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The Omaha guide., 1947-04-19
INDUSTRIAL

Making good use of community
resources is both an intelligent
and sound practice. Very few
if any, citizens and or ~non-citiz-
ems can go very far very long
without need of contact with one
or more of the numerous servic-
es or activity available to them.
To use a community resource does
not indicate a deficiency, it does
indicate a desire for self suffic-
iency. 1t is another way of adj
ding to ones competence. A case
work agency is one of many COM
munity resources but which most
folk may never need, but does it
follow, however, that they will
never need the library, the YWC-
A. a public golf course or an en-
ployment agency? They are a
few among many other commun-
ity resources. There are comm
unity resources for us regardless
Of our station in the community;
for they furnish us either a need,
a fulfillment, a compensation or a
growth.
EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES
In this article reference will be
made to a resource of which a
rather large segment of our pop
ulation must of necessity utilize
from time to time. This resource
is Employment Service Agencies.
The United States Employment
Service is one of several servic-
es for the American people in the
Labor Dpartmnt Of our National
Govrnment. The United States
Department of Labor was created
by Congress in 1913 to foster,
promote and develop the welfare
of the wage earners Of the Unit
ed States, to improve their work
ing conditions and to advance
their opportunities for profitable
employment. In these Labor De-
partment Services are many man
dates and primary functions one
Of which we have a special inter
est in this article. Perhaps it is
Of value to know these services in
the Labor Department and is re-
~sponsible for administering.
Services of the Labor Depart
ment are: The Secretary of La
Dor, Apprentice Training Service
Division of Labor Standards, Uni
ted States Employment Service,
Wage and Hour and Public Con-
tracts Division. National laws
administratered by the Labor De-
partment are: Apprenticeship
Act, Bacon-Davis Act (prevail-
ing Wage law, CT. Bill of Rights
Social Security Act, Wage and
Hour Law, Wagner-Peyser Act.
Walsh Healey Public Contract
Act, and the War Labor Disputes
Act.
On June 6, 1888, the Congress
of the United States passed a law.
the Wagner-Peyser Act, which
provided the United States En-
p%loylIent Service and placed it in
the United States Department of
Labor for its administration. It's
primary function was to main
tain a nationwide system of frer
employment offices for employ
ment ssrYice to the public on "a
Federal and state cooperative
The Omaha guide., 1947-04-19
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You don't appreciate how
wonderful sleep is until you !
have had one or two wakeful'
nights. When occasionally ner-
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half the night, or when you are
nervous, keyed up, jittery. I
Try Miles NERvINE |
It has been making good forl
more than sixty years. CAU-,
IION-use only as directed,
Get Miles Nervine at your drug
store. Effervescent tablets, 35cI
and 75c-Liquid, 25cand Stool
MILES LABORATORIES, Incl
Elkhart, Indiana.
The Omaha guide., 1947-04-19
CIVIL SERVICE

The Industrial Department OF
the Omaha Urban League has set
up a Civil Service Division for
the purpose Of giving helf and
service to constituents in the com
munity, both veterans and others
All Civil Service releases come
regularly to the Urban League
where they are Immediately post
ed. Sevral announcements will be
featured each week. Announce
ments appearing tn this column
will be chosen when it is ascer-
tanned that they will be more ap-
plicable. Service includes an in
terview with a staff person to de.
termine eligibility, assistance with
trial questions for the examin-
alton and aid in correctly making
out the application forms. AL
necessary forms may be obtained
at the Urban League and they
may be completed there also.
LISTING THIS WEEK
STENOGRAPHER AND TYPIST -
Jobs are located in Washington, DC,
and vicnnity.
$40; $1954; s21es; $2394. No closing
date.
STUDENT DIETITIAN-Courses will
be given in Vets. Adm, War Dept.
and u. S. Public Health Service Hos
pital. $1470. No closing date.
STUDENT NURSE-High School Ed
u~cation, written test Age limits 17h
to IS years. 1852 for three years.
Closing date-April 30, 1917.
LABORER-for filling the positions
Of laborer and Munitions Handler. 76c
to SIC per hour (Minimum) Applica-
tons will be accepted until further
notice.
aHAvE YOU EXPERIENCE OR
TRAINING FOR WELFARE
X ARE You A TRADEsMANe
X ARE YOU A GARDENER OR
YARD WORKER?
%ARE YOU A VETERAN SEEKING
TRAINING OR A JOB?
X WE WANT TO KNOW YOU.
X REGISTER WITH US AT THE
URBAN LEAGUE!
The Omaha guide., 1947-04-19

