The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 15, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 May 1967 — Page 1

Highway department officials stated Monday afternoon that roads in Kosciusko county are “broken-up much worse than in previous years.” This can easily be confirmed by a trip over one of the back roads. The county’s 49 highway employees, working under superintendent Charles R. Cleveland, have

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- OPEN 801 SE SUNDAY — Open house was held at the Orn nursing home in Milford Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m.

Milford Police Tag 64 Junk Cars Friday

.Milford police chief Ralph Gansert reports his department tagged 64 junk cars under the town’s new ordinance winch went into effect with the publication of a legal notice in this paper last week After reading the front page 'article in The Mail-Journal on Wednes- ! day. May 3. several persons with I

200 Cars Safety Checked At Milford Approximately 200 vehicles were safety checked at Milford on Saturday with only tluw cars and one truck proving to be defective. The check will be hod again this coming Saturday in front of C. S. Myers Ford agency between the hours of 12 noon and 5:30 p.m. The checking is done by persons from the police department. Stan Stump Promoted In Germany Stanley O. Stump, son of Mr. and Mrs Dale Stump of Milford, has been promoted to SP4. He is stationed in Germany. Stan's address follows: SP4 Stanley O. Stump US 55851464 How. Btry. Ist Recun Sq. 2d A-C APO New York. N. Y. OMII Throw Out la Play At South Shore Throw out was the play for the day for South Shore Ladies Tuesday afternoon with 19 participating. Eighteen hole winners were. Barbara Hulley. Stella Heckainan. Joan Stoelting. Ruth Kerlin and Ruth Banta. Nine hole winners were Pearl Herrmann. Kay Bosstick. Helen Hoyt, Bertha Lehman and Ellie Caudill. Ladies day scheduled (or Tuesday. May 30. wU! be played on Wednesday, the 31st Two Break-Ins At Milford This Week End Two more break-ins were reported to the Milford police department this week end. Entered were Sharp’s Hardware and the 20th Century Service. A total of $86.78 was taken from the hardware some time Saturday evening or early Sunday morning and S3OO in quarters was taken from the pool tabteat 20th Century. The police have the robberies tied into others in the area during recent weeks. It is believed to be the work of youngsters.

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junk cars on their property removed them w ithout notice from the ’ police department. They are to be ■ commended. ’ Chief Gansert reports persons who received notices on Friday must have 1967 licenses on the I cars by Monday. May 22. or suffer the penalty.

Milford Lions Club To Begin Sales Os Annual Calendar Lions club calendar chairman D. I iG. Seely gated this morning that . the organization would begin its an-: nual calendar sales sometime within i the next week. The calendars sold by the club are , ! birthday calendars and contain birth- j days, anniversaries and important! dates in the community. Monies earned from the sales will be given to the Milford Youth Center this year. It will be used for rent and or other expenses of the center. In past years monies from the sale of calendars has been given to the boy scouts and to support a life guard at Waubee beach. : Certification Os Wheat Acreage Required Certification of wheat acreage is now being accepted at the Kosciusko Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county office (106 east Mam street*, according to Scott Hom. chairman. Producers who have signed intentions to comp! with the wheat slabilizatte program are reresponsible for this certification. June 10 is the last day for farmers to declare their acreage of wheat. Failure to certify the acreage would result in loss of payment 60 Enrolled In Kindergarten At Milford The kindergarten enrollment at Milford has already reached an aßtime higi with 60 students enrolled for next fall’s class. Their are slightly over 40 students in this year’s class. MRS. RUTH REID UNDERGOES SURGERY LN CHICAGO MAY 10 Mrs. Ruth (Neff) Reid of Chicago. formerly of Milford, underwent major surgery at the West Memorial hospital on Superior street in Chicago last Wednesday, according to word from her son Sidney Reid. Mrs. Reid, a 1915 Milford high school graduate and well remembered in Milford area, is in room 508, and would appreciate cards from friends.

been tackling the job of patching the county’s 1,365 miles of roadways for the past several weeks. Because of the expense, few will be resurfaced. Members of the county council met in the court house at Warsaw Monday morning at 9 and approved an additional appropriation of $20,000

The ladies seated are Mrs. Martha Baker of Millersburg and Mrs. Zurita Holtzinger of New Paris. Mrs. Baker is 101 years old.

