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A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXIII
44 SENIORS WILL
BE GRADUATED AT
HIGH SCHOOL HERE
Commencement Exercises Will
Be Held in Gymnasium,
Thursday Night
Dr. Willis A. Sutton, Former
NEA President, Will Be
Class Speaker
Climaxing a week of varied com
mencement activity, graduation ex
ercises for 44 Bluffton High school
seniors will be held Thursday night
at 8 o’clock in the school gymnasium
auditorium.
sym
years
come
busy
Presentation of the diplomas
bolizing the completion of 12
of public school activity will
as the concluding event of a
week for the graduating seniors,
which included the baccalaureate last
Sunday and staging of the senior
-class play on Monday and Tuesday.
With the exception of the apnual
alumni banquet and dance on the
following night, graduation exercises
Thursday will bring commencement
week activities to a close.
Class Speaker
Dr. Willis A. Sutton, superintend
ent emeritus of the
public schools, and a
dent of the National
sociation, will be the
at commencement exercises.
Atlanta, Ga.,
former presi
Educaticn as
class speaker
A well-known popular lecturer on
educational problems, Dr. Sutton also
is an author of books on boy life
(Continued on page 8)
Central Ohio Plant
Open House May 27
The Central Ohio Light & Power
company will hold open house at its
Woodcock Electric generating plant
in Bluffton on Thursday, May 27, ac
cording to an announcement by
Emory 1). Erwin, executive vice pres
ident and general manager of the
company.
Hours will be from 10:00 a. m. to
4:00 p. m. and the public is invited
•when guides will conduct visitors
through the plant and explain the
various operations of the plant in
the generating and supplying of elec
tric current to its network of pa
trons through this area.
The company recently completed a
substantial expansion program at its
plant here including installation of
a new fourth boiler and turbo-gen
erator unit, adding materially to
•efficiency of the station which al
ready has established records among
power plants throughout the country.
The new boiler measures 67 feet
high and weighs over 363 tons. It
holds 8 tons of water which pro
duces steam at the rate of 120,000
pounds
per hour.
new turbo-generator is
unit in the plant and is
10,000 kilowatts. Five
The
The group will leave from Lima at
5:45 p. m. from the Baltimore and
Ohio station, and will arrive in
Washington the next morning, where
they will register at
Hotel'.
Class Speaker
Dr. Willis A. Sutton, superintend
ent Emeritus of Atlanta, Ga., public
schools, and a former president of
the National Education association,
will be the speaker at Bluffton High
school commencement exercises
Thursday night in the gymnasium. A
well known lecturer on educational
problems, Dr. Sutton also is an
author of books on boy life and boy
psychology.
PETITIONS SEEK TO
BAN COMICS SAID
UNFIT FOR YOUTHS
Organized Drive Would Ban 66
Different Comic Magazines
Mayor Says
Mimeographed Petitions
parently Have Been Widely
Circulated In Village
were
the
the
rat
flat
largest
ed at
cars were required to move the parts
for this machine to the plant. Com
pletely installed it weighs 108 tons
and, is supported by a concrete
reinforcing steel base weighing
tons.
and
922
High School Seniors
Going To Washington
Climaxing five months of varied
activities, Bluffton High School sen
iors will leave for a four day trip
to Washington, D. C., next Monday.
Forty-three of the forty-four grad
uating seniors will go on the post
graduate tour accompanied y
Dwight Spayth, class advisor, and
Miss Theresa Slusser, faculty mem
ber.
the Annapolis
will take the
National Cem
Tomb of Un-
Sight seeing tours
students to Arlington
etery, Lee Mansion,
known Soldier, Mount Vernon, Na
tional Airport, Jefferson and Lin
coln Memorials.
In a tour of the city, the students
will visit the Bureau of Printing
and Engraving, Pan American Build
ing, White House, Old and New Na
tional Museums, U. S. Capitol, Li
brary of Congress, Supreme Court,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
National Gallery of Art. A special
tour takes the class to Annapolis to
visit the U. S. Naval Academy.
