Hour Glass newsletter, v4 #3 (partial)

The Hour Glass

A Publication of the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes, Indiana, Inc.
Volume 4 Number 3 April 1996

[This is only the last third of this issue, all I happened to have in electronic form so far.]

Michigan City Evening Dispatch, Wednesday, 26th August, 1925
Barbecue stands spring up over night along the main travelled highways and they all seem to do a thriving business. It is said that more than two thousand loaves of bread are used each day by the stands along the Dunes highway. Perhaps this fact accounts largely for depression in cafe circles. Many people stop only long enough to buy sandwiches and consume them on their way thus avoiding a stop over for a meal. This is a changing world all right.

DID YOU KNOW?
Ogden Dunes Nike Site?
Chesterton Tribune, Thursday, 5 January, 1956 ROSS CRISMAN SELLS 13 ACRES FOR NIKE UNIT The federal government has purchased 121/2 acres of land from Ross Crisman and 20 acres from Ben Lutes in Portage township and easement for an additional 13 acres from Crisman as a site for a nike guided missile installation to be built by army engineers at a cost of a million dollars.

The location is one mile north of Wheeler. It is the fifth nike launching station in this area. The Ogden Dunes unit will be made a permanent installation.

There will be three underground storage structures for missiles, three elevated platforms about 20 feet high for mounting of the radar equipment, and barracks, mess hall and an administration-recreation-storage building.

Nike is a supersonic missile with a reported 50-mile range. Troops are on duty 24 hours a day seven days a week.

For Your Amusement
Chesterton Tribune, Thursday, 29 November, 1923 HOBART'S TOWN MARSHALL NONPLUSSED Hobart, Ind., Nov. 27.--A Mr. McNamara, of Gary, last Saturday night knocked down a fiery cross burning on Third street near the business section of Hobart.

Mr. McNamara was promptly placed under arrest by Night Marshal Carrier.

"What for," demanded McNamara.

"For knocking that cross down," shouted the marshal.

"Who put it there?"

"Well, I dunno, but you didn't have any business knocking it down."

"Who ever put it there didn't have any business putting it there," countered McNamara.

The marshal scratched his head thoughtfully.

"I had as much right to knock it down as they did to put it there," continued the Gary man.

"Well, I dunno," mused the marshal.

"What law did I violate?" persisted McNamara.

"I ain't exactly sure."

"All right, I'll give you my name and address and if you find I violated some law send for me," said McNamara. "That's a fair proposition."

"I guess maybe that's the best way," agreed the marshal.

Mr. McNamara was waiting today to hear from the marshal.

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The Hour Glass Newsletter

George Svihla, Editor

Historical Society Officers

Naomi Svihla, President

Donald Kurtz, Vice President & Treasurer

Jane Sutton, Secretary

George Svihla, Curator

Peter Youngman, Historian

Board of Directors

Margaret Benninger Evelyn Childs

Susan Clouser Constance Richter

Norbert Scheff John Skafish

George Svihla Thomas Tittle

Peter Youngman

Historical Society of Ogden Dunes, Indiana, Inc.
115 Hillcrest Road - 101
Ogden Dunes, IN 46368-1001

PROGRAM APRIL 20, 1996 2 p.m.
Artists of the Dunes -- Early Art Classes
by Evelyn Childs

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