The Mail-Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 February 1974 — Page 1

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VOLUME 11

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ROY O. PRICE Price files for Turkey Creek trustee post Roy O. Price of Syracuse has filed for the post of Turkey Creek township trustee in the May 7 primary Born March 19, 1907 at Shelby, Ohio, he graduated from Bethany college in 1929, and at present has been serving as a part time instructor at the Indiana Vocational and Technical college at Fort Wayne He was employed by RCA, record division, for 42 years, retiring in 1971 as manager of manufacturing operations for RCA. records division. Mr. Price is a member of North Park No 646. F&AM Masonic Lodge at Indianapolis, member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Saint * (Continued on page 14)

SOUTH AMERICAThird In A Series

By ARCH AND DELLA BAUMGARTNER RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. Senath America, Wednesday. Jan M, 1974 — Four o’clock in the morning seems like an ungodly tar to be getting up under almost ary circumstances, but when one gets to bed after midnight. it appears aU fee more Insane to rhe so early But ts we wanted to be counted among those members cf our party slated to visit the alMsew city of Brasilia yesterday we had letter be up and ready to go. We wiped the sleep from Mr tired eyes. took a quick shower tmd were in fee Moenda dining room on the second floor of the trscader* Hotel for a five o’clock WeMfast. Our guide, Jacques, was on toe ready as usual and bustled us into our waiting bus to

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Shewmon chooses not to run for township trustee

Current Turkey Creek township trustee Joseph D. Shewmon said this week that he will finish his term of office, completing his four year term, however, does not plan to seek re-election to the post for another four year term Shewmon added he thought four years was long enough to serve in office, adding he would

Hearing set on mobile home parks for March 5

A hearing will be held at the Kosciusko county REMC building, 523 S. Buffalo street, Warsaw, at 1 p.m. March 5 on an ordinance for mobile home parks in the county. This is the first of several proposed ordinances to materialize from the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission. If adopted it will provide minimum regulations and standards for construction of mobile home parks. Said parks are described as being an area of land harboring two or more mobile homes The ordinance appears elsewhere in this issue. Persons wishing' more information on same should contact James Baker, director of the area plan commission. Baker, in talking with a MailJournal reporter, emphasized the fact the hearing is for mobile home parks and not individually placed mobile homes.

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wisk us of f to the Rio airport for our flight to Brasilia. It was another long wait in the hot air terminal, and there were those among us who wondered why all the rush We recalled the old army game of “hurry and wait’’ Our group was divided, several of us going in one plane and the others following only moments later in another plane. In our case, we took off at the Galeae airport at Rio at 8:45 a.m, landing in Brasilia at 10:15 -a flight of an hoar and twenty minutes over mostly wasteland of the country’s interior It should be pointed out that Brazil's major cities, and there are a number of them, line the Atlantic Ocean coastline, and feat much of the interior of this vast country is undeveloped And

not want to be responsible for another four years in office in case he and his wife, Martha, should wish to relocate in another area during the winter months. Shewmon succeeded Harold Kuhn in the trustee’s office at town hall and Kuhn has not announced any plans to date in perhaps running again for the office.

Calvary Methodist women in meeting The United Methodist Women of Calvary United Methodist church at Syracuse held a general meeting Wednesday evening at the church. The president. Mrs Deloss Smith, welcomed members and guests aflerwhich the meeting was turned over to Pastor and Mrs. Ross Cook, for showing of slides and a narration of their trip last summer to Haiti with the Elkhart district youth of the United Methodist church. Three senior high youths of Calvary church. Trudy Shively, Melinda Napier and Robin Dust, also took the trip. Miss Shively and Miss Napier were on hand to offer comments and answer questions regarding the trip. Members of the Martha circle served refreshments at the close of the evening.

so it turns out this is the reason for building the new capital city of Brasilia a thousand miles in the interior, northwest of Rio de Janeiro. Our flight was uneventful. but it should be said that accommodations aboard the Vasp line, the national airline of Brazil, were among the best we were to receive so far on our journey with members of the National Newspaper Association Much has been written about this new city already, and we re sure the more enlightened of our readers are aware of this phenomenon of architecture and The city is the second all-new city we have visited in two years, ftp other one being Canberra, Australia, where we were just a year ago.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1974

Lane change causes accident

Donald D. Wallace, 61, Leesburg, and Grace Fisher. 77, 415 South Maple Ave., Warsaw, collided Thursday at 1 p.m on East Winona Ave., Warsaw.

