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Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-09-01

will be able to do a better and more timely
job of farming their remaining acreage with
the result that per acre production will inn
prove.
Here in Montana, as well as in other
states, a considerable part of the acreage
retired from wheat will be planted to bar
ley and other feed grains. In some cases
farmers will supplement the feed grain
production with alfalfa and crested wheat
grass, and develop livestock feeding pro-
grams. In other instances, growers whose
farms are not suited to livestock production
gated land, on a cash or contract feeding
basis. Some of the feed grain production
will 60 into the cash grain market in COM
petition with corn.
The manner in which the surplus wheat
acreage will be utilized on the individual
farm will depend upon the nature of the
farm, and the inclinations and ingenuity of
the operator.
The overall effect will be to increase the
acreage devoted to grass and feed grains, to
extend the use of summer tillage, to afford
opportunities for better soil conservation,
and to stimulate livestock production. Al
though there will probably be a moderate
reduction in wheat production, weather con-
ditions in the wheat region during the next
few years will nave more influence on the
wheat output than will the acreage allot-
ment programs.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-09-01

XXTHEATGROWERS in Montana, Wyo-
W ming and a few other states will bene-
fit substantially from a bill just enacted by
congress establishing a minimum point be-
yond which no Individual farm wheat acre
age allotment can be reduced. The general
effect of this new legislation is explained in
an article appearing on page 80 of this issue
of Montana Farmer Stockman.
While the exact figure will not be known
until state and county PIMA committees
complete the huge task of re-computing the
Individual allotments that will be affected,
it is estimated that the new law will in
crease Montana's wheat acreage allotment
by about $50, 900 bushels. This would give
the state a total allotment of about 4,615 800
acres for 1850 as compared with 4,265, 300
acres as announced a few weeks ago before
the law was changed.
Wyoming's allotment will be increased
by $4,000 acres. Other states benefitting inn
portantly will enjoy the following increases:
Colorado SOC, 900 Texas and Oklahoma $780,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-09-01
Uses for Surplus Wheat Acreage

lively limited extent, can put more of their
land under the fallow program and thus in
crease acre yields. A similar adjustment
can be made by those Montana farmers who
nave been operating on something less than
a $3.50 fallow basis.
On most farms some land is less produc-
tive than other land and the tendency viii
be to retire the poorer acreage in comply
ing with the allotment program. If the sur
plus acreage is planted to grass operators
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-09-01

WHILE acreage allotments may have
W some effect in controlling production,
the percentage decrease in the national
wheat bushelage will be far less than the
percentage reduction in planted acreage.
And the adjustment will be accompanied
by increased production in some other
crops that may push them into the surplus
list.
Growers in states like Kansas, where
summer tillage is practiced to a compare
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-09-01

September l. 1917
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
BLUFFTON man TO
BE NORWAY "CARE"
RELIEF DIRECTOR
Bert Smucker Leaves by Plane
For New Post at Oslo,
Norway
Duties Will Include Direction
of CARE Welfare Work
Overseas

Bert Smucker, son of Mrs. B. d
Smucker, of South Lawn avenue,
left Saturday for an overseas as
signment as director of CARE re-
lief activities in Norway.
Before leaving for his new duties
he will spend a week in New York
City, then fly by plane to Oslo,
Norway, where he will be stationed
for one year.
CARE cooperative for American
Remittances to Europe) is one of the
major welfare projects for Euro
pean war sufferers. As director of
activities in Norway, Smucker will
have his headquarters in Oslo.
Smucker has previously been over
seas in welfarework, having served
for two years with the Mennonite
Central Committee in Vienna. Fof
the last year he has been engaged
in social service work in Chicago.
He is graduate of Bluffton High
school and Bluffton college.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Enroll LMENT OF 502 PUPILS IN BlUFFTON SCHOOLS
Bluffton Sees Worlds Biggest Bomber as
Army's b. 80 Hovers Over Town for Half Hour
Meeting Here Sunday Of New Bluffton-
Beaverdam Church Of Christ Parish

