The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 February 1966 — Page 4

THE MAILJOURNAL Wednesday, February 23, 1966

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( fflsH 'l'lt.c MlnilHJournul PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY riu Milford Mau (Eat, 1MB) Syracuae-Wawaaee Journal (Eat. 1907) Consolidated Into The Mall-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DeMOcraMo ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and FaMtaMr DELLA BAUMGARTNER. BtMto«se Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567 Itotared aa Second <3aae matter at the Poet Office at Syracuse, Indiana Oubocrtptinn: s4<* per year in Kosciusko County; 34-50 Outside County

It's That Time Again As winter draws to a close and spring slowly winds its way to Indiana it is once again “that time”. The time when everything in this state is forgotten, save basketball. Yes, Hoosier Hysteria is in full swing. All through the winter basketball fans have been following their favorite team and now that sectional time is here it is time for each team to show it can play the best ball in the state for only one team

What Is FFA?

- Just what is FFA? It is an organization created for boys who are interested in agriculture — Future Farmers of America. Notice we said “interested in agriculture” not farming. As these dedicated FFA members celebrate national FFA week (February 19-26) we salute them. We think they have chosen a suitable theme—• “Agriculture is More than Farming”. Sure, the farmer is a vital necessity in America’s largest business and without him we could not live, but what about the millions of people who manufacture machinery for farm use, the fertilizer and chemical people who help improve the soil so crops will grow bigger and better, the county agent who is on hand to help where ever and when ever he can — we

By DON FRANTZ County Agriculture Agent THE LEADING COUNTIES in the 1965 Christian Rural Overseas Program were Elkhart, LaGrange, Adhms, Kosciusko and Shelby, in that order. The total contributions in the state 1 are below last year due to the Late and difficult harvest season. 1 Elkhart county contributed over < 626,000 and Kosciusko gave $6,878 to 1 the CROP fund. The director in this county is Russell Creighton. • • • THE THIRD AND possibly the fi- ] nal round in inspections for sheep 1 scabies is underway. Wilbur Latimer and Richard Williamson are < doing the inspecting. There is no quarantine on but it is advisable to i have the sheep inspected before any - are sold. A call to either of the inspectors will get them to do yours | early if necessary. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the 1 Kosciusko county extension board ; will be held February 24. This is the directing organization for the pro- : grams of education in agricultural production and conservaticn. mar-; keting, family living, youth development and public affairs and community development conducted by the, county extension service. WSWS Guwto At WSCS Meeting In Methodist Church The Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Syracuse Methodist church entertained the Women's Society of World Service of the .Syracuse Calvary EUB church on February 16. .Mrs. Ralph Clingaman introduced the speaker tor the evening. Mrs. Robert Roose, district spiritual life secretary for the Warsaw district Her topic was "Stranger No More." President Mrs. Ed Coy welcomed the group and led in prayer. Mrs. Milton Brice led the devotions and Mrs. August Lundquist sang a special number. A social hour followed in fellowship h&U. Mrs. Coy served coffee from a beautifully appointed table. The two groups hddV separate business meetings. The World Day of Prayer sponsored by the Syracuse Council of Church Women will be held in the Syracuse Church of the Brethren on February 25 at 7:20 p. m.

