Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 77, Number 17, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 12 November 1953 — Page 1

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THE HOOSIER DAY I By FRANK A. WHITE HOOSIER TOWNS LOOK TO NEW INDUSTRIES A number of important agencies that operate in Indiana are planning a. program to make it clear that factory and job enticement by Hoosier cities and towns is not alone the chore of the Chamber of Commerce secretary, the mayor or some state official. Joining in this program to develop better ways to get new factories in communities and to provide more jobs, are the Indiana University School of Commerce, the state Department of Commerce, the Indiana Economical Council, the State Chamber and the Indiana Commercial Secretaries Association. The Indiana Economic Council has found by survey that Indiana has made marvelous industrial gains since 1940 but they have been spotty. SPOTTY PLACEMENT OF NEW INDUSTRIES The Council found 18 Hoosier counties have more factory jobs than they have workers and they do 80% of the state’s industrial production. Seventy-four counties have more workers than jobs for 20 % of total production and the supply of workers either drive many miles daily, or loaf, or pick up and move, which some do. Seventeen counties lost population in the period between 1940-1950. Many of Indiana’s expanded or new industries came from the state of Michigan. Indiana’s financial setup and tax structure proved inviting. BRIGHT SPOT SEEN IN PRISON PICTURE In the troubled state penal picture there are some bright spotsOne, Arthur Campbell, a Democrat and Ralph Howard, a Republican, are members of the i clemency and parole setup.! Furthermore they are a great ! stablizing force. Campbell, a retired school teacher, was secretary to Gov. Henry F. Schricker and Howard • has spent over 40 years as a penal; institution warden and in prison j work under administration of. both major parties. Both of these men will tell you there is some good, much good in the present prison program, regardless of how had it has been to get the program rolling. REVIEW OF CASES HOLDING PROMISE

Indiana has approximately 2,350 prisoners confined in the State prison and 2,300 in the Pendleton reformatory. Both of these prisons are overcrowded by 700 persons or soCampbell and Howard have been reviewing each of the cases of those in penal institutions. No miscarriage of justice on the part of our courts has been brought to light in the review to date. However, some of the parole violations have been lessoned as far as years are concerned. Good behavior and extenuating circumstances are the basis of these reduced terms. Cost of keeping a prisoner a year in the Indiana Reformatory is $660. It is $lO less in state prison. Abput 10% of the State Prison inmates are in the incurable insane hospital. Very soon they will be transferred to the new state mental hospital near Laporte, thus relieving some congestion. A school has been started at the State Prison as one good thing. The Reformatory has a school but it needs expansion and more equipment. BASKETBALL SEASON IS NOW UNDERWAY L. V. Phillips, commissioner of Indiana high school basketball, told me that some 600 schools that do not play football begin their official basketball season this week. Some games were played on Tuesday night and some will be played on FridayHe estimated some 751 high school teams will be eligible for the play that will lead to the big tourney of 1954. There are no marked changes in rules, the most debated, one and one free throw, will be retained. South Bend Central is thepresent state champ. A total of 1,363,000 Hoosiers paid to attend high school basketball games last year. There is no Hoosier sport commanding as much interest as dpes basketball. In these days of tension, basketball is good for what ails us. All education should contribute to moral and physical strength and freedom. —Mary Baker Eddy Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. —Horace Mann

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IRATE REPLY IN ANSWER TO SCHOOL SIDE ON THE CONSOLIDATION A letter from a Scott Twp. resident: . .SIMPLE FACTS OF CONSOLIDATION TROUBLE. In answer to the article that appeared in Oct. 15th AdvanceNews, I have found that it is almost impossible to not make some statement about it. I can well remember the day in 1947 when I voted on our first school election in the morning and going to work with the expectation that all was well and whatever the taxpayers wished in Scott Twp, that that’s the way the scales would fall. To our amazement before the day was over we had learned that something had happened really happened a few day before the election day. Twp. officials know what those things were. Those happenings were not recorded in books but they have stuck in peoples mindsAMISH LIFELONG RESIDENTS OF TWP. It has been stated in this article that the Amish people were misinformed by those who were opposed to the consolidation.^ Yes, I guess too they were misinformed but not only by those whom the article states. That’s why you will find they did not vote on the 1947 election. These people did not know the true facts of this hurried up affair and the things that were promised then had no foundation of permanent standings. These people were not strangers but lifelong residents of this Twp. They should have been treated as such- " in my mind there is a right and a wrong in this case and there are individuals who are responsible and also know. If we fail to prove in court these things we feel are wrong (the procedure of election in forming the consolidation, not the consolidation itself as all the articles always points out), I haven’t any doubt that sometime these wrongs will be righted by judgement that men will have no jurisdiction over. ETNA GREEN NOT TO BLAME | To the article which charges | that Etna Green first inspired the : Amish against the consolidation it is not true, I know this and I wish to express thsi very emphatically because I personally ; have been with this for six years. \ I have been with the delegation i from this township to that towni ship’s officials in asking,—please : understand this, —-asking for permission to be permitted into that school by self transfer. Also this article charges a stirup by the minority group which means us. I like to state that the article sounds at this point as if the l Amish people here didn’t consist of any opinion at all, either minority or of the majority, I beg | your pardon. Where do they come iin at? Don’t they have a right Ito have any voice at all? Ask j them? They soon can tell you who stirred them to opposition. (Continued on page 2)

