The Independent-News, Volume 105, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 October 1979 — Page 4

OCTOBER IK. IM7Q THE INDEPENDENT Nl WS

EDITORIALS

A SMART DECISION A big step has been suggested by the committee to "Save Our Schools" and the residents of North liberty and Greene Township following an informative meeting at the North liberty High School on Sundav. It was recommended and then accepted by the group to bring in outside assistance to studs the complete situation and make comments and recommendations concerning the feasibility of several steps possible for the troubled area now a part of the South Bend Community School Corporation. The advantage of outsiders, coming from Ball State and Purdue Universities. is that they, in addition to being experienced in exploring this type of situation, also have no ties which could lead to personal feelings and involvements that could have an effect on the decision to be made. However, this dix’s leave one thing remaining for those involved, that being to accept the results of the study w hen it is completed in some four or five months, regardless of whether or not it is what the people personally want or are fighting in the beginning. The outside help will be an unbiased decision and one of much importance in making the final decision. At present, basically three avenues are open. First, the school district can remain a part of the present corporation; second, they could form their own corporation; or third, they could join with another corporation. It is easy to say. but it will be very involved regardless of what route is taken as help is needed immediately on physical conditions of the plant and still the long-range plan must result in doing what is best for the education of the children, the real purpose of it all. Only time and the acceptance of outside professional help will tell now what decisions will be made, but whatever it is. the long-range plan must be kept in proper prospective and acquiring the professional help is definately a step in the right direction. ^CrbmbmbbS^^ WHEN... jMsl (TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS)

1974 The month of October is your chance to help yourself and your neighbors through a contribution to the United Way campaign. The goal of SI. 125 has been set for Lincoln Township. The annual John Glenn - North Liberty meeting in football was held Friday night and is usually the case in recent years, it was a hard head-knocking game decided by a small margin. 20-14 with the Falcons edging the Shamrocks. The Walkerton Jaycees will sponsor the third annual Junior Miss Pageant on Nos ember 21 and 23 at the John Glenn High School auditorium. Lincoln Township 4 Hers will be honored at the annual 4-H achievement night set for October 22. 1969 Early Thursday. October 2. a blast ripped apart an automobile and smashed several windows due to a bomb placed on the car in front of 100” Harrison Street. Walkerton . No one was injured. Dealers from three states will participate in the Tri Kappa Antique Show set for October 24. 25 and 26 at Urey Middle School. Walkerton. At the market chuck roast was selling for 59 cents a pound; boiling beef at 79 cents a pound; chuck steak at 79 cents a pound; five cans of tomato sauce, cut green beans, cream corn, whole corn, peas or spinach for $1.00; five 14 ounce bottles of catsup for $1.00; five pounds of Scot Lad french fries for $1.00; grapefruit at five pounds for 69 cents and cauliflower at 39 cents a head. 1969 Encouraging reports were given on Monday evening as the North Liberty Community Building Association met in their monthlv meeting. The Walkerton Tri Kappa and Walkerton Lions Club arc again combining their efforts on the Birthday Calendar and the time has come for the soliciting to begin. I he I ri Kappas will solicit the tow n for names and taking orders for the calendars for the next couple of weeks and the Lions arc handling the advertising. At the market pork roast was selling for 19 cents a pound; sliced bacon at three pounds for $1.(X);

pork cutlets at 59 cents a pou.id; bulk sausage at three pounds for $100; double cola six for 29 cents plus deposit; egg noodles, four pound bag for $1.00; two per cent milk at 29 cents for a half gallon; Indiana potatoes. 25 pounds for 69 cents and Tokay grapes at two pounds for 25 cents. 1959 A franchise to serve gas to the people of North Liberty has been requested by Northern Indiana Public Service Company. At a meeting of the North Liberty Town Board, a preliminary resolution was passed setting the exact form of the franchise and selecting November 4 as the date final consideration will be given the franchise in a public hearing. A new corporation is being organized in North Liberty which will be operated under the name of North Liberty Storage. Inc. The company has let the contract to the National Building. Inc., of Lafayette. for the construction of a new building just west of the North Liberty Elevator. The building will be used to store corn until such time as the corporation feels is the time to sell. The corporation is being formed by a group of farmers in the community. The Senior Class of North Liberty High School will present "Panic On A Pullman", a three-act mystery comedy on Thursday and Friday, at 8:00 p.m. A matinee will be given on Thursday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. for the school pupils. Members and friends of the Methodist Church are invited to attend a Christmas Benefit Supper given in the church basement at 6:00 p.m on Saturday evening. The proceeds for the supper will be used to buy Christmas presents for the children at the Indiana Methodist Children’s Home at Lebanon. No charge will be made but donations will be received. Signs were posted Monday by the State Highway Commission closing State Road 4 west of North Liberty. Work has been started on tearing out the bridge across (he Potato ( reek preparatory to the beginning of (he work of rebuilding that pari of (he road between North I iberty and the LaPorte county line. 1944 Mrs Olive Farrar was named bv

