The Mail-Journal, Volume 1, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 August 1962 — Page 1

Have Until Sept. 1 To File For Lakeland School Board - Part 2

By AUDREY LECOUNT (Continued from last week) Powers, Duties of School Boards School corporations are involuntary subdivisions of the state and are quasi-corporations and do not have the same powers as private corporations. Their powers are limited and are granted by legislature. The following paragraphs will help to explain just/what the elected ‘school boar<i> z members can do. [ The general grant of power, taken from an 1899 Indiana stat-

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TOMATO MEN — These happy workmen are key figures at the Cecil Foods. Inc., tomato canning plant at Milford, standing in front of their new gas fired boiler which was just installed.

Tomato Canning Plant Fast Growing Firm

One of the fastest growing businesses in this area is the tomato canning plant at Milford—Cecil Foods, Inc., owned and operated by members of the Donald Cecil family. With this year’s canning season to begin on Monday, August 20, the company will enter its 15th season, with the bright promise of increasing its production by 40 per cent over la'st year. The company plans an eightweek canning season, and looks upon this year’s tomato crop as one of the best they’ve had in their 15 years of operation. 300 Acres of Tomatoes Mr. Cecil said they have 300 acres ‘of tomatoes planted locally, which should yield some 4,000 tons of tomatoes. The plant will can 125 tons per day. Production this year should reach 150,000 cases, 24 cans per case, or about 3% million cans of tomatoes. “This land is the best tomato growing land in the world — there’s no doubt about it,” Mr. Cecil said this week as he envisioned this year’s bright prospects. $50,000 Expansion Since the end of last season, the plant has undergone a $50,000 expansion. This includes a 30 x 40 dktension of the manufacturing building on the south to include two offices, and providing for

Randall Dewart Files For Lakeland School Board Randall Dewart, well known Milford resident and sales manager for Mutschler Kitchen Cabinet Co. of Nappanee, has filed with the county clerk for the* Lakeland school board from District Four (Van Buren township.) Others who have filed are Bill Pearl of Tippecanoe township and James C. Stucky and Charles W. Kroh of Turkey Creek township. Interest in Schools Dewart is the father of four children, two members of the Milford school and two will be in Ball State Teachers college this fall. He Jias a background in school administration and problems. He is a member of the School Facilities Council, a nation-wide association formed to promote better understanding between school administration, school architects and manufacturers of spec ialized school equipment. He has been an associate exhibitor at the last 14 national conventions of the American Association of School Administration, and has participated yearly in many state school board association meetings including New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Michigan. He has partcipated yearly in the California Association of School Admini-

ute, is as follows: school trustees shall take charge of the educational affairs of their respective townships, towns and cities. They shall employ teachers, establish and locate schools, and build, or otherwise provide furniture, apparatus and other articles and educational appliances necessary for the thorough organization and efficient management of schools.” The general powers of boards as interpreted by the courts are those granted by statute, those implied from the statutes and those absol-

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

Left to right are James Cecil, secretary-treasurer of the company; Neal Cory, engineer; Don Hoover, plant superintendent; and Don Cecil, president. A Mail-Jour-nal Staff Photo.

lengthening the peeling line by 40 feet. The line will now accommodate 80 peelers, an increase of 30 over last year. A 20 x 60 addition was added to the west side of the original building for a tomato puree line and a tomato juice line. A new 300 horsepower natural gas fired boiler was installed which will increase the boiler capacity to 500 horsepower. “The expansion is an outgrowth of a demand for our product,” Mr. Cecil said. .The firm has built a cook room adjacent to the boiler room and installed two 1,000-gallon stainless steel cook tanks in which to cook the tomato puree. They also installed a cooker-cooler for cooking and cooling canned tomatoes. This unit is 4 feet wide and 120 feet in length. $300,000 Volume The company expects its sales volume to reach $300,000 this year, and they have a goal of a half million dollar volume per year. The company’s biggest market is on the east coast, in Boston and New England, although they ship to Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and Cincinnati as well. Donald N. Cecil is president of the company, Ruth Cecil is vice president, and James A. Cecil is secretary-treasurer.

