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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Farm Youngsters
To Attend COnfab
Here Next Week

One hundred and two youths from
20 northwestern Ohio counties have
been registered for the annual Farm
Bureau Leadership Training school
to be held from Sunday through Sat-
urday on the campus of Bluffton col
lege, according to Harry Moore,
Route 2, Bluffton, in charge of
registration at the school.
In addition to the boys and girls
selected by membership in the county
they represent, there viii be seven
on-farm trainees from various foreign
countries enrolled at the school.
Moore said. This group win be made
up of exchange students.
Designed to promote better leader
ship qualities in farm youth, the
curriculum will consist of classes in
public speaking, discussions, work
shop, square dance calling, devotions
workshop and organized recreation.
Extra curricular activities include
parties, singing and square dancing.
Students at the school will range
in age from 16 to u and will all
come from farm families. The staff
is made up wholly of members Of the
Farm Bureau organization. This is
the eighth year the conference has
been conducted on the local campus.
The store at the school, located in
the lounge of Founders Hall, will be
run on coop basis. Ice cream,
candy, milk and soft drinks will be
available to students. Supplies are
supplied by selling stock to students.
At the end of the school each one
holding stock viii receive a dividend
on his investment. Mr.. Moore is in
charge of the project.
Registration win start at 3 p. m.
Sunday in Founders Hall. Following
supper at $50 p. m. there will be
introductions, recreation and devo-
tons.
Attending the school from the area
will be Nancy Montgomery, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Montgon1-
cry, Route 2, Bluffton, Marsha
Staley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Staley, Route I, Bluffton,
Marilyn Murray, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nile Murray, Route 3, Ada, and
Patricia Marquart, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Marquart, Route 8,
Ada, and Mary Lou Patterson,
Lafayette
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Expansion Co. To
Share Costs OF
Ex-Cen-O Sewer
Bills Total $2,S08 For
15-Inch Jefferson Street
Sewer Line

With the Bluffton Industrial Elk.
pansion company offering to pay a
share of the cost of the 81, ,S08 sewer
construction project to serve the new
Ex-Cell-O company plant, village
council Tuesday evening voted to
accept a S1,794.70 tab as its share.
The agreement was reached by
members of council after Councilman
Gerald Swank reported that the In
dustrial Expansion company, Of
which he is president, would pay bills
on the sewer project amounting to
81, ,013.55.
Mr.. SWank said that tax revenues
from the new industrial plant would
quickly reimburse the village for its
share of the sewer cost without con-
sidering the general benefit of the
large new payroll to the community
Payment of the sewer bill was
questioned several months ago by
several members of council when it
was. learned that the sewer had been
installed by the Ex-Cell-O contractor
without councils approval or noti-
fication. Earlier, members of the In
dustrial Expansion Company had
assured Ex-Cell-O that the village
would install such sewer facilities.
In the voting or payment of the
sewer costs Councilman Francis
Reichenbach passed the vote. Coun-
Gilman Wilbur Amstutz was alb
sent Otherwise, the vote was IN
animous.
Councilman Reichenbach said that
he felt the village could have handled
the sewer project less extensively
The 15-inch line was laid for a
distance of ZIG feet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Street Lighting
Is Major Factor
Swimming Pool Bonds Will
Up Tax Rate Only 40
Mills Instead OF so

