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BOB SAYS
these
The Bluffton News
MILTON I. EDWARDS, Editor
CHARLES HILTY, Associate Editor
Published weekly at Bluffton, Ohio, by Bluffton News Publishing
and Printing Co.
Subscription rates: Year, $3.00 six months. $2.00 anywhere in U. S.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Bluffton, Ohio,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Mainly Personal
THE BLUSH you may have
noticed about this column comes
from its embarrassment of last
week in publishing one of Dr.
Lloyd L. Ramseyer’s poignant
editorials on youth and thanks
giving without giving the writer
proper credit.
We aplologize to Dr. Ramseyer
and to 2,080 of our subscribers,
who received copies of their
Bluffton News without the prop
er
credit lines. The last 300 pa
pers appeared properly, because
the omission was noted in time
to rectify the error to this extent.
We wish the thoughts were our
own and that we qualified in the
mechanics of placing them so
well on paper.
THE NEW OHIO STATE FLAG
which Superintendent A. B. Mur
ray recently acquired for display
at the schools has given rise to
a bit of kidding in regard to
Mr. Murray’s statement that the
17 stars represent the fact that
Ohio was the 17th state to be ad
mitted to the union.
“This
Richard
teacher,
history.’
s not true,” challenges
Gratz, Bath township
who haS taught Ohio
Mr. Gratz explains that Ohio
was actually the fourth state “ad
mitted” to the union since there
were 13 already in when the un
ion was originally formed. Those
states which joined the union lat
er were "admitted.”
Technically, Mr. Gratz is prob
ably right, and it makes a good
point to develop into a classroom
issue.
BLUFFTON received a nice
plug on a nation-wide TV hook-1
up Sunday when Drew Pearsonl
selected The Triplett Electrical
Instrument company for one of
the industries he surveys on his
regular weekly broadcast. The
new elementary school, Bluffton
college campus and Main street
were all seen on the screen as
the setting for this unique indus
trial concern and President W. R.
Triplett had some nice things to
say about the community and
people who turn out the com
pany’s delicate instruments.
Ropp appeared very much at
ease before the camera in his
interview with Mr. Pearson and
Blufftonites couldn’t help but feel
a flush of pride as the commen
tator described the methods used
by the community’s principal in
dustry and the wide and impott
vm» uses found for Triplett instru
ments.
WALTER GRATZ should get a
feather for alert business promo
tion. Early Monday he had a side
walk display of some of the new
plastic shoes being manufactured
of utrilon by the firm which shar
ed the half hour Drew Pearson
show with Bluffton’s Triplett Co.
Mr. Gratz has been selling the
Amigos footwear since last sum-
HAVE YOU TRIED
ARNOLD'S PLAZA
Owned and operated by Gail and Dick Arnold
On New Route 25, 1 mile south of Beaverdam
OPEN 7 DAYS a WEEK—6 A. M.-12 P.
Serving Delicious Meals. Short Orders
SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER
NOON OR EVENING MEAL
TURKEY AND DRESSING
ROAST BEEF AND DRESSING
BAKED HAM W/FRUIT SAUCE
T-BONE STEAK
SANDWICHES OF ALL KINDS
TRY MOM’S HOMEMADE PIES
Children Welcome—Child’s Plate Availabel
show you
Top Value
USED
CARS
You’ll have to look far to
find better, more reliable
Carn at the price tags w
ha\e on these. All winterized
1951 FORD VICTORIA V-8
Fordomatic transmission, heater.
Bob Williams
1959 CHEVROLET IMPALA 5PT. COUPE
V-8 engine, Powerglide transmission, power brakes,
power steering. Beautiful Harbor Blue.
1956 CHEVROLET 210 2-DOOR
V-8 engine, powerglide transmission, good tires, turquoise
blue and ivory.
1956 CHEVROLET BEL AIR 4-DOOR
V-8 engine with powerglide, radio, heater, two-tone rose and
ivory finish.
1956 CHEVROLET BEL AIR 4-DOOR
Ivory and Inca Silver. V-8 engine with powerglide, radio,
heater.
1951 GMC /4 TON PICK-UP TRUCK
Excellent mechanically, rubber like new, mud and snow tires
on rear.
BOB WILLIAMS
CHEVROLET. INC
SAVE $ $ $
204-206 N. Main Phone 1351
•n.
mer. Most of them were used as
beach sandals and for other sum
mer wear. They appear to be
headed for record sales, and Wal
ter says he has a large order
for next summer.
DWIGHT FRANTZ of Rawson
returned home Sunday from the
Royal Canadian Livestock show
at Toronto with the good news
that his Belgium yearling colt
had copped first place in the
yearling mare class in the show.
The colt had been entered in
the Michigan state fair and won
honors there. Canadians, who
saw the colt, urged the Rawson
man to enter her in the Cana
dian show.
He was accompanied to Toron
to by Paul Loyer of Lima, who
also had some Belgium stock
entered. All placed in the mon
ey. Loyer specializes in breeding
Belgium horses on his farm
Lima.
