The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 37, Milford, Kosciusko County, 10 September 1986 — Page 1

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Five more candidates file for school board

(EDITOR’S NOTE: As of last Friday's deadline, a total of eight men had filed for the three seats on the Wawasee Community School Board. The seats will be filled at the November 4 election with the new board members taking office on January t, 1907 Filing were bavid Carey and Curtis E. Jordan from District L, Tippecanoe Township; Courtney Blue. Charles Beck and Stephen Arnold from District 2, Turkey Creek Township; and William Troup, Randall Pollen'and Randall Dewart from District 3, Van Buren Township and the east half of Jefferson Township. At least one of the men from District I must be elected. After that the

DAVID L. CAREY David L. Carey, vice president of the Wawasee Commwity Schon! Corporation board of trustees for the past two years, filed with the county clerk last Thursday for re-election to the board. Carey, president of Dave Carey Excavation and Goncfructien. Inc., located on SB. 17 at the north edge of Warsaw, is a resident of the North Webster community, and seeks/Tp retain his post, L (Tippecanoe He wa.s first elected in November 1978 and re-elected tn If»2 He is a 1952 graduate of North Webster High School. Carey is married to the former Beverly Ferverda, also of North Webster They have three children Debra, 23; Beth, 19, and Jeff, Li, a sophomore at Wawasee High School. The Careys are members of the North Webster Church of God. } CLRTISE. JORDAN Curtis E (“Curt”) Jordan, r l Leesfcurg ( Irish Lake), filed his caifradacy for the Wawasee Com nramty School Corp, board of trustees last Tuesday from District I. Jordan and his wife Lee moved to Irish Lake from Carmel, Ind., following ,15 years with the,lndiana Bell Telephone Company serving in many capacities, including several years with AT & T operations in New York City. He was district manager/network engineering and had statewide responsibilities for engineering and installation of electronic and digital central office switching machines at his retirement. Born in Indianapolis, Jordan graduated from Broad Ripple High School and attended Butler University He served in the Navy Air Force in WWII, and has always been active in community and civic organizations, including Leadership Training courses for the Evansville Chamber of Commerce. He served as district chairman and Eagle Scout sponsor for the Daniel Boone District. Since moving to the area, Jordan has worked with the North Webster Elementary School, on its Principals and Citizens’ Better Education Committee, last year president of the School Advisory Committee. He has worked on several Kiwanis Gub of Lakeland committees and will be that club’s new president on October I. Mrs. Jordan has been active in community affairs, having been a North Webster Elementary School volunteer for two years, and has done outstanding work with the Montgomery County Ass. for Retarded Children. Candidate Jordan is a member of the Masonic Orders, including the Mizpah Shrine Temple. They are members of the Carmel Christian Church, and have a son Steve and two grandchildren residing in Littleton, Colorado STEPHEN O. ARNOLD A third person filed his candidacy for the Wawasee Com-

■ CURTIS E. JORDAN Dirtfict f

munity School Corporation board of trustees last week from District 2, in the person of Stephen 0 Arnold, a resident of r 3, Syracuse Arnold is a native of Traverse City, Mich., and came to the Syracuse community as an officer for the Commodore Corporation, from Pittsburgh. Pa , in 1981. a post he held for five years. He is currently employed by the Lincoln National Corporation, as an account, executive for alter native care technologies, division of Lincoln National Admimstrative Services, Inc He has a bachelor s degree (1952) from the University of South Dakota at Vermillion, and amasser's degree (1964) with honors from Ohio University at Athens. He has all degree requirements for a PhD degree, completed at Ohio University in 1957, maionng in an inter disciplinary behavorial science degree program Arnold chaired the corporation s citizen's committee on the code of conduct for athletes and extra-curricular students and issued a report in January He is a member of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce and is presidentelect of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club Arnold and his wife Donna, an art instructor at Fairfield High School, are breeders and trainers of golden retriever and Labrador

