The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 9, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 April 1965 — Page 11

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Moonlite Madness In Uptown Syracuse

Stores To Be Open 9-Midnite Friday Night Syracuse uptown merchants will hold their first Moonlite-Madness sale this week. The time of the sale: Friday. Apiril 9. from 9i p.m. until midnight.

Merchants are .makingtheir first?' bid fuT bl - lit- - :•■ > '■■■:' ' ■ thM''profanes, to.-pay. off band The merchants have recentlyformal a: group t<> be known as ’ i ptowi • cuse" The njatoight sale has proved i-ijy •it’ x z 'b ' !■ . ■ in this issue of The Mail-Jour- ' . • . * A i •.‘lay at the Bon-Len * shop, and several merci aid ■ ■ -dress up’crazy ” A--; itbb’ O-. br<M s/OH! .b.i’ri hapromise ► appear i . - ' We urge our readers to lx* on hand' will be late, but- the bargains will be. ting I ; ■ Aftercare Consultant In This Area Miss Mary Stably, 332 North Iron- • wood. South Bend, is one of (ar social workers appoaityd by the :ia '■ Department of . M<- I Health to help the released patient': read just in hrs community. The new created last fall fa four i ureas of tlie state. Miss Stahly will serve most of the 17 northwestern counties included fa the Dr Norman Beatty Memorial . ■ d area. Kosciusko county is ■ one of the 17 to lx- served by her A native of Champaign, 18., •.she! was a Case worker for the Fam !) and .Children’s Center at Mishawaka for two years. Prior to I she whs a. supervisor fa * the child County Department of Public fare. She came to South Bend from Urbana, 11l . where she was a social er fa the public school sy> H< :• new.-office fa in the United Health Foundation Building. 521 west Colfax avenue. Miss St.dily received her bached tor's degree from Goshen college and her master's degree from the Indiana university division of social • National Association of Social Workers and the Academy of Certified j Social Workers. . ■ As regional aftercare consultant, she will work closely with local agencies, physicians and welfare j .groups to assist patients on convalescent leave and will try to create better public understanding of the mental patient. Services provided will include ass stance to the «x-pat:ent in getting employment, housing and out-pat-ient therapy, arrangement of casework services for the ex-patient or relatives, assistance to the ex-pat-ient in finding leisure activates and I consultation with mental health workers . ‘ ' ■ ■ ■ SYRACUSE WOMEN ATTEND FEDERATION CONFERENCE Members of the Syracuse Wednesday Afternoon dub attended the Kos-1 ciusko County Federation of Women's clubs conference held in the Christian church at Milford on Wednesday of last week. Attending from Syracuse were Mrs Ruth Rapp. Mr*. Richard Hevde. Mrs Vem Brinkman, Mrs Arnold Pffagst, Mrs. William T. Jones, Jr.. Mrs. Paul Warner. Mrs Ray Jones, and Miss Katherine Rothenberger.

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55.500 Goal Set For Cancer Society Committees y.the.m ' h> ’ <■ .Anierivu”. • • .■ er- S - ' The . for Kus- ■' <>>>ii.'y .- '.'•<«' Mrs. K<-n ' i ' 1 ' ' ■ ■ . ■ v ■ ■' f Funds i .s county are! Used ir the follow :ng w,.-. -1 Research. which is being done extehpatients and families; 4-. professional service; ■ ■ .' Ji - th ' This year there will .be about 530. NIPSCO Announces New Space Heating Rate Northern Indiana Public Service. Company Thursday, April 1. filed a. 1.2 cents electric space heating : rate with the Public Service Com-I mission of Indiana for residential ] j customers in the utility's service I to heat their homes I with electricity. I I The rate, 'which becomes effee--} Service. Commission. will lower the bottom step of the utility’s electric I S' i e heating rate from 1.5 cents to 12 cents per kilowatt hour for 1 er 1,000 kilowatt hours used P per month. i In annmincmg the new s: hvaiirg rate, Dean H. Mitchell. ? NIPSOO chairman and president, j said.the utility recognizes that some customers want to heat their homes “This offers the customer a wider choice." the utility executive said, “since our new electric j space heating rate is not restriv iin ary way It does not force the customer to adopt the total electric : concept, but lets him choose the fuel gas or electricity—which will sene ; his needs best Whether it be cooking. water heating, clothes drytag r or space heating—the customer has ; the choice " • The 1.2 cents per kilowatt hour ; space heating rate will be available to NIPSCO residential electric beat ng customers in 21 counties in I northern third of the state. . ANNUAL FISH FRY | TO BE HELD AT OAKWOOD PARK Syracuse Church of God will hold its annual Jonah club style fish fry at the Oakwood hotel. Lake Wawa;see. on Friday, April 30, I This is an event that is looked forward to by not only the community but the surrounding areas as well. The men and women of the church put fa many hours preparfag the fry and are well repaid by the large crowds that turn out Mrs. Louis Firestone and Mrs. Carroll Koble are co-chairmen for the event Get your tickets early and take all your friends for one of the i county's best fish suppers.

