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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Bumper Oat Crop

j. A. Kuhlman, of near Van Buren
knows what is meant by bumper
crop"
He combined 10 acres of oats
which yielded 1856 bushels, an aver
age of 1876 bushels to the acre.
He also had good fortune with his
wheat crop, with IL acres averaging
Ala bushels per acre, he said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Seek Smoke Elimina-
ton At Findlay

Acting on petitions from residen-
tial areas, the sanitary committee
of the Findlay City Council recon-
mended the Windsor Evaporated
Milk plant be given go days in which
to eliminate an alleged smoke nui-
sance.
Council also received petition to
investigate dust and dirt nuisance
allegedly created by the Buckeye
Traction Ditcher Co.
The Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in
formed Council that equipment soon
will be installed at its plant to
eliminate the flow of lamp black"
into the adjacent community.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Sentence KentOn Man
On Assault Charge

Fred Bear, 80, Kenton, was fined
500 and costs and sentenced to 90
days in the workhouse on charges
of assault and battery filed by Har-
ley Martin, 40, of Lima
Martin testified he fled naked for
rs miles on an Erie freight train to
get away from Bear.
Raymond Bear, 81, and Joe Hen
derson, North Baltimore, were fined
800 each on charges arising out of
the same episode.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01

for police and fremen who now re-
ceive $50, increases for other posi-
tions in the two departments and
181b cents an hour increase for
water and sewage department work
ers, was requested of Council last
week.
Councilman Lawrence c. Copeland
pointed out that the proposed levy
was the only way he knew to handle
the increase although council was
"open for suggestions"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Barn And Contents
Burn At Alger

Fire destroyed barn on the farm
of Ronald Underwood, one and one
half miles south of Alger. Flames
had gained such headway upon dis
covery that the building was given
up for lost, and firemen were not
called.
The barn was filled with hay and
straw as we'll as corn picker, three
cows, two calves and farm machin-
cry, all of which were lost.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Signs Is For Guard
Unit I'm 10 Days

Pvt. Paul J. Bauer is being hailed
as Salesman Sam" by his buddies
in Company c, Findlay's State
Guard unit.
Private Bauer is credited with
personally enlisting 18 men within
10 days. With the colonel's jeep,
he hauled in as many as five in one
day.
The recruitment campaign brought
assurance that Findlay will retain
its unit in the State Guard, Lieut..
Col. B. F. Voorhees,, first battalion
commander, said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Lima City Raises Up
To Voters

City Council has decided to let
Lima voters decide whether or not
police, firemen and water department
employees are entitled to raise.
The issue is a half-mill levy to
raise an estimated $4,000 to $685.
900 a year for the next three years
to pay for salary increases.
Thirty-five dollars more a month
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01

The city sold the 4.8-acre site of
the former CCC camp to the R. G..
Haley & Co. of Toledo for $5,255.
The site was part of 70-acre plot
which the city bought in 1921 for
S2,100. 1t adjoins property now used
by the company as a shipping point
for utility poles.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
HARDIN COUNTY
City Buys Bullets For
Bird Hunters

When Ada firemen agreed to help
rid the city of an overabundance of
troublesome starlings, they requested
an advance payment on funds used
to buy ammunition. Ada Council,
eager to eliminate the birds, approx
ed the s21.95 expenditure.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Study Creek Flood
Project

Action towards relief of periodical
flooding of the Eagle Creek area in
south Findlay was taken by Hancock
County Commissioners who have set
August 8 for a hearing on a creek
improvement and flood control pro-
ject.
The project was petitioned by City
Council.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Six Foxes Bagged By
Jenera Hunters

Jenera fox hunters shot six foxes
in the area south and west of Je-
nera. Forty hunters from the area
joined in chase after Orville Crates
had sighted several of the animals
earlier in the day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Findlay Tire Firm
Changes Name

Stockholders of the Master Tire
& Rubber Corp, meeting at Findlay
authorized change of the firms name
to the Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.
The action was advisable, company
officials explained, to bring into the
company's title the name of its best
known tire.
As concern nears completion of a
$500,000 expansion program, pro-
duction has more than doubled over
prewar years, officials reported.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Accepts Ag. Post

