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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1949
Page
1
A display at the school shows fourth grade dreams of future jobs with many aiming to be pilots. Bill Randle fulfilled his wish as a football star this year while eighteen seniors gained real work experience by working half days and full shifts at National Homes Lafayette.
Principal Shaffer states all non college prep seniors must gain part time work experience. Delphi cannot provide this, but Evansville high school cooperates with home and employer to ensure educational, progressive vocational credit. Eddie McGuire Jr class of 1947 earned print shop credit for learning the business from A to Z.
For 25 years educators in the secondary field have held that real work teaches students about job nature better than vocational guidance and even correspondence courses. Work provides experiences not offered in the high school curriculum.
Several senior girls display diamond rings as a sign of definite post graduation plans. Betty Jo McCarty Patty Brookshire Gladys Peters and Evaleen Pearson are noted for their rings and commitment to future duties.
Delphi native leaves a hat with an out of town label at Otto Schmidt's restaurant. Any claimant must endure his pitch on the benefits of shopping in Delphi to recover the hat.
Joe Haslet, son of Mr and Mrs Lote Haslet of Clay township and a 1932 graduate of the local high school, has been chosen Young Man of the Year by Yakima townsmen. He manages a loan company there and is active in Junior Chamber of Commerce, Boy Scouts, and Community Chest. The award was announced at a banquet and he received the key to the city from Governor Arthur B Langlie.
An overheard exchange between Ora Trent and Fred O Farrell shows a negotiation over a Tennessee item. Trent names a thousand dollars while O Farrell counters with eight hundred for a cat in on the deal.
The Delphi Council discussed installing 30 inch street sign posts on all sides and indicated signs would be purchased soon.
Residents welcome berm work east of town by the highway commission and urge similar repairs west of town to reduce hazards on the road.
Ideal Beach, a popular resort north of Monticello, will open Saturday May 28 for the summer season. Nightly dancing with Bob Leighton and his orchestra for the first two weeks. New features include a kiddyland rides a large roofed picnic shelter and over a thousand feet of new sidewalk and pierwalk.
The Delphi Country Club reports open clubhouse meals and a full golf shop. A tournament committee led by Paul Quick Joseph Ives and Floyd Julien schedules a June 19 match with Monticello and a July 31 rematch. The greens gain speed with timely roll, aided by a new I HC cab tractor for course upkeep.
The annual Junior Senior Prom was held in the Delphi Armory on May 20 with Dick Mordenui and his orchestra providing music. About three hundred people attended, including faculty and board members and their wives. Kings and Queens for the senior and junior classes were announced at 11:30 p.m. Doug Hatton and June Newell were senior king and queen, while Bob Roach and Marilyn McCormick were junior king and queen. Afterward the group went to Holloway's for food and fun.
The Pittsburg Church of the Brethren offers Daily Vacation Bible School with free transportation for children. It runs June 6 to 17 from 9 to 11 30 a m daily with George Brooks handling rides. Literature from Scripture Press will be used and an efficient teacher staff is set.
Robert Pauley son of Mr and Mrs L D Pauley of Delphi is an ace pitcher for DePauw University. He has two starts this season and won both games. Pauley will graduate this year from the university.
Circle Ladies of the GAR will meet Wednesday June 1 in their room at the courthouse for a group gathering and discussion with Governor Morton.
Mrs. Mabel S. Fraser, Republican official, lists summer talks. She speaks at the Michigan State Federation of Women's Republican Clubs in Detroit this Friday afternoon. She attends the National Advisory Council of Women’s Republican clubs in Madison on June 26–28. On July 27 she will address the Missouri Republican Women convention in St. Louis.
Delphi Deer Creek township School Board will take bids on five bus routes with contracts to be let June 6. Drivers for the routes are sought. further details appear in a legal advertisement elsewhere in The Citizen.
The Flora Theatre will screen Flamingo Road with Joan Crawford and Zachary Scott Sunday and Monday replacing South of St. Louis as listed in the page two advertisement. The change updates the schedule for local theatergoers.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert VanNaitta depart Tuesday for Rochester Minnesota where Mrs. VanNatta will enter Mayo Clinic for a medical checkup.
The Sunshine Society opens the Tecumseh camp season June 3 with about two hundred attendees from across the state. Camp runs through early September and includes boys and girls programs with multiple one week sessions in July and early August. Registration is via Bradshaw Insurance Agency or camp directly, with early sign up advised.
At a cooperative supper in the Home Economics room, band seniors were awarded letters and citation cards. Recipients include Doris Bowman Richard Cowdin Janis Grassmyer Doug Hatton Don Holmes Mary Ellen Kempf Ruth Ann McKinley Elizabeth Mears Betty Mehler Don Pauley Leonard Shoup Richard Weidner and Judge William B. Smith acted as toastmaster with Robert Barton band director presenting the awards.
Sheriff Sanford Allen reports burglars failed to break into the Burlington post office early Tuesday as iron bars blocked the south door. Meanwhile Michigan Town post office was entered Tuesday night, yielding 451 dollars from a small window.
Cody MacIntosh a 19 year old Kokomo youth was sentenced by Judge William B Smith to 3 10 years at Indiana Reformatory. He pled guilty to vehicle taking and was taken to the reformatory Monday by Sheriff Allen Judge Smith and County Clerk Joe Tolen. He had been jailed since May 7 after break ins at Burlington and Deer Creek with two other youths placed with their parents.
Memorial Day service scheduled at Rock Creek Lutheran church on Sunday May 29 at 2 30 p m DST Rev Hertenstein to give the invocation Kenneth Yeakley to read scripture and B L Stroup substitute pastor of Grace Lutheran Logansport to be guest speaker
E. E. Glenn city superintendent of schools announces dismissal Friday evening and classes resume Tuesday morning. No school will be held on Memorial Day.
