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Evening star., 1955-06-12
War Veterans Take Over
Rehoboth Beach Hotels

Rolling road in the Acres, anc
after a week of relaxation will
complete her nurses aide course
at Beebe Hospital.
The Edward Leasures have
taken the apartment of Mrs
Henry Stewart at Second street
and Columbia avenue. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gregory j. Aires arrive this
week end to occupy their new
cottage on Pine Reach road IN
the Acres.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Robert
Thompson and their daughter
FREDERICK have opened their cot
tage and Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
L. Kennedy of Chevy Chase will
spend the first part of June here
Mrs. Thornton w. Owen, CO.
chairman with Mrs. Naon ].
Craft of the Art Leagues cos
tune ball at the country club
August IL, was here with her
family and a house guest. Miss
Hilda Wine. Mrs. Owen and Mrs.
Craft recently returned from a
European trip. Mrs. Crafts re-
cent guest was Mrs. Preston B.
Wire. Another Capital resident
who will assist with Art League
affairs this season is Mrs. Mi
chael F. Keough. She is chair
man Of the annual flower ar
rangement show in Corkran
Studio July % and 29.
Camp Arrowhead on Rehoboth
Bay. that has been acquired by
the Episcopal diocese of Della
ware as a summer camp, opens
June 81. Many young people
from this area have registered.
The camp was established and
operated for eight years by the
late Col. Ralph I. Sasse, former
football coach at West Point, as
a private encampment. It now
has quarters for girl campers as
well.
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Continued From Page c.

Continued From Page C-S
ing point. Trans-Pacific ports or
airports included in the sea-air
agreement are located in Japan,
Okinawa and the Philippines,
as well as Korea, Formosa and
the Ryukyu Islands.
There are two schools of
thought among travellers as to
which to take first-the plane
flight or the ship. The pref
erence seems to be the luxury OF
IA slow start and a dash back
home.
Superhighway Cautions
The Accident Prevention Di-
vision Of a large insurance COM
|pany points out in q new safety
pamphlet that "expressway driv-
ing is different" and that the
average motorist must change
his way Of driving to cope with
traffic on superhighways. The
pamphlet gives diagrams and
lists a number Of cautions to be
observed on these high-Speed
roads.
Here is the gist Of the guide:
Adjust your driving habits to
|high-speed travel. It takes longer
to stop, pass or change direc-
tion.
Enter and leave expressways
with caution. Be sure you're
travelling with the traffic, not
against it.
Pick your lane and stay with
it. Weaving is dangerous.
Leave plenty Of room between
you and the car ahead. Follow nc
closer than one car length for
every 10 miles of speed. At SO
miles an hour, you need 81
feet to stop.
Drive smoothly at a steady
speed. Keep pace with the traf-
fic.
If something goes wrong with
the car, get completely of the
road before you stop.
Look far ahead for signs Of
trouble. At high speeds, it takes
longer to slow down or stop,
Evening star., 1955-06-12
MACON

wildwood Ave. at Beach. Phone 2-8043.
Modern Outside Rooms. Private Baths,
or Running Hot and Cold Water. Bathing
from hotel. Coffee Shop. Parking.
Evening star., 1955-06-12

B106 Ocean Ave. Ocean Frent. Ph. ALAG
d Apartments. Maid
Serv. Free parks. OWner-mEr. Lou Greco
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28
Midsummer Dollar Days
Again Expected To Pack
Local Stores Fri. Sat.

A semi-annual town-wide event for
nearly two decades, Buttons Dollar
Days are again expected to bring
throngs of shoppers into the retail
business places Friday and Saturday
as the familiar signs up and down
Main street announce that bargain
time is here gain
Usually held the hist week in Aug
ust, this years mid summer value
event gives buyers an extra weeks
head start on buying opportunities,
and enables merchants to clear their
shelves earlier than usual in order to
display new merchandise for fall.
More than "a Bluffton retail firms
have announced they are participat-
ing in the gigantic stock clearance in
an S-page advertising circular mailed
earlier this week to 5000 area fami-
lies.
The sale offerings are repeated in
this issue of The Bluffton News,
pointing to record crowds this week
end on thee streets and in the stores.
Local merchants pride themselves
on THEN. Dollar Day sale offerings,
pointing out that all items are from
regular Stocks of nationally-known
merchandise. Nothing Is bought up
specially for sale purposes.
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Main st. Quiets Down As Bypass Opens;
Merchants Concerned Over Business
Bluffton Trio Are First
To Travel New High
way After Opening

