Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 48, Number 41, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 July 1955 — Page 1

Syracuse Wawasee Journal

VOL. 48: No. 41

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Eleven of W'awasff’s more polished water skiers are shown here as they posed fop the Jour-j nal earlier this week. Some of the state's top jumping talent, from whom several of representatives for this weekend's jumping competition here

*** ★ ★ ★ Jumping Tournament To Be At Wawasee Saturday

Skiers from ten divisions of the Indiana Water Ski Association Will meet with Wawasee skiers in an invitational jumping contest in front of the South Shore-Inn on Wawasee this Saturday. Originally planned as a twodivision affair for last Saturday after Wawasee skiers challenged a group of ski-jumpers from Lake Tippecanoe, the event has become one of considerable size and importance for Indiana skiers It was postponed until this Saturday when various groups from throughout the state were understood to have expressed their desire to participate. _T© Select Teams Jumping teams well be selected from each of the ten divisions in men's, junior boys’, and women's jumping Wawasee's team was not known at press time but was to be chosen later in the week before the meet, according to Bob Williams, in charge of publicity for the affair Registration will begin at 4:30 pita, and run until 5 pm. when the Women's Jumping division will stan. Junior Boy v Jumping will be from 6 to 7 pm. and Men’s Jumping Division starts at 7‘pm. and ends at 8:30 p m. Jumping speed will be optional up to 35 mph for men and 28 mph for women and junior boys. The meet will be conducted under 1955 American Water Ski Association rules Trophies will be awarded to the group with the highest team total. Ice Cream Social Draws Large Crowd Approximately 500 hutagry people attended the Scout Cabin Board Ice Cream and Cake Social last Saturday evening, chairman John Weatherhead estimated this week. Rotary and Lion members made coffee and set up tables and the woman of the Senior and Intermediate Mothers Clubs served cake and some 32 gallons of ice cream. Bud Smith did the entertaining and Ray Prevert furnished the sound truck and the emceeing. Proceeds will be used for improvement of the Scout Cabin.

Teaching Staff Announced For 1955-1956 School Year

Calvinjp. Beck. Turkey Creek Township Trustee, announced this week that 24 of the 27 Syracuse teachers have been re* tained in their teaching positions for the 1955-56 school year, which begins the last week of August. One New Teacher A new teacher, prances Heaton of Winona, has been chosen as home economics and girls’ physical education teacher. Virginia Vance, who has been home economics teacher, will teach English and art. An art teacher for the grades to replace Sara Allen has not yet been selected. Irene Robison, who resigned her position as English teacher In the high school, was not replaced. The complete list of high school and grade teachers follows: t Jinan Hamxnan. English. Latin. library; Charles Garner, mathematics and science; Lewis fcnmel, social, studies. English

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are likely to be chosen, are shown. Standing, in back are. left to right. Bob Williams. Dave F.ekrich. Dick Tuttle, and Tom Tuttle. In the front row are three of Wawasee’s future champion skiers—Mike Ensminger. Tommy

Services Tuesday For Clarissa Garner Mrs. Clarissa Clara Elizabeth Garner. 81. grandmother of Charles Garner. Syracuse teacher. died at 2;30 am. Saturday at the home of her son. the Rev. V. Leroy Gamer. Walkerton. with whom she made her home part of the time Her first husband. Henry Milo Garner, to whom she was married in 1892. died in 1931 In 1934 she married William Gamer, who died in 1942. Also surviving are four other grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. Services were held at 2 p m Tuesday .at the St Paul Et T B Church in Rochester, of which she was a member, and burial was in the IOOF cemetery, Rochester Rev. Tiedt Services Wednesday in Culver Funeral services were held Wednesday in Culver for the Rev John Andrew Tiedt. 91. retired minister of the Culver Evangelical United Brethren Church and father of * Mrs. Esther Osborn. Huntington St.. w ho died Sunday morning in his home in Culver after an illness of several months. Surviors besides Mrs. Osborn include Mrs. Ruth Stoops, a daughter, of Nappanee, one son. William, of Chicago, several grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. Rev. Mr. Tiedt was bom in ! Germany and came to Dayton. 0.. when he was 17 to join other members of his family. He workjed at various trades, learned the | English language, and later at- ! tended the Naperville Seminary at Naperville. Illinois. He was licensed to preach in 1890 and preached many ser fcvons in German speaking communities in Indiana an@ Illinois. He retired from the ministry in 1916 and had since resided in Culver. Douglas Yoders Have Son Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Yoder are the parents of a son j bom last Thursday at Goshen ; General Hospital by Caesarean ' section.

