The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 37, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 October 1971 — Page 10
THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., Oct. 13, 1971
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LIGONIER NEWS By Rose Cunningham Award Contract For Bridge The contract was awarded recently by Noble County Commissioners for the bridge construction over the Elkhart River on C.R 750 W., one mile east of Ligonier. The bridge was “dropped’ into the river when a car hit the steel post last spring. Butler & Butler, Auburn, w*re the successful bidders at $49,348. They expect to begin construction this week and have the bridge _ completed within 60 days. Also included will be the straightening of the north and south approaches, a distance of some 650 ft Primes Construction, Fort Wayne. W^* 6o ' o76 ; Forker Excavating, Albion, $51,886; Foundation and Bridge Corporation, Fort Wayne, $51,856, and Heavy Construction. Fort. Wayne, $56,656. Receives Letters Os Commendation Susan Bums and Doug Rex, students at West Noble High school, have received letters of
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commendation honoring them for their high performance on the 1971 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They were among the 35,000 students in the United States who scored in the upper 2 per cent of contestants who are expected to graduate in 1972. Policeman Is Rotary Club Speaker Colin Campbell, detective on the New South Wales Australia police force, was guest speaker at the Ligonier Rotary Monday morning breakfast. He is visiting this vicinity as a guest of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International who sponsors exchange groups of young business and professional men for a two month study between countries. He has been staying at the home of John Atz. Gloria Gorsuch Heads FHA Miss Gloria Gorsuch was recently elected president of the West Noble Future Homemakers Os America Chapter Also elected were: Jackie Ness — Secretary Marilyn Lehnian — vice president Mary Reidenbach — treasurer Debra Miller — parlimentarian Caroline Shull — historian Lynn Hdrsey — projects chairman Martha Lehman — reporter Coleen McDonald — recreation leader Luellen Werker — public relations chairman. Mrs. Gorsuch and Mrs. Leh-
man were chosen as FHA Mothers. The newly elected officers attended the northeastern district meeting held at Woodlan high school, Fort Wayne, on Saturday. United Fund Drive Underway The United Fund Drive officially began at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday when activities got under way with a kickoff breakfast at a local restaurant. Volunteers were present from the western area of Noble county. Ron Kettering, area chairman explained that there are seventeen member agencies to benefit from the drive. Art Gibson will serve as assistant to Kettering with the following chairmen: Ken Schuman assisted by Bob Hagberg, will serve the industrial area. Steve Lawrence, assisted by Evan Mattix, commercial. Norman Ulrey, assisted by Keenis Owen, professional. Mrs Norman Ulrey and Mrs. Robert Wechter. residential. Mrs. Helen Chaffee, special gifts. Awards will be given to both business and industries for 100 per cent employee participation and highest average employee gifts. There will also be county awards. Walter Vy. Schlabach Word has been received here of the death of a former area resident, Walter E. Schlabach, 76, of 410 North Polk Ave., Arcadia. Fla. Mr. Schlabach died Tuesday, Sept. 28. in the DeSoto Memorial hospital, in that city, after an extended illness. He and his wife Gladys resided for many years mi a farm between Ligonier and Cromwell. They moved to Arcadia after his retirement. Survivors include his wife and one great-step-grandson. Michael Lynch, of Cromwell. COMMUNITY NEWS Mrs. Ellsworth Peterson of Ligonier and Mrs. Gladys Yoder of Topeka drove Mrs. Lulu Neuffer to Clearwater, Fla., last week and returned by plane Monday afternoon. Mrs. Neuffer will remain in Florida for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lai and daughters of Elk Grove Village, 111.. were week end guests of Miss
