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water Works -. IN 6.727.2S
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balance Bond Retirement ahd
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All Investments held by Sinking
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Per1n Pee'fy I Trust Fund .''.' "a dooo'0 ooo 90 90
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Liabilities
Outstanding General Bonds
General Purposes
Sewer Village Portion) Sl78, 900. 90
sewerage Treatnlknt .........' .Sl4I' 100
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Track Is Resumed
AS Spring Sport
At BlufftOn High

Bluffton high school track coach
Pete Schmidt is working with IL
candidates for the schools first track
and field team in several years.
was issued Tuesday.
Coach Schmidt said that since all
the boys are new to the sport no
competitive meets have been schedul-
ed. The members of the team will
run in several meets including the
Northwest Conference meet at Pan
dora, the Lima Olympia and possibly
the Bowling Green district meet, but
their times will not be official.
Schmidt said there is a growing
interest for track at the school and
with only one senior on the squad
prospects look favorable for definite
renewal of the sport at the local
school. Track has not been prominent
on the athletic program at the school
since in the late 1930's.
Candidates for the team are Jerry
Kohl, Lynn Schiffke, Edward Mis-
wander, Ralph Reichenbach, Jr., Lar
ry Smucker, Tim Diller, Jim BURY,
Tom Dershem, Darrell Huber, John
Hartman, Waldo Greiner and Bob
Green. Green is the only senior.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-03-29
BlufftOn Hospital
MARCH q

mAhII1 Il
Discharged: Mrs. Urban Long and
baby, Ada; Mrs. Harry Gangle and
baby, Wapakoneta.
MARCH %
Admitted: Mrs. Bessie Diller, Bluff
ton; Donald Joe Stevenson, Lafayet-
te; Richard Clair Wilson, Ada; Nor
man Fenstermaker, Rawson.
Discharged: Paul Walton, Pandora.
MARCH %
Discharged: Mrs. Robert Which
and baby, Bluffton; Mrs. Wayne
Henry and baby, Findlay; Donald
Stevenson, Lafayette; Richard Will
son, Ada.
MARCH "a
Discharged: Mrs. Bessie Diller,
Bluffton; Norman Fenstermaker,
Rawson; Mrs. Edward Long, Rawson.
MARCH 20
Admitted: Leonard Gratz, Bluffton.
Discharged: Mrs. Levi H. Hauen-
stein, Bluffton.
MARCH &c
Admitted: Wilbur E. Redick, Jene-
ra.
Discharged: Mrs. Howard Traucht
and baby, Rawson; Mrs. Calvin
Schroyer and baby, Jenera.
MARCH 81
Admitted: Mrs. Harvey Moser,
Bluffton; Gail Siverling, McComb.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-03-29

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Van Meter,
Eagle township, Hancock county, will
celebrate their Golden Wedding ami
versary Sunday at the Benton Ridge
Methodist church. They will receive
guests from 2 to p. m.
Mr.. Van Meter and his wife, the
former Eva Bowers, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Bowers, Rockport,
were married March %, 1906, in
Rockport. Bishop David Bowers, an
uncle of the bride, officiated. Mr.. Van
Meters parents were Mr.. and Mrs.
George Van Meter, Rockport.
The Van Meters have six children.
They are Gerald, of near Van Buren;
Dwight, Riverside, Conn.,; Mildred,
Mrs. Don Clymer, st. Petersburg,
Fla; Annabel, Mrs. VIM. Brancher,
Columbus; Paul, Fresno, Calf; and
Colleen, Mrs. Fred Hirsimaki, Find
lay. There are eight grandchildren.
They are members of the Pleasant
Grove EUB church where their
youngest grandson, Mark William,
aged two months, will be baptized
Easter Sunday.
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LEHMAN BOWLING
Continued from page one)

