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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
Rockp0rt

Mr.. and Mrs. W. K. Mayberry and
Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Mason of Colum-
bus Grove were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Mayberry and
family.
Mrs. Milton Downs of Lima spent
Friday with Mrs. F. C. Marshall
]. o. Cupp attended a r. E. A.
meeting in Napoleon last Friday and
heard Secretary of Agriculture, Mr..
Claude Wickard who was the after
noon speaker.
Miss Nancy Mayberry who has been
employed at the Westinghouse for
more than year has transferred to a
position with the Better Business
Bureau of Lima, located in Cook Tow
er.
Mrs. Lysle Cahill and daughter
Lynne of Clevland are spending sew
eral weeks with Mrs. Orlo Marshall
while Mr.. Cahill is on a business trip
to Pensacola, Fla. for the Jack and
Heinz Co. of Cleveland.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Donaldson
of Delta and Mrs. Delmer Reagan of
Dayton were aturday evening dinner
guests in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
C. Campbell.
Mrs. Guy Mayberry and daughter
Jayne called on Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Benroth and infant daughter, Tanya,
Lynne near Columbus Grove last
Tuesday evening.
There will be no preaching at the
Presbyterian church, Sunday morning
and Sunday school will be held at
$50.
Mrs. Delmer Reagan of Dayton was
a week end guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. d. C. Campbell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Ackerman of
Leipsic were Sunday dinner guests in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Mar
shall.
The October meeting of the Profit
and Pleasure club will be held in the
home of Mrs. Guy Mayberry, We'd
nesday afternoon of next week with
the following program: Roll call
Ten Second Review, Leader, Mrs. Jno
Burkholder; Book Review, Selected
Mrs. Glen Huber.
Mrs. Arthur Price will be hostess to
members of the Methodist Missionary
society, Thursday afternoon of next
week. The program includes: Open.
ing song; Devotions, Mrs. Lucille
Beery; Study, 'The Call and the An
swer," Leaders, Mrs. Alice Bodell
Mrs. Gladys Beemer, Mrs. Osa Ream
Mrs. Irene Ream, Mrs. L. VanAtta and
Mrs. Daisy Van Meter; Reading, Mrs
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ArmOrsyille

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Reams of Lima
were Sunday afternoon callers at the
H. o. Hilty home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
were North Baltimore callers Sunday
afternoon.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Levi Hauenstein and son were
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolly Moser and sons,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Augsburger, Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Sweitzer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Levi Hauenstein.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty, Miss
Margaret Guider called Sunday after
noon at the Ray Guider home near
Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Boyd of near
Findlay were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Clauss and family.
Sgt. and Mrs. Lyle McCarty and son
called at the Ira McCarty home, Sun
day afternoon.
Past week callers of Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Montgomery and daughter were
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Klingler, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kent Klingler and family, Mr..
and Mrs. A. C. Mertz, John Welsh all
of Ada and T/Sgt. and Mrs. Robert
Motter of Dayton.
Past week callers of Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi Hauenstein and son were Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Montgomery, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Kiefer and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Hefner.
The L. A. S. and w. M. S. of Lib
erty Chapel Church meets this Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. w. |. Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Moore and
family were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
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Putnam County Pub
Usher Dies

Thomas H. Pickels, 64, publisher
of the Putnam County Gazette for
the last nine years, died in his
home at Ottawa, Friday.
The newspaper publisher had been
i'll for several months but had con-
tinued to write articles for his pub
lication while his wife supervised
the operation of the business.
He was a native of Richmond,
KY, and had been a newspaperman
for the last 45 years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
,ena Price; Closing song; PRAYER.

