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Announcement is made of the engagement and coming marriage ( of Miss Peggy Elliott of Syracuse, j daughter of Mr. William Elliott, Ridgeville, Indiana, to Gene Kit- ■ son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J H. Kitson. Syracuse, Indiana. < The Evangelical United Breth- , em Church will be the scene of the . i June 18th wedding. ’ i

Spring Open House Planned By Chamber of Commerce

Fats and Leans Train For Big Game Harold Kline and Daniel Jones, co-chairman of the Syracuse Alumni committee for planning the Fat-Lean Basketball game to be held 11 March nave announced that Nelson Auer will handle the ticket sales and Miss Patti Kitson will be in charge of the cake raffle sales. Tickets have gone on sale at the stores in town. Danny Jones will be captain of the Fat and Harold Kline of the Lean Jones states that the Fat's will be out to win this year, the leans have a clean sweep over the fats, but Jones says for the fats—"We have lined up some players near the weight limit on fats, and we will play a slow deliberate type of game. Most of the fats last year lost from 5 to 8 pounds and we can't lose that much weight on some of these men and still be eligible to play on the fat team." Harold Kline plans to play a fast game and threatens to have all players weighted during the last quarter of the game. Other plans can for a free throw contest to be held for women during the half time of the fat and lean game. Tbday you are betting your life on this country you live in. If we want to win the prize of national strength and security we've got to work together*. Let’s respect each other's race and color ands creed. Let’s make Brotherhood Week last aU year.— Groucho Marx

Hearts » . J February is “Heart Month,” And some money we must give So doctors can learn about our hearts That we may longer live. We want the research to be made Before we’re laid under the sod; We want our hearts right for the doctors. Why not have them right for God. It is appointed unto men, Appointed, once, to die; This fact is ours to accept Without any great outcry. Let’s take the burdens from our hearts. And lay them upon the Cross; Freed hearts will beat with courage once more. All be gain—not loaf. ■Die doctors will say? "I told you so, •Riere's nothing organically wrong. Just ease up the pace a little bit. And go about with a song." A sopg in the heart will help a lot To Ittep out of the threescore class; Let’s give the money and sing the song. And it shall come to pass. Florence E. Fry

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Miss Elliott attended the Syracuse High School and is employed by the Thornburg Drug Company. Her fiance, a graduate of Syracuse High School, was =, recently discharged from the United States Air Force after serving 44 months and is now at the Goshen Rubber Company, Goshen.

The Board of Directors of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce met Monday evening, 21 February, with the new president, Hubert, Anglemyer, who announced the following committee appointments for the ensuing year: Merchants Committee: Ross Osborn, board representive. Elmer Lar gen. Robert Burkholder. Woodrow Robertson, Robert Wilkerson. W. W. Pauli, Mrs. Annabelle Coil. Rosina Baumgartner. Industrial Committee: Lee Fischer, board representative, Harry Nicolai, George Lamm, Noble Myers. Ed Kleinknight. Membership Committee: Richard Denzel, board representative, Ralph Thornburg. Doug Van Hemert. Rollie Byler, Don Hatfield. ’ Legislative Committee; Ralph Oyler. board representative. Laucks Xanders, Jack Griffith, Jack Vanderford. Clarence Tatman. Leon Connolly. Fireworks Committee: Dr. Fred Clark, board representative. Leon Connolly. John Johnson. C. G. Etter. W_A. Jones. Jr., plus entire membership. Christmas Decorations: Roscoe Howard, Ralph Oyler. Douglas Pilcher. Ray Frevert. Mr. Anglemyer also announced that there will be a meeting of all merchants of the Syracuse Wawasee area at the American Legion Hall Friday. 4 March, to decide the date and discuss plans for the Spring Open House. Following this meeting the Merchants Committee will meet. As a reminder—Are your dues paid? The Board will appreciate receiving them.