Issues call for substitute teachers —

School board views 20-minpte PR film on school corporation

B/GLEN LONG I Writer

The board room was full to overflowing last night as Billy G. Little, president, called the September meeting of the Wawasee Community School Corporation to order. It appeared that item eight, questions or concerns from visitors, might be a large portion of the meeting, but this was not true. Little called for comments three times, but none were forthcoming. Little commented on the previous board’s private discussion with the support committee He said this continues to be a high priority item and is on every ex ecutive meeting agenda for discussion The board approved the per sonnel recommendation of Cora Eisenhour to fill the vacant position of secretary to the Wawasee High School principal. She will assume her new duties after a replacement is named for her current similar position, at Milford School. Hopefully this will be about October 1. This year’s open house, schedule was presented to the board as follows: Syracuse School, Sept. 23,

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VdF ■Jtl STEPHEN ♦>. ARNOLD District 2

dogs. They have three children: Mark, 21), a junior at Central Michigan; Brian, t 6, a junior at. Wawasee High School; and Sean, 11, a 6th grader at the Syracuse Junior High School. RANDALL E. DEW ART Randall E. Dewart of Milford filed ins candidacy with the county clerk on Fnday for a aeat on the Wawasee Community School Corporation board of trustees from District 3. He has a long association in school planning and architectural interiors and design with two major manufacturers of school fur mshings and educational space planning. He is proud of a 1959 appoint ment ’as educational facilities specialist for having completed prescribed courses in interior school planning and design from Standford University, Palo Alto, Calif He was selected to head up the marketing department of the Shaver Partnership, a well known name among school administrators and boards throughout the county Candidate Dewart is a Milford High School graduate with the class of 1936, and of Indiana Central College in 1939. He is a member of the Milford Kiwanis Club, tfre Milford Christian Church, the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star His hobby is the restoration of bells of historic value.

6:30-8 p.m. (k-5) and7-8:30 (6-8); Milford School, Sept. 23,6:30-8:30 p.m.; North Webster School, Oct. 21;-6:30-8:30p.m.; Wawasee High School, Oct. 16.6:30-9 p.m. John Corbin, Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, presented the board with a check for $1,600, which was raised in that organization’s annual money-maker event. Last year the funds donated were used to buy special education equipment. A slide presentation, winch is available for service, club use, was shown by Dr. Howard Hull, director of instructional Services. The 20-minute program shows all schools and phases of the school corporation operation. Dr Hull stated that there are fewer substitute teachers available than usual. He invites contact from qualified substitutes in the area. Dr. Webster discussed the notebook of corporation goals winch contains over 70 goals. A copy is in each school for reference. This is the second year for this goals system use.? The financial reports as of August 31 were approved and claims were approved as presented, Minutes of previous meetings on August 12 and 28 were also approved as presented. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Drew Parr, a senior and

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10; 1986

RANDALL E. DEWART District 3

two other open seats will be filled on an at-large basis since the law states that each district must have at least one representative but may have no more than two. Current board members are Carey from District I; Henry Smith and Carol Swartzendruber from District 2; and Marguerite Hoerr and Bill Little from District 3. The seats held by Carey, Smith and Mrs. Hoerr are up for election. The seats held by Mrs Swartzendruber and Little do not expire until December 31. /W. Carey is seeking re-election. Smith and Mrs. Hoerr are not.)

He and Mrs. Dewart, the former Gwendolyn Orn, also a native of Milford, have four children: three daughters, Sharon Keller of Indianapolis, Marcia Paveiec of Oceanside. Calif., and Susanne Stroup of Arden, North Carolina; and a son Jon of Milford RANDALL POLLEN Randall Pollen, r I Milford is the third candidate from District 3 to file for a seat on the Wawasee School Board. He filed Friday morning with the Kosciusko County clerk just prior to the noon deadline Pollen. 35, known more Stereo taken from jeep A Milford resident reported the theft of an AM/FM cassette stereo and speakers from his jeep, while it was parked at Augsburger’s Super-Valu, SR 13, Wednesday, Sept. 3. Charles W Dippon, r 1, told Syracuse Police that he had parked the vehicle in the employee’s parking lot at 5:30 p.m. and found the'material missing upon his return at 10 p.m. A rag top was removed from the vehicle to gain entry, with the stereo speakers being ripped from existing wires. Loss was set at $l4O.

