The Mail-Journal, Volume 2, Number 8, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 April 1963 — Page 4

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f f»<- MaoJljdunial PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The Milford Mail (Est. 1888) Syracuse-Wawasee Journal (Est. 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 ■ > , . Democratic ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana Subscription: $3.00 per, year in Kosciusko County; $3.50 Outside County nmbqmm aovutising umseHMnvi AaVBRTI*»M«

One More Honor For Sir Winston

There are times when everyone can applaud an unprecedented act. That was the case when Congress, for the first time in our history, voted to proclaim a foreigner an honorary citizen of the United States. The foreigner is Sir Winston Churchill. And he is, in the full sense, the first citizen of the Free World. The history which he did so much to write — in deed and i\ words — is his enduring monument. Jlis was the voice, indomitable in the face of appalling defeats and disaswhich rallied peopjtes and nations

The "Controversial" Bishop

Last week, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam/ retired president of DePauw university and nationally-renowned liberal leader of the Methodist church, died in New York city at age 71. In a front-page obituary headline, The Indianapolis Star tagged Dr. Oxnam as a “controversial bishop.” We thing that Bishop Oxnam would have been proud of this accolade — particularly in newspapers like The Star. This is a case of the greatness of a rftan being gauged by the idenity of his enemies. As a Methodist bishop *in Omaha, Boston, New York, and Washington, D. C. (having at first been the youngest bishop in his church), Dr. Oxnam spoke out often on vexing public issues, defending labor, the civil rights of minorities, and the economic “have-nots.” . His outspoken advocacy of Christian

OSWEGO, KAN., INDEPENDENT: outgo not only continues to exceed its “A lot of well meaning U. S. citizens are financial intake, — but in a sum that contrying to figure out how to make sense “““ out of api oposed tax reduction in an over- out of one pocket and more out of another all way, when the government’s financial — why kid ourselves.”

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AROUND THE... COUNTY By COURT HOUSE BLUE

Biggatiway One of the early “Hoosier Hysterias” was a game called Biggatiway. The Miami and Potawatomi Indians, of Kosciusko county, used to play the game, as did the various tribes throughout the Northwest territory. It was a rough contact sport, a combination football, field hockey, and rugby with a little wrestling and gouging thrown in.

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but had failed miserably with each attempt. ■ The Indians plotted off a playing area, and with 200 participants on each team, commenced to play with great spirit. The garrison caught the spirit of competitive sport, and went out of the fort to cheer their favorite team to victory. In the heat of the contest, the ball was sometimes thrown, apparently by accident, over the stockade. At such moments, members of both teams would run in and out of the fort with no effort being made to hinder their progress. This occured several times whdn, finally, as the ball was thrown over the wall, all the Indians rushed into the inclosure, locked the main gate and took possession of the fort. History does not record whether the Indians sang their fight song after this crucial victory, but it seems evident that the fans didn’t go home mad.

Thursday, April 4, *1963

EDITORIALS

plants compete with oats ‘ and weeds in spring seedings. This seed is placed just above the band of fertilizer through this method. When the seed germinates, the fertilizer helps it develop an extensive root system necessary to withstand' drouth and shade. Ton, band seeding saves weed. One-half less grass seed and onethird less legume seed gives better stands than from broadcast

The game was played on an open field with two goals established about one-half mile apart. A bat and ball were used, the bat being about four feet long, and curved to a racket shape. The object was to run, throw, kick, or bat the ball across the opponents goal. Team size varied according to the number of Indians who were handy. Back in the summer of 1762, about 400 braves (mostly Sac and Chippewa Indians) congregated outside the wall of a fort located on Mackinac Island, Michigan. They had attempted to take this fort from the settlers, in the past,

and led, at long last, to victory. And there is something vital that the statesmen of the present day, here and abroad, can learn from Sir Winston. There was no drift when his hand was at the helm. There was no irresolution. Risks — great risks — were taken with full knowledge of what might happen, and with full resolve to see the dangers through to the end, whatever that end might be. The western world of the present needs more, much more, of that spirit, courage and dedication.

