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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
Carnival Proceeds Add $llOO to
Fund for Buttons Swimming Pool

Bluffton's campaign to raise funds
for a new municipal swimming pool
received a substantial impetus dur
ing the week end with the receipt
of more than s1,100 representing
proceeds from che Bluffton Recrea-
ton committees three-day carnival
held last Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday.
Other unexpected financial contri-
buttons to the fund came when a
number of parade entry winners
contributed their cash prizes to the
pool fund.
Among those who turned over pa
rade awards to the pool fund were
N. P. Steiner and Son, the Amer
lean Legion, The Triplett Electrical
Instrument Co., Meyer Refrigera-
tion and Heating, and Geiger & Dill
ler.
In addition to contributions al
ready received, part of the pro-
ceeds from the rodeo held Tuesday
night will be turned into the SWIM
ming pool drive, and all fees from
parking concessions operated Tues
day by the Junior Chamber of Com
merce will go into the fund.
Committees in charge of the car
nival and rodeo Wednesday morning
extended their thanks to all who as
sisted in sponsoring the various
events and for the near-record turn
out of participants and spectators.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06

they said the national supply of
sugar is quite adequate for all
needs, and that the war-scare de-
mand was not only premature but
unnecessary.
Out-of-town buyers were among
those besieging Bluffton grocers
with demands for large-scale purch-
ases, indicating that many persons
are foraging the country to hoard
sugar as a safeguard against the
possibility of wartime rationing.
One grocer told of carrying a
large sack of sugar to car for a
woman purchaser, and found she
already had several sacks in the
back seat which she had bought
elsewhere.
Despite the buying rush, sugar
prices were continuing to hold
steady, with 25-pound sack selling
for 1929.
A pickup in demand for coffee
also has been noticed by storekeep-
ers, and the price has gone up two
cents a pound in the face of the
rush.
Other merchants reported an in
creased interest in tires and other
auto accessories, perhaps due to the
war scare.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
COUNTY EARMARKS
$12,SS3 FUND FOR
TOWNSHIP ROADS
Commissioners Approve 19-Mile
Program for Richland Twp.
Highways
Township and County Funds
Pooled to Reach S2O,SS3
for improvements

Richland township will get break
from Allen county authorities in the
allotment of funds for work on town
ship roads this summer, county Of
ficials disclosed this week with the
announcement that $12,S83.53 is ear
marked from the county road fund
for work on II roads in the town
ship.
Total cost of the program, embrace
ing improvement of more than 19
miles of township roads, is estimated
at S20,883.53. Of this the county will
pay $12,8S3.53 and the township
$4,000.
Cooperative road pre- rrams in the
county's II townships planned for
this summer, find Richards
s12,883.53 project second only to a
$13,924.18 program set for Perry
township, the county report shows.
13 improvements
In the extensive Richland township
program there will be Is re-surfacing
projects on II roads.
Projects planned for the summer
are as follows:
Bentley road-1.02 miles of seal
surface, from Route BON to Jackson
township line.
Rockport road-2.05 miles of seal
surface from Route 696 to the Phil
lips road.
Schifferly road-1.02 miles of seal
surface from Hardin county line to
the Bentley road; also 2.33 miles of
mat surface from Bentley road to the
Phillips road.
Yant road-1.77 miles of mat
surface north from Route BON.
Lugibihl road-.75 mile of mat
surface east from Route 696.
Continued on page 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06

1000 See Feats Under.
Harmon Field Lights
Births

Mr.. and Mrs. James Gratz, Bluff
ton, boy, Reed Howe, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Fenster-
maker, Jenera, boy Paul Alan
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Augsburger,
Bluffton, girl, Martha Jane, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs .Chas. Lemley, Pan
dora, girl, Joan Marie, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Anderson,
Rawson, a girl, Linda Lee, Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Houtz, Provo,
Utah, a boy, Larry Robert, born June
10 at that place. Mrs. Houtz is the
former Helen Schnegg of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
Auto Crash i'm Fourth Of July
Traffic Lands Three i'm Hospital
Industries And Stores Close This
Week In Community Vacation Plan

