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Evening star., 1953-12-20
DAILY DOUBLE PAID $3.50. J

'DhALA DOUbLE FAlD SiO.1Ut
THIRD RAcE-Purse. 1000; claim
Sassy Shirl iSmalD i2.sO SEQ $50
Al; Busy lHartacD 800 $50
Belmont Belle tRootl 500
Doxy. Sospiro, Troubled Sea. Auld Sod.
FOURTH RACE-Purse, $1,000: op-
tio9al claiming 3-year-olds and up: Z
Tetrabasic tParker) 2asO $50 $40
Conaucrant tHartack) SEQ 9.I0
cantcs Gal Gal zuls Belle, Lady POET "
Peupe' Corn Time, 1:c7ss.
FIFTH RACE-Purse $1,000: claim
ing; 3-year-olds and up; about 6ia
Thomas Pepper tRose, 4.6O ESQ ESQ
PASSING "arade tH'ck) $50 10
ci1uaourst GRAY 3:o
Cora, Third Value. Liberty Andy, Star
/ haven Triple Lie. Time, TIA tnew
| track record).
SIXTH RACE-Purse, $500: allow
@ srisSi Issfflaf fste Psrter5 a90 $40 500 ie: eo
Vets Boy tHartack) SEQ go
Arson tWidmanl $40
Foot. a Famous. Justa .Tiger. spool
Time. IA tnew track record.
Moore-Benjamin entry.
SEVENTH RACE - Purse. ST 900:
Bowline (R0Se) 15.lO 6.tO 400
NanOOk tWidmant $50 300
Rolling Boy tSmalN $50
Qudtre Pass, Meenie, Willow Hollow
/ Triple Switch. ocean Beauty. Pennsyl-
vanian, sydney. Time, l:45ts.
EIGHTH RACE-Purse 81 200: claim
ing; 3-year-oldS and up: IA miles
Recky's Pedro tRigby) 1920 $50 $50
Nick Bloom tFer'lal 600 16O
Frankfort kinR RoScl 1900
Prodigal Son. Bougent, Xmas Chimes,
Epic Chance. Jack Fizz. Able Fun. Alb
testale. Time. 2:072s.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

Following a vacation with his
parents over the holiday season
at their home near Johnstown,
Pa. Hartack will return and gall
lop horses in the interim be-
tween the reopening on Febru-
ary 20.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

While the smallest daily
double payoff Of the 13-day pc
riod was only $11.40 for So, on
opening day, December S. It
was not tiny enough return for
a record. the $3.50 for So paid
June 2. 1949, being still tops in
low refunds. The largest sum
handed out this season was
$1.904 for 50 on Thursday that
went to holders of II tickets.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Charles Town Results
BY the Associated Press

FIRST RACE Purse, $1,000; allow
ances; 3-year-olds: about 4i2 furloneS.
Tetraparticle CParker) GO 40 32A
Penny Aehanee ,Ferla) 1880 500
Fresh Moon tSmaIn $50
Carl Edgar H.. Mister Dan, My Pas
tine. Jubilee Trail. Titelo. Baked Indian,
Mr.. Parnsll. Time 0:49ts.
SECOND RACE-Purse, 81. 900; claim
ing 9-year-olds: ] ,s miles.
British Sea (Hartack) $40 SEQ 300
COlecO FernicOlal $50 300
Kings Blood tKane) SEQ
Sneekers, Dillv Whilly. Grand Boston.
Stone Ginger Sand Queen, Swingie.
Time, .4H4a
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller Fink, Rawson,
girl, Cynthia Lee, born last Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Long, Ada, a
girl, Peggy Ann, born last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Basinger,
Jenera, boy, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. A. Patterson
,(Carol Cookson), Columbus, Ohio, a
boy, John Charles, born August 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Myers, Corpus
Christie, Texas, boy, Michael, born
July 18.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F. West,
Toledo, a girl, Patricia Jean, born
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Miller, Berlin,
Ohio, a boy, James Stephen, born
August 6 at the Millersburg, Ohio,
hospital. Mrs. Miller is the former
Betty Ann Bixel, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. Gordon Bixel of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Eugene Basinger
Joins Faculty At
Columbus Grove

