The Independent-News, Volume 96, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 April 1970 — Page 4
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The Post Office Department has been in the news a lot of late as first it was a strike and then the proposed increase of first class mail to 10 cents. Neither of these stories could be classified as ‘comforting to the public as an interruption of mail service was felt even in areas where the workers were on the job and second, a blast in the pocketbook is always resented by all The shorti omings of this department aren't new. Several things enter in the picture. One is effeciency No private business could operate in the mannei of the Post Office. Losses are simply made up by the government where private enterprise has to find other means of bailing themselves out. Efficiency is number one. Wasted time and effort evidently can't be controlled as well when profit and loss isn't the main factor of survival. Another point is the uniform operation around the country. It doesn't take a financial genius to figure out a postal employee can live as well on the same pay in New York or Chicago as they can in a small midwestern town. This also is
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1965 North Liberty Clasens To Dedicate New Temple The North Liberty Masonic Lodge No. 266 F & AM announces the final plans for the dedication of.their,new temple. The Lodge will celebrate the dedication beginning Thursday, April 8. Boys State -Delegates Chosen The two boys from Walkerton that were chosen to attend Boys State are Wally Johnson and Tim Gardner. North Liberty Legion is sending Douglas Hill and John Fannin. History Scrapbook Robert E Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox. Virginia, April 9. 1865. The United States took over protection of Greenland, April 9. 1911. The first issue of Horace Greeley's New York Tribune appeared on April 10, 1841. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died April 12. 1945. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's
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a hurdle they can t clear on a basis of a nationwide, one controlled center Postal employees have had to live with the increase in groceries, automobiles. housing, etc. the same as you and I. Politics over the years have made the department almost a farce. It is true the time is basically gone where all postmasters were in jeopardy each time a party change was made in the White House, but politics played too much of a key role for years in this respect. There are other shortcomings also in this business as well as any other, but the suggested idea of putting the department under private enterprise makes a lot of sense. A major ite mos letting those involved make the decisions instead of appealing to congress all the time is only common sense. More efficiency and a lot less red tape could surely help this situation out considerably How and when it will come remains to be seen, but for the added money that is presently being discussed .added service would have to follow at a more excelerated pace than has been the case in recent years.
Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. April 14. 1865. President Lincoln called out state militias, April 15, 1861. 1960 Virgil Guin Names As Superintendent Virgil Gwin who has served the Walkerton Schools as acting Superintendent since the appointment of C Emmet Eiler to the i post of County Superintendent i of Schools, was named Tuesday I night to serve as Superintendent of Schools in Walkerton for the I 1960-61 school year. WHS Wins Ist In State Contest The Walkerton High School • Band has done it again. They walked off with a first place > rating in the State Band Contest at Concord Township High School in Elkhart County, Saturday afternoon. The rating of first followed a first in the District Contest the week before, I making them eligible for the State Contest Saturday. i Walkerton To Get New
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Post Office Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, announced today that a new Post Office has been authorized for Walkerton This announcement coincides with the optioning by Post Office Department Regional Officials of a site meeting Department requirements as to cost, area and location. The corner of Illinois and Vanßuren has been selected. Waltz. Restaurant Open In Walkerton The Waltz Restaurant, located in the old Adelle's Restaurant location on Roosevelt Road, is now open for business in Walkerton. Will Honor Youth Os Community Next Monday evening, April 19, at 6:30 pm. in the school gym at North Liberty, the Chamber of Commerce will meet and the program has been planned by the Youth committee of the Chamber The program will include a dinner, choral selections by some of the young people, presentations of the youth and recognition of youth leaders and their accomplishments and a message for youth and adults by Mr. Cal Cartwright, Public Relations Director of the United Fund Organization of St. Joseph County. Huhnke’s Service Station Looted The Huhnke Sinclair Service Station of Walkerton, was broken into Saturday night, or early Sunday morning, and approximately $600.00 worth of merchandise was stolen. Market Report Cube steaks, lb. 69. swiss and round, lb 55, t-bone, lb. 55, beet roast, lb. 39. crisco, 3 lb can, 87, head luttece. head 19, tomatoes. tube 19. jello 3 pkgs for 23. sugar. 10 lb. bag, 89 and kleenex, 200 sheet. 12. 1950 Work Started In Grade School Gym Had you been in the vicinity of the grade school gymnasium Tuesday evening, you might well have thought, judging from the sounds eininating from the place that the entire building was being besieged from within by a machine gun battalion. The truth is that the 20 workmen helping the PTA are doing repairs and a good clean up. The Walkerton Chamber To Honor Players The Walkerton Chamber of Commerce will honor the WHS basketball team at the regular monthly meeting on Thursday, April 13 at the Walkerton Town Club Walkerton Lions Pay On X-Rya • Unit The Walkerton Lions Club have paid their quota of $l5O toward the purchase of a onemillion volt X-Ray unit which has been purchased by the 287 Lions Clubs in Indiana and presented to the Radiology Department of the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. The machine cost $50,000. Bus Schedule Leaves Walkerton for North Liberty and South Bend at 8:25. 10:30. 1:10, 4:45 and 8:00. Arrives in South Bend at 9:30, 12: 20, 3:45, 5:45 and 8:45. Also same time to leave South Bend for Walkerton. The bus will pick up at Koontz Lake at 8:15 only. Bus Stations are at Huffstetters Restaurant, Walkerton, and the Newstand at Nprth Liberty. Main Street Gossip Ten Commandments of llunutn Relations 1. Speak to people. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting. 2. Smile at people. It takes 78 muscles to frown and only 14 to smile 3 Call people by name. The sweetest music to anyone’s ears is the sound oj his name. 4 Be friendly and helpful. If you would have friends be friendly.
5. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do were a genuine pleasuie. 6. Be generous with praise. 7. Be cautious with criticism. 8. Be considerate with the feelings of others. It will be appreciated. 9. Be thoughtful of the opinions of others. There are three sides to a controversy-yours-the other fellows-and the right one. 10 Be alert to give service. What counts most in life is what we do for others. _mS G — Historical Patriotic Calendar April 1. (1826) Building of first U. S. railroad started in Massachusetts. April 2. (1792) First mint, in Philadelphia, inscribed coins “E Pluribus Unum.” April 3, (I 860 Pony Express opened between Missouri and California. April 3. (1969) Money rates raised: The Federal Reserve Board hiked from 5 to 6 percent the discount rate at which 6,000 member banks may borrow from the Reserve System That was the highest rate since the 1929 market crash. April 4, (1790) U.S. Coast Guard established. April 4. (1841> William Henry Harrison. 9th President, died in the White House. April 4, (1968) Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The killing set off waves of negro rioting across the country, resulting in 46 persons being killed. 2700 injured and some 22.000 arrested. James Earl Ray, 40, white, was arrested in London, England, extradited to Memphis and there he pleaded guilty as King’s killer. Ray whs sentenced to 99 years imprisonment. April 5, (1963) Hot line, Soviet Union accepted suggested “hot line:" teletype system connecting Washington and Moscow as means of reducing threat of accidental war. Each government installed, maintains, the line within its own territory. Still operating April 5. (1964) Gen. MacArthur died. Acclaimed "one of the most distinguished soldier in U. S. history”, General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, 84, died in Washington following a month’s illness. MacArthur was born at Fort Dodge, Arkansas. January 26. 1880; graduated from West Point in 1903; served in Phlippines and Mexico; helped organize and command 42nd Rainbow Division overseas in in World War I; filled several important military offices until World War II; then commanded U. S Troops in Pacific area; directed Allied postwar occupation of Japan; Command U.'N. forces in the Korean War, July 8. 1950 to April 11, 1951 April 6. (1830) Mormon Church organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York. April 6, (1909) Armiral Robert Perry reached North Pole on sixth attempt. April 6. (1917) U S. declared war against Germnay (World War I). April 6. (1965) U. S. orbited first worldwide commercial communications satellite. April 7, (30AD) Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius April 7, (1927) First television broadcast, from New York City to Washington April 9, (1963) Sir Winston Churchill Honorary U S. Citizen; died January 24, 1965. April 9, (1969) Harvard students launched riotous 13-day revolt. April 11, (1968) President signed new Civil Rights Bill April 12. (1861) Civil War began. April 12, (1915) U. S. Ninth Army crossed Elbe River to within 60 miles of Berlin. April 12, (1945) Franklin D
Roosevelt, 32nd President, died at Warm Springs, Georgia. April 13, 1743) Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U. S. President, born at Shadwell, Virginia. April 14, (1865) Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, shot fatally; died April 15. April 14, (1912) 1,517 died when iceberg sank liner Titanic off Newfoundland. April 15, (1969) North Koreans shot down unarmed U. S. Plane. 31 men lost. ~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR Thursday, .April 9 12:00 noon — Chamber of Commerce to meet at Heil s Dining Room. Guest speaker will be Joint State Senator, Marshall Kizer. 8:00 p.m. — The American Legion Post 189. Walkerton will meet at the post home to nominate officers 8:00 p.m. — Epsilon Chi Chapter of Tri Kappa will meet at the home of Mrs. Mahlon Jacob. Friday, April 10 8:00 p.m. — The After Prom Party Committee will meet at the Walkerton Lion’s Youth Building. Interested persons are invited to attend. North Liberty Tri Kappa Style and Wig Show at the North Liberty High School cafeteria. Proceeds to benefit Scholarship fund. Saturday, April 11 5-8 p.m. PLJ PTA Fish Fry at the Tyner School. Sunday, April 12 6:30 pm. New Dawn Singers from Bethel College will be at the Koontz Lake Missionary Church. Monday, April 13 PLJ Athletic Boosters meet. American Legion Auxiliary of North Liberty will meet. North Liberty DeMolay to meet. Tuesday, April 14 North Liberty Order of Eastern Star to meet. Walkerton Lions Club board meeting. Wednesday, April 15 Johnson Township Home Demonstration Club to meet Presbyterian Women's Sewing Day. Thursday, April 16 7:30 pm. Better Homes Demonstration Club Style Show at the John Glenn High School Auditorium. SCHOOL MENU North Liberty Menu Thursday, April 9 - Chuck wagon on bun. catsup, scalloped potatoes. glazed carrots, chocolate chip dessert, milk. Friday, April 10 - Macaroni and cheese or macaroni and meat, buttered chopped spinach. peanut butter stuffed celery, tutti-fruiti cobbler, chocolate or white milk. April 13 - Barbecue on bun ( hashed brown potatoes, broccoli with cheese sauce, ginger bread-whipped topping, milk. April 14 - Baked meat loaf, fluffy whipped potatoes, gravy circus salad, com bread square no bake cookie, milk, (secondary schools add a vegetable ) April 15 - Baked lasagna, frozen buttered peas, crisp lettuce salad, oil & vinegar dressing. raisin batter bread, drizzled icing, butter, milk. (Secondary schools add an apple.) April 16 - Baked country sausage, fluffy whipped potatoes. sauerkraut, crisp carrot stick, hot rolls, butter, strawberry ice cream, milk. April 17 - Chilled orange juice, fish burger on warm bun. tartar sauce, browned potato tots, cabbage-apple salad, harvest cake square, lazy daisy topping, milk. SHIRKS DUTY The temptation to let tomorrow take care of itself is a lazy. shortsighted way out.