The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 August 1965 — Page 9

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VOLUME 4

49th Annual Kosciusko County Fair Now In Progress

Coronation Os Fair Queen To Be Saturday The 49th annual Kosciusko county fair officially opened Monday evening with an impressive ribbon cutting ceremony. The fair will close Saturday night following the corona-

Seeking the Fair Queen title are 12 very lovely girls. They have been working hard to see w hich one .of them could collect the most money for the Alpha Beta chapter. Beta 'Sigma-'Phi sorority. Each p<?nny collected is one vote The money all goes to the » and is used to finance speech • - ix'en unde-way. <•:: “ ‘ week Today is kiddies day an 1 7 pm. this eveinng the motori races will begin in ' 'The dairy show held today will

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. "This'' amusing, the ' way passing ■ remarks can lead into interesting i • experiences... Such - was ■ thcri. case urfien Jim jßut ts and I met the other day. and he smilingly asked if I would help decorate bis dog for the pet parade for the Western Days celebration We IxKh laughed about it and got into a more serious discussion about the teenagers arid how he-a-expressed in the Cimmbcr of Commerce float article. Before parting however, he said he wool : support the parade as he knew’ much effort uxx? committee, on their first: venture, to make it as big as possible. He had their dog. Brownie, who they had adopted from the dog pound. with him. He is a (farting dog with a lovely personality. However/ Jim said he was minus children in the age eroup to parade the dog. Told him about «r four lovely * neighbor children? the Schppf reslsure they would be happy to help him out. Forgot about the incident until Marge. the mother, stopped in to say Audrey and Jim had stopped by with Brownie and wondered it the children would like to.have him in the parade From then on the wheels s- itemed’ a theme with the usual two days and pne nite to work it out. jean and Dkk Mtiter and we store all our big items in the SchopCs garage loft. Millers had a lovely wagor. which ■ ■ s-c..'.' i Marge’s friend. Edith Milter, came over that nite to help make paper flowers the ---.float teenagers had taught me to make, FtidSy- morning Ginny Sue. 11 Mag. 7. Jack. 9 that day. and Dave. 10, and I. 39. started to decorate the wagon. We had a production line svstem, with Jade serving us his birthdav cake and Coke when we found the need to make more flowers. The children worked in their swimming lessons and other duties and we were finished by noon — or thought we were. Mrs. Causer stopped by on her wav to work at the Syracuse Case in the morning as we started working on the wagon* About 4:30 on her way home, she stepped to see it. She’ wondered why we didn’t have some kind of identification on it — well. we just hadn’t thought of ft. Thanks to her idee, we some- «. how got signs made Brownie and Mag*, erplatoing to Mag it was a pet parade, thus the reason for the dog’s name first . Jack and Dave were to be in the parade as rnernbers of the Little League. complete with their baseball outfits which were terribly warm for the hot weather. Marge had the four to get ready for the parade, as Gamy Sue tos to pull Mag in the wagon. Baths and their cute outfits - they were afl so warm but tooked so sparitling and freshly scrubbed as she always keeps them. Even Daddv Stan was beginning to look excited about it-and made a hasty purchase of film so they would have picture* of the event They are wonderful peopte. jtivfog of llwnwiw to everyone they know, ftere fe » much together-

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! continue tomorrow (Thursday l and ■ . .- impus 4 H auction will begin at 630 bn Thursday evening Pony racing is the highlight in the grandi stand on Thursday evening and "will begin at 8 p m. The dairy show continues on Frip!.iy‘ will be featured in the women's building. The YMCA variety show will be held at 8 pm. in the grand- . -land. .. Just prior to the .crowning of the new queen on Saturday the stock car rac<*s will be held. Time trials will .at 7 pm.. - v ’

