Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 86, Number 3, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 19 July 1962 — Page 1

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Sidewalk Days July 27 & 28 The week-end after next, Friday and Saturday, July 27 and 28 is Sidewalk Days in Nappanee. A full schedule of events for all ages and bargains for all is scheduled for these two days. There wiP be rides for t:e kids, nickel hot dogs, a record hop, many church concessions. The Lions will have a chicken Bar B Q, and the Nappanee Color Guard will perform. Koko the clown will be here. Merchants are busy getting ready for this week-end of values which is sponsored by the Nappanee Chamber of Commerce. Common Council Tries To Pare New Budget The meeting of the Common Council Monday was largely devoted to budget matters. Ordinv ance 270 having to do with salaries passed on second reading. Mayor Ralph Greene assisted by Councilman Widmoyer had prepared tentative budget figures in this preliminary discussion. Anticipating the need for extra call equipment for the police, especially so that they can answer a call from their car, there was an item included to provide for this. Also the matter of what kind of provision would be made for answering police

and fire calls after the new telephone dial service commences was a matter of concern. Councilman Newcomer wondered if it would be possible for someone to have an answering service for doctors and the City. Councilman Walters definitely felt that some provision should be made for at least a night operator on the phone. In the budget it is anticipated that telephone costs will be up, light and power up (due in part to additional street lights), and water rentals will be up. Two more additions to the budget would be for civil defense and a necessary item to cover the cost of next year’s elections. However, the general fund figure still only tentative, of course, was suggested as $79,350 as against $84,973 this year. The park fund tentatively showed an increase with the matter of repairing the tennis courts taken into account. Anticipating the possible need for another baseball diamond, the recreation fund was also up slightly. The total budget figure, still subject to many revisions and changes, was suggested at $146,875 as against $148,473 this year. Earlier in the meeting, Councilman Walters made a report on the extensive amount of bad curbs and gutters on Walnut Street. Before the meeting got underway, the Council went down to inspect the newly constructed curbing on South Madison, which the Engineer had recommended should be replaced.

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Suellen Geyer is among the 54 girls who will graduate from Parkview-Methodist School of Nursing in Fort Wayne July 20. The ninth annual commencement "will be held in Trinity English Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne at 7:30 p.m. Parkview-Methodist traces its origin back to Fort Wayne's first school to provide nursing education in 1897. The aim of the school is to provide a nursing education which will prepare the student for beginning staff positions in hospitals and other agencies designed to utilise the services of the newly graduated nurse. Miss Geyer was the recipient es the Elkhart County 40 8 I club scholarship.

NOTICE The Nappanee Telephone Company advises us, that according to their records, all Nappanee telephones have now been equipped with dials. Anybody who may, through error, have a telephone without dial is urged to promptly notify the Telephone Company, Phone 152, in order that dial installation may be made prior to August sth. The Telephone Company also ad ? vises that those wishing to practice dialing prior, to cut-over may do so without harm to the system. However, practice dialing must be done with “the receiver on hook” (handpiece on cradle), otherwise the line signal will flash before the operators on the switchboard. James Rose Coordinator Os JA Program

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JAMES ROSE James W. Rose, manager of the Flackville Drive-In Branch of Peoples Bank & Trust Company, has been appointed coordinator of the Junior Achievement Banks of Indianapolis program for the coming year. Four members of the Indianapolis Clearing House Association —American Fletcher National Bank. Indiana National Bank, Merchants National Bank and Peoples Bank—provide men in an advisory capacity to work with high school juniors and seniors in the Junior Achievement program in setting up and running a complete banking operation. The JA Bank operates four evenings each week. During the four years that the bank has operated, it has received recognition by the national Junior Achievement organization. Rose, now in his third year with JA, will coordinate the banking program between the students and the cooperating city banks. A native of Nappanee and a graduate of Hanover College, Rose has been with Peoples Bank & Trust Company for six years. He has been manager of the Fiackville branch for the past year. Rose is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George G. Rose of 402 W. Centennial Street in Nappanee. Mr. Rose is executive vicepresident of the State Bank of Nappanee.

