The Mail-Journal, Volume 10, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 18 July 1973 — Page 7

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'Butterflies Are Free' in successful run

By BILL SPURGEON At ease with demanding roles, a spiall cast of players at toe Enchanted Hills Playhouse east of Wawasee last week made the poignant comedy “Butterflies Are) Free” the organization’s

third success in as many, starts this season. The play was about a young blind man who moves to a New York apartment to see if he can make it on his own. Dan Bonnell did a creditable job in the lead role. It’s no easy task for one who can see to keep his eyes open and then affect all of the actions of a blind person, but Bonnell did it without falling into the trap of overdoing it. Roxanne Hagemeyer played the girl in the apartment next door with a good mix of sweetness and brashness, making the part of the young divorcee believable and getting the emotional conflict which was written into the role by Author Leonard Gershe across to the audience. Mary Bosk, a Fort Wayne theater veteran inported for the Enchanted Hills production of “Butterflies” had the pacing and presence of one of those talented serious amateurs whom every civic theater director is pleased to find. Her portrayal of Bonnell’s “over-mothering” mother was, accurate and a pleasure to behold. Mark Carmicael, who appeared briefly as a theatrical producer in pursuit of Miss Hagemeyer, also was well cast as a pushy young man more interested in Miss Hagemeyer as emotional conquest than as a person with theatrical talent. Non-musical plays with small casts are hard to sell to summer audiences whose tastes seem to run more toward the color, singing and dancing of musical productions, so it’s a tribute to Enchanted Hills that “Butterflies Are Free” played to a full house Saturday night. The organization which is in its first full season at the barn theater is hitting its stride now, and plenty of color and action is promised this Week and next when “Camelot” is presentedEnchanted Hills managing director Douglas E. Stark will be Arthur in Camelot, with Cheryl Wilson of Fort Wayne as his Guinivere. Other major roles are assigned Dave Shaff and Mike McVey, both of whom were audience pleasers in “Promises, Promises” last month. Mr. Stark is constructed just like one might visualize King Arthur to be, and a preview of two musical numbers by some Enchanted Hills friends and neighbors Sunday gave every indication that Miss Wilson will be entrancing, indeed, as his lady.

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14 YEARS AGO, JULY 23,1959 Miss Jonell Judkins and Brad Beiswanger are playing with the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra this year. The proposed tax levy for the town of North Webster for the coming year reflects a decrease of three cents according to the budget published this week. Ibe Milford Model Airplane dub was invited to put on a demonstration at Clunette on Sunday afternoon. Visiting in the Ivan Kline home for two weeks is Mrs. Kline’s 83 year old aunt, Mrs. Margaret Wocker of Union, N. J. There will be a meeting of the kindergarten mothers at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the basement of the library. • ; Milford’s first Alaskan “prospectors” will be leaving here about the middle of next week. ■' . Mrs. Albert Graff entertained her bridge club and one guest Tuesday evening at dessert bridge. ■ " The Senior West Side Merry Maidens 4-H club met at the home of Connie Fox on July 13. A break-in at the concession stand at Lakeside park, Waubee Lake, was reported to Kosciusko county sheriff Sam Holbrook Saturday by Mrs. Robert O’Blenis. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Beer and family attended the Kupferschmid reunion at Camp Mack on Saturday. Miss Emily Beer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beer, is a candidate for the Kosciusko county fair queen title. Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Rarig and two daughters have returned from a tour of the west. 24 YEARS AGO, JULY 21,1949 Announcement was made this week that Jimmy Dorsey and his famous dance band would appear at the Waco ballroom on Monday night, Aug. 15. Workmen poured the concrete bridge across the outlet of Milford Lake Sunday morning to add further to the progress of improvement of the Milford Lake project. WKAM, Warsaw’s new AM radio station, went on'the air last Tuesday at 12:20 p.m. The Merry Maidens 4-H club met Thursday, July 14, at the home of Mrs. Katie Stoller. The Columbian Reading circle met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Arch Baumgartner, the question of beginning work on the sand hill in connection with their Lakeside park project. The Rodibaugh residence, the Harold Young residence and the Emma Baumgartner residence received a new coat of /paint recently. ( A false rumor got started here on Monday that the waters of Milford Lake were polluted and unfit to swim in. The Kosciusko county annual softball tournament will be held at the Milford West Side parte. Dr. E. R. Hurd received orders from the U. S Army Saturday that he was being called back into military service. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Whisler and Guy Smith motored to Chalmers on Sunday where they were dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Davis. ' 30 YEARS AGO, JULY 22,1943 “Shorty” Halderman, janitor at Hotel Milford, is on a threeweek vacation. Six members of the Busy Bee club assisted with the gasoline rationing in Warsaw Tuesday evening. Mrs. Charles Sponseller was hostess to her contract dessert bridge club Thursday afternoon. Myer’s hitters were on the beam Tuesday night and with the aid of eight errors by the Produce team sewed in every inning but the second and fourth. Mrs. R. W. Brown entertained the Merry Jayne sewing club in her home last Friday evening. Sunday after church services Mrs. Howard Kreider entertained her Sunday school class of boys from the New Salem

