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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-12-14
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Club Projects Set

Farm boys in vocational agri-
culture classes at Bluffton High
school have elected projects as a
part of their individual farming
programs under the Future Farmers
of America activity schedule for the
current school year.
These individual farming projects
are carried on in addition to class
work and give the boys an oppor-
tunity to put in practice the things
studied in classrooms.
Included in the farming programs
of the club members are 10 beef
steers, FIVE dairy heifers, 10 sows
and litters, II dairy cows, two sheep
flock management projects, two
poultry flock management projects
one broiler flock project, eight corr
projects, three wheat projects, three
oats projects, two soybean projects;
and eight farm account record pro,
jects.
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Matn%
DezdotsoI

Bluffton getting that Christmas
look-surprising how little green
cry and some colored lights will add
touch of beauty and glamor to
landscapes drab at best this time of
year !. homes and lawns taking on
a fairyland aspect after dark as
Buttons outdoor lighting project
finds popular favor and old
Santa himself atop the Koontz Sim
clair station on South Main street
driving his reindeer team at a great
rate and every day makes one
less for our Christmas shopping
besides there are all those mail
early" slogans dinned into our ears
/. +. Postmaster Ed Reichenbach an
nouncing extra hours Saturday
afternoon to accommodate a lot of
put-it-off folks just like us, who
really don't deserve it just
learned that Santa will be too busy
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Prosecutor Called
For Army Service

Anthony J. Bowers, Allen county
prosecuting attorney and major in
the army reserves, has received ord
ers to report Jan. IL at Ft. Meade,
Nd, for active duty in the Judge
Advocate Generals department.
Bowers was member of the 408th
Military government company up to
the time it left last September for
active duty. At that time Prosecut-
or Bowers received a four-months
deferment.
Another Lima attorney, Robert
TAFT, also is expecting active duty
orders soon. Both men are veterans
of World War ii.
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ton, who has the contract for al
electrical work.
There is an almost perfect figure
q" on the face of a four-year-ole
Holstein COW on the Ezra Mosel
farm north of town, making her the
object of considerable interest. The
cow is black-faced with exception OF
the white ~ which extends from
the top of her head to the tip of
her nose.
Numerologists say that people in
whose lives the number seven is evil
dent, often develop a great store of
wisdom and turn their steps toward
unexplored fields. Acquiring wisdom
should be all right-but this busi-
ness of unexplored fields isn't too
especially if it involves jump
ing the line fence.
And here we are in the midst of
winter-record snowfall two weeks
ago without a single jingle of sleigh
bells-fact is, probably some of the
younger generation wouldn't recog-
nize a smart cutter and spirited
horse sprinting down snow-covered
Main street-a common sight here
at the turn of the century.
Those were days when the popular
diversion was to hire a
bobsled at the livery stable-Harry
Patterson's or Bill Morrison's-and
HE off to the country with couple
of quarts of oysters and an evening
of sociability and an oyster stew.
Oysters were 45 cents a quart-yes,
we said quart-not pint.
The entire Peter Wiebe family will
be represented in presentation of the
Messiah concert in the Presbyterian
church at Willard, Sunday night.
Mr.. Wiebe will direct the produc-
ion, his wife will be one of the solo
SITS and their daughter Judith is
pianist.
The family is well known here,
10Th Mr.. and Mrs. Wiebe being
Bluffton college graduates and Mrs.
Niebe the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin Stettler.
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to make any more Saturday after
noon calls to greet Bluffton kiddies-
fact is, when he was here two week,
ago he seemed to be a little les,
rotund than usual-probably because
of the hurry and stress of these
modern times and Christmas
business volume stepping up ir
| Buttons downtown district
harried mothers busily shopping
while keeping a watchful eye on
their small fry enamoured of the
cleaning toy counters s. and mys-
terious packages furtively smuggled
into safe hiding places awaiting the
Christmas zero hour and con-
gratulations to the Ross Bogarts on
their 55th wedding anniversary Fri
day-married in the old Methodist
church, December Is, 1895, uniting
two of Bluffton's oldest families
Mrs. Bogart the former Lulu Augs-
burger, daughter of the Fred Augs-
burgers-her husbands parents were
the James Bogarts i. /. and a happy
birthday to Chas. Lloyd of the Boss
Glove establishments who received a
cake with one candle on it last Fri
day and here comes the Mes
siah concert next Sunday, an annual
landmark for music at Bluffton-next
year, if all goes well, it will be
given in the new college gym which
incidentally will help solve one of
Bluffton's crying problems-that of
sufficient parking space they
say parking space there will be am
ple-and we hope it means just that
might be such a thing as too
much parking space, but we've never
heard of it.
Speaking of the College gym, if
you haven't been out there lately, |
it will be worth while to stop and
take a look inside s.. it's really |
huge-we didn't realize from the |
blueprint sketch just how big it was
until the other day when Robert |
Miller, the Co. Grove builder who |
has the general contract, took us
around the place.
Pointing to the bleachers, Miller
said it was the biggest job of con-l
.rete he ever poured in a single op- |
tons in 27 hours with
out a letup-all in one solid block
and SO arranged to give an unob-
structed view of the stage-or play !
ng floor, which means no center
posts. The bleachers
nave an estimated seating capacity
IF 1,600-not including additional |
space on the main floor between
oleachers and the stage.
Barring unforeseen delays Miller
said he expects to have the building
ready for commencement exercises
next spring-but not in time for the
basketball tournament this
winter. Cooperation of sub-contract-
ors has been good he said, and COM
plimented Harvey Bauman, of Bluff
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CARD OF THANKS

