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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Reunions

The 18th annual reunion of the
Paulding Center (Rayl) school will
be held at the school, Sunday, Aug
ust 5. Pres, Lyman Barnes; Sec.,
Vern Dardio.
The 23rd annual reunion of the
Rote and Zearbaugh families will be
held at the Orange Center school,
Sunday, August 10. Pres, Levi
Gable; Sec, Mrs. Levi Gable.
The Black school of Orange town
ship will hold its seth annual re-
union on Thursday, August Q. Pres,
Mildred Klingler; Sec, Fern Koch.
The Huber family reunion will be
held Sunday, August 10 at the
Paulding Center school south of
Bluffton on Bentley road. Pres,
Russell Huber; Sec, Mae Huber.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Rati0ning Calendar

So that you may keep in mind the
numerous important wartime ra.
tioning dates, the Bluffton News Il
publishing this weekly reminder:
MEATS, BUTTER, CHEESE.
CANNED MILK-Book red
stamps Q-2 thru Z-2 and Al
thru K-1 good for 10 points
each. o. thru U-2 expire
August 81.
PROCESSED FOODS-Book 4
blue stamps Y-2 thru Z-2 and
Al thru tt good for 10 points
each. Y-2 thru Z-2 and Al
thru CT expire August 81.
SUGAR--Stamp SO is now
good for 5 pounds thru August
81.
GASOLTNE-Stamp A-16 good
) for 6 gallons thru Sept. 81. =
SHOES-Airplane stamps l, 2
and 3 in Ration Book No. 3 good
indefinitely.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Lack OF Freight Cars And Makeshift
Storage Facilities May Cut Wheat Yield


Misses Helen and Ruth Soldner,
nurses at Bluffton hospital have sue
cessfully passed the examination for
registered nurses, it was announced
the first of the week.
They took the examination for
nurses at Emporia, Kansas, following
their graduation from the nurses
training course last spring. Since
that time they have been added to
the nursing staff at the hospital here.
Helen Soldner is the daughter of
G. 7. Soldner of Cherry street, while
Ruth is from Berne, Ind. Both at
tended Bluffton college before enter
ing on their course of nurses train
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
BluftOn Area Wheat
Is Sent To Holland

Farmers of the Bluffton district
are being given their first opportun-
ity to aid in European postwar re-
construction, by sending a ship load
of wheat to aid Hollanders whose
lands were flooded when the Nazis
broke their dikes.
The project is being undertaken by
the Churches of the Brethren in the
Northwestern Ohio district, who plan
to donate a carload of grain. Rev.
]. ]. Anglemyer, pastor of the Han
cock county church at Williamstown,
said he expects the district will do
nate at least two carloads.
The project, denomination wide,
originated with the Brethren Service
committee in Elgin, Ill.
Those interested in making dona-
tions of grain or money to be used
in buying grain may contact Rev.
Anglemyer at Williamstown.
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known officially as the Les III (3)
combined in them all the advantages
of ship that can navigate in the
shallowest water. With their many
guns, the small ships are a menace
to short, air and surface targets.
In the Okinawa invasion, the craft
formed the most powerful and long
est offensive lines ever to precede
ground troops onto the beaches of in
vaded territory, and just before
troops landed the heaviest rocket
barrage in history was laid down.
Other equipment of the Mighty
Midgets" include powerful water
pumps that can extinguish any blaze.
Another use is to tow small amphib
vessels that have broached on the
beach.
Seaman Kohl now is at a naval
rest camp in the Pacific, according to
word received recently by his mother.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Sgt. Gerald Carts In Bomber When
1t Exploded Over Germany In 1914
Details of Death of Local Air.
man Are Not Learned Until
Is Months Later
Memorial Services Will Be Held
Sunday In Ebenezer
Mennonite Church

