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Evening star., 1947-02-07
Longstreet Widow Hits
Georgia Primary Bill

ATLANTA, Feb. 7 tP).-The gray
haired widow of Confederate Gen.
James Longstreet attacked Geor-
gia's proposal to bar Negroes from
Democratic primaries yesterday as
bill "to set up a dictatorship
under the guise of white suprem-
acy."
She minced no words in her at
tack on the bill and Herman Tai
madge, who she said was in the
hands of "scheming politicians. u
Talmade is sponsoring the measure
which has passed the House.
Mrs. Longstreet appealed to a
special Senate Judiciary Commit
tee to kill the measure in the name
of Georgia's statesmen and heroes
of former years.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Coal Crisis Will Halt
Industry Power in ;
British Areas Monday
Hundreds of Ocean Ships
Tied Up After Fuel Is
Held for Domestic Use
By the Associoted Press

LONDON, Feb. THE gov
eminent announced today that
electricity would be cut off Mon
day from industries in the Lon
don, Birmingham and Man
chester areas of Britain, largely
because of an acute shortage of
coal aggravated by a Today cold
wave. .-.
Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell
also told the House of Commons that
domestic consumers could have no
electricity between 8 am. and noon,
and . and 4 pm.
7 This was a drastic blow to the
production for export drive which
the government holds vital to Brit
aims recovery from the war. II
came just six weeks after the ma
tion,s coal mines were taken under
public ownership. Mr.. Shinwell said
he hoped the restrictions would last
no more than three or four days.
Hundreds Of Ships Tied Up.
Hundreds of ocean-going ships
were tied up in British ports by a
government conservation order ear
marking the dangerously low coal
supplies for domestic consumption
only. Domestic gas rations. already
have been slashed.
Mr.. Shinwell, blaming the unpre-
cedented power blackout on the 10
day spell of Arctic weather, said he
could not have introduced foreign
labor into the coal mines without
risking a serious industrial disturb
ance."
Mine unions for a long time op-
posed the use of Polish miners, most
of them members of the former Po-
lish forces of Gen. Wladyslaw An
ders in Italy, and have agreed only
recently to their employment while
insisting that the jobs of local
miners be safeguarded.
Labor Protest Is Voiced.
Mr.. Shinwell spoke after An
thony Eden, former Conservative
foreign secretary, said the country
was faced with the greatest indus
trial crisis in 20 years. Raymond
Blackburn, from the government
side of the House, voiced Labor pro-
test against the governments fuel
policy.
Mr.. Eden accused the government
of lack of foresight. He said Mr..
Shinwell's failure to- introduce any
ordered plan" of conserving coal
sufficiently soon was responsible for
the electrical breakdown.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Moscow Is Experiencing
Worst Snow in Five Years

MOSCOW, Feb. 7, R.-Moscow
was experiencing today what prom
iesd to be its worst snow storm in
five years. Snow has fallen almost
without interruption for two days,
despite an abrupt rise in the tenn
perature this morning.
Hundreds of special workers used
snowplows to clear the city's broad
streets. City traffic continued, des-
pite large snowdrifts, although buses
had difficulty in maintaining sched-
lIleS.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
Republican Leaders
Are Ready 10 Limit
Budget 10 81 Billion
See Saving Of 7 Billion.
Would Cut $4,000
From U. S. Payroll
BULLETIN

Chairman KnutSon of the
House Ways and Means Com.
mittee today predicted his
committee will report out an
income tax reduction bill by
March / and said the chances
are good" that it will be his
own measure for a 20 per cent
across-the-board cut. He added
that the committee voted to-
day to begin hearings on
income tax legislation Feb
ruary 19.
Evening star., 1947-02-07
More Uranium Is Found
In Western Argentina
BY the Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Feb.
THE Directorate Of Mines re-
ported today the discovery of
uranium in San Luis Province in
West Central Argentina
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(See COP, Page A-50
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(See LABOR, Page. A-4.)
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tSee HENRY, Page A-5)
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(See TRADE. Page An
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(See HIGGINS, Page A-4)
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(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-2)
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of any person as Governor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Two Additional Building Subdivisions !.
Reflect Towns Residential Growth

