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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Entire Former Municipal Light Plant
Now In Use; Yields Sl25 Monthly Rent

Blu [ tons abandoned municipal
light and power plant, which at one
time or another has been considered
for every possible use from an in
door recreation center to new site
for manufacturing plant, is now
seeing some,measure of usefulness in
all its parts, it was learned this week
The former boiler room of the plant
has been cleaned up and is bringing
to the board of public affairs treas
ury SIS per month in rent from the
F. c. Russell Company, Pandora.
The Pandora firm uses its space for
storage of storm doors and windows,
completed products of its nearby
plant
More recently the Ex-Cell-O cor
poration leased the turbine room, an
area of 5000 square feet for period
of two years at monthly rental of
$50. A condition of the lease was that
the company fill in the former tur-
bine pits and level the floor surface
with concrete. Other improvements
were also called for which incurred
an estimated expense to the company
of $4,000.
In addition to the $125 per month
revenue from the two rentals, Har-
vey Bauman, president of the board
of public affairs, states that a small
part of the building is still retained
as water pumping station and re-
pair shop for the boards employees.
Lathe and welding equipment as well
as other tools are kept in the shop.
Garages on the grounds also house
the departments vehicles.
The extreme heighth of the build
ing's ceilings limits its use because
of the heating problem it creates,
Mr.. Bauman points out
The F. c. Russell Company, using
its section for warehouse purposes
only, is not required to heat it at all.
The section used by the Ex-Cell-O
will be heated by gas or oil space
heaters, which would be removed in
the event the company discontinues
leasing the building.
The lease was granted the local
firm after the village advertised for
competitive bids. Ex-Cell-O was the
only bidder.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18

ness Mems association, co-sponsors
of the derby.
In addition to the No. / fish, nearly
so pickerel will be tagged and approx
imately 1870 other rainbow trout Over
1900 official derby folders will be
printed soon listing prizes and COM
plete regulations.
Initial orders for fish from COM
mercial seiners at Lake Erie include
1000 pounds of pickerel and wall
eyes, 1000 pounds of jumbo perch and
A-ton of rainbow trout from Castalia.
Membership badges and cards are
available at most area sporting goods
dealers, from club directors and der
by headquarters at Niswander's News
Stand or Swank's Barber shop.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18

GARY LORA, senior vo-ag
student at Bluffton high school,
received the top score in the
county in an Agriculture Com
petitive test given January 10 at
Lima Senior high school. His top
score for Allen county was 156.
Duaine Bixel, also of Bluffton,
placed second with score of
143 and Bill Herr turned I'm a
score of lis.
Lora has been active i'm FLA
this year, serving as vice presi-
dent of the Bluffton chapter and
treasurer of the Allen County FLA
council. Earlier this year he won
the local Bankers Award for
having the best set of project
books.
Lora's projects this year in
clude five beef steers, several
acres of wheat and home beauti-
fication.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Businessmen To
Tour New School

Bluffton Business Mems association
will hold its April meeting next Wed
nesday evening in the new Elemen-
tary School all-purpose room.
Following a tour of the building con-
Quoted by Superintendent of schools
A. B. Murray, the group will hear
Walter M. Smith, of the Findlay
Chamber of Commerce, explain an
effort being made to obtain air
transportation facilities at the Findlay
port.
A study of the Findlay proposal is
being made by committee of the
club which will report Wednesday.
The committee includes Joe Browne,
Norman Triplett, Maurice Fett and
Dave Riser.
Wives of members have also been
invited to attend the meeting, and
following the business meeting a
lunch will be served.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
500 Cash Prize On No. I Trout
Stands Throughout Derby This Year

The most fished for fish in Bluff
tons eighth annual trout derby, which
opens here on May 5, will be Rain
bow Trout No. l carrying S100 cash
prize to the lucky angler who hooks
him.
Unlike previous derbies in which
the top prize winner had to be caught
on opening day or short time there
after to bring in the big prize, this
years derby offers the S100 award
if the fish is caught anytime between
the opening date and midnight Labor
Day.
The cash prize is jointly sponsored
by the Bluffton Community Sports
mems club and The Bluffton Busi-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Local Goals Total
$l,1OO In Cancer
Fund Campaign

