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Evening star., 1942-12-09
Volunteers Continue
War Fund Drive for
Reduced Goal
Worker Meeting Set
For Dec. l8 on New
$4,056, ,384 Objective

Loyal volunteers out of the army
of $4,000 VINO have been at work on
the Community War Fund Campaign
since October II today continued
their efforts to finish raising the
fund needed for welfare support on
the home front, and for relief abroad.
More pledges were reported at the
final luncheon meeting of the cam
paign yesterday at the Willard Hotel,
and the goal itself was reduced. This
resulted in bringing the total raised
so far to 1929 per cent of the new
goal of 81 O56 ,384. Pledges now total
s3,784,4 ,4094S.
Mrs. Roosevelt was principal
speaker, describing conditions in
England and appealing for success.
The next gathering of leaders, it
was announced by Floyd .. Akers.
campaign chairman, will be a
workers meeting probably of 400
to 500 persons at 3:45 pm. December
Is. at the Mayflower Hotel. At that
time it is hoped the new goal will be
reached, but if not, plans will be
laid to complete the job, Mr.. Akers
said.
More Than 1000 Attend.
This is challenge to you" Mr..
Akers told the largest gathering of
the campaign. More than 1000
people crowded the big ballroom of
the hotel. Predicting that he per-
sonally could bring in $4,000 more
pledges, Mr.. Akers called on the
workers to continue their work till
goal is reached.
Lee D. Butler, reporting for the
Metropolitan Group. said a special
new unit was being formed, to be
known as the Clean Sweepers.
headed by Mrs. Wallace McClenahan
They will continue the drive. Other
pledges of cooperation came from
other units.
Regular reports at the 18th report
luncheon meeting were made by MIR.
Butler for the Metropolitan Unit;
Oscar L. Chapman. for the Govern
ment Unit, and Thomas N. Beavers,
for Group Solicitation Unit.
The original goal of $4,141 900 had
been curtailed by sS4,616, bringing
the new goal down to $4.056 1884
This was done, according to Herbert
L. Willett, jr, executive director of
the campaign, because "a newly
created organization which had an
ticipated joining in the Community
War Fund and for which provision
originally was made. has decided to
remain outside and raise its funds
in another way" 1t was not identi-
fed.
The new goal. he explained will
allow 100 per cent budget needs to
be filled for all agencies. and the
Evening star., 1942-12-09

contingency fund, when "the total
goal is reached"
Report of Units.
Reports at the meeting yesterday
were as follows:
Government Unit -5,113 givers
S32,684.17; bringing the total up to
235 1903 givers, and s1.949 ,023.34. This
is $685. per cent of the units new
goal based on the reduced total goal.
Group Solicitation-2225 givers,
s32 ,552.73 yesterday; bringing totals
up to 65.043 givers and $1.O6l ,33l "a.
This is 1882 per cent of the group
goal.
Metropolitan Unit II 1913 givers
$21 ,255 .08 yesterday; bringing totals
up to 29,684 givers, and $774,054 go.
This is 9989 per cent of goal.
Grand totals are 9136 givers. $685.
49l.98 yesterday; bringing totals to
date up to 330,035 givers, and So
784,409.48. This is 1929 per cent of
the new goal.
Coleman Jennings, president of
the Community Chest, presided.
Evening star., 1942-12-09

A professor of English literature
who came back from Honolulu with
story for America lay at the Red
Cross Blood Donor Center at Twen-
ty-third and c streets NV. and for
the third time in six months gave
pint of his blood.
Blake Clark's contributions to the
blood bank were Influenced by what
he saw and heard at Pearl Harbor
a year ago. And that is his story
first-hand account of what hap
pened when the Japs attacked.
He told it first in Remember
Pearl Harbor," the book published
last May, condensed in Readers
Digest of June, dramatized on the
radios Treasury Star Parade and
soon to be brought up to date and
republished.
He tells it in Never Shoot an
Hawaiian More Than Twice" an
epic included in the current issue
of Readers Digest.
Remembers Role of Blood.
He told it again while he lay in
bed at the Red Cross center Mon
day-December land waited for
his blood to trickle into tiny glass
jar.
There were many things running
through the mind of this 34-year-
old, slim, affable young man who
taught at the University of Hawaii
and now lives ats 1927 Massachusetts
avenue N.WsS He thought OF the
machine gunner aboard q ship at
Pearl Harbor who continued to fire
while bomb silver was pulled from
the. flesh. Of his leg. He recalled
the men onsathe ship Solace who
shielded ammunition on deck with
their bodies to keep it from ex-
ploding under the severe heat from
the Arizona burning alongside.
But the thing that stood out in
his mind was the part blood plasma
played in rectifying the damage
done by the enemy A majority of
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Two Chinese Beaten
In Restaurant Fioht

