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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Recordings OF Bluffton Woman's
Broadcast To Go To Sons In Pacific

Recordings of Mrs. Agnes Birch
naugh's interview as Ohio War
Worker of the Week on a War De-
partment broadcast originating from
Radio Station WTAM in Cleveland,
last Sunday morning, will be sent
to her two sons, James and Joe, who
are i'm the South Pacific war theatre
with the famous 37th Ohio division.
Transcriptions of the broadcast
honoring the Bluffton woman employe
of The Triplett Electrical Instru-
menfit Co. were made for the prin-
cipal purpose of forwarding to her
two sons on Bougainville record of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
PRIMARY ELECTION
Will BE HELD ON
TUESDAY, May a
Candidates for County, State
and National Nominations II
on One Ballot S.
Republicans Run Full Count,
Ticket; No Democrats Filete
for Three Offices ~.

Candidates for nomination to fIdr
tional, state and county offices will lbe
listed on one ballot to be presented ~
Bluffton and Richland township elAc-
tors when they go to the polls to cast
their votes in the Primary election,
Tuesday, May 9. y'l
A full list of candidates will be gli
the Republican ballot, but there are
no Democrats seeking nomination to
three Allen county offices. No one
filed on the latter ticket for Clerk of
Courts, Judge of Common Pleas Court
and County Recorder.
Heading each ticket will be the
names of candidates to the national
presidential nominating conventions of
Democratic and Republican parties.
Democratic candidates are pledged
to Joseph Ferguson and Republican
candidates TO Cove. John Bricker.
Offices for which nominations will
be voted on the county ticket include
recorder, clerk of courts, treasurer
two members of the board of COM
missioners, prosecutor, coroner, engi-
neer, sheriff, state representative
state senator, Judge of probate and
common pleas courts, judge of court
of appeals, representative to Cong
ress, state central committeeman and
precint committeeman.
Candidates on state ticket will be
for nomination as governor, lieutenari
governor, state secretary, state au5i
tor, state treasurer, attorney general
United States senator, representative
to Congress (at-large) Chief Justtcl
of the Supreme court, and Judge %
the Supreme court.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Canvass TOWn For
Legion Honor Roll

Solicitation to provide funds for
erection of Buttons honor roll is
announced by the American Legion
and the Legion Auxiliary.
Canvass which will start on Fri
day will continue until May 9 during
which time a house to house vista
ton will be made. Those in rural
districts desiring to contribute and
any in town who may be overlooked
by solicitors are asked to leave con-
tributions at the home of Mrs. J. S.
Steiner.
Project for erection of an honor
roll bearing names of men of Bluff
ton and vicinity in the armed serv-
ices was announced recently and the
memorial will be located on the high
school grounds, it was stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
ASK BIDS May is
FOR HOT MIX TOP
on MAIN Street
Estimate Cost of IL Mile Prof.
ect S25,730; Town to Pro-
vide $4,000
Two Other Resurfacing Jobs
near BlufftOn Scheduled
for This Summer

Assurance that Buttons Main
street will be resurfaced this summer
was seen here Tuesday with announce
ment that the state highway depart
ment would receive bids in Columbus
for the project on Tuesday, May 16.
The work here will extend from the
Bentley road junction on South Main
street to the north corporation bound
ary, The Allen Hancock county line,
a distance of one and one-half miles.
Resurfacing will consist of an as
phaltic concrete top one and three
quarters inch in thickness on top of
the present brick pavement.
Other Projects, Too
The Main street resurfacing, how
ever, is only part of major road
surfacing project scheduled for this
section, both north and south of Bluff
ton, for all of which bids are asked
on May 16.
North of town the resurfacing will
contiue on the 20 foot roadway to the
intersection of State Route SO near
Mt. Cory, distance of three and one
half miles.
Both of these projects are to be
completed by August 15, the state
highway department has announced.
Cost of the Bluffton resurfacing pro-
ject is estimated at $25, ,730. Of this
amount the Bluffton town council has
agreed to provide $4,000. The re-
mainder will be paid from state high
way department funds. The Hancock
county resurfacing portion is estimat-
ed at S35,700.
The third project will consist of a
three and one-half mile stretch of road
south of Beaverdam in Richland, jack
son and Bath townships. The cost is
estimated at $45,7 and is to be COM
pleted by July 81.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Radio Chorus Here
Next Sunday Night

