The Mail-Journal, Volume 12, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 15 October 1975 — Page 1

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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS — On Monday, Oct. 6. new officers and directors were installed for the 1975-76 year of the Kiwanis club of Lakeland. Dick Miller of Pls mouth, lieutenant governor of Land of Lakes division of Indiana district, officiated at the installation ceremonies. Shown in the picture are the new officers. Seated from left are Jay Bos er. vice president; Stuart Walker, president-elect;

Webster advertising for new disposal project bid

The town of North Webster is publishing two legal notices in this issue of The Mail-Journal on accepting sealed bids for the construction of a wastewater disposal project — contracts one and two Bids will be open at 7 p m on November 5 during a meeting to be held in Camelot hall at North Webster The first contract calls for furnishing of all materials and the construction of a treatment unit, aeration equipment, twoday tertiary ponds, sludge drying beds, control building, laboratory and office building, garage, alum feed equipment. and miscellaneous items of plant structures, piping, grading, fencing and appurtenances The second contract calls for furnishing of all materials and the construction of 10 inch sanitary sewers, eight inch sanitary sewers, standard manholes, four inch force mains, six inch force mains, lift stations, six inch building connection sewers, wyes and tees, granular backfill, pavement replacement, stream crossings and highway crossings A pre-bid conference will be held in the office of the clerktreasurer at 7pm on October 28 Bids submitted by any bidder not

tiwtuENGLAND — Ninth and Final of a Series

Bv DELLA AND ARCH BAVMG.ARTNER LONDON TOWN AND HOME. September 24.1975 — It's always nice to leave on a vacation, especially an overseas vacation where one encounters a foreign language and customs, but it’s also nice to be home again We always felt the tug of warm hearth strings when we arrived near the end of what is usually a tiring, working vacation. On this trip we were among the few who dtd any writing for publication at home, so we were among the busy ones, constantly taking notes. We finally set our bags down one final time on Monday. Sept. 22. at home, and were we glad*

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attending the pre-bid conference will be returned unopened Persons wishing more information on the bids are urged to read the legal notices. Plans and specifications are on file m the offices of Clyde E. Williams and Associates. Inc., engineers, at 1843 Commerce dnve. South Bend, and at 3030 Meadows Parkway, Indianapolis, 1509-B Wabash Ave . Terre Haute and at the office of theclerk in the town hall at North Webster Chain saw is reported stolen A chain saw was reported stolen by Etonald Molencupp, 404 Wade Dr.. Epworth Forest. North Webster The saw. valued at $209. was taken from Molencupp s pickup truck which was parked in front of his house.

Masons to plant tree in honor of Bicentennial

Kosciusko Lodge 418 F and AM will plant a hard maple tree at the Milford cemetery Saturday morning at 10 am in observance of the country's Bicentennial.

We find London a cleaner city . . . good to be home

We Love London Since writing our eighth article in this series in the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. The Netherlands, we made the 40-minute flight to London Town where all was English again and we felt at home Before boarding the big liner at Amsterdam, however, some of us had some guilters left over, and our desire to get rid of them inevitably led us to the airport's duty-free store What does a nonsmoker buy? The gayly-wrapped bottles of a wide variety of liquors caught our eye. ■** Drinkers will be interested to note that a “fifth'* of Jim Beam bourbon cost, in American money, 16 50. When I informed the man at the check-out counter.

Sherman Bryant, president; David Everts, treasurer; and Jon Roberts, secretary. In the second row are directors, from left. Richard Long. Larry Stackhouse. Ernest Lawshe, Theo Thomas, Ralph Haynes, Cecil Kaufman and Dean Jessup. Board of directors members not shown in the picture are Ron Owens. Ron Richey and immediate past president Edwin McCarty.

Ballots at town hall Applications are now being taken by Milford clerktrea surer Mrs. James (Margaret) Brooks for ab- - sentee ballots for the November 4 town election. Persons who will not be in Milford oo election day are urged to contact Mrs. Brooks. ‘ The deadline for absentee balloting is November 1.

Accident reported at 100E and 300 N Cars driven by James C. Pachynski, 22, r 1 Leesburg and Marvin D. Fuller. 37, box 783 Warsaw, collided at the intersection of CR 100E and CR 300 N last Sunday Damage to the Pachynski car was estimated at S4OO while damage to Fuller s car was estimated at S3OO

William Bess, a past master of the lodge, is chairman of the event. The public is invited to attend the ceremony

that a similar bottle could be purchased in the States for a dollar less, tax and all, he informed me this was only 36 guilters. whereas it would cost about 100 guilters “on the outside.” His comment. “The reason you think this is high, is because you Americans don’t pay any taxes.” I told him my friends back in Indiana would be glad to bear ths. The flight to London was a short and pleasant one. our plane flying practically due west. There was one hour difference in time. We have been in London many times before, the first being during the war years when we found it a completely blacked out

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1975

Annual Halloween festival at Milford on Thursday, Oct. 30, Robert Cline, chairman of this year’s Halloween festival in Milford, stated this morning the date for the annual event will be Thursday. Oct. 30. at 7 p.m. The festival will be held in the Milford junior high school gym. Co-sponsors of the event are the Lions club. Legion and Legion Auxiliary. Cline said treats will be given to all youngsters who attend Prizes have been increased with the grand prize winner to receive $lO this year The most unusual winner will receive $7.50 and individual winners will receive $3 for first. $2 for second and $1 for third place. Categories will be listed in next week’s paper. Two injured in crash near Goshen Two persons sustained injuries in a one-car accident on county road 750 East in Tippecanoe township Friday night, one being a Syracuse young woman. Treated at Murphy Medical Center in Warsaw and released, were Tonya Flowers, 16. r 2 Syracuse and Lowell Allen, 16, r 1 Pierceton Allen told off iers he lost control of his vehicle and officers set damages at S9OO County officers investigated.

