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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-11
New Faces in Congress
Representative From Texas
Is Ex-Prosecutor and Judqe

Brady P. Gentry. attorney. for
mer prosecutor, judge. and World
War I veteran, is the Democratic
House member from the Sd
congressional district of Texas.
Born and reared in Van Zandt
County. Tex. Mr.. Gentry, now
Sc, attended public schools there
and obtained his law degree from
Cumberland University. Lebanon.
Tenn.
He began the practice Of law
at Tyler, Tex, but soon enlisted
in the Army, serving in Europe,
where he rose to the rank Of cap
tain Of infantry. He was gaSSed
during combat in World War I.
Returning to Tyler. which still
is his home, he resumed his law
practice, was elected county at
torney OF Smith County, and
served for two terms. In 1880,
he was elected Smith County
Judge and served eight years on
the bench.
He also has been chairman of
the Texas State Highway Com
mission, on which he served for
six years.
Mr.. Gentry has been active in
civic work in his home, especially
In promoting organizations for
young people.
He is q Mason and member of
the Methodist Church. He is
single.
Evening star., 1953-11-29
Modern Marriage
GRANDPA Needn't Be Lonely

7. I attend a class in some
subject new to me. in order to
broaden my knowledge. 0 2
8. I drop a line to a public Of
fetal or other person who Gas I
read in the newspapers) has
done something commendable.
10 l 2
9. I offer to be useful to any
shut-in or handicapped person
of whom I may hear, in my
neighborhood. 0 1 2
10. I cultivate a hobby or sport
that has many followers with
whom I can share experiences
and talk shop" 0 l 2
Score yourself by letting 0
mean never, not at all"; / rep
resent IAN average amount, or
about as often as not" and 2
stand for regularly or always" ="
Many old timers will come pretty
close to a zero score! They
should be able to make at least
10, maybe Is, on this rating.
Any one who will take this score
card as a basis for going to work
on himself can make friends,
become popular and gain in self
respect from the day he starts.
Try it.
Evening star., 1953-11-29
By Dr.. Paul Popenoe

Grandpa has come to live with
Mr.. and Mrs. 6. and he hasn't a
friend in the world. He COM
plains constantly that he's out
of things, that nobody knows or
cares whether he is alive, and
that he's utterly useless and
lonely" Mrs. G. informs me.
1--WE try to persuade him that
we're glad to have him with US.
and we really don't mind in
cluding him in our little activi-
ties, but they are not what he
is used to, and he feels like an
outsider. I wonder if a lot OF
elderly people don't feel the
same way? It's hard on them
and on those around them!"
They do, indeed, feel the same
way. Mrs. c., and there is really
no excuse for it. Any senior
citizen who feels that he lacks
friends and associates should
JdkR SJSpS W SCO CAAOAAA' ~S
she) might start with a SELF
evaluation on this little rating
scale:
l. 1 attend meetings OF COM
munity, political, religious ana
special-interest groups. 0 l 2
2. 1 send postcards to friends
and acquaintance, especially
when I am on trip. 0 l 2
8. 1 give little things (even if
nothing more than newspaper
clippings) to other people. 0 l 2
4. try to be helpful to young
sters in the neighborhood. 0 l 2
S. write to possible kinfolk
or connections, to collect in
formation about the family
ancestry. 0 l 2
6. I volunteer in any drive
such as Community Chest or
Red Cross. 0 l 2
Evening star., 1953-11-29
Home From Cleveland

Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Wisner of
Rockville have returned from
Cleveland, Ohio, where they
visited the president of Western
Reserve University, DR.. John s..
Mills, and Mrs. Mills. Returning
home to Cleveland with them
was Mr.. Wisner's father, DR.. j.
Ward Wisner, who had been Wis
iting the Wisners for some time.
They also visited their son, j. w.
Wisner, and his family in Cleve-
land.
Evening star., 1953-11-29

ing into The Mems Store for exciting holiday savings mems
diamond onets See the huge oroy Of sharp clear coo
their luxurious softne examine the heavy close knit Here's the
ideo gift for your list for every will love the
bright coo and the smart geoec patterns Of these fine quality
hose Choose from wide variety of patterns and color
binotons, including dark heather diamonds, 5-coor
diamonds, 2-coor large center diamonds and 3-coor
center diamonds. Elastic tops sizes O12 to 8.
WGL-The Mems Store, End Floor
also Chevy Chase and Alexandria
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Austrian Tyroliers Open
Concert Series October Is

