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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
TRUCKS INCREASE
TRAFFIC HAZARDS
ON MAIN STREET
Third Crash i'm Less Than
Month is Caused by
Through Trucks
Parked Passenger Car Wrecked
When Struck on South
Main Street

Buttons third Main street traf-
fic accident in less than month in
volving through-bound trucks result
ed in a wrecked automobile for
James West, cashier of the Citizens
National bank, at 1920 P. M. last
Friday.
Vests car, Chevrolet coach,
parked in front of his South Main
street residence, was virtually de-
molished when it was struck from
the rear by a pickup truck heading
north. West lives in the Mellinger
apartments.
Struck on the right side, nearest
the curb, by the truck, Vests park
ed car was sent careening a distance
of 18O feet north on Main street. 1t
did not come to stop until it had
crossed the street and crashed into
fire hydrant in front of the E. c.
Romey residence at the Grove street
corner.
TRUCK OFF STREET
Gene Fangman, 20, of Lima, driv-
er of the truck, said he did not see
the parked car. He claimed that he
was not asleep, although the truck
apparently was partially over the
curb when it crashed into Vests
automobile from the rear.
Mr.. and Mrs. West missed being
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
MILK PRICE
DROPS One
CENT QUART
Bluffton Housewives Paying Is
Cents Beginning Tuesday
Morning
Price Cut Offsets Rise of One
Cent Effective Since Last
Fall

Retail price of milk dropped one
cent quart in Bluffton Tuesday,
with consumers now paying Is cents
for Grade A and homogenized
grades.
1t was the first downward price
revision since last April, when a
similar 18-cent price went into ef-
feet, to continue until early Septem-
ber when one-cent boost was made.
The 18-cent price represents a
postwar low, and is said to result
from an Ohio surplus, for similar
downward trends in retail pricing is
general thruout the northern part of
the state this week.
Coffee cream also is expected to
follow the downward trend of milk
prices, with retailers anticipating a
one-cent cut this week. Cream now
retails at 10 cents a half-pint.
High mark of local milk prices
since the war came in the fall of
1948 when it retailed here at 81
cents a quart.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Stobbe,
Ada, a girl, Joyce Lee, last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurel Bracy, Pan
dora, a girl, Rebecca Jean, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hamman,
Bluffton, girl, Doris Ann, Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Balister, Mt.
Cory, a girl, Belinda Jill, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Galen Basinger,
Bluffton, boy, Stephen Royal, Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stonehill, Bluff
ton, a boy, Robert Joe, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Clum, La
fayette, girl, Wednesday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Ulysses Reichen-
bach, Bluffton, a girl, Wednesday
morning.
Rev. and Mrs. Mahlon Wenger, a
boy, Samuel Altman, born in Buoy
rus hospital, Saturday. Mrs. Weng-
er is the former Nadine Altman
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. V. III
Altman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood Diller
Alameda, Calf, a boy, Perry Diller
II, born at that place, Feb. 8. Mr.
and Mrs. Diller are former Blufftor
residents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
ROBBERS FAIL IN
ATTEMPT TO LOOT
farm COOP SAFE
Handle of Safe is Twisted Off
by Burglars in Raid Mon
day Night
Second Robbery Attempt at
Office of County Farm
Bureau Near Town

A second attempt within two
months to burglarize the office of
the Allen County Farm Bureau Coop
warehouse two miles south of Bluff
ton on the Dixie highway failed
Monday night when thieves We're un-
successful in trying to force entrance
into the safe.
Handle of the safe which was
twisted off in the fruitless attempt
was the principal damage, it was
reported by office workers who dis
covered the depreciation, Tuesday
morning.
Entrance to the office was gained
thru the rear of the warehouse.
Records and office furniture were
disarranged but no loss was reported.
A previous attempt to loot the Of
flee made last December was foiled
when tear gas was automatically re-
leased when the safe was tampered
with.
Joe Bronson of near Cherry street
also reported theft of case of oil
from his garage one night during
the past week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Sufficient Coal on Hand
for Towns Present Needs
Mild Winter Proves Help To
Farmers OF Bluffton Area
Three Injured In
Mishdp On Dixie

