The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 45, Milford, Kosciusko County, 15 December 1965 — Page 7

Letters To The Editor

Thanks From UF Chairman

Dear Editor, A love tetter to each one of you in Kosciusko county. I am so proud of you. It was a fortunate day for me when the opportunity came to my family some twelve years ago that we chose to live in Kosciusko < county. ' — I You, and each one of you, have just completed a very successful United Fund drive. I knew that you would respond once the need was pointed out — once you became awarc of the problems. I knew that each of you was warm-hearted, generous and responsive. And you have responded magnificently with the extra effort which was so need-

Another Year At Syracuse

To the people of Syracuse: Our town is not a large town as towns go. But it is a nice town twice blessed by the Lord, first'by surrounding fertile lands and second by two nice lakes. This is the first year of the new dam. It is perhaps to early to say ft is a total success but this year’s water regulations were more than beautiful dam and lends its beauty to the sur-

SANTA'S COMING To AUGSBURGER'S Saturday, December 18th

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ed. . I I am unable to personally thank each of you who have given so freely of your time in making the campaign successful — there were over a thousand volunteers. I am I also unable to thank each of you personally who gave so generously of your funds — there were over six thousand of you. But I must and I do want to thank you so much. We have tried to reach all of you, but we were unable to do so. We know that each of you recognize that it is not sufficient to simply live in your community and to ■ pay taxes in support of it. In our free enterprise system it is also necessary to give more of ourselves

rounding park. ■ The greatest undertaking this year was the filling of the mill race This was not an easy decision for the town board, but was made for the good of the town and to save water. Time will tell if it was a good decision. Not all agreed and there were words, some harsh and some kind. A few friends were lost and some gained. If any unkind or harsh

MILFORD STORE 9 A.M. TILL 12 SYRACUSE STORE 2 P.M. TO 6 P.M. FREE Goodies For The Kids THE MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES AT AUGSBURGER’S WISH EVERYONE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

and of our talents and of our generosity whenever the need arises. We have tried to reach all of you. but being human, we failed. There will be another next fall who will take the rewarding chore of seeking you out and then you will have the opportunity to make up for our having missed you this year. So whoever that person may be next year, please give the same wonderful cooperation and the same generous and warm-hearted response that makes me so thankful. I am so proud of all of you. Lawrence J. Castaldi

statements were made by the board we are truly sorry and hope we are truly forgiven. The new street when it is finished, replacing the mill race, will be known as Dolan Drive in memory of J. P. Dolan. The name Dolan is well remembered by many and the history of Syracuse will readily show why he should be thus remembered. The new parking lot at the scout

cabin sure helps to take ' care of the need whenever there are events at the cabin. Our town has grown the past year. We have extended water and sewer to the north and east. Three new buildings housing the McClintic “Green Stuff,” Rinker Boat Co. and Rebco Construction have risen to the south of town. We have many new and fine homes in all directions. Also many new faces have come to Our Town, for which we are glad. Many old faces are now gone for which we are sad. It has been a good year and to each and every person in Syracuse we say thank you for all your encouragement .and help extended to your town board and we hope each i and every one of you have a Holy, Happy and Healthy Holiday Season. Clerk-Treasurer W. F. Calnon — Bethel Women’s Fellowship Has December Meeting ■ The Women’s Fellowship of the Bethel Church of the Brethren, Milford, had its December meeting on Thursday evening, Dec. 9, at the church. Twenty-two ladies were seated around tables appointed with Chrismas centerpieces. Mrs. Raymond Hoover opened the meeting by leading in group singing of Christmas carols. The president, Mrs. Donn Kesler, presided at the meeting. It was voted to send a gift to Mrs, Lucile Strayer and to give a gift of money to Mrs. Dorothy Williams for a box to be sent to Africa for the fellowship's Christmas project. The birthday fund will be used for packets for Viet Nam. Mrs. Cornelius Reuter gave the devotions. She read from Isaiah 9 and also some thoughts from the book. “Christmas Is Always” by Roy and Dale Evans. A skit entitled “Today, Yesterday and Forever - ’ was presented by Mrs. Xe.il Cory. Mrs Richard Smith. Mrs. Jim Chambers and Mrs. Dean Dowdy. Refreshments of salad, cookies, crackers, tea and coffee were served by Mrs. Elmer Sorensen. Mrs. Mishler and Mrs. Hazel Vanlaningham. A table of homemade Christmas decorationswas on dis- 1 ■ play- I BABY STOPS BREATHING A young baby, Rosemary Child-[ erss was taken to the funeral home | at Milford on Monday afternoon i when she stopped breathing and be- ■ gan to turn blue. At the funeral home she was given oxygen and taken to a doctor in the ambulance. With the help of the oxygen, she began breathing again, however, her condition is unknown at press time.

