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Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
18th Round
On the Fire

is THERE to be a fourth round
l of postwar wage increases for
organized labor?
It is not a question that can be
answered at the moment. The
unions themselves are approach
ing it in wary manner.
AFL economists, for instance, say
an increase of FIVE per cent is merited
to bring wages up to increased price
levels. But in almost the same breath
they warn 100000 AFL members
against making any demands that
might be inhationary.
The present business situation is
precarious," says the AFL monthly
survey. "a slide off into recession
could occur; unemployment could in
crease further. Much depends on the
wisdom of union leaders. business
executives and government officials" "
The First Targets
Henry Ford and Big Steel appear
the major initial targets in the drive
for fourth round.
The whole question of whether
there is to be fourth round at all
may be settled in the deliberations of
these two giant corporations and the
mammoth unions in their plants.
Walter Reuther of the CIO Auto
Workers and Philip Murray, CIO
president and head of the Steelwork-
ers, will be the men to watch again
this year
Three times before, between them,
they have succeeded in negotiating
pay increases which spread out to
most of the nations industry. That
was in l946, 1g47 and 194S.
Don't Forget Lewis
Another figure also is in the pic
ture: John L. Lewis, chieftain of the
Mine Workers. His contract runs until
June 30-although he can terminate
it on 80 days notice before then if he
wants to.
Close observers Of Lewis strategy
would not be surprised this year i
he asks for nothing but six-houl
day and a 30-hour week without loss
in pay. His 500 monthly pensions fol
miners. financed by a 20-cents-a-tor
royalty on all coal dug, is milestone
other unions will strive to attain.
Negotiations between Reuther'
auto workers and Ford are slated tt
begin May Is Ford, although he prob
ably now regrets it, was quoted a
saying fourth round increase wa
due
Steel Talks in June
The Big Steel talks will begin earl,
in June. US. Steel has a two-yea
contract with Murray's union but
car. be opened for wages and welfar
discussion this summer. Murray ha
been reticent about his plans bu
many union people think he'll ask 70
wage hike, group insurance an
pensions, possibly a guaranteed an
nual wage
General Motors has a two-year con
tract. signed last year, with wage
tied to the government cost of livinI
index GM workers took a two-cen
hourly slash this month under tha
provision.
Two other big CIO unions are o
the verge of negotiations for wae
and welfare plants. They are tn
United Electrical Workers with Ger
eral Electric and the Radio Corpor;
tion of America, and the United Rul
Der Workers with the rubber industr
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
Maneuvers
Defensive Soft Spots

Defensive Soft Spots
A one-two punch by the Navy'S
new high-low branches has made ira
ditional blue water men very un-
happy.
Airmen and submariners both have
scored "kills" on some of the might
est units of the fleet now engaged in
war games in the Caribbean. The two
successful strikes reveal defensive
soft spots in the tactics that smashed
Japan's fleets.
Adm. w. H. P. Blandy, Atlantic
fleet commander, got the bad news in
terse radiograms from combat units
operating north and west of Puerto
Rico.
The mighty carrier, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, representing an invest
ment of about 200 million dollars, was
put out of action twice.
A snorkel submarine, able to stay
under the surface weeks at time, did
it first. She pumped torpedo after
torpedo into the 45,000-ton carrier,
base for 130 aircraft, and officially
''sank" her.
Disregarding this, the F.D.R. took
her position in giant triangle of car
riers, and headed for a strike on
Vieques Island. She never got there.
An enemy" force of three patrol
. bombers, one carrying a parachute
flare to represent the A-Bomb, at
tackled. The fleet was confused by a
low level feint by planes armed with
guided missiles which tossed out
clouds of tinfoil to jam the carriers
rRdar.
The air cover normally provided
for carrier force was diverted by
the planes that roared in at 5000 feet.
Then it was that the atomic force
struck from $1,000 feet without being
intercepted.
A destroyer escorting the F.D.R.
was sunk" and the big carrier itself
was ruled severely damaged by the
blast and radiation. Other units in the
fleet scurried off to avoid the lake-
believe lethal cloud of atomic radia-
| ton "a
: Adm Blandy said theatom bomb
attack was ''well delivered" He SAID
its success in part was caused by
sloppy radar search efforts by the
task force and in part by clevernes'
of the attacking elements. More fight.
5 er cover and better radar protection
: is needed, he said.
2 The simulated A-Bomb was carried
by P2V Neptune, a two-engine pa
troll plane that can carry the rea
atomic weapon. The planes ordinaril!
!, use land base but during the game
they are flying from carriers.
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
SCIENCE: Subsidized Families?