Eugene Basinger, son of Mrs. D.
j. Basinger of Bluffton, has re-
signed his position as a teacher
in the Paulding, Ohio, schools to as
sumo new duties on the faculty of
the Columbus Grove high school, it
was announced last week by the
Columbus Grove board of education.
Mr.. Basinger holds a masters
degree from the University of Gin
cinnati and is a graduate of Bluff
ton high school and Bluffton college.
He has been teaching in the Pauld-
ing schools for the last two years.
1t was also announced by the
Columbus Grove school board that
Collins Stackhouse, head coach at
the high school, had been named
principal at a special meeting last
Thursday.
Mr.. Stackhouse fills a vacancy
created by the resignation of Eldon
Shock. He will complete his seventh
year in Columbus Grove this
December, having taken his first
teaching assignment at the school.
A graduate of Columbia univer-
sity and Ohio Northern University,
the new principal will continue his
coaching duties along with being
principal of the school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Expect Sewage Treatment Plant
Will Begin Operation By Late Fall

Bluffton's new sewage treatment
plant will be in operation by late fall
it is indicated by the present pace OF
construction progress.
All work ON intercepting sewers
likely. viii not be completed until a
later date, however, and treatment of
sewage will be started before the final
sewers are installed, according to
present indications.
Construction progress has been
planned in such way that operation
of the plant can be started at any
time after its completion, picking UP
sewage from the interceptors already
in place.
Present indications are that the
major Aintercepting sewers along
Big and Little Riley creeks will be
completed by the time the plant is
ready for operation. At the first OF
the week, construction crews had
completed the final details of work
on the Big Riley interceptor, working
in the vicinity of the Cherry street
bridge.
Scene of construction operations
shifted Monday to the Grove-Kiblel
street area where the Little Riley
interceptor will be continued from
Campus Drive, along half-block
stretch of Kibler steet to Grove; or
Grove to the bridge, then south
across the rear of four Kibler street
lots, and then across the farm ot
Myron Motter, according to present
plans.
At the sewage treatment plant site
spectators now can see what the plant
building will look like, for most OF
the exterior brickwork has been com
pleted. Work also is progressing
satisfactorily on the construction o.
the pools and beds required fol
sewage treatment processing
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13

A 9,000-mile trip by railroad and
steamship to points of scenic beauty
in the United States, Canada and
Alaska took Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
Steinman, of Lawn avenue, as far
north as Whitehorse in the Yukon
territory where the nights were only
three hours long.
Returning from the four-weeks
tour last Sunday afternoon, Stein
man commented on the difficulty in
getting eight hours rest in terri
tory where the sun goes down at
IL pm. and is up again at 2 am.
In the same district on June 20
the sun never sets, Steinman said
and towns capitalize on the atten-
tion-compelling phase of "a hours of
daylight by scheduling a series OF
baseball games which last all night
long. Special ceremonies come at
midnight, marking the longest day
of the year on which there is no
darkness.
Salmon canneries and sawmills
visited in Alaska by the Bluffton
couple are large operations, thorough
ly modern in every respect and a
credit to Alaska as a progressive
territory, Steinman said.
In Alaska there are millions of
acres of fine Sitka spruce trees in
which Steinman was especially inter
ested because of his numbering con-
nections. In the early days of the
airplane, Sitka spruce was the wood
from which the flying machines were
fabricated.
On the 9,O00-mile tour, Mr.. and
Mrs. Steinman stopped first at
Banff, Lake Louise in the Canadian
Rockies. At Vancouver, BE-, they
took a steamship to Skagway, Alas
ka, then travelled north by train to
Whitehorse.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
TOuUn Faces Major Street Repair Program
After Intercepting SelUers Are Complete

Excavating required for the con-
struction of Buttons new system of
intercepting sewers is taking heavy
toll of the towns hard-surfaced
streets.
Long the "pride and joy" of
succeeding village administrations,
Bluffton's streets today are rutted,
muddy thorofares wherever it has
been necessary to make excavation
for the sewer intercepters.
Although excavating contractors
have been doing an excellent job in
maintaining streets in a passable con-
| dition after the installation of sewer
lines is completed, it will be impos-
sible to effect permanent repairs un-
til months after the work has ended
because of the necessity of waiting
until all settling" of the earth has
ended.
Hardest hit to date in sewer ex-
cavating has been more than four
blocks on Harmon road, beginning at
College avenue; two blocks on Camp
us Drive; a two-block stretch to
Vance street; and in work on Cherry
street from Vance street to the Big
Riley bridge and ON Jefferson street
west from Vance to the first alley.
Contractors now are -excavating on
Kibler street, from Campus View to
Grove street, and will dig next on
Grove from Kibler to the Little Riley
bridge.
How much additional excavation
work will be required on streets of
the town is something little uncer-
tain just at present.
Although original plans for an in
tercepter going west on Elm street
placed the sewer in the street, there
are indications at this time that most
of the sewer work, if not all of it, will
be at the rear of the houses on the
north side of the street. Complete
engineering details have not been
worked out as yet.
Construction of an intercepter east
on Cherry street from the Big Riley
bridge to the county line also has
been considered by village officials,
and may be included in the program
provided there are sufficient funds to
finance the work.
The Cherry street .intercepter was
not included in the initial planning
of the villages stystem, but is now
being considered because of the vast
amount of new building which has
been done at the eastern end of the
street.
!. In addition to excavations for the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
BIufftOn Youth
Enroute To Scout
Camp In N. Mexico

