The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 December 1970 — Page 1

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VOLUME 7

Two Wawasee High School Teachers

Hospitalized Following Crash

Mrs. Betty Arthur and Mrs. Janice Baumgartner, both of Syracuse and both Wawasee high school home economics teachers, are progressing satisfactorily but remain hospitalized in room 305 at Goshen hospital, for treatment of injuries received in a two-car crash near Crawfordsville Friday. Mrs Arthur, driver of one of the cars involved in the accident, sustained a broken leg and other lacerations and is not expected to return to her teaching duties for

To Zero In On Planning For Milford Area

The Milford Area Development Council (MAD) hoped to zero in on efforts to plan and zone Kosciusko county by. inviting James Baker, director of the Kosciusko County Planning Commission to the group's January meeting At the regular monthly meeting of MAD, held Monday night at the Milford fire station, disappointment was voiced concerning the apparent lack of progress on zoning efforts that have been long in the planning Invited with Baker will be Don Arnold and Don Frantz, members of the county planning board MAD is planning a ladies night for February, and Paul Kizer’s public relations and coordinating committee is in charge of the time and place. A speaker on community motivation is being sought for the occasion At that time a Milford Citizen of the Year will be named Dennis Sharp reported on Milford Christmas decorations, stating his retail merchants'

Rammed From Behind In Sunday Auto Accident A car driven by Jacob D. Pensinger. 76, of 719 south Lake street, Syracuse, was rammed from behind when attempting a left turn east from SR 13 onto road 4 at 4 p m. Sunday. Driver of the other auto, a 1965 Chevrolet, was Hubert L Miller, 18. of r 1 Middlebury There were no injuries Damages to the two cars in the Middlebury township accident east of Goshen amounted to Si. 100 according to investigating officers Yule Party For Senior Citizens Members of the Turkey Creek Senior Citizens met at the fire station Thursday night for a carry-in dinner and gift exchange Mrs Chester Stiffler, president, presided for a brief business meeting at which time it was announced the annual dinner for police and firemen will be on January 28. Tables games were played for entertainment • during the evening Mr. and Mrs T. Harman were welcomed into the group and Mrs Mamie Stahl was a guest. The next regular meeting will be on January 14 with Mrs Alma Laine and Mrs Earl Treadway as hostesses Pat Finton At 29 Palma, California The address has been given for Patrick Finton. son of Mr. and Mrs Steve Finton of Syracuse, now stationed at California. His address is as follows: First Lt. Patrick Finton 13-A. Cactus. MCB 29 Palms. California 92278

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some time. Mrs. Baumgartner received leg lacerations and the extent of a shoulder injury has not been determined Another passenger in the Arthur car. Miss Claudette Himes of r 3 Warsaw, received emergency treatment at the Crawfordsville hospital for a back injury and was released Miss Himes is a junior high school home economics teacher at Goshen. Off Duty Officer Driver of the other car was offduty state police sergeant

cu.amittee plans to begin work next June or July to map plans for more inclusive community decorations Also under consideration by his committee is the possibility of a Christmas lighting contest. Two members of the Milford town board. Carl Duncan and-T: A Miller, were present considerable time was given over to the subject trf annexation Willis Alt was given the job of seeking out assessments of properties to be annexed, m order that the town board can consider future revenue for purposes of extending town services to the annexed areas. Board members Duncan and Miller spoke favorable about annexing several parcels of land over a three-year period Paul Kizer read a proposal by the nominating committee to divide the office of secretarytreasurer into two separate offices It will be voted on at the January meeting, and, if approved, will be a part of the nominating committee’s report.

TO ALL PEOPLE* AT WAWASEE HEIGHTS A three-act Christmas play. •'To All People”, will be presented Sunday evening. Dec 20 . 7:00 pm at Wawasee Heights Baptist church, Syracuse The play uses a contemporary setting with the story centering around a nominal Christian family whose son brought a girl home for Christmas The guest was made to feel most un welcome until she brings blessing to the entire family Featured in the play are Mrs Tom Jones. Jeannie Insley. Richard Mundy, Mrs Loren Neibert. Mrs, Tom Dorrity. assistant pastor and Mrs Brad Quick. Tom Mullins. Kns Koble and Greg Miller The directors are Mrs Loren Neibert and Brad Quick Pastor Bob Mundy and the congregation cordially invite the public to this event. Injured As Car Hits Calf North Os Syracuse Joel A. Baskerville. 32. of Elkhart, sustained undetermined injuries when his 1967 Pontiac struck and killed a calf which walked onto SR 313 north of Syracuse at 1:10 a m Monday Baskerville was northbound at 50 miles an hour at the time of the mishap The calf was owned by Don Thwaits of r 1 Syracuse Investigating officer Elkhart county patrolman Nelson Stutsman set damage at $175 ALGSBIRGERS HOLD PARTY Augsburgers. Inc , held its annual Christmas dinner on Thursday. Dec. 10. at a North Webster restaurant Serving as hosts for the evening were Senator and Mrs. John F. Augsburger. Mr and Mrs. John B. Augsburger and daughters. Kim. Kerri and Angela, apd Carolyn Curtis and daughters Rita and Carla

Richard Shelton. 30. of r 5 Crawfordsville, who along with his wife, also received injuries in the mishap. The three teachers had been attending a home economics conference at Turkey Run prior to the accident which investigators said was a head-on collision on a curve on SR 47 three miles east of Darlington, near Crawfordsville. Mrs. Arthur and Mrs. Baumgartner received treatment at Crawfordsville prior to their transfer to Goshen.

