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Evening star., 1956-12-04
TODAY'S TV
HIGHLIGHTS

$500, WTOP (9-The Phil Sill
vers Show: Bilko must pro-
duce records of his earnings
of 1858.
$500, WTTG t5) - Movietime,
USA: Lee Tracy and Nancy
Kelly star in Betrayal From
the East" The story of enemy
plans to sabotage our Pacific
Coast defense.
$3.50, WRC ~ - Noah's Ark
COLOR: Noah and Sam at
tempt to extract a squirrel
from a sousaphone, but he is
reluctant to come out.
$3.50, WNTAL t7)-Wyatt carp:
Evening star., 1956-12-04

bounces, here's letter No. 532,
received here yesterday from
Mrs. Benjamin S., of Silver
Spring. She sounds the battle
cry in this fashion:
FOLLOWERS OF Miss Francis,
unite!
Whether you ,Oire or tDhether
you tUrite,
Let's glue NBC a mighty big
fight"
Let's!
4 \ ~
The Difference: A friend who
normally can't abide pop band
shows on TV said he was trying
to figure out why he liked
Jackie Gleason's peppy tribute to
the late Tommy Dorsey (Satur-
day, WTOP-9).
j Apart from the fact that
Jackie wisely let the performers
say it with music instead of
words, the talent jet-propelled
across the screen was fabulous.
If Gleason had hired the per-
formers in the regular fashion.
the cost o fthe show would have
bankrupted the sponsors for the
season.
I'm glad Lolly Parsons showed
Iup on Sullivan's show Sunday
to explain the alling Frank
Sinatra's absence from both
programs. The singer, unless
memory plays me false, followed
Jack Leonard with the Dorsey
band. Earlier, Sinatra had ad-
mitted that he borrowed his
musical technique from Dorsey.
T. D. was one of the great
ones, no question about it. The
cats of the swing era would hop
into their jalopies and junket
cross-country on a week end to
hear the Sentimental Gentle
man. Just a few months ago, l
talked to Tommy on one of those
round-robin telephone confer
ences. 1t was the first time he'd
ever taken part in one and he
got bang out of it. He was
tremendously elated over the
Renaissance of the big band"
and communicated that feeling
to his listeners.
did you see hotD many people
turned out for Benny'S Good
man one-nighter?" he kept
asking. 5000"
but is the upSurge uncovering
anu new tdlent?" I asked.
Hare you caught this boy Les
ElgGrt?" Tommy asked.
I guess we'll have to.
i %&
On the Run:
NBC, still delighted over the
Jack and the Beanstalk" re-
ception. is rushing two more
adaptations, 'Gulliver's Travels"
and Little Women" CHS.
meanwhile. has the Rodgers and
Hammerstein Cinderella" in the
works for next spring.
Hal Kanter. who parted COM
lpany with George Gobel this sea-
son, has just received his new
assignment from Hal Willis-to
direct Running Wild" the Elvis
Evening star., 1956-12-04

Would Phil Silvers twho play.
ed the role so amusingly on the
Broadway stage) have been 50
much better than Hal?
AS a con man-yes. emphat-
ically.
But what about the romantic
angle? Nan Fabray leave Don
Ameche for Sgt. Bilko?
\ \ II 4
Pep Rally Needed: The mail
count over the demise of ding
Dong School" at NBC, New
York, is only 531 letters-not
5000 as enormously itemed here
last week. Two press agents fol
the same network gave me the
vastly differing figures.
531 indeed!
I'll bet at least $50 of them
came from this area!
If that's the way the ball
Evening star., 1956-12-04

viouS methods to save her
mentally defective sisters.
Ida Lupino.
11:2O, WMAL (D-The Night
Show: Lost Honeymoon"
stars Franchot Tone. An
amnesia victim is faced with
two children on the eve of
his marriage.
Evening star., 1956-12-04
Driver Dozes in lnil

NATIONAL CITY, Calf. (P).-
A motorist told police his car
ran of a freeway 1873 feet over
a bank into a ditch when he fell
asleep in the early afternoon
Police charged the man with
speeding and gave him a bunk
in jail when he said he had not
slept for four days.
Evening star., 1956-12-04
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

$500. WDON. WASH-FM-In
the Concert Hall: Beethoven.
symphony No. z in A; Tchai-
kowsky. Concerto No. /.
S:4O. WRC- Biographies in
Sound: Arch Oboler. Ray
Bradbury and George Pal
will discuss the new science.
fiction. Fact or Science Fic-
tion?"
$500, WOL-Good Music Time:
Paul Hume begins three hours
Of music with the Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 6.
1905, WGMS-Music Room: Vi
valdi, Sonata in D.
1890, WMAL-Fred Waring /:
Evening star., 1956-12-04

