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Evening star., 1952-06-12
Henry J. and AIIsfafe Cars
Reduced So3 10 S157
BY the Associated Press


The Government has approved
retail price cuts ranging from 500
to $157 on Henry j. and Allstate
passenger cars manufactured by
the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. The re-
Iductions are effective at once.
The Office of Price Stabiliza-
tion said the lower basic factory
retail ceilings reflect reduced
wholesale prices recently put into
effect.
The Allstate cars are made by
Kaiser-Frazer for sale by Sears
Roebuck & Co.
Dealers used the basic factory
retail ceiling to figure delivered
ceilings. They add on charges for
such things as transportation,
taxes and conditioning the car
for delivery.
OPS said the new factory re-
Evening star., 1952-06-12
Westinghouse Gronts
ICost-of-Livinq Ruise
By the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, June 12.-AFI
International Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers accepted / to ga
cents hourly cost-of living wage
increase today by Westinghouse
Electrical Corp.
The increase covers approx
mately $3.50 workers in 19 plants
throughout the Nation and is
retroactive to May l. Salaried
employees get a SITS to $4.35 a
month boost and supervisory en-
ployes receive a similar raise or ]
per cent, whichever is highest.
Evening star., 1952-06-12
Bethesdo-Chevy Chase High
Graduates 3O3 on Tuesdoy

Montgomery County secondary
schools expect to graduate Loaf
students this month.
Of these. 81 are from the Junior
College; 986, from the county'S
high schools. A breakdown of these
shows All boys and SIS girls. Only
II are colored, 915 are white.
The following 303 students are
scheduled to be graduated from
the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School on Tuesday.
Evening star., 1952-06-12

| Miss Ly t t a
Florene Sinson,
daughter of
P / o Albert
Sinson, U. S. N,
and Mrs. Sim
son of 1905
| IWoodmont ave-
nue., has not
been seen since
she left home
SUNDAY TO VSlC
a girl friend in
the District.
Miss SinSon is
described as 6
feet tall, 125
Evening star., 1952-06-12
Burmo Delegation Set

KHATMANDU,. Nepal P.-
Burma's Nepali population will
send a good will delegation to Ne
pal, Nepali Congress officials an
nounced. The mission, under the
auspices of the All-Burma Nepal
Association, will bring greetings
from the 600, 900 Nepalis in Burma
to Nepalese leaders.
Evening star., 1952-06-12

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1952-06-12

New York will remain temporary
headquarters for the next 10 years,
and a Midwest office will be estab-
llshed in the interim to take over
after that time. A 10-man COM
mlttee will select the new site
prior to December.
Evening star., 1952-06-12

tail ceilings on Henry j. cars
irange from $l,239 on the Vaga-
bond model to $l,466 on the Cor
sair de luxe. The same range in
ceilings applies the four Allstate
cars.
The smaller reduction of 500
applies to the four and six-cylin-
der standard models. The six
cylinder de luxe is cut by $149
and the four-cylinder de luxe by
1857.
Evening star., 1952-06-12

pounds, blue eyes, red hair, and
wearing a white blouse and blue
Checked shirt.
Mr.. Sinson is a patient at the
Bethesda Naval Hospital. He re-
Gently moved here from his sta
ition near Nashville, Tenn.
Evening star., 1952-06-12
Sea Birds Stuy Put

Four oil-coated sea birds, res
cued at Elmer Beach, England,
have refused to leave the garden
of the home of their reScuers.
Evening star., 1952-06-12
when NOTHING ELSE
will help for
ACID INDIGESTION

Doctor specialists who treat nothing
but stomach trouble say that a
tablet like Bell-ans often gives COM
forting relief when everything else
fails for gas, heartburn and acid
indigestion. Get a Csc package of
Bell-ans tablets at your druggists
today.
Evening star., 1952-06-12
Girl, 16, Is Reported
Missing in Bethesda

A 16-year-old Bethesda girl has
been missing since Sunday, Mont
gomery County police reported to-
Idqv
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Utility Executive
Is College Speaker

The role of private electric utility
firms in the American economy was
discussed before the Bluffton Col
lege Commerce club at a recent
meeting by Harry Grey, vice presi-
dent of Central Ohio Light and
Power company.
In his talk, Grey explained the
operation of his own company and
stated that the Woodcock plant near
Bluffton and another plant near
Orrville are the two main plants OF
the corporation. Recently they have
become a part of a much larger or
ganization, The American Gas and
Electric Co.
The big utility serves an area in
cluding part of southern Michigan,
northern Indiana and Ohio down into
West Virginia, Tennessee and North
Carolina.
Mr.. Grey discussed the financial
structure of the organization and
presented Central Ohio's reasons for
joining the larger organization.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Christmas Music
Festival Monday

