The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 37, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 October 1965 — Page 1

Milford Old Fashioned Fall Festival — Thurs. thru Sat., Oct. 27-30

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PLAN FALL Mem bers of the Milford chamber of commerce are shown here making final plans for their first annual Milford Fall Festival, to be held Wednesday through Saturday. Oct. 27-30.

School Out Thursday And Friday For Teachers' Meet

There will be no school in Lakeland schools on Thursday i and Friday of this week while teachers attend sessions of I the Indiana State Teachers Association.

Local teachers for the main part will attend meetings at Fort Wayne, South Bend and Indianapolis. Other meetings will be held at Hammond. Muncie. Evansville and Clarksville, with more than half the public school teachers in the state attending the sessions in Indianapolis. 40.000 Teachers A total of 46,300 Indiana school teachers will be attending the meetings which will accent the improvement of quality of Indiana education It will be the 112th annual conference on instruction. Much emphasis will be on the problems of upgrading the teaching of disadvantaged children and on guidance for potential dropouts. Teachers must acquire these skills rapidly, says Robert H. Wyatt. IST A executive director. The new federal elementary and secondary education act which provides greatly needed funds for these purposes, cannot be successful without the prime involvement of classroom teachers. Wyatt beheves. Section meetings in the various curriculum areas are keyed to bring teachers up-to-date on the rapidly changing content and methods of instruction in their own fields. Teacher participation is high at the planning and program level as well as in attendance at the meet-

MILFORD FALL FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY THRU SATURDAY OCTOBER 27-30 Wednesday 5- p.m. — Chicken barbecue, sponsored by Eastern Star. 8-9 p.m. -— Beauty contest, preliminary judging. Thursday 7 p.m. — Garden tractor pulling contest, 10 h.p. or under. 8:30 p.m. — Announce winners of farm judging contests — Best peck of soybeans, oats and wheat, largest ear of corn, sunflower, and pumpkin, best ten ears of corn and carved pumpkin, novelty contest for garden produce, best and or most original centerpiece. Friday 10 pjn. — Beauty contest, final judging. Saturday 10-12 ajn. — Children’s rides at reduced prices. 2-5 p.m. — White Elephant auction. 6- p.m. — Halloween judging contest 8:30-11:30 p.m. — Free record hop, featuring dj Bin Musser of WKAM.

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The four-day affair will feature a i chicken barbecue, beauty contest, garden tractor. pulling contest, farm i judging contests, a white elephant sale, Halloween judging, a record I hop. a merchants’ tent, an assort- i

ings. Borden R. Purcell, ISTA co- ! ordinator for the statewide conference sessions, worked with 822 teachers, principals. superintend-I ents and college faculty members throughout the past year to set up the convention programs. During the conference another’ BSI educators and prominent speak-. ers from the worlds of politics, business, education, science and the arts — 119 of these from other : states — will take part in paneli discussions, workshops, demonstra- j tions, and general sessions. Seventeen Indiana coDeges and uni versa-| ties and 48 out-of -state schools wnli be represented on the programs. .1 ■ - Don't Forget Only Two Days To Trick Or Treat I ■ > I Don't forget kids the Milford and! ! Syracuse town board have named Friday and Saturday, Oct 29, and i > 30. M trick or treat days in the < communities. I And. don’t forget the curfew is i in effect and all youngsters should ■ be home before 10 p. m.

meat of rides. A full program appears elsewhere on this page. Planning the affair is this group. Seated from l<rft are Mrs. V. G. Horsey, Mrs. Gertrude Ritter. Dennis

Milford Lions View Travel Film The Milford Lions Monday night saw a travel film on a trip to Alaska, via the famed Alcan High way, by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson of Elkhart who made the trip several years ago. The colorful film proved of real interest They were introduced by Lion James Stuckman. I The Lions voted to hold a pennypitch stand at the Milford Fall Festival coming up next week : end. A card was circulated to send .to former Lions president A. C. Scott, now a patient at an Angola hospital. A letter was read from Leader Dog For The Blind at Rochester. Mich., for the SIOO the Milford club sent them. They said 132 dogs had "graduated” from the school last year, 20 of which went to blind persons in Indiana. It was also voted to hold a 'Ladies* night at Club 30 at ColumI bin City on November 15. Reservations should be made with Lion Gerald Snider MR. AND MRS. WAYNE BUCHER ATTEND MEETINGS Wayne Bucher of r 3 Syracuse attended a two-day meeting of the Farmers Home Administration State Advisory Committee at Vincennes on Thursday and Friday, Oct 14 and 15. Mr. Bucher was appointed a board member of this committee by Senator Vance Hartke last August. Mrs. Bucher attended the 40th annual fall meeting of the Indiana Women’s Democratic cldb at the French Lick-Sheraton hotel in French Lick Saturday and Sunday, Oct 16 and 17. Honorable Lee H. Hamilton of the 9th district was the guest speaker. He received the Trester award for basketball in 1948. LEE CORY UNINJURED IN ACCIDENT Lee Cory of r 1 Milford was uninjured in an accident recently. The accident occurred south of Warsaw on State road 15 Mr. Cory was pulling out of a drive when a car came over a rise. The two care just barely touched and the second car, driven by an unidentified woman, grazed the side of a telephone pole. She too won uninjured. ‘1965 TOP POP’ VISITS SYRACUSE Spencer Pickles of Niles, Mich., was a Sunday visitor in the Syracuse area. He was visiting friends be had made earlier in the year wben he was selected "Top Pop” for the Father's day flotilla of Lake Wawasee. He had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Marley Ewans at Marley’s Steak • House south of Syracuse.

