Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 80, Number 7, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 30 August 1956 — Page 1

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HERE'S WHERE GRADE SCHOOL PUPILS REPORT

Grade school children will re--1 port back ito school Tuesday, Sept. 4 ait ithe regular 'startling time of 8:25 a. m. and kindergarten pupils will report at spaced intervals during the morning and afternoon, as shown on the schedule below, Elementary Principal K. P. Wright announces. , Children of families new to the community are asked to report to the principal’s office at the Central building, and those children who do not find their name on the list below, or have moved so that they should 'be assigned to another School than the one listed, are also asked* to report to Mr. Wright’s office. Children for kindergarten classes are asked to report at times Shown, and parents can make arrangements with the teacher as Jo whether the child will go to inoming or afternoon classes. Central Bldg., 9-10 a. m. Richard Allen, Dennis Arnott, Thomas Bartlett, Darrell Boettger, Ruth Ann Brenneman, Lana Kay Chupp, Carol Sue Clark, Ray Eugene Clouse, Anne Courtney, Michael Cripe, Jerry Davis. Central Bldg., 10-11 a. m. David Deisoh, Robert Lee Fairchild, Karen Forsythe, Brenda Hardesty, Pamela Hively, Georgia Hochstetier, David Hoffer, Roy Jones, Howard Losee, Rebecca Lutes, Cynthia Marchand. Central Bldg., 1-2 p. m. . Rhea Martin, Diane Martz, Allen Mast, Pamela Masterson, Craig ftfiddaugh, John Scott Miller, Elaine - Moneyheff er, Janet Muntz, Cue Ellen Pippen, iMiohael Roose, Kimberly Schwartz. Central Bldg., 2-3 p. m. Lloyd Sl'agle, Stanley Steiner, Jlackie Stillson, Paula Stump, R. Gene Thomas, Judy Truex, Marcia Wagner, Marla Wagner, Stephan Welty, Kenton Wildman, Jack Williams. South Bldg., 9-10 a. m. Gaithlin Best, Lonnie Blucker, Linda Burkholder, Bonita Collins, Connie Crothers, Lynn Croy, Constance Frick, Shirley Gal, Rickey (Barman, Donald Giaut, Becky Guard, Garry Guard*. South Bldg., 10-11 a. m. j Stephen Hone#, John I. Hinton?, Ralph Hochstetier, Mark Hoffer. Ryan Hoffer,'"Ruth Ann Holmes, Cara Hunsberger, Samuel Johnson, Barbara Kanode, Charlene Krull, Rddhard Lape, Bruce Losee. South Bldg., 1-2 p. m. Dennis Martin, Jackie Mikel, Ronda Miller, Michael Mi Shier, Roxanne Nettrour, Gary Newcomer, Mark Newcomer, Gary Pippenger, Roger Richmond, Sue Ellen Rowland, Alan Sechrist, Rickey Slabaugth. South Bldg., 2-3 p. m. Joellen Stahly, WiUisStahly, Timothy Stouder, Amy Jo Tobias, Brett Tobias, Colleen Walters, Susan Warner, (Mark Watkins, Karen Weaver, Betty Wise, June Young, Vern Zentz. I IST GRADE CENT., RM. 11l ” Mary Beth Arch, Patricia Bock, Douglas Chokey, Susan Cleveland, Kathy Culp, Jane Deisoh, Douglas Douglas, Jan Eichenberger, Sylvia Freese, Craig Homer, Ganshorn, Bryan Guard, Robert Hamilton, Frelda Helminth, Bart Huffman, Larry Dean Klotz, Debra Lambert, Loretta Laughlin, Brenda Middauigh, Dennis Miller, Donna Miller, Marla Mullett, Patrick Neibert, Michael Newcomer, Sue Ellen l Seed. Thomas Rogers, Kimberly Slabaugh, Roy Slagle, Nelda Stickel, Kenneth Lamar Weaver, Timothy Wegmiller, Marsha Wiseman, Dian Louise Yoder, Sandra Yoder. IST GRADE CENT., RM. 112 1 Judy Anglin, Mary Ann Best, Brenda Brenneman, Howard Brumi bough, Earl Chupp, David Franklin Ooppes, Cheryl Crane, Sara Dawson, Cheryl Dumph, Dennis Evans, Richard Fairchild*, Brenda Higher. , Giarry Gingerich, Larry Gingerkh, Debra Hare, Randall Hepler, Cynthia Kimtzel, Diane Jo Lape, Kathleen Lehman, Malcolm McDonald, Donna Mikel, Joetfca Miller, Larry Lee Miller. Larry Newcomer, James Parcel!, Gail Ann Phillips, Kent Schwartz, Rosetta Scbwietert, Rose Miary Slabaugh, Carl Stahl, Linda Strouse, Fred Randall Webb, Eugenia Yarian, Ira Clayton Young. IST GRADE PARK BLDG. Melvin Chupp, Peggy Dean, Tressie Elliott, Vickie Heckamian, Clara iFem Helmuth, Lamar O. Ijlochstetler, Ray Hostetler, Jerry Huff, Darrel Huffman, Stanley John McCarty, Kevin McMurIsay, Barbara Ann Mullet, Terry Lee Paxson, Connie Pontious, Bay Ellen Ryroan, Michael Sassaman, IBarion Schmucker. If Paul James Schmucker, Homer Jay Schwartz, Barbara Jo Sparks, Jerry Lee Sparks, Stanley Stutsman, Patricia Titus, Jennifer ■Truex, Gloria Wise, Deborah Yotter, Erma E. Yoder, Karen Yoder. ■S ■ - IST GRADE SOUTH BLDG. Pamela Anglin, David Bean, jfcftetha Chupp, Jerry Lee Epley, Luelia Evans, Esther Farmwald, Delorls Fisher, Sallee Fisher, Ralph Flowers. Dale Lamar George, Daryl Hamman, Randy Hawkins, Barbara Helmuth, Alan Hollar, Michele Ingle, Terry Ingle, Karen Sue (Continued on Page 3)

