Walkerton Independent, Volume 83, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 April 1960 — Page 1

Walkerton Independent

Volume 83; Number 20

WALKERTON TO GET NEW POST OFFICE

irgil Gwin Named As Superintendent Os Walkerton Schools For The Coming Year

Virgil Gwin, who has served to Walkerton Schools as Acting iperintendcnt since the appointment of C. Emmet Eiler to tlu ost of County Superintendent of hools, was named Tuesday night • serve as Superintendent o? hoolg in Walkerton fer the 1960•61 school year. This term runs torn September of 1960 through’ Vugust of 1961. This action came 1 it a meeting of the Walkerton’ ■ \hool Board. * I Mr. Gwin, his wife, Marie, and’ laughter, Kay, moved to Walk-' rton just prior to the present hool year as he had accepted he position of Element ary School Principal, which he still serves dong with his temporary’ superinendents job. They live at 704 Ohio dreet. Mr. Gwin graduated from Gilad High School in 1921 and start i to Manchester College in 1925 md after 48 weeks of training tarted teaching in a rural school nth all 8 grades. He continued • aching and going to school each inuner until he received his twoear Normal Degree with Life icenae in all elementary subjects, S. degree in Education with High , ■ hool license in Biological Sei-, nces, History, Physical Educa- 1 ion. Health and Safety, and his Masters Degree from Indiana Unl- • rsity with Elementary Principal, ligh School Principal, General supervisor and Superintendents licenses. All licenses are Ist grade Life. He has 34 years experience in teaching, coachipg and, administration of schools. He has served as township prm- • ipal, doing the work of a superintendent for 14 years previous to oming to Walkerton at Bunker Hill for 5 years. Plainfield. 6 years. nd Lakeville for 3 years. He has upervised the purchasing or quipment and the moving into ’wo new buddings and has puruiscd equipment and started three hot lunch programs. He is a former president of the Mid-State Athletic Conference, has served on the Evaluating Committee for the North Central Asociation and was the organizer and first president of the Miami County Teachers Association. He is an Honorary Citizen of Boys Town, a member of the State and National Principals and Superintendents Associations, the State Teachers Association, N.E.A., and the Baptist Church and the Masonic Lodge. SOPHOMORE BAKE SALE Bake Sale sponsored by the Sophomore Class of Walkerton •ill be held Thursday, April 14, at ^kelgas, starting at 9 a m. Read the c^asstfied ads.

WHS Band Wins Ist In State Contest

The Walkerton High School Rand has done it again. They WaUted off with a first place rating in the State Band Contest at [ >ncwd Township High School, in Elkhart County. Saturday afterboon. The rating of first followed l‘ first in the District Contest the ^eek before, making them eligible f°r the State Contest Saturday. in all, 18 bands competed in E^’s C and 9 of the 18 came out Al th a ’ftrst. Walkerton's band is Greeted by Donald Weil. This is •he first year at Walkerton lot

I List Candidate For Primary Election In Lincoln Twp. The primary election in Walkerton and Lincoln Township has taken on some interest with two candidates for each of the three precinct committeemen on the Republican ticket and with three del egates to the state convention with two to be selected. There jire no contests on the Democrat ticket and the Precinct 1 committeeman spot on the ticket is vacant with no one having filed. Candidates for committeemen and delegates will be as follows: REPUBLICAN Precinct Committeeman 157 D Harry Doll 58D Walter "L” Heil 2 57D Pau| Guard 58D Claude E. Watkins 3 57D Claude E. House.' 58D David M. Mellin DEMOCRAT 1 Vacant । 2 57A Melvin R. Divine 3 57A Ray A. Nusbaum Republican Delegates with two to be chosen: 36D Harry Doll; 37D Claude E. Houser; 3RD Claude E. Watkins; Democrat Delegates 36A James D. McKesson; 37A Ray A. Nusbaum. Harry’ Doll has been reinstated on the ticket, as a delegate after his name had been deleted on the grounds that one of his petitioner.; was not registered. Later action was taken to prove the signature was that of the person registered arid a majority of the County Eler t ion Board acted to accept the peition as presented. The local issues on commit tocmen in the Republican Party have been sharpened over the bringing of a license branch to Walkerton. The fight liegan nearly four years ago when the subject of a license branch in Walkerton was brought up at a Chamber of Commerce meeting by the new Superintend ent of Schools. <Enwt Eder. He and others refused to accept the arguments that Walkerton was h»o small for a branch and that adequate service was being provided A lielegation carried the matter to state level and got a branch through the intervention of Robert Matthews, then Republican State Chairman, and Governor Handley iwith the State Bureau of Motor 'vehicles. The issue of a license branch in Walkerton remains a live one in the Republican Party today. The world accepts the rule of gold rather than the golden rule.

