The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 2, Milford, Kosciusko County, 12 February 1969 — Page 3

Monarch, Inc., Buys Coppes For $1 Million

Monarch Industries, Inc., has acquired for over $1 million in cash the outstanding shares of Coppes. Inc. The announcement was made by Donald L. Hart, Monarch president, who said the purchase, which is being financed by a four-year term loan, represents the exercise of an option picked up in September 1963. Privately - owned Coppes, located in Nappanee makes “Coppes - Napanee” brand kitchen furnishings and equipment and the “Curricula” line of school equipment. Annual sales exceed $3 million. Current annual sales rate of Monarch, including the operations of Coppes, is approximately $35 million. Coppes “will operate a wholly - owned Monarch subsidiary, Mr. Hart said. Its kitchen cabinet facilities will be expanded to provide furnishings and building components required by Mon-

Thank You! We want to take this means of thanking the Milford, Leesburg and Syracuse fire departments for their rapid response and dedicated effort to assist us at the time of our plant fire Tuesday evening. This response was really appreciated, and it made possible a great savings in our plant. BARTH, INC. MILFORD, INDIANA tfv *

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arch’s growing output of mobile homes and core houses. In addition to expanding Coppes home building and remodeling activities, Mr. Hart pointed out that “we also intend to build up substantially Coppes’ activities in the educational area.” Monarch has plants in Middlebury, Syracuse and Howe and in Valdosta, Ga. SYRACUSE LOCALS Mrs. Agnes Stiffler has returned to her home at Syracuse after visiting her children at Winchester and other places. Gene Ludwig of Des Moines, lowa, former Syracuse resident, is in Syracuse helping out at VyLactos as manager while the manager Robert Grimes is in the hospital.

V My Cl ailli'M v Jn 111 Wawasee high school band instructor and Mrs. Joseph Judkins are still excited about a weeklong air trip they made to the Virgin Islands over the holidays. They made the trip, spending much of their time in St. Croix, with their daughter and son-in-law, Rod and Jonell Bergstedt. Bergstedt is an engineer with the Magnavox company of Fort Wayne. ** ♦ ? This anonymous note arrived in our mail box this past week: The following note may be the answer to your inquiry, “Where did the word sideburns come from?” (In lesson for today, under “Cruzin Around ’Cuse”, Mail-Journal, January 29, 1969). The epithet “sideburns” is generally attributed to Major-General Ambrose & Burnside of Civil War fame. The General wore huge “mutton-chops,” or sidewhiskers, cn both cheeks, each of which resembled a small bunch of hay. Some wag nicknamed them sideburns and the sobriquet stuck. Burnside, by the way, was born at Liberty, Ind., 1824, in a rude log cabin. He was a West Pointer, class of 1847. Succeeding General McClellan as head of the Union forces during the Civil War, he suffered a crushing defeat at Fredericksburg, and he was replaced by “Fighting” Joe Hooker. Later, Burnside led his old corps under General Grant in the Wilderness and Petersburg campaigns. After the war, Burnside served as Governor of Rhode Island for three terms, and in 1875 he became a Republican member of the U- S. Congress, serving until his death. He was also present at German headquarters during the seige of Paris, 1870-1871, probably as an American observer. He died at Bristol, R. 1., in 1881. And, as an afterthought, were Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Stanton and scores of others who had hoary visages, the original “Hippies?”

Several—although not many — motorists have passed Lakeland school buses that were stopped for the purpose of letting out students or picking them up. This is real bad business; in fact, it’s strictly against state law, to say nothing about being downright dangerous. So let’s watch this. We have a good thing going with our Lakeland school system, and we don’t want to marr it by having a youngster hit alighting from a school bus- OK? # s ♦ “Babe” Bachelder and Pat A Strombeck of North Webster are v two of three North Webster women who plan to leave later this week for a motor trip to Florida. Time permitting, they plan to fly to the Bahama Islands. Mrs. Bachelder is vice president of the Farmers State Bank in North Webster and Mrs. Strombeck is the wife of Tony Strombeck, North Webster town marshal. * ♦ Millie Scott and her daughter Bonnie Lou are pushing antique diamonds at Gene Boyer Jewelers located at the south edge of North Webster. 11)15 writer never heard of “antique” diamonds before, but has been told there definitely is such a thing. Note: It’s all in the cut of the stone, they say. Coming close on the heels of the announcement of the big Weatherhead Company expansion is an informal statement by Frank G. Bieber, president of Sea Nymph Mfg. Corp., manufacturer of first line aluminum boats, that his company also has expansion plans on the drawing board. Their 80,000-square foot warehouse will be expanded by 40,000 square feet next year. The company hopes to more than double production of boats in the next five years, Bieber said. ♦♦ * : Here is the way Dick Campbell, a director of the Florida Press Association, explains why so many editors are rich. The comments come from his weekly column, “Live and Love It.” “When a child is bom, the physician gets about SIOO, the hospital gets another S2OO, and the editor of the local paper gives the loudmouthed baby and its happy parents a journalistic sendoff and gets SO.

