The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 24 May 1967 — Page 1

Graduation And Opening Os Lake Season Finds Area Activity Buzzing

With graduation comes summer and people all over, never cease to have more things to do than they have time to do them in. Soon the Lakeland area will become a beehive of buzzing people hurrying here and there to get as many things accomplished as is possible in one day’s time. This issue is dedicated to the 187 Lakeland graduates and to the “Early Bird” advertisers

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NEW ASSOCIATE — Robert Kais er. renter, is a new associate with the firm of Little and Clark in MU* ford.

Milford Gets Federal Grant Os $ 84,060

Members of the Milford town board, meeting in special session Monday evening. accepted a grant from the federal government in the amount of $84,060. The grant is for the construction of the sanitary sewer system and treatment plant to be built just west of the city limits in the near future. The date of Thursday, June 19. at 7.30 pm. was set for the opening of bids on the swer construction. Board members are hopeful that construction can begin before the end of 1967. When construction begins it will take approximately one year to complete Application for monies has been made to the Farmers Home Administration for both a grant and or a loan. If received the interest payments for the project will be considerably lower than if bonds must be sold. The town has a St per SIOO valuation cumulative fund presently in operation. Cumulative funds which have been received thus far from the county auditor have been invested and wil cut the cost of monies to be borrowed considerably. . L. E. Woodman of Baxter and Woodman, Civfl and Sanitary Engineers of Crystal Lake. DI., was present and discussed bidding, the grants and the FHA loan with board members, clerk treasurer Edith Baumgartner and town attorney William I. Gerrard. Town Incorporated Attorney Gerrard asked for evidence of the town’s incorporation — one of many necessary items needed for the acceptance of grants. He was shown the town’s oldest minute book where proof of the town's incorporation on July 13. 1890. is found. Attorney Gerrard also read an ordinance regulating use of sewers. As soon as necessary blanks are filled in the notice wAI be presented for the board’s approval and will be published. Resotattea A resolution was passed to accept donations for the operation of the park at Wadbee lake. That resolution follows: Whereas — the town of Milford Junction maintains for its residents a public park on the shores of Waubee Lake and is required to expend monies in the maintenance and upkeep of the same; and whereas, citizens, pubfic organirations and persons have indicated their desire to make voluntary contributions to the maintenance and upkeep of said park and for the use of its facilities; Now therefore be it resolved that the town of Milford junction accept any and all donations offered for

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Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)

The association is bring made in an effort to provide a complete insurance service to the Lakeland area and will establish a life, health and

the use. mamtenance and upkeep of the town park on Waubee Lake. Be it further resolved that all such contributions and donations be used in the operation, maintenance, upkeep and expansion of said park and its facilities. And that the town clerk be and she ts hereby autlxwized and directed to expend such monies for such purposes from time-to-time as may be required and approved by the town board.

Chamber Os Commerce Plans Work Day At Waubee Lake Park

Members of the Milford Chamber of Commerce are planning a work day at the Waubee Lake park. All persons interested in the town of Milford and the looks of the park are asked to be on the beach at 1 p. m. Sunday to work. The Sunday work day was plan ned at the organization’s meeting held Monday evening at Augsburger’s Coffee Shop. During that meeting recognition was given to John Houston who has done most of the ‘Viet Nam Profile’ To Be Shown At Syracuse Church “Viet Nam Profile”, film production by Dr. Bob Pierce for World Vision. Inc., will be presented in a special showing at the Syracuse Church of God Sunday. May 28. at 7 pm. The sound-color documentary film takes the viewer throughout “the

Petitions Expected At Warsaw Board Meeting

A number of petitions are expected to be presented to the Warsaw Community school board at their Monday, June 5, meeting, asking the board to re-open the case of the much-discussed book fund shortage, it was learned today. The petitions are being carried by each of the 10 PT A organizations in the multi-township school corporation, and at this time they bear more than 1.000 signatures. The presentation of the petitions wil be made by Warsaw civic and business leader John Snell. Mr. Snell is ateo a member of the Wayne township advisory board. The petitions grew out of a motion made by board member Date Tucker that the board re-open the

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who'are just one short jump away from the lake seaion which officially begins next Tuesday—- — Day. Pictures of each of the Lakeland seniors and short stories on their school days and future plans are to be found here with the signatures of the business and professional people who are wishing them success in the future. /) \ ) \k Km Lz . . ..V. .»wvv vvw wir

accident department for the firm. BiUy G. little is shown on the left and Ren Clark is on the right in the above MaU Journal photo.

