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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Wife Sails From New York To Join
Bluffton Army Officer In Germany

The wife of a Bluffton officer sta
toned in Germany will sail this
week from New York city to join
her husband overseas, under Army
provisions for permitting service
mems families to live with them
during foreign service.
First 1t. Wayne E. Yoakam, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Yoakam,
and his wife, the former Luella
Smith, of Jenera, are the first cou-
pie from this area to be reunited
overseas as the result of the
Army program, providing free trans
portation for servicemen's families.
They will live in fve-room du-
plex apartment in Kitzingen, Ger
many, where It. Yoakam is sta
toned. The Bluffton officer is in
the electrical laboratory of the army
air orces occupation troops and has
signed for a two year period over
seas.
Both 1t. and Mrs. Yoakam form
erly worked at The Triplett Elec-
trical Instrument Co. here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18

Gift to Bluffton college of resi-
dence property near the campus was
announced Tuesday by DR.. L. L. RAM
seyer, president of the institution.
The property formerly owned by
the late Jacob Hochstettler and To-
Gated on High street near Ropp hall,
girls dormitory, was purchased from
Frank Stalter, the present owner and
presented to the college by Rev. Jerry
Sauder of Grabill, Ind, member of
the institutions board of trustees.
The residence will be occupied by
Rev. Harry Yoder, new fieldman for
the college and assistant to the presi-
dent. Rev. Yoder is moving here June
/ from Carlock, Ill. The Stalters will
move to Ft. Wayne.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18

Rev. E. N. Bigelow, pastor of the
Bluffton and Rockport Presbyterian
churches was named vice-moderator
of Lima Presbytery at its spring
meeting held at Van Vert, Monday.
He was appointed to the position
by Major Robert B. Hartman, Army
chaplain who was elected moderator
of the Presbytery for the coming.
year. Major Hartman will receive
his discharge from the service short
ly after which he will resume his
former position as pastor of the
Rockford Presbyterian church.
Rev. Bigelow, former overseas
Army chaplain with rank of captain
was released from the service this
spring His office as vice-moderator
of Lima Presbytery will be for one
year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
TripIett Record Cited
At Safety Congress

Safety record of employees of The
Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.,
who won the 10th Allen County In
dustrial Safety campaign ending last
January /, was lauded Tuesday at
the annual All-Ohio Safety Con-
gress in Columbus.
Special recognition of the local
firms outstanding safety attainment
was accorded at the Conference ban
quet Tuesday night, and the plaque
presented for winning the campaign
was featured in a conference dis
play.
Triplett employees closed 1945 with
out a lost-time accident, the second
time they have won in the county
campaign.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Cole Russell Swick,
Lima, a boy, Steven Bennett last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Beach, Jenera,
a boy, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Joseph Peter
son, Rt. 5, Lima, girl, Rosemary
10, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Dale Marriott,
Ottawa, a boy, Robert Lee, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carl Phillips,
Ottawa, boy, Ralph Dean, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Keifer, Lima,
a girl, Jean Ann, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Which, Je-
nera, boy, this Wednesday morn
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Special Services Sunday and
Union Good Friday Program
Mark Season
Bluffton Public Schools and
Bluffton College Will Have
Easter Vacations

Easter will be observed here next
Sunday in its traditional role as one
of the outstanding events on the
church calendar.
Approach of the holiday is seen
in the pre-Easter activities absorb
ing in the interest of the community
this week, against a background of
considerable significance the event
customarily brings in mercantile cir
circles.
Special services in churches, new
Easter wardrobes, and a rekindling
interest in home gardening springing
from the holidays traditional rela-
tionship to the advent of spring all
are linked with the towns observ-
ance of the season.
COOP FRIDAY SERVICE
Union Good Friday services, with
Bluffton ministers filling the pulpit
for series of 30-minute worship
periods, will be conducted in the
Presbyterian church from | to $3.50
P. M.
Business generally will be sus-
pended in the town during the Good
Friday services. A decision to close,
as in past years, was reached at the
last meeting of the Bluffton Busi-
ness Mems association.
Easter holiday recesses have been
announced for Bluffton public school
and Bluffton college students. Grade
and High schools will be closed all
day Friday, and the college vacation
will start at noon Friday and con-
tinue until Monday morning.
An Easter sunrise service will be
held Sunday morning at $50 o'clock
in the First Mennonite church. The
service is sponsored by the Bluffton
Youth Federation.
PLENTY OF CoLoRED EGGS
For the kddies, Easter this year
will mean very few chocolate eggs,
but dyes are plentiful to assure an
abundant supply of home colored
eggs.
Egg supplies will be "more than
ample" for the first time since the
war began, trade sources said, and
dye-makers promise plenty of bright
coloring. For the first time since
the war, there will be jelly beans in
a limited quantity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
new GYMNASIUM
ON
COLLEGE CAMPUS
Committee Named by Trustees
to Launch Campaign This
Summer
Plan Large Auditorium Which
Could Be Used for Athletic
Events