involvement in social issues of the day earned him the ire of the House UnAmerican Activities committee, which labeled him pro-communist. Later, the committee was publicly forced to make apology to him for its blast. Men like Bishop Oxnam have made America great and have kept her strong. Fortunately, his is a hardly breed and others of like instincts have his example to follow. Indiana’s present Methodist bishop, Richard Raines, has proved himself a courageous and outspoken leader of the Oxnam school. To be called a “controversial” person in these demanding and troubled times is often merely a sign that you are not one of the living dead who merely “exist” the hum-drum lives away in passivity and conformity. — The Star-Courier, Bloomington

methods. The saving in seed can easily offset the cost of converting a grain drill for band seeding. It is important to remove the drag chains from a drill that has been converted. The drag chains scatter the seeds away from the band of fertilizer. Band seeding has been a popular practice of seeding for about 25 years, but many drills still need to be converted. Latest research results on vitamin A, hayladge and trace minerals will be presented at Purdue university’s Indiana Cattle - Feeders Day, April 26. The morning program starting at 10 will be at the Purdue Farm Center, three miles north of the campus. The afternoon meeting will be in the Hall of Music on the campus. Purdue animal scientists will present research results, including effect of oral cobalt and zinc and iron injections on gain, feed efficiency and carcass quality of steers and effect of low and high coumestrol dehydrated alfalfa meal and double stilbestrol on gain and efficiency of steer calves. Other research reports will deal with the comparative value of airtight haylage compared to conventional silo laylage with different levels of corn and supplement and inter-relationship and effect of oral vitamin A, injectable vitamin A and a tranquilizer on performance of steer calves. Farmers throughout the state market more hogs and cattle on Monday than any other day of the week. Even so the Monday price has generally been better than other days on the average. This practice of bunching deliveries early in the week is a relatively new thing. We have only been doing it for seven or eight years. The pattern in Indiana has become definitely heavy early in the week and trailing off during the latter part of each week but with no significant price difference between days of the week. Fewer than half the nearly 800 soybean seed samples tested at the Indiana Seed Laboratory at Purdue university this year have met the minimum 80 per cent germinating below the 80 per cent level likely lack vigor. ' Dr. F. W. Quackenbush, state chemist and seed commissioner, reports that of the 783 samples tested so far this year only 45 per cent test 80 per cent or higher. Two-thirds of these testing less than 65 per cent germination

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PROS AND CONS ON TEENAGE PARTY

Dear Amy: » I was astounded last week at the advice you gave to ‘An Irate Mother’ whose 17 year old son had six young couples in for a New Year’s party. Don’t you imagine the parents of those children were under the impression that the parry would be chaperoned by the boy’s parents? In the first place, those parents must have set thy drinking example by having the liquor in the house. Why in the world did they have to leave? We have a teen--age son and daughter and when their friends are here. I’m very sure the parents of those youngsters would expect either my husband or I to oe home. You didn’t reprimand the parents at all and I think your advice was dead wrong. Imagine a father walloping his 17 year old son . . and parents wonder what’s wrong with teenagers. It’s the parents most of the time; not the 'kids! Mrs. A.R. ' • • * . Dear Amy: In answer to tha letter written by ‘An Irate Mother,’ I just can’t understand what she expected other than what happened. Any time my boy or girl is invited to a private party, I expect it to be properly chaperoned ‘the entire time.’ The parents may as well have gone 50 miles aways as a few doors away if they planned to be gone two hours. The whiskey was very objectionable, but even had there been no liquor involved, I would have called the parents and given them a piece of my mind if and when L found out the party was unchaperoned at any time. Parents are so afraid these days that they will be a wet blanket or give the impression they are nosey if they remain within earshot of the teenagers. Believe you me, anyone who takes boys and girls into their home or on an outing are responsible to the youths’ parents and that responsibility should never be taken lightly. No one, in my opinion, owes the ‘lrate Mother’ or her husband an apology. They owe everyone involved an apology for being so careless with the treasures of these parents. Shame on this couple for deliberately walking away

came from south of U. S. Highway 50, where the pod and stem blight was most serious last fall. Results of these tests emphasize the need for Indiana farmers who keep their own seed to have it tested. Free germination tests are available at the Indiana Seed laboratory at Purdue. County extension agents have sampling instructions and envelopes for mailing samples for test

The state egg day program is being held at Purdue today, April 4, at the Memorial Center. Also on schedule at Purdue during the week is the annual industrial fire control conference April 2,3, and 4.

