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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
E.. Fl. NeuenschlUdFider
Ordained To Ministry

Edgar Fl. Neuenschwander ii, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Neuensch-
wander l, who operated the Neu-Art
studio during their residence in
Bluffton, was ordained to the minis
try of the Missionary Church Asso-
citation, central district, at Yoder,
Indiana, last week
Rev. Neuenschwander is serving
as pastor of the Yoder Missionary
church, where the ordination was
conducted by Rev. Chris ]. Gerig,
district superintendent, and Rev. B.
F. Leightner, general secretary of
the Missionary Church Association.
The newly ordained minister grad
uated from Ft. Wayne Bible Insti-
tute, Ft. Wayne, Ind, in 1945. He
graduated from Bluffton High school
in 1888, while the family resided
here.
His parents now live in Compton,
California.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
SCHOOL BOARD TO
GET new SCHEDULE
FOR TEACHERS PAY
Plan Worked Out During Holi-
days Slated for Considera-
tion by Members ri
Schedule Will Determine Overall
Amount for Salaries and
Distribution -

A solution to the much-debated
question of how much will be set
aside for teachers salary adjust
ments out Of the special two-mill
levy passed at the polls last fall
and how it viii be divided among the
members of the public school teach
ing staffs--is expected to be propos-
ed by the Bluffton Board of Educa-
tion at meeting this Wednesday
night.
Following special meeting Of
the board on December 90, a spokes-
man for the group said that work
on the proposed schedule Of teachers
pay adjustments would be completed
over the holidays, and come up for
final approval at the next regular
meeting, this Wednesday.
Consideration of a plan for salary
adjustments was deferred at the
December meeting because of the ill
ness of Donavon B. Conrad, member
of the boards finance committee, and
his death since that time has made
it necessary for the board to draft
the new schedule with depleted
membership.
Nothing Announced
Provisions Of the new schedule
have not been announced, pending
final discussion by the board at this
weeks meeting, but informed sources
said the plan appears in shape to be
finally adopted, altho there is always
the possibility it may be temporarily
held for further revision.
Drafting of the new salary
schedule on a basis that win prove
passably satisfactory to all teachers
has been difficult assignment. for
instructors in the schools have been
divided into two factions of widely
divergent viewpoints as to how in
creases are to be given.
In one faction are the teachers
with longer tenure on Biuffton
teaching stats, and the other group
consists of those more recently hired,
particularly within the past year or
Continued on page 81
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Member of Board of Education
and a Former Town Coun-
Gilman
Prominent in Fraternal Orders;
Funeral at Methodist
Church

Bluffton paid u final tribute to
one of its leading civic and fraternal
leaders Sunday afternoon in the
First Methodist church, at largely
attended funeral serS{ees for
Donavon B. Conrad, Al; a member
of the Bluffton Board of Education
and former rannicipal councilman.
A tireless worker in eomn1nity
betterment, Mr.. Conrad was vice.
president of the Biuffton Community
Progress association and held the
same position with the Bluffton
Recreation commit1ee at the time Of
his death.
He served on the Community
Progress association as executive
committeeman of the Industry panel
on which he represented the Blufftor
Stone Co. and the Central Ohio Light
and Power Co. He was a director
pand assistant sacre safy- treasurer o,
the Stone company, and was employ
ed in the Findlay office of the
Central Ohio firm as head of al
accounting department.
Active In Masonry
Active in Masonic circles, Conrad
was postmaster of Blufftor
Masonic Lodge, and a member o1
the higher Masonic bodies including
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite, Toledo valley; Findlay Chapter
No. So r. A. M; Findlay Council No
10 R. and F. NJ, and Findlay Com
mandery No. 40, Knights Templar.
Uniformed members of the Knight!
Templar lodge served as an hono
guard for the casket during tn,
funeral procession, and the Mason.
committal rites were conducted a
the cemetery.
Death came to Mr.. Conrad at 2:1j
p. m. last Thursday in Lima Mem
orial hospital where he was a surgi
al patient, after i'll health of ap
proximately two weeks. Cardia
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Leaving NeIU York
Jan. IS For Africa

