Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 49, Number 34, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 June 1956 — Page 1

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Volume 49; Number 34

llianks! Sir: The committees connected with the 1956 Syracuse-Wawasee • Vacationland Jubilee wish to utilize your columns to make a statement of thanks to the many persons responsible for the happy culmination of this annual celebration. • The efforts of the committees have been not only aided by every other Chamber Member but also in many instances susflhose not - connected to this tained through the endeavor of . organization in any way. It is to Krecognize this heartening co--operation that this letter is written to Members and nonMembers. Whether the celebration "was a success or not according to attendance or to sales seems irrelevant when the dominant spirit ■ of the activity was UNSELFISHNESS and COOPERATION. The committees find their ► work gratifying in the loftiest spirit when the community responds so willingly. W. D. Robertson President ‘ Robert Byler » Merchant’s Committee Chairman »Horse Show A Grand Finale To Jubilee 1 The third annual horse show presented by the Syracuse Saddle Club, Inc. and sponsored by the Fire Department of ► Syracuse, was held on Sunday 10 June starting at 10:30 a. m. There were fourteen classes e with forty-seven entries in the different events. Four trophies were awarded: Registered quarter horse trophy was won by Don Hostett- _ ler of Pierceton. Pony halter class trophy was won by Jimmy Clemens of R. R. 2, Goshen. High point woman’s trophy < was won by Carol Jo Hammon of R. R. 2, Bristol, Indiana. High point man’s trophy was won by C. J. Gerber of Wakarusa. Contestants came from this locality,' from Michiana area, B from Fort Wayne, Marion, Fairmont, Bourbon, Tippecanoe, Nappanee, Pierceton and Kendallville. k At the close of the show a yearling pony was won by C. T. • Hill of South Bend. Officials of the show have expressed the opinion that the show was successful in every respect. There were more entries than at any previous show and fc the crowd appeared larger aJtho it was difficult to estimate the number of spectators. Additional Jubilee stories will be found on page five. ►Six From Syracuse " Graduate At I. U. Six Syracuse students received degrees from the University of Indiana 11 June. Jack Clark received the degree of doctor of medicine; Charles E. •bietrick, Jr., B. S. in Business; Marcia Disher, B. S. in Education; Patricia Hapner, B. S. in •Business and Sasha Hire, B. S. in Music. There were eighteen from ►Kosciusko county among the 3,188 in the graduating class for the 127th commencement of the university. Register C. E. Harrell announced that it was the largest graduating class in the University’s history.

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VACATIONLAND QUEEN and ATTENDANTS. Miss Mary Miner, center, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Miner, was

Safety Program For Lakes To Be Initiated on Wawasee

Plans are underway to provide a safety program on Lake Wawasee which, if successful this summer, will be used .on other Indiana lakes and reservoirs to make them safer places for boating, swimming and fishing. The Indiana Department of ConserHomer and Jethro Here In Person Friday Night AUk'' ■Hq Homer and Jethro, unique in the entertainment field, will be at’ the High School Gym tomorrow night in a program to begin at 8 p. m. sponsored by the Kosciusko County Council for Retarded Children. If you’ve heard their records or Barn Dance programs, or have seen them in person, furtther description is unnecessary. Tickets will be available at the gym. It will be an evening of fun with the proceeds going for a worthwhile cause. TOM McMAHOM DIES Tom McMahon, 88, a retired B & O passenger conductor, who had made his home in Syracuse since 1938, died Sunday night in a Pittsburg hospital. Services were conducted Tuesday.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, Thursday 14 June 1956

crowned Vacationland Jubilee Queen Saturday night. Her attendants are Martha Firestone, left, who placed second and Vivian Fisher, right, who was

vation is cooperating with the Wawasee Property Owners Association, Inc. on this project. It calls for the marking of the lake with flags on cane fishing poles at intervals along the shoreline about 200 feet out into the water. The area near the bank will be reserved for swimming only and the water “outside” the flags will be strictly for boating and water skiing. Col. E. K. Marlin, chief of the Enforcement Division is working closely with the Wawasee Association’s president, Paul O. Warner, Lt. Al Watson, commanding officer of the Enforcement Division’s District No. 1 headquarters will direct the actual markng of the area 23 June. A meeting of the combined groups is planned for 1:00 Saturday 23 June at the South Shore Hotel. It has been stated that the. reasons for marking the lake are obvious. 1. To create areas for the specific purpose of swimming and bank fishing. 2. To create areas for the specific purpose of boating and Mary Miner On TV At Ft. Wayne Tuesday Miss Mary Miner, chosen Vacationland Jubilee Queen at festivities here Saturday night and who will represent Syracuse at the Mermaid Festival in North Webster 29 June, will appear with a group of the queen contestants on WKJG-TV Fort Wayne, Tuesday at 3:00 P. M. Mrs. Earl Gerard, queen committee chairman, plans to return from a weekend in New York with last year’s queen in time to appear with the 1956 queen contestants: Mrs. B. Lee Fischer and Mrs. Hubert Anglemyer have been appointed as a committee to assist Miss Miner in the preparations for competing in the Mermaid Festival contest.

