davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1953-03-19
WASHINGTON ONLY

3$95 and 95 Double Knee Corduroy Stacks broken sizes
to IL 12-------------------- S249
3S-$695 to $895 Spring Slacks 26 to 81 waist $8S
13-S120 Cotton T. Shirts small size ---------- sec
16 Girls $295 Cowboy Gloves, broken Soc
2-$1OS5 Spring Sport Coats, size
2-$395 and $495 Corduroy Dungarees and Sac broken
-
$3.50 Long Sleeve Western Shirts size 16
and $595 Seerucker Robes hregars. to 10 $3.50
$3.50 Knicker Hose, broken sizes ----------- 19c
2-$1OO Yellow White TShirts broken sizes SOC
6-S399 Raincoats size 4 ------.----98 ESQ
6-$305 Denim SIacks broken -----90c
Second Floor
Evening star., 1953-03-19

Street Floor-Washington
Evening star., 1953-03-19
WASHINGTON ONLY

40-$165 NylOn Shorts
3-Sl2O Cotton Briefs SO
3-$225 Cotton du-On undershirts
80 Irreg. $6S5 Orion Shirts
1$395 and $95 Long and Short Sleeve Sport Shirts ST.
25-$695 Tackle Twill Plaid Lined Jackets
40 Irreg 79c and 85c Cotton Shorts 40
6-S125 White Tee Shirts
$3.50 Cotton Handkerchiefs
5-$3S5 Long Sleeve Sport Shirts
2O-S395 Play Shorts 80
2O-$295 and $S95 Swim Trunks sizes % and
50 Irreg 79c Cotton Tee SO
2S-$5S5 and $695 Sweaters
Floor
Evening star., 1953-03-19
ARLINGTON ONLY

7-$795 AMWoOl Sweaters, soied 81!
2-$lO95 Wool Coat Sweaters faded AZ and l
Mems $495 and $5.95 RayOn Pajamas, faded, and
only
4S Iegs 79c White Tee Shirts small and medium
15-$25O and $295 Novelty
6-$195 A-WoOl Caps, sizes 6% to 81
Street Floor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Porch Light Night January 20 Feature
OF BlufftOn March OF Dimes Campaign

With last years record of ST.
S73.2S to equal or better the Bluffton
Lions club began this week to set in
motion the 1868 March of Dimes
campaign.
Stanley Basinger, chairman of the
committee in charge of the drive,
said this week that the pattern of
last years successful solicitation will
be followed closely and that crews
of Lions club members were ready
to go to work.
Porch Light Night, which last year
accounted for more than $400 of the
total receipts, has been set for
Thursday night, January 20, the
same night on which the event will
ba conducted in Lima. All residents
no wish to make contributions to
#e fund to fight polio will be asked
turn on their porch light On that
light while crews of volunteer work.
Prs 1Aks Their visits.
ATM Lionsk health and welfare
c0sFhittee, mich is sparkling the
campaign Tally, has already dis
tributed mAte than 100 miniature
iron lung 8recepticals in Button
stores. Residents of the area will
also have other opportunities to make
contributions to the fund when they
attend the Carma theatre o. any OF
the high school or college basketball
games during the campaign.
At the Carma theatre a short film
appeal will be made on behalf of
the drive at each show from Janu-
airy "a to 81. Lions club members
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
FEBRUARY Draft
To Call Is Men
From Allen Co.
Heavy Enlistment Rate
Keeps CountY's Quota
Lower Than NeighbOrs

Allen county selective service Of
ficials will be asked to provide 13 men
for the February draft call, it was
announced last week with disclosure
that Ohio must provide 1878 in
ductees to fill the months quota.
Nearby Hancock county will be
called upon to draft Is men, one of
the few months in which Aliens call
has not been the largest in this dis
trict. A contributing factor to the
smaller Allen county quota at times
is the rate of enlistments, which in
turn reduce the number of men called
through the normal draft procedure.
Hardin county in February will
draft eight men, and the induction
call for Putnam county is for seven
registrants.
All men drafted during the month
must have reached their goth birth
day, according to state selective serv-
ice officials. This means postpone
ment at least until March of lower
ing the Ohio minimum draft age
from the 90 to the 19-year mark.
Several states already are drafting
19-year-olds, but it has not yet been
necessary to reduce the age in Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Business Men
To Hear Sewage
Plant Engineer

