The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 28, Milford, Kosciusko County, 26 August 1987 — Page 5

"CRUZIN aroundCUSE" 1 II •

(Continued from page 4) Deb Patterson, who had a major part in successfully pulling off the greatest celebration the town has ever seen, told this column the plates should arrive next week, and can be picked up where they were ordered. GOOD NEWS! Syracuse is destined to have a new RV company move to town. Joe Morganthaler, of Thwaits Realty and a Syracuse Town Board member, has sold a 20-acre tract of land north of town to Van American Cobra, and the Goshen firm plans to erect its first building to manufacture a fifth wheel line for national distribution. The tract is located just south of the Commodore Corporation plant on the east side of SR 13. The Goshen firm has its main plant and corporate offices on a 12-acre tract on CR 36 (College Avenue) southeast of Goshen. Morganthaler said he has no firm employment figures at this time, but called the fact that the company will open a manufacturing plant here, a real plus. —O’JOHN SUDLOW, who furnished the page 5 picture in last week’s M-J of .Modoc, the little steam boat that hauled passengers on Lake Wawasee and Syracuse Lake, has this week furnished the following information:

lUmLi WORKERS ON FOOD STAMP PROGRAM A survey of Kosciusko County Welfare records shows that not all persons on the food stamp program are welfare cases. The survey reveals that 103 families receiving food stamps are employed but are eligible for the program (supplement benefits). Wages of those who work and are on food stamps vary from $2.01 (not including tips) to a high of $7.42 per hour. Twenty-six percent of the above are working in the manufacturing field Their wages vary from $3.80 to $7.42 per hour. Other categories (percentage and high and low rates per hour) are shown below. Categories Per Cent High and Low Wage Domestic 14% $4.50-$9.00 Health Care 13% $3.50-$6.25 Restaurants 9% $2.01-$4.25 Agriculture 7% $3.35-$6.47 Fast Foods 5% $2.15-$4.59 Commercial 5% $3.35-$3.80 Service Agencies 5% $3.50-$4.50 Groceries 4% $3.50-$5.25 Entertainment 3% $3.35-$5.00 Education 3% $4.38-$4,45 Service Stations 3% $3.80-$4.00 All Remaining 3% $4.56-$5.10 ft Included are armed services, junk yard, vending machine, religious and finances. Eligibility standard, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture, vary as follows: Family of four — 100 percent of poverty level, if they earn less than $934 per month. 130 percent, if less than $1,214 and 165 percent, if less than $1,540. The current minimum wage for anyone engaged in interstate commerce is $3.35 per hour. —o— COUNTY CORONER — Gary Eastlund has had a reputation in cases for the first six months of this year as compared to 1986 He reported that he had investigated.l6 deaths which did not have a doctor in attendance. This compared to 30 cases in 1986. Auto accidents accounted for five deaths, suicide three miscellaneous four, unidentified and heart two each. —o— PROPERTY TAXPAYERS HIT HARD - Taxpayers living in the Warsaw Community School District are going to get another blow — if present proposed 1988 levy is granted. School officials are asking for Warsaw school taxpayers to pay $9,671,172 in 1988 (an 80 percent increase since 1984). Amounts collected by the school in previous years are: 1984 — $5,366,769. 1985 - $6,372,536. 1986 - $7,493,214. 1987 — $7,815,981. Warsaw Community School Corp, encompasses Warsaw, Winona Lake, Leesburg, Claypool, and Silver Lake and Wayne, Plain, Prairie, Lake and Clay Townships. School board members, who advertised the budget calling for expenditures of $18,305,100, are James Keeton, Juergen Voss, Tom Lemon, Arden Warner, Richard Gallentine, Tom Moore, and Max Anglin. The State of Indiana will make up most of the difference between the 18 million plus budget and the local property tax of nine million plus. —O’BOATS ABONANZA — When local taxing units have been permit ted to assess boats on our county lakes, it has turned out to be a real bonanza. Three townships — Turkey Creek, Plain and Tippecanoe — have a total of 9,233 boats on their tax rolls. These boats are assessed for $6,518,160. The total paid by these boat owners in 1987 was $364,940 in taxes. Os this amount the county received $67,814, and the Wawasee School district $219,365. Remainder of the money went to Syracuse, Milford, North Webster, Leesburg, Warsaw Community Schools, Milford and Syracuse Public Libraries ; Plain, Tippecanoe and Turkey Creek Townships. —o— COULD HAVE BEEN CONSERVATIVE - Recently I recommended that the boat landing at Syracuse could be generating almost a half million dollars to the county economy. Economists report that every dollar spent for recreation turns over three times. A survey revealed that between 200 and 300 boats use the ramps per week. Also the ramps are used from mid-May to mid-September (17 weeks). This involves between 3,400 to 5,000 boats using the facility. At S3O per boat this would equal $150,000. A survey one weekend revealed the following: License plates on the vehicles in the vicinity of the ramp were from Allen, DeKalb, Franklin, Grant, Hendricks, Jackson, Henry, Hancock, Miami, St. Joseph, Washington, Wayne, and Floyd Counties. There also was a horse. He hacLno license plate and he wasn’t talking. “O—HERB GARDEN — Drawings are out on the proposed Warsaw Herb Garden. Latest figures are the garden will cost (when finished) 350 grand. The garden will extend along Canal to Detroit Street. The racquet crowd will lose its tennis courts. —o— MINI-MEETING — Kosciusko Council members Norman DeGood, Larry Teghtmeyer, and George Klinger with County Auditor J. D. Geiger were seen having lunch together. One local “sleuth” has been keeping tabs on this group and reports they meet per week. Do you suppose the “gold ole boys” are discussing county business? —o— PAY CUT — Did you notice that your take-home pay was a little lighter after July 1? The state income tax as well as the local option tax were increased. Both took effect July 1.