A small army of volunteer solicitors
have opened the campaign in Bluff
ton, Beaverdam and rural Richland
township this week to raise approx.
mately $1,100 for the annual Cancer
Fund drive, Mrs. John Boehr, Bluff
ton chairman, and Mrs. Frederick V.
Andrews, chairman of Beaverdam
and Richland township. have an
nounced.
A group of so solicitors organized
on a precinct basis is calling on
Bluffton homes in an effort to raise
the goal of $500. Heading the precinct
solicitation are Mrs. Evan Basinger,
Mrs. Morris Groman, Mrs. Harry
Ewing and Mrs. Elsie Buckland.
Mrs. Andrews said that Is women
have volunteered their services to
the drive in rural Richland township
where the campaign goal is $500.
Four others are conducting the drive
in Beaverdam with sights set on S100.
The local goals are part of an over
all S23,975 goal for Allen county.
Mrs. Boehr points out that SO per
cent of the funds collected in the
Cancer drive remain in Allen county
for aiding cancer patients and in
dissemination of educational informa-
ton on the killer. Persons being
treated for cancer are eligible for
free bandages, ambulance service and
other items of expense, and should
apply for assistance, Mrs. Boehr said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Bogus Check
.PasSer Is Nabbed
BY Blufton Chief
Kenton Woman Admits To
Passing Two Bad Checks
For $40 Each

A bogus check passer, her husband
and a companion, who zegistered
Kenton as their home address, were
apprehended by Chief of Police
William Gaiffe last Friday and cash
and merchandise received in ex-
change for two bogus $40 checks were
recovered.
Chief Cattle was notified of the
groups operation in town after one
merchant became suspicious of
check which had been accepted by his
wife from strange woman who gave
her address as Route 1, Button. A
call to The Citizens Bank, on which
the check had been written, verified
his suspicious. There was no account
in the name of John Smith. y
Rushing out on Main street, hoping
to locate the check-passer, the mer-
chant and his wife thought they
recognized the woman a block north
of the Town Hail as she entered a
parked car Chief of Police Gaiffe
arrived on the scene at the same
moment.
The car under suspicion made a
U-turn on Main street when the driver
spotted Gaiffe's police cap, and head
ed north. 1t was overtaken at the
county line road. A search of the car
revealed the package purchased at
the store
At the police station the woman,
who registered as Mary White, Ken
ton, admitted to cashing the check,
and returned the exact change.
When second package carrying
the label of another Bluffton mer-
chant, the merchant was summoned.
He had cashed an identical check for
$40. The money was recovered also.
The woman told Chief Gaiffe she
had obtained the blank checks from
a local filling station and had passed
only the two in question, each written
for $40 to herself and signed by Bill
White, her husband.
Accompanying the Whites was
another man who registered as Omer
Russell Robey, also of Kenton.
A call to the Hardin county
sheriff's office identified the group as
residents of Kenton who have been
arrested on similar charges previous
ly.
After a warning to stay out of
Bluffton, the trio was released. No
charges were filed against them.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
&c Stamps NOLD Come
In Coils Of 100

Three-cent stamps in coils of 100
will be available at the Bluffton
postoffice i'm addition to the usual
flat sheets of 100 after April 25,
it was announced this week by
Acting Postmaster Ralph Stearns.
The new style of coiled stamps
will be i'm limited supply for some
time because of the heavy demand
expected throughout the country.
Small plastic containers for the
coils will also be available at five
cents i'm the future.
This is the first time that the
coils have been made up i'm lots
of 100 stamps. Previously they
have been offered in lots of 500.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
DranatizdtiOn OF Death, Resurrection
OF Christ Cimaxes Holy Week Observance