there will be an American movement
for some system of government aid to
families.
1t may come from individual or ma
tional interest, or both, he says. Fami-
lies might begin to ask for help in
meeting problems of child care, or
the nation might become concerned
over its falling birthrate.
If a demand develops for financial
aid to American families, DR.. Lorimer
says he hopes there will first be an
exhaustive study of the need, effects
and methods. Allowances should be
tied in with other aids, like more
health services and bigger income tax
deductions for dependents, he says.
Some of the foreign countries now
start allowances with the first child,
others with the second or third.
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
AERIAL: Two World Records
5000 Miles an Hour


This nation may possess a rocket
capable of 1000 miles or more in
range.
A hint of this came last weekend
when an Army two-stage rocket hit
5000 miles. ain hour in soaring $50
miles above the earth two new
world records.
The two-stags rocket experiments
were begun nearly 4 year ago at
White Sands. n NJ. The rocket is
made up of a German w and a
smaller American built rocket in its
nose It weighs Is tons.
Actually it was the smaller Ameri-
can rocket. the Wac Corporal, that
posted both marks II was launched in
the sky from the W. by remote con-
troll.
But while White Sands experts
consider q 1000 mile range possible
now. they dont mean scientists can
pick a target 1000 miles away and
hitit-yet There is still only the most
rudimentary control over long-range
guided missiles.
Two New Je. Planes
Meanwhile the Air Force has dis
closed two new jet planes-one with
triangular wing. the other a new
all-weather fighter. ~
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11

said: 1--WE Germans do not intend to
become cannon fodder for dreams of
world domination by imperialist
states. Hands off the Soviet Union"
Harry Pollitt, general secretary of
the British Communist Party, has
been quoted as saying British Com
muniSts will try to sabotage any "im-
perialist aggressive war" against
Russia.
The Communist press on both Sides
of the Iron Curtain has hailed these
statements as a new 'maneuver for
peace" Said the Soviet-licensed
Berliner Zeitung:
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
Masquerade
To Be or Not

~ ~ ~ AFOa
Twenty years ago Billie Morrison
had fight with her husband and left
him. She put on pants to get out OF
town and but for one brief trial re-
turn to skirts has masqueraded as a
man since.
Except for an argument with her
daughter last week, Mrs. Morrison's
pose probably would have remained
undiscovered. Judy, 10. ran out into
a Denver street and spitefully told a
policeman her fathers" secret. Dem
yer has an ordinance prohibiting 9
person from impersonating the oppo-
site sex.
''It's easier to get along in the world
as a man" Mrs. Morrison explained
to detectives. She worked as a painter
and did other manual work. She was
a short order cook in Denver.
Once she tried to 60 back to being
a woman. It was failure. Il was
mauled too much by men" she said.
At the police station, Mrs. Morrison
was dressed in checkered shirt and
tan pants. She crossed her legs man-
style and said: 'Tve been a man SO
long l doubt if I could change back.
I think, act and live like a man.
'Tve been in some fights, too, and
have come off all right"
A Denver municipal judge fined her
$40 for impersonating member Of
the opposite sex, then suspended the
fine, and told her:
81 realize lot of women are wear
ing slacks these day but advise you
to get some women's clothing"
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
In Short

Proclaimed: BY Premier Stain,
price cuts in As classiications of food,
clothing and other consumer goods,
throughout the Soviet Union.
Agreed: By a Decatur, ILL.,, AFL
union local, to postpone new contract
negotiations until June l when eco
nomic conditions may be more settled,
in return for $50 per employe from
the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co.
Scanned: By the Mt. Palomar 200
inch telescope, one billion light years
out into space in preliminary tests
one light year is six trillion miles.
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
SA.
South of the Border


