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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
Golden Wedding Of
Orange TUp. Couple

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Fisher,
of Orange township, observed their
golden wedding anniversary Sunday
in the Riley Creek Baptist church,
near their home. A dinner was
served in the church dining room to
relatives and friends. They have
been members of the church for
more than 90 years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher were mar
ried Dec. rs, 1898 in the home of
the brides parents three miles north
of Ada by the Rev. B. Van Falken-
burg. They started housekeeping
on a farm near the Riley Greek
church where, they have been mem
bers for more than so years. Mr.
Fisher has served as deacon and
Mrs. Fisher has taught a Sunday
school class for nearly 40 years in
the church.
Mrs. Fisher, 10, the former May
Houser, was born near her present
home and attended the rural schools
of Orange township.
Mr.. Fisher, 73, was born in Terre
Haute, Ind, and with his parents
came to Orange township in 1883 in
a covered wagon.
Mrs. Helen Messenger, daughter,
lives one mile from the parento a,
home.
A graduate in music in 1881 at
Ohio Northern university, Ada, she
taught in the Riley Greek commun-
ity and has served as pianist at
the Riley Greek church more than
20 years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
Fur Prices Remain
At LOiCer Levels

Altho prices of fur coats are
continuing at high levels, the past
season has been one of the poorest
in years for trappers who have
found it hardly pays to skin some
animals these days.
All raw fur prices dropped this
winter, with one of the major cuts
in payment for mink, which last
year brought $22 a pelt, but this
year commands a price of only SD.
Muskrat prices also are off-drop-
ping from So last year to Sits this
season. Fox, at one time a highly
priced prize, now is worth only so
cents.
Opposum skins at 80 cents are so
low that few trappers will skin
possum. Raccoon, once good
source of income, now bring only
S1.50 per pelt.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS

SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS
About 240,000 new farm homes
were built during 1947, in the
United States.
Average yields of soybeans in the
United States have nearly doubled
since 1924.
Heavy snow and rains have helped
winter wheat crops in Kansas, Ne
braska, Oklahoma and Colorado.
It is estimated that each rat on
a farm eats, damages, and destroys
more than a bushel of grain a year.
Retail food prices are expected to
continue high through most of 1949.
Corn sugar is used in the manu-
facture of the new "cold rubber
tire.
United States farmers produced
their second largest wheat crop in
1948. It was exceeded only in 1947.
Corn eyields in the United States
this year averaged 42.7 bushels per
acre, 6 bushels above any previous
record.
Addison H. Snyder, who as boy
lived on a farm near Barnesville in
Belmont County and was graduated
from Ohio State University in 1901,
retired January [, as extension sditor
of the University of Maryland. He
had held the post for 19 years.
New and more widespread use OF
soybean oil is expected following dis
covery that adding 8 to 4 ounces Of
citric acid per ton of soybean oil
gives it greatly improved quality ane
makes tastier salad dressing and
other food products.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06

Century Circle
The Century circle met at the home
of Mrs. j. S. Steiner, Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. Noah Basinger
and Mrs. A. ID. Gratz assistant
hostesses.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06

Mennonite Society
The w. M. S. of the First Men,
MONTE church will meet in the church
basement Thursday night at $50
o'clock. Mrs. Cal Steiner will pre-
sent feature "Glimpses of China"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06

Wanted--Housekeeper for elderly
woman; no washing or ironing, oil
burning furnace, all on one floor,
good home for right woman. Refer7
ences required Write to: Box Fl,
care Blufftdn News.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
James HOUe Wins
Northwestern AtCard

James Howe, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Howe, Spring ST., was one of
DO freshman football players who
received freshman numerals at a
recent Northwestern University foot
ball dinner. Howe, who stands 6'2"
and weighs 1872 pounds played center
and will be one of the candidates for
a varsity line position next fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
Lions Club Plans
Membership DriUe