Thames Mauzy To Speak At Milford Monday Joint state representative Thames Mauzy of Warsaw will speak at th? dinner-meeting of the Milford Chamber of Commerce at 7 p.m. Monday evening in the Masonic Temple. The dinner will be served by members of the Eastern Star. Reservations should be made with Chamber of Commerce secretary Trudy R tter by tomorrow evening. Persons interested in the Chamber of Commerce's wwk in the town us Milford are bring urged to I attend. Give Guidelines I That Make Good Basketball Team Goshen’s highly successful high school basketball coach Art Cosgrove toki members of the Milford Lions club and their guests, members of the Milford high school basketball team, how the good game of IpsketbaK is to be played if you expect to be a winner. I Cosgrove, who in 28 years of high school basketball coaching has never had a losing season, told his audience Monday night that in his eight years at Goshen he has defeated their arch-opponent, the Elkhart Blue Blazers, five times. Set Guidelines Speaker Cbsgrove. talking to his audience in a rapid-fire bullhorn voice, set eight guidelines for winning. 1.) Be hungry. 2J Be loyal. 3.) Be industrious. 4.) Be enthusiastic. 5.) Be in condition, 6.) Think positively. 7,» Be able to execute, and 8J Have team spirit. He developed his talk around this theme. He also gave the history of basketball and told of his excellent experience of playing on Tony Hinkle’s Butler university team. He captained that team in his junior and senior years at Butte. He called Hinkle. "The greatest coach who ever lived, in my opinion”. Cosgrove predicted the time would come soon when a player could receive six personal fouls before being sidelined. Coach Bill Dorsey introduced his assistant Don Storey, then introduced the players present: Seniors, Stan Wuthrich, Park Phend, Ned Speicher, Gary Hurd and Butch Stookey; juniors, Dan Brown, Tom Gunden, Ted Speicher and Dave Beer, sophomore, Jim Beer: and student managers, Jim Walker, Dave Beer and Larry Kammerer. Lion Ario Beiswanger introduced coach Dorsey, and later introduced Bob Peffley of Goshen who introduced his friend, speaker Cosgrove. Other guests included Jay Peffley of Syracuse and Henry Schmucker of Elkhart.

Announce Engagement Os Judith Lynne Smith The engagement of Miss Judith Lynne Smith, daughter of Leesburg postmaster and Mrs. Clifford K. Smith, and R. Douglas Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith, also j of Leesburg, has been announced.

Bloodmobile At Syracuse May 24

The Kosciusko county American Red Cross bloodmobSe will be located at the Syracuse high school gvm on Wednesday, May 24. from 1 to 5 p.m. and at the Pierceton American Legion from 12 to 6 p.m. on the same day. giving residents of these areas an opportunity to make their donation. The dual visit is planned to meet the regular quota of 141 pints and pick-up part of the present deficit of 275 pints. Plans for the Syracuse visit were made Monday evening at the Syracuse State Bank with Mrs. Floyd Schlotterback serving as general chairman. Plans to meet canteen needs and to assist in the operation of the mobile unit were made with the recruitment of donors taking top priority. While the requirement of the Red Cross blood program states only that you live in the area served in order to have your blood needs met on a pint to pint basis at any hospital where the need occurs and Red Cross replacement will be accepted. it is necessary that a simple form asking name, address, hospital and amount of blood used be secured from the Red Cross and submitted to the hospital in which it was received. Replacement is then made thru the many reciprocity agreements with other blood centers. Replacements of blood usage, while not mandatory, it is necessary if the blood needs of others are’ to b? met. Donors are encouraged to donate for those who have received blood. Those attending the Monday meeting were as follows: Mrs. Donald P. Deck and Mrs. Theodore L. Hertenstein. Grace Luth.ra church: Miss Katherine Rothenberger. Wednesday Afternoon club; Mrs. Thomas Scidecht, Mrs. Lloyd Kammerdiener, Mrs. Evertt Darr. Church of the Brethren; Mrs. Jean Strolson, Church of God; Mrs. Florence Martin. Mrs. Shirley Strieby. EUB church; Mrs. Blanche Kline, Homemakers Extension club; Mrs. Wayne Stahly, Mrs. Kenneth Elson. Senior Mothers chi>; Mrs. Frank Bates, Women's Relief Corps No. 278: Mrs. Ray Buhrt. Intermediate Mothers dub; Mrs. Maurice Kober, Mrs. R. C. Tytler. Wawasee Garden dub; June ! Davis. Methodirt church; Bette Schlotterback. Civil Defense; Mrs. Herbert Baumgartner, Milford; and Ines Devenney, executive4director of the Kosciusko county. Bed Cross.

