The Independent-News, Volume 99, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 July 1973 — Page 1

VOLVME 99; NT MBER 50

NORTH LIBERTY JULY 4TH QI EEN CONTEST RESULTS Tri Kappa has sponsored the Queen Contest forth? last four years. This year there were 18 girl; entered by local clubs or merchants. The girls met with the judges at the home of Mrs. Darwin Davi< on June 12 and at that time they picked a queen and tour girls as attendants who reigned over the July 4th parade. The queen was crowned at a band concert in the park on June 2s at 7:30 p.m. Each girl was presented with a flower and the queen received a ciown and a charm bracelet. The winners were: Queen, Louanne Vergon Ist runner-up, Colleen Rose 2nd runner-up, Jane Campbell 3rd runner-up, Cindy Norris 4th runer-up. Lee Ann Hocker The girls entered and their sponsors were: Becky Miller. North Liberty Community Building Debbie Davis, Community Gro. eery Colleen Rose. Doan's Gift Shop Sally Gouker, Elaine’s Beauty Shop Kathy Walls, Fannin’s Excava, ting Pat Kinner, Gene’s Sunoco Betty Hahn, Harvey's Dime Store Joy Nelson. Jim’s Service Sta. tion Lee Ann Hocker, Kountry Kit. chen Restaurant Darlene Gouker, Liberty Twp. Volunteer Fire Department Darla Henry, Lions Club Cindy Norris, Lonzo Oil Co. Diane Springman, Over 60 Club Jane Campbell, Porky's Con. struction Becky Griffey, Sarah Coventry Jewelry’ Louanne Vergon. Trobaugh Au. to Parts Anita Stevens, Whispering Pines Golf Course Debbie O'Connor, Lanes Case Tri Kappa would like to thank the band and Mr. VanderHagen. Wells Aluminum for the financial support, the judges, chibs and merchants for sponsoring the girls and everyone who helped make the contest a success. ANNOI'NCE MARRIAGE Mr. and Mrs. Keith F. Davis, of Walkerton, Indiana, announce the June 30 marriage of their daughter. Linda Kay. to William Ralph Qualle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Qualle, of Hughson, California. Attendants at the ceremony wore Peg Nelson and Ron Davis, sister and brother of the bride. Following the wedding, a reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Davis at Sylvan Lake. Rome City. Indiana. The couple will be returning to reside in Honolulu. Hawaii, on July 15. TO HOLD VAC ATION BIBLE SCHOOL August 6-17 are the dates ret f< r Vacation Bible School at the North Liberty Church of Christ. It will run from 9:30 am. to 11:30 a.m. each day during the ten day period. The School will be held in the church's new facilities located at 65225 State Road 23 Not th. They invite anyone who is two years old up through those entering eighth grade this fall. The theme this year is "One Way With Je. sus.” To pre-register, please call either 656-4632 or 656-3336 by July 31. Transportation will be provided if you are in need of it.

