The Independent-News, Volume 112, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 April 1987 — Page 4

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS - APRIL 23, 1987

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[EDITORIALS ]

STILL TIME TO VOTE The first voting period for customers of United Telephone Service in Walkerton and North Liberty has ended, but for anyone who hasn’t voted their first equal access ballot, they still have time to pick their long distance company. The first deadline of April 21 for the return of ballots has passed, thus any customer eligible to select their long distance company will now have one assigned to them. However, a second ballot will be sent around May 11, indicating which company has been assigned to them. Customers may then make a change by simply returning the second ballot and denoting another company if that is their desire. Selecting a long distance company has been confusing for some customers as the pressure of salespeople has added confusion to the decision making for some of these people. No company is going to undersell, and the claims and facts and figures often become confusing. United Telephone has a plan to assist customers in gathering information. They have a worksheet with a number of questions customers may ask the long distance companies to compare services and rates in order to help them with their selection. These worksheets are available upon request from United Telephone. Each of the five companies offering service to Walkerton and North Liberty customers, AT&T, ITT, MCI, US Sprint and Clark Communications, have toll free numbers you can call to collect this information. If you are one who didn’t send your initial ballot in before the April 21 deadline, you still have a chance to make a choice rather than a company being selected for you. Just take the proper action after you receive your second ballot, and the choice will still be yours to make.

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1982 Members of the John Glenn High School Thespian Society are preparing to spoon out large doses of laughter — the best of all medicines — to their winter-weary fans next week. Their production of the slapstick comedy, “Sly Fox"', will be presented at 8:00 p.m. on the evenings of April 7, 9 and 10 in the high school auditorium. There will be a meeting for parents and children eligible to enroll for kindergarten during the 1982-83 school year. This meeting will be held for parents of students enrolling in the Walkerton School district on Apirl 21. The Tyner Alumni Banquet will be held on Saturday, May 8, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the John Glenn High School cafeteria, Walkerton. Area fans won’t want to miss the opportunity of their lifetime when the Arkansas Gems glitter their way into town on Thursday, April 8. Appearing at the North Liberty School gym at 7:30 p.m., the girls will be led by Miss Basketball herself, Elvera “Peps” Neuman. The violent weather of last weekend made one realize and remember that this is the time of year for severe weather. It is still deeply etched in the minds of many that the tornado that created havoc in our immediate area some 17 years ago came on Palm Sunday and consequently carried the name of the "Palm Sunday Tornado”. This is the same time of year even though the date for Palm Sunday and Easter varies from year to year. The important thing to know and to remember is the difference in the warnings issued by the weather service and the law enforcement agencies. Each community has their own tomdao warning and watch signals and of course, all radio and television stations carry watches and warnings as well, advising people of what the conditions are. For Walkerton, a tornado warning will be announced by a three (3) minute blowing of the siren continuously. This will be repeated every hour during the warning and there will be no all clear. For a tornado sighting, the sirens will blow for

one minute, then off for one minute. on for one minute, off for one minute and finally on for one minute. In other words, should you hear three one minute blasts with minute intervals in between, there has been a sighting. This also will be repeated every hour the sighting warning is in effect. 1972 John Glenn High School selected its valedictorian and salutatorian recipients for as follows: Jill Carbiener, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carbiener, Plymouth, will be the valedictorian and Alan Bachtel, son of Mrs. Imogene Lute, is the salutatorian of his class. The Walkerton Alumni Banquet date has been set for May 27 at the John Glenn High School dining commons. More information later. National Library Week is being celebrated all over the nation on April 17-24. Kindergarten pre-enrollment for all children five years old on or before Autust 31, 1972, living in the Polk-Lincoln-Johnson School District will be held at the Walkerton Elementary School on May 5, at 2:00p.m. 1952 Sester’s Restaurant in Walkerton suffered damages to the building and contents estimated at SIO,OOO early Saturday morning when fire broke out in the kitchen and spread through the dining room. The alarm was turned in at around 1:30 a.m. Leßoy’s have leased the Grant Tank building, formerly occupied by Nusbaum’s Furniture Store and will take possession May 1. LeRoy’s sell furniture and related items. A playlette, “The Easter Garden" with a cast of about 75 characters will be presented at the Tyner E.U.B. Church on Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. 1942 Indiana has begun mobilizing an army 50,000 strong "for the relief of General MacArthur". The army, made up of Civilian Defense Workers. American Legionnaires and Legion Auxiliary members, followers of both political parties and volunteers of all kinds, will not fire a shot, but is determined that the report it makes after a brief cam-

