The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 March 1985 — Page 2

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., March 13,1985

Mosquito fogging approved by Milford Town Board

By DEB PATTERSON z } Staff Writer An\ iternf concerning mosquijkr fogging was put aside for further consideration early in the MilforcrTown Board meeting Monday evening, was later approved before the meeting adjourned. Roger Wietfeldt, salesman for Oxford Chemicals, Inc., Indianapolis. presented a new fogging system for mosquito control to the board. The Ultra Low Volume fogger uses a fine mist to distribute insecticide. He remarked there was a drawback, the device needing electricity for operation, but could be operated off a generator. The concentrated insecticide usedAvould only affect cold blooded animals without any lasting effects. Wietfeldt remarked he felt the ULV was safer in use because of the fine mist, no noticeable affect on those with respiratory problems and dissipate time, with no wind, is approximately 45 minutes. The cost will be SB9 per fogger, if purchased by March 15, and $75 per gallon of concentrated insecticide, plus the cost of a generator. Wietfeldt commented the insecticide is mixed with .either kerosene or fuel oil. Paul Steffen asked the board if they knew the disadvantages of using chemicals. He stated 98 percent of the insect species population around is beneficial with Jess than two percent detrimental. "You’re messing up the environmental balance when you use chemicals. I’ll live with mosquitoes.” remarked Steffen. Jean Treesh, board president, commented Steffen's information put a different light on the matter and the board would take it into consideration. Wietfeldt staged he agreed 100 percent with Steffen, yet remarked about the past encephalitis scare several years ago and that the insecticide is approved by the United States Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency. Steffen provided the name of Dr. Don Shuder. Department of Entomology at Purdue University, to contact concerning the insecticide. "It just does not kill mosquitoes only, but flies, praying mantis, frogs, snakes . Wietfeldt added in spraying, the town would need to stay away from bee hives. Mrs. Treesh commented the board would have to investigate further and get back with the salesman before the special ended, with a decision. At the close of the meeting, after Steffen had left, a motion was made and passed to purchase two loggers and four gallons of insecticide. Max Duncan, fire chief, has a 1,500 watt generator he would be willing to sell and will be checking on an appropriate price Bids Awarded Tri-Central Sales, Inc., Indianapolis, was given the con tract to tear down the old steel standpipe, at a cost of $6,500, leaving the concrete base. It is expected it will be two to three weeks before demolition takes place as a new shut-off valve needs to be installed on the well. The front well will be maintained as a back-up to the new tower. With the proper paperwork prepared and submitted by board member, Dennis Wuthrich, the two remaining members, Mrs. Treesh and Darrell Orn, voted to award Wuthrich and Son's, Milford, the bid for construction of the new street department building. Wuthrich did abstain from the vote. The 40 by 30 foot pole barn, with steel doors and concrete flooring, willbe built on Main Street extended at a cost of $8,353.21. Wuthrich will also be giving a precise cost to pour a 20 by 20 foot slab of concrete for bulk salt storage. Bill Knowles had suggested the slab since the town is able to get bulk salt through Indiana Associations of Cities and Towns. Other Business Harry Cowger, superintendent of Sewer-Tech, Inc., Huntertown, was given the approval to do vaporrooting on Emeline Street

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from Main to the lift station. This will cost $3,630. Knowles will be scheduling the time for the work. The retardant used in vaporrooting stops root growth for up to seven years within an area of 15 inches outside the tile. There will be no affect to plants or trees coming into contact with the vaporroot. Sewer Tech will also be doing jet work on the old line on Catherine Street from Main one block east as well as other problem areas. This will be done on Wednesday at the cost of SSOO to S6OO. Duncan went over the statement of receipts and disbursements for the fire department for 1984, showing an ending balance of $6.38. He announced a pancake and sausage supper will be on Saturday, April 6, at the fire station beginning at 5:30/p.m. All proceeds will go towards the JAWS fund which is $3,000 away from the goal of SIO,OOO. Keith Hunsburger and Duncan will be attending a 60 hour arson investigation course on Saturdays and Sundays. This course is sponsored through the state fire marshal’s office and is at the Kosciusko County Justice Building. A system will be worked out between the fire department and the police department on warning citizens of tornados. The normal procedure is to notify businesses

