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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-07-28
$4,000 RECEIVED
FROM LARGE CIvER
AS WORK STARTS
Power Shovel Begins Operations
Wednesday Excavating for
Building
Quarter Million Dollar Structure
to Be Modern in Every
Detail

Construction of Bluffton colleges
quarter-million dollar gymnasium-
auditorium was begun Wednesday
morning when Robert Miller, Column
bus Grove contractor started a pow
er shovel digging footings for the
new structure which will be erected
on the north portion of the campus
a short distance east of Lincoln hall.
Workmen were busy Tuesday clear
ing away debris from the site.
In connection with the start of
construction, DIR. Lloyd Ramseyer,
president, announced an additional
contribution of $4,000 to the build
ing fund The donor, Mrs. c. H.
Musselman of Biglerville, Pa, bene-
factress Of the institution has pre-
viously given large sums to the coll
lege here.
This contribution brings to a total
of $1S5,000 the amount pledged for
the new building, President RAM
seyer said.
Large Donors
With the latest donation of S20, 900,
Mrs. Musselman and her family have
contributed total of $4,000 to the
building fund. In previous donations
Mrs. Musselman had given s65,000
and her daughter, Mrs. Louella Ar
mold, had contributed $4,000.
The Musselman family has been
substantial supporters of the college
since 1928 when the late C. II. Mas
selman donated funds to erect the
beautiful Musselman Memorial lii
brary on the campus.
The family controls the large Mus
selman canning industry in Bigler-
vile.
Large Building Project
Erection of the new building will
be the largest construction project
in the Bluffton area this summer.
1t will be modern in every respect
for use both as a gymnasium for
college athletics or an auditorium
for large assemblages. Both in de-
sign and appointments it will COM
pare favorably with any structure
of it's kind in the state.
Plansf or the building were draft
ed last winter by Ward & Conrad,
Cleveland architects in conjunction
with Oliver Davidson, Pandora ar
ehitect and approved by the College
board of trustees at their meeting
here in April.
Facing south, entrance to the
building will be reached by drive
ways relocated to provide adequate
approaches to the structure. Area
at the rear of the building will be
graded for parking space.
Modernistic Design
Modernistic in design, the new
Continued on page 81
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YOU Can't Do That to Joe" Friends
Cry as Watchman's Job is Periled

Joe Fisher has made lot OF friends dur
ing the Is years he has served as wotchmon
dt the Cherry street crossing Of the Nickel
Plate railroad. and if the protests which have
followed q proposal to abolish his job have
any effect. chances are he will remain at
the post.
Ioe's friends-und they are legion-huve
been busy urging municipal officiuls to pro-
tect his crossing wdtchmun stutus. ever since
3 announcement wus made last week OF q
Nickel Plate proposal to insto flasher lights
ut the College avenue crossing IN exchange
for council permission to dispense with the
wotchnon ot Cherry street.
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Ex-MAYOR AGAIN
Will HEAD PARTY
TICKET THIS FALL
Consents to be Candidate on
Plea of Local Precinct
j Leaders
Has Had Long Career Here as
Municipal Mayor and
Councilman

w. A. Howe, former Bluffton
mayor, will head the Republican
ticket as candidate for that office
at the November election. An
nouncement to this effect was made
by Bluffton Republican precinct
committeeman following a meeting
at the mayors office Monday night
in which the former mayor was
drafted to fill the vacancy caused by
the withdrawal of Richard Davies,
last springs caucus nominee, who
withdrew from the race in early
summer.
Party chieftains in making the
announcement said that Howe had
agreed to run and that papers quail
flying him as the Republican candi-
date would be filed with the Allen
County Board of Elections the last
of this week.
Howe, when contacted at his home
on Spring street confirmed the an
nouncement that he would be can
didate, but had no other statement
to make at this time.
To OPPOSE SwANK
AS a candidate for his sixth term
as Bluffton mayoralty candidate,
Howe will oppose Gerald Swank,
Democratic nominee in next Novem-
ber's municipal election.
With Davies withdrawal from the
race, the way was opened for pre-
cinct committeeman TO select re-
placement candidate whose name
will appear on the ticket next fall.
Committeeman who drafted Howe
for the race We're Forrest Mumma,
William Amstutz, John A. Thomp-
son and Armin Hauenstein. The
committee was unanimous in their
Continued on page 81
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Councilmen took no uction on the pro-
posol when it was read ct last weeks meet
ing, and the natter wus tabled for consider
otion ot q later doter.
In urging retention of the Cherry street
wotchmon. residents cost OF the roilroud also
have pointed to odditionol protection provid-
ed for school children crossing the railrood
by having Fisher on the job.
But onother reason. perhups equollY i'm
portont is the fact that motorists and pedes-
triuns using the crossing woald miss Joes
friendly smile and we've OF his hund. which
have become established as one of Buttons
principal landmarks over the last Is years.
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College Names New Personnel
On Faculty And Business Office
New Faculty Members Are An
nounced For Coming School
Year
New Bookkeeper Also Will Take
Over Duties in Business
Office