A row with several colored men
in a restaurant in the 300 block of N
street NV. sent two Chinese to
the hopsital early today.
Suey H. Chang, 38, of 300 N street
NV, was taken to Casualty Hos
pital with head cuts and possible
skull fracture after a colored man
had beaten him on the head with a
beer bottle, police said.
Him Wong, "a, of the same ad-
dress, received facial bruises and a
cut finger in fight with two other
colored men, it was reported He
was treated at Sibley Hospital, then
removed to Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Gas Rate Case
In Court Soon
For Argument
Answers of PUG
To Appeal by OPA
Are Presented

Arguments on the $4,000 rate
increase granted the Washington
Gas Light Co. by the Public Utilities
Commission are expected to be
heard soon in District Court, follow
ing the filing yesterday of dissent
ing PUG answers to an appeal of
the Office of Price Administration
that the court grant a stay In the
rate increase.
The court previously had refused
to halt the rate increase until both
sides represented in the argument
had filed petitions listing their
grievances.
PUC'S answer yesterday, filed by
James H. Flanagan and c. w. Kutz,
constituting commission major
ity, was countered by a dissenting
answer from Gregory Hankin, COM
mission member. who upheld the
position of the price-regulating
agencies and the various civic
groups involved in the legal action.
The motion of the price-regulat-
ing groups, representing Price Ad-
ministrator Henderson and Eco
nomic Sterilization Director Byrnes,
charged that the PUG issued its
order "in complete and utter dis
regard of the Governments pro-
gram to control imitation and to
stabilize the cost of living by pre-
venting all future and avoidable
increases"
Seek to Check Costs.
The purpose of the appeal, the
motion declared. is ito save the con-
suming public from this increase in
the cost of living" Such purposes,
the motion continued, would be null
lifted If the company were allowed
Ito demand and receive such in
creased rates and the con-
Stunning public would suffer a sub
stantial and irreparable property
loss if they 'were required to pay
such increased charges"
Among the arguments with which
the PUG countered the OPA motion
were the following:
l. Establishment in 1885 of a
sliding scale plan in computing
rates and charges resulted in a re-
duction of approximately 100000
in revenue to the company. Under
the terms and provisions of the
plan the operating experience of the
company for the test year, July l,
l941, to June 80, 1912, required an
increase in the rates and charges
for gas service in the District.
2. Between July /. 194l, and June
80. 1942, the company had a wage
rate increase of approximately
$330,000, an increase alone approxi-
mately $180,000 greater than the
rates authorized by the
PUG.
Cites Average Per Customer.
3. The cost of gas constitutes only
1.17 per cent of the cost OF living in
the District and the increase in
rates Is only an average OF cents
per month per customer.
4. A factor II, the PUG decision
granting the increase was the ability
of the company to obtain capital
economically for expanding its plant
to meet war demands.
The lengthy PUG answer ran to
13 pages, but Mr.. Hankins answer,
admitting "all allegations" con-
tained in the OPA appeals, dis
posed OF the dissenting opinion in
less than two pages.
Mr.. Hankin's answer asked that
the relief sought by the petitioners
be granted, that the orders of the
commission increasing. rates be set
aside and that the argument be re-
manded to the commission for fur
ther proceedings.
Evening star., 1942-12-09