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Mr. and Mrs. John M. Kissinger, South Bend, announce the engagement of their daughter, Sally Jo, to Fred H. Wilt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lisle A. Wilt, 352 N. Main. Sally Jo will be a senior at Indiana U. this fall where she is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Enomene, and Pleiades, national activity and scholastic honoraries and Delta Gamma, national social sorority. Her fiance was graduated from IU last February where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, national social fraternity. He will be a National Science Foundation fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., this fall. The couple plans to be married next June.

Legion Meetings Now on Second & Fourth Thursdays Legion meetings of Post 154 during the months of September thru April will be on the second rfrthfa. and fourth Thursday of each month. Color Guard memgLjgwJs bers sold tickets thru TOTjagSr yesterday for the afternoon and evening shows of Hagen Bros, circus, Wednesday. Opening wrestling matches of the season will be Sat. Sept 8, the wrestling committee announces. Plans are being made for the annual Legion mens picnic Sept. 7 at the Posit Home. Formerly .the picnic was at Lake of .the Woods, Bremen. Open house for men of the community is included in the plans and tickets can be obtained from members of the committee or at the Home. Membership dues are being collected and the goal of the membership committee is to have 100 percent of their quota by Oct. 20. Farewell Parties Given for Pastor Virgil Meyer A capacity crowd attended the farewell carry-in dinner Sunday evening at First Brethren church for Rev. Virgil Meyer and family, who will soon leave Nappanee. Theme of the program was a “Sentimental Journey” with Mrs. Tom Wegimiller as toastmistress. The Junior choir and a trio, Mrs. O. A. Lambert, Mrs. James Heckaman and Mrs. Charles Holderman, sang songs with words especially written for the occasion. “Moments to Remember” was given by Merle Stouder and “The Church cm the Street Where You Live,” % Mrs. Robert Crow. Gifts to the family were presented by Willard Slabaugh and group singing of “Happy Trails to You” closed the program. O. A. Lambert played' his guitar, Mr. Stouder, bass, and Mrs. Stouder the piano. Optimist class, taught by Rev. Meyer, gave a farewell dinner for Rev. and Mrs. Meyer Sunday night at Foo and Fayes, Syracuse, with 58 attending. After dinner, there was a meeting at the Tom Wegmiller home. The Mississippi River delta covers about 12,000 square miles.

