The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 October 1967 — Page 1

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THE OLD. THE NEW—Pictured above are the old and the new 20th Century service stations as they looked last week end when a MailJournal photographer snapped this photo.

Spooks, Goblins To Go On March At Milford Tuesday

Spocks and goblins will be on the march in Milford next Tuesday night as •"embers of the Lions club, American Legion and Auxiliary hold their annual Halloween parade for youngsters of the community. Children of afii ages are currently working on costumes for the big event which will begin at 7 p.m. in the community building.

Memorial Services For Rev. Krider Set For Saturday Memorial Sen-ices will be held in the Milford Methodist church atl 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, in honor of the late Rev. Walter W. Krider. a former Milford pastor. Dr. Charles W. Ballard of Indianapolis will be assisted by Dr. Evan Bergwall of Warsaw and the church's | pastor, Rev. Richard Sumner. Rev. Knder. 73, died on Thursday. Oct. 12, in Denver. Colo., after an illness of 24 years. He served as pastor of the MH-I ford Methodist church from 1987 to 1942. After World War II he returned to Milford where he lived 10 years, managing the M.lford Lumber Company. Graveside sen-ices will be held at the Crown View cemetery at Sheridan at 330 Saturday afternoon. > Btoodmobile To Be In Milford On November 3 The Red Cross Btoodmobile will be at the fire station in Milford from 12 to 6 p.m. on Friday. No*-. 3. Mrs. Herbert Baumgartner is Milford's blood donor recruiter. Mrs. Donald Cecil is Van Buren I, townships representative and Mrs. Robert Rumfelt is Jefferson township's representative. They are in charge of arrangements for the , visit. The quota is 134 pints The coun- i ty is short of its quota this year. ] Relatives or friends of persons who have received blood are urged ' to donate. It is not necessary but i helps to replenish the county ’s quo- i ta. Il

Syracuse Yellow Jackets Will Open Season Without Rob Clevenger Nov. 11 — The Syracuse Yellow Jackets will open their basketball season on November 11, minus the services of senior star Rob Clevenger. Rob fell the victim of an unusual accident last Thursday which will sideline him for at least six weeks—or more. And. believe it or not, it all happened in speech class. Rob broke his two big toes while demonstrating a gymnastic maneuver called the “Flip.” which was being explained to the class by fellowr senior Susie Kirkdorfer. A cheerleader for the Jackets. Susie chose the Flip as her topic for a speech and used tall, dark and handsome Clevenger to help her demonstrate the gyration. Demonstrating the maneuver with Clevenger were Curt Stucky and Rick Clingaman. They wrapped a towel around Clevenger's waist to aid in the back flip. It worked two times, but on the third, Clevenger fell to the floor—kerplop! (See photo on page 2.) His left big toe was broken in three places, his right one in one place. He was taken to the office of Dr. Jack Clark where the left toe had to be set.

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

The stations are located at the junction of state road 15 and U. S. 6, three miles north of Milford in Elkhart county. The old station was demoirhed on Tuesday by Beer and Slabaugh of

» Docens of cash prizes will be of- • sered for the best ccstumes in a . wide variety of catagories and mas- • queraders are expected to refund y : with many attractive, original . I ideas for this years’ parade. A r j grand pnze and a prize for the most ■ original will be awarded. 11 Catagork« will include: Best cou- [ pic. witches, spacemen, clowns, j

Civil Defense Holds Regular Monthly Meeting Tlic Syracuse civil defense unit met Thursday night ui the CD buildiing (or its regular meeting. Chairman Tliomas Gilbert presided. Earl Cooper told the chairman batteries were needed for the walk- , le-taikies. Tr.-asurer Glenn Scott reported la donation had been received from the Milford American Legion for i use of the unit’s penny pitch board during the Milford Festival. A thank-you note was read from the Las eland Youth Center for the use of the sound truck during its recent chicken barbecue. It was reported that most of the insulation b on the truck bay, one ■ mure roll is needed to complete the : JOb. ” •'/y’ Following the meeting, Mrs. Charles Clawson was sworn in as a member by city director Floyd Sehlottcrback. There were 12 members present. Rally Day And Homecoming Set For Sunday Rally Day and Homecoming has been set at the First Brethren church at Milford for Sunday, Oct 29. acctwding to Rev. Albert Curtright. pastor. Sunday school will be held at 9:30 with uwship service to follow at 10 30. A carry-in dinner will be held al noon and a program will follow in the afternoon. Area persons are invited to attend the service and enjoy a day of good fdlowthip with friends. GARRY L. MILLER HOME FROM ARMY Garry U Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph MiUa- of Milford, arrived home Friday morning after sen ing with the U. S. army at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for two years.

