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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-12-08

man and Harry Kohler.
The Bluffton College Choral Society
has taken deep root in Bluffton and
the annual rendition of "The Messiah"
is one of the community's most be-
loved traditions.
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Plate" for home and foreign missions.
Plan to attend.
Delta Kappa Gamma
The Alpha Delta Alpha Tau Chap
ter will meet for a Christmas dinner
at 600 p. m. at the home of Laura
Foust. The Christmas program will
be under the direction of Marie Bow
lus with a gift exchange to follow.
The committee for this meeting will
be Mary Belle Linnell, Chairman;
Ethel Stiles, Louise Heintz, Margaret
Bush, Fannie Bergman, Kathryn Bru-
baker and Evelyn Koffel.
Third Grade Brownies
The third grade Brownies will have
Christmas party at the home of
Janette Benroth this Tuesday after
noon. Mrs. Kenneth Henry and Mrs.
Carl Lehman are the leaders.
G. S. Troop No. 1913
The girls in troop 128 met last
Thursday at the Mennonite church.
We opened our meeting with the Girl
Scout promise. After the business
meeting we worked on surprise
Christmas gifts for our fathers and
mothers.
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Colleen BGsinger
Becomes Bride Of
FindlGy Man

In an impressive ceremony in the
Pandora Grace Methodist church on
November 10, Miss Colleen Sue Ba-
singer became the bride of James C.
Wolfe.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gerald R. Basinger, Pandora,
and the bridegroom's parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Wolfe, Findlay.
The bride, graduate of Pandora
Gilboa high school, was employed
until recently in Pandora. The bride
groom was graduated from Findlay
high school and is employed at the
Findlay Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.
PRUNING fruit trees this winter
will make fruit picking easier next
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and Church streets. 1t appears that
"tanglefoot" continues to keep the
birds away from the Presbyterian
church.
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Alice Freeman Club

Alice Freeman Club
The Alice Freeman club will meet
at the Clayton Bixel home Tuesday
evening, December 13, at 7:45. Mrs.
Pauline Raid will be in charge of the
program.
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Richland Grange

RlN1ldHu VII dASc
Richland Grange meeting will be
held December 13 with guest speak
er, Paul Lawrence of Harrod, on the
program. He will talk on the tour he
took with Swift and Co. meat busi-
moss
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Mothers Study Club

Mothers Study Club
A pot luck supper will be held on
Tuesday, December 13, at the home
of Verna Diller There will be a
Christmas program and gift exchange
after the supper.
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Century Circle

Hostesses for the December ID
meeting of the Century Circle will be
Mrs. David Riser and Mrs. Lloyd
Ramseyer. Time for this meeting will
be 500 p. m. The program-"C Christ
mas Poems" will be given by Stella
Lichtenwalter and Christmas Deco
rating and Lighting" by Ocie Ander-
son.
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Girl Scout Troop No. 12s

Girl Scout Troop No. 123
Troop 123 held their regular meet
ing at the Methodist church from
$3.50 to 500 o'clock last Thursday.
We started to make angels for Christ
mas. Members present were: Dolores
Shumaker, Dianna Hilty, Deana
Beach, Elaine Baker, Marcia Travis,
Connie Habegger, Sharlene Lanning,
Karen Burkholder, Maureen Petru-
celli and Cheryl Martin.
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Kings Guards Party

The annual party for all Kings
Guards members, their mothers and
members of the w. S. C. S. will be
held next Monday evening, December
IL, in the Methodist church basement
with a potluck supper at 6:30. Please
bring own table service. There will be
a 25c gift exchange for the children.
Special gifts will also be given the
children by the members of the vari-
GUS circles of the w. S. c. S. Each
child is to bring his or her Gift
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Share-A-Talent Club
The Share-A-Talent club will meet
at the home of Mrs. Richard Shoe
maker next Wednesday evening, De-
cember Id.
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Home Demonstration Meeting
There will be a meeting of the
H ONE Demonstration group a t
Orange Center Community House on
Friday afternoon, December 9, at 2
o'clock. The theme of the meeting will
be christmas at Home" and each
one is asked to bring a Christmas
idea.
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Troop No. 122
Our last two meetings have been
devoted to make gift tags from
Christmas cards. Ellen Jean Johnson
was in charge of flag ceremony and
business meeting. Our leader an
nounced that our troop sold 167 cans
of peanuts.
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nj. l.. b. c.
The Martin Luther Bible Class will
meet at the church on Thursday eve
ming, December Is to clean the
church.
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Plate" for home and foreign missions.
Plan to attend.
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Alpha Gamma, Telesis and Trave
Class
The Alpha Gamma club, Telesis
club and Travel class will meet in &
combined meeting, Wednesday, De
cember ID at 8 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. F. d. Rodabaugh, for musi
cal Christmas program.
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Troop ia
The girls of troop 124 met in the
and r church basement. We mad
heads for the puppets and playe
games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-10
THAT MYSTERIOUS ACHE
Continued from preceding page

