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baiziNJvS AROUND CL&1O Mrs. Ola (Ketering) Wilcken, formerly of Syracuse and now of Columbia City loaned us this picture this week of an old water tower in Syracuse. Can anyone shed information

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as to the time, location or individuals shown? Hie crippling March winter snowstorm is now a thing of the past with most of the snow gone, however, reports still are circulating on the helpful assistance of snowmobilers in the Syracuse area. Whoop-de-do! Workmen started on the burned out Pickwick Block on Monday. Arnold Pfingst is proudly showing friends a copy of the Rancho Cordova (Calif.) Business & Professional Directory which carries a full page, four-color advertisement of his son Kingsley’s realty com-

pany. Kingsley, a SHS grad, is an air force retired Colonel and is married to the former Miriam Fisher of Milford. The two head up an 11-man team and specialize in selling homes and property management in the fast-growing Rancho Cordova area. Let’s get behind a number of lakeland groups in a good old spring clean-up week with a target date for roadside cleaning on April 28. Any volunteers? See article this week for persons to contact. Don’t be surprised if eventual plans of the State Bank of Syracuse don’t call for a second branch, this one to replace the old Standard station near the fish hatchery. The bank recently purchased that property and an inside source of information at the bank assured this column we could not preclude the possibility of a branch there sometime in the future. Did you know this: That some schools, in an effort to open their facilities to the public, are setting up roller skating sessions in their gyms? ' . Sounds nutty, like this would ruin the gym floor. But we’re told this is not the case where prescribed skates are used. Maybe this is not a bad idea. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thornburg of Syracuse and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Doering of Columbia City are on a 10-day vacation to Caracas, Venezuela. Doering is manager of the Thornburg Drug, Inc., store at Columbia City. A familiar site: Lloyd Disher

walking down the street Saturday with his young son Kevin in tow. Mr. and Mrs. George Hetler of Ogden Island and Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle Garman of Kale Island and Goshen and Mr. and Mrs. George Reed of Goshen are leaving April 3 for a 22-day trip to Europe and Africa which will take them as far south as Johannesburg. En route home they will stop at Tanzania where there has been recent border strife with neighboring Uganda, and Nairobi, Kenya, where they will visit Amboseli on a safari at the foot of the famed Kilamanjaro Mountains. The three couples have made a number of world travels, a recent one to the South Pacific. Dale and Barbara (Bushong) Weingart of Gary should be quite proud of son Rod, a student at Purdue university, Calumet campus. Rod was nominated by the college sports director to the 1973 Outstanding College Athletes Hall of Fame and will be featured in the 1973 volume along with his biography and athletic achievements. Kathy’s Beauty Bazaar telephone must have been quite busy last week after the newspaper came out. An ad appeared introducing Jackie Plikerd had joined the salon and the get acquainted special listed 50 per cent off on shampoo and set. The ad should have read 50 cents off. Whoops, we goofed. Another friendly sign of our area was the Donald Thwaits farm recently when more than 40

volunteers assisted in cleaning debris from the recent barn fire at the Thwaits farm. New in this area, and being announced this week, is the Appollo Fence Co. They have both wood and chain link fence. “Work is a four-letter word,” said a local waitress after a long day on her feet. What’s new?” This is something we’re always hearing, and fortunately we have a lot to report. First, they began rebuilding the Pickwick Block this week, and this promises to be a real plus for the uptown area. Bud Kline has been doing some ground preparation for the new Hooks Drug store on the Pickwick Road. And across the street from that site stakes are in the ground for the new lounge that will be going in just east of the Sportsman’s Center. Most everyone knows about the new branch bank in the village by now, but they don’t know about a new building across road 13 from the bank site. More on that later. Augsburger’s is adding 4,000 square feet to its store in the village, about a third of its original store area. This program has been held up because of late shipment of steel. This column will keep reporting building progress as it developes. News hawk Paul Harvey says, “MOM spelled upside down is WOW!” Personal accounts of March 17

