Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 52, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 9 April 1959 — Page 4

. SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL

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—Thursday 9 Apr! 11959

Former Wawasee Boy Killed In Train Crash Frank Brown. 15. son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, formerly of R.R. 3 Syracuse, was one of three youths killed early Saturday morning at Peru when their automoble was struck by a slowmoving Wabash R. R. passenger train. Returning from high school prom, the boys had witnessed another crash on the Wabash tracks three blocks west of the fatal accident in which two teenagers were injured. Authorities reported that warning bells were working but that the boys apparently failed to hear them and drove into the path of the train. Services were held for the Brown youth Monday in Peru with burial at LaGrange. His grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Ingalls also former Wawasee Lake residents, make their home in Lagrange. Attending services from Syracuse were Jim and Larry Warner Jonh Roddie. Mike Rigdon and Dixie Murphy. Tom Firestone Is FFA President For 1959-60 At the last regular meeting in March of the Syracuse Chapter of Future Farmers of America. Tom Firestone was elected president for the year 1959-1960. Other new officers Fred Godshalk. vice-president; Doug Shock, assistant vice-president: Phil Troyer, rejorter: and Francis Denton, assistant; Jlxn Hibschman, secretary, with Earl Roberts, assistant; Charles Crow, treasurer. Dave Brenneman, assistant: and Carroll Denton, sentinal with Eugene Nicolai, assistant. Firemen To Give First Aid Instruction Fire chief Bill Hess and Gale Benner have completed a Red Cross First Aid Instructor’s course at Elkhart and will give the first aid course to the firemen and civil defense workers. Classes will start Tuesday night 14 April and will be held for five consecutive Tuesday nights The complete course requires 10 hours. Each session will be for two hours. New Arrivals . . . BREEZLEY Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Breezley are parents of a daughter, Kimberly Ann. bom Thursday 2 April at the Goshen General Hospital. MILLER Mr. and Mrs. Larry Miller are parents of a son. bom Saturday 4 April at Elkhart General Hospital. I LOCAL ONE OWNER T 1858 CHEVROLET 6 Station Wagon. 4-door. radio, heater arm rests, backup lamps, low mileage. Locally owned, new car guarantee. 1957 CHEVROLET Bel Air 2-door. 6 cyl. Power Glide, power steering, low mileage. Locally owned. 1956 PLYMOUTH Belvedere 4-door V-8 27.000 miles, new tires, radio, automatic trans. One owner. Exceptionally clean. Savard Other Cart Ta Chaeta Frea BUY YOUR NEW CAR NOW Chavralat Secend Aneael Saiet SPECTACULAR • 1016 DEALS! • 01 THE SPOT FlllltlMl S and M Motors Kl> KI.KIXKMOHT FHOJTK ts-J

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Library board members and librarians are shown here at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Syracuse Public Library Sunday 8 February. Seated left to right are Miss

Immel Discusses School Program At Rotary Lewis Immel, superintendent of schools, spoke before the Rotary Club Monday night. His subject covered the general school situation as it applies to Syracuse since the new school laws went into effect. Charles W. Kroh, George Lamb. Joe Shewmon. and James Stucky, members of the School Board, were guests of Rotary and along with Mr. Immel, answered many questions in regard to various phases of school work. There were two other guests, Terry McClintic, and Mr. Dan O’Haver. There will not be a Rotary Club meeting in Syracuse next Monday night. Almost the entire club with ' their wives will attend the District Meeting in South Bend where it is rumored that the club will be presented a plaque by the District Governor for their recent 13-week record of successive 100 percent attendance meetings. Up until Monday’ night, sixty tickets had been sold for this event among the Syracuse members. Syracuse Thinlies Win First Two Track Meets Syracuse Yellowjackets won their opening track meets played here when they defeated North Manchester Friday 63-48 and raced ahead in a triangular meet Mondav taking 8" 3 5 points to, Silver Lake’s 27 and Claypool’s 21 2 5. The Jackets won seven on the 11 individual events with No. Manchester, tied for first in one and won the mile relay. Davis of Syracuse won both the 100 yd. and 220 yd. dashes. Bob Swenson won the 880 and tied teammate Ted Burson in the high jump. Marshall of Manchester was a two-event winner taking the pole vaul,t and low hurdles. Monday night in the triangular meet, the hosting Yellowjackets won nine individual They missed a blue ribbon only in the broad jump and mile run. Denton lead the points by winning the shot pul, 100 and 220 yd. dashes, and finishing in the winning team for the ’a-mile relay. SHS BAND AT DISTRICT GIVEN EXCELLENT RATING Syracuse high school concert band was given second place with an excellent rating for Class C bands at the district contest held Saturday in Walkerton. The band is directed by James Lentz, music director crafF club Mrs Fred Clark was hostess to the Syracuse Craft Club Monday evening at her home. She presented a lesson in 3-dimen-sional painting. B*ll It ',’ith A Jouraa.l ClUßlfted A4I

Ethel Bowser, librarian; Mrs. Ray Meek, children’s librarian, Mrs. Merton Meredith. Mrs. Ruth Rapp, secretary. Standing Dr. O. C. Stoelting, president; George Lamm, township

