The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 14, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 April 1979 — Page 7

Benefit sock hop to be held

The second planning meeting for the June 2 benefit sock hop, organized by Kappa Omicron Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, was held in the Syracuse Fire Department meeting room, April 19. at 7:30 p.m. The groups represented were Kenny Johnson, fire and emergency medical service departments; Dave Zartman,

Mother-daughter banquet set at Saint Andrew's

Saint Andrew's Methodist church will have its annual Mother and Daughter party for all the women of the church on Thursday, May 3, at 6:30 p.m. in the church fellowship hall There will be a supper salad bar followed by a program. The chairmen are: Mistress of ceremony — Mrs. Robert Searfoss

Syracuse man's article termed one of the best'

An Oakwood Park man, Harry L. Stewart, who resides with his wife and daughter, Resa, on r 4 Syracuse, has been honored Jiy having one of his published Articles selected for republication. Mr. Stewart has a long list of accomplishments in the technical writing field. He has written over 165 feature articles during the past 20 years. His articles have appeared in all of the major technical publications. He is also HDangooonrnmYßTOi

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Eagles and Auxiliary; Paul Van Dyke, civil defense; and the members of Kappa Omicron. Kenny Johnson submitted a list of items needed to the group. For the EMS: One or two Resusi Annes, a three section shock suit, a three-channel portable radio and other miscellaneous equipment. For the fire department: training needs (slides and films), photo equipment for use

Decorations — Mrs. Jay Peffley Set up - Mrs. Dean Pittman Salad bar — Mrs. W. A. Jones Gifts - Mrs. George Vitaniemi Clean up - Mrs. George Bushong and Mrs. Robert Fisher. All of the lasflies of the church are urged to attend. Salads will be furnished by the members of the April through June work group.

the author of 10 technical books which are used worldwide by vocational schools, universities and plant operating groups. Recently Stewart was notified by the editor of “Plant Engineering'' that his article “Filters, Regulators, Lubricators, and Pneumatic Directional Control Valves", which appeared originally in the September 15, 1977, issue of “Plant Engineering," was

at fire and accident scenes. Committee chairmen were introduced as: Cherri Byrd and Nancy Coy, prizes; Arolyn Adams, publicity; Penny Plikerd and Virginia Thorne, tickets; and Jackie Plikerd, general chairman. Subjects which were discussed were; the parking facilities, the civil defence will be directing the traffic flow; crowd control; and posters, the following groups are making posters to be placed t brought out the area. North Webster Kiwanis, Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority and Saint Martin de Porres Ladies Club. Penny Plikerd announced that popcorn for the dance was donated by Seyferts foods through Augsburgers and Thornburgs. Contest judges will probably be selected from the sponsoring organizations. A final meeting is scheduled for May 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the fire department

selected for republication in the 1978 edition of “The Best of Plant Engineering.” The Editor, Leo F. Spector, told Stewart in a letter “As a testimonial to the excellence of your contribution, we enclose a special plaque honoring your outstanding article. Please accept it as a token of our appreciation for your help in making “Plant Engineering" the best read magazine in industry." Spector said also that all feature articles published in "Plant Engineering" are rated by several panels of readerauditors as to how well they solve the informational needs of the " reader. “In the judgment of those auditors, your article was one of the seven best contributed articles among those published during the period from September 1, 1977 to August 31, 1978.” At present, Stewart is writing a series of articles on “Workholding Devices." This series will be comprised of 12 articles.

Olive Miller honored Sunday

Mrs. Olive Miller, 93. formerly of 313 S. Harrison St., was honored Sunday by members of Saint Andrew 's United Methodist Church congregation during church services. Mrs. Miller, a member of the church for 61 years and former organist for many years, moved Sunday to Indianapolis where she will reside at Westminster Village, Apt. 196, at 11050 Presbyterian Dr Zip code number is 46236. Mrs. Miller was called to the front of the church by the pastor. Rev. Philip Frew, and presented

