The Independent-News, Volume 96, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 March 1970 — Page 4

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— THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS — MARCH 19, 1970

i. A Message From The Director

It was Patrick Henry who said, "Bad men cannot make good citizens It is impossible." he added, “that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of free men. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public cons' ience. is incompatible with freedom.' I suggest there is a pertinent message for present-d iy Americans m Patlick Henry's warning. Moral decadence and d.s’ospect for law thrive where ^elf-discipline is weak In a soejetv oi free men. there must an abundance of personal integrity and discipline We iced only to look back at the ■’96o's to see what has been happening to out moral stand- • ids. For the past several years our citizens have been ban aged vith unbridled vulgarity, ob--cemty, blasphemy .perversion, and public desecration of our cherished ideals and symbols. r n the face of these perplexing conditions, many citizens are -'radically moral cowards. Afr nd of being labeled puritanical or "square.' they tolerate <nd condone acts and habits

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1963 • I »rt sough Mig. Plans Open House The Haitsough Manufacturing Company of Walkerton, will have an Open House at their new nlant in the Walkerton Industrial Paik on Underwood Road on Friday. March 26. This will he the formal showing of their new plant completed a short time a go. Walkerton IT A To Have Slave Auction The Walkerton FFA will have n slave auction this Friday night at the Walkerton High School gym. After Prom Committee To Meet The interested persot»s of the '•’own of Walketon make up the Walkerton After-Prom Party r 'ommittee and a meeting has been slated for Friday evening, March 26 at 8:30 p.m. in the Town Council Room. All groups nd organizations are to plan their representatives for this and present at this time. Lions To Honor Atheletes The Walkerton Lions Club will meet Tuesday. March 23 at the American Legion Hall for the Atheletic Night. 1960 ."ieMolays Olisrrve Devotional Day Members of the Walkerton >rder of I leMolay. and their * jmhes. w ill observe DeMolay I *e\ otional Day on Sunday, March 20. Special services nave been arranged with Rev. Tunis at the Methodist Church. The observance is held each year < n the Sunday nearest March 18, the date the Older of DeMoBy was founded in 1919 Dei diona! Day is u world-wide observance and is participated 1 • by D-Malays in everv state In the United States and in 12 foreign countries. PT A f<> Tour f .lernentary S< hool At the Thursday evening meeting the business will be held in the high s< hool gym followed by the entire group going to the new s<ho d building and looking it all oxer Him e this will be the first opport mity for many to see the building many parents are expected and welcome. 'Hie meeting will lie at 7 3b pm. Phues f ourth In ABC Tourmx Don Daube. competing in the Amerii m Bowling Congress Tourney )n Toledo. Ohio, rolled into fourth place last week in the singles event with a 645 Don roiled games of 224 232 and 189 for the fine series Places | IrM j n । nhendtj 1 oarnry Bob Lute rolled into first

which they Know are morally wrong which they do not have the courage to denounce and oppose. This unfortunate, bec.>. >e they iail themselves, their children, and their country Win re morality and decency art concerned. Americans must not let rationalization and doubletalk confuse them. There is nothing enlightening, enduring. or progressive about de generacy. Let us make no mistake about it. Human dignity, individual values, civil lights, and freedom fur all citizens exist wßho .1 order and self-disci-pline We need dis< iphne to Lit us above the baseness of indulges e, discipline to stand for right over wrong, discipline to uphold and preserve our ideals and principles of democracy, ar.d discipline to respect and obey the law. Let those whose actions are incompatible with the freedoms of our society know that thenrights and privileges end where |the righty and privlegt^ of others begin. John Edgar Hoover Director, FBI