stration. » Mr. Dewart has had a close relationship for the past 12 years with the American Institute of Architects in the, designing and equipping of specialized class rooms in all types of schools from elementary through college in areas such as home economics, arts and crafts and music rooms. Propose 20 Cent Tax Rate For Syracuse Library A proposed 20 cent tax rate is being asked by the Syracuse-Tur-key Creek township public library, according to the proposed budget published in this issue of The MailJournal by that library board. The rate is 10 cents for Syracuse and 10 cents for Turkey Creek township. This amount will raise $12,477.29. The rate for the current year is 20 cents, 12 cents for Syracuse i and 8 cents for the township. According to librarian Ethel Bowser the Syracuse library has been merged and is now a towntownship library, in order to assess each taxing unit equally. This was accomplished last December. Richard K. Miller is president of the Syracuse-Turkey Creek township library, Carl Satre is vice president, and Ruth P. Rapp is secretary.

uely necessary for the operation of the schools. The duties of Indiana school corporations are to employ teachers, establish and locate sufficient schools, provide furniture arid equipment, maintain a school term of 9 months, provide for the care and management of school property, deduct teachers’ retirement, prescribe and enforce rules not inconsistent with the law or those prescribed by the state superintendent and state board of education, display the United States and the Indiana flags, make tax levy

4? Proposed Lakeland School Tax Rate Set At $3.13

The school board members of the Lakeland community schools have approved f tax publication a proposed budget for 1963 that calls for a tax rate of $3.13 per SIOO of taxable property. On August 30, a public hearing on the proposed budget will be held at the office of the superintendent of the Lakeland community schools in Syracuse. Total Proposed Budget The budget proposed for the Lakeland Community School Corporation calls for the amount of $1,158,005, which will enable it to operate its schools during 1963. In addition, $246,121 is to be raised for the purpose of cumulative funds which may be used for the building of new schools, additions to present schools or other construction work when needed. Os the above amount, $807,264 is to come from local taxes to operate the schools; the remainder will be from state assistance. The entire amount of cumulative funds will be raised through a levy on local taxpayers. The proposed budget calls for the following tax lexies: Special school, $1.24; tuition, $1.01; bond, .15; and cumulative, .73 totaling the $3.13 tax rate. Increase Over 1962 Rate The president of the school board, James C. Stucky, said that the rate was figured on assessed valuation figures of 1961 and also stated that the proposed tax rate is $3.13, an increase of 57c over the 1962 rate of $2.56. Fortyeight cents of this is to go into the cumulative fund and 9c into civil bond funds now payable by the school corporation instead of the civil townships. Actually, comparisons in tax rates and school expenditures of past years and of the coming year are impossible to make since this budget is for the corporation and not individual schools. Future Building Costs An estimate of the cost for the future consolidated high school for the Lakeland Community can not be made at this time and possibly not for several years. Several things can be taken into consideration which will help to explain why it is not possible to make any calculations. Among them are the questions of where the school will be built, how many students it must serve, how large it must be, what subjects and courses it will offer, what extra features are desired and how it will be constructed. This is a step which will be made but not in the immediate future.

■A* J ' * / AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Harry Orn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Orn of Milford and a graduate of Milford high school, will speak at the Milford Christian church on Sunday, August 19, during the worship hour. Rev. and Mrs. Orn and family are expected to arrive in Milford sometime next Thursday and will spend several weeks visiting relatives and friends here. A graduate of Lincoln Christian college, Rev. Orn has led the Santa Ana, Calif., Church of Christ for the past three years. All are invited to hear Rev. Orn speak. •<

for current expenses and to grant use of school buildings as community centers and provide heat and light. Additional poweip of school corporations of Indiana are as follows: To suspend or expel pupils guilty of misbehavior; to admit non-resident pupils, determine the rate of tuition and collect tuition; employ superintendent and assistant superintendents and prescribe their duties; to employ principals, supervisors and custodians; to employ school attorneys and architects; to grant leaves of absence to