DR.. Felipe Molas Lopez is the new
president of Paraguay. He took Office
last Sunday in a bloodless coup, up
setting the regime of President Raj
mundo Rolon, who had seized power
only last January 30.
It was the sixth successful revolu-
ton in 13 months.
DR. Lopez is dentist and veteran
leader of the Colorado Party, the only
legal one in Paraguay. He was min
lister of education in Gen. Rolon's
cabinet.
Elections for a new president are
scheduled for April IT,
Uneasy Argentina
There is growing uneasinesS among
Argentinians over their nations eco
nomic position. The nation is faced
with a serious shortage of dollars and
other foreign exchange. Even gilt
edge stocks have been hit hard in
stock market declines.
President Juan D. Peron has made
some drastic moves to adjust Argen-
tina's position in world trading. He
recently fired Miguel Miranda, his
economic czar, and reorganized the
national economic council.
Tight restrictions have been i'm
posed on imports and foreign ex-
change. Much of the country's hve-
year industrialization plan, one OF
Peron's favorite ventures, has had to
be abandoned.
Probable avenues of recovery, econ
omists say, are either a foreign loan
or expanded sales of beef, hides
wheat, linseed oil and other surpluses
But private loans may be hard to
get. New York banks and importers
already hold more than 400 million
dollars in unpaid Argentine bills
Some sources say Peron is angling
for an American government loan.
(All RIGHTS ReseTUed, AP NewsfedtuTeSB
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
Quotes

Winston Churchill: "a unified
Europe is the only way a broad
shield can be placed over the
scores of millions of humble
homes where little children have
a right to a peaceful future"
Joe Louis, announcing his re-
tirement as world heavyweight
boxing champion: 81 am certain
you know how sorry l must be
to let the championship 60 this
way. won it in the ring. ex-
pected to lose it the same way,
That is the way (new) cham
pions should be made"
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11

"The struggle for peace has entered
a new phase. So far the friends of
peace have contented themselves with
unmasking the war mongers. Now
Togliatti, Thorez and others have
gone on the offensive, a courageous,
successful STEP"
Through Glass, Darkly
A Whitehall spokesman observed
that whatever the reason, we expect
turn like this every month or six
weeks. How far the new line will be
followed we of course cannot tell.
But we expect for some time to be
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
Dates

Monday, March 2
Institute of Radio Engineers
meets in New York City.
Young Women's Christian AS
sociation opens national conven-
ton in San Francisco.
Tuesday, March 8
Farm Day.
Wednesday, March 9
Anniversary (66th), us. Civil
Service Commission.
Thursday, March 10
Optical Society of America
meets in New York City.
Friday, March IL
Birthday (5Oth), King Freder-
ick TX of Denmark.
Saturday, March IL
Anniversary (37th), Girl Scouts.
Anniversary (61st), Blizzard of
1888.
Sunday, March 13
Anniversary (65th), Standard
Time
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11

military governor
of Germany as a
strong possibility.
1t is practically
an open secret that
Gen. Clay would
like to relinquish
his overseas post as
soon as it is con-
venient to Wash
ington-perhaps by
June 80.
Clay originally
applied for retire
ment a wear ago. II
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11

The triangular wing-first of its
kind to fly-is a research plane manu-
featured by Consolidated Vultee. 1t
is designed for speeds. in the high
subsonic range at attitudes above
10000 feet. Supsonic means slower
than sound, which at such attitudes
travels about $50 miles an hour.
The all-weather fighter is North
rops XF-89. called the scorpion, ca
pable of speeds in the 600 mile-an-
hour class, The Scorpion is smaller
but heavier than the Black Widow, a
World War II night fighter.
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
Two, Fcur. Eight, Etc.

