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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
Local Legionnaire
Honored AtOhiO
State Convention

Twenty-Five members of Buttons
American Legion Post 382 and its
Auxiliary attended sessions of the
35th annual state convention of the
Legion and the 33rd convention of
the Auxiliary in Cleveland last week
end. :
Bluffton representatives participat-
ed in the two-hour parade which
was viewed by $4,000 persons, and
witnessed the installation of one of
their number as End District COM
mander. Garnette Foltz now heads
the district which is composed OF
45 Posts in seven counties including
Allen, Hardin, Logan, Van Vert
Mercer, Auglaize and Shelby.
This is the first time the Bluff
ton Post has been honored by having
one of its members at the helm in
the district organization. M erl
Brady, Van Vert, will serve as vice
commander.
Legion and Auxiliary members
attending the convention from Bluff
ton included Mr.. and Mrs. Berdel
quber, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Geiser
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Corson, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Garnette Foltz, Gerald Huber
Wilbur Potee, Charles Main, Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Ream, Mr.. anC
rrs. Gene Mericle, Mr.. and Mrs. A
Ingalls,, Mr.. and Mrs. Don Martz
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Klingler Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. Don Reams, Fred Fritchi'
and daughter, Sharon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30

full bidders, they will be prepared to
start work within a week or two.
In the meantime Delvin Kirchhofer
who has been named superintendent
of the home, and Mrs. Kirchhofer,
who will be the first matron, have
arrived in Bluffton prepared to GO to
work as the project shapes up. The
Kirchhofers are presently residing in
the Albert Kohler apartment on
South Jackson street.
They will reside at the Memorial
Home after it is completed. -
The six churches participating in
sponsoring the home for the aged are
now in the middle of a campaign
aimed at raising an additional $4,000
to complete financing the initial build
ing program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
Wednesday Rain
Equals Total For
Last go Days

Bluffton area temperatures rang
ed over a wide spread last week
with three more days when the
mercury scared well above the
ninety mark, and then dropped to
record low of 40 degrees early
Saturday morning and late Friday
night. The 40 degree reading on the
25th tied the record for that date
set in 1904 and equalled in 1905
and 1911.
The past week was also marked
by 10-hour steady rain on Wednes-
day which brought 2.19 inches,
nearly as much precipitation as
has been recorded in the previous
so days by Ray Burkholder, local
weather observer.
Temperature ranges during the
past week were as follows:
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
First Tomatoes
Arrive At Local
'Cannery This Week
Prospects For Heavy
Season In August Seen
At AmStutZ Plant

Canning of garden vegetable crops
has been under way on a part-time
basis at the Amstutz Cannery, three
miles northwest of Bluffton on the
College road, during the last two
weeks, with the peak in operations
expected next month.
At present the cannery is operating
only two days a week, Tuesdays and
Friday, but when the peak of garden
crop harvesting comes next month
the plant will run on full-time basis
Principal items canned in opera.
tions thus far have been snap bean:
and CORN although the first tomatoes
came into tho plaat early this week
|. On the whole, this summers out
look il far more psemising than i
was last season when plolouges
July and August dousht cut heavily
into garden vegetable eEop produc.
ton. Nv
This years Weather conditions have
been much better so far as rainfall
is concerned, especially in the Bluff.
ton area, and present prospects ars
promising so far as the garden crops
are concerned which are taken to the
cannery for processing.
The Amstutz Cannery not only
serves city and farm residents in this
area, but many persons come here
from miles around to have their can
ming done in a modern plant equipped
to serve them quickly and efficiently,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30

mixed flowers and any others not
listed.
The Bluffton flower festival is spon-
sored annually by the Mems and
Women's Garden clubs of Bluffton,
and has become one of the outstand-
ing shows of it's kind in northern
Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
Huber ShOUs African
WOUies In Lima