Rejecting Bluffton's continuing
residential growth plans for two ad-
ditional building subdivisions were
accepted at Monday nights meeting
OF the municipal council.
One of the new residential con-
struction areas is the Ewing addi-
tion, owned by Harley Burkholder,
facing on Cherry street and the
County Line road.
The other is the Ezra Basinger
addition, beginning at the County
Line road and fronting on jefferson
street. There are nine lots in the
Basinger subdivision west from the
county line, each 60 feet wide and
12O feet deep.
In the Ewing addition, plated by
Burkholder, there are seven lots on
Cherry street, east from the County
Line, and nine additional lots north
from the Cherry street corner along
the County Line road. Lot widths
range from 81 feet to 90 feet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Teachers Are Paid On
NelU Salary Schedule

Bluffton public school teachers this
week received their first checks un-
der a revised salary schedule APP
proved 10 days ago by the board of
education and providing salary in
creases retroactive to January /
through the remainder of the pres
ent school year.
Pay boosts representing a flat in
crease Of 500 for all teachers plus
one per cent of the previous salary
for each year of service in the local
school system, up to a maximum of
IA years, were included in checks
distributed for January
The pay increases are based on a
full years salary, and with the
school year ending in August adj
justed compensation win be on an
eight-months' basis.
The revised salary schedule was
described as temporary by the board.
pending the outcome of proposals
now before the state legislature, pro-
viding for additional school funds.
However, the board said teachers are
assured of maintenance Of at least
current pay levels for the opening
of the next school year, regardless
of what action is taken by state
Legislators.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Mrs. Carl Stuckey
Dies In Illinois

Mrs. Florence Schumacher Stuckey
81, former Bluffton resident and
wife of Carl Stuckey died last
Thursday in the Mennonite hospital
at Bloomington, H., where she had
been a patient for the past five
months. The family lives in nearby
Carlock.
She was the second youngest
daughter of the late Jacob Schu-
macher and the family lived on
South Lawn avenue in what is now
the Emil Amstutz property.
Mrs. Stuckey was graduated from
Bluffton college and taught music
in the Pandora schools. Her hus-
band was formerly in the insurance
business here and for q time was
registrar Of Bluffton college.
Funeral services were held Sun,
day afternoon at Carlock followed
by interment at that place.
Besides her husband she is sur.
vived BY one son James, at home
also a brother Memo Schumacher oi
Dayton and three sisters, Mrs
Elmer Basinger, Summerfield, I'll.
Mrs. Hulda Morse, Upland, Calf.
and Mrs. Homer Luginbuhi, Toledo
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Rural Community's Place In Changing
Era Discussed At BlufftOn Institute
Betty SteinRtdn
Home From Japan

Miss Betty Steinman, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Steinman Of
South Lawn avenue has arrived
home after spending Is months in
the Philippines and japan where she
served as . Red Cross staff assist
ant.
She left japan only few days
before the tidal wave that devas-
tated parts Of the islands and took
high death toll. She received her
discharge from the Red Cross serv-
ice at San Francisco. A graduate
of Ohio Wesleyan university, Della
ware, she has announced no plans
for the future.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Body OF 1t. YOakdnt
Is Due In NelU York

Body OF Lk. We Yoakam 90,
Rluffton uativSl proved Il Gerraaau
lsst month al aoor, wi ii inSaries
received in an aceEstsnt, is expected
to arrive in New York this week.
Members of the family here re-
ceived a telegram q week ago stat
ing that the body was being sent by
boat from Bremerhaven, Germany,
which gave rise to unfounded re-
ports that the remains had already
arrived in New York.
However, the army transport Gen.
eral Hershey which sailed from
Bremerhaven last week is due in
New York this Wednesday and it is
believed likely that it may be bring
ing the body of the dead soldier
1t. Yoakam, serving with the u
S. Army of Occupation in Germany
died in a hospital in Wurzburg, Ger
many, December s from internal in
iuries received when the jeep and
trailer which he was driving was
involved in a collision with train
at grade crossing.
Following her husbands DEATH
his wife, the former Luella Smith
of Jenera who was with him in Ger
many, came home by plane, arriving
here Christmas eve.
On its arrival here the body will
be taken to the Paul Diller funeral
home and later removed to the home
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Yer.
non Yoakam northwest of Bluffton
Funeral services will be held ir
the Good Hope Lutheran church al
Arlington, where the couple was
married January Z, 1945. Rev
Arthur Rismiller will officiate at the
services, the day and hour of which
will be announced following arriva
of the body here. Burial will be il
the Arlington cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
COLD WAVE BORNE
ON ROARING GALE
SWEEPS BLUFFTON
Temperature Tunbles to Two
Degrees Above Zero We'd
nesday Morning
No Relief from Two-Day Cold
Spell Until Thursday
Afternoon

