The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-16
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night to welcome VI day-some-
thing we waited for nearly four
years :. auto horns schreeched and
sirens of the city fire trucks and
ambulances walled as an impromptu
parade went up and down Main
street looked like a half-dozen
Fourth of July celebrations rolled
into one ending vigil of watchful
waiting around the radio since Sun
day =. electric plant attaches will
tell you there was an extra pull on
current the first of the week that
didn't come from the family wash
ing machine or ironing-with all the
radios in the district going full blast
and by full blast we means just
that and church services to
| signal end of the conflict and
OPA promising an early end to
gasoline rationing-maybe there's a
| chance to take a vacation jaunt be-
fore Labor day but you'll have
to do it on the old tires, because
there1l be no requirements for
| pleasure jaunters before the end of
the year-if then and no pros
poets for more sugar until next
year all of which reminds us
that the war isn't over when the
shooting stops and speaking of
shooting, it sounded like war the
other night when motorcycle with
a girl on the rumble seat flashed up
and down Main street with the cut
out open-until Nightwatch Murray
called a halt . and less than three
weeks until school opens-with no
vacancies in the teaching staff ex-
cept manual training which was not
filled last year-all of which in
dicates that Bluffton is fortunate
when many other schools are in
desperate straits for teachers i.
and the two summer Siamese twins
heat and humidity returned the
first of the week with the mercury
going to 80 and feeling at least 10
degrees hotter and some rain
would be welcome-seems strange
after all that rain that plagued us
last spring running the strawberry
crop, drowning out potatoes and
holding up corn planting and
the Buckeye hitting its stride as a
popular recreation spot-season's
receipts the first of the week passed
the thousand dollar mark.
That fire in Charlie Matthews field
Of oats stubble near the A. u.
tower Monday noon might have sent
Bluffton into a premature celebration
of VI day if the waterworks whistle
had signalled the alarm. With all
Bluffton keyed up awaiting word OF
the end of the war, a blast of the
whistle for a fire alarm might easily
have been mistaken. A call for the
fire department was sent in, but
there was no alarm given either by
ringing of the fire bell or by the
whistle.
Word from our good friend A. c.
Trumbo of Muskogee, Oklahoma
that he has just celebrated his 10th
birthday anniversary. He was Rock
port correspondent for the Bluffton
| News many years ago before he
went west and made a success in
the investment and royalty business.
He was a former schoolmate and
intimate lifelong friend of the late
Albert Lora of Bluffton and Findlay.
| A poster exhibited in a Bluffton
food store last week drew some
sarcastic remarks from Bluffton
housewives who were cut to 5 pounds
of sugar per person for canning
purposes. The poster, distributed
by owl showed a very handsome
young woman holding a generous
armful of canned fruits and vege-
tables. Under the picture ran this
little verse: "Of course | can, I'm
patriotic as can be-and ration
points won't worry me-" At the
time the poster appeared came the
announcement that $4,000 tons of
sugar have been allocated to Spain
This is enough for one pound to 120
million people. And this sugar is
going to Spain--not to France, OF
Belgium, or Holland or Czechoslo-
vakia, or Greece, or any of the
victims of Nazi aggression-but to
Spain the neutral" which was
denied admission to the United
Nations. We can't figure this one
out.
We have Lloyd Murray's word for
| it that it takes exactly 1,144 steps
to walk from his residence on South
Main street to his office at the
Bluffton Cement Block company