and Europe. They had their begin
ming as a group intended for the
amusement of tourists to the village
of Kitzbuhel, tiny ski resort hidden
away in the Tyrolean Alps of Aus
tria. There, when they had complet-
ed their normal workday, the Tyro-
liers would gather at Toni Praxmair's
and entertain the visitors with an
evening of lively songs, accompanied
by the traditional zithsr, guitar and
accordion.
In the workaday Eorld one of the
group is a bank clerk. Others include
a woodcarver, a photographer and a
tailor. A ski instructor and a noun
tain guide are included in the roster
The Tyroliers' performance so inn
pressed an American visiting in Kitz-
buhel that he suggested that they
come to the United States. On learn.
ing that they would be anxious to
appear in this country, but lacked a
sponsor, he offered to back them, and
the Tyroliers' tour was on.
Their spontaneous gaiety and
freshness and the vitality of the
music and colorfulness of their au-
thentic costumes have made them
hits with American audiences.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week: -. .sus
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Crawford,
McComb, boy, Robert Joseph, born
last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grenfall Mericle,
Leipsic, girl, Beth Ellen, born last
Wednesday. C4t ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Crist, Jen-
era, boy, James Edwin, born last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Wagner, Airing
ton, a boy, Mark Allen, born last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bishop, Raw
son, boy, James Franklin, born
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Diller, Pan
dora, a girl, Marie Anne, born Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darius Couch, Pitts
burgh, Pa. a son, Charles Nathan at
Allegheny General Hospital on Sep
tember %. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Neu-
enschwander are the maternal grand
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis j. Schraer
Cincinnati, a girl, Gretchen Sue, born
October 2.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
College Prexy
To Speak At
Harvest Festival

DIR. Arthur A. Kruger, president
of Mission House College and Sem
mary, Plymouth, Wis, will be the
guest speaker at the Harvest Home
FestivA to be observed at st. Johns
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Sunday, the Rev. v. C. oppermann,
pastor, has announced.
A DIR. Kruger will speak at the
morning service at 10:45 and in the
evening will address the Mems Con-
gress of West Ohio at st. Paui's
Church, st. Mary's. Mission H ouse
college is operated by Evangelical
and Reformed churches.
An exhibit of fruits, vegetables
and flowers is being arranged for
the church festival, and special music
will Represented by the choir under
the Airection of Don Neuen OF
Bluffton college.
former members, Emmanuel's con-
gfegation and friends are invited to
fin the congregation in its festival
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08

her busy hospital schedule, Miss
Biederman still finds time for many
outside interests.
She is a member of District 13,
Ohio State Nurses association. the
state and national organizations as
well as the Red Cross Nurses as
soclation. She serves regularly in
the Red Cross bloodmobile program
here in Bluffton as well as other
similar professional services.
Active also in organizations of the
First Mennonite church, she is n
member of the Friendship class.
Among local women's groups she is
a member of the Poinsettia club and
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems club, and is known as a charm
ing hostess at club affairs.
In an official proclamation this
week Mayor w. A. Howe declared
October IL to II as Bluffton's Busi-
ness Women's Week and extended
congratulations to Miss Biederman
az Woman Of the Week.
Members of the club will further
observe the week by attending a
district meeting of the federation at
Defiance College on Sunday, October
Is. As climax to the week, the
Bluffton club will hold guest tea
in Founders Hall Monday, October
10 at $3.50 pm.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Piggies Wait
For Completion
Of Garbage Cooker

Orange township piggies which
have been feasting on the dainties
cast off as scraps from Buttons
dinner tables had to accept other
kind of dinner fare during the last
week when the states new garbage
feeding law went into effect.
Because the towa new portable
garbage cooker has not been COM
pleted, the collection from Mondays
garbage rounds was buried by the
fill method on the Steiner land,
across from location of the new
sewage disposal plant on Bigler
road.
Town workmen will continue to
bury the garbage on the property
until the cooker has been completed
and put into operation on the Arthur
Swank farm i'm Orange; township.
AS a fhealth lcSntroli f,easWeJ Me-
- has Sannbd \feedibk -1ncooked
gaSSage to Nnods &ter VOctober /.
Although worNhas besn under way
for soReltime in constructing bo&-
able capker to be used in trek ktink
BlufftorA garbage its completion
still is expected to be more than
a week in the offing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08