School board considers resetting district lines

(Continued from page 1) would be extended along 800 North from 400 East to 500 East, then north to 1000 North and back to 400 East. Thus, all children in the Dewart Lake and Pinecrest Mobile Home Park areas would feed into Milford. If these boundaries are put into effect, Webster said in his proposal, Syracuse Elementary School would have 128 fewer students in 1985-86 than is now projected. North Webster’s elementary enrollment would increase by 96 students and Milford's by 32 students. Impact Lessens The plan, if instituted, would also alter junior high populations at the three community schools. But the change in the number of students would not be as great as in the elementary schools. “The impact on the junior highs is much less because of the time lapse and the way the students would be filtered in.” Webster said. By the 1989-90 school year, the projected enrollment at Syracuse Junior High would decrease by 70 students, according to Webster’s study. Enrollments at North Webster and Milford would increase by only 2 and 11, respectively. At the conclusion of Webster's proposal are listed the current populations, grades K-through-8, of the three community schools, along with their -projected enrollments for the 1989-90 school year, if the plan is adopted: — Syracuse, total current enrollment of 968. would have 798 students in ’B9-90, a decrease of 170 students. — North Webster, current total enrollment of 657, would have 754 students five years from now, an increase of 97 students. Milford, current enrollment of 587 students, would increase to 657 students, a rise of 70. Renovations Needed Webster said that 56 classrooms are currently being used for grades K-through-5 at the three schools. That number, according to his projection, will gradually rise by 1987-88 to a peak number of 65 classrooms that will be needed. The superintendent said that building renovations will be needed, even if school boundaries are altered to change student populations. Syracuse would be the main school affected, as "North Webster and Milford have ade-

and schools of the warning. » Marshal Dave Hobbs suggested the town adopt a new dog ordinance, coinciding with the county ordinance. He will be checking into the new county ordinance and reporting back to the board. Bond Issue Robert Kirsch, town attorney, reported a bond issue hearing will be scheduled for April 8, following proper publications of the notice, and the adoption of the bond will be published in the next possible issue following the hearing. He expects the bonding to be finalized by the end of April. First National Bank of Warsaw is the only bank interested in the bonding and will be offering the town 8.9 percent financing on $292,000. Citizens are reminded the deadline for sewer hook-up is April 8 and due to sending the sewer bills out late, the due date was changed this month from March 15 to March 25. The board will be looking for a replacement to the park board following the resignation of Jodie Brown. Anyone interested should contact the town board. A hearing on the local option tax will be conducted Monday, March 18. at 7 p.m., in the town hall.

The next regular board meeting will be Monday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m.

