The Independent-News, Volume 92, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 August 1966 — Page 4

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— THE INDEPENDENT NEWS - AUG. 4, 1966

It Makes One Wonder

The headlines of the daily newspapers for the past couple of weeks have had nothing but very bad news. Such stories as "Speck Kills Eight Nurses"; , "Air Line Strike Continues"; "Race Riots Continue"; "Workers Reject Air Line Contract"; "Sniper Kills 15, Injures 34"; w4th always news about Viet Num and of course, the constant death toll on the nation's roads and highways. The United States is supposedly the most powerful and leading nation in the world. What kind of power is this? Certainly we must have the X most powerful ears and motorcycles that continue to smash one another to pieces at an alarming rate. We must be number one in the killing rate with the trouble that continues , in race riots around the larger cities of the country and the constant killings we hear of headed by such as the two mass murders by madmen the - past tv o weeks. The strikes can often be very _ heartbreaking to hear about, r The current air line machinists - strike certainly is one that has x caused many hardships, not - necessarily national emergencies. but inconveniences for a - nation that lives on such a pace as ours headed by a tremendous

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YEAR OF 1965 Recreational Fund Drive Is Underway A group or men very interested in Walkerton, recently undertook quite a project of increasing the recreational facilities in Walkerton, are now in the middle of a fund raising drive to make this a reality. Liberty and Lincoln Townships Name Queen and King Liberty township 4-H has announced Patsy Harbaugh and David Rousch as their Queen and King for 1965. Carol Tuttle and Michael Westhues will be representing Lincoln township 4-H 'Club as Queen and King at the opening ceremonies of the St.

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air movement daily. The fact that the pact was refused si । med to be only because it was government offered. The workers in their interviews seemed to strongly reject it just because it was a forced pact a,t that lime. What they are rejecting is over half as much as many people in our highly civilized country are working for every day of the year. And yet we’re number one . . or at least supposed to be. What a beautiful mess of headlines for us to be sending all over the world, to countries we are supposedly giving help, helping to protect from communistic movements and to the many countries where such as the peace corps, missionaries and others are trying to help themselves mold a modern civilization. Maybe this movement should start right at home as it presently seems that we are not doing such a bang-up job with ourselves. Despite all this, we still can consider ourselves the very luckiest of all people to be born Americans and live in a land of plenty. The opportunities are here for the greatest life of all if the individuals just have enough common sense, the most lacking ingredient, to take advantage of them.

Joseph County Fair Tuesday evening. Much Included For 1965 Work The Walkerton Town Board, at their Tuesday night meeting, let the contracts for considerable street work in Walkerton to begin in a couple of weeks. Safe Stolen In Break-In The Star Case, located at the east edge of Walkerton on Roosevelt Road, was entered Tuesday morning and the safe stolen with all the contents. According to Modest Burch, owner, he discovered the entry and theft at approximately 4:00 a.m. Tuesday and reported it to the Walkerton Police, The safe contained approximately $2300 and

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a few small checks. YEAR OF 1916 Onion Crop To Top All Records The largest crop of onions in history is anticipated this year, the United States Departmt nt of Agriculture reports. Latest indications placed the 1946 crop at 3.873.000 fifty-p und sacks, a new record. Open Bake Shop Keith and Steve Baker, Walkerton brothers, arc making plans to open a Community Bake Shop in the room under the A & P Store in the near future. Vagabond Vacation Walkerton’s <.ld-timers remember Clyde Vincent, former Walkerton undertaker and furniture dealer, who spent M nday and Tuesday this week calling on old friends and renewing acquaintances. Wins 4-H Award Miss Kay Penick, who is a member of the* Lincolnites 4-H Club, won the Dairy Council Contest in Lincoln Township, Plans Homecoming Johansen's trailer camp, eight miles west of Walkerton, which was developed during the war when the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant began construction nearby. will observe a homecoming <>n Sunday, August 11. The camp has provided a home for thousands of families many of whom are scattered all over America. YEAR OF 1941 Start Work On New Greenhouse Starting with a small hot-bed eight years ago to satisfy a hobby of raising plants and flowers, and seeing that hobby grow and deveh p into a real and flourishing business, is the satisfaction that comes to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Oplinger, Walkerton florists, especially just now as they start work on a new and larger p raenhouse. Start Drilling For Oil Here Oil drilling equipment from the Ohio Oil Co. was moved ontn the Pearse farm just north of North Liberty, Wednesday morning and work of putting in a test well has been started. Crews are working night and day. Business Men To Form Club Arrangements for the organization of a Walkerton Business Mens Club were set in motion Mon lav evening when 11 men resuonded to invitations for a preliminary nu eting at the school house. I our Dormitories W'll House 251 Women Bids for < n«t>u<*tion of four women’s dormitnri*< to house Kings! nrv Orlnnno* Plant workers at Walkerton, will be < pencil

at the Farm Security Administration office in LaPorte on August 12. YEAR OF 1916 Fraud Order Issued The postoffice department at Washington has issued a fraud order against the Electric Supply Company ot Mishawaka. The department says the order is aimed at one William Jewell, who has been operating under various names as a scehme for obtaining money through the mails by false pretenses. Hueklelterry Crop Turning Out Well I The Huckleberry, a most important product of this vicinity, and associated with the name of । Walkerton since the riotous days long ago, when the “big marsh" was the scene of far-famed ac- 1 tivities of various sorts, is now at the heicht of its season. Father’s Blood For Baby Indianapolis physicians at a

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charity milk station here, have accomplished what they believe is one of the most unusual blood transfusion cases on record. To save the life of a four-month-old baby, the physicians transfused two teaspoonfuls of blood which the father, Charles Lockwood. gladly gave. Immediately the baby showed much greater vitality and it is believed it will live. All Trade Records Broken Washington, July 31 Foreign trade of the United States closed its greatest year in history June 30 with a balance of $2,316,000.000 in favor of American exporters. Clem DeCoudres and Edna Gohn were married on August 1, 1916. in the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Gohn. Walkerton. Mr. and Mrs. DeCoudres then left on a threcweek honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls Washington, T>. C., and to New York City.