The Independent-News, Volume 102, Number 52, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 June 1977 — Page 1

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

VOLUME 102; NUMBER 52

Potato Creek Dedication On Monday, June 6 The dedication of Potato Creek State Recreation Area, near North Liberty, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday. June 6. The Potato Creek Park is the newest of the state's recreation department and consists of approximately 3,880 acres. A wide range of outdoor recreation facilities will be available to the public including an approximate 300-acre lake for fishing and swimming, family and horseman camping, hiking and bicycle trails, picnicking and nature study. Not all of these facilities will be completed this season. Governor Otis R. Bowen is expected to be on hand for the dedication ceremony. Sr. Fellowship Group To Meet Monday Night A pot luck dinner will be served promptly at six p.m. on Monday evening June 6. at the Community Building in Walkerton when the Senior Fellowship group will meet for their regular monthly meeting. At this time plans will be discussed in detail for a trip to Door County and Washington Island in the upper peninsula of Wisconsin. This trip is being scheduled for September 16 to 18 instead of August lb to 18 as erroneously reported to the Independent-News last week. A representative of Presley Tours will be present at this meeting to answer questions and will have descriptive brochures telling highlights of the trip in detail. After the dinner and discussion they will show colorful slides of interesting areas and coordinate this trip for us if enough folks are interested in seeing beautiful Door County in the fall. A small deposit will hold your reservation for you until two weeks before departure date. All senior citizens and their friends are invited and welcome. Please bring a covered dish and your own table service. Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. Baseball Awards Presented At John Glenn Len Jaske received the pitching ERA trophy for 1977 from John Glenn High School for his achievement for only allowing 2.13 runs per contest, for a 4-5 record going into Tuesday’s contest against Triton in game two of the Plymouth baseball sectional. Len has also won the year’s batting title by hitting .317 while Jeff Stratford finished the regular season at .314. Stratford gained the rbi title by knocking in 23 runs, eight of them on two grand slam home runs. Ken Bolze was awarded the defensive trophy, recording two errors in 34 chances for the 1977 regular season. Len Jaske. Larry Stull and Dave Groves were chosen as 1977 cap tains. A club sandwich is not when you smack your caddy in the mouth with a nine-iron.

John Brademas To Give Address At North Liberty Commencement ■jh u A Efl I

The Cass of 1977 of North Liberty High School will graduate during ceremonies on Sunday. June 5 at the high school gym with the Honorable John Brademas giving the commencement address. The commencement will begin at 2:00 p.m. when the high school band, under the direction of Richard VanderHagen, plays the traditional processional, “Pomp and Circumstance.’’ The invocation will be given by Rev. George Bennett, followed by an instrumental number by the band. John Brademas, member of the U. S. Congress, Majority Whip of the U. S. House of Representatives, was first elected to Congress in 1958 from Indiana's Third District. In his capacity as Whip, third ranking member of the Majority Leadership. Mr. Brademas serves as assistant Majority floor leader and is the party’s chief vote counter. He is also responsible for informing House Democrats of the program of the speaker and majority leader and at the same time keeping the leadership apprised of the views and attitudes of the members. Congressman Brademas was appointed Whip at the beginning of the 95th Congress by Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., and Majority Leader Jim Wright after serving as Chief Deputy Majority Whip for the past four years. He also serves on the Education and Labor Committee where he is chairman of the subcommittee on Select Education. Brademas was born in Mishawaka in 1927 and is a graduate of South Bend Central High School in 1945. After serving in the Navy he was a Veterans National Scholar at Harvard University where he graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude, in 1949, and was selected to Phi Beta Kappa. From 1950-53 he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Ox-

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ford University. England, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Studies degree in 1954. In 1972 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, his college at Oxford. As executive assistant to Adlai E. Stevenson in 1955-56, he was in charge of research on issues for the first months of the 1956 presidential campaign. Prior to his election to Congress, he was assistant professor of political science at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Following the address by Brademas the North Liberty High School Chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Julie Mund, will perform. The presentation of the Class of ’77 will be done by Keith F. Davis, principal. The awarding of the diplomas will be performed by Marilyn Kalamaros, member of the Board of School Trustees and Charles Johnson, assistant to the principal. George Russell Cole, class president, will present a gift to the school from the class followed by the recessional. The class motto is, “The past is the key to the future." The class chosen colors are green and gold and the flowers are greeen and white carnations. LIBRARY TO BE OPEN TUESDAY MORNINGS Mrs. Joyce Zook, librarian for the North Liberty Elementary School, has announced that the Elementary School Library will be open on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 - 12:00 from June 14 to July 19. BREAKFAST PLANNED The Fellowcraft Club of the Walkerton F & AM Lodge are planning a pancake and sausage breakfast at the Masonic Temple for Saturday, June 11 beginning at 6:00 a.m. This will be a great way to start a day off with breakfast with your friends and neighbors.

