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BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live
VOLUME LXXI
ROOMS SCARCE AS
NEW DEVELOPMENT
IN HOUSING CRISIS
New Developments Calling For
More Rooms Point Up Grow
ing Shortage
Accommodations Sought For
Construction Crews and Col
lege Students
Growing scarcity of single furnish
ed rooms is the latest development in
Bluffton’s housing shortage which
has become more serious now than
during the crisis of the war period.
Now virtually unobtainable, rooms
are expected to get even scarcer as
fall approaches, and there is no
prospect of an easing in the situa
tion before next summer.
Room shortage developments are
the result of demands for single
rooms from two new sources.
Rooming accommodations now are
being sought for workmen to be en
gaged in the construction of a new
addition to the generating plant of
the Central Ohio Light and Power
Co., as the first factor complicating
the shortage picture.
College Makes Survey
In addition, Bluffton college au
thorities are making a survey this
week, in an attempt to line up
rooms for women students who will
be enrolled in the institution next
fall.
Altho college officials said the first
of this week that they are not sure
what next fall’s rooming require
ments will be, the survey is being
made so information will be avail
able and tabulated when school
opens.
As the situation now stands, Ropp
hall, women’s dormitory is reported
filled to capacity, as well as addi
tional dormitory facilities which will
be provided by the H. W. Berky res
idence, Spring street and College
avenue, which the college bought last
spring. Accommodations will be
available there for 15 sophomore
girls.
Some Trailers Available
Also available for married college
couples are 10 trailers near Lincoln
hall, two steel and aluminum tem
porary housing project buildings ac
commodating a total of four couples,
and two apartments in the former
brick projects building on the cam
pus. Several trailers are said to be
still available.
Lincoln hall will be large enough
for the housing of single men, ac
cording to present prospects.
Rooming requirements for con
struction workmen engaged in the
Central Ohio building project will
vary as different crews come here
for specific purposes. No average
■estimate of the total number of men
requiring rooms was available the
first of the week.
However, the largest number likely
will be represented by the steel and
concrete crews, with a demand for
rooms picking up decidedly in Aug
ust after the excavation is complet
ed.
Social Nets $142
For Band Uniforms
The sum of $142.39 was added to
the fund to provide uniforms for
the high school band, as a result of
the ice cream social held Saturday
night, it was announced by the Band
Mothers club this week.
The club has undertaken a project
to provide new uniforms for the
band this fall.
The club expressed thanks to the
following donors:
Chas. Hankish for ice cream R.
E. Griffith for aid in moving Paul
Diller and Stanley Basinger for
chairs the Reformed church for use
of tables and the Presbyterian church
for use of lawn and lights.
Night Police Gets
Raise In Salary
Raise in the salary of R. E. Grif
fith, ‘Bluffton’s night police, to $95
per month has been approved by the
town council. Previous monthly sal
ary was $81.
In addition to his position, official
ly designated as deputy marshal,
Griffith also receives a monthly sal
ary of $50 as assistant street super
visor.
Building New House
Excavating for a new residence
^as been begun by Harry Turner of
the Page Dairy plant here at his
recently purchased lot in the Mrs.
Caroline Matter addition on Harmon
road.
Byers Resigns As
Head Of Hospital
Dean N. E. Byers, chairman of the
Bluffton Community hospital board
of trustees for the past 15 years has
resigned his position on the board,
it was announced the first of the
week.
Vacancy on the board was filled
when that body elected D. W. Bixler
as a member to serve Byers’ unex
pired term until the end of this year.
Bixler was also named to fill the
vacancy as chairman of the board.
In connection with his resignation
Byers stated that he expects to
travel this summer and fall and will
spend the winter in Florida.
UTILITY’S MILLION
DOLLAR EXPANSION
UNDER WAY HERE
Excavation Started for New
Addition to Central Ohio
Power Plant
Plant Addition and New Unit
At Generating Plant to
Cost $1,100,000
Excavation is being started this
week for a new addition to the
Woodcock generating plant of the
Central Ohio Light and Power Co.,
the first move in an expansion pro
gram that will involve the expendi
ture of more than a million dollars.
Enlargement of the present plant
building and the addition of a fourth
generating unit are the major items
in the proposed program, total cost
of which is estimated at $1,100,000.
Conrad Brothers, of Bluffton, who
have the contract for the excavation,
will be finished with their phase of
the work within the next two weeks,
following which the Maxon Construc
tion Co., of Dayton, general con
tractors, will begin erection of the
building.
