The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 March 1965 — Page 1

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FIKE SCENE —The Milford Main Ahiford firemen worked frantically Syra-Weh'. a canvas shop. ■tHCt.ICCW is th<* result of ,i photo t<> extinguish the lire which com- Oth< r appear on page t. s. Ttaken at 1:45 p. m. WedMlday as pln< h pitted the building housing flat 1. All Mail-Journal Haff photos.

Fire Threatens Business Block In Milford Wednesday L . «jr ' •

Milford firemen are credited with possibly saving a large section of the east side of Milford’s business block early Wedr esday after! story frame building which housed Syra*Web, a canvas shop operated by Jack Hickman. In the absence of fire chief liar- .

old Kaiser, Bdl Martin, firmer Milford fire xhief. took charge” of the fire fichum "I don't see how tfiey saved the Turf Bar,” chief Katser said when Syracuse' firemen answered a call to cover toe town of Milford while » , fire They arrived in .Milford with a tanker and’ pumper, but 4hey were not ;>ut into use Snxice. and' tetor fire. swept through the building, completely dev:ng the b’. : ail of its conUtits Firemen said the fire >• ... c. on [ burning heating stove was located When firemen arrived, at aixxit 1 30 pm. smoke had filled the Syra-Web siwp and the .Turf Bar. ■ Smoke damage -resulted .at 'the Turf Bar and other damage done to the roof of the budding ■/cwned by Lewis Hare C Smoke also damaged, the buikl to the north of the Turf Bar. .occupied by Van's Plumbing and Healing, operated by Bruce and Robert VanlaninghamSmoke filled the apartment over Van's business place, which is numxiHy occupied by Paul Ruch Ruch is now in California Damage Given The building which was destroyed was owned by Mrs Glenn H Neer of r 2 Pierceton Mrs Neer said the building was partially covered by insurance She said six' has no immediate plans, but will possibly rebuild .the structure jack Hickman, jwho had operated the Svra-Web awiung shop for the past three years, "'tod his loss would exceed $30,000 in equipment and stock He said he reduced his insurance 2 weeks ago after he was in . a semptruck accident near .hamlet. Ind He said he had no plans for relocating his business Firemen and volunteers assisted Hickman Wednesday evening and Thursday in deeming the debris and salvaging what could be salvaged from the disaster The destroyed building was the home trf The Milford Mail for oxer 30 years, until the printing plant . was moved to its present location on South Main street in Milford in early 1941. according to Arch Baumgartner. present publisher of The Mail-Journal.

Syracuse Town Board To Appoint Park Board Member In Near Future

Cterk-treaaurer. Walter Cafcon. after presenting the board the bills from Lane- Northern Compans for the work recently completed on the town's wdfe. read a tetter from the company. explaining the work they did, at the Tuesday evening. March X meeting of the Syracuse town board of trustees. Board member Vernon Beckman said.be had again been approached on the subject of the boat houses at the Huntington street bridge. One house is almost in the water and is an- unsightly budd-

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Milford Legion Plans Birthday Celebration At the regular meeting of the Milford Mnbrfcan Legtan Auxiliary held at the Legion haM Tuesday : exening. plans were nruxie to hold the anjHvtl Legion birthday at the 1 Monday ex wing. March 8 Legionna.res udl be notified about • the t.rn, of tie supper or* buffet lunch by. members of the committee in charge or by the commander Robert Geiger Appointed on the com- ’. < e H Mrs Wade Mishler. Mrs Dane.' Lexe.mier. Mrs William Lee-, man. Mrs Betty Himes and Mrs Noble Fisher • business "meeting was conducted m the usual form by the I president M:V Wade Mishler. There \ were twenty-three members present. Mrs. Robert Geiger reported that a frwt basket will be taken to the Orn nursing home for the patients Foreign relations chairman Mrs WdUam Leemon wil give a report on the country of Costa Rica at the April meeting There was a Penny March conducted to collect money to buy “Tools For Training.'* a project of the Auxiliary to help the people of Casta - Rica. . I Radio and TV ballots wn l filled out by the members and Mrs. Russell Ruch will send them on tp department. Mrs. Herbert Felkner reported that the Junior girls sent thee ballots last month The girls are going to have dolls dressed to represent Coeita Rica at the next I meeting Membership chairman Mrs. Harold Freeman needs only eleven more members to roach the unit goal Mrs: Dale Stump asked the members to remembers chorus-practice, which has been changed to Monday nights The next meeting will be on March 15. Hvmn of the month. 'The Old Rvgged Cross.” and song of the month, "Battle Hymn of The Republic" was sung bv the group with Mrs. Harry Haab playing the piano. Mrs Mishler reported that Poppy Days will be May 38 and 29 and the May Stores will be where the (Continued on page 3. Sec. 1' »

| mg. The owner has given the town i permission to tear it down. Mr.< Calnon asked that Mr. Beckman have the owner write a letter of consent to tear down the boat | house and send to the town board Waiter Hagerdon. street and water commissioner, reported that ■ the doors had been put up in the | pole bam Park board member T L. Kline asked the board if the large light could be left on in the citv park at The matter was left up to the park board. Board president Byron Connolly teported that a third park board i member would be appointed soon.

Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and 7W£SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)

Milford Police Report For February Below is the Milford police report for the month of February as released by Milford chief of ;><ice , ■ Warnings '24 .2 • Vvidents . ... ~ i Parking tickets 1 . -Theft 2 ■ Robbery- 2 Dog •' Calls 4 Misc Comp 6. The police car was driven 1,0501 miles during the month of February. SOIL BORING MADE ON THREE POSSIBLE SITES Sol borings have been made on hdim l possible sites for the Lake- * :. < K.. c :. - Ritter properties —- according to business manager Don Arnold. ■He said in each case borings were on four points, each 7 to 8 feet deep, with soil sampling taken every 18 inches JP COURT REPORT FOR FEBRUARY justice of the 4>eare Christian Kuiier has levied fines on the following: 'I W..:am Musser, r r Syracuse, false registration, sl9 75 John A Martin, Milford, disregarding a stop sign. $1975. Batt J . Manley. Milford, driving while license was suspended. $22 - P ' 1 Gary R Wiles. Syracuse, false registration, $18.75. The above cases were all brougta in by officer Os- ■ car Rosalee A. Ca&ert. South Bend, speeding. $lB 75, by state trooper i Harper , i AIRLINE HOSTESS VLSITS PARENTS LN MILFORD Miss Marcia Dewart, an airline hostess stationed at Chicago, visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Randall Dewart, Susanne and Jon from Saturday night until Monday afternoon ms this week.

| Mr. Connoiiy also stated that “No, Alcoholic Beverages Allowed" signs would be placed at the park, restricting the use of such beverages in the park ! Attending the meeting were derktreasurer Walter Catoon. town attorney Robert Reect board members Byron Connolly. Willard Nusboum. Mrs. Frank Blanche Bates, Loren Longenbaugh and Vernon Beckman, and street and water commissioner Walter Hagerdon. . Others attending were T. L. Kime, Mrs Dale Sparklin, Joe H dies. Dan Ganger. Mrs. Betty Dum., and Oscar Dahl.

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THE VICTORIOUS TIGERS — Above are the victorious Warsaw Tigers following their sectional tournament win Tuesday night on their

Tigers Avenge Earlier Defeat By Cubs

Pierceton Defeated By Warsaw In Finals Os Sectional Tourney, 62-47

Tigers To Play £enn High School At Elkhart At 12:30 p.m. Saturday The tall Warsaw Tigers won themselves a sectional ! basketball tournament Tuesday night in the Warsaw gym. They didn't win without a battle of their lite at the hands of the scrappy, determined Pierceton Cubs, however. Final score: Warsaw-62, Pierceton 47.

To The Regional The Tigers will play Penn high •school at 12:30 p.m. at the Elkhart I North ; Side gym Saturday. The second game will be between South Bend Washington and Michigan. City at 1:45 p.m. c The. Warsaw Tigers have the good wishes of all Kosciusko county fans in the regional tourney. j Height Too Much From the start of the championship game, it was apparent that the uniform height of die five I main Warsaw players would play havoc with the much shorter Cubs jit proved an’advantage the Cubs could never overcome, although the Cubs kept hot on their trail with I good shooting and ball handling. There was some comment that the Cubs were tired from their Monday night double overtime against Columbia City. It was also recalled that the Cubs defeated Warsaw in scheduled play earlier this year. * Never Caught Up I The Tigers took an early lead and the Cubs never caught up The 1 quarter time stops were as fol- | lows: | Warsaw 16 30 43 62 i Pierceton " 10 18 -31 47 Garth Cone fouled out in the final quarter. With 57 seconds on the clock i coach Tom SitUer ran in John Faurote, Clint Pletcher and Barrv Reed. . '.I The box score follows: WARSAW 62 - Mike Niles MS, Chambers 501, Beebe 532. Webi ster 010. Lancaster 472. Ben Niles 420, and Hepler 110. p Totals: 22 field goals, 18 free throws, and 8 personal fouls. | PIERCETON . 47 f - Wells 424. Reid 533, D. jCone 200, G. Cone 515. and Bailey 413 Totals: 20 field goals. 7-ffree throws, and 15 personal fouls. * —~ | SYRACUSE POSTAL CLERK OFF DUTY I .Carroll Koble, Syracuse, a postal clerk at the Syracuse post office, has been off duty for several days with a leg infection caused by a leg injury received recently.