Don Badertscher, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Badertscher, South
Jackson street, is one of % area
Boy Scouts who left Wednesday on
a bus trip to the Philmont Boy
Scout ranch in New Mexico.
After arriving at the ranch, the
group will traverse the ranch on
foot in a Far-West hiking trip.
A chartered bus carrying the
area scouts to the Philmont ranch
left Lima on Wednesday, designat-
ed as "Southbound Expedition No.
So"
After hiking over the ranch, the
scouts will return home on Aug. 20.
Jack Garrett is the scout executive
in charge of the trip.
Badertscher will be a senior next
fall in Bluffton High School. He
was recently awarded the rank of
Eagle Scout.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Two From BluftOn
Get Special Honor
AT Gardners' Meet
John BOehr Elected President
OF Conference; Kermit Herr
Wins Bronze Medal

Two members of the Bluffton Mems
Garden Club were singled out for
special honors last weekend at the
North Central Sectional Conference,
Mems Garden Clubs of America, held
here on the Bluffton College campus
John Boehr, long active in local
garden circles and general chairman
of this years sectional conference
was elected president of the North
Central Conference, and Kermit Herr
past president of the local group and
editor of the Johnny Appleseed
Broadcaster, monthly publication OF
the conference, was awarded the
organizations bronze Medal of Honor
for meritorious work accomplished on
behalf of the local organization and
the regional group.
Herr worked tirelessly as editor OF
the Broadcaster and in preparations
for last weeks conference which at
tracted one of the largest attendances
in the history of the annual event.
He will continue as editor of the
publication during the coming year.
Other officers of the conference
elected at the Saturday morning
business session were M. w. Staples,
Kent, first vice president; Arthur
Hardy, Dayton, second vice president;
and Durrell V. Kennedy, Akron,
secretary-treasurer.
Mr.. Boehr succeeds Elwood S.
Mounteer, Detroit, to the regional
presidency. The other officers were
all reelected.
A total of 144 persons registered
for the conference with an attendance
of 1856 at the banquet on Saturday
night. The Detroit club had the
largest number of delegates attend
ing with others registered from Kent,
Youngstown, Lima and Bluffton in
Ohio, and Ft. Wayne Indiana Waus-
Continued on page 10y
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that of Maynard Geiger, local appli-
ance dealer, who has been consider
ing suggestions of friends that he be-
come a candidate in place of Kimmel
for the November election.
Who may have the inside track 20
serve Kimmel's unexpired term is
something which could not be deter
mined this week.
1t is assumed that, as with other
vacancies in village elective offices,
board member replacing Kimmel will
be appointed by Mayor Wilbur A.
Howe, and the mayor stated Tuesday
night that he has made no decision
on an appointee, and in fact has Civ
en- the matter no consideration since
it has not yet officially come to his
attention.
Procedure for the selection of a
candidate to replace Kimmel on the
Republican ballot is slightly more
complicated, it was reported this
week.
In connection with the filing of
each candidates petition, commit
tee is named on the petition to have
the right to name substitute candi-
date in case of either death or with
drawaI. Under election law proce-
dure, as reported this week, the COM
mittee will have the right to deter
mine who the successor will be to
Kimmel's candidacy for the fall bal
loting.
Kimmel is completing his second
term on the board of public affairs,
and is resigning from the office to
move to Kokomo, Ind, where he will
take an active part in the manage
ment of the Reed Tool and Die and
Manufacturing Corp, in which he
has purchased an interest.
In his first term as member OF
the board, Kimmel served as presi-
dent, being succeeded last year by
Carl Lehman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Merchants Picnic
Next Thursday At
Col. Grove Park

