Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 46, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 February 1952 — Page 1

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VOLUME 46

Township to Receive New $14,000 Fire Truck March 6

Must Enlarge Fire House The new Turkey Creek township fire truck will be here on Thursday, March 6, for a four or five hour test, before delivery, according to Calvin E. Beck, trustee. The pumper is from the American Fire Apparatus Co., Battle Creek, Mich., and is mounted on a heavy-duty Dodge truck chassis. The test will be made near -the fire station, and the public is invited to visit the scene that day and see the big new truck in operation. The new pumper will develop pressure up «to 10*0’0 lbs. The total cost to the township will be over $14,000. The pumper will carry two lines of 1%-inch hose on a reel, and six hose lines can be operated from the pump at one time, if necessary. Extension ladders and other equpiment will be on the new unit. It will carry 600 gallons of water. The old 1939 Chevrolet fire truck, which th*' new pumper replaces, will be taken to Niles, Mich., and converted into a water carrier, with tanks to hold either 600 or 800 gallons of water. This will enable the fire department to give added service to all rural areas. To house the new unit, the already over-crowded fire house will be enlarged by the town of Syracuse by the addition of a room on the west side, with entrance on Main Street. The new unit is of the same make as the pumper bought by the town five years ago. The new pumper has a four-stage pumper, while the town unit has a twostage pumper. A representative from the Fire Underwriters will be here for the tests. Besides giving the people of the township better protection, the new fire truck will enable fire insurance rates to be reduced in the future. Fire Chief Lee Poyser, Asst. Chief Orval Snobarger, Trustee Beck, and members of the township advisory board visited the factory of the American Fire Apparatus Co. at Battle Creek prior to purchase of the new equipment. BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. Leon Connolly was hostess to her bridge club in her home Tuesday evening. Mrs. Jack Ronketti of Maywood, Illinois, was a guest. Mrs. Robert Clevenger and Mrs. J. B. Cox won the prizes. Sunday School Class Meets Mr. and Mrs. Emory Stetler entertained the Star class of the New Salem Church of the Brethren, in their home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Emerald Jones, is teacher of the class. Gleneen Peters, *1 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Peters, is a patient in the St. Joseph hospital, room 665, in Fort Wayne with a bruised kidney. She was thrown from a horse she was riding on Feb. 17 and entered the hospital on Feb. 19 for treatment. She is a pupil in the eighth grade. Charles A. Halleck Here On April 7th Charles A. Halleck, representative in Congress from the Second Indiana district, will speak in Syracuse on Monday eyening, April 7, at the annual dinner given by the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary club for the boys of the Syracuse high school senior class. The talk by Congressman Halleck will not be political in nature, and all the fathers o>f the boys of the graduating class and others interested may attend. Last year the speaker was U. S. Senator Raymond E. Willis. Mr. Halleck will be in Indianapolis the week-end prior to the dinner meeting here, for the annual meeting of the Republican Editorial Association, where he will be one of the main speakers. He will stay over in order to come to Syracuse for the dinner here and then fly back to Washington on Tuesday.