A January membership campaign
was announced by the Lions club
Tuesday night in honor OF Melvin
Jones, founder of the Lions Inter
national, whose birthday occurs in
this month.
Dwight spayth is general chair
man for the campaign here with
membership of the club divided into
three teams headed respectively by
Charles Emans, Carl Lehman and
Clarence Diller.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
Clubs. lodges
and Societies

AmiCO NluD
The AMIGO club will meet with
Herbert Rupright, Thursday night at
7:30 o'clock.
Hospital Auxiliary
Quarterly meeting of the Hospital
Auxiliary will be held Tuesday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock in the nurses
living room.
Mennonite Society
The w. M. S. of the First Mem
MONTE church will meet in the church
basement Thursday night at $3.50
o'clock. Mrs. Cal Steiner will pre-
sent a feature "Glimpses of China"
Century Circle
The Century circle met at the home
of Mrs. j. S. Steiner, Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. Noah Basinger
and Mrs. A. ID. Gratz assistant
hostesses.
Poinsettia Club
Miss Theresa Slusser will enter
tain the Poinsettia club this Wednes-
day night. Members will answer
roll call with the name of an en-
joyable book and a book review will
be given by Mrs. Clayton Murray.
Alice Freeman Club
The Alice Freeman club met at
the home of Mrs. Gerhard Buhler,
Wednesday afternoon. Pictures in
Our Homes was the topic discussed
by Mrs. X. A. Lantz.
Travel Glass
Mrs. Sidney Hauenstein will be
hostess to the Travel class at a guest
night this Wednesday with Mrs. c.
H. Smith assisting. Miss Zanna
Staater and Mrs. James West will
be in charge of the program.
Engagement Announced
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest L. Steinmar
announce the engagement of thei,
younger daughter, Jean Ann te
Eugene James Szabo, son of Mr.. anc
Mrs. James E. Szabo of Elyria.
| Miss Steinman was graduated
from Bluffton high school and is nov
a senior at Baldwin Wallace college
Berea.
| Mr.. Szabo, an alumnus of Elyris
high school, spent three years in The
navy, serving in the Philippine
islands and China. He is also a senior
at Baldwin Wallace college.
Richland Grange
| Richland Grange will meet mex
Tuesday night at 5 o'clock.
i The program follows:
i New Year song; Resolutions
Reading; Grange Quiz, Procedure
and Ritualism, The Wishing Well
Music, Contest, High Steppers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
1922; corn s1.30; oats soc; soys
$2.44.
Poultry-Heavy hens 35c; leghorn
hens 29c; heavy springers 40c; stags
zoe and &c
Eggs-Large white Ate; large
brown 45c; medium white 40c med
jun brown 39c; pullets 37c.
Rf1tterfat-Gac
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
Hold GrdUeside Rites
For BLHftOn Infant

Graveside services for Betty Lou
Welch, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Norval Welch of Bluffton who died
at birth, Sunday in Lima Memorial
hospital were held at Harman ceme-
terry, Gilboa, Monday. Besides her
parents she is survived by a sister.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-01-06
CARD OF THANKS

| wish to express my sincere
gratitude to everyone who sent get
well and Christmas cards, flowers
and any other gifts during my i'll
ness.
Mrs. Munson Bixel
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12

In reply to Jackson's questions as
to whether this was really possl~
BILE Davis said the committee asked
itself more than once whether
they (atom wolkers) are really
private employees or if it's just
make believe"
The thing to keep in mind, ne
said, is that twenty years from
now "atomic" energy will be
spread thruout our industrial fabric
and not be a government enter
prise"
Quoting industry statements that
they're running atom plants "as
favor to the government" Davis
said that he didn't think it was so.
81 don't think they'll give up those
plants" he declared.
Rep. Chet Holifeld Cd, CALI,
chairman of the subcommittee, ask
ed whether labor policy should be
part of the Acc contract. In other
words, should industry be asked to
adhere to a certain set labor rela-
tions code if it wants the contract
to run an atom plant. Davis said
that he thought both industry and
labor should be asked to agree to
the panel setup but nothing more.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12
BY NATHAN ROBERTSON