Final plans were drafted Tuesday
evening for the annual picnic OF
members of the Bluffton Business
Mems association, their employees
and families to be held Thursday
afternoon and evening at the Colum-
bus Grove municipal park.
The program will open at 2 pm
with free swimming for all children
of school age, and will continue
through the afternoon with contests
and games for both children and
adults. At $3.50 the group will
gather for an elaborate picnic sup
per, and in the evening square
dancing has been arranged in the
large park pavilion, and movies for
the children.
Families attending the outing are
to bring one hot or cold dish and
their own table service. The organ
ization will furnish cold sliced
meats, bread and buns for sand
wiches, ice cream, coffee, milk, pop,
butter, relishes and tomatoes.
The general picnic committee in
cludes Dwaine Amstutz, Gene Ben
roth, Dean Niswander and Milton
Edwards with Dave Risser and +.
James Szabo as co-chairmen.
Riser heads up the food committee
with assistance from Charles Han
kish, Chester Stauffer, AL Ingals,
Francis Reichenbach, Kaiser Gaiffe
and Everett Sutermeister. Dwaine
Amstutz is in charge of recreation
activities with Pete Schmidt super
vising the children's contests and A,
C. Burcky, the adult games. The pro-
perties committee, headed by Dean
Niswander includes Paul Diller and
Stanley Basinger. James Szabo, Verr
Walker and Harold Klingler are in
charge of the program, and Gene
Benroth and Milton Edwards, pub
licity.
Dean Niswander, president of the
club, will act as m aster Of
ceremonies.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
To Revise Plans,
Cutting Costs On
Memorial Home
Opening Of Construction
Work Delayed As First
Bids Are Rejected

Members of the building committee
for the proposed Mennonite Memorial
Home were doing lot of head
scratching this week, but still believ-
ed that it will be possible to proceed
with the home construction work this
summer despite the fact that con-
tractors bids taken last week were
just about double the estimated costs
of the project.
AT a meeting last Friday evening
Architect Carleton Wilson was in
structed to revise his specifications
to bring the building cost within
bounds of the finances. 1t was be-
lieved that while it would be impos-
sible to construct the building at the
original estimate of S110,750, costs
could be pared to point that will
make it feasible to proceed.
Alteration of the specifications
will not change the general plan or
the size of the building. Less ex-
pensive materials will be substituted
throughout.
ID. w. Bixler, treasurer of the
building committee, pointed out that
the unexpected high costs would not
only involve the problem of revising
plans but would create the need for
raising additional funds.
All bids received last week have
been rejected, and contractors will be
asked to bid again after the specifica-
tions are revised. 1t was expected
that the architect would complete
this work by the end of August.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13

married Robert Gallagher, who stud
led pharmacy at 0NU, but decided
there were apt to be too many
druggists in the family and later
switched to engineering The Gall
aghers are now living in Shreve-
port, La.
Nancy received her certificate
from the state last Thursday after
graduating from ONU with average
grades of 80 per cent. She is en-
ployed in a Findlay drug store.
Mariory was graduated from
Ohio Northern in 1947 and practiced
pharmacy for several years after
wards, but is not following the pro-
fession in Shreveport.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13

Another Bluffton tennis champion
ship tournament was wrapped up
with final contests early this week
in which Nate Ganger, of Ottawa,
retained his singles championship
after having teamed with Norm
Triplett as the pair successfully de-
Tended their doubles net title.
Triplett and Ganger now have
copped the Bluffton club doubles
trophy for the third year in row
and Ganger has won the singles
title for the same number of years.
In the finals of singles competi-
ton, Tuesday evening, Ganger
topped Woody Little, former city net
champ, by score of 6-3,6-2,6-1.
The ett-Granger duo was
extended to the limit in final round
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Rodeo Nets $1,646;
Slightly More Than
Previous Year
Gate Receipts Considerably
Higher, But Parade Ex-
penses Offset Increase

Despite the fact that this years
Fourth of July celebration involved
costs of promoting a parade honoring
Ohio's sesqui-centennial anniversary,
increased gate receipts at the annual
rodeo netted sponsoring organiza-
tions profit slightly over the previ-
Gus year. e
Lester Niswander, general chair
man of the community celebration,
reported Tuesday evening that after
/ all bills were paid, the records show
ed profit of $1,646.21. The fund
will be divided among the three spon-
soring organizations with $525 being
distributed to each, the Sportsmen's
club, Bluffton Saddle Horse club, and
the Bluffton Business Mems associa-
ton. A balance of $71.25 remains in
the rodeo fund for payment of undis-
closed bills and for a nest egg for
next years promotion.
Niswander said that total receipts
from rodeo admissions amounted to
$1,711.50 as compared to $1,650.60
last year. An additional $347.40 was
received from reserved seat sales
compared to $293.25, and food con-
cessions netted $570.19 as compared
with $199.14 in 1852. The committee
also received $747.34 in contributions
from business firms for financing the
cost of parade and rodeo trophies,
fireworks and general promotion.
Taxes this year amounted to
$294.25 compared with $277.3S last
year.
Final accounting was made at a
meeting of the committee Tuesday
evening. Those present in addition
to Niswander were: Gerald Huber,
secretary; Dale Reichenbach, treasur-
er; Forest Herr, Harold Klingler,
Ray Marshall, Bill Edwards, Ralph
Reichenbach and Gene Benroth.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13

