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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-03
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-03
Eurninos

Studebaker Packard Corp.
in s months ended June 80 had
a loss of $l3,3l4,165 VS.. a loss
of $6,8l0,202 in the like period
a year ago.
Champ. Paper e. Fibre in 3
months ended June 80 earned
$1,957.059 or "a cents a share
VS.. 1921 ,004 or 70 cents in
1857 period.
Other earnings included:
For q Months Ended June 30
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-03
BUSINESS
BRIEFS
Motor Vehicle Output last

Motor Vehicle Output last
week totaled 6l,S08 cars and
1921 trucks compared with
$3.50 and 1870 in the previ-
Gus week and 1888 and TO-
1888 in the like week a year
ago.-Ward's Automotive Re-
ports.
General Motors Corp. an
nounced its Delco Division had
planned to recall 500 workers
by September /.
Alan Wood Steel Co. an
nounced it will raise steel prices
to levels equal to other pro-
ducers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-03

unit Of tradinz 10 SHARES or sales In tulI Rates
o. dividends in the loreRoinR table are annual dis
bursemens based or the last quarterly semi
declaration Unless otherwise noted special or extra
3 Annual rate py' stock DIVIDEND Declared o. Oaic
In 1857 plus stock dividend Declared paid tal
this wear Payable W stock during 1857 estimated
cash value on ex1ividend OF exdstIibution date
6 Pad last year DECLARED oaid after stock diyi
demo CT spiit-up kDeraTeo o. paid this veaT, az
accumulatiye ISSUE with dividends in arrears Paid
At last dividend meeting Declared o. paid in e5i
plus stock dividend PAYABLE N stock during 1858
date liquidatins dividend cid Called Y Ex diyi
derd x-dis u distribution u Ex nights wv With
out warrants WV With warrants wd When distributed
vi When issued nd Next day delivery q In bankruptey
OF receiyeTshp beinR reorEanized under the Bank
ruptcy Act securities assumed BY such companies
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Bluffton Sets
Dollar Days
For August 8-9

Bluffton Dollar Days, the semi
annual sales event wise shoppers
anticipate this time of year, has
been set for Friday and Satur-
August 8 and~9, according to Har-
old BaImer, general chairman of
the event.
Following a cool and unseasOn-
able early summer, local mer-
chants have large inventories of
summer merchandise they are
eager to move before clearing
shelves and racks for fall items
which have already started to
arrive.
Dollar Bays give the retail
stores an opportunity to clean
house and afford shoppers a gold
en- opportunity to profit by price
reductions. A 10 page circular will
be mailed to more than 5000 resi-
dents in wide radius of Bluffton
announcing The sale and listing
the bargains. Next weeks issue
of The BlufftOn News will also
carry the Dollar Days messages.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
NetU Swimming Lesson
Series To Be Offered

Lessons in the improvement of
technique for quarry swimmers and
a second class for adult beginners
will be offered during the coming
week at the Bluffton Municipal pool,
according to Bernard Schiffke, chair
man of the recreation commission.
The announcement of the addition
al instruction came at the same time
pool officials reported that approxi-
mately 60 per cent of the first three
beginnerk classes this summer had
passed. their courses, A total of AZ
children took beginning lessons and
20 adults received Instruction.
Jerry Kohl, pool manager, said
that the students wereArequired to
dive from the side of the pool and
swim across in order to pass the test.
The adult class included six men and
Ia women.
Adult beginners will sign up for
the next class Monday evening at 6
p. m. Time of the classes will be
set after consultation with the appli-
cants. 1t will either be from $50 to
6 p. m. or to $50 p. m.
The advanced swimming classes
will be offered Monday through Fri
day from TO II a. m. for swimmers
already qualified to swim in the deep
quarry waters. The students will
study advanced strokes, coordination
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Area Wheat
Crop Valued d.
At 100000
Bumper Oats Harvest
Opens AS Most Farmers
Labor Between Showers

