The Independent-News, Volume 102, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 March 1977 — Page 3

COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY, MARCH 3 8:0() p.m. — Walkerton Tri Kappas to meet. 8:00 p.m. — Walkerton American Legion Auxiliary to meet. 8:00 p.m. — Walkerton Masons to meet. FRIDAY, MARCH 4 1:30 p.m. — World Day of Prayer program to be held at the Presbyterian Church. Walkerton. Basketball sectional continues at Plymouth. SATURDAY, MARCH 5 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. — story hour at the Walkerton Public Library. 6:30 p.m. — Walkerton American Legion Birthday party to be held at the post home, Indiana Street, with a pot-luck dinner and program to follow. 8:00 p.m. — Walkerton Order of Eastern Star installation. Championship game of the Plymouth sectional. SUNDAY, MARCH 6 Plymouth Women of the Moose chapter ally day in South Bend. MONDAY, MARCH 7 7:00 p.m. — John Glenn gymnastics meet at Oregon-Davis. P-L-J Band Boosters to meet. TUESDAY, MARCH 8 Lions Board to meet. Evening Star Rbekah Lodge to meet. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 7:00 p.m. — North Liberty Town Board to meet at the Town Hall. North Liberty Tri Kappas to meet with this being their eighth anniversary meeting in the home of Mrs. Keith Rininger. THURSDAY, MARCH 10 12:00 noon — Walkerton Cham ber of Commerce to meet at the J & J Restaurant. 6:30 p.m. — John Glenn gymnastics team to host Manchester. 7:30 p.m. — Walkerton Mason Fellowcraft. 8:00 p.m. — W’alkerton Tri Kappa style show at the John Glenn High School auditorium. 8:00 p.m.— K of C. 8:00 p.m. — American Legion to meet in Walkerton. LOCAL GROUPS CAN SCHEDULE ENERGY WORKSHOPS Local residents who would like to learn more about the nation's energy problems can schedule a "Citizens’ Workship’’ on energy and the environment between now and September through Indiana University at South Bend Dr. James M Piowaty, assistant professor of physics at IUSB, is coordinating workshop presentations throughout the Michiana area in cooperation with science faculty members at IUSB and other local colleges. Any group interested in energy conservation may schedule a workshop at no cost: funding is provided by the United States Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA). The workshops are built around the "Energy-Environment Simulator," a specially designed electronic computer that imitates the real-world energy situation. Information on energy resources, energy demands, environmental effects and population growth rates is programmed into the simulator, and the audience works to keep energy supplies in balance with energy

'Tsnjth Sales & Service KARN TV & APPLIANCE WALKERTON - 586-2592 STORE HOURS: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Closed Wednesday You May Call Any Time, Any Day For NEW or USED TV & APPLIANCES

demands without damaging the environment. The workshops also feature a slide presentation with accompanying written information on energy. The presentations can be lengthened or shortened, depending on the time available. "This is not a complicated scientific demonstration.” Dr. Piowaty noted. The workshop program was designed by Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Associated Universities to give the public a better understanding of the problems involved in making energy decisions. "There really is an energy crisis in this country — we will need to realize that. The workshops are designed to show people ways they can take a hand in finding solutions to the problem," Dr. Piowaty said. For more information on scheduling a Citizens’ Workshop, call or write Dr. Piowaty in care of the physics department at IUSB, 1825 Northside Blvd., South Bend. YOU CAN MAIL ALMOST ANYTHING IF WELL PACKED — POSTMASTER What do com seeds, automobile tires, birthday cakes and hone bees have in common? They are just a few of the unusual items that pass through the post office, postmaster Awald said. “I don’t think too many college students are mailing their dirty laundry home as they used to, but just about everything goes via parcel post," he said. "We see typewriters, mops, brooms, plow’ shares, hockey sticks, tailpipes and mufflers, rose bushes, small trees and furniture in the mail,” he said. Postmaster Awald said live chicks regularly go through the maij. B<x)ks are common items, and some people even mail their entire personal libraries. Some mailing have made news recently. One was the egg mailed safely across the country. Os course, it had been carefully cushioned and packaged. Another was the mailing of household goods from New York to Hawaii over the course of a year in individual packages. The total postage was less than $3,000.00. Moving companies estimated from $5,000 to SB,OOO for moving 10,000 pounds to Hawaii. The multiple mailings were accomplished with only the loss of a small socket and damage to a typewriter knob, both "due to our poor packing, not your handling." the mover wrote to the postmaster. No matter what is mailed, it’s important that it be properly packaged. postmaster Awald said. "From time to time, some packages are brought into the post office that are so poorly wrapped they cannot be accepted. This is for the protection of the mailer," he said. "Os course, our window clerks will point out the deficiencies and explain how they can be corrected." To avoid such delays, postmaster Awald offers these suggestions: paperboard, fiberboard, wood, metal or plastic boxes are acceptable. The size of the box must provide enough space to cushion the contents. Fragile items in a package should be wrapped separately to protect them from each other as well as from outside forces. Heavy items should be braced to prevent shifting and damage to the parcel. If the box itself is an adequate shipping container, outer paper