given by Mr.. Lehman to the students
and instrumental instructors in the
community. The students receptivity
to instruction has been excellent. 81
tell them that music is much like
athletics. You can get no place unless
you work hard as a team"
In giving credit, Mr.. Lehman
pointed to the exceptional number of
outside piano and instrumental in
structors available for help to Bluff
ton youngsters. Among those he
credited with the success he has en-
joyed are Mrs. Pearl Bogart Mann,
Mrs. James Szabo, Mrs. James West,
Mrs. Paul Emmert and Mrs. Clarence
Hooker, all of whom teach piano
and Mr.. Tom Travielli, Lima, and
David Flanagan, college student, who
have instructed in brass and wood
winds and violin respectively.
While he was as pleased with the
added honors won by his musicians
Saturday, Mr.. Lehman said he warn
ed them against complacency. He
noted that, while other schools which
took superior ratings here whooped
and hollered, Bluffton musicians re-
mained calm with the air of expect
ancy. "But, they deserve the honors,"
he was quick to add.
Of the lac students in the high
school, 110 are listed in the music
department. The average for most
schools is about one-half the enroll
ment, it was pointed out. The number
would be even higher locally but for
the fact that larger groups would
make instruction an impossibility.
Ninety girls tried out for the girls
glee club this year, for example.
You can't instruct groups like
these and handle countless special
musical programs in a 40-hour week.
Mr.. lehman is on the go from 7:45
a. m. to 5 p. m. regularly, but there
is something doing practically every
night
As teacher of future music teach
ers at the college, Earl will con-
tinue to tell his classes that teach
ing music is like coaching team of
athletes. You can' let them reach
their peak too soon. They must hit
it at just the proper moment to APP
pear at their best for the per-
formance."
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Communion services this Wednes-
day evening at Pleasant Hill at s p.
m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Jennings
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Hilty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes called
on Mr.. and Mrs. leonard Wingate on
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell Weaver called
at the Harry Weaver home Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. Leonard Gratz was admitted
for surgery Monday at the Bluffton
hospital.
Miss Dorothy Jennings is a surgi-
cal patient at Providence Memorial
hospital at Ell Paso, Texas.
Saturday evening guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. l.. Gratz were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Maurice Bell, Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne
Zimmerman, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Reichenbach, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Jennings, Mr.. and Mrs. Avery Watt,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Stratton and Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Hess.
Past week visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Huber were Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs. Dale HUI
ber and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Berdell
Huber and family, Mr. and Mrs. r,
A. Stratton and MIR. and Mrs. Orville
Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winston Jennings
and sons were Saturday evening
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Evan Leiber.
Glass meeting was held at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman
and family Friday evening. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Orvin
Writ, Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Hartman
and family and Mr., and Mrs. Lemar
Basinger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Jennings and
Mrs. Clara Jennings attended the
Golden Wedding reception Sunday af-
ternoon of Mr.. and Mrs. Cal Herr of
Beaverdam.
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Insurance Agent To
Attend Sales COnfab

Herbert A. Traucht, S. Main ST.,
local representative of Nationwide
Insurance, is one of 90 agents who
will attend the Home Office Agents
Sales Conference in Columbus April
a, 5, and 6 at the Deshler-H Hilton
Hotel.
Purpose of the conference is to
give the agents an opportunity to
visit Nationwide's home office and
better acquaint themselves with the
functions of the various departments.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-03-29
Sue Riser On Dance
Committee At College

Sue Riser, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. David Risser of Bentley road,
is a member of the committee plan
ming the Bunny Hop, a dance
sponsored by the junior class at
Heidelberg college, Tiffin.
Miss Risser, junior majoring in
elementary education, is a member of
the Euglossian Literary Society,
Kappa Delta Pi, national education
honorary, Pi Delta Epsilon, national
journalism honorary, and was re-
Gently named to Deans list, a
scholastic honor roll at Heidelberg.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-03-29
Musical Instrument Repairmdn Builds
ViOlins AS A Hobby; NOlU On His Third

Although he has never taken "a
formal music lesson in his life,
Lester Hahn of West Elm street,
Bluffton, can play practically any
instrument you can name and has
earned his living repairing and re-
conditioning them.
And because his work is also his
hobby, the veteran instrument repair
man, spends his spare time building
his own violins. At present he is
completing his third Hahn instrument.
Made of wood brought from Ger
many by William Lewis and Sons,
violin manufacturers, Mr.. Hahn's
latest work of art has a spruce top
and curly maple back and ribs. The
scroll is handsomely carved of curly
maple.
The Hahn violin is completely hand
made with the exception of some
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-03-29
Mrs. James Phillips
Joins Husband Abroad

