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PAGE SIX ALLEN COUNTY Lima Man Leads State In Recruiting S. Sgt. Thomas A. Kelly, Lima recruiting non-commissioned officer, topped the list of Ohio area Army recruiters in percentage of enlistees signed in December by his station, and Lima topped the state in having the smallest percentage of rejectees, it was reported by Hdq., 2315th Area Service Unit, Ft. Hayes. By signing 22 per cent of the total enlistees signed in the Lima office, Sgt. Kelly topped state re cruiters for December. Lima War Plants Are For Sale The Cleveland regional office of the War Assets Administration an nounced today that sealed bids for either purchase or lease of the Ohio Steel Foundry Co., Lima, must be received by WAA by Feb. 5 the Daybrook Hydraulic Corp., Bowling Green, by Feb. 20, and the Lima Tank Arsenal, Lima, by March 24. The Ohio Steel Foundry Co. has a rated capacity of 7,200 tons of steel castings per year, with 267,000 square feet of building floor on ap proximately 26 acres of land. Operator of the Lima Tank Arsenal is the Lima Locomotive Works, Inc., with 82,557 square feet of buildings leased for the produc tion of cranes, shovels and combat vehicles. Do you need your roofs repaired, spouting done or furnace repaired? SEE J. A. Leatherman The Sheet Metal Man 107 S. Main Street Phone 152-W Bluffton We have these items in stock— ready for delivery. Musgrave Power Lawn Mowers 6:50 by 16—6 ply Goodyear Tires 12-inch Hammermill Power Corn Shelter Cement Mixer 6 H. P. Air-cooled Gasoline Engines Electric Water Heaters If you are looking for something, it will probably pay you to look here. BLUFFTON FARM EQUIPMENT CO. E. F. Schmidt, Prob. 105 E. Elm Street Bluffton phone 260-W Open Saturday Evenipgs O a* oo O) j= CQ NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES Set Gambling Case Trial For Feb. 28 Carl Myers, 45, of Lima, will ask for a jury trial on the charge of operating a game of chance placed against him in connection with the police raid on a bingo game, his at torneys indicated in municipal court. Myers entered a plea of not guilty after waiving reading of the af fidavit. Trial was set for Feb. 28 at 10:30 a. m.» and bond of $200 was continued by Judge James B. Steiner. The bingo game, operated under sponsorship of the women’s auxiliary of the Eagles lodge, was raided by detectives. Myers, manager of the establishment, was arrested. No charges were placed against any of the 200 persons in the game room at the time. Other organizations operating bingo in Lima apparently have suspended operations pending settle ment of the Myers case, police of ficials said. Acting Chief Donald F. Miller reported “all quiet on the gambling front.” Plan Soap Box Derby She's A Mighty Popular Girl, Old “Bossy”......... our cow There -have been many new post-w^r innovations and dis coveries, but there still is no substitijte for a cow’s milk it still (has to come from the farm everybody wants more apd more dairy products and to provide them. The Page Dairy do. must obtain the milk from t|ose fine farms in the vicinity of our Bluffton, Ohio, plant /. the price is most favorable and we certainly can use ev*y pound a farmer is able to produce Old Bossy still is the most popular “girl” on the farm her milk is a mighty profitable item The Page Dairy Co. can use all she is able to produce call us or send a postal card, our field service representative will stop and explain the Page Plan of shipping milk. The Lima News and Minnick Chevrolet, Inc., were approved as co-j sponsors of a Soap Box derby in Lima this summer. The winner will compete in the All-America Soap Box derby in Akron a few weeks later. It will be Lima’s third Soap Box Derby. Similar events were held in 1936 and 1937. In both years the local winners made outstanding showings in the international event sponsored by Chevrolet Motors divi sion of General Motors Corp, in Akron. Lima May Get New State