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Lane Hostetler, manager of Christian Light Bookstore, which is having a grand opening with free gtfts weekend, today

Larry Lakins Is Named In State Football Story By Bob Mitchell* , v Coach Springer eased up on life football squad this week by discontinuing twice daily drills. One practice a day is now the rule and the boys wholeheartedly approve despite the 90 degree weather. The coaches continue to devote a lot of time to the linemen and seyeral boys have been impressive in workouts. Scrappy little Frankie Bollinger, 165 lb. left guard, is hitting hard and Should prove to be one of the best. Left tackle Gerald Mattem looks good as does soph right guard Gene Heckaman, right end Larry Lakins, right tackle Mike Price and center Tom Conrad have shown a lot of improvement over last season. Springer’s casualty list looks like, a doctor’s appointment book, though none of the ailments appear to be serious. Signal-caller Vance Lapp has been hampered by a sprained ankle and junior Eddie Kiem, a three year veteran at left end is out of action with a broken rib from an It is doubtful if Eddie/ will see action in the Columbia City game. A Dale Burgess AP dispatch out this week lists 6’-5” Larry Lakins, Nappanee basketball star as expected to be one of the outstanding ends in the state this year. Tickets On Sale Now for Demo .Rally & Bar-B-Q Nappanee Democratic committee will sponsor a rally and chicken barbecue Thursday, Sept. 20, from sto 7 p. m. at the Community building. Tickets are on sale at Johnson Drugs, Stillsons Clothing Store, E. Newcomer and Son and Deisoh Supply. Also selling tickets are Orange Ohristner, Burton Uline, O. A. Lambert, and Willard Sechrist. NAPPANEE LEGION AUX. ATTENDS INSTALLATION OF BREMEN OFFICERS Mrs. Edna Slabaugh of Nappanee American Legion auxiliary 154 installed the newly-elected ©officers of Brehven auxiliary 191 Monday night, assisted toy Mrs. Madlin Culpas jfegt-at-arms. Other Nappanee members/ who attended were Mrs. Verna Tusing, president, Mrs. Mildred Parks and Mrs. Betty Sinclair. Delegates to the state convention at French Lick were Mrs. Cleo Hartman, Mrs. Ethel Eilers, Mrs. Evelyn Richmond and Mrs. Slabaugh. They will give their report at the next meeting. • . Advanee-N’ws may Be A Day Late Next Week The Monday holiday may cause the Advance-News to be one day late in delivery next week, although it is possible, all Nappanee area papers will be put in the post office late Wednesday night for regular delivery Thursday morning, and only out-of-town papers will be late. Those wishing ads or news in the Sept. 6 issue, are asked to bring in copy today and Friday. Church Women to Meet In Sept, at Mishawaka Fall Board meeting of Indiana Council of United Church Women is Sept. 17-18 at First EUB church, 504 W. Mishawaka ave., Mishawaka. The church is located on the first street on the north side of the river, across the street from Battel! park. Monday, Sept. 17, the executive committee will meet at 1:30 and the entire board at 3 p.-jm. Tuesday the entire board meets at 9 a. m. adjournment is at 3 p. m. Mrs. Harry Greene, 158 N. Madr&>n, is taking reservations. Luncheons and dinners will be served at the host church and nearby churches. Reservations must be in before Sept. 8, Mrs. Greene states. 'She adds, “Many ideas for working and improving our council will be presented at this meeting. Those of us who are new officers will receive much help in the work we are undertaking for the first time and those who have been working in our local council will learn of new and more effective methods in our work. Also it is a splendid time to become acquainted with our state officers.” Mrs. Willard Sechrist, president, states, “All officers and committee members should make a special effort to attend, both those for the i coming year and those who helped us plan our meetings such as World Community day, May FelJowship day and World Day of Prayer.” LEGION BOWL OPENS' ■ 3EPT. 4! LEAGUES TO START iSEPT. 6 AND 10 Legion Bowl opens Sept. 4, for open bowling, Harvey Miller, Chairman of the bowling board, announces. Ladies league starts Sept. 6 and mens league Sept. 10. AH alleys have been reconditioned and resurfaced and are in excellent shape, Mr. Miller states. Any men interested in bowling and not yet on a team, are in Viited to contact Paul Koto.