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BLOOD DONORS - Mrs. Lester (Ethel) Stabler, r 3 Syraeme, b pictured above, third from left, with six •f the 12 A psrtivr Hrod teuars whu wiß g» to Fbrt Wajme m May 18 to daaate btoad far Mrs. Sta Mer. She vB Midrrga apea heart surgery to ladiauapaUs aa Friday. The btoad wB be flown to ladtoa-

for gravel and stone and $40,000 for bituminous materials. The appropriations have been sent to the state for final approval. A total of $150,000 is budgeted for bituminous this year and $40,000 for gravel and stone. Monies for the county highway department’s expenses are from gasoline tax, collected by and

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Syracuse Man To Be Arraigned At Goshen Charles W. Penn. 24. 406 Front street, Syracuse, was jailed recently by Goshen city police who charged him with driving while under the influence of intoxicants. Penn will be arraigned in Goshen city court.

House Speaker To Talk To Syracuse Rotarians

Dr. Otis R. Bowen, Bremen physician and speaker of the Indiana house, will be the speaker at the Rotary meeting Tuesday noon. May 23. in the Pickwick. In state Republican circles Dr. Bowen is considered a possible candidate for Governor. He was born in February of 1918 near Rochester to Vemie and Peart (Wright) Bowen. He married Elizabeth Steinmann of Crown Point in 1939. Tbey have four children: Rick, 22; Judy’ 20; Tim, 18; and Robby. 14. He attended school in Kewanna. Fulton and Francesville. He received his AB in chemistry at Indiana university in 1939 and his M. D. at the university’s medical school in 1912. Hie doctor served his internship at the Memorial hospital in South Bend. He served with the army medical corps during World War 11. The doctor is a member of the Lutheran church and past chairman of the Lutheran school board. Bremen: past vice president of the congregation and past chairman of the board of finance of St. Paul's Lutheran chisnch. College Bound Seniors To Be Honored At Tea Members of the AAUW (American .Association of University Women* will honor the county girls who are four-year college bound at a tea in the Warsaw high school home ec room following school tomorrow evening. The purpose of the tea is to acquaint the girts with the organization. which they can join following their graduation from college.

apolb from Fart Wayne. Seated are Arthur Mabie, Mr. and Mrs. Slabtaw and Mrs. Robert Miller. Standing are Mrs. Maurice Dorsey, Mrs. Franklin Rtatfer, Jr.. Ely » *Ware» l/CVCniBCy atannil Smith. Also planning to donate are John Krah. Mrs. Charles Dye, Helen AJ-

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ANNOUNCE MERGER — The merger of the Bob McClintic Insurance Agency, 113 west Main street. Syracuse, with the First Charter Insurance Agency. 100 east Main street. Syracuse, is being announced this

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Flotilla Poster Contest At School A poster contest, promoting the Father’s Day Flotilla, is being conducted at the Syracuse school, with two $25 savings bonds being offered for the two best posters. The bonds are being given by G & W Foods and McCormick-Cutter. Inc. The posters may promote any part of the Flotilla, the sponsors stated this week: The fly-in, junior or senior golf match, the teen-age and adult dance and any/or the fishing contest. AU posters will be distributed in the greater Lakeland area to promote the Flotilla, and the winners will be announced soon.

frey, Robert Slavens and Carol Coble of the Syracuse - North Webster area and Hemer Allen of Mexico. The btoodmobUe wB be at the Syracuse high school gym from 1 to 5 on Wednesday, May 24, and at the Legioa heme from 12 neon until 6 p.m.

distributed to the counties by the state. County auditor Noble C. Blocker stated the additional appropriation asked for was normal for the heavy road damage. He too, added the roads are worse this year than they have been for many years.

