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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Auto Tires After War Will Be OF
Synthetic Rubber, Speaker States
46 Blue Points In
Next Ration Period

Fory-eight ration points in blue
stamps lettered D. E. and F. in War
Ration Book No. 2 will be allowed
for the period March % to April 80,
it was announced this week by OPA.
The blue A, B, and c stamps now
is use will be good until March 81.
This will provide one week at the
end of March in which the stamps
for either period will be valid. Con-
sumers are urged by OPA, however,
to budget their AZ points for April.
Pre-validating of their ration
stamps is done primarily to allow
consumers to make the best possible
use Of any ration stamps Of small
denominations remaining at the end
of the month, it was indicated by
OPA.
If these remaining stamps are of
insufficient value to buy an item the
family needs, a higher point value
from the new period may be added
to secure the desired item.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Rationing Calendar

So that you may keep in mind the
numerous important wartime ra-
tioning dates, the Bluffton News is
this weekly reminder:
MARCH 21--Last day to use
gasoline A book coupon No. 4.
MARCH 21-Last day to use
Stamp No. % for one pound of
coffee. Coupon No. rs good for
one pound of coffee March 22
to April 25.
MARCH 25-Blue food point
stamps d, E and F become good
for rationed processed foods.
MARCH 29-First day for red
coupons of No. book for meat,
cheese, edible fats and oils.
MARCH 31-Last day for A
book tire inspection.
MAY 31-Last day for five
pounds of sugar with Stamp No.
IL.
JUNE 15-Last day for one
pair of shoes on Stamp No. II.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Double Funeral For
Mother And Infant

Double funeral services will be
held for Mrs. Ruth Mary Ann Girls
more, %, wife of Martin Grismore,
one mile east Of Pandora. who died
at the BlufFton. coAAaanity hospital
Monday night at HAS o'clock and
for her infant daughter who died
ninety minutes after birth.
Mrs. Grismore who was to have
undergone an emergency appendec-
tony died suddenly. She was born
July Is, 1919, in Findlay, the daugh-
ter of Paul and June (Sherrick)
West who now live in Liberty town.
ship.
On March IL, 1910, she was mar
ried to Martin Grismore who sur
wives. Besides her parents and hus-
band she is survived by a daughter
Sarah Ann, and two brothers, Pvt.
Max West, Camp Carson, Colo, and
James West at home.
Funeral services will be held at
the Grace Mennonite church in Pan
dora. No time has been set for the
services pending word from the bro
ther in camp. Rev. Forrest Musser,
pastor, assisted by Rev. w. P. Al
spach, Findlay, will officiate.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Booster Banquet
DriUe Starts Soon

An intensive one-week campaign
for the sale of tickets for the Bluff
ton college booster anquet, which will
be addressed by Lit. Gov. Paul Her
bert of Columbus, will start on Fri
day, it was announced this week.
The banquet will be held at the
Bluffton High school gymnasium Fri
day night, April 2. Musical numbers
on the program will include selec-
tions by the Bluffton college A-Capel-
la choir under the direction of Prof.
Russell A. Lantz and xylophone num-
bers by Barbara Jean Triplett.
Committee in charge of the cam
paign for tickets and banquet ar
rangements includes: Paul Detwiler,
chairman; Mayor w. A. Howe, Miss
Edith Amstutz, Miss Agnes Am
stutz, Coach A. c. Burcky, and Pro-
fessor Russell Lantz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Oceanic Flying Rates Almost Same
AS Boat Fares, Missionary States
Trip from Nigeria to Miami,
Fla. by Pan-American Clip
per Costs S6S5
Miss Irma Schneck, Pandora
Missionary, Made Trip by
Government Priority

