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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
BIG CROP OF OATS
ADDS TO FARMERS
STORAGE PROBLEM
Largest Yield In Four Years
Comes On Heels OF Bumper
Wheat Crop
Farmers Unload Surplus Grain
On Barn Floors as Storage
Bins Are Filled

Bluffton area farmers are busy
this week harvesting the districts
largest oats crop in four years, with
yields in many fields reported as
high as 100 bushels to the acre.
Early marketing reports show a
high test of from "a to SO pounds
per bushel. Standard weight per
bushel is 32 pounds.
For the last three years, oats in
the Bluffton district has barely been
up to average, but early harvest
reports this year point to bumper
crop.
Harvesting of oats is coming right
on the heels of a busy season in
which farmers raced against time to
complete wheat cutting.
Storage Problem Acute
With many farmers combining
oats, as they did wheat, the farm
storage problem is more acute than
ever. Bins on most farms are bulg-
ing, and many barns have grain on
the floor, awaiting the time when
glutted elevators may be able to
handle the crop for marketing. Local
elevators are full and able to buy
more grain only as scarce cars are
available for making shipments.
This summers wheat yield was a
surprise, and altho the aggregate
acreage was smaller than last year,
the total amount harvested here was
about the same as last years bumper
crop. Average yield here was 30
bushels to the acre, in comparison
with the state average over To-
year period of Is bushels.
Cool spring weather with plenty
of moisture at the right time made
the good wheat harvest possible, and
excellent weather during the harvest
season prevented the loss of any of
the grain despite the fact that most
of the crop was combined.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
EUan SOash VIII Be
Alger High Principal

Evan Soash, son of DR.. and Mrs.
M. D. Soash, has been hired as prin-
cipal and athletic coach at Alger
high school for the coming term.
Soash and his wife have been living
IN Ada for the past year while he
attended Ohio Northern university.
He is an ex-service man and saw
action with the Navy in the Pacific
area.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
MILK PRICE GOES
UP FROM Is TO
16 and IL CENTS
Boost In Milk Price Is First
Since 0PA Demise; Butter
Price Downward
Adjustments In Meat Prices As
Demand Falls Off For
Higher Priced Cuts

Bluffton's milk prices, uniform at
Is cents a quart during the first
three works following the demise of
the OPA, are jumping upward, with
one dairy putting a one-cent raise in
effect last week and the other boost
ing prices two cents this Thursday.
At the same time, the price of but
ter after holding steady at 80 cents
for nearly two weeks, broke down
ward to II cents in the face of de-
clining demand.
Other dairy price increases going
into effect with the boost in milk in
clude a new price Of IT cents for o
half-pint of coffee cream, and a
markup from Is to 10 cents a pound
for cottage cheese.
Retail ice cream prices have shown
scattered increases, some going up as
much as eight cents quart, but the
nickel ice cream cone is still selling
at the old price. Most fountain dishes
remain at former prices, but soft
drinks generally are going up from
five to six and seven cents.
Meat prices are undergoing some
adjustment, because of sharp de-
cline in the demand for some of the
higher priced steak cuts. In the level
ing off process, some cuts are coming
down slightly, and at the same time
some prices of cheaper meats are ad-
justed upward.
Meat buyers over the last few
weeks have become more price con-
scious on the whole, and difference
of few cents a pound brings heavy
runs on some meats while at the same
time demand slackened for higher
priced cuts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Mrs. Gladys Garlinger
Kditenbach Succumbs

Mrs. Gladys Garlinger Kaltenbach,
81, who came here from Downey,
Calf, recently to visit at the home
of her father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. John D. Garlinger, died at the
home of the parents, 135 Geiger
street, Wednesday morning at $3.50
o'clock. She had been ill for two
weeks with complications.
She was born in Bluffton, October
%, 1895 and on November 80, 1881
was married to r. A. Kaltenbach of
Downey, Calf, who survives. She
was member of the Church of
Christ.
Also surviving beside the husband
and parents is a daughter, Mrs. Ber-
nadine Van Vlack of Downey, Calf.
Funeral services will be held at
the Stanley Basinger funeral home
with Rev. Lee Remaley of the church
of Christ officiating. Day and hour
of the services have not been de-
termined pending word from her
husband and daughter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
new SUBDIVISIONS
ARE TROUBLED BY
SEWER PROBLEMS
Lack OF Adequate Sewer Out
let's For New Building Lots
Raises Old Problem
Necessity To Run New Private
Lines To Creeks May Dis
courage Building

