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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-07-16
BIuftOn Pilot
Helps PatrOlnlG1,
Locate ViOIatOr

One surprised motorist dis
covered Saturday morning that
the long arm of the law also has
an eye in the sky.
The eye in the sky belonged to
Bluffton airport manager Harold
Carey, who responded to a state
highway patrol request and spot
ted the automobile of Barrett ID.
Feigh 15 minutes later at the
intersection of routes BON and 50.
Feigh, travelling northeast on
route 25, had collided with the
rear of a car driven by Walter
Otto, 72, Rawson. He Immediately
swung around and left the scene
of the accident.
Harold Young, Rawson, had
been following the Feigh car and
gave description of the auto to
state patrolmen investigating the
accident. A passenger in his car,
Walter Lashley of Rawson, call
ed the airport to ask Carey to
take a plane up in search of the
fleeing car, which could be
identified by damaged radiator.
Carey circled the area in his
plane, keeping radio contact with
the Findlay airport, spotted the
car which had been towed into a
farmers yard near the junction
and directed the police to the
spot.
Feigh, a 20 year old resident of
Cridersville, has been charged
with leaving the scene of an ac-
cident and driving under the in
fluence of Intoxicating liquor.
Mr.. Otto and a passenger,
Enos Bauman 83, Rawson, were
treated and released at Blanch-
ard Valley hospital.
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DeGdLine Looms
For Community
Calendar Dates

BlufftOn's Community Cal
endar, a project of the Bluff
ton Lions club for the past
dozen years, will be going to
press for its 1959-6O edition at
the end of this month, it has
been announced by A. G.
Burcky, president of the
Lions club.
DeadIine for organizations
getting their meeting dates
and events of Importance
listed on the calendar has
been set for Saturday, July
25. The calendar information
should be turned in to Mrs.
A. G. Burcky at 139 w.
Grove street. Arrangements
may be made by phoning
5O4.Y.
The calendar is scheduled
for public release the first of
September.
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Add Equipment
To Elementary
School Kitchen

Equipping of the kitchen in the
elementary school is being COM
pleted this week, superintendent
of schools A. B. Murray has an
nounced.
A dishwasher, range, garbage
disposal unit, steam table, two
work tables and tables for clean
and soiled dishes are being in
stalled. Completion of the job
will mean the kitchen will be
fully equipped for operation.
Kimmel Marshall is installing
the equipment under a contract
from the Findlay Equipment
Sales.
The new kitchen equipment is
financed by the elementary
schools share in the large be-
quest made last year in the will
of the late T. R. Schoonover.
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Gasoline Puddle
Provides Worry

A puddle of gasoline slowly
spreading beneath a parked car
brought worried moments to
several South Main street mer-
chants Monday afternoon.
Apprehensive that a careless
passerby might toss a match or
cigarette butt into an unnoticed
pool of gas, they took turns
guarding the spot and pointing
out the danger until the owner
could be located and the auto
moved.
The owner, Larry Dudgeon, a
mechanic at Brooke Motor Sales,
told police chief William Gaiffe
the car had been filled with gas
oline at noon. The gas probably
began to leak out when the heat
of sitting in the sun caused the
gas to expand.
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Births

The following births were re-
corded at Bluffton Community
hospital during the past week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kennedy,
Findlay, a boy, Charles Ernest,
born Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ram
seyer, Ansonia, a girl, Cindy Re
ne, born Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Schimm-
weller, Findlay, a boy, Mark
John born Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl SeitZ, OF
tawa, a boy, Timothy Edward,
born Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Zimmer-
ly, Bluffton, girl, Diane Sue,
born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Greene,
Bluffton, a boy, Joel Lee, born
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Panning,
Findlay, a girl, Mamie Arlene,
born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. Ram
seyer, a girl, Faith Suzanne,
born July Z, in Miyazaki, Japan.
Mrs. Ramseyer is the former
Alice Ruth Pannabecker, daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs. S. F. Pan
nabecker, who formerly lived in
Bluffton, and Mr.. Ramseyer is
the son of DR.. and Mrs. L. l..
Ramseyer.
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view.
Miss Buckeye" candidates
must reside In the Bluffton trad
ing area. This years queen will
receive a $25 merchandise GER
tificate and an engraved cup
from the Business Mems associ-
alton.
Candidates will be sponsored by
local business firms. Sponsors
will be arranged for girls who
register without a sponsor.
All candidates will register at
The Bluffton News. Each girl is
asked to bring a photograph and
a brief paragraph of general in
formation about herself when she
registers. Registration blanks will
be published later in The Bluff
ton News.
Thirty-four contestants partici-
pated in the first contest last
August, with the former Raeleen
Bucher winning the honor of be-
ing the initial Miss Buckeye"
The bathing beauty review will
climax the annual association
picnic, which will begin with a
potluck supper at $50 p. m. on
August 81. y
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New Enrolment
Record Set At
Summer School

