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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
BlufftOn Scout
Leader Elected To
Regional Office

Mrs. Boyd w. Travis, who has
served for several years at the
helm of Girl Scout activities in
Button, was elected Monday as
vice president of TT. Amanda Coun-
Gil which provides adult leadership
for all the scout troops within a
~five-county area.
Mrs. Travis was honored by cleo
ton at the annual dinner and bust
ness meeting of the council Monday
at the Elks club in Lima.
Mrs. Oscar Jacobs of Lima was
elected president and Mrs. Fred
Berlin, also of Lima, was chosen
as treasurer. Mrs. Ralph Rammel
was elected to the board of di-
rectors and Mrs. Stanley Basinger
to the membership nominating
committee.
Mrs. Basinger will sit on the
board of directors as will Mrs.
Vern Walker, recently chosen as
chairman of the Bluffton advisory
council.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

Laurel Bauman, Bluffton interior
decorator, returned home last Friday
from three months of travels which
took him into strange lands of almost
unbelievable poverty and ignorance"
and convinced him that Heifer
Project, Incorporated, in which many
Ohio farmers are interested, is carry
ing a great blessing to the needy in
countries all over the world.
Cows now producing only 1,275
pounds of milk per year will have
offspring giving more than three
times that amount. Cattle now weigh
ing only 600 pounds will produce cal
yes that will grow to tip the scales
at 1000 pounds. This new breed of
farm animals will be sired by
artificial dissemination from the herd
| of some DO bulls taken to Iran by the
Button man and his friend Paul
Overcast of Arcanum.
For the two Ohioans, it was an
arduous journey with many discom-
forts, but the adventure and feeling
of having accomplished an important
mission in the service of humanity
offset the tiresome trip.
The cargo of 40 bulls and 10
heifers destined for Teheran, Iran.
was loaded at New Orleans on Nov
ember 5 aboard the Danish cattleboat
Columbia Heighth.
The cattle were well cared for
and arrived in Instanbul or
November 25. Nearly a month later
on December 13, the shipment was
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Henry P. Huber
Succeeds Steiner
To Bank Office

H. P. Huber, who has served on
the board of directors of the Citizens
National bank for many years, was
elected vice president of the bank
at a meeting of the board Tues
day evening. He fills a vacancy in
the office created by the recent death
Of Adam Steiner.
The board also elected James F.
West, who has served as bank cash
Ter for the last five years, as the
new director to fill the opening on
the board.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Dollar Days Bring Rare Bargains
To BIufftOn Stores, Friday, Saturday

Your Dollars Never Had 1t So
Good" is the slogan used today in
announcing the unusual price mark
downs in effect during old-fashioned
Dollar Days, the seni-annual COM
munity sales event Slated for this
Friday and Saturday, February 5
and 6.
Announced through the advertising
columns of The Bluffton News and
a large SPACE circular, Dollar Days
are expected to attract throngs of
shoppers to the business district
from a S0-mile radius of town.
Button retail merchants were busy
at mid-week using the blue pencil
on price tags and getting their
stocks in order for what they believe
will be one of the biggest buying
sprees in the 17-year history of
the event.
Because shoppers + more value
conscious than they have been In
recent years, the merchants are ex-
pecting the current promotion to be
one of the most successful, James
Szabo, president of the Business
Mems Association said Monday.
Retail business men, watching eX-
ooss;va Inventories more CLOSELY than
usual this year, are anxious to move
all seasonable merchandise out quick
lv in order to avoid hold-overs. The
combination of more value-cOnscious
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

For the first time in the century
old history of the Button Presby-
terrain church a woman has been
chosen to serve in an ordained office
of the church-in fact, in establish
ing the new precedent, two women
have been ordained as ruling elders
and a third has been seated on the
church's board of trustees.
Ordained last Sunday as ruling
elders we're ~93-year-old Mrs. Eva
Cunningham and Mrs. George w.
Linden along with Edwin N. Rice,
third new member of the Session.
At the same time installed as a
new member of the board of trustees
for a two year term, was Mrs.
Harry Bogart. Dyle Foltz, who will
serve as chairman, is the other
new member of the board.
The new officers were installed at
Sunday morning services with the
exception of Mrs. Cunningham, for
whom a special service was held at
her home. The honor of being one
of the first women to serve the
Button church as an elder came
as a climax to more than 10 years
of membership and service in the
local church for Mrs. Cunningham.
She became a member of the
Button church on February "a
1884 when she transferred her mem
bership from the old Main Street
Presbyterian church in Lima. Dur
ing her 70 years in the local church
she was one of its most prominent
members serving as Sunday Schoo
teacher and as superintendent Sh'
organized the first young peoples
group here, known at the time a
the Light Bearers" and later organ
lied Light Bearer groups in man,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Six From Area
Indicted By Army