and driver training: Loren Long enbaugh. social studies and physical . education; Leonard Barnhart. commerce; James Hughes, industrial arts, health, add physical education: Frances Heaton, home economics and physical education Also Virginia Vance. English and art: Phil Pawley. English, commerce, and dramatics; William Stotts, vocational agriculture and driver training: Court Slabaugh. mathematics; Willard Gustafson, music: Glen Longenecker. vocational guidance and principal Gilbert George and Stanley Hoop ingamer, sixth grade; Homer Allen and Gladys Morris, fifth grade: Mary Gants and Beaulah Bushong. fourth grade: Betty Kowallik and Esther Weaver. third grade : Ruth Meredith and Mary Ann StiegUt*. second grade: and Ruth Rapp and Mary Peters, first grade. Jean Koher will be office clerk again and Peter Plew and Harry Juday will be custodians.

SYRACUSE. INDIANA. THURSDAY. 21 July 1955

Ziffrin. and Tim Freeman, here shown with the Misses Nancy Scheidt. Cynthia Hararo. Jeanne Berkey. and Barbara Berkey, four local skiers in the women's division who were available for a photograph Monday.

E. U. B. Youth To Meet at Oakwood The Oakwood Assembly of the Evangelical United Brethren Church will be held next week at j Oakwood Park. A laboratory' school under the' direction of conference leaders will be held at the E. U. B. church basement in conjunction with the conference-wide youth gathering. Pupils from the local church j have been asked to attend the school each morning from 9:30 to 11 a. m. starting Tuesday. Two Injured Sunday In Collision on 6 A two car collision one-half mile west of 313 on Road 6 Sunday afternoon resulted in injuries to Lynn Paris. 25. of Long Island. N. Y„ and his wife Helen. 27. Mrs. Paris was driving west; when two cars directly in front j of her slowed down. She. at-1 tempted to stop and skidded on j i-wet pavement into a car driven j by James Gasser. 49. of Dallas, 1 Texas, who was traveling west. State Trooper Henry Cripe in- j vestigated the accident.Gasser was uninjured, but J Paris suffered shoulder injuries | and was taken to Goshen Gener- j al Hospital. Mrs. Paris was not | hospitalized. Damage to both cars was esti- j mated by State Police to be $750. Crowd of 850 Expected at Picnic Nearly 850 Weatherhead Com- i pany employees and their families are expe ed to be roundedup for a chuck wagon barbeque j at high noon Saturday at Hunni- j cutt Park. The annual affair sponsored | by Weatherhead in conjunction j with the Arrowhead Club, a company organization, has gone] western this year even to the j point of giving away Davy ] Crockett hats to ail children | present. After the free dinner, games, j contests, and a scavenger hunt are on the afternoon schedule, j Prizes of picnic baskets, elec- j trie skillets, portable radios, and j electric blankets will be given! away. , Gerald Cramer, president of i the Arrowhead Club is in charge | at all arrangements at Hunnicutt's Amusement Park located on old road 13. Reinlists AD 2 Donald Hoover, son of Mrs. Russell Artly of Syracuse, has re-enlisted in the VS. Navy for a six year period. At the present he is on leave until Saturday 6 August. While on leave Donnie is plan|mng on visiting his grandi parents. Mr. and Mrs. Bryon ] Fell of Albion. Indiana. To Havo Social Members of the Nursery Guild jof the Syracuse Methodist Church are sponsoring a "melon social” on the lawn of the church this Saturday. The social will begin at 4 p. m and last until nine. Deborah Lynn Strieby Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Strieby. Syracuse, are the parents of an eight pound two ounce daughter. Deborah Lynn, bom Tuesday in the McDonald Hospital in Warsaw. Dolores Irene Mast Mr. and Mrs. Perry Mast of Route One are the parents of a daughter. Dolores Irene, bom Wednesday. 13 July, at Goshen General Hospital. Mrs. Robert Strieby. Lake St.. underwent surgery Friday at Goshen General Hospital.