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20 YEARS AGO — FEB. 14, 1946 ( Nancy Galvin celebrated her 11th 1 birthday by entertaining Marsha and Sue Bryer, Anna May and Janet « Parker, Mary Lou Good. Evelyn ( I Geiger, Carolyn Augsburger, Jean < Kaylor and Maxine Pease. A son, Kenneth Duane, was bom ■ Sunday at the McDonald hospital in ’ Warsaw to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice ■ Beer. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Beer are 1 the paternal grandparents. Word was received here thatl Grover Musser, known in Milford as "Pat" joined the regular army last i month. He is stationed at the San Antonio (Texas) Army Air Center | Mrs. Claude Hamilton was the guest of honor at a miscellaneous i bridal shower given Tuesday evenI ing by Miss Elizabeth Rassi in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Rassi. I Pfc. Paul Stuckman arrived in Mil- . ford Sunday to spend a four-day | i furlough with his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Stuckman. Mrs Carlyle Barnes has been act- i | ing as librarian during the recent illness of Miss Dorothea Groves. Twenty-four persons were present at a bridal shower given at the home of Mrs. Charles SponseUer for Miss 'Mary Scarlett who will become the bride of Raymond Miller of Nappanee in the near future. M YEARS AGO - FEB. », 1936 , Plans are now in the making for the i construction of a good bathing beach at Waubee Lake at the present site i ’of the Waubee Grav’d Company. Mr. and Mrs Cletus Myers, Mr. • and Mrs. Melvin Markley and Mr. and Mrs Harlan Stoller enjoyed an • evening of bridge playing at the M. D. Cbatten home last week. ‘ j Mr. and Mrs. Ford Rodibaugh have moved back into their property •I in northwest Milford from near . Mishawaka where they have been i located for sometime Amos Om and !' family who have been occupying the Rodibaugh home, moved into the • ■Ettlein residence, south of the Big ‘ Four station. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bauman of Mar- • ion, who are spending the winter at Miami. Fla., announce the birth of a • daughter on February 8. Mrs. Bau- [ man was formerly Miss Bernice ‘ Rassi of Milford. i Ralph Oyler has resigned as superintendent of the Warsaw city park grounds and buildings and has accepted a position at the Henry Beer nursery, here. Miss Ruth Velva Graff became the bride of Frank J. Beer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beer of Mansfield, Ohio, and Miss Lucille Graff was united in marriage to Harry O. Hite, son of Mrs. Arilla Hite of Millersburg, in a double ceremony performed Friday at the Lutheran parsonage tai Millersburg. The brides are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

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will take home the championship trophy from Butler field house in Indianapolis come March. The talk in every Hoosier town during the next few weeks will be on the sectional, regional, semifinals and the state tournament. It’s a great feeling — being part of Hoosier Hysteria — and we’re mighty fyroud to be part of it.

could go on and on. After the crop is harvested it must be transported to market, processed and sold to an awaiting public. In general FFA teaches boys the methods of farming and the fact there is more to agriculture than planting seeds and waiting for them to grow. Many FFA members will go on to college and become manufacturers of farm impliments, agriculture teachers or county agents. Others will have a better understanding of farming and will do a better job in working the land because of what they learned as FFA members. Won’t you join us in saluting the FFA members and their instructors this week ?

Oliver Graff of Goshen, former Milford residents. i Frank Geiger, 63, a truck driver, i died February 10 at the home of his brother, Charles Geiger at Macy. Other survivors are four brothers, William of Silver Lake, Walter of South Bend, Rev. Leßoy of Fort Wayne and Harvey of Cedar Rapids, Iowa: and two sisters. Mrs. Edward Lentz and Mrs. Arthur Meek of Milford. I . “ I 46 YEARS AGO — FEB. 18, 1926 Mr. and Mrs. L. B Eherenman are the proud parents of a son, named Richard Lloyd, born at the Goshen hospital Thursday, Feb. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown moved on Monday from the Sparklin flats to the Mathews residence located at the comer of Catherine and Henry streets. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Beer left Tuesday for Elgin, Hl., to attend the funeral of the latter's brother, Charley Moseman. The birthday anniversary of Mrs. Minnie Beck Grove was observed on Tuesday evening with a pot luck supper. Warren Shively of South Bend and Miss Leona Hartter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hartter, have been granted a marriage license. Miss Alma Phillips of South Bend spent the week end with Miss Betty ■ Weisser. i Drs. Snyder of Milford, Stoelting > of Syracuse, Lentz of Nappanee and Hurd of Pierceton attended the regular monthly dental meeting held . at Warsaw on Monday evening. i Marshal Dobson and an assistant ■ started work Tuesday morning of cleaning up the grove at West Side I Park. r I “ • j 56 YEARS AGO — FEB. 17, 1916 II Miss Lavina Haab has accepted I a position with the Milford Tailoring i Co. »| J. C. Beck, better known in Milford ; as Joe Beck died in his home in Goshen Thursady morning. Mr. Beck . was a special friend of the editor of t this paper. i A box ball bowling alley is now in - operation in the room made vacant > by the North meat market in the Felkner block. . Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Kinley of e Goshen were in Milford Sunday . visiting with their parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kinley. A marriage license was granted > late Thursday afternoon to Gifford R. Hoy and Miss Mary G. Ott. both of Syracuse. Beedi Martin, his son Lynn, and daughter, Mrs. Elsie Bechtle and little babe of Goshen, were in Milford Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. David Alexander Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Muffley a baby boy, Valentine’s day.