Rev. Victor Paul Wierwille, radio
pastor, and The Chimes Hour Young
Reople's Radio Chorus will appear in
eSt. Johns Evangelical and Re
formed church at p. m. next Sum
53aH under auspices of the young
peoples organizations of the EN-
fnz1iuePs and st. Johns churches.
Bertha Marie Johnson, soprano,
singing "The Lords Prayer" and
The Holy City" is featured in the
chorus. Membership of the chorus
is made up entirely of young per-
sons.
The Chimes Hour is broadcast over
Radio Station WLOK in Lima every
Sunday at IL Noon. 1t is directed
by Rev. Wierwille, pastor of "The
Church With the Open Door and the
Open Bible, Reformed church at
Payne, Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Future Farmers To
Meet Here Thursday

Allen county units of Future
Farmers of America, an organization
of boys in high school agriculture
classes, will hold county meeting
here Thursday night.
Members of the Bluffton high
school Future Farmers club are in
charge of arrangements and high
school delegations are expected from
Spencerville, Shawnee, Lafayette,
Beaverdam and Harrod.
The group will meet in the Com
munity Sportsmen's club on the third
floor of the town hall for program
followed by a recreation period at
the high school gymnasium.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Pacific Area War
Veteran Visits Here

James Althaus, who saw action in
the southwest Pacific war area, to-
gether with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilbur Althaus of Lewisburg,
visited last Thursday with Mrs. Alt
haus' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Amstutz and Mrs. Moses Steiner.
James who was in the Pacific area
for nearly two years holds rating
of chief pharmacists mate in the
naval hospital corps and participated
in the Guadalcanal invasion and later
in action at New Guinea, New Bri-
tain and Cape Gloucester.
He returned home on furlough last
March and has been assigned to a
post in Los Angeles.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Richland Grange To Celebrate 25th
Anniversary At Meeting Wednes

Twenty-fifth anniversary of Rich
land Grange will be celebrated at a
meeting in the Grange hall at 8 p. m.
this Wednesday, with Joseph E.
FIGHTER, of Oxford, State Grange
Master, as the principal featured
speaker.
}. T.. Morris, of Sugar Greek
Grange, Allen County Grange Dep
uty, also will speak. Henry Huber
will give a history of the Richland
Grange, which was organized April
"a, 1919, by Lawrence Huber who
served as first master. Huber is now
on the faculty of State College, Pa.
Charter members of Richland
Grange who have retained active
membership continuously for 25
years include Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Huber, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz,
Mr.. and Mrs. Orton Stratton, Mrs.
Will Hilty, Mrs. /. M. Jennings, Mrs.
Noah Moser, Mrs. Amos Moser and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
BLUFFTON CLOCKS
TO BE SET AHEAD
One HOUR SUNDAY
Change to Fast Time Will Be-
come Official At 3 A. MI.
For Summer Months
Council Sets Up Time Change
In Response To Requests
of Residents

Bluffton residents will set their
clocks ahead one hour Saturday
night when they go to bed, to con-
form with the towns adoption of
fast time for the summer season.
The change in time will be effect
i've officially at 8 a. m. next Sun
day, and the town clock will be
moved ahead at that hour by Albert
Benroth, caretaker.
Bluffton churches will convene one
hour earlier Sunday morning in keep
ing with the new time, and Bluffton
industries, schools and business
places will begin operation on fast
time on Monday.
Decision to adopt fast time in
Bluffton from April 80 to the first
Sunday in September was voted on
April II by the municipal council
after sentiment over a two-weeks
period indicated most Blufftap resi'
dents ware IN favor of disseminating
slow time for the summer.
In an ordinance drafted at the
session, councilmen set up perman,
ent schedule whereby the town will
be on slow time from the first Sun
day in September every year until
the last Sunday in April.
Other cities in this area also are
going to fast time for the summer
and there will be an additiona
advantage inasmuch as the new time
will conform to railroad schedules
Under slow time, railroad schedules
were one hour earlier, which general
ly was confusing to those planning
trips by train.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Lieut.. Patterson
Advanced In Rank

Second Lieutenant Charles A. Pat
terson, husband of Mrs. Carol Pat
terson, of 327 S. Jackson street, was
advanced to the rank of First Lieu
tenant recently at the air base in
England where he is stationed.
Lieutenant Patterson came up
through the ranks, having entered
the Army as a private in 1941. He
was first. commissioned in July, 1943,
and has been overseas with an
Army postal unit for two years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Reformed Brotherhood
Banquet On Thllrsday

