The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 32, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 August 1979 — Page 3

Local firemen in AID drive

The Syracuse Fire Department will be participating along with other county fire departments, in the local Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy <MD> Drive over the Labor Day week end. On Sunday, Sept. 2 from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., six musical bands will perform at the Lakes Village Shopping Center in Warsaw where the local Jerry Lewis MD headquarters is located. In ad-dition-to the Fred Yoder Band, The Weekenders, The Rounders, The List Brothers and The Rivendells, Frank and the HiTymes will put on a Hee-Haw show at 7 p.m. and The Extravaganza band will hold a jam rock around 11 p.m. featuring music of the 1950 s and 19605. Sound - and disco equipment will be furnished by Sid Sound. Activities on Monday, Sept. 3 at the Lakes Village Shopping Center include live music, fire truck rides and clowns for the kids, a dunk tank and picture taking. Sky divers will jump at 10 am., 1 and 4 p.m. An auction will beheld at 4 p.m. at the shopping center.. Items, ranging from a hair brush to a rowboat, from stores in Mentone, Winona Lake, Warsaw, Milford and Syracuse will be auctioned off. The Syracuse Fire Department have placed canisters in Syracuse stores and will be gathering donations from motorists in front of the fire

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station. Jim LaGarde and Larry Byrd are co-chairmen of the Syracuse committee for the county MD drive. The Milford Fire Department committee for the MD drive consists of John Haines, Jim Amsden and Chuck Berkeypile. Larry Gaerte of the Winona Lake Fire Department is coordinator of the coordinator of the county fire departments participating in the fund raising drive. Volunteers will start answering telephones and taking pledges at the local Jerry Dewis MD headquarters at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 2 and will continue fbr 22 hours. Last year over $15,000 was pledged locally while $29.2 million was pledged nationwide. The local telethon can be viewed on channels 28 and 33. Volunteers are needed to answer telephones at the local headquarters. There will also be a Love Bowl at the headquarters on Monday, Sept. 3 from 9 a m. to 6 p.m. into which persons may drop donations. Persons interested in helping collect donations may pick up cans at the headquarters after 6 p.m. on Sunday. Over $2,300 was collected last year by area people and put in the Love Bowl. A double elimination softball tourney, including men’s and women's divisions, will be held in conjunction with the Labor Day telethon at the Center Lake Park in Warsaw.

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THE PHOTO at the top of this column shows Warren C. Custer, secretary of the Bristol Lions Club, washing balls at the golf outing held at Syracuse last Wednesday. Custer made the comment that he would be washing balls all day long as a total of 216 golfers participated in the annual event, —o— SPEAKING OF the golf

tourney, Milford had a total of 10 men participate with many bringing home prizes. iDr. T. A. Miller won top honors fok the best scoPe and received a gpf bag and club. The bag has Lions champion on it (see photo elsewhere in this issue). All this was done on his 25th wedding anniversary. The Millers celebrated their anniversary this spring as they traveled to Hawaii with their children. Paul and

Tammy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Denny Lechlitner and John Young, both were bom on August 30. Bill Troup. George Haab and Edith I. Baumgartner will all be one year older on August 31. September 1 is the birthday of Brandi Bray. September 2 is the birthday of Neil Olson and the wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Yoder. Marla Wolferman and Ruby Sawyer will be one year older on September 4. On September 5 Ida List, Keith Bice and Tom Alexander will each be a year older. —o— SOMETIMES A certain kind of day or weather will remind one of another day just like it when something out of the ordinary happpened. So it was that on a recent day when the mercury was fast climbing toward 90 degrees, I recalled a day of many years ago when my mother and father and a very small girl were resting for a short time on the front porch before beginning the activities of the afternoon. It was probably in July or August, but suddenly we heard sleighbells! As the sound drew

