The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 17, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 April 1986 — Page 2
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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., April 23,1986
State of the Art Technology — Affords unique look at Comet Halley from Australia
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following scientific article concerning a “closer look” at Halley’s Comet was submitted to The Mail-Journal by Dr. Alan Baumbaugh and bis brother Barry, sons of William and Vella Baumbaugh of r 2Syracuse. The brothers returned last week from near Sydney, Australia, where they were tracking Halley’s Comet with other scientists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory of Batavia, 111., where Dr. Alan is employed. Dr. Alan Baumbaugh is a 1969 graduate of Wawasee high School with a bachelor’s degree from the Indiana Institute of Technology of Fort Wayne, and has his master’s Ph.D. degree from Notre Dame. Barry, graduated from Wawasee high School in 1972 and has his bachelor of science degree from the Indiana Institute of Technology of Fort Wayne.) By DR. ALAN AND BARRY BAUMBAUGH A team of five from the University of Notre Dame and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, spent a month in Coonabarabran, Australia, at Siding Spring Observatory studying Comet Halley. The team used equipment developed at both institutions to take high-speed images of the comet. The group from Notre Dame, consisting of Professors Ran- ..
Charter new Kiwanis Club at Pierceton on April 18
The Kiwanis Club of Pierceton received its Charter from Dana Weigle, governor of Kiwanis Indiana District, at its first ladies’ night dinner last Friday, April 18. The charter was accepted by Rex Tinkey, president. as Ed McCLarnon, club building chairman from the sponsoring Lakeland Kiwanis Club, North Webster, gave a presentation. Officers of the new club, who will be working with Tinkey, include Andy Hartley, presidentelect; Jim Gerbert, vice president; Roger Thomas, secretary, and Charles Spillman, treasurer. The board of directors includes Ron Coyle, Rex Mast, Ken McGarvey, Gary Shaffer, Douglas Walls and Rex Werstler. David Boothby of Goshen, lieutenant governor of Kiwanis Land of Lakes Division, and Don Arnold, Milford, lieutenant
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governor-elect, assisted with the program for the new club. _ Entertainment was provided by the Grace College Octet, under the direction of Don Ogden.
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dy Ruchti and Terrence Rettig and Research Engineer Barry Baumbaugh, supplied image intensifiers, telescopes, and CCD television cameras originally developed for high-energy physics, but quickly adapted for astronomical observations. The Fermilab group, consisting of Physicist Alan Baumbaugh and Technician Kelly Knickerbocker, supplied the video-data acquisition system and image processing equipment. The image intensifier* is capable of amplifying the images from the telescope by approximately 50,000 times. This image is then bright enough to be seen by the CCD camera. While most observations of the comet are made by long-time exposures typically 20 minutes or more, this system produces an image of the comet every l/30th of a second (standard TV rate). The video signal is passed to the video-data acquisition system which can store many seconds worth of images and can do image averaging and add false color to the comet image to show detail. This system can, therefore, produce live and enhanced images of the comet which can be transmitted by satellite to TV stations for public viewing. The same team supplied live TV of the comet to over 400 TV stations in the United States from Miami, Florida in January. x The view of Comet Halley from the Northern Hemisphere was extremely poor, thus necessitating an expedition to the Southern Hemisphere for optimum comet viewing. The team
North Webster Town Board plans to restrict parking
A modified or new ordinance restricting parking to one hour, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. in North Webster is being looked into as a result of extensive discussion during the North Webster Town Board meeting Wednesday, April 9. The matter of the police department not citing persons for parking in areas over one hour was brought up by Harry Minnick, street superintendent. Matt Wagoner, acting town marshal, stated the ordinance is difficult to enforce since no hours regarding the one hour parking are designated. Eve Payne, clerk-treasurer, will be checking with Rex Reed, town attorney, on preparing a new ordinance or amending the existing ordinance designating one hour parking between set hours. Currently there is a one hour parking limit set on East Washington Street from SR 13 to the post office and on SR 13 from the stop light south to the alley just south of Camelot Square. In other matters the board approved a six-week maternity leave with an additional week of paid vacation time and employee status returned for Marti Likens. Her request of compensation during her leave, since no medical insurance covering pregnancy is provided, was denied. An ordinance, 86-2, vacating a portion of a road in Miller’s Addition, North Webster, was signed by the board. Discussion on the request was conducted at the March 12 meeting at which time
Cora Phillippe’s request to vacate the entire road was denied in part and approved in part. The ordinance states that a portion of the street be vacated into an alley with the northerly 10 feet and southerly 10 feet of the new alley going to those property owners adjacent to the property, leaving a 20 foot roadway now designated as an alley. A letter from Richard Long, North Webster school principal, expressed the school’s appreciation for the snow removal during the past winter. Department Reports Minnick received the approval to purchase six tires and tubes for the small dump truck. The tires, from Firestone, will be purchased at a cost of $369.16. Minnick stated it was time to get bids on street repaving since several streets need chip and seal applied to lengthen the life of the blacktop. He submitted a list of streets which need resurfacing. They include: Fourth Street from SR 13 east to third street; Fifth Street from Fourth Street to the intersection of Third Street; Effie Mae Street from SR 13 west to Blaine Street ; Dixie Drive from Effie Mafe Street south to the town limits; the alley from the fire station to
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GUEST SPEAKER — Roger Kryder, assistant superintendent of Wawasee Community Schools, center, joins North Webster School principal Dick Long, left, and Curt Jordan, program chairman of the Lakeland Kiwanis Club, North Webster, after a club meeting Monday, April 21. 7 J Kryder spoke to club men>b<ers about funding, assessments, tax bases, and various other financial aspects revolving a school’s budget.