■ w to have as neighbors. The children ■ manners and respect Marge dresses them so cute, and the four coal Mack hair. .just,-...sparkle at’ all■ times : Back to the parade. It was small but real cute All the children with their pets' seemed so proud'.to.'show them ■ •/’/and much work was displayed by all for preparation of tlx-.r entry, - At this writing. know that a pony ’cart took first place there were two. so: don’t know ’which one it was) and the girls and Brownie took d Am sure it was on e of the biggest moments to their young lives — they were so excited. ■ .'The. moralof this article is- — .-thel civic attitude of Andrey and Jin( Butt, together with, the enthu of these young children. resulted in a most rewarding experience for ■ : . /: ■ ■ -. ’ - Ha: he needy formed l’c headed by Tom Holmes, for their efforts to show that a small town offers many opportunities for cooperation that is missed in larger city ■ : a Auxiliary Is' Stater The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 223 of Syracuse met Tuesday evening. July 27. at the I • Mary Kay Bushong. 1965 Giris’ Stater gave a report on Girls’ State. Die president. Mrs. Charles Dean, presided. Reports were heard from Mrs Charles Kroh. treasurer, chapfoin, Mrs. T. L: KI -no. who reported she had sent a baby card to Mrs.Ben Reed: and from the poppy day chairman, Mrs, Ishmael Rookstool, . liary members for their help on poppy (fay. Mrs. Georgia Buster was appoint■ed chairman for selling tickets one night at. the police and fireman’s The tent will sell tickets at tiie fair on Wednesday, August 18. Mrs. Dean reported that the wait will have a car in the Syracuse fair parade, riding in the car will be the Gold Star mother. Mrs. George Xanders and several charter members of the auxflfary. Mfs Rookstool reported the denatkm of a pair of crutches and two canes. The August meeting will be installation of officers Because of the warm weather, the canttidates need not dress formal but may wear street dress, 4 Mrs. Dean also announced that all officers dues shotdd be paid before I installation. August M ’ At the dose of the meeting re- ' freshments were served. The host-. ‘ esses were Anna Davis, Etta Baker f and Lois Kline. i There were 14 members and four » guests, Mrs Avon Bushong. Mary i K- Bushong. Geri Bauer and Judy Vidtaggfo, present - ATTEND THE FAIR! ,

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

Fourth in a series.) By .KENNETH H \NEY / The present little red brick school . house was built aLxxit 1896. The br.cks were made of clay taken foam a-pit one half mile wept of /■■ ■ ■ : The pit was owned by James Hollar. He burned in his kiln fish were takt*n from this pit until it was filled in later years. " I A storm blew down trie north’ gable end w: Stofac- ’ ton. ’’ i The old frame school house, which i was aixnit half, the size of the presei’i no.ise. was b<a'ed -;«> the’ West of it. It was moved across I the road from the present one and < ‘ used’as a dwdEng for a family who i ! ran a blacksmith shop. Later it was sown and some lumber used in I the present house on the ; corner. Old Picture Henry B-ller has. a-picture of the 48 pupils of Hastings school, taken to MM .when Sam Wvldy wa< teadier Haney Hartsoutoi and Tom Biough had four years each ■ prvcediiig this.A partial list of those pictured are' Ma<v HoHar, Bt‘lle ; Har *y Hollar. .H> r.rv B her. Datoy Di<ng' BiiWilliam Tusing, Dora 'CMer' i Tusing, Waiter Swartzlander, Ar-1 Clarence. Loren. Enos? Fremont and Irvin Hollar, Flossie (Poe 1 Ir- > : la Rumfel' ietbert and Arthir Tusing. Dora ’ Tusing V Ixkizenby. Lloyd Haney, Jesse Bil- . ler. Bcs-Je Biller' Davis. Bertha Bdler’ Ctemingham. Otho- Oster. •> m Oster) Barchart.. Glenice I (Oster) Wagner. Tom Roberts, j Delia • Roberts' Beach. Pearl (Roberts' Hepler, Edgar Swartzlander. ■ Cora <S' xtetonder' Rohrer- tod : Amanda ( Jensen' Dick. School would star: about September 15 and leave out about Mtadk 15 to April 1 ‘ j The school laws of attendance were • none too strict. Heivkey was common, Msd. permits to work at borne . for a week or two could be obtained These coodkfans and others denied ' regular attendance and some of the { overage pupils were as large as the i teacher — many their first term. When hiring a teacher, the trus--*.ee generally referred to the school- - pas tough and what to expect — maybe a "Ifckfa.” At least one pupil j, and teacher tangled, scatterfog ■. books over the floor and knocking ■ ’.ops o’:' the to-sk with kids scared. [ some "bawling.” the melee finally • ended in a “draw ” Some of the I older boys always had their strat-1 [ egy outlined for such an occasion! , The boys’ cloakroom was entered by the right door and the girls’ on the left. Several shelves were present in each for the (firmer pails. J Your shelf and also clothes hanger r were determined by your size. Nails soon replaced the broken r coat hangers and a fallen cap was tossed in the corner. f Seating these shelves you had a reserved seat for any program. Between these doak rooms was the teacher’s desk. It also controlfed the use of the old faithful pump

