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Valley frontiersman., 1949-07-14

the FWS. Mir. and Mrs. Robert Burkholder of Fort Collins, Colo. have been assigned to this area. The couple are recent graduates of Colorado A & M, and Mir. Burkholder has been with the Service in Colorado for the past few months.
 The Burkholders will move into the Hoskins house, which has been MT. Patrick's headquarters during his brief stay in the Valley.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-07-14
FWS Agent Potriek Transferred to Kotzebue

Palmer's newly-apponted Fish and Wildlife Service agent, Stan ley Patrick, was packing his bags this week in anticipation of an- other move on July Is. MT. Pat rick has been transferred to Kotzebue, he said.
 However, Palmer will still be headquarters for an agent from the predator control section of
Valley frontiersman., 1949-07-14
pr. Bailey Likes Motanusko Valley

Continued From Page D shortly before his discharge from the army in 1946
 Since his army assignment, Dr. Bailey has spent most of his medical career in Alaska, where he has served on varied assign ments at isolated spots, so that resident doctors might return to the states on furlough or for further training.
 In 1948, the Valleys future physician took special work in orthopedics at the University of Washington and in surgery at the Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle. He has more recently completed two months of study under Dr. Carl Jensen, leading eye specialist in Seattle. (HOW- ever, Dr. Bailey is not an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, as was reported last week.
 The new physician, who is un- married, plans to make his permanent home in the Valley, when he returns in October.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-07-14
GIRL FOR WEAVERS

WASILLA - A daughter was born to Mir. and Mrs. John Wea yer at the Valley Hospital on July '. The baby girl weighed six pounds, 12 ounces at birth.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
POLIO VICTIM AT
her H0 NE HERE
MUCH IMPROVED
Mrs. Albert ingalls, Returned
From Lima Hospital Tues
day Afternoon
No Other Cases Reported Here
as Total in Area Continues
Higher

Mrs. Albert ingalls,, 25, Buttons
only polio case this summer was
removed from Lima Memorial hospft-
al to her home here Tuesday after
noon with her condition reported
much improved. She had been a
patient in the hospital at Lima since
August 5.
She and her husband, BIufton
businessman occupy en- apartment in
the Mrs. Ada Miller property on
Bentley road.
With nearly two weeks elapsed
since the first appearance of the
disease here and no additional cases
reported, officials are hopeful that
Bluffton again escape for the second
summer a serious outbreak Of polio.
Meanwhile, however. the number of
cases in the area il steadily mount
ing with a total of So cases reported
for the summer as having undergone
treatment in Lima hospitals.
Bluffton officials said the first Of
the week that the program Of spray
ing creeks to keep down flies and
mosquitoes will be continued unabat-
ed until late in the fall. The spray
ing of creeks, eliminating insects is
believed to tie in with the low num-
Der of polio cases here, two being
reported in two years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Former Teacher Sues School Board:
Wants Job Here and Two Years Pay
BlufftOn Natural Gas Rates Will Go
Up If Utility Request Is Approved

Whether Buttons natural gas
rates may go higher was the sub
iect of discussion here this week,
following announcement that the
Ohio Fuel Gas Co, supplier of West
Ohio Gas Co., the local utility, has
requested the Z. S. Power Commits
sion for permission to make rate
increases.
In addition to Bluffton, West Ohio
Gas Co. provides gas for Lima, OF
tawa, Leipsic, Columbus Grove and
many other cities in this area.
1t is the third largest patron of
the Ohio Fuel Gas Co., which has
headquarters in Columbus.
Rate increase requested by the
Ohio Fuel Gas Co. would amount
to about 4.2 cents per thousand Gu
bic feet, it was announced. The rate
increase is said to be one of the
largest ever proposed to the federal
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. James Oberly, Bluff
ton, a girl, Deborah Joyce, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Mowery, Con-
tinental, a boy, William Michael
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Crist, Je.
nera, a boy, Wayne Allan, Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Nusbaum
Pandora, a boy, Paul Dale, Satur.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nusbaum, Pan.
dora, a girl, Carlene Anne, Satur.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. David slane, La
fayette, girl, Cheryl Adele, Sun
day.
Rev. and Mrs. Frank Harder
Pandora, a boy, James Bruce, Sun
day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18

