The Mail-Journal, Volume 3, Number 41, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 November 1964 — Page 1

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VOLUME 3

Churches Urged To Join Safety Campaign Churches throughout Indiana are again, being asked to jom in a year-end highway safety program during the month of December. “Drive So That Olliers May Live” is the theme of the monthlong traffic safety effort being sponsored by the Indiana Traffic Safety Foundation, in coopera’ion wgh stale and local traffic officials. Packets of materials, containing program suggestions are being distributed to more than 5.000 minist'ers throughout the state. Suggested activities include sermons. class discussions and safety talks, stressing the vital importance of accepting, moral, as well as legal. lilities as drivers and jiedeStrians. ''lf present rates continue, near- ■ in traffic crazies in Indiana by the year s end.” stated Albert E. Huber. exocut ve director of the Foundation “We are hopeful that, through this program, many more ~.,i . \ v p be. omc conremcxl problem ‘and join in demanding more effeDvc action to reduce the •■(••vd'e-s -oss of I fe resulting from the misuse of or streets and high■V •. • H /-..-I- conch: led FIND STOLEN TRUCK HERE An Elkhart county Farm Bureau Co-Op conveyor feeder truck, reported stolen in Goshen at 1:30 pm. Friday, was found in the Syracuse parking lot, located north of the telephone building,; Friday even:ng The vehicle was discovered by officer Fred Personnel te. Ganger,' no damage was done to the ami nothing was miss

Project Agriculture . . . ZIP Coded Move With Frost Line Farmers and Gardeners Benefit From New Service

The old SBW that “Everyone talks about the weather, hut nobody does anything about- it,’’ no longer applies to the Post Office Department. It’s ZIP Coding the Frost Line! In doing 'something about the weather, the Department is offering a boon: to farmers, nurserymen, truckers and htninessmen w hose margin of profit depend-. to a great degree, on beating Jack Frost to the market.

Dubbed PROJECT A—for ARriculture—the new program consuls of speeding delivery of mail order seeds, plants,' and food products by ZIP Coding parcels according to the movement of the Frost, Line. Here’s how Project A works: | A farm or a nursery ships Its perishable products—flowers, shrubberies, trees, “vegetables, seeds, etc.—by parcel post. ZIP Coded according to the frost lines announced annually by the Weather Bureau. In filling orders from customers. the mailer breaks down these weather zones into ZIP Code sectional centers, to which delivery is made directly from his local post office. The result? Plants are received days earlier. Dot's it work? The Jack,son and Perkins Nurseries, of Newark. N.J. — the world’s largest nursery and the largest rose growers in the United States—are sold on the program. They have found—in shipping nearly a million parcels of perishable plants—that an estimated three handlings are eliminated between the point of mailing and the point of receipt, when the parcels are ZIP Coded according to the Frost Line. And the Jackson and Perkins parcels were received “in almost record time and in excellent condition.” Study Group Developed by a Parcel Post Study group established by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski to revitalize parcel post services. Project A will also provide special Post Office Department labels, free of charge, which identify ZIP Coded parcels as agricultural or botanical products, subject to spoilage or damage. Pool Coses The Parcel Post Study Group hds also devised a new program for extensive use of

THE MAIL JOURNAL

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

BILLY L. HOLLAR, USM, IN OPERATION z “STEEL PIKE” / STEEL PIKE — Marine DiUy L. i Hollar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donovan Hollar of Nappanee, is visiting ports in the European area following participation in the largest amphibious combat training exercise !in the Atlantic since World War II He is serving with the First. Battilion, Sixth Regiment. Second Marine Division. Camp 'Lejeune. N. C. ■' ’ ' The operation. called “Steel Pike”, featured U. S. and Sp ' Marines landing- from landing craft and helicopters of a combined U.' S. -Spanish Fleet of 94 vessels which included ships of the Ur.ited States Military’ Sea Transport Service and c;prn-«l ships o: t.’.c U S Merj chant Fleet. The Mock assault on. the beach<es o: ; >C t’hvrr; Spu n was staged :by Marines of the Second Marine .!> vis Second Marine. Aircraft [ Wing -.and Force Troops, Fleet Marine Force 'Atlant \ .•.'••nt wit battalion of Spanish Marines. [ showed the ability’ •of the U S n : Allied amphibious j forces to rapidly transport large numbers of t .-•»»■ »s 1 their i equipment. ’ get thfm ashore and . maintain them for as long as nec- > es.s,iry It also trained the forces lof both countries in conducting ■ joint operations. His un:i was part of the assault force during the operation BECKY REPLOGLE HONORED AT BIRTHDAY DINNER Becky Replogic of Milford honored at a birthday’ dinner Friday o': n Nov 13, the'home iof her parents. Mr. and Mrs, John Reploele. Becky celebrated her ninth birth- ■ day Present besides her parents were her sisters. Kathy and Brenda, her Mr. and Mrs Fred Shepherd of Fort Wayne and Mrs Myrtle Replogle of Milford.

