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Evening star., 1949-12-12
By Paul Manning
North American Newspaper Alliance

Synthetic drugs, which German
chemists developed as substitutes
for morphine during World Wal
II, are today the most dangerous
threat to the health of America
since illicit narcotics were first
smuggled into this country.
Any trained chemist can pro-
duce these drugs at low cost from
materials readily available on the
open market. and due to such ease
of manufacture, the Treasury's
narcotics division regard the Ger
man synthetics as its greatest
problem to come.
The threat of amidone, one OF
the German synthesized drugs
was highlighted some time ago in
testimony given by DR.. Nathan
Eddy and DR.. Lyndon Small Of the
Public Health Service before
the United Nations Narcotics
Commission. These men fatty
stated that ''by comparatively
simple changes In the formula. il
would be easy to produce an 81
most unlimited range OF drugs
with similar effects"
DR.. Small said his United Ma.
tions statement in regard to ami
done still stands. He said thai
amidone is equally or more salts
factory to the addict than NOR
phine."
Amidone and similar drugs are
now under Federal control, but al
though narcotic prescriptions are
required for their purchase, it is
readily admitted by narcotics Off
cials that the ease with which the
ingredients of amidone and dem
erol can be purchased make them
the newest and greatest danger to
the health of the Nation.
q. s. Tops Drugs Market.
Certainly. any sudden and easy
increase in the Illicit narcotic
traffic, made possible by backroom
manufacture of amidone and kin
dred drugs. would cause grave So
cial and economic problems for
this country.
At present, the United States al
ready is the greatest consumer
market for narcotics in the world
Furthermore DR.. Eufemio Fer
nandez, chief of the Cuban secret
police, who made this statement
about the existing dope traffic. said
in regard to smuggling between
South and North America that
"the narcotic traffic passes chiefly
through Cuba because Cuba is the
communications center between
South America and the United
States"
Evening star., 1949-12-12

and bitter. But no more than is
per cent of the narcotics smuggled
into the country is intercepted and
now. with trained chemists able to
produce synthetic morphine in any
backroom laboratory-much as
bathtub gin once was concocted-
narcotic officials today are fearful
that the struggle ahead Is to be-
come their greatest battle.
Evening star., 1949-12-12
Is the Formula Preferred by Patients
Over All Other Anti histamines
In Clinical Tests at
u. S. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, III.

. Think of it! No more sneezing-
stopped.up nose-aches and pains
no more miserable days in bed trying
70 "outlast" a cold.
Now you can knock out cold in
matter Of hours! Can stop the cold
completely. Can check it at the very
first sign of a chilli, sneeze, or snifae!
All because spectacular new anti.
histamine drug, called KRIPTIN,
kills colds the way no cold tablet
no aspirin or quinine product-no.
chest rubs, or any other so.called
cold remedy-hss ever done!
Proved in Famous Tests
In the famous Great Lakes Naval
tests, 80 per cent of colds were
stopped completely when anti.hista'
Evening star., 1949-12-12

mine treatment was begun within IN
hour after cold symptoms appeared.
Even when treatment was started
within six hours, II per cent Of colds
were killed and 70 per cent were
killed when treatment was started
within twelve hours. ind in these tssts
patients preferred the KRIPTIN jey.
maka (Py,anisamine Mzle<te) oSsr <N
other anti-kiskamines fessedy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
BLuftOn NdtiUe
Dies In OregOn

Mrs. Milton L. Myers, rs, native
of Bluffton, died at her home in
Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday of last
week, following a cerebral hem
orrhage.
Mrs. Myers is the former Alice
Steiner, born in Bluffton, April 81,
1878, the daughter of Gideon and
Elizabeth Steiner, pioneer residents
mere. The family moved to Oregon
in 1887.
Mrs. Myers was for many years
prominent in civic affairs of Salem,
being a charter member and past
matron of the Eastern Star chapter
of that city and was director of the
Red Cross surgical dressing depart
ment during the first world war. As
young woman she was one of the
two first telephone girls" at the
Salem exchange.
Surviving besides her husband are
two nieces and nephew.
Funeral services were held last
Thursday morning after which the
body was placed in mausoleum.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03

