Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 91, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 18 April 1968 — Page 1

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Council Discusses Plans For The City Hall The proposed City Hall and fire st'Uion were the main orders of business at Common Council Monday. Representatives from KeeneMcßae, architects were present with some rough estimates on costs. They said that a complete building, housing the municipal offices, fire department, court, judge’s office, and police department. as well as space for the water department would cost in the neighborhood of $250,000. The. matter of the site was discussed. The architects said that the whole half block on Lincoln between Locke and Nappanee back of the St. Joseph Valley Bank would be an ideal site, but the city now only has three lots of li 1. 1 whole area. There was a question of going ahead without more certainty of eventually getting the remaining property, and the Council was divided on whether or not it would be wise to build just part of, the whole building and do the rest at a later date. It was estimated that a fire station alone, currently the most pressing need, would cost about $54,060, and it was indicated that the whole project could be done in stages. Tt was decided that the different departments would have to get together to determine specific needs and space requirements to give the architects more information upon which to work. The architects had also indicated that part of the aity complex could be two stories and the rest be a single story. v The Council voted to advertise for bids for 310 feet of 12 inch sewer on Hastings from Indiana to Hudson. The bids will be received, on May 6. Also to be advertised is the sealing of streets including Hastings from High to Indiana, High from Elm to Madison, Wabash from Elm to Madison, Clark from Indiana to the end, Locke from Indiana to Randolph, Locke from Randolph to the railroad, Randolph from Nappanee to the orchard, Locke from Indiana to the end, and Reed from Main to Nappanee. At the end of the former city administration it had been decided to form an alley going north and south just east of N. Main St. to the ditch. It had later been determined that, ' this alley wouid go at an angle and was not plotted true north and south. Dr. Paul

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Mr. and Mrs. John Metzler, Jr., R.R.2, Nappanee, announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Ann, to William Dean Warner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burnell Warner, R.R. 1, Union, Ohio. Miss Metzler is a graduate of Nappanee High School and a junior at Manchester College, majoring in phychology. Mr. Warner graduated from Milton-Union High School in West Milton, attended Manchester College, and is presently employed by N.C.R. Dayton, Ohio. The wedding will be July 13.

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Dictcrlen was on hand to report that seven neighbors opposed this alley, three were in favor, and two were neutral. Councilman Widmoycr said that cities should do away with as many alleys as possible. It was decided that nothing would be done anyway, because there was now no money for it. The Common Council passed on third and final reading Ordinance 359, fixing the salaries of the water department employees, passed Resolution 73 for routine transfer of funds. It was announced that in all probability, Nappanee will remain on Eastern Standard Time all summer, so probably will be on the same time as South Bend. jiff, This week, Charles Stump, candidate for the V.?a-Nee School Board issued a statement on his general philosophy concerning the Wa-Nee Dritrict. "Asa member of the Wa-Nee Community School Board I would work at all times for an educational system in the entire district which would give equal opportunity for all students to adequately prepare themselves to become responsible citizens in our communty. I would want to continue hiring the highest-type, dedicated teachers and administrative personnel as are presently working in our Wa-Nee district. We know additional classrooms and more school facilities are needed in the whole district. We know more delays will be costly both in money and continued sub-standard conditions. We need to proceed at once on a well-' planned program that will benefit all Wa-Nee patrons. The cost of new buildings should be kept in line with our ability to pay. We cannot over-burden our district with excessive taxes; and we cannot neglect our responsibility to provide a well-planned educational system for our youth. If elected, I will strive to do my best to maintain a first-class educational system with adequate buildings and other useful facilities obtained through reasonable and fair costs."

To Dedicate The Nazarene Church This Sunday The Church of the Nazarene will officially dedicate their newly acquired facilities at 458 West Walnut Street on Sunday, April 21. Dr. Paul C. Updike, superintendent of the Northeastern Indiana District of the Church of the Nazarene, will deliver the dedicatory sermon and officiate at the rites of dedication at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. During both the worship Service on Sunday morning and the Evangelism Service Sunday evening, the Rev. David Carson Campbell will deliver the messages. A carry-in dinner will be shared in the Fellowship Hall following the Morning Service. The public is cordially incited to these and all services of the church where Eugene C. Sommer is pastor. April 21 marks the start of Rev. Sommer's fifth year of service to the local congregation. Special Sale At Town & Country This Weekend It is the second anniversary of P. N. Hirsch & Cos. in Nappanee. To celebrate this event along with the coming of Spring, the neighboring stores in the Town and Country Plaza are conducting a sale this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Their stores will be open until 9 p.m., and they promise a host of bargains. Participating are Hirsch. Ben Franklin, Wise Town and Country Furniture, Thornburg’s, Kroger's, and the Town and Country Laundry'. Many of the special sales events can be noted in this newspaper. Mike Fitzgerald is the manager of Hirsch. He arrived in Nappanee last August. He is hopeful that many persons will come in to get acquainted this weekend. IMPORTANT NOTICE The Nappanee Democrat Womens Club will not have the scheduled meeting on April 23. Instead there will be a “Meet Your Candidates’’ night on Friday, April 26. This meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the basement of the First National Bank. All interested people are urged to attend.