Rev. r. Wobus, of Sidney, will be
the speaker of the Patterson BAN
quet of the Brotherhood of the St.
Johns and Emmanuels Evangelical
and Reformed churches at z p. m.
Thursday in the st. Johns church.
Rev. Wobus has spoken here on
other occasions, and a good turnout
is expected for the meet. Special
music will be provided.
Earl Matter, president of the Bro
therhood, will give the address of
welcome and Arden Baker will serve
as POSTMASTER.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
|M(RM YOUTHS ARE
AN DRAFT QUOTAS
||G)|'AlLED TO CAMP
Forty Men From Allen County
EfgAsSsB0ard 3 Inducted into
Armed Services
Apt Call Takes Nearly All
iiIlMkm in Is to 26 Year Old
JyjENss Age Group

40 men inducted into the
.ys1fned services last Friday. and Sat-
Iiiff1ay jim the April call of Allen
|f5aiitgs Draft Board No. 3, officials
the board announced they are
sfbapnig the bottom of the barrel in
lfhgkI9.t to 26-year-old group.
the 30 men sworn in were
siS from Bluffton, three of whom
[Y4ht into the Navy and three into
siitl sAi1py.
|syfjfy4n fiiing their April quota and
lliingtup registrants for possible in
sflgctiop, in May, the board has care
Iflry scrutinized all present defer
and new claims for deferment.
p}ffftfstNMANY FARM YOUTHS
Z How acute the situation has be-
coimee is. indicated by the number of
farm syouths sent to the Army and
EfyAvysin the April calls.
jtflAHs3he same time board officials
itbll6r44ed earlier reports there will
ne lees than half enough men in the
f2 t1t26 age group to fill the May
's{abAA should the call be as large
fhAN for April.
spumber of men needed in
May hue not yet been announced to
the jfAuafd. There are few regis
tf8ftE Efemaining under &c, however,
Md tildss national directives order
Tn9f of the drafting
.of fjaHmen over % are changed,
sB6hIdias,will not be in position to
NIsaeettMsy quotas.
smen inducted into the Navy
systbe' rpledo Recruiting station last
FAAdzy three were from Bluffton
and fltNds others from the surround
.i6G aspA. Inductees were Kenneth
sfienfy,Ss Bluffton; eldon Deppler,
|1dtes q, aBluffton; julie Gust Basing-
.Vg1iHQptA 2, Button; Wilbur Dale
INT Columbus Grove Route 2, and
Jack Lester Graymire, Route 1, La
fayctte.
THREE IN ARMY
Six from BIuffton and the adjacent
area were inducted into the Army at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianap-
oils. Ind, last Saturday.
s From Bluffton were Delbert Lug
inbuhl, Maynard Badertscher and
Raymond Clark. Others included
Herbert Eugene Downing, Route 2.
Columbus Grove; Donald E. Dunlap,
Route 2, Columbus Grove, and Clar-
ence r. Salisbury, Route /, Rawson.
John G. Furry, Route Lima, left
for Q conscientious objector camp at
Kane, Pa, last Friday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Seventeen Seniors To Graduate
This Year; May Queen
To Be Crowned
Commencement Speaker Will Be
DIR. Elmer E. S. Johnson,
Hartford, Conn.

