The Independent-News, Volume 94, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1968 — Page 4

— DIE INdTU’ENDENT-NEWS — Al <.l 22. HMW

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Snipers In Our Midst

SJ. H " Id S. R. vo, of o. •« ib - Ti x. was kill d m Vietnam in Janu iry. Comvu> st Sac-. > shot down his ■ln opt . guns.a p vei th* city t Hu- . Sgt lbw - bft behind a 4 r ving but proud family. Hfs ithe- s- rved in mother war alf a wntury ago five broth•rs also, wore th< uni.orm of heir count rv. ms. R eves. m-dl-ss to iy, nisscs he - boy. W • shoul 1 nd t to refer t< him as a min so hoys bn t fight w .rs. But < moth 'i. a departed son is 'h< ■ b- y' and this too. is as it nould be. But Mis. Reeves is n>t just •ad She is quit angry. (’Ham o-cau.<i ' peae*" groups hav* •cm bombarding her with mail. . is ptobably fo-tunate for nem that th y are carrying on his bombardm nt at long mg< It Would b' a bit rough >n these cowards to f ice th * a’n of this courageous A 'li in W Wond> r what kin 1 o f pc pt ■ -ngagt in such moru. ghoulish correspond"nce, put like M s. Reev s we < ire 4 t > risk venturing within g sisping distance of th* m. It gnt put to o mu< h i>f a v rain ■i <ur t u'ts to find an immrt ia] jury to ti v < ur < is.-.

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1963 ii V irs I*. Long Enough. •or n<» oth r reason than th? it that 'A- owe < u selves a bit i r •• trav 1 and a g?t away i "in th, v iy day grind that we .oe n.td all ou adult life, I avi । - <>f the completion of i u.-iness. 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept -mber 7. sold my super ? to Dave Mellin and Ray Chapnr n. known to all us the n < f Dave end Ray’s. Again L assure you it has b" n a pleasur • to serve you, Nick La-ebi-r. P-hooi Bells Ring Again. School Days will soon be here rgain. All of the area schools will be registering and anoth r summer of vacation period when it < nes to an end, but still th • days of si hool arc days that will be remembered th- rest of their lives. cioiis To Hold Light Bulb Sale a North Liberty. Th North Liberty Lions Club

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Th- letters f.<<m th dumstic snipers, unsigned of i ursv. have sparkl'd a r-action f on, Mrs Raves that lias been applauded by p op]. all over the count y; some lett a s ot encouragement hive arri\ -d at the Rew s' household from other moth-is <f Vr-tnam war casualties. Th- letters and phone calls of encouragement ah ady outweigh the hale mail. On- of th« sniper letters mclos d a pamphlet which bor? the title, “Which Would You Rather Have, A Live Son Or A D'ad Hero?” Mrs Reeves amw*- ed cDarly she would rath >r s?e her soldier son d"id than a number of any of the anti-war groups which h<v? b-en taunting he. through the mails. In Vietnam, an enemy sniper is methodically limmat 1. In our cities the police spire n<> effort to find th* snip ■ s who fi on fir‘m m and poln e. Can t <nir Postal. Invpctors be as determined to t rack down th"s? postal snip -r ? They seem tn be able to track down crackpots who m lil tiu-ats to th» White House. Why not the snipe s who bombard Mrs. Reeves and oth-r's like her.

will hold its monthly board inerting on Mon lay at this tim • at?-! the meeting the annual light bulb sal • will begin with contributions going to the th e* State Lions Projects. Indiana Eye Bank, leader Dog school and Canc*r Control. Support Your Party. The Democratic Party of Walkerton has called a Caucus for the purpose of selecting candidat"s for the coming town election ,in November. This will b< held at the Walkerton Community Building on August 30, at 8:00 p.m. Claud ' E. Houser, town chairman of the Republican Party ia Walkerton, has announce! tha' the party will hold a Town Convention on Tuesday ev'ning. August 27. at 8:00 p.m. in the Community Building. 1!)5« V. F. W. Kadets Pass First Inspect ion.