lWOi IC1Ft Ei9HIs EIG.
Within a few years it is possible this
country may pay you money each
month for rearing children. Already
such family allowance plans are op-
Grating in all the western European
countries, the Soviet Union, Australia,
New Zealand and Canada.
Speakers at a recent New York con-
ference on Population Trends and the
Family, sponsored by the National
Research Council said the u. S. birth
rate is slowing down.
BY 1880. il present trends continue.
we'll be a nation with many more
older people and fewer children.
DR.. Frank Lorimer, sociologist of
American University, Washington,
d. c.. says it seems inevitable that
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11

hearing provocative declarations in
tended to make non-Communist coun-
tries uneasy about the reliability of
their own peoples"
Many analysts see in the new Soviet
course Communist answer to the
projected North Atlantic pact-an eff.
fort to knit together the national
Communist parties of western Europe
in policy threatening to undermine
independent governments.
Obviously, too, it may be aimed at
raising in American minds doubts of
the solidity of an alliance containing
such Communist elements.
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
Senate IN FiJibuster
To SAGE FiIibusters

ME Senate is embroled in great battle over the Ibuser Il
may Jam legislative machinery almost indefinitely but in the
opinion of the President Administration leaders the Issue
worm It, Mr. Truman ordered Senate leaders head-on
Fiery Dixie senators accepted the challenge full dozen Of
them vowed to talk until they drop So1ts
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11
People
The Front Man

Close students of the Berlin crisis
now consider the retirement soon of
Gen. Lucius D. Clay as United States
Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11

tan Rights RESERVED. AP NeaOsfeaturesI
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-25
Some Motorists Will Get Drivers
License Bargain Under New System
Drivers Licenses to be Issued
Next Month Under New
State Law
Permits to be Good Thru
September 1850 and Until
Next Birthday

Most motorists will get bargain
next month when they buy new
drivers licenses, which in some cases
will be good for nearly two years,
providing your birthday falls at the
right time.
Licenses issued this fall will be
good through Sept. so, 1850, and
until your next birthday after that
date. Then on your next birthday,
you'll have to get a three-year
driver permit, renewable every third
birthday thereafter.
Approval of the three-year driver
license system came in the last ses-
sion of the state legislature. To
get the plan under way the state
will permit use of the license is
sued this year through next Sept.
80, /plus the time to your next
birthday after that date.
Present one-year licenses expire
next Sept. 80, and beginning Sept.
6, deputy motor vehicle registrars
will issue new permits. All drivers
must have new permits before Octo-
Der l.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-25
Mdrilyks StrattOn
Rites Held MOnddy

Funeral services were held Mon
dy in the Basinger funeral home
for Marilyn Stratton, 18-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Stratton, Route l, Bluffton, who
died in her home at $3.50 a. m. Sat
urday.
Death was caused by leukemia, a
disease from which she suffered for
several years. Although in i'll health
she completed a full high school
course, graduating from Bluffton
High school in 194S.
In addition to her parents she is
survived by two brothers, James and
Robert, both at home; the paternal
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Orton
Stratton, Route /, Bluffton; and the
maternal grandparents, DR.. and Mrs.
John j. Sutter, of Lima.
Rev. Victor Monk, pastor Of the
Bluffton Lutheran church, officiated
at the funeral services Monday.
Miss Stratton was a member of the
church.
Burial was in Maple Grove ceme-
terry.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-25
TEACHERS BACK
PROPOSAL FOR
MORE REVENUE
Board of Education Expected
to Made Decision i'm Matter
Soon
Present Five Mills Obtained
From Two Levies Expiring
Next Year