wrappers aren’t needed. But, if wrappers are used, the paper should be at least as strong as that of a large crocery bag. Rather than string or cord, reinforced paper tape is recommended for closing parcels and, for binding, filament tape. The entire gummed surface of the tape should be moistened before applying, otherwise it may come loose. include the address of the person to whom the package is being mailed and your own return address inside the package as well as outside, this helps the post office send it on to the addressee, should the outside label become separated from the package. Always check for proper zip code and postage. “Please consult us if you have any questions or problems before making up your package,” postmaster Awald said. CROP Gifts Fight Hunger In Unique Ways Response to the reality of world hunger through CROP, the Community Hunger Appeal of Church World Service, totaled $5,237,517 in 1976. CROP organizes Hunger Walks, Canvasses and Fasts among a wide variety of community events aimed at educating the American public about world hunger and raising resources to help find solutions. The agency also administers the Church World Clothing Appeal, which last year collected 3,352,186 pounds of clothing, blankets and self-help kits and $588,252 toward the purchase and processing of such gifts. With a growing emphasis throughout the world on self-help, the resources C ROP provides and the ways in which they are utilit/ed have changed radically from the early days of the agency’s history. C ROP resources are now used in several categories, including appropriate technology, food purchasing. seeds and advice to help people grow their own fixxl. and technical consultants who help find better ways of alleviating world hunger and human suffering. Today, commodities from CROP — wheat, split beans, rice. etc. — are used in food-for-work projects in which men and women work on wells, resorvoirs. schools, roads and a host of other community improvements. Beans were the most popular CROP commodity requested by colleague agencies and shipped through Church World Service last year. 3.616,796 pounds of the high-protein commodity were shipped. One specific, unique bean had the distinction of being the smallest C ROP shipment in 1976 — 15 beans each to the Central American countries of Nicaragua and Honduras. The variety is known as the “winged” bean, a relatively unknown vegetable outside of southern Asia, which is now undergoing intensive investigation by the National Academy of Science as a possible source of inexpensive protein in the tropics The winged bean offers several advantages over soybeans, whose use as food for humans is confined to the mature seed or bean. The whole singed bean plant is edible by humans; the green pods, mature seeds, leaves, flowers. shovits and roots all promise to be rich sources of protein. Ihe leftover stalks arc excellent animal fodder. When CROP attempted to secure five pounds of winged bean seed tor experimental use in the two Central American countries, they learned that there was not so much as five pounds in the whole United States. Ihcrrforc 30 precious seeds were gratefully procured from an agronomist working at developing the beans, and they are now being carefully cultivated and evaluated.

