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The Nome nugget., 1952-03-24
More CrackdOwns On Iron Curtain
 Embassies in US.
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, P)-The State Department threatened more crackdowns on Iron Curtain em- bassies and legations in this coun- try which distribute abusive pro- paganda against the United States.
 Department informants said the shutdown Friday of a magazine published by the Polish embassy was intended partly as warning to other Red governments.
 Behind the American attitude appears the basic policy belief that the maintenance of US. dip lomatic missions behind the Iron Curtain is desirable-but not at any price.
 Secretary of State Acheson or dered the Polish embassy to cease publishing its magazine, 'Poland Today" which comes out every two months, and to issue no more press releases the State Depart ment considers improper.
 In his rebuke to Ambassador Jozef Winiewicz, Acheson indie ated further decisive steps would be taken if the order is not fol- lowed.
 The American protest was against violent denunciation of this country's hearing on the Katyn Massacre, which the Polish magazine called "a farce"
The Nome nugget., 1952-03-24
Foreign Policy Is World Peace But Not At Any Price

WASHINGTON, R)-President Truman says the basic purpose of the American foreign policy is to build peace in the world-but not at any price. And he says it is succeeding.
 "We are turning back the threat of Communism" the President says in a foreword to an 80-page outline of US. foreign policy, drafted by the State Department at his request and printed for public use.
 "The purpose of the American foreign policy is to defend the independence and the integrity of the republic. To do this we must build peace in the world; not peace at any price, but peace in which the peoples of all coun- tries -b big and little alike - can live free from the fear of aggres- sion Everything we do in our relations with other countries has that paramount aim."
 It was made clear that US. postwar relations with other na- tions have been molded by a continuing threat of Soviet ag- greSSiOn.
The Nome nugget., 1952-03-24
Wisconsin And
 Nebraska Elections To Be Next Week
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PREss)

While Wisconsin voters settled back Monday to a week of being wooed by presidential hopefuls, the Nebraska electorate heard talk of "write-in" drive.
 Both states hold primaries April 1 and, as the final campaign week began, this was the picture:
 In Wisconsin, Republicans had choice among three candidates for presidential nomination-Sen. Taft, Gov. Earl Warren and Harold Stassen. All three were stumping for their slates of 30 convention delegates.
 Gen. Eisenhower's name is not on the Wisconsin ballot as the state does not count write-ins.
 Democrats in Wisconsin choose between two 28-vote delegate tickets, both claiming to represent President Truman. But Sen. Ke- fauver was waging a battle he hopes will sweep the board.
 In Nebraska, Rep. Buffett's re- turn home from Washington was expected to open a write-in cam paign for Taft. Eisenhower SUD- porters already have asked news papers to show how .write-ins are cast. Stassen packers criticized Buffett's move and invited the Eisenhower people to align them selves with Stassen.
 The Democratic race is between Kefauver and Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma.
 In Washington, D. C., the Wash ington Post, an independent news paper which has not endorsed a presidential candidate during the 20 years of its present manage ment, said editorially Monday. ."We stand for Eisenhower" It called for a complete change '' said ga Taft Truman contest would settle nothing" and labeled Eisenhower "the dynamic force to rejuvenate our politics"
The Nome nugget., 1952-03-24

PAWLING, NY. (P-Monday is Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's 50th birthday but he says he is not celebrating. ............... .....
 ''I'm trying to forget it," Dewey jo ed Sunday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Bluffton Man Has Extensive Collection OF
National Political Convention Mementos

