The Mail-Journal, Volume 15, Number 35, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 September 1978 — Page 10

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., September 20,1978

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OUR PICTURE of the week shows the late Bill Baumgartner andß. N. (“Jack”) Sharp as they posed for a photographer in downtown Milford one day a number of years ago. Both were eager young swains at the time this photo was taken, were MHS graduates (Sharp in 1932, Baumgartner in 1934), and were both athletes of sorts. Baumgartner was killed in an explosion in his brother’s service station on road 15 in October of 1950, while Sharp joined his father, the late Harlan H. Sharp, in the hardware business in Milford, and remains head of the Sharp enterprise to date. This is the last of several photos loaned to us by former resident Bill Rex of North Webster. —o— GARY GERENCSER is at it again. This time he took top honors in the 14 and over age group in the junior golf tournament at the Parmore Course in New Paris. Gary is on his way to becoming a golf superstar! All other top honors in the tournament went to Nappanee youths. By the way, we received a telephone call this week from National Geographic requesting information on young Gary. Don’t be surprised if he’s featured in their youth section sometime in the future. -oIF YOU aren’t registered to vote, don’t forget to do so. The

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Republican and Democrat precinct committeemen and women will be at the EMS building on Main Street in Our Town tomorrow, Sept. 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. to register residents in Van Buren Township and Milford. —o— THE BLOCKS are up at Evans Fabric and Variety, giving them one less worry when it rains. The work was finished the last part of last week. —o— THE UNITED Way campaign continues in Our Town as well as in the rest of the county. Becky Doll and Gladys Coy are working with the committee with Becky serving as chairman and Gladys assisting. The goal for the town and township is $4,400. We checked the sign at the town hall but it hasn’t moved as yet. More next week! —o— AT THIS writing it doesn’t seem possible that summer will be over this week. At 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday it was 85 degrees. The warm weather has stayed with us and we hope it will stay for at least a while longer. —o— MANY OF our staff members enjoyed lunch last Friday at Gropp’s Famous Fish of Stroh at the Maxwelton Golf Course. There we met former Milford resident Judi Storey and her daughter Julie as they too enjoyed a fish dinner. Judi and husband, Don,

recently purchased the eating establishment. When Judi asked young Julie, who proudly told us she was in nursery school, where she wanted to eat she proved loyal to the family cause and wanted to have fish! —o— WITH THE celebration of Diez y sies De Septiembre last Sunday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church we codld not help but think of our visit in 1972 to Mexico City and the history of that country. While there we toured the famous church Our Lady of Guadalupe and were awed at its two services, each independent from the other going on at the same time with only a row of columns between them. One service was a graduation of some type while the other was a wedding. We walked along the outside edge with no one participating in either service paying any attention to us. We stood in awe as we looked through the bars at the room of gold as well as other features of the huge complex. In trying to get Diez y sies De Septiembre down correctly we remembered how the men in the group were always careful to carry a book of matches with the name of the hotel in their pocket. We were delighted that most of the people we came in contact with in Mexico City spoke English but we realized we were in their country and English was not their language. We were in their country and wanted to do things their way when possible but found our translation book was of little or no use as we could never find what we wanted when we wanted it. So, when we got out away from the hotel and wanted to get back to it one of the men would simply show the taxi driver the matchbook cover and we would be on our way. —o— OPEN HOUSE has been set from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at the new Maple Leaf Feed Mill located on the Milford-Syracuse Road. The open house is part of the 20th annniversary celebration of the firm. Why not stop out and welcome this new facility to the community! —o— FORMER AREA residents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold (Barbara) Freeman of Phoenix, Ariz., are visiting here. s They planned their vacation to be in Indiana at the time the first child of their son, Darwin, and his wife, Kim, of r 5 Syracuse was born. The infant was born on Monday, Sept. 18, much to the delight of the entire family. He now shares his birthdate with his Grandpa Harold. The proud grandfather plans to stay in Indiana for one week while grandmother Barbara plans to stay for two weeks before returning to the Arizona sunshine.

Chain O' Lakes 4-H'ers meet

By BETH HATHAWAY The Chain ‘O Lakes 4-H Club held its September meeting in the home of Lisa Mayo. The meeting was brought to order by secretary Lynn Hathaway. Laurie Hathaway led the pledge to the U.S. flag and Jay Rhodes led the pledge to the 4-H Lori Rhoades read devotions from Billy Graham’s book, “Day by Day” on the subject of gossip. Dawn Engelberth gave the secretary’s report and Lori Rhoades gave a treasury report. Old and new business was discussed. Different ways to raise money was also discussed. The club decided to paint windows at different businesses in the area. The health and safety report was given by different members on school bus safety, water skiing safety and motorcycle safety. Lisa Mayo gave a demonstration on decorating bottles with tissue paper and candles. Several songs were sung by the club and led by Trish Rhoades. Then the meeting was adjourned to the patio for watermelon. The next meeting will be held in the home of the Engleberth family on October 3.

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Letters to the editor

A definite factor

Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank your newspaper for the fine cooperation the Indiana State Police received over the Labor Day week end. It is our feeling that the assistance gained from the news media was a definite factor in the reduction of fatal accidents and total accidents in the Ligonier District. All too many times, we fail to Savings bond sales *107,719 Kosciusko County sales of Series E and H United States Savings Bonds were $107,719 in the month of August, says Neal Carlson, volunteer county chairman of the Savings Bonds Committee. Sales in Indiana were $21,292,410 reports Alfred J. Stokely, State Chairman of the Indiana Volunteer Committee. Indiana has achieved 62.1 per cent of the 1978 state quota which is $255,100,000.

recognize the valuable assistance gained from our local news media. Without your support the job of accident reduction would be far greater. Let us hope that the cooperation between our agencies will continue to grow as it has in the past. Very truly yours, Sergeant Robert L. Meeks District Commander Leesburg man injured Forrest H. Brockhoff, 75, r 1 Leesburg, was injured in a one car accident, Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 12:05 p.m. The accident occurred one mile east of Oswego on Armstrong Road. According to police he fell asleep while driving and his auto left the road hitting a large utility pole. Brockhoff was admitted to the Kosciusko Community Hospital with multiple abrasions, scalp cuts and an injured knee. Damage was estimated xat $1,200 to the 1973 auto according to State Trooper Larry Clodfelter.

Hammersley gives August report

The Kosciusko County Sheriff Department has released an activities report of the month of August. Only one of the 62 accidents investigated by the department was fatal. A total of 40 persons were injured and 94 cars were involved in county accidents. Total damages were $120,790 of which $104,820 were estimated damages and $15,970 were property damages. There were 32 accidents occuring during the daylight hours, 26 at night and four at either dusk or dawn. Ten arrests were made and four deer were reported killed. Booked injhe county jail were a total of persons. The Kosciusko Sheriff Dept, booked 133, the Indiana State Police booked one person and 57 were booked by city departments. Os this total 128 were adult men, nine were adult women, 46 were juvenile boys and eight were juvenile girls. During the month of August, the sheriff department investigated 24 buglaries, 22 thefts, 23 accounts of vandalism, three

batteries, one child molesting and one natural death. The department recovered $8,549 of stolen property. A total of $20,099 was reported stolen. Officers answered 450 complaints in the month and 26 off duty complaints. Their vehicles were driven 28,831 miles. Arrested on traffic violations were 33 persons. Officers in the department served 320 papers. The Kosciusko County Sheriff Reserve spent a total of 599 hours on duty during August. Back seat of car on fire Alan Schlagenhauf, box 646 Syracuse, drove his car to the fire station at 11:15 a.m. Monday with the back seat on fire. He told firemen a lighted match blew into the back seat, setting it on fire. Firemen extinguished the blaze and removed the seat from the car. They estimated damage at about SSO.