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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14

The following births were report
ed during the past week at Bluffton
Community hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Cramer,
Benton Ridge, a girl, Tamara Kay,
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Koontz,
Bluffton, girl, Karen Sue, Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Gutierrez, Find
lay, a boy, Richard, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Gossard,
Bluffton, a girl, not named at press
time, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle d. Hull of
Kenton, Ohio, a daughter, Susan
Eileen, born Monday evening, Aug
ust II, at Kenton Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Hull was the former Miss
Kathryn Todd, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Todd of South Lawn
avenue.
Pfc. H. G. Durham and Mrs. Dur.
ban of Camp Rucker, Ala, are the
parents of T pound 13 ounce sor
born Tuesday. Mrs. Durham is the
former Miss Jacqueline Zimmerman
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. d. L. Zim,
norman of Findlay, former Blufftor
residents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
Dollar Days Sales
Event Is Success

One of Buttons most success
full Dollar Days sales events in
history moved thousands of dol
lars worth of merchandise over
the counters of participating
local merchants last Friday
and Saturday.
In the wake of the semi
annual sales feature, several
business places rported all-time
record volumes of goods sold.
Several instances were reported
of dollar day shoppers being on
hand when stores opened Friday
morning, and crowds thronged
the downtown streets of the
town through both days of the
sales event.
To give shoppers with families
more time to make their selec-
tions, two free movies for child
rem were shown Saturday after
noon at the Carma theatre.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14

weekly, at time of the year when
canning normally is on fve-day-a-
week schedule, and sometimes "a
hours day.
Except for this summers sustained
drought and its disastrous effects on
anything which grows in the ground,
a flood of fresh garden vegetables
now would be flowing into the can
merry for processing.
About the only bright spot in the
picture is the fact that the rush
could come later this year, should
late-summer rains revive garden
crop prospects.
SERVES Big AREA
Founded in 1884, the custom can
merry is one of the few operations of
its kind in Northwestern Ohio, and
the establishment does work for a
vast clientele, many of whom drive
here for many miles to get their
canning out of the way without hav-
ing to go to the fuss and bother of
doing the work in their own kitch-
ems.
Bulk of the custom canning is in
the preservation of vegetables and
fruits, although some meat also is
processed by the plant. Cannery
workers in most cases handle all
stages of food preparation, prelim-
mary to the actual canning opera
tions, but sometimes patrons who
live near the establishment do their
own work and hurry to the cannery
to have it placed in the handy tin
containers.
In normal seasons, the plant would
be busy day and night during the
early part of August, in handling
custom canning of tomatoes, beans
and corn, plus other produce. The
rush of fruit canning comes later
in the season.
/ NEW SERVICE
| A new cannery service this year
is made possible through the addi.
ton of equipment to make possible
the processing of catsup. In pre-
vious years, tomatoes could be can
ned either whole or as juice, but
those with tomatoes to process this
season can have them made into cat
sup should they desire.
In addition to making catsup for
others, the cannery also will make
and sell the product, processing it
from the establishments own fields
of tomatoes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
Trains Abandon
Rails; Take HighDUay
Through BIuftOn

Bluffton has seen many strange
sights on the busy Route 25
artery which bisects the town,
but Tuesday was the first time
that its citizens viewed eight
trains coming up the highway.
They were miniature trains
each consisting of a locomotive
and three cars-which will be
used to haul thousands of pas
sengers around the grounds of
the Canadian National Exhibition
September % to October 6.
Constructed in Dayton by the
National Amusement Device Co.,
they will be operated in Toronto
by a company headed by Tommy
Holmes, under contract with the
fair board.
When the trains reached Bluff
ton the uniformed drivers were
having a tough time, without
windshields of any type, to keep
the rain out of their eyes. They
travel about 25 miles per hour
on the highway, but will observe
a 15-mile speed limit at the ex-
hibition.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
Steady Rainfall Early In Week Saves
Thousands Of Dollars In Local Crops