Three new instructors will be add
ed to the Bluffton college faculty
this fall, marking changes in the
music, mathematics and political
science stats of the institution.
New members of the faculty will
be George Thielman, instructor in
history and political science; Laurel
Dirks, instructor in mathematics and
physics; and Laurence Burkhalter,
instructor in violin and band and
orchestral instruments.
Thielman, of Toronto, Canada, will
replace Larry Cara, who was an in
structor at the college for the first
time last year when he got into
trouble with federal authorities over
the draft registration law. Thielman
is a graduate of Bluffton college.
Dirks, who will be in the mathe-
matics-physics department, has an
M. A. degree from Kansas State
university. He and his family will
live in the Ross Bogart apartment
on Cherry street.
Burkhalter, replacing the late
Sidney Hauenstein as instructor IN
violin, also will be in charge of band
and orchestral instrument instruc-
ton. He and his family will live on
Jackson street in the Kirchhofer
sisters property, formerly owned by
Mrs. Henry Badertscher.
Burkhalter is a graduate of Bluff
ton college and last spring received
his M. A. from the Northwestera
University school of music.
In the business office, John
Weaver, former instructor in the
Goshen, Indiana, high school will be
bookkeeper, replacing Mrs. Donna
Har11ish. Weaver, a widower, ana
his daughter will live in the property
at North Jackson and Elm streets
now occupied by Jerome Herr. Herr
and his family will move soon into
their new home on the County line
now nearing completion.
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ORANGE TWP. AUTO
CRASH TAKES LIVES
OF father and SON
Robert Ginger, %, Dies In
stantly In Collision at Riley
Creek Church Corner
Two Year-Old Son Succumbs In
Hospital Seven Hours Later;
Three Others Hurt

A 23-year-old Williamstown father
was killed instantly, his three-year-
old son died in Bluffton Community
hospital seven hours later, and three
other persons were in the local hos
pital with serious injuries, the result
of a two-car highway accident at the
Riley Creek Baptist church, corner in
Orange township, at $3.50 p. m. last
Wednesday.
Robert B. Ginger, %, died of a
skull fracture, and his three-year-old
son, John Franklin, became the
second fatality early Thursday morn
ing in the Bluffton hospital. The
boys death was caused by head
chest and internal injuries.
A 100000 damage suit as the
result of the accident was filed
Tuesday i'm the Hancock county
common pleas court against
Grismore by attorneys represent
ing the administrator of Clinger's
estate.
Also seriously hurt in the two-cal
crash were Mrs. Mary Ginger, %
who sustained lacerations of the fore
head and contusions of both knees
another son, Donald Lynn Ginger
seven-months-old infant, who has Z
fractured left leg; and the driver
of the other car, Henry Grismore
43, of Jenera, suffering from frac
tured ribs, a lacerated forehead
and abrasions of both knees. All ex
cept the Ginger infant have left tn,
hospital.
The Ginger car, northbound on th
Rawson road, was in collision wit
the Grismore auto, eastbound o.
Route 27, at the Riley Creek Baptis
church corner. The church on tn
Continued on page 81
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Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Zimmerman,
Jr., Rluffton, boy, Kenneth Mich
ael, last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilhelm Amstutz,
Jr., Bluffton, a girl, Pauline Reign,
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Baier, Bluff
ton, boy, Thomas Craig, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Burkholder,
Lima, girl, Pamela Kay, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Bendele, Otto
vile, girl, Linda Jane, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Basinger,
Biuffton, girl, Jane Ann, this
Wednesday.
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Old COrnstaIk Town