Six From Syracuse On April Jury Duty List H. Dale Tucker of Warsaw and Virgil Bobeck of Syracuse, jury’ commissioners for Kosciusko circuit court, drew the jurors to serve during the April term of : court recently. ■ j Syracuse residents drawn for i duty are: Paul C. Culler for i grand jury; Rolland Byler and ■ ter W. Browm. Joseph R. BushRay Buhrt for petit jury; Ches- i ong. and Audrey M. Butt as al- , ternates for petit jury duty. Keith Fisher Is New Manager At Pickwick Keith D. Fisher of Nappanee will take over as manager of the Pickwick Theatre in Syracuse 12 April, according to announcement this week by the theatre management. Fisher has worked at the Nappanee theatre and the Pickwick as projector, operator. Recently residents of Leesburg, Fisher and his w’ife. both natives of Nappanee, plan to live southeast of Nappanee. Richard Kammann. former theatre manager, gave up the. position in mid March. Since | that time Harold Philips of Anderson and Fort Wayne has been on duty w’eek ends. The Kammanns recently moved to Kankakee. Illinois where he has accepted a position. Roberts Wins Speech Contest At Purdue Ronald Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bernard Roberts of R.R. 3 Syracuse, received a Sls prize and a gold key recently for winning the final round of the Alpha Zeta speaking contest held in Eliza Fowler Hall of Memorial Center at Purdue, NEW COMMISSIONER Don Enyeart. town marshal, was appointed building commissioner for the town of Syracuse at a recent meeting of the town board. Enyeart takes the place of Ernest Buchholz who resigned from the position due to ill health TO VISIT SCIENCE FAIR Ivan Detwiler, science teacher at Syracuse High Sschool plans to attend the northern Indiana regional science fair at Goshen College Union Auditorium Saturday. He will take with him several students from the science classes here. PURCHASE CHORINATOR Bids for a chlorination unit for the Weatherhead pump station were opened at the regular meeting of the town board Tuesday. The contract was awarded to Wallace & Tieman. Inc. of Belleville, N. J. for a unit priced at SI6OO.

trustee; Richard K. Miller, and j. Barton Cox. town board president. Mrs. Joe Bushong who was out of town, completes the board membership. —Courtesy Perc Bartlett Photos

Services Held Tuesday For Mrs. Philip Worth Services for Mrs. Philip Worth were held Tuesday morning in St. John’s Catholic church at Goshen with the Rev. James Cis officiating. The rosary was recited Monady evening at the aHrris Funeral Home in Syracus, Burial was in the Violett cemetery at Goshen. The former Roseanna Trensha was killed early Saturday morning when her sports car swerved over the center line on U. S. 6 east of Nappanee and was crushed under the wheels of a semitrailer. It w’as reported that Mrs. Worth was returning from a meeting of sports car enthusiasts in South Bend to her home in Syracuse where she w’as living with her mother in-law. Mrs. Ruby Worth, while her husband was in army service at Fort Knox. Ky. Born in Des Moines. la. 10 July 1935. she moved to Goshen with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Trenshaw, in July 1937. She graduated from Goshen High School in 1953 and married Philip Worth 31 August 1957. Mrs. Worth was employed at penn Controls in Goshen in the office of production manage ment. She was a member of St. John’s church in Goshen. Surviving with her husband and parents are three sisters, Marihelen and Martha, at home, and Mrs. Phresa Venosky of Youngstown. Ohio; four brothers. John of Angola, and Albert, George and Steven, at home; and her maternal grand mother. Mrs. Ann Gergely of Albia, lowa. rt Ju. FRED TRASTER. Jr. Fred Traster. Jr. of Syracuse will be in a group of six members of the Western and Southern Life Insurance Co., Elkhart District, to leave by plane Saturday for Miami Beach | to attend a leaders sales meeting at Hotel Fountainbieau i next week.

Camp Fire Girls Plan Bake Sale 18 April Bake Sale and bazaar is being planned for Saturday morning 18 April by the Syracuse Camp- 4 fire Girls association. The sale will be held in the former Tot and Teen Shop on Main Street. ’round and 'round ... 4 When you come tc the end of a rugged day, the only thing that will beat a nice comfortable chair is a nice comfortable chair that swivels. There’s something mighty convenient and relaxing about a chair that enables you to turn ’round and round with absolutely no effort. 1 Several of the new chairs now to be seen at Beckman’s have, in addition to lots of class and comfort, the swivel feature. Come in and take a look. 4 Open 9 to 6 Fri., Sat., 9 to 9 Closed Thursday P.M. 4 LILS irf m Admiral THE SHERIDAN SLIMLINE TV • CAR WILE TV & RADIO ' Service on all makes of TV. Radios and Car Radios. All work and parts guaranteed. 2 Blks. West of High School ’ Cor. Oak and Brooklyn St. SYRACUSE :: Phone 74-M » GOSHEN COMMUNITY AUCTION SALES • Over 20 Years Satisfactory Service to the Farmer Monday, April 13th, 12 p.m. Consign your surplus livestock 4 at Goshen where buyers fill their | orders each week. TOP PRICES Milk Cows —— 267.50 I Heifers Steer*26.7o Bulls 24.50 « Butcher Cows: zFat Cows — 21.90 Canners & Cutters 15 to 17.50 Veal 37.50 Lambs ——22.10 . Fat Hogs 17.10 ■ Ruffs 14.30 Male H0g511.25 Feeder Pigs — 12 to 18 Ewes — ‘ — 8-50 We Have The Buyers Gherman - McDowell - Martin ’ —Auctioneer*— Phone 3-1602-—-3-1598 Romayne Sherman-Ora Thoma*