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tftZINJsCS gw Anyone want a distinctive license plate? The number 1974 is available, according to branch manager Jack Vanderford. There’s a catch to it. though, as Jack has turned it over to faithful assistants LaVada and Katie for sale. They hope to realize a "bonus” for the unusual number, part of their supplemental pay. Jack says. Lines in the license branch have been unusually heavy the last of February and the first of March, as motorists and truck owners rush in to claim their new 1974 plates The "too" sign in the front window of the Anchor Bar in uptown Syracuse has caused no small amount of concern. x Anchor owners Forest and Lil Cook have good-naturedly taken a ribbing from their customers, one of whom came up with the sign Someone, going a step further, mailed a dollar donation to the town of Syracijse as a donation toward a town zoo Powers that be didn’t know what to do with such a donation, since the town has no too. Town attorney Bob Reed- was consulted, and town authorities told to return the dollar to the donor. The Ralph Thornburgs home from a Florida vacation well tanned. The trip took them to the Panama Canal Zone and other points of interest in the Caribbean. Fact is, with March 1 here, the "Florida snowbirds” . are beginning to return home. Heard: Florida natives disturbed about "snowbirds" flocking to their state and using up their already short gas supply. It was so disturbing that several Florida mayors went on TV to assure northerners they were

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urlcome in their cities. A new eager beaver young businessman in the community is Ric Clingaman. who is in the water conditioner business Ric’s temporary headquarters is across from his dad’s Lake Wawasee home, but he is searching for a Syracuse location. Though this writer missed the Friday morning Today Show on television, two early morning calls confirmed Syracuse was in the news for a letter to the mailbox of the show The writer, none other than Mrs. Carl (Susan) Myrick. and was directed to a commentatorinterviewer on the show for what she thought was a biased treatment given a Rabbi recently on the show. Susan said she had received a number of letters since her recent letter in Time Magazine appeared, several of which were unsigned and she unshed she had a name and address for these letters so she might write to the individuals as she felt they misunderstood her letter. Speaking of television, seems the name of Doug Cramer, executive producer on one of the stations, has been heard much lately, and he is none other than the Doug Cramer, associated in the 1950’5, as a director at the playhouse here when first getting organised. Good manners are but the visible parts of unseen virtues Another prominent hat Just may be thrown into the political arena for the office of Kosciusko county sheriff, it was learned this week. State trooper John Hammersley of North Webster, now past the retirement age. is a likely candidate on the Democratic ticket. At the present time, trooper Hammersley is head of troopers working out of the Ligonier barracks and covering Kosciusko county. John is held in high esteem among his fellowtroopers. Look for an announcement in the near future of a new family - type restaurant to be built in Wawasee Village on the east side of road 13. The structure will go up soon.

by an Elkhart man who has had considerable experience in the restaurant business. Word around North Webster is that the Wabash First Federal Savings and Loan will soon open a branch in the uptown area. Application has already been made with the Indiana department of financial institutions. The girls finally got equal rights at the Syracuse Case when a sign on a long table Monday morning read “Reserved for the Giris Breakfast club. 7-8:30. So There! The Case, by the way. has had a nice sprucing up, paint job and all. and was cheerfully bright on that rainy Monday morning. First Charter Insurance is expanding with purchase of the old bank building (later housing the telephone company) at the corner of Main and Catherine streets in Milford. Tentative plans call for remodeling the interior for an office location, and perhaps two office space rentals. Remember when — The men’s brotherhood of the Methodist church sponsored a “Womanles* Wedding” presentation (with M local men as characters in the play) at the Syracuse school? The year, 1935. The groom. Samuel P. SearfOss. now deceased. , The bride — non other than our town’s Lloyd Disher. This information was loaned us by A. A. Pfingst (also a participant in the play.) Another contributor to the cause, feeding of the ducks in the channel, is Bob Ott. With mild temperatures this past week, the ducks have been out on their own much of the time and feed amounts were cut down considerably said Everett Ketering this week. If you ever had doubts on writing to Washington or the President, as to whether it might or might not be read, Mrs. Melville (Dorothy) Smith can answer for you. She wrote a letter (and enclosed one) to the President on February 19, and received a nice note Monday from Mr*. Nixon, expressing her appreciation for the letter shared with them. The enclosed letter was published in this newspaper on February 13 and written by Clayton J. Mock of Syracuse, regarding our President and our United States of America. If you are wondering about the black wreath and the mourners

