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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28
State and County
Officers To Be
Elected Tuesday

J While elecion interest in Button
'neat Tuesday win cenker mainly on
the school bond issue, Jpters here will
receive two state questions and issues
ballots, and cast theif votes in the
election of state and bounty officers,
congressman and senator.
They will also receive non-parti-
san ballot for electing a number of
judges.
On the Questions and Issues ballot
voters will decide for or against two
constitutional amendments submitted
by resolution of the General Assem-
bly, of Ohio.
Question on this ballot regards a
four-year term for governor, lieuten-
ant governor, secretary of state,
treasurer of state and attorney gem
eral, and limits the number of terms
for governor.
Question pertains to four-year
term for senator's and representatives
to the general assembly. The resolu-
tion provides that both would go into
effect as of January, 1859.
For the benefit of News readers
wishing to review the names of the
candidates for state and county Off
ces they are as follows:
GOVERNOR
Frank j. Lausche (D)
James A. Rhodes (R)
FOR LIT. GOVERNOR
John w. Brown (R)
George d. Nye (D)
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
Ted w. Brown (R)
Robert w. Reider CD
FOR TREASURER OF STATE
Joseph T. Ferguson (D)
Roger w. Tracy (R)
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
C. William o'Neill (Rl
Paul F. Ward (D)
FOR u. S. SENATOR
George H. Bender (R)
Thomas A. Burke (D)
FOR REP. TO CONGRESS
Forrest L. Blankenship tD)
William M. McCulloch fR)
FOR STATE SENATOR
| Robert S. Cox (D)
Ross Pepple (R)
FOR REP. TO GEN, ASSEMBLY
Floyd B. Griffin (R)
4 Robert G. Pickering (D)
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
James III. Jacobs (R)
Amos O. Long lD)
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR
Russell L. Hire (R)
Lawrence Spyker (Dl
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28

Heavy Balloting
Expected Here
May Exceed 1,351 Votes
Cast In School District
Election OF 1850

The important proposal to issue
s395,000 worth of bonds to finance
the replacement of the old elementary
school building here with modern,
fireproof, one-foor structure, is ex-
pected to attract heavier-th -than-usual
''off-year" election vote in the Bluff
ton district at next Tuesdays general
election.
The new school issue, election OBJ
servers are predicting, will certainly
bring out more than the 898 votes
cast last year on the school levy, and
some believe that it will exceed 1851
ballots cast in 1860, the year Bluffton
voted on its sewer system and a
school levy renewal at the same time.
The new building proposed by the
board of education would replace the
present brick building erected about
1875 and extended in 1900.
Preliminary plans submitted by
the architect provide building of IL
classrooms for the six grades, a kin
dergarten room, and large multi
purpose room for group gatherings
and school affairs. There could
also be an office, rest rooms, confer
ence room and space for storage and
boiler room.
Tt is planned to locate the new
building on the same site as the pres.
ent building, but closer to the Jack.
son street side of the grounds with
an L extending along the south side
at the alley toward Lawn avenue
This would enable the utilization OF
more play and recreation space al
the rear of the building toward Lawn
avenue.
The bond issue requires a 55 pei
cent affirmative vote for approval
and on the basis of the 1850 total
vote of 1851 would require at least
743 votes "for" the bond issue.
If the issue is approved, bonds
would be issued to be retired over I
period of 20 years. This would re-
quire an addition to the tax rate es-
timated not to exceed 81 mills foi
each dollar Of valuation VIII icl
amounts to S3.10 for each one thou
sand dollars of. valuation.
Proponents of the issue have esti
mated that the average residenc,
property in Bluffton is valued (fol
tax purposes) at about $4,000 which
would make the tax for the new
school amount to s12.40 per year fol
the average home owner or $500 or
each half-yearly tax bill.
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was 1elL tnaC the expansion group
would be in better position to at
tract new industry to the community,
for more operations are interested in
leasing an industrial building than in
buying outAght, councilmen were
told.
The committees reconrmendation
for a lease arrangement came at the
meeting after hhere had been Q pro-
nosal from couple of cauncilmelz
that they felt the best methed Of
making the light plant building avail
able as an industrial site would be to
sell it to the Bluffton Industrial Ex-
pansion &c.
This was countered by an explana-
ton that the Expansion Co. was not
in a financial position to make the
purchase and that it was the feeling
of those interested in expanding the
towns industrial facilities thai
council action on lease would bet
ter serve in bringing additional in.
dustrial capacity here.
Councilmen explained at the ses-
sion that no decision has been reach
ed as yet relative to disposition of
the light plant structure, and a tele-
phone call to City Solicitor John II.
Romey disclosed that until the build
4
ing is turned back to the town by
ordinance control of the building is
in the hands of the board of public
affairs.
Until all board of public affairs
property is removed from the build
ing, the board must retain control of
it, and water pumps now in the
structure probably will remain there
until sometime next spring or sum-
mer. This means that any disposi-
tion of the plant building before that
time must be handled by the board
and not the council.
On the other hand, council inter
probation of the state code indicated
| that although the board of public af-
fairs would initiate any disposal OF
the property the transaction could
not become effective until the neces-
sary legislation was passed by
| council.
AS a result, both governmental
groups would have to be in agree
ment before any contract could be
entered, for B. P. A. action can only
go so far as recommending an ordin,
ance to the council on disposal of the
| structure.
Further information on the in
volved problem will be provided b!
the city solicitor after more detail
ed study of the problem.
Representing the expansion com
mittee of the Business Mems grouI
at the meeting Tuesday night wer,
Ed Waltermire, Walter Gratz ans
| Silas Diller.
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BlufftOn Woman
HOnOred BY WCTU

