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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-19
Richland Center

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Core anc
family of Col. Grove were Sunday
evening supper guests of Mr.. ano
Mrs. Ernest Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Gerber called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Basinger
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquars and
son spent last Tuesday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Brice Main.
The Friendly Couples class of the
Emmanuel's Evangelical and Re-
formed church are sponsoring an ice
cream social on the church lawn
this Friday evening, July 20. Every
body welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher
and family spent Friday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne thinner
man and daughters.
Pvt. and Mrs. George Myers spent
Thursday evening with Mr.. and Mrs
w. c. Schaublin and daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Moser and
sons Kenneth and Donavin, Mrs
Amos Moser, Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Moser
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolly Moser and sons
Laverne and Larry, Mr.. and Mrs
Weldon Luginbuhl, Mrs. Helen
Krouse and Dwane Reed were Sun
day dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Dana Moser.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Stevens and
daughter Elaine of Sandusky spent
several days last week with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Amstutz
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Rusmisel were
Sunday dinner guests at the Perry
Miller home of Cairo.
| Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman ant
daughters and Mrs. Sam Badertschel
spent Wednesday afternoon will
Mrs. Henry Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Matter ant
family visited relatives Sunday il
Springfield and Dayton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gaylon Wagonel
and daughter of Edgerton, O., wer,
Sunday dinner and supper guest.
at the Robert Schafer home. Even
ing callers were Mr.. and Mrs. w. c
Schaublin and daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Basinge,
and family called Sunday evening
on Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Rusmisel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Gratz ant
daughter Joan and Mr.. and Mrs
Paul Detwiler and family were Sun
day evening guests at the Ottt
Amstutz home.
Mrs. Philip Marquart Sr., i,
spending few weeks with her son
Ed Marquart and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Badertschel
and family spent Sunday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne thinner
man and daughters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Zimmerman
and children of Ada called Frida,
evening at the Andy Hochstettlel
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Zimmerman
and family of Lima spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. And,
Hochstettler and family.
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of the organization.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Somers and
sons and Tommy McDaniels were
Saturday evening dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold E. Downey.
Mrs. Mary Steele and Mrs. Eunice
Smith were Thursday over night
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Faber
at Lima
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Downey
spent the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer Bowers at Lima.
Mrs. Byron Anderson and daugh-
ter Karen Sue were Thursday even
ing dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Anderson at Bluffton.
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Mr.. and Mrs. David Zimmerman and
family of Lima We're Sunday evening
dinner guests in the home of Mrs.
Alice Bodell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Lentz and
family spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Williams in Tontogany.
Janice remained for a visit in the
Williams home.
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for a week afterwards there was
work to do such as removing the
bleachers and fence from the field,
cleaning, paying bills, and other
duties necessary to bring the show
to a completion.
The anti-climax for the workers
is always the windup meeting where
all final expenses are paid and
profits divided. This year the rodeo
made a large profit as has been the
case the past three years. It is
interesting to note some of the in
come and expense items.
The rodeo crossed $3,115.52 and
total expenses amounted to 81 ,937. Sd
leaving a net profit of $1,177.8S
which was divided between the
Saddle Horse Club and The Sports
mems Club. Each organization
received $588.94 as their share of the
net profit.
Included in the total expenses was
donation of $50 given to the school
board to be used for the repair and
upkeep of Harmon Field.
Additional expenses included $780,
rs Federal tax and $23.70 State tax
on admissions. Prizes and ribbons
$30S.23. Band and aerial circus
$500. Rental and operating of
chutes $500. Rental of broncs and
other stock including trucking $4,000.
Advertising, programs, entry blanks
etc., S135.00. Eighty dozen ice
cream bars, 100 dozen sandwiches,
innumerable cases of orange drink
and pop, and other items $4,000,
Saddle horse, bride, and saddle
$325.00. Judge, announcer and in
cidental program expenses amounted
to $4,000. Change needed to oper-
ate the windows amounted to
$4,000. Other miscellaneous ex-
penditures madeup the balance of
the huge fund needed to put on the
Fourth of July show.
AS has been the case before, the
community really backed the celebra-
tion and were enthusiastic in helping
to put over the program. Income
at the contest was derived from ad-
missions, reserved seats, pony ring;
eat and drink stand in the aggregate
S1596.00; sponsoring of prizes by
Bluffton merchants and entry fees
$472.00; other income amounted to
S1,046.00.
So the Rodeo is over again and
we take this opportunity to thank
all who aided so diligently and gave
unstintingly of their time and sup
port to give Bluffton worth while
Independence Day celebration.
Buckeye Memorial Park To
Benefit
AS final tribute to those in the
armed forces from the community,
the two organizations have earmark-
ed one half of the net profit derived
from the rodeo to be used for the
development of Bluffton's Buckeye
Memorial Park
The fund set aside for this pro-
gram amounts to S58S.94. This
entire sum will be invested as soon
as possible in the construction of
shelter houses, outdoor ovens, fish
ing piers, sidewalks, rustic tables
and benches, water lines, wading
pool for the kiddies, boat dock, land
scaping, parking lots, playground
equipment, camping area, memorial
entrance, rustic bridge over the
Marsh Run, or other projects needed
for the development of the new park.
The community is backing the
Sportmen's club in its conservation
and park promotion program. At
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blows was a double with three men
on base.
Bob Gratz in one appearance at
the plate smashed a mighty home
run into deep left field, to score two
base runners ahead of him.
Timer Spaeth, Norm Triplett and
Cubic Basinger got the other Trip
lett safeties.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

