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TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1982 THE HERALD-PALLADIUM, Bentei Harbr- St. Jsepk, Michigan PAGE FIFTEEN FOR VILLAGE PARK FACILITIES Dowagiac Hears Complaints About Berrien Springs Boosts Fees Milling Company the Ewalts apply for annexation to the village. Village attorney Jerry Johnson said that he will contact the township regarding a joint special use permit. The other zoning variance appeal was presented for Fonda Chaffee who wants to build a garage, detached from the house, on the corner of S. Harrison and Mur-dock Streets.

The minimum requires the garage to be 10 feet from the property bounday. Only eight feet is available. ments' garage could then face Union Street-. Also to go before the appeals board, will be a re quest from Mr. and Mrs.

Phil Ewalt to add a garage and additional room for a beauty shop to their home on U.S. 31. However, the village boundary runs through their property, making it unclear whether their build-ing permit should be obtained from the villlge or Oronoko Township, according to village.officials. Village President Dale Moon recommended that Three zoning variance requests will be heard by the Board of Appeals at a special meeting on Aug. 30, 7:30 p.m.

One will be from Kenneth Clements, 225 N. Harrison, whowants to construcf a garage next to his home. The council's Streets Sewers committee, which reviewed the proposal, suggested W. Union Street, bordering one side of the Clements' land be narrowed from 82 feet to 66 feet, allowing eight more feet for prop-erty owners there. Cle t'" DOWAGIAC I- Complaints about alleged noise and dust at a milling company here were raised at a DowagiacCity, Council meeting Mondaught.

Four citizens and a councilman, James Judd, complained about dust and noise from trucks and the milling operation at Mennel Milling Mill and Spaulding streets. While the council took no action on the complaints, city Manager Karl Tomion said he has been working with the company to solve the problems. He said the company has paved a parking lot to con trol ausi irom trucKs. Tomion said that judging whether noise is excessive is difficult because the city has no local ordinance setting noise standards. Tomion suggested that if the council wanted to be more specific on acceptable noise levels, an ordinance should be drawn up.

One resident, Bob Darr, complained about noise Zoning Rewrite Rapped In Buchanan Township STAMP UNVEILED: Mrs. Rachel the widow of baseball great" Jackie Robinson applauds the unveiling of an oversize replica of the Jackie Robinson commemorative stamp issued Monday morning at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The stamp is the fifth to be issued in the Black Heritage USA series. (AP Laserphoto) The resource zone has been sought by Rieth-Riley, Inc. for its proposed gravel and asphalt operation in the Chamberlain Hills area south of Buchanan city.

The planning commission is reviewing the proposal. In another area, Wiggers said the board will not take further action in its appeal of the 1982 equalized value of agricultural property in the The appeal for a lower-valuation figure was "rejected by the State Tax Tribunal in July. Property values are multiplied by local millage rates to determine taxes. BERRIEN SPRINGS Rates for using buildings, boat ramps and camping areas in parks here going up. The Berrien Springs Village Council voted Monday night to increase the fee for renting Indian Fields Club House in the Grove from $100 to $125 per evening, effective immediately.

For Shamrock Park on the St. Joseph River, rates covering parking and boat ramp use and overnight camping were boosted effective Daily park fees were boosted from $1 to $2 yearly permits for village residents from $2 to and yearly permits for nonresidents from $7.50 to $10. The fees cover daytime parking and use of the txpt ramp, according to Dale Moon, village president. Overnight camping with electrical hookup was increased from $4 to $5 a night, and camping without electricity went from $2 to $3 per night. Costs for storing trailers were not changed.

Moon said the rate increases were necessary because park maintenance costs have increased. The rental fee for the Grove club house hasn't been raised in two or three years, he said, and Shamrock Park fees haven't gone up in about six years; In other areas, a request from the Berrien Springs Chamber of Commerce to hold a villagewide "garage sale" was approved. Under the plan, permits for the sales will be "sold" door-to-door. The project is to promote the village and bring people into activities, according to project co-chairmen Sandra-Bruce. president oLBerrieri Gener- at Hospital, and Jan director-curator of the 1839 courthouse-museum located in the village.

Robert Fallon, of Williams Works Engineering, Grand- Rapids, said water lines to bring water into the village from the Berrien Center area had been installed beneath the St. Joseph River. The river crossing had been delayed several times because of high water. The council approved an addition to the water ordinance whereby a procedure became a requirement. Delinquent water bills will accrue a 10 percent penalty on the 31st day past due, with the water being turned off 30 days from that date, under the addition.

-Whirlpool'- Registers Opposition To Appliance Energy-Standards Ballenger's Poll a lit xiilli JLIl JUCaU BUCHANAN A proposal to rewrite Buchanan Township's entire zoning ordinance drew criticism from Township Board member Robert Onderly at Monday night's board meeting. The proposal came from Thomas Sinn and Associates, a St. Joseph community planning firm, in response to a township Planning Commission inquiry about the cost of such a project, according Clerk Donna Newsom. The firm said revising the whole' ordinance would cost up to $7,900 for six months' work, or $8,900 for nine months' work. Underly said there is already too much government interference in land use.