three in the immediate area are AL
len, Hardin and Hancock. Other
drought-parched counties named were
Wood, Fulton, Henry and Lucas.
In Ohio as whole, it is estimated
that the lack of normal rain since
July / has cut anticipated yield of
corn and bybeans by more than a
bushel to the acre. This estimate
was made by Prof. ]. I. Falconer, of
Ohio State university.
Rainfall the first of the week
also revived hopes for improved late
season yields from home gardens
and farm truck patches, but a lot of
additional moisture will be needed
to make bumper late vegetable
crop a reality. Yellowed lawns also
must have lot of water before
they return to a green, luxuriant
state.
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A soaking rainfall in the form of
continuous shower which began
Monday afternoon and continued
Tuesday till noon saved Bluffton area
threatened crop losses and helped
break the grip of drought conditions
in the district.
Helped most by the moisture were
corn and soybean crops and pasture
fields. The rainfall was particular
ly timely for it came at time
when corn stands were beginning to
show the first indications of firing.
Near drought conditions this sum-
mer already have reduced what
farmers originally thought might by
the best corn and soybean crops in
history, but farm observers say that
normal rainfall from now until mid
September should result in reason
ably good" crops despite the extend
ed periods of dry weather undergone
here so far.
State report released last week in
dicated that counties listed in which
dry weather has had the most effect,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14

With the final vacancy on the
Bluffton public school faculty filled
Tuesday evening by the board of
education, Superintendent A. B. Muir
ray this week has announced the
complete teacher assignments for the
opening of school September 2.
Mrs. Mary Ann Hooker, wife of
Clarence Hooker who taught in the
elementary school last year, was en-
ployed to fill the vacancy in the
second grade. A June graduate of
Bluffton college, Mrs. Hooker has a
bachelor of science degree. She was
a former resident of Millersburg,
Ind, where she was graduated from
high school.
First grade assignments went to
Meredith Stepleton and Mrs. Ruby
Murray. Janet Bechtol will teach
grades two and three; Minerva Hilty,
grade three; Robert Ewing, grade
four; Clarence Hooker, grades four
and FIVE; Mrs. Adella Oyer, grade
five, and Robert E. Stratton, grade
six.
Junior-Senior high school teaching
posts were announced as follows by
Superintendent Murray:
Principal Gerhard Buhler, science;
Lorain A. Basinger, vocational agri-
culture; Margaret Diller, vocational
home economies; Florence Duffield,
commercial; Ocie Anderson, ibrar-
ian; Wilford Geiger, chemistry,
biology and science.
Joe L. Harris, mathematics and
coaching; Wilbur Howe, English,
sociology and American government;
Mildred Keel, Latin and English;
Dean Kittle, industrial arts; Earl
Lehman, music; Peter Schmidt,
coaching, physical education and
health; and Theresa Slusser, history
and social science.
Among other matters before the
school board Tuesday was request
by the superintendent for authorize
ton to purchase two new micro
scopes for use in science instruction
and a "box and pan brake" for use
in metal forming in the industrial
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School Children Get
Halliday RepieUe

Bluffton youngsters will get a
little extra sleep this year on
the opening day of school
September 2. They will not re-
port for classes until 1870 p. m.
instead of the usual school open
ing time of 8:45 a. m.
This will give the faculty an
opportunity to hold its meeting
in the morning at 9 rather than
in the afternoon, Superintendent
A. B. Murray said.
School busses will make their
rounds on a schedule that will
get children to school on time
in the afternoon. Regular school
hours will be observed after the
first day with opening at s:45
a m. and closing at 3:45 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
THREE BLUFFTON
men ANSWER CALL
TO ARMED FORCES
VIM. B. Watkins, Dwight ].
Amstutz In Army; Norman
White Joins Air Force

Two Bluffton young men were in
a group of 20 Allen county draftees
who left last Thursday for induc-
tion into the army at the Toledo
Selective Service center, and in the
meantime another local youth en-
listed in the air corps.
In the Thursday draft contingent
were William Boyd Watkins, 155
Spring street, and Dwight j. AM
stutz, of 1914 North Main street.
The air force enlistee was Nor
man D. White, of West Washington
street.
Last Thursdays group of 20 AL
In county inductees brought to 142
the number of men inducted so far
this year through the county draft
board. Largest monthly quota of
the year was in January when az
men were taken into the service
June marked the low spot of the
year with only four men drafted ir
the month.
Allen county's September quota ha!
been set at % men, two more char
the number taken in August.
Meanwhile, the army served no
tice that the October draft call vii
be higher in each state, with an
nouncement from Washington thai
AZ 900 men would be drafted in that
month, as compared with only 10000
men asked in September.
When the October draft call is
completed, a total of $4,000 mer
will have been inducted into the
army since the first post-Korea cal
in September, 1850, army officials
said.
In addition to the army total Of
932, 900, marine corps draftees mum
Der 81,430 since 1850.
Only the army is now using The
draft. The navy and air corps have
relied on volunteering to meet Kor'
rean war requirements, in addition
to calling up reserves. Drafting b!
the marine corps was halted las
May.
Of 35 Allen county registrant
sent to Toledo Tuesday for pre-
induction physical examinations, on
was a Bluffton man, James Lewis.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
Good Catches At
Buckeye On Leeches

