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Laurel outlook., 1950-12-20
Finishes Aid POcketbook

Few purchasers realize the great
part that c~olorful and durable in
dustrial finishes now play in max
ing cars, furniture, refrigerators
and other household appliances
available at prices which so many
people can afford. A little more
than a quarter Of a century ago,
for instance, IS days and % or more
hand operations were required to
finish a high grade automobile. Be-
cause of the new improved finishes
available today, both the time and
plant area required for finishing
have been reduced to a mere frac-
ton of that needed IS years ago.
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Heavy November
LayOffs In Industry

Continued from Page One)
which r at a stage permitting
inside work through bad weather
months.
Lumber Jobs Hinge on Prices
In the timber areas employment
prospects for next spring hinge to
some extent upon market develop
ments during the winter season. A
weaker lumber demand this fall
FASTENED the shutdown date of
some plants and increased the lay
off extent in others.
Demand for Miners Unabated
Continuing demand for handbook
miners gives promise of increasing
total employment in the industry
through the winter and into next
spring. Plans are announced for
absorbing 1000 more experienced
miners between now and next May.
Most of these recruits must come
from outside the state, as the labor
markets in Montana have been
stripped of applicants available and
qualified for this work.
More Winter Jobs at Hungry Horse
Employment on Hungry Horse
dam was down to $40 the last of
the month, exclusive of the 1926 on
reservoir clearing projects and gov
eminent employees with the bureau
of reclamation. While this is a
substantial reduction from the
1000 level of two months ago, it
is still away higher than the 200
of winter employment a year ago.
Winter work at the dam is con-
cerned with the spillway tunnel
and the powerhouse, actual pour
ing of cement ceased November Is
until spring.
Pouring Cement at Canyon Ferry
Canyon Ferry contractors are
making a stern effort to continue
cement pouring through the less
severe periods of the winter, with
the objective of raising the dam
level above expected high water
mark in the diversion flume next
spring. This is intended to avert in
reference with the pouring sched-
ule during the high water period.
Employment at Canyon Ferry is
around 200 now, probably will sus-
tain about hat level until spring
permits its expansion. Hiring dur
ing the winter months will be
measured by needed requirements.
Moderate Reduction on Highways
Employment on state highway
construction projects and on main
tenance work decreased 300 in No
vember, mostly from reduction of
contractor ~payrolls. The months
report shows 400 working on road
contractor jobs and 730 on the
highway commission maintenance
crews. In October there were 720
and $50 respectively.
There we're 81 miles of highway
construction under way the first
Of December, ten bridges were in
process of construction, and one
stock-piling job was in progress.
Work had been suspended on one
and 10 road contracts, in
III miles of highway. An
other 10 highway contracts had
been awarded but work had not
yet begun. These represent the
backlog of highway employment
prospects for next spring.
During November there were
our road jobs completed, on At
of highway; two bridge jobs
md one overpass were completed.
Laurel outlook., 1950-12-20

With all his experiences,
the modern trend makes the
old fashioned Santa Claus
embark on technical educo-
tion. School for Sunto
Clauses" sponsored by q
Hollywood actors organize
ton, is coaching Kris KringIe
doubles" for their roles dur
ing the holidays.
Cultivation of q hearty, or
belly, laugh is in the curricu-
lum (top photo). Sonto is
shown how he must open his
mouth wide to force booming
"Ho Ho" through chin brush.
Photo in center shows in
structor demonstrating up-
plicution of tourniquet so
that Santa will know whut to
do if q boisterous celebront
happens to %iniure himself.
Al bottom, melodious rendi-
tions of Silent Night" are
pructised at each class ses-
sion.
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Instead Of Wreath, Hang
Bells, Ornaments on Door

Instead of the conventional wreath
on the outside of the door why not
string some bells and tree orna-
mentS on narrow baby ribbon and
hang from a huge red bow?
Make your door and window
frames bright and cheerful by
framing them with ribbon and
spriss of holly. You can hang the
ribbon in feStoons across the cur
tains and tie at the sides in wide
sash bows for colorful effect.
Laurel outlook., 1950-12-20
Sand at Start