Ralph w. Bergman, formerly of
near Bryan, will be the new agricul-
ture teacher at Pandora beginning.
August l.
Mr.. Bergman will take the place
of Ralph Brooks of Columbus Grove
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
ALLEN COUNTY
Delphos Canal Action
Postponed By State

Officials of the Ohio highway and
public works departments will post
pone abandonment of the Miami &
Erie Canal through Delphos until
industry can arrange for different
water supply, Mayor Carl Eiche
said after meeting at Columbus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Fine And Jail Term
Given Liquor Violator

Harry L. Shufflebarger, 20, Co
lumbus, was fined $1,000 and given
a six-months Jail sentence by Mayor
Carl Eiche of Delphos, on a charge
that he transported liquor illegally.
State patrolmen said they found
80 cases of liquor in Shufflebarger's
car.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
$4,000 Collected For
Lights By Boosters

More than 5000 of $4,000 OBJ
jective has been raised by the Co
lumbus Grove Booster Club to pro-
vide lights and bleachers for the
high school football field, now under
construction.
Named in honor of the late Mrs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Post Office Employe
RetireS

Clarence J. Roberts, Findlay postal
employe for AZ years, will retire
August /, Postmaster W. t. Ault
said.
Roberts, for the past 33 years has
been Findlay's first and only super
intendent of mails. He was honored
at dinner by fellow workers, as was
WILDER Insley, clerk, who retired
last December 81.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Seek Bus Route In
Delphos Area

A movement to give St. Marys,
Delphos and Defiance bus service
over State Route sc was revealed
by the Delphos Chamber of Com
merce.
The chamber said business clubs
along the 50-mile stretch where no
north and south passenger service
is available, will be asked to sup
port the proposal.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

drove along the streets, traffic stop
ped. Every 1900 miles, Herbst was
forced to replace the gears because
of the intense power. 1t is one of
the two models in existence, its pres
ent owner believes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01

day she was 100 and is Putnam
County's oldest resident.
A native of Marengo, Ohio, Mrs.
Mead has lived in Leipsic for the
past 40 years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01

Georgia Kiefer, who donated funds
for the purchase of the grounds,
the project will be dedicated October
18. All labor on the project has
been by club members.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Marks Tooth Year

Take things calmly and do not get
over excited about anything is the
ecipe for long life given by Mrs.
Mary Mead of Leipsic.
Mrs. Mead should know. Last Fri
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Toledo Firm Buys City
Property In Findlay

The City of Findlay realized s5,-
255 on a small part of a s2,100 in
vestment it made 25 years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Locomotive Hits Car
Stalled On Track

A car driven by Peter Frank, Up
per Sandusky, was demolished by an
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-01
Brushed Rayon

Garments of brushed rayon will
remain soft and fluffy a long time.
If washed carefully by hand, not
crowded into a washer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
The Peace Conference

With the Big 4 Foreign Ministers
in agreement on the internationaliza-
ton of Trieste and the disposition of
&lian colonies, it is reasonable to ex-
Dect that although it's sessions will be
disturbed by controversies the confer
nee set for July 20 will lay the found
alton for European peace.
The fact that the Russian foreign
commissar, Mr.. Molotov, came around
to the position of the other three minis
tiers, who insisted on a parley this
month, instead of late August or early
September, as he had previously advo-
Gated, in itself is a good omen.
It is not to be assumed, however
that the Moscow government has hac
a change of heart simply because Mr.
Molotov has finally shown a DISPOSE
ton to compromise some of the issues
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06

on which he was formerly adament.
1t merely indicates that his govern
ment has discovered it cannot dictate
the peace and as an astute trader is
willing to give in here and there that it
may get what it wants hither and yon.
Having met so many rebuffs in it's
dictatorial role, it now becomes concil-
iatory for a time, without materially
changing its purpose to dominate Eu-
rope and parts of Asia, in which it
was encouraged by President Roose-
welt at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam.
The other delegates will need to be
on guard against Russian trickery if
they hope to bring forth an equitable
at Paris.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
A Discussion OfBanker Ponies Brings
Up Question of 7horo ughbred Horses