Campaign to raise funds for a new
building to house a gymnasium and
auditorium for Bluffton college will
be launched early this summer it was
announced Tuesday by DR.. L. L. Ram
seyer president of the institution.
President Rasmeyer's statement
amplified action taken by the college
board of trutees at its semi-annual
meeting last week when a committee
of board members was appointed to
employ an architect to draft plans
for the proposed structure and begin
solicitation of funds.
Members of the committee are VIM.
Mohr of Bethlehem, Pa; ID. w. Bixler
of Bluffton and r. ]. Rich of Wash
ington, Ill. The committee will meet
next month to outline a plan of pre-
liminary action.
Seating Capacity 1,500 to 1900
The new building will include an
auditorium with seating capacity Of
between 1,500 and 1900 which could
be converted into a gymnasium floor
for basketball and other athletic
events.
Construction, il is planned, would
be started after the building situa-
ton returns to normal.
AS a gymnasium the new building
would replace the college "barn" a
frame structure erected nearly 80
years ago principally by student vol
unteer labor and used since for stag
ing of athletic events. AS an audi
torium it would supplement the
chapel in the Main building which has
only limited seating capacity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Brothers With Relief
Shipments To Europe

Two brothers, Otto and Herbert
Klassen, sons of Prof. and Mrs.
John Klassen of South Jackson
street are engaged in transatlantic
trips caring for livestock shipments
of UNRA.
Otto, who recently returned from
trip to Trieste, Yugoslavia, where
he was sent as one of the custodians
of shipload of cattle has resumed
his studies in Bluffton college, but
may resume his connection with
UNRA this summer.
Herbert is now on his first trip to
Danzig, Germany, with boatload of
horses sent for relief purposes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
May "a Best Time
for Corn Planting
Here, Expert Says

MAY 81 is the best time to
plant corn in Allen and ad-
joining counties.
You have this on authority of
ID. f. Beard, extension agrono-
mist at Ohio State university
who names this date as the one
determined as the result of years
of field tests by the schools ex-
pertinent station.
Farmers, he said should delay
corn planting until danger of cold
soil and corn borer damage have
passed. Altho unusual weather
conditions have permitted farm
ers to prepare the ground for
planting, the seed should not be
sown yet, Beard stated.
Corn planting dates announced
by Beard range from May IL in
southern Ohio to May q in the
northern district.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
BUILDING BOOM IS
LAUNCHED TO BEAT
HOUSING SHORTAGE
New Homes, Garages for Resi-
Dental Use, Prefabricated
Units in Program
Building Boom of Many Phases
Comes AS Answer to Living
Accommodation Needs

Residential building in boom pro-
portions is under way in Bluffton this
spring, in spite of postwar material
shortages.
In the fourishing building program
to provide sorely needed living ac-
commodations for the towns bulging
population, construction activity runs
the gamut from regular permanent
residences through prefabricated
houses, garages used as temporary
dwellings, moving houses to town for
remodeling and conversion of build
ings that formerly were used for
other purposes.
New houses completed or nearing
completion will accommodate five fami-
lies; three prefabricated units will
provide quarters for five more family
groups; garages will temporarily
house three families; one house is
being moved to town, and former
projects building on the Bluffton col
lege campus has been revamped into
a two-family apartment.
Three new houses completed this
spring now are occupied by families.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lahman, who
came here from Findlay last fall and
lived in a, house trailer, now are in
their new home on South Main street.
New Homes Occupied
The Clifford Houtz family has
moved into their new home in the
Garmatter addition, north of Elm
Continued on Page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
With Service Men