Second Addition
Milk Prices Stabilized At 17 Cents
Per Quart On Bluffton Markets
to
Building
Joined to the present structure on
the north side, the new building will
be 110 feet by 33 feet. Provision
for incorporating an addition was
made when the building was con
structed nine years ago, and work on
the structure to connect it with the
addition involves only the removal
of a temporary wall. This is the
second addition to building, another
having been made in 1941.
Construction of the addition will
be under way thruout the coming
winter months, with completion
scheduled for early spring.
Three generating units now are in
operation at the plant, each con
sisting of a boiler, generator and
turbine. The first was installed
when the plant started operation
here in 1938, the second in 1939, and
the third in 1941.
New 10,000 K. W. Unit
Three presentun its have a gen
erating capacity of 17,500 kilowatts
and are running to capacity more
than 50 per cent of daytime hours.
The new unit to be installed will
consist of a boiler capable of gen
erating 120,000 pounds of steam per
hour and a 10,000 kilowatt turbine
and generator.
Demands on power have increased
and are continuing to increase in
both industrial and residential con
sumption and in order for Central
Ohio to maintain efficiency and serv
ice these additions are necessary, it
was stated by E. W. Erwin, of
Findlay, vice president and general
manager of the Central Ohio com
pany.
The new boiler will be equipped
to be fired with either coal or oil,
in case of coal shortages, and one
of the present boilers will be con
verted in .the same manner.
To Build New Stack
To take care of the new boiler a
165-foot smoke stack will be built,
the same height as the present stack.
The building contract has been led
to the Maxon Construction company,
Dayton. The company expects to
have the boiler completed before Dec.
15, but the new turbine will not be
put into operation until September
1947, Mr. Mullikin said.
Construction of a second circuit
from the Woodcock station to the
Findlay power plant is completed
and in operation, it was announced
yesterday. Completion of this new
circuit makes two separate circuits
available between the two plants.
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
$1.89 oats 70c soys $2.04.
One-Cent Differential Between
Dairy Prices Of Last Week
Is Eliminated
Price Of Butter Breaks To 73
Cents Here Wednesday
Morning
Milk prices have stabilized on the
Bluffton market at 17 cents per
quart for all brands, eliminating a
one-cent differential that existed last
w'eek when one dairy was selling
the product at 16 cents and the
other at 17 cents.
The boost to 17 cents, plus an ad
ditional penny for bottle deposit,
represents the third price increase
for milk since June 8, when it sold
for 14 cents a quart.
Meanwhile, there are indications
that butter prices may be driven
downward by lack of consumer de
mand. Prices Wednesday in local
food stores ranged from 73 to 80
cents a pound.
Butter Prices Breaking
The result is that 80-cent butter
has been piling up on retailers’
shelves, with price-conscious shoppers
avoiding it in view of the fact that
indications generally are to the ef
fect that butter prices will probably
stabilize around the 73c level.
A part of the three-cent increase
in milk prices since last June 8 are
represented by higher prices paid to
farm producers by dairies, as a re
sult of elimination of federal subsi
dies to the producers.
The subsidy had paid farmers 65
cents for each 100 pounds of milk
they sold, in addition to the average
price of $3.62 a hundredweight re
ceived in June.
Dairies paid farm producers $4.25
per hundred pounds during the first
half of July, plus an additional in
centive price of 10 cents for each
100 pounds over 200, it was an
nounced.
World's Fair Romance
Now Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Carder
quietly observed their Golden wed
ding anniversary at their home on
South Main street, Monday—and
thereupon hangs a tale of romance
which dates back to the Chicago
World’s fair in 1893.
It had its beginning when William
Warfield Carder and his mother,
Mrs. John W. Carder of Oldtown,
Maryland, and Green Spring, West
Virginia, and Mrs. E. S. Riegle and
twin daughters Ettie and Nettie and
Mrs. Ellen Dorney Lease and son
Sumner of Arlington, visiting the
fair happened to register at the
same hotel and saw much of the
fair together.
The following summer Mr. Carder
came to Ohio to visit relatives in
Columbus and Hancock county. He
returned the next summer on an
other visit also to make more defi
nite plans for his next annual trip.
In 1896 he came to Arlington to
claim as his bride one of the Riegle
twins, Nettie Viola—the one who
wore the glasses.
During the customary extended
wedding trip of fifty years ago they
visited places of interest in the east
and south after w’hich they located
in the Carder ancestral home in
beautiful Green Spring valley where
they resided for the first quarter
century. Here their son John was
born and grew to manhood.
Soon after the close of the First
World war Mr. Carder retired from
active business and with his wife
and son moved to Ohio where they
have since resided. John who is now
in Dayton was here Monday to spend
the day with his parents.
