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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-09-04
76O-Pupil School Enrolment
Sets Another New Record Here

A total of 760 boys and girls
reported for school Tuesday
afternoon, marking up a new
record enrolment for the second
consecutive year, Superintendent
OF Schools A. B. Murray reported
this week.
Although the opening day reg
istration fell slightly short of the
mark predicted by the superin-
tendent several months ago, the
total undoubtedly will rise dur
ing the next few days of the first
term as latecomers continue to
enroll.
The enrolment exceeded the
long standing nigh of 669 in 1897
even without counting so pupils
enrolled in the kindergarten,
which did not exist at the time
the 1887 record was set. At that
time the Bluffton district included
a sizeable territory in Orange
township, which has since been
consolidated into the Cory-Raw-
son district.
Last years kindergarten class
of Is members became this years
first grade of 80 members, and for
the first time in the schools
history three first grade sections
are required. In addition to Miss
Meredith Stepleton and Mrs.
Ruby Murray, who have taught
first grade classes for a number
of years, Mrs. Jeanette Klay has
section of first graders. The
classes are made up of 29, 20 and
81 pupils.
The elementary school enroll
ment including kindergarten
totals 465 as compared with 445
last year, and the high school
enrolment of 295 compares with
last years 277. This years senior
class is slightly larger than last
years, 81 as compared with "a
members. ---.~ ------ ~ =
The breakdown of enrolment
according to sex shows that there
are lat boys in high school as
compared to 148 girls. The boys
lead the girls by a considerable
margin in the elementary school,
252 boys to 213 girls.
The enrolment figures accord
ing to grades follow: Miss Gro
mans kindergarten, morning, SO,
afternoon, 81; first grade-Miss
Stepleton, 90; Mrs. Murray, 29;
Mrs. Klay, 81; second grade
Mrs. Remick, %; Miss Hamilton,
80; third grade-Miss Hilty, 20;
Mrs. Steiner, 38.
Fourth grade-Mr. Ewing, SO;
Mrs. Oyer, %; fifth grade-Mrs.
Oyer, IL; Mr.. Hooker, 81; sixth
Cremean, 36; Mr..
Stratton, 35.
Seven A, 29; seven B, 90; eight
A, "a; eight B, %; nine A, %;
nine B, %; ten A, %; ten B, 26;
eleven A, 81; eleven B, 27; twelve,
81.
The 21-year record of opening
day registration at Bluffton
schools is as follows: 1937-669;
1938-648; 1939-61O; 194O-585;
1941-532; 1942-494; 1943-487;
1944-484; 1945-491; 1946-486;
1947-484; 1948-493; 1949-5O2;
195O-4SO; 1951-5O6; 1952-531;
1953-565; 1954-573; 1955-577;
1956-671; 1957-722; 1958-76O.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-09-04
SCHOOL BELL RINGS

Long silenced, the bell from
Bluffton's old grade school build
ing rang out Tuesday afternoon,
summoning pupils back for the
first day of classes in the new
year.
Ringing the bell was Lazarus
Basinger, Bluffton brick-layer,
who joined with Ed Good to con,
struct the bell memorial. All the
major work has been done anC
the bell is mounted, but nc
plaque has yet been installed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-09-04
County Agrees To Split Costs With
Village On Cherry St. Bridge Repairs

Costs of repairing the Cherry
street bridge will be shared
equally between village ano
county road funds, Mayor David
Riser has announced.
County assistance was obtained
by the mayor after he conferred
with county commissioners anc
the Allen county engineer las
week.
The county offer eases the
heavy strain put on the village
street fund. Repair of the badly.
weakened structure can no
longer be put off, but repair es-
Inmates are more than double
the balance in the street account.
Mayor Riser said the repair
program will be under county
supervision. County engineer
Thomas Monahan will decide
which repair bid to accept and
the job will be done according to
regular county bridge standards.
This means the repair job will
probably be done with slightly
heavier material than would have
been the case if all expenses had
fallen to the village.
County bridge funds are not
usually used for bridges not on
county roads. Mayor Riser said
he requested county help be-
cause the Cherry street bridge
connects the County Line road
with Main street and is one of
the main connections between
county roads east and west of
Bluffton.
Commissioners accepted the
mayors reasoning and agreed to
split repair costs equally. Esti-
mates of repairing the bridge
have been in the neighborhood of
5000.
Construction work will begin
this fall and the strengthened
bridge should be ready for traf-
fic within months. Mayor Riser
said no decision has been reach
ed on whether bids should be
taken by the county commission
ers or village council. If council
is to advertise for bids authori-
zation will be given at the regu-
lar council meeting next Tuesday
evening.
Repair Contractor
Delays Two Weeks
Another step in the reverend
ing street repair problems of the
village should be started in 10
days to two weeks when street
repair contractor Harold Main
starts his project here, council
man Charles Hankish, Jr., said
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-09-04

