The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 March 1977 — Page 8

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., March 30, 1971

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Community Corner

Kiwanis Club schedules May 14 Bike-A-Thon

A Bike-A-Thon sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Lakeland, North Webster, has been arranged for Saturday, May 14, according to co-chairmen Phil Mock and William Sinoroft. Stuart Walker, club president, announced the purpose of the Bike-A-Thon is to provide a worthwhile youth project and to.help carry out other youth activities in the Lakeland community. Registration blanks may be secured from the co-chairmen and from ail elementary and junior high schools in the Lakeland School Corporation. Also blanks are available at Palace of Sweets, North Webster; Leon’s Barber Shop, Milford; Chris Koher Insurance Agency. Syracuse; and Augsburger’s Food Palaces in the three communities Bike riders under 21 must have

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By MRS. HERB MOREHOU SE • HeLoves Me. Too!’’ was sung during Sunday morning worship service by Greg and Carla Lehman They were accompanied by their mother. Mrs Carl Lehman Rev Irvin Millej* delivered both the morning ' and evening messages On Sunday evening Dennis Shively and Ron Wildman also gave accounts of their threeweek trip visiting with Rev. and Mrs. Chad Woodburn and Heather at Houston. Texas; Doug Shively at Longview, Texas; Doug Schermerhorn in

Food facts

By PATRICIA M. BRAMAS Do you pay attention to the “dates" on grocery items? Most foods in a grocery store are dated for freshness Some manufacturers use code dates that are difficult for the shopper to understand and they may be misinterpreted as throwaway dates “Open dating" means any date an a packaged food that can be read by the shopper It is a calendar indicating freshness Some foods that have “open dates" are milk, cottage cheese, bread, meats, refrigerated dough, and cake mixes All "open dates” do not mean the same thing — several kinds of dated are used The four most common kinds of open dates are : 1) "Pack date" — tells when the foods was packaged or processed. 2) “Pull date" or "sell (and need help coping with/ /your pregnancy? 1 f CoileclCt 422 1818 Or 288 7640 )

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parents sign their registration form. Each cyclist is to secure his or her sponsor or sponsors and record them on both the rider’s copy and duplicate copy on back of registration blank. Sponsors will pledge a specific amount for each mile ridden by the bicycle participant. A sponsor may be a friend, relative, businessman, teacher cr any person in the Lakeland community wishing to support this project. Riders may secure as many sponsors as they wish Pledges may be prepaid by check or cash, but checks are preferred and should be made payable to Lakeland Kiwanis Club. The route to be followed by riders will be from any of the three Augsburger park ng lots to Quaker Haven and back Maps of the routes will be provided and the round trip is approximately 15 miles.

Mississippi, and Mr. and Mrs. John Glaser and family at Ozark, Ark. Miss Donna Moser was called to New York due to the sudden illness and death of her mother. Mrs. Nina Moser ot Beaver Falls, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. John Plank, Mr. and Mrs. Vere Wildman and Mr and Mrs Earl Kammerer attended the funeral’ of Mrs Moser at Beaver Falls Mrs. Lydia Morehouse was taken to Goshen Hospital Sunday morning in serious condition The Live Wire Class enjoyed a bowling party Saturday evening

by date" tells the last day a store may offer the food for sale,' 3) "Expiration date” — tells the last day a good should be used, and 4) "Use by date" — tells date the food will still beat its peak of freshness. “Open dating" tells the shopper about the freshness of the product. Look for dates on the food you buy. Buy only fresh foods. Then be sure you take them home and store properly. Proper storage helps keep food tresn The Kosciusko County Extension Program will offer lessons to interested homemakers The first lesson is entitled “Vitamins — Use, Abuse and their sources.” It will be presented at the County Extension Office, April 6 at 1 p.m. and repeated at 7 p.m. This lesson will focus on the use of vitamins, clarifying vitamin myths, and getting the vitamins we need A Patchwork and Quilting lesson will be offered April 7, 14. 21 and May 5,1 p.m. at the women’s building, fairgrounds. This workshop will concentrate on patchwork and squares, stars