The trip costs $55 per person, $28
of which each student pays his own.
The class has raised the remainder
of the cost by bake sales, paper
drives and other activities. This in
cludes all expenditures except for
refreshments, incidentals, and even
ing entertainment.
petitioners are asking for
more extensive ban, the mayor
In
Michigan, 15 comic magazines
barred from newsstands,
Bluffton group have added
others? to the list. Fifteen of
number listed on the petitions
unfit for sale have the same char
acters as comic strips in newspapers
circulated here.
0 ly
Town Police Crack Down On Reckless
Motorists And Scooter Operators
Ap-
Comic magazines alleged unfit for
children drew the fire of Bluffton
citizenry this week, as petitions in
what appears to be an organized
campaign, began coming into the
mayor’s office through the mail.
Asking a ban on the sale of 66
comic publications a considerable
majority of those sold in Bluffton
newsstands, the petitions are mimeo
graphed and apparently have had
widespread circulation. So far,
petitions bearing the names of 32
persons have been received.
Altho apparently motivated by
action in several
local
much
said.
Michigan cities
but
51
the
as
The mayor said that before
presenting the matter to council he
felt a more specific basis of objec
tions should come from petitioners,
particularly in the matter of widely
read newspaper comic strip charact
ers such as “Red Ryder,” “Steve
Canyon,” “Terry and the Pirates/
“Tarzan” and “Dick Tracy”
others which have been read
newspapers by many families
years.
and
for
the
Historians say that women in
Middle Ages used cosmetics,
women in the middle ages still use
them! —Ray De Boer
And
Watching a freak tornado whirl
thru Pandora within a few hundred
feet of where he stood was an un
forgettable experience for Guy Cor
son, Bluffton Fire Chief, last Friday
evening.
Standing in the yard at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Virginia Davis,
where Jie was visiting. Corson saw
the miniature funnel-shaped twister
dip into nearby Riley creek, scoop up
a volume of water and mud and
carry it some 40 feet into the air.
When he saw the funnel approach
ing, Corson first thought it was a
flight of birds then saw it was a
tornado cloud carrying debris from
roofs, limbs from trees, etc.
In addition to scooping up the
water and dumping it over nearby
properties, the tornado damaged
roofs, broke glass in the Basinger
greenhouse and caused other damage.
Many persons in Bluffton reported
seeing the funnel-shaped cloud north
west of town as it passed thru
Pandora.
Fines And Suspended Driving
Privileges Are Meted Out
In Mayor’s Court
Police Also Instructed To Nab
Youths Shooting Fireworks
In Village
Bluffton police this week cracked
down on speeding and reckless oper
ation of motor vehicles, with fines
and suspended driving privileges in
the offing for violators hailed into
mayor’s court.
Teen-agers bore the brunt of cam
paign in its earlier stages, with one
automobile driver and two motor
scooter operators taken before the
mayor on charges of reckless driv
ing.
Fines and suspension of driving
privileges for 21 days, meted out in
two cases, are lenient compared with
Teenagers who have been
shooting firecrackers and dis
playing burning sparklers also
will be in plenty of trouble if
apprehended by Bluffton police,
the mayor said Tuesday. State
and village ordinance prohibit
the sale of or discharge of fire
works of any kind. Police have
orders to place any violators
under arrest.
what is to come if more sensible op
eration of cars and scooters
immediately apparent, the
warned.
Fire Chief Corson Sees Tornado
Scoop Up Water From Riley Creek
is not
mayor
of the
Hope of setting up a patrol
town’s principal streets to control
speeding also was voiced by the
mayor, but he pointed out the prin
cipal obstacle is the lack of a police
car and insufficient funds to buy
one. In the meantime, although
local police officials will be doing
their best to control unsafe driving
conditions under a handicap, con
victed operators will feel the full
force of stiff sentences in court.
Plan To Sell 2,000
Flowers Poppy Day
Sale of 2,000 poppies in Bluffton
on Poppy Day, Saturday, May 29,
is announced as its goal by the
American Legion Auxiliary in charge
of the project.