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS MARCH 3. 1977

Included in th< appropriate tech nologv were 2 C windmills now being erected in a United Nations supported project in the (ape Verde Islands. They represent ( ROP s continuing interest in the development of adequate water sources. A preliminary study bv a team of U. N. hydrologists in 19”5 indicated that the fertile, but dry, volcanic topsoil of the newly independent islands could he used for food production if water can be brought to the surface. In addition to the windmills. CROP has also furnished, through CWS, funds for training those who will be installing and operating them. The provision of high-quality seeds has become a CROP specialty. One of the most critical problems of many small-plot farmers is a shortage of good seed. This problem is compounded by poor seed, which loses its ability to germinate due to the rigors of climate and poor storage facilities. 48,394 pounds of seed, packed in foil pouches and vacuum cans to assure germination, were shipped by Church World Service in 1976 to agricultural extension programs, school garden projects, and Mother Child Nutrition Centers in 18 countries. The Mother/Child Nutrition Centers are another innovative approach to combating hunger. Haiti is just one country where this idea has caught fire and is working well. There Service Chretien d’Haiti, the agency through which CWS works, and the Haitian Government Bureau of Nutrition are establishing Nutrition Centers, which not only treat and rehabilitate severely malnourished children, but also offer their mothers a chance to learn the fundamentals of good nutrition, hygiene, gardening and many other useful skills. The mothers learn how to prepare well-balanc-ed meals, using locally-available foods such as beans and rice, which they can grow themselves. The gain for the children is then permanent. In the summer of 197 b, CROP supported an evaluation of the nutrition programs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Dr. Linda Haverberg. a nutritional biochemist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now working with the F<mml and Agricultural Organization of the U. N. Winged bean seed, windmills, and a Mil nutrition specialist are a far cry from the cup of milk and loaf of bread CROP provided to the refugee camps of Europe after World War 11. but Church World Service and the counterpart agencies through which it works around the world believe that these and many other creative uses of CROP resources can make a visible and lasting dent in the problem of hun ger.

® GUEST NIGHT At The Orville Easterday American Legion Post 189 INDIANA STREET, WALKERTON Saturday, March 12 Benefit For The Walkerton Area Ambulance Fund Mills Trio Will Provide The Music For Your Dancing Pleasure — 10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. EVERYONE WELCOME

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF PROPOSED ADDITION\I APPROPRIATIONS Notice is hereby given the tax payers of Walkerton, St. Joseph County, Indiana, that the town Board at their regular meeting place at 7:00 P.M. o'clock on the 7th day of March, 1977, will con sider the following additional ap propnations in excess of the budget for the Calendar year. 1977. Cumulatelve Building and Sinking Fund 2 Services Contractual $30,512.69 Total Cumulative Building and Sinking Fund $30,512.69 Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have a right to be heard thereon. The additional appropriations as finally made will be referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, which board, upon receipt, will hold a further hearing within fifteen days at the County Auditor’s office of said county, or at such other place as may be designated. A such hearing taxpayers objecting to any of such additional appropriations may be heard. Interested taxpayers may inquire of the county auditor when and w here such hearing will be held. Thomas E. Frame Clerk-Treasurer 2tm3 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION STATE OF INDIANA. ST JO SEPH COUNTY ss: IN THE ST. JOSEPH PROBATE COURT. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JACK D TIEDE, Deceased ESTATE NO. 29946 Notice is hereby given that Kathryn S. Tiede was on the date hereof, appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of the above named decedent. All persons having claims against said Estate, whether or not now due, must file the same in said Court within five months from the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claim w ill be forever barred. Dated at South Bend, Indiana this 22 day of February. 1977. W. Joseph Doran. Clerk of the above captioned Court De Vere D. Goheen Attorney for Estate 402 National Bank Building South Bend. Indiana 46601 2tmlo NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the Town of North Liberty. Indiana will receive sealed bids until noon on March 17, 1977 for the sale of one 1974, 4 door Plymouth sedan. Model No. P.L. 41. Bids will be received at the Clerk’s Office. Town Hall. The town reserves the right to reject any or all bids 2tmlo