Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 87, Number 39, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 26 March 1964 — Page 7

TALK OF THE TOWN BY BETTY JOHNSON 773-3385

We had two more money raising projects for the benefit of DIP over the week-end, so maybe we will attain our goal of a community swimming pool in ’64 after all! The public dance and chicken supper on Friday and Saturday nights added more dollars to the swimming pool fund, and although the amount still needed is substantial, if we make this a real community project we should be able to do it. i like the idea of having a good pool right here in town where our children can learn to swim and practice water safety under proper supervision, don’t you? The Maynard Shrocks and their two children, Phillip and Sue Lynn, planned to leave this Wednesday for a two week trip through the southern states. Last summer they discovered the pleasures of trailer traveling and are taking along a home on wheels this trip too. Home to them, for a few weeks at least, will be a 13 foot Arrow Travel Trailer! The Shrocks plan to make night time stop-overs at Louisville, Ky. and Atlanta, Ga. on the journey down and will add anew passenger to their traveling household in Sarasota, Florida. Mr. Shrock’s mother, Mrs. J. P. Shrock of Wakarusa, has been wintering in Sarasota and will join them on a sight-seeing tour through the state and then make the return trip home with them. The Shrock children are anticipating a tour of the Kingling Bros. JJuseum in Sarasota and also hope to do some sunning and swimming there and at Fort Meyers. Naples, Thousand Island Beach near Fort Lauderdale, and Miami are all included in their travel plans and the Shrocks are also making a return visit to Boca Raton where they enjoyed touring Africa, U.S.A. a few years ago Cypress Gardens and the Bok Singing Tower are also attractions they hope to visit again. The two young Shrocks will have to combine work with play on this trip as their school books will be packed along with other necessities, and night classes are being planned as a part of their daily schedule! The Cecil Stalnakers spent the week-end in Cleveland, Ohio, visiting at the home of their daughter and family, the Clarence Gettlemans. Their grandson, Mike, was a participant in church baptismal services on Sunday, so this was a special reason for the Stalnakers trip. We enjoyed entertaining a group of friends at a euchre party and latel supper Saturday ewking. Among our guests were the FraftkDeischs, Dave Widmoyers, Warren Rosbroughs, Dave Hosiers, and “Bag” Pippens. Happy Birthday to Russell Gonser, who we are informed celebrates another birthday this Friday. His mother, Mrs. Warren Gonser, also had a birthday recently. Nine little girls helped Sandy Heimach celebrate her ninth birthday last Wednesday after school. The group traveled to South Bend for a television appearance on Untie "Mike’s Fun Club program. Afterwards they came back to Nappanee for birthday cake and refreshments at she Heimach home. It was also a special Bluebird outing for the girls as they all belong to the same group. Linda .Slagle, a Camp Fire girl, also joined them for this special occasion. Among the other girls who enjoyed Sandy’s birthday party were Jo Lynn Chapman, Paula Schmeltz, Coleen Collins, Julie Wiseman, Peggy McMurray, Jeanna Hollar, Brenda Heckaman and Gail Miner, Those world travelers, the Harold Grays of Syracuse, recently sent a post-card from Hong Kong. They reported the city was full of refugees —a really busy, bustling place. Their next destination was to be Macao, and they have probably moved on from there by this

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Congressman John Brademas, Democrat of South Bend, announced his candidacy for reelection to a fourth ters as U.S. Representative from Indiana's Third District. Brademas, who filed his notarized declaration of candidacy by mail with the Secretary of State in Indianapolis, cited his "experience and seniority" as enabling him to be "increasingly effective in representing the interests of the citizens of our district and in serving our nation as a whole." Brademas, 37, said that he planned to tour the four counties of the Third District today and tomorrow to discuss further with Democratic Party county chairmen his plans for seeking the Democratic nomination in the May 5 primary election. The text of the Brademas announcement follows: "I am today filing for reelection as U.S. Representative from the Third Congressional District. "I am grateful to the Democratic, Republican, and independent voters who have granted me the privilege of serving in Congress for three consecutive terms. I believe the experience and seniority I have gained during these six years in Congress have enabled me to be increasingly effective in representing the interests of the citizens of our district and in serving our nation as a whole. "In my judgment, the Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson have written record of outstanding accomplishments on behalf of the American people such as the nuclear test ban treaty, the Peace Corps, a strengthened defense, the largest tax cut in history combined with a reduced Federal budget, as well as programs to improve education and health and to 'Stimulate the American economy to unprecedented heights. Upon the strength of this record I predict that the American people will overwhelmingly elect President Johnson and a Democratic Congress in November. THEIR DAY A committee considering plans for Greenwood’s centennial celebration to be held •jlast before next fall’s election decided to set one day aside to be known as “Candidates’ Day.” All candidates for offices to be voted on in November would be privileged to make an appearance on that day and appeal for votes. One committeeman, apparently a bit skeptical of politicians’ promises, suggested to The Johnson County News that a “Liars’ Contest” be made a feature of the day. RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Will Rupert, who have been spending the winter with their daughter, the Harold Stickels, in Teharhapi, Calif., have returned to their home on R 2, Goshen. time! Mrs. J. C. Bock had surprize visitors at her home Sunday. They .were the A. V. Manns of Union Mills, Ind. Mrs. Bock’s guests made their unexpected arrival in the afternoon and stayed for a Sunday evening supper. Are you entertaining Easter guests this year or perhaps going away for the day? If so, I would like to hear about your plans for next weeks column. Call me, won’t you?

