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War II he was commander Of the
First Canadian Corps in the Ital-
ian campaign. Before he took the
U.N. job in Jersualem he was
deputy minister of the Depart
ment of Veterans Affairs in
Ottawa.
The general was sort of
trapped into taking the first
thankless Middle East assign
|ment. He said for a long time
he had been proclaiming that
people should do more for the
U. N. So when the Palestine
proposition was made to him
there I was faced with my own
challenge"
The task undertaken by Gen.
Burns was one Of the loneliest
as well as the most difficult. With
his wife and daughter remaining
lin Ottawa, he lived alone in a
Ithree-room suite overlooking
Jerusalem in a neutral zone not
much larger than the area of its
grounds. His headquarters was a
Icastle-like structure built by the
British for their Palestine man
date.
Has Learned Arabic
A Canadian reporter wrote Of
the U.N.'s new police chief:
Except when his fine-drawn
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sonality sis like that of gamma
RASMUSSEN. unfelt but potent"
His approach is direct, to the
point. An army colleague once
described him as 1.-THE brain that
marches like a soldier"
Gen. Burns said his biggest
problem in Palestine was sus-
picion.
Sometimes" he added. II am
able to bring the Israelis and
Arabs to agree with me around
"a conference table. But then the
next day I read in the paper
that the people I have spoken
to say that the other side is not
really willing to accept my pro-
posals. 1 don't think I am fight
ing a losing battle here. I think
that eventually peace will come
to this area. But it's going to
take a long time and we must
be patient"
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Nations to command the police
force 1t Is sending to enforce
the truce In the Suez and Sinai
areas.
Trying to keep things peace
full is nothing new to Gen.
Burns. AS U.N. truce supervisor
in Palestine, he has been try
ing to keep the Arabs and Is
raelis from each others Threats
since August. 1854. Until the
Israelis marched into Egypt two
weeks ago he had been moder-
ately successful.
There Is one big difference in
the generals assignments. In his
old job he had no force at his
command except that Of words
and personality. In Egypt he will
have 5000 well-armed. hand
picked troops to enforce his or
derS.
Youngest STAFF Captain
There must have been many
times these past two years that
Gen. Burns wished he had just
a club at hand.
Gen. Burns. at 81, came out Of
World War I as the youngest
staff captain in the Canadian
Expeditionary Force and holder
Of the Military Cross. In World
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temper runs away with him, Gen.
Burns is a shy and reticent man,
known in the Army as a gifted
story-teller, an exceptional pian-
ist, and a man Of many varied
interests with an encyclopedia
mind.
Music and gardening are his
hobbies. He has written some
poetry and prose good enough to
be published"
Gen. Burns already spoke
French and German fiuently
when he went to Palestine and
he has learned the Arabic in the
past two years.
Another account describes the
general as quiet, precise and
a man whose per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-11
Porty Rebuilt
New Delegate

HONOLULU. Nov. 10 R:-
Hawaii's new delegate to Con-
gress is a sharp-eyed former
police captain who is credited
with building the Democratic
Party here from a postwar weak
ling to a powerhouse that con-
trolls most key elective offices in
the territory.
John A. Burns 16.000-vote VIC
tory over incumbent Elizabeth
P. harrington, was considered a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-11
Burns Faces Tough Task
In Heading U. N. Police

The job held the last two by Maj Gen. Edison
Willard Burns has been described frequently difficult
in the world Only time will tell whether efficient
smiling Canadian hero Of both World Wars has been
tougher assignment in this boiling world.
NV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-15

