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A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXni
THREE NAMED TO
NEW DRAFT BOARD
IN ALLEN COUNTY
Two Lima Men and Perry Twp.
Farmer Will Serve On
Allen Board
Barr, Fitzgerald And Tabler
Will Direct Draft Of 18
To 26-Year-Olds
Allen
regis-
Organization of the new’
county draft board to handle
tration and induction of 18- through
expected
the w’ake
25-year-old selectees is
■within the next week, in
of appointment of the three-man
board last Saturday.
On the single board which has
the responsibility for the entire
county are:
O. O. Barr, president and
manager of the Barr hotel,
Lima.
James A. Fitzgerald, a West
inghouse Electric Corp, employe,
ill so of Lima.
J. Reed Tabler, Pefry township
fanner and president of the
Allen County Township Trustee
and Clerks association.
They were notified last Saturday
of their appointment by President
'Truman, upon recommendation of
the governor.
The letters
received from
Ohio Selective
commended that
earliest possible
tion, which will
of a chairman
board clerk also
of notification they
Gen. C. W. Goble,
Service director, re
they meet at the
date for organiza
include the election
and secretary’. A
w’ill be employed.
Recommendations for the appoint
ments were made by a special com
mittee named by the governor. It
consisted of Judge Moran B. Jen
kins, of common pleas court Judge
Raymond P. Smith, of probate court,
and A. D. MacDonell, president of
the Lima Metropolitan bank.
The Allen county board is one of
127 in Ohio which will administer
the 1948 Selective Sendee act. Three
boards handled World War II regis
tration and induction in the county.
First duty after organization will
be the registration of 18 to 26-year
cld men, beginning August 30 and
ending Sept. 18.
Movies On Palestine
At St. John Church
Life in war-torn Palestine will be
pictured in sound movies and de
scribed in a lecture by Walter J.
Field, English educator and mission
ary,
John
dora.
at 7:30 p. m. Sunday in St.
Mennonite church near Pan­
A missionary in Palestine, Field
is on his first visit to the United
States to appear in a series of lec
ture dates.
In the pictures and lecture, Field
•will depict the explosive problem of
Palestine, and speak of his exper
iences while living and working with
both Jews and Arabs. He also will
show pictures of the work of the
mission which he represents.
Bluffton College
Alumnus Is Dead
Charles Trachsel, 58, Bluffton
college alumnus, died at his home
in Iowa City, Iowa, according to
word received here the first of the
week.
Since his graduation here in 1917
he has been connected with the
Iowa City schools and was head of
the science department since 1921.
Trachsel came here as a student in
the academy thirty-eight years ago.
He was a native of Pulaski, Iowa.
Surviving are his widow and two
daughters, Patricia, student at
Curtis Institute of Music, Philadel
phia and Annette, a high school
student.
Funeral For Father
Of George Carmack
Funeral services for James Car
cark. Sr., 81-year-old Toledo resident
and father of George Carmack, Bluff
ton motion picture theatre owner,
were held at Gibsonburg last Wed
nesday afternoon in the V
home. Burial was in th
burg cemetery.
He
for
:h funeral
a retired store
ational Supply
oil field equipment and
of a number of
line of which he
company
iventor
in that
appliances
held patents.
Besides his son
three other sons: James, Jr
ledo Clarence of Columbus Floyd
of Niagara Falls and one daughter,
Mrs. Glenna Andrus of Toledo.
living here are
of To-
Jim Howe To Play
In All-Star Tilt
James Howe, stai* tackle on Bluff
ton High’s 1947 football team, is in
Canton this week, practicing with
the Northern All-Stars for the high
school all-star tilt to be played there
this Friday night.
Howe and a Lima South tackle
are the only all star representatives
from this
the only
school.
New Feature Will Be Contest
Between Two Six-Man
Grid Teams
Bluffton, Columbus Grove, Ada
Clyde, Bellefontaine, Wayne,
Upper Sandusky, Forest Here
An action studded presentation,
including a clash betwt
man football teams in
three contests between
teams, will mark Bluffton’s
annual football preview* at
field Friday night, Sept. 10.
