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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06
Lafayette or Lafayette? Take
Your Choice, Says Postmaster

Do you spell Lafayette, oui
neighboring Allen county town
with a small IF" or a capital
"F"'? That's a question that has
been asked countless times.
The best known person of that
name in America was the Mar
quis De Lafayette of General
George Washington's top echelon,
but Webster's unabridged die
tionary spells his name both
ways in its biographical section.
The pronouncing gazetteer in the
same reference book names Y
Lafayettes, not including the one
west Of Ada, and all have small
fs.
The official state map of Ohio
spells it with small f, Rand Nc
Nally's atlas spells it with a cap
ital F. So take your choice.
The Ada telephone directory
spells Lafayette with a small f.
The Ohio roster of municipal
and township officials published
by Secretary of State Ted Brown
spells it with a small f.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06

sometimes up to their knees.
Then they'd double up with each
other to pull out, the article
states.
Fred recounted that he usually
walked from two to six miles to
the rig each day. Fred worked
mostly at night on a II hour
shift.
"Bluffton had three oil field
supply stores once. They all
moved in within three months.
Often they'd stay open all night
and be crowded." Mr.. Hahn re-
calls.
Oil drilling was rough, hard
work, but Fred always came
home to an atmosphere of happy
activity. Mrs. Hahn saw to that.
Music has always been an i'm
portant part of the household.
Mrs. Hahn has sung in the Bluff
ton College Messiah chorus for.
so years and still attends prac-
tees.
when asked how they keep
so young. and active, they are
quick to reply simply, Keep
busy" They practice this theory
exclusively.
Fred has over 100 rabbits
which he feeds and cares for,
often selling them to dealers.
This year he spaded the garden
for Mrs. Hahn who planted the
bumper crop of vegetables grow
ing there now. Last winter, Fred
tended a furnace in a Bluffton
apartment.
Mrs. Hahn is always busy
also. Being of Swiss origin, she
paints dozens of Easter eggs
with enamel each year. 1T takes
over an hour to paint an egg,
but / love to do it. Her work
would make many artists jealous.
Last winter, just to have
something to do Mrs. Hahn
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06

Charles z. Stanton delivered
an address at the French tomb
of Lafayette on July A, 1917. in
which he concluded, Lafayette
we are here" The statement is
credited generally to General
Pershing, but some newspaper
man coined the phrase. At any
rate, Bartlett's Familiar Quota
tons" spells it Lafayette.
Postmaster Crumrine of La
fayette says it doesn't matter.
Spell our town either way,
address it to Ohio, and it viii be
delivered"
Although there are three vii
lagos by that name in Ohio, the
Allen county Lafayette has the
distinction of being the only one
Incorporated. The others are
hamlets in Madison and Medina
counties.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06
John Althaus
Takes New Post

John Althaus, who has been
manager of the Ohio Swiss
Cheese association and a Iabora-
tory technician at Sugarcreek for
the past four years, has resigEed
to accept new position in the
dairy industry.
He has accepted a position with
the Akron Milk Producers asso-
citation as public relations and
quality specialist.
MIR. Althaus, his wife and FAM
lily will move to Seville, Ohio, in
the near future. They are both
graduates of Bluffton high school,
Mrs. Althaus being the former
Imogene Wenger. ~
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06

made her 18th quilt, which is
one for each of her grandchil-
dren.
"All that late work doesn't
keep Fred awake, however. He
is a sound sleeper. So much so,
that one evening while Mrs.
Hahn was at choir practice Fred
fell asleep with their cat on his
lap. He awoke to find the cat
had given birth to one of four
kittens - on his lap"
Mr.. Hahn retired from the
Ohio Oil company in 1884 with
36 years service. Prior to re-
tirement he helped plug the last
remaining wells around Findlay.
Mrs. Hahn is also planning to
retire" soon. She is completing
her Both year as an Avon cosme-
tics representative.
She also taught Sunday school
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06

at the Methodist church for many
years.
"I remember one little boy in
my class very well," she says.
II always felt he would be a sue
cess someday. You probably
know him = his name is Charlie
Hardwick. Mrs. Hahn was re-
ferring to one of the top excu-
tives in the now far-hung busi-
ness of The Ohio Oil company.
1.-The stories and recollections
of Fred and Bertha Hahn would
fill a very large and Interesting
book. Their happiness and JOY
they find in being together and
alive is an inspiration for every
one," the article concludes.
Fred is 80 and his lovely
bride of go years is SO. There
aren't two nicer people any,
where"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06
OL Boom Days And so Years Marriage
Recalled By Fred and Bertha Hahn

