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PAGE EIGHT Bluffton High and Bluffton College cagers will open the 1939-40 season in games this week, the collegians playing at home against Bowling Green and the high school tackling Vaughnsville on the oppents’ floor. Bluffton college will meet a strong Bee Gee outfit in the game here Sat urday night, the opening contest of the season for both schools. Bolwing Green has 16 lettermen, in cluding all of last year’s regulars, but Bluffton hopes to at least partially match this display of strength with seven veterans. SHHBEEESE!!SE!!HSSH®SSSEESEHSSH5SSSEHEESSEESESEE2EE^^^^= College Cagers Play Here Saturday High School Team At Vaughnsville Reichenbach and Radulovich are looking unusually finished this season and Bluffton’s attack likely will be built around them. Others from last year who likely will see action include McLaughlin, Warren and Backensto, guards and Santa Clas will miss the Nazis this year so far as the United States post office department is concerned. Postal authorities this week an nounced Christmas packages will not be accepted for mail delivery to Ger many and the former countries of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. Altho the delivery of parcel post is suspended regular mail will be ac cepted and delivered by way of Italy, it was announced. Postal authorities said they believed parcel post to other countries in Eu rope had a good chance of being de livered, but they felt the time re quired for a parcel to reach its des tination might be longer than under normal conditions. As a reminder that Christmas is not far away, the post office depart ment urged an early mailing of all cards and packages to foreign coun tries. Mailing dates for various destina tions about the world were announced as follows: Argentina, Dec. 1 Bahamas, Dec. 18 Barbados, Dec. 15 Bermuda, Dec. 16 Bolivia, Dec. 2 Brazil Dec. 8 Canal Zone, Dec. 15 Chili, Dec. 2 Columbia, Dec. 15 Costa Rica, Dec. 16 Cuba, Dec. 21 Dominican Repub lic, Dec. 14 Ecuador, Dec. 8 Guate mala, Dec. 16 Guinas, Dec. 8 Haiti, iKCDAKSl I for Christmas i at i i I Sidneys Drug Shop j. Nc Skidding... CUSTOMERS tell us they are getting the non skid performance of new tires after having their old tires re-capped here. Have your tires re-cap ped now before winter comes. The cost is small. Complete servicing for winter driving. Bluffton Tire Shop Elmer Burkholder, Prop. 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Smoker and Sommer are other up per-classmen who look promising and among new candidates the out standing are Crow, Heiks and Truax. Santa Will Miss Nazis This Year No Parcel Post Accepted For Germany Bluffton High will open its season at Vaughnsville on Friday night, and altho Coach Dwight Diller has had little time to whip his team into shape he expects a promising showing. Vaughnsville-Bluffton games in the past always have been closely contest ed, and this year’s title is not expect ed to be an exception. The Bluffton coach has several vet erans around whom his playing squad likely will be built, but it is still a little early to determine the starters. Bluffton will play at Lima South, December 8, and it will be Dec. 9 be fore the Pirates appear at home against Rawson. Dec. 15 Jamica, Dec. 16 Newfound land, Dec. 16 Nicaragua, Dec. 8 Pan ama, Dec. 15 Peru, Dec. 8 Puerto Rico, Dec. 16 Salvador, Dec. 11 Ven ezula, Dec. 15 Virgin Islands, Dec. 16. Australia, Nov. 25 China, Dec. 1 Japan, Dec. 4 New Zealand, Dec. 6 Phillipines, Dec. 1 Hawaii, Dec. 18. Boy Scout News An American flag was presented to Troop 56 of Bluffton Monday night by the Bluffton American Legion post. A candlelight ceremony was held in connection with the presenta tion, with the Wolf Patrol, directed by Roger Howe, in charge. Second class compass tests were passed last week by Gordon Bixel, Jr., and Maurice Kohli, Jr. TROOP CALENDAR Dec. 1—Allen county district round table at Lima. Dec. 4—Scout Meeting, 7:80 p. m. at First Mennonite church. Dec. 5—Troop Committeemen meeting. Dec. 5—Board of Review, 7:30 p. m. at First Mennonite church. Dec. 14—Court of Honor at Lima. Recreation Center Ping pong tournaments are being conducted at the recreation center this week as a part of the Bluffton observance of National Recreation week. The program was planned and play is being supervised by Dale Dav idson, Bluffton recreation director. In boys play Tuesday night, Elmer Stonehill won the championship in the tournament for the first six grades. He defeated James Lewis in the final match, 21 to 11, and 21 to 13. Ten picked boys competed Robert Watkins is the champion in the senior boys class, by virtue of his victory over James Clark in the final round of a tournament in which 12 played. Watkins bested Clark 21 to 14. 