Two Six-Man Teams
Six-man football provides a wide
open, high-scoring type game, stress
ing fundamental
Wayne have
Ohio’s finest
proximately
nation have
popularity of the game continues to
increase.
Rolling Clang Of Grade School Bell To
Be Stilled This Fall After 72 Years
area, and the local boy is
selection from a Class
ir, Neil Schmidt, ace Bluff
prominent in the all-star
ton back
classic, was the first Class player
ever to qualify for the all-star squad.
EIGHT TEAMS IN
FOOTBALL PREVIEW
HERE ON SEPT. 10
and Clyde and
two of Northwestern
teams. At present ap
2,300 schools in the
six-man teams, and
Of the eight teams appearing in
this fall’s preview, Ada, Columbus
Grove, Forest and Bluffton will be
holdovers from last year.
Sponsored by the Bluffton board
of education, proceeds will be turned
over to the
mittee for
purposes.
Bluffton Recreation com
community recreation
of the preview will be
Manager
Richard Lowry, new Bluffton High
coach with Roger Howe serving as
Bluffton Band Mothers
the
assistant.
will operate the concessions for
benefit of the high school band.
Funeral Held For
Former Resident
Miss Larkie Quaintance, 82, former
Bluffton resident, died at McVey
convalescent home in Sycamore last
Wednesday night. The family lived
here about 45 years ago.
Funeral services were held at the
Bringman funeral home in Upper
Sandusky, Saturday afternoon fol
lowed by burial in Oak Hill cemetery
at that place.
Surviving is one brother Walter
Quaintance of Upper Sandusky.
Home After Two
Years In India
Mist Mary Elizabeth Amstutz,
Bluffton college graduate, has re
turned to her home in Pandora after
spending two years in India where
she
the
was engaged in relief work under
Mennonite Central committee.
Real Estate Deal
Augsburger of the Fett
has purchased the Mor
Lawn
and expects to occupy the
apartments
ton Riegle property on North
avenue
place sshortly.
Mrs. Riegle and son Robert va
cated the house Tuesday, moving to
Patuxent River, Maryland to join
Mr. Riegle who is employed there
as a civilian at the naval air station.
Riegle who was in naval service dur
ing the last war was stationed at
that place. The family lived here
for two years during w’hich time he
was employed in the engineering de
partment of the Triplett company.
Riegle and
Sell Will Be Removed Because
Of Unsafe Conditions In
Belfry
Plans To Remove Bell Bring
Expression of Regrets From
Community Residents
Bluffton's ancient grade school bell,
which has rolled its sonorous clamor
across the town for three-quarters
of a century, will not be rung to
mark the beginning of morning and
afternoon class sessions this fall,
thereby ending a custom observed
since the school was built in 1876.
At a meeting Friday night, mem
bers of the board of education took
action to have the bell re
the belfry, after it had
that the installation no
safe.
InSTAl
Th
addition to
11-man
second
Harmon
On the preview program this year
there will be four 16 minute games,
as follows:
Clyde vs Wayne
Ada vs Columbus Grove
Bellefontaine vs Upper Sandusky
Forest vs Bluffton
The Clyde-Wayne six-man football
tilt will add a new7 turn to preview
competition, for no teams in this
immediate area hatfe been engaging
in that type of play.
moved from
been found
longer was
the bell re
It is planned to have
moved before the opening of school,
and the board is offering the big
iron bell free to anyone who will take
it down without damage to the build
ing.
was
ring
aid
the
frorr
iron frame
bell is sus
se from its
pended ii
moorings
An ins
finned the report,
the body said extensive repairs would
have been necessary to shore
belfry with necessary supports
tw’o-ton bell. Cost of the
they added w’ould have been
proportions to any benefits accruing.
board con
members of
up the
for the
repairs
out of
As far as is known, the bell has
hung in the belfry ever since the
school was built in the 1870’s, and
except for routine repairs and main
tenance the bell and belfry have
stood through the years substantially
as originally placed.
Day
the bell is to
expressions of
Served Its
Announcement that
be removed brought
regret from many residents to whom
its ringing had come to be a part
of community life.