“At the christening, the minister gets sl®, the editor takes a picture, runs a story and gets $•. “When the child grows up and gets married, the editor publishes another long-winded story and tells a dozen lies about the beautiful and accomplished bride. The minister gets S2O, the jewelry shop gets SSOO, the dress shop gets S2OO and the editor gets SO. “As each child is born, the same process, unending, is repeated, and finally, at the time of death, the doctor gets SIOO, the undertaker SSOO to $???, and the editor publishes a death notice and obituary and gets $0“No wonder so many editors are so rich.” • * • Ben Fowler, popular Wawasee high senior, has “signed on” as sports editor for The Mail-Jour-nal. Ben, a resident of the Dewart Lake area, was a starting Warrior this year, then decided to give the state of matrimony a permanent status in his life. An avid sport, Ben is familiar with the sports side of WHS and knows his way around the locker rooms where most of the behind-the-scenes sports goings on are unraveled. We’re looking forward to his commentary on WHS sports events. s .s * s Last week one day it was unofficial “Syracuse day” at Rio Pinar golf course at Orlando, Fla-, when the eight Syracuse golfers who flew down for eight days of golf met a number of Syracuse residents in the area for a day of golf. Among them were Maurice Parker, Tiny Soule, Steve Roderick, Jim Connolly and Al and Ginny Lamley. Those from here making the trip were Don Byrd, Merl Smith, Harold Wellman, Bill Beemer, Bill Jones and Charles Lott. They made the trip a week ago Saturday in Comfo-Sleep’s Twin-Beech plane and were home this Sunday. ■0 THE ARTHUR SHANNONS VISIT IN FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shannon and daughter. Betty, of Syracuse returned home Saturday evening from a two-week trip to Oklawaha, Fla., where they visited their daughter and sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Good. They also visited friends at Avon Park, and Mr. and Mrs. Karl Bender at Mount Dora. They visited places of interest from St. Augustine south along the Atlantic coast to the Keys, through the Everglades and to the west coast to Sanibel Islands and Fort Myers, also from Sebring to Oklawaha. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Miner of Syracuse visited in the Good homt Thursday evening. Mrs. Good is working in the Munroe Memorial hospital at Ocala.

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Officers Elected At Youth For Christ Meeting At a meeting held on Tuesday. Feb. 4, at the Ken Anderson Films Studio in Warsaw an executive committee for the year was elected as follows: President — Walter M. Olson, Winona Lake Vice president — Howard J. Lightfoot, Winona Lake Secretary — Rev. Dick Rash, North Webster Treasurer — Harold G. Lowery, Warsaw The director of the county Youth for Christ is Marley Evans. Other board members are Daniel E. Wonderly, Warsaw; Emerson Ward, Warsaw; Everett L. Welty, Syracuse; and Robert Kitson, Ligonier. At present, the Kosciusko county YFC has Campus Life Bible clubs in the Warsaw high school. Freshman high and junior high schools at Warsaw, Wawasee high school and Manchester high school. It is hoped that more junior high clubs can be started in the future. Future activities discusses were the annual spring formal banquet to be held on May 2 and a week of youth meetings next school year with Tom Skinner. The purpose of the Youth for Christ is to reach the youth of the country with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to help them deal with the problems which face today’s youth. Ladies Os The Round Table Hear Miss Hollingsworth Miss Karel Hollingsworth presented her most timely program "Patriotism” as the Ladies of the Round Table met with Mrs. William L. Cutter as hostess. The meeting opened with Mrs. Milton Brice, president, leading the group in the pledge to the American flag and club collect. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved and Miss Avis Rowland gave the treasurer’s report. Mrs. Vernon Beckman and Mrs. Merton Meredith reported on the blind goods project and expressed their appreciation to the group and community for generous support. Mrs. Michael Neff, program chairman, introduced Miss Karel Hollingsworth who presented her program. Miss Hollingsworth gave the life portrayal of Abraham Lincoln by unique use of slide pictures and narration. To further carry out her theme she closed her program with an appreciation of patriotic music and pictures of America. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Peter Blue with Mrs. Ralph Method in charge of the program. Delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. Cutter to the 19 members present.