Borne on the wings of roaring
northwest gale, . cold wave, most
severe of the winter, held the Bluff
ton area in its icy grip Wednesday
with temperatures tumbling to a
new seasonal low of two degrees
above zero.
The frigid wave which struck with
appalling suddenness Tuesday morn
ing after an extended period of mild
spring-like weather, showed no sign
of abatement Wednesday with tenn
peratures creeping up to the 10 de-
gree mark at noon.
A drop to around zero is forecast
for this Wednesday night with
slightly moderating temperatures by
Thursday afternoon.
Snow squalls accompanied winds
reached maximum of so miles
an hour which ushered in the cold
wave about o'clock Tuesday morn
ing and added to driving hazards Of
traffic on the Dixie highway. Schools
at Beaverdam and Cairo were closed,
altho classes at Bluffton high and
grade schools were continued with
out interruption.
WIND DROPS WEDNESDAY
Altho, temperatures Wednesday
morning remained near the zero
mark, the wind had dropped, making
the intensity of the cold less appar-
ent. Because of the extreme cold
weather, construction work on the
new addition to the Central Ohio
Light q Power company's generating
plant here was suspended and Off
cials of the farm institute were ap-
prehensive that weather conditions
would affect attendance at the even
ing session this Wednesday night.
Severity of the cold was empha-
sized by contrast with Sundays mild
48-degree temperature. Whipped by
strong winds from the northwest the
cold penetrated the warmest Of gar
ments and made difficult the heating
OF homes and stores.
The sharpest drop In temperature
here came Tuesday morning between
Z and 9 o'clock when the thermom-
eters dipped III degrees in two hours
from % to a reading of II.
The readings gradually slipped
throughout the day until a reading
of three above zero was registered
at midnight with a further one-de-
gree drop early Wednesday morning,
Readings over the state generally
were the lowest of the season after
30 days of abnormally warm Janu-
ary weather with an average OF
about 36 degrees or seven degrees
above normal.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
new BOILER BIDS
FOR LIGHT PLANT
DUE FEBRUARY IL
Alternate Bids Requested After
Original Proposals Were
Rejected.
Boiler With Blower-Equipped
VIII be Considered by Plant
Board.

Working on a modification of orig
inal plans for an extensive expan-
sion program at the municipal light
plant, the Bluffton board Of public
affairs viii open bids on Tuesday,
February IL, for consideration OF
the possible purchase of new boil
er and additional steam generating
apparatus including blower-equip-
ped stack.
Decision to consider this alternate
proposal was reached last week By
the board. after it had rejected hidl
previously suosnitted Tor y bolIsi
plus new stack for the plant.
Rejection of the bids resulted
from board belief that proposals
submitted represented too great an
expenditure of money, and boiler
with a blower-equipped stack is be-
ing considered with the hope that
considerable saving can be effected.
RETAIN PRESENT STACK
Under this plan, the present stack
would be retained for operation of
the existing boiler, which will be
used as standby after the new
boiler is put into use.
Under the original plan providing
for a new boiler and a concrete
stack to replace the present brick
stack, a total of S104,40S would
have been expended for that phase
of the work alone. OF this aggre-
gate the boiler bid was 1908 and
the stack bid $32,500.
For the entire expansion program,
the board has $125,0o0 obtained last
summer through the sale of revenue
bonds to be retired from plant earn.
ings over a 20-year period.
Bids requested by February II un.
der the alternate proposal now be.
ing considered are to cover installa.
tion of complete steam generating
unit consisting of boiler, superheat
er, SCOT blowers, furnace, water.
cooled furnace walls, stoker, forced
draft fan with drives, air ducts anc
other auxiliary equipment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Agricultural Trend Has Been
Toward Specialization in
Farm Practices
Meeting Wednesday Night and
on Thursday Win Bring
Institute to CIcse