All in all, they have enjoyed a
well rounded life, sav the couple.
Mr. Carder is the last survivor of
his generation.
Mrs. Carder has a brother and'
sister living. They are Atty. Charles
Riegle of Findlay and Mrs. Wm. P.
Turner of Greensboro, North Caro
lina.
Lions Club Will
Hear Rev. Cramer
Rev. Paul H. Cramer, pastor of
the Bluffton Methodist church, will
speak on his service as a chaplain
with U. S. forces overseas, at a
meeting of the Bluffton Lions club,
6:15 p. m. next Tuesday in the Wal
nut Grill.
Rev. Cramer served as a chap
lain for four years, one year of
which was abroad in the European
theatre. Most of his overseas serv
ice was in France, but he also visit
ed Belgium, Luxemborg, Holland,
Germany and Switzerland.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO THURSDAY, AUG. 1, 1946
PROPOSE SALE OF
MILLING COMPANY
TO FARMERS GRAIN
Milling Company Stockholders
Meeting Called for Next
Tuesday Night
Proposal, if Approved, Would
Give Farmers Grain Pos
session October 1
Two Bluffton grain elevators now
operating independently will be
merged under one management if the
proposal of the Farmers Grain Co.
to purchase the Bluffton Milling Co.
is consumated.
Decision in the matter likely will
be made Tuesday night of next week
at a meeting of stockholders of the
Milling Co., to consider the purchase
proposal made by the Farmers Grain
interests.
Sale of the plant is said to be
recommended by the management
and holders of the major portion of
the Bluffton Milling Co. stock.
Stockholders Get Terms
As outlined in notices of the spe
cial meeting, mailed to Milling Com
pany stockholders, the proposal pro
vides for payment of $35,000 by the
Farmers Grain Co. for all assets of
the Milling company, except the
bank balance, outstanding book ac
counts and invoice aggregating some
$11,000. From the latter amount,
the Milling company would pay out
standing accounts and costs of wind
ing up its affairs.
Proposed date of possession is set
for October 1, under the terms.
The Bluffton Milling Co. was in
corporated in 1910 for $60,000, and
has outstanding stock in the amount
of $37,300, consisting of 3J3 shares.
Operates As Elevator
Previously engaged in flour milling
and the elevator business, the com
pany sold its flour milling equipment
last fall to the F. W. Mann Co., of
East St. Louis, Ill. Since then it
has been operating as a grain ele
vator.
Officers include Noal Diller, presi
dent Adam Steine/, ■tice-president
E. L. Diller, secretary-manager H.
P. Mann, treasurer. Six men are
employed by the concern.
In the event of approval of the
sale, it is understood the Farmers
Elevator Co. will operate both eleva
tors.
With the Service Men
The naval personnel center at
Great Lakes, Ill., announces the dis
charge from service of Maurice
Umphress, 132 N. Mound street and
Richard D. Newlan, 361 W. Elm
street.
James Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Butler of Church street has re
ceived his discharge from the Navy
after 28 months of service. He is
now in Cleveland.
Samuel Trippiehorn, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Trippiehorn was re
leased Monday from the U. S. S.
South Dakota and is expected to be
discharged from the service at Great
Lakes, Ill., Wednesday, when he will
join his wife, the former Virginia
Patrick and little son now living at
Leipsic. Trippiehorn served four
and one-half years in the Navy,
three years of which were overseas.
Cpl. Lloyd Arnold of the Marine
corps arrived home Sunday after re
ceiving his discharge from the serv
ice at Great Lakes, Ill. Cpl. Arnold,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Arnold
living east of Bluffton, spent 31
months in the Marine corps.
Budget Indicates
Twp. Cash Balance
A cash balance somewhat in ex
cess of $5,000 is indicated for Rich
land township in the coming year,
according to figures submitted at the
annual budget hearing held Saturday
night at the office of the township
trustees. The budget was read by
N. W. Basinger, township clerk.
According to the budget, estimated
receipts in the various funds are:
Roads, $10,000 gasoline tax,
$3,000 general, $3,665. Total, $16,
665.
Estimated expenditures are $11,
000.
Remodels Residence
For Funeral Home
Stanley Basinger has begun re
modeling the former Oberly residence
at College avenue and Jackson street
into a funeral home. Basinger pur
chased the property last winter from
heirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth
Oberly and this spring erected a
garage on the lot.
Bluffton’s heaviest rain of the
month, an early evening shower on
Tuesday, hardly did more than lay
the dust, and the parched condition
of lawns, gardens and farms locally
was well into its fifth week.
