The Mail-Journal, Volume 1, Number 12, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 May 1962 — Page 1

— Serving — Syracuse - Milford North Webster - Leesburg Lake Wawasee - Dewart Lake Waubee Lake

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RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP — Francis Denton, Syracuse senior who received the SSOO scholarship at a presentation at the Syracuse school last Wednesday noon, is

Release Honor Roll For Fifth Grading Period At Syracuse

Following is a list of students who qualified for the honor roll at Syracuse high school. The list was released by the office of the high school principal. DISTINGUISHED HONOR ROLL 12 - George Cox 11 - Vicki Cecil REGULAR HONOR ROLL SENIORS Tom Martin t ' Marilyn Martin Jane Searfoss Jill Thornburg Richard Combs Robert Croumlich H • Dick Kowallik 4 JUNIORS Michael Storms Sally Jo Fosbrink Linda Robertson Albert Bauer Mary K. Graf

Kindergarten And First Grade Registration Edgar A. Speer, Syracuse elementary school principal, has announced that the annual registration of kindergarten and first grade students for the school year 1962-63 will be held May 16 at the school. Registration hours will, be from 8:45 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. to 3 p.m. and .7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. To be eligible to attend kindergarten during the 1962-63 school year, . a child must be five years of age on or before October 1, 1962. A legal birth certificate must be presented for all registrants. Hospital birth certificates > will not be accepted. All registrants will be given medical examination forms and will be asked to have a medical examination performed by their family physican. Children who have attended kindergarten at the Syracuse elementary school during the 1961-62 year and who complete the year there, will not be required to register for the first grade. All children who have not attended kindergarten this year and expect to register for first grade must be six years of age on or before October 1,1962. These children will be given reading readiness tests on a date which will be assigned to them on May 16. TRIP TO HOLY LAND A trip to the Holy Land will be made via pictures at the May meeting of the Syracuse Council of Church Women Friday evening at the Calvary EUB church. Miss Irene Abts and 'Mrs. Einer Anderson made a tour of the Holy Land last year and while . there took numerous films of the various places of interest.. Miss Abts will present this program. The meeting is to begin at 7:30 and all women in the area are welcome. The program will be followed with a social hour and very interesting but light entertainment will be offered. Refreshments will be served. t ‘Evening Os Song’ To Be Presented At Church Os The Brethren A musical program entitled “An Evening of Song’’ will be presented by the Messengers Quartet Gospel Singers Sunday evening at 7:30 in the! Church of the Brethren in Syracuse. The Quartet has appeared throughout the area and the members are as follows: Latney Cartwright of South Bend, Kenneth Kauffman of Nappanee, Norman Kauffman of Gosnen and Paul Cripe of Bremen with Larry Meyers of Elkhart as accompanist.

Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)

shown here, second from right. The scholarship was presented by Syracuse - Wawasee Education, Inc. From left to right are Laucks

Vicki Firestone Richard Simon SOPHOMORES Bobbie Stiver Ann Vanderford Tom Kramer Joe Hibschman Ken Martin Judy Stucky NINTH GRADE Linda Pilcher Terry Webb Cessifi Wells David Jones EIGHTH GRADE Mary Barb Immel Jayne Poynter Sally Searfoss Sandra Kern Lucy Kitson Rebecca Smith SEVENTH GRADE John Kramer Susan Kitson Tim Yeager

NOTICE TO TURKEY CREEK TOWNSHIP TAXPAYERS George T. Lamm, trustee of Turkey Creek township, is issuing another important notice to taxpayers of Turkey Creek township, living outside the town of Syracuse, to come to his office before May 15 to be assessed, if they have not already been assessed. He emphasized that after May 15 there will be a.penalty applied to those who are not assessed. He said he is available any day or evening. He said he would accomodate anyone who could come only on Sunday. SYRACUSE PT A MEETING TO BE HELD MAY 8 The last Parent-Teachers’ Association meeting of the 1961-62 school year will be held Tuesday, May 8. An art exhibit and dress review, which comprise the program for this meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. The business meeting with the installation of next year’s officers will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Incoming 196263 officers are as follows: President, Mrs. E. W. Hall; Vice President, Mrs. William Hess; Secretary, Mrs. William Pipp; Treasurer, George Bushong. The attendance banner and $2.00 cash prize for the best percentage of parental room attendance will again be awarded. Refreshments will be served by the hostess committee. '• - W w \W'~* -V. 1 ■ W X, '-4 \ O • I 1 WINS SCHOLARSHIP — Miss Rose Wiegand, 17 and a senior in Pierceton high school, is the recipient of a S4OO scholarship from 1 the Kosciusko county Medical ’ Auxiliary. The award was pre- ! sented by Mrs. Dan Urschel. Miss Wiegand will receive her 5 nurses training at St. Joseph hosj pital in Fort Wayne. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wiegand of r 2 Pierceton. ’ Mrs. George Haymond will ’be 1 hostess at a tea in honor of the r young lady from 2 to 5 p. m. on • May 9. u 1..

