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Prep’s biology department studies Lakes Wawasee and Syracuse

Financed by a grant from the local lakes study ftatd, personnel of Wawasee Preparatory school this summer, are making a unique contribution toward keeping lakes Syracuse and Wawasee as desirable places to live. With funds and equipment provided by the fund, a joint project of the Syracuse Lake and Wawasee Property Owners associations. Miss Marsha Shaffer, biology teacher at Wawasee Prep, is conducting a lake water evaluation as a followup to an extensive survey conducted for the fund in 1971 by an Earlham college team While Miss Shaffer is providing a valuable service to community residents, Prep officials are looking at the work she is doing with an eye toward establishing a secondary school limnology (lake study > course as part of the Prep curriculum, and convincing other secondary schools that they should do the same. Natural Resource Our lakes and wetland areas are a unique natural resource that we can ill afford to mistreat.” says Fr. Charles Kunkel, vice president of development at Wawasee Prep. "Thus we feel we are providing some imaginative approaches to the problems facing our water areas as we undertake to build a course around lake studies ” Fr Kunkel said that Wawasee Prep officials hope to submit an outline of a proposed course in lake studies to state accrediting agencies for comment and possible approval. In the meantime. Miss Shaffer has spent the summer on the two lakes and in the laboratory analyzing water samples she has collected Age The biologist is looking for phosphate and nitrate concentrations in the water, for these compounds tend to make a lake “age” faster than normal, promoting weed growth at the expense of other marine life, and making lakes undesirable for swimming and skiing. She is also analyzing the water for dissolved oxygen content, an element necessary to maintain fish and amphibians in any water body. And finally. Miss Shaffer is analyzing the lakes' water for bacteria-human or animal pollution. ; First Report The first report issued by Miss Shaffer was handed to officers of the Wawasee and Syracuse Lake property owners’ groups in July, following field and lab work done in June. Basically, says Wiley (Bill) Spurgeon. Jr., president of the Wawasee Property Owners association. Miss Shaffer’s report shows “about what we expected.” He said “the wet and cold spring discouraged extensive lake use, thus dissolved ouygen content is a bit higher than it showed in the 1971 Earlham survey, taken in June and July in a normal summer, except, in some channel areas where circulation is poor. And phosphate and nitrate content follows the patterns shown in the 1971 Earlham report with little variance, pointing out that some problem areas discovered in 1971 still exist, largely because of agricultural runoff or lake current patterns which tend to concentrate such compounds in certain areas.” Spurgeon said a second test of both lakes would be run in August by Miss Shaffer. “We expect this test to be more to the point: Does lake usage tend to distort or accelerate chemical content of the water?” He also noted that an August bacteria count would be a “good guideline” toward human and animal pollution of the lake water "because lake usage was heavy in July, there was little rainfall, and the pattern continues this month.” Similar tests will be run in late fall and at midwinter. Miss Shaffer is working with lab equipment procured by the lakes study fund, created in 1971 by the two property owners associations. Equipment remains

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LAKES STUDY — Miss Marsha Shaffer, biology teacher at Wawasee Prep school, and Wiley (Bill) Spurgeon, president of the Wawasee Property Owners association, are shown here during a recent lakes study of Wawasee and Syracuse, by the prep school’s biology department.

the property of the associations and is on loan to the school. A stipend paid Miss Shaffer for the work is also underwritten by the associations through the fund, Fr Kunkel noted. Committees Spurgeon and John W. (Bill) Peters, president of the Syracuse Lake association, both have appointed committees to work

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THE WAY IT WAS — Scenes like this will be depicted daily during steam-powered threshing demonstrations that will feature the 24th annual exhibition of the Old Time Threshers and Saw Mill Operators August 15-18 on the James Whitbey farm on the Carroll road. 16 miles north of Fort Wayne, between US 33 and SR 3. The demonstration will contrast this ancient method with the work of a modern self-propelled combine.

Threshers exhibition August 15-18

Chugging, clanging and hissing under puffing plumes of smoke, old-fashioned steam engines, steam driven tractors and threshing machines will have their annual workout at the 24th annual exhibition of the Old Time Threshers and Saw Mill Operators August 15-18. / The big show, bygone .era, will be held on the James Whitbey farm, located on the Carroll road, midway between US 33 and SR 3, 10 miles north of Fort Wayne. Daily feature of the four-way affair will be a steam-powered threshing demonstration in which this old-time method will be contrasted with the work of a modern self-propelled combine Old-time implements for cutting grain also will be shown, induding a hand sickle, grain cradle, a century-old reaper and a grain binder. In other highlights, the huge old steam tractors will perform such tasks as sawing lumber, corn husking, plowing, hill climbing, riding a teeter-totter, making Baker fan tests and running a veneer mill. Abo on display will be early American gasoline tractors, steam pupcorn wagon, antique cars and faqn machinery. The steam engines and other equipment are owned and

with Miss Shaffer in identifying areas in the two lakes to be tested, and to relay reports back to the associations' memberships. Spurgeon noted that the Lakeland Community Schools Corporation had also expressed an interest in developing a course such as the one being studied by the Wawasee Prep personnel.

