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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1947
Mawdu,
PeJiAXMtal
July taking its final curtain call—
a queer month weatherwise—some of
it more like fall than midsummer
and oats bugs pestering Bluffton
folks Tuesday and here’s Au
gust with dogdays and last
month of the official slacks season
and swimming at the Buckeye
and bathing suits and vaca
tion—sobering thot ... we heard a
locust the other day—hope that
doesn’t mean frost in six weeks
and the bobbysox crowd putting up
loud wails about lower hemlines this
fall and speaking of fall, we saw
a big fur neckpiece on the street the
first of the week and it wasn’t one
of those chilly days, either also
glad to see Mrs. Bertha Woods down
town for the first time since she was
hit by a truck while crossing the
street last summer—son Joll and
wife here from Indianapolis and
they brot her down in their car
and farmers eyeing the corn crop
which looks good—if frost doesn’t
interfere newest real estate de
velopment is the budding boomlet
mile and a half south on the Dixie
where the Farm Bureau is building
EGGS
WANTED
We need more Quality
Eggs and are paying:
WE PAY
HIGHEST
MARKET PRICE
PLUS PREMIUM FOR
QUALITY AND SIZE
Call or write our buyer,
Robert Murray, 430 Cherry
St., Bluffton, Ohio, for quo
tations and arrange for
pickup service.'
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Bluffton phoi
Carl W. I IcCabe
Egg I o.
Attica, Mich. I uffton, Ohio
The railroads have received 44 “rules"
demands from the leaders of the oper
ating unions representing engi
neers, firemen, conductors, trainmen
and switchmen. They say they are
seeking only changes in working con
ditions—not a wage increase.
More Money For Less Work
But what kind of rules are being
asked for? Twenty-eight of them
would compel railroads to pay more
money for the same, or less work
7 would require additional and un
necessary men to do the same work:
the rest would bring about changes
in operating practices at increased
cost.
For Instance.
The Union leaders demand additional
train and engine crews on Diesel-pow
ered trains—one full crew for every
power unit in the locomotive. A freight
train hauled by a 4-unit Diesel would
have to carry 4 engineers, 4 firemen,
4 conductors, and at least 8 brakemen,
or a total of 20 men instead of 5.
“Made Work99—Sheer Waste
The Union leaders demand that full
length freight trains be cut to about
half their length, even though such
trains are most efficient for low-cost
service to ygu. This rule would call for
twice as many locomotives, would
double the number ot trains, and make
accidents more likely.
Additional equipment, yards, and
other facilities required to take care of
these short trains would cost hundreds
of millions. What the Union leaders
really want is to make more jobs.
The Union leaders demand that when
a crew in one class of service perform
incidental service of another class, they
will be paid not less than a day’s pay
for each class, even though all service
is performed as a part of the same day s
excavation under way for an
acre of lake—and new houses in pros
pect—maybe they'll call it Farm
Bureau corners.
A Bluffton News classified ad not
only saved Irvin Long of Garau
street some hard work, but it also
put money in his pocket. Irvin was
about ready to spade under a lot of
strawberry plants in his back yard
when it occured to him that some
one might want those plants—so he
advertised them for sale. Result was
that Irvin disposed of all his straw
berry plants for a net profit of $35
—besides being relieved of the task
of spading them under.
The A. E. Lichenwaiters on a west
ern tour mailed us a copy of a San
Francisco Chinese daily newspaper
being printed in Chinese charac
ters it is quite a curiosity—and just
as unreadable. The paper is, of
course, made up backwards—the last
page is the first page—and the first
page is the last page. Seems to con
tain lots of important news—at least
we presume that those queer big
splotches are headlines. Also much
advertising perhaps for chop suey
joints.
It looked like sabotage the other
day at the Bluffton airport when a
routine inspection of planes disclosed
that cords binding the wooden struts
to one of the wings of that big blue
plane out there had been neatly snip
ped off—in fact some of the cords
were missing. A call to Lima brought
in the insurance representative who
looked at the evidence and agreed—
sabotage. Fact is, it looked like a
clearcut case until a faint scratching
sound heard in a far-off corner of
the wing disclosed a mother field
mouse with five baby mice in a nest
made principally of the missing cords.
One wit wisecracked that they were
airborne mice.
Just for the record we’ll add that
the insurance company paid for the
damage. The policy provides that the
insurance company is not responsible
when a plane left in a field is dam
aged by horses, cows or other live
stock, but mice are not included.
Ex-postmaster and Mrs. M. M.
Murray celebrated their 58th wed
ding anniversary Monday. Every
year they have enjoyed an anniver
sary dinner together and this time
was no exception—altho it was held
in Bluffton hospital where Mrs. Mur
ray has been a patient since last fall.
The Murrays, wed July 28, 1889,
are the oldest living couple married
in Bluffton. Mr. Murray is 79 and
his wife 78. Their wedding anniver
sary is also the birthday anniversary
of his brother Lloyd, Bluffton’s old
est native-born resident who was 81
Monday.
And Monday, the wedding anni
versary of an ex-postmaster was al
so the birthday anniversary of the
present postmaster who received
congratulations on his three score
years and one.
The talent project which the Pres
byterian church here wound up a
month ago continues to get attention.
Radio dramatization this Wednesday
night from Cleveland, Toledo,
Youngstown, Dayton, Columbus,
Steubenville and Akron stations and
on Thursday night from Zanesville
a feature spread with pictures in the
Toledo Blade, Tuesday night Maga
zine Digest, a Canadian publication
in Toronto preparing an article for
publication soon and several nation
ally circulated magazines in this
Country interested in its possibilities.
The New York Sunday News print
ing over four and a half million cop
ies, the largest Sunday circulation
in the country, will carry next Sun
day photographs of the talent pro
ject taken here last month by an As
sociated Press camera man. The
photos will appear on pages 2 and 4
of the picture section.
Subscriptions renewals from the
William Gratzes of Allen, Mich., and
thq Amos Steiners of Toledo, both of
whom have been readers of the
Bluffton News for more than 50
years—they say it’s like a letter from
home.
The Cliff Elliotts of West Kibler
street home after a month’s motor
trip thru the ■west—and who should
they meet while up in Yosemite
National park in California but their
neighbors the Russell Lantzes of
Campus drive, also out in California
for the summer. You’re likely to run
onto Bluffton people most any place
nowadays.
It was all just part of the day’s
work for Charlie Trit ch, 67-year old
Lima painter who was working with
Frank Neuenschwander on an out
side painting job near the top of the
high school building, Saturday morn
ing when one side of their scaffold
suspended by ropes from the roof
gave way and Neuenschwander fell
some 35 feet to the ground.
Tritch a veteran at painting tall
buildings saved himself by clinging
to the scaffold dangling in mid-air
and climbing up the rope to safety on
the roof of the building.
We called it a scaffold on which
they were working—but among the
trade it’s known as a “stage” since
work. The crew would get at least two
days’ pay for one day’s work.
The Union leaders demand that the
present basic day for passenger con­
lars
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it is suspended from the roof instead
of being supported from the ground.
Far from being unnerved by his
experience, Tritch was back on the
job Monday morning. One of the
skyscrapers on which he has worked
was the Book-Cadillac hotel in De
troit.
Announcement
The Beaverdam Community Fire
association has decided to hold an
ice cream festival in order to help
raise money for the purchase of fire
fighting equipment. It will be held
on the school ground Friday, Aug
ust 8th, starting at 8:00 P. M.
As this is to be a community-wide
activity and requires a lot of work,
w’e are asking you to cooperate in
making this event a success. To
sum it all up, here is a picture of
what is planned:
First—Donations of cakes, pies,
chickens (prepared for making sand
wiches), coffee and coffee-makers.
Second—Girls and boys in the
’teen age group to serve as waitress
es and waiters and as other help so
that the service can be prompt.
Third—Tables, chairs, and other
conveniences that will be needed to
take care of the crowd.
A committee has been appointed to
take care of the grounds and see
that they are well lighted.
All in all we want a general com
munity spirit to prevail for that
evening, and only through complete
cooperation can we make it a suc
cess. Will appreciate it very much
if you will give us a lift.
Beaverdam Community Fire Asso.
Leo Nelson, Pres.
Delmar Beery, Treas.
C. L. Rupright, Sec'y.
Kiddies Victims
Despite wartime driving restric
tions, 2,050 school children were
killed in motor vehicle accidents in
1944. One hundred and ten thou
sand school age children were in
jured by motor vehicles last year.
Cutting Onion
To obtain juice and fine pulp for
soup or clear sauce, cut an onion in
half crosswise and grate over a
bowl. Or, if a very little juice is
wanted, grate over waxed paper and
save dishwashing. Cutting onion fine
with a sharp knife is easier than
grating and often serves a similar
purpose.
LOCAL AND LONG
DISTANCE HAULING
Every Load Insured
STAGER BROS.
dd/ Bluffton. Ohio
ductors and trainmen be reduced from
150 to 100 miles, which would have the
effect of increasing their pay 50%.
Such a run often takes only two or
three hours!
You Can9t Afford This Waste
Demands like these are against the
interests of the whole American
people, who depend on railroad serv
ice for nearly everything they eat,
wear and use.
These rules would cost
a billion dol­
annually—a gigantic waste which
neither the railroads nor the country
can afford.
Railroad workers are good citizens
and good employes, with pride in their
calling. Their record during the war
was outstanding. We do not believe
they fully understand the “featherbed”
rules which the Union leaders are de
manding. We do not believe they
understand the harmful results which
these rules would have to the railroad
industry, to the millions of men and
women dependent on railroads for their
livelihood, and to the shipping and con
suming public.
The great strength of America is in
production—an honest day’s work
for an honest day’s pay.
For only through greater production
can we hope to stop the steady upward
surge of living costs.
Surely, if ever there was a time in
our history when we needed to work
not waste, this is it.
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WING TIPS
From
Bluffton Airport
Ray Niswander became the first
student pilot to finish a flight course
and to receive a pilot’s license at the
Bluffton Airport. Ray passed nis
flight check last week and now holds
a private pilot’s license..
Three more students have taken
to the air for the first solo flight.
Paul Geiser and Dick Cookson soloed
under the regular G. I. Course and
Dick Berky soloed as part of the
College G. I. Program.
Six new G. I. students have en
rolled for flight training at the
Bluffton Flying Service. Koewler
Brafford, Lynn Timmerman, John
Andrews, Ray Zuber and James
Slechter from Lima and Gene Leath
erman from Findlay have enrolled
in the Private Pilot Course. On the
non-G. I. slate we have Mr. and Mrs.
Cris Mullenhour, Bluffton restaura
teurs, both of whom are taking
lessons in the Ercoupe.
The new ground school classes at
the airport are being taught by
W. L. Wagner, CAA Communica
tions manager at Findlay and a
Certificated CAA Instructor. Wagner
has been making the ground school
sessions more interesting by showing
movies on the various subjects re
lated to flying. All students of the
Bluffton Flying Service are urged
to attend.
Thomas J. Borden of Van Wert,
recently took delivery on a new
Ercoupe. Richard MacDonald also of
Van Wert is pilot for Borden.
Welding ‘Musts’ for Auto
More than a thousand differen!
welding operations are required ir
the manufacture of a single motoi
car.
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