SATURDAY October 26, 2013
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Icy Morning Three crashes happen on slippery S.R. 3
East Noble NorthWood
55 21 Concordia Lakeland
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Weather Mostly cloudy, high 51. Tonight’s low 33. Sunny, high in the low 50s Sunday.
Bishop Luers West Noble 28 14
41 3
Woodlan Central Noble
57 26
Prairie Heights 15 Wabash 7
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Kendallville, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Lions Club to host turkey dinner Monday KENDALLVILLE — The Kendallville Lions Club’s annual turkey dinner will be served Monday from 4:30-7:15 p.m. at East Noble High School. Current elected officials, political party officials and future candidates will be on hand to talk with participants and share information. Carryout meals will be available with a separate line. Profits from the event will support Kendallville Lions Club charitable projects. Tickets may be purchased in advance from Kendallville Lions Club members or by calling Tony Blomeke at 347-3931. Tickets will also be sold at the door.
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Dutch city honoring area war hero BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
WOLCOTTVILLE — On Sept. 20, 1944, Norris B. Case of Wolcottville died a hero as the U.S. Army liberated the city of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from occupation by Nazi Germany. Four weeks from now, Nijmegen will dedicate a new bridge to the memory of Case and 47 fellow soldiers who died in the battle to control a strategic bridge over the Waal River there. Case’s niece and her family will attend the ceremony as invited guests of the Dutch city, along with dozens of relatives of other fallen U.S. soldiers. “This is the first chance we’ve had as a family to go where Norris gave his life, so it’s really special,” said Barbara Phelps, a Lakeland High School graduate who now lives in Chile. “He is entitled to be recognized, and I’m glad Holland is going to do that,” said Nancy Case of Wolcottville, who married Norris Case’s younger brother, the late Don Case.
Nancy Case was 12 or 13 years old when Norris Case died, but she knew him because he had worked at a filling station and restaurant owned by her father, George Worley. “He was very ambitious,” she said about Norris Case, who was born in 1922. He picked apples, ran a milk route and served as student manager of the basketball team at Wolcottville High School. After graduation, he was working in South Bend to when he was drafted to serve in the Army during World War II. After basic training, Norris Case came back to Wolcottville on leave. “To the best of my knowledge, he was never home again,” Nancy Case said. But her husband remembered that visit for the rest of his life, cherishing the memory of hunting at nearby Woodruff with his older brother. Norris and Don Case loved hunting, hiking and fishing in LaGrange County, said Phelps, Don Case’s daughter. “He just had really fond
memories of spending time with his brother,” she added about her father. Assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division as a radio operator, Norris Case saw a broad span of World War II. He began his journey in northern Africa and pushed into Sicily and Italy. Then came an assignment to England. “They stayed there, and they didn’t go on D-Day, because they were a special group that was going to go into Holland,” Nancy Case said. Operation Market Basket dropped Norris Case and his unit behind the German lines as part of the largest airborne operation in history, delivering more than 34,000 soldiers. On Sept. 20, Case’s unit arrived at Nijmegen, near the German border, to wrest control of the bridge from the Nazis. Several hundred U.S. paratroopers crossed the Waal River in rickety boats under heavy fire. A letter Gen. James Gavin wrote to Case’s family described what he called Case’s “heroic SEE HERO, PAGE A7
KENDALLVILLE — Auditions will be Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. in Cole Auditorium for the children’s choir in East Noble Theatre’s production of “Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Due to incorrect information provided to the News-Sun, Friday’s edition listed the wrong day for the auditions.
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Solving the mystery Clue player Justin Smoot, second from right, looks over his clipboard as he and his teammates play a live game of Clue Friday night in downtown Albion. Players walked to 11 different downtown
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SOUTH BEND — A hearing to negate Angola’s laws and actions against a strip club owner was not concluded in U.S. District Court for Northern Indiana in South Bend on Friday. The hearing, part of a suit between Alva and Sandra Butler against the city of Angola, concluded shortly before 5 p.m. when Judge Robert Miller decided to continue it to Nov. 13 at 1:30 p.m.
