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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-12-18

ADD TO "REMINISCENCES on
early days of Bluffton college
Mrs. Eva Kohl recalls that Mr..
and Mrs. Christian B. Amstutz
were also among the Blufftonites
who boarded early BC students.
They lived where Music hall is
now located, and later donated
some land to the college where
the creek flows through the cam
pus. The Kohlis were grandpar-
ents OF Maurice and Elbridge
Kohl.
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Er-CeU-O Strike

Christmas lights bright on Main street bespeak-
ing the nature of the holiday all Chrstendom will OBJ
serve next Thursday, but they do not reflect the
gloom too evident in many local homes touched by the
controversy and bitterness of industrial strike
This time 1t has come to our Ex-Cell-O plant.
The lights are out at Ex-Cell-O. modern plant
that has operated profitably for employees and
agement for two years lies dle while it's force of
skilled men walk the picket line After eight weeks
without pay check there is little prospect for the
usual happy American Christmas in these homes
Bluffton has been proud of it's industry and
that it is sick and idle, the town with it.
Our townfolk know little of the technical nature
of labor contract The difference between national
and a local contract smaller to them than to
their friends of the union and their friends who
age the plant 1t just pity that tools and
should be idle when both needed The issue does
not seem to be wages, hours fringe benefits. 1t
must be national local contract Underlying the
differences is complete lack of confidence in each
otherlabor and management. So long that exists
what good is a contract of any kind?
The community cannot dictate a contract. If out
sders are to be of any help in arranging peace they
must be as the Buffton Business Mems association
has stated, mutual friends of both parties" AS
mutual friends, outsiders must remind that there is
security profits for anyone in plant shutdown
a company forced to let business go elsewhere. Sc
curty andproft lie not in ideness but productveness
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COUNTRY FLAVOR

cranking, he wondered a bit
about the statement, This shell
Ter is supplied with heavy bal
ance wheel and is geared low so
that it is easy to operate"
A young citizen tried once or
twice to shell q bushel of corn
in the five minutes mentioned,
but was easily convinced that
this time limit was for Paul
Bunyan. The one hole shelter
served its purpose well in the
days before corn raising was
mechanical and the magic of
hybridization increased the har-
vest. Not SO long ago so bushels
per acre was considered excel
lent yield; today 100 bushels is
commonplace and it is only a
question of time until 200 bushels
win be an everyday goal.
We would not return to one
hole corn shelters any more than
we would ask for a renaissance
of woodburning stoves, boot
jacks and buffalo robes. But the
countryman feels that men now
sitting behind city desks who can
recall the afternoon task of corn
shelling, have a background for
understanding a new era that to-
days boys will never have.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-12-18

PEOPLE ARE STOPPING to
look in our front window, but for
the first time in years it isn't
the utter chaos of gloves, hub
caps, chewing tobacco, combs,
prize vegetables, elk's teeth and
sporting goods which attracts
them.
The Bluffton News has been
seized with the spirit of the
season and we now posses an at
ractively designed Christmas
season display of poinsettias,
candles and Christmas greenery
planned and laid out by Hilty
Florists.
We have all good resolutions
about keeping the window neat
and attractive after the holidays
pass but printers and editors are
VIGOROUSLY weak in resolution,
particularly a resolution about
neatness.
Il y
"ALL I WANT FOR CHRIST
MAS is a new front TOOTH" could
well be the theme song for Ropp
Triplett who lost one last Sunday
while playing hockey on the Riley
creek ice near the Harry Yoder
home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-12-18
ONE.HoLE CORN sHELLER

On family farms half a cen
tury ago ID year older had a
daily task as soon as he returned
from District School, changed in
to his chore clothes, and had a
lunch of Mothers sugar cookies
and a glass or two of milk. The
Perfection One Hole Corn Shelter
assured the daily need of shelled
corn for the livestock. 1t also
assured a lad of exercise! A
husked cob of corn went into the
hole in the top; muscle power
turned the iron crank that rotated
the gears. The shelled cob pop
ped out a hole at the rear and
the shelled corn dribbled into a
battered tin tub beneath the
machine.
The catalog description, a boy
often felt, was unduly enthusi-
astic, especially the statement
that "A bushel of corn can be
shelled in this machine In five
minutes. One did not question
that the shelter was strong and
durable, guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction and do good
work" However, as one poked a
cob into the hole and started the
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TALK
AHoUrN@
TEE;NERS