Henry Huber, Bluffton world trav-
eller, showed moving pictures taken
on a trip through Africa, at meet
ing of the Lima Rotary club last
Monday in the Argonne hotel.
Huber's movies were taken during
trip he and his wife made from
Capetown north through Egypt by
automobile several years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) - Wheat,
$l.69; corn, $1.47; oats, 66c; soy
beans, S2.42.
Eggs-Large white, 53c; large
brown, SIC; medium white or brown,
Acc; pullets, 35c.
Poultry-Heavy hens, 24c; leghorn
hens, 20c; heavy white fryers, 27c;
leghorn ,fryers, 22c; leghon stags,
light and heavy, 15c.
Butterfat-No. l, &c; No. 2, SIC.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
TlUO From, BlufftOn
PIau In AU-OhiO Band

Two Bluffton high school music
ians, Friedrich Lauriat and Robert
Steiner, have been selected for
membership in the famed Ohio State
Fair All-Boys Band which will make
appearances at special events during
the 1863 Ohio State Fair, August
% to September a.
Lauriat will play clarinet and
Steiner the trombone.
DR.. Louis E. Pete, director of
music of the Ashland, Ohio, schools,
has been director of this nationally
known band since 1882.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
Imposing List OF Prizes Offered
In Bluffton'S Flower Festival

One of the finest of pottery and crystal prizes
awarded Ohio flower show will be feature attraction for
Buttons annual flower festival Friday Saturday Sunday
August 7, s and 9. a..u----e@~@.. III
Expanded showings in all sections, with local and district
participating will this
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30

The telephone company bases its
rate structure on present valuation
of S24s,574 for the Bluffton system
requiring working capital of $1,000.
Officials of the company offer fig
ures indicating that the rate of return
on the investment is 1.94 per cent.
They aim at 5.45 per cent return
under the proposed rate structure.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
Telephone Rate Increases
Sought By Blufton System
Application To Be Filed This Week
With Public Utilities Commission

An application for rate increases telephone services to the
l46 subscribers of the Buon Telephone company was to be
filed this week with the Public Utilities Commission in Columbus
has been by Frank T. Quaman assistant to the
president of Telephone Service Ohio which operates the
local system ~. 0rS VAC
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE

One hundred free Ohio State Fair
tickets for Youth Day on Friday,
August %, are available to elemen-
tary and high school students now
at the Bluffton school office. The
tickets We're received here this week
from H. S. Foust, director of agri-
culture and fair manager.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30
To Open Contractors Bids
On Memorial Home MOndaU

Contractors bids the Mennonite Memorial home project
are to be opened at meeting of the building committee Monday
evening in the Musselman Library Buon college, and ndca
ons that construction work the successful bidder likely
to start within week or two after that
Eight general contractors attended meeting with Architect
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-07-30

no further action will be taken on
the boards recommendation, mum
icipal council decided at a meeting
last Monday night in the council
chambers.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
The Wilson Case

IF THE CELEBRATION was over,
i the problems of the presidency
were just beginning. The first real
poser of the Eisenhower admins
tration-the case of Charles E.
Wilson-had developed even before
President Eisenhower took the
oath. It came to climax last week,
but there were indications aplenty
that the last word had not yet
been said on the subject.
Mr.. Wilson, head of the far-f1ung
General Motors Corp, was selected
by President-elect Eisenhower on
November 20 to be Secretary of
Defense. On December !, the
board of GIN granted Mr.. Wilson
a 6O-day leave from his job as
president, with the understanding
that he would quit outright after
confirmation in the Government
post.
Most Americans applauded the
selection of MIR. Wilson. Then, on
January IA, a story giving the first
hint of trouble broke in The Star.
Because of a law restricting the
business interests of Government
officials, Mr.. Wilson might have a
hard time getting Senate con-
firmation.
Confusion Grows
In the ensuing week, the situa-
ton became more and more con-
fused. Like the other cabinet
officers, Mr.. Wilson went to the
Hill for questioning before the.
Inauguration; before, in fact, the
nominations were officially sub
I mitted.
About the only thing that was
entirely clear by inauguration day
was that Mr.. Wilson would not be
confirmed along with the rest of
the cabinet. And for two days
thereafter there was serious ques-
ton whether he would be con-
firmed at all.
These things stood in Mr.. VIII
sons way:
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Communists
THE COMMUNIST PARTY