When preparing a wood surface
for varnish, always sandpaper with
the grain of the wood. Use No. one
half sandpaper at the start and
finish with No. 0. For turned surf
aces, such as table legs, chair legs
and spindles, steel wool is best.
Laurel outlook., 1950-12-20
First Walnuts

The walnut, for which both Cali
fornia and Oregon have climates
which are especially attractive,
called "Jupiter's Acorn" by the an
cient Greeks and Romans, first was
known to have existed in ancient
Persia.
Laurel outlook., 1950-12-20
Paint Before PuttYing

Putty should not be used to fill
cracks and nail holes until after
the first, or printing, coat of paint
has been applied. Otherwise the
wood will absorb the oil and dry the
putty, causing it to crumble and fall
out.
Laurel outlook., 1950-12-20

Time: $50 = 900
Riddles! Don't forget to meet
Santa Claus this afternoon dur
ing the free All-CartoOn matinee
starting at 2 p. m.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
ST., 900 Worth d. Floral . Tone-on-Tone
BROADLOOM RUGS

Grob the first bus trolley tox down to The Hecht
Co. tomorrow! These ore the thickest, softest,
cushioniest broodoon rugs you've seen in many
day for SO little! All woven Of spriney imported
wool yarns scientifically blended for strength ustre.
Tone -on-tone domosks, 9th Century floros :.
smart colors.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
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Evening star., 1950-12-14

SO savings for 13 lucky people!
The mattresses ore all innerspring,
with sturd y ticking. Double size
only at this clearance price!
9TH Floor, The Hecht Co. Washington
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28
The New Secretary
TO The President
lis OK, Louis Laufiel

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)
Appointment of Joseph H. Short,
Jr., as the new White House press
secretary, succeeding the late
Charles C. Ross, is excellent, said
Louis Lautier, who covers the
White House for the NNPA.
Any misgivings about Mr.. Short,
simply because he comes from the
deep South, should be dispelled,
said Lautier. "IIe has been one
of the most cordial of White House
reporters" the NNPA correspon-
dent added.
Short, 46-year old reporter on
the Washington staff of the Bal
timore Sun, was born in .Vicks-
burg, Mississippi, February II,
1904. One of his grandfathers,
Joseph w. Short, as Yankee, a
native of Indiana, who went to
Vicksburg during the Civil War
siege of that Mississippi River
town. He was a civilian clerk on
the staff of General Ulysses S.
Grant.
Mr.. Truman picked Short for the
$18,OOO-a-year job because he knew
him to be a firSt-class neWsman
and because he liked him.
Short graduated from Virginia
Military Institute in 1925 and
started his newspaper career in
Jackson, Mississippi as reporter
for the Jackson Daily News. He
next worked for the Associated
Press in Richmond, Virginia, and
Joined the AP bureau in Wash
ington in 1881.
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28

shots running the conference were
admitted. The general public was
excluded.
incidentally, unless lasts min
ute settlement is reached, the dam
age suit of Dean Joe Johnson of
the Howard university Medical
School againsts Thomansia will
have a court airing soon, with
Herb Marshall, the medico, cast
as the star witness. Dean Johnson
wants redress for Tommy allegedly
calling him a Commy while he was
a candidate to head the local
branch of the NAACP.
Oscar w. Raer, Bay City (Mich-
igan) lawyer, is a member of the
advisory committed composed of
members of the American Bar As
sociation) of theSpecial American
Bar Association committee on
on Communist activities, strategy
sand objectives insofar as they are
obstructive in the administration
of justice. Austin F. Garfield, a
leading local lawyer, is chairman
of the special committee.
The Wrong Brothers"-W. B.
and Hal Smith-had been threat
ening each other with bodily in
jury. Hal runs Chinese restaur-
and and poolroom in a Seventh
street building, between S. and T
streets northwest. w. B. runs a
barber shop, and they lease out
apartments on the top floor.
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28
Convicted Man
Fails To Get
New Hearing

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)
The United States Supreme
Court refused to review the con-
viction of Nathan Roy, who faces
life Imprisonment under the Lou
isiana Habitual Criminal Act as
the result of being found guilty
of the theft of an iron fence val
ued at $75.
Roy contended that his con-
stitutional rights had been vio-
lated. He said the Louisiana Su-
preme Court did not review his
conviction because his attorney
failed to perfect the bill of ex-
ceptions reserved during his trial.
According to Roy, he was hired
by another colored man, who op-
crates a hauling truck, to assist
in the loading of the stolen iron
fence destined for a schap yard
in Baton Rouge. The fence was
owned by the State School for
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28
NAACP Will
Oppose Caldwell
As Administrator