To Plant CROP Field Monday Announcement has been made that 15 acres on the farm of Dr. Floyd Rheinheimer near Milford will be plowed, harrowed and planted on Monday, May 29. The com will be for CROP. LICENSE BRANCH CLOSED FIRST OF THE WEEK Mrs. Max Ganshom of the Syracuse license bureau announced this week that the license branch would be closed on Monday and Tuesday, the 29th and 30th, and no driver examiner will be available that week.

I work which has already been accomplished at the park. Chamber of Commerce members and town officials are still searching ! for a life guard to work at the beach. Persons interested have been asked to contact Ralph Gansert. A float is being planned for the Memorial Day parade and a pontoon will be entered in the Father’s Day Flotilla next month. The next meeting will be at the coffee shop on June 26. drama of God at work in the midst of war”. The film portrays the people" of the war-torn little country, including colorful aboriginal mountain tribespeople as well as the Vietnamese people themselves. It takes the viewer into scenes of actual combat, follows missionaries and faithful and often heroic labors for Christ, and depicts the ministries of typical U. S. chaplain.

case and pin dawn the responsibility for the huge fund shortage. It received the support of member James Gerard, but failed to carry. It was learned at that meeting that the shortage was in the neighborhood of $34,000 and that (faring the past year school patrons have been paying 23 par cent more for their school books to make up for the shortage. Recently. Miss Jean Lucas, who has been treasurer of the Warsaw school extra-curricular funds for the past 13 years, was tried and aqmtted for a misappropriations of those funds. The shortage of school book funds was not a part of that charge, however.

: LAKELAND SCHOOLS ; CLOSE JUNE 2 Schools will close in the Lake- : • land area on Friday, June 2. for : : the summer. The classes will not be in ses- : : sion on Tuesday. May 30, Memor- j • ial Day. Exams will be held on the : : mornings of Wednesday, May 31, j : and Thursday, June 1. Students : : will return to the schools on Fri- ; • day for report cards. Bible School To Start At Milford On June 5 The annual Daily Vacation Bible school will begin at the Milford elementary school on Monday, June 5, and run for one week. Time for the ministerial association sponsored school is 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. each day. Thus far about 100 students have registered at the various churches in town. Anyone who has not registered but wishes to do so may call Mrs. Robert Raasi at 658-4863. Mrs. Carl Shearer is serving as superintendent of the school.

Busy Bee Home Extension Club Meets The Busy Bee Home Extension Club met with Mrs. Alvin Waldbeser on r 1 Milford Friday evening, May 19. with Mrs. Delbert Moneyheffer as assisting hostess. “America, die Beautiful” was used to open the meeting, followed by the pledge to the flag. Mrs. James Chambers gave the history of the song of the month, “Shenandoah”, which was then sung by the group. Mrs. Doral Me Farren gave the meditation thoughts and also presented a portion of the lesson on “Child Development”. Mrs. Ralph Miller presented another portion of the lesson. Roll call was answered by twelve members, who told of her “most dreaded job”. Guests were Mrs. Waneta Wertenberger and Kaye Waldbeser, the hostess’ daughter. Mrs. Everett Butrick, president of the club, gave a report of the Kosciusko County Presidents’ meeting which she attended recently. At the June 9 meeting, the club members will entertain their husbands at a dinner, place and time to be determined by a committee headed by Mrs. Mervin Mishler. It was also annouced that the annual Julv picnic will not be held this year. Mrs. Butrick and Mrs. Chambers won prizes in contests and Mrs. Mishler received the door prize. Refreshments were served by the hostesses. ORDER OF MARCH FOR MEMORIAL DAY PARADE The order of march for the Memorial Day parade will be as follow’s Police car. Legion colors, Milford high school band, Legion firing squad. Veterans of World War 1, Gold Star Mothers and Legion auxiliary members and juniors. Also. Lions colors, junior drum and bugle corps of Syracuse, boy scouts, cub scouts, children on trucks, children walking and on bikes, Milford fire department and the Milford Saddle club. Others wanting to participate are asked to call Legion commander Dan Levernier.

FFA To Park Cars At Milford Commencement On the night of the commencement exercises, June 1, the Milford FFA chapter wiH again help people to park their cars on the high school athletic field as was done for the last Rhetama play. The chapter is doing this as a public service to the Milford community and tips are not in order. Drivers of cars can stop in front of the gym to allow their passengers to disembark and then take their to the rear parkin lot.