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
has pervaded BHS. The Tri-Hi-Y
and Hi-Y clubs decorated the
Christmas tree in the corridor.
Each of the home &C classes
planned and decorated for their
own parties. The Girls and Boys
Glee clubs sang carols in the
corridors this morning. The art
class constructed and painted
the manger scene in the high
school yard. And finally, the SEN
ior class is sponsoring a Christ
mas dance in the gym tomorrow
night at 8 p. m. for grades 8-11.
ANOTHER TROPHY has been
added to the high school show
case. The football award, the
Northwest Conference co-cham-
pions of 1858, was presented to
the showcase by five senior foot
ball players last week.
A GROUP of members of the
Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs attend
ed Northwestern Ohio confer
ence in Findlay Saturday, De-
cember 6. Speaker at the confer
ence in the First Methodist
church was the president of Find
lay college.
The Bluffton group, accompa-
MED by Miss Mildred Keel, Tri-
Hi-Y advisor, were Pam Berry,
Mary Steiner, Ruth Frankhauser,
Terry Marshall, James Herr,
David Little and Daryl Huber.
The group attended workshops
in the morning, and had lunch
at the Elks club.
LEADERS of the magazine
drive held earlier in the year
have been announced. Ann Buch-
er, seventh grade, was the star
salesman, turning in $50 worth of
subscriptions. She received a
flash camera outfit for first
prize.
JIM DILLER, an eighth grader,
came in second with $40 in sales,
and received a radio. Others re-
ceiving certificates were Ellen
Johnson, Joyce Eikenbary, How
ard Amstutz, Marvin Augsburg
er, Joan Lewis, Linda Baber and
Karen Mericle.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-12-18

Mrs. Henry Koontz will enter
tain members of the Jolly Ten
club at her home east of town
Wednesday evening. On the pro-
gram will be Ruth Shifferly and
Georgia Yerger.
Robert Mitchell of San Fran
cisco, a former Bluffton boy,
spent the week end with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Mitch
ell. Mr.. Mitchell holds a respon-
sible position with a telephone
company in San Francisco.
Mrs. Sam D. Diller had an old
fashioned quilting bee last week.
The Rockport Stone company
closed their plant after a record
run Saturday.
Christmas greeting cards re-
quire only one cent postage this
year instead of the two cent
stamp required last year.
The horse still has a place on
the farm, judging from the So
entries in this department at the
annual Mid-Winter Fair. Both the
Locher barn on Vance street and
the Mrs. j. w. Augsburger barn
on Cherry street were required
to house the exhibit. It was about
equally divided between Belgian,
Percheron and grade drafts.
Trying for positions on the
girls basketball team of Bluffton
high school this winter are cap
tain Cathryn Warren, Josephine
Steiner, Marcella Basinger, Jane
Miller, Virginia Triplehorn, Max
inc Amstutz, marguerite Geiger,
Wanda Lora, Theola Steiner,
Kathleen Miller, Maybelle Am
stutz, Jean Diller and Carolyn
Romey.
The Bluffton Telephone COM
pany has been sold to the Utility
Service company, with head.
quarters in Alliance, Ohio,
George Quatnan is general man.
ager of the enterprise which
bought the Bluffton business. OF.
ficers of the Bluffton company
were: Abe Wise, president; N. w
Cunningham, treasurer; Eli Dep
pier, secretary-manager; H. o
Bentley, Eli Deppler, N. w. Gun
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terparts in pest determination
contest. Forty-two local students
are engaged in the contest, I'M
der the direction of L. w. Smith,
Smith-Hughes agricultural in
structor in the high school.
Huber, Diller, Hilty and Gratz
schools made interesting displays
at the Mid-Winter fair. Something
more than the Three RS are be-
ing taught in the rural schools
these days.
Oldest exhibit at the fair was
a Bible owned by c. C. Geiger.
The book was printed in German
in 1886 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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MAINLY PERSONAL