1t is a long look back to two years
before the Revolutionary War and
the Ohio picture then was strange
one. In 1774 Ohio was part of Bo-
tetcourt County, Virginia, with the
county seat at Fincastle.
Botetcourt County was big one
until cut up in tits it included all
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and what now
is West Virginia. After Botetcourt
County was divided, Ohio was part of
Illinois County, with county seat at
Vincennes.
In even rows of pole-and- bark huts
on either side of narrow street
along the northwest bank of Scippo
creek, Old Cornstalk Town was the
capital of the Pickaway tribes of the
Shawnee nation and most important
Of the Indian towns on Pickaway
Plains, a few miles west of Circle
vile, Pickaway County. At one end
Of the village a larger pole council
house stood, and there Chief keigh-
tughqua, known to the whites as "Old
Cornstalk," met with his braves and
decided momentous questions of
foreign policy.
Indians Burn Captiyes
Just across Scippo creek was
Grenadier Squaw Town, ruled by Old
Cornstalk's sister, the Grenadier
Squaw, but under the chiefs direc-
tion, There the narrow gauntlet path
of the tribe was located and at the
edge of town, the burning ground
where captives of the Shawnees over
most of lower Ohio were taken to be
burned at the stake.
Other Shawnee towns and villages
were along the Scioto River and on
Congo creek, but Old Cornstalk Town
was most important-the chief lived
there.
Such was the background in Au-
gust, 1774, when the Rt. Hon. Lord
Dunmore, with 5000 picked men
started an expedition to wipe out the
Indian towns on the Scioto" About
half of Dunmore's army had been
raised in Botetcourt and Fincastie
counties and the balance, from ad-
joining counties. About LOO of them
were commanded by Col. Andrew
Lewis and were to advance in diff
ferent column and from another di-
rection.
Lewis troops started on September
5 from Green Briar and followed the
kenhawa River to the Ohio. Dun
more's troops came through the
mountains at the Potomac gap and
came to the Ohio River somewhere
above Wheeling. The plan of Dun
more and Lewis was to join forces
before reaching the Indian villages
and on October 6 Lewis halted his
army at the mouth of the kenhawa
where Point Pleasant now stands
and waited for Dunmore to arrive
| 1t was about four miles north ol
Continued on page 81
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BluftOn Couple
We'd Sixty Years

Mr.. and Mrs Nj. NJ. Murray,
Buttons oldest married couple, will
observe their Goth wedding ami
versary, Thursday. They were mar
ried here July 2S, 1889 and for many
years have resided on Cherry street.
Mrs. Murray, an invalid, has been
patient in Button hospital since
November 20, 1916, with little
change in her condition in recent
months.
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Seasons Record
Wheat Yield Is
81 Bushels Acre

LARGEST reported W heat
yield this summer was 81 bushels
per acre from the Orville Frantz
farm in Orange township.
Frantz lives at the intersection
of Route 1O3 and Rawson road.
The wheat was marketed at the
Jenera elevator.
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To Teach In Perry
TOUnship Schools

Gail Rakosky of South Main
street has accepted a teaching posi-
ton in a Lima district school in
Perry township. Rakosky who was
graduated from Bluffton college last
spring is attending Ohio Northern
university at Ada this summer TAX
ing courses in elementary admins
tration.
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To Nominate
Candidates In
Party Caucuses

Bluffton and Richland township
Democratic caucus i'm the class
room at the rear of the high
school library, Friday night at 5
o'clock.
Bluffton and Richland township
Republican caucus in council
room, town hall, Wednesday
night, Aug. at 8 o'clock.
Orange township Republican
caucus at Orange Center, Friday
night at 8 o'clock.
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Noah BireI Dies At
Home In Pandora

Noah Bixel, 80, Pandora produce
dealer died suddenly of a heart at
tack at his home Wednesday after
noon several hours after he had
been removed from Bluffton hospital.
Funeral probably Friday.
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Real Estate Deal

Ralph Patterson of Riley street
has purchased the Mrs. Elizabeth
Diller property on North Jackson
street and will take possession Sep
tember 1.
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EDITORS NoTE-This Is one
of series of articles to appear
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Nth early Ohio history. Others
Will appear IN forthcoming
issues.
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Columbia University was first
known as KingsC ollege.
Evening star., 1949-07-22
ID. {. Heads Won Pena|ize
EMPLOYEES on Bad Debts

