The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 21 April 1965 — Page 13

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EVERYDAY LOW PRICES_ Ml B I B# fMM HALF-MILE Phone: TY [, | ft |V O SYRACUSE SYRACUSE [— X X SUPER MARKET ,o£ „ Sale April 22 to April 24 Inclusive CHOICE CHUCK ROAST - - - lb. 39c LEAN PORK STEAK - - lb. 39c VAN CAMPS — NO. 2 ■_ PORK & BEANS - - - 6 for 99c SMUCKERS — 10 OZ. , BLACK RASPBERRY JELLY 3 for 85c QUARTERS — —- .. — CRYSTAL SPRINGS BUTTER lb. 59c QUEEN OF SCOT — SLICED OR HALVES 2 1 2 SIZE YELLOW CLING PEACHES 4 for 99c PIK NIK — 4 OZ. CAN ■ — — SHOESTRING POTATOES 6 for 99c Sunday Mon. - Thurs. Friday Saturday □tore Flours: s* « » « We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities

ister arid editor of The Milford Mail,. was honored last week by being ore of the four ministers of the Disciples of Christ to receive a scholarship to the rural church session ofGarrett Bible Institute in Chicago. Mrs. 'Sabina Ellen Stixkbergt j wife of Dr C. Vernon Stockber:ger, Milford dentist, passed away \ Wednesday night,. April, 11, at the McDonald hospital. She .is survived ) by her husband. Norma Kline,. Billy Little and Duane Scott represented Mdford ’ contest Apr.! 7. They won second place as a team. On individual Nonna placed second of all i the ■ individuals in the contest and .Billy Little placed third. Mrs. Vern!on J Dwyer, their instructor, ac- . comjxtnied them to the contest. I A marriage license was issued I Satiird yto Jacque L. Wemple, son - of Milford, and Betty Loti West, daughter of .Mr. .'and. Mrs. Elmer

’/■• One spray of Atrazine controls weeds and grasses in corn. Spray Atrazine 80W herbicide at weed control in corn with Atrazine planting and you'll get season-long . . the herbicide you spray just control of most annual broadleaf once for seasoh-long control, weeds and grasses. • ' Contact your local supplier now ( rowing com with Atrazine for Atrazine. means your crop won't have weed Ceigy Agricultural Chemicals, competition for moisture and soil Division of Ceigy Chemical Cornutrients. So your yields will be poration, Ardsley, New York. higher. Profits, too. PainU And vou II free labor and equip- UClyy ment for other farm tasks. 4 . This >ear, take advantage of AllClAinv

West of Goshen. I Elmer Zimmerman, 16, of Milford ! sustained painful injuries on Thurs- j day evening when the horse he was J riding became frightened and threw him. then fell on him. No bones 4 were broken, but the young man 1 had severe bruises and a sprained shoulder. t Other deaths reported this week < were Pvt Charles G Weaver, 25, of v New Paris, brother of Mrs. Paul 8 Stuc.kman of Milford; Lewis Gei- F ger. 86, of Indianapolis: and ‘ Isaac I M Mitchell. 77. a Milford resident, for more than 35 years. . -8 Mr. and ’-Mrs. Charles Wagoner h spent Sunday in Laiayette where ti they were dinner guests of their son. P Max, at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. , < , , y ■ 0 30 ¥< ars o Ago — April 25. 193a y Francis' Taylor and family, who 0| have lived for many years at Milford Junction, will, soon move to the B & O railroad. h Futures compiled in the office of si the 'county. auto license branch A show that 216 new automobiles have XV been sold in this county during Feb- A rua March arid April to date. M A carriage license lias been is- s< sued by the county clerk to Mary of Ellen O’Neal of New Paris and h, George Leßov Coy of Milford. ei Roman aueh has accepted n employment at Fuller Bros, grrm eery. ■ . , « Principal. I, B Eherehman and si

