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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
College Homecoming
Program Includes Many Features
Bluffton College Plans Gala
Weekend Program For Re-
turning Grads
Football Games Saturday After,
noon and Alumni Banquet
Area Features

Highlighted by a busy three-day
program of varied activity, Bluffton
colleges annual Homecoming week
end beginning Friday and eontinu-
ing through Saturday and Sunday Is
expected to attract one Of the largest
crowds in history, college authorities
said this week.
Fridays activities will be marked
by campus "Open House" in the
afternoon and evening.
Focal points in Saturdays pro-
gram will be coronation of the
Homecoming Queen, the traditional
tug-of-war between freshmen and
sophomores opposing each other on
the banks of the Little Riley; an
afternoon football game with Cedar
vile; and the alumni banquet in the
evening; followed by an observance
of Parents Day on Sunday.
In Saturday mornings principal
event, Martha Lee Yoder, of Topeka,
Ind, will be crowned Homecoming
Queen at 10:30 a. m. in ceremonies
on the baseball field.
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
Conducted Tour OF Buildings Will
Feature BIuffton College Open House

Science Hall boasts a splendidly
equipped home economies kitchen well
worth viewing. In addition are the
chemistry and physics laboratories,
botany and zoology rooms and green
house where various plant and ami
nal specimens may be seen. The
students own Snack Shop is also II
this building.
Many will see the MusseIman Lii
brary for the first time. Possessing
one Of the finest reading rooms Of its
size in the state, the library is the
pride Of the community as well as
of the college
Faculty members and student as
sistants will be on hand to answer
questions and explain methods and
equipment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07

A conducted tour of the buildings
will be the feature Of the Open
House at Bluffton College Friday
afternoon and evening of this week.
Some thirty picked students have
been rehearsed in directing towns
people about the campus and ex-
planning the various facilities.
The open house program, indorsed
BY local businessmen, is designed to
give Rluffton citizens the opportunity
to inspect the complete college plant.
College Hall, remodeled during the
summer, viii display its new office
space on the first floor and the class
rooms arranged on second floor.
Ropp Hall viii be open to those IN
terested in q view Of dorinitory life
as we'll as to afford . glimpse Of
newly acquired dining room facilities.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
To Teach In Church
Seminary In Canada

Rev. Richard Mumma, formerly of
Bluffton and pastor Of the Presbyter-
ian church at Little Britain, N. Y,
is leaving for Montreal, Canada, to
lecture for six months in Presby-
terian Theological seminary affiliated
with McGill university Of that city.
He has been given a leave of
absence frcm his church for that
period at the termination of which
he will resume his pastorate. During
this time his wife, the former Wilma
Nonnamaker Of this place and their
daughter Judy will remain at Little
Britain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
ReU. BigeIO,U Resigns
Church PdstOrdtes

Rev. E. N. Bigelow, minister OF
the Bluffton and Rockport Presbyter-
ian churches has resigned his charge
here to accept the pastorate of the
Presbyterian church at Norwalk, eff
fective November Z. His resigna-
tion was announced at services OF
the two churches, Sunday morning.
Rev. Bigelow assumed the pastor
ate of the Bluffton and Rockport
churches in 1912 following his grad
uation from Yale Theological semin-
airy. During the war he was on
leave of absence for overseas service
as an army chaplain. During the
spring Of 1947 the Bluffton church
attracted widespread attention IN in
auguration of the talent" project
as a means of raising funds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary
OF Bluffton Couple On Sunday

Peter Bixel, pioneers of this COM
munity
Mr.. Amstutz was active in poll
tics for many years in the Bluffton
Community. He served two success
sive terms as mayor, and in addition
was township treasurer and three
terms village councilman.
He was superintendent Of build
ings and grounds at Bluffton college
for many years, until his retirement.
Surviving daughters are Edith
Amstutz, at home; Agnes Anstutz
sunmount, n. Y; and Mrs. ". r
Althaus, Lewisburg, Ohio.
There are three grandchildren and
two great-grandehildren.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07

In observance of their Goth we'd
ding anniversary, Mr.. and Mrs. G. d.
Amstutz, Of South Jackson street,
will hold open house for relatives,
friends and neighbors Sunday after
noon at the home of his brother, Mr..
and Mrs. Z. S. Amstutz, Grove
street.
Open house viii be held from | 80
to p. m. in connection with the
anniversary celebration.
The couple were married on Octo-
bers1I, 1888, in the Ebenezer Mem
MONTE church, west of Bluffton, with
Rev. John Moser officiating Before
her marriage Mrs. Anstutz was Fan
ME Bixel, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
FUNERAL LARGELY
ATTENDED FOR Or.
MUNSON R. BIxEL
Physician Succunbs After Long
Illness With Heart
Aiiment
Last Rites Held for Civic Lead
er at Mennonite Church
Wednesday