Continuing general community
vacation period for the seventh con-
secutive year, most Bluffton residents
who plan to take time off from work
this summer are on vacation this
week, either at home or out of town.
Success of a Fourth of July COM
munity vacation week collaboration
procedure, inaugurated in 1914 dur
ing World War Ii, has found the plan
continuing into the postwar period
just as popular as ever.
To make it semi-official vacation
week for the town, two of the prin-
cipal industries are at a standstill
and a number of retail business
operations have closed their doors
for the same period.
Industries Close
Industries suspending operations
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
ORANGE TOWNSHIP.
YOUTH INJURED IN
TWO CAR ACCIDENT
Marvin Miller Receives Back In
juries in Collision Monday
Night
Two Structural Steel Workers
i'm Crash Were to Work on
College Gym

Three men were hospitalized III
the Bluffton areas most serious holi-
day mishap when two cars on the
Lincoln highway collided Monday
night at IL o'clock at the Daily
school corner in Orange township
six miles east of Beaverdam.
Treated in the Bluffton Community
hospital following the crash We're
Marvin Miller, %, Bluffton Route /,
and Orville Harter, DO, and Chester
Crump, 81, structural steel workers.
All three were hospital patients.
Crump's condition is reported as
fair. He suffered severe scalp lacer-
ations and bruises of the back and
shock when he was thrown from the
car in the mishap.
Miller has severe decorations of
the back and Harter suffered
lacerations of the face and head.
The condition of both is good. Both
were discharged from the hospital
Wednesday.
In the car with Miller were his
two younger brothers, Max, IT, who
was driving and Jerry, IL. They
escaped unhurt. The three are sons
of w. ]. Miller, or Orange township.
When the crash occurred both cars
were eastbound on the Lincoln high
way. The Miller auto was struck
as it was turning left at the corner.
The two structural steel workers
had been employed at lakewood and
were enroute to Marion where they
were going to work on new job.
Later this Summer, both were
scheduled to do steel work on the
new Bluffton college gymnasium.
Following the crash, the three in
jured men were taken to the Bluffton
hospital in the Paul Diller am
bulance.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
PARADE ATTRACTS
HUGE CROWD FOR
C0L0RFUL EVENT
Line of March 10 Blocks Long
Witnessed by Estimated
1000 Here
Bands, Floats and Horsemen
Provide Gala Spectacle on
Main Street

A crowd of more than 1000
spectators crowded the 10-block long
Main street parade route last Satur-
day evening to witness a variety
spiced Frontier Day parade, ac-
claimed by all as one of the out
standing events in Bluffton history.
Both sides of Main street were
lined with spectators along the en-
tire line of march, and lawns and
porches in the residential sections
were turned into improvised grand
stands and filled with chairs and
campstools.
Even the weather cooperated with
the frontier days favored event, one
of the major features of Buttons
holiday weekend, with mild tempera-
lures and an unclouded twilight sky
providing a perfect setting for the
14-block long parade of entertaining
attractions.
Many Features
1t was display of sparkling brill
lance, as good as anything produced
in this part of the state, with variety
marking the long procession of
paraders in their route thru the
downtown area.
Cheers and applause from specta-
tors punctuated the snappy tempo OF
band music at what seemed to be
an interminable procession of
costumed frontinersmen, rumbling
prairie schooners, gaily bedecked
floats, horsemen and other entries
marched along the jammed parade
route.
Attracted by the reputation Bluff
ton has in these parts for putting
on an outstanding Fourth of July
parade, three radio stations We're
here to broadcast descriptions of the
event. WILMA, WLOK and WIN
each had a separate broadcast plat
form in the downtown sector, near
the judges stand in front of the
Presbyterian church.
Prize Winners Galore
With 81 entries in the parade,
some of which had several units, it
took more than half an hour for the
colorful procession to pass the
judges stand.
Unable to narrow down outstand-
ing competitors to the five prizes
CONTINUED on page
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
BLUFFTON TAKES
FLING AT Three
NIGHT CARNIVAL
First Attraction of Its Kind i'm
Nearly Two Decades Draws
Big Crowd
Attractions Locally Manned
with Proceeds Going to
Swimming Pool Fund