Selling poppies on the downtown
streets of the business section
be members of the Auxiliary, to
gether with high school Giri Re
serves and F. H. A.
will
The poppies are made of crepe
paper by disabled war veterans
proceeds go for the benefit of
veterans and their families.
and
the
Day
Official designation of Poppy
was made in the following mayor’s
proclamation issued Tuesday:
“Whereas, citizens of Bluffton
served gallantly in defense of their
country in two world wars, many
sacrificing their lives, and
“Whereas the memory of those
who so died will always be held in
honor and a source of patriotic in
spiration, and
“Whereas this memory is brighten
ed each year and honor paid to the
war dead by the wearing of the Me
morial Poppy on the Saturday before
Memorial day, now
“Therefore, I, Arden R. Baker,
mayor of Bluffton proclaim Satur
day, May 29 to be Poppy Day in
Bluffton and urge
serve the day 'by
morial Poppy.
all citizens to ob
wearing the Me­
R. Baker, Mayor'
Arden
High School Alumni
Reunion Friday Night
Bluffton high school alumni re
union will be held at the high school
Friday night with a dinner and pro
gram at 6:30 followed by dancing.
Presiding at the after dinner pro
gram will be James F. West, alumni
president who will deliver the wel
come address followed with the re
sponse by Donald Herr, president of
the incoming class.
Other numbers include invocation
by Ralph Stearns, group singing led
by Mrs. Mabel Steiner vocal trio,
Jean Burkholder, Mary Ann Smack
er and Ada May Oyer accompanied
by Harriet Burkhart Memorial,
Mrs. Tfcdith Mann Fifty Years Ago,
Sidney Hauenstein Piano solo, Ada
May Oyer Twenty-five Years Ago,
Aaron B. Murray, Washington Court
House Address, Atty. Ralph Locher,
Cleveland marimba solo, Barbara
Jean Triplett.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1948
ORANGE TWP. BARN
HIT BY LIGHTNING
BURNS TO GROUND
81,0.00 Loss In Sunday Evening
Blaze on Ralph Henry Farm,
Southeast of Town
family Away From Home at
Time Fire Discovered By
Neighbors
Fire set by lightning during an
electrical storm at 7:45 p. m. last
Sunday razed a frame bam on the
Ralph Henry farm, five miles south
east of Bluffton.
Loss was estimated by Fire Chief
Guy Corson at $1,000 including farm
implements, tools, an electric motor
and a sheap-shearing outfit. It was
partially covered by insurance.
The Henry family was absent at
the time and Eugene Staley and
Harold Marshall, neighbors, who saw
the burning bam called the
fire department,
Bluffton
arrived,
a mass
hope of
By the time the fire truck
however, the structure was
of flames and there was no
having any part of it.
was 18 by 36 feetlnd an attached
shed, 18 by 12 feeti also was lost.
The bam
Mr. and Mrs. Hehry had gone to
visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Reichenbach, ‘-north of Bluff
ton, and their car, ordinarily kept in
the bam, was not bicluded in the
loss. Henry said? he will not re
build at present.
EXPERTS VEERING
TOWARD EARLIER
CORN PLANTING
Trend is Toward Grandfather’s
Rule of May 10 As
Ideal Time i
Early Fall Frosts Have Nippec
Corn Planted Last Part
of May
knew
Grandfather apparently
something about farming and agri
cultural experts who up until this
year advised delaying corn planting
until May 28 are falling in line with
the pioneer axiom of getting seed
into the ground as near May 10 as
possible.
With this area’s corn crop caught
by early fall frosts for the past
several years, experts now regard
the middle of May the ideal time to
complete planting, and weather per
mitting this week will
major portion of the crop
ground.
the
the
find
in
Approximately 90 per cent
district’s corn crop will be
by next Saturday night if favorable
weather prevails throughout the
week, reliable farm observers point
ed out Tuesday.