the senior class of MHS visited the school for feeble minded and other places of interest at Fort Wayne on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Troup will soon occupy the home just west of Price's filling station. The wedding of 'Miss Laura Krauter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Krauter of New Paris, to Maxwell Mishler, son of Mr. and Mrs Menno Mishler of Nappanee, took place Easter Sunday at the home of Rev. Emmert in Nappanee. The 12tli annual meeting of ’the Mdford .Alumni, association was ' leld. or. the evening of April 20 at ■ he community ' building with 175 present. - : Mr. and Mrs. Eli Sawyer, for ' .ears residents of. near Leesburg, , . ersary at their home in Elkhart >n Wednesday of last week. p 40 Years Ago — April 23. 1925 j Frederick Ettelein. 34. died at hts j lome in Milford .Saturday. He is j urvived by his widow, ■ the former - Vnna Deitz; three daughters, Mrs. . V T Scott"of Milford. Mrs.' Minnie p Jwine of Laurel, Montana, and drs John Scarlett'of Elkhart; three’, ions. John of South Bend. Charles c ■f .Cando. N: Di. and Guy of Elk- , lart. H:s brother. Albert L. Ette.•in., 69. of Goshen, died Thursday t ■ George Auer has erected a re- .[ stand at his farm home

Tippecanoe Country Club golf course, course. t Under the direction of Miss Blanche Tridle. the senior class of Milford high school will present the play “The Path Across the HiH” Friday, April 24. Members of the cast include Elmer Hartter, Joseph Ruch, Harry Schultz, Harold De Fries, Roval Sechler, Tena Krull, Helen Oswalt. Edna Lentz, Elva Coy. and Matilda Graff. The thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Smith, who reside on the Dr. George B. Hoopingariier farm SE of Milford, was observed last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lentz and son Richard arrived in Milford Sunday from Denver. Colorado, where they have resided for several years. The r household goods arrived week and they will make their home I .on their farm northwest of Milford. Other deaths listed were Thomas R. Boulton, 85, of Warsaw: Wiliam Tumbkson. 65, of Warsaw: and Mrs. Charles Davisson, 39, of Mil-. >rd. Mrs. Davisson died Sunday at uie home of her brother.' Jacob Kern of Syracuse. Mrs Davisson I is survived by her husband: her mother, Mrs. Jane Kern of Syra- < cuse, two half brothers Jacob Kern ( of Syracuse and Forrest’ Kern of i near Milford: and three step-da MFs Mary Mumy ;md Miss i Flossy i; Davis&on of California. - Milford :S' becoming a great egg i market. Last week more than 3,000 I Mdford merchants. . A little daughter was bom to Rev. and Mrs Lloyd Haney of Brownstown. 111..' April 12 William Haney . Mr. and Mrs. J S. Shaffer have again purchased the Milford Robe arid Tanning works, which they - a few months ago to ■ Mr. Marsfc. Mrs Caroline Hunter who has | been spending the winter with her daughter. Mrsi Amasa Mackey at I Ixiganspqrt. has returned to Mil- • ford to spend the summer in her .< residence on South Henry street ■ It has been decreed that no grad- ‘ uate in'Kosciusko county shall wear ' a dress on commencement evening that costs to exceed $5 50. Mr and Mrs. Victor Gawthrop of Leesburg are now liviftg in Milford having moved to our little city more > See Paul Revere’s ridei Special feature at Gem Theatre Friday, t April 23. Benefit senior class. •