One of the heaviest wheat crops in
the history of local farming will put
more than 100000 into the pockets
of farmers marketing their grain at
three elevators from Mount Cory
through Blufften and south to Beaver
dam, it was estimated this week.
And with some of the wheat still
standing in the fields early this week
farmers here began pouring in bump
er harvestS of oats. Elevator lopera-
tors said that new records are likely
to be established here for shipment
of oats and other smah grains.
Managers of the three elevators es-
timated that before the wheat har-
vest is completed more than 275,O0O
bushels of wheat will be shipped from
their plants. Part of this - less than
40 per cent = will be placed in stor-
age facilities to await possible higher
prices than the current average price
of about $1.55 with dockage for more
than normal moisture.
But with part of the crop going
into storage and part still in the
fields. it is estimated that S15O,O00
in cash has already been turned over
to the producers and is finding its
way into thes channels of trade.
The first oats, arriving 1t the. ele-
vators this week were testing on an
average of 40 pounds to the bushel
with many farmers reporting yields
of 100 bushels to the acre. Many other
reports of 80 bushels to the acre were
heard with Is on the low side, ele-
Vator men said.
One problem was concerning local
grain men this week = getting enough
cars on their sidings to handle the
shipments.
Not only are bumper crops contrib
uting to the large quantities of grain
being handled at the local granaries,
but more farmers are turning to grain
in this vicinity. More farmers than
ever this year will raise an excess
of oats over their own feed needs,
according to Eldon Tschiegg, man.
ager of the Farmers Grain Co.,
Bluffton.
Following on the heels of last years S
poor crops the avalanche of golden
grain was welcomed by farmers and
also by retail businessmen who de
pend upon agricultural prosperity for
a large part of their sales.
Not as fortunate are farmers in
neighboring Auglaize county, who had
been able to combine very little wheat
because of worse weather conditions
and drainage problems.
Ebert Noble, federal crop insur7
ance agent, said early this week that
farmers in that area would harvest
very little quality wheat if adverse
weather conditions continued.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Trash Fire Smoke
Causes False Alarm

IAN out-of-doors trash fire, which
filled the Harry Bogart residence on
West Kibler street with smoke and
excited the family and neighbors to
a belief that the house was on fire, re-
suited in fire alarm Saturday eve
ming at Gas.
Bluffton firemen, arriving on the
scene in quick time, checked wiring,
walls and attic for indications of
fire, but decided that the smoke and
odors had filtered in from outside.
Occurring at busy hour for the
Bluffton business section, the alarm
quickly cleared Main street and
large number of autos followed the
fire truck, contrary to law, to the
Bogart home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31

the sale block was not seen until
Clayton Bixel, proprietor Of the
agency the past q years, presented
the new owner Tuesday to his en-
ployes and other local businessmen.
The new owner is 3O-year-old Rus
sell Brook of Dearborn, Michigan,
who will take over the business reins
August l. He plans to move his wife.
Betty Jean, and their five-month-old
daughter, Karen Lee, to Bluffton as
soon as suitable accommodations can
be found for them.
The new store opening in the Hank
ish building within the next few days
to a week will be known as MiIlag-
er's Cut Rate Store and will be OPP
Grated by two Ottawa brothers, Rob
ert w. and Richard f. AIillager.
Their father, Robert E. MiIlager op-
crates Millager's Walgreen Drug store
in Ottawa.
The brothers are attending phar-
macy college at Ohio Northern uni
versity where Robert is a junior and
Richard, a senior Their intention is
ultimately to make their store full
fledged drug store. ...
In the beginning they will operate
Charles soda fountain and Mr.. Hank
ish will assist them in preparing the
line of homemade candies, he sold for
many years. In addition, the store will
carry large stock of patent medi-
cines, toiletries, baby supplies and
sundries.
The Hankish storeroom has been
vacant for the past three or four
months since Charles Emans. who
succeeded Hankish, closed his con-
fectionery there.
The purchase of the local Ford
agency by the Dearborn, Mich, man
removes ownership from the Bike
family which began in 1916 under
Memo Bixel and then in 1895 was
transferred to his son, Clayton.
Memo operated the leadership in
the building which now houses the
Dixie-Marathon Service station I
was under his ownership that Ford
introduced its Model A series which
reyolutionized the auto business In
1923. Clayton succeeded his father in
(See Business Changes, p. 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Friday Night
Program Ends
Bible School