While some areas of the current ordinance may be out of date, he said, unless there is someming wrong a change isn't necessary r--- The township could invest time and money in the revisions and then have the new ordinance "rejected out of ignorance," he added. The township's current ordinance was approved in 1971, according to Mrs. Newsom. Voters in 1978. rejected a proposed new ordinance.

Supervisor Ralph Wig-gers asked board members to review the current ordinance and make a decision at the Aug. 12 meeting on whether revisions are needed. If the ordinance is not revised, the township could end up in court over a proposed "natural resource zone" amendment, William Cameron of the planning commission said. Whirlpool Corp. announced it filed comments Monday with the Department of Energy, taking issue with special interest groups who want the federal idardafor appliances.

The DOE had decided that" a mandated energy standards program would not be in the best interests of con-' sumers or manufacturers, company officials said. However, certain special interest groups disagreed with the DOE ruling and are trying to force the department to reverse itself and set mandatory efficiency standards, the officials said. Andrew J. Takacs, Whirl The board agreed, with Wiggers' suggestion to look into the possibility of a six-month experimental Dial-A-Ride public bus service for the township. Dial-A-Ride serves Buchanan city and areas of the township close to the city.

Wiggers' proposal would expand the service to the entire township. Wiggers said the "expert-, men a i e. township residentsjQ pay a higher fare than city resi- dents. An alternative might be a flat fee to Dial-A-Ride paid by township government, he said. puter.1'" The list was screened down to 200 voters likely to turn out Aug.

10 and cast ballots on the GOP side in the primary, he said. The survey showed Ballenger was the choice of 19 percent, Phillip Ruppe 15.8, Robert Huber 7.9 percent and Deane Baker 4.7 percent. It's the first poll showing Ballenger as the leading choice of voters who have already made up their minds on the GOP Senate race. Ballenger is a former state senator and director of the Department of Licens-; ing and Regulation. Ruppe and Huber- are ex-' congressmen and Baker is a University of Michigan Regent.

BANK from grain driers at Mennel, but said the noise may only be temporary. In other areas, the council in two separate votes' agreed to condemn buildings. The action came after condemnation hearings. The action was recommended by Earl Dick, city building inspector. Approved for Condemnation were two sheds at Poka-gon Street and Grand, part of the estate of Rose Griffin and a vacant apartment house at204tt Grove Street, owned by Verlin Williams.

The owners are to be given a period of time to complete demolition, or the city will have the. structures torn down. The council accepted a low bid of $37,310 from Hag-gin Ford-Mercury, Dowagiac, for a new dump truck for the street department. Date for the first September council meeting was changed from Sept. 6 to Sept.

7 due to the Labor Day holiday. The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. pool vice president of public and government relations, says Whirlpool agrees with DOE that standards are not needed, and to prove its point the company ha reviewed the comments submitted to DOE by the no-: standards critics. -Responding to an allegation by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) that standards are needed to protect the U.S. appliance industry from their more energy efficient Japanese counterparts, Takacs said that the NRDC was guilty of comparing "apples to oranges." The Japanese appliance used in the Comparison was a small, manual defrost refrigera Fahner also charged that New Jersey and Indiana families hoping to adopt a child each paid Easter House hundreds of dollars for "home study" services after Kurtz and Easter tor; the U.S.

model a more highly featured, no-frost unit, he said. Though the law requires that any energy standard set by DOE be economically justified, some standards 1 proponents, "such as the American Council for Energy Efficient Economy and the NRDC, argue that DOE should set standards based on the most energy efficient model in the marketplace. Setting standards at the highest level would adversely affect appliance retail prices, quality, features, and size selection, thereby not meeting the economic justification required by the law, Whirlpool officials said. was opposed to the work. LANSING," Mich.

(AP) U.S. Senate candidate William Ballenger released a poll today showingjie's leading the fourman Republican race to challenge incumbent Democrat Donald Riegle in November. But the survey of likely Republican voters in the Aug. 10 primary showed a whopping 53 percent remain undecided on a Senate candidate. The statewide telephone poll was taken for the Ballenger campaign July 28 and 29 by Amrigon Enterprises, of Detroit, in conjunction with the Systems Development Institute of Flint.

Institute President Robin Widgery said the poll began with 1,200 registered voters randomly selected by com fill INTER-CITY MOTORCYCLE STOLEN, DESTROYED Will Owner Pay Fire Bill? 1 Leonard Smith township supervisor, said the hearing was the second held on the proposal and was to review individual assessments of the 29 property own EmmU MQiBM ORITDEDEESTF DOE's-final decision on whether to mandate energy efficiency standards for covered products refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, water heaters, clothes dryers, "Ccii sir ccwi ticners ranges and ovens, and room air conditioners isn't due -until October. But whatever the outcome, the company said, it won't affect the. Federal Trade Commission Energy Guide labeling program. Contrary to some misleading statements, Takacs said, "Appliances will continue to have the yellow labels which provide shoppers a way to compare the energy efficiency of different models." clined to comment on the suit. Fahner said that since May 1981, the adoption agency has been contesting a state Department of Children and Family Services decision to refuse renewal of the Easter House license to operate in Illinois.

