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BLUFFTON
A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXI
ROADS DRIFT SHUT
IN AREA'S SECOND
MARCH BLIZZADD
Buses Unable to Make Rounds
Wednesday Because of Snow
Drifts.
Classes in Session Monday and
Tuesday: Will be Resumed
Thursday.
School
ed that he would be unahle
make the trip here because of
inwassahle highways.
ed at 2:05 p. m. when there were re
ports that roads were being blocked
At the local plant of The Triplett
Electrical Instrument Co. more than
one-fourth of the total force of em
ployes were unable to get to Bluffton
to work.
With farmers unable to reach town
because of drifted highways, busi
ness was slow thruout the day, and
the Carma theatre Tuesday night had
one of its smallest crowds since its
opening last fall.
Snow Continues
Intermittent flurries of snow thru
out the day on Tuesday offset most
of the melting occasioned when the
sun at infrequent intevals broke thru
banks of clouds, and conditions Wed
nesday morning
bad as they had
day.
were virtually as
been the preceding
minor accidents in
Among many
the area as a result of treacherous
roads was a mishap in Orange town
ship Tuesday afternoon during a
snow squall involving cars driven by
Rev. E. N. Bigelow, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, and Raymond
Stratton, farmer, south of Bluffton.
Both cars were damaged in the
crash, and the two drivers sustained
minor cuts and bruises.
Parked Cars Stall
Parking on Bluffton streets Tues
day and Wednesday involved risk of
getting stalled because slushy snow
heaped more than curb-high in the
On highways and country roads
many cars and trucks were stalled in
drifts, and there were many cases
in which autos stuck in banked snoW
when they pulled to one side in at
tempting to pass.
One-way traffic was maintained
on the Dixie highway at the Roy
Rogers farm north of Bluffton, Wed
nesday morning when two cars were
wrecked after skidding on the icy
highway.
The 60-mile-an-hour gale
whipped huge drifts on country
actually did less damage here
in most surrounding districts,
where utility service was
by fallen lines and in
were many reports of
dows.
cation
dition
with Findlay
reports. The
that
roads
than
disrupted
Lima there
broken win-
Lima post of the state
trol was without telephone service
most of the day Tuesday, ard
atrol’s Find!
page 8)
Mrs. Cal Balmer Dies
Mrs. Cal Raimer, 68, died at Bluff
ton hospital Wednesday morning at
11:15 o’clock.
$5,000 Damage Suit
Against Town Settled
Mrs. Ho Isham’s $5,000 damage
suit against the village of Bluffton
rt on the
basis of the town’i
foi
Mrs
as the
precin
partment
$11,500 Resurfacing
on Three Township Roads
Planed Next Summer
Cost of Work Will Be Shared
Richland Township
and Allen County
will be
nt prog
Foundation treatment
The mat consists of a thi
tar and oil mix applied to
roads, principally as a fou
coat. In the year after a mat coat
is placed on a road, a sealing surface
is added by spreading a one-inch
coating of asphalt mixture.
Sealed coats will be placet! this
summer on three miles of the Fett
road from the Putnam county line to
rhe1 Rockport road, and on one mile
of the Swaney road between the
Lincoln and Dixie highways.
Mat treatment will be on two miles
of the Bixel-Grismore road from the
Pandora road to the Fett road, and
on one mile of the Swaney road
from the Lincoln highway south to
the Jackson township line. The
latter road will then connect with a
hard-surfaced road previously put in
by Jackson township.
County to Repair Roads
Repair and patching of other
township roads also will be done
during the summer by the county
road crew, it was announced.
Lack of heavy snow this winter
until early in March which cost ap
proximately $100 to operate the
scraper to clear the highways,
has made it possible for the town
ship to expand its road improvement
program next summer, since prac
tically no money has been expended
in keeping highways clear of
Two years ago, the township
approximately r$2,600 to clear
from roads
would have
School Cafeteria Lunches To Cost
Pupils More As Federal Aid Ends
olicitor
nf
of a
tor Tripplel
SEVEN MILES OF
TOWNSHIP ROADS
TO BE IMPROVED
expenditure
Real Estate Deals
Loyd Thomas of South Main
street has purchased the Gerald Hu
ber property on Thurman street and
will move this spring. Huber re
cently bought one of the new houses
on College road north of the Elm
street interaction built by Albert
Gannatter.
Paul Greding who purchased re
cently from Mrs. Bertha Balmer the
South Main s1
pied by Thomas
ing from
apartments
Kibler streel
r. and
Miss Hulda
this spring
Mt. Vernon when
chased a
sold their
the
South
4 s.