Presley starrer which gets under
way at Paramont early next year
|. Kanter'S versatility is un-
questioned. Before writing,
directing and producing George S
show, he wrote the screenplay for
1.-THE Rose Tattoo"
At a panel discussion on the
theater at the Washington He
brew Congregation yesterday, the
subject Of televisiOn came up.
/. "TelevisiOn," our dramatic
colleague from across the way OBJ
served, sis the electrOnic tran
quilizer." Next question?
Just caught up with the movie
Adam Had Four Sons" on
WTOP last Saturday night. j.
Chief attraction of this inter-
minable and soapy opera was
watching June Lockhart Gas a
teen-ager) and Richard Den
ming (Mr. North) in what must
have been their biggest roles yet.
Milton @. Ford (WOL) is get
ting some lively material for his
disc show from letters written
to him on the subject: What
happens to me emotionally when
I listen to Elvis." Wrote one
boy: II become completely elec-
trified." /. Milt's dilemma, since
the prizes are Presley albums, is
how to award those who pan
him.
Readers Reviews:
"DeGr Bernie.
Last Wednesday. my Dite and
/ SAP the Kraft Theater's pro-
duction of Time Lock-
"TIlts iUdS a serious play?
$50 many fine performances
hdUe preceded this one on Kraft
and iUe realize tDhGt a Job it must
be to giUe tight direction and get
TOP performances meek after
week. But they can certainly do
nothing but Improve after this.
"SedSoned performers tDere
recognizable on the Show and
that ham they seasoned should
be the SpicieSt- ever thrown out
for l0e Uiewers to digest, because
there tUaSn't a single good per-
formance in the bunch, except
the little boy-Gnd If he hadn't
been shut up in the Ddult i.
tUell. GnytUny, I lDGnted to let you
IcnoiO in case you missed the
Shot0. you didn't miss a drama,
you missed a comedy.
FIG.
Evening star., 1956-12-04
ON THE AIR
Wait for Perfect '.f"'F
Cast Or Go Aheod7
BY BERNIE HARRISON

Tv ReaeCOns Casting Hal March High Button Shoes
Ed Sullivan and others maintained TV "blunder"
wonder what their reaction will be when shows up on NBC
next spring George M Cohan?
This another question Should hit gather dust
until the perfect cast available for the vdeo
Evening star., 1956-12-04

Lumpy Brannum and Daisy
and the Dandylions sing "Yo-
del Blues"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13
HERE AND THERE

Bob Neidemeyer and family Of
Cridersville have rented the Dan
Badertscher property west Of Bluff
ton. lie is employed at the Ex-Cell-O
plant in Bluffton. The family moved
in on Labor Day.
Mrs. Lorain Badertscher, who form
erly lived in the Badertscher prop
erty, has moved to Columbus Grove.
Mrs. James Griffith and children
will make their home for the present
with her mother, Mrs. Fred GettIes
on South Main street, Bluffton.
William O'Neil, Republican candid
date for governor of Ohio, was in
Ottawa Thursday of last week for a
large Republican rally.
The Richland Grange was in charge
of the cafeteria at the Stock Sales in
Columbus Grove last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Huber Of Bluff
ton were Saturday evening guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Marshall, Beaverdam. The two cou-
Piles attended the Upper Sandusky
Fair Sunday.
Maurice Bell south of Blufton,
secretary of the Farmers Elevator at
Beaverdam, sold his livestock at
public auction Saturday afternoon.
Lee Coon, former chief of police
and street commissioner Of Bluffton,
is employed as guard at the new
Ex-Cell-O plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Short Of
Button were recently on vacation
in Michigan.
The Columbus Grove Presbyterian
church celebrated its centennial an
niversary, Sunday.
Mrs. Lorain Badertscher of Colum-
bus Grove, formerly of Bluffton, is
employed at the Manhattan restaur-
ant in Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13
Lafayette

