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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21

rangement in a compete.
Featured compositions class in
cludes arrangement suggesting a
hobby; arrangement to. harmonic
with patterned china plate; arrange
ment using a mirror as a background,
the side reflected in mirror a con-
trast; arrangement using a book title.
Two arrangement classes are open
to Juniors; and in a continuation of
amateur classes there VIII be sections
for house plants unusual house
plants and an open class for corsages.
In the feature department of the
show there will be open classes in six
sections-dahlias, delphiniums, roses,
gladioli, vegetables and fruits. These
will be the major events of the two
day event and in some sections, es-
pecially gladioli, the best show in his
tory is anticipated.
Winner of the open class gladioli
section will receive a perpetual tro-
ply upon which bis name will be en-
grayed. Donated by Kermit Herr,
Bluffton, the trophy must be returned
to the Garden clubs in 1858 so it may
be offered at the next flower show.
Permanent possession of the trophy
is awarded when it has been won
three times.
Last years winner was Orlie Wea-
yer, of Grand Rapids, O.
The flower show is sponsored annu-
ally by the Mems and Women's Gar
den clubs of Button.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21

contracting the telephone operator,
council was told.
One of the fires, at the Harvey
Gratz farm just outside the corpora
ton limits, could have been serious,
it was pointed out, had Gratz lived a
greater distance from the village. In
that instance the alarm had to be
sounded by driving into town to re-
port the fire, because the operator
could not be reached.
According to reports made to u
cilmen, another country fire, destroy
ing a quantity of standing wheat,
could have been checked with con-
~siderably less damage had it been
possible to eliminate a long delay ex-
pefenced in waiting for the tele-
phone operator to reply.
While council at its meeting
Monday heard criticism of de-
lays experienced in contracting
the telephone office to report
fires, Mayor W. A. Howe had oc-
casion to make a telephone call.
You guessed it. He couldn't get
the operator.
Fears were expressed that unless
better telephone service is made
available here, serious fire damage
may sometime result from delays in
getting word to the fire department.
Lack of water at rural fires also
came under consideration after de-
partment officials reported there of
ten Is a shortage Of water at the
scene of farm blazes.
Neighboring farmers can help a
lot when there are rural fires If they
will fill all empty milk cans with wa
ter and take them to the blaze with
them, Assistant Fire Chief Clarence
Stonehill reported.
Enough water brought in that
fashion may sometime help bring q
fire under control at a critical time
it was pointed out. From past Elk
perience, Fire Chief Guy Corson said
there have been times in past year
when farm buildings were lost whel
the department ran out of water.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
Many From Here Expected To Attend
Centennial OF SUiss Settled Berne, Ind.

Wednesday has been set up
on the program as "Youth Day."
Thursday is Agriculture Day."
Friday, "Swiss Homecoming
Day." and Saturday closes the
week-long celebration with the
observance of Industrial Day."
The "Swiss Homecoming Day"
will attract many Blufftonites
for a program which includes
Swiss accordion music, poems of
the homeland, mountain yodeling,
and an address in the Swiss dia-
lect. Many of the Berne towns
folk are dressing during the
week in the costumes of their
ancestral land. A feature of
the program is a concert by the
Zuercher Accordion Band.
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Scores of Bl~ufftonites, who
take pride in their Swiss an
cestory, are expected to board
family autos and HE themselves
this week to Berne, Ind, the
widely-known Swiss settlement
now observing its centennial.
The occasion, promising, to be
a gala fete, marks the Tooth
anniversary of the arrival in
that area of so Swiss immi-
grants in 1882. 1t was not until
a number of years later, around
1870 or 1871, that the town
was actually plated.
1t was crop failures, high
rent and strict laws on military
service in the old country that
gave the early settlers-most of
them
Fever" The group left their
homes in the Jura Mountains on
March 8, 1852. They arrived in
New York aboard the ship
Zimmerman" an S0-ton, three
mast sailing vessel, 1923 feet
long and % feet wide, after a
rather trying crossing.
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Births

