The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 5, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 March 1969 — Page 1

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Official Dedication Os New Wawasee High School Scheduled For Sunday Afternoon

Phil N. Eskew, commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, will be the speaker Sunday as Lakeland residents gather in the gymnasium of their new high school for its official dedication. Wawasee high school was oppned in the fall of 1968 and houses freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors of the Lakeland Community School Corporation. Th? program will begin at 1:45 p.m. with selections being played by the Wawasee high school band directed by Joseph Judkins. The National Anthem will be played at 2 p.m. and will be followed by the invocation by Rev. Merrell Geible. Varner Chance will then lead members of the high school chorus in singing the school hymn. v Jerry L. Helvey, president of the school board, will give the welcome and make introductions Floyd H. Baker, secretary of the board and a former member of the IHSAA, will introduce Mr. Eskew. The chorus and orchastra will close the program with “Gloria" from the 12th Mass by Mozart and the prayer of dedication will be given bv Rev. Geible. Dismissal instructions will be given by superintendent Don H. Arnold and persons will be allowed. to tour the school. The day's speaker, Phil N. Eskew. was born and reared in southern Indiana. His study in the fields of education and law at several Indiana colleges and universities has earned him BS and MS degrees and an honorary- LLD degree. His experience includes working at many trades while getting his education, teaching positions and serving as coach, athletic official, dean of boys, principal and superintendent of schools in various sections of Indiana. He worked as public relations director with Minneapolis-Honey-well at Wabash for several years. He is a member of the Masons. Scottish Rite. Shrine, Elks, past president of Rotarv. teacher and trustee of the Methodist church. Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity and Indiana high school athletic council. Mr. Eskew has spoken to over one-half million people in more than 2.000 audiences, many of them return engagements. He has appeared at many industrial conventions, service clubs, commencements, church groups women's clubs, farm organizations. educational institutes, athletic banquets and Chamber of Commerce meetings throughout th n midwest. He has a homespun Hoosier philosophy that holds his audience's attention completely. He combines fun. horse-sense and entertainment until he is one of

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

SPECIAL PAPER IN THIS ISSUE A special Wawasee high school dedication paper is enclosed with this paper. It contains information on the school and the activities of the students phis contractor and merchants’ congratulations to the school. We suggest you keep it for a souvenir of Wawasee’s dedication. Indiana's most popular and sought after speakers. Although his talks are highly entertaining, he never fails to leave some wholesome philosophy for his listeners. Milford Lions See Indianapolis 500 Mile Race Film Milford Lions saw an Eckrichsponsored color film of the 1968 Indianapolis 500-Mile Races at their Monday night meeting at the Hickory dining room, shown by Lion Phil Campbell. ' The club discussed a forthcoming pancake and sausage supper it plans to hold as a benefit for the Nancy Hunsberger fund. The date has not been set. Dennis Sharp outlined plans for the club’s annual calendar sale, a fund-raising project it has sponsored for a number of years. Club president Robert Wolferman named the following Lions to a nominating committee: Durward Seely. Dennis Sharp, Leon Newman, Glen Treesh and Raymond Pinkerton. WAWASEE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH HAS CONTEST The Wawasee Heights Baptist church, Syracuse, is sponsoring a summer camp contest for all interested young people from eight years of age through high school. The contest runs from March through June. Those who attend Sunday School and church for at least 14 Sundays will get to go to camp free of charge for one week. Those who attend at least nine Sundays will get to go for half price. If they attend less than nine Sundays, one dollar will be deducted from their camp fee for each Sunday attended. Young people will attend the Crystal Lake Baptist Youth Camp, five miles west of Warsaw. which is owned and operated bv the Indiana Fellowship of Regular Baptist churches. Pastor Robert Mundy and members of church urge area young people to take advantage of this opportunity.

