The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 6 December 1967 — Page 4

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Tfie PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Ext. 1888) Syracuse-Wawaeee Journal (Eat 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher XfßljK DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567 L# » Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana Subscription: $4.00 per year in Kosciusko County; $4.50 Outside County EDITORIALS

Keeping Christ In Christmas

Each year Christmas decorations go up and the hussle and bussle of the holiday season begins. It seems so many people get wrapped up in the rush of shopping, parties and the holiday spirit that they forget the reason we are celebrating Christmas —the birthday of the Christ Child in Bethlehem long ago. We’re not telling people to stop shopping. going to parties and enjoying the holiday. This editor is a firm believer in the thrills and joys of Christmas—no one enjoys shopping for Christmas gifts in the gaily decorated stores, going to parties

About Those Throw-Away Bottles ...

We think the Tippecanoe Township Extvnsinn club has started a good thing! Members have taken on the task of doing something about those throw-away bottles that clutter our cities, towns and countryside. Way back when—when there was a two cent deposit on glass bottles, people thought twice before throwing them away. They would return the bottles and get their deposit back. Now, they throw the bottles where they may — too lazy to deposit them in a trash container. The Tippecanoe club has written letters to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson in view of her beautification program; Betty Furness. special assistant to the President for consumer’s affairs; to the Senate of Indiana in the person of William W. Erwin and his committees of natural resources and conservation and benevolent and penal institutions and safety for the public; to Robert L. Rock. Lieutenant Governor of Indiana; and to Thames L. Mauzy, state representative.

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» YEARS AGO. NOV. 87, IM7 Miss Betty Louise Kirkdorffer, daughter <4 Mr. and Mrs. Vern Kirkdorffer. became the bride of Leonard Smith, son erf Mr and Mrs. Herman Smith, of New Paris, | Saturday evening. Miss Patricia Baumgartner was the guest of honor at a bridal shower given by her aunt, Mrs. Herbert Baumgartner. Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tom left by auto Monday morning for New Smyrna Beach. Fla., where they will spend the winter months. An impressive memorial senice for all Kosciusko county men who lost their lives in World War II was held at the Warsaw Methodist church Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. John Saylor gave a party Saturday honoring the sth birthday anniversary of her daughter, Sharon Mrs. Laurence Homan enUrtained Wednesday evening J»t a pink and blue shower honoring her sister. Mrs Ren Clark. Miss Patricia Ann Baumgartner, daugltter of Mr. and Mrs. Wittxir Baumgartner, and Guy B. Lkhtenwalter, son of Mr. and Mrs Donald Lichtenwal ter. were united in marriage Saturday. Mrs. Guy Fisher received a telegram Last Thursday notifying her of the death of her brother, (harks S. Miller. 77, at Weybura hospital. Saskatchewan. Canada. Thomas Hurd. 15-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Eldon R. Hurd, died Thursday. Nov. 20. at the McDonald hospital in Warsaw. His sudden death, caused by spinal meningitis, was a shock to the entire community. The surviving relatives are the parents. Dr. and Mrs. Eldon Hurd: two brothers, Robert and John, at home; two aunts. Mrs. Esther Poynter of Milford and Mrs. G. W. Milthaler of Dayton. Ohio; his paternal grandmother. Mrs. Mary B. Hurd, of Milford; and his maternal grandfather, J. B. Moore, of Los Angeles. Calif. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Garrett E. Fagan on November 21 in the Gary Methodist hospital. Mr. Fagan is a former resident of MilMNL Mr. and Mrs. Francis Oswalt are the parents of a daughter, Vicki Sue. bom November 19. 30 YEARS AGO. DEC. 9. 1937 Charles Wolferman. 04. who had made his home with his son. Eari Wolferman. for the past ten years, died Friday at the McDonald hospital.

