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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15

hours day.
Bob Burns: Let me serenade EN-
with my bazooka-and then elimi-
nate EN- with a bazooka gum"
WE SUGGEST
NBC's Fibber MCGEE and Molly:
"Mussolini should be chained on d
balcony overlooking a cemetery
with nothing for company except
copie of his speeches. Hitler should
be chained under a loudspeaker
playing over and over a Lou HoltZ
record OF .Mein Kampf' in Jewish
dialect"
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. :.
Put Hitler in the Abbott and Cos
tello torture chamber room with
walls lined with copies OF "Mein
Kampf' At intervals, levels behind
the books would shoot them out at
him. Feed him only leaves from
the books
Edgar Bergen: Hitler and Mus
solini should be given parachutes
and taken up in an airplane. Hit
Ter should be dropped off over
Warsaw and Mussolini over Adds
Ababa. Both gentlemen should
have free choice as to whether they
wanted to open the parachutes."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
new BOOKS
Books Released by Library
Dec. Is, 1943
FICTION

Captain Ebony Hamilton Coch-
ran; The Pink Umbrella, Frances
Crane; The Great Yant Mystery
A. B. Cunningham; Lord Six-Gun,
Norman A. Fox Birds of Passage,
Ivan Heilbut; The Hill of the Ter
rified Monk, Geoffrey Homes; Un-
der Running Laughter, David j.
Manners
NON-FICTION
Better Eyesight Without Glasses,
w. H. Bates, M. D.; Lady in Wait
ing, Rory Gallagher; The Mermaid
and the Messerscnmitt, Rulka Lam
ger; Identification, Military Service
Publishing Co.. Psychology for the
Fighting Man, National Research
Council; A Threshold in the Sun,
Lloyd Morris; Dmitri Shostakovich,
Victor Seroff; 25 Non-royalty one
act plays for an all-girl cast, Betty
Smith; Notes Toward Supreme
Fiction, Wallace Stevens; Balkan
Firebrand, Kosta Todorov.
Unusually interesting on the nom
fiction list are the following titles
Balkan Firebrand by Kosta Todo.
rov. Kosta Todorov was born in
exile in Moscow where his father
had gone after an unsuccessful at
tempt to overthrow the Bulgarian
dictator, Stambulov He has beer
in turn Chetnik in Macedonia, a
statesman in Bulgaria, a soldier in
France and political exile in
America. Lively action and adj
venture.
A threshold in the Sun by Lloyd
Morris: An autobiography told in
the third person which recalls The
Education of Henry Adams. The
author spent much of his life
abroad where he knew many in
teresting persons in the world of
art and literature. Leisurely and
enjoyable reading.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
Imperial Valley Press

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SHOES

SHOES
Ration Book l, Stamp 18, good
indefinitely for one pair rationed
shoes: Ration Book 3, airplane
stamp /, good indefinitely for one
pair of shoes.
MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE, OILS
Ration book 3, brown stamps l.,
M, n, p, good through Jan. /, 1914.
SUGAR
Ration Book 4, stamp 30, good
for five pounds of sugar through
Jan. Is, 1914.
CANNED GOODS
Book 4, green stamps, A, B, C,
good through Dec. 20; stamps D, E,
F., good through Jan. 20.
GASOLINE
Coupon 8, A book, good for three
gallons through Jan. 81, 1914.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
Social Club Has
HOLIDAY Party

White Shrine Social club members
had their holiday party Tuesday
night when they met at the D. V
Stewart home in Imperial for pot
luck dinner and an evening OF
cards.
Each person brought a prettily
wrapped Christmas gift so every
one had a prize, the winners draw
ing from the assortment in the Or
der of their scores. B. o. Mitchell
won the door prize, war stamps.
Seasonal decorations added their
share to the festivities.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
Women's S Council
Gives to Home

Christmas activities for others
occupied the members of Women's
Council of the State Strete Chris
tian church when that group met
Tuesday night, after two postpone
ments due to the bad weather, at
the Irwin Maupin home, 832
Adams.
The women voted to send a
Christmas gift of $25 to the old
peoples home at San Gabriel and
each woman also brought to the
meeting a gift tUl tile home.
Other business was discussed and
Mrs. E. l.. Carter presided over
the program.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15

