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BUY uwira* •▼ATM STAMM VOLUME NO. LXX MALARIA OUTBREAK SEEN AS POSSIBLE HERE THIS SUMMER Mosquitoes Biting Malaria Suf fering War Vets May Be New Health Hazard Situation Aggravated By Lack Of Operator For Bluffton's Mosquito Control Program Possibility of an outbreak of mala ria in the Bluffton area this summer, a disease previously almost unknown here was discussed at a meeting of the town council Monday night as that body took preliminary preventa tive measures to deal with the situa tion. The malaria menace looms as a new development in Bluffton’s mos quito-plagued history, coming in a year when a larger than average number of mosquitoes are expect ed and the town is facing a break down in its mosquito control program. With a number of returned ex-ser vice men here who were stricken with malaria while overseas, it was point ed out to the council that if while suffering a recurrihg attack they should be bitten by the proper type of mosquito the disease could readily be spread. mosquitoes are of the not known, town clerk Whether any of the W’hich infest this area malaria carrying type is However, W. O. Geiger, and also head of the high school bio logy department said that this was a •definite possibility. Mosquito Control is Key With mosquito elimination recog nized as the key to the Situation, ad ditional complications have arisen in view'of the fact that the town’s mos quito control program may be drop (Continued on t’age 8) None Hurt Seriously In Three Accidents No serious injuries were reported in any of three minor accidents eith er occurring in the Bluffton area or involving local residents over the last weekend. An automobile driven in Findlay by R. E. Griffith, of Lawn avenue, was involved in a collision with a bicycle, last Sunday but A. J. Deck •er, of Findlay, rider of the bicycle, was only slightly hurt. Griffith took Decker to the Find lay hospital for treatment and then reported the mishap to police head quarters. Mr. and Mrs. William Hamm, of Rural Route 1, Rawson, escaped with minor hurts and shock when their car was struck by a truck, two-tenths of a mile south of Raw son on the Dixie highway Friday night. Taken to the Bluffton hospital for treatment, Mr. and Mrs. Hamm were discharged on the same night. The driver of the truck, a Sandusky man, was unhurt. In the third mishap, William J. Hatfield, of Ossian, Ind., escaped serious injury when the automobile he was driving rolled over several times and then hurdled a fence be tween Williamstown and New Stark, at 7 a. m. Monday. Hatfield was taken to the Com munity hospital here and was dis charged Tuesday morning, after treatment. State Highway patrolmen said Hatfield fell asleep, and the car overturned several times after it went into the ditch. Trio Broadcast On Friday Night The Oyer trio with Miss Jeanne Lewis at the piano will be heard in five numbers in their radio broadcast from Lima station WLOK, Friday night at 6:15 o’clock. The program follows: With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair Song of Love from Romberg’s Blos som Time Indian Love Call from Friml’s Rose Marie piano solo, May Night hymn .Beneath the Cross of Jesus. Evan Soash Coach Of Ada High Nine Evan Soash, former Bluffton High school and Bluffton college athletic star, is coaching the Ada High school baseball team this spring. He is enrolled as a student in physi cal education and coaching at Ohio Northern. Soash, recently was discharged from the Navy. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Soash, of South Main street. State Will Center Line Dixie In Town An ordinance was passed Monday night at a meeting of the municipal council, authorizing the State High way Department to center-paint the Dixie highway limits. within Bluffton town state highways for can be done within Center-lining traffic control municipal boundaries only if an ordi nance is passed by the town authoriz ing them to do the work. TOWN RETURNING TO SLOW TIME ON PERMANENT BASIS Action Annuling Municipal Ordi nance Taken At Monday Meeting of Council Under Repealed Law Town Would Go To Fast Time On April 28 Bluffton will remain on Slow Time this summer, it was decided Monday night when the municipal council re pealed an ordinance passed in 1944 which provided for the town’s clocks to be set ahead one hour every year on the last Sunday in April. Action of the council was predicted on the /act that sentiment of the town and surrounding area indicated a desire to i retain Slow Time the year around now that the wartime emergency no longer is prevailing. This will be the first time since 1941 that Bluffton has been on East ern Standard Time during the sum mer months. Local action is in line with Governor Lausche’s appeal for a uniformity of time in Ohio this year, with retention of EST (Slow Time) favored by him Yor the state. Bluffton’s Time Ordinance, passed in 1944, provided for operation on Fast Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in Sept ember, and on Slow Time for the re mainder of the year. Bluffton first went on Fast Time early in the winter of 1941-42, when President Roosevelt declared nation wide