Observing the m IS ( important
events in the history of humanity, the
death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ, Bluffton worshipers from all
churches of the community will
assemble in Founders hall Good Fri
day evening at and again at 6 80
Easter morn to view an impressive
dramatization of the events.
The stage production on the college
campus will be in addition to the
weeks traditional union Good Friday
service in the afternoon and the
observance of the Easter festival Sum
day in the various churches.
A cast of some 80 players will por-
tray the Biblical characters in a
pageant written by the Rev. T. j.
Wilson, pastor of the Bluffton and
Beaverdam Church of Christ. 1t is
being staged under the direction of
Dale Dickey, professor of speech at
Bluffton college, and Darwin Lugin-
buhl, speech and art instructor at the
high school.
While the figure of Christ will be
seen on the stage as a man clothed
in white, his words will be spoken by
the narrator in the dramatization,
DR.. Robert Kreider.
Organ music for the production will
be played by ]. Norman Vercler and
Dean Niswander will be the soloist.
The cast includes Silas Diller as
PLATE; Wilford Geiger, door guard;
Larry Smucker and James BURY,
Roman soldiers; Nelson Steiner, cen-
turion; John Gilbert, Joseph of
Arimathea; Ralph Stearns, scribe;
Robert Nonnamaker, high priest;
Clayton Harkness, second high priest;
Richard Boehr, Nicodemus; Michael
Diller, Tony Travis, Calvin Opper-
mann and Dale Schiffke, four SER
wants of Joseph; Luther Shelter,
Judas; Clair Michel, gardener.
Carl Marshall, third chief priest;
A. Hughes, cross bearer; Paul Ba-
singer. Peter; Paul Greding, James;
Carl Derringer, John; Mrs. Lloyd
Vermillion, Mary Magdalene; Betty
Stratton, Mary, mother of Jesus;
Melvena Lewis, Mary, the mother of
James; Dorothy Steiner, Salome;
Betty Stuart, fifth woman; Jean
Kempf, Doris MericIe and Geraldine
Diller, other women.
Additional characters appearing in
the second part of the pageant at the
Easter Sunrise service will be Dallas
Berry and James West as elders; the
Rev. James Heininger. Cleophas:
Emmett Huntiey. angel, and vicki
Davidson, drummer.
Bluffton communities are urged to
attend the dramatization as family
in the spirit of worship. There will be
no admission charged, but collection
plates will be left at the door for
free will offering.
The dramatization is being sponsor
ed by the Bluffton Ministerial asso-
citation.
Bluffton Girl Scouts and Brownies
this week will distribute special
invitations to every Bluffton family
to attend the two-part production.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Free Polio Shots
Arranged For
School Children

Application blanks for free polio
shots under the county's School
Health Program were sent home
to parents of 27O Bluffton school
children this week, and dates for
administration of the vaccination
were set tentatively for April "a
and May Is, Superintendent of
Schools A. b. Murray announced
this week.
The application blanks were
sent to parents who indicated in
a recent survey that It had not
been convenient for them to have
the vaccination by their family
physician.
MIR. Murray said that it is inn.
pOrtant that the permission blank
be returned to the school prompt.
ly SO that arrangements can be
made to administer the free shots.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Hospital Benefit
Nets $1,000 Total

Bluffton Community hospital clear
ed S818.93 from the community auc-
ton sponsored last month, it was an
nounced last week.
The auxiliary fund also received
$211.15 from two bake sales sponsor
ed in Pandora earlier this month.
Totals received from the two charit-
able ventures was $1,030.08.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Name United Fund
Steering Comm. Here

Outgrowth of the Monday meet
ing to discuss a United Fund
organization was the appoin.
ment of steering committee to
work out feasible plan for Bluff.
ton for presentation at a later
Town meeting.
Named on the committee were
Arden Baker, Robert Crow, Carl
smucker, Richard Augsburger,
Joe Browne, Mayor David Riser,
Miss Meredith Stepieton, Mrs.
AdeIla Oyer and Mrs. Robert
Grow.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Local Students
HOnOred At ONU

Robert Blank, Bluffton, and Dale
Welty, Pandora, were named to the
honors list recently released for en-
gineering students at Ohio Northern
university by Dean Lawrence Arch
er. The list was based on winter
quarter grades.
Blank had an average of 3.6 for the
winter quarter and Welty an aver
age of 81. A grade of 80 is B. Both
of these students also have an ac-
cumulative average of B or better
covering their entire period of enroll
ment at Ohio Northern.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
BlufftOn Professor
On Busman'S Holiday

