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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
THREE TEACHERS
NEEDED FOR FIRST
GRADE THIS YEAR
First Grade Attendance To
Jump From A Last Year
To Estimated 65
Grade School Enrolment VIII
Be Larger; High School
Registration Smaller

Three first grade teachers-two
handling first grades exclusively and
another with a mixed grade will be
assigned to direct the activities of
90 six-year-olds who will enter
school for the first time this fall,
This~is the largest number of in
structors ever assigned to a single
grade in the schools here, Supt. Ralph
Lanham said this week, in comment
ing on the flood of first-graders ex-
pected when class room activity
starts ON Tuesday morning, Sept. 4.
Although plans are subject to ad-
Justment when school opens, the
superintendent said the tentative
teaching program calls for two first
grades of 27 pupils each, with the
balance in a mixed first and second
grade class.
Heavy influx of frst-year pupils
will require the use of two additional
class rooms in the grade school
building which have been vacant
since enrolment began falling off
here in the past decade.
MORE In GRADES
Although enrolment at the grade
school will increase this fall, as a
result of the first-grade situation,
high school registration is expected
to be smaller than last year.
The incoming class from the grade
school to junior high school this fall
win be only 38, in comparison with
last springs graduating class of IA
seniors.
Last fall there were A frst-grad-
ers at the opening of school in Sep
tember. To handle the al there was
one class of frst-graders and one
mixed class of first and second year
pupils.
In preparation for the opening of
the school term, now only a little
more than month away, the inter-
Tor of the grade school building i
being redecorated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
TIU0 BLuftOn Men
Hurt In Accident

Two Bluffton men were slightly
injured at 5:45 p. m. last Thursday
when the automobile in which they
were riding struck utility pole and
overturned in a wheat field three
miles south of Beaverdam on the
Dixie highway.
Injured in the mishap were James
Stonehill, 81, driver of the car, and
James Birchnaugh, %.
Stonehill was treated in Lima st.
Rita's hospital for deep cut on the
left leg and shoulder injuries. Birch
naugh received minor cuts and
abrasions.
The automobile was demolished in
the crash.
According to state patrolmen,
Stonehill lost control of the car when
it started skidding, while driving
south toward Lima,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
FARMERS REVERSE
HARVESTING; OATS
CUT BEFORE WHEAT
Rainfall Delays Harvest of
Wheat; Oats Now Being
Combined
Bumper Oats Crop Being Cut
Because 1t Skaters More
Easily In Field

Reversing the usual procedure in
farm harvesting operations, oats are
being combined on Bluffton area
farms during this week while farm
ers delayed completion of the bumper
wheat harvest.
Continued rainfall at a time when
both wheat and oats are ripe has
caused the shift in harvesting pro-
cedure, with farmers changing their
plans because oats shatter more
easily in the field; and due to the
fact that the moisture content of
wheat has been increased greatly by
the rains.
Ordinarily, wheat harvesting is
out of the way before oats have
ripened, but intermittent rainfall in
the past week caused delays in
handling this years wheat crop.
Oats, when dead ripe, shatter
easily and with wheat better able to
wait for cutting, many farmers
hastily changed harvesting plans and
are taking the oats crop off first.
YIELD Is HIGH "
Yield in an average oats acreage
this year is unusually good, with
early cutting indicating 30 bushels
or more to the acre. Preliminary
tests have shown about SO pounds to
the bushel, as compared with the
standard of 80 pounds.
With the bumper oats harvest
flowing through elevators to big city
markets, Allen county farmers are
assured of about $573,000 for the
1948 oats crop, no matter what hap
pens to the commercial market, it
was learned this week.
This is the result of the county
support price, announced by the U
S. Department of Agriculture on the
basis of an anticipated normal pro-
duction.
Support price has been set at 75
cents per bushel as the accepted loar
rate on oats grown in the county
the same as the rate in Hardin
Hancock and Putnam counties.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
ALLEN COUNTY To
HAVE ONE BOARD
TO HANDLE DRAFT
Single Board viii Administer
Registration August 30 to
Sept. Is
Three-Man Committee Named
to Recommend Personnel
for Draft Board