Miss Catherine Gratz, Blufton
who was scheduled to
leave here Monday enroute to Africa
has received word of postponement
of the date for her departure.
Under the present schedule she
will leave Bluffton Friday for New
York city where she will board a
plane next Wednesday for a trans
Atlantic fight.
Her destination is French Guinea,
French West Africa, where she
previously spent five and one-half
years as a missionary The station
is operated by the Christian Mission
ary Alliance and she serves as book
keeper in the business office.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Doctors To Speak
At p. T. A. Meeting

Drs. D. w. English and Walter
Yingling, members of the board Of
the Allen County Tube sculosis IS
sociation will address tie Bluifton
Parent Teacher associati N meetir z
next Monday night at o'clock 1T
the high school cafeteria,
DR.. English, an x-raS technician,
will speak on tuberculais and Or,
Yingling will talk - tie topic
Deafness in Children" A social
hour and refreshments will follow
the meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09

in this area, and one of the finest in
any town of Bluffton's size in the
state. A
Nearing completion is new
$4,000 plant to be occupied by the
expanded interests of the BIuffton
Cement Block Co., and a $4,000
building addition to the Bluffton
Stone Co. is we'll under way.
On the eastern fringe of Bluffton
fine new airport, built and operat-
ed BY Clayton Bixel, was put into
operation in late fall. At the
generating plant of The Central Ohio
Light and Power CO., located within
the Bluffton city limits, million-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Betty Steinn,dn
Lands In Seattle

Miss Betty Steinman, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Steinman of
South Lawn avenue enroute home
from Japan landed in Seattle, Wash,
when the liner Arcadia docked at
that port Monday night. The boat
was delayed for two days because of
storms.
She will receive her discharge at
San Francisco this week from the
Red Cross with which she has been
affiliated in overseas service for the
past year. She is expected to arrive
in Blufftpn next week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Business and Residential Construction Buon Hghighs Past

of construction.
Four other citizens solved the
housing shortage by buying houses
in other communities, and moving
them here for remodeling to suit
their purposes.
All told there are seven other
families living in garages erected as
a temporary housing expedient until
their homes can be built.
With the towns residential areas
expanding in all directions it was
necessary for the board Of public
affairs to lay ALSO feet of new A.
inch water mains during the sum-
mer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09

Milling Co. sold it's interests to the
Farmers Grain Co., and the two
concerns were combined into one
unit.
Residential building really doomed
here, despite widespread materials
shortages, and some of those who
could not Immediately find materials
compromised by building garages
and living in them, or in putting
woodsheds and chicken coops to-
gether.
Completed or virtually completed
in the 1916 building boom were Ia
homes; and in addition there are
seven other houses in various stages
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Flick Returns From
UNRRA Poland Trip

Robert Flick, Is, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil Flick, of Union township,
returned home last Friday from a
six-weeks trip to Poland, as attend
ant on ship carrying cargo of
1,500 horses to be distributed in that
country by UNRRA.
This was his first trip overseas,
and he was in Europe four days,
while the horses were being unload
ed His ship sailed from Newport,
News, Virginia.
Flick was graduated last spring
from Mt. Cory High school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
MOSer BedUerddna
School Board Head

In reorganization of the Beaver
dam board of education for the COM
ing year, Clair Moser, Route 2, Co
lumbus Grove, last Monday night
was named president.
William Stephens, Route 2 Column
bus Grove, was elected vice-presi-
dent. Other board members are
Alvin Lamb, Clarence Downing, both
of Route 2, Columbus Grove, and
Roy Herr, Route 5, Lima.
Eunice Smith, of Beaverdam, is
clerk of the board. Regular meet
ings of the group will be held the
second Monday of each month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Trip Home By Air
Enjoyed By BlufftOn Business Man
NeIU Minister Called
By Church Of Christ

Rev. C. d. Read of Cleveland has
been called to the pastorate of the
Bluffton Church of Christ and Bethel
Church of Christ in Orange town
ship, it was announced the first of
the week.
Rev. Read and his family will
move Thursday into temporary quar-
ters arranged by his Orange town.
ship parishioners until a new par
sonage is built adjoining Bethel
church, it was stated Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09