Nappanee, leaving the new one to serve the public. The station is owned by George Snyder and Ls operated by Paul Miner.

military, hobo, ghost, cowboy, historical. storyland, colored, skelton. devil, pirate. hSlbilly, musical, best I group, sports, TV character, children of other lands, originals and miscellaneous. Youngsters through school age will be eligible to compete for prizes. Each entrant will receive an aj ward.

Milford Chamber | To Meet On i October 30 Members of the Milfaqi Chamber of Commerce will meet in Augs- | burger’s Coffee Shop on Monday, Oct. 30, for their monthly meeting. I Among the items to be discussed i will be the Fall Festival which was held the latter part of September. MT. TABOR CRUSADE SET TO BEGIN SUNDAY MORNING The Mount Tabor Crusade will beI gin this Sunday. Oct 29. and contini ue through November 11. The crusade will feature George McQueen as leader of the musical program. Mr. McQueen will be directing the crusade choir that will be singing each evening and do solo work. He will be in charge of the morning and evening worship hours, bringing the message in these services. Rev. Fred Landolt will be with the crusade beginning on Monday evening, Oct 30, and continue throughout the crusade. Darrell Prichard, pastor, urges all to come and hear toe crusade. Services begin each evening at 7:30 with nursery services provided. Trio To Be Featured At Northwood Chapel The Robles Trio from Fort Wayne will be singing and speaking at the Northwood Chapel, one mile north and one-quarter mile west of Nappanee. on Sunday. Oct. 29. at 10 a. ■ m and 7:30 p.m. The trio is composed of three young Spanish men who sing and play the bass, guitar and accordion. ‘ Ebenexer Ladies Aid Meet* At Cromwell The Ebeneser Ladies Aid met' Thursday afternoon. Oct 19. in the home of Mrs. Roy Hontz at Crom-: weR w ith Mrs. Akna Archer as cohostess. The members and guests responded to the request to dress in old house dresses, some appeared in old fashioned outfits. President Mrs. Theries Doll conducted the business meeting. Devotions were given by Mrs. Archer. There were 20 members and seven guests. Mrs. Charles Archer. Miss Golda Meade, Mrs. Eldon Stoner, Mrs. Paul Reid and baby. Mrs. Emerson Bushong. Mrs. Melbum Rapp and Mrs. Court Slabaugh. Following the business meptingr' Miss Meade gave a reading/and a | Bible contest was given by toe host-. esses. Refreshments inf keeping with Halloween were served and a; social period followed, d Hie November meeting will be with Mrs. M3o SnydeyT AREA MEN HUNTING Several area men/are pheasant hunting this week/fn South Dakota. In the group are Jack Sharp, T. A. Miller and Dejroert Dippon of Milford: Wayne Bucher of r 3 Syracuse; John Fishery of Syracuse; and Chancey Hale of. Fort Wayne.

Two Taken To Goshen Hospital

High Surface Winds Do S SO- $ 75,000 Damage At Enchanted Hills Last Night

High surface winds, accompanied by a driving, cold rain, struck the Enchanted Hills area, located about four miles directly east of Syracuse, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday night, hospitalizing two persons and doing from $50,000 to $70,000 damage to a number of mobile homes.

