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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25

car turned up missing at the same
time.
Police chief Lee Coon said that
an auto owned by Floyd Harris of
North Jackson street was stolen
from his garage on Saturday night
and recovered the next day stuck in
the mud and practically out of gas
at the rear of Dick Habegger's gaso-
line service station. 1t is believed
that the auto thieves were attempt
ing to obtain gas from the station
but deserted the car after becoming
stuck in the mud.
Chief Coon surmises that the same
group, probably teen ayers, then
picked up the other auto owned by
Ralph Reichenbach on North Lawn
avenue. 1t is believed that the
thieves then switched autos again
in Jenera since the Bluffton auto
was found Sunday morning in that
town and another car belonging to
Dwight Basinger, a 1910 Packard
sedan, vanished from the community.
State highway police Were told that
the Basinger a was taken about
3 am. Sunday. The latter car was
parked near his home on a side
street. The keys had been left in
the a as the case with both cars
stolen in Button.
The Basinger car was found Tues
day in Lima.
Meanwhile Chief Coon was called
Saturday morning to the home of
r. L. Triplett on Campus drive to
investigate a housebreaking incident.
Workmen r%edecorating the house,
while Mr.. and Mrs. Triplett are in
Hawaii, found that a basement
window pane had been broken and
tracks of the intruder were found
on the basement floor.
Chief Coon said that there were
no indications that the burglar had
entered the upstairs, and may have
been frightened away before he had
the opportunity to do so. 1t could
not be ascertained whether any of
Mr.. Triplett's many tools had been
taken from his basement workshop.
In nearby Arlington a television
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Births

The following births were recorded
at Button Community hospital dur,
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kizer, Beaver
dam, a boy, Anthony James, born
last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas BRISTOL,
Wharton, a girl, Luanne, born last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Robinson.
Mt. Cory, a boy, Stanley Eugene,
born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Hunt, Find,
lay, a boy, Allen Martin, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Marquart Mar,
jorie Stratton), Bluffton, a girl, Joy
Paulette, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Johnston
Findlay, a girl, Pamela Gwen, born
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Belts, Arlington
a boy, Carl Michael, born Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Newman, Ar,
lington, a boy, James William, born
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Schmenk, Pan,
dora, a boy, David John, born Tues,
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Beck, Beav,
erdam, a boy, Robert Charles, born
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Badertscher
Button, a boy, Dennis Alan, born
Tuesday.
+ y =
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter G.. Fast
(Genevieve Buhler) Muncie, Ind, a
girl, Cheryl Ann, born Feb. 10 at Ball
Hospital in Muncie.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Keller, ruth
Helen Badertscher), Dayton, a boy
Robert Earl.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
January POWer Consumption
Up s pct. Over Last Year

The increased demand for
electric power which has set the
pattern over the period of a good
many years in Button continued
into the new year with January
usage up in all departments of
service for an average of S.2 per
cent over the same month last
year.
James Z. Draper, superintend-
ent of the municipal light and
power plant, said Monday that
the plant records showed that
437,413 kilowatt hours had been
metered to Button customers
during the first month of the
year as compared with 404,253
XVIII i'm January, 1853.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
Council Acts
OF Municipal
Ordinance Given First
Reading; Expected To Pass
At March 8 Meeting
Referendum Likely To
Follow AS Test Of
Public Opinion

