The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 40, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 October 1986 — Page 5
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5% innskeepers tax in county effective Dec. 1 Kosciusko County now has a five percent innkeepers tax. The proposal was passed Thursday night in a special session held by the county council. The new moneyraising project becomes effective Dec. 1. Kosciusko County Council members Tom Anglin, Carl Latta, George Klinger. Katherine Teel, Larry Teghtmeyer, and Norman DeGood passed the ordinance. (Dennis Polk was absent .) Only guests staying at one of the county's hotels or motels will pay the tax. The tax was proposed by the Kosciusko County Tourism Committee Funds collected will be used to promote tourism in the county Deb Wiggins, executive secretary of the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce, estimated that the new tax will generate about SIOO,OOO per year. However, a delay in passing the levy will result in the Tourism Council not being able to initiate a number of programs until later next year. - < ■ . The passing ot the five percent rate was delayed in August by Councilman Norman DeGood who said he "wanted the ordinance to be correct." The councilman had not attended previous informational sessions on the tax and apparently did not realize his action would delay the program When the published ordinance was read by Council Chairman Tom Anglin. Mrs. Wigging found an error The ordinance published by County Auditor J Dr Geiger did not include a paragraph exempting religious organizations which operated hotels and motels in the county from collecting the tax. Mrs Wiggins then urged the council to pass the published ordinance, then amend it to include the paragraph. The amendment would then be taken up at a future meeting of the council. Councihnen then passed the ordinance and a motion was made to amend the ordinance to include the paragraph exempting the religious organizations. This amendment was also passed by all of the council members present. Ron Buhi". representing the hotels and motels owned by religious groups at Winona Lake, read a statement in which he said the church groups only rent rooms to groups coming to Winona Lake for religious conferences. The only time they would rent to the general public would be if there was an overflow in public motels and hotels. The amendment would also cover Oakwood Park and Epworth Forest facilities owned by the United Methodist Church. Plans are for the Tourism Council, composed of seven members t four appointed by the county commissioners, two by the county council and one by the mayor of Warsaw >, to sign a contract with the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce to provide office facilities and personnel for the new agency. Mrs Wiggins stated that the tourism bureau will be separate but will use the same facilities as now used by the Chamber and the Economic Development group for the county. She stated that this will cut down on administrative expenses, leaving more funds available for promotion Bus tours last year resulted in more than S750.00(1 being fed into the county's economy ' Funds from the tax will be received by the Kosciusko. County Tourism Council, composed of Deb Lotz. Silver Lake: Chick Lamoree, Kosciusko County Historical County; Jeanne Gard ner. Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce: Bill Hambright and Bruce Shaffner. motel owners; Rick Snodgrass. Warsaw Chamber ot Commerce, and a member appointed by the mayor of Warsaw The above council members will prepare programs and a budget for the tourism program in the county.
Several incidents at airport
Crime Stoppers, a non-profit organization imolving the police, the media and the public in the fight against crime, offers anonym its and cash rewards to persons who furnish information leading to the arrest and the filing of criminal charges against felons offenders and to the capture of fugitives. The follbw ing "Crime of the Week" was furnished by the Kosciusko County Crime Stoppers organization: Numerous cases of theft and damage to property at the Warsaw Municipal Airport during the summer is the "Crime of the Week.” Recently, several incidents have occurred at the Warsaw airport in which runway identification lights have been stolen or damaged These included lights with red and blue globes. There has also been extensive damage to antennas of an instrument landing system These acts have caused losses of well over $2,000, but more importantly, they are Court news City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: Speeding — Aubrey W Earlywine, 51. Syracuse, $52.50 . Passing in violation of clearly visible signs and markings — Glenn C Dyson. 38, Syracuse, $72 50
an extreme hazard to aircraft landing at night, particularly in bad weather. Persons with information concerning these acts are asked to contact Crime Stoppers, toll-free, at 1-800-342-STOP Crime Stoppers will pay up to SI,OOO if the information leads to an arrest or indictment. Crime Stoppers will also pay cash rewards on other felony crimes and the capture of fugitives. Callers will be assigned a code number and will not be asked to reveal their names.