Carleton S. Finkbeiner of the en-
cheering firm of Finkbeiner, Pettis
& Strout, consultants on the Bluffton
municipal sewage disposal system
now under construction, will be the
principal speaker at a meeting of the
Bluffton Business Mems association
Wednesday evening, January %, in
the Walnut Grill.
Mr.. Finkbeiner, who has been in
on the projects planning since the
1920's, viii trace the history of the
project, explain the problems which
have confronted municipal council
and the methods used in financing
the undertaking. His subject will be
Planning, Digging and Paying for
Buttons Sewage Disposal System"
]. E. Niggemyer, resident engin-
eer On the project, will also be pres
emit to answer questions concerning
construction problems faced by the
contractors.
The Business Mems association will
have as guests at the meeting mem
bers of council, members of the
board of public affairs and the towns
industrial water users.
A chicken dinner will be served at
the opening of the meeting at $3.50
p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
District Hi School Music Festiual Brings
Students From 30 Schools Here Saturday

Stratton, Shirley Derringer, Ann
Hilty, Diane Walker, Beulah Bixel,
Dan Gleason, Eva Galloway and
Judith Schiffke, %violins ; Nancy Stein
er, Miriam German and Sally Reich
enbach, ~violas; Nan Schmidt and
Nancy King, %cellos; and Rod Jennings
and Judith Tschantz, bass.
Band-David Tschiegg and Wade
Lehman, cornet; Thorne Lauriat and
Kaye Matter, clarine'i; Sandra Berry,
tenor saxophone; Lois Amstutz, bass
clarinet; Bob Steiner, trombone; and
Charles Bucher, percussion.
Chorus-Vonda Burkholder, Esther
Hofstetter, Carolyn Shaffer, Betty
May, Colleen Cummins, Joan Moser,
Lou Moser, Carol Carmack, Doris
| Basinger, Roger Reichenbach, Tom
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22


Concert Series were annoypced last
week by Prof. RUSSELL A LaftA
head of the college music deHhrtnF ntN
First presentation of MD satie will
be The Jubilee Singers, who NJ APP
pear here on February ~ after COM
pleting a very successful tour of
Europe. Formerly of Fisk univers-
ity, they are this country's most
honored interpreters of negro spiri-
tuals.
Salvador Ley, pianist-composer,
will appear here on March 2 as the
second concert series offering. At
the present Ley is director of the
National Conservatory of Music of
Guatemala. His excellent interpre-
tations of the music of his native
land have made him famous on the
concert stage. In 1888 Ley made
his New York debut in Town Hall,
after which he remained in this
country for two years, playing and
lecturing.
On March %, the concert feature
will be Stanley HINES, one of the
days most promising bass concert
artists. In addition to regular con-
cert work, he has sung in operas and
on radio and television programs.
Closing the season will be the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
School Pupils
See Inauguration
On Home TV Sets
campus.

Bluffton school children, who wish
ed to view by television the his
torical inauguration of President
Eisenhower, were granted an extend
ed lunch period Tuesday from 1850
to 1880 in order to see the telecast.
A. B. Murray, superintendent of
schools, said it was decided at q
Monday faculty meeting to give the
youngsters this opportunity to see
the Washington ceremonies.
The faculty also heard a report
by Miss Meredith S~tepleton who rep
resented Bluffton schools at a recent
Ohio Education association meeting
in Columbus. Also on the program
was Miss Elma Alter, music teacher,
who showed film taken on her trip
to Europe and the Mennonite Con-
ference in Switzerland during the
past summer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

Bluffton High cagers put on a
sharp-shooting exhibition Tuesday
night to defeat Pandora-Gilboa, sc
to 81, in a game between the tradi-
tional foes Tuesday night on the
Button court.
Despite the wide margin of victory
piled up by Button, it was a close
game throughout most of the first
half, largely because of a slow Pirate
start.
It looked like a rock road for the
Harrismen in the opening minutes
of the contest when Pandora pulled
away to a 9 to 0 lead before the Pr
rates ever broke into the scoring
column at all. From that point,
however, the Button scoring machine
went into high gear, and the Pirates
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Local Candidates
To Be Named At
Party Caucuses
Republican Committee Meets
Monday; Democrats Slate
Confab on Tuesday