After completion of the round trip ride, bike riders must secure certification of their ride from Kiwanis members in charge at the starting point. After certification of their ride, cyclists must go back to their sponsors to collect the amount pledged, unless it has been prepaid. All riders Vill be eligible to compete for prizes in categories of 14 years of age and younger and 15 years and older. In addition to the co-chairmen the Kiwanis Bike-A-Thon committee includes J. R. Koher, David Jones, Jim Atwood, Martin Koher, Jon Roberts. Jack Rhoades. Luther Allen, Orbie Soden and Clinton Butcher. The committee has arranged for an alternate date of May 21 if weather conditions prevent the holding of the Bike-A-Thon on May 14

They were accompanied by their teachers. Gary Hurd and Ron Wildman. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Mock of near Milford were Fridayevening guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Mock and son Richard The event honored the birthday of Dale Mock. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mock and Waneta Blackburn were Sunday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Mock honoring his birthday. Other recent guests were Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Moyer of Wakarusa. -NS-

and triangles, circles and curves, applique, and assembling and binding. Those attending the first class on April 7 should bring scissors, pins, needles, ruler, and two coordinating cotton blends of 4 yard each. The series offered through the Kosciusko County Extension Homemakers. Corn Dog On A Stick One cup flour, two-thirds cup yellow cornmeal, 1 T. suga> (optional), 14 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. salt. 2 T. solid shortening. 1 egg slightly beaten. 4 cup milk, 1 lb. hot dogs, 10 wooden skewers. Mix flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt in large shallow bowl. Cut in shortening until mixture is moistened. Insert wooden skewer, dredge in cornmeal mixture. Cook in skillet with one-inch of hot cooking oil (375 degrees) turning once or twice until batter is nicely browned. Remove, drain, and serve Makes 10. John Dean in Germany BAMBERG. Germany — Army Specialist Four John W. Dean, whose wife. Karen, and parents. Mr. and Mrs Robert C Dean, live at 400 Parkway Dr., Syracuse, recently was assigned to the seventh engineer brigade in Bamberg. Germany’. Specialist Dean, a demolition specialist in company B of the brigade’s 82nd engineer battalion. entered the army in January 1975

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-1/ w \ . IM \ ‘ JULY WEDDING PLANNED — Mr. and Mrs. Roger Graff of Fort Wayne, former Milford residents. announce the engagement of their daughter. Rhonda Kay. to Ronald Raber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Raber of Warsaw. The bride-elect is a 1975 graduate of Wawasee High School and a commercial art major at Indiana University of Fort Wayne. She is employed by Schuhler's Wedding and Formal Ware of Fort Wayne. her fiance is a 1974 graduate of Warsaw Community High School and is a BA major at Indiana University of Fort Wayne. He is employed as assistant manager of Falveys of Warsaw. The couple plans to live in Osceola after their July 30 wedding, where Mr. Raber has accepted a position with the Bethel Brethern Christian School as business manager. Prayer breakfast set at Oswego A community men’s prayer breakfast will be served at the First Baptist Church of Oswego. Saturday. April 2. at 7 a m. This lenten prayer and fellowship time for men is sponsored by the Lakeland Kiwanis spiritual aims committee. A free will offering will be received. Rev. Robert Chiddister, pastor of the church, will speak.

lord, Send Me' is theme for Baptist missionary conference

“Lord. Send Me” is the theme chosen for the annual missionary conference at the Wawasee Heights Baptist Church, Syracuse. The conference begins tonight (Wednesday). At 7 Audley Charlton will be showing slides of his homeland of Jamaica where he and his wife and three children will be returning in June to establish churches. He will be serving under Baptist International Missions. Following Mr. Charlton’s presentation, Richard Ernst from Papua, New Guinea, will present the message. Thursday evening Richard Ernst, serving with Association Baptists World Evangelism, will be show ing slides of his work in New Guinea. His work involves evangelism, church planning and youth ministries Banquet The missionary banquet which