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was invited to the Siding Spring Observatory, where lodging and laboratory space were provided. Funding for the expedition was provided by the University of Notre Dame, College of Science, National Science Foundation, Planatary Society, the National
Harrison Street; Center Street from Epworth Forest Road to the first curve; Mulberry Street from Madison Street north to the end of the street; and Blaine Street from CR 650 south to Elm Street. Board members were requested by Minnick to drive these streets and make recommendations before the May meeting as to the priority of the street resurfacing. Acting Marshal Wagoner reported educational materials, donated through a local business, have been received and Officer Jerry Craig has conducted presentations to a local Brownie Troop. Wagoner will be meeting with Long concerning distributing the materials to the students at North Webster Schools. Wagoner asked permission for the police department to have a dunk tank "during the Mermaid Festival to raise funds for the department. No definite decision was made. A donation was received by the North Webster-Tippecanoe Township Chamber of Commerce to be used towards the upkeep of the town’s Christmas decorations. The board looked over an alley vacation request by Randy J. Warren which will be discussed during the May 14 board meeting.
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EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER — Sea Nymph, Inc., of Syracuse, has recently started a program which recognizes an outstanding employee every three months. For this quarter, Edith Welty (holding framed certificate) received that honor. Pictured with her are, from left to right, Paul Phillabaum, president; Richard Marquis, plant manager; John Drumm, foreman; Welty; Pete Melendez, production manager; and Joseph McHugh, owner.
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Sign agreement for street improvements at Milford
Milford Town Board members signed an agreement for preliminary engineering for the Syracuse Street project at ar specially called meeting Monday afternoon, April 21. The agreement will be forwarded to the Indiana Department of Highways, from where it will be sent to the federal highway department for the purpose of appropriating monies. Mike Fitch, vice president of transportation from Bonar and Associates, Fort Wayne, which is spearheading the project, explained concessions within the agreement to board members, who later accepted it lyFitch stated that his firm’s goal
County gun ring broken
By Glen LONG Staff Writer What appears to be a large stolen gun ring in the county has been broken by Kosciusko County police in cooperation with federal firearms agents. Last Saturday two adults, Dale Cooper, 37, and Kathy Jane Brown, 29, were arrested in the Lake Wawasee area after an area juvenile had given information during a routine traffic check. A .45 caliber handgun was found in their vehicle and nine guns which had been stolen were found in the mobile home residence of Cooper. Cooper has been charged with theft, which is a Class D felony, and Brown was held in the county jail on a Noble County warrant. Another adult, Kyle Centers, 18, of Syracuse, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to com-
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Geographic Society, and Airlines, who delivered the nearly one ton of equipment freedf charge. While the equipment can provide live TV of the comet, the main scientific goals of the expedition were to look for shortterm variations in the comet. These variations can be due to gas jets from the coma or from plasma exitations in the tail. The team’s equipment is the only system capable of making these high-speed measurements of the shape and intensity of the comet. The team had planned to sue their own 14-inch telescope which was taken along, however, once the astronomers at Siding Spring saw the equipment, they provided six nights observing time on the virtually brand new 2.3 meter telescope built by the Australian National University. The 2.3 meter telescope providled a much closer look at the inner part of the coma. The data taken over the period from March 17 to April 10 amounted to over 50 hours of video tape, which will take months to analyze, some preliminary results show very short-term plumes of light lasting only a few seconds that exist in the near coma and tail of the comet. The team also imaged jets of gas which persisted for hours. These video images were used by Australian TV and were beamed back to the United States. A video tape was also sent to the National Geographic Society for use in an upcoming special on Comet Halley.
for actual construction on the project was the spring of 1987, while 660 days are being allowed f for plans to go through state reviewing channels. “However, the number of days can be shortened considerably by monitoring the project as it goes through various channels,” Fitch added. The consultant’s (Bonar and Associates) obligations to the contractor (Milford), as well as to public agencies, were also outlined in the agreement. Fitch added, “I think it’s important that we communicate with the public on what we’re doing,” at which time town board president Jean Treesh affirmed,
mit theft, also a Class D felony. He has been accused of arranging to sell the stolen guns. Police said other charges, including possible federal firearms violations, are pending against Cooper. Charged with various burglary and theft counts were four juveniles, three 17-year-olds and one 15-year-old. The youths were recruited by the adults to break into homes and cottages in the northeast part of the county. Two of the youths had Warsaw addresses and the other two had Syracuse addresses. They will be processed by the county probation department and officials said it is doubtful that they will be waived into adult court. Guns found cleared up burglaries in the Wolf Lake, Papakeechie Lake and Barbee Lakes areas. In addition to guns, cash, television sets, video cassette recorders and other
“I think you’ve already shown a willingness to do that. ” The Fort Wayne company has given the town a figure of $83,370 for the project cost, while a ceiling of $87,070 was set by the state. Seek Utilities Superintendent In other business, the board agreed to utilize three local newspapers to advertise the town’s utilities superintendent nosition, which will open May 1 as a result of current superintendent Bill Knowles’ resignation, which was submitted to the board last week. The board will meet again Tuesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in the town hall, to discuss liability insurance.
household items were stolen. Some of these iterns have been found and will be returned to their owners. Conducting the investigation for the sheriff’s department were Sheriff Rovenstine, Moser, Sgt. Kitch, Capt. Ron Robinson and officers Tom Brindle and Dick Monk. Layering on the way out Most of the well-known designers are suspending the shapeless layering of the past five years to creations that define the body. Dresses and suits are fitted to the body often featuring a peplum. Belts are definitely back, usually cinching a definite waistline. Dress lengths continue to vary.