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Recover Body Os Nappanee Man From TFaubee Lake

The body of a non-swimmer from Nappanee was discovered beyond the drop-off at the Lakeside Park at Waubee Lake near Milford shortly after 11:30 Friday morning by scuba divers who had been searching the beach area most of the morning. Dead is 29-year-old Amos King of Parkersburg, Pa. Recover Body The insert in the above photo shows King’s car as it stood on the beach parking lot. King reportedly left the home of Milo Miller, r 2 Nappanee, on Wednesday and had not been heard from again. He had resided with the Millers for the past I*4 years and when he did not return Miller became alarmed and called the Nappanee police. A search for King was started on Thursday morning. The victim’s black Pontiac Bonneville was discovered on the 1 beach on Thursday. It was unlocked and contained King’s billfold, portable radio, straw hat and other possessions. Friday the search began at the lake. His glasses and a towel were found on the beach, apparently left there since Wednesday. The lake is deep, 80 feet in places, however there is a gradual slope downward for about 40 to 50 feet from shore before it makes a sharp drop. Near the edge of the slope there are deep holes and King may have stepped into one of these. Services Saturday Amish services were held in the Miller home at 1 p.m. Saturday. The body was taken to Pennsylvania for final rites and burial. King is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John King and several brothers and sisters. NORMAN MILLER ESCAPES HURRICANE CAMILLE Norman Miller of Biloxi, Miss., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Miller of west of Milford, and his wife and daughters Kimberly and Tammy, who have been visiting relatives near Milford, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Pike of Claypool, for the past few weeks. Mr. Miller escaped injury, and extensive damages to his property during the Hurricane Camille. His yard, trees and roof were damaged. Due to the postponement of school, and a cessation of his work due to the storm, the Miller family will extend its stay in Indiana. SYRACUSE MEN BOOKED AT WARSAW JAIL Richard Dean Gaerte, 23, and Gerald Gene Baxter, 30, both of Syracuse, were booked at the Kosciusko county jail Friday and Saturday on public intoxication charges.

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

Syracuse Lions Prepare For New Year The Syracuse Lions club board of directors met Monday evening at the Smith-Walbridge camp to review the past year’s activities and plan for the 1969-70 program of activities. All members of the board were present for this first, important meeting. A review of the 1968-69 activities revealed the following projects completed: 4-H trophies, 4-H camp fees, safety patrol trip, cancer donation, Syracuse scout cabin board, Syracuse cub scouts (eight dens), Cardinal school of learning, Indiana Lions eye bank program, Indiana Lions leader dog program, Indiana Lions cancer control program, Kos-Elk Co. Migrant Children’s Service, Wawasee Education, Inc., Lakeland Youth Center, Care — Indian Reservation and combined auction for Wawasee Boosters. A program of activities for 1969-70 Was prepared by the board of directors to be presented to the membership at the first regular meeting. The first meeting of the 196970 year will be held Wednesday, Sept. 3, at the Maxwelton golf club. The evening’s activities will begin with a golf tournament for the membership beginning at 5:30 p.m. The annual bean and steak dinner scheduled for 8 p.m. with the team winning the fish fry ticket sales eating steak and the loosers eating beans. An important business meeting will follow the meal. NEW FAMILIES SHOULD ENROLL CHILDREN New families in the area of the Milford elementary school (Van Buren township) should enroll their children this Thursday and Friday, Aug. 28 and 29. Parents are encouraged to pay rental fees, student insurance and lunch fees prior to opening of school to greatly reduce congestion during the first day of school. Principal Lewis S. Immel is in his office from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and will be glad to answer any questions patrons of the school might have. RETURNS TO MILFORD Mrs. James Stuckman, Milford, has returned to her home from a two weeks’ visit with three maiden aunts, the Garber sisters, at Sapulpa. Okla. Mrs. Stuckman was reared by the aunts.

Milford Board Signs Budget Members of the Milford town board met at the town hall Monday night at 7:30 p.m. for its annual budget meeting. No taxpayers were present. The budget will raise $38,170 and has a levy of sl.Bl in the general fund and $1 in the cumulative sewer fund. The budget will now be sent to the county auditor and the levy will be fixed by the county tax adjustment board or by the county auditor. A hearing will then be held with the state board of tax commissioners. Board members also approved an additional appropriation as advertised following the July meeting. Discussions were held on the streets of Milford and on which ones to resurface. A legal notice advertising for bids appears elsewhere in this issue. The bids will be opened at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9. Clerk-treasurer Edith Baumgartner has received a notice from state auditor of $599.17 being allocated for the town’s use in highway improvements next year. The board also discussed rusty water and ways of correcting the problem currently being found in several areas in the town. Present at the meeting were Mrs. Baumgartner, board president Carl Duncan, member Gerald Martin and street and water commissioner Marion Deeter. VISITS SISTER Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Sauder of Roanoke, 111., were week end visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Beer on r 2 Milford. Mrs. Sauder, the former Edna Rassi, is a sister of Mrs. Beer.

