The Independent-News, Volume 90, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 February 1966 — Page 5

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YEAR OF 1965 Max E. Hobb-, Is Named By Board At a recent meeting of the Board of School Trustees of PolkLmcoln Johnson School Corporation, Tyner, Indiana, Max E. Hobbs, of Bloomington, was appointed Superintendent of Schools. Mr. Hobbs, a distant to the Director of the Placement Bureau at Indiana University, will succeed Claude V. York, who is retiring. IUS A A < hangeu Eligibility Far Athletes The Indiana High School Athletic Association, the governing body of athletics in Indiana, has bet down a new rule concerning the schola tic eligibility fur the nigh school athletes. indies, Be Patient With Them One of the high points of the year in Indiana is coming up next week, that the Sectional Tournies which lead over a period of four weeks to the crowning of the State Champion. YEAR OF 1946 Storm Doeaa’t Stop Barbershop Singers It takes more than the year’s worst blizzard of last Thursday night to keep the Barbershop Male Quartette Harmonizing Organization DeLuxe of Mishawaka from keeping an engagement when it is with the Walkerton Chamber of Commerce! The same may be aid about the 50 members of the oranization who braved the storm to hear the boys sing! $3,000 Fin* Suffered By Rector Hmm' Fire which damaged the Rector Tourist Home on Roosevelt Road Tikwlay afternoon to the e-imat-

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ed extern of $3,000, is believed to have st irted from a detective chimney. Band Plans Big Community Sing If you like to sing those old familiar ngs su full of harmony and sen 1 unent, you will enjoy the Commi >ity Sing which will be held a' the high school gymnasium b nday afternoon promptly at 3 i lock. The program is spons d by the Walkerton High - hool Band, under the direct 10 f William Hawthorne. Ace l> ny Doll Cpl. >enny Doll, Walkerton, turned >ut to be Ace Denny Dol’., o the basketball court recently when he paced the Baker F ttery team to a 62-58 win ovei Headquarters, in an overtime thriller over in Austria somewhere, according to a newspaper clipping sent to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Doll. The news story stated, "Cpl. Denny Doll with his left hand shot was the big thorn in the Headquarters’ side as he counfts a neat twenty points for the g- ie. It was Doll’s left hander dt r one minute of overtime that ive Baker a coveted 60-58 advantage." Big Mel Berber added the other two points. YEAR OF MMI Koontz. I^ke Claims Artist Ko< uz Like, which only a few years go was known only as an excellent summer resort and a fisherman’s paradise, Is fast becoming a colony of year-round resider who have selected that beaut >ot as a permanent place of n nee. A certain Robert W. Carl and family have made theii dence there. Robert Carlson Ji makes his living by drawlr funny people who cavort

across the cinematic screens of the nations under the title of Walt Disney's cartoons. Soybean Special To Stop In XX alkerton The Soybean Special, a six coach educational train, in cooperation with Ohio State and Purdue Universitie , operated by the B & O Railroad over its lines, will be in Walkerton on March 17, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. $1,500 Value On Mudache Because removal of his waxtipped mu tache caused him embarrassment. misery, .-corn and contempt among his legion of friends, an insurance executive of Albany. N. Y. recently brought suit against the barber who clipped it. The mustache-dipper countered by saying the customer fell asleep in the chair while being shaved and moved, causing one end of the mu tache to be cut off. "Naturally. I had to clip the other side to balance it." the barber said. YEAR OF 1916 Drown Machines To Get Insurance ? Davy Jones’ garage at the bottom of Basi Lake, into which it is reported, scores of stolen automobiles were hurled from the heights of an overhanging cliff by thieves who feared capture, is to be dragged in an effort to salvage the looted cars. Counterfeit Bills Federal Inspectors have been warning all banks to look out for a new $5 counterfeit bill, 50 nearly perfect that it can be detected <wily with a microscope. The government has recovered $95,000 worth of the bad money. Hard Times "Yes. these are hard times." "We throw away a-hes and buy soap We raix' dogs and buy hogs. We grow weeds and buy vegetables and brooms We catch 15c fi h with a $4 rod. We build school houses and send our children away from home to be educated. And at last we send our boys 01 t with a $lO gun and a

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FEB. 17, 1966 — THE INDEPENDENT NEWS —

sl9 dog to hunt 10c rabbits." Thomas Edison Seventy Years Old Orange, N. J. Feb. 13—Thomas A Edison, who was seventy years old on Sunday, Feb. 11 was the guest of honor at. a bcmquet given in his w»>rkshop by more than 2/mm) << his employees and business associates. Attend Church Sunday

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Cub Scouts Plan Blue & Gold Banquet The annual Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet will be held on Fnday, February 25, at 6:30 pm. in the Wakerton Youth Building. It will be a pot luck .affair and all Cub Scouts and their families are invited and urged to attend.

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