Sharp, Gordon Blauser and Kurman ; Jessop. Standing from left ere John B. . Augsburger, Dean Irutip, officer ■ Ralph Gansert, Wade E. Mishler and > Bud Smith.

Dorothy Williams Speaks At Women's Fellowship The Bethel Church of the Brethren in Milford held a guest night at their regular Women s Fellowship meeting at the church last TlMirsday evening. The guest speaker was Mrs. Dorothy Williams, Milford high school teacher who recently returned from a two year tour as a teacher in Ghana. Mrs. Williams was introduced to the group by Mrs. Noble Neff who is a longtime friend. Mrs. Neff also, lead in devotions using Psalms 139 for tire scripture and offered a prayer in the opening service. Mrs. Williams told of her experiences as a teacher in the west African nation and also had many artifacts from the nation of Ghana on display’. She also showed colored slides of places she visited in Africa and of the school where she taught and her home there. She served as a teacher her first year in Ghana and as a principal at the school for girls which has 500 students the second year. She also has slides of part of the students and of the way some of the work was done in the area. Mrs. Williams learned of various religious cultures and native ideas, and also visited an African Catholic church on Good Friday. At the protestant church where she attended regularly, there were persons of many different nationalities, Canadian. Irish, Ghanaian, English, American to name a few. She taught a Sunday school class out in the open each Sunday. She was the first white woman to be seen by some villagers and remembers particularly the fright of one girt who saw her (a white woman) for the first time. Mrs. Donn Kester, president of the fellowship, presided at the meeting and asked those members present to introduce their guests who were from several area churches and a few from farther away. A tea was held in the basement of the church with a beautiful fall centerpiece of yellow, orange and brown mums with leaves in the arrangement. Napkins decorated with leaves in the same colors were used by the committee. Punch, coffee and cookies were served to the 50 women who were present by the social committoe, Mrs. Cteve Shuder. Mrs. Carrie McFarren and Mrs. Richard Skreth. DAVID STREEB Y HAS PROMOTION David Strieby of Syracuse has been promoted to SP/4C in the armed forces where he has served since January 1964. He has been stationed in Germany for the past year. WARNS OF BURNING LEAVES Marion Deeter, street and water commissioner for Milford, warns of burning leaves on the asphalt. He added no leaves are to be burned on tire asphalt or dose to curbs which in any way might damage tire asphalt

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1965

State Tax Board Sets Rates For County Units

The field representatives from the state tax adjustment board were in Warsaw at the court house on Monday and Tuesday <rf this week going over the various county budgets and making their cuts and some additions. Earlier the county council had cut the county general fund for the 1966 tax year from 55c to 54c per SIOO valuation. The cut was made in the budget of the surveyor and the new county drainage board as set up by the 1965 legislature. The state men restored the amount to 55c after hearing an appeal from the commissioners and the surveyor and looking over the situation. All six of the school districts in the county were cut by the county tax adjustment board at their meeting on September 13. The special school fund in the amount of 2 cents per SIOO was the victim. At their meeting this week the state men left the matter for Wa-Nee and TriTownship stand until the hearings are completed in Elkhart and Marshall counties. In Lakeland school district they restored one cent in the special school fund to make the amount of 94 cents per SIOO in that fund. In Tippecanoe Valley and Warsaw the amount as presented by the county board was left to stand at $1.28 and 94 cents, respectively. Whitko was cut from $1.05 to $1.03 by the county board. The state men after looking at reserve funds in that district made a further cut and the amount for special school in Whitko now is SI.OO.

