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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
BluftOn College
Commencement Activities
Nay 1881, I948

Friday May %
600 P. NJ ri Delta Banquet, Walnut Grill
500 P. NJ Booster Concert >Ramseyer Chapel
Saturday, May 20
$500 A. nj. Womens Varsity Breakfast
s:ooA, M Mems Varsity B Breakfast
Walnot Grill
1000 A. M. Alumni Baseball Game
Alumni Varsity Tennis Matches
12:00M Luncheon for Everyone Campus
Class Reunions '38, '2s, '18, 08
200 0P. NJ 1948 Class Program
300 P NJ. 1s4s and 1888 Box Ceremony
- College Hall
4:00 P. NJ. Crowning of May Queen Campus
900 P. NJ Alumni Banquet 49,. Ropp Hall
$3.50 P. M. The Tanning of the shrew
= High School Auditorium
Sunday. May 80
$3.50 A, M. Sunday School in the Churches
10:30 A. NJ. Church Services
300 ?. NJ. Baccalaureate Services
Ramseyer Chapel
Address: "A More EXCELLENT Way
II Cor. -12:31)
Pres. Lloyd L. Ramseyer
4:15 P. M. Presidents Reception :
7:so P NJ vesper Choir Concert
First Mennonite Church
Monday, May 81
1000 A. NJ. Commencement Program
First Mennonite Church
Address: Education IN a Changing
Dr. c. c. Ellis, President Emeritus
Juniata College
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
"A SENIORS WILL
BE GRADUATED AT
HIGH SCHOOL HERE
Commencement Exercises viii
Be Held in Gymnasium,
Thursday Night
DIR. Willis A. Sutton, Former
NEA President, viii Be
Class Speaker

Climaxing a week of varied COM
mencement activity, graduation ex-
ercises for Al Bluffton High school
seniors will be held Thursday night
at o'clock in the school gymnasium
auditorium.
Presentation of the diplomas SYM
bolizing the completion of IL years
of public school activity will come
as the concluding event of a busy
week for the graduating seniors,
which included the baccalaureate last
Sunday and staging of the senior
class play on Monday and Tuesday.
With the exception of the annual
alumni banquet and dance on the
following night, graduation exercises
Thursday will bring commencement
week activities to close.
Glass Speaker
DIR. Willis A. Sutton, superintend-
ent emeritus of the Atlanta, Ga,
public schools, and a former presi-
dent of the National Education as
ISOLATION, will be the class speaker
at commencement exercises.
A well-known popular lecturer on
educational problems, DR.. Sutton also
is an author of books on boy life
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
First and Second Graders Make
Tour of Post Office to See
Mail Process
Flying Service Provides Enyel-
opes for Students to Pub
licize Campaign

An airlnail mailing program among
students in Bluffton public schools
and Bluffton college, including a free
cacheted envelope for each pupil and
a tour of the post office for first
and second graders, will mark Bluff
tons observance of national air mail
week, which closes this Friday.
Pupil participation in the pro-
gram highlights local post office de-
partment activities in connection
with the Both anniversary of air
mail, inaugurated on May 5, 1918.
In connection with the Bluffton
program each student received a free
airmail envelope, imprinted with a
special cachet, which they are to
mail out during airmail week.
The airmail observance is spon-
sored by the Bluffton Flying service,
operated by Clayton Bixel and
Harold Carey.
On Wednesday morning, first and
second graders were taken on a con-
Quoted tour through the post office,
mailing his envelope at that time,
and watched it processed for mail
ing. The air letters mailed by the
pupils are taken by rail to Toledo
and other cities for dispatch by
plane.
Talks were made to the group by
Assistant Postmaster Ralph 7.
Stearns, Dallas Berry, Byron And
erson and Eugene Benroth.
Edward r. Reichenbach, Bluffton
postmaster, urges the public to use
the cacheted envelopes and help swell
the local Offices outgoing volume of
mail during the observance.
Envelopes with the cachet imprint
ed are available for the general
public at the post office.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
High School Alumni
Reunion Friday Night

Bluffton high school alumni re-
union will be held at the high school
Friday night with a dinner and pro-
gram at 6:30 followed by dancing.
Presiding at the after dinner pro-
gram will be James F. West, alumni
president who will deliver the well
come address followed with the re-
sponse by Donald Herr, president of
the incoming class.
Other numbers include invocation
by Ralph stearns, group singing led
by Mrs. Mabel Steiner; vocal trio,
Jean Burkholder, Mary Ann Smuck-
er and Ada May Oyer accompanied
by Harriet Burkhart; Memorial,
Mrs. Edith Mann; Fifty Years Ago,
Sidney Hauenstein; Piano solo, Ada
May Oyer; Twenty-Five Years Ago,
Aaron B. Murray, Washington Court
House; Address, Atty. Ralph Locher,
Cleveland; marimba solo, Barbara
Jean Triplett.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
High School Seniors
Going To Washington