Mrs. James Phillips, the former
Mary Lou Lewis, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Lewis, N. Lawn avenue,
and son, Mark James, left New York
City last Friday for Bamberg, Ger
many, to join her husband, teacher
at the Army Education Center
Mrs. Phillips was accompanied to
New York City by her father and
her brother, Ramon. She sailed aboard
the liner S. S. America. They expect
to arrive in Bamberg Saturday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-03-29
HOWard Landes Wins
TdyLOr II. Honor

Howard Landes, son of the Rev.
and Mrs. Howard Landes, Keswick
Grove, N. j., formerly of Bluffton,
was first place winner in the Homer
and Annabel Oratorical Contest con-
Quoted recently at Taylor university.
The orations dealt with the life and
ministry of John Wesley. Mr.. Landes
is one of 80 seniors who will gradu-
ate from Taylor university on June
End.
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parts such as the tuning pegs. Al
though it is now in playable condition,
the instrument must be dismantled
for an additional rubbing down. The
neckpiece is to be shaped and reduced
slightly in size.
Local musicians who have played
the instrument report that is has
excellent tone.
The Bluffton man has been in the
instrument business IL c=o way or
another for 80 years. He repairs in
struments for schools and individuals
all over the state, as well as tunes
pianos. A versatile person, Mr.
Hahn has also invented several tools
used in repair of musical instruments
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STATE OF OHIO

STATE OF OHIO
James A. Rhodes-AuditOr of State
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of
Public Offices
Annual Report of the Clerk of the Village
of BlufftOn, Allen County, Ohio
For the Fiscal Year Ending December 81, 1855
Population 1850 Census 2423
Bluffton, Ohio
Feb. Is, 1866
hereby certify the following report to be
correct.
A. ]. B. LONGSDDRF, Village Clerk
SCHEDULE Al
Summary of Fund Balances, Receipts and
Expenditures
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RECOMMENDED AS TEACHER
Daryl Badertscher, son of Mrs.
Geneva Badertscher, w. Elm street,
student at Bluffton college, has been
recommended to the Lima Board of
Education for position in the ele-
mentary school system next year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-03-29

DACRON and acrilan filled pillows
are non-allergic, mothproof, odorless,
resilient and washable. Hand washing
is recommended to prevent Jumping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
THE PUBLIC PULSE
Eisenhower CoottoiIs
Foctor in Local Races

Ioffices may be substantially less
Democratic than these figures
would indicate.
Eleven per cent of the Ameri-
can public report that the last
time they went to the polls firm
ly intending to split their tickets,
they failed to do so because of
fears of inyalidating their bal
lots. Despite a desire to vote a
split ticket, they ended up voting
a straight ticket.
AS we reported yesterday,
sentiment one week ago was
running strongly in favor of
President Eisenhower-yet at
the same time sentiment for
Representative, Senator, and
governor was running strongly
Democratic. Because of the diff
Guilty in ticket-splitting, the can
didates for some Offices are not
going to get their full measure of
tes-particularly in those
States which President Eisen-
hover wins by a large majority
In an attempt to learn whether
| it would be the Republican can
didate for President who would
suffer, or the Democratic candi-
date for Representative, Senator,
and governor, we asked people
whether they were personally
most concerned about" the presi-
Dental race, or one Of the other.
-Four times as many people said
presidential" as said one of the
other races.
| Copyright 1856, John r. Ollie COZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
DORIS FLEEsoN

The dangerous future has
suddenly erupted in glaring.
outline as Americans prepare
again to elect a President.
Even the most case-hard-
ened partisan cannot escape
knowing that he will not be
voting for a present which
may be more or less agreeable
to him personally but for ma
tional survival in a changing
world.
All the campaign irrele-
vancies, and they were many,
have been swept away by the
terrible events which march
faster across the headlines.
The United States and the
world are not where many
U. S. citizens thought they
were as late as a week ago;
even the day ahead is a ques-
ton mark.
The voter is left with one
issue: Who can best lead the
country through a period of
revolutionary danger and
change to which it must adapt
or die?
The President has dropped
campaigning and is attempt
ing to show that he is the
man of destiny" Vice Presi-
dent Nixon has proclaimed
him to be. Thomas E. Dewey
Of New York has been called
upon to help Nixon establish
this as the clarion call for the
hour of decision while Eisen-
hover works furiously to i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
The Return to IsoIotionism

