davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29

Democrats Fail Thus Far To Name
Opposing Candidate In Mayoralty Race
Nominees For Other Municipal Offices
Are Recommended At Party Caucuses

Dwight Deeds; Justice of the Peace,
Leo Nelson; Constable, Wade BechtoI.
Democrat-Township Trustees, Jes-
Sc Yoakam, Leonard Gratz; Justice
of Peace-Charles Lora, John Mama
han; Constable-Millard Herr, Will
ford Gratz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29

Mayor w. A. Howe, who has served
in the towns chief executive office
longer than any other man in history,
will seek his seventh term in next
falls general election.
Drafted by his party at the Republi-
a caucus Monday night in the high
school building, Mayor Howe has an
nounced that he intends to file again
as a candidate.
In the meantime there were indica-
tons that he might be unopposed in
his seventh term bid, for Democrats
at their caucus Tuesday night failed
to obtain a candidate for the mayor
atty.
Unless someone files before the
deadline at $50 p. m. Wednesday of
next week, Mayor Howe will run for
office without opposition for the
second campaign in a row, inasmuch
as there was no Democratic candidate
for the office in the 1851 election.
Tentative States
Preliminary indication as to what
Bluffton's political states may look
like in next falls municipal election
came following the recommendations
made at caucuses.
Lists of candidates drafted, at the
best comprise only a tentative align
ment, for many of those recommend
cd at the party get-togethers have
not Oct been contacted.
Rel mmended for municipal offices
at TIL Republican caucus were: Mayor
w. Howe; Clerk-A. ]. B. Lonsg-
dorf; Wreasurer-No Candidate to
date; Council-Donald Ream, Gerhard
Butler, Delbert McGinnis, Richard
Davies, Everett Sutermeister and G.
7. Soldner; Board of Public Affairs
Joel Kimmel 1.-TWO more candidates to
be named); Board of Education-Paul
Stauffer, B. w. Travis, Mrs. Ferne
Ramseyer.
Democratic recommendations Tues
day night were as follows: Mayor
No Candidate to date; Clerk-No
Candidate to date; Treasurer-Frank
Todd; Councii-Ed Badertscher, Ger
aid Swank, Clay Henderson, Charles
Steiner, Francis Reichenbach and
Arden Baker; Board of Education
ROLAND Koontz, Mrs. Carl Smucker
and Kimmel Marshall; Board of
Public Affairs-Carl Lehman, Forrest
Steinman and James Benroth.
So far on the Republican ticket
those who have signified definite in
tention to file for the offices for which
they were recommended have been
Mayor Howe; Clerk Longsdorf; Nc
Ginnis on the council, and Stauffer
and Travis on the board of education.
Democrats who announced plans to
file were Badertscher, R~eichenbach,
Henderson, Baker and Swank on the
council; and Lehman on the board of
public affairs.
township Offices
TownsI noi4patieps made at the
,causpses be kfsa6N(G Republican
ETfsshipyEt ee, my bis criblez,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29
Orange Township COP
Names Candidates

Ray Marshall and Ray Nonnamak-
er were recommended as Republican
candidates for the office of township
trustee in Orange Township at a
COP caucus Tuesday evening in the
township hall. The Republicans also
recommended Ebert Anderson as
their candidate for township con-
stable.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29
Democratic Caucus

Democratic leaders of Orange
Township will meet in caucus Thurs
day night at 8 o'clock in the town
ship house to select a slate of can-
didates for office in this years cleo
ton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29

Opening with a pot-luck supper, an
nual meeting of the Button Com
munity Sportsmen's clgb AN VII in
clude a motion picture, SIn dMat-
ers", and business me- Ting Me
organization, at 6:45 p. nsaSFHk
day in American Legion daaTters on
the second floor of the towMbhall.
For the evening meal, the club will
provide hot meat sandwiches, coffee,
pop and milk. Each family is to
bring it's own hot or cold dish of food.
In addition to the movie, the even
ing's program also viii include a talk
on Ohio conservation affairs by
Howard Langstaff, supervisor of Dis
trict No. 2,Division of Wildlife.
Also featured at the meeting will
be discussion of plans for the annual
Bluffton Trout Derby, scheduled for
next April 10 at Buckeye quarry.
More than two and one-half tons of
Rainbow trout, walleyes and pickerel
viii be released in the quarry for the
derby.
Membership analysis of the clubs
1862 roster, completed last week,
showed that Lima sportsmen held a
total of 892 membership cards. Bluff
ton members took second place with
286, although Findlay was a close
third, 284.
Ada ranked fourth with 70 MEM
bers; Columbus Grove had 45; Ottawa
AZ; Leipsic 81, and 80 members were
claimed by each Mt. Cory, Carey,
Jenera and McComb.
Membership from some of the other
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29
Sportsmen's Annual Meeting, Election
Set For Friday In Legion Quarters ,