JFF dub entertained at Lamberts Last Wednesday the J.F.F. Club met in Donna Lambert’s home in Woodland Acres for a pot luck dinner and a rehashing of many fond memories. The J.F.F. Club is the old “Just For Fun Club” that consisted of the former members of the Newcomers Club which flourished here for some 20 years before it disbanded. Mrs. Lambert still had the secretary’s book and read some of the previous minutes. Members discovered the last time they had met was in 1972. The air was filled wih “Remember when —and members discussed their children, who were small at that time, but now some of them were out of college. Still other members mentioned their sons had been in Viet Nam and returned safely. The club also remembered the half dozen or so members who had died during the last 10 years. Not everyone contacted was able to attend, but those who did were Mae Rinker, Becky Hepler, Jean Rogers, Mildred Wilson, Elnor Bieber, Bev Rinker, Donna Lambert, Gerry Bauer, Lucille Suttlemeyer from Roanoke, and Lori Kitson who came all the way from Zanesville, Ohio, for the occasion Guests present were Kathy Meyers and Betty Sparks. Twilighters entertained Thirteen members of the Twilighters Bunco Club of Syracuse were entertained last Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Philip Strieby, with Mrs. Charles Searfoss assisting. Mrs. Dallas Kitson was a guest. High score for the evening was held by Mrs. Tim Xarr; low, Mrs. Bill Coburn; travel, Mrs. Bill Ever, and door prize, Mrs. Donald Niles. Birthday gifts went to Mrs. Niles, Mrs. Searfoss and Mrs. Eugene Henning. Mrs. Darr and Mrs. Eyer observed anniversaries. The Mav meeting will be with Mrs. Gene Kitson. A variety of summer salads served by the hostesses concluded the evening events.

with a corsage and a copy of the Methodist Hymnal. Attending the services Sunday were two of Mrs. Miller’s daughters, Mrs. Betty McMacklen of Canton, Ohio and Mrs. Mazel LeClare of Indianapolis. Mrs. Miller is the widow of A. L. Miller, one-time Syracuse businessman. Lakeland Local Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Beck of Syracuse were in Kokomo Sunday afternoon where they attended open house for Mrs. Beck’s aunt, Mrs. Arthur Whitehead, who will be observing her 90th birthday on April 28. The event was held in the social room of the First United Methodist Church. Pomona Grange has pot luck The St-Mar-Kos Pomona Grange meeting was held in the Bremen Grange Hall on April 19, Thursday evening. A pot-luck dinner was served before the meeting began. Master Vera Thompson presided over the meeting. The reports were given by the women’s activities chairman, the Agricultural chairman and the subordinate Granges — New Tamerack, Bremen and Waubee. New Tamerack announced there will be a pot-luck dinner on April 24. Bremen will hold a pancake and sausage dinner on May 11 in their hall. The subordinate dress sewing contest will be held for Pomona’s elimination for the state contest. The chairman will notify each Grange when the judges will be available. The lecturer, Ruth Miller, opened the meeting with “In the Garden” and “My Country Tis of Thee” sung by all. Each family present received leaflets on “Creative Cooking”, “Facts about Presweetened Cereal”, “For the Millions of Dieters Who Think They Shouldn’t Eat Desserts”, “Recipes with Chili Sauce and Heinz Sauces” and “How to be Heard in Washington;” Each member read a small quote on hints or current events. Carrie Pritch won the contest of guessing the amount of candy colored eggs in a jar. The “Go to Church Sunday”, will be May 6, with Mrs. Pritch as hostess. It will be at the Lutheran Church, South on road 19 in Nappanee. A pot-luck dinner in her home after the service will be held. There will be no meeting on the regular date of May 17.

Idaho hermit returns

A real-for-sure hermit W'as in Milford recently. He is Dugout Dick Zimmerman, brother of Michael Zimmerman, Sr., Mrs. Henry Steiglitz and Mrs. Cleve Shuder and the late Mrs. A. R. Hollar and Harvey Zimmerman, all well known in the Milford community. He is the son of the late Ernest Zimmerman and grew up in the Milford area. His dug-out cave home across the Salmon River on Highway 93, 18 miles south of Salmon, Idaho, is now a tourist attraction. He traveled to Milford to attend the funeral of his first-cousin. Elmer Zimmerman. He came with his mother, who now resides in Alton, 111. and a brother and sister. Dugout Dick built his home for S2O and lives on $1 per day. He set up his tent over 20 years ago south of Salmon City and dreamed about making that area his home. His name “Dugout ” came from the fact that he has built a total of 20 mountainside structures, called dugouts, in the side of the mountain. He approached his first home building project philosophically, “the only way I could see to do it was use the things the Lord put there to build with ” And, that's what he did. First he dug out part of the mountain and then, using simple hand tools and his hands, he wrestled huge slabs of rock into place on top of each other to form the walls of his structure. In areas where he couldn't use the shelf rock the mountain architect’ used logs to build stockade type walls. For the roof he used sod and a type of adobe that he created.

