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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Mennonite Mutual
Aid Reflects
Former Officers

E. E. Bucher was reelected presi-
dent of the Mennonite Mutual Aid
Society at its annual meeting last
Saturday.
Other officers who were reelected
include Max Crawfis, vice-president;
Mrs. Mary Hilty, treasurer and
Howard Raid, secretary. Richard
Boehr continues in the position of
assistant secretary and appraiser.
CrawfiS, Boehr and Raid were all
chosen to serve again on the society's
board of directors.
Other appraisers, in addition to
Boehr, include Crawfis, Calvin Gar
matter and Warren Bridenbaugh.
Plans were made to send Raid and
Bucher to the annual meeting of the
Ohio Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies which will be held at the
Deshler Hilton hotel in Columbus
February 1920.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Village Places Load Limit
On Weak Cherry St. Bridge

one foot concrete face on them. To do
this it would be necessary tc exca-
vate into the rock beneath the bridge
and work upward.
Repair costs on the sixty-yhar-old
span would be within $1,000 Of the cost
of an entire new structure, he esti-
mated.
In answer to council questions as to
whether adding the concrete facing
would reduce the capacity of the
bridge opening to carry off flood
waters Lentz felt that thorough clean
ing of the banks and the channel be-
tween Cherry street and College
avenue would release all the waters
trapped upstream and relieve high
water conditions.
The bridge was inspected twice in
recent weeks by LentZ, once in COM
pany with street commissioner Will
liam Gaiffe. They reported that
heavy trucks bound to and from the
mills near the Nickle Plate railroad
had actually caused the bridge to
sway.
Council discussed methods of re-
pairing or replacing the bridge but
no decision was made.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Gerrie Martin
Named HOmemaker
Of Tomorrow

Gerrie Martin, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilber Neuenschwander, has
been chosen Betty Crocker Home
maker of Tomorrow at Bluffton high
school.
She received the highest score in
a written examination on homemak-
ing knowledge and attitudes, admin
istered December a, to senior girls
in the graduating class. She now has
been entered in the Ohio contest
for this states candidate for ALI
American Homemaker of Tomorrow.
Miss Martin will receive an award
pin designed by Trifari of New York.
The national winner will receive a
$4,000 scholarship while each state
winner will receive a 81 500 scholar
ship and an educational trip with her
advisor to Washington, New York
and Williamsburg, Va.
Miss Martins home economics in
structor is Mrs. Vera Rickert.
General Mills is sponsor of the pro-
gram designed to assist schools in
education of home and family iiving
and to emphasize through a sound
scholarship award program the per-
sonal qualities and sense of values
necessary to successful homemaking.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Christian Science
Society Acquires
Site For Church
Former Gulf Service Sta.
To Be Extensively Re-
modelled By Group

Christian Science Society in Bluff
ton has acquired the site for new
home by the purchase of the former
Gulf filling station from Jack Koontz
Koontz, operator OF the Sinclair
station across from the high school,
has been operating a car wash
establishment in the building. He
purchased the N. Main ST., property
late last year from out of town in
terests.
Although definite plans have not
been drawn up, the Christian Scient-
lists are hoping to remodel the build
ing extensively, converting it into
meeting and reading rooms. 1t is
hoped to begin the remodeling work
with the advent of warmer weather.
Included in the deal is a small
strip of land between the filling sta
ton and the Lightner property
located behind the building.
Present Christian Science facilities
are located on the second floor of the
old interurban building now in the
hands of Lester Niswander.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
|BluftOn Voters
May Be Required
To Register
Board Of Elections Con-
sidering Countrywide
Registration Next Year

Bluffton voters may be required to
register in order 10 cast their ballots
in next years elections, it was
indicated at the Monday meeting of
the Board of Elections.
The Bluffton precincts are among
35 remaining out of 132 in the county
where registration of the voters is not
required. Registration is now re-
quired in all SO Lima precincts and
in 28 other precincts in adjacent town
ships, for a total of 81.
Indications were at the Monday
meeting of the board that action will
be taken to require countrywide re-
gistration next year unless there
should be strong adverse public
reaction. The board is expected to act
at its February Is meeting on the
matter.
Countrywide registration has been
considered and discussed by the Allen
county board for several years, with
rapid population growth of some out
lying areas one of the main reasons.
1t is reported that only three Ohio
counties larger than Allen county do
not have countrywide registration,
while 10 smaller counties already re-
quire registration in all precincts.
None of the board of election mem
bers appear to oppose the step which
Lawrence c. Copeland has been push
ing. Roy Humphreys and Leo Ger
man also repeatedly favor it. So, too,
does L. Dale Jennings, although it
was his suggestion Monday that re-
suited in postponement of action to
allow time to test public reaction.
If registration is extended to a
countrywide basis next year, there
will be general registration in each of
the precincts at times to be deter
mined later by the board
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Ex-CeH-O Promotes
John Hermann