Wedaetday, December 6, 1967

and entertaining during the holiday season more. What we're saying is don’t get so wrapped up in everything else that you forget the birthday we are celebrating. Many forget that we give gifts at Christmas because of the gifts that were given to the young Christ Child when the wise men arrived from the east. Seems in many homes Santa is more important than Christ at Christinas time. Agreed. Santa has his place at Christmas time but he should have a back seat and Christ should la? in the driver’s seat. Invest in a manger scene, if you haven’t already, and make it an important part of your decorations this year.

Each of the above feels the urgency of the program and is willing to cooperate and each is trying to get something dune about it. The homemakers wrote the letteis IxH-ause they are interestwl in the elimination of the throw-away bottles and cans used by soft drink companies and breweries and left as litter in this area. Kosciusko county is a land of many lakes with hundreds of persons vacationing here each year. The ladies, as should all civic minded persons, want to keep cur county and our country beautiful. As the letter states, the bottles and cans are thrown into picture windows, school houses and church yards. Stone walls, mailboxes and fence posts make good targets and the glass bottles thrown at piers and in the water have caused serious injury to waders and swimmers. We are joining with the ladies of the Tippecanoe Township Extension club in urging other clubs to write to the persons named above, asking for help in solving the problem.

Mrs. George Ralston has returned | from a five weeks’ visit with her I daughter. Mrs. Charles Oliphant, and family of Washington. D. C. I Walter Earl Becknell, 58. died last Wednesday at his home. He was born near Milford and lived here for 38 years. Funeral services for Mrs. Raymond Halderman of near Goshen were held Saturday at Nappanee. .Among her survivors are a daughter, Lois Ruby Kirkdoffer, and sisters, Mrs. Nina Sharkey and Mildred Norris of MUford. Funeral senices for Susan Bowser. widow of the late Dr. J. H. Bowser of Syracuse, were held Friday at Syracuse. Raymond Bare, who moved from Milford to Mentone where he is employed by the Northern Ind. Cooperative Ass n., has been made treasurer of the association and also office manager Mr. and Mrs. William J. Miller were found dead in their home at Millwood early Tuesday morning, death bring due to asphyxiation, caused by escaping gas from a hard coal burner. They were well known in this community. Levi Beer and mother left for Wichita, Kan., Thursday where they will visit Mrs. George Lambert, the former Miss Elsie Beer of Milford. A Chevrolet sedan owned by Lloyd Fdkner was considerably damaged Friday evening when his son ’*Bud - ’ Felkner, sideswiped a tree in front of the O. W. Leemon residence. 49 YEARS AGO. NOV. M. 1997 The body es Mrs. Ira Weybright, who died at her home near Sidney, Wednesday. Nov. IS. was brought to Milford for burial Friday afternoon. Mrs. Weybright was 91 years old. The six-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Miller of northeast of Milford, died at 6 o'dock Wednesday, Nov. 16, of acute indigestion. Thomas Dobson, marshal, received a telegram from Traverse City, Mich.. Saturday informing tan of the death of his mother. Frank Beer who has been employed by Otto Beer is recovering from an injured knee which was tart while at work on a new barn near Nappanee. Wilbur Baumgartner. Herbert Hamilton and Miss Gladys Estep went to Ann Arbor. Mich., Friday to visit Ted Baumgartner, a student of .

Michigan university. The Joshua Zimmerman farm located in Jefferson township and consisting of 240 acres, was sold