Bluffton has headed into a new
year after picking up during 1916
where it left off before the war so
far as revitalized industrial, business
and residence expansion were con-
cerned.
Widespread building activity reach
ing into all three fields, and herald
ing the growth of a larger and
better Bluffton, easily qualified as
the most newsworthy events in a
review of the old year.
Completed and in operation in
early fall was the beautifully equip
ped and furnished Carma theatre,
the newest motion picture showhouse
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09

dollar expansion program is under
way, with its completion ear-marked
for the coming year.
To keep pace with Bluffton's
rapidly expanding industrial, busi-
ness and residential demands for
electric current, the board of public
affairs has sold $125,O00 in bonds to
cover equipment additions to the
plant.
One old landmark passed, when
the Cal Balmer sawmill, operated
here for As years, was razed, after
being out of operation for several
years. A major business transac-
ton was involved when the Bluffton
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
SechLer Takes OUer
Pine Restaurant

Leland Sechler, owner of the Pine
restaurant has taken over operation
of the establishment after it had
been operated during the past year
by Herbert Siefield under terms of
lease. Sechler who was a patient
in Bluffton hospital last summer is
much improved and expects to be
active in management of the res
taurant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Ia ARE APPOINTED
TO VILLAGE POSTS
FOR COMING YEAR
Only Vacancy in Municipal Gov
ernment 0ccasiOned by Res
ignatiOn of Nightwatch
Samuel BiXel Is New Clerk of
Cemetery Board; Council
Confirms Appointments

Mayor w. A. Howe's recommenda-
tions to fill IA appointive municipal
posts We're confirmed by Bluffton
councilmen as the fabric of the
towns governmental organization
took shape for the coming year at
meeting Monday night in the council
room.
Appointed at the session was a
new clerk-trustee for the Maple
Grove cemetery board; the caretaker
of the town clock, and II members of
the volunteer fire department.
One position remains to be filled,
as the result of acceptance of the
resignation of R. E. Griffith who has
served as nightwatch here for the
last seven months. No successor was
appointed.
Nightwatch Changes
Griffith's resignation became effec-
tive with the close of his tour of
duty embracing Monday night and
late Tuesday morning, and Albert
Reichenbach, who formerly served as
nightwatch for more than a decade
was on the job Tuesday night by
temporary appointment, pending the
next meeting of the council.
A clerk-trustee vacancy on the
Maple Grove cemetery board was
filled by the appointment of Samuel
Bixel, former municipal treasurer.
Bixel is serving the one-year unex-
pired term of Elmer Diller, who died
late last fall. His salary as clerk
is $3.50 a year. Other members of
the cemetery board are John Thomp-
son and William Edwards.
James Benroth was re-appointed
town clocck caretaker, a post held
for many years by his father, the
late Albert Benroth. The salary is
$50 year.
Twelve fremen were re-appointed,
including C. v. Stonehill, John Stone
hill, Charles Young, Aldine Weiss,
Jr., H. E. Augsburger, Richard Augs-
burger, Edward Badertscher, Robert
Dillman, Wilford Gratz, Ross Irwin,
Fred Martin and Lester Niswander.
Fire Chief Guy Corson was appointed
for a two-year term last January.
Salary schedules of the towns
regular municipal employees were
boosted by council action at the
meeting Monday night.
Marshal Lee Coon's salary was in
creased SIS per month, giving him
$115 as chef of police and $75 as
service supervisor. The nightwatch
salary was upped from $145 to $3.50
per month. Skilled labor in the fu-
ture will be paid IS cents an hour
instead of 75 cents, and common la
Dor will receive rs cents an hour in
stead of 65 cents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
Real Estate Deal

Jerome Herr has purchased the
Willis Althaus property, the former
Mrs. Grace Wilson residence at
Jackson and Elm streets and will
occupy the place this spring. The
deal was transacted by Mrs. H. W.
Althaus.
Herr sold his farm of 80 acres,
better known as the Amos Moser
farm south of Bluffton to Joe Follas
who will move on the place this
spring, vacating the Mrs. Henry
Matter farm on Bentley road which
he tenanted.
The Matter farm of so acres was
purchased by Sam Badertscher of
Bentley road who will occupy the
place after it is vacated by Follas.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09
2-DAY INSTITUTE.
TO Be Held HERE
ON JAN. n AND e
Discussions of Community Prob
lens Features; Music and
Drama on Program
TwO-Day Farm Community
Gathering Will Feature
Joint Sessions Jan. p