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Commercial Beef : Project Available In 4-H and FFA One of the most versatile projects in 4-H dub work is the 4-H and FFA Commercial Beef Calf Feeding Project. The Northeast Extension District and the Production Credit Ass’ns. co-operate in the project. . A minimum of 3 animals is required for a single member or five animals for a family with no top limit. Since this is a commercial project, cattle fed for county or state fair shows are not included in the project. All calves are graded during January by a Purdue j university beef cattle specialist and pictures of each member’s project are taken by a production credit representative. A second visit to , the members home is made in July. Members may start the project any time prior to January 1 and sell their animals at any time during the year. Awards are presented ■ for the best rate of gain, most accurate record, best job of making money and best job of feeding for type of cattle and feed, labor and equipment available. in Kosciusko. .Allen, DeKalb. ElkI hart. LaGrange. Noble, Steuben and Whitley counties compete against each other for these awards, j A banquet for all members and parents sponsored by the .Albion Production Credit Ass'n. is held each year in November. Enrollment deadline for the project is January 1. Contact Don Frantz or Victor Virgil at :* the county extension office for enrollment cards and more information. .. WMS HAS CHRISTMAS PARTY DECEMBER 8 The Women’s Missionary Society of the First Brethren church of Milford held its annual Christmas party on December 8 in the hone of Mrs. Robert Rassi. Hymn singing and readings were given by members and a highlight was a reading by Mrs. Richard Yoder, wife of the minister of the North Main Street Mermonite church at Nappanee, from the book, “The Day Christ Was Born.” A gift exchange was held and : gifts were collected for the Flora Home at Flora. I Refreshments were served by the hostess and her committee. The next meeting wall be Janu--1 ary 12 in the home erf Mrs. Roy j Schultz. ADDRESS FOR RICHARD COY The address for Richard Coy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Coy of Syracuse, has just been received. It follows: A A Richard L. Coy 9978045 A-0 Maintainance N. A. S. Pensacola, Fla. J ■-

Along Main Street

By JERI SEELY If what I’ve been told is correct, and I think it is. the present Milford varsity team is the only one in the recent history of the school to win the county championship as junior high players. We’ve got a good team this year. The Trojans have only lost one game and are high in the county standings. With Merril Rink resigning from the town board, members are busy trying to find a replacement. The board doesn't want the trouble that came up the last time a member resigned and plans to do everything according to the book. Milford board members were presented with a problam as relief officer Don Drake, Syracuse, has been unable to sell his house and move to Milford. Drake, a good officer, is working on a month to month basis. * ♦ ♦ They tell me the Youth Center was full on Friday evening after the Mil-ford-Silver Lake game. Persons present, considered the opening a grand success. Friend husband and I were at the center on Saturday night helping out and they had a great bunch of kids there. 1 On one of the tables was a very pretty plant with a card from the Lakeland Youth Center at Syracuse The curtains are low enough at the center that anyone walking past can readily see in. The blue and white paint and the Christmas decorations certainly do make the place look cheerful. I The Service Center, is donating one record per week to be given to some lucky person. Saturday’s record was won by Debbie Mason in a dance contest. • « • • As Christmas draws nearer and nearer and the hussle and bussle grows more intense we pause to remember the Christ Child who was born so long ago in a stable in Bethlehem —the real reason we celebrate Christmas. With this beautiful church painting on my office window I can’t keep too good an eye on Main street, but I do know it’s a very busy place with Christmas shoppers going from store to store. I think Santa will be in town Saturday with treats for the boys and girls. I hope it snows so he can get here. Correction! As it just started snowing I hope we get lets and lots of snow so he can get here. Speaking.of paintingsand Santa. I like the painting of him on the bar,ber shop window. The snowman at ■the post office is cute too. They ' were done by high school art students. Rbetama. under the direction of street and water department commissioner Marion Deeter. decorated the town in its Christmas array. Out of this world are the decorations at Sharp’s at night. While the rest of Main street is beautiful in the davtime, the hardware has added lights and lighted Christmas trees and the store adds much to the Christmas theme after the sun goes down. Since this is the last column I will write before Christmas I will take this space to say “Merry Christmas To One And All.” Saddle Club To Hold Feather Party The Syracuse Saddle club will hold a feather party’ at the Milford fire station at 8 p. m. on Saturday.

