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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
.BluftOn-Beayerdam
Churches OF Christ
Call New Minister
Rev. T. ]. Wilson Comes
Here From Shadyside,
In Southeastern Ohio

The Rev. T. J. Wilson, who recent.
ly accepted the pastorate of the
Bluffton- Beaverdam parish of the
Church of Christ, will preach his first
sermon from the pulpit of the Bluff.
ton church this Sunday morning al
the 1890 service. He conducted his
first service in the Beaverdam church
last Sunday.
The new pastor fills an opening
which has been untitled for the past
six months following the departure
of the Rev. Budd Shumaker, a
former Bluffton college student who
served as minister while attending
school here.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson comes here from
the First Christian church of Shady
side, Ohio, Belmont county, in south
eastern Ohio. Shadyside is on the
Ohio river south of Bellaire. He
completed his ninth year of service
there, having been pastor since 1916.
Prior to going to Shadyside, he was
affiliated with the Christian Mission
ary organization in Indiana as state
evangelist. He is now district gen.
eral chairman of the Ohio Christian
Missionary Society and chairman of
the ordination committee,
T A past president of the Belmont
county, Bellaire and Ohio Valley
ministerial associations; Rev. Wilson
was upon coming here vice president
of the Ohio Valley group and chair
man of the committee for the WTRX
chapel By The Side of The Road"
radio program.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson also served as
president of the Protestant advisory
committee of Huroquois Council, Boy
Scouts of America.
During his pastorate at Shadyside,
approximately $4,000 in improve
ments were added to the Christian
church and total of 116 new mem
bers were enrolled.
Mrs. Wilson is also talented
pianist and organist, and was active
in community and church work and
as a music teacher.
The Wilson's have taken an apart.
ment at the Cleda Gratz home il
Beaverdam.
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Der Shop again + pr ahead Of the
pack in the amount of money col
lected. hresenE there is es-
timated S300\iS~ dollar bills which
are attacA ed to a string aroun bhe
walls and in dimes inserted il the
giant cardsA "
Among the Urher contributions TO
date have been the following:
s155.63 by mail, $49.17 turned in by
the Bluffton Community Sportsmen's
Club from the Wallace Taber film
crowd last Friday night, s51.03 col
lected at the Bluffton st. Marys
basketball game, 500 from a name
card at Pines Restaurant and $35
from a name card at the Citizens
National Bank.
This figure was expected to swell
considerably this week with the ad-
ditions of the collections taken at
the Delphos st. John's-Lima St Rose
and Bluffton Pandora basketball
games both played in Bluffton Tues
day night and from the Porchlite
Mite tonight
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town at GAS p. m. from the Beach
Radio & Television Shop. The Ncan-
vass should not take more than pne
hour and vat the outside should Vbe
concluded before 8 o'clock, Swahll
pointed ou n \
SolicitorA will stop only at houses
with burning porchiights, AS this
is the case and, as each solicitor has
OILY a short time to cover a given
area, local residents are requested to
have their contributions ready to
avoid delay.
With the local campaign little
more than a week along, chairman
Swank was optimistic over the pros
poets that this years contributions
would exceed last years record Of
$1,000 turned in to the Allen coun-
ty headquarters of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Of the goal of $1,000 which has
been tentatively set by Harold King
ler, president of the Bluffton Lions
Club, an estimated S659.83 has been
received to date and it is expected
that when the campaign is concluded
February 10 last years record viii
be history.
With the employment of giant
March of Dimes cards on which q
number of dimes can be inserted in
to each separate lttter L,4e collection
locally FROM the stores is expected tc
be much higher than in previous
years.
AS in former years, Swank's Bar
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
Merger Of POWer Companies To CurtaiI,
But Not Close WOOdcOck Plant ODeratiOn

