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TIME TO DECORATE THE TREE — With a little bit of snow on the roof and a chili in the air, Syracuse Jaycees decided it was time to start decorating the tree in the Pickwick Block. Busy attempting to make things festive last Saturday, were from left, Carol Phillbaum, Nancy Shipley, and behind the star, Christa Francis. Santa will be arriving in Syracuse on Friday of this week, Nov. 27 at 1 p.m. and area persons are encouraged to drop their children off at the theater to see a movie while they shop on Saturday, Nov. 28. (Photo by Carla Gaff)

'Care Bear ll' to be shown

The Lakeland Community Daycare, Syracuse, in cooperation with many of the area merchants, has announced that on Saturday, Nov. 23, they will be sponsoring the movie “Care Bear, II.” The movie will be shown in the Pickwick Theatre, Main Street, Syracuse. There will be two shows, at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tickets for this children’s movie are available at. many area merchants and businesses at no charge. Parents are encouraged to drop off the kids for the movie and spend the next 90 minutes Christmas shopping in Syracuse. The Lakeland Community Daycare Board of Directors, as well as some volunteer staff, will be acting as chaperons. The daycare originally

Dr. David W. Robinson to open Lakeland Counseling Service

Dr. David W. Robinson has resigned his function as psychologist for the area schools to expand his private practice He has established the Lakeland Counseling Service which he has operated out of his home in the Syracuse area. Dr. Robinson said he will continue working with children who have educational and emotional problems, but has re-entered the adult age services. His primary interests are working on problems of depression and pain. He has been extensively train-

Among the finest in the nation —

Stonehenge Golf Club a reality

I By ARCH BAUMGARTNER Publisher, The Mail-Journal

It got its name from a prehistoric ceremonial ruin on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, constructed at its first stage in the megalithic period (1900-1700 BC), of circular formations of huge upright stone slabs and lintels. That’s the way the New College Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary describes the famous English tourist attraction whose genesis is lost in antiquity. It seemed as good a name as any for a golf course, a one of its kind in northern Indiana. And it’s located right in Kosciusko County, just three miles from downtown Warsaw on the Pierceton Road. What Money Can Do They say you can do anything if you’re willing to spend enough money. The new 18-hole Stonehenge Golf Club, whose address is Route 3 Warsaw, is a good indication of the truth of this adage. The brains and principal investor behind Stonehenge is Ray Harroff, formerly of Bourbon, one of four principal owners of Biomet, Inc., a relatively new Warsaw orthopedic firm that has realized un-

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scheduled “Santa Claus, The Movie” but that movie became unavailable and was replaced with “Care Bear, II.” Because of the last minute change, the tickets indicate the original movie. The following merchants are participating and have courtesy tickets available: Thornburg Drugs; Pilcher’s Shoes; Augsburger’s Super Valu; Hooks; The Anchor Man; The Local Craftsman; Precision Automotive; Main Channel Marina; Marise’s Town and Country; Tom’s Donuts;, Love Furniture; Country Mouse; Lake City Bank; Miller Brother’s Realty: Randall Cory, DDS; Syracuse Cleaners; and Hair Force. Tickets are also available at: First Federal; Bearly Used; Ivy Hut; Mary Ann Restaurant;

ed in hypnotherapy. Recently, Dr. Robinson was accepted into membership in the American Academy of Medical Hypnoanalyses, which will be his major area of service. Practitioners in the medical hypnotherapy work under the supervision of physicians with patients who benefit from supplemental hypnoses. Dr. Robinson has worked in that relationship with terminal patients, on pain, including headaches and Tempular Mandiburla Joint (a.k.a.TMJ).

Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (E5t.1907)

Logan Rogers Realty; Bales Butcher Shop; J.A. Business Service; Syracuse office of The MailJournal; Tranter Graphics; Rinker Boat; NAPA Automotive; Wawasee Service Center; Wawasee Bowl; The Sleepy Owl; Todd Realty; Three Flags; Ben Franklin; Lakeland Standard; Gropp’s; Beer Realty; and the State Bank of Syracuse.

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THREE-VEHICLE PILE UP — Three vehicles were involved in a collision on SR 15 north of Milford on the viaduct Friday morning, Nov. 20, at approximately 5:30 a.m. Jeannie K. Blair of r 1 Leesburg stated that she lost control of her vehicle due to the ice on the bridge, hitting a guard rail and slid into a truck driven by Robert L. Vicary. Vicary of Wakarusa, was traveling south in his truck at the time of the impact. Alicia A. Williams of Milford was traveling behind the Blair vehicle and was unable to avoid the collision. (Photo by Carla Gaff)