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Special purchase of new golf bags enables me to sell a complete line of men’s and women’s golf bags at 25 percent off. I have a complete range of sizes, colors and ail price ranges. Ail bags are top quality fine merchandise and not rejects or seconds. Will furnish special Christmas wrap for all bags. I am selling all putters now in stock at 25 per cent off. I have a few new sets of clubs left over which will sell at 25 per cent off. Also purchased for Christmas some of the following top quality lines PURITAN — MUNSINGWEAR — TOWNE & KING — PRINGLE. The following gift items are also available — Balls — Headcovers — Rain Suits — Umbrellas — Carts — and a good selection of used and rebuilt clubs. I will be glad to help you with any Christmas selection. Please call me at 457-4125 in Syracuse. WAWASEE GOLF CLUB DON BYRD

Wednesday, December 15, 1965

WHERE'S THE SNOW? — Donny Joy, 6, and Danny Jay, 7, children of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Firestone of r 4 Syracuse seem to be asking “Where’s the snow?” We don’t know but it’s going to have to hurry if it’s going to be here in time for Christmas. i • ■ * ]offlwii_ 4 fl I Um WHERE’S SANTA? — Patricia, 3, and Donald, 1, seemed to be asking “Where is Santa?” as they posed for this photo. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Greene of Dew art Lake. Kosciusko Chapter OES Honors Officers The Kosciusko chapter of Eastern Star of Milford held a called meeting on December 10 with worthy matron Mrs. Robert Ruch presiding. The chapter honored the associate grand conductress Christine Oberly of the Indiana grand chapiter OES. Dorothy Seeley, district deputy of district 20 and the worthy matron and patron presiding. The chapter room was decorated with tlie Christmas spirit. The east had a Christmas tree and the west had a fire place with a rocker and a cat curled upon the , ™£- I . The program consisted of Donna and Doug Ruch doing the “Night Before Christmas.” Refreshments of jello and coffee were served by Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Beiswanger. Mrs. Roy Schultz. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bray. Mrs. Evar Troup, Mrs. Don Cecil. Mrs. James Cecil, Mrs. H. C. Snyder. Rev. and I Mrs. Richard Sumner, Mrs. C. M. Dressel. Mr. and Mrs. Don Ahrns, Mr. and Mrs. Doral McFarren. Mrs. H. H. Sharp and Mrs. Burris Sharp. The tables were beautifully decorated with snow scenes and evergreens and Christmas balls were in the center of the tables. CUB SCOUTS VISIT BOYS’ HOME AT GOSHEN Members of dens five and six ol the Syracuse cub scouts visited the Bashor children’s home at Goshen on December 13. Den six took homemade candy, fruit baskets and toys for the boys. Den five took the homemade candle decorations each club made and a bushel of apples for the boV One of the boys from the home took the group on a tour of the home and explained the routine and some of the life. Members of den six attending were Jeff Miller. Joe Kleinknight, Paul Davidson, Michael Helman, Chuck Cleveland, Kim Shock, Brad Cox, Keith Strauss, Chad Singery, den chief Dan Jetmore, den mother Mrs. Opal Miller and ass’t. den mother, Mrs. . Max 'Peg l Kleinknight. Members of den five attending were Mark Talmadge, Bruce Neer,' Jack Trammel, Vance Maresh, Mike Bitner, cub master Hugh Neer, ass’t. den mother, Mrs. Hugh Neer, Brent and Brian Neer.

