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VOLUME LXXI
NICKEL PLATE TO
DROP THRU TRAIN
DURING COAL TIEUP
Cleveland St. Louis Passenger
to be Discontinued Be
ginning Friday
Passenger and Mail Service to
be Taken Over by Local
Trains.
Operation of the Clevland-St. Louis
train over the Nickel Plate road will
be discontinued temporarily begin
ning Friday because of shortage of
coal due to the mine strike.
Word to this effect was received
Tuesday afternoon by Fred Hofer,
Bluffton agent for the Nickel Plate
railroad. Hofer said that his notice
from headquarters of the road indi
cated that dropping of the two trains
would be only during the period of
coal shortage and that operation of
the train would be resumed thereaf
ter.
The last train on the Cleveland
St. Louis run will pass thru Bluffton
on Friday morning eastbound to
Cleveland. There will be no train
Plants Here Cut Hours
With the growing coal crisis cur
tailing railroad movement of mater
ials for manufacturers and plants
generally cutting back production,
The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co., Wednesday announced reduction
of its working schedule from 44 to
40 hours per week.
The Boss Glove Factory plant in
Bluffton last week went on a 40 hour
work week.
Friday night, according to word re
ceived by Hofer from railroad head
quarters.
Local Train to Run
Beginning Saturday the Nickel
Plate passenger and mail service will
be taken up by two local trains now
running daily between Peoria, Ill.,
and Lima. These will have their
runs extended from Lima to Fostoria.
This will give Bluffton the same num
ber of trains as are now in operation.
The westbound train to Peoria
will arrive here at approximately
7:20 a. m. and the eastbound train
to Fostoria will be due here at about
7:10 p. m. Other changes, it is an
nounced, may be made about May
15.
Under the new arrangement Bluff
ton will be without direct train con
nections to Cleveland. The morning
and evening thru trains were exten
sively used for that purpose. Also
earlier closing of Bluffton’s night
outgoing mail will be necessary.
No word has been received rela
tive to any change of mail trains on
the A. C. & Y. railroad, it was stated
by the agent here, Tuesday after
noon.
Last Rites Held
For Philip Kurtz
Funeral services for Philip Kurtz
S3, retired farmer and pioneer resi
dent of this district were held Wed
nesday afternoon in the Riley Creek
Baptist church. Rev. William O. Mat
ter of Findlay officiated and inter
ment was in Hassen cemetery.
Mr. Kurtz died Sunday afternoon
at his home in Orange township four
miles north of Ada. Death, due to
infirmities, followed a six days’ ill
ness.
A son of Peter and Magdalena
Kurtz, he was born June 7, 1852 in
Darmstadt, Germany. He came to
this country at the age of 19 with
his parents and settled near Jenera.
He was a member of the Lutheran
church.
Mr. Kurtz was married to Emma
line Shilling who died October 3,
1923.
Surviving are a son, John Kurtz
and daughter Nora Kurtz, both at
home.
Alumni Dinner Ticket
Sale Closes Friday
Sale of tickets for the Bluffton high
school alumni banquet to be held
May 24 will close this Friday night.
No tickets will be obtainable after
that time, it is announced by the ex
ecutive committee in charge of ar
rangements.
Because of the current food situa
tion it is necessary to determine two
weeks in advance the number of
plates to be prepared.
Tickets may be obtained at either
drug store or by mail from Miss
Donna Hagerman at the high school
office.
Truck and Auto In
Main Street Crash
A misty- rain and slippery streets
were blamed for an auto-truck crash
in which no one was injured at 11:45
p. m. Monday night on South Main
street at College avenue.
Keith Collins, 21, of Cygnet, was
the driver of a northbound car which
crashed into a Brada Cartage Co.
truck, traveling in the same direction,
which had stopped at the College
avenue traffic light. The side of
the car was demolished when Collins
attempted to pass to the right of the
truck, to avoid a collision.
The auto, owned by Marvene Cam
mell, of Cygnet, was badly damaged
and was taken to the Bixel garage.
Collins and a girl
unhurt. Driver of
also escaped injury,
son, of Detroit.
Bluffton town councilmen Monday
night swung the axe on recommenda
tions of consulting engineers for a
proposed expansion program at the
municipal electric light and water
works plant.
The overall plan designed to pro
vide for the town’s growing electrical
generating needs, drafted by Froeh
ligh & Emory, Toledo engineering
firm and submitted to the Board of
Public Affairs was vastly modified at
the hands of the council which ap
proved only the installation of a new
37,500 pounds per hour boiler.