Reduction of flying rates have
taken place sufficiently to make long
distance travel practically the same
as boat fares, it was stated by Miss
Irma Schneck, missionary to Nigeria,
West Africa, who arrived recently in
America for a years furlough with
headquarters at the home of her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. John Schneck
of Pandora.
The 5000 mile trip from Lagos
in Nigeria to Miami, Florida, can
be made now at cost of $685.. The
boat fare for the same distance
would be about 5000. Several years
ago the same trip by plane cost more
than 5000. Trans-oceanic airplane
trips can be made now only under
very rigid travel priority arrange
ments.
Travel is very comfortable in The
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Clearing And Colder Weather Stops
Flood Menace Here Wednesday Morning

Clearing and colder weather early
Wednesday, following twenty-four
hours of almost steady downpour
effectually stopped the menace of
high water which was beginning to
assume serious proportions.
With both Big and Little Riley
creeks out of their banks Tuesday
afternoon the waters rose steadily
higher until 9:45 o'clock in the
evening when high flood stage was
reached.
Clearing skies about that time
were followed by receding waters
which became noticeable shortly
after 10 p. m.
At flood stage water from Big
Riley creek covered Harmon field and
was flowing across East College ave-
nue. street a short distance east of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
OFFER so VICTORY
GARDENS FREE TO
BLUFFT0N PEOPLE
Lions Club Will Make Available
Garden Tracts PlOwed and
Narrowed
Applications for Plots to be
Made at Bluffton High
School Office

Some 80 Victory garden plots with
the soil plowed and narrowed ready
for planting will be avilable without
charge to Bluffton residents this
spring.
Announcement to this effect was
made by the Bluffton Lions club Tues
day night. The club has undertaken
as community project the supply
ing of Victory gardens and those in
terested in obtaining tract for home
gardening are asked to make applica-
tion at the high school office by the
end of next week.
Arrangements are being made by
the Lions club to secure several acres
of land in central location in or near
the town. There will be available
without charge at least so plots 20 by
30 feet.
Club Pays for Flowing, Narrowing
The club will pay for the blowing
and narrowing and the gardener will
have to pay only for his seeds and to
take care of the garden. If condi-
tions warrant the plot of land to be
offered to an individual may be larg-
er than 20 by 80 feet, club officials
stated.
Detailed explanation of the plan
will be made soon to the students of
the high school who will also be per-
mitted to take one of the gardens for
raising foodstuffs. The students will
explain the plan to their parents and
they may sign for the family, it was
explained.
With spring plowing to be started
soon, it is requested that residents
make their applications for the free
gardens as soon as possible.
Consultant Avilable
Harry Barnes, instructor in voca-
tional agriculture at Bluffton High
school will be available at the school
or at his home for advice on planting,
seeds, use of fertilizer and any prob
lem relative to gardening of small
plots.
The Lions club will give prizes for
the best plots and the better vege-
table items will be displayed at
meeting of the Bluffton Garden club.
With war time restrictions on food,
it is felt that numerous people here
will take advantage of the opportun-
ity to raise their own vegetables and
add to their home food stocks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Synthetic Rubber, Superior to
Natural Rubber Will Cost
About Same
Rapid Development Under Ma
tional Emergency Will be
Available After War

Synthetic rubber, developed under
the stress of wartime necessity, is
expected to replace natural rubber
for tires and a thousand and one
other uses in civilian life after the
war. The cost will be about the
same as natural rubber but the quail
ity will be considerably superior.
This was the opinion expressed by
P. V. Bender, representative of the
Cleveland office of the B. F. Good
rich Rubber company, who addressed
the luncheon meeting of the Lions
club az the Walnut Grill, Tuesday
night.
Synthetic rubber, little more than
laboratory curiosity, knowledge of
which was limited almost entirely to
scientists before the war, was sud-
denly called upon to play a major
role in the war effort when supplies
of natural rubber were cut off.
MADE FROM GRAIN, Coal OR OIL
Synthetic rubber is produced from
basic product butadene which is
obtainable from grain, coal or oil,
the speaker said.
Because of limited production, the
cost of making synthetic rubber is
now about one dollar a pound as
compared to about 20 cents pound
for natural rubber. Expanding pro-
duction, however, together with per-
fecting of the manufacturing process,
it is believed, will bring down the
cost of the synthetic product to the
level of natural rubber.
The government, it was pointed
out, has aided the large tire manu-
featuring companies in starting pro-
duction of synthetic rubber, which
facilities will be available for civil
ian use after the war.
PROPERTIES SIMILAR
Appearance and properties of syn
thetic rubber are similar to the nat
ural product and the average motor
ist will proably be unaware of the
change after the war from the nat
ural to synthetic rubber tires.
Ordinary peacetime civilian usage
required 100000 tons of rubber an
nually of which 81 per cent comes
from the Far East. With japan now
occupying the important rubber pro-
ducing areas this source of supply
has been cut off and only negligible
amounts are available from South
America and Africa.
1t is anticipated that by 1945 pro-
duction of synthetic rubber in this
country will be sufficient to supply
all needs of the army and navy, MAX
ing them independent Of imports of
natural rubber, Bender stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
BluftOn Youth Is
Air Force Graduate