Some com already has been plant
ed, especially by those subscribing
to the theory that seeding should be
done between May 12 to 20. Another
school of thought favors a May 15
to 25 dateline, but both are veering
nearer to grandfather’s May 10 date
in actual practice.
Weather Big Factor
Whether seeding will near comple
tion by the close of this week will
be dependent on the weather, a facor
of importance inasmuch as consider
able plowing remains to be done.
Although farmers got aw’ay to an
early start with their tillage, inter
mittent rains the last two weeks
much of the time have made the soil
too wet for working.
With favorable weather this week
and next, com planting will not
present too big a problem for the
area’s mechanized farming opera
tions. Acreage is expected to be
about average, with no incentive for
farmers to extend their usual plans.
Factors working against expanded
corn acreage hinge on the outlook
of livestock to which the crop can be
fed, a reflection on the uncertainty
of future markets, rising costs and
shortage of labor, a situation carry
ing with it a potential shortage in
event of unusual demand.
Student Recital
Final public student recital of the
Rluffton college department of music
will be hei4 in Ramseyer chapel, Fri
day night at 8 o’clock. Appearing on
the program will be Alice Oyer,
voice Roberta Manges, cello, and
Arlene Hartzler, piano, students of
Professors Sidney Hauenstein, Mrs.
H. P. Mann and Russell A. Lantz.
Bluffton Students Receive Cacheted
Envelopes In
?irst and Second Graders Make
Tour of Post Office to See
Mail Process
"lying Service Provides Envel
opes for Students to Pub
licize Campaign
An airmail mailing program among
students in Bluffton public schools
and Bluffton college, including a free
cacheted envelope for each pupil and
a tour of the post office for first
and second graders, will mark Bluff
ton’s observance of-national air mail
week, which closes this Friday.
Pupil participation in the pro
gram highlights local post office de
partment activities in connection
with the 30th anniversary of air
mail, inaugurated on May 5, 1918.
In connection with the Bluffton
program each student received a free
airmail envelope, imprinted with a
special cachet, which they are to
mail out during airmail week.
The airmail observance is spon
sored by the Bluffton Flying service,
operated by Clayton Bixel
Harold Carey.
On Wednesday morning, first
second graders were taken on a
and
and
con­
ducted tour through the post office,
mailing his envelope at that time,
and watched it processed for mail
ing. The air letters mailed by the
pupils are taken by rail to Toledo
and other cities for dispatch by
plane.
Talks were made to the group by
Assistant Postmaster Ralph T.
Stearns, Dallas Berry, Byron And
erson and Eugene Benroth.
Edward R. Reichenbach, Bluffton
postmaster, urges the public to use
the cacheted envelopes and help swell
the local office’s outgoing volume of
mail during the observance.
Envelopes with the cachet imprint
ed are available for the general
public at the post office.
Wins Architecture
Award At Miami IZ
Carlton Wilson of Bluffton, a
junior in the college of architectural
engineering at Miami university, Ox
ford, has been awarded the Fred
erick Mueller contest prize for plans
of a modern elementary school build
ing, it was announced the first of
the week. The prize carries with it
a cash award of $15.
Entry in the contest is open to all
students of the department and
judges were from the American In
stitute of Architects of Cincinnati.
They are on exhibition at the Uni
versity of Cincinnati.
Wilson is a graduate of Bluffton
high school and served in the Army
Air corps during the war.
is the
place.
Win
the
of
seeded
His wife
former Betty Lape of this
Standings
In State Contest
Bluffton high school stu
Three
dents have qualified for standings in
the state scholarship contest held re
cently. John Bauman placed fifth
in biology and Theo. Bauman and
Ruth Diller received honorable men
tion for standing in the top 25 per
cent in social science and English
respectively.
12:00 M.
Airmail Anniversary
Booster Concert To
Be Presented May 28
Blufft
field will
Concert,
Bluffton College
Friday, May 28
6:00 P.M.
8:00 P.M.
8:00 A.M.
8:00 A. M.
2:00 P.M.
3:00 P.M.
