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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03
Federal Funds SOUGHT
For '60Winter OIympics

steam baths. medical ana dem
tai services. a shoe repair shop,
hair dressers, BARRIERS, laundry,
dry cleaning, an international
bank and a soda fountain all
within a five-minute walk OF
every training or competitive
course except the cross country
and ski courses"
Rome is building two Olympic
centers. BroSio said: one on the
north side and the other on the
south side. Midway between
will be the press village.
Daley spoke Of plans 10 make
the Pan American Games the
biggest TO date.
Beneficial PFOpagandz
Gov. Knight spoke OF Amer
ica's role in a changing world
and warned that "if diplomacy
and craftsmanship fail. Amer
lea and the other major powers
all face humiliation"
The Governor spoke Of the
financial sacrifices ahead and
said that "the story Of people
told by people to one another
is propaganda of the most
beneficial and the most con-
vincing type. II Is principally
for that reason that California
welcomes the opportunity To
hold the Winter Olympic Games
In 1860.
1T is automatic" he said,
that people who understand
one another and believe in mu-
tual good will--these people
will not destroy each other"
Last nights dinner was the
highlight of the first day OF the
two-day quadrennial meeting
Of the association. Among the
business conducted yesterday
was reelection Of Tug Wilson
commissioner Of the Big Ten
as president.
! Other ofi1cers reelected were
Douglas Roby. Detroit. vice
president: Asa S. Bushnell
commissioner of the Eastern
College Athletic Conference
secretary. and r. Max Ritter
Jenkintown. Pa. treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03
Miller. Dickmon
Pace BeIvoir Win

Bob Miller Of Missouri and
Lou Dickman OF North Caro-
lima State paced Fort Belvoir
to a 1881 victory over Boiling
Air Force Base last night at
Boiling In the opening basket
ball game Of the season for
both teams.
The Engineers were behind
at halftime. 1923. but Miller
and Dickman put on a squirt
and finished with is and IL
points. respectively. Joe Bla-
houer Of Boiling was high with
Is points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03
Ellsworth Pays SlO3,3 l2
For II Ago Khan Mares

NEWMARKET, England.
Dec. 3 R.-Rex Ellsworth.
American racehorse breeder.
yesterday paid sl0S.3l2 for IL
mares formerly owned by the
late AGA Khan,
The owner OF Ellsworth
Ranch. Chino. Calf. Ellsworth
outhid buyers from all over the
world as the thoroughbreds
went up for sale at the New
market Bloodstock Sales.
Prince Ally Khan. who has
taken over his fathers racing
empire. Is selling 81 mares and
Niles at the five-day sales. Six
teen OF them went under the
auctioneer's hammer yesterday.
They brought total of $i29.-
654.
Prince Ally Khan explained
his decision to sell some of his
fathers stock by telling news
men: II haven't got the for
tune my father had. Therefore
I must make drastic cuts in my
racing stable"
Mrs. Clark Sells IL
Mrs. Robert S. Clark. widow
OF the American who won the
1854 EPSON Derby with Never
Say Die. sold IL mares and
foals for sli7.656. Clark lived
at Upperville, Va. and New
York.
Mrs. Clark has nine other
mares and foals to dispose Of
before the sale ends Friday
Top price for her horses was
$SS.220 for Fairy Flax. an s.
year-old mare by Hyperion
stallion. PenSive. out of the
War Admiral mare. Confetti.
The Anglo-Irish Bloodstock
Agency said the mare would go
to Bwamazon Farm. VIM
chester. Ky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03
Long Hos Surgery

PITTSFIELD. Mass. Dec. 3
tP).-Dale Long. Chicago Cubs
slugger. was resting comfortably
today after undergoing a minor
operation to remove an absceSS
of the lower back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
b. the Aaaoclatrd Prrn.

