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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-12-15
NAMED ON PETIT JURY

The names of two Pandora resi-
dents were drawn for the January
term of the Putnam County petit
venire, according to an announcement
from Ottawa, The persons are Velma
Niswander and Cyril Kuhlman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-12-15

Mrs. Eve Sherrick and Mrs. Mae
Ward of Lima visited Sunday in the
home of Mrs. Daisy Arnold, and in
the afternoon they called in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rolly Watt in
Beaverdam.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-12-15

Admission for each program is 75c
cents for adults and Csc for students.
Students must purchase tickets at
their respective schools. All gate
admissions will be 75c.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-12-15
Poinsettia Club

Mrs. Forrest Harmon will be hos
tess to the Poinsettia club at the
Christmas meeting to be held De-
cember 21. Roll Call will be my
Dearest Christmas Remembrance.
The following program will be given
during the evening: The Christmas
Story Luke 2:1-20, by Mrs. Arthur
Amstutz; Christmas : Many Customs
but One Meaning, by Mrs. Myron
Meyer; Symbols and Songs of Christi
mas Miss Rhoda Amstutz. There will
be a gift exchange at the close of the
meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-12-15
Progressive Mothers Club

Progressive Mothers Cub
Our club meets with Evelyn
Reichenbach on Tuesday, December
27. Members please note change of
date. Devotions will be given by
Helen Anderson and the program is
"How the Carols Came to be Writ
ten', illustrated with recordings by
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
Ns.s@s0
MoAs,mps y
sY VIVIAN BROWN

AP NsWsfeuigFes
One young modern who'll make
her sewing pay of at Christmas
time is charming Kristen Berg, 16,
of Glen Ellyn, Ill, third prize win
ner in a national sewing contest
for young contestants conducted
by local sewing centeFs. More than
$4,000 young girls competed.
Kristen not only sews for her
self and her mother, but she's even
made shirts for her boy friend.
Two summers ago she made $50
sewing aprons in her spare time.
The charming high school stu
dent wants to be fashion design
eI and have a little white house
d-ess shop Of her own. Says she:
sIt's a good idea to decide early
What you want to do. Then every
thing you do in the meantime can
count for your future if you con-
centrate on il"
Kristen'B party dress and jacket,
national winner, cos. SIS to
make. She won $500 in cash, a
fitted SCISSORS set, a sIant-needIe
portable sewing machine. Before
that she had won a OAR first
prize and a state contest second
prize in sewing.
She makes or buys all her own
clothing with a monthly allowance
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16

Members of Congress and other
ion polls with the same keen and
watchful interest a movie star de-
votes to his latest box Office rating.
Every opinion survey on 2 public
issue is dissected by those whose
survival in Office may depend or be-
ing in step with public thinking.
Every election-national state or
locals analyzed for clues to
what the people want.
This being true, the result of a
recent election in New York State
should furnish plenty Of fodder for
the minds of Washington official
dom.
This election bore closely on
an idea U. S. lawmakers have been
toying with for months: The idea
of a so per cent boost in the two
cents per gallon federal gasoline
tax and increases in other auto
motive levies 10 pay for a huge
federal highway program. Although
similar proposal was defeated
last July in the House of Represen-
tatives, the word is that it will be
brought up again when Congress
reconvenes next month.
Any Congressman who wants to
take a sounding on how this idea
of a gasoline tax increase. will go
over with the public can get his
answer by taking a close look at
what happened in New YOrk's
November election.
Voters cast their ballots on a
proposal for a $750,00O,OO highway
bond issue which was to have been
financed with a so per cent boost
in the state gasoline tax. This would
have raised the four cents per
gallon state gasoline levy to six
cents.
Both parties embraced the bond
proposal. State officials took the
stump for it. But their high
powered, spare-nO-expense cam
paign was a total flop. The bond
issue land the tied-in gasoline tax
increase) was defeated by more
than $4,000 votes.
There is a warning here. No alert
Washington official can miss it.
The people in New York and in
AZ other states are paying all the
gasoline tax they are willing to
stand.
This country's motor vehicle
owners now pay more than $780,
100000 annually to the federal
government in taxes on their gas
oline, vehicles, parts and equip
ment. That money is enough to-
aay for the most gigantic federal
highway program they have talked
about in Washington. There is no
need for and there should not be
any increase in the taxes on motor
vehicle owners to finance the pro-
posed national highway program
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16

