Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 46, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 9 March 1951 — Page 1

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VOLUME 46

Red Cross Quota For Community Is Set at slllO The Red Cross Drive to raise Turkey Creek township quota of slllO started this week. The following persons will solicit for donations: (Mrs. Millard Sink. Boston st. Mrs. Jack Clark, So. Main st. Mrs. Nelson Blough, N. Huntingto st. Mrs. R. K. Miller, So. Huntington st. Mrs. Floyd Brower, Race st. Mrs. Otto Rhode, Front st. Mrs. M. E. Rapp, Harrison st. Mrs. George Bryan, Lake st. Melville Smith, Business District. Mrs. Bert Whitehead, Post Office. Mrs. M. K. Meredith, Grade School. Mrs. Gerold Kline, North Syracuse Lake. Mrs. Ralph Method, Northwest Syracuse. Mrs. Jay Rigdon and Mrs. J. B. Ridgeway, South Side Wawasee. Mrs. Nelson Byland, Road 13. Mrs. H, E. Burson, S. E. Township. Mrs. John Sparling, Kale Island. Mrs. H. Ganger, So. Syracuse. Matty Jones, S. W. township. Mrs. Mary Gants and C. E. Beck, N. and E. township. It will make the work of these solicitors easier if you have your donation ready for them, when they call. Any group or organization that wishes to contribute may leave the money at the Syracuse State Bank, the Syracuse Journal or with Mrs. May Kindig, chairman. Last year Turkey Creek township and Syracuse over-subscribed our quota by $200.00. This year, the demands for money are greater because of the Korean War and the plan to establish a Blood Bank in Warsaw. We urge each person to contribute generously to this worthy cause. The W. S. C. S. meets, Thursday, March 15, in the Methodist church basement. An interesting book review will be given. Circle No. 2 is hostess. Hear Jack Benny honor the Girl Scouts, on his show Sunday, March 11 at 6:00 p. m.

CIVIL DEFENSE A-Bomb Not Only Home Danger We Must Be on Guard Against By Walter A. Shead (This is the third in a series of five articles on the Civil Defense Program.) II7ITH AN ENEMY which places no value whatever upon the | lives of individuals, which has no moral scruples as we know them, ah atomic bomb is not the only peril faced by the American people in an all-out war with Russia.

Biological warfare against people and against animals is one of these perils. This sort of warfare which can spread a wide variety of disease including a number of viruses, rickettisae. bacteria, fungi, protozoa and soluble toxins, may be waged from within by sabotage, or from without by enemy planes and can be disseminated through a variety of media, chief of which are food, air and water. These infectious diseases taken in by humans through inhalation, absorption through the skin or by food, could be disseminated by aerial bombs and other munitions, by release of infective aerosols from planes or from ground devices, taking advantage of favorable winds, or by release in ventilating systems of large auditoriums. Particularly effective is contamination of water sources. In addition to humans, biological warfare against animals can be effective since meat, dairy and poultry products are an important source of diet for both military and civilian personnel. Production of wool and leather, might be curtailed and important biologicals and pharmaceuticals sttch as adrenalin, liver extract and insulin, entirely ■dependent upon animal glands and organs, could be cut off. Such animal diseases as foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, fowl pest and foreign types of Newcastle disease appear to have greater possibilities for damage in this country. 1 Then there is biological warfare against gfrops in the spread of insect pests and plant diseases which constitute a threat to our food supply. It would be comparatively easy for low flying planes to spread such crop and animal diseases across the vast stretches of the country’s great & plains where wheat, oats and the meat animals are raised and where population is comparatively meager. The department of agriculture knows about many of these foreign pests such as Japanese beetle, European corn borer, Mediterranean fruit fly, citrus canker and other pests,' and our most successful method of keeping down losses is development of strains resistant to specific diseases, which takes time. But it is likely that new organisms

