The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 15, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 April 1986 — Page 2

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 9,1986

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Plan Commission OKs rezoning of 68.67 acre Zimmerman tract

(Continued from page 1) Christine Bause represented the Priscilla Bause petition for a preliminary plat for a residential subdivision on a 4.39 acre tract of land. The board approved the preliminary plat which is located on the north side of Bause Avenue, one quarter mile southeast of CR 450 N in Tip- * Milford resident earns honors James W. Mcßride, son of Ann Mcßride, Milford, has been awarded academic honors for the fall semester at Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri. A 1980 graduate of Goshen High School, Mcßride is a freshman at Evangel. His major is child care and development and he is on the honor roll for the fall semester. Evangel is a four-year Assemblies of God college of arts and sciences, accredited by the North Central Association. It has ah enrollment of 1,622 and the administration is headed by President Robert H. Spence.

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pecanoe Township. The final plat for the Stonehenge Golf Club project east of Winona Lake was approved by the board. This final plat was basically the same as the preliminary which had been approved in the face of several remonstrances at the previous APC meeting. It was pointed out again that this final plat was to outline the golf course and residential area locations in the project. The petitioners will have to come before the APC each time a new residential area is slated for development. Interested parties will Webster board meets tonight The North Webster Town Board will conduct their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. in the town hall/fire station. Among the items on the agenda is the signing of an ordinance making a street into an alley. Action on the matter was taken at the March meeting.

have the opportunity to express their comments or objections at each phase of development. ■ (social secund B IRII Q. I’m a waitress and my boss told me I have to report my tips for Social Security. A. If your cash tips total S2O or more in any month, you must report them to your employer in writing by the 10th of the month. They help in earning Social Security coverage and also increasing your benefit amount. 21 years Auguste Rodin worked 21 years perfecting his statue “The Thinker.”

April 17 deadline for moving signs

(Continued from page 1) has been lenient on the matter due to the economic situation but didn’t know “if things have changed.” Registered Letters Peg Halsey asked how soon the merchants could expect to receive a registered letter? Drerup commented he hoped to save the red tape of registered letters by verbally asking the merchants to remove the signs. “If within a reasonable time, after tonight. I’m going to assume, all signs could be moved within two weeks.” He added those merchants who have not removed their signs would be contacted again by Masters with his visit being followed by a registered letter. “There just isn’t any exception in putting anything on the right-of-way.” Drerup and Masters stood behind the two-week removal period and stated if at the end of that time frame if a merchant has made every effort to go along with the request and is trying to find a solution in any way the matter would be discussed at that time. “If in any way a letter could be avoided it would be appreciated by us, but if we have to, we will,” stressed Drerup. Discussion Questions from the merchants

included if permits could be obtained to place signs in the right-of-way temporarily, if the ditches would be mowed, how many signs were safety hazards, if the state law includes banners and Christmas decorations and how could the law be changed. No permit can be obtained to place an advertising signs in the right-of-way and concerning the issue of the ditch maintenance, Drerup stated “I hope the maintenance department takes care of it.” He did state if there was a problem with the ditch being maintained to contact Lewis Moser at the Goshen subdistrict office. “Anyone can complain,” Drerup stated adding he was sympathetic with the merchants, but the primary concern is protecting the traveling public. Jeanne Gardiner asked about the frequency of the maintenance and was informed in urban areas the state has not done much in regular maintenance in recent years. Mrs. Halsey questioned how many signs were considered hazardous and Masters remarked in his opinion he recalled three which were sight violations. However, it was pointed out the central office considered most of the signs as being a hazard. The matter of banners and