At 9:15 a. m. Wednesday, without
huliabaloo or ceremony, the new
eight-mile long Route 25 Bluffton
bypass was opened to traffic, cutting
off what had become in recent years
a ceaseless procession of trucks and
trailers and pleasure cars through
the towns business section.
State highway department inspec-
tors gave the project its final ok
early this week, and Project Engineer
Joe Foster had crew on tap Tues
day afternoon to set up final high
way signs.
When barricades were removed
Wednesday morning, waiting to be the
first to officially make the trip over
the new Dixie link was Albert YER
million, Bluffton farmer, and friends
M. M. "Dode" Murray and Dan Bad
ertscher. A red flag was attached to
Vermillion's auto, and he carried 1t
through from the north end of the
Improvement to the south terminus
near Beaverdam.
A Bluffton News car made the
same trip a few minutes later after
traffic had started to flow from
south to north. A total of "a autos
and trucks were counted northbound
in the 12-minute trip. Allowing for
an equal amount of traffic in the op-
posite direction, Bluffton streets
were being relieved of approximately
100 autos each 10 minutes.
First motorists over the new
stretch of concrete observed working
crews still erecting fencing along the
right-of f-way at the north end. At
other points straw was being spread
on freshly seeded BERN, and painters
were putting finishing touches on
bridge rails.
Opening of the $1,9O9,SS9 highway
sector was not scheduled int il No
vember, so there is no rush to put. it
into use.
The eight-mile stretch of concrete
includes a divided four-lane stretch
from point half mile northeast Of
Beaverdam to the Gratz crossing just
south of town. From that point where
it bypasses Bluffton, the route is only
a two-lane 24-foot strip. The right-of-
way for the other strip, however, has
been purchased and graded.
The bypass rejoins the present
Route 25 approximately two miles
northeast of Bluffton.
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Ira MOser & Son
Stockyard Bought
By Charles Barger

After more than 80 years in busi-
ness Ira Moser & Son, stock buyers,
have sold their stockyards in Raw
son. The business was acquired re-
Gently by Charles Barger, Rawson,
who has been employed by the
Mosers for the past six years.
Mr.. Moser said that while the
Rawson yard would continue to oper-
ate under its new owner, the stock
yard maintained on his home farm
on the Lincoln highway will discon-
tinue operation after Saturday.
Mr.. Moser started his business as
a young man 80 years ago with his
principle assets truck and yen, to
drive it loaded with livestock to the
Cleveland markets. Later he estab-
lished the yards in Rawson on the
Nickel Plate railroad and shipped to
parts of the country.
Much of the cattle and sheep were
transported by rail, but as trucks
were added Mr.. Moser did most of his
own hauling. At one time at the
height of his business, Moser was
shipping as many as go cars of sheep
a year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28
Take Final Steps
For Swim Pool Vote

That $4,000 swimming pool bond
issue will appear on the ballot in
next falls election was assured at
Tuesday nights meeting of municipal
council when final legislative steps
were taken to submit the question
to the voters.
Certifcation by the county auditors
office has disclosed that retirement
of the $4,000 issue over a 1O-year
period would require a real estate
tax levy of no more than $1.05 per
thousand of property valuation, it
was reported at the session.
This means that on residential
property valued at $4,000 the tax
would be only $4.20 per year, or only
$42 over a 10-year period, it was
pointed out.
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Hospital Tag Day
Set For Friday

Hospital Tag Day, usually
conducted in November on Elec-
tiOn Day, will be observed in-
stead this Friday.
Timed to coincide with the
towns midsummer Dollar Days,
the sponsoring BlufftOn COmmun-
ity Hospital Auxiliary felt the
new date would find more people
on the streets. Many will be out
of-town people who have as
much interest in the hospital as
Bluffton residents.
Members of the auxiliary will
establish headquarters in the
mayors office, Town Hall. They
will take up stations on each
street corner in the downtown
business section. Tags will be
presented to identify donors to
the Tag Day fund drive.
Mrs. ID. w. Bixler, chairman
of the drive, said that proceeds
will be used as in the past for
providing hospital furnishings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28
Pet Show Friday
To Climax Summer
Program At Park
Children Invited To Show
Off Their Pets and Vie
For Prizes

