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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
|THREE-MILL LEVY
FOR SCHOOLS ON
NOVEMBER BALLOT
School District Electors VIII
Vote On Special Tax Pro-
posal This Fall
Proposal Is For Renewal Of
Levy In Effect Here For
Many Years

Bluffton school district electors
will vote on renewal of a special
three-mill tax levy to provide ad-
ditional operating expenses for the
schools at next November's general
election, it was learned this week.
The proposed levy is to provide a
continuation of special funds that
have been received by the school for
operating expenses, and the measure
will appear on a seperate ballot. 1t
will provide for tax not to exceed
three mills for a five-year period.
Application to include the school
levy vote in this falls election was
filed last week with the Allen county
Board of Elections at Lima by the
Bluffton Board of Education, to
comply with preliminaries necessary
to have the proposal submitted to
electors of the school district.
Revenue derived from the three
mill levy which expires this year
amounts to $15,225 annually on the
present school district tax duplicate
of S5,075,000. The funds can be
used for any operating expense, not
including bond retirement and inter.
est.
To be continued, the levy must be
approved by majority vote. Attic
the measure provides for any
amount not to exceed three mills fol
five-year period. balsrds in the pas
always have levied the maximum
amount allowed.
Present tax rate for Blufftor
school purposes is 10.40 mills, in.
cluding the special three-mill levy
now in effect. 1t represents nearly
two-thirds of the Bluffton corpora.
tion tax rate of s16.7o, which in
cludes the school levy.
The present three-mill levy fol-
which renewal is sought will expire
on Dec. 81, 1945. 1t has been il
effect for many years.
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Form Lions Club
At Columbus Grove

Organization of a Lions club in
Columbus Grove under sponsorship
of the Bluffton club affiliated with
Lions international was completed
Tuesday night.
The meeting was held in Columbus
Grove under direction of the exten-
sion committee of the Bluffton club
and George Bormuth, special repre-
sentative of Lions International.
Officers of the club elected at the
meeting are:
President, Theo. Kissel; vice pres.
DR.. A. B. Hilty; sec., Amos Goodwin
treas, Donald Hilty; lion tanner
Ralph Brooks; tail twister, A. G.
Kohl.
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BLUFFTON SCHOOLS
TO Open FOR FALL
Term ON SEPT. a
Teaching Staff For Grade And
High Schools Same As That
Of Last Year
No designations OF Teachers Is
Unusual Situation Under Pre-
sent Conditions

Bluffton public schools will open
for the fall term on Tuesday, Sept
a, one day after Labor Day, is was
decided this week by the Board OF
Education.
Going into the new school term
the Bluffton teaching staff will be
the same as that which served last
year, and the fact that no resigna-
tions were rendered here is seen
quite unusual in year in which
many teachers have changed schools
because of the acute shortage OF
instructors in practically every
system.
With the same corps of teachers
returning for the coming year, only
minor changes are expected in the
assignment of instructors. The only
vacancy is in the manual training
department which was without q
teacher last year.
The force of janitors and care
takers also will remain the same as
that which served last year, and
altho some school bus drivers have
resigned all posts will be filled by
the time school opens, spokesmen foi
the school board said this week.
Bluffton schools will operate or
slow time when they open for the
fall term, due to the fact that 6
municipal ordinance provides for dis,
continuance of fast time on the frs
Sunday in September.
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END OF WAR GREETED HERE WITH WILD ACCLAIM


A rapidly spreading oats stubble
fire in a field along the Nickel Plate
railroad right of way, east of the AU
Tower at the junction of the Nickel
Plate and A. c. & Y railroads, was
extinguished with small damage at
noon Monday by the Bluffton fire
department.
The field is owned by the Central
Ohio Light and Power Co. and had
been farmed this summer by Charles
Matthey. Railroad section men as
sisted in extinguishing the blaze.
1t was this areas first grass fire
of the summer.
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Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Benton, Pan
dora, boy, Charles Ray, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pore, Williams
town, girl, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Bridenbaugh,
Pandora, girl, Judith Kay, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Stump
Lafayette, boy, John William
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Lanning
Beaverdam, a boy, Jack Arthur
Tuesday.
Sgt. and Mrs. Earl Ludwig, Mt
Cory, girl, Connie Jo., August 7
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Ia MILES OF ROAD
IMPROVEMENT IN
TWP. UNDER WAY
Summer Highway Resurfacing
Program Being Pushed,
Trustees Announce
Two Miles Paid Jointly by
County and Township;
County Pays Balance