SYRACUSE. DtoIANA, THURSDAY, February 24, 1955

Girl Scouts Enjoy Weekend at Pokagon Syracuse Girl Scouts and Adult Leaders enjoyed Saturday night Square Dance lessons at Pokagon Inn. Pokagon State Park, where 37 Girl Scouts and 10 adults spent the 19 February weekend. Square Dancing is a high light Saturday nights at the Inn’s Game Room, and The Girl Scout Leader. Nfrs. Gerold Khne. and assistant lesser, Mrs. Hubert Anglemeyer. with some 25 Girl Scouters and about a dozen guests of the Inn. found it added much to the weekend festivities. Activities were sparked Satur-1 day noon with an excellent luncheon. after which, some of the girls went on an inspection tour to Angola. ha 2 cars with Mesdames Dick Miller, Robert Clevenger and Catharine Connolly, and other scouts strolled about the spacious grounds, including Mrs. James Bender, and Mrs. Vance Moots. Dinner at Pokagon was an event. 37 Girl Scouts in colorful dressed for dinner” attire, made a pretty scene. The Girl Scout Grace was sung before each meal, led by Mrs. Kline. Sunday morning, Mrs. Frank Herdrick and Miss Mary Ann Stieglitz, and girls went to church in town. Later, with horse back riding, inspections of the grounds, and trips up to the famous Slide, the morning went fast. Past thrills down the slide were recalled. and regrets “registered” by those whose hopes for slide weather were dashed by inclement weather. Sunday chicken dinner put an enjoyable period to the weekend, bags were packed, and “goodbyes and come back again.” from the Inn's personnel, dotted the deI parture of 8 cars of Girl Scouters. I Drivers were: Miss Mary Ann Stieglitz. Mesdames Robert Clevenger. Dick Miller. Hubert Angle- > myer, James Bender. Vance . Moots. Frank Herdrick and Samuel Larson. Girl Scouts were: The Misses Sue Ann Adams, Susan Bachman. Kay Bender, Barbara Bitner. Bonnie Brower. Sherrie Brown, Nancy Clark. Susan Fosbrink, I Janet Glass. Sue Herdrick. Nancy Holloway. Elinor Holloway, Judy Jones,' Letitia Jones. Jackie. Jones, Susan Klink. Larrena Laird, Linda Lantz. Shirley Levemier, Diane Lung. Diane Martin. Valarie Michaels. Joy Miller. Mary Minor, Donna Moots, Sharon Nordman, Gleneen Peters, Nancy Powell, Peggy Pusti. Janet Riley. Anita Rodgers, Sherry Searfoss, Patricia Seiffert, Nancy Stump, Sandra Swenson. Ann Weatherhead and Shirley Yoder. Heart Fund Drive In Final Week The local committee for the ' Heart Fund Drive in this final week of “Help Your Heart Fundi Help Your Heart” reminds you again of the important work done by the American Heart Association. Among other things, do you ! know that: rl. Since 1 the American Heart Associat . and its affiliates have channv ,d more than $8,000,000 ;into research for the control and prevention of heart diseases 2. Your Heart Fund contribution supports research, education and community service projects of your Heart Association. The goal for Kosciusko County in 1955 is $2600. Contributions may be placed in the plastic i hearts in the local stores; mailed , directly to the local chairman. Mrs. E.L. Fosbrink; or the county chairman at Warsaw, Mrs. Ford i Hardman.

Music Contestants Win Honors at State Meet Saturday. February 19. was a warm, beautiful day for the long trip to Indianapolis to compete in the state music contest. The results are as follows: Bea Bachman won a first place with her solo. Bea and Caroline Coil won a second with their twirling duet. Wayne Nickel, who sang “Your Eyes Have Told Me So.” won a second. The girl’s duet, composed of Kay Adams and Phyllis George, won a second place. The Chordettes which includes Susan Darr. Darlene Rogers. Kay Adams. Phyllis George, Faye Gard, and Dixie Dorsey won a third place. The comment of one of the officals at Indianapolis was that the Syracuse contestants had done very well and should be pleased with their record. This is the first year in the last three that we’ve won enough honors at the preliminary contests to be elif 'ble for the State contest. Naturally everyone’s goal was to get a firs’, place, but even though some of us were disappointed. we had the satisfaction of knowing we were trying our best. Next year’s another year. huh. kids? Dixie Dorsey If a fellow has gotten anything out of Brotherhood Week he ouht to be able to stretch it for another seven days minimum.

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Vanderford Favors Existing Boat Law The much discussed, new boat bill. House Bill 262, is out of committee and before the state legislature. It is opposed by Lake Wawasee and Syracuse organizations. states Jack Vanderford acting as local spokesman, first because it gives too much authority to state conservation department officials in formulating rules and regulations; second, the additional revenue allowed the department by the licensing and registration of boats of all sizes would serve only to cover the expense of additional personnel, records and supplies. It is the legislature’s job to formulate laws, continues Vanderford, not that of lesser state departments. He also says that the boat law passed in 1951 is adequate and needs only the proper enforcement by conservation departments. Vanderford strongly favors using the already existing law which he states never has been enforced. If weaknesses show up, says Vanderford, that is the time ’ to amend and improve the law. Vanderford urges interested ' persons to send telegrams and postcards this week to the following state legislators in Indianapolis: Rep. John Wainwright, coauthor of the bill and chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources and Conservations, Rep. Paul Bilby of Warsaw’, both in care of the House of Representatives; and to Senator Floyd Stevens, Sidney, in care of the Senate Post Office.