Why should city debt be rising
so fast ct this point in our history
when general business is at record
high levels? OF course, costs of
city services are up all along the
line, but that is only part of the
story. Raw material and labor costs
also adversely affect manufacturers
of many products, but the prices of
those products have not scared as
much as city taxes.
In some cases, the city tax load
has been permitted to become bur
den some because Of poor munich
pal management or downright mis-
management. There are many Ic-
calities where money goes down
the drain because accounting, pur-
chasing, and other procedures need
tightening, b.t even these loose
policies do not fully explain our
plight.
People Expect Too Much
OF course, our cities and towns
are overspending. Municipsl, coun-
ty, and state governments all over
the country are living welI beyond
their means. In many cases, they
are forced to do so because Of
heavy popular demand for luxuries
in the form Of ornate school build
ings, careless road-DIanning with
little thought Of future needs, ex-
pensive recreationaI services and
When I was q bov. cities were
expected to V7ovide fire and police
protection, water ara sewage svs-
tens. also good schools. Now the
DeOple are demanding many addi-
1onal services. often of no real
value. and all Of them very costly.
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
BABSON DISCUSSES CITY and TOWN TAXES

Washington, d. c., Dec. Is. 1 am
much concerned by the continued
uptrend in municipal and town
taxes. In 1855, the "tax bite of
cities in the United States will a.
mount to over $65 per person, COM
pared with $61 in 1853 and S56
in 1852. am especially disappointed
with the very little attention which
the Conference on Education, re-
Gently held here, gave to this i'm
pOrtant subject.
Taxes Reflect Heavy Municipal
Debt
A study covering 4S1 U. S. cities
with populations of $4,000 or more
shows that local taxes accounted
for about One-haIf of total munich
pal revenues from all sources, in
cluding. federal and state grants
for education, rOadbuilding, and
other purposes. The rapid rate
at which these taxes have been
Increasing in recent years points
up the fact that municipal debts
are also growing larger.
In fact. city debts increased 796
during 1854 to a record level of
s12.200,000,000 for cities of over
$4,000 population. AS a result, the
average debt per capita in these
cities is $196. In New York City
the per-capita debt was over $500
per person. and is still rising!
predict a further boost in city
and town taxes and debts in 1856
Are Our Cities OVerspending?
Obviously, city debts are rising
faster than citv tax rates, even
though the latter are becoming
more and more burdengome. es-
Decially to owners Of zeal estate.
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16

Hayes was Weathered-in at Tue
son and since they were unable to
return to Forbes, he and his crew
rented a car and drove abCut rs
miles outside Of town to spot
where they we're told a picture
was being filmed. Not too long
ago we saw Audie Murphy's true
war story, "To He'll and Back and
Hayes was quite pleased to see the
heroic Texan in person there on
location. Hayes said Audie was
taller than he seemed on film, very
friendly, very down to earth and
the shy, modest type. Our girls
were more thrilled at Hayes meet
ing "Tonto", the Lone Rangers s
Indian. It was quite disappointing
to them that the Long Ranger
wasn't there, but at least Daddy
did meet his Indian friend. Haves
told me that Tonto was a nice
looking Mohawk Indian, well edu-
Gated, and went out of his way to
say goodbye to the boys when
they felt they had to return to the
base in Tucson. Lynne and Dawn
were quite shocked to learn that
TOnto was always relieved when
the horse riding scenes were COM
pleted. Hayes said he could read
lily understand why, since they had
taken two movie stunt riders to
the hospital that morning. one with
a broken back.
Well, at least I can finish writ
ing my Christmas cards. Have YOU
completed yours yet?
All weekend it showed here and
it looks like Christmas outside my
window. Hope we can have snow
for Christmas. The farmers here
in the midwest need the moisture
for their winter wheat and the chill
dren need the snow to make Santa
Claus reindeer-sleigh ride more
realistic.
Until next week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
HeartWarming EXperience