Memorial services will be held at
2:3O p. m. Sunday in the Ebenezer
Mennonite church west of Bluffton
for Staff Sgt. Gerald X. Carts, 81,
complete details of whose death over
Germany more than a year ago were
not obtained until last week by his
wife, the former Veldean Moser.
Rev. A. C. Schultz, of Chicago,
former pastor of the church, will of
ficiate at the memorial rite. He will
be assisted by Rev. J. ]. Esau and
Rev. Irwin Kaufman. The family
has requested that flowers be omitted.
Details of the death of Sgt. CARTS
on March s, 1914, were not learned
until the last week, thru word re-
ceived by his widow from Captain
Norman Thomas, pilot of the Flying
Fortress on which the Bluffton man
was gunner, and from Staff Sgt.
Paul Richie, another member of the
crew.
Capt. Thomas is from Birmingham,
Ala, and Sgt. Ritchie's home is Null
Inns, West Virginia.
Sgt. Carts death occurred wher
the Flying Fortress to which he was
assigned was shot down near Dunn
mer Lake, close in Hanover in north
western Germany, while returning t.
its base in England.
Nine members of the crew of IL
parachuted safely to the ground anC
were taken prisoner, but Carts wa:
in the plane when it exploded anc
no trace was found of the body.
Sgt. Carts was the only son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Carts, of Orange
township. His mother is employed
in war work at The Triplett Elec.
trical Instrument Co.
From the time he was reported
missing in action by the war depart.
ment in the spring of 1914, no de-
tails could be obtained to establish
his death until the other crewmer
were released from German prison
camp in the closing days of the
European war.
Mrs. Caris received the Air Medal
and two Oak Leaf clusters awarded
posthumously to her husband last
October at Baer field, Ft. Wayne.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
ESTIMATE $69,OO6
COST TO OPERATE
SCHOOLS FOR YEAR
Expenditures in 1916 Will In
crease $4,000, Budget
Indicates
Much of Increase Will Be Pro-
vided by Daniels-Cramer
Bill Funds

Bluffton public school expenditures
in 1916 will be S69,006.22, nearly
$4,000 more than in 1916, according
to estimates in budget approved
this week by the board of education.
Included in the budget figures is
an outlay of $4,000 for retirement
of bonds and S2,71S for interest on
the schools bonded debt, which will
stand at 100000 on January l, 1916.
Estimated total expenditure of
369,006.22 in 1916, compares with
SCI, ,652 as the estimated total for
this year, and S59,497.14 in 1914.
MORE MONEY
Receipts in 1916 will be $72,469.61,
according to the estimates in the new
budget, an increase over the 1916
school income of S6S,412.10. Most of
the additional money expected in
1916 will come from the state, as a
result of the Daniels Cramer bin en-
acted by the legislature this summer.
In 1945 Bluffton schools will re-
ceiye total of s17,511 from the
state foundation fund, but increases
provided under the Daniels-Cramer
bill will give them $22,69S during the
next year.
Principal item of expenditure in
1946 will be $39,S04.72 for teachers
salaries, the new budget shows, as
compared with $37,S25.33 spent in
1945.
A total of s6,8s0 will be required
for janitors and engineers in 1916;
$4,000 for superintendent and admin
istration, and 5000 for bus trans
portation. The remainder will repre-
sent money spent for supplies, inn
provements, etc.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
STRAW CUTTERS
FARMS THRUOUT
BLuFFT0N AREA
Stacks in Barnyards Are of
Record Size With Much
Left i'm Fields
No Demand For Straw; Farm.
ers Vainly Offer Straw Free
For Bailing

