The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 December 1965 — Page 15

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WOWO Penny Pitch To Feature Area Family

The annual Christmas appeal for pennies by Radio Station WOWO is underway once again as the station launches it’s “Penny Pitch” campaign to collect money to help a needy Tri-State area family residing somewhere in Indiana, Michigan or Ohio.

This year’s family lives near Pierceton. This year, the “Penny Pitch" campaign seeks to help a family of six, the parents and four children, who are under a severe financial handicap as the result of an automobile accident that has paralyzed the father. The father has been totally disabled and is unable to support his family which consists of three girls and a boy, all under school age. Doctor and medical bills which are costing SBO per month have wiped out the family’s savings and they are now living in a dilapidated one-bedroom home. I The money collected during this year’s “Penny Pitch” campaign will be used to offset the medical bills and to provide better housing for the family and to establish an educational fund for the children. Last year’s “Penny Pitch” effort resulted in contributions of almost I $16,000 which was used to provide help for a family, the father of which was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. In previous years, ! other families have been helped in; a similar manner and in two I “Penny Pitch” campaigns, the money was used to send shipments of pigs to the Island of St. Lucia and the Dominican Republic. While WOWO asks for pennies only, contributions as high as SIOO have been received from individuals in past years. The contributions are sent bv persons working on factory “shifts”, school bus drivers, girl scout troops. Sunday school classes, ladies aid groups, etc. The pennies are delivered to the station in coffee cans, glass jars, piggy banks, wrapped in cotton and sewed in cloth bags, as well as by regular mail. In addition to the pennies offers of free labor, clothing and canned goods are also received. I A World Free From Tuberculosis? Wishing won’t make it true. There are six hundred and ten thousand Americans directly affected by TB! No, wishing won’t help, but Christmas Seals can. Your Christmas Seal dollars worked this past year to provide —for jour protection — free services to nearly 10,000 persons. 4874 school children wre given TB skin tests 4385 were x-rayed at the mobile unit 38 received diagnostic X-rays Follow up programs were carried on Educational materials were purchased Wishing won’t provide the funds to meet the cost of these increased services. Christmas Seals are our only means of support, and the only way we can -continue this program. Be sure to visit the mobile unit next spring. These miniature x-rays help detect other chest diseases such as emphysema, heart disease, lung cancer, etc. Sincerely, Mrs. Royal R. Neff President Traffic Accidents Increase At Christmas “The Christmas holiday season is one of the happiest times of the year for most people, but it also is a time when traffic accidents increase sharply, said Gerald W, Cavanagh, president of the Chicago Motor club. The rush and excitement of shopping, plhs the hazards winter weather, combine to create extra dangers for pedestrians and motorists alike,” he added. Cavanagh offered these safety tips, for both motorists and pedestrians: —Don’t try to window shop and drive at the same time. —Don’t put packages on the front seat of your car where they may topple and distract the driver, nor on the back window ledge of the car where they may impair your vision. —Be patient. There will be many delays during the holiday activity, i —Never cross the street in the middle of the block. Never carry so many packages while crossing ; streets that your vision is obstruct-1 ed —Take i easy, whether you’re' driving, shopping, or walking, j Hiere’s more danger of an accident when you’re tired or excited. Also, snow and ice can hinder both walking and driving and contribute to an accident, especially if you are in a hurry. —ls you take the Christmas tree home in your car, make certain ■ it is not blocking the driver’s : vision. If you have placed the tree in the trunk, don’t drive with the trunk lid up. •.. —Be courteous. —Keep car windows and windshield dean. —ls roads and streets are slippery, allow yourself more time to get to and from your destination. | Rev. and Mrs. Donald Weltmer and children of New Castle, Pa., were recent guests of Mrs. Weltmer’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Juday, Syracuse.