October Is at p. m. is the date
set for an Austrian invasion of Bluff
ton-,an invasion of merriment and
Observation-Disclosures the Tyro-
liers appear on the stage at Found
er's hall, armed with songs and in
strumental music from their native
village of Kitzbuhel in the Austrian
Tyrol.
Led by Toni Praxmair, this group
of ten men and four women, will open
the Bluffton College concert series
which this year will be comprised of
four attractions booked between the
October date and March IL.
On November 2, the series will
bring to Bluffton the Reisman trio of
sisters, Shirley, a solo pianist, Bar
bara, cellist and gifted singer, and
Mona, violinist David Bar-Illan
brilliant young Israeli pianist, will be
presented to the local audience on
December 8, and on March II Glenn
Schnittke, who sang the tenor solos
in the 50th anniversary celebration
of the Choral Society's rendition of
The Messiah, will be the featured at
traction.
The Tyrolier troupe has only
recently begun it's tour of the U. S.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08

Discontinuance of the chlorination
of Bluffton's city water supply drew
the fire of the Ohio department of
health in the annual inspection re-
port read Monday night at meet
ing of municipal council.
In commenting on the fact that
the inspection disclosed the town had
stopped using chlorination treatment
of water pumped during the year,
F. H. Waring, chief sanitary engine
er for the state department, wrote:
at is strongly recommended that
you make arrangements to chlorinate
in order to afford proper protection
to your water supply
Unsatisfactory bacterial content of
two of the four wells pumped by
the waterworks was the basis of the
chief engineers recommendation for
resumption of chlorination.
Installation of water chlorina-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08

the building.
1t was because of the unsatisfac-
tory condition of the supports that
operation of the clock was halted
back in March, and it has been
at a. standstill since that time.
An outside clock service company
at that time reported that overhaul
ing and electrifying the clock would
cost the town about 5000.
In addition to their identification
program, Neeper and Walker intend
to install an automatic control which
will turn on the lights each evening
and turn them off in the morning
it was pointed out in a report
made by Neeper at a meeting of
council Monday night.
At their meeting last Wednesday
night, the Bluffton Business Mems
association, which also has been
interested in the clock electrified
tion, requested that the town council
proceed with the program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Tank Truck PrOUes
Value At Grass Fires

Ihe Bluffton Fire Department s
new tank truck proved its value
again last Saturday when it was
called into use two times within
a three hour interval.
Water carried in the tank truck
was sufficient to quickly extinguish
a grass fire at IL am. in a field
off Route 103 between the National
quarry and the Farmers Grain Co.
plant 2.
AT pm. the tanker was again
pressed into service when one of the
worst grass fires in recent years
ragged over six-acre field on the
east side of the Nickleplate rail
road at the rear of the Farm
Bureau. The tank truck was required
20 make one trip for refill before
the blaze which approached a corn
tield owned by William Amstutz was
e.stinguished
Cause of the first fire was not
ascertained, but it was believed that
a spark from passing locomotive
may have started the 2 o'clock fire.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Contract Awarded
On Mennonite
Memorial Home
Columbus Grove Builders
Who Erected Founders
Hall Gets Job

The construction of the new Men
noite Memorial Home for the aged,
temporarily stymied early this sum-
mer when contractors bids turned
out to be nearly double the original
cost estimates, appeared again to be
ready to start.
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors last Turesday evening revised
plans prepared by the architectural
firm of Wilson, Terwilliger and Van
Vorrhis were unanimously accepted.
At the same time the board awarded
the contract for construction of the
building to Robert Miller g. Son of
Columbus Grove. The contracting
firm is the same one which completed
the Founders Hall project of several
years ago.
While no changes have been made
in the original outside dimensions OF
the Memorial Home building, costs
have been pared by changes in the
interior including plumbing, heating
and electrical work. Substitute ma
terials have also been specified to
reduce the cost.
d. w. Bixler, treasurer of the
board, said this week that while
the new cost estimates are higher
than the originals, they are con-
siderably lower than the lowest bids
received this summer.
Robert Miller and Son have taken
the contract on a cost-plus basis.
They will begin laying the founda-
ton at once and will open the struc-
tural work next spring.
Members of the Mennonite Home
board also learned at the Thursday
evening meeting that the project
had ben remembered in the will OF
the late Miss Barbara Diller, who
died recently in Toledo. Among num-
erous other bequests, she left a sum
of $4,000 for the Memorial Home.
She is a daughter of the Rev.
Benjamin Diher, former pastor of
churches in Bluffton and Pandora.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
State Health Dept. Critical OF Towns
Failure To ChlOrinate Water Supply