% wv HH7UtINItu FfFhN
NEW YORK .--oene ArmstronE. 1855
Elizabeth, n j.. outpointed Reybou
stubbs. 1885, pittsburgh nOl.
,EkW ORLEANS Larry Armstead
Davis. 80. Hartford. Conn 0lOl.
PROVIDENCE, r I--Steve ward
lf9s Hartford Conn, outpoiniec
Gene Butler 1885,. Boston 0Ol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03

RICHMOND. Va. Dec. 3 tA'l,
Bill Dudley. the first ALI
America football player to be
chosen from a Virginia college.
yesterday was announced as
the years only new member OF
the Hall Of Fame Of the
Virginia Sports Writers and
SportScasters Association.
The former star at the Uni
versity Of Virginia and with the
Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit
Lions and Washington Red
skins. was the only Hall Of
Fame nominee 10 receive the
required rs per cent Of the
memberships vote.
Capt. Norton G. Pritchett,
former Virginia athletic direc-
tor. missed by only four votes
of being elected to the Hall Of
Fame division for deceased ath-
letic figures in the State.
Dudley becomes the third liv-
ing member. the others being
golfer Sam Snead and Ace
Parker. football and baseball
star. who were the first two
members elected last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03

Chandler Harper. former
winner of the Professional
Golfers Association title. and
Bobby Dodd. a Bristol native
who went on to fame as a
football player at Tennessee
and as a coach at Georgia
Tech. polled the most votes
after Dudley In the living cate
CORY but were short the neces-
sary rs per cent.
Dudley now is q Lynchburg
insurance executive. He served
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03
Bill Dudley Is Elected
Virginia Hall Of Fame

as a commentator over a radio
network carrying Virginia &
home games this season.
Dudley. a native OF Bluefield
has won just about every foot
ball honor it's possible TO get.
including election last year "a
the national football Hall OF
Fame.
All America In 1871
He was an All-America al
Virginia in 1871. an all-pro Sc
lection with the Steelers in
1912. an all-Service choice with
Randolph Field in 1874 and the
most valuable player in the Ma :
tional Football League in 1916.
Following his graduation from
Virginia. Dudley played a year
with the Steelers and then
served in the Air Force during
World War II.
He spent part of the l945 sea-
SOP and the 1916 campaign with
the SteelerS. played three cam
paigns. tl947-49) with the Lions
and then spent two seasons
ti950-5i with the Redskins.
Dudley quit pro football and
spent a year as backfield coach
at Yale in 1852, then signed
with the Redskins as backfleld
coach in 1858. Instead of Just
coaching. however. Dudley put
lin his ninth year as a pro
player.
/ The 1854 and 1855 seasons
were spent by Dudley as back
field coach at the University of
Virginia. He was a backfield
coach with the Steelers in 1856
but resigned at the end OF the
year to devote full time TO his
insurance business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-03

Totsh s.iss Totals clpsi
Halftims .5-sJ Boiling
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Yearbook Staff At
Beaverdam Named

Patricia Marquart and Jean Ann
Arnold have been named co-editors
of the 1957-5S Beaverdam yearbook,
Beaver Echo, it was announced
this week by Superintendent John F.
Cindric.
Other members of the staff include
Judy Bowers and Sheriff. Burkholder,
assistant co-editors; Sally Bassitt
and Donna Herr, layout editor and
assistant; Jean Burkholder and Dolly
Sue Burns, photographer and assis-
tant; Sandra Amstutz and Wilma
White, advertising manager and assis-
tant; Nancy Baker, Elaine Basinger
and David King, subscriptions; Kathy
Kellam and Judy Stewart, student
snapshots.
The yearbook advisor is John F.
Cindric.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
PUCO Dismisses
Request For Signal
Near Cory-Rawson

The Ohio Public Utilities commits
sion has dismissed a request for the
Nickel Plate railroad to install warn
ing fashers at a grade crossing one
half mile east of Mt. Cory.
The request was dismissed after
the persons requesting the flashers
had failed to appear at a scheduled
hearing and later asked for several
postponements. The Utilities commits
sion had said that if it did not get
request by November 1 to reassign
the case they would dismiss it.
The request was made by the Cory
Rawson board of education. The eros
sing is one-half mile east of Mt Cory
on the road leading to the new Cory
Rawson high school building.
Further requests for warning fash
ers may be made to the commission
at later date.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Santa Visiting In Person Here NoU. 29;
Plans Movie Treat For BIuft0n Riddles