State Street Christian church is
planning a number of Christmas
events, first of which is the concert
to be given by the girls chorus at
the Sunday evening service, 1880,
Dec. 10. A Christmas party Dec. %
and the cantata Christmas eve are
the other events.
This is the third year that the
group has been singing together,
having started out as junior choir.
Wilma Jeanne Lakey has been
director during the three years,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
Ten Thousand Club Program
thursday by Centra! Group

who heard a similar program pre-
sented by the two departments last
year.
George w. Burt, head of the
music department, will be in charge,
presenting the various numbers, the
program beginning with Holy
Night" sung by the glee club, the
music being the lovely Cradle
Song" by Johannes Brahms. Doro-
thy Ann Mitchell will sing the in
cidental solo, and a string ensemble
of six violins, played by Wilma
Lakey, Janet I-t'p, Helen Maynard,
Jody Rogers, WaIIy Christian, Rich
ard Brissenden, will provide the
musical background
A second number by the glee CLUB
will be heard. "A Christmas Cradle
Song" (ProkofD after which How
ard Pipes will play a trombone solo.
"The Lost Chord" (Sullivan. Wini-
fred Anderson will follow with a
piano solo, Reflections in the
Water" (Debussy) after which
Peggy Cox will give reading, "The
Shepherd" Heywood Broun' with
the background provided by the
string ensamble.
CLOSING NUMBERS
Two numbers by the glee club
concluded the program: Portuguese
Christmas song, arranged by Ruth
Bailey, "The Little Jesu of Braga'
and the familiar white Christmas,
by Irving Berlin.
The glee club numbers some beau
tiful voices, eXpertly trained by Mr..
Burt, and as the program indicates,
both the traditional music of the
season and some less-known but
equally fine, is to be included. All
soloists are accomplished musicians
whose work is familiar to many OF
the audience as is Peggy Cox's dra-
matte ability as she has appeared
in a number of Central's plays.
Mrs. w. A. Tondro, president, will
conduct the business meeting which
will start promptly at 2 p. M, the
program following Immediately.
Parliamentary law section men,
bers will be the tea hoStesSeS for
the afternoon, and have made de-
lightful plans for entertaining their
fellow club members.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
North Student
Recital Date

Zona North, music teacher of Ell
Centro, announced Wednesday that
the two student recitals which were
postponed because of the stormy
weather, will be combined into one
recital to be held Saturday night
q o'clock in the Presbyterian
church.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
HoItviNe Club
Tea Thursday

Holtville, Dec. Is: Holtville Junior
Women's club is having its annual
Christmas tea Thursday afternoon,
1905 o'clock in the civic center
with Mrs. Bill Rubidoux, Mrs. Ray
Rubidoux, Mrs. Franklin KCmberg,
Mrs. Herbert Huffman. Mrs. En-
NETT Layton, Mrs. M. Kelly as the
hOSteSSeS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
Churches
Schools

Centrals music and dramatic de-
partments will present Christmas
program for the Ten Thousand club
at its meeting Thursday of this
week, a program which is being
anticipated with a great deal of
pleasure on the part of members,
particularly on the part of those
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
SEEK DIVORCES

Four divorce complaints were
filed in Imperial county superior
court Tuesday. The suits were filed
by BERTHE Mae Kinney against Jack
Kinney, desertion; Carlos Garcia
against Josefina de Garcia, deser-
ton; Elmer G. Williams against
Goldie S. Williams, desertion; and
IneZ Vivian WlnSncW against
Thomas Raymond Minshew.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15

Joe Ray Stull is home for the
holidays from Hemet where he has
been staying with his grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Stull, who has been ILL.,
Joe will remain until New Years.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
News Items About
Valley Residents

The Rev. FIR. Edward Hutchin-
son, vicar of st. Pauls Episcopal
church, has returned from San
Francisco where he was called on
business connected with the fed
eral housing administration.
The R. E. Daniel family has en-
joyed a real reunion, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel having both their daughter
and son and their two grandchil-
dren with them: Mrs. Roy Sweeney
and her sons, Michael and Dennis
of Hollywood and 1t. Tom Daniel
U. S. Army Air corps who received
his commission Dec. at Williams
Field, Chandler, Arizona, and who
was home on leave before reporting
for duty at Hamilton field near
San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15
Announce emenfs
Of Mee+in9s