the Board of Education (o operate the cafeteria in the new high school building which Supt. (ampbell hopes io have ready bv earlv No v ember. Walkerton High School was honored Friday by a visit from Indianaspoct laureate, known as "Big Rick". He presented to the student body several of his poems including "Turkey Run" and AligatorGrin". His program was enjoyed very much. With fewer hogs to be marketed this fall and winter and with large noncivilian pork purchases the hog price outhxvk is more promising this year and will reach an all time high. Rev. R. N. Hartman was officially installed as pastor of the Walkerton Presbyterian Church in a special ceremony last Sunday evening. 1929 Hunters near Walkerton are cautioned against killing any of the ringneck pheasants which have been hatched and turned loose in this vicinity in the past few years. A fine of $ 1(H) will be made for any violators. Work of spreading the cement on the Kixmtz Lake road, from Ave. F (Roosevelt Road) in Walkerton to the Starke county line, a distance of about 2‘ i miles, was started in Walkerton Tuesday morning. Again w inter is near at hand, and there will be unfortunate ones needing the help of the public. The Associated Charities, a committee representing the Chamber of Commerce and the Woman’s C ommunity Club is m readiness to do its part toward ministering to the relief of those people who are worthy, but through sickness or other misfortunes have been reduced to a condition of want. The good citizens of Walkerton are kindly asked to cooperate with the committee in bringing to its attention worthy cases that may be in need of help. Also, people who are willing to contribute to the relief campaign of the coming winter by donating clothing, shoes, vegetables. groceries or fuel will please call at the store of A. L. Dupler, who will take charge of donations. Culver Blanks Shamrocks 32-0 On Saturday The North Liberty Homecoming for 1979 became a "You Gotta Have Hart" show as the Culver Cavaliers, the latest newcomers to the Northern State Conference in their first year of full conference play in football, won a 32-0 decision over a North Liberty team that was fighting hard for the conference title. The loss, although not completely ending the chances of the Shamrocks in NSC play, puts an uphill future in their bid for the title as the Shamrocks play the other two teams they are in contention with in their last two games. New Prairie this Friday and LaVille on Wednesday of next week. Hart, a senior speedster from Culver, broke some really big plays in pacing the ground game of Culver as he personally gained 271 yards in 26 carries, an average of over 10 yards per try. This performance included touchdown runs of 94, 44 and 63 yards and he also had a longer one, 95 yards, called back on a penalty. Combine with the defense that bent early in the game but stopped the Shamrocks at the Culver 2. who then went on to control the Shamrocks the rest of the way, and you have the wrong ending to a North Liberty Homeconi i ng. Ihe loss was North Liberty’s third in eight games and leaves them 3 1 in conference play. Culver evened their season at 4-4 w ith a 3-2 mark in Northern State Con ference play Nl. Statistic's C 13 First Dow ns 116 Rushing 355 168 Passing 24