Community problems from the
consumers and from the farm pro-
ducers angles featured discussion at
the opening session of Bluffton's
two-day community institute which
got under way Wednesday afternoon
IN the high schoola auditorium.
During the two-day gathering pro-
grams will center about the place of
the rural community in changing
world, with highlights touching on
community problems resulting from
present-day marketing and consum-
ing trends, modern labor-saving ma
chinery, infationary land prices, etc.
Specialization in today's farming
pursuits reaches into every phase
of endeavor-the care and manage
ment Of livestock, soils, crops, ma
chinery and marketing, it was
stressed in the opening session of
the institute. An ability to fore
cast with a reasonable degree of
accuracy coming market trends is
particularly of Importance in these
days.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT PROGRAM
Wednesday nights institute pro-
gram in the high school auditorium
viii be one of the highlights of the
two-day meeting. Featured on the
program will be talks by state
speakers, special music, dramatic of
ferings and other features.
Heading an impressive list of vis-
iting speakers this year are Rev.
William Stauffer, of Sugar Creek,
Ohio; Mrs. Ruth Arnold Steva, OF
St. Marys, Ohio, the state speakers,
and Mrs. Paul Clark, Of Cridersville,
who gives chalk talks.
Rev. Stauffer, Bluffton college
graduate in 1882, has been active in
agricultural activity and now is Co
owner-operator of 800 acres, expert
menting in rebuilding three wornout
farms.
On Thursday of this week, the
closing day of the institute, mems
and women's organizations will meet
IN joint session TO hear the state
speakers at an afternoon session,
following which thes regular business
meetings Of the two groups win be
held.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Former Pastor And
Wife Go To Tibet

Rev. chas. Warren who served as
supply pastor of the Ebenezer Men
monte church west of Bluffton last
summer will leave in April for tt
bet to engage in mission work.
He will be accompanied by his
wife and the couple viii join her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. Ezra b.
Steiner who have been engaged in
mission work in that country for
many years.
Since leaving Bluffton, Rev. and
Mrs. Warren have resided in Pana,
I'll. He will speak at the Ebenezer
church here Sunday morning at
10:30 o'clock as representative of
the Tibetan Frontier Mission.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Need OF More Space At Hospital
Highlights Superintendent's Report
24-Bed Hospital Had Daily
Average of 25.1 Patients
Last Year.
Community Institution Had In
come of S43,769 in 1916;
Expenses S3S,595.

Pressing demands for more space
at the Bluffton Community hospital
highlighted the report of Miss Sylvia
Biederman, superintendent of the in
stitution, at the annual business
meeting of hospital shareholders,
Monday night in the high school
cafeteria.
Her report disclosed that the "a
bed hospital last year had daily
average of 25.1 patients, with peaks
as high as 20 patients being accom-
modated temporarily in emergencies.
Addition of q wing to the present
building, to accommodate more pa
tients, has been under consideration
for more than a year, but no action
thus far has been taken by the hos
pital board relative to getting the
expansion program under way.
BnrLr rog q BEDS
Originally Duilt ~ i Zzabei nos
pital, the Institution has increased
its capacity to "a beds by interior
changes and revamping, but addi-
tional space still is badly needed.
Nursery accommodations also are
overcrowded, Miss Biederman re-
ported. Designed to accommodate
seven cribs, the nursery now oper-
ates with 10 cribs under special
permit from the state department of
health. 4f
Income of the hospital last year
was $43,759.93 and expenditures
S38,595.79, the superintendent re-
port showed
939 PATIENTS DURING YEAR
There were 939 patients admitted
during the year, 936 discharged, 267
births, 49 deaths, and 282 opera
tions. A total of $3.50 patient days
for adults and 1888 patient days
for infants were shown.
Of the patients cared for during
the last year, so had disqualification
insurance coverage.
A welcome addition to hospital fa-
cilities was the Heckathorn Memoir
ial laboratory now in operation as
the result of a $1,000 gift to the
institution by Mrs. Bertha Newman,
Washington, d. G., foster-daughter
reared by the late Mr.. and Mrs.
S. V. Heckathorn.
TRUSTEES REFLECTED
1 Trustees reelected at Monday
nights meeting for three-year terms
were ID. w. Bixler, Mrs. r. L. Trip.
lett and Hiram Wenger. Members
on the board serving unexpired
terms include Ross Bogart, Mrs
Charles Hankish, Edgar Hauen,
stein, Waldo Hofstetter, Mrs. Reese
/ Huber and Ezra Moser.
In organization of the board d
w. Bixler was named president
Mrs. r. L. Triplett, vice-president
Waldo Hofstetter, secretary, anc
Ross Bogart, treasurer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
FOOD PR S DROP;
BUTTER, D AND
POULTRY DECLINE
Batter Selling esc Pound
in Stores Hssa Wednes-
day AIolning
-
Sharp Break in Prices for Live
Chickens Hits Market
First Of Week

