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Jody Yates was crowned Miss Mentone during the annual Egg Festival ceremony Saturday. Yates, 14, is the daughter of Randy and Lisa Yates of Atwood. She will be a sophomore at Tippecanoe Valley High School in the fall.
Local barrister Brooks (Sir Charles) Pinnick seems to have celebrated his recent 204-yard hole-in-one at Tippecanoe Lake Country Club a shade too early ... Anticipating a $324 payoff, Pinnick feted fellow members and guests to several rounds of libation only to discover that two official club members must witness the hole-in-one ... such was not the case and reportedly the payoff is being withheld ... colleague Herbert Bent has offered to represent Pinnick (at $50 per hour).
Jackie Blue, of Mentone, "Queen of the Lakes" at the 1954 North Webster Mermaid Festival, will leave June 20, on a three-day trip that will take her to Washington, D.C., where she hopes to see President Eisenhower, give him 25 frozen bluegills, and extend him an invitation to visit Indiana on his next fishing trip.
A Ford and a Chevrolet "locked horns" at the corner of Maple Avenue and Center Street and for a time endeavored to establish the right of way through batter ram tactics.
