The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 August 1967 — Page 1

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VOLUME 5

Queen Contest Big Attraction

Week Long County Fair Opens Monday

The week-long 51st annual Kosciusko county fair, billed as the “biggest and best in northern Indiana'. will officially open at 7 pm. Monday when the queen contestants and 1966 runner-up Cindy Brown cut the ribbon. Cindy is reigning over the activities in the absence of queen Karen Ringgenberg. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Engene Ringgenberg of r 2 Pierceton. Karen, an outstadmg 4-H member and 1967 graduate of Pierceton high school, is spending the summer in South America. Cirxfv is the daughter of Mr and Mrs William Brown of r 3 Warsaw. She IS a 1967 graduate of Warsaw high school. Other contestants are as follows: Miss Pierceton. Cheryl Lenwell; . Miss Claypool, Janet Stamer; Miss j Leesburg. Rita Lewis: Miss Mentone.| Sandra Hollar: Miss Milford. Paula j Burgett; Miss North Webster. Teresa Pifw; Miss Silver Lake. Susan , Thompson; Miss Syracuse L Alice Al-; frey; Miss Syracuse 11. Cinda Singrey: Miss Warsaw I. Sharon Les-ig: j Miss Warsaw 11. Ruth Nyenhuis: and MLss Warsaw HI. Robin Rasor, Photos and persona! information on each of the girls appear in the fair supplement of this paper. KOSCIUSKO COl STY FAIR j SUPPLEMENT IS ENCLOSFJD The annual Kosciusko county fair supplement Is a part of this Issur of The Mail-Journal. It is a 16-paue tabloid paper. The supplement contains items of interest to the fair, and rules and regulations for entering exhibits. pictures of last year's winners. photos of the fair queen contestants and other items of interest. as well as merchants' advertisements. The queen is chosen in a penny per vote contest carried on (hiring the summer and concluded the week of the fair Money goes to the Alpha Beta chapter of Bela Sigma Phi sorority who operates the contest in cooperation with the county fair board and who in turn gives the money to provide for the county speech and hearing aid fund. The new queen will be crowned in the grandstand on Saturday night. Dress Revue Also on tap for Monday evening is the 4-H dress revue and the presentation of 4-H tenure awards. It will be held at 8 p m. in the grandstand Horse shows will be held on Tuesday with draft horses set for review j at 9 a m. at the horse tent. The ponies will be sliown at 1 p.m. The 4-H swine show will be held at 9 a m with the 4-H poultry and j rabbits being judged between 1 and 3 p.m. The sheep show is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday and the auto thrill circus will be held in the grandstand at 8 p.m. Wednesday is kiddies day with many prizes to be given away. Tlie open pony show will be held all day in the horse tent and the 4-H beef show will begin at 9 a m. The open sheep show is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday evening the stock car races will be held with the time

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PLAN FLOWER SHOW—Members of the Svnciaeffawasee Garden dob. shewn here, met Tuesday evening: at the J. B. Ridgeway home m Sculh Shore Drive. Lake Wawasee, Tuesday even** to lay plans lor

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pm CINDY BROWN Milford Youth Center Has Successful Opening By Rachel Gonzales The words, "a great success", are just enough to cover the grand opening of the Milford youth center. It was beyond our expectations We are very happy at the amount of parents who attended the opening. We had hoped more would j have come, but w e were thoroughly satisfied with the ones who did. I hope you. the parents, enjoyed and approved of our youth center. CXir cake walk was also a great success. Everyone who was there got a treat from Miss l> -bbie Wolferman. Her parents brought in a beautiful ! birthday cake Uliich everyone not a piece aI, It was delicious. Hope you had a "Happy Birthday” Debbie. The Royal Knights provided the music They did a splendid job and were enjoyed very much. Hi ere is no dance scheduled for next week trials beginning at 6:30 p.m. The dairy showmanship awards will Inf ~i\en in a contest set to begin at 7 30 Auction Thursday The outstanding event for Thursday is the 4-H livestock auction set to begin at 630 p.m A teen dance will be hdd at P-30. The saddle horses and the 4-H dairy show are on tap for 9 a m. Friday is the 4-H horse-halter classes from 10 a m. until noon and the da r> -:i"w wiuch will be held all day—Guernsey, Ayrshire. Jersey and Brown Swiss cattle will be judged. The 4-H and open class horses will | be judged in the afternoon. Friday is also another kiddies' day with valuable prizes. Professional nxitorcvcle races will be held in the grandstand in the evening and the riding classes 4-H and open horse judging will be hdd ! at 1 p m. The open beef cattle show will be held at 10 a m. Saturday, the Holstein dairy show; and the horse show will be held all day and the stock car races with ! time trials at 630 p.m. will highlight the evening. The 1967 queen wall be crowned at the conclusion of the races.