once they are convinced that
their most vital interests are
at stake.
The trend in the Soviet
Union is toward withdrawal
and isolationism, toward less.
not more, world involvement.
The fact has contributed more
than any system of collective
security" to the relaxation Of
great power tensions.
For neither peace nor ma
tional security is promoted by
busybodying all over the globe,
attempting to establish a
world rule of law" or world
communism, and judging gov
errments and societies by rigid
standards of good or evil.
No nation can long control
the behavior IF another except
by brute force, or save another
from the results Of its own err
rors. World leadership" is an
other illusion.
This column does not mourn
the death Of illusions. We
prefer policies based on rea-
son, realism. experience, and
common sense. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05

made clear it wanted to leave
the Warsaw Pact and become
neutral. like YugosIavia and
Austria.
If the movement should sue
coed it would profoundly affect
Germany. There is no con-
ceivable unification of Ger
many within any military
alliance headed by a great
power, nor any stable peace.
The trend Of the times
everywhere is toward nation
alism, not internationalism.
The action of Israel, Britain,
and France is purely nation
alist.
A state created, by the
United Nations and two Of its
founders. and permanent Sc
curity Council members, have
defied it.
This column deplores the
Israeli, British and French
action. But we have never
believed that external moral
judgments will deter nations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
National Survival Is Issue at Polls
In Fost-C Changing World Scene

provise holding operations al
the United Nations.
Adlai Stevenson is pressing
home his charge. that Eisen-
hover has provided only stale
mates and not solutions.
Stevenson has asked the
President to call upon the
United Nations to send observ-
ers to Hungary to report the
Russian attack on Budapest
He has assailed him, and other
Democrats too, for having
dawdled over Hungary at the
U. N. while urging action i'm
mediately against Great Brit
ain, France and Israel.
1t is a fast and furious wind
up to a campaign which had
not caught fire. Reporters can
only record it; what impression
IT Will make on election eve
they can only guess at.
The voters choice between
the candidates is clear cut
enough.
Republicans offer the ex-
perienced President, a victo-
rious general Of the last war
a moderator and conciliator,
They brush off Stevenson as
not in the same class with him.
Democrats retort with dawn
ing hope that their candidate
is the man who foresaw the
dangerous future and sought
ways to avoid and ameliorate
it. They argue that the Eisen-
hover talents perhaps sufficed
for a period Of relative mac
ton but that he has not the
creative powers which stub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
Bethlehem Contract
Details Disclosed

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 R.-
Bethlehem Steel Co. announced
today the terms of a new con-
tract agreement with $4,000
workers at the firms East Coast
shipyards.
The three-year agreement was
reached Friday night with the
industrial union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers of Amer
lea. No details were given then
Bethlehem said the agreement
provides for wage increases
averaging about 16 cents an
hour for the first year, S1a cents
for the second and 81a cents for
the third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
DAVID LAWRENCE

Here is the latest election
forecast as derived from a poll
Of editors Of the newspapers Of
every State in the Union, con-
Quoted by letter and telegram
in the last few days by this
correspondent:
I. A landslide Of electoral
votes for President Eisenhower
about 374 to 157.
2. Reduced margins in many
States as compared with 1852,
but the possibility Of increased
margins in a few States be-
cause Of strength being shown
by Mr.. Eisenhower in the
cities. This pattern is notice.
able in all sections of the
country, including the South.
3. An increase in Ike mar
gins in the cities due to wom-
ems votes and to larger share
Of votes in labor union fami-
lies than four years ago.
The total number Of letters
and kilograms sent QUITO
daily newspapers only - was
1902. From these LOLA replies
were received. This is an over
all percentage of 67.5, but in
the so-called doubtful States,
like Michigan and Minnesota,
more than IS per cent of the
editors responded.
The editors were told that
their names would be kept
confidential. Many Of them,
although themselves support
ing or preferring one candi-
date. predicted victory for the
other candidate.
The editors were asked to
answer one Observation-Disclosures
their own State was certain"
or leaning" to Stevenson or
Eisenhower. In aligning a
State, greater weight has been
given here to the number Of
answers marked certain" and
when these were negligible in
number, the trend based on
the answers marked leaning"
was deemed the determining
factor. The table adjoins.
1t will be noted how few
States outside Of the South
and border States contain any
certain" votes for Stevenson.
It will be observed also that,
even where there appears to
be a sharp difference Of opin-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Strong Undertow in U. S. Seeks Revival
OF Traditional American FOREIGN Policy