••pool cases'*— large cardboard i boxes in which smaller parcels destined for the same sectional center are pooled for mailing—to further reduce parcel post damage. Upon its arrival, the pool case would be Immediately opened, and the contents delivered quickly to the addresses In nearby communities. This method saves time enroute. by reducing the number of necessary post office handlings. and greatly reduces the likelihood of damage—which traditionally has increased with each handling. President Johnson has called for tire best passible postal service at the lowest possible cost. Project Agriculture and pool casing are just two new programs recently initiated by the Post Office Department. Scheduled Parcel Post At Lansing. Mich.. Mr. Fredrick Belen. Deputy Postmaster General, recently supervised the start of a new program for shipment of automotive parts using ZIP Code and pool cases. In many areas of the country parcel post shipments are being scheduled so that mailers can be told when they can expect their packages to be delivered. In many instances next day delivery is being accomplished. On Sept. 9 at Annapolis, Md.. Mr. Gronouski announced an experiment for '‘scheduled” delivery over about 16.000 square miles In the mid-At-lantic area for parcel post, providing guaranteed delivery within specified times between 656 post offices. This is the first of many such programs being developed. Christmas Stamps More than 3 billion special Christmas stamps will be sold this year. Each sheet of 100 stamps wifi contain 25 each of four designs.

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READY FOR NO\TMBER 28 - The Larwill 1 above, are busy preparing for their firs, home game on November 28. : They have lost to both North Webster and Silver Lake this year. The score of the Silver Lake game which was played last Friday on the Ramblers’ hardwood was 91-68. This Friday they will travel to Decalur Cath-

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Th* ■Mtaß'n firrt telf-wrie*, rj.ind-the-clock port office was opened in •uhurlma Wsshington. D.C. In Ute October. 1961. One of many innovstion» iwnltinir fr-m President Johnson’* directive for the best possible mail »■ -- re at ; • th « »- ■- : m. ■ unit i.ffe: ■ slam; -. t- st i-arJs, and •tamped enve'e-pe* at rt*t, p!u« limited 'parcel post services. The unit is I ■■ a ■ > c ■ ■ .. .

Postmaster General Only Ph. D. Ever In Cabinet

Postmaster General John' Austin Gronouski, took office September 30,1963. He is the only known member of a President's cabinet ever to hold an earned Ph. D. The Nation’s top postal executive has gained a reputation as a skilled administrator, educator, and economist. In conducting die farflung operations of the Post Office Department, he runs, in Navy parlance, a tight ship. The postal budget he submitted to Congress in January of 1964 for fiscal 1965 was $l5O million under the estimate made 4 months earlier. This reduction was achieved without eliminating essential sendees, and within the framework of safeguarding the livelihood of career employees. As major projects of his postal administration. Mr. Gronouski has taken action to speed up parcel post deliveries ■ and to cut down delay and damage to the malls. Under his leadership, strides have been made in implementing President Johnson’s program barring discrimination and assuring equal job opportunittea for the Department’s 590.000 employees. The productivity of clerical help was boosted 4.3 percent in fiscal 1964 over 1960. producing savings of $69 million over that period. The Postmaster General's human touch was characterized to a news story to the Schenectady (New York) Gazette during a visit to that city to May of 1964. The story described him as “the warmest man since Wallace Beery.” Wisconsin Bom Mr. Gronouski was born October 26. 1919, to Dunbar. Wis. He holds three degrees from the University of Wisconsin to the field of econom-

olic and on November 27 they will play Southwood. r- Standing in front, left to right, are Jim Walter, Jerry Lahrman, Steve McManama, and Rick Helfrich. In ;he back are Tex Plummer, Dick Schroeder, Jim Adams, Dave Menzie, and Terry Ward. The Trojans are coached by Jerry . Minton.

