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SAVINGS A LOAN OPENING — Tomorrow (Thursday) will be a big day for Syracuse’s newest financial institution ♦— First Federal Savings & Loan Association. Syracuse Branch, located in Wawasee Village. It will mark the Grand Opening of the firm, and the public is invited to share in a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the sleek, modern offices just south of the Thornburg Drug parking lot. A luncheon will be held at South Shore for officers and directors of the new flrm and a number of prominent townspeople, with the ribbon-cutting ■< ' p nt- sharp.

Clean-up at Lakeside Park Saturday, May 7 An Editorial Members of the Milford park board will be sponsoring a clean-up day at the Lakeside Park on Waubee Lake this coming Saturday. May 7. The park board has many plans for improvement and beautification of the park. The clean-up is an important step in getting the park ready for the May 30 official opening. This dean-up can not be done properly by five or 10 people — it needs to be a community effort! Already the Boy Scouts have said they will be working at the cabin area' and Monday night members of the Milford Lions Chib confirmed they would be helping. This is a start but more need to volunteer In order to get the job done. The dtisens of Milford once had a park the entire community was proud of — this will be the case again and it will happen faster If everyone will pitch in and help on Saturday. If all able bodied residents of the area would donate an hour or two no one would be over worked and the painting, repairing, raking, etc., could be completed by the end of the day. However, if most of the citizens of the community take the attitude that. “I'm 100 busy” few will show up and those who do will have to work extra hard in order to get anything accomplished. We are urging everyone to join the Boy Scouts, the Lions and the park board on Saturday in making the clean up day a community effort — put on your old clothes, grab a paint brush or a rake and join your fellow townsmen In helping to impro> e our community.

Memorial Day services and parade planned at Syracuse

The annual Memorial Day services and parade at Syracuse are being planned and Wawasee Post 223 of the American Legion has extended an invitation to the

They're Off! at Churchill Downs Saturday

By JOHNC. HAGEN It is Mint Julep week and Roses time with all the world of sporting people watching Kentucky and the social event of the year for Louisville, plus the excitement and emotion of one of sportdom's main events, holding the center stage. At ten-thirty Saturday morning I shall be walking into the Club House boxes, and as always, my first view of the mass of teeming humanity in the infield and the grandstands, will make me stop and catch my breath. For the next several hours the long wait between races slowly builds the excitement to a fever pitch with 100,000 plus people looking and figuring who will win the Big One this year.

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Office Personnel Personnel for the local office has been named by president .Nick George, as follows: Barbara Mort, branch manager, and Melinda Ensinger and Mary A. Waltz, tellers. All three are rapidly becoming well known in the community. The public, invited to the Grand Opening, is invited to register for valuable gifts, with no purchase necessary. The doors will be open for business immediately following the ribbon-cutting, according to Mr. George.

Milford Lions give S SOO to Leisure Living Corp.

The Milford Lions club voted a SSOO contribution to the newly formed Leisure Living Apartments. Inc., at its Monday night meeting. The “vote of confidence" came following a presentation by Paul Reith, manager of the Milford branch of the First National Bank of Warsaw Mr. Reith explained the program to the club of how from 12 to 20 single-unit apartments could be built in Milford for persons over 62 years of age. He said it was incumbent upon the local community to raise one per cent of the money for the project, the remainder to be financed by the Farmers Home Administration. He said he plans to have local fund raising completed within a 30-day period. Single membership fees in the corporation are $lO minimum and can be as much as one desires to contribute Mr Reith said his goal is from $3,000 to $4,000 He said the single-units would rent for about sllO per month, actual rent depending upon the type units desired Club Has The Money In a financial report to the Milford club, treasurer David Siegfried told the club it has $656.34 in its administrative fund and $2,710.71 in its activities fund.

