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The Times from Munster, Indiana • 15

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The Timesi
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Munster, Indiana
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NEWSPAPER FOR Minuter, Griffith, Highland, Whiting, Crown Point, Lowell, St. John, Schererville, Dyer, Cook, Cedar Lake, Merrillville The Tuesduy, Muy 11, 1971 rrri 1 IMJfiS Lake Ccnlra Board So Is BiisBid Public Hearing WCAE WILL STAY ON AIR ST. JOHN Funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and pro-cecds from the annual auction will enable WCAE Channel 50-72 to remain on the air through summer for the first time In Its three years of operation. The station will start its summer schedule May 31, retaining "Sesame Street and on June 14 adding "Ride the Reading Rocket," "Up, Up and Away" and "Sportsmanlike Driving." Beginning May 31, WCAE will broadcast from 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday with a line-up of national programming and some specials involving area people.

I 'J Kickert's responsibility to prove licensing In Indiana. They said that for the $71,002 the system would save annually over a four year period, the corporation could purchase its own fleet of buses. Supt. George Biblch said there will be a brief discussion on the topic but that no decision has been reached. The meeting is open to the public and will be held in the Lake Central High School auditorium.

i Dance Friday HIGHLAND The Lake County Electrical Estimaters Association will have its annual dinner-dance Friday at Vogel's Restaurant. The evening will begin with cocktails, followed by dinner and dancing with music by The Dominoes. 111 fK 1 '71 lit in Growth mil hi Hub Students To Model Clothing Made In Class V. 15 CROWN POINT A "Fashion Fair" will be presented at Crown Point High School at 2 p.m. Thursday by the home economics department and the Future Homemakers of America.

Sixty-one students will model garments in five categories. They include sportswear, school wear, dressy clothes, suits and coats, and formal wear. The garments were made in beginning, intermediate, and tailoring classes. The garments will be judged for fabric and pattern suitability to the individual, fit, difficulty of construction, appearance and suitability of accessories. 4 -1 Robert Rinkenberger, Vincent Rick, Instructor Leo Dean, Wayne Hoffman examine, a booster program of chemicals to and aid plant growth in an agriculture and horticulture class at Crown High School.

NEW FLAGS FOR SCHOOLS Crown Point Girl Picked For Europe GoodwillTour i0SS Plaiming Remedial Reading For Students 7 vm Aided cular coordination program under the direction of Mrs. Florence Kaiser. Moore stressed the importance of the program to those children who have difficulty in reading. Teachers for the summer session are Lena Seeman, Mrs. Virginia Fidler, Mrs.

Frances Burrows, Mrs. Louise Downey, Mrs. Harriet Oursler, Alda Marietta, Ted Sumara and Mrs. Kaiser. In addition to the Ross public schools, St.

Michael's, SS. Peter and Paul and Aquinas schools will.be included in the program. The instruction will be financed by Title I of the National Education Defense Act. cost of $50,000. The Bureau of Outdoor Recreation paid one half the cost.

Development will include little league field, tennis-basketball area, lagoon and ice rink area, parking areas, sled hill, horseshoe-shuffleboard area. Males Refuse WHEELING, W. Va. (AP)-Wheeling College says it is cancelling plans to integrate male and female students in one dorm due to lack of interest on the part of the male students. speed Point MERRILLVILLE Ross Township elementary schools have received 23 indoor and outdoor flags from American Legion Post 431 Auxiliary.

Supplying flags to schools is one of the main projects of the auxiliary, ac- Award Day Wednesday HANOVER TWP. Hanover Cen tral's 5th Annual Awards Day ceremonies will be Wednesday, at 7 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. The program has been held during the school day in past years but was moved to the evening to permit parents and friends of students receiving awards to participate and view the activity. Awards will be presented by faculty members and representatives from civic organizations.

Presentations will be made by the V.F.W. and the American Legion. The senior valedictorian and salutatorian will be honored and Boys' and Girls' State representatives will receive awards. Curriculum awards in the areas of journalism, foreign language, business, art, home economics, English, math, drama, speech, band, choir and library will be made. Athletic awards will be made by the Letterman's Club, the GAA and all varsity sports.

In addition, high school and junior high school cheerleaders will be cited. The event is open to the public and admission is free. ioweu Board OKsTruckBid LOWELL Members of the town board met in special session Monday night to consider two pending decisions. Bids for the purchase of a half-ton heavy duty pickup truck were received last week at the regular town board meet-' ing, The bid as submitted by Snell Chevrolet Sales for $2,372 was accepted last night. The other bid was submitted by Wicker Ford, for $2,545.