The tax table below shows final figures as listed on the books of county auditor. Noble Blocker, after a two-day session with the state tax adjustment men on Monday and Tuesday of this week. COMPARATIVE TAX RATES FOR 1965 AND PAYABLE IN 1966 IN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY TAXING UNITS Presented for ’66 Cut State Tax Rate As It By County Tax Adjustment Was For The Adjustment Board Allowed For '66 *65 Tax Year County General Fund S .98 $ .03 $ .95 $ .75 Clay Twp 4.93 .19 4.74 4.74 Etna Twp 5.68 „ 4.42 Franklin Twp 5.00 .04 4.96 4.86 Harrison Twp. 5.05 ■ .03 5.02 4.78 Jackson Twp. 4.69 .15 4.54 4.26 Jefferson Twp., E. .. 4.61 .05 4.56 . 4.04 Jefferson Twp., W. 4.92 446 Lake Twp 5.53 .03 5.50 4.94 Monroe Twp. 4.67 ,17 4.50 ' 4.26 Plain Twp 4.61 .05 4.56 3.96 Prairie Twp. 3.89 .05 3.84 3.64 Scott Twp.. 4.85 4.36 Seward Twp. 5.00 .04 4.96 5.00 Tippecanoe Twp. ... 4.55 .07 4.48 4.26 Turkey Creek Twp. 4.88 .08 4.80 4.34 Van Buren Twp. .. . 4.83 .05 4.78 4.24 Washington Twp. .. 4.81 .17 4.64 • 4.50 Wayne Twp. 4.08 .06 4.02 3.78 Burket 5.32 -04 5.28 5.54 Claypool . 6.67 .53, 6.14 6.36 Etna Green 7.46 ) 5.42 Leesburg 6.Q2 .70 5.32 4.98 Mentone-Franklin ... 7.48 .10 7.38 7.16 Mentone-Harrison .. 7.51 .12 .7.39 7.10 Milford 6.92 V. 6.74 6.88 North Webster ....: 5.95 .27 5.68 5.00 Pierceton 6.44, .18 —■ 6.26 6.32 Sidney 5.32 .36 4.96 5.36 Silver Lake 7.82 ~ .25 7.57 6.18 Syracuse .;. Warsaw-Wayne .. 6.06 -10 5.96 5. <6 Warsaw-Plain .... 5.85 . 04 5.81 5.58 Winona Lake 5.61 -17 5.44 5.18 ( Where no figures are shown, indicates rates and cuts cannot be finally established until state board meets in other counties because of school corporations crossing county lines. The rates listed in the third column are ones you will pay in 1966 barring any unforeseen changes from the state board of tax

Lakeland Budget Cut Four Cents The Lakeland school budget was cut four cents at a hearing TMesday afternoon. The hearing was conducted by the state board of tax commissioners and was for the purpose of reviewing tire budgets. School superintendent Lewis S. Immel reported three cents cut from the tuition fund and one cent cut from the advertised rate of the special school fund. The ttntion fund was cut from $1.47 to $1.44 and the special school fund from 95 cents to 94 cents. It will be remembered tire county board took two cents from tire special school fund. The board restored one cent of this. The tax commissioners reached their dicisions <m tire cutting of the budget because of increased enrollment figures which were not available when tire budget was made. The tax rate for the school corporation is $3.38 per SIOO valuation. Clerk-Treasurer Os Milford To Attend Special Meeting Milford’s clerk-treasurer Edith Baumgartner will attend an all day meetiig for a& clerk-treasurers from this district of Indiana on Thursday. The meeting and dinner will be held in tire Ten Pin restaurant in Columbia Qty.

School Tax Rates Hie amounts for other school taxation as they now stand are as follows: Clay township and Claypool presented by the county board $3.61, allowed by the state board $3.45; Franklin township and Mentone Franklin, Harrison township, and Mentone Harrison, Seward township and Burket presented $3.76 by the county and this was allowed by .the state; Lake township and Silver Lake had $4.23 presented and this was allowed; Jackson township and Sidney, Washington and Monroe to vnships and Pierceton presented $3.42 and were allowed $3.30 by the state; in the Lakeland area Jefferson township east, Plain township and Leesburg, Tippecanoe township and North Webster, Turkey Creek township and Syracuse and Van Buren township and Milford asked $3.40 as presented by the county board and were allowed $3.38 by the state; in the Warsaw school system which includes Prairie township, Wayne township and Warsaw, Plain township and Warsaw and Winona Lake an amount of $2.48 was presented and was allowed by the state. Those state tax adjustment representatives working in Warsaw on the taxing units were northern Indiana district supervisor Ralph D. Myers and fieldmen Carl Leininger, Gene Stafford. Calvin Brammer and Earl Miller. Joe Steele of the Indiana Taxpayers association wtas also present for the meetings as he was last year when they met in Kos-! ciusko county.