Eva Cook. Additional Sunday guests were Rev. and Mrs. Yung S. Chen and children of Kendallville and Rev. Hood of London, England. Dr. and Mrs. Harry Wallace and family spent last week end in Cincinnati, Ohio. They attended the Wallace family reunion and helped Dr. Wallace’s father celebrate his 80th birthday. Dave Strieby Heads Married Students At IU BLOOMINGTON — David B. Strieby, an Indiana university senior from Syracuse, has been elected president of the I.U. Married Students’ Council at the Bloomington campus for the 197172 school year. He is the son of Mrs. Cleo Strieby, 301 S. Harrison, Syracuse. Strieby, a business major, served last year as the council's publicity chairman. The Married Students’ Council plans activities and projects for the 6,366 registered married students on the I.U. Bloomington campus. Among its projects are publication of an information index and bi-semester newsletter for married students. The council also organizes a summer recreation program for married students' children and rents garden plots to students for summer use. Elected vice president of the council was Benjamin B. Ussery, a graduate student in business from Ridgeway, Va. David L. Butler of Syracuse, N. Y., a doctoral candidate in Spanish, is the new treasurer: Mrs. Norma Hart Graham of LaPorte, a junior in business, is the secretary, and C. Edward Smith Jr., a senior in Slavic languages from Norfolk, Va., is the publicity chairman and editor of the MSC Newsletter. Milford Resident In Accident A car driven by Carol L. Mynhier, 20, Milford, was rammed from behind by a car driven by Marion A. Lehman, 56, Goshen, at 7:50 p.m. Friday. Miss Mynhier slowed down because of another accident that had occurred ahead and Lehman was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting her car because of slippery wet pavement. Total damages were estimated at S6OO to both cars by Elkhart county police Cpl. Lowell Miller. The accident happened at US 33, about one-half mile from CR 26.
ALLEN H. CONNER Stationed In Viet Nam Allen H. Conner, son of Mrs. Betty Anderson Conner, Elkhart, left on August 28 for Fort Lewis, Wash., and from there, flew to Hawaii and on to DaNang for a tour of duty. His address is: Sp. 4 Allen H. Conner 305-60-2295 Box 140 173 Asult. Helicopter Co. A.P.O. San Francisco, Calif. 96348 ■ Two From Area Are Enrolled At DePauw U. GREENCASTLE — -Two students from the Lakeland area are enrolled for the first semester classes at DePauw university this fall in Greencastle. Enrolled are Kristen Phend, a junior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Parker Phend of Milford; and Curtis Stucky, a senior and son of Mr. and Mrs. James Stucky of Syracuse. Starting its 135th year, DePauw has a total enrollment of approximately 2,300 students in its combined college of liberal arts, school of music and school of nursing. Those students enrolled this fall will be among the second group of DePauwites to engage in a new 4-1-4 program that calls for two conventional semesters sandwiched around a one-month special “winter term’’ in January. To be emphasized in the winter is the general theme, “Communications: Challenge or Crisis?’’ A number of distinguished spokesmen in the field will lecture on the campus.
WRC District Convention Held The Seven District convention erf Women’s Relief Corps was held last week at the American Legion home at Nappanee with the Berlin Corps 196 as hosts. District president Audrey Steller opened the meeting followed by the welcome by Mrs. Bebon Crafton of Dewart Lake and the Syracuse Corps., and response by Wilda Snyder of Columbia City. Memorial services were conducted prior to dinner at noon by the Nappanee Corps. Officers elected for the ensuing year included Mrs. Georgia Buster of Syracuse as president. Mrs. Buster then invited all district corps to Syracuse for the 1972 convention with the date to be announced later. Past president Snyder of the Fort Wayne Corps, and Ruth Wallert of the Evansville Corps, were honored. Department president Mrs. John Craw of Syracuse spoke during the afternoon session. Treasurer for the convention was Mrs. Lossie Rinker of Syracuse and color bearer. Mrs. Frank Bates, also Syracuse. Mrs. Wilbur Walton of Syracuse was also in attendance for the confab. No Injuries In Warsaw Accident Damage totaled "tl ,000 in a two vehicle accident in Warsaw last week but no one was injured. Cars driven by Millard R. Smith, 66, r 3 Syracuse, and Ernest R. Bissel, Jr., of Warsaw, collided at the intersection of South Scott street and East Winona avenue. Warsaw police investigated.