ponies are thoroughbreds. But to
60 on:
The British still refuse to recog-
nize Fair Play, or his son, the
great Man O. War, as thorough
breds.
ALTHOUGH the British listings al
ways have been universally &C.
cepted, Americans yearly threaten
in reprisal to ignore certain Brit
ish lines. ).
''Just what makes a horse a
thoroughbred is all very simple.
It's a matter of picking n OF
three-only three-horses for an
ancestor.
''These three proper ancestors
we're all Oriental stations. They
were known as the Byerly Turk,
imported into England in 1889; the
barley Arabian, imported in 1905;
and the Godolphin Arabian, i'm
ported in 1724. Every true tho
roughbred traces its direct descent
in the male line to or the other
of these true founding fathers
SIN 1870 Bulle Rock, a son of the
barley Arabian, was brought to
Virginia, the first thoroughbred
stallion known to have been
brought to America. Since that
time many thousands of thorough
breds have been imported. There
is a total investment of more than
$3.50, 900, 900 in thoroughbred breed
ing establishments in the United
States, and since 1880 their produc-
ton has averaged about $500 reg
istered animals a year.
Fine horses have always COM
manded high prices. Back in Old
Testament days, King Solomon
paid the equivalent of $4,000 each
for thoroughbreds he imported
from Egypt. Approximately 5000
years later Senior Unzue Of Argen-
tina paid $2s5, 900 for Tracery, an
American thoroughbred"
Anybody around here own any
thoroughbreds?
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
By JOHN SKIES

An item here about Hatteras and
%environs, and the exploratory oil
drillings whereabouts, brought in a
call from Wilson Burrus, who's
bounded up and down North Caro-
lina's Outer Banks for some years.
Mr.. Burrus wasn't interested in
the oil drillings. He was interested
in the Banker ponies which have
roamed up and down the Outer
Banks for as many years as any
body along the coast seems to re-
member.
According to legends around
Hatteras and Ocracoke," Mr.. Bur-
rus told me these ponies are all
descended from Arabian horses.
The story is that many years ago,
probably before Sir Walter Ra-
leigh's colony came to Roanoke is
land, an Arabian ship sunk off the
coast of North Carolina. On this
ship there were some Arabian
horses. When the ship sank they
swan ashore and from them we
have the Banker pony"
If you aren't familiar with these
ponies, I'll tell you that at one
time there were several rather
large herds of them on the Banks
from Oregon Inlet south to Ocra-
coke Inlet. I suppose somebody
owned them, but they were left
pretty much to their own devices.
They fed on the tough wild grasses
that grow near the beaches and
when they wanted water they dug
a shallow hole in the sand with
their front hooves and drank.
Every year, around July 18th,
there was a roundup of them near
Ocracoke. They were sold and
traded much in the manner, I sup
pose, the wild horses are traded
and sold out West. Mr.. Stanley
Wahab, whom, I believe, claims
descendancy from the Arabs,
owned quite a few of these ponies.
I haven't been along that sand
spit now for several years and I
don't know whether there are still
herds Of these ponies left.
Mr.. Burrus, in talking with me
the other day, seemed to bear out
my doubts that the legend is not
entirely correct about where these
ponies stem from.
First place, neither of us knew
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
Another OPA Bill

