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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-12-07
Woman KnOUn Here
Dies In FindIay

Mrs. Blanche Criblez Collins died
at her home in Findlay, November
II after long illness.
Surviving are her husband Char
ley, son Richard and daughter Mary
Louise, together with five grand
children.
Also surviving are four sisters
Mrs. John Heckel, Columbus; Mrs.
Edith Phillips and Mrs. Frank
Feichtmeier, both of Alhambra,
Calf, and Mrs. Daisy Woogerd,
Richmond, Calf.
At Licking Summit near Newark,
Governor Dewitt Clinton of New
York turned the first spadeful of dirt
for the Ohio canal system on July d,
1926.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-12-07

In 1850 Ohio canals carried 26
times as much freight as Ohio rail-
roads, while in 1860 the railroads
carried twice as much freight as the
canals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-12-07
Named Assistant
Gary School Head

Dana Whitmer, son of Rev. and
Mrs. Paul Whitmer of Grove street,
his been appointed assistant superin-
tendent of schools at Gary, Ind, it
was announced this week. He was
formerly principal of the Froebel
school in that city.
In his position Whitmer succeeds
DR.. Spencer Myers, who recently be-
came deputy superintendent of the
Indianapolis schools. His chief re-
sponsibility will be in the areas of
personnel and curricula supervision.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
YOUTHS LEG is.
BROKEN IN MOTOR
CYCLE ACCIDENT.
Nineteen Year Old Georgia Boy,
Enroute Home, i'm Hospital
Here
Motorcycle Skids in Stone near
Town After Being Crowded
Off Road

Injuries suffered last Wednesday
afternoon when he was thrown from
his motorcycle On the Dixie highway
near Gratz crossing hospitalized Billy
]. Brown, 10, of Dalton, Ga, with a
broken left leg and decorations.
Brown was brought to Bluffton
Community hospital in the Diller
ambulance after passing car crowd
ed his southbound motorcycle from
the highway. The injuries were sus-
tanned when the cycle skidded in loose
gravel at the edge of the pavement,
and upset in the ditch. The mishap
occurred near the Swiss Inn.
His condition was reported as good
at the hospital early this week.
Brown and friend We're enroute
to their homes in Georgia, after be-
ing employed in Detroit. They had
bought an automobile and motorcycle
which they were taking south with
them, Brown riding the cycle and the
friend driving the car.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
HILTY,
DOROTHY LOCHER
IN ARMY SCHOOL
To Teach Children of t.. S.
Military Personnel in Oc-
cupied Country
Both to Sail for Far East
Latter Part of This Month,
is Plan

Two Bluffton young women, Miss
Lucille Hilty and Miss Dorothy
Locher, will leave late this month for
Yokahoma, Japan, to teach in the
American school setup for children of
U. S. military personnel in the
occupied country.
Miss Hilty is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. G. ID. Hilty, IL Spring street,
and Miss ,Locher's parents are Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Locher, northwest of
Bluffton.
The two teachers will sail for
Japan on the same ship late this
month, after undergoing a one-week
orientation program in Seattle, Wash.
from where they will start their over
seas journey.
Leaves for Seattle
Miss Hilty left Sunday evening for
Seattle. A teacher in Seattle last
year, Miss Locher already is there.
In Japan Miss Hilty will be a
teacher in the elementary grades and
Miss Locher will teach in high school
classes. Both young women will be
in Japan on one-year basis.
Miss Locher is graduate of Ohio
State university and taught in
Continued on page 10)
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Burkholder continued, T have right
to be proud of him everyone says, be-
cause he saved some of the mems
lives"
Mrs. Burkholder, who had been liv-
ing in Seabo, Japan, with her hus-
band, before his regiment was sent to
Korea early in July went to Tokyo
as soon as she learned he was in the
hospital there.
She wrote that she is allowed to
visit him four hours day-two in
the afternoon and two in the even
ing. "He believes he will be in the
hospital only few more weeks, she
wrote.
sThis police action in Korea, as
they call it, is even worse than World
War IT," Mrs. Burkholder wrote.
"They NOW them down and they (the
North Koreans) keep right on COM
ing. If we just had the men and
equipment-that is all they need
especially men"
Sgt. Burkholder, a bronze star
winner in World War IT, was wound
ed in action on July 27. His 30th
birthday was Aug. 4. The Bluffton
man re-enlisted shortly after being
discharged after World War IT, and
had been with the army of occupation
in Japan for three years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Governor Lausche
At Cairo Friddy