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Wednesday of last week to Henry SteigHtz. John D. Baumgartner has put a new pancake flour on the market, which is made at his feed mill at Milford Junction. A son was recently bom to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Robbins of near Warsaw. The mother was formerly Miss Luella Lytle of Milford. The 35th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Martin will be observed at their home on Thursday. Miss Dorothea Groves went to Akron. Ohio, Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving Day wuh Mr. and i Mrs. Harry Hoover and family. 50 YEARS AGO, NOV. 22, 1917 | Miss Glenna Shannon of Syracuse, 117 years of age, died Saturday at the McDonald hospital. She sub- ' milted to an operation for the re- ! moval of her tonsils, but after the i operation did not revive. The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Lee- j monos South Bend, who were instantly killed Monday afternoon of [ last week, was conducted on Thurs- ■ day. Mr. and Mrs. Leemon were in an auto, and as they were crossing the Lake Shore tracks in South { Bend their car was struck by a fast j train. John Oster, who lived southwest of Milford, died Thursday morning of last week. His funeral was con- \ ducted from the Evangelical church; at Hastings Saturday afternoon. ; S. J. Hays, an attorney of many years pra.iice at Bremen, and an uncle of Mrs. J. B. Hepler of Mil-' ford, died at his home Wednesday[ of last week. > A birthday surprise was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Wessley Charlton, ! Sunday, which was greatly appreciated by both. t Mariin Homan of Graveltoft, re- i ceived a telegram Saturday evening that his brother, Oakly Homan, had died in a hospital at San Anton- i io, Tex., Saturday morning of tuberculosis. Mrs. John Cowin has sold her, little farm west of Milord to John D. Baumgartner of Miiford, and it i will be occupied by Gottfried Schori [ of Illinois. i Cletus Myers and Rex Miller of, Milford are both at home on a 10day fiklough. Mr. Myers came home m?rn Fort Monroe. Va., and Mr. Miller from Hattiesburg. Miss, i Mrs. F. S. Keehn returned home [ Thursday evening after a stay of! several weeks in Chicago with her I sister. James Beer In Accident Saturday James M. Beer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Beer of near Milford, escaped serious injury Saturday at 9.30 p.m. when his car slid on the slick pavement and hit a telephone pole. He received a slight cut on his head. The accident occurred on the Orn road, three miles west of state road 15, near the George Wilson irm. An estimated SBOO damage was reported to Beer’s car, the telephone pole was broken off and about 50 feet of fence on the Wilson i farm was torn down. Go To Church Sunday

ground [ Martin Levernier, the old sage from 1 Lake Wawasee, is a man of his con- | victions. and he calls them as be sees them. Only recently he received a “sweepstakes certificate” from a large oil company offering him a Gruen watch for which he would be | billed on the credit card he held with that company. His reply to the ■ letter fell into the hands of this writer, and we reprint it herewith, with permission: “I thought you fellows were in the i oil and gas business, and I know I that many other gas and oil companI ies like yourselves are selling watches, radios and a lot of other stuff that belongs on the shelves of legitimate dealers of that type of merchandise. “I feel that it is positively a poor I code of business ethics, even ! though it is permissable under the law, for a gas company to sell watches. Let the watch dealers have the watch business and the radio dealers have the radio business and you and other gas and oil companies stick to the gas and oil business. i “If this encroachment on dealers in merchandise in fields foreign to the oil and gas business is not Anti- | trust or monopolistic I would not ■ know what is. Small dealers are not ■in a position to battle larger comI panies with millions of dollars to ; battle with. “There is too much of this stuff going on in this country and some day our sleepy Congress will wake up and put a stop to it. I return your Sweepstakes watch sales slip. I am in the market for a new watch, but I am going to buy it front a dealer who has the right to sell it to me. You do not have”. - Two Pierceton school teachers, : members of the Whitko classroom [teachers’ association, upon hearing i that Governor Roger Branigin could ' not afford to go to the Rose Bowl game in California on New’ Year’s Day. fell upon the idea of starting a collection fund to come up with the necessary funds, thereby grabbing for themselves a chunk of state-wide publicity. Thev took a second look at the idea and thought it “might make clowns out of them”, and dropped it. * * * Here’s an idea submitted (and we like it) to kick off the drive to raise $35,000 for the extra-curricular fund [for the new Wawasee high school: Why not engage the WOWO radio station announcers in Fort Wayne