James Gratz, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leonard Gratz has received his dis
charge from naval service at Great
Lakes, H., and returned to his home
here.
Sgt. Leroy Lugibihl who spent six
months in Guam is spending 30
day furlough with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Lugibihl west of
Bluffton.
Capt. and Mrs. Woodrow Barclay
returned from Porto Rico the first
of the week and will make their
home for the summer with her
mother, Mrs. Edith Powell of Orange
township. Capt. Barclay will receive
his Army discharge at Camp After
bury this week. He has been sta
toned at Porto Rico for the past
three years while Mrs. Barclay has
been at that place since last August.
T. Sgt. Howard Diller who was
stationed at Manila will arrive at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dennis Diller on a so day fur
Tough.
Robert Ewing former Bluffton
Grade school teacher who served in
Europe has received his Army dis
charge and Joined his wife here.
Halsey Hutchinson who served in
Germany has been discharged by the
Army and returned to his home in
Beaverdam.
S. Sgt. John Johnson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. M. B. Johnson of South
Main street was discharged from the
Army at Camp Atterbury, Saturday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18

Final rehearsals are under way for
staging of the Georgia Jubilee min
strels by the Bluffton Lions club in
a two night erun at the high school
auditorium on Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights of next week at $3.50 o.
clock.
The cast is made up of we'll known
Bluffton men who will appear in
black-face comedy benefit perfor-
nance for the high school band uni
form fund and the Harmon field re-
creation program.
The production is directed by Prof
r. A. Lantz of the College depart
ment of music assisted by the high
school band.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Good Friday Pageant
At Methodist Church

Challenge of the Cross,,' a Holy
week pageant will be presented at
the Methodist church on Good Fri
day night at o'clock by cast of
young people. Music will be fur
nished by a mixed quartet.
The cast: Evangel, Glenna Swick;
1st disciple, Virginia Augsburger;
End disciple, Harriet Cooney; 3rd
disciple, Mary Alice Farnsworth; 4th
disciple, Marjean Todd; 5th disciple,
Annabel Weed; 9th disciple, Hildred
Eversole.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Advance In Charges
For Craze Digging

New schedule of charges for open
ing and closing graves at Maple
Grove cemetery, recommended by the
cemetery board of trustees, was
adopted Monday night at meeting
of the municipal council.
In the future the charges to resi-
dents of the town will be $40, an adj
vance of S. from the previous rate
Out-of-town residents will pay s25.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
BeaUerdan, Graduation
Exercises On May IS

Commencement exercises for Beav-
erdam High school seniors will be
held at 5 p. m, Wednesday, May
Is, in the school, Albert H. Crom-
bic, of Columbus, will be the class
speaker.
Baccalaureate services are sched-
uled for Sunday, May II, with Rev.
Ernest Bigelow, of the Bluffton-
Rockport Presbyterian church e S
preaching the sermon.
The senior class play, people Are
Funny" will be presented in the
high. school auditorium at 8 p. M,
Friday, April 26.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Pre-SchOOL Clinic
Here Friday, May 10

Preschool clinic for Bluffton child
rem will be held Friday, May 10, at
which children who will enter school
next fall will receive vaccinations
for small pox. immunization for
diphtheria and physical examina-
tions.
The work will be done by DR..
Gail Miller, Allen county health
commissioner, and County Health
Nurse Agnes Lovett, and in some
cases local doctors.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
EXPANSION NEEDS
ARE FACING BOARD
OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Growth of Towns Electrical
Current Consumption Re-
quires New Boiler
Three-fold Problems Discussed
by Board Members at Coun-
Gil Meeting

