The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 February 1965 — Page 5

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JUNIOR FIELD OBSERVERS AT SYRACUSE SCHOOL Six Goshen college juniors will be spending each Tuesday of the. week for six weeks at the Syracuse elementary school as field observers . The program. under the direction *

■■ar Thursday Tuesday February 25-thru March 2 WALT DISNEY S “Those Calloways” BRIAN KEITH Technicolor ‘ t'. Starts Wednesday- March 3 Th- Hank ,W<li’.m St 'y “Your Cheating Heart GEORGE HAMILTON

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'of Professor Sam Yoder, was instigated several years ago from Go shen college students preparatory to student teaching m the Senior year. Professor Yoder, director of Junior i field observers works comjun ’ | >y w.th the schools in the placement | of these students I ! The students observe classes in progress for. a period of six weeks and each group will visit three different schools The present group.; Is the. third for the Syracuse school ear > ' . . ■■l Edgar A'. Speer, Syracuse elemen- I dents on a tour of the buildings and facilities upon their arrival He explained the School curriculum phiL ’ !ospphy and m< He enapproved the pro- f ■ : teachers and the’ juniors. assigned to them 1 Miss Karel p Hollongsworth and ; Fr tncere Rule. Mrs; Nancy Me - Weaver arid Eleanor Steiner: Mrs; | Uandrigan ami Janet Taylor; Mr< .h>an."Myers, and Karen Zim—- • : ' ■ ’ ■ ' ■ | STORY H<>< R AT SYRAH St LIBRARY . ■ . > ■ Syt ■ ■ •library from 1 to 2 pm

THOMAS N. KRAMER ON SUPERINTENDENT’S LIST AT ACADEMY Cadet Thomas N. Kramer, fourth I classman, has been named to the superintendent’s list at the U. S. j Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. Colo This honor is award- , ed for both academic and military

• vement for the first s<. er- He is the son. of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V Kramer. Syracuse. ; Milford School Menus j Monday . Sloppy Joes, creamed j com. Carrot sticks, fruit gelatin, Johnny appleseed cake, milk. Tuesday <- Hamburger and spaLghetti -. cheese squares, celery st,eks -and olives, bread, butter, j jelly.- banana-graham cracker 'dessert. milk Wednesday - Egg salad’sandwich-1 es. scalloped potatoes with ham, let-j-toce. purple plums, milk. ... ’■ j Thursday - Chili and crackers, macaroni , and cheese. molded com-1 . • -peach cobbler and milk *==;; j j potatoes, cherry- salad, -bread, but-| ■■ '■ ■' ■ '' .. I Syracuse , School Menus Monday - Hot dogs, buttered <-<>rn, : ' it .• ■ • ;. ■, r Tuesday- Italian spaghetti, green j • bread and butter, and milk.' W< steakettes, baked. , potatoes. fruit salad, homemade "O'’s tp-’k .. 1.. Tl ursday - Turkey and. dressing,, mashed potatoes, buttered broccoli, r fruit bread, butter and milk. I Friday - Salmon loaf with tartar | s.itive. creamed potatoes, • perfee-i tion. salad. cbokie.s. bread, butter, and milk GAA NEWS ‘ ■ By < Iberj I Peffl . I Monday the volleyball tourney began The top freshmen teams j ar« CrumHch. Stanfield and Mikel. I I Pefflcy is one of the too sophomore I .teams: the'others will be det erm in- | ed later After this week thse teams ■hallenge the junior and senior j ; teams Besides volleyball, the girls have , I been taking a series of physi ai ,fitnes< tests sponsored bv the Kennedy Physical Fitness Plan. _ SCHOOL OF MISSIONS AT SYRACUSE CHURCH } The Syracuse Church of the Brejtheren win begin -its- School of Mis- ' >ions on March ~ to run for five I Sundays; The school will take the j place of the Sunday evening service and the topic will be “Spanish -.mg -Americans. The services I j are at 7 p.m. .