We desire to express our appreeia-
ton for the efficient work of the
Bluffton Fire Department in ex-
tinguishing the fire in our home on
South Jackson Street.
Miss Meta Kohl
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Beals
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Hiring Utility Consu|tant
|WasteuI, Bach Asserts

Fred Bach. Democratic candi-
date for the Arlington County
Board. today criticized the boards
decision to employ public utili-
ties consultant.
Mr.. Bach said. employment of
such a consultant at $1,000 a year
"is just another evidence of waste
of the taxpayers funds"
The candidate said there was
a need for competent and honest
advice" on public utilities prob
lens so the county can distin-
guish between cases where lower
rates should be fought for and
those where such a fight is not
justified.
"As the record shows, in the
last five years the county has
spent $18,572 in various rate
fights. They have not won sin
gle case. The employment of ar
expert will not obviate the
need for hiring lawyers and rate
analysts" said Mr.. Bach.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Doctor Tells insurance. Men
WHY He Fled British System

practice for $12,0OO-money he
obtained on a loan under a
scheme set up by the British Med
ical Association. When social
lied medicine became law. the
buying and selling of practices
was made illegal.
The government then appropri-
ated $3.50 million to compensate
doctors for the loss they would
suffer by not being able to sell
their practices, but said that doc
tors had to sign up for the health
plan before they could get the
money. Everybody signed up.
DR.. Gampell said he was then
told he could handle not more
than 1000 patients a year, for
which he would be paid $3.40 per
patient per year. He said his prac-
tice had climbed to 5000 patients
before he gave up two years ago
and came to the United States.
IT used to do three Office hours
a day and I saw an average of
20 persons each hour" he stated.
"I also have done SO house calls
in one day as well as Office
periods"
He described this type Of prac-
tice as three minute medicine
and said most of the three min
uteS given to each patient was
taken up filling out forms.
DR.. Gampell said the sort of
medical care that the people of
England are now getting would
be unthinkable in the United
States.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
National Guard Here
Asks Budget Increase
OF Nearly $4,000

Seeking nine new employees plus
funds to acquire an adjutant gene
raj, the Distric National Guard is
asking a budget nearly $4,000
higher than the present appropri-
alton for the year beginning next
July /.
The estimates made public by
the Commissioners today total
$154,500 as compared with the
appropriation of $105,000 for fiscal
1851.
Asking $e,2e7 to pay the adju-
tant general, Guard officials
pointed out the Army has as
sumed the salary of the COM
manding general.
Formerly, the Army carried the
adjutant general on active duty
and paid for his salary. The
salary of a commanding general
on part time duty was paid from
the District appropriation. it was
explained.
4NCn CIAAp4OS CD oOA544U 444tAA6S
an administrative assistant to the
commanding general. four engi-
neers to serve at Andrews Field,
q labor foreman at Camp Sims
a carpenter, a stenographer and
a switchboard operator. Their
salaries would total $27.774.
Current Guard strength is abort
5000 members. Officials estimated
tnat about so per cent would
have to be recruited and re-en-
listed each year to maintain a
steady increase and to reach a
total authorized strength of about
1000.
1t was explained the enlist
ment term is three years. There
fore, each year about a third of
the enlistments expire and must
be replaced with new recruits and
e-enlistments. In addition. about
II per cent of the total member
ship require discharges each year
for other reasons, the officials
said.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Rate Hearing Reeesse!
For Study Of Pepco
'Seryice-Cost' Data