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9,1962

Thomas Hughes, 26, Electrocuted Tuesday

A 26-year-old Syracuse man, a construction lineman for Northern . Indiana Public Service Company, was electrocuted at Goshen at 2 p. ■m. Tuesday when his right hand made contact with a 12,500-volt power line. . | Killed as a result of the accident was Thomas Leßoy Hughes, 206 iE. Boston street, Syracuse. He was working 45 feet aloft on a new utility pole helping make a tie-in job for the Sovereign Oil Co., west of 423 No. Main in Goshen when the accident occured. The fatal accident was witnessed by Ben Murphy of Nappanee who was working nearby. Hughes failed to respond to artificial respiration, or an adrenalin injection given at the scene by Dr. R. H. Young. Using “Hot Stick” Hughes, who was belted in, was using a “hot stick” and had successfully connected two of the three-phase wires to energize the service from the pole on which he was working, to the new 12,500 volt transformer bank. While using the “hot stick” to connect the third wire, Hughes’ right hand came in contact with one of the wires which he previously connected and were energized. His right leg above his boot apparently grounded on a metal brace of a crossarm to complete the circuit. Hughes, who was single and resided at the home of his mother, served a four-year enlistment with the U. S. Air Force before joining NIPSCO’s Goshen district in 1959. The deceased was born January 27, 1936 in Syracuse and was the son of John P. Hughes and Valeria (Hoppel) Hughes of Syracuse. He resided in Syracuse all of his life with the exception of the four years spent in the U. S. Air Force and was a 1955 graduate of Syracuse high school. Surviving are his mother; three sisters, Mrs. Betty May Pedersen of Morwalk, California, Mrs. Ruth Rodgers of Mishawaka and Mrs. Hattie Adams of New Orleans, La.; seven brothers, John, Joseph, Harold and LaMar of Syracuse, James of Goshen, Richard in the Armed Forces, and Robert, address unknown; and numerous neices and nephews. The body may be viewed until noon Friday at the Harris Funeral Home and services will be held at the Calvary EUB church in Syracuse with Rev. K. E. Robinson officiating at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be in the Syracuse cemetery. Milford-Van Buren Library Rate 11c The proposed tax levy for the Milford-Van Buren township public library is 11c per SIOO valuation, according to the published budget in this issue of The MailJournal. This amount will raise $5,554.51 to operate the library in 1963. According to librarian Mrs. Charles (Dorothea) Kerlin, the current year’s levy is 14 cents for the town of Milford and Ji cents for Van Buren township, for a total, of 20 cents. The library was merged with the township in July, equalizing the levy for town and township. Mrs. Kerlin said the number of township users of the library is twice that of town users. Members of the library board are Royce V. Fuller, Betty Roderick and Violet Phend. »

teachers; to classify teachers as permanent, temporary or probationary; to provide for medical inspection of children; to employ nurses, and to provide kindergartens. School boards are not subject to municipal control as they are agents of the state rather than of municipality. The board is a policy-making body and establishes reasonable rules and regulations for the government of the schools. The superintendents carry out policies and administer rules of the school