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Th-* newly organiz'd Kad Is I H ill Team pa>s • 1 their fit t in pe< ti a with flying color.i Wvdn day Aug. 19'.h. W* w» . • vi y happy to have a- Insp ctmn officers Capt. Lawson an 1 Lt, H im. The t sts were taken from the Kadet hand book and each Kadet of the Ist Platoon was individually inspect-*d. To Hold Boat Races At Koontz Lake Lal»or Duy. The annual Boat Races at Koontz Lake will be h Id on Labor Day Monday, September 1. The races will begin at th" Anderson Hotel betwven 12 noon and 1 p.m. with 6 races b-mg featured. 1 our Players Win (’oveted Awards At Little iwague Award Night. Tuesday night was award night for all of the Little Leagu J Ba-seball players at the high school gym, North Liberty. The top awards given each year, the Lead-.-r.ship Awards, Civil Defense Conduct Award, an 1 the William Hass Memorial Award climaxed the program for the evening Winners for each of these awards were: leadership. Mik" Holloway and Ray Dillion; CD Conduct. Iwe Hold -rrea 1 and th' Hass Memorial went to Rex Shupert. To Be Scene Os Ai tixity. The North Liberty High School and Eb mentary school nxt Tuesday, Sept. 2. will be th' scene of r newt 1 activity a« hx al younsters lay a-id ' their fish po! -i, ball bais and gloves, and bathing sui’s to take up school bitoks. pencil . and not book pap r as anoth* r school year begins. IMS Will Tea< h Spanish In W alkerton School. Two new courses have bi n ad lei to the curriculum t lis year for the Walkerton High School. Spanish and cooking for boys. Spani.-h will replace La* tn as th< foreign language requirem nt. In place of a dead language, the svlmol will now t *ach a modern tongue w'hich is spoken in many places in the world, especially m M xico agd the South Am * ican contries. The comsr wil be open to students in tlu 10th, 11th and 12th giades. Home Economics IV was added to the course fengirls last year and will be "X---tended to include a <4ass of boy i who want to learn b*>w to cook. Open Osteopathic Hospital, South Bend. The new South Bind Ost* opathic hospital was opened in South B- nd this week with 25 b*ds and seven bassinets. Located at 118 South William ♦ street, th k new hospital is in. charge of Dr. A. Kuhl, fi.rine lv ot Detroit, who is- sup mg *ndent and chief surgeon. Dr. V. B. V\x>lfc, Os Walk rton. had the distinction of having the fi >t baby ca w* in th- new Ludd ng. . ti was I : ■ M nd M:-s. Stanley K 1 k of N .rth LiU'“rty < a Fu y Au^u ’ 2-;. Boating ( hib Sponsor-* p.ir.nlr. Who i.- going to | M;., K t'.’z Laki? Wl j win h. \i> the finest float in th» Eat Parade? Th ' bat p wade uII sta t at Ganzer’s ph ~ m-‘ vast o! Varga ;> Grocery Sture, at 2:30 p.m. this Sunday. August 29th ani wi]l b- sponsored by tie lake’s newest i*rgamzation. th* Boating Club. Buildings Rennovatixl. Both schools hav* b"en iennovated during the summer :vC'ss. Thne grade school and five high school rooms have been redecorated. AU the .desks hav* been varnished and the floors put, in first class condition. 1937 To I’n-sent Pupils In Music Kix-ital Miss Grace GoodwHlie will p esent her music pupiD ut thw Walkerton school gymnasium on Thusrday ,'vening. Sept. 2. at 800 p.m. Th" public is invit-k Th >se taking pait are Doris Atwo<>d, Robert Hidom Lyle Bu nsid«, Gen -viev ' and M irgaret Barthel, Bertha Van Derndon< h. Betty Morris, Thvlma and F •*- d nna L-mmert, June Wajlen, H h-n Grice, Martha and G-ne Snyder and Mary Ann Ib'-p-r, Helen Aux. -r, Ma.guist. Dessie,

