The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 March 1977 — Page 5

■ The Column A Sideshow Os Events In Milford

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thine, be done." .;. Luke 22: 39-42 RV Christ went to the garden to pray after the last supper. It was while in the garden he was arrested. His trial followed and then the crucifixion ... Union Holy Week services begin in Milford at the Christian Church at 7 p.m. on Palm Sunday evening. All are urged to attend! Services will be held on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings with each church holding its own communion service on Thursday and Good Friday services on Friday afternoon. DON’T FORGET to mark your calendar so you can help the Milford Baseball Booster Club members on their work day. They plan to meet at the Little League Park at 8 am. on Saturday. April 2. to get it ready for the summer. WE RECEIVED a most interesting letter last week from Ralph Becknell of LaPorte who is

the son of the Dr. I. J. Becknell and Sadie E. Becknell. Dr. Becknell started the practice of medicine in Milford in 1874 and moved to Goshen in August of 1898. Ralph attended school in Milford and states he remembers Richard Vanderveer very well as well as many other teachers. He was born in the house on South Main Street, across from the old Higbee house. Our guess is the Coy Apartments. He says his father built that bouse in 1880. His brother. Guy, who died in Tampa. Fla., in May of 1975 at age 97. was born in the Higbee house (now owned by Mrs. K. D. Jessop) where their parents lived while their house was being built. Ralph was born October 12. 1882, and is now 94 years young. His letter tells about his two sons and their family. Masons will be interested in the fact that his son George is a Past Grand Master of the Indiana Masonic Lodge A PS to the letter states Ralph was nicknamed Jakie when a kid. maybe some of our senior citiiens will remember him by that name. Later we received a postcard from Mr. Becknell on which he remembered working for Mr. Grove when he owned The Milford Mail. His pay: 10 cents for two hours work. Becknell also recalled a number of his relatives are buried in the Milford cemetery. ' Mr. Becknell also recalls his father owning nearly all of the land in west Milford (persons residing west of SR 15 today live in the Becknell Addition). He had

a sawmill and cut his own lumber and built houses there and sold them to people at a low price. Mr. Becknell’s cousin, Frances (Becknell) Juul, is also at the home where he is and they see each other every day. She was 90 years young last December and is the daughter of Mr. Becknell’s father's brother Edward Becknell. They had a large farm just out of Milford a few miles northwest. JIM WILSON is having an office chair sale at Ralston Purina. Seems be has been offering four office chairs to everyone who enters . . . he’s even got the other Ralston employees trying to sell the chairs too! MARK AND Sharon Meerzo of over Wawasee way told relatives last week they want another baby as soon as possible just to see if The M-J can spell the last name right! Seems gremlins creep into reports of their babies' birth reports. Their last name was spelled wrong two years ago when Joshua James made his arrival and last week the gremlins were at it again as we carried a birth report of one-day-old Gabriel Joseph "Memo.” WE FOUND the following editorial in the Danville paper and could not resist passing it along to our readers . . . who knows, maybe we would all be * better off! "End of the American dream may be in sight, if we are to believe all the forecasters of doom. "Just consider these critical matters. "They keep raising the price of coffee and then come up with the threat to take away our artificial sweeteners. Later headliners predict the last drop of gasoline is heading down the hose. "How can America ever survive without coffee, gas and artificial sweeteners, and not necessarily in that order? "Maybe water and walking will make a comeback yet.” CONNIE AND David Holik are preparing to move to Indianapolis within the next month where David has accepted a new job. WORD HAS been received of the 60th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd ("Sandy”) Fuller of Stuart, Fla., this coming Thursday, March 31. Spring weather is reported in the Sunshine State with the flowers slowly putting forth after the winter freeze THE COMBINED choir of the First Brethren and the Bethel Church of the Brethren is working hard to "put together” its Easter cantata which will be presented at the Bethel Church's Easter Sunrise service. It is another John W. Peterson cantata, “Easter Song.” Tonight (Wednesday) the piano, organ, narrator, solos and choir will practice all together from beginning to end "even if it takes all night.” It is a prelude to the dress rehearsals which are planned for next week after Holy Week services and on Good Friday night. The group is anxious to see bow its members all work together. There are a total of 25 persons involved from the two churches. They are working so hard that painter Richard Smith was spotted working on the scenery at 9 p.m. the other night That’s dedication! MILFORD CHIEF of police Mel Jordan is trying to solve a traffic snafu on Main street, particularly knotty on Friday afternoon. He appeals to local motorists who drive into the bank's driveup window to approach from the north. When cars come down the street from the south and plan to turn in at the bank it creates a real traffic jam, officer Jordan states. Wawasee student taken to KCH A Leesburg youth, Scott Green, 14, r 1, was transported to Kosciusko Community Hospital Wednesday. March 23, after complaining of a migraine headache and twitching of his body’. The ambulance arrived at Wawasee High School at 12:17 p.m. Green had been twitching for about 40 minutes. He has also had a slight history of migraine headaches — he was in the hospital a little less than a year ago with the same problems.