Mental Hospital State Welfare Director Charles Sherwood said that the state legis lature would be asked to appropriate money for facilities for the segre gation of psychopaths, mental de fectives and homosexuals in Ohio’s penal institutions. Sherwood said he would also ask funds for the purchase of a site for the proposed new state prison for which the last legislature appropriat ed $5,000,000. He said it has not been decided whether to convert the Lima state hospital for the criminal insane into a segregation institution and to build another institution for the criminal insane or to build a segre gation unit. He said both institutions will probably adjoin at Lima. Sherwood indicated that another goal of this administration would be to transfer from the Lima hospital back to custodial hospitals, patients sent to Lima because other institutions did not have adequate detention facilities. Railroad Sued For Coal By Lima Dealer Francis X. Ebner, Jr., Lima, O., filed suit in Federal District Court asking a permanent injunction again st the Erie Railroad Co. and Fred C. Dunn, Lima, to prevent them from stopping rail car coal deliveries to the Consumers Co., Lima. Mr. Ebner, owner of the Consum ers Co., retail coal suppliers, said the railroad together with Mr. Dunn has withheld delivery of several car loads of coal since Dec. 27, and that their refusal to do so has caused hardship to Lima Memorial Hospital, a church, and numerous home own ers. =r (Q 2 31 u oo 3 Lima Extends Fire Protection To Twp. The city has agreed to extend fire protection to Perry Township for the next six months at a base rate of $50 per fire. An extra $50 will be charged for each additional piece of equipment summoned by the trustees. The agreement came following the destruction of two Perry Town ship homes by fire since the first of the year. Trustees refused to enter into contract with the city because of “high rates.” HANCOCK COUNTY Findlay Girl First In Peace Contest Saralu Covert, representing the Findlay First Methodist Church, took first place in the district Prince of Peace contest in St. Paul’s Methodist church at Tiffin. Miss Covert, winner of the Han cock County contest, now is eligible to compete in the semi-finals at Columbus, Jan. 28. Alternate to represent the district is Betty Now, Ottawa. Sugar Plant Gets An Off-Season Job Utilization of the Great Lakes Sugar Co.’s Findlay refinery by the Corn Products Refining Co. of New York City for the manufacture of industrial sugar during off-season operations at the sugar plant was announced. The plant will employ as many of the 300 workers of the sugar compa ny as possible. The sugar plant operates over a three-months period in the fall. Liquid sugar will be shipped to Findlay from the company’s North Kansas City, Mo., plant to be re fined into a low grade industrial sugar. Bolivian Agent Sues Findlay Steel Car Plant An agent of the Bolivian Govern ment filed suit in Federal District Court to compel the Differential Steel Car Co., Findlay, to make good on the purchase of two self-propelled railroad cars. Macdonald and Co., La Paz, Bo livia, claimed two cars purchased in November, 1943, from the Findlay company for $58,520 would not ful fill specifications. Findlay Schools Get $636,153 Operating Fund The Findlay Board of Education appropriated $636,153 for operation and debt retirement expenses for the current school year. The appropriations are $97,718 above the 1945 figure, Supt. F. L. Kinley said, the increase made pos sible through passage of a 2-mill levy last fall going for teacher salary increases and higher bond re tirement and interest charges. Ditch Group Aslcs State Maintenance One hundred persons from 29 counties attended a meeting of the Northwestern Ohio Drainage associa tion at Findlay, Friday in the First National bank auditorium and ap proved general principles of a ditch maintenance bill to be presented to the Ohio legislature. Jackson