Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 136, Number 28, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 12 July 2018 — Page 4
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■ Advance News • Thursday, July 12, 2018
1968’$ 2001 h 2018 it is always worth the risk
1968 was a year to beat all years. It was memorable to say the least. That makes 2018 the fiftieth anniversary of so many things. Like the Tet Offensive. Lyndon Johnson dropping out of the Presidential Race. Riots everywhere. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Four dead in Ohio and die song “Four Dead in Ohio." The Democratic Convention in Chicago and the chant "The Whole World Is Watching" because it was. Alabama Governor George Wallace ran openly as a racist and took five states in the south, allowing Richard M. Nixon to come back from the dead and win the presidency.
The Pandemic of 1968, known as the Hong Kong Flu, killed over a million people worldwide and 36,000 in the US. I caught it and haven't been that sick since.
Apollo 8 orbited the moon ten times at Christmas and in some ways saved 1968. Oh, and there was this movie set in a future we found it hard we'd live to see. It was called "2001, a Space Odyssey." That was big too. I was just reading this book I got at the Nappanee Public Library titled "Space Odyssey" about Stanley Kubrick, .Arthur C. Clarke, and the making of this movie. Reading it took me back to 1968 again. In 1968 science fiction was a big part of my life. But we're talking about books, not movies. Before Stanley Kubrick most Science Fiction films were ridiculous. Kubrick, with help from science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, actually created the first good science fiction movie. The film traced humanity's evolution from prehistoric humans through the early age of space flight and through the Star Gate and beyond. It changed the way movies are made. How good is the movie? Well, it passed the Toby Test. Toby, our collie, walked into the room while I was watching the DVT) a few years back. The opening scene is set a million years ago, in the African veld, at the dawn of humanity. Toby heard the sounds of nature - animals growling, birds screeching, insects chirping - and immediately stopped, sat down, and watched the first nineteen minutes of the film without moving. Looking back, I know the really important thing about "2001: A Space Odyssey" was my Dad and I got to see it together. My dad, like a lot of dads, had served in World War D and Korea. So when the two of us went to the movies together we usually picked films depicting the important events of Dad's world. Like "The Battle of Britain" or "The Longest Day." His era. The world he grew up in. The world in which he played a part. I loved those movies. And afterwards we could talk about them. We had great times together. But "2001: A Space Odyssey" was set in the future, which was my world. It was the first time we went to one of my movies together. Dad was a good sport. He said he enjoyed it. Afterwards we talked about what it meant. Now it's 2018.50 years have gone by since 1968. My father has been gone for 7 years. 1 think about 1968 a lot nowadays. About Vietnam and the flu and assassinations. But 1968 is also important because my dad and I were able to hold conversations about movies and life, even though we came from different worlds and had different outlooks. Those are the kind of moments I wouldn't trade for anything. That's what was truly memorable about 1968. Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.
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Wefl, it's July. We are most definitely in the throes of summertime. This is that particularly crazy time of year when my entire life becomes a precisely executed drumbeat of activity. Controlled chaos between my three very active children, my volunteer commitments, and my career. It's the season where I sometimes spend hours in my cat zigzagging across several counties, and tapping into my reserve of dried cranberries, granola bars, and Triscuits that remains in my vehide at all times. It's an amazing whirlwind life I lead. I remain every bit as geeked out about my writing as I ever was, even 33 years after I began. But something is very different these days. And I'm not talking about the fact that technology has permeated every facet of journalism as I first knew it Now there's a element of danger to this profession, one that seems incomprehensible here on our own American soil. Apparently, people can sometimes become enraged just enough, to the extent that they can stroll into a newsroom and within seconds, end the lives of journalists in terrifying, calculated blazes of gunfire. Something has changed. I can feel it Those around me can feel it Even my children can sense it And I don't understand it not even for a moment. There's a sense of hatred in the air, a distrust of all that we, as reporters, strive to share. Having faith in our words is evidently no longer enough. Suspicion and skepticism surround the world of journalism. And I am completely saddened, not only by the loss of five individuals who were committed to the cause, for no reason except for one deranged soul with a vengefully wielded grievance.