Straw which six months ago was
selling for 20 cents bale is now the
unwanted orphan or the farm crop
family, and so much of it is laying
in fields that its disposal represents
a first-class headache for area farm
ers.
With too much straw on hand, de-
mand has reached the zero point, no
price is quoted ON the market and
balers can't be induced to bale it and
haul it away even when it is offered
to them without cost.
Farmers who combined their wheat
don't want to leave the straw in the
field as they normally do, for it is SC
heavy they fear it may choke out
next years clover crop now coming
up thru the stubble.
SET Up CUTTER BARS
In combining wheat, cutter bars
were set higher than usual this year
to reduce the amount of straw spread
on fields as much as possible, but
even under those conditions the thick
layer of straw presents serious
problem.
Farmers who cut wheat with bind
ers have one advantage this season.
for the straw at least is off theil
fields, and in threshing the crop the
straw can be put in a stock, but
even they will have more on hand
than they want.
Because of the heavy straw many
who combined likely would have cut
with binders this year if the current
shortage of far mlabor had not
forced them to use the other method
Some farmers, on the other hand
struck a compromise by combining q
part of their crop and using binders
on the remainder.
/ BIG STRAW STACKS
! With threshing under way, straw
stacks on farms are the biggest ir
history, and old-timers say they have
never seen so much straw. The stu
alton is in direct contrast to last
summer when straw was short, ano
this years crop is twice as heavy
as that of 1914.
i Favored by unusual growing wealth
er, wheat, rye and barley this year
produced straw between four and five
feet high, a record stand for thi:
district, and oats straw also is much
taller than usual.
A deep blanket of snow protected
wheat thruout the winter, the stanc
was not exposed to freezing anc
thawing last spring, and cool wealth
er with plenty of moisture produced
heavy crop unique in local history
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Transportation Bottleneck For
ces Emergency Measures
on Farms
Damp Weather Likely TO Dam
age Wheat Held in
Emergency Bins

Rains Tuesday interrupting the
wheat harvest which has continued
steadily for the past two weeks
brought temporary respite to the
flood of grain which has been pour
ing into elevators from one of the
districts largest wheat harvests.
The lull in wheat receipts however,
was only temporary, dealers declared
as there exists thruout the surround
ing farming district a huge backlog
of stored wheat ready for marketing
when transportation facilities are
available.
The freight car situation has
shown no improvement it was stated
the first of the week by dealers here.
The number of cars available for
wheat shipment is less than last
year when the crop was only half
as large.
MAY CUT YIELD
Altho the wheat crop this year
was of record proportions, the lack
of freight cars may cut heavily into
the actual final yield, grain dealers
cautioned.
While the only immediate solution
in sight is for farmers to hold as
much wheat as possible in their own
bins, it is pointed out that much of
the grain being held on farms be-
cause of the transportation bottle
neck is being held in makeshift bins
unsuited for storage purposes.
With regular storage bins filled
early in the harvest season, farmers
have been dumping grain into silos,
chicken houses and barn floor or any
other temporary storage facilities
available.
LIABLE TO DAMAGE
Such practises, grain men pointed
out are apt to result in damage to
the crop, especially in damp weather.
In view of the present shortage of
freight cars, however, there is no al
tentative.
Because of the unprecedented back
| log of wheat now being held on
farms, dealers here estimated the
first of the week that elevators will
be filled to capacity for the next
month.
Some shippers predicted that wheat
carloadings would not be completed
before the soybean crop comes in.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Temporary Headquarters OF Board
Of Public Affairs In Mayors Office

Bluffton electric current and light
consumers who for the past 25 years
have made their monthly payments
at the Hauenstein pharmacy, began
Wednesday making payments for the
past months service at the Mayors
office.
AT the same time Paul Augsburg
er, returned war veteran, recently
appointed clerk of the Board of Pub
lie Affairs took over the duties of
that office succeeding Edgar Hauen-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Completes Course
At Summer Camp

Miss Mary Elizabeth Stearns,
daugter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Stearns of Spring street who is at
tending the American Youth Founda-
tion camp at Shelby, Mich, for the
fourth summer, will be graduated at
that place on August II.
The camp situated near Lake
Michigan, offers a four years sum-
mer course in Bible and nature
study.
During the school year, Miss
Stearns is a student at Heidelberg
college at Tiffin.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
In New Locations

Lendon Basinger has moved from
the Mrs. John Nonnamaker farm to
the Philip Basinger farm south of
Bluffton on the Dixie highway which
he recently purchased.
Arthur Nonnamaker has moved
from the Mrs. Anna Koontz farm in
Orange township to the Mrs. John
Nonnamaker farm vacated by Lendon
Basinger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Real Estate Deals

