The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 13, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 March 1985 — Page 24

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., March 27,1985

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VOLUNTEERS IN the “Big Bear-Little Bear” child abuse prevention play are busy with rehearsals and costume preparation. Pictured above working on costumes are, from left: Susie Baker, costume committee member; Donna Krantz, costume committee chairman; and Connie Davis, costume committee member. The committee members are making the costumes for Big Bear and Little Bear from dark brown woolly -fabric, and Big Moose and Little Moose will be clad in light gray. While these busy ladies are working on costumes, the cast members of the play, Lynda Eastman, Lyn Anglin, Cheryl Engle, Judy Schmahl and Kathy Grieser, have been practicing their lines and following the direction of Becky Menzie of the Wagon Wheel Playhouse. The program, being produced by Kosciusko County Child Abuse Prevention, KOSCOCAP, will be presented to preschool and public school classrooms before the end of the school year. "Big BearLittle Bear” was written by the Bridgework Theater of Goshen using TOUCH concepts courtesy of Illusion Theater of Minneapolis. The play is being produced in Kosciusko County by special arrangements with Bridgework Theater. t —o— ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES of the 68 towns which make up the Northeast Town

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Roundtable will be in Milford tomorrow night (Thursday). Local governments are being bombarded by new federal regulations, threatened losses of revenue sharing and other federal funds and now a Supreme Court decision imposing minimum wage and overtime pay requirements for local government employees. The program for the March Roundtable will be presented by the IACT staff on many of these mandates and a briefing on major issues before the general assembly affecting local governments. In addition to the new IRS reporting and withholding requirements on municipal vehicles/proposed federal budget cuts and the Supreme Court’s decision, information on new state cooperative purchasing program will be presented. The roundtable is hosted by the town of Milford and will convene at 6 p.m. in the community building. Dinner is scheduled to be served at 6:45 p.m. with the business meeting set to start at 7:45 p.m. ALTA STOOPS of Milford Junction will observe her 80th birthday on March 30. No special, event is being planned but friends may wish to remember her on * her special day. AND, SPEAKING of birthdays, former Milford resident, Joe

Kaiser of r 1 Etna Green, will be 93 years young on April 2. For those who would like to remember Kaiser on his special day, the Etna Green zip code is 46524. ‘DON’T FORGET the MAD Banquet is Friday night at 6:30 in the community building. Milford area residents are urged to attend to find out who the new “Citizen of the Year” is and to honor that person on his or her special night. Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door. LARRY GROVE, a former Milford resident, was in last week \ to tell us one of the photos showing flood waters near North Webster, which ran in a recent issue, was not in the North Webster area but was in fact taken at his home near Warsaw. We apologize for this error. WATCH FOR big things to happen at the Milford Library. The board is currently seeking bids for masonry cleaning, masonry tuckpointing, window repair and reglazing, cornice restoration and roof repairs, plaster repairs, entrance door hardware repairs and for trim painting. Bids will be received until April 17 at 4:30 p.m. when they will be opened. . TWO PRESIDENTS Awards for Excellence in Sales and Public Relations were presented recently to L. M. Berry and Company employees on behalf of George L. White, president of the United Telephone Co. of Indiana. One of these awards went to Debbie Spearman of North Webster. Debbie is the daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Robert (June) Spearmair of Dewart 6-year-old is bitten by dog Benjamen Marquart? six, r 2 box 579 Syracuse, received-a dog bite on the calves of both his legs • Friday, March 22. Marquart’s parents notified Syracuse Police at 3 p.m. He was bitten in a side yard between 500 and 502 Wenonah Street, Syracuse. The dog reportedly has current inoculations and is owned by Norm and Bonnie Cooper 500 Wenonah St., Syracuse. U.S. and Australia CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - Bob Hawke said recently that providing special military facilities to the United States is central to Australia’s security, and that the government will do it as long as he is prime minister.

Lake. She is a telephone sales representative, working with the Yellow Pages throughout Indiana. In addition, the Spearmans' son, Tom, received a special award for the highest sales of advertising on the inside back covers of phone books. Debbie was presented an engraved clock/plaque award. Tom received a topcoat of his choice. THIS NEWSPAPER received a letter from Lura Elkerton -this week. It states she was born in Milford on February 22, 1893. Her grandfather was Milton B. Groves. Her great-uncle was Ike Groves. Her mother’s folks were the Felkners, she was Netta Ellen (Felkner) Groves. Lura was four years old when the family moved to Mattoon, 111. She remembers the mud there and tells of a man having to pull her out of the mud in the middle of the street one day. She had crossed in the middle, her

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brother had crossed at the crossing and made it safely. She notes that while she remembers things like that, she wouldn’t even know Milford if she were to visit here but she does think of the community many times and still reads this paper. THE COMMITTEE for the 1985 Milford High School Alumni Banquet met last Wednesday evening. Officers elected were: Randall Dewart (1936), president: Berniece Dwyer (1936), secretary; and Ron Baumgartner (1961), treasurer. Other committee members are: Eugene Lange (1959), Clara

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Kaiser (1947), Cathy Leemon (1967), Gwen Dewart (1935), and Arch Baumgartner (1935). The banquet will be held on Saturday eveing, June 1, at the Milford Junior High School. Floyd Hollar, Warsaw, will be the master of ceremonies. Hollar was president of the class of 1934. OBSERVATION: THE following was handed to this editor earlier this week. Its author is unknown but it is so very true: The typographical error is a slippery thing and sly; You can hunt till you are dizzy, but it somehow will get by

Till the forms are off the presses, it is strange how still it keeps. It shrinks down in a corner and it never stirs or peeps. That typographical error, too small for human eyes. Till the ink is on the paper, when it grows to mountain size.

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The boss, she stares with horror; then she grabs her hair and moans. - The copy reader drops her head upon her hands and groans. The remainder of the issue may be clean, as clean can be. But that typographical error is the thing you always see.