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'V 'Vw 't Th South Bind Trsbtm, Thursday, Juno 1P77 25 fc metro. I 4 1 mm aring Biwirriini i WAYNE FALDA 1 and one at Maple Lane School. Buyers and the prices paid for the portables were: Ham Wreckers, $1,200 and 10-10-10, David and Eddy $2,100, and the Faith Chapel Missionary Church, $1,850. Tribune sun photos by Ed Bauotu CLASSROOM AUCTION NETS $8,200 Buyers listen today to the biddings Swanson School as Earl King, right, director of building services for the South Bend Community School conducted the auction of four portable dasrooms at Swanson Maple Lane addition called a mistake hi court tor six years. mer Park area south another case that had of the dty, apparent The time has come for the been pending council to take the lead in evaluating the annexation in light of all persons concerned.

Taylor added that annexation would result in South Bend residents subsidizing the annexed area because of the street maintenance and lighting and drainage problems that must be rectified. Mayor, ieter J. Nemeth said he agrees with the proposal to repeal the Maple Lane annexation and said the issue of the repeal had been discussed with the council during the period when the Gilmer Park case was repealed. By tribune Staff Writer Fifr'a while the proposed Olive Sample overpass project flickered on and off like a dying hghtbulb Wednesday flight while West Side residents argued among, themselves and against county officials over whether the project should really be built at all. The county commissioners and the county engineer had called a public hearing at the West Side Democratic Civic Club thinking they would be providing details and quashing rumors about the new engineering design of the project.

But what transpired took them completely by suprise. County Engineer William Richard-, son, who' had come to 4be meeting without supportive paperwork, became an earty target as residents in the affected area charged that the new desip would damage the neighborhood greatly and lower property values of homes nearest to the ramp-ways. Much of their ire was aimed at the proposal to construct cement retaining walls along the sloping Olive St. ramp to the 30-foot overpass. One man likened the concrete structures to the Berlin Wall.

Lambasting the plans most heavily Were residents living north of the tracks on the west side of Olive. Under the latest desip, only those 4 homeowners living on the east side of Olive would lose their about the people who are staying, asked Joseph Szymczak of 729 S. Olive. We dont want to have to look at those walls for the rest of our lives. The angriest wordi came from Harry Kruk, 2428 Dunham, who charged that county officials had scrapped an earlier desip, known as Plan 13, without giving the people in the area a say in matter.

On whose authority was Scheme 13 scrapped, Mr. Richardson? Kruk asked. i The engineer opd: Commissioner Richard Larrision explained that the new plan already received the approval of federal highway officials and a preliminary Okay by the county council Under that plan, which Richardson described as full of loops, curves The Maple Lane annexation area is bounded on the east by Hickory, on the north by the Indiana Toll Road, the west by Ivy and on the south by the present city limits. In an accompanying letter, Taylor wrote, to the council that Over the past several years the need to take more realistic approaches to urban problems has become more and more Also filed was a proposed resolution that would approve the South Bend Civic Center Building Authoritys plan to refinance an existing $5.390 million bond issue by the issuance- df "a new $8,485 million bond Issue. Authority spokesmen said adoption of the resolution would enable the authority to sell the new bonds next Wednesday, when precinct officials were to receive letters informing them of the resignation.

Doran said some of the surprise voiced about his resignation seemed to be based on the mistaken assumption that the chairmanship carries a Salary which he would not want to relinquish. The chairman gets no salary. And although coujty chairmen ticket' off to good By MARCHMONT KOVAS Tribune City Government Writer A proposed bill to repeal the 1971 1 annexation of the 950-acre Maple Lane addition is on file today in the tity clerks office. It is among several bills filed for introduction Monday in the city council if Signed by Councilman Robert G. Taylor, the bill notes that the city since the annxation has determined that it would not be in the best inter-, est of the city to pursue the annexation.

The annexation has been tied up in St. Joseph Superior Court in a remonstrance proceeding by the affected residents. Last fall he council had repealed another annexation, that of the Gil By JACK COLWELL Tribune Political Writer The ticket o( Mrs. Freda G. Noble for St.