Svssssss*e" PseseUsHS
moment does not jeopardize the patients life but
requires medicine to relieve it. 1t may be ruptued
stomach ulcer that requires immediate surgery It NAV
be heart attack with the pain being referred to the
abdomen instead Of its usual location in the chest And
sometimes the doctor will find that even this acute pain
does not have serious cause.
Third, there is the kind Of abdominal pain that is
recrrent The regularly recurring premenstrua pains
are. in some women severe and occasionally disabling
As rule the time of its appearance and its specific
character are known to the patient and she has had
medical advice about its management. Only startling
departures from the expected normal severity bring
her to doctor for further advice.
The Persistent Pain
HE pain OF stomach ulcer falls into this recuuren
category The patient recognizes it by its location its
character its relation to food intake He has been under
the Of doctor for this problem and ordinarily
handles it himself quite safely.
Finally. there the bothersome. reasonably mild
abdominal cramps that disquetng because of their
persistence hour after hour It is this kind of pain that
most often goes untreated And il is this type Of
pain that may turn out to be green-apple collie
mild food poisoning acute surgical
emergency.
II the patient is child the mother is likely to put
hand the forehead to fever and decide to
keep the child out of school until she make up her
mind about the importance Of the complaint She may
learn that her neghbors children are also so afflicted
that all have developed daThea that all of them had
gone the ball game and perhaps had eaten ndsceety
However. these pains may not be due to spoiled food
but may be the beginning Of acute appendicitis AT the
very onset neither the mother the doctor make
the diagnosis Time will make the diagnosis and anna
doctoring have tragic results Don't take pills
not the ones the doctor left the last time Johnny
had belyache. Don't use heating pad Don't take
an enema: don't take sedative. Above ALL don't take
a cathartic!
% ID Appendicisis?
Do NOTHING in the to three hours that it will take
to recognize the Of the pain If the pain persists
beyond three hours. call doctor BY that time ques
tioning by trained mind and abdominal examination
by trained hand should be able to discover the teale
evidence of acute appendicitis some other abdominal
emergency requiring surgical treatment.
Appendicitis operated on early is mild disease
requiring less than weeks hospital stay with complete
with subsequent pertonitis carries high immediate
surgical mortality leaves intra-abdomina adhesions
which may produce symptoms for many years.
So to sum up. call the doctor when ta) abdominal
pain is alarmngly acute or (b) when mlder pain
persists beyond two or three hours
A HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE?
MN&EM DR.. Irrise Page haas FeassuFiag B
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Speed-Up Recovery!
Hyou feel tired and
weak after illness, it
may be due to IRON
poor, Tired Blood.
To feel stronger fast,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11

