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VOLUME NO. LXVI
REGISTRATION FOR
MEN FROM 45-65
HERE ON MONDAY
Bluffton Men to Register In
High School Library From
7 A. M. to 9 P. M.
Those Wishing to Register On
Saturday or Sunday Must
Go to Lima
Bluffton men between the ages of
45 and 65 will register next Monday
in the Bluffton High school library in
the fourth registration under the na
tional selective service act.
Registrars will be on duty at the
library from 7 a. m. until 9 p. m. to
make out cards for all men not prev
iously registered who have reached
their 45th birthday on or before Feb.
16. 1942, and who will not reach their
65th birthday until April 27.
Here’s where men from 45 to
65 years of age w ill register next
Monday in the fourth selective
service registration between the
hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m.:
Bluffton Village—High School
library.
Richland North—Bluffton Town
Hall.
Beaverdam and Richland South
Beaverdam Town Hall.
Lafayette and Jackson Town
ship—Lafayette Town Hall.
Three days are allowed by the gov
ernor for the fourth registration, and
those unable to register on Monday
may do so on Saturday or Sunday by
going to headquarters of Allen County
Draft Board No. 3, 201 National Bank
Building, Lima.
On Saturday and Sunday, registrars
will be at the office of the county
draft board from 12 o’clock noon un
til 6 p. m.
Seven registrars will handle the
Bluffton registration in the library.
On the staff are Supt. A. J. B. Longs
dorf, chairman Ross Bogart, Mrs. A.
L. Daymen, Edgar Chamberlain, Mrs.
A. T. Worthington, Mrs. Delbert Mc
Ginnis and Dan Trippiehorn.
Residents in the Richland township
North precinct register in the town
hall at Bluffton from 7 a. m. until 9
p. m. on Monday -with Quinten Burk
holder in charge.
Beaverdam and Richland South men
register in the Beaverdam town hall.
Leo Nelson will be in charge.
Jackson township and Lafayette
residents will go to the Lafayette
town hall to register, with Stanley
Salter in charge.
In Allen county Board No. 3, under
which Bluffton is included, more than
3000 men are expected to register.
Kenneth Gable Is
Married Saturday
The marriage of Kenneth Gable,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Gable of
North Jackson street, and Miss Ethel
Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Cox of Hamilton, took place
at the parsonage of the First Men
nonite church Saturday morning.
The wedding vows were received
by Rev. H. T. Unruh, pastor, in a
single ring ceremony.
After the wedding a reception
was held at the home of the groom’s
parents. After a short wedding trip
the couple will be at home in Dayton
where Mr. Gable is employed as
manager of an Equity store.
The bride is a graduate of the
Seven Mile high school and has been
employed at the Westinghouse plant
in Lima. The groom is a graduate
of Bluffton High school in the class
of 1939 and has been employed as as
sistant manager of an Equity store
in Lima.
Announce Wedding
Of Man In Army
Wedding of Pvt. Merl Habegger,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Habeg
ger of this place and Miss Lillian
Baily, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.
R. Baily of Medina was announced
the first of the week.
The couple was married in Ken
tucky, last December 26. Pvt. Ha
begger is in army service at an un
known location. His address is care
of the New York City postmaster.
Births
The following births at the Bluff
ton hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Omar Welty, a boy,
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Niswander, a
girl, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Donivan Sommers,
Wadsworth, a girl, Tuesday.
Mosquito Larvae
Found In Big Riley
Reports of finding the first mos
quito larvae of the season in waters
of Big Riley creek this week spurred
municipal authorities in an early con
sideration of resuming the town’s
spring and summer mosquito control
program.
Mayor Wilbur A. Howe said an
immediate investigation will be made
of waters within the corporation
limits and that he will recommend
continuing the control program con
ducted here in 1940 and 1941.
Reports of the first mosquito lar
vae were made by Town Clerk W. O.
Geiger, whose biology class found
the specimen near the Harmon field
dam in Big Riley.