Further drops in food prices
cheered Bluffton housewives while
dealers on the other hand were ad-
justing prices to lower levels and
speculating as to whether further
declines are coming.
Butter which led slsyrocketing food
prices last fall is new heading the
downgrade movemenk 1t was quot
ed at 90 cents d pound in retail
stores here Wednesday morning, a
drop of IL cents from the 80-cent
level ten days ago.
Butterfat, likewise lower, pro-
ducers receiving 66 cents on the
market here "Wednesday morning as
compared with r. cents last week
and 81 cents ten days ago.
Oleo, also has joined the move,
ment to lower prices, being quoted
at az cents pound IN stores here
Wednesday.
CHICKENS DROP
A sharp decline HI poultry prices
came here the first of the week with
the entire list dronpsng on an aver.
age Of to cents: The drop fol.
lowed break Of 10 cents in the
Cleveland market for dressed poul.
try which depressed The market foi
live poultry.
Heavy springers, commanding the
top price on the local live poultry
market were quoted at 27 cents
Wednesday morning, cents under
last week. Heavy hens drop
ped from last weeks price of 2t
cents to % cents. Smallest decline
was leghorn stays, quoted at Il
cents, one cent under last weeks
market.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
COMING TAX SLASH
EXPECTED TO SLOW
RAW FUR MARKET
Retail Sales Expected to Lag
Until Tax Cut Takes Eff
feet July /
Caution Marks Fur Buying in
Local Market; Grading
More Critical

Local market prices for raw furs,
which returned to pre-war levels
early this winter, may drop even low
er as an aftermath of President Tru-
mans proclamation of the official
end of the war, which will bring q
109o cut in federal excise tax on fur
garments next July l.
Local trappers with peits on hand
following the close of the trapping
season January Is are now faced
with the alternative of selling on
the present market or holding them
in hope Of a better price at some
future time.
A 2Oeo tax has applied to all pur-
chases of fur coats and other fur
wearing apparel since the wartime
revenue act was drafted in 1943 to
provide additional funds for hostili-
ties. With discontinuance of the rev
enue act, the excise tax will drop
from 20eo to l0e6.
However. since the 50sE reduction
in the amount of excise tax paid will
not become effective until next July
II, furriers anticipate that prospec-
tive purchasers will wait until after
that time to buy, especially now that
the holidays are over.
Slows Demand for Raw Furs
This in turn would slow the de-
mand for furs all along the line and
tend to further depress the raw fur
market, which dropped from last
years record high marks to pre-war
levels at the opening of the season
this winter.
Bluffton buyers said the first of
the week that they have received no
advance notice Of market changes,
but buying is proceeding at more
cautious pace and grading of furs
has become more critical.
General opinion in local fur mar
ket quarters sees no prospect of ar
advance in the market in the face OF
the tax-reduction developments and
the most optimistic note is hope
that prices will continue to hold al
present levels, rather than register q
sharp drop.
Fur Market Glutted
Declining fur prices this season in.
directly were attributed to last years
record catch, with many pelts still in
warehouses, plus the fact that i'm.
ported furs again are coming ontc
the markets in quantities, principal.
| ly from Russia and China.
Warehouses were jammed viii
surplus furs at the close of las
years trapping season, many oi
which have not yet moved into The
hands of manufacturers, and big buy
ers have done little purchasing O.
pelts during the current season.
| Prices paid here for muslrats, th'
principal item on the Bluffton mar
ket, have held at roughly one-half o
last years peak of 1925 during thu
current season.
| Other fur prices have not declined
| as drastically, but the level general
| " is considerably lower than las
year. Raccoon in early 1916 sold 70
So to s3.25 and this year bring $3.50
| and there is no market at all for op
posum.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-23
Resigns Post On
Ohio State FacULty

Prof Oscar Rickly, Bluffton native
who has been member of the Ohio
State university faculty in Colum-
bus since 1919 has resigned that
position to become manager of the
L. III. Marshall company of Colum-
bus, manufacturer of pyrometric
equipment, it was announced this
week.
Rickly, an instructor in the uni
versity's department of industrial
engineering, was on the staff of the
Jeffry Manufacturing company, Co
lumbus industrial concern, before
coming to Ohio State. He is mar
ried and father of six children.