The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 11

SECOND SECTION Tuesday, July 31, 1956 KOKOMO, INDIANA PAGE ELEVEN SECOND SECTION Council Disagrees In Rezone Requests Suspension of Rules Causes Disagreement Kuies causes i A i Among Group Parking Lot Law Is Approved Several Hundred Contestants Are Expected for Model Airplane Meet Action- termed by one council-iwant a little longer to study their man as "contradictory" led the finding in hopes they can deter- Kokomo Common Council into a heated debate Monday night, sparking a little life into a session that otherwise was almost as cool as the air-conditioned chamber in which the meeting was held. The brief "action" flared as the council was considering an ordinance for rezoning of a lot at the northeast 'corner of Markland Avenue and Apperson Way from residential to business use. The petitioners, Ralph and Thelma Walker, Kokomo R.R. 3, had told the city plan commission they intend to locate a used car sales lot on the location, at 926 Apperson Way if they can get a special mine a way the residents of Farmers Trust can help "foot the bill" of annexation. The building code was on the.

council's June agenda but action on it was postponed for a month. The discussion Monday night indicated that the proposed code was being greeted favorably by the building trades locally, but the council agreed it wbould be aired at a public hearing. i The plan commission was picked as the body to hold tot hearing after Councilman Snider, council representative on the commission, said he had talked with members of the commission and they indi- A 20-page ordinance establishing a municipal off-street parking lot'at the northeast corner of Mulberry and. Washington streets was passed by the Kokomo Common Council Monday night on three readings. The bulk of the measure pro- videsfor 15i i revenue bonds, of $50 denomination, to finance the project.

The bonds will be on Aug. 17, with delivery to follow in about two weeks thereafter. The city will pay $75,000 for the lot, which is part of the es- use permit from the board of zon- cated willingness to spend time on 4-Vin AAHA ing appeals. Councilman Ralph Neal -said that he feK "we are hurrying this thing" as the council was about to hear a motion- for passing of the ordinance on three readings, by suspension of the rules. Neal out that he didn't have anything against the petition- the code.

ers or that he tile rezoning request, but felt the measure should be passed only on two readings "if there is no urgency. He added that he felt the council would be establishing a precedent by passing such measures on three readings at one meeting. He said this might affect some future ordinance that "would need further checking into." Robert Kinsey, Kokomo attorney who represented the petitioners, said there was no real hurry as far as his clients were concerned, and said they would go along with whatever Parking Lot Opens in Kokomo A commercial parking lot at the The ordinance, however; provides for the sale of $76,000 in revenue bonds, with the extra $1,000 to be used for paying administrative costs. The Kokomo YWCA and the Grace Methodist Church, through provisions of the estate, have interests in the property along with Mr. Conrad's widow, Mrs.

streets, and. $13,000 for the lot at Madge Conrad. Mam Street and Markland Ave- The YWCA ana the church nue. have agreed to use their shares Improvements will include of the money, $57,500 to pur- razing of existing buildings; chase revenue bonds. The paving of the lots; installation of remainder of the price, will psAi tn Mrs Conrad.

The Kokomo Q-amber of Commerce, through its parking committee, will seek to raise $18,500 to purchase the remaining bonds. Also Monday night, the council passed a companion measure to the parking lot ordinance. It provides for $31,000 to be appropriated from the Traf- fice Improvement Fund for use in improving two sites as off- street parking lots. Of that amount, $18,000 is for improving the lot at the corner of Washington and Mulberry islands and curbs and parking meter posts and purchase and installation of'parking meters. The city plans to install 56 meters at the Main and Markland site and 70 on the downtown lot.

Revenue from these meters will be used to retire the bonds which finance the projects. Bonds will be sold Friday for the Main and Markland lot. Merchants of that business district have raised more than enough money to purchase those bonds. An ordinance establishing the smaller lot was passed earlier this month by the city council. intersection Washington of Mulberry and Streets was opened action the council took.

He added, however, that the petitioners were anxious to have the land rezoned "as soon for rental Tuesday by M. E. Hicks, owner. The parking area will accommodate 48 automobiles for diagonal parking. It is hardtopped and equipped with cement bumpers.