church at her hone. Capt. and Mrs. Glen L. Brown of West Lafayette spent the week end with Ronald W. Brown and wife. Charles Steidel of Windfall has been appointed basketball coach and athletic director of Galveston high school. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hostetler announce the birth of a daughter, Linda Ann, on July 15. Joe Estep started work Wednesday at the Bendix Aviation Corp, at South Bend. « Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Carrier were here Friday afternoon looking after the interests of their farm. The first Thwaits reunion was held recently at the Nappanee Community park with 50 in attendance. 40 YEARS AGO, JULY 20,1933 Iced coffee is becoming more popular every summer because of its refreshing and invigorating qualities. > ■ t • Considerable comment has been made in the past month about the price of bread moving upward. ‘ • - A practically new barn with an adjoining shed was totally destroyed on Wednesday evening on the Maternas’ Chapman Lake farm. - ; , Thursday was Indiaria day at A Century of Progress with everything thrown open to people from the Hoosier state. Indiana tax levies payable this year show a reduction of 20 per cent under the amount payable in 1932. After years of battling against almost insurmountable odds, Indiana farmers are faced with toe most favorable crop prices in more than a decade. Speaking of the difficulty of finding jobs, for high school and college graduates, a Washington educator says: The graduates of this year were turned out into a vacuum. ’ The new fiscal year opened with hope on the part of treasury officials that toe government would balance its budget though many observers state this will be impossible. Blanche Tridle Walgamuth of Akron, a former Milford high school teacher, has been named as Instructor of domestic science and English in the Beaver Dam, Franklin township high school for 1933-34. ,* - At about 1 p.m. Sunday there was plenty of excitement in the east part of. town when a fire started at the Katie Steiglitz property- \ Good Will • Extension meets Marie LeCount was hostess for the day when the Good Will Extension club met at the House of Friendship on July 11. Mrs. Everett Darr, toe new president, passed out the club books and explained them. -. Singing was led by Mrs. Eldred Mabie. “America the Beautiful” sung as was the song of the month, “Thumblenna.” Pledge was led ,by Velma LeCount and meditation was “He Touched Me” and the “Irish Blessing.” * The health and safety lesson entitled, “The Mood We Are In,” Was given by Blanche Kline. A question asked toe group was, “how do you score on the happiness meter?” ■ Lesson for the day was, ‘‘House Hold Hints.” Roll call was answered by giving good ideas for a picnic. The meeting was closed by club collect and club prayer song led by Mrs. Cecil Coy. BALDWINS ATTEND OHIO WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. Carl Baldwin of Lake Wawasee spent the week end in Mansfield, Ohio. They attended the wedding of their neice Sue Baldwin to Larry Gabor. *

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Variance granted to Mel Collier A variance was granted to Mel Collier of Syracuse in the Tuesday, July 10, meeting of the Syracuse board of zoning appeals. Collier built a house in the south Kitson Park addition of Turkey Creek township, south of Syracuse on SR 13, and heard, after having built the house, that it was in violation of the zoning ordinance. Collier stated he bought the permit for toe house almost two years ago, and it was finished this spring. “According to the permit I was granted, the house is legal,” Collier went on. The house %es not have the 15 foot back lot which is required by the ordinance, and therefore either a variance must be granted, or the house would have to be moved. Board member William Coburn pointed out Collier owns a whole tract of land in the same area, Which was platted before the highway came through. The lots are all, therefore, oddly shaped, and he would need to apply for hon-conforming use before building on them. Col. Joseph Gray, plan commission secretary, spoke, observing he was just trying to make sure the ordinance is protected. He observed the town will have to forget the mistakes made before the time of the last town board meeting. Gray asked if toe board of zoning appeals chose to grant a variance to Collier, they specify it is such and it is to correct a mistake made eartier, and it is not an attempted change in the ordinance. Coburn asked Collier if the construction of toe house complied with toe drawing on the permit, to which Collier replied there was no drawing. He ana the building commissioner had discussed and approved the plans together. Cobum asked if toe building commissioner was happy with •toe structure which had been built. Collier replied, “Yes. He (toe building commissioner) told me, and I can prove this in court, ' that'l didn’t need a set back from the road, I could build right up to , toe road if I wanted.” , After some further discussion, Cobum moved the board grant Mel Collier a variance, with the stipulation the size and square footage of toe other lots as platted must come before the board of zoning appeals before any future construction i& done. The motion passed with a unanimous vote. In other business the board was to consider, a petition from Louis Bagaloff to construct an eightstory convention center at the site of the old South Shore hotel. No pne representing the petitioner was at the meeting. , After discussion of whether or not the board could discuss the issue, it voted if and when any member of the board of zoning appeals gets a copy of plans for this structure, they be turned over to the plan commission for study, and returned to toe board of zoning appeals, with a recommendation for the board’s decision. Board president Joe Hughes put forth a request for a variance from James Hughes, who is . enclosing a patio on the property of Howard E. Sellers, r 4 Syracuse. The board agreed to consider the request after legal advertising of the meeting. Hie nfect meeting of toe board of zoning appeals will be Monday, July 23. At this meeting toe board will consider toe petitions of Howard E. Sellers and that of Harry Van Antwerp. Participates in yearbook workshop Susan Connolly, 500 South Lake St., Syracuse, spent the past week at Kalamazoo college participating in a yearbook workshop. Susan was among 152 students and advisors from throughout toe midwest who participated in the workshop. LAKELAND LOCAL On Saturday, July 14, toe Welcome Wagon club of Warsaw held a wiener roast and hayride at Barbee Lake, at 8 p.m.

