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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
HOrsemen From Three States
to Perform Under Light at
Harmon Field
Trick Riding, Bronco Busting
Steer and Calf Roping on
Gala Rodeo Program

Bringing to Bluffton all the color
and action of the old "Wild West,
horsemen and horsewomen wish some
of the best saddle mounts in Ohio,
Michigan and Indiana will stage a
gala Fourth of July rodeo under the
fioodlights at Harmon field on that
holiday.
All the colorful setting of the old
time rodeos will be duplicated per-
fectly, and the many features will
include trick riding, "bronco bust
ing, steer riding, high jumping with
horses, steer "dogging", calf roping
obstacle racing and musical pads.
In addition there will be a pony
ring for children, clowns on buckine
mules and colorful parade of fancy
dressed riders and horses. More thar
5000 will be awarded to participants
in war bonds and war stamps.
Plenty of eating space will. bs
available Tor the capacity turnou1
expected, and temporary wings OF
bleachers will be added to the large
concrete stadium at the recreation
center.
Opening event of the gala evening
program will be an airplaine stuntine
exhibition over the field at 7:30 p. m
by Clayton Bixel, Bluffton fiier.
Music will be provided by the
Rawson band, which will play thru
out the exhibition, and which alst
is scheduled to present a pre-rodet
concert on Saturday night, July /.
This years rodeo is sponsored b,
Bluffton Merchants, the Saddle Hors,
club and the Bluffton Communit,
Sportsmen's club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
$4,000 OBTAINED
so FAR INFIFTH
war LOAN DRIVE
Intensified Buying ! Needed To
Put $4,000 Drive Over
The Top azere
Solicitation Teams Are Making
HOuse-To- House Canvass
of the Town

In the first nine days of Buttons
Fifth War Loan campaign, approxi-
mately $4,000 has been invested in
War Savings bonds, $4,000 short of
the towns goal of $4,000.
Heavier individual buying will be
required, however, if the drive is to
go over the top, for most of the large
purchases have been made, zone cap
tains told their teams <his week in
organizing for the completion of hoase
to house canvassing of the town.
Of the $4,000 raised 50 far in the
campaign, s46,780 came from the
drive conducted among employed of
The Triplett Electric Instrument Co.,
Bluffton's major war industry. This
campaign is nearing completion, how
ever, and the bulk of the remaining
$4,000 needed to attain Buttons
quota must come from other residents
uf the town.
County Sales Slow
In Allen county as whole, the
campaign is running behind schedule,
With approximately one million dol
lars subscribed towards the county
goal of $5,506,000.
For the Fifth War Loan drive in
Bluffton the town has been divided in
to 10 zones with zone captains di-
rectinr solicitation teams in those ter
ritories.
Zone captains who are directing the
canvass with Norman A. Triplett and
M. M. Bogart, co-chairmen, include
Woodrow Little, Gene Benroth,z Chas.
Alderman, Mayor w. A. Howes c. F.
Niswander, Charles Gazette,S Gail
Mumma, N. E. Byers, Jesse Ycakam
and Silas Diller.
Solicitors reported that much the
aupport in the drive is coming from
Iorents with sons in the servic} who
feel they are getting closer tOethe
boys on the fighting fronts by pur-
chasing as many bonds as they possi-
bly, can.
Reports by zone captains this week
showed that the team directed by
Charles Gazette, with five residences
remaining to be contacted, is leading
in sales with a mark of $4,000 in
cash, and N. E. Byers' team, with
only three calls to be made, has
nearest completed its solicitations.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
EXPECT 81 PUPILS
in FIRST GRADE OF
SCHOOL THIS FALL
Enrolment Will Touch Highest
Point in Past Ten Years
Here
Board Will Assign Two Teach
ers for Primary
Grade