Allen county including Lima,
which operated during World War IL
with three selective service boards,
will have only one board to handle
the entire area in the drafting of
youths under the new Selective
Service act.
This became known the first of the
week in connection with announce
ment Of a three-man committee
named to nominate members of the
Allen county board which will handle
registration of all Is to 25 year old
men from August 30 through
September Is.
On the nominating committee for
Allen county are Common Pleas
Judge Moran B. Jenkins, Probate
Judge Raymond P. Smith and A. d.
MacDonnell, Lima banker.
127 Boards in State
Adj. Gen. Chester w. Goble, state
director of selective service said
there will be 1877 draft boards in
operation in Ohio this time, compar-
ed with $50 used previously.
A ratio of one board to each
100000 population is being followed
throughout the state. Under this
rule, rs Ohio counties will have
single boards. The remaining 10
counties will have two or more
boards.
Each board will consist of three
members as compared with five
member boards which functioned
during the war. Members for the
new draft boards must be at least
30 years old and cannot be members
of the armed forces or any reserve,
National Selective Service head
quarters announced.
Committee Personnel
Recommending committees in all
counties of the state consist of the
probate and common pleas judges
and a third member named by
Governor Thomas J. Herbert.
Recommendations for board mem
bership will be submitted to Govern
or Herbert, who in turn will submit
the nominations to President Tru-
man.
In Hancock county the recommend
ing committee consists of Judges
Chester Pendleton, Judge Paul r.
Capel and r. L. Heminger, publisher
of the Republican-Courier~
Putnam county's nominating com.
mittee includes Judge A. A. Slay-
baugh, Judge William George and
c. B. Millham.
Personnel of the new draft boards
will be announced in August.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
No Sales Tax On Purchases
Under Al Cents Beginning August |

Elimination of the sales tax on all
sales under Il cents will become eff
fective when Governor Herbert signs
the new state law, July 81, it was
stated by c. Emory Glander, tax
commissioner.
Beginning August | all sales of
less than Al cents will be exempt.
On purchases of Il cents and over
the former tax rates will apply with
no charge.
The tax commission also empha-
sized that there is no change in the
requirement for cancelling prepaid
tax receipts with respect to taxable
sales. Vendors who wilfully fail tc
give stamps to customers will con,
tinue to be subject to prosecution
and also to suspension or revocation
of their licenses, Glander said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Beayerburg, Haven of Married
&. |. Students, Win Be
Larger Than Ever
Wives I'm Student Families
Learn Housekeeping And
Take College Work

Beaverburg-Bluffton college trail
er camp which came into existence
two years ago as an answer to one
phase of the housing shortage is
preparing for its third and biggest
year when college opens for the fall
term in September.
The evergrowing colony of trailer
families, postwar development on
the college campus, affords a wide
contrast to the era prior to 1945
when married college students COM
prised negligible percentage of the
student body
Today, tn married veteran with a
wife who takes care of housekeeping
and often pursues studies herself,
has become a fixture in campus life,
with the population of the trailer
colony climbing with the opening Of
each school year.
Organized in 1916 when the hous-
ing problem for G. I. students with
families was pressing, Beaverburg
consisted of seven occupied trailers
and two prefrabricated houses.
COLONY LARGER
This fall, arrangements already
have been completed to accommodate
IA trailer families in the colony,
plus four families living in prefab-
ricated homes. More trailers can be
accommodated if others wish to en-
roll, college authorities said.
Cost of living in the trailers is
about $50 per month for each fam
lily, including electricity, fuel oil for
heating, use of the utility house
with hot and cold showers and laun-
dry privileges.
Beaverburg residents can do their
own cooking, or eat in the college
dining hall, as they prefer. Most of
them, however, prepare their own
food, with the G. rs bride often
learning cooking and housekeeping at
the same time the couple pursues
regular college courses.
ELECTS OWN MAYOR
| Beaverburg has its own mayor
and self-government. Wayne Ho,
stettler, of Elkhart, Ind, a senior
next year, is present mayor, and will
continue in office until the annual
election next January.
Beaverburg's population varies
and the most reliable information as
to last years number of residents
was a sign erected at homecoming
time "29 Humans-Plus One Dog
Plus Coming Attractions" A re,
vision last spring added another dog
to the list.
| The growth of Beaverburg was as,
sured when college dormitories proved
unsuited for the flood of married
G. rs, many of whom have child.
ren and were unable to find housing
in the town for their families.
And with the advent of married
students, baby .buggies, rarity or
the campus in pre-war days, now are
fairly common.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
A. c. RAMSEYER,
COLLEGE TRUSTEE,
STRICKEN AT SEA
Donor of Ramseyer Chapel Al
Bluffton College Dies
Enroute To Europe
Master Ohio Farmer Had Been
Trustee of College Here
For 20 Years