Washington (LPA)-Profts of
corporations in the first quarter of
1949 have shown little indication
yet of the Truman depression"
that some Republican members of
Congress have been trying to talk
US into.
Government economists warn
that the corporation reports pub
lished so far may not be repre-
sentative, but unless there is a
sharp shift as the reports come in
from the smaller companies, corp
crate profits are headed for a new
high. So far, the reports indicate
profits running higher than last
year when the corporations made
the unprecedented profit of more
than 21,OO0,000,O00 after taxes.
The steel industry, which usual
ly is a good weather vane for the
rest of business, turned in record
breaking profits for the first quar-
ter. The 10 biggest steel producers
showed returns, after taxes, of
about rs per cent more than in the
first quarter of last year. The air.
craft industry, rejecting the high
national defense expenditures, vir-
tually doubled last years profits,
and automobiles and chemicals also
are showing much better earnings
than n year ago.
But the profit story for the first
quarter is somewhat mixed. Retail
profits were much lower than for
the first quarter Of last year, and
so We're the earnings Of the textile
companies, and the manufacturers
of household equipment. These re-
ports reflect the growing squeeze
on consumers because these are the
areas where business volume is not
bolstered by government spending.
Despite some of these soft spots
in the industrial picture, the pro-
fits of the big industrial companies
ItPOA Wig ~ ldI nave Dttil ~
tremendous that the overall profit
figure is considerably higher than
last year. j. A. Livingston, fnan-
cial writer for the Washington
Post, has tabulated reports from
226 corporations and found the
total profit for the group running
l6 per cent higher than last year.
If this is the beginning of a de-
preston, it is a new kind Of a de-
pression-because corporate profits
usually take sharp dive with any
curtailment of business. The only
excuse for the terrific profits corp
orations have been rolling up in
the postwar boom has been that
they would be needed to balance
off losses in time of depression.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12
No Union Rights
For Newsboys
Under TIL Law

Washington (LPA)-The NLRB
declared last week that news vend-
ers have no union rights under the
ft-Hartley law.
Newsstand men for four New
York dailies had asked the NLRB
to uphold their bargaining rights
which their employers had refused
to recognize. They are members of
Local 471 of the Int'l Printing
Pressmens Union-AFL.
But, said the NLRB, the vendors
are private contractors who "de-
pend for their income not upon
wages but upon the difference be-
tween what they pay for goods,
materials and labor and what they
receive for the end result, that is
upon profit"
No account was taken by the
board of the complete inequality of
bargaining position between the
newsstand proprietors and the big
city dailies-the Journal-American,
a Hearst paper, the Post, the Sun,
and the World Telegram, part of
the Scripps-Howard chain.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12

The corporate profits published
so far indicate business will be
able to take much deeper drop in
volume without showing losses
than it has been called upon to
take yet. Only Ia out of the 226
corporations in Livingston's list
showed losses, which is about a
normal average.
About half of the corporations
listed by Livingston showed lower
profits than for the first quarter of
last years, but the big ones show
ed tremendous increases. General
Motors profits were up AZ per cent,
to the highest level in history, and
DUPONT profits were up Al per
cent. Bethlehem Steel made more
than double what it did a year ago
with profits up from $15, ,l29,OOO
to $33, ,129,000
If corporate profits continue to
increase this year they will set a
new all time high for the fourth
year in a row. Prior to the war, 10
years ago, corporate profits were
running at $5,000,O00,000 after
taxes. During the war they rose to
about $10,000,000,000 - or double
the pre-war figure. Since the war
they have zoomed to new high re-
cords every year since the recon-
version period of 1945.
In 1916 profits reached new all
time high of $12,800,000,000 They
jumped on up to 8,l00, 900, 900 in
1947 and to about $21 ,000,0 900
last year. This was already more
than four times as high as before
the war and two and a half times
as high as the previous peace-time
record set in 1929.
The increase in profits before
taxes has been even more sharp.
Ten years ago, in 1889, they were
$6, 500 100000. They rose during
the war to almost $25, ,00O, 600 O,OOO,
and since the war have gone up to
a peak of $34, 900, 100000 last year.
That is more than five times what
they were before the war and
shows more vividly than anything
else the major role profits have
played in the rise of prices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12
Auto Workers Call
Strike In Protest