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SOUTH BEND, IND.—Harold E: Churchill (left), new president of Studebaker-Packard corporation, gave his engineers and sales planners the order to move ahead rapidly on 1957 and 1958 car development plans, following a conference Monday with Roy T. Hurley, chairman and president, Curtiss-Wright corporation. The meeting here was the first since the agreement was signed August 6 between the two companies bringing the pioneer auto firm $35 million in new financial resources. First details of future product development programs will be disclosed at dealer meetings across the country in September, the officials said.

Harvey DeFreeses Follow Tornado From Here to Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Harvey DeFreese, who live east of Nappanee, started on a trip a week ago Saturday after Nappanee had her baby tornado, and .traveled east on the new toll road just behind the storm. They were on their way to the First Brethren church conference at Ashlartd, Ohio and took the toll road from Mididiabury to gate 7 on the Ohio toll road then turned south to Norwalk. The storm had struck Norwalk just before they arrived. Power lines and telephone lines were down, trees were uprooted and TV antennas were blown down. The metal roof from a downtown store was lying in .the street. Shortly after they went thru Norwalk, thewtown was closed to traffic. (Norwalk is the home of Mrs. Virgil Meyer, who was there during the storm:) The DeFreeSes said the storm was ahead of them until they stopped for supper that night. They took Rt 30 home and saw miles of hail-damaged com east of Ft. Wayne near the Ohio line. Mrs. Ted Price Elected to Head Leaders of C.F.

Mrs. Theodore Price was named to head the Camp Fire Leaders Association when the group met Ito organize Aug. 22 in tthe home of Mrs. A 7 A George Rose. Mrs. Loffl *lL.l :tus Slabaugh, president of toe Camp Fire Council presided. Mrs. George Rose was elected vice-pres-ident and program chairman. Meetings will be toe first Monday of each month. Weekly Camp Fire and Blue Bird meetings will start during toe week of Sept. 10-14 in homes of leaders or iri toe Public Library basement. New Blue Bird groupswill be organized among third grade girls during toe week of Sept. 17-22. Leaders and their assistants are: Camp Fire, Mrs. Karl Knobel, Mrs. Gerald Hoffer; Mrs. Owen Senff, Mrs. Wilfred Gansihorn; Mrs. Theodore Price and Mrs. Robert Sinclair. Blue Birds, Mrs. Glen MCMurray, Mrs. Gilbert Masterson; Mrs. Clifford Holdeman, Mrs. Robert Callander. Bremen Fair To Open Tabor Day With Beef B-B-Q Bremen’s big event of the year, the Firemen’s Community Fair, opens Labor Day with a parade at 4 p. m. and a pit beef barbecue, sponsored by the Kiwanis club, starting at 5 p. m at Sunnyside ball park. World famous Bill Hart will be cbef. There will be three tractor pulling contests, lights, middleweight and heavyweights, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week and kids’ night is Friday, Sept. 7, with contests and free rides plus a 4-<H cake baking contest, to benefit toe hospital building fund. Saturday there will be kids’ parade stol J>. m. with prizes for best costumes, floats and pets and a kids’ turtle race, sponsored by toe sheriff, Harvey Phillips. Saturday afternoon there will be a horse pulling contest at 2 p. m., a percentage pull, and a contest “open to the world” Saturday night at 7:30. Teams will weigh-in at Bremen Iron & Metal Cos. on Rt. 6, at 1 p. m. and 4:30 to 6 p. m., Saturday. Merchants and manufacturers Will have exhibits and there will be a midway of rides and concessions. CAE WASH SATURDAY AT STAUFFER PARK Senior High Methodist youth will have a oar wash Saturday at Stauffer park from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. WELFARE DEPT. WORKER TO VISIT NAPPANEE EVERY TUESDAY Beginning Sept. 4 there will be a Welfare Department visitor at £r ° m * I