Buttons political states for next
falls Democratic party caucuses
scheduled for Monday and Tuesday
nights of next week.
First caucus will be that of Repub-
licans at s p I'M. Monday in the Bluff
ton High school study room. The
main library entrance will be used.
Democratic nominees will be drafted
at a caucus in the same room at 8
p. m. Tuesday.
Candidates will be named at the
caucuses for IL posts in the municipal
administration, three board of educa-
ton posts, and five Richland township
offices.
All candidates must complete filing
before the $3.50 p. m. Feb. 4 deadline
for mayor, clerk, treasurer, six council
posts and three places on the board
of public affairs.
Candidates also will be named for
three openings on the Bluffton board
of education.
Contrary to an opinion held prev
iously, all candidates for township of
ficers are also required to file with
the board of elections before $50 ..
M, Feb. a. In Richland township
these will include candidates for two
trustees, n justice of the peace and
two c~onstables. They will be named
at the caucuses.
This marks the first time that
board of education and township of
fee filing has conceded with the
municipal schedule.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Karl Y. Schultz
To Receive PhD
As Psychologist
Button Grad Now Doing
Clinical Work I'm West
Coast Hospitals

Karl V. Schultz, well known Bluff
ton high school and Button College
graduate who has been working in
the Veterans Administration training
program for clinical psychologists at
several West Coast hospitals last
week completed his final oral exam
ination for the degree of doctor of
philosophy in clinical psychology.
The degree will be awarded at
future commencement exercises of the
graduate school, University of South
ern California. Nh. Schultz's doctors
dissertation was on "The Psychology
ically Healthy Person: A study in
Identification and Prediction"
The son of DR.. and Mrs. j. S. Schulz
tz of Button, Karl was graduated
fro mhigh school here in 1886 and
from high school here in 1886 and
was a Haverford-P endle Hill Scholar
in 1941, and from 1943 to 1916 served
as assistant to the business executive
at Ypsilanti State hospital, Ypsilanti,
Mich.
Karl also was assistant director of
the Civilian Public Service unit of
the Veterans Administration during
1916 and 1916 at the Neurophyschia-
trio hospital in Roseburg Oregon. A
year later he received his masters
degree from the University of
Chicago.
From 1947 to 1850 he was associate
psychologist, mental hygiene depart
ment of the Orthopaedic hospital in
Los Angeles, and since then has been
associated with the Long Beach Gen
eral Medical hospital, the Brentwood
Neurophyschiatric hospital and San
Diego Mental Hygiene clinic.
This year he was also a lecturer in
psychology in the extension division
of the University of Southern Cali
fornia.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Pirates, On Scoring Spree, Wallop
Pandora High School Cagers, 1852

held the edge at the first quarter
mark, 20 to 16.
At halftime it was Button, Al to
80; and the third quarter mark
showed the Pirates out in front, Sc
to 40.
Molder and Gerber each bagged 81
points for the winners; Lehman had
Is and Tom Bucher 16. 1t was the
greatest scoring outburst of the year
for the improving Pirates, whose
previous high-point total had been
SO.
In the preliminary, Skip Mahoney
with % points led Bluffton reserves
to a Sd to al victory yer Pandora
seconds. The Pirate understudies led
all the way, 1879; 26-19, and "a
to 80.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Hospital Patients
To Get "The NeUs'

Patients at Button Community
hospital will not miss their Bluff
ton News %henceforth, and will be
among the first to receive copies
of the newspaper each week
through the courtesy of Steinman
Bros. Lumber Co.
; Arrangements YER completed
this week whereby the local firm
has arranged for distribution of
a copy of the paper right off the
press on Wednesday to each
patient in the hospital. Time
passes slowly in a hospital, and
officials of the lumber company
felt hat a copy of the News
would be appreciated. 1t will be
distributed with the firms Get
well wishes"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
End Semester Opens

Second semester at Bluffton col
lege will open next Wednesday, fol-
lowing registration for classes the
first of the week.
First semester examinations at the
school will be completed this week,
and there will be a short break be-
tween semesters before classes are
resumed next Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

Bucher, Richard Bucher, David Beery
and Evan Lehman.
Bluffton music instructors in charge
of arrangements for the festival r
Earl w. Lehman, chairman; N.
Laurence Burkhalter, orchestra; Rus
sell A. Lantz, chorus and Miss Elma
Alter, registration.
Participating schools will be Ada,
Alger, Auglaize, Button, Buckland,
Celina, Columbus Grove, Convoy,
Delphos st. John, Elida, Findlay,
Kenton, Lafayette-Jackson, Leipsic,
Lima Central, Lima South, McGuf-
fey, Mendon, New Knoxville, Oak
wood, Pandora-G ilboa, Paulding, Per-
ry, st. Marys, Shawnee, ~Spencerville,
Van Vert, vaughnsville, Wapakoneta
and Wren.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