The hearing on the Potomac
Electric Power Co.'S request for
i91a per cent increase in rates to
bring in an additional $3.5 million
a year was in recess again today
this time until 10 am. october
10.
James H. Flanagan, Public
Utilities Commission chairman.
recessed the hearing yesterday
afternoon, after two days had
been consumed with cross-exam-
nation of Pepco officials. Pepco
officials presented direct testi-
mony on August 81 and %.
The recess was to give interested
parties in the proceedings a
chance to study the "cost-of-
service" analysis introduced by
Pepco. This analysis shows just
how much it costs to provide elec-
trio service to the various Gus
toners of the power company.
The delay further upset the
Pepco plans for getting the new
rates into effect as soon as pos
sible. When it filed the original
request last July, the power COM
pany said it wanted to put the
new rates into effect on Septem-
ber 20.
Leading the cross-examination
of Pepco officials yesterday were
attorneys for Capital Transit Co.
and General Services Administra-
tion, the Federal Government S
housekeeping branch.
Under the new rate schedules,
Capital Transit faces an increase
of TOT per cent in its power bill,
or a $661 900 a year increase. The
Federal Government faces a 10
per cent increase on it's annual bill
of SCOTS. 900.
Both think this is an unfair dis
tribution of the increases. Capital
Transit officials have warned il
may mean higher bus and street.
car rates.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Marines Honor First
|0f Korea Dead 10 Be
Buried al Arlington

The first Marine to be buriee
in Arlington National Cemetery a!
a Korean war casualty today re-
ceived military honors at funera
services there.
He was Corp1. Daniel A. Harvey
20, of Exeter, N. H., who sustained
fatal wounds in action in south
east Korea two weeks after he
landed at PuSan. He was a mem
ber of D Company, I'd Battalion
of the 1st Marine Divisions 5th
Regiment.
Funeral services were held al
the Fort Myer chapel at II am
Both of Corpl. Harvey's parents
are dead, but three aunts were
present. One. Mrs May Brad
ford, lives in Falls Church, Va.
Brig. Gen. John C. Mcqueen
new director of public informa-
ton for the Marines, attended as
the representative of Gen. Cliff
ton B. Gates, commandant of the
Marine corps.
The services were conducted by
1t. j. L. Ecker, Catholic, o1
the Navy's Chaplain Corps. who
is attached to the Henderson Hal
Marine Barracks.
Young Harvey enlisted in the
corps on March %, 1948. shortly
after the death Of his father
After being wounded on August
16, he was evacuated to a hos
pital ship where his condition
was listed as serious. Later, he
was flown to the Oakland, Calf.
Naval Hospital, where he dice
September 10.
Evening star., 1950-09-27

A physician who found working
under England's health insurance
setup so "intolerable" that he fled
to America was on hand today at
the Hotel Statler to describe his
experiences to the Nations in
surance men.
DR.. Ralph J. Gampell, now
practicing in San Francisco, was
a speaker at the morning session
of the 61st annual convention OF
the National Association of Life
Underwriters. The association is
meeting at the hotel through
Friday.
"I worked under this British
government health service and
found it so Objectionable that I
felt compelled to break all my
ties-and they are real ties-with
home and friends and professional
background and come to start
afresh and from the bottom in a
new country" he declared.
DR.. Gampell said he was not
alone because doctors were
streaming" out of Great Britain
to the dominions.
He said the British Health Serv-
ice came into being as result
of one of the most elegant pieces
of economic blackmail' in the
history of England. He explained:
In England before socialized
medicine, the usual way for a
doctor to get started was to buy
medical practice from another
doctor. He said he purchased his
Evening star., 1950-09-27
By ChorIes ]. Yorbrouqh