Taken to the Goshen hospital were: Mrs. Gene Willis, 48, r 1 Cromwell, who was treated for a back injury, and, Ronald Eary, 13, also of r 1 Cromwell, who suffered from shock. A number of persons sustained minor injuries and cuts, but not sen-1 ious enough for hospitalization. Mrs. Paul Michaels was taken to the office of Ligonier physician Robert Stone where she was treated for a fractured finger. Property Damage According to Indiana state police reports, property damage will run somewhere between $50,000 and $75,,000. State police sergeant Robert Clev'enger said this morning six mobile homes were listed as totally destroyed and nine were moved off their • foundations and had roof or siding : damage. In several cases residents were able to spend the night in their homes, although they were moved slightly off their foundations. No one in authority would term the high surface winds a tornado or cy- ! clone, although early evening reports were that a tornado had been cited four miles north of Wakarusa in Elkhart county. The heavy winds struck the En- ■ chanted Hills area at about 6:30 p.m. and lasted only a few moments. Orc unidentified resident said he was in his home at the time, and the sound j resembled someone turning on a vacuum sweeper for a few minutes, then turning it off. Call For Help The call for help went out over (state police radios and various type units answered the alarm from as far away as Kendallville. Other units came from Rome City, Axilla, Wolf Lake. Cromwell and Syracuse. Includ'd were civil defense units and local and state police. State police officer Gerald Waikel of North Webster spent the night on the scene. It was he who made the count of the property damage, according to officer Clevenger. It was estimated that from 35 to 40 units were on the scene, and volunteers dutifullv remained there through a cold, persistent rain that found officers soaked to the skin. A number of people, young and old. were taken to a one-story block building in the center of the 55-unit Enchanted Hills mobile home court where they received temporary comfort and any with injuries were atj tended by Ligonier doctors Robert Stone. Donald Hooker and Quentin Stultz. John Connolly, in charge of the Syracuse units that responded to the call, said thev were called at 6:58 p. i m. and returned at 10 p m. He said they had th** department’s equipment truck and nine men. Cromwell, which lies only two i miles east of the Enchanted Hitts I 1 area, responded with two emergency 1 i units and 12 to 14 men. j 1 The Syracuse civil defense unit j* was also present with a generating 1 unit. Another generating unit came from Avilla. Kosciusko county sheriff Dave And-, 1 rews andTwieputy were on the scene I to rentier assistance. f ‘Heard It Come’ j* Bill Baumbaugh, a Lake Wawasee ’ Xadent whose home is a short dis- j ’ tance west of the Enchanted Hills . area, said he “heard it come’’. He . 1 took his family to the basement two J. times. He said he has a large tree | * in his yard, and “when the wind;, makes that tree whistle, we know ’ there’s going to be trouble”. Another Lake Wawasee resident. 1 j Fred Banta, manager of the Crom- . well Lumber Co., said most of the lake front residents are protected i from such strong winds, but that the 1 1 Enchanted Hitts mobile homes lie in | * an open, unprotected area. He said ; * he first heard of the damage from j ■ (Continued on page 2) I <

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1967

Oakes Accounting Service Sold To Robert J. Mauzy The well known Oakes Accounting and Tax Service, located in Syracuse, has been sold to Robert J. Mauzy, r 1 Syracuse (Lake Wai wasee >, according to a joint announcement by Clyde Oakes and the new owner. Mr. Mauzy, also well known in the Lakeland area, will take over the business on Friday, Oct. 27. 20 Years’ Experience Mr. Mauzy, a native of Rushville where he grachiated from high school, is also a graduate from the Indiana university of business, where he majored in account:ing. I He was employed for 3H years (with the national public accounting firm of Arthur Anderson and Company. and has been in public accounting and tax service work in various capacities for the past 16 He and his wife, the former Joan Schrader, are the parents of two sons, Jameson, a sophomore at Indiana university, and Rusch, a Syracuse high school senior. The Oakes Accounting and Tax Service has been located in Syracuse for the past 25 years. United Fund Drive Progressing At Syracuse The United Fund drive in Turkey Creek township is progressing, however, there are still a few businessmen to be contacted. There is no house to house canvas this year but a good number of individuals have stepped forward and made their contribution to United Fund. Mrs. Dee Stiver or any of her workers will be happy to take care of any contribution from people who are not contacted by an employer. It is hoped that the drive will be finished in Turkey Creek township by the end of October. Goshen Hunters Find Stolen Goods Two Goshen men, Don Metzler and Dave Eddebarger, hunting: near county roads 450 east and 1050 north in Kosciusko county, found a sack containing billfolds and per-1 sonal effects which reportedly were stolen from the Dr. T. J. Bauegge residence on Lake Wawasee. The men turned the sack into the i Elkhart county sheriffs office at I Goshen. The articles belonged to Miss Jackie Pletcher, r 1 Nappanee; Denise Anderson Burnell, Lafayette; and Dr. Bauegge, Kokomo. Miss Pletcher tdd deputy sheriff Gary Sevison that the articles were stolen several weeks ago from the Lake Wawasee residence and in addition, a Polaroid camera was also taken. DOUBLE BIRTHDAY PARTY GIVEN A double birthday celebration was held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Huffer at Syracuse on Saturday afternoon for Miss Nina Sue and Scotty Dale Huffer. Games wwe played with prizes Attending were Neva, Laura and, Lorree Snyder. Ginger Harris, Dan-1, ny Snyder. Michael Harris, James Thwaits, David Coy and Mike ShirefieW. all of Syracuse. DOUG KAISER, MILFORD, CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Doug Kaiser, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kaiser of Milford, ' celebrated his birthday Monday after : school. He brought his classmates home with him and they enjoyed re- 1 freshments of hot dogs, cake and ice I cream. i