Buttons proverbial bad pennv".
the lack of a modern sewer system,
has turned up again, but this time
in a new form which threatens to
hamper the development of several
newly plated subdivisions to the
town.
Attention was again focused on
the lack of adequate sewage facili-
ties at last weeks meeting of the
municipal council, when buyers of
lots in the Caroline Matter sub
division, bordering Harmon road op-
posite the hospital, requested the
town to construct a sewer from the
plat to Riley creek.
Town authorities pointed out at
the session that sewers locally are
private property, inasmuch as Bluff
ton is without a municipal system,
and for that reason construction of
sewers cannot be financed with public
funds.
Municipal Sewer Turned Down
Had Biuffton voters approved a
municipal sewer system back at the
time it was repeatedly turned down
at the polls when federal aid was
available in the "thirties" no prob
lem would be encountered today, for
the only requirement would be for
the property owner to run his
private line from his property to the
main in front or at the rear of his
house, it was pointed out.
Today, however, the matter of
sewer outlets is expected to assume
increasing Importance, especially in
view of the brisk sale of building
lots here since last spring.
In some cases, the possibility of
the municipal sewer question coming
up again may serve TO delay the
building of additional private sewers
and indirectly discourage the sale of
building lots.
Await Municipal Sewer
Those who do not intend to build
Immediately are not willing to incur
the cost of putting in sewer, in
the hope that a municipal system
will be provided by the time they
are ready to erect their homes.
AS matters now stand most sew
ers are at capacity, and in many
cases newly opened subdivisions face
the prospect of being forced to run
new lines all the way to either Big
or Little Riley creeks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Schifferly,
Bluffton, a girl, Sandra Kay, July
13.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Haas, Bluff
ton, a boy, Thomas Jay, last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donavin Amstutz,
Bluffton, girl, Leslie Dian, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Yoder, Jr.,
of Goshen, Ind, girl, Marsha Ann,
born at st. Rita's hospital, Lima,
Sunday. Mrs. Yoder is the former
Betty Amstutz, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. A. Amstutz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Rites Sunday For
Mrs. Mary Ishdni

Mrs. Mary l.. Isham, "a, mother
Of Mrs. Effie Herring, 482 w. Elm
street, died at Sis a. m. Friday in
the Grove Lawn convalescent home
at Spencerville, following an illness
of three months. She had made her
home with her daughter here.
Born August 26, 1861, the daugh-
ter of James and Susanna Mum
MAJ Bogart, she was married Dec
s, 1878, to Levi M. Isham, who died
in 1909.
Among the survivors are seven
children; Mrs. Herring, with whom
she made her home; Fay Isham,
Lima; Mrs. Rowena Siebenthal, Nor
wood, Ohio; Mrs. Ida Campbell, In
dependence, Kansas; Mrs. Ivalon
Clark, South Newport, KY; Mrs.
Beatrice Harris, Battle Greek, Mich. !;
and Mrs. Alice Biteman, Sherwood,
Michigan.
Also surviving are one sister, Mrs.
Ella McHenry, Bluffton; and three
brothers, Ross Bogart, Bluffton; !;
Earl Bogart, Lima; and Joseph Bo-
CART, Ada.
She was member of the Bluffton
! Church of Christ, where funeral
services were held Sunday afternoon.
Rev. E. J. Penhorwood, of Lima,
officiated, assisted by Rev. A. S.
Lenhart. Burial was in Maple
Grove cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
With Service Men

Dicharged from naval service at
Great Lakes, H., during the past
week were Robert Burkholder, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Burkholder
and William Klass, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Klass.
Hugh Eugene Hilty, son of Mr..
and Mrs. E. NJ. Hilty of Bluffton
Route / who enlisted in the Navy
for two years has been assigned to
48 weeks of training in the navy
electronics school at Great Lakes,
Illinois.
Pfc. Gordon Bixel, Jr., of Ft.
Lewis, Wash, is spending three
weeks furlough with his parents,
DR.. and Mrs. Gordon Bixel of Spring
street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25

mate the accident hazards now APP
plying, and to provide better play
facilities in wet weather.
Application of the new surface
will allow year-around basketball,
volleyball and tennis play.
In addition to the hard surfacing
project, the committee is proceeding
with installation of lighted croquet
and horseshoe courts.
The committee on the hardsurfac-
ing program includes D. B. Conrad,
Paul Diller and w. A. Howe. Gail
Mumma is in charge of the lighting
project. Expenditures are being
financed from funds raised by the
recreation committee for this sum-
mer's expanded program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Recreation Committee Will Hard
Surface Grade School Playground