James
to Millwood
Noon Meals Raised to 25 Cents
for Grades Four Through
Twelve
Loss
Boosts Price of
Lunches
High
the
laustion of federal
for the Ohio publ
rram.
lunches pre
of 20
urth
o effect bv
noer 01
aid
the
resulted i
middle of
ocatec
health
ts begi
increase
1 funds being spent
March which should
il the end of
1. Last year
received aid.
have been available unti
the current school term,
806 school cafeterias 1
This year there were 1,168, without
an increase in the federal allocation.
Menu for Blufft on High school’s
plate lunches includes a sandwich,
potatoes, another vegetable, milk or
fruit juice, celery or carrot and
cookies. Helpings are the same for
grades 1 to 3 and 4 thru 12, but
older students receive larger help
ings.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
Mr. and Mrs. Doyte Yoakam, La
fayette, a boy, Wednesday morning.
Mr.
ton,
and Mrs. Paul Henry, Bluff
boy,
and
girl,
Mr.
Ada,
Mr,
Bluffton,
day.
Mr. a
Bluffton,
day.
Mr.
Bluffton
snow.
Mr.
paid for two miles of
road improvements, it was pointed
out by spokesmen for the board of
trustees. The cost of road improve
ment now is about 10 per cent more
than it was two years ago.
erdam,
urday.
Mr. and
erdam, a
day.
Tuesday.
Mrs. Vernon Williams,
Virginia Marie, Sunday.
Mrs. Conner Stewart,
boy, James Robert, Sun-
Mrs. Ambert Basinger,
Eugene Staley,
Eugene, Sunday,
"arl Warner, Beav
acqulyn Joan, Sat-
and rs.
a boy
and Mrs.
a girl,
snow
which
Mr
John Ewing, Beav
Paul Robert,
Satur-
Lugin
Wilson,
is the
Mrs. Francis J.
a boy, Frank
Mrs. Lugin buhl
Mr, and
buhl, Ada,
Thursday,
former Susanna Lugibihl of Bluffton.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fenster
maker, Leipsic, a boy, Robert Den
nis, Thursday.
and Mrs. Paul Vail, Arling
girl, Linda Lee, Thursday.
and Mrs. Paul Raker,
girl, Bonnie Lee, last
Mr.
ton, a
Mr.
lay, a
nesday
eet property occu
will occupy it, mov
Fred Badertscher
Marjorie
street .who
examination
Main and
Elvin and
Ohio, near
have pur­
rope rty. They recently
Poplar street residence
It will be occupied by Amstutz’s
mother and sister, Mrs. Eli Amstutz
and Miss Rhoda Amstutz.
Find
Wed-
Receives State
Cosmotology License
Houston of West Elm
passed the state board
at Columbus last Wed-
imotology in Ohio. She
ted from the Frederick
ol at Lima and expects
YOUTH FEDERATION
Youth Federation practice will be
held at the First Mennonite church
Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock.
"As
A"
i HE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO THUR
SCHOOLS CLOSED
AGAIN BY
DRIFTED HI
North-South Roa
Snow Highways’
With
Subsidy
Noon
of Nine-Cent
60-Mile-An-Hour Blimrd Hits
Four Hours After Spring
Like Rain.
►MARCH 27, 1947
LY
AYS
because of fenow drift
is which r.-'Wiv
ses to,- mike
1 rural sect i has
...ess and btfi wath
schools "hive bfeh op­
last wek I
inffcMmza kit&pXion
5d for Mui dax^r last
y, Tuesday
ools was res
bsotiiees, 16
Tuesday’s attendant
ed 128 absentee^, £1 r'
•S tofaLyiiight got
antral" Increase in
Is. as some of. it
I by ted weather
clinic Scheduled to
the schools the first
oned until
day. At that time
rated by the Allen
sis- society will ex
pa/e.n
•lurft, Su
ble roa k condition
Choir
Clayton Bixel, deput
registrar for the Bit
ported a total sale
all kinds as of Wedn
ocked by
iacherous
auu)m
it irp
thfetr
of the
lather, Wedimtey nqrm
uncement frdm I the of
ident df Schools R.
lasses would be re-
rt
Proceeds from a benefit conceit to
be presented by the" lilfiffton college
vesper choir Friday night at 8:00
o’clock in the Bluffton. High school
gymnasium will be donated to the
college’s new auditorium-gymnasium
fund, it was announced"this week by
officers of the Bluff^W club,
sponsors of the proj I
Featured soloists the choir’s
concert will be Lois !dypr, mezzo
soprano, and Elizabeth y|^nd, so
prano, both of Blufft(
Burkhalter, violinist^
pear in the program^
Laurtnce
?wiU ap-
be
the
do-
rrert is
»ers of
frill be
Ticket sale for the .i
ing promoted by tnei
Lions club. All prttecQ
nated for a new (S5t,0()0 gymnas
ium-auditorium planted Mr the col
lege campus. jg
The Vesper chiOr wasi qrganized
in 1914 by Prof. A. (0ad) Leh
man, and it has jfceenfdirected since
1928 by Prof. RiisselV Al Ijantz. A
concert, tour through Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, E^braska, South
Dakota and Minnesota will‘be held
in late spring by th(L6O-votee tahoir.
Daily Union Church
Services JWxt Week
Daily union church -‘services start
ing next Sunday nignti dud to be
climaxed with an aftfrnbon dood
Friday program will (feature Biuff
ton churches’ Holy Wek\observance.
Theme of the fiv#day series of
meetings sponsored Sy the Blufft n
Ministerial association will “Tlie
Great Questions of -the Last Week.”
Services will be held (dally at 7:30
P. M. in the varidtft churches of the
town, beginning SundaV evening
with Rev. J. N. SmuCker, Fii’st Men
ninite pastor, speaking von “Who Is
Jesus?,” in the first Methodist
church.
Monday’s sermon topid, “By What
Authority,” will be discussed by Rev.
E. N. Bigelow, Prosb.vterign pastor,
in the St. John’s Refonhe&ychurch.
On Tuesday eveningi RexK Paul H.
Cramer, of the Fi^st"^-Methodist
church, will talk on “Goh or (Jae
sar” in the First MennonitO church.
Rev. V. C. Oppermarin„vSt. .Mhnfa
pastor, will take as fiik "topic, “Which
Commandment lar The
Wednesday evening in
Methodist church.
Giratett,
the First
be observed
union sery
Reformed
Holy Communion will I
in fhe Thursday evening
ice in the St. J'»hn’?
church, with Rev. Bigelow presiding
Good Friday union services will
open at 1 P. M. and, continue for
two and one-half hours in. a series
of half-hour meetings in the First
Presbyterian church.
Investment In Machinery Will
Not Yield Profit On Once
Standard 80-Acre Farms
That difference of $3,00 capital in
vestment, with additional allowance
for depreciation and interest costs,
must
ment
acre
time
major factor in the tendency toward
farming of greater acreage by farm
ers with power equipment.
Auto Tag Sales Rush Expected As
Buying Lags In First Two Weeks
made the first of the
prj
th
be earned before the invest
can show a profit. On an 80
farm there is too much idle
with expensive machinery, a
Bluffton
Direct
Man Will
Welsh Chorus
Richard J.
direct the Gom
Male Chorus in a sacred concert at
the Rockport Methodist church on
is one of three directors of the chor
us. The others are George W. Wil
liams of Gomer and Rollie N. Bush
ong of Vaughnsville. Mrs. H.
Partch of Gomer is accompanist.
Bushong will direct the chorus
an appearance at the
Union church, Sunday night
13.
auto license three weeks before the deadline,
the customary’ four.
?ad
with the
bie to ob-
deadlii
next Mondax
Trend Apparent As Farmers
With Power Machinery Seek
More Farming Acreage
er thorizin
nd to
in the
eration the fact that
modern farm equipment will enable
one man to care for increased acre-
Seek
to
Keep Busy
Secondly, the farmer well equip
ped with modern machinery can
make a satisfactory return on his
investment only if he can keep it
busy, and the 80-acre farm, once a
standard tract in the days of horse
drawn equipment, does not possess
enough volume to spread the over
head of mechanized farming.
At present prices it is estimated
a minimum investment of $3,600 is
required for necessary power equip
ment. In the days when horses gen
erally were used, $600, or one-sixth
of that amount was sufficient.
in
Vaughn
Bluffton s spring building program,
launched before a break in winter
weather, is continuing under forced
draft despite unfavorable construc
tion conditions.
In the Matter addition on Harmon
road, a new house being con
for Harry Shrider, Jr., is uni
sheeting has been completed 1
dows and doors a
gh rider’s house
first lot south of
pteted in early
Thttier, Jr.
cars
time since 1941 w
possibility there
If the House concurs, 01
back to its wartime single
“Mass-Farming” Techniques Will
Outgrow Area’s 80-Acre Farm
NEW WELL NEEDED
FOR CITY SUPPLY
AS DEMAND GROWS
Additional Water Source V
own Approximately
590 Board
New Wei! Will Be Fifth Opei
ated by Municipal Watei
is on the
icipal wate:
the point
Cost of fh e' bow well was estimat
ed as follows: $1,694 for 2200 feet
of six-inch pipe $900 for an elec
trically operated pump $600 for
drilling the well, and $396 for ditch
ing.
At present the waterworks pumps
from two city water service wells on
waterworks grounds and from one
on the Mrs. Caroline Matter addi
tion.
Afourth well on the waterworks
grounds is used to provide service
for washing milk cans at the Page
Dairy Co., which is nearby.
With addition of a new well to the
coming summer’s program, a total
of $8,378 is earmarked in a 1947
plan expansion program to keep up
with Bluffton’s rapid residential and
industrial growth.
The $4,788 water main extension
program announced last week calls
for the laying of new lines in six
parts of town, including 2,000 feet
four
pipe and 1,500 feet of three
pipe.
of six-inch pipe 2400 feet
inch
inch
With The Sick
Noah 1
of Bluffton will
ighnsville Welsh
Residential Building Program Under
Forced Draft Despite Bad Weather
com-
Harry
was completed last
Fred Mueller addition
street for a new home
on a lot owned by Don
Excavation
week in the
on Jefferson
to be erected
r, retired Bl
urgical patie
merchant
Bluffton
went an operation, Saturday morn
ing.
Mrs. George Klay is seriously ill
at her home on Mound street.
Roma Wilch Newlan who has been
ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Fruchey. The Fruchey family have
been residing in a temporary home
at the rear of the lot, consisting of
two prefabricated poultry houses.
Clair Bucher is completing remod
eling of a house moved into town
several weeks ago on his lot in the
Berryhill addition on West Elm
ing built on South Main street, near
the corporation line, by Clayton
Bucher.
In several other cases, concrete
blocks are on building sites and ex
cavation will get under way as soon
as weather permits.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place To Trade
“Smoky
ans.
Mis
pital, Mon
moved to the Findlay ho
day for observation.
Mrs. Noah Augsburg
been seriously ill for the
is somewhat improved but
allowed to have visitors.
NUMBER 49
RECORDS OF DRAFT
BOARDS TAKE ON
NEW SIGNIFICANCE
mate Committee Votes to
Keep Selective Service Data
Available
ggestion To Transfer Records
To State Headquarters De
layed Until June
II draft
thering
county
la
the
rcis iii Lim
past
of th
10 pi
in
to
1 Turl
k ho:
wnen
the
iff ton area
Thursi
rds in offi
June 30 a
critical de
situstion
littee refui
\wait Dexelopment
March
in the
th
decision to postpone removal of draft
cards, according
the group.
to spokesmen for
fact that universal
may be considered
spring,
First was the
military training
by Congress this
program would require
local records. The move
assurance
readily available in
situation develops critically.
and such a
use of the
also means
that local records will be
case the world
Southern Lecturer
At College Monday
Mountain Character
a group of mountain mon
will be presented on the
college lecture course, at
m. next Monday in Ram
ipel, by Miss Irene Bewley,
of the southern Appalach-
Sketches,”
ologues,
Bluffton
turer who portrays the character of
southern mountain folk in a charm
ing and realistic manner.
No offering will be charged, but
an offering will be taken to assist
Industrial Arts
Show This Week
and manufacturers, will
sored in Lima Memorial
Friday and Saturday by
western Ohio Industrial
ciation.
of high
hobbyists
be spon
hall
the
this
Mid
asso-
Dwight Spayth, Bluffton industrial
aits instructor, is the newly elected
president of the organization spon
soring the show opening at 6 p. m.
Friday and continuing until 3 p. m.
Saturday.
At 10 a. m. Saturday morning, an
address will be given by a speaker
from the Ford Motor Co., Detroit.
James Mayer Passes
Ohio Bar Examination
James J. Mayer of Shelby, hus
band of the former Margaret Jane
Basinger of Bluffton, was among the
105 applicants who passed the state
bar examinations last month, the
Ohio Supreme Court announced in
Columbus recently.
Mayer xvho was graduated last No
vember from Ohio Northern uni
versity college of law at Ada was
the only successful candidate from
Richland county.
The successful candidates were in
ducted by Chief Justice Carl V»
Weygandt’ of the Supreme Court.
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