Button will be host to student
musicians from 80 Northwestern Ohio
High schools, including Al from Bluff
ton High, in a District III music
festival in Founders Hall On the
Bluffton college campus next Satur-
day, with a public concert at s p. m.
scheduled as the climax to the days
activities.
In the evening concert, the program
will be presented by a combined
chorus of 200 voices; a combined 125-
piece band and a string orchestra of
rs instruments.
Button High students taking part
in the days program include the fol-
lowing:
Orchestra-Wilma Jorg, Irlene
Gierman, Anita Klassen, Dorothy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

will pass down the aisles with collec-
ton plates after the film is shown.
Last year theatre patrons contribut-
ed more than SITS to the cause.
The hat will also be passed at the
various school basketball games with
the first occasion being last Tuesday
at the Pandora game.
And at Tuffy Swank's Barber
Shop a "March of Dollars" consist
ing of bills pasted together and hung
on the shop walls already exceeds
5000. Last year Tuffy's collection
amounted to $167.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Rev.. McIntire
Elected To Lima
P~resbytery Office

Rev. Leonard w. McIntire, pastor
of the Bluffton Presbyterian church,
Monday was elected Stated Clerk of
the Lima Presbytery, consisting of
26 churches in an eight-county area.
In the office, Rev. McIntirs<w will
serve the Presbytery in an eYec1 1--WE
capacity, keeping the rqfes of
churches, ministers, licsntiafes, On
didates and all commitees and 1t
tending to all the ecclesiastical bull
ness of the Presbyterf.s He also
serves as treasurer, recdYhg the an
nual appointments rom the
churches, and handling Vii disburse-
ments.
In addition to being elected to the
Presbytery office, Rev. McIntire was
designated by the association as one
of its two representatives to attend
the annual General Assembly of the
Presbyterian church at Minneapolis
next May. One minister and one
elder are sent to the conference each
year by the Lima Presbytery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

residents of the community to be or
their guard to protect other trees of
that variety. One of the community's
prize Elms is that located on the
Presbyterian church grounds at the
corner of Main and Cherry streets.
The fungus penetrates the tree only
through wounds, Nh. Keller explain
ed. Once inside the wood, it can
spread rapidly either by spores dew
eloped in the wood vessels and car
ried in the sap system, or by the
growth of fungus hyphae. Death of
affected branches is believed to be
due to toxins produced by the fungus
or to the lack of water as a result of
the plugging of the vessels by mater
ials formed in the process of fungus
invasion.
Through community cooperation,
the disease car be controlled, Keller
pointed out. Weak limb crotches
should be cabled, corrective pruning
should avoid stub cuts, and tree
compound should be used on severe
cuts. He added that weak trees should
be feed with plant foods and sprayed
with a DOT mixture three times a
year. All dead limbs should be re-
moved regularly.
Mr. Keller lives at 101h North
Main street from where he conducts
a tree surgery business.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Hospital Auxiliary
Opens Bi-AnnuaL Drive

Membership drive of the Bluff
ton Community Hospital Women's
Auxiliary will be launched Thurs
day of this week, and close on
February 1, it was announced by
Mrs. Clarence Stonehill.
The drive, conducted every two
years, will be made by members
of the Auxiliary, which assists
the hospital in many ways, includ-
ing the sale of tags on Hospital
Tag Day, etc.
Membership in the Auxiliary is
required for all Bluffton persons
who hold Blue Cross Insurance
policies, ii was pointed out by
Mrs. Stonehill. 45
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

IHdtEIy IWU yIdTS ago.
Beneftting from the salary boost
r the plant superintendent, chief
engineer, engineers, line foreman, fire.
men, plant mechanic, linemen, clerk,
assistant clerk and all workers in the
skilled and common labor classical
tons.
The new salary schedule adopted is
as follows: Superintendent, S44O per
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Three BlufftOn
Men Injured In
Auto Accident

Three Button men were injured
at 3 p. m. last Thursday when their
Bluffton-bound automobile was in
volved in a headon collision with a
southbound a pulling another auto
by means of a tow bar.
Most seriously hurt in the crash
vas Leon Hauenstein, 48, of North
Main street, who received a severe
l~aceration over the left eyelid and
head injuries. After spending sew
eral days in Lima Memorial hospital,
he came home, but after two fainting
Monday night, he was re-
sturned early Tuesday morning to
the Bluffton Community hospital.
His condition was reported as mot
serious" at pres time.
Ais. injura were John Stonehill,
S3, ad EeiA Kirkland, 20, both of
10 pladE $tonehill had facial cuts
andN~Kfrtlank recszged cuts on the
chin. Both I pre- xffsAssdHaft treat
ment at the kosfital.
Highway ~-patfolmen repor ID that
the towing car, driven Clevis
Fain, 43, Of New Lebanon appar-
emily swerved off the rigfi8 side of
the highway and then into e north
bound car driven by S~toneHfll. The
other two Bluffton men were pas
sengers in the Stonehill car.
Fain suffered a fractured knee cap
In the mishaus
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