Hardsurfacing 1000 square yards
of the Bluffton grade school play
ground and the unpaved ground
floor under the Harmon field stadium
was approved Tuesday night by the
recreation committee of the Bluffton
Business Mems association, as a ma
jor summer recreation improvement
association.
The work will be completed early
in August, with hot tar application
to be applied with stone chips rolled
in, at cost estimated between 5000
and $1,000.
Hard surfacing of all parts of the
grade school playground where Gin
ders and gravel now are used was
approved by the committee to elm
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
To Raise Money
For Band Suits

To raise money for high school
band uniforms, the Band Mothers
organization will hold social on
the Presbyterian church lawn, Sat-
urday night serving ice cream and
home made cake.
The organization has already
paid for 81 band uniforms and three
majorette suits. However, additional
uniforms will be needed for the
band, which had membership of
"A last year. The additional uni
forms will be ordered and paid for
by the Band Mothers when school
opens in the fall
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
WORK UNDERWAY
ON field FOR new
BLUFFTON AIRPORT
Clayton Bixei Launches Project
On S0-Acre Farm East
OF Blufft0n
Flying School For Veterans To
Open At Air Field Early
Next Month

Development of the former A. ].
Owens farm of so acres in Orange
township, one and one-haIf miles east
of town, as a new Bluffton airport.
and the opening of flying school for
returned war veterans was announced
this week by Clayton Bixel, local
automobile dealer and an aviation in
structor during the war.
Work on the field was started this
week, with the goal set at providing
a three-runway field with hangar,
qualifying as a Glass | airport, Bixel
said.
In connection with the development
of the airport, Bixel said that the
flying school for servicemen will be
opened next month.
Associated with Bixel in the pro-
ject will be Harold Carey, of Lima,
who served as a wartime flight in
structor in Florida during the war.
Flying School
instruction for ex-servicemen under
the G. |. Bill of Rights will be star
ted with a class of 20, according to
Bixel. Three planes will be provided
for flight training, and improvements
now under way embrace the remod-
cling of a five-room house now on
the farm into class and office quar-
ters, a repair shop and hangar. A
water system ALSO is being installed.
An average of six months train
ing is required for a private pilots
license. This permits pupil to fly
his own plane, but not commercial
plane for hire. To meet the cost of
instruction, the G. I. benefit program
in most cases provides up to $500
for each veteran enrolled.
Completion of the airport develop
ment will give Bixel Class | field,
representing the minimum in airport
equipment Class airports in this
vicinity are at Pandora, Ottawa and
two at Kenton. Lima and Findlay
have Class ii airports.
Will Move Hangar
Bixel now has a hangar on the
farm of William Beagle, his father
in-law, across the road from the new
airport site. This he will move to the
new flying field, as work progresses.
During the war, the Bluffton man
was an instructor for army and navy
cadets in Colorado, Chicago and
and Bowling Green.
If the development was munich
pally owned airport, it would be eli
gible for a federal grant of $4,000,
money which is expected to be
available within the next six months.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
TlUO-Day Mennonite
Meet Here This Week

Summer meeting of the Ohio
Indiana Young Peoples Conference
of Mennonite churches will be held
this Saturday and Sunday at the
Ebenezer Mennonite church, west of
Bluffton, with approximately 200 del
egates here for the meeting.
Rev. Richard Riley, student at
Norman, Oklahoma, is the conference
speaker, and Rev. ]. N. Smucker, of
the Bluffton First Mennonite church,
will teach the Sunday school lesson.
Other features will include a
camp fire meeting on the Ebenezer
church grounds Saturday night, and
a sunrise service on the Bluffton col
lege campus, Sunday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Versatile Youth Group Who Trim Trees
Or Lead Church Service Here This Week
BIuftOn Graduate
Will Go To China