Mrs. j. S. (Augusta) Steiner of
Bluffton, active in the WCTU for
the last az years, was honored at
the state convention Of that organ
ization last Saturday in Lima.
The Bluffton woman has served as
state superintendent of the Mothers
Congress, the White Ribbon Recruits
and was active in many state and
local activities of the WCTU.
An ardent advocate of total abb
stinence from alcoholic beverages,
and one-time promoter Of women's
suffrage, Mrs. Steiner il still active
in church and civic affairs, with q
vital interest in young people.
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Helen Clemens, last years queen, in
q ceremony on the baseball green.
She will be attended by Miss Mary
Hilty, a Dayton, Ohio, junior, and
Miss Marjorie Yoakam, sophomore
from Lafayette.
The crowning ceremony will open
a whirl of activities lasting through
Saturday and concluding Sunday af-
ternoon with Vesper Service for
students and parents in Founders
Hall and a reception in the Stauffer
Social Room.
At / p. m. Saturday freshmen and
sophomores will compete in their an
nual tug-of-war, which determines
whether the freshmen are men
enough to discard their green beanies
or must Tin the event of losing) con-
tinue to wear the caps until Thanks
giving Day.
Big event Saturday, of course, viii
be the football game with Manchester
college at 2 p. m. followed by the
homecoming banquet at p. m. in
Founders Hall. Speaker for this
years banquet viii be Charles Suter,
40, now an art teacher in the Fos-
toria, Ohio, high school.
The day will be climaxed with a
Swiss Holiday, variety show to be
staged by the Bluffton College Boost
ers at s o'clock on the high school
auditorium stage.
Parents Day Sunday will open
with worship at 10:30, open house
visitations in the dormitories and col
lege buildings early in the afternoon,
and the Vesper Service at p. m.
The Rev. Harry Yoder, pastor of
Calvary Mennonite church, Washing
ton, ILL.,, will conduct the service. The
Vesper Choir, directed by Prof. Rus
sell Lantz, will give its first per-
formance of the season selecting
Raymond Rhea's "Let My Soul Rise
in Song" and Haydn Morgan's "Thy
Word is Light Unto My Feet" as
their two numbers.
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YOdeL Is Located
For "Su,isS HOLidau'

Producers of the variety show,
~Swiss Holiday, early this week
ended a hectic search for an
authentic Swiss yodel and came
up with q pair - straight out of
the Alps.
Announcement was made that
Hans and Alice Grossnechaus Of
Wilmot. Ohio, had agreed to sing
in the show that viii be Bluff.
ton College Homecoming feature
Friday and Saturday nights in
the high school auditorium.
MIR. and Mrs. Grossnechaus
are in the Swiss cheese business
in the east-central Ohio town,
the home town of college Coach
Ken Mast. They have appeared
at numerous Swiss festivals and
have been on shows with the
Mast family. Both are natives
of Switzerland.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28
MOtOrist PlOUs Thru /, 900
Feet Of Fresh Concrete