Rumors that the big Woodcock
electric generating plant on the
outskirts of BluHtOn would shut
of steam and become as cold as
the towns own former municipal
plant come February 1, were
scotched this week by Jerry
Clever, plant manager at Wood
cock.
Mr.. Clever told The News that
the merger of Central Ohio Light
and Power company and The
Ohio Power company, which be-
comes effective on February l,
would undoubtedly effect the op-
Grafton of the WOodoOck plant bat
that did not mean that II was
slated for a shutdown.
Operations at the WOOdcOek
plant will be somewhat curtail-
ed when Central Ohio Is fully IN
tegrated with the Ohio Power
company" Mr.. Clever explained.
This will result in the transfer of
soma of the Woodcock plant per-
sonneA to other parts of the
American QRs and Electric sys-
tem" N aded. Ohio Power is
a subsidiary pf AMERICAN Gas
and EIectkicA\
Mr.. Clevers san Il lat present
there are 81 hen E5pIOy 2 at the
generating ant here. Nightly
more than haAf this numbeA live
in Button or the immediate
vicinity. He said that by mid
summer the WOodcock force
would probably be about half
what 1t is now.
From that time, the generating
plant will be maintained inde6-
nitely to help carry peak loads
and while maintenance work Is
being done on other larger plants
of the system.
The WoodcOck plant was con-
structed at Bluffton in 1897 to
provide additional energy for the
Central Ohio system, and has
been enlarged and expanded sew
eral times since then.
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Republican Caucus
Slated Friday Mite

The Republican caucus TO select
a slate of candidates for munici-
pal offices will be held Friday
evening at p. m. in the library
study room, it was announced
this week by Armin Hauenstein,
central committeeman of the
COP.
It Is hoped that . complete
slate of candidates for mayor,
village clerk and six seats on
council as well as three board Of
public affairs candidates can Be
named.
Nominating petitions must be
filed with the Allen county board
of elections before 4 pm. on
February 2.
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prosecutor, in regard to requested aid
for the construction of certain bridges
in Bluffton.
"Mr. Guernsey has. assured this
board that it has no legal authority
to accede to the request" &
With receipt of the notification of
the county's stand, which confirms
previous verbal advice on the matter,
attempts to obtain new bridges on
East and West College avenue now
become problem of the city govern
ment.
One course of action would be to
embark on legal action, in the form
of city suit againt the county com
missioners, as now in process in st.
Marys where a similar legal opinion
has kept commissioners from install
ing new bridge in the city.
The only other course would be for
the city to attempt some method OF
local financing of the projects.
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Council Tables
Request For Fund
To Build Sucim Poo

A letter from the Bluffton Lions
club urging municipal council to con-
tribute $4,000 in public funds to the
swimming pool program was tabled
by councilmen at meeting Tuesday
night.
Similar requests from the park and
recreation committee and the Bluffton
Community Progress association also
have been tabled without any action.
Councilmen have explained it is
impossible to make any commitments
of funds, sought from a permanent
improvement fund of $4,000, until
all needed municipal expenditures in
cluding new sewers and moderniza-
ton of the water department are
covered.
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this week as store proprietors and
clerks prepared for food of shop
pers expected to pour into town by
week end for the mid-winter mark
down sales. Practically tradition
now, the semi-annual sales events
have an 18-year history behind them.
Activity in the stores included
marking down price tags and ready
ing counters and racks for the bar
gain hunters who will converge on
town from a radius of more than 80
miles.
The store advertising program car
ried in the Bluffton News and to
5000 additional residents of a wide
area through an SPACE circular lists
hundreds and hundreds of price re-
ductions.
To handle the influx of shoppers
the retailers will take on additional
help in an effort to move the goods on
over-crowded counters and shelves.
The stores will observe their regular
hours including Saturday evening.
Placards and banners in the stores
proclaim the mid-winter value
carnival, and large banner herald
ing the occasion has been stretched
across Main street in addition to
signs on the street.
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Births