commission, and amounts to total
of S1,22s,56S per year. In the area
served by West Ohio Gas CO., the
increase would be S122,916 annually.
Ohio Fuel Gas claimed the rate
boost is necessary because unpre-
cedented postwar demands have re-
quired changes in the sources OF
gas and have necessitated large pur-
chases of gas from the southwest
The claim further stated that new
production and transmission amount
ing to about S25,000,000, and the
cost of gas purchased by the utility
has been boosted about three cents
per thousand cubic feet.
Substantial increases in labor and
material costs also have been exper-
fenced, the company added.
Ohio Fuel Gas asked permission
to make the new rates effective on
September 6.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Bluffton School District To Be Free
OF Bonded Debt In 1852, Budget Shows
Deficit of $4,000 Indicated in
Current Operations. Es-
Inmates Show
Tax Valuation of Bluffton
School District Stands at
Over S5,500,000

Cost of operating Bluffton schools
for the current year will be S102,-
900, an amount S10,321 greater
than anticipated receipts, according
to the 1949 budget adopted last
week by the board of education.
Receipts for 1949 are estimated
at s92,634.04, falling s10,321 short
of the aggregate amount necessary
to operate the schools here during
the current year.
The school budget, which furnishes
basis for determination of schoo
tax levies, is based on actual ex.
penditures for the first six months
of 1949 and estimated expenditures
for the last six months.
Also listed in the budgetary break.
down are actual receipts and costs
for the last year and estimated re-
ceipts and expenditures for the
coming year.
$1O,321 DEcIFIT
This years deficit of S10,321 par
TALLY is accounted for in the form
of a $4,000 expenditure to repair a
break in the heat line at the high
school building. This is presum-
ably a no-recurring expense.
Among the larger items of ex-
penditures listed in the budget are:
Salaries, administration (superin-
tendent, clerk of board and office
secretary, $1,000; teachers salaries,
ETC., $4,000; transportation of pu-
pills, bus drivers, etc, S6,560; oper-
alton of school plant, $15, $50; school
maintenance, S8,470.
Principal sources of revenue for
school operation include: General
property tax, s50,491; school found
alton, $2s,302; and classified and
personal property tax, $8,081.
Next January / will find Buttons
bonded debt for the high school
building down to $4,000. The build.
ing debt in 1880 was S165,000, with
bonds issued for a 22-year period
This bonded Indebtedness will be re-
tired in 1852, with $4,000 being paid
toward retirement of the debt dur.
ing the current year.
Tax valuation of the Blufftor
school district, including a part OF
Richland township and a small sec.
ton of Monroe township is S5,6T3,
535.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
ARRESTS LOOM FOR
DOUBLE PARKING IN
BUSINESS DISTRICT
Breakdown Warning Follows
Painting of Yellow Lines
In Downtown Area
Lines Will Help Curb Reckless
Driving on Downtown
Main Street

"No passing" lines put on Main
street pavement Monday between
Elm street and College avenue will
bring to an end all double-parking
in the business district, Police Chief
H. L. Coon warned this week.
Regular patrols will be made IN
the area, and violators will be ar
rested, the police chief said, as the
only means of restricting motorists
from crossing the center line in the
four-block stretch of the street.
Marking of the street with the
yellow, double mo parking" lines
was made by the state highway de-
partment, at the request of village
officials.
The "no-passing" ban in the busi-
ness district is an additional traf-
fic safeguard, for it will prevent
reckless driving, principally by
through traffic, in the form of rae
ing around slower moving autos in
the downtown area.
With the lines in place, the crack
down on double parking is neces-
sary, for a parked car will make
it necessary for cars approaching
from the rear either to cross the
yellow line or come to a standstill
thereby creating a traffic jam.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Parked Car Leads
To Arrest Of Pair