Lakeland Business Manager To Contract School Bus Drivers

Lakeland school board members | gave business manager Don Arnold permission to contract school bus drivers for next year at the board’s special meeting on Thursday eve- J ning. Mr. Arnold had talked with the bus drivers earlier about terms of the proposed contracts and reported to the board Thursday. Also discussed during Thursday’s meeting were school financing and ; work at the North Webster school.

REMEMBER ... WHEN IT HAPPENED IN SYRACUSE ONE YEAR AGO One of the midwest’s worst snow blizzards is upon us! The continuing snow has snarled traffic, brought business to a virtual stand-still, and has forced the closing of all schools in this area. Norman Geible, eighth grade student of Mrs. Gladys Preston, won the Syracuse spelling bee. He is the son lof Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Geible. The annual World Day of Prayer sponsored by the Syracuse Women’s Council of Churches will be held on Friday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Syracuse Church of God. Turkey Creek township trustee Madison Jones reports assessing of personal property will begin On March 1. Assisting him will be Carl Franks, Vivian Disher, Arnold Pfingst and Mrs. M. A. Markley. The annual Blue and Gold banquet for Cubs of Syracuse Pack 28 and their families was held Thursday, Feb. 8. There were approximately 225 people present. FIVE YEARS AGO J. C. Morganthaler, Lake Wawasee, has announced ground will be broken here March 1 for construction of a $300,000 building for bowling to be called Wawasee Bowl. The Syracuse Newcomers club celebrated its ninth birthday with a dinner at Foo and Faye’s W’ednesday night. Miss Nancy Clark returned to school at Milwaukee February 17 after an extended vacation due to illness. Rev. and Mrs. Harold Lyman and family of Union City, Pa., former Syracuse residents, were recent guests of the Sherman Deaton family. Mrs. Melville Smith entertained at a one o’clock luncheon and bridge for 12 on Thursday, Feb. 18. TEN YEARS AGO The Rotary-Anns were guests of the Rotary club at a dinner party in the Pickwick Lounge. Dinner music was furinshed by Suzanne Kleinknight at the piano. A city planning commission has been named for the town of Syracuse by the town council, according to town board president J. B. Cox. The members of the commission are Dr. Fred O. Clark, Mrs. Annabelle Coil, Elmer Stucky, Roy R. Frevert and John Weatherhead. An invitation to the wedding of Billy Harper of Santiago, Dominican Republic, has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bushong. Roy Brown entered the Elkhart General hospital Tuesday for medical treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Miles and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bushong attended the Fred Waring concert at Elkhart last Saturday night. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Two 18-hole golf courses are to be added to the attractions es Syracuse and Lake Wawasee, according to an announcement made this week. A. I. Miller has announced the course formerly known as Maxwelton Manor course will be ready for use July 1. According to Roy Brown the South Shore Country’ club is being incorporated this week. The club house will be located near the South Shore Inn. M. W. Macy’s amateur radio station on Lake Wawasee was the first station in the United States to get in touch with the International PacifMr. and Mrs. Lon Lutes of near Mentone were in Milford several days last week visiting Mrs. Ellen Lutes and their daughter, Mrs. Estep. A little five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Shroufe of near Pierceton, the family well known by some of our Milford people was killed Wednesday of last week wher she was struck on the top of the head by a telephone pole at the home of E. E. Rusher.