•i ' i M RESURFACING ROAD — County highway employees early this week resurfaced with a fourinch cold mat slightly over a quarter of mile road that joins old and new road 13 just north of G * W Pizza. On the roller is county highway superintendent Burton Retz. Other employees are Merritt Hartman and Wilfred Fritz.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1969

Discuss Feasibility Os Vocational Cooperation

Representatives of the board of school trustees of the Fairfield Community Schools Corporation, Lakeland Community School Corporation and West Noble School Corporation met recently in the administrative office of the Lakeland schools to discuss the feasibility of these tliree school corporations working together to provide a more extensive vocational education program for the students of the three communities. . Although each high school now provides some vocational education to students in their own district, it is believed that a sharing of facilities in the three high schools can provide a greater number of courses. Many programs have a limited interest and therefore can not be offered if the school must depend upon enrollment from one district only.

Consider Discontinuing Two Trains, Now Serving Town Os Syracuse

Two of the four passenger trains serving Syracuse will be discontinued September 11 under a proposal by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The trains are westbound Train 7, The Diplomat* Washington to Chicago, which leaves Syracuse at 2:35 p.m., and eastbound Train 10, The gateway, scheduled locally at 1:35 p.m. on its trip from Chicago to Pittsburg. William F. Howes Jr., director of passenger services for the railroad, said the two trains were averaging fewer than 22 passengers per run and the railroad was incurring a loss at the rate of $195,000 per year in their operation. During 1966, Howes said, the REA Express Company removed its business from the two trains, and in 1967, Railway Main Service postal cars were removed. Still, he said, less than 25 per cent of the trains’ revenue was from passengers, the remainder being in the steadilydeclining mail service. The B & O, at the same time »it announced its proposal to discontinue the two Chicago trains, announced a plan for an improved daytime service between Akron, 0., and Washington, D. C., with the inauguration of new schedules for trains currently serving Washington - PittsburghAkron. Under the ,B & O proposal, only two trains will be left serving Syracuse—in fact, the line will have only two trains west of Akron. These are the Capi-

Students choosing a vocational course offered in another high school would attend that school only for the purpose of enrolling in the particular subject. The grade earned would be transferred to the home school. A resolution was drawn and given to the representatives present to review with their various boards. If adopted, it would permit the three school corporations to enter into a cooperative study of all aspects of vocational education as it might relate to these three school areas. Those attending the meeting were superintendent Marvin Ward and board member Kary Myers from Fairfield, superintendent Glen Longenbaugh and board member Herald Knepper from West Noble and superintendent Don Arnold and board member Floyd Baker from Lakeland.

tal Limited trains, No. 5, Washington to Chicago, westbound at Syracuse at 7:12 a.m., and No. 6, Chicago to Washington, eastbound at Syracuse at 6:59 p.m. The trains headed for discontinuance only passenger trains left at Albion and Bremen, whjch will henceforth be without passenger train service. At Nappanee, stops will be added on the Capitol Limited to replace the two trains that are being dropped. Under the B & O proposal, September 11 is the earliest trains 7 and 10 can be dropped. If the Interstate Commerce Commission orders hearings in the matter of the proposed service reduction, the discontinuance could be postponed 120 days. When the discontinuance goes into effect, Syracuse will be without midday train service to and from Chicago for the first time in perhaps 100 years, with the exception of a few years in the 1950 when the last westbound train left here at about 8:30 a.m. The trains up for discontinuance are but a fragment of what they once were. Sleeping car service on the two trains (train 7 once carried as many as six sleepers, including through cars for San Francisco and San Diego) was dropped in May, 1968. The previous October, dining and lounge cars were dropped from both runs, replaced by a food bar coach serving prepared meals and snacks. Train 7 for many years carried a domed sleeper, and this was

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Jeani Adair Dies As Result Os Saturday Auto Accident