Rejecting a change from the de-
cline of the last several years, enroll
ment in the first grade of Button
public schools next fall will include 81
children, according to survey COM
pleted last week by the Mothers
Study club. This is more than 25 per
cent above enrolment in the first
grade last year.
The club survey made in connection
with the pre-school clinic last Wednes-
day showed there will be 81 children
of first-grade age next September.
Enrolment estimates based on child
clinic surveys have proved extremely
accurate in the past, and it is assumed
that this years will provide similar
basis.
Largest Grade
With an attendance of 81, the first
grade will be the largest in the grades
or junior high school, and for the Sec
ond successive year in decade en-
rollment will mount upward. To pro-
vide suitable facilities, the board of
education is making preparations for
teacher relocation or to hire an addi-
tional teacher for the first grade, since
two different class rooms will be re-
quired.
Estimated enrolment by grades
next fall is as follows, Supt. A. j. B.
Longsdorf announced First, SO pu-
pills; second, DO pupils; third, % pu-
pills; fourth, 40 pupils; fifth, 80 pupils;
sixth, 28 pupils; seventh, as pupilss
eighth, 81 pupils; ninth, A pupils.
High school classes also now ara
showing effects of smaller classes
which began entering the first grade
of the school 10 years ago. This
means that if the trend of heavier
first-grade enrolment prcdicted for
next fall should continue the nexf
decade will find more teachers naed-
ed in the grades and fewer in high
school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
added Quota For
Surgical Dressings

An emergency quota of 100000
surgical dressings has been assigned
to the Bluffton Red Cross to be COM
pleted by August /, it is announced
by Mrs. ]. S. Steiner, local chair
man.
In connection with the announce
ment she made an appeal for more
women workers at the Red Cross
rooms which are open in the Grade
school building every Monday night
from z to 9:30 and afternoons from
Tuesday through Friday from l to
o'clock.
No uniform is necessary. The only
requirements are a wash dress and
no nail polish.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
BLUFFTON DISTRICT
Man WOUNDED IN
ACTION IN ITALY
William AmstutZ in Hospital,
War Department Notifies
:,
Family
Wounded While Serving with
Medical Detachment on
Italian Front

William Amstutz, Jr., 20, son of
Mr.. aud Mrs. William. Amstutz, three
and one-half miles southwest of
Bluffton, was wounded in action on
May 30, Memorial Day, and is now
in a hospital in Italy.
His wounds are not serious, ac-
cording to a telegram received Tues
day by his parents from the war
department.
Amstutz has been overseas since
last October and has been serving
with an army medical detachment
His parents do not know what part
of Italy he was in when the wounds
were received; nor where his hospital
is located in that country.
Amstutz is the first casulty re-
ported in the immediate Bluffton area
since the increased tempo of fight
ing was inaugurated in Europe two
months ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Rati0ning Reaches New Low as
Most Cheese is Declared
POint-F
Meat Rationing May be Resumed
On July To Adjust Dis
tributiOn Troubles

With Victory gardens coming into
production and rationing at its low
est ebb since restrictions first were
applied generally, Bluffton area resi-
dents are enjoying a period in which
there are few rationing difficulties
other than in obtaining sufficient
sugar for canning.
Additional relaxation of rationing
restrictions came the first of this
week when most cheese was striken
from the ration list.
The only cheese for which red
tokens now are required are Ameri-
can cheddar, cheddar products and
other cheese which have been in
Group l on the ration list. Ration
ing restrictions are lifted only until
July.
TEMPORARY BASIS
OPA explained the temporary
point-free basis for most cheese has
been declared because in the coming
fortnight soft cheese stocks will be
at their highest level of the year.
Discontinuance of the rationing of
most meat, however, has brought diff
ficulties in distribution, for many
persons complain of being unable to
obtain choice cuts, and there is a
likelihood that ration points may
again be placed on meat on July 1.
Spokesman for the OPA also an
nounced this week that the tempor-
ary zero point value for many major
canned vegetables also may be ter
minated because most of the 1943
pack of canned goods now has moved
off grocer's shelves.
MAY RESUME RATIoNING
OPA will make its decision some
time during the coming week, and it
has been announced that returning
point-free meats to rationing in July
has s'bright prospects.
Many choice meats are scarce in
local markets, such as ham, porl
chops and veal steak. This situa-
ton IS duplicated on q nationwide
basis, and provides the impetus fol
projected action in resuming ration
ing.
Individual tastes are blamed fol
the shortage of popular cuts of meat
With point rationing removed anc
the price differential between cut.
too small to influence buying, thu
demand for choice meats has beer
ahead of other cuts. Consequently
meat markets have on hand larger
stocks of slow selling meats.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Auto Use Tax Stamp
Sales SLOLC Thus Far