Legislation providing for disposing
completely of the town-owned electric
light and power system including
transmission lines was placed on its
first reading at a meeting of munich
pal council Tuesday night by a
unanimous vote of the six-man body.
In taking the action, council was
proceeding with a course of action
decided back on January II when
City Solicitor John Rooney was direct
ed to prepare the legislation.
Under terms of the ordinance
placed on its initial meeting at the
session, the bids would be asked for
the light system including transmits
sion lines.
Remaining in the possession of the
town would be building and building
site, all vehicles, office equipment;
and tools used in the operation of
the generating system, distribution
system and water and sewerage
departments"
Also embodied in the ordinance
was provision for a 50-year franchise
which would be granted to the sue
rcessful bidder for the system. An
other ordinance provision, however,
specified that the franchise would not
be exclusive and that other franchise
could be granted by the town any
time during the life of the contract.
Councils intention announced at
the meeting was that the second and
third readings of the ordinance would
be made at a meeting or the night
of Tuesday, March 8, two weeks in
the future.
In their Jan. ID decision to pro-
coed with legislation for disposing of
the entire light plant system, council
men stipulated that their action was
based "on the belief that a majority
of the residents of Button want the
matter handled in that manner"
Because of the controversial
nature of the action, however, the
councilmen also stressed their belief
that an official vote on the matter
through referendum petition would
be the most satisfactory means of
settling once and for all the p~rotract-
ed debate which has been stirred up
locally by the question.
Referendum petitions providing for
a vote on the matter before the ordin-
ance could become effective must be
filed within 30 days after the third
reading and passage of the legisla-
tion.
After petitions are filed a special
election can be called by the board of
elections not earlier than 60 days nor
later than 120 days, the council has
been advised by City Solicitor John
Rooney.
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CIR Institute
Set Next Week

Cory-Rawson Farmers Insti-
tute is scheduled for Tuesday and
Wednesday nights of next week
in the school auditorium accord
ing to Dale Clymer. president of
the organization.
Tuesday an evening session
will be held in combination with
a PTA meeting and an all-day
session will be held Wednesday.
Lunch will be served by PTA
members.
Other officers of the Institute
are Robert Meyer, vice president;
Mrs. Harold Young, secretary;
Mrs. Raymond Hamilton, treasur-
er; and Mrs. c. Nj. Hause.
hostess.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
Spring Flower
Show Approved
By Women's Club

The Women's Garden club, at their
first meeting of the new year, joined
the Button Mems Garden club in
approving a recommendation to stage
the community's annual flower show
this year in the spring instead of
the fall.
Action of the women's group made
the decision final, and committees are
being appointed Immediately to plan
for the event on June Is and Ia.
Bluffton gardeners were welcoming
the spring show in order to give an
opportunity to show an entirely new
variety of flowers. Early vegetables
and fruits will also be exhibited at
the show.
The ABC of orchid growing and
geraniums-a new field for collectors
were the subjects for discussion on
the program of the Button Women's
Garden club meeting last Thursday
afternoon at the home of the clubs
new president, Mrs. w. M. Mis-
wander.
Mrs. Nelson Steiner discussed the
orchid subject and Mrs. Otto Holt
kamp talked on geraniums. Two
flower arrangements were furnished
for the meeting and discussed by
Mrs. j. S. Steiner.
Mrs. A. B. Murray is the clubs new
secretary-treasurer.
A dessert was served by the host
esses, Mrs. Niswander and Mrs.
Harry Gratz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
Triplett Company
Backs Explorer
Scout Troop Here
New Troop Applies For
Charter; Advisory Council
Is Formed

Explorer Scout Post Sc made
formal application last week for their
charter through official channels of
the Put-Han-Sen area council with
which Bluffton recently became af-
filiated.
At the same time the Unit acquired
an advisory committee whose pur-
pose it will be to work with the
advisor and the assistant advisor in
planning and administering the ac-
Invites of the newly formed organ
ization.
Sponsors of the newly formed Post
is the Triplett Electrical Instrument
Company. w. r. Triplett is spon-
soring executive. Ralph Badertscher
has been designated neighborhood
commissioner and will act as liaison
between town groups and Put-Han-
Sen area council.
Composed at present of 10 former
Bluffton Boy Scouts, the Explorer
Post will endeavor to broaden the
individuals knowledge and personal
ity through a program composed of
four major fields: vocation, social,
outdoor and service.
Jay Davis of the Put-Han-Sen
district office in Findlay met with
the Advisory Committee composed of
Norman Triplett, Charles Alderman,
Joe Urich, Morris Triplett and Byron
Fritchie in drawing up papers for the
application for the charter. Kenneth
Bracy, advisor to the Unit and Don
Badertscher, the assistant advisor,
also met with the group.
This group will attend a Workshop
of the Put-Han-Sen area council to-
night at the First Z. u. B. church in
Findlay. The workshop is designed
to give Posts a more thorough work
ing knowledge of Explorer Scouting.
The Post has been operating for
nearly four months without an advis-
DRY committee and almost wholly
through the efforts of Bracy and
Badertscher along with members of
the Post.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
Cemetery Trustees Urge
Maple Grove Enlargement