Bike in Branches Finds New Home An 1890 “handlebar-mustache” bicycle up a 50 foot tree, and grown fast by branches, on the Walter Lewellen farm, 4 miles north of Millersburg, was discovered recently by Fred Elstrod of the Village Antique Shop. Elstrod gets his antiques the hard way, it seems. It took a 20 foot ladder, and the work of forcing the branches away from the bike, which also had been wired in place. The wires, however, crumbled at a touch, but the bicycle had to be pried up from its 50 year entrenched bed, slid down to where it could be lifted out, and handled carefully to arrive at its present home, the Light Post in the Village. Janet Kitson Receives Homemaker Award Miss Janet Kitson. H. S. senior, last week received the Betty Crockej Homemaker of Tomorrow award for the highest score in a written examination which tested the homemaking knowledge and attitudes of the girls in the graduating class. She received a golden award pin, cook books for herself and the school, and will be entered in competition to name this state’s candidate for the title of AllAmerican Homemaker of Tomorrow. General Mills is the sponsor of this program. A scholarship of $1,500 will be awarded each state winner and she will receive a trip with her school advisor to Washington. D. C.. colonial Williamsburg. Va., and Philadelphia. The national winner will be named April 21 at an American table i fete in Philadelphia.

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Rotarians Hear School Principal Rotarians of Syracuse met Monday night. 21 February, at the Pickwick Lounge. Mr. Glen’Longnecker, Principal of the Syracuse Schools, was the speaker of the evening. He reported in particular zpn the new cafeteria which will open within the next few weeks, its excellent equipment, the hot lunch program and the planning which has gone into this new department of the school organization. The Rotary Anns be guests at the March 7 meeting. . Local Girl Staten On PT A Program The Girls’ State, film program was doubly interesting Tuesday night at the Turkey Creek Township PTA meeting at the High School building, for last year’s Girl Stater, Miss Jane Kroh, and this years’ Miss Susan Darr were present, Jane to see what she did do, and Susan to see what she will do, as the American‘Legion Auxiliary No. 223 is sending her, this year, with Fay Ann Gard as alternate. The strip was narrated by Mrs. Helen Baker of North Webster, who jX a Councilor at Girls’ State, and she was assisted by Miss Kroll. v PTA pres., Paul Levernier revealed that the film had been obtained through Mrs. Theldon Kline. It was also disclosed that. “Other organizations could send a girl to Girls* State, but it must go through the Legion, as it is strictly a Legion Auxiliary affair.” Mrs. Baker stated “A prospective Girl Stater must be in the upper 3rd of her class, and stressed the importance of good 1 health, ias Girls’ State is a busy place apd every moment is accounted Vqt.” There were 778 girls there last year. She is a charming person herself, and with her comments, made the film. Live. Mr. Levemier announced the PTA meetings are “always thg 3rd Tuesday of the month." A Spelling Bee for the March meeting, and a film showing of Hawaiian interest, for April, by Mr. and Mrs. James Kirkwood, taken when in Hawaii, the Christmas holidays through New Year of 1954. Churches Plan for Daily Vacation Bible School r The February Union Church Service will be held at the Church of God this Sunday evening at 7:30 PM. Musical selections will be rendered, by the host church. Bev. Foulke. pastor of the Calvary E.U.B. Church, is scheduled to speak at this service. His theme will be. “O God. Cleanse Our Churches!” The entire service will be designed to help every worshipper get off to a good beginning in the Lenten Season. ■ Preliminary plans are now anderway for the coming Vacation Bible School this spring. The offering received at each Unkm Service helps substantially in the financial support of this-worthy community project. It is understood that the Syracuse Council of Church Women w»s nreanized back in 1949 as an auxiliary to the local Ministerial Association. The Ministerial is hereby enlisting the support and encouragement that this Council can offer during the coming months. Let us all rally our united interests in the work of the Kingdom of God!

