The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Milford, Kosciusko County, 10 February 1971 — Page 7

I I LIGONIER NEWS By Rose Cunningham Crockett Named Noble County Tireman Os Year' Dean Crockett has been chosen as “Noble County Fireman of the Year” by the Noble County Firemen’s Association/ The selection of Mr. Crockett was made by the association at a recent meeting held at LaOtto. 'Die honor was very much deserved by him as he had served for 41 years on the Ligonier volunteer fire department He retired last year because of ill health and now spends his winter months in Florida Industrial Development Corp. Meeting The Industrial Development Corp, of this city held its annual stockholders meeting Thursday evening in the community room of the bank The board re-elected all last years officers and directors. They are: Thomas Conner — president Robert Moser — vice president Samuel Patton. Jr — treasurer Howard Heckner — secretary. Directors’ are Howard Heckner. Joseph Glaser and Loren Kaufman Discussion was held on the proposed air strip It now appears as though this lad is unsuitable for the purpose because of leveling costs New efforts will be made to locate more suitable ground —L— Arthur Kile Is Tomato Champ * Arthur Kile, r 1. is the 1970 Indiana processing tomato growing champion. His winning overall average yield was -30.71 tons per acre Announcement of Kile's achievement came at the Indiana —Canning Raw Products Conference's annual banquet at Purdue university. The winner

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April 1 Set For Date To Occupy West Noble High

The West Noble school board discussed the progress of the new high school building at the February meeting. Superintendent Glen K. Longenbaugh reported that the academic wing is nearing completion. Furniture is being delivered and science equipment is expected to arrive this week. The tentative date for occupancy of that wing is now set for April Ist. Trees and shrubs will be sent to be planted on the grounds, amounting to about $2,000 in cost and will be donated by a federal nursery. The large timber on adjoining land is to be retained as it is, with nature trails to be extablished for use as an outdoor biology laboratory. The disposal of the old North Elkhart and Kimmell school

received a plaque, presented by William B. Stokley 111, president of the Indiana ’Canners’ Association Kile's top yield came' on 115 acres. The state's average yield for 1970 was 19.68 tons per acre as compared to 15 tons per acre in 1969. Musicians Make Good Showing West Noble Instrumental Musicians made a good showing at the District Solo and Ensemble Contest held at Angola. From the junior and senior high school musicians there were eight superior ratings, twentyfive excellent and three good ratings. Placings were as follows: Superior — Rose Zarse, clarinet; Jeanna Cormican, flute; clarinet duet. Burns; clarinet duet. Miller; Flute duet - Cormican. Clarinet duet. Shell; Flute, - Clarinet duet, Bitner and French Hom duet. Reynolds. Excellent — Mickie Ryan, flute; Debbie Beam, flute; Janell Frick, clarinet; Mary Lou Miller, clarinet; Pia McLallin, flute; Bob Davis, cornet; Lynn Hursey. clarinet; Cindy Hartman, oboe; Cindy Eamhart, clarinet; Wanda Buckles, clarinet; Bob Crowder, snare drum; fiut>«:larinet duet, Ryan; clarinet. McLallin; comet duet, Davis; Drum trio, Medsker; flute duet, Moore; flute duet, Mynhier; clarinet duet, Miller; clarinet duet, Buckles; flute trio. Moore; clarinet trio, Bornner and saxaphone quartet.

buildings after treir use is discontinued at the end of this year, was discussed The board also made plans to go over all personnel of respective buildings with their principals. Richard Shearer was hired as head custodian of the new building and other custodian assignments were discussed. Contracts were signed with Steve Hursey. bus driver; and John Blosser, elementary art teacher. Members of the West Noble board will be attending a meeting with members from Central Noble and East Noble boards, at Albion, on February 16. They will also meet with board members from LaGrange, Noble, Stueben and DeKalb counties on March 18 at Auburn to discuss the new special education requirements of the state.

Good — Lori Bitner, flute; clarinet duet. Stoner, and french hom quartet. COMMUNITY NEWS Miss Rita Blue is spending her semester break from Indiana university with her mother. Mrs. Graydon Blue. Mrs. Dean Hite and her sister, Mrs. Charles Thomas, of Elkhart, spent last week with Mrs. Hite’s daughter, Mrs. Charles Schuckel at Battle Creek, Mich. Ed Clark, custodian at the Ligonier high school, is recuperating from a bout with hepatitis at his home in Ligonier. Mrs. Arthur McLemore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merle McDonald, is spendings her husband’s R and R leave with him in Hawaii. H§ is in the service in Viet Nam. Pfc. David Mehl, who recently spent his 30-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Mehl, has had his assignment changed from overseas duty in Viet Nam to Fort Hancock, N.J. Mr. and Mrs. John Toby Hayes of r 1 Ligonier are parents of a «• daughter, bom Wednesday, Jan. -27, at Goshen hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Saggars and son. Tommy, of Ligonier, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Viars, of Kendallville, were dinner guests of Mrs. Jacob Saggars on Sunday. (. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haab and Mrs. Haab’s cousin. Miss Emma Levy, all of Bluffton, spent Sunday in Milford with Mr. Haab’s brothers and sisters.