General Fund expenditures total
ing $42.645.3O. approximately $4,70C
more than this year, are called for ir
the villages 1857 budget adopted by
council Tuesday evening.
Principal item of added expense In
next years budget will be $500
allocated for street lighting cost as
compared with only $3.50 budgeted
for that purpose this year. Bluffton
will not start paying for its street
lights until September of this year
when the period of free street light
ing comes to an end under the plant
purchase arrangement with the Ohio
Power Company.
Village finances for next year on
the whole appeared unlikely to cause
the city fathers any undue concern,
but 1858 might be another story
According to Clerk A. J. B. Longs
DORIS figures, the cash balance of
So, 2,68755 with which the village ex-
poets to start next year is likely to
drop to $4,319.07 by the end of 1857.
Principal items of income for the
General Fund anticipated for 1857
will be $13,231.S2 from real estate
taxes, S4,55O from sales tax, $500
from intangible taxes, $4,100 from
garbage collection fees and $1,050
from rural fire service fees. $365 is
expected from cigarette taxes and
$500 from inheritence taxes.
Good news to council was Mr..
Longsdorf's statement that the tax
rate for village purposes will go up
only 40 cents per thousand in 1857
instead of SO cents as authorized
under the swimming pool bond issue.
An old bond retirement fund surplus
can be used to help retire the swim
ming pool bonds, and it will not be
necessary to levy the full authorized
amount next year.
Total of all village expenditures
including bond retirement and those
of the waterworks department will
amount to an estimated $122, 2,347.80 in
1857. Major items include Sac, ,645.30
from the General Fund; $2825,
cemetery fund; $13,7OO street repairs;
SIG, 500 water department $19, SAT so
sewer services, and SIT, ,130 bond
retirement.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
MiamiSburg Woman
Killed In Rt. %
Accident Here
Mishap At Bentley Road
Intersection Mars
Holiday Record

Fatal injuries received by 49,
year-old Miamisburg, Ohio, woman
in a two-car accident at 1920 a. M
Wednesday morning of last week at
the intersection of the Bentley road
and u. S. Route 25 marred the
otherwise traffic accident free Fourth
of July holiday in the Bluffton COM
munity.
Mrs. Carrie A. Urschel, a pas
senger in an automobile driven by
her husband, Donald r. Urschel, 46,
received fractures of the skull and
neck when she was thrown from the
vehicle shortly after it was struck
by car operated by John c. Dep
pier, Sc, S. Main street. She died at
1877 D. m. at Bluffton Community
hospital, where she was taken in a
Basinger funeral home ambulance.
A verdict of accidental death was
ruled by DR.. Richard Biery, Allen
county coroner.
The Urschels' daughter, Jane c., 5,
received facial decorations and bruises
in the accident. She was treated at
the hospital here.
According to the Lima Post of the
state highway patrol, which inves-
tigated the accident, the Deppler car,
travelling south on the Bentley road,
had made the safety stop at the
intersection of Rt. 25 and then
started across the intersection, col
liding with the Urschel car, headed
north on Rt. 25.
Patrolmen said the Urschel car ap-
parently was thrown against the
concrete curbing on the right side
of the highway cramming the rear
wheels. The driver lost control of
the vehicle and as it continued up
the road, Mrs. Urschel fell out of
the right front door which had been
sprung by the impact and landed on
the pavement before the driver could
get the car stopped.
Neither Mr.. Deppler nor Mr..
Urschel were injured in the accident.
There was considerable damage to
both autos.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Paul Schumacher
Dies Wednesday
In New Jersey

Word has been received here of the
sudden death early Wednesday morn
ing of Paul Schumacher, AZ, who
died at his home in Clifton, New
Jersey.
Born in Bluffton June 5, 1914, Mr..
Schumacher was the son of Cyrus
and Olivia Hilty Schumacher. Mr..
Schumacher died in 1850 and Mrs.
Schumacher succumbed October IL
of last year. He was a graduate of
Bluffton high school and attended
2luffton college.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Elaine Miller, and three child
ren, Kenneth, Gloria and Allen, all
of Clifton, n. j.; a sister, Dorothy
Schumacher, Findlay; and three
brothers, Edward, Oak Park, Mich;
Charles, San Bruno, Calf; and Ray
mond, Maryland.
Services will be held in New
Jersey.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12

