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BLUFFTON
A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXIII
BLUFFTON SCHOOLS
TO OPEN TUESDAY
FOR FALL TERM
Local School Enrollment Is
Expected To Show Slight
Increase This Fall
Teaching Assignments For New
Term Announced By Supt.
Ralph Lanham
Reflecti ng sharply increased regis
tration in the grades, Bluffton’s pub
lie school enrollment is expected to
be near ,tlie 500 mark with the open
ing of the fall term next Tuesday
Last ye■ar’s registration in grade
and high schools on the opening day
was —-258 in the grades and 227
in niRn school. This fall’s high school
enron mem1 is expected to drop slight
ly, but th
pupils wilI bp greater.
Tuesday nnorning, a general teachers’
this week by Supt. Ralph Lanham are
as follows:
Grade School
Meredith Stepleton—First Grade
and Grade School Principal.
Ruby Murray—First Grade.
Genevieve Beagle—First-Second
•Grade.
Levada Bixel—Second Grade.
Minerva Hilty—Third Grade.
Robert Ewing—Fourth Grade.
Faye Herrick Fourth-Fifth
Grades.
Adel la Oyer—Fifth Grade.
Theola Steiner—Sixth Grade.
High School
Gerhard Buhler—Principal and
Science.
Florence Duffield—Commercial.
Wilford Geiger—Chemistry’, Biol
ogy, Science.
Wilbur A. Howe—English, Social
Science.
Mildred Keel—English, Latin.
Earl W. Lehman—Instrumental
and Vocal Music.
Richard Q. Lowry—Physical Ed
ucation, Coaching.
Elizabeth Mohr—Vocational Home
Economics.
Theressa Slusser American
History, Social Science.
Dwight Spaythe—Industrial Arts.
Sidney C. Stettler—Mathematics.
Elma L. Ater—Elementary vocal
music supervisor.
Ocie Anderson—Library Science.
Ralph S. Lanham—Superintendent,
Mathematics.
Ed K. Lugibill Dies
Funeral On Saturday
Edward K. Lugibill, 67, of North
Mound street, died Wednesday morn
ing at 2 o’clock in Bluffton hospital.
Death, due to complications, followed
injuries sustained Monday of last
week in an automobile accident and
on Friday he underwent an operation
at the hospital here.
Funeral services will be held Sat
urday afternoon from the First Mis
sionary church of which he was a
member. The pastor, Rev. Robert
Welch will officiate and buiial will
be in Maple Grove cemetery.
He was born in Bluffton, the son
•of Emanuel and Magdalena (Conrad)
Lugibill and was married May 21,
1901 to Alice Lambert. At the time
of his death he was employed as a
mechanic at Lima.
Surviving are his wife, one son
E. Earle Lugibill of Lima and two
-daughters, Mrs. Margaret Skidmore
of Bluffton and Miss Frieda Lugibill
at home and two granddaughters.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs.
N. J. Welty of Rent), Nevada half
sisters, Mrs. Frank Dray, Bluffton
and Mrs. Alice Boutwell, Vallejo,
•Calif., and half brother Fred Lugi
bill of Hutchinson, Kansas.
The body will be removed Wednes
day evening from the Basinger fun
eral home to his late residence where
it will remain until the funeral
services.
Teaching In Elida
Miss Lois Oyer, daughter of Mr.
sand Mrs. Albert Oyer of North Lawn
avenue will assume her duties as
vocal music instructor in the Elida
schools next week. She was gradu
ated from Bluffton college last
-spring.
Moving Here
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Rickert and
lamily have moved from Canton to
the Mrs. Sara Steiner farm west of
Bluffton. Mrs. Rickert is the former
Vera Althaus of this place. Her
husband has accepted a bookkeeping
position at Bixel Motor Sales.
Drivers' Licenses To
Go On Sale Tuesday
Sale of automobile driver’s licenses
for 1948-49 will open next Tuesday at
offices of Bixel Motor Sales, Bluffton
area registrar.
Anyone operating a motor vehicle
after Sept. 30 is required by law to
have the new license.
A new requirement in the issuance
of chauffeur’s licenses this year pres
cribes that photographs to be placed
on the license card must have been
taken not more than 30 days prior to
application for the permit.