The Syracuse Enterprise, in its July 1, 1875 issue, stated Frank Reith and John Edgbert, Jr., both of Goshen bought the steamer “Modoc” at Elkhart and brought it to Nine-Mile Lake to haul passengers. Its July 15, 1875 issue stated, “The Steamer Modoc was brought under the railroad bridge on Friday evening and was running on Syracuse Lake Saturday and Sunday. Due to bad weather on Saturday, it was not patronized as it should have been, but on Sunday it was kept running all the time with large parties on board.” Then on July 22,1876, The Enterprise stated, “The “Steamer Modoc was taken under the railroad bridge on Friday night and since then has been plying upon the waters of Nine-Mile Lake.” Sudlow states, “Looking at the old photo, I feel this launch could have come under the old railroad bridge if the boiler would have been disconnected and laid down.” —O'TURKEY CREEK Township Assessor Charlene Knispel spent three days last week in intensive care at the Goshen General Hospital. She suffered chest pains at work last Wednesday and entered the hospital for preliminary tests. She returned to work on Monday, said she “feels fine,” but wants to go through a stress test at the hospital this week.

NIPSCO to pay dividends again Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) announced on August 25th that its board of directors has authorized presentation to shareholders of a plan to exchange common shares with a new holding company for NIPSCO and NIPSCO sub- * sidiaries. The board has also reinstated the common dividend. A dividend of 15 cents per share on common stock was declared, the first dividend since they were suspended in December, 1985. The common dividend will be payable on November 20, 1987 to holders of record on October 30. Edmund A. Schroer, chairman and chief executive officer of NIPSCO, stated, “The reinstatement of the common stock dividends has been a high corporate priority of the board of directors for many months. The board believes the major uncertainties affecting the company have been resolved and is pleased to be able to take this step. ’ ’ Under the new holding company proposal, NIPSCO common shareholders would be solicited to exchange their shares for common shares of the new holding company on a one-for-one basis. If this is approved, NIPSCO would become the wholly-owned subsidiary of the holding company. The vote of the proposed exchange would be taken at a special meeting of common shareholders, tentatively set for early December, 1987. The preferred and preference stock and all debt of NIPSCO would not be affected by the exchange of common shares. Schroer said that the holding company structure was being proposed in order to “facilitate the enhan c tkm ent of shareholders’ assetk, improve capital allocat\j6n and managerial accountability among the various regulated and non-regulated energy businesses that would operate as subsidiaries of the holding company and to clearly separate regulated from non-regulated businesses.” The proposal is subject to further approval of NIPSCO’s board of directors and regulatory approvals, as well as approval of NIPSCO’s common shareholders. Proxy materials and a prospectus describing the proposed exchange will be sent to shareholders at a later date, seeking their approval at the special shareholders meeting. Such materials must be filed with and be made effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission before they may be sent to shareholders. Five Milford juveniles arrested Five Milford youths between the ages of 14 and 16 were arrested last week for breaking in at a number of different locations in the area. All five confessed to being involved in the break in at J.W.’s, as well as breaking into a storage shed at the Milford Junior High, for taking things out of vehicles and for burglary at three different Waubee Lake residents. The Milford Police have recovered a watch valued at $l5O, a S3OO camera, three fishing poles valued at close to SSOO and a number of cassette tapes. True words Marriages may be made in heaven, but the maintenance work has to be done on earth. On national debt The Senate Finance Committee voted to raise the national debt limit to $2,565 trillion and sent the bill to the full Senate where it will become the battleground for this year’s major fight over budget reform.