The following births were record
ed at Bluffton Community hospital
during the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Price, Find
lay, a boy, William Julius, born last
Wednesday. ts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. McDougle
Columbus Grove, boy, Terry Lee
born last Wednesday,
MIR. and Mrs. Kenneth Hartman
Bluffton, a girl, Carol Sue, born last
Thursday.
Mr.and Mrs. Carl Lieb, RI s
Findlay. a boy, Michael Eugene
born last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Maidlow, Bel
more, girl. Jane Nora, born last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs, VIM. Houck, Airing
ton, a boy, Thomas William, borr
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Oleszczal
(Helen Greding), Findlay, a boy
Mark Allan, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hefner, Lafay
ette, a girl, Martha Rose, born Sat
urday. 80
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bucher, Pan
dora, a boy, Bradford D., born Mon
= day.
Mr.. and MrS Gerald Lambert
Findlay, a girl, Karen Sue, bon
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Boehul, Je
/. nera, . boy, born Wednesday.
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Ncsy Al
Consulting engineers and City
Solicitor John Romey agree in recon-
mending the construction of a new
building and removal of all pumping
equipment and lines from the old
structure, members of the board told
council
Engineers advise the move because
of economics and efficiency in opera
ton, plus the fact that changes at
this time can be effected at consider
ably lower cost than by moving later
This is due to the fact that much of
the equipment now must be changed
anyway in a repair and moderniza
ton program.
An opinion by the city solicitor also
favored moving to a new building
because of the possibility that al
though there may be no immediate
complications in leasing the structure
to a manufacturing concern the time
might come when the possibility of
sale could be complicated by having
retained water pumping operations
in the structure.
Another factor in favor of the
move is the fact that new building
could be constructed entirely to the
requirements, thereby greatly facili-
tating operations.
Members of the board told council
they now are in the final stages of
completing planning for the extern
sive repair and modernization pro-
gram anticipated for this summer,
and that final details will be ready
for submission to the group soon.
Earlier it had been estimated that
the improvement program may cost
upwards of 5000, with financing to
be provided from funds in the towns
permanent improvement fund.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
200 School Men
Plan Conference
Here Next Thursday
Improvement OF instruction
In Public Schools Is
Discussion Topic

Improvement of instruction in the
public schools, will be the subject of
a work conference of about 200 edu-
Gators and school officials to be held
Thursday, February 3, at Bluffton
high school.
The conference to be conducted by
representatives of the state depart
ment of education, Ohio Education
association, and the School Commun-
ity Development Study, will discuss
many matters related to the subject.
Participating, in addition to school
teachers and administrators, viii be
P. T. A. members, school board mem
bers and college personnel.
The meeting will open at 4 o'clock
Thursday and will continue into a
dinner session at 6:15.
Discussion Group % of the Ohio
Principals association is the host
organization for the confab. Seven
counties will he represented in the
discussion.
L. l. Hurley, high school principal
at st. Marys, is chairman of the prin-
cipars group, and will preside at the
sessions. Robert Baker, Van Vert
high school principal, is the discussion
co-ordinator.
Bluffton superintendent B. Muir
ray and principal GeU Buhler
met last Friday with spup to plan
the meeting. - -
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call for So foot by so foot brick
addition of basement and frst-hoor
levels. Because the ground slopes
down hill at the rear of the church
lot, the basement floor level at the
far end would be only two feet under
ground, permitting light, we'll
ventilated rooms.
The addition would permit doubling
the size of the present basement
social room by adding a space SO
feet by 80 feet. The new basement
addition would also include large
kitchen, boiler room, toilet facilities
and two classrooms.
On the first floor large room for
junior and primary departments
would be divided by folding parti-
ton which would open it to one large
room when occasion demanded. A
kindergarten and nursery would also
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
School Receives
Framed Copies Of
Pledge To Flag

Every classroom in the Bluffton
schools this week received a copy of
the recently revised Pledge to the
Flag, attractively printed beneath an
American Flag in Red, White and
Blue, and handsomely framed.
They were presented to the school
by Commander Don Corson Of the
American Legion as part Of the 10
cal posts Americanization program.
The words of the pledge as it WAS
recently changed are as follows:
II pledge allegiance to the flag Of
the United States of America and TO
the Republic for which il stands-
One nation under God indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for ALL"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
Farmers Class To Meet
MOyadau Afternoon

Bluffton's Adult Farmers Class viii
holds its weekly meeting next Monday
at 8 o'clock in the afternoon instead
of the regular o'clock hour in the
evening, Lorain Basinger vo-ag In
structor reminded this week.
The class will see the film, Clouds
Over Ohio, to be shown by repre-
sentative of The Standard Oil Com
pany of Ohio. 1t deals with water
conservation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
Girl Scout Leaders
Take Training Course.