19 to 21 and 34 to 32. Four tournaments will be held at the Center this Thursday night. Two girls tourneys will be held one for the first six grades, and the other for those in the senior division. In ad dition, men’s and women’s tournament will be played. Plans are practically completed for men’s volleyball play during the win ter season, and competition in all probability will be started within the next week or so, Davidson announced. Boys are now working on small handicraft projects at the recreation center ,and others are invited to avail themselves of the facilities. Most of the youths are working on Christmas presents at this time. Fire Call Turned In As Auto Burns A parked automobile discovered on fire resulted in the turning in of a fire alarm Tuesday evening at 6:30 o’clock. The car, parked in front of the Albert Benroth residence on North Main street, belonged to Don Gundy, Bluffton college student. The fire department was sum moned when efforts of bystanders failed to extinguish the flames. The car was considerably damaged. Origin of the first was undeter mined. Auto Accessory Store Opens Here The Western Auto Associate store, owned and operated by Millen C. Geiger opened for business the first of the week in the George Carmack building on South Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Geiger and daugh ter who arrived last week from Me dina, their former home, expect to locate here permanently as soon as housing accommodations can be found. Mr. Geiger, a native of Pan dora, is well known in this vicinity. Peace Speaker At College Vespers John Nevin Sayre, chairman of the American Fellowship of Reconcilia tion, will be the speaker at vesper services in the Bluffton college chapel, at 3 p. m. next Sunday. Sayre will be one of the speakers at an inter-collegiate peace confer ence on the Bluffton campus Friday and Saturday, and will remain to ad dress the vesper service on Sunday. His address will be on peace activi ties in this country and abroad. Special music will be presented by the Bluffton college vesper choir di rected by Prof. Russell A. Lantz. “Robinson Crusoe” To Be Staged Again Second presentation of “Robinson Crusoe”, a play based on the adven tures of the story-book character, will be given at 8 p. m. this Wed nesday night in the Bluffton high school auditorium. In the opening offering Tuesday night, a distinct dramatic success was scored by the cast. Members of the speech classes at the high school are producing the dramatiza tion. P. W. Stauffer is the director. Confectionary Store Holds Opening Here The Caramel Crisp shop, confec tionary establishment, opened for business here Wednesday in quarters in the Mrs. Fred Zehrbach block at North Main and Vine streets. The store is under management of Henry Ruhl who arrived here from Marion recently to take charge of the place. The store is located in the room formerly occupied by the Midway Fountain. A number of changes have been made preparatory to the opening. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the neighbors and friends for their aid and sym pathy so generously extended in the death and burial of our beloved daughter and sister, Miss Hazel Mc Cune also Rev. Weed who officiated at the funeral services, the singers and all those sending flowers. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. McCune and Robert H. B. McCune Mrs. G. B. Stratton SURPRISE BIRTHDAY DINNER Marking his sixteenth birthday an niversary, Charles Lora was the guest of honor at a surprise dinner at the home of his father Chas. Lora, Sr., west of Bluffton, Sunday. Present for the occasion were: Mr. and Mrs. Wade Lora, Bliss field, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Staley and family, Ada Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gratz and Mrs. Walter Deppler and family of this place. Notice The Board of Education at its reg ular meeting November 13 passed a resolution prohibiting smoking in the school buildings. This is in con formity with the orders of the state fire marshal and affects particularly all use of the buildings by outside organizations, for athletic events in the gymnasium, evening trade ex tension classes, etc. By action of the board, enforce ment of this prohibition was placed in the custodians having charge of the school plant, together with the cooperation of the sponsor of each respective group. By Order of the Board SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS The New Philadelphia Rotary club and agricultural agent Lester A. Cronin teamed up to plan a tree planting project as a screen for some abandoned coal mines. Interest in this planting started a discussion of the advantages of a community for est. Short courses in agricultural sub- THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO A Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington. D. C.