Pupils of both high school and
elementary school will participate in
their annual Christmas music fes-
tival Monday evening, December Is,
at 8 p. m. in the high school gym
nasium, it was announced this week.
The music festival will take the
place of the regular December meet
ing Of the p. T. A.
Pupils Of Miss Elma Assr from
the fourth, fifth and sixth grades
will have a part in the program and
the High School Mixed Chorus under
the direction of Earl Lehman will
present several numbers appropriate
to the season.
The festival program will be as
follows:
T Saw Three Ships" English
nursery rhyme, fourth grade; "The
Birthday of a King" Neidlinger,
fifth grade; Merry Christmas Bells"
J. R. Murray, sixth grade; "Lute
Book Lullaby" Williams, and "Naz-
areth," Gounod, the elementary and
high school choruses combined with
David Beery, baritone; and "Carol
of the Bells" Leontovich, high
school chorus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Bluffton College Grads Assigned
Government Posts In Asia And Greece

Tripplehorn, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dan R. Tripplehorn, South Main
street. A graduate of Bluffton col
lege, Newland was selected most
popular man in his senior year.
He has been on the faculty of
Stephens college, Columbia, Mo-, for
IL years, and during that time also
has been associated with large air
lines company. He has been cited by
the government for his work in civil
aviation.
After an orientation course in
Washington, Newland was to fly to
Asia as a coordinator in the u. S.
governments "Four-Point Program y
an educational job of helping the
Asiatics to become less dependent
upon u. S. financial aid.
At Stephens college, Newland was
head of the occupations division and
director Of the aviation department.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Tax Duplicate Up
25.5 Per Cent For
1852 In Bluffton
School District Duplicate
Climbs Also Under
New Appraisal

Reappraisal revaluation increases,
plus public utilities and personal tax
duplicate increases have boosted the
1852 Bluffton tax duplicate by Isl.
per cent over the 1851 duplicate.
Auditor Russell Hire announced this
week.
The new duplicate (total value of
all taxable property for Bluffton is
$5,168,636 as compared with s4,11s,-
095 last year.
At the same time, the tax duplicate
for Bluffton school district in Rich
land township went up 23.45 per cent
from s6,715,316 in 1851 to $3.50, ,991
for 1852.
The Village of Beaverdam's 1862
duplicate is s504,716 as compared with
s504,716 in 1861, an increase of 30.4S
per cent.
In figures released by Allen County
Auditor Russell Hire it is revealed
that the county's 1852 tax duplicate
will be s21o,2s1, ,s4s, a figure which is
80 per cent greater than the duplicate
of $162,775, ,602 in 1851.
Breakdown of the county increases
were listed as follows: $8S, 1873, TAO to
$12S, ,234,450 on real property; S21,-
TOT, $40 to $23,135,o3O on public utili-
ties property; and $50, 2,552, 1922 to $685.
921 1868 on personal property.
Approximately $40,000,000 of the
total county increase is on real prop
erty valuations. This increase was
38.01 per cent through appraisal, and
new construction plus re-classifcation
of some property Presidential to bust
ness or industrial) lifted the increase
to a total of about 45 per cent over
the 1851 figure.
Real property valuation of Allen
county on the 1862 tax duplicate for
the first time tops the pre-depression
1928 valuation of $96,003,860. The
total was cut as low as $50 1884, $3.50 in
1886.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11

