The Independent-News, Volume 102, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1976 — Page 1

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

VOLUME 102; NUMBER 13

Circus Coming To Walkerton September 18 An elephant in Walkerton? Yes, when Okha the elephant will be coming to Walkerton with the Franzen Bros. Circus on Saturday, September 18, sponsored by the Walkerton Lions Club. The Lions Club has announced that the circus will do shows at 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. under the Big Top which will be set up at Place Park, Walkerton. The Franzen Bros. Circus is a one ring circus in its second season. Okha, the Franzen Bros. Circus six-year old elephant, learned her first trick after having flown in from India. You should see her now! Tickets to the circus are now available in Walkerton at Dave & Ray’s Supermarket, Doll's Texaco Service, The Independent-News and Hook Drugs; in North Liberty at Guy Rizek Plumbing and Heating and at Koontz Lake at the Koontz Lake Paint and Hardware, plus all Lions Club members. Advance ticket sales are 51.25 for children (under 14) and adults, $1.75. At the gate tickets will be $1.75 for children and $2.25 for adults. Buy your tickets early and help the Walkerton Lions Gub and save. Advance sales benefit the club. Local Football Teams At Home This Week End Two week end games will involve the Glenn Falcons and the North Liberty Shamrocks again this week, both home games on the respective schedules. On Friday night, at 7:30. the Glenn team will host the North Judson Bluejays. The Jays dropped their opener 8-6 to North Liberty Saturday night while Glenn was a 13-7 overtime winner against Bremen Fridas. Saturday, Jackson Field will be the scene of the Shamrocks battle with River Forest. The Sham rocks will be seeking their second win while River Forest was a 27-12 loser in their opener to Hammond Tech last Friday. Gametime is 7:30. COMMUNITY CLUB TO OPEN YEAR WITH PICNIC A carry-in picnic will signal the opening of the Woman's Community Gub of Walkerton. Friday. September 3. The meeting is sched uled for 12:30 p m. at Stunt? Pine Forest. Members are to bring a dish of their choice and own table service. Guests are welcome. Dues may be paid at this time. The program for the year will be outlined with the new yearbooks to be passed out. Hostesses for the day will be Nellie Pfeiffer, chairman; Mary Peterson, Ehnorc Hostetter, Dorothy Walsh and Elizabeth Michalski SIGN RECOVERED The Lawn of the Month sign, damaged, but recovered, is now in the hands of the Walkerton Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber wishes to thank the IndependentNews and concerned citizens for their help in the recovery. The subject is known and will be prosecuted.

RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS (I J®* * f/ 11* 17 / O z • l I ’F 1 ■ K **' ■ IV a \ V I*o / C ’1 1 1 ' JJ r ? 1 \ X J I .-jyßgx'sy* ?! i 1 \ 1 ■ WiiLir —7: - ...".*

Walkerton Jaycee president, Kenny Chapman, presented the Junior Miss Scholarships to Brenda Mickou, 1975-76 Walkerton Area Junior Miss, and first runner-up, Liz Krick, in the amounts of $450 and SIOO respectively, last week. Miss Mickou is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mickou and a graduate of Oregon-Davis High School. She will be attending Valparaiso University. Miss Krick is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Krick and a graduate of John Glenn High School. She will attend Ball State University. The Walkerton Jaycees are preparing now for this year's pagent to be held in November. This is just one of the many projects the Jaycees perform in Walkerton. Any interested young man between 18 and 35 is eligible for membership and can help to improve himself and the community through the Jaycees. ATTENTION Attention club presidents and secretaries — We feature each week the column called Community Calendar, which states the time and place of club and organizational meetings as well as sports activities and other school functions as reported to "The IndependentNews.” We are asking for your cooperation in this matter to better acquaint your members of the meetings as well as in helping others in planning their activities. If you would send in or call your dates to the paper, phone 586-3139. this would help in this matter. NOTICE The Philathea Class of the United Methodist Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Oscar Barney. 503 Virginia Street. Walkerton, on Thursday. September 9 at 2:00 p.m. NOTICE Ratification of a contract be tween United Telephone Co. of Indiana and IBEW local 1321 has been announced by G. L. White, United president. The agreement covers approximately 761 IBEW members employed by United in Indiana.