VI YOUR IdllOIl IluSI Uc pdlu WIFI
period 2 coupons.
@. I have converted to coal and
have quantity of oil left in my
tank. What will I do with it? May
I sell it?
A. Notify your dealer and he will
purchase it from you. You must
also report this transfer to your
local board. You are not permitted
to sell the oil to another consumer.
@. My landlord converted our
furnace from oil to coal Is he
permitted to charge me for the
conversion?
A. That is matter between you
and the landlord If you live in
an area where OPA controls rent,
however. he first must report any
arrangement he makes with you to
the area rent director.
@. How do I know how many
coupons I owe my dealer?
A. You may determine this on
the basis of your purchases since
october l.
@. Is it all right for me to leave
my coupon sheets with my oil
dealer?
A. Yes, it is permitted by the
regulation.
@. How can I tell how much oil
to burn each week SO that I will
not run out of my ration?
A. The OPA will issue weekly re-
ports for 103 cities showing the
maximum amount of your ration
that you should have burned. If
YOU limit your consumption to this
figure your ration will last through
each heating period. If the reports
are not available in your locality
budget your consumption for each
heating period in accordance with
your ration.
@. My sister and her baby have
come to live with us. How can
secure an extra ration to keep the
baby's room warm?
A. BY applying at your local ra-
ton board.
@. Must I write anything on the
coupons when I give them to the
dealer?
A. Yes. You must write the Sc
rial number of the coupon sheet on
the face of each individual coupon.
@. Additional people now live at
my house, and I have to heat two
rooms 1 did not list on my applica-
ton. Am l permitted an extra ra-
ton?
A. Your ration will be adjusted
to reflect the increase in heating
requirements upon request to your
local board.
@. My husband and I live in an
11-room house. Last year we burned
5000 gallons of fuel oil My ration
this year is 1900 gallons. Why
am I cut so much?
A. Definite limits are placed on
the total area which may be heated
per occupant. This is necessary
because fuel oil is too scarce to
allot for heating living space be-
yond average needs.
O. use kerosene for cooking and
lighting. Must 1 apply for ra-
ton?
A. Yes. All uses of fuel oil are
included in the fuel oil rationing
program.
@. Will rationing entail undue
hardship?
A. The rationing program will
ameliorate the hardship caused by
the fuel oil shortage. 1t assures
you of securing your share of the
limited supplies of oil in accord
ance with your needs.
@. Why am I urged to convert
to coal?
A. Coal is more plentiful than
fuel oil. If you can convert your
equipment to coal you will be more
comfortable this winter. You also
help your country by reducing the
demand for fuel oil.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Auxiliary to Hold Teu

The Women's Auxiliary of ST.
Thomas Church, Eighteenth and
Church streets NV, will hold a
silver tea and food sale at the parish
house from to 6 pm. Saturday.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Church Guild Plans Sole

The Ascension Guild of the
Church Of the Ascension will spon-
sor a bake sale at 7:30 pm. tomor-
row In the fellowship room of the
church. A technicolor movie show.
ing scenes Of the Washington
Cathedral win be shown at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
PeddIer Uses Curriuoe

Having no gasoline, an ice cream
peddler in Lincolnshire, England,
covers his rounds in a Victorian
carriage.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
School Bus Drivers
Will Get Pay Raise

Drivers of Buttons four school
buses will receive a raise in pay with
the beginning of the fall term of
school next month, according to ac-
ton of the board of education, Mon
day night.
The new rate of pay will be $45
per month for each of the four bus
drivers: Francis Basinger, Aaron
Messenger, Walter Sommer and Ed
on Tschiegg.
With four buses in operation in
stead of five as last year, it was
pointed out that in rerouting the
load of the fifth bus would be dis
tributed this year among the four
buses.
The new salary schedule of SAT
for each of the four drivers will be
nearly the same as $38 paid to each
of the five drivers last year.
Application has been made for re-
treading of thirteen tires for schoo
bus service during the coming year
it was announced at the board meet
ing Monday night. Retreading i.
expected to be finished before tn,
opening of school,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
POTATO MARKET
FIRM AS BUMPER
YIELD NATURES
Growers Receiving Twice Aver
age Price Paid for Tubers
Year Ago
Estimate Crop as High as 400
Bushels Acre; Seconds
Find Ready Sale

Potatoes this year are proving an
unusually profitable crop for Bluff
ton area farmers who report near
record yields are being marketed at
prices double those commanded last
season.
With excellent weather and plenty
of moisture thruout the growing
season, fields will produce yields as
high as 400 bushels to the acre,
farm observers predict.
First potatoes of the new crop
going on the market this week
brought prices of 81 per 100 pounds
twice as much as the average paid
last season per bag.
Very few seconds are found ir
thisyear's crop, and those that are
culled out also are finding ready
market. Quotations for seconds are
running high, with $l.25 to $1.5(
being paid per 100 pound bag.
This years market situation pre-.
sents a decided contrast to that OF
last season when there were many
seconds and practically no market
for them. Top prices per 100-poune
bag in 1941 were only 81 for the
best grades and seconds proved un
marketable in most cases.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
Henry TrippIehOrn
Rites Here Monday