towns in this area was as I'd pws:
Beaverdam Is; .Rawson, Is; ArliH ton,
Is; Delphos, Pandora, 25;Aa-
fayette, Is; M Blanchard, pd
Benton Ridge, 81
All told~there Iefc members from
ansevN HCSQbfb cities; plus out-of-
stat5k rfhbers from four cities in
Indiana; one in Pennsylvania; two
from Michigan; n from West Vir-
ginia and one from far-away Cal
ifornia.
0hio'smembership was from every
corner of the state, for in addition to
towns from Northwestern Ohio there
were members from as far away as
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Jacksonville and
Fairborn.
Total membership of the organiza-
ton in 1852 was 1885 members.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29
Lower Electric
Rate To Show On
Bills Of Feb. |

The first electric bills under the
new reduced rates which became eff
fective January l will go into the
mails to Bluffton consumers next
week, accq1tlpg to an ann kncement
Wednesda James Drafr, super
intendent he municipsf ghssandi
power pla $ 49,
The aveV Rge hoaltf <$6nsd can
look forwaN tafa reduction in his
bill of approximately 1873 per cent.
If he uses the average amount of
electricity, he has been paying in
the neighborhood OF $500 per month.
Under the new rates, the average
bill will be about $50, a savings
of SO cents.
Similar reductions will also be
EEL by most commercial consumers,
although Draper cautioned that in a
few instances the revised rate sched-
ule win make the bills slightly high
er.
No comparison could be offered on
industrial rates since the new sched-
ule places Industrial rates on a COM
pletely different basis than hereto
fore.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29

week., accQ
WednesdaH
pla(
The ave
look forws
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-29
100 Ohio Cities Represent
ed In Huge Membership
Of Local Club

Opening with a pot-luck supper, an
nual meeting of the Button Com
C-.4-.n ol.,L LII =.
Evening star., 1953-10-25
By John w. Thompson, Jr.

as far as she knows police
never have asked for detailed
information. If this is an i'm
plication that they could get
all the information they need,
it remains to be seen.
Somewhere along the line,
the impression has been circu-
lated that the law forbids the
giving out of this information.
That's not so. The law-as
amended last year at Judge
Cockrill's request-very clearly
gives her discretion to turn over
the facts to any appropriate
agency or official. If informa-
ton is withheld by the court
from welfare officials or po-
lice, it is because Judge Cock
rill doesn't think they should
nave it, not because the law
withholds it.
This is not to say that judge
Cockrill is not doing a conSci-
entious job as juvenile judge
Perhaps she's just too conSci-
entious. The law does envisiOn
the maximum confidentiality
possible in proceedings involv-
ing youthful offenders. as a
means of aiding in their re-
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Metropolitan Scene
Is Juvenile Court Blocking Delinquency Drive?

Mobilization. 1t could not,
though, have been intended to
deny such agencies as the
Police and Welfare Depart
ments the tools with which to
carry out properly their part
of the task.
Judges View
The other day Judge Cock
rill was quoted as telling a
group of school attendance
officers:
1T is essential also that rec
ords of trial proceedings be
made available only to those
persons actually concerned
with the child's welfare"
Certainly the Welfare De-
partment, and probably the po-
lice, could be said to be in the
child's corner. But they also
are in the community's corner
especially the police-in this
problem. Perhaps Juvenile
Court needs to open its mind a
bit to the community's rights
and protection along with its
concern for the rights and
protection of a young delin-
quent. At any rate successful
prosecution of any campaign
against youth delinquency
probably hinges on how wisely
the court uses its discretion.
Power of the press depart
ment: Virginia's Republican
gubernatorial candidate. Ted
Dalton, gave a speech in
Alexandria recently, in which
he omitted a section of his
prepared address.
After the meeting a news
man for another paper moaned
that he had written his story
earlier and his paper already
had printed it based on the
omitted lines.
Mr.. Dalton penitently
stepped to the platform and
read the section to the crowd
which by that time was filing
out Of the room.
The incident recalls speech
given about a year ago at
Montgomery County Junior
College by Maryland's ora
torical Gov. Theodore Roose-
velt McKeldin. Gov. McKeldin
plucked from his pocket a
written statement which he
said he had to read because
copies had been sent to the
press. After that he got down
a serious hours address off the
cuff.
Montgomery'S "up county"
residents are reported still hot
under the collar over Post Of
flee Department plans to
downgrade or eliminate some
of the old rural post offices.
Evening star., 1953-10-25