Although they could discipline
or even dismiss employees who
neglect their debts unreasonably,
the Commissioners yesterday de-
cided to stick to a policy Of mere
Iy notifying District workers
superiors of debts that come to
their notice.
The matter came up when an
official of the Washington divi-
sion of the Internal Revenue
Bureau requested the District
auditor to try to collect back in
come taxes for the Federal Gov
ernment from delinquent city en-
ployes.
The request involved some 178
employees, against whom claims
totaling $17,706 were listed over
q period from 1943 to 1947.
The city asked Corporation
Counsel Vernon West for an opin-
ion. Mr.. West found the Com
missioners have the authority to
institute policy of disciplining or
dismissing an employe who will
fully and without sufficient excuse
neglects to pay his debts.
They decided not to pass an
order to this effect. however, but
to adhere to a policy set down
in 1914. under which claims of
indebtedness are referred to the
heads Of the departments having
jurisdiction over the employees for
such action as they deem ap-
propriate.
The department heads may not
dismiss the employees.
Evening star., 1949-07-22
Woman Sues for $4,000
In Fall Through Trap Door

A pharmacist and his wife to-
day were seeking $35, 1000 damages
from a grocery here as the result
of the wife's fall through a trap
door.
Alfred and Myrtle Excog, 1920
Forty-fifth street NV. filed suit
in District Court, naming Joseph
and Florence Iskow, owners of the
Community Market, 1905 Forty
fifth street NV, as defendants
Through their lawyers, Renah
Camalier and Henry Berger, the
plaintiffs said Mrs. Excog was
shopping in the Iskow's store on
November 10, 1947. While reach
ing for spices, the suit contended,
Mrs. Excog fell through an open
trap-door, down a stairway to
the basement.
Charging negligence on a claim
that the Iskows left the door "un-
guarded" Mrs. Excog complained
that because of the fall she suffer-
ed nervous distress. skin disorders,
"tremulous" speech and undue
loss of hair" from her scalp. Mr..
Excog complained of the loss of
his Wife'S services.
Evening star., 1949-07-22
Andrews Base Children Enjoy
Maine Camp ? Miles Away

handcrafts, rifle practice. and
evening campfire programs.
AS an added feature, every other
night a group of IL children, with
one of the II counsellors, goes on
an overnight trek to a still more
isolated portion of the base for "a
hours of really roughing it."
Medical Station Set Up.
Parents don't worry about the
health of their children while at
the camp proper. Maj. Knauf
spends good part of each day
on duty at field medical station
set up nearby.
The camp has separate sections
for the boys and girls. but all get
together in the morning for swim
ming and three times day for
mess. Camp director is Roland
T. Putnam of the YMCA, who also
is a teacher at Hyattsville High
School.
When it came to naming the
camp-which began operations
only last July and will continue
through Augustine parents
group dug into early American
history and came up with "Yo-
comico," the name of an Algon-
quin Indian tribe which once in.
habited the region.
Not to be outdone, the children
who recently adopted two stray
dogs as camp mascots, promptly
dubbed them "Yoco" and "Mico.
Evening star., 1949-07-22
Police Called After Pool Incident
Involving Training School Boys

the pool at the time was an
equal number OF. colored boys.
In diving into the pool, Mr..
Agusiewicz said, one Of the white
boys bumped into a colored boy.
Thereafter, he went on, the colored
boys lined up against the white
boys on the edge of the pool.
Mr.. Agusiewicz said he escorted
two of the colored boys from the
pool and 10 others followed. He
stayed in the locker room with
them, he said, until they dressed
and left.
While the other boys continued
to swim, he reported. a group of
colored boys-including those who
had left the pool-gathered out
side the fence of the pool and
started throwing stones over the
fence at the white boys.
He said he was afraid there
might be trouble when the white
boys left the pool so he called
police to escort them to their
buses. -...
Evening star., 1949-07-22
First Raised Pay Is Given
To Police and Firemen

The first paychecks raised by
recent approval of $3.50 annual
increases for District employees
went out to policemen and fire.
men today.
AS for retroactivity, the District
has the authority, but not the
money. so employees will not re-
ceive the years back pay until
q deficiency bill now in Congress
gains approval.
More than $4,000 employees will
receive the increase in forthcom-
Ing paydays. Schoolteachers. who
are paid in 10 equal installments
will receive their first checks wher
school opens this fall.
Evening star., 1949-07-22
70 Members Of {. U.'
Faculty Advanced

