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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-14
County Draft Board
Upheld By Appeals

Classification of Allen County
Draft Board No. was upheld in
five cases by the Board of Appeals
during the past week, it was an
nounced, Tuesday.
Cases appealed were:
Leland Joel Amstutz, Col. Grove,
Rt. 2. Classified Ia by Local
Board. Registrant appealed. la
classification upheld by Board of
Appeals. Registrant is 81 years
of age and engaged in agriculture.
Robert Glen Powell, Elida, Rt. /.
Classified la by Local Board. Reg
istraht appealed. IA classification
upheld by Board of Appeals. Regis
trant is 10 years of age and en-
gagged in agriculture.
Harold Perry Lsng, Lima, Rt. 8.
Classified I'VE by Local Board.
Father appealed. Classification up
held by Board of Appeals. Regis
trant is 18 years of age and en-
gagged in agriculture.
Lewis Arnold Matz, Col. Grove,
Rt. 2. Classified IA by Local board.
Registrant appealed. la Classifca-
tion upheld by Board of Appeals.
Registrant is 18 years of age and
engaged in agriculture.
Rufus Dennis Bonifas, Delphos, Rt.
l. Classified la by Local Board.
Registrant appealed. Ia classified
tion upheld by Board of Appeals.
Registrant is 18 years of age and
engaged in agriculture.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-14
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
CHANGES LITTLE in.
Wartime SETTING.
Town Shorn of Decorative Frills
But Same Old Holiday Cheer
and Spirit Prevail
Snow and Cold Weather Provide
an Appropriate Setting; Shop
ping is at its Peak.

With Christmas shopping and mail
ing at their peak, Bluffton's fourth
war time observance of the Yuletide
will differ little from the traditional
holiday celebrations of other years al
tho shorn of some of the customary
sparkle and decorative frills.
Following two snowfalls within the
last week, both of which blanketed
the ground in white, about the only
thing missing from the traditional
Christmas setting was the lack of dec
orations and, lights in the business
district. These outward evidences of
the Yuletide are barred for the dura-
tion by an owl order.
Cold weather, frozen streams, biting
winds and crisp, clear nights also have
helped to create proper holiday
setting, as Christmas draws nearer.
Shopping at Peak
Christmas shopping is at its pax,
and merchants reported quite a vol
ume of trading still is to be expected.
Earlier buying this year, however, will
eliminate much of the last minute
rush customary in peacetime.
Further reflection of intensified
Christmas activity in the community
has been the greatly increased volume
of outgoing and incoming mail noticed
for more than a week at the post of
flee. The peak of incoming mailings
is expected next week, and it is believ-
ed the volume of outgoing mailing will
taper off after the end of this week.
In keeping with the spirit of the
season, churches of the community are
making preparations for the presen-
tation of Christmas programs, and
schools also have arranged Yuletide
entertainment features.
Musical Background
Opening event of the musical obser-
vance of the season will be the Bluff
ton College Choral Societys 42nd rem
dition of Handel's Christmas oratorio,
1.-The Messiah" at p. m. next Sun
day in the Bluffton High school GYM
nasium.
Pupils in Bluffton High and Grade
schools are looking forward to a
weeks holiday recess that will start
with the close of the regular class
schedule on Thursday, December 21,
and classes will reconvene Wednesday
morning, January 3.
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Rendition Here Sunday Will be
the And; Given Annually
for 35 Years.
Prominent Concert Artists Will
Sing the Four Leading Solo
Roles i'm Rendition.

Ushering in Bluffton's musical OBJ
servance of the Christmas holiday sea-
son, the Bluffton College Choral So
ciety will present HandePs oratoria,
'The Messiah" Sunday night at 8
o'clock in the Bluffton High school
gymnasium.
1t will be the 34th time that the
oratoria has been presented on sue
ceeding years by the college group,
and the 42nd rendition before local
audiences. Prior to 1909 the "Mes-
siah" redition was not an annual af-
fair here.
Appearing in the chorus are 125
singers from the college and surround
ing community, many of whom have
sung in the oratorio for years.
This seasons quartet of soloists,
however, will be the outstanding to
appear here in many years.
Ola L. Moser, of Chicago, contral-
to who has taken solo parts in pre-
vious Messiah" renditions, will return
again this Chrisams. She is the dau-
ghter of Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Lugin-
buhl, of near Bluffton who recently
made her debut in the Chicago Civic
Opera.
The soprano role will be taken by
Hildaa Ohlin, brilliant young Chicago
concert artist, who will appear here
for the first time.
Blind Tenor
Carlton Eldrige, blind musician, of
Lansing, Mich, will be the tenor, and
John Walters, prominent Lima basso,
will round out the group of soloists.
Prof. Russell A. .Lantz, head of the
college department of music will di-
rect the chorus and soloists, and Sid
ney Hauenstein, of the college music
faculty, will conduct an orchestra of
about 35 pieces which viii accompany
the choral society in presentation OF
the oratorio.
Mrs. III. P. Mann, also of the college
faculty, win be the piano accompanist.
The large gymnasium at the high
school has ample seating accommoda-
tions for the large crowd that always
attends each annual redition OF "The
Messiah" here.
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Hold Funeral For
Infant Thursday