Largely attended funeral services
were held Wednesday afternoon in
the First Mennonite church for DR..
Munson r. Bixel, So, practicing
physician and civic leader here for
q years, who died at 4:45 a. m.
Monday in the Button Community
hospital.
DR.. Bixel had been a patient in
the hospital for more than a year,
suffering from q serious heart all
ment.
A son of DR.. Peter d. and Eliza
beth (Steiner) Bixei, he was born
in Bluffton on July 10, 1896. He
was married on June IL, 1928, to
Halle Moser, who survives.
DR.. Bixel was d graduate of Pan
dora High school and Button col
lege. He taught school for four
years before entering Cincinnati
Eclectic Medical college.
Always active In community and
governmental activities, DR.. Bixel at
the time of his death was member
of the board OF trustees of Bluffton
college, and vice-president Of the
Allen county board of health.
War Veteran
He had served several terms on
the Bluffton village council, and was
on the staff of the Community
hospital before being stricken. A
veteran Of World War |, he was 8
member Of the American Legion. He
also wss nsmber af The Lions
club.
In addition to- his wife, DR.. Bike
is survived by two children, Alice
Jean and Paul Bixel, both at home
Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs
Francis c. Marshall, Bluffton; and
Madeline Bixel, Fostoria.
Rev. j. N. Smucker, pastor of the
First Mennonite church, of which
DR.. BixeI was a member, officiatet
at last rites Wednesday afternoon
Burial was in Maple Grove cemetery
/ Pallbearers were Ezra Moser, JOIN
Boehr,- Ed Lape, DR.. Evan Basinger
A. G. Burcky and Russell Lantz.
Honorary pallbearers were DR.. M
d. Soash, DR.. B. w. Travis, DR.. F
d. Rodabaugh of Bluffton; DR.. H. A
Niswander and DR.. NJ. B. Rice o
Pandora; DR.. Glenn Jones and DR.
E. B. Pedlow of Lima, DR.. Weldon
Diller of Rawson and DR.. ]. R. Treec,
of Arlington.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07

First meeting of the Bluffton
Parent Teacher association will be
held at the high school cafeteria
next Monday night at 8 o'clock. A
program in charge of Woodrow
Little has been arranged to acquaint
parents with the towns recreational
activities.
Following the program will be a
social period in which parents will
have an opportunity to meet teach
.ers. Refreshments will close the
evening. Mrs. Paul Cramer is chair
man of the program committee and
Mrs. Nelson Steiner the social COM
mittee chairman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
Petitions Signed by Some ESQ
Residents Filed With Town
Council
Representatives of Industries
Here Asked to Meet With
Council

Householders in Bluffton residential
districts who have complained bitter
1y against fly ash and smoke for
years, placed their objections before
the town council Monday night in
the form Of petitions asking that
necessary legislation be enacted TO
curb the nuisance.
Petitions which were circulated
during the past week are reported
to bear signatures of some 250
residents.
The petitions point to Bluffton
Industrial plants as the source of ny
ash and SCOT and after accepting the
petitions the council directed Charles
Emans, corporation clerk, to request
representatives of the Municipal
Electric Light and Waterworks plant,
the Central Ohio Light & Power
company and the Page Dairy COM
pany to appear at the next council
meeting on Monday night, Oct. 10.
hope TO heacW ABEcSmEMl
At that time local administration
officials said they hoped to work out
a basis for an amicable adjustment
of the differences without having to
resort to restrictive legislation.
The fly ash situation, householders
here aver, has become progressively
worse in recent years as more
generating equipment has been added
at both the municipal plant and the
Woodcock plant Of the Central Ohio
utility to take care q constantly
increasing demands for electric cur
rent.
Ely ash, one Of the major sources
of complaint, is a brown powdery
substance blown by forced draft from
smokestacks and carried by the WIND
Similar To Fine Sand
Settling on porches it crunche;
like fine sand when walked on. L
sits into houses and adds materially
to the cleaning work of housewives
and together with SCOT and smoke
soon discolors the exterior Of newly
painted houses.
Sources conversant with the situa
tion declared this week that smoke
stacks can be equipped with appll
-ances to eliminate fly ash and 500
at comparatively modest cost.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING QUEEN
: AND HER COURT

os Maquart, popular Bun High school has been elected
Homecoming Queen and will activities
nion with the BuonCela football here Friday night
October Is at Harmon field.
Miss elected by the body which chose
her attendants, Bracy and Treva Athaus.
The will be the field to the
will
and Ray Lee Which, co-captains of the football
Active scholastic activity, Miss president of the Y
Teens; of the Student Senate photography editor
of The Buccaneer, high yearbook
Athaus do of The president of the
Miss Bacy the other president
G. A. A. and active in the f. H. A.
planning Homecoming activities
Linden chairman Coa Badertscher Matter,
Ter and Norman They will with Coach
pairing the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07

