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VOLUME 7

Merchants, Businesssmen Back MAD Sponsored Clean-Up

A number of Milford merchants and businessmen are backing a paint-up, clean-up. fixup w(?ek being sponsored by MAD The week has been set for April 27 to May 2. . [ . To insure everyone has the needed help to get the job done the area church youth groups are participating in a "Hire A Slave" program. The youngsters and teenagers from the United Methodist. Christian. Apostolic Christian, Bethel and First Brethren churches have agreed to act as slaves in town during the week. All one needs to do to obtain help is call one of the numbers listed in a full page ad which appears elsewhere in this issue. Proceeds paid to the "slaves" go to the chirch youth groups Milford Lions Hear Ivy Tech Dean Wysong Milford Lions Monday night heard an informative talk by ■Richard Wysong, dean of the Industrial Vocational School at South Bend, known as Ivy Tech. Dean Wysong is the grandson of the late Milt W’ysong of Syracuse and a greet-nephew of the late Vem Wysong of Milford. I He said the school serves a five, county area, and has considerable industrial support. He said his school fills a much-needed vocational gap not provided in either high schools or colleges. Olher Business In other business Lion Wayne Sholtey was appointed club boy scout representative and Lions Durward Seely and Arlo Beiswanger were named on a committee to secure a "Miss Milford" candidate for the Mermaid Festival. FOUR ARRESTS BY MILFORD POLICE Four persons were arrested over the week end by members of the Milford police department. Arrested were: Timothy L. Herrli of Osceola for improper mufflers. Daniel Newton of r 5 Warsaw for speeding. Teresa E. Hernandez of Milford for operating a vehicle without a license. Francisco S. Islas of Warsaw for disorderly conduct VISITING SON LN OHIO Mrs. W. I. Geiger is visiting her son. Rev Gerald Geiger, in Springfield. Ohio, this week.

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Lakeland Kiwaris Club Observes Its First Anniversary Monday Night

The Lakeland Kiwanis club celebrated its first birthday Monday night at a dinnermeeting at Syracuse with 74 persons in attendance. Invocation was by Nelson Hunt. Joe Ixmgenecker. president, presided and introduced guests Ed Creighton, president of the Warsaw Kiwanis and Ross Bryner, president of the North Manchester club. The local Kiwanis were co-sponsored by the North Manchester and Warsaw elute one year ago and remarks were heard from each president Remarks were also given by past Indiana district governor Ray Hopewell and division IV lieutenant governor Paul A. Lockwood of Wabash.'Hopewell presented seven perfect attendance pins to local members The Rev. Ralph Karstedt presented the program portion for the evening with an informative. enlightning and sometimes humorous, talk on the blind and how life can be lived normally without sight if faced realistically. The Rev John Weeks offered benediction. Name Projects Although the local club has a brief history of one year, its accomplishments have been many including the Travelogue Senes for the community. Some of the projects either completed or in progress are: a large projection screen for Wawasee high school; special convocation for students of the high school; three Wawasee athletes being sponsored to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp in North Carolina: prayer cards in local restaurants; four tulip trees planted this week at Wawasee high school. Also, jointly sponsored with the North Webster PTO, Brownie troops 63- and 102; and distribution to junior high and high school students, booklets entitled "Deciding about Drugs" and “You and the Law.”

SUNDAY IS RUBELLA DAY Sunday is Rubella Day and Dr. Floyd Rheinheitner will be at the Milford junior high school from 12 noon until 4 p. m. giving the rubella (German or three-day measles) immunization to children between the ages of one and 12. A light fee will be charged to cox er costs.

Holdermans Buy May Stores In Milford Friday Mr. and Mrs. Clarence "Tiny” Holderman of Goshen, summer residents of Waubee lake, purchased the May Stores 5 and 10 on Main street in Milford last Friday from the estate of the late May Dewees. Mr. and Mrs. Hokierman will take possession of the store this week end and plan to do some painting and cleaning up. They will open for business as soon as possible. The Holdermans owned the local drive-in and ran it under the name of “Tiny’s” for several years during the 1950 s. Syracuse Lions Nominates Cutter Syracuse Lions have nominated William L. Cutter for the Herman R. Goodin Civic Service Award sponsored by the Automobile Dealer's Association of Indiana. Inc. This award is given annually to a franchised dealer for outstanding civic service. Mr. Cutter, associated with W. L. Cutter Chevrolet, has been in business for 20 years. He is married and the father of two children. Sue (Mrs. James Hiatt) who is a student at Ball State university and William Jr., a student at Wawasee high school A past president of Rotary, Cutter received the Service Above Self Award for the completion of the Junior league ball park. He is a member of the 8.P.0.E. Lodge 425, the Lakeland Community Distributive Education Committee, past member of the Zoning Board of Appeals, past president of the adult board of the Lakeland Youth Center, chairman of the Syracuse Jr. League Baseball Park Committee. Cutter is a member of the Saint Andrews United Methodist church, and an active participant in many community affairs. VISITED LN SOUTH BEND Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rader of r 3 Syracuse visited with Edna Sassacht and family in South Bend on Sunday.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1970

Contemplates Legal Action —

Annexation Pot Boils As Citizens Protest Action

The subject of annexation appears to have opened a Pandora’s box in Syracuse.