Bluffton's cont tinued residential
growth and expansion Of the town as
a f1ourishing industrial community
has forced three new problems on
the Board of Public Affairs in plan
ming a continuation of adequate SER
vices offered by the municipal water
works and light plant.
At meeting Monday night with
the town council, the board pointed
out pressing demands for:
1-Expanded electrical genera
tion facilities at the light plant
to assure uninterrupted service
at peak loads, in the form of re-
quirements for installation of a
new boiler.
2-Repairs to the towns So
year-old water tank-p plus the
fact that the State Board has re-
commended erection of new,
ldI SCf tdHh III q hf0A& - 1EHlEdt IO-
cation in the village.
3+Future consideration of
chlorination treatment of the viii
lagos public wafer supply, a
recently reiterated recommenda-
ton of the State Board.
Boiler Major Need
Major problem facing the board at
this time is the immediate need of a
new boiler, installation Of which was
recommended in May, l945, by the
Toledo engineering firm of Froehlich
and Emery, engineering consultants
for the board of public affairs.
Plant requirements are for addi-
ton of 37,5O0 pounds per hour boil
er, according to the engineering sur
vey. Largest of the three boilers
with which the plant now Is equipped
a 10000 pound per hour unit, would
then be retained for standby use.
General details of the proposed ex-
pansion program were discussed with
the council, and permission was asked
to proceed with an investigation of
costs, availability of materials, etc
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Collect Fats For
Making Relief Soap

Bluffton College students during
the coming week will make $50
pounds of soap to be sent to Europe
for relief in war stricken districts.
Anyone having fats to donate for this
purpose should telephone the College
business office or Miss Edna Ram
seyer at Ropp hall BY Thursday, when
students will make rounds collecting
all donations.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Business Men Win
Meet Next WedneSddy

Closing hours for Bluffton busi-
ness houses during the coming sum-
mer months will be considered at a
meeting of the Bluffton Business
Mems association, at $780, p. m.
Wednesday of next week in the Wal
nut Grill.
Announcement of the meeting was
made by Silas Diller, president of
the association.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Special Drive Here
For Cancer Control

Special collections to finance a
nationwide campaign for cancer
control will be made all next week
at The Star theatre In Bluffton, un-
der auspices of the Red Cross. The
drive is being conducted in all thea
tres throughout the country during
the week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Church Of Christ
Calls NelU Pastor

Rev. Al. S. Lenhart of Fostoria has
been called to the pastorate of the
Church of Christ here. He will con-
tinue his residence in Fostoria and
fill the pulpit of the Bluffton church
on alternate Sundays, according to
present arrangements.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-18
Pre-SchOOL Clinic At
BedUerddnl On Fridau

Free smallpox vaccination and
immunization will be pro-
vided for children starting to school
next fall at pre-school clinic in
the Beaverdam school, Friday.
The union times., 1946-08-24
AFL Offers LIN Bill Of Rights
12-Point Program Submit ted To Economic And
 Social Council

NEW YORK (LPA)-An interna- tional Bill of Rights has been sub mitted to the United Nations Eco homie and Social Council by the AFL A 12-point program, calling for arma- ment reduction and the raising of la Dor standards throughout the world was offered by AFL Vice-Presidents David Dubinsky and Matthew Wo11.
 The AFL proposed that the fol lowing be incorporated into an in- ternatiOnal bill of rights: ''Every human being-irrespective of race, color, creed, sex or national origin has the right to pursue his or her work and spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dig nity."
 The United Nations, said the AFL statement, should do everything in its power to have particularly the leading countries jointly adopt a pol icy of positive, gradual and system atic reduction of their arrnaments of all categories, descriptions and serv- ices." The 12-point program also called for freedom of expression re1i- zion, organization, and the right to mi grate to any country. The LIN was asked to ban peacetime conscription or drafting of strikers. There must be-" said the AFL, universal secret ba11oting. There must be no one-party system or any compulsory combination of parties"
The union times., 1946-08-24
Paper Stresses Social Outlook
Ideas For Action New
 Quarterly Publication

A new publication, Ideas FO1 Action, is being published to give labor and democratic action groups a free service of interpreting daily problems from the socially scienti fife standpoint and of transIatine into practical means the findings of social researchers.
 Newspapers and labor groups have been invited to reprint freely from the quarterly magazine, individual subscription to which is 50 cents a year. The address is 11O-34, 73rd road, Forest Hills, New York.
 Leading Figures
 Among the eminent figures who are sponsoring 1t are Gene We1tfsh, an- thropologist; Gardner Murphy, psy- chologist; J. Raymond Walsh and Wilbert Moore, economists and E. Franklin Frazer and Bernhard ]. Stern, sociologists.
 The second issue of Ideas For Action, to be published in Septem- Der, will include the following arti- cles ''Crime-A Political Problem 5 by Nathaniel Cantor; Licking the Farm Problem,'' by Harold w. Da- vey; Clipping the Election Scales'' by Frank Riessman, Jr.; ''The Eco homie Roots of Discrimination by Michael Miller; and an article by Louise Civenter on sSThe Housing ShOrtage.'
The union times., 1946-08-24
Labor Economist
 Outlines Danger

WASHINGTON (LPA) = The AFL has warned the govern ment's new Price Decontrol Board that "the patience of American wage earners is run ming out and that "the American worker will not sit idly by watch ing the buying power of his weekly wage dwindle before his eyes"
 Boris Shishkin, AFL economist testifying for President William Green, called for re-establishment of price controls on number of major food items and the resumption of sub sidies to hold food prices down.
 ''An unwarranted extension of rigid wage controls" said Shiskin ''will threaten industrial peace and nullify organized labOr's concerted effort to achieve maximum produce ton goals. On no commodity on which prices are permitted to rise in accordance with automatic ad- justments prescribed by the new act, should wages be retained un- der the previously-established ceil- ings. On no commodity which has been decontrolIed, should wage control be permitted to remain"
 Shiskin emphasized that, "the cost of living figures available today do not yet reflect the full force of the price rises that have already taken place and that are taking place every day. The BIS index of wholesale prices stood at 1884 on March 16 of this year. By June Is it rose to Ills. By August it reached 125. A 13-point rise in wholesale prices due to the liquidation of the OPA is a storm warning of what is to happen shortly to the cost of living unless real ef- fort is made to hold prices down. This fact can be neither overlooked nor ig- nored The Decontrol Board must meet this threat of runaway prices head-on and deal with it with cour- age"
 True Fight Lost
 The AFL economist told the Board that "Even if these controls become effective on August q, we know that the fight for truly effective price con- trol has been lost Responsibility for this must lie chiefly with Congress, but frequently, the OPA has been all together too willing to grant gratui- tous price increases and to remove commodities from control.
The union times., 1946-08-24
27 I. T. U. STRIKES

INDIANAPOLIS CPD = The Intl. Typographical Union engaged in 27 strikes during the two-year period just concluded, Pres. Woodruff Ran dolph announces.
 The biggest current strike, Ran dolph said, is a lockout by the five paper Southam newspaper chain in Canada.
The union times., 1946-08-24
AFL Stage Union Reflects Walsh

Chicago.-Richard F. Walsh, presi- dent of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (AFL) , and his entire slate were reelected at the annual convention of the union here. Walsh was given 649 votes to 426 for William Bennett of Wash ington.
 The convention gave Walsh author ity to suspend portions of the unions constitution granting locals autonomy in disciplining their members. He also was empowered to take immediate steps to rid the International of any subversive, radical or communistic groups"
The union times., 1946-08-24

Employees, AFL, in their attempt to have the Board of Finance bring in budget for l947 which will provide living wage for city work CTS, was voted. President McCOvern urged all locals to be represented at the public hearing held by the Board of Finance.
 The Central Labor Council will un- dertake to raise funds to help defray the expenses of John Gill and William Farrell, the two policemen suspended by the Board of Police Commission CTS, i'll their attempt to obtain an in junction against the carrying out of the suspension. President McGovern appointed the following committee to be in charge of the fund-raising:
 Joseph J. Egan, Typos, chair man; George Reihms, Carpenters 1; Richard Buckley, Retail Cigar Clerks; Samuel F. Curry, Trolley X Bus Operators; Joseph M. ROurke, Electricians; John Red- mond, Typos; William P. Enright, Painters; John Doyle, Police; and Saul Kreas, Painters.
 A special committee, consisting of Harold V. Feinmark, Nathan Sher- man, and Richard L. Buckley was appointed by McGovern to arrange for a Labor Day broadcast.