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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-20
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Westrick,
Leipsic, girl, Shirley Ann, last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leotus Sutter, Pam
dora, boy, Steven Ray, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Haddox, Nc
Comb, a girl, Linda Kean, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Hosafros,
Rawson, a boy, Hugh Wayne, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smith, Find
lay, boy, Roger Douglas, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence Burk-
halter, Bluffton, a girl, Karol Jean,
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Brewster,
Rawson, girl, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Gratz,
Bluffton, boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Grohoske,
Arlington, boy, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lingel, SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, former Bluffton resi-
dents, girl, Ann, born in Syracuse
hospital, July 3.
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new POWER UNIT
TO BE IN CENTRAL
OHIO PLANT SOON
Turbo-generatOr Expected to be
in Operation Here by
October
Installation Will Mark Compile
ton of So Million Expan-
sion Project

A new 12,500 KVA turbo-generator
is expected to be in operation in
October at the Central Ohio Light
and Power Co. Woodcock generating
plant here, completing $2,000,000
expansion program to facilities of the
utility.
Foundations for the generating
unit have been completed in the new
addition to the plant, and a new
boiler also installed in the building
expansion was placed in operation in
late June.
The new boiler has capacity of
10000 pounds of steam per hour,
according to plant officials.
Following installation of the new
turbo-generator, the utility plant here
will have total effective capacity of
45, 900 KVA, which firm heads say is
large enough to take care of cleo
trical demands of customers in the
western division of the company for
several years.
With work on the 100000 expan-
sion completed, the local plant will be
one of the most modern in the state
and represents elimination of
engineering plans designed to make
possible the generation of electricity
on an efficient and economical basis.
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START EXCAVATION
FOR ANOTHER new
HOME in BLUFFT0N |
Work Under Way for Residence
for DR.. b. w. Travis on
kibler Street
Eleventh House Under Con-
struction i'm Buttons Build
Boom

Buttons residential building pro-
gram continued at a boom level here
during the last week, with the start
of construction on another new home
and the building of additions to two
other dwellings,.
Bluffton's eleventh new residence
started since last April was that of
DR.. B. w. Travis on w. Kibler street,
where excavation was started Tues
day.
Earth from the excavation is being
used to fill a nearby building lot
owned by Dave Riser at the corner
of kibler street and South Lawn
avenue.
In the meantime building additions
to two other homes we'll under way
are those to the Clifford Houtz resi-
dence in the Garmatter addition and
to the Norman Edinger property on
Jefferson street, near the county line.
At the same time drains are being
dug in a building lot on South Main
street near the corporation limits by
E. ]. Wahlie, who purchased the site
last week from Raymond Dirmyer.
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Old age is creeping up in the
clock tower i'm Buttons town
hall-that's why the clock no
longer strikes the hours, heard
for generations in downtown
Bluffton.
No it isn't the clock that's
growing old, altho it's seen
plenty of years of service, it's
because of shaky framework
timbers supporting the heavy
mechanism high in the tower
atop the town hall.
The wood framework and floor
supporting the big clock have
been so badly weakened by the
time that vibration caused by
striking the hours has become
too hazardous, it was explained
at meeting of the town council
Monday night.
Town officials together with
building contractors will study
the situation during the coming
week to determine what will
be required to strengthen the
structure. Meanwhile the clock
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Man KILLED IN
TWO CAR CRASH
NEAR BLUFFTON
David (. Vermillion, Brother
of Bluffton Man Dies i'm
Hospital
Fatal Accident Occurs at "Corn-
field Corner" Northwest of
Town