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History Os Hastings; Little Red School Built In 1896

’ and sink. ./■, The seats faced south until so. e light expert said over the shoulder ■■■■as better and they were reversed. Teacher's de&.wns put on the north end as well as the btecfc boards. *Recitation’ Bench I nearly forgot to say. the ‘‘recitation" bench was changed also. Wiien teacher called for a certain class, a hop or two by the quickest boys nailed down the end positions.. ■ Going to the dictionary, writing your lesson on the blackboard. Air pencil sharpened, or making a .trip outside to get some freshair kept your joints fro:: tpo stiff from sitting.. -.v ben a boy was one hundred percent sure of the answer to teacher’s question, he would snap his fingers two ways and reach halfway to teacher to beat his classmates to .the draw. The first day of school saw Junior v light dinner pail, book Kit --he’, a two inch th.ck tablet • rough as .toilet paper', a penny pencil and a reader, start .'for He was told how tong pencil - Al. W home mm school .c’-i :to- i.mer {Mil 'n top of some kid s head ruined Ms usefulness. Then, it was a gaflon. Karo syrup pail which would take -tots of banging and st.ll.get the hd off with a nail. i I nearly forgot to mention that expert handwriting in . those copybooks as teacher pushed our hands ■to make an imitation. I never got being anywhere near perfect in writing but I soon learned to "copy” and had compar.y Morning Exercises dees. Monday was Bible verses, most of the pupils had “Jesus Wept” memorized before the term i was ©ver .- SSfor second grader would pick out an Old Testament i verse .with a large ’number of jaw breakfag names tod teacher would hej > the Laie fellow thru. We’d sing favorites on Tuesday such as “Old Black Joe,” "Dixie Land,” “Carry Me Back to Old Vrgsiia” and maybe ending by "Tentod when we d come to "Many are the Hearts that are Weary Tonight. Waiting for the War ase”-n» lump of patiotism sorta got in your throat. I Then the stories of:Jacob Swartzlander and his hair raising stories of his Civil War sokfiering would appear. That tong flowing white beard was the sign of travel and adventure. Story tellfag, jokes and riddles took their place fa exercises too. One morning Jh® new teacher said we’d take calisthenics. That floored us! We’d always been taught to watch out for big words and fine print Also, anything with a bad smell such as asafetida tied around your neck to soothe your nerves or bad tasking medicine such as quinine or castor oil would help you. She said that was physical exercise. Now most of us could chin ourselves or “skin a cat” qufte a few times but that would be ember-