Harry Burkholder, 10, is in Bluff
ton hospital with scalp decorations
sustained Tuesday afternoon at 5
o'clock when he was struck on the
head by a timber from barn which
he was assisting in tearing down at
the farm of his father, Quentin
Burkholder north Of town on the
county line. His condition was re-
ported satisfactory Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
Floyd Herr Wins Scholarship At Oak
Ridge In Atomic Radiation Research
Fellowship Research Will Be At
The Oak Ridge Atomic
Energy Laboratory
Bluffton College Graduate Wins
One Of I5 Fellowships
Granted u 0Eia

H.. Floyd Herr, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson Herr, of Lawn avenue,
has been awarded a research fellow
ship in graduate study of the effects
of atomic radiation, under program
established by the Atomic Energy
Commission and the National Re
seach Council.
The fellowship provides for free
tuition and a $4,000 living expense
allowance for the one year course in
atomic research laboratories at the
gigantic Oak Ridge, Tenn, atomic
energy plant.
Herr, accompanied by his wife,
will leave for Oak Ridge early in
November. The course in study of
the effects of atomic radiation will
feature preventive measures.
ONE OF Is FROM OHIO
The research fellowship earned by
Herr was one of 10 granted in Ohio
on the basis of scholastic attain
ment and research.
Herr graduated from Bluffton col.
lege this summer, continuing his
schooling after receiving his honor
able discharge from the army at ths
close of World War Ii.
During hostilities he served q
months in the infantry and ordinances
divisions. He was overseas 81,
| month in France and Germany, ant
discharged with the rank Of cor
poral.
At Bluffton college he majored il
biology and minored in chemistry
He plans to enter medical school fol
lowing graduate work at the 0al
Ridge laboratories.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
Legion Auxiliary
InstdlLs Officers

Mrs. Robert Dillman was installed
as president of BIuffton Legion Aux
iliary at a meeting of the organiza-
tion in the Legion hall, Monday
night.
Other officers installed were:
1st vice pres, Mrs. James, -Benroth; !;
End vice pres, Mrs. Jack Clark; Sec,
Mrs. Garnet Foltz; treas, Mrs. Theo.
Schultz; sgt. at arms, Mrs. Harry
Tripplehorn; chaplain, Mrs. Homer
Zimmerly; historian, Mrs. Bud Nc
Carty; musician, Mrs. Don Reams
color bearer, Mrs. Sam Tripplehorn
banner bearer, Mrs. Don Corson.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
Real Estate Deals

William Gaiffe, residing on the
Bigler Bros. farm north of Bluffton
has purchased the Steven Smith
property on East Elm street. The
property has been vacant since Smith
moved to Carrollton, Ohio, to take a
position with the Farm Bureau. He
was formerly connected with the
Farm Bureau here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
GAS AND OIL FOUND IN TEST we'll NORTH OF TOWN
PROTEST INDUSTRIAL
FLY ASH and SMOKE
Meat Price Is
Due For Slump
Here This Week

GIZABLE reductions in retail
- meat prices following re-
Gently tumbling wholesale quo
tations are due to cheer Bluffton
housewives this week.
Lower prices for choice cuts
may run upwards of 10 cents a
pound, ii was forecast here.
These prices reflect current lower
livestock quotations which have
marked cattle down ST to So per
hundredweight and hogs down
around 81 per hundred pounds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
ORANGE TOWNSHIP
YOUTH BLUFFTON'S
FIRST POLIO DEATH
Roderick NOnnamaker Succumbs
in Lima After Three Days
Illness
Iron Lung at Hospital Proves
Unavailing to Check
Disease