Girl Scout leaders of the
Amanda and Tri-Ridge councils
including board and committee
members are assembling daily at
Founders hall, Bluffton college,
this week for a training course
conducted by Mrs. Florence Jones
and Miss Ruth Harmon of the
National Girl Scout Staff.
Usually 1t has been necessary
for the leaders to take this course
in residence for a weeks period,
but because of the great need for
the program locally. the training
has been brought to this locality.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27

1t does not compare in efficien-
cy, however, with the huge
modern plants developed along
the Ohio, Kanawha and Musking-
um rivers by American Gas and
Electric.
The merger of Ohio Power and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
Vesper Choir To Sing
In Local Churches

The Bluffton College Vesper Choir,
under the direction of Professor
Russell Lantz, is scheduled to make
two major sacred concert appear
ances in this community during
February.
The choir will present concert in
the First Mennonite church, Bluff
ton, on Sunday, February Is, and al
Grace Mennonite church, Pandora
Sunday, February n.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
Light Failure Cause
OF Auto Accident

A ear driven by Phillip Morgan,
Is, Bluffton, received extensive
damage early Saturday morning
when it colhded with a parked car
owned by Richard Hardman, q,
Edison, on Orange Township Road
56.
According to Findlay Highway
Patrolmen, who investigated the ae-
cident, the lights on the Morgan car
went out and it struck the Hardman
car which was parked partially on
the highway facing south with the
lights out The Hardman car was
also considerably damaged
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27

Central Ohio Light and Power on
February | will climax a move
started a few years ago when
American Gas and Electric, one
of the comtry's major utility
firms acquired Central Ohio Light
CONTINUED on Page 10)
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WASTE COLLECTION

The regular monthly rubbish col
lection has been set for next Tuesday,
February l, beginning at 8 a m.
Street Commissioner Lee Coon asks
all containers be placed at the curb
for pick up by the village waste
collection crew.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
BluftOn POrchlights To Signal Welcome
Tonight To Lion Polio Fund Solicitors

Bluon residents will have another opportunity tonight
Thursday to join in the fight against Polio when of
Bufton Lions Club hold their Porchte Night canvass for
the March of Dimes.
Under the direction of the Chairman Gerald Swan
will be organized into teams will canvass the entire
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27

Jack kOOntz Enters Race For Mayor;
Second Candidate Expected To File

For the first time good years. appeared that local
Democrats may candidates the mayor
Buton and will have decide the party favorte the
May primary election.
This seemed to be the situation developing the party
Although
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
BPA Advised To Erect New Pump House
Move Out OF Old Light Plant Building

Although it will cost approximately $500 to move
water pumping operations into building compared with
remaining the largely abandoned light and water building
odds this time favor of the indicated by the
board of public affairs meeting with municipal council Tues
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
Plans Ok'd For $4,000
Sunday School Addition
GrOlUing Attendance At st. Johns
E & r Church Bursting Out Seams

With Sunday School attendance regularly averaging 20
nearly double the attendance dozen years members the
St. Johns Evangelical and Reformed church Sunday afternoon
approved plans for constructing $4,000 addition
the present church building.
The plans prepared by Welty Keawa Dayton architects
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-01-27
Dollar Days This Week
Offer ScOtcElm0n s HOLiday