Where the boiler is to be placed
however, is a problem for the Board
of Public Affairs to cope with, for
action of the council embodied a re
commendation that a proposed 40
foot addition to the present building
be dropped from further considera
tion.
Construction at the present of a
new stack, installation of ash hand
ling equipment, dust and cinder col
lection and other extras were addi
tional items the council recommended
dropping at this
Ten Federal Housing Units For War
Vets Allocated to Bluffton College
companion were
the truck, who
was Walter Ma­
COUNCILMEN WIELD
AXE ON MUNICIPAL
LIGHT PLANT PLANS
Council Approves Only Boiler
Installation In Action At
Monday’s Meeting
’ublic Pressure Seen In Failure
To Go Along With Engineer
ing Recommendations
time.
Put Boiler?
resulting from the
toward the overall
Where To
Major problem
council’s attitude
program, however, is represented in
what the Board of Public Affairs will
have to decide to do with relation to
installation of the new boiler.
Froehlich & Emory, Toledo con
sulting engineers had recommended
a 40-foot addition to the present
boiler room to accomodate the new
installation and the extras, but Mon
day night’s action of the council
means in effect that the new boiler
must go into the present building.
(Continued on Page 8)
Floy McBain, Grade
School Teacher Weds
Wedding of Miss Floy McBain of
Bluffton and Robert J. Koenig of
Botkins took place in the rectory of
Immaculate Conception church in-Bot
Botkins, Saturday night at 7 o’clock.
Rev. E. G. Depenbrook officiated in
the double ring ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson McBain and a
teacher in the Bluffton grade schools.
The couple was attended at the wed
ding by Mr. and Mrs. Chris Koenig
of Dayton. They will reside in Bot
kins.
You can put it down in the books
that Bluffton High’s baseball team
last Friday morning fashioned u
Frank Merriwell finish that will stand
for all time in the school’s records.
Bluffton fans, accustomed to gar
rison, last-ditch rallies of the Pirates
can find nothing in school history to
compare with what the Burckymen
came up with in their first start in
the district baseball tournament—
and chances ere they never will.
When you say that Bluffton trailed
Lima St. Gerards, 12 to 0, at the
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE
House Trailers For Student Vet
erans Will Be Set Up On
Campus This Spring
Eleventh Unit Allocated To Col
lege Will Be Used As Wash
And Shower House
Ten house trailers have been
signed to Bluffton college by
Federal Housing Authority- as tern
family- dwelling units for
College authorities will set up the
trailers south of the football field,
next to the two prefabricated houses
now under construction.
Assignment of the 11 units to
Bluffton was made possible thru re
cent federal legislation authorizing
additional funds for the veterans’
temporary housing program.
Co-operative Program
The program is a cooperative one
in which the government will move,
convert and re-erect the housing trail
ers on sites provided and prepared
by- the college.
Responsibility for
project as long as
needed by veterans
hands
managing the
the housing is
will be in the
of local college authorities.
le of the 10 housing units will
running water or toilet facili
with the 11th trailer serving
that function for occupants.
have
Four families will be accomodated
in the two prefabricated metal houses
now being erected on the campus and
two families are housed in a re
converted projects building.
Following arrival of the trailers,
the local college will have facilities
for 16 veterans* families, as at least
a partial answer to the effect on the
school of the town’s critical housing
shortage.
College Chorus Will
Give “Rose Maiden
“Rose Maiden”, a Cowen cantata,
will be presented by the Bluffton
College Chorus at 8 p. m. next Mon
day’ in Ramseyer chapel on the cam
pus.
High School Ball Team Trailing 12
Runs Wins in Movie Thriller Finish
Soloists will include Roger Howe,
baritone Lois Oyer, mezzo-soprano
Alice Oyer, soprano, and Elizabeth
Brand, soprano. Prof. Russell A.
Lantz is directing the chorus in its
first major post-war appearance.
Marguerite Jones is the piano ac
companist.
Minstrel Nets $375
For Benefits Here
Two Bluffton community projects
benefited to the extent of $375 from
proceeds from the Lions club minstrel
which was staged two weeks ago.
Announcement to this effect was
made after a final checkup
ceipts and expenditures.
of re-
divided
to pro­
The net proceeds will be
with $280 going to the fund
vide school band uniforms and $95
for playground improvements on Har
mon field.
With Service Men
Cpl. Richard Rusmisel, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Rusmisel of near
Pandora has received his Army dis
charge. He was overseas 22 months
the latter part of which he was
stationed at Wiesbaden, Germany on
Army Special service.
