The Independent-News, Volume 98, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 April 1972 — Page 1

VOLUME 98; NUMBER 41

Fredrick McCarthy To Speak At Chamber Meeting The Walkerton Chamber of Commerce announces that Mr. Fredrick K. McCarthy. Administrative vice-president of Tax and Government Affairs, will be their guest speaker at the April 13 meeting held at Heil's Restaurant, Walkerton, at 12:00 noon. Everyone is welcome. Mr. McCarthy is a native Hoosier born in Crawfordsville. He graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor’s degree in Government in 1948 after three years service in the United States Navy. He has been associated with the Manufacturers Association for five years and prior to that time worked for the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and both the East Chicago and Indianapolis local Chambers. His major area of operation over these years has been that of state and local government and taxation. Mr. McCarthy will be speaking on these subjects. NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY BUILDING BOARD PLANS FISH FRY The N. L. Community Building Board met April 3rd with 8 members present. Plans were made for the Orginal Jonah Fish Fry to be held on Saturday May 13th at the Community Building. Serving will be from 4:30-8:00 p.m. The menu includes fish, cole slaw, baked beans, rolls and butter, p»e or cake, coffee or orange. The meal is served family style with all you can eat. The clubs, organizations, and churches represented on this board are: Over 60 Club, "23” Club, Lion’s, Ministerial Assoc., N.F.0., Farm Bureau, Wells Local 194, Liberty Homemakers, Liberty Twp. Club, Church of the Brethren. Tri Kappa, N.L. Woman’s Club, and Methodist Church. Each year the board plans two fish fry events to make enough money to support the Community Building’s upkeep and repairs. This year six tables and the accompanying folding chairs are being purchased. Also small kitchen equipment is needed. So support your Community Building, plan to come, bring your children and friends, and have an enjoyable evening May 13U1. ST. JOSEPH CO FAIR TAX ASSOCIATION TO MEET If you are intrested in learning about the inequities in goverment, it is impreative that you become informed and vote along the lines of the information furnished you For this purpose the St. Joseph County Fair Tax Association invites its members and the public to an "AN Evening With the Candidates.” This will be held at the St. Stanislaus Auditorium, Tulip Road, Terre Coupee, east of New Carlisle, on Tuesday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. All candidates registered to nm in the primary are invited to attend. Questions will be taken from the floor and answered directly. It Is the public’s obligation to find out what these candidates look like and what they think it can vote an intelligent fashion in the coming election, according to Robert Hakes, president. JAYCEES TO SPONSOR SOFTBALL LEAGUE The Walkerton Jaycees are again going to sponsor the slow pitch softball league. Any team that played last year or a new team that would like to enter the league, please contact Larry Setnor or Jim Martin by May 1.

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Mr. and Mrs. Hutty L. Gaddis, 603 Adams Street, Walkerton, will celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary with an open house i on Sunday, April 9 from 2:00 to 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon at I the Walkerton Community Building, comer of Ohio and WashingI ton Streets. Friends and relatives are invited. I Lillian Breckenridge »nd Mr. i Hutty Gaddis were married on ’ March 31, 1929 at Beedeville,

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i Mr. and Mrs. Donald O. Lai Bere, route 2, box 265 Burmmitt Road, Chesterton, Indiana, will be honored Sunday, April 9 at an open house in their home in observance of the 25th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Lnßere and sons, Philip and Mark at home, invite their friends and relatives to call from 2 to 5 p.m. Donald Laßere and Miss To Observe 25th Anniversaiy Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brinkhoff. 28995 Osborne Road. North Liberty, will observe their 25th wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. this Saturday, April 8, in their home. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Birk and Julianna of Wakarusa. Gerrit and Herman Brinkhoff Jr. of North Liberty, will honor their parents in the open house. Mr. and Mrs. Brinkhoff were married Apr! 3, 1947 in Zevenaar, Netherland. Coming frum that

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Arkansas, and they moved to Indiana in 1950. The couple have five children, Herbert L., Walkerton; Mrs. Sue Drake. Plymouth; Mrs. Pat Burlingham, Coloma, Michigan and Jerry at home. A son is deceased. They also have six grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Host for the open house will be their children.

Norma Trump were united in marriage on April 5, 1947 in the brides home with the Rev. Kenneth Huckens officiating. Attendants of the couple were the brides brothers Allen Trump and wife Mary Ellen of Argos. The I^aßeres have resided in the Walkerton area and Chesterton where they lived for 18 years. Mr. Laßere is employed at Budd Company in Gary. country in September, 1917. No invitations has been issued. friends are welcome. NOTICE There will be no Board ot School Trustees meeting in the Polk-Lin-coln-Johnson School Corporation on April 18, due to a National School Boards Association convention. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of of School Trustees will be on May 2 at 7:00 p.m. (EST) 506 Roosevelt Road. Walkerton. Don’t need it — why keep it — use our classified ads!

