Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 July 1947 — Page 1

A community newspaper dedicated to promoting the hest interests of Ligonier ind its citizens.

Thursday, July 10, 1947

LOCAL SPORT * NEWS %

FLASH! The Ligonier Independent team got in stride Wednesday night at Lagrange and took the long end of an 8 to 6 League game that went 16 innings. Dick West, who was in rare form, ‘went the route. John Bryan caught. ’

The City Softball League is going merrily on its way with a pile of basehits and runs galore. This all adds up to the delight of the crowds, which have been increasing in attendance with each succeeding week,

Last Thursday night, the Unij;ed Brethren team walloped the Foundry 22 to 4. Battery for the U. B. team, West and Staton, for the Foundry, C. Smith and Millhouse. In the curtain raiser, Orewiler Chevrolets defeated the Mill 6 to 2. MecDonald and Beckner for Orewiler, Christman and MecClure for the Mill.

Monday night, the United Brethren crew tapped out a 13 to 3 victory over Todd’s Super Service. Archer and Staton handled the ÜB’s and Donaldson and Fisel went the route for Todds. In the first game, Wallace Popcorn laced the Foundry 16 to 6 with Kimmell and Kaufman all the way. Traecy and Kieth were the Foundry battery. The schedule for the balance of July is as follows: Thursday, July 10, Wallace vs. Mills, Todd’s vs. Chevrolet. Monday, July 14, U. B. vs. Chevrolet, Foundry vs.” Mills. Thursday, July 17, Preliminary, Wallace vs. Todd’s.

Monday, July 21, U. B. vs. Mills, Chevrolet vs. Wallace.

Thursday, July 24, Todd’s vs. Foundry, Wallace vs. U. B. Monday, July 28, Chevrolet vs. Foundry, Todd’s vs. Mill. =

The Ligonier Independents kept pace with their record for the season by dropping another game Tuesday night to the Elkhart Mutual Finance team by a score of 12 to 4. Williamson and Bryan formed the local battery, and had the visiting team in the hole until the fifth inning when a shower of runs put them behind. Friday night, July 11, the Independents will play Topeka here in a League game. Topeka, which boasts a good record for the season, makes its first appearance of the season in Ligonier. The local nine is a much better aggregation of ball players than their present record would indicate, and with proper public support, should complete their season in an acceptable fashion.

Tuesday, July 15, the Elkhart American Legion team will play here. It is reputedly one of the best teams in Elkhart County.

Racing fans have ample opportunity in Indiana to watch.thel autos whizzing by with meets at Fort Wayne and Winchester going on regularly. If Ligonier has any such fans, the first two calling at The Banner Office will be presented with two passes for the Winchester races good any time this season. The third big car auto racing program of the season is scheduled for Funk’s Winchester Speedway Sunday, July 13. The event is sanctioned by the contest board of the American Automobile Association. The track here holds the A.A. A. recognized world’s records from 1 lap to 30 laps with the single lap record of 21.428 seconds holding the center of racing fans’ attention, This record was established in 1941 by Duke Nalon of Chicago, but with the track now in perfect condition it is expected ‘to fall by the wayside. This expectation is further borne out by ‘corded in the time trials for the ‘July 4 midget racing program was

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FARM BUREAU WILI

ESTABLISH SAFETY LANE IN LIGONIER THURSDAY

Continuing their unrelenting war against automobile accidents in Indiana, the State Farm Bureau will again set up safety lanes in Ligonier for Noble County drivers next Thursday, July 17. Cars going through the safety lane will be checked by various mechanical apparatus for wheel alignment, proper brakes, properly adjusted head lights, and correct candle power, the horn, windshield wiper, rear-view mirror, stop lights, and tail lights will be examined also to check performance. After the examination an “approved” sticker will-be placed on the windshield, if the car is found safe and in good operating order. Otherwise, the car owner will get a card listing the deficiencies, so they can be corrected. When the car is repaired, the owner and the repairman sign the card and mail it to the Farm Bureau Safety Department at Indianapolis where an “approved” sticker will be sent by return mail. This safety service is provided by the Indiana Farm Bureau Safety Department and the local county Farm Bureau, in cooperation with the Indiana State Police, local police, boy scouts and other authorities. The State Police have approved the use of the windshield sticker. Last summer, the Farm Bureau checked 10,464 cars in 40 counties and found 55 percent of the autos unsafe. Noble county was one of 50 Indiana counties whose request for this service was accepted for the current summer. .

County Farm Bureau Officials explain the service is provided to help make highways more safe and to prevent loss of life.

