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STORY INDEX Introduction Service still most important product at Ligonier Telephone Co. A black and white sensation: Tiny Screens a big attraction in early years of television A man works from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done Indiana Extension Homemakers better the lives of families How to be a good wife The show goes on at The Strand: Kendallville theater survives decades of changes in the movie business Some movies forgettable, but not Cleon Point: Memories of colorful, longtime Strand Theatre manager live on Small towns once supported their own movie theaters 'You'd see everyone there': Kendallville residents have lasting memories of teen hangouts old and new Links of land and lakes: County, state officials worked together to establish Chain O' Lakes State Park William Jennings Bryan among among orators at Rome City's Western Chautauqua Dr. David Rogers - Man of mystery, and benevolence DNR restoration programs working: Once abundant wildlife returning to area Rise of girls athletics have changed face of school sports Decades of intramurals: Before the '70s, girls had limited athletic opportunities Ford Frick was reared on Noble county's sandlots: Baseball executive always considered himself a 'lucky fan' Ruth was greatest player ever: Frick Frick's predictions for 2000 not far off Small Wolf Lake big winner in 1942 basketball regional Four in a row: Finally with a gym of their own, KHS cagers went to 'Sweet 16' four straight years Ink to flow into 21st century at county's newspapers Broadcast media: Manahan was pioneer in Noble County broadcasting WAWK's history dates back to 1959 Soundwaves from the past: Ligonier museum has one of the largest collections of antique radios in U.S. Health trends: Changes through the century occurred in medicine, health care Scarlet fever, polio were early health scares From sanitarium to partnership: A century of Noble County's medical care Funeral directors ran ambulance service in county prior to '74 'EMS arrives in time for '74 tornado LaGrange County doctors once made house calls by horseback Country doctor delivered babies in his home and drove a Thunderbird Service to mankind condensed to footnotes of history Lengthy Mier-Straus rivalry ended with bank merger : German-Jewish immigrants had impact on Ligonier's history Who are the people of the Amish faith? A place to live, farm, worship, and raise families: Amish began settling in LaGrange, Elkhart counties in 1840 Two controversial religious sects from the 1970's have impact on Noble County Churches with rich heritages served parishioners in LaOtto, Ege Small Wolf Lake big winner in 1942 basketball regional By BOB GAGEN The News-Sun WOLF LAKE - Wolf Lake, with an enrollment of 123 students, shocked Hoosier basketball followers by defeating Fort Wayne Central, 39-24, in the regional finals March 7, 1942, before 3,800 frenzied fans at North Side High School. It may have been considered an upset by most, but overjoyed Wolf Lake supporters pointed to the team's 68-3 record over the past three seasons as evidence that these Wolves were not in the habit of losing - no matter who the opponent. Wolf Lake advanced to Fort Wayne by defeating former coach Heber Winebrenner's Albion squad in the sectional final, 39-23, and turning back the Butler Windmills, 31-27, Saturday afternoon to move into the regional championship game that evening. It was while relaxing between games at the Fort Wayne YMCA that senior guard Delbert Hartman voiced the opinion that the Wolves had a good chance of beating the Tigers. Once rid of their butterflies, coach John Reed's team did just that by outfighting and outplaying their larger opponent. A swisher from a difficult angle by Roger Stangland tied the score at 2-all and with junior Tommy Targgart and cousins Paul and Arthur Keister, the team's big men at 6-3 and 6-2 respectively, and Hartman all contributing, the Noble County team was not to be denied. Three of the starters - Stangland and the Keisters - were playing their seventh year of basketball together, having started as sixth-graders at the Merriam School, whose tiny basement gym had a ceiling said to be about 7 feet high. Hartman was the team's only "outsider," having played freshman basketball at Huntington High School. Longtime Wolf Lake fans recalled that their team had stopped Central's tournament march 20 years earlier by a 15-12 score when that school was known as Fort Wayne High and included such outstanding performers as Gunnar Elliott, Willie Hosey, Louie Norris and Jake Shaffer. Basketball was a generational sport at the small Noble Township school. Big gun for the Wolves in the 1922 game with Fort Wayne was Kenneth "Hank" Wysong, with 11 of the team's 15 points. Don "Buck" Wysong also starred. Their nephew, Paul Wysong, carried on the tradition with the 1942 team. Ethan Stangland, father of two other 1942 Wolves - Roger and Roy - was center on the 1922 team. What's more, Paul Wysong's father, Robert, coached the Wolf Lake team which lost in the final game of the first sectional ever held in Fort Wayne - at the Concordia College gym in 1921. Robert Wysong was a member of the 1912 Wolf Lake team which lost to Whiting, 21-14, in a first-round championship game played at South Bend. But the magic ended for the smallest school in the 1942 "Sweet 16" the following weekend before over 7,000 fans in Muncie when they lost, 49-21, to Burris High School of that city.