The Independent-News, Volume 98, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 May 1972 — Page 9

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Although Governor Whitcomb has proclaimed Friday, April 14, 1972, as Arbor Day in Indiana, many organizations throughout the state have celebrated it Friday, April 28. In the OregonDavis Schools however, any day can be Arbor Day. In picture 1, students of the Davis Elementary School are shown planting trees on their school grounds on April 21. These students, under the direction of Mr. John Hensler, Fifth Grade Teacher, and Mr. John Slusher, Elementary Principal, planted 100 pine trees on the west side of the school buiding, three large maples and three large oak trees near the playground equipment area, and a yellow rose bush on the south side of the building. In picture 2, students or .he Oregon Elementary School, under

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I'm just a wheel—a steering wheel. Behind me you are the master of a miracle. You can make me take the kids to school. You can turn me down the sunny road toward town. With me you can guide your goods to the market . . . you can rush the sick to be healed ... you can go in minutes to places hours away. With me you can do magic. Yet In the blink of an eye, in the tick of your watch, I can turn deadly killer. I can snuff out the life of a kid still full of life — maybe YOUR KID. I can twist a smile into tears. I can wreck and cripple and destroy. I can deal out death like the plague.

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the direction of Mr. Phillip Bridges, Fourth Grade Teacher, and Mr. Slusher, Principal, are shown planting trees on the east side of their school grounds. Approximately the same number and the same types of trees were planted at Oregon as were plaid'll at Davis. AH of the tree stock planted was donated by Mr. Stanley Hensler, local nurseryman and patron of the Oregon-Davis Schools. Tire youngesters’ efforts at beautifying the school grounds will have a secondary result as the years go by. The trees, as they grow, will provide windbreaks for tile schools. The Oregon-Davis High School is aso planning a planting effort later this month. This will be under the direction of Mr. Qualkenbush, local extension agent.

And I’m no respecter of persons. A child, a grandmother, even YOU, my friend ... it's all the same to me. I respond instantly to the hands you give me. Give me calm hands, steady hands, careful hands . . . and I'm your friend. But give me unsteady hands, reckless hands . . . then I’m your enemy; a menace to the life, happiness, the future of every person, every youngster riding, walking, playing. I was made for pleasure and usefulness. Keep me that way. I'm in your hands. I’m just a steering wheel. But behind me you are the master of a miracle . . . or a tragedy. It's up to you!

With members of the racing fraternity predicting practice and qualifying speeds in the 190 miles an hour range this year, track action will get under way this week-end in preparation for the 56th running of the annual 500mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 27. Eighty-one entries, including 35 new cars, form the 1972 field and practice will be permitted daily from 9 a m. until 6 p.m., with a gate admission of only 50 cents. Official time trials, with the $2 admission charge also the same as a year ago, will be held on the week-ends of May 13-14 and May 20-21 to determine starting positions in the 33-car Race Day lineup behind the Hurst/Olds pace car. Four former winners—Al and Bobby Unser, A. J. Foyt and Mario Andretti-head the entry list and Parnelli Jones may try to duplicate his 1963 triumph. Although he hasn't raced at Indianapolis since 1967, Jones has announced that he is giving serious consideration to the possibility of trying to win a starting position again. Other popular veterans entered again this year are National Champion Joe Leonard, Lloyd Ruby, Mark Donohue and Peter Revson, Leonard, Donohue, Ruby and the Unser brothers all led the field at some stage of last year's event and Revson set the present one-lap and four-lap qualifying records of 179.354 and 178.696 miles an hour to win the 1971 pole position in the starting lineup. Donohue had the distinction of turning in the fastest lap jf Um race last May when he was

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T • JHF B n^BF®^ F■' ■' J ' ’^B Al Unser, shown here in Victory Lane last May, will ba seeking an unprecedented third consecutive victory when the annual Indianapolis 500 mile race is run tor the 56th time on Saturday, May 27.

clocked at 174.961 miles an hour on his 66th trip around the course. As an indication of the speed expected this year, Bobby Unser was clocked at better than 190 miles an hour on one lap during spring tire tests in March and Jim Malloy ran 25 consecutive

laps at an average speed of better than 185 miles an hour. Ticket order forms, showing the price and location of all reserved seats still available, may be obtained by writing to the “500” ticket office at Speedway, Indiana, 46224.

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