The Independent-News, Volume 111, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 January 1986 — Page 1

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

VOLUME 111; NUMBER 35

Boy Scouts To Observe 76th Anniversary On February 1 through 8, the Boy Scouts of American will celebrate their 76th anniversary. The Walkerton Pack 293 will be displaying some of their work and materials at the Movie Zoo, 614 Roosevelt Road, Walkerton. Please stop by and learn more about Cub Scouts. Any boys and parents interested in joining Pack 293, please contact the Cubmaster, Kevin Jacobs, at 586-2013. List Information On Cancellation Or School Delay Dr. Rodger Smith, superintendent of the John Glenn School Corporation, reminds all parents that we have entered the traditional bad weather season. Bus travel conditions will often be difficult during the months of January, February and March. Often buses cannot travel side roads safely and turn-around stops are especially difficult. Parents should be prepared to make arrangements with their bus driver to meet them at main roads when necessary. Call your child’s school for your bus driver’s telephone number if you do not have it already. During the inclement weather, roads will be checked between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. If school is to be delayed or cancelled, the following radio and TV stations will be contacted between 6:00 and 6:15 a.m. for broadcasts: AM Radio - WTCA, WSBT, WNDU, WKVI. FM Radio — WNZE, SUNNY, U 93 and WKVI. Television — Channel 22 and Channel 16. Parents of those students that drive, please remind your children to be careful going to and from school. Let’s all work together to have a safe school year! Local Elementary Students Going For “Guiness Record” The Walkerton Elementary Choir will be attempting to set a world’s record for holding the longest note. On Friday, February 14, the group of 58 boys and girls from the fourth and fifth grades will gather in the gymnasium of the Walkerton Elementary School at 4:30 p.m. At that time they will begin to sing a note that will last for three hours, hopefully setting a record for the Guiness Book of World Records. If you would like to come and see this unusual happening or hear the sound of the "World’s Longest Note”, you are invited to drop in any time between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m., February 14, at 805 Washington Street, Walkerton. SENIOR FELLOWSHIP GROUP TO MEET MONDAY The Senior Fellowship Group will meet on Monday, February 3. at the Walkerton Community Building. Hostesses will be Gen England and Frieda Myers.

REFLECTIONS WINNERS iRI si WB I Hfi B to vuKAI JUL /> w Top winners in the Walkerton Elementary P.T.A. Reflections Contest were, front row, left to right: Kyle Betz, Christina Bierly, Ryan Schmeltz and Caleb Gilmer. Back row: Keely Jackson, Monique Bussie, Jimmy Vail and Steven Snell.

The P.T.A. sponsored Reflections Contest was held on Thursday, January 16, at the Walkerton Elementary School. Over 80 entries were judged, scored and given first, second and third place ribbons. Three categories were available to students; Visual Arts, Literature and Music. This P.T.A. project is to provide an opportunity for children and youth to use their creative talents by expressing themselves through their own original works. From the three categories nine were chosen as top winners to be sent to Indianapolis and be entered in the State Reflections Project this spring. Entries from all over Indiana will be on display at the State P.T.A. Convention in Indianapolis. The nine top winners from Walkerton Elemetary were: Visual Arts — Christina Bierly, 2nd grade; Kyle Betz, 4th grade; Steven Snell, 4th grade; Literature — Ryan Schmeltz, 2nd grade; Steven Snell, 4th grade; Jimmy Vail, Sth grade; Music — Caleb Gilmer. 2nd grade; Keely Jackson, 4th grade; Monique Bussie, sth grade. Entrants receive first place ribbons were: Visual Arts — Kindergarten, Lexia Drews, Nathaniel Pairitz; Ist grade, Jacob Gilmer, Amanda McCormick; 2nd grade, Allyssa Barnes, Christina Bierly, Caleb Gilmer, David Guseilla, Julie Rans, Steven Savoie; 3rd grade, Kim Phenis; 4th grade, Kyle Betz, Shannon Bottorff, Tiffany Brown, Beth Gaywell. Heather Erdelyi, Chad Hostetler, Keri Minkema, Steven Snell; Sth grade, Christina Crane, Stacy Kaufman. Literature — 2nd grade, Caleb Gilmer, Tisha Jacobson, Ryan Schmeltz; 3rd grade, Jennifer Hostetler; 4th grade, Sadie Pairitz, Amy Parker; sth grade, Jessicca Hines, Kenny Stafford, Jimmy Vail. Music — 2nd grade, Caleb Gilmer; 4th grade, Keely Jackson; Sth grade, Monique Bussie. Those receiving second place ribbons were: Visual Arts — Kingergarten, Megan Jackson, Brian Snell; Ist grade, Suzanne Drews, Kristina Guseilla, Kim Swartz; 2nd grade, Jason Richter, Greg Zellers; 3rd grade, Crystal Bloomfield, Amanda Vaughan; 4th grade, Talia Balmer, Jamie Hensley, Brent Hostrawser, Cam Kiffmeyer, Erica Krol, Lon Marten sen, Dawn Rhodes, Trisha

