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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-15

ple There was a decided growth of
social consciousness.
The result was that many laws were
passed by Congress to restrict and reg
ulate business, others to give labor
rights to organize and to demand bet
ter working conditions. All this meant
government Intervention "-regula-
tion-which in turn added state func-
tions and tax revenue.
1t is this rising tide of social con-
seriousness and the demand for gov
eminent action to direct and restrain
business activities so as to promote
the common good that constitutes the
feared socialism.
Fortunately, the predicted end did
not come; America was not destroyed.
Nor is the prophecy of doom likely to
come true within the foreseeable fu-
ture. For the present national taxing
and spending program is once more
welded" to the older classical doc
trine." The fiscal policy was formu-
lated and is administered to remove
restrictions and to restore conditions
which will permit traditional Amerl-
can initiative and productive genius
''The 1854 tax revision" says Bar
rons for March Z, 1866, made the
first corporate investment" The re-
suit was that in January, spanked by
the five year amortization plan, the
largest number Of new corporations
in any one month Q,300) were chart
ered'' 1T restored rs billions to pri-
vate purses.
In the Saturday Evening Post for
Oct. 2, 1854, Mr.. Humphrey, the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, says this new
law is nothing less than a major re-
vision of our entire federal tax struc-
ture, the first in rs years. It's purpose
is to remove many hardships on in
dividuals, to reduce restraints on the
kind of enterprise which creates new
business, it will permit our economy
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-15
HOUSE RAISES AGRICULTURE
FUNDS 800 MILLION
OVER IKE'S REQUEST

WASHINGTON, D. C.-For the
third year in row, the House voted
more money for the Agricultural De-
partment than the administration
sought. The House, March %, okayed
$878.6 million in cash, 1898 million
in loan authority, and $3.50 million in
advance soil conservation subsidies.
That's a 500 million boost.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-15
Mineral PRODUCTION SET AT
s125 MIL LION I'M 1854

came an important producer of tung.
stem in 1854 as development of the
Ivanhoe browns Lake, mine IN
Beaverhead county continued. Nc
production data are available.
Fastest-growing of Montana's min
eral industries is petroleum. Output
in 1854, estimated at about 10 mil
lion barrels, was &c per cent higher
than in 1868 and IS per cent above
1850. Value of petroleum production
is set at $33 million, second only to
copper among the major minerals.
Over half the 1854 production came
from four fields: Poplar, in the Willis
ton Basin, Cut Bank, Elk Basin, and
Kevin-Sunburst.
Production of phosphate rock is
believed to have exceeded 100000
tons, or about twice the 1850 pro-
duction, with value of over So mil
lion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-15
SECOND IN MANGANESE
PRODUCTION

Montana's production of manganese
ore and concentrates amounted to
$4,000 tons, putting the state in sec
ond place behind Nevada) in man
ganese output. Production of chrome
ore concentrate from the Mouat mine
last year is placed at $4,000 tons,
with value of 81 million. Total
United States production is estimated
at 100000 tons, indicating the import
ance of the Mouat mine as domestic
producer. 1t is operated by the Ameri-
can Chrome Company under gov
eminent contract. Montana also be-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-15
COAL OUTPUT DOWN AGAIN

Coal production decreased for the
tenth consecutive year, to approx
mately ID million tons. Since 1949,
output has declined about so per
cent. The open-pit vermiculite mine
of the zonelite Company at Libby
continued to be the leading domestic
producer A new 100000 processing
plant to enable utilization of low
grade rock was completed during the
year.
Although uranium exploration ac-
tivity continued in the state, with
numerous reports of radioactive oc-
currences, no major strikes occurred.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-15