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MOR ETC CONTRIBUTIONS TO MARCH OF DIMES Additional contributions to the March of Dimes polio fund have brought the Turkey Creek township total to i 5565.79. Recent contributions are: Wawakeechie Home Ec $5.00, Manford Butler, sl.o>o, C. C. Mason SIO.OO, Mrs. Laine $1.99, Mrs. W. G'. Connolly SIO.OO, Intermediate Mother’s Club $10.99, Friendly Neighbors $5.00, Drs. Clark and Craig $20.00; Junior Mother’s Club SIO.OO, miscellaneous $5.01. Total $77.01. B. & P. W. Club To Give Bridge Benefit The Business and Professional Women’s Club is giving a Card Party Benefit at the Pickwick Lounge, on Thursday, March fifteenth, at eight o’clock. Proceeds will go towards Winterizing the Scout Cabin. Different card games may be played, and the Public is invited to come in groups, or form tables from singles. 4-H NOTICE The Pollyanna 4-H club will meet Wednesday the 14, instead of Tuesday. The meeting will be held after school, in the Home Ec. I room at the High School. Be there! This week is National 4-H week. Syracuse 4-H girls have put a display of 4-H work in the window of the Northern Indiana Public Service and several girls will be on the radio at Warsaw this Saturday, Rotary Club Meets The Syracuse Rotary club met Monday nigm at the Pickwick, 1 with attendance at 94 percent I present. Harry Nicolai gave a talk on his own claasifieation of ma- | chinist, which was enjoyed very much. Harry told of the difficul- ! ties and the pleausres he had experienced in getting his business started and of the various tools and machines he has built in his I shop. Next week the club will have as guests owners of one of the commity’s manufacturing companies. I - Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bushong re- | turned Wednesday from a months vacation in Glendale, Ariz., where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray | Beach.

which present crop varieties cannot resist, may be introduced, even in peace time, and herbicidal chemicals might be disseminated openly over these vast crop areas where hostile planes might gain access. Probably one of the most insidious and dangerous methods of chemical warfare is the dissemination of so-called nerve gases, developed in Germany during World War H. These nerve gases are more toxic ; than any previously known war gases and are nearly colorless and odorless. They are liquids which yield toxic vapors when they evaporate and are laid down near the ground. These gases cut off breathing and blood circulation. Action is prompt and lethal and inhalation for a few seconds may cause death. Exposure to mild traces of the vapor causes bronchial restriction with difficulty in breathing, coughing and a water discharge of the nose. A slightly greater exposure induces painful constriction of eye muscles, terrific pain back of the eye-balls. Larger doses cause rapid and severe broncho-spasms, preventing both inhalation and exhalation. The victim becomes confused and cyanotie, may have nausea and vomiting and falls unconscious. The blood pressure falls, heart beat is slowed and may or may not start again. ' The U. S. public health service has worked out treatments for all these inhuman forms of modern warfare in the biological and chemical field. The point is in learning how to combat it; what treatments to give in emergencies and in the long pull for recovery; to pile up stocks of the right kind of medicines, particularly atrophine and Tridione, plenty of gas masks, protective Clothing, how to prevent contamination, hospitalization and a dozen other necessities in case of such an attack. Doctors and veterinarians must take special courses in how to combat the effects and this professional manpower must come from the private ranks therefore full cooperation of the various state, county and local medical and related professional groups is essential. Be ready to volunteer.