A heavy rush of last-minute sales
of automobile use tax stamps is ex-
pected at the close of this month un-
less sales pick up soon, Postmaster
Ed r. Reichenbach announced this
week.
Few stamps have been sold so far,
and Postmaster Reichenbach warned
again that all motor vehicles oper-
ated after June 80 must have the
stickers displayed on the windshield.
The stamps are serially num-
bered and have provision on the back
for entering the make, model, serial
number and state license number of
the vehicle.
1t has been suggested that in af-
fixing the stamps, the windshield
should be dampened rather than ap-
plying water to the adhesive side of
the stamp. Car owners also are
urged to make record of the serial
number of the use stamp for protec-
tion in case the stamp should be lost
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
BlufftOn Residents Bake Then Freeze
i AS Mercury Hits IS, Drops To Sc

Bluffton area residents who swell
tered. Sunday in a 95-degree heat
wave, the hottest weather of the
year, We're shivering one day later
wheHsthe mercury plunged to a mark
of % at s a. m. Tuesday.
Inconsistencies of the weather have
been common so far this year, but
this weeks 39-degree change in tenn
per&ture over matter of hours had
men, women and children scrambling
to change from light weight summer
gaments to winter clothing before
they had a chance to recover from
the effect of the heat wave.
Torrid weather, aggravated by hu-
nudity, struck suddenly last Satur-
day when the thermometer reached
w degrees at 5 p. M, and dropped
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22

only few degrees during the night.
Sunday was real scorcher, with
the 95-degree mark being struck
early in the afternoon, and the only
relief was from a stiff southwest
breeze that helped ease the intense
heat.
Buckeye lake was jammed with
swimmers throughout the day and
many from here took to the woods
and parks for picnic dinners and
lunches.
Relief came early Monday morn,
ing, however, with driving rain
storm, and cooler weather on Monday
was followed by Tuesdays unseason-
ably low temperatures, leading up to
the official arrival of summer at
1888 a. m. on Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Consider Applicants
For School Head Here

Consideration of applications for
the position of superintendent of
schools here was started by the
Board of Education at special
meeting Monday night.
Of the total of 20 applicants, 10
selected by vote of members of the
board of education were considered
for the position as head of the
school system. Further investigation
of a portion of these will be made by
the board, it was indicated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
David Wenger Dies
In Hospital Here

Funeral services for David Wen
ger, 85, father of Mrs. Minnie Lug
inbill and Hiram and Oscar Wenger,
of Bluffton, were held Tuesday after
noon in the st. John Mennonite
church near Pandora.
Rev. Forrest Musser, pastor of the
Grace Mennonite church, of Pandora,
and Rev. p. j. Boehr, pastor of the
st. John church officiated at the
rites, and burial was in the st. John
cemetery.
Mr.. Wenger died Sunday morning
at the Bluffton Community hospital
from the infirmities of age. He had
been belfast for week. His occu-
patton was that of a carpenter and
farmer.
The son of Christian and Marie
Wenger, he was born Sept. A, 1858,
near Smithville, Ohio, and went from
there to Putnam county in 1880. He
had made his home near Pandora
since that time and was a member
of the Grace Mennonite church in
Pandora.
He was married Nov. Is, 1884, to
Lydia Geiger, who died in 1886.
In addition to the two Blufftor
sons and one daughter, he is sur.
vived by Mrs. Mary Miller and Mrs
Sara Kohl, both of Pandora; Mrs
Josephine McCready, Chicago; Mrs
Zelma Schumacher, Findlay; Wilber
Wenger, Salem, Oregon; Home
Wenger, Pandora; and Paul Wenger
Lancaster, Ohio. There are 8.
grandchildren and seven great grand
/ children.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
SCHOOL IS FACED
WITH TEACHER and
BUDGET PROBLEMS
Fewer Instructors in High
School and More in Grades
Are Needed
Board Scans Budget with View
to Economies as Operating
Costs Rise