A story of the marriage part
nership" of Fred and Bertha
Hahn and the typical roles they
played with other local families
in the oil boom days of the Bluff
ton area is told in an interesting
feature article in the August is
sue of The Beacon, employee
magazine of The Ohio Oil ocm-
pany.
The story gives the writer S
account of a visit to the Hahn
home at 216 West Elm street,
noting that it has been their
home since they were first mar
ried - on August 16, 1899.
THAT date this year will mark
their 60th wedding anniversary.
Sixty years ago, Fred and Bertha
Hahn started as partners in the
business of life. Their success
story is one of the richest, most
colorful that can be found" the
writer concludes.
Fred was introduced to the oil
business in its earliest days when
he started working in the oil
fields near here while still in
high school. He worked as a
roustabout for four months then
became a pumper.
The Bluffton man helped build
the first power house in this
area.
1--WE built it, then put three
wells on it. When we started it
up, it didn't last five minutes. 1t
did as much good as a peanut
roaster. We then built a much
larger one that did the trick"
Fred told his interviewer.
In the heyday of the boom
there were as many as 16 strings
(crews of drillers) going out in
the field at the same time. The
roads, such as they were, were
terrible. Teams would get stuck,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-08-06
Gardners Beautify
Spring Street Lot

Members Of the Bluffton
Mems Garden club advanced
their regular meeting one week
to this Thursday in order to
work on the club project, beauti-
fication of the Ramseyer lot on
South Spring street next to the
Mara-Alva house.
Various members of the club
have assumed responsibility for
caring for certain plots on the lot
in preparation for making it a
show place during the forthcom-
ing Mennonite conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12
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You'll thrill at the dven Just dvsn Randolph
S. snones and goodbye afe and psHins problems s
complete vsuspaked supply shopping end service
center.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-12

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hozords including: stone bruises; broken Gloss;
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Evening star., 1959-11-22

This assault and battery
often spontaneous-on sense
sometimes puts them in the
most hilarious of situations,
and gives them a brief and
comical glory of their own
that is rib-tickling.
And these oddball antics
are not limited to one coun-
try or one nation. They can
be detected in people every
where, of all ages, in every
walk of life.
Every reader of the book
will see his image in at least
four or five of its anecdotes.
No one is so "all-damned
wise" and so "all-damned
perfect" as not to be spotted
at least once in the book, or
else we would not be human.
The proof is there in this
remarkable potpourri of hi
lariously off-center events
and mirthful happenings
that truth is wackier than
fiction.
Credit goes to the author
for his painstaking collection
of these incidents that would,
otherwise, have been lost.
-MOHAMMED A. RAUF, Jr.
Evening star., 1959-11-22

futile rush for safety when
the big night club was sud-
denly enveloped in flames
and smoke, there were the
usual human'reactions, beast
ly selfish and heroically
selfless. Stanley Viator, a
Gloucester sailor, happened
to be passing the Cocoanut
Grove when the fire broke
out. He dashed in several
times and rescued victims.
He went in once too often
and did not return.
The immense job which
Boston City Hospital, espe-
cially, and Massachusetts,
General and other hospitals
were called on to do in car
ing for hundreds of injured
all at once is gone into fully.
NoC only did the doctors and
nurses save many lives, but
the whole technic of treating
burns and toxic inhalations
was revolutionized as result.
There were, afterward, in
dictmentS of various city Of
f1cialS for alleged negligence,
but most of these came to
nothing. One of the owners
of the night club served sew
eral years in prison.
Mr.. Benzaquin has per-
formed an important service
in telling the complete story
for the first time.-C. B. j.
Evening star., 1959-11-22
Other Books of the Week in Brief

Roy Ingersoll, former head
of a small steel business,
and the story of Borg
Warner.
STEPS TO BETTER WRIT
ING. BY Hilary H. Milton.
professional; $2.76. A
textbook.
THE COUNTY OF WARREN,
NORTH CAROLINA. BY
Manly Wade Wellman.
IN. c.; So The story of
a region at once represent
ative and unique in the his
tory of Southern culture.
YOUR HAPPIEST YEARS.
BY Dick Clark. (Random;
$2.95O A message to teen
ayers from their ideal.
NEW PATTERNS OF DE-
MOCRACY IN INDIA. BY
Vera MicheleS Dean. ,Har-
ward; $4.75.)
SPACE AGE DICTIONARY.
BY Charles Mclaughlin.
Wan Nistrand; $685.
APOTTERY SKETCHBOOK.
By Aaron Bohrod. wis
consin; $3.50. An art in
Struction book.
ALL THE BIRDS OF THE
BIBLE. BY Alice Parmelee.
(Harper; $4.95). Their
stories, Identification and
meaning.
Evening star., 1959-11-22
FICTION
HEALER OF ALL FLESH. By

