The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 35, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 September 1970 — Page 16

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., Sept. 30, 1970

* w NEW SAND AT SYRACUSE PARK — In-spite-of rain showers almost continously Tuesday. 24-ton of beach sand was delivered for *■ the beach area at the Syracuse city park in the afternoon.A wrecker was also used to get the truck in and out of the pa*f due to soft ground. This sand project is by the Syracuse police department and they anticipate it will take several hundred ton more to complete the proposed area. “It is hoped there will be interested parties come forth to help with the park project." chief of police Orville Vanderßeyden said. If assistance is given, it is hoped the recreational items such as teeter-totters and play items used by the children will undergo rejuvenation for a top-shape park and beach in the spring. Photo by Syracuse police department.

Sgt. Kenneth Leek Participates In Exercise HOMESTEAD. FLA - U. S Air Force Sergeant Kenneth L. Leek, son of Mr. and Mrs Elmer L. Leek of 1827 Rosemont Drive. Warsaw, participated in a recent U. S. Strike Command (USSTRICOM) joint air and ground training exercise conducted at Ft. Hood. Tex. The exercise involving more than 7.000 U. S. Army and Air Force personnel and 100 aircraft, tested the operational readiness and rapid reaction capability of select USSTRICOM ground and air forces Sergeant Leek is an aircraft mechanic in the 45315 t Tactical Fighter Wing at Homestead AFB.

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Fla The unit is a part of the Tactical Air Command which provides combat units for support of U.S ground forces The sergeant, a 1966 graduate of Warsaw community high school, has completed a tour of duty in Viet Nam. Richard Bitner Receives Degree Richard L. Bitner, a 1962 graduate of Syracuse high school, recently graduated from TriState college. Angola He was awarded the degree bachelor of science in mechanical engineering

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14 YEARS AGO. SEPT. 27.1956 Mr. and Mrs. Guy E. Fisher of Syracuse observed their golden wedding anniversary Saturday. Sept. 22. They have three daughters and a son. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, natives of Syracuse, are members of the Concord EUB church. James M. Cecil, father of Donald Cecil of Dewart Lake, died Saturday afternoon at his home in Fairmount. He was 81-years-old. The New Salem Church of the Brethren parsonage will observe open house Sunday afternoon. Rev. and Mrs. Edward Lyons and daughters. Sandra and Linda, would like to meet the people of the New’ Salem neighborhood and the Milford community. Rev. Henry Beer gives account of trip to Japan in the issue of The Milford Mail. Mrs. Beer accompanied him. Mrs Mary Heekaman Phillips. 76. well loved neighbor of the Hastings community, passed away Friday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Charles Ellis at Bremen. Funeral services were held Monday at the Grace EUB church in Nappanee. She was a member of the Island Chapel church. The Silver Thimble club will hold its October 2 meeting with Mrs. Emanuel Steffen at Dunlap Miss Mary Ann Stieglitz will talk on her experience in Alabama. William Baer. 91. of Seattle, Wash., is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. D Barnes He is the uncle of Mrs. Barnes. 24 YEARS AGO. SEPT. 26.1946 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buser left Milford Monday for Rockville. Conn , to make their home. Mrs. Buser was the first British war bride to come to Milford. Sixty members of the Milford Lions club and four guests met at the Milford Case Monday night to hear Paul Bilby. Warsaw mortician, speak on juvenile delinquency The guests were Bryce Rohn, Bob Widmoyer. Albert Henry Bird, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pyle of Dewart Lake. Milford Homecoming at West Side Park today. Miss Lorene Wuthrich and John Tom wed Sunday at three o'clock in First Brethren church. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Phend entertained at dessert bridge Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Burris Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. William Baumgartner. Eldon Beer is employed in the

