The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 49, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 January 1969 — Page 8

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., Jan. 8, 1969

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Augsburger Leaves Wednesday

Assembly Biennium To Open At Indianapolis

The biennium session of the Indiana General Assembly will begin this week with members of the twohouse Assembly being formally sworn in on Thursday morning.

In the Assembly make-up Republicans outrank Democrats in the House 73 to 27 and in the Senate 35 to 15. Representing the Sixth District (Kosciusko, Noble, Lagrange and Steuben counties) will be John F. Augsburger, Milford Republican. Kosciusko county is represented in the House of Representatives by Thames Mauzy of Warsaw, Ralph Heine of Columbia City and Arthur Coblentz of Liberty Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Augsburger were scheduled to leave for Indianapolis on Wednesday morning for the opening session of the Assembly and planned to return Friday evening. A Money Session This 61-day session ae provided by the state constitution will be what has been termed a “money session.” Many laws involving more money will come before the legislators, while incoming Governor Edgar Whitcomb has promised in his successful campaign not to raise Indiana taxes if elected. This can only mean one thing: How to get the much-desired laws cn the books without raising taxes. This might prove, if successful, a feat comparable with his BM>-hour swim from Ccrregidor imprisonment in World War IT he described in his highly-publicized book, “Escape From Corregidor.” Outgoing Governor Roger Branigin pocket-vetoed some 33 bills and seven of these he returned with hand-written messages attached. Two of these— the abortion bill and legislative pay raise bill — are certain to come up, and in all likelihood will receive favorable attention. If all 33 bills were passed, it wculd add SIOO million which the legislature would have to raise. School Finances About the most difficult problem facing the legislature, Senator Augsburger said before departing for Indianapolis on Wednesday, is the knotty school finance problem. Indiana schools are said to be in financial trouble unless the legislature provides more money. A number of school corporations advertised budgets in August over the state legal limit of $4.95 per SIOO of taxable valuation, in order to force Governor Branigin to call a special session of the legislature to untie the knot of school finances. This the governor refused to do. The problem appears to be growing' worse, however, and unless this issue is resolved, Indiana schools are certain to go into a pericd of financial havoc. Also certain to draw the immediate attention of the legislature are several recommended amendments to the state’s outdated constitution. Written in 1851 it fails to meet the need of mid-20th century Indiana. Indiana is no longer a rural state, but an Industrial, vibfant, moving state, legislators point out. Among the early recommended changes in the constitution are certain to be methods by which local communities can raise their own taxes to handle local problems. In the new session of the General Assembly Senator Augsbuvger finds himself on the following committees: Education, agriculture, conservation, public policy. He is chairman of the sub-com-mittee on pollution And ranking member of the agricultural committee. -> Augsburger is a long-time Milford grocer, with stores in Milford and Syracuse. Mrs. Thomas Gilbert, Syracuse, is ill at her home suffering with bronchial pneumonia. In an accident where both cars have State Farm collision staii »*«m coverage State Farm pays for damages to both cars. And you save the deductible iNtu*ANCi (usually SSO or $100). Call me: Glenn R. Morehead 2220 E. Winona Ave. Warsaw. Indiana 40580 Office Phone: 269-1315 Residence Phone: 267-2041 State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Comoanv Home Office Bloomington. Illinois

JULY WEDDING PLANNED - Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Jackson D. Ridings of Syracuse of the engagement of their daughter,»Peggy, to Mark Donoho, son of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Donoho of South Bend. Miss Ridings is a senior at Wawasee high school. Mr. Donoho, a graduate of John Adams, is an apprentice electrician at South Bend. A July wedding is being planned. Arnold Doll New Advisory Board Member Arnold W. (“Pete”) Doll, a resident of r 1 Milford, was appointed to a seat on the Van Buren township advisory board, filling the vacancy created when Dr. T. A. Miller became a member of the Milford town board. * Doll, a 34-year-old Republican is plant maintenance engineer at Cecil Foods, Inc. He is a 1952 graduate of Syracuse high school. Married to the former Rebecca Beer, they have three children: Daniel, 13, David, 10, and Dick, 3. Other members of the Van Buren township advisory board are Herbert Baumgartner and Maurice Beer. Syracuse Youths In One Car Accident A single car crash on the Syracuse - Webster road two and onehalf miles from Syracuse, involved two Syracuse youths at 1:50 a.m. Sunday. The driver, Robert Carlson, 19, Syracuse, sustained a cut on the chin and bruises. A passenger, Kevin Galloway, 19, r 2 Syracuse, received a cut lip. Neither was treated for injuries. Carlson told deputy sheriff Stanley Holderman that his auto slipped off the road rounding a curve and struck a utility pole, tree and fence on the Dallas Cox farm, r 3 Syracuse. Holderman, who investigated, listed damage to the car at SBSO and sllO to the pole and fence. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Nichols and daughter, Janice, of Syracuse have returned from a two week’s trip to Victoria and Monterrey, Mexico, the Padra Islands in the ‘Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans, La.