Board members pointed out this
week that
a purpose
paratively
method of
Now with clocks and watches plenti
ful and radio giving a
check on correct time the
a bell is past, they say.
the bell originally served
when clocks were com
rare, and there was no
maintaining correct time.
constant
need for
gong will
An electrically operated
be placed outside the building to
summon children from the play
ground w’hen school sessions convene
at morning, noon and at the
of recess.
close
Named Assistant
Hospital Head Here
Miss Elnora Basinger of Pandora
has been appointed assistant superin
tendent of Bluffton hospital, it was
announced by Miss Sylvia Bieder
man, Wednesday.
Miss Basinger was graduated from
the Ohio State university
school of nursing in March
been connected with the
here since last spring.
hospital
and has
hospital
Graveside Services
For Charles Sweet
Services at Maple Grove cemetery
were held Wednsday morning for
Charles Sweet, 85-year-old Bluffton
resident who died Sunday in the
Allen county home hospital. Rev.
Martz Snyder of Lima officiated.
Sweet, a long time Bluffton resi
dent was admitted to the home in
1947. He was born in Richland
township April 16, 1363.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Perry Knox and Mrs. Guy Knox,
both of Celina.
Bluffton Man To Be
Grand Rapids Coach
Dale Reichenbach, high school
coach for basketball, football and
track at Wayne, the past year has
resigned to accept a coaching posi
tion in the high school at Grand
Rapids, Ohio. He will have charge
of basketball and baseball.
Clyde Ream Hurt In
Fctfl At Son's Home
Clyde Ream, 63, of Ne1
former resident of Bluffton,
a deep gash in his face wht
while helping his son,
carpenter work at the
here.
differed
he fell
Donald, with
latter’s home
the
He was treated at
Community hospital,
turned to his home at Ne’
Blufftor
later re
Stark.
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY’
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, AU(
BOARD AS
ON ONE MILL TAX
FOR COUNTY FAIR
Want Proposal For Levy to Run
For Five Years on November
Ballot
Measure Will Require Only
Majority Vote to Become
Effective
A resolution requesting the county
commissioners to place a proposal
a one-mill tax levy for five
November ballot was
years on the
approved by the Allen County
cultural society in Delphos
Wednesday evening. President
Renner and secretary Paul
will present the resolution
commissioners.
This action is the first
vote
option i
a
the societ
109-acre' Hi
on the
Allentown-road we
complete project
The
a modern
center and a fieldhouse
stock shows and athletic
proval of th
majority vote,
as in the pas
agricultural
commute
A
by Dale Archer. Assist)
Walter Burgett, Delphos
of Grange publicity Herl
county extension agent,
of 4-H club:
of Delphos
corporation Ted Rupert,
corporation, and Arthur
Lima.
12, 1948
VOTE
Oscar
Long,
o thwe
charge
Dr. F. A. Young, city
Silas Diller, Bluffton
Spencerville
Selma Suter Sommer
Succumbs In Iowa
Mrs. Selma Suter Sommer, 63,
Pandora native and graduate of
Bluffton college |n the class of 1916,
died unexpectedly of ’I l*eart attack
in the University hospital at Iowa
City, Iowa, last Wednesday.
Wash
in the
tests
aronary
Mrs. Sommer, who lived in
ington, Iowa, was a patient
hospital undergoing allergy
when she was stricken with co
occulsion and died almost instantly.
She was born in Pandora, May 27,
1885, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
P. C. Suter and was a student in
Bluffton college in the early days of
the institution. She w-as a member
of Grace Mennonite church, Pandora.
She was married September 22,
1916 to Chris Sommer of Wayland,
Iowa who died in 1924.
She was an instructor in the Way
land, Iowa, high
1936 when she
asthma.
to
of
school from 1926
retired because
of
of
two sons Otto
Surviving are
North Newton, Kansas, and Irvin
Alameda, Calif., and a daughter Mrs.
Dora Dettweiler of Washington,
Iowa, together with six grandchild
ren.