Adlai Stevenson. speaking
Thursday in Buffalo, said,
1--WE cannot retire into isola-
tionisfn. We cannot abdicate
our leadership"
We doubt that this plea won
any votes. There is a strong
undertow in this Nation for a
return to the historical, tradi-
tional American foreign policy.
This policy is not well ex-
pressed by the word ''isola-
tionisn1."
America has never isolated
herself from the affairs of the
world and less than ever can
she do so now. But the tradi-
tional American policy has
been to make no permanent
military alliances, to adopt no
favorite nations. to be neutral
in all conflicts that do not
directly engage American
rights and interests, and.
where possible, to use that
position to limit and reconcile
such conflicts as may arise be-
tween others.
Since the end of World War
II, advocates of such a policy
have been few. The interna-
tionalists have held the plat
forms, with their confidence
that the United Nations could
prevent war by making a COM
mon front against "aggres-
SION: that a threat to any
nation is a threat to ali: and
that wherever a conflict arises,
and from whatever cause, the
nations must first sit in moral
judgment, and then rush in
to defend the innocent victim.
The argument that this
concept, if any great power
were involved, would threaten
to enlarge every conflict into
a world war and operate
against the limitation of even
minor conflicts has been
brushed aside. collective Sc
curity." it has ardently been
argued. would "deter."
But just what has it de-
tered, and when, if ever, has
it been globally supplemented?
What would happen were it
supplemented today in the
Middle Eastern crisis?
midas Premier Nehru has
called the combined Israeli
British-French attack upon
Egypt naked aggression" The
United States, the Soviet
Union, and an overwhelming
majority of the worlds states
agree. But is India or any
other state not directly con-
cerned prepared to go to war
to annihilate Israel and crush
Great Britain and France?
They are not so prepared
and rightly so. The conflict
would be illimitable, and not
only between nations but
within them. The fronts would
certainly not hold, but change,
and whatever the outcome, all
would suffer catastrophe.
Only those not engaged in
the conflict can exercise influ-
ence to limit it and ameliorate
its results. AS always, it is the
neutrals-if you like, the iso-
lationists-who can most eff
fectively limit wars and pro-
tect the long-range world in
terest.
The undertow in the United
States is not an isolated phe-
nomenon.
All the postwar military al
liances are dissolving. Some.
we believe, will hold-that of
Poland with the Soviet Union.
for instance-but only for rea-
sons Of mutual national in
terest.
Hungary, before being
crushed by Russian force,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
DORIS FLEEsON
Future Bores Face of Dancer

bornly and persistently seek
the answers.
They insist that since war is
not the aim but the avoidance
of war. Stevenson, the poll
tician, is the best choice over
a general past the retirement
age.
The voter will have no alibi.
The world has shown him its
dangerous face just as he
walks to the polls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Eisenhower administration to ovcdo things on
the eve Of an election 1t has decided put peace on part
time basis.
Democrats claim big final surge Stevenson Everybody
who decided last to against suddenly realized that
Adlai was the only alternative.
Politicians glossary Apology-what you demand from your
opponent when he stoops to using your tactics.
Ike ends his campaign plea that we practice peace
We might as well content ourselves with practcing
sure can't make business out of it these days.
Stevenson Ike Of letting H-bomb poison our milk
supply It's hard to after whether fellow should
vote for Stevenson relax with go strict whisky
diet.
man understand worhans feeling of in
security he'll just remember how uncertain he felt the
he bought hat.
Sevensons campaign encourage lost his airplane so
often recently it's not whether Wednesday
in the White House-or the missing persons bureau