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rassing for' teacher to show us and besides, where was the bar ? She said we had lots of muscles we’d never used. ' . ’ - The first bell had rung and we ran most of the cne and a quarter, mile to school and had just gotten oar second breath.. • Stooping, arms up. down. 1-2-3-4. was fur. , but we never felt those unused muscles / come into action. In those days kids. made their fun —. coukfa’t buy it ’— no money. At recess we played dare base, blackman. tin can, zippy, Mffl du/i-on-rock. Andy over, baseball -. and fater basketball. One boy went home with a br r bone — the result of whip crack. When school left out at Tlianksgiviiwt, teacher generally had testimony ir.e.■< ::nd out what they were grateful for—to tell the truth—vacation! .. / One boy said, “tui-key.” He had never tasted turkey in his . life. Isn’t ’. that wonderful (•> rx' thankful that others can have things you can t ■ . At Christmas a sack of “hardtack” candy wtts' appreciated because of its lasting quai.ties. Teacher must have gotten a five dollar raise per month as be scattered a »»ag of x'anuts >ver the room I don’t know if he was demonstrating Darrton's survival of the fittest, or showing us' how the anti-poverty program was going to work. The last day of school, maybe a program, ciphering, a ball game with kids playing dads tod a big canner — tx>y wasn't it g<xxi’ That .’big cake wstn. v ../<• ■: tod covered with red hots was out of ths world.. A book for the head marks in spelling, maybe a few "roll of honor." a souvemr of teacher's picture port cards and school was out. We wished teacher would be back next year but she had her “practice” teaching tod could leave janitor service. 30 to 40 classes a day for better pay. so we walked slowly home, happy to have known such a wonderful teacher. The Furnace Probably the most nwmorable day was the one when several boys and myself arrived at schooL atxxit seven o’clock The .boys were “fidwith the furnace and filled the school room with smoke that you could “cut with a knife.” This was not unusual as the burnfag of Indiana coal made us smoke eaters. We rirried on one fade tod froze on the other. When the teacher asked if I had been fa the basement I said, “nope” and felt relieved for I had not monkeved with the furnace. As school left out my name and Allen Dierks and Roy Thaden were called to stav after school. As the other difldrtm left the room and went borne I had a fanny feeling. The teacher started to sweep and when they were down the road a wavs he stopped and went outside. * What should I do? { Judgment night was here. Why ’ hadn’t I hid behind the fifth amend- ‘ ment this morning? I was too small i > —g — ■I (Continued on page 4, sec. 2)

Along Main Street

By GEORGIA BUSTER i Main street has been ”popsn" and so has your-"ye pie editor" Western Days over, then the Camp Fire G Work Camp, and I gave two classes ’on "Indians in Indiana." Press conference at the library and that was a mist, interesting afternoon. Learned more about the lakes and early settlers. Did you know I that we had a China. Africa, and the Philippines here? China Mas on the lake (yhere the city park is, the Philippines at the foot of .Main street. 1 At least an Indiana dog was the' one named a "hero." The d a collie. is from Akron and will receive a six months' Supply of dog food land a SSOO U. S. Savings Bond. “Laddie" saved her master from, an attack by a l.'OOb-potind bull on his farm. The dog was injured but recovered. - ■ Was looking over the Syracuse State Bank employees and found these husband-wife teams working there, Mr. and Mrs. Bob J ones,Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wellman, and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Plummer. Some industries will nor hire members of a family, but seems to work out very well at the bank, for the’ bank employees are all hard-work-ing and very- efficient. I .July must be Hubert | Anglemeyer's iucky month. In 19S) he scored July. 1965. he scored a hoie-in-one at Maxwelton. Wewill see about July, 1970. I have a new coin in my odd coin collection. This one a “Constellation” struck from metal from the Navy’s first ship the U. S. Frigate | • Constellation.” If -anyone is interested in havin.! one ■ i ® th.-*e coins, see me. At the library Thursday afternoon. ■ Roscoe Howard spoke about a book ; ■of Eli Lilly's "Schliemann in Indi- ’ anapolis." I have the book and if anyor.e would like to read it they

