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Work on Weatherhead Plant Progressing; Start Production

The big Weatherhead Company plant here Is moving toward completion, with clock-like regularity.' Plant officials, have been more' than pleased with the progress of the work. Some 75 men are now employed on the interior of the building. The work of constructing the offices, which will extend all the way across the front of the building is now under way. Near the center of the row of offices, a concrete and steel 1 vault is being built. The offices and main rooms of the factory will all be air-condi-tioned. The huge boilers are both in working order. A 40,‘000-gallon oil storage tank for heating purposes has been installed. Painters are at work painting all sections of the boiler room. Water pipes are one color, steam another color, side walls and ceiling will be in two-tone green. All dangerous moving parts will be painted Vbd. Two huge automatic screw machines are turning over slowly to break them in properly. Others are expected this month. These machines may be put into actual production at any time now. New machines will be received for the next year, as they are available, and it will be that length of time before the factory is in full production. A modern first aid room, with an attending nurse on duty, will be available. „ The Weatherhead Company, in its several plants, employes a total of over 5,000 people. They expect to add 500 here at Syracuse within a year. A public open house is set tentatively for July, at which time the plapt will be open for the the public to view. The plant here will have its own telephone exchange, with an operator to handle balls to the various offices. An underground cable will carry the Aies from the building tb the company line nearby. A tool making department here is now being readied with much of the equipment on hand. An oil-treating plant for heating metals for making tools is a part of this department. A 30,'00<0*-gal-lon tank for storing liquid gas used in this department, is now on hand. The plant here will make all its own bits, dies. etc. Modern rest rooms for both men and women are now under construction. Lockers will be provided for every employee, and laundry service provided for clothing. A, sewer line is being constructed from the building east to the B. & O. railroad crossing at Huntington street, where it will connect with the city sewer lines. The town of Syracuse will construct, probably some time this year, a new water storage tank on city property in the south end of towh, which will have a cacacity of 100,000 gallons, to insure the new plant and other businesses and factories here sufficient water supply in any emergency. The water rental that the Weatherhead company alone will pay will be sufficient to pay for the new storage plant. On the west side of the new building, a large parking lot is being constructed. Rock shale will be used to cover the leveledoff section. The sections adjacent to the building will be landscaped and grass and evergreens planted to beautify the area. Another building will be built on to the present structure at the south side, this spring, to provide space for storage. The building is now lighted with long rows of florescent tublag. An 8-foot cyclone fence will be constructed around the whole area owned by the company. The present building occupies an area of about a city block ♦ square. Most of those now employed at the plant are local people, and practically all the materials used in the construction are being purchased through local channels. It may be difficult for some people to realize the impact that the addition of. this plant to the community here will have. One cannot really realize the magnitude of the operatiop here unless go down and visit the construction work. IN FLORIDA A card from Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Gray, Titusville, Fla., says that the weather there has been perfect, but fishing not so good. They report lots of people from the north there now.