and included will be free tickets as
starter The stubs must be returned
to any local merchant and placed in
the store cotainer
Window Shopping Night December s
Window Shopping Night has been
scheduled for December 6, the Off
cial opening of the Christmas shopping
season here, when the Main street
decorations will be lighted for the
first time.
With many new decorations to go
up this year, Main street is expected
to be more attractive than ever.
A committee headed by Joe
Browne. general manager of the
Bluffton Ex-Cell-O plant, and includ-
ing Silas Diller and Ed Lape are in
charge of street decorations this year.
Claude Reams, Dale Clark and
Maynard Geiger form the committee
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Adult Education
Program Reopens
At Blufton High

continuing program of evening
adult education launched last winter.
a Problems of Supervision" course
VIII be offered in the Bluffton high
school building beginning early in the
new year, it was announced this week
by Aaron B. Murray, superintendent
of schools.
Assisting in sponsoring the course
VIII be the Bluffton board of educa-
ton, the state department of voca-
honal education, the Triplett Electri-
cal Instrument Co. and the National
Management Assn.
Enrolment of more than so persons
already has been reported. The train
ing school will be in the form of
seven two-hour sessions each Wednes-
day evening, beginning January 20.
1858.
Each class session opens with
movie, based on human relation and
industrial practices, about 80 minutes
in length, in which problems for dis
cussion periods are entertainingly
presented. Produced by the National
Management association, these films
are not the old-time training movie
type which often were more boring
than entertaining and thought-provok-
ing.
Because the course is reported as |
highly valuable to anyone who ever
holds a job of any kind, it is being |
offered to all members of the Triplett |
organization, as well as to those in
supervisory capacities in other in
duStrieS
The training is fully accredited by
the State Department of Vocational
and diplomas will be issued
to all who complete the course, Supt.
announced.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21

Santa Claus and his small friends of
Bluffton, who for the last three years
have been buffeted by chill Novem-
ber winds as they held their annual
Christmas conferences on Main
street, will meet inside this year.
Assisted by the Bluffton Business
Mems association, Santa has arrang-
ed to treat the local youngsters to a
movie Friday afternoon after Thanks
giving and will pass out treats in the
lobby as they leave the Carma thea
ter from 2:30 until 4:30 p. m.
The free cartoon movie will open
at 2 o'clock and parents may send
their children there while they begin
their Christmas shopping. The day
will also usher in the beginning of
the annual Christmas Treasure
hunt ticket distribution.
The treasure hunt tickets will be
distributed in all Bluffton stores ev-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
First Opening Day
Fatality Occurs
In Pandora Area

A 28-year-old Wheelersburg man
became Ohio's only opening-day hunt
ing fatality when he accidently shot
himself while hunting on the Hiram
Geiger farm northwest of Bluffton.
Sherman Wright apparently Stun
bled and dropped his 12-gauge auto
matte shotgun. The gun discharged
as it struck the ground, with the
shot striking Wright in the lower
chest. Putnam county sheriff Arnold
Potts said the safety on the gun was
defective.
Wright was one of a party of seven
southern Ohio men who came to hunt
in the Pandora vicinity.
He is survived by his wife and
two children. The body was taken to
the Haas Funeral home, Pandora,
before being removed to Portsmouth,
where funeral services were held.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
School Curriculum Study Report
On Agenda For December Board Meeting

Is the curriculum offered in Bluff
ton schools keeping pace with to-
days needs?
A committee named early this year
to make an exhaustive study of this
question has been asked to make its
report at the December meeting of
the board of education.
Paul w. Stauffer, president of the
board, has placed the report on the
agenda for meeting on Monday eve
ming, December 16. The meeting re-
places the regularly sceduled Decem-
Der 10 meeting and is later in order
to gave Clerk Vernal Corson time to
close her books for the years opera
ton.
Members of the curriculum COM
mittee include DR.. B. w. Travis,
member of the board of education,
Superintendent A. B. Murray, Prin-
cipals Meredith Stepleton and Frank
Mayer, Miss Mildred Keel and Miss
Theresa SlusSer.
Mr.. Stauffer said that the curricu-
lum study will be the forerunner of
a series of reports which he hopes
can be made by faculty members on
various school departments. 1t will
give the board an opportunity to more
closely scrutinize the education pro-
gram being offered in the local
schools.
In recent years, with a building
program in progress, most of the
boards time has been consumed with
a multitude of details regarding the
physical plant.
The Tuesday evening meeting of
the board was attended by Kenneth
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21