The ice has been thick with
skaters, both young and older,
since subzero weather has made
hockey Bluffton's most popular
sport.
IN BEAVERDAM the volunteer
fire department has created a
large skating rink on the black
top school grounds at the rear
of the high school. First, snow
was banked up around the edges
of the rink. Firemen soaked the
snowbanks with water and al
lowed them to freeze.
In tank trucks, $4,000 gallons
of water were hauled to flood the
rink, and now the youngsters
have a large, safe skating rink
and all the fun that goes with it.
MEMBERS OF THE FIRST
MISSIONARY church have
evolved an unusual means of
raising church funds. Members
of the congregation bring their
Christmas greeting cards with
them to church where they are
distributed by the church's own
mail department. The money
which would be spent on having
Uncle Sans men distribute them
to the various homes is donated
for a special church fund. The
Rev. Robert Dye is pastor of the
church.
| CHIMES program on the Town
Hall public address system art
appreciated by all who heal
them. Ronald Anderson is il
charge of arranging the dali.
and nightly programs, and tn,
new chimes records you hea
were supplied by the Blufftol
Business Mems association.
DING, THE POST OFFICE
BAT, departed his summer hom
at the rear of the post offic
building the day after Thanks
giving and just ahead of the sub
zero weather, according to a 10
kept by post office employees.
He is sure to return just a da
! or two before insects begin
make themselves evident in tn
spring.
THE BEAVERDAM TRIO, Bo
Amstutz, Wayne Martz and Dal
! Walters, who went deer huntin
: in Trumbull county last wee
, failed to bring one home, but n
ported seeing two at a distance
THE BLUFFTON POST OF
FICE is probably the only one
the country furnishing rubbe
. bands to customers who will SCI
arate local Christmas cards fror
: those going out of town. A larg
box of bands is placed for til
mailer's convenience in the lobb,
Strange part of it is that tn
supply of rubber bands seems
grow from year to year, and tn
service is at no expense to tn
post office department at al
Matter of fact, If the collectio
continues to grow, it may be po:
sible to sell some of the rubbe
bands to the post Offices profi
ADD TO "REMINISCENCES O
early days of Bluffton college
Mrs. Eva Kohl recalls that MI
) and Mrs. Christian B. Amstut
|, were also among the Blufftonite
who boarded early BC student:
: They lived where Music hall
{ now located, and later donate
| gonna land To the COLLEGE NIIhar,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-12-18

nlngham, Julius Wise, Abe Wise,
c. B. Ewing and John Deppler,
directors.
The intermediate Christian En-
deavor society of the First Men
MONTE church will present pag-
cant play '"The Color Line, "
which portrays the Christian at
titude toward other races, Sunday
evening in the church.
Bluffton high school students
are leading their Pandora coun-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-12-18

THOMAS HARBAUGH of Mi
ami county, Ohio, was famous
for his Mick Carter" detective
stories as well as for his more
serious historical writings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-12-18
NeIOs Our Fathers Read

: From THE BLUFFTON NEWS ISSUE OF DEC 90, 19as-
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
$588,OOO
RMHS Job
Is Okayed

A contract for the construction
of redesigned addition to Rich
ard Montgomery High School this
week was awarded to K. A. Baker
Coz, Inc, at a low bid of 1888 600.
The expansion will include 13
classrooms, a library, cafeteria,
kitchen and numerous alterations
in the existing plant.
The new facilities are planned
for use by next October.
Original plans submitted by
Architect Rhees Burket brought
in a low bid of $681.000 last
month. The Board Of Education
threw out all bids at that time
and ordered Burket to make
changes which would reduce the
cost.
The new design eliminates
about 1000 square feet of floor
space, omits two conference
rooms, reduces the planned park
ing area and makes other cost
saving changes.
Total amount budgeted for the
project is $737 400. Overall cost
will include $43,847 in architects
fees, $4,000 for land purchase
and $4,000 for furniture and
equipment.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

ing but that enforcement is diff
cult because of the general nature
of the ordinance and because of
the city's limited police force.
Koepenick explained later that
he always got sympathetic coop
Grafton from the city and county
police departments, but that the
condition, nevertheless, remains.
He cited areas surrounding
Middle and Commerce las. as the
worst spots. Safeway Stores,
Koepenick said, would consider
expanding and undermining their
Rockville store if they could be
sure the problem of loiterers
would be banished.
Koepenick said he did not
blame liquor dispensaries or
taverns for the problem, but the
lack of enforcement which has
allowed groups of disorderly men
to gather on city streets.
1T is these men whose pres
ence discourages potential Gus
toners from shopping in many
of our stores" he said.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
UNICEF .Beggg;gars
To Solicit Coins

At least 1000 C hildre n
throughout M o n t G o m cry
County will take part in the
United Nations Children n S
Fund - or UNICEF - drive
tonight and tomorrow night.
The children will call at homes
in the accepted trick or treat"
style, but ste a d of goodies,
they'll be collecting pennies, nick.
els and dimes for needy children
all over the world.
The children will carry suitably
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
Chamber Head Hits
Unruly Loiterers