The following births were reported
during the past week at the Bluff
ton Community hospital: b
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smith, R. r.
s., Findlay, a boy, Wayne Henry,
born last Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Christobal Jimenez,
Mt. Cory, a girl, Sylvia, born last
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Haskell, Lima,
a girl, Gayle Louise, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Umphress,
Ada, a girl, Kay Lynne, born Mon
day
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Andrews,
Beaverdam, a boy, Earl Clifford,
born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Warkentin,
Whitehouse, Ohio, became the par
ents of their fourth daughter Tues
day. The baby was born in a Toledo
hospital. Mrs. Warkentin is the
former Miss Freda Jean Fritchie of
Bluffton.
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GLIDING "a boys in all entered in the
judging event.
Other local F. F. A. boys receiving
top awards in grain show were:
Fred Amstutz, wheat, A award; L.
Moser, wheat, A; D. Leiber, wheat,
B; r. Bucher, wheat, c.; L. Moser,
soybeans, A; E, Lehman, corn, A; X.
Reichenbach, project book, B.; d.
Berry, project book, A; E. Lehman,
project book, B; r. Bucher, project
book; A. Criblez, corn, A; w. Leh-
man, corn, A; L. Moser, corn, B;
F. Amstutz, corn, A; and A. Crib
lez, corn, A.
Other awards went 10 Don Kim
NIT, Jaw horse, A; w. Lehman, nail
tray, B; F. Amstutz, nail tray, A;
J.. Badertscher, nail tray, A; d,
Geiger, tool carrier, A; F. Amstutz,
tool carrier, A; ]. Badertscher, too
carrier, B; w. Lehman, feed trays
A; j. ~Badertscher, feed trays, b
w. Lehman, saw horse, A; D. Geig,
(Cantimed on page 12)
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PROGRESS ASSN.
TO HEAR REPORTS
ON POOL COSTS
Election OF Chairman
Friday Will Complete
Groups Organization

Organization of the Bluffton Com
munity Progress association, which
is being re-activated to take over
sponsorship of the municipal swim
ming pool campaign, will be COM
pleted at a meeting of the group at
7 p. m. this Friday in the high
school library. a.
At a meeting of the executive
committee last Wednesday, the group
was partially organized, with final
details to be worked out at this
weeks session.
Twelve of the Is panels, comprising
the organization were represented at
last weeks meeting, ard the other
two groups plan to complete cleo
ton of their representatives on the
the executive committee before this
Fridays final organizatipnal ses-
Sion.
Representatives elected to the ex-
ecutiye committee and the panels
they represent are: William Edwards,
business firms; Rev. L. Nj. McIntire,
churches; Mrs. Stanley Basinger,
clubs; Harry Bogart, service organ
izations; P. w. Stauffer, educational
groups; Edgar Herr, farm groups;
James West, financial; Everett SUIT
ermeister, government; James Szabo,
industry; Kenneth Schaublin, labor;
Earl Matter, ~fraternal organizations
and Karl Klassen, youth groups.
The panel group which has not yet
reported it's representative is the
health agencies.
Election of officers was partially
completed at last weeks session, as
follows: Vice president, Kenneth
Schaublin; Secretary, Mrs. Stanley
Basinger; and Treasurer, James F.
West. The president will be elected
this week.
Bogart was named chairman of q
committee to make a study of what
surrounding communities n doing
with respect to swimming pools, with
a report on findings to be made Fri
day.
A committee named to investigate
the cost of a pool is headed by
Szabo.
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No entry fees or admission charges
will be made, and the show will be
open for public inspection on the two
days, according to the following
schedule:
Saturday-1:30 to 10 p. m.
Sunday to 5 p. m.
All entries are to be in place in the
gymnasium by 1880 a. n. on the OPP
ening day of the show. First, Sec
ond and third place ribbons will be
awarded to winners in the various
exhibit classes, plus purple ribbons
for the sweepstakes.
Three sections--the specimen class,
artistic arrangements and featured
compositiops-are open to amateurs,
Also featured will be a junior class,
for entrance under IA years of age.
In the amateur specimen class, en-
try is open for any of the following.
,cockscomb, gladioius marigold, large
aQd small z~ennia, harge, fantasy and
small lowered; asters and tuberous
rooted b~egonias; also bouquet of gar
den flowers, judged for quality only.
Artistic arrangements are set for
zennias in antique containers, mari
colds in black containers; roses,
Queen Anne's Lace with other flow
ers; small flowers of one kind, minia-
ture not to exceed three inches; semi
miniature not to exceed seven inch
es; fruits, flowers and vegetables; ar
rangement using plant material in
three shades of green; arrangement
of gladiolas; begonias and mass ar
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FOLTz RESIGNS;
BOGART CHOSEN
new Cd CHIEF
District Legion Office
To Require Extra Time
OF Former Chief

Garnette Foltz has resigned as
Buttons Civil Defense chief and
has been succeeded by Harry Bogart,
who served as Foltz' assistant during
the two years since the unit was DR.
ganized in August, 1850.
Appointment of Bogart to head
the organization of more than 100
volunteers was announced Tuesday
night by Mayor Wilbur A. Howe.
At the same time he disclosed Foltz'
resignation had been accepted.
Retirement of Foltz from the civil
defense picture followed his election
as vice-commander of District ii, the
American Legion. Duties required
in filing the Lyon post will mo-
nopolize his time and make it impos.
sible to continue as local civil de
Tense head, Foltz said.
Bogart's appointment as defense
chief here places the organization In
the hands of a man who has been
close to all details of setting up and
administering the program since its
Inauguration in 1850. As assistant
chief of Bluffton CD forces, he has
worked closely with Foltz in or.
ganizational details and conducting
two full-scale notifications of local
volunteers.
The new CD chief served with
military forces in the Far East dur
ing World War III, and is a past
commander of the Button American
Legion post.
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Granted last week by the control
board, the six-months state permit
will expire next February.
By that time, Button must have
completed its program for financing
the towns sewage disposal system,
the mayor was advised in a letter
from DR.. John D. Porterfeld, chair
man of the pollution control board. =
AS matters now stand financing ar
rangements have been made for only
one-third of the estimated cost of
S580,000 for installing the system
here.
This is in the form of a $4,000
bond issue authorized by voters at
the polls in November, 1850.
Remainder of the money needed
must come from special assessments
on the property tax duplicate, and
revenue bonds, which will be retired
from sewer rental charges applied
after the disposal system is in opera
ton. From these two sources ap-
proximately 100000 must be raised.
Preliminary municipal planning
has indicated that in raising the
100000, approximately $250,000 will
be levied against real estate in the
form of special assessments; with
another $150,000 coming from "
nue. bonds to be retired from eve
rental.
State conditions in issuing the six
months permit make it imperative
that all financing arrangements be
completed before the date of the per-
nit expiration, and council now has
the responsibility of drafting all de-
tails of a program to pay for the sys-
tenn by that time.
In one respect, however, there Is
indication that Button may be run
ming ahead of the schedule of pro-
gress expected by the state.
DR.. Porterfield's letter pointed out
that after financing arrangements
are completed, the town will be ex-
pected to proceed with advertising
for bids for installing the system.
Advertising for bids already is out Of
the way, and contractors proposals
will be opened Thursday of next
week.
If acceptable bids are received,
contracts can be let for the work
here several months before required
by the state schedule, Mayor Howe
said.
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PARKING LOT
Being EXPANDED
and IMPROVED
Lot Graded And Extended
Toward Thurman ST.,
To Install Markers

This week while metropolitan
centers throughout Ohio are consid-
ering issuance of ven bonds for
municipal off the-street parking lots,
Buttons own municipal parking lot
which has been in use for several
years, was undergoing improvement.
Lee Coon, Buttons chief of police
and street commissioner, said that
the lower part of the lot toward
Thurman street had been graded to
increase the lot size and will be
surfaced with tar and chips.
Other improvements contemplated
on the lot include a division with
wire cable and marking off individual
parking lanes to provide more order
ly use of the facility located off
Main street in the center of the
business section.
The lot may be entered by way of
the alley off Main or Elm streets
and exit will be by way of Thurman
street.
Meanwhile Chief Coon explained the
street improvement program is go
ing forward. Next on the list Of
resurfacing jobs is Mound street
from Elm to Cherry and Vine street
from Lawn to Spring. These streets
will be treated with tar and stone
chips similar to the High street inn
.provement.
The order of further street repairs
has not been determined, although a
number of others are scheduled for
work by the municipal street crew.
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LOCAL p CROP
SMALLEST IN YRS.
IN BLUFFTON area
Story Is Different On
Peaches With Prospects
Of Good Picking

In contrast to last falls bumper
yield, the 1852 apple crop in the
Bluffton area will be the smallest
in many years, drastically reducing
the fall output of fruit and cider.
Fruit farmers of the district re-
ported this week that in most cases
1862 apple harvests will be only app
proximately 20 per cent of average,
and that the condition is general
thruout this part of the state.
Last years ~near-record crop draws
the blame for poor harvest prospects
this season, with growers pointing
out that a bad season always fol-
lows an exceptionally good one.
Area cider mills, which sometimes
start operations in late July, will
not begin processing this year until
early September because of the ap-
pie shortage, and the cider season
viii lbe a short one once it does get
under way, it was pointed out.
One bright aspect to the area fruit
picture, however, is a bumper peach
crop, Heavily-laden early peach
trees already ire ripening, and pros
poets are equally good for late
peaches.
Pear prospects n fair, consider
ably better than the apple outlook,
and there are indications of a good
plum harvest in the tall
Major Bluffton area fruit produce
ton, however, is provided by apple
orchards and the exceptionally poor
prospect for that crop is the de-
termining factor in a bleak outlook
so far as the general 1852 fruit pic
ture is concerned.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
InUite Mems Garden
Clubs To Meet Here

Button Mems Garden club has
invited the North Central Section of
Mems Garden clubs to hold their
August, 1853, conference in Bluffton,
it was announced this week.
If the invitation is accepted, rep
resentatives from mems garden clubs
from five states will attend the ses-
sion here. States comprising the
section r Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
West Virginia and Michigan.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21

four-year enrolment drop at the To-
cal college will level off this year.
In fact, the possibility is e that
there may even be an increase in en-
rollment by the time school opens.
This falls freshman class is ex-
pected to be as large, if not larger,
than that of 10 which registered
here in 1851, and preliminary sur
veys of students in the three upper
classes indicate that most are plan
ming to return.
ENROLMENT PROSPECTS,
Last September Bluffton had a
total enrolment Of slightly more
than 200 students, of whom 70 were
freshmen. Pre-registration at the
school so far this week shows en-
rollment of rs freshmen and other
new students, college authorities said.
In contrast to last fall when Sc of
70 freshmen were men, the enroll
ment of frst-year women will be
nearly UOuDIe IHIS idAA VI I"S DAah
ton campus. Approximately half of
the 1852 freshmen will be co-eds, &C
cording to present indications.
FOREIGN STUDENTS
Students from eight foreign coun-
tries will be here for the fall term,
all natives of the lands from which
they come.
Two students will be here from
Trans-Jordan (near Jerusalem) ; two
from Puerto Rice; two firm Trini1
dad; and one each from Holland,
Germany, China and Formoss. In
addition there will NbeN three Cana
dams in the student body. NV
Glass sessions for the fall term
will begin on Thursday Sept. IL,
after upper-class registration is COM
pleted earlier in that week. Fresh
men will report at the college for
registration and ~orientation begin
ming on September 5.
Football practice is scheduled to
begin Tuesday, Sept. 2, under the
direction of Coach Ken Mast.
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DriUers Urged To Heed
White Cane On Street

Bluffton motorists urged this
week to be on the lookout for a
pedestrian with a white cane and to
come to a stop when the cane was
extended signalling that the man in
tended to cross the street.
The cane, which has a PHOSPHORUS
glow at night, was presented Tues
day by the local Lions Club to
Charles Fenton, who has been losing
vision.
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High School Schedule
Cards Ready Soon

Button high school class schedule
cards will be available to all of the
students at the high school office
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
August 27, % and 20, it was an
nounced this week by Principal Ger
hard Butler.
Students may pick up their indi-
vidual cards during regular office
hours on those days from 8 to 1880
and 1 to 8. The schedules give class
hour times so that students will
know where to go IN opening day,
Sept. 2, when an abbreviated sched-
ule will be followed in the afternoon
from 1880 to 4 o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
Diller Takes
New SkidmOre Post

