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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Rationing Calendar

So that you may keep in mind thu
numerous important wartime n,
tioning dates, the Bluffton News Il
publishing this weekly reminder:
MARCH 20-Last day to use
Brown Stamps Y and z in War
Ration Book No. for purchase
of meats, cheese, canned milk.
canned fish, butter, lard and
other edible fats. Red 10 point
stamps AS, BIS and C8 in Book
good thru May 20.
MARCH 20-Last day to use
Green Stamps X, L and NJ, for
processed foods. Blue 10 point
stamps AS, BIS, C8, D8 and ES
in Book Four are good thru May
20.
MARCH 21-Last day to use
Coupon No. 10 in A book for three
gallons of gasoline.
SUGAR-March 81. last day to
use Stamp 80 in Book 4 for 5
pounds Stamp 40 in Book 4 good
ments until Feb. %, 1945.
SHOES-Stamp No. Is in Ra-
tion Book 1 good for one pair.
Stamp No. l on "Airplane" sheet
in Ration Book good for one
pair.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
MEAT / ALLOWANCE
FOR MARCH EIGHT
PER CENT HIGHER
Ration Point Values Cut On All
Pork And Most Beef, Effec-
tive Next Sunday
No Changes In Point Schedule
! For Buttey Cheese, Veal
] And Mutton

Eight per cent more meat for
Bluffton area families during March
was promised Wednesday by the
Office of Price Administration, with
announcement of a sharp reduction
in the point values for all pork and
for many cuts of beef, effective next
Sunday.
No change is provided, however,
in the point values of butter, cheese,
veal, lamb and mutton.
Anticipated record production of
pork and a five per cent increase in
beef during the month of March
have made the lowered point values
possible, it was announced by OPA
Administrator Chester Bowles.
Pork point notwithstanding all
items except spareribs-include two
point reductions for most roasts and
steaks and two to three-point reduc-
tions for most popular bacon cuts,
bringing these items down to one
point per pound.
Beef cuts affected by the point
changes include both the 10-inch
and seven-inch rib roast, which are
reduced one point per pound to a
new value of six and seven points
a pound respectively; one-point re-
ductions for chuck roasts; one point
reductions for 10-inch and seven
inch rib steaks, bringing these cuts
down to seven and eight points a
pound respectively.
Beef cuts usually bought for
stew, with the exception of bone
less heel of round, were lowered one
or two points. Many canned meats
were cut two points pound and
numerous ready-to-eat pork and beef
items also were reduced.
The sweeping changes were an
nounced as the housewife was being
initiated into the OPA's new ration
token system. Bowles said the lower
! meat poins values during March
make full allowance to the house
wife for the fact that with ration
stamps now to be worth 10 points
each, she will get one red point a
week less to spend"
Bowles said his information indi-
Gated that work production during
the first two or three weeks of
March may be at record-breaking
levels for this time of year."
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Utility Company
Files Big Mortgage

The Central Ohio Light and Power
company operating an electric gener-
ating station here filed last Friday
one of the largest mortgages both in
the number of pages and the amount
of money involved that has ever been
recorded in Allen county, according
to Recorder w. f. Failor.
The mortgage is from the utility
company to the National City Bank
Co., of Cleveland and is for total
of $4,300,O00.
Besides its Allen county properties
total holdings Of the company in a
number of other Ohio counties are
mortgages in the instrument filed in
the recorders office.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
1914 AUTO LICENSE
TAGS GO ON SALE
HERE THIS WEEK
Only One License Plate Provid-
ed Due to Metal Scarcity:
Deadline Is April l
Bixel Motor Sales Acts AS Dis
tributOr of Tags; First
Metal Plate Since 1912