David Edward Vermillion, so, a
brother of Albert Vermillion, of
Bluffton, died in Bluffton Community
hospital Sunday morning shortly
after his admission following a two
car collision at a road intersection
one mile east of the st. John Men
monte church.
Death of the Ada man, who was
a native of Orange township, was
attributed to shock.
Also injured in the crash were
Vermillion's son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Griffin, also of
Ada, in whose car the mishap victim
was a passenger. Mr.. and Mrs
Griffin also We're hospitalized by
Commissions, decorations and bruises
but their condition Wednesday was
reported as fairly good.
Griffin, more seriously injured OF
the couple, received fractured left
hip.
Other Car From Leipsic
Occupants of the other car, operat-
ed by Ralph w. Waters, 81, of
Leipsic, We're unhurt. Also in the
auto were Waters wife, Mildred, and
her father Christ Hartmer, also of
Leipsic.
Putnam County Sheriff Arnold
Potts said the Griffin car was going
west on the road which deadends at
the st. John church, and the Waters
car was southbound on the intersect-
ing road.
Struck in the center, the Griffin
auto caromed into stone retaining
wall of a culvert, then landed on its
top in the ditch. Mrs. Griffin was
thrown over a five-foot fence into a
cornfield, ad istance of more than
30 feet.
Car Demolished
Griffin's car was virtually de-
molished in the crash, and the front
of the other vehicle was badly dam
aged. The Ada car was towed in to
the yard of the Bixel Motor sales
here.
Sheriff Potts said the view at the
is hidden by corn fields.
The Griffins and Vermillion were
enroute to Pandora where they had
planned to visit Vermillion's daugh-
ter, Mrs. Elmer Baumgartner.
The Paul Diller ambulance of
Continued on page 10)
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Towns Tax Duplicate 3 IL Millions
Real Estate Deals

Rev. and Mrs. w. Fl. Lahr of
Harmon road have purchased a
home in Bonnie Brae. Colorado,
suburb of Denver. They will move
to their new location the first of
September.
Wilford Gratz has sold his resi-
dence on Thurman street to E. F.
Schmidt. Gratz plans to build a
residence this fall on the Walter
Schaublin place mar the Emmanuel's
Reformed church southwest of town.
Schmidt, who last spring sold his
South Main street property to Mrs.
Edwin Amstutz west of Bluffton
will move into the Thurman street
property when vacated by Gratz.
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line construction and maintenance.
He has taken a two-year contract
on the Arabian assignment with
Pan American.
His father, the late Eph Locher,
also had a long record of exper-
fence in foreign oil fields. For many
years, the elder Locher was en-
ployed by Standard Oil in Rou-
mania, prior to World War /.
The family lived here for several
years, following their return from
Europe. Walter attended Bluffton
college and later received an cleo
trical engineering degree from Day.
ton university. He is a brother of
Ralph Locher, secretary to Governor
Frank J. Lausche.
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B1uffton Man i'm Action ON Korean Front
Life Begins At 80

GEORGE Work, 90, of Litch-
field, Nebraska, is spending
week visiting at the Armin
Hauenstein home on South Main
street. An uncle of Mrs. Hauen-
stein, he is enroute home after
trip by plane from Chicago to
Aruba, West Indies island, where
his son Eugene is employed i'm
the large refineries of the Stand
ard Oil Company.
From Aruba he made the trip
to New York city by oil tanker
and afterward visited relatives
in Providence, Rhode Island,
Baltimore, Maryland and Dover,
Ohio before coming to Bluffton.
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AMOUNT STATED
AT HEARING ON
ANNUAL BUDGET
Proposed Expenditures fol
Municipality Outlined Mon
day Night
Towns Operation Cost for
Coming Year is Listed at
S34,411

Buttons municipal expenditures
for the 1851 fiscal year beginning
next January l will aggregate
S170,411, exclusive of payments for
bond retirement, according to the
1851 municipal budget approved last
Monday night at a meeting of the
town council.
Included in the $170,411 total will
be $34,411 spent in regular village
governmental activities, plus $4,000
earmarked for operation of the muni-
cipal light plant and water works, the
budget figures disclose.
The town governments expendi-
lures of S34,411 will be approximate
ly the same as for this year $34,786,
based on actual expenses during the
first six months and an estimate for
the last half of 1880
The expenditure of S34,786 this
year also will be virtually the same
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Former BlufftOn Man Takes Position
With American Oil Firm In Arabia