Miss Jeani Marie Adair, 17, daughter of Mrs. Helene Adair of r 4 Syracuse and the late Robert Adair, died at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Goshen hospital of .injuries suffered 12 hours earlier in a one-car crash, one mile south of Syracuse on the old Syracuse-Webster road. Miss Adair, a 1969 graduate of Wawasee high school, suffered multiple head injuries and internal injuries in the accident and was trapped in the wreckage. She was admitted to Goshen hospital in critical condition. Driver of the car, Robert Elkins, 19, r 1 Albion, is listed in serious condition at Goshen hospital. He suffered a jaw fracture severe throat laceration and possible internal injuries. Crashes at Curve State police said the crash oc-

Schools Open September 4

The Lakeland schools — Milford elementary and junior high, North Webster elementary and jtmier high, Syracuse elementary and junior high and Wawasee high school - will open on September 4. All school buses of the corporation will operate on September 4 and will be run in the same manner as during 1968-69 school year. Buses will be scheduled to arrive at the North Webster school and Milford junior high school at 7.52 a.m. and at the Syracuse at 8:02 a.m. School will take up at 8:05 a.m. in Milford and North Webster and 8:10 at Syracuse. High school students from Milford and North Webster who ride on the bus should board the express buses to Wawasee high school from the junior high school buildings. These are buses 16, 18 and 19 at Milford, 21. 22, 26 and 28 at North Webtssr and 32, 35 and 41 at Syracuse. The express bus will leave dropped in the early 19605. The B & O says it will con- ■ tinue to provide passenger train service where a demand is evident, but adds that disinterest in long distance train travel has been increasing steadily since World War 11. The Discontinuance will be effective on the September 11 date unless enough public interest by the traveling public from the communities involved is displayed opposing the proposed discontinuance. All persons desiring so object to this discontinuance should notfy H. Neil Garson, secretary, Interstate Commerce Commission, D. C.. 20423.

curred when Elkins failed to negotiate a curve and his 1968 Chevrolet traveled 200 feet along the side of the road before slamming into a tree. He was also pinned in the wreckage. Miss Adair worked with her mother in the operation of a downtown Syracuse restaurant. Jeani Marie Adair was born in Kosciusko county September 11, 1951, to Helen and Robert Adair. Surviving are her mother; a twin sister, Janna Marlene and a half brother Thomas Clayton, both at home; and her grandmothers, Mrs. Edith Todd, r 4 Syracuse, and Mrs. Letha Adair, IJgonier. Funeral services were held Monday at Ligonier. Rev. Kennard Robinson of the Syracuse church officiated and burial was in the Sparta cemetery, Kimmell.

from Milford and North Webster at 7:55 a.m. sharp and from Syracuse at 7:57 a.m. Teachers’ workshop will be held on September 2 and 3. The students will attend school a full day on the 4th and lunch will be served in all cafeterias. All schools are currently open and principals are in the process of enrolling new students to the community. New Syracuse Budget Approved The Syracuse town board of trustees met Tuesday evening for a special budget meeting. Clerk-treasurer Ronald Sharp read the new proposed budget. After some discussion and questions from the floor, the board approved the budget which will now go to the county auditor. Attending the meeting with Mr. Sharp 'were board president Byron Connolly and members Willard Nusbaum, and Vernon Beckman. Also present were Robert Insley, Stanley Insley, and Earl Treadway.

Wawasee Jay-Shees To Send Christmas Boxes To Viet Nam

Members of the Wawasee Area Jay-Shees are in the process of preparing boxes to be sent to the men who are serving in Viet Nam. Anyone who has a son, grandson, husband or other relative or friend serving in the war area is asked to contact Mrs. Hubert Dunithan at 919 S. Huntington

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JEANI MARIE ADAIR

Eston Claytons To Observe Their 59th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Eston Clayton, Syracuse, will celebrate their 59th wedding anniversary quietly at home on September 3. The Claytons have four children, Eldon of North Webster; Frederick of r 3 Syracuse; Mrs. William (Lucy) Rogers of Syracuse; and Mrs. Kenneth (Verla Carol) Stump of Hampton, Va. They also have 16 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Milford Christian Church Teen-Agers At Round-Up The Teen-agers of the Milford Christian church went to. Lincoln, 111., Wednesday to attend the annual youth round-up held on the campus of the Lincoln Christian college. Richard Fehnal drove the church bus for the young people and Tony Gaff was the youth sponsor.

street, Syracuse, giving the name and address of their loved one. In order to reach the servicemen prior to the Christmas holiday the Jay-Shees have the gift packages ready to mail prior to September 1. They therefore asked all who have addresses to call Mrs. Dunithan immediately.