precedented success in its field. Stonehenge Golf Course has been carved out of some 440 acres of flat farmland between Warsaw and Pierceton, but its hills and dales belie the original nature of the flat terrain. The golf course itself will cover 200 acres of this tract. A reported $8 million dollars has been invested in the project that has become a complex of rolling hills, small lakes and landscape resplendent with multicolored bent grass. The builders are in dead ernest in year, then it will be turned into a private course, golf courses in the nation. Harroff originally purchased the 9-hole D & B Golf Course on the Pierceton Road and has kept it intact. It will become part of the new golfing complex. Os the 12,000 golf courses in the United States, Stonehenge will rank among the very finest, the owners are quick to tell you. Florida Architect Ron Garl of Lakeland, Florida, a nationally-known golf course architect, has been employed to design Stonehenge. He has been in the business since 1961 and his firm has some 150 golf courses to their credit. He said they are just completing a course in San Juan Puerto Rico for Chi Chi Rodriquez. He said Crooked Stick Golf Course in Carmel, Ind., and Point of the Woods in Benton Harbor, Mich., would compare

WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 25,1987

Eagles plan fifth annual free Thanksgiving dinner The fifth annual free Thanksgiving dinner will begin at 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day at the Eagles Lodge in Syracuse. While the festive spread is put on primarily for senior citizens 55 or older, no one who needs a place to celebrate Thanksgiving will be turned away hungry. All who want to come are invited. Owen Snyder, event chairman, said the Eagles members are proud of this public service they do every year. “It makes us feel good to make people happy and give them a delicious meal,’.’ he stated. Last year over 200 people from all over the Lakeland area were served, including shut-ins to whom dinner was delivered. A local area band, “Endangered Species,” will provide lively country fiddling music after dinner. The party will continue until 6 p.m. Those who need a ride to the Eagles Lodge, located behind the Lakeland Youth Center in Wawasee Village, should call Burl Warren at 834-2776 or the Eagles Lodge, 457-4913, after 2 p.m. This number should also be called by anyone who knows of shut-ins who need Thanksgiving dinner brought to their homes.

Hearing Tuesday—- — confession stands

I ByCARLAGAFF Staff Writer Robert Hootman of Syracuse confessed to the murder of Barbara Hulley, shortly after midnight on May 6, 1987, while incarcerated at the Kosciusko County Jail on a misdemeanor conversion charge. The confession came shortly after a polygraph and volte stress tests were administered. Judge Richard Sand ruled in favor of freeing the confession to be used in the case during a

favorably with Stonehenge. Garl has spent much time since August of last year seeing the 18 greens and fairways laid out. About 12 pieces of heavy equipment have been moved in by a Texas and Florida firm and have seen the massive earth moving project through. Gael said a number of old barns on the farms were torn down and the stones in the foundations have been used to form areas around the several lakes. He said the course measures from 5,200 yards (front tees), to 6,900 yards (championship tees), the 18-hole golf course will host a full tournament schedule with special events for ladies, men, juniors and couples of all playing abilities. ' - The course is to be a public course until the secona year, then it will be turned into a private course at the end of its second year. All of this was unveiled Tuesday morning by the owners and architects. The large club house of Tudor facing was explained by S. Vic Jones of Dallas, TX. It provides separate, convenient entrances to the food and beverage areas, locker rooms and golf pro shops. The centerpiece of the club house will be the wellappointed ladies’ and men’s locker rooms. These comfortable areas will quickly become a center of activity for Stonehenge, Mr. Jones said. (Continued on page 2)

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rather lengthy hearing yesterday, (Tuesday, Nov. 24). During the hearing the defendant’s lawyer, Steven Hearn, attempted to show just cause as to why the confession should not be allowed as evidence. Hearn noted, “The whole plan was to befriend Hootman and to see and talk tohim.” He also attempted to bring out the mental and educational capacities of Hootman, stating J&aMNfootman may not have understood the waiver of rights statement he had signed, nor have totally comprehended the implications of his confession. He noted that Tammy Ummel, an advisor at Wawasee High School

$ 194,000 approved —

Appropriations made for school growth projects

j By CARLA GAFF Staff Writer Three building projects will be moving forward due to the appropriating of $194,000 during a special meeting of the Wawasee School Board last night (N0v.24) in the corporation office. The funds will be taken from the cumulative building fund in order to build onto the Syracuse School, purchase property for the middle school and do needed electrical renovation on the