Miss Viola Amstutz, a Bluffton
college graduate, and daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Amstutz, of
Pandora, will leave this summer for
China as a relief worker under the
direction of the Mennonite Central
committee, of Akron, Pa.
Miss Amstutz will go to Akron in
two weeks, and be stationed there
until she sails for China.
She was graduated from Pandora
High school in 1910 and from Bluff
ton college in 1914. For the past
two years she has been teaching in
Carlock, Ill.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Four Young People in Summer
Caravan Busy at Presby-
terian Church
Recreation Night for Towns
Young People at Harmon
Field This Wednesday

Four young people-three girls
and a boy-ranging in age from IL
to Il years, members of summer
travelling youth caravan are busy al
the Presbyterian church this week
The group here is one of 25 cara
vans organized by the board of re-
ligious education of the Presbyterian
church who are spending six weeks
this summer visiting churches OF
that denomination in various parts
of the country.
They're versatile, up and doing
outfit, ready and able to do any
thing from tree trimming and in
terror painting to conducting a
prayer meeting and leading a church
service.
The wide range of the groups ac-
tivities is matched by their diverse
personalities and ambitions ranging
all the way from a career in chris
tian education to ballet dancing.a
They received one week of train
ing at Bowling Green university and
now are on their five weeks rounds.
Coming here from Lima, they ar
rived in Bluffton last Saturday night
and next Saturday they will leave
for Detroit.
Caravan members are:
Dorothy Mueller, 21 year old lead
er of the group whose home is in
indianapolis, student at Hanover
college in Indiana, musician and
looking forward to a career in chris
tian service.
Doris Standring, of Cincinnati,
junior at Ohio university, Athens,
and going into personnel and mer-
chandising work.
Betsy Holmes, II, of South
Orange, N. j., youngest of the
group who will enter a New York
dramatic school this fall.
Wynn Ward, of Huron, South
Dakota, entering college in his home
town this fall and aspiring to q
career in the ministry.
They come prepared to do any
thing in connection with the church
that needs to be done-conducting
Bible classes, working with youth
groups, organizing play centers,
cleaning up grounds and minor re-
pair jobs. They conducted the morn
ing service at the Presbyterian
church last Sunday.
Their activities, however, are not
limited by denominational lines and
they are ready to aid in community
projects one of which will be leader
ship in recreation night for young
people of high school age and over
at Harmon field this Wednesday
night at 7 o'clock. The affair is
sponsored by the Bluffton Youth
Federation, an interdenominational
group.
The caravaners give their services
without pay and say they enjoy the
many diverse experiences in different
communities where their work calls
them.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Youth Program Here
This Wednesday Night

A Presbyterian youth caravan of
four college students here this week
at the Bluffton Presbyterian church
will be in charge of a recreation
night program for all young people
of high school age and older at TOO
p. M. this Wednesday on Harmon
field.
The meeting is sponsored by the
Youth Federation of All Bluffton
churches, and the program will in
clude games and refreshments. All
young people of the town are in
vited.
All other activities at Harmon
field scheduled for Wednesday night
have been cancelled.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
4-H Club In Radio
Program, On Friday

Busy Bee All club, a high school
girls organization, will be heard in a
half-hour radio program Friday
morning at $50 o'clock from Find
lay station WIN.
The program will include musical
numbers, a playlet and interview by
Miss Ruth Winner, county 4H club
leader.
Appearing on the program will be
Dianne Mckinney, Sara Jane Huser,
Lois Hauenstein, June Hochstettler,
Shirleen klass, Louis Ann Reichen-
bach and Mrs. H. H. Huser.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25

Miss Doris Diller, nurse at Johns
Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, who has
been spending a two weeks vacation
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Diller of North Jackson
street is visiting friends in Rock
Island, ILL.,, for several days. She
will return here Thursday night and
leave on Saturday for Baltimore.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
RED CROSS SEWING

Mrs. J. S. Steiner announces that
she has received some sewing to be
done for the Red Cross. Women
interested may call for it at her
home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
Building New House

John Swisher has begun construc-
tion of new residence at his build
ing lot on East Kibler street, form
erly owned by the late ]. ]. Bader-
fischer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-07-25
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices)-Wheat
$1.8s; corn S1.60; oats CSC; soys
$2.04
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1946-03-08