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CROP Contribution Hite $7,500 The Kosciusko county Christian Rural Overseas Committee has contributed over $7,500 at years end to the national program. The contributions are for food distribution through the World Council, of Churches. Russell Creighton of Atwood is county chairman for this program. Much of the food goes to rural refugee areas created by wars and natural disasters with Biafra being a major need at the present time, Mr. Creighton stated. Jefferson township was the leading contribution with $2,006.24, Etna township gave sl.C 00.52 this year. Other leading townships were Scott, $766; Clay, $56C. 1 42; Harrison, $489; Van Buren. $379; Turkey Creek, $344; Prairie, $297.39; Jackson, $259; Monroe, $237.36; Lake, $161.50; and Wayne, $l7O. Contributions of nearly SI,OOO through Friendship Acres and similar programs were not accounted by townships. Other members of the Kosciusko county CROP committee are William Orr, vice president; Ross Sittier, treasurer; Rev. Herbert Edwards, secretary; and Lloyd Rummell, Samuel Knoop, Rev. Raymond Wilson, Donald E. Frantz, Verl George, Wilbur Pyle, Joe Barrett, Harry Lozier, Lester Gay, Frank Sanders, Sr., and Wayne Teeple. Further contributions may be made with Ross Sittier at the First National Bank or Don Frantz, county extension agent. POLLYANNA 4-H CLUB FIRST MEETING By Rhonda Lawson The Pollyanna 4-H club held its first meeting of the year in the home of the new adult leader, Mrs. Glen Davis. Projects were discussed and enrollment cards filled out. Becky Geible acting president called the meeting to order. Jan Davis and Susan Connolly led the pledges to the flags. An election of officers was held and the following were elected: President — Becky Geible Vice president — Susan Clark Secretary — Rhonda Lawson Treasurer — Susan Wilson Reporter — Linda Bushong Song Leader — Jan Davis Health and Safety — Becky Bush Recreation — Lori Riker and Brenda Byrd. The next meeting will be January 15 in the home of Jan Davis. A gift exchange was held and refreshments served. AREA MEN FINED AT GOSHEN William Bushong, 21, r 2 Syracuse, paid for disregarding a traffic signal light on U.S. 6 near Nappanee. Travis E. Ratliff, 30, Syracuse, paid $18.50 for driving without a license. William R. Flynn, 34, r 1 North Webster, paid $18.50 for driving with an expired license. They ■were fined at Goshen by justice of the peace Richard L. Stephenson.