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Rotarians Visit Big Plant Here Rotarians here heard Jack Smetzer, vice-president of The I Weatherhead Company, at their regular Monday night meeting at the Pickwick. An excellent swiss steak dinner was served to about 30 members and guests. Mr. Smetzer spoke of “Your New Neighbor,” and stressed the fact that the Weatherhead Company expected to be a good neighbor tb all here at Syracuse and Wawasee, and undertake all the responsibilties of a local business in a community. Mr. Smetzer stated that the relationships of the company with all local firms, the town and township authorities, and the Chamber of Commerce had been to date extremely cordial. He invited local people to visit the construction work of the plant at any time to see just what is being done. Following the talk, the club adjourned and went in a group to the Weatherhead building, where Mr. Sipetzer, Ray Dudderar, general building superintendent, and John Camden, personnel man for the company, took the Rotarians on a tour of the plant. (A description of work at the plant is given in another article.) Mr. Smetzer complimented the community on the several things already accomplished to take care of the situation being I created by the addition of the big plant here. Some 200 to 300 families will be moving here within the next year or two as housing becomes available. Some three to five hundred school children may be added to the local sichool population within a few years by this influx. The annual payroil of the company here, stated Mr. Smetzer, will be approximately $2,000,000 per year. This is an increase over the original estimate. He urged local retail stores to prepare for taking care of this added income of the community, so that the home community could realize the benefits. He stated that stores must compete with the best in any nearby city, so that our own community could grow in keeping with the industrial side. Mr. Smetzer stated that the company wanted to be good neighbors, and would do all in its power to cooperate in all community problems. Besides the three from the Weatherhead Company, Robert Jones, assistant cashier at the State Bank of Syracuse, was a guest at the dinner meeting and tour of the new building. With Rotarian President Fred O. Clark absent on a Florida trip, Vice President James Kirkwood in Washington, D. C., and Program Chairman Ed Stephenson absent on a trip to Boston, the meeting was opened and conducted by Secretary C. C. Mulholland. C. G. Etter introduced Mr. Smetzer. Rotarian Ken Harkless was absent and reported under medical treatment in a hospital at Milwakee, Wis., and Ross Osborn is still confined to his home at Wawasee following a recent operation. "Roaring 20’s Revue Set for April 17-18 ■ « The Business and Professional Womens’ Club announces the dates for their forthcoming home talent show. “The Roaring 20’s Revu-sical,” will be given Thursday and Friday, April 17 and 18, at the High School auditorium. ADDS NEW LINE OF MEN’S TAILORED SUITS r . The Pilcher Shoe and Men’s Store here has added the famous Storrs-Schaefer line of tailored suits for men. Mr.E. L. Shaw, company representative, will be at the Pilcher Store next Wednesday, Feb. 6, with an interesting line of attractive fabrics and designs. Mr. Pilcher cordially invites you in to see his new line that day. Mrs. Mary Jo Olson left Thursday for Chicago, where she will visit relatives. She will be accompanied as far as Gary by Mrs. Dale Weingart and son, who have been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bushong.

Will Rebuild Bowser Home Into Modern Business Room And Apartments Keith Cripe has purchased the Bowser residence, next to the Pickwick theatre, and will rebuild it into a modern business room, with three apartments in the upstairs section. The front porch on the residence will be torn off and a modern store front constructed. The present building will also be extended on back to the alley line, with three modern apartments for rent in the upstairs, rooms. Mr. Cripe will use the business; room himself for a display and I sales room for his cabinet making I business. The Wawasee Manu-I facturing Company is now making kitchen cabinets and similar units for homes and businesses all over northern Indiana. The company is also engaged in supplying the Liberty Trailer company with cabinets and sinks for their line of trailers. A basement room will also be constructed, which may be for rent for some other type of business. This new building will be a valuable addition to the uptown business section of Syracuse. Auxiliary Will Give Prizes For Best Essays The American Legion Auxiliary Unh No. 2.23, of Syracuse, will again give cash prizes to winners of a local essay contest. This has been a project of the Auxiliary in past years. The contest is open to all students of the Junior and Senior high school here (grades 7 to 12). The subject of the essay this yearis “America, Land Os Opportunity.” . ' • First prize will be $5.00 and secqnd prize 2 $.50. The essay is limited to 50*0 words. Those desiring to enter should see Miss Hamman at the high school, for complete rules. The contest closes March s,th. Additional prizes are awarded by the district and state Auxiliary organizations. Miss Bowser, librarian, will help those desiring to enter, by suggesting and supply books on the subject. Last year’s winners were Sam. Nusbaum and Marcia Hursey. New Fire Truck To Be Delivered Ir March The new Turkey Creek township fire truck is expected to be delivered here about March Ist. Township Trustee Cal Beck and Assistant Fire Chief Orval Snobarger were in Battle 'Creek, Mich., January 23rd, where the new unit is being mounted on a big Dodge truck chassis. The $14,00(0 pumper will be turned over to the Syracuse Fire Department for use. It will carry 600 gallons of water and develop I,oo'o pounds pressure, which will throw a fog, used in combatting gasoline and oil fires, so successfully. The addition of this unit to the local equipment will make the Syracuse department one of the best equipped in the midwest. The pumper the new equipment is replacing is probably 30 or 35 years of age, although it has been rebuilt in recent years. LOCALNEWS The Syracuse bridge club was entertained Wednesday in the home of Mrs. Matt C. Abts. A one o’clock luncheon was served. Mrs. Dorothy Harris and Mrs. Adah Miller were guests. Prizes were won by Mrs. Adah Miller, Mrs-. O. C. Stoelting and Mrs. Abts. Ted Stucky, a student at I)ePauw University, is spending the mid term vacation in Florida He accompanied a group of fraternity brothers. Jane Stoelting, five .year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Karl Stoelting returned home last week from Children’s Memorial hospital in Chicago where she underwent major surgery on January 15 th. Marlene Cripe and Jane Nusbaum returned home Wednesday evening from the Goshen hospital where they had undergone appendectomies last Friday. Mrs. Gerald Kline, Girl Scout leader, who with several other adults, accompanied the Girl Scouts on their week end at Pokagon State Park, was told by the hotel management there that the group was the best of all groups ever had there, and thought they deserved a “round of appreciation;” The g iris thanked them at Saturday night dinner by- giving their Girl Scout song, “Girl Scouts Together”.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 19<52.