Spaces will be rented on a monthly basis. Hicks constructed the commercial lot because of what he terms "a definite shortage of customer parking in downtown Kokomo." He said he is convinced that County Planners Qive OK To New Shopping Center The Harris Farm site for a proposed American Shopping Center development has been okayed by the Howard County Plan Commission, and planners will send a rec- Officials of the real estate research and traffic engineering firms who attended the session two weeks ago when the center project first was revealed were ommendation to the Board of i present again Monday to go over County Commissioners next survey information with the that the 40-acre tract be designated accordingly. At a public hearing Monday night in the County Commissioners Courtroom, no one appeared to commission. Again it was pointed out why Kokomo was chosen for the center of prospective buyers, lack of department stores and midway in a locale parking faculties need to be aug- protest location of the center at! wnicn might pull business from a Harold Shockley to Neal's stand, Beamer AlOS as possible." Councilman took exception stating "We've discussed this be- fore. We've postponed business MOVC here that's been detrimental to petitioners." Councilmen Ralph WUloughby mented to keep the downtown area "commercially alive." and Clyde Mays Sr.

supported Shockley's argument, while Councilmen Daniel Grecu and Donald Snider indicated that they favored Neal's suggestion to pass the ordinance on two readings only, and been assured'by the bureau that leave the third reading until next month. Shockley said he thought Neal's position was contradictory since Neal had voted earlier in the evening to pass a similar ordinance on all three readings, by suspension of the rules. "There's no difference between the two ordinances. We're not being consistent," Shockley stated. The earlier action referred to was passage of an ordinance re- zoning two lots on West Mulber- KemertSCnS ry Street, just west of Washington! Street, from residential to busi- Are ness use district to permit instal- Cfpnrwnf-pr Fin lation of a private parking lot.

lcur uler M. E. Hicks was the petitioner. City's for Population Count Congressman John Beamer is giving an "assist" to the city of Kckomo's application for a special federal census. He has advised local leaders that he has contacted the Census Bureau and has it will expedite the census once it is started.

"They anticipate completion of the census in about two months," Beamer said. The Congressman added that he hopes Kokomo will be successful in showing its population has passed the 40,000 mark. Proof of such a gain will entitle the city to qualify for additional state funds. the "square" area north of the 'radius of 50 to 60 miles. west of U.S.

31 Bypass and south of Hoffer Street. An official sauer. Fort of Wolf and Des- Wayne department Chrysler Corporation, which has store which intends to be "major a plant on the same side of the tenant" in the development, at- bypass but south of the Boulevard, I tended the session to reaffirm that had officials at the meeting who'store's interest in the site, reported the firm had no objec-l A representative of Barancik, lions to construction of the shop- Conte and Associates, Chicago ar- ping center. One resident of the chitects, told the commission that area, Clarence Bailey of 1732 E. the firm has been working without of "Minneapolis, Minn.

Hoffer told planners that no drawings for the center "for sev- neighbors with whom he had dis- eral months." A preliminary cussed the'proposal were against'sketch of the proposed center was CHIEF COMSAT JUDGE at the North Central Indiana Model Airplane Championships here Aug. 19 will be Hugh Darnell, Nftw Albany, shown above. Other judges are from the Kokomo area. Co-sponsors of the annual event are the Kokomo Jaycees, the Chrysler and The Kokomo Tribune. as distinguished from a "strip" center comprised of a string of would list the department store as its major attraction.

Some 240,000 square. feet shopping area would be included; moving scientific progress in the various buildings. The largest area, of course, would go to Wolf and Dessauer. Apparently traffic movement in the area would be no problem. A Hoosier Teachers Get Quick 'Shpt' of Science Progress BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

science teachers who don't of the time to keep up with representative of the traffic en- Busy have fast- have been given a quick "shot-in-the- arm" of science developments in two institutes conducted this summer at Indiana University. I Early registrations indicate several hundred contestants win participate in the third annual North Indiana Model Airplane Championships scheduled for Aug. 19 at the new Chrysler Corp. jplant's parking lot on the U.S. 31 Bypass.