tion system here about six years
ago was at the insistence of the
state department. of health.
Its use was discontinued about
18 months ago, as it had been prev
iously from time to time, for re
pairs of equipment. Use of the
cholorinating equipment frequently
brought complaints from consumers
that it affected the waters taste.
Elsewhere in the state inspection
reported it was disclosed that total
hardness of Bluffton's water is 66O
parts per million or 1856 grains per
gallon.
Total iron content was shown as
Of ppm. and fluorides amounted
to 1.3 ppm, the report showed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
1t. Gov. Paul Brown Visits Bluffton;
Discusses Highway And Airport Questions
Columbus Grove Joins
Bluffton In Move To Seek
Extension OF Route 103

Two important developments dur
ing the past week marked the move
of the Bluffton Business Mems as
sociation to obtain the extension of
State Highway 103 through Bluffton
to Columbus Grove, and to retain
present Route 25 as an alternate
traffic artery after the new super
highway bypasses the business sec
ton.
/. 1t. Governor Paul Brown, who
few into Bluffton airport last Thurs
day on other matters, indicated an
interest in the local problem and said
he would be willing to arrange a
meeting on the subject with State
highway officials.
2. A delegation from the Columbus
Grove Lions club civic improvement
committee visited here with word
that they wished to cooperate in the
move to extend Route 103 to their
community.
The tall, young lieutenant COVER
nor, an aviation enthusiast, landed at
the local port at 10:30 a. m. Thurs
day in the company of Dick Burwell,
public relations director for the Ohio
Aviation Board at Columbus, and
Mac Lee Henney, executive secretary
for the Ohio Aviation Trades associa-
ton. They arrived here particularly
to study the possibility of request
that the airport, which borders on the
proposed new highway, have direct
access to it.
After viewing the field and the
proposed route of the highway, all
three of the men told airport officials
and members of the Business Mems
association that they would do what
they could to bring the request be-
fore the highway department in a
favorable light. A delegation of
business men were at the airport to
greet the state official.
Dinner was arranged for the guests
and Is Bluffton businessmen at the
Walnut Grill. At the conference
there, the State Route 103 proposal
was also presented by Armin Hauen-
stein, chairman of the associations
highway committee.
That Columbus Grove and possibly
other communities will be interested
in the extension of route 103 was
seen last Wednesday when Ed Nc
Crate and Paul Hartman of the Co
lumbus Grove Lions club conferred
here with Bluffton business men.
Mr.. .McCrate, chairman of the
public improvements committee of
the club, said that his town is inter-
ested in seeing Route 103 extended
from Bluffton through Columbus
Grove to Kalida. Here it would be
Joined with Route LA for an east
west artery to the Indiana state line.
Route ia, he said, extends practical
ly to Fort Wayne.
Other members of the Columbus
Grove committee include Charles Bor-
man, Ken Grove and Max Blosser.
They will probably be represented
when the matter is discussed in
Columbus with highway department
officials.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08

The ceremonial crowping of Miss
Harriet Badertscher as homecoming
queen between halves of the Pirate
Pandora-Gilboa football game Friday
will officially open festivities for the
evening which will be climaxed with
the traditional Homecoming dance in
the school gymnasium after the
game.
Miss Badertscher, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Badertscher, was elected
to her place of honor by the student
body last week. She is president
of the G.A.A. and active in FILA,
Girls Glee Club, Mixed Chorus and
Student Senate.
Her attendants, also active in
many school affairs are Miss Mary
BURY, daughter of Mrs. Marcella
BURY, and Ann Thomas, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Thomas.
Mary is editor of The Buccaneer,
president of Student Senate and ac-
tive in various school clubs as well
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
BIOOdmObiIe Slated
For Visit Here NOU. 10