100 YEARS AGO JULY 16, 1918 R.O. Abbott of Franklin, a member of the Nappanee high school faculty and director of athletics the past two years, has enlisted in the navy and reported at the Great Lakes naval training station. Mr. Abbott has just turned down an offer of assistant prindpalship of the Goshen public schools as science teacher and director of athletics at a salary of $1,400. He has made a marked success in Nappanee and will be greatly missed in school functions and athletic sports. His many friends will wish him God speed while he is lined up with our fighting forces and will look forward to his return and a most successful future. Several streets in front of and surrounding the business houses on Main and Market streets were ordered repaired and put in first-class condition at the meeting of the town board held at the city hall Monday evening. Walks in other parts of die city also received attention, and it is hoped to nave them all in first-class condition by the time winter sets in. City Engineer R.R. Berlin was ordered to go to Goshen and get official measurements of East Lincoln street from the original plat so that he can make a survey of the same. Edward Wagner, of East Walnut street appeared before the board in regard to having a side walk built in front of his property as well as that of several others on that street The city engineer was ordered to make a survey so that the work could commence at once. 75 YEARS AGO JULY 15, 1943 Considerable damage was done at the George Grimm farm near Community Center about 9 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Not only did the wind take its toll but hail feU and riddled their garden patch. The high wind struck the bam roof on the north side, tearing off shingles down to the sheeting for a strip at least 20 feet wide and going through tore the lower part of the hip bent roof completely out on the south side of the building. In most places a strong wind developed but at this point die damage not only included that to buildings but also took some spite out on the wheat and oat shocks in the field, tearing this part and scattering the bundles. A shot ran out and a "wild hog" bit the dust - right here in Nappanee early this morning. A stray hog was reported roaming in the northeast part of the city and the police on answering the call found the animal just south of the Orville Buss home on North Elm street. Policeman Viven Sechrist asked Wm. Widmoyer if he wanted a hog and was surprised to find it had escaped from the slaughtering pens at me north edge of the city and die market employees had been looking for it When questioned as to how it was to be capture Widmoyer asked Sechrist to shoot it and though he refused he offered the police gun with which to do the job and Ralph Fink, a market employee placed a well aimed bullet in die brain after which the 200 lb. porker was loaded
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All Those Years Ago
Wisdom & Whimsy By Amy Lant-Wenger. Asaiitam Editor
But I am crestfallen to find myself worrying that we also, are now being critically observed, watched intentiy tor signs that we are biased, that we are slanted, that we carry ulterior motives. Nothing could be further from die truth. I spent a great deal of time in prayer for those fellow newspaper reporters. And I gave thanks to God that mis type of situation hasn't arrived in our bucolic little comer of the universe. Mistakes are made every now and then in die retelling of stories and die reporting of incidents. And when they do, we work diligentiy to rectify die wrongs. We print retractions, we change the story to reflect the facts more dearly. We do what it takes to ensure accuracy, truth, and responsibility. That much, I can remain steadfast in assuring. It's been a long, long road from my fledgling days as a student reporter. Back in the days when I earned a penny per word. When I wrote my artides in blue ink on college lined notebook paper, sometimes scrawling in longhand between dasses, sometimes after school. When I would tear out the pages upon completion of my stories, drive uptown to the Bremen Enquirer office, and push the paper through the mail slot to meet my deadline. Now we are surrounded by those who are sometimes forcefully nudged to be the first, to be the ones who "break" the story, despite the ques-
into a truck and taken to the slaughtering house. 50 YEARS AGO JULY 18,1968 Telephone subscribers on the Nappanee exchange can now enjoy the speedy ease of push-button dialing, according to an announcement made today by Clarence Gay, district manager for United Telephone Company of Indiana, Inc. Instead of the conventional dial in general use, the PushButton telephone has a group of push buttons arranged on a panel similar to a 10-key adding machine. To make a cafl, one simply depresses the proper buttons in the same sequence as though the numbers were dialed. As the buttons are depressed, the callers hears a distinctive musical tone associated with the number as it is transmitted to the central office. Upon being received at the office, the tones are electronically transmitted into bits of information that direct the switching train to complete the call to its destination. There is a great deal of marijuana growing in this area. Some of it can be traced back to the closely related hemp industry which used to flourish here. Experts say that from the point of view of its quality to users of it as a drug, it is greatly inferior. Nevertheless, it grows in considerable abundance in spite of attempts by farmers to control it. On Saturday, Kosciusko County Sheriff David Andrews and Nappanee Police Chief Dean Middaugh arrested three youths from South Bend, and the next day, a Fort Wayne teen was arrested on possession of marijuana charges. The officers were acting on a tip in the Scott-Jefferson area following a tip from neighbors who saw them gathering it. 25 YEARS AGO JULY 14,1993 Nappanee’s Common Council members met Tuesday evening, due to the Independence Day holiday, and approved a building plan submitted by attorneys for Gordon "Short" McCormick for development of the McCormick Creek Golf Course housing area. Mayor Kenneth Walters stated that he felt the development would be a "nice addition,” and that extensive meetings had been held with various city departments and officials to make sure all plans were in accordance with city codes and ordinances. Todd Sheets resigned his position on the Wa-Nee School Board during his first meeting on Monday to accept a job as North Wood’s new athletic director. Board members expressed regret to see him leave but welcomed the opportunity to utilize his talents within the school system. Sheets is a 1976 North Wood High School graduate who served as an outstanding athlete during his high school years. He received the Most Valuable Player award in three sports, including trade, basketball, and football. Following graduation, he attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1981, and became a member of the Chicago Bears Football team during the 1981-83 seasons.
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Photo taken aboard the Bremen cross-country team bus in 1987, as I was interviewing members of the squad. Life was a whole lot simpler then. tionable methods used to achieve the goal. Those are the ones who have, in actuality, lost sight of the goal. They are in it for the conquest. And I cannot, and will not, say the same. I want to carry on honestly, enthusiastically, passionately. I want readers to come away from our work feeling as though they are better informed, perhaps enlightened, by what we say. Trust and truth still stand solidly in the foundation of our reporting. And I can only hope that our community never has to experience such a tragedy as that which has transpired in Annapolis, Maryland. I'll hold fast and faithfully to that belief, and I sincerely hope that our readers will bear and withhold those same sentiments to us. There is no more room and no more reason to breed further animosity in this world.
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