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PHOTOS SHOW DAMAGE — two photos, taken this morning, show graphically the damage done at the Enchanted Hills mobile home court by the surface winds last evening. In the top photo James Willis is gathering up what personal property he can salvage. In the bottom photo are the scattered belongings of another mobile home resident whose home was completely destroyed. His identity was not learned. Other mobile homes nearby were net damaged. Mail-Journal staff photos.

Denies Re-Classification Bid

At a special meeting of the Syra-1 cuse town board of trustees last Wednesday a unanimous vote of the members vetoed the possibility of re-classifying five and onehalf acres of ground south of Syra-, cuse. The long discussed petition of Don Somers to re-classify the acreage located on state road 13 was denied I

Petition State Commission To Keep Passenger Service

Two of the remaining six passenger trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad serving Syracuse and the surrounding area will be removed from service if a petition by the railroad is approved by the Indiana Public Service Commission.

The trains are No. 9. the Wash-ington-Chicago Express, which serves Syracuse at 3:46 a.m., and No. 8, the Diplomat, which passes the local station at 2:22 a.m. No. 8 does not stop at Syracuse except by prearrangement. Both trains presently carry U. S. postal cars that are to be discontinued this week end. Neither carries mail to or from Syracuse, al-

WEBSTER UONS PLAN HALLOWEEN PARTY OCTOBER 28 The North Webster Lions club is sponsoring a Halloween party and parade at the school gym on Satur- ’ day, Oct. 28. according to Lions presj ident Richard Mitchell. He said part of the Halloween ac- ‘ tivities in North Webster will be a | window decorating contest by students of the school art class, with I prizes. “A side effect”, he said, i “would be less window soaping”.

by the board after a discussion with Mrs. Somer’s attorney, Leon Connolly. and Dick Maresh, representing 35 permanent resident families in the area. A petition was presented to the board by Maresh against the re-classification. The petition of Mr. Somers called for the re-zoning of the area from residential to roadside business.

though No. 9 makes a mail stop at Nappanee at 4:02 a.m. No. 9 runs from Washington to Chicago and No, 8 from Chicago to Washington. Under the proposal, the trains* western terminus will be New Castle, Pa. The railroad said permission bad already been granted to discontinue the trains in Ohio, and a “stub” train would be run on the schedules between Chi-

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At the Halloween party there will be prizes for five different age groups. There will be various games. The band boosters are sponsoring the dance. VISITED IN MILFORD Wendall Baumgartner of Parma. Ohio, visited his sister, Mrs. Harold Kaiser of Milford, Monday afternoon. LEFT FOR FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Darr of W. E. Long drive, Syracuse, have left for .Melbourne Beach, Fla., to spend the winter.

i Mr, Somers was to construct a min- •; iature golf course. • | The objectors did not object to the ; project but to the re-zoning of the • area. Mr. Somers may apply for a :; variance which would permit control of the grounds use to remain I with the town’s governmental age»i. cies.

cago and Garrett until Indiana permission was given to drop the runs entirely. . Neither train has sleeping car service. Several petitions are being circulated in the Syracuse area to have the local station made a regular stop on the B & O’s Capitol Limited, which now stops only at LaPaz and Garrett in this area. The westbound Capitol would provide early morning service to Chicago and overnight service from the east, and the eastbound train would provide a late afternoon departure from Chicago and overnight service to Washington, the petitions state. One of the petitions is available at the Syracuse office of The Mail-Journal.

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