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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Lions Fruit Cake
Sale To Benefit
BathhOuse Fund

Offering homemade fruit
cakes, steam-baked by Mar.
celia Basinger, as a special treat
for the Thanksgiving table or
during the holidays, the Bluffton
Lions club hopes to raise addi-
tional funds for its community
projects.
Earl Lehman, president of the
Lions, said that a telephone cam
paign will be conducted to take
orders for the fruit cakes and
deliveries will be made on No
vember 25 for Thanksgiving, and
on December %, for Christmas.
Money raised by the sale will
help to pay the last 5000 pledged
by the club for the bathhouse
slab at the municipal swimming
pool. $400 has already been do
mated.
Persons not contacted by phone
are asked to call 150-W or any
member of the Lions club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13

valuation compared to $23.10 this
year. Reason for the increase is
the three-mill extra tax levy for
school purposes voted last week.
The local tax rate would have
been down so cents per thousand
this year because of a reduction
in bonded debt and elimination
of the state levy of 10 cents for
the Korean Veteran bonus, but
the school levy made the differ
ence.
The tax rate does not include
the Airport Bond Issue, County
Auditor Hire said. If the Air
port Commission sells the bonds
before July Is, 1859, he said, and
includes it in their budget, the
added tax of 20 cents per thous-
and will be included on the tax
bills for December. 1859 and
June, 1860.
Only the Village of Delphos
enjoys a lower tax rate than
Bluffton. The new DelphoS rate
it $20.80 per thousand.
Harrod has the highest rate.
S31.9Os with Eida's $3O.5O rate
next highest, and Lima's $3.50
third highest.
The addition of $3.50 to the
Beaverdam village tax rate this
year makes a total of $29.10 and
fourth highest in the county. The
increase is a result of added
taxes voted for retirement of a
bond issue for a new building
addition for Beaverdam schools.
Cairo has the next highest rate,
$29.10, and Spencerville's' rate is
S27.6O.
All of the village tax rates are
up this year over last year with
the exception of Delphos, Elida
and Spencerville where there
were slight reductions.
The Richland township tax
rate in the Bluffton school dis
trict advanced from $3.50 to
$22.50, and the Richland town.
ship tax rate in the Beaverdam
school district advanced from
$2O.80 to $26.10.
The Jackson township tax rate
in the Lafayette-Jackson school
district was also up from $20.8O
to $3.50 per thousand dollars of
valuation.
Mr.. Hire said that the tax rates |
in % political subdivisions were
increased this year, while the
rate was lowered in II sub
divisions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Here's Easy Way
To Bag A Bird
On Opening Day

More hunters than ever are
expected to bag" their limit
of ringnecks this year at
the James Dray Pheas.
ant Farm just off busy U. s.
Route rs on Hancock county
Road 33 northeast of BIuffton.
A large sign near the over.
pass northeast of here invites
hunters or shoppers alike to
stock their icebOx with the
tame pheasants reared on the
Dray farm.
This is Jim's third year in
the pheasant business, and
it's bigger than ever this
year. He estimates he has
about 800 birds reared from
400 eggs he took from his
own flock and incubated last
April.
'Tt's the easiest way to
bag bird" Dray explains.
He supplies them alive or
dressed and packed in a
fancy cellophane bag.
Last year the local mans
best customer was a Findlay
man who purchased so of the
birds and sent them in pairs
packed in dry ice to friends
all over the country.
Pheasant is a rare treat
for many people, and makes
an unusual gift" Dray ex-
plains.
This year in addition to the
regular ringnecks, Dray will
offer some of the ornamental
birds such as Silver pheasant,
the new Reeves pheasant be-
ing prOpagated i'm southern
Ohio, the Amherst and Gold.
en- pheasant. Some of these
birds have tail feathers 40 to
so inches long.
The pheasant, Dray says, is
a bird native to India and
China, and many are raised
in those countries as pets 20
grace a formal flower garden.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Births

