The Independent-News, Volume 100, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 May 1974 — Page 1

VOLUME 100; NUMBER 43

Announce Alumni Banquet Plans Fer Walkerton The Walkerton High School Alumni Banquet will be held >n Friday. May 31, at the Swan Lake Golf Academy Club House with the classes of 1924 and 1919 to be honored. Tickets for the dinner and dance are $5.00 per person. Deadline for reservations is set for May 24. No local area invitations have been issued this year, so reservations and information may be obtained from the following Wilma Awald. 586-3859 Iva Clark, 586-3747 Carol Morris, 936-6956. RECEIVES DEGREE Phyllis Wilson, daughter of Mrs. Eva A Hall, received her Masters of Arts Degree in Education Administration from the University of Notre Dame on May 19. She previously graduated from North Lib ;ty H.gh School and has attended undergraduate schools in Indiana, Switzerland, Mexico and California. Mrs. Wilson will return to her teaching assignment in Santa Cla. ra, California, m the fall, BAKE SALE The North Liberty Community Building will be having their bake sale on Saturday. May 25, from 9:00 am. until 12:00 noon. Fi'ee coffee will be available for your coffee break Anv organization. club, church or individual wishing to contribute baked good« may bring them to the building May 24 between 7:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. or anytime after 8:00 p.m. on May 25. All proceeds will go for the upkeep, repairs and maintenance of the Community Building. The board wishes sincerely to thank all of those who have con. tiibuted so generously of their time and effort in our past endeavors. We are looking forward to your continued support. tornado BENEFIT TO PE MAY 31 A benefit for tne tornaao victims of Monticello, Indiana, will be held on Friday, May 31 at the John Glenn High School auditorium with the Regeneration Group of 20 voices from Teegarden per. forming from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Spec.al soloist is Ronald L. Wilson, former Navy officer and soloist with the Indiana Singers of Indiana University. Also the Singing Thrushes, a husband and wife team, from Butler, will be present. This is a free will donation and all monies will go to rebuilding Montict^kx Special guests for this performance are being re. imbursed by an anonymous donor. If you are unable to attend per. sonally and have a private donation or would prefer to have your donation tallied before the evening performance, you may send your checks pavable to The Regeneration (Tornado Fundi and mail to Miss Davina R. Miller, P. O. Box. LaPaz, Ind. 46537, who is the treasurer of The Regeneration. KOONTZ LAKE FIRE DEPT. FISH FRY The Koontz Lake Fire Department will sponsor a fish fry on Saturday, May 25, at the fire station with serving from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Donation of >2.00 for adults and >1.50 for children.

WALKERTON, INDLANA, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1974

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st. Peter's Lutheran Church, Jo. liet, Illinois, was the setting of the candlelight ceremony of Miss Helen Marie Krauss and Daniel Eugene Charles on Saturday, May 11. A reception followed m the church hall. Reverend Martin Frenk officiated with Russ Wunderlick as soloist. The rainbow color theme of blue, yellow’ and green prevailed. Miss Dd orah Krauss, sister of the br.de. was maid of honor with Jeannie Carpenter, of Joliet, as bridesmaid and Amy Stanton, of Mishaw’aka, flower girl. The at. tendants carried baskets of dais, ies to match the colors of their gowns w.th white lace gloves and matching wide brim hats. Serving as best man was Lar. ry R. Charles, brother of the groom, with Scott Stanton, cous. in of the groom, as groomsman and Rusty Carpenter, ring bearer. The usher was Albert Krauss, brother of the bride. The bride's gown was made of chantilly lace over white satin and featured a full skirt with long lace sleeves. Mr. and Mrs Albert C Krauss, of 1603 Valley View Place, Joliet, 111., are the parents of the bride. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs Henry R. Charles, cf Walkerton. The bride is a graduate, of Jo. liet East High School and the groom is a Walkerton High School graduate and a South Rend College of Commerce graduate. After a trip to Florida the cou. pie will reside at 109 Towncrest Drive. New Lenax, Illinois. ST. PATRICK WOMEN’S CLUB TO SPONSOR THEATRE TRIP St Patricks Women’s Club of Walkerton will sponsor their an. nual trip to a summer stock theatre on Wednesday, June 19 The group will dine at the Warsaw Wagon Wheel Restaurant at 6:30 p.m. and see the play. “No. No Nanette" at 8:30 pm Tran'-, portation is free and the bus will depart the school hall at 5:00 p.m. Mra. Donald Wrav is in charge of reservations which are >7.50. Tickets may be reserved on a first come, first served basis. Reser, vat ions must be placed before May 27. One nice thing about the horse was that some designer couldn’t make yours obsolete long before it was paid for.