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Letters to the editor
A good deed for Americans Dear Editor: The reshaping of the courts may be President Reagan’s greatest achievement during his eight years of being our good president. As we praise and commend the President let us also remember the Senate that okayed this nomination of William Hobbs Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court! This surely was a good deed for Americans living today and for those coming after! The Supreme Court and the lesser courts have been leaning towards the liberal side since Roosevelt began his seasoning the courts with left wingers. The trend is at last broken. Liberals no longer will have the upper hand! May be America can be saved yet? The conservative judges have a pretty decent edge now! One can see faintly a bit of silver lining through the shadows. America can stand a lot of this kind of silver! Maybe some day we can sing “God Bless-America” with true meaning. We can hope! Clayton Mock 712 N. Huntington Syracuse J. B. Hoy and his rose Dear Editor : I feel now that since our nation has adopted the rose as our national flower that my efforts to have our congress set aside the fourth week in each and every June as Friendship Week with Wednesday of that week Friendship Day. a day in which to remember our friends and to honor them, is not beyond reach. Friendship in our lives is so important that we need a whole week in which have the news media, TV and radio personalities comment on friendship, building it up to a big weekend climax. A Saturday night of dancing ranging from ballroom dancing to old fashion square dancing in every village, hamlet and city throughout America. With roses, roses, roses everywhere. What a week! A Rose' For Friendship Week and Day came about by our former Governor Otis R. Bowen, M. D.. reading the brochure with the rose on the front. Gov. Bowen wrote me on November 17, 1975, saying. “I. in a roundabout way. ran onto one of your brochures. I like it very much and feel that you should do something about your thoughts After receiving this letter I got busy on it immediately and by February the 10th of 1976 it passed both of our legislative houses in Indiana unanimously Not one vote against it. Everyone in both ’loqses voted "Yes ’ To me that vasnot too surprising for Indiana s known as the Friendly State. The state of genuine Hoosier Hospitality. The only thing that is holding up the second reading before both of our congressional houses is. . it is Commemorative Legislation, requiring the cosponsorship of 218 in the house of representatives and 25 cosponsors in the Senate. 1 simply do not have the means to hire a qualified lobbyist to secure the signatures. Both Senators Lugar and Quayle, and Congressman Hiler have stated that it would pass without the first problem on second reading. Both Senator LUgar and Con-
gressman Hiler have considered it so highly important to our nation and to our world that they both have taken the liberty to share my thoughts with their colleagues in the senate and in the house of representatives. This is a great honor to me and I am proud of it for every word I have written or said has been prompted by a higher spirit than I possess. Arch, you have been so gracious in helping me to publicize A Rose For Friendship Society For America And The World that should it ever get to it’s second reading before both houses —a generous acknowledgement and honor should go to you. Sincerely, J. B. Hoy Much evidence of Soviet sabotaging Dear Editor: The senate and the house select committees on intelligence should take note of the following dated and reported catastrophes: 1. On January 28, our space shuttle Challenger was launched from Cape Canaveral, exploded seconds after take off. killing the entire crew of seven. It was observed on this date of January 28 in the Florida waters there were four Soviet spy ships with electronic spy equipment and four hours before the Challenger take off. one of the ships took off in the northeast at full speed to lay in wait to possibly intercept the Challenger Doesn't this incident show the Challenger explosion could have been triggered by one of those spy ships - ’ Why were they allowed this close in this area at this date? 2. On this date, April 25. a Nike Orion rocket carrying a scientific probe, misfired after a NASA lift off from the desert in New Mexico. This was the first failure after 55 successes 3 On April 18 a Titan II rocket, our most dependable, was laun ched from Vanderburg Air Force Base in California and blew up five seconds after lift off, destroy ing a badly needed reconnaissancesatellite 4 On May 3. a Delta rocket launched from Cape Canaveral malfunctioned and had to be destroyed. This was the first failure in 43 successes. In the pro cess, it destroyed a $57 million weather satallite It is evident that most of these rockets were caused to malfunction because of direct spy radio command. Now as the result ot the loss of these American Reconnaissance Satallites. the US no longer has the capability of putting satallites into orbit and cannot give early warning against missile attacks 5 On July 18. 1983. 34 year-old US,Air Force Captain William Howard Hughes. Jr . had the job of training officers to destroy rockets that malfunction after launching Hughes was capfUred and never seen again. Our intelligence thinks he defected for a * price, as his knowledge is quite valuable to the Kremlin The SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative. as prepared by President Reagan and promoted through the Hi Frontier and leading scientists of our Free Republic, is under attack by our powerful arms control lobby Unfortunately this lobby is controlled byliberal leftiest unpatrioticsenators who have grown rich from the blessings of a free enter-