Buttons annual two-day COM
munity institute, a feature attraction
each winter season, will be held this
year on Wednesday and Thursday,
Jan. p and %.
Offering a varied program of in
structive lectures, discussion sessions
and entertaining features, the in
stitute will follow the usual pattern
of joint sessions on the opening day,
followed by individual meetings of
the mems and women's organizations.
Heading the list of speakers will
be Rev. William Stauffer, of Sugar
Greek, o., Bluffton college gradu,
ate in 1882, and Mrs. Arnold Steva
of st. Marys.
Varied features on the Wednesday
night program are expected to draw
a capacity audience from the com.
munity, and likely will be the head
line attraction of the two-day meet
ing.
Institute Officers
Officers of the institute organiza
tions, who are completing plans fol
the meeting, include:
Mems Institute: Rev. Paul E
Whitmer, president; Albert Augs
burger, vice-president; Harvey
Gratz, secretary treasurer; Homer
Gratz, Harry Anderson, Ezra Moser
Willard Jennings and Harry F
Barnes, executive committee.
Women's Institute: Mrs. Chri.
Gratz, president; Miss Margare'
Guider, vice-president; Mrs. Howard
Stager, secretary; Mrs. Harvey
Gratz, Mrs. Evan Basinger and Mrs
Wilford Geiger, executive committee
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-09

Farm buyers should obtain full in
formation about legal rights of ten
ants who are living on the property.
Tenants and landlords sometimes
have oral agreements.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-04
dollars and sense

Drawbacks Of portable washers
are many, their advantages few,
Consumers Union found in testing
five models.
A portable may be better than
no machine at all, but only one
of those tested got clothes as clean
as an acceptable full size machine
land only this at the expense Of
excessive wear and tear); none
could wash more than two pounds
of clothes at time; all but one
had to be lifted to be emptied; and
only one was adequately rust
PROCEED.
The three washers found Ac-
ceptable by Gu were: Handyhot
Model 1-XL-05, Type XLUDO5A,
$2995; Sterling Cat. No. -2260L.
$28.95; and Electromite Model D.
$3375.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-04


It is reading Willard Motley's
story about the social conditions
in Chicago which breed gangster-
ism: Knock on Any Door. 1t is
reading Laura Hobson's Gentle
mans Agreement on anti-Semitism
and Kingsblood Royal. Sinclair
Lewis satirical attack on the i'm
morality of the white upper crust
which feels itself superior to the
Negro people.
Because of its interest in serious
subjects it will also read Irving
Stones new fictional biography of
Eugene Debs, Adversary in the
House.
AS in his earlier handling of
Jack London and Van Gogh, Stone
has chosen a hero of great physi-
cal and mental energy and written
his story with speed, vigor and
drama. Unfortunately, the author
is not equipped by background
experience or training to present
Debs in his true colors as a mill
tant leader of the American labor
movement
AS THE STORY progresses,
one feels more and more that
Stone is whiting down the Gene
Debs of history to fit the pattern
of grotesque romance.
Kate, the wife Debs chooses, is
a transplanted German burgher
type, pro-Kaiser and anti-Semitic,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-04

anti-labor and strongly anti-so-
cialist-and always anti-Debs. In
order to fit Debs. into the Chinese
shoe of Hates life, Stone has made
him a foreoearing and patient
husband.
In remodelling his character for
romantic treatment, Stone has
taken most of the militant fighter
out of Debs. Too often we find
Debs preaching class collaboration
IN the manner of Samuel Com
pers. AT the climactical point in
Debs' career when he swung the
support of the American Railway
Union to the Pullman strikers
here In Chicago in 1898, we see
Stones 'hero" portrayed as a
Vaclllator forced against his bet
ter judgment to give reluctant
support to the strike.
Again, toward the end of the
book, we find Debs supporting
the Menshevik revolution in Rus
sla and, contrary to the historical
Debs, turning against Lenin and
the Bolsheviks.
1T is regrettable that Stone de-
parted from the historical Debs
portraying him too often as an
energetic humanitarian, instead of
the revolutionary leader history
gives us.
We have only to close the pages
of Adversary in the House and
open Walls and Bars which Dehs
wrote about, his Imprisonment to
restore the real Debs in orr
minds.
III was the real Debs who found
ca the first important nation-wide
industrial union.
1t was the real Debs who learn
ca through leading the Pullman
strikers that the monopolists would
use every means fair and foul tc
keep their upper hand over labor
And it was the real Debs who
became a militant socialist pre-
pared to die in Jail rather than
remain silent while the imneriaI-
lists divided the world.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-04