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No. 20

Speeders Are Getting Away With Murder

Declaring that “speeders are getting away with murder,” the nationwide newspaper campaign to reduce the *19'52 traffic accident toll today centered its fire mainly on. speeding drivers, who alone killed 15,000 men, women and children and claimed 500,000 injured victims last year. Public safety specialists thruout the country have branded excessive speed as “Killer No. 1” in traffic accidents and urged that the most intensive law enforcement drives against speeders be undertaken this year in all states. They have also proposed that all official and unofficial groups interested in greater safety on the highways initiate educational programs during 195'2 to help lower the high toll of deaths and injuries attributable to speed by persuading drivers to “Slow down for safety’s sake.” The key relationship of speed to the upward death curve in highway accidents in recent years has definitely' been established, according to Thomas N. Boate, public safety director of the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies and acting manager of its accident prevention department. The tendency to higher speeds increased deaths on highways in rural areas by 3,200 in 195'0*, he said, accounting for all but 30'0 of the 3,500 jump that year in the death toll for the nation as a whole, compared with 194*9’. Last year, he added, rural deaths due to speed probably increased nearly 5,000 over the 1949 total. A former captain of Pennsylvania’s state police who has often seen dead speeders and their innocent victims in wrecks on the highways, Mr. Boate urged that speeders be made the No. 1 target of enforcement and educational campaigns throughout 1952 “to make a real start towards saving 10,000 lives this year” — the goal of more than 8,000 newspapers’ intensive highway safety efforts. He recommended that law enforcement authorities be backed up in every possible way in drives to round up and penalize speeders. In some states, Mr. Boate pointed out, drivers lose their driving privileges for speeding offenses. This has been an effective deterrent, he said, expressing the hope that more states would take similar action to curb “veritable” jet-propelled speeds” on the open road and thus help to hold down the growing number of fatalities. But drivers themselves, he declared, must be convinced of the utter folly of reckless speeds to “save time,” endangering themselves, their families, and other innocent persons on the streets and highways. Excessive speed increases the severity of accidents two to three times, compared with mishaps at lower speeds, Mr. Boate emphasized. In one state a survey showed that on a super-highway where speeds of 70 miles per hour were permitted, and often exceeded, 4.5 percent of all accidents were fatal, compared with 1.5 percent in crashes on other highways in the same state. “Speed is now causing up to half of all motor vehicle deaths in number of states,” said Mr. Boate. “A correspondingly high proportion of those injured and crippled for life in highway accidents are caused by speeding. Speed killed 13,30*0 men, women and children and its injured victims totaled 417*5 ,'OOO in 1950. Last year these casualties were greatly increased because of the growing tendency to speed. On the highways, speed is Killer No. *1 and its toll will continue to grow year after year unless enforcement officials, the public and millions of drivers themselves take concented action against needless, heedless speeding. “There is almost a 50-50* chance that if you have a fatal accident it will be caused by speeding, so why not slow down, keep within sensible limits, and have a better chance of arriving safely at your destination?” Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dietrick left Wednesday for a vacation in Florida.

DEATHS PERRY R. SPRAGUE Perry R. Sprague, 81, who organized the Syracuse Lumber & Coal Co. here in September, 1914, and had been in business here continuously since that time, died in his Syracuse home Monday night at 6:25 p. m. Mr. Sprague had been ill for the past two years and had been bedfast since last July. He was a member of F. & A. M. No. 45*4, the Chamber of Commerce and the Methodist church. Mr. Sprague was born on Dec. I*l, 1870, in Fremont, Mich., the son of Samuel and Malona (Pawelson) Sprague, and came to Syracuse to enter the lumber business from Nevada Mills, Ind. Mr. Sprague married the former Luella Terry on Dec. 22, 1896*, and is survived by her and a daughter, Mrs. William Jarboe, of Arcadia, Calif., and a son, Dale, who has been associated with him in the lumber business in more ’ recent years. Four grandchildren also are living. Mr. Sprague was widely respected wherever he was known. He took his civic responsibilities very seriously, and always had a dry bit of friendly humor to add to any conversation. Mr. Sprague will be missed by all of the community. Business houses here closed an hour during funeral services, as mark of respect for Mr. Sprague. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, with the Rev. R. A. Fenstermacher in charge. Burial was in the Syracuse cemetery. Herbert Sloan Herbert Sloan, 59, former Syracuse resident, was found dead Wednesday in his bed at a rooming house in Chicago. Mr. Sloan was never married, and had resided in Chicago for about 10 years. The deceased was a veteran of World War I. He was born Nov. 6, 1893, at Syracuse, the son of Sidney and Emma Sloan. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Herman Huey and Blanche Sloan, of Syracuse, and a brother, Walter Sloan of Goshen. The cause of death is not known. Mr. and Mrs. Huey went to Chicago early Thursday, and the Carr ambulance was to return the body here. Funeral services will be held at the Carr funeral home Friday at 2 p. m., and burial in the Syracuse cemetery.

Jackets Are Ready for Sectional!

