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THURSDAY. JAN. 15. 1948
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Members of the Bluffton Com
munity Sportsmen’s Club are urged
to attend the program on Alaska to
be held in the high school auditorium,
8:30 p. m., Thursday night. The en
tertainment, sponsored by Bluffton
College, depicts life beyond the Arc
tic Circle by the Helmerick family.
Harmon and Constance Helmerick
will be here in person to show color
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CONSERVATION AFFAIRS
Happenings Affecting Woods, Waters and Wildlife
By THE BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SPORTSMEN’S CLUB, INC.
motion pictures and narrate their
experiences of a two-year stay in the
Alaskan wilderness.
Their exploits were given much
publicity in Life magazine and twelve
pages in color featured their adven
tures.
The January' meeting of the Sports
men’s Club has been postponed in
order to give all club members an
opportunity to see this outstanding
program.
Ad mission prices: Adults, 60c
High School, 40c Grade, 25c.
Starting in February regular meet
ings of the Sportsmen’s Club will be
held on the FIRST MONDAY of each
month.
Plan Raccoon Restocking
Live raccoon purchased by the
Sportsmen’s Club for restocking pur
poses during hunting and trappisg
season will be liberated by club mem
bers Friday and Saturday of this
week. Open season on raccoon ends
this Thursday at midnight.
Albert Garmatter, club director for
the program, says the ringtails will
be given to coon hunters for libera
tion. Coon hunters interested in re
leasing the animals may obtain same
Children's feet should be
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have ample toe room.
Health Spot Shoes give
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at Garmatter’s residence after 6:00
p. m. on Friday and Saturday of this
week. Please bring gunny sacks for
transporting the animals.
Hunters say it has been an unusual
ly good season for raccoon. Club direc
tors feel the program to buy live
coon at a premium over the pelted
value of the fur has brought a great
er harvest of the animals since the
value of the fur on the market is
considerably lower than last year.
As a result of the bonus for live coon,
followers of the hounds have dis
covered it a profitable and pleasant
pastime to be afield even in an off
market year like this one and the
farmer is directly benefited, for a
large raccoon crop has been consider
ably decreased through the efforts
[of the hunters and Sportsmen’s Club.
I With the coon crop decreased in the
area there is less chance for the ani
mals to make forays on the henhouse,
and during the nesting fewer nests
of game birds will be pillaged.
The dozens of live coon on hand
were in most instances taken in con
gested areas and will be released in
woodlots known to have a scarcity
of breeding stock. Coons will be re
leased in the Bluffton hunting ter
ritory only where permission has been
obtained to restock the animals.
Game protector Donald Ramge
stated that all persons wishing to
keep live coon on hand after the close
of the season must obtain a permit
for same. The permit must be ob
tained within ten days after the close
of the season. The protector can be
reached at 118 Poplar street, Bluff
ton. Phone 177-R.
Pickerel Hitting at Quarry
Local anglers say some of the best
fishing of the year is to be had at
the Water Works quarry with record
catches made the past three weeks.
The water at the quarry never
freezes since it is used for condensing
purposes at the light plant and be
comes heated. As a result the fishing
season is more or less reversed in
comparison to other lakes of the
area. While other quarries have ice
formed on the surface the Water
Works at present registers 68 degrees
which is just right for fishing.
New Year’s day, which, if you re
member was one of the worst we
had all winter with rain, snow, sleet
and even a thunder storm, was one
of the best fishing days of the year.
Angler Jess Manges snagged his lim
it of pickerel right when the weather
was the worst. He had a dishpan full
of crappies and pickerel when he got
home.
Fisherman Sodder from Elida
snagged two pickerel and several
channels Sunday afternoon and a
week ago a Lima angler had the ag
gregate of 25 channels and pickerel.
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Sodder snagged 22 channels and sev
eral pickerel the same day.
Fred and Cleo Welty have been
making some good catches and each
snagged their limit on several occa
sions in recent days. Several large
crappies have been snagged by ang
lers, several of the fish measured
over 16 inches. Pickerel have been
ranging from 14 inches to 20 inches.