DEATHS MRS. THELMA PAULINE OTT Mrs. Thelma Pauline Ott, 48, died suddenly at 8:45 Wednesday evening, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Virgil Richards. Death was due to a stroke of apolexy. Mrs. Richards and infant son had been removed to their home from the Goshen hospital about 5:00 p. m., and Mrs. Ott had planned to assist in their care. Mrs. Ott was born, in Syracuse I May 5, 1902, the daughter of Arthur and Kate Snavely. Surviving are her husband, Ray Ott, her, father, Arthur Snavely, of Syracuse, and her mother Mrs. Kate Snavely, of Fort Wayne, one son Emerson Ott, of Goshen, four daughters, Mrs. Raymond (Marvis) Newcomer, Mrs. Kenneth (Cpal) Nicolai, Mrs. (Olivine) Richards and Miss Jean Russell, Russell, of Elkhart; three brothers, Eugene Snavely, of Goodland, > Ind., and Auldon and Stephen i Snavely of Toledo, 0., two sisters, ! Mrs. Ray Clingerman, of North Webster, and Mrs. Alex Sakowicv, of Fort Wayne and seven grandchildren. Friends are being received at ! the Rohrer funeral home, in New Paris, where a prayer service will i be held Saturday at 3 p. m., with I further services to follow in the 1 Solomon’s Creek E. U. B. church. ' Rev. Robert Cox, assisted by Rev. i Bevis Hill will officate. Burial I will be in the SoiQßlQa’a Creek cemetery. -- WILLIAM M. WATTS Wililam M. Watts, 88, a resident of Syracuse for 39 years, died Thursday morning, March 1 at the home of a daughter, Miss Fefa Watts, in South Bend, where ! he had been staying for the past . week. Mr. Watts and his wife, the i former Lillie Swickard, to whom he was married in 1887, resided . with a daughter, Mrs. Lula Harris, in Elkhart since last October i and Mrs. Watts died there in December. A week ago Mr. Watts went to the home of the South Bend daughter. Born at Leesburg, August 20, 1862, Mr. Watts was a son of My-' rick and Elizabeth Rippey Watts. He and Mrs. Watts resided in Ligonier before moving to Syracuse. Mr. Watts was a member of the Masonic lodge at Syracuse and the Scottish Rite at South Bend, and was a retired Standard Oil company employee. Surviving are the two daughters, a brother, Dwight Watts, of Hollywood, Cal,; and a sister, Mrs. Annie Thomas, of Goshen. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m., Saturday at the Carr funer-[ al home. The Rev. R. A. Fenstermacher officiated and burial was in the Syracuse cemetery. Masonic services were conducted at the grave. JOHN FRANKLIN KEHR John Franklin Kehr, 77, Foraker blacksmith for many years, and a former resident of Syracuse, died at 12:45 a. m., Monday at the Coil convalescent home, in Goshen to which he was taken Friday from the home of a son, George, in Foraker. Born near Nappanee, Aug. 29, 1873, Mr. Kehr was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kehr. He married Anna Barbara Cripe in 1900 and she died in 1912. Two years later he married Dora Fox and she survives. Also surviving are three sons, Vernon Ray and George M., both of Foraker; Henry, of Goshen; two daughters, Mrs. Leßoy (Fern) Miller of Goshen; and Mrs. William (Violet) Markham, who is with her husband, an army sergeant, at Aberdeen, Md.; 11 grandchildren; three great-grandchil-dren; two sisters, Mrs. Sam Yoder and Mrs. Charles Eolliott, both of Goshen; and three brothers, Amos and Clarence Kehr, both of Syracuse; and Ira Kehr of Bristol. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p. m., at the Yellow Creek Brethren church. Burial will be in adjoining cemetery. Past Matrons Club Mrs. Everett Dunn was hostess to twelve members of the Past Matrons club of the Eastern Star, * at the Shamrock party in her home, Tuesday evening. Contest prizes were won by, Mrs. O. C. Stoelting, Mrs. Chas.’ Crow, Mrs. M. E. Rapp, Mrs. Court Slabaugh and Mrs. Ida Hamman. Favors were Eastern Star receipt folders. Refreshments were served in keeping with St. Patrick’s’lMy the 1 color scheme being green and white. Mrs. Ernest Bushong and Mrs. Mary Hoy spent a few days this week in Chicago.

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New Factory Will Open In North Webster Blue Bell, Inc., will open a new plant in North Webster about May first. The Webster Lake Dei velopment Company has been working on a project for many months to build a cement block building 714x110 feet on the two lots of the Warner addition, sac- , ing Morton Street. Fred Carey, of North Webster, will construct thia building. This building will be equipped with overhead feedrail giving potfer to the sewing machines. Dri-Gas of North Webster will install automatic heating. At the front of the building will be I located the Superintendent’s office, reception room, payroll department, personnel and testing office, First Ai d department, | cloak room, mechanic shop, men’s' and ladies rest rooms. All new of- I fice equipment and rest room fix-! tures will be supplied. A space ia also being provided in the front ‘ end of the building for lunch' tables, with a large refrigerator. Blue Bell will not serve meals, but these facilities will be available for the employees that carry, their lunches. An R. C. A. sound system will be installed, with records being played 15 minutes out of each hour throughout the plant. Blue! Bell is opening up this sewing unit' in North Webster by de-centraliz-1 ing their sewing,operations. At the present time they will cut in Columbia City and use a semitruck for transferring these cuttings to their North Webster plant and return with finished goods 1 for shipment out of Columbia City - They have a similat * arrangement in Nappanee where they started operation February 26th. Blue Bell will employ in North Webster 90 to 100 ladies. They will have approximately 80 sewing machines installed. At the present time they are operating a temporary unit in the Jordan Building, employing approximately 30 people. This plant will be moved to the new location as soon as the building has been completed. Blue Bell, Inc., is the largest producer of work clothing in the country, operating 22 plants, with home offices in Greensboro, N. Carolina, and sales offices in Chicago, New York, Nashville, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Their plants are located in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, fVrginia, N. Carolina, Illinois, and Indiana. When it comes to supplying work clothing to the working man,' Blue Bell plays a big part. Too it might be pointed out that this company made enough garments during the last war to supply man in the service with two garments. At the moment they have a large volume of government contracts in some of the other plants. Work clothes is very essential during war times also to keep our home production properly clothed. Mr. and Mrs. George Clindan- t iel have returned from a few weeks trip west.

