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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-20
FROM HONOLuLu

MT. and Mrs George Armitage from Honolulu, Hawaii, are here and guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-20
RESCUE NEAR FOR STEAMER,
 ICE CAUGHT

BULLETIN - SEATTLE, May 20.-tR-The Coast Guard cutter Bittersweet has reached the ice encircled freighter Square Knot and is breaking path through the Bristol Bay ice with the freighter following behind.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-20
PELICAN VISITOR

Aroo Hamalainen from Peli- can is in Juneau and staying at the Gastineau Hotel
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. . . . Q . . . WEATHER REPORT

. tu. s. WEATHER BUREAU) (
 . Temperatures for z4-hour period [ . ending 7:30 th,s morning . In Juneau Maximum. 48, [ . minimum, 42. | . At Airport Maximum, AT, | . minimum, 43. Q F o k l. q A ST [ . tJuneau and Vicinity) [ . Continued cloudy and rainy { . tonight with showers tomor- { . row. Little warmer . PRECIPITATION [
 . tPast 24 hours ending 5;3o a I'm. today . . In Juneau l.22 inches; . since May 1, 2.66 inches; . since July l. 84l0 inches, [ . At Airport ,75 inches; { . since May l. l.27 inches, . since July 1, 1892 inches. {
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FROM PENNSYLVANIA

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Interior Convention

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The W Washington Merry -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON

Copyright, l948, by The Bell Syndicate.
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Evening star., 1948-04-18
II. S. Wives in Japan Find Life
Far From Core-Free Existence

world competitive prices. Anxious
businessmen wonder whether the
United States will ever use silk
again.
Women Lead in Readjustment.
In Mrs. Howe's opinion, the jap
anese women of the higher classes
are adjusting themselves to the new
era more rapidly than the men are.
They are urging their daughters to
seek opportunities for themselves In
gainful occupations, since equality
of any kind was entirely unknown
to them in the family relationship.
Secretarial courses appeal to jap
anese high school students in all
classes. A typewriter of any make
is worth its weight in gold.
A favorite question with the jap
anese women is, What do American
women do all day If their mechan-
ical devices do all of the work for
them?"
Food habits of the Japanese are
Evening star., 1948-04-18

ents." as they Mrs. Paul E. Howe.
and their children are characterized
in Army vernacular, do not lead
care-free lives of ease and luxury,
Mrs. Howe said.
There is no corner drugstore or
chain store. They do all their
shopping In commissaries and PIX
establishments so as not to tap
Japan's already inadequate supply.
The food is good, but 1t comes chief
ly in cans or in dehydrated pack
ages, and it takes a bit of doing to
give meals that "home flavor" Tor
months on end, or to keep the
menus from monotony.
Often homemakers have to get
used to breaking twice as many
eggs as the recipe stipulates.
Sometimes the plumbing, the elec-
tricity and the heating go of
quite without provocation-in the
so-called "westernized" homes.
Just an Adventure.
Help" is readily obtainable, but
the sign language is more often than
not the only means of communlca-
ton between mistress and maid
Our American mechanical devices,
our modes of housekeeping and food
preparation, as well as the food it
self, are puzzles seldom solved our
ing the average domestic's regime
"The American spirit OF ad-
venture tides many an Army de-
pendent over a series Of battling
homemaking difficulties, any one OF
which might otherwise easily de-
feat her" Mrs. Howe told me. .
The wives have organized all
sorts Of self-improvement groups
among themselves. Those with
children help sustain the excellent
American School In Tokyo which
enrolls pupils from the elementary
grades through high school. With
the help OF certain OF the mission
schools in Tokyo, another group
co-operates bringing out the Ameri-
can housekeeping manual which
shows on opposite pages its IN
structions in English and the equiv
alent in Japanese.
Exchange for Clothing.
An Outgrown Shop and Thrift
Shop similar to the ones being op-
Grated here in Washington by
Junior Leagurers and various COM
bined charities are constantly
expanding feature Of the Tokyo
PIX. Sustained entirely by re-
sourceful, volunteer assistants, ex-
cept for one paid clerical worker
this project of a group Of Army
wives with young children is under
writing substantial donations to
such humanitarian welfare under
takings as Japanese orphanages and
the establishment Of nursery for
premature babies.
LARA which stands for Licensed
Agencies Relief Association, Is
the central bureau through which
aid is extended to all of the va
rious church and civilian relief
groups in Japan. Absolutely non
discriminatory in its effectiveness,
its board Of management includes
Catholic priest and Miss Rose,
the well-known Quaker leader.
The poverty in Japan is very
great. Added to 1t is the problem
of a high birth rate. Since only
IS per cent OF the land is tillable
Japan must import food to sustain
her people even under the most
favorable circumstances. Today
she is faced with the necessity OF
cultivating some market for her
goods within the range of present
Evening star., 1948-04-18