Lena Price; Closing song; Prayer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kidd and Mrs.
Charles Buckingham of Columbus
Grove were Sunday evening guests in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. WILDER
Lentz.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Harsh of To-
ledo spent Sunday with the formers
mother Mrs. Alice Bodell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Cairns and
daughters of Lima were entertained
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilber
Lentz and daughters for dinner Sat-
urday evening.
Mrs. Lysle Cahill and daughter
Lynne of Clevland, Mrs. Orlo Marshall
and Mrs. Carl Cahill were Tuesday
dinner guests of Mrs. Allen McCluer.
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HARDIN COUNTY
Six Special Issues Face
Hardin Voters

At the November election there
will be six levies presented for vote
to Hardin county citizens. The fol-
lowing six are announced by the
Hardin county board of elections:
Kenton-seeking LIS mill for gen.
eral school expenses for a three year
period; Ada-seeking three mill
levy for operation of schools for a
five year period; notwithstanding
1.5 mill levy for school expenses for
five years; Mt. Victory-1.5 mill
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KentOn Soldier Dies In
France; Another
Missing

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Switzer, of
Kenton, were notified that their son,
Pfc. Lester D. Switzer, 25, has been
missing in action in France since
September 6.
Pvt. Jesse I. Green, %, son of
Mrs. Foster Seitz of Kenton, now is
reported killed in action July 27 in
France. He earlier was reported
missing. His father, Samuel Green,
resides in Marion.
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Feed Transplants

MIX an amount of plant food equal
to level tablespoonful thoroughly
with the soil in the hill before plant
ing; When transplanting, mix one
tablespoonful of plant food with the
sou IN bottom of hole, add one inch
OF sou and proceed to set out plant.
FlH with water Immediately after
planting to help settle the soil. around
the plants roots as well as make
the plant food available quickly for
the plants use.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
Capture FOrger After
Two Year Search

Edward Allen, 81, who gives his
address as Toledo, was brought to
Henry County from Columbus where
Hancock County Deputy Sheriffs O..
A. Cooper and Frank Shreve and
Fred Bartels, sheriff of Henry Coun-
ty, said he confessed he passed so
many rubber checks" in Hancock
and surrounding counties that he
"can't remember the number.
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Learn Second Brother
Killed In Action

Staff Sergeant Gerald H. Shrider,
"a, second son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
H. Shrider to die in service, was
killed in action Sept. 10 in France,
his parents learned. He had been
in service four years, three of which
were spent in Iceland, England and
France.
Another son, Pvt. Clarence, a
ranger, was killed in Italy April Is.
A third son, S &c Richard, is in the
South Pacific.
The parents, four sisters and two
brothers survive.
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HANCOCK COUNTY
Harvest Green Limas
For Canning

Fifty acres of lima beans, green
for canning, are now being harvest
ed at the Daniel C. Ingold farm,
four miles east of McComb in Port
age township.
The tract, believed the first acre
age of green limas ever grown in
Hancock county, is reported to be
producing approximately one ton
of shelled beans per acre.
The crop, contracted at price of
sos per ton, is being processed and
shipped to the st. Marys Packing
company at St. Marys for canning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
Huge Sweet Potato
Farmer

George Boyer has been growing
sweet potatoes for Is years on his
farm in Perry township. But the
yam he dug from his patch last
week is the one he'll always re-
member.
The prize specimen Boyer raised
this year just tipped the scales to
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
Two Findlay Soldiers
Are Killed In France

Pvt. Ralph Jacobs, Jr., 81, was
killed in action in France Sept. 27,
his wife learned recently. Private
Jacobs, an infantryman, had been
overseas since August. He entered
service Oct. s, 1943.
Corp. Horace F. Gaines, 38, died
in France Sept. z, his mother, Mrs.
Alice Gaines, of Findlay, was in
formed. Details of his health were
not given. He was a member of an
anti-tank division.
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levy for FIVE year period for school
expenses.
Ada also will vote upon an addi-
tional three mill levy to improve
the park and Hardin county will
vote for a one-mill levy to improve
the Hardin county fairgrounds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
Arlington Airman Is
German Prisoner

Second Lieut.. Dick L. Dorney, re-
ported missing in action over Aus
tria August %, is prisoner of
war of the German government, his
mother, Mrs. Zoa NJ. Dorney, Ar
lington, was informed. Lieut.. Dor
ney, a navigator on a B-24 Liberator
bomber, was forced down over Aus
tria.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
Ada Physician Will
Retire