adoption of Fast Time as a war measure. Since the winter of 1942-43, however, the town has operated on Fast Time only during the four sum mer months. Barnes To Teach In Two High Schools Final arrangements for combining the vocational agriculture depart ments of Bluffton and Beaverdam High schools were worked out at a joint meeting of the boards of edu cation of the two schools, last Wed nesday night in Bluffton, and Harry F. Barnes who has been head of the department here was hired as in structor under the new program. Barnes’ salary was set at $3,000 a year, with each school providing $1500. Half of the total paid by each school, however,-will come from federal government funds. In ad dition to his $3,000 salary, Barnes will receive a mileage allowance up to $200 annually. Under the combination program, Barnes will spend half time at each school. The new arrangement be comes effective next fall. Consolidation of the two -courses was necessary because enrollment in Bluffton has fallen to approximately 17 boys, less than the number neces sary to qualify for continued aid from outside vocational sources. Beaverdam, creating its department for the first time, will have a pros pective enrollment of 20. At a regular meeting of the Bluff ton board of education following the meeting with the Beaverdam group, it was decided to raise the salary of the clerk of the board from $35 to $45 per month. This gives a new annual salary of $540 per year. James West is clerk of the Board, succeeding Leland Diller, who re signed in late summer. Baritone Soloist In Concert Here Friday MyTon Carlisle, baritone concert singer, who has recently been dis charged from three years of Army service, will appear in the fourth and concluding number of the Bluff ton College Concert series, at 8 p. m. this Friday in the Ramseyer chapel. A brilliant young vocalist, Carlisle was assigned to the Army Special Service forces ^following his induc tion early in the war. He served with this group as a producer, actor and singer in special service shows. a I O i NEWEST ANSWERTO LOCAL HOME NEEDS S PREFABRICATION hree Prefabricated Houses Will Be Built in Bluffton During The Spring Months lousing Shortage and Lack of Building Materials Brings Turn to Prefabrication Three prefabricated houses will be erected in Bluffton this spring as a new approach toward relieving the critical shortage here. of houses existing materials virtually housing conditions With building unobtainable and growing worse from the availability angle, the turn toward prefabricated homes has been a logical one in met ropolitan centers. Spread of the trend to smaller cities is indicated in this spring’s developments bringing three homes of that type to Bluffton. One of the houses, a three-room structure, will be erected on a lot at W. Elm street and College road, ad joining the Dick Habegger residence. I Two On Campus The other two prefabricated build ings will each have three rooms, and are to be erected at the rear of Lin coln hall on the Bluffton college cam pus. Merl Habegger, ex-serviceman son of Henry Habegger, is erecting the prefabricated home at W. Elm street and the College road. Excavation was dug for a basement Monday, and as soon as the foundation is complet ed erection of the house will be start ed. Materials are on the site, in pre fabricated form. When completed, the home will have three rooms and a basement. Habegger’s wife and one-month old son are living in Medina, because living quarters are not available lo cally. They will come here as soon as the home is completed. One of the prefabricated houses planned to supplement Bluffton col lege living accomodations married students is being erected now*, and work on the second will be started immediately following its completion. Metal Exterior Of steel and aluminum exterior construction, the 20 by 32 feet houses are quite roomy. They have plywood floors and walls of insulating mater ial. Each house will be divided into two apartments, giving accomodations for four families in the two structures. Each apartment will have a bath, kit chenette and a combination living sleeping room. Prefabricated house construction on the campus by college authorities is an answer to a critical situation dev eloping from a shortage of housing in the town for married war veterans who wish to attend school. The four apartments to be provid ed by construction of the two build ings already are taken, and others I likely will be needed, college author ities said. At the same time, Habegger’s deci sion to turn to prefabricated housing may establish a precedent that may be followed by others unable to find living accomodations. Bluffton To Get $300 More In 1945 Tag Fees Bluffton village will receive $300 in the third distribution of 1945 motor vehicle fees, announced last week by the State Highway Depart ment. Beaverdam’s share of the distribu tion will be $21.25 and Lafayette is to get $35. County funds will re ceive $22,541.20. In the Hancock county distribu tion, Mt. Cory will get $37.50, Rawson is slated to benefit in same amount. and the Ada, in Hardin county ,will ceive $175. In Putnam county, $175 is earmarked for Pandora and $200 