Mr. 6Nu MIS-. NODcIt hlilBiSIy
Pandora, a girl, Marcia Ann, born
Sunday.
Twin boys, Marion Lynn and
David Wynn, were born Tuesday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Hendrickson
of Brooklyn, Iowa Mrs. Hendrick-
son is the former Luella Luginbuhl,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon
Luginbuhl of w. Elm street.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Marquart, Norfolk, Va, January IL,
a girl, Corrine Leigh. Grandparents
are Mr.. and Mrs. John Marquart Of
Ada and Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Cuther-
i'll Of Norfolk, Va.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
New High Temperature
Recorded Thursday

The warm spring-like weather last
Thursday and Friday raised Button
area thermometers to SO degrees and
set a new high record for the 10th
day of January, according to Ray
Burkholder official weather observer
of near Pandora. The previous high
recorded for Nanuary 16 was 55
degrees.
Weather duriVg the past week Gas
a little sampls pf most everything
with the merGHF falling to DE-
grees on the - and rising 50,
QnEFhursag AdFriday. Thei was
If a1<4hs6 Of Ssnow on the It'll
ana total of 1.2finches of preaAQi-
tation during the week with sleet on
Saturday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

month; Chief Engineer, $3.50; Line
Foreman, $3.50; Engineers, $305;
Firemen, $3.50; Plant Mechanic, s2s5;
Linemen, 1886; Skilled Labor, $3.50;
Clerk, $240; Assistant Clerk, $175;
and Common Labor, from 81 to $1.25
per hour.
Effective date of the salary increas-
es is Jan. 81.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Light Plant Profit
HiUher Than Reported

Bluffton's municipal light plant
showed a net gain from opera
tons the first IL months of 1852
of S11,S61.2s instead of S4,095.23
as reported i'm The Button News
last week. The gain was an in
crease of S4,095.23 over the net
gain for the same period of 1851.
The gain for 1852 averaged
slightly more than $1,000 per
month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Mayors Notice

The regular monthly collection of
trash and ashes will begin Monday,
January 26, at noon. Residents r
asked to place containers at the curb
for pickup.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
ORANGE TWP.CAUCUS

The Orange Township Republican
caucus has been scheduled for Tues
day evening, January 81, at 8 p. m. in
the Orange Center Community house,
it was announced this week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
FAIR DATES SET

Fair dates for 1853, announced last
week, included the Hancock county
fair, Sept. 7 through IL, and the AL
len county fair, Aug. % through n.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Village Utility Employees
Granted Salary Increase
Is Employees Benefit From Pay Hike
OF 81 Per Cent Effective Jan. 81

Increases averaging nine and one-haf per cent in salaries of
employees of the board of public affairs were approved by Button
municipal council at a meeting Monday night in the council room.
Fourteen fuIltime employees and one part-time office assist
ant will benefit from the salary boost recommended by the board.
The last salary increase was voted the employees in 1851, approx
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22
Dutch Elm Disease Found
IniTrees At Towns Door
Bluft0n Residents Warned To Be
On Guard For Signs Of Infection

The Dutch Elm disease, most destructive fungus disease at
lacking this country's Elm trees, has been discovered in trees
just south of the corporation line here, it was announced this week
by Paul F. Keller, Button tree surgeon.
Keller said that the diseased trees located on property owned
by Howard Stager are being properly disposed of, but warned
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-22

~ ~AtAA tSAAH
is near completion with remodeling
of his residence. His modernization
program has included the addition of
a new room, front entrance, enclosed
porch and the addition of new wind
ows.
Clyde Sommers, Grove street, soon
will complete his modernization pro-
gram. All new kitchen equipment
has been installed, new windows have
been placed in the home, and an adj
ditional bedroom has been added. A
former front porch has been enclosed
and panelled with random width white
pine. Additional exterior work will
be resumed when weather permits.
In this phase of the modernization,
the old siding will be covered with
10-inch red cedar bungalow siding.
Another local program has been a
project in which Basinger Florist
operations are replacing flower plant
ing boxes with new ones of redwood.