Marion Fisher, in the assemblv and
department of the Naval Air Station
at Jacksonville, Fla., has been ad
vanced from machinist’s mate sec
ond class to first class. He is the
son of Mrs. Geo. Swank of Riley
street.
end of the third inning, yet won 13
to 12 when the seven-inning contest
ended, you have told the tale.
How the Pirates turned the trick
further adds to the game’s unreality
—for St. Gerards still held a com
fortable 12 to 3
more innings to
lead with only two
play.
literally fell in on
In the sixth frame,
Then the sky
the Lima team.
Bluffton batsmen finally discovered
their latent hitting power and drove
five runs across the plate. Five more
(Continued on Page 3)
II IE BLUFFTON NEWS
BLUFFTON, OHIO
About Sixt
Town’s V
Four
as
the
porary
student veterans, it was announced
this week by President
sey-er, of the college.
I Cast in
cts
Electors Here
Interest
of
Bluffton was too
Tuesday’s primary,
spring housecle
and a dozen and
on elector’s time
about 16 per cent
ers went to the
L. L. Ram-
trailers will
June 1, to-
It is expected that the
be received here about
gether with an 11th unit which serves
as a toilet, wash house and shower
room.
A total of 195 votes wefe cast in
Bluffton’s four precincts, consisting
of 99 Republicans
ballots. The total
mated at 1,200.
Few- farmers
land North precin
Bluffton, as a re
rural precinct shot
vote in recent y-ea
lican- and 23 Dem
Bluffton A ..
Bluffton
Bluffton
Bluffton
Richland
The small vote re
terest generally in
which there were
county tickets.
GEORGE SWANK JR.
RESIGNS AS COACH
AT BLUE
STS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
DAY, MAY 9, 1946
PRIMARY ELECTION
BRINGS
TO POLLS TUESDAY
fest Little
tcome
y to vote at
here was the
farm tillage
other demands
as a result only
'Bluffton’s vot-
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Allen Countv
VOTE
Go
Coach Who Left Here To
Into Army In 1943 Will
Enroll At Ohio State
Swank’s Resignation Leaves Lo
cal School Without A Coach
For Next Year
is with
the an-
Bluffton High school again
out an athletic coach, with
nouncement th.s week that
Swank Jr., has submitted his resig
nation and does not intend to return
to guide the destinies of Bluffton
teams.
Recently discharged from the
Army, Swank will enter Ohio State
university in June to take post-grad
uate studies.
He was coach here in 1942-43, but
was inducted into the Army before
the season ended.
Kent Cotterman,
County- School Superintendent Cot
terman, who was then a student at
Ohio Northm university.
His successor was
son of Hardin
Hasson Succeeds Cotterman
Cotterman was here only during
the baseball season, going into the
Navy in June, and Russell Hasson
came here as coach of 1943-44 teams
Coach A. C. Burcky, Bluffton col
lege athletic director, took over the
coaching reins for the next two years,
but is returning to the college next
fall to direct Beaver athletic teams
and no longer will be available.
Consideration of what to do with
respect to finding a coach for next
year is experted to be
major problems coming
Board of Education at
this Wednesday
one of the
before the
its meeting
Road Improvement
Starts In Township
Summer road improvement pro
gram in Richland township got under
way Tuesday when grading of the
Tom Fett road was begun under dir
ection of the county engineer’s office.
A three mile stretch is being grad
ed from Rockport north to the Allen
Putnam county line. Cost of the
improvement will be divided between
the county- and the township.
Pre-School Child
Clinic Here Friday
A pre-school clinic for physical ex
amination of children starting to
school next September will be held
at the Grade school building Friday
morning beginning at 9 o’clock. The
clinic is sponsored by the Mothers’
Study club.
Democratic
Frank Lausche 2129
of
Cent
Joseph Torok, Jr. 334
Marvin Harrison 787
James Huffman 796
Edward Huth 58
Stephen Young 623
Ree Alley 74
Samuel Anderson 472
William Royd 423
William Glass 218
Walter Kelley 319
Joseph Kovach 79
George Mark 232
Jack Russell 256
Merl Bragg 1824
96 Democratic
here is esti-
in from Rich
hich votes in
of which the
the lighest
14 Repub
ballots,
incts was:
The vote here by-
•Paul Rockey 1765
•Stanley Welker 2105
15
24
of
lack
CLERK
•Paul Christy 455
Rep. Dem.
A
on
concern
hered at the
night after
Electors showed
the outcome and few
polling places Tuesc
precinct election returns were posted.
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Speaking on “If I Were Eighteen”,
Rev. E. N. Bigelow, of the Presby
terian church, will deliver the
laureate sermon in the high
gymnasium.