A public program at 7:30 p. m.
Friday in the First Mennonite church
will conclude Bluffton's annual Vaca-
ton Bible School.
Each class group will present a Sec
ton Of the program based on their
activities of the past two weeks.
A final count of the number of
finger monographs purchased through
the daily offerings will also be given.
Money collected through the end of
Tuesdays session was enough to
purchase Is of the kits.
Six recordings of Biblical readings
are included with each phonograph
purchased. The simple four-piece
record players are hand-operated, and
cost 1913 each. Records are present
ly available in eight foreign tongues.
Daily attendance has averaged
around the 180 mark, with the peak
of 189 coming last Thursday.
LII rfloay program the kinder
sarten group will present series of
songs and verses. First grade stu
dents will present pictures, verses
and songs about Jesus.
Theme of second grades share in
the program viii be Dimes at Work
for God" Gods Friends" will be
presented by the third grade class.
A choral reading on the twenty
fourth psalm viii be presented by the
fourth grade class of the Bible school.
The fifth grade will demonstrate
Learning the Books of the Bible and
the Ten Commandments.
Students in the sixth grade class
VIII do choral reading on the birth
OF Christ and upper class students
viii do an interpretative story Jesus
and the Blind Boy
Group singing by the primary
and upper classes will also be fea-
tured on the program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Rules Announced
For Miss Buckeye
Beauty Contest

OF Bluffton girls, widely known for
their LONELINESS and charm, who is
fairest of them all?
AS a program feature of the annual
picnic Tof the Bluffton Business Mems
association, the local fair sex will
compete for the title of Miss Buck
eye" in a bathing beauty contest to
be held at Buckeye Lake park Thurs
day evening, August 21.
E. James Szabo and Paul Stauffer,
co-chairmen of the program commit
tee, have announced that all girls,
IA years of age and older, Miss or
Mrs, who reside in Bluffton or the
trade area surrounding the village,
are eligible to compete. Contestants
are urged to register promptly at
The Bluffton News.
Contestants must appear in bathing
suits the evening of the picnic and
will be judged by group of out-of-
town experts on the basis of poise,
gracefulness and, attractivenesS. The
winner will receive SIS merchandise
certificate which may be used at any
member store in the Business Mems
association.
Miss Buckeye will also be Bluffton's
official representative in various
community functions during the year
until a successor is chosen, probably
at the next picnic of the association.
Another division of the contest will
offer prizes for persons wearing the
most unusual bathing suit of yester-
year, male or female. Youngsters,
who can't remember the day when
men wore shirts above their SWIM
ming trunks OF. the bulky garments
of beauties at the turn of the CEN
tury are in for a treat. Ask
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Dormitory Switch Will Provide
College With Adequate Housing
is being sponsored by the

to board male students in off-cam-
pus housing. Some upper class male
students have been living in private
homes near the campus for the past
several years.
Applications have been coming in
steadily for the incoming freshman
class. Deadline for applications is
August 10 and it will be a short time
after that before a complete picture
of fall enrolment can be obtained
The Dean said it appeared enroll
ment would probably come close to
last years figures. The 1858 gradual
ing class was larger than normal, but
an increased enrolment of incoming
freshmen may offset this.
Academic records of high school
graduates applying for the new fall
class are well above average, Dean
Kreider said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Season Pool Tickets
Sell for Hdf-Price

Season tickets for the BlufftOn
swimming, pool win be sold at
haIf-pricey for the remainder of
the season, the HlufftOn recreation
committee decided at their meet
ing TuesdXevening.
Prices hbw in effect are $3.50
for children in grades one through
six; $S.25 for students in grades
seven through IL; 81 for adults
and 50 for family tickets.
Seasons ticket holders are en-
titled to eeNswimming lessons in
the series now being conducted at
at pool. u
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31