The personal property belonging to the
estate of (Daymond) Jack Filhart. will be
sold by the undersigned at public auction.
At the late residence of said deceased
tDaymond) Jack Filhart on the 21st day of
July, l945. Sale to commence at ! 80 o'clock
P. NJ Eastern War Time.
At the same time the undersigned will accept
bids for the house and lot of said deceased
on the premises.
EUGENE t. LIPPINCoTT
Administrator
Lippineott Lippincott. Lawyers 10
Lima, Ohio
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CONSERVATION AFFAIRS
Happenings Affecting Woods, Waters and Wldlife
BY THE BLUFFToN COMMUNITY sPoRTsMENs CLUB NC

up members on the roll and there
are still over 150 members from last
year that have not yet renewed their
dues for 1945l So with backing by
the citizens of the community and
the active support of the Saddle
Horse Club for the past three years
our new park will become a reality
and an excellent recreation center
for the people of Bluffton and sur
rounding area.
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Directors Meeting Friday

A Sportsmen's Club directors
meeting will be held Friday night at
$3.50 P. M. in the town hall club
rooms. Plans will be made for a
Jungle Cock celebration and trip to
the Blue Hole at Castalia. Blue
prints on shelter house construction
have been obtained and plans will
be laid for the erecting of such a
structure as soon as expedient.
Evening star., 1945-06-03

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Evening star., 1945-06-03

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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-12

Rich bocode, royon sotin ond
domosk SOTO pillows. Duroble roll
ed edge ond stitching. Plump ond
pretty. Beautiful worm color.
Value priced OF Federol's.
Evening star., 1945-12-29

Another Of cloire Mccar-
dell's Inspirations - citi-
fled looking soteen-
striped cotton with dirndI-
type skirt and trig weskit-
like jocket. yellow and
gray, aqua and red or pink
and groy. Misses sizes,
SIS
Evening star., 1945-12-29

Interestingly Shirred
Shoulders and a tiny
Woisted look ore whot
have happened to the
most comfortable of all
dress styles - the coat
style. Yellow, lime or
pink. Misses sizes,
1888
Evening star., 1945-12-29

Tina Lesser Dress pays
compliments to its design
er's originality with q one
sided color contrast plus
on unusual pepIum effect.
0roy with yellow, aqua or
pink. Misses sizes,
szz.s5
Evening star., 1945-12-29

Claire MecordeII's feeling
for cleon-cut yet feminine
lines gives this tiny-Woist-
ed, soteen-striped cotton
dress an urbone look.
yellow and groy. oquo
and red or pink and groy.
Misses sizes ----$zz.95
Evening star., 1945-12-29

Tina Lesser PIoysuit in fine
ohombroy with q soteen
seIf-stripe has q bright
patch of color above the
waist looks twin" to
the dress at its right when
the skirt is added. Groy
with yellow, aqua or pink.
Misses sizes. Complete,
$24.50
Evening star., 1945-12-29