Mrs. Dale Maus of Pine Bluff,
Ark. has returned to her home after
spending two months with relatives
here.
The Helping Hand class of the
Methodist church met in the home
of Mrs. John Mowen, Tuesday eve
ming. Mrs. Paul Hefner was assistant
hostess and led the devotions. Mem
bers present were Mrs. Edward
Stump, Mrs. Wayne Schumacher, Mrs.
Russell Brackney, Mrs. Mildred
Carey, Mrs. Everett Crumrine, Mrs.
Fred Feldner, Mrs. Harry Patterson,
Mrs. Blanche Helser, Mrs. Clarence
Hall, Mrs. Leon Inskeep, Mrs. Walter
King, Mrs. Bessie Slane, Mrs. Tavern
limerick and Mrs. Roslie Kennedy.
Mrs. Lena Crumrine of Lima spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Crumrine, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Will
kins of Ft. Wayne, Ind. were Satur-
day night guests.
Mrs. James Lawrence and sons of
Lima spent Wednesday with her
mother, Mrs. Mildred Carey and
daughter Dawn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Westphal, Sr.,
and Mrs. Ethel Helser were Tuesday
evening callers in the home of Mrs.
Mabel Hawk.
Mrs. Hazel Eversole of Bluffton
called Saturday afternoon in the
home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Car
rie Lentz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Scott and
daughter of Monica, California are
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Hawk and family.
Mrs. Hazel Guthrie of Detroit,
Mich, has returned home after
spending several weeks with her
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13

sister, Mrs. Carrie Lentz and brother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Eversole.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Long and
family and Mrs. John Holland and
daughter Sharon of Lima were
Thursday evening dinner guests of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Manas and
daughter Judy Kline of Dayton and
Miss Edith Ransbottom of Blutfton
were week end guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wavel Ransbottom.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Helling of
Maumee were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Robinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hunsaker
and sons moved last week to their
home in Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. l. Williams of
Millsbury, Ohio, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifton Urich of Lima called Sunday
in the home of MIR. and Mrs. Fred
Biteman.
Rev. James Guthrie of Metamora,
Ohio, visited over the week end with
his sister and brothers here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13
Wayne MarQuart
To SerUe In Europe

Pvt. Wayne E. Marquart, 81,
whose wife, Barbara, lives on Route
4, Rawson, is scheduled to leave the
U. S. Sept. Is for Europe as part of
Operation Gyroscope, the Army's
unit rotation plan.
Marquart is member of the 9Th
Infantry Division, which has been
stationed at Fort Carson, Colo., and
is replacing the 9th Infantry Division
in Germany.
A truck driver in Service Battery
of the divisions 56th Field Artillery
Battalion, he entered the Army last
February and completed basic train
ing at Fort Carson.
Marquart is 1858 graduate of
Cory -Rawson High School and a
former driver for the Sealtest Milk
Co. in Findlay. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Marquart, live at 1131
S. Blanchard, Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13

started for Columbus with the roll
and arrived there at noon April 18th.
By that time Lincoln had issued a
call for 5000 volunteers. The Ripley
company is said to have been the
first volunteer company raised in
Ohio or elsewhere in the War of the
Rebellion.
Levi Coffin was president Of the
Underground Railroad and with John
Rankin was one of its founders. He
had country store in Wayne County,
Indiana, in 1926 and moved TO
Cincinnati in 1847 and opened store
where no goods produced by slave
labor were sold. Both his home and
store were stations on the Under
ground Railroad. During the war
Coffin established the Freedmen S
Bureau and made trips to England
and in many cities there and in
America to collect money for the
Freedmen's commission. When the
18th Amendment was adopted he
formally resigned his office as pres
ident of the Underground Railroad
which he had held 80 years. Born
October %, 1898, near New Garden,
North Carolina, Coffin died in 1877 al
Cincinnati.
No railroad at all, the Under
ground Railroad merely was system
one of secreting slaves and trans.
porting them from station to station
in stealth until Canada was reached
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13
The Way To Freedom

