

last fall with no county site available in the next two and onehalf years. In other business; t A cooperative, county-wide effort in tourism and industrial development.* which is being formulated by Deborah Wiggins of the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce, was approved. Mrs. Wiggins was scheduled to attend the meeting but was unable to. The chamber voted to cooperate in the venture. + A quarter page ad in the Lions Club cook-off pamphlet was approved. A representative of the Lions Club Chili Cook-off was in attendance at the meeting and asked the group to take out the ad. Those attending the meeting were: Phyllis Louden, president. Beemer; Caskey; Jack Matney; Mauzy; Dick Meyer; Ric Schaekel; Grant Shepler; Smith; Diana Walker; and Gray, executive director.

WEDNESDAY. JULY 14.1982

i t . ,aa WHS band to ntorch in Indianapolis Tte Wawuee High SeM Marching Warriors, who received first place In the Mermaid Festival Band Contest, in division B lor schools with a popoiathm less than M« students, will he eoinff to Indiana nofis mi -ftdv 17 to participate in the American Legion State Convention Parade. The band is behig sponsored by American I *giiM» Post 258 _* Tivic ftm tlam fnvet »HBi Im UIC aw mo time the band has performed in a parade outside the I.a Ireland School Corporation, and band members are pleased to be performing in a parade of such magnitude. The parade, which is approximately one and onehalf miles long, will be going past the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Monument and will be televised locally in 1 njiio nABMhHs ~ X’ ■' ■ ' ! ' 7 • Dr. Yoder leaving Syracuse Dr. Steven M. Yoder. MD has announced to his patients his intentions of relocating his office. Dr. Yoder, has been a medical doctor in Syracuse for the past two years. In a letter recently sent to his patients, Dr. Yoder states he will be moving to Goshen around November 1 and his new office will be in the Chicago-Pike Plaza. He also informed patients there were several reasons for his decision to move at this time. Those reasons included certain career and family goals which he feels "he has not and cannot accomplish in Syracuse, but will be able to in Goshen. Dr. Yoder, who was unavailable for comment, shares an office facility with Dr. Robert A. Craig, at 303 S. Huntington St, Syracuse. In addition to previous mentioned items of the letter. Dr. Yoder stated, “I will be glad to continue caring for any and all of you who wish me to. All’of your records will be moved to the new office.” The address of his new office will be 229 Chicago Avenue, Goshen, Ind, 46526

wM ■ [ ■A •*- STILL A MYSTERY — President BUI Little and Superintendent Don Arnold watch as Worshipful Master Steve Stokes pries open the copper b«x foumi in. tWcmuer stone of thuold Milford High School building. (Photo by Gail WWmoyer) Contents still a mystery — Open copper box of Milford school cornerstone

By G AIL WIDIVtOYER Onlookers' curiosity was not fully satisfied at the July 13 Lakeland Community School Board meeting when eight members of Kosciusko Lodge No. 418, Free & Accepted Masons of Milford were present for the opening of the copper box found in the cornerstone of the old Milford High School building. The cornerstone was moved

Board increases salaries; town hall plans approved

By GARY LEWIS Syracuse Town Board members approved a general fund budget, which included an animal salary raise for themselves, and a preliminary schematic design for the new town hall at a meeting Tuesday evening. The board also beard a report on the storm sewer study by Mel Wessler and approved a five per cent increase in wages for town employees. The salary increase amounted to $250 for town board members and SSOO for president Carl Myrick. The raise upped the yearly salaries to $750 for board

Raise $47,193.28 — Lakeland Daycare Center drive ** ’ °. . «* • for funds goes over the top

Tbe drive in the Lakeland community for funds with which to build a new Lakeland Daycare Center has been highly successful, and the goal of $37,500 has been met, according to a Letter to the Editor on another page of this issue of The Mail-Journal signed by Rev. David L. Hyndman, fund chairman. He writes, “Because of the splendid response of industry, business, churches, clubs and individual donors the building fund campaign has more than met the goal ($37,500) with monies collected and pledged amounts. Building construction should be underway soon." The estimated cost for a proposed daycare center was originally set at $75,000, and at

from its original location to a protected place because evidence of possible vandalism to the stone was visible. School board members wanted to assure its safety. Lodge members Robert Hurd, Ray Bray, Frank Green, Ted Brooks, Bill Bess, Walter Ritter and Raymond Warring watched while Worshipful Master Steve Stokes pried open the box. Since

members and SI,OOO for the president of the board. “I don’t come close to breaking even at this job,” said Myrick. “1 don’t mind spending a lot of time on this job but I don’t like spending my own money,” he said. He added that the transportation costs alone as Syracuse president were prohibitive at the present salary. He said the last time the board raised the compensation for the members was in 1974. Bill Hess said the present salary didn’t come close to (Continued on page 2)

the end of April the fund-raising committee was awarded a matching capital grant from the Kosciusko County United Way for half that amount. This meant that the community must come up with the other half. Rev. Hyndman noted that as of Friday afternoon the committee had cash on hand in the amount of $21,643.28. pledged cash in the amount of $19,035, and gifts in kind in the amount of $0,515, for a grand total of $47,193.28 This total is well above the committee’s original goal, but as Rev. Hyndman is quick to point out, money will be needed for furniture, ground work, playground equipment and the like. It is for this reason that the fund drive will remain open for a

lodge members positioned the box and cornerstone in 1914, they had control over the box and its contents. ‘‘Because of the historical significance," of the cornerstone, lodge members decided to open the box in front of the school board and several visitors as opposed to another place or time. After several minutes, the contents were revealed — par-

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time. Speaking for his committee. Rev. Hyndman wrote, “Our pledge is that what we have received out of generosity will be returned in service.” * Had To Move Since the inception of the Lakeland Daycare Center some years ago, it has held forth on the second floor of the Calvary United Methodist Church in the Village. It was early this year that the center was notified it would be operating under a provisional license from the state fire marshal and from tbe state daycare licensing agency until the first of July. The Mate fire.marshal ruled at that time that the daycare center’s present location does not

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tially. In the box were: two 1914 copies of The Milford Mail, one with a front-page spread of the then new school building; a list of six names; three 1913 coins; several calling cards; a 1913 liberty nickle; and several sealed envelopes. The “mystery” of the sealed envelopes will be solved by a public opening at a time designated by the lodge.

meet codes for such an operation. It was at thisytime, toward the end of January, that the center’s board of directors decided to take steps to raise sufficient funds by voluntary public subscription to erect a new center. An option on a tract of land just north of Syracuse has been taken for the location of the new center. An appeal was made to the Kosciusko County United Way for a grant of $37,500, to provide a total of $75,000, an amount thought to be necessary for the new building and grounds. With the goal met. Rev. Hyndman wrote, “A great big thank you is in order to this community for its generous support of the Lakeland Daycare building project.’’