Funeral services were held Mon.
day afternoon in the Reformed Men
MONTE church northwest of Blufftor
for Henry Tripplehorn, 76-year-old
former resident of this place, who
died last Friday in Milwaukee, Wis.
Born in Russia, Tripplehorn came
to Bluffton at an early age with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Trip
plehorn.
After leaving here he lived for
many years in Findlay and Detroit
He died at the home of daughter
Mrs. Pauline Dyer, in Milwaukee
following an illness of Is months.
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth
Kerns Tripplehorn, five children;
eight brother and a sister.
The children are: Mrs. Dyer, al
whose home he died; Don A., of Chi
cago; Richard E., of Indianapolis
Norman H., of Detroit; and Mrs
Mildred Weissinger, of Detroit.
Brothers and sisters are Dan, Johr
and Fred, of Bluffton; Jacob and
David, of Ft. Worth, Texas; Abe
of Illinois; Menno, of Tulsa, Okla.
Noah, of Lima, and Mrs. Carl Girls.
more, of McGuffey.
Burial was in Maple Grove GENE
terry in Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
TEACHER SHORTAGE
HITS SCHOOL; TWO.
RESERVATIONS HERE
Vacancies Exist i'm Vocal Music
And Industrial Arts
Departments
Board to Meet i'm Special Ses-
sion; Many Schools Lack
Instructors

With the opening of school barely
a month distant, Bluffton, in COM
mon with practically every other
school in this section, finds itself
engaged in last minute search for
teachers.
Demands of the army for man
power together with wartime wages
in industrial plants have combined
to make one of the greatest short
ages of teachers ever experienced.
The schools here with schedules
set up for a teaching personnel
of twenty-five are lacking two in
structors, it was reported at meet
ing of the board of education, Mon
day night.
Lack Two Teachers
Instructors lacking are a vocal
instructor in public school music
and an instructor in industrial arts.
Miss Elizabeth Higley, of the
music department resigned early this
summer to accept position at
Muskingum college, New Concord,
Ohio.
Arthur l.. Daymon, instructor in
industrial arts was released by the
board at it's meeting Monday night
at his request in order to accept a
similar position in the high school at
Ottawa Hills, Toledo suburb.
Positions Vacant
Miss Mabel Nansen of Hiawatha
Kansas, hired by the board Monday
night for the music position, sent
word Tuesday that she had already
accepted a position for the coming
year.
While making every effort to fill
the two positions before the open.
ing of school, board members pri-
vately pointed out that in event il
was impossible to obtain teachers
these departments would very prob
ably be closed for the year.
Because of the widespread lack
of teachers it is believed that q
number of schools in northwestern
Ohio will be obliged to operate or
restricted schedules this fall.
Call Special Meeting
A special called meeting of the
board of education will be hello
later this month to review the
teaching situation and consider sap
plications for the two vacancies
Date for the meeting has not beer
set.
The special meeting is necessary
it is pointed out since the boarc
will not hold another regular ses
sion until September 7, the nigh
before opening of the fall term O.
school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
Many Familiar Faces Will Be Absent
From Polls At Primary Next Tuesday
Many Farmers and Industrial
Workers Will Pass Up
Privilege, Forecast
Bulk of Vote is Expected to be
Cast by Elderly and Re-
tired People

Voting in Bluffton and Richlanc
township primary elections next
Tuesday is expected to be the light
est in many decade, with political
observers reporting practically nc
interest apparent in the Forthcoming
balloting.
Little campaigning has been in
evidence locally, and there are
many other factors entering into the
picture which make light voting /,
foregone conclusion.
Many qualified electors in the dis
trict whose ballots in past years
help swell local voting totals will
not participate in the balloting this
summer, election observers are
pointing out.
Bluffton area men in the nations
armed services will not be casting
their ballots here in the primary
except those applying for ballots
under absent voters regulations.
Most farmers are busy and short of
help, with the result that an un-
usually light rural vote is antici-
pated.
Many other men working in fac
tories, especially those on a piece
work basis, will not take off time
to vote, with the result that the
principal balloting can be expected
to come from elderly and retired
people.
Adding to the general lack of in
terest is the fact there is no pri-
mary involving candidates for local
offices this summer, and with little
activity on the part of candidates
for county and state posts many
electors hardly are aware of the
approach of the August elections.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
Board Approves Cut
In School Budget