Co-sponsors of the event are the Kokomo Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Chrysler Corporation The Kokomo Tribune. Hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission will be free. Joe Braun, contest director, said Tuesday that this year's meet will be the largest contest for control line models in Indiana.

He also entries from five states have been received for the jet event. Some 60 Jaycees wffl work with the chief judges in operation of the various events. Juc'e- dude: Speed and jets, Bill Trown- sell, Clare Saul; stunt, Keith Wright, Ed Scott; scale. Bob Host, Bruce McPhearson: combat, Hugh Darnell of New Albany. Trophies will be awarded winners by representatives of Chrys- iler, The Tribune, the Jaycees and Bunker Hill Ah- Force Base.

Radio communications and traffic control will be handled by members of the National Guard. State police win direct traffic on the bypass. Public address equipment win be loaned by the Kokomo Speedway. New features of this year's competition, described by Braun, wiU include taking of colored mov- tbe college teachers were repre- ies from two camera towers. Tom Walker of Richmond will bring his radio-controlled B-25 for demonstration.

sentatives of 23 states. Experts in particular fields of science, from both on and off thepfokomo model plane I.U. campus, have discussed de- asts are invited to compete. Ar- velopments in their specialties, rangements may be made by tele- and all have emphasized the grow- phoning Braun at GL 2-8090. The institutes have been based ing interdependence of the sci on the premise that "there A zoologist, for example, Local Girl Enrolls te whirh -I" I stimulating teacher in the back-'stressed the importance of mathe- 11 fe of every professional sci-'matics in a study of fish produc- In VSJlparaiSO U.

entist." I 1 1 of lakes; a chemist and a zo-j Miss Nora Hartman, daughter Sponsored by I.U. under reported on their joint Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Hart- from the National Science Founda-'search on production and Kokomo R.R.

2, has been one of the institutes, still un-' of a drug- 'accepted for admission to Valpa-' The vice-president of American'derway, is for high school biology! Almost as valuable to the teach- raiso University for classes begin- per cent of the shoppers to the center would travel via Bypass. Shopping Center, which has buffi'teachers, and the other, recently ers as lectures were 22 centers and operates even completed, was for college chem-l scheduled discussion more, addressed the teachers. Most of the high they could exchange ideas and miles southeast of Chicago at Val- Monday night. The firm school teachers attending have discuss problems with one anoth-jparaiso, expects a freshman en- regularly in September. The Lutheran school, located 45 come from Indiana, but among.er and with the lecturers.

rollment of 800 this year. the development. If the project passes the county commissioners Aug. 6, plans for the center will go before the commission again for preliminary hearing. The planners will then consider specifications, the center.

displayed. The architects have planned the three-million-dollar center in a mall-type construction that is, buildings for the shops in a "cluster" surrounded entirely for by parking area. I The 'proposed regional center NOW After a four-four vote defeated Shpckley's motion to pass the debated ordinance on three readings, the council gave approval to a motion that it be passed on two readings only, with third reading to come next month. There was little discussion an ordinance rezoning a lot at Monroe and Locke Streets residential to industrial. from The measure, passed on third and final reading; will permit the Mclntosh Laundry to expand its plant at the location.

An ordinance rezoning a 20- acre tract of land at the southeast corner of Markland Avenue and the U.S. 31 Bypass brought more comments as it, was first reading only. Mr. and Mrs. H.

E. Reinertsen have sold their home in Kokomo and moved to Clearwater, where they have purchased a home. Their residence at 102 Wildwood Dr. was sold to George L. Davis of this city.

Mr. Reinertsen has been a Kokomo resident 126 years, having come here in 1930 to be manager of the C. Penney store. He retired in 1949 after 23 years with the Penney organization, 18 years of that service being in Kokomo. The Reinertsen address at Clearwater is 1006 Indian Rocks Bellaire Estates.