Bluffton college summer school
established a new record regis
tration this week as it entered
its third term, July II through
August 8.
A total of 81 students have en-
rolled for the three-week period
bringing the total registration of
students in the summer session to
1856 as of the first of the week.
The number already exceeds
the 1858 summer school all-time
high enrolment of 157 students.
A total of 101 students were en-
rolled for the first term this
summer and 120 for the second
term.
Two courses not in the orig
inal schedule, Life of Jesus and
kindergarten workshop, will be
offered the third term. Courses
previously announced were:
Basic mathematics, principles of
geography, speech for teachers
and American school system.
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NelO Managers
Will Teach SUin,
Lesson Series

Registration for a limited
series of swimming lessons will
be held Thursday, Friday and
Saturday at the municipal swim
ming pool, Ben Schiffke, chair
man of the village recreation
committee, xnnounced Tuesday
evening.
Only 40 children can be ae.
comodated and the first ones 10
register will be enrolled in the
course, he said. Lessons will be-
gin Monday morning.
The swimming lessaons will be
taught by Terry Marshall and
Dale Schiffke, who were appoint
ed to manage the pool for the re-
mainder of the season.
Previous pool manager Don
Darbyshire was released by the
recreation committee Monday
evening and Marshall and Schiff-
ke, formerly lifeguards, were
appointed to handle pool opera
lions during the last six weeks
Of the season.
A new wage scale for the
swimming pool was approved |
Tuesday evening by village coun-
ii in an emergency ordinance. |
The managers will each receive
go a week. Jim Jordan, raised |
rom part time to full time life
,uard, viii earn $40 a week.
Dave Little viii be a part time
ife guard for the remainder of
he summer, earning $25 a week. !
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Staufer Leads
School Meeting

Paul Stauffer of Bluffton, pres
ident of the Northwest Region of
the Ohio School Boards associa-
ton, will preside at a session of
the 1859 Clerks and Business Of
ficials' clinic for the NWROSBA
to be held at Bowling Green State
university July 1917.
Mr.. Stauffer will also represent
the Bluffton school district.
Clinic sessions will deal with
Interpretation of new laws, keep
ing records, legal phases of the
clerks or business officials re-
sponsibility, building clerk-school
board relations, and profession
alization of the clerkship.
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Schools Make
Change
In go Budget
Estimate Receipts
OF $242,74S, About Same
As This Year

The 1860 operating budget for
Bluffton school totaling approxi-
mately $245, ,24S enabling the con-
tinued operation on about the
same basis as this year, will be
adopted after a public hearing
set for Tuesday afternoon July
% at 2 p. m. in the boards office.
In discussing the budget Tues
day evening, Superintendent A.
B. Murray, told the board, that
the school will receive approM-
mately $1,000 less in 1850 from
general property taxes, but will
make that amount UP in addition
al State School Foundation
money.
The board estimates receipts
of S157 1886 from general property
taxes in 1860 as compared with
$159, ,49796 this year due to the
fact that it will relinquish 20 of
a mill which the village is legally
entitled to levy inside the 10
mill limit.
At the same time it was esti-
mated that receipts from the
State School Foundation program
would total $50, 900 next year as
compared with $4,000 estimated
for this year.
Because the estimated balance
at the end of this year will only
be A,813.18 as compared with
$5,635 at the beginning of the
year, the board will have slightly
less money to spend in 1860 than
in 1859.
Among other matters before
the board was the awarding of
$545 contract to Campnen &
Co., general contractor of Lima,
for laying a Zack-o-Mix surface
on the high school study hall
floor in preparation for finishing
it in asphalt tile.
The old wooden floor, which
had rotted badly in places, was
torn up this summer, and it was
decided to replace it with con-
crete and asphalt tile after it
was found impossible to replace
wood on rotted stringers which
were embedded in the concrete
subfloor.
Bids will be taken for the tile
surface upon completion of the
cement work.
Several applications for the
position of clerk-treasurer of the
board and office secretary were
received by the board, but no
decision was reached on naming
a successor to Mrs. VernaI Cor
son, who has rendered her resig-
nation. The board must decide
whether two part-time jobs will
be made of the work, as had
once been the practice, or
whether it will be full-time job
as under Mrs. Corson.
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Requirements for Second Annual
Miss Buckeye" Contest Announced