It is not Triple Crown time, It is the Kentucky Derby and there Is only one Kentucky Derby. It Is one of a kind and a lifetime of excitement rolled into one day for many. Eighty percent of those present will not see another race this year, but they all are completely engrossed in this one coming up. Sooner or later the horses will walk onto the track to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home and the skin of all will tingle. No matter how many times you go through It the emotion of this moment is a gripping tingling sensation to the most unemotional of persons. While the horses parade slowly around the track, the thoughts of the millions wrapped up in this race, and those sleek and beautiful animals cannot help but get to the most callous observer. It is more than Christmas, New Year's and Happy Birthday wrapped in one package. It is the

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for a total in its checking account of $3,377.05. The figure of SSOO was reached following a good discussion on the extent to which the club should participate. Mr. Reith said S2O million is available in the state of Indiana this year for such apartment construction. In other business, D. G. Seely reported on the state convention held late last week at Fort Wayne. He said the state will soon consist of eight districts instead of the former seven. He said the new district governor of 25-G is Robert Harrington of the German Township Club, South Bend Saturday Work Day Club president Dean Cousins pointed out that Saturday is work day at the Lakeside Park and asked club members to participate in the community-wide effort AU members were urged to attend the June 6th meeting when a club picture will be taken for this year’s community calendar. At that meeting past district governor Paul Stilwell of North Webster will install new officers amnesty granted Christian 11 of Denmark was crowned King of Sweden and granted an amnesty to his opponents on Nov. 4,1520

Byrd hearing to be closed When the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission meets tonight to continue its hearing on a petition for preliminary plat approval of County Club Acres, owned by Don Byrd, Syracuse, the proceedings, for the most part, will be closed. The commission will close its hearing, except for material concerning the Wawasee airport. The hearing was continued after an aeronautics official requested the hearing be postponed until the planned development’s impact on the airport could be studied, which the commission agreed to. Byrd plans to develop the present Wawasee Golf Course into County Club Acres, a subdivision with the greens intact, on both sides of 775E between Pickwick Road and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks. Other petitions on the agenda when the commission meets tonight at 7 p.m. in the commissioner’s room, Kosciusko County Courthouse, Warsaw, include one from Henry Beer to rezone eight acres in Van Buren Township from agricultural to residential. The property is on the south side of Beer Road, 70 feet east of old road 15. Howard Koeningschof has four petitions on the agenda. The first one is to rezone 11 acres in Tippecanoe Township from agricultural to residential on the west side of Grassy Creek and 550 west of state road 13, adjacent to the Grassy Creek Addition. The second Koeningschof petition asks to rezone 3.62 acres in Tippecanoe Township from agricultural to residential on the north side of South Barker Drive, 2,200 feet west of state road 13. The third petition is a preliminary plat approval for Stanton,Lakes Estates. The property is on the south side of Stanton Road, one-fourth mile east of 350E in Tippecanoe Township. The final petition from Koeningschof is to rezone 14 acres in Tippecanoe Township from agricultural to residential. The property is on the west side of South Barbee Drive, onefourth mile east <rf 650E. Maurice Neibert’s petition requests preliminary plat approval for Sunshine Gardens. The site is on the north side of Leesburg on the North Webster Road, 400 feet west of 475E in Tippecanoe Township. BZA hearing to be May 19 Notice is given this week of a meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals of the town of Syracuse at 7 p.m. in town hall on Thursday, May 19. On the docket is a variance petition by Larry and Carolyn Weaver to erect a double dwelling on lot 101 in Dolan and Miles subdivision located on the southeast corner of Boston and First Street in Syracuse.

epitome of success for all those who are picking this year's winner. Last year's success or failure is now of no avail, the earlier races were just to get the -«■ blood running faster. It Is time for the Kentucky Derby to start and with the roar of the crowd many shall know they are off. A big percentage of the crowd cannot see the horses. As they go for the first turn the tote board can tell you the numbers of the first four horses but the position of my own favorite is all that counts. They will battle for the lead with Seattle Slew, For the Moment and that speed horse-that may not finish until tomorrow — putting up a battle for the lead but as they disappear down the backstretch behind the building, the tote board is our information. I don't expect my long shot bet on Sanhedrin to show