John Hermann, Cherry street,
Bluffton, has been promoted to the
position of supervisor of the light
machining department, afternoon
shift, at The Ex-Cell-O Corp. Bluff
ton plant.
A 1912 graduate of Bluffton high
school, Mr.. Hermann joined the Ex-
Cello company in 1855 at its Lima
plant. He was a tool maker there
and was transferred to Bluffton last
summer when the new plant was
opened. He served here as temporary
foreman until his recent promotion
While student at Bluffton high
school, Hermann was letterman in
football and basketball. He is the
son of Mrs. Rose Hermann and the
late Joe Hermann.
Married to the former Dorothy
Dunbar, they have three children.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
School Pupils See
Inauguration On TV

Bluffton school children watched
President Eisenhower second in
augaral ceremonies Monday after as
they were dismissed for a two hour
lunch period at the time of the cere-
monies.
Grade School children were able to
watch the activities on a television
set specially installed by Oliver
Beach in the multi-purpose room at
that building. Beach, proprietor of
Beach Radio-TV installed the set and
antenna Monday morning.
The ceremonies were broadcast
throughout the high school building
by means of the intercom system
based in the office rooms.
May students also took advantage
of the lengthy lunch hour to go home
so they might watch the program
there.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
|POrchlite Night
Next Week Climax
Of Polio Drive

Porchlite Mite and a tentative Blue
Krutch Day will highlight the closing
efforts of the Bluffton March of
Dimes next weekend.
Harold Klingler, chairman of the
Lions club committee on Porchlite
Mite, asked persons with contribu-
tons for the polio fund to leave their
porch lights burning next Thursday
evening. Klingler said all local homes
would be visited by the Lions club
volunteer polio solicitors.
Blue Krutch Day, which had orig
inally been scheduled for this Satur-
day, may be postponed for a week,
general chairman Gerald Swank an
nounced this week.
Inability of Blue Krutch chairman
Garnette Foltz to find a group willing
to handle the street collections re-
quired for the Blue Krutch contribu-
tons may delay this event until Feb
ruary 2. Last year high school stu
dents handled the collections on this
day but Foltz has been unable to Sc
cure the help of any organization for
this years work.
Collections are running generally
behind last years total Swank said
Tuesday afternoon. He said this is
explained by the fact that persons feel
polio has been whipped by the intro
duction of the Salk vaccine.
1t was pointed out that many per-
sons have not yet received the vac
cine. This years March of Dime
funds will also be used to provide
treatment for the children stricken
with polio before the vaccine came
into general use 1t was emphasized
that it is still an obligation 20 care
for the persons who still have polio
even though the Salk vaccine may be
used to slow the spread of the dis
ease.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Businessmen's Association To VielU
Demonstration Of COlOred TeIeUisiOn

A color television demonstra-
tiOn and installation of officers
will occupy members of the
BlufftOn Businessmen's associa-
tiOn at their meeting at the
Beach Radio-TV Service next
Wednesday evening.
New president Robert Crow
will be installed to replace Paul
Basinger, while Myron Meyer
will step up from treasurer to
vice-president. Candidates for
treasurer will be presented by
the nominating committee. Eu-
gene Benroth continues as secre-
tary of the organization.
Oliver Beach will demonstrate
color television during the Arthur
Godfrey and Kraft TV Theatre
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24