at the bank Tuesday. Bob Jones should be able to explain, or perhaps any one of the bank personnel. Seems it was something to do with Notre Dame, someone quietly said. Understand our town's Jim Howard is attending law school at Indianapolis. Most people, when thinking of spring, think of robins (which incidentally many have seen) but at Maxwelton Golf club, they think of "Shorty” Mollenhour of Syracuse. Seems when a tally was made there by personnel. Shorty golfed 2,1 M holes last year. That’s great! With the mild weather the past week, hitting 71 degrees Sunday and rains this week, one hopes spring is on the way (though we are sure more is to come in the way of winter weather, but can take some with the promise of spring and warm weather just, around the corner.) The weatherman is predicting slightly cooler, but nice weather the remainder of the week. CANDIDATE — Mrs. Fred C. (Mabel) Snyder of Pierceton is filing as a candidate for election to the school board of the Whitko Community Schools Corporation, subject to the election on May 7. She is retiring from the teaching profession at the end of the school year, having taught in Pierceton. Rochester and Milford elementary schools and the last 10 years in the Whitko schools as the special reading teacher. She and her husband have been married for nearly 44 years and have one son, Robert W. Mrs. Snyder says she is vitally interested in education. “1 feel that my experience in the teaching profession and in the business world would enable me to be of service as a school board member.” LAKELAND LOCAL Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Rector and daughters Cindy. Susan and Missey of Hammond, summer residents of Dewart Lake, were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Miller, Sheri, Sheli and Shawana of Dewart Lake.

RHODESIA, AFRICA — Seventh In A Series

Victoria Falls a sight for angels, meet PM lan Smith ,

By ARCH AND DELLA BAUMGARTNER SALISBURY, Rhodesia, Africa, February 6. 1974 — He described it as “scenes so lovely they must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.” The writer of these words was the Scot, Dr. David Livingstone, African explorer, and he was writing about Victoria Falls, located here in Rhodesia, in central South Africa. Members of our party of touring American journalists visited the renowned Falls today, Wednesday, February 6. and it marked a highlight for us too: for it was our 31st wedding anniversary. We count ourselves fortunate in having observed four trips with members of the National Newspaper Association, each of which occurred during our wedding anniversary The first, in 1971, saw us observing our 28th anniversary at hot and sandy Timbuctu, Mali, Africa, on the southern rim of the great Sahara Desert. Then, in 1972, we observed our 29th anniversary at the tomb of the youthful Egyptian King Tutankhamun (Tut) at Luxor along the Nile River in Upper Egypt Last year, in 1973. we were in Melbourne. Australia, on our tour of the South Pacific and the Orient. SOME STATISTICS Height: 355 feet Width: If miles WATER-FLOW OVER FALLS Annual average: 47 million gallons per minute Flood season: 120 million gallons per minute Highest known: 158 million gallons per minute Lowest known: 2j million gallons per minute (1919) Highest known Zambezi rise: 16 feet (1958) THE VICTORIA FALLS ARE TWICE AS HIGH AND 1f TIMES AS WIDE AS NIAGARA The Mighty F alls Gathering strength from a thousand tributary streams, the mighty Zambezi River broadens on its long and winding journey to the sea, until, as a mile-and-a-quarter wide torrent, it pours thunderously over the 350-foot high edge of the Victoria Falls — the largest curtain of water falling in the world. One cannot escape, nor forget, the spell of the Rain Forest, where the air is alive with the tingle of spray. Rainbows seem to dance a before your eyes. Everywhere are dazzling brilliant flowers, it being the more enchanting in the full moon. Here, if anywhere, is the vital essence of Africa. When we got off our tour bus we purchased rain coats to hold over our heads while visiting the falls, and they proved most useful in shielding our camera while we focused on the most lovely sight to ever confront us. Besides being 350 feet high and a mile and a half wide, there’s an average flow of 47 million gallons of water per minute pouring over these falls. Victoria Falls are twice as high and one and a half times as wide as the Niagara Falls near Buffalo. New York. Strange History Victoria Falls have a strange geological history, according to our literature. Dr. Livingstone concluded that the earth had been split by some shattering cataclysm but more recent geology traces a story which began 150 million years ago. The sheer sides of the zig-zag gorges present in section, to a depth of about 300 feet, a solid wadi of one single type of rock — black basalt —a rock which derives from age-old volcanic lava. From this natural display, geologists confirm their conclusion that millions of years ago lava oozed from the still-molten shells of the earth’s crusts, through clefts rather than through craters, and spread over vast areas of Central Africa, from east to west coasts, right down to Basutoland. This lava cooled and hardened into basalts which split up