JOHN F. AUGSBURGER State Senator Augsburger Named To Committees State Senator John F. Augsburger (RepublicanMilford) received his committee assignments at the party’s prelegislative session on Tuesday. The assignments were handed out by Senator Phillip E. Gutman iR-Fort Wayne), president pro tern. Senator and Mrs. Augsburger are staying at the Columbia Club in Indianapolis during the twoday session. Senator Augsburger telephoned his son. John B. Augsburger. on Tuesday evening informing him of the appointments. Ecology He has been named chairman of the Benevolent and Penal Institutions committee, and a member of the Senate Finance. Ecology and Environment. Conservation and Agriculture committees Senator Augsburger represents Kosciusko. Steuben. Noble and LaGrange counties in the general assembly. In the last biennium Senator Augsburger was a member of the committee on pollution, renamed ecology, and has attended sessions, including a national meeting in Boston last summer, since the last general assembly session State Senator Eldon Lundquist of Elkhart, well known in this area, was named chairman of the Education committee Other committee assignments are expected today CAR HITS ICY PATCH SUNDAY Damage amounted to $275 to a car belonging to Tony Mohler. 16. of r 4 Syracuse, and $75 to a utility pole on county road 530 east about one-half mile east of Syracuse when the Mohler auto went out of control on icy surface of a bridge and hit the pole at 12:15 a.m Sunday Mohler was not injured Deputy sheriff Alan Rovenstine investigated. ENTERTAIN FAMILY AT PRE-CHRISTM.AS DINNER Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bray of Milford will entertain their family Sunday at a preChristmas dinner. Those attending will be Mr. and Mrs> Evar Troup and family. Mr and Mrs. Jerry Bray and family and Larry Bray, all of Milford, and Mr and Mrs Charles J. Myers and family of Syracuse

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1970

Church Plans Christmas Celebration The Milford United Methodist Sunday church school will begin 15 minutes earlier this Sunday so as to allow* Jtime for the Christmas celebration that has been planned for all classes. Commencing at 9:15 a.m and continuing until time for the 10:30 Christmas worship, the church school celebration will include the singing of carols, the viewing of a film — “Escape into Egypt,” the presentation of a birthday cake honoring the Christ Child and the serving of refreshments to all. All classes of the Milford church school will be taking part in this time of celebration. Preparations are being made' through the church's commission on Christian education with Mrs. Robert Brooks as chairman. YULE PROGRAM TO BE PRESENTED AT MOUNT TABOR “The Characters of Christmas Meet Christ” will be the theme of the all church Christmas program this Sunday evening at the Mount Tabor Church of God, six miles south of Nappanee at 7:30 p.m. . It will be a program for all the family. The program will contain most all the children of the Mount 1 * Tabor church school and adults of the church. The children’s choir, a special musical number from some of the young people, and other musical number by others of the church will be featured. This is a Christmas program with a point for this Christmas season. The church is expecting a large crowd for this very fine program. This will be a meaningful experience for all the people of the church and community. W. M. Dalton, II Opening Syracuse Law Office William M. Dalton. 11. attorney at law has announced he is opening a law office in the Huntington building at Syracuse Dalton will be in his new office on Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 a m. to 5 p.m. and until noon on Saturdays. He will be available at other times by special appointement and at his present office at 109 Fourth street, Winona Lake, Dalton will begin practicing in the Lakeland town on January 4. CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE PLANNED Christmas Eve Candle-lighting worship will be. observed at the Milford United Methodist church beginning at 11:15 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Dec. 24. Featuring a service of carol singing, scripture reading and the presentation of a number of special Christmas anthems and solos the service will climax at midnight as the candle-lighting ceremony is enacted The Milford United Methodist church initiated this candlelighting worship last year. This year’s service promises to be superior to the one which was entered into by a large congregation in 1969 Friends from the community are invited to join members of the church at this time of candlelighting w orship which will usher in Christmas day. LEESBURG WOMAN IN WARSAW ACCIDENT Warsaw police investigated an accident Friday involving autos driven by Rev. B. G Mueller. 63. of Warsaw and Gretchen L Watkins. 38, of Leesburg The autos collided at South Colfax street and East Center street Damage amounting to S7O was estimated to the Mueller auto and $75 to the Watkins auto.

