The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 52, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 January 1971 — Page 3

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SYRACUSE SEVENTH GRADE WINS — Members of the seventh grade basketball team at Syracuse junior high school are shown above. The team won the Lakeland seventh grade tourney at North Webster on Saturday. In the front row are Larry Helman. Clark Coburn. Connie Carr. Bruce .Moore. Clem Lisor. Jerry Yoder. Bennie Morse, Jerry Dean.

Wawasee To Compete In NLC Meet Soturdoy

Wawasee high school sporting an impressive varsity wrestling record this year, including a 50-0 shut-out over Northridge on January 5 and the Goshen invitational on January 16. will enter the third annual Northern takes Conference wrestling meet Saturday The meet will be held in two sessions in the Plymouth Centennial gymnasium Sessions

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start at 9 am, 12:30 and 2:30 pm. >. All eight conference schools will be participating: Bremen. Concord. Manchester. North Wood. Plymouth. Rochester. Wawasee and Warsaw A trophy will be presented to the school winning the tournament and to the school winning the conference m wrestling. The latter trophy is determined by the accumulation

LAKELAND LOCAL Mrs. George Harwood ,of Dewart lake was released last week from Goshen hospital where she had been a patient since Christmas day. She will be going to Mayo Clinic for tests and observation.

Jeff Miller. Karen Moore and Steven Hoopengarner. Standing in back are coach Tom Jones, Cris Prickett. Steve Kroh. Dale Ganz. Greg Adams. Doug Pollock. Mike Luttman, Harlen Hursey. Brent McClure. Randy Leer, Kelly White, principal Charles Hafner. The young Miss in front of Mr. Hafner is Mary Ellen Prickett.

of points in the season plus in the tourney Awards will also be presented to the boys in each weight division finishing in the top four places. Many exciting matches are anticipated with conference officials expecting a good team race to exist between Warsaw and Wawasee. The Warriors were defeated by the Warsaw wrestlers last week 29-24. Wawasee Prep Drops 68-67 Heartbreaker Saturday night, the Wawasee Prep takers dropped a 68-67 heartbreaker to Hamilton at the winners’ gym. With the loss. Prep’s record slipped to 6-7 for the year. The victory was Hamilton’s third against eleven losses. The takers led throughout most of the game, building a lead of 13 points just before the half. However, with 29 seconds to go in the contest, Hamilton knotted the score at 67-67. Prep stalled for the last second shot, but missed. On the rebound. Ed Binzel of the takers committed a foul. Pat Blomeke sunk the free throw with two seconds showing on the clock to assure the victory. Greg Anderson led the takers with 20 points. Sylvester Allen

chipped in 15. while Ed Binzel added 10. The key to the game was the difference of turnovers. Wawasee Prep committed 27 errors, while Hamilton had onlv 19. The Lakers return to action this Saturday night when they play at Westview Junior Bowlers To End Season Play The Saturday Junior Bowlers, comprised of junior high school students from Syracuse. North Webster and Milford, will bowl their final series of the season this Saturday, Jan. 30, at Wawasee Bowl. The last two Saturday sessions were postponed due to the junior high school basketball tournaments and these games will not be made-up. Following league play Saturday, a Hunch will be served for a small fee for those wishing to stay. Awards will be presented following lunch.

South Whitley Bth Grade Downed By Syracuse The Syracuse Bth grade outlasted South Whitley recently for a 52-24 hardwood victor)’. Syracuse led at half-time 28-6 and ne\er relinquished it to the BulldogK. Gary Dean and Jack Schopf led for Syracuse with 13 each. Brad Cox made several ball steals. Prison Sentence For Failure To Register For Draft Darrell Weybright, 18, of r 2 Syracuse and son of Mr. and Mrs. George Weybright. wtis sentenced in South Federal court this week for failure to register for the draft. He is to serve three years at a federal prison and was released until today (Wednesday) when he was to report to a U.S. Marshal in South Bend. Mr. and Mrs. John Hoerr and Mrs. Emma Krauter. all of Milford, visited in Elkhart Monday with Mrs Krauter s sisters. They also did some shopping. On their way home, they stopped in New Paris and visited with another sister, Mrs. Andy Rapp

aULJHPI Thursday - Saturday. January 28-29-30 Two Features ROCK HUDSON . in “HORNETS NEST” and BRIAN KEITH in “THE McKENZIE . BREAK” Sunday - Wednesday, January 31 To Feb. 3 Double Feature ROBERT GOULET in “UNDERGROUND” and ? LEE VAN CLEEF in