prise republic. Now if congress abandons President Reagan's SDI research program, our future generations will never be free from nuclear blackmail. Congress will have sold the world into communist slavery. Action to take — write your senators: Richard Lugar, Senate Office Building. Washington, D.C. 20510; and Dan Quail, 254 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington. D C. 20510; and tell them to oppose any agreement with the Soviets that would lessen the full funding of President Reagan’s SDI program. Disgusted, Byron K. Ulrich Paper opened old wounds Dear Editor: Your use of space to fuel a controversial issue was an injustice aimed at our local Kiwanis Club. No doubt it has sold papers for you, but it has done the community no good. You now have two service clubs up in arms over an issue that had been resolved. You brought up the issue of Johnny-come-latelys running the program. Granted 1 have only lived here 22 years, but the onlyname I have ever heard the Junior High Field called was "Vega Field." Don’t accuse the Kiwanians of naming that field As to the field north of town, we have no objections to people knowing it was the Rotarians who built the field. We just want the people to know who raises the money and puts in hundreds of hours keeping up the field and providing a baseball program for hundreds of children. We went into the project at "Memorial Field” trying to fill a need for an adult field here in Syracuse. Now. because of your articles, two fine clubs are opening up old wounds. I hope you sold plenty of papers because not any other good came out of this. Larry Martindale A concerned Syracuse resident and a proud Kiwanian Brazil's trade President Reagan, meeting Brazilian President Jose Sarney for the first time, warned that Brazil must open its market to U.S. competitors if it expects to continue exporting $8 billion a \ear in goods to the United States.
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Kiwanians install new officers
The annual ladies’ night and installation of officers of the Wawasee Kiwanis Club was held at the South Shore Country Club on Friday, Sept. 26. Honored guests and wives of the members. Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. David Bootby; Incoming Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Don Arnold; Pam Pletcher, advisor of the kiwanis sponsored Key Club at Wawasee High School; and Mrs. Pletcher’s husband. Gary. Lieutenant Governor Arnold, installed the new officers for 1986-1987. The officers are: President — Herschel Wells President-elect — Philip Hoover Vice president — Larry Martindale Board of directors — Thomas Hoover, Steve Hasse and Harold Hazenfield Present officers continuing in office are Terry McDonald, secretary; Greg Long, treasurer; Ronald Hibschman, Donald Strauss, Buck Sanders, and Leonard Foyle, members of the board of directors. Robert Sloop serves on the board as immediate past president. Robert Sloop, president of Wawasee Kiwanis, and master of ceremonies, expressed appreciation to Elaine Hibschman. Sixta Hoover and daughter. Jessica. Betty Jean Strauss, and Susie /McDonald for assisting in several projects during the year. He announced Kiwanians-of-the-month awards having been given to Philip Hoover, Ronald Hibschman, Larry Michael, Donald Strauss, and Larry Martindale. t President’s Special Recogni tion plaques were given to Terry McDonald, secretary; Greg Long, treasurer; Jack Oswald, interclub chairman: Clair Mohler. Kenneth Bowton and Robert Watt for high number of interclub attendances; Patty Martindale for work with youth services committee; Larry Martindale and Steve Hasse for work with youth services committee and the youth league; Carl Freel lor nine years of service on the board of directors; Ronald Hibschman, chairman of citizenshipservices; Harold Hazenfield. editor of first place Kiwanis bulletin; and Donald Denney, a past president who because of a change in job assignment, joins the Warsaw noon club Roses were presented to Katherine Sloop by her husband. President Sloop and Elaine Hibschman provided a birthday cake for her husband, Ron Hibschman
Wed., October 1,1986 —THE MAIL-JOURNAL
1 ■ BHHA JBHH MB kW ■ fl 1L S ■ NEW PRESIDENT — New officers were installed for the 1986-1987 year of the Wawasee Kiwanis Club during the club’s annual ladies* night and installation of officers Friday, Sept. 26. Herschel Wells is the chib’s new president. Shown in the photo are Wells: Don Arnold, lieutenant governor; and Robert Sloop. 1985-1986 president.
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