! i . Our I | Around Town | I .' Milford, Ind. By ARCH BAUMGARTNER The death in Elkhart Friday morning of Emerson (“Abe”) Martin brought to a close one cf Indiana’s most notable newspaper careers, and was of particular interest to residents of Milford. ( This is true since Martin spent his early years in Milford where his father was a well known tailor. Abe began his news career in 1919 with The Elkhart Truth, but joined The South Bend Tribune staff the following year. He left South Bend a few years later to jcin The Washington Daily News, then a Scripps-Howard tabloid. While covering the Washington beat young Martin teamed up with another Hoosier, Ernie Pyle of Dana, Ind., who later went on to become a famous World War II correspondent. The two young Hoosiers roomed together in Washington, as Martin told a Milford Lions club meeting several years ago. It was Pyle who pinned the nickname “Abe” on Martin, a name suggested by the one-col-umn commentary cartoon then appearing in an Indianapolis newspaper. * Martin returned to Indiana to become news editor of The Elkhart Truth, a post from which he retired in May 1961 at 65 years of age. He stayed with The Truth in an advisory capacity for The Mishawaka Times and The. Truth’s radio station, WTRC, and television station, WSJV. He also held a longtime interest in American Legion activities, having been a World War I veteran. He held the post of commander at Elkhart and the post of district commander. Like all men who move up in the world, Martin held a fond spot in his heart for Milford where he was born on April 15, 1896. He eagerly responded to an invitation to speak before the Milford Lions several years ago, although the passing of the years made his audience a group of strangers to him. At that time Milford Lions met in Kizer’s Case in a building on the northwest corner of Main and Emeline streets. Martin nostalgically recalled living with his family in the apartment above the case. He said his father was a tailor of considerable ability, and that he took a horse and buggy and traveled north to Topeka and Shipshewana country where members of the Amish faith reside. He took orders for new garments from these people, returning a week later with a pocket full of orders. When the garments were made he delivered them, again in his buggy, and took more orders. His talk, garnered with reminiscenses, he told of his experiences in the newspaper field, and recalled many of the faux pas (or bloopers) he made over the years. One headline he wrote, he recalled, that was long a source of embarrassment to him, was this gem: “City Building Held Up By Lack Os Ce-

ment.” Another, to which he didn’t lay claim, was written and came over the wire concerning Mrs. Herbert Hoover joining her husband’s campaign train in a midwestern town in 1932. It stated, “Mrs. Hoover met her husband’s campaign train and she kissed him on the rear platform.” This only to show Martin’s sense of humor. He was best when he talked about his youthful days around Milford. He recalled the old gravel pit and washer at the north end of Waubee lake where he played as a youngster. r At one time, when an Elkhart youth drowned at a gravel pit site where the shoreline dropped eff at a perilous degree into deep water, this correspondent telephoned Martin on The Elkhart Truth city desk about the incident. Instead of a straight news column concerning the drowning and recovery of the body of the Elkhart youth, Martin dashed out a three-column piece about the old lake swimming hole that claimed the life of the youngster and how it became so deep. Only a background of years could have inspired this piece. Martin was a Milford youth when the Portland Cement Co. at Syracuse ran a narrow-gauge train from Syracuse to Waubee lake and around the lake’s shoreline. A dredge located on the south end of the lake (another good swimming hole, although quite a ways from town considering methods cf travel in those days) yielded thousands of tons of rich marl which was loaded and taken to the Syracuse plant to be made into cement. While Martin perhaps never fully realized it, he served as a guiding star in the news field for this writer in his early formative years, and the patient answers to hurried telephone calls to “the city desk of The Truth” were always appreciated. It was a treat, indeed, to call on “Abe” at about 2:30 p.m. when The Truth was “put to bed” for another day. He would first welcome one with a warm handshake, fill his pipe, light it, slowly lean back in his hard swivel chair, thoughtfully blow rings of smoke in the air and say, “Ah, yes, that reminds me ...

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When one talks to a peer in his chosen field, those are rare moments. "Abe” Martin married Margaret H. Burns of South Bend on November 8, 1923, in South Bend. Survivors include his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Lois) Nichols of Scotch Plains, N. J., and Mrs. Richard (Patricia) See of Elkhart; six grandchildren; and two brothers, Paul A. and Ross, both of Elkhart. Services were at 9 a. m. Monday in St. Thomas Catholic church, with Rev. James Elliott officiating. Burial was in the Rice cemetery in Elkhart. Counties Cooperating On Dairy Tour The Elkhart County Dairy Association, the Cooperative Extension Service in Kosciusko and Elkhart counties are combining to hold a dairy tour and barn meeting Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 9:45 a.m. The first stop will be 9:45 a. rW at the Harlan Gardner farm, and the second stop at the farm of Elden Watkins-Sherman Deaton at 11 a. m. The group will move to the Hex Grange Hall for the noon meal. The Gardner farm is located on county road 1300 N, two miles west of Syracuse. The Watkins-Deaton farm is located south of Syracuse on state road 13 to 1000 N, and west one mile on south side of road. The Hex Grange Hall is located at the corner of US 6 and county road 35 in Elkhart county. Norb Moeller, animal science department, and John Foley, agricultural engineer, both of Purdue university will be on hand to lead the discussion and answer questions that might arise. At the Gardner farm the group will see a new parlor, liquid manure handling and a high quality forage program. Mr. Gardner will be milking 100 head at tour time. At the Watkins-Deaton farm the tour will see a high producing herd of Holsteins. This herd was tops for the breed in the U. S. in 1967. The feeding program is the highlight of this tour where 40 cows are milked. ■> After the noon meal, there will be discussion on the farms visited in the morning, plus milking procedures and dairy business in general.