Wawasee Swiaimers Lose To Howe

The W’awasee swimmers met Howe Military last Thursday evening at jHowe's “mini-pool” and were defeated 53-42. This meet gives the WHS swimmers a 5-3 record Wawasee was to have met New Prairie last evening (Tuesday), however, the meet was cancelled due to bad weather. Results Follow: * 160 yard medley relay — Dal Ummel, Tom Spearman. Ken Schemekau and Pat Spearman W 1:32 200 yard freestyle — Galleher H 2:06.6, Tony Newman W, Kelly H 160 yard individual medley — Dana Berghom of Wawasee took second with Howe swimmers taking first and third 60 yard freestyle — Payne H.

Fort Wayne Youth Injured In Four-Vehicle Tangle

Brent Mutton. 17, of Homestead Road. Fort Wayne, was injured in a four-vehicle tangle at the north edge of Syracuse near the W illiam Cutter residence at 10:40 Saturday morning. Allan Moe, 18. of Fort Wayne drove onto north Huntington street from the drive at the W. L. Cutter residence with his 1962 Chevrolet four-door pulling a trailer containing several snowmobiles and stopped to pickup Mutton. A 1969 Chevrolet being operated by Nancy C. Ratliff. 35, of r 1 Syracuse, slowed her southbound auto for the Moe vehicle

Named Commanding Officer At Green Bay, Wisconsin

Marine captain Patrick D. Finton and family spent several c|ays the past week with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Finton in Syracuse. A career man. young Finton

H. L. Mencken Was No Athlete

Editor's Note: Henry L. Mencken, lUO-ISM, was an American writer and critic. He helped found The American Mercury in 1524. He compiled "The American Language." This is another in a series on what famous people were like in their teens. By BETT ANDERSON Copley News Service Back in 1893. when Henry Mencken was 13, automobiles hadn’t been invented. There were a few streetcars but they were slow. So Henry and his pals could spin tops, play ball or fight other neighborhood gangs on the cobblestone streets of Baltimore without constant fear of being run over. Henry was no athlete. He was a fast runner but he was skinny, puny, stoopshouldered and clumsy as an overgrown puppy. But if the coaches couldn’t see Henry for dust, at least his teachers thought he was the most. In first-year physiology he had a perfect mark! His grades in English and chemistry were tops. He lay awake at night trying to decide whether he should be a great chemist or a famous writer. Henry was a hungry bookworm. His literary diet ranged from "Huckleberry Finn’’ to "Ben Hur.” He thought Dickens. Thackeray and Chaucer were neat. But.

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Gauss H, Dave Berghorn W. Spring board diving — Kieler H 179.75. Kent Sawyer W 147.80. Hartman H j 100 yard butterfly — Dave Berghom W 1:03.0. Jager H 1:10.3. Ken Schemekau W 1:11.2 100 yard freestyle — Galleher H 54.8 Dana Berghom W 57.7 and Fair H 1:01.9 400 yard freestyle — Tayne H r 4:41.1, Tony Newman W 4:49.7 and Doug Bushong W 5:16.4 100 yard backstroke — Dal Ummel W 1:08.6, Tom Spearman W 1:08.7 and Downey H 1:10.6. 100 yard breast stroke — Ring H 1:13.5, Mike Harris W 1:17 and Steve Schrompf W’ 1:17.7 400' yard freestyle relay — Howe’s Kesler, Gauss, Fair and Bargett with 4:04.4.

and was bumped by a 1958 Buick four-door being operated byRonald W. Graber, 17, of r 2 Svracuse. Following the collision one <jL the vehicles struck the left rear section of a dune buggy parked at the Cutter residence causing it to bump the Mutton youth standing beside the buggy, physician and taken to Parkviewhospital at Fort Wayne for a fracture of the lower left leg. 'Damage was listed at $125 to the Graber vehicle, $275 to Ratliff’s Chevrolet and S2OO to the buggy. Syracuse police investigated.

and his family were enroute from 29 Palms, Calif., to Green Bay. V/is., where ne will be commanding officer of a marine engineer squadron for a period of three years.