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Harold Klotz’ Hit By Building Loss In the Big Blow Roof and building damage of Harold. Klotz jr., W 2 miles south on .the mile road east of Rt 19, forced him to move into his new home, that Monday. Aug. 20th, his father, Harold, reports, adding he was lucky he had anew home being built. Nappanee’s tornado of Aug. 18 ripped up the roof of his old house, took off the roof of a chicken house and brought down power lines. lit blew holes in his barn. The road was blocked as was Rt 19 but cleared sooner than the big tree could be gotten off 19 and was used fora Rt 19 detour. Monroe Stutsman and his son, Marvin, and Harold Klotz sr. sawed limbs off the .trees felled over .the road and snaked them off with a tractor. The big tree across Rt 19 went back into place after the limbs were cut off, drawn back .upright by the weight of the earth clinging to the roots. There was no taproot to the tree but a system of small roots that covered a circle about 20 feet in diameter. T mi' same, tornado blow struck Ohio and Pennsylvania smashing buildings and causing injuries. Jim Rassf and Lee Price Win JC Soap Box Awards Jim Rassi won .the award for the fastest heat and Lee Price the sportsmanship awiard at the dinner meeting given by Nappanee Jaycees honoring this year’s Soap Box Derby entrants. Other drivers who took part, were Steve Dawson, Randy Weddle, John Hochstetier, Roger Grimm and Dana Stickel. Mayor Clouse was also present with an award for his Showing in the Oil Can Derby against the mayors of Goshen and Elkhart and was given a helmet tor future races. President John Thompson commended Dave .McGrew, chairman and his committee, Phil Cripe and Bud Miner, for .their work with the boys in the derby. Bud Miner Showed movies he took of .this year’s races and other Soap Box events he has attended. On Aug. 12, Phil Cripe escorted the heat winners to Akron, Ohio, to see .the National race. Cows Graze Lily Pads in Florida, Glenn Mast Tells Glenn Mast showed pictures of his trip to Florida at Kiwanis Monday. George Rose was again in the chair in the absence of Jess Hoover, president, ait the convention. A cow in a Florida river grazing in lily pads with a crane on its back picking off bugs, delighted Glenn. He showed a picture of a damned brook in Kentuck where a mountaineer planted fish and can now catch fish thru his bedroom window. He also showed a picture of Henry Yoder’s house south of Sarasota. , . Charles' Gerkey, whose weekly jokes and song opens meetings, is now reporting by phone before meetings. He has a phone in his auto. Robert Coppes introduced Eldy Lundquist, WTRC radio basketball announcer, last meeting. Eldy recounted how the first broadcast: of local basketball wias made from a Na ppanee game. He has reported 980,000 dribbles, he stated. MT. TABOR ICE CREAM AND CAKE SOCIAL SAT. Young People’s class of Mt. Tabor church will have a home made ice cream and cake social at Community park starting at 6 p. m. Saturday. On the committee are: Rev. and Mrs. Tom Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Bone, the Eldon and Dick Garricks, JOE HAMSHER REUNION Joseph Hamsher reunion is Sunday, Sept. 2, at the home of Mrs. Wilma Welty. Mr. and Mrs. ’*