Milford Students Receive 3 Superior, I Ratings In State Contest

By Pam Phend . Milford was very well represented at the State instrumental, Vocal. and Piano contest Saturday, Feb. 20. In order to t be eligible to go to the state contest, a student must be in group one and receive a first rating in the district contest. He, » required list. In past years there has been none of these requirements. So as one can see, getting to go to the state contest ’ has been made much more difficult this year. , Seven Eligible j Os the seven contestants eligible for the state contest, three receiv-1 led superior (firsts 1 . They were , Sharron Moneyheffer and CindyBeer. vocal solos: and John Bushong. drum solo. AH our excellent (second' ratings were very close to being firsts. .Those receiving seconds were Bob Hoerr. bass horn solo; Michelle' '. ■ '

FFA Theme ■ 'Our American Heritage' r Vocationpl agriculture students in ’ Milford high school will join Future Fanw ncs members j throughout the nation in activities to focus attention bn the importance of agriculture during ’ national FFA ■week.’ February 2fi to 27. ■ “Agriculture—Our American Heri- ■ theme The FFA boys will u-akr - era! public about the importance of ■ the agricultural industry to Amerij ca. the growing need for. farming land the numerous and wide variety.’ |of opportunities that exist in the | broad field of agriculture for young mei ; farm experience and training, j We have such an abundance of food in America that people are' taking farmers for granted. Actual['been our largest and most vital < industry, and it is .becoming increasingly important .with our ex- ■ and most qf the jobs, are basicly p dependent upon surrounding farms farms, and for. all practical purpos- j es you would destroy the entire com-1 munity The Milford members, have set purposes of FFA in the post office. | i Each of the members plan to wear | dress shirt. tie and the official FFA j ‘ jacket One day to school (hiring the week to help call attention -to naThe National Future Farmer orition h.jS approximately 400. 000- members.‘’with 9.000 local chapters in the 50 States and Puerto jßico. Membership in Indiana num- ; bers almost 10,000. The Milford I chapter has 23 members this ■■■ ■ ... ' ' ■ Future Farmers choose the week each year for the observance of National FFA Week. Although 'tisuallv recognized as a .RevolutionaryWar General and our first President. ' Washingtor,’< first love was the I farm He was one of the first in the nation to practice contour planting, 'cn>n rotations fcrrilization. and oth;er soil conservation and improve- : ment methods. j _ . ' .’ ' ' ' ' - : Mr arid Mrs John Seariuss and I family have recently purcliased' and. I moved into the Fred Hibskiris prop- ! erty at Lake Wawasee.

Conn, vocal solo: girls trio - Sharron Moneyheffer. Janet Ramser and Michelle Conn: clarinet, quartet - Ann Purdum. Sharron Mon-, eyheffer. Becky Hoerr. and Pam > Phend. -I All the .entrants suffered Lorn a I severe case of nerves. Many woke at five or six o'clock in the morning to get to Indianapolis in time to • millions of cars, get warmed up. and then perform. As they waited- ! all sorts of frightening things ran [ through their minds. Will I f ; the - words? Will I play the right i notes? Then finally its time to perform. and in less than five minutes its all over No more nerves, [and everyone settles down to enjoy the rest of the day. The results of the contest, show tlrat these M H.S. students possess remarkable talent We are proud of them and hope they keep up the fine work-

FFA HEWS By Gary Hepler The Milford Chapter of the Future- Farmers of America held its meeting on February 8 The chapter elected u new sentinel because Stan. Price retired from this office. Jon. Lipply is the new sentirieL ■ ", , The report on the seed sales was that the chapter has sold about Stbri worth. The chapter goal is SSOO Anyone wanting good., guar{j&uteed’. ..seeds, .contact ' any FFAJ member . Win Honors T h e parliamentary procedure j . Roni: May. Korn Smith. LX>n Riah- ' er. Gary~Tlep!er. Jon Lipply. Ja -k .-’ Stookey. Jeff Kern, and Gary Mock,] i went to Bremen on February Id, ’ 'to, the district FFA contests. The, Milford chapter received a second ia t;a- .h > v(es‘ P h recited the creed in which , Milford also entered. The secretary and treasurer's books were entered in the < ■■ alsQ-. ■ I On Tuesday. February 16, the Milford chapter went wit.i the adult I . . the chapter saw how the butcherIng of cattle was done under sanitary conditions Our guide explain ed all about how- he buys on g-ade and yield on cattle. ■ 1 This is FFA Week and to ern- j phasize this, the chapter members wore their coats, white shirts, and ties one ' day this week at' school. There is an exhibit at the post office oh what-the FFA does The chapter has decided Jo go to a pro basketball' game at Fort Wayne sometime in March. A committee is to look into it. Don Bucher Has Winning Essay Don. Bucher's essay on “Minimum Tilage" placed first in the recent ' j Bremen . Don is a member of the Milford Chapter. The winning essay will now- be sent to the state Contest to compgte with, the winners, from the other 11 districts in Indiana, The Milford parliamentary pro- | cedure team placed" a close second i in District II competition The team | was headed by president Bob Tus- i ing. Othjer members of the team I were Rj>nn May. Ronn Smith, Don j Bucher. Jon Lipply. Gary* Hepler, Jack 'StookeY, Jeff Kern and Garv , - Mock r ' !