quate classroom space to accomodate these increases,” according to Webster’s study. Possible changes in the Syracuse school building include adding two additional classrooms on the west wing, moving the elementary music and special education classes into the junior high school, and converting the teacher workroom into a classroom. North Webster, according to the superintendent’s study, has adequate classroom space to accomodate any changes, while several changes could be made at the Milford school. Those include moving the music and computer classrooms from the elementary to the junior high. Other News In other board news: • The school board voted 4-1 to raise the yearly compensation of school board members from S3OO to SI,OOO. The board noted that the maximum compensation for school board members in the state is $2,000. Phil Payne, a board member for 12 years who is leaving the post at the end of June, was all for the pay raise. “We are having more and more meeting per month," Payne said. "It's not one meeting each month. I can’t pick out an average, but I’d say it’s close to three a month. “I’ve always felt, and I still feel, that you don’t do this for the money,” Payne added. “But we’re the lowest paid school board members in this area. Three hundred dollars, I don’t think, covers my gas bill.” Board member Marguerite Hoerr said that the board considered the raise before, but had been hesitant about making the change. "We don’t ever wank anyone to run for this officqcfor selfish motives, and I don’t think anyone ever would,” she said, “but we would like to receive enough to cover our travel expenses.” The lone dissenting vote on the matter came from Board President Bill Little, who said he’s been on the board for 15 years and that board members have always received a stipend of S3OO per year. That — tradition — was not why he voted no, however. He called his reason a “personal thing,” saying ttiat he felt to himself that he owed the community something. “I don’t feel that compensation is an element of that support,” he said. • The board also approved a motion to purchase a house property near the Syracuse school on the corner of Baltimore and Boston Streets. The property, which will cost SII,OOO, is an eye sore, the board said, and it will be torn down to improve the looks of the area. The street by the house will be widened, also. • The board approved a pair of personnel requests. Lesa DiPaolo. Language Arts teacher at Wawasee High School, requested a maternity leave of absence for the first semester of the 1985-86 school year, and the board approved; A temporary teacher’s contract was approved for Patricia Ann Kent, effective March 1,1985 through May 31,1985. Kent is filling in for Wanda Bollman, who is on maternity leave.

Area Lions tip hats to girls state runners-up

(Continued from page 1) Gates also remembered George Yardley, an AllAmerican basketball player at Stanford who went on to play for the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons from 1953 through 1956. Yardley set an NBA one-season record in 1958 when he scored 2,001 points, a mark that has since been broken. Yardley, Gates recalled, earned only $17,000 the season he set the record. “He’d be worth $2 million today,” Gates said. Gates was broadcasting basketball games even before Yardley came along, getting his start in 1937 at a radio station in his hometown of Muskegon, Mich. In 1940, he moved on to WOWO in Fort Wayne, then switched to WKJG radio in 1947. He’s been a television broadcaster ever since Nov. 21, 1953 when WKJG made its television de&ut. Gates has won the Indiana Sportscaster of the Year Award seven times during his career and has been nominated for the award for 20 consecutive years. The veteran broadcaster talked at length Wednesday night about controversial Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, who he’s known personally for some time, having broadcast Indiana games in the mid-’7o’s. “I don’t agree with some of the things he does,” Gates said. “But honestly, ladies and gentlemen, he is one of the most intelligent men I have ever met in sports. He’s got an IQ of 159. And he never forgets anything.” Gates emphasized his point about Knight’s memory with a story that dated back to Nov. 25, 1976 when IU opened the season against UCLA in a nationally televised game in St. Louis. Hilliard was at the game and was wearing a new suit. For one reason or another, Gates said, he did not wear that same suit again until Feb. 14, 1979 when the Hoosiers were playing at Williams Arena in Minneapolis, Minn. The upshot of the story is that Knight noticed Gates' suit anti remembered the last time he saw Gates in it. “He said, ‘That’s a goodlooking outfit,’ ” Gates recalled. " Why don't you wear it more often? The last time I saw you wear it was in St. Louis.’ "And he was right,” Gates said. "That was the last time I had worn that sports coat and slacks. That’s what kind of memory he has.” Knight A Complex Man Gates also reflected back to 1981 when IU junior forward Landon Turner suffered paralyzing injuries in a car accident shortly after IU had won the national championship. At about the same time, Knight turned down a $400,000-a-year offer from CBS to do color commentary on the network’s college basketball broadcasts. “He rejected the job and went out and raised $50,000 to set up Landon Turner for the rest of his life.” Gates said. “That is the same man who threw a chair across the Assembly Hall floor last week against Purdue.” Knight’s temper tantrum, which climaxed a season of frustration for the IU coach, earned him a one-game suspension from Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke and was the inspiration for newspaper columns all over the country. "He’s tired, he’s emotionally unstable, and he’s completely devastatecfby the lack of success of his team,” Gates said. “He is completely exhausted.” And, to paraphrase, the predictable thing about Knight is he’s unpredictable, Gates said. "Completely inconsistent,” Gates said of Knight. “You have to go to all ends of the spectrum to find the niche where he fits. The most consistent thing about Bobby Knight is his inconsistency. "He’s brilliant, he’s maddening, he’s provocative, he’s damning,” Gates concluded. “He’s everything. He’s just about everything you can dream of.” Turning his attention to high school basketball. Gates talked about the differences between the boys’ and girls’ versions of the game. “I think . the difference is basically tempo,” he said. “The girls don’t play at quite the tempo that the boys do, but they play dam good defense. In fact, I think I said on the telecast a couple weeks ago that that was the single biggest improvement I’d seen in 10 years of televising girls’ basketball.” Girls' basketball has come a long way -where it really counts, too. Gates noted. He said that two years ago when Heritage and Jody Beerman advanced to the state finals, the 12 rioon-to-12:30 p.m. segment drew a ratings share of 54, whichmeans that more than half the televisions in the state that were turned on had the Heritage game on the screen. In 1984, Heritage was not in the girls’ finals and the network anticipated a drop in’ the ratings, Gates said. / The ratings did<drop —toa 42 . share. However, Gates said, the surprising thing was that no halfhour segment of the boys’ state