29 Passes Attempted 12 Passes Compelled I 4 Had Intercepted I 2 Punts 4 39 Average Yards 35 2 Fumbles 1 I Fumbles lost 0 60 Yards Penalized 52 Ihe game opened with ( ulver receiving the ball and alter failing to sustain anything, punted it awav to the Shamnxks who prompth started what has been their strong offensive weapon all vear. grinding it out on the ground. A drive from their ow n 30 that moved all the way to the ( ulver 2 yard line on 14 plays, proved fruitless as the Cavalier defense stiffened and stopped North Liberty at this point. That provided the turning point right there. It was just a couple of plays later that Hart made his first big run. He broke free on a play that started harmlessly enough on the Culver 6 yard line, but broke it and turned it into a 94 yard scoring scamper. Brad Gast ran the extra points in and after the Shamnxks had dominated the first 13 minutes of the game, Culver had put the points on the board and led 8-0. Froni this point on it was a different ball game. The visitors from southern Marshall County came back with another second quarter score as their defense had gotten a lift stopping the Shamnxks early and Hart’s first scoring run added all the more fuel to the momentum fire. Tony Vantwoud scored the second touchdown, capping a drive with a five yard run. Hart then ran in the two extra points and the Cavaliers had a 16-0 lead which held until halftime. The second half was not a normal North Liberty offensive attack Trailing and suddenly pretty well contained on the ground, the Shamrocks went to the air in an effort to get back in the game and beat the Culver defense. I his is not typical of the grind it out. but did result in.moving the ball fairly well on occasions, but the Shamrocks had the misfortune of having no less than four passes picked off by the Cavalier defense. Hart provided the offense need ed by the visitors as he continued his way to a record-breaking day for the Cavaliers. He scored in the third period on a 44 yard run and after this quarterback Dave Taiclet hit Doug Farmer with a two point conversion pass for a 24-8 lead. In the final stanza. Hart broke another long one, this time covering 63 yards on his scoring dash. Again two points were added on as Pete Peterson ran for the extra points making the score 32-0, w hich it ended. The Scoring CULVER: Robert Hart, 94 yard run; PA L: Brad Gast, run CULVER: Tony Vantwoud, 5 yard run; PAT: Robert Hart, run CULVER: Robert Hart. 44 yard run; PAT: Doug Farmer, pass from Dave Taidet CULVER: Robert Hart. 63 yard run; PAT: Pete Peterson, run Score By Quarters Culver 0 16 8 8 — 32 North Liberty 0 0 0 o—o P-L-J SCHOOL BOARD NEWS The Polk-Lincoln-Johnson School Board met in regular session on Tuesday. The board received bids for a new bus from four companies and after study ing the bids, accepted the bid for the chassis from Mahoney-Mann Chevrolet-Olds for $9,658.31 and the body bid from Lee Company for $9,967.00. They also approved the adult education contracts for the first semester with classes in office education and adult recreation. In other business, Tom Hall was appointed the wrestling coach at Urey Middle School and Karl Huhnke as wrestling coach at John Glenn High School. Ihe superintendent gave a report on attendance for the periixl between September 10 through (he

28th. Ihe three schools averaged 95.4 per cent average daily at tendance in this period. He also reported that 100 students at John Glenn High Schixvl have signed up to participate in a Junior Achievement program. He also stated that a Title IV-B Grant was received in the amount of $6.”36 to be spent on hardware or software materials for curriculum purposes. The board will attend a Region 2 meeting at Knox High School on October 30. They also approved a request for four staff members to attend the Program Planning Leadership Seminar at Pls mouth on November 8 and 9. Ihe next meeting of the Board will be on luesday, November 6. at 7:00 p.m. in the administration building. COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18 9:30 a.m. • 12 (H) mxm — Women logether to meet at the Walkerton ( ommunitv Building. 12:30 p.m. — Oregon Township Senior ( itizens to meet at the Koontz lake Conservation Club. 6:30 p.m. — North liberty girls vollevball team will host OregonDav is. 6:30 p.m. — The John Glenn girls vollevball lean’ will visit ( lav. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 10:00 am. — Walkerton Woman’s Community Club to meet. 7.30 p.m. — John Glenn Falcons fixitball team to host Knox. 7:30 p.m. — North Liberty football team to travel to New Prairie. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 10:00 am. — North Liberty B learn football players will host New Prairie. MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 Giri s volleyball sectional begins. 6:30 p.m. — John Glenn freshman football team to travel to (ulver. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 4:30 p.m. — North Liberty freshman football team to travel to Bremen. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 7:30 p.m. — North Liberty football team to travel to LaVille. 7:30 p.m. — John Glenn football team to host Jimtown. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 7:30 p.m. — St. Patrick Women’s Club annual style show and dessert bridge at the school hail. Walkerton. Naturalist Activities At Potato Creek SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 10:00 A M WHERE’S HIKING I R All * I ? — Walk our first hiking trail to an undeveloped section of the park 2 hours. Meet: Picnic Area ” Parking Lot. 2 30 P.M. HERBAL HOUR - Hear how the pioneers and Indians used these plants to survive. 45 minutes. Meet: Boat Rental. 7:00 P.M. OWL PROWL — Ex perience the woods after dark with all of your senses. I'6 hours. Meet: Boat Rental. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 10:00 A.M. DISCOVERY HIKE — An off trail exploration of the wtxxis to uncover new facts about nature. 45 minutes. Meet: Boat Rental. 2:30 P.M. FABULOUS FALL FOLIAGE — See the fall colors and learn how the trees do it. 45 minutes. Meet: Boat Rental. "Our fears do make us traitors." Shakespeare | DENTURE WEARERS A major advancement CUSHION GRIP DENTURE ADHESIVE one application holds , comfortably up to 4 days