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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Local Development
Company Receives
Corp. Charter

With the receipt of its corporation
charter last week from Secretary Of
State Ted w. Brown, BIuffton East
Land, Inc, Bluffton's new real estate
development company, was preparing
to start construction this spring in
Sunny Acres subdivision where il
holds % lots.
Under its charter, the new corpora.
tion is authorized to issue 250 shares
of par value 500 common stock.
At meeting Thursday evening of
last week the directors adopted the
slogan, Community Growth Through
Planned Development"
"Our plan is to provide Bluffton
with a well-planned residential devel-
opment. 1t is important that the COM
munity's building acreage be devel-
oped Systematically, and that home
construction be of such noture that
adjacent properties will increase in
in value with it,, Richard Benroth,
president of Bluffton East Land,
stated.
Proper building, correct planning of
streets and installation of utilities are
important to the towns future, Mr..
Benroth said
The organization plans to use local
builders in construction of homes on
its acreage. Assistance will be given
landowners in or adjacent to the
village who are interested in develop
ment of their properties.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Be Welcomes Another Formosan Student

The arrival at Bluffton college of
Lu Kan Yaw, Formosa, for the seer
ond semester, gives that far eastern
nation the largest representation on
the local campus of any country OUT
side of the United States and it's pos
sessions. He is the third student from
Formosa now studying here.
"Lu", as he Is known on the CAM
pus, is resident of Taichung where
his father is a hotel manager. He is
one of six children in the family.
Prior to his arrival in the states he
completed high school work and at
tended a military academy for four
months as required by the Formosan
government of students planning to
study in this country.
The Rev. Glen Graber, a Bluffton
college graduate now on furlough
from Mennonite Central Committee
work in Formosa, introduced "Lu" to
Bluffton. After two years of pre-en-
gineering at the local school, he is
considering further training at
another school.
The young man had met another
college student from Formosa, Mary
Lin, before his arrival here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16

There are a number of good
markets for the tomatoes. Bluffton
residents purchase more than other
town of its size in the area. Lima is
is the best market, generally,
The work at the greenhouse keeps
the operators busy. The spring crop
is in the ground. There are nine rows
and $50 plants to the row. The av-
erage yield is eight to 10 pounds per
plant.
For the spring crop operators at
the greenhouse set nine rows of
tomatoes. Each row has $50 plants
and it kept the Strattons and Elmer
Short busy for several days. Short
handles the bedding and vegetable
plant end of the operation. His 30
odd years experience in the business
make him well qualified for the work
The operation never ends. When the
work on the winter crop has been
completed, the fall crop will be set in
that area. And, 50 it goes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Mrs. Herbert Traucht
Heads Heart Campaign

Mrs. Herbert Traucht, S. Main
street, has been named chairman OF
the Bluffton Heart Fund Drive to be
held during the month of March. The
drive this year will be sponsored by
the Telesis club.
Mrs. Traucht announced that of
the funds collected in Allen county
this year 75%c will remain in the
county to combat the heart diseases
through research, education and com
munity heart programs.
The new chairman pointed out that
heart and circulatory diseases are the
leading cause of death in the country,
accounting for 52.3 percent of all
deaths. They are responsible for more
deaths than all other diseases COM
bined.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
MasOns To Entertain
Sons At Dinner

Darrell Linder, personnel director
of the RCA plant in Findlay, will be
the principal speaker at the 23rd an
nual Father and Son banquet of
Bluffton Lodge No. 432, F & Am
Monday evening at $3.50 o'clock at the
Methodist church.
Arden Baker will be master of GER
emonies, and Wilhelm Amstutz will
give the welcome.
All reservations are to be in to Hi
ram Huser by Saturday. The pro-
gram committee includes John Gil
bert, Harold Beals and Richard Augs-
burger. Yr,- 4 n-Riol.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
World Day OF Prayer Service Fridau
Night Part Of Local Le,ten Observance