Climaxing five months of varied
activities, Bluffton High School sem
iors will leave for four day trip
to Washington, D. c., next Monday.
Forty-three of the forty-four grad
uating seniors will go on the post
graduate tour accompanied by
Dwight Spayth, class advisor, and
Miss Theresa Slusser, faculty men,
Der.
The group will leave from Lima at
5:45 p. m. from the Baltimore and
Ohio station, and will arrive in
Washington the next morning, where
they will register at the Annapolis
Hotel.
Sight seeing tours will take the
students to Arlington National Gem
etery, Lee Mansion, Tomb of I'm
known Soldier, Mount Vernon, Ma
tional Airport, Jefferson and Lin
coin Memorials.
In tour of the city, the students
will visit the Bureau of Printing
and Engraving, Pan American Build
ing, White House, Old and New Ma
tionaI Museums, u. S. Capitol, Ii
prary of Congress, Supreme Court,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
National Gallery of Art. A special
tour takes the class to Annapolis to
visit the r. S. Naval Academy.
The trip costs s55 per person, s2s
Of which each student pays his own
The class has raised the remainder
Of the cost by bake sales, paper
drives and other activities. This in
.cludes all expenditures except fol
Refreshments, incidentals, and even.
ing entertainment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
38 WILL RECEIVE
COLLEGE DEGREES
HERE THIS SPRING
Commencement Exercises At
Button College VIII Be
Held Monday, May 81
Busy Commencement Week Pro-
gram Will Include Bacca-
laureate on May 80

Rejecting the postwar upturn in
collegiate enrolment, 38 Bluffton coll
lege seniors will be graduated at
commencement exercises on Monday
morning, May 81, in the First Men
MONTE church auditorium.
The degrees to be conferred on the
1948 graduating class are varied, in
cluding seven classifcations.
Of the seniors, Is will receive
Bachelor of Arts degrees; six Bach
elor of School Music; four Bachelor
of Science; three Bachelor of Science
in Home Economies three Bachelor
of Science in Education; two Bach
elor of Science in Nursing; one
Bachelor of Science in Social Service;
and one Bachelor of Science in
Economies and Business.
Presentation of diplomas to gradu-
ates will come as the climax to IA
busy weekend of commencement
activity including class reunions,
May Day festivities and the alumni
banquet on Saturday, May %, and
the bacealaureate on Sunday, May
80.
Graduates who will receive degrees
this year include:
Bachelor of Arts
Carold V. Blosser, Jenera; Mary
Agnes Burkhard, Orrtanna, Pa;
David Dudley Dean, Jr., Bluffton;
James Frey, Archbold, o.; Annette
Grolimund, Mulhouse, France; ely
menia Hannah Hamman, East Green
vile, Pa.
Howard Floyd Herr, Bluffton;
Stanley F. Hostetter, Dalton; Will
liam Echard Keeney, Bluffton; Paul
P. Klassen, Bluffton; Evelyn Nunne-
maker Krehbiel, Bluffton; Paul Moser
Martin, Bluffton; Alice Locher Neu-
ensehwander, Pandora; Anne Louise
Plapp, Wapakoneta; Barbara Ann
Springer, Berne, Ind; Russell L.
Stewart, Lima; Freda Yoder, Bluff
ton; Treva Zuercher, Hatfield, Pa.
Bachelor of School Music
Lois Susanna Oyer, Bluffton; Eliza
beth Frances Waterstraw, Fairport,
NJ. Y; Mabel Amstutz, Bluffton;
Arlene Jane Hartzler, Goshen, Ind; ;
Roberta June Manages, Bluffton; Alice
Virginia Oyer, Bluffton.
Bachelor of Science
Richard K. Bergy, Bluffton; Rom
aid Lee Rich, Washington, ILL.,; Wall
is Allen Turner, Antwerp, o.; Robert
William Critics, Lima.
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economies
Harriet Jean Schertz, Metamora,
H.; Genevieve Elaine Buhler, Bluff
ton; Nova Joan McCarty, Waynes-
field.
Bachelor of Science i'm Education
Herbert John Klassen, Bluffton;
Howard Z. Krehbiel, Bluffton; Marie
Winifred Smith, Kalida, %.
Bachelor of Science i'm Nursing
Jean Yoder, Wawaka, Ind; Villa
dene H. Keeney, Bluffton.
Bachelor of Science in Social Service
Jean Harrison Gilbert, Dayton.
Bachelor of Science i'm Economics
| and Business
Lloyd Earl Hunsberger, Wads.
worth, o.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
Plan To Sell 1000
FL0tOers Poppy Day

