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4 Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXIII
Authorities Here Adopt Pre
cautions Against Outbreak
of Disease.
Putnam County Epidemic Cai\
cells School’s Annual Holiday
For Fair.
In addition, the board of educa
tion has decided that this year public
school pupils will not be excused
from class to attend the Putnam
county fair, a holiday of Fong stand
ing on the school calendar.
Asks Cooperation
been
we
SCHOOLS DISINFECTED
AS POLIO PREVENTIVE
school
Elaborate Bluffton public
precautions against an outbreak here
of the polio epidemic w’hich has been
raging in Putnam county include dis
infecting the high school building
daily through the ventilation blower
system and regularly disinfecting
toilet rooms and washing fountains
at the grade school, it was learned
this week.
Teachers have been briefed to be
on the lookout for
polio in students
class periods, and
the school district
from Supt. Ralph
ing in fall the precautionary pro
gram.
any symptoms of
during regular
every parent in
received a letter
Lanham explain-
of
Parents
In Supt. Lanham’s letter, he
stressed the advisability of parents
keeping out of school any children
who show symptoms of the early
stages of polio.
Listed among some of the indica
tions of onset of the disease were
“sore throat, fever, a cold, a stom
ach upset, vomiting, diarrhea, con
stipation, and stiffness of soreness
of arms, legs, back or head.”
Opening of school and the con
TSf cliekSfes herC-has en »v
conformity with recommendations of
Dr. John Porterfield, Ohio health
director, who has announced that
closing schools
spread of polio.
“It has never
closing schools
demies,” Dr.
“Children have no more body
tact with each other in schools
they do on playgrounds.
“If their fathers stayed home
work and their mothers home
the movies, there might be some jus
tification of keeping children from
school, otherwise it doesn’t work,”
the health director stated.
Porterfield declared,
con
than
from
from
Many From Bluffton
Attending College
Many Bluffton students are leav
ing this fall to attend colleges and
universities. Among this number
are:
Jean Ann Steinman, Baldwin Wal
lace college, Berea.
Fluff Biome, Art Students League,
New York City.
Neil Schmidt, Purdue university,
West Lafayette, Indiana.
David Stearns, Heidelberg college,
Tiffin.
Dora Jean Luginbuhl, Mid-Western
School of
Iowa.
Evangelism, Ottumwa,
Biery, Western Reserve
Cleveland, r..
Beverly
university,
James Fett Pittsburgh School of
Mortuary Science, Pittsburgh.
Harriet Amstutz, Goshen college,
Goshen, Indiana.
Wilhelm Amstutz II, Robert Coon
and Michael Reagan, Ohio Northern
university, Ada.
Sarah Amstutz, Carlton Wilson,
Miami university, Oxford.
Joanne Buhler, Alice Ruth Panna
becker, Bethel College, Newton,
Kansas.
Juanita Bame, Elmer Stonehill,
Bowling Green State university.
David Tosh, Mark and James Dil
ler, Wheaton college, Wheaton, Ill.
Verna Kiefer, Mary Jane Garmat
ter, Grace Bible Institute, Omaha,
Nebraska.
Eleanor Linden, Malcolm Basinger,
Eleanor Steiner, Wooster college.
Jean Ann Burcky, Ellen Burk
holder, Marceille Steiner, John Alt
haus, Charles Trippiehorn, Hugh
Hilty, Robert Burkholder, Virgil Ba
jsinger, Dale Good, Nelson Hiestand,
George Swank, Jr., Emerson Nis-
wander,
1 umbos.
Ohio State university, Co­
Pass Million Mark
Holstein-Friesian association o'
America has registered one millioi
bulls since the association was ojr
ganized in 1885.
Etta Beals Dies
Funeral Friday
Miss Etta May Beals, 82-year-old
Bluffton resident died Wednesday
morning at 2:30 o’clock at the Cgn
muity hospital here where she l^d
been a patient for the past year.
The body is at the Basinger fufc
eral home where funeral services v^l
be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Officiating will be Rev. E. J. Pen
horwood of Lima South Side Church
of Christ, former pastor of the
Bluffton Church of Christ of which
she was a member. Interment will
be in Maple Grove cemetery.
She was bom in Antwerp, Ohio,
July 10, 1866, the daughter of Mar
ion and Samantha (Reed)
Most of her life was spent in
ton. She was a sister of
Beals who died last March.