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For the first time since sectional play in basketball has started, the Syracuse Yellow Jackets go into the tourney as one of the underdogs. After experiencing the worst season in history, in wins and losses, the locals now stand near the bottom of the pile. However, if you examine the record more closely you will see that many, many games were lost by only a very few points. A basket or two would have converted a loss into a win. The 1951-’52 squad is one of the scrappiest teams S. H. S. has ever

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WEDDINGS 8 Hamilton - Ritter Miss Virginia Hamilton of Ft. Wayne, daughter of Mrs. Ethel Hamilton, became the bride of Walter D. Ritter, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ritter, Sr., of Syracuse, on Saturday evening, Feb. 23, in the home of the bridegroom’s parents. Rev. Walter Krider officiated. The couple was attended by Mrs. Norman Hamilton, sister-in-law of the bride, as matron of honor and Mr. Billy Harrington, brother-in-law of the groom, as best man. The bride chose for her wedding a light blue dress with a pink straw hat and carried pink roses. The matron of honor wore a purple dress, white hat and her flowers were white carnations. The bride’s mother wore gray with white carnations. The groom’s mother also wore gray and a corsage of white carnation. Following the wedding a reception was held in the couple's newly furnished apartment on Huntington street. 558 Lbs. Butterfat In Year Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 26th. — With 55*8 pounds of butterfat and 16,94*6 pounds of milk to her credit, Ormsby Rag Apple Teeny, registered Holstein-Friesian cow owned by Ross W. Osborn & Voyle Osborn, Leesburg, Ind., has completed a 3*65-day production test in official Herd Improvement Registry. She was milked 2 times daily, and was 4 years 1 month of age when she began her testing period. Testing was supervised by Purdue University, in cooperation with The Holstein-Friesian Association of America.

put out. Several fans have said that if the fight of the present squad had been given to the squad of last year, S. H. S. would have been state champs. Well, at least some of that is true. The Jackets will meet another taam with about the same record, ia their first game of the tourney, when they play Mentone Friday morning. We point out that wins and losses during a season don’t mean a thing now. As the tourney starts, every team is equal.

Announce Engagement And Approaching Marriage Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Whitehead announce the engagement of their only daughter, Martha Lee, to Donald G. Scearce, son of Mr. C. G. Scearce, Marion. Miss Whitehead will graduate in June from Indiana University, where she is a member of Delta Zeta sorority. Mr. Scearce is a member of Acacia fraternity. He will graduate from Purdue University in May. The couple are planning a June wedding. WARSAW ITEMS Representative Frank O. Rarick, former mayor and city councilman in Warsaw, this week announced that he will file his nanie as a candidate for renomination to the state legislature in the'doming republican May primary election. Kosciusko county contributed $1,921.32 toward a state total of $68,214.43 for the Christian Rural Overseas Program, it was announced this week. The Lake City Minstrels, sponsored by the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce and featuring Warsaw talent in blackface, played to a large crowd Monday night at the high school gym in North Webster. Earl Himes, county auditor, issued a reminder today that beginning Saturday, March 1, mortgage and. veterans tax exemptions may be filled at his office in the court house. The filing period continues until May 5.

In some ways, the underdog team has a better chance than the team “on top.” The top teams have their opponents keyed up and must play their very best at each game. . Many times, when meeting a team with a bad season’s record, the favorite will be knocked off; when the underdog starts fighting every inch of the way. Syracuse fans will be there at the tourney every session, backing the Yellow Jackets all the way.