Services For Clyde Lamb Friday | Clyde W. Lamb, 69, passed away at Elkhart General Hospital Tuesday night. He had been tak- ! en there earlier in the day. | Mr. Lamb was born in Goshen j on June 16, 1893, the son of I David Lamb and Lilly Weybright. i He married Nina Roose on Nov. | 3, 1915. j Mrs. Lamb survives as dqes ; their daughter, Charlotte. \ The body will be at ! Funeral Home Wednesday and Thursday. Rev. Virgil Ingraham will conduct services at 2:00 p.m. Friday at Wright Funeral Home. The burial will be at Stoney Point Cemetery. TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Ralph Greene of 451 E. Van Buren, Nappanee of the South Bend District has qualified to attend a four day Educational Conference to be held by the Equitable Life Assurance Society at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island on July 22, 23, 24, and 25, according to H. L. Sechrist, District Manager. Some 100 members and guests of the C. E. Miller Agency, Fort Wayne, will be in attendance. Several Home Office guests will be present including Richard C. Hageman, C. L. U., Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Scouts from Troop 33 arrive at Pioneer Trails to begin a week of camp. Here the boys are-divided into patrols. Later, although there was a slight rain, they all went for a swim. While they are there, the scouts will participate in archery, rifle shooting, boating, canoeing, handcraft. By having 79% of the troop present at camp. Troop 33 earns a plaque from the Council for this achievement.

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Lions meetings continue to be interesting and informative, and last week was no exception thanks to Lion Bill Hostetler, program chairman of Cub Scout Nite.

The Lions were given a performance of Cub Scout opening and closing ceremonies under the leadership of Cubmaster Tom Kane. George Rose, a Scout commissioner on the Miami Council, then presented the Nappanee Cub Scout charter to Lion President, Maynard Shrock. Nappanee Lions have been Cub Scout sponsors for the past seven or eight years. Lions on the Scout committee are Bill Hostetler, chairman, Cecil Fitzgerald, Everett Pippen, Bob Woodhams, Dean Geyer, James Marchand and Thurlo Clouse. . After the charter presentation.

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boys receive in Scouting. In line with the theme, his talk was followed by a Scout film, “The Boy From Hickory Street”. The program was of especial interest to Lions with young sons. During the business meeting, special key awards for recruiting new members were presented to Bill Hostetler, Dean Geyer and Clayton Anglemeyer. Lion Merle Arnold, general chairman of the Chicken Barbecue committee, announced everything was in readiness and merely waiting for Saturday afternoon at the Jaycee Fair in Stauffer Park. The barbecue Saturday again was a complete “sell-out”, and many had to be turned away. For the first time, the recently organized Lady Lions handled the serving of dinners on an assembly line basis, which resulted in no waiting lines for service. Lion

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Mr. and Mrs. Clinton A. Gilbert if 701 East Chicago street, Syracuse, announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Janice Marie, to Larry Eugene Ryman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ryman of R.R. 1, Nappanee. The bride-elect is a 1962 graduate of Syracuse high school. Mr. Ryman a 1958 graduate of Nappanee high school, is an employee of Coppes, Inc. in Nappanee. No date has been st for the wedding.

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President Shrock and Chairman Arnold were extremely pleased with the number of Lady Lions who volunteered to help and the manner in which the service was

TO OUR AMISH FRIENDS This is directed primarily to our Amish readers. We've got a favor to ask. We've been told that some of the younger men have been known to race their buggies. Maybe this was done without father knowing it. Is this just another Amish legend, or do you really race the buggies once in a while? If so, we'd like to see such a race. It should be pretty exciting. If we were to offer a pains, would any of you men 4 - race each other in buggies so that all of us could share the fun? Maybe we could even challenge someone up by Middlebury or Goshen. This has been something we've wanted to see ever since we became Hoosiers. If you ever do race, will you let us know? If we let everyone come, it might turn in to quite an exciting event, one which would knit our community together even closer. WE WANT TO SEE A BUGGY RACE! <[i i . V Telephone Company Asks For Change In Its Rates Elsewhere in this paper, under Legal Notice, the Nappanee Telephone Company states that it “purposes to request the Public Service Commission of Indiana to grant changes in certain rates and charges of the Company which will increase such existing rates and charges an average of approximately 16%,” subsequent to dial conversion. LaMar Stoops, Manager of the Nappanee Telephone Company, says that over one-half of the requested increase in operating revenue will be required to provide employees’ wage increases, following dial conversion, along with/the initiation of an Employees’ Pension Plan, “long overdue”. Less than one-half of the requested increase, along with the net savings resulting from elimination of the operator office expenses, will be required to meet substantially increased taxes, insurance and other added costs associated with dial operation. The cost of providing many other improvements and facilities must also be met subsequent to conversion. To name a few, Stoops cited the provision of Extended Area Service (toll free) to New Paris and Wakarusa, the addition of office equipment and cable facilities to reduce the number of parties on rural lines to an average of less than six, the program of pressurizing the cables with dry air to minimize the chances of water entering the cable sheath and shorting out the wires inside. And of course he pointed with pride to the New Telephone Building, nearly ready for occupancy —a real asset to the Community. To provide the increased revenue that the Company feels necessary to maintain a fair rate of return on the fair value of its property, the Company will request the following schedule of rates and changes to become effective subsequent to conversion to dial.