Gary Lynn Rupright, 15-day-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Rup-
right of Cherry street died Tuesday
afternoon in Bluffton hospital. The
child had been ill with complications
since birth.
Funeral services will be held at
Basinger Funeral home, Thursday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. H.
D. Camp of North Baltimore Off
ciating. Burial will be in Maple
Grove cemetery.
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SCHOOLS CLOSED:
CARS and TRUCKS
STALL IN DRIFTS
Dixie Highway Only Road Open;
Drifts Fence-High i'm Rural
Districts
Little Progress Made i'm Clear
ing Thorofares Closed for
Two Days.

Bluffton was making only slight
progress Wednesday in recovering
from effects of the worst snowstorm
in recent years which has left the
district snowbound for two days.
There is little prospect of OPEN
ing roads and restoring conditions
to normal before the end of this
week.
Buttons public schools, closed
since Tuesday morning, may remain
closed for the remainder of the week,
rural mail delivery service begged
down, war plant workers have been
hours late in reporting on the job
or completely absent and roads have
been made impossible by heavy
winds that piled drifts several feet
deep.
GALE BRINGS SNOW
The snow, coming with a gale
which swept in from the west, struck
Bluffton with its full fury shortly
after dusk, Monday night, quickly
piling up drifts which closed roads
before morning. East and west
roads were especially hard hit.
School buses, milk and bread de-
livery trucks and workers in private
cars starting for industrial plants
found it impossible to break a path
thru the heavy snow and many were
stalled in fence-high drifts.
The storm was not accompanied by
unusual cold, temperatures ranging
from 18t % degrees. High winds,
however, added much to the discom-
fort of those obliged to be out of
doors.
KEEP DIXIE HIGHWAY OPEN
All roads leading into Bluffton
have been blocked since Tuesday
morning with exception of the Dixie
highway which has been kept open
by state highway department work
ers who have been working on "a
hour duty. The highway was never
completely closed, altho in some
places travel was restricted to single
lane traffic.
Buttons four school buses start
ed on their customary rounds Tues
day morning, but were able to reach
homes of only few pupils and the
schools were ordered closed.
With little progress made in clear
ing the drifted roads Tuesday, to-
gether with a high wind Tuesday
night which piled more drifts in the
rural area, no attempt was made to
resume school on Wednesday. Wheth-
er school will be opened on Thurs
day or Friday is highly uncertain,
school authorities pointing out that
this will depend on whether the
roads are opened.
Trucks covering milk routes of the
Page Dairy Co. were unable to make
their usual rounds Tuesday, but
most of them were attempting to get
thru the snow-blocked roads on We'd
nesday.
MAIL DELAYED
Only one of Buttons rural mail
carriers, Woodrow Little on Route L,
was able to cover his route on Tues
day, and he was three hours late in
completing the deliveries. The Star
route which brings mail here from
Lima ran several hours late thruout
the day, and little mail was received
on the morning Nickel Plate train
because other railroads had been
unable to make the usual connec-
| tions.
Bread trucks which operate out of
Lima reached here Tuesday morning,
Continued on page 81
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Real Estate Deals

Loren Steinman, residing on the
H. P. Huber farm north of Bluffton
has purchased the former Samuel
Hauenstein property on North Lawn
avenue. The property is now un-
occupied and Steinman expects to
occupy it the last of this month";
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-14
Christmas Play At
Lions Club Meeting