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Race develops for assessor

Turkey Creek township assessor Harry M. VanHemert has announced his candidacy on the Republican ticket for election to that office in the May primary. He was appointed assessor in June 1972 by county assessor Carl T. Zimmer, approved by the state tax commission, when Turkey Creek township reached the population quota which required a full time assessor. Born in lowa Mr. VanHemert was born in Pella, lowa. January 19.1898, and completed his education there before joining the military service during World War I. In 1937, he moved to Goshen as sales manager for Modern School Supply. He moved to the Syracuse area in 1946, where he established the Educational Map and Chart Corporation. He received three Freedom Foundation awards from Valley Forge, Pa., for bringing a better understanding of the American way of life. Mr. VanHemert has been a participating member of the American Legion for 52 years and served as commander of the Syracuse American Legion Post for two years. He is past president of the Rotary club and Elks club and is a member of the Syracuse-Wawasee chamber of commerce. He has attended seminars and schooling at Indiana university for assessing and appraisals and is a member of the Indiana Assessors* Association and the International Assessors' Association. He has been an active member of the Republican party for 54 years. VanHemert and his wife Zora have been married 50 years and have one son, Douglas, residing in Indianapolis

Brasilia is just 14 yean oM, and was carved out of absolute wasteland. Why this exact spot was selected, we can’t be sure, for the soil is bright red, and is not inducive to vegetation According to a brochure we were handed, architect Oscar Niemeyer turned his back on styles of the past in his search for the bold and often unexpected shapes of today. The body of the city is shaped like an airplane, we were told, with the fuselage made up of buildings bousing federal offices, and the nose is of buildings housing municipal offices The two wings, go the other hand, make up the commercial city and housing units. The buildings are all large and modem and spaced far apart. There is no appearance anywhere of a crowded city.

City patrolman Dennis Her shman reported the Fisher auto was changing lanes when the collision occurred. Damage was set at $75 to the Fisher auto and $l5O to the Wallace auto.

J k’'® u JOSEPH A. GRAY

Throwing his hat in the ring for assessor of Turkey Creek township is Joseph A. Gray, a resident of r 4 Syracuse. Gray filed on the Republican ticket. He is currently serving as secretary of the Syracuse plan commission. He has served a of eight years on the plan (mission, six years as president and one year as secretary, being re-elected secretary in 1974. Gray is currently vice president and president-elect of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary club and a member of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce board of directors. He was born in Rhinelander, Wis., on August 5,1917 and moved to Indiana via Peoria, 111., in 1925. An Episcopalian, he is the son of the late Bishop Campbell Gray, Second Episcopalian bishop of northern Indiana and Mrs. Virginia Morgan Gray, now a resident of Florida. Col. Gray spent six years at Howe Military school, graduating in 1935. He received his BS degree from Northwestern university in 1939. He served in the US Naval reserve from May until August of 1939 when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps. He served in the marines from 1939 thru 1965. retiring on June 15, 1965. He has since served on the staffs of Howe Military and Wawasee Preparatory. He married Joan Haywood of Indianapolis and Lake Wawasee on February 2, 1946. They have two sons, both at home: Joseph Haywood 'Woody” and Matthew Morgan. One daughter is deceased. Both Grays have been summer residents of Lake Wawasee since (Continued on page 14)

There is ample use of glass in the buildings, and native marble is used on walls, ceilings and floors in abundance. Modernistic figurines — most of which have little meaning to this writer — are seen everywhere. The broad, sweeping avenues make driving easy, yet there is a 40 mile per hour speed limit through the city, our guide told us. There are no (yes, no) stoplights in Brasilia We asked, “Where are your parking meters?” and the guide said, “we would not dare put in parking meters with al! this wide space to Factories Outside City Most major cities as we think of them are plagued with pollution problems, but not this one. The reason: Brasilia is surrounded by satellite cities where factories