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Rough; Sth grade, Brian Perry. Literature — 2nd grade, Jacinda Pairitz; 3rd grade, Sara Wade; 4th grade, Shannon Bottorff, Beth Gaywell, Heather Erdelyi, Andrea Keck; sth grade, Stacy Marek. Those receiving third place ribbons were: Visual Arts — Ist grade, Rachell Abair, Tom Hiler, Cheryl Paschen, Jina Robbins, Amber Shaw, Todd Whitteberry, Ryan Williamson; 2nd grade, Scott Hall, Margie Hensley, Lisa Matz, Billy Ottinger, Jimmy Packer, Susan Preston; 3rd grade, Emily Casteel; 4th grade, Jessica Abair, Teresa Abiles, Laura Bostwick, Phil Bukowski, Renee Garab, Tony Gilleand, Byron Guerra, Darcie Nowatzke, Philip Renaud, Jamie Wolff; sth grade, Jessicca Hines, Michelle Pontius. Congratulations to all participants in this year’s contest. You each expressed yourselves creatively with this year's theme: "From Liberty’s View". Good luck to the state finalists from Walkerton Elementary School!

OBITUARIES

HERMAN C. ADKINS Herman C. Adkins, 65, of 404 Van Buren Street, Walkerton, passed away at 4:04 p.m. on Saturday, in Holy Cross Hospital, Plymouth, after an extended illness. He was born on August 5, 1920, in West Virginia, and he lived in Walkerton since 1963, coming from Meadow Bridge, West Virginia. He married Grace I. Vandal! on August 20, 1940, in Gatettsburg, Kentucky, who survives. Surviving along with his wife is a daughter, Sandy Hoover, Walkerton; six sons, William H., Streamwood, Illinois, Franklin D., North Liberty, Dennis W., Berlin Center, Ohio, and Sammy J., Donald N. and Eddie L., all of Walkerton; 12 grandchildren; four great-grand-children; a brother, A. V. Adkins, Jr., Travares, Florida; and a stepbrother, Howard Bennett, Malvern, Ohio. A sister and brother preceded him in death. Services were held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, in the First Baptist Church, Walkerton, of which he was a member, with pastor Rev. D. O. Van Dyne, officiating. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Walkerton. He was retired from Bendix Corp., after 12 years as a store-