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The prize winning poster for November dramatizes the caution to be used in keeping from between parked cars. The November poster, one of the top award winners in a national contest, will be distributed to some 44,000 primary school classrooms throughout the Illinois and Indiana territory of the Chicago Motor Club. The poster will be distributed along with lesson sheets explaining the safety theme of the month and prepared especially for each age group.

Official Statemen of Schools to Scott Twp. Parents In answer to inquiries that have come to school officials following clarification of the legal status of the Nappanee Community Schools by the recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court, the following statement is released: Any children residing in the Nappanee School district are entitled to all the educational services provided by the schools in the same manner and consideration as those now in attendance.. There is classroom space for all children residing in the corporation who are not now in attendance at the school. Transportation services will be adjusted just as soon as the number and residence of any new pupils are determined. Additional routes wiU be added to maintain adequate service at all times. The children are welcome at the Nappanee School. They will be treated with all kindliness extended any other child, the official statement concludes.

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REV. FERP JOHNSON Rev. Fred Johnson,- Indianapolis is the evangelist at revival services at Pilgrim Holiness church, 751 W. Market, every evening at 7:30 until Nov 22. Max and Barbara Hamilton are singers. Jaycees Are Hosts To LaGrange Then Visit Kend’ville Nappanee Junior Chamber of Commerce met at the B&B for dinner Monday and were entertained by LaGrange Jaycees with the traveling gavel. Jake Jordan of Sturgis, Mich, police force, who has explored and traveled thruout the western hemisphere showed films and told of his latest trip by motorcycle into Central and South America along the Pan-American highway. Wednesday the Nappanee Jaycees took the traveling gavel to Kendallville and gave a program. John Metzler, Jr„ spoke on the CROP program The club wrote a combined letter to Dick Schultz who is still in Elkhart hospital recovering from polio-

NAPPANEE, INDIANA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1953

DECREE JARS SCHOOL CONTROL

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Oxygen mask and equipment purchased by the Lions is presented to the city. Shown left to right are Lion President Johnny Phillips, Police Chief Herman Fogel, Fire Chief Devon Richmond, Mayor Mintle Hostetter and Tail Twister Shorty McCormick, who was chairman of the oxygen mask committee. Pictures were taken by Lion Lambert.

Kiwanis Program for Education Week at School Kiwanis heard high school chorus Monday in three charming and beautifully rendered songs under Director Slinkard and heard two girls and a boy do a symj posium on school defense. | Lois Sechrist read “Frequent I Criticism”, George Fox “Answers !to Such Criticism”, and Shirley Losee, “Problems to Be Solved.” The three are in the speech class, Supt. William Kendall announced. They have promised their speeches to Advance-News and we will print each, i The school board was at the speakers’ table with LaMar Mutschler, president elect, High School Principal James Weddle, ! Grade School principal K. P. Wright and Supt. Kendall In the chair. Supt. Kendall announced the victory of the school in the Supreme court decision upholding the consolidation with Scott and deplored low teacher 1 pay with teachers getting on average just under $4,00 a school year while gas station men get $5,000 a year. Lunch was served from the school lunch kitchen in the gym while 400 student meals were being served in 35 minutes under S Mrs Slater at 30c, he informed i Kiwanis. Girls of the gym period ! served the guests. Supt. Kendall spoke of a school | campaign about to be opened which would require . effort by : everyone to help- presumably in the erecting of a building. Rev- S. W. Longenecker spoke of the movie, “Martin Luther”, about to be shown in Elkhart.