Brothers surviving are: Edwin of
Lima Gilbert of Pandora Peter,
Arlington and Otto, Crawfordsville,
Iowa. Surviving sisters are Miss
Martha 'Suter, Mrs. Della Amstutz
and Mrs. Hulda Schumacher, all of
Pandora.
Funeral services were held at
Washington, Iowa, Sunday afternoon
with burial at Wayland, Iowa.
Among those attending the funeral
w-ere Miss Martha Suter, Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Suter and Mr. and Mrs.
James Suter all of Pandora and Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Suter of Arlington.
Orange Twp. Native
Dies in Home At Ada
Funeral services were held in Ada
Friday for Mrs. Dora May Bauman,
84, a native of Orange township,
who died last Wednesday at the
home of a son in Ada.
A daughter of Hiram and Eliza
beth (McKelvey) Thompson, she was
born in Orange township,
1864. She was married to
Bauman on Feb. 6, 1883.
in 1918. Burial was near
April 16,
Frank L.
He died
Ada.
Crowds Throng Shops
On Dollar Days Here
Bluffton's first Dollar Days sale
since the close of World War 11 at
tracted throngs of shoppers here
Friday and Saturday to take advant
age of the unusual money-saving op
portunities offered in diversified lines.
Merchants who cooperated in spon
soring the Dollar Days were enthusi
astic regarding success of the pro
ject, and similar merchandising
events are being planned for the
future.
Heavenly Sh ow Of Shooting Stars
Visible throughout all of
n hemispl
The meteors usually are about 40
50 miles from the earth, but in
smuch as they are about the size of
to
o
Editor’s Note—This
of a series of articles to
in the Bluffton News
with early Ohio history,
will appear in
issues.
settlements, antedating
seat, was Caesarsville, on the creek
bank near where the Wilmingtow
Xenia road, State Route 68, crosses.
Will Reach Peak This Wednesday 1
a grain of s.
be burned ot
earth. They
parts of the
pear to come
Perseus, whic
come
play of shooting stars will
Wednesday night, in the ai
put on each August by
the north­
best view of the
shooting stars is obtained after mid
night. Astronomers say that as
many as 50 meteors may be observed
each hour if the sky is clear.
is one
appear
dealing
Others
forthcoming
The Story of Caesar
Legends are
but too often \vrong.
This is the true story of Caesar’s
creek, Caesarsville and of Caesar.
Caesar’s creek is a pretty good
stream. It flows through the south
era part of Greene County and
through the northwestera portion of
Clinton County With an important
role in the his tory of Clinton Coun
ty, it enters ften into the annals
of that county’s past.
Greene County’s most central
southern township was named for
the creek and one of its earliest
the county
Caesar’s Legend
Early histories of both Greene
and Clinton counties have it that
the creek was named for Caesar, a
negro slave of an early surveyor,
who died while on a trip with his
master
on its
other
legend
published,
me, too.
from Caesar all right, but not in the
way tradition has it.
and was buried somewhere
bank. The writer too, like
historian:
and it
has related the
has, been widely
all were wrong—
its name
We
The creek got
Caesar was a slave, not one who
died in the service of his master but
an escapee from Kentucky who ran
off and took up with the Indians.
Learning their language, he became
an interpreter. But, interpreting
facts as of his own ideas instead of
merely repeating what was said, he
got the Indians and white men into
a mess of troubles before he got
through. Caesar tried to “carry
water on both shoulders.’’
In Caesar’s Creek township,
Greene County, lived the band of
Shawnees of which the old negro
was a member. Caesar’s pole shack
itself was somewhere near where
Thomas Carneal, in 1800, founded
Caesars ville.
Caesarsville, about five miles south
of Xenia, was designed to be the
Greene County seat but, though
older and a bit larger than Xenia,
it lost out in the race and eventually
dwindled to nothing.
Interpreter at Murder Trial
Caesar was a man of note in the
two counties and his fame extended
much further than that. He was the
negro who served as interpreter at
the Indian trial and execution of
the Black Chief’s son near Upper
Sandusky in 1840, for the drunken
murder of John Barnet, a half-breed.