Adorable e Duplicates
i" "pettieoot" dresses in
peach, aqua, gray or char
treuse chombroy. Crisp
white eyelet pettieoot
touches.
Mothers sizes 9 to IS,
$1z.e5
Daughters sizes 7 to Ia,
$7.o5
Sizes 3 to 6x-----$6.34
W&L-Juveniles', Girls and
Junior Misses Apparel.
Fourth Floor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

the border brought him one of their
faverite dishes. 1t proved to be
literally seasoned with peppers and
far too hot for unaccustomed
Yankee palates.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

Egypt, Arabia, Indla-and China,
especially! Visas-to go to warl
Properly inoculated against four
teen diseases, with visas for every
where, with trinkets for trade with
natives in Africa, Arabia, and Bur-
ma, we went on down to Florida.
The instant I landed I hunted out
my ship-B-17E-Air Corps number
Al 9031. I soon painted on its nose
the red map of Japan, centered by
the cross-hairs of a modern bomb
sight, with the cross right over To-
kyo. In my poor Latin was in
scribed "Hades alb Altar" or
roughly, Hell from on High
I climbed into the control room
of my ship and met my crew. Each
man was character, each man
wanted badly to get started.
The co-pilot was Doug Sharp, an
other dark-haired Southerner, a first
Lieutenant who was destined to get
shot down in another Flying For
tress over Rangoon. He coolly got
most of his crew out of the burning
ship; then, with those who were un-
able to parachute to safety, he land
ed the flaming ship in the rice pad
dies of central Burma. From this
point he led his men-those whom
he did not have to bury beside the
ship-out through the japanese lines
to safety in India. He was made a
Major after this gallant act.
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our mission, got my crew up long
before daylight next morning, and
we soon were heading South for
Trinidad, ahead of the other two.
The weather was perfect, with scat
tered clouds and a light tail wind,
and we flew low, looking for enemy
submarines. Thirty miles West of
Martinique we thought we saw one,
but could not verify. We passed
over the Grenadines near St.
George, Grenada, and soon saw the
hills of Trinidad rising out of the
Caribbean.
With our ship serviced and ready
Tor very early morning take-off,
we now took the most dangerous
ride we experienced on the trip. This
was a trip into Port of Spain in
combat car. 1t seemed to me that
the natives just waited in side roads
to try and run into us in blind areas
where we could not see them. Be-
sides, it has always seemed to me
that drivers who take pilots from
their ships into towns religiously try
to show them how to turn corners
on one wheel, and to show that they
can easily drive into said town at
the same average speed that the
pilot could fly.
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the details given in this column
last week. Since this appeared in
the Blade we know that someone
reads these notes which makes US
very happy and more secure, we
hope, on the payroll.
The Harvey Which family of
High street and their guests Mr..
and Mrs. Frands Woods and family
of Kenton enjoyed a delicious dinner
last Sunday when they ate "Adolph"
and frankie" their two pet turkins
which they raised from babyhood.
Just in event you don't know, a
turkin is cross between a chicken
and turkey. The body is much
wider and shorter than a chickens
and the fowl has an extremely long
neck without a single feather; also
parts of the body are bare. These
turkins originate from Turkey where
they first were crossed. The meat
tastes more like that of a turkey
than chicken, the Which family
stated.
They call them dumb animals
but two instances observed during
the pass week lead US to think that
perhaps they're not so dumb after
all. On North Jackson street Friday
on the sidewalk in front of the
Methodist parsonage we saw empty
walnut shells apparently discarded
by squirrels which had stored them
up last fall for winter food supply.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
Ma1sA
KHX
DeAAoA0I