Seven members of the faculty
of Catholic University have been
promoted to the rank of associate
professors and 13 others are to
become assistant professors, effec-
tive on September l.
The new associate professors
are:
Miss Loretta Heidgerken, who
has been on the faculty Of the
School of Nursing since 1912; the
Rev. DR.. John P. Weisengoff, ar
instructor of sacred scripture
since 1898; the Rev. DR.. Michael
j. McKeough, an editor Of the
Catholic Educational Review ano
on the faculty since 1915; the
Rev. DR.. Stanislaus Grabowski Of
the School of Sacred Theology
since 1910; DR.. Joseph Sulkowski
an economic instructor since
1916; DR.. Walter j. Moore. q
chemistry instructor since 1941
and John B. Cotter. who has
taught mechanical engineering
since 1887.
Advanced to the rank of as
sistant professors are:
The Rev. Jerome Hayden, John
A. Lacy, j. Bernard Cody, DR.
Robert P. Odenwald, the Rev. DR.
Thomas O. Martin. the Rev. DR.
John R. Schmidt. Miss Elizabeth
A. Ulrich, Miss Annie M. Peadon,
the Rev. George Reilly, Miss
Lucille Corcoran, Miss Lucille
Corbett, Miss Dorothy M. Abts
and John Baltrukonis.
Evening star., 1949-07-22
Hearing Slated on Bill
10 Give Boxing Agency
Share in IN Receipts

A Senate District Subcommittee
will study all phases of boxing in
the District, including the eco
nomic effects of television, with a
view to recommending changes in
the local law governing the sport.
Chairman McGrath of the Dis
trict Committee announced the
plan to hold public hearings yes
terday, after he had introduced
Legislation to broaden the authority
of the District Boxing Commission.
The date for starting the hear
ings has not been decided.
The subcommittee to consider
the bill consists of Senators Hunt
of Wyoming and Kefauver of Ten
nessee, Democrats. and Mccarthy
Republican, of Wisconsin.
The legislation, similar to bill
previously introduced in the House
was requested by the District
Commissioners.
Senator McGrath says he hopes
to work out an agreement on Joint
hearings with Chairman Mcmillan
of the House District Committee
to obviate duplication of testimony
AS explained by the Commits
sioners, the changes sought in the
law would give the Boxing Com
mission power in line with that
held by similar groups in other
major boxing States, such as New
York.
1t also would assure the COM
mission that its cut of fight pro-
ceeds, from which it pays it's
expenses, would include a share of
television receipts.
Senator McGrath said all groups
interested in boxing enterprises
will be given an opportunity to be
heard. Representatives of boxing
commissions elsewhere. as we'll as
radio, film and television spokes-
men. will be asked to give their
views, he said.
Evening star., 1949-07-22

Police were called to the Nc
Kinley Pool today after an Incl
dent that began when a youth
from the National Training School
for Boys bumped into a colored
boy while diving into the pool.
Henry Agusiewicz, pool mana
ger, said he called police to es-
cort the group of boys from the
National Training School to wait
ing buses. On hand at the time
were four Interior Department
guards and six others from the
training school.
The pool has been operated by
Government Services Inc, in the
mornings as we'll as afternoons
since the Recreation Board with
drew it's staff on the segregation
issue.
The pool manager said 10 white
boys from the training school
arrived at the pool this morning
for their thrice weekly swim. In
Evening star., 1949-07-22
Model Plane Sets Record
OF 81 Miles Per Hour

The first world record for model
airplanes ever established in the
United States has just been set
the National Aeronautic Associa-
ton. 1925 Connecticut avenue
NV, announced today.
A gas-powered plane flown by
Eugene Stiles, of Alameda, Calf.
made the record for speed in q
straight line of flight. The plane
which flew this week, was clocked
at 81.587 miles per hour, IS miles
an hour faster than the old Rus
sian mark.
The record was made in ac-
cordance with rules of the Fed
Grafton Aeronautique Interna-
tionale and the performance was
timed by Academy of Model Aero
nauticS officials.
Evening star., 1949-07-22
Neighbor Sought in Shooting
|Of Man Day After Quarrel

Alfred Ham, Is, colored, Of 48
H street NE. was in critical con-
dition at Casualty Hospital today
after being shot at his home last
night.
Police are looking foI neigh
bor suspected of the shooting.
They said they were told the
neighbor struck Mrs. Ham in a
quarrel Wednesday and that Ham
subsequently beat the man.
Last night. police said. the man
called the Hams and asked per-
mission to come to their apart
ment to apologize. Instead. they
said, he came with a gun and
shot Ham in the stomach. then
fed down a rear fire escape.