NOBLE COUNTY HAS 12 PENS IN FT. WAYNE LAMB SHOW ~ Six Noble County farmers have ‘entered a pen or two of lambs in the Ft. Wayne Lamb Show on Thursday, July 10th. These Gold *Medal Club members are Tom and Bill Clouse of Albion, Ellis Cunningham, Albion; Joe Schermerhorn, Wawaka; J. O. McClanahan, Albion; Shoor-Moor Farms, Wawaka and James Sipe, Churubusco. | The following 4-H club members ~will have a pen of 3 or 5 lambs in ‘the show: Arthur and Spencer ' McClanaha of Albion, Don and iDorothy Cunningham of Albion, Ann Franks of Wawaka and Maxine Sipe of Churubusco. ~ Following the judging and grading of the lambs, there will \be an auction sale in the after‘.noon where all the lambs will be [sold.

Fern Stage was returned to his home on Lake Wawasee in the Sedgwick ambulance from the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been undergoing treatment for poisoning.

22.34 for a mew world’s record for midgets on a half-mile track. The larger and more powerful cars are capable of clipping a full second off that time.

The opening event of the mid-1 season program will be the time trials starting at 12:00, while the first competitive event is set to get under way at 2:30 (CDT). Another double-barreled program of racing entertainment is scheduled at the Fort Wayne Speedway this week. The mighty midgets will roll Thursday night, starting at 8:30 p-m., and the jittery stock cars will speed at the Speedway next Sunday afternoon, starting at 2:30. It will be the third program for both the midgets and the stocks and track records are expected to fall. Drivers in both the Capitol ing Association, which promotes. the midget car races, and the Mutual Racing Association, which rs the stocks, told Speedway officials they expected ‘much better times now that }thoy’»vo gotten the feel of the new quarter-mile asphalt track.

VETERAN PRINTER JOINS

LIGONIER BANNER STAFF

Fred Mains, Abion, Ind., became foreman of the printing department of the Banner Printing Co. Monday morning, and brings to the firm a weath of experience gained in over twenty-five years of working at the trade.

- Mr. Mains comes from a family of printers, and learned his trade from his father, former publisher of the Defiance, Ohio, CrescentNews and Democrat. Out of seven boys in his family, six are printers, and one brother is pub—i lisher of a newspaper in Mar-[ mouth, South Dakota. Before coming to Albion, where he worked at the Albion Mfg. Co., Mr. Mains followed the printing trade in Bryan, Ohio. < .

He is married and has one married daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Mains expect to take up residence in Ligonier shortly.

RURAL YOUTH CHANGE MEETING SCHEDULE

The Noble County Rural Youth meeting date has been changed from July 15th to Monday night, July 14th. It will be held at the regular place, the Albion Opera House, at 8 p.m. - We have something quite different on the program this time. A recent Paramount Movie, “Cross My Heart” with Betty Hutton and Sonny Tuft, plus a comedy and news reel will be shown to the group following the regular business meeting. The movie will last for an hour and forty minutes, so PLEASE BE ON TIME for the meeting. ‘ fon The District Rural Youth Picnic will be held Sunday, July 13th at the Steuben County 4-H Camp on Crooked Lake at 11:00 a.m.—2 miles north of Angola and 1% miles west. Rural Youther’s, let’s bring back the attendance bell this time. :

FIFTY TWO GIRL SCOUTS

ENROLLED FOR DAY CAMP

Fifty-two Girl Scouts and Brownie Scouts are enrolled in Day Camp, which is being held at Woodlawn Park. There are twenty-nine = Brownies, nineteen Intermediate Scouts and Five Senior Scouts. The Senior Scouts are: Helen Andrews, Sharon Ferguson, Janis Hayes, Lois Joan Mullins and Shirley Rollings. These girls are acting as Program Aides and have been invaluable to the success of the Camp. o '

Parents and friends are invited to attend Camp on Friday afternoon from 2:30 to 4:00.

Willis McGuire suffered an injury to his left cheek while repairing his car last Wednesday when a ball bearing was imbedded in his cheek .

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~ ELK’S BALL CLUB IN 1908. Picturéd above is }:he Elk’s Baseball Club taken during their season of 1908. If seme local person knows the names of these men, and can give us a history of the team, it will be printed in our next issue of The Banner. o :

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Rev. and Mrs. Harry A. P. Homer were honored witha tea at the parsonage Sunday by members and friends of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Josephine Shobe and Mrs. G. R. Grinnell received the callers. Mrs. S. J. Williams poured. '

Owen Moore, son of J. Warren Moore, flew from his home in Grangeville, Idaho Wednesday to be with his father for a week. Leonard Moore, son from Montana,” whom Mr. Moore will make his home with in the future is motoring with his famiy from Kentucky, where they have been visiting relatives. The property and household goods of the Moore family will be sold at public_sale Saturday.