Femininity is the word for
glamour this bright new season.
Its mans world again. Aud
when a man has his choice he says,
81 a4nt my women to look pretty!%.
1T could be prettier than
fri parasols splashed against
sc ntal pink crepe? They're
"a vocatively feminine as the
&C ish Southern bellies who
o.. arried the m.
G. sleeves are feminine, too.
81, that aren't really sleeves
OF but a ripping carry-over
f. }ftly rounded Shoulders.
a aose soft arms to the one
'of H.. and to the adm :
IL Of the male NecE ;
'sl just as revealing as tae
n tsp of sleeves.
} m in your l;fe might have
haa Fashion Frock Of the
w EEK IN mind when he said, 81 like
'4ay women to look pretty!"
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1946-03-08

The other day dropped in to
see one of my neighbors who had
a cold. As we chatted over = cum
OF tea, she took cough drop from
''r package on the table and called
my az ~ H ra%cd paper
wrapping She sand she had no.
tIced that en- amazing number Of
drug and grocery items were
wrapped IN WaXed paper and won.
dered why Wen wondered.
too - and decided to find out, So
later that afternoon | stopped at
the corner drug store.
The druggist smiled when ! asked
hlm, and told me to look around
On almost every shelf / found
something wrapped in uaxed paper
- gum, medicines, cough dtops.
candies r hundreds of thingsl lie
told me that waNed paper is used
iOI protection - that WaXed uaper
helps keep moist products moist -
dry products dry and ali
products free from dust and dirt
wen ! was really impressed
bot Just toi curiosity's sake
stopped at my grocer He told me
practically the same story. He said
" You know, many people TAKE
Wa&ed paper for granted - bu!
actually waXed paper is the work
morse OF modern packaging - an,t
Is used ON practically all foods -
ana "aXed paper gives you better
iresher products at the lowest cost
Tor TINS KIND Of protection
Evening star., 1946-03-17

Edgar Kodak, president Of Mutual,
Is one Of radios most astute execu-
tiyes. The other day he prepared .
statement for inclusion In the forth
coming 1916 edition of the Radio
Daily Annual, trade publication.
This column would like to quote
from it in part:
What radio does in this coming
year, as well as what it fails to do,
will become the yardstick wherewith
people will measure broadcasting
-. 1946 will be radios year of de-
cision. There is a possibility that
the public may become radio-weary.
There are signs and portents of it in
many places. We must make radio
SO new, SO fresh, so different, so
interesting that people will not
readily weary of it. Until we do
that we will find that the great i'm
pact which we expect we can exer-
else upon the eager, hungry and
cropping minds OF q war-weary popu-
lation will merely fizzle."
X X
This comes straight from Bob
Hawk, WTOP-CBS star. Bob claims
that he overheard the following con-
versation In a New York subway
and wrote it down exactly as It
sounded to him.
neutrality-suspicious."
"Sabook."
"Wassanaimuwitt?"
"Sadickshunery fullinaims. Gonna
gettapoodledog anagotta gettanaim-
ferim."
X X X \
Strictly programs > Get out the
clay pipes, tune the harp and adjust
the green tie. It is st. Patrick'S
Day and practically every program
on the air this Sunday will feature
a bit of old Irish melody or folklore.
WRC-NBC :. Drama taken from
the unknown files of the United
States Foreign Service will be broad
cast in a series to be heard each
Friday at 1880 pm. starting June
z. Title OF these dramatic pro-
Evening star., 1946-03-17

going hospital treatment. Mr.. Davis
Is expected to be absent for several
weeks. After the broadcast OF
May S, Jack Benny and the whole
troupe will head for the East Coast.
May 26 will be Benny's last broad
cast Of the season, his 14th year
on the air. ~. While on the subject
Of Benny, Dennis Day, who has
served in the Navy for. the past two
years, will return to the program
today. 4. According to the Hooper
survey, President Truman was
heard by 9,25O,000 adult listeners
when he made speech before the
Federal Council of Churches in CO.
lumbus, Ohio, on March 6. ). Jerry
Strong has been awarded the Silver
Medal Award by the Treasury Dei
partment for his outstanding work
during the War Bond campaigns,
Il. Bill Stern is the author Of a
new book, MY Favorite Sports
Stories" published by McDavis Fea-
lures Of New York. The Tom
Breneman-Hedda Hopper hat con-
test has brought In over 100000 of
the monstrosities. :. ToScanini re-
turns to the podium of the NBC
Symphony today for a series Of four
concerts,