Yellowjackets Overwhelm Foe By Sandra DeGroff and Bill Spurgeon The Leesburg team was the victim of a hit-and-run Syracuse basketball team in the local gymnasium Friday night. The game undoubtedly will be the last regularly scheduled basketball game to be played in the old combination gym-auditorium. Syracuse outshot, outran and outscored the Leesburg Blazers by a final score of 84 to "40 in an outstanding game of the season. It was reported that the score was the highest ever made in the Syracuse gymnasium. The coach, having a winning game on his hands and trying to hold the score within reasonable bounds, allowed the substitutes to play a good part of the second half, but even this effort did not keep the score from going up-up-up. Leesburg scored 30 points in the second half as compared with 10 in the first, but each of these thirty matched by the local team, with a few extras tossed in for safety’s sake. Syracuse led decisively at all official stopping points: 21-2, 44-10, 65-21, and the final score of 84-40. The game was stopped twice because of injuries to Leesburg players, despite the fact that play was not especially rough. Jerry Shand of Leesburg was apparently seriously hurt in a bad fall in the final quarter. He was examined by Dr. Fred Clark of 'Syracuse and taken to South Bend in the Carr Ambulance for medical treatment. Shand is in better condition, but in all probability the injury will keep Shand, a senior, from participating in the sectional tournament at Warsaw this week. During the last two minutes of play the seniors and Nelson Kistler held the game for the Yellow Jackets, thus ending the seniors basketball playing at the Syracuse high school. Tom Koble was high point man for the locals, scoring 24 points. Other scores were Kistler and Hire each with 16 points. Denton 10, Brower 7, Mock 6, and Largen 5. Hagg for the Leesburg team scored 14 points. The second team, fighting a losing battle during the entire game, lost to the Leesburg Blazers 33 to 24. The coach, in a desperate effort to . bring the boys to a victory, used most of the second team boys to pull the “Bees” out of their low scoring game, but failed to chalk up the last game victory. The half ended with a score of 17 to 5, and the Leesburg team held the locals down to end the game with their exciting victory. Jim Caskey, who played a great game, fouled out in the last two minutes of play trying to win the last game of the season. The Syracuse first team will meet Larwill in their first game of the tourney which will be played Friday at 9:00 a.m. Monday Deadline for Buying 1955 Auto Tabs The Bureau of Motor Vehicles advises that the deadline for the purchase of chauffeur license, public passenger chauffeur license and" registration plates is midnight 28 February, and that any extension of time Is not permissible by Indiana law. The Bureau also advises that tractoi- tabs for tractor trailer combinations should be placed on the front plate as the trailer makes it impossible for the tab to be seen when placed on the rear of the tractor. Maybe we don’t understand it because it doesn’t cost money. . . and things that don’t cost money are hard to understand these days.

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Jump ball! controlled by Syracuse, of course, during the first quarter of the Syracuse-Leesburg game last Friday night here. Syracuse players shown in the

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55 Tacuse’s Yellowjackets get to .ry their hand at a Whitley County team Friday in their first sectional tournament play. 9:00 is the scheduled time and the place of dourse, is the Warsaw Armory building. The winner of the SyracuseLarwill game will meet the victor of a 10:15 game between Claypool and Central Indiana Conference toppers from Warsaw at B:lseFriday evening. Larger towns seem to be concentrated in the lower bracket of the tourney, with Warsaw, Columbia City, and Syracuse all in this part of the drawing. County powers from Silver Lake. Milford, and Pierceton are concentrated in the upper bracket of the drawing. Winner of Warsaw sectional will move on to the Regional tournament in Elkhart’s new North Side Fieldhouse on March 5. New Bowling Alley Officials Announced Jack Stoelting has disclosed the organization of the Syracuse City officials which will be the overall governing body of Stoeltings’ Pickwick Bowling Alleys, for Tournament and League Play. They are: Charles Frushour, president; Calvin Beck, Ist vicepresident; Tony Strombeck, 2nd vice-president; Bill Rex, secretary; and Noble Blocker, treasurer. 250 At Annual Cub Blue and Gold Banquet Approximately 250 people attended the Blue and Gold Banquet held 22 February at Our Lady of the Lake Seminary Gymnasium. A pot-luck dinner was enjoyed by the cubs and their parents af£er which Bud Cripe, Master of Ceremonies introduced Father Pitka. Father Pitka gave a short talk on Stick-to-itis. encouraging the boys to finish whatever they start and to do a good job in whatever they do. Bud Cripe introduced the committees for Cub Scouting which included members from the Lion’s Club. Den Mothers. Den Dads, Assistant Scout Master and Stout Master, Leo Kawalik, Cub Scout Master was recognized for the excellent job he had done in the past 3 years. Mr. Kawalik will be going out of Cubbing in April and Mr. Roy Miller will be Scout Master. Mr. Cripe presented a Picture Dryer to Mr. Leo Kawalik for his dark room as photography is a hobby to Leo, who came to our country 25 years ago and has contributed much of his time to our scouting program in this community. Awards were given to many cubs who had completed achievements in their cub procedure. A white Elephant Sale was the feature of the evening with Mr. Frank Banning as auctioneer. The sale was quite prosperous to the Cub Scouts as $115.55 was gathered from the wide-eyed Cubs and their families by Mr. W. A. Jones. Jr. and Mr. Stanley Peters, who acted as clerks. INTRODUCING: Aunt FLO This will introduce Aunt Flo, whose column appears elsewhere in the Journal. Aunt Flo has a great deal of faith in American youth and with her understanding heart wants to help when even the slightest question causes hesitation in making the right decision. Anyone of the younger generation, perplexed by which decision to make, may find that Aunt Flo will have a helpful suggestion. Aunt Flo is a real person, she lives near. Fremont, Ohio. Your questions will be answered in her letters to Judy without revealing; your indentity. Address letters to Aunt Flo, co The Jouraal, and they will be forwarded to’her. And If enough of us took a twoweek try at Brotherhood we might be able to run a week into a month and a month into a year.