In March the Butlers sued the city, claiming their First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution have been violated by Angola’s efforts to stop them from opening a Showgirl strip club at 310 W. Wendell Jacob Ave. The key issues before the court Friday centered on how Angola building commissioner Dean Twitchell and plan director Vivian Likes applied and interpreted laws as they related to Butler and his company, BBL Inc., and
his efforts to convert the former Slider’s Grill and Bar to a strip club. Butler is founder of the Showgirl clubs in Fort Wayne and currently owns Showgirl III. Twitchell and Likes are named as defendants in the case, too. When Butler bought Sliders in August 2012, strip clubs were allowed in C-2 zoning, which covered his property. After a new ordinance was enacted in November 2012, such clubs are SEE SHOWGIRL, PAGE A7
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a month into a dysfunctional health care rollout, Obama administration officials said Friday they’ve found dozens of website problems that need fixing and tapped a private company to take the lead. They said most of the problems will be fixed by the end of November. Jeffrey Zients, a management consultant brought in by the White House to assess the extent of problems with the HealthCare. gov site, told reporters his review found issues across the entire system, which is made up of layers of components interacting in real time with consumers, government agencies and insurance company computers. It will take a lot of work, but “HealthCare.gov is fixable,” said Zients. The vast majority of the issues will be resolved by the end of November, he asserted, and there will be many fewer errors. He stopped short of saying the problems will go away completely. The administration also said it is promoting one of the website contractors, Quality Software Systems, Inc., to take on the role of “general contractor” shepherding the fixes. QSSI was responsible for two components of the website, a major linchpin that works relatively well, and an accounts registration feature that froze and SEE FIXES, PAGE A7
LaGrange courthouse among unique in small-town Indiana
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businesses gathering clues they needed to solve the game’s mystery. Smoot’s teammates include, from left, Jerrod Norris, Jaylin Norris and Delia Norris. Their Norris-Smoot team did not win.
Showgirl hearing continued
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U.S. Army radioman Norris B. Case of Wolcottville was killed by a German grenade in 1944 near Nijmegen, Holland. The Nijmegen newspaper recently published this photo of Case with a story about his heroism. A new bridge will honor the memory of U.S. soldiers who liberated Nijmegen.
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LaGrange County’s courthouse is more than 100 years old and more than 135 feet tall. LaGrange can present a unique scene, with a horse and buggy parked next to a BMW.
MUNCIE — From the hitching posts in LaGrange to the heavy foot traffic in downtown Columbus, Ball State University’s Chris Flook, a telecommunications instructor, is a witness to the variety of Indiana courthouse squares. He spent last summer driving across the state to photograph all 92 county courthouses and adjoining squares as part of Indiana Courthouse Squares (indianacourthousesquare.org). The site also provides historical information as part of an effort to document the buildings as well as prepare materials for the state’s bicentennial in 2016.
“In LaGrange, you can have a BMW and recreational vehicle parked next to a horse and buggy — letting outsiders know that a great many Amish residents live there,” Flook said. “While in Columbus, you have a vibrant downtown with younger people working and walking around because of the corporate influence of Cummins. “On the other end of the spectrum, one county in southern Indiana has maintained its courthouse, but the surrounding business district is in pretty sad shape. Many small communities suffered from recessions as well as population loss. In
some places, the courthouse was located in a scary downtown filled with boarded up buildings and scarecrows looking down from above.” Flook marvels at not only the variety of small rural downtowns, but also the intricate design of the courthouses — taking visitors back to a bygone era when constructing a multistory building in the rural Midwest was a monumental task. “Most of our courthouses date back to the 1800s when the courthouse square, church, school and Main Street business district were located within a few blocks,” Flook said. “In my opinion, the SEE COURTHOUSES, PAGE A7