The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 13, Milford, Kosciusko County, 4 May 1966 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL

tin* PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY rtM Milford Mall (Eat 1888) Syracuae-Wawaaee Journal (Eat. 1807) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 Democratic ARCWmaTJ> E. BAUMGARTNER. Bdttor and PtMiahar nwn.T.4 BAUMGARTNER, Btuindat Managar Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567 Matared aa Second <3aaa matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana Snbocription: U.W per year in Kosciusko County; s4*sß Outside County EDITORIALS

Is He Ready? Is .your child ready to enter school? He’s not ready if he cannot accomplish the 30 basic things schools expect of youngsters before entering the first grade. q Mothers can measure up their children to these basic requirements by answering a series of 30 questions. Here is the list of questions to find out if your child is ready to enter school: 1. Is he curious about numbers, letters and words ? 2. Does he follow a story with enjoyment ? 3. Is he developing his vocabulary and using it to express himself? 4. Does he know and is he able to print his own name? 5. Does he know the days of the week ? 6. Is he able to make up and tell a short story with ease? 7. Can he recite 20 nursery rhymes without help? 8. Does he have an attention span of more than five minutes? 9. Can he distinguish sounds according to loudness, pitch, and distance? 10. Can he group related objects such as foods and animals? 11. Can he follow directions or instructions willingly and well? 12. Is he able to count to 20 in sequence ? 13. Is he receptive to new ideas, experiencs and challenges? 11. Does he know and can be distin-

FARMfJg* NOTESl.ff3r=

By DON FRANTZ If the kind of spring weather, that has prevailed will continue, crops will go in at a very early average date. This is the first step to a good corn crop. In a four year comparison at Lafayette, corn planted April 2526 averaged 143 bushels. Corn that was planted May 6 to 9 averaged 149 bushels and was the best aver-, age tune to plant during the last . four seasons. The May 18-19 plant-i ings produced 132 bushels and the May 29 and June 4 dates dropped i the yields to 114 bushels per acre. • This would mean that the average! would drop about a bushel for each day’s delay after the first week in May. We will probably have a com acreage of 90.000 acres in the county this year. It was higher than this 10 years ago but lower prices and governmental programs ; have cut it down. But with this acreage a 10 day advantage in , planting thte would mean a 900, 000 bushel increase in harvest. At a dollar-ten that is a million dollars extra income if the weather lets us do it Early planting, oddly enough, j produces a shorter stalk'but a big- . ger ear. The main advantage seems j to be that the corn is permitted L to develop when the moisture is . most likely to be adequate. ’* * 1 Two workshops for 4-H dub j members are on schedule for the i next few days. Photography mem- 1 bers met on April 25 at the Women’s | building at 7:30 to receive instruc- 1 tion m their project. Members en- i rolled in dog projects will meet onp April 29 at 7 pm., also in the wo-ji men’s building on the fairgrounds. I Mrs. Beulah Cook, widely known h dog trainer, will be instructor for.’ the 4-H members in this project. . . . Three poultrymen in attendance) at the April meeting of the Kosciusko County Poultry Association meeting have been active in poultry improvement programs for at least 40 years. Present were Mike Rueter, Hobart Creighton and I Frank Merkle who were active in work by the association of hatcherymen in the early 1920’5. • • • The ouUook me egg prices was discussed at the meeting of poultrymen Egg prices have responded to the reduction in supplv and many producers will say that the low of supply and demand is not the best method of arriving at prices because the changes are too drastic. The average U.S. egg prices in March 1, 1966 was 41.6 cents. The average on the same day was 30.7 cents. The prices this year are up 35.5 percent There is one-half of one per cent fewer hens on hand than last year.

Wednesday, May 4, 1966

guish at least 10 colors? 15. Does he understand common superlatives like “largest” and “smallest” ? 16. Does he know the difference between a triangle, a square, and a circle? 17. Does he understand opposites such as “clean” and “dirty”? ' 18. Does he know left from right? 19. Can he understand and interpret pictures ? 20. Is he responsible for small duties? 21. Does he know his birth date and age? 22. Does he participate actively in discussions ? 23. Does he accept proper authority easily ? 24. Is he cheerful and happy under normal circumstances? 25. Does he know the name and home address of his parents? 26. Does he pretend to read or write if others are doing it? 27. Does he easily adjust to strange people and places after proper preparation ? 28. Does he recognize pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters? 29. Is he able to dress and undress himself? 30. Does he get along with other children of the same age? If you can answer “yes” to 75 per cent of these questions, your child is fully ready to enter school. —Hoosier Democrat