Down in Staunton, Va, there's
a cleaning, brand-new $5,O00,O0O
all-On-One-floOr Industrial plant,
which the city fathers are very
happy to have. Even more signifi-
cant however, are the $50 new
families in town, who were brought
down from up North" to help run
it.
That's a lot of people to descend
on town all at once, especially
when living habits, ideas and view
points are somewhat different in
Brooklyn, N. Y. than in Ole Vir-
ginny.
Today, about a hundred of the
new families are renting homes in
Staunton. Quite few of the ex-
BrOoklynites already have bought
homes. 1t is estimated that present
renters will pay over a million
dollars when they become home
owners. But, most important in the
eyes Of Sidney We'll, president Of
the American Safety Razor Corp,
who has personally directed the
huge relocation task, is the ques-
ton: How are the newcomers and
the natives getting along together?
"In the short time that our peo-
pie have been here" says Mr.. We'll,
they haze gone long way in
deed in integrating themselves into
the life of the community Families
quickly joined the religious insti-
tutions of their faith, and 1 know
as matter Of fact, many who had
neglected their religious duties
over the years, rejoined the fold
soon after their arrival, for it gave
them spiritual upIift and COM
paniOnship. Those who had pre-
viOus fraternal Affiliations lost no
time in becoming active in the
local lodges"
In summing up the experience
of the razor and blade people in
moving a manufacturing establish
ment that required a caravan Of
$40 trucks to bring the machinery
and equipment from Brooklyn to
Staunton, in transporting the fam
lilies Of $50 key workers, finding
them homes, subsisting them in the
meanwhile, meeting all the Incl
dental expenses of moving; in
the purchase of new
homes, taking care of unexpired
leases and disposing of old homes
in New York, Mr.. We'll says he is
of a Norfolk and Western
Railway phase, Small towns have
big hearts for industry"
We would paraphrase it to read:
Industry and its people have big
hearts for small towns"
Ads Work For YOu-And How!
Weston Hill, advertising copy
writer who is said to have talked
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
Washington Letter : By Robert Nelson ToYlor

to more consumers through adver-
tising than any other living man,
is now engaged in 4 project to ex-
plain advertising itself TO this same
vast audience. He thinks that the
average consumer, though eagerly
responsive to advertising, has little
or no idea Of just how this modern
science benefits HMM guaran-
teed brand quality, lower prices,
and rising employment that sup
ports general prosperity.
Hill pegs down some old falla-
cies with the familiar and errOn-
eous aphorism: LET a man build
a better mOusetrap, and the world
will beat a path to his door," Beau
tiful and sentimental, says Hill,
but contrary to the hard facts.
Whether the man is buried in the
Maine Woods or the concrete jun
gle of New York, the world will
not beat a path to his doOr-until
it has reason to believe his mouse
trap is better than any other.
Just how is this mousetrap in
ventOr to tell the world? Can he
count on his. friends, or word-of-
mouth publicity? It's not likely he
would sell very many mousetraps
by these methods.
Or is it better, asks Mr.. Hill, for
him to find way to tell millions
through hundreds of news
papers-all at the same time? Ger
tainly, if the local paper tells
everybody in town, then those with
mouse trouble will be interested
in seeing if this trap is really
better.
Even so, the mOuse-harried con-
sumner wonders, Isn't this adver-
tising awfully expensive? Won't I
be paying more for the advertis-
ing than for the trap?"
Definitely no, says Mr.. Hill. Ad-
vertising reduces the price because
it enables the inventor to make
and sell thousands or millions of
mousetraps rather than just a
handful. Mr.. Hill asks his readers
to visualize a food manufacturer
busily producing a (one) box of
corn fakes by hand :. and
Sp6Cu4dIS Ou uuW muCu II WOulu
cost, with or without sound effects
and a premium for the box-top!
But when the same manufacturer
can excite millions, via advertising,
to eat and listen to his corn flakes,
the consumer can buy a package
for what the manufacturer pays
one of hundred Of workers for
five minutes labor.
On the savings that mass pro-
duction (sired by advertising) give
all of us, we could even forgo that
''better mousetrap" give our
mouse some of the corn fakes.
PUBLIC OPINION POLL
elected officials follow public opin-
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16

BOARS
(gOOd quality
Under $50 lbs: $3.50 to S10.75,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Over $50 lbs: $3.50 Ito $6.25.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: 500 to $1,000.
mostly $500 per cwt-
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to II weeks 0ldl
Choice: $500 to $500. mostly
$3.50 per cWt.
Medium to good s400 to $3.50,
mostly $3.50 per cwt
Common $500 to $3.50, mostly
$500 per cwt
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: S4S.Oo to $4,000,
mostly $1,000 per head.
Butcher type: $1,000 to $500,
mostly $2S.00 per head.
LIVE POULTRY
Fowl: $50 to S1.4O. mostiy s1.2O.
Cockerels: $40 to $50, mostly
BOOSTERS: so to $.s5, mostly S.s5.
Light Breeds
Bantam chickens: $40 to SIS,
mostly s.25.
Guineas: s.65 to $50. mostly $40.
Geese; $3.50 to $500, mostly $3.50.
DUCKS
Muscovy ducks: $.55 to SOS,
mostly SIS.
Guineas: s.s5 to $50. mostly
Geese: $3.50 to $500. mostly
$3.50.
Ungraded, mixed: $50 to s.61 per
dozen.
Large: s120 per dozen.
Pullet: $40 to S.45 per dozen.
RABBITS
Large breeds: s1OO to $50,
mostly $1.4O
Small breeds: s.55 to $50. most
ly SIS.
ly $40.
English walnuts: $1.50 to $3.50
TuTnips: s.s5 to $50 per Y
Lard: s2.75 to $3.50 per so lb.
can.
Pop corn: $50 to $50 per x
bushel.
Sweet potatoes: $40 to SIS per
5s bushel.
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
TN THE AIR FORCE"
December u, 1855
1881 Mayo
TOpeka. Kansas
BY Eloins Townlend Dlckersc

December y, 1856
1881 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
Dear Friends:-
This is the time of the year
mothers just do not have time to
be sick. House has to be trimmed,
cleaned. baking to be done; shop
ping for gifts and food; things for
the children's stockings; school
parties and programs to attend; ;
and here with us there are lots of
functions at the base-wives' club
parties for the husbands, Depend
ence Assistance coffee for the vol
unteers, chapel party for the chill
dren and individual parties at the
club.
Yesterday the NJ. 0. D. CNGedical
Officer of the Day. at the out-pa-
tient cii2i9 at Forbes ordered me
"IN' for several days with an in
fected throat. It seems that nay
tonsils have to be removed
AGAIN. I am like my mother and
just can not bare to take medicine.
He sent me home with horse pills
70 take four times a day along with
aspirin, advised me to gargle with
salt water four times a day and
sent home six viles of penicillin-
two to be administered each day
for three days. That good ole
southern gal, Eugenia Shirley, is
a registered nurse and she told
me before I went to see the doctor
that if / was supposed to have
needles she would give them to
IAe with the doctors permission.
This mess that I have is very
contagious and Hayes is trying so
hard to get flying hours in before
Christmas vacation. We do not
plan to take leave, but the rest of
the crew is trying to complete all
acquisitions before the week of
Christmas. I just hope Eayes and
the children can avoid being sick.
Let me tell you about Hayes
FIRST glimpse into movie produc-
ton. Last week you remember
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16

I believe in parking lots for their
cars; but not buildings, miscaIled
schools" for mothers to park their
children. It is irOnical that cities
along the seacoast in New England
have built municipal swimming
pools for children and adultsl We
provide busses to take the chill
dren to school and then build
gym Sums to exercise them
when they arrive. 1 walked four
miles each day for ten years to get
an education, and am still aliVel
American Cities Are In For Tough
Shedding
We are now at peace, even
though the world is troubled. We
are prospering as no other people
have prospered before. But be-
lieve that bad times will come
again. We shall again be called
upon to make sacrifices to preserve
our political and economic freedom,
IS these are threatened by war or
depression. These sacrifices will
be easier to make, and our efforts
vii be more effective, If we now
nav closer attention to tax and debt
policies and tc efficient govern
ment.
The menace to cur economy and
to our way Of life from political
extravaganza at all levels is a very
real one. We must learn again that
thrift is the mafnstay Of any
and of any individual
If voters persist in their demands
for luxuries to be provided by city. /
state. and town governments, and
continue piIing up debt, We will /
some day force the breakdown Of /
democracy in America.
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16

of $50. She explains:
Daddy decided to try me on
that sum and I find it is very suf-
ficient. It helps you realize the
value Of money because you've got
to cut corners so you become a bet
ter shopper.
Kristen began making doll
clothes when just a tOddler-the
beginning of her sewing career
Her boy friend a Purdue freshman
loved the sport shirt she made him
white wool with yellow and red
stripes. She's making herself a
dress to match, and predicts that
might even become a fad-Quite
goal for other young students to
shoot at. She wears a wooden
heart with built-in-arrow around
her neck. Her beau made il and e
is almost as professional looking
as KTisten's winning fashion de-
sign.
Her other hobbies include col
lecting menus, Jumps ~Of sugar
from restaurants and hotels) and
dress materials. One bit Of advice
Kristen has for other youthful
sewers is this:
IF you do decide to take up
sewing whether as a hobby or for
serious business make sure you
sew it right. Why bother sewing
If you haven't the patience to Go
a good job? If you get in the
habit Of being a perfectionist about
your sewing, you can enter a con-
test without getting the jitters. II
the pattern is right. the sewing
is the final test Of your ability"
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16


up Of livestock prices and miscella-
neous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: sS1OO to $1,000, mostly
$500 per cwt.
Medium to good: $4,000 to $1,000,
mostly $500 per cWt.
Rough and common: $500 to
$500, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to 1900. mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $500 to -S21.5O, most
" s21.50 per cWt-
common: $500 to $1175, most
~ $1,000 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: s10.75 to $14.25,
mostly $11.50 pei. .cWt
Common: $500 to s1O.50, mostly
1915 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $500 to
S8.75, mostly SS.25 per cwt.
STEERS
Light steers: $1,000 to SPOTS,
mostly $500 per cwt
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $3.50 to s1O.25, most
ly 1925 per cwt.
Beef type: SLIPS to $3.50, most
1y STATS per cwt.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS
Good to choice: SLIPS to $14.75,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
BULLS
Over 1000 lbs.
Medium to good: $18.25 to $3.50,
mostly $14.50 per cwt.
500 to 1000 lbs.
Medium to good: $3.50 to $3.50,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
120 to 10 lbs: $11.0O to $500,
mostly $12.75 per cwt.
10 to 240 lbs: S12.25 to $13.75,
mostly $500 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: S11.75 to S14.25,
mostly $500 per cWt.
S0WS
(gOOd quality
200 to 800 lbs: 9.75 to $3.50.
mostly $11.5O per cwt.
300 to 400 Ibs.: 1915 to SLIPS,
mostly $11.O0 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $500 to $10.50,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
IN PURSUIT OF INDUSTRY

Local, state and regional development
organizations are in sharp competition with
each other to attract new industry to their
areas.
H. Mckinley Conway, Jr., of Atlanta,
Ca, who is Director of the Southern Associ-
alton of Science and Industry and editor of
the magazine, Industrial Development, says
that this competition is so intense that most
firms are forced to keep their expansion
'ans close secret until the sites have been
selected.
Mr.. Conway estimates that an average
of two new regional development organiza-
tiOns are added each week to the thousands
already in existence. Some take the form of
Chambers of Commerce or other civic
groups. Many are sponsored by municipal
and county or state governments. Railroads.
electric utilities and other companies main
tain such organizations of their own. The
growth of this business has been so phen-
omenal that there is now a shortage of in
dustrial-development personnel
Americans have come to realize that
tleir own well-being is connected with the
welfare of industry. Industry is accepted
and even appreciated by the American pub
lie as valuable neighbor.
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16

The British Navy has discovered
hat paddle wheel tugs are more
effective than those with propellers
for pushing aircraft carriers in
1ockyards, says the National Geo
graphic Society.
Milford chronicle., 1955-12-16
SEWARD OF ALASKA

me nome Oh william n. Seward IN Au-
burn, N. Y, was opened to the public this
fall by the Foundation Historical Associa-
tioH Of that city. 1t contains many items IL
lustrating Stewards career and his relations
with Abraham Lincoln.
Seward was twice governor of New York.
for II years senator, and Secretary cf State
Tor eight years, serving under Lincoln and
Andrew Johnson. Originally a Wing, he be-
came Republican with the formation of the
party and was the foremost Republican till
Lincoln appeared. He might have been pres
ldent but for two remarks.
He spoke of "an irrepresSible conflict
between North and South, which was true
but alarmed the conservatives. And, refer
ring to the moral aspects of slavery and the
shelter afforded it by the Constitution, he
said, There is a higher law than the Con-
stltutlon." This too aroused resentment and
in 1860 the Republicans rejected his presi-
dental candidacy for Lincoln's.
His greatest public service was as Secre-
tary Of State when he purchased Alaska
from Russia for $1,000, 900, a ridiculous sum
in view of its natural resources. He died in
1872 The opening of his house this year and
the enormous strides Alaska has made since
its purchase remind us of this man whose
contributions to the nation have often been
overlooked.