Present Proposed Proposed Monthly Monthly Monthly Classification ’ Rate Rate Increase Business One Party $ 9.85 $12.00 $2.15 Multi-Party 7.85 9.75 1.90 Rural Multi-Party 7.00 7.75 .75 Semi-Public Paystation,, Guarantee 12.00 15.00 3.00 J PBX, PABX, and Other “System” Central Office Trunks 14.00 16.00 2.00 PBX, PABX, and Other “System” Extensions 1.50 1.50 NONE Extensions (Standard Business) 1.50 1.50 NONE Residence One Party 5.50 6.75 1.25 l Multi-Party 4.15 4.80 .65 Rural Multi-Party 4.10 4.75 .65 Extensions .75 .75 NONE Miscellaneous Standard Extension Bells .25 .25 NONE Loud Ringing Extension Bells .50 .50 NONE No change is being requested for PBX, PABX, or Convenience System Switching Apparatus, nor for Automatic Answering Devices, now in service.

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handled. The Lady Lions will be asked to assist again at the Lion Chicken Barbecue during Nappanee Sidewalk Days, on Saturday, July 28th.

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Kiwanis Hears Former U.S. Attorney At Kiwanis Monday it was announced that John Heisel was appointed new chairman of the Support of Churches Committee, and Tubby Nunemaker and William Kendall were co-chairman of the Inter-Club Committee. Speaker was Phillip Potts, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana. Mr. Potts explained that this area serves district courts in Ft. Wayne, South Bend, and Hammond. The job of the U.S. Attorney, he explained, is to represent the Federal Government, whether it be in claims against the U.S. (usually against military or postal employees), collections for U.S., condemnation of needed land (or in one case of air space over a factory), or collection of over-due internal revenue. Mr. Potts told of many of the varied type of criminals whom he confronted in his job. One he told of was a bank robber, who he said was the meanest, most vicious he had ever encountered. Mr. Potts expressed alarm at the growing amount of obscene literature being distributed in this area and asked the cooperation of parents in reporting any cases just as soon as they are received. Mr. Potts said that our greatest, danger is internal corruption. He urged citizens to show more interest and to do their utmost to select good candidates for all public offices. TROOP 33 AWARD Tuesday night the Nappanee Jaycees received an award for Troop 33 as being the best sponsored troop in the State. George Rose, Tom Cain, Charles Chapman, Don Guckenberger, and Jack Armantrout were present to receive the award from the Council.

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Mr. and Mrs. Wyman George of 206 North Highland St., Nap* panee, announce the engagement of their daughter, Karen Rose, to Larry Allen Meister, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Meister, Rural Route 1, Bourbon. Karen is a graduate of Nappanee High School and is employed at the Vitreous Steel Products Cos. Her fiance is a graduate of Bourbon High School and is engaged in farming. A fell wedding is being planned.

A "RUMBLE" There was a bit of excitement in downtown Nappanee last Thursday morning, but few people were aware of it because it happened at four a.m. A fight started among the carnival people out at the fair. One man was fairly badly beaten there. His assailant was apparently followed up town by a large group of the carnival men. They caught him and beat him up in front of Templeton’s Shell Station. He suffered severe lacerations and a jaw fracture and was taken to the hospital. Police talked to carnival authorities who agreed to restrict the men to the area of the park for the duration of the carnival. The second man who was attacked was seen downtown in Nappanee on Saturday. Sharon Miller Weds Donald Dohner Saturday Marriage vows were exchanged by Miss Sharon Kay Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Miller, Rt. 1, Nappanee, and Donald Dohner, 457 W. Walnut St., Nappanee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Dohner, Rt. 2, Germantown, 0., Saturday in the Nappanee Church of the Brethren. Rev. James Tyler, pastor of the Church of the Brethren in Sydney, O. read the service. Miss Betty Martin was the organist and Mrs. Fred Curtis, soloist. Miss Janet Smith, Nappanee, attended the bride as maid of honor and Miss Barbara Stouder and Miss Carol Hollar, both of Nappanee, were bridesmaids. The bridegroom’s attendants were his brother, Earl Dohner, Brookville, 0., as best man, and another brother, Roger Dohner, New Lebanon, 0., and Wayne Snapp, Nappanee, the groomsmen. The bridegroom’s brother, Dwight Dohner, Germantown, O. and the bride’s brother, Dennis Miller, Nappanee, served as ushers. The bride wore a white floorlength gown of white silk organza over taffeta. The lace bodice was styled with a Sabrina neckline and long sleeves tapered at the wrist. Her veil of silk illusion was held in place by a crown of pearl orange blossoms. She carried a white Bible, topped with a white orchid. The maid of honor and bridesmaids wore street-length dresses of silk organza over taffeta, fashioned with scooped necklines They wore hats with veils matching their dresses and each carried a bouquet of yellow pompons. Their dresses were of blue shade, the bridesmaids in light and the maid of honor in a darker shade. The reception was held in the church Fellowship Hall, with Miss Joy Dohner, Germantown, 0., sister of the bridegroom, and Mrs. Melvin Goss and Miss Sue Reprogle, both of Nappanee, hostesses. The newlyweds are spending this week at Diamond Lake, Mich., and after Sunday will be at home at 457 W. Walnut St., Nappanee. The bride was graduated from Nappanee High School and from the South Bend School of Commerce. The bridegroom was graduated from Franklin Monroe High School, Pittsburgh, O.