Total value of minerals produced
in Montana in 1854 is estimated at
slightly over $125 million, and, al
though this represents 5.5 per cent
decline from 1868, it still is among
the highest in the states history, ac-
cording to an article in the March
issue of Montana Business, published
by the Bureau of Business and Eco
nomic Research at Montana State
University.
The article, which discusses pro-
duction of Montana's mineral indus
tries last year, is based on data from
the Montana Bureau of Mines and
Geology and the U. S. Bureau of
Mines.
In spite of % per cent decline in
production as compared with 1858,
copper maintained its first place posi-
ton among Montana minerals in
terms of value of production. The
$1,000 tons produced last year were
valued at S35.5 million.
Lead production decreased 20 per
cent in 1854, to the lowest figure
since 1888, and zinc output was the
lowest since 1949, with "a per cent
decline from 1853. Value of lead
produced in the state amounted to $4
million while zinc production was
valued at $13 million. Gold and silver
now produced chiefly as byproducts
from copper and lead-zinc ores
continued the steady decline in prog
ress for number of years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
38- Year-OLd Cider Mill
Prepares For Big Season

Costs and prices are about the
only things that have changed in
the operations at the Morning Star
Cider Press since the first gallon of
the pungent amber beverage was
strained from the presses 80 years
ago.
Seth Basinger, owner of the mill
northwest of here, said that when he
opened the press, cider was selling
at two cents per gallon. He laughed
and added that when the price went
to a nickle people complained that
the price was too high. This year as
in recent years, it viii probably sell
for around 35c per gallon early in
the season, and slightly higher when
the apples are ripper and have the
best flavor.
Higher cost of apples and labor
have contributed to the present cost,
but Mr.. Basinger points out cider
is still cheap compared with most
beverages of pure fruit juice.
Most of the local connoisseurs pre-
fer certain types of apples according
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
Bluffton Couple Ride Out Hurricane
Connie At Sea EnrOute To Venezuela

The Atlantic seaboard's Hurricane
Connie, which brought Bluffton no.
thing but comfort in the way of re-
spite from the recent heat wave,
brought far different experience to
one well-known local couple enroute
by ship to Venezuela.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Glendening were
caught in the full fury of the storm
at sea. They describe it in letter
to Mrs. Glendening's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Oyer, PIT N. Lawn
avenue.
81 never want to go through any
thing like it again., wrote Mrs.
Glendening.
81 was awakened Sunday morning
by practically being bounced out of
bed. The waves were half as high as
the ship, and it was like riding to
the top floor of the Empire State
building and then falling to the bot
tom with a thud. 1t went on all day
and all night. 1t was a nightmare,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18

to Mr.. Basinger Although any ripe
apple will make good cider, he said
the majority of people in the area
prefer Baldwins or Grimes Golden
to the others.
Seth said he expects a heavier
crop of apples than last year and
business should be much better
when the Star Press opens its doors
for another season next Wednesday.
All signs point to bumper apple
crop in the area. The same applies
to the Port Clinton area.
But, Mr.. Basinger was quick to
add that anything can happen in the
business. Hail storms or other heavy
storms could ruin the apple crop in
a very short time, he pointed out.
He recalled that when he started
in the business of making cider
nearly 40 years ago, the mill was
located on the J. U. Amstutz farm
about mile east of where the pre-
sent mill now stands. 1t is now
known as the Paul Miller farm. The
Morning Star Press was built in
1927.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
Remedy. For Dutch Elm Disease Believed
Close At Hand, III. ". Berky Tells Lions