Representatives from most Bluffton
churches will participate. on. the
program for annual World Day of
Prayer services Friday night at s in
the Church of Christ. The services
are sponsored by the Bluffton United
Church Women.
Mrs. Ezra Moser is again general
chairman for the event. Mrs. James
Heininger is program chairman.
AS part of the program an
octette from the First Mennonite
church viii present "The King of
Love My Shepherd Is". Mrs. Edwin
Rice, of the Presbyterian church, will
sing "He Shall Feed His Flock" from
Handel's Messiah. Mrs. Roy Rogers,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Home Grown?
Home Grown?
Mid Winter Tomato Crop Is Experiment
At StrattOn Greenhouses Near Here

Those big sun-ripened, juicy, red
tomatoes currently appearing on the
vegetable displays Of tn local groceries
and on Bluffton dinner tables, it may
surprise you to know, are grown not
more than four miles from home.
For the first time in the six-year
history of the Stratton greenhouse,
the owners are experimenting with a
mid-winter tomato crop. Heretofore
the crop was raised in a regular rota-
ton of early spring and late fall.
While the commercial success of the
experiment is not assured, it appears
that the mid-winter crop is likely to
be regular thing at the Stratton
establishment. Anyone visiting the
greenhouse, located at the inter-
section of U. S. BON and the Fett
road south of town, would be impress
ed by what nature can do in the
wintertime with little help from
man. The vines which have acquired
length of 13 feet, heavily laden
with nice sized fruit in various stages
of ripening, would make a tomato of
the backyard variety blush with
shame.
James Stratton, who along with his
father, Raymond, and brother, Robert,
are in partnership in the business,
said the experiment was tried in
order to supplement income at the
greenhouse during the winter months.
The plants were put into the ground
October / and the first crop was
picked around New Years Day.
The 100 200-foot greenhouse,
covering one half acre, is larger than
90 percent of all greenhouses in the
United States, Stratton said. Most of
them average one quarter of an acre.
Some are as large as 13 acres.
Stratton is willing to argue the
point about the flavor of hothouse
tomatoes. He'll tell you there is a
growing number of persons who favor
the variety grown under glass to the
outdoor type.
Tomatoes grown at the greenhouse
are not, as some people believe, taste
less. In fact, Stratton pointed out,
there are a number of customers who
prefer their flavor over the outdoor
variety.
can be regulated as to the amount of
temperature and water they receive.
The temperature in the greenhouses
can be regulated to within two de-
grees and if the plants "need drink
the operators merely turn a valve.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16

A preview of what Bluffton may
expect when the new Ex-Cell-O plant
goes into operation here at it's pro-
posed site on the east side of town
was given a group of local business
men who toured the operations at the
Lima branch Thursday afternoon of
last week.
The tour included a first-hand view
of the operations of the sheet metal
and dairy packaging divisions, and
the propeller blade division where
small blades used in the cooling mech
anism of jet engines are milled and
turned to an almost unbelievable ex-
actness.
The Bluffton group was impressed
with the general orderliness and
cleanliness of the Lima plant, and es-
pecially of those departments likely to
be installed here when the new plant
is completed.
Operations at the Bluffton plant
will consist mainly of metal fabrica-
tion. Bases for boring and milling
machines, dairy packaging machines,
center tapping machines and control
boxes for the machinery will probably
be made here.
E. H. Jones, operations manager of
the plants in Lima, Fostoria, Elwood,
Ind, and the proposed Bluffton plant,
told the group that the Bluffton op-
Grafton will consist of what the COM
pany calls commercial work as OPP
posed to war department contract
work.
The plant, which will employ some
$50 skilled male employees at capaci-
ty, will probably bring about de-
mand for more housing in Bluffton,
Mr.. Jones said. He added that these
homes probably would be in the $12,-
900 to $4,000 class.
The operations manager told Eu-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16