society will break 40-year tradition
of singing the Messiah" during the
holiday season.
From small group of 33 singers
who organized in November, 1902,
the Choral Society has grown to a
membership of nearly 200, who will
appear in the Christmas Oratorio"
Sunday evening. 1t will be the first
appearance of the society in the new
Founders hall at the college where
there will be ample seating space.
This seasons rendition of the
christmas Oratorio" will be the
fourth time the society has given the
production during the Yuletide sea-
son.
Soloists for next Sundays rendi-
ton will be Virginia Archer, Benton
Harbor, Mich, soprano; Lois Oyer,
Chicago, ILL.,; Harold Beckett, Lima,
baritone, and Orlo Springer, Ada,
tenor.
Miss Archer received her music
degree from Bluffton college in 1893
and since then has held important
positions in Ohio, Indiana and Mich
gan. She directs high school choruse
in Benton Harbor and often appeark
as vocal soloist.
Miss Oyer Graduated from BlufftoIs
college with music degree in 194s.
and receive d her masters degree from
Ohio Stab university where sk
majored III vocal music. She was a
student Of AProf. Dele Gaiifand. At
present sha stpiyingwith Theodore
Harrison aeAth9 American Conserva-
1 tory of Music in Chicago. Harrison
rs one of the leading voice teachers
in Chicago. Miss Oyer is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Oyer, Bluff
ton.
Springer is a graduate of Kent
State university, who spent five years
in Sterling and for the last five years
has been supervisor of music in Ada.
He has a masters degree in voice
! pedagogy from Ohio State university.
In 1850 he appeared with the. Choral
society as tenor soloist in the spring
rendition of the messiah"
Beckett has A. B. and M. A. de-
grees from Ohio State University
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Local Students
Steer Is Winner
At Chicago Show

Fred Shaw, pre-medical student
at Bluffton college, earned national
recognition last week at the Inter.
national Livestock Exposition in Chi
cago, when an Aberdeen Angus steer
exhibited by him in the open class
of the show took sixth place.
Shaw's entry was the highest
ranking steel exhibited by an indi-
vidual. Those ranking above his
were exhibited by various university
farms.
He had planned to enter his steer
In the junior class, but was prohibit
ed because he is not living at home.
If he had been allowed to enter in
this class, his steer would have won
the Junior Grand Champion prize,
since it was placed above the junior
class winner in the later open class
judging.
The Bluffton college student makes
his home with his parents on farm
near Uniopolis, south of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Pine Restaurant
Managm't Changes
After 29 Years
AL ingalls,, Don Martz
Lease Popular Eating
Place From Jim Sechler

The Pine Restaurant, Bluffton's
popular eating place whose red
checkered tablecloths have been pre-
sided over for the last 90 years by
Leland "Jim" Sechler, this week was
operating under new management.
A unit of the towns Pine Hotel, the
restaurant also operates the Walnut
Grill, regular meeting place of the
Bluffton Lions club on the second floor
of the hotel. The dining room is also
used by many other of the town clubs
and organizations for dinner meet
ings.
Although Sechler will continue
operation of the hotel, he has leased
the restaurant business to AL ingalls,
and Don Martz, both of Bluffton. In
gals until recently has been employ
ed on the assembly line at the Lima
Locomotive works and Martz is a
former brick mason and foreman for
r. d. Miller, Columbus Grove build
ing contractor.
The new operators have leased the
business with privilege of purchase.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11

hunter who brings down an immature
buck.
Clayton Bixel. Charles and Herbert
Conrad of Bluffton and Dick Benroth
of Lima, made up one hunting party
who spent last week up near Tionesta,
Pa. They made the trip in Herbs
converted hearse, appropriate enough
for the low spirits of their return trip.
Likewise Roy Rogers, Bluffton, re-
ported his party of Is men from the
Bluffton-Mt. Cory area returned home
empty-handed. They had been hunt
ing north of the Tionesta group in
Potter county, Pa.
None were able to get doe hunting
permits this year since Pennsylvania
issued only 5000 and these all went to
hunters within the state.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Benefit Dance For
Swimming Pool

A holiday round and square dance
for the benefit of the municipal
pool will be held Tuesday night,
Dec. 80, in the American Legion hall,
under auspices of the Alpha Gamma
club.
All proceeds from the dance will
be donated to the swimming pool
fund, and club officials have asked
community support as contributions
for the future of summer recreation
for the kiddies.
Dance tickets may be obtained at
Davies Hat Shoppe, the Basinger
Furniture store, Rice Dry Goods
store, Risser's Sandwich shop, Geiger
& Diller Clothiers and Pats Barber
shop.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Deer Hunters Back From Pennsylvania
Without A Single Buck For Their Effort

Two hunting parties from the Bluff
ton area returned home last week
from the deer ranges of Pennsylvania
without a single steak to show for
their efforts.
Members of the parties reported
that they often had the wary animals
in their gunsights, but Pennsylvania
law makes a man hesitate before he
pulls the trigger. Bucks must have
three antler points before it is legal
to take them, and the third point
must be long enough to hang a ring
on.
Even with telescope sight in the
excitement of the hunt, it's difficult
to count the points, the Blufftoa.
hunters say. Game wardens are much
thicker than the deer, and woe 10 the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Graveyard Fiddler
Is College Boy
Wants To Be Alone