Water, Water ... Several factors came out of a meeting last Friday concerning the water situation. The people of this area have been concerned over “high” and “low” wJter for possibly 75 years. It is a geologic fact that the water table for this part of the nation is dropping. That means people drilling wells are having to drive them further. The town government of Syracuse* is vested with control of the water level of lakes Wawasee and Syracuse as much as such control is humanly possible. The level of these two lakes is held up by a ' dam. ' When the water reaches a certain point over the spillway of the dam. town officials can and do open the gates and let the water go out Turkey Creek. They open the gates far enough to let out the water necessarv in such a fashion as to not * w flood out people living along the creek. When the water recedes, the gates are dosed. When the water reaches a certain point on the spillway, some water is diverted to an hydraulic pumping plant operated by the Syracuse WatcdCompany which pumps well water for the use of its customers. When the water recedes to a certain point, such diversions, which have been proved to account for very little of the water which leaves the lakes in any summer, are stopped. But sometimes, the water keeps going down. It does this sometimes because rainfall is not sufficient during dry. hot, months. It does this sometimes because lakes the size of ours will lose an inch of water on days when evaporation is taking place at a high rate. Lacking rainfall, the only way any water can be replaced in our lakes is through a few springs. Naturally, this is not enough to “keep up” the water. Syracuse town officials have recently seen to it that the gates of the dam and the dam itself are both in good shape. Thev have also promised to limit hydraulic pumping by the water company, even though such pumping diverts very little water from the lakes. It seems possible that, to prove how little water leaves the lakes in this manner, the water company will completely shut down such pumping for an experimental period. But the water may still go down. And this fall may go up again. It seems that the present control of th£ water level, which perhaps is not perfect (things operated by humans rarely are) , is about the best we could have. State absolute control, wihich has been suggested by some and seems imminent to others, does not seem to hold any answer. Until Wawasee and Syracuse are made “artificial lakes by the establishment of some type of storage and feeder system, high and low water will remain a problem -— but one which can be best handled locally.

Drum and Bugle Corps to March at Indianapolis Sat.

Wawasee Drum and Bugle Corps Poet 223 will journey to Indianapolis this weekend for the American Legion State Convention. The 31-member corps (the smallest in Indiana! will march j in the American Legion Parade ■ Saturday night in downtown j Indianapolis and will compete! with other Indiana Posts in the Sunday night competition at Victory Field. 0 Seven national judges will score corps from all over the state on precision, cadence, general effect, music and drill. Hire Confident Music Director Millard Hire expressed confidence in the Corps' ability to compete favorably with other larger corps.

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i ■ — ENROLL AT BALL STATE Miss Mkay Powell and Miss Patricia Kay Anglemyer. 1955 graduates of Syracuse High School, will enter Ball State College at Muneie this September. { Miss Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Powell of Route 3, plans to study education. Miss Anglemyer. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Anglemyer of Syracuse Lake, plans to major in elementary education. Guild to Meet The Christian Service Guild of the Syracuse E. U. B. Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Lewis Cobbum Wednesday at 8 p. m.

Lutheran Missionaries At Conference Here Missionaries of the American Lutheran Church are holding the first of two conferences this week at Oakwoood Park. Dean of the Home Institute. Pastor E. H. Schalkauser from Detroit. Mich., said this week that conference delegates are pastors of new churches east of the Missouri River, and that the purpose of the conference is “to [help young men in getting | missions organized uniformly.” Program for the week includes Bible study with an emphasis on ! miss ; on work, specific sessions, j church architecture, and the j study of evangelism. The second conference will be ] soon in Denver, Colo. , ■ Stummer Installed As Legion Commander | Herbert Stummer was installed [ as Commander of American Le- ! gion Wawasee Post 223 Tuesday I night by the installation team [from Napanee Post 154. First rice commander is Richard Didier. second vice comj mander is William Ever. Marshall Coy is the new adju- | tant, Tim Darr is finance officer. and Ray Fuller is chaplain. Harry Coy was installed as service officer and Rolland Woeoman as sergeant aat arms. Delbert Brown is past commander of the post. Stricken Wednesday C. J. Koschnick of Indianapolis suffered”’]'a heart attack yesterday,at his summer home near Waco on the south side of Wawasee Lake. Late in the evening he was taken to the Memorial Hospital in South Bend. Details as to his condition Thursday morning had not been discovered by press time. W. S. W. S. Meets Thirteen members and two visitors yere present at the 14 July meeting of the W. S. W. S. of the E. U. B. church in the home of Mrs William Geiger. A lesson was given by Mrs. Geiger and cookies and lemonade were served at the close of the meeting by the hostess. Installing: Service Line Water company employees began Monday of this week to trench for installation of a new 6-inch water line to run into the plant of the Syracuse Rubber Company on South Huntington Street. Smaller service lines will be replaced with the installation of the new line, which is being; made necessary by the expansion of the local rubber firm and the moving of some cooling equipment to a different building.. DEPUTY SHERIFF RESIGNS Deputy Sheriff Dick Sand of Warsaw Sunday submitted his resignation to Sheriff Carl Latta to be effective immediately. He announced that he was joining the staff of a Warsaw auto agency. Sand joined Latta's staff as a second deputy over two years ago and was named chief deputy after the death of Joe Bauer of Syracuse January 1 of this year. BLINO BO6ET WINNERS Winners in the Blind Bogey Tournament Sunday at the South Shore wye Harry Coy. 68; Don Zentz. 66; Tom Mendenhall. 78: Ray Mendenhall. 78; and Ed Smith. 67-