quotas.
Combines were busy in the fields
Tuesday evening and Wednesday
taking the crop. The peak of the
harvest is expected to reach the
local elevators by the first of next
week.
The first load of wheat arriving in
Bluffton was reported received at
8 am. Tuesday at the Master Feed
Mill. Manager Leland Basinger said
that the load was brought in by
Melvin Diller, Route 2, Bluffton. The
wheat was combined on the Fred
Biederman farm on the County Line
road late Monday. 1t tested at 58
pounds per bushel with a IA percent
moisture content.
First load of grain to arrive at
the Farmers Grain Co., Bluffton,
came in shortly after the noon hour,
according to Eldon Tschiegg, mana
ger. 1t was harvested by Kenneth
Coleman from the Homer Miller
farm just east of Route 696. Tests
ran at SO pounds per bushel and
moisture, AL percent.
Shortly after Coleman's wheat was
brought to the Farmers Grain Co.,
Myron Motter and Hubert Basinger
arrived with load of wheat.
Carl Amstutz, manager of the
Farmers Elevator Co., Beaverdam,
reported the first load to arrive there
was brought in at around $3.50 pm.
Tuesday. 1t was sold by Earl Ream,
Route 2, Columbus Grove and tested
Sc pounds per bushel with a moisture
content of 145 percent. Amstutz said
the peak would come Thursday and
Friday.
At Mt. Cory's Elevator, Manager
Orlan Wolfrom, Jr., announced the
first load of wheat was delivered at
) pm. Tuesday by Leland F'rantz,
who lives two miles west of Mt.
Cory. The wheat weighed SO pounds
per bushel and had moisture con-
tent of IA percent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Six Injured At Fourth Of July ROdeo
Sets Record For Accidents At Event

on him after it had thrown the rider
from its back and then lost its foot
ing. Calvin Thillo, Clinton, Mich,
was injured when he fell from a
bronc. Both were treated for bruises
at the field aid station and at Bluff
ton Community hospital and released.
Mrs. Joe Bronson, spectator, also
suffered a crushed foot when the
front of an auto on which she was
seated was pushed into the Harmon
Field fence by another auto. She was
taken to Bluffton Community hospital
in a Basinger ambulance.
There were no injuries reported
during last years Rodeo celebration.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Garmatter
Bluffton, boy, born last Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Lehman, Bluff.
ton, a boy, James Neal, born last
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dray, Bluff
ton, boy, James Lee, born last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hohenbrink,
Ottawa. boy, David Lyle, born last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Snyder, Pan
dora, a boy, Reese Douglas, born
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Cox, Lima,
boy, Craig Allen, born Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Price, Find
lay, a boy, Larry Eugene, born Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Alspach, Mt.
Cory, boy, Howard Keith, born
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Kimmel, Lima,
a girl, Jane Alison, born Wednes-
day, July a. Mrs. Kimmel is the
former Rebecca ,Hofstetter, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Hofstetter
and Mr.. Kimmel is the son of Mrs.
Leslie Kimmel of S. Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schumacher,
San Bruno, Calf, a boy, Christian
Peter, born July 1.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12

Accidents at the annual Bluffton
Fourth of July Rodeo reached a
peak this time when five riders
were injured during the toughest
events of the evening and one spec
tator was hurt. Three of the number
required disqualification.
Most serious of those injured when
they were thrown from broncs were
Daniel Wilson, Palestine and Don
Stein, Fostoria, who suffered frac-
tured collarbones, and Stewart
Younglove, Adrian, Mich, possible
fractured elbow.
Roger Youtsey, Van Vert, was
hurt slightly when Brahma bull fell
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Maurice Bell Takes
New Elevator Post

Maurice Bell, Route 1, Bluffton
has accepted the post of bookkeeper
at the Farmers Elevator Co., Beaver
dam,- it was announced by the COM
pany this week He began his new
duties Wednesday, succeeding Earl
Bowers.
Mr.. Bell is a widely known farmer
of this area and member of the
Bluffton board of education. He has
also served on the Bluffton recrea-
ton commission, and has been a
member of the board of directors of
the Elevator Co. for a number of
years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12

Work at the new Bluffton swim.
ming pool is progressing according
to schedule this week and with the
addition of several workers to the
force indications are that the pool
will be available for use next month,
according to Paul Diller, chairman
of the Park and Recreation commits
sion.
Two sections of the floor to the
pool have been poured and workmen
were laying steel supporting Tuesday
and expected to lay the remaining
two sections of the flooring Wednes-
day. With the completion of that work
all that remains to do on the pool
is the connection of some pipes by
the plumber and painting.
Whether the pool will be ready for
use in August hinges largely on
whether filtration equipment arrives
on the site in time to be installed
There is some delay on delivery of
this equipment and it can not be
ascertained when it will arrive.
Workmen have the flagstone wall
being built between the west side of
the pool and quarry over half COM
pleted. The wall, which will stand
about four feet high, will be used
to make a break between the quarry
ledge and pool. The area behind the
wall will be used for the walk around
the pool and sand beach will also be
available for use by bathers.
Inside the wall there will be a 10
foot walk, 13 foot walk will be laid
to the north and west of the pool and
II foot walk at the south end. Out
side the wall, along the quarry ledge,
will be a 10 foot walk extending 180
feet for promenaders.
Also at the south end of the pool,
m m d ately opposite the site
the proposed bath house will be
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12