New secretary-treasurer for Wawasee Property Association

Sharon Lantz Faris of r 1 103 Cherokee Road, Syracuse, has been appointed secretarytreasurer of the Wawasee Property Owners Association, according to an announcement this week. Mrs. Faris succeeds Jack C. Vanderford who has served in the post since the early 1950'5. “Last summer Jack Vanderford told us he wanted to ‘ease out’ of the secretary-treasurer job, which he has served so well,” said Wiley (Bill) Spurgeon, president of the organization. “Jack agreed to remain with us until a successor could be found, and a search committee was appointed. They interviewed applicants for the job this spring and came to the board of directors with the ’•ecommendation that Mrs. Faris be appointed,” Spurgeon added. Resident Mrs. Faris has lived in the Johnson Bay area of Lake Wawasee since 1971. A Fort Wayne native, she is a music education graduate of Indiana University at Bloomington, and is currently teaching elementary school music at Parkview and Waterford schools at Goshen. When the school semester is completed, she will devote full time to the property owners post. She is married to Alan Faris, central office equipment supervisor for United Telephone at Warsaw, and they have two sons. Lance Alan Lantz and Joshua David Lantz, pupils at Syracuse elementary school. “I think we’re mighty lucky to find someone with Sherry’s interest and ability to succeed

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UNVEIL NEW BANK LOGO — A formal unveiling of the new logotype of the State Bank of Syracuse was held at the bank’s lobby in uptown Syracuse Monday morning. The colorful design, measuring 12 by 18 inches, is framed and rests on the bank’s north wail. From left are Ken Harkless, local artist who committed the design to canvas; Joy Meroney. whose design was finally accepted; receptionist Jeanne Gardiner; and bank president James E. Caskey. ••The new logo culminates a search for a progressive symbol that would represent a modern approach to banking and total team concept that the bank’s new management team stresses.*’ according to James E. Plummer, assistant vice president

Jack,” Spurgeon said. “Our organization is devoted to the preservation and orderly development of Indiana's largest natural lake, and we have close to 500 property-owning members whose best interests we attempt to represent.” “Lake Wawasee belongs to all of the citizens of Indiana, and we want it kept safe from harm. Sherry feels that way, too, and she realizes that our water resources are among our most precious and must be conserved.” added Wiley. Transition Spurgeon said that Vanderford and Meyer Maidenberg of r 2, a member of the association’s board of directors and executive

Traffic recommendations are given to town board

A total of 13 traffic recommendations were submitted to the Syracuse Town Board last night (Tuesday) by the traffic committee for the board to study and take into , future consideration. These recommendations, plus a map which is not complete as yet, were proposed by the traffic committee at their meeting of April 26. The recommendations include: 1) a four way stop be put at Carroll street and Dolan Drive; 2) flasher lights be put at the school crossing on Dolan Drive and Carroll Street —a portable flasher which could be rolled out when the children were crossing; 3) barricade be put at the dead end on Wildwood Heights across Skinner Ditch and connect at the light on SR 13; 5) put a three way stop at

yet but if Steve's Friend is to win he should be getting up to fourth place somewhere about now. And now they hit the head of the stretch, the long long stretch of Churchill Downs. It has killed many a hope and here they come. All reason says Seattle Slew from this point to the wire with For The Moment in second place but I think there can be a surprise and will be putting two dollars on Sanhedrin to win, Steve's Friend to place and shall concede Seattle Slew third place. Obviously, I must be dreaming but then there are millions of Kentucky Derby dreams as this race of races hypnotizes the little old ladies who wouldn't bet on anything else. And now the losers "cry deal" with a bet on the 9th race to recoup their losses.

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committee, would be working with Mrs. Faris during the next several weeks of transition “Our association and the community in general, owe Vanderford a ‘dickens of a debt of gratitude’ for what he has done - for all of the citizens of the area ovemearly a quarter of a century,’j Spurgeon added. “He’s been an outspoken civic activist and has taken time to assist every facet of this community at one time or another in something worthwhile.” “And when he has spoken, he has done his homework in advance and has known what he is talking about. We’re grateful for what he has done for us,” said Spurgeon.

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BLOOD PRESSURE CLINICS AT MILFORD, SYRACUSE There will be free blood pressure clinic at the nutrition •lie in Syracuse (the Scout cabin) on Thursday. May 5, at ILa.m. and at the Chatter Box in Milford on Saturday, May 7. Qualified persons planning to stay for the meal at the site in Syracuse are requested to call the site director before 3 p.m. today (Wednesday).