Detroit (LPA)-The largest local
union in the world struck last week
when $4,000 members of United
Auto Workers at the Rouge plant
of Ford Motor Co. walked off their
jobs in protest over speedup of the
assembly line which finishes Ford
and Mercury cars.
Local 600 staged the second
strike in the history of Ford after
management turned down a UAW
proposal that it accept procedures
which are i'm effect ain the major
portion of the automobile indus
try"
UAW President Walter Reuther,
who participated in last-minute
negotiations in an effort to avert
the walkout, explained how assem-
bly, line speed is determined in
other factories:
The manufacturer decides what
his production schedule will be, 40,
60 or 80 cars an hour and then as
signs time-study engineers to de-
eide how many men are needed to
man the assembly line and how
they should be distributed along
the line. The union then may chal-
lenge the standards set and event
ually satisfactory figure is agreed
on. Once that is done the speed
and conditions of the line are fixed
Reuther charged that Ford re-
fuses to fix the rate and when they
do they demand that their super
visors step it up to los or 1907.
According to the union, these
backward managerial practices"
date from the pre-union era and
shave long since been corrected in
the balance of the industry" Local
900 at the Lincoln plant is also out
because of the speedup.
Under Ford procedures employees
are forced to make up lost produc-
tion, regardless of whether the loss
is due to Interruptions or ineft-
cheney by management in schedul-
ing an even flow of materials.
Contract bargaining ut Ford,
centering around JAWS pension
demands, is scheduled to begin on
May 16. The UAW-Ford contract
runs out July Is and negotiations
may begin 60 days before that
date.
Despite the fact that picketing
has been slow and peaceful in the
90-degree sweltering heat, the
wired Dearborn Mayor
Orville Hubbard and Michigan
Governor G. Mennen Williams for
policemen to help guard the gates.
JAW and Ford have arranged for
crews for the duration
of the strike.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12
Business Pepper Sees New Industry
Combine Against Wage Increases

Washington (LPA)-Slgns
mounted this week that the giants
of industry have entered into a
behind-the-s scene combination to re-
sist any fourth round" wage in
creases.
The New York Journal of Com
merce was one of the papers that
gave broad hint of the plans OF
the big corporations.
In a top front-page story, the
paper declared that "the big boys
have come closer to organizing a
united front against wage raises
than at any time since the strike
wave of 1896"
The significance of that state
ment is that just prior to the 1916
outburst of strikes, some of the
largest corporation moguls held a
secret meeting in New York City
at which plans were laid for joint
stand by industry against wage in
creases. Details of that plot later
leaked out in print.
A similar alliance is now in the
making, the Journal of Commerce
indicated. Bluntly, too, it declared
that if the resistance by the larger
employers remains strong, "stub-
born strikes win increase in num-
ber,"
I The New York Times gave a
similar hint that solid front of
mass production industries is be-
ing formed against fourth round"
demands.
1t pointed out that without
waiting for formal presentation of
demands, the major employers in
four industries-steel, coal, auto
and electrical manufactur-
ing-have given public notice of
their determination to resist any
increase in labor costs this year"
"The showdown battles in what
may prove an even more costly
struggle than the one that took
place in the early months of 1916
will come between June Is and
July 81" the "Times" declared.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12
OBITUARIES
JOHN FERLAINO