Wednesday of next week at 7:45 a
m.
Return of the students to open an
other semester will be marked by the
student-faculty reception to be held
in Founders hall at p. m. next
Wednesday. Theme of the reception
will be Vaudeville" with an old
fashioned melodrama, 1.-The Widows
Plight, or Virtue Victorious" a high
light of the entertainment. Dale
Dickey is program chairman and DR..
Richard Weaver and Mrs. Pearl
Mann are other members of the
committee.
The social committee in charge of
refreshments will include Mrs. Ho-
ward Raid, chairman; Mrs. J. P.
Klassen, Mrs. Elsie Plank, Mrs.
Richard Weaver, Mrs. Dale Dickey,
Mrs. A. c. Burcky and Miss Dora
Soldner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
q Triplett Men
Complete Course In
Supervisor Work

Twenty-three men of the Triplett
Electrical Instrument Co. have COM
pleted the supervisors course in
Supervisory Training-Humah Re-
lations" and this week received GER
tificates from the State Department
of Vocational Education which spon-
sors the project in industrial plants
throughout the state.
The classes were held in the Bluff
ton High school building under spon-
sorship of the Bluffton public school
system.
Arrangements for the winter
course here were made by Supt.
Aaron B. Murray, as an expansion
of the adult education program of
the school system.
Weekly meetings were held for
nine weeks following a course of
study provided by the Trades and
Industry Division of the state de-
partment. Arden Baker of personnel
was instructor.
Receiving certificates are:
Oscar Wenger, Lamont Diller, Paul
Stauffer, George Linden, Jess Mang-
es, Paul Eikenbary, Glenn Noe, Rob-
ert Gerber, Ropp Triplett, Floyd
Hardwick, Harold Beals, Robert Bow
erSox.
John Gilbert, Ken Moser, Timer
Spaeth, Herman Schmidt, Sam Brau-
heller, Cleon Triplett, Edgar Cook,
Morris Triplett, Ben Schiffke, Dale
South, Howard Beach.
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under irrigation. Although many
farmers in the western states must
pay as much as $500 for water
rights from the public irrigation
canals, this is partly offset by higher
crop yields and smaller chances of
crop failure.
Clair VanDemark, member of the
area club, and a director of the
national association, reported that
cooperation among breeders in diff
ferent areas was improved at the
national meeting. A new feature of the
meeting was the fact that members
of the association were able to cast
their own votes by mailing ballots
from their homes. Formerly all votes
were cast by proxies at the meeting
itself.
He announced the state meeting OF
Ayrshire breeders will be held today,
Thursday, at the Youth Building on
the state fairgrounds in Columbus.
Schick, Edgar Herr and Wilbur
Van DeMark were elected directors
of the Lima area club at the meeting
conducted by Maurice Bell, Bluffton,
president of the district association
The newly elected directors will
appoint a fourth person to succeed
Richard Kennedy, former director OF
the club who recently moved from
this area.
Among the local Ayrshire breeders
besides Schick and Bell, are Ed Herr
Robert Stratton and Howard Habeg.
gar
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Jaycees To Present
Distinguished
Service Award

February 5 will become a double
award night with the announcement
this week that Bluffton Jaycees plan
to present a Distinguished Service
Award at the same time they present
their Outstanding Young Farmer
Award that night.
Harold Nonnemaker, chairman of
the Jaycees committee in charge of
the event, said any young man be-
tween the ages of Il and 35 is eligible
for the award. Basis for the award
VIII be community service and
character it was announced.
Other judges, besides chairman
Nonnemaker, are Rev. w. j. Han
mum, Presbyterian pastor, Leland
Diller, local insurance agent and
Milton Edwards, editor of the Bluff
ton News. A fifth judge will be an
nounced later.
Winner of the Distinguished Ser
vice Award will receive a certificate
from the local Jaycee chapter
Present plans call for this award
to be made yearly. The Outstanding
Young Farmer award, which will
also be presented for the first time
locally February S, is also going to
be placed on an annual basis.
Anyone may nominate persons they
think deserve this award, Nome
maker stressed.
Nomination blanks may be obtain
ed from Smiths Barber Shop or the
Koontz Sinclair Service. Entries for
the contest must be received by
February 1 in order for these entries
to be eligible.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Omer Mag, Pan
dora, a girl, Susann Martha, born
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Shelter, Bluff
ton, boy, Peter Daniel, born Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Hughes,
Beaverdam, a boy, born Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Blackburn,
Jenera, boy, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent Schumacher
Pandora, girl, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Hart, Bluffton,
girl, born Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Seem, Bluff
ton, boy, born Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24

programs, both of which will be
cOlorcast. A question and answer
period will be conducted follow
ing the viewing of the programs.
Reports of the Dollar Day COM
mittee will be presented and the
spring membership campaign
will be discussed by the presi-
dent. A rodeo committee to CO.
operate with Saddle Horse club
and Sportsmens' club rodeo COM
mittees will also be selected at
the meeting.
Retiring president Paul Ba-
singer reports that 123 firms,
largest in the history of the
organization, which dates back at
least to 1920, were enrolled last
year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Re-elect Officers
Of Hospital Aux.
Two More Years