WASHINGTON, D. c.. (NNPA)
If Congress enacts civil-defense
legislation, creating statutory
position of civil defense admins
tration, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People will oppose the appoint
ment of former Governor Millard
F. Caldwell, Jr., to that post,
The Sun learned last Friday.
Governor Caldwell is serving as
civil defense administrator by ap-
pointment of President Truman,
who issued an executive order
civil defense from the juriSdic-
tion of the National Security Re-
sources Board, where it had been
sinces March 3, 1949, and estab-
fishing it as a separate Civil De-
fense Administration in the Ex-
ecutive Office of the President.
One of the issues expected to
be used against Governor Cald-
wells appointment is his advo-
cacy of Senate ratification of the
fourteen southern states to set
up the regional education pro-
gram. The NAACP opposed Sem
ate ratification and won its fight.
AS chairman of the Southern
Governors Conference at the
time, however, Governor Caldwell
was one of the chief architects of
the plan, which, the NAACP con-
tended, was designed to circum-
vent decisions of the United
States Supreme Court by main
tanning racial segregation in state
supported institutions of higher
education.
The civil defense program is
considered a major part of ma
tional security, and it will be
argued against his appointment
that no one who believes in rae
ial segregation should administer
the program.
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28

the Deaf and had long been a
famous landmark in Baton Rouge.
The fence was hauled to an
industrial area. Roy was arrested
The district attorney refused to
file charges against the truck
owner but charged Roy with the
theft. Roy said the truck owner
testified that he had been hired
by him. He was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment on the theft
charge, but because of his prior
record he faces a life sentence.
Roy also contended that he was
entitled to have a subponea SER
we'd on Spencer Phillips, superin-
tendent of the State School for
the Deaf, to testify in his behalf,
but the trial judge refused to de-
lay the trial on the ground that
Roy's attorney had not filed a
written motion for service of the
subpoena.
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28

A Wag cracked: Hold on to your
Confederate money, boys, the
South's in the saddle again."
Fourteen Southern Senators re-
Gently held a cacus on the Alaska
and Hawaii statehood bills. After
discussing the two bills briefly,
their bull session turned to talk of
compromise on civil rights legis-
lation.
Two or three days later, I saw
Senator Richard B. Russell, Dem
ocrat of Georgia, leader of the
Southern bloc in a Capitol Cor
ridor.
"Are Southerners ready to talk
compromise on Civil rights?" I
asked.
II was ready two years ago." the
Georgian replied. 'I went to the
White House to talk compromise
with President Truman, and he
wouldn't talk to me-"
Russell added that he was still
open to any compromise propo-
sition from anyone with authority
to make it.
The same pressure groups which
denounced FEPC legislation with
out teeth in it are pressing for an
executive order creating COM
mission that would be more tooth
less than the one proposed in the
Mcconnell bill. Several secret SeS-
sions have been held with Under
Secretary of Labor Michael j.
Calvin with representatives of the
Justice Department present.
Johnny Cromwell, the account
ant, has been Birmingham Gala
bama) auditing the books of jim
my Kelley, Elks' grand secretary.
When he has completed his audit,
the Elks' grand auditors Jimmy
Copper, Harry st. Clair and Sam
Mitchell-will make their audit.
When the grand auditors audit
is completed, J. Finley Wilson,
grand exalted ruler, will order the
office of grand secretary moved
to Washington, where the acting
grand secretary, Billy Hueston,
who is also Elks' commissioner of
education, is located.
Faces about town: Jean Capers,
the Cleveland (Ohio) councilwo-
man, in conference with Repre-
sentative Bill Dawson, the leader
of colored Democrats Roscoe
Simmons of the Chicago Tribune
and Washington Times Herald
StaffS 5. Louis Martin of the
Chicago Defender and P. L. Pratis
of the Pittsburg Courier.
Also Scovell Richardson, dean of
the law school at Lincoln (Mis-
sourD University, who attended
the Midcentury White House Con-
ference on Children and Youth
Ditto Dorothy Banton, head of
the girls training school in Della
ware.
Thomasina Noford, head of the
minority groups section, United
States Employment Service, tried
throwing her weight around but
couldn't crash the conference. Only
delegates, the press and the big
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28