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Full Schedule > of Classes at School Tuesday V Tuesday Sept. 4ith will be the first day of school tor pupils of Nappanee School Community and school will be in session all day with a full schedule of classes run, Supt. Osborn states. School busses will make the same routes they followed last year at approximately the same time. Children who will be riding the bus tor the first time tlbis year should tell neighbor children who are on bus stops to have the driver stop tor them. 200 Brethren at Dpen House of Mark Schrocks Mr. and Mrs. Mark Y. 'Schrook, 407 Moirningside Drive, had open house Sunday tor members of North Indiana District of Church of the Brethren. Mr. Schrock is executive secretary of this district and their home was recently built as a district parsonage and office. About 200 guests called from Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, Auburn, Middlebury and Nappanee. The Schrocks moved to Nappanee several weeks ago with their three Children who are still at home, Gladden, a junior in Manchester college, Karen, in sth grade, and Karl in 3rd. They have three married children, Mrs. Carl Kime (Jeanne), Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Wayne Zunkel (Grace), Harrisburg, Pa., and a son, Julian, who with his wife and two children, arrived Saturday from Fahokee, Fla., where they had resided for the past three years. Julian will be a senior this year at Manchester college and will live* in Manchester with his family. Both sons-in-law recently graduated from Bethany Biblical Seminary, Chicago, and are serving their first full time pastoral charges in the Church of the Bfethren. Bulletin The death of Ephraim Johnson, 84, at 7:45 Wednesday morning at Goshen hospital was reported as the paper went to press. The body will be at Wright’s funeral home but funeral plans tor Union Center church were incomplete Wednesday. Mr. Johnson, a brother of the late Christian W. Johnson, lived in New Paris with his son, John. A brother, Daniel, Wakarusa, and two daughters, Mrs. Roy Wogoman and Mrs. Elmer Lechlitne*. survive. Use Colors For Who’s Who at Smucker Reunion By Mary Burkey Robert Crips family and Mr. and Mrs. Russel Stahly attended the Smucker reunion Saturday at Wyanet, 111. Others there were the Ralph Metzlers and Harvey Staihlys of Nappanee andi Paul Stahlys and two children, Wakarusa. The reunion will be in Indiana in 1957 at a place to be chosen later. Ward Stahly, Elkhart, was elected president and Janice Stahly, Wakarusa, sec.-ftreas. A color sceme was used to help identify descendants of the original sons and daughters of the Bishop Jonathan Smuekers. The descendenls of Russel and Harvey Stahly’s mother, the late Mrs. Daniel Stahly, wore blue slips of paper pinned to their shoulders and each family had a different color. Those who were visitors and not members of the family, wore white. * Even the tiny tots were pleased to wear the pretty color on their dresses except tor one tot who had her color pinned on her back in order to keep it on. A chart was posted explaining the color scheme with the names of the original sons and daughters. Robert Cripe family, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Stahly, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stahly, spent Saturday night with the Staihlys’ sister, Alma, Mr. and Mrs. William Albrecht at Tiskilwa, 111., and returned home Sunday. KINDIG ON JUDGE BENCH Attn. Joseph Kindig is sitting as judge pro tempore in circuit court of Eldio Simpson, Goshen, while the judge is on vacation.

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Rev. Leland B. Emrick, new pastor of Nappanee Church of the Brethren, will be installed Sunday at morning worship. The congregation plans a pot-luck dinner at noon to welcome the new pastor and his family.

Stores Closed For Labor Day Monday Stores will be closed Monday for Labor Day, Jim Newcomer, president of Nappanee Association of Commerce, announces. “Everyone have a good time and drive carefully,” Jim adds. . Ch. of Brethren < To Install New Pastor Sunday Rev. Leland B. Emrick, will be installed Sunday morning as new pastor of Church of the Brethren in ceremonies led by E. Wayne Gerdes, member of the district ministerial board. Rev. Emrick is a native off Preble County, Ohio, who received a B. S. degree from Manchester college in 1939 and an M. A. from Ohio State Univ. in 1940. He taught school for one year at Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Xenia, O. and one year in the Franklin, O. high school. He was elected to the ministry at Prices Creek church in Preble county in 1942. Three years later he completed his seminary work at Bethany Biblical Seminary in Chicago. During part of his seminary work he pastored the Robins, lowa, church, and took clinical training at Elgin, 111., State hospital. In the summer of 1952 he took a three week course at Oberlin college, 0., in the study of .the rural church. He was pastor of Springfield, 311. Church of the Brethren from 1945 to 1951, and was ordained an elder there in 1946. While at Springfield he acted as representative of the District of Southern Illinois on the Illinos Council of i Ohurches, as president of the Springfield Ministerial Association, as chairman of the National Ohrstian Teaching Mission there, and of radio and: race relations committees. He was also a member of the mayor’s commission on bunan relations. For two years he was a member of the board of directors of Springfield YMCA. Since 1951, he has been pastor of Church of the Brethren at Pleasant Hill, O. While here, he has served as a member of the >istricts Men’s Cabinet and a member of the Board of Directors of Camp Sugar Grove. Rev. Emrick las served three times on the denomination's Standing Committee. Mrs. Leland Emrick ■is also a graduate of Manchester college ind taught music and art for one year at Ossian. She is .the author of a book of inspirational poetry, “Look To the Light,” based on the pictures of her father, the late E. G. Hoff, of Elgin, IH. The EM-