50 different from our own. For In
stance, it is great struggle for
them to accustom themselves to
American breakfast cereals, when
they prefer a bit of rice and soup.
Charcoal braziers or tiny electric
plates, with no labor saving devices,
constitute the conventional equip
ment of Japanese kitchen. Run
ming water is almost unknown, ex-
cept in the larger, westernized
homes, and so is any kind of heat
ing system.
A Japanese mother personally
prepares the food In individual serv-
ices for her husband and sons.
When they have eaten she and her
daughters take their places. The
family meal as we know it is nom
existent among the great masses.
Evening star., 1948-04-18

der Gen. Mac
Arthur, accord
ing to Mrs. Paul
E. H o W e O t
Washington.
Mrs. Howe has
! u S t returned
with Col. Howe.
He was nutri-
ton consultant
on the staff Of
c O /. Crawford
Sans, head of
the public health
welfare section
of soap.
These depend
Evening star., 1948-04-18
By Jessie Font Evons

The wives of American personnel
in Japan are making a splendid
contribution to the forward march
of Christianity and democracy un-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
SlUiss Color Film .
Here This Friddy

Color motion pictures of Switzer-
lands most famous beauty spots will
be featured in an illustrated lecture
to be given at 8 p. m. this Friday
in Ramseyer chapel on the BIuffton
college campus by Count Byron de
Prorok, famous archaologist and ex-
plorer.
Beauty in the high Alps, gorgeous
mountain scenery, rare Alpine flora,
wild animal life and shots of the
eternal SHOWS and glaciers are fea-
tured in the colored films of VIII
liam Tell country and the Matter
horn.
The film was made under the Off
cial auspices and collaboration of the
Swiss Federal government and Count
de Prorok, who was educated in
Geneva, worked for the League of
Nations and was with the Swiss Red
Cross in four wars.
The pictures are highly recon-
mended, especially for persons of
Swiss descent interested in that
country, according to Mrs. Bertha
Goetsch, formerly of Bluffton, who
saw the film in Cleveland.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01

Mayor Baker has proclaimed April
5th to 30th as cancer month in Bluff
ton. Cooperating with the Ameri-
can Cancer Association the City Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs is spon-
soring a drive to raise money TO be
spent for research, education and
medical service of cancer.
At a meeting held last Wednes-
day the City Federation president,
Mrs. Herman Hilty, assigned various
responsibilities in connection with
the campaign. The Century Circle
will contact industry and take
charge of the distribution Of coin
boxes to the stores throughout the
community.
The Travel Glass is sponsoring
Tag Day to be held April 10th. The
Poinsetta Club is responsible for
contracting various organizations in
town for special gifts and cooperat-
ing with G. L. Carmack in theater
contributions. The Alpha Gamma
Club is in charge of publicity.
The American Cancer Assn. is a
non-profit organization with central
headquarters in New York and di-
visional offices in each state thru
out the United States. April 9Th at
500 p. m. Mr.. L. E. Herget, divis-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
Bluffton Organizes For Nationwide
Observance OF April AS Cancer Month