U. S. Constitution Not To Be Tampered With Lightly

W.VSHINGTON. D. C.. July 26 - Serato Birch Bayh -D-Inci sti.d today that /the floor of the Senate fa no place to try to write fundamental changes in the fundamental law of the land.” Ba.vh made the statement in a Senate speech opposing parliamentary tactics by Senator- Everett IMricsen < R-Bl.) which brought to the floor a proposed constitutional amendment on iegifaativ e apportionment . Bayh, chairman of the Subcomrrfatee on Constitutional Amendments which considered the Dirksen Amendment, said he remains “ready and witting to seek a reasonable compromise’’ so that he “join with the vfafaimMfaied Minority Leader * Dirksen’ in advocating an • arnendment which would permit the States to retain autonomy in the area of apportionment. “Yet,” the Indiana Senator added. “we are not discussing this in subcommittee. We are not discussing this in full committee. We are discussing it on the floor of the Senate which — is no place to try to write fundamental changes in the fundamental 1aw...” ’ Bayh urged that the Dirksen proposal “not be subjected any further to the ill-considered and hodgepodge approach of premature debate on the floor.” He said the legislative apportionment question is | “complex’* and requires “intricate care in its formulation.” “It needs further study,” Bayh 1 said, “and unless our rates and procedures are terribly outmoded, the place for such study is not on this floor but in committee.” The Hoosier Senator said DirkJsen was not denied a bearfag by

WEEKLY FISHING REPORT I. ■ | A few bass and some very nice northern pike are being taken from the Kankakee river. Extra good channel catfish are being caught in Bass lake. Fair bass and bluegill fisliing is reported at Lake Maxjn- / kuckee. Flshemien are getting good bluegills aod bass at Pme lake and perch are biting very good in Lake .Michigan. In Marshall ctxmty all lake ttshing is fair. Wabash river is I producing-some better than average channel catfish. Lakes Shafer and Freeman report fair' fishing for all species. Fishing is still generally good in this district. Northeastern Indiana In Steuben county, lakes Hogback. Clear and James, bluegills, and some extra large bass are being i.iken. Indian Lake. Cbain-of-lakes and Stone lake i-eport bluegill and bass catches. Fishermen in Kos- . ciusko evunty are enjoying bluegill ng at lakes 'Tippecanoe and Little Lake James. In Elkhart county, large bu-s ; . . some 22 inches I c -.airicl catfislt are being taken in tiie St Joseph, river. In Yellow Creek lake. and.S.munton lake, pike and bluegills are bit.ng. In Noble ■ Courity, Lotto lake. Big Lake Yind • Lower--Long lake report catches'of ' rappies are- being taken , out of Waldron ■■ ' may get it at the office. Mr. Schlietnann was the person who excavated Troy. I also have, a number of books on Indians and Indian Relics, some rare copies that I will loan to anyone who is interested in reading this type of book. We have had moving day in the. building: The Budget Investment has . moved down tiie street and the president of the company Victor Payne and Jack Payne along with some other office managers are in the area. Our office moved to the. front.' Office, now I can see.-all tiiat goes., on out on the street. I also haw- some "Early Wawasee Days" by Eli Lilly for sale here. After this edition is sold, doubt if there will be any more printings; E\ eryone who lives here, has lived here or expects to, should have one of these books. Its to hx.-k l.ke fall, not Katydids yet, so we may .have more than six viieeks bf . nice weather, j Hope so. .

