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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
thine School
|Patrolmarfs Job
Goes Begging
Mayor Has Difficulty Find
ing Appointee For New
Post Created By Council

Appointment of a special crossing
policeman to assist School children
in crossing Main street at the Cherry
street corner has not been made as
yet because of inability to obtain a
man for the post, il was announced
Tuesday night by Mayor w. A. Howe
Placing policeh han on duty at
the crossing was decided at last
weeks council meeting, as an addi-
tional safeguard for Bluffton kiddies
who are compelled to\ cross heavily
travelled Main street onNtheir way to
and from school.
Some difficulty has been exper-
fenced, however, in putting the plan
into operation, largely que because
it will take time to find / man avail
able during the proposh I'd hours of
duty.
As recommended by souncil, the
special policeman would he on duty
at the Main and Cherry intersection
about As minutes before school begins
in the morning; over the htire noon
lunch hour; and about 30 minutes
after school is dismissed ih the after
noon.
At the crossing, the policeman
will have the responsibility of telling
children when to cross and also to
assist in controlling vehicular traffic.
AS another phase pf the school
safety program regular traffic light
will be installed on Jackson street in
front of the grade schSol building.
The signal will have the usual red,
green and amber lights in controlling
traffic. 1t will be operated only be-
fore and after school, and also during
recess periods, according to present
plans.
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ton is concerned. Veteran sportsmen
say the extremely dry summer result
ed in heavier matches of pheasant
chicks and assured a greater number
of them reaching maturity for this
falls hunting. r +.
Brighter prospects for next year
are seen in some sources, as a result
Of fewer hunters taking to the field
this year, plus the fact that the
shortened season may help protect
breeding stock for another year.
Although opening of the season
was delayed one week by the drought,
it will close On pheasants as original
ly annouced, Saturday, Dec. 5. Open
season on rabbits will close next
January I.
Trapping of muskrat, mink, skunk,
etc, will be permitted beginning
Tuesday of next week. So far raccoon
and oppossum are the only animals
on which the trapping season is open.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
1O3 Extension :
Proponents Meet
In Columbus Grove
Highway Official Suggests
Action Be Taken Thru
County Commissioners

Although the state highway de-
partment within Division 1, has ac-
cepted no county roads into the state
system since 1884, the currently dis
cussed Route 103 extension from
Bluffton to Columbus Grove and
Kalida committees interested in the
Kalida seems to have merit worth
consideration by the department, Will
liam Sholl, location and design en-
gineer of the Lima office said Tues
day evening.
Mr.. Sholl expressed his personal
view at a meeting of the Columbus
Grove Lions club. Members of the
Bluffton and Kalida committees in
terested in the Route 103 extension
We're also guests.
The highway official stated that he
thought the department might be
receptive to the exchange idea,
whereby certain little-used present
state routes would revert to the
county in exchange for the new ex-
tension.
He added that the proper proce-
dure would be for the interested
parties to ask their respective county
commissioners to petition the director
of highways for the change.
"The more organizations and in
dividuals who seem to be interested
in the route extension, the better is
your opportunity to bring it about" !"
Sholl said.
He had been advised that resolu-
tions endorsing the highway propos-
al had been passed by the Columbus
Grove village council the towns
Lions club, American Legion Post
and the Pleasant Grange. Copies of
the resolutions are being sent to the
highway director in Columbus, the
Putnam county commissioners, and
township trustees of Pleasant, Mon
roe anu OI1OIl tUWHSlupS'
Paul Hartman, chairman of the CO.
lumbus Grove highway committee,
urged the Button and Kalida groups
to seek similar action in their own
towns.
Attending the meeting from Bluff
ton were Armin Hauenstein, chair
man of the Business Mems associa-
tion highway committee, Gene Ben
roth, Clayton Bixel, William Ed
wards, Leland Diller and Dean Mis-
wander.
1t has been pointed out that advan-
tages of the extension in Bluffton
would be assistance from the state in
maintaining the road, removal of
snow and ice in the winter, and state
traffic patrol, as well as placing the
town on the state highway maps.
Kalida was represented at the
meeting by Roger Reynolds, Adolph
Mag and John Worst.
George Hawkey, president of the
Grove Lions club, presided at the
meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Farm Building
CONSTRUCTION
Heavy In November
New Heir Houses, Implement
Sheds. Barn Hemodeling
Jobs In Progress