Tuesday.
Main had been approved over
a month ago to repair excava.
ton damage on village streets
but ne was unable to begin the
work and council members grew
restive as the end of the good
street repairing weather draws
near.
The Ada contractor said he
had been delayed by rain and
previous contracts but expects
to begin the local project within
days.
Chuckholes in streets through
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-09-04

TAKES SPENCERVILLE POST
Mrs. Jerome Herr of Bluffton
has accepted a position in the
Spencerville schools as sixth
grade teacher, it was learned
this week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-09-04
Telephone Rate Hike
Approved By PUCO
State Board Orders Investigation
Of COMPLAINTS of Poor Service

A telephone rate increase for Bluffton approved
Tuesday by the Public Utilities Commission but in the
breath the regulatory group ordered investigation
of complaints against company service.
The rate increase climaxes Fl month fight by the
Northwestern Ohio Telephone Service company but ut is
Milford chronicle., 1958-09-19

University of Delaware for an
other term are Morris Turner. Abbie
Schultz, Dorothy Lomicky, Chariot
tie Ludlow, Louise Henry and Gene
Carlisle.
Mrs. Cora Killen, Mrs Wilson
Hughes and Mrs. W. C. Kirkendall
spent Thursday in Salisbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Carlisle and
Mrs. Harold Stayton and daughter,
Joan, attended a turkey dinner
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Smith and family OF
Newark
Fall Conference and Workshop
of Delaware Federation of Women
Clubs was held Sept. 10, at the
University of Delaware, Newark.
Those attending from FELTON, Avon
Club were, President, Mrs. Har-
old Schabinger, Mrs. Richard Har-
dy, Mrs. Barrett Simpler, Mrs. Mary
Layfield, Mrs. Marion McGinnis,
Mrs. William Eliason, Mrs. Rus
sell Torbert, Mrs. Helen Harring-
ton, Mrs. Edgar Killen, Mrs. Le-
Ian Price, Mrs. Edwin Richter, Mrs.
John Goodwin and Miss Martha God
win.
The first Fall meeting of the
Avon Club will be held Wednes-
day, October 1, in the Fire Hail
Don't forget the public card
party sponsored by the Avon Club
in the Fire Hall, Sept. 20, at 800
O'Clock.
Gene Carlisle is spending a few
days this week with his parents
before returning to the University
of Delaware for another term.
Mrs. Myrtle Brittingham spent
Sunday with her mother, Mrs. John
Bayard. of Denton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barrett Simpler
spent last weekend at their cot
tage at Lewes Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs, E. B. Warrington
are being congratulated on the
birth of a daughter born Sept. Is,
in Milford Memorial Hospital.
At the last tNmeeting Of the WSCS
it was announced that the cost of
all tables had been taken care of
from the previous supper and by
several being donated. 1t was also
announced that a ministerial con-
ference at 10000 a. M, and lun-
cheon will be served. 1t was also
decided to hold a rummage sale on
October 2 and 8.
Mrs. Norman Burton spent the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. Nell
lie Dieffenderfer at Rehoboth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Walls of
near Harrington, were Tuesday visi-
tors of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Carlisle.
Milford chronicle., 1958-09-19
FELTON,
Mrs. Virgie Carlisle