finals drew as much as a 42 share. Impressed With Warriors . Gates promised Warrior Coach Dale Brannock that he will be sending him copies of NBC’s tape of both the Warriors’ Final Four games. Brannock will then distribute copies to each of the Wawasee girls. “I was impressed with the talent on the floor, the caliber of the coaching and the demeanor of the fans.” Gates told his audience, referring to the semistate. “And after you won the semi-state in Fort Wayne, you took exactly those same qualities to Market Square Arena.” Gates singledout Coach Brannock for “great grace and good humor” in handling the hordes of electronic and print media people at the' Final Four, and he offered consolation to the Wawasee team for their loss to Crown Point in the championship game. “The only difference that I can see is that Crown Point was down there for the third consecutive time,” Gates said. “Had that experience, been in Wawasee’s court instead of Crown Point's, I think the championship would be here in Wawasee right now. “If you can’t be Number One, Number Two ain’t all that bad,” Gates said. Brannock followed Gates to the podium and spent several minutes thanking friends of the team, then reiterated his seasonlong message that the Wawasee team is a team with class. “This is a team with class,” Brannock said, “and if you don’t believe it. then you read (all the area newspapers). It’s no accident. They’re fine young athletes and they do a super job. And if you don’t think it was tough turning around and applauding Crown Point when they were receiving the championship trophy, it was.” Steve-Kroh, Wawasee Class of 1976, concluded the program by presenting all the Wawasee players and coaches with green-and-gold colored pillows, on behalf of Thornburg Drug in Syracuse. On the pillows was painted the Lady Warrior insignia along with the inscription. "State Runner-Up 1985 — Lady Warriors." New M-J subscribers Lavada Babiiisky P.O. Box 767 Lakeland Loving Care Center Milford. Ind. 46542 AT2 Barry L. Barton, 316 50 1244 IM-3 Div W/C 670 UUS Nimitz (CVN-68) FPO NY. NY 09542-2820 William E. Barton r 1 box ?99 North Webster, Ind. 46555 Mary Jane Isbell 400 South Harrison Syracuse, 1nd.46567 • Debbie Miotto r 5 box 3808 Syracuse, Ind. 46567 Dorothy Williams 1324 Greencroft Drive Goshen, Ind. 46526 Record crop American farmers produced a record soybean crop of 2.3 billion bushels in 1979. The 1982 crop was the second largest in history, approximately 2.2 billion bushels. Soybeans are consistently the largest cash income producer for American farmers. Approximately 53 percent of US soybeans will be exported this marketing year either as whole beans or in the form of soybean meal, soybean oil, or a myriad of other soybean products. The total value of those exports will be approximately $7.4 billion, the largest of all agricultural commodities.

