The Mail-Journal, Volume 20, Number 24, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 June 1983 — Page 2

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., June 29,1983

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Terry Kellogg to compete in 'Miss Hemisphere' Pageant

By GAIL WIDMOYER “The Mermaid Festival helped me grow in self-confidence,” commented Theresa (Terry) Kellogg, 1982 “Queen of Lakes,” who will leave her Nappanee home and arrive in Philadelphia on July 26 for competition in the “Miss Hemisphere” contest. Terry is the third “Queen of Lakes” to advance to a national beauty pageant after her North Webster coronation. The former Barbara Mougin of Bremen, crowned “Queen of Lakes” in 1970, and Terry Kaiser, 1975 “Queen of Lakes” from Etna Green, both entered the “Miss Indiana” beauty contest, won titles there and participated in the “Miss America” beauty pageant in Atlantic City. Since her reign as “Queen of Lakes” was the first title Terry won, she feels the Mermaid Festival competition was instrumental in preparing her for future contests. “The first pageant I competed in right out of high school was the Mermaid Festival’s “Queen of Lakes” in 1979. That year I received first runner-up which was a great honor for me. Then when I won the title last year, I was ecstatic!” exclaimed the outgoing queen. After she competed in the first Mermaid Festival contest, Terry didn’t enter another pageant until the 1982 Elkhart County race where she was named fourth runner-up. Then came her title as “Queen of Lakes,” and in November 1982, Miss Kellogg won the Northern Indiana preliminary competition for the “Miss Hemisphere” contest. On Sunday, June 12, Terry was nVmed “Miss Indiana Hemisphere” at the state contest

Karla Knafel named 1983 'Queen of Lakes'

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1982 Queen Terri Kellogg of Nappanee In answer to the question, “If you had any power available to you, what would be the first thing you would do to change mankind?” the new queen said she would “Give everybody something . . . respect for

July is warmest month

July is usually our warmest month, according to Lores Steury, who stated that average temperature for the month is 73 degrees. Warmest average temperature for the month of July was 78.6 degrees in 1934. The two warmest days in July were July 13, 1936, and July 24, 1934, when the temperature reached 109 degrees. Coolest average temperature for the month of July was 68 degrees, set in July, 1924. The two coolest days in July on record were July 15, 1930, and July 31, 1918, with a temperature of 41 degrees. Average precipitation for the month of July is 3.18 inches. The most precipitaton received on record for July was in 1981 with 9.84 inches. The least amount of precipitation on record for July was July, 1930, with .46 inches.

in Kokomo which qualified her to advance to the national competition. Opportunities “1 feel things are falling into the’right place,” continued Miss Kellogg who has had modeling jobs in Northern Indiana, but no formal training in the field. Terry “loves” to model and entering the “Miss Hemisphere” contest opens more doors to a modeling future. “There is a distinct possibility that I could go on to a career in modeling after the ‘Miss Hemisphere’ contest, at least for the rest of the summer” explained Terry. “Officials for the contest arrange contacts with advertisers, television producers and performing agents in New York, Vegas and California.” Besides a modeling career, foremost in Terry’s mind is completing her degree at Indiana University. “I’ll be just starting my senior year, and I don’t think it’ll be too hard to finish this fall or wait until later.” If Terry wins the “Miss Hemisphere” title, she will have to fulfill commitments before returning to college. But commitments are a part of all titles, and sometimes those commitme|nts can conflict with each other. "" “When I won the Indiana Hemisphere title, there were a couple of engagements that conflicted with the Mermaid Festival. But I decided that they were not as important as completing my reign at the Mermaid Festival,” she said. “I had so much fun!” In order to compete in any pageants, contestants must have sponsors. Anyone interested in sponsoring Terry in the “Miss Hemisphere” pageant can contact her at 773-4404.

self. . . love. . . respect for each other. . . If there were no hang ups in the world, it would be a better place to live.” All five of the finalists were asked the same question. Honored during the evening was Marjorie Link whohas served as scorer of the queen’s contest for 31 of the festival’s 38 years.

Formers welcome rain!

Despite the intensity of the rains, it was a welcome site to farmers Monday afternoon when the heavens opened up and dropped approximately three-fourths of an inch of water on the Lakeland area It was beginning to look like a repeat of another dry summer until, when without warning, a storm rushed through the area, Lou Watson, manager of Farm Bureau Co-Op Milford Branch, stated, “It couldn’t have come at a better time. The ground was extremely dry and the corn was rolling because of lack of moisture. If it hadn’t rained the rest of the week the farmers would have had some damage. ” The excessive dryness had crops close to the point where it may have stunted the growth. Farmers in the area reported there were some wheat patches downed bul feel it did not harm them. The hardest hit area was Leesburg and the weather was said to have given some residents the same feeling as the sudden storms and tornadoes of April 1974 which damaged the town. Shortly before the storm hit the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning. Most of the damage from the storm was limited to small tree limbs felled. However, there were several instances where the storm caused extensive damage from the strong winds and lightning. Once such instance was a mobile home being pulled

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RAINS DOWN TREE — A 40-year old Sumac tree, at the home of Martin Dider, East Shore Drive, was felled by rains Monday evening. This tree, which has shallow roots and seldom grows over 10 feet, was 40 feet high, 18 inches across. There was no damage to property and the road was closed for a short time. (Photo by Indiana State Trooper Tom Penanowski)

New water tower for Milford

By DEB FOX Robert Sante, president of Community Development Associates, Mishawaka, was hired by the Town of Milford, to assist in the administration of the town’s 1983 Community Development Block Grant Program. A public hearing was held Tuesday afternoon with no remonstrance against the grant applications. Milford has received two grants, each totaling $350,000, to undertake water system improvements and provide direct loan assistance for industrial development. The two grants, which the town has received commitments on, are for Industrial Development Infrastructure Program and Investment Incentive Program. The IDIP allows the town to receive money to supply utilities to industries which may need it or to get utilities to new industries. Under the IDIP the town has made the application to supply CTB, Inc., with adequate water at the cost of $350,000 and to build a 200,000 gallon water storage tank and extending the existing water lines to that area. The IIP is a loan program for industries which need the town’s financing. The town will receive the money and loan the money, with a low interest rates, to the industry to complete financing. The money returned to the town may be put into a revolving fund and be continued to be loaned out to other industries. Both the IDIP and IIP are turned over to the town for operation and all claims must go through the board. The town is totally responsible for the program and is to see that it is operated properly. An audit will be made at the conclusion of the project. The town will be monitored by the state and possibly by the federal government. The criteria used in determining who will receive the grants are based on the dollar amount, value of the expansion and the number of permanent new jobs. “The more jobs created the more

GENERAL CONTRACTOR Residential & Commercial Building Phone: 457-3431 Rood 13. Syracuse

by a semi-tractor southbound on SR 15, south of CR 800 N when a strong gust of wind caused the mobile home to turn 180 degrees and topple over. No one was injured. Damage was estimated up to $20,000 to the modular unit. (See photo for further details) Lightning was blamed for the cause of a fire at the home of Roy Clow, Harborside Condominiums, Lake Wawasee. Damage was estimated up to $2,500. Syracuse Fire Department was called to the home at 5:52 p.m. and firemen were informed by the owner a fire had started in the attic and smoke was coming from the corner of the roof where lightning had struck. Fire department officials reported the lightning traveled down a 110 volt line to the stove pipe wnere it shorted out the stove and ignited two-inch by four-inch frame work in the attic. The fire department extinguished the fire and remained at the scene until 7 p.m. Power Outages Bob Westfall, Northern Indiana Public Service Company branch manager for Syracuse, reported 200 to 300 customers were without service for a time. NIPSCo customers without service were in the Wawasee Village, North Shore Drive and Milford areas. Westfall stated there were six separate incidents causing the power outages; four were transformers struck by lightning, one line down and the rest caused from tree limbs falling on lines.

money granted,” remarked Sante. The town will build a new water tower to replace the 83,000 gallon tank, but the standpipe will remain. With the new water tower, expected to be completed by next spring, town residents will experience a water pressure increase. The enormous amount of paper work dealing with the grants was started Tuesday afternoon with the signing of: two resolutions for grants, the IDIP and IIP; filing of the application for the IDIP and IIP; environmental review process which will cost $2,500 for the IDIP and IIP over and above the grant money which will be provided by the Department of Commerce; naming Steve Miller, board president, as the Environmental Review Officer; notice of findings to the Environmental Protection Agency and other like agencies; the actual application to the Department of Commerce which will be sent down after July 15; and a request for qualifications of engineer firms. Following the public hearing on the grant, the board discussed filing a small claims suit against Juan Hernandez for unpaid water and sewer bills from the last quarter. The bill totaled approximately S2OO. John Replogle, trustee for the Christian Church of Milford, stated the church has reacquired the property and asked if the town would consider turning the water on for the home’s new owner. The board approved giving the new tenant water and spending the $22 filing fee. The church offered to pay the outstanding bills but the board felt the person using the water and sewer should be the one to pay. Maria Lozano, clerktreasurer, will be sending the church a bill for the past sewer bill and Bob Kirsch will be filing a claim in Kosicusko Small Claims Court against Hernandez. Knowles received permission to contact Sewer Tech to clean out the lines on Emeline Street at

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“This was unique this time.” commended Westfall, who added, “usually the outages are experienced on the other side of Syracuse Lake.” NIPSCo workers worked throughout the night replacing transformers and Westfall reported the last transformer was replaced at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning. This affected nine customers. “It was really a relatively good type of storm,” mentioned Westfall, who added, there was no poles broken, only fuses blown. Lee Grigsby of Kosciusko County REMC reported the company had outages in the Syracuse area, which were caused when lightning struck the NIPSCo metering system behind Wawasee High School, thus knockingout REMC. Paul Alexander, service center supervisor in Nappanee, reported that United Telephone had a lot of miscellaneous telephone trouble caused by the storm, and a number of customers were without service. For approximately one hour the carrier system went down when it was struck by lightning. Not related to the strong gusty winds a tree fell on East Shore Drive Syracuse, Tuesday morning. The Sumac tree, which has a shallow root system, fell as a result of rain Monday evening. The tree, which was unusual for its size, measured 40 feet high, 18 inches across and was figured to be 40 years old.