A capacity crowd is expected in
Cairo Friday night when Gov.
Lausche dedicates the new Memorial
Park in that village. Grounds for the
park were purchased by the Cairo
Recreation Assn. in 1941 and re-
Gently decided to the village for
playground and baseball field. We'll
come banners have been strung
across both entrances to the COM
munity and arrangements have been
made to meet the governors en-
tourage by an equestrian color
guard at the junction of Route 65.
The parade will proceed eastward
to the Memorial Park bolstered by
school bands from Elida and
Vaughnsville. The local American
Legion Post will conduct the flag
raising ceremony and following the
governors dedicatory speech a base
ball game between the Cairo Mer-
chants and Botkins is scheduled to
begin at $3.50 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
REGlST Err FRIDAY
and SATURDAY AT
OFFICE OF MAYOR
Harry Bogart, World War III
Veteran is Named Assistant
Chief
Richland Township to Register
i'm Bluffton and Beaver
and

Volunteers will be sought in two
day registration campaign Friday and
Saturday for Bluffton's Civilian De-
fense program, organization of which
is being set up to serve the COM
munity in case of wartime emerg-
encies and other disasters.
Registration for the community
service project will be held from IL
a. m. until 9 p. m. Friday and Sat-
urday in the office of Mayor Wilbur
A. Howe. Anyone Is years of age or
older can volunteer.
In addition to CD volunteers from
the city, residents of Richland town
ship who vote in Bluffton also are
urged to register, as a part of the
community protection service. A
separate registration will be held in
Beaverdam for that village and the
southern half of the township.
Bogart is Assistant
As the community's CD program
continued to take shape this week
with the drafting of volunteers,
Harry Bogart, World War III veteran
and local postal employe, was
named Buttons Assistant Civilian
Defense Chief.
He will serve with Garnette Foltz,
who was appointed the towns Civil
ian Defense Director last week, in
setting up Bluffton's CD program as
a part of a eoordinated countrywide
campaign.
Following the registration of vol
unteers this week, the next step will
be in making assignments of workers
to some phase of the civilian defense
program locally. Announced goal of
the movement is to make each COM
munity self-sufficient so far as pro-
lection of civilians is concerned, in
disasters as well as in wartime.
Committee Operation
In completing Buttons CD setup,
10 separate units will be organized
and trained on various phases of dis
aster work.
Volunteers obtained in the regis
tration the latter part of this week
will man the various phases of the
overall program, consisting of: COM
munications, disaster squad, utility
and water supply protection, trans
portation, police and fire protection,
air observation crews, air raid war
dens, school protection, evacuation
and industrial plant safety units.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
THREE BLUFFT0N
area YOUTHS Are
IN DRAFT PANEL
Allen County Group Takes
Physical Examination
Tuesday
Allen County Board Calls
F0rty-one for Screening
at TOldO

Three Bluffton and Bluffton area
young men were among Al prospec-
tive draftees notified last Saturday
to take pre-induction physical exam
nations on Tuesday of this week,
in preparation for the resumption of
drafting of registrants on wartime
scale, beginning next month.
In the group of IL Allen county
young men selected as the initial
group from here to undergo pre-
induction physic al examination
screening were Laurel Bauman, Jr.,
Charles B. Tripplehorn, student at
Ohio State university, and Robert j.
Strotton of Route /, Columbus.
AS student resident in Columbus,
Tripplehorn will take his physical
examination in that city. The
others were slated to go to Toledo
for the examination on Tuesday.
To Notify Others
Eighty-two additional young men
of the county will take similar pre-
induction physical examinations later
this month, with 26 men scheduled
on Aug. Is and other quotas going
to Toledo on Aug. "a, % men; Aug.
80, 27 men and Aug 81, seven men.
September induction quotas have
not yet been announced, but Ohio
has been asked to provide more than
5000 draftees in Sptember and
October. 1t has been estimated that
approximately six men will be draft
ed from Allen county in each of the
two months.
Draft procedure, established as a
nationwide selective service induc-
tion program, will be to call 25-year-
old men first and then proceed down
the list of registrants in age-succes-
sion, according to state officials.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Three Mill Levy For Current Expenses
To Be On Beaverdam Ballot This Fall

Beaverdam voters will be asked to
approve three-mill levy, to provide
additional funds for village operat-
ing expenses over a fve-year period,
at the polls in the November gen.
eral election.
Petition asking that the levy be
placed on the ballot was filed with
the Allen county board of elections
Saturday by Clarence G. Fischer,
Beaverdam city solicitor.
A similar levy was submitted to
the voters last fall, but was turned
down when 65 per cent of the cleo
torate failed to approve the measure.
The vote cast at that time was 100
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
B1uffton Sergeant Wounded i'm Action Being
Cared for i'm Military Hospital i'm Tokyo

Sgt. Elmer Burkholder, Jr., Bluff
toms first casualty on the Korean
battlefront, is recovering in mill
tary hospital in Tokyo, Japan from a
number of wounds suffered in action
late last month.
First details of the extent of the
Bluffton sergeant's injuries were dis
closed in a letter from his wife, who
is in Japan with him, received here
this week by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Burkholder, Sr.
In the Korean fighting, Sgt. Burk
holder had bullet wounds in both
lower legs; others in the upper right
leg and stomach; mortar shell wounds
in his shoulder, and shrapnel wounds
in the neck and forehead.
Condition Good
Writing that he is out of danger
and that his condition is good, Mrs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Larger Wheat Acreage Allotments To Be
Given Allen County Farmers Next Week

