The Independent-News, Volume 106, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 March 1981 — Page 1

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

VOLUME 106; NUMBER 40

John Glenn & Liberty Twp. Open House .John Glenn High School will be holding an "open house" on Wednesday. March 18. The evening will begin with a general meeting in the auditorium at 7:00 p.m. The purpose of the "open house" is to allow interested Liberty Township patrons and also any interested P-L-J patrons to come into the high sch<x>| and view the facilities. The “open house" is intended for next year’s 10th. 11 th and 12th grade students and their parents. Hopefully. this night will serve to better acquaint the new students and parents from Liberty Township with lohn Glenn High School. Mr. John McNeil, principal of John Glenn High School, and Mr Alvin Boise, guidance director .11 John Glenn High School, will talk with the group, discussing similarities. differences, curriculum, scheduling, and answering questions about John Glenn. After this meeting, all students and their parents mav tour the building freel\ and ask questions of any faculty members present. J.G. Spring Concert Set For Thurs., March 19 The John Glenn Band and Choir will present the Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium on Thursday. March 19. The Concert Choir will perform the popular "One Voice” by Barry Manilow and "What I Did For Love" from the show, “Chorus Line”. The Swing Choir will offer "Enough Is Enough”. “On The Radio" and "A Dixxilin’ Song”. The winner of the piano contest last Saturday in Ft. Wayne. Sherry Klinedinst. will play a composition by Chopin. This contest included over 40 of the best high school musicians. John Glenn is really proud of Sherry’s many musical accomplishments. She is a member of the Concert Choir. Swing Choir, piano soloist with the Jazz Band and French Horn soloist in the Marching and Concert Bands. The Falcon Band will bring you a variety of music from "The Music Man” to the movie “Shogun”. Features of the program are the trombone section in a special number and a saxophone solo by Lisa Zartman playing a composition by the Hoosier composer, Al Cobine. WALKERTON FOURTH OF JULY BENEFIT UNDERWAY Dinner for two — that's second prize in the Fourth of July’s com mittee benefit. First place is a side of beef and to keep you warm, an afghan. for third prize. The drawing will be held on the 4th of July, at Place Park. Walkerton. OREGON SENIOR CITIZENS TO MEET MARCH 19 The Oregon Township Senior Citizens will meet on Thursday. March 19. at the Koontz Lake Con servation Club, at 12:30 p.m. C.S.T. All members are asked to bring in a covered dish Romania has the largest oil fields of any country in Eastern Europe.

GIRL SCOUT WEEK MARCH 8-14 Patti Christensen, of Brownie Troop 78, of Walkerton, served as a guest book hostess at the Singing Sands Council Girl Scout Open House, Grape Road, Granger, on February 22. National Girl Scout Week is being observed here march 814.

The week of March 8 through 14 is National Girl Scout Week. Girl Scouting was started March 12. 1912. in Savanah, Georgia, by Juliette Low with 18 girls. Two years earlier Girl Guiding, as the scout movement is known internationally, was started in England and Scotland by Lord and Lady Baden-Powell Lord Baden-Powe 11 was also the founder of Boy Scouts. Today there are about eight million sister scouts in approximately KX) countries around the world. It is the largest international organization for women in the world. In the United States there are three Girl Scout Centers: National Center West, in Ten Sleep. Wyoming; the Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout National Center, in Savannah, Georgia; and the Edith Macy Girl Scout National ( enter, in New York Internationally there are BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Russell Clevenger. Bittersweet Road. Mishawaka, are the pround parents of a son. Brandon Russell, born on Monday, March 2. in St. Joseph Hospital, Mishawaka Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Clevenger, of Walkerton, and Mr. and Mrs Eugene Combs, of Hamlet. Mr. and Mrs. John (Dons) Fuentes. of 906 Van Buren Street. Walk erton, are the parents of a babv girl. Alissa Marie, born on Sunday. March 8. Grandparents are Brad and Ema Fuentes. Decatur. Michi gan. and Wally and Leah Pickavet. Walkerton. The Sahara desert comprises an area as large as Europe: over three and a half million square miles.