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14 YEARS AGO, OCT. 17,1957 Two men and two women are being held in the Kosciusko county jail at Warsaw for the armed holdup of the Clunette store, located about four miles west of Leesburg early Tuesday afternoon. They were captured within an hour after the holdup. BIRTHS: A daughter, Denise Lee, was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Graff at Goshen hospital ; A girl, Ann Marie, was bora to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kaiser at Elkhart hospital. A total of 84 students were (Hit of school at Milford this morning because of the spreading flue epidemic, according to principal Harold Young. A pink and blue shower was held Thursday afternoon at‘the home of Mrs. Burl Warren. Sr., honoring Mrs. Roy Timmons. Mr. and Mrs. Worth Jackson entertained relatives last Friday evening in honor of their daughter Sherrie’s sixth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon May and sons, Ronn and Donn, were hosts to about 30 relatives and friends at their home Sunday. A cooperative dinner was served at noon. 24 YEARS AGO, OCT. 16,1947 Jacob Bucher, Guy Fisher, John Fisher and Carl Walker returned home from a location north of Winnipeg, Canada last Tuesday where they bagged two big black bears. The hunters are having the skins made into rugs. Nancy Campbell and Bobby Wolferman won a check for $25 at the Columbia City horse show on Sunday, Sept. 28, for riding a horse the farthest distance to attend that show. The distance was listed as 34 miles. The first copy of the Milford high school paper, “Blue and Gray”, for 1947-’4B was printed this week. BIRTHS: A daughter, Brenda Sue, bora to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson, at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at Goshen hospital; A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Urban Bauer of Cissna Park, 111., born
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Tuesday at 4:30 a.m. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Beer. Harry Haab, Wilbur Baumgartner, Ezra Kaiser, Bill Carroll and P.D. McFarren went to Saginaw, Mich., Monday for a hunting and fishing trip. They were joined Wednesday by Bill Martin and Harry Schultz. 30 YEARS AGO, OCT. 16,1941 Noble Fisher, son of Mrs. Floyd Shuder and member of the 1931 graduating class, is stationed with the army divisions at Iceland. He was in training at Camp Custer, Michigan. A dinner was given at the Lloyd Harley home at Leesburg Sunday evening in honor of the 23d birthday of Wade E. Mishler of Milford. Ernest Leßoy Hollar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Enos Hollar and Miss Marie Pauline Irvine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Irvine, all of southwest of Milford, were married October 12 at the Evangelical parsonage at New Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haab received word from their sons, Howard and Harry, that they are “back home” at Camp Shelby, Miss., after a seven-week maneuvering in Louisiana. They hope to be home on a furlough
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some time in the near future. Twilla Anne, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Morehouse, is ill with the whooping cough. Carlton Beer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Beer, took third place in the county high school corn husking contest which was held on the Roger Homer farm southwest of Akron. His husking netted 754 pounds. There were 16 contestants. 40 YEARS AGO. OCT. 15,1931 Saturday afternoon at about 4:30 a hail storm, perhaps the most severe in years, swept into the vicinity of Milford. Auto tops were damaged, windows were broken and damage to apples and pears were reported. Clarence Coyle and Miss Helen Silveus, both of Milford, were issued a marriage license. ; The Samuel Hollar family, whose farm home was destroyed by fire, was given a very geneous miscellaneous shower last week at the home of Guy Pinkerton with 90 in attendance. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Shively of Nappanee early Friday morning at the home of the mother’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hartter, south of Milford. The Cardinals emerged as the winner over the Athletics in the world series baseball game. The final score of the last game was four to two. The Cardinals won the series four games to three. Painting of the exterior of the factory buildings of the Milford Mfg. Co., was started this week. The buildings are being painted deep red with buff trimming.