The Independent-News, Volume 105, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 August 1979 — Page 4

AUGUST 2, 1979 - THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

I EDITORIALS I

OF INTEREST TO YOU With the tearing of another month off the calendar one must realize rather rapidly that the summer vacation time is rolling right on. But one thing more is brought to mind that has an effect on every taxpayer when the calendar change goes from July to August each year. The first couple weeks of August is the time that all governmental units plan and publish their budgets for the coming year. This is the time the allocation of monies is made and what the expenditures, the tax rates and evaluation figures are and is published for everyone to read. This is one thing the taxpayers should take a little time to read. In the next couple of issues plus in the daily papers in each county will be the tax levies and budgets for schools, towns, tow nships, counties, libraries, etc., all have to have their figures made public for the taxpayers to see. Then if there is any remonstrances, the taxpayers have the legal time and right to question, oppose, or anything else they care to do as this is set up in a public hearing of the various agencies for this purpose. In most cases, the hearings come and go with a minimum of attention, but each taxpaver who is interested should at least take the time to inspect the figures at this time. The budgets are to some degree more stable at the present time due to frozen tax figures, but still, the various budgets that one pays taxes on should be of interest to these people at this time. Take a little time and look at these figures as they appear if you are at all interested in how your tax dollars arc being spent. P ^"remember (TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS)

1974 The St. Joseph County Fair is being held August 5-10 at the fairgrounds in South Bend. Who’s Who Among American High School Students honors Michael Daube, 17, graduate of John Glenn High School, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Daube. Route 3. Walkerton, was recently notified that he is to be featured in the eighth annual edition of Who’s Who Among American High School Students, 1973-74, the largest student award publication in the nation for the second consecturive year. At the market pork chops were selling for $1.09 a pound; country style ribs at 89 cents a pound; pork loin roast at $1.49 a pound; franks at 69 cents for a 12 ounce package; smorgas pac at $1.39; American cheese at $1.39 a pound; cole slaw at 55 cents a pound; ice milk at $1.09 a gallon; three 12 ounce cans of lemonade for 89 cents; miracle white at 89 cents for a 49 ounce bottle; 1 per cent milk at 99 cents a gallon; an eight ounce carton of yogurt for 25 cents; three heads of lettuce for $1.00; and 10 pounds of Michigan potatoes for 89 cents. 1969 D. C. Danielson, president of New Castle Products. Inc., announced today the purchase of Ltd. St. Lambert, Quebec and Modernfold (Steel; Ltd., Summerstown, Ontario. These two companies manufacture and sell the Modernfold line of products in Canada. Sales are in excess of 3*/i million dollars. A rather spectacular truck-car accident Tuesday morning resulted in consequent damage to a building also as the accident occured in the middle of Walkerton at the east intersection of U. 5.6 and Indiana 23. The mishap occured as a semi truck hit a car who was turning left on 6 and then swung the semi left of the center and went into Bud’s Package Store. First Lieutenant James J. Jordan, Route 2, Walkerton, has received the Purple Heart for wounds received during combat action in the Republic of Viet Nam. He is an Airborne Ranger assisgned to the «101st Airborn Infantry Division. He is recuperating in a hospital in Japan. 1964 Miss Theresa Schmeltz and Don Swanson have been named Lincoln Township 4 H Queen and King by leaders, Jane Patterson and Tom Welch. They both will appear in the St. Joseph County Fair opening

ceremonies Tuesday night when the county winners will be crowned. The North Liberty Community Building Association met on Monday evening. August 3, with a discussion on the progress of the incoming contributions for the purchase of the Masonic Hall for a community building. This Friday evening will be the final band concert for the summer in Walkerton. The concert will be held on the high school lawn. Dr. Ross Lawrence, DDS, has joined Dr. John Klooster and will be in general practice at 102 Lincolnway. LaPorte. Dr. Lawrence is a native of Walkerton and he graduated from Walkerton High School in 1954 and from Purdue University in 1958 and from the School of Dentistry at Indiana University last June. 1959 Wells Aluminum will hold its Family Picnic this Sunday from 12:00 noon to 3:30 p.m. at the North Liberty Park. Employees of the Lonzo Oil Co., to the number of 80. were guests of the company officials at a chicken barbecue and picnic last Sunday. The affair which honored the plant employees, the truck drivers and service station attendants, was held at the Lonzo Airport in the hanger on the southwest part of town. On Friday morning. Buthyl Reed, of 420 Indiana Street, fell approximately 15 feet from a ladder placed against the side of the B. I. Holser and Co., Grain Elevator, where he is employed. Although there were no broken bones, he suffered painful injuries consisting of a badly sprained right elbow, left wrist and severed knee burns. As he started down the ladder he slipped and fell head first. He feels very fortunate that he was not injured more seriously. He is recovering at home. The North Liberty High School Band won first place in their division in the contests at Friendship Gardens, Michigan City, last Saturday. They were entered in the concert band division and they received a gold and white trophy and the honor of entering the contest at the Chicagoland Music Festival at Soldier’s Field on August 22. The Little League season closed last Saturday and all the boys are anxiously waiting for the evening when the awards will be given. The final league standings find the Cubs as champions. 1944