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'lke'To Be In Rensselaer Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower will be the principal speaker for the big “Charlie Halleck Day” at Rensselaer on September 13. The main activities, including one of the famous chicken Bar-B-Cues, will be held on the campus of St. Joseph college at Rensselaer. Tickets for this big event may be purchased from Syracuse chief of police Donald Enyeart or Noble Blocker of the yracuse State Bank. Each ticket entiles the purchaser to a chicken dinner plus all activities. Buses will leave Warsaw Thursday, September 13, at around 2:30. SYRACUSE FIRE DEPARTMENT NEWS The Syracuse fire department answered two calls last week. One was in response to a car fire at the home of Vearle Gaff sOU,th of Syracuse and the other was a brush fire that got out of control and swept northward from the Muriel Sharp property located on North Huntington and burned across the property of Charles (Bud) Miller and the Weatherheads. This fire damaged several fruit trees and a shed on the Miller property narrowly escaped being ignited. Syracuse Lions Meet At Dixie The Syracuse Lions club held their August meeting in the Dixie Redwood Room with twenty-five members present. This was the first meeting held since the new officers took office. During the business meeting, various committees were appointed for the club duties as follows: Finance committee, chairman, Noble Blocker, Chris Koher and James Hughes; activities, chairman, Robert Hulley, James Wilson, George Pippenger and Junior Traster; public relations chairman,' Fred Johnson, Tom Prickett and D e 1 o s s Weaver; membership, chairman, Donald E. McNamara, James Stucky, Virgil Bobeck and Si Hire., greeting, chairman, Chester Carpenter, Lyle McGowan, Louis Byland and Harold Arnold; and attendance chairman, Hubert Ariglemeyer, Dale Allen Theldon (Bud) Kline and Frank Stefanski. The next meeting will be held on September 5.‘

board. The board is legislative (law making) and ti e superintendent is administrative. Educational Pre gram The educational pro gram envisioned for the Lakeland Community School Corporation should now be brought forth enabling the citizens to view the future for which the school board is responsible. It is as follows The present school buildings, if adequate, be utilized for kindergarten and grades 1 hrough 9. That this corporation provide a new high school located with due

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SCUBA DIVE iS — No, they’re not men from Mars! These men are Scuba divers a group of about 30 taking specialized training each Tuesday night alt the Seminary at Lake Wawasei under licensed

Pickwick Theater In Syracuse Has Been Re-Opened The Pickwick Theater, located in the Pickwick block in Syracuse, has been re-opened and will begin showing first line movies to the public. The announcement is being made in this paper this week by Max Pattersor of Warsaw who has leased the theater from the Glazier Brothers, owners of the Pickwick bloc k. Patterson, who has had 16 years of theater experience, operates the Boice Theatei in Warsaw. Dave Hillery, also of Warsaw, will manage .he Syracuse theater with his wife Mr. Hillery has had 16 years the? ter experience also. MILFORD BOY SCOUTS TO HOLD PAPER DRIVE Milford Biy Scouts will hold a paper drive on Saturday, Aug. 11. Milford resi lents are asked to leave their papers on their porches if possible. ► Drivers are needed and anyone who can drive is asked to call Dean Troup at 658-5744. On Saturday, Aug. 18, the boys going to Little Eagle’s Winabago museum in the Wisconsin Dells will soon lold a car wash at the Milford fir.'! station to earn money for their t :ip. Jefferson Twp. Proposed Rate Down 1 Cent Jefferson township’s proposed tax rate ir down one cent per SIOO valuation, according to the published budget in this issue of The Mail-Journal. The pre posed rate is 18 cents, 14 cents in the township and 4 cents in the library fund. The current year’s levy is 19 cents in the township and 4 cents in the library fund. Trustee Royce Biller states this levy will raise $5,058 for next year. The township’s valuation is $2,810,870, with 153 polls. Burr Oak Pastor Hono: ed At Dinner A cerry-in supper welcoming Rev. and Mrs. Gene White as the new pas tor of the Burr Oak EUB church was. held Friday evening, August 3, at the church. A short program was given during the evening which included several musical selections and a skit by Rev. and Mrs. White The guests of honor were also presented with a shower of gifts from the congregation.

consideration of density of population, geographical center and natural barriers. That funds for erecting this new school building be raised by issuing of school bonds and the early establishing of substantial cumulative funds. That the school board of the new corporation give careful consideration to requests of transfer privileges, by parents of children living in fringe areas where better accommodations may be provided by granting such transfers. That transportation equipment

Scuba instructor Earl Money, of the Syracuse Civil Defense unit, standing in the center of this In this photo several Scuba divphoto. ers are examining the equipment The men wear a “wet” suit and worn by Ken Hare, son of Mr. and dual oxygen tanks on their back. Mrs. Dale Hare, of Lake Wawasee. The group hopes to become a part . A Mail-Journal Staff Photo.