Dedication of the newly merged
n-Beaverdam Church of Christ
parish and installation of Rev. O..
Merrill Boggs as pastor of the two
churches will highlight an all-day
session at the Bluffton Church of
Christ, Sunday.
Morning, noon and afternoon ses-
sions will mark the days events
here, with congregations of the two
local churches and visiting Church of
Christ dignitaries participating in the
program.
Regular Sunday school and church
services will be held in the morning,
followed by a dinner in the church
dining room at noon.
Dedication Service
Dedication of the new parish, in
recognition of the merger of the two
churches, and installation of Rev.
Boggs as parish pastor will be events
on the afternoon program.
Participating in the dedication and
Continued on page 1O)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
RICKERT GRANTED
PAROLE In DRAFT
VIOLATION CASE
College Student Reported Parol-
ed to Mennonite Central
Committee
Served One-third of Sentence i'm
Federal Penitentiary in
Michigan

Charles Ray Rickert, former
Bluffton college student who was
sentenced to Is months in prison be.
cause he refused to register fol
selective service has been paroled
from the Federal Penitentiary at
Milan, Mich, authorities announced
last Friday.
Mrs. Orville knoke, executive
secretary of the Toledo Fellowship
of Reconciliation, pacifist group
which supported Rickert, said he has
been paroled to the Mennonite
Central Committee, Pacifst relief
organization, of Akron, Pa.
Rickert, Bluffton college senior,
was the student whom Larry Cara,
instructor in the college here, advised
to stand firm in his refusal to
register for the draft if it would
conflict with his religious beliefs.
Eligible for Parole
Rlckert pleaded guilty to the
charge of non-registration and was
sentenced by Federal Judge Frank l..
Kloeb at Toledo last January 20. He
became eligible for consideration for
parole after serving third of his
sentence.
Cara was later sentenced in Judge
Kloeb's court to Is months in prison
for aiding and abetting a non-regis-
trant.. He refused to accept bail on
condition that he refrain from
counseling non-registrants while his
case was on appeal. Cara is in the
Milan penitentiary while his case is
being carried to the u. S. Court of
Appeals in Cincinnati.
His case has been widely discussed
in church and secular news maga-
zines and periodicals this summer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Milk Here is Up One Cent Quart
Repaired Curbs And Sidewalks Give
Downtown BlufftOn That New Look
Property Owners Will Be Billed
For Actual Cost of Side
walk Patching
Repair Work Completed on West
Side of Main Street; Town
Crew Does Work

Buttons downtown curb repair
program, launched 10 days ago un-
der the direction of Street Commits
sioner H. L. Coon, has been slowed
by decision to patch sidewalks
wherever needed in the business dis
trict, in addition to building new
curbs.
Property owners will be billed for
the cost of laying new sidewalks,
with charges assessed on a lineal
foot basis, the mayor said this week
in announcing the expanded pro-
gram.
Curb and sidewalk repairs have
been completed on the west side of
Main street in the business district,
with the exception of a short strip
in front of the post office, and the
town street crew has done some
work on the east side of the street.
In the Improvement program,
broken curb and sidewalks are being
cut down to ground level with an
air hammer, and the regular town
street crew is mixing and pouring
new concrete.
With the town workmen engaged
in the project, the work will cost
about half the expense which would
have been involved by using a pri-
yate contractor contractor'S ouo-
tation for curb repair was on the
basis of $5 per foot, and it is esti-
mated that town workmen can put
in new curb for about half that
amount.
Repair of curbs and sidewalks in
the downtown district will conclude
major summer improvement pro-
gram here, inaugurated in July when
35 blocks of village streets were re-
surfaced.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Volunteer Workers Spend Busy Labor
Day On Harmon Field Improvement
Press and Broadcasting Booth
Constructed at Football
Stadium
New Scoreboard and 40-Foot
Flagpole Erected at East
End of Field

improvements to Harmon field
football stadium facilities consisting
of an enclosed press and broadcast
ing booth and a new combination
flagpole and football scoreboard have
been made possible during the last
summer by cooperation of commun-
ity organizations and individuals.
Materials for the large welded
metal scoreboard and fiagpole were
donated by employees of the Central
Ohio Light and Power Co., and the
two units were constructed by them
with the assistance of the Bluffton
Recreation committee.
The enclosed broadcasting and
press booth in the top center of the
concrete stadium was built on Labor
Day by a group representing the
Recreation committee, assisted by
Continued on page 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Draft AnsUer In
Schools LalUsuit