Ics, with a major in public finance. He was awarded his Bachelor’s Degree in 1942; his Master’s Degree in 1947 and his Doctorate in 1955.

He entered the Army Air Corps in April of 1942 as a private and later served as a navigator with the rank of First Lieu-

tenant. After 24 combat missions in the European Theatre of Operations, he was discharged in October of 1945. Educator Mr. Gronouski taught public finance, money and banking and related subjects at the University of Maine at Orono, Maine, and at Wayne State University, Detroit. Mich., and statistics at Roosevelt College Evening School, Chicago, HL Taxation Commissioner In February 1959 he became research Director for the Wisconsin Department of Taxation and to the following year was appointed State Commissioner of Taxation by then Governor Gaylord Nelson. He is a Catholic and is the first American of Polish decent in history to achieve Cabinet ranking. Stamp Bargain The nickle newspaper, phone call, and sjibway ride are a thing of the past. But. you can still man a letter from Nome. Alaska, or Honolulu, Hawaii, to Boston, Mass., or Miami, Fla., for only a nickle. Your message can be sent a fifth of the way around the world for mere pennies.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1964

Larwill Trojans, One Os Many Lakeland Foes

Above are the Trojans from Larwill. They are one of many schools who play the Lakeland schools during the basketball season. On November 6 Larwill opened the current season against the Trojans from, North Webster. North Webster won the game 68-57. On December 4 the Whitley county Trojans will. meet Leesburg on the Blazers’ hardwood. Larwill, Wolf Lake, Cromwell, and Milford hold an annual holiday tournament. This year's tournament will be held in Larwill on December 18 and 19. On December the team will again be in North Webster and they will be joining the Kosciusko county teams in the county tournament for the second time January 6 to 9. The complete schedule follows: LARWILL SCHEDULE Nov. 6 North Webster T Nov. 13 Silver Lake T Nov. 20 Decatur Catholic T Nov. 27 Southwood T Nov. 28 Huntington Catholic H Dec. 4 Leesburg T Dec. 11 Claypool' H i Dec. 12 Akron H Dec. 18-18 Tourney (Wolf Lake, Cromwell. Milford, Larwill) jDec. 22 North Webster H Jan. 6-9 Kosciusko County Tourney at Warsaw Jan. 15 Wolf Lake H i Jah. 23 South Whitley H Jan. 29 Lancaster T Jan. 30 Rock Creek . H Feb. 5 Union H Feb. 13 Cromwell at Ligonier Feb. 19 Andrews II

REMEMBER . . . WHEN IT HAPPENED IN SYRACUSE

ONE YEAR AGO Howard Kline of Syracuse has assumed the management of the D-X station located south on Huntington street in Syracuse. R. Leon Connolly, Syracuse town attorney since 1946, has requested that his name not be considered for the new post when the new town board makes up its official family after its members take office the first of the year. "X . Herbert E. Pebbles of r 5 Goshen driving a 1963 Chevrolet 2-door hardt- p, hit and killed a buck deer on Tuesday on road 313 just south of tie Dale Miller farm. The deer was turned over to the Elkhart county conservation officer who said it would be given to the Elkhart county home. Damage to the Pebbles car was listed at SIOO. Syracuse will hold its Thanksgiving community senice at the Church of the Brethren. Sen ices win begin at 8 a. m on Thanksgiving day, November 28. FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Janet Riley of Syracuse has been named Butler university’s 1960 Drift Beautv Queen. For winning the coveted title she will be featured in the 1960 Drift, the Butler yearbook. She is a graduate of Syracuse high school and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kline, Syracuse. Scoutmaster Jack Ridings has announced that the Boy Scouts of Syracuse Troop No. 28 are now taking orders for Christmas trees which will be sold for $2.50. large bundles of hrwighs may be obtained for 50 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Nusbaum and