Board of education decision is ex-
pected within the next week or 10
days that an additional three-mill
levy for school purposes be present
ed at the polls this fall.
Teacher recommendation of the
vote for funds to supplement those
now received by schools was decided
at faculty meeting on August II.
The levy, to be in addition to the
present five mill levy expiring next
year, would be intended for payment
of school obligations to adjust
salaries and to provide and maintain
a broader curriculum, it was an
nounced.
$4,000 Deficit
Board of education members said
the possibility of asking for an ad-
ditional levy has been discussed by
them, but reluctance to ask for it
has been voiced at board meetings
unless no way could be found to
avoid that move. However, a
$4,000 deficit incurred in board
operations this year, as indicated by
the budget completed this month,
may force the boards hand in the
matter of seeking additional funds.
Any measure for voting on an ad-
ditional levy must be filed 60 days
before election; and a decision on
the teacher proposal may come at a
meeting of the board of education to
be called before the opening of school
for the purpose of taking care of
routine business.
Bluffton schools now have two tax
levies for operating funds in force
three-mill levy authorized by voters
in 1916 and a two-mill levy passed
in 1916, for total of five mills. Both
expire in 1850.
Schools Get $3.50
From Bluffton's present tax rate
of $3.50 per $1,000 of taxable
property (1980 mills) the schools
receive $3.50, $5.4O inside the 10
mill limitation and S7.40 outside the
limitation. The $7.40 outside limita-
ton consists of S. per thousand for
the school levies and S2.40 for school
building bonds.
Voter approval of an additional
three-mill levy at the polls this fall
would make total school tax of
$3.50 per thousand, and the towns
tax rate, assuming no change in
other taxes, would be $3.50 per
thousand.
Blufton's present $3.50 tax rate
for each $1,000 of taxable property
is divided as follows: Schools, $3.50;
Corporation, 1915; County, S3.05;
Township, 1920.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-25
II. S. GRID SPIRIT
AT LOW EBB; ONLY
q OUT FOR SQUAD
Lack of Material is Big Problem
as Team Faces Tough Fall
Schedule
Coach Lowry Will Have Little
Reserve to Draw on to Re-
place Injuries

Bluffton High schools smallest
football turnout in history this week
had Coach Red Lowry scratching his
head in perplexity as he attempted
to figure out how he will get thru a
season in which his abbreviated
squad of q candidates will take or
a majority of opponents from Class
A schools.
Hitting bottom in a downtrend
which started several years back
Bluffton High interest in football
was at an all-time low when there
were only q candidates for the open
ing workouts this week.
Of these only II men have play
ing experience, including seven
seniors, the loss of whom will just
about riddle chances for next season.
In addition to the seven seniors
who answered squad call, there are
two Juniors and six sophomores with
some experience. Reporting for the
first time are five freshmen and one
senior.
Good Starting Lineup
In surveying the abbreviated turn
out, Coach Lowry reported that he
will have starting lineup of fairly
good-sized boys with experience, but
requirements in case of injury will
be a frst-class problem at every
position.
Waning interest in football on the
part of Bluffton High school boys
has been seen in some sources as al
indication of prospective player senti-
ment that the Pirates are outclassed
in the Western Buckeye league
which is made up entirely of Class
A schools with the exception OF
Bluffton.
For many years Bluffton held its
own with the Class A foes, but
dwindling school enrolment here has
made it impossible for the Pirates
l u IHdllIl SlIEilS I'll Will lilC tdl SSl
schools season after season, largely
because of the lack of manpower.
Class-A Opponents
In nine games this year, the
Blutfton team will play only three
Glass B schools-Ada, Pandora ane
Columbus Grove. The remaining
u
contests will be against Glass A
teams in league competition.
Opening game in regular season
play will be against Kenton at tha
place on Sept. 16.
The complete schedule follows:
Sept. 16-Kenton, there.
| Sept. 23-Ada, at home.
| Sept. 30--Pandora, at home.
Oct. Van Vert, at home.
Oct. 14-Celina, there.
Oct. 21-St. Marys, at home.
Oct. 27-Wapakoneta, there
Nov. 4-Bellefontaine, there
Nov. 11-Columbus Grove, at home
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-08-25
man IS DEAD and
Wife BADLY HURT
in AUTO ACCIDENT
John Ross, Beaverdam Resident,
Dies in Maryland Hospital
Tuesday
Member of Bluffton Legion
Post; His Wife in Critical
Condition

John Ross, 60-year old Beaverdam
resident is dead and his wife critical
" injured as the result of an auto
mobile accident near Frostburg,
Maryland.
Ross died in the Frostburg hospital
Tuesday night at 6 o'clock. His wife
lis in the same hospital with a
fractured pelvis, leg and internal
injuries.
The accident occurred last Thurs
day in a headon collision of Ross
car and a truck. Ross and his wife
We're enroute home after visiting at
the home of her son Harold Duley in
Augusta, Georgia They left Beaver
dam for a two weeks trip on
August IL.
The body is expected here later
this week at which time funeral ar
'rangements will be made.
Ross was a veteran of World War
| and a member of Bluffton Legion
post. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Cal
Phillips and several brothers.