4:00 P.M.
6:00 P. M.
8:30 P.M.
4:15 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
10:00 A. M.
college music graduates
gone into the professional
be featured in a Booster
supplanting the usual
Booster banquet, to be presented in
Ramseyer chapel on Friday, May 28.
appear in
Among those who will
the concert are George
tenor, minister of music
minister church, Detroit
Hilda Amstutz Thomas,
formerly of Pandora Ola
Moser, Contralto, who has
the Chicago Civic Opera
Moon Kopra, of Chicago, Ill., a
teacher and soloist her husband,
Weikko Kopra, baritone and Wil
helmina Bixel Fuller, organist at the
Broad Street Congregational church,
Columbus and Laurence Burkhalter,
violinist.
Thomas,
at West
his wife,
contralto,
Luginbuhl
sung with
Co. Lila
Ill.,
In charge of plans for the event
is a Booster concert comqaittee con
sisting of Gerhai-d Buhler, chairman
Prof. Russell A. Lantz, program
Wilford Geiger, and N. W, Soldner,
Pandora. Harry Yoder is in charge
of ticket sales, and Carl Smucker is
directing publicity.
DRIVE OPENS FOR
BETTER LIGHTING
ON HARMON FIELD
Community Progress Associa
tion Sponsors Campaigh to
Raise $2,000
Present Lighting System Out
dated And Replacement
Said Necessary
lights for the Harmon field
sought in a May
New
football stadium a
campaign sponsored by the Com
munity Progress association to raise
$2,000 for replacement of the present
lighting system.
In the drive, community organiza
tions are being contacted for con
tributions, and interested individuals
are requested to make donations to
help reach the goal.
Speedy conclusion of the campaign
is sought to permit
the new lights for
softball play, which
first week in June.
installation of
this summer’s
will open the
Present lights at the field are out
dated and at least 40 per cent in
efficient, according to surveys made
here this spring by lighting engin
eers.
High school athletic officials at
the same time pointed out that altho
10 years ago Bluffton had one of the
best lighted fields in Northwest Ohio,
the local setup now is the poorest
lighted in the area.
Commencement Activities
May 28-31, 1948
A well-lighted field is essential to
a variety of local activity, it was
pointed out, including high school
and college football, summer soft
ball, the rodeo and the Recreation
committee’s football preview.
BUILDING BARN
Ira Moser is building a bam, steel
construction, 40 by 80 on his farm
south of Bluffton in Orange town
ship.
Pi Delta Banquet Walnut Grill
Booster Concert Ramseyer Chapel
Saturday, May 29
Women’s Varsity Breakfast
Baseball Diamond
Men’s Varsity Breakfast
Walnat Grill
10:00 A.M. Alumni Baseball Game
Alumni-Varsity Tennis Matches
Luncheon for Everyone Campus^
Class Reunions ’38, ’28, ’18, ’08
1948 Class Program
Ramseyer Chapel
1948 and 1938 Box Ceremony
College Hall
Crowning of May Queen Campus
Alumni Banquet Ropp Hall
The Taming of the Shrew
Rich School Auditorium
Sunday, May 30
9:30 A.M.
10:30 A.M. Church Services
3:00 P. M.
Sunday School in the Churches
Baccalaureate Services
Ramseyer Chapel
Address: “A More Erotllent Way”
(I Cbr. 12:31)
Pres. Lloyd L. Ramseyer
President’s Reception
President’s Home
Vesper Choir Concert
First Mennonite Chureh
Monday, May 31
Commencement Program
Ejrst Mennonite Church
Address: “Education in a Changing
World”
Dr. C. C, Ellis, President Emeritus
Juniata College
A Good Place To Trade
NUMBER 5
38 WILL RECEIVE
COLLEGE DEGREES
HERE THIS SPRING
Commencement Exercises At
Bluffton College Will Be
Held Monday, May 31
Busy Commencement Week Pro
gram Will Include Bacca
laureate on May 30
Reflecting the post-war upturn in
collegiate enrollment, 38 Bluffton col
lege seniors will be graduated, at
commencement exercises on Monday
morning, May 31, in the First Men
nonite church auditorium.