Summer Band Program To Begin In June The Summer Band Program at North Liberty will begin on Wednesday, June 15 for North Liberty and Thursday, June 16 for Greene students. The fee of Sb.oo is payable between now and the end of school and checks should be made out to the South Bend School Corporation. The summer schedule is as follows: MONDAY At Greene — 9:00, advanced band; 10:00, intermediate band; 11:00. beginners band; 12:00 jazz band. TUESDAY At North Liberty — 9:00 advanced band; 10:00, intermediate band; 11:00, beginners band; 12:00, jazz band. WEDNESDAY At North Liberty — 9:00, advanced band; 10:00, intermediate band; 11:00, beginners band; 12:00. jazz band. THURSDAY At Greene — 9:00, advanced band; 10:00, intermediate band; 11:00 beginners band; 12:00, jazz band. FRIDAY Combined bands at North Lberty — 9:00, advanced band; 10:00, intermediate band; 11:00, beginners band; 12:00, jazz band. P-L-J Summer Recreation Schedule The Poik-Lincoln-Johnson summer recreation program will begin June 6 and run for eight weeks, closing on July 29. Urey gym will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from l‘:00 until 4:00 p.m. The John Glenn gym will be open every evening Monday through Friday from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. Each Wednesday afternoon a bus will depart from the Urey Middle School for the Plymouth municipal pool. Weather permitting. the bus will leave Urey at 12:30, make a brief stop at the Tyner School at 12:45 and go on to Plymouth. The bus will return via Tyner at 4:15, to Urey at 4:30 p.m. The bus ride will be free, the cost is SI.OO to swim. Any schedule changes will be posted at Urey and John Glenn High School. As a new feature, one week wrestling and football clinics will be available, free of charge, to all students in eighth grade or lower. Each clinic will run from 10:00 a.m. until noon under the direction of John Hostrawser. The wrestling clinic will be July 11 to 15. The football clinic will be July 25 to 29. For further information, contact John Hostrawser at 586-3677. SET BAND AWARDS BANQUET The North Liberty High School band awards banquet is set for Thursday, June 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gym and cafeteria. Refreshments will be served. Each family is to bring a dessert or a salad. Humility is a strange thing, the minute you think you’ve got it you've lost it.

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All-Conference Baseball Team Selected Ihe Northern State Conference baseball team was selected by the coaches who met on Tuesday, May 24. From John Glenn, outfielders Jeff Stratford and Dave Groves were selected and from North Liberty, Mark Krallman. outfielder, was chosen. Other team members include Doug Williamson, pitcher. New Prairie; Rod Bender, Brian Metcalf and Al Johnson, Jimtown; Jim Speicher, catcher, Fairfield, and Gary Kauffman, infielder, also from Fairfield; Will Shepherd and Jeff Kowatch, of LaVille, and pitcher Jay Young of Jimtown round out the squad. Final standings in conference places Jimtown as champions with a 9-1 record with New Prairie a 6-4 record, LaVille also a 6-4 record; John Glenn 4-6. North Liberty 3-7 and Fairfield with a 2-8 mark. Falcon Basketball Camp To Be Held June 6-24 There will be a basketball camp at John Glenn High School for any interested fifth thru eighth grade students in the Polk-Lincoln-John-son School Corporation. Ihe camp will be run from June 6-24, Monday thru Friday. There will be two session each day. Session I — "'th and Bth grades, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; Session 11 — sth and 6th grades, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Instruction will be given in all basic fundamentals of basketball, along with contests, videotaping, and games. The cost is 55.00 per camper which includes a tee shirt and all awards. Participants should bring shoes, socks, supporters, shorts and a towel. Information sheets can be picked up at John Glenn High School and must be returned the first day of the camp. The camp will be directed this year by John McNeil, John Glenn varsity basketball coach. The camp is for those students who were in the fifth thru eighth grades during the 1976-77 school year. Baseball League To Form Here All interested 13-15 year old baseball players are asked to play for Glenn’s league team this summer. Games begin at 1:30 on Tuesdays and Fridays with 12 games scheduled and a tournament on July 11. Those interested are asked to contact either Bob Young, 586- 7 344 or John McNeil, 586-3196 or 5863197 or appear on Tuesday, June 7, prior to the Plymouth game at Glenn. The Schedule JUNE 7 Plymouth H 10 Culver H 14 Triton T 17 Bremen T 20 Northwood (Monday) T 21 Argos H 24 Triton H 28 Bremen H JULY 1 Argos T 5 LaVille (double header) H 8 North Wood H 11 Tournament (Monday)