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Hill
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Debate on
Lung spent
and Mrs.
whether there is ^und
machinery and equipment sho:
in America raged this week in1
Washington, while farmers thruout
the country reported they are begin
ning to feel the pinch of curtailed
production.
With farmers called upon to step
up food production to help win the
war, the question of shortage re
mained unanswered as officials of
two involved federal agencies differ
er in their conclusions.
In the Department of Agriculture,
which has the responsibility for de
termining what equipment is needed
by fanners in their war program,
is the feeling that “no crop will go
unharvested this year because of lack
of machinery’’.
Officials of the War Production
Board, however, admitted that grow-
Further explanation of rigid con
trols over non-essential residential,
industrial and farm building projects
was made last week by the War
Production Board.
New restrictions effective a week
ago will bring curtailment, likely for
the duration of the war, in a resi
dential construction boom under way
in Bluffton since 1938.
Under terms of the WPB order,
houses which “are begun may be
completed” without asking authority
of the WPB. To comply with this
requirement, however, material must
be physically incorporated in the
building itself.
Any structure costing less than
$500 in financial outlay may be erect
ed without authorization. This cov
ers buildings which may be erected
by an owner and his family who will
with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton
and family.
Mrs. Iris Healey of Glendale alif.
and Mr. and Mrs. David Holman of
Lafayette spent Friday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Joy K. Huber and dau-
Reservations for Frozen Food
Lockers are being made fas
ter than we had anticipated.
If you expect to reserve a locker,
let us know at once.
We will have no more lockers avail
able after the present supply is taken.
Lockers Will Be Ready About June 1
The modern way of preserving
Meats, Vegetables and Berries.
Does away with canning—Foods
better preserved.
Rates so reasonable you cannot
afford to do without it.
See us about a Frozen Food Locker
today—while they are still available.
Basinger Bros.
Meat Market
NO PRIORITIES
HOT WATER
JUST TURN THE FAUCET
That's all there is to getting hot
water, and plenty of it—with an
automatic gas hot water heater.
No waiting ... no fire tending
no running up and down the
cellar stairs—just turn the faucet.
And with an automatic gas water
heater the water temperature is
always the same, hour after hour.
Because they’re so reasonably
priced and so economical to op
erate, there’s no reason why you
should miss the convenience of an
automatic gas hot water heater
any longer. Stop in at your
plumber or at the
WEST OHIO GAS CO.
Cora Huber.
&hter and MIrs.
Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Huber and Mr
V, Mrs. Gerald Huber and son of
Vxu spent Sunday with Mr. and
in farlLVan de Mark and dau^hter
plain they a.
farm equipment WA1 lluhcr
dealers’ stocks are dangV'.11 0,1 r"
1 Mrs.
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Officials assert, however, i
present demand for farm equipni
and machinery is far in excess
the actual need, and that many
farmers are ordering equipment not
absolutely essential to the job at
hand.
altogether, however.
Restrictions On House Building
Further Explained By War Board
They are going fast...
nt
of
WPB has permitted farm equip
ment manufacturers to turn out this
year an average of 83 per cent of
their 1940 production. Making rub
ber-tired tractors has been stopped
receive no compensation, for which
the materials cost less than $500.
No authorization is required to be
gin construction to replace houses
destroyed by fire, unless the fire oc
curred on or after Jan. 1, 1942.
Even though a builder may have
complete materials on hand to build
a house, he will be unable to obtain
authorization to proceed.
Further restrictions to building
and remodeling programs were an
nounced late last week with the
freezing of all plumbing and heat
ing fixtures and equipment on deal
er’s shelves.
The cost of digestible nutrients in
pasture is one-fourth to one-half cent
per pound, in hay one-half to three
fourths cent per pound, and in grain
from one to three cents per pound.
CHO
CHAPLAIN RAYMOND S. HALL
Parachute troops at the In
fantry School, Fort Benning,
Georgia, boast of a literal “sky
pilot.” He is Chaplain Raymond S.
Hall, former rector of St. John’s
Protestant Episcopal church, Lo
well, Mass., and the Army’s first
jumping chaplain.