DIR. S. C. Smith, veteran Ada ply
sician, who has offieiated at the
birth of more than 1000 babies in
the Ada vicinity during At years of
practice, said he is planning to re-
tire after the war.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
Liberated Prisoner
Arrives Home

S. Sgt. George A. Derringer ar
rived home for a 30-day furlough
after being released as a German
prisoner in Romania recently. He is
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ora Derringer Of Ada. He ar
rived in the states week ago.
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Grown By Lima

Lloyd's of London may think the
odds against the birth of twins still
are 81 to /, but if so, they never
heard of Lima st. Rita's Hospital.
The eighth pair of twins in 40 days
was born there to Mrs. Lowell Smith.
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NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

four and three-quarters pounds.
That's a lot of sweet potato for any
mans money and Boyer contends
that it's the largest he's ever raised,
seen, or the largest he's ever heard
of.
Meyer expects to use the huge
vegetable for seed and estimated
that it would produce some 500
plants, or more than 200 than he
will need for next seasons planting.
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PUTNAM COUNTY
Feature Race COPIED
By Indiana Horse

Volodga Jay owned by Trellev
Conway of Greentown, Ind, won the
first two heats to cop the free-for-
all pace during the Saturday after
noon race program at the Putnam
County Fair.
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ALLEN COUNTY
Screen Star Stops
In Lima

Neal Hamilton, veteran stage and
screen star, was "stop-oyer" visi-
tor in Lima recently, resting en-
route to New York to appear in a
Forthcoming stage production, "Rog-
er the Sixth.
Hamilton, travelling by bus, had
been six days en- route from the
West Coast and stopped at a Lima
hotel for "rest", he explained.
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Tank Depot Will Work
We Day

Col. E. A. Lynn, chief of the
Cleveland ordnance district, said
that We day should mean 'just an
other working day" to employees of
the Lima tank depot.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-12
New Guinea Veteran
Is Candidate

Pfc. William C. Riley, hospitalized
IS months after being wounded in
New Guinea, is home at Findlay
with a disability discharge from the
army. He is a candidate for clerk
of courts of Hancock County.
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Mrs. Merle Gallant and family of
Findlay.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Klingler called
on Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Klingler and
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Wilkins and FAM
lily, Sunday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. w. I. Moore are
spending couple of days with Mr..
and Mrs. Leo Beagle and family of
near Carey.
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The job is not over yet-buy bonds
for complete victory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
A Thought for Today
New Role for Actors

This is one time in history when most of us can be thankful that we never had the looks, luck and temperament to be- come star of Broadway, Hollywood or the Munchy Breakfast Food coast-to- coast program. For today the stars posi- tion is fraught with potential peril. And the only wonder is that the glamor bat talion's casualties aren't greater than they are. What put us in this thankful mood was the news that Noel Coward had come another cropper. On top of the re- action to his new books alleged Slur at Brooklyn (where you can call the local ballplayerS buns, but not the local sol dierS) MT. Coward got another Scorchlng from the London press for his broadcast charges that British army'S sufferings in Burma were forgotten" because Lon don papers neglected them for local trivia. MT. Coward certainly wouldn't have in cured the oddly assorted wrath of Fleet Street and Flatbush if he, like many of his colleagues, had not forSaken the believe world where he found fame and fortune for the realistic world of war. He went out to entertain the front-line soldiers. So have dozens of other stars. Their motives have been generally admir- able, and the results likewise The trouble begins who they return. What happens then is that the star takes himself seri- ously, or else the public takes himself ser iously or else the public takes him Seri- ouSly. It's bad either way and worse when both things happen In any event the star is likely to emerge in the role ot oracle. He makes speeches and broad casts which are weighed as if they were the announcements of generals or veter- an statesmen.
 It really isn't the stars fault. He re- members that he is famous, but forgetS that he got that way speaking some other persons words and projecting imaginary emotions But now he's on his own. Then the more thoughtful star may realize, too late, that there is a sort of art to simple public utterance. He or she discovers that the ability to look well in a sweater or cause growing girls to swoon doesn't necessarily qualify one as an expert on world affairs, or help one to check facts or ponder the eventual repercuSsion of nasty phrase.
 We're all in favor of actors and play wrights with public spirit and political consciousness But they ought to real ize that their new endeavors will be judged by their old accomplishments The jump from the stage to the rasarum isn't so hard. But when it comes to transferring their talent from the one to the other, intact-well, they might pause and reflect on the possibility that, in the words of playwrights George Kaufman and Moss Hart, "You Can't Take It With You"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Stretching the Rubber