Connolly Named As Trustee of Bankrupt Wilt Co. R. Leon Connolly was named last Friday as trustee of the bankrupt firm of W. M. Wilt Industries, Inc., by Judge William G. Keane, federal referee, Fort Wayne. Judge Keane set the bond at $30,000, which has been filled by Mr. Connolly. The bankrupt firm will be liquidated and all property sold, for. benefit of the creditors. There have been several inquiries made from some good firms, with national reputations, concerning the purchase of the property here, and - it is considered very likely that a deal will be worked out that will bring in a good firm here who will employ as many or more than did the Wilt company. MENTONE HERE AT S. H. S. SATURDAY NIGHT Mentone high school will be here this Saturday night for two games with the Yellowjackets. This is a game originally scheduled early in the season, but postponed because of illness at the Mentone school. The Jackets go to Etna Green on Friday night. CONGRESSMAN HALLECK WILL GIVE 8 LINCOLN DAY ADDRESSES IN DISTRICT Washington, D. C., Jan. 30. — A schedule of eight Lincoln Day appearances, six of them in the Indiana Second District, was announced today by Rep. Charles A. Halleck. Following tradition, the House of Representatives will not consider vital legislation on the Floor during the period when Republican Members take to the road in a nation-wide Party observance of birthday anniversary, February 12. Halleck will fly to Boise, Idaho, for his first address February 9, returning to Warsaw for his first District dinner meeting, Monday, February 11. Other District dinners at which Halleck will speak include: Lafayette, Feb. 112; Kentland, Feb. 13; Monticello, Feb. 14; Winamac, Feb. 15, and Valparaiso, on Feb. 16th.. “I am happy to have the chance to meet with saSP many people in the District on these occasions,” Halleck said today. “Being back home for a week will give me an opportunity to get a cross-section of citizens opinion on the issues which are facing this second session of the 82nd Congress.” Halleck will stop in Cleveland on his return to Washington. There he will address a luncheon session of the Cleveland Bar Association at noon and a Republican meeting 1 nthe eveningMrs. Halleck will accompany her husband to their home at Rensselaer. CEMETERY BOARD ELECTED At a meeting of owners of lots in the Syracuse cemetery, held last Saturday, the following were elected as directors in the Syracuse Cemetery association: Wade Zerbe, Charley Crow, Rev. J. C. Bailey, Effie P. Spencer, Dorothy K. Harris. R. Leon Connolly is president and Wilma F. Hire is secretary-treasurer.