Miss Edna Kirkpatrick a second grade teacher in Delphi public schools was elected to Phi Kappa Phi at Butler University. She was initiated in Indianapolis and her selection reflects months of extension work at the university.
Wayne Eiikenberry, Carroll County native, was named high school principal by the Delphi-Deer Creek township School Board. He succeeds J. Richard Shaffer, who resigned to complete a PhD at Columbia University. Eiikenberry’s contract begins August 26. He has 19 years in teaching, 13 as a high school principal, and currently leads Hebron schools. He and his wife plan to move here when housing is available. The piece also notes May Poppy Day observances by the American Legion Auxiliary with co-chairmen and Girl Scout volunteers selling poppies to benefit disabled veterans.
Sheriff Allen and Deputy Carey logged two minor wrecks. Meredith Dean Burge 20 of route 1 Camden drove a 1941 Chrysler and struck a semi trailer on State Road 29 near the Charles Meade farm causing $240 damage. Charles Grant 79 of Cutler was fined $9.25 after a collision with a Rochester driven semi trailer. Grant’s car sustained $100 damage.
Meredith Wells a high school senior won the outstanding senior art award at the school exhibit held over Wednesday and Thursday. The pastel painting will hang in the school with other senior award pictures collected over 11 years by retiring art teacher Mrs Bertha Noble. Other awards followed in vote order with Joan Stoner, Bill Randle and Don Pauley tied for third and Forrest Brehmer in fourth.
Business and Professional Women met at the library Monday evening for the election of officers. Dorothy Waymire was named president, Esther Wilson vice president, and Sue Wingard secretary treasurer.
Johnnie Gingrich, son of Mr and Mrs John Gingrich, is convalescing at home after a tonsillectomy at Home Hospital in Lafayette. Mrs R C Taylor of Spencerville visits Mrs Katherine Loveland.
Three Carroll county residents died in separate tragedies over the weekend and Tuesday. Charles Seward 28 of Delphi drowned fishing below the Oakdale Dam on the Tippecanoe river. Donald Vianco 34 of Delphi was killed in a fiery auto crash near Rockfield. Beulah Frye 26 of Flora took her own life Tuesday morning. Seward’s body was recovered after a boat accident drew rescuers. Vianco’s body was found under a Rock Creek bridge after his car left the road in heavy rains. Seward served with the Delphi Presbyterian church and Tiowa Grange family, while Vianco was a World War II veteran and machinist. Funeral details followed for Seward. Vianco’s funeral was set for Wednesday.
Baccalaureate services for the 1949 Delphi senior class will be held Sunday at the Delphi Methodist church starting at 7 p m CST. Irene Jacoby will present organ selections, the high school choir will sing three numbers directed by Robert Barton with Peggy Starkey at the piano. Rev Irving Phillips will give the invocation Rev Miles Freeman the scripture Rev Frank Briggs the sermon and Rev William E Rix the benediction.
County treasurer Mrs Robert VanNatta reported the Cancer Fund drive netted 2512 50 with most collections in. Mrs Chalmer Loman of Cutler was re elected president of the county organization noting Carroll County was among the few in the state to meet or exceed its quota.
Bill Wood son of Delphi mayor Charles Wood will graduate June 9 from Ventura Junior College in California. He and teammate Frank Kerker, a Ventura star, plan to return to California June 15 for summer break before resuming studies. Elmer McCall and family of Ventura announce plans to visit Indiana this summer.
The first Country Club dance for members and guests is set at the club house on June 2 from 9 to 12. A floor show smorgasbord and dance are planned by committee members Tom Hannell John Pastor and Garnette Smith.
The Adina Rebekah Lodge will honor 55 year members at a Friday night party following the regular meeting.
Thyrza Henry recalls Brock Timmons or Brock the Melon Man advising townsfolk near the Tippecanoe dam to float on their backs if drowning seems imminent. The memory ties to a Patton patch of watermelons west of Walnut Gardens where Timmons slept to guard his crop.
Mrs Mary E Blake 57 of LaFayette died Tuesday at Wabash Valley Sanitarium after a week there following three months of illness Born in Pittsburg she was daughter of John and Louanna Hayden She married Joseph Blake and leaves two sons John Widner Delphi and Charles Widner California four daughters Rose Carpenter Harris Arkansas Hazel Wilson Mountpelier Indiana Laura Shiackelford Logansport Archie Suddoth Greenfield and her mother plus several Hayden siblings Funeral rites were held Thursday at Patrick Mortuary with Rev Frank Rodkey presiding Burial followed at Pittsburg Cemetery
Day old Vicki Ann Van DerVolgen, daughter of Lawrence and Helen Van DerVolgen of near Yeoman, died at 3 a.m. Monday at St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette. Survived by parents, a sister, and maternal grandparents Floyd Rider of Monticello. Graveside rites conducted Tuesday at Pittsburg cemetery. Patrick Mortuary handled arrangements.
Mrs Ruth Reed Miller wife of Clarence Miller of Colburn died Monday at St Elizabeth hospital after a lingering illness. Rites were held Wednesday at Rogers and Henderson funeral home with burial at Rest Haven Lafay ette. She was 48 born in Delphi daughter of Willard and Lula Reed. Survivors include her father stepmother three sisters and two brothers plus three daughters Betty Bell Foreman Marion and Donna.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Spry of Hammond and Theresa Paviak of Fast Chicago were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs William Spry. On Sunday and Monday Dr and Mrs Franklin Petry of Lowell were the guests of Mr and Mrs Spry. The group helped celebrate Mrs Spry's birthday observed Monday.
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