The auto apparently had turned on
the freshly laid concrete from the in
tersection at Route 103 and headed
south. Wheels of the auto dug
tracks into the concrete from an inch
to about three Or four inches thick
where it was most freshly laid. At
the end of the concrete strip, the auto
apparently was driven off the fresh
cement over the newly graded dirt
roadbed.
The incident occurred between 7
and o'clock Monday evening, when
the finishing crew had stopped work
to eat an evening snack in Bluffton
restaurant. They were summoned
back to work when the ruts were dis
covered by one of the men,
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Union Service To
Honor Reformation

DR.. E. Fl. Fledderjohn, professor
emeritus of practical theology of the
Mission House SEMINARY, will be the
speaker at the Union Reformation
services sponsored by the Bluffton
Ministerial association Sunday eve
ming at 7:30 in The First Methodist
church. DR.. Fledderjohn resides now
at New Knoxville, Ohio.
Members of the Ministerial asso-
citation urge a large attendance in OBJ
servance of the Reformation and its
Importance to professionalism.
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Elected To Office In
Council Of Churches

The Rev. v. C. Oppermann, pastor
of Fmanuel's and st. Johns Re-
formed churches, Bluffton, was elect
ed director of the Department of
Christian Education Of the Ohio
Council of Churches, 1t was announc-
ed this week. The election took place
October 18.
New president of the council
which. encourages co.. peration
among Ohio's Protestant denomina-
tions is Harold K. Shellinger, Colunl-
bus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28
School And Library
To Close Friday

Bluffton school children will en-
joy holiday Friday when classes
are dismissed to permit their teach
ers and school administrators to
attend the annual meeting of the
Northwestern Ohio Teachers associa-
tion in Toledo.
The library will also be closed
Friday 7 TO permit hiss Ocie Arsier-
son to attend a state meeting Of
librarians in Columbus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28

Bluffton and county police are on
the lookout for an old model auto
with traces of splattered wet cement
on the wheels or under the tenders.
Object of the search was the driver
of the auto who Monday evening
turned his vehicle into a 1,600-foot
stretch of freshly laid, concrete road
way on the new Route 25 bypass pro-
ject and raced from one end to
another.
The result of what is believed to
have been deliberate 'sprank" was
that the entire crew of concrete fin
ishers. who had worked until dark.
were called back on the job to try to
re-work as much of the surface as
possible by flood light.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28
RIIRRIsH COLLECTION

The regular monthly rubbish col
lection is scheduled for Tuesday
November 2, Street Commissione'
Lee Coon has announced. Rubbisl
should be placed at curb in front o
residence before 5 a. m. on the day o
collection.
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WHERE TO VOTE

Bluffton electors will cast their
votes next Tuesday at the usual
polling places as follows:
Pct. A -. Grade Building
Pet. B.. High School Building
Pet. Co.. Bixel Motor Sales
Pet. ID. Mayors Office
Richland North Z. Township room,
Town Hall.
RichlaDd South ). Beaverdam Town
Hall. il
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28
HONOR SOCIETY ELECTS

Richard Kurt has been elected
president Of the Cory Rawson high
school honor society with Joyce Benz
roth, vice president, and Norman Sut-
ton, secretary-treasurer.
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Urge Making Old Light Plant Building
Available By Lease To New Industry

Recommendation to lease the shortly abandoned
ncpa power plant rather than selling it, of attracting
additional industrial operations town. made meet
of the Buon council Tuesday night by the industrial expan
committee of the Bluton Business Mems association
With site available reasonable arrangement
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-10-28
CroWning Of Queen Opens
Homecoming Activity Sat.

Homecoming week end when old grads Harmon
Field to cheer again the Purple and White mnge with
the Rey banks for the traditional and crownng
the queen opens here Saturday.
Queen Betty Shantz senior from Farview Mich
ceve her Saturday at 10 80 from the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10
Cov't.Sets Test
For Warehouse
Examiner Jobs