Mayor Howe said the summer’s
control program will be considered at
the next meeting of the council, and
arrangements for getting it under
way will be decided upon at that
time.
CONTRACT IS LET
FOR GARBAGE AND
RUBBISH DISPOSAL
Bid of Gerald Trippiehorn is
Accepted by Council Mon
day Night
$1,500 for Service is Increase of
$200 Over Last Year’s
Figure
Contract for collecting and dis
posing of Bluffton’s garbage and
rubbish for the next year was
awarded to Gerald Trippiehorn,
local trucker, Monday night at a
meeting of the municipal council.
Trippiehorn’s bid for the dual ser
vice was $1500, and under the con
tract he will collect garbage twice
weekly and rubbish once a month.
This is a continuation of the pro
gram in effect here for the last
two years.
Other bidders were Homer Gratz,
$1475, and Clarence Young, $1900.
Meets Health Board Requirements
Trippiehorn’s bid was the only
one, however, which included the re
quired provision that his arrange
ments for disposal are satisfactory
to the Allen county board of health.
The successful bidder is a brother
of Russell Trippiehorn, who had the
contract for the last two years, but
who did not apply for renewal dur
ing the 1942-43 season. Last year
he handled the collection of garbage
and rubbish for $1300.
Gerald Trippiehorn will take over
the service on May-15 under the new
•contract.
Rev. Dutton Now
Chdplain In Army
Rev. Charles O. Dutton, former
pastor of the Bluffton Methodist
church, has been commissioned as
chaplain in he United States army
and will be stationed at Camp Rob
erts, Calif., after April 25.
Rev. Dutton served the local
church about 10 years ago. He is
a graduate of Witmarsum Theologi
cal seminary, formerly located in
Bluffton.
Recently he has been serving on a
special church assignment at the
United States penitentiary, Alcatraz,
California.
Named To Honorary
Scholastic Society
Roberta Biery, senior in Oberlin
college and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Biery has been elected to mem
bership in Phi Beta Kappa, national
honorary scholastic society, it was
announced by the college early this
week.
Admission to the society is based
on high scholarship record during the
four years college course.
She also is included in the senior
honor list comprising the top rank
ing eight per cent of the graduat
ing class.
In this connection announcement
was made that she has been award
ed a scholarship at the University of
Chicago for graduate study in lan
guages during the coming year. She
expects to enter the university next
fall.
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SON OF FORMER BLUFFTON COUPLE
WAS ONE OF BATAAN’S DEFENDERS
Bluffton Couple To Observe 60 Years
Of Wedded Life In Anniversary Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Hawk, of
South Jackson Street,
Were Married in 1882
Opeated Thriving Livery Busi
ness in Bluffton at Turn
Of Century
Sixty years of wedded life will be
marked in an anniversary celebration
to be observed by Mr. and Mrs. Wil
son Hawk, of South Jackson street,
on Sunday.
The couple has lived in Bluffton
foi more than a half century moving
here in 1887. They have lived in
their present home for 48 years
having purchased the property from
U. M. Shappell, former superintend
ent of schools here.
Married 1882
They were married on April 27,
1882 at the farm homestead of the
bride near Lafayette at a center
known as Halltown. Mrs. Hawk be
fore her marriage was Miss Lecta
Hall. Mrs. Hawk will be aged 78
Two photographs showing the
omnibus used by Wilson Hawk
in his transportation business
may be seen at the display
window at the Bluffton News.
The photographs, taken about
forty years ago show two scenes
of early Bluffton taken at the
railroad tracks. The people in
the picture have been identified
by VV. A. Amstutz, Bluffton High
school teacher and community
historian.
on the day after the wedding an
niversary.
Mr. Hawk, 83, is also a native of
Lafayette having been born just out
side the town on the Lima road. Of
a family of six children he is the
only living member.
Mrs. Hawk has one sister, Mrs.