Sale of 1000 poppies in Bluffton
on Poppy Day, Saturday, May 20,
is announced as it's goal by the
American Legion Auxiliary in charge
of the project. W..
Selling poppies on the downtown
streets of the business section will
be members of the Auxiliary, to-
gether with high school Girl Re-
serves and F. II. A.
The poppies are made of crepe
paper by disabled war veterans and
proceeds go for the benefit of the
veterans and their families.
Official designation of Poppy Day
was made in the following mayors
proclamation issued Tuesday:
Whereas, citizens of Bluffton
served gallantly in defense of their
country in two world wars, many
sacrificing their lives, and
Whereas the memory of those
who so died will always be held in
honor and a source of patriotic in
spiration, and
, Whereas this memory is brighten
ed each year and honor paid to the
war dead by the wearing of the Me-
mortal Poppy on the Saturday before
Memorial day, now
Therefore, |, Arden r. Baker
mayor of Bluffton proclaim Satur.
day, May 90 to be Poppy Day ir
Bluffton and urge all citizens to OBJ.
serve the day by wearing the Me,
mortal Poppy.
Arden r. Baker, Mayor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
uEERING
TOWARD EARLIER
CORN PLANTING
Trend is Toward Grahdfather's
Rule of May 10 AS
Ideal Time
Early Fall Frosts Have Nipped
Corn Planted Last Part
of May

Grandfather apparently knew
something about farming and agri-
cultural experts who up until this
year advised delaying corn planting
until May % are falling in line with
the pioneer axiom of getting seed
into the ground as near May 10 as
possible.
With this areas corn crop caught
by early fall frosts for the past
several years, experts now regard
the middle of May the ideal time to
complete planting, and weather per-
mitting this week will find the
major portion of the crop in the
ground.
Approximately 80 per cent of the
districts corn crop will be seeded
by next Saturday night if favorable
weather prevails throughout the
week, reliable farm observers point
ed out Tuesday.
Some corn already has been plant
ed, especially by those subscribing
to the theory that seeding should be
done between May II to 20. Another
school of thought favors a May Is
to % dateline, but both are veering
nearer to grandfather's May 10 date
in actual practice.
Weather Big Factor
Whether seeding will near compile
ton by the close of this week will
be dependent on the weather, a facor
of Importance inasmuch as consider
able plowing remains to be done.
Although farmers got away to an
early start with their tillage, inter
mittent rains the last two weeks
| much of the time have made the soil
too wet for working.
With favorable weather this week
and next, corn planting will not
present too big a problem for the
areas mechanical farming opera
tions. Acreage is expected to be
about average, with no incentive for
farmers to extend their usual plans
Factors working against expanded
corn acreage hinge on the outlook
of livestock to which the crop can be
fed, reflection on the uncertainty
of future markets, rising costs and
shortage of labor, situation carry.
ing with it a potential shortage ir
event of unusual demand.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
DRIVE OPENS FOR
BETTER LIGHTING
ON HARMON FIELD
Community Progress Associa-
ton Sponsors Campaign to
Raise $4,000
Present Lighting System Out
dated And Replacement
Said Necessary

New lights for the Harmon field
football stadium are sought in a May
campaign sponsored by the Com
munity Progress association to raise
1000 for replacement Of the present
lighting system.
In the drive, community organiza-
tions are being contacted for con-
tributions, and interested individuals
are requested to make donations to
help reach the goal.
Speedy conclusion of the campaign
is sought to permit installation of
the new lights for this summers
softball play, which will open the
first week in June. ..
Present lights at the field are out
dated and at least 40 per cent in
efficient, according to surveys made
here this spring by lighting engin,
eers. -..
High school athletic officials at
the same time pointed out that altho
10 years ago Bluffton had one of the
best lighted fields in Northwest Ohio
the local setup now is the poorest
lighted in the area.
A well-ighted field is essential tc
variety of local activity, it was
pointed out, including high school
and college football, summer soft
ball, the rodeo and the Recreation
committees football preview.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
Central Ohio Plant
Open House Nay ~