The name was selected from a
long list of names submitted by
hospital patients. Winner was
nine-year-old Richard Cooley, of
Williams county.
Ottawa Valley hospital will be
the new name, effective January
11, 1960.
GORDON BIXEL, O.
EYESIGHT SPECIALIST
429 S. Main St., Bluffton
Iffico Hours: Mon.—Frl. 9 a. m.—
5:30 p. m. Sat.—9 a. m. 12:09
Evening hours by special
appointment
insurance
A Nationwide plan is the
sure, solid means of building
for tomorrow. Provides
security for you, protection
for your family. A Nationwide
representative will gladly
help you plan a sound
dollar-wise program to meet
your exact needs.
PAUL M. KING
105 N. Main St.
Phone 1911
WILD
near
RAY
are
who
ALBERT GIBBS AND
BOWERSOX of Rawson
among the local hunters
headed nortii in recent days for
deer hunting. They left last
Thursday for Wisconsin and were
expected to return this week.
TB Hospital Name
Will Be Changed
District Tu
has been
The name of the
berculosis hospital
changed to Ottawa Valley hos
pital, the trustees announced
after their November meeting.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK
BARNS, WODEN FENCES, and empty lots were all that occupied the neighborhood of Jackson
and Grove streets in 1888, when this picture was taken.
Handling the powerful rig in the photo were Peter Diller (I.) and Albert E. Lugibill, the chap
in the fancy striped coat on the right. The horses were a pair of Percherons owned y Bucher
Bros., taken around for stud.
The house in the left background is now occupied by Mrs. Addie Graber. Looking east, the
photo was taken from the corner now occupied by the Paul Clark residence.
APPLE TREES
could ask bluejays,
and rabbits, they
that wild apple trees
good as domesticated
re
juicy
If one
pheasants
would say
are
trees. There are men who
member the tangy, cold,
goodness of a frozen-thawed wild
apple harvested on a mild De
cember day in a woodland.
grow from
apple trees
species. But
an apple in
a seed es-
Wild apple trees
seeds, and seedling
do not come true to
if a squirrel carries
to the woods and
capes, it can mean a tree that in
due time produces a generous
harvest of fruit. Some wild trees
are small and gnarled some
grow tall and in warm spring
sunshine hold pink and white
blossoms high among birches and
poplars, hemlocks and beeches.
It is interesting that the apple
belongs to the same family as
the rose, strawberry, blackberry
New Superhighways Bring
Boom Not Doom
Despite hardships to some in
dividuals, new superhighways
have brought boom, not doom, to
cities in their paths, according
to the December Reader's Digest:
in one community after another,
prophecies of economic decay
have proved unfounded.
The experience of Bedford,
Pennsylvania, was typical. Bed
ford, a tourist town on the old
Lincoln Highway, battled the
Harrisburg-Pittsburgh turnpike
with petitions, meetings, protest
delegations to the capital. But
the Turnpike went through, a
mile from Bedford. “Today,”
writer Paul W. Kearney reports,
“if you recirculated one of those
protest petitions, you'd lie laughed
out of town.”
Trucking companies made Bed
ford a rest stop and turn-around
point, bringing payrolls in excess
of seven million dollars annually
to the town. In addition, because
of its strategic location, Bedford
is attracting conventions. Some
200 new motel units have been
built. The Bedford
has had a tenfold
gross business.
Springs Hotel
increase in
was fought,
A similar battle
and lost
the route
There were warnings of “depre
ciation of valuable real estate,”
and withdrawal from the tax
rolls of "income-producing land.”
Instead, when the route went
through, plans were filed im
mediately for seven new housing
developments near the highway.
in Elyria, Ohio, over
af the Ohio Turnpike.
The New York Thruway is
credited with stimulating 650
million dolars worth of develop
ment along its route. Residential
developments have sprouted along
the New Jersey Turnpike for
ing Boston, 227 companies have
FUELOIL
call Dick Cookson for
Farm Yank Delivery
MARATHON
FUEL OIL
and GASOLINE
PHONE 4941
DICK COOKSON
Bluffton, Ohio
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Country Flavor
and raspberry and doubtless to
a hungry pheasant after the first
snow, a wild apple tree’s fruits
are as tasty as strawberries are
to man. Partridges tear apart
the apples left on boughs to get
at the seeds deer come to paw
away the snow and get the froz-*
en fruit.
It is good to know thaf 36
states raise apples commercial
ly. It is heartening to realize that
we raise over 100 million bush
els annually. This fruit, originat
ing between the Caspian and
Black seas, has deservedly be
come the most popular fruit in
the temperate zone.
But it is also good to know in
these last month days that the
wild life have their own fruit
trees, scattered in pastures and
woodlands. Wild apples may not
be good for pies and apple sauce,
but we are'sure that wild life
will agree that an apple, domes
ticated or wild, makes a tasty ad
dition to a meal.
