The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 21, Milford, Kosciusko County, 24 June 1970 — Page 32

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Wed., June 24, 1970 GOVERNOR TO ANALYZE STATE’S LICENSE BRANCHES Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb today asked Hoosier motorists to aid him in analyzing the operation of Indiana’s 194 license branches by participating in a post card campaign Governor Whitcomb said he has instructed Gerald W. Habig, Commissioner of the bureau of Motor Vehicles, to place • preprinted post cards in each of the state’s license branches. Habig said the cards will be mailed to branches immediately with instructions to place them in a prominent place for the convenience of persons doing business in the branch. The cards bear four questions the Governor said he wishes answered by Hoosiers who desire more efficient operation of the license branches. The questions are: 1. Did you receive courteous treatment: 2. Was service as prompt as possible? 3. Was the branch neat and clean? ■* 4 Was the branch conveniently located? In addition, space is provided for the writer to jot down suggested improvements. Governor Whitcomb said the post card program is part of his administration's effort to provide economy and efficiency in government with less taxpayer dollars Governor Whitcomb said he has instructed -Habig to keep a careful count of the number of cards sent each branch and the number of responses that are received. "I want a full report to determine which of the state's branches are getting the job done for the citizens.” Governor Whitcomb said. The cards are perforated with the writer returning the question and answer portion.

Fishing Season Opened In Grand Style By Lions 25 Years Ago

The fishing season in Kosciusko icounty, especially the North Webster area, opened in grand style 25 years ago Members ofthe newly formed Lions club of the small Lakeland community struck on the idea of having a festival in honor of the opening of the fishing season. What an idea! Today more than 100.000 visit the festival each year and has achieved national recognition As one views the gigantic parade that will move out at 4 pm Saturday it is hard t 6 believe that the first parade was composed of bicycles and was lead by the high school band That first parade featured three beauty contestants and the town's younger citizens carried

Congratulations To The North Webster MERMAID FESTIVAL LEEDY'S TV Antenna Service TOWER INSTALLATION ROTORS, ANTENNAS & REPAIRS Everything For Complete Antenna Installation Duane F. and Minnie Bell Leedy Phone: 834-2582 North Webster North Webster Package Store WELCOMES YOU TO NORTH WEBSTER’S 25th ANNUAL Mermaid Festival "We Hope You'll Like It Here And Return To Visit Us Again" LOU NIEWERTH — Owner

25th Anniversary PROGRAM INDIANA'S 1969 “QUEEN OF LAKES” MISS PEGGY HUGHES, Syracuse * Invites You To The 25TH ANNUAL Mermaid Festival JUNE 19-27 In NORTH WEBSTER, INDIANA HEART OF THE LAKE AREA SWELL PLACE TO LIVE - WORK - PLAY Enjoy a swell vacation in the lake area Mermaid Festival Week

fishing poles Mrs Dick Peg Kammerer' Klopenstein of Leesburg was the first Queen of Lakes. The 25th queen will be crowned during a striking pageant Saturday night. The first festival was held on the school grounds — an area that couldn't even begin to contain the festival today. Special land was purchased years ago for the use of the festival committee. Here the rides are presently going full tilt and other activities bring visitors to the area. Actually the whole town becomes festival grounds for the week's activities. It’s also hard to believe the festival in 1945 lasted but one day. Today special events are planned for nine days. Activities begin with the Mermaid Ball at 9 p.m.

on Friday. June 19. at the Tippy Gardens and are not concluded until after the crowning of a new queen on the following Saturday. June 27. It’s quite obvious that the festival did not grow from one to nine days over night. After that

MISS ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE — Diana K. Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bailey of Pierceton, will represent the Northern Indiana All Terrain Vehicle club in the Mermaid Festival. She is a 1970 graduate of Pierceton high school. Diann is 18 years old and has brown hair, brown eyes, weighs 110 pounds and stands five feet. 3S inches tall. She enjoy* swimming, dancing. skiing and twirling.

