The Mail-Journal, Volume 12, Number 45, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 December 1975 — Page 2

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14 YEARS AGO. DEC. 7. 1901 The Milford Chamber of Commerce held its regular meeting at the Milford Case Tuesday night The Milford Ministerial Association at its meeting last Saturday morning decided that the churches in a cooperative effort would present a living nativity scene A freak accident in Milford Saturday morning caused heavydamage to Fred O. Carey construction company truck of Warsaw and to Kosciusko CountyBeverage company truck of Syracuse. No one was hurt when the Big Four train collided with the beam ends extending back of the Carey truck flat bed The Milford high school music department will present its annual Christmas program next Wednesday evening at 7:30 Ed Williams former Milford student now attending college at Ball State, is the director of the play "Pajama Game " 24 YEARS AGO. DEC.O, I*sl The Milford Business Men's Association met Wednesdayevening in the library basement with 15 members present A nominating committee was appointed to select candidates for the election of officers to be held at the next Monday meeting Milford firemen have the new blue lights attached to their cars, which according to a new- law requires motorists to give the right of way to volunteer firemen's autos having the blue lights for identification purposes More than 200 Hoosier dairymen were honored Monday. Dec 3, when special awards for milk and butterfat were given A county winner in the medal of merit award herd project is Millard Stookey of Milford Frank O. Ranck of Warsaw, Kosciusko county representative to the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, spoke to the Milford Lions club Mondayevening 30 YEARS AGO. DEC. 0. 1945 The flu situation at the Milford school caused the local officials to close the school for the remainder of the week Two new factories are locating in Milford They- are Industrial Products Co . and Lambert Glove Mfg Co

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Milford may soon have a new shoe store and ladies' dress shop Mr. and Mrs Farmer Rusk have announced plans of putting in a shoe store and ladies' dress shop in addition to the shoe repair business they now operate on Emeline street. The Womens Missionary society erf the First Brethren church, the Woman’s Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church, and the Queen Esther Society had a very delightful meeting together at the Methodist church on Thursdayevening Seventy were present 40 YEARS AGO. DEC. 5. 1935 Cera, seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Ralph Neff, became ill Friday with influenza and pneumonia. The Milford Trojans retained their undefeated record Wednesday night of last week with a 44 to 24 wm over the Beaver Dam Beiers MHS held the lead all through the game. Estep was high point man for the Trojans scoring 20 points Mr and Mrs. Albert Groves were Sunday dinner guests of the John Davidsen family west of Milford The Milford seconds won their game with the Beaver Dam seconds with a score 32 to 17. A large crowd attended the games. Frank Hoover, who underwent an operation last week at the Elkhart hospital for appendicitis, is improving It was feared following the operation that Mr Hoover was developing pneumonia and he was placed in a pneumonia jacket, but he escaped that complication Mr. Hoover became ill very suddenly about 10 days ago. Beware, heavy coffee drinkers Heavy coffee or tea (tinkers who go through the day without a cup may develop a headache, fatigue or stomach pains, says a London doctor. The reason? They've become mildly dependent on caffeine, a stimulant contained in both beverages, according to Dr. Paul Turner, a professor of clinical pharmacy.

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The Column A Sideshow Os Events In Milford

THE TWO photos at the top of this week’s column were loaned to us by Mary (Reniche) Gun* deriock of Our Town. The top photo shows the first grade class in 1926 with teacher Esther Tusing. The bottom photo shown many of the same students 12 years later in their senior class photo Not wanting to spoil the fun. we are not identifying them. How many can you find in both photos? IN MONDAY morning’s mail we received an unsigned letter to the editor Please, if you write to us. sign your letter If you request we not use your name in the paper it can be held. The letter received was full of nothing but praise for Milford's new policeman and comments on the fact he is "so witling to help everyone." It goes on to comment on how he cares about welfare and of the cars being off of Main street