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

Along ta j Main Street ; By GEORGIA BISTER Winter is back with us. don’t look like the snow ,Will last long. Soutii- ■ fruit trees in bud. Several years ago" here in Syracuse mushrooms were Me Swefaiey in efariy April. _ I Wonder -if Jack Elam is going to cook up something ■since he has such nice cooking w are in his office. Jack did a good job of cooking in the food tent, at the Syracuse fair last summer. . of .<’• from Mata street One gets used to see it covered wiith ice. then’ you. look and its. gone. Looks like there will be some empty, business places on Main street s<ion. We should have some ( new business opening up by sum- , mer, and from what 1 hear this is . to be a. very good lake season. ( Next meeting will be another one 1 on the protection of dogs early this 1 All dog luv ers should attend thei<e I did not have enough of a turnout Tuesday evening to form any kind of a historical society. There were a couple of other yneetings and several were at the funeral home but I think more than anything. it was just talk not action, some of the so-called historicallyminded people wanted. I said I will go along with anything they want to do. but they can do the organizing now. J. B. Cox was there. He is one. in.ivivMid in the history of the county . as well as Mrs Coil, Mrs. Betty] Dust, ami Mr and Mrs. Nelson ■■' Ita stoii. who are newcomers to the ' community. Since we are going to press on Wednesday, would like to remind i the public that all pictures should I be in my office by Monday noon. 1 and all news items bv Tuesday 5 I p. m. i L ■ i ; If you* think it is the women who are always late for appointments, , vou should have been at the busjiess- ( men’s meeting Wednesday mornfag. j < Time was set at 7 a. m. I was there j ias w ell aS two or three men. but rest ( 'were late and Pete Luttman did not;. | make it at all. I intend calling him 1 about 6 a. m. next meeting. And all of you bargain-minded j folks be sure and attend the Moonlight Madness sale to town. It was planned so all going to the class | plav. Several nice door prizes are will last until midnight, after the play. Several niice door prizes are being awarded and real-real bar- ] ffaMl ' The bloodmobile that was recently in Syracuse received 110 donors giving 104 pints of blood. The oral polio vaccine program is in progress so taas a good health program for this year. NORMAN MILLERS TO RESIDE NEAR WARS.AW Mr. and Mrs. Norman Miller and Tammv, formerly of Biloxi, Miss., will settle in the near future east of Warsaw in the Merrywood trail- [ er court. Mr. Miller was recently i discharged from the United States I Air Force.

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Glen K. Longenbaugh, superintendent <rf West Noble School Corporation, aniioiinced that architects employed by the school corporation indicated the firm has progressed with tile working drawings and final plans to a 95 per cent completion. Plans will be completed by April 8. 1965. The West Noble. High Sdxwl pians are the result or several