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THE PASS FINDER By JENKIN LLOYD JONES SPOKANE, Wash. All day long the train roars westward across northern Montana. Hour after hour the featureless plain rolls beneath the dome cars. Tn the infancy of the continent this was a huge sea Stretching north along the Mackenzie depression clear to the Arctic ocean. Today it is a sea of wheat, broken only by the übiquitous elevators and the broad avenues of cottonwoods that border the upper Missouri and the Milk Rivers. But ahead lies the wall of the Rockies. The Bear Paw Mountains, rising white in their 9now mantle south of Havre, stand as, the first sentinels. North of Chester the flatness is broken again by the Sweetgrass Hills. And ‘finally, in the afternoon sun, the frozen summits of Glacier Park shatter the horizon. The track is no longer straight and the train twists and loops into the foothills. You can begin to pick out the peaks, now. Mt. St. Nicholas, Mt. Phillips, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain and the little peak in between that marks the triple divide. Waters on the south slope go to the Gulf of Mexico, on the west slope to the Pacific Ocean and oh the north slope to Hudson’s Bay. Now the wall is plain, stretching north and south as far as you can see. You can find’no opening But the train climbs toward it with confident purpose. It is heading for Marias Pass the best of all the great passes through the American Rockies —and the last discovered. IN THE days of Lewis and Clark the Indians told of an easy route to the Great Ocean, but Lewis ant' Clark never found it. In the 1850’s the U.S. government, recognizing that the railway age was coming, grew interested in surveying- the best route to the Pacific. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis got the project underway. The southern route, southwest from Fort Smith, across the Comanche lands of Texas,, through El Paso del Norte, and on through the Apache country to California was easy if you don’t cotint the Comanches and Apaches. The Santa Fe Trail with its ex tension along the 32nd parallel was well known. So was the Mormon Trail up the North Platte, over South Pass and to San Francisco via the Nevada desert. But routes over the northern Rockies were a puzzle. The best bet seemed to be Mullan Pass, west of what was soon to be the hell-roaring mining camp of Helena. Still the dream of the easy northwest passage persisted. Was R a legend? IN 1840 one Robert Greenhow published a map showing the great pass right about where it really is. But no one paid much attention tc Greenhow’s map, an admitted guess. In 1853 a government engineer by the name of Tinkham tried the mountains from the west. He blundered up the wrong, fork of the

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Flathead River, crossed the difficult Cut Bank Bass* and reported that the great passage was a myth. The next year one Doty, also a government scout, really saw the entrance to the pass, suspected what it might be, but because he tvas already late under his orders to report to Fort Assiniboine he turned east and missed his great chance. All the time the Blackfeet Indians knew about the pass, but they feared it as the home of evil spirits and would guide no one there. As the Civil , War clouds darkened the government gave up the search. THIRTY years went by. James J. Hill, the Canadian boy who started as a steamboat clerk in St. Paul, had become the “empire builder.” The rails of the Great Northern had crawled west across the Dakota plains and Hill had driven them halfway across northern Montana to Havre, still hoping to find an easy way. But at Havre be paused, frustrated. His surveyors had returned discouraged. Reluctantly he began laying rails southwest to,ward Helena. Asa last shot, ip the Jate fall of 1889, he sent out a tough young engineer, John F. Stevens. Stevens could get no Indian guides. He pressed on blindly westward in the teeth of a deepening blizzard. Finally he found a little river, named Marias 84 years before by Capt. Merwiether Lewis for his cousin. Maria. In the late afternoon he slogged through deep snow to its headwaters, crossed a low saddle, and found the beginning of a creek that trended west and north. It proved to be a tributary of the Flahead which goes into the KobtFlathead which goes into the KootThai night the temperature dropped to 40 below. He didn’t dare cuddle in his blanket next to the fire. There was too much hazard of a sleep that leads to death. Ali night long he walked back and forth in the snow. The next day he struggled east. Within a week> jubilant Jim Hill had his halffrozen coolies grading a right-of-way straight, west from Havce. _ THE beautiful long train with its snaking dome cars passes the win-ter-closed Glacier Park Lodge and behind its full-throated diesels climbs through the snow sheds along the north bank of the Marias. There at the top, half buried in a drift, is the bronze statue of John F. Stevens in his stocking cap and fleece coat, staring out across his pass. The altitude the lowest railroad crossing of the Continental Divide north of the Southern Pacific. The story of Mankind, mostly, is a story of people who, like the Blackfeet, feared evil spirits and never even sought the better way. Beyond these are the fumbling seekers, the easily-discouraged who blunder up the wrong approaches and tell the world that the better way is a phantom, or the shortsighted and timid who suspect the truth but don’t pursue it. That’s why civilization can never get enough John F. Stevenses.

the ata who brave the biiswirda aßd stubbornly find way. .A The big diesels are silent now. The brakes screech on the curves. Hie “Empire Builder” glides easily down toward the big ocean. (COPYRIGHT 1964, GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) COUNTY NOMENCLATURE Greene County, organized in 1821, was named for Nathaniel Greene. Revolutionary War hero. Read the Classifieds.

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