daughter Jane left Sunday for Harlinger, Tex., where Jane will marry Lt. John Berg on November 23. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Heyde entertained at dinner Sunday for their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Clem Elwood of Kansas City. Kans. Other guests were Mrs. C. R. Traxer of j South Bend. Mrs. 0. Van Durant, Mr. ; and Mrs. William Heyde, Mr. and Mrs. Noble Heyde and sons. Paul. Rick. Mark, and Bill, a'.l of Bremen. The Syracuse fire department reports’the receipt of a gift of ah oxygen therapy regulator from Mrs. Lillian Kurzfeld of Kale Island. TEN YEARS AGO Syracuse defeated Atwood Tuesday evening 62 to 54. Syracuse winning this game evened up their record with two victories and two defeats. Olive Deardorff. formerly of Syracuse, was married to Fred Conover [of Ladysmith. Wis.,’October 26. They will reside in Ladysmith. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Adrain of Lorain, 0., were Saturday night and Sun- | day guests in the home of Mrl Adrain's mother, Mrs. B. F. Hoy. I Mr. and Mrs. Mel Rapp were r riIday to Sunday hosts to their daughter. Mrs. Z. H. Overman, Dan and Nancy of Franklin. ! Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Strong of Indianapolis were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Stephenson Sunday. ( Mr and Mrs. Stephenson plan to attend the Purdue-Indiana university i game Saturday with Mr. and • Mrs. George Haley. TWENTY YEARS AGO Mrs. Ida M. Jensen spent last week end in Toledo, 0., with Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lower and daughter. She helped them to get settled in their new home. On Thursday of last week Mrs. Estella Swartz entertained at dinner in her home. Mrs. Charles Bishop. Mrs. Irving Bishop, Mrs. Cora Fritz, and Mrs. Emma Whistler. The occasion was in honor of Mrs' Whistler who on Monday of this week moved to Jackson, Mich., to the home of her daughter. Mrs. Irvin Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rothenberger will leave Saturday by bus for Punta Gorda. Fla., where they will spend the winter. John R. Kern. W. T. 3 C arrived here Thursday for a two-week furlough. He has been on duty in the southwest Pacific and this is his first visit home in over 20 months. Miss Suzanne Rapp and a guest, Miss Naomi Minick of Ball State Teachers college, spent last week here with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rapp. FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Roy Sargent, who is employed as a mail clerk between Jackson and Bay City, Mich., spent last week here with his parents. Fifteen Syracuse men who took part ir. the recent world war signed application blanks for a charter for a Syracuse Veterans’ Post. It will be named the Hugh Sloan post. The horse used by B. F. Kitson in transporting mail between the post office and the depot has pneumonia. "Buddy” Xanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Xanders, cut his head severely while at play at home. A physician was called to cluse the wound. Roscoe Howard who has been employed in Mishawaka has returned home for the winter to be with his mother. The thermometer stood at 14 de-

grees above zero Thursday a. m.

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20 YEARS AGO. OCTOBER 26, 1944 Mrs. James H. Barnes, the former Miss Frances Poe before her recent marriage, was given miscellaneous wedding gifts Thursday evening when Mesdames Wayne Bucher and Howard Poe entertained for her. Ford Overlease has been helping out as waiter at the Annex which is operated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Huffman, brother-in-law and sister of Raymond Poynter of this town. Mr. and Mrs. T. Harry Bedell of Marion left Friday for Miami Beach. Fla., to spend the winter' months. Mr. Bedell is president of the Bedell ' Mfg. Cd, in Milford. Douglas Charlton, son of Mr. and {Mrs. Willard Charlton, and Kenneth [Hawkins. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs> I Kenneth Hawkins, have been sent | from Camp Atterbury. Ind., to Fort McClellan. Ala. Hailey Stieglitz, son i and Mrs. Henry Stieglitz, was tran-ferred from Camp Atterbury to j Camp Barkeley. Tex. The boys were inducted into the army on October 10. Mrs. Johnnie Fisher will corre- ' spond for The Milford Mail for the Concord community after this week. [Mrs. Jacob Bucher had done the writing for many years. i Weldon Ritchie left for Mare Island. near San Francisco. Calif., where he will take up employment in , the shipyards. 30 YEARS AGO. NOVEMBER 1. 1931 John Troup who- is employed as ■ chauffeur for Dr. Anna Kauffman of Goshen visited his mother. Mrs. Alma Troup, and family Thursday. Harry Sanders who has owned and operated the bakery here for several . years, sold his business to John Flowers last week and Mr. Flowers took . possession Monday morning. Lester Kern, who has been employed there:as baker for several months, will still do the baking. Miss Ida Holderman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Holderman of Nappanee, became the bride of William Ruch of Milford in a ceremony performed October 21 at Centrevi’le. Mich. The first snow of the season feh in Milford and vicinity Saturday night, however, being accompanied • by a rain it melted almostfas quickly ! as it fell. Theodore Landcastler Hammond. 183. died Monday at his Milford home. [ He is survived by one daughter. ■M~s. C V (Ella* Stockberger; the widow, who was formerly Mrs. Anna Ritter of Kuhns Landing: and a brother. Charles W. Hammond. ' Mr. and Mrs. P, M. McCabe of the latter being formerly Miss Edith Hall.-called on Mrs E. W. Higbee the past week. 1 Mrs. Ada Gunther. Mr. and Mrs. | Hiram Pentlin, Mrs; Ella Smith, and Jean Good were Sundav guests of Powell Widner and family at Goshen. 40 YEARS AGO, OCTOBER 30, 1924 The marriage of Miss Martha I Augsburger. daughter of Mrs. Daniel Augsburger of west of Milford, and Forrest G. Cripe-, son of Mr. and Mrs. I Henrv Cripe of Goshen, took place ! Thursday at the home of the bride’s i mother. The Milford high school teams went to Atwood Friday evening where they opened the season by winning both games, final scores of 25-14 in the