Florence Bogart of South Jackson
street two brothers, B. F. Hall liv
ing on the home place near Lafay
ette and J. C. Hall of San Antonio,
Texas. One brother A. D. Hall and
sister Mrs. Milford Boyd both form
er Bluffton residents, are deceased.
Four Children
Four children of Mr. and Mrs.
Hawk are: Guy Hawk of Jackson,
Mich. E. L. “Chick” Hawk of Bowl
ing Green Mrs. H. H. Huser of
Bluffton. A son, Clifford, died at
the age of seven.
Mr. Hawk has seen Bluffton grow
in the 55 years he has worked and
lived here and has witnessed many
changes take place. For most of
the period here he was in the livery
and bus line business and witnessed
old Dobbin yield to the modern
mechanized forms of transporta
tion.
For 18 years Mr. Hawk ran a bus
line and baggage business which was
a thriving enterprise demanding the
full time services of an omnibus for
the passengers and a baggage
wagon. Mr. Hawk ran the omnibus
and an employe operated the bag
gage wagon. Every train at both
the Cherry street and North Main
street depots was met by the two
vehicles.
Familiar Sight
The omnibus was a familiar sight
on the streets of Bluffton for nearly
two decades. It had a seat in front
for the driver and a door in the
rear to gain entrance to the riding
(Continued on page 8)
Presbyterian Church
Assembly Delegate
Prof. Sidney Hauenstein of Bluff
ton and Rev. W. T. Jones of Vene
docia will represent Lima Presbytery
at the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian church of U. S. A. to meet
at Milwaukee, May 21.
Selection of the two delegates was
made at the spring meeting of Lima
Presbytery in Delphos, Monday.
Prof. Hauenstein will represent the
laity and Rev. Jones the clergy of
the district.
With The Sick
Condition of Jesse Stratton, who
has been ill with pneumonia at the
Bluffton hospital, is reported as
much improved.
Mrs. Roy Moser has been confined
to her home for the past three weeks
suffering from a throat infection.
Mrs. Eva Kohli is caring for her.
Condition of Levi Bender, who has
been seriously ill at his home on
Railroad street, is reported as un
changed.
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Relatives Here Await Word of
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Myron
Lugibihl
Small Number Evacuated to
Corregidor Others Be
lieved Captured
Relatives here are anxiously a
waiting word concerning Myron
Robert Lugibihl, 24, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Myron R. Lugibihl of Santa
Fe, New Mexico, one of those who
took part on the heroic defense of
Bataan peninsula in the Philippines.
Lugibihl was enlisted in the 200th
regiment coast artillei"y anti-air
craft numbering approx mately 1400
men and composed entii•ely of New
Mexico troops, one of
defending the peninsula
Lugibihl enlisted a year ago this
month and was sent to the Philip
pines early in November.
Mayor Nominates
Buckeye Caretakers
Robert Cooney and Peter Schmidt,
Buffton high school athletes have
been nominated by Mayor W. A.
Howe to be in charge of Buckeye
swimming lake this summer. Howe
stated Tuesday that he expected to
present the names to the council for
confirmation at the next meeting.
Buckeye lake, owned by the Cen
tral Ohio Light & Power company is
leased to the town as a municipal
bathing and recreation spot.
Both Cooney and Schmidt are sen
iors at the high school and will take
over responsiblities of the establish
ment after school closes late in May.
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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF B?y afternoon and the blowing pro
Lysle Baumgartner of Bluff
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 2,nd Mrs. H. B. Marshall attend
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ristian Service meeting at
NO WORD RECEIVED
SINCE CAPTURE OF
DEFENSES BY JAPS
three units
Of the 1400 men ii Lugibihl’s
regiment three officers and 104 en
listed men were evacu.ited to the
corregidor fortress bef Bataan
fell the war departme it disclosed
Tuesday. The others w ho are still
alive are probably prise
Japanese.
ners of the
Lugibihl’s parents were natives of
Bluffton, his mother being the for
mer Lillian Amstutz. He is a
nephew of Mrs. Edith Mann, Mrs.