Representatives of Town, Lake, Chamber Meet Friday to Swap Water Data

Ideas on the causes, effects, and any possible remedies for the fluctuating high and low water levels in Lakes Wawasee and Syracuse were swapped last Friday night, as members of the Syracuse Town Board and Directors of the Syracuse-Wawa-see Community Chamber of Commerce and the Wawasee Property Owners Association met in the town board room. Efforts were made to alleviate any possible misunderstandings as to the position of the town goverment of Syracuse with regard to the control of the water level. Tl\p dam holding up the water level of both lakes is the property of the town and the spillgates of the dam are operated in accordance with rules set out by the State Department of Conservation after a study of average high and low water levels several years ago. Age-Old Problem Roscoe Howard, of the Chamber of Commerce, read a report of some 50 or so years past which pointed out that the same problem of disgust over low and high water has existed for some time. All present agreed that it would be virtually impossible to satisfy all residents of the area as to the level of the water at all seasons. Town officials also pointed out that they had an obligation not only to keep level of Wawasee

Water Discussed Further By Town Board Tuesday

Members of the Syracuse Town Board discussed the water level control in their meeting Tuesday night but did not act on the request made to them by several persons during the past week that they shut down the hydraulic pumping plant of the Syracuse Water Company as a "gesture of good faith.” Town Attorney R. Leon Connolly explained to the board on Tuesday the legal water limits as set up to the State of Indiana in 1949 after a 10-year study of the local water situation during Swimmer Recovers After Near Drowning Floyd Lantz. 28, of Goshen, is recovering satisfactoryily after apparently saving himself from possible drowning early Saturday morning at Tippecanoe Lake by crawling ashore. Lantz, who was missed by his fellow swimmers for approxi-mate-by 90 minutes, was found on the north side of the lake, his face resting on the shore and the rest of his body in the water. He apparently had suffered a cramp and had crawled through shallow water to safety. The water, from the shore to a considerable distance out into the lake is very shallow. Don Kime. one of the swimmers heard Lantz call for help, but when he waded into the water and looked for Lantz he could not find him. The swimmers searched all along the swimming area and shore line. Unable” to locate Lantz. they telephoned Sheriff Carl La'tta and State Police. Sheriff Carl Latta. Trooper J. D. Geiger, an’d Verland Bockman. North Webster fire chief, flashed lights about the shore and swimming area. Around 4 a. m.. Bockman found Lantz along the shore. Lantz was given artificial respiration and then taken to the Goshen hospital: He was released from the hospital on Monday. Elks Play Sunday At Wawasee Course Goshen Elk. John McCurdy, won first with a 62 in the Peoria Handicap. Tournament, Sunday at Wawasee, Bob McAndrews shot a 64, Bob Messick a 67. and Bob Ulery 68. Bud Rogers had a 69 to come in fifth. Bud Cripe and Ray Bergman tied for first with a 76 in the low gross tournament. Max Gramp had a 77, Paul Rhorer, 80. and Phil Barker and Lowell Tobias had 81 to tie for fourth. Bob Garman won the prize for . the Unluckiest Golfer, and Bud Rogers won the prize for being closest to the pin on the 18th hole. He was three feet from the hole. TO HAVE FILM SERIES The first in a series of three sound films will be shown Sunday evening at 7:30 p. m. at the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church. The general theme of the three films will be. "Our Bible. How It Came To Us." The picture on Sunday, which was produced by the American Bible Society with a cast of over 250. sweeps across the centuries from the formation of the Old Testament up to present day times, according to Pastor K. E. Foulke. Sox Defeat Cubs Wednesday Night The Sox defeated the Cubs 7 to 9 in last night's Pony League game. This was the first defeat of the season for the Cubs. Laird was the winning pitcher and Miller and Swenson were the losing pitchers. Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Jones. Jf.. included Mr. Jones’ parents. Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Jones of Bloomington. Indiana, and Mr. and Mrs. Herb Faget and daughter Karen of Chicago.