AS a follow-up on the Bluffton col
lege student teaching program, Miss
Ada Lapp, assistant professor of ele-
mentary education, is visiting elemen-
tary schools in eastern Ohio this
week. Her trip will take her to schools
in Lorain, Cleveland, Oberlin, Old
Fort, Dalton and Walnut Creek. Last
week she visited schools in Morral
Forest and Perry Township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Concert OF BmbershOp Harmony
Slated April % By Lions Club

Sponsors will be the BlufftOn
Lions club, and proceeds will be
for one of the Lions community
betterment projects.
Included i'm the program will be
The BIendaires, a Bluffton quar-
tet, The Uncalled Four and the
Cookie Busters, both of Lima.
Tickets are available from Paul
Basinger at BIuffton Meat Mar.
ket, from the Rexall Drug Store
or any member of the Lions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18

A concert of old fashioned bar
bershop harmony will be present
ed to Bluffton audience Tuesday
evening, April %, at the Bluffton
high school auditorium at 8 p. M,
il was announced this week.
The musical program will be
presented by three quartets of the
Lima Bean Chapter, Society for
the Preservation of Barbershop
Quartet Singing i'm America.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Home Ec Teacher
Employed By Board

Miss Phyllis Tackett, Cooksville.
Ohio, will begin her duties as the
N ew vocational home economics
teacher at Bluffton high school on
July 1, it was announced Wednesday
by Superintendent of Schools A. B.
Murray. She viii succeed Mrs. Vera
Rickert, who is completing a one
year temporary appointment.
Miss Tackett, graduate in voca-
tional home economics of Ohio uni
versity, is presently teaching at
Crooksville. Planning to marry in
June, her future husband will attend
Ohio Northern university at Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18

oi'Ao5 SFelHn5 DE w. T.
Van Laningham, field director of the
Ohio Citizens Council for Health and
Welfare. The meeting was called BY
the Bluffton Business and Profession.
al Women's club.
Mr.. Laningham, who is executive
head of state organization of Com.
munity Chests and United Funds
warned against trying to organize a
United Fund on the same basis as a
community r ed Cross Campaign
would be organized.
You'll raise about 81. 900 to 81 O0C
ON this basis Mr.. LaningF1am told
the group, land this viii be far from
sufficient to meet the needs of a
United Fund"
He pointed to Ada, Delta, Archbold
and Wauseon as examples of towns
Bluffton's size where the United Fund
has been successful. Among larger
communities, Findlay is often cited as
one OF the states finest examples OF
what can be accomplished, he de.
clared.
Problems Cited
The group learned that one of the
problems of United Fund is coping
With national fund raising organiza.
tons who will not cooperate with the
community fund groups, and who
insist on conducting separate cam
paigns.
Nothing can be done except to
discourage separate campaigns by
unfavorable public reaction, Mr.. Var
Laningham pointed out.
The Bluffton group was also advised
that it might be worthwhile to In
vestgate the possibility of joinine
with Lima in a countrywide United
Fund organization. before undertaking
a Bluffton unity. The advantage would
be that Lima is already set up wifi
an effective organization and pro
fessionaI staff.
Survey Results
Prior to Van Laningham's talk
Karl Klassen, a member of the Bluff
ton college Community Organization
and Resources class, reported that a
survey conducted by the class las,
week indicated that S8 per cent oi
the citizens favored the United Fund
idea Only 10 per cent were opposed
and two per cent had no opinion.
On the question of whether those
interviewed would be willing to assist
in a United Fund drive, Al per cent
answered yes, 81 per cent no, and
eight percent did not answer this
question.
Klassen explained that 20 per cent
OF Buttons 776 homes were sampled
in the survey, or a total of 155 houses.
The meeting was opened by Miss
Meredith Stepleton, chairman of the
B & PW committee on United Fund
drive, and Mrs. Adella Oyer acted as
secretary of the meeting. Arden
Baker assisted Miss Stepleton as CO
chairman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Stores To Close
Good Friday p. N.