Three Lima residents received first
aid treatment at Bluffton Commun-
ity hospital Sunday night, following
a two-car mishap on the Dixie high
way near the Kermit Kibele resi-
dence at the north edge of town.
Cars driven. by Raymond E. How
ard, SO, of Lima, and Maynard A.
Amstutz, %, of Sidney, were in
volved in the crash, with the How
ard auto leaving the highway and
rolling down ditch embankment.
Howard, his sister, Mrs. Bessie
Howard, 10, and Emerson Smith,
40, a passenger in the car, escaped
with minor injuries. They were re-
leased following treatment at the
hospital.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
LOCAL SITUATION
Is SATISFACTORY
SURVEY DISCL0SES
Mild Weather has Served to
Stretch HousehoIders'
Supplies
No Crisis Anticipated Except
in Event of Long Strike
at Mines

With the national coal situation
in a turmoil because of miners
strike despite government interven-
ton, Bluffton's fuel picture for the
most part was brighter than it has
been at any time this winter.
Barring long layoff from coal
production, local homeowners and in
dustries viii not feel too much of a
pinch, survey indicated here the
first of the week.
As the national situation assumed
a critical aspect this week, Bluffton
home owners for the most part had
an adequate supply for current
needs, and stoekpiling in local coal
yards was in fair shape.
Rationing of retail deliveries was
being continued by Bluffton dealers,
and there are indications that the
present supply will be sufficient to
meet demands for most of the re-
mainder of the winter unless unus-
ually cold weather should strike the
district.
ONE-MoNTH SUPPLY
Bluffton's municipal light plant re-
ported a three to four weeks supply
on hand, although there were indi-
cations that restrictions on the use
of current will be put into effect un-
less the mine layoff is settled within
the next week.
Curtailment of service should it
come will be dictated more by pro-
gram to conserve fuel on hand than
because of an immediate emergency,
plant officials said.
Central Ohio Light and Power Co.
reported two months supply ut
the Woodcock generating plant here.
and only a protracted strike could
cause trouble.
Coal SUPPLY SHORT
Bluffton college, however, faced
the possibility of shortage, for the
mine shutdown found the institution
with only 10-days' supply on hand,
it was reported Tuesday. There is
possibility, however, that coal for
continued operation may be obtain
able from retailers.
Page Dairy Co. also faced the
possibility of difficulties at its local
plant in case of a drawn-out strike,
with the plant coal reserve suffi-
cient for only about two weeks on
normal basis.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Peace Institute At
College This Week

A peace institute sponsored by
the Bluffton College Peace club will
be held Friday and Saturday on the
college campus.
At the opening session, 9:35 a. m.
Friday, C. J. Rempel, of Ontario,
Canada, will speak on "The Individ-
ual's Responsibility in the Way of
Peace" In the afternoon at p. m.
there will be group discussion on
whats Wrong With the goth Gen.
tury?"
Rev. ]. N. Smucker of Bluffton
will speak on "Peace of Mind" and
Prof. Melvin Gingerich, of Goshen,
Ind, will talk on Christ: the Way
to Peace" at 7:30 p. m. Friday.
Topic for the concluding program
at 10 a. m. Saturday will be "How
to be Effective Peacemakers Through
Personal Living" Speakers will be
Rev. Smucker, Prof. Gingerich and
Rempel.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Wheat is Out of Danger from
Winter Kill, Crop Expert
Declares
Heavy Rains have Replenished
Long Depleted Subsurface
Moisture

Mild weather, the absence of ice,
snow and freezing temperatures,
coupled with surplus of rainfall.
have been welcomed by Bluffton area
farmers who have found this winter
just about what they would order if
they had control over the elements.
City folks, threatened by coal
shortages thruout the winter because
of the mine situation, also will give
a vote of approval to the unusual
weather conditions which have pre-
vailed since mid-November.
On the farms, the winter wheat
crop, fourth most important cash
income producer for the states farm
ers, is out of danger from winter
kill, according to DR.. Robert t.
Yoder, supervisor of field research
at the Wooster Experiment station.
Wheat Outlook
Being able to say early in Febru-
airy, with almost positive assurance,
that Ohio's winter wheat crop is out
of danger from winter kill establish
es some kind of record" was DR..
Yoder's comment on the situation.
Usually there is danger ahead
from heaving and blowing but winter
wheat planted last fall under. un-
dry conditions rooted deep,
good protection against heaving.
Then came the early snow and rains
in mid-November to give good top
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Colder Weather CurbS
Danger Of Flood Here
High School Faces First Hurdle
In Basketball Tourney Saturday
Real Estate Deals