Joseph County Democratic chairman and James E. Childs for county vice chairman appears t0 have met with initial success in Democratic precinct ranks. Mrs. Noble, popular with long-time organization Democrats and respected by virtually every faction of the party, and Childs, from the political forces of South Bend Mayor Peter J. Nemeth, are being boosted by Democratic leaders as a unity ticket to lead the party through the upcoming 1978 primary election contests.

Mrs. Noble has moved up from vice chairman to acting chairman after the resignation Wednesday of W. Joseph Doran Us county Democratic chairman, a post he had held for five years. 1 A new chairman to serve for the remaining portion of Dorans term until the party reorganization meeting next May will be selected at a June 18 convention of Democratic precinct committee persons. If Mrs! Noble is named to continue as chairman, as now seems likely, Youth program grants' announced wASinNGTON Se.

Birch Bayh, D-raL, announced today stoat the Commteity Servlet Adadaistrafiaju has awarded an $18 grant to the City South Bend awl a $1829 grant to St. Joseph County to fund summer youth recreation pregrams for Jouogsters from low-income amities. Bayh said the grants wfll provide for playground activities, organized sports and games, arts and crafts, tours, cultural field trips, instruction la the creative arts and Rectal ev-- eats. The programs, wtkh will ran from June throegh September, wiO serve the towdneome areas of South Bend and the county. 4 4 and whiriyglgs 80 to 78 homes would have to be acquired.

The new, and simpler plan, he added, would realize a cost savings of $3 thereby reducing the total construe tion figure to $5 to $8 million. Kruk contended that Flan 13 would' have farless impact on the neighbor bod in terms of property values, safe- ty and esthetics. The future of the Olive-Sample project looked its bleakest with the three county commissioners responding that the overpass, need not be! built at all if the majority of the West Side residents opposed it -But they warned that, in that event, the project probably would never, be built. Those funds set aside proba-; My would be shifted to Mishawakas! proposed Capital Ave. project, they! added.

County Councilman OdeO Newburtr then made a plea for the residents and proposed Instead the erection of traffic lights at the crossing as a money-saving and neighborhood-sav-! tag alternative, A-v. His (riea received resounding ajv plause from the audience. That Oniyproduced another round of arguments from those in favor of the overpass. Mrs. Dorothy Romanowsld, whose Continued on Page 27 4 J.

S' -1 1 i vV 4 y' A i I 4 I 4 Jt. V- a 4 1 Bishop Pursley, marks golden anniversary if vAx Wednesday at a 5.51 per cent interest rate, which would save the city some $293,000 over 25 years. Also filed were proposed salary ordinances for 1978, and a bill toap-propriate $13,500 in revenue sharing funds to meet the demands of the St. Joseph County Humane Society for additional fees for the animal control services it provides the city. A bill that would put some small trash haulers out of business also was filed.

It provides that trash and garbage may be hauled only in approved closed packer trucks. It would ban the small open pickup trucks Used by many trash Utilities Director Johq F. Stancati said the open trucks litter the street with trash and garbage. i 1 -of the governors party have license bureau Republican has governor throughout Dorans years as county chairman. Doran continues as county clerk, an elective post! until the end of next year, when his second term ends.

He cannot seek re-election because of a two-term limit, and Doran said he will not deck any other office in 1978. I I i Reading, writing a book are among the pursuits Bishop Leo A. Pursley has been engaged in since stepping down last October as bishop of the diocese of Fort Wayrte-South Bend after nearly 50 years service to the diocese. In his homily at a Mass of Thanksgiving today in St. Matthew Cathedral marking the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, the 75-year-old prelate, noted that for a healthy person, there is no such thing as total retirement.

A permanent vacation with uninterrupted idleness would be deadly, unbearable boredom, he explained. With more time to read and reflect, I have gone back to a few favorite books helpful to me in the past. One of them is a very explicit examination of conscience well suited to stir up the memory of an old man who looks bade on 50 years of service in the priesthood. The book begins with this sentence: I accuse myseif of having omitted my sins of omission. Expressing his gratitude to the scores of priests who concele- brated mass with him, Bishop Pursley recalled that You have been good to me.