The number of eggs each laid was down by 2 per cent. This is due to more carry over of old hens so in total the egg production was off by about 4 per cent. This 4 per cent reduction gave a 35 per cent increase in price. Egg production areas are changing. At one time the mid west was the big producer but this is no longer so. Egg production in our area of states, Indiana, Ohio. Michigan and Illinois is the lowest in over 25 years. The southern and south eastern states have picked up the productions that we have dropped. There are very few local areas in the whole com belt that are growing in egg production and Kosciusko county is probably the leading I one. • • • ' Two statements have come to ;my attention this week that should ■ make farmers wonder about their competitive position. R. L. Kohls writing in the Economic and Marketing Review says that the break down in the farm product pricing system is becoming apparent. The congressional investigating body, the Nations! Commission on Food Marketing states this, “price competion in the traditional sense is essentially non-extstant.’’ They were referring to retail prices. • •. • I HAVE CHECKED many com yields in the past twenty years. One factor is always true. It is impossible to get a good yield without a good stand. We refer now days to j com plant populations, but we still are referring to the same thing. Populations have been going up. Researchers have found that on the average com farmers have been increasing at the population rates about 800 and 1,000 plants per acre | per year. The average in 1963 was 13,700 and in 1965 it was 15,500. This is from a wide study of fields in August and it appears that on the average we can still go higher by two to four thousand plants without too much risk. Even in dry years we get more corn at 20 thousand .than at 16 except on extremely I droughty soils. I Populations of 20 thousand plants per acre means putting the seed six and one-half inches apart in 40 inch rows or eight and one-half inches in 30 inch rows. Here are some tips that can help 'attain the desired plant populations. “ 1. Calibrate the plantar in the field at the speed and throttle setting that IyM intend to use. The shoes, of will be on top of the ground > in order to see the exact seed spac- ■ higs. I 2. Go at speeds no faster than four 1 .to five miles an hour. 5 1 3. Use 24 cell plates rather than 16 L ‘eell plates. This slows down the U speed of the plate. ’ J 4. Be sure to use the proper plates for the grade of seed that you are 1 using. Plastic plates are now avail- ; able from most seed com dealers at ’ very low cost. ! ! 5. Dump the boxes every once in awhile to avoid planter box grading, t By this we mean the layer of kernels . at the bottom of the box that are

slightly too long or too large for the | plate cells. This gradually reduces the per cent fill of the plates and causes an occasional jniss in the row. • • • CATTLE FEED-LOTS throughout ; the state are fuller than they were | a year ago. The April 1 count of cat-. tie on feed is up by 24 per cent over ast year. Much of the increase is in I smaller cattle with those on feed for less than three months up by nearly a third. Cattle ready for market now is about the same indicating a decent spring market price.

Eddie Robison, r 3 Syracuse, and Mrs. Sarah LeCount, Goshen, called on Mrs. Estella Swartz, Syracuse, in the Goshen hospital Sunday. Mrs. Charles Herbison of Dolan drive, Syracuse, has retimed home after spending the winter in Florida.

PUBLIC SALE The personal property of the Ute I rm* Miller, located north of .North Webster on road 13 to road ISA then east and folio* ISA around to the east side of Wauaser Lake, lira off 13A at Bay Vie* Gardens Nursery sun and foils* public sale sins to Johnson's Bay, will be sold at public auction on SATURDAY, MAY 7, AT 12:30 P. M. Household Goods — Riviera Cruiser Pontoon — 1966 Buick Special — Antiques Terms: ('ash Not Responsible For Accidents IRMA MILLER ESTATE Hallie Hosier and L. E. Sheets, eo-admlnistrators Kenneth Favley. auctioneer Milo LUhtfoot, Clerk

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Indiana In Mexican War

On May 13, 1846, Governor Whitcomb received a requisition from the Secretary of War for three regiments of volunteers for service in the Mexican War, On May 22 he issued a proclamation calling for this quota, “to serve as infantry or riflemen.” Os this event Governor Whitcomb stated, “This call found our citizens peacefully engaged in their ordinary pursuits, scarcely dreaming of this invasion of our soil by a foreign foe . . . Our military organization, during a peace of thirty years, was broken up and in ruins ... No funds had been provided by law to be advanced to the volunteers .. . either for ! clothing, for provisions, or for the expenses of transportations ...” In Indiana in 1846 there were no such things as telegraphs or telephones. There were no improved roads worthy of the name. There was one so-called railroad, running from Madison to Edinburg. All communication was by mail, carried over very bad roads by men on horseback. There was not a daily newspaper in the state of Indiana. Martial spirit was at its lowest ebb, with no state organization of militia, no arms, no equipment and not a soldier in sight. No one had thought much about the probability of a war with anyone. Fortunately, Indiana had an adjutant-general — a man named David Reynolds, who had been serving in a sort of honorary position—and he proved to be a person with executive ability, possessed of much common sense and was indefatigable. Reynolds rapidly organized a military face for the state and in the process, it is said, did the best job of any adjutant general in the country. General Reynolds’ Order No. 1 was immediately issued, directing Indiana companies to assemble and rendezvous at “Old Fort dark” between Jeffersonville and New .Albany. Hoosiers responded magnificently to the call to arms. Soldiers began to appear as if by magic and the roads were filled with marching men, headed south toward Old Fort Clark. Farm wives along -the way helped feed them, patriotic farmers furnished teams for transportation and villagers along the way opened their homes and hearts. Nineteen days after Reynolds’ call (on June 10), thirty companies of 100 men each had reported at the fort and were mustered into