The following births were re-
corded at Bluffton Community
hospital during the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Krohn,
Pandora, a girl, Cheryl Marie,
born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Reichen-
bach, Pandora, a boy, Robert
David, born Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Groman,
Bluffton, a boy, John David, born
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Bibler,
McComb, a boy, Jerry Allen,
born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Szabo
Jean Ann Steinman), Bluffton,
a girl, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Zeisloft,
Rawson, a boy, born Tuesday.
SP6 Larry and Mrs. Miller
Frankfurt, Germany, girl
Kathy Gail, born November Z.
Mr.. Miller is the son of MIR. and
Mrs. Paul o. Miller of Railroad
street, Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Mark Mis-
wander, New City, N. Y, a girl
Kathy Gail, born September q
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Rescue Mission
To Benefit From
November Project

The collection of cash, clothing
and food for the Rescue Mission
in Lima has been set up as the
November project of the Menno-
mite Area Relief committee, it
announced this week.
Donations for the project may
be brought to any of the five
churches anytime during the
month. Richard Oberly, Lima, is
chairman of the project.
Other committee members are
Donavin Sommers, Ebenezer
church.; Elmer BURY, Grace
church; Mrs. Watson Steiner,
First Mennonite church; and Mrs.
Willard Moser, St. John church.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13

Homework! Are teachers too
tough or too soft? And languag-
es! Should Bluffton youngsters
begin to master foreign tongue
in elementary school? Should
more languages be given in the
high school curriculum?
Is there more honor in being
an "a" student in chemistry or
in English literature?
These were some of the ques-
tons discussed in the last PTA
meeting Monday evening at the
elementary school.
The meeting program was in
the form of a panel discussion on
questions asked by PTA men,
bers in the groups initial meet
ing of the year.
In the discussion on homework
Principal Frank Mayer told par
ents it was their responsibility to
see that children do their home
work, completely, neatly and ac-
curately. Past criticism has been
that our courses have been wa
tered down, and homework is a
means of the student getting as
much out of the course as pos
sible, he said.
From the parental viewpoint,
Mrs. Paul Basinger said that she
felt that very often too much
work is assigned. Mrs. Clayton
Harkness added that teachers
should insist that students make
use of study hall time to get
their assignments. On the other
hand, Mrs. Luther Shelter asked
if children might be challenged
by giving the best students extra
assignments to keep up their in
tereSt.
Principal Meredith Stepleton
said that parents can help con-
siderably by providing quiet
place for the pupil to work at
home, and an allotted time to do
it.
Discussing the science courses
as compared to the so-called
snap courses, Principal Mayer
pointed out that science and
math, often considered the more
difficult subjects, are easy for
some who may find other sub
jects difficult. 1t depends upon
the individual, he said.
Mrs. Shelter said that she had
found many college students felt
they were not adequately
prepared in high school, because
they were not challenged to eX-
ert their best effort in science
and math. She suggested thatA
students be given additional as
signments in laboratory work.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Takes Post With
Univ. Maryland

First Lieutenant James E.
Henry, son of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Paul Henry, Route 1, Bluffton,
has recently taken a position
with the University of Maryland,
Far Eastern division, as an in
structor of business law.
1t. Henry received a Bachelor
of Arts from Ohio Northern uni
versity in 1855 and a Bachelor of
Laws from ONU Law college in
1857.
He entered the Air Force in
January of 1858 and is currently
Staff Judge Advocate at Kunsan
Air Base, Korea, APO Cd.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Businessmen View
Triplett Lab Bldg.

The Bluffton Business Mems
association will tour the new
laboratory building recently COM
pleted at the Triplett Electrical
Instrument company as a fea-
ture of their next regular meet
ing Wednesday evening, Novem-
Der 10.
M. M. Triplett, vice president
in charge of engineering new
products, will conduct the busi-
nessmen'S tour of the new facil-
ity, and the regular business
meeting will be held there.
Principal business before the
meeting will be the annual cleo
ton of officers and discussion of
the organizations Christmas
plans.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13