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The Chicago Motor Club’s November school safety poster message- " Keep From Between Parked Cars”-wams against a dangerous habit ° f The space between parked cars is only inches from the flow of traffic, and a child who decides to dart out into the street from that point is at the mercy of a good set of brakes and the alertness of a surpnseddnver. Also, children have been known to be injured when a motorist, una of their presence, backs up to leave his parking space. This month’s Chicago Motor Club poster is distribute 45,000 classrooms throughout the Club’s territory in Illinois and Indiana.

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first team game and 17-16 in the second team game. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Miles of just south of town had as their guests on Sunday their son, Everett . Miles, and family of Fort Wayne. 1 George Stieglitz of west of town has announced the engagement of i his daughter Madeline to Michael A. . Zimmerman. The wedding will take place November 23. Mrs. Witmer Ballard and two children. Martha and James, of Breckenridge. Tex., returned to her home last Saturday after a week’s visit in the home of her sister. Mrs. Guy Cory, and family. Mr. and, Mrs. Edgar Stuckman and family have moved from New , Paris to Elkhart where he is employed at Hotel Elkhart. Miss Celia Lung of Kendallville and Avery M. Groves of Elkhart, formerly of Milford, were married ■ at St. Joseph. Mich.. October 11. 50 YE \RS AGO. OCTOBER 15, 1914 [ A -on was born to Mr. and Mrs. i Curtis Rarick on October 2. Albert Krull, who lives west of Milford, went out to oil his wind wheel Thursday, and whjle climbing the ladder that leads up to the wheel, i was thrown to the ground. He fell in ' such away as to fracture his collar bone. As wedding took place at the home of the bride’s parefits, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Stiffler on welt Section street in Milford. Saturday. The Contracting parties were Arthur M. Magee of Warsaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. George | Magee, and Vidi M. Shisler, daughter of the Stifflers. Mr. and Mrs. William Whetten have moved from their cottage at Lakeside back to Milford and will take up their abode with us until spring. •Catharine (Been-* Messick. 93, of Milford Junction, known as mother Messick, died Saturday. She was married to Hewette Messick in April of 1846. to which union 11 children were bom. Her husband had been previously married and was the father of 11 children, making in all 22 children that were practically the care of mother Messick. She lived to assist in rearing 36 children and to see the youngest arrive at the age of i 52 years. A marriage license has been issued to Guy Symehsma. 21. farmer of New Paris, and Fay Hoover, 19, of Milford. Former Syracuse Student In Cappella Choir For Fourth Year With the FincHay college A Cappella choir for the -fourth year is James Hibschman of Findlay, O. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver ILbschman. r 1 Syracuse. A senior Mr. Hibschman sings first tenor. "He is a. 1961 graduate of Syracuse high school and his major interest at Findlay is English. Mr. Hibschman's wjfe, Barbara, is also with the Findlay college choir. She is a sophomore in her first year. She previously attended Fort Wayne Bible college.