Best catches are made on minnows,
obtainable at Paul Henry’s Gulf Sta
tion on North Main street. Anglers
lucky enough to have a box of night
crawlers on hand find channels and
pickerel snap them up readily. Craw
lers could be gathered on the lawn
on several nights the past week.
Buckeye Coachmen
Beat Indians, 79-70
Buckeye Coaches captured a thrill
ing battle last Thursday night in
the Beaverdam High gymnasium in
a whirlwind 79 to 70 victory over
the Oklahoma Indians.
Although the Indians led at the
first quarter, 18 to 15, the Coach
men came right back to set the
pace at the close of the other per
iods: 41 to 36 and 56 to 53.
A thorn in the side of the Coach
men all night was Fleet Foot, Indian
guard, who racked 18 field goals and
five free throws for an impressive
total of 41 points.
From North Arctic
Fred Herrmann was high for the
Beaverdam outfit with 28 points
Ditto had 20, and Phillips racked
up 14.
The scoring:
Buckeye 1
Arnold, f. ...................... .... 2 0 4
J. Herrmann, f. ___ r.. 3 0 6
Phillips, c.......... ____ 6 2 14
F. Herrmann, g. --------11 6 28
Ditto, g------------ _____ 8 4 20
Gratz, f. _______ _____ 2 0 4
Bourne, f..............._____ 1 1 3
Pogue, g.......... —_____ 0 0 0
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The Helmencks—Connie and Bud—dressed for Arctic tempera-
tures of 62 degrees below zero, who will give an illustrated lecture
on their two years spent in the far north. They will speak at the
high school auditorium here Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock under
auspices of the Bluffton College Lecture course.
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Indians _____________29 12 70
Coaches Will Meet
Indiana All Stars
The Marion, Indiana, All Stars
will play the Buckeye Coach Beavers
at the Beaverdam gym on January
22nd.
The personnel of the “All Stars”
include Rick Weaver, forward who is
6 feet, one inch and played two
years with Indiana University, was
on the E. T. O. undefeated All Star
team and played with Draper Dodg
es of Marion. He also made All
State in Indiana high school basket
ball in 1940.
Joe Dailey, forward, 6 feet, 1 inch,
played three years of high school
ball with Jonesboro high school and
made all county his junior and sen
ior years. Though, he is only 20
years old he is the best ball-handler
on the squad and, also one of the
leading scorers having averaged 15
points per game in his first six
games.
Jerry Gosser, forward and guard,
stands 5 feet 11% inches. He made
several of the All-State selections
when he led the Gas City High school
to its only trip to the semi-finals in
the Indiana High School State tour
nament. He played with the “Col
lege Barnstormers,” a team compiled
of students attending Ball State
Teachers College, at the start of
this season which was undefeated in
seven games.
Tom Kramer, center, stands 6
feet 5 inches and was a member of
several outstanding service teams.
He played regular center on the
Marion Moose State Champions.
CARD OF THANKS
To the many visitors during the
past year:
You brought much comfort, cheer
and best wishes for many get-well,
Christmas and New Year cards for
flowers and for good eats and other
gifts during the holiday season, we
thank you all. Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Steiner
The U. S. 1947 cotton crop is esti
mated at 11,508,000 500-pound bales
out of a world total of 26,100,000
bales.
B. H. S. Freshmen Win
Leading 13 to 0 at the end of the
first quarter, Bluffton High fresh
men rolled up 25 additional points
to defeat Ada frosh, 38 to 15, last
Saturday at Bluffton.
Badertscher was high for the win
ners with 18 points and Garmatter
tallied 11. This was the second vic
tory of the season for the locals,
who earlier had defeated Beaverdam,
23 to 19.
Bluffton scoring: Badertscher, 18
Garmatter, 11 Triplehorn, 5 Hof
stetter and Carmack, 2 each. Oates
also was in the Bluffton lineup.
Bluffton had 16 field goals, and six
free throws for 38 points, and Ada’s
15 points were made on four fielders
and seven free throws.
Winter Recreation
League
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Rockets Win Championship
The Rockets, who tied up first
round play last week, emerged
champions Monday night by edging
the Wildcats, 44 to 42, and at the
same time avenged a 78 to 25 defeat
handed them by the Cats earlier in
the round. Everett paced the cham
pions Monday night with'17 points
Pogue was high for the losers with
the same total.