Adding further weight to the load
of an already depleted village treas
ury, trustees of the town-owned
Maple Grove cemetery Tuesday night
recommended to municipal council
that additional land be purchased for
the burial site.
As a means of expanding cemetery
grounds, a letter of Recommendation
suggested to council that steps be
taken to purchase land from the
Schumacher farm, extending from the
present eastern boundary of the
cemetery east to Little Riley creek.
Recommendation that increases be
made in the schedule of charges made
for cemetery lots and opening graves
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also was included in the communica-
ton.
Under the new proposed cost
schedule, the price of four-grave
plots would be increased from $50 to
$50; and the price of two-grave plots
would move upward from S45 to s55.
This schedule would apply TO pur-
chases made by Button residents.
N~on-residents would pay under the
new schedule $3.50 for four-grave
sites; and sos for two-grave plots.
Cost of opening graves would be
$35 instead of S25 for residents; and
$40 instead of $50 for ~non-residents.
Council postponed action on the
matter pending a meeting with the
cemetery board at its next meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25

set stolen from the school last Fri
day night was recovered Saturday
morning by a Button man while
driving a truck on his milk route.
Dallas Bash, who lives over the
Yours and Mine Coffee Shop, spotted
the missing TV lying along the side
of Township Road IS, three miles
west and one and a half mile
south of Arlington.
The set was in working order but
the glass screen was broken and the
cabinet was scratched. The set,
valued at $3.50, had been purchased
by the school children by sale of
magazine subscriptions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25

The Holy Communion Service will
be held at 1880 a. M, and the Rev.
Victor Monk, pastor of the local con-
gregation will be assisted by the
Rev. o. S. Goerner, Holgate, secre-
tary of the conference. The sermon
will be delivered by Rev. Allen
Youngblood, Toledo.
Rev. Mr.. Youngblood is pastor of
the mission which has been recently
organized among the colored people.
This work has been under the Board
of American Missions.
Mrs. w. A. Stratton will be the
organist for the services.
Opening devotions for the after
noon session will be conducted by the
Rev. Robert Lesher, assistant pastor
at First Lutheran church, Tiffin. The
Rev. David Witwer, North Baltimore,
president of the conference, will have
charge of the afternoon session.
A highlight of the program will be
a paper to be presented by Yosuke
Magaki, Japanese student at HANNA
Divinity School, Wittenberg College,
Springfield.
The Rev. John Root, Christ Luther
an church, Carey, will be the mod
orator.
Approximately 40 ministers are X
peeted to attend the meetings along
with lay delegates. Lunch will be
served in st. Johns Evangelical and
Reformed church with ladies of the
church serving the meal.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25

that at the annual meeting of stock
holders Tuesday night at the Bluffton
high school auditorium 116 voted APP
prevail of the boards expansion plans.
There We're SO who voted mo" ON the
propcsaf, making a total of 169 votes
cast out of $40 stockholders eligible
to voice an opinion on the matter.
Mr.. Warren said that members of
the board of directors win contact as
many as possible of the remaining
I'll stockholders who have not vet
filed out their proxie voting certif-
Gates. If 55 of these are in favor Of
the CONSTRUCTION project, the difect-
ors will be able to proceed.
Plans announced several weeks
ago are to erect new elevator facili-
ties at an estimated cost of 100000
to Keep pace with the faster wheat
harvests of today. New silos with an
extra capacity of from 10000 to
$4,000 bushels of grain would be
built together with new elevator
machinery capable of unloading and
storing grain from farm trucks three
times as fast as present methods.
The project would be financed by
the issue OF FIVE per cent preferred
stock at 500 par value.
Tom Lee, sales supervisor of the
Ohio Farmers Grain and Supply as
ISOLATION, Fostoria, an organization
with which the Button concern is
associated, addressed the stockhold-
ers at their meeting Tuesday night.
He explained that the Button pro-
posal is similar to expansion moves
now underway elsewhere in Ohio.
During the evening two. new
directors were elected. Levi Althaus
and Roy Rogers will succeed Quinten
Burkholder and Walter Montgomery.
Holdover members of the board in
clude Clyde Warren, president; Sid
ney Huber, secretary; Fred Miller,
vice president; Melvin Zimmerly and
Harry Anderson.
The directors will reorganize at
their next regular board meeting
when it is hoped action can be taken
on the expansion plans.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25