HEALER OF ALL FLESH. BY
Abram Stilman. (Whittier,
$4.95.) This is the novel of
a young Russians dreams,
his love. his work and his
ambition in becoming an
American surgeon.
YOUR LITERARY HERI-
TAGE. BY Frederick E.
Faverty. Gippincott, $3.95.
Of great books and writer's
from Confucius to Boris
PaSternak.
THE TIME OF THE
PEACHES. BY Arthur
Grant,. (Abelard- -Schuman,
$3.95. A novel of the
ghetto-like world of poor
Jews living in the Browns
vile section of Brooklyn
during the late 30s.
SECOND SIGHT. BY Sidney
Bigman. mckay, $3.50
The story of a happy young
American who suddenly
loses his sight, and how he
adjusts himself to darkness.
THE POETRY OF BORIS
PASTERNAK. Translated
by George Reavey. put
nam'S, $4)
WONDER TALES OF SEAS
AND SHIPS. BY Frances
Evening star., 1959-11-22
A Disaster Described
In All Chastity Detail

HOLOCAUST! by Paul
Benzaquin (Holt; $3.95) is
the deflinitive story of the
fire at the Cocoanut Grove
night club in Boston in 1912
that cost 492 lives.
1t was one of the worst
disasters in American his
tory, and Mr.. Benzaquin, a
Boston newspaperman, has
described all its phases and
its complex aftermath in the
most vivid way.
The author asked himself,
when he was researching his
book, what a prospective
reader may we'll ask: Why
should such a horrible story
be revived in all its ghastly
detail?
HIS logical answer is that
there are many lessons to be
learned from this swiftly
spreading fire which did its
griSly work in less than half
an hour. Aside from the
heroiSm of rescuers and the
medical profession, which
should never be forgotten,
the holocaust resulted in re-
forms in f1re-prevention all
over the country which prob
ably have made it impossible
for so destructive a fire to
happen again.
In the mad and mostly
Evening star., 1959-11-22
Biography Reveals New
Facets of James Joyce

JAMES JOYCE, by Rich
ard Ellmann (Oxford: $12.5O
is the first complete biog-
raphy of the Irish writer to
appear since his death early
in 1941 and probably will
never be exceeded as a mon
umental account of his per-
sonal and literary life.
Joyce had doubts while he
was completing his final land
in the opinion of most
friendly critics his greatest)
book, "Finnegans Wake"
Ezra Pound and some other
friends to whom he had
shown portions did not like
them.
To one friend, unidenti-
fed, Joyce said: Perhaps it
is insanity. One will be able
to judge in a century"
But to Claud Sykes the
author of ulysses" said: 1T
is all so simple. If anyone
doesn't understand a pas
sage, all he need do is read
it aloud"
When parts of "Finnegans
Wake" we're appearing in
France in the magazine
transition" Joyce remarked:
Critics who were most ap-
preciative Of Ulysses are COM
planning about my new work.
They cannot understand it.
Therefore they say it is
meaningless. Now if it were
meaningless it could be writ
Evening star., 1959-11-22
Biography of Pic Borojo
Tribute to His Skill
WRITINGS BY PIO BA-

WRITINGS BY PIO BA-
ROJA, Translated by An
thony Kerrigan. CUniver-
sity of Michigan Press;
$6.50D
1.-TWO months before his
84th birthday Gin 1866 and
one week after not having
been given the Nobel Prize,
Pho Baroja is dead"
If somewhat belated, such
was the general Spanish
evaluation of one of the
greatest Iberian novelists.
They could have also noted
that he died four days after
his contemporary compatriot
Juan Ramon Jimenez was
named Nobel winner.
Ernest Hemingway re-
portedly wrote to Baroja
before he died:
ALLOW me to pay this small
tribute to you who taught
so much 10 those of us who
wanted to be writer's when
We were young. I deplore the
fact that you have not yet
received a Nobel Prize, es-
pecially when it was given
to so manv who deserved 1t
less, like me, who am only
an adventurer."
This concern over Baroja
not winning prizes was not
shared by the Basque writer
of the Generation of '98 who
detested, "the world of hon.
ors and convention in which
most men live"
Mr.. Kerrigan translates
eight of Baroja's lesser
known works, including The
Restlessness of Shanti An
Evening star., 1959-11-22
James Michener's Novel Of Howoii
Is Ambitious Literary Project
HAWAII, by James A. Mich