Onra an 1 Esxi? Applegreen. Richard Leis, Denslow Doll, IX'lormr. Elowers, Gerald and Carolee Kaufman, B tty Hayn, Virginia Hoox Cedric k Smith. Caroline Stahly, Ruth Elaine Tennis and Em Ethel Robison. Want A Lake On Your Fann? WPA funds an- available to furmx'is who have suitable location-* for small Jakes on their farms. The purpose is to conservy the water supply, to maintain anion- even flow of streams in the valleys where lakes are constructed, to ivn.se thr- water level in cases to improve ac/d waters and prevent p>llution by mime acid, to provide water for livestcxk and game, to improve th ■ landscape and to provide fishing. Luiyes must be at Last 2 r".res and f om that upward. Main Street Gossip ; J The budgets are help agum. Government umts-county. township. civil and sih-ml. city and town., and hbraii s ai.* publishing for the information of taxpiyers and others what they piopo,v to speiri during 1969. That is bringing local gox -rnm nt right into thr homes of the peopl *, so all may know how and why we levy taxes and whers the money goes. Few privat • persons make budg ts and fewer live up to th in. But our public officials ai j comp lied to make budgets to the conduc t of the public bu iness and they aie comp-11 1 t< live up to lor down lot those budgets. This is an impoitant fact and on the people should undii stand lietb r. These budgets are being mad ■ up more understandabl ■ to the ordinary citizen now than they w"iv some y -ars ago. They show, among othei things, what was lev! -d for the past th. -v years, so that comparisions may I, mack*. If there is a big difference. the taxpayers can louk for th" nuson for the difference. H* does not need to go to th • cou.t house or trustee’s offii • o. b> the school board to find out what is the matter; he can i -ad it rigid in his hom • town newspaper. That is the fine Gung about the publication of these budg -ts -'ach year. They give the taxpayer direct ani intimate information about his local government; informatn a which he ought to know. Th -re is no doubt tha’. th,* preparatu n and publication of these budg -t < have savr<i our taxpayers thousand' of dbllars, and will continue t do so. Sav-

Kiddi es-Can-Do -If < ' >inn PASTEABTT’Of yTTMAYZAVE t/TTH ANOTHER WAL PAPEa ON TO OF THE HAND CT THE HAND SECOND FINDER. THE PAPER. ' THE PAPER ELSE OCSAPf&AK* k- U HACK A4 AIN PA^TL Of^UM Xi -niT f I vß < ' a <o%^ c J M b j 0 o cHHHHMHr I r J TAKE ihe »eeand look at the oFtwre. you wil! notice that the trick is to change the ftnaer wave your hand. You should be able to rvrfo rw ' o»« •»»•* • •»«no«r of times before your audience n uct's that yo- taean sm& O&ie you **vc youi baud m the air

ings have been mad" because of the great care necessary in pieparing the budget and in the public scrutiny which they are sure to rce ivo when publish'd. HEALTH TIE: If advance pi^cautions have bt- n tak* n. and a case of chiggers is being nursed, some lehef can b- obtained from the use of iodine, a moderwt-j strength of amoma or a satur< aled solution of baking soda. School is about to start, so give th»* kiddies a BRAKE, Safety Slogan for September. Weather Reported. First it rained and then it blew, then it hailed and then it snew; then it thew. A small boy was asked tM writ ■ in ssay in a few words as possible on two of life’s greatest problems. rie wrote; “TWINS." Fire bi.<k* out in th* Maytag Coin Laundry and Clean *rs buil ling on Roo.sevelt Road, Walk-r---t<>n. around 10:30 p.m. Wednes* duy vvmng. August I L The firemen w re alarmed and came a running and w-n* still th«-re after midnight. The department was summon -d back ut around 2:30 a.m. to coni'* to the rescue again. Mu< h smoke was all over town. The p>or guy who put his clothes in the dry-r, when the fine broke out, I wond--r if he grabbed his clothes out of th • dryer and then called th ■ fire depirtment or if he left th m in there to continu* diving? A new face lifting job is b mg done to Walnut Road, north of Walk -rt.*n this w a*k. The Bulk - Lincoln - J<>hn*>n S< h *1 C -p * ation his listed in the p;ip*r this week their faculty for this school year and it sure se- ms like a lot of teachers. The good old days was wh-n we had one tea< h"r for all our subjects. Oh my go,h it sure is hot! The t'-mperature k«eps climbing and if this keeps up I’m going to have to quite and go swimming. Sure "nough, it’s 90 dvgre -s out g<M»dbye. Fishermen often fail to catcft a giM>d string, but they're sure to come up with a good yarn. HEADACHE PAIN STANBACK gives you FAST relief from pains of headache, neuralgia, ■euntis, and minor pains of arthritis, rheumatism. Because STANBACK contains several medically approved and prescribed ingredients for fast relief, you can take STANBACK with confidence. Satisfaction guaranteed! ST.NSACK aga>n«t any p 'r pa ra t. on |T|il ¥ll4 you ve ever |*li I‘IH .V used ~ J < rewires ?G«a<Hou»HMpina '. . Y _ % O**.dkJ* J aai*« u*• -j t