WOmen'S League of Grace Luth
eran church will meet Thursday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Sam
Turner for Christmas program
which will include the singing of
Christmas carols by the group, a
reading by Mrs. C. Egger, special
music b. Mrs. w. Hofer and Mrs.
F. Karlen and short address by
the pastor, the Rev. Mr.. Albert r.
Nickodemus. The session will start
at pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15

Alpha Mu Omega's meeting has
been postponed, officers of this
music fraternity announced We'd
nesday.
Red Cross Motor corps members
will meet Thursday night, 8 o'clock,
at headquarters, 100 North Fifth
street.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-15

On Friday evening the Walther
League of Grace Lutheran church
will have its postponed meeting at
the John F. Waterman home, 7:3O
o'clock
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
Tokens To Supplement
Use OF Ration Books

Two billion dime-sized ration tok-
ems will go into circulation Feb. 81.
The Office of Price Administration
announced the nations shoppers will
start trading ration stamps for the
red and blue tokens at retail stores
on that date but reminded everybody
that the ration currency will supple
ment, not replace, the regular ration
books.
The vulcanized fiber tokens are be-
ing manufactured now by the Os-
borne Register Company of Cincin-
natl. The original order called for
00,0O0,0O0, half red and half blue,
but OPA boosted the order to 1,1O0,-
100000 red tokens and 100000, 600
blue.
Stamp strips will be torn off hori-
zontally from ration books when the
token plan becomes effective.
A regular schedule of validity
dates will be established. Consumers
will get so blue processed food
points a month, and 80 meat, fats
and butter red points semi-monthly
OPA said the tokens will make il
unnecessary to issue ration books as
frequently as at present.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
Funeral On Thursday
For Mrs. John WeLtY

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Welty, II, wife of John Welty, will
be held at the First Mennonite
church Thursday at 2:30 p. m. Mrs.
Welty died at her home on Cherry
street, Tuesday night, after three
years of failing health. Death was
attributed to influenza.
She was born in Wayne county the
daughter of Peter and Rebecca Leh-
man and was married May 81, 1914
to Mr.. Welty who survives together
with five step-children.
They are Mrs. Lillian Senff, mis-
sionary to Belgian Congo, Africa
Lee Welty, Pandora; Adaline anc
Harry Welty at home and Mrs. Ella
Ross of Swanton.
Also surviving are a sister ano
three brothers: Mrs. Carrie Hofstet
ter and Harvey Lehman of Califor
MIA, Mo-; Reuben Lehman, Deel
Greek, Okla, and Frank Lehman OF
Versailles, Mo.
Rev. J. N. Smucker will officiat'
at the funeral services, assisted b!
Rev. A. F. Albro. Interment will b.
in Ebenezer cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
EUa Montgomery
Rites On Monday

Mrs. Eva Montgomery, 80, who
resided at farm home south of
Bluffton until three years ago, died
last Saturday morning at the home
of daughter, Mrs. Won Spellman,
in Ada.
Mrs. Montgomery h d been
seriously i'll for week. Death was
attributed to the infrmities of age
She was born Jan. 8, 1863, in
Hancock county, the daughter of
Jacob and Mary (Zeller) Bloom.
William Montgomery, her husband,
died in 1884. Until three years ago
when she went to Ada to live with
her daughter she had spent all her
married life on a farm south of
Bluffton.
Survivors include one son, Charles
Montgomery, Mrs. Ernest Klingler
and Mrs. Spellman and a foster
daughter, Mrs. Mae Tschantz, all of
Ada. A brother, William Bloom,
lives at Garretsville, O.
Mrs. Montgomery was a member
of the Liberty Chapel Evangelical
church in Orange township.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at the Lantz and
Cretors funeral home in Ada. Rev.
Irwin Kaufman of Mt. Cory, officiat-
ed. Burial was in the Thompson
cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
PRESENT DESPITE
Wartime SETTING
Town Short On Decorative Frills
But Spirit of Season
Same AS Ever
Churches Plan ChriS t m a S
Programs In Keeping With
Season; Schools To Close