More and more the finger
keeps pointing at Juvenile
Court as the big bottleneck in
any attack on the city's juve-
nile delinquency problem.
A few days ago, Welfare Di-
rector Gerard Shea asked for
the names of young offenders
handled by the court to estab-
lish a central registry. He
wanted to find out, he said,
whether one John Smith COM
mitted four offenses, or four
John Smiths committed one
offenSe each. 1t was important
to the Welfare Department, in
it's dealings with delinquent
youth, to know this. The De-
parment runs the institutions
to which the youngsters are
committed - the Receiving
Home where children are held
pending court action and the
Industrial Home School where
they may go after court action.
But the court turned him
down.
Police Handicapped
Police also constantly are
handicapped by the iron cur
tain that drops over the young
sters the moment they get
Evening star., 1953-10-25

into the hands of the court.
In the first place, although po-
lice may file papers with the
court the day after they've
picked up the young delin-
quent, it generally is about two
months before the court staff
completes it's investigation of
the case and the youth actually
comes before Judge Edith H.
Cockrill. In the interim two
things may well have hap
pened: Police may have
picked up the youth again in
some offense. Or the youth
has lost all understanding of
the seriousness of the offense
committed, because of the long
lag between arrest and dis
position. When your child
does something deserving COR
rection, do you wait two
months to administer it?
FouIty Lioison
Police say they have not
been given access to court ind
ings and the only way they
know a habitual delinquent is
"out" is when they pick him
up again. Judge Cockrill says
Evening star., 1953-10-25
How Are Tax DeIinquents Treated?

On the day I received a long
white envelope with my name
peeping through a little win
dow I experienced mixed emo
tions of concern and anger.
The upper left-hand corner
bore the name of a deputy col
lector stamped in red. Under
meath in bold type was the
title, "U. S. Treasury Depart
ment, Director of Internal
Revenue"
I had read much about a
promised breakdown on tax
delinquents. I certainly fell
into that category. My bill,
with penalties and interest,
totaled $141.38.
A minor portion was a hang
over from 1850. The balance
came from disalloWance of a
claim made on last years in
come tax return.
My first reaction was one of
cold fury. l thought Of claims
for millions settled for so per
cent or so. Would the tax COL
lector settle with me for half?
Not on your life. Like every
Evening star., 1953-10-25

When I came face to face
with the bureaucratic ogre I
had expected to see, he turned
out to be an ordinary looking
citizen in his mid-30s who con-
veyed the impression my pre-
dicament was an old story.
Most of all, he seemed sympa-
thetic.
In no more than five peace
full minutes we came to an un-
derstanding. I owed a debt.
wanted to get it off my mind,
but I didn't want to be too
strapped.
Agreeing with me, he let me
name my own terms. I pledged
myself to wipe out the small
1850 arrears within a little
more than two weeks. The bal
ance I agreed to pay off at IS
a week.
The experience was novel. I
left feeling I had made a
friend. When I got outside the
building I laughed at the
anger and fear I had felt on
first seeing the deputy collect
or'S letter.
Evening star., 1953-10-25

Braves to Milwaukee last year.
Where the Braves had drawn
only about 100000 in Boston
in 1852, they attracted a rec
ord 1,826.397 in Milwaukee
last season. the high mark for
both major leagues.
III Stor Over Baltimore
Until this year, an i'll star
has hovered over professional
football in Baltimore. Robert
Rodenberg. Washington real
estate man, lost a small for
tune backing the Baltimore
Colts in the old All-America
Football Conference. The Colts
played in the All-America
in 1947, 1948 and I949. and
when the All-America was abb
sorbed by the National Pro-
eSsional Football League in
1850, they were given a berth
n that league. However, the
Colts went out of business
after a disastrous year which
saw them win only one of IL
sameS.
The Colts are back in the
National League this year.
after a two-year absence, and
going into today's game with
Washington, have a record of
two wins and two losses. This
year the Colts have twice de-
feated the Chicago Bears, once
the powerhouse of the league.
In a preseason exhibition
game in Baltimore. the Colts
beat our Redskins, 8 to 3.
Evening star., 1953-10-25
Anonymous