- WNU Service. What an eventful day when man first found that a floating log would bear his weight! What trial and error, what wreck and tragedy intervened even before the first dugout, or raft with clumsy sails of skins or plaited grass actually put to sea and finally reached a neigh boring shore safely! Imagine the daring sailors’ return from that first of all voyages. Shoutinc fellow tribesmen crowd about as they beach their craft, excited over the strange fruits and weapons the dusky Argonauts have brought back, and gaze curi ously at the lone woman captive, snatched from her coral-beach shel ter as the invaders retreated to the sea. Till then that distant shore, its peak dimly visible only on clear days, had been a region of mystery now they had landed upon it, had tasted its dangers and delights. “Let us return for more wealth,” the excited welcomers urge. “Nay brothers,” reply the sailors. “The winds are evil and the waves run high. We must make a bigger raft and take more fighting men, for yonder they have mighty warriors to give us battle." Contrast pirate pistol and cutlass, hand-to-hand sea-fighting technique with the World war Battle of Jut land, when armored giants hurled tons of projectiles at each other with lightninglike rapidity over leagues of intervening blue water. Man Becomes Restless Fighting on the water, perhaps, had less to do with the development of ships than did man’s peacetime pursuits, his restless urge always to find and see new lands, and to gain wealth by barter with faraway peo ple for salt, amber, and slaves. One primitive craft, in use to this day, is the Polynesian catamaran. Anyone who has lived in the Philip pines or cruised the waters of the South Pacific know this outrigger sailing canoe and its age-old use in inter-island traffic. Aboard this catamaran, long cen turies ago, dusky adventurers from Asiatic coasts, guided only by stars, the flight of birds, or instinct, sailed for countless watery miles out into the Pacific. Hawaii, Easter island, and( New Zealand were all colonized by these daring sailors. There is some evidence that a few of them even reached the coasts of Mexico and South America. Egypt Started It Though history records no famous voyages made by Egyptian naviga tors, it was from early Egypt that shipbuilding ideas spread to Phoe nicia, Greece, and later to Rome— even through the Red sea to the Orient. The Chinese junk bears a strong resemblance to pictures of ancient Egyptian craft, especially in the shape of the hill. Although sea going ships grew up in the Mediter ranean, early Chinese used the com pass. Their junks, trading between Canton and the Persian gulf in the Third century, had magnetic iron needles also, their junks used a rudder mounted on the stempost. Beyond the junk, however, Chinese shipmakers progressed little. On canals, rivers, and along coasts, myriad junks and sampans continue to haul much of China’s colossal do mestic commerce. Phoenicia, to ay, is a forgotten land. Yet “merchants of Tyre” cor nered the world trade of their day. They sent dried fruit and wine to the then remote British isles, and brought back tin and cloth. They are even believed to have sailed around Africa centuries before Vasco da Gama. Floating Log Bore His Weight, So Man Developed a Curiosity v Vikings, bold sailors in their day, ravaged the coasts of Gaul and Spain in their stout oaken vessels centuries before Columbus was born. Living on dried fish and such little grain as they could carry, they later explored the northwest Atlan tic abobt 1000 A. D., Leif Ericsson voyaged to North America through icy seas. In each passing century, after Egypt supplied a pattern for sea going merchant craft, first the sea farers of one nation, then of another, made improvements. Columbus’ flagship, for example, was a “mod ern” boat, compared with Leif’s open ‘‘long ship.” His crew had bet ter sleeping quarters, bigger yvatcr casks, more i -'tier jects at Ohio State University are planned to give the greatest amount of practical information in the least possible time. Information can be secured by writing Dean John F. Cunningham, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Field reports indicate a good Ohio beet crop which is high in sugar content and will bring a better price Old as water transportation itself, but still modern! This is a gufa, water transport on the Tigris river, which goes forward by twirling in a circle. Slightly round-about, perhaps, but it gets there! arms and clothes, and better navi gation charts and instruments. Human Powerhouse The Venetian galley was the fight ing craft when Christian allies un der Don John of Austria defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. In that battle larger ves sels carried 100 crossbowmen, 40 cannon, and catapults for throwing stones. Power came from 150 gal ley slaves, chained to their long sweeps and whipped savagely upon their naked backs to make them pull hard, in steady rhythm. In Greek and Roman galleys oars were arranged in two or more tiers. The Venetians abolished this sys tem, installing all oars on the same level. The rowers, however, sat on two or three different levels, with the benches inclined in such a way as to leave each man’s motions i 'A- i If it floats, it's a boat. With canvas unfurled, Miami bathing girls lake advantage of both wind and waves in a new sport, surf sailing. free from interference by the others. The oars of each group of two or three rowers projected through the same opening or “rowlock.” The high bench was nearest the center of the vessel and its occupant