The theme of Rev. Larry S. Rem.
ner, on Sunday morning was "Ir
Every Age God Calls.
Keep in mind our Group Quarter.
ly Conference which will meet in
this church, Wednesday, September
"a, at 800 p. m.
Our Nursery is in operation a.
gain for the season.
The Adult Sunday School Glass
will meet Thursday evening, Sept
25, at $50 o'clock in the dinine
room of the church. Mrs. Charles
Bostick, Jr., Mrs. Roland Neemar
and Mrs. Larry Renner are the
| hostesses.
President Roland Neeman has
called meeting of the Feltor
Alumni Association il the schoo
auditorium Tuesday evening, Sept
%, at 500 o'clock.
Art Henry, who has been a stu.
dent for three years at University
of Delaware, entered Temple Uni.
versity last Wednesday.
Mrs. Richard Hardy and daugh.
ter, Patty spent Sunday with heI
daughter and sister, Mrs. Wilson
Sturgis and daughter Leila.
Mrs. Mildred Harrington, OF
Greensboro, spent the weekend
with her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Britt
ingham. Mrs. Birmingham and Mrs
Harrington attended the wedding
of their nephew, Mr.. Morris Lee
Melvin to Mary Elizabeth Traylie
at Delmar, Saturday.
Mrs. William Wheeler and Miss
Marie Biggs gave a surprise stork
shower for Mrs. Noel Nechay OF
Goldsboro, Md, at the home OF
Mrs. Wheeler, Wednesday. evening
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Dill and Mr..
and Mrs. Kenneth East of Seaford
spent Sunday at Ocean City. Md.
Mrs. Howard Melvin of Long
Island, N. Y, is spending sometime
with Mrs. Ella Melvin. Mr.. Melvin
joined them over the weekend.
Mrs. Lillian Eliason, of Richard
son Park is visiting Mrs. Mae
Davis and Mrs. Hattie Eaton.
Laurence Taylor of Washington,
d. c.. was, a recent guest of his
mother, MRS. Linda Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Moore visit
ed Mr.. Edgar Charles of Newark.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Little.
near Newark on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Carlisle, Jr.,
of Salisbury, were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr and Mrs. Henry
Carlisle, Sr, and family.
Terry Turner left Sunday for
Newport, Rhode Island, after spend
ing two weeks leave with his mo-
ther, Mrs. Grace Turner, where he
will be stationed. He was accom-
panied as far as Philadelphia by
Mrs. Cora Hughes. Mrs. Burt Will
lis and Mrs. Grace Turner.
Students returning this week to
Milford chronicle., 1958-09-19

So plan to do your buying at this
bake at 10 a. m, September 9th.
The Official Board meeting was
I-held in Todd's Church on Monday
night with a very good attendance.
Mrs. VIM. Bennett being the new
secretary. we wish her much sue
cess and your cooperation.
A jolly family party was held at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Cornish of Whitleysburg, on Tues
day evening when a farewell party
was given for Cpl. and Mrs. Paul X.
Reid and daughter, who were leav-
ing on Wednesday for Camp Le-
eune, Jacksonville, N. c., and a
surprise party in honor of the birth
day of Mrs. Lester Taylor the get
together was happy one for all
being planned while Cpl. and Mrs.
Reid and Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Woodbury. of Tampa, Fla, were
vacationing in Delaware. They en-
ioyed an old-fashioned home made
ice cream and cake party together.
Mrs. Ethel Jones was a dinner
guest of her son and daughter-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jones, on
Sunday
Mrs. Guy Post, Mrs. Harvey
Rhodes and Mrs. Lester Taylor
were visitors of Mrs. Allison Davis
on Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Wade Elicit is among those
on the sick list at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mcdowell
were visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Bennett and family on Sunday af-
,ernoon.
Rev. and Mrs. William Smith and
son, David were dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Webb and
family on Sunday. Their supper
guests were, Mr., and Mrs. Warren
Hamstead and son, Stevie. Other
guests in the evening were, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles O'Bier, of Sea-
ford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin Savage of
Greenridge were weekend guests
of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fritz Zott, Mrs Savage stayed with
her parents, until Monday when
they accompanied her home to
spend several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Savage and visit their grand
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett and
family.
Your Pastor asks your atten-
dance at the Quarterly Conference
ON Tuesday evening, September
23rd, in Asbu7y Methodist Church,
in Harrington.
TODD'S CHAPEL SKEETERS
The mosquito is a friendly guy,
there's no one that he sights,
He treats them all the same
just don't care where he bites.
He comes to church and brings a
few
but soon his folks fill every pew.
He greets the Pastor and his
friends
the song he sings just never ends.
Until he lands to your surprise
and jabs his bill up to his eyes,
He's very frail can't pull too much
but how that guy can push.
He stands upon his tip toes
prepared for any rush
He takes a blood test here and
there
and does not charge a cent,
But one slight glance and you can
tell,
just where that skeeter went.
His visits are unwelcome here
he has not friends on earth,
For we're in favor of the fight
that controls the skeeter's birth.
Milford chronicle., 1958-09-19
PLUGGING PADRE