A candle glimmered in an upper
window of the big house on a hill
near the river bank from twilight to
sunup every night, plainly visible
from the Kentucky shore of the Ohio
River. 1t was the beacon that guided
whatever slaves who managed to
escape across the river to the home
of Rev. John Rankin, at Riply, Brown
County.
Rankin's home in ante bellum days
was the first station on the Under
ground Railroad-the route that led
through devious secrt ways, turns
and stop-overs to Canada and free
dom.
found havon there none ever had
Though thousands of fugitive slaves
been lured away from their owners
and none ever had been recapturd.
All had come on their own account
including Eliza and George Harris, of
Uncle Toms Cabin fame. Rankin
gave no aid nor comfort to those
who enticed the slaves to run away.
Rankin only furnished food and a
haven to the negroes-his sons trans
ported them to the next station, Levi
Coftln's store in Cincinnati.
Rankin was born February 4, 1893.
IN Jefferson County, East Tennessee,
the son of a Revolutionary War
soldier. He became a Presbyterian
preacher and in 1917 when pastor
of the Cane Ridge and Concord
churches in Nicholas and Bourbon
counties respectively in Kentucky, he
began to preach against slavery.
He soon moved to the free land
north of the Ohio River and most of
his members migrated to Indiana,
where no slavery existed.
From 1922 to 866 Rankin was pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church at
Ripley and was founder of the Free
Presbyterian Church of America,
which excluded Shareholders from
membership. In 1886 he had been a
lecturer for the American Antislavery
Society as travelling lecturer and
frequently was mobbed
When the Underground Railroad
came into being Rankin was one OF
its founders and principal supporters.
He died March Is, 1886, month
over ninety-three and is buried in
Maplewood Cemetery at Ripley.
Rankin left eight living sons and
two daughters. On son had died.
The whole Rankin family were
staunch abolitionists, the father hav
ing gotten interested in it through
an antislavery society that existed as
early as 1913 in Jefferson County
Tennessee. 1t will be recalled that
East Tennessee was strongly Yankee.
Many Union soldiers who came there
in Civil War time remained-in the
many cemeteries. The section still is
| q ANCPltOilSdIi OllC III lllG lledIl VI ulti
Democratic solid south.
1t was Rev. John Rankin's son, r.
| c. Rankin, who organized the first
volunteer Union company in the
Civil War. The Churches of Ripley
were holding a union service on April
| 13, 1861, when President Lincoln S
first call for troops arrived A. S.
Light, who later fell at Stone River,
seized sheet of paper and wrote
the heading for an enlistment roll
and was the first to sign it, r. c.
Rankin was next and after him 81
others signed the roll before the SER
vices ended that night.
The officers selected were Capt.
Jacob Anmen afterwards a general;
first lieutenant E. c. Devore; second
lieutenant E. M. Carey, afterwards
a major.
AT noon next day Captain Ammen
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13

TESTS at the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment station show that dry
fertilizer applied to the soil at recon-
mended rates gives better results
than small quantities of liquid fer
tilizers sprayed directly on the plants.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-13

CHEMICALS effective in killing
quackgrass are expensive and pre-
vent use of the land for one or more
seasons, states an Ohio Agricultural
Experiment station bulletin.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-06-01

small if supports are boosted by
new farm law
Oats, barley and grain sorghum price
supports for 1856 crops may be raised
from 20 to rs per cent of parity by
new farm act. Current prices appear
to be below such support levels. Hence,
any further decline in oats and barley
prices as harvest draws near may be
small. Price changes will depend also
on the size of new crops, which have
had an unfavorable start this spring.
Carryovers will be large, but production
now appears likely to be less than the
bumper 1855 outturn.
SEEDS - Prices paid by farmers
this spring averaged about Is per cent
less than a year ago. Winterkill of old
and new seedlings of alfalfa and clover
was about normal except in the Da-
kotas, Nebraska and Iowa where
drouth and severe cold resulted in
greater loss than usual.
DAIRY PRODUCTS - Fluid milk
prices are near the spring low point
and will soon start moderate seasonal
rise. Manufacturing milk and butter
fat probably will hold near support
levels for two or three months, then
rise slightly above them. Milk produc-
ton probably will reach the peak by
early June after being retarded tempo
rarily by cold weather and poor early
spring pastures.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-06-01
Seek Higher Duty
On Canadian Seed

BILLS ARE PENDING in Congress
that may end or at least reduce pres
ent threat to the Montana seed grain
industry.
Under present tariff regulations,
grains that have been treated with
poisonous substances are classified, as
they should be, as unfit for human
consumption But grain so classified
can be brought into the United States
under a lower duty rate. The duty on
millable wheat, for instance, is a
straight 81 cents a bushel. On wheat
unfit for human consumption the
duty is per cent ad valorem, which
would amount to considerably less than
q cents.
According to Freeman Halvorson,
president of the Montana Seed Growers
Association, this regulation has resulted
in the importation of treated seed grain
from Canada at a considerably reduced
import rate because it is labelled unfit
for human consumption.
''This practice is decidedly unfair to
our Montana Certified seed growers
who can't compete with the low prices
at which Canadian seed is being sold
in Montana, Halvorson declares.
The Montana Association has pro-
tested the situation to Washington, D. c.,
and Halvorson has been notified that
bills are now pending that would make
the duty on all wheats the same as
that for millable wheat.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-06-01
Markets at q GIunce