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Shown above, left to right, are: Bill Stotts, vocational agriculture teacher at Syracuse high school; Arlen Bobeck, route 2, Syracuse; and Dr. R. M. Bateman, director of the Ft. Wayne, Purdue University Center. Arlen Bobeck of route 2, Syracuse, Ind., will be one of twenty worthy young farmers who will receive a scholarship to the Fort Wayne Purdue University Center

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House-to-House Drive Friday For Polio Fund Campaign

The annual drive for funds for the 1952 March of Dimes campaign will be made house-to-house this Friday evening, starting at 5 :‘OK> P. M., by the members of the American Legion Post No. 223 and the ladies Auxiliary. Syracuse residents are requested to have their donations ready —and make them as large as possible, for the need is great—and donations to date are below normal. Donations already received include: George A. Hire, SI.OO. Millie Snobarger, SI.OO. Elizabeth Pollock, SI.OO. Mrs. John Auer, SI.OO. Mrs. Matt Abts, 50 cents. Ebenezer Ladies Aid, $5.00. American Legion, $25.0'0. Edwin P. McCarty, $5.00. Drs. Clark & Craig, $20.00. Pythian Sisters, $120.00. Ministerial Assn., $25.93. _ Legion Auxiliary, $25.00'. Martha Crow Fick, sloi.oo. Wed. Afternoon Club, $5.00. Intermediate Mothers, SIO.OO. Syracuse Bridge Clug $2.00 C. C. Bachman, sr., $2.0*0. To meet the usual quota for this community, we need more than $5*00.00 yet. So please, individuals and organizations, get your gifts in at once. The drive closed this week. Chosen Outstanding Young Man of 1951 at Kokomo Henry W. Abts, of Kokomo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Abts of Wawasee, has been chosen as Kokomo’s “outstanding young man of 1951,” by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The award is based on what the recipient has done for the stability and progress of the community. This is the 11th year that such an award has been made. A full account of Mr. Abts activities in the community was carried in a recent edition of the Kokomo Tribune, also an editorial praising the choice. He is assistant personnel director at the Haynes Stellite Co., and is well known to many local people.

Four Weeks Agricultural Short i Course, which starts February 11. Bobeck, whose agricultural scope has been enlarged by study with ■ Bill Stotts at Syracuse High • School is now branching out into the hog business. In connection with this, one of the topics which • he will study in the short course, . which is open to all Northeastern . Indiana Farmers, will be "Llve- ■ stock Production Practices.”

DIMES DRIVE IN FINAL WEEK — As the 1952 MARCH of DIMES campaign neared its close this week, national and local officials of the National Foundation for j Infantile Paralysis joined in predicting that the American people would see to it that the MARCH of DIMES overtakes and keeps pace with the quickening march of polio. Doubling the March of Dimes period this year was necessitated by tripled incidence of polio . during the last four years. Each year the National Foundation I has gone into debt providing for patient care of children and adults stricken with polio — the only epidemic disease still on the increase in America. Incidence during the last four years has been so high that an! entirely new concept of polio has been developed, a concept geared to 30,0*00 cases a year instead of the ten to twelve thousand cases experienced during the previous decade. > - Since scientists say it is likely that accelerated polio incidence will continue until the final answer to the disease is discovered, it seems clear that the only way left open to cope with the challenge of this frightening new ■ concept is to meet it squarely with a new concept of giving. Only a new and enlarged concept of giving will enable the nation to cope with the three big increases that cloud the polio picture — increased incidence, increased numbers of carry-over cases requiring expensive longterm care, and increased costs of hospitalization, trained personnel and equipment. On National Foundation records are cases that have cost upwards of $3'0,000; and bills of $5,000 to SIO,OOO per year for many other patients are by no means rare. , All of these facts make clear . why the 1952 March of Dimes must succeed and why its slogan ■ this year is: “This fight is yours.” I ROYAL BORTON CAR DAMAGED IN WRECK ON ROAD 15 WEDNESDAY { The 1947 Buick automobile of Royal Borton was badly damaged i in a wreck Wednesday, about 4 p.m., when it collided with a ’39' Dodge, belonging to .Wanold Olman, of Goshen. The 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olman received a broken collar bone and other injuries. The accident happened near the Keim greenhouse, north of Waterford, on road 15. Both cars were coming south, and as Borton was passing the Olman car Mr. Olman turned left, to go into the Keim greenhouse. After striking the Olman car, Mr. Borton’s auto struck a telephone pole on the left side of the road, breaking it off at the ground level. The Olman girl was the only one injured. Mr. Borton’s car was almost totally demolished, while the Olman car received consider--1 able damage. > Mrs. B. F. Hoy was a patient in i the Elkhart hospital several days i this week and is expected to re- > turn home Thursday. i i Jack Darr, Eddie Blocker, Mari tha Lee Whitehead and Milderd , Bushong, students at Indiana Unii versity, are spending the between -1 semester vacation in their homes I here.