WHOSE FAULT IS IT? Let's look at this School Board situation from Nappanee's point of view for a change. Seven years ago, Nappanee had already made strides to plan for future building of classrooms. When Wa-Nee was organized, Nappanee waited patiently while other areas tried to catch up. The first order of business before the Wa-Nee Board was to discuss a cumulative building fund for the new district. A few persons screamed like scalded dogs. Instead of a dollar, the Board finally agreed to a twenty five cents levy. If they'd set it at a dollar, they'd have well over a million dollars earning interest right now 4 . Then plans were begun for anew school. The same group fought every step of that progress. They even hauled Wa-Nee into court in a delaying move. Okay, so they've caused enough delays so that the costs of building any amount of classrooms have soared. In the meantime, both Wakarusa and Nappanee are stuck with mounting problems of substandard classrooms. Whose fault is it? We lay much of the blame on a small group who have told us for years all the things they're against. Casting their eyes at neighboring school districts, they found taxes even higher there, so they chose to remain in this one and continue to fight any progress at all. As we get the bill for the new building and as we and our children continue to pay the interest charges on it, let's be sure that those people who even hired a high priced lawyer to block things are reminded of their part in the whole mess. Part of the blame will have to be shared also by a slow moving Board and slow moving architects, but the biggest deterrent have been those people who have offered nothing constructive, but plenty to delay progress.

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The Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Baker of 651 S. Main St., Nappanee will be honored at an all day celebration at St. John's Lutheran Church, 655 S. Main St., on Sunday, April 28. The event is to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their wedding, and the 50th Anniversary of Pastor Baker's Ordination. Dr. F. M. Hanes, former President of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of The Lutheran Church in America, will speak at Morning Services at the Nappanee Church at 10:30. Following the service there will be a dinner at the Church, with a Reception to be continued through the afternoon. Pastor Baker was born at Carpentertown, Penna. on August 7, 1889. He graduated from Scottdale High School in 1909, and from Thiel College, Greenville, Penna. in 1915. His graduation from Chicago Lutheran Seminary was April 28, 1918. He married Mary Bernice DeGraff c.f Maywood, Illinois on April 30, 1918 at St. John's Lutheran Church there. Pastor and Mrs. Baker served parishes at Pitcairn, Pa., Salem, Ohio, Parma, Cleveland, Ohio, Sulphur Springs, Ohio, New Pittsburg, Ohio, Spencerville, Ind., Batesville, Ind., before coming to Nappanee 1958. The Baker's children are: Luther H. Baker, Long Branch, N.J.; Paul W. Baker, Brevart* N. Carolina; Daniel Baker, Ohio; Mrs. Richard Wilson (Jearv), Piqua, Ohio; and Mrs. Norman Ritenour (Phyllis), Waterloo, Ind. They have 10 grandchildren. Pastor and Mrs. Baker would appreciate messages from their many friends for a Memory Book. It is requested that gifts be omitted. , SPRING RUMMAGE SALE The Women's Society of the Methodist Church wilL hold a spring rummage sale Friday and Saturday, April 19 and 20. in the church basement. The hours for the sale are from noon to 5 p.m. on Friday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturady.

Cases Involving Beer Come To The City Court The Nappanee City Court made a major stride in the matter of under age drinkers. The Nappanee police had caught a man and charged him with furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors. The 23 year old man from Goshen had been driving in Nappanee with two boys and four, six packs of beer. When the police approached his car, he had accelerated and the police had been forced to chase him. He had made attempts to geL rid of the beer during the chase. In court was the man who pleaded guilty to furnishing the beer. He was reminded that he could get as much as six months in jail. Judge McQuinn said that Nappanee now considers very harshly anyone who is making liquor available to the youth of the community. The man was given a five day suspended jail sentence on the condition he have no violation within six months, and he was fined SSO. Os his two companions, one was 18. He was charged and pled guilty to illegal possession of alcoholic beverages. He'd had a previous arrest about a year ago for which he had pajd a fine of s4l. Judge McQuinn promised him jail if he were ever caught again and gave him a lesser fine of $5 plus costs ($27.25) because he said that the money involved never seems to make much impression. The other young man was only 17. He was told to come back next Week with one of his parents, at which time he’ll have a choice whether he'll be tried in City Court or have the’case sent to juvenile court. Other cases involved two young Bremen boys who had been “driving around’’ in Nappanee and were caught making the corners too fast and fishtailing their cars. They pled guilty to reckless driving, were fined $5 plus costs and reminded that this would cost them 6 of their 8 points on their driver’s licenses. A week before, the Court's docket had been light. Two pled guilty for reckless driving, and a warning of arrest was issued to a person who hadn’t shown up for court.