New automobile license plates for
1914, the first metal tags sold in the
state since 1912, went on sale in
Bluffton and Allen county, Wednes-
day morning.
Clayton Bixel, of the Bixel Motor
Co. on Cherry street, is the deputy
license registrar for Bluffton again
this year, it was announced by H. G.
Sours, director of the Ohio Depart
ment of highways, in officially open
ing the sale of licenses. Trailer tags
may also be obtained here, Bixel
stated.
Because of the scarcity of metal,
motorists will receive only one tag
this year. 1t is to be displayed on
the rear of the vehicle. This is the
first time in the history of the state
that only one tag has been 0se2s-zas
New 1874 license plates will have
white numerals and letters on a
dark blue background.
Can Use New Tags Now
April / is the deadline for obtain
ing new tags, but motorists may use
them any time after March in
place of the old licenses now on their
cars.
When applying for new licenses,
the car owner must present his
certificate of title or bill of sale, and
sign the application in person, Bixel
announced.
Ohio motorists are urged to con-
tribute to the war effort by taking
the tags they remove from their car
to the nearest scrap salvage collec-
tion center.
In connection with the sale of new
tags, OPA war price and rationing
boards are urging Ohio motorists
to write the new numbers of their
license plate on the cover of their
gasoline ration book and tire inspec.
ton records, to save car owners the
trouble of rewriting new numbers or
individual gasoline coupons on which
the old number has already beer
written.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Sneak At Putnam
School OF Religion

Two Bluffton college faculty men
will be heard next Monday night at
the Putnam County School of Re-
ligion held in the Trinity Methodist
church, Ottawa.
Bluffton speakers are Prof. Floyd
Pannabecker, returned missionary
from China who will speak of his
experiences in the orient and DIR. /.
w. Bauman who will talk on the
subject of the church and postwar
social problems.
The school which opened Feb. 81
will continue every Monday night at
7:3O until March 20. The enroll
ment is 160.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
BireL OptOmetrists
Are In NeU Location

Offices of DR.. D. C. and Gordon
Bixel, optometrists, will be moved
Thursday into the new location
which they recently purchased at 122
South Main street. They are vacat-
ing suite in the Citizens National
bank building which they have occu-
pied for the past twenty years.
Their new quarters on the ground
floor, have been remodeled and mod
ernized to provide complete scien-
tifc visual analysis.
DR.. d. C. Bixel has practised his
profession here for more than SO
years and his son DIR. Gordon Bixel
joined his father in practise here
twelve years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
b And c Gas Coupons
In Numbered Strips

Beginning Wednesday, B and c
gasoline ration coupons will be is
sued in serial-numbered strips by
the Allen County rationing board.
The new coupons will be number
ed consecutively and carried in
folders. The new system has been
adopted to afford a closer check on
the use of the coupons and will be
especially helpful in tracing lost or
stolen ration certificates when placed
into use.
Holders of B and c coupons will
continue to use those now in their
possessions, the rations office said.
The next strip coupons viii be issued
when renewals are granted.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Fred Hermann Is
Inducted Into Arn,u

Fred Hermann, star center of
Rluffton High schools undefeated
basketball team, was one of six men
from Allen county draft board No.
8 who left Lima last Thursday
morning for induction into the army
at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indian
apolis, Indiana.
Others in the group were Robert
Swickrath, Elida; Raymond j. Oh
sem, Lima; Perry w. Watkins,
Conner; Jack E. Mcbride, Delphos;
Herbert B. Schumacher, Spencer
vile.
Oliver Dendell Arnstutz, of Beav-
erdam, student at Ohio State uni
versity was inducted as a naval av-
iation cadet on February %.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02

With the OPA''s new ration token
program becoming affective Monday
of this week, count your change"
now applies to the red and blue ra-
tion tokens as well as to. cash in
Bluffton food stores.
Tokens, worth one point each, are
given to food buyers as change for
the new 1O-point stamps for meats
and processed foods which went into
general use this week. Bluffton
stores began distributing the tokens
Monday.
Three of the 1o-point red stamps
AS, BIS and C-8 in ration book No.
4-are now valid for meats-fats pur-
chases, while five blue stamps-A4s,
B-S, C-S and E-8--inay be used from
the same book for canned goods.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
100 Attend Masonic
Patterson Banquet

Nearly 100 Masons and their
guests attended the Masonic Father
Son banquet commemorating the
memory of George Washington, last
Thursday night in the Bluffton lodge
hall.
Dwight Hunter, of Findlay, was
the speaker of the evening; the ad-
dress of welcome was made by Ralph
l. Stearns; the response by David
Stearns, and special music was pro-
vided by Armin, Edgar and Sidney
Hauenstein. c. A. Biery was the
toastmaster.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Addresses Pittsburgh
City Farmers Group