A Pet Show Friday will be the
feature of this weeks Harmon
Field recreation program the last
full week of activity for the summer
before the field is made ready for
the coming football season.
The Pet Show, which will take
place of the regularly scheduled
Field Day events, will be open to all
children from the first TO the eighth
grades.
Supervisors Pete Schmidt and Joe
Harris have announced that the show
will be divided into four classes. They
will consist of the small list and
End grades), medium (3-5 grades)
and large (6-8 grades) groups.
Prizes will be awarded to the four
best contestants in each group as
voted by the judges.
Prizes will be awarded in four
classifications: l most unusual
pet; funniest pet; best de-
corated pet; A best decorated
bicycle.
The supervisors have announced
that all parents of the children are
urged to attend the event.
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prizes to be distributed to those at
tending.
Earl Hoch, general chairman of
the celebration said that lunch will
be served each evening and dozens
of concessions viii provide fun and
entertainment for visitors. Harry
Blymyer is co-chairman.
In charge of concessions are Wal
ter Otto, Paul Latham and Ralph
Jones; prize committee-Flcya Hoch,
r. c. Ketzenbarger; souvenirs
Ernest Zuercher and Owen Crews;
program and history-Earl Hoch,
Kenneth Bame, Mrs. Leah Miller,
Mrs. Edd Powell and Mrs. Myrtle
Hughes; advertising-Percy Westall,
Harry Reams and Horace Shaw;
parade-Franklin Deeds and Ken
meth Bame.
Speakers committee-R. K. Der
rickson and Domer Smith; finance
Raymond Lehman, Charles Cookson,
Earl Meyer and Helen Benner, con-
cessions-Walter Otto, Paul Latham
and Ralph Jones.
Proceeds from the four-day fete
will to the village Park Fund.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Bosse, who
arrange their farming so that it does
not interfere with their hobby of
travel, are going to hop off for a
two-week Alaskan vacation come
next Tuesday.
The Bosses, who usually manage
to find time for a junket to Florida
in the winter and a little Michigan
fishing in the summer, will extend
their northern trek this year. They
will board a plane in Toledo Tuesday
morning at 9:15 and will be in
Anchorage, Alaska, late in the after
noon the following day.
There to meet the Bluffton couple
will be Mrs. Bosses brother, First
Sgt. Elmer Burkholder and his wife.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28
50 Canadian Tourists Stop
For Overnight Visit Here

A group of Mennonites from west
ern Canada on a holiday tour of U. S.
cities and Mennonite communities
made Bluffton an overnight stop
Sunday and Monday of this week.
The busload of 33 men and two
women in addition to their tour lead
er and bus driver arrived here late
Sunday evening and were on their
way to Berne, Ind. and Chicago at
noon Monday after staying overnight
in the college dormitory.
With Arnold j. Regier, profess
sor at Rosthern Junior College,
Rosthern, Saskatchewan, in charge
of the tour, the group was made up
largely of teachers, nurse S
and other professional people. They
hailed from the four western
province of Manitoba, Saskatche-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28

divergent factions.
Council discussion of the matter
had been prompted by written re-
quest submitted by Silas Diller, a
member of the clubhouse committee,
again raising the question of whe-
ther the Sportsman's club would
have complete autonomy over the
club house at the public park, and
secondly if a long-term lease for ex-
elusive use Of the building could be
arranged.
In reviewing what background
rumbling has come to their attention,
councilmen expressed concern that
seeds for conflict. over the club
house situation may lay in:
% Activities by a group in the
Sportsmen's club who want the club
house located at the Buckeye, as OPP
posed to
(2) Another club faction which
apparently prefers a private location
rather than public park
(3) Opinion expressed by Paul
Diller, chairman Of the towns park
and recreation commission, that his
group has authority over planning
and use of the club house.
In addition to this tangled web Of
viewpoints there may be another
faction within the club in favor of
building the clubhouse at the Buck
eye, but opposed to construction of
a public shelter house, which also
is on the building schedule, one of
the councilmen pointed out.
One matter which may have been
clarified at the session, however, was
council opinion that even though a
lease should be granted for the club
house, hse Of the budding and con-
duct of its nsembe;s would at all
times have to be in keeping with
what is expected at public park
Beyond that, however, council took
no immediate action, in view of the
conflicting welter of circumstances
which appear to be boiling below the
surface.
A suggestion that perhaps the mat
ter could be clarified by discussion
between council, Sportsmen officials
and the parks and recreation COM
mission was discussed, but no meet
ing was planned, as councilmen ap-
parently reached point where they
preferred to think the matter over
at further length.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28
Wilson T. Mas
Resigns Position
As Coop Manager
Board Names Herman Hilty,
Former Coop President,
As Successor