□Hr 5 i ■ -A ■ n ** \ ~ y REMAINS OF TRUCK — Pictured above are the remains of a Zook truck which was involved in a collision Saturday in which one person was killed and two others injured. The truck was hit by an auto driven by Andres Hernandez of 1 1 Milford at 3 a.m. on SR 15, one mile north of Leesburg. Hernandez was killed in the collision with injuries sustained by the truck driver, Ronald Swartz of Ligonier, and Hernandez’s brother, Thomas. Their injuries were minor. ’ The cab of the large Zook truck is seen protruding from the bed of the truck. Damage sustained by the truck was set at 1300,000.

Milford man fatally injured in crash

A car-semi crash Saturday around 3 a.m. resulted in fatal injuries to one person and minor injuries to two other persons. Fatally injured was 21 year old Andres R. Hernandez, Jr., r 1 Milford. Minor injuries were received by Thomas Hernandez, a passenger in the Hernandez vehicle. He received slight cuts to toe face and abrasions. The truck driver, Ronald Swartz, 39, Ligonier, received minor injuries. The collision occurred on SR 15, one mile north of Leesburg. At the time of the impact the Zook truck was headed south on SR 15 and toe auto being driven by Hernandez was northbound. The auto crossed the center line of the highway and toe driver’s side of the car was sheared off by toe left side of the semi. Following the impact the truck jackknifed off the east side of the road, went down a shallow ditch and stopped in a field. The truck cab caught fire after the impact and Swartz escaped from the truck by crawling through the right window. Thomas, 19 year old brother of Andres, was seen running from the crash and returned to the scene of the accident about 7 a.m. at which time he explained to officers that he was scared and ran for help. The truck, which exploded into flames on impact, was too far gone by the time the Leesburg fire department arrived at the scene. The truck was estimated at a loss of $300,000 and the Hernandez vehicle was estimated at $2,000. Andres Hernandez was taken by ambulance to toe Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw, where he was pronounced dead.

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At the time of his death the hospital was making plans to transfer him’ to the Fort Wayne hospital. Swartz was taken to the hospital and treated and Thomas Hernandez was not treated. Investigating officers remained on the scene from 3:30 a.m. until 8 a.m. Officers involved in the investigation were county police Sgt. Alan Rovenstine, patrolman Burdell Blackburn, Milford marshal Don Drake and Leesburg marshal Tay Hess. Motorcycle-truck collide Sunday A motorcycle-truck collision Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on SR 13, one mile south of Syracuse, resulted in minor injuries to cycle rider Bernard Atkins, 27, Cromwell, and his passenger, Mary Hall, 15, r 1 North, when they struck a truck driven by Harold Fox, 64, Fort Wayne. The Atkins motorcycle and the Fox truck were both northbound on SR 13 when Fox slowed down far a vehicle ahead that was stopped for a left turn. Atkins was unable to stop and struck the back of toe truck. . Atkins and Miss Hall were both treated for abrasions and lacerations and Fox was unhurt. No damage was listed to the truck and approximately $lO was listed for the cycle. EMERGENCY UNIT ON TUESDAY RUN O The Syracuse fire department emergency unit made a run at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday to the residence of Earl Haggerty, Pinecrest Trailer Court, on the Milford-Syracuse road to provide oxygen for Haggerty.