Vote In Tuesday’s Primary
Complete Unofficial Returns from
All 111 Precincts
GOVERNOR
U. S. SENATOR
CONGRESSMAN
CONGRESSMAN
bacca
school
night,
On Monday and Tuesday
May 20 and 21, the senior class
play, “Papa Is All”, will be staged
in the Bluffton High school auditor
ium. Senior class night will be pre­
nesday night, May 22.
Commencement exercises in the
gymnasium on Thursday, May- 23,
will be addressed by Grove Patterson,
nationally known editor of The Toledo
Blade, and the alumni reunion
Friday night, May 24, will close
commencement season.
on
the
Funeral Service for
Peter Badertscher
Funeral services for Peter Bader
tscher, 80, retired engineer and cus
todian at Bluffton high school, were
held at St. John’s Reformed church,
Wednesday afternoon.
His death occurred Sunday after
noon at 5:55 o’clock at his home on
Poplar street following a three
months’ illness of a heart ailment.
A son of John U. and Elizabeth
(Neuensch wander) Badertscher,
was born November 12. 1865
Richland township near Bluffton.
June 8, 1898 he was married
Sarah A. Herr who survives.
in
On
to
A lifelong resident of this com
munity he became widely known to
successive generations of students
during the years in which he was
connected with the high school. He
was a member of the St. John’s
church here and its brotherhood.
Besides his wife he is survived by
one son Ralph
grandchildren
street.
Badertscher and five
of South Jackson
surviving are: Mrs.
Five sisters
Katherine King of Los Angeles,
Calif. Mrs. Sarah Basinger of Cali
fornia, Mo. Mrs. Susan Aeschbacher
of Versailles, Mo-, and Barbara and
Lydia Badertscher, both of Denver,
Colo. One brother and three sisters
preceded him in death.
His pastor, Rev. V. C. Oppermann
officiated at the funeral services and
interment was in Maple Grove ceme
tery.
Births
following births at Bluffton
The
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nemire, Ot
tawa, a girl, Nancy Lou, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Mathewson,
Ada, a girl, Diana Kay, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Benroth, Col.
Grove, a boy, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Fisher, Jack
sonville, Florida, a girl, May 4. Mr.
Fisher, in Naval service is the son
of Mrs. Geo. Swank, Sr., of Riley
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scoles, Yon
kers, N. Y., a girl, Lillian, April 25.
The paternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Alva Scoles of Bluffton.
Republican
Thomas Herbert 3185
Albert Edw. Payne 405
John Bricker 3532
AT LARGE
George Bender 2803
Norman Imrie 566
Robert Jones 3362
TATE REPRESENTATIVE
•Floyd Griffin 2190 nnonth-long
Burdette Herring 433
L. H. Myers 1086
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
•Stanley Miller 2001 *James Jacobs 1833
Merle Mericle 1687
COUNTY AUDITOR aidditional
Cloyd Clantz 994 aigain
♦Russell Hire 1750
Don McKinney 946
OF COURTS UNEXPIRED TERM
•C. N. Breese 3221 hlalf
•Nominated umtil
lluffton High Commencement Week
To Open With Baccalaureate May 19
program of Bluffton
ommencement activity-
school
in
primary
contests
High
will open on Sunday night, May 19,
with a baccalaureate union service
and end with the Alumni reunion on
Friday, May 24, it was announced
this week.
SHOWERS COME
AS THREAT OF
DROUGHT WANES
,ight Rainfall First of Week
First Relief from Month’s
Dry Spell
Crops Get Temporary' Respite
Intermittent showers the first of
the week which developed into an all
night rain Monday brought the first
tangible break in a record spell of
dry weather.
Following the dryest April ever
known here in which less than three
fourths of an inch of rain fell dur
ing the month, rains started
last Saturday and gave hope of some
measure of relief.
While the rainfall has been far
from sufficient, farmers said it af
forded substantial temporary respite
from effects of the drought in re
viving pastures and putting fields
into tillable condition.
Cool Weather Aids
Overcast skies and cool weather
also served to preserve effects of the
moisture and make possible benefit to
the soil.
During the past week some farm
ers have stopped spring plowing until
rains come to soften the ground
while on the other farms clouds of
dust rolled over fields where tillage
was under way.
To change the overall outlook for
farm crops here, several days of
steady downpour will be necessary,
farmers said. Drought this spring
has been particularly severe and
poses a defienite threat to food pro
duction in this area.