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enemies rise up against us in
Egypt, but in every generation
enemies rise up against us and
God delivers us from their hands.
Tit is why the Story Of Egypt
serves the world as a LIVING
EXAMPLE OF MEMS YEARN-
IN GAND STRIVING TO BE
FREE. Verify, it has been so.
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1910 Douglas St.-Omaha 2, Nebraska
South Omaha U. S. Postoffice. 24th and Nj SITS.
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THE PASSOVER SEASON

How nice it is that all three Of
Americas major religious faiths
have their sacred seasons at this
time of the year.
Paralleling the end Of the Len
ten period, with its Good Friday
and Easter observances for Cath
olics and Protests, is the Passover
period for our neighbors Of the
Jewish faith. One is reminded
that the Jewish Hannukah Fest
ival Of Lights comes at the
Christian, Christmas season.
The Passover Cor Pesach, in He
brew began at shutdown on Fri
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Bring both your discharge certificate ond your
eeevpof;onoi history fWDA.c.o. Form 100
Report Of Ssporufionj.
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tee, will work with the Employ
ment Service in behalf of those
who seek the assistance Of this
community resource. The Indus
trial Department will implement
the broad services of the Nebras-
ka State Employment Service
and, as a result of these joint Co
operative efforts, we can only
look forward to the near future
with optimism.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
In Bluffton School
Buses Will Be For Rural Pupils Only
NelU Mexico Misladp
Victims Coming Home

Mr.. and Mrs. 0rton Stratton, of
Bluffton, and Mrs. Daisy Pifer, of
Rawson, who were in the New Mex
leo automobile crash that took the
life of Mrs. Elvira Suffer Perry,
former local resident, were more
seriously injured in the mishap than
first reports indicated.
On Friday night of this week they
expect to leave the Tucumcari, New
Mexico, hospital, and travelling in a
Pullman compartment will arrive in
Lima at 2 a. m. Sunday In a let
ter received Monday by Raymond
Stratton, son of the injured Bluff
ton couple, they asked that they be
met by an ambulance, and that res
ervations be made for them at the
Bluffton hospital.
Stratton, who sustained a painful
arm injury and chest injuries, has
been in a wheel chair at the hos
pital. His wife and Mrs. Pifer also
have been patients in the hospital.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Martin Schmidt Hurt
In Fall Of I8 Feet

Martin Schmidt, lineman for the
municipal light plant, escaped ser
ious injured at 10 a. m. Tuesday
when he fell 18 feet to the ground
while working on a rural line near
the Edgar Montgomery farm, four
miles southeast of Bluffton in Orange
township.
In the fall, occasioned when a
pole on which he was working snap
ped off at the base, Schmidt sus-
tanned bruises about the head, ell
bow and left leg.
Following treatment at a physi-
clans office, he was taken to his
home on Cherry street. 1t is ex-
pected that he will be off work ap-
proximately a week.
After the fall, Schmidt was
brought to town by Forest Mumma
and Edgar Root, other members Of
the line crew, who were with him
when the mishap occurred.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
ElUing Dies
In Hospital Monday

Mrs. Lydia Eleanor Ewing, 70,
252 South Lawn avenue, died at
9:35 p. m. Monday in Bluffton Com
munity hospital, where she had been
patient since suffering a stroke
last February.
A lifelong resident of the Bluff
ton community, she was brought
here by her parents, West and Jose
phine McClain, shortly after she
was born in Upper Sandusky.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.
Gail Schaeublin, Columbus, and a
sister, Mrs. Will Althauser, Upper
Sandusky Mrs. Ewing had two
grandchildren and one great-grand-
child.
she was a member of the Bluffton
Church of Christ.
Services will be held at the STAN
ley Basinger funeral home Thurs
Day afternoon at 2 O'Clock with Rev.
E. J. Penhorwood of the Lima South
Side Church of Christ officiating
Burial will be in Maple Grove ceme-
terry.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
A. c. & Y. Motor
Car Rams Into Auto