Three contests will be held as
part of the annual bathing beau
ty review at the picnic of the
Bluffton Business Mems associa
ton August 27, with the major
feature the selection of Bluffton' S
second Miss Buckeye. F"
The major contest is open to
single young ladies Ia or older.
An old-fashioned bathing suit con-
test, open to men and women,
will be repeated from last year.
Added this year will be tiny
tot review for girls of pre-school
age.
Chairman Of this years judg-
ing committee will be Clark DoZ-
er, manager of radio stations in
Peru, Indiana. and North Can
ton, Ohio, it has been announced
by James Szabo, who is chair
man of the bathing beauty re-
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penditures and a definite re-
treat from the $50, ,703.13 spent in
1857.
The picture could be changed
considerably if voters approve
a tax increase which is now be-
ing prepared by village solicitor
Malcolm Basinger.
Final action to place the in
crease on the November ballot
will be taken at the regular coun-
Gil meeting on July %, only six
days from the deadline to place
the tax levy on the ballot for
fall.
The amount of the increase and
the length of time it will be
sought will be decided by the
council at their meeting at the
end of the month.
Estimated 1860 receipts for the
village without benefit of any
tax increase-are $48, ,216.62, in
cluding a balance of $6,361.26
which will be left at the end of
1859.
Main source of revenue will be
the property tax, which is ex-
pected to yield $17, ,105.36. An
other $11 900 is expected from in
tangible taxes and the garbage
disposal service is expected to
bring in $4,500.
Largest single item of expense
is the $8,838.24 to be spent for
street lighting. This is the same
amount as 1859 and represents
only a $40 increase since 1857.
Wages of the police chief and
night patrolman win be $7,43O,
with the chief receiving $4,080.
Other police expenses, which will
include maintenance of the
cruiser, are expected to be $1,000.
The new budget has $4,000 set
aside for street repairs.
This is far below the $40, 0,609.89
spent in 1857 when the budget
hit peak, but is still far above
1858 when street repair spend
ing ebbed to a mere $963.12.
One additional source of rev.
enue viii be a two-tenths of a
mill which will be shifted from
the local school taxes to the vii
lage.
A half mill which legally be-
longed to the municipal govern
ment was shifted to the school
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be located in the wonen's lock-
er room at Founders hall.
Another major task of Mrs.
Kindle's committee is to sell
meal tickets and order meals for
the vast number of visitors.
She said tickets must be pur-
chased "a hours prior to the time
the desired meal is to be served.
Lunches will cost IS cents and
dinners will be 81. The Clemans
Catering service, Lima, will pro-
vide meals, with women from the
five area Mennonite churches as
sisting in serving.
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JULY SHORT ON RAIN

The month of July, now half
gone, has produced only slightly
more than half an inch of rain,
according to records of Ray
Burkholder, official weather OBJ
server of near Pandora. His ex-
act measurement is So of an
inch.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-07-16