try as he'might, he simply couldn’t make it through Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” And he thought anything at all written by Spenser was Dullsville. All the time Henry was reading, he was also writing. At 15, he had filled a fat notebook with verses and essays. His parents were delighted until they found out that the kind of writer he wanted to be was a newspaperman. That was a no-no. His father, furious that Henry didn’t want to, go to college, put him to work in his cigar factory, rolling stogies. Henry was miserable but obedient. He wrote nights and weekends. Finally, at 17, he a correspondence course for would-be writers. Too bad his father wouldn’t give in and let Henry do his own thing. When Henry was 19, his father died. Before many weeks passed, Henry applied to a newspaper office for a job The editor turned him down but he just kept’going to*the newspaper office every day and-applying. He got the job and the rest is history. Henry Mencken became a reporter, a magazine founder and editor, an author, and one of his country’s most controversial intellectuals

Stephen Fox spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Fox of Milford. Stephen is attending Indiana Vocational Technical college at Fort Wayne. Also. Mr. and Mrs Fox entertained Sunday for dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Whitehead of New Paris and Mr. and Mrs. Manis Miller and daughter from Warsaw.

Wed., Jan. 27, 1971 —THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Snowmobiles Becoming Popular, Faster, Dangerous

People keep inventing new ways to injure themselves. Snow, formerly thought of as a downy-soft, protective coating which cushioned the athlete, is taking its place with the traditional hard surfaces as a location for injury. Skiing injuries are r already famous. They run mostly to broken legs and are so common that you are likely to see the telltale, plaster , cast on a leg somewhere when in public places in ski season. But now a new group of injuries is added to the winter scene: snowmobile accidents. A snowmobile, or ski-mobile, is a vehicle which moves across the surface on short skis behind which is a rubber belt. 15 to 24 inches wide, that is driven by a lowhorsepower engine The engine is usually located in front, the driver sitting behind it on a cushioned seat just above the rubber tread which gives the traction Snowmobiles were first assembled in 1958 so it is surprising that the sport has grown so fast. Recent estimates suggest that 1 million or more such vehicles will be in use by 1971 As In the pattern of the auto industry, each year the power used is greater, the speeds attained higher.-.and the opportunity for injury multiplied. Today, a 24horsepower unit can go 60 miles per hour on snow, there is even a special model reputed to go more than 100 m.p.h. <* Most snowmobiles will carry the driver and a passenger: sometimes there is provision for additional passengers to be carried in an attached sled. All in all. there is a lot of opportunity for injury. The chance of accident is compounded by the fact that these machines are usuallydriven over unfamiliar terrain. The surface, covered by snow, may contain boulders, stumps or irregularities hidden from sight. Ih\ddition, common usage sees the drivers taking the machines over bumps at high speeds, to “jump” in the same fashion as the skier.

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As the ski-mobile lands, the driver strikes hard against the seat, producing a sudden bending of the spine forward and a pressure upon the bones which make up the spine. Thus the most common injury in ski-mobile accidents is a fracture of the spine. But ski-mobile accidents can cause fractures elsewhere — the skull, the face. arms. legs, anywhere. In addition, sprains and bruises are reported, which are less severe injuries than fractures but significant nevertheless. Some of the injuries are caused when the patient is thrown from the vehicle. Some occur when the ski-mobile strikes a fixed objdtk Not having any braking device, they are difficult to stop. Since steering is done by leaning the driver’s weight to the inside of the turn, rather than by a steering, device, another factor for accidents and injuries arises. Over-all, ski-mobiles offer ample opportunity for accident anjl injury.’ In this, these devices repeat the history of the auto. Each year. newer and more powerful models are developed to challenge the skill and the judgment of the driver As with cars, the majority of the ski-mobile injuries result from poor judgment in the operation of the vehicle, rather than mechanical defects. Although it i§ impossible to legislate skill and good judgment into the public, some legislation seems in order. State licensing of operators might assure some minimum degree of competence to operate the vehicle. Legal standards about safety equipment. horsepower or perhaps steering and braking devices would also help. With a million vehicles in operation there are a million opportunities for accident and injury. Americans have a newsport. a new toy, the , skimobile. With it. they ceraiply have a new opportunity for injury. Principles of preventive medicine suggest steps be taken to prevent fun-loving; thrill-seeking Americans from maiming themselves with their new gadget.

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