thing in life, reasoned, it's
the little man who pays.
Minutes later, calmed down
somewhat, but still smarting
from the veiled threat of prop
erty seizure or salary garnish-
ment, I experienced helpless
ness. I realized the system
was too big to lick.
Finally, I thought of the
most degrading of all things:
The bullying and pushing
around I would take from
some power-crazy clerk who
probably used every gimmick
in the book to beat taxes.
My visit to Room 1909, In
ternal Revenue Building, dis
creetly labeled TAX Inquiries
Section" was a surprise.
The letter had fixed a time
for an appointment. I could
not keep the date, so I phoned
to postpone it for three days.
A cheerful and extremely polite
voice thanked me for the call
and arranged a time conven-
lent for me.
Evening star., 1953-10-25

president of the Senators,
voted fof the shift of the st.
Louis baseball franchise to
Baltimore only after he had
reached an agreement with
the Baltimore group on radio
and television rights. Balti-
moreans promised not to en-
croach on the Senators radio
and television territory. In
addition, the brewery which
will sponsor broadcasts and
telecaStS in both cities agreed
Evening star., 1953-10-25
By chprIes E. Davis, Jr.

Baltimore and Washington
have always seemed unaware
of one another, which is
strange when one considers
that each has a metropolitan
population Of a million and
half and that the two cities
are only 40 miles apart.
Now professional sports are
brinking about a mutual rec
ognition that closeness could
not accomplish.
In the past year Baltimore
has emerged as a rival of
Washington in both profess
sional baseball and profess
sional football. Today the
Washington Redskins and the
Baltimore Colts meet in a Ma
tional Professional Football
League contest in Baltimore,
and several thousand Wash
ingtonians will journey to Bal
timore to see the game. Next
spring the Baltimore Orioles
will be welcomed into major
league baseball. Baltimore OBJ
tanned the st. Louis Browns
franchise in the American
League.
Baltimore's recognition as
majer sports center was long
overdue. It had major league
baseball team until 1903, when
the Baltimore franchise was
moved to New York
Even in the minors, Balti-
more was a baseball power.
Washington never has had the
sports crowds that Baltimore
has drawn. Now, with big
league competition so close,
sports figures here hope the
spirit of rivalry will whip up
the cash customers interest
to the point that Griffith Sta
dium's turnstiles will clang a
happier tune.
NoturoI RivoIs
Baltimore and WASHINGTON
are naturally intercity sports
rivals. While it is natural to
expect Washington to lose the
patronage of Baltimore's big
league ball fans, it is equally
reasonable to hope that this
slack will be taken up by good
promotion of the latent COM
petition between the twin me-
tropolises.
But it is quite possible, also,
that if Baltimore fields a pen
nant contender and Washing
ton has a second division nine,
Washington fans will prefer
the 40-mile ride to see a good
baseball team.
The spirit that must be
whipped up is not the old
school-tie or hometown sort
that dictates rivalry for ri.
valry's sake. It is a promo
tional aspect of big business
the sort of thing that makes
some people ask for "CruddieS"
and others demand "Gooeys"
when they shop for breakfast
Evening star., 1953-10-25

to raise its payments to Grit.
fifth. The existing contrac;
guaranteed the Senators $685.
600 a season, but this was re-
vised to give Washington $780,
600 the next two seasons and
$315,000 the third year.
The Baltimore group, which
paid nearly So million for the
st. Louis franchise, is hoping
to duplicate the Milwaukee
success story. The National
League moved the Boston
Evening star., 1953-10-25

food. Big league sports to-
day are big business, and there
is no escaping this fact.
George Preston Marshall,
: owner of the Washington Red
skins, was bitterly opposed to
the idea of a major league
football team in Baltimore,
but he relented when he was
guaranteed $4,000 a year for
three years from the holders
of the Baltimore franchise.
Similarly, Clark Griffith,
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Big u. S. Spy Ring Is Smashed
In East Germany, Reds Say