Alvin c. Ramseyer, IS, widely
known potato raiser at Smithville,
Wayne county, for many years a
Bluffton college trustee and donor of
Ramseyer chapel on the campus
here, died suddenly of heart attack
Friday aboard the steamship
Mauretania enroute to Europe.
He was with a party of Wayne
county people making summer tour
which included the Olympic games
in London. There was no other
member of his family with him.
On arrival of the ship in England
the body will be returned by plane
to his home in Smithville where
funeral services viii be held in Oak
Grove Mennonite church, probably
Saturday. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Officiating at the funeral will be
his former pastor, Rev. ]. N. Smuck.
er now minister of the First Men.
MONTE church of Bluffton.
Ramseyer who had experienced
previous heart attacks died suddenly
while resting in deck chair after
game of Switchboard, according tc
radio reports from the ship.
Daughter Flying Home
His daughter, Miss Edna Ram.
seyer, dean of women of Blufftor
college, who is working with a Men,
MONTE relief unit in Germany this
summer, is enroute home by plane
after being notified of the death.
One of the largest potato growers
in the Midwest, Ramseyer, an Ohio
Master Farmer, at one time farmet
more than 1900 acres of potatoes
His present operations, however
embrace approximately 800 acres
principally around Smithville. In ad
dition, he has some acreage il
Pennsylvania uplands where he grew
his own seed potatoes.
In addition to potato farming
Ramseyer also held extensive inter
est in citrus lands near Mission
Texas, where his daughter and son
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. James F
3 Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Sails For Summer
Tour Of Europe

Peter c. Luginbuhl, of Lakewood,
brother of Sam C. Luginbuhl, south
west Of town, will sail Friday on the
Queen Mary for visit to Europe
where he win spend some time visit
ing the various points of interest in
Switzerland including Geneva, Bern,
Interlaken, Basle; also Paris, Avig-
non, Nice, French Riviera, Monaco,
Grenoble in France; Luxembourg;
Belgium; Holland; and London, Eng
land. He will return in September
and hopes to bring back with him a
Photographic story of his trip.
While Mr.. Luginbuhl is in Europe,
Mrs. Luginbuhl will stay with their
daughter, Kathryn, in Washington,
ID. c.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Light Plant Engine
Basis Of Court Suit

An outmoded Skinner engine in
the municipal light plant, sold two
weeks ago by the Bluffton board of
public affairs, is the basis of an
$3.50 judgment suit brought i'm AL
len county common pleas court
against the purchaser of the engine.
Plaintiff in the action is the In
ternational Power Machinery Co, of
Cleveland, on the basis that it locat-
ed the engine here for Tretolite Co.,
Inc, of st Louis, successful purch-
aser of the engine at a price of
5000 in open competitive bidding.
The Cleveland firm alleges it was
solicited by the defendant to locate
machinery, and entered into negotia-
tions with the board Of public af-
fairs here relative to purchase of
the Skinner engine for the st. Louis
company's needs.
In the meantime, an opinion by
City Solicitor Dan r. Tripplehorn
resulted in advertisement for open,
competitive bidding in sale of the
engine, in which the Tretolite bid
was high.
Two causes for action are listed
in the suit against the St. Louis
firm: For the commission lost thru
bypass purchase of the engine and
for cost of the plaintiff in locating
it. An order of attachment against
the engine also is sought.
The engine still is in the Bluffton
plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29

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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Kenneth Oberly Takes
State Engineers Exam