Fourteen miles of Richland town
ship highways are being improved
this summer by the application of a
hard surface top dressing of asphalt
and stone chips, in a county program
aimed principally at repairing exten-
sive winter damage sustained last
December and January.
Parts of FIVE roads are included in
the improvement schedule, with the
work being done by employees and
equipment of the Allen County high
way department.
Cost of the major part of the work
is being borne by the county, with
the exception of re-surfacing of two
miles for which the county will pay
half and the Richland township trus-
tees will be responsible for the bal
ance.
Two Miles Financed Jointly
The two miles financed jointly by
the township and county include a
one-mile stretch of the Augsburger
road, from the termination of West
Elm street at the corporation line
west to the Fett road; and one mile
on the Schifferly road from the Bent.
ley road east to the Allen county line
Highway improvements financed by
the county include four miles of the
Bentley road from Bluffton corpora.
tion to the Lincoln highway; six miles
of the Phillips road from the Putnam.
Allen county line to the Lincoln high.
way; and two miles of the College
road from Bluffton corpoation to the
Allen-Putnam county line.
! Repair Winter Damage
Road improvements under way, anc
which will be completed by fall, carry
out recommendation of Richlanc
township trustees to put the highways
back into good condition following
the heavy damage of last winter.
No work can be done this summer
on roads requiring oil treatment, be
cause of inability to obtain the ma
terial which is on government restric
ed lists, but where a hard surface ha.
been applied previously re-surfacins
can be accomplished by the asphal
and stone chip "blacktop" method.
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Radio Message From LIT. David klieWer
In Jap Prison Received By i. S. Navy
Goes From France
To Philippines

Sgt. Melvin Long, Jr., who served
for 10 months with military police
unit in the European theatre of
war is now in the Philippines, ac-
cording to word received the first of
the week by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Melvin Long of Orange town
ship.
Sgt. Long was transferred directly
from Europe to the Far East pre-
sumably via the Suez canal. His
wife, the former Catherine Sutter
and their little son are making their
home with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leonard Sutter of Pandora.
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Ensign Calvin Bert Yoder Shot
Down While Strafing Large
Jap Freighter
Navy Plane Makes Rescue
While Under Fire From
Enemy Shore Batteries

A daring air-sea rescue from the
japanese inland sea recently prevent
ed the enemy from capturing Ensign
Calvin Bert Yoder, 21, who since he
was four years old was reared in
the Settlement by his aunt and uncle,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Diller, who now
reside on the former Oliver Locher
farm, north of town.
Ensign Yoder is the son of Willis
Yoder, of Goshen, Ind, and his
mother was the former Malinda
Diller, sister of Edwin Diller, who
died when he was four years old.
A rescue by a Navy Dumbo air
plane was necessary to save the
Bluffton youth, Navy airman, after
his Hellcat fighter plane had beer
shot down in the japanese inlanc
sea recently.
In a thrilling account appearing
in the Indianapolis News, specia
news release told how the rescue
plane dashed in, made water land
ing under the very eyes of the
Japanese and picked up the downet
fighter pilot.
Second Landing
On the return trip, the large plan,
had to make a second water landing
to rescue two other fighter pilot
who had flown escort for the rescu
mission and who were forced dow
at the entrance to the inland sea
only 200 yards off the coast o
Japan.
Ensign Yoder was shot down Will
/ flying a Hellcat from one of tn
carriers participating in Task Fore
38 strikes against the Jap mainlane
About 20 miles southwest of Kur
he strafed a large Jap freightel
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Injured In Fall
While Picking PIIin,s

Gideon Schumacher, farmer, is a
patient in Bluffton hospital as the
result of injuries received in fall
while picking plums at his home
west of Bluffton, Tuesday morning.
Schumacher who was standing on
a shed roof near the plum tree
slipped and fell fracturing his right
hip and left shoulder, it was re-
ported Tuesday night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
WHISTLES, BELLS, SIRENS
in NOISY DEMONSTRATION
Pandemonium Loosed by Impromptu Automo-
bile Parade on Main Street After Presi-
dents Announcement Tuesday
Business and Industry Closed Wednesday; No
Mail Deliveries; Churches Unite i'm
Thanksgiving Service