the cost of $2,500 to $3,000 and to have two small parts to the flow meter at the treatment plant replaced at the cost of S3OO. Knowles stated both these items were necessary and money was available in the cummulative sewer fund. Knowles stated he talked to Richard Widup who stated he has contracted Harry Doty to repair the house to the south of his home and he will be putting up a new prefabricated building where the old barn was located. The town board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, to accept street paving bids before conducting the regular board meeting. Teenagers arrested Three juveniles, two from Leesburg and one from rural Warsaw, were arrested for auto theft early Tuesday morning after stealing two trucks from Clunette Elevator. The youths, all 15-years-old, were apprehended following a chase along Cr 700 W into Atwood about 3 a.m. Kosciusko County Police report, a pick up truck owned by Clunette Elevator was found in a ditch approximately 2 1/2 miles from the business by Kosciusko County Sheriff Patrolman Jeff Bronsing. The officer went to the business to determine if the building had been burglarized, and another truck was seen speeding from the area, officer Bronsing chased the flatbed truck, owned by Polk Equipment, into Atwood, where he was assisted by other county officers. The truck was cornered after it slid off the road while rounding a curve. There was no apparent damage to the vehicle. The three youths were questioned Tuesday in connection with other incidents in the western part of the county.

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ROTARY PRESIDENTS. SPEAKER - David Hyndman, incoming president of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club. Is shown on the left with outgoing president Henry Whelan, right, and the club’s Tuesday luncheon speaker. Robert A. Hard lev, director of management services. Indiana Department of Highways. Toll Road Division. During the program president Whelan passed the gavel to incoming president Hyndman.

Rotarians learn about Indiana Toll Road System

Members of the SyracuseWawasee Rotary Club learned everything they ever wanted to know about the Indiana Toll Road at their Tuesday luncheon meeting. The club had as its speaker Robert A. Hardley, director of management service of the Indiana Department of Highways. Toll Road Division. His talk included an untold amount of statistics concerning the Toll Road that streaks across northern Indiana, at points just a stone’s throw from the Michigan line. He said the Indiana Toll Commission was formed in 1954 under the administration of Governor Henry F. Schricker. and that it

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LCSC Board approves extra monies

At a special meeting of the Lakeland Community School Corporation Board of Trustees last night (Tuesday), board members approved additional appropriations for improvements at Syracuse Elementary and Junior High School and Wawasee High School. At Syracuse, $14,000 will be used to renovate the playground area and repave the blacktop surface of the playing area. At Wawasee, $40,000 will be used to repair air conditioning units, sound-proof the band room and purchase additional computers as funds are available. The board also granted Superintendent Don Arnold permission to advertise for operating capital against the December tax draw in the amount of $1 million for the general fund and $150,000 for the transportation fund. Three recommendations for employment were approved at the brief meeting. David Eldridge with two years prior experience will teach English at North Webster Junior High School; Michael Hall, replacing Tony Vermillion who will resume Dave Baumgartner’s teaching responsibilities at Wawasee. will teach social studies at North Webster Junior High; and Robin Hanson who was previously employed by LCSC will teach driver training at Wawasee and fulfill Baumgartner’s assistant varsity football coaching responsibilities. A final thank you was extended to John Kroh, board vice president, for his 12 years of service on the board before he moved to adjourn the meeting for the last time. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 12, at 7 p.m. in the administration building.

became the Toll Road Division of the Department of Highways on July 1. 1981. Speaker Hardley said the original bond issue was for S2BO million for he 157 mile road that runs from the Ohio to the Illinois state lines. “And now,” he noted, “it will cost $260 million to build six new interchanges.” One of these interchanges is at Mishawaka, another the Bristol-Goshen interchange, which is to be opened in August of this year. He said there are from 15*16 million vehicles over the Ton Road each year, and that it costs S3O per mile for upkeep alone. Commercial vehicles make up 16 per cent of the traffic and account

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S7OO TO DAYCARE CENTER - Outgoing S-W Rotary Club president Henry Whelan is shown, right, giving a cheek for S7OO to the club's new president, David Hyndman. Hyndman is on the board of directors of the Syracuse Daycare Center, and the money is the result of the club's recent Bike-A-Thon.

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for 52 per cent of the road’s income. He spoke of using 57 million tons of salt on the road. Speaker Hardley said Indiana has had relatively few Toll Road accidents, and these were mostly instances where drivers fell asleep. He said the average speed on the Toll Road is about 65 miles per hour. Other Club Business It was the last meeting for the club president Henry Whelan, who turned the club gavel over to incoming president David Hyndman. Whelan then presented Hyndman with the President’s Pin, and member Allan Tehan presented Whelan with a diamond Past President’s Pin.

No damage in trash fire The Syracuse Fire Department was called to the Melvin Weaver residence to put out a trash fire caused from burning saw dust. The fire was extinguished and there was no damage done to the property.