Wednesday, December 8, 1965 THE MAIL-JOURNAL

MURLAND (Andy) LOWE Final Rites For Mu. land Lowe At | 2 P.M. Sunday - Final rites for Murland V. (“Andy”) Lowe, 67, Pierceton and Columbia City industrialist, were : ' held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Trinity Methodist church in Columbia City with Rev. Harold Oechsle officiating. Burial was in the Greenhill cemetery. Mr. Lowe, who di<d at 5 a. m. last Wednesday at the Mt. Sinai . hospital in Miami Beach, Fla., was I chairman of the board of Whitley ' Products Co., located at the south: edge of Pierceton. , The body of Mr. Lowe was flown by plane to the O’Hare airport in | Chicago wiiere it Was met by the, Smith funeral home ambulance. 1 Mr. Lowe had been ill for the past year and critical for several weeks. He entered Mt. Sinai hosr. pital on November 19. His winter home is at 5911 N.E. 21st Drive, 1 Imperial Point, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Mr. Lowe w-as plant manager of the Columbia City Weatherhead plant in the 30’s and was identified with. Columbia City’ industry since 1937. In 1»42 he formed Whitley Products with James D. Adams which began with four employees. The Columbia City CommercialMail states: Mr. Adams recalled that Mr. Lowe was a “genius” in designing tools and parts and also “had a capacity to sell” the products of ! the firm. Following the fire which destroyed the Whitley Products building here on May 5, 1955. Mr. Lowe purchased the Adams interest in the plant and it re-opened in a branch 1 it had been operating in Pierceton. This later was expanded several • times and is o e of the leading pro- ' ducers of automatic machine screw ! products in the area. Mr. Lowe at the time of his death was chairman of the board. His three sons are officers in the company: Jack Lowe of Warsaw, president; Phil Lowe, Warsaw, vice president; Charles Lowe, Columbia ' City, secretary-treasurer. Distinguished Alumni Award 1 ! Mr. Lowe was graduated as an ! I engineer from Tri-State college, ’' Angola, and in 1964 was named ’ one of the ten distinguished alumni ■ and at the commencement week ’ exercises received a distinguished . alumni award. ■ I He was a native of Bridgeport, i W. Va., bom on June 29, 1898, to ■ Seymore J. and Estelle Moore Lowe. His youth was spent at Shinnston, W. Va. ■ | He was graduated from Tri-State college in 1919 and entered the employment of the Bowser Company at Fort Wayne. He later was employed by the Magna vox Company in Fort Wayne and in 1937 came ■I to Columbia City with the Weatherhead Company. It was in 1942 that he and Mr. Adams founded Whitley Products, Inc. After the plant fire here, operations were continued in downtown Pierceton until the new plant was completed in November, 1955. I Active in Organizations Mr. Lowe was a member of l Trinity Methodist church here. He also was a member of Angola Lodge 236, F. & AM., the Columbia City York Rite bodies of Masonry; the Scottish Rite Consistory at Fort Wayne; Mizpah Shrine Temple at Fort Wayne; the Gold Coast Shrine club at Deerfield Beach, Fla.; Columbia City Iks lodge 1417; Columbia Qty l loose lodge, the Columbia City Fagles lodge, Fraternal Order of Police lodge and the Fort Wayne Country Club He had been a member of toe board of directors of the Kosciusko county YMCA. , His wife, Selma M.. to whom he ( wias married on Jan. 1, 1926, died { in their Florida home on Feb. 2, . 1964 i Miss Badvnan - A—|' and Miss Jane Bachman of Chicago I spent the holiday week end at Syracuse in the home of their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Bachman. ;