place in the University Tourney at the University Lanes in Toledo, Ohio with a 104 U series for the five game meet. This tourney runs along in conjunction with the ABC Tourney. 1955 Walkerton Is Host To Federated Clubs The annual spring Convocation of St. Joseph County Federated Women's Clubs will be held on Wednesday. March 30 in Walkerton at the Methodist Church with the Woman's Community (Tub and the }Voman|i Civic Club as hosts. Complete 921 Oil-Gas Wells In 1954 Director Harley G. Hoik, of the Indiana Department of Conservation. has issued a report on all oil and gas operations for the 1954 calendar year. According to this report, of the 921 wells completed in Indiana during the year. 596 w ere dry holes and 326 were producers. During 1954. the 4.907 wells in production in Indiana produced 10.866. 867 barrels of oil. Eleven new pools, one of which was a gas pool, were developed in Indiana in 1951. The total gas producti >n for the year was 627, 896, ObO cubic feet. Market Report T bone steak, lb. 55; beef roasts, lb. 39; bacon, lb. 49;sirloin steak, lb. 49; celery, bunch 19; velveeta. 2 lb. ctn. 75; miracle whip, qt. 51; gold medal flour. 10 lb. 95; blue bonnet oleo, lb. 29 and cigarettes, reg size, carton $2.14. 1950 (•us Schultz. Betin's From Telephone Job Gus Schultz, having completed 29 years of service for the United Telephone Company and other < onrpames which preceded it in W alkerton is now "basking in the sunshine” as a retired employee. He retired on Match Ist. S oir** Os Thp People We sure are getting fed up with the agi gators? commie dopes, VC flag wavers, and now even cane cutters. I would say that there are millions of loyal people in this good old U S A . yet that would help pay their way to go to H<> Chi Mm's or Castro's paradise if they would Lke to go there and stay. I'raise God for men like judge Huffman -- he gave The Seven j Ist what they deserved. Can yo i imagine the sort of trial thev would have received in one of Ho Chi Min's courts? So many of our judges are so weak and Wishy washy that they

need a double transplant —brain and bowel. FED UP! H.W. Balslcy Main Street Gossip EASTER AND THE EASTER SEASON You can look To the sky instead of your calendar to find the date of Easter. The lull moon is the key to determining the date ol Easter, which can come as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. Not Just any lull moon, of course, but the fust one after the vernal equinox, according to the New Standard Encyclopedia. This year, Easter is scheduled for March 29. Other confusing dates, such as Ash Wednesday, can also be figured out easily. Ash Wednesday comes 40 days before Easter, excluding Sundays. It is the beginning of Lent and of the Easter Season. In the early church, ashes were sprinkled on the heads ot persons who repented their sinon Ash Wednesday. The ashes were obtained from the burning of palms consecrated on Palm Sunday ol the previous year and were to remind the faithful that "man is but dust." In the Christian Church. Lint is the period of penitence, player and lasting in prepaiation for Easter. The Lenten Season extends from Ash Wednesday until Holy Saturday, the day before Easter, and commemorates Jesus Christ's 40 days of fasting and prayer in the desert. During Lent, which comes from an Old English word for spring, Christians are required or encouraged to last, avoid amusemnets, and engage in special worship. Holy week in the Christian church is the week preceding Easter and is observed as a period of devotion to the last days of Jesus Christ and to his death on tlie cross. Holy Week, the most important of the Christian year, begins with Palm Sunday, winch comemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Maundy-or Holy Thursday, is the anniversary oi the Last Supper, and Good Fr.D,-, recalls the Crucifixion. Hole < , J urday is the day before Lu r and tlie end oi Lent Easter is the lestival celebrating the Resurection of Jesus Christ It symbolizes the kevstone of Christian faith and hope—the immortality of man. The crucifixion of Jesus occurred during the Jewish Passover. The early Christians, being Jewish. observed Easter as part m Passoxer. Later as non-Jews came into the Church, some Christians insisted that Easter should be celebrated on Sunday, the day of Kessurection. Western churches generally celebrated the festival on Sunday, while Eastern churches followed the Jewish traditions. The first ecumenical council, the Council of Nicaea, in 325 decided that Easter should always be on Sunand adopted the rule for establishing the date. Easter derived its name from Eastre. the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. And many of the customs of the Easter festival were incorporated from heathen rituals welcoming the spring sea•>n The egg has long been a ®> n ’bol of Easter. But long before the birth of Christ, the anEgyptians and Persians had the custom of coloring and luting eggs during their spring Gstixai d . s a symbol of fertility and oi renewed life. The Christlh‘s an <^”t significance of the egg as a svm'J an »'W. and the ’egg tion inU * ’essurrecThe sunrise service. 80 much a Part of East er. 18 atsu aU ^ u,t - v - According to an h ‘Petition, the sun rising on Easter morning, d meed m the heavens. Tins belief has been