Athletic manager Robert
Ewing announced after the game
Tuesday that tickets for the
Bluffton-Ada game Friday night
will be on sale at Urich's IGA
Market and the Rexall Drug
Store until noon Friday.
Tickets are 75e for adults and
40c for students. All tickets at
Celina are 75c.
The contest was thriller from
the outset. The score was tied six
times in the first quarter. 1t was
knotted some twenty times during
the game.
With less than three minutes to
go Bluffton went ahead at 62-61.
The Jeffs came back to score a field
goal to give them a 1882. Then,
after both clubs missed several shots,
Urich connected for his sixth goal
of the evening to put the locals in
the van by one point.
Jack Fields, who took scoring
honors for the night with 27 points,
fouled a Jefferson player with 80
seconds remaining. But he missed
the free throw and with it went the
Delphos chance for victory in the con-
test.
Urich added Is points to the
Pirate total and Ron Lora contribut-
ed IL. Gould and Ayers topped the
Jefferson scoring with "a and 20
points respectively.
Delphos was in the van at the
intermission 27-36
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16

by the Ohio Power company.
Eugene Schmidt, representing the
power company, showed the plan
which he said his company would like
to place in effect by September l.
That is the date when the present
free street lighting service termi-
mates, according to the contract under
which the municipal plant was sold.
If the plan is adopted without mod
ifcation by council, the village would
begin in September to foot monthly
bill of approximately $616.67, Mr..
Schmidt explained.
The Main street lighting plan
would provide for $500 lumen lights
near the corporation limits with grad
ually increasing intensity of lighting
until lights four times brighter are
used in the center of the business Sec
tion. The present boulevard lights are
rated at $500 lumen, but Mr. Schmidt
contends that because of their design
they do not provide nearly the candle
power that the modern fixtures fur
nish.
"When the new system is complet-
ed, you will be able to read news
paper at night on the street in any
part of the business section, the
power company representative prom
ised.
If possible, Schmidt said, the old
system will be permitted to remain in
operation when the new one is turned
on. Everyone will be surprised at the
difference, he declared.
The lights will be mounted on
wooden poles from the corporation
limits to College avenue, and on steel
poles from College avenue north to
Elm street, and then again on wooden
poles to the corporation line. The
present underground system of con-
duit, which is said to be in poor con-
dition, will be abandoned. The lights
Will bc oS1NCu Ny cthlStC IIdIAu VI
wire extending from post to post.
If council should decide to have
new fixtures and $500 lumen lamps
installed all over town on every side
street, it would up the lighting bill
approximately 500 per month, coun-
Gil was advised.
Under the plan suggested by the
power company, the towns annual
bill for street lighting will amount to
$7,400. If new fixtures and brighter
lights are used on the side streets, it
would approach $500.
After a lengthy discussion which
lasted until past midnight, council de-
cided to hold another meeting next
Tuesday evening to consider the con-
tract further. 1t will be necessary un-
der law to advertise for bids on the
street lighting contract.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16

of the Church of Christ will give the
prelude and the offertory..
More than 800 World Day of
Prayer services will take place
throughout the state. 1t is sponsored
by the United Church Women of the
Ohio Council of Churches.
The program, the 10th annual in
America, will be sponsored nationally
by the General Department of United
Church Women of the National
Council of Churches.
The program is conducted across
the United States and in 128 other
countries to commemorate the first
Friday in the 40 days of Lent.
Offerings taken in the various
services go to missions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Lions Blind Product
Sale Proving Success

Purchases Of the Lions CLUB Blind
Products Sale have averaged almost
so per cent of the calls made in the
Bluffton community it has been an
nounced by DIR. Gordon Bixel, chair
man of the Lions Blind committee.
The sale ends today, Thursday.
Nineteen women have been kept
busy making calls to every residence
listed in the Bluffton telephone direc-
tory to sell brooms, mops and other
cleaning aids made by the blind. To
avoid undue pressure on the operators
at the telephone office, the calls have
been staggered, DR.. Bixel said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Richard Basinger New
Explorer Crew Leader

Richard Basinger, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambert Basinger, South Jack
son street, was elected senior crew
leader of Explorer Scout Post 56 at a
recent meeting of the organization.
Other officers of the Post are: Cor
don Mathewson, assistant crew lead
err. Lynn Schiffke, secretary -treasur-
er; and Jerry Kohl, scribe.
An outdoor event is planned for
February 1926.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Births