student body vice-president at Wawasee High School and the meeting invocation was presented by Sara Tuttle, pastor of Rock Church. Two of the eight candidates for -three school board positions were present. These were David Carey, incumbent member, and William (Bill) Troup of Milford? Contract on board's agenda > Discussion on the 1987 dispatching contract will be on the agenda tonight Wednesday: for North Webster Town Board’s regular monthly meeting. Those wishing to voice an opinion on the dispatching situation are attend. Other items on the board’s agenda will be the opening of bids far a building over the digesters at the sewage plant and reports from department heads. The meeting win begin at 7 p.m., in the town haU/fire station. MONTHLY MAD MEETING WILL BE HELD ON SEPT. 13 The Milford Area Development Council will hold its regular monthly meeting this Saturday, Sept. 13, at 9 a.m. in the community building) All interested persons wishing to attend are welcomed todoso. y

RANDALL POLLEN District 3

familiarly as “Randy,” resides on County Rbad 90f)N in what is remembered as the old Defrees farm, with his wife Donna, a Milford Elementary School music teacher Pollen is a 1969 graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School at Flossmoor, Illinois, and ji 1973 graduate of Eastern Illinois University at Charleston. Illinois, where he attended on a full football scholarship. He owns his own company, Marine Moorings Co. T manufac turers products for the marine vinyl industry He referees football games at Wawasee High School and is well known in school circles.

County Democrats 'high' on Evan Bayh

Evan Bayh, Democratic candidate for Indiana secretary of state, made his initial foray into Kosciusko County last Thursday night when he appeared at a fundraiser at the Syracuse home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller Those who make note of such things claimed the effort to raise some money for Baylis candidacy and to spark some interest in the race of this newcomer to Hoosier politics was not disappointing. Candidate Bayh was greated and able to address about 200 Democrats and well-wishers from over Kosciusko County, in the palatial, tented backyard at the Miller residence on Pickwick Eload. Son of Birch Bayh Bayh claims he has not asked his well known father to campaign for him, but it is hard to escape notice that Evan Bayh, at 30 years of age, is a close lookalike to his father, who served Indiana as its U.S. Senator for eight years. The senior Bayh entered Hoosier politics at an early age and became speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives when he was also 30 years of age. He defeated veteran senator Homer E. Capehart for the U.S. Senate when he was 34 years of age. Bayh, an Indianapolis attorney with the firm of Bingham, Welsh, Summers and Spillman, is being opposed by Robert Bowen, 33, son of former governor Otis R. Bowen, now Secretary of Health and Human Services. Bowen was circuit court judge of Marshall County until the Republican Central Committee persuaded him to run for secretary of state. Bowen’s salary as judge was $42,000 annually, and the GOP Central Committee took him on as a consultant, at $46,500 a year plus $50,000 expenses. Bayh says this charade is well enough known in Indiana, even to the point of raising the ire of many Republicans, and that he doesn’t have to make it an issue Aa Issue-Oriented Campaign Candidate Bayh said he wants to run as issue-oriented cam-

Game room warning —

Question board's ethics in retroactive edict

By WARK HU FFMAN ' , e Staff Writer

Former Milford park board president Bill Stath questioned the town board’s ethics at its monthly meeting Monday, Sept. 8, after having been relieved of duties retroactive to August 25. • Jean Treesh made the motion last week, and board members Darrel Om and Dennis Wuthrich concurred, that park board members should be town residents. Stath, a member of the board since 1979, questioned Treesh s intentions regarding a letter he received from town attorney Bill Leemon August 26. saying he didn’t meet the residency requirement. “It has been known to the town board since I volunteered that I wasn’t a town resident so why was this requirement made retroactive’’" he asked. Treesh claimed that the board had considered the requirement fora longtime hut hadn’t chose to make it official until recently, while Stath noted that the decision came shortly after he had openly criticized the Milford Police Department. “I don t like it if this is the case,” he said, adding, “After one cruicism 1 m out! it I’ve criticized someone they probably deserved it. " 'Stath revealed a letter that had been sent to town marshal David Hobbs, requesting that the police department close the park gate between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. and check the area “at least three to four times per night. ’ ’

paign for secretary of state, with his twin-issues being frugality and the elimination-of waste in government. “I want to give Indiana taxpayers a dollars worth of service for every dollar spent/’ he said, adding that he considers himself the working man’s candidate. His campaign hinges around a six-point program, a main plank of which is license branch reform. He is hitting hard on this issue, which he feels is unfair to the taxpayers and which became a crucial issue in the last governor’s election. Those election results point to the fact that license branch reform is high on the agenda of most taxpayers concerns. Bayh said he would turn back his government car at a $16,000 savings annually and would pay his own insurance. He would extend the hours of his office to be open Saturdays until new, for the convenience of people who cannot