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Deb Thompson Now At State Jr. Miss Pageant Deb Thompson Walkerton Area Junior Miss is participating in the Indiana Junior Miss Scholarship Program during this week at Frankfort. Indiana. The program is run by the Jaycees. The girl selected as the 1986 Indiana Junior Miss will compete for the title of America’s Junior Miss, in Mobile, Alabama, in June. Scholarship will be awarded to special category winners, preliminary night winners, four runner-up contestants and Indiana's Junior Miss. Judging will be on physical fitness, poise and appearance, creative and performing arts, scholastic achievement and the judges interview. Walketon Area Junior Miss Pageant chairman for 1985-86 was Gene Knowlton. Glenn Girls Host Number 1 Ranked St. Joe Thursday The John Glenn girls basketball team, heading to the end of their schedule and the sectional tourney, will host the number one ranked team in the state, the St. Joseph Indians, this Thursday evening. This will be the next-to-last game on the regular schedule as the top rated Indians will be here for the game Thursday. The B-team tio-off will start at 6:15 with the varsity game probably around 7:30 p.m. or so. Come and see the Lady Falcons play the top ranked team in the state. On Monday, February 3, the regular season will end with a home game with LaPorte. The sectional tourney is slated to begin on Wednesday, February 5, at LaVille. JOHN GLENN HOMECOMING DANCE FEBRUARY 7 The John Glenn High School basketball homecoming dance will be held on Friday, February 7, from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight, following the game with the Marian Knights. Music will be supplied by the World of Sound and Light. Graduates are welcome but must arrive during the first 30 minutes of the dance and no re-admittance will be allowed if you leave the dance. Parents will be admitted free. Tickets will be sold at the door as follows, $3.00 for singles and $5.00 for couples. The Hoang typewriter, a device for typing in Chinese characters, has 5,700 characters on a keyboard 2 foot wide and 17 inches high. The phrase "minutes of a meeting* does not refer to the time. It stems from the Latin *minutus* meaning "small*, since records of proceedings were generally taken down in miniature, to be transcribed later. keeper. He was a member of Bendix UAW Local No. 9 and the Johnson Township Sportsman's Gub.

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Glenn Girls To Face Plymouth In Sectional Tourney The John Glenn girls basketball team will play the Plymouth Pilgrims in the opening round of the LaVille Sectional Tourney The game will be played at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. February 6. In other action, Argos and New Prairie will meet in a single game on Wednesday night. The second game on Thursday night will pit the host LaVille team against the winner of the Argos-New Praine game. Saturday night the finals will be played at 7:30 p.m. with the winners of the two Thursday night games fighting it out for the 1986 sectional championship and the right to advance to the Elkhart Regional the next week. Falcons Play At Home Friday, At Bremen Saturday The John Glenn Falcons will host the Jimtown Jimmies in a Northern State Conference game this Friday with the B-team action scheduled to begin at 6:15 p.m. and the varsity game to follow. On Saturday night the Falcons will travel to Bremen for a date with the Lions, B-team action set for 6:30 p.m. JOHN GLENN ANNOUCNES POSTPONED EVENTS The John Glenn athletic department has announced the changes of schedule caused by weather postponements. The girls varsity and b-team basketball games with LaVille. postponed Monday, will be played at a date selected later after the girls sectional tourney. The freshman basketball team will play their game with Oregon Davis, postponed Monday, to Mon day, February 10. A game with Bremen that had been postponed from December 2 to February 10, will now be played on Tuesday. February 11. FREE BLOOD PRESSURE CLINIC AT KOONTZ LAKE A free blood pressure clinic will be held on Thursday, February 6. at 12:30 p.m. C.S.T., at the Koontz Lake Nutrition Site. REGISTER TO VOTE Those who are not registered to vote can do so at the Walkerton License Branch. KOONTZ LAKE CONSERVATION CLUB NEWS The Koontz Lake Conservation Gub Saturday evening carry-in dinner on February 1, will have Mrs. Vee Shogren as hostess. Bring your favorite covered dish or dessert and join the group for a delicious meal and an evening of socializing FALCON 500 CLUB DRAWING THIS SATURDAY The Falcon 500 Gub drawing will be held this Saturday, February 1, at 11:00 a.m., at Ted's Barber Shop, in North Liberty. Our Happy Ads only $1.50!