The Rev. Vernon c. Oppermann,
for many years a backbone of minis
.terial and civic affairs in this COM
munity, died at his residence late
Monday afternoon after a long i'll
ness.
He had been in failing health for
some time and had been seriously i'll
since May. He would have been AZ
on August Is.
Rev. Mr.. Oppermann had served as
pastor of st. Johns and EmanuelS S
Evangelical and Reformed churches
since November 1943 and was the
dean of local pastors in point of years
spent in Bluffton.
Besides Serving his two churches
he participated actively in commun-
ity affairs. He was former presi-
dent of the Bluffton Board of Educa-
ton and once served as president of
the Community Progress association.
He was a leader in the Bluffton
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Postal Hikes in Force Tomorrow
Last Local Collection Under Old Rates at $50 Tonight

cents. Each increase win be one
penny.
Circulars, printed matter and mer-
chandise will be jumped to three
cents for the first two ounces and
cent and a half for each additional
ounce.
Changes in international rates will
affect many Bluffton persons, who
make frequent mailings to friends
and relatives across the seas.
First class rates are now eight
cents for the first ounce and five
cents for each additional ounce. Post
cards will cost five cents each.
Printed matter will cost four cents
for the first two ounces and two cents
for each additional two ounces. Com
mon papers will cost four cents for
the first two ounces, with a ten cent
minimum.
Merchandise samples will cost four
cents for the first two ounces and two
cents for each additional two ounces.
Small packets will go for four cents
for each two ounces, with a 20 cent
minimum.
The new rates are expected to add
$500, 900, 900 to post office Golfers each
year, but postal officials say that even
this boost will not pull them out OF
the red. The estimated deficit for the
next fiscal year is $500, 900, 900. Rough
ly 10000, 600 represents a pay boost
granted postal employees throughout
the entire country recently.
No changes in parcel post rates are
planned for the present time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31

Exchange of mems and womens'
housing at the start of the fall term
should provide Bluffton college with
adequate on-campus housing for the
coming year, Dean Robert Kreider
said this week.
Completion of the Ropp hall addi-
ton will mean that men will be
housed in Lincoln hall this fall and
women will be transferred to the
newly-enlarged and renovated DORM
itory at the other side of the campus.
Lincoln hall was originally a mems
dormitory but it was converted for
womens use several years ago when
the womens' enrolment began to
climb rapidly.
Dean Kreider said the dormitories
would be near the capacities but ii
appears that it viii not be necessary
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31

The old three-cent stamp dies at
midnight tonight, to be replaced in
the common eye by the four-cent
Lincoln stamp symbol of the sweep
ing postal rate increases which go i'm
to effect across the nation.
Bluffton postmaster Ralph T.
Stearns said this week that all mail
deposited in collection boxes in Bluff
ton after 6 80 p. m. Thursday will be
handled under the new postage rates.
The $50 p. m. collection is the last
regular collection of the day at the
Bluffton office.
First class mail rates rise from
three cents to four cents an ounce
and the familiar two-penny postcard
will be jumped to three cents.
All mail deposited with insufficient
postage will be forwarded, but with
postage due charges added to it's
cost. The post office department has
announced a temporary suspension of
the new five-cent penalty for de-
livering postage due mail. This
charge will be resumed on November
/.
Air mail costs also rise a penny
an ounce. Regular air mail will now
cost seven cents an ounce and air
mail post cards will now go for a
nickel.
Third class mail rates will also rise.
The new charge will be three cents
for the first two ounces and a cent
and a half for each additional ounce.
The rate limitation for third class
mail has been raised from eight to
16 ounces.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
BE Reaches Agreement To Shift
Northern Game to Lima Stadium

Bluffton college athletic officials
and members of the Lima Junior
CHAMBER of Commerce have reached
agreement on transferring the Bluff
ton-Ohio Northern football game to
Lims stadium, Beaver athletic di-
rect A. c. Burcky has announced.
Approval of Lima school board
officials for use of the stadium is the
only technically still to be cleared
for! the game. Burcky said Jaycee
officials were to handle stadium
clearance for the game.
The September u date scheduled
for the game comes on the only open
date on the schedule for Lima sta
dunn this fam
The game win be listed as a Bluff
ton home game and Bluffton students
will have their activity cards honor
ed at the gate. Gate prices will be set
by the Jaycees, the Bluffton athletic
director announced.
The traditional game with Northern
will also mark Buttons first de-
fense of the season of their Mid-Ohio
crown which they have worn proudly
for the past two seasons.
1t will be the Beavers third start
of the season. They open at home
against Taylor university on Septem-
Der 13 and then play Heidelberg at
Tiffin on September 20. >
Agreement on switching the game
to Lima climaxed two years of effort
by the Lima group to bring the color
FIJI RlIlfftnra fnaf,n To thnir. Sta diIIr,n
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31