Chaplain Hall is a quiet, husky
young man inclined to regard his
present assignment as the happy
working of fate. When he was
first assigned to Benning, there
was no regulation requiring chap
lains to jump. Chaplain Hall soon
fixed that. After a week of talk
ing to the men he applied for
fcnmaaion to take the gruelling
Assistance will be provided thru a
local advisory committee in the ans
wering of occupational questionnaires
to be sent soon to all men included
in the Feb. 16 draft registration.
Mailing of the questionnaires will
be started soon by Allen County
Draft Board No. 3, under the juris
diction of which Bluffton and Rich
land township are included.
On the Bluffton advisory board,
which will answer any questions of
registrants, are Supt. of Schools
A. J. B. Longsdorf, A. D. Gratz and
Quinten Burkholder.
Purpose of the questionnaire is to
provide the government with a com
plete occupational inventory of the
country’s manpower to avoid the in
duction into the armed forces of men
who are more urgently needed in
war production.
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ENLISTING THE
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Editor’s Note:
Following is
one of a series of articles spon
sored by the Consumer’s Division
of the Bluffton Civilian Defense
Council. The articles will sup
plement classes in care and
maintenance of household equip
ment meeting weekly at the
high school cafeteria Friday at
2:30 p. m.
Take care of your range it will
last longer. Wipe up spilled milk
or fruit juices at once, or the finish
may be stained. Let range cool be
fore washing or the enamel may
“craze”. Check oven to make sure
that it is “sitting level”. Proper
making depends on correct circula
tion.
Plumbing, Heating
Sales Prohibited
Further war restrictions affecting
residential building and remodeling
were announced last week when the
War Production Board froze all new
stocks of plumbing and heating
equipment.
Action was taken to prevent dissi
pation of equipment needed in de
fense housing and military construc
tion, it was announced.
Presides At Meeting
Of District Bankers
Dr. C. Henry Smith, president of
the Citzens National bank will be
acting chairman at the annual for
um of Group 2 of the Ohio Bankers
association to be held at Ada, Thurs
day, May 7.
Prominent tax, business and finan
cial experts will lead discussions be
fore a gathering at which 200 are
expected to attend.
Mt. Cory Scholarship
Contestants Named
Five students from Mt. Cory high
school who will enter the district
scholarship contest at Bowling Green,
May 2, are: Pauline Simkins, his
tory Marion Marquart, social stu
dies: Carol Montgomery, Latin
Edith Stuber, French, and Von Dale
Winget, bookkeeping.
News Want-ads bring results.
THE BLUFFTCP^UFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Jump*n8
—INFANTRY SCHOOL PHOTO
five-week training course. He
found it rough going. It had been
more than ten years since Chap
lain Hall was captain of Brown
University swimming team and a
member of the All-American
swimmers, and life in the rectory
had not prepared him for the en*
thusiastic body-bending a para
chutist must patform in training.
Today, as a qualified parachut
ist, he looks forward to each jump
with zest. He also speaks with
modest satisfaction of the men’»
reaction to his jumping. “It in
creased attendance at church,’’
he says.
Committee To Aid Registrants
In Answering Questionnaires
Survey of registrants also is in
tended to replace workers now de
ferred from military service, wher
ever possible, and to speed up war
production by promoting the transfer
of workers from non-essential to es
sential work.
As a start in the survey, question
naires will be sent only to men who
registered on Feb. 16. Later they
will be mailed to men listed in the
first and second registrations.
Contained in each questionnaire is
a list of 228 jobs essential to war
production and each man is asked to
check those jobs for which he has
experience or training.
Registrants also are asked to give
the number of years or months they
have worked at the various occupa
tions.
HOME
TONAL DEFENSE
Ironing hints worth remembering:
Clean sole plate with salt bag or
paraffin. Don’t drop the iron. It’s
death to them. Remember it’s the
contact of heat with the dampened
garment that removes the wrinkles
not the pressure or weight. So don’t
wear yourself out pressing down.
Use a light weight iron and let the
heat do the job.
A pail of scalding water poured
down the sink drain once every day
will help a lot in keeping it open.
Don’t pour lye down the drain as it
may harden the grease.
Ask yourself before buying any
thing for the home, “D I really need
it?” __________________
Pandora
Elmer and Ben Burry have pur
chased the Basinger Meat Market.
