The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 November 1984 — Page 2

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., November 28,1984

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Emphasis on small business —

Participate in Governor's Conference in Indianapolis

(Continued from page 1) The Governor stated that financing is often the most important piece in putting the puzzle together. Banking across county lines is important to the growth of small business. For years this was thought to be a bank problem and the governors sat on the sideline. This is no longer so. He believes that the Indiana Small Businessman will prosper more if Indiana banks support them and not open the door for outside banks to enter in. He says that they would be apt to be less interested in local problems than Indiana banks. Therefore, Governor Orr has taken a solid stand behind legislation to break down the county banking barriers. He concluded by saying that Small Business success is Indiana’s success. Upon completion of the Governor’s remarks, the conference broke up into four breakout sessions where they discussed the issues which were brought up in the regional Small Business Conferences held this past Spring. These issues were contained in the following four general categories: 1. State and Local Taxation 2. Capital Formation and Retention 3. Management-Assistance 4. Employee Relations and Incentives. -

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These sessions continued for the rest of the day and on through the following morning. Upon completion of the breakout sessions forms were passed out which had all of the items listed thereon. Each conference was asked to mark their priorities of the top ten items which they believed that the Governor should consider for action or to be passed along to the legislature for action, with the Governor’s recommendation attached to them. Upon completion of the balloting, Lt. Governor Mutz gave the closing talk. He said that the State has a goal of having more people to work by mid 1985 than ever before. The State depends- heavily on Small Business as being the innovators because they have the freedom to innovate whereas large concerns often do not. New initiatives in the growing Indiana economy include a community credit corporation which is a credit cooling mechanism to help the commercial banking community enter into loans not available now and to capitalize “idea” companies , State training

Flood insurance program explained

By Jo STURGIS Staff Writer A National Flood Insurance Program general meeting was held in the old courtroom of the Kosciusko County Courthouse on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 9 a m. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the preliminary results of the Kosciusko County Flood Insurance Study and answer general questions regarding the National, Flood Insurance Program. Terry Reuss-Birman, representative from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Bill Trailimas,, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, attended the meeting. Mrs. Reuss-Birman first spoke on the brief history of Kosciusko County’s involvement in the National Flood Insurance Program. Kosciusko County entered the program in 1975. A detailed study of the 100-year flood areas in Kosciusko County has since ensued A 100-year flood area is an ar pa that has a one percent chance of flooding in any given year. The study’s purpose in Kosciusko County was to determine the flood risk areas and ■then to categorize these areas into 100-year flood areas and up to 500-year flood areas. The flood insurance study has three parts. First a flood profile was compiled. This profile is used hand-in-hand with a flood map of Kosciusko County and then a flood insurance rate map was also prepared. All the work that

funds will become available in the amount of 22.1 million for training assistance for Small Business; Programs are in .place for loan guarantees which will give Employment Development Commission the capability to expand; and there is a plan to bring UDAG to. large cities with a credit equal to 10% of the cost of a project at one half the prime lending rate. Mutz then asked the question, “Will anything come from the Small Business conference?” He answered by saying that all of the recommendations coming out of the conference will be studied by the State, and that they will be put into practice wherever possible. He closed with a statement that the State’s allegence is to existing business; that the State does not panic under social pressures; and that now is a period of enormous change. We are investing in our future in infrastructure and education. This investment today will pay big dividends in the 90s and on into the 2000 s. Indiana is a state in which we take risks to earn a profit and reap the rewards. *

has been done on these maps and profiles is preliminary. The meeting was to change any wrong road names or add omitted ones and add any other information that was wrong or omitted. To Reduce Losses The purpose of the National Flood Insurance Program is to reduce potential future flood losses. This can be accomplished in two ways. First, by working with engineers to build new structures safely above flood levels and second, by requiring flood insurance policies for existing buildings. This meeting only dealt with the unincorporated areas of Kosciusko County. The 13 municipalities must support the program on their own and are treated as a separate entity. Tom Hamilton, Tippecanoe Lake Property Association, asked if the study of Tippecanoe River was done with it cleaned out (free of logs and debris) or if it was done in its current condition. Trailimas said the study was completed in its present state. Indiana's law states any new structure must be two feet above the 100-year flood level requirements. This takes into account that water is not always free moving. Trailimas pointed out that the biggest problem with this will come in the future when new buildings are built among existing structures. The new buildings will have to be two feet above, while some of the existing buildings will be ground level. “This will pose real potential problems with existing owners because they won’t want that water running into their ground level structure,” said Trailimas. Glen Hilburn and Donald Bell, Corps of Engineers, explained the process by which they compiled their detailed study. No streams were looked at that had less than one square mile drainage. Two Left Out Grassy Creek and the Barbee Lake chain were ommitted from

School board is expected to name new superintendent A special meeting of the Lakeland School Board will be held next Tuesday, Dec. 4, at which the board expects to announce the selection of a new superintendent of schools. The board will meet in a special session at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, to approve the sale of bonds for construction purposes. An executive meeting, concerning personnel concerns, will follow.

