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EisenhOwer's Job Conference

Eisenhower administration Is holding confer
ence Equal job Opportunity sponsored by
Presidents Committee which n chair.
manned by Vice-Iresdent Richard Nixon
sxtynvo business couple nation.
nj labor union leaders plus several cabinet
mental leaders will sit problem
employment keeps Negroes from many types Of b for
which many equipped and from upgrading jobs
The which has accepted invitations perhaps
leaders large small
nounced purpose OF exchanging ideas methods costly
job discrimination against minority groups principally
may be eliminated from American life
The conference In the most important step by
Federal government since FDRs executive setting
war time FEPC under organized
gro leadership The important exception that
meeting win be which industry
voluntarily joining TO country OF the
wastefu praotico OF job discrimination
or cannot be denied popularity coming
that the sponsoring
ment Contracts by Eisenhower police having gov.
standard OF all u present
but not the whole represented
been making use Of American labor partially
basis the last We partially basis
because this does toprght industry
where there is not discrimination praccd
OF Even the companies with the most forward policies s
have paeaus above which Negroes
On the other hand instances the bulk
sonnet which has training has avoided instruction business admin
saton. marketing and and management
sn disposition the part OF keep
white
The big exception regard the more wdcawasc
manufacturers OF cigarettes
food processing who personnel
mcrchandsers This Its
according may
them already know that discriminatory
cies good Americansm and off In and
pcciany at the cash register.
Greatest the World War H.
Of technology Negro encians physicists
have trouble obtaining work at their level of training and skin
although that maintain
men policies in such fields the number being reduced each
That considers coming
ference important to the nation is evidenced by the fact that Vice
President Nixon discussed the meeting with the President
visited him at his hospital bed 4 Denver,
The OF the conference point out that this the "
time discrimination employment recognized
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defined who daughters to other
who aren't good enough for them they have grand
children that than County Tribune
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program surely of the
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Letters To The Editor


boosters Paul RE
CoRDER also wife and mef little surprised that no
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Maxed school at the public dedication Thursday night Oct
children gave money the ef
approval the school board the school
wanted neighbo children decent school We
proud Of and think should proud Of
the pitched and puczed the efforts before
other it spaceMr and Mrs JRJ St. Paul
Editors Notes This has received official acknowledge
Of Its small part In the Maxd school campaign letter
president printed
Individual members Of the PTA verbally their
Being this compliments for the
things tries to do but considers that must do its duty TO the
community whether praise Is forthcoming not
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Negro face when they enter the labor market
Much the climate in job today be traced TO
had the good
morally and business
economy did something about It,
among participate
their experiences fair employment
others dragging
well worth the
o
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Federal savings, government
bonds, small investors plans, etc.
According to what they could
afford, here's simple plan that
doesn't include interest or divi-
dends. etc
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attended various local
nss the views of Eleanor Roosevelt rst
when First Lady and later as the "ord First
Lady and widow of FDR
During the half press had an OppOr
~ to exchange words with her in the process Of
asking questions about event Saturday we sat next 70 M
meeting conference ana got 70 see ana ~ 10
this great figure her at work at close range
While We we're part of and of course inter
ested subject discussed spent part OF the time
observing close hand the great mind which TINS
woman is equipped and alert "tth her IL
years apparently nc effecting 1t in the least
co,pled with her high intelligence experience which
other modern woman has daily contact with world
shaking minds Of the world in all fields OF
AS we sat within few inches noticed what had
beautiful expressive hands which
somehow to be a part of what she has to say.
She many questions listened with great patience
replies quickly gathered in the important points made
and Just quickly discarded the and unimporant
There were many things to think
that in lands commoners
such comforting distinguished world figure would
awed by her and would have tell her
thought about the problem under discussion
In America high born" matter what state
Americans defer only to the in
the prominent persons position
democratic born to royal purple as
England and of the none
theess has achieved more influence in the world as champion Oh
justice history She's
intellect and unceasng interest
problems the human being especially the undedog at II
exercise influence world affairs
than any person perhaps
dsposeed striving people of Asia and Africa than any other
living the western nations.
We receipt of Firestone"
African republics rubber industry by
American
Until Harvey Africa and negotiated with
British sranglehod the rubber market
Frestone Plantations $4,000 have 10a million
Thirty thousand employed
rubber and latex annually
In Is a Liberia which Is In
of the state Of Ohio almost large Belgium
Holland Switzerland combined
estimated 100000 persons
than cent of whom NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the tribes
inhabited the country for centuries.
Lban population between so and SO thousand
Negro settlers from
organized into Re
public in 1s47.
1000 foreigners from West Africa Haiti the
States Netherlands, Britain France
Switzerland. book.
Someday author going to write first rate history Of
Republic It's founding the struggles of the freedmen who
interesting well excellent
locale for Newman
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complaining the space given
Axrod trial seemed surprised when
suggested printed Newspapers
choice II there something
paper particularly
particular item try that system7
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est financial and
productive era in
the history OF
the world.
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markings h a |
this prosperous
era is TO be for
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killings narcotic peddlngs
something clean the bars and
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ager 1861 Eighth Ave- No. Minneapolis Mime
sofa l2, 1885
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The suspicion grows
aft a Exchange
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EVERYDAY
Econo mics
BY Leroy Young
Negroes and Future Prosperity