Entered at postoffice at Syracuse, Indiana, as second class matter.

Arrest 4 For Lake Wawasee Thefts - J A series or house burglaries at Lake Wawasee is solved this week by the arrests of Millard Eppert, 30, of Syracuse, his two brothers-in-law, Calvin Hill, 27, of Syracuse, and Phillip Ross Hill, 36, of Burket. An estimate of the value of the “loot” made by Sheriff Carl Latta is that it may be valued at $3,500.

The arrests were made by Sheriff Latta, State Detective Dave Milbourne and Lieut. George Everett, commanding officer of Ligonier state police barracks. Clifford Eppert, aged about 26, was arrested at 11:10 Thursday morning at South Bend, when he stepped off a bus. The arrest was made by deputy Joe Bauer and State officer Blaine Shane. Eppert lives about 4 miles south of Syracuse. The four men are being held in the county jail at Warsaw, and much of the loot, recovered from the homes of Eppert and Phillip Ross Hill, is stored in the jail garage. Formal charges have not been filed. Considerable merchandise was also found at the Clifford Eppert home, including electrical appliances, etc. The large garage at the jail is virtually “loaded” with the stolen I goods. Among the loot recovered was a 20-inch screen, table model television set, a large console radio, several gas heaters and gas I tanks, six fishing rods and reels, curtains, drapes, bedspreads, blankets, a clothes hamper full of sheets and linen, several electric toasters, percolators, clocks, tab-1 i les. stands, plates, dishes, towels,; I a china cabinet, tool set, mixmas- j • ter, silverware, and many other articles too numerous to mention. Sheriff Latta estimated the stolen merchandise to be of a value of approximately $3,500, and ■ he said that numerous other artiS cles have not been recovered. It was reported that when bed clothes became dirty, it was the custom to just burn them and put on clean ones from the plentiful supply available. Some of the stolen drapes and curtains, as well as other items, were in use at the Eppert and Hill homes, the sheriff reported. Eppert and Phillip Hill are married the sheriff said. Calvin Hill is also married, but separated, it was disclosed. ’ The men were captured thru some clever police work by the three officers. For some time Sheriff Latta and Detective Milbourne have had on file serial numbers of bottled gas tanks stolen from homes and cottages. Early Tuesday afternoon Sheriff Latta and Detective Milbourne were driving through, Syracuse when they noticed three tanks — two empty and one hooked up, in the yard of Eppert’s home. An inspection of the tanks showed that they were among those having been reported as stolen. Find Hill In Closet The two officers went to the house and questioned Eppert, who admitted taking the tanks. Eppert said that Calvin Hill was also in the house, and when the two officers began searching they found Hill hiding in a closet. Mr. Eppert was questioned by police officers in the police car, and Mrs. Eppert was questioned in the house. Both soon broke down and told the whole story. An inspection of the Eppert house revealed a large quantity of other goods in an upstairs cloI set, reported as stolen from Lake i Wawasee cottages during the past weeks. After being taken to jail at Warsaw, Eppert and Hill admitted the numerous burglaries and implicated Phillip Ross Hill, qf Burket. Late Tuesday night Lieutenant Elverett joined Sheriff Latta and Detective Milbourne. They went to Burket and arrested Phillip Hill. At his house they found a large quantity of the stolen merchandise. He was taken to the jail at 3:19 o’clock Wednesday morning. New Merchandise Found There Is considerable evidence that the group has entered jewelry stores, for some new merchandise was found that could have come only from a store. Lilly Home Rifled The various merchandise was stolen from the Lake Wawasee homes and cottages of Eli Lilly, ■ Indianapolis; Jim Waltz of Goshen; L. N. Cooley of New Carlisle; Claude French of Goshen; and a Mr. Levy, an attorney from Ohio, i The Lilly cottage is located on the north side of the lake. The