Boy Scouts Act On Youth Involvement The youth of America is seeking a bigger piece of the action, and the Boy Scouts of America are giving it to them. Bob Schott, president of the Pioneer Trails Council, which serves Elkhart, Kosciusko and LaGrange counties, points out that the purpose and prime methods of scouting will remain the same, but in the time ahead there will be greater flexibility and more boy involvement in the planning of their growth and development. “Youth participation is now an important factor in all levels of scouting.” Schott said, “Including camp forums and activity planning.” Nationally there are four youth participants, representing exploring to the National Executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, and these young men are planning and carrying out the programs for 1971, which includes the National Explorer Presidents Congress to be held in Washington, D.C., June 2-6, and the National Conference of the Order of the Arrow at the University of Illinois, August 2428. There will be 12 young men elected at the latter event to serve as an advisory committee for the Boy Scout National Jamboree to serve as an advisory' committee for the Boy Scout National Jamboree to be held in 1973. “PROJECT SOAR,” which stands for Save Our American Resources and is a yearlong National Conservation Good Turin for the 8.5.A., is also ah example of youth involvement, Norman Sill, Council Project SOAR chairman, said. “This ecological activity will have boys sharing at all levels in the planning and execution of local conservation programs. Beginning in February, and lasting until the end of October, it will furnish months of continuous meaningful involvement on behalf of every boy and leader, in the well being of our home environment.” Larry Castaldi, executive vice president of the council, also reported that research and experiments have brought some considerations for improvements in the cub scout, boy scout and explorer programs. The new Webelos program for 10 year olds has grown beyond all expectations with its involvement of men, and projects aimed at improving group skills; while the explorer program, which was expected to peak out at 11 per cent of the teenagers available shows signs of growing to 26 per cent by 1976. A consideration for improvements in the boy scout program is under experimentation now as a result of the research study by the Yankolevitch study. A re-alignment of skills, plus the addition of new skills, will be forthcoming. The study showed that there are certain outcomes desired by the present two million boy scouts as well as by boys who are not scouts. These outcomes fall into three categories: knowledge, individual and group skills and attitudes. • One of the most significant actions that can bring about deep involvement by scouts in their program is the leadership development program. George Myers, regional executive, recently informed the council executive committee that these leadership skills are group skills, as compared with individual skills which are manual skills. These leardership skills involve knowing and using resources

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within a small group, planning' and making decisions, counseling, getting and giving information, and managing learning which is different than teaching. Myers was emphatic that scouting still has character development, citizenship training, and physical and mental fitness as its principal objectives. “Scouting hasn’t lost its charms or romance because scouts still like to camp, look over the next hill, and see the world while enjoying the brotherhood of scouting everywhere, as it has always been since 1910,” stated Myers. .7 V 1 Gettysburg Address Author Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, was born February 12, 1809. in Hardin county, Ky. The Lincolns were English Quakers. In 1816 when Abraham was about seven, his father packed their things and they moved to Indiana. In 1818 his mother was taken by an epidemic. When Abraham was 21 years of age. his father decided to move to Illinois. In 1834 he was elected to State Legislature and in 1836 was admitted to the Bar. In 1846 he was elected a Representative in Congress. In 1960 he was nominated and elected President of the United States. In 1863 he signed the Emancipation Proclamation and in 1865 was elected President for the second term of office. On the eve of Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln accompanied his family to Ford’s Theater in Washington, where he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a crazed actor. Lincoln was remembered for his famous Gettysburg Address. Bob Geller To Make Pilgrimage INDIANAPOLIS — Bob Geller of Milford, a member of American Legion Post 226, will be among 40 Indiana Legionnaires making the annual pilgrimage, February 11 and 12 to Lincoln’s Tomb at Springfield, Illinois. Geller was selected as one of two representatives from the 2nd District of the Legion to make the trip on the basis of the membership standing of Post 226 at the end of the Lincoln Pilgrimage Membership Drive on January 31. At Springfield, the Indiana delegation will be feted at a banquet on Thursday night at which Indiana American Legion Commander Dale E. Kuhn will be the host. They will also have breakfast on Friday morning prior to the annual trek to Lincoln’s Tomb where National American Legion Commander Alfred P. Chamie will be the speaker. Indiana's wreath will be placed by Kuhn and Carl E. Smith of r 1. Hope, Indiana; the Legion's ninth district commander. whose district is currently leading m membership percentage within the Indiana Department. A noon luncheon on Friday, at which Chamie and Mrs. Rachel Shaw, National Auxiliary President, will be the speakers will conclude the two-day pilgrimage. The grofip will leave, by bus. from Indianapolis at noon on Thursday, returning Friday night • Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