their animal flower shew to be held August 17. Seated from left are Mrs. Carlos Aballi. Mrs. Harold Humbles, chairman. Mrs. Nelson Miles and Mrs. Gayle Chapman.

1 10 From County | Have Entries In 4-H Dog Show I Therb will be 10 youngsters from the county participating in the Kos-1 ciusko county 4-H dog show to be] hdd at 10 am., Tuesday at the. grand stand on the county fair ; grounds. This year the winning dog will receive a trophy. Last year s winner was the dog owned by Dennis, j son of Mr. and Mrs. Bertis Gebert of r 1 'Pierceton. The dogs, entered by their young masters, have been attending obedience school, and this is the only j requirement for entrance in the show. j The 4-H leaders in this division from the Pierceton area are Richard Williamson and Lawrence E. j Harris. This is the second year the dog! show has been held. Fire Threatens i Business Block In Milford Monday Fire in a small garage on Main street in Milford threatened the business block in the town Monday afternoon. Young boys, playing with gas and frogs, started a fire at the rear of a garage lix-ated between the old hotel bu.'.d.ng and Fuller's General Store. Tile garage, owned by Robert Henson. caught fire and the voiun- i teer department was called at 4:15 to extinguish the blaze. Damage was to the rear of the garage. The beams were damaged as were storm windows and other items stored in the building. JACOB BUCHER | APPOINTED CHAIRMAN Jacob Bucher of Milford has been , appointed chairman for the counseling eotnjmittee room for the Torrey Johnson: Evangelistic crusade which will be held m the Billy Sunday Tabernacle August 20-27 at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Mr. Bucher has had much experience as a counselor with the Billy Graham crusades and is a trained personal worker. For many years he operated a fruit farm in the Milford area. Anyone wishing further information concerning the Torrey Johnson Evangelistic crusade should contact Mr. Bucher. HOSTS TO HAMSHER REUNION ON SUNDAY Mr and Mrs. Jem- Busbong and John and Mrs. Mary Huber of Waubee Lake were hosts on Sunday for the Hamsher reunion. Mrs. Huber is the former Man- Hamsher, daughter of the late Joe Hamshers of Nappanee. Two of her sisters and J a broduv were also present.

Standing from left are Mrs. Lewis Muileman, Mrs. John Sudlow. Mrs. Herschel Leatberman, Mrs. Rail* Clingaman. Mrs. William Brammer and Miss Katherine Rothenberger. i A Mail-Journal staff photo.

Milford Chamber Plans September Fall Festival

Members of the Milford Chamber of Commerce of Milford met Monday with other organizational representatives to formulate plans for the coming fall festival. ■Hie parade, held for the first time last year, will be at 5 p.m. cm Saturday, Sept. 30. Hiis is also the night chosen for the Lions dub fish fry. The fry W’ill begin at 6 p.m. if present plans are followed through. The Eastern Star's chicken barbeque will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 26. The American Legion is planning

Turkey Creek Township Budget Up 5.2 Cents

The proposed Turkey Creek town- j ship budget, as published in this issue, is up 5.2 cents over the current budget, it was revealed today. The current budget is 25.5 cents, and the proposed budget is 30.7 cents, a levy that will raise $41,310 to conduct the township’s business next year. The proposed budget calls for a levy of 6.4 cents in the township fund as opposed to five cents this j year, and a levy of 24.3 in the fire fighting fund as opposed to 20.5 this IJ