14 Tapped- • Continued from page 1) er needed to do was> go to the credit sheet. The average person uses a- ; bout 10 per cent of his ability, j Mr. Kesler said the students should j strive to put fourth their v ery best ; effort. He then added a few words on character telling that hidden down in every person is something of the divine. The spirit that makes you do the right thing at the right time. It helps a person to be fair, honest and dependable. Tap New Members The closing remarks ■ were given by the National Honor Society president Geri Bauer. She to|d of the National Honor Society coming to Syracuse high school in December 1960 and again referred to the four qualities used by The faculty in choosing new members. Besides possessing the above named qualities a student must have a B average, using only semester grades, must be a second sophomore and must have been enrolled at Syracuse high school for one semester. Following Miss Bauer’s remarks I members of the society went ■ out the student body where each I one tapped one new member. The new members were then presented : with the colors 1 of the society and j faculty members. Tapped were the following: -= "Seniors Bill Clune, son of Mr; and Mrs Don W Runge; ■ Du id i Kline, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde ; Johnston:' and Robert Stiffler, son <>•" M; and Mrs Roy S:.ffle’Juniors — Kathy -Dorsey, daughter of Mr and Mrs.. Maurice Dor- ’ sev Rebeca Smitli Chugl'tec i.becca Thomas, daughter of . Mr. and ■ I som .of Mr and Mrs Ray- Buhrt. i I Sophomores ‘provisional merhMr and Mrs. Ray Buhrt; Donne. J Huff, daughter , of Mr. and Mr> James Hershberger: Cheryl Peffley, Bradley- Bauer, son of and Mrs ■ \lbe-t J .Rii'ier: .torn . ; nd' Kn-'-’-ov TLo'o e svi ■ [Mri and Mrs. Orrin F. Smith, and: Tim Yeager, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Yeager j X -..--v-.’ i- -■ -■ he’d Monday evening .’ i ■ ■ ■ ’ .1 Spelling Bee • Continued from page 1 ‘. spelling contest for grades seven and eight on’ April xlO. Judges for the Bee wejre Etliel Bqw’ser, Rev Carl Satre, antt Dr. Wendel Shank. Miss Patricia Forrester operated the tape recorder for the event and Edgar A. Speer served as the pronouncer. Ribbons and prizes were awarded by Mis Jack M Carr, PT A pres-dent Norman Ge,:bie received a $25 savngs bond and Karen Alien rece.ved, a $5. cash prize. 1 I Names of the contestants and the w’ords they missed are as follows: Doyle Butler - adjustable. Do© Has-, se - Diana Peck - chemistry Jeani Adair - encourage. John Lose© - grovel. Debbie Sellers - extensive. Eugene Lawson - hare, Becky Geible - fashion. Tim Henning - livelihotxi. Nancy Yoder - I merely. Melinda Moore - miser. | Marv Ellen Clayton - misspell. Joel ’’Burkholder - motley-; Sue Ann Smith )- vault. Greg Talmadge - assimiI late, Pam Troyer - adverbial, Da- ' vid Webster . bereaved, and Karen j Allen - colonel. SYRACUSE FFA NEWS By Joe Brown \ . The Syracuse Chapter of the Future Farmers of America took a field trip to the Kingsford Pa Plant, at K’ngsford He.ghts. [small packing house,, but it is the I major source of fresh beef for the Town and Country Food Service. ; Those visiting the plant were the Milford FFA Chapter,' the Milford ; Adult Farmer Class, the Syracuse FFA Chapter including Bill Bushong. Robert Stiffler. Ron Robinson. Fred Green. Jon Roberts. Gary Tom. Doug D'ng, Mke Pt ’.:. D-.i Kreis. Joe Brown. Doug Coy, Rick! Statter. Roger Kern. Max Rich-1 '■ Svraeuse Chapter sponsor, Richard j r GOSPEL QUARTET TO BE AT MILFORDX CHRISTIAN CHURCHY The Stamps-Baxter Quartet,, oAe of the five men s quartets of the Stamps-Baxter Music Company. Will be at Jh e Milford Christian churfch on Monday evening at 7:30. T * Real Estate For Sale 4-B. R Ch»nellami>hEa— Sbldrd lot. blk. top rood near Syr;x B R Briek home. I ear. aaraae.. U I l.t-4 Mka. to center ... SOLU ; Mod 3 B R full baa I*4 e* r *» r • * L R Fireplace. Rec. room, deep freeie, drape*, etc Redwood aidlnr- alum S B.R Mod Btt or ne»r * I »ehool-lr. 66X13? lot. pared Mreet. awume. j mat. - ' " ’’ Xewlr built-Mod 3 B R-1 I on 4 acres aood rround-small barn Sl-W 3 B R Mod famiix home <o £i rar. plenty ot ahade, on 3* aeres i land — Syracuse Lake lot - 3 Room house, rar All city VtiUties. c®"*™' Chanei-3 Room mod »*• »•» j can be bouaht on contract at only See Vs For Any Kind Os REAL ESTATE OR IXSVRAXCE Everett F. Ketering PHONE: 457-37?? — 457-8806 ORRICE L. SHAW. Broker