Wherever he is going, I hope
Mr.. Borge returns to our living
room soon. Chats where OUR
set Isl
P.S. Borge made sure no stage
hands would steal HIS show.
He brought three of them on for
a curtain call.
4 y
TV Music Boom? The Senti-
mental Gentleman himself, I
Tommy Dorsey, reports Cvia long
distance phone):
"I'm more optimistic about
the return OF the big band than
TUe ever been. Our last night
at the St1tler. the band broke all
records for people and money"
Tommy, who credits TV with
the boom, reports that Benny
Goodman played to 5000 people
recently on a one-nighter, and
that Woody Herman and others
who go with him to the golden
age" are again pulling the
crowds.
What's more. the upsurge is
uncovering new talent. Tommy's
particularly high on the Les Ell
CART unit.
How about his Saturday night
show?
Tommy and Jimmy are still
featuring guest stars coming
up: The Treniers, Connie Fran
cis), but the emphasis now is on
the band.
Critics long ago pointed out
this flaw in "Stage Show"--that
it seemed a shame to hire a.
gifted orchestra and then SEN
tence it to accompany a variety
of vaudeville acts - but guess
it took Lawrence Weeks success
on Saturdays (ABC-TV), playing
nothing but music, and Guy
Lombardo's flop on a musical
panel show, to prove the point.
Anyway, the show has started
to bounce up in the ratings again,
and with Perry Como's absence
from the opposition channel,
who knows? Maybe the Dorseys,
scheduled to go OF in Septem-
Der, could swing right into a fall
berth.
At one point in our conversa-
ton. I asked Tommy what he
thought Of MICS Turing Billy
Goodheart out of retirement.
who's her" the noSy CHS
man promptly inquired.
Well. old Billy with whom
Tommy had lunched the Friday
before not only played a major
role in developing such maestri
as t. Dorsey. B. Goodman,
Sammy Kaye, Kay Kyser. Hor-
ace Heidi, Eddy Duchin, etc., but
he developed two of the era'sI
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top radio shows, Kyser's College
of Musical knowledge and
Heidt's Pot o. Gold.
~ i 4
On the Run:
Julius La Rosa (the Casino
Royale's starr, must think I'm a
regular on the Art Lamb show.
The last two times he's been
on Arts WTTG-5 show 1.-TWO
years apart, I've been on it, too.
i. CMy reason was to introduce
the 14-year-old Rose Haven
beauty queen, Bette Sue Plum
mer).
Julie ''lip-sung" (and forgot
the words Of his new record,
1--WE Grown Accustomed to Your
Face" (frorn MY Fair Lady"
for Art. It's q fine recording
and the Joe Reisman arrange
ment is a beguilingly lovely and
simple thing. The singing
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runsl The series viii origi-
nate 'live" from Hollywood be-
ginning Sunday. July /. from 10
to 1890 pm.
Advance Note:- Garroway's
To-day" show will originate
from the 500 Club in Atlantic
City on June 26. Dawes
guest? $. Martin and Lewis.
CHS SpectacuIars Dept: Phil
Silvers and Jackie Gleason will
star in 90-minute shows next
season. Ed Sullivan's next
tele-bio. by the way, will be on
John Huston.
Ted Mcdowell will become Tv
program and public service
manager of WATAL-TV on June
20, replacing Charles Chuck
Bishop. =. The latter is credited
with a major part in the stations
resurgence and it goes without
saying that he'll be missed.
Bishops move to st. Petersburg,
Fla, was dictated by personal
reasons. Theodore Moves will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-15

replace Mcdowell at wMAL.
same date. as account executive.
To the listener who wondered
what happened to Mac McGarry
tWRC): Mac decided to return
to Buffalo. his home town. and
work for MICS station there,
/. WRC says the job here is
open-any time Mac wants to
come back.
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studio audience was considerably
ahead of the home viewer. So
much for the advantage Of
warmup.
The moment when ! sue
cumbed completely. think. was
after Borge'S lengthy discussion
about how his mother spoke
only Danish. She didn't speak
English because she didn't know
any English people. Borge sat
down at the plano to play. and
then, as an afterthought. OBJ
served to no one In particular:
Maybe she spoke English and
nobody knew It,"
For those who have seen Borge
work. there was much that was
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star has been spending the week
trying to show Washington to his
pretty bride. They visited the
Capitol yesterday.
Returning show: Man Against
Crime" and 1t won't be re-
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familiar. He usually includes one
serious number, and in this
case, the offering was a hand
somely staged medley of Tchai-
kowsky themes performed with
the aid of a large orchestra.
Borge had fun, as usual, with
the Wabash-er, Warsaw Con-
certo. and he included one of his
super medleys around the Third
Man theme.
Borge's version of "Jalousie"
was brand-new to me. and I got
rather hysterical about it. 1t
seems to epitomize the wonder
fully irreverent touch of this
musical comedian better than
anything else I've seen him do.
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ON THE AIR
An Hour of Great
Fun With Borqe
BY BERNIE HARRISON

been with Of Victor Borges previous
appearances TV made quite clear last night WTOP9l
The time this superb Danish comedian given. the
progressively funnier he gets
And his first starring vehicle know how
tacular be.
Borge always starts slowly and it must be admitted the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-23
TODAY'S TV
HIGHLIGHTS