A collection of national political
convention souvenirs started back in
1916 when Charles Evans Hughes
was nominated as the presidential
candidate of the Republican party is
being displayed this week in the
window of The News by M. M.
Murray former Bluffton postmaster
and for many years COP leader
here.
In the collection are ticket stubs
for Republican national conventions
attended by Murray from 1916 thru
1886.
The 1916 convention in Chicago
which nominated Hughes bears a
autographed reproduction of the
nations capitol and the Republic
statute.
On the 1920 ticket for the Chicago
convention which nominated Hard
ing, thu, nations capitol again is
shown. The 1924 ticket for the
Cleveland convention where Coolidge
was nominated bears a picture OF
President Warren G. Harding.
Ticket for the 1928 convention a
which Hoover was nominated shows
picture of the Garden in Kansa:
City where the convention was held
The 1882 convention ticket for tn;
Chicago meeting at which Hoovel
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
MARCHING BANDS,
TWIRLERS, FLOATS
In PARADE FRIDAY
Pre-ROdeo Attraction Billed to
Start in Afternoon at 5
O'clock
Main Street will be Closed to
Make Way for Parade
Marchers

. Featuring entries of horsemen,
floats, kiddies and marching bands, a
gigantic pre-rodeo parade at 5 D. m.
Friday will be one of the biggest
community events ever staged here
and will attract a crowd estimated
in the thousands.
Crack marching bands and twirlers
here to participate in the National
Open Twirling contest scheduled on
the morning and afternoon of the
holiday will be in the line of march,
separating the various classes includ-
ing floats, kiddie entries, horsemen
and horsewomen, farm machinery
and new automobiles.
To provide more room for specta-
tors expected here for the Friday
night parade parking of automobiles
will be banned on Main street thru
out the downtown area (from College
avenue to Elm street) beginning at
8 p. m. No parking will be per-
mitted until the parade has ended.
Parade Route
Forming at the Saddle Horse field
on Vance street, the Friday night
procession viii be routed on Vance
to Jefferson, up jefferson to Main;
then on Main street south to Poplar
street where the parade will turn
left one block to Harmon road, and
terminate in front of the Harmon
field stadium.
Floats and other parade entries
will be parked in front of the
stadium before and during the rodeo.
The space from College Ave. bridge
to railroad will be reserved for par
ade exhibitors.
Childrens' entries will parade only
from the Elm street traffic light on
Main street to the traffic light at
tthe intersection of College avenue.
The children entries will form at
Main and Elm, and follow as the last
parade class in the line of march
as the procession passes Elm street.
Float and Entry Prizes
Fifteen Golden Championship
trophies will be awarded to parade
entrants in five classes.
Trophies viii be given to first,
second and third place winners in
each division, as follows: 1-Busi-
ness and industrial float class; o.
Organizational floats; 3-Horsemen
class for best-decorated horse and
rider; 4-Children's class, for ages
through IA; 5--Novelty class.
Registration cards for the parade
can be made out on parade day,
beginning at a p m, or at the
Geiger and Diller store any day this
week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
SEEK TO OBTAIN
SEWER SYSTEM
RIGHT-OF-WAY
Negotiations to be Started with
Property Owners this
Month
Route of Interceptors will be
Mainly Along Two Riley
Creeks

Negotiations will be started this
month to obtain right-of-way for
Buttons new sewage disposal
system interceptors wherever they
cross private property, it was an
nounced Tuesday by Mayor w. A.
Howe.
A list of properties on which the
intercepting sewers will travel was
compiled last Friday at conference
here between Mayor Howe, City
Solicitor John Romey and Carlton
Finkbeiner, representing the. firm of
Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout, the
towns consulting engineers.
Romey will be in charge of OBJ
tanning the necessary easements for
the sewer right-of-way.
In most cases routes of the inter-
cepting sewers along Big and Little
Riley creeks will follow city streets,
but where the interceptors run on
private property easements will be
required, it was pointed out.
Obtaining the right-of-way for the
sewers will mark another step to-
ward an early start on the disposal
system program, city officials said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Material At Hand
For Street Signs