Mrs. Marie LeCount, r 3 Syracuse, has returned home from Florida where she spent the winter months. Mrs. Helen Overstreet, Syracuse, recently spent several days visiting at Marion.

service. By June 10, 22 additional companies had reported from various counties, all clamoring for acceptance into service, quotas filled! Hoosiers answered their country’s call so fast that the 3,000 men had to wait at New Albany for three weeks before Federal steamboats could take them down river. In 1847 Indiana sent two additional regiments into the field, so that all told there were some 5,000 Hoosiers in the War with Mexico. An additional 326 joined the United States Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. The interesting journal of Lieutenant Lewis Wallace of Crawfordsville, with Indiana’s Ist Regiment, tells of the months of dreary routine at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Wallace wrote, “As to the loss of life, I cannot give the nianber. There were days when a dress parade with 200 present (out of a thousand) was encouraging—weeks when funerals were so multiplied upon us that the hours between sunup and sundown j wwe too few— that is, for the customary honors. Then night was drawn upon. “There is no forgetting, try as; I will, the effect of the dead- ’ march rendered of fife and muffled drum at night . . . And if, as sometimes happened — the corporal led his squad just outside my tent, the hour and the hush and darkness turned the musk? into a stunning tremolo of thunder.” Five hundred and forty-two Hoosiers died on the border and in Old Mexico. The 2d and 3d Indiana regiments participated in the big battle of Buena Vista. Each was over 200 men short in that fight and Indiana lost 41 killed, 127 wounded, and four missing. Only one other

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unit suffered more casualties than Indiana's 2nd Regiment. Indiana could not have been in worse condition for fighting than it was in 1846. The state was hopelessly in debt and had no accounterments of war. But everywhere Hoosiers volunteered funds and equipment of all kinds. Banks, ■ though hard pressed, volunteered t to supply Governor Whitcomb with needed funds and were willing to take their chances on reimbursement by the state, knowing full well that the state was bankrupt. Such has always been Hoosier spirit when the nation was in peril, i Fortunately, the Mexican War was 'of short duration but out of it ; came many Indiana men who were trained and ready for service when the Civil War started. Phillip S. Graff In Field Training Exercise In Korea U. S. -ARMY, KOREA — Pvt. | Phillip S. Graff, son of Mr. and Mrs. iStanley J. Graff, r 2 Milford, Ind., 'took part in a field training exercise conducted by the Eighth army in Korea, April *25-29. i Graff’s unit, headquarters com- - pany of the 51st signal battalion, I underwent training with divisions of the Republic of Korea army in ’ tactical maneuvers and support , procedures. The exercise was designed to main- ; tain the combat proficiency of joint i U. S. — Korea operations. The 21-year-old soldier, a clerktypist in the company, entered the army in September 1965 and completed basic training at Fort Knox, Ky. He was graduated from Milford , high school in 1963 and was employ- | ed by the Brock Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, before entering the army.

SENIOR CITIZENS ENJOY GAMES The Turkey Creek Senior Citizens club met Wednesday night in the State Bank of Syracuse. Games were played and white elephant prizes awarded the winners. Mrs. Peter Blue announced that the next meeting will be on May 11, the place to be announced later. Names were drawn fa the various duties fa the next meeting. Anyone desiring to attend a meeting and needs tranportation may call Mrs. Thelma Dahl, 457-3228 a Emory Guy, 457-3867. There was a 50 per cent increase in attendance Wednesday night and each member is asked to bring sone one with them to the next meeting. FRANK EPPLE NEW LION PRESIDENT Frank Epple was elected president of the Cromwell-Kimmell Lions club recently when the group met at Biddle's fa its regular meeting. Lt. Arthur Johnson, USAF, explained the operations of the air force to those present. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Pinkerton spent Sunday evening with Mr. and and Mrs. Herman Miller.

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Syracuse Man Sentenced At Elkhart Ray Owen Skelton, 29, r 4 Syracuse, was sentenced last week to five days in Elkhart county jail and fined $97.25 in Elkhart city court after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the intoxicants. He was arrested by Elkhart city police.

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