1880, WMAL (7)-Bold Journey:
THE Flying Trader"-Tex
Zeigler, a bush pilot. trades
with the primitive Indians of
the San Bias islands.
1880, WTTG 81 Spy: A Brit
ish officer invades Napoleon's
quarters, but is unable to kill
him in THE Green Coat"
$500, WRC az - Producers
Showcase: "Rosalinda." a gay
musical farce of old Vienna
adapted from the Max Rein
hart version of Johann
Strauss Die Fledermaus. Z"
Cyril Ritchard stars with So
pranos Jean Fem and Lois
Hunt.
$500, WTTG (5)-The Evening
Movie: Two men have to find
the murderer of a man in
their apartment so they won't
be blamed for it in THE
French Key" starring Albert
Decker.
$3.50, WMAL (D-Voice of Fire
stone: The three top winners
of the Metropolitan Opera
Additions of the Air.
900, WTOP (9)-The Charlie
Farrell Show: Charlie is
bombarded by anonymous
mash notes and discovers that
the sender is a teen-aged girl
who has crush on him.
500, WMAL (1-Film Fair
Eureka Stockade" stars Chips
Rafferty,. Australian gold
miners revolt against the
police.
$3.50, WTTG (5)-Boxing From
New York: Danny Giovanelli
VS.. Gene Poirier.
$3.50, WTOP (9)-The Vic Da-
none Show: Guests include
Jan Murray. comedian, and
Lilo, musical comedy star.
$3.50, WRC (4)-Robert Mont
gomery Presents: Catch a
Falling Star" drama of a
once-famous Hollywood star
who loses his box-office ap-
peal and must adjust to a
new status. Charles Drake,
Mary K. Wells, and Elizabeth
Montgomery.
1000, WTOP (9)-Studio One
Summer Theater: A tender
story of the friendship be-
tween an embittered blind
young man and a compass
sionate housewife who is his
neighbor.
1890, WNIAL (7)-The Ruggles:
Family comedy series with
Charles Ruggles and his real
life family.
11:15, WTOP (9)-The Late
Show: "Chatterbox." Trying
to make a star out of a radio
cowboy an unhappy movie
producer is obliged to hire
a ranch handy-girl to play
opposite him.
1880, WRC (4-Tonight: Guest
emcee Morey Amsterdam
comes on complete with his
"joke machine.
1920, WMAL (0-The Night
Show: Rex Harrison stars in
School for Husbands"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-23
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

8:15, WRC-Berkshire Festival:
Symphonic works of French
composers will be played by
the Boston Symphony Or
chestra: Roman Carnival
Overture by Berlioz. and
Prelude to the Afternoon Of
A Faun by Debussy.
$3.50, WNIAL-Voice of Fire
stone: The winners of this
years Metropolitan Opera
Additions of the Air are
guests. They are Rose
Byrum, Maria Ferriero and
Carlotta Ordassy.
$3.50, WTOP-Arthur Godfrey's
Talent Scouts: The program
will originate from the stage
of the Lincoln Theater,
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
900, WRC-The Telephone
Hour: Tonlght's guest. solo,
ist baritone, William War
field, will sing selections by
Handel and Verdi and two
SpiritualS.
11:OO, WMAL-C'mon And
Dance: The danceable
rhythm for tonight is pro-
vided by Woody Herman's
"Woodchopper's Ball." Benny
Goodman's Lets Dance" and
other toe tappin' delights.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-06