Altho shorn of some of it's peace
time frills, and despite the fact that
members of many a family circle
are scattered about the globe at
army locations, Buttons observance
Saturday of its bestowed holiday
this Christmas will differ little from
that of other years.
Everything is in readiness here
for the Yuletide, the shopping rush
having passed its peak last Saturday,
and Christmas mailing is reported
well in hand at the Bluffton post
office.
Opening the musical observance of
the season, the Bluffton College
Choral Society last Sunday night
presented its annual rendition of
Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah" in
the Bluffton High gymnasium.
In keeping with the spirit of the
season, churches of the community
will present Christmas programs on
Christmas Eve and the following
Sunday. Schools have additional
Yuletide entertainment arranged.
Bluffton High and Grade school
pupils are looking forward to a
weeks holiday recess which will start
with the close of school on Friday
afternoon. They will return to class
es Monday morning, Jan. 3.
Bluffton colleg will have a slightly
longer vacation extending from
Thursday, Dec. %, at p. M, until
Tuesday morning, Jan. a.
Business generally will be suspend
ed in Bluffton on Christmas and the
following day. Bluffton war in
dustries will close, the first holiday
this year on which they have entire
ly curtailed operations.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
RatiOning Calendar

So that you may keep in mind tn,
numerous important wartime ra
tioning dates, the Bluffton News i,
publishing this weekly reminder:
JANUARY 15-Last day to
use Stamp No. 20 in Ration
Book for pounds of sugar.
SHOES-Stamp No. Is in Ra-
tion Book l good for one pair.
Stamp No. l on "Airplane" sheet
in Ration Book 3 good for one
pair.
JANUARY Last day to use
Brown Stamps L, M, N, p, @, in
Ration Book No. 8 good for
meats, cheese, canned milk, can
ned fish, butter, lard and other
edible fats.
JANUARY 20-Last day to use
Green Stamps d, E and F in Ra-
tion Book No. 4 for processed
foods.
JANUARY 21-Last day to
use Coupon No. 8 in A books for
three gallons of gasoline.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
Mary Ellen Banae
Weds George BOWer

Mary Ellen Bame, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Bame, of North
Jackson street, became the bride of
George Franklin Bower, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Andy Bower, of Jenera, in
a quiet ceremony at the St. Paul
Lutheran parsonage in Jenera, last
Friday night at eight o'clock.
Rev. Bauman, pastor of the. church,
officiated at the double ring ceremo-
ny.
For the occasion the bride wore an
aqua blue gown with black acces-
sories, and a sweetheart necklace, a
gift of the groom.
Following the ceremony the young
couple left for a weekend trip thru
southern Ohio. They will reside on
the Bower farm eight miles east of
Bluffton.
A graduate of Bluffton High
school, the bride until recently was
employed by The Triplett Electrical
Instrument Co. of this place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
Former Resident
Dies In LeipsiC

Mrs. Matthew Perkins, IS, form
erly of near Bluffton, died at her
home in West Leipsic, Tuesday
morning. The family formerly lived
south of Bluffton on the county line
on the farm now owned by John
Dunbar, the former Lafe Owens
place.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon at the West
Leipsic U. B. church, Rev. o. E.
Hawk officiating. Interment will be
in Harmon cemetery near Gilboa.
Besides her husband she is sur
vived by four children: Harry Per-
kins of Toledo; Ford of McComb
Calvert of Fostoria and Mrs. Eta
Ostrander of Leipsic. A brother
Newton Harris, lives in Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
James Benroth Gets Army Citation
For Designing Air Corps Tester

James Benroth, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Benroth, of North Main
street, serving with United States
forces in India, has received an
Army citation for developing a spe-
clai tester for checking special air.
plane panel equipment.
Benroth developed the tester to as
s1st him In his work in India, and
his superior officers were so inn
pressed with its performance that
they sent it to this country to de-
termlne if it was practical for adop-
tion as standard airplane testing
equipment.
In the citation thanking him for
his new test equipment design, COL
J. W. Gurr, of the air corps, ad-
vised Benroth that additional testers
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
War CuriOs Sent
Home By Vdnden,drk