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced a, new
examination for Warehouse. Ex-
aminer for filling positions paying
from $3,410 to $3.50 a year in the
Production and Marketing Admin
istration Of the Department of
Agriculture. Optional fields of the
examination include grain. cotton,
miscellaneous products - dry stor-.
age, and miscellaneous products
cold storage. The jobs are located
throughout the United States and
require continuous travel: =.
No written test is required. TO
qualify applicants must have had
appropriate experience. Pertinent
college study may be substituted
Sor part Of the required expert
ence. The maximum age limit Of
g viii be waived for persons en-
titled to veteran preference.
Apple cations viii be accepted un-
til further notice and must be filed
with the Board of U. S. Civil Ser
vice Examiners, Department of
/ Agriculture, Washington rs, D. C..
Further information and appli-
cation forms may be obtained
from the Commissions Examiner
in Charge, Bert A. Roberts located
at U. S. Postoffice, Key West, Fla.
or from the U. S. Civil Service
Commission, Washington Is, D. c..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10
Transit Strike
Impact Felt

By JOHN MOODY

PITTSBURGH R - PITTSBURGH
area commuters felt the first real
impact of day-old transit strike
today as city officials braced them
selves for a long traffic headache.
Mayor David L. Lawrence, who
worked vainly to keep 2,700 trolley
and bus operators on the job be-
yong the strike deadline yesterday
morning, warned the more gthan
two million residents of Pitts
burgh's greater metropolitan, area
''the transportation curtailment
may last months
The operators, members Of Divi.
sion IS, ALL Amalgamated Assn. !
of Street Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employees, walked off
the job after Pittsburgh Railways
Co. rejected demands for a 30
cent hourly pay increase. It was
the first mass transit strike here
since 1924.
Emergency measures were made
to handle the thousands of autos
expected to jam the already haras-
sed traffic lanes in the city's bust
ness district. Mayor Lawrence
ordered parking regulations re-
Taxed.
The company which runs about
5000 trolleyS and buses into the
business district each day esti-
mated it transports 100000 workers
and thousands more shoppers
daily.
/ All business places, factories and
offices planned to operate as usual
meaning thousands of employees,
at least, would depend on autos
to- reach their jobs. /.
Attendants at parking lots said
yesterdays business was no
heavier than usual for a Sunday.
Church attendance also was re-
ported normal.
Already repair work ON one big
traffic artery leading to the city
has been ordered suspended for
the duration of the strike. g.,
The Pennsylvania Railroad said
it was adding several coaches to
regular commuter trains and will
put an additional 20 commuter
trains on to take care of persons
stranded. in the suburban districts.
Union and company representa-
tives met briefly in the mayors
office yesterday afternoon but said
no progress was made. It was
after that the mayor warned the
strike may be long one. He said:
"The two parties involved are far
apart"
C. D. Palmer, president of Pitts.
burgh Railways, said the union de-
mands would have cost the COM
pany an additional three million
dollars year. He said the com.
pany could make no monetary
improvements over the contract
which expired April 80. He declined
to submit the dispute to arbitra-
ton.
The operators earn an average
$1.92 an hour and receive an ad.
ditiOnal six cents an hour under
a cost of living clause. A company
offer TO- add the six cents to the
base pay rate was rejected by q
union membership vote.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10
Gilmore Doctor
To Leave Navy

DR.. B. F. Radmacher, 1t. (MC)
USN, Senior Medical Officer of
the USS Howard w. Gilmore CAS-
16) will be separated from the
Naval service on May IA and will
continue his medical career as a
civilian doctor in Louisville, Ken
lucky.
Prior to serving aboard the USS
Gilmore, DR.. Radmacher had 1S
months duty at the Key West Ma
val Hospital. At the time of his
departure he will have served
months aboard the Submarine ten
der.
He is married and his wife lives
at l0S N. w. Parkway, Louisville,
Kentucky. -.
A day on mars is 81 minutes
longer than a day ON earth.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

A day on mars is 81 minutes
longer than a day ON earth.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10
ORIGINAL JIlCCIBlE
Child Is Saved From Browning InMississippi

MEMPHIS, Tenn. R-Ten-year-
old Darlene Roaten, who doesn't
swim, supported herself with a
small piece Of cork for more than
three hours yesterday while the
current swept her 10 miles down
the Mississippi River.
Her father, J. S. Roaten, mean
while, swan more than two hours
to rescue his wife and their son
Bobby, 5, after they and Darlene
had.@stepped off an underwater
sandbar into the swift Mississippi
current.
Roaten threw them pieces of old
life jackets and leaped from their
17-foot motorboat and swan to the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