Mrs. L. C. Hauenstein residing
south of Bluffton has purchased the
Walter Stratton property on South
Main street and will occupy it next
month. Mr.. and Mrs. Stratton will
move on 80 acres which they pur-
chased last month from Mrs. Hau-
enstein's son Kenneth. The tract
was formerly part of the 160 acre
tract belonging to the late L. c.
Hauenstein.
Kenneth Reichenbach has pur-
chased the Geo. Read property on
South Lawn avenue. Mr.. and Mrs.
Reichenbach are moving from the
Norman Edinger property on Jeffer-
son street. Mr.. and Mrs. Read are
moving to a small farm which they
recently purchased near Arlington.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
One-Day Boy Scout
DriUe Here Tuesday

A concentrated one-day solicitation
campaign to raise funds for the con-
tinuation of the Bluffton Boy Scout
program will be launched at a kick
off breakfast in the Walnut Grill
next Tuesday morning.
The solicitation, made by represen-
tatives of local churches, will be
completed by Tuesday night.
Heading the local campaign COM
mittee are Rev. V. c. Oppermann,
chairman; Rev. j. N. Smucker, Rev.
Paul H. Cramer, Rev. L. w. McIn-
tire and Rev. o. Merrill Boggs.
Twenty-three solicitors will assist in
the drive.
No campaign was held in Bluffton
last year, and a good return is
sought this winter to make it pos
sible to carry out the varied Boy
Scout program supervised by the
Shawnee Area council, with which
Bluffton scouts are affiliated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
TOWN MENACED
BY HIGH WATER
FOR TWO DAYS
Flooded Easements are Most
Serious Situation Reported
Here
Bluffton Fares Better Than
Many Other Towns Thru
out District

Rampaging outside their banks for
more than "a hours on Monday and
Tuesday, Big and Little Riley creeks
were at flood stage in the Bluffton
district for one of the longest
periods since the long-remembered
1913 inundation.
Country roads were flooded and in
many cases partially washed away,
as water-choked bitches failed to
carry away water fast enough as it
fell over a 36-hour period beginning
Sunday night and continuing until
early Tuesday afternoon.
Altho rainfall was steady it rarely
reached the downpour stage, and
despite the fact that creeks spilled
over their banks late Monday after
noon the water was carried away
fast enough to keep the flood level
reaching some of the high water
marks of the last decade.
Worse Elsewhere
dull lOH IdIeu UellGI lltlt llOSt
surrounding communities because of
its favorable background location.
Serious floods were reported in Ada,
Findlay and Ottawa on Tuesday.
Schools continued their normal
schedules here, but many in Allen,
Putnam and Hancock counties were
closed because of the flood. Mt. Cory
Rawson schools were dismissed at
noon on Tuesday because of water in
the boiler room at the Rawson
school, and many others in the dis
trict also sent pupils home because
of the high water.
Many flooded Easements were re-
ported in Bluffton, however, as the
rain continued to fall thruout Mon
day and Tuesday, but the situation
was alleviating Wednesday.
Water Soaked Ground
More than three times the normal
aJnuary rainfall total, followed by
this weeks rainfall has thoroughly
saturated the ground in the Blufftor
area, and water runs off into streams
as rapidly as it falls, to complicate
flood conditions locally.
Weather observers reported this
indicated the Bluffton area water
table level, seriously low last fall
probably has returned to normal as
a result of the continued winter
downpours-
Since early January, Big ano
Little Riley creeks have flooded out.
side their banks here six times. In
normal seasons that many floods II
a year would be an exception.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
BurkhaIter Violin
Recital Here Sunday