Herbert Marshall, Bluffton farm
management specialist, was the
speaker at the noon luncheon of the
City Farmers club of Pittsburgh,
last Thursday.
Marshall, speaking before an
audience of 70 Pittsburgh business
men who also own farms, outlined
features of absentee farm ownership.
The Bluffton man is in charge of
management of some 10000 acres of
Ohio land for absentee owners.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Promotions

Robert "Bob" Schaublin, stationed
at Dyersburg, Tenn, has been pro-
NOTED from second to first lieuten-
ant, it was announced the first of
the week. He is the son of Mrs.
Gideon Schaublin of Lima, formerly
of Bluffton.
Word has been received by Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore J. Schultz OF
East Kibler street that their son
Edward has been promoted to the
rank of sergeant. He has been ir
the marine corps for one and one
half years and is now stationed al
Ell Toro, California.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Marshall Ends
Training

Pfc. Herbert J. Marshall, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall, of
Route q, Bluffton, recently completed
a training course in radio mechanics
at the technical school of the Army
Air Forces Training Command,
Truax field, Madison, Wisconsin.
He issnow prepared to join base
operating group or any other duties
to which the AAF Training Com
mand may assign him.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Munlnld Trains As
Pilot Of Bomber

Second Lieut.. Wade E. sMumma,
%, is now stationed at Laughlin
Field, part of the Army Air Forces
Training Command, where he will
receive a nine-week specialized course
in plotting the Martin BIG Ma
rauder bomber. 1t. Mumma is the
son of Carl Mumma of North Main
street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Mt. Cory Junior
Play Postponed

"Who Wouldn't Be Crazy, Mt.
Cory junior class play, to have been
presented on Friday night has been
postponed until next Tuesday night,
March 7.
The production was postponed be-
cause of conflict with the Pandora
high school play, Garden of the
Moon, also scheduled for Friday
night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
BluftOn Navy Man
Assigned To College

John Lloyd, serving as yeoman
second class in the navy has been
assigned to VIZ training at Bowl
ing Green State university and en-
tered on his new duties, Wednesday.
He was transferred from sea duty
where he has been for the past year.
Lloyd is the son of Charles A..
Lloyd of South Main street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
BLUFFTON HIGH TO
PLAY THURSDAY IN
CAGE TOURNAMENT.
Undefeated Pirates Will Meet
DelphOs st. Johns In First
Round of Celina Play
Interest of Followers At Fever
Pitch as Coach HassOn Drills
His Team For Tourney

Buttons interest in basketball
reached fever pitch this week, as the
high schools undefeated cagers
readied themselves in final workouts
for its opening assignment against
Delphos st. Johns at S:45 p. M,
Thursday in the opening round of
Sectional Glass B tournament play
at Celina.
Riding the crest of a 14-game
winning streak, the rampaging Pr
ates are favored in their initial
start. The Delphos team has won
only 10 of % starts this season and
it is not expected to be in the same
class as the locals.
Competition in second-round play
on Friday, however, is expected to
be of entirely different calibre, for
the winner of the Bluffton-Delphos
tilt must face the victor of the Lima
St. Johns Wapakoneta st. Joseph
game.
The Lima team, which is slated
to win its first start, is seen by
many as one of the strongest outfits
in the tournament. st. Johns has
won its last II starts, and altho
Bluffton defeated the outfit handily
early in the season the Limaites
have improved greatly since then.
Bluffton Record Good
Bluffton, in the meantime, lost
some of the punch that gave the
local school the best regular season
scoring record in the state-an aver
age of CT points per game--when
Fred Hermann, stellar center, re-
ported for induction into the army
Thursday of last week.
Fifteen teams are competing in
the Sectional tournament, OF which
eight are from Allen county. Rich
land township has two competing
entries, with Bluffton in the lower
bracket for exempted schools and
Beaverdam in the upper bracket for
county winners.
Beaverdam is matched with one of
the tourney favorites, Middlepoint,
in it's first start at 10 p. m. Wednes-
day. Middlepoint had won l9 straight
games without defeat before being
spilled by Wiltshire, % to 21, in the
finals of the Van Vert county
tournament, last Friday.
Beaverdam In Tourney
Beaverdam was runnerup to Conner
in the Allen county tournament, and
will be competing in the sectional
meet as a county representative for
the second time.
Bluffton, with IA wins and no loss
es, has the best record of any of the
competing teams from Allen,
Auglaize, Mercer and Van Vert
counties.
Other teams have records as fol-
lows: Twins listed frst) Middlepoint,
19-1; New Knoxville, 20-2; Lima ST.
Gerard, 1874; Lima st. Johns, 1873;
Buckland, 1874; Conner, 14-6; Will
shire, 1876; Beaverdam, 1873; Lima
ST. Rose, 1910; Delphos st. Johns
1912; Wapakoneta st. Joseph, Clio;
Delphos Jefferson, Ala; Ft. Recovery
4-16.
Buttons starting lineup probably
will find Schmidt and Gratz as for
wards; Loganbill at center; ano
Burkholder and Basinger as guards
this Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Former BIuftOn
Resident Is Dead