Operation of Bluffton's public
schools for the coming year will be
approximately $4,000 less than the
cost of operation last year, according
to a budget approved by the board
of education, Monday night.
Budget for 1943 as sanctioned by
the board calls for an aggregate of
$70.331 for all expenses as compared
to $76,317 received in 1941.
Budget for 1912 as approved by
the board year ago was $79,842.
Whether receipts will reach the
budget figures cannot be determined
at this time.
Amount of the 1943 budget is di-
vided S58,130 for operating costs and
S12,201 for bond retirement and in
terest.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
No Sugar Permit For Drying Corn
Since Corn's A Vegetable, You See
How Can We Make Applebutter
and Mincemeat, House
wives Want to Know
Registrars Issuing Canning
Sugar Permits Face Many
Hard Problems

No corn isn't fruit-so there just
isn't any sugar available for drying
corn and that's that. And if you
expected to get sugar fer drying
corn you'll have to. forget it.
Registrars at sugar rationing head
quarters in the high school cafeteria
patiently explained that particular
point dozens of times Tuesday and
Wednesday to applicants for canning
sugar who suddenly realized to their
dismay that corn is a vegetable
not fruit and the regulations spe-
city sugar for canning of late fruits
So of course drying of corn in the
good oldfashioned way with plenty
of cream and sugar added is appar-
emily out for the duration.
HERE'S MORE HARD ONES
But corn drying is only one of the
hard nuts which the registrars are
called upon to crack. For instance
there's that little matter of apple.
butter.
Sure apples are fruit-but what's
the status of applebutter-hardly in
the fruit class but nevertheless it's
almost household necessity in these
parts-and it takes plenty of sugar
if it's to be made like they make il
in the Bluffton district. Usual form.
ula for applebutter is about 25
pounds of sugar to 40 gallons OF
cider.
And then there's mincemeat-that
tasty number that furnishes the
chassis for pies during the holiday
season. And how is anyone to max,
mincemeat without sugar.
AND TOMATOES
And while we're talking about il
just remember that tomatoes are no
fruit-so there's no canning sugar
just in case you've been adding 9
pinch or two. However, many house
wives can tomatoes without sugar
SO we are told.
The late canning sugar rationint
has raised many more problems thar
were encountered in the early can
ming allotments, it was revealed here
Because of the impossibility of max
ing regulations covering all angles
of the situation, county rationins
headquarters instructed registrars t,
use their judgment in deciding Dor
/ der line cases.
Late fruits for which sugar is be
ing issued include apples, plums
peaches, pears, grapes and othel
fruits ripening after August l. Nin
quarts of each fruit per person ma,
be canned by each family with su
gar issued in the proportion of on
pound for every four quarts of frui
canned.
Rationing permits are being issue,
at the cafeteria in the high schoo
building this Wednesday, Thursda,
and Friday afternoon and evenin,
from l to 10 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-06
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HERE TO SPEED UP
JUNK COLLECTION
Organization is Announced for
New Salvage Campaign
This Month
Bluffton and Richland Town
ship Residents to Cooperate
In Campaign

Organization of an executive COM
mittee to serve Bluffton and Richland
township in an expanded scrap col
lection program was completed this
week.
On the committee to direct efforts
in attempting to collect more scrap
for the nations war effort are Mayor
w. A. Howe, Fred Badertscher, Allen
Grismore, Walter Marshal, Fred Ho-
fer, <. S. Lape and Jesse Yoakam.
Badertscher, Grismore and Marshall
are Richland township trustees, and
Hofer, Lape and Yoakam are men,
bers of the Bluffton village council.
"In the barnyards and gullies of
farms and in the Easements and at
ties of homes is lot of junk which
is doing no good where it is, but
which is badly needed by the nation
to help smash the Japs and Nazis," F"
it was announced by the committee
this week.
Junk collected by residents of the
area is bought by industry from scrap
sources at established government
controlled prices, and it soon goes in
to the making of war materiel.
Today America is turning out more
steel than the rest of the world com
bined, but unless 100000 additional
tons of scrap steel is uncovered i'm
mediately the full rate of war pro.
duction cannot be attained, it wa;
pointed out.
A plea to continue the collection Of
old rubber also was sounded, and ad
ditional waste materials most urgent
ly needed includes brass, copper, lead
zinc and tin.
After materials are collected the,
can be sold to junk dealers taken t,
the nearest collection point, donated
to charity or information relative t
their disposal may be obtained from
the local salvage committee.