~ Dr. and Mrs. G. O. Smith spent the Fourth of July as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stettler, Lake Wawasee. & Mr. and Mr%. Robert Dwight Shearer, Chicage, are the parents of a son, Robert§§.Dwight. Jr., born Sunday, July 6th. Mrs. Shearer is the former Mary Green.

Rev. Arnold Schaap spent Tuesday in Auburn, Ind., at a ministerial meeting.

Rev. 1. C. Windoff-cr is out of the city this week conducting bible classes. :

° Mr. Clayton Boggs and Miss Morma Sprouls of Churbusco were married last Tuesday evening in the Evangeligal United Brethren Church of Ligoniér with Rev. John W. Rollings reading the single ring ceremony. After a short wedding trip, the young couple will reside in Churubusco.

Mr. and Mrs. William McGuin returned July 3 from a trip thru the west where they visited many former residents of Ligonier, and viewed the show spots of that part of the country. In Sterling, Colorado, they visited Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Duke, in Sheridan, Minn,, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Working and Dr. and Mrs. Arnold, in Sidney, Mont. Mr. and Mrs. Riley Banta and in Minnesota, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sharp. Their motor trip took them to Reno, San Francisco, Yellowstone National Park, Boulder Dam and Death Valley. On June 30, they traveled thru snow fifteen inches deep in the Rockies. They left Ligonier June 16.

Miss Doris Conrad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Conrad, had her tonsils removed at Luckey hospital, Monday.

Eugene Atz is in Chicago attending the Furniture Market this week. :

PICTURES of kindergarden class are now ready. Parents who ordered them see Lucille Schwab.

John Weir, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Fred Weir, has accepted a teaching position for the coming year at Oregon State College, Eugene, Oregon.

Janie and Mary Lou Coulter of Akron, Ohio, arrived Sunday for a visit in the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, Earl Taylor.

Mr. and‘ Mrs. Charles Wisner and son, David, returned from a trip througth northern Michigan Saturday. \ 7

Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Herald are the parents of a boy, Thomas Carlyle, born in Luckey hospital July 8.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Deßolt are the parents of a boy born Tuesday afternoon. ; :

Wednesday morning the following girls underwent - tonsillectomies; - Marilyn Spears, ' Karlin Bobeck, and Mary Lou Castetter.

The offices of Dr. Quentin F. Stultz will be closed from July 20 to August 6 while Dr. Stultz is on vacation.

Richard Downing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rollo Lehman, was injured Monday when his bicycle ran into the side of an auto driven by Ray Mathews at the corner of Cavin and Lincoln Way West. Young Downing was removed to Luckey hospital where he was treated for shock and multiple face lacerations. He was returned home the following day.

Keith Sickafoose arrived home from Amnnapolis Tuesday for a month’s vaeation with his mother, Mrs. Ruth Sickafoose. '

Mrs. Quentin Stultz and family and Mr. and Mrs. George Rulison left this week for a trip to Colorado through the Ozarks. Dr. Stultz will join his family at a later date.

Mr. and Mrs. Weyland Rose entertained with a family party in honor of their daughter, Sally’s, birthday Thursday. Those attending were Mrs. Edith Weirich, Mr. and Mrs. Milo Weirich, Dr. and Mrs. G. O. Smith and Mr. Robert Hite.

Mrs. Ray Mathew and son, Robert Mathew, are leaving Sun'.day for a weeks’ trip througth the south.

Dr. and Mrs. G. O. Smith spent last Sunday at the Buck Ranch, Angola.

NEW ATTORNEY TO OPEN OFFICES IN LIGONIER

John C. Hagen, Moroceco, Indiana will begin the practice of law in Ligonier July 12, and will occupy the offices formerly used by the: firm of Rumbaugh and Barker. Mr. Hagen, a graduate of Indiana University, comes here with a splendid scholastic record, and has been especially recommended to the community by the Dean of the Indiana Law School. He is a veteran of World War II having served in the U.S. Navy, and is unmarried. He is also a baseball player and enthusiast.

P. BECKER INSTALLED BY AMERICAN&LEGION

Paul R. Becker was elected Commander of the Ligonier Post of the American Legion at their last regular meeting, and assumed his duties immediately. He succeeded Frank Wiley. : Other officers elected were:

Ist. Vice Commander James Galloway, 2nd Vice Commander Fred W. Frohm, Adjutant Roy W. Rex, Chaplain Howard F. Nelson, Finance Officer Day J. Baugher, Service Officer T. J. Spurgeon, Historian Rollin J. Baker, Sgts.-at-Arms Ellis Head and Floyd Tincher, Athletic Officer William Leaders, Boys’ State Chairman B.