BLUFFTON MAY GET
BUILDING CODE FOR
RESIDENTIAL AREA
Council Studies Advantages of
Setting Up Regulations on
Residential Building
Town Ordinances Now Provide
Only Controls of Construc
tion
If the ordinance is drafted it will
be the first move by the town to
regulate building activity in residen
tial sections of the town, altho the
business district has since 1927 been
subject to a building code.
A study of building ordinances of
other cities is being made by council
men, to determine what regulations
would be applicable to Bluffton, with
a final decision on the matter ex
pected this month.
Controls in Business District
Bluffton’s only present controls
over building activity apply to the
business district, established in a fire
zone ordinance first passed in 1927,
and re-drafted in 1931.
In the ordinance, the limits are
established in a district bordered by
College avenue on the south Big
Riley creek on the east Washington
street on the north and Elm street
on the west.
Outside of this district there have
been no restrictions of any kind on
building activities.
Youth Injured In
Fall From Ladder
Dwight Hauenstein, 16, Bluffton
high school junior and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Hauenstein, sustain
ed two broken bones in his right
foot as the result of a fall from a
ladder while working at his home
five and one-half miles southeast of
town, Saturday. His condition is
reported satisfactory.
More than 250 Methodist Youth
hellowship officers, Methodist past
ors, counselors and Sunday school
superintendents
Sunday for the Lima District Metho
dist outh Fellowship conference to
be held in the Bluffton Methodist
church.
College And Industry Lure Majority
Of 1948 Bluffton High Graduates
Beals.
Bluff
Harry
In Business Area
may get a new village
regulating building and
in the residential district,
started last week at a
the municipal council in
advantages of setting up
Bluffton
will not stop the
ordinance
remodeling
if a study
meeting of
dicates the
controls.
shown that by
can stop epi-
Methodist Youth Conference Will
Be Held Here Next Sunday Afternoon
will be here next
Rev. Marion Tinsler, assistant to
the president of Ohio Northern uni
versity and a former Bluffton college
student, will be the principal speaker
for the banquet which will conclude
the conference Sunday evening.
Registration will begin at 3 p. m.,
16, Bluffton
High school varsity football player,
stricken by polio on the second day
of school, has been in critical condi-
Fifteen Have Jobs and Fifteen
Are College
Freshmen
Farming and Nursing Attract
Others Two Girls
Married
College and industry have attract
ed 30 of last spring’s 45 graduating
with
this
for
Bluffton High school seniors,
15 working for industries in
area and another 15 enrolled
further educational pursuits.
Farming has attracted three of the
24 senior boys two girls are in
nursing training two girls are mar
ried and another is planning to be
wed soon, the occupational break
down shows.
In college are: Bluffton college—
Ted Bauman, Kenneth Bracy, Addi
son Myers, Norman White, Harriet
Burkhart, Mary Jane Burkholder,
Mary Ann Smucker and Marilyn
Stratton.
Ohio Northern University—James
Ewing Northwestern university—
James Howe Ohio State university
—Arthur
Business
Neuenpch wander Bliss
college—)Betty Deeds Mid
School of Evangelism—
Doris Jean
Institute-—Allan
Other
Luginbuhl Grace Bible
Tschiegg.
pursuits Of the graduates:
The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co.—.Edith and Helen Zuercher, John
Klay, Norma Badertscher, Norma
J^eiswander and
Wanda
Potee.
Ceacle
Boss Manufacturing Co.—Wanda
and Marilyn Everett Central Ohio
Light and oPwer Co.—Ted Kohli and
Richard Fields F. C. Rusnell Co.,
Pandora Keith Moore Farmers
Produce Co—Wade Oberly Beaver
dam Coach Co.—Richard Kohler.
Lima Memorial hospital—Maxine
Criblez Lima St. Rita’s hospital—
Peggy Eckenwiler Farming—Allen
Burkholder, Maurice Garmatter and
Earl Hauenstein Sohio Filling Sta
tion—Ralph Stager At home—Burl
Moyer, Luke Lugibihl and Donald
Herr Plastering—Earl Frick.
Married—Jean Burkholder (Mrs.
Paul Reichenbach) Mary Schmidt
(Mrs. Fred Amstutz) To Be Mar
ried—Betty Roush Telephone office—
Lois Hauenstein.
Legion Will Elect
New Officers Monday
New officers to head the Bluffton
American Legion post for the coming
year will be elected at a meeting
next Monday in Legion hall.
Slate of candidates announced
week include the following:
Commander Al Ingalls,
Marshall and Ed Rice.
Vice Commander
and Donald Reams.
Adjutant James
Charles Hankish, Jr.
this
Carl
Robert Geary
Fritchie and
Treasurer Byron
Jack Clark.