Raymond Hochstetlers to be honored for 50th anniversary

The children of Raymond S. and Alma Hochstetler are having an open house to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday. April 3, in the Saint Joe Valley Bank social room at Nappanee The reception will be

Husband of Milford woman is graduate BILOXI, Miss. — An official at Keesler AFB, Miss., has announced the graduation of Airman First Class Frederick E. Ewing from the US Air Force’s electronic computer systems repairman course conducted by the air training command. Airman Ewing, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Pence of 910 Warwick Road, Muncie, is now trained in the inspection, operation and maintenance of electronic computers and associated aerospace ground equipment, and will serve at Offutt AFB, Neb. Completion of the course enables the airman to receive academic credits through the Community College of the Air Force. The airman graduated from high school in 1967 and has attended Purdue University and Bail State University. His wife, Brenda, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson of Milford. Darrell Custer to take bride Darrell R. Custer of Dewart Lake, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Custer of near Milford, will take Miss Mabel Rodriguez of San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America as his bride. Miss Rodriguez is the daughter of Mrs. Alberto Rodriguez of San Salvador. The wedding will take place on May 28 at the Milford Christian Church. Revival set for April 8 Rev. and Mrs. Salomon Tripo will open a revival service on April 8 at 7 p.m. at the Free Pentecostal Church located at Milford Junction. All are invited to attend.

is the highlightjjf the conference will be at 6 p.m. Friday. Following the banquet Miss Sandra Banasik, serving with Baptist Mid-Missions, will showslides of her work as translator in Chad, Africa. Immediately following Richard Ernst will bring the evening’s message. A day of activities is planned for the youth with the missionaries on Saturday No evening service will be held. Sunday morning sen-ices will begin at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday School followed by the morning worship service at 10:30. Rev. Jesse Eaton, serving in Bangladesh at the Malumghat Hospital, will bring the message on Faith Promise Giving. At 7 p.m Rev. Eaton will be showing slides of his work in administration and evangelism. Pastor James Freeksen invited everyone to attend these meetings.

from 2 to 5 p.m. Raymend S. Hochstetler and Alma Culp were married March 12, 1927. in Nappanee by Rev. Hamer North. They have four sons. Dale, Howard and Lester of Bremen and Ray, Jr., of Muncie; and one daughter, Neva Slabaugh of Sarasota, Fla They have eight grandchildren and two step-grandchildren Having spent most of their married life in the NappaneeBremen area, they now live in the Milford Community. Mr. Hochstetler retired from Bremen Castings and is also a retired farmer No invitations are being sent and the family requests no gifts.

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T jX *JQ He < f*i BV’n? 11 FIVE YEARS WITHOUT ACCIDENT — Employees of the Ralston Purina PlaMt, Milford, marked five years without a loss time accident, or 114,400 hours without such an injury. Plant employees with the no loss time plaque are back, left. Bud Etsinger, Jr., Bob Tenney, Jim Wilson, manager; Dave Diamond and Jim Fackler. Front, left, is Connie Holik, Carl Chupp, Rill Rushing and Bud Etsinger, Sr. Employees not pictured are Maria Lozano. Steve Berger and Tom Brock.

$ 652 raised at CB auction to benefit Webster EMS

A total of $652 was raised at a fund raising auction held last week end by the CB Club, North Webster, in the North Webster gymnasium. The money is to be used for equipment for the North Webster EMS and fire department. Half of the money will be used to purchase a walkie-talkie base for the EMS. The other half will help buyback packs and oxygen masks for the fire department. This was the first auction the CB Club has put on. They were originally going to hold a coffee break, but Mrs. Mike Baker, member of the club, said they wanted to collect the money in one lump sum.