Property of the late George Lewis
on Spring street was sold by Miss
Gertrude Lewis of Ashley. Mich, to
Edgar Bixel, former Bluffton resi-
dent now living in Richmond, Ind.
Mrs. Josephine Carnahan of Bluff
ton has purchased a residence prop
erty on West High street in Lima.
The deals were handled by Mrs. H.
w. Althaus of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02

stein who resigned after quarter
century of service.
The board will maintain its head
quarters temporarily at the Mayors
office until its new quarters on Vine
street at the rear of the Basinger
furniture store are ready for occu-
pancy, where it will maintain a per-
manent office.
The clerk will maintain daily office
hours from $50 to 11:30 a. nj. and
from 1880 to $3.50 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Basinger,
Bluffton, a boy, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orwell Crates, Je-
nera, son, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Florintine Sanchez,
Mt. Cory, a boy, Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Put. MerL Hdbegger
Gets Army Discharge

Pvt. Merl Habegger, 36, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Habegger Of Riley
street has received discharge from
the army. Pvt. Habegger, veteran of
80 months service in the Southwest
Pacific area has been in this country
since the holidays serving as a guard
at prisoner of war camps in Camp
Perry and Marion.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Home From England

Pfc. Ulysses Reichenbach is spend
ing a 80 day furlough with his wife
and son of Cherry street and his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Reich
enbach. Pfc. Reichenbaeh was sta
toned in England for the past 15
months with the ground crew of the
Eighth Air force. He wears the
presidential citation, good conduct
and European theatre of operations
ribbons with six campaign stars.
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tons more than generally received
at this time of the year.
On the unfavorable side of the
ledger, Strawberries were virtually
a failure and there are few rasp-
berries and blackberries. Cherries
were. shorter than usual and apples
will not begin to approach a normal
yield this fall because of alternating
warm and cold spells in early spring.
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TWP. TRUSTEES
Two to elect)
Fred C. Badertscher Walter Marshall
Walter Hochstettler Watson Steiner
JUSTICE OF PEACE
1.-TWO to elect
Stanley Vertner
CONSTABLE
1.-TWO to elect)
! Harry Homer II. E. Griffith
Charles Lora
Tagging interest III this years po-
litical picture, the rush Of farm work
because of harvest demands and light
attendance at Democratic and Repub-
lican caucuses last Friday night in
the Bluffton High school building re-
suited in neither party completely
filling their tickets for the fall cleo
: tion.
Democrats have nc candidate for
| justice of the peace and Republicans
named only one candidate for that
| office and one constable candidate
with two to be elected to each office.
Two present members of the board
of education were nominated for re-
election. They are DR.. w. NJ. Mis-
wander on the Democratic ticket and
Ralph Badertscher on the Republican
slate. John Tosh, a third member,
whose term expires, stated this week
that he would not be candidate
next fall.
Two Richland township trustees
! whose terms expire were nominated
for re-election-Fred Badertscher,
Democrat, and Waltse Marshall, Re-
publican.
Also renominated was Stanley
Vertner, Beaverdam Republican, for
justice of the peace. A. ID. Gratz
Bluffton Democrat, present justice of
the peace whose term expires at the
end of this year was not a candidate
for denomination.
| Charles Lora, Democrat, and r. f.
i Griffith, Republican incumbents, were
re-nominated for constable.
j Altho neither party completely fill
ed its ticket, there are sufficient can
didates for every office to give elect
ors their choice of returning present
! officials whose terms expire or elect
ing new men to replace them.
Nominated for the board of educa-
tion are four candidates who have
never held that Office. These are DR..
B. w. Travis and Paul Diller, Re
publicans, and Donivan Conrad and
Leland Diller, Democrats. The lat
ter is now serving as clerk of the
board.
Other candidates seeking office for
the first time are Walter Hochstet-
tier, Democrat, and Watson Steiner,
Republican, nominated for trustee
and Harry Homer, Democrat, con-
stable.
Attendance at caucus meetings last
Friday was limited principally be-
cause farmers are busy day and
night in their harvest fields.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
Orange TUp. G. o. p.
Caucus Friday Night