An interesting collection of South
Pacific war curios has been sent
home to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Emmit Vandemark, who resides be-
tween Bluffton and Ada, by their
son, Corp. Myron Vandemark.
Included among Corp. Vande-
marks souvenirs are two japanese
rubber suits, one japanese ammuni.
tion bag; one pair Japanese fielc
glasses; two pairs chop sticks; one
insignia from Japanese uniform
one can japanese healing powder; al
ash tray made of Japanese shells
and grass skirt.
Corp. Vandemark has been in ar
army hospital for the last thre,
months, recovering from an attacl
of malarial fever.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
GOOSE, DUCK GAIN
FAVOR FOR XMAS
HOLIDAY DINNERS
Chicken Prices Higher; No
Turkeys Available On
General Market
Many Bluffton Families Will
Serve Geese and Ducks
This Year

Goose and duck-once traditional
main course items of the Christmas
dinner-this year are regaining
much of their former popularity.
For the last decade or so turkeys
and chickens have eclipsed geese and
ducks as the favored meat course for
the holiday feast, but it is a diff
ferent story this year when no tur-
keys are available on the general
market and chickens are selling at
considerably higher retail prices.
That geese and ducks were again
installed as popular favorites was
seen in the early trend of Christmas
buying, and local dealers report
marked increases in the sale of both.
Live-weight retail price of geese
and duck is 27 cents a pound this
year, with chickens bringing 80
cents. Turkey is not available at all,
except for a few who place early
orders with farmers who raised their
own fiocks.
All prices are up slightly this
winter. Chicken advanced to 32 cents
pound from last years quotation of
27 cents. Geese and ducks, selling
for 27 cents this year, brought 20
cents in 1912.
Egg prices are about the same as
last year, ranging from 30 cents a
dozen for pullet eggs, to 41 cents for
choice lots.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23

of the same kind have been made
up and sent to other fields.
Col. Gurr added, ''It is a pleasure
to commend you for your originality
and initiative in the development of
this design. That and your unselfish
attitude in making it available for
others is most commendable and is a
credit to you and the service"
Working with test equipment is
nothing new to Benroth, for he
learned lot about testers and in
struments while an employe of The
Triplett Electrical instrument Co., of
this place, before he went into the
army.
The Bluffton youth was with one
of the first American units to land
in India, and has been stationed
there continuously since that time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
BluftOn WAC Has
Picture In Paper

Sgt. Mary Jane Carr, of the WAC
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. G..
Carr, four miles north of Bluffton,
found her picture in Dayton news
papers last week, shortly after she
was transferred from Brooklyn to
Wright Field.
The photograph showed Sgt. Carr
busy with soldering assignment in
the engineering laboratories at
Wright field.
In the explanation, the newspaper
said in part, "Sgt. Mary Jane Carr
is the first of technical and adminis-
trative personnel that will make up q
squadron of more than 500 WACs to
report for duty at Wright Field"
Before enlisting, Miss Carr was an
employe of The Triplett Electrical
Instrument Co., of this place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
Capt. Herbert Luginbuhl Also
Commanded Troops Re-
viewed By President
BlufftOn Man Responsible For
Signal Installations Serving
Allied Legations

Capt. Herbert r. Luginbuhl, Bluff
ton native stationed in Oran, was
the officer in charge of all signal
installations serving the Russian,
British and American legations dur
ing the historical three-power con-
ference at Tehran, it was learned
this week.
AS the commanding officer of a
detachment of signal troops reviewed
by President Roosevelt, Capt. Lug
inbuhl also appeared before the
Commander-in-C Chief. The President
returned Capt. Luginbuhls salute at
a distance of six PAGES during the
review.
1t was a trying assignment, for
the Bluffton man was on 24-hour
daily duty during the conference.
However, everything went off with
out hitch, he reported, and altho
he didn't get much sleep it was
worth it.
Capt. Luginbuhl has been in Oran
for the last year.
First news of his responsibilities
during the allied conference was
learned here this week when he
sent newspaper clippings from Teh-
ran to his wife, the former Clorinda
Steiner, who is living on South
Main street.
Before going into the Army, Capt.
Luginbuhl held responsible posi-
tion with the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co.