Cpl. Robert G. Clymer, who has
been stationed until recently in
Germany, has been released from
Army duties and returned home last
week. He is the husband of the form
err Eloise Steiner, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ellis Steiner of Pandora.
The Clymers left last Saturday morn
ing for a trip to California where
they will be guests of Mrs. Clymer's
sister, Nj. and Mrs. Erwin Regehr
and daughter at haywood and an
aunt, Miss Leila Steiner, at Hunting
ton Park.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
BIufftOn Professor
To Conduct Linld's
Symphony Orchestra

n. Laurence Burkhalter, as
sistant professor of orchestral in
struments, Bluffton college music
department, has been appointed
conductor of the newly organized
Lima Symphony orchestra, it was
announced this week.
The orchestra will select its
membership from the communi-
ties surrounding Lima as well as
from the city itself, and ii is ex-
pected that members of the
college orchestra will be incorpor-
ated into the organization.
1t is hoped that the orchestra
can be built TO a 40 to 80 piece
, organization capable of present
ing regular concerts as 1T once
did in the past.
Rehearsals will be held regu-
Iarly on Monday evenings at s
. O'Clock beginning March |.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
Oiler Coach To Speak
At BedUerdam Dinner

Donald Renninger, coach of the
Findlay College Oilers, will be the
speaker at the Beaverdam High
School Athletic Banquet sponsored by
the PTA next Thursday, March 4,
at $50 pm. in the high school.
Letters will be awarded to mem
bers of the 1953-54 basketball team
and the school cheer leaders. Tickets
are available to all team supporters
from members of the G.. A. A.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25

This represented an eight per
cent increase in revenue with
sales exceeding the previous year
by SSs4.01. Receipts during
January from electric bills total
ed S12,005.S0 as compared TO
$11,111.79 last year.
But whereas the general usage
of electric current showed an up
ward surge of So per cent, the
percentage of increase for in
dustrial use was even greater.
Mr.. Draper said that Buttons
major industries used II per cent
more power in January of this
year than the same month in '53.
This resulted in increased reven-
ne from the industrial customers
amounting to 10 per cent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
-Four BIS Students
Elected To Natl
Honor Society

Four Bluffton High School stu
dents were recently elected to
membership in the National
Honor Society ii has been an
nounced by members of the
school faculty.
Seniors elected to the honor
society were Doris Basinger,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Basinger and Mary BURY,
daughter of Mrs. Marcella BURY.
Juniors were ThOrne Lauriat,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Lauriat and Dorothy StrattOn,
daughter of Mrs. Helen Stratton.
Students are rated on scholar
ship, character, leadership and
and service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
Contract Renewed
For Dumping Ground

Contract for dumping privileges in
the abandoned quarry at the rear
of Amstutz Hatchery grounds on
Harmon road was renewed for a
three-year period at a meeting of
municipal council Tuesday night. .
For use of the grounds in dis
posing of the city's rubbish, the town
pays $35 a year.
Parking lot rental of SIS for land
used for public parking at the rear
of the Elk restaurant was paid to
Mrs. Sidney Hauenstein.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
BLUFFTON
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) Wheat,
$2.0S; corn, S1.44; oats, FAC; soy
beans. $3.1G.
Eggs-La1ge white, 38c; large
brown, &c; medium white or brown,
34c.
Poultry-Heavy hens, &c; leghorn
hens, Ice; White Rock fryers, 22c;
Leghorn stays, light or heavy, 12c.
Butterfat-No. l, &c; No. 2, Sic.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
Bluffton College Student Social Workers
Subject OF WOSU Radio Program Saturday

who have invested their summers in
work for little or no pay and known
as voluntary service.
An estimated 1870 of the present
student body have made use of their
summers in this way, serving in
mental hospitals, as camp ~counselors,
maintenance in camps, migrant work
ers and Vacation Bible school
teachers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25