The following births were recorded
at the Bluffton Community hospital
during the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Brooks (Helen
Burkholder), Bluffton, a boy, George,
born last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Armstrong,
Findlay, boy, Christopher Joe, born
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Scott (Joan
Elzay), Bluffton twins-girL Mary
Lynne, boy Bradley Lee, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arden Baker (Jane
Miller), Bluffpn, a girl, Margaret
Ann, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Diller (Cor-
inne Badertscher), Lima, a girl,
Kathleen Ann, born Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Basinger,
Bluffton, girl, Julia Ann. born Sun
day. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McCune,
Bluffton, a girl, Ann Elizabeth, born
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hickerson, Sr,
Findlay, girl, Carlett Donna, born
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Swisher,
Rawson, a boy, David Charles, born
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Baldwin,
Beaverdam, girl, born Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Ronald Johnston,
Ada, a girl, born Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elton Beery, Seville,
Ohio, girl, Catherine, born Febru-
ary at Medina hospital. Mrs. Beery
is the former Margery Niswander,
daughter of DIR. and Mrs. w. NJ. Mis-
wander.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
BlufftOn Man Sells.
Shares In Lima Firm

ROLAND Stratton, Route 2, Bluff
ton, has sold his interest in the Gas
dorf Machine Co., Lima, which he
helped found two years ago.
This week he accepted a position in
the machine assembly department at
the Lima Ex-Cell-O plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Pirates Edge Jeff 64-63
Last Minute Goal
Locals Engage RiUGl Ada Friday
Night In Tourney Qudrter-FinaIs

Guard Joe Urcs last minute field goal gave the Buffton
Pirates hardeaned 663 Tuesday night in the
ing game of the NonCounty at Cena field house.
lhe win sent Coach Joe Harris top seeded cagers
quarternas berth Their next game will Friday night at
20 when they tangle with the rival Ada RulIdops
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16

Stratton says this produces a tomato
with a more tender skin than those
grown outdoors. There is also less
acid.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-02-16
Study MOder.nEization Of
Street Lighting System
Village Will Pay S6I6 Monthly Light
Bill Under Ohio POlUer Co. Proposal

The replacement Buttons 127 boulevard lights located
principally on with 81 modern overhead fixtures said
produce much greater lighting efficiency and the operation OF
16 oh much as they are other of town provided
in sreetghng plan submitted to council Tuesday evening
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07
Government Called
Biased by Newspaper

COLOMBO, Ceylon - (NCl-Ceylon's leading Catholic
paper The Messenger has criticized apathy to-
wards Catholic protests against blasphemous attack" on
the Blessed Virgin.
The paper said that the government attitude shows
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07
Cardinal Hits
Laws Against
Common Good

PARIS - (NC) - Laws con-
trary to the common good, such
as those permitting divorce, are
''the cancers of society" His En-
inence Maurice Cardinal Feltin,
Archbishop of Paris, said at a
Mass here marking the opening
of the French Parliament.
The Cardinal presented three
essential moral laws for the guild
ance of legislators:
]. Never permit particular
interests TO prevail over gen.
eFsl interests.
z. Know how, when con-
science demands il, to be indie.
pendent OF party Discipline.
,. Reconcile national inter.
esis with general interests OF
mankind.
Law tends TO bring harmony TO
the social body, the Cardinal
said If legislative power is not
administered by those who are
qualified representatives of the
common good and is, instead ad-
ministered by those who repro
sent private interests, then law
is no longer the expression of
social judgment, he explained.
The interests of the whole COM
nonwealth should be expressed
in the law, he added.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

MAJ NOR convalescent
Home for aged and infirm. Phi. VIM.
Frasure, PR. 6-369l. for rates
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

society or one area on the
earth, but all societies and all
missions equally. He who gives
to the Society for the Propaga-
ton of the Faith is making an
act of Faith in the Vicar of
Christ.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

We may seek reasons why the
Blessed Mother should have
put the Society for the Propa-
CATION of the Faith in her mind
and heart. First, because heay-
en- is on the side of those who
fulfill the petition of the Lords
Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come"
Nothing is nobler than the es-
tablishment Of Christ's King
dom, the Church, in pagan
lands. Second. her money will
be sent to the Holy Father
through the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith. This
is His own PontificaI Society
and ii is set up not to aid one
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07
The Catholic Tlmes7
Friday. Dec I, 1855