Out of IL Hancock county men
reporting Monday for induction
into the Armed Forces six were
from the Bluffton-C ory-Rawson
area. The group was the first to
be sent to the Cleveland Undue
ton Station rather than Toledo
as has been the practice in the
past.
Those from this area who were
to report Monday were Robert
Duane Neff, Route |, Button;
Paul Smith Highie, Route /,
Rawson; James Nelson Kimberly,
Route l, Rawson; Robert Lea
Rainey, Rawson; Ronald Eugene
Smith, Rawson: and Richard
Keith Amstutz, Mt. Cory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Births

The following births were recorded
at the Button Community hospital
during the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Geiger
Virginia Klingler), Button, a girl,
Brenda Sue, born last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. V. Bell, Wharton,
a boy, Jan Edward, born last Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Diller bur
della Nusbaum), Button, a girl.
Patricia Jane, born last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon Berry (Sara
Mae Oberly), Button, a boy, Robert
Wayne, born last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Webb, Bluff
ton, a boy, Daniel Martin, born Sat,
urday. .
Nh. and Mrs. Bill Wells, Leipsic, g
girl, Vicki Jean, born Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Walter, Ar
lington, a girl, Susan Joan, borI
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Weihrauch
Arlington, Karen Elaine, born Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Pearsall
Deshler, a boy, Thomas James, born
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keith Dunbar
Arlington, a girl, Barbara Ann, borl
Tuesday. ,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arden Baker (Jan'
Miller), Button, a girl, born Tues
day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

customers and retailers eager to
10Y winter merchandise is expected
to produce a shot in the arm for
business activity,
Stores participating in bargain
days are displaying banners and
cards in their windows, and signs
on Main street proclaim the event.
Regular store hours will be OBJ
served with evening hours on Satur-
day. Additional sales help will help
handle the business upturn.
BY using a pencil to check News
ads and taking their paper along
on the shopping tour, many thrifty
persons will be able to pick up the
cream of bargains without delay OF
oversight.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

ment proprietor; Eli Deppler, retired
manager of the Button Telephone
Co.; and Fred Gettles, a member of
the board of directors of the Citizens
National Bank.
Determination of the formula to be
used in making the real estate as
sessments locally will be worked out
at meetings scheduled within the
next week between the assessing
board and representatives of the con-
sulting engineering firm.
Among problems which must be
solved by the board of assessors and
engineers are those relating to what
the property assessments should be
for vacant building lots as compared
with those which have residences on
them; the amount of assessment to
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Marriage Course
Resumes At BIC

Button colleges widely known
marriage course, one of the first OF
its kind presented by any Ohio col
lege or university, will be launched
for the 1854 term on Tuesday eve
ming, March %, it was announced
this week.
Open to juniors and seniors, the
celebrated marriage course is de-
signed to help students understand
marital relationships, with the goal
being a happy marriage.
Well-qualified speakers from diff
ferent walks of life will lecture to
students enrolled for the course in
a series of evening meetings.
Included in the discussion will be
the various phases of marriage re-
lationship including: Courtship, en-
gagement, marriage, legal aspects,
compatibility, sexual adjustment, fl
nancial adjustment, home life and
religion in the home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

