The Culver Citizen on Lake Maxinkuckee • Indiana's Most Beautiful Lake
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THE CULVER CITIZEN ON LAKE MAXINKUCKEE • INDIANA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL LAKE 66TH YEAH, NO. 10 CULVER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1960 TEN CENTS Dramatic Picture Of Gretter-Cihak Accident Heavy Snow and Zero Weather Grip Community 10-Year Records Are Broken Regardless of what Mark Twain said about the weather it's the t=By Al Spiers big news of the week and Culver is still digging out of its biggest Jfative Of Arjjtis Has That .accumulation of snow in exactly Old Xovci-Suy-Dic 10 years -— S to 12 inches in Indiana Spirit depth almost everywhere. MOW HOOSIMRS except his dim kinfoik — have deeper Indi In the wake of last Friday's ana roots than Russell H. Hess, blinding blizz.ird we have had modest, amiable Goshen lathing some temperature readings which contractor ,\ve would rather not publish in today's paper but here goes — 1 Russell's in below zero yesterday morning. herited pioneer Which was not quite as unwelcome spirit prodded as the 5 below zero the previous him away from Tuesday's reading. The high morn Indiana for a- ing temperature all week w a s •while. A deep only 16 above! 1) e r s onul tra- gedy brought Stranded On U.S. SI him back in the FIRST PICTURE OF ACCIDENT TAKEN BY WILLIAM W. TABER Visibility was rated as zero to '30s. 30 feet as heavy snowfall and "And a Hoo- The community is still stunned by the horrible automobile accident in which PHILIP high winds lashed this and other 's i e t I'll bri GRETTER and TONY CIHAK, both 16, figured on the icy pavement south of Burr Oak on Feb. Northern Indiana communities Ah SPIERS the rest of my 29. The Gretter youth and the Cihak lad have been transferred from Parkview Hospital in last Friday. U.S. 31 was closed days," he smiled. Plymouth to St. Joseph Hospital in South Bend and South Bend's Memorial Hospital, respec temporarily as vehicles inched from LaPaz to Lakeville behind HKSS IS X COMMON" name in tively, for surgery. Gretter is still listed as "critical" but Cihak is improving satisfactorily. Left snowplows. Motorists had to slow and near Goshen — for good au- to right, in this dramatic picture taken by Bill Taber: ART FISHBURN, Culver fireman; JERRY down to a 5-miIe-an-honr crawl I cestral reasons. The family's Uoo- or abandon their autos. Photos : sier lineage traces back well over GREENLEE, county sheriff; DR. FRANK A. IKIRT, osteopathic physician; and OSCAR BOOK taken of stalled cars in the Lake I a century. ER, Culver fireman. Tony Cihak is still in the car, its door pinned around him like a steel cor ville area appeared in newspapers Beyond that, the line goes back set. Dr. Ikirt administered to Cihak during the long delay in extricating him from the wreck all over the U.S. to Balser Mess, a Revolutionary age. Both the Gretter and Cihak families have our sympathy. U';u- soldier who crossed the Dela Schools Closed Everywhere ware with Washington. Of course, all schools were Balser began the family's trek closed during the worst period wcsl. settling In Ohio where he Chicago Sysiiphony April 4 Deadline and scores df social events had to raised a family and died. A son. be cancelled. Balser II, pushed on to Indiana Two employees of the Marshall about 1S29, homesteading in wil Hies En Route Orchestra Sets" Set For Voter (Continued on Page 5) derness along the Elkhart River south of Goshen. Silas Hess, one of Balser II's To Cuhrei Standing Ovation Registration nine children, greatly expanded Ex-Congressman the, family's holdings and sired 12 children. One was Fnoch Mess, An Expert In Hendl Directs; Primary Election F. Jay Nimtz Russell's father . BORN NEAR AKOOS in 188,9, Public Relations Karth Is Star Tuesday, May 3 Russell grew up in a log cabin Lions' Speaker that still stands. After high school Scott Waldon, able and nation 15y CHARLES VAN IT VI. ally known 51-year-old public re .and two seasons at the old, now- The Chicago Symphony Orches County Clerk Harvey E. Phil By HAROLD 1TTTMRL1XO gfrjjanct Union Christian College lations director of the Indiana tra presented a very successful lips reminds prospective voters near Sullivan, he grew restless. Motor Truck Association at In ! .concert last Saturday night in the that the last day for registration Lions Club Mditor "1 guess I had a hereditary hun dianapolis, collapsed and died al Eugene ('. Eppley Auditorium of to vote in the May 3 primary Program chairman Lion Ed ger to pioneer," Hess chuckled. most instantly of a heart attack 'Culver Military