rescue of his family. He left an
other son, Michael, 4, in the boat
with the motor idling.
The boat began drifting and
Roaten swan after it for more
than two hours before he regained
it. Then he used the boat to pick
up his wife and Bobby but Darlene
had drifted out of sight.
She was picked up just before
dark by the towboat Zephyr out of
st. Louis. A crewman saw her bob
bling along in the current. A wit
ness said the piece Of cork sup
porting her was about half the size
of a cigar box.
The family was on q pleasure
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

cruise in a 17-foot I'M board motor.
boat. The craft struck a sandbar
near an island. All except Michael
got out to push the boat off the
bar, the water water was only six
inches deep where the boat ran
aground. -
"All of a sudden there was no
sand, and we were in the water, /"
said Mrs. Roaten after her rescue.
can three of us went different
ways" Is
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

KIWANIS I.EADER-A Kiwan.
ian for Is years. Ralph D.
Steele. prominent solicitor Of
Chatham. Ontario. Canada. IS
vics.prssident of Kiwanis In.
ternaiional. which is now hold
ing lis seth annual convention
+ s---'. Fla. *,--e te--.c-'-"
served Kiwanis Internationsi
as chairman Of the Public and
Business Affairs Committee for
Canada
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10
SON TO ACTRESS

HOLLYWOOD R-Film produe.
er Edward LaSker and actress
Jane Greer are parents of a son,
their third boy.
The infant weighed Z pounds 5
ounces when he was born at
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Satlr.
day night.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10
Mrs. Butch Survives
One Weeks Burial

WEYMOUTH, Mass. R-A week
ago Mrs. Butch, pet cat of Roland
Tulmieri, z, inadvertently was COW
cred with earth by a bulldozer
during a road project.
A heavy rainfall yesterday
opened a slit in the loose earth and
on. lcaW.ed Ms. 3us-.:.
Members OF the Tulmieri family
said they were 50 busy welcoming
back Mrs. Butch that the Mothers
Day dinner burned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10
INDO CHINA WAR IS BACK TO
PERIOD OF FEARFUL WAITING
REALLY HER DAY

CINCINNATI R-Last Mothers
Day Mrs. Betty Albers of Cincin-
matt gave birth to her first child,
q girl.
The second child, a boy, came
yesterday, Mothers Day, 1854.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

A hurricane viii release 200 to
800 times as much energy as the
early type Of atomic bomb.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

High pitched sound waves a
bove the range of human hearing
- often are used to clean metal
parts. "s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

More than 1000 species of earth
worm are known.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-10

ARMY BoUND-Three Key West boys enlisted for the Army
lastwesk At the Miami Main Recruiting Station. Left to right
they canddo Barce of Mrs Jennie Bosner Reford
B, Wesch. Jr Mrs. Rexferd Weech. ST.. and
Lionel NJ Rodriguez Moses Rodriguez and Mrs. Fela
Nunex Candida and Lionel chose the Army ouarezaser
Corps while Reford enlisted for the Paratfoope With the
ArmYs plan. all able enlist in and be assured
assignment in their chosen branche-Photo by Sgt W.
Plummer.
Evening star., 1954-04-29
The Market List
May Offers Variety
In Plentiful Foods

of tablespoons Of butter for about
3 minutes; the celery should still
be crunchy. Then add to 3 cups
of cooked green beans and sea-
son to taste. If you're calorie
counter, you may be interested
to know cup of this sturdy veg
etable. diced and served raw, con-
tains only about 20'calories.
In fruit, strawberries are bet
ter in quality and lower in price;
bananas are a very good value
and this holds for grapefruit,
lemons and oranges.
Therell be lots of onions to
add zest to spring salads, and
plenty of eggs for those picnics
you'll soon be planning.
Beef Still King
Beef is still the undisputed
king at the meat counters. Feat
ured at local food chains this
week will be round steak Zone
chain even supplies the recipe) i.
rump and rib roastS. In poultry,
look for good values in fryers
and broilers. At the fish coun-
tiers. shad is the fish of the
week. Backfin lump crab meat
is more plentiful and prices are
slightly lower. Some few soft
shells are beginning to show up
but the supply is limited and
prices are rather high.
Looking Aheod
The success you have in freez-
ing vegetables will depend part
ly on the choice. of varieties
especially adapted for that pur-
pose, says Andrew Duncan, vege-
tables crops specialist. Univer-
sity of Maryland Extension
Service.
Tests have shown some varie-
ties lend themselves to. freezing
much better than others. If you