They are also installing a locker
system. Joel Basinger, who was
the owner of the meat market, pur
chased Philip Basinger’s interest in
the Bluffton meat market.
Earl Steiner and Shirl Hatfield,
Jr., returned Sunday from Witchita,
Kansas where they have completed
a course in the air craft industry.
The ladies chorus of the Fort
Wayne Bible Institute will give a
sacred concert at the St. John Men
nonite church Thursday evening at
8 o’clock.
Miss Mary Jane Huser accom
panied Mr. and Mrs. Ed Steiner of
Bluffton to Monroe, Mich., Sunday,
where she visited her sister, Phyllis
Huser.
Miss Ruth Amstutz, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Amstutz began
to teach home economics in the
Lima South High school last week.
James Sommer is operating a bus
line to Lima. He will make trips
in the morning and evening for the
laborers who work in Lima. The
bus is a Chevrolet which he recently
purchased.
Winners at the northwestern Ohio
high school solo and ensemble con
test held at Ada, recently, are as
follows: Freda Yoder, alto soloist
Verena Schumacher, French horn
soloist Stanley Schutz, bass soloist,
and Billy Steiner, piano soloist.
These pupils will represent Pandora.
High school at the state contest in
Columbus, May 8.
Commercial Registration to
Take Place at High School
April 28 and 29
Home Consumers Will Register
At Grade School May
4, 5, 6 and 7
Initial steps are being taken here
preliminary to the registration of
Bluffton’s entire population for the
rationing of sugar scheduled to' start
early in May, it was announced the
first of the week by A. J. B. Longs
dorf, superntendent of schools.
In line with the nation wide plan
the grade school teachers will super
vise the rationing to individual con
sumers and high school teachers will
be in charge of rationing to com
mercial establishments.
Principals in Charge
Administrator of the program for
the home consumers will be Mrs.
Grace Cox, principal of the grade
school building. Gerhard Buhler,
Bluffton High school principal, will
be in charge of the program for the
commercial establishments. Accord
ing to a survey made the first of the
week, there are 18 commercial es
tablishments in Bluffton using sugar.
According to tentative plans gen
eral home consumer registration will
take place on May 4, 5, 6 and 7 at
the grade school buidling in the
afternoon and evening from 3 to 10
o’clock. Commercial registration will
take place at the high school on
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 28
and 29.
Registrants
For consumers the instructions
suggest one registrar for every 80
probable registrants. Using 2,100
as a population estimate for Bluffton,
the services of about 26 registrars
would be needed. With only eight
teachers employed at the grade
school, it is possible that high school
teachers will assist in the registra
tion, it was stated by Supt. Longs
dorf.
Initial Steps Are Being Taken Here
For Sugar Rationing Early In May
Many of the details still remain to
be worked out. Supt. Longsdorf
stated that he would give specific in
structions in ample time so that
every individual may be informed
what to do and when.
Alphabetical Report
He said that in all probability con
sumers would be instructed to report
alphabetically on succeeding days or
in some other systematic manner in
order to keep a steady flow of appli
cants thruout the period. This was
regarded as necessary in order to
avoid a jam on the final day with
which the registrars would be un
able to cope.
The order from Washington pro
vides that school teachers serve as
registrars without compensation. Ra
tion books for Bluffton are expected
to arrive this week, Supt. Longsdorf
said.
Every indvidual will be entitled to
have two pounds of sugar in his pos
session at registration time without
penalty. In addition, he may have
four more pounds for which stamps
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Basinger’s
will be removed from the ration card
at the time it is issued If he has
more than six pounds in possession
he must register but he will not be
entitled to receive a ration card at
that time, Supt. Longsdorf said
after a preliminary study of his 50
page instruction book received re
cently.
The books are printed on ordinary
paper stock, 8 by 10 inches in
size Snd are designed to be folded
twice to form a sort of booklet 4 by
6U inches in size.
Across one side of the book are
printed and perforated 28 “stamps”
approximately three-quarters of an
inch square. Each stamp is num
bered.
On the book is space for the fol
lowing information concerning the
registrant: Name, address, height,
weight, color of eyes and hair, age,
sex and date.