■•- - • ® Ku Klux Klan Back In Headlines In States

By FTtANK WHITE WITH THE IMPERIAL Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan calling Pres.dent Jv/.r.x>n a har and Congress Un- ‘ .American Activities committee instituting a full - scale probe, the hooded organization is in the headlines. As a cub. reporter on a metropolitan paper. I covered the Klan blow ! by blow in Indiana from its inception to its demise. I was riven such heady assignments as the follow-. tag; T I helped keep the "death watch", outside the h«ne of Miss Madge ; Oberholtzer. for whose murder DC. Stejtaenson served most of his life behind bars. He was the Old Man of the Indiana Klan who boasted “I am the law". For several weeks I dug into the private life of Miss Oberholtzer, a former Butler sorority girl, and at the time of her death employed fa the office of the State Superintend i dent of Public Instruction. Ail the i ; facts I found pointed to her being | la “good girl" but unwisely, madly I in love with the Klansman. I could write a book on how she was disgraced by an intoxicated Stephensoil. In the confines of this brief column, two of the most frequently asked questions are answered First, how did Stephenson attain such affluence and influence in Indiana” In some states the Klan was politically Democratic but in Indiana it was potticaily Republican. THE KLAN WAS bounded by Rev Simmons, an idealist, of advanced age. Two shrewd and ruthless meh, Dr. Hiram Evans. Atlanta, a dentist.' and Stephenson had other ideas. A conclave was called in Constitution park, Atlanta, ostensibly to honor Simmons. ‘ As he stepped upon the platform

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months planning by. school board administrators, and local teachers. Most of tiie teachers presently employed by the corporation took part in the planning, evaluating, arid reng of the • different departments that will comprise the physical make-up of the new high school. The results of this cooperative planning will bring about a~~rnore functional educational plant.

lie was informed there were as many as eight sharpshooters in the I first 16 rows. They will mow you down, if you do’ not resign,, the as ton- ; ished Simmons was told. - Simmons stammered a bit, but annoiuSced his • retirement for “health” reason*. I The growing Klan empire was di- j faded with Evans taking the south • and Stephenson taking what were formerly states of the Old Northwest Territory including Indiana. ( Sale of sheets and regalia and loot , of public office made Stephenson a! millionaire. It was testified in Federal court that there were 490.000 dues paytag > Klansmen in Indiana exclusive of members of Camelia, the woman’s j order. They voted as a unit and hence projected a landslide that j filled almost every state office from ; Governor to the precinct level. DC. ! Stephenson who aspired to the Pres-1 idency. as did Mussolini with his ' biack shirts in Italy, held an Ind-1 j iana legislature fa his hand. i I interviewed Stephenson in his phoney front of “Metropolitan Coal i Company” Washington St. IndianaI polls, with his gorilla type guards, Klmck and Gentry, pockets bulging with automatics, ever present. Gentry was killed in an affair with a wwnan. Klinck. I understand, lives in the south, under watchful eyes of the FBL THERE ARE THOSE who claim Stephenson was railroaded for the death of Madge Oberholtzer. She first came to him for aid fa keeping her job of selecting books for rural libraries. He made love to her madly and took her to the Governor’s inaugural ball. She was trapped to his home, bareheaded at night, on word he had news regarding her job. She was bundled up. rushed up a side path at the station, to a compartment. A drunken, Stephenson as-

Hie 130,000 square feet structure has been planned for developing a high school curriculum that will me<‘t the needs of all the. students in West Noble School Corporation. Complete social studies, language arts, mathematics, ar. elaborate science department, business education ’ and arts and . crafts departments will be constructed in a manner that is most compatible with

: saulted her repeatedly in ar. upper i berth whJe Gentry slept in the low- 1 er. He was sober enough to take her 'off the tram in the night at Ham-: I mond. for to cross a state line would make it a federal case. 1 Finding his love to be false, | Madge took an overdose of poison i tablets. She later begged for a doctor. Stephenson phoned Klinck to bring up the Cadillac and made a wild ride to Indianapolis with Madge screaming in pain most of : the way. She was locked to the ser-1 vants’ quarters, overnight. There were hundreds of pages medical testimony in the Noblesville trail showing she had recovered from poison. It held she died I from poison from his teeth to wounds he inflicted on her body. Women Attend Distinct | WSCS Conference The annual Warsaw district of the Women's Society of Christian Service conference was held Tuesday, i March 29, in Nappanee. Attending from Syracuse were Mrs. Eugene Hall, Mrs. William T. Jones, Jr., Mrs. Dean Pittman, Mrs. Edward Coy, Mrs. Dale Allen, Mrs. Ralph Citagaman, Mrs. Richard Atkinson, Nfrs. Milton Brice, Mrs. Jay Peffley, and Mrs. Raymond Wilson. Mrs. Citogaman w*as elected vice president pf the conference. Mrs. Wilson is district youth secretary. Files Divorce Suit Lucinda Dimberg of Leesburg has filed a divorce suit in the Kosciusko county circuit court against Jon E. Dimberg. They were married February 23, 1963, and separat|ed December 1, 1964. The plaintiff asks custody of their daughter.