The Civil Aeronautics Board has
blamed a Bolivian pilot for the air
disaster that killed SIS persons at
National Airport last year, but it
was critical of the control tower
operation at the time of the crash.
In a 19-page report released late
yesterday, the board said Capt.
Eric Rios Bridoux, chief of civilian
aviation in Bolivia, failed to ex-
ercise necessary vigilance" during
an approach to National on No
vember /, 1949.
His plane, a P-38 surplus fighter
crashed into an Eastern Airlines
DC-4 at an altitude of about 800
feet in the southern approaches
to National, slicing the liner in
two and plummeting it's passengers
and crew to death.
Capt. Rios, the only survivor,
was under medical care for So
days.
The CAB report, released after
10 months, declared "the tower did
not act with the requisite alert
ness and promptness in communi-
eating to Eastern the position of
the P-38 in the critical traffic
situation which confronted it.
But, it went on, "this cannot be
said to have contributed to the
cause of the accident
probable cause" the report
said specifically, was "the execu-
ton of straight-in final ap-
proach by the P-38 pilot without
obtaining proper clearance to
land and without exercising nec-
essary vigilance.
Capt. Rios. named in at least
Evening star., 1950-09-27
By Corter Dawson

A shaggy little Scottish bull
named Ross, who is shaggier than
any shaggy dog story. has been
added to the Zoos nursery.
Ross was born a week ago and
today he and his mother came out
to pose for pictures. Ross, VINO
just happened to arrive in one
of the seasons latest colors-rust
was mostly Interested in sitting
down and then getting up for a
drink of milk.
Ross mother, who is also a
rust color, is one of the Zoos
original Highland or Kyloe cattle
from the uplands of West Scot
land. She came to the Zoo about
1887 and has borne five calves
Her last one was. born last June
but was sold.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Adventist Students Warned
0n Human Interest Sermon

I. DR.. Andrew Blackwood, faculty
member of Temple University,
Philadelphia, today warned stu
dents of the Seventh-day Ad-
ventist Theological Seminary, Ia
koma Park, against human in
terest" preaching.
H The trouble with modern
preaching, he declared, is a ten
'dency to substitute human prob
3lems for divine providences. THE
modern apologetic approach has
Suggested doubts, and has done
more harm than good" he said
II DR.. Blackwood, for 20 years pro-
Ilfessor of homiletics at Princeton
chronological Seminary, told the
student ministerial group that or
1.-THE whole he believes preaching is
growing better, but he deploreo
I the tendency to deal with the
4 scriptures of promise in a mega
tive rather than a positive way.
- ''The church has lost largely hel
spirituality; spirituality has be-
come secondary" he said.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Movie Maker Finds Real World
CoIIopsinq All Around His Car

ticed was the traffic light pole
crashing on his car.
1t was some minutes after he
stopped before he learned that
MIR. Prior had dropped to the
ground uninjured when the light
pole cracked and fell.
Police helped Mr.. German get
his car to the garage. 1t will be
several days before the direction
signal can be attached and the
damaged front repaired, he was
told.
Mr.. and Mrs. German said they
would prolong their visit with MI.
and Mrs. George A. Gunderson OF
2122 California street NV, until
his car was fixed.
Then he'll go back to Ottawa to
make movies-but not about light
poles falling on cars. Mr.. German
said,
Evening star., 1950-09-27

What happened to George M.
German, motion picture producer,
at Eighteenth and M streets NV.
would never be tolerated on any
respectable sound stage.
Mr.. German, of Ottawa, Can
ada, was driving with Mrs. Cor
man to a garage yesterday to have
a direction signal-"a safety de-
vice." he eXplained-put on his
car.
AS is the wont of a man driving
with his wife, Mr.. German was
deeply engrossed in thought and
didn't even notice James E. Prior
Pepco employe, on a ladder clean
ing traffic lights.
The first thing Mr.. German no.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Chest Unit Quotas Revised
After Goal Is Increased

New unit quotas in the Com
munity Chest drive have been an
nounced in line with an increase
in the goal from SAL million to
$4,260,000.
| The $160,O00 increase, approved
last week, is intended as an emer-
gency reserve in connection with
military mobilization. New quotas
are:
Government, 1882, 700; busi-
ness employees I, $1,658,800; busi-
ess-employes II, $243,200 special
solicitation, $311,500; Alexandria,
$81 900; Arlington, $62, 300: Fair
fax, 39,5OO; Montgomery, $129,-
900, and Prince Georges, $50. 1000.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
CAB BIones Rios in Crash,
But Calls Control Tower Lax