ional managing director of Cleve-
land, will be in Lima to conduct a
meeting to establish the Allen Coun-
ty Unit. The meeting will be held
at Lima Memorial Hospital Nurses
home. All Bluffton doctors and
nurses and others interested are
urged to attend.
Half of all funds collected in AL
len county will remain and be used
within the county. The first activity
of the Allen County Unit will be to
establish an information bureau. The
establishment of this information bu-
reau is the first step toward the
founding of a fully equipped detec-
tion center. These detection centers
serve all people who wish to have a
periodic check-up as a safe guard
against the hidden symptoms of can
Ger. In light of the present knowl-
edge of cancer one of the most inn
portant steps toward the control Of
the disease and reduction of the
death rate is the detection clinic.
At present the nearest clinic is in
Marion, Ohio. Bluffton can help
establiseh this clinic and fight can
Ger by giving funds. The Bluffton
area will be able to use any and al
of the facilities made available by
this campaign.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
Fnty-Fnth Wedding
Anniversary Sunday

Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilkins of
Cherry street celebrated their 55th
wedding anniversary with a family
dinner at the home of their son
John w. Wilkins east of Arlington,
Sunday.
There was an attendance of 56 at
the dinner, all of their 13 children
being present except one daughter,
Mrs. Treva Chrisbaie of Toledo, who
was absent because of illness. A
large cake topped with a gold bell
and "55" centered the buffet table.
Mr.. Wilkins is aged 80 years and
his wife, the former Mary Ann
Barkimer, 72. The coupe were mar
ried at Findlay March %, 1898.
They spent As years farming near
Bluffton, first living on the former
A. J. Owens farm, now the Blufton
airport and later for "a years on
the farm southeast of Bluffton now
owned by their son Delbert Wilkins.
Fourteen years ago they retired
moving to their present home on
Cherry street.
Present for the observance Sun
day were:
Mr., and Mrs. Luke Scoles, Walter
Scott Scoles, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Basinger and family, Pandora; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles F. Hanna and fam
lily, Benton Ridge; Mr.. and Mrs.
Dwight E. Mauk and family, Lima;
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Wilkins, Pauline
Bilby, Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd Clapper,
Ada.
Rudy Wilkins, Bethel, Mich; Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Crawford, Mr.. and
Mrs. Delbert wilkins and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Waldo Wilkins and family,
Marvin Crawford, Clarence Bilby,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Radertscher and
family and the honored couple Mr..
and Mrs. John Wilkins, Bluffton,
and the host and hostess Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Wilkins and family.
Many gifts and congratulatory
cards were received by Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilkins.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
START EXCAVATION.
FOR BOILER ROOM
AT LIGHT PLANT.
Excavation for Building Addi-
ton and Boiler Win Be
Put in Soon
Lima Contractor Then Win Stop
Work Until New Boiler Is
i'm Place Here

Excavation was started Tuesday
for a new building addition to house
a boiler being added to generating
facilities of the municipal light and
power plant, the final step in an
expansion program launched nearly
two years ago to handle increased
demands of local electric current con-
sumers.
? A power shovel was being used in
the excavation work By the construc-
ton crew of Herbert Tuttle, Lima
contractor, whose bid Of $30,8O0 was
the lowest submitted for erection of
the building.
The new boiler house, situated in
line with the plants present boilers,
will be 25 by, go feet, and 40 feet
high. 1t will be of brick, harmonic
ing with the present structure.
After foundations for the building
and the boiler arc poured Tuttle
will stop work until the new boiler
arrives and is set in place. Delivery
of the boiler is expected in April,
from the Barberton, o., firm of
Babcock and Wilcox.
When the boiler is in place, the
new building will be constructed
around it, according to Supt. John
Swisher, of the Bluffton plant.
Funds needed for construction of
the building, and to complete other
phases of the plants expansion pro-
gram were made available two weeks
ago, when the board Of public affairs
sold $4,000 worth of additional
revenue bonds to the Toledo bond
firm of Stranahan, Harris and Co.
An earlier issue of S125,000 had
been sold to the Toledo firm at the
start Of the Improvement program,
Payments on bond retirement and
interest win Be made from receipts
Of the plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
RAILROAD ASKS
TOWN PAY HALF OF
COST OF SIGNALS
Nickel Plate Claims Warming
Signal Lights Unnecessary
at College Avenue
Installation Will Be Made if
Town Shares Expense with
the Railroad