Service Officer—Stanley Basinger.
Sergeant-at-arms—Kenneth Henry
and Mel Long, Jr.
Historian Clifford Houtz and
Omar Welty.
Chaplain—Rev. Paul Cramer.
Color Bearers (two to elect)—Rob
ert Dillman, Robert Deerhake, Gar
net Foltz and Wendell Duffman.
opening session starting 20
later. Miss Lois Hauen-
with the
minutes
stein, of Bluffton, district efficiency
secretary, will be one of the leaders
of a series of instruction classes.
The banquet at 5:30 p. m,
bring the conference to a close.
of the
Paul Cramer is pastor
church.
Expensive Goat
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George Grismore. 16. Bluffton tion in an iron lung at Lima Me- was stricken hv nnlm
tion in an iron lung at Lima Me
morial hospital since last Saturday.
The youth is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Grismore, of northwest
of town. His father is a former
Richland township trustee.
A member of the junior class,
Grismore was in school Tuesday of
last week, the opening day,
been working out regularly
football squad. He’was a
man last year, and one
season’s most promising li
dates.
life of Wayne Dep
former Bluffton resi-
Despite the
been raging in
counties, Grismore is only the second
polio case of this summer in the
Bluffton area. Earlier this summer,
Charles Bucher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clair Bucher, W. Elm street,
BY HARR.Y HA
Editor’s Noth—Thia
of a series of articles to
in the Bluffton News
with early Ohio history,
will ..
issues.
Former Local Woman’s
Husband Takes Life
Paul C. Myers, 52, Findlay bank
executive and manager of the Scott
& Ewing Gear Manufacturing com
pany, a
was found dead Tuesday afternoon
in a rear room at the gear manu
facturing plant in Findlay.
former Bluffton business,
Dr. Byron Vorhaes, Hancock coun
ty coroner, said death was suicide by
hanging. Meyers had been in poor
health for the past year and was
believed despondent. In 1946 he had
a leg amputated due to an embolism.
His wife is the former Geraldine
Ewing of Bluffton.
will be held at
Findlay, Thurs
o’clock, followed
Funeral services
Barnhart Memorial,
day afternoon at 4
by burial in Findlay Maple Grove
Cemetery.
Myers was assistant vice president
of the First National bank of Find
lay with which he had been connect
ed for 30 years and also served as
deputy Hancock county auditor be
fore becoming affiliated with the
bank.
been manager of the Scott
company for several years
business was moved from
to Findlay following the
the two founders, Frank
He has
Benroth and
& Ewing
since the
Bluffton
death of
Scott and Elmer Ewing.
will
Rev.
host
Skins
is the most
varieties of
Per pound, goat skin
expensive of the major
hides and skins used for shoe
leather.
The body was discovered Tuesday
afternoon at 5:30 o’clock by an em
ploye of the manufacturing plant
when he went to the building to pack
outgoing orders and police were noti
fied.
Myers was a member of the Elks
and Moose lodge and the Methodist
church.
Besides his wife he is survived by
four sisters and three brothers.
Announce Evening
School Of Religion
A training school for Sunday
school teachers and others interested
will be sponsored this fall by the
Bluffton Ministerial association, it
was announced the first of the week.
Classes will be held at the high
school building from 8 to 10 o’clock
for five consecutive Thursday even
ings, beginning October 14.
The administrative board consists
of Rev. Paul Cramer, dean Prof.
Paul Shelly, Dan Alspach, Nelson
Steiner, Carl Derringer and Carl
Smucker. Faculty and classes will
be announced later.
Bluffton High School Student Stricken With Polio llTIl ITV TO INSTAII
and had
with the
numeral
of this
ie candi-
Taken to Lima Memorial hospital
on Thursday when his case was
diagnosed as polio, Grismore has
been in an iron lung since Saturday.
Attendants say his condition is
critical. He is suffering from the
bulbar type of the disease which last
week took the
pier, of Lima,
dent.
is one
appear
dealing
___ w Others
appear
in
forthcoming
The Last Man To Fall
In the middle of a three-grave
group in an old family burying
ground of about 30 graves near
Hiramsbuig, Noble County, a plain
old Giloen heads the
gra a called on his »’the last of
Wa8fe Clum, Sund .aniens. The
of glory.”
hoary *►Town
On one s»de of
of Samuel Halley
side lies Gillispie
(Continued
Gray is the grave
and on
David.
on page
was stricken by polio and was treat
ed at Lima. He has been on
crutches since his return home, but
his condition is reported as improv
ing.
