The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 24, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 July 1976 — Page 9

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First Annual Flotilla canoe races are held on Syracuse Lake

Last Saturday. July 3. the First Annual Flotilla Canoe race was run beginning at 10 a.m.. with competition in four divisions Approximately 22 entries with two persons on each team entered the contest. The junior and mixed doubles category’ had two teams each Six entries competed in the parent-child group and the men's doubles division had a total of 10 entries The canoes ran a course around Syracuse Lake on the right side of four checkpoint boats, where the teams picked up wood chips before paddling to the

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finish. All the divisions made one circle of the lake except the men’s doubles which went around the lake twice Teams in the junior, parentchild and mixed doubles were started at four minute intervals starting at 10 a m. Entries in the men's doubles were started at 11 <m. Finishing first in the junior division was the team of Lopez and Ruby with an elapsed time of 25 18 minutes. Second in the division was the WakelandJordan team with a time of 26 25 minutes.

The Limbrey-Marsh team captured the mixed couples category’ with a run of 24.65 minutes. And the SlinoskiWallace team placed second with a time of 25 40 minutes The parent-child division was led by the List-List team with a run of 21.40 minutes Wood-Wood was second with 22.35 and LeedyLeedy came in third with a time of 22.65. The Linn-Linn team finished fourth at 23.10; HudsonHudson. fifth at 23 40; and KimeKime finished last. The men's doubles division

1/ ■ 1 < v * wwi 4 v ■z AzW & Rmb P\JLT < Jfiß ■HFI r »»—-w ' ‘3 K “ JL:_—r RUSHMORE HONORS INDIANA — Major General Alfred F. Ahner, left, adjutant general of the Indiana National Guard, received the Indiana state flag in ceremonies at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota's Black Hills June 27. Making the presentation was Rushmore superintendent Harvey Wickware. The State of Indiana was recognized June 2S-27 at Rushmore in the national park service's IR7C "Days of Honor'' commemoration at this national Bicentennial focal point — S. D. Tourism Photo

Indiana honored June 26-27 in Rushmore commemoration

The State of Indiana flag flew proudly over Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota’s Black Hills June 26-27. as this national Bicentennial focal point honored Indiana in the national park service’s 1976 “Days of Honor” commemoration Major General Alfred F. Ahner. adjutant general of the Indiana National Guard, received the Indiana flag in special evening lighting ceremonies at the memorial June 27. Making the presentation was Rushmore superintendent Harvey Wickware. “This memorial's significance is as a symbol of the prinicples of the whole nation.” Wickware said, “and we are pleased to honor Indiana for its contributions to the development of this nation of states as our country celebrates its Bicentennial of Independence.” The Indiana flag also will fly m a special Avenue of Flags at

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WATCHING THE PROGRESS - Spectators watched from the shore as the boats rounded the checkpoints during the race.

winners was the team of Niles Dalman with a time of 34.90. Weicht-Gray came in second with a 35.45 time and placing third was the Zimmerman-Baugher team with a total time of 36.65. Finishing fourth was HudsonLancaster. 37.05; Sickle-Moore, fifth. 40.25; Du Bois-Leffory, sixth, 41.30; Hall-Brannock, seventh. 43.20; List-Gans, eighth, 45.50 and the Schrock-Welsh, ninth. 54.30. In tenth position and not finishing was the Bennett and Mac Namara team which

Rushmore for the remainder of the summer. . Mount Rushmore is in the midst of its 111-day “Days of Honor" program developed by the national park service to fulfill the memorial’s role in the commemoration of Independence. The “Days of Honor” program began May 21 and continues through September 8, with each state and principal territory in the nation receiving homage at ’ the memorial. Mount Rushmore, known as the Shrine of Democracy, was carved by Gutzon Borglum on a 6,000-foot-high granite mountain as a monumental summation of the American Republic Borglum chose four presidents (Washington. Jefferson. Theodore Roosevelt. Lincoln) as symbols of the growth of the United States. The portrait bust of each is 60 feet high. Rushmore received national Bicentennial designation from the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission in 1971.

was towed in. Dual trophies were awarded to the first, second and third place winners in each division. And all participants received blue ribbons for their competition.

Disney pair help celebrate the American Bicentennial

A vagabond musician and a Philadelphia church mouse help pay tribute to America during her Bicentennial celebration with the re-release of Walt Disney’s “Follow Me. Boys!’’ and the animated cartoon featurette “Ben and Me.” Fred Mac Murray stars as an itinerant saxophone player turned pied piper for the feisty youth of a small town in “Follow Me. Boys! ” By becoming the city of Hickory’s Boy Scout Leader. Lem Siddons (Mac Murray not only captures the heart of the town, but the heart of the town’s beauty (Vera Miles) as well. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winner MacKinlay Kantor’s book “God and My Country,” the picture portrays the personality of smalltown America in the IV3OS. The town of Hickory delightfully captures those days gone by with its general store, ice cream parlor. Bijou theatre and livery stable. Not only does “Follow Me, Boys!” capture times past, but the poignant story also offers a

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TAKING A BREAK — Finishers in the parent-child division take it easy after checking tn at the finish.

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