The Mail-Journal, Volume 29, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 February 1990 — Page 4

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., February 28,1990

Editorial Is county going to the dogs? Some say the world is going to the dogs. Kosciusko County may reinforce such logic if the issue of animal control isn’t fully resolved soon. The county commissioners took a step toward a temporary solution to the absence of animal control in the county, asking the county council to approve emergency funding that would provide the service through Public Service Animal Control until June 30. The temporary measure came after three meetings between county and Warsaw officials and was designed to give them more time to devise a more permanent solution. However, if three private meetings are unable to produce results, perhaps the councils of Warsaw and Kosciusko County, Mayor Jeff Plank and the commissioners should set aside a day to lock themselves into the county court chambers to pound out a final resolution. The various public entities seem intent on finding a reasonable solution that takes the taxpayers into consideration. However, considering events over the past few months, one can’t help but wonder if a solution will come full circle, with PSAC’s original budgeting request being accepted. The lack of animal control may be due, in part, to miscommunication. A third party, namely the Animal Welfare League, had asked to be an inspector of the PSAC facility. If the county council had made it clear that PSAC was open for all public inspection, with no “special” or “primary” inspectors being named, animal control may not have been the issue it is today. However, what has been done is done and now those various government officials involved must work for a viable agreement that will heal the wounds that have already been exposed. That solution must come in a public forum, with input from all council members and commissioners. As Plank said during Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting, the groundwork for a solution has been laid. Now is the time to act. Community involvement — worth honoring On February 26, Sue Ann Mitchel’, Tippecanoe Township Assessor and an Emergency Medical Technician for North Webster, was named the North Webster Chamber of Commerce Person of the Year. Mitchell has been serving the community through her EMT work for 10 years and deserves all the honor and praise given to her. We add our congratulations to those already extended. Without Mitchell and other EMTs, as well as the innumerable volunteers who serve the community, life would be less pleasant, safe and convenient. Volunteers work to educate, heal, entertain and help make the world better. Community involvement is not just for do-gooders and people with a lot of free time to fill, it's for anyone who wants to give something back. Doing so usually makes volunteers feel pretty good. Community volunteers are worth honoring and remembering. Not just with special ceremonies but with thankful thoughts and words as they touch our lives. “For a (federal) judicial nominee, the difference between being unopposed or opposed is the difference between heaven and hell.” — U.S. District Judge Patricia M. Wald

What others say — End agricultural socialism r This country’s agricultural policies are a gargantuan mess. The federal government pays farmers not to farm in the Midwest and then spends billions of dollars to irrigate new farmland in the Southwest. It funnels huge subsidies to milk producers and then tells them to kill more than a million dairy cows. It guarantees high sugar prices and freezes out foreign sugar producers. Meanwhile. U.S. trade officials are overseas complaining about trade barriers that keep U.S. farm products out of other countries. “The government,’’ says Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, “manages farms like a man trying to drive a car by putting his feet on the accelerator and the brake at the same time.” Armey made headlines a year or so ago by pushing the idea of an independent commission to decide which obsolete domestic military bases should be closed. Congress passed the all-or-nothing package, which will save millions of dollars if the Pentagon doesn’t foul it up. Now Armey has cast his budget-cutting eye on federal farm policies. In the current issue of Policy Review, Armey puts a knife into the ballooning body of federal farm subsidies and regulations. The title of his essay sums up his point: “Moscow on the Mississippi: America’s Soviet-Style Farm Policy ” “Under the current farm law, passed in 1985,” Armey writes, “the Department of Agriculture has paid dairy farmers to kill 1.6 million cows and take fiveyear vacations from farming. It has enforced regulations that have led to the squandering of 3 billion oranges, 2 billion lemons, and hundreds of millions of pounds of nuts and raisins. It has rewarded crop farmers for leaving idle 61 million acres of farmland — an area equal to all the territory of Ohio and Indiana, and half of Illinois. ) “For these dubious contributions to American competitiveness,” he continues, “the USDA has charged the taxpayers about S2O billion a year and forced consumers to pay $lO billion a year in higher food costs.” What this all adds up to is a relentless federal perversion of agricultural markets. It’s gotten so that farmers — who are traditionally a conservative lot, suspicious of governmental intervention — have little choice but to sign up for federal programs. In the current regulation-infested economic climate,■‘they can’t afford not to. Says James Bovard, author of “The Farm Fiasco”: “Farm subsidies are the equivalent of giving every full-time subsidized farmer two new Mercedes Benz automobiles each year . . . With the $260 billion that the government and consumers have spent on farm subsidies since 1980, Uncle Sam could have bought every farm, barn and tractor in 33 states. ” A return to sanity in agricultural markets, however, would mean cutting back and even eliminating one huge federal program after another. Some of those cutbacks have slowly begun. Overall government farm subsidies dropped from a peak of $26 billion in 1986 to sll billion last year. But the subsidies have leveled off at sll billion per year. Farmers who have come to depend on subsidies need to be weaned. A reasonable plan might be to gradually reduce farm subsidies over 10 years. By 2000, farmers would be on their own in a free market. Someday, somehow, this absurd agricultural socialism must end. - INDIANAPOLIS NEWS