Scoring: Rockets—Moser, 3-1-7
Wilch. 3-3-9 Everett, 7-3-17 Rea
gan, 2-0-4 Kindle, 3-1-7 Wildcats—
Fisher, 2-0-4 Frick, 1-0-2 Kirtland.
7-1-15 Pogue, 7-3-17 Stucky, 2-0-4.
Reds Win
In the first game of the evening,
the Reds tied for second place by
topping the Indians, 32 to 29. Altho
the Reds led al! the way*, they never
had an advantage of more than four
points. Deppler led the Reds with
10 points, and Koontz netted nine for
the Indians.
Scoring—Reds—D. Amstutz, 0-7-7
W. Amstutz, 4-1-9 Deppler, 5-0-10
Haller, 1-0-2 Luginbuhl, 2-0-4
Indians—Koontz, 3-3-9 Zuercher, 2
3-7 Ater, 1-1-3 Burkholder, 1-1-3
Niswander, 1-1-3 E. Sommer, 2-0-4.
league Standing
Reds .......
Indians
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Rockets ........... 3 .750
Wildcats 2
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Second Round
For the second round it was decid
ed to re-shuffle the teams, with the
same captains in charge. New teams
include: Indians—L. Niswander, W.
Amstutz, B. Wilch, A. Hilty, L.
Everett, Stucky, E. Sommer, H.
Burkholder Reds—Wade Shook, D.
Amstutz, Ater, Jones, C. Sommer,
Kindle, Luginbuhl, Haller Rockets—
A. Basinger, M. Pogue, K. Moser,
Zimmerly, Dukes, Jones, Klay, Sheri
dan Wildcats—I. Fisher, Kirtland,
Deppler, Zuercher, Koontz, D. Moser,
Reagan, Frick.
Schedule, Monday. Jan. 19
7:20—Rockets vs Wildcats
8:30—Indians vs Reds
Tuesday Program
The Tuesday* evening program at
the college gymnasium is gathering
momentum, with the attendance in
creasing each week. More men are'
turning out for the period from 7
to 8:30, with a high school and col
lege faculty* volleyball team opposing
the businessmen in organized play,
and other recreational activity avail
able for all.
Saturday forenoon play at the h’gh
school for grade school students al
ways brings a capacity turnout. Next
Saturday’s program will be for
fourth, fifth and sixth grade boys.
Recreation Films
Two community recreation films
will be shown at the next meeting
of the Bluffton Recreation commit
tee: “Playtown, U. S. A.”, three
reels, and “$1000 For Recreation”,
two reels.
Plans are under way to obtain a
world census of agriculture in 1950.
The statistics would include crop
acreages, livestock owned, size of
farms, and type of ownership.
Resuming cage play after a long
Christmas holiday layoff, Bluffton
college cagers last Thursday night
came from behind in the closing
minutes to top Tri-State college, 65
to 55, in a league game at Angola,
It was Bluffton’s first contest in
the newly organized collegiate loop
including Ohio and Indiana teams,
and in the tilt the Beavers uncorked
a full-fleged scoring puncn for the
first time this season.
After trailing for the better part
of three quarters, Bluffton High cag
ers came from behind witl
to top Kenton, 52 to 51, in
wind finish to a Western
league contest last Friday
the Bluffton court.
The count had been knotted
11-all when the first period cloi
but Kenton led at halftime, 22
the third quarter, 38
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The Pirates went out in front
about midway through the quarter,
45 to 43, and from that point al
ways held a margin, which
time was as wide as 48 to
though Kenton climbed
closing minutes.
Tri-State was in front at halftime,
32 to 29, but Bluffton finally forged
ahead with five minutes to go, and
never was headed thereafter. Bluff
ton built up its winning margin at
the free throw line, the two teams
matching in field goal scoring.
R. Gratz set a sizzling scoring
pace for Bluffton to capture indi
vidual scoring honors for the even
ing, with a total of 24 points. Kuck
was high for Tri-State with 13.
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Kenton outscored the locals from
the floor, racking up 22 field goals
in comparison with the 18 netted
by Bluffton, but the Pirates’ 16 sue-
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