Opening of the Lenten season, in
preparation for Easter, began this
Wednesday in an observance known
in the religious world as Ash We'd
nesday.
The Lenten period is fast of 40
week days observed by the Roman
Catholic church and many of the
Protestant denominations. 1t was
not until 1910 that the date was
fixed for the fast to start on Ash
Wednesday and to continue through
Holy Saturday.
The name Ash Wednesday has a
general reference to the penitential
sackcloth and ashes SO frequently
spoken of in the Old Testament. In
the Roman church there is rite
observed on this day in which the
priest places ashes on the forehead
of the communicates as they kneel
at the altar rail.
As he does this ne says, ME
mento, homo, quiya pulvis es, ct in
puferem reverteris" (Remember, man
thou art dust, and unto dust thou
shalt return.) The ashes are obtained
by burning palm branches consecrat-
ed in the church on the Palm Sun
day of the year previous.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
ROBBER MAY HAVE
TRIED TO CRACK
SCHOOL SAFE HERE
Ex-Convict Who Looted 80 HIGH
Schools May be Implicated
In Local "JOb"
Authorities Study Operations
To Link GAINESVILLE Man With
B. H. S. Job Last Fall

Authorities this week are inyesti-
eating the possibility that captured
ex-convict who has confessed to loot
ing 3S high school safes in Ohio and
Indiana may have been the key man
in an attempted robbery of the safe
in the Bluffton High school office,
late last October.
The ex-convict, held by authorities
at GAINESVILLE, where he was captured.
is 5i-year-old Dwight Cherry. who
estimates his loot was between
$4,000 to 100000 in the So rob-
berries.
Cherry is linked with the attempt
to crack the Bluffton High school
safe last October 28 both because of
similarity of methods Of robbery,
and because he often operated in
this area.
Admits Nearby "Jobs"
Safe robberies in nearby high
schools at Leipsic, Lakeyiew, Orders
vile, Roundhead, McGuffey and Ada
were admitted by the ex-convict.
In describing his safe-cracking
forays, Cherry said he watched
newspapers for notices Of revenue
producing high school entertain
ments and athletic events, then loot
ed office strong boxes following the
affairs.
His description of activity fits the
attempt here last fall, which was
made on the same night the Bluffton
High school grid team played
Wapakoneta here.
Receipts from the football game
were not in the Office; safe, but the
thieves didn't learn that fact in their
visit here, for altho they knocked the
combination off the safe and jimmiee
the handle, they never succeeded il
opening the strong box. p
In the safe at the time of the at
tempted burglary were approximately
$85 in cafeteria receipts.
The Bluffton robbery was one ot
three attempted in Allen county or
the same night, when safe crackers
also broke into buildings at Spencer.
vile and Shawnee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
Lenten Season In Preparation For
Easter Begins This Ash Wednesday

Gradually it came to be the Gus
tom of friends and relatives to man
ifest their humility by joining the
penitents, expressing a similar con-
tribution in their outward guise and
offering their foreheads for the
ashes.
In time the number grew so large
that it was made necessary to ad-
minister the ashes to the whole con-
gregation in single rite, the form
used at the present time.
Ash Wednesday was not always
included within the Lenten period.
In the fifth and sixth centuries Lent
began with the succeeding Sunday
and lasted six weeks. Omitting
Sunday this would be 36 days. The
addition of four days to this period
makes the fast exactly 40 days in
duration and therefore accords with
the fast of Jesus as well as the
fasts of Moses and Elias.
The use of ashes in the ceremony
has generally been discontinued since
the reformation. The entire Chris
tion world, however, starts the Len
ten celebration on this Ash We'd
nesday even though the form of the
celebration varies in the different
religious groups.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
Letter Protests
Cara Prosecution

A letter protesting Selective Serv-
ice Act violation prosecution of Larry
Cara, Bluffton college instructor,
has been sent to Attorney General
Tom Clark by the Peacemakers, a
national organization with head
quarters in New York City.
Cara was indicted in Toledo fed
eral court Jan. 5 on a charge of
advising draft-age men to refuse to
register for the draft. Cara has
pleaded innocent to. the charge and
trial has been set for March 9.
Thirty-four citizens, most of them
clergymen, signed the Peacemaker
letter, which protests prosecution of
Cara on the grounds that it is
against the public interest to i'm
prison persons who under compul-
sion of their conscience refuse to
cooperate in military conscription.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
CONTINUATION OF
SEWER WORK BIG
PROBLEM FOR CITY
Cherry Street Sewer Done;
Funds For More Work This
Year Are Unlikely
Replacement Sewer Program
Will Take Years Unless Ad-
ditional Funds Come

