The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 14 July 1976 — Page 9

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Elephant figure collection keeps growing

“The collection started originally with our little girl' said Mrs Ralph Brubaker. Van Buren street, Leesburg, referring in her collection of elephant figures • , Mrs Brubaker s sister gave some elephants to her daughter, now Martha Lou Sharp, Wheaton. DI. Mrs. Brubaker s daughter took some to college and later returned them to her mother, who then expanded the total to 335 elephant figures “We’ve had people bring them to us.'' said Mrs Brubaker “I ve got some coming in the mail right now " Some of j the elephants have come from Rhodesi&. Kenya. Guatemala and NewYork Mrs Brubaker herself has purchased many from stores and flea markets The materials the elephants in the collection are made of are diverse with them being rubber, wax. glass, ceramic 1 , ivory, oynx. woven chalk, marble, soapstone and even toys and stuffed animals “If their trunks are up they're happ#." explains Mrs Brubaker “If their trunks are down they're sad or busy." One of the elephants was made by a Leesburg man from sea shells for Mrs Brubaker “A lot of them have histories.; Mrs Brubaker commented A glass elephant has a story “I don't hardly believe." relates Mrs Brubaker Her friend. Mildred Richey. Tippecanoe Lake, brought her the elephant which was saved from the sinking Andrea Dorea A mah aboard the ship was bringing back the pieces for his gift shop, and the elephant was among the merchandise he saved “1 value that <the elephant > quite highly " The smallest elephant figure in the collection is a hand carved ivory one measuring ap proximately one-half of onefourth of an inch Mrs Brubaker suggested to a local insurance man that the collection might be worth SSOO "He said SI,OOO would be a verymodest estimate.” Mrs Brubaker reported She explained that some of them were bought for a quarter 25 years ago

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and would now sell for about $1.25. When Mrs Brubaker was a substitute teacher she began a scrapbook of clippings of other figurine collectors and elephant valentines from students. One clipping is a story of a Wheaton, 111., man who has a collection of 1500 figurines. “They got to get so ugly politically that I stopped saving them," remarked Mrs. Brubaker about the scrapbook. Her largest elephant is a pink cement one which sits on her front porch 4 Mrs Brubaker also has collected elephant items such as coin purses, posters, plaques, cookie cutters, and carved wood salad utensils from Rhodesia. In another corner on a shelf sits more glass elephants, Mrs. Brubaker's "glass menagerie.” Even with her collection of 335 elephant figures plus more coming soon. Mrs. Brubaker says, "I’m still looking " Joni Denney returns home from Germany Miss Joni Denney, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Fred Avery, Syracuse, and Mr and Mrs Rex Denney, Kendallville, recently returned from Stuttgart, Germany, where she spent one year as the guest of Captain and Mrs Bryce Slabaugh and family. Joni attended the Stuttgart American high school where she was a .Nelhgan cheerleader. The Slabaugh family and Joni spent time during the year sightseeing and visiting other countries including Italy, Spain. France. Holland, Austria, Switzerland and England Mrs Slabaugh is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Jim Tarmen of Syracuse She and her family are currently spending six weeks with the Tarmens BOOKED AT Cty/NTY JAIL Wayne R Stidhams. 19. of North Webster was charged with public intoxication and visiting a public nuisance and booked at county jail over the week end.

ONE OF MANY — Mrs. Ralph Brubaker holds one of the 335 and growing collection of elephant figures she has collected.

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PORCH ELEPHANT — Mrs. Brubaker sits next to her largest elephant, a pink cement one. which sets on her front porch and is visable from Van Buren street.

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‘Missouri Breaks’ starts Friday at the Pickwick Will success spoil Jack Nicholson'’ His friends think not. but that doesn't mean that they aren't excited and impressed with his first Academy award win as best actor for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest.” Currently starring with Marlon Brando in Elliott Kastner's presentation of “The Missouri Breaks." which will open Friday at the Pickwick Theatre in Syracuse. Nicholson had become one of the best known and most respected Oscar contenders ever since he won his first nomination for “Easy Rider.” He subsequently picked up four more nominations for “Five Easy Pieces.” “The Last Detail.” “Chinatown" and “Cuckoo's Nest.” Pairing Nicholson with twotime Oscar winner Marlon Brando was an inspired bit of casting by producers Kastner and Robert M. Sherman and director Arthur Penn. Nicholson portrays Tom Logan, an easygoing, yet'dangerous horse rustler, who matches wits with Brando, seen as Lee Clayton, a cold-blooded “regulator,” hired by an outraged rancher to rid the range of horse thieves and other riffraff. The characters are the creation of screenwriter Thomas McGuane. An Arthur Prim film. “The Missouri Breaks” is a Robert M. Sherman Production released by United Artists, a Transamerica Company. Jack Nicholson's first feature film was Roger Corman's “The Cry 1 Baby” He did 11 pictures with Corman in the 1960’5, among them “Little Shop of Horrors” and "Hell’s Angels on Wheels.” Then he starred in a pair of Western. “The Shooinng” and

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