tuesday evening that the bridge
contractor had asked the village
crew to be ready to haul away
the old wood flooring as it was
to be removed early Thursday
morning.
New steel girders are to re-
place the old rusted ones and a
new wooden floor is to be laid on
top of that within a three-day
period unless bad weather inter-
feres, Mr.. Gaiffe said.
The Tiffin firm was awarded
the contract two weeks ago by
Council on low bid of S3,475.
Charles C. Duval, Springfield,
has the contract to sandblast the
old steel work and paint the en-
tire structure. This will not be
done until in the spring, however.
Council has been advised that
paint applied to metal this late
in the year is not likely to hold
up.
The only other matter before
council Tuesday evening was a
by Councilman Charles
Hankish Jr. to send Villag Solic-
itor Malcolm Basinger to Colum-
bus to appear before the Public
Utilities Commission in protest of
Nickel Plate railroads request
to discontinue passenger train
service in this area.
The motion was lost for want
of a second. Other members of
council felt that the cost of send
ing the solicitor to Columbus for
a day or two would not be JUS
titled by any further possible
results. He appeared with
several representatives of the
village at hearing on the matter
conducted recently in Lima by
the PUCO.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Bobcat Stories Stir Interest
As Hunting Season approaches

the pen, and the year before 600
were reared there. The birds
were live trapped this year and
dispersed throughout the hunting
area around Bluffton.
The rearing of birds locally
may account for an increase in
game sighted in this area since
bean and corn crops have been
harvested. More pheasants than
in previous years are reported.
A farmer between Columbus
Grove and Kaida stated that the
pheasant crop there seems to be
the heaviest in years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13

The birds are Spotty, but more
plentiful than last year seems to
be the consensus of most Bluff
ton area hunters and farmers
who are preparing to take to the
field with the opening of the up
land game season Saturday at 9
a. m.
The opener falling on Saturday
for the first time in many years
is expected to bring out a rec
ord horde of hunters.
Adding interest to the event
locally this year is the word be-
ing passed for nimrods to be on
the lookout for a wildcat report
ed in the southeastern edge OF
Bluffton. Spurred by a $40 boun-
ty offered for the cat by Char
lies and Demps' Tavern, Sports
mems club members are even
talking of organizing a wildcat
hunt as soon as the first snow
flies.
An animal identified as a bob
cat was seen by two men last
week - Albert Finn and Luther
Filing - near their homes on
South Mound street. The cat was
first seen when it pounced out of
the stubble in Albert Bad
ertscher's field and attacked the
Filing dog. The dog escaped with
a few scratches.
This is not the first time a big
cat has been seen in the same
vicinity. About two years ago
Duluth Strunk who lives at the
south end of Mound street, killed
a large animal which was iden-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Three Injured In
Beaverdam Crash

A Sycamore, Ohio, woman and
two children were treated for
injuries Saturday night in Bluff
ton Community hospital following
an accident on u. S. 80 N. near
Beaverdam.
The woman was Mrs. Virginia
Engle, "a, driver of the auto
which hit a culvert along the
side of the road. Her passengers
were Nancy Engle, 9, and Larry
Staiger, ID. They were released
Sunday after treatment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Plan Thanksgiving
Party at St. Mary's

st. Mary's Catholic church will
hold its annual Thanksgiving
card party in the church base
ment Tuesday evening, Novem-
Der Is. Everyone is invited to
attend the social event which
regularly attracts larye crowds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
College Bible
Lecture Series
Opens Sunday

The annual series of Bluffton
College Bible Lectures will open
Sunday morning and continue
through next Saturday including
special conferences in the mid
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Cherry Street Bridge
Repair Project Opens

The much Travelled Cherry street bridge was to no
blocked for repairs Thursday but if everything goes
as planned by the contractor Charles NJ Ink of Tfn
traffic will again be using the crossing over Big RiIey
creek by Sunday.
Street Commissioner William Gaiffe told couno;,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-11-13
Bluffton TaxRate2nd
Lowest In Allen Go.
School Levy Advances Local
Rate to $3.50 Per Thousand

The Bluffton village tax rate for 1858 advanced $220
per thousand dollar valuation, but still remained the
second lowest rate among Allen countys eight Incorporated
areas according to County Auditor Russell Hire.
Bluffton taxpayers, beginning in January of next
year. will pay total rate of $3.50 per thousand dollars
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-06-14
Kill The-Umpire Bill