Wilson F. Mas, manager Of the
Allen Farm Bureau Coop association
of Bluffton and Harrod has resigned
his post effective August /, it was
announced this week by the co-op's
board of directors. He will be sue
ceeded by Herman Hilty, Route 2,
Button.
Mr.. Mas managed the association
for the past seven years, and it was
during his administration that the
Coop acquired the Harrod elevator.
He has not announced his plans for
the future.
At the recent meeting of the board
of directors, Mr. Hilty, president, was
asked to resign from the board, ar
was then employed as the new man
ager. He has served on the board for
the last four years.
Widely known in the Bluffton area,
Mr. Hilty operated farm south Of
town since 1871, and has been as
sociated with his father, Phillip, in
operation Of a welding shop. He at
tended Bluffton college and has been
active in affairs Of the First Men
nonite church.
Earl Gray Of Harrod, former vice
president of the Coop, now becomes
president. Other members are Garwin
Clevenger, Conner, secretary; Willis
Winegardner, Harrod; Calvin Rothe,
Lima; Eldon Roeder, Cairo; and G..
X. Helser, Lafayette
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28

Regular store hours will be observ-
ed Friday and Saturday. This, of
course, includes evening hours on Sat
urday for all stores. Extra sales peo-
pie have been called into the shops to
assist with the heavy volume of busi-
ness which always occurs on Dollar
Days.
Shopping time may be saved by US
ing pencil to check wanted items in
the News ads. In this manner thrifty
shoppers are able to pick up bargains
without delay or oversight. They have
learned by experience that the best
buys do not last long.
Many items not listed in the ads
are also offered at reduced prices so
that it pays to carefully inspect the
counter offerings in all the stores.
"Bluffton merchants welcome new
out-of-town shoppers as well as their
old friends at this big sale event, and
hope to make everyone's visit a pleas
ant and profitable one" said Dwaine
Amstutz, president of the Business
Men'g association.
He pointed out that this town has
no parking meters, and plenty of free
parking space is provided in down
town off -the-street lots as. we'll as on
Main street and side streets.
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and friends of the town 90 return
for the celebration and to participate
in an unusual "Parcel Post Auction,
a feature of mex Thursdays pro-
gram.
The celebration viii also be mark
ed by the issuance of a 36-page
historical booklet which traces the
history of the villa ,e from the days
in 1855 when Freferick Keller plat
ted real estate development and
founded the town.
Highlight of the opening evening
in the Rawson Community Park will
be the crowning of a queen to reign
over the centennial celebration. Six
candidates are competing for the
honor including Marilyn Smi t h,
Marjorie A m S u tz, Aunlee Meyer,
Patricia Smith, Dorothy Diller and
Susan Derrickson.
A community parade will be the
top attraction on the second evening
beginning at 6 p. m. and marching
over the principal streets to the park.
Prizes will be offered for the best
historical floats entered in the event.
At p. m. the same evening the
parcel post auction will attract wide
attention.
Former residents and friends of
Rawson from a distance have mail
ed to the committee gifts for the
auction. The crowd will bid blindly
on the unopened packages.
Main attraction Saturday evening
will be the prize drawings. Top
awards will be an outboard motor,
automatic clothes dryer, breakfast
set, and win d o w-type air condi-
toner as we'll as dozens of smaller
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brought Wv a l or interest TINS
year comparable to the 49'er Gold
Rush parade held six years ago.
That crowd was estimated to be the
largest in the history of the town ac-
cording to old-timers.
The crowd which jammed the
stadium and bleachers and lined up
four deep around the fence enclosing
the rodeo area hiked the gross in
come to a total of $4,092 10. This was
an incriease of S814.20 over last
years record total.
Total expenditures to date amount
to $2,03897 with approximately $500
in additional bills outstanding.
Present indications are that each of
three sponsoring organizations will
receive a net profit of $584.38 when
the rodeo committee holds its final
windup meeting August 20. Last
year each of the three organizations
received $3.50 as their share of the
profit.
Gate receipts amounted to S1,980.
Stadium and bleacher seats brought
in another $437.75. In addition con-
cessions added S365.54, advertising
and promotion $583.7O entry fees
S115.7O and donations to the fire
works fund $115.5O Other miscel-
laneous receipts accounted for the
remainder of the income.
Other reasons for increased profits
were less tax on admissions, more
rigid policing of the grounds with as
sistance of the Ohio National Guard
Unit, Ada, and the fact that the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28
Broken Oil Line
Causes Auto Fire