A Carey man was injured at 4
p. m. last Thursday when an A. c.
& Y. motor-powered section car
crashed into an automobile driven by
Ted Stettier, of Bluffton, at the Col
lege road crossing, one mile north
of Bluffton.
In the mishap, John Nye, so, of
Carey, suffered a dislocated left
shoulder and cuts and bruises.
He was taken to the Bluffton hos
pital for treatment, then to his home
in Carey by the Stanley E. Basinger
ambulance.
Other members of a track repair
crew riding on the railroad car
leaped to safety before the crash.
Nye, the driver, remained on the
car. The crew members are living
in cars near the A. c. & Y. station
while repairing tracks in this vicin-
ity.
Stettler, driver of the auto, escap-
ed injury. His car sustained minor
damage.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Pupils Living Inside Corpora
tion Cannot Be Transported
To and From School
Only Exception To Rule viii Be
For Physically Handicapped
Children

School buses transporting pupils
to and from school in the morning
and evening will be for rural resi-
dents only and will haul no pupils
living inside the Bluffton corporation
limits it was decided by the board of
education at special meeting last
Friday night.
Declaration of the new policy was
announced after a number of re-
quests had been received from resi-
dents in outlying districts within the
corporation, seeking transportation
to and from school for their child
rem.
The only exception to the policy
the board ruled, will be in cases of
physically handicapped children.
BUSES ARE FULL
In announcing the ruling on pupil
transportation, spokesman for the
board said the four busines now OPP
Grated by the schools are filled to
capacity with pupils living in rural
districts.
To include children residing with
in the corporation limits, it would be
necessary for buses to make addi-
tional trips thereby increasing the
cost of BUS operation
Board members pointed out that
bus transportation originally was in
tended only for the transportation
of rural pupils who have longer dis
tances to go, and if the practice of
hauling pupils within the corpora
tion is started, transportation should
be available to all town residnts.
In the past, few pupils in out
lying areas near corporation limits
have been transported to and from
school but in the future such serv-
ice will be discontinued.
A number of requests for pupil
transportation inside the corpora
tion have been received this year
from the South Main, West Elm and
East Jefferson street districts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Last Rites Held For
Former Teacher Here

Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon in the Basinger fun
eral home for Mrs. Lavina Hilty
Marr, e2, former Bluffton teacher,
who died last Saturday at her resi-
dence in Chicago.
Mrs. Marr's death followed six
months illness from complications
arising from a fractured right arm
and shoulder.
After graduating from Bluffton
High school in the class of 1888,
Mrs. Marr taught school in Bluffton
and vicinity for FIVE years. In 1889,
she was married to William Marr
and moved to Chicago.
She was an active civic worker,
eerved on committees of the Worlds
Columbian exposition, and worked
for the women's suffrage cause be-
fore the Illinois state legislature and
before the United States Congress.
She was an organizer of the Luth
eran Women's league, and had great
interest in art, music and literature.
Survivors include two sisters, Mrs.
Albert Baumgartner, Bluffton, and
Miss Kathryn Hilty, Chicago, and q
brother, Fred Hilty, Chicago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
find UNCONSCIOUS
BLUFFTON WOMAN
IN AUTO WRECKAGE
Kathleen Niswander, Accident
Victim Is in Findlay
Hospital
Car Strikes Bridge Abutment
on Putnam-Hancock County
Line

Kathleen Niswander, "a, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Niswander
residing north of Bluffton on the
county line road is a patient in
Ffndlay hospital with injuries as the
result of an accident when the car
which she was driving struck a con-
crete bridge abutment on the
Putnam-Hancock county line road
about six miles north of her home
late Thursday night.
She was found unconscious in the
wreckage by nearby farm residents
awakened by the crash. Taken to
the hospital in a Findlay ambulance
summoned by the state patrol her
injuries were found to consist of a
broken jaw and fractured left knee
cap. She still is confined to the
hospital.
Returning alone from a visit to
Defiance, Miss Niswander apparently
lost control of the car as it an
preached a bridge on the Putnam
Hancock county line, seven miles
north of the Dixie highway inter
section.
The car southbound, struck the
abutment on the left side of con-
crete bridge over the Hancock
County Brick and Tile ditch, and
toppled the heavy concrete railing
into the stream. Wrecked in the
crash, the car stopped crosswise in
the road.
Farmer Hears Crash
r. A. Wherly living about 40 rods
south of the bridge, heard the crash,
and found Miss Niswander uncon-
scious in the wreckage. He sum-
moned Robert Cook, a neighbor
living north Of the bridge.
Telephone lines to Bluffton, Pam
dora and Ottawa were out Of COM
mission because of a heavy storm
last Thursday, but Wherly was able
to get thru to the state highway
patrol at Findlay on the only avail
able connection while Cook drove to
Pandora to summon DR.. Milo Rice.
They recognized the license as one
from Allen county, and Mrs. Wherly
and Mrs. Cook drove to Bluffton in
an attempt to identify the car. No
papers could be found to establish
identity of the driver.
Meanwhile the state patrol sum-
moned a Findlay ambulance and she
was removed to the Findlay hospital.
The automobile, Ford sedan
owned by Miss Niswander's brother,
Lyle Niswander, wrecked in the
crash, is at the Bixel Motor Sales
garage on Cherry street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
DR.. Ramseyer Filler From Belgium
To Bluffton In 80 Hours This Week