Syracuse Budget Cut Ten Cents Clerk-treasurer Walter Calnon of Syracuse reports tris town’s budget was cut 10 cents Tuesday morning by the state tax commissioners. The levy was cut from $2-10 to Mr. Calnon stated tire cut would be off-set by the increased property valuation which was not known when the budget was made out. He stated .015 was cut from tire Street fund, .005 from the bond fund and eight cents from the fire fighting fund for the 10 cent total. Lakeland Board Reviews Plans Members of the Rjakeland school board met Tuesday evening and went over tire proposed drawings for the 18 rooms to be added to the several schools in the corporation. Some suggested changes were made. The board accepted an invitation to attend a meeting at North Webster on November 4 and president Janes C. Stucky announced he was 'on a state committee to study ; teachers ! A meeting has been set for next Tuesday to study plans and as a j hearing on the aidditional approIpriations as advertised.

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Revival Crusade Set For Oct. 24-31 The Syracuse Baptist church announces a revival crusade from October 24-31 at 7:30 p.m. each evening. Rev. Roland Reed from Lafayette is the evangelist. He is a mis-sionary-pastor, working with the Fellowship of Baptists for Home Missions, an agency of the General .Association of Regular Baptist churches and works in the organization and establishment of Baptist churches. He has helped in the organization of 27 different churches. A native of Kokomo, Mr. Reed earned the B. D. degree from Bet-

Old Mill Race Street Renamed Dolan Drive

At the October meeting of the Syracuse town board of trustees held last night, the board approved the renaming of the Old Mill Race street from Frazier avenue to Dolan Drive. The new drive honors J. P. Dolan who was a pioneer, banker, teacher educator and humanitarian and did much for the building of the town of Syracuse. Clerk - treasurer Walter Calnon read a letter from Layne-Northern company stating they had finished their work and inspection oi the wells. Also included was a contract for the company to inspect and maintain the wells for S3O per year per weU. There will be two sets of records kept — one for the town and one for the company. The contract was approved by the board and signed. Mr. Calnon also read a request from the fire department for a portable light pkmt, Indian pump, blanket for the emergency truck, cover, float tank for drafting water, two home receivers and six hand lights. Since the town has the money available for these supplies the board approved their purchase. The director of Civil Defense, Floyd Schlotterback. reported work on the building near the pumping station was progressing. The building has been leveled, soil pipe and water lines laid, and is ready for the foundation. Fire chief William Hess reported he had contacted a representative from a siren company and would have the man come to a called meeting soon. He also reported the truck system is now in top rating and asked for a copy of the cost for repair on one truck for his records. Don Enyeart stated west Hioi street needed a street light. The matter was discussed and action will be taken to erect a light there. Chief of police Dan Ganger reported the free parking sign was up on Huntington street, just south of Main sti -t It points to the town parking lots. Present at tire meeting were (Continued on page 8, sec. 1)

REV. ROLAND REED

| hel Theological Seminary at St. Paul, Minn., and the Th. M. degree from Eastern Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. At the • present time he is serving as pastor 'of Faith Baptist church at Lafayette which he helped organize in 1963. He is also active in the field of evangelism. . George McGlennen, tenor soloist from Fort Wayne will present several special musical numbers at the evening services next Sunday, October 24. He will be accompanied on the piano by Rev. - Robert Mundy. pastor of the church. The pastor and members extend a cordial invitation to the public to ■ visit the services. The church is located at 201 south Harrison street i in Syracuse.

Notice Issued On Burning Leaves In Town Os Syracuse A notice has been issued t>y the Syracuse fire chief William Hess and the town board that there is to be leaf or trash burning after 6 p. m. That notice appears elsewhere in this issue. The notice also states that all trash and leaf fires must be attended at all times. Jerry L. Helvey Attends School Lakeland school board member Jerry L. Helvey of Tippecanoe township attended the North Central Management institute at Indiana university last week. Mr. Helvey is associated with Joe Mater and Associates, Inc., and works out of the Warsaw office as vice president. The institute is sponsored by the Associated Credit Bureaus, North Central States Associated Credit Bureaus of America, Inc., and tire I. U. Graduate School of Business. The week-long course was divided into five areas of study — three sessions in executive development and two in management.

IN THIS ISSUE • MPford Fall Festival - page 1, sec. L • Syracuse PT A Festival - page S, sec. 1. • Fire at Milford - page 6, sec. 2. I • Syracuse town board - page 1. 'sec. 1. I I I • Editorials - page 4, sec. L

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