The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 22, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 June 1976 — Page 10

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Milford, Michigan yesterday, today

The settlers who arrived in Milford, Mich ~ in 1832 chose the name "Milford” deriving it from the old mill on the south bank of the Huron River and a fording place where the Indians and early settlers crossed the river on a high log Waterways attracted people to this area The Congressional township of Milford, designated in the United States survey as town 2 north.

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range 7 east, was detached from Novi, Mich., December 1834 and organized as a separate township by the territorial legislature at the time specified above. The village of Milford was incorporated by an act of the state legislature in 1869. After the village was incorporated, the township continued operating under the public acts of 1827 — with the village being utilized as its center. The village arid township have operated on a cooperative basis since that time, each serving the other with respect to police, fire and other public services. The post office was first established in 1835 and the first rural routes in Oakland county were established in Milford in the early 1900’s. In 1871 the Milford Times was established and continues today, the oldest newspaper in Oakland county Also in 1871 the C and O railroad was constructed through the community. In 1973 it was the third largest community in Oakland county. Recreation Land Milfords population in 1894 was 1,236 and estimated at the present time to be around 9,500. Twenty-five per cent of Milford township is recreation land. Milford, Mich., is a suburban

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community, the home of the General Motors proving ground. The town is equal distance from Pontiac. Flint, Lansing. Detroit and Ann Arbor

The people of Milford. Mich., feel it is a great community to live in. They are proud of their heritage and activities are planned for the Bicentennial year. Milford. Mich., is still a small town with warm friendly people, yet it has modem shopping centers artd a new civic center which houses the village, township, police and library.

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•MISS CLASSIC TECHNIQUES’ — Cindy Staker of r 4 Syracuse has entered the queen contest at the Mermaid Festival in North Webster as "Miss Classic Techniques.” Cindy is a junior at Wawasee high school. She is 16 years old. has light brown hair and green eyes. She weighs 120 pounds and is five feet, six inches tall. She is the daughter of Patricia Staker of r 4 Syracuse and John Staker of r 1 North Webster. Cindy is being sponsored by Tom Swartz Classic Techniques. Inc. of Syracuse. She enjoys swimming and roller skating. Wawasee Ski Club plans for show, July 4 Flotilla By JOAN BVLETTY The Wawasee Ski club will hold its second meeting of the year on Saturday, June 26, at 2 p.m. at the home of the president, Dave Ensinger. Ski show plans for the upcoming show on July 3 are to be finalized. The ski club is also working on a float which wiH be entered in the Flotilla on the 4th of July. Anyone who enjoys skiing and is interested in joining the Wawasee ski club is invited to attend the meeting. For further information contact the president. Arts and crafts exhibit is set The Kosciusko county Bicentennial art and crafts exhibit will be on display July 4 and 5 at the fairgrounds in Warsaw as a part of Festival 76. Exhibits are requested to be taken to the women's building not later than 4 p.m. Saturday, July 3. Paintings, sketches and photographs of historic places in Kosciusko county are particularly desired. Other scenes of county interest will also be displayed. Early American crafts and skills will be featured and other crafts will also be shown. Commercial crafts by Kosciusko county residents will have a special location. Persons having questions should contact Waldo Adams of Leesburg or Mrs. Jay Gardner or Tom Braddock of Warsaw, members of the county Bicentennial commission.

Enchanted Hills summer theater off to rousing start with 'Oklahoma'

By BILL SPURGEON

Summer theater got off to a rousing start last week end in the Enchanted Hills Playhouse at the east end of Wawasee. The occasion was the well-cast, well-directed production of the durable Rodgers and Kammerstein favorite “Oklahoma!” And this reviewer is happy to report that not oily is the show just as delightful as it was at its inception some 34 years ago. the folks at Enchanted Hills did it very, very well. We saw “Oklahoma” last time some 23 years ago, done by a professional company in San Franciso’s aging Geary Theater, and the only performer of note whom we can remember was Florence Henderson: it was pretty much a one-star show. Not so at Lake Wawasee. Enchanted Hills seems to have a bountiful supply of musical talent this year, and the sold-out auditorium on “Oklahoma!’s” first Saturday night could mean that patrons who want to see some good theater this year had better get their reservations in early for subsequent performances. “Oklahoma!” at Enchanted Hills is an impressive effort. The play itself is a musical delight, with singing, dancing, quick movement and colorful scenes and costumes in abundance. Excellently cast are T. Doyle Leverett as Curly and Sandra Beckwith as Laurey. Both newcomers to Enchanted Hills, Beckwith from Rochester, N. Y., via Denison university asd Leverett via Indiana State university, they sing well, are perfectly at home on stage, and move and dance easily. Nor is there anything ragged at all in the performances of Gary Smiley as the somber farmhand Jud Fry, Melissa Jo Bailey as Aunt Eller, Stephen Finkelmeyer as Will Parker. William Martin as Ali Hakim, and Becky Borczon as Ado Annie. Os the group only Borczon is an Enchanted Hills veteran, but the others have excellent credentials in college, graduate worjc and stock, and it’s obvious that the Enchanted Hills recruiters were fortunate in this year's talent hunt. “Oklahoma!” is basically a happy play some minor somber undertones, and it must

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be presented with exhuberant optimism to succeed. This the Enchanted Hills folks do. major and minor roles alike. One thing that particularly pleased this reviewer was the quality of all the voices, because this is a show that needs good voices and would suffer without them. Suffer it did not. Because all of the principals at Enchanted Hills are musicoriented, accompaniment has never taken a back seat to stage movement, dialogue or technical matters, and this year's orchestra was handling the “Oklahoma!” score quite adeptly last week end, and can be expected to continue to do so. And if there are those who wonder how a show designed for New York’s, majestic can be squeezed on to Enchanted Hills' almost pocket-size stage, fear not: it can be done, and done well. Scenery is simplified, but you still get the idea of taking a look at some wide-open prairie spaces, and the choreographers cope well with dances ranging from bright two-steps to nearballet. “Oklahoma! ” gets this writer’s vote as plainly the best season opener ever staged in the Enchanted Hills bam. with the exception of the predecessor company’s Equity production of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” in 1971. And comparing Brel to Rodgers and Kammerstein is like trying to compare bananas with elephants. No frame of crossreference exists.

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And although the playwrights were the ones who put together a play before the age of jet airplanes that is in itself, “alive and well” in its fourth decade, director Rick Gossett and his cast, crew and musicians have earned their honors. We hope the rest of the season meets the challenge. “Oklahoma!” runs this week Wednesday through Friday at 8, and Saturday at 8:30.

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