He said documents filed with the complaint reveal that New Jersey refused to issue a license to Easter House in June 1980, in part because the agency "prom- ised various services in return for fees paid but did not provide many of the families with the home studies necessary as the first step toward adoption of a child, nor did they refund the fee when they could not make the placement within the specified time frame." Church Heist BALTIMORE-(AP) Three men armed with knives and a sawed-off shotgun interrupted a church service, demanded valuables from five of the worshippers, and made off with $179 in cash, police said. The Bainbridge Township Board will attempt to bill the owner of a stolen motorcycle for the cost of putting out a fire that destroyed the vehicle. The board Monday night agreed to try to locate the owner in order to present him' with a $440 bill that has been sent to the township. Beverly Koroch, township clerk, said the board received the bill from Coloma Fire Department for extinguishing the fire on the burning cycle on Carmody Road near Friday Road on June 23. The motorcycle reportedly had been stolen, Mrs.

Koroch said. The cycle, a Hodaka model, was dstroyed in the blaze, firemen said. In other areas, the board received several complaints regarding a June board decision to-create a special assessment district to pay for improvements to Bass Island Park Drive. The comments came during a public hearing on individual assessments levied in the district. Twenty-three people attended the hearing.

One of the group said the road was already six inches higher than some adjacent property. One man said he IMHSvMI II ers involved. He said that each of the owners was notified of the original public hearing held June 28 when the board voted to create the special assessment district and the complaints should have been expressed then. Smith said that seven residents attended the original hearing and that only one opposed the work. Cost for the work will total $6,575 and will be added to the property taxes of the property owners beginning with current taxes.

Each will perxearjfpr three years. A request from Lester Creamners, 51563 Town Hall Road, Dowagiac, to put a mobile home on property he owns on North Branch Road was denied. The next Bainbridge Township Board meeting will be held Aug. 30 at 7 p.m. because Labor Day is on Sept.

6, the board's normal regular meeting night. uru ACCOUNT CONSUMER INFORMATION ANNUAL RATE Michigan Joins Suit Against Cook County Adoption Agency House had been repeatedly warned by New Jersey and Indiana authorities that they could not legally perform adoption services in those states. Kurtz and his attorney de- fill $7500minimum j. certificate of deposit. a i 2V2year 1 EtfO $500 minimum.

certificate of deposit. JSr jp 312year fa fff0 SS00 minimum, certificate of deposit. JlL Jr'J' IRA TLCS lHflQ $100minimum. Fixedrate. A II Tax intereSt IRA i 5.

01 0 $100minimum. Variable rate. iWo33 Tax deferred interest. All SaVerS (f (OlflrCllQZ: $500 minimum. certificates Tax free 'Htere8t- 1 Rates effective 72082 and are subiect to change periodically.

Federal Rules' and Regulations prohibit the compounding of interest on 3 Month and- 6 Month Certificates and require a substantial interest penalty for early withdrawal from all Certificate Accounts. There are additional tax penalties for early withdrawal from an All Savers Certificate and from Individual Retirement Accounts All accounts are insured by F.O I C. to $100,000 00. CHICAGO (AP) The attorneys general of Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan and Indiana have filed a $2. 1 million lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court charging a Chicago adoption agency with violating child welfare and licensing laws in the four states.

Chicago attorney Seymour J. Kurtz, 53, and six other people associated with Eas-'ter House are accused of operating the adoption agency "in a manner in- tended to avoid laws in Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan and Intthma designed to protect the welfare of children placed for adoption," Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner said in a news release-Monday. "Twenty-three children supervised by Easter House have been sent from Illinois to live with families residing in New Jersey and Michigan," Fahner said. "Easter House never obtained approval in Illinois, New Jersey or Michigan for these placements. New Jersey and Michigan laws require the consent of state officials before a child may be placed in a home located Most Famous Bartender HOLLYWOOD (AP) Thirty million Americans elbow up to his bar every week, but the nation's most famous bartender has never poured a drink for a paying customer.

He's Jason Wingreen, who plays Harry the bartender on CBS's "Archie Bunker's Place." Wingren has been voted "America's Most Famous Bartender" and will re: ceive a silver jigger glass in ceremonies at the Ginger Man Bar. The Ginger Man, incidentally, is owned by Archie Bunker himself, Carroll O'Connor. Actor9s Wife Is Prexy NEW YORK (AP) Kirk Douglas' wife, Anne, has been named president of the Bryna Company the independent production company Douglas started almost 30 years ago. The company the first of its type to be founded by1 an actor, has been responsible for the production of 23 films, including "Paths of Glory," "The Vikings," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Spartacus." Bryna also was the company that broke the notorious Hollywood Blacklist when Douglas publicly announced that Dalton Trumbo, the leader of the blacklisted writers, would pen the screenplay for "Spartacus." The company has purchased rights to Frank Rooney's book, "Shadow of God," and isnegotiating for Mary Higgins Clark's novel, "A Cry in the Night." either.