Pastures Short
Pasture fields are virtually dried
up just at a time when they ordinar
ily are growing rapidly, and lack
of sufficient moisture has retarded
I the germination and growth of
seed on most area farms.
oats
ser
this
late
Wheat so far has suffered no
ious damage, altho the straw
year will be short due to a
start in the lush growth spring rains
ordinarily give the crop. Heavy rain
fall is needed soon, however, to pre
vent a reduced yield next harvest.
Prospects for a good hay crop this
summer are virtually gone, a dev
elopment that will further aggravate
the already critical feed situation.
Substantial rains within the next
two weeks will be the only answer
to saving pasture fields to the ex
tent that heavy spring milk produc
tion can be maintained. So far, the
milk intake at the Bluffton plant of
The Page Dairy Co. has not indicated
any- falling off in volume, but past
tures cannot long sustain ordinary
spring grazing under present condi
tions.
Drought conditions are general
thruout the entire Ohio river valley
and it is estimated that the state
is 45 per cent short of the normal
rainfall for the first four montlis of
the year.
BUT'
UNTO
NUMBER 3
9WN0UT MAY BE
1ARED BECAUSE
COAL SHORTAGE
iction Of Street Lighting Is
Contemplated To Ease
Light Plant Load
nicipal Plant Has Enough
Remaining Coal For Only
30 Days' Operation
Emergency declaration of a Bluff
brownout, similar to that of the
war year, likely- will come within
he next 10 days il
movement in the
shortage of coal
ton
1.ast
there is no im
critical national
because of the
Mine Workers’
United
itrilce.
Bluffton’s municipal light plant has
inly a 30-days supply of coal on
land, and it is estimated that it will
ake from two to three weeks to get
shipments after mines
are in operation.
First step in the brownout pro
tram would be curtailment of the
own’s street lighting, with about
of the village’s lights shut off
the situation is improved.
lave Ton of Coal Weekly, Estimate
Reduction in street lighting service
results in a saving of one tone
coal per week it was explained.
Warnings to conserve coal were
ceived last week by the Board
F•’uel
of
re
of
Public Affairs from the Civilian Pro
ducts Administration and the Solid
Administration in Washington.
The only favorable factor in the
oal shortage picture is the fact that
with days growing longer, the light
plant’s night time load has been
somewhat reduced, resulting in a fur
ther saving of coal.
Domestic Fuel Situation
On the other hand, Bluffton’s do
mestic
is no
trickle
mines
which are not involved in the strike.
fuel situation is bad. There
coal in town except for a
trucked in from “wagon”
in Ohio and West Virginia
Bluffton college and Bluffton High
school have a sufficient supply of
enough coal for immediate needs.
The Central Ohio Light and Power
Company’s generating plant has a
two-months’ supply of its operations.
Funeral Services
Held for Jane Rayl
Funeral services for Miss Mary
Rayl, 65, of Orange township
held at the Paul Diller funeral
!, Tuesday- afternoon. Rev. Ir-
Jane
were
win
ment was in Candler cemetery near
Ada.
Kauffman officiated and inter-
Miss Rayl died in Bluffton hospital
Sunday morning where she had been
a patient for the past ten weeks.
Death followed a two years’ illness of
paralysis.
A daughter of George and Harriett
(McElroy) Rayl, she was bom in
Orange township, September 27, 1880.
She was a member of Liberty Chapel
Evangelical church.
Surviving are a brother, John Raul
Rayl of Orange township two nieces
and two nephews, Mrs. Beryl Down
ey, Beaverdam Mrs. Louella New
land, Ada Daryl Robenolte, Beaver
dam and Cloyce Robenolte, Findlay.
Booster Concert At
College On May 17
Bluffton Col
be held Fri
in Ramseyer
Funds raised from a
lege Booster concert to
day evening, May 17,
chapel will be used to purchase a
radio phonograph and recorder for
the music and speech departments of
the school.
The concert, scheduled ns opening
event of commencement week activi
ties, will be similar to that present
ed last spring. Following the con
cert, a reception will be held in the
Musselman library.
Featured on the program will be
Elmer Ende, organist, Akron univer
sity Fred Welty, vocalist, Home
stead, Pa. Fred Baumgartner, vocal
ist, Nashville, Tenn. Guy-neth Craig
Mikesell, pianist, Lima Laurence
Burkhalter, violinist, Bluffton.
Real Estate Deal
Charles Sheridan, engineer at the
Triplett plant has purchased the Rev.
Eli Steiner property on South Jack
son street. Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan
occupying an apartment in the Ross
Bogart property on Cherry- street will
move into their new home early next
month. The Rev, Steiner family
will move to Lafayette, Ind., where
he has accepted the pastorate Kf the
Defenseless Mennonite church.