The Independent-News, Volume 107, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 January 1982 — Page 1

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

VOLUME 107; NUMBER 34

Miller 4 Mingus To Be Here On K Saturday, Jan. 30 On Saturday. January 30. at 10:30 am., the two legislators representing the Walkerton area will he in town for a “Town Meeting”. State Senator V. Richard Miller <R Plymouth), and State Rep. Richard W. Mangus (R-Lakcvillc) will be at the J&J Restaurant at 10:30 a m. to meet with any interested persons. This will be an informal session on which they w ill comment on the 1982 Indiana Legislature and also be available for questions concerning this session, the state and anything in general they can help with. The Walkerton Chamber of Commerce will sponsor this meeting and will provide refreshments for the meeting. The meeting will be a prompt one and limited in time as the legislators are scheduled to be in New Carlisle at 12:30 p.m. that same day. If you have any questions at all. or are just interested in what they have to say. plan to attend this meeting on Saturday. January 30. at the J&J Restaurant. 14 JUNIOR GIRLS NONONATEO FOR GIRLS' STATE Delegates and alternates to the \mcrican Legion Auxiliary Hoosier Girls State will be selected at the regular meeting of Orville Easterday Unit 189. February 4. at the Post Home. The faculty of John (ikmi High School has nominated 14 junior girls to participate. Ihe American Legion Auxiliary, ot North Liberty, will also be present to help elect the three delegates and three alternates. North l iberty sponsors one delegate and one alternate and Walkerton, the remaining two delegates and two alternates. Because of the consolidation of the two high schools as John Glenn High School, the two Auxiliary Units will combine their selections. The parents of the candidates are welcome to attend the 7:30 meeting, February 4. at the Post Home, •hi |<mr Chaplains will be honor cd at this meeting with a slide presentation. BIRTHS Mr and Mrs. Duane Barden, of 1941 Constitution Lane. Long Beach. California 90810. announce the birth of a son. Jason Russell, born on January 19 Maternal grandmother is Mrs. Lcta Brown and paternal grandmother is Viola Barden. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Albert. North Liberty, are the parents of a son born on Saturday, January 23. He weighed in at seven pounds and two ounces and has been named Michael Charles. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cripe. Walkerton, and paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Albert, of North Liberty. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil (Tanya) Beery, Walkerton, are the parents of a baby girl bom on Sunday. January 23, at Park view Hospital. Plymouth. She has been named Lindsey Marie.

45 COAL CARS DERAIL IN WALKERTON \ Forty-five coal cars of a Chessie System train derailed around 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, January 24, just west of Walkerton. Each of the cars were carrying 100 tons of coal which was headed for Chicago. The train was traveling at 35-40 miles per hour at the time of the derailment, stacking the train cars like dominos and spilling the fine grade of coal intended for the steel mills. The 105 car train derailed due to ice on the tracks. Os the 45 cars that derailed, it is estimated that 35 of the cars will be scrapped. Heavy equipment of the Vance Corp., Hammond, were brought in later in the afternoon. No one was injured and the loss estimate has not been determined as yet. The tracks were re-opened on Monday for train traffic. — photo by John E. Wilcox

North Liberty Chamber Os Commerce Meets The first meeting of the North Liberty Chamber of Commerce. “Home of Potato Creek State Park”, was held at Mr. Tee’s Restaurant, Tuesday, January 19, with 47 persons in attendance. Charles Bare acted as chatrmperson for the evening. During the business session a vote declared desire to continue the organization with the meeting night to be further discussed. Reading of the articles of the By-Laws was held with ammendments being made. The purpose concluded: the North Liberty Area Chamber of Commerce is organized to advance the general welfare and prosperity of the North Liberty area so that its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper All necessary means of promotion shall be provided and particular attention and emphasis shall be given to the economic, civic, commercial, industrial and educational interests of the area. Names were presented from the floor for the board of directors and will be voted on at the next meeting, of which there will be four serving a one-year term; four serving a two-year term; and four serving a three-year term Dues are now being paid and accepted at the North Liberty Community State Bank The next meeting will be held Tuesday. February 16. at Mr. Tee s. MEETING CANCELLED The Senior Fellowship ( lub will not meet on Monday. February 1, due to the extreme cold weather. They will next meet on Monday. March 1.