A great new industry has been built up In this country since the war and at the present time there is a capacity for pro- duction of synthetic rubber sufficient to take care of the American market. The political tops in Washington haven't de- cided whether or not to put the clamps down tight on synthetic rubber and there by smother the home industry, in order to re-establish raw rubber production in the For East. Natural raw rubber has been the basic source of supplies in the past.
 Right now the newspapers are echoing the views of Administration officials, and general sort of alibi includes the Sug- geStion of maintaining a Government Stockpile sufficient for at least one year ahead of normal requirements. Another way in which the question is being twist ed around the international bramble- bush is to devote the operation of some of our synthetic plants as military pre- cautions" and to safeguard against ex- horbitant prices fixed by foreign monop- OlieS. Still another scheme is to SubSidize some of our synthetic plants while the world market for rubber is being stabil- ized
 It all seems cockeyed, despite the fact that leading editorial in Washington newspaper this week reaches different conclusion, as follows: "These seem to US to be sensible suggestions that may well be taken as starting point for discus sion of postwar rubber policy"
 Unfortunately our national rubber in- d1stry seems disposed to take the rap, even to the point of surrendering their gains to United Nations that happen to have established great rubber produc- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Synthetic Gasoline and Oil

''Now beginning an expanded Swear synthetic liquid fuels program" reports MT. Ickes' Department of Interior = his establishment released November II, 1944, "a review of its research during the past eight years in making gasoline and oil from coal and Ignite . for the day when national petroleum reserves no longer can fill the growing demand" The writer remembers a statement made less than year ago by one of the top officials of Standard Oil who said that natural petroleum was sufficient to supply the United States for the next one thou sand years. So you might turn back this "five-year plan" to Russia, the original sponsor of Swear programs.
 The experiments show that the major part of Americas immense reserve of coal, estimated at 3,OOO,0O0, ,000 tons, will yield liquid fuel. IS varieties obtained from beds of eleven states and Alaska yield both Ignite and high volatile bitumin- ous. Some time within the next thou sand years these supplies might be needed for the family bus, if the family bus should survive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
A Book About the Bible

In the busy Capital of Washington where newspaper correspondents and all others have been suffering from political jitters, George w. Simpson, Washington correspondent and former National Press Club president, has devoted an average of secen hours daily during the past year in writing book answering all the con- troversial questions about the Bible, in- cluding explanations of the differences between the Catholir and Protestant ver- sions, and giving other intresting data.
 George Simpson has already produced four books of great value: Uncommon Knowledge; Popular Questions An swered"; Nuggets of Knowledge" and Things Worth Knowing" When he was Press Club president it was his privilege as Protestant to introduce to the news popermen of the Capital the present Pope Plus XII, then Cardinal Pacelli. Be- sides, this fellow newspaperman of ours, is one of the most popular correspondents in the National Capital. He never quar- rels with anyone-not even with the Curmudgeon, or the brass-hats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Views Of The Press