Taking advantage of continued ex-
cellent construction weather during
late Novembeg area farmers are re-
ported busiepithan usual for this time
of year completing additions and rem
ovation Programs on their farm
buildings
In addition to long list of inn
provemsnts underway or recently
completed which were reported two
weeks hgo, Elmer Nussbaum, four
miles west of Bluffton, has completed
a new % foot by so foot hen house,
and similar-sized hen house of Gin
der block erected by William Gar
matter, two hniles north on the Dixie,
has created tuch interest.
The use IF cinder block for hen
house construction is relatively new
in this asea, and numerous persons
have stopped in to inspect the Gar
matter building.
On tie nearby farm of Roy Rogers
an extensive barn remodeling job is
underway. A new foundation is be-
ing built under the structure, doors
are being replaced and hog house
remodsled.
Two ne@ combination implement
shedS and CORN cribs are being erect
ed bH Gid Earrhatter, four miles west
Of ofu.a Aptftb haat kRd Howard ,I'1,,.,, Mossr,
school khoysS SA-~SThe latter is also en-
|ctosi9k MS mouse porch.
Barney Filhart, A C & Y railroad
agent, isl building an addition to his
home, two miles north of Jenera. 1t
will house kitchen and bath, and a
porch iskbeing enclosed at the same
time.
In BlufftonN itself, Robert Lugin-
bihl and Daye Reichenbach, both
residents of West Elm street, are
building new garages.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Business Mems Assn
Meets Next Wednesday

Bluffton Business Mems associa-
tion will meet at pm. Wednesday
night of next week in the Steinman
Brothers Lumber Co. office to COM
plete plans for the Christmas treas
ure hunt and elect officers for the
coming year.
The club will also hear talk by
Forrest L. Steinman on his Alaskan
trip. He will show films taken on
the journey entitled, yukon, The
Territory God Almost Forgot.
At the close of the meeting, a
buffet luncheon will be served.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26

Some areas, which are heavily
tramped by hunters in normal years,
had only handful of nimrods rang
ing the territory on hunting day.
About the only places in whifh there
We're thick concentrations of hunters
were creek bottoms, where many
sportsmen centered their activities
because of the belief that the drought
had driven the game birds t9 water.
Out-of-the-district hunters were
noticeably scarcer this year in the
Button area, circumstaree. which
is believed to have resulted largely
from the postponement of oHening
day of the hunting season. TheIusual
rush on hotels, rooming houses and
restaurants was eased considerably,
and most of the hunting locally was
done by community residents.
In some respects this Years
drought-ridden summer is believed to
have been a blessing in disguise so
far as the dwindling pheasant popula-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Olympic Champ To
Speak At Annual
Grid Dinner

Harrison billiard, public rela-
tions director for the Cleveland
Indians and Olympic hurdle
champion, agreed to speak at the
Bluffton Lions clubs annual
Football Banquet honoring men,
bers of the college and high
school football teams of the past
season. The banquet date has
been set for January 5.
The announcement was made
this week by James Szabo, pro-
gram chairman for the event.
Szabo and billiard were classmat-
es some years ago at Baldwin
Wallace college.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Births

The following births we're recorded
at Button Community hospital dur.
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Cronbaugh
Arlington, twin boys, brian Keith
and Brad Kent, bornl Wednesday,
November 18.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Cook, Jen-
era, a boy, Richard Lee, born We'd
nesday, November 18.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hilty,l Pandora,
a girl, Susan Kae, born Last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Weaver, Col
Grove, a girl, Linda Lou, born Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Young, Bluff
ton, boy, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Slusser, Celina,
a boy, Danny Allen, born November
9. Mrs. Slusser is the former Ruth
Steiner, daughter of Mrs. Gid P,
Steiner Sr. and the late Gid P. Stein
er, Pandora. sS1
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
College Science Dept.
Receives TLDO Gifts