Walter Locher, former Bluffton
resident and son of Mrs. Eph Loch-
er, of Cleveland, is leaving Caracas,
Venezuela, where he has been an
electrical engineer for the Standard
Oil Co. for the last Is years, to ac-
cept new post with the Pan Amer
ican Oil Co. in Arabia.
Accompanied by his wife and
three children, Locher will sail for
the Near East in August.
Although Locher's work will be in
Arabia, the family will make their
home in Beirut, Syria.
Locher's work in Arabia will be
similar to that in which he has
been engaged in Venezuela where he
was an electrical engineer on pipe
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Man Fractures Hip
In Fall From Roof

Seth Basinger, ia, is patient in
Bluffton hospital with a fractured
right hip as the result of fall
from the roof of a cider mill at his
farm five miles northwest of Bluff
ton, Saturday.
Basinger, who operates the Morn
ing Star cider mill was engaged in
construction of an addition to the
building when he fell from the roof,
a distance of about 10 feet. He
was removed to Bluffton hospital in
the Basinger ambulance. His condi-
ton is reported satisfactory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-20

Buttons current tax valua-
ton amounts to S3,690,505, an
increase of $108,109 over last
years figure of $3,5S2,396, muni-
cipal council was told at Monday
nights meeting.
In the tax valuation breakdown
real property is set at S ,995, $3.50;
public utilities. $844,230; personal
property, $701,645; inter-county,
S149,250. The public utilities and
inter-county figures may be SUBJ
iect to slight revision later.
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Two additional members of the
troop who are spending the sum-
mer at the camp are Don Bader-
tscher and Joel Joseph, members of
the senior and junior camp staffs
respectively.
Scoutmasters accompanying the
Bluffton troop are Pau Don Bixel
and Ronald Diller. Wade Shook, of
Defiance, area scout executive and
former Bluffton resident, is in
charge of the camp.
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market because of its lower price.
However, most persons buying the
lower graded butter don't like it,
and as a rule eventually go to some
butter substitute such as oleo.
Under the new program, the sup
ply of good butter will be increased
considerably, but whether the price
will move upward remains to be
determined.
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as that spent in 1949 when the village
governments aggregate expenses
amounted to $35,824.13.
For the 1851 fiscal year, the town
will spend S22,111 from the general
fund; $2,400 for cemetery purposes;
$4,000 from the street maintenance
and repair fund, and $4,000 from the
gasoline tax and repair fund, for the
total of $34,411.
Electric light plant and water
works expenditures estimated at
Continued on page 10)
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Eleven Bluffton Scouts Are Spending
Week In Camp Shawnee Near Defiance

Eleven Bluffton youths, members
of Boy Scout Troop No. Sc are
spending a week at the area scout
Camp Shawnee near Defiance.
Scouts in camp are James Green,
Bruce Hauenstein, James Henderson,
Richard Patterson and Don Triple
horn of the older group and Rex
Alderman, Dean Badertscher, Barry
Corson, Thornton Lauriat, Roger
Reichenbach and Brett Triplett of
the younger group.
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second grade, federal regulations
provide.
Creameries must pick up cream at
stations every day, and have it
pasteurized before midnight, after
the new program goes into effect.
That way no more than four days
can elapse from the time the farm
err gets the butterfat from the COW
until it has been processed at the
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Bluffton dealers say the new pro-
cedure will about double the cost of
handling cream, making a bigger
spread between tn price of butterfat
and cream, which heretofore have
been nearly identical.
Federal authorities claim the
speedier method of handling will
eliminate a lot of second-grade
butter, which previously has found
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After each sale of cream by the
farmer, tag with the date will be
attached to the cream can. When
the farmer markets his next batch
of cream, the produce buyer will
remove the tag and affix another
with the current date of marketing.
Altho farmers are not compelled
by law to comply with the program,
they must sell their cream as second
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grade if they fail to observe the
regulations. This would
mean a reduction of about five cents
a pound, in price, and most farmers
therefore are expected to go along
with the new program because of
the cash advantage it represents.
Irrespective of the quality of the
cream, all held on the farm for more
than four days must be sold as
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-20