The truck is being bought for use by the Water Dept. The second item of business was the granting of a zone change on Charlouvix Street as requested by Harding, from Public Use to Light Industry. The property being rezoned is a former, highway garage purchased by Harding from the Lake County Highway Dept. It has been serving as an auto shop for the high school. The garage will be converted to a research area for Globe industries.

The board also considered a resolution giving one or all of the town board members power to act as purchasing agent for town equipment or vehicles. The menibers have been buying equipment at state auctions when possible and are in the market for street equipment. Speaker Set HIGHLAND Mrs. Betty Mucha, of the county's Federation of Democratic Women, will be the guest speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Highland Democratic Women's Club Thursday at 8 p.m. in the V.F.W.

Hall in Highland. rp 'V MERRILLVILLE A six-weeks' remedial reading program will be held for 4th through 6th grade Ross Township children at Iddings Elementary School beginning June 7 and continuing through July 17. Robert Moore, principal of Iddings, will be program director. The instruction is geared toward helping each child to develop better comprehension in interpretation, vocabulary and word recognition. Classes will begin at 8 a.m.

and will continue to 11:30 a.m. Three hours will be devoted to reading. One-half hour will be used for a mus tattered of annual Wood, SS. ST. JOHN The school bus situation in the Lake Central School Corp.

will get a brief airing during the school board meeting 8 p.m. Wednesday. Individual bus drivers, who own their buses and have contracted for the past several years to provide transportation, were outbid April 20 by Kickert Bus Lines of Lansing. Bids of the individual drivers totalled $242,270 while a fleet bid from Kickert offered $171,948, a difference of $71,002. VandcrAa Bus Lines of Lansing bid $213,006.

The bids are based on the passenger size of the buses plus the number of miles in the route. The bus drivers contend that Kickert Is not licensed to transport passengers in Indiana and that they maintain discipline on the buses, thereby providing greater safety. The school board maintains that it is Judges will be Mrs. Harvey R. Smith, home economist in Crown Point, Emily Davidsmeier, area extension specialist in clothing and textiles, and Beryl Brownell, newspaper woman.

A tea for parents, members of the faculty and paricipants will be after the show. Refreshments will be prepared by members of the foods classes. Boys in home economics classes will be helping with the staging and lighting. Faculty members in the department are Donna Ketcham, Mrs. Nancy White, Mrs.

Jeanne Dunne and Mrs. Barbara White. be musical director of the orchestra and, chorus on the tour. The group has won six gold medals from the cultural committees of Europe. AYSC has recently been awarded a second "George Washington Medal of Honor" for outstanding patriotic service from the Freedom FoundationJin Valley Forge.

PAMELA HILL on tour is5' 1 3315Ridg.Rd Downtown Lansing i -5 I These The Times will ubicriptlon or friend of circulation either of tho of these Department One-Month Newspaper of Mystery I i L. rj A 550 Sign Up For Summer curuuig 10 mrs. uusepn ycn, Americanism chairman. She will gather worn and school flags which will be disposed when the American Legion holds its flag burning. Schools receiving flags include Fieler, Miller, Salk, St.

Andrew's and Peter and Paul. $135,068 Grant Approved MERRILLVILLE John Stone, assistant principal of Merrillville High School, announced that 550 students have registered for the school's summer program. Nearly one-half of those registering signed up for driver education. Students taking English courses will be doing make-up work. Those signing up HIGHLAND The Highland Park and Recreation Board has received notice of approval of a federal grant for $135,068 from the Department of Interior of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation.

Word of the approval came via Congressman Ray Madden's office, accord-f ing to Les Freiberger, park director. The grant has been approved to develop the newly acquired Southridge Park, located on Liable Road, south of the Cady Marsh Ditch. Southridge Park was purchased with matching federal funds last year at a CROWN POINT-Pamela Hill, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E.

Hill, has been selected to take part in the 7th annual European goodwill concert tour as a member of the American Youth Symphony and Chorus. Notification of her acceptance was received from the organization's national headquarters at Chadron, Neb. She is a sophomore at Crown Point High School. She sings in the school chorus. She is a member of the Sunshine society, the Spanish club and Senior Girl Scouts.

Instrumental and vocal students, ages 15 to 21, are chosen for membership in AYSC on the basis of musicianship, citizenship and character. Auditions, evaluation by school officials, members of the clergy and AYSC board members are used as criteria in the. selection. The American Youth Symphony and Chorus will leave New York City July 3 for four days of rehearsals in Guidford, England and Sneek, The Netherlands. Concerts will be in seven European countries, including Belgium, England, West Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands and France.

Opportunity will be had for sightseeing in each of the countries to be visited. The group will return to the U.S. Aug. 7. Two concerts will be presented in Pittsburgh.

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