Using leeches as bait, Sam
Stepleton, of North Lawn avenue
has made some unusually good
catches of fish from Buckeye
quarry during the last week,
despite the fact that fishing
generally has been poor as a
result of the summers heat
wave.
Two large walleyes were land
ed by Stepleton last Sunday
evening. Both fish measured
about 20 inches in length. Last
week, the local angler got nine
bass and six blue gills. The
largest bass landed was Is inches
long.
About. two weeks ago, Steple-
ton also got an 1S-inch tagged
trout, one of the few reported
caught during midsummer heat.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
Bluffton May Connect With New Postal
Bus Route Between Toledo And Columbus

1t is likely that the Bluffton Post
Office will be able to make connec-
tions with the new postal bus run
between Toledo and Columbus for
speedier handling of mail between
these two important metropolitan
areas, Postmaster Ed. r. Reichen-
bach said this week.
Local postal officials have been
studying the possibilities of service
by the new route which will be in
augurated September Is.
The new mail buses are to be
manned by driver and two clerks
who sort the mail along the route
and drop it off at the various post
offices directly on the line.
One round trip daily will be made
between Toledo and Columbus serv-
ing 81 communities directly on its
path
Nearby communities on the route
are Findlay, Dunkirk and Arlington.
Local postal officials believe that
it may be possible for the present
star routes out of Bluffton to Find
lay in the afternoon and Arlington
in the morning will make good con-
nections with the new postal bus
route.
Mail collected at the local office
- +ln
fore 7:45 a. m. the next day des-
tined for Toledo would probably go
by the morning star route to Ar
lington and be in Toledo at 1910
D. m. Mail collected during other
parts of the day would make better
time going via Lima
Columbus bound mail could prob
ably catch the new route in Findlay
at around $3.50 in the afternoon
and would be in the capitol city at
8:55 the same day.
The Columbus Toledo run is sched-
uled to start in Columbus at $40
a. M, reach Toledo at 1910 p. M,
leave Toledo at 1870 p. m. and re-
turn to Columbus at 8:55 p. m.
The new routes are the fifth and
sixth of their kind in the state.
Postal buses are now operating be-
tween Cincinnati and Portsmouth,
Cincinnati and indianapolis, Colum-
bus and Gallipolis and Columbus and
Portsmouth
H. C. Washburn, Columbus district
superintendent of postal transporta-
! tion service, said in announcing the
new routes that the service may ad-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
Action On Disposal
Permit Puzzles
Town Officials

Bluffton officials were puzzled
Tuesday by an unofficial announce
ment that the village had been grant
ed only a six-month permit to al
low the community to continue empty
ing sewage into streams temporarily
until permanent disposal plant facili-
ties are completed.
The report carried in local daily
indicated that Bluffton had been
given the shortest time limit of any
of the municipalities of the area.
Several which are not as far along
as Bluffton in planning and financ-
ing their disposal plants were grant
ed permits extending from eight to
1S months.
Mayor w. A. Howe said Wednes-
day that he had not received any
official correspondence on the sub
ject and was at loss to explain the
matter. He added that possibly TIT
engineering firm now awaiting bid
on Buttons sewage treatment sys
tenn may have an explanation, O
that word would be received shortl.
from the Ohio water pollution con
troll board. 1t is this board which
grants the temporary permits.
The fact that Bluffton was grant
ed less time than any of the Other
nearby communities to complete
plans for financing the local system
came as a surprise. Local officials
have felt that the recent progress
of plans should put Bluffton in a
favorable light with the state board
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
PROGRESS ASSN.
REORGANIzING TO
PUSH SWIM POOL
New Officers To Be Elected
This Wednesday Night
At High School