Loiterers on inadequately
lighted business streets in Rock
Vile have made it unsafe for
unescorted women and children, F"
and have taken a stranglehold"
on city businessmen, Glen j.
Koepenick, president of the Rock
vile Chamber Of Commerce, said
Tuesday.
Koepenick, co-owner of the
Abode Hardware store, appeared
before the Rockville Mayor and
Council to appeal for addition of
two more policemen to the city's
two-man force and for installa-
ton of mercury vapor street
lights along all of the city's COM
mercial streets.
The city government took
Koepenick's appeal for more
policemen under advisement and
told him that the Potomac Elec-
tric Power Company is making
a survey of the cost of installing
mercury lights.
At the same time, Mayor Alex
ander Greene told Koepenick that
the city has laws against loiter-
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
Girl, II, Killed
In Traffic Crash

A 17-year-old senior at
Richard Montgomery High
School was killed instantly
Saturday when the convert
ible in which she was riding
turned over on Halpine rd.,
Rockville.
Dead of head injuries was
Betty Gaye Kidwell, who lived
with her mother and stepfather,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Poole, at
1913 Rockcrest dr., Rockville.
Injured in the accident was the
cars driver, William B. Seckel,
Is, of 12504 Lakewood dr., Whea-
ton. He was admitted to Subur-
ban Hospital with a severely cut
right arm. Shaken but uninjured
was another passenger, Stephen
Newman, 1S, of 1925 Valley
wood dr., Wheaton. Both youths
are freshmen students at the Uni
versity of Maryland.
BY strange twist of fate. Miss
Kidwell's best friend, Carlene
Brigham, was killed when she
was thrown from an automobile
last March Z on the way to a
basketball game.
Friends say that Miss Kid
well and Miss Brigham had
qIarreIled that day, and Miss
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
ACC Head
Protests
ResO.aing

John A. McCone, chairman Of
the Atomic Energy Commission
with headquarters at German
town, has protested action by the
County Council that reZoned
approximately 101 acres around
the Acc from residential.agricul.
tural to industrial and CONNER
cial zones.
McCOne wrote a letter to
the Council asking members
to reconsider their action.
The letter was taken under
advisement.
McCone said he regretted that
the rural atmosphere which at
tracted the Acc to Germantown
had been altered in character by
the Council.
In the last three weeks the
Council has zoncd 1913 acres near
the intersection of ". S. 240 and
RI. 11S industrial and one acre a
short distance away commercial.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
10 Hopefuls
Seeking Z
School Seats
BY Bob Bernstein
staff Reporter

The school board election
race loped down the home
stretch this week toward what
could be a neck-and-neck fin
ish in the hardest-fought CAM
paign yet.
A field of 10 is contending for
seven board seats. One incum-
bent, Willard McGraw, is unop-
posed for reelection. Two incum-
bents are retiring and two others
are wing for the same seat.
1t is the race between the
latter two, Mrs. Helen Nj.
Scharf and Wylie w. Barrow,
that has set the tone for the
entire campaign.
Basic hassle has been between
SO called Conservative" an d
liberal camps, led by Barrow
and Mrs. Scharf, respectively.
A slate of candidates has been
lined up in each category by en-
dorsing groups.
The contenders themselves
have declared to a man (and
woman) that they had no part in
the slate formation, but neither
have they attempted TO disasso-
ciate themselves from their un.
official running mates.
Campaign oratory has seen
the present board rOundIy
lashed, and just as staunch.
ly defended, for its past ac.
tions.
- The outs joined. by. Barrow
have accused the board of squan
dering the taxpayers money on
educational "frills" and shifting
the emphasis away from basic
academic goals.
The "ins," joined by a handful
OF fresh contenders, have main
tanned that the world crisis de-
mands a broad, rounded educa.
tional program which cannot be
bought at "cut-rate prices" This
is the group, including Mrs.
Scharf, known as the liberals.
The liberal slate was put up by
group of 50 prominent citizens,
calling itself the Non-Partisan
Continued on Page A-6)
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
10000 Expected to Ballot Here Tuesday
Host of State and Local
Offices Will Be Filled