Scholarships | And Awards Presented John Glenn High School held its eighth annual commencement L r 77 seniors Sunday. May 19. Among tihe scholarships and awards presented were the Tn Kappa Marjorie Eder Scholarship to Jeff Johnson and the Elizabeth Orcutt Scholarship to Pat Jordan. Felicia Swinson received the Con. nie Verkier Creative Aits Aw’ard. The Eastern Star Connie Verkier Memorial Scholarship went to Geraldine Carlson; the Walkerton Lions Club Scholarship to Cindy Camr* - ell; the Vera Klinedinst Scholarship to Geraldine Carlson; Th" Walkerton Amer/an Legion and Walkerton Business and Pro. fes irnal Women’® Scholarships to Patricia .Jordan; the Tyner I 0.0 F. Award to Derek Schultz and the Tvner Rebekah Award to Wanda Wringer. Hoosier State Scholarships were awarded to Sandra Bauss, Cindy Campbell. Gerry Carlson. Billie Jo Cole, Mike Duibe, Greg Gil. l'e«, Beckv Johnson, Pat Jordan. J.m Mechling. Derek Schultz .lan. ice Sears. Sue Sheley, Julie Tiede, Sue Westhue®, Wanda Wringer and Randy Zartman. For placing third in the State in education competition. Cindy Campbell was named first alter, nate for a scholarship to Ind.ana University. Billie .To Cole receiv. ed a National Merit Scholarship letter of Commendation and a T^am/ers Union Scholarship. The President’s Awa’d A noil la College, went to Rosalie Gerber. Greg Gillies received the Ben Franklin Honor Scholarship; Bec. ky Johnson, the Earlham Achieve, ment Scholarship; Janice Sears Anderson College Achievement Scholarship. Wanda Wringer. Anderson College Achievement Scholarsh.p; Felicia Swanson. Marion College Achievement Scholarship and Mar«ha Bu^ell. House of James . School of Beauty School Scholarship. notice The Better Homes Extension Chib will meet on Monday Miv it) due to the Memorial holiday on Mar 27 Reservations to the Wagon Wheel on Fr.day. June 14. must be i n by May 20 and pay^ ment to Mrs. Wayne Cover at this time also. i _ i—