With whistles bells and sirens Blufton greeted in
wild pandemonum of acclaim of final victory
war of nearly four years duration Tuesday night.
Ending long ve-day vigil raught alternately with hope
disappointment the town staged spontaneous celebration the
tension snapped at 702 with the by
dent Truman that Japan had Internationally surrendered The
demonstration which followed unequaed by anything
the Armistice in 1918.
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At New Air Base

Captain Francis L. Hochstettler,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter NJ.
Hochstettler of Bluffton, Route 2,
left this week from the Troop Car
rier base of George Field for Sc
dalia Army Air Field, Knobnoster,
Missouri for the purpose of attend
ing the Central Instructors Training
Program.
Upon completion of the program
Captain Hochstettler will return te
George Field.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16

Peace had come at last to a war
weary world three years and eight
months after the infamous Jap at
tack on Pearl Harbor, and with those
years of heartbreak and anxiety fin
ally in the background Bluffton hail
ed the Presidential announcement
with cheers on their lips and tears
in their eyes.
News Flashes Peace
This was 1.-THE moment tensely
awaited since Japan's first broadcast
seeking peace flashed round the
world last Friday. Radios which
played continuously in Bluffton
homes over the long vigil caught the
good news, finally eliminating hopes
that had been raised once by an err
roneous report of surrender on SUM-
day night and which scared again
early Tuesday with a false announce.
ment that the surrender had been
made.
Scarcely before the news flash was
completed the deep throated whistle
at the water works settled down tc
a steady five-minute assault on the
ear drums of the town.
Noisy Demonstration
Doors were flung open as neigh
bors shouted to each other across
their yards. Shotguns and pistols
barked salute after salute into the
evening air. Firecrackers dug up
from secret repositories banged a.
gain and again.
Children hammered on tin pans,
bells were rung and automobiles
driving aimlessly about the town ad-
ded to the din with blaring horns.
Downtown streets were jammed
within minutes after the surrender
announcement had been made.
Order came to the cruising auto
mobiles when John Maxon's car car
rying portable public address sys-
tenn streaked down Main street blar-
ing the First World Wars lifting
tune of "Hinky- -Dinky-P -Parly-Voo.
Procession Forms
A long procession of cars including
the towns fire department trucks
and ambulance soon formed behind
this impromptu sound wagon, and up
and down the streets it went with
horns blaring, music playing and fire
crackers popping. Happy spectators
stood on the curbs and cheered as
as the parade passed.
Finally the procession grew sc
long it proved unwieldy, and away
the cars went in spontaneous parades
of their own. Rain shortly after
eight temporarily drove many in
doors, but they were outside agair
as soon as there was the first indi
cation of clearing.
For hours the horns on cruising
cars blared in the town, and crowd.
remained on the streets until aftel
midnight. In homes, parties in cele
bration of the event went on unit
the wee small hours.
Wednesday Holiday
BY mutual assent, Wednesday wa
a holiday continuing the joyful cele
bration in quieter manner as tn
first flush of victory subsided. Down
town business places were closed
Mail deliveries on city and rura
routes were suspended and window
at the postoffiee were closed. Bluff
tons industries likewise were shu
down.
: A union thanksgiving service wa
held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morf
ing in the First Mennonite churc
which was filled for the occasion
The service was sponsored by I'll
Bluffton Ministerial association ar
, local pastors spoke. Churches of Il
town were open thruout the day +,
| those who wished to avail themselv,
) of the facilities for meditation an
/ prayer.
Attraction of the afternoon was
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Joe Birchndugh
Home From Arnly

Pfc. Joe Birchnaugh, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Birchnaugh arrived
home Monday, having been dis
charged from the Army. He served
with the 37th Division in the south
west Pacific and later was stationed
at Camp Lee, Virginia, and more re-
Gently was at the Army's Fletcher
General Hospital in Cambridge, Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Real Estate Deal

The Ralph Joseph farm of 40 acres
occupied by Albert Hughes has been
purchased by John McVetta of Mt.
Cory it was announced by Mrs. H
w. Althaus who closed the deal.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Scouts To Gather
Paper Saturday