paign will be one that should be heard in Tokyo and Berlin. This report will be on totals of Hoosier pledges for investment in U. S. Savings Bonds following MacArthur Week, which is scheduled to begin April 27. Nine new families have joined the West York Colony of the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant workers living in Walkerton. 1937 The new Methodist Episcopal Church in Walkerton, completed last January, will be formally dedicated Sunday morning, April 11. at the 10:30 service. Dr. Elmer Jones, superintendent of the South Bend District of Methodist Churches. will preach the dedicatory sermon. Bishop Edgar Blake, of Detroit, Michigan, who had been scheduled as the speaker for the occasion, was forced to cancel his engagement on account of ill health. The services will begin with the Sunday School at 9:30 o'clock, at which an attendance of 250 is anticipated. The worship and dedicatory service will begin at 10:30, the pastor. Rev. Walter T. Wilson, in charge. There will be special music by the choir, directed by Mrs. Oscar Barney and Rhea Wright will sing a solo. Following the sermon by Rev. James, the formal dedicatory service for pastor and people will be read. Opportunity will be afforded for the baptism of children. At 2:30 o’clock, Rev. William Hargrave, of Monticello, Indiana, former pastor of the Walkerton Church, will speak. There will be special music by the choir and a vocal solo by Mrs. Lawrence Fisher. of South Bend. A joint meeting of the trustees of Lincoln. Polk and Johnson townships. and their advisory boards, was held in the office of Robert Corle in Walkerton Tuesday night for the purpose of purchasing a modern fire truck for use in their townships. The new truck will be made by W. S. Darley & Co., of Chicago, and will be ready for delivery May 15. The truck is all modem, with a 350 gallon booster tank and front mount centrifugal pump capable of delivering 600 gallons of water per minute from suction and 800 from a hydrant with pressures ranging as high as 300 pounds. The truck will be built on a Ford V-8 which has been purchased through N. R. Sheatsley, the local Ford dealer. A new electric line extending five and one-half miles west and north of Walkerton was started by the Town of Walkerton, under the supervision of city electrician, Foster Rearick. Wednesday. During the fire at the home of Dwight Rhodes Saturday, a number of people drove their cars over the fire hose while it was lying in the street. Such practice not only does damage to the hose but is in violation of the state law. Hereafter action will be taken against anyone driving over a fire hose whether it is being used or not. Nineteen seniors will be graduated from the Walkerton High School Thursday evening. May 6. The exercises will be held in the school gymnasium. As a progressive step in food merchandising the retail food dealers of Walkerton, who have been extending credit to their customers, have perfected a good, muchneeded credit organization. The purpose of this group is not only to discourage the deadbeat and crook, but to have on file in each store a complete list of local people who refuse to pay an honest, honorable debt for food that they and their families have consumed. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE “For The Record" I would like to take this opportunity to let the people of Walkerton and the surrounding areas know that the area car and truck dealership mentioned in a past edi-

torial, and rebuttal of same, concerning an equipment truck for the Walkerton Fire Dept, was not the Mahoney dealership. 1 would also like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Leo Mahoney for all the help and support he has given to our department. Larry Dill, chief Walkerton Fire Dept. “Late Or Early’’ As a resident of Walkerton I wonder how our Clerk's office is able to impose a late charge to customers who are at their office before 5:00 p.m. on the 15th to pay their utility bill. It is due on the 15th and the business hours printed on the billing are 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. After having this happen, it makes one wonder how many others have been unjustly charged. It seems that perhaps they should change the printing of the business hours before they change their hours. Was I late or maybe they leave early. Disgusted Customer “A Clarification’’ Because of the many inquiries I have received, I believe it would be helpful for me to make a clarification concerning the presentation at John Glenn High School last Friday evening. The LaVille-North Liberty Community Choir presented the Easter cantata, "He Touched The World With Love", by John W. Peterson. This choir, directed by Devon Yockey, has given an Easter cantata on Good Friday evening for the last seven years. Sponsored by the LaVille-North Liberty Ministerial Association, the choir is made up of singers from the several churches of that area. This year some of the pre-concert advertising which mentioned just "the community choir" apparently led some people to believe that the Walkerton Community Choir would be performing. Ilie Walkerton Community Choir was organized in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial, with a presentation of "1 Love America". Since 1983 the choir has annually given a Christmas concert, a spring concert, and a patriotic concert around the Fourth of July. This choir consists of singers from Walkerton and many other surrounding communities, and it is currently preparing for some "Country Sunday Singin’ ” on May 3, at 7:00 p.m. at the Walkerton United Methodist Church. We are very sorry that there has been so much confusion concerning the two choirs and that many of your were inconvenienced. In the future we will make a special effort to always include the name “Walkerton” in our publicity items. Thank you for understanding. Sharon Klinedinst. Director Walkerton Community Choir