OBITUAMtS^ ' 1 -U " •»<■ ‘w e*?/4-— Mrs. Edward L. Finch Servers for Mis. LeVeaa Maxine Finch, 50, of Largo, Florida, who died Tuesday, July 3 in the Morton F. Plant Hospital, ClearwaLr, Fla., were at 2:00 p.m. Friday in the Nusbaum-Elkm Flint ral Home, Walkerton, with Rev. Clyde D. Wake, pastor of the United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Walkerton. Mis. Finch was born August 31, 1922, in Marshall County. She was married to Edward L. Finch, who survives. Also surviving are her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Walter, Walkerton; a son, Dennis, St. Louis, Mo.; four daughters, Mrs. Judy Hillman, Largo, Fla.; Mis. Karen Espich, Plymouth, Ind.; Jacqueline and Connie, both at home; seven grandchildren: and two brothers, Raymond Walter, of Culver; and Cleo Walter, Galien, Mich. ki i> — -wr Edgar F. vCharnetzky Edgar F. Cnametzky, 67, route 3. Walkerton, died at 5:05 p.m. Sunday at the LaPorte Hospital after a sudden illness. A retired truck driver for U. S. Steel at Gary, he was born June 8, 1906, at Zanesville, Ohio, to Edward and Edna Allard Chametzky. He was married December 24. 1928, at Valparaiso, t* Edna Kane, who survives. Mr. Chametzky moved to this area six years ago and was a member of the Koontz Lake Mis. sionary Church. Surviving with has wife are one son. Leonard L. Chametzky, of Portage; two daughters. Mrs. Luke < Peggy l Diefenbach. of Merrillville, and Mrs. Dale i Pat» Dahlgren, Portage; two brothers; one .-ister and eight grandchildren. S. rvices were held on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. in the United Missionary Church, Koontz I-ake, with Rev. Richard Matteson. officiating. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Walkerton. James AV. McCombs Jame s W. McCombs, S7, of Tee. garden, died at 3:30 a m. Satur. day at St. Joseph Hospital in South Bend after an illness of three weeks. He was a self-em-ployed construction worker in this area. He was born April 17. IXB6. in Teegarden and spent most of his life there. I n August. 1920. in Jefferson. Ohio, he married Eva Titus, who died in Augast, 1963. He is survived by a son, James E., of Culver; four grandchildren; two brothers, Samuel J., of Niles, Michigan, an<l Robert, of Dowagiac, Mich. Service- were h’ld at 2:00 pm. Monday in the Orvis.Palmer Fun. end Home, South B- nd. with Rev. Qlaude Stogdill. officiating. Bur. ial was in Chapel Hill Memorial Garden- - . He was a member of the Tyner Odd Fellows. c HOSPITAL NOT El* C □ RECENTLY ADMITTED TO LAPORTE HOSPITAL Mrs. Raymond Harris. James Fulton, Mrs. Maude Ray and Mrs. Eugene Vermilyer. all of Walkerton; Mrs. Fred Shene, man. North Liberty. TRANSFERRED TO ST. JOSEPH, SOUTH BEND Gerald Dipert.

WALKERTON, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JI TA 12, 1973

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During a double-ring ceremony in the United Methodist Church of Walkerton, Phillip Duane Matz took Mi.-s Vickie Lea Adams for his bride before an altar decorat. ed with candleabras, white and green gladioli and larkspur, on Saturday, June 23. Rev. Clyde Wake officiated at the ceremony. Mrs. David Lawrence was the organist and Miss Denise Groves the vocal soloi.-t. The bride is tire daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leßoy L. Adams, route 2, Walnut Road. Walkerton: and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Matz, route 1. Walkerton. The bride choose for her wedding gown a nylon chiffon floor length gown with Venice laoe trimmf.ng at the throat, bodice and cuffs of the bishop sleeves. The full skirt was flounced at the hemline. Her Juliet cap was edged with ribbon and lace trim as was her mantilla veil and bllisher. She carried a cascade bouquet of daisies, baby's breath and stephanotis. Mrs. Dirk Pletcher. Cheyenne, Wyoming, was the matron of honor. Her gown was of lime green and white with an empire style anti she wore a matching picture hat and carried a no-egay of green.tipjHd pompons and baby's breath. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Steven Jacobson, Walkerton, sister of the bride; Mrs. Mar. 1 tin Uceny, Culver and Miss Deb1 ra Matz, ceu in of the groom, of Moline, 111. They wor • iden. tieal gowns as the honor attend. > ant but they carried white and green.tipped nosegavs of daisies. Dirk Pletcher acted as best man and groomsmen were Stephen Matz, Walk* rton, brother of the groom: Mai tin Uo ny, Culver brother-in-law of the groom, and Mi< had Matz, South Bend, brother of the groom. Ushers were Steven Jacob on. Walkerton, bro-ther.in-law of the bride, and Ger. ry Brown, LaPaz, cousin of the greom. Miss Angela Jacobson, niece of the bride, was the flower girl and M ister Danny Smith, cousin of the groom. Plymouth, carried I the rings. A t ‘ception was held following the ceremony in the American Legion Hall. Walkerton. Miss Teri Kincaid reghtered the guests • and took charge of the gifts. Serving w r. the Misses Karen