New federal regulations to speed
up deliveries and the marketing of
cream, to prevent deterioration be-
fore processing will become effective
in the Bluffton district next August |.
Under the new program announced
by the Federal Food and Drugs
Administration, every farmer selling
cream must market it at intervals
of not more than four days.
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creamery.
Heretofore farmers have delivered
cream to stations or it has been
picked up on truck routes about
twice week during the summer
and once week in the winter.
Creameries have been collecting
cream at produce stations every
other day. Now they will have to
make their rounds daily.
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To Teach And Coach
In McGufey Schools

Richard Gratz, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chris Gratz, has accepted a
position in the McGuffey high school
as athletic coach and instructor in
biological sciences for the coming
year, it was announced this week.
He was graduated last month from
Bluffton college.
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examinations IN
TOLEDO ACCORDING
TO PRESENT PLANS.
Hancock County to Send 80;
Putnam County 20 and
Hardin County %
Board Quotas for Induction
Under Selective Service to
be Given Later

A group of Al Allen county men,
likely including several from the
Bluffton area, will be called for selec-
tive service pre-induction physical ex-
aminations next Monday, it is an
nounced by Allen county's single
draft board.
This will be the first group of Allen
county young men called for physical
screening under the new draft act,
and will be the initial contingent of
81 from the county scheduled for
physicals prior to the promised Sep
tember draft call.
Army and Navy recruiting stations
said that any man receiving notice to
report for pre-induction physical
under the draft act is not eligible to
enlist in the armed services.
Physical examinations for the men
will be given at Toledo, according to
the present schedule set up after an
nouncement of the examinations was
made last Friday by Col. Chester w.
Goble, Ohio selective service chief.
Physical screening of 80 men from
Hancock county likely will include
others from this area. Nearby Put
nam county has received notice to
get 20 men ready for the examina
tions, and the Hardin county call is
for %.
No Induction Quota
In making his announcement of the
physical examination schedule, Col.
Goble emphasized the number to be
called for physical screening does not
mean this is board quota for actual
inductions.
The selective service head said that
after boards have reported their
number of physically qualified men
headquarters will announce how many
men each board must provide for
actual induction into the armed
forces.
Ohio's draft quota for the Septem-
Der call has been set at LAO men.
Approximately 5000 in the state will
be called for physical examinations.
Board Surveys
Most draft boards have started
survey of their registrants to deter
mine whom to send for physical ex-
aminations, but officials have pointed
out many factors which may delay
the task. Since registering, many
young men have married and now
have dependents, while others already
have joined a branch of the services.
Others may be ineligible for other
reasons since registering, thus COM
plicating the boards job of bringing
records up to date quickly.
Altho youths 10 thru % will be
called up for physical examinations,
selective service has announced in
drafting the older-age groups will be
inducted first.
Meanwhile, headquarters of the
Ohio Military district announced the
army has selected names of qualified
enlisted reservists from central rec
ords which reveal wartime experience
and special instruction in certain
specialized fields now needed.
Letters are being written to these
men asking whether they desire to
volunteer for a year or more active
duty with the army.
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HEAVY Marketing
OF wheat FLOODS
LOCAL ELEVATOR
Farmers Grain Co. Open Nights
To Accommodate Wait
ing Wagons
Plenty of Freight Cars Avail
able To Carry Crop to
Grain Terminal

Buttons extensive grain elevator
facilities operated by the Farmers
Grain Co., have been running from
early morning until far into the
night during the last week, to unload
wheat from an almost endless line
of tractor-drawn farm wagons, as
harvesting in the Bluffton district
reached it's peak.
The long line of waiting wagons
and the almost uninterrupted aspects
of this summers harvest are reflect
ed in the fact that upwards of
100000 bushels of wheat already
have been handled by the local
facilities, operated by the Farmers
Showers last Thursday and rains
Monday and Wednesday temporarily
interrupted the steady influx of grain
which is being hauled to market
from area farms.
With enough freight cars to haul
the grain, elevator employees have
been busy loading shipments of
wheat consigned principally to
Fostoria and Toledo. Nearly all the
winter wheat produced here is used
for cracker making. Bread flour
generally is obtained from spring
wheat, none of which is raised in
the Bluffton ;.1ea.
Farm Cash Return
Heavy marketing has brought
large sums of money into the farm
district here, in most cases repre-
senting the first sizable crop cash
income of the summer. The price
has been holding fairly steady, with
the latest marketing quotation at
$1.97 a bushel, 26 cents more than
being paid at the same time last
summer.
Wheat yields are generally better
than earlier estimates of only an
average crop, and an average of up
wards of % bushels to the acre
seems assured. Test has been averag-
Continued on page 10)
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Draft Board to Summon III Allen County
Men for Physical Examination Monday
Town Clock Silent as Vibrations from
Striking Weaken Supports in Tower