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’ cottages of Waltz and Cooley are ’ located on the south side of the ■ lake, near the Tavern hotel. The cottages of French and Levy are located on the south side, near , the Waco pavilion. Articles valued at SI,BOO were , taken from the Cooley cottage , alone, the officers reported. The . television set and two gas heaters were among the merchandise . stolen from the Levy cottage. Entrance to all the homes was gained by forcing the lock on a side window. The doors were then unlocked and merchandise carried out. At one home, insult was added to injury when several men urinated, etc., on the kitchen floor. Sheriff Latta said a pick-up truck was used by the three men to haul away the stolen items from the cottages, all of which were closed for the winter months. Most of the breakins are believed to have been committed in early December. Sheriff Latta said the gas tanks were taken from various homes and cottages. The three men, he said, have admitted disposing of many of the tanks by throwing them into the lake, etc. More gas tanks have been recovered by the Sheriff than have been reported : stolen. ■ COUNTY AIR FORCE SERGEANT DIES Relatives of T/Sgt. Charles G. Hoover, air force veteran, have been informed of his death which occurred at Wichita, Kans., Thursday. Although he had not been in good health for several years, his death was unexpected. Sgt. Hoover, 44, was the son of the late David and Jennie Hoover, of Syracuse, and lived in the Syracuse community until 14 years ago. At that time he moved to California, residing at Taft and Bakersfield. Ten years ago he enlisted in the army air corps and served in the Southwest Pacific theatre. He remained in service following World War 11, working as a meat cutter in food supply branches. Prior to his transfer to Kansas ID months ago he was stationed at Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Texas. He leaves his wife, Marian; four brothers, Guy and Martin Hoover, of Syracuse, Donald, of Albion, and Orren, of Fellows, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Gaylord Long, of Warsaw, Mrs. Owen LeCoupt, of Albion, and Mrs. Mervin Corwin, of Coalinga, Calif. Last rites for Sgt. Hoover, were held at 10:30 Wednesday at ’ the national military cemetery at 1 New Albany. ; LOCAL NEWS Miss Margaret Miles will, ap- , pear on the Jeanette Lee television program over WFBM, In- ; dianapolis, Thursday, January 31 at 3:001 p.m., instead of 3:30 as announced in last week’s Jour- . nal. r Miss Willodean Traster return- . ed home last Friday from the , Healthwin sanitorium at South Bend, where she had been a patient for fifteen months. r Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Disher and ; . daughter, Dianna, were week end [ guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morf eno in Gary. Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Smeeton and . children are spending this week r in Syracuse, as guests of the for--1 mer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. r Smeeton, and sisters, Mrs. Leon . Connolly and Mrs. Horace Gott- > schalk. They have just return- . ed from Newfoundland, where Dr. Smeeton was stationed at the Argentia Naval Base for the past » eighteen months. He now reports - to the Great Lakes Naval Station -for duty. 1 Kenneth Harkless is a patient in the Columbia hospital in Milwaukee, Wis., for observation. s Mrs. Harkless is a guest of her e niece and husband, Dr. and Mrs. Wilson Weisel in Milwaukee. Mrs. John Mench was removed ; to her home here Monday from i the Elkhart hospital where she . had been a patient since Dec. 24 i and underwent a major operation B on Jan. 3rd.