Inc minority report OF Senators HennlngS, kefauV-
Wiley and Carroll the JennerButer bill to humi-
late the Supreme Court ought to erequred reading for
every member of the Senate. In relatively brief space
these legislators have brought powerful indictment
against the bill They it hodge podge loaded with
antiquities and unconstitutional gestures that is de-
signed to ntmidate and the Court into handing
down more popular decisions. The STEMS the
report goes to say from kill the umpire phioso-
ply 1t would establish most dangerous precedent for
further nroadS into the Courts jurisdiction. 1t strikes
directly at historical tradition of separation of pow
erS"
Section of the bill is probably the most mischiev-
1t would forbid the Supreme Court to hear ap-
peal from a states refusal to admit qualified appli-
cant to the bar The minority report points that this
would enable state if it wished to close the legal pro
esSion to persons of specific religion The right
of the individual to due process of law and equal pro-
lection Of the laws could not be Safeguarded in the Su-
preme Court for under the BILL that Court would lack
Jurisdiction in such cases.
The section may be unconstitutional in the letter as
we'll in spirit Only lawyers denied admttance to the
bar would be penaized Doctors teachers and others
denied the right to practice their profession could still
appeal to the Supreme Court Is this equal protection
of the law required by the Fourteenth Amendment?
Moreover. the withdrawal of jurisdiction from the Su
preme Court in such would make the state courts
final arbiterS Of lawyers rights under the Fourteenth
Amendment and might lead to 48 different interpreted
tons. Here again is question of whether such
diversity would constitute equal protection.
There is compelling logic in the minority conclusion
that Section would open the way to Congress to whit
Tie away at the Federal judiciary whenever the MAORI
ty disagreed with decision of the Supreme Court
If the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is ser
ousy eroded, then the Constitution would become only
a museum piece"
The other three sections of the bill almost equal
y offensive in different ways. They would modify the
Supreme Courts interpretations of various unrelated
statutes without regard for either sound policy
sttutonal problems. The Senate Judiciary Committee
adopted these schemes without any hearings addressed
to the issues they raise It's spoedchd behavior merits
a rebuke that which the Senate handed
President Roosevelt when he attempted in 1887 pack
the Supreme Court. Washington Post.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-06-14
HOWARD UNIV. GRADUATES
CHALLENGED TO HELP achieve
FULL SOCIAL JUSTICE
Suggestion Comes From Senator John
S. Cooper As 631 Receive Degrees
Honorary Degrees Go To Three; First
Ph.D.'s In Towards History Conferred

WASHINGTON, D. c., June g.
Members of the 1858 graduating
classes at Howard University to-
day friday were challenged to
put their best thought to work in
order that the last vestiges of in
equality in America may be re-
moved. The suggestion came from
U. S. Senator John Sherman
Cooper (R., KY who was the
principal speaker at Towards Goth
annual commencement.
During the exercises, which were
viewed by some $500 persons, a
total of GA degrees were conferred
by DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson, pres
idents of the University. Among
the awards were three honorary
degrees and two Doctor of Philos-
cphy degrees. The Ph.D.'s, which
were given in chemistry, were the
first degrees higher than the Mas
ter's to be awarded in Towards
91-year history.
In the two-hour ceremony, which
had been delayed for an hour as
Senator Cooper debated the Adj
ministration's So billion foreign aid
bill on the floor of the Senate, the
Kentucky legislator told the grad
yates that full social justice for
all people cannot be achieved if
they succumb to- a defeatist atti-
tude.
al would have you remember
that the greatest badge of courage
goes to those who are aware of
danger, but who nevertheless af-
firm the continuity of life and ex-
perience in the midst of danger"
he said.
The Senator said that great
gains have been made in civil
rights, and that he was confident
that the nation is moving in the
right direction in this area. He
warned his audience against COM
placency, however, and called for
renewal of "our faith and con-
fidence that we can move ahead"
"Unless and until the Constitu-
ton is altered by the procedures
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-06-14