THE COMMUNIST PARTY is
= legal political party in the
United States. No person may be
prosecuted for the simple act of
joining.
There are certain activities Of
the Communist Party, however,
that are illegal. And any member
who is hardworking, loyal and
sufficiently unscrupulous has
chance to work himself into those
illegal activities. When the mem
ber does so, the Federal Govern
ment steps in and ends his career
with a subpoena.
This little game has kept the
Communist Party in a turmoil
since July, 1948, when the first II
top party leaders were indicted.
AS other party members succeed
to top jobs, they, too, are indicted.
Consequently administration of
party affairs is continually dis
rupted. The faithful do not know
from one day to the next who will
be available to pass on the word
from Moscow.
Another Shokeup
Last week the Communist Party
was shaken again. Another Is
Reds were convicted and Jailed
pending sentencing.
The numerous indictments and
convictions were obtained under
the Smith. Act, d 1910 law which
makes it illegal to conspire to
teach or advocate the overthrow
of the United States Government
by force or violence. During the
nine e-month trial of the first IL
Communists, the Government
prosecutors proved that the party
hierarchy was engaged in a secret
conspiracy to organize and pro-
mote violent revolution against the
Government.
In each trial the Communists
have presented this defense: The
Communist Party is an ordinary
party, just like the Democrats or
Republicans, only with a better
platform. It wants . Communist
form Of government In this coun-
Evening star., 1953-01-25

largest and most elaborate hookup
ever arranged.
And that night at the ball, there
was the same excess of enthusi-
asm all over again-on a slightly
more exclusive scale. The inaugural
ball, held in two sections cat the
armory and at the McDonough
gymnasium in Georgetown), gave
the uncommon people chance
to pay the new President the trib-
ute that the common people had
paid earlier in the day.
Ball in Name Only
The party actually was a ball
in name only, for the designation
"ball' implies dancing. And there
was scant room for dancers in the
crush on the floor. 1t was mainly
chance to see and be seen, to
take part in special celebration
of a momentous event.
It was well into the predawn
hours of Wednesday before the
fun stopped. Those whose business
it was to take stock of the situa-
ton summed it up as completely
gratifying Inauguration.
The best-educated guess about
visitors was that at least 300, 900
out-of-towners had come to Wash
ington for all or part of the long
week end of festivities. They left
behind them, in payment for ball
and parade tickets, hotel bills,
dinner checks, drink tabs and
souvenir purchases, an estimated
$50 million.
There were a few little details
still unattended to as the big
week ended. The Star, which al
ready had sold a ord-breaking
395,000 copies of It's Tuesday in
augural edition, had $4,000 orders
still to fill. And there was the
matter of Type GG-1 locomotive
in the basement of the Union
Station.
Evening star., 1953-01-25

intention to unload, and the White
House formally sent his name to
the Hill.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee quickly voted to ap-
prove his nomination, and favor
able Senate action seemed likely
for the coming week.
Mr.. Wilson's estimate of what
it would cost to rid himself of
his GIN holdings was in the neigh
borhood of $600,000 This, he is
reported to have told the Senate
group, was what taxes would take.
The 100000 figure seems high;
about half that amount appears
to be more likely. But all told,
in, losses from forced sale of the
stock, from taxes paid, and from
other financial sacrifices he may
have to make, the price tag on
the Secretaryship of Defense may
be far above his estimate of
$500, 900.
In the first place, Mr.. Wilson is
giving up $2O0,00O-a-year- plus
bonuses job for one paying $22, 500.
The total value of the job was
about 5000, 900 annually.
Secondly, he will have to pay
the Government, in capital gains
levies, 26 cents out of every dollar
he realizes as profit in the sale
of his present holdings of GIN.
Thirdly, he still has some stock
coming to him as bonus for past
services, and has said he will get
rid of this as fast as he receives
it. AS short-term capital gains, his
profits on this stock could be sub
ject to even higher rates-con-
ceivably as high as 90 per cent.
And finally, he is likely not to
realize the full paper value of more
than $2.5 million when he sells
his present holdings.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
Review Of The Week: Eisenhower Picks Up the Reins