I? 1 Ib f > nr-***' W MtW'V. H PHIL N. ESKEW Dedication Speaker DUAL BLOODMOBILE VISIT PLANNED FOR TUESDAY MAR. 25 The Kosciusko County Red Cross Bloodmobile will make a dual visit Tuesday, March 25. The unit will be at the Pierceton American Legion hall from 12 to 6 p.m. with Mrs. Glen Butz, Red Cross board member from Pierceton, in the charge. On the same day from 1 to 5 p.m., six beds will be set up.at the United Methodist church in North Webster. Mrs. Jack (Blanche) Rhoades and Mrs. James Athens are in charge at North W’ebster. Pythian Club Meets In Kammerdiener Home The Pythian club of Syracuse met February 27 in the home of Mrs. Lloyd Kammerdiener with Mrs. Catherine Babcock and Mrs. Doris Mohler as hostesses. A potluck dinner at noon was enjoyed by 11 members, two guests, and two children. There was a short business meeting. The afternoon was spent playing games. Winners were: Mrs. Herbert Blue, first; Mrs. Bevon Crafton, second; and Mrs. Ella Unrue, third. Mrs. Unrue also won the door prize. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Agnes Stiffler with Mrs. Edgar Kuhn an co-hostess. Community Choir To Sing At Sunrise Service A community choir under the direction of Varner Chance, music co-ordinator of the Lakeland Community School Corporation, will sing at the Easter sunrise service on April 6. The service is sponsored by the Syracuse Ministerial Association. Practice will be conducted at 3 p.m. in the Saint Andrew's United Methodist church at Syracuse on March 16. 23. and 30. Anyone wishing to participate in the choir should attend these three practice sessions.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 5, 1969

Hire Fort Wayne Man As Highway Superintendent The Kosciusko county bo\rd of commissioners, meeting Monday at the court house/ inO arsaw, hired a new county highway superintendent, to assume the reponsibilities of Charles Cleveland whose contract was not renewed at the board’s first meeting early in January. The new superintendent is Berten A. Retz, 31 years of age and the father of two children. He giaduated from high school at Manchester, lowa, and graduated from the Indiana Technical college at Fort Wayne. The new superintendent is a. licensed engineer, having been • project for the state highway department since 1964 and assistant project engineei- before that. He will begin his new duties on April 1, at a salary of $13,000, according to Maurice Dorsey, commissioner from the northern district. The motion was made to hire Retz by commissioner Maurice Dorsey, and seconded by Harvey Anglin, president of the board of commissioners. Commissioner Frederick Gilliam abstained from voting.

Carl R. Tuttle Named New Bank Board Chairman Carl R. Tuttle of Indianapolis and Lake Wawasee has been named chairman of the board of the State Bank of Syracuse, succeeding Harold W. H. Wellman who resigned effective March 1. Mr. Tuttle will continue to reside in Indianapolis and at Lake Wawasee in the summer. He has been a lifelong resident of the Syracuse area and of the Indianapolis area for the past 17 years. He is a graduate of the Culver Military Academy and Indiana university. He has been assistant treasurer of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Indianapolis since 1952. Robert Jones, who has been president of the State Bank of Syracuse, has been named to the position of president and chief executive officer. Wellman To Michigan Mr. Wellman has accepted a position as chairman of the board of the Central National Bank at St. Johns, Mich., and assumed these duties March 1. The Wellmans have sold their home on Lake Wawasee, but will continue to reside here for some time. Both Mr. Wellman and Mr. Jcnes came to the Syracuse bank in 1964 during a reorganization of the bank. BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR DAUGHTER Mrs. Maxine Warner, Syracuse, gave a birthday party, Sunday to help her daughter, Laura celebrate her third birthday. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Leiter of Silver Lake and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Warner and Jerry of Nappanee.

CATHY MOORE PLEDGES AT WESTERN MICH. Cathy Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Moore of Syracuse Lake, has pledged to the Alpha Phi Sorority at Western Michigan university, Kalamazoo. STORY HOUR SATURDAY AT LIBRARY There will be a story hour at the Syracuse public library beginning at 10:30 Saturday morning for all ages.