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Table rezone petition in Turkey Creek Township

By MORRINE HALF ACRE Staff Writer The Area Plan Commission tabled its own petition to rezone 33.26 acres in Turkey Creek Township from light industrial back to agricultural and then denied a second similar petition involving 20 acres during the Wednesday, March 6, meeting. The first petition was originally brought before area planners for the purpose of rezoning by the Syracuse-Wawasee Development Company (SWADCO) last year. The company had hoped to acquire an option to purchase land owned by Harold and Maxine Stoffel for the purpose of developing a light industrial park to be called the Continental Industrial Park. The second case, also petitioned by the APC, involves a 20-acre parcel, 12 of which have been purchased by James Kilchenman. The Fort Wayne businessman plans to relocate his small electronics firm called, Vortec, to the future industrial park. The firm will hire 15'-40 people. Case History The acreage involved in the two petitions was orginially part of a 100-acre farm owned by the late Elmer Baugher. Located on the west side of SR 13, the property sits on the Continental Divide near the Tri-County Fish & Wildlife Game Preserve. Stoffels purchased the farm from the Baugher estate six ;years before rezoning attempts began. Two main concerns expressed in the original rezoning hearings by area planners involved the ground water drainage and sewage. Because there was no other land available for rezoning at the time and due to the fact the two petitioners planned to develop the sites in the near future, the board granted the rezoning to light industrial in what Dan Richards of the area plan office describes as a form of conditional zoning. "This was just about one of* the closest cases to having conditional zoning that I’ve seen or experienced.” Conditional rezoning, as such, does not exist in the county, however, in order to gain approval for building the industrial park, the board laid down two specifications: The park would have to hook up with the North Webster city sewer line (1.2 miles away) and when the time came a serious site plan would have to be approved by the board at the time of the final plat as well as providing engineering studies to show adequate drainage for surface water. Board’s Thinking The board decided at its last meeting, due to the lack of progress made on the sites, to rezone the tract back to agricultural. Legals were ran in the papers and adjoining property owners were notified. Dan Richards stated that he believed SWADCO had resigned from the project and because of the fact that the sewer had hot been hooked up yet, there might be some industrial development that would conflict with the specifications spoke of earlier. SWADCO’s attorney Steve Snyder, who was present at the meeting to represent Kilchenman, informed the board that SWADCO had not been properly notified nor had he been given enough time to prepare for the hearing due to a three-day trial he was involved with. “I’m under the impression that it was impatience that brought this back,” Snyder told the board. Snyder explained that negotiating funds for the extension of the sewer line and other problems involved with developing the park could not be worked out “overnight.” He also stated that negotiations with the property owner, Stoffel, had also taken considerably longer than planned. After APC board member Don Ahrns moved the petition be rezoned, board member, Ron Baumgartner, spoke out in favor of tabling the matter for 30 days in order to give SWADCO additional time to prepare, as well as,

providing time for Kosciusko Development Incorporated to brief the board as to the availability of other land in the area that might be better suited for light industry. Ahrns motion to approve the rezoning was defeated 5-3. The board then approved Baumgartner’s motion to continue the matter. Factflfry Gets Okay Snyder pointed out to board members that delays in construction on the Kilchenmah property were primarily due to the fact the title was not obtained for the property until March of 1984. March would have been the first time Kilchenman could have taken any action regarding his property, that normally should have closed out in a 30-day period. The attorney in speaking about the case said, “This zoning had as much time as Camp Mac, and covered just about as much detail as you could ever cover in a rezoning hearing.” Snyder advised his client to do some below grade construction on the property when he heard the area planners were going to rezone the land. He cited another case in Mishawaka that had been rezoned and because the developer had *began construction the rezoning was overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals. Kilchenman’s attorney told the board that his client has been waiting to see if the sewer hook up with the city of North Webster will go through before going to the expense of installing a septic system. The board then denied its petition to rezone Kilchenman’s acreage. Coordinated Industrial Growth Deb Wiggins and Tom Retseck