All officers of the Bluffton Com
munity Hospital auxiliary were re-
elected for a second two-year term
at the organizations recent annual
meeting.
Mrs. Leland Diller will serve again
as president with Mrs. Dan Triple
horn as first vice president and Mrs.
Clarence Stonehill as second vice
president. Mrs. Evan Basinger is
secretary and Mrs. Harley Augsbur-
ger. treasurer.
The annual membership drive will
be conducted during National Hospit-
al Week in May, it was decided.
Committees named to serve during
1857 and 1858 include the following
Membership-Mrs. Hir m Huser,
chairman; Mrs George Linden, CO.
chairman; Mrs. Stanley Basinger,
Mrs. Norman Triplett, Mrs. Theodore
Schultz, Mrs. Burdell Huber, Mrs.
Robert McCune and Mrs. Monroe
AmstutZ.
Ways and Means-Mrs. Richard
Cookson, chairman; Mrs. Francis
Reichenbach, co-chairman Mrs.
Swan Stonehill, Mrs. Gilbert Fett,
Mrs. Richard Augsburger, Mrs. Carl
Triplehorn, Mrs. Ralph Rammel and
Mrs. Charles Montgomery.
House Committee-M s. Edwin
Niswander, chairman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24

The Cherry street bridge over
Riley Creek is beyond repair Wilbur
Lentz of the county engineers office
informed village co3acil Tuesday
evening.
Council members chose to put a
ten ton load limit on the bridge at
Lentz' recommendation. Lentz also
recommended the placing of an eight
ton limit on the Little Riley Creek
bridge on w. College Ave.
Steel joists and barriers underneath
the bridge are badly rusted and have
been eaten almost completely through
in spots, the report noted. The bridge
superstructure, or hangers, which
actually carry the weight of the bridge
have also weakened and have begun
to buckle at their bases.
The bridge abutments might be re-
paired, Lentz believes, by building a
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Triplett Testers In
Pdkistdn And Alaska

Triplett testers coming off the
line soon are on their wav to all
kinds of places in far corners of
the world-some as widely sep
arated as Pakistan and Alaska.
In fact a sizable shipment of
666-R testers was boxed recently
for export to Pakistan. The ship
ment was handled thru the PAX
istan embassy in Washington.
And in Alaska there's B. L.
Mccoy of Juneau, an enthusiastic
Triplett customer who writes
concerning his 3423 Mutual Con-
ductance tester: "This is the
greatest thing | ever have seen
in tube tester. 1t would be
bargain at three times the cost"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Second Semester Enrolment
At Be May Top Fall Figure

A total of 260 students had already
registered for the second semester at
Bluffton college Monday morning,
and late registrations and new stu
dents are expected to swell the total
to nearly 295, including part-time
enrolment.
If registration reaches the figure
indicated it will be Ia higher than the
opening day registration in Septem-
Der and very close to the record en-
rollments of the post war years of
1916 and AZ when it touched the 300
mark.
Two students, Paul King and
Richard Lee, both of Bluffton, will
have completed their college work
here at the end of this semester.
The mid-year examinations are be-
ing conducted this week with the
inter-term vacation period beginning
Friday at p. m. and extending until
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Lafayette Girl
State FinGIist
In Peace Contest

Miss Mary Margaret Younk-
man, Lafayette high school
senior is one of six finalists i'm
the state Prince of Peace decia-
nations, after winning the dis
trict finals in Columbus Sunday.
She will compete in state finals
in Columbus during the pastors
convention of the Ohio Council of
Churches next Wednesday morn
ing.
Topic of Miss Younkman's dec
laration is "Peace."
Miss Younkman, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. A. Younkman,
Route 1, Lafayette, is a member
of the speech class at her high
school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Garbage Can Freeze?
Here's Some Help!