Installation of the new storm
water sewer covering a two-block
stretch on Cherry street virtually
was completed this week, but when
funds will be available for addition
al sewer work is a question which
stumps even the most optimistic
members of the city government.
Cost of the Cherry street replace
ment sewer will run in excess Of
$4,000, an expenditure which will
cut huge slice from the city's
operating funds.
Funds Are Low
Councilmen, in laying plans for an
expanded street repair program this
summer announced at the time that
there likely would be little or no ad-
ditional funds available this year
for continuation of sewer replace
ments badly needed in all sections of
the town.
A survey made year ago by
llaltisipal blllllsils Sllo"Sa % loIIl-
plants regarding inadequate storm
water sewer facilities in many diff
ferent sections of the village.
With insufficient funds for full
scale sewer requirements, councilmen
set to work on a program of piece
meal sewer installation which could
be continued whenever money could
be made available for the work.
Replaces Flagstone Sewer
In construction of the new Cherry
street sewer from Mound avenue to
the Big Riley creek, the town re-
placed one of the villages oldest eS
listing sewers. For most of the dist
ance involved, the drain was an old
fiagstone sewer, built with slab walls
and bottom and fence-rail top.
Excavating and laying Of tile was
| completed Tuesday by the Charles
Kohl contracting firm of Lima, and
the only remaining work is in con-
structing manhole and laying tile
thru network of Buckeye Pipe Line
oil mains just east of the Farmers
Grain Co. elevator building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
Clothing Collection
For European Relief

Door-to-door collection of clothing
for European relief will be made
here Saturday afternoon in pro-
ject directed by the Relief commit
tee of the Women's Missionary So
ciety of the First Mennonite church
and Bluffton college.
Shoes top the list of needs. Cloth
ing, new or used, should be clean
and mended. Apparel is needed for
men, women and children of all
ages.
"The need for relief this winter
is almost beyond comprehension,
said Herta Van Delden, German stu
dent at the college here.
"A slip of paper bearing your
name, address and perhaps some
friendly message pinned on the cloth
ing is always appreciated by these
people who wish to express personal
ly their gratefulness for this aid, =
she said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
March Weather Holds Key To vitality
Important Farm Outlook For This Year
Dollar Days Success
For AU Concerned

Dollar Days in Bluffton last Fri
day and Saturday left everybody
happy.
Wearing smiles at the close of the
big sales event were shoppers who
found shops jammed with bargains
merchants who did record volume
of business, and some 750 kiddies
who saw a free movie at the Carma
theatre.
With the town jammed with shop
pers last Saturday afternoon, two
packed houses saw a free movie
screened at the Carma theatre for
children who could be left there
while their parents looked over the
bargain offerings.
The enthusiastic response to the
Dollar Days sale here came at a
time when many cities were report
ing tagging retail sales, and helped
local merchants establish volumes
comparable with any February per-
iod in history.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
Stage High School
Operettd March SO

"The Mocking Bird" tuneful op-
eretta will be staged in a two night
run in the high school gymnasium
next Tuesday and Wednesday nights
at s o'clock, by the high school mu-
sic department.
Scene of the operetta is laid in
New Orleans about 1760 when
France and Spain were vying for
domination in the New World and
the action is complicated by incur
sions of a daring pirate sea captain.
Appearing in leading roles are
Ada May Oyer and Roger Linden
with supporting student cast and
orchestra. Earl Lehman, instructor
in public school music directs the
production and Ruth Diller is ac-
companist.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
With The Sick

Mrs. Alice Lantz Of Muncie, Ind,
is a patient in Bluffton hospital as
the result of fall sustained at the
home of her son, +. A. Lantz of
Campus Drive.
Mrs. Idessa Henry of East Kibler
street is recovering from a four
weeks illness of pneumonia. Her
son VIM. Henry of Detroit, visited
her recently.
Mrs. Gideon Burkholder of East
College avenue is i'll at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Cal Steiner
of Poplar street.
Mrs. Ernest Gratz is surgical
patient at Lima Memorial hospital.
Her condition is reported fair.
Mrs. Charles Stratton, i'll at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Paul
Marquart is somewhat improved.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
ANNUAL RED CROSS
DRIVE is UNDER
way In BLUFFT0N
Mrs. ]. S. Steiner Directs Drive
To Raise ST, 900 In Soil
citation Locally
Attempts Being Made To Com
pete Campaign During First
Two Weeks of March