"He is the type of man this town needs." the letter says. "He is full of compassion, law and order." THE SEELYS. Bud and Jeri, are back in Milford after spending the Thanksgiving holiday visiting with Bud’s sister, Nancy Kimmel, her husband. Jim, and their daughters Rose and Julie, in Mesa, Ariz. While the Kimmels thought their 79-75 degree temperatures were a bit cool the Seelys enjoyed the daytime sunshine. THE COOL temperatures are still with us as of this writing, however, temperatures in the daytime have been near the 60 degree mark and the snow which fell last week has all but melted. W ATCH FOR the Milford Lions to be on the streets of Our Town next Friday and Saturday with their oranges and grapefruit. Half of the proceed they make on the sale will go toward the emergency vehicle fund with the

other half being used for other projects. The Lions support the state cancer control project and the new 40 MEV unit which has been installed at the medical center in Indianapolis, the Eye Bank program which is about to launch a new project and the Leader Dog School in Rochester. Mich., which provides trained Leader Dogs for blind persons. This writer and many others have learned many things over the recent experience with the "slander sheet” on the child care and family services legislation now pending in both houses of congress. .Anytime we get an unsigned letter most of us disregard it as the work of a prank, but when this official looking paper was passed around with words like "Congressional Record” and numbers of bills in the house and the senate, which incidentally were the right numbers, we get excited and sometimes jump to conclusions before checking things out. Even the most well intentioned individual sometimes passes the word without checking. The bills do not read as it sounds in the article being passed around. No wonder the information was not signed. No mattter how we think about proriding day care centers for working mothers, the bills, when we read them in their entirety, leave decisions up to the parents where the good of the child is at stake. In our midwestern, small town areas it is hard for us to see the need of day care centers. Most of our working mothers do not have a need for these services. Some, because they work out of choice and not necessity and some, because in our small communities people are always

anxious to help others in need, soblocal sitters who are trustworthy are not as hard to find as in a big city. Even though I do not see the need for such centers in our immediate area 1 do know the need exists in large cities. If providing such care for really worthwhile working parents (it is not always the mother who has custody of small children) they come off the welfare list and go out and earn money to pay taxes to support this need and otherwise earn their own way, then it is a good thing. There are too many people in our country accepting money from welfare, from unemployment and poor relief tax funds for doing absolutely nothing. If the need for government money to care for people exists why don't we at least put them to work cleaning up our country? Do not create jobs for the people but put people to work who we have been supporting with tax dollars or don’t give them any money except when illness or dire need is involved. We would see people going to work at a job of their choice rather than accepting government handouts they had to work for in some area they did not like. Again. 1 would like to mention that we should disregard unsigned material until we fully investigate what it says. Another thing is to learn to write or call our congressmen and senators. In almost every case you get an answer and help with your questions. If we do have too much government control it is because we take the easy way out and do not let our wishes be known. We are too busy running helterskelter through our daily lives to take time to be thinking citizens. In our coming Bicentennial year I hope we can evaluate, on an individual basis, what it means to, live in a country like ours and try to help make it better by WORKING for America, not gripe about our country while we sit on our haunches. BJS Kiwanis — (Continued from page 1)> inflation Steps that have been taken to help solve these problems are control of imports and discouraging of pay increases. Northern Ireland is another problem for Great Britain and with his Irish background, Mr. Mac Dermot felt that the trouble there was more the result of cultural differences than religious beliefs. Mr. Mac Dermot mentioned welfare state, environmental planning, technological advancement, and changes in their educational system as positive developments in Great Britain since 1945. He also believed that his country's decision in 1973 to join in the European Common Market would be an advantage for Great Britain. Discovery of oil and gas resources along the coastal areas should help the British economy and bring relief from gas prices which average $1.50 per imperial gallon. Following his address to Lakeland Kiwanis club, Mr.

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■ A >V’ y X \ ——A / Ar ■ \1 .. wk ii B I |A - ' I ESI -BEHB ■ B r * DECORATIONS GO UP — Weldon Haggerty is shown in the above photo assisting Milford street and water commissioner John Martin as he puts up Christmas decorations in the business area of the town. The decorations went up last Friday and will be lit nightly through the holiday season.

Mac Dermot spoke to government and history classes at Wawasee high school. Arrangements for the British officer's visit to the North Webster area were made by A. C. Underwood, Bicentennial chairman of Kiwanis club of Lakeland. As a part of their Bicentennial observance. Lakeland Kiwanis Interclub chairman, Don Martin, received the Freedom Torch on November 24 from Ray Plummer of Warsaw Kiwanis club. On November 25, Lakeland Kiwanis member, Chris Koher, passed the Bicentennial Freedom Torch on to Goshen Kiwanis club. The Freedom Torch symbolizes the Kiwanis Bicentennial theme “The Volunteer and the Nation’’ and will travel to all clubs in the Kiwanis Indiana district. NEVADA BANKS SAVED Nevada ordered a 12-day bank holiday Oct. 31, 1932, to save the state's collapsing banks.

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200 YEARS AGO The Continental Congress in Philadelphia resolves to raise two battalions of Marines independent of Washington’s Army in effort to strengthen the local cause. — (National Park Service — CNS)

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