Boy Scouts of Troop Sc will gath
er paper Saturday afternoon begin
ming at 1890 o'clock. Newspapers
and magazines should be bundled and
left on the front porch by that time
and the Scouts will pick them up.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16

The subsidy paid on lambs goes to
the person who sells the lambs to
licensed slaughterer The farmer will
not receive the subsidy unless he
makes the sale direct or makes an
middleman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
Triplett Closes

Because of the two-day
holiday declared by Presi-
dent Truman, plants of
The Triplett Electrical In
strument Co. will not re-
sumo operations until 7 a.
m. Friday.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05

YNHE social security system is not COM
i plete and Congress should take APP
propriate action to make it SO.
But the WagnerMurray-Dingell bill
goes far beyond amending" the Social
Security Act.
1t is Trojan horse" bill.
In spite of what its advocates say about
it, this is what the Wagner Murray Dlngell
bill would do:
1T would establish in the United States
a rigid system of "soeialized medicine which
would be detrimental to scientific progress,
destructive of personal liberty and adverse TO
the public interest
2-It would give the surgeon general of
the United States irresponsible bureaucratic
authority over the practice of medicine and
dentistry and over hospital services of the
nation.
Sit would subject virtually the whole
population to complete regimentation in all
matters pertaining to health and medical
treatment.
TINE scheme for "sociazed medicine is
i embodied in the bill in elaborate provisions
for greatly enlarged national social insur-
ance system" and is disguised under the
specific title of prepaid personal health in
surance.'
The bill provides for heavily increased
as we'll as new-federal taxes on wages and
pay rolls.
Out of the fund" thus provided for social
security, il has been estimated by students of
the plan, the surgeon general could dispense
as much AS THREE BILLION DOLLARS A
YEAR for "socialized medicine'-enough 10
hire, as federal employees. all of the 100000
physicians in the country at $4,000 year;
to hire every hospital bed in the country every
day in the year; the subsidize the phar-
maceutical industry and trade with S150,000,-
900 year; and still have SIX HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR for admins
tration costs'-or BUREAUCRACY.
DESIDES the total direct pay roll tax for
ID national social insurance ce'-estimated
at TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR
the general welfare bill' calls for appro-
priations by Congress, "in the sums necessary"
out of the general revenues" of the treasury
to pay for other activities" and services
which would cost several billion dollars a year
additional
The campaign assertion is made by advo-
Gates of the general welfare bill' that there
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
BY {. F. TOMPKINS

is no "compulsion' in the "socalzed medicine"
scheme.
But-as the text of the bill itself shows
ii would operate in this manner:
An employe eligible" for health in
surance" will be COMPELLED BY LAW to
belong to the system and his contribution
will be DEDUCTED FROM HIS PAY EN-
VELOPE.
Each such insured person is free to
choose his own doctor or hospital-but HIS
CHOICE" MUST BE MADE FROM LISTS
OR PANELS" OF DOCTORS AND HOSPI-
TAILS ISSUED BY THE SURGEON GEN
ERAL.
- 3-No part Of any funds paid in by the
"benehciaries' will be used to pay any doctor
or hospital not on the approved lists.
IF beneficiary wants to be treated by a
i doctor of his own choice not in the "sys-
TEN, y he must pay his own bill out of his own
means with NO BENEFIT from the federal
fund TO which he has been COMPELLED to
contribute" for PREPAID" medical or
hospital service.
This compeIs "beneficiaries" to go to the
doctors or hospitals brought within the
system"
4-No doctor or hospital can get into the
system without agreeing TO accept the fees
or salaries determined by the surgeon
general and such regulations AS he may issue.
If doctor not in the system" treats
contributor" even in an emergency case the
doctor must look TO the patient for payment
in full and will receive nothing from the fund
to which the patient has made forced con
tributions' or pre-payments.
This will drive doctors and hospitals into
the system" unless they are TO refuse TO
treat wage and salary earners.
5-Even within the system there is not
much freedom OF choice" for the surgeon
general may limit the number of patients a
panel" doctor may have.
TNHIS will automatically limit doctors in
l. come if he practices within the system"
leaving little incentive for advanced medical
study
On the other hand, men of inferior skill
or training Will seek medical Jobs in the
"system"-and these Jobs" will soon be de-
based to the sordid level of political patronage.
Inevitably, therefore. "socialized medicine
under the Wagner Murray Dngell bill will
degrade the standards of medical and hos
pital service in the United States and ad
versely affect the lives and health Of the
people.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Am Industrial Milestone