dty. The lights are on now and the mood is entirely different. We found security tight at the famous Heathrow Airport, with landing cards required, the same at departure. A weather eye was kept on all passengers, incoming and outgoing, all of this in the wake of the troubles in North Ireland. One member of our party put down two small flight bags while he went into a rest room When be returned he found a security guard had come to check on them. Ride into Portman We arrived at our hotel, the Portman, one of the Intercontinental chain of hotels, in the early afternoon hours of Saturday, Sept. 20. We were

Policy changes made by Lakeland board

A number of policy changes were made by members of the Lakeland school board during their stated meeting on Tuesday night The first one was a blanket policy to keep with federal laws and provide for constant review of rules, regulations, policies and procedures pertaining to discrimination as it applies to equal employment opportunity, civil rights. Title IX regulations and any further regulation of the federal government, all of which deal in some respect to equality of the individual in relation to race, creed, color, sex. religion or national origin. The policy lists five steps for aggrieved individuals, the first of which is to contact the school superintendent for a verbal discussion of the problem A second policy lists the job description of the pupil personnel director who was hired for the current school year Among his other duties he has the prime responsibility for student discipline in grades nine-12 as well as attendance records and reports. In all seven responsibilities and duties are listed. A third policy allows teachers to attend workshops in their field any two days and allows for reimbursement on the schedule listed. All requests for workshops or conferences must be submitted through the principal to the superintendent at least two weeks prior to the date of said meeting In the student rules and regulations policy several words and paragraphs were added to the current policy. The work exclusion and the words treated as stated in the addendum following this section with said addendum to be promulgated annually were added to the third paragraph to make it read as follows: “Certain acts of misconduct by a student will subject such student to suspension, exclusion or expulsion from school. The board of school trustees has declared as school board policy that certain student misconduct will be treated as stated in the addendum following this section with said addendum to be promulgated annually “ The addendum lists types of student conduct which will cause a student to be removed from school, subject to the provisions of public law 162. as amended, for a period in excess of five days and shall be grounds for expulsion of the student Reinstatement will be considered only (Continuedon page 3)

Break-in and theft at Pickwick Theatre A break-in and theft is being investigated at the Pickwick Theatre in Syracuse sometime last Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. Approximately S4OO in cash was taken. Entry to the building was made through a second floor window at the rear and discovered by a cleaning woman early Thursday. Two booked at county jail Over the week end, two area persons were booked at the county jail on charges connected with alcoholic beverages. Gary L. Johnson. 20. r 1 North Webster, was charged with illegal consumption of alcoholic beverages and Timothy D. Strom beck, r 1 North Webster, was charged with driving while under the influence of intoxicating beverages.

I * ■ V 'ft 111 | > M a * fl_ L m' -k!" MORTGAGE BURNING CEREMONY — Calvary United Methodist church, located on state road 13 south of Syracuse, will hold a mortgage burning ceremony and 14th anniversary celebration on Sunday, Oct. Is. at 16:30 a.m. Rev. Ross Cook, present pastor, will bring the morning message. Rev. Kenneth Foulke and Rev. Kennard Robinson, former pastors of Calvary, will be present and participate in the senice. A carry-in dinner will be served at 12:30. All members, former members and friends of the church are invited to attend the Sunday events. Ground was broken for the present building on July 31, 1966. Following completion of the structure, a dedication service was held on October 22,1961. The church is modified gothic design of Indiana stone in Ashler design. Housed in the belltower is a peal of two bells, one from the former Lakeside United Brethren church and the other from the Trinity Evangelical church, symbolizing the union of the two congregations which united in 1951 to form Calvary church.

located on the ninth floor in an excellent room, overlooking a busy section of the innercity. Across the street from the Portman is the lavish Churchill Hotel, and two blocks away is busy Oxford Street, the busiest shopping street in all London. It goes without saying, that while the men saw to it that bags were in the rooms, the women beat a hasty path to the Oxford Street shops However, before that, several of us who were famished, found a traditional English pub just around the corner from the Portman. Inasmuch as they closed at 3 pan., not to reopen until five, we had a small glass of beer and a (Continued on page 2)

Milford board reminds salesmen of license

Milford town board president Dr. T. A. Miller told fellow board member Mrs. Bessie Sunthimer Monday night he had received several complaints from women on sweeper salesmen in Milford. The salesmen were reported going door to door and had not applied for a town license. Miller and town marshal Melvin Jordan confirmed as many as five salesmen were in town one day. Miller cited a 1929 ordinance, number 123, which was reaffirmed in April of 1960 on venders and peddlers. Those who desire to sell in town must have a permit. The ordinance states the town board has the right to grant or to refuse the annual permit which cost $35 per year. Violations carry a $lO fine for each offense. Miller said by the number of townspeople who were upset by the recent salesmen going door-

■ ■ i ilia, v* JaS * : • iifll WESTMINSTER ABBEY in London, over 900 years old from I its first building, is a major London monument to see.

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to-door the townspeople want to see this enforced. Trick Or Treat In other business before the board Trick or Treat night was set for Friday. Oct. 31, with a 9 p.m curfew. Miller said the Lions club had set October 30 as the date for their annual community event because of the home football game at Wawasee on October 31. Board members felt persons wishing to attend the football game on the 31st could allow their youngsters to go Trick or Treating early and still have time to make the ball game. Mrs. Sunthimer asked if something could be done about the trains which are blocking the crossings in Milford. When the trains are stopped for a long period of time youngsters are found crawling over and under them to cross the tracks. (Continued on page 2)