Joining others in a nation-wida
drive, Blutfton Red Cross workers
this week began their solicitation in
the annual Red Cross campaign to
raise funds for the many phases OF
the organizations relief activities.
Bluffton's quota in the campaign
has been set at mark of $1,000;
and Allen county as a whole is ex.
pected to raise s27,5S5. The nation
al goal is s60,O0O,00o.
Mrs. J. S. Steiner, veteran Bluffton
Red Cross worker, is in charge of
the Bluffton solicitation, which as
in past years will include house-to-
house canvassing.
Altho the entire month of March
has been designated by the National
Red Cross for campaigns, a concen-
trated effort is being made to COM
plete the Allen county drive in the
first two weeks. j. w. Schoonover
is chairman of the county solicitation
effort.
The American Red Cross attempts
to forsee the needs of local and
national chapters, and seeks funds
for the work thru contributions
received in the annual campaign.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
new TURBINE unit
ON line AT LIGHT
PLANT THIS MONTH
Installation of 1000 XIV Gener.
atOr Virtually Finished, Supt.
Swisher Reports
Additional Boiler Being Install
ed At Municipal Plant Will
Be Completed In Spring

Installation of a 1000 XIV turbine
generator is practically completed at
the Bluffton municipal light plant
and the new unit will be put on the
line sometime the latter part of
March, Supt. John Swisher announc-
ed this week.
With the additional turbine in
operation, Bluffton's peak load
troubles experienced over the last Is
months will be eliminated, the super
intendent said, and the plant will
have two generators capable of ade-
quately supplying demands Of
patrons.
Present peak load demands at the
plant range from 1000 to 1,10O XIV,
Supt. Swisher pointed out, and only
one of the plants two present operat-
ing turbines can carry the load.
The larger turbine in the exist
ing installation has a 1850 XIV
rating, but the smaller has a rated
output of only 750 XIV. AS long as
the larger unit is on the line, the
local plant experiences no difficulties,
but when it is necessary to shut it
down for repairs or cleaning, the
smaller turbine cannot carry peak
loads, and it has been necessary at
times to pull the switches on lines
supplying Bluffton industries.
Surplus Purchase
With the additional 1000 XIV
turbine on the line, the plant will
have adequate generating capacity
for all demands, Supt. Swisher said.
The turbine was purchased early in
1947 as navy surplus removed from
destroyer, and after its installation
here was rewound to make it suit
able for use in the Bluffton plant.
Additional boiler facilities required
at the plant will not be available
until in the spring, Supt. Swisher
said, for new 600 HIP boiler being
installed will not be completed until
that time.
When the boiler is put in use the
plant will have adequate steam
power to handle it's increased load
now lacking when it is necessary to
shut down the one plant boiler, with
sufficient output for needs.
Standby power is not available in
sufficient volume at present because
the two older standby boilers do not
have adequate output for today's
higher demand loads.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
Electric Housekeeping Conveniences
Boost Demand On Light Plant Here
Mt. Cory Basketeers
Lose In Tournament

Mt. Cory high school basketball
team, Hancock county tournament
champions, were eliminated by Syca-
more from the Glass B sectional
play at Bucyrus Tuesday night by
a one-point margin.
In the last two seconds of the
game, Lundy of Sycamore got two
foul shots and made both to give
his team 36 to 35 decision over
the Hancock county team.
Mt. Cory led at the half II to Ia
and held a 35 to 81 margin with
only 80 seconds left to play, when
Lundy was fouled in the act of
shooting. Each team made II field
goals. Sycamore converted eight of
16 free throws and Mt. Cory seven
of IA
Bell of Sycamore was high point
man with a score of IA. Robert
Warren tossed in 10 and Dick Mar
quart nine for Mt. Cory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
Multiplying Factor of Electrical
Helps Results in Greater
Demand For Current
Bluffton Homemakers Depend
More and More on Electricity
In Daily Life