Cantata To Be Presented At Leesburg Church The chancel choir of the Leesburg Methodist church will present the Christmas Cantata, “Born A King”, this Sunday morning, Dec. 12, for the worship service at 9:30. • At 7:30 p.m. the choir will repeat the Cantata in the Mentone church; The public is invited to attend either of these services directed by Robert Bishop, Sr., of Leesburg “Boni A King” was written by John W. Peterson and is published by Zondervan Publishing House and distributed through Singspiration, Inc. The music is hauntingly beautiful and approaches oratorio status. The Leesburg chancel choir has spent more than two months in preparation of this Cantata. Participants in the services are Robert Bishop, Sr., the choir direcr tor; Mrs. Avery Hall, organist; and Mrs. Robert Bishop, pianist. Pastor David Goss er is the narrator. Choir voices are: Sopranos — Miss Christina Archer. Miss Judy Bishop, Miss Jean Dedtsman, Mrs. Gertrude Babcock. Mrs. Walter Deatsman, Mrs. James. Hearn, Mrs. Wallace Huffman. Miss Brenda Osborn, Mrs. Robert Smoker, Miss Betty Vanator and soloist, Mrs. Robert Allen. .Altos — Mrs. Ruthanne Anglin. Mrs. Kenneth Everest. Mrs. Morris Huffman, Miss Jo Phillips, Mrs. Shirley Vanator and soloist, Mis. Maxine Robinson. Tenors — Earl Robison, Roily Robison, the Rev. David Gasser, and soloist James Hearn. Earl i Robison is also a solist. Milford Driver In Accident In Goshen I A Milford man, Arnold Garza. 30. was involved in a three-car accident on Indiana 15 a mile south of Goshen at 11:06 p. m. Thursday. i Garza was speeding to the Goshen hospital with an ill relative when he lost control of his 1958 Buick and crashed into an oncom- ! ing auto driven by Mrs. . Maye L. Rife, 62, r 1 Warsaw. Harold Heckman, 38, r 1 New’ Paris, was following the Rife car when the collision occurred. His car was also hit by the Garza auto. According to state trooper John Williamson and deputy sheriff sgt. Warren Swartz of Elkhart county. Garza driving 70 mph and headed north for the hospital when he rounded a curve a mile south of Goshen and lost control, crossing the center line and hitting the southbound Rife auto. The Garza ear then spun around and slammed into the Heckman auto. It continued 50 feet into a 'fence. Mrs. Rife and her husband, LaWrence, 68, were hospitalized. Mrs. ’ Rife received a three-inch laceDa- ’ tion to her right leg and a conJ ‘ tusion to the left leg. Mr. Rife received a neck injury and a twoi inch laceration to his left eye. G.eneal Wolford, 48. Warsaw, who t was a passenger in the Rife auto i was examined at the Goshen hosj pital for back injuries and possible rib fracture and released. » Tina Garza, 30 Milford, sustained a lac- ) eration to her lip, a bump on the , head and an abrasion to her leg. J Damage to the 1965 Ford driven » by Heckaman was listed 0 at $460 to the left front fender and door. About $2,000 was listed to Garza’s Buick and Rife’s 1961 Chevrolet 1 Garza was cited for driving left • of the center by the investigating 1 jfficers. i — j Candlemas Eve Is Favored As Time To Remove Green ’ When is the right time to take I j down the Christmas greenes? Before ’ ’ they become a fire hazard, is the ’ modern belief, and that usually means soon after Christmas Day; In earlier times, however, the question was not so easily answered. Some people believed that Epiphany or Twelfth Day, January 6, was the proper time for removing all Christmas deco-ations. Others firmly contended tnat the greens should remain until Candlemas, February 2. One of those favoring the later date was, apparently, the poet Robert Herrick, who lived from 1591 to 1674. He wrote of f taking down the greens in his poem, “Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve, but warned that the greens must be completely removed, “For lock how many leaves there be Neglected there (maids, trust to me) So many goblins you shall see.” KIP SULLIVAN MOVED . TO INDIANAPOLIS HOSPITAL Kip Sullivan of North Webster who was injured in an auto accident at Madison, Ind., on November 5, has been transferred from the Nordon Infirmary hospital in Louisville, Ky.» to the Community hospital in Indianapolis. Visiting hours at the hospital are from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6:30 to 8 p.m. His new address is as follows:: Kip Sullivan » Community Hospital 16th and Ritter Street Room 2404 South Tower Indianapolis, Indiana

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