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Xanders, treasurer of the group; superintendent Lewis I. Immel; Harry Appenzeller, secretary; Paul Lantz, vice president; Denton; and principal Sylvester Amsler. Perc Bartlett Photo.

Area Schools To Dismiss Early Tomorrow Area schols will dismiss early tomorrow (Friday) for the county high school and junior high school track meets to be held at Pierceton. Milford students will be dismissed at 11 a. m. while Leesburg will dismiss at 11:10 and North Webster at 11 a. m. Syracuse: No According to word received from the office of the Syracuse high school principal, the Syracuse schools will close at their regular time of 3:35.

Syracuse Town Board Meets The Syracuse town board held their regular meeting Tuesday night at the town hall with all town board members and the clerk-treasurer in attendance. Among business on the agenda was the passing of the second reading on additional appropriations of $3,200 of the parking meter fund to the fund for repaving of streets in two blocks in the main business district. The clerk-treasurer was also instructed to have the public pier painted. Two sections of pier have also been replaced. To Install Parking Meters It was announced that the Pickwick theatre will not be opened for summer business, therefore, board members agreed to have two , parkihg meters installed in front of the theatre where bicycle racks are now located. Board members also ordered trespassing or driving on ground at the cemetery where roads are not located, be stopped immediately. Trucks and cars, including the I B & O Construction Company ve- | hides have been damaging the 1 ground and making deep ruts, causing damage and unsightleness. Other business was routine. BETHEL CHURCH MEN ATTEND RALLY Several men from Bethel Church of the Brethren in Milford went to the annual spring rally for the northern Indiana district Men’s Fellowship of the Church of the Brethren on Sunday afternoon. The rally was held at the Mount Pleasant church near Bourbon. The program for the afternoon was as follows: welcome by the president, Richard Whitmer of North Liberty; group singing led by John Bechtelheimer of the Lincolnshire church in Fort Wayne; devotions by Wayne Me Kinney of Columbia City; and special music. There was also an election of officers directed by Paul Zumbrum. The speaker for the afternoon was Thurl Metzger, director of the Heifer Project/Ihe. He gave a very interesting and worthwhile talk about his work. The northern Indiana men as a group gave a sum of money for heifers in one of the southern states at Christmas time. Those attending from Bethel were Raymond Hoover. Larry Hoover, Lee Cory, Delbert Moneyheffer, Floyd Yoder and Richard Smith. Pre-Registration For Milford Vacation Bible School To Be Held Milford children who are interested in registering for the community daily vacation Bible school may do so Sunday morning during the Bible school hour at the various churches in Milford. Those children living in Milford, but not attending any Milford church, may call Mrs. Carl Shearer at 658-5031. The Bible school will be held between May 28 and June 8 at the Milford elementary and high school buildings. The school is sponsored by the Milford churcheS- . , r '■b'

