The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 21, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 June 1969 — Page 1

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VOLUME 6

Now In Progress — 24th MERMAID FESTIVAL

Giant Parade At 4 P.M. Saturday The 24th annual North Webster Lions club Mermaid Festival is underway in the Lakeland town of North Webster with the finishing touches being added to the gigantic two-hour parade set for 4 p.m. Saturday. The parade line is down state road 13 through the heart of the small community which opens its doors each year to the 100,006 persons who visit “America’s Largest Small Town Fete/’ The parade, which usually run two hours or longer, is one of the biggest and prettiest annual parades in the entire state. It features trophies for the best school bands, best decorated queen’s convertibles and floats best walking unit, oldest car, color guard, best mounted unit and best cutie conveyance. State! treasurer John Snyder will be the grand marshal of this year’s parade. One of the biggest highlites of the parade each year is the arrival of the “Queen of Lakes” at the reviewing stand. This year will be no exception and 1968 queen Peggy Dean of Nappanee will be on hand for the parade and for the crowning of a 1969 queen later in the evening. Members of queen Peggy’s court are Rachel Harman, “Miss Etna Green;”Marta Juday, “Miss Flotilla;” Lizabeth Ashburn, “Miss Howard County;” Janet Rocque, “Miss Ski Bee;” Cherie Bueckman, “Miss Leesburg No. 2;” and Beth Ann Chapman, “Miss Milford.” Miss Juday won the contest’s “Miss Swim Suit” title on Friday evening and Miss Chapman was judged “Miss Congeniality” on Saturday. 1969 Queen Competition for the 1969 “Queen of Lakes” began with preliminary judging on Tuesday evening during a reception. The public will get its first view of the candidates on Friday at 8 p.m. when the swim suit competition will be held in the gym and a new “Miss Swim Suit” will be named. The final judging will take place at 8 p.m. on Saturday in the gym with the new queen and her court being named and a new “Miss Congeniality” chosen. Kids’ Night Tbnight is the night for the youngsters with the annual Cutie parade set to go at 7 p.m. and the Cutie King and Queen contest following at 7:30. The parade will march from the stop light on 13 to the North Webster school. The contest is for four to six year olds and will be held in the gym. The week has been a full one. It began last Saturday when the merchants sponsored a special sale, a chicken barbecue was held at the fire station, a record hop at the school and motorcycle races were held at the Trojan track south of town. Sunday was the waterball contest and at 4 p.m. the mid-jway opened for the week. „ Monday was family night and the merchants’ tent was open. The Little League elimination, basketball tourney and talent contest were started and a treasure hunt from the sky was held. Tomorrow ends the Little League and talent contests wit|i the basketball elimination continuing. The 4-County Pony Pulling Association will hold a pony pull on the festival grounds at 6:30 Thursday. Friday is the basketball finals. Saturday is the big day with the mid-way opening at 1 p;m. A ski show will be held at 2 p.m. by the Webster Lake Ski club, the 1967 state champions. It may be viewed from the west shore of Lake Webster or near the town pier. The parade moves out at 4 p.m. with the winners being announced on the festival grounds at 7 p.m. The crowning of the “Queen of Lakes” later in the evening will end this year’s festivities. Gene Berghorn is serving as this year’s festival chairman with Phil Fidler as Lions club president.

SYRACUSEWAWASEE C of C TO MEET JUNE 26 The Syraeuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday, June 26, from 11:30 a.m.

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

until 1 p.m. ai the Driftwood room, Wawasee Golf Course. Continuing of the discussion on annexation, all committee reports and a report on industrial inquiry into this area are included in the meeting.

SINGLE COPIES OF THE MAIL-JOURNAL 15c BEGINNING JULY 2 Beginning with the Wednesday, July 2, 1969 issue of The Mail-Journal, the price of single issues sold over the counter will be 15c. This increase is necessary in order to continue bringing to our readers as fine a local newspaper as the area warrants.

Businessmen Petition To Remove Meters

The Syracuse town board of trustees was presented a petition on the removal of parking meters in the uptown business district during their meeting Tuesday. The petition was presented by businessmen Eldred Mabie and Tom Knoop and contained 18 signatures. Following a discussion, clerktreasurer Ronald Sharp told the businessmen how the parking meter money is used and without it town taxes would have to increase to cover the amount used for street repairs. Since there were only three members of the board at the meeting no action was taken on the petition. Mr. Sharp reported there will be two special budget meetings in July. The ordinances on water and sewer users outside the corporation limits were read and approved by members present. The ordinances had been passed at a previous meeting. Police officer Dale Sparklin, representing the police and firemen’s fair board, asked permission to close off east Main street from the alley by Reid’s auto parts to Harrison street Thursday night, July 10, for a water ball contest. Permission was granted. Police chief Orvil Vanderßeyden told the board the police department furnished material and labor to repair the children’s swings in the city park. Robert Pennick asked for a tree to be trimmed to allow trucks to pass on south Harrison street. The tree is on town property and will be trimmed soon. Fire chief Tom Strickler spoke on the recent decision of the board to have the police officer on duty answer emergency calls. The board said there was some misunderstanding and that the emergency unit would answer calls r JERRY M. BORKHOLDER