operated by hobbyists. All boilers are state inspected. The Elkhart county saddle club will give demonstrations of horsemanship both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Other features include nightly travel slides of Latin America, a color '' movie of the first old time threshers show 24 years ago.

Tourism promoted at information centers

INDIANAPOLIS - Tourist information centers have been established again this summer in the rest areas of the interstate highways by the Indiana Department of Commerce and the Indiana State Highway commission. The rest areas where information will be available are the 1-65 Henryville rest area, north-bound lane; 1-65 Kankakee rest areas, north and south-bound lanes, near Rensselaer; 1-65 Taylorsville rest areas, northand south-bound lanes, near Columbus; 1-69 Auburn rest areas, north-and south-bound lanes, near Fort Wayne; 1-70 Centerville rest area, west-bound lane; 1-70 Plainfield rest areas, west- and east-bound lanes; 1-74 Batesville rest area, west-bound lane; and the 1-74 Waynetown rest area, east-bound lane, near Crawfordsville. More than 40 college age young people are keeping the centers open from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. On Friday. Saturday. Sunday and holidays, the centers are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Literature distributed has been published by the state tourism promotion and development division, the Indiana State Highway commission, local communities. and privately owned organizations The literature points out places of interest around the state and gives other information of interest to the Hoosier motorist.

“This would give lake studies the dimension that it deserves in today’s lifestyle,” Spurgeon said. “We love our lakes and want to preserve them for future generations. Yet we want everyone possible to be able to use them. Only by intelligent usage, and by monitoring such usage and the effect it has on our waters, can we accomplish this purpose.”

stage coach rides, rummage and antique booths and rides behind steam tractors. There will be free camping in a shady woods with electricity and modern restroom facilities. Ladies from the Wesley Chapel church will operate a food tent. There will be a church service Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

In addition to the information centers located at state highway rest areas, the Indiana Tourism Promotion and Development division will operate three mobile information centers during the summer months. These centers will travel around the state.

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Maxwelton ladies hold annual guest day play

A total of 90 players participated in guest day last Wednesday at Maxwelton golf club for the ladies day association. The event started with rolls and coffee at 7:30 and a shot-gun tee off at 8:30. Guest winners were Elly Graff and Susie Hulley, tie. low gross. 88; second, Mary Jane Lantz. 96; and third, Pat Latta, 100. Low net with 78 went to Vickie Arndt with Debbie Kirkdorfer, second, 79. Louise Harlan had low putt honors with 28.

Etiquette is important in great outdoors

With more and more people spending their vacations camping or hiking it becomes increasingly important for vacationers to remember their manners, reminds the Chicago Motor Club-AAA. Vacationers who leave behind piles of litter are only making matters unpleasant for the next visitor, and they 're also adding to the mounting cleaning costs of our nation's parklands —a cost that eventually will turn up in their tax bills. The purity of streams and ponds also can be protected by considerate campers. Cooking or eating utensils should never be washed in natural waters, nor should wastes be disposed in or near them. Garbage pits should be used for all scraps and dishwater. After making certain a campfire is out, and the area is thoroughly cleaned, it’s a thoughtful gesture to leave a supply of firewood for the next camper. Remember too, that one reason people venture out to a wooded area is to escape the nerveshattering pace of contemporary urban life. Nothing destroys the

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.Member Play In member play, the nine and 18-hole members teamed for regular play with winners as follows: Low gross, Mavis Vanderveer, second, Rose Mathews; low net, Marge Newcomer, first, and Gloria Stoffel, second. Mary Jane Knudsen and Marge Yoder tied for low putt honors. Marge Purdum and Laura Stone were hostesses for the 18hole group; and Susan Sharp and Lil Cook for the nine-hole division.

calm of a sylvan setting so much as a blaring radio or a boisterous group of visitors. Structures set up for the convenience of campers or hikers should never be carved, chopped or altered. Neither should markers be placed to indicate where visitors have traveled. Good manners, of course, are never limited tb a list of “don’ts." Opportunities for positive acts of courtesy are abundant in the outdoors. Taking a few minutes of your time to help a stranger with a flat tire or to give him directions can make your own vacation a richer experience.

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