pulled the longest oar—sometimes meas uring nearly 50 feet in length. The galleys themselves were about 150 feet long. We look now at models of the tiny caravels of Columbus, and are amazed that in craft so frail he dared so much. We might set his whole fleet, the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria, upon the decks of the new Queen Mary and still have room to drill a regiment of infan try. Yet, in their day, these were stout little ships, developed by man after centuries of experience with Egyptian Nile and coastal craft, Chi nese junks, Phoenician traders, Arab dhows, and Roman galleys, successive rungs of man’s maritime ladder. Caravels Seaworthy Despite their small size, often less than 100 tons, caravels became fa mous for seaworthiness on long voy ages Vasco da Gama used one in rounding the Cape of Good Hope so did Magellan. Opening the doors of a new world wide era of exploration, commerce, wealth,.and.empire, the little cara vel poked its bows into harbors pre viously unfurrowed by white men’s ships, and fled safely from unfriend ly shores, easily escaping from the canoes of warlike native tribes. Among heroic pioneer navigators in this age of exciting discovery was Sir Francis Drake. This Eng lish sea hawk sailed around the globe in the Golden Hind at the end of the Sixteenth century, and was the first Englishman to pass through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the west coasts of South and North America. Drake scraped his ship’s bottom hard by what is now San Francisco bay, crossed the Pacific to the East Indies, and sailed home around the Cape of Good Hope. Rich with spoils from Spanish ships, he reached England after an ab sence of nearly thro:' years. than has been obtained recently. The income from the crop added to benefit payments made by the AAA will tend to stabilize future produc tion in the state. Found on a postcard: Dear Son, this is the cliff from which the Spartans threw their de fective children. Wi$h you were here. Love, Dad. —Bored Walk Bluffton’s three basketball teams will swing into action this week, but only home appearance is scheduled ...JBluffton Boosters, an independent outfit, will play in Lima league play at Lima, Thursday night, meeting Bradfield Center Bluffton High will open its season at Vaughnsville Fri day night The only home presen tation will be Bluffton college’s game with Bowling Green, Saturday night on the high school floor. Basketball play is under way in earnest in the territory.-... Mt. Cory opened last week, but lost to Lima St. John’s, 53 to 21.......Sciranka, who defeated Bluffton almost single hand ed three years ago, got 14 of St. Johns’ points ......Spencerville defeat ed Lafayette at Lafayette by a score of 29 to 26, after the score had been tied 18-18 at the close of the third quarter. Beaverdam cagers won their third victory with a 31 conquest over Rawson, last Friday- '.Bktffton col lege’s second hpme appearance of Puppet Shows To Be New Fair Feature As a new feature in connection with Bluffton’s annual agricultural fair, fifth and sixth grade pupils in the Bluffton public schools will pre sent puppet shows next Wednesday and Thursday nights in the high school gymnasium. Four shows will be presented nightly by the puppeteers, and the offerings promise to be one of the most attractive features of the fair program. Pupils in the fifth and sixth grades have made the puppets as a part of their regular class work, and two of the three plays which will be pre sented were written by them. Miss Theola Steiner, sixth grade teacher, has been in charge of ar rangements and will direct the pre sentations next week. Pupils will work the puppets and THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1939 SHORT SPORTS CENTER-POISE RIDE... You get it in a the season, against Tri-State on Dec. 14, will find the local Lions club sponsoring the contest...... Four vet erans, Ramseyer, Nurmi, Tetlow and Detwiler, will be missed from the Beaver outfit this year. Bixel Motor Sales Authorized Ford Dealers Bluffton, Ohio To avoid a conflict with Easter Holy week, dates of the state high school basketball tournament at Co lumbus will be March 14-15-16---- County tournaments will be Feb. 16 17 and 23-24 sectionals Feb. 29, March 1 and 2 and district meets, March 7, 8 and 9. Bluffton college’s football schedule for next fall includes three home games and four on foreign fields---- The Beavers will play Defiance, Ash land and Findlay at home-----Con tests away from home will be played at Kent, Otterbein, Kenyon, Assump tion and Grand Rapids----- Coach A. C. Burcky, of Bluffton college, will be the speaker at the Ada High school football banquet this Wednes day. read the lines of the three plays. “Pandora’s Box” and “The King’s Toothache” will be dramatized by the sixth graders, and the fifth and sixth grade pupils will collaborate in offering “Old Pipes and the Driads”. The puppet shows on Wednesday and Thursday nights will be staged at 7:00, 7:30, 8:00 and 8:80 o’clock. 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