Erection of signs at Bluffton
street intersections which has been a
project of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, will be completed shortly,
it was stated by Paul Reichenbach,
president of the organization.
His statement came in connection
with an announcement that the West
Ohio Gas company had donated
enough two-inch pipe to finish the
job.
Two more signs were installed
Monday night on Main street at
Lake avenue and Beaver road inter-
sections. The posts were set in
concrete and then painted aluminium.
Helping on the work were James
Daley, Don Augsburger, Wayne Am
stutz, Don Kagy and Reichenbach.
Newly elected officers of the Jay
Gees will be installed at the monthly
meeting in the Walnut Grill this
Wednesday night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

was again nominated has picture
of George Washington.
Last of the convention tickets in
Murray's collection is that for Cleve-
land in 1886 at which Alfred Landon
was nominated. 1t bears a picture
of William Mckinley.
Also in the collection are photo
graphs of the seven vice-presidents
who entered the White House thru
death of the president.
These include John Tyler who
succeeded William Henry Harrison;
Miliard Fillmore who succeeded
Zachary Taylor; Andrew Johnson
who succeeded Abraham Lincoln;
Chester A. Arthur who succeeded
James Garfield; Theodore Roosevelt
who succeeded William Mckinley;
Calvin Coolidge who succeeded War
rem G. Harding, and Harry S. Tru-
man who succeeded Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Of the seven, Theodore Roosevelt
was the first to be elected president
after serving the unexpired term oi
his predecessor. Following Roose'
velt, however, both Coolidge ant
Truman were elected president ir
their own right.
The collection also carries a clip
| ping showing that presidents elected
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
C010rful ROdeO and Fireworks
to Bring Crowds Here for Fourth
National Open Baton Twirling Contest
Will Be Fourth Of July Attraction Here

A new feature on this years gala
Fourth of July program will be the
National Open Championship baton
twirling contest to be held at Har-
mon field on the morning and after
noon of the holiday.
Inclusion of the national contest
on the towns Independence Day pros
gram will permit Bluffton to present
holiday celebration unequalled for
interest in this part of Ohio, for the
days events also will be marked by
a gigantic evening parade, followed
by the nighttime rodeo and fire.
works exhibition.
National baton twirling competi-
ton will be tied in with other
events of the holiday, for all
competitors in the contests will
march in the rodeo parade and stage
a full-dress exhibition at the rodeo.
Competing for national honors,
twirlers in all age groups will put
on a brilliant show beginning at 10
a. m. thru p. m.
There will be no admission charge
for the twirling contest, it was an
nounced by Victor Faber, national
baton-twirling champion, who is in
charge of the national meet. Faber
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gratz, Pam
dora, girl, Jane Sue, last Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Orwick, Will
Jamestown, a boy, John Joseph,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. McDougle,
Col. Grove, girl, Karen Sue, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Heinrich,
Lafayette, girl, Catherine Eileen,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Latta, Nc
Comb, a girl, Marha Lee, Sunday.
DIR. and Mrs. Franklin Rodabaugh,
Bluffton, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Thompson,
Lima, a boy, Gary Lynn, born at
Lima Memorial hospital last We'd
nesday. Mrs. Thompson is the form
er Glenna Binkley of Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Punches, Lat.
ty, boy, Doyle Stanley, born al
Paulding hospital last Wednesday
Mrs. Punches is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. N. NJ. Hiestand Of Orang,
township
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
lBluhton Woman To Turn Over Residence
As Home for Furloughed Missionaries

Plans to deed her South Lawn
avenue home to the First Mennonite
church, as a residence for foreign
missionaries here on furlough, were
announced by Miss Lydia Gratz at a
meeting of the church congregation
last week.
Title to the property will go to
the church "when she no longer has
any use for it," the announcement
specified. No definite time is set
therefore in which the transfer will
become effective.
The seven-room house will be con-
trolled by the church for the use OF
missionaries on furlough, and not for
retired mission workers, it was point
ed out. The retired group presum-
ably will go to the projected Men,
MONTE Old Peoples home which is
to be constructed here on the old
Fox Farm site.
In addition to Miss Gratz, present
occupants of the residence she plans
to turn over to the church are her
invalid sister, Mrs. Clara Geiser, and
an aunt, Mrs. Henry Tripplehorn,
formerly of Detroit, who is caring
for Mrs. Geiser.
The lot on which the house stands
is 8313 feet by 167 feet. At the
rear of the lot, fronting on Spring
street is the site bought by the First
Mennonite congregation last week as
location for the church's new par
sonage soon to be erected.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Allen County Fire Departments In
Mutual Aid Group Including Bluffton

Organization of Allen county's IL
paid and volunteer fire departments
for mutual aid in case of major fire
disasters came out of a meeting of
the groups in Lima last Thursday
night.
Representing Bluffton at the ses-
sion was Guy Corson, chief of the
local volunteer department, who said
that one of the principal advantages
of the organization is the fact that
the Lima Ordinance Depot is a
member. This is the only unit in
the county which has apparatus to
fight oil fires, he pointed out.
A group of so men attending the
meeting elected Harold Boyer, as
sistant chief of the Spencerville de-
partment their first president.
Also elected to office were Walter
Young, Spencerville chief, vice-presi-
dent; and Kermit Stemen, Elida fire.
man, secretary-treasurer.
The group accepted an invitation
from Chief Robert Chapman, of
Westminster, to hold the next meet
ing of the association in that town
at 1880 p. m., July II.
A fried fish dinner was served to
the group attending the session, and
movies were shown.
Allen county department whose
Representatives attended the meeting
included Beaverdam, Bluffton, Cairo,
Elida, Delphos, Lima Ordnance De-
pot, Spencerville, Westminster and
Lima,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
WHEAT HARVEST
READY TO START
HERE THIS week
Hot Spell Ripens Stand in
Button Area Earlier than
Usual
Corn Hit by Drought; Farmers
Say Hay is Best Quality
Ever
BULLETIN

Combining of wheat may
start in the Bluffton district this
Wednesday afternoon if samples
of grain to be tested at the
Farmers Grain company prove
satisfactory. Tests of samples
run Wednesday morning contain
ed only a small amount of excess
moisture.
Combining of wheat will be under
way in the Bluffton district thi:
week, earlier than usual because o.
a continuing record-breaking hea
wave and the prolonged June
drought.
Some wheat harvesting alread!
has been reported in the Pandora
Columbus Grove area, and combine!
will be busy within a few days il
Bluffton vicinity fields, farm observ
ers pointed out Tuesday.
Early ripening of the crop to ;
great extent is the result of a pro
longed June assault of heat nov
going into its third week, during
which all-time records for the month
have been broken time and again.
1O3 on Two Days
Twice over the weekend tn,
mercury jumped to new June recorc
readings, when marks of 103 wer,
recorded last Saturday and Sunday
For 13 consecutive hours on the lat
ter day the temperature was in tn,
high nineties or over 100 as are;
residents sweltered in the hottest
June weather on record.
In nearby Lima high reading
were 104 on the two days; Putnam
county weather observer Ray Burk
holder, of near Pandora, reporte,
102 degrees, and Findlay had 100
degree weather
After a respite on Monday, tn
heat wave returned in a new assault
on Tuesday and little relief was il
sight as a continuation of dr.,
weather was predicted.
| Wheat Looks Good
Despite the June drought, thi
Years wheat prospects are gooc
farm observers said this week. 1t i
expected that the crop will be o
good quality and the yield will b
above average. -
Corn planted early in the seaso
looks good in spite of the drought
but late-seeded stands are bein
hurt by a continuation of the hot
Idry weather.
Most oats yields will be light be
Icause of the drought and heat, bu
La bright spot in the crop pictur
ihas been an unusually good ha
harvesting season. Lack of raj
|during the harvest. has made thi
years hay crop one of the best o
Irecord from the quality standpoint
4 June Is Driest
i June was the driest on record, az
Icording to weather bureau record
(which showed only 1.26 inches {
| Continued on Page 8
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Real Estate Deals

Dean Niswander has purchased the
Ellenberger residence on South Main
street and expects to occupy the
property at later date.
John Burkholder of Pandora has
purchased the Mrs. Mae Schifferly
property at the intersection of Rt.
103 and the county line. He ex-
poets to rent the property after be-
ing remodeled.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

is we'll known in Bluffton, having
conducted his summer school of
twirling on the Bluffton college
campus here for the last three years.
His fourth school will open here
next Sunday.
In the national contest to be held
here on the Fourth, Faber already
has more than 125 entries from nine
states. In addition to twirlers from
this part of the nationa. some will
be here from as far away as Texas,
Faber pointed out.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Breakdown Prevents
TB X-Rdys Here