A Nickel Plate railroad offer to
install electrically operated warning
tiashers at the College Avenue cross
ing if the town pays half the cost
this week represented the newest
development in the municipalities
battle for grade crossing signals
stretching back over more than a
decade.
Prefacing the offer made in a
letter to Mayor Arden r. Baker,
the communication stated at is our
thought the amount Of use of this
crossing does not warrant additional
crossing protection.
However, if the city Of Bluffton
| Is desirous Of installing flashing
light signals actnated from track
circuits as added crossing protection
the railroad company will
provide the cost of maintenance and
operation, providing the city of
Bluffton would be willing to con-
tribute one-half of the cost of in
stalling the signals"
First Acknowledgment
r. d. Maloney, superintendent of
the Lake Erie and Western division
of the Nickel Plate, was writer of
the letter, the first acknowledgment
of municipal requests for action in
the matter since the new council
took office last January.
Attempts of the town to eliminate
what officials term a serious traffic
hazard at the College avenue cross
ing go back over a period of more
than 10 years.
With further Capitalization of in
dustrial and business activity in the
area just east of the railroad,
municipal officials renewed requests
for the lights again this winter.
In March, 1947, the railroad con-
Quoted a two-day survey of triffic at
the intersection, showing the cross
ing was used by 598 automobiles;
100 trucks; az other vehicles; &c
pedestrians; 20 freight trains and
four passenger trains.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
STORM WATER IS
MAJOR PROBLEM
IN II AREAS HERE
10 Of Districts Lie West of
Main Street Between Elm
and Grove
Creation of Private Sewer Dis
tricts Held AS Best Rene
dial Procedure

Bluffton has II residential areas
IN which major sewer drainage
problems are being experienced, 10
of which lie in district west of
Main street between Grove and Elm
streets, members of the town council
learned in a survey made last week,
climaxed by discussion at public
meeting Monday night in the high
school building.
More than 30 residents appeared
at the session as spokesmen for
householders experiencing troubles
from sewers in their respective
areas.
In addition to explaining their
problems, they learned from village
officials that under the towns
present setup of unplanned private
and storm water drainage sewers
there are no municipal funds avail
able to cope with the situation, or to
provide workable plan of pro-
,cedure.
Create Sewer Districts
Major hope held out to house
holders in attempting to bring order
to the jumbIed sewer program and
afford relief to affected areas would
be in the organization of sewer dis
tricts, under which properly en-
gineered sewers would be installed
by the town, with assessments to
cover the cost levied against property
holders affected.
Creation of the sewer districts
would be particularly appropriate
where considerable areas are. ex-
periencing problems, those attending
the meeting were told.
Major areas in which the sewer
district plan probably would best
answer existing problems would be
that section west Of Main street,
bordered by Elm and Grove street;
a considerable area east of the
Nickel Plate railroad where main
trunk, sewer running down Cherry
street handles drainage for most of
the surrounding area, and a district
on Route 103 east of the railroad
also carrying drains from the north
ern end of Mound street.
The survey made last week by
village officials, and completed at
Mondays meeting, for the first time
provides a detailed analysis of the
extent of the towns sewer problems.
More than 40 questionnaires were
filled out by affected property own
ers in the survey.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
Concert Pianist
Here Wednesday

Appearing as the final presenta-
ton on the Bluffton College 1947 -48
Concert series, Jerold Frederic, one
of the outstanding pianists of the
younger generation, will be present
ed at $3.50 p. m. this Wednesday
in the Bluffton High school auditori-
um.
In addition to appearing as a
popular concert artist, Frederic
serves on the faculty of the Ohio
State university. He is presenting
80 concerts in a coast-to-coast tour
this season.
Of singular interest is the unique
way in which Frederic has solved
the shipping of the Steinway concert
grand piano he uses exclusively on
his tours. A specially built auto
trailer of his own design provides a
safe, all-weather conveyance for
transportation of the musical instru-
ment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
Refugee Finds BlufftOn Woman's Name
In War-Wrecked Library In Hungary
Mobile X-Ruy Unit
In BILtftOn Schools