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Zing into spring! Chevrolet Impala vJg u ,_~v< [ .wffa ■ fr—fc • ■ ' MB Chevrolrl Impala Super Sport Coupe—one of two bucket~sealed beauties for 63. \ ' People who buy other big expensive-looking cars get one thing you won’t (bigexpensive-lookingpayments) It looks like a big car. And is—by almost any expensive cars look so expensive. How about K M Wk\ standard vou want to apply. f/ e ru/c? Chevrolet engineers took the Jet- ■ ■ K n’ldrA'’Nobody builds a car as much as one smooth one and smoothed it out even more W M inch widv 1 ■ 'lt grew three inches this this year. Also made it more stable by widen- .• ni/:.s> Even- closed model s got ing the wheel stan< ' That s where shoulder room, front and Chevrolets fall way short of big. \ . / rear and more leg and foot room upfront too. expensive-looking cars. But we woubdn t have touches like the look of it any other way. Would you? y • mellow walnut across the Impala’s instru- One last question: How soon cart you make ment panel." And big touches. Like the tine- a good spring buy on a Chevrolet. One uinuTlMCTfiTDfinr tuxs of the same Bodv bv Fisher workman- answer: Just as soon as you can get down to nlun lime lU InMUC shj that makes some of Americas most your Chevrolet dealer's. T atwurchevroutdeaurs Zing into spring in a new Chevrolet, Chevelle, Corvair, Chevy H or Corvette 13 8263 McCormick - Cutter, Inc. SYRACUSE, INDIANA

'CruzinMW around Tln ■ State trooper Herschel Harper of Syracuse was on. duty as identification officer with state detective Al Nacke at the Pierre Moran junior ;high school at Elkhart early last Week as tornado victims were brought in. , He said all persons were positively identified, although a 14-year-old boy was still missing, later found and identified. He was found within a block of where President Johnson stood in the debris last Wednesday morning. Mr. and‘Mrs. Bob Etirkholder and, son Joey narrowly missed being caught in the’twin torandos. Returning from South Bend on the Misha-: heavy hail storm. They parked undera tree until the hail storm passed ut two minutes. Bob stated). Had they not stopped they would have been in the Midway Trailer Court area at thv'rinie ‘He sjerm :v’. Northern Indiana Public Service I linemen have had a baptism in replacing poles and lines in the Dunlap area. Linemen from the Syracuse area were one of 14 crews replacing nearly 300 telephone poles, according to Syracuse NIPSCb manager Jay Peffley. working on a ‘round the clock basis. K.ah‘ Island resident EMT tqbk heavy loss when Midway truck stop at 15 and 20 went down in the tornado. Searching for missing items in the. debris, someone handed him, several billiard balls from the truck.) -tup pool- tables' which he ovtned. An Michael Welbaum,, 95. died April 11 at the home of his son, John Welbaum of Kilbodrn. XV:s. Other survivors are six children; Elizabeth Gilbert and Sarah Wirtner of LaPorte, David Welbaum of Bristol, Mary Seese of Syracuse, and \eff of Elkhart.

Wednesday, April 21, 1965

eager trooper, wary of looters, stopped the Frog Man for positive identification. Helen Alfrey of Syracuse has told friends she* thinks a positive warning system should be set up by local police and civil defense that townspeople know if a tornado is about to hit. . She witnessed the effective use of a warning system in the Hawaiian Islands where she and hubby Jack j lived. That area is subject to- hurri- ; canes and a warning system proved ' useful. She may have a point there. Trooper Harper also told this writer he didn’t have occasion to see President Johnson at the Dunlap fire station.- although the Pres- I ident passed within feet of him. All troopers, officer Harper said., had orders to keep their eyes trained on the crowd. The tight security almost prevented this writer from photographin g the President, until same reached Senator A’ance Hartke. then a photo of the Chief Executive became easy. Frog Tavern owner Ray Yoder lost a brother, Donald S., in the Dunlap tornado. Donald was an Abshire Oil Co. truck driver. There are so • many and sundry. s’nries about the Palm Sunday S'orm that they defy repeating; Needless tp Say. they will be retold here for many years to come. ■ T 1 If you don’t know it now. let us tell you Mrs. Clarence Ruch makes the best homemade cookies. The Lakeland Youth Center -has proved its worth, and it couldn’t; have a better manager than Bud • Smith. We're told the center has already <pent $1,500 oil youth bands. There’s a good possibility that Syracuse coach Charles McClure and principal Milton Brice will not be with us next year. Those circulating petitions in the Lakeland area asking that the Lakeland school board keep Plain town-1 ship in the school district are re- i portedly amazed at the response! they are getting, / Remember when we had the big snow storm on Thursday morning recently? We published a picture of Jeff Kern making the first delivery of The Mail-Journal on his dad’s Farmall tractor. Will, tlte International Harvester people thought that a g<x>d story and .reprinted the picture .in the April 9 issue of Farmall Work News. M-J reader Walt Ruysbrot-k. I-H retiree, spotted the picture and sent it in to his company. ,1 GOOD CAR CARE INCLUDES SPRING CHECK-UP A vital part of good car care is the I annual spring check-up, according to John H. Strubcn, director of the | Chicago Motor Club’s emergency road service department; He urged motorists to visit their local garage arid have their car thoroughly prepared for the months of warm weather driving ahead. “After a long winter, it is important for safe and economical driving. to • Struben said, “Even today’s modem vehicles that are engineered to require less atti nt on still need'a twieeyearly check-up to insure dependable