Christmas decorations received little comment from the state representatives with a mention that all town’s hang Christmas Decorations over the state right-of-way but nothing has been said due to the short time span of the decorations presence. Concerning the banners it was mentioned that a permit is granted for a limited time frame. Kellie England remarked “here and all others, do what they want except when they want our signs moved.” Several merchants questioned the telephone booth at Pickwick Road and SR 13 if this was also a violation and if United Telephone had been contacted. Drerup commented they would look at the situation and contact the business if the booth was in violation. Owen Cobbum commented “the chamber is a bunch of hypocrites,” and offered to put the matter in writing adding the chamber has groups at the lake who are putting their special interest first and that the chamber is “representing the wrong side.” Bill Fisher made a suggestion that could be done to make the business area look better and stated the chamber could buy all the businesses along both sides of SR 13 and make it a park. Westfall commented on the remark by asking where would the chamber get the money? Steve Miller remarked the removal of his sign would hurt his business. “I don’t care what anybody says. Laws are made to be broken.” , Drerup stated this was the first time concerning the matter of encroachment there has been a meeting where all those effected could be talked to at one time. “I hope it helps,” Drerup stated. Testing for drug abuse By PHILIP C. CLARKE Testing millions of Americans for drug abuse — from corporate executives and factory workers to federal employees, baseball players and kids in school — is fast becoming something of a nationwide ritual. More than that,, it’s a sign of America’s growing desperation over the epidemic of narcotics addiction that still rampages through our society, killing and crippling young and old alike, and of a renewed attempt to fight the scourge in every possible way. The largest group to declare war is the President’s Commission on Organized Crime. After nearly three years of investigation and study, it recommended drug testing for all government personnel and urged private employers to consider doing the same with their employees as well. The commission also said that federal contracts should be denied to companies that don’t go along with drug-testing programs. In all, the commission’s 1,000-page report on drug enforcement came up with more than 70 recommendations, including prosecution of people caught possessing drugs, even small quantities of marijuana. Other proposals called for formulation of rules to cut off foreign aid to drug-producing countries that fail to reduce their narcotic crops; more coordinated efforts by the Pentagon, State Department and other government agencies to interdict drug traffic, including the pursuit of suspected smugglers into Mexican airspace, and increased federal monitoring of state and local law-enforcement efforts to crack down on drug rings. Not unexpectedly, there have been cries of outrage from civil libertarians, charging that some of the presidential commission’s recommendations, like mandatory drug testing, would violate constitutional rights. But mo&t Americans clearly agree with the commission’s conclusion that “Drug trafficking is the most serious organized-crime problem in the world today.” The latest statistics confirm the shocking extent of the problem. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the number of Americans who use cocaine, one of the deadliest of addictives, increased from 15 million in 1979 to 22 million in 1982, the latest year for which official statistics are available. Cocaine users, says NIDA, now outnumber marijuana users by about 2 million. And the problem has become more prevalent among younger Americans. NIDA estimates that nearly twothirds of the people now entering the work force have used illegal drugs Although we may be losing the war on drugs, there’s still a chance to turn it around if — and only if — we turn off narcotics at the user’s end. The President’s t Crime Commission found that while federal spending for drug enforcement had increased by 70 percent since 1982, and now totals nearly a billion and a quarter dollars a year, spending for antidrug education and prevention had declined by 5 percent. If the battle is ever to be won, it must be by teaching, demonstrating and proving to Americans that drugs are selfdestructive. (Distributed by America’s Future, Inc., New Rochelle, N.Y.)

Complete Indiana code on highway encroachment The following is the complete Indiana Code concerning encroachment on state highways taken from the 1985 cumulative supplement to the Indiana Codes. 8-12-4-1. encroachments on department s property. — The department of highways shall have the authority, in regard to rights-of-way or other property controlled by it, to remove, prevent or terminate any encroachment thereon, including the drainage onto or the overflowing thereof from outside the rights-of-way, or other property controlled by the department. 8-12-4-2. Notice of encroachment. — If the department of highways determines that an encroachment exists, notice thereof shall be given to the owner of the real estate from which said encroachment emanates, by certified mail sent to such owner’s last known address; a copy of such notice may also be sent to the occupant of such real estate, if any, and a copy of such notice shall be posted upon said real estate in a conspicuous place. The notice shall specify the encroachment and shall also specify the time within which the owner of the real estate shall have to remove, prevent or terminate the encroachment, but in no event shall the period of time specified be less than 30 days. 3-12-4-3. Failure to remove encroachment. — If the owner of the real estate shall not have removed, prevent or terminated said encroachment within the time specified in the notice provided by section 2 of this chapter, the department of highways may enter the real estate and do whatever in its discretion is necessary to remove, prevent or terminate such encroachment or may cause the same to be done by other persons,parties or corporations. 8-12-4-4. Cost of removing encroachment — Lien foreclosed without right of redemption. — The cost of the removal, prevention or termination of the encroachment as provided by section three of this chapter will be borne by the real estate owner and after the department of highways has completed, or has issued the removal, prevention or termination of the encroachment as provided by section three of this chapter it shall bill the real estate owner for the costs thereof. If the bill remains unpaid for a period of 30 days, the department of highways shall file such bill with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the real estate is located, and it shall immediately be entered by the clerk in the judgment docket against the real estate owner and from the date of such entry such bill shall be a lien upon the real estate and may be foreclosed as other judgment liens, all without relief from valuation or appraisement laws and without any right of redemption. 8-12-4-5. Present encroachments supported from outside highway. — Where awnings, canopies, marquees, advertising signs, and similar installations extending over any highway right-of-way are in place on August 12,1963, and are supported entirely from outside the highway right-of-way, the shall be permitted to remain: Provided, that such encroachment shall not be allovfed to remain unless it is determined by the department of highways that such encroachment will in no way impair the highway or interfere with the free and safe flow of traffic thereon.