The Central Ohio Light & Power
company will hold open house at it's
Woodcock Electric generating plant
in Bluffton on Thursday, May 27, ac-
,cording to an announcement by
Emory ID. Erwin, executive vice pres
ident and general manager of the
company.
Hours will be from 1000 a. m. to
400 p. m. and the public is invited
when guides will conduct visitors
through the plant and explain the
various operations of the plant in
the generating and supplying of cleo
trio current to its network of pa
irons through this area.
The company recently completed a
substantial expansion program at its
plant here including installation of
a new fourth boiler and turbo-gen-
orator unit, adding materially to
efficiency of the station which al
ready has established records among
power plants throughout the country.
The new boiler measures 81 feet
high and weighs over 1868 tons. 1t
holds 8 tons of water which pro-
.duces steam at the rate of 10000
pounds per hour.
The new turbo-generator is the
largest unit in the plant and is rat
ed at 10000 kilowatts. Five fiat
cars were required to move the parts
for this machine to the plant. Com
pletely installed it weighs 108 tons
and is supported by a concrete and
reinforcing steel base weighing 922
tons.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20

what is to come if more sensible op-
Grafton of cars and scooters is not
Immediately apparent, the mayor
warned.
Hope of setting up a patrol of the
towns principal streets to control
speeding also was voiced by the
mayor, but he pointed out the prin-
cipal obstacle is the lack of police
car and insufficient funds to buy
one. In the meantime, although
local police officials will be doing
their best to control unsafe driving
conditions under a handicap, con-
victed operators viii feel the full
force of stiff sentences in court.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
PETITIONS SEEK TO.
BAN COMICS SAID
UNFIT FOR YOUTHS.
Organized Drive Would Ban &c
Different Comic Magazines
Mayor Says ..,,,.I
Mimeographed Petitions A p
parently Have Been Widely
Circulated In Village

Comic magazines alleged unfit for
children drew the fire of Bluffton
citizenry this week, as petitions in
what appears to be an organized
campaign, began coming into the
mayors office through the mail.
Asking a ban on the sale of Sc
comic publications a considerable
majority of those sold in Bluffton
newsstands, the petitions are mimeo-
graphed and apparently have had
widespread circulation. So far,
petitions bearing the names of 80
persons have been received.
Altho apparently motivated by
action in several Michigan cities
local petitioners are asking for n
much more extensive ban, the mayor
said.
In Michigan, Is comic magazines
were barred from newsstands, but
the Bluffton group have added 81
others to the list. Fifteen of the
number listed on the petitions as
unfit for sale have the same char
acters as comic strips in newspapers
circulated here.
The mayor said that before
presenting the matter to council he
felt more specific basis of objec-
tions should come from petitioners,
particularly in the matter of widely
read newspaper comic strip charact-
ers such as "Red Ryder" "Steve
Canyon" TERRY and the Pirates,' :
"Tarzan" and "Dick Tracy" and
others which have been read IN
newspapers by many families for
years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
Win Standings
In State Contest

Three Bluffton high school stu
dents have qualified for standings in
the state scholarship contest held re-
Gently. John Bauman placed fifth
in biology and Theo. Bauman and
Ruth Diller received honorable men
ton for standing in the top 25 per
cent in social science and English
respectively.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
Student Recital

Final public student recital of the
college department. of music
will be held in Ramseyer chapel, Fri
day night at o'clock. Appearing on
the program will be Alice Oyer,
voice; Roberta Manges, cello, and
Arlene Hartzler, piano, students of
Professors Sidney Hauenstein, Mrs.
H. p. Mann and Russell A. Lantz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
Graduated From
Bible Sgn1inuru

Earl Dean Luginbuhl, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Gideon Luginbuhl of West
Elm street was graduated Thursday
from Cincinnati Bible seminary He
has accepted a pastorate in Wheat
land, Ind. Attending the graduation
exercises were his parents and sis
ter Dora Jean. !:
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
Town Police Crack Down On Reckless
Motorists And Scooter Operators
Fines And Suspended Driving
Privileges Are Melted Out
In Mayors Court
Police Also Instructed To Nab
Youths Shooting Fireworks
In Village

Bluffton police this week cracked
down on speeding and reckless oper-
alton of motor vehicles, with fines
and suspended driving privileges in
the offing for violators hailed into
court.
Teen-agers bore the brunt of cam
paign in its earlier stages, with one
automobile driver and two motor
scooter operators taken before the
mayor on charges of reckless driv-
ing.
Fines and suspension of driving
privileges for 21 days, meted out in
two cases, are lenient compared with
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20

Teenagers who have been
shooting firecrackers and dis
playing burning sparklers also
will be in plenty of trouble if
apprehended by Bluffton police,
the mayor said Tuesday. State
and village ordinance prohibit
the sale of or discharge of fire.
works of any kind. Police have
orders to place any violators
under arrest.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20
BUILDING BARN