This years raging polio epidemic
claimed the first life in the Button
community last Thursday evening
when Roderick o. Nonnamaker, 20,
died in Lima Memorial hospital.
He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Nonnamaker, two miles east
of Button on Route 103 in Orange
township.
Stricken Monday of last week,
Nonnamaker's illness was diagnosed
as polio on Wednesday. He was
placed in an iron lung after being
taken to the Lima hospital, but died
early last Thursday evening.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by younger sister, Kaye,
at home.
Born in Orange township on May
9, 1928, he was graduated from Mt
Cory High school in 1916. He had
been employed as a craftsman al
the Iractomotlye Corp. IN F1ndlay.
Funeral Saturday
Funeral services were held Satur.
day afternoon in the Stanley Basing.
er funeral home here. Rev. Walter
Purdy and Rev. II. d. Camp officiat
ed at the rites. Burial was in Maple
Grove cemetery.
Nonnamaker was a member of tht
Olive Branch f. u, B. church.
Altho the polio epidemic has beel
heavy all summer in adjoining Put
nam and Hancock counties, the i'm
mediate Bluffton area has beel
fortunate. OF three cases reporte,
| in this vicinity, only one was Of
Bluffton resident, and Nonnamaker'
lresulted in the first death.
| Always do right--it viii pleas
Isome and astonish the rest.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07
SWISS MALE CHORUS

The Swiss Male chorus will hold
its first meeting Monday night at
5 o'clock in the Pandora school
building. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all former members and
any others who wish to JOIN the or
ganization.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07

Eight Eyed Spiders
Most spiders have eight eyes ar
ranged in rows across the head.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-07

Always do right-it will please
some and astonish the rest.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Lyon Village Group
To Meet Monday

A joint meeting of the literature
and international relations depart
ments of the Woman's Club of
Lyon Village will be held 1:15 pm.
Monday at the home of Mrs. j.
Raymond Hutchinson, 1903 North
Highland street, Arlington.
Mrs. Howard Murphy will talk on
the Marshall Plan and Mrs. George
Payne will give a book review.
Chairmen for both departments will
be elected for the coming year.
Mrs. Paul J. Myatt was recently
elected president of the club. Mrs.
w. B. Tubbs was elected first vice
president, and officers reelected
include Mrs. Murphy, recording sec
retary; Mrs. Harry Howard, cor
responding secretary, and Mrs. Wal
lace Lancaster, treasurer.
Mrs. Richard Owens and Mrs.
Howard were elected delegates to
the fourth district meeting to be
held in Berryville on March 81.
Mrs. Allan Hunter and Mrs. G. K.
Fraser were elected alternates.
Mrs. Myatt and Mrs. Tubbs will
both be delegates to the Virginia
Federation of Women's Clubs con-
vention to be held in Richmond in
April. Mrs. Paul Rosenberger and
Mrs. M. j. Anderson will be alter
mates.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Alpha Zeta Beta. C0nclaDe
HigbHgbts Sorority Epents

been invited to be present. A talk
on spring fashions will be given
by Jean MacColl.
Mrs. Harold B. Rowe is In charge
of reservations and is general chair
man for the dinner.
The latter is being assisted By
Mrs. George B. Daigh, Mrs. Johr
Dye, Miss Katherine Biggs, Miss
Elizabeth Whitney. Mrs. r. E
Shearer and Mrs. Raymond Catey
The zeta Tau Alpha Alumnae
Chapter of Washington will meet
on Tuesday at 8 pm. at the home
of Mrs. George C. Neal, 1913 Hill
brook lane NV. Co-hostesses fol-
the meeting will be Mrs. Sally
Walter and Mrs. Katherine Kempfer
and the guest speaker will be Mrs.
Jewell Gaffney, executive secretary
of the District Society for Crippled
Children.
The sorority is lending support
to activities directed toward the
treatment and training of cerebral
palsied children under the leader
ship Of the National Society for
Crippled Children and Adults.
Beta Gamma Chapter of ri Omi-
cron Sorority will meet at 8 pm.
Monday at the home Of Miss Louise
Larsen, Clifton Terrace Apartments,
lis West, Fourteenth and Clifton
streets NV.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
DR.. Jnraj Slavik
To Sbeak Monday