Bluffton elms, some of which
rank with the finest in Ohio, ma!
yet survive the inroads of the Dutcl
Elm disease, Prof. H. w. Berky de
clared hopefully Tuesday evening a
a meeting of the Lions club.
The Bluffton college professor
said he had learned only last
week that research scientists at thu
University of Rhode Island, working
with the American Cynamide Com
pany, had developed a new treatment
that appeared to be economically
feasible.
Although experts had previously
declared there is no cure, and were
of the belief that the American elm
would disappear like the chestnut
tree, there is new hope now, Prof
Berky said.
New Formula Announced
Research people at the eastern
university have announced their for
mula is being patented. From de.
tails given, Prof. Berky said it ap-
pears that the main ingredients are
inexpensive.
Describing the prescribed method
of treatment with the formula, he
said it appeared possible to treat a
large tree in a half hours time
Holes are drilled slantwise under the
bark, and the solution is applied by
means of small tubes which intro
duce it to the sap stream in the
trunk.
The new formula will probably
be marketed soon, Prof. Berky pre-
dicted, since there is a great public
demand for it. He said he did not
know under what trade name it will
be sold, but urged Bluffton residents
to be on the lookout for it.
Disease Is A Fungus
The Dutch Elm Disease, the Lions
were told, is actually fungus which
enters the trees circulating system
and is carried to the leaves through
the sap. The fungus can kill tree
within a couple weeks.
Difficulties are encountered in get
ting rid of the fungus because it
continues to live in dead as well as
live trees. 1t is carried from one tree
to another by the American Elm
Bark Beetle and a European Bark
Beetle, which reproduces more rapid
ly than its American cousin.
Prof. Berky displayed specimens
of elm tree bark and wood which
had been infected by the fungus. The
pieces showed also how the bark
beetle had drilled through the bark
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18

Spearing fish 25 feet below the
oceans surface and holding fish-frys
on the beach, studying the giant
kelp that grows like redwood on the
seas floor, these are the underwater
experiences of a former Bluffton
couple studying marine biology at
Stanford university this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Klassen are
working on their masters degree in
marine biology, and enjoying every
minute of it, they write Mr.. Klas-
sens parents, Prof. and Mrs. John
Klassen of South Jackson street.
Both Herb and his wife, Rita, are
graduates of Bluffton college. They
live in Monterey, Calf, where Mr..
Klassen is an eighth grade teacher
at Boyes Hot Springs, Calf.
With the aid of aqua lungs, the
Stanford students study marine life
at first hand. Herb says that their
diving and spear fishing is without
rubber suits.
He writes that he does not know
exactly how deep he has been going,
but that he has been having trouble
with ear pressure at about p feet.
They hurt under the water, and again
upon surfacing, he explains.
In a recent letter he tells his fa-
ther he wished he could share the
ling cod he speared and filleted for
broiling. 1t made twos slabs an inch
thick, six inches wide and Is inches
long, and made two beautiful serv-
ings.
whenever you swim under water
at pretty good depth, you see
things from such a different angle
that it is quite fascinating. The sur
face of the water shows a few
strands of giant kelp. When you go
below, you get strange impression.
Under water you see fish sitting on
top of long shafts of rock, like birds
on telephone pole.
"The leaves of kelp on the sur
face are just extension of long plants
from below. The giant kelps get as
long as a redwood tree in places
One type has big bulb which bloats
and is anchored by what looks like
a cable attached 25 or more feet be,
low.
"The biggest fish we have seer
have been at the lower limits of our
range, and whenever we get close
they dive under a rock. Several
times | shot and the spear just
glanced off the fish. They sometimes
have scales heavy enough that il
takes a direct shot to penetrate"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
Plan Kindergarten
In Private Homes

Arrangements have been completed
for conducting Blufton's kindergar-
ten classes in two private homes on
South Spring street during the COM
ing year while the new elementary
school building is under construction,
it was announced this week.
Mrs. w. H. Gratz announced that
her afternoon class will open the
same day other classes are resumed
on Tuesday, September 6. Arrange
ments have been made for conducting
the class in the home of Mrs. G. d.
Hilty, 134 South Spring street.
Mrs. w. A. Howe, who teaches the
morning class, said that her pupils
would not report for the first class
until week later, on Monday, Sep
tember II. They will meet regularly
at the Howe home, 118 South Spring
street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
BlufftOn Girl
Injured In Crash
Near Beaverdam