Frank M. Cox, former Bluffton
resident died at his home near
Houghton, New York, February Is,
according to word received here by
relatives the first of the week. Death
was due to pneumonia.
Cox was employed here during the
oil boom some forty years ago. His
wife was the former Miss Gertrude
Showalter of this place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Last Rites Held For
NUtiUe OF BLUftOn

Funeral services for Mrs. Osa
Belle Josett, 78, native of Bluffton,
were held last Thursday afternoon
in North Baltimore.
She was born near Bluffton March
28, 1865, the daughter of David and
Mary Franks. Her husband Frank
Josett, preceded her in death in
1885. Nieces and nephews are the
only survivors.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
SingspiratiOn At
DefenseLess Church

A "singspiration" will be held at
the Defenseless Mennonite church,
Sunday at 8 o'clock, following the
union service at the high school au-
ditorium, it is announced by the pas
tor, Rev. Stanley Rupp.
The service will be led by liner
Basinger of Pandora with Mrs. Ba-
singer at the piano and will consist
of well known gospel songs. The
public is invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Income Tax Men
To Come MOndUu

Bluffton residents who are liable
for filing of federal income tax re
turns will have another opportunity
to contact deputies from the internal
revenue collectors office who will be
at the Mayors office here next Mon
day to assist in making out federal
tax blanks. This is the last day the
deputies will be here before the
filing deadline on March Is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Where Our Soldiers
Are

Cpl. Raymond Karl Hostettler
3576469S
S7th Q. M. Co., A. P. O. 44S
Ft. Jackson, South Carolina
Pvt. Richard j. Davies 35298970
Co. B, S40th Sig. Ting. Bn.
Bks. 7, Camp Kohler
Sacramento, Calf.
Cpl. Harold Augsburger
Co. b, 606th Engr. Cam. Bn.
A. P. o. 402, CO Postmaster
Nashville, Tenn.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
In Naval Training

Walter E. Badertscher, %, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher, of
Route 2, Bluffton, is new recruit
at the e. S. Naval Training station,
Great Lakes, I'll. He is being in
structed in seamanship, military drill
and naval procedure during his
'.boot" schooling.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Sponsor Pest Hunt

The Pandora grange pest hunt for
that community closes March 6. Sup
stantial prizes have been offered the
boys for the sparrows, mice, star
lings, rats and pigeons they kill. The
Business Mems Association is CO.
operating with the grange in the
contest.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Ebenezer Broadcast

Broadcast of the Ebenezer Men
MONTE church over Findlay radio
station WIN, Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 P. NJ, will feature the church
choir directed by Prof. Otto Holt
kamp. Miss Mabel Amstutz will ac-
company.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Red Cross Workers

Fifty-five women from the Pandora
community folded bandages at the
Bluffton Red Cross room, Wednes-
day night. They folded 5000 band
ages, and were at Bluffton again
Tuesday night to fold bandages.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Births

Births at Bluffton hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hefner, Lafay-
cite, son, Alan Ross, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gerdeman,
Bluffton, a son, Kenneth Joseph,
Sunday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
PANDORA H. S. PLAY

Pandora high school dramatic class
will stage the three act play Garden
of the Moon in the school auditorium,
Friday night at o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-02
Arrives In England

Sgt. Robert Deerhake has arrived
in England with an army unit, it
was learned by his wife here the
first of the week.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
Powerful Jap
Base Falls
CONTINUED from Dape