10 Entertain
Auto Fans

DluIlUon businessmen have be-
gun preparations to feed several
hundred guests expected on Aug
ust as the first registrations for
the Historic Car Festival have
begun TO arrive.
A chicken barbecue supper will
be provided to all exhibitors and
members of their parties. Wives
of Bluffton Business Mems asso-
citation members have been ask
ed to supply salads, desserts and
side dishes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Niswander
are in charge of the Business
Mems committee on making food
arrangements for the Festival.
Twenty-three registrations have
reached pre- festival head
quarters at The Bluffton News
since letters were sent to MEM
bers in five different regions of
the Classic Car Club of Ameri-
ca.
Classic fans from as far away
as Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and De-
troit, Michigan, have responded
with plans to bring their cars
here for the exhibition.
One of the rarest cars to be
viewed here will be a 1948 Tuck
er sedan owned by Russell
Strauch of Toledo. The tabled
rear engine dream car which
Preston Tucker hoped to produce
after the end of World War II
never was able to reach the
American market, but the hopes
its many fans held for it are still
remembered in the automobile
clubs throughout the country.
Srauch's car, which has a
mere $500 actual miles, is now
valued at $500, far above the
contemplated purchase price if
the car had ever reached mass
production.
Two of the larger and more
popular classics to be entered
here will come from the auto
mobile stable of DR.. B. L. Mund-
henk, Lima. A 1941 Lincoln Con-
tinental and 1895 Packard Su-
per s convertible with a custom
body by Dietrich will be driven
by DR.. and Mrs. Mundhenk.
The Packard convertible, re-
putedly owned at one time by
Russell Packard of the auto
bnilding family, is now valued at
$4,000, the owner says.
One car which seemingly
stands little chance of being sold
is a 1880 Lincoln sport phaeton
owned by James B. Steiner of
Lima. Mr.. Steiner, a director of
the classic car group, placed the
value of his car at $4,000, then
noted that it was my value, not
price" This car is one
of II seven passenger sport
phaetons manufactured during
hat period under specifications
Of Ray Dietrich, an all-time great
N the custom automobile body
business.
Even rarer than the Tucker
will be a 1915 Alter owned by |
Dale Blair of Upper Sandusky. |
This is the last of the four cyl
nder, % horsepower Alters
lnown to be in existence. 1t is
| two door model, with both
ioors on the right hand side OF
he car.
Another one of a kind is 1913
Cadillac seven passenger touring
ar, valued at $4,000 by its own
n, Herbert Lenner, route 1, Car
".
Auburn, Buick, Nash, Ply
mouth and Ford are also includ-
d on the early list of pre-reg-
ctroptc which GROWS dailV.
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Hospital Tag Day
Set for August Z

The Bluffton Hospital auxiliary
will hold its annual Tag Day on
Friday, August Z, it was an
nounced this week by Mrs. Sid
ney Hauenstein, President.
The event each year holsters
auxiliary funds which are used
for the purchase of equipment
used at the hospital.
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district years ago when village
expenses were far lower and the
money was not needed. Last
year the village reclaimed three
tenths of a mill for their own
use and this year they are TAX
ing the remainder of the tax for
themselves. Mr.. Longsdorf esti-
mated that this will bring an
extra $1,000 to the towns trea-
sury.
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Slender 1860 Budget OK'd
But Council Wants Tax Hike

slender 1860 budget was adopted by village council
Tuesday evening but they moved towards tax increase
which they hope will alleviate their problems.
Anticipated 1860 expenditures will be S42 1904,
cording to the figures set up by village clerk A. j. B.
Longsdorf Even this marks slight decline from 1859
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Pastor Takes
Pulpit Here

The Rev. John T. Sand.
lund. minister of the Green
wood Community Presbyterian
Church, Warwick, r. l., has ac-
cepted call to become pastor
of the River Road United Pres
byterian Church here.
Mr.. Sandlund, who will as.
sumo his new duties on Feb,
ruary l. succeeds the Rev
Harry Rankin, who resigned
from the River Road Church
in December. 1858, to accept
the paStorate Of a church in
Houston, Pa.
A native of Brooklyn, N. Y,
Mr.. Sandlund is a graduate of
George Washington University
He earned a bachelor of divin-
ity degree at Princeton The
illogical Seminary in 1949 and
a master Of theology degree
there in 1850. He was ordained
by the Providence Presbytery in
1850.
Mr.. Sandlund, who has been
at the Warwick church for the
last nine years, is married tc
the former Miss Isabella Hogg
They have three children. John
T., jr., 4: Christofer, 2, and az
infant daughter. They will live
here at 4457 Fessenden street
NV.
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Teen PurIey
Due toOpen

Some $4,000 teen-agers from
every section of the country
and many foreign lands will
gather here Monday for the
first Capital Teen Convention
sponsored by Youth for Christ
International.
Sessions Of the convention
which has as its theme "WorlC
Youth in Review" will be helc
Monday through Wednesday ir
the National Guard Armory
and will conclude with a ban.
quet Wednesday night in the
Hotel Statler.
Senator Frank Carlson, Re.
publican Of Kansas. who II
general chairman of the con.
vention, will address the open.
ing day session which will dis.
cuSS you and Your Country.
DR.. Bob Pierce. West Coast
missionary and evangelist, will
lead the second days program
on You and Your World"
DR.. Billy Graham will speal
at the final days session or
You and Your Tomorrow
and at the banquet.
The Northern Virginia Youth
for Christ Rally, which takes II
all of the Washington area
is serving as host for the con.
vention.
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Letters Support
Benson, 20-l, His
Office Reports
By the Associated Press

Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson has received more
than 125 letters from around
country since he rejected sug-
gestions earlier this month thai
he resign. His Office says the
letters are about 2O-1 in sup
port of the secretary.
Comments of the letters let
ter-writers have ranged from
stay in there and keep swing
ing" to "you ought to resign.
You are running the farmers. +"
Some Republican leaders had
suggested that the party's
chances in next years election
would be improved if Mr.. Ben
son resigned. In reply, Secre-
tary Benson said he intended to
stay on the job and fight fol
"a free agriculture"
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Moral Re-Armument
Meets Here Jan. 1-3

Moral Re- Assem-
bly,, an organization attempting
to unite the free world ideolog-
ically. will hold a strategy con-
ference January /, 2 and 3 at
the Willard Hotel.
Public sessions of the as
sembly will be held at II am.
4 pm. and $50 pm. January l
and 2 and at 3 pm. and $3.50
p IN. January 3.
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Christmas Cards

Veterans Administration
Chaplain John G. Lambrides
has a hobby that proves most
useful at Christmas time. Be-
fore he entered the ministry,
Chaplain Lambrides took art
training. Twenty-Six years ago
he turned this facility to use
by designing his own Christ
mas cards.
Since then he has kept up the
practice. and each year designs
"a new card with appropriate
Bible verses to interpret the
drawings. Some recipients
have kept the cards through
the years. expressing pleasure
at their originality and quality.
Evening star., 1959-12-26

tional concern. A distinguished
gathering attended the cere-
money in September. The new
home, to take the place of the
outmoded one at 3248 N street
NV, will be a model of its
kind and should be completed
in 1861.
Among personal honors at
tracing city wide attention
was the annual churchman's
award presented to DR.. Ernest
S. Griffith. dean of the School
of international Service, Amer
lean University, in October
DR.. Griffith was chosen as the
recipient for his long-term ac-
tivities in Washington church
life.
Tenth place must be reserved
for the continuing tremendous
building program still being
undertaken by the churches o1
the area. There doesn't seem
to be any appreciable lag over
previous years in church con-
struction, indicating the high
priority church life has in the
minds of people here.
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Milton Kronheim Set
To Head Dimes Unit

Milton Kronheim, prominent
Washington liquor dealer, was
named head Of the special gifts
committee for the Districts
1860 March Of Dimes today.
Mr.. Kronheim, active in the
March of Dimes for the last
IL years, accepted the appoint
ment from campaign director
Joseph G. Weeda.
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Quemoy SheIIed

TAIPEI, Formosa, Dec. 26
(AP).-Red China's gun bat
teries lobbed SO shells at the
Quemoy Islands Christmas Day,
Nationalist Chinese authorities
reported. Today they stilled
their guns 70 rthe 207th con-
secutive even-numbered days.
Evening star., 1959-12-26

Hampton, vice president, will
preside.
The Dawson Bible Class of
the First Baptist Church will
meet at $50 am. tomorrow
with Mrs. Joseph Hardy Miller
presenting the lesson. Miss
Mary Fern Caudell of Memphis,
Tenn, will be the guest soloist
in a special Christmas program.
The Rustin Couples Bible
Glass Of Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church will have as
the guest teacher at 10 am.
tomorrow 1t. Col. Roy M.
Terry, chaplain, USAF.
Stephen o. EdmundS, deacon
and chairman of the building
committee. Calvary Baptist
Church, will be the guest teach.
er Of the Vaughn Bible Glass
for Men at 10 am. tomorrow
Brooks Hays, former Congress
man from Arkansas, will be the
guest teacher of the Burial
Bible Class for business and
professional women at 10 am.
tomorrow.
The Rev. Linwood F. Harris
will present the lesson before
the Trinity Mems Bible Glass
of Trinity Methodist Church
at $50 am. tomorrow.
George E. Harris, president
of the Organized Bible Glass
Association with other officers.
will receive members and
friends of the O.B.C.A. at the
annual New Years reception to
be held at Epworth Methodist
Church, Thirteenth street and
North Carolina avenue Sc. on
January 3, 1860 from 3 to SPIN
Evening star., 1959-12-26
Talk on Visit U. S. A.

Philip M. Talbot. special
assistant to the president OF
the National Savings g. Trust
Co. and chairman of the Gov
ernment's Committee on Visit
U. S. A. in 1860" will speak
on Visit U. S. A. in 1860
during the international Cross
roads Sunday morning break
fast at 0 am. tomorrow in the
Central YMCA. 1886 G street
NV. Mr.. Talbot is a former
president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce.