The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 19, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 June 1965 — Page 1

PHONES: 658-4111 457-3666

urn min »• i t.i

' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ \•] lay I ■ ' Sunday. June 2d. . ' ■ of a Flotilla queen tiiwl the ’A<>V i),F«»rt■ \\ayne..radio's '”1 t'p. I■*<?.[• contest. ccted at Friday evening, t . ■_ 1 ' , ■ - t . ■ "D r "■ parking I"’.. ' , " ■ convertibles willbe held; According to-Mrs. Tom Prickett ■ ■ sman Center in the Village at 7 p?ni. and go ti i..ug! . \ .ll.r ■. til S', i \lr< Prickett also stated Bob ' *hase of W < At' > *will serve = \ Busy Cirl ■ .< I-. • n i" ' >• r. ver;, busy i i ..!'■■■ •,u<' n tuid hereon t will appear at- the teen street danco in uptown | Svracus» ; Ii e dan.ee winbe on Main street, in trout <»I lue ] I featui•• Icm ai bands and .aj WOWO dtejockey. Sometime during her Busy week end >he- and the! i appearat all three g"lt coin Which an participating in the Flotilla tournament.. T will also be present at the l-'lotilla ball and will ride on a float i! ’ •■' ■■. .'.it l parade The tueen will serve as a-.jmige for the jKirade. ‘Top Pop* Spencer Pickno, a Michigan state police detective, is the - . . kl who has i ■ ’ chosen as the “Top Pop". He is to i t 1 .<• Flotilla. Pickles, who is a widower, hails from Niles, Mich. He I ii l een "u the police force for 23 years • Th< Top P- p' is the * ithei 19 a 'tudent at Michigan State imuXersiu at Lrmsing; PatWho will the ‘•Top Pop” be? That is a questh i t yet h.isn’t,Peon answered, but whoever he is he will be the official king of the FWUia!.. ' ’ The “Top Pop" and his family will be treated to an all-e\|H i n.se paid stay at .Matieys Motel and will V" special x of the ['T't ;i .1 The contest was sponsored by WOWO. who ask ywwsters between W and 17 to send a letter telling -Why my nop should Im- Tbp P->p'* 1 ’'• tetters were sorted, with the finalists being sent to the. Flotilla committee for the final decishm and the selection of the “Top -. A total of 2TO letters were rweived ftOOl tiie ‘the FlotiUa queen, the “Top Pop” will be very busy during the l-’lotilla celebration. He also will visit the gOll courses, attend the FTuilla ball, ride <-n a float and seiv, ‘ audg’ . . \t The Golf ( ourse*. q ’ ’li e activities.of the Flotilla aren’t all on the mg lake, A Flotilla golf tournament will begin at the three Wawasee Maxwelton, Wawasee u South Fi-.dav and run tluough p.m. Sundax. According to WiUiam M. Beemer, chairman m event, nriies’will be given for t. ■ ■ and wmnen's phampions, ii S in« t l e Calloway system, and for the first net and First A. P-. aud.C flight' a higldiyht. registration on Saturday at tnc . xntee coursa •> will be taken by queen contest entrant". A ®>lf-playoff will be field on Satunlay a:tern<«>n \\ t)\VO personalities and local dignitaries. The Flotilla Ball Rex Steffey and h.is band from Fbrt Wayne will.proxide mas ic for the annual Flotilla Ball scheduled to begin at 9 •ni on Saturdav and-/run until 1 a.m. This year the ball win e held at Our Lady of the 1-vkes Seminary. Tickets for the dance are on sale at tom bi>cks, McCormick-Cutler. Inc.. Thornburg Drug WRd i’.urki.older’s Drugs. - The Big Pai.ide The bic parade around tlie lake will !»egin at 1 pm. Sur.-kA with floats starting to form their line at 1" am. m ’ ‘ eathef ixn-niit ting. ixmt-M.ns will circle the lake clockwise and other, faster craft, will cnvle the lake vounteii i- . itid will.make at leas’, two trips aiound. Thi> will InVhie viewers"and the judges a better look at the parade af,d ThelxinX will end at Johnson’s Bay and trophies will * Pr^OT?the e trophtes to be presented are the (bm.nnhv I'li F Lilly thi award, the ’Top the queen’s choice, and the Chamber of Comyear include Q’s Waco B each the area around the state fish hatchery, Johnson s hotel X Oakwood park, the EH Lilly estate, and possibly the Zea at the South Shore hotel site. Xdded features will include water skiing at four locaOn the lake, and paradivers at four ditterent l«'ations, hick Atkinson is cliairman of the event, herring with i Tom Prickett president of the Chamber of Coni™Xe RkhanOlaresh. -secretary of the Chamber of Commerce’ Eari Monev. water safety and regulations advisoi. wllhlm Beemer, chairman of the golf tournament: Mnand Mis. Gene Radical, co-chairmen of the Gaixshom. pubhc.ty cha,rman ; and Robert Rule, parade marshal.

Tlie

Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (E5t.1907)

Jr ■ -« •- ■ • mh TV t_. _.,... — !■ I I P TIH Y GO — Banners went up l ake Wawasee. beginning at 1 p in. tilla should be one of the best, weath. la.t week -airing mad ' ! in Syracuse Sunday,. er permitting. heralding the t-'rthi <>minu Father’s !- • i-i-mmilln 1 in charge of events A Mail-Journal staft photo. 1).,'. | tip » V Mil h will he held <n ytattxl this morninti this war’s Flo-

285 Enrolled In LCSC Summer School A total of 285 are •re-.psh red in summer who*; at t'< several high ?*-h-■ ‘ <• L.Aeiand t’vmrtr.i".slv S.'tk'ol. CorpH’.rtfm aixtonding to figures reieswi this week by Mi.ford school princ ipsa’ Doon. D. K».*sier . ikre.ittr of this - s *var S *sl4' Ml’ Syracuse - Heahh class, 23; s .Milford —< Typing class. 14. dri’ - Hath Webster ■— Tkiver tafcta- <’ isses os. on Monday \ \MI l> Ks t Xl<>\ fflFI H FRS ’ . t ~•> I Beach reunion wtueh was bekl at v'ommunity Park. Xanpanee ti Sundav June 13 Ebt 1960 lecssir:;’ was Owvi) I’ Xvt v Syr.i’cttsv, and Edith Awry, ■xvretary-treasur-er. o “MISS SYRAt’I SF” — The junior class of Syracuse high sc hoc 1 has se’lecled Miss Norma Stewart as ‘‘Miss Syracuse” for the Mermaid Festival’s “Queen of Lakes” contest. Norma will be a senior next school vrar. She'is 17 years old and the daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Stewart of r 1 Syracuse. Miss Stewart attended New Parts high school during her freshman and sophomore years, transferring to Syracuse fbr her junior yetw. [tadsMciMtday. draadadr too! j

Newspaper Section Ind« State Library Indlanapoli*, Ind.

CAR BACKS INTO ANOTHER AT DAIRY QUEEN Then' were no injuries in a minor car mishap at tiie SyTaeuse Dairy Queen Friday when Miss IX'bi a Mo.'- s d.nmht,-r of Mr anil Mr< l-\>‘i Money <>f Sv\icus<'. b.ickvtl her, . mto one Ixsng driven by Mrs Wayne Buehtjr. - 3 Syracuse. There h.is. been no est unite given of tlx d..m. f :t's Syracuse Youth Receives Skinned Elbows In Bike Accident \ Syracuse y xith. It. ndal! C B -.i iy. 10, son of Mr and Mrs \-tie Br aly of 213 W Washington street. Svracttse. was hit -ah:lv l: b. s bi'vele by a car driven by K<- ' ix.r. 4 S' - -t;sf Tur>day ’i-te accident occured at the ’■corner' of west Washington and • «<■•!) Huntington. streets, at about. 13 10 pm It was a minvr accident with no c.nra.'es rv'orted ’> the car or 1 . v<’e T’-e Br idv lx»v received ski'ir.v! elbe-vs and w is taken to ■ a* '•■•i-e of a lix'nl piivsican where he " fotetotl releastsl Tlwre were no c'hnrves filed. < M Iford Girls Stater Attends Tea Recently L 'g.'-f V:\ii w ittendixl the Girls’ Siatc tea held in Wai’Kiw on Sunday. Jura C ’ ‘ Mrs Dean B iford. who' SiKin's ?roti;er ■.. M.-s Gi-• Price Sr *;»' -dso a g'ac—t at the tea • Susan will, attend G:ri< State at. I'shana universitv in Bloomington; : June* 20 to Juih' 27 Rev. Kennard Robinson Reassigned To Syracuse Th ses> <»n <•: ’ e Indiana .Conference of the Evangelical Imled Brethren church was held at Oakwood Park. Lake Wawasee. June 7 to 10 The conference., whose iherne was “Jesus Christ Renews |His Church Through Evangelistic ,W;tness and Missionary Outreach”, was led bv the presiding Reuben H. Mueller of Indianapolis. Ministers who were reassigned :n the area were Rev Kennard Robinson. Syracuse; Rev Fi H. Willard. New Paris: and Rev Joe Bear. Burr Oak-Sotomon Creek Joseph (Yiambers. the son of Rev ; and Mrs. John Chambers of War-; saw. wdl sene as supply minister this summer . at the Concord EUB : church southeast of Milford, just ’off the Dewyjrt Lake road on Rookstool road He will sene until a fnll-t:me pastor is assigned there. He wiH be a senior in the fall at ; Indiana Centra college The daily devxXicnal leader for the eonfererce was Dr Ham Demon. secretary of the general board of evangelism in the Methodist church Other guests were Dr. RayImmi Veh and Dr. Manin A. Deist re;>resentirg the General church and Dr Grover L Hartmen. executive secretary of the Indiana | Council of Churches.

WEDX’ESDAY, JUNE 16. 1965

Water Safety Program At Syracuse Park Enrollment will liegin on Monday morning, June 21, at die Syracuse city park for swimming instructions sponsored by the Syra-cus<-U awasee Water Safetv Conned ■; . Enrollment for beginners will be at 9 a m . and for mte.-mediate at 10 a m Director Earl Money in\ites T.l swimmei's interested to be on hand to register Manday. PYTHIAN SISTERS CELEBRATE 75th ANNIVERSARY brated its 7‘>th a:;: ;-, ers.iry Friday. June 11. in Elkhart with a dinner, enter! anment and a play. Attending from Syracuse were Mrs Elia Inrue. .Mr> Estelia Swartz, Mrs Artie Ixmg. Mrs Ages N!M. - Her:>ert Blue. Mrs. Ella M.ller. Mrs. Orlcy Brown, Mm EMM Grubb. Mrs. Elizabeth »Pollock. M K F • v:.. v -Moore. Mrs. Catherine Babcock. Mrs Ruth Le Count and Mrs Zerola Zook. UFFK FNT) (.th STS M: and' Ms Otis Gray and daug.tv; Mi» Nandy Gray. rs M.instudd. t». visited over the week tmd w • -v u> ar Graffs of near Milford They returned home .»n *rf- ,• ■ '. * s <, *. j y s the former F7'lht*r Beer, a niece of Mrs, G‘ <!: Siinday gue-4' were Mr. .! .<>. M - Frank J Beer' .and !of Milford.

Warsaw School Board Votes To Accept Plain Township

The Warsaw community school board voted unanimously Monday idjjyii to accept Plaai township into its school system. . . I The vote followed a motion List Tuesday night by the Lakeland school board to release Plain township to the Warsaw system. fa a statement released Tuesday morning to this newspaper Warsaw school board president Ethan Kauffman stated. “It is the desire of the Warsaw schools to cooperate with neighboring schools as long as the I quality of education in the local schools could be maintained. I : “The students of Qay, Lake and Plain townships can make a sig- J nificant oontrixition to the local | program and that these incoming pupils would be afforded eiery opportunity to participate and distinguish themselves in the various activities of the Warsaw school.” 496 Students . The transfer involves a total of

Saga of Luckless Alberta The Alligator Has A Happy Ending!

Swimmers ir. Lie Wa a .we Lake area can relax. Alberta lias been Yes. thanks to conservation officMoney. Herm.i:: Chaney ■>: Le.W.wasee 'tale fish ha’.caery an.l Warren Mock, the Lie and a half foot alligator who was l*>ose Saixlay . and Monday :a Lake Wewasee was returned to her pit at the fish hateik'ry <i!wut 2: JO Monday afternoon. She was cap".;: ■ d at Ogder. Bland X: ic-. '' 1 ■'.• ■ AlSx-ta really put' up a Fight for- - freedom according to conservation officer Money, who dtoiel a■: outLt to help capture the now famous lady: He addl'd she | wasn’t ’mean, she was just frightened. Mr. Money reported the allj-cat->r had been snared once but , had escaped. Then they put tlie snare around her belly so she couldn’t breathe, thus foiv.ng her to surface. • • Alberta didn’t gain her short- , lived freedom or. her own. she was . abducted from her pit by what “MISS MILFOKI) —Mary E. Hollar of Chicago. HL. daughter of Mr. and Mr,, ll.nton Hollar of Milford, has been selected by the members <>f the Milford Lions club as their entrant in the fast approaching Mermaid festival "Quern of Lakes" contest. Mary . 21. is five feet, nine and thrts-apiarter inches tall. She wemh--135 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. . Mary is a 1962 graduate of Milford high m hcol. She is employed by the Aluminum Company of America at Chicago. Her hobbies include waterskiing and modeling.

:• > Plain township students — 101 in grades 10 through 12. 33 m grade 9. aid the remainder in the elementary school. Grade 9 pigiii' will enter the Warsaw freshman high school, the only, such school in the United States, according to Warsaw schools' superintendent Carl Burt. Plain township has a valuation of $6,408,000 and the Warsaw schools itkxi is 536.365.770. I The Warsaw board held a lengthy session on Monday night, most of which concerned the acceptance of | ! Plain township and the ramifica- • tions of the move. 1 ■ The issue of transferring Plain ; township to the Warsaw school svstem has been a tender one, fraught with many-sided arguments. Plain township voted nearly 72 per cent to jom the Lakeland system when re-organization in Kosciusko county was put to a vote.

Sente !.,ke-residents believe to Iwve oven persons -who were at last somew-Kit under the inflwnce of alcoholic beverages. As one man put it "They’d naVe to be drunk to drag that ’gator out of that pit.” FL :<fch?e the scene shows that V'er'.a put up a heroic resistance. Three dist net trails indicated that Al’K'rta had clawed the ground as

More Explanation Needed (An Editorial), The announcement Tuesday that the \X arsaw "community school board voted 'to accept Plain township came as something of an anticlimax. Once the pattern was set by the Lakeland school board to release Plain township — and by so doing to get rid of what they thought would be a constant source of irritation —— the Warsaw board sat ready for the new acquisition, the constant disclaimer of those close to the XX arsaw board notwithstanding. - - There is a large percentage of residents in the Lakeland school corporation who cannot understand the reasoning behind the action ofr the Lakeland school board. , The release of Plain township has turned out to be a give-away that the Lakeland corporation cannot ever recoup. A give-away amounting to $6,408,000 in valuation, in fact! And to compound the matter. Plain township promises to have more economic ’growth in the years ahead than any area in Kosciusko county, This latter is a fact of which the Warsaw school board and the Warsaw, business community is well v .. aware. And yet the Lakeland school board continued to ignore or minimize this. Lakelarid board members have openly stated that the new Lakeland high school will be delayed and will cost individual taxpayers more if Plain township is allowed to leave. And yet the release of Plain township had the blithe unanimous approval of all board members. Lakeland taxpayers need more of an explanation than they have received so far if the board expects blanket approval of its actions in the future.

When the location of the new Lakeland high school became an issue, several residents of tvburg formed a Plain : township citizens committee and asked their Lakeland board member Ralph Brubaker to propose a motion to transfer Plain township to Warsaw. The Lak>-land board, acting on quick impulse, voted to accept the Brubaker motion and an opinion Spoil was taken at the Leesburs 'school. At that time the.vote of Plain township residents was nearly 2 to 1 for making the move to the Warsaw system. Subsequent meetings of committees from the two school boards have been held to iron out details of the transfer. Meanwhile, a petition was circulated by interested Lakeland citizens. asking the Lakeland board to retain Plain township. The petition carried 1.075 bonafide signatwes of Lakeland residents. This petition

TWO SECTIONS

she w;is dragged toward the lake. The trail ended at the edge of Like Wiiwasee where the abductor ga\e tie little, well not so 1 lady trie obi. re. -ho into the chilly waters. V I so • c ch.;s ■ b- .’.c! for the a’ ’’•«■ who managed to keep her f"eedom-fur. otslv a little over 36

was' treated lightly by the Lakeland board, a-.d several members tried to discount its value. It represented 70 to 75 per cent of the citizens of Lakeland school district who favored retaining Plain township, a spokesman said when the petition was presented to the Lakeland school board. Have Recourse The law provides recourse in the form of remonstrance for citizens who wish to protest the transfer. A remonstrance must be filed with the county clerk within 30 days after the final" publication hwo publications are required) of the joint school board resolution by registered voters. Ten per cent of the voters of the remonsterinc area, the remainder of the Lakeland cor- • poration. would be required to make - the remonstrance legal. If Plain > township residents should want to i file a remonstrance they would need f ,51 per cent of the township's regn istered voters signatures.

NO. 19