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1965

home floor. They defeated the Barasch. Steve Hepler, Terry Yeit- standing behind Ron Barsch and does Pierceton Cubs 62-47 with the Cubs er . Be* Niles, Bill Wiley. Mike NUes, not appear in the photo. putting up a good fight all the way. John Beebe, and Jim Webster. Gregg Leading their Tigers on to victory Players are Mike Chambers, Ron Lancaster, one five, is were the pretty Warsaw cheerleaders

Tb Observe World Day Os Prayer Tomorrow The Milford community will join in the 79th obserx-ance of World Day of Prayer tomorrow ( Friday* at the Bethel church at 1:30 The serxice consists of familiar passages from the Old and New Testaments entwined with hymns . and prayer A printed leaflet will enable everyone to .take part in the worship experiences. Tlus years theme is “What Doth the Lord Require " TWO SYRACUSE DRIVERS INJURED Emerson L. Coy. 55. r 4 Synacuse, . was released after treatment at the Goshen hospital Saturday afternoon. Feb. 27. for a forehead laceration suffered in a traffic accident at 2 30 pm. at the south edge of Syracuse on state road 13. State trooper Hershd Harper reported that Cay was driving a 1955 Chevrolet panel truck south on 13 and it collided with a northbound 1956 Chevrok-t driven by Charles L. Lamb. 17, Syracuse. Harper said the mishap occurred as Lamb attempted a left turn. lamb suffered a left arm laceration and was treated at the office of a Syracuse phx-sician Total damage to both the car and truck was estimated at $750. , | FELLOWSHIP CLASS HAS POT LUCK j The Fellowship class of the Syracuse EUB durch enjoyed a pot luck dinner Sunday noon. Feb. 28, at the church. Hosts were Mr. arid Mm. I. J. Bviand and Mrv Edith Palmer. Rax-mond Bstner. president presided at the business session m the afternoon and Mr. Byland gave the devotions. .

Preliminary Plans For Treatment Plant Discussed By Milford Board

Discussion was held at Monday evening's meeting of toe Milford town board on the preliminary plans of the sewage treatment plant to be built in Milford sometime in t|ie future. Present to explain the plans was Mr. Woodman of Baxter and Woodman. civil and sanitary engineers of Crystal Lake, 111., a firm engaged by the town board sometime ago to study sanitary problem. The fjrtn prepared the plans. Last July the town of Milford learned it was to receive a federal grant of $4,275 from the Community Facilities - Administration to be ‘ used for the purpose erf advanced planning for extension of its sanitary sew er system and construction of a new sewage plant. The town had applied for the grant sometime before its approve! by the FCA. No part of the grant is to go toward the construction of the „ lines and phr/.l but ( is to be used for planning 'only. To supply funds for the construction of the lines and plant town board members adopted a $1 on . each SIOO of taxable property for the establishment of a cumulatix-e and disposal plant fond for the erection and construction of a plant I for the treatment and disposition of sewage together, with storm and sanitary sewers. The tax was to be first levied in 1964 pavable in 1965 and each after for 12 years Ulis was adopted by the board members as their July ’6 meeting. Area residents who attended the July meeting were in agreement with town board members that the cumulative tax. was needed by the town. Mr. Woodmen read letters to the board that had been exchanged by the state of Indiana and his company. The state is objecting to the pian because the proposed plant s located within 400 feet of the Milford elementary school. The proposed location is at the west edge of town, on Emeline street, on property purchased several yeprs ago for a sewage disoosal rfant. Mr. Woodman stated he will move the plant farther back on the property to locate it the suggested 500 feet from the school. The ammended proposal will L- 'Continued on pageß, Sec. 1)

I It's Time For Plain Talk (An Editorial) It’s time for plain talk concerning the destiny of education of Plain township.children. 1 There has been far too much factional dispute among citizens of Plain township already. Any more will only serve to deteriorate an already cloudy situation. The calling of clandestine meetings by a select few at which “35 familes” are invited, does not serve to bind together Plain township, but to tear it asunder. At every public meeting held, where a vote was taken, residents of Plain township voted to join ’*th|e Lakeland school corporation. The same was true in the legal election. We believe it to be true today. I Originally Lakeland board member from Plain township, Ralph Brubaker admittedly favored a county, unit plan. When this failed for lack of support, he favored taking Plain township children into the \\ arsaw system. He favored the latter when he was a member of the county re-organization committee. He still favors taking Plain township children to Warsaw. He has skillfully engineered the Lakeland school board into a position where they would rather switch than fight. By switch we mean switch plans and release Plain township from the Lakeland school corporation. i ■ ■ . ■ . 1 'I . Plain township became part of the Lakeland school corporation by virtue of much study and many meeting? on the part of the county re-organization committee. There was artiple op“portunity for the expression of opinions during this time. The plan should not be cast asunder because someone has been able to muster “35 families’’ who don’t like the plan. Thirty-five families could be brought together in any township who xvill vote against most anything one wants to propose. We feel the differences between the Lakeland school board and the fine people of Plain township can be ironed I out, if the right, climate exists. More knotty problems ar being resolved daily on the state and federal level (Continued on page 3, Sec. 1)

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pictured in front of the team. They • are Nancy Gable. Angela Blanchard, Sherry Goshert, Betty Jo Carlin, Candy Thomas, and Connie Oppenheim. Mail-Journal staff photo.

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