photograph by Journal editor Bill Spurgeon are Hire, 44; Kistler, 43, jumping; Koble, 33; and Denton, 55. Leesburg players include

In The XoTtheast (Corner (By Bill Spurgeon) _____ Better than a week ago this writer visited in the,newsroom of The Muncie Star, down about 100 miles south of here. He was accosted there by a skeptical newspaperman, who happened to have read this column the previous week. “Do you mean to tell me,” said this newsman, “that Wawasee Lake actually freezes over and people go out and fish on it?” Yes, sir, it does, and they do. This is a fact with which even a good many summer residents are unfamiliar, so we are embarking on some sort of an expository scheme to familiarize them with this wintry aspect of northern Kosciusko County. \ Last Friday, for example, the temperature was most assuredly above the freezing point when we drove out past Ogden Island. We stopped several places to observe the lake. Along the North Side, our old stamping ground, we noticed three of four fishhouses about two hundred yards from : shore. Out in the middle of the lake, over towards the South Shore hotel, we noticed at least one automobile of more or less ancient vintage. Exploring further, we eventually reached the point ’way out past Ogden Island, on the built up land reclaimed a year or so ago by C. C. Mason. In this more or less calm part of the lake, or should we say on it, were located better than a score of fishhouses, at least that many fishermen, three automobiles of recent (and heavy) design, and two trucks, all a considerable distance from shore. We duly photographed this scene for reproduction, if we were lucky, in the pages of this paper. Thus we hope to enlighten some of our less fortunate readers who migrate seasonally to the unpredictable Southland. 0 _And for those of you to whom the Southland means just south of highway 30, why don’t you get ■„ up here in the winter and see for yourself? Syracuse Lake was frozen, too, last weekend. It may still be in that condition when this is read. Mr. F. Reinbold, local photographer of some note, tells us he has seen the lakes here so thick with fishermen that he could not make a convincing photograph. This Is the first time in several years, we believe, that this situation could have been repeated. Who said the winters were getting warmer? Referees getting in the way and the chance of getting one’s teeth, kicked in by enthusiastic players seem' to be the risks taken by a press photographer at a basketball game. We attended the Syra-cuse-Leesburg game here last Friday for the purpose of securing some action photos, which have been missing from the Journal this year. We had not attended a basketball game for the purpose of taking pictures for some four years until last week, and we did not realize how often those plagued referees get between you and the game. Then, too, to take halfway ~ decent pictures-one must crouch underneath the basket, not sit in a comfortable folding chair. After crouching on our left foot (all 150 pounds of us) for about thirty minutes, we found that we had completely lost the feeling in said foot. Glad our photographing efforts only started at the end of this basketball season. We seem to be out of training. At least we still have our teeth! /

ON VACATION “Table of Comments” will be resumed next month when the editor returns from his annual vacation.

Shand, 21, and Albert, 31. Shand was injured later in the game and taken to South Bend with a ' minor:,concussion.