/ a growing realization on the part of
the American public that freeing
many thousands of Indian people of
their reservation might create more
problems than it could solve.
A few plucky citizens raised their
voices IN alarm. The existence of some
dismal Indian villages near some of
our cities like tina of Hill 81 near
Great Falls and the city dump at
Havre also serve as sorry reminder
of what can happen to dispossessed
people.
As it was, the Menominees of Wis
consin, the Klamaths of Oregon and
Utes of Utah unhappily got their
termination papers from Congress.
Many more tribes were slated for
termination bills last year, but Con-
gresham Lee MetcaIf slowed them
up on the House floor by demanding
proof of Indian consent. Temporarily.
at least however, the brakes have
been put on any further wholesale
lifting of federal responsibility over
the Indian.
While the Eisenhower Administra-
ton still champions the policy of COM
Piete withdrawal, the approach now
seems to be one of chiseling away at
the structure of federal responsibility
In an effort to knock it down piece by
piece. 1t the reservations cannot be
put up for auction and sold to the
highest bidders, then it appears that
those who generously eye Indian re-
sources would separate the Indian
from federal charter for self-govern-
ment and his tribal existence.
But how can the lonely Indian, once
ne gets full patent to his land, deal
With the very competent agents of
he large corporations for fair price
IN his property? It would seem that
us rights and his longtime welfare
viii be more fully protected by the
rlDal council he helps elect and
ederal government still bound by
reaty obligations.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11
Bukfeet Indians SeCoveent Is ENDANGERED By Oil Fever

are guarded by the Tribal Council
which also concerned itself with In
dian education, health and welfare.
About twenty years ago in a move
to help the Indian help himself, Con-
gress passed the Wheeler-Howard Act
authorizing Indian tribes on the reser-
vations to elect their own governing
bodies which were to assume consider
able responsibility in handling tribal
affairs under the supervision of the
federal governments Bureau of In
dian Affairs in the Department of
Interior. 1t was step toward self
government and self sufficiency.
Pooling income for all tribal re-
sources under management of their
own members has many advantages
for the Indians.
If the white man looks with dis
tain on Indian efforts at seIf-govern-
ment, the Indian can well wonder
about the ways of the white man and
his government as the latter also
struggles with the problems of self
government. If the Indian doesn't al
ways do so well with democracy under
the white mans rules, it must be re-
membered he has had only a few
years in which to practice the art.
The move on the Blackfeet Indian
Reservation to give the tribal MEM
bers full patent to their land in fee
simple is related to whole movement
of recent years to terminate federal
responsibility for the Indian and
liquidate ia ereservations-a move
ment promoted in the background by
many of the huge private corporations
that participated in the off-shore oil
grab and other efforts to raid the
public domain including that envis-
aged by the D'Ewart-Aiken legislation
to give away the federal forest graz
ing lands.
1t was a move inspired by the land
slide election of the Eisenhower Adj
The liquidation move
nent has been slowed up recently by
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to the Indians reservation fol
his happy hunting ground.
Last fall another election was helt
on the Blackfeet Reservation. The
Mineral Rights Committee promoted
an election to give each allotted In
dian fee patent to the mineral rights
on his land so that the oil companies
could deal directly with the indi-
vidual allottee, thus getting around
the Tribal Council and the federal
government in Washington.
The Mineral Rights Committee
aided by their attorneys, urged ia
vorable vote and won handily with a
small turnout. But the Tribal Coun-
ell went to Washington, D. c., and
stopped further action. A change from
tribal ownership of mineral rights to
individual ownership requires ap-
prevail by Congress. Thus far no bills
to that end for the Blackfeet have
been passed.
1t is not generally realized that
once an Indian loses the land-trust
relationship with his federal govern
ment, he also loses many rights and
federal services under tribal treaties
with the government.
One reliable report has it that a
heavy percentage of the welfare load
in Oklahoma consists of Indian al
lottees who acquired full control over
their mineral rights and sold them
for quick money which didn't lat
long. In Montana, another report in
dicates, distressing number of Fort
Peck Indians are on welfare since
Congress enabled them to dispose
Of the mineral rights on their allotted
lands.
There are some citizens, both In
iian and white, who are irked by the
actions of the Tribal Council, a legal
y authorized body elected by ma
ority of their fellows to administer |
he economic affairs of the tribe. A |
arge amount of Indian land, forests
md mineral and agricultural leases
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rled to Indians. seem to agree very
faithfully with the plans of private
oil companies eagerly seeking to &C
quire more oil and gas leases on res
ervation lands.
Two Helena attorneys, Bonner and
Mahan, acting for the Mineral Rights
Committee, campaigned with great
vigor in the Blackfeet election in
August and in the earlier one last
fall. Their appeal to the Indians was
strong one, ringing with the tones
of "free enterprise" and "independ-
ence"
Strongly opposing the recall amend
ment, the Tribal Council advised
voters that Amendment Four (the
recall proposaD would make it pos
sible for any group of 800 people or
ten per cent of the voters to really
wreck your tribal government"
A group known as the Committee
for Protection of Tribal Property told
the Indian voters that the amend
ment providing for the initiative was
all right but that the recall amend
lilCuJ was llo SOOu anu IL PctooSd
tit would be possible for the min
erals committee or any other group
of 800 people to tie up all the income
of the Blackfeet Tribe"
Addressing the statement to the
Blackfeet Indian Tribe, the Commit
tee for Protection of Tribal Property
declared: "This would mean that you
would not get your per capita pay
ments, educational loans, medical al
lowance or burial funds"
In the election, August 1, the re-
call amendment was approved by a
vote of 81 to 104 and the initiative
by vote of 1876 to 176 The number
Of eligible voters is little more
than 5000 and far less than the re-
CURED 80 per cent participated in the
election.
But the issue remains the same. At
The bottom of it all is the matter of
Ill, gas and minerals. The white man
las fever for more oil, and he wants
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11
Scottish co-sps Trade Tweed
For Russian Wheat