Bluffton's first carnival in nearly
two decades was a hit with residents
of the town and community during
it's three-night stand on the grade
school grounds last Thursday thru
Saturday for benefit of the munich
pal swimming pool fund.
Sponsored by the Bluffton Recrea-
tion committee, the carnival gained
its largest measure of public appro-
val from the fact that it was man.
ned entirely by local operators rep
resenting various organizations in
terested in the drive to raise funds
for the pool.
Despite its local flavor so far as
operation was concerned, the gala
three-day show embodied all the ia
miliar carnival attractions.
In addition to the usual gamut of
booths for the adult trade, Bluffton
kiddies found the carnival mecca
of pleasure, with its pony-ride, mer-
airplane ride and ferris
wheel.
Concession operators came up with
some new ideas of their own dur
ing the course of the carnival, one
of the most popular of which gave
participants a chance to take home
a live duck for dinner, if he could
be successful in tossing a ring
around the neck of one of several
swimming around in water tank.
Joining with the Recreation COM
mittee on conducting the CARNIVAL for
the benefit of the swimming pool
campaign was the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, the American Legion,
Legion Auxiliary, Mothers club,
school groups and other interested
in the venture.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
BURGLARS CRACK
SAFE FOR $35O.OO
At FARM BUREAU
Succeed in Fourth Attempt to
Loot Office Near Town.
Thursday Night
Robbers Bypass Combination
of Safe Connected with
Tear Gas Bomb

Persistence finally paid off last
Thursday night for burglars who
cracked the safe at the Allen Coun-
ty Farm Bureau Warehouse, two
miles south of Bluffton on the Dixie
highway, and escaped with $3.50 in
cash, after having failed in three
previous burglaries two months
apart.
Operating on a schedule which
has spaced burglary attempts at
two-months' intervals since last De-
cember, safe crackers were baked
on their first three tries by an auto
matte locking device and exploding
tear gas bombs which were set off
when the combination knob was dis
turbed.
Last Thursdays safe-crackers,
however, indicated they had learned
from experience when they disre-
garded the combination knob, which
would have again flooded the office
with tear gas, and opened the safe
by prying the huge door off the
front.
In most other respects the latest
burglary followed the same pattern
as it's predecessors. Burglars broke
into the warehouse from the rear,
by prying the corrugated steel sid
ing loose from wall posts.
FORCE Door
Once inside the warehouse they
forced their way into the office thru
an inside door; and being careful
to leave the "booby-trapped" COM
bination knob undisturbed, pried the
heavy safe door open.
First attempt to loot the Farm
Bureau office was made late last
December; to be followed by a Sec
ond try in February. The third
safe-cracking venture was in April.
On all three of the first attempted
robberies, burglars were routed by
the choking tear gas which filled
the office when the combination knob
was knocked loose.
In the April attempt, the burglars
took $1.50 in cash from a soft
drink vending machine, which up
until last Thursday night had repre-
sented their only monetary return
from the sortie of burglaries aimed
at the establishment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
Firemen's Meeting
Pay Is Increased

Bluffton volunteer fremen in the
future will be paid 81 for each
monthly meeting, as the result of a
new wagescale established Mon
day night by municipal council.
The boost from the previous rate
of $3.50 was partially occasioned by
the recent increase in telephone
rates. Firemen's pay for attending
monthly meeting also includes an
allowance for charges for telephone
service. The first fighters are no.
titled by phone in case of fires.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
Seventh Annual Attraction of
Horsemanship Staged Here
Tuesday Night
Fireworks Adds Zest and Diver
sion to Gala Northwest Ohio
Horse Show