From all reports, civilizations
and predictions, the United States
is on the threshold of the great
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
May Brighten The
Harmon Field
Lighting System

Improvement of the Harmon Field
flood lighting system by addition of
two more lights in each battery of
floods, is being considered by the
Blufftoh board of education.
At the Tuesday evening meeting of
the board, Harvey Burkholder, chair
man of the athletics committee, was
authorized to ascertain the cost of
the improvement.
At the same time, Mr.. Burkholder
will consider a suggestion made by
President, Paul Stauffer for resurfac-
ing a concrete tennis court located on
East College avenue with black-top.
1t is understood that the court could
be resurfaced for S400.
Whether or not sufficient funds will
be available viii depend partly upon
the cost of the proposed floodlight
Improvement.
The school board also touched brief
ly in its discussion on the possibility
of some form of organized recreation
program at Harmon Field this sum-
mer. Nothing definite was decided.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Mrs. Otto HOltkamp
Again Heads Cancer
Drive In BluftOn
WOmen's Clubs Hope To
Exceed Last Years
$3.50 Collection

Mrs. Otto Holtkamp will head the
1866 Cancer Drive in Bluffton being
sponsored by the Federation of
Women's Clubs during the month Of
April it was announced this week.
Mrs. B. d. Smucker is treasurer.
This is the second successive year
that Mrs. Holtkamp has headed the
cancer fund drive in the community.
Last year the campaign netted total
of $3.50 and every effort will be made
to surpass that figure this year.
To help put the 1866 drive over the
top, members of the various women's
clubs will make a house-to-house
solicitation from Monday through
Friday of next week.
Fifty per cent of all contributions
collected locally remain in the county.
The county unit supplies dressings,
drugs, loan closet items, hospital
beds, wheel chairs, nursing supplies
in home care, transportation for
treatment, equipment for the cancer
clinics in local hospitals and supports
an extensive public and professional
education program.
The Allen county goal is $1S,5OO
for 1866.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
BlufftOn Mail
Bound For South
Stolen In Lima

First class mail deposited at the
Bluffton Post Office between 2 and
4:45 p. m. Monday and headed for
destinations in southern states may
never reach them.
A mail pouch being dispatched from
Bluffton to Cincinnati was stolen
from a baggage truck at the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad station Mon
day evening.
A tower operator at the B & O.
Pennsylvania railroad intersection,
just north of the station, reported
seeing a six-foot man take the pouch
from a railroad truck at 10 p. M,
place it in an auto and drive away.
The pouch was left at the station at
6:30 p. m. Monday by j. F. Bonifas,
star route postal carrier between
Findlay and Lima. 1t was to have
been picked up by a mail train at
4:23 am. Tuesday.
Bluffton Post Officials said that
they believe the pouch contained mail
to southern states, none for Ohio.
Neither did it contain airmail.
1t was thought that large portion
of the contents was mailing tubes
being sent out by the Triplett Elec-
trical Instrument Co.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Citizens Asked
Not To Figure OWn
Sewage Charges