Photographs must be two and one
half inches square, and show only a
head and shoulder view. No re
touching of photograph is permitted,
REGISTRATION FOR
21-MONTHS DRAFT
STARTS THIS WEEK
Men In 18 Through 25 Age
Groups Begin Registering in
Lima On Monday
Mailing of Draft Questionaires
Will Follow Completion of
Registration
Registration for the new 21-month
peacetime draft is continuing at a
steady pace this week with those in
the 18 through 25-year-old bracket
subject to induction registering by
age groups.
After opening with registration of
25-year-olds on Monday, 24-year-old
men were registered Tuesday and
Wednesday, folloxving which 23-year
olds will be handled Thursday and
Friday.
Altho youths of 18 must register
they are not subject to draft induc
tion until they are 19, and neither
will draft calls affect a dozen cate
gories deferred by presidential order,
including husbands, fathers, men with
dependents, essential workers and
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St. Mary's Church To
Welcome New Pastor
Members of St. Mary’s Catholic
church will hold a welcoming party
and covered dish supper at the
church next Sunday evening at 6
o’clock in honor of Rev. Clarence J.
Yeager who has been assigned to
the pastorate here.
Rev. Yeager, a former Army chap
lain who was assigned to St. Mary’s
parish by Bishop Karl J. Alter of
Toledo, Took over his duties here last
Sunday. He is also chaplain of St.
Rita’s hospital, Lima.
The new pastor fills the vacancy
caused by the death of Rev. James
Nett, former pastor, who died June
17 in St. Rita’s hospital.
Before coming here Fr. Yeager
served as pastor of St. Patrick’s
parish, Bascom, following his return
from military duty.
Richland Grange To
Broadcast Saturday
Richland grange talent will be
heard in a broadcast from Lima
radio station WLOK, Saturday morn
ing at 10 o’clock. The program will
comprise the regular grange half
hour broadcast from the Lima sta
tion every Saturday morning.
Dancing And Card Playing At High
School Social Functions Draws Fire
Emergency treatment in Bluffton
Community hospital was required
last Friday evening when Sandra
Jean Lanning, two-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lanning, three
miles north of town on the Dixie
highway, suffered deep cuts on the
abdomen in a fall on an empty pop
bottle.
Playing with two bottles which she
had taken from the kitchen table,
.the tot was injured when she fell
on a bottle which broke as it struck
the floor.
She was rushed to the hospital
here where emergency treatment was
provided for two deep cuts. Later in
the evening she was released and
taken home.
The Lanning family reSides on the
Green farm, three miles from Bluff
ton, where a large barn was razed
in a noontime fire, last Tuesday.
Group Presents Petitions With
450 Signatures to School
Board
Ask Hollywood Movies and Jazz
Music be Banned at School
Here
Stating their aim as seeking “so
cial protection” for children of par
ents opposed to dancing and card
playing in connection with Bluffton
high school social functic
Two-Year-Old Tot Cut In Abdomen
In Tumble On Broken Pop Bottle
ns renre-
sentatives of the Asso•iation of
Christian Laymen •al group,
conferi ed with the Bluffton board of
education at a special meeting Fri-
^nr.
representa ivpfi ini•luding of-
Eight
ncers of the layn
ed petitions
ten S 01
ning danc-
immoral ai1(1
(iCRl
ading, de-
its president and spokesman, Waldo
Hofstetter, as a group of some 40
members, principally in the Bluffton
Pandora area. Other officers of the
organization he said are Willis Am
stutz, vice president Jos. Thompson,
secretary and E. J. Wahlie, treasur
er. Hofstetter is a former president
of the board of education.
Board Defers Action
The petitions, Hofstetter said, bore
some 450 signatures and his group
expected to obtain 50 more, he added.
The board accepted the petitions but
deferred any action.
Principal fire of the petitioners cen
tered on dancing and card playing
which they alleged constituted the
main diversion at high school social
functions. Hofstetter disclaimed any
intent to bar dancing or card play
ing from these affairs but said that
other entertainment equally attract
ive should be provided for non
dancers.