of oil and water combined but entirely
without gas.
When at its best Dutton's well pro-
duced about 100 barrels day. Oil
then was selling at So to $40 barrel.
After that the whole community be-
came excited and everybody began
drilling for OIL The creek bank
bristled with derrfcks from Macks-
burg to where Caldwell now stands.
Most of the drilling was with spring
poles and oil usually was struck with
in 300 feet and if not found there the
well was abandoned. One well was
near Slocum village and its oil was
found at a depth of SO feet. The oil
from it filled every container at hand
and flowed out over the bottoms and
into the creek. Thousands of barrels
of oil thus were wasted.
While this was going on oil was
dropping in price and as the only way
to get it to market was by wagons
over wretched roads to the Musk
ingum River and on from there by
boats net proceeds to the producer
were vary small and production was
falling off through exhaustion of the
shallow wells. The boom ended sud
denly with the outbreak of the Civil
War. Drillers left their derricks to
rot down and enlisted in the army.
When the war was over the oil busi-
ness resumed-not for production but
for speculation, brought on by the
unstable condition Of the currency.
The country was invaded by men
from New England, New York and
Pennsylvania who obtained control of
the exhausted wells and the undeve-
loped territory around them. Some
were bought and others leased Com
panies were Incorporated capital
stocks of $10O, 900 to $1,000, 900 and the
stock was sold to persons in the East
with more money than brains. The
stock sold readily and offers of
fabulous sums were made for lands
on which to base new oil companies
some as high as $1,000 an acre for
valley ground being refused Owners
of lands along the creeks thus had an
opportunity to grow rich but all but
few refused to sell and consequently
were left holding the bag. They had
been holding out for more money.
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ground then shoveling up the salt and
selling it for SO cents bushel. 1t was
a primitive way of mining and no
body ever got rich at it.
OF late Mckee had been having a
lot of trouble with his salt water well.
Salt water came out of it all right
but the water was dirty and had
sticky, greasy appearance and an
evil smell.
He drilled a new well a little
further down creek and get the same
thing but worse. What came out was
little salt water and lot of the
greasy, sinking stuff.
Somebody who had a medicine
show came along, took look at what
came out of McKee's well and bought
a barrel of it. Then he bottled the
stuff and sold it during his free show
as Seneca OIL" good for whatever
the buyer had.
One day McKee's son David was in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and by
accident heard about some valuable
stuff that had been discovered on Oil
creek in that state. Shown a sample
of it he told the informant: There is
plenty of that stuff along Salt creek,
in my home neighborhood." Mckee
promised to send sample of it and
did so. A company then was formed
to develop the oil field in the NJ
region. There they drilled the tirsi
oil we'll in Ohio.
The first man to strike oil when he
actually was looking for it in the
new field was James Dutton Ht
drilled well about mile and a hal
southeast of Macksburg, using {
spring pole and kicking it down. AT
depth of 81 feet he struck a crevlct
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-06
Betty ShGntz And Karl III. Klassen
Married In COn,ins, Mich. Church

double ring ceremony in the
Comins Mennonite church, Comins,
Mich, last Saturday, united Miss
Betty Shantz of Fairview, Mich, and
Karl II. Klassen, son of Prof. and
Mrs. John P. Klassen, Bluffton, in
marriage. The bride is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest L. Shantz.
Rev. Lowell Troyer performed the
wedding service before an altar de-
corated with baskets of white gladioli
and candelabra Mrs. David Smucker
of Bluffton provided piano music
preceding the ceremony and was also
the accompanist for the vocal selec-
tons. Mr.. and Mrs. John Bauman
Cleveland, graduates of Bluffton col
lege, each sang a solo and at the
end of the service a duet.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. Her gown was of
chantilly lace over satin with fitted
bodice, long sleeves, and pleated
nylon tulle forming the front of her
skirt. A juliet cap edged in pearls
secured fingertip veil and she
J carried bouquet of white roses and
!; stephanotis, centered with an orchid
The brides sister, Mrs. Albert
Burton, was matron of honor. Carry
ing bouquet of yellow roses, she
wore waltz legth pale blue grown
with a taffeta cummerband.
Best man was Herbert K1assen
Boyes Hot Springs, Calf, brother oi
the groom. Robert Shantz and Derri
Shantz, brothers of the bride, were
/ the ushers.
Following the ceremony dinner
5 was served at the Fairview higl
school auditorium for 200 guests.
: Bluffton residents attending tn,
A wedding were Mr.. and Mrs. John P
!. Klassen, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Klassel
| and children of Toledo, Mr.. and Mrs
t Oliver Luginbuhl, Mr.. and Mrs. Car
; Smucker and family, and Mrs. Davic
Smucker.
n The bride is graduate of Blufftol
I college and was selected as the 1875
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-06
Huge New Power
Plant To Be Added
To AGE System