Judging from the 50-odd Syracuse area residents who showed up at the town board meeting last night, the overmajority in protest to the town board’s approval of the three annexation ordinances, the subject of annexation is far from a closed issue. The entire evening was given over to hear citizen protests to annexation, and following the meeting town board president Byron ’ Connolly thanked those present for the orderly manner of their presentations. Speaks For Area 1 Dee 37 North Shore Drive (r 4). a resident of the Syracuse area since 1935, spoke for area 1 protestors. He said his group had secured all copies of The Mail-Journal for the past year, scanning them thoroughly for articles that had any bearing on Syracuse annexation. He read the parts of newspaper articles that dwelled on annexation, stating each article was "after the fact." He rapped the town board and the Syracuse chamber of commerce, sponsors of the annexation proposal, for its lack of publicity. Mr. Stiver said residents in area 1 will not benefit from annexation. “We already have our security lights, septic tanks and garbage disposal units," he said. He said roads in area 1 are now well kept, but that if the town takes them over, they will soon be filled with chuck holes like streets within the town of Syracuse. He said area 1 residents, furthermore, are not contaminating the lake. He said bis group contacted 57 residents of the 61 who reside in area 1, finding 44 (77 per cent) against annexation, five (9 per cent) in favor, and eight (14 per cent) non-committal. He asked the town board to rescind the annexation ordinances, and submitted a petition bearing signatures of area 1 residents. Cart Before Horse Jerry Herbison said it appeared to him the town board had (Continued on page 5. sec. 1»

G-W Pizza Closes Pizza Production Line G-W Food Products closed its pizza production line here Friday and transferred that portion of its operation to its new plant at Archbold, Ohio, it was learned this week. Robert Spearman, who has managed the Syracuse plant, remains a resident of the Dewart Lake area, but is in charge of the Archbold plant of Beatrice ! Foods. The company, at the height of its production employed nearly 100 persons and produced nearly 25,000 pizzas daily for a national market. Its employment will be cut to about 17 persons who will work on the bakery line here. The third pizza trick was closed on March 1, while the second pizza and bakery trick were closed March 20. Then, the first pizza trick was closed on Friday, April 17. Began In Michigan jG-W Foods began production at Mendon, Mich., in 1954. and opened production in the Syracuse area in 1959 in the building they leased from Charles and Helen Langley In the year 1960 the company expanded its facility, adding a bakery, and in 1965 a storage facility was added to the rear of the main building. On March 15, 1963, announcement was made of the merger of G-W Food Products with Beatrice Foods, Inc., and GW Foods has operated as a subsidiary of Beatrice Foods Co., since that time. The building in Archbold, Ohio, where the company is moving its pizza production has a floor space of 84,000 square feet. Attend Moose Dance Mr. and Mrs. Terry Beatty of Milford and Mr. and Mrs. Karl 1 Lange of Goshen attended the dance at the Goshen Moose Lodge Saturday evening.

f Brßw' > IS BOAT SHOW COMING — Dale Butt, foreground, is general manager of the Wawasee Boat Company, and Bob Willits is manager, both making plans for the annual Boat Show to be held at their company showrooms from Wednesday through Sunday, April 22-26. The company purchased Merrill’s Marina from Merrill Norris in March of this year, and the Boat Show will be held at those showrooms at the same time. The two marinas will feature a full line of boats, motors, trailers, and pontoons, with a full marine service.

Changes Given For B&O Trains Minor adjustments will be made in the schedules of the two Baltimore and Ohio railroad passenger trains serving Syracuse, according to Joe Hacker. Chicago, regional B&O passenger sales manager. The changes will become effective Sunday, April 26. Eastbound Train 6, The Capitol Limited, will leave Chicago five minutes earlier, at 3:50 p.m. It will reach Syracuse three minutes earlier—at 7:26 p.m. local time. Times at points to the east of Syr-acuse-Garrett. Ind., and points in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland—will be unaffected. The train arrives in Washington, D. C., at 10 a.m. Westbound Train 5, The Capitol

Limited, will continue to leave Washington at 4:40 p.m. It will reach Syracuse two minutes earlier—at 7:18 a.m. local time. Chicago arrival of 9:15 a.m. at Northwestern Station will be unchanged. •Hie trains are the only two running between Chicago and Washington. They offer full coach, lounge, sleeping and dining facilities, and a number of travelers from as far away as Elkhart and Columbia City and Warsaw come here to use them in both directions. L. KAMMERDIENERS CARE FOR CHILDREN Beth, Steve, and Joe, children of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Savage of Syracuse, spent a recent week end with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kammerdiener and family of Syracuse while their parents were in Chicago.

NUMBER 12

JAY-SHEES ATTEND SHOW North Webster Jay Shees members attended a fashion show Monday evening given by the Syracuse Jay Shees. This affair replaced the April meeting, however, the May session will be held as planned. MRS. JUDI BURLESON JOINS HUSBAND Mrs. Judi Burleson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Dippon left last Tuesday morning to join her husband, Harry G. Burleson at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla., where he is completing his advanced AIT training. Their address is: 2309 38th Street Colonial Apts. 32 Lawton, Okla. In July Burleson will start officer’s candidate school in Washington, D.C.