Details of injecting new life into
the community's tagging swimming
pool program will be worked out by
re-activated Bluffton Community
Progress association following its
organization meeting to elect officers
in the high school building Wednes-
day night of this week.
Meetings of some of the IL panel
groups comprising the progress as
sociation still were being held on
Wednesday, to elect their representa-
tives to the executive committee.
From those named by the panels to
the executive group, officers for the
association will be selected.
Recalled from three years of In
activity, resulting since the progress
association voluntarily disbanded in
1949. the organization will have the
responsibility of spark-plugging g
campaign to obtain a new swimming
pool here.
On the executive committee viii
be one representative from each oi
the following panel groups: Business
firms, churches, clubs, service organ
izations, educational groups, farm
groups, financial organizations, gov
ernmental bodies, health agencies
industries, labor organizations anc
youth groups. ..s
Planning for an increased tempe
| in the swimming pool campaign vii
come following organization of th'
executive committee, which will thel
serve> as a steering committee fo
overall details of the program.
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new COACH CALLS
FIRST SESSION
FOR PIRATE SQUAD
Four Practice Weeks Lie
Ahead Before Season
Opener With KentOn

Bluffton High school football
practice will get under way next
week, as Pirate grid hopefuls launch
a four-week session of intensive
workouts before meeting Kenton in
the first game of the 1852 season.
First meeting of the grid squad is
set for p. m. next Tuesday in the
high school building.
Coach Pete Schmidt, new Bluffton
head football coach, has urged all
candidates, freshmen thru seniors, to
report for the opening session, at
which time equipment will be dis
tributed. Grid workouts will be
started on the following day.
For this falls gridiron season, the
Pirate squad will have two new
coaches.
Schmidt, a Bluffton star back in
the thirties, is returning here this
year as head coach. To accept the
local post, he resigned coaching
position at Genoa, in Ottawa county,
After leaving Bluffton and serving
in the Navy during World War H.
Schmidt was a four-year grid letter
man at Bowling Green state univers-
ity.
Joe L. Harris, a 1949 graduate OF
Miami university, will be assistant
football coach, in addition to teach.
ing mathematics in the high school
He comes here from Roundheac
where he was basketball coach,
position which he also will fill OF
the local school staff.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14

time in Elida before going to New
Bremen. During the summer he
will complete work on his masters
degree at Indiana State university.
Married and the father of
daughterS age 8, and a son, age 5,
Mr.. CilAsc plans to move his fam
lily be2e the opening of school to
Beave Am. The exact location of
his hfne was indefinite early this
week.
Mr.. Stoodt, a native of Beaver
dam, who now lives on a farm south
west of Bluffton, started teaching in
the Beaverdam school in 1941. He
was made superintendent the follow
ing year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
SUMMER STREET
REPAIR PROGRAM
IN FULL SWING HERE
Initial Project Of Rebuild
ing Two Blocks of High
Street Is Completed

Re-surfacing of Bluffton streets
was started Monday in a summer
program which will result in i'm
provements to IL blocks of seven
streets when it is completed.
First project finished in the work
program was a two-block improve
ment to High street from Main
street to Lawn avenue. In this part
of the summer improvement schedule,
a completely new street was built
from foundation up. Addition of the
tar-chip surface Monday afternoon
completed the work, and the street
was open to traffic at mid-week.
Other re-surfacing tar-chip pro-
jects are as follows:
Mound street-one block between
Cherry street and College avenue.
Cherry street-three blocks from
the railroad east to the Allen
Hancock county line road at the east
corporation line.
Vine street-one block from Lawn
avenue to Spring street.
Lawn avenue-one block from
High street to Grove street.
Jackson street-cutting down and
re-surfacing the Vine street inter
section; a similar project for one.
fourth block south from Church
street; and scraping the cutters ant
Applying new stone south from tn
Kibler street intersection.
Re-surfacing the south-end curv
on Harmon road also is included o.
the summer program.
Cossett and Son, of Findlay, i
handling the summer street improve
ment work.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
IL From Here At
Legion Convention