Want ads can MAKE more nuiss
tor your product than orass
pand with 1000 members
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07
Church Groups
Open School
In Korea

SEOUL, Korea = NC) - Two
worldwide Catholic relief agen-
cies, Caritas Internationale and
Catholic Relief Services - Ma.
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, are sponsoring Korea's first
School of Social Service, which
has opened here.
Saying that he rated the new
school next in importance to the
national seminary" Bishop Thorn
as Quinlan, Regent of the Apos-
tolic Delegation in Korea, urged
its students to prepare for their
future work in the catechetical
and social fields by study and
prayer"
Without ssnefisy you will be
q mouth without words" the
Columbian Bishop told fhe 81
students who came from all
parts of southern Korea TO ss-
tend the two-year course.
Edward Francel, chief of the
community development division
of the US. international Cooper
alton Administration in Korea,
said at the opening that grad
yates will give leadership and
guidance to the abundance of tai
ent and initiative in every Kor-
can community"
In attendance were Bishop Paul
M. Ro, Vicar Apostolic of Seoul,
Columbian Father Neil Boyle, di-
rector, CRS-NCWC in Korea, and
representatives of the Korean
Hierarchy.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

how discriminatory il is in re-
gard to offenses affecting the re-
igious Susceptibilities of differ
ent religious groups in the coun-
try.
The Messenger said there was
no doubt that authorities would
have rushed into action if Buddh-
ist religious feelings were simil-
arly outraged.
The attack in question, ridicul.
ed the virginity of Our Lady, was
contained in a pamphlet issued by
a Buddhist monk. Leading the
Catholic campaign for the publi-
cations withdrawal was Arch
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ton of the Faith is making an
act of Faith in the Vicar of
Christ.
fnasmueh as the gift was Q
real sacrifice, IL is very likely
too THAT Our Blessed Mother
inspired the good woman TO
use her money for those who
are making the greatest sac
rifiees in the Church, namely
our Missionaries. Heaven is or
the side of the Missions--why
not you? Deny yourself, every
day, some little pleasure: for
such is the condition OF hoIi-
ness. Even cut into your saw
inqs and then offer il for the
Church in pagan lands, out OF
love for God, and we will say
q God Love Yov."
GOD LOVE YOU to P.V.J.
Money has always Slipped
through my fingers easily so
this month / shall let some
slip through for the Missions.
II you have caught the real
Christmas spirit then you will
want to give a spiritually sig
nificant gift-a lovely statue of
Our Lady of Television which
is an exact reproduction OF the
statue seen on Bishop Sneens
television program. When you
send your So offering to the So
ciety for the Propagation of The
Faith you will receive a gift
TO be given to a friend and at
the same time you will be Civ
ing gift to the missionaries
of the world who are spread
ing knowledge of Our Lady
throughout the pagan lands.
Cut out this column, pin your
sacrifice TO it and mail it to
the Most Rev. Fulton j. Sheen,
National Director of The So
ciety for the Propagation OF The
Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New
York TX, or your Diocesan Di-
rector Father James Kulp, 246
East Town Street, Columbus is,
0hia
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bishop Thomas B. Cooray, 0.MI,
of Colombo, who conveyed Catho-
lie feelings over the book in per-
Sonal meetings with government
officials.
The Messenger complained
that the Archbishop had been
denied an official reply TO his
representation. This, the paper
declared, is en- indication Of the
"vn-understsndsbIe essuaIness"
with which the whole matter
has been viewed by the sufhori-
ties.
The Catholic journal called for
legislation protecting the right
of minorities to be shielded from
sffronts to their deepest religious
feelings.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

iclie OF kovdoveov, French West Africa.
Al left 10 church si Mission Of Bsm, in
same area, where there are 1000 cafho-
lies and 100 taking Instructions prior TO
baptism. Children in front OF Church si-
tend primary school at the Mission.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

By the end of 1855, the Tu-
bereulosis Society of Columbus
and Franklin County will have
A,rayed 10000 persons. finding
nearly $500 chest abnormali.
ties. The Christmas Seal sale is
the only financial support OF
this important health program.
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