Mr. Weil, as he replaced Robert Barton, who moved into a similar position at Crawfordsville. The band played "Brighton Beach”. "Fantasy for Band", and "A Mozart Festival”, as their three numbers. Twn additional sightreading pieces, required by the rules of the state contest, were also played. One judge rated the band perifect, another one point under perfect. and the third ,a little lower, but the average came out as a . First Division Rating. The class

WALKERTON, INDIANA, APRIL 14. 1960

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J. R. Woodfill To Address Chamber J. R. Woodfill, manager of industrial gas sales for Northern Indiana Public Service Company, will address the Walkerton Chamber oP Commerce at their dtnne.' meeting Thursday, April 14 Wood fill will discuss the importance of the availability of natural gas in bringing new industry to a com- ' munty, and explain the many way . I industry uses natural gas in its, processes. He will also tell how NIPSCO's consultants aid industrial custom-. ers In the efficient application of! gas and electricity, and how the, utility helps find locations for new plants in northern Indiana. As a part of the program, Woodfill will show a Mini, "These Are My People,” on the story of natural gas. DOUBLE TIME Generally speaking, the longest day of the year is the day* before pay day.

C competition is for schools with high school enrollments of 151 to 250 students. On theii return to Walkerton, a fin* truck met the group with a caravan of cars with horns blowing and made the rounds of the tMHK helping to celebrate tbt casion. ! At the next meeting of the Walkerton Band Boosters, to be held on Monday. April 18, plans , will be made for a dinner and , dance to honor the band students *and their director on their m*

Waltz Restaurant Open In Walkerton The Waltz Restaurant, located in the old Adelle's location on Roosevelt Road, is now open for . business in Walkerton. Mr. an 1 Mrs. Elmcj- Waltz, former restaurant owners in South Bend fer close to 20 years, have taken over this location and opened foi busin-. - List week • nd. I Mr. and Mrs. Waltz operated two restaurants in South Ben I and are very experienced in th:-’ line of business. They undertook ,a grand clean-up campaign and made the restaurant attractive and | Inviting for their patrons. A’ present they are operating from 5:60 am. to 10:00 p.m. daily and 7:00 a m. to R.OO p m. on Sunday.;. They feature a complete line of dinners, plate lunches, short onler 1 :. breakfasts, fountain service, sandwiches and catering service fer banquets, parties arid other group meetings. Safety Makes S«nse!

complishment. The people of Walkerton will also have a chance to hear the band at their coming Spring Concert to be held on Sunday, May 1, at 3:00 p.m. m the High Soho 4 Gym. They will concentrate their efforts in that direction now that the contests ar^ out of the wav. ( The Gtxn’ertown High School Band also received a First Division Rating n their class. Ronald Sand is the director and has brought I them from almost nothing to their ’ "AtH” In the State Contest.

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■ Comer of Illinois And Vanßuren ■ Selected Postmaster General. Arthur E. Suu nv rs ell. a: n unr-. •! today that a new I ust O?fu <» h . been authorize I for Walkerton. Th s a.in> in er it, tin Postmaster General advised coincides with the optioning by P- st Office Department R gional Officia ■ of a site mc'dng Depi.rlnunl i . m ements as to cost, area and location. "This new and m^Lm pos al faciiit'. ’ Postmaster Gencr.:l Sun:merficld said. "will be constructed under the Post Office DepartC I • gram, which utilizes the n sources and investment Amds of private enterprise to obtain needed postal buildings.'' The new Post Office at Walkerton will be built on a site 74 8 x 165 feet, located on the corner of Van Buren and Illinois Streets. The site will provide adequate parking and truck maneuvering ’areas. Bidding forms, specifications and other pertinent data will be available to prospective bidders in the near future, according to postmaster Arthur E. Shirley. "The site option will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, and then construct the building to Post Off*ice Department specifications and lease it to the department on a long-term basis. ! "More than 3,300 new Post Offices have been built since 1953 under the Post Office Department's unique leasing program,” Mr. Summerfield said. ' Because those postal buildings remain under private ownership while leased to the Federal Government. the (lessor pays local real estate taxes. "Futhermore, because the bin' '• ;ings are constructed with privat • investment funds, capital outlays by the Post Office Department are limited substantially to those for Post ofAc s because of* lack of space m l obsolescence. i Mr. Summerfield noted that during the last session of Congress, Congressional approval was given ।to the Postal Modernization Program which will provide in i 960 alone, 1400 new post offices VL •timately a total of 12.000 badlyneedetl post offices to replace oo- ’ solete facilities will be built under this lease program, in every part of the nation. Mr Summerfield emphasized the goal of the Post Office Department to provide its patrons with the moat modem and efficient mail service in the world. "The construction of a new Post Office for Walkerton is an example of this postal progress," he pointed out. "Tlie Walkerton Post Office, he observed, "will be a major link in our newly-revitalized and mo»l---ern post il service. aimed at an ultimate goal of next-day delivery of* mad anywhere in the nation. This the sc on I great Improvement in the local postal opetat m undei po«tma>t«r Arthur E Shirley, the first being the delivery’ in Walkerton several years ago. His tireless efforts for these two projects are certainly apprec L ated by the people served by tho Walkerton post ofrice. BAND BOOSTERS BAKE SALE The Walkerton Band Boosters are sponsoring a Food and Bake Sale to be held on April 23 beginning at R3O am. at the Cello Cleaners. ThMe sales have been wellknown for their delirious chicken and nocdles and home baked good®, so plan to come to the sale. >2l