The Independent-News, Volume 89, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 May 1965 — Page 4

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS — MAY 20, 1965

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Commencement Is The Beginning

Commencement is the biginning. Even though tin days of school life will end for many, and the high school days for all. the stait of Ilie i> just around the coiner waiting for the many senioi students who |wiU rec eive their high st hool diplomas this year Gone will ne me nay.' of fun and learning from textbooks that is enjoyed only through the twelve years of public school. Gone will be the competitive events that create school >pmt and fellowship among school mates and between students of different schools. Gone for many will be the living al home with their families as the end of school for many maik> the start of life on their own Gone will be the days of prepaiation for future life through learning m school. Ahead wdl be the adventure of life that can be imagined but not realized for most until they step into it The days of selecting the future are ahead For some it wiP, be continued education Fm others ,t will be finding a job to provide for the rest of theii live* For some, it will mean marriage in the very near future and setting up a home life for yourself and the ones with whom you will live for the rest of your lives. In a matter of months or possibly years, depending on the path chosen by the individual students wiV come the realization that school days are the • most enjoyable days of their lives. In the twelve years of . school, many students are together this entire time In this pei iod lives are patterned. The environment of the future is molded in these da,vs Many schoolmates and fr ends in * school will continue to be such, but for many, it will be the Last

* *■ ' Robert E. Urbin, Editor PUBLISHER Independent-News Co., Inc. Walkerton, Indiana PUBLICATION TIME: Thursday Os Each Week Second Class Postage Paid At Walkerton, Indiana SI 3SCIPTION RATES: $3.00 Per Year -50 c Additional If Mailed Out Os State Ik* \ t A S tfw W ' C ) 1,1 a "That is the most profane .silence I’ve ever heard.'*

lime they are with many mcmbeis of their class. Stepping lr<>m high s< hool into the fast and furious pace we live in today isn’t easy. Good jobs are Scarce in some areas, and for many, regardless of what they plan military service lies ahead. These factors have much control on tin future. Fu many, the lonesome time |Wi\l come in thiee months when the habit of going to school each tall is gone. Instead of maybe a job foi the summer, tin.- becomes a full time affair. .lust seeing the rest of the kids you have been so clpsa to foi years, head bai k lor another year of s< hool, brings a lonesome feeling. The accepting of responsibility that has for Die first 18 veais of your lives been accepted by parents, is a big stepping atone Many are not able to satisfactorily handle this assignment Money, which when given to younger children, his to come from your own pocket, and if family life is in the immediate plans this can really come hard. Some sai rifices that were never made before, must now be made. AU in a’,l. it will easily be seen what is meant by commencement. Life really commences on a different level as you have now stepped from childhood into adulthood. This step, although supposedly carefully planned, is a large one. This is the most important step in your lives.. If it is made successfully you will come out on top, but if a slip is made at this time, it can affect the rest of your life. It takes a little more effort to make this step a successful one and that effort starts a few years prior to making the step. This step is similar to that first taken as a baby, because from now on, you are on your own.

THE SEND-OFF SURE YOU HAVE ALL YOUR FISHING GEAR? DID YOU REMEMBER TO BOY A LICENSE? HOW ABOUT FOOD ? GOT PLENTY? 1 SOMETHING FOR MOSQUITOES? AND SNAKE BITE? and Your medicine ? don't forget to take two GREEN PILLS AND ONE REP ONE [EACH DAY. WHAT IF YuUK OFFICE SHOULD CALL DURING-THE WEEK?,,, JBs U"T Msl I® sMffl IS ■/Ynfea® < ■ HT® K wk I ?

ftCIENCEkW Topics WB \ t v_L_ u -4 Transplants of small pieces of hairy scalp have been successful in regrowmg hair on bald spot-, reports the American Medical Association. Some of the skm grafts w ere .so small that they conta ned only two or three hair follicles. The total number of grafts required to cover a bald area may vary from a.s few as 20 to as many as 500 or more, and the placing of the grafts requires meticulous attention to detail. Newly filled teeth won't be quite so sens.five if research at Georgia Tech is successful. The scientists have discovered that if dental filling materials are exposed to ultrasonic frequency when they are placed in the tooth, they haiden in minutes instead of hours, minim zing pain. The world is headed for the greatest catastrophe in history famine for hundreds of millions of people sa,ys the American Chernical Society. Food production lags while the population of Asia, Africa and Latin America are expected to increase by 900 million in the next twenty years. Unless measures to increase food production and decrease the birth rate are taken, the political and economic consequences will be massive and far reaching, says ACS. Colored fertilizers will make life easier for the farmer or gardner, says Holland - Suco Color Company, which recently introduced a line of pigments for tinting agricultural chemicals. Color in the fertilizer makes it easier to see what land has been covered and what kinds of chemicals have been used. Hues available include yellow, orajrge, red, violet, blue and green. Pre-natal brain testing procedures are being studied by scientists at Uie University of Rochester. They are trying to find a iyst m for recording infants' "brain waves’’ during delivery, to establish a normal electrical pattern. Such ’e.-F. made with an electro^ nceplta'ograph, w ■ > u 1 d help m diagnosing and treating brain lamt ;<■ Also, deviations fi mu 'he normal pat'em might be clues to causes of brain injury during delivery.

The skull of an ape man believed to have lived 500 boo to buO.OOO years ago has been found by Chinese anthropologists The skull, discovered in northwest central China, may be the oldest such specimen ever found. Yale University naieontolo nsis theorize, however, that the ancestor of t he first true man existed 14 to 15 million years ago. India’s policy of non-alignment is even carried through to the construction of the nation's own jet plane, complains Nath Fai. member of Parliaim nt He reported to Parliament in New Delhi that the plane is being fabricated from parts manufactured in many countries, and pred cted sourly that it may not even fly.

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SERVICE NOTES NORFOLK. VA. — Hospital Corpsman Third Class Robert A. Batsleer USN. son of Mr and Mrs. Andrew Batsleer. of Route 2. North Liberty, is attending a Petty Officer Leadership Academy at the Naval Amphibious School, Little Creek, Va. The four-week course includes 197 hours of instruction on world affairs, instructor training, naval history, American government, military bearing, hours and ceremonies and other subjects.

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