Eastei Egg Hunt This Saturday The Walkerton Fire Department will hold their Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday April Bth at 2 p.m. sharp. In case of rain it will be held the following day. It will be open to children through 11 years of age and cash prizes will be given for all who find the lucky eggs. ~ COMMUNITY- _ CALENDAR Basa Thursday, April 6 8:00 p.m. — American Legion Auxiliary to meet at the post home in Walkerton. North Liberty Masons to meet. Friday, April 7 1:00 p.m. — North Liberty baseball t^am will travel to Divine Heart. 6:30 p.m. — Guest night carry in dinner of the Woman's Community Club, at the Walkerton Community Building. William Bieriy will speak and show slides. i Saturday, April 8 9:30 a.m. — Evening Star Rebekah Lodge of Walkerton Bake ’ and Rummage sale. Sunday, April 9 I 1:00 p.m. — 4-H members of Lincoln Township will canvas the area for Cancer drive. Monday, April 10 Indian Guides to meet. North Liberty Band Boosters to meet. North Liberty Lions to meet. Tuesday, April 11 Hope Fellowship to meet and tour the Walkerton Nursing Home. North Liberty track team to travel to Jimtown. 4:30 p.m. — North Liberty golfers to play at Argos. 4:30 p.m. — North Liberty baseball team to host Oregon-Da-vis. Wednesday, April 12 7:30 p.m. CST — Koontz Lake Firemen's Auxiliary to meet. 4:30 p.m. — John Glenn GA A track team to run at LaVille. 8:00 p.m. — WSCS of the Walkerton United Methodist Church to meet. Thursday, April 13 2:00 p.m. — Philathea Class to meet. 4:30 p.m, — John Glenn GA A track team to travel to Northwood. 4:30 p.m. — North Liberty Golf team to host Fairfield. North Liberty track team to host New Prairie. 8.00 p.m. — Better Homes Extension Club fashion style show at the John Glenn Auditorium. 0-D Pre School Bound-Up Set It is pre-school round-up time again at Oregon-Davis School Corporation with the round-up to begin on Tuesday, April 18 at 9 a.m. CST at the Oregon Elementary School, Grovertown. Davis Elementary School, Hamlet on Tuesday, April 18 at 1:00 p.m. CST. A child must be five years old before September 1, 1972 to enter kindergarten and six years old to enter first grade. A legal birth certificate is required for school enrollment. Parents are urged to accompany their children to round-up.

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Every Home To Be Visikd For Cancer Sunday Every home in Walkerton will be visaed Sunday aflernuon in a iunu-iaisuig drive winch will save i many lives in St. Joseph county, i More cancer is detected the > last of April and the first of May than any other time of the year, as a direst result oi the annual crusade by the American Cancer Society, one out of every four people develop cancer's. Through your efforts with a geanuus contribution Sunday you may very wed save someones life. Members of the Lincoln township 4-H coinrads club will be caning at your door Sunday mdenimed with a badge with their i name as an American Cancer i Society volunteer. Drivers are asked to be at the 4-H community building at 12:30 p.m. to seiect block areas in town. Upon completion of your block volunteers will return to the community bull,ling u.r hut choco- , late and donuts. Ihe American Cancel Society 1 programs of Cancer research, 1 lifesaving education, and compas- ■ sionate patient rehabilitation service, simply must continue. Early warnings sent over 100, : 000 people to their doctors in time last year to be saved from cancer. The two million who ! have been cured of cancer and the j people who will be cured because of your efforts say - Thank you! Members of the local 4-H Club met Monday night. Rick Wied- । eman, exective director of the American Cancer Society and Jim Hall, St. Joseph county community drive chairman were present to show' a film and explain the annual fund drive which first began in South Bend in 1913 and has come to out lying areas like Walkerton for the first lime. Won’t you help? Just a dollar or Iwo from every home will help combat the disease. FRIENDSHIP CLASS TO MEET The Friendship Class of the North Liberty United Methodist Church will met at the parsonage on Friday, April 7. Mrs. Russell Carr will give devotions and Mrs. Cecil Dewey will present the lesson. Mrs. Edna Steele, Mrs. Clifford Lawson and Mrs. Mary Wesolek will assist Mrs. Robert Willbanks as hostesses. The next meeting will be on May 5 at 1:30 p.m. atthe home of Mrs. John Wilcox, Sr. LOCAL GROWERS WIN TOP ' CORN YIELD AWARDS Two area growers have been named to receive special awards for their excellence in corn growing. Announced by the producers of Funk’s G-Hybirds, the awards are in recognition of their production of high corn yiekls. Yields gained by these outstanding farmers are being entered in the nationwide record books of Project: 200. Growers named from this area are Lawrence Snyder, North Liberty, G-444, 127.8 bushels per acre and John F. Cowger, Walkerton, G-4252, 149.7 bushels per acre. PHILATHEA CLASS Philathea Class of the Walkerton Methodist Church will meet at the church on Georgia Street Thursday April 13 at 2:00 pm. Hostesses will be Mrs. Charles Bellinger and Mrs. Helen E. Mitchell.