He then was very’ old. The young
murderer’s grave, into which he fell
backwards after the rifle fire, still
is a sunken spot in a cornfield along
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
It was Caesar who, at the Indian
village near Caesarsville, gave Simon
Kenton the tip which saved his life
when running the
south of Oldtown,
was
had
the
take
Chillcothe-
in September,
been captured
Ohio River bank and was
n to the large village
now Oldtown.
party stopped for rest
r’s cabin, the old negro
i that, if he could escape
the Indian gauntlet
council house in Old
it
When tl
near Caes
while 'running
and get to the
Chillicothe ahead of his pursuers,
of the savages not to
him run the gauntlet.
was a law
again make
Running Gauntlet
Running the gauntlet was a tor-
ut befi
Perseid th
Mel
,ima
legion, pretty stories
Usually com-
ing through u ord of mouth from
generation to £generation, they gain
a little in each telling until in the
finality they wind up as pretty good
yarns. Utten however, the factual
tale, when it :an be unearthed, is
better than the traditional one.
u
Improv
11 p.
The Perseid meteors are
left in the ormit of Tuttle's
of 1862, and th show is one
best of the year. The new
its first quarter, should not
fere with the view of the
shower. Often the brilliance
moon interferes with good
ance.
oh
With The Sick
Cleveland clinic hospital.
'om
Ht
u
the Triplett
Harold
Ci
condition
Bluffton who
Bluffton ho
olved in an
tient
was
cident, Jul
Amstutz, wh
unconscious
s, is regainin
s reported
or brief inte
.ciousness, it
night.
Mrs. Lou Eaton, former Bluffton
resident is reported seriously ill at
the Kohlmeyer invalid home in
Findlay
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Butterfat—77c.
line and
for Old
hundred
suit.
gauntlet a mih
near Xenia. Tha
1778, after Kentoi
by the Indians oi
?injg
After Kenton h.
had somewhat rec
exhaustion, the
bringing
thing 1
able tc
to the
n
Id
A Good Place To Trade
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Miss Lorena Young is a surgical| Coa* Lowry will have eight letter
patient at St. Rita’s hospital, Lima.l men and 18 numeralmen.
Dr. N. S. llilty ift. ^patient ini Lettermen expected back in uni
Lima Memorial huspitaT^foflowfirg
heart attack the first of the week. II Seniors Marquart., Dean
Dr. Hilty, retired Pandora physician,! Sommer, Ray Lee Wilch.
makes his home with his son, Rayl Juniors John Bauman, Cleo Dli
Hilty of West Kibler street.
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Wednesday Morning I
Grain (bushel prices) Wheat!
$2.04 corn $1.90 oats 68c sm s
I
$2.50.
s ar^el
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When Kenton reached that part of! a boy, this Wednesday morning.
the line where the Indian with the|
knife stood, he broke
made, with all his
Chillicothe, nearly
screaming Indians in pur-1
Just as he entered the town and
turned towards the council house,
Kenton met a blanketed Indian I Thirty-ninth annual reunion of the
walking leisurely towards the gaunt-1 Black School will be held Thursday,
let.
being fresh
pinned the
There the
him, kicked
nearly was
He threw off his blanket and I August 12. Pres., Ruth
and Kenton exhausted, I Sec., Helen Pifer.
captive to the ground. I The White reunion will
Indian pursuers caught I Riverside park, Findlay, Sunday,
and beat him until he Aug. 29.
unconscioui
his clothing, then v
ing Kenton nearly
•alked away leav
dead.
ad lain
overed
some water and some
As soon as he was
they took the captive
house to determine his
Death Sentence
Kenton was sent
and because of his
execution was to
one. He was to be taken to Wapa
tomika,
County,
through two Indian
NUMBER 17
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
TAKES OVER
HERE NEXT WEEK
Richard Lowry, Former Findlay
Assistant, Replaces Coach
Kent Cotterman
I Cotterman Leaves Monday For
,, I New Post at Bryan Lowry
he I Has
Eight Lettermen
Richard
ioo!