MANCHESTER (CNS)-Centro-
soyus, the Russian state-controlled
union of co-ops, is bartering 5000
tons of wheat for 1,500 pieces of
Scottish co-op-made cloth, COOPER
ALIVE NEWS has reported.
Scottish Cooperative Wholesale
Society will ship the tweed from It's
Selkirk mill and take the Russian
wheat into its flour mills. Five thou
sand tons is about 10000 bushels.
The barter was arranged directly
between the two groups. It's the first
such trade they've engineered since
World War II.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11

slip, despite the sharp rise In national
output of goods and services. Net
farm income, in the first half Of
1855, was running go beolw the
same period last year. Indeed, net
farm income has continued to decline
ever since 1851.
Some economic groups have thus
far received large share of the
benefits of the recent sharp upturn
in output; they include big business
and it's stockholders. Other groups
have received little or no benefit
from this pickup in production;
among them are many small family
farmers and small business firms,
as well as several large groups of
wage and salary earners."
Along with collective bargaining
strength and New Deal-Fair Deal leg
islative props, the Outlook cited the
sharp upsurge in consumer spending
and rising consumer credit and mort
gage debt as accounting for the rapid
improvement in economic activity.
The Clio publication said:
''The sharp upturn in production
since September 1854 underscores the
effectiveness of trade union action
and collective bargaining as a factor
of strength within the national econ
omy. 1t likewise underscores the eff
fectiveness of the economic and social
legislation of the New Deal and Fair
Deal, despite their present made
quacies and shortcomings, in cushion
ing the effects of an economic recess
sion and in helping to provide the
basis and stimulus for an upturn.
And it emphasizes the major import
ance of consumer income and con-
sumner spending to the national econ
,my, something the CIO has main
aimed from its formation"
Looking toward the future, the
Economic Outlook concluded:
FIVE BIG "IFS" IN SO
"The overall economic outlook for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11

salary employment-such as in non
durable goods manufacturing, con
tract construction and transportation
and public utilities-are no greater
than in 1951-52; mining employment
is at about the depression level OF
the 1905. 1t is in localities where
these types of employment are con
centrated-coal mining, textiles anc
railroad repair shops-that unem-
ployment has remained problem OF
serious proportions for several years.
Although manufacturing produc-
ton in June 1855 was slightly greater
than in June 1853 and the length of
the workweek was the same, manu-
featuring employment was consider
ably smaller.
The sharp increase in produc-
tivity indicated by these figures
has reached labor costs of produc-
ton and has helped to raise profit
margins. Business profits have
been booming in the first half of
1855. Corporate profits, in the Sec
ond quarter of 1855, were $3.50
greater than they had been the
year before. Dividend payments,
which were rising even during the
general downturn, have continued
to increase from one new all-time
peak to another.
Small business, however, is not
sharing fully in the prosperity of cor
porate enterprise generally. During
the economic downturn last year,
business failures-among small bust
ness firms, for the most part-were
greater than in any year since 1941.
This year, they are continuing to run
At high levels. In June 1866, there
we're GA business failures reported,
IS compared with 965 in the same
month of 1854, SO in June 1868, and
81 in June 1862.
-ARM INCOME CONTINUING
70 SLIP
Farm income is also continuing to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11
U. S.-ITALIAN CO-OPS
LAUNCH LENDING AGENCY