within the Constitution itself, it
is the duty of all to adhere to it,
to honor it, and to defend it," Sen
atcr Cooper declared. "And this
is a duty which every citizen, in
GLIDING every public official, must
recognize, support and enforce"
Having been instrumental earlier
in the day in defeating an amend
ment to the foreign aid bill which
would have curtaiied sharply L. S.
economic aid to India, a nation
where he formerly served as U. S.
Ambassador, Senator Cooper said
that it is the duty of the United
States to reduce the unbalance Of
opportunity and living standards
in the world.
"Our sense of humanity and
justice dictate our responsibility as
a favored nation to do this" he
said, "and from the standpoint of
our own self interest, if we with
draw from economic CON petition
with Russia, we will find ourselves
isolated at last from a majority
of the worlds people"
Regarding our relations with
other countries, particularly those
visited by Vice President Nixon
in South America recently, SEN
ator Cooper said that much of the
anti-United States feeling in these
countries has been brought about
by what these peoples have heard
and read about racial discrimina-
ton in America"
There is, as l know you will
see, a parallel between the inter-
national issues of colonialism and
racism, and the issue of discrimi
nation in our own country" he
said. I'VE must practice freedom
at home, if we are to have influ
ence in its growth in other coun-
tries"
The recipients of honorary de-
grees were James H. Kindelberger
of Los Angeles and F. D. Patter-
son of New York City, Doctors of
Laws, and DR.. Theodore K. Law
less of Chicago, Doctor of Science.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-06-14

The lord gave me the words to
write
And allow my people to read see
and know
We must live here an everyday
life
And live it here from door to
door.
We might as well start today
With new life for Christ
He shed his blood on the rugged
cross
To give us that external happy
life
Gods family is a oneless family
his childrens
Are the Brother and sister of
Christ
We have got to love one another
To receive that Eternal happy
life
The home of God is no more
the church
The church are in the hearts of
all christian today
Christ set the church up in the
hearts of his people
And we must believe and not go
astray
We cannot live in sin and obey
part in Christ
Why do you claim that you
don't own
That you have been born again the
spirit of Christ
And claim heaven to be your home
My people there are no excuses
today
You have read Gods word you
know right from wrong
Why would you loose your soul
today -
And make the devePs hell your
home so + 2
Once upon a time you could or
not write a single line
So now your brains shine as bright
as the sun
And your heart is full of sun
doing the day
And Gods will has not been done.
Christ said his yolk was easy you
see
But the treasure is not SO
You must be born of the spirit of
God
If you expect to enter heavens
door
Christ is the door keeper of Gods
Heaven
He shed his blood for you and
For all who have been born again
Ut the spirit of God and made
free
We have to many make believe in
Gods house
Pooling religion and that is all
We must be born of the spirit of
God
To be ready when Christ Jesus
BY Rev. John Perkins
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-06-14
Cannon
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ercises by the presentation of a
plaque by DR.. James P. Brawley,
president of the 90-year-old Meth
odist institution.
DIR. J. J. Dennis, chairman of
Clark's Department of Mathemat-
les, was reelected treasurer of the
Association, and Mrs. Nancy Lotson
Bryant, a teacher in the Atlanta
Public School System was re-elect-
ed to the post of recording secre-
tary.
In other business the Associa-
ton outlined and set into motion
several new aspects of The pro-
gram which. according to Alumni
Secretary Harold Hamilton, Twill
mean not only a wider range Of
activities for the Association, but
also greater participation and re-
spOnsibilities for members of the
Association"
DR.. Charles S. Gopher, dean of
instruction at Cannon Theological
Seminary, was named to head
committee to establish an alumni.
student loan fund and reorganize
the Associations student scholar
ship program. Mr.. Clarence Weekes
heads the committee responsible
for planning regional meetings.
Mrs. Narvie Jordan Harris, super
visor of public schools in DeKalb
County, Ga, will be chairman of
the Associations Embarrassing cam
paign next year; and Miss Bertha
Tarver CT Atlanta heads a commit
tee to standardize awards to alumni
for outstanding service.
Ralph Long, principal of At
lanta's John Hope Elementary
School, is chairman of a commit
tee to promote class reunions next
year. Miss Anne Wright and Cur
It's Ash, both of Atlanta, head
committees On job information SER
vice for alumni and national mem
berships, respectively. Mrs. Nancy
Lotson Bryant is chairman of a
committee on Association and Col
lege services for alumni and for
mer students.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-06-14

WEEKLY QUOTATION. "When
a man fights it means that a fool
has lost his argument" Chinese
proverb.