Closing Bluffton's holiday weekend
celebration, the most successful old
time Wild West rodeo ever held here
attracted crowd of more than 1000
spectators at brilliantly lighted Har-
mon field Tuesday night.
In the sixth annual Fourth of July
rodeo presentation, the weatherman
again lent his fullest cooperation, for
skies were fair after threatening
weather early in the day and despite
the fact that heavy rain fell in
Beaverdam while the show was in
progress. Temperatures were in the
upper seventies, hot enough to make
area residents glad of the chance to
see the gala outdoor presentation.
Rain never has spoiled Fourth of
July rodeo plans her Z; in fact this
was the first year in which there has
been as much as Il +eatening weather
on rodeo day.
Crowd Field
Attracted by the gala horse show
and the added attraction of a fire.
works disrl-y, all available seating
space was taken and hundreds lined
the fence around the arena for the
nighttime spectacle which proved 1t
still holds plenty of appeal for COM
munity residents.
With typical Fourth of July tenn
peratures prevailing, the crowd kept
concessionaires on the run in dispos-
ing of huge quantities of ice cream
and cold drinks. A pony ring for
kiddies was another popular attrac-
tion for those who came with chill
dren.
In the nine-event rodeo, $3.50 in
cash, trophies and ribbons were pre-
sented to competing horsemen from
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and single
competitor from Colorado Springs,
Colo.
100 Horses i'm Entry
There was total of 100 horses in
the Grand Entry, new record for
the Bluffton rodeo.
The balloon race, always a feature
of the rodeo here, was first seen in
this area at Harmon field, and since
has been widely adopted.
Continuing Bluffton's reputation
for organizing and presenting one of
the finest rodeos in Northwestern
Ohio, new chutes built by Herr Bros.
We're in use, and Bill Watkins, of Ft.
Wayne, was here with a portable
horse shoeing outfit.
Rodeo Prize Winners
Rodeo event winners included:
GRAND ENTRY - Plain Tack,
Booger Red, Toledo, first; Pee Wee
Ketner, Bowling Green, second;
Jackie Daley, Toledo, third; Dewey
Baker, Toledo, fourth; Silver Mount
ed, Guy Foltz, TT. Wayne, first;
Wanda Breda, Lima, second; OFT
Reimund, Findlay, third: Beverly
Spurbec6, Lima, fourth.
GREAT PLAINS PONY CLASS
r. A. Nichols, Ft. Wayne, first; Ivan
Continued on page 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
RenUerdan, To Hold
Festival July 1915

Beaverdam will hold it's annual
homecoming, Wednesday to Saturday
July II to Is, inclusive with a
street carnival every afternoon and
evening. Special restricted areas on
the towns thorofares will be reserv-
ed for the carnival attractions which
include rides, concessions and re-
freshments.
The affair is sponsored by the
Beayerdam Volunteer Fire depart
ment and all net proceeds viii be
used to purchase fire equipment for
the department.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06

plays, and cherished relics in the
homes of residents also were contri-
buted for showing during the holi-
day period.
Photographs of early Bluffton also
added their bit to recapturing the
early history of the town, and many
window displays showed we'll
handleed touches of originality, add
ing to the popularity of the showing.
First prize in the window display
competition was won by Rice Dry
Goods Shop which had on display an
old-fashioned black wedding dress
owned by Mrs. Albert Benroth; a
coverlette, sewing basket, high-back
rocking chair and rag rug, owned by
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bogart; an old
time small hand sewing machine
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. George
Combs, and an old lamp with fancy
iron base and globe owned by Mrs.
Harold Montgomery. The prize was
provided by Greding Hardware Co.
Truck crops producers in general
have received lower prices for their
crops this year than last year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06

the shop keepers reported, because
it simply would have been impossible
to get replacement sugar rapidly
enough from wholesalers ware
houses to keep up with the demand.
There is plenty of sugar in store
houses but the transportation prob
lem of getting it here offered COM
plications, especially with the rush
coming during the holiday season.
Most grocers were regarding the
buying rush with amusement, for
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
War Scare Starts Rum on Sugar
-. Don't crowd, ladies, there's plenty

A Korean war-scare run on sugar
by jittery housewives brought in
formal rationing by Bluffton grocery
operators the first of this week, to
keep sufficient supplies on hand for
legitimate canning needs.
Limiting purchases was necessary,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06

The war scare has showed up
prices on the Cleveland livestock
market, where most of the hogs
raised in the Bluffton area are
sold. Quotations the first of the
week were the highest i'm year.
In July 1949 they hit S24.
Mondays figure on mixed butch
er grades were only 25 cents
less per 100 pounds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06