Although his identity remained an
unchallenged secret, the Bluffton
News learned this week on good au-
thority that the mysterious musician,
who chose to play his violin in
Maple Grove cemetery last Tuesday
at midnight, was a Bluffton college
student.
Returning from vioiip concert in
Lima that evening, the youth is re-
ported to have been wrappAd up in
a Rachmaninoff number he haA heard,
and could not wait to try hiA hand
at it on his own instrumental Ar
irving at his dormitory and fading
most of the boys asleep, he ha to
retire elsewhere to play the vMin.
At midnight most college buildiAg
are locked up. Where to go TO
avoid disturbing anyone? The Ia
chose Maple Grove cemetery, think
ing there to be alone. Il
He would have been alone, too, ex.
cept for the fact that the clear
strains of the violin floating over the
snow-covered ground attracted the
attention of Arden Baker, associate
editor of the Bluffton News, on his
way home from the office. Believing
that there must be some type of
hazing underway, Baker sought to
get the story.
When he shouted out: "What kind
of concert is going on in there"
from the cemetery gate, there was
no response.
This made the mystery only deep.
er, and the new story the better.
Bluffton's graveyard violinist i.
not likely to make his appearance al
midnight again, citizens of that vi.
cinity may rest assured.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Carl Snaucker Is On
Radio Panel Forum

Carl F. Smucker, assistant profess
sor of social science at Bluffton col
lege, participated in an open forum
broadcast over Radio Station WLOK
in Lima last Sunday afternoon.
Subject of the forum discussion
was the Aid to Dependent Children
program, for which Smucker is ad-
ministrative supervisor for Allen
county.
Also appearing on the forum were
Probate Judge Joseph B. Quatman
and Mrs. Maurice Meyers, A. d.
supervisor for the county.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Christian Service
Training School
Set For January
Preliminary Plans An
n0unced By Bluffton
Ministerial Assn.

Preliminary plans for the second
annual Christian Service Training
school We're outlined at a meeting of
the Bluffton Ministerial association
last Sunday after the Union Service
in the Presbyterian church.
The school last year, stated by an
impressive group of instructors, at
tracted wide attention and its success
insured repetition of the program
in January At the Sunday meeting,
representatives from several of the
towns Sunday Schools met with
members of the Ministerial associa-
ton to consider the courses to be Of
fered and the instructors to be invited.
Dates for the school were set for
January II, IL, IA, 1s, and 81. 1t
will be conducted in the Methodist
church with the Rev. L. w. McIntire,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, again serving as dean. Other
officers will be announced soon.
Miss Dorothea Wolcott, dean of
women at Findlay college, and leader
in thA field of Religious Education, has
indicazed her willingness to serve as
an ins nctor in the schAa again. She
wa teeh the course Teaching
Chldrenp b the Churqk" "
FurtheM details pncef6ng the
regular evsping schedule ohcourses,
tn other iiktructors, he text Twill be
al mounced 4 a later date.
pne of DIE cous es will an
ady yanced coukse in 4the use ofAthe
IBk kle in teachisg, aw another is pp-
Rea for church fiekrs and leaders II
Mdhnen's groups.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Births

The following births were recorded
during the past week at Bluffton
Community hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Graymire,
Lima, a girl, Patricia Iona, born last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Weaver,
Bluffton, a girl, Shelly Elaine, born
Saturday. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Ortho Strstton,
Bluffton, a boy, Denzel Ray, born
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Suter, Pan
dora, a girl, Joanna Kaye, born Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cosner, Find
lay, boy, Ronald Eugene, born Sat
urday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Tuesday Set Record
For Warn, Dec. Dau

4 Unusually warm temperature
Ranging up to high of GA degrees
Resday set a new high mark for
mcember 9, according to Ray
BMkholder, official area weather
observer. The highest temper
ature previously recorded for
December 9 here was back in 1918
when the thermometer reached
So degrees.
The warm day was accompanied
by heavy rainfall which measur-
ed .76 of an inch, according to
Burkholder.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11