Vo Ag Board In Meeting With School Officials The Lakeland vocation agriculture j advisory board met recently at the Syracuse high school with much discussion being held on the future t freshmen students who are interested j in vo ag. The new Wawasee high school will 1 be a three year high school and vo :, ag is taught on a four-year basis. Superintendent Don H. Arnold as- ' sured the group something would be worked out for the freshmen stu- j dents. Also discussed was what would , be taught in the new' department. Much emphasis was placed on related occupation courses, as well as production agriculture. The board was organized in March of 1963 and consisted of 30 men. six from each township in the original school corporation. The board has had several meetings with the school board and helped work out the plans for the new department At the present time it is composed of 24 members. It was decided to decrease the number of members to eight or 12 persons to work with the new department. A committee was appointed along with the vo ag teachers to work on this in the near future. In attendance were several members of the committee, Mr. Arnold and Ed Washier, ag teacher at Milford. and Richard Edwards, ag j teacher at Syracuse. Bar-B-Q Being Planned By Milford Chamber; Members of the Milford Chamber | of Commerce are planning a chick-1 en bar-b-q to . be held at the W aubee j Lake beach on Sunday between the hours of 11.30 a m. and 6 p.m. Profits w ill be used to continue the Chamber of Commerce’s project to improve facilities at the popular j summer recreation spot. Mission Circle Meets In Knapp Home The Syracuse Church of God Mission Circle met July 26 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Knapp. There were 16 adults and seven children present. There was group singing. Mrs. Carroll Koble, president, conducted the business meeting. Mrs. Carl Hadley gave the devotions reading i from Isaiah' 45:5-12 and she also ; I read an article “Wrap up the ; Light’*. Mrs. Victor Yeager offered i prayer and Mrs. Jack Elam read |an article written by Everett Lam- j borson. a missionary in Haiti. The roll was called and eadTone named a man from the Bible and told something about him. The Mission circle will serve a meal on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the Eldership meeting, which will be held at the Bear lake camp grounds near Columbia City. Mrs. Martha Yerger dismissed with prayer. The August meeting will be ladies day out, and {dans have not been completed. Refresh-! meats were serv ed by the hostess.

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to have two game stands. Plans for the parade route were discussed. Cash prizes and trophies will be awarded. BBQ Sunday Members of the Chamber erf Commerce also discussed plans for their chicken bar-b-q to be held at the Waubee Lake park on Sunday. Guests attending the meeting were D. G. Seely, Lions club: Raymond Pinkerton, Waubee Grange; Paul Kizer. Order of Eastern Star; and Bob Ruch, Methodist Men.

] year. Deputy Turkey Creek township trustee Arnold Pfingst, who submitted the budget for publication, said the state board of tax commissioners cut last year’s proposed levy by eight mills, seven in the township fund and one in the fire fighting fund. The township fund levy is based on a total taxable valuation of $15,•689,004 and the fire fighting fund levy is based on a valuation of $12,839,536. ;

Proposed Levy Os Van Buren Down 3 Cents i The proposed budget of trustee | John Davidsen and the Van Buren township advisory board is down : three cents from last year’s rate. Current rates are 25 cents per SIOO taxable property. The proposed rate ■ is 22 cents and would raise $11,004. !j The trustee and his advisory board 1 have added a new item to the budget and still lowered the rate. The new i- j I tern is the park and recreation fund ! which would give SSOO for expenses ] at the Waubee lake park. The park serves both town ami township resi- j dents and is used by the children of : the area. The township levy is six cents as! is the fire fighting levy. The cumulative fire equipment fund for town- j ship only is 10 cents. Rev. Venus Arnold Is Area Chairman Reverend Venus Arnold has been appointed crusade chairman for the New Paris area by the Torrey Johnson Evengelistic Crusade staff. Dr. Torrey Johnson is an internationally ; f known evangelist and youth leader» and is presently executive director j lof the Boca Ra’ton Bible Conference : in Florida. He w ill be assisted in the J | crusade by the unusual musical talj ents of Hilding Halverson of California. The Evangelistic Crusade [ will be held at the Billy Sunday Tab- ; emacle at Winona Lake August 2027 . 7:30 p.m. nightly. The Reverend Venus Arnold is a ; : graduate of Bethel college of Mishi aw aka and is presently pastor of the New Paris United Missionary church, j j Anyone wishing further information ; j about the Crusade should contact * j Reverend Arnold. Increase In Unemployment Insurance Claims A 154 per cent increase in unempiovment insurance claims last; week brought the state-wide total to 30,004 and reflected the numerous; inventory and vacation shutdowns starting or in effect. Lewis F. Nicoiini, director of the Indiana Employment Security Di- | vision, said the rise in initial claims : was concentrated in a few areas | where large plants began short | shutdowns. Nineteen of the division s j 28 claims offices reported decreases in initial claims. Similar ups and downs were evident in the court of continued claims, Mr. Nicoiini said. In areas where plants were reopening after j temporary production halts, there were few - er continued claims. While 13 of the offices reported decreases lin continued claims, increases ranging from three to 795 occurred in the 15 others. Airman Whiteman Returns To Base After Leave : A3C Samuel Whiteman returned, jto his base at Shreveport, La., j Tuesday following a 15-day leave; spent wkh his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Whiteman and son, J. D. at Syracuse. Airman Whiteman also attended Expo 67 a few days. Mrs. Whiteman took her son to South Bend Tuesday noon where he enplaned ifor Shreveport