MISUNDERSTANDING
help got big boost when the Ameri-
can Italian Cooperative Finance
Agency was chartered here recently.
u. S. citizens contributed 100 mil
lion Ira (about $165,000) through
Freedom Fund to launch the organi-
zation. 1t will lend to genuine, demo-
cratically-controlle eo-ops in Italy.
Freedom Fund was organized, pri-
marily by the Cooperative League
of the U. S. A, in 1914, and it con-
tinues to work closely with the
League.
The new coop finance agency will
direct its loans toward more efficient
marketing, wholesaling, and retailing
by both farmer and consumer co-ops.
Edward S. Lynch, former research
director for the Export-Import Bank,
heads the agency. Harry Culbreth,
Freedom Funds executive director
and Nationwide Insurance vice presl- |
dent for human relations, is presl-
dent. Vincent Cecchi, Washington.
D. c., consultant, is another director.
In Chicago, Freedom Fund di- |
rector, Jerry Voorhis, pointed out
that American-Italian Cooperative
Finance Agency will meet a great
need. even large Italian co-ops have
much difficulty getting loans, except
on terms that cripple their opera
tions,' he said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11
MONTANA FARMERS UNION

NEW
Blackfeet Indians were asked tC
change their tribal constitution in ar
election last August 1. The election
was authorized by the Bureau of In
dian Affairs but was not approved by
the Tribal Council.
The aim of the constitutional
changes it appeared, was to curtail
the power of the Tribal Council, legal
representative the Indians elect by
majority vote to administer their
tribal affairs and watch over thei
welfare.
One amendment would allow ten
per cent of the eligible voters to initi-
ate recall of any member of the
council and the other would reserve
to tribal members the right to pro-
pose by way of petition any measure,
ordinance or resolution that would
be voted on in an election. Both
amendments provided that the recall
would have to be approved by at least
80 per cent of the tribes eligible vot-
ers and the petition for an ordinance
VI ICoOluCiO1 W GARRY Dl2G udluNS VI
at least 80 per cent of the eligible
voters. Indians say the proposed
changes were not as democratic as
they sound.
Those Indians who voted approved
the changes by wide margin. The
election, however, was declared illegal
because less than the required num-
Der of voters participated.
There was a lot of heat generated
during the election campaign.
Favoring the constitutional changes
is the Mineral Rights Committee
which is interested in seeing that each |
original allottee or his heirs acquires
sole control over mineral, oil Or gas |
rights free of supervision of the
Tribal Council and the federal gov
eminent. The views of the Mineral
Rights Committee which consists of
some Indians and some whites mar
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-11-11

The Economic Outlook, entitled
Glow Strong Is Our Economic Up
turn" noted that part of the sharp
improvement in production since
September 1854 had been achieved
through an increase in the length of
the work-week and increases in en-
ployment.
But, the Outlook observed, "a sub
stantial portion of this pickup in out
put is the result of an extraordinary
rapid increase in productivity, es-
pecially in manufacturing industries. ;"
FACTORY MAN-HOUR
OUTPUT UP
The CIO publication quoted an I'M
published study of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics as estimating "4@o
to go rise in manhour output in
manufacturing between early 1854
and early 1856"
Output has risen much faster than
employment, the monthly publication
said, adding:
Between the second (spring)
quarter OF l5Ofy Wnen the oOWh-
turn reached its low point, and the
second quarter of 1855, the gross
national output rose 7.6To-over
three times faster than total en-
ployment (farm, non-farm, self
employed), which increased only
2.4%o in that period.
Despite the sharp increases in
output and the slower improvement
in employment, non-farm wage and
salary employment generally-and |
employment, in par
ticular-are still below the levels
reached in 1868, before the down
turn started. In June 1855, for ex-
ample, the number of non-farm wage
and salary employees was 100000 less
than in June 1853.
MINING EMPLOYMENT AT 1929
LEVEL
"Some types of non-farm wage and