Two Bluffton college graduates are
working on United States govern
ment projects overseas, Kenneth New
land in Asia and Dale Good in
Greece, it was learned this week.
Good, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Good,
North Lawn avenue is a graduate of
Bluffton high school and Bluffton
college and served as a lieutenant
during World War II in North Africa.
Sicily and Italy. After the war he
was associated with the National
Labor Relations Board in Washington,
ID. C. He was to sail sometime before
Christmas with Mrs. Good and daugh-
ter, Elisabeth, for Athens where he
will be stationed with the u. S.
Embassy as an observer on labor
conditions.
Newland, a native of Lima, is
husband of the former Virginia
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Detroit HurLer
To Oficiate
On Local HardlUOOd

Ned Carver, 20-game winning
pitcher with the st. Louis Browns
in 1851, will be one of the officials
on the court for the Bluffton-
Findlay basketball game on the
new Bluffton college court next
Tuesday night.
With his 20-game streak in
1851, Carver became one of the
few pitchers in pro ball to break
into the magic circle while a
member of a last-place team.
Carver now is with the Detroit
Tigers.
A native of Ney, where he was
an aH-star high school athlete,
Carver serves as a basketball Of
fcial during the winter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
DRIVER COURSE POPULAR

: The driver education course, pres
entity contemplated by Bluffton school
authorities, continued to increase in
popularity in Ohio schools during the
1951-52 school year, according to Dr.
Clyde Hissong, state director of edu-
cation. During the first semester, S91
schools included courses in this field.
During the second semester 420
schools sponsored the courses with q
student enrolment of 22,096.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
Santa To Visit Free Theatre Party
For Children Saturday At The Carma

Santa Claus will make his an
nual pre-Christmas visit to Bluff
ton kiddies next Saturday after
> noon at a big free Yuletide
theatre party for children at the
Carma theatre.
Two full shows of movies, car
toons, comedies and full-length
feature, will be screened at tho
party, beginning at 1:15 p. m. and
3:15 p m. Following each show
Santa and his helpers will greet
the children and distribute favors.
Tots too small to enjoy the movies
can interview Santain the theatre
lobby while the Esofies are being
shown, and parszsts are invited to
brinat them the 10 meet The old
gentleman. II 4
\ Ee2 Satpsday party gill be
@e only Bluffton appearance of
Mr.. Claus before the Yuletide,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11

Community hospital following treat
ment Tuesday morning, but the other
three, more seriously injured, still
are patients.
Remaining in the hospital are Mrs.
Treva Strouse, neck injuries, cuts
and bruises; Mrs. Leona Frantz, cuts
and bruises, and Mrs. Marguerite
Getz, cuts and bruises. None of the
three are believed critically injured.
Discharged following Tuesday
morning treatment were Miss Carol
Stauffer, broken nose, and bruises;
and Miss Lois Koehler and Mrs. Mary
Hindall, who were bruised.
A truck owned by the Plain View
Dairy Co., of Jenera, parked in the
highway while the driver, Lawrence
Weihrauch had gone into the Hugh
Niswander farm home along the route,
was struck by the work-bound auto
mobile driven by Mrs. Getz.
Contributing to the accident was a
heavy rain falling at the time, which
made visibility poor and the highway
treacherous.
Victims of the crash were brought
to the Bluffton hospital by the Paul
Diller ambulance.
1t was reported by the state patrol,
which Investigated, that charges for
improper parking on the highway
would be filed against Weihrauch.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11
40 Principals Meet
Here This Week

Charles Mason, probation officer
of the Allen county Juvenile court,
will speak on "The Principal and the
Delinquent Child" at. quarterly
meeting of 40 school principals from
six counties, at Bluffton High school
this Thursday.
Gerhard Buhler, principal Of the
local school and past-president of
the association, will be host to the
group. Harvey Badertscher, Lafay-
cite superintendent, is president of
the group. o..a s~i& ,1na,. ..-G
Principals will be here from Put
nam, Van Vert, Auglaize, Hancock,
Allen and Hardin counties. -
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-12-11

often appears as an oratorio soloist.
Prof. Russell A. Lantz, eighth con-
ductor in the 50-year history of the
choral society, will be in his oath
season for the rendition next Sunday.
He first took over the society in 1929.
Mrs. FL. p. Mann, the piano accom-
panist, has been playing for the soci-
ETY. since 1910. Laurence Burkhal-
ter, director of the college orchestra,
which also will play, has been its
head for the last five years, since the
death of Sidney Hauenstein, who be-
gan as orchestra conductor in 1911.