Milford celebrates National Library Week

The Milford Public Library joins more than 200 public libraries across Indiana that are celebrating National Library Week this week, April 6-12. Indiana’s theme is “Libraries are User Friendly.” “It’s estimated nationally that 15..5 million people use the library each week —for pleasure, to plan vacations, to get tax forms, for voter registration, for literacy training, for consumer information, or for help with homework,” said Mrs. Mary L. Jurss, director of the Milford library. “We design our programs and services for the Milford/Van Buren Township residents. Some of these have included Needle-art sharing, teen-age read-ins, and an outstanding winter and summer children’s reading program.” “User Friendly” is a computerage term, meaning the computer is smart enough to figure out what one wants it to do without them having to understand its structure, requirements, or special language. It lets one spend valuable time dealing with problems and answers, rather than with technicalities. Library people have been working for quite awhile to make User Friendly available. Staff members want to make it possible for customers to spend their time in the library reading, rather than looking for the things they want to read. At the Milford Public Library there are two staff members. Library work involves bookkeeping, cleaning, shelving, cataloging, checking out materials, reading professional literature, answering questions, and talking to the people who come to the library. In order to be better at their jobs, the staff has attended seven meetings and workshops this year, but that is only a small part of their training. Library personnel must read the newspapers, listen to the radio, and really get involved in the

Weather report. . . 'Hello' Spring Goshen College Weather Observer Lores Steury reports the average temperature for March was 41.2 degrees which was close to the normal 36.6 degrees expected for March. The warmest day recorded for March was in 1981 when on March 31 the temperature rose to 81 degrees. The coldest day recorded was on March 1 of the same year when it dipped to 2 degrees above zero. March’s normal precipation is 2.67 inches which is more than the 1.61 received this March. Last year we received 11.55 inches. Average snowfall for March is 4.6 inches. This March we received one inch and two inches received last year. There were 9 clear days, 11 partly sunny days, and 11 cloudy days. » With the arrival of spring April’s temperature is hoped to rise accordingly. Weather history shows the average temperature of April to be 48.4 degrees. The warmest month’s average totaled 56.2 degrees in 1915 and the coldest month's average occurred in 1926 with only 41.4 degrees. The warmest day ever recorded for the month was on April 30,1980, registering 88 degrees. Two years later on April 7 the thermometer hit a low of only 1 degree. Average precipatation for April is 3.54 inches with the wettest month recorded at 7.45 inches in 1929 and the dryest month registering .71 of an inch in 1951. Average snowfall is 1.6 with 11.9 inches of snowfall recorded in 1957.

town and its people. Only through this involvement will they know how the library can serve the people. “Our responsibility is to make the resources of this library ‘friendly’ — that is, to find what you — the user — want, when you want it, quickly and easily,” Jurss said, adding, “It’s our job to make Milford Public Library ‘User Friendly,’ not just during this special week, but all year long. We invite everyone to stop by and say hello, ask a question, or check out a book. ” At the last library board meeting, the trustees voted unanimously to commend Arthur (“Ted”) Baumgartner for his continual planting and maintenance of trees around the library. Harris is acting CD chief Syracuse Civil Defense is once again operational and a meeting of members and prospective members will be conducted Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m., in the Civil Defense Building on Dolan Drive, Syracuse. Ron Harris, acting civil defense director, stated the civil defense building has been cleaned and inventory of equipment has been undertaken. More members, however, are needed and a goal of 25 members has been set. Any resident of Turkey Creek Township, 18 years of age or older, is eligible to become a member of the civil defense and should contact Harris or Syracuse Police Chief Robert Ziller if interested. Correct word The only correctly spelled 10-letter word you can write using only the top line of the typewriter keyboard is “typewriter.”