THURSDAY, MAY 3,1962

School Re-Organization An Election Issue

In spite of one of the quietest primary election campaigns in many a year, an unusually large number of voters are expected to show up at the polls in Kosciusko county next Tuesday, May 8. Prime reason for heavy vote is the vital school re-organization issue confronting the county’s voters. Not Many Contests - There aren’t many contests for county or local offices that will appear on Tuesday’s ballots. The most heated race, involving five candidates, is in the Republican column for the office of county assessor. (See complete list of candidates appearing on another page of this issue of The MailJournal.) Republican candidates seeking that office are Carl Zimmer, Hazel Perry, Robert Dougherty, Al- > bert Greider and Floyd Stevens. A contest for assessor also appears in the Democratic column with Frank Sechrist and H. Earl Boggs running against each other. Five candidates seek the office of county councilman at large in the Republican column, however, the three receiving the most votes will be winners of that office. Candidates are Harry Zimmerman, Merlin H. Wertenberger, Charles Mikel, Thomas Walter and Keith Horn. Other Contests For county auditor Noble Blocker of Syracuse and Esta YoCum of Leesburg are opposing each other on the Republican ticket. Lee < Moyer, town managerial Pierce- 1 ton, and “Tony” Strombeck of I North Webster seek the Republican nomination for sheriff, and Ernest Barth is opposing incumbent Howard (“Sam”) Holbrook in the Democratic column. Another heated contest is for the office of county commissioner from the middle district with Fred Gilliam opposing Dale Sponseller, incumbent who is seeking a fourth term. Gilliam ran well in the same race four years ago, but t Sponseller edged him narrowly. <= For the office of county com- e missioner from the southern dis- v trict a three-way race has devel- 4 oped in the Republican column, t with Lawrence Butts, Franklin < township trustee, Ralph Wrigley of Monroe township, and Donald j Bouse of Silver Lake opposing one T another. Both Wrigley and Bouse . are former commissioners, Bouse j for two terms and Wrigley for one term. . Jack Murray, the youthful circuit court judge from Kriox, Ind., is opposing John Raber, former state head of the Fanners’ Union, 1 for the chance to oppose incum- 1 bent Charles A. Halleck for Con- < gressman from the Second Dis- 1 trict. School Issue ' j School re-organization, however, appears to be the compelling issue that will bring out voters on Tuesday. The committee on school re-or-ganization, meeting under state law, has come up with a four- ’ corporation plan which has been ! accepted by the state committee. ! The plan will appear before the • voters Tuesday on a non-politician ' ballot. 1 In this district, known as the Lakeland School Corporation, Van j Buren, Turkey Creek, Tippecanoe, « Plasj and part of Jefferson town- i ship will be" joined together for 5 school purposes if the plan is < adopted. The total enrollment of < the school district is 2,518, and the I assessed valuation is $30,448,595. I South of this district, is the ( Woodland district comprising t Washington, Monroe, Jackson, ] Lake and Clay townships with 1, e 706 pupils and a valuation of sl3, t 684,160. The Tippecanoe Valley district j includes Henry township of Fulton j county, Harrison, Franklin and c Seward townships, with 1,594 students and a net valuation of sl6, 577,780. ’ The Warsaw-Wayne district will I include Plain township with 2,966 students and a net valuation of i $30,366,500. « Etna Green proposes to go to < Bourbon and Scott is already join- i ed with the Nappanee school and < the west half of Jefferson township is transferred to Nappanee. This is the issue, to re-organize according to the proposed four-

12 Teams In County Track Meet Friday

The entry blanks are in for Friday’s all-county track meet to be held at the Pierceton track, according to principal Howard Stouffer. He said there will be 150 boys representing 12 teams in the senior high meet. In the junior division, Claypool will not participate but Burket has sent in entries, making 130

Vote For School Consolidation It 'sn’t often that this paper urges its readers to a definite actior. in a front page editorial, but we feel the matter facing us at this time concerning school re-or-ganization merits such an editorial. We sincerely urge our readers to adopt the proposed four-corporation school re-organization plan as set out by the county committee for school re-organ-ization and adopted by the state committee. We have watched the progress of the county committee since it was first named and we feel it has made an honest effort to come dp with a plan for school re-or-ganization consistent with the letter and intent of the school re-organization law. We feel it has made an honest effort to fully inform the public of its progress and to seek out public opinion in this important matter. We were disappointed more than once at the public apathy toward their important work. We would be the last to say this plan or any other plan the committee might adopt is 100 per cent perfect for all concerned. School consolidation is with us, and in the proposed plan we have more to gain than we have to lose. We know most of the arguments for and against school consolidation, and we have debated them in our own mind. In balance we feel the proposed plan for school re-organization is a good plan, and we urge our readers to its adoption.