Laurence Burkhalter, Bluffton col
lege instrumental music instructor,
will present a violin recital at 7:30
p. m. Sunday in the First Mennonite
church.
Included on the program will be
Sonata No. by Handel and Poeme
by Chausson. Burkhalter will be
accompanied by Miss Mary Maust,
college senior.
Burkhalter also is scheduled to
play over Radio Station WOSU, Co
lumbus, at 5 p. m. Sunday, Febru-
airy 26.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
CORN ACREAGE CUT
MAY CHANGE TYPE
OF FARMING HERE
Wheat Acreage Also Must be
Cut by Farmers Expecting
Federal Aid
Farmers at Work Mapping
Plans for Year as March |
Deadline Looms

Government allotments slashing
wheat and corn acreage in Ohio
along with other states in crop
reduction program for those who
want to take advantage of federal
subsidies will complicate planning of
this years operations by Bluffton
area farmers.
Federal allotments for wheat and
corn were announced last week, with
Ohio's wheat acreage slashed better
than 10 per cent, and the cut in corn
acreage averaging more than q pei
cent.
Complications in farm planning
were seen because of the fact that
March | is less than a month away
when farmers will have their opera
tions mapped for the coming season
Not Compulsory
Altho federal orders reducing
acreage are not compulsory, farmers
must comply with the program il
they expect to take advantage OF
federal subsidies in the form of crop
loans and parity prices, it was point
ed out this week.
The picture here is all the more
complicated because of the fact that
in this area and adjoining counties
raising corn and feeding it to pigs
comprises the backbone of farm
operations.
How much of a difference compli
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Charter Night Dinner To Mark 10th
Anniversary Of BlufftOn Lions Club

society of the Methodist church.
Active charter members of the
Bluffton club include |. B. Beeshy,
DR.. Gordon Bixel, N. E. Byers,
Russell A. Lantz, e. S. Lape, A. E.
Lichtenwalter, Paul w. Stauffer, A.
J. B. Longsdorf and Forrest l..
Steinman.
The club now has a membership of
10. Officers are Paul II. Cramer,
president; Charles Emans, first vice
president; Franklin D. Rodabaugh,
second vice-president; Clair B. Fett,
third vice-president; Carl Lehman,
secretary-treasurer; DR.. B. w. Trav-
is, Robert Nonnamaker, Jesse Yoa-
kan and Harry Turner, Sr., direct
ors; A. Dwight spayth, tailtwister;
Morris Triplett, Lion tanner; A. J. B.
Longsdorf, Jungle News Editor;
Earl Lehman. and Harvey Bauman,
song leaders.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Masonic Patterson
Banquet Next Week

Supt. of Schools Aaron B. Murray
will be the speaker at the Blutfton
Masonic Patterson banquet COM
memorating the birthday of George
Washington, Wednesday night of
next week in the Masonic hall here.
Supt. Murray's address will fol-
low a banquet to be served at 6:30.
Richard C. Lewis, master of the
Bluffton lodge, will give the address
of welcome, opening the program. A
toast to the sons will be given by
Coach A. C. Burcky, and the re-
sponse will be by his son, Bill
Burcky, a Bluffton college student.
Reservations for the banquet
should be made with Bertrand l.
Swank not later than Saturday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
New Auto Tags
Arrive; Will Go
On Sale March l

FIFTEEN hundred new auto
license tags for the Bluffton
district have arrived here, it was
stated the first of the week by
Dave Reichenbach, deputy
registrar.
They will go on sale March
/ at Reichenbach's garage on
West Elm street. The new plates
which have black numerals on
yellow background have the same
letters as in 1949, W, ZB and
Wy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Trained Squad Ready For Action
Here In Drowning, Other Emergencies

Trained in artificial respiration
and operation of the community's
resuscitator, Bluffton has a five-man
emergency squad which quickly can
swing into action in case of asphyx-
iations, drowning, etc.
To obtain services of the group it
is only necessary to notify the Bluff
ton telephone office when emergencies
occur, and the operator will take
over from that point.
On the emergency squad at pres
ent are Lester Niswander, Loren
Steinman, Al Ingalls, and Gail Num-
ma. Fred Martin, the fifth member,
viii be active again following his
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Dairy HOrmOne Feed
Meeting Here. Tues.