on camps or died in the rubble of their homes in London, Coventry and Liverpool and on battlefieldS in France and Africa and Italy.
 Now the French have released Wcdehouse from arrest, on condi- ton that he leave Paris and remain not less than three miles from the city. The French hate Wodehouse less than they do the Vichyite col- laborationists. Wodehouse is one for the British to handle-LaVal and the others can be taken care of by the French. But Wodehouse an- noys them, or they do not want to be responsible for his safety
 If Wodehouse can find anything funny in the situatio nhe is more than human. If he is pacificiSt he is a most unfortunate being, for there can be no peace while injus- tice and tyranny prevail. Maybe the British will forgive him.; some time in the distant future, but they are not likely to forget his naivete nor to excuse it on the ground of its purity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28

has kept within reach of all food supply normal in quantity and nutrient value, and only slightly curtailed in viriety and quality But our health authorities must continue to be vigilant and industrious, and the country must continue to give them its support wherever possible. One opportunity for such support is found in the 28th annual Christmas Seal Sale of the National TubeculoSiS Association. The association may take share of credit for the fact that our tuberculosis death rate declined slightly in the past year. But other, less encouraging figures reveal taht the deat hrate rose in 21 industrial states. This rise is due to such factors as crowded or poor housing, long hourse of hard work, and insufficient rest.
 To combat the rise, the Association cooperates with the public and private health agencies, maintains clinics and public health nursing and consulting services, and carries on rehabilitation work and mass industrial x-raying. This last activity is doing much to discover unSuSpected tuberculosis in the early, readily curable stage. The National Tu- berculosis Association is financed solely by it's sale of Christmas Seals. And the war should not make us forget that our modest contributions are still needed in the conquest of a disease that has taken more American lives since Pearl Harbor than have been lost in battle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
SENSIBLE CENSORSHIP

There have been times in this war when it seemed that the United States Army and Navy had learned every lesson except the important one of public relations. Tactics. wea- pons and organization all were on the new World War model. Censor ship often was as senseless as or worse than it had been in 1917-18. Correspondents attempting to send back to the American public in- formation which they thought would have been good for the morale of the men who had done the fighting saw their stories spiked on the cen sor's dead" hook. This was done in many cases even when it was known the enemy already had the information.
 It is encouraging for the future that General Patton's experiment of letting the correspondents with his Third Army give the fullest details of its actions seemingly has worked so well. The Marines long have re- cognized the value to morale of stories in the hometown papers about what a regiment or a divi- sion had done, and they have al- lowed, within the limits permitted them by the Navy, telling of the bad along with the good. General MacArthur generally has followed 8 liberal censorship policy. The Navy itself has relaxed some of its more rigid rules in recents months.
 In fighting war within demo- cratic framework, the public must be given information upon which to make its decisions. Who knows but what some of the home front delin- quencies never would have occurred had censorship allowed a. more real- istic appraisal of the state of affairs. We learn, 1t semes, but generally the hard way, from our own experience only.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Please Name Names

Your article in today's paper strikes a responsive chord-Ill bless you in my prayers from now on if you will send me the instruction.
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 Answer-I am unable to surmise what instructions you want, from look at the copy released for publication on the date of your letter. If you will suspend the promised blessing and write again, mentioning what you want, I'll do my best to respond. But. dadblast it, generally two or three weeks passes after have written an arr ticle before 1t is printed. so please don't ask me to go back through old files to ferret out what in tarnation you are talking about.
 ScabieS
 What do you recommend for the itch? All four members of our family have it. Go. R. Al
 Acknowledgements of scabies is given in detail in booklet Save Your Skin"-for copy send twenty five cents and stamped pre-address- ed envelope. It tells how to deal with numerous skin troubles.
 Copyright 1944. by John P. Dille co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28

Quite number of walters and stew ards of the Union Pacific R. R. line have been indicted on charges for doing slight-of-hand with dining car checks, with proportionate loss to the railroad. This sort of monkey business and hanky- panky seems to be quite the thing, and not quite in the honesty is the best pol icy" tradition which is losing gorund in many instances. We have been told that there are also many other offenders do- ing sort of vicarious railroad work, as, for instance, securing tickets and Pull man seats with the encouragement of good tip.