corporation plan or to reject the plan, hoping for a more favorable plan at a later date. Receive Achievement Medals At College Michael Storms of Syracuse higUAt -hool, Bruce Hoyt of Warsaw high school and Alan R. Ischetta of Warsaw junior high school won medals in the finals, of the 48th annual state high school achievement program last Saturday at Indiana university. Storms and Hoyt won bronze medals in the comprehensive mathematics contest and Ischetta, a bronze medal in the algebra division of the math contest. Competing in the finals were 1140 winners of meets held in 36 Indiana cities. Forty-two students won first place and received gold medals. Ninety-nine students placed second and received silver medals and 187 students received bronze medals for winning their place honors. NO FUNDS MISSING FROM YMCA Carl E. Shrader, president of the Kosco Community YMCA, has stated that the rumors that were started a few weeks ago by a person or persons unfriendly to the YMCA, about missing funds are untrue. ‘ There can never be any funds missing. First, the board is bonded. This means that should any money be misappropriated, it would be replaced by the bonding company. Second, all checks require two signatures by two officers of the board before they can be cashed. Third, all pledges and cash contributions are audited by the auditing team so that every penny is accounted for. Fourth, and most important, the high integrity of the board members. The board is now interviewing men for the position of Y secretary. They expect to have one chosen by July 1. t MILFORD KINDERGARTEN MOTHERS ELECT OFFICERS Milford kindergarten mothers met last Thursday morning at the elementary school to elect officers. A total of 32 children are enrolled for next year’s kindergarten classes. Officers elected were: Mrs. Joseph Gerencser, pres. Mrs. Karl Hoover, sec. Mrs. Carl Speicher, treas.

boys representing 12 teams in the junior division. Principal Stouffer gave the schedule as follows: Thursday, May 3-4 p. m. - trials Friday, May 4-1 p. m. - field events Friday, May 4 - 2 p. m. - running events

Milford Town Board In Regular Meeting Tuesday The Milford town board, meeting at town hall Wednesday night, gave a contract to John Camden of Pierceton for the laying of a 4inch water line from the Apostolic church on road 15 north. In all, there will be about 780 feet of water line, at a contract cost of $2,663.19. Chief of police Justin Kneeland told the board about 10 stop signs and a right-of-way sign that should be erected in Milford. The board voted the purchase and installation of the signs. Curtis Weldy, owner of the Village Laundromat, registered a complaint with the board that cars are parked, around his place of business “four, ; five and six days at a time without being moved.” Two ladies, residents of the northeast section of Milford, registered a complaint about the condition of a property in their neighborhood and asked the town to take steps to clean it up. They also requested the town purchase land for a playground area in that section of town. They were told to refer this matter to a civic organization. Town attorney Al Rasor who was present, advised the board to get a quiet title to the land the town owns at Waubee lake for their future protection. Freeland Phillips To Speak At Milford Lions Freeland Phillips, perhaps Kosciusko county’s best known Boy Scout enthusiast, will speak before the Milford Lions club Monday night, according to program chairman John Haughey. Phillips, secretary-treasurer of Union Tool Co., will talk on “Early Scouting in Kosciusko County.” He holds the Eagle Scout rank and has been a Vivil Member of the Order of Arrow since 1943 and received the Silver Beaver Award in 1942. He is a member of the area executive council. Lion Haughey said the Milford Scoutmaster and Boy Scouts will be invited to this meeting.

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CREAM OF THE CROP! — Coaches Jerald Van Meter (left), and Jim Alien flank three senior athletes who won major trophies

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STORM DAMAGE—This photo is typical of the storm damage done late Monday afternoon. Here Forrest Freed is standing beside a giant willow tree uproot-