A new $5S,0OO,000 electric power
plant, to house the worlds largest
generating unit, will be built by the
Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. on
the Wabash River south of Terre
Haute, Ind, it was announced today.
/. & M. and Ohio Power Co. are
both operating subsidiaries in the
American Gas and Electric Co.
System.
The generating unit, which also will
be the most efficient power producer
in the world, will have generating
capacity of 1000 kilowatts-73 per
cent larger than any unit operating
today. 1t is the first of two planned
on the seven-state AGE System.
Location of the second unit elsewhere
on the AGE System is still unoer
study and is expected to be an
nounced later in the year.
Philip Sporn, president of AGE
said that construction of the power
plant would be started in the very
near future and that completion i:
scheduled for late 1858. Provision ha:
been made in its design for eventua
expansion to 100000 XIV.
The plant will be tied into the I.
M. system via a new 330,000-vol
transmission line. In turn, the I. & M
system is interconnected and inte
grated with the balance of the seven
state AGE System.
Mr.. Sporn described the new gen
Grating plant as "a new plateau il
power generation technology" Som'
| idea of the size of the first unit lie
in the fact that theoretically it viii
be capable of supplying all tn
residential electric requirements of
city with a population of 100000
The outdoor-type boiler will be as tai
as 23-story building with an exhaus
stack approximately 500 feet abov
ground level.
The plant is expected to show a
improvement of five per cent i
thermal efficiency over the world
best to date. 1t also will show a
improvement of seven and a half pc
cent in capital cost per kilowatt C
generating capacity, brought abol
by economies due to larger size {
unit, higher speed of the turbine
space reduction, elimination of boile
house and many other factors.
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Homecoming queen during her senior
year. She has been serving as case
worker in Findlay for the Child We'll
fare board for the past year and will
continue her work there.
The groom will be senior this fall
at Bluffton college and is majoring in
social service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Klassen will be al
home at Route 2, Bluffton, after a
wedding trip in northern Michigan
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-06

In the postwar boom two sisters
who owned less than so acres gave an
option to buy at $4,000 for a short
time and when the parties having the
option were ready to pay the women
reneged on their contract, barricad-
ing themselves in the house for
several days until the option expired.
They finally gave up, signed deed
and got their money. The land was
not worth SIS an acre for agriculture
and never a single barrel of oil was
obtained from it.
The bubble burst but spasmotic
drilling and some speculation con
tinued until a 4,000-acre field in the
1880s was in full and profitable pro
duction.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-06

CATTLE AND CALVES on feed for
market in major feeding states July
1 were 10 percent fewer than year
ago, according to Ohio State Univer-
Sity extension economists.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-06
The First Ohio Oil

Back in 1916 Robert Mckee eked
out a scant living by pumping salt
water out of a well on Salt creek a
mile from Caldwell, Noble County,
letting the water drain off into the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-09-06
w

To prove there is something
that stops athletes foot, ring
worm and other associated ex-
ternal fungus infections. 1t is
NIGEL = compounded by a
registered pharmacist and sold
in all drug stores. You take no
chance. If you are not COM
pletely satisfied with the way
NIGEL stops all itching and
burning and promotes healing,
your money will be refunded.
Get NIGEL today from your
Druggist. Price soc. (adv.)
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MACARTHUR
Continued From Page A-14


the young woman who became
quite a noteworthy figure in
Hollywood recently by having a
baby via normal birth at home.
She, too, thinks it is pretty
funny that so many of film
towns glamour mammas should
regard this as such an extra
ordinary feat.
Another thing in which Miss
Sterling finds amusement -
Joined by the 1894" producer,
N. Peter Rathvon-is what hap
pened to the movies ending. AS
you know if you read the novel,
it reaches a hopeless conclusion
with man thoroughly ground un-
der Big Brothers benevolent
dictatorship.
Mr.. Rathvon thought British
audiences could take it, but he
wasn't so sure about American
movie exhibitors. So he shot two
endings, one Orwellian, one Of
fering a CLEAN of hope and a
hint that Love will Survive.
Well. the British movie peo-
pie heard about the new ending
and demanded that they be al
lowed to use it for the British
made films Showings in Great
Britain. Executives of Columbia
Pictures, which is distributing
1894" in this country, gave Mr.
Rathvon another surprise. They
decreed that American audiences
shall see the authentic con-
clusion of Mr.. Orwell's frigthen-
ing yarn,