HONOLULU Up = A Catholic
priest has turned to the music bus
mess with disarming wit.
Plugging an album of songs by
teenage choir he directs, Father
John Mcdonald wrote in circu-
lar letter:
"The enclosed brochure is some
what fiamboyant, but readable. Be
cause / composed it, it is to be
suspected of bias-to say the least. |"
Milford chronicle., 1958-09-19
WITH A VIEW

DEL MAR, Calf. P-A hotel
guest, who took her pet poodle to
Del Mar horse races wearing a
diamond-studded collar, decided
he was too cramped sharing her
room. She rented the adjoining
one for him, at $35 day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-25
Hard Job Well Done

AS work crews continue their mop
ping-up operations after last weeks
devastating snowstorm, a few words of
commentator are due, the linemen,
tree cutters and other employees of the
electric power and telephone companies
for their efforts to restore services for
beleaguered customers throughout this
area. In some respects the wet snow
and wind gusts caused more trouble for
the utility crews than some Of the more
severe hurricanes. Not only were lines
broken by falling poles and trees, but
the heavy snow seriously handicapped
the repairmen. Repair trucks had diff
Guilty in reaching the scenes Of damage
and the workmen then had to wade
through knee-deep snowfalls to cut
dangling hot wires and string new ones.
The crews, reinforced by workmen
summoned from distant areas that had
escaped the brunt of the storm, labored
around the clock-some Of them missing
meals and sleep in the process. Grad
ually, however, light, heat and commu-
nications we're restored and households
and businesses resumed normal opera
tions. \ was an extraordinarily bard
Job welF done. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-25
Parents Protest

AS a parent, ! protest DR..
Hansen's nonclosing of the
schools during the last severe
snowstorm. He seems to be
under the illusion that the
mere keeping open of the
schools in such emergencies
will ensure regular classroom
activity
I kept my own two children
home. They kept dry and
safe. and proflted by doing
supplementary home reading.
Three neighborhood children
Whose parents. / believe,
were more interested in baby
sitting than either safety or
education) went to school
but. upon their return, said
that there were only a half
dozen pupils in their classes.
that half the teachers were
out because of dangerous
road conditions, that substi-
tutes weren't available, and
that those pupils who did go
had to be crowded together
in mixed-grade fashion so
that consequently all regular
lessons were abandoned for
the day. The first two hours
were spent in trying to get
the children dry in class
rooms that were cold to begin
with: and everybody, includ-
ing the teachers, was shiver-
ing and sneezing throughout
the day. Irate Parent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-25

Almost a half century ago, on
March Is, 1911, horrifying thing hap
pened in New York City. This was the
fire in the ten-story building of the
Triangle Waist Company. 1t took the
lives of no fewer than 146 garment
workers, nearly all Of them very young
women. Many of these jumped to their
deaths. The rest we're consumed by the
frenzy and the flames inside.
Out of this horror came in due
course far-reaching series of reforms.
Although the Triangle building was it
self Structurally flreproof Git is being
used today by New York University, its
interior layout in 1911 was full of deadly
traps. So in keeping with the findings
of a special commission, whose recon-
mendations included social and eco
nomic measures adding up to "a kind Of
miniature New Deal, laws were passed
to establish and enforce elaborate rules
and regulations designed to prevent such
tragedies in the future.
Yet last week, in the same neighbour
hood of lower Manhattan, and in the
same type of structure as the old Tri-
angle building, the rules and regulations
were not good enough to prevent the
same sort of conflagration as shocked
the Nation in 1911. This time the death
toll was "a garment workers. This time,
too, some jumped, and the rest died in
side. And this time, again, the authori-
ties are investigating, and steps are
being taken to enact additional ordi-
" ~ nfa fofN tNxyr afrfV
such things as the installation OF Sprin-
Killing systems and an intensification of
compulsory fire drills.
Involved in all this, however, Is
human element too unpredictable to be
kept under sure control. The rules and
regulations and ordinances are vital to
the preventive effort, but they can be
largely negated by the way the mind
sometimes behaves, or miSbehaveS, in
moments of acute personal danger or
crisis. Actually, according to New York'S
Fire Commissioner Cavanagh, last
weeks tragedy apparently did not stem
from any violation of law. Instead, the
major cause of the high death toll was
panic, plus slowness in sounding the
alarm.
1t Is for this reason that Mr. Cava-
nagh, while strongly supporting the
proposed new ordinances, has warned
that fires cannot be legislated out of
existence and that the toll they exact
will always depend in large measure on
how humans react to them. In sum,
although great preventive progress has
bean made since theNTriangle tragedy
oT91l, the fact still remains that even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-25
1t Should Stoy Here