Just as the people generally, includ-
ing manufacturers and merchants,
had begun to straighten out the kinks
in prices the Senate Banking Commit
tee approves another OPA bill and
sends it to the floor, with Senator Bark
ley declaring it's passage and President
Truman's signature assured.
The phase of this action that will
be most disturbing to many persons
is that whereas the death of OPA
promised to kill off the black markets,
its resurrection is bound to give them
a new lease on life and the handicaps
to honest trading for which the OPA
is blamed may we'll increase.
When the OPA died business and
industry looked forward to a period
of peace and safety in which they could
untangle the snarl into which the OPA
had plunged them, and consumers fore
saw an opportunity to go about their
buying with a fair chance of finding
what they wanted on store shelves, to
be bought in the open instead of having
them doled out secretly from below the
counter at exorbitant cost.
If Senator Barkley's forecast is cor
rect and the bill is adopted and signed,
it is a hundred to one that the old scar
cities will be revived and the old GUS
tom of buying in secret will come back.
Economists unequivocably declare that
the cost of living is certain to advance
whether We have an OPA or not, and
they are unquestionably right. The
main difference is that for the most
part any increase in the cost of living
based on increase in the cost of produc-
ton, due to strike-won wage advances,
would be legitimate without OPA but
with the OPA would revert to the fic-
titious levels it maintained for the bet
ter part of five years. With buyers re-
fusing to deal with firms taking ad-
vantage of their right to set their own
prices and making them too high.
there is no good reason to fear bust
ness would not quickly adjust prices
through the supply and demand pro-
cess.
If rents were leveled off, either by
presidential order or through procla-
nations by the governors, the chief
menace of initiation would disappear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
Better Than Many Thought

First accounts of the atomic bomb
effects on the fleet at Bikini created
widespread opinion that the test prov
ed this new weapon less destructive
over water than anticipated. And it
IS true that sinkings were not as plen-
tlful as expected. It was believed in
advance that the bombs explosion
would send every ship to the bottom
and kill all livestock picketed on board.
Now it appears the bomb was more
destructive than many believed, if not
IN sending many of the craft down, at
least in so seriously Gripping the larger
ships that months would have to be
spent in reconditioning them, during
which time they could not engage in
combat.
In addition, Captain George Lyon,
Pathological safety officer, declares that
If full crews had been on all the ships
every man would have been killed,
many instantly, the rest slowly through
the effects of radio-activity, as hap
pened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and
is under way among the animals which
survived the Bikini explosion. He notes
they are beginning to have a decreas-
ing blood count, due to exposure to
radiation. Clearly the atomic bomb,
although failing to cause similar des-
truction to those exploded over the two
Japanese cities, is a terrible force
wherever used.
Interest now centers on what
may happen in the next test, with the
bomb exploded under water. In view OF
the discussion of future naval construc-
tlon, with some experts claiming the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
Nick enney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

When the team of Waldemar Won
Zedtwitz, Bert Lebhar, Peter Lev
entritt, Samuel Katz, and Simon
Rossaat finished second in the Van
derbilt Cup Tournament this year,
Rossant became Life Master No.
So. Bert Lebhar needs only a few
more points for Life M%astership.
Lebhar, who is treasurer of the
American Contract Bridge League
and known to radio fans as Bert
Lee, sports commentator on Sta
ton WIN, New York, will never
be accused of timidity at the
bridge table. If there is a possible
small slam or grand clam, Lebhar
will be in it. Today's hand helped
him and his teammates to elimi-
nate a strong team in one of the
knockout rounds of the Wander
bilt Cup Tournament.
Lebhar (South) opened the bid
ding conservatively enough with
one Diamond, and his two no
trump bid after North's free bid
of two spades was conservative
also. But when North went to six
diamonds, Lebhar stepped right
in to seven The opening lead look
ed favorable, but it did not make
much difference as long as he
found the king of diamonds on his
right and the spade suit split three
two.
What induced Lebhar to bid
seven diamonds was the fact that
his partner had cue-bid the club
suit and then, despite LeDhar's
weak bidding, had plunged to six
diamonds. He had fully expected
to find as much as the ace-king-
queen of diamonds in his partners
hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
The Tentative Budget