traced to the old heathen festival when the spectators danced in honor of the sun. The Easter Parade, seeming entirely worldly, may be traced to an old belief that it was unlucky not to wear Some new article of clothing or personal adornment on Easter, Or it may stem from the universal feeling that the time of casting off the old and the beginning of the new. And those families who, by custom, eat ham on Easter Sunday, are unwittingly following an old practice of the Roman Catholics of England, who ate a gammon of bacon on Easter to show their contempt for the Jews to whom pork is forbidden. North Liberty Lions Hold March Meeting The North Liberty Lions Club met on Monday .March 9. at Dudock's Restaurant for their regular March dinner meeting. Dr. Joe Naval. M.D., who is beginning the practice of medicine in North Liberty on March 16. was a guests of the Club. Lion Tom Frost, program chairman, presented a film program on the Fire Fighters of America. This newly producer film shows new devices in use in our cities in fighting fires. Lion Dan Roser also reported to the members present about the items discussed with the Town Board at their March 4th meeting. The dub is anticipating its sale of light bulbs and brooms in April to raise funds for the various Lion projects. Cancer Control, Under Dog. nad Indiana State Eye Bank. Also, the club members are anxious to contribute to the various community projects, some of which they have helped with for a number of the years, including the League Baseball Program. Lenten Retreat Maudy Thursday In Walkerton The United Methodist Women will hold a Lenten Retreat in the Illinois Street building on Maunda. Th> y. March 26. It will I • ;:n 9 a to J p.m. and will 1 । ■ b • ] , lie. ’ v 1 y 1 • to spend the in s.ii. m- J.tat.on and k ; • A nursery for children will be furnished from 9 am. to 3:30 p m. Bring a sack lunch. Coffee and milk furnished. A light supper will be furnished in the evening. There will Le Communion Service in the evening to conclude the daylong retreat. To Celebrate 25th Anniversary The children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H Chrales. Sr., request the pleasure of your company a tan open house on Sunday, March 22 from 2 to 5 p.m. in celebration of their parents 25th wedding anniversary. The open house will be held at 26863 New Road. North Liberty. Historical Patriotic Calendar March 20 (19631 U.S. and Soviets agreed on weather satellite cooperation. March 20 (1970) Vernal Equinox (Spring) begins 7:57 p.m. EST. March 21 (1790) Thomas Jefferson became first U.S. Secretary of State. March 23 (1775) Patrick Henry's speech, "Give me liberty or give me death." March 26 (1892) Poet Walt Whitman died poverty-stricken in New Jersey.

Starke County Taxpayers New* A member of the Taxpayers Association suggested a Taxpayers Revolt at their March 9th meeting. The State Tax Commission rejected the reassessment of the trustees and have < ertified the work of Cole-Layer-Trumble. This is the professional firm that Starke County has a laxvsuit against. The state Tax Commission did not notify the trustees on their decision. They have not in fact, given the reason tor their rejection. The Taxpayers Association is planning on hiring a lawyer and all taxpayers can help in this endevor by joining the Asscociation. OVER SIXTY CLUB The Over Sixty Club was held on March 11 with J.hlrty-one members and three guests present. Ihe program opened with Dr. Fensterrnacher, a doctor from the Walkerton Clinic, speaking on "Physical and Emotional Aspects of Aging " in which he stressed that as people grow older they should find a hobby or something they can do to occupy their time after retirement and if they do have a handicap not to feel sorry for themselves, instead make use of the able parts of the body. He emphasized when sick and given medicine take it; or if a cane or crutch is needed for support use one. Don't feel too proud to use it Also that the able bodied aged should encourage and help the less fortunate. Devotions were given by Rev. Tom Frost, pastor of the Methodist Church in North Liberty. He also sang and played two beautiful specials. Our thanks to Rev. Frost. Pictures of the members from their past were brought and a "guess who" time was enjoyed for a while then two big delicious apples, one red, one yellow, and a smlai Jonathon guessing how many seeds in each apple "Happy Birthday" was sung to Fred Sheneman and Laura Fair The Club voted to donate to the New Doctor Fund. Grace was given by Walter Stroke Hostesses were Ruth Bare. Francis Slattery, Chloe Jackson. □ Cards of ih a nks □ a We wish to thank everyone for their flowers, cards, prayers and kindnesses during the recent illness and loss of our sister. Ann. Mrs. Jennie Gilltette Mr. and Mrs Keith Baker Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Baker Mr and Mrs. Everett Baker Mr. and Mrs Nathan Baker Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Kennedy I wish to thank my friends, neighbors and relatives for the cards, flowers, visits prayers and other acts of kindness shown to me during my surgery’ at Pine Like Hospital, also while recovering at home. A special thank you to Rev. Kent Bennett, Rev. and Mrs. Russel Schelling, and Rev. Dean Krieg for their piaycrs and visits to the hospital. Also to the doctors of Walkerton Medical Clinic. May God Bless ei.ch of you. Martha Taylor I would like to thank everyone who remembered me while 1 was in the hospital and since I came home. Your cards, visits, phone calls, and prayers for me will always be remembered. Bruce Fitzgerald Our sincere thanks to the many friends for the acts of kindness and thoughtfulness shown us in the loss of a loved one. Our special appreciation to William Elkins of the Nusbaum Funeral Home and to Rev. Harold Williams for their beautiful services. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Williams