Syracuse Proposed Tax Rate — $2.15

The proposed tax levy for the town of Syracuse will be $2.15 per SIOO taxable valuation, according to the published budget in this issue of The Mail-Journal. The proposed rate is a drop of 5 cents from the current rate of $2.20. Broken down, the levy is in the general fund, 9 cents in the street fund, and 39 cents in the fire fighting fund. The current levy is $1.68 in the general fund, 27 cents in the street fund and 39 cents in the bond fund. There is no bond fund next year. The new $2.15) rate will raise $56,821.10, the proposed budget sets out, and-it lists valuation in the town of Syracuse at $2,648,230. According to clerk-treasurer J. Barton Cox, the total Syracuse budget to be raised by taxation in last year’s budget was $63,026.84. Os this amount $6,620.57 was for the sinking fund for sewers and disposal plant. Deducting the sewer assessment leaves a total amount of $5,6406.17 for paying the ordinary bills of the town government. The 1963 budget takes into consideration for the first time the increased cost of fighting fires in the town and township. Last year’s budget did not anticipate the hiring of three full-time men for operation of the fire department building. This year all other funds are being squeezed to secure enough money to pay these bills. Although the town is reimbursed by Turkey Creek township for the township share of the expenses of the fire department, yet it is necessary that the town have this money in ts treasury to pay bills when they are due. The township is billed at the end of each quarter. The 1962 budget called for only $77.19 to be carried in the fund 'for operating balance, while in the 1963 budget the clerk-treasurer explained at the Tuesday night meeting of the board it was necessary to carry a fund of $16,421.07 in the operating balance fund. [ Clerk-treasurer Cox stated that with a 25c reduction in the town taxes resulting from elimination of the sewer assessment, and approximately the exact same money required in the operation of the town government this year and next year, it would appear that a 25c reduction in town taxes would result. However, unless the state , tax board can show how it can be j done, this operating fund balance makes a reduction of only five [cents possible. The operating fund balance is arrived at 6y a method which the state tax board itself advises, the clerk-treasurer takes expenses of this year from Janui ary 1 to June 30 and substacts all : miscellaneous revenue, which figlure is the operating

be fully owned and adequately housed by the corporation and kept in repair by a competent mechanic. That in addition to the broad curriculum essential in our schools today, the corporation provide such valuable services as audiovisual aids, guidance, remedial reading, hearing and speech therapy, and health services Special attention should be given to the needs of the individual pupil whether gifted, average, or men(Continued on page 12)

Vern Bylers Home From Europe Mr. and Mrs. Vern Byler of Wawasee Village arrived home from their 10-day all-expense-paid trip to Switzerland and Italy last Monday evening. They won the trip as the result of a Rambler sales contest. Mr. Byler is the Syracuse Rambler dealer. They made the trip with 138 dealers, flying to Geneva, then to Rome where they spent three days. They returned to Zurich, Switzerland, by air, taking a bus trip to Lucerne. They had many exciting tales to tell friends about their trip. Neither had been to Europe before. The return trip was also by air. BEGIN STREET AND ALLEY REPAIR IN SYRACUSE The John P. Lewis Co., Inc. of Fort Wayne, will begin today (Thursday) to repair streets and alleys in the town of Syracuse in the amount of $4,500. The work to be done is in various sections of the town. The work should be completed this week.

a' 4 <• -\ ’ IN MARlNES—Richard (“Ricky") Stump, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stump es Milford, has enlisted in the U. S. Marines, it was announced this week by S/Sgt. Martin Agee, Kosciusko county Marine recruiter. Stump is a 1962 graduate of Milford high school. He enlisted thru the Fort Wayne Marine office and will leave to begin boot training the last of August on the buddy plan with Private Willard Free, another Milford Marine enlistee.

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