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Animals: A problem to be solved! Court news

City Court The following fines have been levied and paid in the Goshen City Court: i Speeding — Karen S. Hoover, 32, Syracuse, S6B Driving while intoxicated — Charles M. Howard, 31, Syracuse, $633, $250 suspended, one year in jail suspended on condition defendant abide by all court orders and not commit an alcohol-related or major traffic offense for one year, no alcohol while on probation with urinalysis testing, attend DWI classes, license suspended for 90 days with credit given for time already suspended, pay user’s fee, one year probation Circuit Court The following petition has been filed in Kosciusko Circuit Court, Judge Richard Sand presiding: Complaint Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals versus Paul G. Davis, rural route. Syracuse. Petitioner seeks: Count I — court-ordered compliance of defendant with Kosciusko County Zoning Ordinance, injunction for defendant to remove boat house and/or relocate or modify to come in compliance with ordinance, costs; Count II — courtimposed penalties against defendant, costs. Superior Court The following petitions have been filed in Kosciusko Superior Court, Judge Robert Burner presiding: Complaint Blue Flame Gas Corporation. North Webster, versus Teresa L. Roberts, rural route. Leesburg. Petitioner seeks $1,245, attorney fees, interest and costs. Complaint On Open Account Bethpage Federal Credit Union, no address given, versus

Area residents booked at jail

The following persons were booked in the Kosciusko County Jail recently: Kevin Len Simons, 23, r 1 box 996, Cromwell, was sentenced to two years to the Indiana Department of Corrections for theft. Darrell Alan Brookins. 40. P.O Box 76. Leesburg, was charged with failure tb appear and held on $250 bond.

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Ronald R. Rodocker, rural route, Syracuse. Petitioner seeks: 1 Count I — $1,468.79, interest, attorney fees and costs; Count II — $1,262.91, interest, attorney fees, , court and collection costs. Complaint Augsburger’s Super Valu versus Kevin L. Steele, Carroll ’ Street, Syracuse. Petitioner ] seeks $478.16 plus $55 in court j costs. i Marriage Dissolutions ! The following couples have fil- * ed for marriage dissolutions in , the Kosciusko Superior and Cir- ; cuit Courts: Davis — Laurinda Davis, Yvonna Street, Leesburg, and Gary Davis, Yvonna Street, j Leesburg. The couple was married April 10, 1982, and separated Feb. 15, 1990. There are two , minor children. f Conder — Jimmy R. Conder, rural route, Syracuse, and Donna J. Conder, rural route, Syracuse. The couple was married Oct. 23, f 1965, and separated Feb. 20,1990. f Marriage Licenses i> The following couples have applied for marriage licenses in the office of Kosciusko County Clerk Jeanne Weirick: Withey-Niies Donald Withey, Jr., 52, Mullen Street. Syracuse, and Rosa M. 5 Niles, 58. Mullen Street, r Syracuse. r Grant-Tully Robert G. Grant, 56, Warsaw, and Barbara B. Tully, 55, rural route. Syracuse. Gray-Brady Matthew M. Gray, 34, Fort ,• Wayne, and Terri M. Brady, 30, Washington Street, Syracuse. Wuthrich-Piskor Douglas Eugene Wuthrich, 27. t rural route. Milford, and Annette 5 Piskor, 23. rural route. Milford.

Lawrence Henry "Stump” Knedle, 44. r 3 box 284, Syracuse, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and held on $350 bond. Gregory Ray Flynn. 27. r 1 box 257, Leesburg, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, and resisting law enforcement He was held on $250 bond.

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T’S SECTIONAL time and what better way to tell than with the latest blast of ■ winter weather, since