Thirty hours after he boarded a
huge transatlantic plane in Brus-
sells, Belgium, DR.. L. L. Ramseyer,
president of Bluffton college, was
walking the streets of Bluffton, at
the conclusion of an air hop which
again emphasizes the relative un-
Importance of distance in this mod
ern age.
Arriving here at 10 a. m. Tuesday,
DR.. Ramseyer had been in the air
only about "a hours. On the trans
Atlantic flight, he made brief stops
at Newfoundland, New York City,
Cleveland and Toledo, then came the
rest of the way home by auto.
The Bluffton college president had
been in Europe this summer with a
college group studying postwar con-
ditions in nations on that continent.
After arriving here at 10 a. m.
Tuesday, he left at noon for Berne,
Ind, to attend the Mennonite Cen
eral conference in session at that
place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Stroke Fatal To
Boyd CLdpper, II

Private funeral rites will be held
Friday afternoon in the Paul Diller
funeral home for Boyd Clapper, II,
who died at 7:30 a. m. Tuesday in
his home at All Cherry street.
Clapper's death followed three
weeks of illness since he suffered a
stroke on August 9.
A retired farmer and turkey rails
er, he was born August II, 1876, in
Gibsonburg. He was a member of
the Jerusalem Church of Christ in
Orange township.
Survivors include the widow,
Edith, to whom he was married
April "a, 1905; a daughter, Mrs,
Elizabeth Walker, San Antonio,
Texas; two sons, Boyd Clapper, Jr.,
Ada; and George Clapper, Bluffton;
and sister, Mrs. Daisy Owens,
Woodville, Ohio.
Burial will be in the Clymer GEM
etery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Rev. ]. n. Smucker to Continue
Head of Group For Three
Year Term
Two Other Bluffton Men Elect.
ed to Office at Meeting in
Berne, Ind.

Rev. ]. N. Smucker of Bluffton
was reelected president of the Gen
eral Conference of Mennonites which
closed its 31st triennial meeting at
Berne, Ind, Wednesday. Rev. Smuck-
er is pastor of the First Mennonite
church here.
The General Conference is the
largest group of the Mennonite de-
nomination comprising a number of
district conferences and meets once
every three years, serving as a clear
ing house and forum for discussion
of problems and projects common to
the various churches and branches
of the faith.
Two ether Blgffton men elected to
office were Rev. Andrew Shelly and
Rev. Harry Yoder, members of the
church unity committee. All officers
viii serve for q three year period.
Forty-two churches have been add
ed to the membership of the General
conference since the last meeting,
officials announced.
Total membership of the confer
ence as of January /, 1947, was
given as 43,504 communicate mem
bers with a constituency of 70,579
which latter number includes child
ren and affiliating worshippers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
MAN KILLED Is
THIRD BROTHER TO
DIE IN ACCIDENT
Francis ]. Luginbuhl Meets In
slant Death Operating
Electric Weider
Second in Family to be Electro
cuted; Funeral Wednesday
Afternoon

The third of his family taken by
accidental death in the last ID years,
Francis ]. Luginbuhl, 30, son of
Mrs. Mary Luginbuhl, of Bluffton,
was killed instantly at 9:15 a. m.
Monday while operating an electric
welder in an Ada farm service shop.
Eleven years ago, a brother Har-
ley, was fatally injured when two
automobiles collided at Grove street
and College road in Bluffton.
Another brother, Quentin, was
electrocuted 13 years ago when he
was climbing a tree and came in
contact with a live wire.
In Monday mornings mishap,
Luginbuhl's death occurred when he
was working alone in the Mallow
Farm Service shop at Ada. His
body was found slumped over a
beet loader which he had been weld
ing, and it is supposed that in some
manner the electric current became
grounded.
A veteran of World War III, Lug
inbuhl served with the u. s. Army
in the Asiatic-Pacifc campaign. Dis
charged in December, 1945, he was
taking on-the-job training at the
time of his death.
He lived on Route 3, Ada, with his
wife, the former Susannah Lugibihl,
whom he married Jan. 8, 1916, and
a five-months-old son, Frank Wilson
Luginbuhl.
Other survivors include his mother,
Mrs. Mary Luginbuhl, Bluffton Route
2; a brother, Maynard, and a sister,
Alberta.
The welding mishap victim was a
member of Ebenezer Mennonite
church where funeral services were
held Wednesday afternoon. Rev.
Howard Landes, pastor, officiated at
the rites. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
FOR FALL Term ON
TUESDAY MORNING
Second Grade Teacher is Re-
employed by Board, Friday
Night
Few Changes In Staff of In.
structors; Teaching Assign
ments Made