Monday Storm Rips Area, Wrecks Havoc

IN MILFORD AREA Farmers living west of Milford are minus some of their rich black top soil today as a result of Monday afternoon’s storm. The high winds, picking up almost every loose thing in sight, didn’t overlook the rain starved fields and street lights in Milford had to be turned on by 3:30. Much Damage The high winds and sheets of rain did much property damage in Milford and on the nearby farms. Some of the damage is listed below. The garage on the Arnold Doll property north of town was blown off of the foundation. The chimney on the house was blown down, falling against the house and causing considerable damage to the roof. Part of the roof-on the Standard station, located on state road 15, was blown off and several windows were blown out. At the Stanley Custer home, also located on road 15, shingles on the west side of the new house were turned upside down and a camping cabin was picked up by the wind and deposited in the nearby ditch. J Eight or nine assembled bulk feed bins standing behind the Brock Manufacturing Company were flattened by the wind. Six trees were blown down near where road 15 meets the Syracuse, road. Among them was the large | willow tree located on the Forrest Freed property. On the Howard Beer farm, west of town, a tool shed was flattened and tools were damaged. A hog house was found turned over in another field and several trees n the property were blown down. One of the hardest hit places in the area was perhaps the John Martin farm west of town, The 1 bam and tool shed’ were sb baidly damaged that they were tom down on Tuesday. The chicken house and the hog houses were blown off of their foundations and part of the roof was off of the crib by the time the storm was over. The chimney on the Herbert Morehouse home was blown down, taking the television antenna with it. No damage was done to the house. Electricity was off in the northeastern part of town but crews were on the scene almost at once and within a short time the lights were on again. Two trees were blown down at the Bethel parsonage, landing on the porch and doing much damage to the roof. Many area people lost their television antennas and found limbs in their yards. SUE ANN TRASTER PLACES SECOND IN TWIRLING CONTEST Miss Sue Ann Traster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Traster of Syracuse, placed second in the 13-year-old division at an NBTA (National Baton Twirling Association) contest held at Ottawa, 0., Saturday. She placed first in strutting and second in flag, receiving two trophies and one medal. Sue Ann also second in one baton solo ait LaPorte, Indiana, on April 12. .

at Milford high school’s AllSports banquet last Friday. The athletes holding the trophies are Bill Troup, free-throw shooting;

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ed in his back yard on road 15 in Milford. Similar wind damage is described in the articles below. Mail-Journal Staff Photo.

IN SYRACUSE AREA / TEMPEST IN A TOWN Syracuse was ‘hard hit’ Monday afternoon when a storm made its devastating appearance. Black clouds formed in the west around 3:20 and were followed by terrific gales and dashing sheets of rain which struck at 3:35 on the dot! Many reports of damage have been' received in the town proper and some of the accounts are as follows: i Trees Uprooted A high limb on an old Elm tree on the comer of Rosenberry’s Discount store on South Huntington street was blown down missing a large picture window with but inches to spare. At about the same time, the Rosenberry car, which was parked on South Harrison street near the Nyikos property, narrowly escaped being crushed by another large limb! North of this location about a block or so, two maple trees on a vacant lot belonging to Mrs. Sol Miller were severely damaged, one being completely uprooted and the top taken from the other. Next to the Miller lot and following the storm, the parked car of Byrorif Connolly was barely visible, limbs and branches doing their best to hide it. Several more feet and the car would have been severly damaged, present damages being of a more minor nature. z As this storm twisted its wet and windy way through town, a [TV antenna belonging to Harry Nicolai, of 701 South Main street, was bent in an arfc-enabling it to touch the roof. \ House Damaged On South Front street, another tree caused extensive damage to the Floyd Gingerich home. A portion of a towering ash tree crashed through the roof of their home entering a bedroom on the second story and removing a 5 foot section of chimney. The falling section of the tree was approximately 3 feet in diameter. The Gingerichs were in South Bend at the time and had observed some of the results of this storm but were still quite unprepared to find the damage welcoming them upon their return home. NORTH WEBSTER GIRL STUDIES IN SCOTLAND NORTH WEBSTER —Miss Sara Anson has been named resident Student counselor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland where she is attending under the “Junior Year Abroad” program of the AlIgheny college. Miss Anson is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Bert Anson of North Webster. Celebrates 6th Birthday Stevie Hann, son of' Mr. and Mrs. James Hann, recently entertained 17 members of his Sunday school class at his sixth birthday party held in the Primary room of the EUB dfiurch. In addition to the class members, there were 2 young guests, two of the Primary department teachers Mrs. Howard Juday and Mrs. James Crafton, and several other adults. Refreshments of birthday cake and ice cream were served and Stevie was. presented with many lice gifts. w

Marcia Dewart, cheerleading; and Max Duncan, sportsmanship and batting. Mail-Journal Staff Photo. .

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