A 1947 Cadillac sedan taken from
a Chicago garage found parked near
Swiss Inn, south of Bluffton led to
arrest of two alleged automobile
thieves who are being held in the
Allen county jail in Lima pending
arrival of extradition papers from
Cook County, Illinois.
The men who gave the names of
William Martin Carr, 27, Detroit,
and Patrick Allen Scott, 23, Chica-
go, were booked for investigation.
According to Cpl. X. l.. Doebel
of the state highway patrol, the
men had been seen driving the car
which has been returned to the
owner, Mrs. Theresa Rosenwasser
of Chicago. Both men have past
criminal records, Cpl. Doebel said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
EARLIER RULING
OF AUGUST 81
TO BE DROPPED
Protests Of Parents Brings Re-
vision of New Age Limit
Set for This Year
School Board, Giving Unofficial
Approval, Plans to Act at
Next Meeting

When Bluffton's schools open for
the coming year on Tuesday, Sept
ember 6, children who will be six
years of age up to and including
December 81 of this year will be
admitted to the first grade. This
will cancel a decision made in 194s
by the board of education to change
the traditional rule and set up
August 81 as the determining date
for enrolment.
That's the way the situation ap-
peared this week, altho the entire
matter is as yet unofficial and
probably win remain so until after
school begins when formal action is
expected to be taken by the board of
education at the next regular meet
ing in September.
However all quarters concerned
appear TO be agreeable to a return
to the December 81 deadline. A
: survey revealed the following at
titudes:
Teachers favorable.
Parents enthusiastic.
Superintendent and Board
agreeable.
August 81 Deadline Orphan
In fact no one appeared to favor
A Il
ting children to the first grade,
particularly after number of par
ents of children protested vigorously
against change in. the ruling.
Machinery to restore the December
81 deadline was set in motion at a
meeting last Wednesday when II
teachers meeting with Superintend-
ent of Schools Aaron Murray adopt
ed resolution by unanimous vote
recommending the change.
Superintendent Murray said he
saw no objection to the change and
Leland Diller, president of the
board of education said the board
likely would concur and make official
the December 81 entrance date, since
the change originally was initiated
by teachers when the matter first
came up last year.
Parents Object to Change
Objections of parents who have
children coming six years of age
after August 81 this year were
responsible for the change in teacher
sentiment as most of them apparent
ly want their children in school this
fall instead of waiting for another
year.
When the change was set up in
the spring of 1948 to become eff
fective this fall, teachers recommend
ed a November l deadline but the
board of education moved the date
to August 81.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Eight From Here
On Jury Venires

Eight Bluffton area residents are
amsng the 120 Allen county resi-
dents named as grand and petit
jurors for the September term of
court, it was announced Tuesday by
Clerk of Courts Clarence N. Breese.
Among those drawn for grand
jury duty are Robert D. Young,
Iona A. Triplett and Ida L. Burk-
holder, all of Bluffton; and c. K.
Burns, of Beaverdam.
In the petit jury venire are Don
III. Martz, Guy Scudder, A. D.
Graf. and Clara Andrews, all of
Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
NO WORD FROM
BOARD PENDING
OFFICIAL NOTICE
Mrs. Mabel Lantz, Former Art
and Grade School Instructor
Files Action
Suit Seeks Si,ss4 i'm Pay To-
gether with Reinstatement
in School System

Mrs. Mabel Lantz, alleged dis
charged Bluffton school teacher has
| brought suit in the Allen county
common pleas court against the
Bluffton board of education and
superintendent of schools seeking
two years pay and reinstatement in
the school system.
Her suit seeks S2,442 each for
the 194S-49 and t949-50 school
years, together with court order
for reinstatement of all rights and
privileges sand due her under the
Ohio teachers tenure act.
The petition filed Monday by her
attorney Clarence Fischer claims
that the boards action is illegal,
an arbitrary abuse of discretion and
derogatory to the teachers rights
under law.
DEFENDANTS CITED
Named as defendants are the five
members of the board of education,
Leland Diller, Paul Diller, Carl
Derringer, Levi Althaus and Nor
man Triplett and Aaron Murray,
superintendent of schools.
Board members said Tuesday there
would be no statement pending Off
cial notification of filing of the suit
and an opportunity to study the
charges. The defendants probably
will be represented in court by An
thony Bowers, Allen county prose
cutor, legally designated for that
purpose.
| The petition for order of man.
damus states that Mrs. Lantz was
employed by the Button school
board in 1881 as a partStime grade
school teacher with the remainder
of her time to be devoted to art
supervision in the grade schools.
ART COURSE DROPPED
Later, the petition states, the
supervisory work was extended to
include junior and senior high
school art classes. On March 26,
1948, she received letter stating
that art courses were to be dropped,
but was assured she would be re-
tanned as a grade school teacher.
However, on May rs, Mrs. Lantz
was informed that her contract was
being suspended for the 1948-1949
school year and her services would
not be required. Similar notice was
given for the 1949-50 term.
The petition claims that under
the teachers tenure act this notice,
to be legal, would have to have been
given before April /, 194s. Since
that time two additional teachers
have been added to the system but
Mrs. Lantz has remained out of
work.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
HOUSING FOR MEN
PRESENTS MAJOR
COLLEGE PROBLEM
Campus Rooming Accommoda-
tions Still Adequate for
Women Students
With All Trailers Engaged
Married Students Also
Seek Housing