Jay Gould to speak — To name 'Citizen of Year' at Milford

Jay Gould, farm service director for Fort Wayne radio station WOWO, will be guest speaker at the Milford Area Development Council’s annual banquet at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at the M & M restaurant in North Webster. The title of Mr. Gould's talk will be “We’re in a Whole new Ball-game.” Gould, “dean of agricultural broadcasting.” is heard Monday through Friday on W’OWO from 5 a.m. to7 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and Sundays, 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Gould, born on a farm near Kalamazoo. Mich., w>as one of five children. He was educated in a one-room country school and, later, in four universities. During what he calls “the adventure of my life”, Gould worked as a farmer, lumberjack, iron miner, educator, musician, composer, playwright, naturalist, essayist and poet. His professional radio career spans more than 35 years. He began as a creator of children’s programs, most famous of which were “The Old Songsmith” and “Little Doctor Hickory,” which were broadcast on the NBC radio network. Since 1941. his efforts have been concentrated in the area of broadcasting, traveling the world, lecturing, and writing on the science of agriculture, nature, nutrition, and the complex inter-relationship of man with his rapidly-changing environment. The winner of scores of awards, including three gold medals from The Freedome Foundation, in 1973 he received the single honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame of the Professional Journalism Society — Sigma Delta Chi. Gould was described in this manner by one writer: “The philosophies, the poetry, the sound science, earthy common sense and humor of this unique gentleman have made him both student and scholar, master and servant, to the millions of people to whom his name is a household word." Citizen Named Also on the program at the banquet will be the naming of the 1974 citizen of the year. Receiving the citizen of the year honor in the past were Mrs. Charles Kerlin, 1971 Citizen; Carl Duncan, 1972 Citizen; and Harold Young. 1973 Citizen. ■> Mrs. Kerlin was honored for her work at the Milford public library, Duncan for his service as a town board member and president and Young for the years he spent as principal of the Milford schools

are located. There are no factories within this city of nearly a million inhabitants. Most of the factories are small and are of the non-polluting nature, our sources contend. Eventually heavy industry will locate in cities planned for a perimeter outside the satellite cities. There is one railroad which makes the thousand mile route from Brasilia periodically, costing 70 cruzeiros, or about $11.20, one way. Incidentally, a cruzeiro is a little more than 16 cents American, or about six to a dollar. The most enlightened part of our visit to Brasilia, aside from viewing the spectacular city, came from a press conference at the U. S. Embassy. The Ambassador, John Hugh

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Arrest Hickory Lounge owners and attorney

Excise men returned to Milford on Wednesday afternoon with warrants for the arrest of Hickory Lounge operators Dean Speicher. 39. and Marv Ellen Liniger, 45, both of Milford and for Theodore Merle Cook, 70, r 2 Syracuse, attorney for the Hickory Lounge. All were charged with hindering enforcement of Alcoholic Beverage Commission regulations. Speicher and Mrs. Lininger were booked at the county jail in Warsaw at 4:05 and 4:15 p.m. They were released on SSOO bonds at 5:15. Cook was booked at 5:45 p.m. and was released at 6:20 after he too posted a SSOO bond. Three excise officers and Milford town marshal Don Drake entered the Hickory Lounge around 1 p-m. last Tuesday with orders to pick up the permit of the Lounge which had been revoked by the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, effective at 7 a m. on February 12. Charges against the Hickory were exhibition dancing, making physical changes in permanent premises without approval and

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presence of nude dancers. The permit was not in the barroom at that time but in the possession of attorney Cook. It was turned over to officers on Wednesday. Currently the Hickory is operating as a restaurant with the family room being open (no beer or wine is being served). Leesburg merchants seek automatic signals at RR Leesburg Merchants’ Association president, Conrad Forks, has announced a hearing will be held at 9:30 am., Tuesday, Feb. 26 in room 908 of the state office building, Indianapolis, regarding the installation of automatic signals at the Leesburg railroad crossing. Forks has been serving as liaison between the merchants’ association and the town board. Anyone desiring to attend the hearing should contact a member of the town board. Town board members are Frank Rader, Dewey Dye, Wayne Teeple and clerk-treasurer Esta Yocum.

Crimmins, was in Washington, D. C., at the time of our visit. We were put into the hands of Hans (“Tom”) Tuch, the charge de affairs at the Embassy, and Marvin Weissman, director of the U. S. AID Mission in Brazil. Tuch hails from Missouri, so be had some common ground with the Sowers and Myers, while Weissman originally came from Cleveland. The background session with • these knowledgable gentlemen proved one of the best we bad had in a long time. It concerned the economics of Brazil, its progress since becoming a military Republic, in 1964, and the relationship the United States has with Brazil. We were told the U. S. has had a very good relationship with (Continued on page 4)

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