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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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at Bellefontaine stated. A search is I
underway for the driver of the car, I
they reported.
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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
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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
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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