Kenneth Oberly, son of Millard
Oberly, Bluffton, was among 815
graduate engineers who took the re-
cent state examination at Columbus,
it was announced this week by DR..
T. J. Smull, chief examiner of the
state registration board. Oberly took
his engineering degree at Ohio
Northern university.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Enr0ute Home After
Summer In England

Mrs. Harry Shrider, Jr., Of Har-
mon road is scheduled to sail from
Hull, England, this week returning
to her home here. She left Bluffton
early in May to visit at her former
home in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in
northern England.
Mrs. Shrider came to this country
two years ago as a British war
bride, having first met her husband,
q Blufftor serviceman, while he was
stationed at Grimsby with q T. s
army air unit. She is expected II
arrive here early in August
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Voice Recital At
College On Friday

Summer voice students of Prof.
Russell A. Lantz will be presented
in a recital open to the public, Fri
day night at o'clock in Ramseyer
chapel on the Bluffton college cam
pus. 81.
Appearing in the recital will be
students from Latty, Pandora, Beay-
erdam, Bluffton and Lafayette.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Fred Wenger Traverses 3,100
Mile Stretch from Dayton
To Fairbanks
Rugged 'Hig way Battles
Previous Attempt TO Travel
By Automobile

Fred Wenger, of Beaver street,
forced to return from a projected
motor tour to Alaska 10 days ago
by impossible roads, Tuesday left
from Wright field, Dayton, in an
army plane, on government busi-
ness trip to Fairbanks, Alaska.
Leaving Wright field at Z a. m,
the plane, CAT cargo ship, makes
only one stop on the 3,100-mile
aerial flight to Fairbanks. 1t lands
at Whitehorse, in Yukon territory,
II hours after take-off, and then
continues on 900 miles to Fairbanks,
arriving at midnight.
Cargo planes make a bi-weekly
trip from Wright field to Fairbanks.
Leaving Dayton every other Tuesday,
the plane stays in Alaska until the
following Tuesday, when it returns.
Wenger expects to return on the
plane next Tuesday.
HEADS DIVISION
The Bluffton man is chief of the
components development branch, cleo
tronics division, at Wright field, and
the trip to Alaska is related to his
work.
Originally planning to make an
automobile trip to Alaska with men,
bers of his family over the Alcan
highway, Wenger turned back after
encountering impossible roads be-
fore reaching the highway.
Most of the difficulty in driving is
experienced on a 550-mile stretch
from Edmonton, Alberta, to Dawson
Greek, start of the Alcan highway.
The Edmonton to Dawson Greek road
is unimproved and is largely made
of boulders. Much of the route is
thru swamp territory, in which a
roadbed was made by laying logs,
then covering the base with rocks
and gravel.
BUILDERS IN hdAU
Rains wash away the gravel, leav-
ing boulders, and natives stunning
automobiles, use wagon with two
horses for travel. Wenger said he
saw a Buick with a broken crank
shaft and two Pontiacs with broken
shock absorbers, laid up along the
highway.
The Wengers had covered about
half the route from Edmonton tc
Dawson Greek, but turned back wher
natives said the road they had come
over was the good stretch" and the
remaining distance had washed out
weeks earlier, with no one able tc
get through since that time.
He said that loose boulders, hard
on tires, slowed travel to such al
extent that in one stretch it re-
quired ~ hours to drive "a miles.
Poor HIGHWAY
In maintaining the 264-mile stretch
of road where the bed has washed
out, there were two little roadscrap
ers at work repairing the damage
Residents of the area say it will bt
at least five years before the road il
reasonably passable for auto travel
No trucks operate in the area
and everything shipped in comes b!
a "hit-or-miss" fashion on a small
railroad line.
In Calgary, the AAA discourage
tourists from attempting the trip b.
car, principally because of the condi
tion of roads to starting point of th'
Alcan highway at Dawson Greek
Although the Alcan roadway is no
hard-surfaced, it is graveled and i
fairly good, however, there ar
plenty of ruts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Opens North Main
Service Station

Harold Vance of Beaverdam has
re-opened the Gulf service station on
North Main street, it was announced
the first of the week. Mr.. and Mrs.
Vance moved recently from Detroit
to Beaverdam where his wife oper-
ates beauty parlor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
WITH THE SICK