Rising operating costs, increased
grade school enrolment and smaller
high school classes find the Bluffton
board of education confronted with
the dual problem of budgetary re-
trenchment and readjustment of the
public school teaching stats.
Next falls estimated enrolment of
So in the first grade is nearly double
that of two years ago, and halts SUBJ
stantially for the first time in de-
cade the downward trend of grade
school students. At the same time,
high school classes now are COM
prised of smaller classes, the result
of decreased enrolment in the grades
over span of more than 10 years.
Board of education members at
their June meeting observed that as
result the high school faculty now
is overstaffed and with grade school
enrolment picking up there are now
too few grade teachers.
ADJUSTMENT DIFFICULT
Adjustment of this situation is
made particularly difficult because of
provisions of the teacher tenure law,
members of the board said.
Operating budget problems are
complicated by the fact that an esti-
mated $4,000 additional must be
made available next year to cover
the cost of a $50 annual increase in
salary for each teacher, and to pay
an additional salary if another first
grade instructor is hired to handle
the anticipated enrolment of SO
pupils.
The increase in teachers pay rep
resents total of $3.50, and salary
of the first grade Instructor will be
about $1,000. This instructor, how
ever, may be supplied thru re-
shuffling sof the present teaching
staff.
With no prospects of additional
school income, adjustments must be
forthcoming in order to make the
school budget cover the cost of oper-
alton.
MAY HIRE LOCAL COACH
One proposed solution has been to
hire a local coach for sports teams
and pay him on the basis of about
one-half of what heretofore has been
expended for coaching. Glasses
formerly handled by the athletic
coach would be distributed among
members of the present teaching
staff.
The late Athletic COMMISSIONS,
Townsend, who was here for the
high school athletic banquet last
spring, said there were more thar
800 schools in the state operating
without regular coach at tha,
time Russell Hasson, coach here
last year, will not return next fall
having accepted railroad position
Another proposal has been to re
duce art and music instruction from
the present fve-sixths to one-hal1
time.
No definite course of procedure ha!
been worked out, however, and ther,
are possibilities that additional rene
dies may be proposed in the effor
to make the operating budget reacl
during the coming year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Plummer of
Ada, daughter, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Schumacher
of Ottawa, a daughter, Christine
Mae, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Thorpe of
Pandora, a daughter, Nancy Ann,
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Brown, Ada,
son, Bruce Allen, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Ruggley, a
son, Ray Wayne, Sunday.
Announcement is made of the
birth of son, Richard Allen, to Mr.,
and Mrs. Eugene Alspach of Chi
cago, June IL. Mr.. Alspach was
formerly of Bluffton.
Born to Rev. and Mrs. Erwin A
Albrecht of Chicago, daughter
Angela Marie, Tuesday. Mrs. Al
brecht is the former Magdalene Bike
of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
II. S. Principal To Be
Summer Camp Leader

Gerhard Buhler, Bluffton high
school principal will leave next Mon
day for Cass Lake, Minn., where he
has accepted position as instructor
at Camp Wanak, a summer camp
for boys.
The camp which will be in session
for eight weeks is operated by DR..
Frank Slutz of Dayton, who deliv-
cred the class address at the high
school graduation exercises here last
month.
Principal Buhler will be accompan-
led by his son Samuel, who will
spend eight weeks at the camp.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
College Term Will
Open On June ~

i A third three-week term will open
at Bluffton college, Tuesday, June 27,
with courses offered in bird Lore
and christian Ethics.
Prof. H. w. Berky is teaching the
class on "Bird Lore. Dean J. S.
Schultz will be in charge of the
other course.
Registration is open until the open
ing date for either course.
So far courses in home economics
psychology, history, education, soci-
ology, literature and physical educa-
ton have been offered on the summer
school program of the college.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Wayne Deppler NO1U
Is Master Sergeant