“Early Bird” advertisers in this boxholder edition range from clothing stores to marinas, from jewelry stores to grocery stores to furniture stores to car dealers and others—everything the reader might want for a graduation gift for a summer of fun. Read the ads in this paper for unbelieveable “Early Bird” bargains. Information on baccalaureate and com-

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BREAK GROUND FOR Ground was broken last evening for construction of the new Wawasee high school. Shown with the shovel of dirt is James C. Stocky, president of the Lakeland school board.

Awards Presented Friday At Syracuse High School

Awards were presented Friday during a special convocation at Syracuse high school. Those awards follow: Valedictorian award—Cheryl Peffley Salutatorian award — Donna Huff and John Kramer Home ec awards (presented by Mrs. Baumgartner '—Betty Crocker, Susan Kitson; Crisco, Barbara Fisher; Co-ed, Mary Jo Martin. Bookkeeping awards (Mr. Monts)— Ron Douglas, Donna Mikel, Jim Frederick and Kermit Welty. Typing awards (Mr. UmmeD—Advanced typing awards to Nancy Butt, Janice Auer and Julie Connolly; typ- ; ing 1 awards to Linda Cecil, Vicky' Nyikos, Tim Yeager, Brad Bauer, Sharon Frederick, Donna Huff, Linda Nyikos and Paul Stoelting. DAR award—Donna Huff. GAA awards (Mrs. Carpenter) — Janice Auer. Paula Kerlin. Debby Money, Pam Miller and Chris Xanders; freshmen numerals, Donna Hul,ley. Carol Kroh, Marcia Peffley and Sandi Runge; B-team letters, same as freshmen numerals; varsity certificates, Cindy Jones and Susie Kirkdorfer; varsity letters, Marta Juday, Susie Smith and Jackie Thomas; varsity jacket, Debby Money. Librarian award (Mrs. Whiteman' — Cheryl Peffley Audio visual (Mrs. Whiteman' — Tim Yeager. Annual awards—Cheryl Peffly, editor; Debbie Money, assistant editor; and Tim Yeager, Janice Auer, Susie Kitson. Barbara Fisher and Julie Connolly. Most valuable staffer award—Kermit Welty. Mail-Journal awards—Tim Yeager, photography; Kermit Welty, sports. Science awards (Mr. Neff' — Tim Yeager and John Kramer. .Spanish awards (Mrs. Aballi' — First year awards to Jackie Thomas and Kathy Geibel; second year awards to Vicky Smith. Curt Stucky, O»rvl Peffley and Sharon Frederick. Latin awards <Mr. Metzger’ — Norm Geible and Mary Ellen Coleman. REV. PHILLIP C. PHILBROOK

From left in the above photo are John MUhdn, architect; Don H. Arnold. superintendent-elect: Lewis S. Immel, superintendent; Phil Sheets, contractor; Jerry L. Helvey, board ! member; Tony McDonald, contract-

Golden Hammer of Merit award (Mr. Alford)—Dave Byrd. Intramural (Mr. Alford)—Scholarship, Rob Smith; trophies, Rob Smith. Alan Zimmerman, Terry Griffith, Tom Crews, Roger Laird, Chris Busch, Stan Richardson and Mike Brower. Most valuable senior athlete (Mr. Workman'—Max Broekers. Reader’s Digest award — Cheryl Peffley. Choir letters—Marie Cramer. Cindy Felts, Connie Frye, Kathy Geible, i Julie Hughes, Nancy Kinder, Nancy I Koher. Lu Ann Mock, Cathy Moore, Sally Pittman, Janet Plank, Cinda ■ Singrey, Hank Schmidt, Paul Stoelting. Kent Thomas and Debbie Gingerich. Band letters—Michael Brower, Linda Cecil, Pam Combs, Kathy Geible, Allen Hollar. Julie Hughes. Nancy Kcher, Roger Laird, Loretta Laughrlin, Donna Mikel, Tom Mullins, Sally Pittman, Cathy Smith and Paul Stoelting. Perfect attendance awards — Seniors. Janice Auer, Joan Buhrt, Paula Kerlin. Gwen Rhoades, Andrea Artic. Hinke Butt. Terry Griffith, Nick Karachencew, David Wickstrom and Tim Yeager; juniors. Loretta Laughlin, Vicky Nyikos, Darlene Rice. Mike Brower. Tom Crews and George Harvey; sophomores. Roberta Laughlin, Linda Nyikos, Wanetta Pletcher, Sandra Yeager. Gary Agler. Charles Coburn. Lowell Coverstone, Garv Donham, Norman Geible. Steve Haney, Dan Jetmore and Stan Richardson; freshmen, Tamera Chamberlain. Diane Jetmore. Marcia Peffley, Laura Rhoads, Susie Smith, David Bushong, Alan Butt, Jonny Coy. Steve Elliott. Walter Felts, Jim Hasse. Russell Mikel. Thomas Miller. Jim Sheline and Bob Wilson: seventh graders, Karen Allen. Margaret Appenzeller, Denise Brown, Colleen Coy, Jackie Lynch. Debra Nyikos, Janet Schopf. Vicky Troyer. Barry Baumbaugh, Victor Benner, Michael Harris, Clinton Hursey, Brian Mikel. Tony Mohler, Brian Secor. Roger Smith, Larry Stidham and Jeff Wells. Four-year perfect attendance a-wards-kiwen Rhoades and Tim Yeager. ° Social studies awards (Mrs. Bender)—Cheryl Peffley, Brad Bauer