for Columbus Grove. Navy Film Will Be Shown Monday Night Sound moving pictures of life in the Navy will be shown at the Sportsmen’s club rooms in the hall next Monday night at o’clock. Showing of the pictures will charge of recruiting officers Lima and will depict actual scenes from fleet maneuvers, open to the public. rHE BLUFFTON NEWS A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY BLUFFTON, OHIO THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1946 Morice J. Mahoney, 35, of Sun bury, Ohio, will succeed Eli Deppler as manager of the Bluffton Tele phone Co. when the Bluffton man resigns on May 1, after being in charge of the system here for 37 years. Deppler assumed the managership back in the days when the system was independently owned, and has directed activities of the company during its period of greatest growth. He became manager when the late Jack Armentrout resigned. DELAY IN RICHLAND TWP. ROAD REPAIR WORK THIS SPRING Sunbury Man To Succeed Eli Deppler As Telephone System Manager May 1 mprovement of Four Miles of Road Cannot Be Started Until Later Jelay Results From All County Maintenance Equipment Be ing Used Elsewhere Richland township’s spring road improvement program involving re surfacing of four miles of county township highways and construction of a new bridge will be delayed until early summer, it was learned this week. Postponement of an early start on the work has resulted from the need to use all Allen county road main tenance equipment in repairing high ways that were torn up during the winter when heavy equipment was moved out of the Lima Tank Depot. Work on the township roads is fi nanced by township and county funds, but county equipment and mainten ance crews do the repairing, and the local program cannot Ke started until both are available. Four miles of new hard-surfaced roads and one bridge will be built in Richland township this year, as a part of an extensive $335,000 Allen county program. Road Program Work in the township includes the surfacing of three miles of the Tom Fett road from the Putnam county line to the Rockport road, and sur facing one mile of the Swaney road between the Dixie and Lincoln high ways. Estimated cost of the road con struction is $2,600 per mile, or a total of $10,400. The new bridge will be built on the Tom Fett road, south of the Ernest Gratz farm buildings. It will replace the present structure across a ditch at that place. Load limits on Richland township roads also have been reduced during the spring season by action of Allen county commissioners to prevent damage resulting from excessive moisture and thawing weather in road beds. Former Resident Dies After Birth Of Chile Mrs. Treva Marceyle (Fett) Smith, 36, of Findlay, formerly of Bluffton, died Tuesday afternoon at Findlay hospital following the birth last Friday night of a stillborn son. Funeral services for Mrs. Smith will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Jenera Trinity Lutheran church of which and burial will cemetery. Following taught public came choir town 7:30 be in from battle It is The showing will be in connection with a joint meeting of Boy Scout troops 56 and 82 which will start at 7 o’clock. member church she was a be in the 1910 in October 13, She was born Lima, the daughter of Lewis and Lillie (Huber) Fett. The family later moved to Bluffton where her mother now resides five miles south of town. Mrs. Smith was graduated from Bluffton high school in the class of 1927 and received Bluffton college in in music. church at Jenera and organist for several churches. She was married December 29, 1935 to Howard Smith who survives together with one son Tommy, age 8, at home and a sister, Mrs. Robert Hess of Findlay. Real Estate Deal Dale Reichenbach has purchased the Allen Beeshy property at Riley and Spring streets. Reichenbach, recently discharged from the navy, tie now i* the life insurance field. owned by the same holding company. 3read Made From New Gray Flour Is Beginning To Appear On Markets Here I Gray _______ I Woodrow Little, former Bluffton I rural mail carrier has received his After 37 years of being on the job I discharge from naval service and almost continuously, Deppler plans I will resume his former duties on to make a western trip this summer I ^oute 1 here shortly. ... .... I Little was discharged with his wife. I New Gray Flour Also Is Appear ing on Grocer’s Shelves More Nutritive thing, the bread tastes better cause of the changed formula. Those who have used the bread say that about the only ference in appearance is a more creamy appearance of the loaf when it is sliced. flour show an actual gain in the natural enrichment of the bread. I Millers report the new 80 per cent! Al.