will continue its enforced ban of
silence.
A similar situation arose two
years ago when weakened sup
ports made it necessary to dis
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continue ringing the bell at the
grade school building. Structural
timbers later were reinforced
and the bell remains unused in
the belfry.
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SERGEANT Ell LINER
BURkH0LDER, JR. IS
SENT FROM JAPAN
Dispatched with 34th Regiment
on July 2 for War Zone,
Parents Learn
Air Raid Alert Sounded, Writes
Sergeant's Wife Living
Near Tokyo

Sgt. Elmer Burkholder, Jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Burkholder Sr.,
of Bluffton, is on the Korean battle
front with the 34th Infantry regi-
ment to which he has been attached
in Japan for the last three and one
half years.
The Bluffton young man left Japan
with his regiment on July 2, enroute
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Population Grows
Over 10000 citizens of Forsyth
county, North Carolina, recently
grew boards to celebrate the coun-
tvs Tooth anniversary.
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DON j. Fritchie, another
Bluffton youth in the Far East
Is with naval unit stationed in
Japan, last heard from i'm the
Tokyo area.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
HAIRSHAPING
is an ART
with Mr.. PAUL

The simplicity
and snurtness
Of your Hair
style is bosed
upon the Per-
f e c t q n d
Unique e hair
shaping.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

Do you know how many differ.
ent ways you may be robbing your
self of beauty when you don't re-
lax? I just interviewed a lovely
looking girl who by the end OF
our conversation had lost prac-
tically every vestige of beauty be-
cause of her fidgeting.
During our short talk, she prop
ped her chin on her fist, pulled at
her ear lobes, rubbed her eyebrows
and generally mauled her face
And like most women, of course
she was unaware of what her ner-
vouS habits were doing to her.
In addition to destroying any
woman's poise and attractive ap-
pearance, such actions do real and
lasting damage to her skin. A
leading dermatologist told me re-
Gently that countless young wom-
en- are suffering from skin blem-
ishes they could have escaped
just by learning to keep their
hands in their laps!
Often tiny and unnoticed blem-
ishes under the surface Of the skin
are irritated by handling or rough
treatment and then spread to the
epidermis or outer skin where they
are all too large and easy to see
Still another consequence OF
fidgeting with the face is the per-
manent stretching of the skin
which causes premature lines and
wrinkles.
Such bad habits are worth any
trouble they may take to break
Evening star., 1950-03-19

Miss Frances Kidd, daughter o1
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayland c. Kidd o1
Alexandria. was married yester.
day in the Washington Street
Methodist Church to Mr.. George
r. Miller, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Paul c. Miller of Akron, Ohio, DR.
Fred Chenault officiated and 6
reception followed at Gadsby's
Tavern.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her brother -in-law, Mr.
George c. Reight, owing to the
illness of her father. Miss Betty
Burroughs of Alexandria was her
only attendant. Mr.. Miller served
as best man for his son, and
the ushers were Mr.. Edward Ar.
mold of Burlington, N. c., and Mr.
CORTLAND Jewell of Alexandria
The couple will reside in Buff
falo, N. Y. following a Northern
wedding trip.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Miss BIetch toWed
Mr.. E. S. Beach

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester F. Bletch
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Marjorie Rosalind, to
Mr.. Edward Stanley Beach, jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Beach of
Charlotte Hall, Md. The wedding
will take place in June.
Miss Bletch is graduate of
the University of Maryland, where
she was a member of Alpha Xi
Delta Sorority. Mr.. Beach is in
his senior year at the University
of Maryland and is member
of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.