Varied features on busy four-day
calendar bf Bluffton college COM
mencement activity will get under
way on the campus, Friday, May IL,
one month earlier than the usual
schedule in peacetime.
Highlights of the season will be
the crowning of the May Queen in
Bluffton Day festivities and presen-
tation of a Thespian play on Satur-
day, May 13; baccalaureate services
on Sunday, May IA, and commence
ment exercises on Monday, May 15.
Opening event of the commence
ment week will be cantata, "Pan
on a Summers Day., by the Girls
Glee club at 8 p. m. Friday, May
IL.
II WILL GRADUATE
Closing the weeks activity, COM
mencement exercises will be held for
II graduating seniors Monday morn
ing, May Is. DR.. Elmer E. S.
Johnson, professor emeritus of Hart
ford Theological seminary, will be
the speaker.
A busy schedule on Saturday, May
13, will include class programs, spe-
cial luncheons, crowning Of the May
Queen, Mrs. Wilma Nonnamaker
Mumma, followed by the alumni
banquet, and presentation of play
Letters to Lucerne" by the Thes-
plans dramatic society.
Baccalaureate services on Sunday,
May Ia, will be addressed by Presi-
dent l.. L. .Ramseyer, following which
the presidents reception will be held
and the girls glee club will present
concert.
LIST OF GRADUATES
Included in the graduating class oil
II are Mary Bowman, Lima; Holly
Burkhalter, Middletown; Grace Gels
singer, Allentown, Pa; Ellis Guthrie,
Lafayette; Helen Habegger, Busby
Montana; Ellwyn Hartzler, Bloom
ington, H., Eula Locher, Pandora
WilInl Mr. -, Biuffton; Jane.
Welty, Lima, mad Edmund zehr
Gridley, ILL.,, all to receive Bachelor
of Arts degrees.
Bachelor of School Music degrees
will be presented to Viola Amstutz
Pandora; Gertrude Detwiler, Souder
ton, Pa; Ruth Fenwick, Lima; Ear
Lehman, Pandora; Wanda Suter
Pandora; and Ruth Zuiderhoek, Troy
Joan Weaver Schertz, of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, will receive a Bachelor o.
Science in Nursing degree.
At the close of next summer'
session, six more students will hav,
qualified for Bachelor of Arts de
grees. They will be Viola Amstutz
Pandora; Eleanor Berky, Bluffton
Jeanne Habegger Boehr, Dallas, Tex
as; Trella Bosserman, Rawson
Frank Hamblen, Columbus Grove
and Elizabeth Locher, Bluffton.
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the proceedings.
Mrs. Birchnaugh's nephew, Willard
Dillman, son of Mrs. Harl Dillman,
also is on Bougainville, and will
have an opportunity to hear the
recording. All three youths, who
have been in the South Pacific over
two years, were mentioned in the
broadcast.
Mrs. Birchnaugh went through the
radio interview by Hank Keene, Of
the War Department, without any
trace of nervousness and was heard
by many Bluffton residents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Bluffton College Commencement
Week Will Open Friday, May II
EId0n TscIiegg NelU
Manager OF EIeUatOr

Eldon Tschiegg, farmer, residing
west of Bluffton, has been named
manager of the Farmers Grain COM
pany here. Tschiegg was selected at
meeting of the company's board of
directors last Wednesday night and
assumed his new duties Monday.
He succeeds o. E. Bowers who re-
signed after ID years here to accept
the position of manager of the
Farmers Elevator company at Beav-
erdam which was made vacant by the
death of l. M. Jennings last March.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
High School Spring
Concert WednesdQu

Four Bluffton High school musical
organizations will appear in their
spring concert at p. m. this We'd
nesday in the high school auditorium.
Participating in the concert will
be the high school orchestra, band.
boys and girls glee clubs. Sidney
Hauenstein directs the instrumental
organizations and Miss Harriet Brata
the vocal groups.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Mary Jane Carr
Staff Sergeant

Mary Jane Carr, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Will Carr, of near Bluff
ton, has been promoted from SER
geant to the rank of Staff Sergeant
in the WAC at Wright Field, Day.
ton, Ohio.
S/Sgt. Carr is working in the
Army Air Forces Material Command
laboratory at Wright Field.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
CORN DISAPPEARS
OFF MARKET; HOGS
FACING EMBARGO
Freezing of Sales in Midwest
Corn Belt has Serious
Effect Here
Farmers With Hogs and no
Corn Find Shippers Re-
fusing to Buy

Although the Bluffton area is not
included in the governments order
freezing sale of corn in five midwest
ern states, it is having serious re-
percussions throughout the farming
section here where corn and hogs are
the backbone and mainstay of farm
operations and prosperity.
In an effort to force corn onto the
market, VIA has issued freeze"
order on all sales from 125 counties
in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Him
ois and Indiana.
The order effective the first of the
week and continuing for go days
makes the government the only pur-
chaser of corn from this area, the
nations top corn producing district.
CORN DISAPPEARS HERE
Corn which has been scarce here
since last fall has disappeared COM
pletely from the market here. Farm
ers who have corn in their cribs are
refusing to sell at present ceiling
price as they can get a larger re-
turn by feeding their corn to hogs.
Dealers here pointed out that the
hog price is a stumbling block in
the present situation and cannot be
remedied unless the hog price is re-
duced to correspond to the grain cell
ing.
Meanwhile farmers lacking corn
to continue their hog feeding pro-
jects have encountered an embargo
on hog shipments which are flooding
into central terminal markets.
No Hoe SHIPMENTS
Because of this embargo, shippers
in the Bluffton district were reported
as refusing to buy hogs, Tuesday.
How long this situation would con-
tinue could not be determined. How
ever for those farmers with hogs in
their feed lots Tor whifh they have
insufficient corn the situation Is
admittedly Serious. There is no ac-
ceptable substitute for corn in hog
feeding projects, farmers pointed out.
How effective corn stocks have
been swept from the market is indi-
Gated by the fact that local grain
dealers have for the past two weeks
secured all the principal terminal
markets seeking a carload Of corn
without success.
Elevators in this area indicated
that they either had no corn or had
at most from three to ten days sup
{ ply of mixing grain on hand. This
grain is a combination of govern
ment wheat, barley and Canadian
oats totally inadequate to meet the
need.
Action in freezing corn sales in
/ the midwest area was taken by the
| government in order to relieve the
pressure on textile mills, war plants
and wet processing plants, manufac-
turers of commercial alcohol, syrups
and gluten feed which require corn
for their operation.
This district, one of the principal
hog raising sections of the state has
never raised sufficient corn for its
own requirements, the deficit being
ordinarily made up by shipments
from the corn belt which now are
impossible because of the freezing
order.
The situation is especially acute
this spring because the corn crop
here last year was described as "only
fair" by farmers, Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
TlUO Graduating
RecitaLs At College

Graduating recitals by two Bluff
ton college seniors in the music de-
partment will be presented during
the next week in Ramseyer chapel
on the college campus.
Gertrude Detwiler, of Souderton,
Pa, will appear in piano recital
in the chapel at $3.50 p. m. Friday,
and Wanda Suter, of Columbus
Grove, will give a voice and piano
recital at $3.50 p. m. next Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Begins WOn,en's
Marine TRAINING

Miss Amanda Pifer, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ami Pifer of Orange
township who recently enlisted in
the women's marine corps at Cleve-
land will report for duty next Mon
day.
She will go to Washington and
then to North Carolina to begin
training. Miss Pifer, Bluffton
high school graduate, has resigned
her position as bookkeeper in the
Elk's club at Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Josephine Steiner
NOJU ISt Lieutenant

Josephine Steiner, daughter of
Mrs. Augusta Steiner, of South Main
street, has been advanced to the rank
of First Lieutenant at the base hos
pital where she is stationed in New
Zealand.
Lieut.. Steiner graduate of the
nursing school at Yale university
hospital, has been overseas eighteen
months.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Put. James Basinger
Starts Air Traiuin0

Private James H. Basinger, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Basinger, of
South Lawn avenue, has arrived at
Middle Tennessee State College,
Murfreesboro, Tenn, for a five
months course of study prior to his
appointment as an aviation cadet in
the Army Air Force.
On completion of his course he
will be classified as a navigator.
pilot or bombardier.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Music Program At
Mennonite Church

A special music program will be
presented at the First Mennonite
church Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock
it iN announced by the pastor Rev.
j. N. Smucker. 1t will be under di-
rection of Prof. Otto Holtkamp and
consist of choir numbers, quartets
and instrumental selections.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Dressing
Room Is Closed

The Red Cross surgical dressing
room at the Grade school building
will be closed until May Is, it is an
nounced by Mrs. J. S. Steiner, local
chairman. The local unit has fin
ished their quota assigned until that
date, Mrs. Steiner said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27

Joy Huber, former Bluffton man
now in Chicago and connected with
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft COM
pany has been transferred to New
ark, N. j., it was announced the first
of the week.
His wife and daughter Sondra and
also his mother, Mrs. Cora Huber,
residing south of Bluffton expect to
move to Newark after the close of
school here next month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Army Promotion

Word has been received here that
Norman Luginbuhl, in England, has
been promoted from sergeant to staff
sergeant. He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Luginbihl of North
Spring street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27
Raise S2,933 For
Red Cross War Fund

Bluffton contributed S2,933 for the
national Red Cross War fund, ac-
cording to Mrs. Edith Mann, local
treasurer, after final checking Of
local solicitors reports.
Bradley beam., 1944-01-22
HARTFORD TRANSFORMATION

At 0200 every morning, two and one-half ton truck is available to transport personnel from Hart ford to the main gate. This truck leaves the railroad station prompt ly at the above hour and makes enc stop at the Keney Tower.
 A 1905 daily, a bus to Hartford leaves from Windsor Locks
 The Bradley Field bus leaves for Windsor Locks daily on the hour snA on the half hour. By leaving at 1880 connections can be made in Windsor Locks with the 1908 bus for Hartford.
 At 2315 daily bus leaves she Hartford Railroad Station for BFad- ley Field. Two buses are available if the situation warrants.
 These arrangements have bees for the convenience of the men who are on pass or furlough, thersbV eliminating the need of hftchhik- ing.