Beamer & Sons LAKE LINE CABINETS QUALITY CUSTOM BUILT KITCHENS Lav&netts, Bookcases, Etc. We Build And Install "ONE MAN TELLS ANOTHER" DU PONT PAINTS 1 Mile North Os North Webster On Highway 13 Phone: 834-4261

MERMAID FESTIVAL PROGRAM • JUNE 19-27,1970 "FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1970 9:00 to 12:00 p.m. — Mermaid Ball at the Tippy Gradens SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1970 THROUGHOUT THE DAY, the North Webster Merchants will feature items for a special sale. You are invited to visit their stores. 1:30 p.m. — Horse Shoe Pitch Contest. 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. — Chicken Barbecue at the fire station a complete meal will be served. s SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1970 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. — Registration for snowmobile drag races 12:00 p.m. — Snowmobile drag races p.m. — Waterball Contest 4:00 p.m. — Key City shows open MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1970 FAMILY NIGHT 4:00 p.m.,— Key City shows present the cleanest and best midway in the Midwest, featuring some 18 rides and various shows. Real entertainment for the family. 6 ride tickets for SI.OO with coupon. Coupons available at all area merchants. 6:00 p.m. — Merchants tent will be open. Stop in and see display. 7:00 p.m. — Giant Treasure Hunt from the sky. Free ride coupons and other values will be dropped from an airplane. Be sure and be there and get your share, kids. 7:00 p.m. — Basketball Tourney held North of the School house. 7:30 p.m. — Little League eliminations. Held on Little League field just north of festival grounds. 8:00 p.m. — Talent Contest eliminations held on festival grounds. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1970 6:30 p.m. — Queen of Lakes Pageant Preliminary Queen judging. Reception held at M 4 M Restaurant, North Webster, (NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC). 7:00 p.m. — Basketball Tourney 7:00 p.m. — Greased pig contest. Three grabs by age limit for cash prizes. 7:30 p.m. — Little League eliminations 8:00 p.m. — Talent Contest eliminations held on festival grounds.

first eventful day the Lions decided to add a week end, then a week, then one day on the other end of the week, then another and shjill another til it now covers the nine day span. The extra days are all to catch the overflow of activities and events.

STATE FARM PRICES CONTINUE SLIDE LAFAYETTE - Indiana farm prices contjhued their two-month Hoosier farmers received two per cent less for their products from mid-April to mid-May than in the previous 30 days. State-federal agricultural statisticians at Purdue university report as of mid-May the Indiana index of farm purchasing power stood at 75; this is three per cent lower than the mid-April level. The Indiana livestock price index dropped to 359, compared with 371 at mid-April. The lower Indiana farm price index resulted mostly from declining prices of hogs, beef cattle, milk, eggs and wheat, the statisticians point out. These declines were partly off set by slightly higher prices for com and soybeans. Indiana farmers received an average of $1.20 a bushel for their com at mid-May; this was four cents more than at mid-April. Soybean prices rose from $2.47 to $2.52 a bushel during the 30-day period Wheat prices averaged $1.29 a bushel, down from $1.32 at mid-April Hog prices averaged $23.10 per

hundredweight at mid-May, compared with, $23.90 a month earlier. Indiana beef cattlemen received an average of $28.20 per hundredweight, 80 cents lower than the mid-April average. Average egg prices dropped from 38 to 33 cents a dozen, and milk prices declined from $5.50 to $5.25

t r—t I I Congratulations To North Webster ° s n 25th Annual | I MERMAID FESTIVAL I I I t * t We Take Pride ... »u „ . I The United Telephone Company of Indiana, Inc., 1 ■ takes justifiable pride in being one of the earliest, most * /Jk; ♦ enthusiastic supporters of North Webster’s fabulous r Mermaid Festival. * | We take similar pride in boosting Kosciusko county’s wonderfully glamorous lakeland area. We welcome * * a the thousands of summer visitors to our lakes and v ’ I I I hope they have a time of their life. l! [ ▼ a So, have fun at the Festival, then tell your friends ■ back home, and bring them with you next year. | t*• z I | WHILE AT THE LAKES t KEEP IN TOUCH " I ♦ * BY PHONE _ j [ WITH FRIENDS AT HOME ' t ' 1 t * t • /<TX, nfe I 9/1 + ... I UNITED TELEPHONE COMPANY; ♦ OF INDIANA, INC. | A MEMBER OF UNITED TELEPHONE SYSTEMS |

