The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

Freedom I Newspaper --J Meddra set Tor varaae or for holiday- Medora'si Christmas Parade committee is preparing for the-20th anniversary-of the parade. The parade will be held Dec. J. Entry 'forms for 1 the flea market will be mailed out soon. Contact a committee member if a form is -v i i Medora will conduct its Halloween Fall Festival this Friday and Saturday with a Halloween Trail.

A hayride will begin at dark Friday and will cost $1.50. On Saturday a bake sale will begin at 8 a.m. and. a fish fry at 10 a.m. Craft booths, Halloween parade, a jack-o'-lantern contest, and Halloween costumed contest are in the.

evening. Ending the day will be a haunted trail and hayride at dusk. The public is invited to attend the festivities. All proceeds go -toward sponsoring the Christmas Parade. For information call Wanda Thompson, parade chairman, or Jo Shields, flea market chairman.

The next meeting will be Oct. 29 and will be open to all who would like to help the committee. clined to elaborate oh 'those factors. can'tchance Zto guess on whatV going to happen," he added. "It's been very cordial, and I think everyone recognizes the school corporation did not get a great deal of state money this year, and our loss of students chipped away some of the money we anticiapted." The school district's current enrollment is 104 pupils fewer than last year and will cause an loss in state funding of $30,000 to $35,000.

Schuley agreed with Mahan's "Money from the 'state is a little tighter, and that slows movement," he said. "I guess our feeling is if there's a lean money year, then this is the time you See CONTRACT Page 6 tmmma i it fi? if Li law Tribune photo by Aubrey Woods moving by DAN DAVIS Staff Writer Contract talks between SeyT mow Community Schools and Seymour Education Association are moving Blowly, again, officials say. Negotiations began in the end of July and have seen three meetings since without much progress, Rick Schuley of the SEA said. "We thought, there had been some changing of the negotiations climate (by the schooLdis-trict) last year, but it hasn't carried over this year," Schuley said. Superintendent Robert Mahan declined to characterize the contract talks.

have been very low-keyed," Mahan; said. "We've only had three meetings. There have been some intervening variables that have come in." He de "I cV v. Midwest Concrete workers NJL Gasper, front, and Jerry Duncan, both of Indianapolis, pour concrete of Jackson County Memorial Hospital's expansion air income jobs i aL Lions plan Halloween October 28 The Seymour Evening Lions Club will conduct its annual Halloween Parade on Oct. 28.

Parade formation of costumed artidpantsjwilLmeet onLFourth Chestnut and Walnut Streets (northside of Seymour Post Office) at 6:15 a.m. The parade will start at 6:30 p.m., with the route beginning at Fourth and Chestnut streets and going south on Chestnut to Second Street and west on Second to Jackson County Public Library! parking judging of contestants will be held. See LIONS Page 6 some Myers said that figure would be exorbitant for Freeman Field. The field has been operating in the red the past few years and will have to rely upon money now in certificates of deposit to oper- a 'f-thc fiw venue was generated from Pan-tasote Inc's water usage. However, the plastics company was bought put last has been vacated.

Unless the city of Seymour makes the board an airport authority, which would have the right to tax tenants at the field, it will not be able to accept any See AIRPORT. Page 6 10 a.m. today High Tuesday 60 79 none Low Tuesday Precipitation River 142 feet and stationary Sunset today 5:54 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 7:04 a.m. Unsolved l.v-w;"- '-tt-cK'ti Inside today Classified 7 Horoscope 16 Comics 7 Hospital 3 Courts 3 Landers 12 Crossword 7 Lotteries 10 Deaths 6 Markets 10 Editorial 2 Police 3 Family 11 Sports 18 Farm Fare 14 7 Jail work, Trustees Charles Pelston of Sey- side the mour, left, and Glen.

Delph, Free- Tuesday. tOWn Rl, dO landscaping WOrk OUt Concrete creation Lack may cost by BANDY PROFFITT Staff Writer Thirty to 40 jobs may be lost to Seymour due to Freeman Field's lack" of revenue. Jack Rhoades, Rhoades International president, said at the Seymour Board of Aviation, Com--missioilers1 meeting Monday if a larger hangar is not constructed at Freeman Field he may look to locate a maintenanceJacility elsewhere. "We've got to have a hangar," Rhoades said. "If we started to build a hangar today we wouldn't have" it in time." Rhoades "said a 100-by-160-foot hangar was built in Columbus for about $400,000.