/ ’. ■ ■ Syracuse youth is injured in two-car crash Richard J. Knisley, 18, r 1 Syracuse, along with two other youths, was injured in a two-car accident at the intersection of SR 13 and CR 125 S at 11:40 p.m. Saturday, March 26. The two other youths were Thomas E. Roberts. 18.1017 East Fort Wayne Street, Warsaw, and David Bartley, 18, Claypool. Drivers of the vehicles were Knisley and Roberts. Knisley suffered a scrape to the right leg while Roberts had a contusion to the left temple. Bartley, passenger in the Robert’s car, received cuts to the scalp and left elbow. County Patrolman Roger Fellows investigated with assistance by Lt. Richard Mikel and State Trooper Gary Leatherman. Syracuse EMS An ambulance sas dispatched to a area doctor's office. Syracuse, at 10:31 am. last Wednesday when Helen L. Cromer, 61. r 4 box 141, complained of chest pains and shortness of breath. Mrs Cromer also was suffering some pain in the upper back and left shoulder. She was transported to the hospital at 10:58 a m. Shelia Gay. three month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gay, 412 S. Harrison, was taken to the Syracuse fire station last evening (Tuesday). March 29, after she stopped breathing. An ambulance crew was called to the station at 8:52 p.m. The baby had apparently been under a doctors care for about three days for bronchitis. Ambulance personnel applied mouth to mouth resuscitation and transported her to the hospital at 9:12 p.m. Lloyd Lyons, 47, 609 S. Main St. Goshen, slipped and fell on a metal bar at the Vega Plant. Syracuse, Thursday, March 24. He was taken to Goshen Hospital. Ambulance arrived on the scene at 5:14 p.m. Lyons suffered a back injury, with pain in his lower back and below his right shoulder. No apparent fractures were suffered, however. He was taken to the hospital at 5:51 p.m. Merchants give views on pornography The Lakeland Community Concerned Citizens Forum recently decided to ( ask merchants in the Syracuse-Milford area to remove all pornographic material from their shelves. Results of this decision were given at their meeting held Monday, March 28, at Wawasee High School. Mrs. William T. Jones. Jr., area spokesman, went to merchants to ask them about their pornographic material. Hook's Drug Store, Syracuse, said they have screened their magazines for quality of content "Keeping decent literature on our racks serves many purposes — it helps create a good image... it is good public relations (as indicated by the numbers of unsolicited letters written to our company by appreciative parents)." Galloway Grocery, Syracuse, said they have removed pornographic magazines from their shelves. "We do not have any — we have taken them completely away." Only family type magazines are handled by Augsburger’s Food Palace, according to their spokesman "We handle only the family type magazines — the kind a child could read in front of their parents, or more importantly, that parents can read in front of their children." Thornburgs Drugs, Syracuse, said on the other hand, they do sell some of these magazines, but behind the counter. “We are not selling Hustler magazine at all. We do try to police our magazines, keeping the more offensive ones behind the counter, and do not sell these to anyone under 21.” Burgers Dairy Store. Syracuse, is more concerned with the drug problem than with pornographic magazines. They said, “I’ve talked to a lot of people. They don't mind my selling them, it's the parents that buy them I still

Ray Buhrt GENERAL CONTRACTOR Residential & Commercial Building Phone: 457-3431 Road 13, Syracuse

|L ■ ' lar x DUMPED LOAD CAUSES ACCIDENT — A dumped load of refuge from a Plymouth Fertilizer Company truck, driven by Joseph A. Jacobs. 18, 516 Pennsylvania Avenue, Plymouth, caused a following car to lose control and strike a tree two miles north of Leesburg on highway 15. The car, driven by James R. Howard, box 85 Syracuse, sustained 81,000 damage to the left front and frame after striking the tree. Jeff Bronsing of the Kosciusko County Sheriffs Department investigated the accident, which occured at 8:50 a.m. Tuesday.