Wardman. Diane Hendricks and Donna Kesl. The newlyweds have returned from the honeymoon trip to Michigan and are now at home at 505 Indiana Street. Walkerton. Both are graduates of John Glenn High School. The groom is employed at Sheeting Service Co., Walkerton. RECEPTION TO HONOR ART JOHNSON’S There will be a reception for Art and Ruth Johnson, formerly of Walkerton, on Saturday, July 14 from 2.00 to 4:00 pm. at the Don Schoberg residence, Rose Road, l 2 mile north of new 30. JOY NELSON AT WORKSHOP Joy 0. Nelson. 400 N. Lafayette St., North Liberty, is among more than 140 high school news. 1 paper editors, reporters and photographers to participate in the 27th annual Indiana University High School Journalism Institute > News Workshop, which began Sunday on the Bl<x>mington campus. The high school journalists will ■ receive two weeks of instruction ' through labs and lectures con. ducted by high school publications advisers and by I. U. jour, nalism faculty. JESS' New Arrivals Mr. and Mrs. Charles R Martin. Chillicothe. 111., are the parents es a son born on July 5. He ha« been named Scott Robert. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vogel, Peoria, 111., and the paternal grandmother is Mrs. Charles Martin. *O6 Jackson Street. Walkerton A son was born on July 3 to Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsley. of Walkerton, in the LaPorte Has. p’.tal. The wife lay on her oeath bed She pleaded: ’’John I want you to promise vou*ll ride in the same car with my mother at the funeral ” “O.K. - he said, -but li wi! ■poll my whole dey.”

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PLJ SCHOOL BOARD NEWS The PLJ Sch'ol Board reorganized for the new fiscal year with an election of offic is on Tuesday, July 3rd. Dcnslow Doll was elected president; Marvin Bouse, vke-pi ■-id. nt;; Jo seph Bctt< iff, s cretary; and Leroy Smith, assi-'ant .- cretary. Mis. Mavis Shank was named as the corp ration treasurer. The board agreed to reta.n the law firm of Stevens, Travis, Wampler and Fortin, of Plymouth, as their legal counsel. The meetings will continue to be the first and third Tuesday of .each month at 7:03 p.m. The bid of the Teegarden Elevator to supply the corporation with coal at $29.95 a ton was accepted by the board. Because no gas or fuel bids were received the board will negotiate with one or two representatives. An additional appropriation request was approved for $25,000 from the cumulative building fund for installation of new windows at Urey Middle School. The board approved a conference for Al Bois?, John Glenn principal, to attend a summer principal's meeting at Indiana University, Bloomington, July 25. 27. The board voted in favor of Plymouth Dairy remaining the milk supplier for the schools. Mrs. Emile Ringenberg was hired as reading coordinator for the middle and elementary schools. COFJfrY BASEBALL TOI RNEY TO BEGIN The pairings for the Marshall County Invitational Baseball tournament which b« gin< on Saturday, July 14. The first game has Bremen playing John Glenn at LaVille with the game to get underway at 2:00 p.m. The winner of this game will play Culver at LaVille on July 17 at 6:00 p.m. Also on the 17 Argos will play Triton at Bi e. men. Oregon-Davis versus New Prairie at Glenn and LaVille will meet Knox at New Prairie with all games beginning at 6:00 pm. On July 21 at Bremen the win. ner of the Culver game will play the winner of the Argos-Triton game at 9:00 am. The -econd game will b' the winner of tha other first round games between O-D and New Prairie and LaVUla and Knox, This game will begin at 11:00 a m. The champion-hip game will ba at 5:00 pm. POLK TUP. TAN HEARING The State Tax Commission has set July 16 at 9:00 a m as the date for a hearing on a $s *22 90 apprapr: C.on L i Polk Township. The meeting will be held at the auditor's office in Plymouth at the court house. The town hip is seeking the appropriation >m its federal revenue sharing money Os the amount. S3OO is for little league uniforms; $3,000 for the township's share for the fire truck; and $5,522.90 to be appl.ed to the 1974 f're protection budget CHAMBER TO MEET /IODKY Mr, Pau! Gilbert and Mr, John Abraham are to be guest speakers of the Walkerton Chamber of Commerce Thursday, July 12 at noon. The meeting will be at Heil's Restaurant in Walker, ton. The public is invite-! All members ar* a kei to bring a guest with them