To Cities
built 17 industrial parks and 13?
million dollars worth of homes
for 28,000 workers.
“Undeniably,” Kearney con
cludes, “there are two sides to
every argument. Those who are
dispossessed of their homes and
thousands of com miners. On
Massachusetts Route 128. skirt-
BC Students,
Instructors
Interviewed
Two international students and
two new professors at Bluffton
college are being interviewed by
Easter Straker on WIMA TV in
the next few weeks.
Jantine Reisma, a freshman
from Eindhoven, Holland, and
Prof. Johannes de Jonge were
interviewed last Friday and Tues
day respectively. Prof, de Jonge
has spent the past two years do
ing MCC relief and reconstruc
tion work in Morocco,
now teaching French at
lege.
and is
the col-
Donald
On December 4,
Steer will appear on
gram
in secondary education. He re
ceived his doctorate in August
and wrote on “Conant’s Recom
mendations for the American
High School: Implications for
Implementation in Ohio High
Schools.”
the pro-
He is the new professor
The other student, Umeno Nish
imura, of Kyoto Province, Ja
pan, will be interviewed on De
cember 11. She is a junior ma
joring in psychology.
property should have the fullest
hearing and consideration. But
Americans should remember that
we are still trying to work on the
basis of the greatest good for the
greatest number,”
The article, “The Boom That
Follows the Highways,” is con
densed from The Rotarian.
IF YOU
FORGET
REMEMBER
NlSWANDER'S
Newsstand, Delicatessen
At Your Service
7 Days, 7 Nights Every
Week—Phone 2511
LUNCHEON MEATS,
BAKED GOODS,
GROCERIES
PHOTO FINISHING,
MOVIE FILM, FLASH
BULBS
SAVE ON CIGARETTES
BY THE CARTON
MAGAZINES, NEWS
PAPERS, SHEET MUSIC,
GREETING CARDS
FOUNTAIN SERVICE
COSTUME JEWELRY
TOYS
SHOTGUN & RIFLE
SHELLS OF ALL KINDS
READY MIXED CONCRETE
For all concrete requirements on the Farm.
Home or Industrial Plant.
Call
THE GREEN & SAWYER CO.
Phone 3961
Located at the Bluffton Stone Co.
If no answer, call Lima CA 9-0070 collect!
Gift House
Lantz's
Christmas
PICTURES
BILL FOLDS
GADGETS
FIGURINES
TEA SUGARS
GUEST TOWELS
ARTIFICIAL FRUIT
LINEN TABLE CLOTHS
COSTUME JEWELRY
BATH ACCESSORIES
DESK
IRISH
“AFTER
FLORAL
DELICIOUS FRUIT CAKES
BRASS AND COPPER WARE
CONSTANT COMMENT TEA
FRAGRANT HERB SACHETS
ODD PIECES DECORATED CHINA
GAY CHRISTMAS TABLE CLOTHS
UNUSUAL CANDLES & HOLDERS
ACCESSORIES
LINEN HANKIES
FIVE” COLOGNE
ARRANGEMENTS
CHRISTMAS CARDS
GIFT WRAPPINGS
READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS
CLEAN
YOUR TILE DRAIN
The “Clean-Rite” Way
Machine cuts out roots
and other obstacles
SEPTIC TANKS
PUMPED
Bluffton Phone
PAUL SHULAW
BOTTLED
PYROFAX
WE’RE EQUIPPED .TO
FILL CYLINDERS
WE SELL BULK GAS
TO HEAT HOMES
WE PAY
ALL SAVINGS INSURED
See Us For Your
Paint Needs
THURSDAY, NOV. 19, 19M
WOttirS WLY
RUY AUTOMATIC CIEAIO
Factory-Authorized
Salos A Service
MENNO BIXEL
Bently road, third house south
of new 25. Bluffton phone
BLUFFTON, OHIO
your home
20 LB. CYLINDERS FOR
TRADERS
FREE DELIVERY ON
100 LB. CYLINDERS
STUMP'S HOME
APPLIANCES
Phone: Mi 9-2501
Families Grow Fast
Member Federal Reserve System
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
BLUFFTON, OHIO
Brushes
Thinner
Turpentine
BRICK
Vance Street
STILL GOOD WEATHER FOR
Aluminum
SELF-STORING
INSULATION
Roll—Batt—Bajc
ROCK LATH
Offen they
outgrow
their home
and need
Do you
have a
planned
program
of saving
for future
needs?
SAVINGS
UP TO $10,000
The Citizens National Bank
We Are Now Bluffton Headquarters
for EXTERIOR and INTERIOR
KURFEES Paints Z?
CEMENT
MORTAR
STORM WINDOWS
STORM'dOORS SAND
CEMENT PAINT
SANITARY
SUPPLIES
WALLBOARD
BLUFFTON
BUILDERS SUPPLY
HEADQUARTERS FOR
BUILDING MATERIALS
William Mericle
Bluffton
Phone 3651