Syracuse Honor Student Fear For Life Os Jerry Clark On Mt McKinley

Jerry Clark, 31, a former SyraI cuse resident and son of Mrs. Fred I (Alice) Clark and the late Dr. ; Clark, is one of four mountain | climbers missing in Alaska. | The party, climbing Mt. McKinley had reached the top on July 18 ] and radioed back they were on I their way down. They have not been heard from since. Mrs. Clark stated this morning they had called off the search again j because of bad weather. Rescuers ! have about given up hopes of finding the party alive. However, they plan ] to wait out the storm and then make | another attempt by plane. Three of the seven-man team have died. Rescue team members ! have identified one of the victijns as Stephen A. Taylor, Chicago. He liad remained at the 17,900-foot camp. Rangers stated he probably died of altitude sickness and the dements. Two other bodies were found several hundred feet down the steep side of a ridge leading from the peak where the climbers had been. Indications revealed they had been blown down the ridge during a storm. They have not been identified. None of the bodies have been brought down from the mountain. The two were spotted by plane and will probably remain on the mountain as searchers believe it would be too dangerous for persons to try and retrieve them. Other Hoosiers on the team are Paul N. Janes, r 3 Monticello and Walter Taylor. 25, Lafayette, j Completing the part}’ are Mark McLauglilin and John Russell of Eugene, Oreg.. and Dennis Luchterhand of Scarsdale, N. Y. A storm hit the area shortly after the men reached the top of the highest peak in North .America. It lasted nine days. Reports are the winds in the jet stream reached 150 miles per hour and blinding storms, whipped up in minutes. Purdue Graduate Clark, a 1953 graduate of Syracuse high school, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Purdue university. In 1961 a- 1 1963 he went on a government sponsored expedition with a group from the University of Wisconsin to study the depth and movement of glaciers. He is an experienced clirnber and has scaled the Grand Tetons in the Rocky Mountains as wdl as others along’ the west coast and the mountains of New Zealand. He returned to Purdue to work on his doctorial studies in clinical psychology, however, he left that university to accept a government grant at the University of Oregon. After attending the University of Oregon, he took a job with a newly I formed firm in that western state | to work at designing a machine to be used for clinical psychology. Young Clark has a brother, Dr. Jack Clark, who resides in Syra- : cuse and a sister. Mrs. Richard [•Nancy) Strong of Milwaukee. The | Strongs aFe in Syracuse.