Spokesmen for the board said it
has always been the school policy to
provide these alternate forms of re
creation and this policy would con
tinue. The petitioners were invited
to suggest forms of recreation which
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Mt. Cory Names
New SchodI Head
Wade Knight, mathematics in
structor at Liberty centralized high
school in Hancock county has been
employed as superintendent of the
Mt. Cory school, succeeding H. R.
Severns who resigned to take a po
sition as salesman with the Cooper
Tire & Rubber company in Findlay.
Knight, a graduate of Wittenberg
college and the University of Cin
cinnati, was formerly superintendent
of the Henry county schools. He also
was in the hardware business at Mt.
Gilead for a short time.
The vacancy in the Liberty school
faculty caused by his resignation
will be filled by Mrs. Rosemary Han
line of Tiro.
Garden Club Flower
Show Here Friday
The Garden club will hold their
flower show in the Methodist church
parlors, Friday afternoon and even
ing from 2 to 10 o’clock. All inter
ested in gardening are invited to
bring arrangements of either flowers
or vegetables. Exhibits should be in
place by 11 a. m.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Rex McCartney,
Findlay, a girl, Vickie Lou, Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cook, Jr., Pan
dora, a boy, Correl Don, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Landes, Bluff
ton, a girl, Deborah Jean, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rogers, La
fayette, a girl, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Hartman,
Arlington, a girl, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Musser, Bluff
ton, a daughter, Constance Jean, at
Lima Memorial hospital, Wednesday
morning. Mrs. Musser is the former
Dorothy Lugibill.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY. SEPT. 2, 19 IS
NEW WELL WILL
BE DRILLED HERE
FOR WATER WORKS
Additional Well Will Be On
Howard Stager Tract,
Near City Limits
Drilling of New Well Will In
sure Adequate Water Supply
For The Town
steps to in
water suppl
quate city
sure an ade
v here even in
the face of emergencies, drilling of
another w?)1 for Bluf
pal water xvorks will b1 started xvith
in the next week, it
Iuesdav ny John Swi
tendent of the plant.
The new well wui
the Howai'll iNtHsrer
distance south of th
line, between the Dixie
the Nickel Plate railr
Rights 1 or drilling
board of
No Water Sh
tain an ad
the rapid
water shor
in which
near the i
miperatures rose daily to
lark. Bluffton
had suffic•ient water for all its
needs, and there was no indication
of any water shortage, Supt. Swisher
said.
However to mainta in the reser
voir level, it was necessary to pump
part-time a third well in addition to
the two from which the city supply
normally is drawn.
Bluffton’s normal daily consump
tion of water is ,250,000 gallons, and
in addition another quarter of a
million gallons is pumped each 24
hours for use by the Page Dairy
Co. Water for the dairy plant comes
from a fourth well located at the
rear' of the dairy plant near the
Nickel Plate railroad.
Funeral Here For
Mrs. Mary Short
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Jane Short, 87, were held in the Ba
singer funeral home, Saturday after
noon with her pastor, Rev. Paul
Cramer of the Methodist church offi
ciating.
Mrs. Short, a resident here for 20
years, died Thursday evening in
Bluffton hospital following a five
months’ illness. She was born April
24, 1861, in Madison county. Her
husband Benjamin Short preceded
her in death.
Surviving are a son Elmer of
South Main street a daughter Mrs.
Cora Comer, West Mansfield, eight
grandchildren and seven great grand
children.
Interment was in Fairview ceme
tery at West Liberty.
Nelson Basinger
Funeral Services
Funeral services for Nelson Ba
singer, 37, farmer, were held at the
First Mennonite church, Wednesday
afternoon with his pastor, Rev. J. N.
Smucker officiating.
He died at his home one mile
north of Bluffton, Monday morning.
Death was due to multiple scler
osis following an extended illness.
Born in 1911 in Richland town
ship, he was the son of Enoch and
Sarah Ann (Reichenbach) Basinger.
He was graduated from Bluffton
high school in 1931.
He and his fiancee, Miss Florence
Duffield of Van Buren, Bluffton high
school instructor had completed plans
to be married when his illness inter
vened.
Surviving are his mother, also sis
ter Gail Esther and a cousin Wesley
Sommers at home. Interment was in
Maple Grove cemetery.