Explanation of new method of
hormone feeding for dairy herds will
be made at an open meeting to be
held at p. m. next Tuesday in the
Bluffton High school auditorium.
Special representatives of the
Quaker Oats Co. will explain the de-
velopment of thyro-active lactation
stimulant and the results obtained
from its use.
This type of feeding has been
tested for more than 10 years, and it
is reported that feeding the cow
small amounts of the thyroid hor-
none greatly increases the use Of
food energy and milk production.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
In New Locations

Mr.. and Mrs. Will Steiner have
moved from their farm west of Bluff
ton to the Garau street property
which they purchased from Delbert
McGinnis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford Steiner are
moving on the Steiner farm, vacat-
ing the property of the Misses Olive
and Lydia Amstutz on Spring street.
The Amstutz Sisters will nave here
from Lima the first of March and
occupy their property.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16

return from a vacation in the west.
In addition to being skilled in ar
tificial respiration, the squad also is
trained in operation of the fire de-
partment's resuscitator, which is kept
at the Bluffton Community hospital
Most of the volunteer workers also
have training in first aid.
Refresher courses are taken by
the group twice a year, SO that they
may proceed with the best possible
results when emergencies arise.
Buttons squad has been in oper-
alton for well over a year, and rep
resentatives of the local group as
sisted Ada in setting up q similar
organization during the last year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
College Orchestra
To GiUe Concert

Bluffton college orchestra will pre-
sent a concert Friday night in Ram
seyer chapel, a new venture in the
public appearances of the group.
Laurence Burkhalter will direct
the orchestra in the concert. Includ-
ed in the program will be Overture
to. Stradella by Won Flotow; the
First Movement of Haydn's Military
Symphony and Ballet Egyptianne by
Luigini.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Polio Benefit Dance
Here Next Wednesday

A benefit dance with all proceeds
going to Buttons 1850 March of
dimes polio drive will be staged un-
der auspices of the Bluffton Amer
lean Legion post Wednesday night
of next week in the Legion hall.
Round and square dancing will be
featured, and the public is urged to
attend, to help support the polio
campaign.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Saddle Club Makes
Polio Contribution

Farley the Magician presented
program of magic at a meeting of
the Bluffton Saddle Horse club last
Thursday night in the Walnut Grill.
At the session the club voted to
contribute $25 to the 1850 Bluffton
polio drive and made contribution
of similar amount to the Hancock
county campaign.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Agriculture Glasses
See NelU Idea Plant

twenty-five Bluffton high school
agriculture students were in Cold
water, Wednesday, making an in
spection tour of the New Idea plant
manufacturer of farm machinery.
Included in the number were men,
bers of the veterans and vocational
agriculture classes, together with
Ralph N. Marshall, instructor in the
veterans class.
Hard wood makes better Goals for
campfire than soft wood.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16

Nation farm indebtedness increased
about three-fourths il a billion dol
lars during 1949.
Evening star., 1950-01-06
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-07-07
RACES

4 Years and Under First, Terry Sharnbroich; second tContinued on page four)
The Wrangell sentinel., 1950-07-07
INSTITUTE CHILDREN
 GRADUATE TO MT. EDGECUMBE

Thirteen boys and 10 boys were transferred from Wrangell Insti- ute to Mt. Edgecumbe School at Sitka this week. The 23 young sters have completed their schooling through the sixth grade, the limit of the Institutes facilities.
 Those going to Mt. Edgecumbe yesterday via plane were Albert Duyck, Gerald Edwin, Nick Faw- cett. Victor Hansen, Alex Jackson, Allen John, Edwin Kunz. Almcn Spoon Jefferson Trenton, Sam De- endy, Maxim Dalchuk, Lawrence Mckinley, Roy Evan, Anfucia Gardner, Martha Hodikoff, Bessie Kawasuk, Vassa Lekanoff, Flora Mathews Nancy MeCord, Anna Mae Monroe, Olga Tretikoff and Ella Atgeok.
 Alma Upicksoun was scheduled Ito go yesterday but underwent an emergency appendectomy few days ago and will go next week.