DR.. Juraj Slavik, former Czecho-
slovakian Ambassador, who resigned
last week as the representative OF
his Communist-d -domipated govern
ment, will be honor guest and
speaker on Monday at the second
in a series of celebrity interviews
given at $50 o'clock in the Palladi-
an Room of the Shoreham Hotel
The public is invited.
The District of Columbia League
of Women Voters will serve as host
esses for next weeks event, with
Mrs. John Thomas, District League
president, presiding. Mrs. Harold
A. Stone, vice president of the Ma
tional League of Women Voters will
introduce DR.. Slavik and act as
moderator during the press inter-
view which will follow DR.. Slavik' &
talk.
DR.. A. Powell Davies, minister OF
the All Souls Unitarian Church
who returned recently from Czecho-
slovakia, will also be present for
interview.
Among other guests who will be
seated at the speakers table are
Mime. Slavik, Mrs. Davies, Mr.. r. K
Nehru, Indian Minister, and Mrs
Nehru, Associate Justice and Mrs
Wiley Rutledge, Senator and Mrs
Brien Mcmahon, Representative and
Mrs. Estes Kefauver, Mr.. Francis
Russell of the State Department
and Mrs. Russell, Miss Anna Lord
Strauss, president Of the National
League of Women Voters, and Mr.
Harold Stone.
Reservations for tables for this
regular Monday event may be made
by calling the Palladian Room of
the Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Enesc0 Is H0mored
1t legation Lnncb

Mime. Ralea, wife of the Romanian
Minister. was hostess yesterday at
luncheon entertaining in honor of
her distinguished countryman,
Georges Enesco. The Minister is in
his homeland where he went several
weeks ago and in his absence Nine.
Ralea paid tribute to the famous
violinist, composer and conductor
Other guests were members of the
Legation staff, their wives and Miss
Catinca Ralea, daughter Of the
hostess.
Mr.. Enesco conducted the National
Symphony Orchestra at its concert
Wednesday evening and will be the
guest conductor again at its concert
Sunday when Menahem Pressler,
pianist, will be the soloist. Compo-
sitions of Mr.. Enesco's are included
on both programs.
Coming to Washington to hear the
concert Sunday will be former King
Michael of Romania, his mother,
Queen Helen, and their suite. They
are expected to arrive Sunday in
time for the concert and leave that
evening to return to New York.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
B. G. p. Meeting
In Fairfax Called

The next meeting of the Fairfax
County Chapter Of the Business and
Professional Women's Club will be
held at $50 pm. Wednesday at the
Lincolnia School.
The Education and Vocation Com
mittee will sponsor the program
which will present the problem ITS
Today's Woman Ready for Her To-
morrow" Those participating in
the discussion will be Mrs. Gladys
White, DR.. Vera Patterson and Miss
Martha Rely, They will discuss the
problem from the points of view of q
personnel director, scientist and
an educator S
Representatives OF the Falls Church
High School and the Fairfax High
School will be present as guests in
honor of Girls Week.
The Ways and Means Committee
Of the club will sponsor a presenta-
ton of Heidi" on May at the
Fairfax High School for the benefit
Of children of the county schools
at which tickets may be purchased.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
In the Ne1Vs

The Peruvian Ambassador and
Sonora de Ferreyros returned last
evening from few days stay in
New York where they were guests
Of honor at a reception Wednesday
evening of the Pan American Society
of the United States and the Peru
vian-American Association. Mr.
Thomas w. Palmer and Mr.. Ward A.
Miller, presidents of the two organ
izations, received the guests with the
Ambassador and Sonora de Ferreyros
assisted by Mrs. Palmer and Mrs
Miller.
Sonora Dona Sinforosa Sanchez
of Maryland Park, Md, who is
widely known as a hostess in Latin
American diplomatic and cultural
circles here, will sail for her native
Spain late this month.
She will visit her mother, whom
she has not seen for eighteen years
Sonora de Sanchez will return to
Washington by air in June.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. RiXey Smith were
among those entertaining at dinner
last evening at the Sulgrave Club
The party was In honor OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Graham Morrison.
Mrs. Isabel v. Caldwell of Omaha
is in Washington and will be at the
Statler for some time.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Cabital Society
At ObeNin o.

Prominent members of Washing
ton society attended the opening
Of the Town and Country room in
the Mayflower Hotel yesterday
Ranking guests were the retiring
Brazilian Ambassador and Nine
Martins, the Dominican Ambassador
and Sonora de Dillon and the Brit
ish Minister and Lady Balfour.
The room is on the corner of
Connecticut avenue and de Sales
street where a drug store used to
be and will be opened to the public
today. Former Secretary of the
Senate and Mrs. Leslie Biffle were
there and also Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Spalding, III, Mrs. George Mesta,
Mr.. and Mrs. Tinsley Garnett, Mrs
Kent Legare, the chairman of the
Board of District Commissioners
and Mrs. j. Russell Young, Mrs
Duke Shoop, Mrs. Randolph Hunt
ington Miner, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
E. Schenck, and Mr.. and Mrs
c. Thomas Clagett.
Service groups were we'll repre-
sented and among those attending
the opening were Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Clark Woodward, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. J. ]. Clark, and
Gen. and Mrs. Clayton Adams.