Ira Moser is building a barn, steel
construction, DO by 80 on his farm
south of Bluffton in Orange town
ship.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-05-20

Historians say that women in the
Middle Ages used cosmetics. And
women in the middle ages still use
them! Ray De Boer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Town, Left Millions.
10 Become
taxpayers Paradise
BY the Associated Press


PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ia lit
tie coal mining town 80 miles from
Pittsburgh has inherited millions of
dollars left 1t by a wealthy Phila-
delphia woman.
Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, who in
herited several million dollars in
1918. left all but $4,000 OF her
estate to the village of Perryopolis.
The bequest was disclosed yester-
day as her will was filed for probate.
The amount of the estate was not
made known. She inherited $780,
102 in personal property and large
share of 100000 in real estate 80
years ago from her uncle, Alfred M.
Fuller of Perryopolis.
After making Is specific grants
totalling $4,000 and setting up a
100000 trust fund to provide a
Waterman and constant upkeep for
the family mausoleum in Perryo-
polls, Mrs. Frazier left the entire
residuary estate for public improve
ments to the tiny community of
1900 persons.
Died August s.
Mrs. Frazier, divorced wife of
Johnson Miller Frazier, former man
ager of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel,
died August 6. She explained in
her will that Perryopolis was the
place where Il was born and lived,
and where my father and mother
lived and my grandfather and
grandmother lived"
One-half of the residuafy estate
is to be used outright for public
improvement" while the remaining
half will be held in trust for the
purpose of maintaining the improve
ments.
Michael Karolcik, grocer, theater
operator and Fire Department chief
in Perryopolis, said the money will
be used to have the streets paved,
public schools repaired, a library
built and the Perry Township High
School equipped with stadium.
But. most of all, the money will
60 for lighting purposes.
We've been talking for a long
time about lighting up the town. I
guess we'll get around to 1t now
he said. -
To Be Taxpayers Paradise.
Howard Adams, the town banker,
said he had been consulted by Mrs.
Frazier's attorneys several months
before the will was drawn up.
He said it was his understanding
the inheritance would make the
town kind of taxpayers paradise"
He explained:
Mrs. Frazier said she wanted to
provide lighting, a water system,
schools, roads and other things the
town needed and that funds be pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18

The conference. including repre-
sentatives Of railroads serving North
Atlantic ports and steamship lines,
is scheduled for the latter part Of
September, also in New York.
J. p. Hatch, director Of Trans
portation and World Trade Council
for the Philadelphia Chamber OF
Commerce, will serve as temporary
chairman Of the committee.
He named as other members: L.
w. Bryne or the New York Port
Authority, n. G. Pouder Of the
Baltimore Association Of Commerce,
Arthur G.. Baylis Of the New York
Central Railway System, Frederick
j. Couse of the Baltimore & Ohio
and Alfred j. Ball of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Mr.. Hatch said the purpose Of the
conference will be to seek re-estab-
lishment Of normal rate relationship
between various port areas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
1850 Refugee MosIems
|Muy Settle in Turkey
By the kssociotsd Prsss

VIENNA. - Approximately 1900
displaced persons and refugees OF
the Moslem faith in Austria may
soon be resettled in Turkey. Dr..
Cevdet Atasagun, director general
of the Department Of immigration,
Ankara, is in Austria comforting
with officials OF the Preparatory
Commission, International Refugee
Organization. He will also confer
with leaders of the major Moslem
refugee groups here and establish
with them lines upon which selec-
ton will be made.
Those who volunteer and are ac-
|cepted by the Turkish government
will be granted Turkish citizenship
Immediately on arrival and will be
placed in suitable Jobs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
5 Held for Questioning
In Death Of George Polk
By the Assoeiutsd Press

ATHENS, Aug. 18.-The Min
istry Of Information said today five
more persons have been detained for
questioning In Salonika in connec-
ton with the murder Of George Polk,
American radio correspondent.
The ministry identified the i've
as the mother Of Greek newspaper
man Gregory Stathopoulos and four
employees of the hotel In Salonika,
where Mr.. Polk stayed before his
bullet-pierced, trussed-up body was
found in Salonika Bay last May Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-18
Reservists to Heor De FIorez

Rear Admiral Luis De Florez,
U. S. N. r., formerly deputy chief of
the Office of Naval Research, will
speak at the regular meeting Of the
Washington Naval Volunteer Bri-
gade at the Naval Gun Factory at s
o'clock tonight. All Naval Reserve
officers have been invited to attend.