Upwards of $4,000 Montgomery County voters
expected to mark ballots at the polls Tuesday host
of State and local offices including United States Senator
and Governor are voted upon.
Voting machines are being wheeled into place in SO
polling places in the county to prepare for the expected
betterthan- average turnout in the general election.
AS candidates issued last-minute statements, and
touched the bases in their final votegettg rounds the
hot and heavy campaigning that has marked
began to ease off.
Some contests at both the State and county level
have been unusually acrimonious. And this years off
year campaign increasing of the recentyevoved
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

marked milk cartons to hold the
money which they will turn over
to sponsoring adults. Churches,
for the most part, will sponsor
UNICEF programs.
Several churches in Rockville
and Bethesda alone have asked for
enough collection equipment 70
supply more than 100 children
each, indicating that the number
of child-collcctors will excee d
1000, according to TIE Rev. John
w. Laney, secretary of the Rock
vile Ministerial Alliance and pas
tor of the TWinbrook b Up i $ [
Chapel.
Service clubs in the county also
are sponsoring the UNICEF drive.
Since the Rockville Mayor and
Council recently passed a procla-
nation making October 81 the
city's official trick or treat night,
the UNICEF drive will be held
tomorrow night in the city.
In Ashton, Poolesyille, Wash
ington Grove, Gaithersburg, and
other communities, however, chill.
dren will solicit tonight.
Some confusion over which
night UNICEF collections should
be made developed in Gathers
burg. That city's Mayor and Coun.
Gil followed Rockville's lead and
made tomorrow night the official
trick or treat night before learn.
ing OF the plans by the city's Hi
wants Club to hold the drive Oc.
tober 80.
In many cases, children VIII
take their collections back to the
sponsoring organization which in
turn will give parties for the
children.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
Police Detain
Boy, Is, Who
Had Shotgun

A 15-year-old Damascus area
boy was admitted to Cedarcroft
Hospital for observation Tuesday
after threatening his mother with
a shotgun.
Rockville police officers said
they were telephoncd by the
mother, who told them the boy
was brandishing the gun at her
and her other children.
He was taken into custody and
examined by a county health dc.
partment doctor before being
taken TO Cedarcioft.
His mother said the boy Is men.
tally retarded.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

Day and the few that were held
were poorly attended. II was not
uncommon to find as many or
more candidates than voters
at a rally.
The institution Of the coffee
hour" which blossomed in the
1856 campaign lost popularity in
this campaign as the candidates,
instead, went from door to door
in residential areas, attended
church suppers by the score and
toured shopping centers to shake
hands and distribute Literature.
AT the State level, guberna.
torial hopcfuls j. Millard .Tawes,
Democrat, and James p. Deve.
reux, Republican, continued to
trade blows as the campaign
headed into its final hours.
Swapping punches, too, were Bal.
timore Mayor Thomas D'Ales.
andre, Democrat, and u. S. Sem
ate incumbent J. Glenn Beall, Re-
publican, in the Senate race.
Three-time Congressman Dewitt
S. Hyde is challenged by John r.
Foley.
County offices at stake in the
Tuesday voting include, as we'll
as the State Senate scat, six
House Of Delegates posts, seven
County Council seats, circuit
court judgeship, seven school
board posts, States Attorney, and
others.
While some races have lacked
luster, others have been marked
by fireworks. In the latter cate
CORY is the torrid race between
incumbent Circuit Court Judge
John r. Reeves and his aggrcs-
sivc challenger, James II. Pugh,
Rockville lawyer.
Reeves campaign has been
based on the fact that he is
sitting judge" and Under Mary
land tradition such judges are
cuslomarily returned to office.
Pugh has challenged this and
argued strongly that the sitting
Judge tradition does not apply to
recently-appointcd Judges, such as
Reeves, and that the voters
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Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

Kidwell had been upset for
months over parting with her
friend on bad terms.
Capt. Marion B. DayhOff,
commander of the county
police station in Rockville,
said SeckeI was charged with
reckless driving. He has not
been and will not be charged
with manslaughter on the
advice of the States Attor.
ney's office, Capt. DayhOff
said. A statement i'm this
issue on page ca reporting
that Seckel had been charged
with mansIaughter is incOr-
rect. The error could not be
cOrrecte for mechanical
reasons. The Sentinel regrets
the error.
The accident happened at So
pm. as Seckel was driving Mis-
back to her part.tim
job as a salesgirl at the G. {
store at Twinbrook.
A shoe clerk, Miss Kidwel
worked for the store after schoo
for nine months. She left worl
at 4:25 pm. and had dinner a
the neighboring Twinbrook res
taurant. She met Seckel an
Continued on Page ca