biggest names on every ones list
of suspected Red tin Government,
had his days in court last week.
Actually it was his second appear
ance in the courts Che also had had
numerous sessions with loyalty
boards, congressional committees
and grand jurieS in the past
two and one-half years.. Basically
the case had remained the same.
1t was contended that Remington
had been Communist during his
years as Government economist
in Washington. Specifically, the
Federal Government was out to
prove last week that Remington
had lied during his first trial in
1851 when he Swore he had not
been a Communist. The convic-
ton from the first trial was upset
on technicality.
During the first week of testi-
mony in the current trial, wit
neSseS, including his former wife
and Elizabeth Bentley, former Red
spy ring courier, testified that
Remington had been a dues-paying
Communist Party member, had
given secret documents to the
Bentley ring and had attended
numerous Communist meetings.
Theoretical Communist
Last week Remington conceded
that he had been theoretical
Communist" during his college
days and had sometimes described
himself as Communist. But he
had never believed, he said, In
dictatorship of the proletariat and
overthrow of the Government by
force and violence" as do party
members. He insisted he had
never Joined the party or the
Young Communist League or at
tended party meetings. Documents
which he had given Miss Bentley,
he testified, had not contained de-
fense secrets. He gave the papers
to her, he said, because he thought
she was an important writer who
could make him look like a big
shot,"
With testimony completed last
week, the case probably will go
to the jury tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
The Parade

TUST AS THERE was a great
change in Dwight Eisenhower's
status between IL and / o'clock
on Tuesday, so there was sharp
change in his attitude between
! and 2.
When he left the inaugural
stand just a few minutes before /,
President Eisenhower was in
solemn, reflective frame of mind.
An hour later, when he emerged
from the Capitol to lead the parade
down Pennsylvania avenue, he was
fill of fun and ready for a joyous
occasion.
And a joyous occasion it was.
About three-quarters of million
people lined the route of march
from the Capitol plaza, down Con-
Stitution avenue to the Apex, along
Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth
street and into the stretch in front
of the White House that had been
renamed, for the occasion, Court
of the Crusaders"
Thirty five Minute Ride
For 35 minutes the new President
responded to the cheers of the
crowds as his big, open car crept
along at four miles an hour. Then,
for four hours and half he stood
to receive the salutes of the
paraders who followed him down
the line of march.
The parade had everything, in
somewhat oversize quantities.
Seemingly endless lines of cadets,
midshipmen, Marines and faulty
trained paratroopers, bands ga
lore, housekeeping majorettes,
cowboys and Indians, veterans,
floats depicting everything from
Ike's Kansas boyhood to the glories
of the Florida citrus industry. 1t
was a kaleidoscope of American
funmaking and pageantry.
The parade's most impressive
statistics, perhaps, came from the
face of the clock and the tally
sheets of the Sanitation Depart
ment. The long march began at
the Capitol at 1:50 and the end
cleared the White House reviewing
stand at 6:59. Along the line of
march that night, sanitation en-
ployeS picked up more than 10000
cubic feet of sandwich paper, cof-
fee cups, newspapers and assorted
enough to fill about Is
standard open-top freight cars.
But figures like these could not
measure the enthusiasm of the
people for their new President.
Nor did they take into account the
estimated 70 million Americans
who watched on television in the
Evening star., 1953-01-25

THE PRESIDENCY of the United
States is unique In many re-
spects, one of them being that
there is no breaking-in period for
the Job. At one moment, a man
is a private citizen without any
particular responsibilities. At the
next. he is the head Of the richest
country in the world, with prob
ably more responsibilities than any
other man on earth.
That moment came for Dwight
D. Eisenhower last Tuesday at
1882 pm. on a temporary stand
in front of the United States Capt.
toi. The change of status was
symbolized perhaps so subtly that
the symbolism escaped most OBJ
Servers-by the music that &C
companied the comings and goings
of the central figures.
At approximately 1910, Harry S.
Truman stepped onto the stairs
leading down from the Capitol
rotunda to the inaugural stand.
The band burst into the. stately
tune, Hail to the Chief" which is
the personal march Of the Presi-
dent. Five minutes later, when
Dwight Eisenhower appeared, the
band played the far less dis
tinguished "Stars and Stripes For
ever"
But at 1886, when President
Eisenhower left the stand, it was
he for whom the band played Hail
to the Chief" For Ex-PreSident
Harry Truman there was no music
at all.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
The Address