Myron C. Welty, former Bluffton
youth who has been in training for
the army air service at Ellington
Field, Texas, will complete his
course this week.
Welty will be graduated at exer-
cises at Randolph Field, Texas,
where he will receive his silver
pilots wings and commission as Sec
ond lieutenant.
A recent photograph of Welty in
flying regalia appears in the News
window.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Leaves For Training

George Burkholder, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Burkholder, three and
one-half miles west of Bluffton, left
this Wednesday for duty in the Air
Force Enlisted Reserves at Ft. Hayes
in Columbus.
He has been assigned to the class
"B" meteorological unit and will leave
for the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, N. c., for several
months training.
Prior to his induction he attended
Bowling Green State university. He
graduated from Bluffton High school
in the class of 1910.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
is FROM ALLEN
COUNTY CALLED
BY DRAFT BOARD
Two Will Go Into Naval Ser
vice; Ii Will Enter Army
Saturday
Calls to be Announced Soon for
Physical Examinations
March 80

Sixteen Allen county selectees who
passed final physical examinations at
Toledo will leave on Saturday for in
duction into the armed services, it is
announced by Allen County Draft
Board No. 3.
Of the group of 16, two will enter
the navy and Ia viii go to the army.
With the contingent of men leaving
this week, all quotas for the month
will be filled, it was announced from
the offices of Board No. 3, Tuesday.
However, notices will be mailed short
ly to the next group of registrants to
report at Toledo on March 80 for
physical examination.
Leaving Saturday
Of those leaving Saturday for SER
vice, John Ross Neeper of Lima and
Don r. Cattell of Elida will enter the
navy.
Of those going to the army are:
Bluffton-Darvin Luginbuhl, Wayne
Daley.
Harrod-Dale L. Johnson.
Middletown Celestine George
Schmidt.
Lima Rural Routes-Thos. E. Gal
away, Joseph Fisher, Norman Am
stutz, Wayde Herr, WAYNE Polling,
Dale Rumsey, Dale Kaufman, James
Frank.
Elida-Sam Horn.
Delphos-John Neumeirer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18

the bridge. It had also risen to
pavement level at Cherry street
when a small stream trickled across
the roadway west of the bridge. The
water was less than foot below
the top of the embankment protect
ing Harmon Road.
Little Riley on rampage flooded
bottom lands from south of the
Grove street bridge to its junction
with Big Riley. Lower portions of
the Bluffton college campus including
Krehbiel foot bridge were under
water and pumps We're in operation
Tuesday night at the College heating
plant to prevent flooding.
Water also flooded College road a
short distance north of Freyman
bridge, one mile north of town, Tues
day night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
SPRING SPORTS
UNCERTAIN AT
SCHOOLS HERE
Preliminary Plans Made at High
School and College; No
Games Scheduled
Games Will be Played on I'M
promptu Arrangement, In
tra-muraIs Stressed