John Ferlaino, "a, died suddenly
May 9 in his home, 2035 Michigan
Ave-, as the result of a heart at
tack.
Mr. Ferlaino, an employee of
the Louthan Supply Co. for 35
years, had worked Monday until
noon and in the afternoon had
visited a relative in City Hospital.
He had returned to his home
when stricken. He was pronounced
dead on arrival at the hospital.
Mr.. Ferlaino was born in Italy
and lived in East Liverpool for as
years. He was a member of st.
Ann Catholic Church and Local
Union 140, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mary
Cecile Fiorello Ferlaino; four sons,
Michael Ferlaino and Anthony
Ferlaino of East Liverpool, and
Marion Ferlaino and Vincent Fer
laino at home; two daughters, Mrs.
Angelina Manfedi of East Liver
pool, and Phyllis Feraino at home;
three brothers and three sisters in
Italy, and four grandchildren.
Rites were held from st. Ann
church by Rev. FIR. John Rath.
Burial was in st. Aloysius Catholic
Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12
Hotel Union Hears
AfL Leaders Ask
Political Actict,

Chicago LPA)-Top officers Of
the Hotel & Restaurant Employees
AFL-President Hugo Ernst and
Secretary-Treasurer Ed S. Miller
were reelected unopposed at the
closing sessions of the unions big
international convention here.
Also, the delegates, nearly 9
thousand strong, voted on incre"Fe
in per capita to the international
from 80 to 40 cents month so
that it can more effectively organ
ize the unorganized in the industry
and strengthen other activities,
Among other actions, the dele
gates called for intensified poll
tical work by the union; resolved to
push greater efforts for repeal of
Taft Hartley and state anti-labor
laws; voted to hold conventions
each four years, instead of bien-
nially as now; emphatically oppos-
ed American recognition of Franco
Spain's dictator; urged repeal of
the 20% federal cabaret tax.
Speeches by AFL leaders-Pres-
ident William Green, Secretary
Treasurer George Meany and
Joseph keenan,, director of the
Labor's League for Political Edu-
cation-concentrated on the urgent
need of preparing for an all-out
campaign in 1850 to win real lib
eral majority in Congress.
The weapon Of political action is
as vital to labor as economic bar
gaining and the right to strike,
all three made it clear.
"We are continuing the work of
organizing throughout the nation" "
declared Meany, in describing the
plans of LLPE. owe expect by
1850 to have an organization in
every congressional district in the
United States"
Meany also stressed that the
league twill not under any cir
cumstances be the political tail to
the kite of any political party" :"
but will support or oppose candi-
dates on their record, regardless of
party.
keenan, told the convention that
if labor is not successful in secur-
ing genuine repeal of the Taft
Hartley act in this Congress, that
is just going to be an additional
reason for us to carry on in a way
that will make these people who
want to destroy the labor move
ment realize that we mean bust
ness"
1--WE are to keep Labor's League
going on permanent basis" he
said. at is our hope shortly to set
up a chairman in every congress-
ional district, and also before the
end of next year to have precinct
captain in every one of the nations
$4,000 precincts"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-12
Transport Workers
Ask Wage Increase

New York (LPA)-The Trans
port Workers Union last week pro-
claimed that it is sticking to its
21c an hour pay increase demand
as we'll as its request for 40-hour
week.
President Michael Quill forward
ed the demand on behalf of TWU's
$4,000 members employed by city
owned bus and subway lines to the
Board of Transportation. He point
ed out that the Citizens Budget
Committee which recently said that
the city can't afford to grant a pay
raise to the transit workers is a
purely private organization, and
"the mouthpiece for a group of
Republican bankers, landlords and
other big businessmen.
"The program submitted to the
board" Quill continued, "repre-
sents the unanimous vote of our
membership on the city transit
system, and we will not be deferred
from our efforts to secure their
just demands"
Meanwhile, TWU's executiv e
board has authorized a strike of
employees of the privately owned
Third Ave. Transit Co. in protest
over the company's vicious speed
up system. The Board of Trans
portation itself has ordered the
Third Ave. line to improve it's SER
vices and eliminate over-crowding
of passengers.