"Mistletoe", a one act Christmas
play will be presented at the din
ner meeting of the Lions club next
Tuesday night at the Walnut Grill.
Appearing in the cast will be Jean
Ann Steinman, Janet Steiner, Harry
Klay and Charles Tripplehorn.
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Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Schafer of
Leipsic, a daughter, Ann Marie,
Thursday. Mrs. Schafer is the
former Vera Habegger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur L. Phillips
of Ada, a daughter, Charlene Kay,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rausch of
Rawson, a daughter, Doris Ann,
Sunday. Mrs. Rausch is the former
Dorothy Basinger.
Rev. and Mrs. John Elwood of
Evanston, H., are the parents of a
son, William Donald, born at that
city last Thursday. Mrs. Elwood is
the former Alberta Sumney of this
place.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

again the lights would dim - but none of
that made any difference For an hour or so
these l,5OO boys were back home They
weren't lost and forgotten out here in the
Pacific, not at all. They were back where Ma
and Pa and Sis and that best girl were
Those folks in the picture, we'll, they were just
like their own folks
That blue sea down below there, and the
green jungle and hills. and this tropical night
all that was unreal. Jimmy Cagney fight
ing for funny little old lady that might
be their own Aunt Myra - that was real.
Then, first thing you knew, Jimmy had won
his fight, THE END flashed on the screen - and
those l,5OO boys poured down the hillside, or
crossed the muddy lot to their borrowed
trucks, and ammunition carriers and waiting
jeeps.
Down below was the blue bay, the twinkling
lights of the boats, the black roads, the COCO
nut groves. the waiting camps Once more
they were back in their tropical island, deep
in the South Pacific
And far away was home The End
Evening star., 1944-08-06

it, They drink the milk eat the meat, build
their houses from the branches make their
clothing, f1oormats, ropes and nets and just
about everything else they need out of it. To
the natives here it's what the buffalo used to
be to our Plains Indians
1t was getting along towards suppertime, so
Bill turned his jeep around. He took me to
guest hut. and pointed out cot covered with
mosquito netting.
After supper met Bill in the open door
way of the headquarters building. Want to
see picture?" Bill asked. Jimmy Cagney.
We can go in my jeep."
At first thought l wouldn't go. 1t was
pleasant here in the cool twilight. I'd be
getting up at four, and sleep seemed reason
able proposition.
But when Bill walked over to his jeep
followed. figured Knight be missing some
thing.
Bill united his jeep just about like you'd
unite an old buggy horse. THE Old Man had
his jeep stolen two days ago." Bill said. The
Shore Patrol just got it back this afternoon.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

Boys around herell steal anything that amt
nailed down.
was mighty glad I'd gone with Bill once
we got to the open-air theater Bill eased his
jeep into big muddy parking lot back of the
hillside. Then he tied her down and led the
way to the rear row.
1t was natural outdoor amphitheater,
with the big screen way down below, and then
on back of that the curving bay Ships were
riding at anchor and colored lights were
blinking lazily and peacefully A breeze was
blowing across the hillside, and singing gently
through the coconut trees behind US.
No Place Like Home
r AR away was home - yet there was to be
a lot of home brought right to these boys. who
were lonesome and just little homesick
There must have been hundreds of them in
this single theater; and it was only one of Is
set up here on the island for the American
servicemen. 1t didn't cost anything to go to
any of them.
The film was little worn, and now and
Evening star., 1944-08-06
But it was much more
than entertainment
to these boys in the
South Pacific. Look

SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
CUPPER was over, and the flyers and the air
~ transport crews were lounging about the
headquarters building just back from the Bay.
Twilight had settled down pretty fast, the
way it always does. It's sort of habit here
in the lower Pacific.
sauntered over to my new friend, Ensign
Bill Spicer Bill is tall and lean and when he
talks you can't miss spotting where he halls
from. Arkansas. Twenty-Five miles or so west
of Little Rock Most people from Arkansas
are kind and thoughtful. Bill was like that
Late that afternoon when Id landed from
a six-hour flight from the Elice Islands on
my way down from the Marshalls, Bill had
fixed it up for me to fly on south early the
next morning Then he asked me if Id like
to take little spin around the island in his
jeep 1t was exactly the thing that wanted
to do most
You Can't Stop 'Em
We DROVE easily and slowly The road was
wide and hard Americans had built it. The
green jungle and the coconut groves used
to come right down to the waters edge. Coco
nuts and jungle once dominated everything
here-life. business. politics. everything, until
the Americans came. Then the coconuts and
even the jungle began to lose You can't stop
Americans.
Bill pointed out the various places and
the Navy, Marines Seabees, Negro engineers,
doughboys, hospitals. The great tin-roofed
buildings and the rows of tents and quonset
huts looked cool and neat in their inches
hacked out of the jungle and the coconut
groves.
Bill didn't talk too much. Most people from
Arkansas don't. But whenever he did talk
he made good deal of sense, even if he was
just coming on 26.
when the War IL Over"
HE boys don't sound off on politics hardly
at all, Bill said in answer to one of my ques-
tons Reckon we talk mostly about gittin'
back to our homes, and the girls back there.
And what we're going to do when the war
is over
| waited awhile before l asked him
what he was going to do when he got
home. "I'm going to git married and
then go back to runnin' a motion pic
ture theater again." he answered.
1t was cool and beautiful riding through
the green jungle and the coconut groves.
That there coconut is the greatest tree in the
world" Bill explained. These South Sea ma
tives git just about everything they need from
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20