County Prosecutor Anthony J..
Bowers conferred with the Bluffton
Board of Education at a special
meeting here Tuesday night prelim-
mary to drafting an answer to the
suit filed in the Allen County Com
mon Pleas Court by Mrs. Mabel
Lantz of Campus Drive, former
teacher in the schools here.
The board has until September II
to file its answer and it is expected
that Bowers, as legal counsel, will
act next week.
The former teacher asks s4,S84,
representing salary for 1948-49 and
1949-50 school terms together with
reinstatement of all rights and priv
ileges as teacher under the tenure
act. She is represented by Atty.
Clarence Fischer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
DR.. Altman Continues
E.. II. B. District Head

DR.. V. H. Altman of Bluffton,
superintendent of Sandusky district
of the Evangelical United Brethren
church for the past IL years was
renamed as superintendent for the
twelfth year at the closing session
of the annual denominational con-
ference at Camp ST. Marys, Sunday.
The announcement was made by
Bishop A. R. Clippinger.
Bishop Clippinger also announced
that Rev. o. C. Metzger of Grand
Lake, has been assigned to pastorate
of the Rawson E. u. B. church.
Rev. Walter Purdy who has been
handling that church in a circuit
with Olive Branch and Pleasant
View churches in the Bluffton dis
trict will continue as pastor of the
two latter churches.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
FOOTBALL PREvIEW
AT HARMON field
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT
Four Teams, Including Bluffton,
Will Play In Seasons
Curtain Raiser
Midget Football Game To Be
New Feature on This Years
Preview Program

Raising the curtain on the 1949
gridiron season, Buttons third an
nual football preview will be held
under the lights on Harmon field at
8 p. m. this Friday.
Four high school teams will COM
pete in 16-minute games in the main
event of the preview, and midget
football game between two Bluffton
grade school teams will be an added
attraction.
Playing in the evenings feature
will be elevens from Bluffton,
Lafayette-Jackson, Mt. Blanchard
and Maria Stein. All the teams are
from this area with the exception of
Maria Stein which is located about
midway between Minister and New
Knoxville.
Teams will be matched by lot be-
fore playing time, to determine the
opponents each school will face dur
ing the evening.
Midget Football
In the midget football contest, a
new feature this year, teams repre-
senting the fourth and fifth grades
will clash in the preview's opening
attraction.
Formations and band numbers by
Bluffton High schools marching band
alsc will be featured.
AS in past years the preyiew will
be sponsored by the Bluffton Recrea-
ton committee, and proceeds will be
used for the towns year-around
recreation program.
Coach Richard Lowry, of Bluffton
High school and a member of the
committee, will be in charge.
In the preview Bluffton High
Pirates will get taste of game COM
petition for the fall season, with the
first regularly scheduled game COM
ing one week later, Sept. 16 with
kenton at that place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Methodist Youth To Attend District
Planning Conference Here Sunday

About $50 Methodist youths of
the Lima district are expected to
attend the annual planning confer
ence of the district youth fellow
ship to be held at the Methodist
church here Sunday afternoon and
evening.
Miss Lois Hauenstein and Rev.
Paul Cramer pastor of the church
here are co-chairmen in charge of
arrangements
Sessions of the conference will
open in the afternoon at o'clock
when panel discussions will be held
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Henry ". Stevenson
Burial Here Thursday

Henry w. Stevenson, "a, of Lima,
who died Monday in Lima Memorial
hospital, will be burid in Maple
Grove cemetery on Thursday after
noon.
Survivors include his wife, Wilma
Bea, and q daughter, Mrs. Ralph
Bowerman, indianapolis. Stevenson
was employed as . machinist at the
Lima Hamilton Corp.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
PLANE FLIES HERE
FROM TEXAS and
BACK IN One DAY
Big Bomber Attracts Much At
tentiOn AS Tt Circles Here
Sunday Noon
Enroute to Elyria to Rendezvous
For Cleveland Air Races
I'm Afternoon