Thursday, February 25, 1965

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TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY — Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rink of Milford will observe their 58th wedding anniversary Sunday at a family dinner in the home of their son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Merril Rink at • Milford. Mr. and Mrs. Rink were married March 2. 1907. in Goshen by Rev.

79th Annual Observance Os World Day Os Prayer Set For March 5

The Milford community- will join iin the 79th yearly observance •■ : the World Day of Prayer on Friday. March 5 All’ • persons inti sharing in this Christian- fellowship . are invited to attend the service at the Bethel church at 1:30 o’clock. , Six continents arid more than 125 nations will join in this fellowship ; ■ on; the first Friday of the Lenten seasm ahd will unite in prayers,, ■for peace and brotherhood oh the . theme “What Doth the Lord Re- | ■ re The • >e:-v ’ consists of fa- [ ; miKar pa'sage^vom (lie Old and , i

Syracuse School News SHS Modern Music Masters Present Convocation The Syracuse h ■ - Fri-M presented a .convocation .of many [ ■ . ■ • ■ id the new. gym_ with a Stirring concert march,- Days | ■ featured in -the next, number en-, titled Trumpets, in Stereo. Three ■ Bones by Al Davis featured trombone players' B G VanSicle, Jim j Wilson and Bob Pennick. Selec- t tions from Wait Disney s Mary Pop- ■ pins was the next number played , hv the full band. A -festive,! of folk tunes in Hootenanny seemed to be I everyone’s favorite. Artistry in 800-1 ' • Other features of the ; convocation i were a drum-duet played by John j Kramer and R T.- Searfoss, a 1 tiful clarinet solo by Terry. Cover-' stone. Kathv Dorsey playing her content Winning tenor sax solo. Nola. and Sue Cutter. Sue Frye and Kathy Dorsey singing. The Sound