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progressively into isolated patches by erosion. The zig-zag traces by the gorges we see today represents the retreating fall-line of the water. Successively the outer lips of the Third Gorge, the Second Gorge and the First Gorge have in turn formed the fall-lines for the mighty mass of’ the Zambezi. First Seen in 1855 During his exploration of the Zambezi. Dr. Livingstone was taken on November 16, 1855. in a dugout to Kaseruka Island (now Livingstone Island) on the very brink of the Falls which he now saw for the first time. He named the Falls “Victoria” after the Queen of England. His diary details his observations of the Falls and his reactions. It was now that he “planted a lot of peach and apricot stones and coffee seeds on the island which being already covered with trees seemed well adapted to a nursery. Livingstone measured the depth of the Falls by lowering a line which had been weighted with bullets, a square of white cloth tied to the weight. Unbelievably, he then lay with his head over a projecting crag and watched the descent of the white calico until he had paid out 310 feet of line. The weight then rested on a projection and the cloth appeared “about the size of a five-shilling piece.” More about Livingstone. The story goes that in 1869 he disappeared, and Henry Morton Stanley, a correspondent for the New York Herald, was sent with a 4.000-Pound expense account to Africa to search for the famous explorer. His comparatively humdrum past had scarcely equipped him for the arduous adventures he was to face, but he laborously traced Livingstone’s steps through Central Africa. But. determined and intrepid. Stanley finally found Livingstone ill and tired at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika on October 28, 1871. His phlegmatic greeting, “Dr. Livingstone. I presume.” has passed into history. Livingstone died May 1, 1873. just over a hundred years ago, his heart being removed and buried and his body taken to the island of Zanzibar by two devoted friends, later to be shipped to England where it now rests in Westminster Abbey in the heart of London On To Salisbury In late afternoon on Wednesday. Feb. 6, our group flew to Salisbury, the capitol of Rhodesia, from Victoria Falls, landing first in Bulawayo. The flight from Bulawayo to Salisbury will certainly be remembered as the “most exciting” portion of our flight, for we went through several thunderheads that rocked our plane viciously. We were told to fasten our seat belts, and there was considerable clasping of hands. When we came out into the clear again there was an almost visible . sigh of relief, accompanied by a feeling of levity. At Our Room Our group arrived, tired but