say it’s three fourths of the parents who are buying these magazines, but I'll work with you and put them behind the counter." Klink s Grocery in Syracuse says they only sell “Family Circle and Woman's Day type of magazines." Finally, Walter's Drugs, Milford, says they pretty much sell what the distributors send them. “The worst ones — Hustler and Playboy — we keep behind the counter where they must ask for them and we only sell to adults. We do believe people have a right to read whatever they want to read, or we’d be restricting their rights. We re the only outlet in town. They have to be 18 and over.” The Concerned Citizens Group made the decision to ask for the removal of X-rated magazines at their February 28 meeting. They based their decision on several quotes from professors at several universities. Victor B. Cline, professor of psychology at the University of Utah, has written that the First Amendment of the Constitution does not necessarily guarantee us freedom of speech. “We have many kinds of democratically enacted prohibitions on speech and expression . . . We have had laws, democratically enacted, for over 150 years which have placed constraints or controls over the public sale, distribution or exhibition of pornography. The presence of pornography in the community is seen as a moral pollutant affecting the quality of life of all its citizens.” Reo M; Christenson, political science professor at Miami University, also wrote about pornography. He said. “We know from surveys that a high percentage of young people see porno before they are 18. Those from good families may not be seriously damaged by even repeated exposure to it. But millions of young people raised in morally deficient homes will find their moral attitudes heavily influenced by their peers and by the media." The next meeting of the Concerned Citizens Forum will be April 25. at the high school. A program on probation will be given. LEGALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Th« Millord Junction Economic Development Commission will hold a public hearing at 7 30 p.m on April 11. 1977. at the Town Hall. Millord ’Junction, Indiana, on a proposed financing of economic develop ment facilities consisting of a teed manufacturing and storage plant to be built by Maple Leaf Farms. Inc . the issuance of Economic Development First Mortgage Revenue Bonds I Maple Leaf Farms. Inc Protect) Series 1»77 (the "Bonds") in the aggregate principal amount of 51,050.000 to be loaned to Maple Leaf Farms, inc to par the cost of such facilities, and to determine whether sa>d f.nanong will have an adverse competitive effect on any similar facilities already constructed or operating in Kosciusko County The Bonds will not be a general obligation of the Town of Milford Junction and will not be payable in any manner by taxation but will be payable primarily from note payments by Maple Leaf Farms, inc and as otherwise provided m the Loan Agreement «id Mortgage and indenture of Trust and an autnoriung ordinance to be passed by the Town Os Milford Junction The facilities will consist of a feed mwiufactur.ng and storage plant consisting of the construction of manufacturing, drying and storage facilities on approximately >0 acres «td of certain machinery and equipment necessary to the operation thereof and such plant will be located on County Road 1300 North between County Road 230 East and County Road 300 East in V«s Buren Township, Kosciusko County The public is invited to attend and com ment on any of the matters herein noted Dated March 2*. 1»77 Darrell A. Orn Secretary. Milford Junction Economic Development Commission

Wed., March 30,1977 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

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Camp Fire considers changes

Dear Editor: Due to a lack of interest and participation of adults at the board level, and certain changes in the by-laws of the National Camp Fire Girls, Inc., our council is being forced into making major decisions about our organization. Under the new by laws, in order for our council to conform, our girls would be forced into: paying higher dues participating in more fundraising events, and paying for every program offered by the council. We as leaders feel this change is very unfair to the girls. We don't feel our purpose in Camp Fire is to make junior sales people out of our kids. Also, the girls need more specific goals in this type of group experience. CaJnp Fire is not providing these goals or the training for the leaders to carry them out. At a special council meeting held Tuesday. March 21.13 out of 19 people voted to discontinue the

Needs to be talked about

Dear Editor: There is a very good, underpublicized program in Syracuse that I think needs to be talked about. The program is the REAL nutrition program for people over 60 years and older, and is under the competent direction of Georgia Buster. She has worked long and hard to make this splendid program a reality. The food is good, hot — nutritious, and each day a different menu — plus coffee — even refills — and milk. There are a lot of people who do not know about this program and all the good things it furnishes to

WATCH THIS SPACE Get Your Name, Birthday And Anniversary On The New Milford lions Club Community Calendar Fill In The Blank And Mail To Box 301 Milford, Or Give To Leon Newman At Milford Barber Shop Each Listing 25C — Calendar $1.50 Name —— — Birthday Anniversary — Maximum Cost — $2.50 Per Family DeedKm April 15

Camp Fire Program in Syracuse. Six out of eight leaders preferred to investigate further the possibility of starting Girl Scouts in place of Camp Fire Girls. We have looked into their organization and it seems to be more planned out, to have more public support, two permanent camping facilities, and a well planned program which would be more beneficial to our youth, while the dues remain very minimal. Before we continue any further we would like to hear any comments or Suggestions from parents towards our proposed transition. Please send responses in writing to: Camp Fire Office 100 E. Pearl St. Syracuse, IN 46567 Please send before April 15 and include a signature. >'n»nk You Leaders Association WA-DA-YA-KI Council Camp Fire Girls

the people. A good hot noon meal* five days a week. Also a bus to pick up anyone at their home, and take them back after they have eaten. All anyone needs to do is call Georgia the day before they want to come to the Scout cabin — so she can order the food for the next day — and if they need transportation, she will direct the bus driver to their home. Also Milford and North Webster. Let’s get behind Georgia and take advantage of this very good program and attend these noon meals. You will be glad you did! One Who Attends

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