Milford School News By PAULA BURGETT Tourney time -s here again and we re all excited. As many of you.! ■ know the Trojans will play Pierceton in their first game. Although ! they have beaten us twice this season the Trojans are out for a victory. ■ Good Luck boys 1 ALir.y of us don't realize how • 1 ketbali practice. They stay late hours many 'nights a week at the | school preparing plays physically and mentally. But. this isn't all ! that is needed. It doesn't jnatter how well trained a team is if they ; don’t have- support. They won’t go out and win if they don’t have a ' reason to! We're their reason. So, i come on kids, support the. team. . —MHSV SENIOR OF THE WEEK . ' , REBECCA HOERR ' y the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoerr of i Milford. She was, born July 11. 1947. From her -high - school education she has gained- so many things she - couldn’t name them all.’ Becky has 1 , leari*' ,1 to take on responsib and getting tiungs. done, Her most r highlighted points have been reeei- ; ! ving the PAR award and plays and ■speech work. . I. er graduating she plans to at-1 * tend Ball State university. She plans 11 to major in English. , B< !-:v feels that with all of the | 0 terrible things that we hear about s todav we forget there is, much good " in- the world. As long as there is ■ much good the world has a brignt I and leucthly future. ’ I On the question of the civil rights « bill Beckv thinks that laws are a worthless’ if there is not a desire 8 in men's hearts to uphold them. The U desire seems to be lacking. Be kv’s advice to underclassmen s ; s don't become a slave to school. f‘ ■ -s UIST STANDING IN BRIDGE-A-RAMA . Standings at the end of the sixth round of the Lakeland area Bridge-A-Rama has been released by Mrs. ;c. F. Kroh of Syracuse. They are as follows: . ' ! High gross - First. Otis Clvde Butt and James Butt; second. Dale Allen and Gene Hall; third, Mr. and Mrs C. K Kinder: fourth. Mr. and Mrs' Donald Ruple: and fifth. Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Penn. ’ Net score - First. Otis Clvde Butt and James Butt; second, Mr. and Mrs. Pay Camohe!]; third. Mr. and Don Runle; fourth. Air. and j Mrs. Carl O. Penn: and fifth. Dale ' Alton and Gene Hall.

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Fradenburg. Mrs. Rink- is the former Minnie Rhin&smith of Middlebury. Mr. Rink lived in the Millersburg area at that time. They have two sons, Merril of Milford and Kenneth pf Goshen; six grandchildren; and nine great-grand, children. One son. Marion, is deceased.

New Testaments entwined with hymns and prayer, A printed leaflet will enable everyone to take part ;in th.e w orship experience. ( • Leaders for the Milford service will be Mrs. Glen Treesh and Mrs. Paul Mathews. Mrs. Charles Kerlin will ■present a brief meditation, special music will be given by Mrs. Glenn Brown and; Mrs. Robert Brown, and Mrs: Geralll Snider will- be orgahist. The local planning committee cordially invites everyone to . join with us and with others around the world in this special season of prayer.

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ENGAGED — Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Weldy of r 2 Milford announce the engagement of their daughter, Patricia Ann, to Dale Blucker, son of Mr. and Mrs. .Martin J. Blueker of Syracuse. Miss Weldy is a graduate of Milford high school and is presently employed in the office of the Nappanee Milling Company. Iny. A graduate of Nappanee high school. Sir. Blucker is an employe of Marty and Ted, Inc., at Nappanee. Nor-date has been set for the wedding-

Lakeland Youth News »'. . ® ’By Bud Smith Our quiet night activities are going very well anti we still have room for more girls in the crocheting and knitting classes. It takes . a 10 or 10 and one and a half needles and some 4-ply-light color yarn for knitting. For crocheting it takes a number 7 hook and some knit-cro-sheen thread. We certainly welcome all you girl members to join in these classes We now have our weather-proof bulletin board for on the front of, the building and as soon as we can get it painted and hung, we ..will have another means of telling whNL, will be going on at the center. I. urge all members interested in the Spring -Spectacular to check with me as. to their part in the pro-' gram. There will be no dances this weekend' due: to the tourney. SENIOR HOMEMAKERS RECEIVE SCRAPBOOK By Darina Davidsen The Senior Homemakers 4-H. club met at the home of Debbie Wolterman Monday at 7:30 p. m.. Sixteen members were present. An award, which was won by the officers ot the club for having perfect attendance at the officers train- 1 ng meeting at Warsaw, was shown to the club. Tire award is a scrapjook in which will be kept clippings, snapshots and other items of interest to the club. Virginia Arthur will be in charge of keeping the B The Share-the-fun talent contest was brought up and some members decided to participate. Also the possibility of 4-H knitting classes again this'year was discussed. The club members were all assigned, according to projects, to the four junior leaders who will be responsible for these girls. Th' s P' an is to make the club more active by giving all .he gids more special attention. Demonstrations were given by Barb Davis, Barbara Wilson and Debbie Wolferman. . .The next meeting will be March 29 at Barbara Wilson’s. SYRACUSE DRUMMERS RECEIVE EXCELLENT RATINGS SATURDAY Two Syracuse drummers received excellent (second) ratings at the state music contest held Saturday at Butler university at Indianapolis. Receiving the exceder.t ratings were R. T- Searfoss and John Kramer.

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