Orange township Republicans will
hold caucus Friday night at 9
o'clock at the Orange Center Com
munity house for the purpose of
nominating township ticket for the
November election.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
BLUFFT0N MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
S1.55; corn SLIP; oats Coo; soys
$2.04.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-02
NEITHER TICKET is
FILLED AT PARTY
CAUCUSES FRIDAY
Tagging Political interest Evil
denced Again II Light Turn
out For Caucuses
Eight Present township and
School Board Officials Win
Seek Reelection In Fall
CAUCUS NOMINATIONS
Democratic Republican

DthitSiaths ANpobhNhn
SCHOOL BOARD
Three to elect
Donivan Conrad Ralph Badertscher
Leland Diller Paul DilIer
w. Nj. Niswander b. W. Travis
Evening star., 1945-12-06
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Detect and Collect spon-
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Wop. 9:00-Dorothy Kristen is soIoist. |
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WT0p. t0:30-Simone Simon plays opposite
Jim Amsehs In "hademoiseIIe
WN. i0:30-"Priats" Michael Romsnoff
tries 10 steal cussfs 0tehean from Rudy
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men who designed and made the atsme bomb,
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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Theodore |. Moody Rites
Set for Bethesda TODAY

Funeral services for Theodore Ly-
man Moody, 81, civil engineer with
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
who died Saturday at his home
ALA Watkins avenue, Bethesda,
will be held at pm. today at ST.
Johns Episcopal Church in Beth
esda. Burial will be in Rock Greek
Cemetery.
/ Mr.. Moody, a native of Washing
ton and resident of Bethesda for 20
years, had been with the War De-
partment before joining the RFC.
+ He was a member of Kenwood
Country Club and knights Tenn
plar.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Sarah Willoughby Moody; two
daughters, Mrs. Robert Owens, OF
Washington and San Francisco, and
Miss Carolyn Moody a student al
the University of Maryland; his
mother, Mrs. Ada Moody, Washing
ton; and three sisters, Mrs. Pau
Dean, Seattle, Wash, Miss Adele
Moody and Miss Ada Moody, both
Of Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Boy, Ia, Loses Sight, Hearing,
Faces Death Before Christmas

Jimmy says his only Christmas
wish is to go back to church ane
hear the Yuletide music. But ever
III he lives two weeks more-ano
doctors doubt it-he could not enjoy
| 1t, for he lost his hearing last month
Several months earlier his sight
failed.
Now his mother, Mrs. Fred Sarchet
taps messages of encouragement in
Morse code on his hand His Boy
Scout training and a toy telegraph
|set operated by his younger sisters
helped him learn the dots and
daShes.
Until recently Jimmy talked OF
returning to All Saints School
where he once was an honor student
And when he makes requests-some
Of them for the distant future-his
mother says she will meet them, well
knowing some of them can't be full
filled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Cafeteria Workers Confer
As Strike DeadIine Nears

Faced with threatened strike OF
$500 workers in 81 cafeterias in
Federal buildings throughout this
area at midnight, representatives OF
Government Services, Inc, and
Cafeteria Workers Local All went
into conference today in an effort to
reach agreement on a new contract
In recent election conducted by
the National Labor Relations Board
the workers voted in favor of a
strike unless a satisfactory new
contract is signed before the old
contract expires tonight.
However, Joseph White, president
of the cafeteria workers local, CLIO
said strike definitely would not be
staged before expiration of the pres
ent contract.
The controversy centers princi-
pally about a union demand for a
wage increase. A spokesman for
Government Services, which oper-
ates the cafeterias, indicated the
company was willing to give some
kind of an increase, but could moi
pay the full amount demanded BY
the union. 1t was predicted thu
sessions might continue to mid.
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
MRS. Gaetana Del Vecchio
Dies; Rites Wednesday

Mrs. Gaetana Del Vecchio. 65, OF
4608 Hunt avenue, Chevy Chase,
Nd, died yesterday after an illness
| Of several months.
Born in Italy, she came to WASH
ington in 1905 with her husband
Domenico Del Vecchio.
She is survived by her husband
and son, Samuel Del Vecchio Of
Washington.
High requiem mass will be sung
at am. Wednesday at Sacred
Heart Church. Burial will be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery. The body is at
Hines funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV.