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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. 1 Of