Set Fire To Corn Crib Tuesday At three a.m. on Tueday, somebody set fire to a corn crib belonging to George Sheets. It was located some distance from the Sheets farm. A car parked near the crib had been pushed across the road and into a ditch. The windows had been smashed and it had been set afire. The Nappanee firemen arrived but were unable to save -the crib which contained about 1,000 bushels of corn. Neighbors had seen 'the flames and had called Mr. Sheets. Some time that night, somebody broke a storm door at the Community Center Store and broke the gas pump nozzles. It was difficult to ascertain whether there was any connection between the two cases of vandalism.

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Dana Hollar, Rhonda Joney, Miko Rock, and Cas $ Sharp ware the finders of the golden eggs at Hie Easter egg hunt. It seems as though nobody knew Cass (the liH le guy) had found one for quite some time, until it was discovered after the event was ever.

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Mr. and Mrs. James O. Weddle, 405 Morningside Drive, announced the engagement of their daughter, Sherrol Rae, to James Edwin Andrews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Andrews, R 1. Miss Weddle and Mr. Andrews both graduated from Nappanee High School and are juniors at Manchester College. A December wedding is planned.

Explorer To Give Last Travelogue In Kiwanis Series The last in the present Kiwanis Travel and Adventure Series will be presented Tuesday, April 23 at the All Purpose Room of Nappanee High School. The show will Start at 8 p.m. Romain Wilhelmsen from Lansing, Michigan, is the narrator of •Timbuktu, Africa and Beyond”, lie has gained an international reputation as the “Legend Hunter”, and has received commendations from Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia for his discoveries. He is credited with being the discoverer of a huge ancient city in Peru and unearthed some $5,000 worth of Inca gold. He discovered an ancient fort in the jungles of Brazil, recently floated down the Amazon River on a raft, and still carries a bullet wound from a gunfight with remote Colombian bandits. Mr. Wilhelmsen has a library of adventure films unsurpassed by any living explorer, and he is known as a top notch photographer as well as an excellent narrator. Tickets for the last travelogue may be obtained at the door.

WARSAW BEATS BULLDOGS The Nappanee track team was not able to overcome the speed of Charles Vacarro and the overall strength of the Warsaw Tigers, as they were handily defeated in last Thursdays meet. The took four firsts plus winning the mile relay. Doug Chokey won the 440 yd. dash with a time of 53.7 seconds. Tim Wegmiller crossed the line just behind Doug. Ron Ruff showed his endurance by winning the two-mile run in 10:53.9. Jerry Shaw went 11 ft. 6 in. to capture a first in the pole vault. John Sheets leaped 18 ft. 10 in. to win the broad jump. The mile relay team of Wegmiller, Waterson, Shaw, and Chokey won with a time of 3:40.3.

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PAPER DRIVE The Mt. Tabor Church of God C.Y.A. will be having a paper drive Saturday, April 20. No magazines please as they just prefer newspapers. Anyone having papers please call NI6-2190 or 773-4266 before 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Psi lota Xi Book Fair To Begin Monday, April 22 Psi lota Xi Sorority hopes all parents of the elementary school children in Nappanee will show interest in good reading foe their, children by letting them purchase one or several books from the Book Fair during the week of April 22-26. They are promoting good reading to coincide with National Library Week. The books will cover all ages from Kindergarten thru 7th grades and will cost only 19c to 59c. The selling schedule is as follows: They will open for business at South School, Monday evening, April 22 following PTA and will be opened again from 11:00 to 12: 30 both Tuesday and Wednesday noons. The Book Fair will then move to the All-Purpose room and invite parents to participate following Central’s PTA meeting. They will again move to Central School and sell from 11:00-12:30 both Thursday and Friday noons. All proceeds will go into the Sorority’s philanthropic fund. INASMUCH CIRCLE The Inasmuch Circle of the Presbyterian Church met Wednesday afternoon, April 17 at the home of Mrs. Lester Gentzhorn with Mrs. Harry B. Greene assistant hostess. Mrs. Ralph Taylor led the lesson study. MARY MARTHA CIRCLE The Mary Martha Circle of the First Presbyterian Church met Tuesday morning, April 16 with Mrs. Ned Hoover. Mrs. Glenn McMurray led the discussion from the study book on the book of Mark. •