everyone expects the weather to turn nasty at sectional time. Even though last Saturday’s snow storm didn’t hit the boys’ sectional (play begins tonight at Triton), it did make travel difficult to the girls’ state tournament in Indianapolis. Many who attended had to spend the night in Market Square Arena. In addition to numerous accidents in the area, damage was also caused to buildings and signs. The sign at the Sunoco station on SR 13 was damaged and removed Monday of this week Also damaged was the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce sign on the south edge of town. Jeanne Gardiner noted the sign was half ripped away. Perhaps the most extensive damage was to the Lakeland Self Storage building that is under construction. The strong wind gusts knocked down all blit a few of the rafters on the new building. The top photo was published at the top of Cruzin on February 14. The photo at the bottom shows the results of Saturday's blizzard like conditions. —o— THE BLIZZARD conditions also caused the postponement of the high school dance in the Lakeland Youth Center Saturday evening. The event, for Wawasee High School students only, will be held this Saturday, March 3, from 9 p.m. until midnight. —o—- — HAVE asked what is going on next to the home of Tom Prickett on SR 13 at the curve. Some have said it will be a mobile home sales lot, others a used car lot. Not so according to Rita Ball, whose husband, Gary, is spearheading the project. It seems that Gary is building a large garage with one apartment on the lot. The garage will be a used by Gary for restoring his cars. —o— DON’T WAIT until the last minute to sign up for the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club, Inc.’s, annua) Bike-A-Thon. The event will be Saturday, May 5, with registration at 8:30 a.m., and the event starting at 9 a.m. A rain date of Saturday, May 12, has been set. The bike-a-thon will begin at Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church, SR 13N, with the fivemile course that may be repeated. Prizes will be awarded to persons raising the most money, and every rider will receive a T-shirt. Proceeds from the event can be designated to libraries in Milford, North Webster or Syracuse, civic or community organizations and the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club for community service projects. It has been learned there are riders who are looking for sponsors. Any individual or business who would want to sponsor a rider can contact Richard Brungardt. For those who are interested in riding, sponsor sheets are available at any school in the Wawasee Community School Corporation, churches, libraries, Ameritrust National BankSyracuse office. First Federal, Lake City Bank, Lakeland Animal Clinic, Precision Automotive, The Mail-Journal or from any Rotary club member. —o— AN ADULT cardio pulmonary resuscitation class will be offered at the Lakeland Youth Center in the spring. —O’PLANS ARE progressing on the annual Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. This year's event has been slated for Wednesday, March 7, in the Shrine Building on the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds. Indiana State Treasurer Marge O’Laughlin will be the guest speaker. Tickets are available from any elected county official.

PAVERS AND lights are catching on in Syracuse. The Syracuse Park Board has already installed lights at Lakeside Park and has plans for the addition of pavers. The new library plans to include the use of pavers and decorative lights. The executive committee for the SyracuseWawasee Beautification Committee is estimating it will cost between SB-$9 a square foot to install the pavers. This cost includes removing the present sidewalk. Businesses and residences can join the beautification bandwagon by installing the pavers. For more information contact Jeanne Gardiner. —o— HAVE YOU moved since the last election? Or have you not registered to vote yet? If you are not a registered voter. Democrat or Republican, this can be done at the Turkey Creek Township Assessor’s Office until March 25. Susan Myrick, who is a staunch supporter of voter registration, noted she will register anyone as long as they live in Vanßuren, Turkey Creek or Tippecanoe Townships. After March 25 all voter registration must be done at the county courthouse. —o— THE HEARING that was originally scheduled this week for an administrative review of the three permits granted to Donald Byrd by the Department of Natural Resources has been postponed. The petition for the administrative review was filed last August by the Wawasee Property Owners Association, Inc. William K. Teeguarden, an administrative law judge with the DNR, was appointed to hear the matter He granted a postponement of the hearing which now has been set to begin May 1 at 9 am., with May 2-3 set aside if more than one day is required. Some background on the matter is needed. Last August the DNR approved permits to Byrd allowing him to construct a boat ramp on his property between the Lilly Estates and Wawasee Spinks Condominiums; construct a boat ramp on a channel in Country Club Acres; complete dredging of a channel north of Kanata Manayunk, and widen and deepen a channel that runs north from Johnson’s Bay in the general direction of Wawasee Golf Club pumphouse. The WPOA opposed issuance of the permits, except the one involving the dredging of the channel north of Kanata Manayunk. In October, officers, directors and Steve Snyder, counselor for the WPOA, met with Teeguarden, along with lawyers for Byrd and DNR. The meeting was to set hearing dates and target dates for taking depositions, engaging in discovery and so forth. Teeguarden, at that time, granted Byrd’s request that he be allowed to intervene. A partial stay of the permits was granted by Judge Teeguarden on the channel boat ramp, limiting its size, and the north/south channel dredging, limiting its width to less than that allowed by the permit as issued. —o— A ROACH Rodeo was attended recently by enthusiastic pest controllers Greg Long, Ron Shortt, Mark Swihart and Gene Kathary from Ace Pest Control. The event was held in the Marriott Inn, South Bend. Each received a certificate of achievement for participation, which will give credit toward their state license. They are looking forward to a Termite Rodeo in March. AN OPEN house celebrating the 100th birthday of Blanche Kline was held Saturday afternoon, Feb. 24, in the Lakeland Loving Care Community Room. Blanche is the oldest living descendant from two of the early pioneer settlers in Turkey Creek Township, the Strieby and Guy families, who settled southwest of the Syracuse-Webster Road. Both prominent landowners, Andrew Guy, her grandfather, one of the early merchants in Syracuse, owned the northwest corner property of Main and Huntington, now called the Pickwick Block. A "This Is Your Life” history was presented, while birthday cake, coffee and punch were served to approximately 80 guests, family and (Continued on page 5)