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the study because of the requirements. “It came as a shock to us that they were excluded,” said Hamilton. The Grassy Creek and Barbee Lake chain has been the site of severe flooding in the past. Trailimas stated the state’s engineering staff could compile information, so that a detailed study of the area could be included. The Flood Insurance Program Study is targeted to be completed and become effective approximately one year from now. At that time any land above the 100-year flood level can be removed from the insurance program, but if fill dirt is added to land after the program becomes effective to bring it above the 100-year flood level, it will still be considered in the flood area and will require insurance. In the unincorporated areas of Kosciusko County, 260 flood insurance policies are now in effect. “This is in the top 10 for counties in the state,” said Reuss-Birman This comes to a total of more than 7*2 million dollars in insurance. Last year 79 flood planes filed claims for $500,000. “By these statistics, you can see a National Flood Insurance Program is very important for Kosciusko County,” added Reuss-Birman. Dan Richards, Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission, has a copy of the preliminary study and map. Any interested citizens may view these at the APC office in the Courthouse.

The bright morning star

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Anita Fenstermacher is Rotary Club speaker

Rev. Bruce Ough of Oakwood introduced Anita Fenstermacher to the members of the Syracuse Wawasee Rotary Club at their noon meeting on Tuesday. Mrs. Fenstermacher is the program director at the Oakwood Center. She has been an educational missionary to Zayre on two occasions and has had one missionary tour in Nome, Alaska. She spoke of her missionary work in Zayre. She said that the idea was not to take our culture to the natives but to help them search for the meaning of life within their own existence. To prepare herself she studied for two years in Brussels. The Fenstermachers, as with any missionary, were required to speak French as well as the native language of the area where they worked. The idea for missionaries was to work themselves out of a job and to leave the natives with the knowledge to teach for ' themselves and to exist in their own culture. They left some highly trained religious leaders in Africa when they left the country. Some of the problems which confronted them concerned language and tribal customs. For example, there are 90 languages in Zayre and as many tribal customs. Disease is also a problem and the culture is difficult to work with. If a child lives past the age of four, it is assumed that he or she will live to adulthood. Many of the diseases which the white cannot survive or survived by the black in Africa. She held forth the theory that the native Africans are “right” brain people. That is, they develop the feelings and emotions rather than the rational feelings of the “left” siders. The missionaries had no trouble “connecting” with the em because of this. She also said that they were cannibalistic until as late as 1917. They had no time for farming and raising cattle when they fought, so they ate the enemy dead for sustenance. Being right brain oriented, the African was tribally oriented in his culture. There was no need for Social Security as those who could not take care of themselves, the very young and very old, were cared for by the tribe. So the missionaries had to help develop the left side of the brain. Those who went to Africa were engineers, well diggers, teachers and so forth. But when independence came, the wars came with it. Some missionaries were evacuated but some 50 died, primarily caught in Troops in Chad PARIS - Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy said recently he would withdraw his troops from Chad if France did the same. It was his first public acknowledgement of the Libyan army’s presence in Chad's northern desert.

generation to His own Son, newborn on Earth, to walk as a man among men —?! It was five a.m. Who could I call 9 Would anyone else be up; seeing, feeling, the radiance? The morning air began to sing, brighten. I would wait until the planetarium opened, and call them. But no — no technical explanations — Enough to have witnessed this spectacular, silent, sight; and receive the insight of His own words telling us, “I am the bright and morning Star. No change VATICAN - Pope John Paul I said recently that the Vatican v would never change its anti-abor-tion stand and urged governments to pass legislation to help pregnant women and abandoned children. New bald eagle CLEVELAND - A bald eagle chick, hatched at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, awaits the arrival of its brother or sister. The chick was only the second to hatch after artificial insemination.

/ip' I ° MISSIONARY SPEAKER — Anita Fenstermacher, program director at Oakwood Park and former missionary to Zayre, was the speaker for Tuesday’s Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club meeting. She is shown above with Rev. Bruce Ough of the program committee, left; and James Caskey, Rotary president. (Photo by Joe Gray)

the cross-fire. The friendly Africans protected the missionaries and were, themselves, killed. So, to protect the natives, the remainder of the missionaries were evacuated. However, they were able to leave trained native doctors, teachers, engineers, and so forth, behind. Today, whole population will die because of world hunger. We were warned of the problems but it was not until we saw pathetic children with swollen bellies and flies on their faces on television, that the world reacted to the situation. The problem is not only the immediate situation but the long term solution. She believes that we must establish an early warning system on drought and weather patterns; mobilize the world grain market; promote knowledge of proper agricultural methods in the area; and institute a family planning program within the African culture. Mrs. Fenstermacher concluded by saying that no matter how hard we stay where we are, any person who calls God his Father is a brother or sister to these people. Drainage board to meet Nov. 29 Members of the Kosciusko County Drainage Board will meet on Thursday, Nov. 29, in the courtroom on the third floor of the courthouse in Warsaw’ at 9 a.m. Correction We mistakenly printed that Jack Baker requested the special zoning exception for the development of an 84-unit mobile home park in Syracuse that was tabled by the Syracuse Board of Zoning Appeals at its Thursday, Nov. 15. meeting. It was Joe Baker who made the request.

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