Wayne Deppler, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eli Deppler, stationed with the
army signal corps in Iran has been
advanced to the rank of master SER
geant and first sergeant, his parents
learned the first of the week.
Sgt. Deppler is serving as per-
sonnel assistant to the company COM
mander and in his position as con-
tact man between the commander and
enlisted men is responsible for all
men in his company.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Lack OF Fittings
Delays Street Work

Non-arrival of a shipment of pipe
fittings is delaying work of replacing
city water lines into residential prop
critics and business places on Main
street which was begun by the Board
of Public Affairs.
The fittings, shipped four weeks
ago from Decatur, ILL.,, are believed
to have been lost enroute and tracers
have been working to locate the ship
ment.
One side of a portion of North
Main street where excavations have
been made awaiting the fittings, has
been closed to traffic.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Three From BLuftOn
Summoned In DRAFT !

Three from the Bluffton area were
included in selective service regis
trants called by Allen County Draft
Board No. the first of the week.
On. Monday, Chauncey Basinger of
near Columbus Grove, a Bluffton
high school student last year left for
army training at Ft. Benjamin Har-
rison, Indiana.
Two who left for naval training
on Tuesday were: Kenneth Finton
and Clark Leon Basinger both of
Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Leads SingspiratiOn

Harry E. Kocher of Findlay will
lead the singspiration at the De-
fenseless Mennonite church, Sunday
night at 9:15 o'clock. Miss Edith
Reigens, trumpeter and Mrs. Betty
Goss, pianist, both of Camden, N. J.,
will give special numbers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
BluftOn Man ShOlUn
In Air Force Photo

Photographs of Corp. William F.
Stager, %, of Bluffton, this week ap-
peared in many Ohio newspapers, as
a release of the Eighth AAF Bomber
station in England.
The Bluffton youth is shown in
stalling 50-calibre machine gun in
the ball turret of Flying Fortress.
Corp. Stager is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Stager, of $40 N.
Main street. He attended high
school at Rawson.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Butler Ends Navy
Engineering Course

James O. Butler, II, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Butler, of 10 Church
street, has completed course in
basic engineering at the Great Lakes,
ILL.,, navy service school.
His father until recently was chief
Signal Corps inspector at the plants
of The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co. here, but left recently for Alaska.
Mrs. Butler and daughter are still
in Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Charles TrippIeh0rn
Gives Talk On Snakes

Charles Tripplehorn, Eagle Scout
member of Troop 56, gave a lecture
On snakes at joint meeting of
Buttons two Boy Scout troops Mon
day night in Troop 81 headquarters.
In addition to giving the talk on
snakes, Tripplehorn displayed 10
water and queen snakes to the group.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Victor MOSer Gets
Army Promotion

Promotion of Victor Moser from
Private First Class to Corporal was
announced recently in England by
Major General Hugh Knerr, COM
manding general of the air service
command
Corp. Moser is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Erwin Moser, south of Bluffton.
He was graduated from Bluffton
High school in the class of 1910.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Dale Stuber Trains
At Great Lakes, M.

Dale r. Stuber, %, son of Mr.. A.
]. Miller, south of town, is receiving
his initial naval indoctrination at
the U. S. Naval Training Center,
Great Lakes, Illinois.
His "boot" training consists of in
struction in seamanship, military
drill, and general naval procedure
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Youth VIII Train
For Army Air Corps

Evan Niswander, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Niswander of Grove
street has left for Ft. Benjamin Har-
rison, Indianapolis, to be transferred
later this week to Keesler Field,
Miss, for basic training in the Army
Air corps.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Tax Man Will Be
Here On July 1919

Representatives from the Allen
county treasurer's office will be in
Bluffton at the Citizens National
bank, Tuesday, July Is and Wednes-
day, July 10 for collection of the last
half of the 1943 real estate taxes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-22
Real Estate Deals

Dana Mathewson of Riley street
has purchased from VIM. Leiber the
former Duffman property on North
Main street now occupied by VIM.
Clark and family.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-10
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