sooner milk is removed from the
light into the dark interior of the
refrigerator the better.
Some dairies even tried deliver
ing milk in dark bottles. 1t was
a real public service but unfortu-
nately it looked queer to house
wives so it had to be given up.
A good compromise is to have a
closed insulated box on your door
step where the milkrhan can leave
your milk.
Actually milk these days rarely
sours. If stored properly, tightly
covered in cold, dark place, it
will keep for many days. But if
it should turn sour. it still has
uses. 1t still contains all the food
values of fresh milk and it is
desirable for use in some cakes.
So register your protest against
the hikes in the price of milk, but
remember that here's one place a
consumer strike doesn't pay.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-04
their discontinuance.

their discontinuance.
There is a question as to how
much the "outgrowing" of chill
dren's maps, before five years, is
due to indifferent management
on the part of parents That the
nap depends largely on adult con-
troll is shown time and time again
when children are first sent to
nursery school.
The teacher is assured, often in
the child's presence that Johnny
never sleeps in the afternoon.
However it is almost certain, after
a short time in school, that Johnny
will be sleeping soundly at nap
time.
This is partly due, as Charles
mother found out, to the fact that
children know they have no choice
in the matter and that nothing
will interfere with the unfailing
regularity of being put to bed
Immediately.
THE BEST biological time for
the child to go to sleep easily is
after lunch. If he is allowed to
play a while after he eats, it is
apt to be difficult for him to
leave his play, quiet down and be
relaxed enough to sleep. His nap
should be over and the child out
to play by three o'clock, a later or
longer sleep interfering with the
night sleep of the three year old
or over.
When the child, of his own ac-
cord, no longer sleeps each day,
his parents are wise not to follow
the all-or-none policy and discon-
tinue the maps. Rather he needs
to be put to bed, anyway, to rest
from his activities.
1t is necessary to insist on quiet,
and after half an hour. if he is
not yet asleep, the child should
get up and play.
Some days he may sleep and
some days only rest. The benefit
he derives from his regular nap
or rest periods is far reaching, and
well worth his parents efforts in|
carrying out, with regularity and
consistent handling.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-04

The Chicago Star last week
inadvertently failed to state
that the review of Tokyo Ro-
nance" new novel. was writ
ten by Jack conroY. famed
Chicago author.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-04

What's more. children aren't
the only ones in the family that
need it. Older people tend to skip
milk in favor of coffee and tea
under the false impression that
only the young and growing re-
quire it. Everyone-even the most
elderly-needs at least pint of
milk in his daily diet if he is
to get enough calcium, for one
thing.
Three cups of milk provide your
entire days needs of calcium,
most of your riboflavin, some
vitamin A and thiamine, and a
little iron. You even get protein,
something like a third of your
daily needs.
WHAT'S MORE. you don't have
to drink all your milk. Other dairy
products like cheese and butter
will give you milk's goodness, al
though if you use cottage cheese
YOU will have to get your vitamln
A elsewhere, since it's made OF
skinned milk.
Milk soups and chowders can
be introduced into your menus.
even if you have to do it by
diluting such canned soups as to-
mato, pea and corn to do so. Pud-
dings made with milk are an old
standby and so of course is ice
cream.
Adults may have to be persuad-
ed to take. milk by freezing cof-
fee into ice cubes and pouring
milk over to make iced coffee in
a grownup version of the choco-
late milk trick. 1t doesn't matter
how you do it, but with prices
limiting your usual diet. you
really ought to use the same kind
of ingenuity trying to get the
adults in the family to drink milk
that you use on the youngsters.
INCIDENTALLY it's a good idea
to handle milk in the latest scien-
tific fashion if you want to get
the most out of it. Everyone knows
that milk should be refrigerated
as soon as possible after delivery
to keep it from souring, but there's
more to it than that. Riboflavin,
an important B vitamin, is spe-
cially sensitive to light and the