Some of those hopefuls who en-
Unused over the first snowfall would
now be willing to trade a half
dozen drifted roads for a wee bit of
warm sunshine . and or course
it came again-that regular weekly
Monday blizzard-in fact it has miss
ed only one Monday in the past
six weeks-the last four weeks it's
been here right on schedule every
Monday and it was really blue
Monday for drivers of 80 cars stalled
on the two mile stretch of Cemetery
road from town to the Ebenezer
church and Mrs. Margaret
Bogart who carries mail on rural
route stalled in a drift Monday
afternoon that took horse teams and
tractor to get her car out u
and Dow Scoles says the rural car
rier has been out to his place only
three times in the last month :.
and farmers hurried to town Monday
to beat the snowstorm and lay in
supply of bread-also yeast, just in
case worst comes to worst and it'll
be home baked bread during the
emergency and congratulations
to Mrs. Joe Mumma who will reach
her 92nd birthday anniversary next
Tuesday 4. and B. F. Biery of the
Bluffton News will be 81 on the
same day and misfortunes
never come singly, as Don Reams
viii tell you. Within less than a
month Don was the innocent victim
of two accidents-one fire in which
his household goods were damaged
and the other a highway accident
which knocked out his car and
there's a crew of IT men working
for the Buckeye Pipe line who will
tell you that Bluffton is a good
place to lve-they are working in
Lima laying three mile pipeline
for a new city water supply, but
they are staying in Bluffton at
Pines.
Bluffton people generously opened
their homes Monday night to out of
town employees of the Triplett plant
who were marooned here by drifted
roads. In the face of the prevailing
scarcity of rooms here, nevertheless
overnight accommodations for some
so people were forthcoming from
Bluffton householders who did fine
bit of cooperating in the emergency.
And speaking of the emergency,
there are a lot of Good Samaritans
in Bluffton who besides keeping their
own sidewalks clean are "going the
second mile" and helping their
neighbors. To mention a few which
we can recall are Charley Lora,
Myron Motter, George Read, Cleon
Triplett and Clair Fett--but there
are many, many more.
You would never have thot it
possible-but it's happened. They're
looking for hitching racks-with
farmers coming TO town in bodsleds
there arises the problem of where
to tie the team. Well, hitching racks
have vanished-gone for some twen-
ty long years-unmourned and un-
sung, supposedly among those things
which have served their time and
now Bluffton has none-at least Of
fcially there aren't any. They say
that there is a spot off East Elm
street at the rear of the Jail where
some farmers have been parking
their teams.
"Fish to Climb Christmas Trees,
was the heading of an article which
appeared in the Toledo Blade the
other day relating how Christmas
trees gathered here recently will be
sunk in the Buckeye quarry and
used for protection areas in the pro-
pagation of fish. You may recall
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And Sunday a stray dog which has
been around town for the past week,
took a bone and carefully buried it
in snow bank, presumably for a
future meal. And then we thot of
our coal bin-empty until the first
cold snap last fall when we scurriec
around for jag of coal-now who's
dumb?
We again call attention to the fact
that addresses of soldiers overseas
or at ports of embarkation may not
be published. This is written in
response to several requests for such
publication. These censorship regu-
lations are adopted for obvious
military reasons. While it is per-
missible to say that John Doe is in
England, Germany or the Philippines,
his address, which includes his mill
tary or naval unit, may not be dis
closed, either by publication or by
radio. The address, however, may
be furnished by the soldiers family
to friends upon request.
The Edgar Conaways on West
Elm street sampled a real Mexican
dinner the other day, but didn't
relish it any too well. 1t happened
when Conaway, a filling station
operator, talking to several Mexicans
employed with the track laying crew
on the Nickel Plate railroad in
quired about Mexican food. Several
days later the boys from south of
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CHAPTER 4: Scott's early experiences
with gliders and airpianes. He goes to
TT. Mcpherson and enlsts In the regular
army a private.
CHAPTER III: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets a fur
Tough before reporting. He Is graduated
as q second lieutenant of infantry and
goes TO Europe. which he tours on q
motorcycle. He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas.
CHAPTER III: Scott makes his first
solo flight. Drives 800 miles TO Georgia
over every weekend to see his girl Scott
Il now graduated from Kelly Field and
has wings pinned on his chest. Ordered
to report to Hawaii but wanting TO get
married he lays his plight before the
General and Is ordered to report at
Mitchell Field. NJ. Y. instead.
CHAPTER w: En- route to New York
Scott Is stopped by police who mistake
him for a bandit. He carries the mail
for Uncle Sam In order to gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER ": The war edges closer
and he is farther than ever from combat
duty. He has been told he is too old
Tor combat flying, and after December 2,
1871, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for chance to fly fighter
plane.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

Lend lease food deliveries totaled
1,015,900,000 pounds in November,
1943, and 467,500,0O0 pounds in No.
vember, 1914.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
sN = NEHEuf <tEEt1N NWWfIEys ess
tie of Noah Basinger. Deceased