The Armed Forces Medical Museum,
scheduled for eviction from its present
quarters within year, ought to be given
special consideration in the search for
new Government space in Washington.
1t belongs here.
The General Services Administra-
ton is said to have been unsuccessful so
far in finding available land for the
museum in Washington. There has been
talk of putting the exhibits in storage
until a suitable place can be found for
their display. 1t is hard to believe, how
ever, that some appropriate site for this
museum could not be found if there was
a positive determination to find it. The
chances are good that a lot of space
could be found in this city for Federal
expansion If Government officials really
decided to buck the trend toward dis
persal of Federal activities. Some of
them seem to have lost sight of the fact
that Washington was established as the
seat of Government and that 1t still is
and should remain so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-25
Rockets Report

+, The initial report of the Senate
Rackets Committee is not, as Senator
: Mcnamara has said, an attempt ito
frame blanket indictment against the
labor movement" But it is an indict-
ment Of corruption and other abuses
within segment of the labor movement
8 and, to lesser degree, in the business
community.
The findings and recommendations
in the report, report approved in full
by seven of the eight members of Sem
ator McClellan'S committee, are abun-
dainty supported BY the testimony taken
during the first year of the committee
hearings. To contend otherwise is SIM
ply to shut ones eyes to what the record
shows. Furthermore, If the new legis-
lation proposed in this report should be
adopted, 1t will materially benefit honest
workers who belong to unions by setting
up some protection for them against
demonstrated abuses by dishonest or
Indifferent union leaders.
More than this is needed, however.
It is clear that existing laws, either
through inherent inadequacy or nom
enforcement, have failed to safeguard
the rights of workers who choose not to
belong to unions and the rights Of the
general public. The use of union COON
squads in 1858 is just as outrageous and
intolerable as was the use of employer
COON squads two decades ago. It is
essential that both be outlawed. 1t is
also essential that the public be pro-
tected against exposed abuses, including,
according to committee estimate, some
$40 million in looted funds in five unions.
For it is the public, in the end, which
pays the bill.
Fortunately, the committee, in this
initial report, indicates that additional
legislative recommendations will be
forthcoming in the future. We hope
this will prove to be the case, and that
Congress, in considering the Mcclellan
committee proposals, will not be intimi-
dated by phony charges of "antilabor
bias" Labor-decent labor-needS an
assist from the legislators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-25
Schools

Within a short distance Of
my Silver Spring home there
are three elementary schools.
all wide. rambling one-story
buildings. Built within the
last six years, they already
are filled. Two have had adj
ditions, and we hear much
about the expanding numbers
of children who need more
schools. more classrooms.
Why are school officials not
building two or three story
schools with more classrooms
to start with instead Of one
story affairs? At elementary
school age, children don't
mind climbing a few stairs.
and the advantages would
be threefold: Cd Classrooms
wouldn't cost so much, be-
cause two or three times as
many children could be ac-
commodated on the same
amount Of land. 90 Main
tenance and heating costs
would be reduced and one
principal would serve in place
Of two or three. 80 The
money saved as a result Of
fewer schools. less mainte-
nance costs. and fewer SAL
aries, could be used for higher
teacher salaries. With higher
pay for teachers. more Of our
intelligent people would turn
to teaching. which in turn
would result in better educa-
ton for our youth in the race
to keep up intellectually with
the Soviet Union.
John Thornburgh. j
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-25
Laughs of Tax Rise

I've often wondered how a
person got to be a star in
Hollywood and now I know.
S elijah Graham in her
March is column had this to
say about Richard Widmark's
role in Kiss of Death:
"This is the movie in which
Dick pushed his grandmother
down q flight of stairs. And
the hideouS laugh. when he
did it, made him a star"
Well. well, all these years
I've wasted pushing a pencil
for Uncle Sam when I should
have been pushing old ladies
down stairs for Sam Gold
wyn. If the movie people
think Richard Widmark's
hideouS laugh was good, they
should have heard me last
week when Maryland upped
the income tax so per cent.
Boy. that gruesome chortle
was an Academy Award job.
Paul McIlvaine.