Shoppers will twoday Scotchmans Holiday Friday
and Saturday during annual Dollar Days in Buon
and the Buon Business mems association reminds
dents in their advertising campaign that ITS like finding money
Main street"
The retail shopping district beehive of activity
Evening star., 1955-06-24

was no need for further mod
lification.
This thinking appears to be
based. in part. on a practice fol-
lowed by Russia for years in the
development and then standard
izing of production Of conven-
tional weapons. such as artillery.
However. in aviation Russia has
displayed an alarming tendency
toward constant improvement of
design, even though it required
frequent revision Of production
programs.
It seems unlikely that any
atomic explosion Of consequence,
even though in the proving
grounds deep in Asiatic Russia,
would escape the elaborate de-
lection system operated by the
United States and other free
nations.
Evening star., 1955-06-24
Atomic Survivor
In Grove Condition

NISHINCMIYA, Japan, June
"a R-The Japan News said
today Father Wilhelm Klein
sorge. whose atom bomb expert
ence was featured in John Her.
Isey's book, Hiroshima" is in
critical condition at a hospital
here.
The newspaper said the 49,
|year-old German priests white
cell count is down to half OF
normal. Reduced white cell
count may be a symptom Of ra-
Idiation disease.
Father Kleinsorge, a natural
lied Japanese, was on the third
floor of a Hiroshima church
when the bomb exploded nearly
10 years ago. His immediate
Evening star., 1955-06-24
ACC Disputes
|Lapp on Recent
Red A-bIasts
BY ELTON c. FAY
Associated Press star Writer

The Atomic Energy Commis.
sion indicated today it has hac
no evidence of a major nucleal
test by Russia in almost a year
The Acc thus appeared te
contradict DR.. Ralph E. Lapp. q
nuclear scientist. who says, "Ii
now can be revealed that the
Soviets conducted at least two
superbomb tests this spring.
DR.. Lapp formerly was connected
with the Governments atomi,
bomb development program.
Writing in the current issue o1
Life magazine. DR.. Lapp said ths
first of the two tests occurred
in April and that Japanese scien.
lists found evidence in fallout
samples. The second shot, DR.
Lapp said. was in May wher
"nongovernmental scientists IL
the United States picked ur
Evening star., 1955-06-24
Foure Stokes Future
On Morocco Decisions

| shocking enough to force the
Government into action. Mr.,
Lemaigre-Dubreuil. publisher Of
the Marco Presse," was an ar
dent advocate of reconciliation.
Since buying the paper two
months ago, he had concentrated
his attack on French counter
terrorists," pointing out that
while thousands of Arabs had
been arrested on charges of
armed violence. not one French
man had been brought to justice
for more than 80 outrages attrib-
uted to counter -terrorists.
Almost Immediately, Mr.. Le-
maigre-Dubreuil became a
marked man. There was no Sc
cret about it. His name appeared
on lists circulating throughout
Casablanca naming a total of "a
principal future victims" Of
counter-terrorist gangs. It fig
ured prominently in attacks pub
lished by the Nationalist press
warning openly that liberty has
its limits" and that "the hour of
reckoning will come"
Well Known to Leaders
All of this was we'll known to
the police of Casablanca. 1t was
also known to Governor General
Lacoste. to Pierre July, Minister
/ for Moroccan and Tunisian af-
fairs, and to Premier Faure. In
the course of repeated trips to
Paris Mr.. Lemaigre-Dubreuil
lpleaded with the Premier to
take action to quell the rising
tide of violence.
The limit of the governments
action was to send the director
Iof state security service, Roger
Wybot, to check on reports of
icounter-terrorism. Mr.. Wybot's
report was not made public. Ac-
cording to published summaries,
however, it charged a majority
of Moroccan police were in ca
boots with the counter-terror-
lists and that investigations of
outrages were often carried out
by the perpetrators themselves.
It is unclear what orders, if any,
were issued on the basis of this
report. In any event, it led to
no decisive action on the part
Iof Governor General Lacoste.
On June 10 Mr.. Lemaigre-Du-
breuil made his last trip to Paris.
Once again his plea was for
action to end the political and
economic paralysis which was
Iseizing the country and to re-
store order and authority of the
government. In the publishers
opinion the situation was be-
coming desperate.
The next night after his re-
turn to Casablanca. Mr.. Le-
Imaigre-Dubreuil wrote Premier
Faure a letter reiterating his
alarm over the way things were
going. At 1923 pm, he left