snowstorm incidents are continuing to come in, and overall a new respect for snowmobiles, particularly in the North Webster area, has been expressed. A case in point is Dolores (“Babe”) (Mrs. Jim) Bachelder, Counting House Bank employee. She left work early when reports were heard of mounting snow drifts in the Little Tippecanoe Lake area where she lives. She became stranded on the Armstrong road when she came upon cars and trucks stuck in the drifts. She was rescued by Chuck Drake on his snowmobile and taken back into North Webster, arriving two hours after she had departed. They spilled twice on the way. “I’ve never liked those things,” she confided about snowmobiles, “but they really saved the day for us here at North Webster.” Dolores spent the night with Fee and Mary Ullom in North Webster and returned home on Sunday — via a snowmobile. No one knows for sure how many snowmobiles were in action in that area during the storm, but the accounts are innumerable where they rescued people, carted food, and performed other acts of mercy. Most of the units out were owned by members of the Lakeland Snowmobile club, Dennis Jones president. This column has taken its share of good natured ribbing about last week’s headline, which proclaimed the Saturday, March 17, snow storm as “the season’s ‘last snow storm’.” “Can you be sure,” “you wanna bet,” and “how do you know” were only a few of the saltyrejoinders. We can only say more wishful thinking than solid judgment went into that headline. But we certainly hope we are right. Tall (6’4”) Dick Ditmer, local insurance man, appears to be no more than one of us when compared to his 32-year-old son Eddie, a resident of Louisville, Ky. Eddie, Dick tells us, is six feet eight inches tall, and by the looks of his photograph he’s all man. And to think he never played basketball! Hear there was a big baby shower at the Anchor Bar Tuesday. Anyone care to explain? What mother (and a grandmother) and daughter team was quite proud Tuesday night as their combined efforts resulted in one changed flat tire, quite successfully, a first for both. No special requirements for Easter eggs WEST LAFAYETTE — You may buy eggs for Easter coloring at any type of store, says Miss Marcile Allen, extension foods and nutrition specialist at Purdue university. Rumors that the state board of health determines where the eggs are sold are false. Nor is it true that certain kinds of eggs can’t be used for decorating, Miss Allen continues. All types of eggs are suitable for Easter decorating. Miss Allen does suggest that you select clean, sound, uncracked eggs for decorating — no matter where you buy them or what type they are.

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Murder-suicide near Wakarusa

State and county officers investigated an apparent murdersuicide neair Wakarusa early Monday morning. The incident was witnessed by two young children. Dead are Mrs. Susan Eileen (Null) Smeltzer, 26, co-owner and operator of the Wakarusa Case and Asher Allen Fuston, 27, r 1 Wakarusa, a Kentucky native reportedly employed with a mobile home plant. The stabbing-shooting deaths occurred at the Madison township farm home of Mrs. Smeltzer about three miles southwest of Wakarusa sometime before 6 a.m. The Smeltzer children, Dean, nine, and Allan, eight, were sleeping upstairs and were awakened by an altercation. Officers reported they apparently witnessed the crime of the stabbing of their mother and the shotgun suicide of Fuston, then notified police. A kitchen knife was used in the stabbing. A sister of the dead Woman said Mrs. Smeltzer had not been going with Fuston for

Volunteer seminar at Wabash A volunteer seminar, “A Good Look at the Good Neighbor,” was held at Honeywell Memorial Center, Wabash, Tuesday, March 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Dr. Cynthia Wedel, newly appointed chairman of volunteers, American National Red Cross, Washington, D.C. examined pertinent and pressing issues including the image, the volunteer, the youth, the program and the future. All participants were challenged to think through workable answers to questions which affect the total Red Cross. An enthusiastic group of high school volunteers from various chapters in the area contributed a great deal of creativity and challenged all chapters to support an active ARC Youth program. Young people, age 14 through high school who are interested in Red Cross volunteer work are urged to contact the local chapter office. Attending from this area were

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several months. Susan Smeltzer Mrs. Smeltzer was born February 27, 1947 at Wakarusa, the daughter of Benjamin and Kathryn (Long) Null. Her mother passed away March 10 and the father survives. She attended Wakarusa high school and was married March 3, 1963 to Clifford Smeltzer. Also surviving are eight brothers, James of Syracuse, Paul and Lowell, Elkhart, Devon and Dennis, both of Florida, Glenn, San Francisco, Calif., Larry at North Fort Myers, Fla., and Jerald, with the marines at Santa Ana, Calif.; and six sisters, Mrs. Robert (Bernice) Correll, Elkhart, Mrs. Donald (Fern) Bunger of Benton, Mrs. Clyde (Mary) Manning, Wakarusa, Mrs. James (Betty) Elliott, Wakarusa, Mrs. Darrell (Janice) Getz of Bristol, and Mrs. Martin (Faye) Woody, Fort Wayne. Funeral services are scheduled for 3:30 today (Wednesday) at the Lienhart funeral home, Wakarusa, with burial in North Union cemetery.

Mrs. Inez Devenney, executive director; Mrs. Lee Pattison, chairman of volunteers; Steve Devenney, blood program chairman; Miss Irene Abts, nurses aide and first aid instructor; Mrs. Amer Koontz, board member and office volunteer; Mrs. Ralph Henderson, hospital and office volunteer; and Miss Minnie Ridley and Mrs. Glen Carpenter, hospital volunteers. Named to honor roll DENTON, Texas — Terry L. Frushour of Syracuse was among. 1,239 named to the honor roll at North Texas State university last fall by Dr. Gus Ferre, vicepresident for academic affairs. Some 242 students earned all “A’s” to make the 4.0 honor roll during the fall semester, and 997 ■» achieved the 3.5 listing, which includes those students whose grade average was midway between an “A” and a “B”. Frushour, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Frushour, Syracuse, was named to the 3.5 honor roll.

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