Am. War Mothers Install Officers and New Chairmen : Nappanee Chapter, American War Mothers, met at the Legion > home, Nov. 3 with 37 present, i Outgoing president, Edna Slai baugh welcomed eight guests from Plymouth and 13 from Bremen chapters. Elmeda Michael, Ruth Freet, Gertrude Young, Nellie Pfieffer and Gail Stuckman were insalled new members. Mrs Mae Goodrich, Plymouth chapter president installed new officers: Mrs. Charles Conrad, president; Mrs- Hugh Hockert and Mrs. Floyd Metzler, first and second vice presidents; Mrs. Clifford , McCuen, recording secretary; ! Mrs. George C. Kellogg, corresi ponding secretary; Mrs. William i Freet, treasurer; Mrs. Sophie Mc- ! Cuen, chaplain; Mrs. S. B. Bourne historian; Mrs. Edward Hepler, sgt-at-arms; Mrs. Milo Mellinger and Mrs. Lawrence Stuckman, color-bearers. Committee chairmen named were: Mrs- Metzler, Americanism and legislative; Mrs. Henry Hamsher, hospitalization; Mrs. J. O. Gardner, Gold and Silver Star; Mrs. Clarence Yoder, memory tree and memorials; Mrs. Freet, emblems; Mrs. Kenton Mellinger, carnation; Mrs- Harvey Sechrist, ways and means; Mrs. Milo Mellinger, liasion. Outgoing officers and chairmen and delegates to the state convention gave reports. Joy Bourne gave a reading and Dorothy Deardorf, Gertrude Hamsher, Ida Walters and Julia Corwin served ice cream, cake and coffee in honor of birthdays of the mothers during the last quarter. Mrs. Ira Dunham Has Last Rose of Summer The last rose of summer is still abloom in the refrigerator of Mrs. Ira Dunham. Though the frosts have killed all outdoor roses, Mrs. Dunham had two roses in a jar and two in rose bowls, four roses in her refrigerator, last flowers from her two gardens one at the lake and one in Nappanee.

Nap. Scout Troop Begun In ’29 Is Largest In Area Methodist Episcopal church of Nappanee made application for a charter for a Boy Scout troop June 7, 1929, according to information we have from J. B. McGill, Pioneer Trails Council executive, Elkhart. Rev. C. A. McPheeters became the first scoutmaster, assisted by Leslie Field. Carlyle A. Mutschler was chairman of the troop committee with A. L. Miller and W. B. Rensberger. Charter members of the troop were Kenneth Crow, John Deßow, David Hockert, George Knobel, Earl Linn, Bob McAndrew, Dean and Donald Price, twins, Chester Rasmussen. Glen Field, Earl Graham, Richard Havens, Karl Knobel and Robert Miller. All were boys of 12 to 17. J. A- Abell, Supt. of schools, became quite active in scouting, Mr McGill adds. C. M. “Jack” Arnold scout executive of the (Continued on page 12)

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Shown accepting- the Domestic console sewing i. achine which was first prize in the Wise Furniture “Count the Dots” contest, are Coach and Mrs. Don J. Bunge. Bil! Wise (left) presented the prize with judges Mayor M. E. Hostetter, Russell Hand and Dave Widmoyer. Bunge, who is basketball coach at Bremen, gives full credit to his wife for winning. She entered and insisted that he count the dots and enter the contest too. His count won. Mrs. Bunge has two small children cud says the sewing machine will be a big help to her.

Hepton Union To Have Good News Crusade For Week “God’s answer to Mr. Kinsey,” “The Possibility of Peace” and ‘The Fifth Freedom” are among the messages to be presented during the Good News Crusade at Hepton Union church, 3 miles south and a mile west of Nappanee, Nov. 15-22 at 7:30 each evening. Roy Hawkins is tenor soloist and song leader and Rev. William Male, pastor, speaks. Joe Dombeck, chalk artist and accordionist, will give the chalk drawing each evening to the person bringing the most visitors. Rev. Hale asks Christians to pray for God’s guidance and blessing in these meetings and urges all to attend. UNDER DOCTOR’S CARE Miss Blanche Brown is confined to her home with a broken leg. Mrs. Cora Kring found a key case and one key in the down town district Wednesday. Phone 5491.

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MARY JANE WARD Mary Jane Ward, author of “The Snake Pit”, speaks on mental health, in the Athenian room at Hotel Elkhart, , Wednesday at 8 p. m. She is a native of Indiana, born in Fairmount and lived in Peru..

33 Shopping Hays HARRY HOODS SUFFER 2,000 FIRE DAMAGE TO HOUSE AND GARAGE Fire caused an estimated $2,000 damage to the Harry Hood home, on S Nappanee St. Monday at ] :30. The cause of the fire is not yet determined. It burned both outside and inside the house and garage. Virtue is the denial of self and response to what is right and proper. —Confucius