l-GET’EM GOIN6...EARLYIThis winter, start your pigs off to an early, profitable finish the right way... with a Co-op feeding program. There’s a nutrition-packed Co-op feeding program to fit every need, using four specialized Co-op pig starting feeds: NURSING FORMULA "M-26" A milk replacer loaded with sound nutrition ... has a sweet, fresh flavor, almost like rich, whole milk. KWIK-WEEN A dry pre-startsr for baby pigs weaned at 12 or more pounds. . FARO-ETTES A high quality pig starter in pellet form. CREEP-ETTES Used to supplement sow’s milk, or as a complete feed, Cd-Op Starting feeds are precision-formulated for maximum palatability and complete nutrition to help promote faster growing and earlier marketing. That’s why mere top Hoosier hog men follow a Co-op feeding program than any other. So, this year... for results in the feed 10t,,, where It LdUftts... follow a Co-op feeding program. Kosciusko County Farm Bureau Co-op Warsaw — Milford — Packertcm

* No decision was given to grade the land at North Webster, located near the present baseball field and owned by the corporation. It will become a little league park and track some time in the future. Northern Indiana Public Service Company was given permission to move street lights to school property at North Webster. Discussions woe held on the matter at an earlier meeting with no decision being made.

. 1c Highway Expedition on its way 11 from Mexico City to Balboa, Canal Zone. — Saturday specials at the local stores listed sugar, ten-pound sack ’ for 50 cents; coffee, two pounds for thirty-five cents; hamburger, 15 cents r a pound; and sirloin steak at 25 cents ! a pound, t: [ 1 FIFTY-THREE YEARS AGO 5 1 H. W. Bucholtz has received the blue prints of the depot that in all . probability will be built in Syracuse ; by the B and O thk spfnmer. i 1 Free garden seecßk ire here at jThe Journal oftiee/for distribution. ■ i They are going fasti i Relatives of S. L. Ketering have i received a letter from him at Ha- . vana, Cuba, telling of tbe many sights he has seen. . Arneal and Franchion Robbins of f Cromwell spent Friday here with i Miss Georgia Whistler. [ Mr. Hershey who lives with his [ daughter, Mrs. Oster on the John Neff farm about seven and one-half ; miles north of here, walked to Syr--1 acuse and back Tuesday. This is a , 1 remarkable feat when you stop to consider Mr. Hershey is 91 years of age. Syracuse PT A Meet Tuesday Evening Mrs. Jack Carr presided for the regular monthly meeting of the i Syracuse Elementary PTA held ’ Tuesday night in the music room from 8 to 9. i Meeting was opened with the ■ pledge followed by one stanza of • the Star Spangled Banner with Mrs. Richard Ditmer at the [nano. I Mrs. John Cripe gave an interest- ’ ing resume of past PTA presidents t since the association was founded ’ and of their accomplishments each year. This was in observance of : Founder’s Day. ! Robert Ahrns, speech and hearing therapist of the Lakeland Community School, explained the : speech therapy program in the ‘ schools and explained a tape re- . cording which was played. He add- . ed he had 87 students out of the four schools in his program. A . question and answer period follow- . edi Mrs. Kammerer’s second grade ’ room won the attendance banner.

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SPEAKERS FOR YOUNG GOP WORKSHOP NAMED RENSSELAER — Two speakers for afternoon workshops to be conducted at the second district Young Republican Rally on April 16 have been named by program chairman, William Leopold of Rensselaer. Those named today are Lyall A. Schwarzkopf of Minneapolis, Minn., and Jerry D. Roe of East Lansing, Mich. Schwarzkopf, 34, is the chairman of the Hennepin county republican committee, while Roe, 29, is the director of state organization for the Michigan Republican state central committee. Among the units in Schwarzkopfs county is the city of Minneapolis. Two other workshop speakers and the main speaker for the evening banquet remain to be announced by the program committee Congressman Charles A. Halleck is slated to deliver a luncheon address to the group. Schwarzkopf will address the group on the relation of the Young Republicans to the regular GOP organization, while Roe is scheduled to speak on activities planning for the upcoming election campaign. Schwarzkopf has been a member of the Republican executive committee, the state central committee, the platform writing committee, and

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