IA damage actions ranging from
$4,000 to $5O0.00O is believed to
be in Bolivia. He failed to ap-
pear at a CAB hearing Monday
on revocation of his license, and
his attorney in the license action
has withdrawn from the case.
CAB Examiner Thomas Simon has
the revocation under advisement.
Since the accident Capt. Rios
has submitted an affidavit stating
he is physically unable to fly-a
a deposition which CAB officials
say automatically invalidates his
medical certificate. Although he
may retain his license until it is
revoked, without the medical GER
tifcate, Capt. Rios would not be
permitted to fly in this country.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Ross, the Shaggy Scottish Bull,
Is Added to Nursery at Zoo

Ross, the mother. the fathe.
bull and an uncle and aunt make
up the Zoos present two-genera-
ton Scottish herd.
Ralph Norris. assistant head
keeper, named Ross for one of the
Zoos keepers of the cattle on
Buffalo HILL" near the Zoos
Connecticut avenue entrance.
Not on the Zoos birth an
nouncement list, but on the new
arrivals roster, are a pair Of
black-necked swans from Argen-
tina. The white bodied, black
necked birds are the result of a
trade between DR.. William Mann,
Zoo director, and South Ameri-
can animal dealer. The swans
have blue bills trimmed at the
top with a dash of red and white
circles around their eyes.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Bids on Storm Sewer
In Silver Spring Filed
BY fhe Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 27.-The
Wilmoth Paving Company OF
Washington yesterday was named
low bidder for a storm sewer prof.
ect in Silver Spring.
The State Roads Commission
announced that Wilmoth's bid OF
$144, ,871.65 was for the installation
of storm sewer outfalls adjacent
to Georgia avenue, along Spring
and Ballard streets, Woodside
parkway and surrounding vicinity
On a project in Washington
County. Bester Long. Inc, Of
Hagerstown submitted the low bic
of $383,527 for resurfacing foul
miles of State Rout so between
Hagerstown and Leitersburg.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Bad Congestion
In Courts Here
Cited in Report
Judicial Conference
Is Told of Strain
All Over Country

The District Court and the
United States Court of Appeals
dockets of civil cases here have
remained BADLY congested," de-
spite appointment of additional
judges during the past year, a
national judicial report said today.
That has been a major part of
the overall unprecedented strain"
on the Federal court system
throughout the country, accord
ing to the annual report of Henry
P. Chandler. director of the Ad-
ministrative Office of the United
States Courts.
The report was submitted to
the Judicial Conference of the
United States, in session here this
week. The conference is headed
by Chief Justice Vinson and in
cludes chief judges of the Nation's {
IL judicial districts.
Although the 8,047 civil cases
filed in District Court here during
the 1850 fiscal year were II fewer
than those the year before and
slightly below yearly totals since
1916. the number of cases begun
during the year exceeded those
disposed of.
Calendar Lag Compared.
"The civil docket has been badly
congeSted since 1947, and this
condition was not improved during
the last year. in spite of the
appointment of three additional
judges who took Office before jan
uary l. 1885," the report stated.
LAS of June 80, the calendar
commissioner reported that 20
months would elapse between the
time a jury case was calendared
and the time it could be reached
for trial and Is months would
elapse between calendaring and
trial Of non-jury cases. This COM
pares with a median of 19 months
for jury cases and 16.2 months for
non-jury cases a year previous. "
The report noted that the Dis
trict Court here has local as we'll
as Federal jurisdiction and that
its caseload per judge is not
strictly comparable with those of
District Courts elsewhere. The
report added, however, that ait is
amply evident that the civil docket
is badly congested." If only be-
cause the average time interval
between filing and disposition of
civil cases throughout the coun-
try is about 11.2 months. In 1947
the time average nationally was
nine months.
The picture was better in the
appellate court here, although this
jurisdiction had 371 cases still
pending at the end of the year
the largest for any circuit. But
the District led the list in the
number of appeals cases received
and disposed of in 1850.
More Civil Cases.
Mr.. Chambers report was
largely a national review of Fed
eral Court administration during
the last 10 years. The number
of criminal cases has dropped
slightly from the total 10 years
ago, but the volume of civil cases
has risen almost so per cent. New
civil cases for 1850 totaled 1892,
as compared with 38,477 in 1941.
In District Court here, the
criminal docket was described as
being in good condition" despite
an increase from the previous
year.
Evening star., 1950-09-27
Dog Enumeration Jobs
Open in MONTGOMERY

Montgomery County has vacan-
cies for four temporary dog EMU
merators at $3.50 a month each.
Applicants should. be able to
drive an automobile. Further in
formation can be obtained by call
ing the County Personnel Office at
he Rockville Courthouse, Rock
Vile 2121.