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AWAIT ST. NICK’S ARRIVAL — In spite of the lack of snow, the Christmas spirit is catching on in the Lakeland community, and many homes and business houses are attractively decorated. One such home is that of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McClintic, who

Governor To Present $3 Billion Budget Today

Indiana Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb will deliver his keynote address to a joint session of the Hoosier General Assembly, highlighting a two-day prelegislative session which began yesterday. A key portion of the address will be the 1971-73 state budget, which for the first time in the state's history is expected to ready the $3 billion mark for the biennium, topping the biennium

Town Board Denies Alley Closing, Winds Up Year

Permission for closing a portion of an alley in the north section of Syracuse was denied at the Tuesday night meeting of the Syracuse town board of trustees. There were 25 interested citizens, in addition to the town board members, attending the meeting, eight in regard to the alley in question. Mrs. Raymond Poynter, a Syracuse widow and resident of north Huntington street on SR 13. appeared before the board at the November meeting asking permission for closing of a portion of the alley immediately north of her home It was noted at this time by town attorney Robert Reed that a petition had been filed in the courts several years ago requesting closing of this alley, and he would pursue the subject if instructed by the board. Mrs Poynter, at the time of her request, added the alley did not need to be used to gain access to neighborhood homes due to other available access and that her means of income involved a day nursery at her home, thus an added desire to close the alley for safety to children. Board members at the November meeting delayed action on the request until all town board members could express their views on the matter, however. Mrs. Frank Bates was not in attendance at the Tuesday night meeting when the decision was announced. Mrs. Ernest Rogers, after checking at the town hall on closing of alleys in the town.

figure of $2.6 billion in the last session. The state budget committee, which has prepared the spending proposal for this session, has estimates of revenue topping the $3 billion for the first time in the state’s history. Lawmakers will complete plans for prefiling bills. The change in procedure adopted to speed up the legislative process will permit bills to go into the

inquired as to why the alley could not be closed as others have been in the past and was advised that alleys were in existence for a reason and members felt they should be left that way. Town board president Byron Connolly added that many of the town sewers and water mains are now being run in alleys in preference to streets and the board is opposed to closing alleys unless absolutely necessary. One Ailey It was noted that the only alley closed in the town in the past seven years by board members was the one at Liberty Homes, at the south edge of town, and that the additional stretch of alley near the Poynter property continues to run through to the next street and is not closed as previously thought. At this point, town board member Willard Nusbaum said. “My personal opinion is that we do not close this alley.” Mrs. Ishmael Rookstool, a resident immediately south of the Poynter property, ask if it was not illegal to back out onto SR 13 as some have been doing and was advised it is illegal Mrs. Rookstool also said there are not three other entrances to homes in the block as previously stated due to metal posts driven into the ground at the alley entrance east of the Carl Godfrey property which have caused damage to an oiling machine used there. Town employee Harley Conrad is to be instructed to check this situation for the board.

reside on the comer of Catherine and Henry streets in Milford. St. Nick, his sleigh and reindeers are on the porch roof wishing passersby a hearty Hi-Ho, and the porch is attractively decorated. The scene is well lighted with colored lights and bright flood lights.

hopper before the January 12 opening of the 1971 session. The first bill scheduled for the senate is the so-called super bill —a compilation of all Indiana laws since 1816 under the name Indiana Code of 1971. The Code will eliminate obsolete laws that were amended out of effectiveness and will provide a base for all other legislation enacted in the 1971 session and future sessions.

When questioned further, Connolly said he felt the alley (Continued on page 8, sec. 1)

BEJi i IN REFLECTION — Following a moment of high glee after the final gun Friday night that found the Wawasee Warriors victors over the Warsaw Tigers, three ardent Warriors fans were caught contemplating the meaning of it all. On the left is Wawasee high athletic director Eldon Vmmel, with Dick Miller and Jim Fry.

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car Hit when SLOWING FOR TRUCK Damages amounted to S6OO in a two vehicle accident on SR 33 near CR 26 northwest of Goshen at 8:25 p.m. Friday. Chester D. Elder, Sr., 39, of r 1 Syracuse, slowed his 1965 Plymouth for a disabled truck ahead of him, and was struck from behind by a 1968 Ford being operated by Gary Roger Riggleman, 28. of Elkhart. No one was injured in the mishap. Elkhart county patrolman Ross Albert investigated. MILFORD BRIDGE CLUB HAS CHRISTMAS PARTY The Monday Night Bridge club of -Milford had a Christmas dinner party Monday evening at a North Webster restaurant. After the meal the following returned to the home of Mrs Karl Hoover of Milford; Mrs. Robert Spearman. Mrs. Don Wolterman, Mrs. Richard Felkner. Mrs. John Perry. Mrs. Leon Newman, Mrs. Evar Troup and Mrs. Glen W'uthrich, all of Milford. Gifts were exchanged later in the evening.