The City Council proposes, without
raising the tax rate, to advance the
pay of all municipal employees 10 per
cent and provide adequate funds for
necessary development of Greenfield
Park.
This is made possible by the fact
that estimated revenues during the
present fiscal year probably will be
S141, 900 in excess of probable expen-
ditures. The proposed increase in pay
and the park expenditure therefore
are to be reckoned against this S141,-
900.
1t is unfortunate that sufficient rev.
enue is not in sight to grant police
men a full day off each week. Consider
ing their hours of service and the
onerous tasks they perform it could
be hoped that they might have this
time to themselves, but the alterna-
tive, provided by the employment of
WV 0Aelo HICH QuI1uS IiIS oulIlIleI,
of a day off each month throughout
the year eases their load to some ex-
tent.
In a general way the Council ap-
pears to approve the budget tenta-
lively drawn by Acting City Manager
and City Clerk Benson. The report
that some cuts in appropriations will
have to be made to keep the outgo
within the income, will bear study, so
that a final budget cannot be expected
in the immediate future. But it is
gratifying to note that Council senti-
ment is solid behind the proposal for
Greenfield park Improvement. It would
be costly beyond measure further to
postpone this essential project.
When the work is undertaken on the
proposed scale, it is suggested that
the cove near the Housing Authority
administration building, which has not
previously been included in the park
program and which often gives off the
foul odor of ~decaying vegetation, be
dragged and its slopes planted in aza-
leas. By this process it would soon turn
from an eyesore to a beauty spot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06

the Arabs had ocean-going ships
back in the old days. OF course,
there could have been English ships
on which these ponies were ship
ped to America.
But MI. Burrus gets sort of tech
nical about his horses and seems
to know what he's talking about.
give studied the subject pretty
thoroughly" Mr.. Burrus told me-"
and only recently I read what the
Encyclopedia Americana has to
say on the subject of horses, par
ticularly thoroughbreds. I'll send
you the gist of this account"
And here's the gist:
The question seems to be, when
Is a Thoroughbred a Thorough
bred?"-Mr. Burrus and l don't
claim, of course, those Banker
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
Religion

By L T. L L
DO SOMETHING TO LAST

DO SOMETHING TO LAST
Nolan Rice Best, great editor,
sweet saint and dear friend, died
years ago. But in various hymn
books of the churches I find a
hymn or two Of his, living SUR
vivors of all the unmeasured writ
ings he did. Sc he still speaks
to the hearts of myriads who new
er knew him ir the flesh.
If l could write verse, l think
l would seek, at all costs, to write
at least one hymn worthy Of a
place in the hymnals; that my life
might continue to speak through
out the years. That seems to me
to be the surest opportunity to do
a work that will outlast ones own
earthly existence.
So transitory are the things to
which we give our powers, that it
should be an ambition to leave
something behind us that will last.
We would live and labor, dear
Master, in the power Of an end
less life, for the things that par
take Of Thy abiding ministry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-06
The Litera
Guidepost
By w. &. ROGERS

w. VI UOoCnS
THE TALE OF TANGLEWOOp
SCENE OF THE BERKSHIRE
MUSIC FESTIVALS, by M. A.
De Wolfe Howe, introduction by
Serge Koussevitzky vanguard;
ST.
Tanglewood from Hawthorne to
Koussevitzky is the subject o. this
pretty little book, written BY a
Boston Symphony trustee and
Pulitzer prize winner in a prose
which is limpid and sparkling. as
indeed it ought to be since the
author, luckier than most has had
81 years in which to perfect O.
1t was time for a bound record
of the Bel shire Symphonic Fest
walls and Music Center, and Howe
has admirably filled the need. He
supplements his interesting story
with index, photographs and COM
plete festival programs from the
first year, 1884, to this, when con-
certs start July 25.
The change from 'TangIewood
Tales' of a century ago to "Tale
OF Tanglewood" of the present is
infinitely greater than the SINH
larlty in the titles would suggest,
hawthorne was pure American.
and so was the Pittsfield- Stock
bridge = Lenox area, known TO
Stowe, mes Russell Lowell,
Emerson and, above all. Melville.
HONG KONG HOLIDAY, BY Emf
" Hahn Doubleday; s2.75.
Stories about gibbons not
monkeys, about hospital life, Bub-
Dies the spy. the enemy captain
who believed in serious CONVEX
satlon. the ecouisitive maid. for
tune tellers, the girl who kept ex-
planning that the Japanese did not
narm her, and. finally, about the
return of expatriates aboard TEA
Maru and Gripsholm comprise
this volume by the well known AL
nor OF China to Me-