"On the contrary, the reason (he) has resected to his parliamentary magic to bring this proposal’ to ?Jie floor is that he did not .wish —a hearing because he did not have the votes to get his own proposal through. ... 1 if we <>/>vv his i'<.e. we come . to the Inevitable conclusion fast committees are serviceable only when they approve o£ his proposals in the form fa which he wishes them to be.” Bayh declared. Bayh recalled that his proposed 25th Amendment on presidential inability and filling- vacancies fa the office of Vice President took a year to develop a consensus and another half-year refining the language. Then,' and only then, he said, did it dear the Congress and go to the States. “The Constitution of the United States is not a document to. be tampered with lightly. It is not something we-change, or even seek to change, without the most careful consideration — particularly when .the question at issue is so ob' iously charged with political ana emo I tlonal overtones. “We cannot let emotions or partisan considerations enter into the fundamental law of the land. The best way to prevent this is to take our time, consider carefully all the alternatives, get outside advice, revise, adjust and reline.” Bayh reiterated his willingness to support an amendment with a provision to require that both houses of a legislature must be apportioned on tiie basis of sustantial equality of population before a non-popute-tion plan could be submitted to the people for approval. Bayh said he

SECTION TWO

NO. 26

INDIANA TEAL HUNTING TO OPEN Shot dodgers, gray bullets, and flying ghosts are but a few of the less mundane terms used to describe the quick, erratic and entirely unpredictable little duck . . . the blue-winged teal. Thus far approximately 500 Hoosier hunters have submitted their applications for the free teal hunting permit which will allow them to participate in Indiana's special teal hunting season September 10 to 18. This season was set •up by the Department of Natural Resources in cooperation with thet'. S. Bureau of Sport-'Fisiieries and Wildlife to allow Indiana hunters a chance to han est this species of waterfowl that normally migrates tlirough the fowl hunting season. . The permits are available upon request from the Department of NaUtral Resources, and lumters wishing to participate should be cognizant of the fact that the deadline for submitting their requests is AugtHt 15, 1965. There are no limitations as to the number of hunters that may take ‘advantage of the special season, however, to® date several applications have not been honored either because necessary information was ' not included, the application was : . led out improperly, or because of general illegibility. To insure participation Ln the. experiment teal hunt, hunters, should follow chxsely the ‘ following procedure: ' ■ On a. standard U. S. Government postal card, print or type . vi >ur narhe. .street address, or rural . route number, city and state, aqd’ the county in which you reside.; Below this information each applicant' is asked i to sign his name in ink. Address the application to Bluewinged teal. Department of Natural Res< iii.r, state Office Building, Indianapolis,. Indiana 46209. TOTALri3I PER ( ENT I NDER LAST YEAR About 2,700 more unemployment insurance claims were filed last week than were the week before v but the total was more than 31 per cent under that for the same yeek a year’ago. Lewis F. Njcolioi, dir- , ector .of the' Indiana Employment Securiy Di-.ision. said that unemployefl /workers • filed 20,799 claims last week compared to 18,105 the: week before and 30.343 during he same week in July 1964. > Vacation shutdowns were in progress in-nearly all areas of the ■ state- Temporary closings because j <rf inverlories, material ’ shortages, and nxxlel chaoges were also reported, Mr. Nicolini said.

first enunciated this proposal on Muy 15, that it was the first and ■ only position he has taken on the question, and that it remains his position. He said lie was not wed to specific . language, but that he favored the • idea because it: 1. Recognizes “the fundamental principle that people — not grass, ' tree or cows, but people — are the most important and overriding factor tv be Considered in apportionment of any legislative body.” 2. Recognizes that there may be „ situations “in which unique problems of geography, communications. accessibility or others may dictate that the people of a State may be best represented- in one house by varying” from the oneman, one-vote principle. 3. Provides each State with a self-implementing method of apportioning one house on a basis other than population that would not require review by the courts. Bayh also suggested that “to leave the framing of questions that will appear on a referendum ballot would virtually assure questions designed to prejudice the outcome.” Bayh recalled that on June 2. he supported a Dirksen motion to table an amendment to the NASA Authorization Bill because the amendment had not received, to their minds, sufficient committee consideration. But now, Bayh said, Writsen “seeks to remove the Commit - tee on the Judiciary from consideration of his proposal. “I suppose this simply proves" tne truth of the Spanish proxvrb — Never took for birds of this year in the nests of last.'”