Doris Diller, r. ~, who has been
an instructor in Surgical Nursing at
Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
Md, has resigned to accept a new
position as Associate Professor at
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs,
New York.
Miss Diller will be Director of the
Cancer Research project at the Skid
more Nursing school in New York
city. She will assume her new du-
ties sometime in September.
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Plan Training Course
For Girl Scout Leaders

A leadership training course for
present and future Girl Scout lead
ers is being arranged as a part of
the fall scouting program in Bluff
ton, it was announced this week by
Mrs. B. w. Travis, community chair
man. e.
Hopeful that a number of Bluff
ton women will be interested in as
sisting with the local scouting work,
Mrs. Travis said that she urged all
to register with her for the course.
1t will be given by Miss Elizabeth
Mckee, scout executive of the Fort
Amanda Council, Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
Electric Service Firm
Seeks Location Here

The Beaver Electric Service, oper-
ated for tie past seven years in
Beaverdam, Iis looking for a new To-
cation closer to Button, it was
learned this week when the prophet
or, Clarence Boop announced that he
is planning to sell the present build
ing in Beaverdam.
The Beaverdam firm specializes in
electric motor windings and repairs
of all types of electrical equipment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
No Damage In 9Th
Grass Fire Of Year

Buttons sixth grass fire of the
summer was extinguished about $3.50
p. m. Tuesday on a vacant lot at the
rear of the DR.. F. ID. Rodabaugh
apartments, the former KILLER prop
erty, at the corner of Main street
and College avenue.
Although the blaze was q small
one, the FIRE department was called
because Of fears that it might spread
to the apartment garage at the rear
of the residential property. It was
quickly extinguished with no dam
age reported
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
HOME ON FURLOUGH

A/3c Dale E. Riser, who is en-
a 15-day furlough at home in
Bluffton with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilbur Riser, will return to
San Marcos, Texas, when it expires
to assume new duties as an Altman
police.
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ATTENDS PURDUE MEETING

The Rev. Robert L. King of Bluff
ton is one of nearly 200 youth dele
gates and conference directors at
tending the series of national Metho-
dist youth meetings at Purdue Uni
versity, Lafayette, Ind, this week.
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Local Gardeners Vie For Posie Laurels
In Annual Two-Day Flower Show, Sat, Sun.

A twoday Bluffton flower show in the high school gymnas-
ium next Saturday afternoon and evening and Sunday afternoon
will be one of the largest events of its kind ever held in this
community, committees in charge of arrangements revealed this
week.
Entry in the various events is open to anyone interested.
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Increase In Enrolment At Bluffton College
Is Possibility; Decline Is Leveling Off

A leveIfngof of the decline in enrolment which has hit
Button college since the postwar peak in 1947 is indicated in
preregistration statistics released this week by school authori-
ties.
Based on the number of applications on hand three weeks
before opening of the fall semester, there is evidence that the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
Phone Service Draws Fire
COuncilmen Alarmed Over Delays
In Rousing Central In Emergencies

Hazards resulting from delays experienced in contracting the
telephone central office when wanting to report fires drew
criticism at a meeting of municipal council Monday night during
discussion of fire department problems.
In two July fires extinguished by the Button fire depart
ment, persons reporting the blazes experienced difficulty in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21
Bluffton Must Push Plans
To Finance Disposal Plant
Renewal OF Permit To Discharge Sewers
In Riley Subject To Progress On Plan

Renewal of Buttons six-months permit from the state to
discharge the towns sewers into Big and Little Riley creeks
will be contingent on arrangements for financing the local sewage
disposal system having been completed by the permits expiration
date, Mayor W.. A. Howe has been notified by the Ohio Water
Pollution Control Board.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21

IN MUNICH, GERMANY, the
subject of discussion is, of
course, Button, Ohio, when this
pair gets together. They are
Harry Klay and John s. Bracy.
Klay is with the Army stationed
in Salzburg, Austria, and Bracy
is with the Air Force at Lands
berg Germany. They were class
mates in high school here.
The fact that the young men
are able to read type upside
down is interesting, or are they
giving The Bluffton News a plug
and making sure that the mast
head is readable for the folk at
home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21

For home canning, homemakers
need ripe, firm peaches.