SCOTT TWP. TO MEET MONDAY WITH LAWYER

Bulldogs Against Strong Team In Wakarnsa Game Nappanee Bulldogs play their first basketball game of the season Friday, coming up against Wakarusa Indians who have already played three games, winning two easily against Bremen and New Paris. In spite of losing Leland Weldy, one of the State’s high scorers, this year, Wakarusa has a strong team with a large number or returning lettermen. Although the Bulldogs are untested so far, they too have a well balanced team with many lettermen and the game shapes up as an exciting one. It is Wakarusa’s home game and tickets will be on sale at the door of Nappanee Community building. “B” team game time is 7 p. m. and the varsity game is at 8 p. mSwcisberg Now W jth Ziiiak Ford Sonny Sweisberg is now with Ziiiak Ford Sales, Art Ziiiak announces. Sonny has been selling new cars for six years and has managed sales departments of both new and used cars. THREE CONVICTED | Associated Press reports that i Manas Kuhns, Milford, Freeman :L. Wingard, Shipshewana and 1 Charles Wenger near Goshen, are under sentence pending investigation of their challenge of draft board classification because of religious belief by Federal court in Indianapolis- They are of Amish oirentage in the Mennonite faiththe report adds.

Nappanee Legion Auxiliary Flaps Holiday Parties Nappanee American Legion Auxiliary met Monday and heard a report of the State Presidents and Secretaries conference in Indianapolis by Elnore Field and Sarah Minard. They told of hearing an interesting talk by the national president of the auxiliary. Isabelle Deardorff, junior activities chairman, reported the juniors met Oct. 14 to plan the year’s projectsThe next distcrict meeting is at Union Mills Nov. 18. A carry-in supper at 6:30 prereeds the December meeting and Christmas party. Each member is asked to bring a 50c article for the veterans gift box. Armistice Day family dinner is Saturday with carry-in supper at 6p. m. Meat, rolls- butter and coffee will be furnished and the legion will entertain after dinner. Virtue lies not in sackcloth. True holiness consists, not in quitting satin, but in quitting vice. JSadi

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WILL WEIGH EFFECT OF SUPREME COURT DEFEAT Control of the school board may pass from the present working majority under President Carlyle Mutschler to Trustee Dr. Douglas Price who may become the balance of power, Floyd Chupp, township advisory board member, stated in an interview to this paper with Trustee Warren Havyley. Trustee, advisory board and township people meet Monday night in Warsaw with Attorney Seth E. Rowdabaugh to report on the case and hear the attorney state the legal situation after the Supreme court in practically unanimus opinion upheld the school consolidation. . Trustee Hawley states he does not wish to tell townspeople where and when to send their children to school Many, he added, like his son have formed friendships and associations in Etna Green school that they will be most reluctant to break and will therefore, continue school in Etna Green. His son, an Etna Green basket ball player wishes to finish high school there with his friends and Trustee Hawley will permit him to and pay tuition. THE DIVISION Many Scott Twp. children already go to Nappanee school. The division of the people at the second consolidation election, according to recitation by the court on briefs before it, is 185 then for consolidation and 208 against it —allowing for the 120 who were refused to vote at the second election This statement in the plaintiff petition is admitted to court under the demurrer won by school attorneys. The case was won by the school on a special act of the legislature passed to validate school consolidations that may have been defective. The Supreme court in the controlling opinion—issued without dissent and unanimous except for Justice Gilkerson, who is sick—ruled not on defects in tfie election but the power of the legislature to determine without election what the school districts will be. If the election is ‘no good”, the justice said in effect, the act of the legislature is good. They held that the act of the legislature was not “Special” legislation but passed for the public good, not for the special few advocates of the consolidation out of all the people of the state. It was passed by the powers placed in the legislature by the people for the good of all the people in the state, therefore, constitutional. CITE U. S. SUPREME COURT The Supreme court also cited decisions of the United States Supreme court, There are no constitutional re(Continued on page 12)

GI Coffee And Donuts At Gun Exhibit By Guard Mayor Hostetler has put his O. K. on plans by Elkhart National Guard unit to set up an information center and equipment display in the business district Saturday, Nov. 21. Members of Company H will place a machine gun, recoilless rifle and 81mm mortar in front of the State Bank for public inspection. The company’s cooks hope to set up a field range and give passersby a taste of real G. I. coffee and doughnuts. Also on the* scene will be a number of Guardsmen in uni--1 form to answer any questions , people may have about the unit !or equipment on display. This 1 will follow a brief meeting with Nappanee high school students Nov. 16. The company hopes to enlist 50 men from the county in the next 6 months. The Guard is a component of j the U. S A¥my and constitutes a j large ready reserve force for em- ! ergency use in peace or war. 1 There are 27 divisions in the United States, with weekly meetings held at home-town armories. The men train with regular army equipment and may fulfill their military obligation through the Guard rather than active duty. Recruits are paid for each meeting and receive chances for advancement in rank on the same basis as regular soldiers.. More information can be obtained at the Elkhart armory on Oakland Avenue, or at the display in Nappanee Nov. 21Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. —Lordßrougham