The Rawson fire department was
called Tuesday evening to the Charles
Heldman farm southwest of town to
extinguish a fire in an automobile
which had stopped in front of the
residence.
The auto owned by Ralph Wise,
half mile west of Rawson, was being
driven by a son. A broken oil line
which sprayed oil on the exhaust
manifold caused the blaze.
When young Wise closed the hood
of the auto and raced into the Held
man home to summon the depart
ment, the flames were smothered, and
the fire was out when the depart
ment arrived.
Damage was minor.
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wan, Alberta and British Columbia.
The group enjoyed number of
lectures at various parts of the trip,
and were interested in learning about
the culture of the major cities as well
as the older Mennonite centers in
northeastern U. S.
On Sunday morning they left from
Lancaster county, Pa, and arrived
here in the evening. The Social Com
mittee of the First Mennonite church
served light refreshments for the
group at Founders hall upon their
arrival.
They departed here about noon
Monday after touring the college and
the community.
By the time they arrive back at
Rosthern, where the tour originated,
they will have travelled 5000 miles.
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Another BluftOn Couple Leaving
On Air Trip To Anchorage, Alaska

With the regular army, Sgt. Burk-
holder is now stationed at Fort
Richardson in Anchorage.
Sgt. Burkholder has arranged to
take his furlough while his sister,
Naomi, and Ernest are with them.
"We have full schedule planned
when you arrive" he wrote the local
couple.
"We do not know everything my
brother has planned" said Mrs.
Bosse, "but we know we're going on
up to Fairbanks"
Sgt. Burkholder wrote of rich
uranium strikes near Valdez, Alaska.
"Bring a Geiger counter with you,
Continued on page 100
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-07-28
Committee Recommends
Widening, Lighting
Bentley Rd. Approach

Bluffton should not sit idly on its
hands while the new Route 25 bypass
carries business past it's door.
That is the opinion of the Highway
Committee of the Bluffton Business
Mems association, which was to re-
commend course of action to "keep
Bluffton on the map" at the regular
meeting of the association Wednesday
evening at the Geiger & Diller store.
Paul Diller, chairman of the COM
mittee, said that his group would re-
commend that the association ask the
village to do everything possible to
make Bluffton attractive as a stop
ping place for passing motorists.
The recommendations include: 1.
The widening of the Bentley road ac-
cess to the bypass to 40 feet, including
the Nickel Plate railroad crossing. 2.
Installation of street lighting of the
white way" type leading from the
highway over Bentley road to Main
street. 3.NFlasher warning lights at
thesralrpad crossing.
The close proximity Oh the Rentiax
road inersectipn will make it the ma
turat means or entering the new by
pass, OILERS committee believes.
Widening and adequately lighting the
entrance to Bluffton will not only
stand as a friendly signal of welcome
to visitors, but will make the road
safer for Bluffton's own citizens, the
association viii be advised by its COM
mittee.
In addition to steps to improve the
Bluffton approach, the committee will
also strongly recommend that signs
be erected marking off a route
through the business district so that
motorists may leave the highway, visit
the business section and return with
out retracing the path or becoming
lost.
The loss of Route 25 traffic in
Bluffton undoubtedly will be felt by
the business places, and what affects
business affects the general comnnu-
nifty prosperity, the committee be-
lieves. Every effort should be made
to save as much Of it as possible.