Voluntary summer social service
work of Bluffton College students
will be the feature of this Saturdays
STORY of the week. heard on
Campus Cavalcade" over WOSU,
Ohio State University's radio sta
ton at 11:45 I'm.
Under the heading students
Invest in a Summer, the program
viii describe Jobs done by students
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4

The regular monthly rubbish col
lection is scheduled to begin Tues
day morning, March 3, 1t was an
nounced this week by Street Commits.
sioner Lee Coon. Residents of Bluff
ton are asked to have containers at
the curb by 8 a. m. the morning of
collection.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
TALK ON HAPPINESS

"The Hazards of Happiness" was
the topic of a talk made before the
Lima Torch club Monday evening in
the Argonne hotel by DR.. Lloyd L.
Ramseyer, president of Button col
lege.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
To Receive Bids On Sale
Electric Power Plant
From 66 Lutheran Churches
Meet Here Monday In Western Conference

Representatives of some sc Lutheran congregations, includ-
ing ministers and lay delegates, viii converge on Button Monday,
March i, when the Button Lutheran church will be host to the
Western Conference of the Synod of Ohio, United Lutheran
Church. Theme of the conference, which will be in the nature
of a pre-Lenten retreat, will be Zone Body in Christ"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
TWO Autos Stolen, House
Over Week End

Blufton police are Investigating two cases of auto theft and
one HOUSEKEEPING incident over the week end which amounts to
a minor crime wave in this usually quiet community.
A belief that the two auto thefts are also linked with a third
theft in Jenera was expressed by local police when one of the
Blufton autos was recovered in that community, and the Jenera
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-25
So More Proxies Required
To Swing Elevator Project
Expansion Plan Falls Short Majority
Vote At Annual Meeting OF Grain Coop

With 30 additional favorable votes required to approve ex-
pansion plans for construction of additional grain elevator
facilities, directors of the Farmers Grain company during the
coming week will contact stockholders in an effort to gather up
sufficient proxy ballots to give the green light to the project.
Clyde Warren, president of the farmers cooperative, said
Evening star., 1954-12-24

She viii take filberts, cashew nuts.
and large acorns from Virginia we
saved for her, when nothing else has
been offered.
But let . hickory, pecan or black
walnut be shown. and she Is satisfied
with nothing else for days.
"She liked salted peanuts III the
summer. but doesn't care 30 much for
them now
And Of course she buries large
portion Of al that Is given her.
1T gives one real thrill when the
creatures Of the wild call personally
tor attention and help.
The other day our Blackie sat up
on the brick wan, looking detected: she
gave q little zip, then drawn out
squeak. Ike . rusty hinge. repeated
several times.
~ offered roasted sunficWer seeds,
which she Ut first shifted, rejected. then
she sQueAked again, then turned and
grabbed the whole handful, ana ap-
peared normal
Later she hung on the side of the
oak tree with an acorn III her mouth,
and did not yip, this time, but grOaned
lew n that rusty hinge way.
have seen both her and one az the
grays scold another squirrel ii ! way
mat seemed to Be trying to initiate :
bluejay.
Gould you please interpret these
vocal efforts for us?s II
Evening star., 1954-12-24

one year ago. The greatest rise came during
the Korean war with q Jump Of per cent III
the flrst year Of that confiict and of per
cent In the second year. For 1858 the rise
was less than per cent
It has been demonstrated suficiently
during the past two months that the busi-
ness recession" OF the first three quarters
Of 1854 has ended Most predictions and
projections now indicate continuing good
business well into 1855 If not longer. with
military requirements no longer on crisis
basis, industry Is free today to produce for
the expanding civilian market and the
normal workings Of the supply -and demand
relationship should preclude any extreme
swings In consumer prices. Even though
living costs may remain near their present
high levels, stability over long period per-.
mits adjustment to that level The national
economy appears to be In that situation at
present.