Rev. Philbrook To Deliver Commencement Message At Webster

Rev. Phillip C. Philbrook, pastor of the First Baptist church, Fairfield avenue, Fort Wayne, will deliver the commencement address at North Webster high school at 8 pm. on Wednesday, May 31. Rev. Philbrook is well known as an outstandmg humorist and philos-

mencement exercises may also be found in this issue. Baccalaureate will be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, May 28, in the North Webster gym for the Lakeland seniors. Commencement exercises for North Webster will be held on May 31, Milford’s is set for June 1 and Syracuse’s for June 2. All will be held at 8 p.m. in the respective school gyms.

or; Charles Price, architect; Mr.! Stucky; Ed Van Ryn. architect; Charles W. Kroh, board member; Fred Graber, architect; Ollie Ogden, architect; Art Weitz, architect; and Ralph Sheets, contractor.

Lakeland Youth, Inc. To Have New Location

The Lakeland youth center will have a new home next year, according to information received this week. The adult board of Lakeland Youth, Inc., in a recent meeting voted to accept a generous offer of Mrs. Elmo Niccum, a part time resident of Syracuse lake, to build suitable quarters for the center. The location of the new center will be on the southwest corner of south Huntington street and Chicago avenue. Two buildings on the site for the new center are now occupied by the Anderson Paint Company and the Junk Shop. These buildings will be torn down. Start in Spring Work will start on the new center in the spring of J 968. it was learned.

Plan Memorial Day Parade At Syracuse

The Memorial Day parade at Syracuse will form at 1:30 at the American Legion building on south Huntington street and around the corner, south and east on Pearl street. The line of march is scheduled to be to the library on Main street, west to Mill street and north to the cemetery wiwre services are to beENTERTAINED ON BIRTHDAY Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hamell of Syracuse entertained at dinner Friday evening in honor of the birthday of Mrs. Wilbur Ellis, also of Syracuse. Also attending were Mr. Ellis and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Oxender of Sturgis, Midi. STOUDER SON Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Stouder of Syracuse are the parents of a son bom Saturday at the Goshen hospital. and Tim Yeager. Da-Lite Screen Scholarship (Mrs. Love) —Rob Smith.

opher. He is also known in this area for his interesting and stimulating addresses to school groups, service dubs and incfastrial and commercial groups. He served as a navy chaplain dunring World War n. He is a graduate of Colgate university and Colgate Rochester di-

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Actual construction should begin within the next week and a half with the building ready for use by September of 1968. A Mail-Journal staff photo.

It will be a one-story steel structure. The new structure will be built at the rear of the property and a lifted parking lot made between it and the highway. Mrs. Niccum is the generous benefactor who provided funds to start the Lakeland youth center in May 1964. The center was located in the basement of the Pickwick building, which has never been a completely satisfactory location. The center has been supported by pub're subscription and income from sales at the center. A public auction will be held Saturday at Smith-Walbridge camp to support the center. Bud Smith has been the center’s only director.

gin at 2 p.m. at Memorial cirde in the cemetery. There ’.rill be a guest speaker and also short speeches by Wayne Coy of the Syracuse Legion; Mrs. Tim Darr of the auxiliary, Mrs. John Craw of the Women’s Relief Corps and reading of the deceased veterans ol all wiens. Delbert Brown is parade chairman. Success Os Public Auction Is Assured The success of lhe Lakeland youth center public sale is assured, according to Bill Cutter, president of Lakeland Y<oth, Inc. The sale, to be held Saturday at Smith-Walbridge camp, is flooded with good salable items, including many new items. Among the items are 30 boats and a truck loaij of new flush doors, Cutter said.

vinity school. For his contributions to the community of Anderson he was elected the “outstanding young man of the year” in 1958. He has been very active in civic and community affairs of his community. Currently he is pastor of the oldest church in Fort Wayne.

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