The Red Gross Bloodmobile will
make its fourth visit to Bluffton on
Tuesday, November 10, with head
quarters to be again set up in the
Methodist church, it was announced
this week.
Blood is urgently needed for
gamma globulin, used extensively
now to give protection against the
paralytic effects of polio.
Donors are being solicited through
the local Red Cross and American
Legion organizations. -.. .- zau.- 7r
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Idle TOUn Hall Clock
Ordered Back To Service

Idle hands of Bluffton's town hall
tower clock, which have been at a
standstill since late last March, soon
will be on the move again, as the
result of an electrification program
approved Monday night by munich
pal council.
Contract to electrify the clock,
including cost of the motor and
gearing, was let by the council to
Vern Walker and V. A. Neeper,
electrical engineers who have made
study of the problems involved in
Transforming the pendulum-type city
clock to one powered by electricity.
For approximately another $3.50
Neeper and Walker are to provide
striking mechanism work in G
through the present chimes ampli-
fier. Chimes would sound to mark
each hour under this phase of the
program.
In addition to the electrification
program, the council approved clean
ing up and painting the four faces
of the clock before it is put back
into operation.
Neeper and Walker also are to
supervise removal of the heavy clock
mechanism weights from the tower.
They also will remove the huge bell,
weight of which is estimated to be
approximately 600 to 800 pounds.
Removal of the weights and bell
is necessary as a safety factor, for
cables and other supports have weak
ened to the extent that there is
danger of them crashing down
through thre floors into the stair
we'll leading to the second floor of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Business Mems Assn
tn Discuss Light Plant

A report from the Citizens Com
mittee on its investigation of possi-
bilities offered by an outright sale
of the Bluffton municipal electric
system as compared with the pro-
posal to buy power at wholesale
rates and distribute it over the vii
lage system will be made at meet
ing of the Business Mems associa-
ton next Wednesday evening in the
high school library room at 8
o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
woman OF The Week Honor Conferred
On Blufton Hospital Superintendent

Miss Sylvia Biederman, who gave
up a teaching career in favor OF
the nurses cap of service and later
became superintendent of the Bluff
ton community hospital, was this
weeA honored by her associates in
the kluffton Business and Profes-
sional Women's club who have named
her "Huffton's Business Woman OF
seSIt.", ,,.,.., !,
servance of National Business Wom-
ems Week, October IL to II. Busi-
ness and Professional Women's clubs
Throughout the country are calling
pubic attention to the achievements
TSAoAa1Sn business and profess
AoJs RAd aeNuainting the communi-
>ties with the\ \program of their fed
Grafton of clubs.
Under Miss \ Biederman's super
intendency since 1912 Bluffton Com
runity hospital has gained wide
spread reputation for it's warm
friendly atmosphere lacking in many
larger institutions of its type.
Originally trained as a school
teacher at Bowling Green State
university, Miss Biederman taught
her first classes at the old Bucher
school in the fifth grade. Later she
taught for nine years in the Bluff
ton elementary school.
Her decision to become a nurse
came one summer when she worked
at the Community hospital at that
time located at the present site of
the Sinclair gasoline station. Her
mind made up, she forthwith enroll
ed in the Lima Memorial Hospital
school of nursing, from which she
was graduated in 1888. She then re-
turned to Bluffton to work as a
nurse in the new hospital Which had
been constructed during 1897. ~ \
i'm 1912, Miss Biederrnan was
named superintendent of the hospit.
al, position she has held since
At Bluffton's small, but efficient
hospital, the title of superintendent
covers a multitude of duties includ.
ing those of head nurse, purchasing
agent, both director and teacher oi
practical nurses training and {
certain amount of bookkeeping q
mention a few. Yet in addition tc
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-08
Prominent Mennonite
Is Visitor Here

The Rev. ]. Harold Sherk, head of
the Peace Section of the Mennonite
Central Committee located at Ak
ron, Pa, was visitor on the Bluff
ton College campus last Friday. He
was here to see DR.. L. L. Ramseyer
and arrange with Arden Slotter for
a conference of the Mennonite Inter-
collegiate Peace Fellowship.