Luginbuhl, who was elected this
month to take office in January with
Mr.. Stauffer and DR.. Travis, re-elec-
ted for another term,
Superintendent Murray reported
that Harmon field and the stadium
had been prepared for winter months
and all facilities closed up November
Is by Robert Ewing, who was ap-
pointed to care for the field during
the past year
Action taken by the board included
a motion to thank the village officials
for recently repaving the alley on
the south side of the new elemen-
tary building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Real Estate Tax
To Provide Schools
Total OF S115,O28

A tax rate for school purposes oi
$3.50 per thousand dollars of proper
ty value, 10 cents lower than this
year, was accepted for the coming
year by the Bluffton board of educa-
ton at its meeting Tuesday evening.
A reduction of the levy required
for retirement of bonded Indebtedness
resulted in the rate reduction, County
Auditor Russell Hire has reported.
An increase in the tax duplicate will
provide the board slightly increased
operating revenues next year.
The new tax rate will provide
total revenue of SLAB, ,551.29 of which
SOS, ,512,91 will be earmarked for bond
retirement and $115, 5,038.38 for the
general fund.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Lions Set Annual
Football Banquet
For December 3

Approximately 10 young men, men,
bers of Coach Kenny Mast's Mid
Ohio champion Beavers, and Coach
Frank Osborne's highly successful
Pirate aggregation, will be honored
at the annual Football Recognition
banquet arranged by the Bluffton
Lions club.
The Lions are inviting all men of
the community to join with them in
entertaining the teams at chicken
barbecue December at 5:45 p. m.
in Founders hall.
Highlights of some of the best col
lege an high school games viii be
screened and the coaches will DEM
onstrate, as they did at last years
dinner, some of their most effective
plays.
Tickets for the banquet will be
available from any member of the
Lions club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21

cause of the holiday on the following
day, would probably not be delivered
until Novembed %.
Exact amount of this years dis
tribution will be S27,173, which is
S6,173 more than last year and ap-
proximately $4,000 more than in
1866.
The helpful cash, most of which
will be used for purchase of Christ
mas gifts for family, friends and
relatives, was accumulated though
the past II months through the
banks systematic club plan. Child
ren's accounts providing for weekly
deposits of as little as 25 cents and
others ranging up to SO per week
are included in the Bluffton club ac-
counts.
The average amount saved by the
Christmas clubbers has been si0O
for the past two years. This year
there were II members as compared
with 210 members last year.
Many who have found the club
plan an easy way to meet their gift
problems renew their accounts year
after year. Others are invited to use
the system next year. The 1858 club
accounts will open November 25.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21

cry time person enters one of the
stores. A purchase is not necessary
in order to receive a ticket
Afternoon Treasure Hunt
Stubs will be placed in the prize
drawing barrel in front of the Citi-
zens Bank Friday, December 6, at
noon, and winning numbers will be
placed on the prizes in the merchants
windows Immediately. This will be
the first time in the history of the
treasure hunt that the prizes have
been marked for afternoon hunting.
Previously the winners were not post
ed until in the evening.
Treasure hunt tickets will be dis
ributed to children under IL years of
age only when accompanied by par
ents, according to this years rules.
Letters announcing the Bluffton
treasure hunt are being mailed to
persons within wide radius of town,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Union Thanksgiving
Service Arranged
At St. Johns Church

The st. Johns Evangelical and
Reformed church will be the setting
next Thursday morning at 9 o'clock
for the traditional Union Thanks
giving service sponsored by the
Bluffton Ministerial association.
Members of all local churches
have been invited to join in the
community service of worship and
thanksgiving for Gods blessings.
The Rev. Robert Dye Sr., recently
installed pastor of the Missionary
church, will give the sermon. 1t will
be his first appearance in the pulpit
for a community service.
A special offering, according to
custom, will be taken for the Chris
tan Rural Overseas Program. Sur
plus food products have been re-
leased by the U. S. Government for
by CROP for payment
only of transportation costs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Spectacular Night Blaze Destroys Andrew Gratz Barn;
Four Fire Departments Battle All Night To Save Residence