addressed to Mayor Howe and mem
bers of council.
Now in the hands of City Clerk
A. j. B. Longsdorf, the resignation
will be presented to council at its
next official meeting.
Resignation of Butler will remove
from council one of the six-man
body's two Republicans. Political
observers see the situation as n in
which another Democrat may be
elected to fill the unexpired term be-
of the existing Democratic
majority, should the vote for a re-
placement be along strictly party
lines.
In filling the council vacancy, mem
bers of council have 80 days to ap-
point a successor to Butler. If no
election is completed before the
deadline, the new councilman is ap-
pointed by the mayor.
Explanation of his reason for re-
signing from the councilmanic post
was embodied in Buhler's letter, as
follows:
Having read the statute law of
Ohio =. which states mo member OF
the Legislative authority (of a vii
lage) shall hold any other public of
flee or employment, | feel I no longer
a conscientiously continue as q
member of the village council.
Il take this to mean that the posi-,
ton of a school teacher is a public
office. | therefore wish to tender my
resignation as a member of the
village council"
Although school teachers for years
have been serving on municipal
councils in this area, the issue as tC
their eligibility vas raised this year
in several instances.
At nearby Lafayette, the question
of eligibility of two school teacher
members of council was questioned
resulting in an opinion from County
Prosecutor Anthony Bowers that
state laws barred them from serving
One of the two councilmen involved
in the issue was George Cox, a gradu,
ate of Button college.
An attorney generals i~nterpreta,
ton of the law has been cited as de,
fning that the law prevents school
teachers from serving on council oil
board of public affairs, but that it is
legal for them to be seated as
mayors, city clerks or treasurers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

be made against acreageswithin the
city limits but which is not divided
into building lots; and an equitable
basis of determining the benefits
property owners will get from the
new sewage disposal system.
One complicating factor as it ap-
plies to building lots on which there
are no homes is the fact that the as
sessments must be made complete as
of this time, and there is no provision
for picking up assessments in case
homes are built on such lots in the
next year or thereafter.
On the other hand, state laws pro-
vide a limit to assessments on unim-
proved ~(vacant) lots, it has been ex.
planned by engineers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Students Don Aprons;
Bake For College Sale

The c. F. Niswander store will
be the scene of the Button College
bake sale Saturday morning, Feb
a 6. Doning aprons, all students
will be invited to bake or make
something in a faculty home on Fri
dav evening in preparation for the
sale the following day. The pro-
ceeds of the sale, sponsored by the
Student Christian association, will be
used to redecorate the College SEA
Room.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Directors Propose
100000 Elevator
Building Program
Half OF Cost Would Be
Financed By Issue
OF Preferred Stock

Stockholders of The Farmers
Grain company will decide the i'm
portant question at their annual
meeting February % of whether they
wish to expand their business in
Button by the construction of APP
proximately 500, 900 worth of addi-
tional grain elevator facilities to keep
abreast of the changing farm market
ing requirements.
Clyde Warren president of the local
coop, said that all stockholders are
being urged to attend the dinner
meeting in the high school building.
There are 800 stockholders in the
company, all of whom must be farm
producers in order to hold stock.
Those who cannot be present r
being asked to vote by proxie.
Plans of the directors are to con
struct four large concrete storage
silos with modern elevating machin-
cry which could be used to service
any number Of additional .silos as
future business warrants. The move
would increase the firms storage
capacity by 10000 to $4,000 bushels.
At present only a $4,000 bushel
capacity is offered.
Both Mr.. Warren and Eldon
Tschiegg, general manager of the
operation, pointed out that present
handling methods are not adequate
to cope with the fast wheat harvest
that today is finished in a matter of
weeks instead of several months As
in the past. The local firm lost on
siderable wheat business last sum
mer, they said, when long lines of
farm wagons waiting to dispose of
the harvest found quicker service in
other communities.
More modern facilities and greater
storage capacity are now offered in
nearby Mt. Cory, Beaverdam, Pan
dora and Columbus Grove.
The new equipment will unload
farm wagons three times as fast as
the present methods.
If the stockholders approve plans
of the directors to expand the facili-
ties, about half of the cost will be
financed by a proposed issue of five
per cent preferred stock which will
be offered to local citizens.
In the past, Bluffton businessmen
have suggested that they have an OPP
p~ortunity to buy common stock in
the firm, Mr.. Warren said. Because
the law limits holders of stock in CO.
ops to farmer producers, it is, how
ever, permissible to finance capital
improvements by the sale of prefer
red stock to non-farmer investors, he
said.
Par value of the stock will be
established at 500 per share, accord
ing to the proposal.
The proposed stock issue will be
discussed Thursday evening at a
meeting of the directors of the Bluff
ton Industrial Expansion company.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Gay COS Theme For
Student-F acuLtU Mixer