E. Betts, A. G. Fuller and W. A. Hogle, all of Findlay were named a committee to prepare the measure. X-Ray Screening Held In Mt. Cory Area X-ray screening will be made available to residents of the Mt. Cory school district this week, it was announced by Richard Severns, Mt. Cory school superintendent. The X-ray machine of the Han cock Tuberculosis and Health as sociation, operated by Carl Turner, will be employed in the chest exam inations. The apparatus will be available throughout the day, Wednesday and Friday, Superintendent Severns said. On Thursday the screening will be available in the afternoons and evenings in order that those who work during the day may receive the examinations. The process is without charge with any resident of the community— adult or child—invited to take the test. Hancock Coroner Says Cases Increase By 53% The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crossing in Fostoria, scene of the death of four members of a Amity two weeks ago, was described as the most dangerous in Hancock County in a report today by Dr. Byron F. Voorhees, county coroner. THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON. OHIO AwtRiCAMS SPWP about ffA^As ARE ALWAYS PICKED WHILE GREEN, 0«CAU6t THS FRUIT WILL HOT RlPtH OH THB fffSrgAD fiSSFMCH HNDS wwusts- THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE The body of Frank P. Davis, 75, Jackson Township farmer, was found in a field near his home by a son, Don, who had started a search when his father failed to return after visiting a neighbor. A brother and tin uncle calling at the residence of William S. Stewart, 49, found Mr. Stewart slumped in a chair. Mr. Stewart, lived alone. Findlay Fire Loss Tops All Records Findlay’s fire loss during 1946 of $529,012 was the highest on record, Fire Chief Raymond DeHays said. A half-million dollar fire at the National Refinery last January was responsible for the marked increase from the $96,487 loss in 1945. County Home Costs Increase Per Capita Number of residents in the Han cock county home in 1946 was 48 and the cost of their maintenance was $891.62 each, F. L. Price, super intendent said in asking the board of county commissioners for $28,600 for operating expenses this year. The county auditor’s figures show that the actual cost of operation of the home last year was $33,474.39. Davis Re-elected Head Board Of Education Carl L. Davis, Arlington, elected president of the county board of education coming year. I 6‘A BlUJM DOLLARS FOR TRAVEL. YEARLY FOR WWfZ. SOUTHERN MILL R1C8NTV? 05*NE0 WLL MAKE /M’ FORMfWY ALMOST UStiAff tYCtPT AOR TtMeEA Dr. Voorhees’ report shows an in crease of 167 per cent in deaths resulting from automobile accidents in 1946 and a genera! increase of 53 per cent in coroner cases. During the year the coroner hand led 81 cases, compared to 53 in 1945. Traffic deaths totaled 24, compared to 9 in 1945. accident traffic Putnam, Counties He pointed out that the rate is heightened becausi casualties from Henry, Wood, Seneca and Wyandot often are taken to three hospitals in Hancock County. Heart Attacks Take Two Hancock Men of a Heart attacks caused the death two Findlay men—one found in field and the other in his home— Coroner B. F. Voorhees, of Hancock County, reported. was re Hancock for the re was Loren Ewing, McComb, elected vice president. serves as clerk of the board. Ray Supt. are Other members of the board Dr. A. E. King, Mt. Cory Victor Sink, Liberty township and Truman Shull, Vanlue. Byron Manges Heads Mt Cory Institute Byron Manges was elected presi dent of the Mt. Cory Farm Institute for the coming year. Other officers are: Vice president, Ralph Steiner secretary, Mrs. Harry Anderson Hamilton Steininger. treasurer, Mrs. Earl and hostess, Mi's. Milton of a recent poster contest Winners were Mary Jo Basinger, Mildred Hanna, Russell Koontz, Jerry Sites, Junior Bowersox, Donald Jones and Leonard Amstutz. Walter Montgomery Is Mt. Cory School Board