nearer we could see a carriage coming down the street. It was from Jap Clem’s livery stable and was drawn by two fine horses. The sleighbells were on the horses. In the carriage were two men besides the driver. One was a Negro, very big and very black. A placard on the back of the carriage announced that Blind Tom. famous pianist, would give a concert at the Methodist Church that evening. My mother had read about Blind Tom, but he always gave concerts in great cities in this country and Europe. How did he happen to be in Milford? We found out later they could not make good train connections without remaining in Milford overnight. Os course we went to the concert to hear this man known, now as a historical musical freak, and who, to this day. is a subject of discussion among psychologists and musicians. His parents had been slaves. When as a very small boy he had come with his mother to the plantation of a General Bethune, in Georgia, he was already blind. He would creep into the big house whenever the piano was being played, and at the age of four, he could not resist trying the piano himself and picking out tunes. The daughter of his master * began teaching him and at the age of eight, he was exhibited. A man who was in show business became interested and gave him further valuable training. In Europe he had for one of his teachers the great Moscheles. He could do amazing keyboard imitations and could astonish people with his vocal imitations. His natural voice was a deep gutteral bass, but he also had a good tenor voice and could imitate a soprano with amazing accuracy. He had a violent temper on occasions and disagreeable personal habits such as resist mg ferociously when his managers attempted to have him bathed. He was almost an imbecile. That is why he has always been of such intense interest to psychologists who continue to grope for an explanation of how an imbecile could have such a remarkable mind for music. It was not only that he could imitate anything he heard, he really composed some worthwhile music, something that untold numbers of people with good minds cannot do. A great deal of this we did not know on that hot summer day of long ago, but nevertheless, Blind Tom was a subject of great interest. He was tall and corpulent. He gave his remarkable imitations and played some really fine music. He could stand at the piano with his back to the keyboard and play. That meant that his right hand played the left hand part and his left hand played the right hand part. At the end of each selection he would stand and applaud himself, raising his hands high and

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bending slowly forward until his still clapping hands almost touched the floor. His manager asked for someone in the audience to play a solo for Tom to repeat after one hearing. Among those in the audience who could play were Clara North, Clara Scott and Jessie McDonald. Jessie played a rather difficult selection and Tom played it after her, almost note for note. It is doubtful if Blind Tom ever before or after gave a concert in any other town as small as Milford. When Blind Tom died, a famous editor wrote this eloquent account of him: “What was it? Memory? Yes, it was memory without doubt, but what else? Whence the hand power that enabled him to manipulate the keys, the vocal power that enabled him to imitate the voice? What was he? Whence came he? Was he the prince of the fairy tale, held by the wicked enchantress, nor any beauty, no‘. even the Heaven-born Maid of Melody to release him? Blind and black, the idiocy of mystery, perpetual frenzy, the sole companion of his waking visions and his dreams —>whence came he, what was he ana wherefore?” One of Blind Tom’s teachers has said that in almost any other subject Tom’s mind was almost blank, but in music the subconscious mind was like a diamond, and that stored up in that almost blank mind were many of the greatest treasures of music. The above column was taken from News and View by Maude L. McLaughlin. It was written for The Milford Mail’s September 1, 1949. issue. —o— MEMBERS OF the Milford High School class of 1933 only recently learned of the death on August 11. 1969, of a fellow classmate. Russell Sechler. Sechler left Milford after graduation in 1933, to live with a sister, Wilma, at Springfield, Ohio. He later became a resident of Greenville. Ohio, and was the father of three children, all now married. He was ill for nine years, according to another sister, Mrs. Glen (Ethel) Hilliard

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of 552' 2 North Lake Street, Warsaw, and finally died cancer. Russell returned to Milford several times to visit old friends and classmates. His mother passed away in the spring of 1933 and the class sponsor. Lloyd B. Eherenman, now 92 and a resident of Plymouth, attended the funeral at theSechler home. —o— MILFORD FIRE chief Kill Leemon mentioned to us this week that the annual chicken barbeque by the group will be Sunday, Oct. 7 starting at 11:30. This year’s event will be a carryout only. “i You don't have to miss out on the fellowship which usually arises out of meeting old friends at the chicken barbeque. Invite in old friends for the day and serve chicken from the firemen for the main course. Sounds like fun doesn't it? LEE BARTON ARRESTED Lee Roy Barton, 27. r 1 Syracuse, was arrested by Kosciusko County Police on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Barton was arrested and held without bond at the county jail for criminal mischief

of 552' 2 North Lake Street, Warsaw, and finally died *of cancer.

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