Housing facilities for men stu
dent and married couples will be q
major problem at Bluffton college
this fall.
With the opening of school four
weeks in the offing, all campus ac-
commodations for men already have
been taken, including Ropp hall, the
principal dirmitory, the Lehman and
Hirschy houses, similar dormitories,
and the Carl Lehman house, a pri-
vate residence.
In view of the shortage of ac-
commodations, arrangements are be-
ing made to quarter approximately
Is men in rooms about town, and if
the number of men is increased by
late enrolment additional rooms
must be found off the campus.
All accommodations in Beaverburg,
the trailer camp for married cou-
Piles, also have been taken, and at
tempts are being made to obtain
housing in the town for several
married couples with children.
Rooms for women still are avail
able on the campus for goods, who
are quartered in Lincoln hall.
Although college officials say it is
too early to make accurate esti-
mates, indications are that this fall S
enrolment will be approximately the
same as last year when a new rec
ord was established.
First event on the college program
this fall will be the arrival of fresh
men for orientation courses from
September . through II. Upper
classmen will register on Sept. IL,
and the class work will begin Thurs
day morning, Sept. Is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
To Teach In South
Dakota State College

Everett Hiestand, formerly of
Bluffton, has accepted a position on
the faculty of South Dakota State
College at Brookings, South Dakota,
as instructor in chemistry for the
coming year. During the past year
he was a student in the department
of chemistry of the Ohio State uni
versity graduate school. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. N. M. Hiestand
of Orange township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
SEWER SYSTEM TO
COST HOMEOWNER
ABOUT s37 YEAR
Council Gets Estimate of Cost
Spread Over Twenty Year
Period.
Engineer Places Cost of Disposal
Plant and Interceptors at
S450,000

Installation of a sewage disposal
plant and intercepting sewers at this
time would cost the average Bluffton
property owner between $35 to $40
a year for 20 years, municipal
councilmen were told Monday night
at a meeting in the council room.
This figure would include his share
of the operating cost of the system.
On the basis of figures studied
at the meeting the sewage dis
posai system each year would
cost owner of house valued at
$4,000 a property tax of SIG;
sewer tax a minimum of S12 to
retire revenue bonds, and
special property assessment of
50, for total of S37.
The estimate was made by II. l.
Strout, of the Toledo engineering
firm of Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout
who attended the meeting at the
request of couneilmen, in considering
the advisability of presenting bono
issue for sewage disposal construc,
ton at the polls this fall.
Legislation for a bond issue must
be authorized by the council anC
filed with the County Board of Elec-
tions 60 days before the November
election.
Debate Vote Now
Whether the issue will be submit
ted to voters was undecided, how.
ever, for high cost of construction
and the problem of working ou'
satisfactory methods of retiring the
debt apparently are major stumbling
blocks in the way of getting q
workable program under way
councilmen said.
Strout told the council that or
the basis of present costs, construc-
ton of the sewage disposal plant
and intercepting sewers along the
banks of Big and Little Riley creek
would entail an expenditure Of
S450,000.
Of this total, $4,000 could be
financed by general obligation bonds
which would have to be approved bs
voters at the polls. The S159,00t
figure is the largest amount which
could be voted and remain withlr
the five per cent limitation fol
general obligation bonds.
Retirement of the bonds woule
cost property holders an average O
approximately 81 for each $1,000 o.
property valuation, or SIG per yea
for house appraised at $4,000.
Additional Leyies Needed
In addition, revenue bonds ant
special assessments would be re
CONTINUED on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Children Aged Six Before january L
May Enter First Grade This Fall
Allen County Fair, Opening Next
Tuesday, To Have Many Features