Blufton got an off-the-wraps look
at the U. S. Army's giant new B-36
the worlds largest bomber, when one
of the huge planes circled over the
town for half an hour Sunday noon
The gigantic six-engine airship
capable of flying anywhere in the
world and returning to its base with
out re-fueling, went back and forth
across the village for fully 80
minutes, giving local residents pre-
view of what spectators were to see
at the Cleveland air races a short
time later.
According to the Bluffton airport
the big bomber circled over the town
because it was ahead of its schedule
on its long flight to Cleveland from
Texas, and it's crew chose Bluffton as
the spot to "kill the time" necessary
to fit in with the scheduled appear
ance at Cleveland.
The B-36 seen here was one OF
three flying from TT. Worth, Texas
to Cleveland. Airport attaches said
the trio of giant new bombers were
to meet in Elyria at 1:30 p. m. and
fly from there, to Cleveland in forna-
ton, and the huge airship passing
over Bluffton was 80 minutes aheac
of schedule when it reached here.
Radical changes in aircraft desigr
exemplifed in the B~36, the roar OF
its six motors and it's gigantic size
attracted much interest from loca'
residents while it circled here, and
there was many conjecture as to
why the plane lowered over Blufftor
for SO long a time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
TOPS 500 MARK
FOR FIRST TIME
in EIGHT YEARS
Grade Schools Have 2S3 Pupils:
219 Are Enrolled in High
School
New Teacher Hired Over Week
End Completes Corps of
Instructors

Buttons public school registration
for the opening day of the fall term
was SOP, the first time since 1941
that enrolment has hit the 500-mark,
Supt. of Schools Aaron B. Murray
announced Tuesday.
All of the nine-pupil increase in
enrolment over 194S was in the
lower six grades, with junior and
senior high school registration re-
naming exactly the same as last
year, 2f9.
4 vacancy on the grade school
faculty was filled during the
week end when the board of
education hired Ralph DeVore, of
Columbus, as teacher of the COM
bined fifth and sixth grades, the
only combined class in the
school. DeVore with three years
Army service, is graduate of
Ohio State university, and has
B. s. degree i'm education.
In the grades, however, this falls
total is 283 in comparison with the
1948 aggregate of 274.
Top enrolment in the Il grades is
in the second grade, which has 81
pupils in two classes.
In the high school there is a senior
class of A; but there are only 25
juniors, 36 sophomores and 80 fresh
men.
Enrolment Upward
With school enrolment topping the
500-mark this fall, the increase
marks the second consecutive year
pupil registration has climbed up
ward since downtrend which start
ed in 1886 finally was halted last
fall.
Buttons decline in school enroll
ment started back in 1887 when there
We're 669 pupils in classes here.
School enrolment figures an
nounced Tuesday by Supt. Aaron
Murray were as follows.
Grade I-49; Grade II-61 Grade
III-41; Grade IV-35; Grade W
47; Grade VI-50. Total 2S3.
Junior and Senior High-Grade
VII-39: Grade VIIT-36; Freshmen
80; Sophomore-36; Junior-25;
Senior-44. Total PIG.
In the u Bluffton grades there are
230 boys and 272 girls.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
new PRICE OF 10
CENTS In EFFECT
HERE THIS WEEK
Higher Price Reserses Down.
ward Trend Which Started
Last Fall
Advance i'm Cost of Milk Reflects
More Money Paid to
Producers

Retail price of milk raised one
cent a quart in Biuffton this week,
consumers paying l9 cents for Grade
A and homogenized milk. This is
the first change since the price drop
ped to a postwar low of Is cents
last April when surplus was re-
ported.
Milk on a cash and carry basis
likewise advanced to 35 cents for
two quarts, raise of two cents
over the former price of two for
33 cents.
The added one cent to the price
of milk represents the first reversal
of the downward trend which start
ed last fall when milk retailed at a
high mark of 81 cents quart.
PRODUCERS GET MORE
Local dealers said the increase is
necessary in the face of another
probable raise for producers under
the new federal marketing admins
tration in effect here. Producers
received a 30-cent raise on July milk
but retail prices were not changed
it was pointed out
The government price peg on but
ter and cheese went up three cents
three weeks ago, on the basis of
the federal milk buying order form
ula, it was stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
COLLEGE PREPARES
FOR OPENING WITH.
DORMlT0RIES FULL
Large Attendance of Past Two
Years Is Expected to
Continue
Freshmen Will Report fo
Orientation Briefing on
Friday