HAWAII, by James A. Mich
ener (R andom House;
$685..
The author of Tales of the
South Pacific" and "Sdyo-
nara" has carried out the
most ambitious literary prof.
ect any writer has attempted
in recent times.
Hawaii" is a fictional
history of the Islands
Americas 50th State-but
more than that. 1t also is
a genealogical record of GER
tain imagined but probably
typical families of various
racial strains. 1t takes them
from their earliest migra-
tions to the island para.
disc" to contemporary times.
sometimes Skipping 40 or 30
generations between.
Story in Six Parts
There are six parts to this
immense story. Each could
be considered almost a sepa-
rate novel. And yet these
narratives are bound to-
gether with descendants of
the families involved, with
the new families tethered to
them by marriage or events.
Thus. I think, Hawaii" can
be considered a novel and not
Evening star., 1959-11-22
so WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
BY Hy Gardner. prentice
Hall: S2.95),

81 NhAI ELSE 10 NEW
BY Hy Gardner. prentice
Hall; $2.95).
Lord, what fools these
mortals be-" said Puck, and
after reading this book one
would be left in no doubt
that Puck was right.
Gathered in the absorbing
book are about TOO real-life
anecdotes of people caught
in their moments of con-
fusion, Decentralization and
especially when they are hard
to get along with because
of their readiness to make
trouble and an inclination to
oppose all suggestions.
The author, a famed Broad
way columnist, with a genius
for looking at the lighter side
of life, has proved that all
persons have a spot of eccen-
tricity, and that all are un-
predictable.
1t is just this inconsistency
in the most balanced of hu-
man beings that drives normal
men and women to commit
things and say things that
are without rhyme or reason.
Evening star., 1959-11-22

10 the OnlCeQ OLaIeS.
Mr.. Hartman, who was our
Ambassador to Moscow dur
ing World War II and has a
knowledge Of Russia going
back many years before that,
spent six weeks in travelling
$4,000 miles through that
country this year.
What he learned and ap-
praised against a the back
ground Of all that he knows
about Russia serves to ex-
plode some of the dangerous
myths entertained in some
quarters of this country about
Soviet Russia and its Com
munist leadership. On his
journeying he saw no evidence
to justify any belief that "the
Evening star., 1959-11-22
Old Bore Fisted
Prize-Fight Days
THE MASTER OF BADG-

THE MASTER OF BADG-
ER'S HALL. BY Henry
Treece. (Random House;
$3.95.)
Mr.. Treece is we'll known
for his books about prehis-
toric England - the Stone
henge folk and the earliest
CeltS. In this novel he
glimpsesS the earliest era of
bare-fist prize fighting and
relates it to the equally
brutal dawn of the industrial
revolution. During regency
England there was @ strange
mingling of the dissolute no
bility and the criminal sport
ing world. H. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1959-11-22
Every Golf Bag
Should Contuin
One of These
EIGHTEEN HOLES IN MY
HEAD. By Milton Gross.
McGraw-Hill; $3.75.)

EIGHTEEN HOLES IN MY
HEAD. BY Milton Gross.
McGraw-Hill; $3.75.)
Same price as three good
golf balls. Milt Gross hilari-
GUS look at golf should go
into every bag for peruSal
while the caddy beats the
brush for a lost one.
Although Mr.. Gross ac-
tually is quite a competent
man on the course, his self
depreciation should be tonic
to the duffer; serving the
lofty purpose of commisera-
ton if nothing else.
Beginning one disastrous
round at Pine Hollow, Mr..
Gross recollS a bad tee shot;
then an equally bad multi
gan"
Take another shot," the
caddy said. You must be a
little stiff"
You're anticipating" I
said to the boy, as I turned
and headed back for the
locker room. But I will be
soon"
CHARLES YARBROUGH.
Evening star., 1959-11-22