at that time, stated that Hootman had only about an 80 percent comprehension level and that he was a special education student. Hootman is 20 years old and a 1985 graduate of Wawasee High School. He had resided at 231 North Street in Syracuse only four months before his alleged attack on Mrs. Hulley. The murder of Mrs. Hulley took place on Saturday, Sept. 21,1984, in her apartment complex in Syracuse. She was found on Sunday morning by her son, John, who was checking on her after an area resident noted that she had not arrived for her usual Sunday morning routine. 500 People Interviewed During the hearing it was also brought out that about 500 people were talked to by police during the two years and eight months that the murder was being investigated. Additionally, a satellite office was set up in Syracuse so that the investigation could continue at close range. Contacts were made to neighbors, the neighborhood canvassed, FBI contacted, state police brought in, a comparison of similar murders was made as well as a psychological profile determined in order to help aid in the investigation. The matter of Hootman’s possible involvement in the murder was brought to police attention by probation officer Mark Rodriguiz. At which time permission to study Hootman’s presentence report was given to Detective Thomas Kitch by Judge James Jarrett. Kitch then began questioning Hootman and said, “There began to appear to be a set of contradictory statements. Eventually we couldn’t sort things out, so we asked him if he’d consent to a polygraph test.” Continuing, Kitch stated that the department sought advice (Continued on page 2)

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AT STONEHENGE OPENING — On hand to explain the new multi-miliiaa Mar gets ceuroe — Stonehenge Golf Club — located on the Pierceton Rond three mileo east of downtown Warsaw, on Tuesday morning were, from left, 8. Vic Jones, of Dallas, TX, club house architect; Gary Lewis, of Orlando, Fla., golf management consultant; Roa Garl, of Lakeland, Fla., noted gulf course architect; Ray Harroff, Stonehenge owner and prime mover; and Dave Schumaker, Stonehenge golf professional.

high school. The Syracuse School project will require $65,000 for land acquisition and development. A break down of the project shows that $59,000 will be spent purchasing three lots from Larry Weaver next to the Syracuse School, with the remaining $6,000 being used for site development and legal fees. The property currently has two houses on it which will be removed by Weaver as agreed on, before March 1, 1988. The area will then be used as an elementary playground because the expansion of the Syracuse School will be started on immediately and current play area will be disturbed. A long term goal for the area instigates the coming down of the old part of the school, and outside physical education space will then be made available. Presently students are traveling the three blocks to Vega Field for physical education classes. Os the special appropriations, $117,000 will be used for Vandalism reported at Syracuse Three incidents of vandalism were reported to Syracuse Police last week, taking a toll on three vehicles. A 1978 Pontiac Firebird, owned by Rex Mullins, was discovered damaged at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at the parking lot of Mullins Auto Sales, SR 13. An unknown subject broke the driver’s side window of the automobile, causing $125 in damage. , In a similar incident, the rear window of a 1978 Mercury, owned by Dean Dwight, Syracuse, was broken sometime between Ttiursday evening, Nov. 19, and early Friday morning, Nov. 20. The window was damaged while the vehicle was parked at Dwight’s residence. The value of the window was unknown. The left front tire of a Dodge Sportsman van, owned by the Wawasee Heights Baptist Church, was punctured by a sharp object while it was parked in the church’s parking lot sometime between 8 p.m. last Tuesday, Nov. 17, and 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18. A damage estimate was not given. In a separate report, a NIPSCO pole was discovered broken at the base at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20. The pole, located near the intersection of Pittsburg Street and SR 13, was struck by an unknown vehicle, causing an unestimated amount of damage.

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purchasing land and development of the middle school site. A total of $112,000 is needed to purchase the 35-acre plot along SR 13 diagonally across from the Harris Funeral Home, while the remaining $5,000 will be used for legal services and soil boring. The property is being sold to the corporation for $3,200 an acre, contingent on the state approval of the site. A first option has also been given on a five-acre plot on the northeast corner of the property should it be sold at a future date. The remaining $12,500 of the appropriation will be used for renovation of the Wawasee High School Auditorium. The amount is an estimate for the total job including installation and equipment, an actual cost on the project is not available at this time as bids have not yet been accepted. During the meeting a concerned unnamed taxpayer asked the board if there would be a change in the tax impact due to the appropriating of these funds. Superintendent Roger Thornton replied,“The tax impact is already in the established budget. It would not be possible to say it has no impact but it will not have an additional impact.’’ He continued, noting that the corporation has adequate dollars available to de the Syracuee School work, but not sufficient funds to do the middle school project at this time. Also during the meeting it was announced that the board will be readvertising and will defer bids on the tax anticipation warrant, loan and bonding until December 22. It had previously been announced that bids would be let on December 8. Buzz Keck sells Syracuse building Steve Ross, owner of Steve Ross Chevrolet in Warsaw, has purchased from Buzz Keck the building and used car lot in Syracuse formerly used by Buzz Keck Motor Car Company. Ross said he plans to open a used car sales and full service facility at the 401 S. Huntington St. location on January 10, 1988. He added that his Syracuse operation will include sales of General Motors factory executive used cars and trucks and will also feature good quality used pickup trucks. “I’m not sure at this time who will manage the branch lot,” said Ross. “I’m glad to get such a prime location and look forward to being in the Syracuse area. ”