North Webster Town Board denies alley vacation

By DEB PATTERSON Staff Writer The largest number of residents to attend a North Webster Town Board meeting were present last Wednesday evening, March 6, to hear- the board deny an alley vacation and establish a one-hour parking limit in the business district. Discussion on. the alley "vacation, requested by Eugene Himelick, was reopened to anyone present. Lengthy discussion was heard at the February meeting before it was tabled. Neighboring residents opposing the vacation included Mr. and Mrs. John Peperak, Kenny Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Hubbard, and Alma Sankos. Their remonstrance was based on easement rights and access to the lake through this alley. Hubbard, the only adjacent property owner, strongly voiced his objection and asked if the vacation was approved if he could leave his one-half of the alley open. “I’ll let them come through it, one-half of the alley will still be there and open to the lake. One wants it, the rest of us don’t,” commented Hubbard, adding he purchased the property to come up for fishing, not to keep people off his property. He told the board he felt if the approval was given, they would need to do this all the way around the lake including in Epworth Forest. Alma Sankas informed the board the alley is used to get her husband, who is in a wheelchair, to the boat they purchased for recreation. She asked what she was to do with the boat after she has been told she has easement rights to this property. Robert Stevens was present to represent John and Harriett Allen, owners of lot 27. Stevens presented the board with a notarized statement of his representation along with some documents showing Allens have legal rights to have a boat and

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of Kosciusko Development Incorporated (KDI) were present at the meeting to outline the master plan of the organization. “We are trying to develop three triple “A” industrial parks in Kosciusko County,” said Mrs. Wiggins who added that the KDI will be working closely with the area plan office in regards to qualifying property in the county that is best suited for development. “We re looking for three parks — not isolated pockets in the county,” Mrs. Wiggins said. She told board members that KDI currently had three different sites in mind for industrial park in North Webster, west of Warsaw, and a third near Claypool and Silver Lake. The organized group would prevent individual land owners from coming before the board in attempting to rezone their properties. Dan Richards spoke in favor of the group stating,“lt’s a good to have a tool like this around — It’s just what we’re looking for.” Other Business Roger Gregg’s hopes of running a consignment auction and flea market on his residential property near the old Flowing Well Park in Syracuse were ended when area planners turned down his petition for rezoning. He wanted to convert an existing 60x50’ building used for storage into a flea market. His property is surrounded by residential properties. Members of the board were given copies of a zoning ordiance amendment for consideration that would dictate lot sizes allowing for accessory buildings and garages. The APC meets on the first Wednesday of every month at the basement meeting room of the new Justice Building in Warsaw at 1 p.m.

pier off the alley. To\vn attorney Rex Reed commented he would have to pass on the legality of the papers shown him. Throughout the approximately 15 minute discussion, Myron Clark, board president, had to remind the remonstrators that the question was on vacating the alley not who has easement and access.j-ights. a iv ? ? Parking Ordinance . ’ The issue Os limited parking * times in the business district was reopened after the board denied a request last month. Gene Stutzman, a post office patron, opened the subject for rediscussion after asking the board to curtail excessive parking at the post office where 15 minute parking signs are posted. Arguments for the limited parking took up the majority of the meeting and the board requested Reed to draw up a parking ordinance raising the parking fine td $5 and establishing one hour parking on both sides of SR 13 from the stop light south to the first alley and on both sides of Washington Street, from the stop light east to the alley at the post office. The board received a round of applause from those present. Sue Ward, co-owner of Sue’s Creation on Washington Street, voiced the major concern about the parking situation. Eric Weaver and Mike Hemlinger of Counting House Bank, also expressed concern and stated the bank’s parking lot, located behind the bank, is open to anyone. Hemlinger commented there is most definitely a parking problem in town as far as the bank is concerned. He added he has mentioned to several members of the American Legion that the bank would make a portion of the parking lot available to them. "The bank is willing to help whatever way we can,” Commented (Continued on page 5)