Head Walter V. Montgomery of Orange township has been elected president of the Mt. Cory board of education and Norwood Powell, vice-president, is clerk of the board, employed for a two Merle Folk haring been Sponges are mwbers of the anuaal kingdom. Ths present debt op AU U.S, GOVBRHMENT EQUALS THE TOTAL EQUIPPED VALUE OF ALL THIS COUNTRY'S ‘IfiOO.OGQ farms. FROM F/Rff years term in Montgomery of the board and served as C. E. Jones is having served HARDIN COUNTY ir-j rsi I rrm Hit-Skip Driver Kills I Alger Man Castle had been walking toward I vey Alger when hit by a car traveling I south on Route 69, State patrolmen I at Bellefontaine stated. A search is I underway for the driver of the car, I they reported. I Castle was married and the father I of two children. I $24,500 Plant Addition Construction of a new addition to the Kenton Foundries, Inc., will begin this week and is expected to be completed in three months. CPA approval of $24,500 has been given for the structure. Ohioan On Okinawa Sends Radio Message Pfc. Lowell M. Krock told an amateur radio operator in Zanesville, that he was “O. K. and happy” on Okinawa, where he is stationed with occupation forces. The Zanesville operator informed Private K ock’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Carl D. Krock, Kenton, of the chance conversation. Another Scarlet Fever Case In Hardin Co. The fifth new case of scarlet fever of 1947 in Hardin county was re ported by the county health depart ment. The case is in Ada. Other cases are in Liberty and Jackson townships. Thieves Efforts Fruit less Fifth Time For the fifth time in five weeks, a safe-cracking gang broke into a Kenton business place, but this time they weren’t so succesfsul. After knocking off combinations of two safes with a hammer and chisel, the burglars couldn’t get the doors open. Driver Pleads Innocent In Kenton Court Arraigned before Judge Arthur L. Tudor in common pleas court et Kenton, Oscar Rinz Gonzales, 20, Dola, pleaded not guilty to a charge of second degree manslaughter and was released under $1,000 bond pending trial Jan. 27. Gonzales was indicted by the Hardin county grand jury. Gonzales, is a truck driver, whose parked vehicle is reported to have resulted in the death of two women on U. S. route 81 on the evening of Oct. 21. Flames Damage Home East Of Ada Fire, supposed to have started from defective wiring caused $1,500 damage to the nine-room farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilcox, two and three-quarter miles east of Ada. The flames were discovered in the outside entrance to the cellar, where all wires enter the house. Prompt response of the Ada Volunteer fire department, which made its first run in 1947, was credited with saving the structure. Name Highway Chief Earl R. Reeb, Defiance County engineer of Hicksville, was named chief engineer of the state bureau of maintenance by Murray D. Shaffer, Ohio director of highways. Reeb, 56, after graduation from Ohio Northern University, Ada, was engineer for Paulding County, and for four years was maintenance engineer for the Toledo division. PUTNAM COUNTY Friday Is I is Lucky Day A man came to Columbus Grove Friday night to visit his wife and thereby escaped a harrowing experi ence. Kyle Blaine, w’ho has been living in the Knickerbocker Manor, a Cleve land apartment house, spent Friday night in Columbus Grove with his wife, Mrs. Grace Blaine. Friday night the apartment was rocked by I an explosion, a fire followed razing I the $25,000 structure, and 15 persons I were injured. I Blaine is convinced the Friday night was his lucky night? 