Takes Position In
New Detroit Plant
Wade Mumma, son of Carl Mum
ma, who was graduated with honors
from Purdue university recently has
accepted a position as bio-chemist in
a new plant recently opened in De
troit by Park-Davis Co., pharmaceu
tical manufacturers.. He entered on
his new duties Wednesday.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTICE
Pupils may get registration cards
by calling at the high school office
this week mornings from 9 to 11:30
o’clock and afternoons from 1 to 3
o’clock except Thursday afternoon.
LABOR DAY-w
BL.'A-aMERCHANDiSING
Along
irouoiea ny
Here in amer/ca we celebrate the right of the
INDIVIDUAL to determine what work he will do**
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K.T RANSPORTATION
Temperatures which had reached
a season-high mark of 101 degrees
last Friday dropped to a low of 54
degrees Wednesday morning as cool
er weather drove the last vestiges of
the heat wave out of the area, ending
the eight-day stretch in which the
mercury climbed above or neai’ the
100-degree mark every afternoon.
The extremely hot weather, the
area’s only taste of heat wave temp
eratures this summer, definitely is
past, weather bureau officials pre
dicted, and cool weather is expected
to continue.
During the eight-day assault of
heat, Bluffton residents not only had
to contend with 100-degree heat dur
ing the day, but also sweltered thru
their first hot nights of the sum
mer, which has been unusually pleas
ant.
A cool mass of air from Canada
was responsible for heat relief on
Monday, and as it moved into the
district it brought with it morning
showers, the first rainfall here in
nearly two weeks.
Bluffton Pianist Wins
Award At State Fair
Mary Kathryn Bauman, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. I. W. Bauman of
West Kibler street was awarded a
silver certificate on the basis of her
performance in a piano audition at
the Ohio State fair, Saturday.
Ten certificates, seven silver and
three gold were awarded performers.
Miss Bauman, the only entrant from
this place, is a sophomore in Bluff
ton college.
For the first time in 65 years, the
bell at the grade school building will
not clang out the signa) for the
opening of another school term next
Tuesday morning.
Although the board of education
decided last Friday night that the
bell should remain in the belfry, it
is deemed unsafe to be rung pending
repairs to the bell’s supports.
Board members together with
Francis Moser, local contractor made
an inspection of the tower and the
bell Monday night. Moser will be in
charge of repairing rafters and oth
er supporting timbers. W hether the
bell will be rung after the work is
completed was not announced.
a free country
his opportunity for advancement in proportion to
the effort he puts forth—his right to enjoy the
FRUITS OF HIS LABOR AND USE THEM AS HE SEES FIT-
with these rights, we recognize the responsibility
OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO PROVIDE NOT ONLY FOR HlS FAMILY'S
CURRENT LIVING NEEDS, BUT ALSO FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY
THROUGH HIS OWN INITIATIVE, THE EXERCISE OF THESE
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES BUILDS THE SELF-RELIANCE
AND DIGNITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL- THE STRENGTH OF
OUR pemocracy,
Heat Wave With Top Of 101 Breaks
To Low Of 54 Degrees Wednesda
Ending an eight-day heat wave
in which the Bluffton area sweltered
in the summer’s hotest weather,
milder temperatures Monday brought
relief that was continuing through
midweek.
Bell Will Be Silent In Grade School
Tower When School Opens Next Tuesday
Meanwhile, an electrically operated
gong will be installed outside the
building to summon the pupils from
the playground when classes convene
in the morning and at noon and also
at the close of recess periods.
AGRICULTURE/^
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LIFE
Trippiehorn To Be
At Honor Meeting
Charles Trippiehorn, a Bluffton
student at Ohio State university, will
be one of the Shawnee Area council’s
delegates to a three-day meeting of
the Order of the Arrow, Boy Scout
Honor Camp society, opening at the
University of Indiana on Sept. 1.
Trippiehorn recently returned from
the Shawnee area summer camp near
Defiance wher he served his fourth
year as an instructor in natural his
tory.
Trippiehorn, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Murray Trippiehorn, South
Main street, will be a senior at Ohio
State university this fall.