Bluffton public schools will open
for the fall term with full day of
class work, starting at $3.50 a. m.
next Tuesday morning, it was an
bounced this week by Supt. Ralph
S. Lanham.
Enrolment this fall is expected to
show little change from that of last
year, with total registration of ap-
proximately 4S0 according to
advance estimates.
School will open with a full corps
of teachers on the grade and high
school faculty. The last vacancy
was filled last Friday night at a
special meeting of the board of
education when Mrs. Dwight Spaythe
was hired as second grade teacher.
Mrs. Spaythe taught in the same
capacity last year, but resigned last
spring. Her husband is instructor
in high school industrial arts. Mrs.
Spaythe's salary will be $4,000 per
year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
MISHAP nSRUpTS
OHIOS
ELECTRIC SERVICE
Generating Capacity Cut Or
When Spade Cuts Into
75O0-Volt Cable
Bluffton Man Digging Trench
: Escapes EIectrocufion In
Freak Mishap

Electrical service provided by the
Blufton generating plant of the
Central Ohio Light and Power comp
any was disrupted for nearly two
hours Monday afternoon in freak
accident which knocEsa ont the
plants largest unit and Button
workman, Roy Hofer, Jr., 2O, almost
miraculously escaped electrocution on
the plant grounds.
Hofer was digging trench near
the generating plant when his spade
struck an underground cable carry
ing $500 volts from the rover
house to the plants yard-station.
He escaped with singed hair and
eyebrows, but damage to the cable
cut out the plants largest gepArat-
ing turbine, and the two smaller
generators were unable to carry the
load.
Findlay station Of the company
went on the line immediately, but
was unable to provide y full toad,
and for an hour and three quarters
part of the south circuit II the
Observation-Disclosures Coldwater area
was without electrical service.
Repair Damaged Cable
Buttons generating plant went
back on the line Monday afternoon
after temporary repairs had been
made to the cable. After midnight
Monday, the plants large turbine
again was shut down while repairs
were completed.
Hofer was taken to d local physi-
clan, but was found to have escaped
injury. Plant attaches said that If
his foot had been in contact with
the metal part of the spade when it
struck the cable he would have met
instant death.
Hofer is employed at the plant by
the Maxon Construction CO. which
has the contract for work of an ex-
pansion program under way hege for
the last year.
There was no aamage To u afge
turbine when the cable was shorted
in the mishap, because Of an auto
matte cutout which Immediately shut
down power generation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28

The following births at BIuffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Grieser, Jenera,
a boy, Eric Lynn, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Burkholder.
Bluffton, a boy, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Landis, Bluff
ton, a boy, James Lynn, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Martinka,
Findiay, boy, Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Martinka is the former Kath-
crime Null who was previously en-
ployed here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Moving From Blunton

Mr.. and Mrs. Don Wenger end
family have moved to Mission, Tex
rs, in the Rio Grande valley citrus
belt where a number of Bluffton
people have located during the past
year.
Wenger will teach in the high
school there and also serve as as
sistant to his brother-in-law James
Miller, high school athletic coach.
John Martin, who resigned his po-
sition as music instructor in the
schools here moved Tuesday with
his family to Point Pleasant. West
Virginia, where he has accepted a
nos'tion as public school music in
structor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
High Grid
Workouts Started

Grid candidates for this years
Bluffton High school team have been
working out twice daily at Harmon
field under the direction of Coach
Kent Cotterman, since practice was
started Wednesday of last week.
With Buttons first appearance
slated for the towns football pre-
vue here Friday night of next week,
the Pirate mentor has only two
weeks of practice sessions to get his
team into shape for its 16-minute
prevue assignment against Forest.
Coach Cotterman has been work
ing with a squad of 80 candidates
in the twice-daily sessions. Present
indications are that this years Bluff
ton team will have a heavier line
than that of last season, but that
backheld candidates will be consid-
erably smaller.