Syracuse Locals Sunday e.ening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Brown and son Joe were Miss Nanev Schemmer of Millersburg, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Speicher and son Randy of Ligonier, Mr. and Mrs. Don McCulloch and family, Mrs. Orley E. Brown of Syracuse Callers later in the evening were Miss Cynthia Moser and Herbert Geiger of Ligonier. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Moser and daughter, Cynthia, had as their guests Sunday Herbert Geiger and Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Moser o f Ligonier, Mrs. Mary F. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Brown and son of Syracuse and Miss Nancy Schemmer of Millersburg. The afternoon was spent socially. John Kramer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kramer, Syracuse, spent the Christmas vacation with his parents. John is at the air force academy at Colorado Springs, Colo. SPS and Mrs. Ernest Leitch of Fort Dix. N. J., spent the holidays at Syracuse with his mother, Mrs. Lillian Leitch, and family. Miss Ellen Leitch, who is attending the Elkhart school of technology, was also home for the holidays. SPS Leitch will return to Fort Dix, then on January 15 he will go to General Motors school for a course for the army. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zeltinger of Chicago were Syracuse visitors over Christmas. They called on his mother, Mrs. Ada Zeltinger and other relatives. Mrs. June B. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris, Ginger and Mike, Syracuse, have returned from Phoenix, Ariz., where they visited Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller. Mrs. Miller is a sister of Mr. Harris. They also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Kent Kitz, former Syracuse residents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Musser and family of New Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Byler, former Syracuse resident, and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle McGowan of Cromwell. Sgt. Sam Whiteman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Whiteman, Syracuse, returned Tuesday to Loring AFB, Maine. Sgt. Whiteman had spent 20 days with his parents and brother. He also ; did some skiing here.

Parents Without Partners To c Meet January 16 ■ The Plymouth Area Chapter of Parents Without Partners will hold its monthly speaker meeting on Thursday, Jan. 16, at 8 o’clock, EST in the First United Church of Christ Annex, corner of North Center and Adams streets, Plymouth. Guest speaker will be Paul Nye, assistant principal of Plymouth high school. His talk is entitled “Generation of Rising Expectations” and will deal with the youth of the space age of today. It will concern his views as a school official of what the children are thinking about education, society, politics and other areas, and also what they expect to get out of life in the way of vocations, political roles, etc. He will cite examples of general problems that arise in the schools and how they relate to the child’s home life. Mr. Nye is in charge of discipline as well as many administrative duties. He has a master’s degree from Ball State and a bachelor’s degree from Manchester college. He has been in the teaching profession for about eight years, coming to Plymouth from LaVille and Oregon-Davis school corporations. ‘ . If you are a parent who has lost a partner due to death, divorce, or separation, you are welcome to attend this meeting and hear Mr. Nye’s informational talk and to get acquainted with others of this area in a similar situation. The club has panel discussions, speakers, family outings, children’s activities and social events to help you round out your life so that becoming a Parent Without a Partner will be the beginning of a new life. For further information call Zelma Saxton, president, Tyner, or Dorothy Barnes, Plymouth. Custody of the children is not a factor of eligibility. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Biller plan to leave for their winter home in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday morning. They were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rumfelt and Donal. Another guest in the Rumfelt home was their son Dennis of Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Cory and Dave spent last week in Houston, Tex., the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cory. Dennis is working on his doctorate at Rice Institute in Houston.