The book may be applied for J»y
the applicant himself or herself or
by husband, wife, father, mother or
other individual directly connected,
but the certificate must be signed by
the person to whom it is issued be
fore it will be honored. Parents will
sign for children under 18.
Are Not Transferable
Ration books are not transferable
and must be surrendered in case the
applicant dies or moves from the
United States. Anyone finding a lost
book is required to deliver it to the
nearest rationing board. Punishment
for any violation is fixed at not more
than $10,000 fine or not more than
10 years imprisonment, or both.
Accompanying the ration book is
the following statement:
“The first stamps in War Ration
Book No. 1 will be used or the pur
chase of sugar. When this book was
issued, the registrar asked you, or
the person who applied or your book,
how much sugar you owned on that
date. If you had any sugar, you
were allowed to keep it, but stamps
representing this quantity were torn
from your book (except for a small
amount which you were allowed to
keep without losing any stamps.) If
your War Ration Book No. 1 was
issued to you on application by a
member of your family, the number
of stamps torn from the books of
the family was based on the amount
of sugar owned by the family, and
was divided as equally as possible
among all these books.”
According to the information re
ceived by Supt. Longsdorf the ration
week will be from midnight Saturday
to midnight the following Saturday.
The OPA will designate which
stamps and what period they can be
used and the amount that can be
bought with them. For the present,
each stamp will be good for one
pound of sugar or two-weeks supply
for one person.
Time Limit
on
Stamps
It will not be possible to save
stamps and purchase a large supply
of sugar at one time. The OPA
will designate the time limit for
their use.
Persons needing more sugar for
canning or because of sickness may
apply to their local rationing board
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THURSDAY, APRIL 2.3, 1942
which will rule on the application.
The ration books may be used in
any retail store in the United States,
regardless of where they were issued.
Any member of the family can take
the ration books of all members of
the family and buy the household
supply.
Parents will be responsible for ra
tion books issued for their children.
If books are lost, mutilated or stolen,
the matter must be reported to the
rationing board.
A person who goes to a hospital
for more than 10 days must take his
rationing book with him.
While the registering of all stores,
commercial users and individuals has
been entrusted to the schools, the
administration of the law afterward
will be in the hands of the local ra
tioning boards named to handle tires
and other commodities.
College Plans Are
Told At Mt. Cory
Agriculture, teaching and aviation
seem to be the main interests for
seniors at Mt. Cory High school, it
was revealed in a recent survey of
the senior class at the high school,
by D. C. Simkins, superintendent.
Most of the seniors are planning
to attend college next year, the sur
vey showed. The major subject and
the school indicated by the seniors
in the survey are as fellows:
Lehr Jay Reese, agriculture, Ohio
State Robert Pow’ell, mathematics
and physical education, Findlay col
lege Richard Werner, history and
physical education, Bowling Green
Robert Albro, history and education,
Bluffton college.
Ralph Steiner, agriculture, Ohio
State Kenneth Green, business ad
ministration, Bowling Green Marion
Marquart, agriculture, Ohio State,
James Carl Treese, Jr., mathematics
and aviation, Bowling Green Loren
Steiner, mathematics and aviations,
Bowling Green Myrtle Steinman,
elementary teaching, Asbury.
Wanda Montgomery’, home econom
ics, Bowding Green or Ohio State
Edith Stuber, elementary teaching,
Bowling Green Evelyn Moyer, home
economics, Bowling Green Carolyn
Moyer, home economics and music,
Bluffton college, Bernice Oberly,
business school.
Von Dale Winger, home economics,
Ohio State Robert Haas, history,
Bowling Green or Findlay college
Eugene Jordan, journalism, Bowling
Green or Ohio State Max Clymer,
aviation, Luscombe school Norma
Jones, business, Findlay college.
Get Relief Funds
Allen county received $596 and
Lima $1,246 in allocation of Ohio re
lief funds for March, with the total
relief bill for the state set at $1,
234,000.
Hancock county’s share was $969
Hardin county got $1,921, and Put
nam received $655.
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INSURANCE
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Paul E. Whitmer, Agent
245 W. Grove St.—Phone 350-W
Bluffton, Ohio
$112.50
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