Elzina Hall Dies After Long Illness Mrs. Elzina Hall, 85, died Friday morning at Welty Rest Home after a long illness. Mrs. Hall was born on July 26, 1876 in Elkhart County, the daughter of Aaron Miller and Mary Smith. She married Richard H. Hall on August 20, 1892. Mr. Hall passed away on December 11,1928. Mrs. Hall is survived by children, Mrs. Henry Pletcher, Milton and Guy Hall, Nappanee, and Mrs: Fay Thompson and Mrs. Carl Helman, New Paris. Reverend Leland Emrick conducted services Monday at Wright Funeral Home. Burial was at Union Center Cemetery. BREAKS ARM Stephen Lentz, five year old son of Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Lentz, broke his arm Saturday while playing. The break is near the elbow. He will ,be confined to Elkhart General Hospital for about two weeks.

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School Board Discusses Teacher Salaries The Board of the Wa-Nee Community Schools met Monday. They first heard visitors Eli Helmuth and Willis Yoder of Locke Twp., who said that they and other interested members of the Locke and Weldy school areas had received an depression from the majority of them favoring continuation of school in the Locke and Weldy buildings for the 1962-63 school year and as long as practical thereafter. The Board later postponed action on this matter until all members could be present. Glade Rohrer of Wakarusa and Paul Hartle, Fred Webb, and Tom Hill of Nappanee were present to speak for the teachers. Mr. Rohrer said that the teachers welfare committee proposed that the salaries of the Nappanee teachers for the period in question be determined by striking a midpoint between the present Nappanee salary schedule and that of the Wakarusa teachers and that the Board and the teachers committee start to work on a uniform schedule to reach the level of the Wakarusa schedule on January 1, 1963 or as soon as possible thereafter. He also recommended that all teachers in the school district be brought up to the level of the Nappanee teachers salaries as of Sept. 1, 1962. The Board said that contracts already signed were entered into in good faith and it wouldn’t be practical for them to be changed at this time. The Board proposed that all Nappanee teachers be given a S3OO increase across the board with the understanding that SIOO of this is for the period Sept. 1, 1962. The teacher committee proposed that the Board grant the S3OO a year and let the committee decide how it should be allocated in the salary schedule. Both groups agreed that the whole new salary schedule work should begiir at once. The Board postponed action on the question of teacher salaries pending a decision from the entire teacher group on the proposal made by the welfare committee. They also considered the lease agreement and instructed its attorney to draw up a lease agreement with The owners of the space now occupied by the Telephone Company and by Joseph Kindig. Carlos (Pete) Rood Dies Saturday Carlos (Pete) Rood, 75, 358 N. Clark St., died at Lu Ann Nursing Home Saturday night. He had been a familiar figure in Nappanee for many years as a popcorn vendor. Mr. Rood was born in Harrison Twp. on January 10, 1887, the son of Nelson Rood and Hutoka Blue. He is survived by his brother, Nelson, of Nappanee. Rev. Virgil Ingraham conducted funeral services Tuesday at the First Brethren Church. Burial was at Union Center Cemetery.

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Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Yoder, 213 High Street, Wakarusa, Indiana announce the engagement of their daughter, Sally Kay, to Jerry Lee Stutzman, son of Jerry J. Stutzman of Rt. 2, Nappanee. Miss Yoder graduated from Wakarusa High School and attended Manchester College. She is employed at the CROP, Christian Rural Overseas Program office in Elkhart. Mr. Stutzman graduated Atwood High School and has recently returned from Franco after the completion of his threeyear enlistment in the army. He is currently employed at Northern Indiana Brass Company in Elkhart. No date has been set for the wedding.