Memorial Day Services In Walkeron The Memorial Day Services In Walkerton, sponsored and directed by the Oiv.lle Easterday Post 189 American Legion and the Auxiliary, will te held on Men. day. May 27, with Rev. Richard MnUvstn giving the Mem-rial Day address. Ihe parade will form at the Uuy M.ddle School at 9 30 a m. for the 10:00 a.m. services at Woodlawn Cemetery, according t > Post commander Willaid Bak. er. Bruce Dayhuff To Speak At Lions Meeting The Walkerton Lions Club will meet on Tuesday evening. May 28. at 7:00 p.m. for a dinner meet.ng at Mr. Smorgasbord, in LaPorte. Bruce Dayhuff, a member of the North Carolina State National Champion basketball team will be present to speak and answer questions concerning his experience as a member of the X;|icnal Champion team. Lion members are urged to bring their wives and sons and daughters and guests to this meeting. Members should contact their calling committee chairman to turn in their reservations by Sunday, May 26. The Walkerton Club is presently selling mint candy with the proceeds to go towards Cancer Control. NEW P-L-J PTO TO MEET TONIGHT The newly reorganized P-L-J PTO will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thuisday. May 23, in the John Glenn High School library. A panel comprised of school officials and concerned citizens will discuss key questions regarding the P-U School system. Those attending will have the opport un. ity to ask questions from the floor. John Shields, co-vice-chairman of PTO. will serve as moderator The panel will include superin. tendent of schools, principals, par. ents, teacher, school bus driver, school board member and a recent John Glenn graduate. Sume 60 concerned citizens re. cently attended an organizational meeting and elected the following officers for 1974-75: Mr. and Mrs. Wyman Hochstetler, co-chairper-sons; Mr and Mrs. John Shields, co-vice-chairpersons; Mrs. Gene Hardesty, secretary: and .Mrs. Carl Steinke, treasurer Student and teacher representatives to be announced later, will be added to the executive board. Mrs Steinke, outgoing PTO president, welcomed those attending and introduced Roc Richardson. who explained the need for a concerned citizens’ group Ri hardson stated that several area residents had attended recent Pl J school hoard mettings and hit that the community should be better infornnii about its school system. This handful of cit.zens their formed a stt'crmg committee in order to examine some current school problems and to suggest some concrete objectives for the PTO for the coming year “We care about our school system:” Richardson concluded.

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HORSE SHOW PLANS REVEALED Plans f>i the seventh annual Walktrton Horse Show are underway for Sunday. June 9 at Walk ei tons 1 ice Park The opei class show is sponsored by thr Lincoln Townsh.p 4 H club and is ns onl;. money mixing project, tc f.nance club trips and awards. James Davis, show chairman repots Bill Cottingim, of Leroy Ind.ana, w.ll be judge. There will be 22 clii'-es with a trophy and six place i iblx>ns awarded at halt, er and s.x place iib ons and SC per cent pa\ back in performance A high pomt trophy fm youth and one foi adults will be awarded as d natod by Mahoney-M mr Chevrolet-Old.', anil the Walkerton Nin -ing H -me. Classes a; halter include: Puny halter at 4s and under Pony halter at 19 and over App doesa Buckskin Open stallion Quartoih. i>e gel.ling and mares Yearling and j»en halter Showmaii'hip 13 and under Shi winan.'h.p 14 and over Performance classes include: Pony pleasure 4s .and under Pony pleasure 49 and over English pleasure 13 and under Pleasure 14 - IS Registered quarterhorse pk-as. ure Women’s pleasure Men’s pleasure Horsemanship 13 and under Horsemanship 14 . IS Flag race Key hole Barrels 13 and under Open barrels Open reining Speed and action Rescue race Keg bending Egg race 16 and under Donors include: Walkerton Livestock Sales Hall s Western Store at Bour. bon Martin's Sunoco Station Chuck's Barbershop Dr. B. L Furst Doll’s Texaco Clyde’s Saw Mill Dr. Carl Christensen W aikei ton Skelgas L<gge Blacksmith Dr. G. R. Hershberger Wilcox Supermarket Walkt rti n 1 and Die Modern Ddor P & H Machine Kingsbury Hitch.n Post Kmg'd.de Academy at Koontß Ijake Harvey’s Dime Store Her Place Dad & lead's J acob Drugs Farmers State Bank of Wyatt Dave & Ray’s Supermarkets Al-N-Dor Restaurant Mercer's Beverage House Central Auto Store Jolin Aardema Ridge Company Haffner Supply at Elkhart Charles O Hiler & Sons Gardner Fann Equipment Pickavet Standard Oil Agent De Wayne Pavey Insurance Tomono Corp Koontz Lake Stable M ihoney.Mann Chevrolet-Olds Dairy Queen Welco Truck Stop and Restaur, ant Nusbaum-Elkin Funeral Home Ned Downey Sheeting Service The North Liberty Hitching Post United Telephone Company Clmrch services wdl be conduct, ed at 8:45 am. For further m. formation call Mrs. j amejS Davis secretary at 586.2477 Watch out when in dart OKI