One of the most spectacular nigh
blazes in recent years Monday eve
ming destroyed the large barn on tht
Andrew Gratz farm south of here
causing damage estimated in exces:
of $4,000.
The fire, believed to have started
in the straw shed at the rear of the
giant barn, was discovered by 8
neighbor across the road. Harold
Hendrickson summoned Bluffton
and Beaverdam fire departments al
10:45 D. m. Cairo and Bath township
departments later came to their as
sistance.
Robert Cartwright, who lives on the
old Gratz homestead and farms it in
addition to holding night job at the
Ohio Steel Foundry in Lima, was at
work when. the fire broke out. Only
his wife, Helen, nine-year-old daugh-
ter, Libby, and a one-year-old son,
Jeffrey, were at home.
The barn was filled with approx
mately 60 tons of baled hay, and
large quantities of straw as well as
about $50 bushels of oats. Two OF
five beef steers housed in the barn
were burned to death and third
one, badly burned, may die. Twenty
out of IS sheep housed in the barn
perished.
One sheep, which had apparently
escaped early in the fire, returned to
the blazing barn in panic half an hour
later and walked up the earth ramp
into the inferno.
At one point in the battle a high
wind blew a veritable rain of sparks
over the huge crowd which had gath
cred to watch the blaze. If the ground
had been dry, the entire area would
have been ablaze.
AS it was, firemen devoted their
entire effort to saving the house and
other buildings. One tool shed within
20 yards of the barn was saved as
was a nearby chicken house with
large number of chickens inside.
Principal problem in the battle
which lasted until daylight was OBJ
tanning water sufficient to save the
other buildings. Some water was car
ried to the scene in tank wagons,
which maintained constant Shuttle
service to the nearest sources of sup
ply. A well was pumped dry as was
a small stream at the rear of the
farm home.
The wind whipped the blaze toward
the residence and firemen were
forced to work between the barn and
residence with wind forced flame and
sparks in their faces. Several suffered
NOR burns.
At one time during the high wind
the roof of the residence was aflame.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Basinger,
Pandora, boy, Brion Lee, born Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Thorpe, Lima,
a boy, David Mark, born Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Riser, Bluffton.
boy, Van Alan, born Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lee, Lafay-
cite, boy, James Garvin, born
Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Staley, Raw
son, a girl, Laura Jane, born Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Hilty, Rich
mond, California, a boy, Gordon
Bryan, born November Is. Marvin is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Hilty
of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21

A HANDSOME RED FOX pelt
which may someday make some
young lady a beautiful choker
now hangs on the. wall of Chuck
Baber's room at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Ba.
ber, south of town. 1t is a trophy
of last Saturday afternoons hunt
in the Baber cornfield at the rear
of the house.
Chuck, sophomore at Bluffton
high school, missed two chances
at rabbits but caught Reynard
right in the neck shortly after
chasing up the rabbits. Apparent
ly the Fox was doing a little
hunting on his own. A growth on
one front leg near the paw indi-
Gated that he had escaped from
trap at one time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Blufton All Boy
Wins Award At
PENNSYLVANIA Show

Thirteen-year-old John D. Neuen-
schwander. a Bluffton eighth grader
won two prizes last week in the Penn
sylvania Livestock Exposition at Har-
risburg, Pa.
The youth, a member of the Bluff
ton 4-H Livestock club, received a
third place ribbon for his Angus calf
in the All steer competition, and a
fourth place ribbon for the Shorthorn
steer plus a cash prize.
John is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Neuenschwander. He and his
father were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Neuenschwander of Annville,
Pa. during the livestock show.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Prizes Offered Again For Best Decorated
Bluffton Church And Best Shop Window

again being offered by the Bufton Business Mems
outdoor decorations used by the
towns churches decorated store window
the decorating contest
that the posted
will be made in each of the
divisions.
SIS the outstanding church
win be offered the merchant with
wha the decorated windows.
Entry committee judges will all
achieved originality and ingenuity
exempy Christmas spirit will receive consideration than
mer elaboraeness.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-11-21
Science Lecturer
To Speak Here On
Conquest Of Space

Robert t. Edgar, popular
science lecturer, will be pre-
sented in another of the Music
Lecture Series at Bluffton College
on Tuesday, December 3.
Mr.. Edgar's timely subject is
"The Conquest of Space" He
has been quoted as saying, "The
childhood of man is ending. The
windows of the future are aglow
with breathtaking promise as
man breaks his earthly isolation
and makes his appearance on
the stage of the universe"
The lecture will be in Ramseyer
Chapel at $3.50 p. m.