To enable their employees to at
tend G OOd Friday services,
practically all of Bluffton's retail
business places will be closed
Friday from / until $3.50 p. m.
during the union service at the
First Mennonite church.
The schools, college and library
will be closed for spring vacation,
and the Telephone company
office viii also be closed during
the service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-04-18
Industrial Payroll Plan
Is Key To United Fund
Success, Committee Told
Blufton Group Assured Many Touns
vi Similar Size Find Plan Workable

United Fund organizations are successful in MANY towns
small Buffton but the key to their success
support OF the cmmuntys industrial management labor and
business payyougo plan whereby pledges are deducted
regularly on the payroll plan
This the pist of advice oiven r,ao+no &c p1,ee
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-12

We've been reading the life and times of
coodhue first editor The volume published
by and auhored by Mary Wheel
engossng Of Mnnesos earliest press IN
the lusty territorial days Of Minnesota
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Of interests humor sneetydominated
the editorial page colorfu and
newspaper articles and paragraphs with
their wealth Of variety lively of local
progress make invaluable historical document
for the Minnesota Of today
writing informal and often evincing the
reporter Sometimes impatient
the slow medium for the torrent Of ideas rushing through MS
poured his in long breah-talng sen
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simplicity and of his most devastating
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pleasure to know intimately many Minnesota
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Of the Hennepin County REVIEW to IT..
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In 1855 when the DEFENDER reached year oty
Co. Chicago publishers to write
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ncludng this paper had been little coopea-
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spirited citizen For Of 80
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-12
PROLONGED mlNlss A DISASTER 70 AVERAGE eIrlzlN

generations great
that haunted the working classes America Nothing
any them until nids3os during great
Roosevelt the American people
through their Congresses sought to alleviate two Of them
your job and
spending your debt and becoming
destitute
somewhat by the unemployment
benefit plans.
feeling becoming helpless
age become Dependent,
dispatched poor
the Old Age Retirement plans
third insecurity remained untouched
until then feeble made but 1851
when led by organized labor President Truman submitted to Con-
comprehensive national plan but the u Chamber
National the
ANA lobby stopped this progressive plan from becoming Law"
The blood OF the American Of them felt
the fear impending illness, while this Juror
raging in 1851
Council Security a privately
ed organization decided get facts about the cost of Lengthy
gathered findings
five years OF study out
Using average earnings length
loss and the cost percentage wse Of surgical and medical
care then making the Table applicable to Railroad employees Of the
comprises readers
this newspaper find the net loss astounding
regularly employed dining employee earned
wages 1880 s3s3sOO less gratuities III any.
every year
prolonged illness "a prolonged illness will
you working for at least four weeks)
The that out of five will suffer this blow within
years than
Of by group
by other plan.
your illness lot than your
loss wages.
The average employee wages
amounting Sickness
n. Board will $500
20 regular The plan
medical surgical and hospital
psnses per your
Thus III 10 weeks it will cost 10 cent
Of your
needed y plan
surgical
prolonged American employee
o restitution.
done this appalling disaster
employers living when he becomes Ill.,
added incurred Moody st. Paul. Min
nesota. April =. 1857
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-12
Letters To The Editor
WHAT MAKES A GOOD MoRrIciANp

that taken active part In
constantly looked for
attitude the public toward
w What makes n Good MoricianH"
story reported edition the
Spokesman Recorder throws much light
aspects question the question of the
spoke Mr. Woodland against
including grind
Alderman Of
the association
granting permits
buildings
petition permit This
son. opinion Insufficient enon
the establishment Of "A
Directors establish par
OF limiting
particular may put
commonly
valid ordinance which fohds estab
fishing mortuary the location
declaring projected
"a property being
purposes according the
school purposes
the reported
determining
eating mortuay answering attack upon
outside would that
question they
they should look around a themselves
a noteworthy opinion.
prove worthy contribute
a dienned and united profession.
Resolved that living organized communities must uf
sss IElrhar Paul Minn. April s. 1851