CHARGED IN WARRANT The Howard County sheriff's de- Youngsters of Veterans Who Died in Military Service Can Get College Benefits Howard County youngsters curred or aggravated in the whose fathers died in military service or later as result of injury incurred while in service can receive help toward college educations from the federal government. Philip C. Dermond, local Veterans Service officer, pointed out Tuesday that Congress passed such a law June 29. It will become effective Oct. 1, he said.

The veterans' service officer said bene- toward education which the youths will receive are "very near comparable" to those veterans got before the GI Bill of lights education July 25. section expired passed on partment Tuesday reported the (arrest of Edward T. Bartley, 34, Paul and Giovanna Drago, 1711 Indianapolis, on a warrant charg- "To be eligible for the benefits, a youth's parent must have died Markland petitioned the ing speeding. while in service or, if death occurred after being honorably discharged, the cause of death must have been a disease or injury in- plan commission for the zoning change to permit location of several businesses on the land. The' plan commission recommended I the change after the presented detailed plans for "developing" the tract.

Those plans, as explained by At with a theater, hardware and drug store, among torney Kinsey, call for the land to be leased on "long-term leases' store other stores, to be located there. Kinsey said the petitioners had been con tacted by interests wanting to locate such businesses there. He showed the council plans the Dragos to shield the area from the Bypass with a row of trees and to join a street with a marginal road now running hi front of the Cedar Crest These features Subdivision, were approved by the plan commission, and the council. In other action involving the plan commission Monday night, the council granted its request for more time to study the Farmers Trust annexation petition, and referred to it a proposed building code with recommendation that the code be aired at a public hearing. The annexation petition was're- ferred to the plan commission two months ago by the council, but 4-Year Reassessment Termed Undesirable' by Cameron Howard County Assessor-William most impossible to get competent Armed Forces during official war periods in World War Work) War or the Korean conflict.

Assistance, Dermond reported, is available to an eligible person during the period from his 18th birthday or his successful completion of high occurs his 23rd birthday. Age limit, he explained, will be extended: 1. If persons are C. Cameron speaking before county assessors, auditors, treasurers and commissioners from throughout the the "every four years" complete re-assessment program an undesirable practice for purposes of both expediency and expense. Cameron was on hand at Indiana University Tuesday morning to address delegates to the Indiana Property Tax Conference, a two- day parley of sessions concerning assessments, taxation, exemp- etc.

He said he would be opposed to going rear back to the every assessment because four the ground work for re-appraisement already is laid. Now, he said, it should be necessary only to have assessor teams check work sheets or changes in improvements, de- rimental influences or locality improvement When the Legislature orders a re-assessment, he said, that body the planners have indicated they should remember tnat it is "al- help at small wages." A good assessment, Cameron suggested, "is largely a personal problem." Explaining, he continued, that when taxpayers ask for re-appraisement, they are referred to information on the worksheet which when checked makes most persons agree that there was no real grounds for complaint. All people are free to appeal for re-assessment, however, he said, and no assessment can be made without the taxpayer's being notified. County and township assesors, too, have the right of appeal and thus can note a change in value of individual properties or complete areas. For instance, if a farm had been developed for a factory site, a reassessment would be made to place higher valuation on that property.

The conclave was attended by Center Township Assessor Cecil Stonebraker, and Treasurer Arthur LaDow planned to sit in on a session Wednesday. over 18 but under 23 on Oct. 1. If their individual deadlines fall hi the middle of a term in which case they, will be permitted to complete the semester or term, or 3. If persons enter military service before age of 23.

The biU provides $110 a month upon completion of a month of full-time schooling, $80 a month if pursued on a three-fourth time basis' and $50 a month if schooling is continued on half-time schedule, Dermond pointed out, however that youths who enter the new program will not be eligible to continue to receive compensation or pension from the Veterans Administration under the law that provides for continued payments to those 18 to 21 who continue with their education. If a youth is taking a "cooperative" course alternating schooling and actual experience on a related rate paid wiU be $90 a month. Students, Dermond said, will be entitled to 36 months of education and full, four-year college course. Training, he added, will be available only in approved public or -private colleges', vocational schools and business schools. On-the-job or on-the-farm training, correspondence courses and regu' training are not law, he pointed lar high school included in the The new law also provides for special restorative for children.

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