cheddar. butter. ana eYaporated
milk during the next few months
The order would limit each man
ufacturer to the same quantity Of
the so-ealled specially cheeses, in .
Guiding cream cheese and spreads,
that he made in the same quarter
of 1912. That would result, it was
estimated, in a reduction of at
least 25 per cent under current
production on most cheese.
The federal orders now regulat-
ing the distribution OF fluid milk.
cream and other milk by-products
in about 130 major cities shortly
will be extended TO additional Cit
les. The order limits sales of fluid
milk to 100 per cent of June, l943
deliveries and cream and other
by-products to IS per cent OF June.
Milk production this year now is
expected by the WA to total about
6.00o000,000 pounds, compared
with .200,00O000 pounds in 1913.
The supply of butter per person IS
expected to be abolt one pound
less this year than last.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20

Muster-ouf-P
Error Found

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. tuP1-
Congress found itself i'll n position
Thursday of ha.ing approved in
advertently the aayment of mother
hood pr saiums - married women
in the a4...ed IC.c-e.
Members Of he house military
affairs committee somewhat flus-
tered. said something would be
done aboG I when the house and
senate conferGes begin talks on the
different sertlcemen's mastering
cut pay bills passed by the two
chambers.
Both the house and senate voted
specifically hat no mastering out
pay would go to service personne
discharged dishonorably or released
at their own request to find en-
ployment in essential industries
But they did not exclude married
WACS, WAVES, SPARS, or lady
Marines who are eligible for hon.
Vi bDI1 hlolllslA SNR, RAANA VIII W.
mastering cut pay in event of preg-
nancy.
The house bill was passed by
unanimous vote late "Wednesday
and W d provide S100 for less
than 60 Nays service and $500 fol
60 days or more. It was a re.
vision of a bill passed previously
by the senate and calling for s20l
for less than u months of domestic
service and other amounts rang.
ing up to $500, depending on th'
length and nature of service.
Represented i've Charles r. ClaSon
(Ra, Massachusetts, made it clea
that the unintended motherhood
premium would be contested.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20
GEN. DEWITT STRESSES
JAP PERIL On COAST

WhSHINGTCH. jan 20. (UP)-
Security CT the Pacific coast re-
quires eXs sion of the Japanese
from that a1ea, Lieutenant Cen
eral J. L. Dewitt, former command
ing general of the western defense
command, advised General George
C. Marshall, chief of staff.
His report dated June 5, l943,
was contained in a 618-page book
made public here today.
THE evacuation Cafter Pearl
Harbor) was imperiled by military
necessity" Dewitt said. THE Sc
curity of the Pacific coast contin-
ues to require the exclusion of the
Japanese 11om mat area, now pro-
hibited to them, and will SO con"
tinue as long as that military nee
essity exists"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20
WE
the Women
By RUTH M,LLETT