Enrolment at Bluffton college this
fall is expected to again be near the
300-mark, following pattern
established in the last two years
when the school has experienced its
largest student registration ir
history.
Altho enrolment figures will not
be available until after registration
next week, official quarters at the
college this week indicated that the
outlook definitely is favorable.
Fall academic activity at the col
lege will begin this week on Friday
afternoon when freshmen report fol
the. start of three-day orientation
program. Approximately go first
year students are expected for the
weekend session from Friday thru
Monday.
Upperclassmen will register next
Tuesday and Wednesday, with class
es for the fall term beginning next
Thursday, Sept. Is.
Mems Dorm Full
In commenting on enrolment
prospects, college officials this week
said one indication pointing to a
continuance of the large attendance
of the last two years is the fact that
dormitory accommodations are scarce
at best, and in some cases inadequate
to house the incoming group OF
students.
Mems dormitories-Ropp hall, the
principal dormitory, and also the
Lehman and Hirschy houses and the
Carl Lehman residence-are filled to
capacity and efforts are being made
to obtain additional rooms for mer
Continued on page 10y
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08

TO outline work of the district youth
fellowship for the coming year. Sup
per will be served in the church
dining room at 6 o'clock.
Speaker at the evening meeting
will be Rev. Walter Dickaut, pastor
of the First Methodist church of
Sidney
Delegations are expected here
from Lima, Wapakoneta, Ada, Ken
ton, Beilefontaine, Upper Sandusky,
Forest, Anna, Belle Center, West
Mansfield, Beaverdam, Elida and
Spencerville.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Dana Whitn,er Gets
Graduate Degree

Dana Whitmer, son of Rev. and
Mrs. Paul E. Whitmer, of Grove
street, received a Ph. d degree at
Ohio State university's summer COM
mencement exercises, last week.
Whitmer's field of specialization
was education and his thesis was
on further extension of intergroup
education in the Gary, Indiana,
schools Whitmer is a principal in
the Gary schools and also teaches
courses in education in the Gary
branch of Indiana university. ft
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Couple Return After
Summer In Europe

Mr.. and Mrs. David Smucker have
returned after spending the past
summer on honeymoon trip to Eu-
rope following their wedding last
June. Mrs, Smucker is the former
Barbara Jean Triplett of this place.
The couple will live in Mansfield
where he will be associated with a
commercial photographer. M S.
Smucker will continue as instructor
in music in the Gallon schools where
she taught last year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
HOlUdrd Stager Buys
DelphOs Coal Yard

Howard Stager, Bluffton coal deal
er, last week bought the coal busi-
ness of William B. Gladen, who was
in business for 80 years in Delphos,
in a move to expand his operations.
Sale at a price of s6,022.82 was
confirmed in papers filed last Thurs
day in Allen county common pleas
court. The sale was made by re-
ceiver for the coal yard in settle
ment Of suits against the operation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Gets Masters Degree
From Ohio State II

Maynard Coon, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Coon of South Jackson
street received the Master of Arts
degree in school administration at
the summer graduation exercises of
Ohio State university, Friday. Coon
is superintendent of the MILESTONE
school in Crawford county.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Women Sustain
Fractures In Fails

Mrs. Albert Deppler is a patient
in Bluffton hospital as the result of
a fracture below the right knee sus-
tanned in a fall from the porch at
her home on South Main street,
Friday. Her condition is reported
satisfactory. She sustained frac-
tured hip in a fall at her home
three years ago.
Mrs. John Balmer sustained a
fractured left arm in fall in the
kitchen of her home on South Lawn
avenue, Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Real Estate Deal

Ray Harris of Union township
has completed remodeling of the
former Jerome Herr property at
Jackson and Elm streets which he
recently purchased. The property
is occupied by John Weaver, form
erly of Goshen, Ind, now book
keeper in the Bluffton college bust
ness office. Herr and his family
are living in their new home on the
County line near the junction OF
Cherry street. a..
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
Hnuenstein Named
To e. O. P Committee

Armin Hauenstein, Bluffton drug
gist, was named to fill a Bluffton
vacancy on the Allen County Repub-
lican executive committee at meet
ing of the group in Lima, last week.
Hayenstein recently was appointed
Republican committeeman in Bluff
ton Precinct B, succeeding Aldine
Kohl, whose death occurred last
spring.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-08
SingspirdtiOn At
Pandora On Sundau

Monthly singspiration of Bluffton
and Pandora churchs will be hid
at Pandora Methodist church Sum
day night at 9:15 o'clock with Rev.
Arnold Schmidt in charge. Special
numbers will be supplied by partici-
pating churches.