Cub Scouts Observe 42nd Anniversary Cub Scout Pack 56 held its annual Blue and Gold party at the Scout Cabin Tuesday evening with an attendance of 89 persons. «, Mrs. Bornman, in charge of the entertainment, arranged for Mr. Duckwall to show some comedy movies which were immensely enjoyed by both Cubs and parents. Cub awards were presented to 18 boys, and Bobcat pins to Charles Fogler and Jerry Sink. An announcement was made that we were graded “A” on our Cub Scout window. Mrs. Ralph Thornburg Jr. and Mrs. Robert Insley served cake and ice cream to the guests. The cake was beautifully decorated with the Cub motto, “Be Prepared”, in the center. 4 SCHOOLS BRING HOME HIGH STATE MUSIC HONORS Syracuse, Claypool, Beaver Dam and Milford schools brought home high ratings from the allstate solo and ensemble contest which was held Saturday at Butler university, in Indianapolis. Stover Hire, coronet soloist from Syracuse, received an excellent rating. Anita Garman, only entrant from Claypool, won a superior rating for her piano solo, McDowell’s “Praeludium.” Mary Drudge, of Akron, won a superior rating in the twirling contest. She is a sophomore in the Beaver Dam school. Superior ratings were won by three soloists and three ensembles who entered the contest from the Milford schools. I Co. Taxpayers Would Save $ly 2 Million By Cuts Eventual tax savings of approximately $1,526,328 to the people of Kosciusko county — if Congress should enact $8.6 billion of Federal budget cuts as proposed by Senator Harry F. Byrd (D., V&.) — were estimated today by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. Senator Byrd has recommended that this amount be trimmed from the $85.4 billion spending budget for the coming year now before Congress. . The State Chamber calculated that the saving to the entire state of Indiana through this amount of Federal budget . reduction would be $199,520,000, or “far more than double the annual gross income tax collections in Indiana.” In submitting his proposals for spending cuts last week, Senator Byrd said, “If Congress has the will to make them, these reductions can reasonably be made without impairing a single essential function.” The sß*s.4* billion budget presented to Congress by the President contemplates 'a defict of $14.4 billion for the next fiscal year unless new taxes are enacted. Revenues under existing tax laws are estimated at s7l billion. Principal reductions proposed by Sen. Byrd were cuts of $2,5 billion in foreign economic aid; $2.'6 billion in the military establishment, mostly in civilian employment and public works projects, and $3 billion in domestic civilian expenditures of government. On the subject of cuts in foreign economic aid, Senator Byrd said: “It is contemplated that much of the money going into military (as contrasted with economic) aid programs will find its way into foreign economies and suffice for paralleling and over lapping economic programs.” On the military establishment: “It is doubtful whether anyone outside the military. establishment will contend seriously that the armed services are not I*o* per cent inefficient in their utilization of civilian manpower .... As a member of the Armed Services Committee, I know that vast sums can be saved and the military* effort imprpved by full and sympathetic use of business procedures.” Proposals for reductions in the field of domestic civilian expenditures are spread over a broad area. They include elimination i of the President’s recommended I S3OO million for Federal subsi- 1 dies to local schools and of the St. Lawrence seaway and several other public works projects. Fed- : eral agricultural payments under the conservation program would be reduced “to the level recommended by the American Farm Bureau.”

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Red Cross Drive Quota For Community Is Set At slllO

Candidates May File For May Primary The 30-day period for filing candidacies for party nominations to I*o county offices, the second district congressional seat, and party precinct committeemen in the May 6 primaries opened on Tuesday, Feb. 26th. Candidates for both Democratic and Republican party primary elections must file notice with the county clerk or the secretary of state between Feb. 26 and March 27. In the primaries nominees are to be chosen by each of the parties for state senator, two state representatives, prosecuting attorney, treasurer, coroner, surveyor, and two county commissioners. Committeemen and vice committeemen are to be chosen by the parties for each of the precincts in the county. Also to be chosen in the primaries are delegates to the Republican and Democratic state conventions. The Republicans must pick 23 delegates to represent the county, the Democratic 14. Candidates for convention may file up to April 6, thirty days before the primary. Candidates for the Second District congressional seat, the general assembly seats, and prosecuting attorney must file their declarations of candidacy with the secretary of state, all others with the county clerk. BRING HOME BIG FISH Mr. and Mrs. Orval Snobarger returned Monday night from a two weeks vacation in Florida,. While fishing in the St. Johns river near Astor, Fla., Mr. Snobarger caught an 8% pound big mouth bass, which he brought home with him. He also caught a 6% pound, two three, and one four pound bass. Mr. and Mrs. Snobarger were guests two days of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Mayfield at Astor and report that Mr. Mayfield has a 11% pound bass frozen to bring home this spring. This 11% pound bass is the largest ever caught there. PYTHIAN CLUB MEETS The Pythian Club met Tuesday in the home of Mrs. A. J. Babcock with Mrs. Elizabeth Pollock assisting hostess. A potluck dinner was served at noon. Mrs. John Auer won the door prize and Mrs. Garrett Grissom won a contest prize. Bingo was a feature of the afternoon’s entertainment.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Haas To Direct Home Talent Show Here

Senator Jenner To Speak At IREA Meeting April 5 Indianapolis. — The annual spring meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at the Claypool Hotel here on Saturday, April 5, will be the largest ever held, it was predicted here today by Ed Schergens, of Tell City, IREA president. United States Senator William E. Jenner will be the speaker at the annual spring banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the Riley Room of the Hotel. Schergens said that reservations for the banquet will be filled in the order that they are received by association officers and at the Republican State Headquarters in the Claypool. Halleck Luncheon Speaker Charles A. Halleck, dean of the contingent of nine Republican members of the United States House of Representatives now serving from Indiana, will be the principal speaker at the IREA luncheon at noon in the Chateau Room of the Claypool. His House colleagues, as well as United States Senator Homer E. Capehart, also will be special guests. Republican officeholders at the statehouse and throughout Indiana are expected to attend both the luncheon and the banquet. Schergens pointed out that the IREA spring meeting is always well attended in a national election year, but he believes that because of the lively pre-primary and pre-convention campaigns this year that all attendance records will be broken. Junior Convention Newspapermen are describing the session as a sort of “Junior Republican State Convention.”