■ Since 1972. thirty-one tracts of environmentally significant land have been brought into the state s nature preserves system It is designed to protect, for all time, areas that possess unique natural characteristics. In many cases, the nature preserves include unusual geologic features or harbor rare plant or animal species. In others, the natural environment h.as survived unchanged from Indiana s pre-settle-ment era They provide a living link with our natural heritage More than 7.000 acres now have been included in the nature preserves system, which is administered by the state s Department of Natural Resources The system includes unique forests, caves, bogs, prairie areas, lakes and cliffs Protecting environmentally significant lands is becoming more difficult because of intense land use pressure in Indiana Furthermore, it often is difficult for government to acquire these tracts because they may be put up for sale on a schedule that doesn t permit time to get a legislative appropriation to secure them for the public. Historically. Indiana's nature preserves program has received valuable sup-

Farmers in this locality are reaping a good harvest this year according to local grain and peppermint buyers who are receiving the crops as they are harvested from the fields. The quality of wheat is good, most of it grading No. 2; and the yield is running from 20 to 40 bushels per acre. There is a good acreage this year too and the price is good. The market started at $1.50 per bushel, but has dropped off some, the price today, July 27, 1944. is $1.42. The peppermint crop is very good also this year although the acreage is somewhat less than last year and the yield is a little low. The hot dry weather that came in June cut the yield according to Don Orser. of Walkerton, for A. M. Todd and Company. Peppermint oil is selling for $7.00 a pound and this is $1.50 more than was allowed last vear. A straw stack on the Wilder Cox farm north of Walkerton burned Monday afternoon, resulting in the loss of about 300 to 400 bales of straw. Fire caught from the baler which is operated by a gasoline engine and pulled by a tractor. The baler was pulled away from the stack and little damage resulted to it. A new Republican club came into being Tuesday evening when about 15 members of the party met at the Houser Hardware to perfect the organization for Lincoln Township Republicans. The club is open to anyone who wishes to join. For the second time in the production history of the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant, its gates will open to the public for inspection on Sunday, August 20. Grant Steele, who has been a teacher in the Walkerton schools for the past 17 years, has tendered his resignation to accept a position as manager of the Castleman Coal Company, South Bend. 1929 Request for a reduced rate on electric current for domestic heat and power purposes for the inhabitants of Walkerton has been filed with the Public Service Commission of Indiana, by Roy Sheneman, town attorney. Claude E. Houser, of Walkerton, formerly county commissioner and well known expert shot, won laur-

Capitol Commentary Governor Otis R. Bowen

port from citizens' conservation organizations. In a number of instances. they have purchased natural areas and deeded them over to the state. In others, they have moved to protect the unique regions through purchase or option until the state can come up with acquisition funds. Our most recent addition to the system. Crooked Lake Nature Preserve. reflects this pattern of cooperation A local preservation organization and two statewide associations provided private funding that was augmented by a legislative appropriation Purchase was negotiated by the Nature Conservancy, a national organization that has been a leader in preservation efforts The acquisition will protect the north shoreline of one of Indiana s deepest and cleanest lakes. The preserve contains pristine woodland and shoreland areas Dozens of additional tracts of land merit inclusion in the state s nature preserves system. I am confident that we will be able to safeguard many of them for future generations if we continue to get cooperation from conservationists and private citizens.

els aplenty for himself and put Walkerton on the trap-shooting map of Indiana when he won the State Handicap Shoot at Indianapolis last week. Ten thousand baby fish, mostly bass and blue gills, have been planted in Koontz Lake waters in the last few weeks. On August 9th of this year there will be held in a Pennsylvania town, a celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the use of the first practicable railway locomotive in the United States. The “Stourbridge Lion" was the name of this quaint little engine. Work of grading for the new Notre Dame $750,000 football stadium has been started and the new structure is to be started by September Ist. Rural Youth Alumni Reunion September 16 Anyone who has ever been a member of Indiana Rural Youth is invited to attend the second statewide reunion scheduled for Sunday, September 16, in the Farm Bureau building at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. A reunion committee has been at work for several months locating Rural Youth Alumni and making arrangements for the event. All former members, beginning with the 1930’5, are encouraged to attend. Anyone interested, who has not yet sent in a reservation, should send his or her name and address to Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., Alumni Reunion. Rural Youth. 130 East Washington Street, Indianapolis. Indiana 46204. Individuals could also contact their local Rural Youth Club, Cooperative Extension or Farm Bureau office. Reunion Committee chairman Marvin Dinsmore, Lebanon, says the number of former members is difficult to determine exactly, but is many thousand. Between 2,000 and 3,000 former members and their families are expected to attend. Other c< "imittee members are Doris Holt .apple, Columbus. Ohio, vice chairman, and Marilyn

Chasteen. Vincennes, secretarytreasurer. The cafeteria in the Farm Bureau building will be open between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on September 16 for those who want to eat there. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. and the program will begin at 1:30 p.m., featuring former officers and members. Areas depicting various segments of Rural Youth Club history will be set up to help former members in getting reacquainted. Alumni are encouraged to bring photographs and other items of nostalgic interest. Rural Youth is an organization for single young adults, both rural and urban, between the ages of 18-28. Members participate in educational, community service and recreational activities. The program is co-sponsored by Indiana Farm Bureau. Inc., and the Cooperative Extension Service at Purdue University. p KILLS Qm FLEAS! KILLS Wf TICKS! / Gentle LIUMi pump action will not frighten pets. AScricarti t. 19 79 Mo ion a tnof A M Hub'<U Co Richmond 23?J0 Helps Shrink Swelling Os Hemorrhoidal Tissues caused by inflammation Doctors have found a medica tion that in many cases gives Krompt. temporary relief for ours from pain and burning itch in hemorrhoidal tissues.then helps shrink swelling of these tissues caused by inflammation The name Preparation H* No prescription is needed Prepa ration H Ointment and sup positories Use only as directed