the education needs and pltilosophies of today. The building will also house facilities for health services, school lunch program, administrative offices, guidanep, complete library, and ottar relaUxi services that are expected in the school of today. , The striking structure will be housed behind an exterior of precast white marbelized concrete.

PILCHER SHOES TO BOWL AT ST. PAUL , The Pilcher Shoes bowling team at Syracuse will bowl this week at tiie National Bowling Congress at St. Paul. Minn. They will bw! fa-the Wednesday night team event arid in I Thursday’s singles and doubles. I On the team' are Doug Pilcher. ; Charles Cobbum, • Robert Tliwaits. and Charles Frushour of Syracuse land Russ Lichtenwalter and Roger Clemens of Warsaw*.

Stamp Would Honor Journalist Ernie Pyle

WASHINGTON (Special) - Senator , Vance Hartke D-lnd i asked Congress today for a special commemorative stamp in honor of Ernie Pyle, i i the famous ’ war-time journalist. The bill, also introduced last year by the Senator, would memorialize : the native Hoosier who met death i by enemy fire 20 years ago thismonth. A similar bill has been intr<> ; duced in the House by Congressman Roudebush. i “Ernie Py’e was a non-combat-I ant. a journalist,” Senator Hartke said, “but he followed the enlisted man to the front lines in order to bring the closeup warm sympathy which was his to a fruitful combination with his high skills of description. The result during the years' of the war in Europe, in North Africa, • • and then in the Pacific, Was a great- i er understanding of war from the human standpoint of its most beleaguered participants, an understanding of the heartbreak, the poidnancy, the heroism and the foulness of war. His inimitable and intimate reporting was eagerly read by millions, to whom his death on le Shima on April 18, 1945, was to : many cases accompanied by deep - feelings of personal loss. t . “Ernie Pyle was bom in Indi- - ana. in the town of Dana, on Aug- ■ ust 3, 1900. My bill. Which parallels f that of Congressman Roudebush of Indiana’s Sixth District, provides for

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School officials, teachers, parents and students are anticipating and hope for a completion date prior to the opening of the 1966-'67 school year. The building was designed by Schenkel and Lawrence, Architects. Fort Wayne. Ind. Construction and equipment will be with their direct superv isioi\

HEX GRANGE MEN ENTERTAIN The men of the Hex Grange entertained the women at a steak supper preceding the regular meeting recently in the Grange hall. A vocal trio from Syracuse high school composed of Sue Fry. Sue Cutter, and Kathy Dorsey, accompanied by Nancy Plank at the piano, sang. Larry Cook of Elkhart showed colored slides he had taken in Hawaiis= The next meeting will be in . two weeks when an Easter program will be given.

first-day sale of the Ernie Pyle Commemorative Stamp in Dana. It was at the University of Indiana that he studied journalism, and it was there that he edited the Daily Student and the senior yearbook. It was in LaPorte, Ind.," that he began his professional career as a reporter on the LaPorte Herald. Later he served with New York and Washington papers, and for three years he was managing editor of the Washington Daily News. Ernie Pyle won the Pulitzer Trize in 1943, and before he left for the Pacific he received an honorary doctor of letters from Indiana unij versity. But the honor of a commemorative stamp should be accorded to Ernie Pyle not because of his connections with Indiana, but because of his connections with the hearts of Americans everywhere—with the G. I. Joe of the war whom he sought out in the worst of circumstances as well as behind the lines; -with his fellow journalists, who admired his craft; and with the millions who read his unique reading the well-written letter of a personal friend. I hope, Mr. President, that a commemorative stamp may be issued - in honor of this man, this greatly - compassionate reporter of a war he ■ hated, this unique figure of Amerf ican journalism, who was incidents ally a Hoosier,