7 don't seem to have any Christ
mas spirit this year. the middle
aged woman said.
She didn't haze to explain why.
Her only son S flyer with enough
missions to his credit to indicate
that he is lucky-so far.
II is easy to understand what
that mother meant by her remark.
It isn't much fun buying and deco
rating a tree and wrapping presents
when a family is apart at Christ
mas time.
It isn't much fun to cook turkey
and all the fixings when the men,
Der Of the family with the biggest
appetite is in foreign country.
Christmas in wartime isn't a day
of unblemished joy-not in fam
lilies where a son is gone.
But that mother used the wrong
phrase when she said she hadn't
any Christmas spirit this year.
The truth of the matter is-she
was never filled with real Christ
mas spirit-in the deep and real
meaning Of the words.
KNOWS REAL SACRIFICES
Her religion meant more to her
than ever before in her life-noW
that she prays each day for the
safety Of her son.
She has a deeper understanding
Of the sorrow and doubts and fears
of others than she could possibly
have had before there was any real
worry in her own life.
She. who never before worked
for anyone but her own family,
now spends long and firing hours
in a hospital helping to care Tor
the sick.
And she who once thought ma
terial things were quite important
now knows that they alone have
little meaning-even at Christmas
time when to many gifts are the
most important part of the day.
It isn't the Christmas spirit that
this woman, and thousands of
women whose homes have been
broken by the war lack this year.
It is the holiday spirit-Which isn't
nearly as serious a lack.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20
Yankee Planes
Hit Targets
In Indo-China

CHUNGkiNOi Jan. 20. luP)-
Mitchell bombers of the l4th u. S.
air force bombed the railroad and
dock area of Campha, Indo-China.
and with fighter escort, attacked
japanese barracks at Mon Kay, it
was announced Thursday.
Two buildings were destroyed a
Campha Tuesday. and all bombs
fell in the target area of Mon Kay
Wednesday, a communique said. AL
planes returned from the missions.
The Tokyo radio, in a broad
cast reported to the Owl, said tina.
japanese planes shot down five
Allied transport planes. loaded with
troops and material for Chung
king, and two fighter planes yes
terday. The broadcast said the ac-
ton took place at an unspecified
place on the Indo-Chinese air
route)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20
Ordnance Makes
City for War

DE SOTO, Kan, Jan. 20. up
The SunfloYer ordnance works here
is more than just a war project
to provide the latest type Of smoke
less powder to the men on the
fighting fronts-it is city-a city
for war.
Nearly every service. industry or
business usually found in a small
town is represented at Sunflower.
The plant police department con-
sists Of several hundred male and
female guards. Fire fighters with
modern fire-fighting equipment are
trained to combat blaze in any part
OF the plant, and a complete staff
OF doctors, nurses. technicians AMI
ambulance drivers provide a "a
hour medical service.
Business agencies at the ord
nance works include a drygoods
store or a clothing warehouse, a
laundry 10 wash powder uniforms.
two modern cafeterias, and hous-
ing supervisors who work as real
estate agents to find homes for the
employees.
Public services such as those III
all the modern cities are a part Of
the network making the plant
self sufficient unit. An elaborate
phone. teletype and telegraph has
been installed. The problem o.
transportation has been solved ade-
Quately for the employees through
taxi and bus service to all points of
the reservation. Two garages. a gas
station and several mobile units are
maintained at the plant to service
the transportation equipment. Road
building and road maintenance
men. railroad track maintenance
workers and railroad engineers are
connected with the transportation
department.
Landscape gardeners are employ
ed to prevent soil erosion and keep
weeds cut as a precaution against
fires. School teaching also is in
Guided in the plant activities, with
a period Of induction training for
each new worker.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20
Employers Face
Extra Returns

Employers who made deductions
from their employees pay checks
during l943 either for victory or
income taxes will be required to
file three separate tax returns by
the end of January.
The regular quarterly tax form
will be required. according to James
E. Marable, deputy Internal ReYe-
nue. collector
The copy of the receipt that eaca
employe must be sgiven indicating
the amount of taxes withheld from
his paychecks should also be filed
This together with recapitulation
of Withholdings from all of the en-
ployes in 1943, makes a total Of
three w forms, W-1,-2. and 3
that must be in not later than
January 81, Marable said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-20
Motor Licenses
Reach $4,000

Collections for 1874 automobile
licenses and lecs poCaied $4,000 in
Imperial county Thursday or Sl6.-
900 ahead of the total a year ago
at this time, Captain NJ P Hebble-
thwaite announced.
But we still have q long way to
90 before all motorists il the coun-
ty apply for their plates by the
time the deadlinC rolls around
February 4. Captain Hebblethwaite
said III is only good business for
motorists TO apply before the state
puts on heavy penalties always
collected from those who are late.
i 1T is possible Tor us to take ap-
plieaiionS these days without the
applicants having 10 stand IN line
Tor long periods OF time This sery-
ice will not be possible if teo many
motorists wait untf the closing
days OF the renewal period"