Allen county's wheat acreage for
1851 has been increased 3,447 acres
under the Federal Production and
Marketing administration (AAA)
program, it was stated by Clair
Patterson, county chairman and in
dividual allotments are expected to
be in the hands of farmers early
next week.
Total allotment for the county's
1851 wheat acreage has been set at
29,224 as compared with 25,777 in
1850, it was learned by Patterson
who added that allotments will be
set up for all farmers listed as
wheat growers under a U S. sur
vey conducted last year.
The 1851 allotments will be based
on the farmers wheat acreage rec
ord in 1947, 1948 and 1949. The
1850 allotments were based on 1945,
1916, 1947 and 1948 acreage rec
ords.
The county increase has resulted
from a nationwide boost in wheat
acreage because of the Korean war
developments, federal agricultural
experts said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

sored by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, she also won a $1,000
scholarship.
Miss Murray, the other beauty
queen competitor with Bluffton
background, also won a $1,000
scholarship award when she was
named Miss Philadelphia, in
competition with 40 other young
women. She is applying the
scholarship to the further study
of music, and at the same time
is appearing professionally in
musical productions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
$500 Automatic Gas Heat System For
Town Offices Is Approved By Council

Contract for a new automatically
controlled gas heating system for
village quarters in the town hall
was let Tuesday night at a special
meeting of the municipal council.
The Greding hardware was award
ed the contract on bid Of $803.15,
including installation.
7 With completion of the heating
project, automatic gas heat will be
provided next winter for the mayors
office, council chamber. fire truck
room, firemen's recreation room, and
mems and women's rest rooms.
All rooms are on the first floor of
the town hall, with the exception of
the council chamber.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Arrange Safe Driving
Demonstration Here

A safe driving demonstration will
be held on Wednesday afternoon of
next week at 4 o'clock on College
avenue it is announced by George
Tewksbary assistant safety director
of the Ohio Farm Bureau fedora
ton, who will be in charge.
The demonstration will be held in
connection with youth conference
on the Bluffton college campus spon-
sored by the Ohio Farm Bureau.
Youths will drive car over a desig-
mated course to test their skill and
timing. In event of rain the demon
stration will be held the following
day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Church Opens Week
Of Service Sunday

A week of special services will
open Sunday night at the Evan
gelical Mennonite church on South
Jackson street, it is announced by
the pastor, Rev. Marlyn Egle who
will be in charge, speaking every
evening except Saturday which will
be music night.
Services will be held at 8 o'clock
except on Sunday nights opening
and closing the series when the hour
will be 7:30 p. m. Special music
is being arranged.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Leonard Smucker Assists With
Italian Student Work Program

Leonard Smucker, son of Rev. and
Mrs. j. N. Smucker, who is in Eu-
rope with collegiate summer group,
has been assigned to "Agape," a
Christian youth center among the
historically famous religious group,
the Waldesians, of Northern Italy.
This new youth center is being
built by students from all parts of
the world, including the United
States, Holland, England, France,
Denmark, Switzerland, Hungary and
Spain. "Agape" is the New Testa-
ment Greek word for "Love."
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Borkosky, Ar
lington, a boy, Dennis Duane last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Tussing, Nc
Comb, a boy, Gary Lee, last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Kagy, Ada,
boy, Roger Lee, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Wolfrom,
Rawson, a boy, Stephen Joe, Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix WisdaS Nc
Comb, girl, Ellen Kay, Saturday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Kidd, Bluff
ton, a girl, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Hochstet-
tier, Columbus Grove, a girl, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Staley,
Bluffton, a girl, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Montell Bibler, Con-
tinental, boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Franklin,
North Hollywood, Calf, boy, Ken
meth Gene, born at that place, Fri
day. Mrs. Franklin was formerly
Miss Martha Niswander, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Niswander.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Quenzer,
San Miguel, Calf, a girl, Kathleen
Dianne, Thursday. Mrs. Quenzer is
the former Miss Marie Winkler,
daughter of Albert, Winkler.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

for the levy and So against it.
Under a new state law, favor
able vote of only 60 per cent is suf-
fcient to put a levy in effect.
If approved, the new levy will be
outside the 10-mill limitation. Pres
ent tax rate for the village is 1850
mills-1.20 for the Beaverdam gen.
eral fund; 2.45 for the county; 1866
for schools and 20 for Richland
township.
The proposed three-mill levy would
bring the village on additional an
nual yield of $1,133 on current tax
valuation of the town.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