week by the four men shown here. From left are Robert Jones, Bob McClintic, Herschel Leatherman and Harold Wellman. The new firm will use the name First Charter Insurance Agency, ‘

Syracuse Citizens Get Dog Virus Warning

Walter Calnon, clerk-treasurer of, the town of Syracuse, warned the residents of Syracuse about a newcontagious virus that has been dis- 1 covered in dogs and cats. The warning came at the Tuesdayevening meeting of the town board. ■ Mr. Calnon stated that little is! known about the virus except it is fatal. 1 1 Scientific research is being car- . ried on, however, so far it is not ( known if it is communicable or not. ( The clerk-treasurer warned all i parents with children to keep them I away from stray dogs and cats that ( have what resembles distemper. If I, such an animal is found the police [ department should be notified at; once. All persons haying dogs and cats as pets should keep them confined to their own yard to avoid contact with any stray animal. The virus is highly contagious. Scout Jamboree Mr. Calnon also reported Syracuse would be host for a scout jamboree on August 19 and 20. The girt scouts will be at the scout cabin and the \ boy scouts will be at Camp Grissom I ’ near town. The activities will be held at the ■ city park with about 300 scouts expected to atend the two-day affair. It was decided to hold a clean-up week in Syracuse. Notice of the week is being published elsewhere in : this issue. Mrs. Charles Dean asked the board how the town is to be warned if a tornado is cited. Discussions followed on the method of warning the town with board members planning to contact fire chief William Hess and decide on the use of the fire siren for the purpose. The siren is to be used full, 12 continuous blasts. The town will also discuss with Mr. Hess the sounding of the siren at 12 noon each day, starting about June 1. In recent years the siren was sounded at noon, but the practice was stopped when the old siren wore out. With the purchase of the new siren it can now be sounded at the noon hour. i Attending with Mr. Calnon were board president Byron Connolly, members Willard Nusbaum and Vernon Beckman, Also present were attorney Robert Reed, police chief Dan Ganger. Joe Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Dean. Mrs. Pat Haggerty. Mrs. Jimmy Lee Gilbert, Mrs. Dale Sparklm and Bud Hall. ‘Soul and Body* Is Christian Science Theme Sunday “Soul and! Body” is the subject of this week’s lesson-sermon to be read in all Christian Science churches on Sunday. The Golden Text is from Lamentations: “The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the ssdvation of the Lord.”

and Bob McClintic will be general manager and Herschel Leatherman ■ office manager. Both men will serve as agents. A Mail-Journal staff photo.

Lakeland Receives Final Approval On New High School Lakeland Community ScliooH Corporations superin* adent Lewis S. Immel stated this -..eek that final approval has been received from the state board of tax commissioners on the contracts for financing the new high school. The final approval was received on Saturday. It is the last step prior to actual construction of the school. F.F.A. Members Receive Com Growing Awards Richard Edwards, advisor, and tw\> FFA members attended a DeKalb com awards banquet in North Manchester on May 11. This banquet was to honor vo-ag students with DeKalb com projects who had made the best record on a corn growing analysis sheet supplied bv I DeKalb. The FFA members in at--1 tendance were Max Richcreek and Randy Troyer. Besides these boys, two others completed the project. In contrast to most com contests which are based on yield checked on a spot basis, the DeKalb project emphasizes costs, fertilizing, population and recognition of com enemies. The yield is computed, but project recognition is not based on top yields, but yield calculation is factor in the top score. Top student from Syracuse on total score was Dave Mitterting with a score of 99. He received a special wall plaque. Other boys received pins and certificates for adequate records. According to Mr. Edwards, local vo-ag instructor, each vocational agriculture student plants a variety of DeKalb com. At this banquet eight schools from this general area were in attendance. The DeKalb com project indudes over 1,000 schools in the top com growing states. It has been in operation for 11 years. Albert Bauer To Graduate May 27 Albert Bauer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bauer, 118 west Lake street, Syracuse, will be among the 77 graduates receivmg bachelor of arts degrees from the College of St. Thomas on May 27. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will be the commencement speaker at the St. Paul, Minn., liberal arts college.

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