office of Penn Electric Switch Company in Goshen. His sister, Lorene. started work in the factory Monday. Other Milford girls who started employment there recently are Elizabeth Ann Rassi and Mary Ann Pinkerton. They are rooming at the home of Miss Emma Rassi in Goshen. Mrs. Bessie Newburn of Chicago is visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilson, Laura Mae and Clarence of McNabb, nt, were week end guests in the Wilson home and in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson of McNabb were overnight guests in the A. D. Wilson home Monday. They were recently married and were on their way home from a trip through Canada. 30 YEARS AGO. SEPT. 26.1949 Katie’s Case for school lunches — 15 cents (complete meal). Mrs. Lawrence Maloney of South Main street was a verypleasing hostess to a number of her old schoolmates at a potluck dinner Monday, Sept. 16. given in honor of Mrs. Lida Barth of Pasadena. Calif., who is visiting relatives at Churubusco, where she and Mrs. Maloney attended school. Mr. and Mrs. Roman Slabaugh became the parents of a son. named Larry Parker, last Thursday morning at the McDonald hospital in Warsaw. The Slabaughs also Have three daughters: Mace Hollar reports an interesting trip he and Mrs. Hollar took through southern Indiana and Illinois to the editor of the Milford Mail CONCORD: Mrs. Irene Bucher spent Friday evening in Elkhart with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Poe. Her sisters. Joy and Leona, returned home with her. Miss Leona spent Saturday with Miss Yvonne Bucher. NEW SALEM: Mrs. Laura Driver of North Manchester is visiting at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Ray Ferverda. Mrs. LaVere Vanator gave a very interesting biography of George Washington Carver, negro scientist of Alabama, at the Columbian Reading Circle meeting Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Wilbur Baumgartner. During the business session. Miss Mildred Graff was welcomed into the club as a new member and Miss June Kline was re-installed.

46 YEARS AGO, SEPT. 25.1939 Mrs. Harley Person of Warsaw received painful cuts and bruises Thursday noon when her car was crashed into by Fred Rowe of Elkhart at the junction of Catherine and Higbee streets. Mrs. Kezie Fromer of Greensburg, a sister of H. G. Davis, was struck by a Big 4 passenger train a block from her home last Wednesday. The train is the same train which passes through Milford at 7 a.m. She died in a hospital one-half hour after the accident without gaining consciousness. Another employee of the same store where Mrs. Fromer worked was driving the car. Uriah Mast, a farmer residing 34 miles southwest of Milford, was kicked by a balky horse which he was driving Sunday, breaking both bones of the left forearm. Misses Mary Beer, Gladys Hollar, Almeda Neely, apd Savilla Lutes entered the Elkhart General Hospital Training School this week. The fall class is composed of 17 young women The hottest summer recorded in 30 years came to a close at 12:37 Tuesday night. It was also the driest, the rainfall during the summer being nearly 54 per cent under normal. The Milford Rebekah lodge invites all Rebekas and their families to help them celebrate their 79th anniversary Tuesday evening. Sept. 30. at 6:30 o’clock at the lOOF hall, for a potluck supper.

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YOUTH PROGRAM SET AT MOUNT TABOR CHURCH A very large youth program will be held at the Mount Tabor church, located six miles south of Nappanee and 15 miles northwest of Warsaw at the comer of County Rds. 800 W tand 850 N, this Sunday evening. Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Several hundred young people are expected to be present to hear the Fred David Singers of Fort Wayne presentation of the new contemporary Christian Musical entitled, “Life." This is the new contemporary Christian music that is now being sung by many new Christian musical groups across the country. It is a unique blend of harmony and unprecedented rhythm. It has the implementation of electric guitars, bass, drums, piano.

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cordovox. brass and accordian in a very special way by the Fred David Singers. All this will be done in “Living Color.- This will have rhythm that throbs. Rhythm that pulsates. But above all, rhythm that expresses the answer for today’s youth. The new Christian musical that the group will present will be entitled, “Life.’’, This has recently been published and is being used by many groups of national fame across the nation. The Fred David Singers are composed of 18 young people of the Fort Wayne Area. Every young person in the total area are invited to an unforgetable evening to hear the Fred David Singers. Adults are welcome too, (if you are young at heart). We held a beauty contest in our town once but nobody won.

$1,400 DAMAGE IN EARLY MORNING CRASH Damage amounted to an estimated $1,400 in a 6:55 accident September 23 on south Huntington street, Syracuse, according to investigating officer Lawrence Firestone of the Syracuse police department. The mishap occurred as David E. Showalter, 20, of New Paris, hit a 1970 Ford owned by J. L. Jones, Nappanee, which was parked on the west side of the state road one and one-half blocks south of the stop-light in Syracuse. Showalter, traveling south at the time, told officers he looked into a restaurant just prior to the collision. Damage to the Showalter car was set at S2OO with $1,200 to the Jones vehicle. ”