Two Syracuse Men Survivors On 111-Fated Carrier USS Forrestal

Two Syracuse men who are serving j aboard Hie USS Forrestal, hit by fire Saturday, are reported as safe. Aboard the giant aircraft carrier are Richard Coy and Sanford Mullet, whose wives reside in Syracuse. Has Telephone Call U. S. Airman Coy, the son of Mrs. Edward Coy, 118 west .Allen street, Syracuse, seat a wire to his wife, the former Nancv Plank, which she received at 8:20 a m. Tuesday. It said, “Am Fine. Letter Follows. Low. Dick”. Mrs. Coy is making her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Plank, 113 west Washington St., Syracuse. She works at Burkholder's Drug store. Then Mrs. Coy received a telephone call from her husband at 4:15 j p.m. Tuesday from the Philippine Islands. He said he was on the forei deck when fire broke out on the For- ! estal and that he was not near it. He ! did report he helped remove the 146 j who lost their lives in the fire. 1 (jg) Sanford Mullet is the son of Frank Mullet of Goshen. His wife is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stump of r 4 Syracuse. Mrs. Mullet has not received any i direct news but is staying by the telephone. Mrs. Stump stated this morning the family had received a call on Tuesday evening stating the lieutenant was alright.

mrnmm f JERRY CLARK Water Level At Dewart Lake Reported Up Water levels have risen considerably at Dewart Lake since the time of the crisis of low water a few years back. According to William J. Steen, head of the ground water section of the state of Indiana, department of natural resources, the most recent measurement available for the lake (June 22) indicated a water level of 868.22 feet, sea level datum, or 8.22 gauge reading. This was about 0.5 foot above the established normal level of 867.60 feet or 7.60 gauge reading. PONTOON PARTY SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. Chris Kamrnerer entertained Sunday at a pontoon party. Dinner was served on the boat on Tippecanoe lake. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Charles White, Mr. and Mrs. Cookie Swihart. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Rice, all of Goshen, and Mr. arid Mrs. Carl Ryan of Leesburg.

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Talks To Chaplain Mrs. Richard Coy talked by telephone to the chaplain of her husband’s home base and was informed it is taking time to get a list of survivors completed. However, it was presumed both men were safe. The USS Forrestal departed from Jacksonville, Fla., on June 3, with 4,400 officers and men aboard. The accidental fire, which claimed the lives of 146 men, occurred while the huge 75,900-ton ship was on maneuvers in the Gulf of Tonkin off the eastern border of Viet Nam. There was no information in the cablegram received by Mrs. Coy this morning as to what part of the ship her husband was located when the fire erupted and raged out of control for more than four hours. The fire was still being fought by ship hands some 18 hours after the first explosion rocked the super aircraft carrier. The USS Forrestal h#s docked at Subic Bay in the Philippines, a U. S. Naval Station, where emergency repairs are being made. The ship is expected to be returned to either the United States or Pearl Harbor for permanent repair, which Naval officials estimate will require at least six months. Hie fire destroyed or damaged at least 57 planes, with losses expected to be more than $135 million.

Syracuse Republicans To Hold Caucus Syracuse Republicans will meet Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Syracuse Scout Cabin to select candidates for the town election in November. Republican town chairman Robert Insley, made the announcement today. Insley reported that five town board positions and a clerk treasurer will be nominated at the meeting. He stated that Republicans who reside in the community and are 21 years of age or oflder are eligable to participate in the caucus. The chairman also announced that he had appointed Steve Hearn, a Syracuse attorney, to preside over the caucus. He also stated that Ronald Sharp had been named town Republican election commissioner. .All present town board members and the clerk treasurer are Republicans. These include Byron Connolly, Willard Nusbaum, Mrs. Blanche Bates, Vernon Beckman, Loren Longenbaugh, board members; and W’alter Calnon, clerk treasurer. Connolly, Nusbaum, Beckman and Longenbaugh were elected in the 1963 town election. Calnon was elected as a board member, how’ever. he' resigned when he was appointed clerk treasurer. He succeeded Mrs. Lois Schleeter who resigned. Mrs. Schleeter was the first woman to be elected to a Syracuse town office. Board members appointed Mrs. Bates to succeed Calnon as a town board member. Leg Ailment Mrs. Ernest Krauter of r 1 Milford is indisposed due to a leg infection.

n ; K HERE’S PROOF!—Nancy (Plank) Coy anxiously holds up the telegram she received from her husband, U. S. [ Navy Airman Richard Coy, Tuesday i morning attesting to his safety aboard the ill-fated carrier USS Forrestal. She received the telegram in the morning, then in the afternoon had a telephone call from her husband from the Philippine Islands.

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