Eli Deppler, retired manager of the
Bluffton Telephone company and
active in local government for many
years, died early Wednesday morn
ing in Bluffton Community hospital.
He had been in failing health for
some time and had been seriously i'll
since Thursday, when he was re-
moved to the hospital.
He was born January "a, 1876, in
Bluffton, to John and Mary Huber)
Deppler. On August Z, 1907, he was
married to Blanche Morrison, who
survives.
Other survivors include a son, Ken
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Services Thursday for
Rec. Y. c. Oppermann

Ministerial association and was a
member of the West Ohio Ministerial
association. The Rev. Mr.. Oppermann
was a youth counselor and was active
in youth groups of the Evangelical
and Reformed church.
During his long tenure here both
churches grew substantially and st.
Johns recently completed $65, 900
building program under his direction.
The Rev. Mr.. Oppermann came to
Bluffton in 1943 from a pastorate in
Sulphur Springs, Ohio.
He was born August 13, 1916, in
Van Buren township, Shelby county
to Hermann c. and Anna (Nolte) Op-
permann, both of whom survive. He
was married to Julia Schroer, who
survives, along with three sons, Cal
vim, James and Daryl, all at home.
Other survivors include: sisters,
Mrs. Dorothy Jung, New Bremen and
Mrs. Marjorie Meier, Prescott, Wis
consin; brothers, Edward and Myron
New Knoxville; Fred, New Bremen;
Marvin, st. Marys and the Rev
Robert, Bloomville.
He was a lifetime member of the
Evangelical and Reformed church
Funeral services will be conducted
Thursday at 3 p. m. in st. Johns
Evangelical and Reformed church,
with the Rev. Albert Meiler officiat-
ing. Following these services the body
will be removed to First Church E.
and r., in New Knoxville, where
services will be conducted at 2 p. m.
Friday by the Rev. Frank Lowenberg.
Burial will be in Pilger Ruhe ceme-
terry, New Knoxville.
The body will lie in state at each
church for two hours before services.
Funeral arrangements are being con-
Quoted by the Basinger funeral home,
Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31

for one game. The Jaycees contacted
the Beavers last year but were un-
able to find a date which fit the
Bluffton schedule.
Ohio Northern eventually played one
of their early home games in Lima,
with the backing of the Jaycees.
This game will give Lima football
rooters their first cham,e to watch
first-hand the explosive offense which
has carried Bluffton to Is victories
in their last 18 games, including 10
consecutive wins in the MIDI Ohio
league.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Eli Deppler, Retired Telephone Company
Manager Dies at 81; Services Saturday

neth;' brothers, Albert, Walter and
Calvin, Bluffton; and Harry, Detroit,
and one granddaughter. A son,
Wayne, died in 1913.
He was member of the Church
of Christ, and served as a deacon for
35 years.
He also served on the village coun-
Gil, Board of Public Affairs and as a
member of the school board.
Funeral services will be held Satur-
day in the Basinger, funeral home,
with the Rev. E. ]. Penhorwood
officiating. Burial will be in Maple
Grove cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-07-31
Elida Girl Wins
First Ada Contest

Lynnette Foust, seven-year-old Eli
da girl, won the first preliminary
talent contest for the Ada Farmers
and Merchants picnic Sunday.
She gave a modern jazz dance num-
Der. Second place went to Paulette
Prim, an acrobat from Toledo. Two
acts divided third place. Tied were a
tap dance duo, Sharon Huber and
Terry Kocher, and baton twirler Nam
cy Jo Fett, Wapakoneta.