Crowd In Excess of 2,200 Over
flows Stadium, Lines Sides
of
Bluffton,
dusky
Victories In Contests
Despite competition from other
previews on the same night at Pan
dora, Findlay and Lima, streets
here were packed solid with parked
cars within a four-block area of the
stadium.
Dedication of tl
ing system at the
feature of the eve
time intermission
Forest game.
the other
Hallev a
8)
For the preview, the field and
stadium were in the best condition in
years. The playing field, re-sodded
in late summer by the Bluffton Re
creation committee, was a beautiful
stretch of greensward under the bril
liant lights. Stadium seats and the
wooden bleachers across the field
were replendent in a new coat of
green paint put on by volunteer
workmen, paced by the Recreation
committee group.
Former Bluffton
Girl In McComb H. S.
Anna Louise Hochstettler, former
ly of Bluffton is instructor in home
economics at McComb high school,
it was announced this week. She is
a graduate of Bluffton high school in
the class of 1944 and last spring was
graduated from Taylor university,
Upland, Indiana.
Her mother, Mrs. J. A. Hoch
stettler who resided in Upland dur
ing the four years in
daughter was in college
with her to McComb.
Eight Teams Appear In Sparkling Grid
Preview Exhibition Here Friday Night
Playing Field
Wayne, Upper San
and Ada Score
overflow crowd of more than
which packed the stadium and
every side of the playing field
second
An
epidemic which has
Putnam and Hancock
2,200
lined
witnessed Bluffton’s second annual
football preview at Harmon field last
Friday night, inaugurating another
grid season for the area.
Although participating teams had
only two weeks of practice behind
them, they put on an sparkling pre
view exhibition in which spectator
interest never lagged as Wayne top
ped Clyde in six-man football, 12
to 0 Ada bested Columbus Grove,
6 to 0 Uppper Sandusky edged Bel
lefontaine, 6 to 0 and Bluffton upset
Forest, 7 to 0.
the half
Bluffton-
president
Rev. V. C. Oppermann,
of the Bluffton Community Progress
association/ made the presentation of
the lights to the board of education.
Leland Diller, board of education
president, made the acceptance ad
dress.
which the
has moved
To
College Society
Start Rehearsals
Bluffton College Choral Society
next Tuesday night will begin re
hearsals for the annual rendition
“The Messiah,” with sessions to
held at 7:30 p. m. each Tuesday
the college chapel.
of
be
in
All singers from the community
are invited to sing in the group.
This is the 46th season of the choral
society, it was announced by Prof.
Russell A. Lantz, director.
Bluffton hunters who went afield
early Wednesday at
the squirrel season
fair results as they
in the morning.
the opening of
reported only
returned later
The woods, tinder-dry because of
lack of rains recently added to the
difficulties of silent maneuvering
stalking the wary creatures.
and
William Hartman, 86 year old
Findlay resident was out bright
and early Wednesday morning
seeking his limit of squirrels.
Hartman, who was issued a
hunting license by Sam Steple
ton of Bluffton, is the oldest
Driver's License Sale
Moving Slowly Here
Sale of driver’s licenses for 1949
has been moving slowly since issu
ance was started at-ik^JBixel Motor
Sales the first
motorists were
that a heavier
ute rush may
those who wait until only
days before the
ber 30.
of thUfrmonth, and
cautioned this week
than usual last min
be experienced by
a few
deadline on Septem-
Clayton Bixel is the Bluffton
uty registrar.
NOVEMBER DRAFT
CALL TO TAKE FEW
IN ALLEN COUNTY
First
Dedicated
ie new floodlight
field was
ning, at
of the
New Lights
Induction Under Peace
time Draft Will Call For
Less Than 10 Men
On 1lasis of Per Capita Percent
age Bluffton May
Any Inductees
At the same time, announcement
was made that pre-induction examin
ations of the oldest
men of 25—would start either
in October Or pos
month.
Examinations
age groups—
?arly
bly late this
the November
the state as a
including Allen
From this group,
draft call, 499 for
whole, will be filled,
county’s five to 10 men on a popu
lation ratio.
at
Recruiting
Stations
Pre-induction physical examina
tions will be made at army recruit
ing stations equipped to handle such
procedure, it was announced by se
lective service officials.
available, but it will include major
cities such as Dayton, Columbus,
Cleveland and Cincinnati.
On a proportional basis, population
of Bluffton and Richland township,
estimated at 5,000, would rate one
half a draftee in the November call.