The local election in Allen coun
ty will be conducted in six different
polling places. At the ttownshir
house in Beaverdam the referendum
will be under direction of Wilforc
Steiner, chairman; Fred Amstutz
vice chairman, and G. K. Helser.
Clair A. Patterson, chairman oi
the county's Production and Market.
ing Administration committee, is
urging every eligible wheat grower
to vote. He points out that if two
favor marketing quotas, wheat
loans at 80 per cent of parity will
be available to those who plant
within their wheat acreage allot-
ments.
If marketing quotas are rejected
by the growers, quotas will not be
in effect and the support rate on
1854 wheat will drop to so per
cent of parity for cooperators.
Acreage allotments will be in
effect for the 1854 wheat crop
regardless of the outcome of the
referendum, Patterson explained. II
marketing quotas are in effect,
those who exceed their allotments
or Is acres, whichever is larger,
must store or dispose of their excess
wheat as directed by the Secretary
of Agriculture or pay the market
ing penalty on the excess wheat.
The marketing penalty is 45 per
cent of wheat parity as of May l,
1854.
The last crop on which such
marketing quotas were applicable
was that of 1941. Quotas were ap-
proved on the 1912 crop but were
later suspended as a wartime
measure.
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Picnics Planned For
Future OSU Students

Students of the Bluffton area who
are planning to enter Ohio State
university this fall are invited to
attend a picnic sponsored by the
Ohio State University Mothers
club Tuesday, August Is, at 6:3o
pm. at the Columbus Grove Swim
ming pool.
Mrs. A. C. Lugibill, Columbus
Grove, and Mrs. Fred Slower, Lima,
are in charge of the picnic, which
is one of a number being held
all over the state. The picnics will
also be attended by various univer-
sity officials who will get acquaint-
ed with the new students before
they enroll.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
NatiUe OF Russia To
Discuss Communism,
At Lions MEETING

Early Background of Russian
Communism" will be the subject
of what promises to be an inter-
esting talk before the next Tues
day evening dinner meeting of
the Bluffton Lions club.
Mrs. Anna Clapp, mother of
high school coach Pete Schmidt,
who settled in Bluffton in the
early sos following escape from
her native Russia during the
revolution, will be the speaker.
Having been born and reared
in Russia, the daughter of
physician, Mrs. Clapp is well pre-
pared to discuss the early rise of
the Communist party to power in
her former country.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Second Girl In Br0Un Family Becomes
Pharmacist; Third To F0Il0u Footsteps

When Miss Nancy Brown, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Brown,
north of Bluffton, received word
this week that she had success
fully passed the state board of
pharmacy examination, S he became
the second girl in the Brown family
to become registered pharmacist,
and one to go.
Emily, the third daughter in the
Brown family, was graduated from
Cory Rawson high school this spring
and is already planning to enroll
at Ohio Northern University to
follow in her sisters footsteps.
The oldest sister, Mariory, who
is also a registered pharmacist,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-13
Last Years Champions Retain Titles
In SO BIufftOn Tennis Tournament

of the doubles tournament, however,
before taking a five-game decision
over Woody Little and Bob Evans.
Score was 1-6, 6-2, 7-5, 3-6, Ga.
Semi-finals results were as follows:
Singles-Ganger won over Evans,
60, 6-2; Little won over Charles
Steiner, 4-6, 6-1; Doubles-Evans-
Little won over Kirkland -Stonehill,
6-2, 60; Granger -Triplett won over
Burcky- Bradford, 6-1,6-1.
Doubles semi-finals and finals were
played off on Sunday in between
singles semi-finals in a full days
program which included one contest,
between Little and Steiner, at 6:15
a. m. Trophies for winners and run
ners-up were provided by The Trip
lett Electrical Instrument Co.