Harold Kennedy, Monroe and Arthur
Amstutz of this place.
Last word from him was a one
page note received by his parents
about three weeks ago saying that
he was all right. The letter bore no
date or location from where it was
written and one paragraph was
censored.
Licenses Required
For House Trailers
New Allen county regulations af
fecting residents of house trailers
were announced this week by the
county board of health.
Under the new rules, owners of
house trailers may not maintain res
idence for longer than five days at
any location without obtaining a li
cense from the board of health.
Before permits will be issued an
inspection will be made to determine
if adequate sanitary facilities are
available. Trailer owners must pay
for the cost of inspection, with a
minimum charge of 50 cents speci
fied.
Several Bluffton families now are
maintaining residence in house trail
ers, and with war restrictions cur
tailing the construction of new
homes, further aggravation of the
local housing shortage may result in
additional persons being forced to
use trailers as homes.
Tosh Named Harmon
Field Caretaker
David Tosh, Bluffton high school
senior will be caretaker of Harmon
field and custodian of the field’s ten
nis courts this summer.
Tosh was named to the position
at a meeting of the Board of Edu
cation Monday night. He will re
ceive $225 for the season.
Brotherhood Meeting
The Reformed church Brotherhood
will meet at the Emanuel’s church,
Thursday night at 8 o’clock. A. D.
Wells will be the speaker of the
evening.
Miami university in Oxford, was a
week end guest of her parents, Mr.
«*fts. The Friendly Neighbors’ club will
eet with Mrs. Ella Huber Thurs-
Dating
Church in Findlay last
Dill wart
R°benalt of
■L'U1 Ruth of Miami
afternoon
Dating procedure will be reversed
on the Bluffton college campus over
the week-end from Friday until next
Tuesday in the annual observance
of Leap Week.
Coeds are to take the initiative in
all dating during Leap Week, includ
ing making the date, footing the
bills, and acting as the escorts.
It will be the exact reversal of
customary procedure, and for once
during the year men students will
be on the receiving instead of the
“paying end” in case they have what
it takes to be popular with the las
sies.
Special social and entertainment
events are arranged for the Leap
Week procedure this year, to make
the task easier for coeds unaccus
tomed to the intricacies of making
the date.
Individual Solicitation For War Bonds
And Stamps Will Begin Here May 1
Every Wage Earner in Com
munity Will be Contacted
Personally
Part of Nation Wide Campaign
To Enable Governmental
Inventory
Every person of regular income in
Bluffton will be solicited for the
purpose of obtaining a buyer’s pledge
for the regular purchase of U. S.
war savings bonds and stamps in an
intensive campaign starting May 1
and continuing until May 9, it was
announced this week by Norman
Triplett, chairman of the local de
fense savings council.
In charge of the solicitation will
be the committees appointed earlier
in the' campaign by Triplett and to
be supplemented in some cases by
additional workers. The campaign
thus far has been carried on thru
the organizations and clubs of the
community.
Every Wage Earner
While the majority of residents
were reached in this method, the new
campaign is much broader and every
resident n the community will be
contacted by the bond sales organi
zation. Details of the plan will be
presented at a meeting of all of the
workers and committee members to
be held at the office of the Triplett
company on next Wednesday night,
at 8:15 o’clock.
Even tho the individual may have
signed a pledge card in the first
drive working thru organizations and
clubs, he will be asked to sign an
other pledge card in order that the
national government may have an
inventory of the funds to be avail
able when the new fiscal year starts
on July 1. Extent of war taxation
will be determined to a considerable
extent by the amount of voluntary
subscriptions obtained in the bond
drive, it was pointed out.
Nation Wide
The campaign here is part of a na
tion wide canvass of every person of
regular income. If only one person
in the family has a regular income
he will be the only one asked to sign
the pledge card. If there are several
income earners in the family each of
(Continued on page 8)
Defense Work Will
Get Financial Aid
Bluffton’s extensive civilian de
fense program will be given financial
assistance, it was revealed this week
with the announcement that Lima
and Allen county were assured
$17,282 from state funds, the dis
tribution to be made locally on the
basis of need.