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Grant Petition For Lingofelter Road At Wawasee The bounty commissioners Tuesday moTfting granted the petition of Fred 6/ Dust and others for a public highway at Lingofelter park, at Lake Wawasee, and ordered that the highway be constructed. This action came after the reviewers turned in their report Monday, stating that the public highway would be a public utility and recommending that the j petition be granted. The reviewers were William Dorsey, of Tippecanoe township, Stephen Slaymaker, of Wayne township, and . Oder Arnold, of Clay township. The reviewers, in their report, found that one of the remonstrators, the Indiana Conference (EV) ,of the E. U. 8., church, would j sustain damage of S4OO Ijy the location of the proposed high I way, and that two other remonstrators, George L. Xanders and Lulu Sieders Francis, both of Syracuse, would not be damaged. The church organization had asked damages of sllo,ooo' and Xanders and Mrs. Francis had asked SIO,OOO. Tuesday morning the commissioners, deciding the damage report of the reviewers was reasonable, paid the county treasurer the ,S4OO recommended as the amount of damage which will be sustained by the E. U- D- church. Representatives of the church conference were present at the meeting Tuesday and notified County Attorney Ehrerett E. Rassor and the commissioners that they would appeal the decision to circuit court. No appeal was made by Xanders or Mrs. Francis, since they were not present at the meeting. The proposed highway, to be 40 feet in width, 'is to be located on the northeast side of Lake Wawasee, one mile from Syracuse. F. F. A. Team Wins 2nd Place In a district meeting, held at New Paris, Feb. 27, the Syracuse high school Future Farmers of America team won second places in a crops judging contest. A team from Bourbon won the first place, New Paris 3rd, New Carlisle 4th, Nappanee sth, Plymouth 6, Mentone 7th, Milford Bth, and Pierceton 9thi .Team members of the Syracuse group included Arthur Mabie, who tied for second place individual honors!, ‘Emory Stiffler, Alden Stuckman and Carl Wilkinson. Bill Stotts is team coach. The Syracuse team scored 1890 points, Bourbon 19.35, New Paris 1830. PYTHIAN SISTERS MEET The Pythian Association will meet Wednesday, March 31, at North Webster at 10:00 a. m. A pot-luck dinner will be served ftt noon, with a business session in the afternoon.