Miss M'Della Moon, professor of
biology at Bluffton college, has an
nounced the receipt this week of two
welcome gifts for the college science
department.
One of the items is a Ken-A-
Vision Micro-projector, the gift of
Mrs. d. d. Hostetler of Sugarcreek,
Ohio. The other gift is a number
of paraffin-enclosed specimens for
the micro-technique class presented
by Mrs. Delbert Gordon of Dayton,
Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Work Progressing
On Basinger Home,

Exterior work on the remodenng
of the Basinger funeral home WAS
practically completed this week Igiv-
ing the corner of College and Jack
son streets a new colonial appear
ance, and extensive improvements to
the interior are we'll underway
A new air conditioning unit is being
installed to provide conform the year
around, and the home is wired for a
sound system in every room. Hear
ing aids for those who need them are
also being provided.
Structural changes in the building
provide new family room and four
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Gets Masters Degree
In Meteorol0gy, u /

Elias Ray Augsburger. SON of Mrs.
Eli Augsburger, 2l2 South Jackson
street, Bluffton, recently received the
degree of master of science in mete-
orology from New York university.
i NYU confers degrees three times
during the academic year, in Octo-
Der, February and June. but holds a
single commencement ceremony. The
1854 commencement exercises are
scheduled for June 8.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Rio Grands Ducats-
Go On Sale At
Giffin Tilt Monday

Bluffton college sports follow
ers who want I get their tickets
early for the Dec. IL appearance
here of Bevo Erancis and his Rio
Grande teammates will be able
to get advancel tickets when they
attend either the Giffin or
Huntington games at the Bluff
ton gymnasium next Monday
and Tuesday nights.
Following thai tickets for
home consumption will go on
sale at Sidney's Drug Shop.
Francis last y{ar was the ma
tion's leading collegiate scorer,
establishing a nSw national scor-
ing record.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Bluffton News Now
On News Stand Sale,

Extra copies of The Bluffton
News are now available each
week at the Dillman and Luigi
bihl News Stands as well as at
the newspapers Office in Bluff
ton. In Beaverdam, they may be
purchased at the r. L. Rupright
store, In Mt. Cory 1T Dukes Res
taurant, and in Rawson at the
Variety Store.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
TRASH COLLECTION

The monthly collection of rubbish
including ashes and tin cans has been
set for Thursday, December 8, Street
Commissioner Lee Coon has announc-
ed. Residents are urged to have
their trash at the curb by noon of
collection day. "a /. 80
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Church Offering Gets
SI,862 For Missions

A special "thank you" offering
earmarked for missions and other
benevolences taken last Sunday at
the annual harvest festival of the
Evangelical Mennonite church totaled
81 1926.
The offering is in addition to
the current Sunday offerings of the
year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26

ers in Nazareth--sit together in har-
mony.'
Ten days after the concert in Naz-
areth, the 23-year-old pianist once
again played the Beethoven Fourth
with the Jerusalem Symphony in
Jerusalem.
The young pianist's concert is the
third on the Bluffton College series.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Hot Potato Goes To Hands OF
Newly Elected COuncilmen
Solicitor Romey Cites LalU Which Will
Delay Light Plant DedI Several Months

Another unexpected turn
Buttons highly controversial
this week with legal opinion ths
red by state law from taking any
the decision consequently mustI
are seated next Jan. 1.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26

Rabbit, Mrs. Anletutz points out,
can be prepared in slny manner chick
en- is used. The finn meat makes
handful of local customers who may
purchase the chicken-like meat of the
domestic rabbit for frying or roast
Continued on Page
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26
Domestic Rabbit Business
Good, Hunting Season Or No