A Bluffton girl was among four
persons injured in two-car collision
at the intersection of the new U. S.
Route 25 and Napoleon road about a
mile west of Beaverdam at 6:15 p. m.
Monday.
Sharon Conrad, IA, daughter of
Mrs. Donavin Conrad, S. Main street,
received multiple bruises when the
car in which she was riding, driven
by Terry Miller, 16, Columbus Grove,
collided with light truck driven by
Darrell Dotson, 26, Lima.
According to state highway patrol
men who investigated the accident,
Miller, travelling north on Napoleon
road was struck on the right side by
the Dotson pickup truck, headed
north west on Route 25.
Miller received decorations of the
forehead and left hand and sprained
neck. Dotson was not injured in the
accident but a passenger in his car,
Murray Deal, 70, Lima, received Sc
we're decorations of the forehead and
multiple abrasions.
Conrad and Miller were removed to
the Bluffton Community hospital in
the Diller Funeral Home ambulance.
Deal was taken to Lima st. Rita's
hospital in the Basinger Funeral
Home ambulance.
Both cars were demolished in the
accident.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
Two From BlufftOn
To Get BG Degrees

Two Bluffton students are can
didates for their masters degree in
education at the Bowling Green State
university summer commencement to
be held in the main auditorium at 4
p. m. Friday, August 26.
The degrees are to be awarded to
Robert Ewing, Bluffton elementary
school teacher, and Miss Geneva
Hankish, who taught last year at
New Riegel, Ohio. The same degree
is to be awarded Margaret ]. Beery,
Route 2, Columbus Grove.
The local candidates are among
ia who are slated for graduation at
the summer exercises.
Speaker for the occasion will be
Dr. Herman L. Shibler, superintend-
ent of indianapolis public schools.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
East African
Impressed By
TripIett Tour

"Very impressive" was the
comment of Amul Amizi, a ma
tive of India, now residing in
East Africa, when he toured the
Triplett plants last week.
Amul, a radiO-televisiOn en-
cheering student in London for
the past three years, is on six
weeks stay in Findlay as the
guest of the Findlay Rotary club.
He visited the plants with two
members of the staff of radio
station WIN.
Upon completion of his train
ing in London, Amul expects to
return to East Africa and set
up his own radio-TV shop. Dur
ing his time in England he has
been employed part-time by
manufacturers of His Masters
Voice, an affiliate of Columbia,
the largest TV producer in the
country.
Although there is no TV in
East Africa nor in his native
India as yet, Amul points out
that his native country expects
to have a number of stations by
the end of 1856. AS for East Af-
rica it is not in the picture for
some time.
While his main interests are
in radio and televisiOn, Amul
stated that watching the assem-
bly, of meters and testers on the
lines was very impressive and
ne was also awed by the clean
illness of the departments visited
during the tour.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18

anticipating unusually fine entries.
Following the theme, "a Sym
phony of Flowers, ribbon awards
are offered in 10 sections of the
show including artistic arrangements,
miniatures, table settings, juniors,
arrangements for men, unusual
flowers, and specimen classes in del
phiniums, dahlias, roses and glad
iolus.
Judges for the show who were
named this week are Mrs. John L.
Sander, Bowling Green, Charles
Crawford, and William Bremen, of
Toledo.
Repeating a popular feature of
last years show, the committee has
arranged for a special educational
exhibit to be prepared by Miss NJ
Della Moon, professor of biology at
Bluffton College; Miss Ocie Ander-
son, librarian; Lorain Basinger,
vocational agriculture teacher, and
Wilford Geiger, science teacher at
Bluffton high school.
The exhibit will display numerous
wild plants native to this area, but
not well known to the average per
son, and other cultivated plants
which are not well known to the
average gardener. The exhibit last
spring was one of the high points of
the show.
There will be no vegetable or fruit
classes in this years show due to
the fact that the annual Grain,
Vegetable and Fruit Show of the
Mems Garden club and the Future
Farmers of America will again be
held in September.
Bluffton flower growers are urged
to bring entries to the show before
10:30 am. Saturday morning at
which time exhibits are to be in
place. Exhibits brought in after that
time will be exhibited but not judged
Entries are to remain in place until
5 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Officers of the show emphasize
the fact that persons need not be
members of the local garden clubs to
enter their flowers in the show.
There is no entry fee.
Oliver Zimmerman and Mrs. Mel
son F. Steiner are co-chairmen of
the show this year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18

said that FLA boys here would
show 13 beef steers, four market
hogs, three dairy heifers, two beef
heifers and three brood sows, There
will be six local displays of corn, II
small grain, and 10 farm shop pro-
jects.
A large number of All displays
and industrial arts and home eco
nomics class work projects from
Bluffton will also be on display.
A full slate of events including the
first racing program in more than 30
years will be on tap at the fair.
With special events on each days
program and afternoon and evening
attractions scheduled to run through
out the exposition, this years fair is
expected to be the biggest since the
fair moved to Lima from Delphos in
1949.
Harness racing, missing from the
fair program since the 1920s, will
again be held on the newly complet-
ed half-mile oval which is likened
to the famous track at Delaware, an
nual scene of the famed Brown jug,
one of the richest harness programs
in the entire country. Officials point
out that the track should be real
fast and predict racing events to be
rated among the best in the area.
An old-time Wild West Rodeo is
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18

believe me. The ship creaked and
groaned, and we wondered how
many more jolts it could stand"
Mrs. Glendening said that she did
not actually get seasick. She just
couldn't stand up. Her food for the
day was dry toast and half 4 cup of
tea. Some passengers were deathly
sick.
Wednesday of last week the couple
were to land at La Guicara and hence
to Caracas, then on to Lagunillas,
their destination, where Mr.. Glenden-
ing is employed as a geologist with
the Creole Oil Company.
Most of the passengers aboard
their ship were on vacation. tours.
The round trip costs about $1,000,
and many were about ready to de-
mand their money back after spend
ing three-fourths of their time in
bed, wrote Mrs. Glendening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
Shelter To Speak
At Natl Meeting
Of Math Teachers

Luther Shelter, professor of math-
ematics, Bluffton college, will give
one of the major reports at meet
ing of mathematics teachers at In
diana university, Bloomington, Aug.
21-24. The subject of his report will
be "Pascal's Triangle"
Approximately 500 mathematics
teachers are expected to be in at
tendance at the fifteenth summer
meeting of the National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics. The
council is department of the Ma
tional Education association.
Addresses and section meetings
scheduled throughout the four-day
convention will be focused on ways
of making mathematics classes more
attractive and useful to students. The
convention theme is, "What, How
and Why in Mathematics"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18

and into the wood.
The bark beetles have been with
US in America for centuries, perhaps,
without i'll effects to the trees, Prof.
Berky explained, but it was only af-
ter the Dutch Elm fungus was in
troduced here in 1919 that the car
rier became deadly to the trees.
The fungus came to America in
shipments of elm burl from the Dutch
Netherlands. The burl was used here
in veneer work.
The manner of introduction of the
fungus is another example, Prof.
Berky said, of the countless plant
diseases and insects imported here
from all parts of the world.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-08-18
Ohio Cutting Room
Relief Project
Discontinued Here
In IL Years, Volunteers
Cut $4,000 Yards Of Cloth
Into Garments

After IL years of spare-time work
during which total of 143,000 yards
of cloth has been cut into pieces to
make garments for the destitute in
many parts of the world, women of
the, Ohio Cutting Room at Bluffton
college have laid down their shears.
Mrs. j. S. Schultz, under whose
chairmanship women of four area
Mennonite churches operated the cut
ting room, said that she has been
unable to find other quarters for the
work since the room at the college
is to be used to house second graders
this fall from the Bluffton public
school. Arrangements were made to
use the college rooms while the new
elementary school building is under
construction.
Letters have been written to or
ganizations all over the country ask
ing if they might be willing to take
over the Bluffton work, but thus far
none have volunteered. Meanwhile
the materials and equipment of the
cutting room have been stored in the
Mennonite Memorial Home, she said.
The cloth was cut according to
patterns for many types of garments
in the local operation. Pieces were
then sent to other Mennonite relief
groups to be sewn and assembled
into useful clothing.
Volunteer women of the st. John,
Ebenezer, Grace and First Mennonite
churches did the work in the cutting
room.