O. Lowry, an assistant on
ng staff at Findlay High
will move to Bluff-
last year,
i next week to replace K
man, who leaves for
two successful years
Charles Bucher, 14, Bluffton’s only I High school head coach,
reported case of polio is improving I Cottennan, who resig!
at the home of his parents Mr. and Ito accept a position as
Mrs. Clair Buchex* of West Elm |and athletic director i
street. The youth w]
with the disease a i
removed to Lima Mt
July 9, was removed
pital’s isolation ward
nd I
Cot-
Bryan after
as Bluffton
ist June
coach
ryan, a
ve from
st Mon-
Coach Lowry
for all high
candidates to
athletic room for issue of equip
ment. Juniors and seniors will
report Wednesday night, Aug.
18 at
sophomore
Aug. 19
Lowry, i
by Cotten
Belle Aug:
has been
spital sii
automobi
has issued a call
school football
report at the
Juniors and
Wednesday
o’clock and freshmen and
Thursday night
at 8 o’clock.
A graduate of
ate university,
,wry will come hi
lary of $2,800.
until
children,
vacated
mer Mrs.
Col-
urger property
wn avenues.
Bowlini
Green
year-old
annual
Start Grid Workouts
He
ing
fall footb
missable date
I
ediately
of plans for open
I practice, in order
of the first per
■orkouts on August
For his 1948 Bluffton grid squad,
Dwayne Hauenstein, Larry
Mathewson.
Sophomore—Leland Garmatter.
Among the 18 numeralmen are:
Seniors—Ralph Dunifon, Joe Good
man, Lee Hursey.
Juniors—David Basinger, Robert
Bixel, Donald Burkholder, Dwight
Hauenstein, Paul Purcell, Donald
Schumacher, George Grismore, Eu
i gene Hankish, Don Schmidt.
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Poultry—Heavy hens 32c leghorn
I
hens 30c heavy broilers 40c leg-|
horn broilers 35c.
Eggs—Large white
browns 51c.
Sophomores Bill Augsburger,
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Kenton had not run far when hel Pandora, a girl, Rebecca Jane, Fri
noticed that an Indian up the linel{jay
had his knife drawn, ready to plunge I Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crawford,
into him. All the other savages had! Findlay, a girl, Sharon Lee, Sunday,
clubs and the line was a long one.I Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schmidt, Ada,
The Indians were about six feet I a boy, Glen, Tuesday.
apart.
James Badertscher, Lynn Carmack,
Paul Cramer, David Hochstettler,
|john Tri ppi ehorn.
ture the savages inflicted on all male
captives. The prisoner was forced to
run between two lines of Indians
armed with clubs, whips, stones and
other weapons not designed to kill I The following births at Bluffton
and the savages all took a whack at I hospital:
him as the prisoner ran past. The I Mr. and Mrs. Lester Cramer,
faster you could run, the better you I Findlay, a girl, Sue Ann, last Wed
could dodge and the more you could I nesday.
endure, the better off you were. Ini Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cotner,
a large band of braves the gauntlet I Findlay, a girl, Waneta Louise, Fri
was pretty long and the Indians en-l(]ay
joyed the toruture race immensely. I Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lehman,
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Hover, Lima,
through the! Mr. and Mrs. Dale D. Suter, Cen
spoedl terville, a girl, born at Dayton hos
threel pital.
Reunions
Don
Pres.,
White.
tore off al
will be held
south of Bluffton
Basket dinner
furnished. Pres.,
Mae Huber.
until he
from his
returned,
Sec.
Steinman
be held at
Basket dinner at noon.
White Sec., Bernice
annual Huber reunion
at Richland grange hall
Sunday, Aug. 15.
noon. Coffee
The 41st
Sidney Huber sec.,
The 7th annual Burkholder reunion
has been cancelled because of the
polio situation. Mrs. Wilford Stein-
death I The 21st reunion of the Augsbur-
prominence the I ger family will be held at Riverside
be an auspicious park, Findlay, Sunday, Aug. 22.
Pres., Joan Augsburger Sec., Mrs.
now Zanesfield, Logan I Thelma Schctter.
On the way he passed I The Gromann family reunion will
towns and was I be held at Jackson Grange near
jed on page 4) I Arlington, Sunday, Aug. 15.