DLANS have been published for
the establishment here of AN
INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPA-
TIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH
under the auspices of the Medical
Science Center of Wayne University.
This is a fitting and timely an.
nouncement.
Detroit S importance as an indus.
trial metropolis, long established in
America, now, because of ire.
mendous production of war materi.
ais, is recognized the length and
breadth Of the world.
Similarly, the world looks to De
troit as focal point in this country
for the vast and hazardous task of
reconverting from wartime to peace.
time economy.
TT is kindergarten truism that the
Il closer the relationship between
management and labor, and the bet.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05

ter the general conditions and en-
vironment of the workers, the more
orderly will be the process of recon
version.
Much has been accomplished in
the last decade to improve the physi-
cal well being of industrial workers.
The plan announced by President
Wendell w. Anderson of the Wayne
Medical Science Center is bolder
though and more inclusive than any
thing heretofore along these lines.
IT CONCENTRATES m ploye
L health supervision from both the
engineering and medical aspects on
scale far more ambitious than ever
before attempted.
Already nearly a million dollars
has been allocated for it and it's spon-
sors believe it can start functioning
within year.
1t should prove significant mile,
stone on the broad road TO industrial
progress.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
The Vicious Germ

WE OWE debt to Jules Romans,
w famous French writer, for inventing
word in current Torn and Country that
describes better than anything else the
microbe that is eating up the world, in
cluding our own United States.
That word is burcoucOccus.
M Romans in his extraordinary and ex-
haustive dissection of "Bureaucrats: A
Growing World Problem" says bureauc-
racy "by its sheer dead weight has a paralyz-
ing effect on all activity. 1t releases into all
the arteries and capilaries of the social body
a special toxin which l shall call the bureau
coccus."
THE effect of the bureaucOccus is to infect
every element ii touches however remote
from the source, with CONTENTED, MED
DLESOME STUPIDITY. Once the average
man in trade or industry has been infected
he becomes dull, futile and timorous."
1T is in the latter statement that NJ Ro-
i mains has touched on one Of the most
dangerous effects of the Washington bureau
coccus,, which now proliferates as fast as
the germ of plague.
Cowed by "directves," ukases and extra
legal executive orders our industrialists are
caught in this web that is being spun from
Washington by the spiders of state socialism.
Returning to this now universal disease,
NJ. Romans tells us:
"The peculiar symptom that betrays the
presence of the bureaucOccus is an unslakable
thirst for paper. All day long the victim
occupies himself with filling out forms and he
requires his employees to fill out forms for his
inspection.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05

"He can no longer give spoken order or
discuss any matter in a few rapid phrases.
He drafts memoranda and in return demands
memoranda backed by reports When he
wants TO know how many bulbs are needed to
replace those burnt out In the fourth floor
workroom, he may demand preliminary re-
ports by two persons and a master report
covering these by third
But that is simplicity itself compared to
the thirst for paper in the labyrinthine
webs of the OPA, for instance.
WE IMAGINE that the bureaucoccus is
w shaped something like the interior Of
the Pentagon Building in Washington, which
is, in way memorial TO our social and
business bewilderment
NJ. Romans traces the history of bu-
reaucracy from ancient Rome. He shows US
it has been the main destroyer of democra-
cies and empires. He even says the recent
German republic G91S-1933) was destroyed
by the bureaucocci.
Bureaucracy is, according TO NJ Romans,
form Of social and political arterio-sclerosis.
In the word arterio-scerosis the French
writer has put his finger right on the disease
that in this country is closing up the arteries
of open trading and preventing the free cir
cuation of the red blood which we call
American pirate enterprise, the funda-
mental health law of which is HANDS OFF,
Congress by its indiscriminate delegations
of power is, in the main, responsible for our
ever-crowding bureaucracy.
1t is in manner. a weak confession Of
the failure of the mighty experiment begun
in 1889