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four World Centers for WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts). These centers are Our Chalet, in Adclboden, Switzerland; Olove House. London, England; Our Cabana, in Cuernovacu. Mexico; and Sangam, in Poona. India. The Girl Scouting program is open to all girls between the ages of six and 18. Scouting provides girls the opportunity to learn many outdoor skills, a variety of crafts and the feeling of being part of a group. In our community there are about 50 girls and adults involved in scouting. We have the following tnxips currently active in the Walkerton area: Brownie. 78; Junior. 81; and Cadette. 388. Anyone interested in the scout program will find literature available at the Walkerton Public Library. Have You Joined The WPLJ AMBULANCE SERVICE This Year DO SO TODAY At Clerk-Treasurer’s Office — Walkerton

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1981

John Glenn Winter Sports Banquet March 16 On Monday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m., John Glenn High School will be holding the annual winter sports banquet in the high school cafeteria. Athletes participating in boys basketball, girls basketball, wrestling, gymnastics and cheerleading w ill be honored. As usual, the banquet will begin w ith a potluck meal in the cafeteria. Families are asked to bring a meat or casserole dish and a salad or dessert dish. Families must also provide their own table service. Milk and coffee will be provided. At the conclusion of the meals, everyone will move to the auditorium for the presentation of awards. Everyone is invited to attend. P-L-J School Board News The Polk-Lincoln-Johnson Sch<x>l Board met Tuesday and hosted a public meeting at the Urey Middle School on the Urey renovation planned to start this June. Fiftyfour patrons were in attendance. The architect from P:ACE Associates explained the project and the public responded with questions. Petitions were circulated at the meeting requesting the issuance of bonds ($450,000) for partial payment of the renovation. The remaining cost of the project is being financed by a Common School Fund Loan advancement of S7SO,(MX) at 3-3/8 per cent interest. Superintendent has available petitions in his office for circulation for anyone interested in securing such names. The petitions must be returned to the office by March 18. In other business the board adopted a plan for selection of governing body for the new reorganization due to the annexation of Liberty Township. The plan calls for the appointment of two members from Liberty Township by the Judge of the Circuit Court in the County where the majority of registered votes of the School Corporation reside. The interim members so appointed shall serve until their successors shall take office on July 1 after the next primary election. The next meeting of the sch»x»| board is Tuesday. March 17. at 8:30 p.m. in the administration building. An executive session will be held prior to the regular meeting at 7 :00 p.m. for the purpose of staff evaluations by the building principals. The first space traveler who was neither Russian nor American was a Czech, Vladimir Remek, who left earth and later returned aboard Russia's Soyuz 28 spacecraft on March 2,1978. President Martin Van Buren began public life at 15 when, working as a law clerk, he presented evidence that helped win a jury case in Kinderhook, N.Y. The rank of earl, oldest in the English peerage, was used even before the Norman Conquest, but at that time was not hereditary.

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Bake Sale To Benefit Local Public Library The members of Epsilon Chi chapter of Tri Kappa. Walkerton, will sponsor a bake sale on Saturday, March 14. at the Farmers State Bank, in Walkerton. The sale will start at 9:00 a.m. and will be open until all baked g<x>ds are sold. Proceeds w ill go to the Walkerton Public Library. The librarv is in need of better lighting, a sign and etc. All chapter members are to donate a minimum value of $5.00 worth of baked goods. Items are to be delivered to the bank at 8:30 a.m. Tri Kappas Sponsor Art Appreciation Day March 24th has been designated as "Art Appreciation Day” at the Walkerton Elementary School. Epsilon Chi Chapter of Tri Kappa is the sponsor for the das Pam Edison is the chapter’s art coordinator for the affair. Mrs. Edison stressed the fact that the "Art Appreciation Day" is for the enjoyment of art and not for competition or judging. All students entering projects in the art appreciation day affair will receive participation awards. Mrs Edison announced that the Tn Kappa will donate monies to the Walkerton Elementary Art Department in the name of all students who participate in the affair All exhibits will be on display March 24th at the school. Mrs. Edison also announced that plans are being formulated for an "Art Appreciation Day" to be held at the Urey Middle School sometime in May. LINCOLN TOWNSHIP 4 H CLUB TO MEET MARCH 12 The first general meeting of the Lincoln Township 4-H Club will be on Thursday. March 12. The meeting will be in the Communitv Building at 7:00 p.m Anyone wishing to enroll mav do so at this meeting This will be the last chance to enroll IT IS THE LAW Under Indiana Code <9-4 1-115. every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadwav where there is an adjacent curb shall be stopped or parked with the right hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within twelve (12) inches of the right hand curb Ans vehicle found not in this position after March 16. will be subject to a citation Walkerton Marshall NOTICE Ihe Walkerton Masonic Lodge Master Mason Degree has been postponed until April MAGAZINE SALE UNDERWAY AT NORTH LIBERTY H.S. 1 he Junior Class of North I ibertv High School will be sponsoring a magazine sale during the month of March Anvone wishing to sub scribe or to renew a subscription can contact a Junior Class member Proceeds ot this drive will go towards the Junior Senior Prom