third. Miss Miner will represent Syracuse n .the Mermaid Festival queen contest at North Webster on 29 June. Photo courtesy Warsaw Times & Union

water skiing. 3. To avoid the possibilty of boating accidents near the shoreline where people are swimming or sunbathing and where boating would be more congested and dangerous. 4. To set up traffic patterns for the safe movement of boats from shoreline docks to boating areas. Independent Leaders Plan Campfire Program Recently organized the Independent Leaders’ Association is completing plans for the new Campfire program which will get underway in Syracuse this summer. The leaders and assistants who have completed their training under Winifred McHoes, Goshen Campfire director are: June Anglemyer, Betty Wilson, Betty Kline, Dorothy Herdrich, Mary Ann Steiglitz, Jean Bender, Eleanor Moots, Ann Vanderford, and Jean Miller. At a meeting held at the Scout Cabin last week, these officers of the Independent Leader Association were elected: Chairman, Mrs. Paul Lantz; Vic-Chairman, Mrs. Jack Clark; Treas., Mrs. Robert Clevenger; Sec., Mrs. Richard Miller. JANE BACHMAN JOINS SMITH-WALBRIDGE STAFF Jane Bachman has joined the staff, of the Smith-Walbridge Camp on Boner Lake as publicity director for the summer. Jane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Bachman, has just completed her third year in the School of Journalism at Butler University in Indianapolis. GRADUATES FROM BUSINESS COLLEGE David Pletcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pletcher, R. R. 2, graduated from International Business College at Fort Wayne, Thursday, 7 June. A 1954 graduate of Syracuse High School, David began the 18-months’ course in September of 1954. He has not as<yet accepted a position.

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Record Hop Sets Pace For Jubilee Bob Chase, station WOWO disc jockey, kept the records {spinning Friday night 8 June for the Record Hop, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, which was held in the old school gym at 8:00 p. m. Bob started things jumping with the “Bunny Hop” which brought the dancers from the bleachers to fill the floor. Approximately 300 people watched and danced to Rock and Roll songs, round dancing and Charleston. This kept the floor crowded thru out the entire evening. Bob Chase took the place of Marvin Hunter who was to spin records for the Syracuse Hop. When interviewed during the last numbers of the hop, Bob Chase stated that the crowd attending the dance were friendly people and very nicely behaved. He also stated that the chamber of commerce was thinking of sponsoring another hop in the not too far away future, and that he was in full favor of this plan. Bob told a Journal reported that he highly enjoyed the first Syracuse Record Hop in many years and that he was happy to meet and spin records for the fine crowd which made the Jubilee “start-off” Record Hop a great success. Syracuse Dolphins To Entertain Windy Fins Syracuse Dolphins, local organization of Skin Divers will be hosts to the Windy Fins from Chicago 23-24 June for a diving outing in Syracuse Lake. Stuart Smith, President of the Dolphins, announced that a special picture had been booked for the Skin Divers at. the Pickwick Theatre during the stay of the Skin Divers. “Under the Red Sea,” a diving picture, made by an expert, will play at the local theatre 22-23 June. Smith said that this season’s plans for the local club formed in 1955 at the Great Lakes Skin Diver’s Council will include bringing to surface more portions of the sunken dredge from Syracuse Lake. Many pieces of this dredge have already been found and will be on view at the theatre during the forthcoming week. Search in Lake Wawasee will be carried on during this season in an endeavor to locate an air plane which sunk there a number of years back. Just a fledgling organization, the Dolphins are growing rapidly. Many new members are expected to join. The Dolphins have had a variety of experience during the past year doing all sorts o,f salvage work in the lakes. Free Passes! If you find your name hidden in the classified ads—come into the Journal office for your free pass to see 20A Cotory-Foi pm«Rti carouselM >nrwg c«»»r K tun . i AMMftMW Pickwick Sunday - Monday June 17—18