Academy. election is April I. ward Schultz has secured former "But the country was largely set about 10 a.m. Monday while driv The program included th" Mr. Phillips, popular former Congressman F. Jay Nimtz as to tled by then (1908 ) so I joined the ing his car on U.S. Ill six miles "American Festival Overture," .sheriff, called at The Citizen last night's speaker. Army." south of Rochester. ! by Schuman: "The Moldau," from Wednesday afternoon. His subject will be the Nurem- Assigned to Fort D. A. Russell Mr. Waldon was en route to "My Fatherland," by Smetana; Those persons who have moved burg War Trials with which he at Cheyenne, Russell found great Culver with his businss associate, "Spanish Caprice (Opus I'll," by from one precinct to another was associated for 14 months. gobs of Wyoming still available within Marshall County and those James E. Nicholas, general mana Rimsky-Korsakoff; and "Sym Mr. Nimtz served in the U.S. for homesteading. having moved into the county or ger of the Association, who was phony No. 2, I) Major, Opus 13," Army during 1942-1946 and later RUSSELL'S LETTERS soon lur state from outside will have to re scheduled to make a noon ad by Sibelius. became our Congressman. He now ed the family from Indiana to register. dress here before the Chamber of 1 practices law in South Ilend. Lost .Spring. Wyo. Father Enoch, "Tin Moldau" was noteworthy Also any person having reached Commerce. for its excellence. It is a turbu a brother, M. U. Hess, and a sis Don Trone, program chairman, bis 21st birthday on or before ter. Orale, all filed homestead and Publisher Chester W. Cleve lent Composition, picturing the Nov. cS, 1900. must register. claims together. land, both friends of Mr. Waldon great river Moldau in Bohemia. Women who have married since Then they bought Russell's dis- and Mr. Nicholas, by phone re Demand Two Mi con-s becoming a registered voter or irge and he claimed an adjoin- 1 ceived the sad news of Mi . Wal- At the conclusion of the con who have changed their names in :t20 acres in April, 11)10. l'.y through court decree should sign doh's death about 11 a.m. from cert, the audience of townspeople. ' Enoch's death in 1913, they own an affidavit of change of name. Woodlnwn Hospital in Rochester, faculty, and cadets demanded two ed the land. (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2 I (Continued on Page 2) In 1915, Russell and Nina Pen- afngton. a pretty Wyoming girl. joined hearts, hands, anil home- Congratulations To All Culver Area 4-H Members MWfTds. Their daughter, Wyomn, was born a year later and a son. Roy, arrived in 1919. OPERATING AS ONE big fam ily ranch, the Hess clan modestly prospered at first, raising grain (f'i)iitinued on Pago 151 HON. V. JAV NIMTZ At Lions Club Tonight Jay is well known in this area and this meeting should be of great interest. Harold Robinson Moaned We were all saddened to have lost one of.our most faithful and loyal members in t h e passing of Harold H. Robinson. Harold bad been a Lion since 194S and had received his ten- year award. He had been awarded perfect attendance buttons for a number of years and one of the more outstanding points was the awarding of his Master Key for "WELL, THAT'S OCR new members. Twenty members l'.KST TIM 10 TO FLORIDA!" of our club were sponsored by him. He also faithfully served on [Dale McFeatters in Indiana the board of directors at various Business and Industry J times. THR CITIZEN PA«E a Mrs. Virginia Bair vision of census takers to insure ROTO 111 KMC TEAM I'l.ACiS Culver, Indiana Basil Rathbone, a complete and accurate count. THIRD IN < OMI'KTI I ION Wednesday, March t>. n»«o I Appointed Census The crew leader is one of the Tin' Culver Military Aeademjj key people in the field operations ROTC detachment's small bor| Famous Actor, Crew Leader of the I960 Census of Population rifle team took- third place in the and Housing; It. is his responsi annual VI P. S. Army Corps rifle bility to recruit and train the cen Peter D, Trene, supervisor of competition. Last year the detach sus takers: plan and allocate Coming To CMA the Census llureau's district of ment's team took first place. Work assignments: review the fice in South Rend, has announc Two of the Culver Marksmen Rescheduled For work of the census takers ami ed the appointment of Mrs. Vir finished among the top tea indi lake remedial action when, Will Star At ginia Bair, 919 Academy Itoad, as vidual marksmen. They are (apt. necessary, and to handle prob crew leader in this area tor the John Walker, who placed fourtlj Sunday, March 13 Eppley April 22 lems of difficult enumeration.