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NIPSCo Directors Re-elected Dean H. Mitchell, Hammond, Chares H. Albers, Chicago, and Paul W. Kerr, Elkhart, were re-elected directors of Northern Indiana Public Service Company at the utility's annual meeting of shareholders .in Hammond yesterday. ' Mitchell, NIPSCo chairman and president, was first elected a director in 1933. Albers, manager of the i Chicago Clearing House Ass’n., has [been a director- since 1942. Kerr, sales consultant to Henry Weis Mfg. Co., became a director in 1963. Other NIPSCo directors, whose terms did not expire, are James S. DeLaurier, former publisher of the Hammond Times; Walter W- Walb, ' vice president American Hoist and Derrick Company (Fort Wavme 1 ; Clarence W. Bader, president of Bader Building Mateirals Corporation Gary'; William J. Riley, president 'of First National Bank of East Chicago; Carl D. Rees. NIPSCo ' first ■vice president and Rollin M. Schahfer. vice president, engineering -and electric operations. ■ Following the meeting.of shareholders. the' utility's board of directors ■met and re-elected all present NlPSCo'officers. They also declared a div idend of 40 cents a share on the i outstanding common stock of the icompany, payable June 21, ,10'W. to shareholders of record at the close of 'businessMay 31. 1965. The board also declared a dividend of 44 ijent- a share on the 4.40 per cent ■ cumulative preference stock, payable. June 30. 1965. to shareholders of record at the close of business May 31. 1965. | ■ s _ . . —— ! Check labels for shrinkage control i when buying clothes, advise Purdue university c 1 o t h i n g specialists. Shrinkage of. more then two per cent ' will. change the shape of the garment. ——' — ' ’ Read the CLASSIFIEDS loperation.“ I The Chieago Motor Club makes the following suggestions to improve your spring and summer driving: —Drain and flush radiator; refill with clean water and a- good rust inhibitor. ■ - . —Rotate wheels and brings' spare tire- into use, This will even the wear ion all tires and prolong their life. —Check the front wheels for proper alignment and balance. —Check aiming of headlights: see that tail, brake, .ancj direction-indicat-•or lights are in working order, p —Check cell condition and fluid ilevel in battery. ' - ' — Drain engine oil and renew filter element if recommended by I your owner’s manual; refill With ' recommended summer grade. —Completely lubricate chassis. Oil and grease latches and other points normally not covered in regular | grease job. T v se powdered graphite in locks. ’ j —lnspect windshield wjper blades for wear, and check tension of wiper arms. • —Check for proper tension on fan and generator belts. Replace if worn. i —Clean air filter, and “breather II pipes” on engine. . — Check'starter, distributer, and i voltage regulator operation. ; —Check carburetor . ‘operation: . make sure aiitomatic choke mech. - ■ ism works freely.

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