Founders Hall will resemble the
bygone days on Tuesday, February
9, when the College faculty present
the students with a Student-F Faculty
Mixer reminiscent of the gay
nineties. Faculty speciality numbers
will be the feature of the program
which might prove to reveal hidden
talent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

Riser Restaurant
BurgGrized Of
Polio Fund Silver

Thirty pieces of silver-dollar
cartwheels to be exact-are-
clinking today in the moneybag
of a pretty mean thief.
The silver dollars were stolen
just seven minutes after mid
night Monday evening from the
Polio Fund box at the Riser
Restaurant. A sneak thief, pry-
ing a window open between the
restaurant and the Carma
theatre, climbed in and cleaned
out the box of coins contributed
by restaurant patrons. The silver
dollars were part of a money
raising stunt of Dave Riser and
Harold Balmer in which the
restaurant owners sold the cart
wheels at ninety cents each
provided they were turned over
to the March of Dimes.
In addition to taking the silver
dollars and approximately SIS
more in polio contributions of
small change, the thief raided the
restaurant cash register and took
another $40 in change. Seven
opened cartons of cigarettes were
also taken.
Harold Balmer, arriving to
open the shop before daylight
Tuesday, noted that the front
door was open and the night
lights were out. The thief had
pulled the plug of a neon-Iighted
Clock, stopping the clock at IL :07
and fixing the time of the
burglary.
Local and county police were
notified of the theft.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
OPENS CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE

DR.. w. A. Lutz has announced the
opening of an office for the practice
of chiropractic here in Button at
10 Church street. \ graduate of
the Lincoln Chiropratic College, In
d~ianapolis, Ind. DR.. Lutz is making
his home at present with his parents
in Lima. Although his office is not
completed, he will be open Monday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Three Are Named By Mayor
billboard OF Tax Assessors

Membership of a three-man Bluffton board of assessors was
announced this week by Mayor w. A. Howe, to work with the
Toledo engineering firm of ~Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout in
determining individual real estate assessments to retire $250,0O0
in municipal sewage disposal system bonds.
On the board will be Chester A. Stauffer, plumbing establish
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Gerhard BUTLER Resigns
Seat On Bluffton Council ..
. School Principal Finds LaU Prohibits
Teacher Serving On Legislative Body

Principal Gerhard Butler of Blufton High school has resigned
as a member of municipal council, on which he is serving his
second term, Mayor w. A. Howe announced Tuesday.
Buffers decision to give up his counclmanic post was in
t1uenced by laws of Ohio as they relate to school teachers holding
legislative governmental posts, according to a letter of resignation
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04
Agricultural KnOU HoW', Americas Gift
To Underfed, BIuffton Traveller Reports

Thousands of undernourshed people of densely populated
lands of the middle east will have more food on their tables, and
will be able to continue producing better living conditions genera
tions to come as a result of gifts of American agriculture know
how. A Button man will tell you this is so. He went there to
ru - p- L.~o-olf
Evening star., 1954-12-09

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Evening star., 1954-12-09

Busy days ahead? Gifts to wrap cards to mail,
baking to do and thousand and things to be done
before Christmas? You can be long way ahead by having
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we have listed below-just few, and there many,
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Arkansas State press., 1954-03-19
Arkansas Lawyer
Has Faith In
States Integrity

ROANOKE, Va.-Arkansas will
lead the way for complete and
total Indignation in the public
school system upon a favorable
decision in the Supreme Court of
the United States, according to
Harold Flowers. president OF the
National Bar association, and well
known civil rights lawyer, in an
address to the Gamma Alpha
chapter of the Omega Psi Phi
fraternity.
Economic conditions In south
ern states will not permit equali-
zation in dual school system;
and the salvation of the people
OF the south in providing ade-
quate and equal educational ia
cilities, can only be realized thru
integration in single school sys-
tenn" declared Mr.. Flowers, who
now has two petitions pending in
Arkansas school districts at Hot
Springs and West Memphis
Arkansas State press., 1954-03-19
Founders Week atlAM&N
Draws Nations Leaders