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Lakeland Purchases Four Chevrolets

Members of the Lakeland school corporation accepted the combination bid Tuesday night of McCormick - Cutter, Inc., of Syracuse and Leonard Supply of Silver Lake for the purchase of four school buses. The buses will be Chevrolets with Superior bodies. The bid was accepted as recommended by board member Charles H. Purdum, Jr., and business manager Marion Lantz. The basic combination bid was the lowest of all bids, the basic cost of the four units being $31,120. Also accepted was the bid of Leonard Supply for an option of plywood floors over the steel floors at $lO3 per bus. Upon recommendation of a corporation bus driver Mr. Purdum and Mr. Lantz also recommended larger gas tanks be installed on the new buses. This would double the capacity of gas carried and save unnecessary trips to the school to fill the buses. Sixty gallon tanks will be ordered on each of the new buses at a cost of $46 per tank. This will make the total purchase price of the four units $31,716. Bus number 50 will be traded to McCormick - Cutter for $250 while buses 51 and 54 will be sold outright to Imperial Equipment Company for S2OO each. A claim was approved by the board for W. A. Sheets, Inc., general contractor, for reimbursement of electrical bills paid by his office for Wawasee high school in the amount of $2,102.96 was approved on a motion made by Mr. Purdum and seconded by Dr. Robert Craig. Approval was given for a request for additional appropriations from existing funds for constructions and equipment for the new high school. A hearing datjg was set for March 4 and proper legal notices will be published. A gym floor covering was purchased from American Brattice Cloth Corporation at Warsaw for use in the new gym. American Brattice was the lowest ladder with S7BO. Also bidding were H and H at North Webster and Syra-Web at Milford. All floor covers bid were of the same quality and weight and were flame proof. Following the regular monthly meeting the board of finance was called to order and a motion

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made to keep corporation monies in the First National Bank of Warsaw, Milford Branch; Farmers State Bank of North Webster; and State Bank of Syracuse. Such action must be taken every other year with the amounts of corporation money in each bank being determined by the deposits of the bank. Because of the deposits in said banks Syracuse receives 51 per cent of the money in the Lakeland accounts while North Webster receives 29 per cent and Milford 20 per cent. All board members, Jerry L. Helvey, Charles H. Purdum, C. W. Kroh, Dr. Robert Craig and Floyd Baker were present at the meeting as were Mrs. Philip Fawley, Mr. Lantz and superintendent Don H. Arnold. Lakeland Calendar The Lakeland calendar as approved by the board of trustees Tuesday night for the school year 1969-70 shows four teacher days and 176 pupil days for a total of 180 days of school. School would start on September 2 for teachers and on September 4 for students. The final day of school will be June 2. The calendar follows: Labor Day — September 1 * Organization Days (Teachers — September 2-3 First grading period — September 4 through October 17 ISTA meetings (teachers institute — October 23-24 Veteran’s Day — November 11 Thanksgiving — November 2728 Second grading period — October 20 through December 5 Christmas vacation — December 20 through January 4, 1970 Third grading period and semester end — December 8 through January 23 Teacher’s workshop — March 6 (half-day) Fourth grading period — January 26 through March 6. Easter vacation — March 26 through March 30 Fifth grading period — March 9 through April 24 Sixth grading period — April 24 through June 2 — q Jerry DeSomer Enlists In Army Jerry Bob DeSomer, son of Mrs. Dorothy M. Fenn of Syracuse, enlisted in the warrant officer flight program in January and will take eight weeks basic training in Georgia and then start flight training at Fort Wolters, Tex. DeSomer attended Syracuse school and was employed by NIPSCo. at Goshen before enlisting.

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