handled the next day, it was pointed
out. Mail is dispatched at 7:30 a. M,
2 p. m., 4:45 p. m. and $50 p. m.
Incoming mail arrives at SIS a. M,
2:5O p. m, 4:30 p. m. and $40 p. m.
An interesting note was added
when it was pointed out that a person
in Bluffton could send letter to a
rural route address in Jenera, Ar
lngton or Mt. Blanchard and receive
an answer the same day through the
Star Route service serving the area.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12

The drug store has been in its pre-
sent location for 81 years, since 1905.
-Four years ago it was extensively
remodeled.
A unique feature of the store is
tnat in its history it has never sold
cigarettes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Allen County To Send
Six In August Draft

Allen county's draft quota for Au-
gust is six men according to an an
nouncement this week by Mrs. DON
ma Ohler, clerk of Selective Service
Board No. 2, Lima. The draftees
will leave Lima August 2.
In the August draft Putnam county
will send six men and Hancock
county, seven.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Sidney's Drug Shop,
One Of TOUn's Oldest
Firms, Changes Ownership

Bufftons first drug store established prior to the Civil
War and operated for the years by An and the late
Sidney Hauenstein Sdneys Drug Shop changed ownership
Monday The business acquired from Armn Hauensten bv
James Loofbourrow Lima,
The owner who lives in the Springbrooe addition o
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
LION PICNIC

Members of the Bluffton- Lions
club and their families will enjoy
their annual midsummer picnic and
pollock supper Tuesday evening at
the Buckeye Lake Park.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-07-12
Wheat Harvest Underway;
Good Crop Is Predicted
First Loads ArriUe At Elevators
Tuesday As Combines Begin To Roll

Six days later than the first wheat hit the market
last the first loads of the began to flow into
the elevators Tuesday.
Farm observers predicting better than average Weld
this with total surprising last year when wet
planting kept many farmers sowing their acreage
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1956-06-01

Sparkman who is chairman OF
a Senate subcommittee on East
ern affairs said the. Eisenhower
administration has given assur-
ance that the Middle East is of
utmost concern.
But" he declared. lin all can
dor l must confess I am unable to
determine what our Middle East
policy is"
II don't mean to be over-criti-
cal of the administration" the
senator said, "but certainly we
must expect more precision from
our president and secretary of
state"
He said it is of extreme impor-
lance that the United States have
a definite policy on what it should
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1956-06-01

do in the event the Egyptians
should suddenly invade Israel.
"Our president and secretary of
state must know what is going
on" Sparkman declared.
He said Russia has lost no time
in rushing into vacuum" created
in the Middle East because we
did not have a strong positive
policy"
Sparkman said it is SOLDERING
thought" that Russia has moved
into the Middle East into a posi-
ton of influence-"so something she
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1956-06-01
Birmingham, Alabama

has been working toward $50
years."
Prior to his address Sparkman
told a reporter that much of the
turbulence in the Middle East
might have been prevented if the
United States had had a definite
policy in regards TO that area.
He said conditions are better
today in the Middle East and
tension is not as high as before.
But, he added, the problems there
cannot be solved until there is a
durable peace"
He said. the situation offers
favorable climate for Communist
subversive activities"
Sen. Sparkman reminded his
audience that troubles have come
during the period of a truce-a
United Nations truce. Despite
the uneasy truce in Israel there
continues to be danger of open
conflict"
go. On a more optimistic note.
Sparkman described the Roadway
which had been made in the state
of Israel's economic development.
He called Israel a world haven
for victims of oppression FIR m
relationships"
In another address at the meet
ing Israel Consul Nahum Astar
said the outstanding achievement
of the state of Israel has been "the
giving back to human beings
human dignity"
Astar said. "At this hour the
people of Israel are digging
trenches and making shelters be-
cause they do not want to leave
Israel and so they can be pre-.
pared in event of war.
Our goal is to prepare Israel
for the many thousands of people
waiting to reach the shores of Is
rael," the consul said.
Presiding at the banquet was
Wallace Cohen. president of the
Birmingham Zionist District.
Harry Hurvich, chairman of the
meeting, said purpose of the Zion
list program is to acquaint the
public with the current situation
in Israel and to raise funds for
Israeli projects.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1956-06-01
SEN. SPARKMAN RAPS IKE'S
MUDDLED' MID-EAST POLICY