1946 Son Dies After Crash has been a member I the last seven years, Hurt Father Recovers vice-president in 1946.1 Sylvester L. Dillon, 65, West the retiring president, I Leipsic, seriously injured in a truck in 1945 and 1946. I collision, one mile west of McComb, Norwood Powell and Waldo Hanna I was reported in satisfactory condition wore again appointed to the building I in Miller-McComb hospital. Dillon and grounds committee and Howard I sustained multiple pelvic fractures. Bcnroth and C. E. Jones to the sup-1 Dillon was hurt when a truck in plies committee. which he was riding with his son, Richard Lee Dillon, 22, was involved in a collision by Eldon G. reported. ____ I Richard Edgar Castle, 55, Alger, waslstant^ *n killed when struck by a hit-skip motorist on State Route 69 three miles south of Alger at midnight. with a truck operated Perkey, 19, Columbus Darling & Grove, for mrung v vompany,Company, Toledo, the state highway patrol Lee Dillon was killed in the crash. LEGAL NOTICE Ida Zoe Eavey, whose last known place of residence was 1213 Broadway, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, is hereby notified khat John M. Ea- has filed his petition against her for Next to Town Hall PROTECT YOUR POULTRY FLOCK THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1947 divorce, custody of minor children, and other equitable rtKw on th© jrrounda of gross neg .nxltwne cruelty. in Caae Number 87854 of the fcommon Plena Court of Allen County, Ohio! and that said cause will be for hearing of or about aix weeks after the date of tha ffrut publication of this notice. F. W. /Durbin. Attorney for Plaintiff/ 43 With tried and proven remedies. Sulphatrol, Duatok and 5 kinds of sprays for colds. Avitab and Ovumix for a tonic. Blacktol, Korum and Intestrol for intestinal trouble. Dworm and Rotocaps for worms. Glandolac, Hilltop and Whitmoyer Roost paint for lice. Let us help you with your poultry problems. No charge for postmortem examinations. JORG HATCHERY Phone 182-W We’re as near to you as your phone Call us any time for highest market ice on Cream, Eggs, Po 8 a. m. to 8 a. m. to Produce trucked OPEN DAILY— 5 p. m.—Monday thru Fi 9 p. m.—Saturday. Successors to Chas. Kinsinger Notice To Tax pa Representatives from the Allen County Tre^ will be at the Citizens National Bank, Blufl the respective dates for the collection of th 1946 Real Estate Taxes. Tuesday, February 4, Wednesday, February 5 ALL DEAD STOCK REMOVED We Pay $5 for Horses $3,1 for Cows BUCKEYE REDUCTION COMPANY, (Findlay, Ohio Phone MAIN 475 Collect BRANCH OF FOSTORIA ANIMAL PRODUCT*. INC. APPOINTMENT IO NOTICE OF THE STATE OF O1 Allen County, y. Ah»taett»r, D«ve*u»«L K. D. No. 2, Cobim been appointed and m, Estate at Daniel Edgar AltMaetter bus Grove, Ohio, L.„. „__ ....___ qualified^ Adminfitmtor of the eetate of late of Allen County, Darnel W. AftMact Ohio, deemwi. Dated this 4th diir of January, 1947. Raymord P. Smith Probate Judge 4---------- LEGAL NOTICE Wilton T. Frulil idence and wherea tilled that Hard 1 Petition against hit mon Plena Court ing Case Numbed absence for three 8.____ ___ ______ ____ __be for hearing on orf after February 6, 1947. i|k, whose place of reai Ibouta is unknown is no Fralick has filed her ki for divorce in the Gom if Allen County, Ohio, be 87835. Grounds: Wilful keara. Said cause will HAZEL M, FRAUCK. I By Robert Tait, Attorney at Law, Your Pigs CAN Lima, Ohio 38 lb.Pi(|s atWeoning? Sows Lose Only 25 Lbs. During Suckling GF RAISING HOGS THerd after herd of pigs raised by] the “Semi-Solid System” DO show records of 38 lbs. apiece AND UP at weaning. Such pigs have a big lead toward market. Their mothers’i records show less than 25 lbs. each lost during suckling. This is 50 lbs. i less than normal—a saving of at least 300 lbs. of flesh-replacing sow( feed. YOU can get modem, high profit results like this by feeding enough! of the NEW Semi-Solid PIG Emul-! sion to sows and pigs. Feed it with! ‘grain and supplement. Buy your I supply from us now. Semi PIG F.mulsion MILK NUTRIENTS AND VITAMINS Master Feed Mill Leland Basinger, Mgr. Phone 317-W I flu direct to New York mar why you get top price when you sell REYNOLDS BROS. PR(IDUCE et—that’s here. one 492-W surer’s Office ton, Ohio, on First Half— 1947 RAY 1 BARNETT, inty Treasurer Allen