Similar initial draft calls
will
take three men each from Putnam
and Hardin counties.
In the earlier stages of draft pro
cedure, it is expected that rather
liberal exemptions will be made by
draft boards, but that after this
fall deferments may be harder to
obtain.
Hold Trap Shoot
Sunday Afternoon
a
Dry Weather Hampers Hunters As
Squirrel Season Opens Wednesday
Bluffton Gun club announces
shoot at the Gossan! service
2 miles north of Bluffton,
The
trap
station
Sunday afternoon beginning at 12:30
o’clock. Merchandise prizes will be
awarded.
this
man to obtain a license here
season.
The situation was somewhat
fied by light showers which
shortly before noon Wednesday.
modi
came
The hunting season will continue
until September 30, inclusive with
last year’s daily bag limit unchanged,
consisting of four squirrels a day
and the possession limit of four.
Hunters were urged by state offi
cials to use every possible hunting
safety precaution while in the woods.
The easily-recognized bright red
squirrel hunter’s cap is advised.
A Good Place To Trade
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FIFTH TURBINE UNIT
Work
Will
at i' v
general
First
Not Have
In Call
noticeable drain
on manpower
will come frdm Ohio’© first peace
time draft call, with only between
five and ten draftees expected to be
taken from all of Allen county in
November’s induction procedure.
of Enlarging Building
Start Early Next
Spring,
Generating Unit Put in
Fourth
Operation at Plant Here
LastgDecemben
pected to
next 12 to
this week.
driving permits ex
end of the
With present
piring at the
motorists were reminded that
expecting to operate a motor
after that time must have
license.
month,
anyone turbini
in th.
The big
KW type
and the fifth gt
a
of
capacity
the Central
Co. will be
30 per cent
Electrical generating
the Bluffton plant of
Ohio Light-' and Power
increased approximately
by the addition of a 10,000 kilowatt
turbine, installation of which is ex
be completed within the
48 months, it was learned
the second 10,000
local installation
ating unit in the
generating capa
owatts to a mark
,000 k
the unit
present pl
of be
are available, and executives of the
utility firm hope to have the turbine
in operation by the latter part of
1950.
Cost $2 Million
the new 10,000 KW generj
will be approximately
including boiler, turbine,
and accessories.
?p in the new expansion
•ill be enlargement of the
with an ex
40 feet to
end of the
be added to the no
pn-sent plant build!n:
wall now on the north w
moved, it was announced.
The plant
A temporary
bo re-
row
has in operation
two 5,(MM) KW turbp-irentrators one
7,500 genesxtor «tM a
generator.
Fourth Unit Installed Last December
Installation of the 10,(MM) KW unit
was completed last December, and
altho at that time utility officials
anticipated an additional generator
would be required to care for in
creasing demand they did not expect
the installation w’ould be necessary
until late 1951. However, mounting
volume has made it necessary to
step up the installation program
about one year, because of pressing
demand.
The modern electrical generating
the Central
Co. opened
plant maintained here by
Ohio Light and Power
in 1937 with one 5,000
generator.
KW turbo-
Births
at Bluffton
The following births
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bowden, Ada,
a girl, Barbara Ellen, last Wednes
day. Mrs. Bowden is the former
Mary Stambaugh.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Warner, Beav
erdam, a girl, Pamela Kay, Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Elwood, Ada,
a girl, Janis Arline, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kent Cotterman,
Bryan, a boy, Michael Kent, Sunday.
and Mrs. Paul Spallinge^
Mr.
Lima, a boy, Mark David, Sunday.
Mr.
Findlay, a
day. Mrs.
Carr.
Mr. and
Clarence Jones,
Pal&eya- Sue, Sun
is ttie‘former Joan
and Mrs.
girl,1
Jones
Mrs.
Walter Rodabaugh,
girl, Vicki Lynn,
Williamstown, a
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hancock,
Leipsic, a girl, Linda Sue, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cramer, Find
lay, a boy, Wednesday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Basinger,
Pandora, a girl, Janette Irene, Wed
nesday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rhoads, Fern
dale, Mich., a boy, James Neil, born
Friday at Woman’s hospital, Detroit.
Mrs. Rhoads is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Amstutz of Bluffton.
Mayor Delegate To
Democratic Meet
Mayor Arden Baker will be one of
Allen county’s 10 delegates to the
Ohio Democratic convention opening’
in Columbus this Thursday night for
official and informal sessions asso
ciated with the November campaign.
Harry Meredith, Allen county exe
cutive committee chairman, heads the
county delegation to the state meet*.