The money is part of a $2,000,000
allotment from the state to be ds
tributed among the counties to
finance the local defense work for
the remainder of the year. It will
be apportioned on the same basis
as the local government fund of
$12,000,000 which is taken from sales
tax revenue.
Funds will be alloted to the coun
ty budget commission which in turn
will distribute them locally accord
ing to the needs. The money may be
spent by local councils as long as
it is for some form of defense ac
tivity. The expenditures will be sub
ject to examination by the state aud
itor’s office, it was stated.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
The Orange township Sunday
school convention will be held at
Bethel Church of Christ, Sunday
afternoon and evening.
shall represented the local mission
ary society at a meeting of Lima
Presbyterial held in Sidney, Tues
day.
Miss Edythe Cupp and a group of
her Home Ec. girls of Bluffton H. S.
attended a Home Economics confer
ence in Columbus last Friday and
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall
and sons were entertained at Sunda'
dinner in the Clarence Begg horn___
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String Quartet To
Play Here Monday
Closing concert in the 1941-42 mu
sic concert series sponsored by the
Bluffton cqllege department of music
will be presented at 8 p. m. next
Monday in the Ramseyer chapel with
the appearance of the Rink String
quartet.
Works of American composers are
featured by the string ensemble which
was well received here in a previous
appearance ’two years ago.
In the quartet are Carl Rink, first
violinist Michael Roll, second violin
ist Guido St. Rizzio, violinist, and
Vera Rehberg, cellist. The male
members of the group also play in
the Chicago Symphony orchestra.
SCHOOL YOUTHS
SIGN FOR SUMMER
WORK ON FARMS
High School Boys and Girls to
Be Farm Hands and
Farmerettes
Registration of Those Seeking
Employment Promoted by
Federal Bureau
Bluffton high school boys as farm
hands and girls as farmerettes work
ing on farms in this district during
the coming summer became a dis
tinct probability this week as a
movement to this effect was pro
moted by the Farm Placement
Bureau of the U. S. Employment
service to alleviate the ever in
creasing problem of labor shortage
in the rural areas.
Machinery for registration of
youths desiring summer employment
on farms was set up at the high
school under auspices of the em
ployment service with details in
charge of Gerhard Buhler, principal.
Farmers who previously have
looked with little favor upon em
ployment of high school youths gen
erally because of lack of experience
(Continued on page 8)
Fifth First Aid
Unit Starts Friday
Continuing Bluffton’s extensive
program of first aid instruction, the
fifth class in the current group will
be started at the Bluffton High
school cafeteria this Friday night at
7:30 o’clock.
Two more classes will likely be
started on the following week to
make a total of seven first aid class
es going on concurrently. Two large
classes of 50 to 75 members each
were held earlier in the year.
Joy Huber is instructor for the
Red Cross first aid class being held
at the high school. Under Civilian
Defense the three first aid classes
are being taught by Dr. Ralph Whis
ler of the Bluffton college faculty at
the Legion hall and two at the high
school with Mrs. B. W. Travis and
Mrs. W. E. Diller as instructors.
The three other classes to be
started will be taught by Mrs. Evan
Basinger, Mrs. Sidney Hauenstein
and Mrs. Hiram Huser.
It is very likely that a class in
first aid will be taught during the
summer months to accommodate those
who are unable to take the course
at this time, it was stated by Clair
Fett, executive director of the Bluff
ton Civilian Defense organization.
All members of the course are re
quested to bring a piece of un
bleached muslin 40 inches square to
the class for practice in bandaging
and to be prepared to buy a small
booklet for the first aid instruction,
it was stated.
Although the classes are principal
ly for several civilian defense volun
teer units anyone interested in ob
taining first aid instruction may take
the course free of charge, Fett said.