Club news

Senior citizens change April, May meetings Members of the Milford Senior Citizens group have changed their stated April and May meeting dates. The April meeting was slated for April 10, Easter Sunday. It has been changed to April 17. The May meeting was slated for May 8, Mother’s Day. It will be held on May 15. Auxiliary meets, hear chairwomen Members of American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 223, Syracuse, met Tuesday, March 22, in the Legion home. President Rowena Brewer presided over the meeting. Reports were given — community service by Lucy Crow, finance by Susan Myrick, Knightstown Home by Grace Eyer, veteran’s affairs by Georgia Buster and civil group preparedness by Agnes Stiffler. Ann Schrock then talked on the organization called Support One guest attended, Elizabeth Srouse, first vice president of the district, Unit 258, Pierceton. At the close of the meeting, refreshments were served by Grace Eyer. Agnes Stiffler and /Ann Schrock. Primary Mothers welcome two new club members The Primary Mothers Club of Syracuse welcomed two new members at their meeting, Monday. March 21, in the home of Deb Mangas. The new members are Marge Wineland and Arlene Berkey. Discussed at the meeting was the Easter Egg Hunt to be held April 9, at 1:30 p.m. for members children. A family picnic on June * 26 was also discussed. Members were reminded to take items for the Easter basket to the next meeting which will be Monday, April 4, in the home of Sherry Bechtold. A demon-

Various items auctioned off were a complete soda fountain, stereos, tape players, televisions, stoves, living and dining room sets, plus other miscellaneous items. Mrs. Baker noted that they had a real good turn out. The CB Club of North Webster has been in existence for about one year. It began when a group of people got together and decided to form a club. They then got on their citizens band radios and broadcasted for members. Membership now stands at 100 members. Various projects the CB Club, a non-profit organization, are involved in are things to help the

stration of dried flowers will also be given at the next meeting by Lorene Yoder. t ■ Post celebrates Legion birthday Herbert Kuhn Legion Post 253, North Webster, celebrated the 58th Legion birthday March 6 with a supper and talk. Honored guests were District Commander Russell Louthain, Logansport, his adjutant and commander of Logansport Post 63; district president Mary Jane Hasser; district secretary Alice Turner, Fowler; Betty Strofe, district first vice president. Pierceton; and Thelma McCorkle, executive board, Leesburg. The talk was given by the district commander. About 60 members attended. Mrs. Coy entertains . World War II Moms Mrs. Roscoe Coy of Milford entertained Monday for members of Mothers of World War II unit 77. Goshen. Also present were Faye Elliott and Marie Miller, Indianapolis, national WWII Mothers president and secretary; and Ethel Bowers of Elkhart, a past national president

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community. Mrs. Baker said, “We want to help members in the community.’’ So far, they have raised approximately $2,000 for a family in North Webster at a coffee break in September. They are presently working on raising money to help a woman in the Barbee Lake area obtain artificial legs. Mrs. Baker said the group would like to do one charitable thing a month. Members of the committee who were in charge of the auction include Bill Reams, Chuck Reagon, Marsha Cpnckling, Diane Albert, Pat Baker, Shelly Bowers. Dixie Walls, Pat Cooper and Orvil Breedlove.

Van Buren Post celebrates birthday The Van Buren Legion Post, fifth district, celebrated the Legion birthday at Van Buren. The second district was also represented. Those attending from this area were commander Doug Jernigan; post commanders Jack Angel and Gene Baugher; Legion member Ralph Massey and wife; president of auxiliary Elinore Enyeart; secretary Janet Vanator; and Evelyn Moik. The Van Buren post is one year old. Blue Birds meet at My Store On Monday, March 28,10 fluffy Blue Birds went to My Store, Syracuse, for a helping hand hour. Mrs. Deford (Dot) Hite helped the girls with their knitting project. A slip on pattern for the girls to try was also shown. I don’t know of any major problem in living that can be settled in two hours. —Alec Guinness Petty extravagances bring a lot more satisfaction than petty savings.