Mrs. Minnie Lewis is quite i'll at
her home on North Lawn avenue.
Satisfactory progress is reported
in the condition of Charles Bucher,
14-year old Bluffton youth who is
a polio patient in Lima Memorial
hospital. He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clair Bucher of West Elm
street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Garden CLUB Plans
FL0Uer Exhibit Here

Plans for a flower exhibit to be
held in the Methodist church parlors,
Friday, September 3 in the after
noon and evening by the Garden club
were announced by club officers the
first of the week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29

The June index of prices paid for
goods by farmers was 10 per cent
higher in June, 1948, than in the
same month of 1947. Interest and
taxes rose ! point in the month
preceding June Is, 1948. ~~ =.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-29
Establish Bone Bank

A "bone bank" to provide con-
stant supply OF bone for grating
operations has been established at
Geisinger Memorial hospital, Dom
vile, Pa.
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" THE POLARIS
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PETRICH HOME SOLD TO COL. w. M. DAVIS. USA

The home of J. Fl. Petrich was sold to Colonel w. M Davis who has been in Seward for some time and who's family will join him in the near future.
 Mrs Davis and children are in California at the present time and are expected in about 60 days.
 This real estate deal is one of several which have been devel- oped and completed within the last six or eight weeks by Mary Ann E. Brown, dealer.
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WORLD OF PRAYER TO BE OBSERVED

Under the auspices of the Council of Church Women of Seward, representing the Pro- teSant churches of the community, the World Day of Prayer" will be observed at a union meeting in St. Peters Espiscopal Church on Fri day, February 13, beginning at 800 PM Mrs. Van Nyman will lead the devotational service.
 The churches represented in the Concil of Church Women of sew ard ana nuitin2 in this "World Day of Prayer" are the Methodist and Episcopal Churches.
 The observance in Seward is one of more than 10000 such united services to be held in as many communities across the United States: and the American obscl vance will be paralleled by similar services in sixty countries on every continent in the world.
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SPORT COMMENT
NtlN 't1i%t;

Somewhere in this country the res big, strapping young fellow an unkoWn who'll be tomarroW's white hope in fistic circles.
 If you want to get rich quick find that young man and get his name on the dotted line. He may be in Texas or up in the Dakotas, or right in New York or Chicago. Wherever he is, he would be worth finding and training. Today. an up-and coming young heavyweight, blessed with punch, would clean up millions.
 The heavyweight situation is sinking to new low. Joe Louis
The Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news., 1948-02-11

is just about through. He's 34 and that's "old" in the fight game. no one else around. Walcott Certinaly cant be taken into con- sideration. The other heavyweights are juat run of the mill crop. Gino Buonvino, the Italian fighter who scored a win over Jackie Cranford the other night, shows some promise but he doesn't have a punch. The setting is just right for an unkown to come forth and blaze across the fistic horizen. Hes around somewhere. Find him and you've found a fortune.
 Continued on page B
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MRS. NOVAK AND DAUGHTER BACK FROM BERGEN. NORWAY

Mrs. Andy Novak and daughter Lila Thomson have recently re- turned from a trip to Bergen in Norway where they visited many friends and relatives.
 While Mrs. Novak returned to her home here, Miss Lila stayed in Tacoma where she is attending the Puget Sound College.
 Mrs. Novak came in on the Bar anOf
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PAT ESTES CELEBRATES HIS 9th ANNIVERSARY

Twenty-two Kindergarten pals of Pat Estes helped him celebrate his 9th birthday anniversary on Monday February 9th at a fun party.
 Pat received many gifts and at four pm. Mrs Estes served the guests beautiful birthday cake. jello and cool-aid, much to every ones enjoyment
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NURSES FEATURE FRESH HOME-MAID COOKIES

The Seward Registered Nurses Association are featuring fresh home maid Cookies every Wed- esday at the Coop and at Wer- ners Market. They are also tak- ing orders for party cookies nut cups and favors.
 Leave your order at the Cathryn Shop or Sylvia's or contact one of the nurses.