A NEW PRESIDENTS first duty
"A is to deliver an inaugural
address. It may be long; it may
be short; always it is taken as a
keynote of the new Chief Execu-
tive's four-year administration.
President Eisenhower'S address
was about average in length.
Speaking rather slowly, he talked
for 81 minutes. Some listeners
complained that the speech was
general rather than specific. But
that is the tradition of the inaugu-
raj address; the specific program
comes later in the te-of-the-
Union message.
Yet in its central theme, the
address was as specific as any one
could ask. President Eisenhower
pledged continued cooperation
and leadership in the free worlds
resistance to communism. OBJ
viously, the new President was
affirming the basic correctness Of
recent international policies. In
fact, some of the Chief Executives
remarks were sharply reminiscent
of things that had been said by his
predecessor, Mr.. Truman, and Mr..
Truman'S Secretary of State, Dean
Acheson. Parallel examples from
the utterances of the three men
follow.
On the United Motions
Respecting the United Nations
as the living sign of all peoples
hope for peace, we shall strive to
make it not merely an eloquent
symbol but an effective force. And
in our quest of honorable peace,
we shall neither compromise, nor
tire, nor ever cease" Inaugural.
I'VE see in the United Nations
the worlds best hope for peace. :.
We were determined at the outset
and we are determined now
that the United Nations will work,
and we have sacrificed much to
make it work. Truman, Septem-
ber 26, 1852.
THE first task of craftsmanship
(is) to develop the strength that
will deter the forces of aggression
and promote the conditions of
peace. Inaugural.
"The primary purpose of (our)
strength is to prevent war. We
have labored year in and year
out to make this peaceful purpose
clear ."-AcheSon, September H.,
1852.
On Foreign Relations
'We shall never use our strength
to try to impress upon another
people our own cherished political
and economic institutions. ."-Inau-
gural.
I'VE do not propose to dominate
other people, or exploit them, or
force them to change their ways
Of life."-Truman, April 8, 1852.
It was an earnest speech, an
unassuming speech, speech
loaded with humility. It began
with prayer and closed with an
exhortation to bravery and char
ity. The extreme isolationist right
wing of the press took exception
Evening star., 1953-01-25
!. iran

4 CINCE IRAN appropriated it's
- British -owned Oil industry a
year and a half ago, the British
and United States Governments
have differed on the urgency of the
Iranian crisis. America has in
sisted that something must be
done, and fast, to get the oil flow-
ing again or Iran will lapse into
bankruptcy and communism and
provide the Russians with a gate
way into the Middle East. Britain,
on the other hand, has maintained
that the danger of communism is
not immediate and that there Is
time to continue negotiations with
Iran.
Last weeks developments tended
to vindicate the British point of
view. The Iranian government
appeared to be even more stable
than it was 18 months ago.
Uprising in MojIis
Here were the developments:
Despite recent mutterings of
discomfort in the Malls, the lower
house of the Iranian Parliament
(the Iranian Senate has been dis
solved), Premier Mohammed Mos
sadegh had demanded that his
emergency decree powers be ex-
tended for another year. The sec
ond biggest man in Iranian politics,
Moslem leader Ayatollah Sayed
Abolghassem Kashani, said extern
sion of the virtual dictatorship
would be the last straw--he would
break with Mossadegh and oppose
the move.
Furthermore, as Speaker of. the
Nails, he would not even permit
the emergency powers bill to be
debated. Kashani said. A long,
time supporter of Mossadegh,
Kashani was thought to be the
only man with enough prestige to
say mo" to the willy Premier.
But Mossadegh would not knuckle
under without a fight. He de-
manded that the Mails pass the
bill Immediately and said he would
consider the vote to be one Of
confidence.
In the face of Mossadegh's
adamant stand, Kashani gave
in. He said his statements
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