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The kick-off meeting was held Monday, February 25, 19*52 at the Warsaw high school. 70 volunteers pledged their services in an all-out campaign to raise $12,290.00 for the Kosciusko County Red Cross during March. Township chairmen and their teams were assigned quotas and given their supplies. Dr. John Van Osdol, who is chairman of the Peru Red Cross chapter, was the speaker. He told of the quick mobilization of Red Cross help when storms and flood hit his town in recent years. He suggested as a slogan, “Give until you feel good, not just until it hurts.” During the meeting conducted by John D. Widaman and Philip Harris, county co-chairmen for the drive, a movie was shown called “The Red Cross Report.” This told of the humanitarian organization for servicemen over-' seas and in the United States, disaster relief operations, the national blood program and other phases of work. The quota set for Turkey Creek township is sl,llO, and Mrs. James Ridgeway, of Wawasee, is the township chairman. Township solicitors are: Mrs. Lionel Bates, Mrs. Millard Sink, Mrs. Ethel Guy, Mrs. A. J. Babcock, Mrs. Nelson Blough, Mrs. Hugh Causer and Dorothy Causer, Mrs. Floyd Brower, Mrs. Floyd Gingerich, Mrs. Cleo Weaver, Mr. Bert Whitehead ( post office only), Mrs. Merton Meredith (grade school), Mrs. Melburn Rapp, Mrs. J. A. Rigdon, Mrs. Rue Hunnicutt, Mrs. Everett Darr, Mrs. Jack Vanderford, Mrs. H. E. Burson, Mrs. Gerald Kline, C. E. Beck, Matty Jones, Mrs. Lloyd Disher, Mrs. O. P. Gephart, Mrs. John, Sparling. A meeting will be held at the Grade School Friday evening, Feb. 29, 7:30 o’clock, for distri-* bution of supplies and instruction for those who need it. All solicitors are urged to attend if possible. Jimmy Connolly has succeeded in getting more than enough subscribers for the Fort Wayne newspapers to enable him to go on the big free trip next summer, to Washington, and New York. Paul Pollock still needs a very few more subscribers, and the final day is this Friday, Feb. 29. Both the Fort Wayne papers carry full A. P. news, all the area news, radio and television of all regional and national chains, and the boys will see you get the paper on time, too. Give it a trial.

The Business and Professional Women’s Club is making good progress for their coming “Roaring Twenties Re-vusical,” i n April «on the 17th and 18, at the High School building. The club is fortunate in having the help of Will Haas, and wife Joan (Xanders). Will, or Bill as he is generally called, has quite a theatrical background, and when he was in service, he built small theatres in the Philippines, for the visiting Hollywood stars, entertaining service men, many many good contacts, and gained much experience. Bill and Joan met at the Goodman Theatre, in Chicago, where Bill trained, and he was also at De Paul University and trained under David Itkin, formerly of the Moscow Art Theatre. Joan studied at Stevens College, Columbia, Missouri, under Maude Adams, before she was at Goodman Theatre, “in time to meet Bill just out of service.” Bill was a Captain in the Paratroopers and made 51 jumps. Joan was in some of the several shows her husband put on at Goodman and they did Lake Zurich summer stock near Chicago, one season, then two and a half years in Woodstock, and some shows in Chicago at the Eleventh Street Theatre, and other places. Mr. Haas has directed some 50 shows and will do much of the directing in the B. and P. W. show, coordinating the various skits now in practice sessions. Mr. and Mrs. Haas both have parts in the show and are doing much to help it along in many ways. Although Mr. m Haas is working in Goshen, lie finds time to assist where needed, and is also helping Mrs. Nelson Miles with a school play in Nappanee.