Since the last w’eek in June when
there w’ere two heavy downpours,
the immediate Bluffton area has re
ceived no rainfall of consequence.
Lawns are yellow, gardens are
parched, and farmers say that con
siderable moisture must come soon
to prevent damage to late potato
and corn prospects.
Bluffton w’as on the fringe of a
heavy rain Tuesday evening, for
although precipitation here was only
a show’er, a downpour fell in the
Beaverdam area.
Continued dry weather the latter
part of July bears out the predic
tion of St. Swithin’s Day, on July
15, when clear skies were said to
herald 40 days of clear weather.
Portion of College Avenue,
Kibler and Cherry Streets
In Summer Program
Stone Chip Surface Will Be
Applied: Local Mainten
ance Crew to Assist
Resurfacing portions of three
Bluffton streets will be started next
week in this summer’s municipal
street improvement program, it was
announced Wednesday by Mayor
Wilbur A. Howe.
Included in the project will be
work on parts of College avenue,
Kibler and Cherry streets.
Resurfacing of College avenue will
be from Jackson street to College
road Cherry street is to be im
proved from the Nickel Plate rail
road crossing to the County Line
road and work on Kibler street will
start at Jackson street and continue
west to the Grove street road.
In the resurfacing program a hot
tar surface with stone chips rolled
in will be applied over the existing
hard surfaced streets.
Tuesday Evening Shower Fails To
Break Drought Now In Fifth Week
Members of the town’s street
maintenance department will assist
in preparation of the streets for the
repair program, and application of
the stone chip surface will be hand
led by the contractor under a day
rate arrangement.
The street work will be done here
by the Cossett Construction Co., of
Findlay.
Kajtenbach Funeral
Services Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys
Garlinger Kaltenbach, 51, were held
at the Stanley Basinger funeral
home, Saturday afternoon. Officiat
ing at the services was Rev. E. J.
Penhorwood, pastor of the Lima
South Side Church of Christ, form
erly of Bluffton. Interment was in
Maple Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Kaltenbach, who came here
from Downey, Calif., on a visit, died
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Garlinger of Geiger street
last Wednesday morning.
Snug Firescreens
Firescreens should fit snugly at
the top as well as sides.
Resurfacing Parts Of Three Streets
Will Get Under Way Here Next Week
Early potatoes raised in home
gardens, a practice generally re
garded as more or less of a hobby,
is credited this year as one factor
that may help relieve a serious po
tato shortage the government en
visages for next winter.
Scores of back yard plots, each
one small but large in the aggregate,
will make a particularly valuable
contribution to the overall supply
w-hich is expected to be critically
short by the end of the winter.
Home grown early potatoes now
are being dug in gardens thruout the
district, but many persons locally
also are raising late potatoes for
their own use thruout the winter.
A good yield of early potatoes is
assured for the district, despite gen
erally poor conditions on a national
scale, and with rainfall at the prop
er time, the late crop will be aver
age or better.
According to government reports,
the overall picture is not encourag
ing, for a combination of reduced
acreage, plus widespread damage
from floods, has generally cut sharp­
Nickel Plate Trains
On New Schedule
Schedule changes were announced
this week for the two fast fliers op
erating thru Bluffton on the Cleve
land-St. Louis division of the Nickel
Plate railroad.
The east-bound morning train,
which formerly stopped here at 6:02
a. m., on Sunday began arriving at
5:25 a. m., or 37 minutes earlier.
On the same day, the west-bound
evening train started on a schedule
which brings it to Bluffton at 9:25
p. m. It formerly stopped here at
9:16 p. m.
The east-bound train will arrive in
Cleveland at 8:40 a. m., 55 minutes
earlier than on the previous sched
ule. Departure of the evening west
bound train from Cleveland is set
for 6 p. m., 15 minutes later than
previously.
TWO COUNTIES
APPROVE MARSH
RUN CLEANOUT
Four Miles Of Stream Thru
Hancock and Allen Counties
Will Be Improved
Stream Flows Thru Union And
Orange Twps., Emptying
Into Riley Creek
Home Gardens Now Supplying Potatoes
Helping To Relieve Current Short Crop
A four-mile stretch of Marsh Run,
a small stream emptying into Big
Riley creek near Buckeye lake, will
be cleaned this summer in a two
county project approved at a joint
meeting of the commissioners of
Allen and Hancock counties.
Marsh Run enters Bluffton cor
poration from the northeast and
crosses the Dixie highway near the
A. C. and Y intersection on North
Main street.
Cleaning of the stream is to begin
at State Route 69, near Mt. Cory,
and continue downstream thru Union
and Orange townships and into
Bluffton where it empties into the
Big Riley.