Although use of paper in gar
bage cans is ordinarily frowned
upon by the village waste coIIec-
ton crew, pad of paper i'm the
bottom of the can to prevent
freezing is permissible, william
Gaiffe, street commissioner, saws.
Mr.. Gaiffe also points out that a
small amount of rock salt i'm the
bottom of the can will prevent
freezing of the garbage.
Recent zero weather has caused
a considerable pro bIem of
frozen garbage for the local crew.
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The Republicans will hold their
caucus Mon d ay evening in the
library study hall at 8 p. m. The
Democrats will meet the following
evening, Tuesday, at s p. m. in the
same place.
Thus far leaders in both parties say
they haven't the slightest idea who
the candidates will be come filing
day for municipal candidates on
February 6.
Mayor Riser, who has just caught
his breath after busy year in which
the municipal swimming pool was
completed and who has witnessed
several rather stormy personnel
changes in the town hall, told the
News, mot interested" when asked
if his hat was in the ring.
Friends of the mayor including his
Democratic colleagues on council,
however, say they won't take mo"
for the answer. Hope was expressed
that Mayor Riser will accept the
nomination for another term to place
in full operation the village planning
commission which he was mainly in
strumental in establishing.
Charles Steiner, Democratic exc
cutive committeeman, will preside
at the Tuesday evening caucus. Thus
far, he said, there have been no
candidates. announced.
Armin Hauenstein, one of Bluffton' S
representatives on the Republican
executive committee, has called his
party leaders to caucus Monday. Al
though candidates are likely to be
scarce, he expressed hope of being
able to place a complete ticket on the
municipal ballots next November.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Keep Dogs Confined,
Pet OJUners Warned

Dogs running loose throughout
the village will be impOunded
village council warned Tuesday
night. Police chief William Gaiffe
was instructed to cooperate with
county dog warden Irv Sickmilier
i'm making the pickups.
Dogs impounded will be held
for three days while their owners
are notified. If the dogs are not
claimed at the county pound by
that time they will either be de.
stroyed humanely or sold.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Lafayette Farmer Awarded Trophy
AT Ayrshire Club Meeting Here

Ralph Schick, of Route /, Lafayette,
was awarded the Lima Area Ayrshire
clubs rotating trophy for having the
top Ayrshire entry in the cattle show
at the Allen county fair, at the clubs
annual banquet last Wednesday eve
ming at Bluffton high school.
The trophy is awarded the Ayr
shire breeder whose cattle placed
highest in judging in the open class.
Judging was based on a group of
four females, dairy calf, one-to-
two-year-old heifer, a two-to-three
year-old heifer, and heifer three
years of age or over.
1t will be awarded again next year
to the top Ayrshire breeder of the
area. The trophy will be retired when
one person has won it three times.
The trophy was presented by John
Miller, club secretary. He stated at
the time that half the milk consumed
by some local dairies comes from
Ayrshire cattle.
District Ayrshire field manager
Robert Dix, of Degraff, Ohio, gave an
illustrated lecture based on his trip
through farming areas of the west
on the way to the national Ayrshire
sale and meeting held in Portland,
Oregon last spring.
Dix showed views of some of the
63 separate Ayrshire herds he visited
on his trip and discussed methods
of Western cattlemen.
He reported that most of the farms
in the Ayrshire regions of Wyoming,
Idaho, Colorado and Washington were
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
Jaycees Faculty
PLAY Benefit Game

Jaycees and high school faculty
members will meet in a benefit bas-
ketball game Friday, February l, at
the school gymnasium. Proceeds
from the event will be donated to the
Band Boosters uniform fund.
The game will begin at 8:15 p. m.
with volleyball preliminary at 7:3O,
it was announced Wednesday morn
ing by Jack Koontz, chairman of the
Jaycee committee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-01-24
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Noon

Grain (bushel prices)-wheat,
$780,; corn, $127; oats, 7Sc; soy
beans, $2.37.
Eggs-large white, 25c; brown, 24c;
mediums, 21c; small, 18c.
Poultry-heavy hens, 13c; leghorn
hens, SC; stays, SC.
Butterfat-No. 1, Soc; No. 2, SAC