Feb. 26, 1915
Letter from the Editor: Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 12
To The Star:
On account of too much “business” going on here our boat trip down the Indian river is being postponed from time to time, but we hope it is now not far in advance.
The first of this week a large number of tourists boarded three small excursion boats and took a trip up where the Tomoko River leads out from the Halifax and stopped at “Addison’s Landing” for a picnic dinner. This place has a history dating back nearly a hundred years when Addison landed there in the wilds to clear a sugar cane plantation and build a sugar refinery, which is thought he did, and also made a small fort supposedly to guard against Indians. No one seems to know how long he remained there, but the remnants of old chimneys and a small part of the fort are still left as monuments of the founder, whose body, with others, are resting a short distance away and the plantation has since grown over with large palm trees and thickets. The graves are covered with large stone slabs, unmarked.
Judging from the letter in this issue from the Star editor in Florida, he is doing considerable exploring in the wilds of that state, and perhaps he will have discovered another “River of Doubt” such as was found by Col. Roosevelt.
John P. Young has purchased the Huber milk route, and his depot will be established at the Cadwell Hotel. Mr. Young will give excellent service and asks the public for their patronage.
March 2, 1940
The final Seal Sale report shows $14,456.32 was raised by the sale of Christmas seals in Lake County. A $1,000 donation was made to this association by the Community Chest of Whiting in lieu of a seal sale in that community. A budget totaling $14,715 for specific purposes was adopted for the year 1940. A fund was set up for X-ray of indigent school children and specific allowance was made for two months additional high school teaching service at the sanatorium, a recently issued news letter of the association said.
Trials of five defendants resulting from the grand jury’s investigation of poor relief spending in North and Calumet townships during 1938 were venued from the county when counsel for the defendants and representatives of the prosecutor’s office reached an agreement to have the trials take place before Mark B. Rockwell of the Porter circuit court and Judge Leopold of the Jasper court.
Feb. 26, 1965
Russia hasn’t committed one deed to show a change of heart about world domination. That was the response of Dr. Walter Judd, former congressman from Minnesota and authority on communism, made to the often repeated question, “But isn’t Russia mellowing?” in his address at the Porter County Central Committee’s Lincoln Day dinner in the Great Hall of Valparaiso University’s Student Union building.
If the Russians want to show good faith in reversing their determined drive to dominate the world, Judd suggested their tearing down the Berlin Wall, allowing Poles, East Germans and other Eastern Europeans to vote, stopping the use of Cuba as a base for Communist training in subversion and securing a disarmament agreement with inspection.
A physician and surgeon, Dr. Judd spent 10 years as a missionary in China and 20 years as a representative in Congress from Minnesota. He describes himself now as a missionary-at-large. Congressman Charles Halleck of 2nd District, in introducing him, said, “Dr. Judd is probably more in demand as a speaker than any other man in the Republican Party, the best known and most widely respected and a completely dedicated American.”
The present administration, Judd believes, doesn’t understand and hasn’t the fortitude to handle foreign affairs. Personal diplomacy as practiced by Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy came under severe attack with the policy of accommodation with Khrushchev in 1963 as an example.