Bluffton And Bethel
To Exchange Students
Joanne Buhler and Alice Ruth
Pannabecker, sophomores in Bluffton
college left Wednesday for Newton,
Kansas, where they will attend Beth
el collge for the coming year in an
exchange arrangement between the
two schools.
Coming to attend Bluffton college
will be Mary Lou Rich of Newton,
Kansas, a member of the sophomore
class at Bethel college.
The exchange arrangement is
planned to give students of each col
lege a wider educational background.
Ta Teach In North
Dakota Indian School
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stratton are
leaving for Dunseth, North Dakota,
where they will teach in the elemen
tary school on an Indian reservation.
Mrs. Stratton will teach the second
and third grades and her husband
the fifth and sixth grades.
No Action On Fence
Issue Of Sportsmen
There will be no fence at the
Sportsmen’s park at Buckeye lake,
at least as far as any official action
at the monthly meeting of the
Sportsmen’s club board of directors
held last Thursday night is con
cerned.
The hotly debated fence issue, al
leged to have split the club into two
warring factions failed to bring
about any fireworks at last Thurs
day’s meeting and officially, at least,
the issue of the fence is decided.
That the rift in the club contin
ues appeared indicated in an an
nouncement following the meeting
that Ralph Reichenbach, secretary,
had tendered his resignation.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place To Trade
NUMBER 20
SIX MAN FOOTBALL
TO BE FEATURE OF
PREVIEW SEPT. 10
Novelty Version of Grid Contest
to be Staged on Harmon
Field
Teams from Clyde and Wayne
to Feature First Game of
Series
mailer
receive a for-
ward pass, and i n scrimmage three
players must be line when the
oali is snaDoeo. ible or a clear
pass mav be recovered and advanced
by the defensive team even though
it has touched the ground.
The first mai, fn 1, •indie the ball
from center maj* not nin with it, but
must pass or hand to another
player. In six-man football, the of
fensive team must adx ance the ball
15 yards in four dovx ns instead of
the 10 yards in four downs rule
prescribed for 1-man teams.
Committees Named
With plans for the preview taking
shape, committees to be in charge
of the event were announced this
week. They include:
Advance ticket sale—Harry Bogart,
Charles Steiner, Edgar Chamberlain,
Woodrow Little and David Risser.
Game tick et sales--W. A. Howe,
Rev. V. C. Oppermann, Eddie
Badertscher, Leland Diller, Levi
Althaus, Paul Diller, Ralph Lanham
and Norman Edinger.
Sale of programs—A. C. Burcky,
Arthur Lewis, Gail Mumma and
Silas Diller.
Police—Don Patterson.
Ushers—William Edwards.
Publicity—Ralph Reichenbach.
Announcer—Norman Triplett.
The preview is sponsored by the
Bluffton board of education, with
proceeds going to the recreation
committee for community recreation.
Tickets went on sale this week
for the action-studded presentation
which will mark Bluffton’s second
annual football preview.
Tickets for the preview are on
sale locally at Riser’s Sandwich
shop Swank’s Barber shop and
Bluffton High school office. General
admission tickets will be sold at a
25-cent discount if purchased before
Friday noon, Sept. 10.
Officials for the preview games
include Cletus Clark, Don Koch, Guy
Workman and Howardc Scheuerman,
all of Lima.
In preparation for the preview,
officially opening Bluffton’s 1948
football season, a crew of volunteer
workmen under the supervision of
Dave Risser is repairing and re
painting stadium seats.
Takes Position With
Aircraft Concern
Roger B. Amstutz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Amstutz south of Bluff
ton on the Dixie highway, has ac
cepted a position with the Bolling
Aircraft Co., of Seattle, Wash., it
was announced this week.
Amstutz was graduated August 20
from Notre Dame university in areo
nautical engineering. He and his
wife left last week by automobile,
for their new home in the west.
Prof. Klassen's
Carvings At Fair
Wood carvings by Prof. John
Klassen, Bluffton college art in
structor, are one of the features in
the home talent display at the Ohio
State fair in Columbus this week.
The exhibit is in the Arts and
Crafts building at the fair, it was
announced by Mrs. Mark Russell,
superintendent of the building.
PAPER COLLECTION
Bluffton high school senior class
will collect waste paper throughout