Sesquicentennial Memories

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This is a photo postcard of-fwssibly the first Vawter Park Hotel on Wawasee Lake as the date on the back of the card is January 19,1911. The first hotel was built on the site of where the South Shore Condominiums are now located by John Vawter in 1887, as part of Vawter Park Village. Vawter sold the hotel to Dr. W. R. McGarvey, Goshen, in 1907 and on May 29,1910, it burned. Dr. McGarvey built the second Vawter Park Hotel on the same site in 1911. It changed hands in 1916 after Dr. McGarvey died and was sold to John Boyts, Goshen. The structure was destroyed by fire on June 4,1918. It was replaced by the South Shore Inn, built in 1919 by Boyts. On July 4, 1943, the hotel was sold to

Letter to the editor

More than their share

Dear Editor: Following is a copy of the letter sent to Mr. James Hughes, President, Town Board of Syracuse: In relationship to grant number ClBlOBl 01 Improvement of Syracuse Sanitary Sewer System. 1. In the environmental assessment report dated Aug. 11, 1987, there is no indication as to who will determine the improvements to be made, who will set the rates, and who will manage the system 2. Economic ihipact. The proposed , rate places Syracuse customers at? 523.38 per month and one of the additionsto the system, Willow Grove, sl9 per month. This would indicate that Syracuse users (within the town limits) are going to carry more than their share of the cost of the improvements on the plant and lift wells. Some of these improvements would be required due to the addition of Ogden Island, Kanata Manayunk, Willow Grove, and Kale Island. Town residents in the past have paid into cumulative funds and bond issues to build the present plant. A part of this is going to be used. Why aren\t the proposed new additions subject to a hookon charge as everybody else has had to pay? Are they to pay anything toward the improvements to the plant? Syracuse residents were to have received a 40 percent increase in their sanitary sewer fees in 1987. But instead of being a 40 percent increase, for the most part it has been a 100 percent increase. This has resulted in a hardship to many of the town’s residents. Also to be faced is an increase of 70 percent in the reassessment in the town. This will mean higher real and personal property taxes. 3. Engineering — Why do the plans in the report use the old distribution system? It would make more sense to construct a forced line along the Baltimore and Ohio right-of-way from Wawasee Golf Course directly to the Syracuse plant — hooking the

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four new additions to the plant and not disturbing the present distribution system. This would also allow for further development of the system into new areas: for example, the northeast side of Syracuse Lake). The entire cost of this line would be born by those four addictions rather than piling it on to Syracuse users. 4 Future — Where and when is the north and east end of Syracuse Lake to have a sanitary sewer distribution system? Where is the southside of Lake Wawasee Lake to be serviced? Both are listed in the 201 area, but there is no provision to service them in the report. Will state officials come back in a few years and direct us to take both into our system, then force us to pay for plant improvements and lift wells (which will benefit those additions) with the cost being born by Syracuse residents? Please have the people who prepared this proposal give: Estimated total cost of the project. Town’s share of the cost of plant improvement. Each addition’s cost of new lift wells. How much will Willow Grove (and other proposed additions) pay toward the Syracuse plant improvement, etc? Did the signing of the grant application commit the Town of Syracuse to the above program? Please send a copy of this letter to the appropriate state agencies. Sincerely, Ronald Sharp True Don’t worry if a rival imitates you. While he follows in your tracks he cannot pass you.

Wed., August 26, 1987 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Jap Jones, which continued in operation until October 1964 when it was destroyed by fire. The postcard was loaned to us by Rebecca Joy Julier, Syracuse. Mrs. Julier noted the postcard was sent to her sister Ida C. Deardorff from Sam Searfoss, father of Robert Searfoss, when she entered nurse's training at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 111. Mrs. Julier said that in 1911 people did not have zip codes to use in sending letters, nor addresses, as the postcard was addressed to Miss Ida Deardorff, c/o Wesley Hospital, Chicago, 111.

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