■ Jubilant Warsaw Tigers

On To Elkhart

TNmsmi Tigers Win Sectional In Thriller

By BEN FOWLER Mail-Journal Sports Editor Phenomenal — sensational—im-. possible! These were words one heard following Kim Essenberg’s jumper at the buzzer that gave Warsaw a sectional championship. With 22 seconds remaining in the game, a Triton team that was supposed to be no match at all for the Warsaw Tigers was down only two points and had the ball. The Triton five worked the ball for what they thought was the last shot and made it to tie the score at 49-49 with six seconds remaining. Hysteria prevailed. Warsaw called time out to plan their strategy. Two passes got the ball to Kim Essenberg, 6’ 6Ms” star center for the Tigers. Essenberg dribbled to the corner with two men on him, went up and swish — that was the ball game! The stubborn Triton team got into the finals by beating Akron 6362 in an afternoon thriller. Warsaw did away with Mentone on Thursday evening and a tough Rochester team Saturday afternoon to reach their final berth. Rochester downed Wawasee’s five to win the right to play Saturday. Triton outscored Warsaw in the final period, taking a 15-12 first stanza lead. Their lead remained three points at the half, the score 25-22. The Tigers came back to lead 39-36 at the third quarter mark and then led by as much as eight points in the last quarter, only to have the Triton five come back to tie with six seconds remaining. Kim Esssenberg’s 13 led the winners, followed by John Knisely with 12. triton’s Don Long netted 16 for the game high. Randy Glingle chipped in with 13 for the loser’s cause. Warsaw will now meet Larwill at Elkhart on March 8 in the regional tourney. The box score of the finals follows: WARSAW (51) — Knisely 524, Watkins 101, K. Essenberg 533, Landis 163, Goshert 321, and B. Essenberg 321. TRITON (49) — Long 724, Trowbridge 310, Glingle 532, Cook 314, Feldman 224, and Kuhn 003. RESULTS OF WARSAW SECTIONAL TOURNEY Warsaw 66, Mentone 46 Rochester 62, Wawasec 50. Triton 63, Akron 62 Warsaw 66, Rochester 55 Warsaw 51, Triton 49 (Finals)

Pork Board Named At Milford Monday

Members of the Milford town board named a park board Monday night. The new board will work with members of the town board in operating the lakeside park at Waubee Lake. Appointed were Dean Troup, as a representative of the township; Mrs. Wilfred Wolknan and Ignacio • Savoy) Villavalos. The board gave its approval for Milo Clase, county Civil Defense head, to come to town and hold a meeting. Mr. Clase had contacted beard president Carl Duncan about holding such a meeting, stating there were several persons in Milford interested in forming a CD unit. Street and water, commissioner Marion Deeter told the board residents are once again hauling in gravel without permission. Many are raising property levels above the street level and causing problems. The board gave him permission to grade down all such places as he sees fit. Police chief Don Drake consulted with town board members and attorney William I. Gerrard in reference to volunteer help for the police department. Gerrard advised that all volunteers be ap-

Lakeland Teachers Vote Against Work Stoppage

Lakeland teachers met Tuesday night after classes were dismissad and voted against a work stoppage. Teachers in Indiana have been objecting to proposed legislation regarding state aid for Indiana schools during the next biennium. Indiana State Teacher AssociaSenior Homemakers 4-H Club Meets The Senior Homemakers 4-H club met at the home of Marla hoover on February 18, at 7 o’clock. It was decided by the .members present that on March 11, they would go roller skating. Mrs. Carlton Beer passed out the project books. Vicki Mehl and Marla Hoover gave demonstrations. Refreshments were served and th? meeting was dismissed.

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proved by the chief of police and the town board and their names be written in the town’s minutes. He also stated these men would work only when asked to do so by the chief of police. The board agreed to follow Mr. Gerrard’s suggestion. Since Charles Hall has asked to become a volunteer the board gave its stamp of approval and his name was written in the March minutes. « Chief Drake stated officer Jon Hershberger had been asked if he needed extra help on the week end and Hershberger had said he did not except in an emergency. When an emergency occurrs he calls chief Drake. Drake will meet with attorney Gerrard at his office in Warsaw later in the month to discuss amendments to laws now governing Milford. A contract with Layne-Northern was signed for service on the town’s wells during the next year. Bud Widner of Baxter and Woodman, Civil and Sanitary Engineers of Crystal Lake, 111., was present and a lengthy discussion was held on the proposed sewer system for the town.

tion members have threatened a mass walkout in protest. Recently a mass rally was held in Indianapolis as protest to the actions being taken, or not being taken, by the assembly. More than one-fourth of the state’s 50,000 IST A members were in attendance. NO SCHOOL FRIDAY Students will not attend school in the Lakeland corporation on Friday to allow teachers to attend a workshop. Teachers will meet at Syracuse for curriculum evaluation and planning and adopting text books for the 1969-70 school year. HOME FROM FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Soule, r 3 Syracuse, have returned to their home from the winter spent at Tavares, Fla.