WALKERTON, INDIANA 46574 THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1962

Drug Awareness Program Re-Set For February 9 The Parent Teacher Organization of North Liberty Middle School will be sponsoring a Drug Awareness Program for parents, teachers and students on Tuesday evening, February 9. at 7:30 p.m., in the school cafeteria. This program was scheduled to be held on January 12 but due to the bad weather has been re scheduled for Tuesday, February 9. A video tape entitled “There Is Hope" and a panel presentation will make up the program. The panel will.be made up of Dr. Bryce Rohrer. Rev. Robert Gearheart. Rev. Gaylord Saltzgaber and Detective Sergeant Douglas Radican. The video tape will describe the problems facing schools regarding alcohol and drug abuse. In addition. it describes the barriers that prevent many schools from implementing truly effective programs and presents a number of suggestions that have worked well in districts around the country. The North Liberty FLO along with Mr. Brent Kaufman, school principal, and Jerry Fleischer, school guidance counselor, strongly urge all parents who have children in elementary, middle or high school to attend this stimulating and informative program. ST. PATRICK’S WOMEN’S CLUB TO MEET FEB. 3 Mrs. Marv Ann Kuzmic will be the speaker for the St Patrick's Women s Club meeting .et for Wednesday. February 3. at 7:30 p.m LS I. in the school hall Mrs Kuzmic. mother of II children. will speak on Christian Family living Husbands and wives are encouraged to attend.

Falcons Play Twice This Weekend The John Glenn Falcons will have another chance for revenge this weekend as they will meet the Bremen Lions on Saturday night at the Bremen gym. These two teams played the final 59-58 thriller in the Bi-County Tourney last Saturday night and the Falcons will be seeking revenge for that loss. Bremen raised their record to b-6 with the victory. On Friday night however, the Falcons will be at home in a Northern State Conference game against Jimtown. The Jimmies are winless this season. Tip oft for the preliminary game will be 6:30 p.m. Glenn’s varsity is b-3 on the season and the Junior Varsity is 8-1. including titles in both the Culver Holiday Tourney and the Bi Counts meet last Saturday night. GLENN GIRLS PLAY FEBRUARY 4 IN SECTIONAL The John Glenn girls basketbail team will play a 6:30 game on Thursday, February 4. in the La Ville basketball sectional Their opponents will be a strong New Prairie team. The LaVille meet this year is a four-team sectional with the second game featuring the host LaVille team and the Plymouth girls. This will follow 20 minutes after the Glenn-New Prairie game ends. The finals will be held on Saturday. tentative time at 7:30. but a definate time will be listed next week as the pairings were just released on Tuesday. Little classifieds bring big results! Hostesses for the evening will be Mrs. Becky Veroskv. Mrs Diane Wardman and Mrs Suellen Braun

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Glenn Jr. Varsity Wins 81-County The John Glenn B-Team won the 1982 Bi-County Tourney title bydefeating Bremen 51-49 in a close, exciting bailgame Saturday evening. The charges of Gordon Mosson dropped the title to Kent Reed s Bremen team last year, but with a big front line leading the way, the Falcons brought home the title this year. The Falcons moved to a 13-9 first quarter lead, but never were able to pull awav from the Lions to anv sizeable lead despite holding the advantage most of the time. Jeff Fansler and Dan Huffstetter each had two baskets to pace the first period w hile Lance Singleton added three points. Whitesell had five of Bremen's first period points In the second quarter. Bremen outscored Glenn 8-6 in a slow scoring period w ith Spencer Wilcox and Fansler getting two and one basket respectively for the Falcons' only points. It was H-l” at halftime. Mike Aitken took charge of the offense in the second half. In the third stanza he scored 10 points or. four baskets and two free throws and had six point assistance from his teammates as Glenn opened a 35-31 margin again Bremen's Gingrich equaled Aitken's total in this period as it was a two man scoring dual, but the Lions only had single baskets from two other players to make the slight difference. The final quarter was hectic and exciting all the way. Aitken and Gingrich each continued to do their thing with six points each, but Wilcox also added six on three baskets and Singleton four to get all the Falcons points. The final was 51-49, with Glenn holding on for the victory . In the game the statistics were about as even as the game. Glenn holding a slight adv antage shooting 20 of 42 baskets to Bremen's 21 of 38. Glenn hit a fine 11 of 15 from the line while Bremen was only 7 of 14. The rebounding was slightly in Glenn's favor with 2’-24 being pulled dow n as Wilcox led the way with 9. Aitken 8. and Fansler 7. Fansler and Huffstetter had four assists each with Singleton getting three. The win raised the Falcons record for the season to a fine 8-1 mark after their opening loss to ('lay back in November Box Score Glenn fg ft fta p Fansley 3 0 0 2 Wilcox 5 0 0 3 Aitken ’463 Whitmer 0 0 0 1 Huffstetter 2 0 0 0 Singleton 3 5'4 Dill' 0 2 2 0 TOTALS 20 11 15 13 Bremen Adams 1011 DeSantis 5 2 3 4 Gingrich 8 2 6 0 Hickman 0 0 0 2 Whitesell b 3 4 3 Stump 10 0 1 TOTALS 21 7 14 11 Score By Quarter* Bremen 9 17 31 49 Glenn 13 19 35 51 Classified deadline —1 00 Tuesday Memorial Day was first made a legal holiday in New York in 1873.