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Over 6,000 persons jammed Lewie’s Bi-Rite super market Tuesday from 2 tto after 9 p. m„ far beyond his expectations. Traffic was jammed for half a mile in the peak 2Vfc hours, reports Police Chief Fogel and Officer Bean who directed traffic. Oars parked along the highway and in Wise furniture parking area. Waiting line extended thru the front door. ‘ LyldkWilt baked four $25 wedding oMces and! rushes them to Lewie’s open house when the cake supply started running low. Nothing was sold. Everybody examined the more than 20 major departments and liked the infrared electric barbecue roasting chickens, hams and ribs with hickory smoke flavor. Samples were given out thru the store and every family got a I big loaf of the new Lewie’s BiRite bread. Children got balloons, with other gifts and everybody had cake and Coke. Managers reported showers of compliments on their departments; LlOyd Duncan, meat manager, Kenny Bollman, grocery manager, Bob Newcomer, produce chief. Lewie, himself, was everywhere on the big floor meeting the people, excited and delighted' at the response beyond what he had hoped to get "for hii new super market. \ First Meeting of Quarterback Club Sunday Morning First Fall meeting of the Quarterback dub is Sunday at 8 a.: m, in the B&B dining room. All members are asked to attend to take part in election of officers. City Tax Rate Passed With No Objectors Monday No objectors attended the hearing on Nappanee city ,tax rate, Monday night and the budget was passed on 3rd and final reading, as advertised, - City Clerk Ralph Jlreene reports. BIRTHS * iMr. and Mrs.' Allbeit Bontrager are parents of a son, born Aug, 28 in Bremen hospital: Cara Mae is the name of the daughter, bom Aug. 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Stutsman in Bremen hospital. UNDER DOCTORS CARE Sharon Eastland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eastland, fractured her right foot, jumping off a porch. At Elkhart hospital: John Shively had major surgery ’jast Thursday. Mrs. Peter Maurer, 351 E. Lincoln, 'had emergency major surgery Monday night. _ ? ■ Lottie Grice and Brad Kauffman are both under observation, Steven Quigley returned home Wednesday and Chris Woodhams, Tuesday after observation and treatment since last Thursday. PUBLIC SALE Sat., Sept. 1, 12:30 p. m., Personal property of Vernon Geyer, 507 E. Market, Nappanee, Jonas Miller, Auct. AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS American War Mothers wil meet Tuesday, Sept. 4at 7:30 in the Legion home. i SORRY Some personals and correspondence had to be omitted this week due to a last-minute shortage of space. - - FORMER JANE LOUDERMILK AND FAMILY IN NAPPANEE Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brooks and son, Tommy, arrived in Nappanee last Wednesday. They flew from Germany to New York after a tour of duty in Nuremberg of neary two years. They were met .Sunday by Mrs. Brook’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Loudermilk and Mrs. Guy Loudenmilk jr., who also visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John RiveJlo, in New York City. Mr. Brooks was discharged from service at Font Hamilton and will enter the University of Louisvile. in September as a law student. The family live in Louisville. FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN CHICAGO Mrs. Guy (Blanche) Pippenger, died: suddenly in Chicago of a cerebral hemraortoage. Funeral services were Aug. 23. She leaves besides her husband a daughter, Georgia, a son Glen, and two grandchildren. • Mr. Pippenger is a brother of Mrs. Georgia Chamberlin, Chicago and cousin off , Edgar Pippenger . and Mrs. Roy Huffman. The. fam-. ily were former residents of Nappanee. ’ BUS*™? TO F*uf