You know my faults and you have been, patient with them. Oyer the years, on many occasions of all kinds, I have been your guest as well as your servant, your friend as well as your father in Christ, and you have given me unfailing kindness. He closed with the observation that we never know who among us may be nearest the end agd with the request that However that may be, I ask this final favor from you: Pray that I may have from God a merciful judgment. The mass, was followed by a luncheon at Hedwig Memorial Center, is the only public celebration of Bishdp Pursleys golden jubilee. Now living in retirement in Hunting-ton, the bishop has declined several invitations for other public celebrations.

Instead he will observe the actual jubilee anniversary date on Saturday with a simple celebration with members of his immediate family. Holleman gets life term Childs then could move into her post as vice chairman. That is thoappatent hope of such Democratic leaders as Nemcthand 3rd District Chairman Ideal Baldoni. They were well aware in advance of Dorans decision to resign. And an obvious factor in Dorans timing was the apparent agreement that Nemeth and old guard forces would seek a unity ticket rather than engage hi a eye-gouging, party-splitting war over the chairmanship.

Doran, who had been thinking for some time of bowing out as chairman, said the timing of his departure will give a new chairman nearly a year before the primary to seek harmony and good ticket of candidates for the 1978 election. The general reaction to hi resignation, Doran said, was surprise but agreement with his timing and acceptance of Mrs. Noble as a replacement. Some elected county officials were miffed at not being consulted in advance of the resignation announcement. But Doran told very tow people of his decision in a successful attempt to keep word from leaking prior to U.S.

District Court In South Betid in February to 20 years in prison for taking $2,489 Oct. 15 In a robbery at AAA Credit Union, 1112 N. Bendlx. 4 If Holleman also has been sentenced in St. Joseph Superior Court to 18 to 25 years for a 1975 robbery at Pic-Way ShoeMart, 1712 Lucola Way to be followed by five years for delivering heroin at Ms former apartment at 1537 Anderson.

bank and told the relative that a discrepancy had been discovered in the account and would she furnish him with the account number. He called back about 20 minutes later and told her that he had checked the computer which he said gave an incorrect balance. She gave the man the correct balance, police said. The man, who is believed to be 35 or 40! told the relative that the bank was investigating employe thefts at the bank and they may be able to catch the thief if she cooperated. She was directed to go to the bank and withdraw $4,500 in cash and then start walking east from the bank until contacted by a Detective White.

A man who had a gold badge and an identification card stopped her in front of 1008 W. McKinley, Mishawaka, where she turned thp money over, police said. Robert Holleman, 23, of South Bend, was sentenced Wednesday in Lake Superior Court to life in prison ou a murder conviction. A Jury convicted Holleman on May 25 of murder In the perpetration of a robbery. Judge James L.

Clement Imposed the sentence. The charge resulted from the death of Robbia Opfer, 21, of Chicago, found Oct. 8 on a Hammond street. HoUemaa was sentenced In 'll $11 v' Jt Vv jf 3k Elaborate ruse earns conspirators $4,500 An elaborate pigeon drop scheme in which a man secured $4,508 Wednesday afternoon from the bank account of an elderly woman, brought a plea from a bank official today for caution on Jhe part of potential A man posing as a bank official had persuaded a relative of the elderly woman to withdraw and give to him $4,500, using the ruse that someone was tampering with the account and this would help catch the culprit. Donald Detmig, assistant manager of the St.

Jqseph Bank and Trust Co.s Town and Country branch, 3617 McKinley, where the withdrawal was made, issued a plea, for persons in such a situation to at least get a bank money order for any large withdrawal. Police said that the relative had received a call from dtnan who identified himself as an offical at the hA A a Purstoy; Mort Rev. Joseph R. Crowley, auxiliary bishop of the diocese, and Most Rev. Andrew Grutka, bishop (i Gary.

Bishop Pursley was the principal celebrant of the mass. The service, the wily public observance of Bishop Pursleys jubilee, yas" followed by a luncheon at St. Hedwigs Church, -f Tribune Staff Photo ty Joe Raymond BISHOPS GIVE THANKS The bishops of the dioceses of Fort Wayne-South Bold and Gary join retired Bishop Leo A. Pursley, second from right, as they prepare to offer mass today in SL Matthew Cathedral giving thanks for the 50th anniversary of Bishop Pursleys ordination to the priesthood. From left are Bishop William McManus, Pursleys successor; V' I AAAAAAjbri A A.