That Indiana Port This paper agrees with the Indianapolis Star in a recent editorial starting with the declaration' “the Iridiatna port at Bums Harbor will help Indiana.” The Star continues: “The fact is that not enough Hoosier legislators have been willing to take a straight-forward position on the matter. In the final analysis, this will be required in spite of some efforts to be on all sides of the issue at the same time. “If the people of the state generally are to benefit from a port, it should be built as a public facility for seagoing vessel. This will require public money either from the federal government or from the state or both. Most of all it will require a determination on the part of Indiana to see that the harbor is constructed in spite of obstacles that have been thrown in the way. “Perhaps this reflects the fact that many Hoosiers simply don’t connect state with the farflung markets of the world. A port on Lake Michigan would help do just that. Sooner or later, when all the plats have been unraveled and the counter-plots foiled, a choice will have to be made on this basic issue. When that happens it is difficult to see how the members of the General Assembly can fail to support a port promptly and adequately.”—CommercialMail. UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS DROP Milder weather last week brought returns to work in construction, quarrying, and other outdoor activities throughout most of the state and unemployment insurance claims dropped to 53,873 from 58,385 the week before. Lewis F. Nicolini, director of the Indiana Employment Security Division, said there were some recalls of industrial workers as well as small-scale layoffs. High water halted production in several plants along the Ohio river. Read the CLASSIFIEDS

and by doing so, putting temptation before boys and girls who are at an age when they are still looking to adults for guidance. A Concerned Mother • • • Dear Amy: It was shameful to read how disgraceful the 17 and 18 year-olds behaved at the well-planned New Year’s Eve party. If parents can’t walk out for a short while and leave young men and women alone, it is just too bad. There must be something very wrong in the way they have been brought up—not to have any respect for the rights and properties of others (including their hosts) let alone for themselves. I don’t think at their age they should have to be policed or chaperoned when these same boys and girls are permitted to single date ahd socially are pretty much on their own. If their parents’ teachings haven’t sunk in by now, they probably never will. But I think they all deserve a good stiff punishment for their actions, that evening. (There’s nothing wrong with a wallop.") It would be a refreshing change for these over-grown babies who take advantage of everything, including their parents. A Mother of Two • • * Dear Amy: This isn’t a problem but more of how you go about trying to find out where there are ceramic classes and sewing classes in one’s area. I read the paper every week thinking that maybe something may be listed and that is why I’m writing to you. ' I follow your column and thought you and the paper could list something. I am writing for a number of people who are also interested. Looking for a Hobby Dear Looking: Look to your local high schools. They give the courses you mentioned plus many others during evening hours which are ideal for hobby-seeking men and women. • • • Please address all letters to: AMY ADAMS c/o THIS NEWSPAPER For a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. RETURN FROM VISIT WITH PARENTS IN SOUTH Lucile K. Weaver of Pierceton and Mrs. Ward Weaver of North Webster have returned from a week’s visit with Mrs. Weaver’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vemette, who spent the winter at Palmetta, Fla. The trip was by plane from Indianapolis to St. Petersburg. A visit to Cypress Gardents, the Ringling museum and other points of interest around Bradenton, Sarasota and Palmetta were enjoyed.