But board President Robert The weather Tonight and Thursday mostly cloudy with tered showers. Warm. Low tonight in the lower 60s. High Thursday in the middle to upper 70s. South wind 10 mph tonight.

Chance of rain 50 percent role on -4 anr .1 son of James and Carol at the site Schneck today. of B'town boy playing Fort Wayne man searching for 'big brother9 from "70s Chris Lambring plays role -in program on NBC tonight Mysteries Fisher said. "But I do remember our first trip. We went camping in Ann Arbpr, Mich" The pair bowled, ate out and enjoyed other activities for about 10 months. They even made a television commercial together, promoting the new Big Brothers "My mom got married again," Fisher explained.

"Big Brothers said we must end the relationship, so I could bond with my stepfather." When Fisher was 7, he underwent corrective heart surgery. his Big Brother called to wish him never heard' FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Two decades ago, Jeff Fisher, who told his mother it embarrassed him when she took him to the barber shop, was matched with Elkhart's first Big Brother. Fisher, now 26 and the father of two daughters, lost track of his Big Brother and wants to renew their friendship. The story of his search will be told tonight on the NBC television program "Unsolved Mysteries." Fisher was 6 and his mother, Linda Fisher, divorced and wor- Jackson County Jail Tribune photo by Anbrey Wood Christooher Lambrinsr.

by AUBREY WOODS Staff Writer An 8-year-oJd rural Browns-town youth makes his national acting debut at 7 p.m. today on NBC-TV. Christopher Lambring, son of Janies and Carol Lambring, Brownstown R2, will portray Fort Wayne's Jeff Fisher. Fisher hopes to find his "big. brother," John Novotny, through a segment of NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" show.

The two have not seen each other in 20 years. Fisher's story begins with his -boyhood- in father had walkedJoutonrbis ar daughter and the 6-year-old" Fisher. about lack of a father in thejrTheUthreerweekJi08pitalstayj -home when she sought help iit arwashrightened when, out of the: to South Bend. The last time he heard from Novotny, Fisher was in a hospital in Ann Arbor, facing open heart surgery. Lambring won the role of Jeff Fisher after learning of auditions through the Helen Wells Agency of Indianapolis.

That agency represents his sister, Jamey Lambring, who has appeared in several Regional and national commercials. His mother said Chris was one of three finalists -and had a chance to meet with the show's producer and director. "They told us he was in lithe i rightage group, and he looked lot like Jeff Fisher when he was a child," she said. member" of. the Boys' Club of --Seymour, an Indiana University basketball fan and a Chicago fan.

Christopher arid his mother spent three days in Fort Wayne See CHRIS Page 6 4Afteri.his fatherlefti Fisher's "His main concern, about tak-. -mother, Lindacontacted the" ing the part was whether or not local Big "Brothers-Big he would have to miss any of his chapter and sometime in 1971, normal sporting 'and school rFisherand Novotny became-theactivities." "cKapter'slfirst match" -tJhristopfie'r- enjoys Novotny helped fill the void baseball, basketball, football and and soothe the pain for Fisher af- soccer and is involved in 4-H. He from him again. "I have always wondered what happened" to- him Fishersaid" "It was a very special relation-' BhiprBven-though- it lasted less than a year." Last year Fisher contacted the agency to see if the kind, dark-haired man could be found. The same day Fisher office learned, that "Unsolved; Mysteries" was planning to showcase Little Brothers looking tiny "Ted-brick" building-next to the railroad tracks near their apartment in Elkhart.

It was the home of Elkhart's Big Brothers of America office. Finding a Big Brother wasn't easy ut-the 1970sIt was a ICUgtiiJ iiivvi Tien xwvoay Fisher recalls. "There had beeYi no contact -with my real father for quite time. was really jexcited I found 1someone to do "things fathers and sons do." risher was matched with a jeUblackhait and big, darknmmed glasses "Of -course, everyone's feel tall when you're 6 years, ter his father left. "We went- camping-together-and stuff.

We became really good-Friends," Fisher told the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel jn an arti cle last spring. They spent about 10 months before Fisher's remarried and the family moved -for-Big Brother8r.or.-.v)ceversa. Se FORTt Page 6 Lambring, Brownstown R2, yriU appear on "Un solved Mysteries" tonight..