The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 6 August 1969 — Page 23

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REMEMBER ... WHEN IT HAPPENED IN SYRACUSE

ONE YEAR AGO In a special meeting held Monday evening members of the town board accepted the resignation of clerk - treasurer Walter Calnon and appointed Ronald Sharp, clerk - treasurer, Orville Vanderßeyden, town marshal, and Ron Robinson, deputy marshal. Mrs. Lesta Craft was admitted to the Whitley county hospital Wednesday. Tim Yeager left this morning by train to attend the Professional Photographers of America Technical Exhibition being held in the Conrad - Hilton. Madison F. Jones, 86, former Turkey Creek townshjp trustee, died Thursday in the Goshen hospital. Survivors are a daughter - in - law, two grandchildren two great - grandchildren, a sister-in-law and several nieces and nephews. Carl Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theo Thomas, is I aboard the aircraft carrier, the John Hancock, enroute to Hawaii and Viet Nam. FIVE YEARS AGO The Syracuse City I- wide golf tournament will be held Sunday September 13 at Maxwelton golf course. William Buster, Syracuse City park manager, has announced that Sunday, Aug. 9, will be “Beth Annette” day. Proceeds from the park will go to help defray hospital expenses for the infant. Jim Rassi of the Syracuse - Wawasee Water Safety program has announced that Saturday, Aug. 22, there will be a water show at the South Shore hotel. Wilbur Ward was admitted to the Goshen hospital on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Mei 1 ! Laughlin will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sunday, Aug. 9, at a family dinner in their home. TEN YEARS AGO A Gamble Store will open in the Bachman building on Main street by September 1, according to Wymond Luttman, the new store manager. Harry L. Porter, owner and publisher of the Journal in the late 20’s and early 30’s, suffered a severe heart attack July 27 in his home at Elizabethtown, 111. Andrew W. Armbruster, 79, died Thursday in his home. He had been ill several months. Survivors include two sons, four daughters, four sisters, two grandchildren and two great-

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Rooster Crowing Contest To Create Bedlam At The Indiana State Fair

INDIANAPOLIS — Ever hear 25 roosters crowing at ohce? Such a type of bedlam will be in evidence in the poultry building during the Indiana State Fair Rooster Crowing Jubilee, according to Horace E. Abbott, fair board president and director of poultry exhibits. It will be held each day from August 28 to Monday, Sept. 1. Times will be 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28; 10:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 29 and 30, 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 31, and the finals at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 1. It doesn’t matter how loud a rooster crows in this contest — just how many times during a 30minute period. Preliminary competition is held the first four days with the top two roosters from each day advancing into the finals. One counter is assigned to each two roosters and keeps a tally sheet for each. Nobody has yet asked for a recount at last report. There is only one rule for owners or other handlers: You can’t grandchildren. Mrs. Irene Strieby of Indianapolis is here this week in her Kale Island summer home. Vern Brown has been dismissed from the Goshen hospital and is reported to be improving. TWENTY YEARS AGO The Syracuse - Wa’wasee Rotary club will sponsor the showing of a circus here, south of town on August 26. Mrs. Wallace Grayston and Mrs. Chester Kitch entertained the South Shore bridge club at luncheon Wednesday in the South Shore Inn. FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A sailboat race was held Sunday on Lake Wawasee, contestants were Paul Tuttle, Irvin Dietiter, William Dalton and Lowe Ricker. Mrs. Anna Crow and her son Charles Crow and family attended the Hontz family reunion at Wakarusa on Sunday. The Werts farm on the south side of Lake Wawasee is being converted into the Boulevard addition to Ideal Beach by the Michell interests of Chicago. Peter Krefting of Silica, Ohio, was here over the week end visiting friends. Mrs. John McGarity is in the Fort Wayne hospital where she recently underwent an operation lor removal of a tumor.

DAYS

touch your rooster. Outside of that, you can do anything to make him crow. Some clap their hands. Some cluck like a hen. Others cajole their roosters with various sorts of invective. You can even stand on your head or turn handsprings if you think it might help him crow. But don’t touch that rooster or you are disqualified. One strategy that has developed is to keep the rooster in a black box until a couple of minutes before the competition. Then, he gets out of the box, thinks it’s just now morning and crows like mad — theoretically, at least. Rooster crowing contests started as gambling devices among western miners back before the turn of the century. They rapidly are becoming one of the most intriguing aspects of state fairs and are spreading down to the county fair level around Indiana. Roscoe Fraser of Monticello, 75 years old, who originated the contest nine years ago at the fair, says, “Theres’ no sure way of making a rooster crow that anybody knows. That’s why it was such a popular gambling device among the miners. There was no way to fix it.” The contest is open to entries from all over the world and there is no charge to the public for watching it. The grand champion can pick up a total of $55 in prize money, including sls which the Indiana Junior Horticultural Association pays for possession of the winning rooster. Last year’s winner was a rooster named Jake, owned by a Connersville girl, Joyce Wulff. Jake was a Red Pyle old Eng; lish rooster. There were 93 roosters in last year’s contest and Fraser is hoping for an entry field of more than 100 this time. There is the intriguing possibility of a “crow off”—the equivalent of a basketball overtime — in event the competition is close. If there is a tie among two or more roosters, there is a crowoff, a two-minute overtime period in which more crows are tallied. It’s a competition worth watching and listening to if you like something a little different in your fair fare.

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