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Republican SIOO---Plafe Dinner To Be Held May 9 Congressman at large Robert Taft, Jr., of Ohio will be principal speaker at the state-wide Republican SIOO-A-Plate Investment-for Victory Dinner Thursday, May 9, 1963, at the Indiana state fairgrounds in Indianapolis, according to a joint announcement yesterday by H. Da'e Brown, Republican state chairman, and John Burkhart, Republican state finance chairman. The steak dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. EST in the Manufacturers Building on the fairgrounds. Young Bob Taft, a rising political personality in Republican ranks, will give a rousing commentary on today’s challenge faced by the Republican party at both the national and state levels, Brown said. “Young Bob not only has the I keen intellect, fearless courage and I deep insight into public affairs | which were sorespected in his father (U. S. Senator Taft) but also he has the jovial personality of his grandfather, the former President .and Chief Justice,” Brown said. The 46-year old congressman is a battle veteran, having served as a naval officer during World War 11. He participated in the Guadalcanal, Sicily, Salerno, Okinawa and Normandy invasions. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1955 through 1961 and is serving his first term in the United States House of Representatives, having been elected to serve the entire state. He is -a member of the House Banking and Currency Committee. Taft attended Cincinnati public schools and was graduated from Yale university in 1939 and later received his law degree from the Harvard Law School. Brown said the SIOO-A-Plate Investment for Victory Dinner will be the major fund-raising event of the year for the Republican party in Indiana, replacing the GOP Spectacular entertainmenttype show held in 1961 and 1962. DOC HOLYCROSS GOP CHAIRMAN Eudolph (Doc) Holycross was picked as town Republican chairman in Larwill to headv plans for selecting a GOP ticket \ for the ‘town before the November election, Tuesday, March 26.\He will appoint ward chairmen to' work as a committee for naming the town ticket in a convention by mid or late August that voters may have it before them by the November election date. Present town board members have been in office about 12 years. Several of these wish to relinuish their posts in favor of a newlynamed board.

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Common Errors On Business Returns Sterling M. Dietrich of the In-' temal Revenue office in Indianap- 1 olis has poifited out some common $ errors in federal income tax re- ’ turns filed by business and proses- < sional people. They include failure ( to take adequate inventories, omis- < sion of cash income from receipts, no records of expenses paid in < cash, inadequate records of travel ‘ and entertainment expense, deduc- i tion of capital expenditures as 1 current expense, and failure to : eliminate personal expenses from business expense accounts. The last two items are probably the most common errors found by Internal Revenue Agents in their i audits. Frequently, capital expen- ( ditures are charged off as current expenses under accounts for re- : pairs, maintenance, supplies, and ' legal expense accounts. Audits also reveal the charging of personal expenses to such accounts , as advertising, travel and entertainment, selling expense, miscellaneous expense or an other account where personal expenses might be included. Mr. Dietrich suggested that business taxpayers should review all invoices to insure that personal items are eliminated be- , fore expenses are charged to the*r business accounts. NEW STAMP DESIGN A stalk of bearded wheat will be the blazen for a new “Food for , Peace” stamp to be issued by the ' Post Office Department in June. The new design in yellow, green and red will .appear first at the opening of the World Food Congress, stressing the problems of hunger throughout the world. The vertical stamp was contributed by widely-known magazine illustrator and artist, Stevan Dohanos, and is a companion to adhesives some 150/nations and territories are to issue in a cooperative effort against the hunger situation.

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NEW CONTRACT FOR GOSHEN COACH The Goshen high school basketball coach Art Cosgrove has been given a new two-year contract. The Goshen team had a 24-2 record this season, but lost in an overtime game to the South Bend Central Bears. In the four years he has coached the Goshen team it Ifas a 7026 record. Goshen was co-champ-ion with South Bend Central in the eastern division of northern Indiana high school conference. Hoosier Farmer Degree The son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bobay of Huntertown, John Bobay, has been named the recipient of the Hoosier Farm degree, presented at the 1963 State Future Farmers of America at Purdue university last week end. FORDTRACTORS & Equipment NEW AND USED Ford Tractor & Back Hoe 1959 Ford Model 871 1959 Ford 841 1955 Ford Model 860 1955 Ford Model 960 1949 Ford Model 812 Used 6 ft. Rotary Cutter Used Ford Mowers Used Semi Mdt. Mowers Used Ford Plows New Wheel Discs De Good Tractor Sales Warsaw, Ph.: 267-8443 North on State Road 15