ANNOUNCING 1965 CHRISTMAS SME

THE MAIL-JOURNAL

AROUND TJ? i ! • J Joe A, Harris, chairman of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission, issued the following in Bulletin 166, Nov. 29: Holders of alcoholic beverage licenses must require customers of doubtful legal age to produce a birth certificate. They also must have one of the following to drink in Indiana bars: I An Indiana driver's license, or one ; of his native stqte. or A draft registration card, or i A college student identification * card, or A social security card, or A city, county, state or U. S. em- ■ ployee identification card, or Any valid military, fraternal lodge jor fraternal organization member- | ship card, or A valid voter registration card. I* * * You might not believe it, but Ami zy Miller of Goshen, Lee Leman of Lake Wawasee and Ray Silveus of i Cromwell were golfing at South ’ Shore golf course Friday. * ♦' ♦ | Donna Johnson of North Shore > Drive tells us we’re still off base on > our information about' a proposed new Catholic church here. f She says plans are to enlarge the Catholic church in Ligonier, close the Pierceton church, and enlarge and expand she local * church and church school facilities in Syracuse. There has been no determination on a site for the proposed local church, she says. Leon Vance, manager of the Pickwick theater in Syracuse, may not be around, long in that capacity. He recently leased the Boice thea.ter in, Warsaw and will take over January I, 1966. He made the lease with Ralph Boice, 72, long-, time theater owner who kept his theater biz before a local audience by mastering a movie camera and taking movies of events of interest in and around Kosciusko county. I This writer was the subject of one of Mr. Boice’s first efforts in May of 1942 as we trudged from the armory building in Warsaw on an initial" step into Uncle Sam’s military service. Tom Prickett is to be commend- > ed on his almost single-handed e£- > fort in getting up Christmas decorations in Syracuse. He was ably r assisted by a man who wishes to s remain anonymous. i• • . Yellow Jacket enthusiast Bill Cut- ’ ter made this prediction before the ’ Syracuse-Warsaw game Friday s Inight: - '- “If we get 50 points, Warsaw will - get 85 or 90 points.” e Final score: 52 to 85. * ■ * * Leesburg L‘ons wanted to thank neighboring firemen and others for their help at the Leesburg Lumber fire, and chose to give a “thank. I you” dinner last week. They had e the necessary SSOO tap.) to do the a I But then volunteer donations came [in from all over the Leesburg com- ■ munity, to a point that the dinner e [ cost Leesburg Lions very little. 11So they’ve decided to use the 3 money they had planned to use for L the dinner to buy equipment for , their fire department. Top priority: A walkie-talkie, system. - j You can look for more than the u- • sual amount of decorating of Syr- ‘ acuse Lake homes this year, due to • the contest being conducted by Syracuse Lake Property Owners’ As1 sn. ■ ! * * *

We’re told Mrs. Carpenter de- • serves credit for the fine, enthusiastic v and well mannered cheering block Syracuse has this year. It’s unusually good. The self-styled “dirty thirty’’ group, also well mannered, beam supporters. The diminutive photographer scurring around at the Syracuse-Warsaw game to get .photo of “dirty thirty” group was Randy Coverstone, assistant to school photographer Tim Yeager. - ! •« • ' Mrs. Charles Searfoss is a philatelist of sorts in as much as she is the possessory of a number of “first” stamps from Cape Kennedy. The stamps appear on the outside of envelopes sent the day of a special event at the Cape and included in her collection are: First Day stamp for postal service at Kennedv Space Center final flight Saturn 1 series of SA 10, Gemini V, Gemini VI and Gemini VII. * • • “Wow!” So. said Mrs. Ernest Williams at the results of her sale ad last week. She has hardly had a minute's rest, didn’t even get to eat lunch on Saturday, called it their “biggest day.” However, the Williamses aren’t j moving to Florida permanently. I Only for the winter, she reminds | «• . • . I Jay Peffley was out Tuesday run- ! ning down a report that NIPSCo had a gas line open on “Expressway road.” No maps show such a road in this area, he said, and returned ! home biting his lip.

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