An equipment breakdown made it
impossible for the X-ray mobile unit
of the Allen County tuberculosis
and Health association to make a
scheduled stop in Bluffton last Fri
day.
X-ray tests will be available for
community residents some time later
in July, however, and new date
will be announced early in the
month.
In the meantime the unit will
make scheduled stops in other Allen
county towns.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03

at 20-year intervals die in office"
This shows: 1840-William Henry
Harrison; 1860-Abraham Lincoln;
1880-James A. Garfield; 1900-Wil-
liam Mckinley; 1920-Warren G.
Harding and 1940-Franklin ID.
Roosevelt.
Also shown in the collection are
the results of presidential elections
since 1860.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
Firenaen Called
To TlUO Bldzes

Buttons fire department ans
wered two calls the first of the
week, damage in both instances be-
ing small.
A fire started at the Elk restau-
rant from hot water gas heater
and burned small portion of the
floor, Sunday afternoon. On Tues
day afternoon the department was
called to the residence of Mrs. Ge-
neva Badertscher on West Elm street
when a grass fire, resulting from
burning trash, threatened to get out
of control.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-03
STATE APPROVES
RELOCATION OF
HIGHWA ROUTE
Newly Planned Route COnstruc-
tiOn will Bypass BlufftOn
East of Town
State Directors Ruling Indicates
no Alternate Route Thru
Town

Relocation of the Dixie highway
to bypass Bluffton east of town on
the same route which brought pro-
tests from the Bluffton Business
Mems association has been approved
by the director of the state highway
department.
In the ruling the highway director
made no mention of the Bluffton
protest, and his approval of the
proposed route skirting the town
apparently indicates that local busi-
ness men have lost their fight to
keep the highway on Moin street of
the village.
Indication that no alternate route
through the town is-planned is seer
in the highway directors ruling that
when the new four-lane highway is
CONSTRUCTED Bluffton's Main street is
"to be abandoned as a state high
way"
Abandon Route
A total of CTS miles of the
present Dixie route in and on both
sides of Bluffton are scheduled for
abandonment, the highway director
ordered.
The section to be dropped as a
state highway when the new route is
completed begins between Beaverdam
and Bluffton, and is described as
follows:
From the Phillips road to the
south corporation of Bluffton; then
along Main street, thence northeast
erly through Richland township and
Hancock county a distance of CTS
miles,
The directors order specifies the
route is "to be vacated as a state
highway when provisions of Section
117S-25 of the General Code of Ohio
have been compiled with and the
proposed relocation project has been
completed and accepted"
NO immediate start
Startling date of the highway re-
location in the Bluffton district is
indefinite and it is not known if the
improvement will be included in next
years state highway department
program.
Originally, the construction of a
four-lane super-highway from north
of Bluffton to Lima was considered
as single project, but the highway
department split the work into two
projects following hearing in Lima
| last August, at which Buttons
objections to removing the highway
from town were voiced by spokesmer
| for the business mems association.
Contract has been let for construc-
ton of the new highway from Lima
| to Beaverdam, but the stretch oil
new roadway from Beaverdam to
north of Bluffton definitely will moi
be included in any work planned for
this year.
Town Notified
Text of the highway directors
ruling on the Dixie relocation, in.
dicating that the business men have
lost their fight to retain route of the
highway through the town, was con.
tanned in a letter of notification tc
the municipal council from Norman
M. Wilke, chief engineer of the high
way department bureau of program
ming and planning.
The highway directors ruling
covered the entire relocation from
Lima to north of Button, a tota
Idistance of "92,016.35 feet or TIA:
miles"
Location of the new route i
Ispeciied as through 10 sections o
Bath township; 10 in Richland town
ship; three in Orange township an,
two in Union township.