A steadily expanding demand for
more electrical conveniences in mod
ern housekeeping is reflected in a
| 1000 XIV daily increase in output
of the Bluffton municipal light plant
over the volume of current general
ed year ago.
In commenting on the increased
demands for electricity from the
municipal plant, Supt. John Swisher
said this week that at least half of
the 1000 XIV boost comes from the
use of more electrical appliances in
| Bluffton homes.
Electrical housekeeping convenien-
ces each year create expanded de-
mands on the local plant, and such
things as the weekly washings and
ironings mount to a total current
consumption which must be reckon
ed with in plant operations, the
superintendent said
| PEAK ON WAsHDAY
Peak demands on current generat-
ing facilities of the plant come on
Monday and Tuesday mornings,
Supt. Swisher pointed out, largely
because of the family washing on
Monday, followed by ironing on
| Tuesday.
On those two days, the peak load
will climb to 1900 XIV in compari-
son with an average of from 1000
to 1,100 XIV the rest of the week.
More and more electrical appli-
ances are being added to the aver
age Bluffton household, covering a
broad field embracing ranges, refrig-
orators, radios, home freezers, dish
washers, washing machines, air con-
ditioning, water heaters, irons,
toasters, electric heaters, etc.
MANY ANGLES
Electric consumption further is
boosted in the home by the increas-
ing use of oil-burning furnaces and
coal stokers, both of which are cleo
trically controlled and operated.
Supt. Swisher estimated that ap-
proximately 25~ per cent of the
towns homes now have either oil
furnaces or stokers.
The trend in Bluffton is reflected
throughout the United States as a
whole, for although this country has
only seven per cent of the worlds
population we generate as much
electricity as all the rest Of the
world combined.
HOME USE DOUBLES
Figures show that urban home
owners and apartment dwellers have
almost doubled their per-family use
of electricity in the last decade.
Over that period the average
yearly use of electric current for
a single residence increased from
a modest 853 XIV in 1888 to 1850
XIV in 1948. In the next five or six
years, use is expected to climb to
as high as 1000 XIV.
Behind this increase in current
consumption is the multiplying fac
tor of electrical gadgets for the
home and their woder use.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
Continued Mild Weather Would
Set Stage for Bumper Grain
and Livestock
Mortality Rate for Pigs, Lambs
and Chicks Drops Sharply
This Spring

Continuation of mild winter wealth.
er thruout March will create u.
favorable spring farm outlook as
this century ever has produced local.
ly veteran farm observers were
predicting here this week.
Mondays cold snap when the
temperature dropped to minimum
of 13 degrees is not regarded as
having any long range detrimental
EFFECT since it was followed by
moderating temperatures.
Absence of severe weather so fan
this winter already has created con-
ditions favorable to the raising OF
hogs and lambs; for the mortality
rate has dropped sharply as mild
weather continues.
Less difficulty than usual also has
been experienced by raisers of early
chicks, who have not had the usual
mid-winter worries occasioned by
zero weather and bowling blizzards
Ease of starting early chicks, togeth-
er with an increase in the number
of farmers raising chickens, will
vastly expand the volume of poultry
produced here this coming summer
perhaps nearing record proportions.
If mild winter continues thru the
month of March, farm observers say
conditions will be favorable to bump
er yields of farm products, including
crops.
Wheat Prospect Good
Wheat so far has come thru the
winter with every indication of at
least average prospects, for altho
there has been virtually no snow to
provide a protective covering the
mild winter made protection largely
unnecessary.
Thus the month of March, always
a critical season so far as wheat is
concerned, looms more important
than ever this year, for a turn tc
zero weather would find the stano
without protection.
All in all, early farm prospects
have not been as favorable in many
a year; and suitable breaks in the
weather will be conducive to large
volume production.
Everything hinges on March
weather, however, for severe cold
which accounts for the principal
mortality in spring hog, lamb and
chick output still cannot be ruled out
of the realm of possibility. Unfavor-
able weather this month, particularly
if it provides a combination of cold
and wet conditions, could change the
picture to a point where livestock
and wheat prospects would be reduc-
ed at least to average.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-03
BIuftOn Student In
Senior Piano Recital

Miss Jean Ann Steinman, student
in the Baldwin Wallace conservatory
of music at Berea will present her
senior piano recital at that place on
Friday evening. Her program will
include compositions of Mozart,
Brahms, Critics, Debussy, Ravel and
Schumann.
Miss Steinman, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Forrest Steinman of South
Lawn avenue will graduate in June
with the degree of Bachelor of
Music. She has been a student in
Baldwin Wallace conservatory for the
past three years and is president Of
the local chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon,
national honorary music sorority.