5. Adkins, Republican National
committee chairman and head 81
women's activities at washington.
D. c., will deliver the traditional
memorial sunrise service address
Sunday morning. April II ct 500
Z. m
Top feature Of this years Gale
bration win be Housing con-
ference scheduled for Thursday
and Friday. April 9 and . under
the direction Of VIM. =. Mclin-
ney. racial relations officer, Fed
eral Housing administration Of the
northern section Of zone nv.
According to annou 6nents. :
long list Of outstanding. persons
in housing and financing 11slds
will appear on the two-day pro-
gram. The opening program It
7:30 p. m. Thursday, April . in
the college auditorium will have
as its speaker. A. Maceo Smith.
racial relations officer. FILA Of
Dallas. Texas. The keynote speak
err for the Friday morning pro-
gram will be DR.. George w.
Snowden, Minority group housing
advisor, Washington, d. c. Also
listed among the outstanding pro-
gram participants are George S.
Harris. president, National Asso-
citation of Real Estate brokers.
and Wendell A. Robbins, promi-
nent contractor and broker In
Kansas City. Kansas.
Aside from this unique feature.
the college choir will present it,
annual concert, Sunday, April 4
during the vesper hour s In the
college auditorium.
Also during the week b 3
Spotlighters dramatic group under
the direction Of John M. Rosa
will present special perform
ance. Added to this will be q
Sec FOUNDERs--psge four
Arkansas State press., 1954-03-19
Achievement Week to Be
Observed at Phi|ander

The 18th Annual Achievement,
week will be held at Philan.
der Smith college beginning Mar
1928 and 1926.
Program for the four days will
include Monday, Cleanup" day;
Tuesday, Founders day; Thursday
Dramatic tournament, and Friday
Musical festival
Trustees board meeting will be-
gin at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday and
at ll:45 Bishop John Wesley
Bowen who heads the Atlantic
Coast conference Of the Methodist
church, will speak at Wesley
Chapel Methodist church, 18th and
State streets.
Born in Baltimore, Md, Bishop
Bowen received his A. B. de-
gree from Wesleyan university in
1911 and his NJ A. degree from
Harvard in 1918. He has served In
several conferences of the Meth
odist church: Atlanta, Washington.
South Carolina, Mississippi, and
Louisiana.
His pastoral experience includes
service at Central church, jack
son, Mississippi, st, Paul, Shreve-
port, Louisiana, Trinity, Grace and
First Street churches, New Or
leans and the district superin-
tendency OF the New Orleans
district. He has been leader Of
the Louisiana conference delega-
ton to the United conference of
1899 and the general and juris-
dictional conferences of 1910, 1914,
and 1913.
Members of the Philander board
of trustees who will be present
for the activities Tuesday will be
Bishop M. w. Clair. DR.. l.. M
Harris, DR.. r. C. Childress, DR.
c. M. Reeves, Dr. W. II. Madi-
son. DR.. Joseph King, Mrs. NIL.
dred Martin, DR.. Harold Sandal
DR.. o. e. Allison, DR.. J. c. John
son. DR.. e. W. Kelly, jr.. Rev. c
T. Hawes. DR.. B. J. Neal. DR.
John o. Gross, DR.. e. T. wayland
Arkansas State press., 1954-03-19
Phhander Stud 'nts
Off 10 Olympic
Games IN Mexico

Three Jamaican students at
Philander Smith college here are
taking part in the Central Ameri-
can Olympic games being held
thruout this month in Mexico.
The trio may be invited to run
in track meets in Kingston, Ja-
maica March "a. They are Keith
A. Gardner, Hyacinth Walters.
and Kathleen Russell, freshmen,
all from Kingston.
Mr.. Gardner, %, was awarded
the champion runner title for ia
maica in August 1853 He was all
so named outstanding athlete for
the Bahamas at Nassau in Octo-
Der, 1853. In the Bahamas meet
the slender young man won three
first place gold medals for 100
yard dash, 440-yard dash, and the
broad jump. Representing Phi
lander in the national AAU meet
in Madison Square garden last
month. Gardner entered the 60.
yard sprint and hurdles but was
defeated In the semi-finals.
Participating in the 40o-metel
relays in Mexico, Misses Russell
and Walters are seasoned per
formers in keen competition, hav'
ing participated In two worl'
Olympics: London in 1948 ant
Finland in 1862. Miss Walters al
so plans to run the 1oo-yar'
| dash In the Mexican meet.