CHURCH NEWS:

St. John’s Lutheran Church Riley & Pine Roads (24955 Riley Road) THURSDAY, APRIL 23 1:00 p.m., TOPS. SATURDAY, APRIL 25 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., LCW District Assembly at St. Paul's, Middlebury. SUNDAY. APRIL 26 9:30 a.m., Sunday Church School. 10:20 a.m., Favorite Hymn Sing. 10:30 a.m.. Service of the Word. Worship and Music Committee meeting after the service. 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.. Young Adult Ministry at the parsonage. TUESDAY, APRIL 28 Newsletter Deadline. 6:30 p.m.. South Bend District Brotherhood meeting. 7:30 p.m., Christian Education meeting at Ruth Finch’s. WEDNESDAY, APIRL 29 7:30 p.m.. Stewardship & Finance Committee meeting.

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 1:00 p.m., TOPS. United Methodist Church 1000 Georgia Street Walkerton, Indiana Rev. Thomas Bowman, Pastor THURSDAY, APRIL 22 7:30 p.m., UMW General Meeting, lesson: "The Dove”. SATURDAY, APRIL 25 10:00 a.m., Gymnastic Classes. SUNDAY, APRIL 26 8:30 a.m., Early Worship. 9:15 a.m., Sunday School, Parent Visitation. 10:30 a.m.. Late Worship, John Glenn Swing Choir to sing; sermon: “Honest To God"; text: Genesis 3:11-13 and Romans 10:10-12. MONDAY, APRIL 27 7:00 p.m., Community Choir practice. TUESDAY. APRIL 28 7:00 p.m., Pantry Committee meeting. Presbyterian Church 512 Georgia Street Walkerton, Indiana Rev. Richard Reynolds, Pastor SUNDAY. APRIL 26 Community Food Pantry Sunday. 9:30 a.m., Sunday School. 10:30 a.m., Worship Service. Theme: "Can Doubt Produce Faith?" MONDAY. APRIL 27 7:00 p.m.. Communit Choir rehearsal at the United Methodist Church. TUESDAY, APRIL 28 10:00 a.m., W.I.C. meets in Fei lowship Hall. 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.. Community Food Pantry at the Presbyterian Church. 6:30 p.m.. Weight Watchers meet in Fellowship Hall. “Whosoever will, may come." ARTS & CRAFT SHOW APRIL 26 The annual Tri Kappa Arts and Crafts Show will be held on Sunday. April 26th from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. at the John Glenn High School Commons. The show is sponsored by Epsilon Chi and Zeta Pi Chapters of Tri Kappa. Lori Jacob and Pam Craft are the co-chairwomen of this year’s show. Other committee members include Myrlynn Bella, Mary Bierly, Judy Karst and Josie Snell. The contest is open to all adults and all students, from pre-kinder-garten through grade 12 in the John Glenn School Corporation. The students of St. Patrick's Elementary School and the United Pentecostal Day School have been invited to participate. GROVE RTOWN-HAMLET-OREGON-DAVIS PLAN ALUMNI BANQUET The Grovertown, Oregon-Davis, Hamlet Alumni Banquet officers met to discuss this year’s plans. The Banquet date was set for Saturday, June 13. at Story’s Place, in Plymouth. The cost of the meal and dance is going to be $12.00. The officers decided to have a band this year. The “Northside Station", with Garry Orr, has been contracted for the evening. You can contact Carol Beem, 8674740. or Leta Hall, 867-3767 for more information. MAKE IT CLICK Wkafi holding yon back? Remember Safety Belli Save Livei