Anna Z. Basinger. of 132 Lawn Ave-
Bluffton. Ohio. has been appointed and quail
ned as Execntrix of the estate Of Noah Ba-
singer. late of Allen Connyt. Ohio. deceased
Dated this 5th day of January. 1916
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
a0 Probate Judge
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-18

Ohio exhibitors were a decided mi
nority at the Pittsburgh tri-state All
steer and lamb shows and sales but
the Buckeye All members made al
most a clean sweep of the champion
ships. Rosemary Sauder, Champaign
county, took grand and reserve cham
pionships in the steer show and Her.
bert Griffith, Putnam, and Ronald
Leachman, Muskingum county, won
the other two champion ribbons. Two
Wayne county boys, Jerry and Junior
Bradford, won three of the four cham
pionships in the lamb show.
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the border brought him one of their
faverite dishes. 1t proved to be
literally seasoned with peppers and
far too hot for unaccustomed
Yankee palates.
Attracting much attention in the
News window is japanese silk flag
brought home from the Pacific war
area by Cpl. Park Mathewson of
Ada, brother of Dana Mathewson.
The flag, covered with Japanese
characters was taken from a Jap
soldier which Mathewson engaged in
combat.
While doing our daily stint of
shoveling snow, we can't help but
think of word that came the other
day from C. C. "Chris" Amstutz
down in Leesburg, Florida, who
writes that the thermometer there
stands most all the time between 10
and so degrees. What are we stay
ing here for?
Bluffton boys meeting in far off
Hawaii. There's Edgar Huber, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Huber and
Kent Burkholder, son of Mrs. Cyrus
Burkholder of Beaverdam who met
up the other day. 1t was the first
boy from the Bluffton area that
Huber had seen. since he arrived on
the islands last July.
And two other Bluffton boys met
in Hawaii the other day for an old
fashioned gabfest. They were
Richard Augsburger, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. E. Augsburger and Charles
Conrad, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Conrad and husband of Mrs.
Ola Conrad who lives in the Cham
berlafn apartments. Conrad recently
returned to the islands learned
thru letter from his wife of Augs-
burgers address and later surprised
Dick by walking in on him while at
work. This is the first Bluffton boy
Conrad has seen since he has been
overseas in more than two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-19
New Moves Speed
Disclosures
AT Pearl Harbor

WASHINGTON. Aug 18. UPl-
One of the nations beSt-kept war
time secrets-why we were unpre-
pared at Pearl Harbor-apparently
was headed for the light of day
Saturday in the wake of congrs-
sional action to put the facts
finally on the record.
A request by Chairman David I
Walsh Democrat, Massachusetts,
of the senate naval afafirs COM
mittee for the navy's files on the
disaster is expected to start the
ball rolling on ether a public dis
closure of the armed forces own
investigations or a full-scale inquiry
by congress.
Walsh asked Navy secretary
James V. Forrestal to furnish his
committee with the complete navy
records on Pearl Harbor Walsh
pointed out that the excuse of
military necessity, accepted during
the war. cannot be seriously urged
as reason for now keeping the mat
ter secret"
Chairman Ebert D. Thomas
Democrat), Utah, of the senate
military affairs committee also told
reporters congress ought to have
the facts. He said, however, that If
it's to be a strictly military court
martial, tn services ought to do it."
Continued on Page 6, Column .
Imperial Valley press., 1945-08-19
vinson Sees Lower Taxes
With Business Up First

WASHINGTON. Aug. Is.
(UP)-L Wer taxes n e X t
wear. especially for business,
We're seen Saturday as Il dis
tinct possibility following 4 press
conference statement by Secretary
Of the Treasury Fred M Vim. On.
VinSOn said the treasury was Civ
ing serious consideration to revision
OF taxes on 1916 income. He Woulc
not enlarge on this statement but
referred reporters 70 his mObiIiZa-
tion report to congress last July l
in which he called for moderniza-
ton of the tax structure and lower
ing of corporation and other busi-
ness taxes
Meanwhile Sen. Harold 0. Burton
tRD, Ohio, 4 member CT the SEN
ate commerce committee, demanded
the repeal Cr reduction of the eX-
cess profits tax on corporations by
Jan. l.
Sen. Dennis Chavez Cd, New
Mexico, preC letting congressional
study of the reconverSion tax prob
lem by year end. promised to seek
tax reductions for those who have
lest Jobs in war industry and re-
turning service men.