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1969

ENTERTAIN FOR SON JUNE 1 Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin, Syracuse, entertained for their son, Glenn, following baccalaureate on June 1 in their home. Ice cream, cake and punch were served to Mrs. Merle Laughlin, Sr., Mrs. Robert Wiles, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bechtel of Syracuse and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Shaffer of Goshen.

as in the past. Also attending were president Byron Connolly, and members, Blanche Bates and Vernon Beckman, and Tom Ketch and Joe Hughes. Syracuse Business Owner Sentenced To Prison Chester A. Reid, Ligonier and Syracuse businessman, was sentenced by federal judge S. Hugh Dillin at Indianapolis to nine months in prison on each of two counts of failure to file tax returns. Dillin ordered the two terms to be served concurrently. A grand jury at Indianapolis indicted Reid in April on charges of wilfully failing to file federal income tax: returns for the auto parts store he operates at Syracuse and auto parts store and lawn mover shop at Ligonier. The business allegedly grossed $196,233 from 1962 through 1964. Reid pleaded guilty to the charges in May. SAVINGS BOND SALES DOWN Joe Ettinger, chairman of the Kosciusko county US savings bonds committee has received a report revealing that the county’s savings bonds sales for May were $42,943 compared with $53,018 for the corresponding period of last year. Indiana sales for May were $10,793,561 and $11,222,165 for a like period of 1968 —a loss of 3.8 pier cent. Thirty - eight of the state’s 92 counties reported sales gains for the month when compared with sales of May 1968. CHICAGOAN VISITING HERE Jerry Hoopengarner of Chicago is spending a few days at his heme at Syracuse and looking after his Lake Wawasee cottage.

In War Zone Two Weeks

Jerry M. Borkholder Killed In Viet Nam

Pfc. Jerry M. (“Jeff”) Borkholder, 20, was killed by enemy motor fire at 1:45 a.m. Saturday, June 21, while on patrol in Viet Nam. He had been in the war zone only 13 days, arriving in that country on June 9. Borkholder, husband of the for-

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‘QUEEN OF LAKES’ CONTESTANTS — These Lakeland beauties are among this year’s North Webster Mermaid Festival “Queen Os Lakes” candidates, who will feature in the Festival parade Saturday afternoon and be in the Saturday night judging at the North Webster junior high school. They met with the judges Tuesday evening in order that the girls might be individually assessed.

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MORE QUEEN CANDIDATES — Other candidates for the North Webster “Queen of Lakes” contest at the North Webster Mermaid Festival appear here. From left are Pam Trantham, “Miss Putter-In;” Ginger Shipley, “Miss North Webster Junior High;” Peggy Hughes, “Miss North Webster Legion;” Carla Singrey, “Miss Flotilla;”

mer Pamela Chupp of Milford, was serving with Company C, 15 TBN, 27th Infantry. He was born at Goshen on August 8, 1948, to Manas J. and Kate (Chupp) Borkholder of r 1 New Paris. He was a graduate of Nappanee high school with the class

of 1967. He and Pamela Chupp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Chupp of Milford, were married in the Bethel Church of the Brethren on June 1, 1968. They had resided in Nappanee where he was employed by the Oser Leasing Com-

From left are Pam Welty, “Miss Etna Green;’’ Pam Painter, “Miss Lake Area Sports Car;” Janet Lee, “Miss Ligonier Civil Defense;” Susie Brower, “Miss North Webster Realtors;” Marilyn Eley, “Miss Argos;” Debbie Flinn, “Miss Mobil;” Jan Rocque, “Miss North Webster Ski-Bees;” Rebecca Kellogg, “Miss Eastbrook;” Charlotte Plum, “Miss Young Republican;” Marcia McFarland, “Miss Akron;” Kay Kaiser, “Miss Milford;’’ and Rebecca Espinoza, “Miss Pierceton.”

Kay Sainer, “Miss Barbee Lakes;” Linda Groesbeck, “Miss Warsaw Jaycees;” Rose-Ann Wolfe, “Miss Wawasee High School;” Joyce Cripe, “Miss Tower Advertising;” K»thy McCool, “Miss North Webster Lumber Co.;” Marta Juday, “Miss Texaco;” and Pam Lewallen, “Miss North Webster Legion Auxiliary.”

pany until entering the service in January of 1969. Mrs. Borkholder is residing with her parents. Surviving with the widow and parents are three brothers, Lloyd of New Paris, Vernon of Milford, and Wilbur at homeland five sisters, Mrs. Robert (Wilma) Ruch

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of Milford, Mrs. Garry (Vera) Graff of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Kenneth (Inez) Schmucker off New Paris, and Orpha and Treva at, home. Funeral arrangement.'} are in complete at the Mishler funeral home in Milfoni.