A growing practice among
BlufftOn residents of changing
the amounts of their sewage
service charges to figure exactly
80 per cent of their water bills is
causing a great deal of trouble in
the water department office, it
was announced this week.
Harvey Bauman, president of
the board of public affairs, stated
that if the sewer charge is slight
ly above the 80 per cent figure,
it is no mistake. The charges are
figured according to a table of
rates set up by village ordinance.
This table is approximately so
per cent of the water bill, but not
exactly.
In several instances where
amounts of four or FIVE cents
have been deducted from the bills,
Miss Dawn Stonehill has paid the
difference from her own pocket
rather than make all the adjust
ments necessary in the books or
ask for another check from the
payee.
Hereafter, it will be necessary
to return checks which are in
amounts other than the bill.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Births

The following births were recorded
at Blufton Community hospital dur
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hiity, Colum-
bus Grove, a girl, Jayne Marie, born
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold E. Shilling,
Lafayette, a boy, James Irwin, born
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Meyer (Don-
eta Good), Mt. Cory, a girl, Susan
Elaine, born Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. DeWayne Russell,
Arlington, boy, James Curtis, born
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Robson, Bluff
ton, boy, born Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack George, Raw
son, a girl, Debra Kay, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Wickard, Pan
dora, boy, born Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Burkholder, Pan
dora, girl, born Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Triplett MAR
jorie Hofer), Bluffton, girl, born
Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Murray Contract
AS School Supt.
Extended 5 Years
Board Also Grants 5-Year
Renewals To Joe Harris
And Robert Stratton

A. B. Murray, completing his
second three-year contract as super
intendent of Bluffton schools, was
granted new 5-year contract effec-
tive from September, 1855, until
September 1, 1860, in action by the
board of education Tuesday evening.
Extension of the contract for the
five-year period was explained by the
board as facilitating its long range
policy for improvement of the school
system through emphasis on scholar
ship, discipline and other pertinent
Improvements. Member Kimrnel
Marshall made the motion to grant
the new contract, seconded by Harvey
Burkholder.
Superintendent Murray was i'll at
home and unable to attend the meet
ing.
The board also granted five year
contract renewals to Joe Harris, high
school teacher and coach, and to
Robert Stratton, sixth grade teacher.
Two-year contracts were approved for
Mrs. Mildred King, second grade;
Mrs. Kay B. Schumacher, fourth and
sixth grades; and Mrs. Katheryne
Patterson, girls physical education
instructor.
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the village will be extending inter
cepting sewers to districts missed in
the original $5SO,OOO program COM
pleted about one year ago.
One branch of the new interceptors
viii extend from Big Riley creek,
north of Main street to pick up sew
ers which now serve the Fred Mueller
addition near the county line and
those which handle sewage discharge
from the Central Ohio Light and
Power Co. generating plant.
Another interceptor will run east
on jefferson street from Riley creek
to a culvert about halfway between
the Mound street and the County Line
road.
At the Mound street intersection a
branch interceptor will be built south
on Mound to near Cherry street, and
another branch will go west from this
sewer to serve the Cherry street area
between Mound street and the rail-
road.
A total of 1900 feet of sewer pipe
will be installed in the project, which
engineers hope to get under way by
early summer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Oklahoma Pastor
Accepts Call OF
Ebenezer Church
The Rev. w. ]. Flickinger
Will Assume Duties
Here On October 1