And now that the hunting in full swing every
rabbit Drowned in the hunters skillet buckshot nor
will every game dinner completely from the hunters
This trade secrs< shared by Mr. Ralph Amstuz
whose domestic rabbr carried their home Of East
College street. bigger than you might realize Il
Although the local cohpd Have fl
difficulty finding ready mhfk sold single lot exle fL
rabbit they rA r yha cuI knd sruen for
they always anticipate alit e kzer storage even rabhit
demand when hunting sea$oh is poM AlAx " - l
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26

in the unpredictable course of
municipal power situation came
ltthe outgoing city council is bar
Legislative action on the case, and
'be deferred until new councilmen
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-11-26

not relish returning home empty
handed and are not above baying
their "limit" if occasion demands.
And strangely enough, although
Bluffton is not considered good rab-
bit eating town-save perhaps during
hunting season-the Amstutz busi-
ness is one of the most fiourishing of
its type in a wide area. 1t might
surprise you to know that since the
first of the year 26,026 bunnies have
been processed for the table in this
unique Bluffton business enterprise.
Wednesday is slaughtering day in
the buildings at the rear of the AM
stutz home, and handling from 400 to
500 rabbits on that day is standard
operating procedure. On one We'd
nesday last summer more than 600
rabbits were processed for record.
Where in the world are so many
bunnies eaten you may ask. But,
this too is a trade secret, the AM
stutz's do not wish published. Suf-
flee it to say that their entire output
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10
McCarrey Ma med District Judge

James L. McCarrey, Jr. was appointed by President Eisenhower to be the U. s. District Judge of the Third Division. There has been no ladge in the division since the death of Judge Anthony J. Dimond last May.
 Judge McCarrey is a native of Utah and received his law degree from the university there. He is AT, married, has three children and was ad- mitted to the Alaska Bar in 1922. He has been in private law practice in Anchorage since l945.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10
PAGE 3

Wakefield told the hearing conducted by Labor Commls sioner Henry Benson and Delegete E. L.. Bartlett he does not object to a, fishing treaty with Japan.
 < My kick is against the terms" " he said.
 Cichoski received wide mo- toriety last March during the Territorial Session of the Legislature by attempting to find a sponsor for a bill ito re- peal all taxes didn't declare an emergency it sure would create one."
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10
Asks Closure To NOn-AIaskans

A Kodiak fisherman asked that Alaskan waters be closed to all non-Alaska fisherman for four years. The period wcu'd be two complete salmon cycles.
 A. J. Tiny" Cichoski made the proposal during a two day 'fisherman's relief'' hearing which was held in Juneau re. gently.
 The relief hearing preceded a hearing between a U. S. State Department representa- tive and the Territorial Fish cries Commission to consider matters with respect to" the Japanese-U. s. fishing treaty.
 J. H. Wakefield, an Alaskan cannery owner and crab fish, erman charged the Japanese with exceeding terms of the fishing treaty.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10
Oregon Hunter Gets Bear

A rancher from LaPine, Oregon, added a 10 foot. six inch bear to his list of trophies this week while hunting with Ali Madsen in the Uganik Bay area.
 Regis T De Maleissye, own CT of the Wagon Trail Ranch in Oregon downed the big bear with a shot between the eyes. The bear was reported charging him from a distance of 30 feet. He used a 300 magnun for the kill.
 De Maleissye has lived in Oregon for the past six years. Prior to that he lived in Brest, France. He hunted in Africa and the states. This is his first Kodiak Bear hunt.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10

Arnold Anderson, Standard Oil Company representative at Nenana, has taken over the operation of the local agency while regular agent Merrill Coon is on vacation.
 Mrs. Tenora Rockney is em- ployed in the dry goods de- partment at Kraft's.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10