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Campaign On To Save Railroad Passenger Service

Indiana’s two senators and members of the House of Representatives from nine districts in five states have been asked to assist in a campaign to save the Baltimore and Ohio passenger train service through Syracuse. Wiley W. (Bill) Spurgeon. R. R. 1, a former editor of The Journal, explains the service is in jeopardy after May 1 despite the fact that the route involved— Washington to Chicago — is one specified for continued service by Secretary of Transportation John Volpe in his final report concerning the new National Railroad Passenger Corporation. The National Railroad Passenger Corporationnicknamed “Railpax”—was set up by Congress last fall to take over, as of this coming May 1. the operation of all intercity - passenger trains, in order to relieve the troubled railroad companies of the necessity to operate them. “End points” to be served have been designated by the Department of Transportation, but it is up to “Railpax." a quasi-public corporation, to pick the routes to and from these points. That, explains Spurgeon, is where the trouble begins for the current B&O route through Syracuse. "Railpax,” Spurgeon says, is under strong pressure from both the National Association of Railroad Passengers—a private group which helped bring the plight of passenger trains to the attention of Congress—and the Interstate Commerce Commission to “move” the Washington-Chicago service to the Penn Central lines. Under the proposals being pushed, he said, Chicago-bound trains from Washington would first actually head northeast for some 35 miles to Baltimore, probably being pulled backward during this portion of the trip to save switching costs. From Baltimore they would head north through York, Pa., to Harrisburg, Johnstown, and Pittsburgh. West of Pittsburgh, Mie of two Penn Central routes could be utilised—through Youngstown, Cleveland, Toledo, and Elkhart to Chicago, or through Canton, Lima, and Van Wert Ohio, and Fort Wayne and Plymouth, Ind., to Chicago. Spurgeon says that the proposal to re-route the Washington-Chicago trains on ether route defies logic for several reasons: (1) The Pittsburgh-Cleveland route has not supported rail passenger service for nearly a decade, and a new market would have to be discovered in that area

Army Offering New Options SFC Lloyd Andries, Jr., station commander of the army recruiting station in Warsaw announced today that the U. S. army is now offering three new enlistment options. SFC Andries stated that young men may enlist for language training in such languages as German, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese and many others. Andries further stated that applications are being accepted for the army’s elite rangers. Upon successful completion of this rugged training, the new rangers are assigned to the 75th Infantry Regiment. The 75th is known from WW II as the much decorated “Merrills Marauders”. The army is also taking applications for their noncommissioned officer candidate school. This course patterned after the officer candidate school, allows a young man to attain the rank of sergeant in approximately nine months. LAKELAND LOCAL Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Pritchard of Howe were Thursday callers at the Syracuse home of their son and daughter-in-law. the Paul Pritchards

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to help the route pay its way. (2) Both of the routes west of Pittsburgh and Cleveland are “99 per cent lively” to have through train service between New York and Chicago, and to run the Washington trains over these routes would provide useless duplication of most through service to these communities while leaving others without any train service at all. (3) The financial condition of the Penn Central Corporation—which filed bankruptcy last June—is such that some maintenance of its lines has been deferred, and trains run over these lines would be subject to delays and possible temporary rerouting because of the maintenance problems. (4) The current WashingtonChicago route, over the B&O lines all of the way (except around Pittsburgh where other tracks have been used on a lease arrangement since 1935), has supported the Capitol Limited trains for some 45 years. As a result, traffic patterns and personal habits of persons traveling between these points, and intermediate points, have been built around this service, and would be severely disrupted (and possibly the business lost to railroads altogether) should the service be rerouted. (5) All trains on the proposed routes have, at one time or another, been the subject of discontinuance petitions. The Capitol Limited route is one of very few anywhere in the U.S. that has never been posted for discontinuance. (6) Persons living up to 40 and 50 miles from the current B&O routing are accustomed to using it in this travel corridor. (7) The Pittsburgh-Fort Wayne route has not supported through Chicago-Washington service for several years. The Cleveland-Pittsburgh route has not supported such a service since the mid-19205. (8) Because of the superior condition of the B&O lines, and the fact that it covers a shorter distance and does not necessitate trains having to be towed backwards in the opposite direction to get them into and out of Washington. Spurgeon said that cities standing' to lose all railroad passenger service should the Washington-Chicago run be rerouted west of Pittsburgh would include LaPaz, Nappanee, Syracuse and Garrett, Indiana; Defiance, Deshler, Fostoria, Tiffin, Willard, Akron, and Youngstown, Ohio; and New Castle, P# Should the rerouting also involve the B&O lines east of Pitt-