and Syracuse Lake at a satisfactory level but also to operate the floodgates in such a manner during times-of high water as to not “flood out” the many farms located along Turkey Creek between here and the Elkhart River. Low Water Bigger Problem According tq the opinion of j the group, the problem of low ! water was much more perplexing than high water because a larger i number .of persons around the lakes seemed to be affected. They also noted that low water was usually caused by the combined factors of a lack of rainfall plus a high rate of evaporation during some sumer season. Figures from several sources were cited to §how that the slots of water from the lakes out of [Turkey Creek, through the eomi bined minimum leakage of the j dam plus the hydraulic pumping equipment operated by the Syracuse Water Company, was quite a minor factor compared with the evaporation off the lake surface during days conducive to such evaporation. Evaporation Great The figures cited showed that i if the hydrauljp pumping station , were to run full time during the ; summer, it would take 62 days use one inch of water from the ; two lakes. They also showed that ain inch of water might eva- ! porate from the lakes during

the years 1937-1947. Connolly pointed out that the highest level reached by the local lakes during the 10-year period was 859.59 feet above sea level for Wawasee and 859.36 feet, for Syracuse Lake.' Legal Level Controlled Legal level for- the lakes was set by law in 1949 as 858.9 feet for Wawasee and 858.87 for the smaller lake. The state only has proclaimed a maximum high water level, according to law. apparently with the realization that high water is easier to humanly control than low water. Representatives of the Syra* cuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce also appeared at Tuesday's meeting and that the water company:s station be shut down for the summer months. Town board members ( emphasized that the station diverted a very small amount of water from the lake, possibly less in a month's time than is lost during one day of heavy evaporation. and did not act on the request stated by Lee Fischer for the chamber. Clean Out Dam Town Marshal James Gilbert said his crew had cleaned out under the spillgates of the dam in Crosson Park and that he thought leakage of the dam could be completely elimnated. Town officials also reassured the Chamber of Commerce representatives that pumping by water through the hydraulic system was closely controlled and that only one pump was used at any one time. They added that use of this pump would be curtailed when water showed a dangerous tendency to recede below normal levels as judged from past experience. Local Man, 3 Others Nicked By Local Judge Three were fined on traffic counts and one ori a charge of public intoxication in Syracuse Court this week by Justice Fred Nolan. Donald E. Neer, 22, Syracuse, pleaded guilty to following a vehicle too closely. Walter R. Foltz, 5402 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle without a driver's license. Sandra Bergstrom, Ligonier. pleaded guilty to the charge of speeding. Each were fined $1 and costs totaling $15.75. Sgt. Ralph Powell arrested Miss Bergstrom and Donald Neer. Earl Adams. 22. of the South Shore Inn. pleaded guilty to public intoxication and was fined $5 and costs totaling $lB. State Trooper C. E. Complement arrested him on Road 15 south of Milford. Take Fire Truck To Builders for Inspection Fire Chief James Connolly and fireman “Bud” Kline Tuesday drove the 1952 750-gallon pumper truck owned by Turkey Creek Township to Battle Creek, Michigan, where the truck was thoroughly inspected by its builders. After undergoing the "physical” at the plant of the American Fire Apparatus Company, the truck returned here with a clean bill of health. Town Board members were informed at their Tuesday night that such periodic factory inspections are part of a fire department program to keep all equipment in top-notch shape. A similar truck owned by the Town of Syracuse was moved up into No. 1 spot by the fire department during the absence of the heavy township rig. No alarms were answered by the department Tuesday. Marriage License Issued A marriage license was issued this week in Goshen to Donald Eugene Smith, 21, R. R- 1. Pierceton, Ui S. Marines, and Bobbie Jean Johnson. 21, R. R. 1, Syracuse.

any 24-hour period during the summer.' Town officials also added that the hydraulic equipment at the water company was shut down whenever the water level of the lakes appeared to be lower than normal for any time of the year. They also expressed a desire to install additional electric equip- - ment as soon %s financially leasable so that the hydraulic equipment might be completely shut down during summer despite the water level. Those at the meeting agreed that such a shutdown would probably not show any effect that would be noticeable with regard to the water level. Dam Said To Be O. K. When asked by officials of the Wawasee group about the status of repair of the dam as cited recently by a state water resources w official, town officials stated that they thought the dam was in good repair except that the gates needed a cleaning. They said that this would be done. Board member J. B. Cox added that if the dam ever needed major repair or replacing, the town would, in his opinion, recognize the responsibility of such work and arrange to finance it and follow it through. Opinion of the group was that a new dam would not help the low water situation at all and that the present dam was ade- „ Continued on page 4