Training obtained in the course
will be useful not only in case of
military disaster but also for civilian
emergencies, it was announced.
The state civilian defense head
quarters requires that all members
of the following units should take
the course: command section, drivers,
auxiliary firemen, rescue squad, aux
iliary policemen, bomb squadron and
air raid wardens.
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NUMBER 52
LIEUT. KLIEWER IS
MENTIONED IN JAP
RADIO BROADCAST
Former Bluffton Youth, Prison
er of War, in Good Health,
Says Announcer
Broadcast from Tokyo is Heard
By Friend of Kliewer Fam
ily in Oregon
Lieut. David Kliewer, formerly of
Bluffton, who is now a prisoner of
war in hands of the Japanese was
mentioned in a radio broadcast from
Tokyo recently which was heard in
this country, according to word re
ceived here the first of the week
from Lieut. Kliewer’s father, Rev.
I’. A. Kliewer of Albany, Oregon.
Rev. Kliewer was a former pastor
of the Ebenezer Mennonite church
west of Bluffton.
The Japanese broadcast was heard
in Salem, Oregon, on the night of
April 7 by a friend of the Kliewer
family and telephoned to them in
Albany the following morning, Rev.
Kliewer’s letter stated.
The Tokyo broadcast stated, ac
cording to the report, that David D.
Kliewer is in a concentration camp
in Japan and that he is getting three
meals daily and is feeling well. He
requested that his parents pay his
insurance premium from the Hawaii
an bank.
Jap Broadcast
The Japanese announcer said that
Kliewer’s father’s initials were P. A.
and that he lived in Albany, Oregon.
The broadcast continued that if the
announcement was heard in the
United States Kliewer’s parents
should be notified at once. Also it
was stated that Kliewer requested
his insurance premium be paid thru
the Hawaiian bank.
Recent press dispatches have re
ported that, American officers in the
concentration camp at Zentsuji island
of the Shikoku group are permitted
to send personal messages to their
families in America but are not per
mitted to receive answers.
Lieut. Kliewer who served in the
Marine air corps, is among the 366
United States prisoners of war who
were captured on Wake, Gilbert and
Guam islands and taken to the
prison camp at Zentsuii which lies
east of the southern tip of Hondo
island, largest of the Japanese
group.
Caution Urged
While his family and friends were
delighted with the news in the
broadcast, press dispatches have
pointed out that all such broadcasts
should be accepted only with reser
vations. Being broadcast by the
Japanese propaganda bureau, it is
possible that the radio messages
might be broadcast with a hidden
motive, it was stated.
A recent report, however, made by
an agent of the International Red
Cross indicated that the 366 Ameri
can prisoners at Zentsuji were be
ing well treated, fed adequately and
had good housing conditions.
The report was made public by
Rep. White (D. Idaho) following
receipt of a cablegram from the
agent of the Red Cross organization.
Impressions Good
There was no complaint made at
the camp on the matter of treat
ment with the discipline and co
operation was reported as excellent.
The commanding officers were found
to be competent and friendly. The
prisoners were sensible and the gen
eral impression was good, according
to the report made.
Kliewer graduated from Bluffton
High school in the class of 1935 and
was valedictorian of his class. He
enlisted in the Marine Air Corps in
1939 and was stationed for a time
at Hawaii where he was an air
corps instructor.
Word from the marine corps last
January was the first announcement
that he was stationed on Wake
island at the time of the Japanese
attack.
Lucille Steiner In
Graduating Recital
Miss Lucille Steiner, of Bluffton,
will be presented in a graduating
organ recital in the Ramseyer chapel
on the Bluffton college campus Fri
day night at 8 o’clock.
In her recital she will play:
Sonata in Minor Mendelssohn
Chorale in A Minor--------------Franck
The Swan------------------- Saint-Saena
Etude for Pedals Alone. Carl
Toccata Dubois
Dreams —-------------------McAnnis
The Little Bells of the Lady
of Lourdes------------------------Gaul
Torchlight March-------------- Guihnanft