Hancock County in Charge
Most of the stream lies in Han
cock county, and the Hancock
engineer has been authorized to
proceed with engineering plans and
supervise the work.
An experiment to determine the
value of various kinds of grasses in
preventing bank erosion was conduct
ed along Marsh Run nine years ago
by the CCC federal agency.
Eleven different kinds of grasses
were planted and the banks were
excavated at different slopes to
determine which combination was
best. It is said the banks easily
show the benefit of the seeding ex
periment thruout the entire length
of the test area.
However, the stream has a very
slow fall and the bottom has silted,
resulting in a petition for cleaning
from adjoining land holders. The
petitioners include Roy Rogers,
Melvin Williamson and other
residents.
ly into crop possibilities thruout the
country.
Former Residents Are
Here From California
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Neuensch
wander of Huntington Park, Calif.,
former Bluffton residents, visited
relatives and friends here the first of
the week. They were returning to
their home after driving east to at
tend the wedding of their youngest
son Neil to Miss Catherine Severance
of Saginaw, Mich., which took place
in the First Baptist church of Sagin
aw, Saturday night. The Neuensch
wander family lived in Bluffton a
number of years ago during which
time he operated the Neu-Art photo
graph studio here.
A cocktail party is a group of
people in a room too small to hold
them as they blow smoke in each
others’ faces and hold empty glasses
in their hands.
—Brigadere.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 15
LIGHT PLANT BOND
ISSUE IS UP FOR
COUNCIL APPROVAL
Board of Public Affairs Re
quests Council Okay Of
$125,000 Issue
Sale of Bonds Would Provide
Funds For New Boiler And
Stack At Light Plant
Bluffton’s municipal council at its
meeting next Monday night will be
asked to approve the sale of $125,000
in revenue bonds to finance improve
ments to electrical generating
facilities at the town’s light plant.
Request for approval, together
with a recommendation for action,
will come from the board of public
affairs, which at a special meeting
last week approved the bid of
Stranahan, Harris and Co., Toledo
bond buyers.
Referring the matter to the coun
cil for approval is necessary before
the sale can become final.
20-Year-Issue
Bid of the Toledo firm provides
for an issue extending over a 20
year period and bearing interest at
the rate of two per cent, together
with payment of a premium of
$2.24 on each thousand dollar bond,
thereby reducing the interest rate to
1.98 per cent. This was the lowest
interest rate of four proposals sub
mitted to the board.
The Toledo proposal also provides
that additional bonds may be issued
after a three-year period, providing
average earnings of the plant over
the period are sufficient to cover by
1.4 times the amount required to
service the entire issue.
Dated August 1, 1946, the propos
ed bond issue will have as its
security the electric generating and
distribution equipment of the plant,
not including waterworks assets.
Bonds may be redeemed after a
five year period in inverse order in
which they are issued, the bond
running for the longest time being
the first to be called.
New Boiler, Stack
Funds provided by the bond issue
would be expended to cover the cost
of adding a new- boiler to the plant,
constructing a new' smoke stack, and
making changes to the building
necessary to accommodate the new
equipment.
Discussion last week in connection
with issuance of the bond issue dis
closed the board also is considering
the addition of a new turbine, to
provide for expanding electrical cur
rent demands of the town, at a cost
unofficially estimated at $50,000.
Sidewalk Grade For
Matter Addition
Sidewalk grade markers w’ill be
established for the new’ Matter sub
division bordering Harmon road, op
posite the Community hospital, it
was announced this week by muni
cipal authorities.
The grade will be established by
a surveyor hired by the tow-n.
On Motor Trip To
Texas And California
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Augsburger
of near Bluffton are on a motor trip
to visit their daughter, Mrs. Ray
mond Reynolds and family in
Lubbock, Texas from where they w’ill
go on to California. They expect
to be gone for a month. i
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth SchaubHn,
Bluffton, a boy, Kenneth Eugene II,
Wednesday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Briggs, Bluff
ton, a boy, Thomas Allan, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benroth,
Bluffton, a boy, Thomas Robert,
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Garlinger,
Bluffton, a girl, Janice Lee, Satur
day.
Rev. and Mrs. Richard Reilly,
Pandora, a boy, Timothy Lee, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Smith,
Jenera, a girl, Sharon Kae, last
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Bel
levue, a boy, Tedd Jay at Bellevue
City hospital, Sunday. Mrs. Wil
liams is the former Letha Nisw’ander
of Bluffton.
What we have done for ourselves
alone dies with us. What we have
done for others and the world re
mains and is immortal.
—Albert Pine.