Lahr Survey Now in Progress i ’ The labor survey by the SyraL cuse- Wawasee Chamber of Com-j L merce was started this week, and ’ is expected to be finished by Monday of next week. A house-to-' house canvass is being made to ‘ find but all available labor here.' - The survey will also cover i ' - those people who are now employ- ’ i ed and have no desire or reason - to change. The various types of labor will be listed, both skilled ", and unskilled, men and women. 1 " The cards will-he used by the Weatherhead company in decid-1 | ing the various types of machines ’i to be sent here. The company expects to employ ■ about 500 people here, 70 percent men, with a payroll of about ' $1,500,000 annually. I | Details of setting up a plant ‘ | here are being worked out, and every indication is favorable. 1 Company executives are expected here this week for further conferences. The labor survey this week will cover all of Syracuse, Syracuse, lake, Wawasee lake and PapaKeechie lake. Next will be rural ; territory and towns of New Paris. Cromwell, North Webster, Leesburg and Milford. Brownie Scout News March 3rd the Brownie Scouts held their meeting at Mrs. Paul Lantz’s. The girls had a short lesson about courtesy, then after the roll call the Brownies learned a new folk dance called “Rig-a-Jig-Jig”, and a new song “The Deaf Woman’s Courtship.” Some of the older girls knew a game called “Winkum.” They J taught this game to the rest of the Scouts. Everyone had a wonderful time winking at everyone else. The Scout Leader read “The Brownies” to the girls. This is a story taken from a book written by Mrs. Juliana Ewing. The story is about a boy and girl who live in the North Country of England and who heaT from their grandmother about the useful “little people” of old time. It tells how they learn that there can be brownies in these days if children learn to do useful things and are more cheerful and helpful at home. The Brownies closed their meeting with the Scout Promise and “Taps.” LOCAL NEWS Dale Grimes spent a few days this week in the home of his son Robert Grimes, near Frankfort. Mr. and Mrs. Corlyss LeCount and family, of Millersburg, were guests- Sunday of the former’s mother, Mrs. Marie Cpl. and Mrs. Wendell Beck of! Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., spent the ’ week-end with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Beck.] Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Beck of. South Whitley, and Mr. and Mrs.' Richard Beck, of Warsaw, were also dinner guests Sunday evenI ing-

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2,000 Farm Women Meeting at Indianapolis Ask For Civil Defense

INDIANAPOLIS, March 5 — Two thousand farm women from' every county in the state, meeting in the twenty-first annual conference of the social and educational department of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Feb. 22-23, in Indianapolis, heard several speakers express the belief that each. rural community in Indiana set up a complete and adequate civil de-. sense against possible emergencies. Again and again from the con-' vention platform the farm women were told that we are concerned with the spiritual values at stake.' Said President Hassil Ek Schenck: “Though Korea is not materially | worth fighting for, certain issues ( are at stake that are worth fighting for. We hope and pray they will be preserved for every nation.” Mrs. Russell Cushman,‘state director of the S. and Ek, department said: “Our conscience cannot stand apart from the main stream of human life.” Mrs. Charles W. Swell, Otterbien, warned: | “Unless we learn something that will help us with the problems of the day, we might just as well have spent a couple of hours at the movies.” John Strohm, world traveler and author, pointed to the danger in the weakness of the Far East countries who have lately gained national status. “They are less able to defend their new freedom and are therefore more susceptible to Communism than before they Were given their in-< dependence,” he said. Governor Henry F. Schflffker greeted the convention with a rej view of the Status o* Indiana’s government with the statement that the new budget passed by the ■ house will incur deficit spending or S2B million in the next bien--1 nial. | Vance Lockhart, educational . fieldman for the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative Association pointed to the need for examining issues and warned againsc voting away our freedom for a mess of potage. | Mrs. Paul Flinn, state director of Pet and Hobby clubs, presentI ed the Jackson township, Jackson county, club the high state award for the best club, with honorable mention in the same classification going to Lawrence township, Marion county. Mrs. Albert Nierman, Rush county, was named the best leader in the state, with honorable mention going to Mrs. Chalmers Waddy, Allen county. Public speaking winners were Mrs. Madge Shourds, Spencer county, first; Mrs. Paul Fry, Whitley county, second; and Mrs. John Carter, Delaware county, third. For the best scrap book re<> ords of their activities during 1950 the Rural Youth club of Cass county won permanent possession of a trophy; second prjze went to Allen county, and third to Pulaski. In the rural churcTt improvement contest awards of $25 each were given to ministers or laymen of one church in each of the ten Farm Bureau districts. These awards are to be appiieu to expenses contingent with attending the annual Rural Leadership training school at Purdue Univer- j sity next summer. These churches were: Eel River Congregational Christian, Kosciusko county; Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren, Miami county; Friends Union in Parke county; St John; Lutheran, Dearborn county; Oak Hill, Vigo county; Metea Baptist, Cass county; Zoar Evangelical and; Reformed church, Vanderburgh county; Old Bethel church, Mar-| ion county; Rockdale Evangelical United Brethren, Franklin coun-| ty; and Zion Bethel church of Gbd, White county. The County Agents Association! presented Wayne county Farm Bureau with a trophy for the best co-operation with the Purdue Agricultural Extension Service during 1950. The 12 high scoring counties in the state by organization . standards in order of rank, were: Montgomery, Vanderburgh, Morgan, Marion, Wayne, (Delaware, Madison, Tippeocanoe, Fountain, Jackson, Spencer, and Gibson. Winning by districts were: one-La-Porte, two-Allen, three-Tippecan-oe, four-Huntington, five-Mon-tgomery, six-Marion. seven-Clay, eight-Bartholomew, nine-Vande» i burgh, ten-Jackson. The Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association made awards for the following endeav-, ors: Garden seed and insecticide posters — (Age group one) Phillip Doughty, Greenfield; Janet (

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Larrison, Converse; Donald Weaver, Mishawaka; and Patricia Woznaik, LaPorte. (Group two) — Wayne Carbiener, Bremen; David Duncan, Geneva; Patricia Lowe Brazil; and Margaret Jamison, Hoagland. ‘Poultry Poster — (Group One) Corena Fink, Cambridge City; Joyce Kurtz, Ft. Wayne; Joy Naomi Byers, Logansport; Martha Ann Florey, Attica. (Group two)Richard Lee Nierman, Seymour; Bonnie Darlene Reynolds, Waveland; Jane McDonald, Lebanon; and Gloria Olive, Fortville, add to resolution maps X Poultry Essay — Mrs. Dale Flora, Elwood; Mrs. J. C. Niedhammer, Evansville; Mrs. Arthur Etchison, Elwood; Mrs. Lucille Blackmore, Bloomfield. Wool awards —for the greatest precentage of potential volume, district seven, Mrs. Richard Armstrong, leader; high county in that district, Daviess, Mrs. A. D. Arthur leader; highest peri centage of increase of volume, eigthth district, Mrs. Webster i Heck, district leader; high county in district, Johnson, Mrs. Roy Mullinix, leader, ! JOE BOLAND ON PROGRAM AT BASKETBALL DINNER ■* a i The annual dinner given by the i Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of i Cqjßinerce in honor o( the SyraI 6iise high school basketball teami | will be held on Wednesday, I March 14. The ladies of the Hex i Grange will serve a chicken dinner to the members of both the first and second team and yell i leaders, Coach Millard Sink and . Principal Court Slabaugh. The (Dinner will be held at the ' Benton community hall, at Benton, due to the fact that repairs are being made to the Grange Hall. Joe Boland, sports director of the South Bend Tribune radio station, WSBT, will be the guest speaker. Mr. Boland was a star football player at Notre Dame, later was connected with sports department there and he 13 now sports director at radio station WSBT. He is a noted after dinner Speaker and broadcasts football and basketball games over the Columbia broadcasting system. Pay Fines On Gambling Charge Fines were assessed late Friday afternoon in circuit court against two more men, caught a few weeks ago in Sheriff Carl Latta’s gambling raids. P. Stone, of Argos, appeared voluntarily and pleaded guilty to a charge of “gaming". ITe was - fined $lO and costs by Judge Walter Brubaker. Stone was one of six persons found playing poker in the Smoker’s Inn at Claypool, Harold Goldsmith, operator of the Frog Tavern at Lake 'Wawasee, also appeared and pleaded guilty to a charge of “keeping a gaming device.” He was assessed $25 and costs, and his gaming equipment was ordered destroyed by Judge Brubaker. Four others are still to be arraigned on the gambling charges. They are scheduled for arraignment on or befpre March 10. Harold Knudsen, proprietor of the Yellow Banks hotel on Webster lake, pleaded guilty Tuesday morning in Kosciusko circuit court to a charge of “keeping a gaming device,” and was assessed a $25 fine and costs by Judge Walter Brubaker. The gaming equipment owned by Knudsen was ordered destroyed by Judge Brubaker, who has dealt the same penalties to others who have pleaded guilty to the same charge. Eugene Wright, operator of Wright’s recreation hall in Syracuse, Tuesday afternoon pleaded guilty to a charge of “keeping a gaming device” and was assessed a $25 fine and costs by Judge Walter Brubaker in circuit court. His gaming equipment was ordered destroyed. All but one of the 16 persons arrested on gambling charges last Feb. 14, by Sheriff Carl Latta have now been fined in circuit court. The only one still to appear is Glenn Lowman, operator of a filling station and grocery store north of Akron, who is also charged with “keeping a gaming devise. He is to appear for arraignment before March 19.