Although no games have been sched-
uled because of wartime uncertainties,
preliminary plans are being made for
program of spring sports at Bluff
ton High school and Bluffton college,
it was announced by athletic officials
of both schools this week.
Whether there is inter-scholastic
competition or not, both schools will
have an intensive program of intra-
mural competition in the various
spring sports, it was indicated b!
school athletic officials.
Coach A. C. Burcky of Bluffton col
lege is planning to call practice ses
sions for baseball as soon as the
weather moderates sufficiently. The
draft has reduced the male popula'
tion of the school to a point which
sharply limits the available material
No intercollegiate Games
None of the surrounding college:
have scheduled games for spring
sports and if games are played it viii
be only on an impromptu arrange
men., Burcky stated.
The new Bluffton High school coacf
Kent Cotterman, of Ohio Northern
university, is planning to call prac
tice meetings for baseball and track
AS in the case of the college there ar
no gams scheduled and if there is in
ter-school competition arrangement
will be made as the season progress
es.
1t is unlikely that there will be an,
interschool tennis competition, it wa
stated by Sidney Stettler, tenni
coach. Most of the surrounding
schools have cancelled all tennis meet
| Stettler said.
Regardless of the outcome of al
rangements for inter-school competl
ton, there will be spring sport
program for the boys in intramura
play, it was pointed out.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Approve Wage Raise
For Triplett Women

A five cent hourly pay increase
for 483 women employees Of the Trip
lett Electrical Instrument company
was approved the first of the week
by the Regional War Labor Board
in Cleveland.
Ray M. Sutter, regional WLB wage
stabilization director said the raise
was allowed to eliminate an Unequal
ity in wages paid Triplett company
employees and rates for similar work
in comparable plants in this area.
The company also has requested
approval of a petition seeking to ad-
just rates for women employees on a
basis of efficiency and job classified
ton.
Another petition filed by the COM
pany for an advance in rates for
men employees is now pending before
the board.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
INCOME TAX SETS
new HIGH RECORD
FOR VOLUME HERE.
Mail Dispatched to Toledo Over
Weekend Three Times the
Usual Amount
Change in Law Brings Many
Into Tax Filing Brackets
For First Time

What is reliably estimated to have
been the largest volume of income
tax payments ever made in Bluff
tons history passed thru the post
office here over the week end.
Postal attaches said that the
volume of mail dispatched to Toledo
where federal internal revenue
offices for this district are located,
was three times its normal volume
on Saturday and Monday, the last
two days before the tax deadline.
While there was no way of esti-
mating the aggregate amount of tax
payments, there was no doubt here
that it broke all previous records be-
cause of full time employment of all
available labor and also the lowering
of exemptions which brought many
additional persons into the income
tax filing brackets.
Altho personal checks will be ac-
cepted in payment of income taxes,
many made remittance by means of
postal money orders and clerks at
the postoffice here were busy thru
out Saturday and Monday filling out
money order forms.
A majority of the taxpayers are
believed to have paid only the min
imum requirement of one-fourth of
the tax. The unpaid balance is due
in quarterly installments under the
present law.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
MOSQUITO Control
Plan To Start Soon

Preliminary plans for an intensive
mosquito control campaign are being
formulated by the Bluffton town
council, it was announced this week
by Mayor w. A. Howe.
Adequate mosquito larvicide is
available this year despite the war,
it was indicated at the council meet
ing Monday night. Full time serv-
ices of a responsible individual are
being sought, it was stated by the
mayor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Observe Their 5Oth
Wedding Anniversary

More than $50 guests visited Mr..
and Mrs. Henry j. Sutter, five and
one-half miles northwest of Bluffton,
on the occasion of their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary held at their home
on Sunday.
A dinner was held at the noon
hour for the family and invited
guests. Open house was held in the
afternoon. Many cards, flowers and
gifts were received. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sutter expressed thanks for the re-
membranes of the day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Births