Actor Hugh Beaumont breaches
at various churches when he is
not busy making Pine-ThomaS'
''The Last Outpast', Paramount
TechnicOlOr release.
Arizona sun., 1950-12-28
CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT
By LOUIS LAUTIER

For the NNPA New Service
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
H. S. Faces First Hur-
die In Tourney
Concluded from page |,

the Lima team has won only six of
19 games this winter.
If Bluffton and Delphos st. Johns
each get through their opening as
signments unscathed they will tangle
at 9 p. m. next Monday in what
should be one of the feature con-
tests of the meet. During the regu-
lar season Bluffton lost to Delphos
on the St. Johns court by a score
of 81 to 36.
Two TO DISTRICT
Winner of the second-round con-
test will play in the finals against
victor of the upper bracket of the
tournament, which includes Delphos
Jefferson, Lima St. Rose, Ada, Wa
pakoneta St. Joseph and Hicksville.
Both fnalists will go to the dis
trict tournament opening in the Ce-
lima field house the following week.
Tournament tickets are on sale at
the Bluffton High school office, and
will be available until l p. m. of the
day of each tourney encounter.
Doors at the Celina gymnasium will
be opened one hour before game
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Unusual Items In Reichenbach Hobby
Collection Represents Family Activity

An uncle in Texas sent him sew
eral round flat stones known as sand
dollars. One prize specimen IS an
Indian arrowhead found in the gard
en- Of the former Dave Beeshy prop
erty on Riley street. The youth has
been collecting stones and shells
since he was five years old.
The other son, Edward, has an
extensive match cover collection.
UNUSUAL ORGAN
Also in the Reichenbach collection
is a beautiful old-time pipe organ,
manufactured in 1877. Made of
burl walnut in excellent condition,
the organ has 80 Carl Fogelburg
pipes and also a reed arrangement.
In good condition mechanically the
organ is six feet high, so inches
wide and 80 inches in depth. 1t
has the original finish.
Aquired from a church in Colum-
bus Grove about five years ago the
organ has pipes from left to right
as follows: Diapason, viola, dolcan,
clarabella, sub-bass, octava coupler,
tremalo, violincello, pedals, aoline,
vox humana, flute and melodia.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Trucks Increase Traffic
Hazards On Main St.
Concluded from page Il

concluded from page ID
IN the parked car by only seconds,
for they were on their front porch
enroute to the vehicle when the mis-
hap occurred.
The truck is owned by Glen Fang
man, of Lima, father of the youth.
The elder Fangman is engaged in
business as Fangmans Steel Service
of Lima. Young Fangman was en-
route to Toledo.
State Highway Patrolman Dupuis,
of the Lima post, investigated the
mishap. Vests wrecked car was
taken to the Bixel Motor Sales.
Two Previous CRASHES
The two previous crashes involving
trucks here in less than a month oc-
Cured on North Main street, one
on the bridge across Big Riley creek
and the other at it's northern ap-
proach.
In an accident Wednesday morn
ing of last week, half of the west
balustrade of the bridge was de-
moiished when the heavily-loaded
trailer of a truck-trailer assembly
broke loose and careened into the
structure. The truck was owned bv
the National Transit Co., of Lima.
Wednesdays crash was only a
few yards from the scene of another
truck accident on Jan. 20 when big
seml-trailer overturned Just before
reaching the bridge after grazing an
automobile. The truck was enroute
from Boston to Dallas, Texas.
In last Friday nights crash.
Vests auto was parked only half
block from the residence of Robert
hing, whose parked car was de-
molIshed last summer when it was
struck by hit-and-run truck driver,
who later was apprehended in Find
lay. Returned to Bluffton, the truck
er was fined 500 and costs in
mayors court.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Rockport