The mobile tuberculosis x-ray unit
of Allen county, was in the Blufton
Blutfton schools on Monday for
Bluffton's annual check-up on tuber-
culosis in the public schools.
Approximately 200 persons re-
ceived the x-ray, those in grades six,
seven, nine, and eleven, and all new
students and teachers in the cur
riculum this year. Patch tests were
given in the grade school earlier in
the year and those having positive
reactions to the test were also X
rayed.
This service is sponsored free of
charge by the Allen County Tuber-
culosis association to the schools in
Allen county.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
Unusual Manufacturing Processes To
Be Seen In Triplett Open House Tour
American
Bishop To Speak

Bishop Arthur F. Wesley, of East
ern South American Methodist
churches, win be the speaker at a
special service in the Bluffton Meth
odist church, at p. m. this Thurs
day.
Bishop Wesley is a personal
friend of Rev. and Mrs. F. ]. Bat
terson, of this place, and will be
their guests while in Bluffton. He
served in South American missionary
work with the local couple.
While in Bluffton, Bishop Wesley
also will speak at Blufton college,
and will be guest of the Methodist
church at its Fellowship supper, pre-
ceding the public service, Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
Teacher Plans To
Remain In School

Although art instruction in the
Bluffton schools viii be dropped from
the curriculum next fall, Mrs. r. A.
Lantz, instructor IN that department
said she viii continue Oh the teach
ing staff under provisions of the
teacher tenure statute.
Her statement came following ac-
tion of the board of education last
week in which high school depart
ments of art, speech and agriculture
were dropped as an economy move
to Offset added cost of two more
teachers in the grade schools because
of anticipated increase in enrolment
next fall.
Mrs. Lantz, who has been head of
the art department also holds a pro-
visional grade school teaching GER
tifcate, it was stated. No action
has been takn by the board of edu-
cation in the matter of hiring the
additional teachers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-01
GYMNASIUM FUND
AT COLLEGE PAST
HALFWAY MARK
Contributions, Pledges Amount
to S133,000 Toward Pro-
posed $4,000 Building
Another Major Gift of $4,000
Is Announced; Building to
Wait Until Goal Reached

With contributions and pledges
nearing a figure of $4,000, Bluffton
colleges drive to raise $250,00O for
the construction of a new gymnasium
on the campus has passed the half
way mark in the first Is months of
solicitation.
Among recently announced major
gifts, is a $4,000 fund contributed
by Mrs. Henry Stauffer, of Palm,
Pa, as a memorial to her late
husband.
Owner of a general store and
glove factory in Palm, Stauffer was
a member of the Upper Milford Men
MONTE church near Zionville, Pa. The
$4,000 gift will be used IN the
gymnasium building program, and 4
special part Of the structure will be
designated at the Henry Stauffer
Memorial.
A total of $132,906.42 has been
contributed or pledged in the drive
to date, college authorities announc-
ed in the March Alumni Bulletin. OF
the aggregate, $115,372.49 represents
cash on hand.
Remodel College Hall
Altho the gymnasium building
program will not be launched until
the goal of $25O,000 has been at
tanned, extensive construction work
on the campus this summer will eff
feet the remodeling of College hall,
affording complete Encouragement of
all offices and the college-operated
book store.
In proposed major alterations, of
fees of the president, dean and the
general office of the college will be
moved from the second floor to the
first floor of the building.
Second-foor quarters now devoted
to office space and the book store
will be remodeled into classrooms.
The book store will be moved into
larger quarters on the first floor.
When alterations are completed,
the main floor of the structure will
be given over to Ramseyer chapel,
principal college offices and the book
store. Class rooms will be on the
basement level and the second and
third floors.
College hall was the original build
ing on the Bluffton campus, erected
in 1908. Until 1929 when the new
Mussellman library was erected, it
housed the college library on the
second floor. Among major later
revisions was the construction of
modern chapel shortly before the
war.