and ex-police Col. Bickelberg,
one-time aide to Canaris.
The government said great
number" of radio transmitterS
of American make were seized
in a series of raids throughout
the Soviet zone.
Free University Named.
1t said West Berlin was the
center of the net for which the
agents used the cover name
Institute for Factory Hygenics. +"
Named as parts of the ring
were the West German Security
Ministry, the anti-Communist
organization Free Jurists' Com
mittee and the United States
High Commission radio station
RIAS.
The free university established
five years ago in West Berlin
after the Communists took over
old Berlin University was also
named as an "accomplice."
The Soviet zone announce
ment said the spy net was set
up in cells of three men each,
all assigned to funnel informa-
ton to the West.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Sept 23.-Commu-
mist East Germany claimed last
night its secret police have
smashed a big American spy
ring in the Soviet zone.
The Communist governments
radio news agency said three
ringleaders and others involved
in the operation are behind bars.
1t charged American funds
financed the spy ring.
To Face High Court.
The announcement said that
three of those jailed are: Fed
dora Won SteinmetZ, former
wealthy landowner who allegedly
worked for a British military unit
after 1945; Armin Zopf. former
Nazi storm trooper, and Rudolf
Seifert, an eX-Nazi.
They will be tried by the Su-
preme Court.
The government charged that
former agents OF Admiral Will
helm Canaris, top intelligence
man for Hitler until he led the
1914 putsch that failed, were
employed in the ring. Canaris
himself was hanged in Flossen-
burg concentration camp just be-
fore Hitler's government col
,lapSed.
The East zone radio said the
ring was headed by a former
| German general named DoerinE
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Fairfax Red Cross Class
Beqins in Mid-0ctober

The Fairfax County Red Cross
has announced training courses
in all phases of volunteer work
beginning in the middle of Oc-
tober Workers are needed in
recreation. clinical. library and
hospital programs.
The chairman of volunteer
services and the assistant field
director from Fort Belvoir Hos
pital will he at the chapter house,
$40 South Payne street. Fairfax,
for interviews from / to 4 pm.
on October 5.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
TrioI Of Bunk Teller
In $500 Theft Set
BY the Assoeiased Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 23.-Vic-
tor Herman McSherry, jr., a
Hagerstown bank teller accused
of embezzling $4,000. pleaded
not guilty yesterday and his trial
was set for October 27.
McSherry is free under $4,000
bond.
A Federal grand jury indicted
him February 3 on four counts,
charging the embezzlements at
the NicodemuS National Bank,
HagerStoWn.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Yes! Amozing PAZo
Relief to MILLIONS!

How tragic that thousands suffer.
needlessly. from misery of simple
piles! Millions have discovered that
amazing Pazo" relieves such torture
fast. In fact, Pazo acts to relieve itch
ing, pain instantly! Soothes raw. in
famed tissues. Lubricates and softenS
dry, hardened parts. Helps reduce
swelling. heal cracking, prevent sore
ness. Ask your own doctor about this
speedy, wonderful relief. Then don't
Evening star., 1953-09-23
. has brought glorious

suffer one unnecessary moment from
agonizing misery of simple piles. Get
oazo, get real comfort right away!
NOW IN SCIENTIFIC SUPP0SlT0RY F0RMI
Now available in two forms: Pazo
Ointment in Tubes and Tins, known
to millions for years; also convenient.
new Suppository form that gives you
exact. measured dose for best results
each time. Easier to use, more sanitary,
won't damage clothes. At all druggists.
The GROVE LABORATORIES, Inc
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-04
New Storms
Menace Britain
And Holland

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands
R- Warnings of new gales and
high tides flashed fresh danger
to- battered Britain and Holland
Wednesday as an international
armada Of planes and boats
braved waves and near-freezing
weather to rescue survivors of the
continents most frightful flood
disaster since medieval times.
The unofficial death toll topped
1,600-including 1858 in Holland
but the Amsterdam newspaper
Het Vriji V0lk indicated Wednes-
day that more than 1000 persons
may have lost their lives in the
Netherlands alone.
AS thousands Of workers raced
against time to shore up shattered
sea defenses in Britain and the
Netherlands some 1000 vessels
and more than 1875 planes rushed
the evacuation of thousands
numbed by cold and suffering
from three days of exposure in
isolated villages throughout the
stricken southwest Holland.
The new gale warning was an
nounced for the North Sea area.
Accompanying the grim forecast
was a British Air Ministry pre-
diction that strong winds develop
ing further south during the day
will "tend to heighten the tides
on the east coast"