Women's Fellowship has Hawaiian program

The Women’s Fellowship of the Bethel Church of the Brethren, Milford, met on Thursday evening, April 19, for their regular monthly meeting. The program for the eveing was a trip to Hawaii via slides and artifacts presented by Mrs. Earl Hostetter of New Paris. She and her husband had made the trip to the islands a year ago last January. Her talk, which accompanied the visual part of the program, was particularly entertaining and informative.

The Hostetters made the trip without the assistance of a planned tour. They spent the entire two weeks on Oahu and Maui enjoying the customs, finding out how the islanders live and the various changes taking place in the last few years. The soil make-up and the lava craters were of particular interest along with the beautiful flowers of the

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In an interview with John Stetson of the Alton. 111., Telegraph in 1977, Zimmerman said. “Lots of people look at my houses and say. mister, how in the world did you get all them big rocks up there 9 ’ I didn't get 'em up there I got them down there," Zimmerman confessed with a chuckle. Using leverage, gravity, and lots of muscle the former Milford resident slid the rocks into place. Smaller rocks he could lift into place. His cabin-like homes are nestled between the Salmon Rive*!’ and a nearby tribultary called Rattlesnake ( reek “Between the name of that creek and my cabin building projects people started calling

Devotions for the evening were given on “Why Worry" and were presented by the president. Nancy Snider. Connie Smith announced plans were finalizing for the Mother-Daughter banquet for the Turkey Creek women which will be held at Bethel on Friday. April 27. Turkey Creek will in return serve the Bethel banquet at their church on May 10.

The annual all-church birthday night will be held on Sunday. June 10.

The committee for the evening. Rosetta Miller and Rosemary Wagoner, served a fruit bowl in keeping with the Hawaiian theme for the evening.

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me the hermit of Rattlesnake Creek or Dugout Dick, take your pick," he is quoted as saying in the Telegraph article. Zimmerman lives up to his name He keeps his living costs down because he uses none of the conventional utilities and he provides almost all of his own food. | He uses oil lamps and is quoted as saying. “I get up with the chickens and most of the time 1 go to bed when they do." Water is essential to life. “But. that's one thing I do have, running water. It's running by right out therein the river.” For food he has a small herd of goats. They provide meat, milk and cheese He is also an extensive gardener with a one-acre tract. He has fruit trees. Wood is his main fuel, but he has learned a wrinkle that adds mileage to his heat source. He gets free drain oil from a gas

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station in town and puts it into a tank on his roof. From there he ran a line down to a point above his stove so the oil can drip on the wood This makes the wood burn longer. The windows in his cabins are also a low cost innovation He secured old car windows free. They are small, he says, but they give light. Now, at 63. Zimmerman is trying his hand at the roadside tourist business. Since he can only live in one of the 20 places he has built, he uses the rest as tourist attractions. When asked by Stetson if he would be willing to give up his hermit-like existence and live in town he answered instantly: “I’ve spent most of my life looking for this place and getting settled, why would 1 want to move now?" Announce engagement of daughter Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beer, r 2 Milford, announce the engagement and coming marriage of their daughter, Kathy, to Richard Schlipf, r 1 Gridley, 111. Schlipf is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schlipf, Gridley. The bride-elect is a 1978 graduate of Wawasee High School and is presently employed at Maple Leaf Farms, Inc., Milford. Her fiance is a 1975 graduate of Gridley High School and is an agriculture mechanic's major at Illinois Central College. East Peoria. He presently is farming at home. A wedding is being planned for late summer in the Apostolic Christian Church. Milford.

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