Freakish aspects of this years
weather were in the news in Bluff
ton this week, ranging from the
seasons first ripe tomato on June
21 to frostbitten tomato plants on
the morning of July 1.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
Oil Fire FOLlOlUs
Pipe Line Break

The Bluffton fire department was
called Wednesday morning at 9:15
o'clock to the DR.. V. Fl. Altman
farm one mile south of town to ex-
tinguish a fire fed by oil from a
break in line of the Buckeye Pipe
Line company. There was no
property damage reported.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
Scouts Benefit Ice
Cream Social Saturday

Bluffton Boy Scout Troop 56 will
hold an ice cream social Saturday
night. Tickets are being sold this
week by the Scouts in a house to
house canvass. Proceeds from the
social will be used to help finance
a summer camp trip for the local
troop.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
MOtOrist Injured As
Auto Strikes Bridge

Dan Walter of near Pandora suf-
fered hand injury when car
driven by Willard Dillman of Bluff
ton hit a bridge on the Base Line
road, three miles southeast of Gilboa
at midnight, Monday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
Dizzy Weather-Early Tomato Ripens
In June! July Frost Hits Later Crop

Bluffton's first home grown to-
mato of the summer was picked on
June Fl in the garden of Edgar
Chamberlain, who later sold it to
Dave Riser, local restaurateur for
Continued on page 10Y
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-06
INFANT DIES

An infant son born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Guzman of Pandora
at Bluffton hospital last Wednesday
died seven hours after birth.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-11-03
SECURITY LAW:
Matter Of Discretion

The nations new Internal Security
act has already been under fire il
enforcement. The law had threat
ened for a time to bar the return
to this country of Arturo Toscanini,
the worlds most renowned conduc-
tor.
The immigration dep artm n I
quickly issued a statement saying
the musician would be allowed tc
re-enter this country, thereby avoid.
ing storm of protests.
At the same time Attorney Gen.
eral J. Howard McGrath said he
was using his discretionary" pow.
er in permitting Friedrich Gulda
20, Austrian pianist, to enter this
country for his American debut al
Carnegie Hall.
Gulda joined the Nazi youth move.
ment at the age of 10 because the
law forced him to. The new law
bars admission to the country Of
anyone who ever has been a mem.
Der of, or affiliated" with, a Com.
munist, Nazi, or Fascist party.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-11-03

One afternoon, while ambling
about his estate, British statesman
Benjamin Disraeli came upon one
of his tenants having dinner on the
grass.
"How is it you are eating out
here??" asked Disraeli. "Isn't that
your house over there?"
EYES," said the other. "But
cannot eat there. My stove smokes
so badly"
"I'll see what can do" said the
statesman.
He walked over to the house and
opened the door. Before he could
enter, however, he was stopped by
an angry woman, who was BRAN
dishing a heavy stick.
'Out of this house, you lout," she
cried without looking up to- see
who had entered. "Of all the lazy
husbands
Disraeli beat a hasty retreat and
returned to where his tenant sat.
Don't fret my man." he said
consolingly. my stove at home
smokes sometimes, too"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-11-03
UNITED NATIONS:
New Twist for Soviet

While men died on the battlefields
Of Korea, power politics continued
to rage in the United Nations, but
with new twist from the Soviet
Union.
The new twist developed when
the United States urged the U. N.
to adopt a plan by which national
troops would form a U.N. force
to keep world peace by the veto
free general assembly.
Instead of ripping the plan apart,
Soviet foreign minister Andrei Wish
insky said he saw some good point
in it, but suggested each point Of
the proposal be discussed separate
ly.
At first the western diplomats
were shaken by Vishinsky's con-
ciliatory tone and stared at each
other in disbelief. But then ii
dawned upon them that by dis
cussing the points separately, Rus
STA almost certainly meant to oppose
the key provision that would al
low the general assembly to meet
in "a hours and act against aggres-
sion if veto paralyzed the security
council.
1t was the old, old story of pol
itics between world powers.