J. Baughman, Child Welfare Officer B. R. Grinnell, Membership Chairman Frank P. Wiler, Ora-

torical Contest Officer Lester Nelson, Publicity Officer, Calhoun Cartwright, Americanism Officer Paul Tyler, Sons of American, Legion Chairman Owen T. Miller, Expansion and Stabilizationn Officer Edgar Hinshaw.

Past Commander Rex Miller was installing officer. : : Delegates elected to th eState Convention Aug. 2,3, 4, and sth were Robert L. Leaders and Max V. Ullery. Alternates are William McGuin and Bernard J. Baughman.

ESSEX INSTALLS NEW MACHINERY REDECORATES OFFICES

While employes enjoyed their annual vacation, the maintenance and supervisory staff of Essex Wire Corp. were busy last week redecorating the offices and installing mew machinery thru-out the plant, “Increased demands for production on the part of our main office makes it necessary to increase both our"means of production and our employe . staff immediately,” Don Freeman, plant manager said. “We expect to double our output within the next few weeks.” The Essex Wire plans for the future development of the Ligonier plant calls for greater utilization of the floor space in their three story factory building, increased payroll and the addition of a cafeteria to serve employes. Plant tours, which are conducted each Thursday at 2 p.m. are open to the public. :

The second district Farm Bureau meeting will be held at the Methodist Church in Albion, Thursday evening, July 17, with the state Farm Bureau president, Hassil Schenck as the principle speaker,

Mr. Schenck will talk on his recent trip to The Hague, Holland, and it will be a great opportunity for the farmers of Noble County to hear their state Farm Bureau leader.

Guests are expected from all the surrounding _counties, and plans are being made for a large attendance. If you are interested in the welfare of the farmer, don’s miss this meeting.

Mrs. . Betty Huffman entertained the Rebecca Circle Tuesday evening with a picnic supper at the Orewiler cottage, Lake Wawasee. Eleven members attended.

Mrs. Louis Sisterhen returned home Thursday from Ann Arbor, Mich., where she has been staying ‘while her brother Thurlow Burkhart was hospitalized there.

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Vol. No. 81, No. 28

SKWRAITHS 00 STORY SAUGERS FIT INTO REGULAR PATTERN

Reprnted from Toledo Blade

by George Jenks

Those “flying saucers” reported seen scooting through the skies since early June aren’t the first aerial wraiths to awe the eredulous and to bring sneers from the skepties. -

~ Stories about strange and wonderful objects passing through the air have been cropping up at intervals for centuries. Very few of these objects ever have been photographed or brought down, stuffed and installed in museums, but doubters always have been squelched with the “I saw it with my eyes” testimony. This “flying saucer” epidemic fits neatly into the pattern of other such outbreaks except that in this age of rocket bombs and jet propulsion, the incidental details have been streamlined and given glossy touches such as the report from the far west that nine chronium plated discs were observed flying in tight formation. - Marvels Always Marvels

Our ancesters rarely enjoyed such technical touches in the touches in the stories about the sky wanderers of their days but marvels always have been marvels. Probably the world’s greatest authority on eerie phenomena or at least on the eyewitness story about eerie phenomena was the late Charles Fort, an indefatigable collector of the freakish. Mr., Fort’s published works contain numerous documented aeccounts of flying apparitions, some of which sound like crude, experimental models of the shiny skim-

mers reportedly being seen every hour on the hour in the United States today. ® No Pilots Reported

No one yet has reported seeing any pilots in the “flying saucers” but according to Mr. Fort in his book of marvels “Lo,” on May 18, 1909 in the Caerphilly Mountains of Wales a man named Lithbridge saw a strange tube-shaped projectile parked along a highway. In it were two men wearing heavy fur overcoats and conversing in a foreign tongue. As Lithbridge watched, the machine flew away toward Russia (this was before Lenin and Stalin). Naturally the British press raced to confirm the story and sure enough, they found the grass trampled at the place. : Strange Sight At 2 AM.

Another Fort account is two icemen of Crowfordsville, Ind., who for some reason or other were about at 2 a.m., Sept. 5, 1891, and saw a strange monster, 20 feet long and 8 feet wide, moving through the sky propelled by finlike attachments, Mr. Fort also quotes a New York Times account in 1886 of a huge serpent flying over Darlington County, B.C. Students of jet propulsion will be glad to learn that the reptile had no visible means of propulsion, but that a hissing sound was detected by the awestruck observers.

Mr. Fort also found a story in the Bonham, Tex., Enterprise in 1873 about a farmer who reported he had been somewhat taken aback on looking up and seeing an enormous serpent gliding malevolently above him.

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