ventures was presented to the club on a voice recorder. He is writing a book on his adven- lures as a seaman, fur trader, walrus hunter and blg game
 guide. It is scheduled to be published next year by the Dodd Mead Publishing Com uany.
 Following his arriving in Newfoundland he returned to
 Europe and later sailed aboard
 a four masted bark for the Hawaiian Islands by way of
 Cape Torn.
 The hardships suffered by i apprentice seaman before the
 turn of the century were in-
 credible to Madsen's listeners. He told of finding weevils
 in the pilot bread, living on one cup of fresh water per day and of furnishing his own bed
 ding and eating utensils on his voyages.
 On arriving in Honolulu Madsen and a shipmate de-
 cided they had had enough of : sailing and jumped ship. His description of Honolulu as it was 50 years ago was enjoyed by his listeners.
 He later sailed aboard an American vessel for San Fran cisco. He was greatly impress i.sed with the American Bag
 dad-by-the Bay" For three years he sailed in coastal ves-
 sells and following the dis
 covery of gold on the beaches
 at Nome he set sail for the
 north.
 1 Madsen ended the record of
 his adventures at this point
 for his Tuesday audience. The | club has earlier heard record
 lngs of his experiences as a walrus hunter, his impressions of the Deer Men of Siberia and 1 of a shipwreck he suffered in i the Boring Sea. All of the re- ! cordings will be incorporated in his book.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10
Madsen Reveals More Of ortBncoming Book

A verbal picture of a four masted bark under sail in the stormy Atlantic was wildly described for Kodiak Rotary Club Tuesday by Charles Madsen.
 Madsen served for many of his younger years in various types" of sailing vessels be- fore becoming a resident of Alaska.
 Madsen left his native country of Denmark when he was IA years old as an ap- prentice seaman. He sailed in the Baltic for two years and then shipped aboard a Danish ship for his crossing of the Atlantic. His first visit to North America was to St. Johns, Newfoundland.
 The account of Madsen's s ad
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10

Captain George Hicks, US CG, with headquarters at Juneau, was in Kodiak on a routine inspection trip re- gently.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-10
Miss Stevens To Wed

The marriage of Miss Sally Ann Stevens, sister of Mrs. Richard Larson, to John Jere-
 my Eynon will take place on
 Saturday, Oct. IF.
 Eynon is an ensign in the
 U. E. Naval Reserve. Following the wedding a re-
 ception will be held at 4:30
 pm at the KNS Officers Club
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Chemicals, Insects
Team to Combat
Damage by Pests

Beneficial insects and insecti-
cideS can be teamed up to con-
troll an insect pest, it is shown by
tests by Agriculture Department
entomologists.
Fruit insect specialists found
they could prevent most oriental
fruit moth damage to ripe
peaches in New Jersey orchards
by releasing tiny wasps that prey
on the larvae of the moth-and
then spraying with an insecti-
eide.
Results were equally as good as
those obtained with conventional
control methodS-the use of two
insecticidal sprays applied at two
to three week intervals, starting
about month or more before
harvest. Either method lowers
the percentage of moth-injured
fruit from an average of about
one-fourth of the crop when no
control is practiced, to an aver
age of about 6 per cent.
Prior to the development of
m odern organic insecticides,
peach growers prevented oriental
fruit moth damage solely with
the parasitic wasps. Timely re-
lease of these wasps cut damage
to ripe peaches to about half
that normally caused by the fruit
moth. When DDT became gen.
orally available in 1947-and
later EPN and parathion-ento-
mologists proved these chemicals
applied as sprays would more
adequately control the moth.
Although some peach growers
might prefer the newly proven
wasp and spray method over
sprays alone, department ento-
mologists believe the greatest
value from these tests is the
knowledge that these apparently
opposite approaches to insect
control can at times be used to-
gether. Ultimately, they believe,
this knowledge may lead to the
practical control of many pests
through the use of combinations
of both beneficial insects and in
secticideS.
Evening star., 1953-07-05
Rotote for Higher
Garden Production

BY increasing the fertility of
your garden, and maintaining
the high fertility level with a
green manure crop and fertili-
zers, you probably can produce
all the vegetables your family
needs on a smaller area.
Garden specialists at VPI say
to do it by garden rotation" :"
In a tWo-year rotation plant
half the garden area in a green
manure crop, such as soybeans,
and the other half in vegetables.
The next year switch areas, put
ting vegetables where the green
manure crop grew the year be-
fore and putting a green manure
crop where the vegetables were
grown.
BY working the smaller area,
you save in labor needed to plant
and cultivate. And rotating the
crops will help control plant
diseases.