In the Waldesian project, it is
hoped that the cooperate Christian
youth center will further the inter-
ests of peace and understanding.
Later this month, Smucker and
others assigned to the "Agape"
camp will join with the United
States groups now in other camps
and return to America by steamship.
The party will land in Quebec the
last week in September.
Smucker also was fortunate in
seeing the world-fanhed Passion Play
performed at Oberamergau, late last
month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

phia's entrant for the Miss
America beauty title, another
contestant with a Bluffton back
ground was selected last week In
Arkansas when Mary 'Tootsie"
Jennings, Is, became Miss Hot
Springs.
Miss Jennings is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Jennings,
former Bluffton residents, now
living in Hot Springs.
While in Bluffton the family
lived in apartments in what was
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
ydycees Contribute
$50 TO Pool Fund

A Donation of $50 to the munich
pal swimming pool fund was made
last Wednesday at a meeting of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The money contributed was raised
by the organization through park
ing lot operations held in conjunc-
ttion with the oFurth of July rodeo.
In the parking concession, the
Jaycees raised SOS, and the other
SIS will be used to finance publicity
and promotion for the pool.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

then the Charles Sheridan prop
erty on s. Jackson street, now
owned by Earl Lehman. They
moved from Blutfton two years
ago, after Miss Jennings had
completed her sophomore year in
Bluffton High school. Her BROTH
er, Jerry, was a junior here the
same year.
Father Of the beauty Queen
contestant was employed here as
an electrical construction engin-
eer i'm an expansion program at
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

the Woodcock generating plant
of the Central Ohio Light and
Power Co. The family came to
Bluffton from Oak Ridge, Tenn,
and went from here to Hot
Springs.
Miss Jennings was graduated
last spring from Hot Springs
High school, and has talent as a
singer. which helped In her selec-
tion as the Atlantic City beauty
contestant. In being named Miss
Hot Springs in a contest spon-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
NelU Harmon Field
SnndbOr Is In Use

Sand has been put in the new
Harmon field sandbox by the Bluff
ton Junior Chamber of Commerce
in cooperation with the Bluffton Ce-
ment Black Co.
The new sandbox added to the
playground area was made by con-
verting a swimming pool float en-
tered in the Frontiers day parade
by the Triplett Electrical Instru-
ment Co.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Enroll For Florists
Course In Chicago

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Basinger OF
Basinger's Florist shop are in Chi
cago taking a special course for
florists at Bright's School of Floral
Design. Emphasis is being laid or
arrangement of cut flowers te
achieve unique decorative effects.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Takes Position As
ELectrOnic Engineer

Wilhelm Amstutz, Jr., has accept
ed position with the Civil Aero
nautics administration as electronic
engineer in the Department of Com
merce, technical development and
evaluation center at Wier-Cook field
at Indianapolis. He will begin his
new work August 21.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Two Button Area Girls Sail
From Seattle to Teach i'm Japan
Richland Trustees Appoint Wade Bechtol
To Fill Vacancy AS Township Constable

WADE Bechtol of South Main
street has been appointed by the
Richland Township trustees as
township constable filing the
vacancy caused by the resigna-
tion of John ID. Garlinger, who
was elected to the office last
November.
Action of the trustees in
naming Bechtol to fill the
vacancy was taken at a meeting
of the board, Saturday night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Former Opera Singer
At st. John Church

Rhea Marie Gershon, Russian-born
converted Jewess will be heard in a
program of gospel songs at st. John
Mennonite church near Pandora,
Sunday night at o'clock. A form
er opera and concert artist she is
now devoting her talents to work in
the religious and evangelistic field.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

Two Contestants With BluHon Backgrounds Win enaries
Enter National Beauty Pageant City Mont

Two young women with Bluff
ton backgrounds will be compet-
ing In the Miss America Beauty
pageant, at Atlantic City from
Sept. 4 through II, giving the
town the unique distinction of
having two contestants i'm the
nations outstanding beauty
contest.
Four weeks after Miss Janice
Murray, daughter of Supt. of
Schools and Mrs. Aaron B.
Murray, was named Philadel-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10
Real Estate Deal

Robert Stratton has purchased
from CLYDE Sutter and Mrs. Mabel
Herr the property in Garmatter ad-
dition formerly occupied by their
parents. Mrs. Henry Sutter and the
late Mr.. Sutter and later occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hamman.
The deal was handled by Mrs. Fl.
w. Althaus. Mr.. and Mrs. Stratton
have moved into the house.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

A concrete floor should not be
painted until it is at least six months
DID, Concrete takes several months
to dry out completely :. and paint
applied before the concrete is dry
will very likely peel off.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-08-10

When a table has been marked by
a hot dish, the white ring can usual
ly be removed. Put few drops OF
camphorated oil on the spot
let it stand for few minutes s.
then polish with hot cloth.