Inoome-Farm share in general prosperity
PROBABLY viii increase in year anead.
Caitle-Rise in prices for fed grades and de-
cline tor others are probable in next few months.
hogs-Rlse over May peak is probable before
start of seasonal decline,
Lambs-Gradual price decline is probable in
next few months
Wool-Steady to slightly higher prices are
probable.
Wheat-Price decline toward harvest is likely
TO be small.
Feed Grain-SmaH "free'' stocks indicate
further corn price strength.
Flaxseed-Declining price trend is probable.
Seeds-Prices paid by farmers averaged about
ID per cent below last year.
northumberland probably will weaken in
early grazing season.
Ray-Prices probably will decline slightly in
next two or three months.
Dairy PrOducts-Fluid milk prices will soon
start seasonal rise
Eggs-Moderate seasonal price rise probably
will start Soon.
PouItry-Record broiler and turkey supplies
are in prospect.
POtatOes-Prices probably will decline but
hold at favorable level.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-06-01

is Indicated by the large COW pOpula-
ton on January and the fact that
slaughter of cows thus far has been
less than last year. Unless fed cattle
prices show decided improvement, feed
err buyers will be cautious because of
their losses last winter.
HOGS = Most of the seasonal rise
probably has taken place, but prices
in June and early July are likely to
rise moderately over the May peak be-
fore starting the seasonal decline. Ar
rivals will drop another 10 to Is per
cent as supplies from the fall pig crop
fall off, Marketing of the spring pig
crop won't turn the trend of receipts
up until late July or August.
With supplies lighter than in winter
and early spring, packers are buying
hogs more aggressively and at a smaller
margin below the wholesale value of
hog products. Finishing and selling as
many early spring pigs as possible in
the next three months is advisable.
brief fattening period.
LAMBS = Prices will gradually work
lower as market supplies increase in
the next three or four months. Fed
lamb supplies dried up faster than
spring lamb marketing increased in
late April and early May, leading to a
temporary sharp price rise. High prices
checked consumer buying, however.
WOOL = Prices probably will be
steady to slightly higher in the next
two or three months. TOpmakers and
dealers are buying the new clip as fast
as it becomes available. Although wool
supplies are about per cent smaller,
mills are using more wool than year
ago Movement of wool fabrics is good
and part of the market lost to man.
made fibers appears to have been re-
gained Foreign auction prices are hold
ing well as the end of the selling sea-
son approaches.
WHEAT = Prices probably will work
lower in the next two months under
pressure from the new crop. The de-
cline is likely to be rather small, how
ever, because of the size of the crop,
holding by producers, and, possibly,
additional price supporting moves by
the government.
The May 1 estimate of the winter
wheat crop, placed at 681 million bush
els compared with last years harvest
of 705 million bushels and the 1945-54
average of 873 million bushels, did not
reflect improvement from early May
rains. In seven of the last nine years
the May l estimate was SO to 152 mil.
lion bushels less than the final harvest
An increase is probable this year. How
ever, the total wheat crop may only
approximate domestic usage and ex
ports for the next crop year.
While the government may suppl!
most of the exports from its stocks
placement of around 200 to $50 million
bushels, depending on the final size o
the crop, probably will be enough t,
create tightness in ''free" stocks late
on. Producers in early harvest section
who can obtain approximately net sup
port prices at harvest should and prob
ably will sell.
This will tend to push prices lowe
for while, but prices 5 to per cen
below the effective support rate prob
ably will be enough to bring about tn
needed impounding Larger exports be
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-06-01
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-03-30

PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn.-(CNS)
When city people take close look
at what farmers have done with their
power co-ops, they'll wake up to what
they can do for themselves, said Jerry
Voorhis, the Cooperative Leagues
executive director.
He pointed out that farm people
are repaying the money they Dor
rowed to build their own power lines,
meeting interest payments, giving de-
pendable service, maintaining equip
mental with revenues of only
$24 a mile month.
"When the Importance of this fin
ally worms its way past the power
companies propaganda into the minds
of city folks, they'll demand cheaper
electricity than they've ever had. And
you have shown them how to get it,
Voorhis said.
He noted that although it costs
more to serve mile of customers in
the city, the use of electricity s
much, much greater"
Voorhis also pointed out that farm
people have less to spend than they've
had since World War ii. Yet farm
supply coop sales are rising steadily.
Farmers value their co-ops more in
times of trouble" Voorhis said. Even
though they have fewer dollars,
they're careful to see that more and
more go to buy feed, fertilizer, and
oil products made and handled by
their own businesses.