Born Tuesday, March 8, to Mr..
and Mrs. Dale Zeller, girl, Mary
Ebay, at Tiffin. Mrs. Zeller was
formerly Miss Neva Bigler of this
place.
The following births at the Bluff
ton hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bowers,
Beaverdam, boy, John Phillip, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Hoch, Mt.
Cory, a boy, Vaughn Ray, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Waldeman,
Rawson, boy, Gary Lee, Sunday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Completes Naval
Course

Clair Habegger, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Habegger, west of town,
has graduated from the United
States Navy Signal Corps school at
Butler university in Indianapolis,
Ind, as third class signal officer. He
has been transferred to Norton
Heights, Stamford, Conn, where he
is taking further training.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Real Estate Deals

Russell Tripplehorn has purchased
the Chas. Kaufman property on
Riley street occupied by Fred
Fritchie and family
Dan Badertscher has purchased
from Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Todd the
Cherry street residence occupied by
Burl Meyer, former the Mckinley
property.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Red Cross DriUe
Nedrs Completion

Although Bluffton residents have
been responding very favorably in
the current campaign for the Red
Cross organization, the quota of ST.
900 assigned locally has not been
reached, it was stated by Ross Bo-
gart, chairman.
Residents who have been missed in
the solicitation are requested to leave
a donation at one of the drug stores,
officials of the local campaign stated
this week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Motion Pictures OF
MOser School Sll1daB

Activities Of the mission school in
Brazil, South America, operated by
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Moser, former
Bluffton residents, will be shown in
motion pictures at the Presbyterian
church on Sunday night at s O'Clock
Included in the presentation will
be pictures Of airplane travel over
Brazil, Argentine and Chile The
public is invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
X-Ray Technician

Corp. T/5 Alan Neuenschwander,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Neuen-
schwander, former Bluffton residents
now at Saginaw, Mich, is an x-ray
technician at the VIM. Beaumont
General hospital at Ell Paso, Texas,
and is taking further training in
that line of work.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Radio Sermon Series

"The Challenge of the Heights" is
the topic of the radio address to be
given by the Rev. A. c. Schultz,
pastor of the Ebenezer Mennonite
church and Bluffton college Bible
professor, in the Living Today series
over Findlay radio station WIN
Friday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Former Physician
Here In Army Unit

Lieut.. F. C. Reel, former Bluffton
physician, is now located at the
Walter Reed Veterans hospital at
Washington, d. c., according to word
received here this week.
He completed his basic training at
Carlisle, Pa, and was then assigned
to the army hospital at Washington.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
In Machinist School

Donald Lehman, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Lehman, will enter the
machinist school at Great Lakes
Training station. He graduated
Wednesday from the basic training
at Great Lakes. He will have a nine
day furlough starting Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Ebenezer Broadcast

A girls trio composed of Miss Je-
NINA Lugibihl, Miss Vera Amstutz
and Mrs. Wilford Steiner will be
featured in the weekly broadcast of
the Ebenezer Mennonite church over
Findlay radio station WIN Sunday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, slow time.
Miss Mabel Amstutz is accompanist.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Navy Instructor

Glenn Slusser, Phi. M. &c, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Slusser of Bentley
road, has been transferred from the
Brooklyn Naval School to the United
States Naval Corps School at Balm
bridge, Nd, where he is an instruct
or in anatomy and physiology.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
Business Change

Leland Sechler, Bluffton restaura-
teur, has purchased Links place on
North Main street from Leon J..
Hauenstein, it was announced Fri
day. Hauenstein who has operated
the place for number of years has
announced no plans for the future.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-16
HOUSEKEEPING ROOMS
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Detroit evening times., 1943-09-16
ROOFING AND SIDING

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CALL NORMAN & DEE, TIE. 1-7540.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-16
LAUNDRIES

BUNDLE laundry. cash aud carry.
Theodore. Temple 2-2e22
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-16
ns%1 REAL ESTATE CORNER s%n
FOR
SALE
REAL ESTATE WANTED

A BETTER CASH DEAL AWAITS YOU
Any East side Property, LIE. O414.
AN ALL CASH deal for your property
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