The Farm and Home Advisory
Council will meet in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Marshall, Wednes-
day evening, Feb. %.
Mrs. Wayne Kidd will be hostess
to the Friendly Neighbors club
Thursday afternoon of next week.
The program follows: Song; Roll
call, Mock Radio Program, Mrs.
Lewis Van Meter; Topic, "The Wond-
erful Earthworm," Mrs. Irene Burk-
holder; Poem, Mrs. Audrey Hauen-
stein, Song.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall
left the first of last week TO ra yaea-
ton trip to Florida
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Nav of
Columbus We're week end guests in
the Guy Mayberry home.
Miss Madeline Bixel was guest
in the F. c. Marshall home Saturday
and Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Wilson of Los Angeles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Reagan and
son Randall of Dayton were visitors
in the D. c. Campbell home over the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
College FiUe Loses
To Defiance, H-64

Unable to hit on their shots and
crippled by illness, Bluffton college
cagers moved deeper into the Mid
Ohio league cellar Tuesday night by
dropping IL to 64 decision to De-
fiance on the high school court here.
Although the locals kept within
striking distance of their foes all
the way, they led only for a short
time in the third quarter, and the
inability to make good on their many
chances kept them from breaking
into the win column for the second
time in loop competition.
AS matters stood, however, Def
ance accuracy from the free throw
line spelled the ultimate margin of
victory, for the visitors put on one
of the finest exhibitions of foul
shooting seen here this year to
clinch the win.
All told, the Yellow Jackets rack
ed up 13 free throws, while Bluffton
made good on only 10.
After the visitors had held an
1913 first quarter margin, Bluffton
moved up in the second period to
trail by only three points at half
time, 1880. For a time in the third
period, the Beavers led 36 to 81,
but Defiance then moved on to 81
to ID third quarter edge.
Russo Gratz led the Bluffton at
tack with a 32-point assault, one
of his best marks of the season.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Mild Winter Proves
Help To Farmers
Concluded from page /

ASoiiSludSl IIOiil page j
growth and provide protection again
st the March winds. l can't conceive
of weather that will put it in
danger"
However, in farming no weather is
perfect, and some disadvantages also
are seen in the kind of winter we
have had to date.
Disadvantages Too
One unfavorable aspect has been
the fact that rains have kept the
ground too soft to haul manure. This
has prevented the top dressing of
many wheat fields and meadows. If
the weather hopes to continue its
perfection record so far as the farm
er is concerned the next two weeks
should bring enough freezing to
provide ground crust which will
support horses or tractor and spread
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16

week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Begg and Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Marshall attended
a banquet at Elida Wednesday even
ing when the Farmers Club met with
the Allen County Dairy association
for their annual meeting.
Miss Rebecca Marshall spent the
week end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Marshall.
Emory Basinger, Glenn Mayberry,
William Cupp and Orlo Marshall at
tended a Moderator's meeting Of the
Presbyterian church, L. S. A. Thurs
day evening in the Van Vert Pres
byterian church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Bucher
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Marshall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Marshall and
daughter Rebecca were guests in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Gratz,
Saturday evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16
Ohio Law Regulates Movement OF
Machinery On Highways Next Month

Movement of machinery on Ohio
highways will be closely regulated
after March l when Ohio highway
patrolmen begin the enforcement of
state law which exempts only
farmers moving their farm equip
ment from field to field in normal
farming activity.
After March /, equipment affected
by the law can be moved on high
ways only if permit is obtained
through local state highway patrol
headquarters.
The only exemption is for farmers
moving their own equipment from
field to field in normal farming ac-
tivity. This movement, however,
must be during daylight hours and
in such a manner as not to inter-
fere with the free flow of traffic.
Farm movement of equipment in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-16

Another item on the debit side of
the ledger is the effect of wet, mild
weather on corn in storage. Uncle
Sam holds a lien against much of
last years bumper crop. Most corn
was stored under ideal conditions,
full ripe, with moisture content run
ming 14Go or less. In storage, how
ever, corn picks up moisture, and
the prediction is that moisture con-
tent now has gone to 1870 or more.
However, this is not a danger
point providing we have normal
spring and early summer weather.
spoilage will result only if it should
turn hot and smuggy, with high
humidity and more rainfall.
Excess of Rainfall
Unusual rainfall this winter is re-
fiected in weather bureau records.
For the last year northwestern Ohio
has an excess of rainfall, amounting
to more than five inches, all accumu-
lated since Nov. IL.
Preceding the November date there
had been a To-day period of SUBJ