Another interesting feature will
be a talent show for which entry
blanks may be obtained from Radio
Station WILMA in Lima.
Complete schedule of the night
shows is as follows:
Tuesday, August 23-Vaudeville
show with Chuck Selby's orchestra.
Wednesday, August "a - Hillbilly
Jamboree.
Thursday, August 25 - Band fes-
tival; all bands in the county in
vited.
Friday, August 26 - Talent show.
Saturday, August 27-Horse show
presented by the Allen County Horse
association.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18

An attraction-studded program will
feature day and night sessions of
Allen county's enlarged fair, which
will open on the East hibby street
grounds in Lima, next Tuesday.
Headlining the five-day fair will
be hundreds of farm exhibits by
both adult and junior fair entrants;
midway attractions will entertain
fairgoers night and day, and bands
from Allen county high schools will
have featured places in the program.
In addition to scheduled band APP
pearances at each fair session, a
massed band concert will be held on
Thursday night under the direction
of John Mckinley, of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Remodel Building
For Produce Station

The McCabe egg and cream in
terests, Attica, Michigan produce
firm, which recently purchased a To-
cation on Vance street is remodel
ing.a barn there to serve as a pro-
duce station.
The McCabe company this sum-
mer sold their North Main street
building adjoining the town house
to Clayton Bixel who is remodeling
the building into a home appliance
salesroom.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
BlUftOn Youth
At Hi-Y Cunap

Lynn Carmack, vice president of
the Button Hi-Y club is spending
the week as representative of the
local organization at Camp Nelson
Dodd, state Hi-Y summer camp on
the Mohican river in Knox county.
About 200 junior and senior high
school boys are in camp there.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Presbyterian Minister
And Family MOUe Here

Rev. Leonard Mcintyre, new pas
tor of the Bluffton and Rockport
Presbyterian churches, together with
his wife and little daughter, moved
here Tuesday from Olena, Ohio, and
are occupying the manse on Cherry
street. He was given a call to the
pastorate of the two churches last
June.
Rev. Mcintyre, a graduate of
Oberlin Theological seminary, pre-
viously served a church at Olena,
near Norwalk.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
DWight Spayth Is
On Navy Cruise

Dwight Spayth, Bluffton High
school instructor and a lietenant in
the U. S. Naval Reserve, on a two
weeks training cruise from New
Orleans to Cuba, will return home
early next week.
He and other naval reservists on
annual active duty training left
New Orleans last week and arrived
in Cuba Monday. Following two
days in Cuba, the group will return
to New Orleans.
Reservists are on four Z. S. Navy
ships for the training cruise.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Hold Homecoming At
BeaUerdanl SATURDAY.

Carnival events will feature a
Beayerdam Homecoming program to
be held in that village Saturday
night beginning at $50 o'clock.
Proceeds from the Homecoming
will go to the Beaverdam Fire de-
partment The event is sponsored
jointly by the fire department and
the community fire association.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
RLTFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel pricesl Wheat
$1.67; corn s1.12; oats 56c.
Poultry-Heavy hens, 23c; leghorr
hens zoe; heavy rock fryers 2se;
heavy red fryers 27c; leghorn fryers
21c.
Eggs-Large white 5sc; large
brown Sic; medium white 4sct
medium brown 47c; pullets Csc.
Butterfat-60c.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-18
Gets AUards At
Toledo Glad ShOIU

Kermit Herr, Bluffton fioricultur-
ist won four first, three second and
four third awards in open eompeti-
ton at the third annual Northwest
Gladiolus show at Toledo, Saturday
and Sunday. Two frsts were won
with II entries in each class.
The Bluffton grower also showed
II blooms at the Eastern Interna-
tional Gladiolus show at Binghanaton,
N. Y, Tuesday and Wednesday and
will have an exhibit at the Allen
County fair, August 26 through the
county mems garden club.