EVAN BAYH AND FRIENDS — Evan Bayh, candidate for Indiana secretary of state, bad an opportunity last Thursday night to talk one-on-one with some 200 Kosciusko County Democrats at the Pickwick Read home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller. He is shown here on the left speaking to Jack Elam, new Turkey Creek Township Democratic chairman, and well known Lake Wawasee industrialist Bill Beemer. "

Stath also noted in the letter that a collectioh box located at the park's boat ramp had been broken into, while Hobbs asked why he hadn’t filed a complaint, adding “The letter should have been directed to the town board. ” Stath countered. “I didn't know the police department was above reproach.” He then informed those present that the park board had one active member remaining (Dick Koschnick), noting that the town’s ordinance calls for five members. “If following ordinances is so critical, then why not follow it in this case, ” he ask ed, prompting Om to reply, “We just have to give someone else a chance.” Stath concluded. “I’m sorry I’m off (the park board',, but I don’t want to be a part of any kind of hypocrisy like tms Game Room To Be Warned' In other business the board agreed to send Herbert Rehborg, operator of Herbie’s game room on Main Street, a letter warning him to follow town ordinances after hearing complaints about the management from area citizens. Hobbs noted that the police department would be offering safety education classes to Milford School, showing board members a puppet used to aid the classes. “It’s been to educate young kids about safety, "he said Concluding his report, Hobbs said that 166 complaints had been received at the police department August II through Monday, while eight traffic accidents were investigated. with damages of 59,800.

come in during work days. He would put the license branch slush fund (about $2.8 million) at the hands of the legislature, which would: Retrain 600 people for new job skills; hire 120 more teachers, or fill 45.000 pot holes on Indiana roads. At any rate, this money would be put into a trust fund. He would call for the restructuring of the state board of accounts. (Note: See guest editorial on page 4.) “AH of these ideas are non-partisan,’’ he said, adding “that Democrats, Republicans and Independents can get behind. He said the new GrammRudman bill to cut spending is going to demand more thrift and frugality and better accounting on the part of all states. State W atchdog If elected, Bayh said he could be a watchdog in Indiana government, as head of the opposition party. He will head the Democratic ticket on November

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Milford resident Leroy Moe asked the board to address two of his concerns for properties located at 303 and 307 N. Henry St. “The new water tower-was supposed to have solved our problems but we still get rust in our water on North Henry Street,” he said, prompting the board to have Randy Veach, acting-utilities superintendent, check into the problem. The board also agreed to check into the possibility of installing a lift station on Fifth Street next summer to provide for sanitary sewers in that area. Veach will also overlook the installation of a 1.200 gallon dry well at Campbell’s IGA. near West Street. The street department will provide labor while the store’s owner, Phil Campbelljhas agreed to pay for materials. Ln other business it was agreed. — The street department will fix a water pipe leak at Catherine and First Streets. — Street department employee Robert Wright will be paid at a rate of $4 per hour — The Papers Incorporated will be allowed to tap into the town's existing sewer line, adding one restroom and a drinking fountain to its current facilities. — Veach and street department. employee Dan VanLue will be allocated S3O each for a waterworks operators certification examination. Signing the register of claims, the town board closed its proceedings and will meet again at a regularly scheduled meeting, Monday. Oct. 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the town hall.

4. The only other Democrat holding a state office is Otis Cox, state auditor His new job, as secretary of state, would give him a platform to speak out on issues facing the state, he noted. He expressed himself as being “very confident,’’ to his friends at the Miller home, while early state-wide polls show Bayh and Bowen as neck-to-neck with each having 42 percent of the vote. The Bayh forces are constantly polling Hoosier voters. Bayh said he has so far been unsuccessful in his attempts to get Robert Bowen to debate with him in a public forum. The entire election will focus on two issues, he said: License branch reform, and the retention of the two-party system in Indiana. His “Golden Faucet” award, pointing up extravagances in state spending has been attracting wide attention, he added.