Continued from page II
IN Tokyo rropag dnGa broadcast
apparently designed TO explain
away the lack of effective opposi-
ton to the American landings, said
Japan does not mind if America
invasion forces move further be-
cause in that case it can severely
trounce them at one stroke at the
right moment
Kwajalein, a crescent-shaped is
land two and one half miles long
and third of a mile wide, was the
site of the main headquarters for
the atoll and controlled the south
ern entrance for it's lagoon, the
largest of It's kind in the world
and capable of anchoring a huge
naval fleet.
American casualties continued
moderate, Adm. Chester w NimitZ,
commander of the Pacific fleet. re-
ported in his communique yester-
day. japanese casualties were not
estimated, though Nimitz revealed
that several dozen enemy prisoners
had been captured on Kwajalein.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Feb. g..
CUP)-The last disorganized and
and starving survivors of a once
powerful japanese army were re-
ported fleeing into the Finisterre
mountains of northern New Guinea
Thursday following an Australian
break-through TO within 80 miles
of junction with Americans at
Saidor.
Walled against the sea on a mar
row coastal plain between the clos
ing jaws of the Australian -Ameri-
can trap, japanese units appeared
TO have "disintegrated into noun
famous passes and trails in an es-
cape endeaVor," Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's communique announced.
ENEMY DEAD
Enemy dead were being found in
increasing numbers as the Austral-
ians stepped up their advance and
overran a strong-and perhaps last
enemy pocket Of resistance in a
break through that carried them
past Reiss Point, some 80 miles east
of the American beachhead at Sal
dor.
Most Of the dead japanese showed
signs of extreme starvation and
exhaustion, evidence of the effec-
tiveness of the allied blockade and
bombing and strafing patrols.
Even those japanese who escape
over the towering, 12,000-foot Finis-
terre mountains face annihilation
at the hands of another Australian
thanking column pushing UP the
Ramu valley southwest of Saidor
and due south of the big enemy
base at Madang
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
HoItviIIe States
Rebuilding Plan

HOLTVILLE, Feb, 3.-Plans for
new buildings to take the place OF
The ones destroyed in the fire OF
January "a reached an encouraging
point Thursday with property own
ers and businessmen predicting tina;
splendid new structures soon will
cover the blackened ruins.
II was understood that Mrs. Ce-
celia Potts, owner of the so foot
by 1870 foot corner property, has
plans for construction of a modern
air conditioned, reinforced con-
crete building. Present plans were
understood to provide for the Foutz
Drug store to occupy the corner with
the Ellis clothing store next to It.
Rooms and apartments probably
will occupy the second floor. Pos
sibility of a small dining room in
connection with the drug store
and hotel also was discussed as was
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
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NCOntlnueu from page II
sion for feeding duo.;s on lands not
now under cultivation nor lands
adjacent to the refuge.
NAME COMMITTEE
A resolution appointing three
men to a committee to secure II
possible, sufficient ammunition to
combat the ducks was passed. The
resolution asked that one man
from the hay growers and one IRON
the rice growers associations be
members of this committee.
Capt. Macklin declared he telt
sure that the problem is one con-
centration of ducks on the state
refuge and that he was certain at
that time that the reserve might
be opened to runters in the near
future.
He called attent.o. the TACT
that the number of ducks in mi
grafton have doubled since 1920 to
$50 million and that Canadian
propagation increases yearly.
Macklin plans to lay the resolu-
tions belorc Tie state officials in
Los Angeles Friday and said that
immediate action could be expected
Postmaster Frank Richmond OF
Ell Centre recommended that a 100
mile strip along the Colorado river
be opened. He suggested that the
season could be kept within the
treaty limits Of the United States
Canada and Mexico governing mi
gratory birds.
w. r. Bailey who has suffered
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

a lobby for the hotel.
Imperial Hardware business was
being carried on from the ware
house at the rear of the store which
was destroyed by fire. Temporary
quarters may be established in the
Harris building which was used
by the telephone company for a
while after the fire AS soon as
possible the company will build a
new store.
The Southern California Tele-
phone company, another fire vic
tim, purchased three lots on Pine
between Fourth and Fifth and are
putting up a temporary building
there. A permanent building will
be erected later. The company Sc
lected this site as it would be free
from fire hazard from surrounding
buildings.
While it was not definitely de-
cided, it was rumored that new
quarters for the Top Hat Cafe also
woulo be built soon.
The fire which started during a
high wind when someone lighted
a fire in a trash barrel was the
most disastrous in Holtville's his
tory, destroying seven downtown
business establishments.