Rotary 4-H Adult Leaders In Conference The Rotary 4-H Adult Leaders Training Conference for Elkhart, Kosciusko. Marshall and Saint Joseph county 4-H leaders was held Tuesday evening at South Bend Y.M.C.A. Rotary clubs throughout Indiana have sponsored these area conferences for 32 years with Purdue extension youth agents cooperating. rtfipren Honderich, area Exagent - youth, was in charge of the home economics project leaders brainstorming session after dinner. Zale Frey, area extension agent - youth led the animal and crops project leaders brainstorming session. He also wds panel leader discussing 4-H member relations. Panel members were from each of the four counties. William Johnson. Middlebury Hustlers 4H leader was the panel member from Elkhart county. Dr. E. L. Frickey, state 4-H club leader, spoke on “Needs and Interests of Youth.” J. W. Kindling. national 4-H leadership winner, was a part of the panel and spoke on junior leadership. LAKELAND LOCAL Mr. and Mrs. Paul Haab and two sons of Quincy, DI.; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sinn and children of Haviland, Ohio; and Mr. and Mrs. Millard Stoller and children of Paulding, Ohio, visited their father, Elmo* Haab and Mrs. Haab of r 1 Syracuse, Sunday.

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sburgh, Connellsville and Meyersdale, Pa., would be left out of the Railpax network, as would Cumberland, Md., and Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Citing another reason the current B&O route should be used, Spurgeon said the station facilities along this line were superior to those found on either alternate route. Persons interested in helping maintain this service along the, current B&O route should write to Seis. Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh. in care of the Senate Office Building, Washington, and urge them to bring the matter to the attention of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Letters to Reps. J. Edwin Roush and John D. Brademas, the two Hoosier congressmen involved, should urge the same thihg. Spurgeon said Roush—who represents the Fort Wayns district—had already indicated he was working on the problem/ Fort Wayne residents must currently go to Garrett to use the Chicago-WashingTon trains, Spurgeon said, and might benefit if the Fort Wayne-Plymouth route were picked. However, the Cleveland-Elkhart route would push the service even further away from Indiana’s second largest city, making Waterloo (at which the trains would not necessarily stop) the nearest station to the Summit City. Further, ’said Spurgeon, Fort Wayne would have westbound service anyway, on the New York to Chicago route, and eastbound travelers going to Washington or Baltimore could take a New York train to Philadelphia, and use the new Metroliner service from there. Rep. Delbert L. Latta, R-Ohio, has already urged Railpax to not tinker with the routing, since all of the major cities in his district would be without passenger trains after May I—Defiance, Desler, and Fostoria. Spurgeon commented that the current business of operating passenger trains was “precarious enough” because they had been virtually phased out.by most railroads, and that he hoped Railpax would see the wisdom of continuing a train over its present routing when that routing met the qualifications set up by the Department of Transportation and already had passenger employes operating - . the trains every day. Railpax’ address is 955 L'Enfant Plaza, Washington. D. C., 20024, for those wishing to write directly to that organization.

Busy Homemakers Club Meets February 3 The Busy Homemakers club met February 3 at the home of Mrs. Irene Hollar with Mrs. Russell Hollar as co-hostess. Hie president, Mrs. Vernon the meeting. The’ pledge to the flag was led by Mrs. Frank Charlton. Mrs. Glen Treesh led in singing “America the Beautiful” and the club creed was led by Mrs. Mace Hollar., The subject of meditation, “The Good Ole Days”, was offered Mrs. Russell Hollar. The health and safety lesson given by Mrs. Charlton was simple exercises helpful for arthritis and bursitis. Garden remarks were given by Mrs. Irene Hollar on tulips in August and spring planting of seeds that come in paper tapes. For the club lesson, Mrs. Russell Hollar demonstrated how she made swans out of coat hangers and net, bird cages opt of pipe cleaners and net, miniture flowers madd of beads and glue and some mod podge pictures. The meeting closed with the dub collect which was led by Mrs. Elmer Rassi. Mrs. Treesh led the prayer song During the social hour, the hostesses served refreshments to 10 members. Mrs. Glen Pinkerton won the door prize ’ The next meeting will be March 3 at the home of Mrs. May.

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