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1970 KIDDIES PARADE NIGHT 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. — Reduced prices on midway for kids. 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. — Lady Lions Pork Barbecue. 6:30 p.m. — Cutie Parade Line-up. 7:00 p.m. — Famous Children’s Parade. Starts east of stop light going north on Rd. 13, to school house. You won’t want to miss this attraction. Cutie King and Queen Contest, for boys and girls ages 4-6, will be held in school gym following the parade. 7:00 p.m. — Basketball Tourney. 8:00 p.m. — Talent Contest Eliminations, Festival Grounds. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1970 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. — Lady Lions Pork Barbecue. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. — Weigh-in for Pony Pull at North Webster Feed Mill. 6:00 p.m. — Pony Pull to be held on Festival Grounds. Sponsored by 4-County Pony Pulling Association. Just like the big ones used to do. This should be a real thrill, plan to see It, bring the family. 7:00 p.m. — Little League Finals. 7:00 p.m. — Basketball Tourney. 8:00 p.m. — Talent Finals. 9:00 p.m. —- Drawing for Mermaid Festival Buttons, Free passes to Enchanted Hills Playhouse, 2 bicycles and an outdoor grill to be given away on Festival Grounds. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1970 4:00 p.m. — Key City shows. 7:00 p.m. — Basketball Finals. 8:00 p.m. — Swim Suit Competition — Queen Pageant School gym. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1970 PARADE DAY 1:00 p.m. — Midway opens for school children, all rides they can get for SI.OO between 1:00 and 4:00. 2:00 p.m. — Ski show by Webster Lake Ski Club. May be viewed from west shore of Lake Webster or near town pier, this show is put on for your entertainment pleasure, so don’t miss it. 4:00 p.m. — Parade units will move out, led by this year’s Grand Marshal, Don Newman. Awards will be given for best school bands, best decorated convertible and floats, best walking unit, oldest car, color guard, best mounted unit and best cutie conveyance. 7:00 p.m. — Announcement of parade winners and trophy presentations on Festival Grounds. 7:00 p.m. — Motorcycle time trials at the Trojan track south of North Webster on Highway 13, 8:00 p.m. — Motorcycle races start. 8:00 p.m. — Queen of Lakes Pageant Finals, school gym. Selection and coronation of the '1970 Queen of Lakes completes the contest. 1969 Queen, Peg Hughes concedes her crown and will crown our New Queen. Miss Indiana, Jill Jackson, will perform.during the Queen’s Pageant. 10:00 p.m. — Drawing held on Festival Grounds for tickets purchased from Lion members. To be given away, boat & trailer, camper and mini-bike.

per hundredweight. The hog-com ratio dropped from 20.6 at mid-April to 19.2. This means that 100 pounds of hog were equivalent in value to 19.2 bushels of com. A ratio of 14 to one is considered normal. Prices paid by farmers for production items were generally

unchanged from mid-April. Exceptions were soybean meal, down 10 cents per hundredweight; hog feed (14-18 per cent protein) off 15 cents; turkey grower, $2 a ton lower; com meal, up five cents per hundredweight and broiler grower $1 a ton higher.

| ■ SWCT HAS JUNE MEETING AT REMC BUILDING The Kosciusko county soil and water conservation district met jointly with the SWCD auxiliary in its June meeting at the REMC. Funding for the district’s increasing activities was the first item of business as the supervisors considered applications for McClure and Oliver Lakes conservation camps during the month of July. The cost to sponsor a boy for Oliver Lake is $17.50 and for McClure, $lO. Individuals, businesses or clubs with an interest in conservation of the environment may want to sponsor a boy and can write the conservation office at 518 south Buffalo street in Warsaw or call any morning, Monday through Friday. Plans for the conservation 4-H club tour are still indefinite. Four-H members with projects in conservation will be notified as to the time and meeting place. Suggestions were considered for the district’s fair exhibit. Reports were made on various meetings. The KEEP association meeting will be June 18 at the REMC. Membership cards will be available for purchase at this meeting. Funds are needed to distribute Ranger Rick magazine, a National Wildlife publication, in school libraries. On June 9 a float trip of the Tippecanoe river was made by state wildlife biologist James Me Call with soil conservation • service: Joe Wilson, district conservationist for Kosciusko county: Carl Diehl, conservation technician: and David Harman, student trainee with SCS. The purpose of the trip was to become acquainted with the character of the river and to assess changes that have occurred since a similar trip many years previous. The six counties through which the Tippecanoe river runs, have formed an association as the result of concern for the river’s pollution. An invitation has been accepted to attend a meeting with the Cass county, Mich., conservation district on July 1. New cooperators accepted were: ' Lonnie Hopkins, Seward township; John H. Anglin, Jr., Prairie: Rex Parker, Tippecanoe: John Nichols, Seward; and Paul Kegebein, Van Buren. «