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game, at the Jameson Hotel in downtown Salisbury at about 8 p.m. on the sixth. The announcement went out that “the party was on us in room 619 and everybody is invited.” They all came, and it was a pleasant way to observe a wedding anniversary — seeing Victoria Falls and ending it with a party with new-found but good friends. There was considerable picture-taking. The next day, Thursday, Feb. 7, we took the required city tour of Salisbury. We visited Cecil Square. Parliament Buildings, the Kopje (hill) overlooking the city, the museum, university and art gallery. It took us until noon, but before going back to the Jameson, we visited the beautifully landscaped yards of Rhodesian families. We couldn’t help but think how well everything grows in Rhodesia with its heavy rainfall. But, then, the excessively low cost of native labor makes gardening on a magnificent scale a real possibility. Rhodesia has long been a member of the British Commonwealth, but iri 1965 it took its independence, much as the United States did in 1776, less, of course, the battles and bloodshed. The British government, at that time led by Harold Wilson, took the matter before the United Nations and the UN voted sanctions against the new-born country. The United States voted for sanctions in the UN action, and as a result there is little or no commerce or diplomatic relations between our two countries. At one time there were many American automobiles on the streets of Salisbury, for example, and now there are none. However, by a separate act of congress, the United States can now purchase chrome from Rhodesia, a product of which this small country of six million people have 57 per cent of the world’s supply. We were told Russia purchased second grade chrome from Rhodesia during sanctions and before the act of congress mentioned above, and sold it to the United States as first grade chrome. Rhodesia has limited television, but on our set one night (only one channel) we saw “Hawaii Five O,” so there is a small leak in the sanctions dyke here and there. The British government gave many of its commonwealth countries their independence when the “winds of change” swept through Africa in the early 19605, but did not grant this same privilege to Rhodesia. A spokesman in a high position in the Rhodesian government told us, “We have all but given up on Great Brifcin with all its problems and with communism eating at her ribs. We look to the United States for world leadership.” There’s no question but that Rhodesia wants to be friends with the United States, and they are looking forward to the day when this friendship can be resumed. Meet lan Smith Our group considered itself fortunate in having a press conference with Rhodesian Prime Minister lan Smith on the afternoon of Thursday. Feb. 7. in his office in the heart of Salisbury. Born in a small Rhodesian village (pop. about 1,200), Rhodesian educated, the lithe, 55-year-old Prime Minister is Rhodesian to the core. He gave off an almost missionary fervor for his country, reminding one of the flavor of the founding fathers of our own country.

, He told us of the hit and run tactics of the nsurgents along the Zambezi River to the northwest. He said these renegades at first struck at Europeans, but, failing to win the hearts and minds of the blacks, they lave turned on them as well. He si.id they strike out at night, and have been known to take a teacher out and kill him in front of his own students. He called this action com-munist-inspired, and credited Chinese communists with being back of it all. “The communists are winning the cold war. and the free world is losing it”, he said in a somewhat surprising statement. "And we consider ourselves a part of the free world,’ he quickly added. He said sanctions have hurt his country, to be sure, denying Rhodesia foreign exchange markets. He added, however, that Rhodesian manufacturing as increased beyond all reasonable proportion as a result. There is no unemployment among the Rhodesian Europeans, but there is considerable among the blacks. He said the toljacco industry has recovered from sanctions, and he said every young man must serve his country for a year — “it builds youth and makes them more responsible.” In his eye-to-eye answers the Prime Minister said before World War II Africans did not want to go to school nor would they go to a hospital. Since then, “everyone wants to go to school and wants medical care.” As a result of this, there are now enough schools or hospitals. “We have better facilities and a higher standard of living for African natives than any other black countj-y in Africa,” the PM pointed out. He said his country has a modest national debt, but not much. The Prime Minister said a basic weakness of democracy is that it tries to give maximum freedom to the individual and that foreigners hostile to democracy take advantage of this to undermine the country. He said Tanzania, to the northeast, has some 20,000 Chinese communists working as railroad workers, while they are actually military. experts, bent on sabotage. He denied that UN sanctions against Rhadesia was communist inspired. “Pure and simple, it was a move by the British Labor Government,” he said. All of us considered the meeting with Rhodesian Prime Minister lan Smith a high point of our 1974 Study Mission. Sympathy for this fledgling democracy runs deep and sincere among our group. Auxiliary holds > February meeting Wawasee Unit 223, American Legion Av xiliary at Syracuse met in regular meeting at the legion home on February 26. Regular business was attended to with special attention to auxiliary work iri various veterans homes over the state of Indiana, and to the legion birthday party on March 23 at 6:30, for all legionaires and auxiliary members.

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