Sparman (DAa) recently took the Eisenhower
of policy the Middle
Addressing Day the Paramount Club
Birmingham, he said world be at stake"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-04
.WMAL to Garry Results
Of Area, NotionoI Races

The Evening Star stations,
WNIAL-TV and WMAL radio,
will carry the election story to
the Washington area Tuesday
night.
Continuous coverage by large
STATS Of reporters and news ana
lysts will begin at $3.50 pm. and
continue until the Presidential
contest is decided.
Both stations will carry the full
network coverage of ABC. New
headquarters for the networks
will be in New York, with John
DAILY presiding.
In addition, the local stations
will cut away from the network
regularly to post the latest re-
suits IN nearby Maryland and
Virginia races. These breaks will
come 5 minutes before the hour,
beginning at 8;55 pm, and at
25 minutes past the hour.
For the local story. Common
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-04
White House Statement
Hits Stevenson Claim

American people that directly
concern their health and the
future of their children"
Mr.. Hagerty's statement today
said he had asked Mr.. Strauss
about Mr.. Stevenson's amazing
statement of yesterday, and this
is what he tells me-" He then
quoted Mr.. Strauss as saying:
Mr.. Stevenson has been mis-
informed, and his public state
ment Of yesterday is untrue.
| . The study was made by DR.
w. F. Libby, then a professor at
the University of Chicago, now
a member of the Atomic Eenergy
Commission. Designed to provide
advance protection for the people
of our Nation, especially our
children, the purpose of the
study was to determine the
feasibility of purifying milk if ii
were ever contaminated by fall
out should we be attacked by an
enemy using atomic weapons
The results Of the study, though
incomplete, were encouraging.
Calls Statement False
1.-THE statement that for two
years and until the problem was
made public by nongovermental
sources. the administration kept
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-04

the facts from the public is
likewise false.
Far from being kept from
the American people, the study
has been publicly available since
1855 in the 40 depository IL
braries Of the Atomic Energy
Commission scattered across the
United States and publicly dis
tributed by the Department of
Commerce.
THE further statement that
the present amount of stron-
tium 80 comprises a public
health problem of serious mag
nitude' is categorically refuted
4by the Nations most competent
scientific body. the National
Academy of Sciences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-04

the way ne carried MS ngnC py
trainside and along the right Of
way was remarkable even for
him.
At Kasson. the poultry and
livestock center where President
Eisenhower in 1852 uttered a
highly disputed promise for 100
per cent of parity in price sup
ports. Senator Kefauver told 500
townspeople that their COM
nlunity was "the birthplace of
the greatest broken promise in
the history of American politics. >
: Calls on Eisenhower Host
+. II submit to you" he said,
What any politician who does
not keep his solemn promises to
the farmers Of America cannot
be trusted to keep any other
promises he might make"
. Then to the delight Of the
crowd that had gathered at the
railroad station despite a light
drizzle he asked Henry Snow to
climb on the rear platform of
the Kefauver victory special. "
Mr.. Snow owns the farm where
Mr., Eisenhower spoke in the
1852 campaign.
. At Rochester, Mimi, famed
for the world-renowned Mayo
Clinic, he reminded $50 resi-
dents that the Democrats in
Congress with Zip service" but
not much else from the Eisen-
hover administration. plugged
hard FOR larger financial OUTLAWS
and facilities for health of the
American people. At Mankato
ct noon he charged that the
sharp drop in hog prices last
year was the result of a de-
hberate choice by the Eisen-