to play basketball with a teacher team made up of teachers of the three schools, to be played in the Syracuse gym, with all proceeds to go to the extra-curricular fund? This WOWO bunch has been playing teacher teams in other schools < and they have been drawing overflow ■ crowds. One thing for sure, they give the game plenty of publicity over I their station. Handsome athlete Rob Clevenger ■ was back in the Yellow Jacket lineup Friday night against Concord in an overtime, and he racked up a field goal and a free throw in the first 11 seconds of play. He got 15 points in the game. The Jackets came up with a surprisingly good game which had coach Ken Work- ' man taking his coat off not once, but twice—once during the game and once in the overtime! • • • Who is and who isn’t going to the Rose Bowl game, that’s the question. Accountant Bob Mauzy has two I. U. letters through which he can get tickets, one as an alumnus and one as a season ticket holder. He isn’t going, but son Jamison, an I. U. sophomore, is. (Note: Bob is showing friends a framed $1 bill he got from Purdue alumnus Bob Burkholder as the result of a bet on the I. U.-Purdue game”. Rick McClure plans to see the Rose Bowl game, and Ligonier principal Charles Beck, who received his Master’s at 1. U.» plans to go. Beck was a Yellow Jacket star, graduating in 1933. Anybody else going? Townsman Chris Koher deserves recognition and praise for his singular effort to bring a music boosters’ club to Syracuse. With a personal interest in good music. Chris brought the group together at the Syracuse school last Wednesday evening in what is the first meeting of the group. See photo on page 1. North Webster Masons held an informal meeting last Thursday night at 7:30 at the school cafeteria to out-

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line plans to organize and charter a Masonic lodge in North Webster. At the present time North Webster Masons are members of the Leesburg lodge. Prime movers in the effort are Robert Bostick and Richard Culberson. • * * Mrs. Arch Baumgartner of Mili ford and Mrs. Bill Brammer of SyrI acuse worked together this year to I provide gifts for the mental health ■ patients at the Fort Wayne state school, and they reported wide interest and cooperation in the two communities in support of the worthy program. They are thankful to the many who responded to their call. The two communities came up with enough gifts for two each for an entire division or cottage of 53 residents. Mrs. Brammer reported four Syracuse residents have “adopted” state school residents, thus providing them with clothing and weekly spending money for a year. j This note from Lakeland school music coordinator Varner M. j Chance: In an attempt to give added depth and meaning to educational experiences, Syracuse high school is II bridging some of the humanities into an active class study and convocation program. The study is being done with the World History class, two English classes, art classes and the concert band to illustrate the inner turmoil, and struggles of man dr ring such times as followed World Mar 11. the exodus to Israel and the move of the Arabs into Jordan. The convocation is scheduled at 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, 1967. • * * John Hall, chairman of public relations of this year's United Fund effort, gives The M-J these plaudits: “I would like to congratulate you on helping to make this year’s fund campaign a success. I think this year’s news coverage has been the best ever, and without your help we couldn’t have made it”. Gee! Read The Classified Ads

Two Inducted Into Army This Morning Two young men from this county were inducted into the United States army this morning according to the latest announcement from the local selective service board. These men are Stephen L. Robison and 1 Frank Brown. Reporting for physicals are Jerry L. Eaton, Edwin Bryant, John R. Tucker, Jimmy D. Teeter, Ashley S. Holloway, Joseph V. Richards, Allen W. Hepler, Michael P. Stanfield, Richard L. Byare, Bobby K. Salyer, Donald L. Scott, Carroll L. Hamilton, Robert Markley, Jr., Michael L. Regan, David M. Benton, Terry L. Wagoner, Michael R. VanVactor. Francisco R. Medellin, Haney W. Schmucker and Ray R. Chupp. Brethren Church To Show Music Tour Slides The Syracuse Church of the Brethren will on December 10, have Bob Penick, who will present a program of recordings made during his recent tour of Europe at 6:45 to 7 p.m. He will show slides taken during the tour of the school band and School chorus of America, also professional slides of the singing group. He will appear in the uniform he wore on tour. Rev. Ralph Wagoner, pastor of th? church, invites the public to this program. Mrs. Robert Firestone and daughter of Goshen called on Mrs. Thom- [ as Gilbert and daughters, Syracuse, on Friday evening.

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