The degrees to be conferred on the
1948 graduating class are varied, in
cluding seven classifications.
Of the seniors, 18 will receive
Bachelor of Arts degrees six Bach
elor of School Music four Bachelor
of Science three Bachelor of Science
in Home Economies three Bachelor
of Science in Education two Bach
elor of Science in Nursing one
and one Bachelor of Science in
Economics and Business.
Presentation of diplomas to gradu
s the climax to a
of commencement
class reunions,
alumni
29, and
y, May
weekend
and th
May
May D:
banquet on Saturday
Graduates who will
this year include:
Bachelor of
degrees
Arts
Jenera
Mary
Pa.
Carold V. Blosser,
Agnes Burkhard, Orrtanna,
David Dudley Dean, Jr., Bluffton
James Frey, Archbold, O. Annette
Grolimund, Mulhouse, France Cly
menia Hannah Hamman, East Green
ville, Pa.
Howard Floyd Herr, Bluffton
Stanley F. Hostetter, Dalton Wil
liam Echard Keeney, Bluffton Paul
P. Klassen, Bluffton Evelyn Nunne
maker Krehbiel, Bluffton Paul Moser
Martin, Bluffton Alice Locher Neu
enschwander, Pandora Anne Louise
Ptapp, Wapakoneta Barbara Ann
Sprunger, Berne, Ind. Russell L.
Stewart, Lima Freda Yoder, Bluff
ton Treva Zuercher, Hatfield, Pa.
Bachelor of School Music
Lois Susanna Oyer, Bluffton Eliza
beth Frances Waterstraw, Fairport,
N. Y. Mabel Amstutz, Bluffton
Arlene Jane Hartzler, Goshen, Ind.
Roberta June Manges, Bluffton Alice
Virginfa Oyer, Bluffton.
Bachelor of Science
Richard K. Bergy, Bluffton Ron
ald Lee Rich, Washington, Ill. Wall
is Allen Turner, Antwerp, O. Robert
William Crites, Lima.
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics
Harriet Jean Schertz, Metamora,
Ill. Genevieve Elaine Buhler, Bluff
ton Nova Joan McCarty, Waynes
field.
Bachelor of Science in Education
Herbert John Klassen, Bluffton
Howard E. Krehbiel, Bluffton Marie
Winifred Smith, Kalida,tO.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Jean Yoder, Wawaka, Ind. Willa
dene H. Keeney, Bluffton.
Bachelor of Science in Social Service
Jean Harrison Gilbert, Dayton.
Bachelor of Science in Economics
and Business
Lloyd Earl Hunsberger, Wads
worth, O.
Births
The following births at Rluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fry, Ada,
a boy, John Richard, last Wednesday.
and Mrs. Ralph Waltz, Mt.
a boy, Michael Allen, Thurs-
Mr.
Cory,
day.
Mr.
ton, a boy, William Charles, Satur
day.
and Mrs. Lloyd Graff, Bluff-
and Mrs. Wilbur Neill, Bluff
boy, John Rollin, Saturday.
and Mrs. Larry Baier, Ada, a
Mr.
ton, a
Mr.
girl, Sharon Lynne, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Augsburger,
Bluffton, a boy, James Dale, Wed
nesday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patterson,
Columbus, a girl, Carol Ann at
Grant hospital, Columbus, Saturday..
Mrs. Patterson is the former Carol
Cookson of Bluffton.
Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Neuensch
wander, Compton, Calif., a boy, Je
rome Mack, April 14. Rev. Neuen
schwander is formerly of Bluffton.
Graduated From
Bible Seminary
Earl Dean Luginbuhl, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gideon Luginbuhl of West
Elm street was graduated Thursday
from Cincinnati Bible seminary. He
has accepted a pastorate in Wheat
land, Ind. Attending the graduation
exercises were his parents and sis
ter Dor* Jean.