WALKERTON, INDIANA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1976

COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 4:30 p.m. — The John Glenn cross country team will host Triton. 8:00 p.m. — The Epsilon Chi chapter of Tri Kappa will meet. 8:00 p.m. — The Walkerton American Legion Auxiliary will meet. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 12:30 p.m. — Walkerton Woman's Community Club carry-in picnic at Stuntz Pine Forest. North Liberty tennis team to travel to Culver Community High School. 7:30 p.m. — John Glenn Falcon football team will host North Judson. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 2:00 p.m. — The Koontz Lake Ski Club Ski Show at the Anderson Hotel Beach. 7:30 p.m. — The North Liberty football team to host River Forest at Jackson Field. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Labor Day. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 8:20 am. — North Liberty Schools orientation. North Liberty cross country team to travel to Argos. North Liberty tennis team to travel to New Prairie. 4:30 p.m. — John Glenn tennis team to host Fairfield. 7:00 p.m. — PU School Board to meet. 7:00 p.m. — North Liberty High School year book distribution in the cafeteria. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 First full day of school for North Liberty students. North Liberty tennis team to travel to Leeper Park to play Gay. 4:30 p.m. — John Glenn tennis team to travel to Triton for matches. John Glenn B Team football team will travel to Tippecanoe Valley for a game 7:30 p.m. — United Methodist Women to meet. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 2:00 p.m. — Philathea Gass to

photo by Michael Pearish North Liberty Office Open To Citizens Effective September 1. 1976, an office will be opened for the North Liberty Town Board president at the Town Hall, Main Street. Hours will normally be from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Monday through Friday. The citizens of North Liberty will be able to discuss their problems in confidence and all attempts will be made to answer all complaints or follow through on same. There are on file at the clerktreasurer's office, official complaint reports that may be obtained on request to be filed by the complainant. For the present time telephones 656-4411 or 656-444"' may be used to contact this office. COPY DEADLINE REMAINS THE SAME NEXT WEEK The Monday Labor Day holiday will not effect our copy deadline as we will still have a press deadline to meet ourselves. We would like to ask everyone to have their news, ads. etc., ready and in as soon as possible with the Monday holiday cutting short the time for submitting items. We must maintain our 1:00 p.m. Tuesday deadline in order to have the paper available at the ususal time for the subscribers. Your cooperation will be appreciated. Don’t want it — why keep it — sell it thru our want ads Schools Are Open — Drive Safely! Smart Shoppers Read "The Independent!” ' meet at Mrs. Oscar Barney's. North Liberty cross country team to host La Ville. North Liberty tennis team to host Jimtown. 4:00 p.m. — John Glenn tennis team to travel to LaVille.

15 CENTS PER COPY

Ski Club To Have Ski Show At Koontz Lake The Koontz. Lake Ski Club will present their Sth annual water ski show on Saturday. September 4 at 2:00 p.m. on the Anderson Hotel grounds. Admission is free. This year's show, which will feature skiers from six-years old and up, will include various jumping acts, barefoot skiing, pyramids, a boat act and down skit . mans of which will be performed for the first time this year. Refreshments will be served. The Koontz Lake Ski Club recently entered a statewide tournament at Dewart Lake and returned home with the second place trophy. Plan now on attending the show. The rain date is September 5. 1977 Budget Approved By P-L-J Board The Board of School Trustees of the Polk-Lincoln-Johnson School Corporation approved the 1977 budget as advertised. The new 1977 budget totals $1,550,975 as compared to $1,223,275 for 1976. Tax rates were set at $4.68 for the general fund; $1.34 for debt servcie; and $ .25 for cumulative building fund; making a total school tax of $6.27. The tax rate for the 1976 budget is $6.32. The School board expects a further reduction in tax rate when the State Tax Commissioners finalizes the rates in November. Lynn Stull, president of the school board, was appointed delegate to the Indiana School Board Convention at French Lick. October 15-17, The board also approved numerous free and reduced-priced lunch applications. The next meeting of the school board will be Tuesday. September 7, at 7:00 p.m. in the administration building. Adult Education Classes At JG The adult education classes at John Glenn High School will be starting on Monday , September 13 There will be a g<xxl selection of classes that can be taken for credit to earn a high school diploma, or that can be taken for self improvement. There are also several noncredit classes that will be offered. All credit classes will start at " 00 p.m. and will meet once a week for fifteen (15) weeks. The credit classes being offered are Advanced Spanish. High School Math. Algebra. Beginning and Advanced Sewing. English. U. S History. Sociology. Music Theory. Accounting. Office Machines. Typing I A 11. Welding, ami Oil Painting (Art). Non-credit classes are recreation and knitting Other non-credit classes will be offered later in the semester. Persons interested in attending classes can pick up registration forms from several locations and return them to John Glenn High School Additional information can be received by calling the High School office, 586-3195.