Seventeen Bluffton persons were in
Columbus last weekend, attending
the annual state convention of the
American Legion on Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday.
Representing Bluffton at the ses-
sions were Mr.. and Mrs. Burdell HUI
Der, Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Huber,
Mr.. and Mrs. Garnette Foltz, Mr..
and Mrs. Gene Mericle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Geiser, Mr.. and Mrs. Don
Martz, Mr.. and Mrs. Don Corson,
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Ingals and Byron
Fritchie.
All of the group stayed at the
Deshler- Wallick hotel, except Mr..
and Mrs. Corson who were at the
Neil House.
Also attending the convention were
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Cramer, of Lima.
Rev. Cramer was resident of
Bluffton when he was elected state
Legion chaplain year ago.
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been seeking relief from his admins
trative duties for some time, but
had difficulty in locating successor.
The new superintendent at Beaver
dam is an old friend of Mr.. Stoodt's.
John Cindric, former commercial
teacher at New Bremen, Ohio, has
accepted the post of superintendent
of Beaverdam schools to succeed
his friend, who will continue as a
teacher of history, social science and
driver education at the high school.
Relinquishing the administrative
duties will give Mr.. Stoodt the add
ed leisure he has been seeking to
spend with his family.
The new school head is graduate
of Findlay college and taught for 9
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
VO-Ag Teacher Home
From, Naval Cruise

Lorain Basinger, vocational-agri-
cultural teacher at Bluffton High
school returned home Saturday from
his Naval Reserve Training Cruise
down the Atlantic Coast from Phila-
delphia to Miami, Florida.
Aboard a small patrol craft, Es-
cort Rescue, 1t. Basinger found the
Atlantic waters rough and the wealth
er extremely hot, but all aboard en-
ioyed the cruise, he said. There
were $50 in the crew including sew
eral Lima boys.
SN/Atkinson of Lima made the
highest grade in examinations con-
Quoted at the end of the cruise.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
List Teacher Assignments
For School Opening Sept. z
Last Vacancy Filled In Second Grade
By Mrs. Mary Ann Hooker, Bluffton Grad

arts classes. The microscopes are
estimated to cost approximately $110
each and the new industrial arts
equipment, S269. The board approx
ed the purchases.
Superintendent Murray also report
ed completion of roof repairs at the
high school building and general re-
pairs and painting of both buildings.
He told the board the buildings
would be in good condition for the
opening of school the day after the
Labor Day holiday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
Woman Injured In
BeaDerddn1 MiShaD

Mrs. Mary Sousley, Of Lima, suf-
fered a fractured left leg and should
er injuries in a two-car collision five
miles west of Beaverdam on the
Lincoln highway, at Ais p. m. last
Saturday.
Mrs. Sousley was hurt when the
car she was driving collided with a
vehicle operated by Miss Ruby Leh-
man, %, Route 2, Columbus Grove.
Miss Lehman, her sister, Miss Adah
Lehman, 27, and Mrs. Sausley's hus-
band were unhurt.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14

by a band concert on the school
grounds at 7:30 and the band will
plAy several numbers concluding the
show. Also on the program are
several entertaining novelty acts.
General chairman of the Saturday
entertainment is Mrs. Dave Riser
with Mrs. Helen Stratton as co-chair-
man. Mrs. Jennings is in charge of
the style show and Mrs. Wilford
Steiner is president of the Band
Mothers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
RAND BOOSTERS PLAN FETE

Members of the ,Gory-Rawson
School Band Boosters will conduct an
Ice Cream Social at the Rawson
Grade School this Wednesday even
ing at $50. The event will be held
rain or shine and proceeds will be
used for the school band fund.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14
RECEIVES GIFT BIRD

Richard Garmatter of Route 2,
Bluffton, was one of Is persons who
received gift birds from the Buckeye
Bird club of Lima, as the result of
display at the Auglaize county
fair in Wapakoneta.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-14

women and men will be shown by
members of the school band and
other of the community's young
charmers. Many of the clothing
styles are to be shipped here direct
from New York; others have been
selected from the new fall stocks of
local clothing firms including Geiger
& Diller, Steiner & Huser, Walter
mire's, Rice Dry Goods and Tot shop
The Lape Co. and the Davies Hat
Shoppe.
The style show will be preceded