Soviet people are in a
state of incipient revolt or
that there was more than
minimal discomfort among
the Ukrainians, Uzbeks and
other national minorities.
Even more important is
the understanding given by
Mr.. Hartman of the Soviet
people, aside from tn cir
leaders, and their hopes and
aspirations. Mr.. Hartman
came home with some we'll
seasoned views on this coun-
try'S future with Russia.
What they are would be we'll
worth an evening with a
volume that tells so much in
so little space.
Evening star., 1959-11-22
GENERAL

carpenter. ~ o u o e q a y,
$500
GENERAL
WORLD EVENTS. Gong-
mans, $495O An authori-
tative record of facts worth
recording.
PICK OF PUNCH. Edited by
Nicqzas Bentley. Dutton,
$4.95.) Cartoons from this
famous humorous magazine
are reproduced and dis
cussed.
A BRIEF DICTIONARY OF
AMERICAN SUPERSTI-
TIONS. BY Vergilius FERN.
philosophical, So
JUMP BOOK. BY Philippe
Halsman. (Simon-Schus-
ter; $3.75.) A pictorial
curiosity.
THE NEW CENTURY HAND
BOOK OF ENGLISH LIT
ERATURE. Edited by
Clarence L. Barnhart. Cen
tury-Crofts. CA textbook
ART METAL. BY Sheldon
William Cole. Comet;
$2.75.) The fundamentals
of metal craft.
FORM OF CARTS TO JETS.
BY Will Oursler. prentice
Hall; $4.95) Life story Of
Evening star., 1959-11-22

to be interested. Ever since
this experiment in a new kind
of Nation was started some
hundreds of years ago we
have asked foreigners for
their reaction to it. This
book is the result of one more
such request.
And second, we have cho-
sen to be the free worlds
leader, and our leadership
has been widely accepted. It
is worthwhile to look over
our shoulders and see who
is following-and learn why
some countries are and others
are not.
Evening star., 1959-11-22
A Book About Authors
And How They Work

Anyone interested in ideas
and writers and how they
END up together between hard
or soft covers in a bookstore,
and in the shop talk of pub
fishers and editors and writ
ers can have some pleasant
hours rambling through the
random selections in IN
FRIENDLY CANDOR by Ed
ward Weeks, the editor of the
Atlantic Monthly (An Allan
tic Monthly Press Book, Little
Brown and Co.; S4D.
1t is about people, books,
Evening star., 1959-11-22

Maule, has done this deftly
and well, conveying the hurt
and anger in the boys grief
with understanding and re-
Straint.
First, Jeremy withdrew to
his books. "He read most of
the day, slipping gratefully
into the books. The nights
were easier and the light by
his bed burned late and his
grandmother finally quit
coming up the long hall in
the late hours to see if he had
fallen asleep. Often he would
Evening star., 1959-11-22

fish, streams and a war he
has known. 1t is also a DR..
Spock on the care and feed
ing and handling of authors.
Other authors will be inter-
ested to know, and other pub
fishers Mortified to have them
know, that DR.. Harvey Cush-
ing made them reset his l90,-
000-word From a Surgeons
Journal" at the publishers
and magazines expense be-
cause he didn't like the way
the pages had been laid out.
M. T.
Evening star., 1959-11-22

our economic Imperialism;
the Filipino. Pura Santillan
Castrence loves everything
but our racial prejudice, and
the Frenchman, Raymond
Aron, thinks we are just not
mature enough.
But the broad picture is
similar in almost all of the
reports: America is big, shiny
and friendly, a wonderful
place to visit. But it is naive
in its world leadership and
contradictory in its ideals of
freedom and its unwillingness
to give equal freedom to its
own colored people.
So what? Why should we
care what foreigners think?
Well, for one thing we seem
Evening star., 1959-11-22

ten quickly, without thought,
without pains, without edu-
dition; but I assure you that
these 20 pages now before us
cost me 1900 hours and an
enormous expense of spirit. I"
Mr.. Gilman, after his years
OF study and interviews in
several countries, has un-
earthed a vast amount of
Joyce material never before
printed. The book is beauti-
fully written. C. B. j,
Evening star., 1959-11-22

dia," the title the book car
ries and a Basque novel Of
seamen in the slave trade.
An essay by Baroja, The
Way I Write" exemplif1es
his knowledge of the writer's
craft.
This is a book to buy II
you can afford the price and
haven't read these less-known
Baroja works. 1t will un-
doubtedly become a text for a
course on Spanish literature.
BY ARNALDO OTERO.