* 117 V itty-ttura Wedding Anniversary Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Clap and Mrs. Daniel Wilkins, Scoles. and family of Bluffton. Births The her degree from 1931, specializing graduation she her school music and be director for Trinity Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sousley, Blufftoh, a girk Karyl Jean, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Alphie Keller, Day ton, a.girl, Ann Maureen, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Downey, Beaverdam, a boy, Michael Lewis, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Schumacher, Bluffton, a boy, George William, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dukes, Fiadlay, a boy, Wayne Allen, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Henry, Ada, a boy, Delbert Leo, Tuesday. I L—__ _______ _______ Mahoney, who assumes the duties I was met by his wife and son of manager on May 1, has a wife! left Bluffton by auto a month and two children. For the last sev-|to meet him in California, en years he has been manager of I The family made the return the Sunbury Telephone Co., which is in their car, arriving here Fridaylp t„ p|ot „n Matter affiliated with the Telephone berviceI night. I Co., with headquarters in Lima. _______________________________ Farm Poses Problem for The Bluffton Telephone Co. also Rationed Coal in bread, made from the new! cent flour ordered by the Government deliveries for A 80 per government, is beginning to appear on Bluffton markets, but grocers say| United Mine Workers strike will have! mon road that unless you look very closely! little effect so far as Bluffton deal I owned by Mrs. Caroline Matter, on the water works well is op under a lease-arrangement. you won’t know the difference. ers are concerned, for their yards are! which Some bakers are using the new I practically bare of coal and no other! erated flour exclusively for their bread, and I fuel shipments are believed enroute, the few buyers who have noted that I Ou the other hand, everyone who the baked product is slightly grayer! burns coal has a supply on hand that! proposed building site tract in appearance admit that, if any-1 will be adequate for the rest of the! of this week, by plotting be-1 heating season, barring unseasonably I extending south along Harmon road Afternoon callers were Mr. and Burial was in Maple Grove cemetery. Mrs. T. J. Crawford and family of I Jenera and l^rs. Ralph Badertscher\RiteS ff“X^SLjWATERWORKSW£lL DILEMMA IS STEP NEARER DECISION Little was discharged from the! service at San Francisco where hel nofficial Opinion of InspcctOE who Is That Well Can’t Be Used ag*'| If Houses Near trip COAL DELIVERIES RATIONED BECAUSE isIaabi np MINE WALKOUT ?ew Buyers Of Bread Notice! I week. Any Difference in Taste I One-ton Limit Set by Federal! Principal development pointing to or Appearance I Government Will Mean I ward that conclusion was an unoffi 1 Little Here I cial rel’‘,rt by O. C. Singer, of To- No Coal in Bluffton Yards to Be| ?'L3h“”‘lay Consumers Have Bins, However I cold weather, local fuel dealers said, from the Bluffton Hatchery com new and the lack of coal in the yards is I pany’s property. dif-1 n°t regarded in a serious light. I The well is located about 300 feet Government Orders Arriving I from Harmon Expected government orders re-1 feet deep, as striding coal deliveries were being them to within Most bakers are not putting the I received the middle of this week by [supply, gray flour in cakes, cookies and I dealers in this area, other baked goods, but in view of I For the remainder acceptance of the new bread they I period deliveries for are not expecting unfavorable re-| naay not be in excess suits from the switch to its use ini an amount sufficient to carry the con-1 restriction must apply, which would pastries. I sumer for five or 10 days, whichever! mean the Board of Public Affairs New Flour Coming I is his specified minimum required for! must decide between buying the en Flour made by the new formula! an order. tire nine-acre tract or moving ita also is beginning to appear on I ‘Blufftdn municipal 0OT plant, the! -well to a new location. grocer’s shelves, altho in some in-1 Central Ohio Light and Power Co.’sl No official statement will be stances “white flour’’ still is avail-1 generating station here, Bluffton! made, however, until the State Board able. I High school and Bluffton college all! of Health has an opportunity to Home economists who have tried! reported they have sufficient supplies! study Singer’s report the flour report virtually no differ-1 of coal on hand for their immediate Lease signed when the waterworks ence in the outward appearance, and I needs. I drilled the well nearly all ^ay that tests of the new Board of Public \Collapse During Walk I & I L1 1 HT utai 1 O LrirS, ISUCr flour will be of the same nutrient-1 I What action the board packed quality sold to American I elapse in a field near her! is uncertain, but some householders more than 80 yearslfarm borne two miles south of I point out that if another well site ago, with all the added refinements I Eluffton proved fatal Friday morn-1 can be found within reasonable dis that American families have come to I ^or Mrs. Effie Augusta I isher, I tance of the plant it likely will in expect from bakers. w^e Charles W. Fisher. I volve less expense than if the well _________ Mrs. Fisher had been home only is abandoned. |a ^ew ^ays from the Bluffton Com-| Imunity hospital where she I undergoing treatment. i _____ I On Friday morning she went for|«ere Observance of the 53rd wedding Ia walk, and when she failed to I anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John return after half an hour members! "King of Kings,” generally accept Wilkins of Bluffton was marked I the family found her slumped to| ed by church groups as an American with a family dinner at the home of I the ground in a field. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher was a member of the Thursday For tz Paulina Vermilhon\ following births at Bluffton) Methodist church for Mrs. Paulina! night. Vermillion, 74, who died at noon hospital: I Vermillion, 74, who died at noon I Allen County Engineer Hobart M. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Stettler, I Monday in her home at Jenera fol-1 Mumaugh said county employes are Bluffton, a boy, James Allen, Thurs-1 lowing a stroke of apoplexy. I putting a reinforced concrete veneer day. I Rev. W. E. Ballinger will officiate! wall over the face of the two abut- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Spencer, La-1 at the rites, and burial will be in the! ments and building new concrete fayette, a girl, Sandra Kay, Thurs-1 Findlay Maple Grove cemetery. I wing walls. Repairs* will cost ap day. I. I offered for sale, I specified. had beenl«j^f*nfir I their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. I A native of Fremont, Mrs. Fisher! p. m. this Sunday in the Bluff and Mrs. Luke Scoles of Pandora, Iwas married June 27, 1909, to! ton High school auditorium, under Sunday. I Charles Fisher, who survives. [auspices of the Bluffton Ministerial Present were: Mr. and Mrs. John! Other survivors include the follow-1 association. Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Wilding children: Dillon E. Fisher, Benton! Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, the kins and family, Mr. and Mrs. Del-1 Ridge Irvin G. Fisher, Bluffton fi,m is a classic in acting and gen bert Wilkins and son, Clarence and I Mrs. Alma Hummon, Toledo Mrs.| eral treatment as well as in its sub Pauline Bilby of Bluffton. I Blanche Garlinger, Bluffton, and Miss! ject matter. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Hanna I Boris Fisher, at home two brothers,! Impressive pageantry of the Mr. and Lawrence Schaefer, Bowling Green,| depicts the latter years of the life of Jesus. Much emphasis is placed and family, Benton Ridge Mrs. Dwight Mauk and family, and Fred Schaefer, Toledo, and a Lima Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkins, sister, Mrs. Esther Flemion, Toledo.) on^he t^a^and crucifixion. Jr. and family, Arlington Mrs. Robert Basinger and family, Gilboa Methodist church. Pandora per, Mr. Ada, and the host and hostess, Mr. home, with Rev. Paul E. Fisher, and Mrs. Gilboa Methodist minister, officiating. Funeral services were held Sunday! Easter season, it was pointed out afternoon in the Paul Diller funeral! the Ministerial association. BUT UNIT**' NUMBER 50 Waterworks Board Necessity for the Board of Public Affairs to decide between abandoning its major water-producing well or purchasing a nine-acre tract on which it is located moved a step, nearer culmination during the last I ledo, district engineer of the State Board of Health, who after an in- state health regulations prohibiting dwellings within 300 feet of muni cipal water supply likely would ap ply in Bluffton. Singer’s survey of the local situa- orders restricting coal I tion arose from the decision to open the duration of the|a building lot addition fronting Har in the nine-acre tract Lots Laid Out Board out the the first 11 lots Surveyors finished laying road, and lots 200 surveyed, will take 100 feet of the water Must Decide of the strike! After completing his survey, Sing an individual er indicated that the State Board of of one ton, or| Health likely will rule the 300-foot in 1943 gives the Affairs first option II to purchase the land should it be price rvfToro/] /rkV ealrx alt*TO DO weewas may take observers Qf FUm (Jn SUtlday Algllt “passion play” film, will be shown at I Rpna{_ work is eont:ntlInp ftn film Showing of the film is timely here, coming as it does just preceding th* funerall by the Ministerial association. \Elm Street Bridge Reopened To Traffic I Pa‘r work Is continuing on the Mrs. Vermillion had been in poor| proximately $1,800 and will be com health for the last two years. She was born Oct. 20, 1872, in Hancock county, and on March 2,1 one of the first of its kind 1906, was married to Levi Vermil-1 county, but the strain of lion /ho died 22 years ago. I half a century rendered it Survivors include only a sister,| this spring and it was closed Mrs. Elizabeth Gossman, of Jenera.| three weeks ago for repairs. Six sisters and two brothers pre ceded her in death. 40-year-o]d concrete bridge spanning Riley creek on West Elm but the structure was I Little Funeral services will be held at) street, 1:30 p. m. Thursday in the Jeneral opened ve to traffic, last Saturday pleted in another 10 days. Built 40 years ago, the bridge was in the almost unsafe nearly LIBRARY CLOSED Bluffton public library will BLUFFTON MARKETS I closed all day Friday while Grain (bushel prices)—W e a 11 librarian, Miss Ocie Anderson $1.73 corn $1.12 oats 80c soya! tends a library meeting in Clove* 12-04. I land. __ be the I I