The Rev. w. ]. Flickinger of the
Saran Mennonite church, Orienta,
Oklahoma, has accepted call to be-
come pastor of the Ebenezer Mennon-
ite church, it was announced this
week by church officials.
The call was issued by the congre-
cation recently after hearing Rev.
Mr.. Flickinger speak here in a series
Of five evening services last Febru-
ary.
The new pastor attended Bethel
college in Newton, Kansas, and was
graduated from Moody Bible Institute
and the John Brown university, Sill
oam Springs, Arkansas. Prior to
serving as pastor in the Orienta
church, Rev. Mr.. Flickinger was with
the Go Ye Missions in Oklahoma.
He and Mrs. Flickinger and their
son, Leland, high school junior, will
arrive here in the fall in time 70 as
sumo the pastoral duties on October
/. They will live in the parsonage on
Grove street. The Flickingers also
have another son, Marvin, a junior at
Grace Bible school in Omaha, Neb.
The Ebenezer church pulpit is being
filled temporarily by the Rev. Vernon
Springer, missionary to Africa who
is presently here on furlough. The
Sprungers are to occupy the parson-
age beginning in May, and will make
it home until they return to Africa.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Irish Players Staging
''PygmaliOn" In Founders
Hall April 20

Top-Notch entertainment in the
drama world will appear in this COM
munity with the arrival of the Dublin
Players, celebrated company of actors
from abroad, who will present George
Bernard Shaw's famous play, "Pyg-
malion", in Founders Hall on Friday
April %, at 8:15 p. M, under the
auspices of Bluffton College.
Made up of some of the finest
actors from Ireland's famous Abbey
and Gate Theatres, the company is
completing its second coast-to-coast
tour of American cities and towns
presenting great Irish and English
classics.
The Dublin Players was originally
formed by Ronald ibis, director and
one of the leading actors Of the group
in 1947. After two years of playing
in Ireland, the company made its first
American tour under the dictatorship
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
BLuftOn Woman Witnesses
42-nch Montana SnOWfaLL

How autos were buried out of
sight by snow, and tons of it caved
in building roofs in Billings, Mon
tana, during the recent record biz
zard in that part of the country is
described in a letter this week to Mr..
and Mrs. E. Paul Henry of Route l,
Bluffton, by their daughter, Carol.
Miss Henry recently moved to Bill
lings from Rapid City, South Dako-
ia, when the Exploration Office of
the Shell Oil Co. for which she
works, changed location. She arrived
in time to see the worst blizzard she,
or even lifelong residents of Bill
lings, have ever seen.
In her letter written Wednesday
of last week, she told her parents
that it started to snow the previous
Saturday morning, April 2, and did
not stop until Tuesday at noon.
II heard them say on the radio
that we had 429 inches of snow up
until $3.50 yesterday morning. Every
thing was at a standstill. All buses,
taxis, planes-everything stopped un-
til last night. There weren't any mail
deliveries this week. Last night taxis
and buses began to move in some
parts of the city," she wrote.
1T must be terrible in the country.
Yesterday they got one highway
cleared. Now 1 believe some traffic
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Polio InOcuLdtiOnS
Start Here April %

The Salk polio vaccine, which
Tuesday was declared effective in
preventing paralytic polio, will be
administered to first and second
grade pupils in the Bluffton
school on Friday morning, April
%, it was announced this week
by county health officials.
Local doctors will volunteer
their services in inoculating
children of the first two grades,
whose parents approve. The
second and third shots will be
administered on a schedule to be
announced later.
The schedule for administering
the initial shot in Beayerdam
school is Monday afternoon, April
Is, and in the Lafayette school it
will be Wednesday afternoon,
April 20.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Best In 20 Years, Dublin
Troupe Rated By Sullivan

of Maureen Halligan, wife of Ronald
ibis.
Rated as stop entertainment" by
Variety, the trade paper of the
Theatre, the Dublin troupe has gath
cred praise for itself from top critics
and columnists. "The finest company
to come here in 20 years" says tele-
visions Ed Sullivan of CBS-TV, and
"Sheer Magic in the Theatre, said
Fulton Oursler.
One of the most popular plays by
the late, great, Irish wit, George Ber-
nard Shaw, Pygmalion is the story
of a professor who undertakes to
teach rough Cockney flower girl the
ways of society.
Professor Higgins runs into Eliza
Doolittle quite by chance, and charm
ed by her beauty, determines to per-
form a great experiment-he will
take this girl into his home, correct
her speech, teach her manners, and
see whether or not his theories of
heredity and environment are proved
correct.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14
Three BluftOn Youths Awarded
Eagle Badges, ScOuting's Top Honor

The Eagle Scout award, pinnacle
achievement in the scouting move
ment, was presented to three Bluff
ton boys at a Court of Honor con-
Quoted Wednesday evening in the
First Methodist church of Bluffton.
Believed to be the first occasion in
the history of scouting in this COM
munity when the top award was pre-
sented to as many as three scoute at
one time, the Court of Honor award
ed the badge q David Little, som Of
Mr.. and Mr. Woodrow title Of
Kibler street; larry Smuckek, son
of Mr.. and Mr. Carl SmucEAr of
College View Drive; and RAlph
Reichenbach, son Nof Mr. and Mrs.
|Ralpha Reichedback Sr., of North
Lawn avenue
At the same time fve youths ris-
ing in the ranks OF merit badge
achievements received the Star
Award. They are James Jordan,
Terry Marshall, Douglas Reichen-
bach, Darrell Huber and Ronald
Zimmerly. Two Explorer Scouts were
also awarded the Star Badge, Bret
Triplett and Roger Edwards.
The Eagle Scout badges were pre-
sented by William Potter, chief scout
executive of the Put-Han-Sen Area
Council. Ed Rice, Bluffton business
man, presented the Star badges.
The Court of Honor, conducted by
William Edwards in charge of ad-
vancement on the Troop Committee,
was held following pot luck dinner
for parents and friends at $50.
Merit badges were presented to
Scouts Larry Core, Ronald thinner
ly, Terry Marshall, Douglas Reichen-
bach, Darrell Huber, Michael Diller,
Ralph Reichenbach, Donald thinner
man, James Jordan, David Little and
Larry Smucker, and to Explorers
Bret Triplett, Richard Basinger, Jer-
ry Kohl and Dave Schumacher.
Boy Scout Troop Sc accepted six
new Tenderfoot scouts and badges
were presented to them by George
Bohrer and Clayton Weiss. The boys
are Jerry Mericle, Brian Badertscher,
Douglas Walker, Charles Neuen-
schwander, Mack Roberts and Larry
Marshall.
Seven scouts who advanced to the
rank of Second Class received their
pins from Bluffton College Coach
Ken Mast. The recipients are Walter
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-04-14

struction work, the board of educa-
ton was advised at its meeting Tues
day evening. Six plumbing and heat
ing contractors and four electrical
contractors have also indicated an in
terest in the project.
Three Lima contractors are among
the seven showing an interest in the
general contract. They are H. w.
Tuttle, Bittler Brothers and Green g.
Sawyer. The latter firm has been
operating a ready-mix concrete busi-
ness on Bluffton Stone Company
property in supplying large amounts
of concrete for the new highway.
Other contractors who may bid are
Knowlton of Bellefontaine; Hisey and
Beout, Van Vert; Baker Shindler,
Defiance, and Peterson Construction
Co., Wapakoneta.
Electrical contractors expected to
submit bids are Evans, Lima; Barnes,
Lima; Bigley, Findlay; and F. w.
Joy, Lima.
Plans and specifications were stud
led by the following Plumbing and
Heating contractors: Scioto, Chilli
cothe; r. E. Eversole, E. w. File,
Terry P. Smith, H. A. Tilton, and B.
F. Kohl, all of Lima.
Although bids win be opened and
read at / p. m. Friday, it may require
hours or days to determine the
successful bidders and award the con-
tracts. Because of the complexity of
the various alternate bids, consider
able time must be spent by the archi-
tects in tabulation.
Under terms of the contract, work
on the new building is to be started
promptly after the award, and must
be completed by August 1, 1856.
The U-shaped building includes IL
classrooms, library and visual educa-
ton room, kindergarten and large
multi-purpose room. Also included
is a small art materials room, princi-
pals office and health room.