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VICTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
DEFENSE
^BONDS
AND
STAMPS
VOLUME NO. LXVII
BLUFFTON MEN IN
GROUP OF 67 OFF
FOR ARMY CAMP
Large Draft Contingent is Sent
By Board No. 3 from Lima,
Wednesday
Three Selectees Excused from
Quota Because of Previous
Enlistments
Men from the Bluffton district
comprised a large part of the group
of sixty-seven selectees which left
Lima, Wednesday morning for army
service. The group was one of the
largest quotas to be furnished by
Allen County Selective Service board
No. 3.
Three men originally scheduled to
go with this quota were not included
because of enlistments, it was an
nounced by board attaches. These
were John Lugibihl, Jr., Bluffton,
enlisted in the coast guard Robert
Geary, 728 S. Main St., Bluffton,
enlisted in the army and Herbert
Marshall, enlisted in the flying
cadets of the air corps.
Men from the Bluffton area in
cluded in the quota which left Wed
nesday morning were:
Bluffton—Marvin Moser, Dale
Good, Paul Schumacher, Emerson
Lugibihl, Stanley Basinger, Ralph
Clark, Robert Scoles, Max McCaf
ferty.
Lafayette—Merwyn Hines, Leslie
Akerman, Howard Suo, Warren
Pugsley, Wm. Vorhees, Elmer Hawk,
Lester Hall.
Ada—Donald Long.
Harrod—Ronald Rader, Clifford
Hubbell.
Lima R. R. 5—Gerald Faze.
Legion Delegates To
Attend Lima Meeting
Bluffton post of the American Le
gion will send two delegates to the
district Legion convention to be held
at the Lima Memorial Hall Sunday.
Purpose of the Lima meeting is to
elect delegates and alternates to the
national convention and for the con
sideration of resolutions.
Each post in the district is entit
led to one delegate and one alter
nate for the first 15 members and
one delegate and one alternate for
each additional hundred members or
major fraction.
Representing the Bluffton post will
be commander Millen Geiger and
Harry Trippiehorn. Alternates will
be Quinten Burkholder and Gilbert
Fett.
The same delegates and alternates
will also represent the Bluffton post
at the state meeting of the Legion
to be
held at Canton on August 17,
18 and 19.
Accepts Columbus
Research Position
Dr. Ray Heiks, Bluffton college
graduate in the class of 1937, and
instructor in chemistry at Marshall
college in Huntington, W. Va., has
acepted a post as research chemist
with the Battelle Memorial Institute
of Columbus, the position starting
July 1.
The institution is a non-profit or
ganization, similar to the Mellon in
stitute, and its staff of 300 members
devote their entire time to industrial
research. There are 15 divisions in
the organization, one of which is in
dustrial chemistry in which Heiks
will be associated.
Mrs. Heiks, the former Miss Eliza
beth Bixel and daughter, will stay
at the home of her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Bixel of South Main
street until suitable living quarters
are secured in Columbus.
J. J, Badertscher
Estate Probated
Total assets of the estate of John
J. Badertscher, late of Bluffton, were
shown as $8,186.75 by Dan R. Trip
plehorn, administrator, as he filed an
inventory and appraisement in pro
bate court this week.
Personal property was set at $166,
money $166, stocks bonds and securi
ties, $5,154.75 and two parcels of
real estate in Bluffton, $2,700.
Robert Beemer At
Great Lakes Station
Robert F. Beemer, 17, of Riley
street, is undergoing training at the
U. S. Naval Training station, Great
Lakes, Ill., since reporting for duty
at that place last week.
After he finishes his recruit train
ing, Beemer will be assigned aboard
a navy man-of-war, or detailed for
specialized training at one of the
Navy’s many service schools.
Sugar Restrictions
Will Close Bakery
Here Coming Week
OECAVSE of sugar rationing
the Siefield bakery will be
closed for a week beginning
next Monday it was announced
by Herbert Siefiqld, the owner.
Wartime regulations limit the
bakery to 70 per cent of the
sugar used in the corresponding
month last year. This restric
tion in the supply together with
increased buying by housewives
intent on conserving their own
sugar has made full time opera
tion impossible, Siefield said.
On the basis of present vol
ume the bakery will use up its
July quota of sugar in three
weeks, Siefield stated. A num
ber of bakeries, he said, are
adopting this plan of part time
operation because of sugar re
strictions.
MISSIONARY TO
CHINA
ENROUTE HOME
Rev. J. Frank Steiner Sails from
Shanghai Aboard Japanese
Exchange Liner
To Meet American Vessels in
Portuguese East Africa for
Exchange of Nationals
Rev. J. Frank Steiner, native of
the Swiss Settlement and missionary
to Hainan island, off the south coast
of China, is enroute to America on
board the Japanese liner, Asama Ma
ru and is expected here the latter
part of next month.
According to press dispatches, Rev.
Steiner has been in Hong Kong for
many months, part of which time he
was interned by the Japanese since
they controlled the area.
Another Japanese liner in being
used to transport the 900 Americans
who were in Hong Kong, Shanghai
and other Japanese controlled areas
of the far east.
Leave June 10
The two liners left Shanghai about
June 10. The Japanese liners and
American steamers will meet at Mos
ambique, Portuguese, East Africa
where repatriation of American and
Japanese nationals will take place.
Normally a Pacific crossing from
the Far East to the California coast
takes about two weeks. With the
round about journey to East Africa
and other delays due to war time re
strictions it is expected that Rev.
Steiner will not be in this country un
til four or five weeks.
Fi lends and relatives here were
much relieved to hear of the an
nouncement of Rev. Steiner’s return
voyage. Grave concern was felt here
in January when it was reported by
press dispatches a number of Ameri
can missionaries had been slain by
Japanese forces on Hainan island.
Hainan Field
The minister worked in the Hainan
mission field under the direction of
the Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions which had maintained four
stationed on the island.
Rev. Steiner, a son of U. S. Steiner
of the Settlement, has has been a
worker in the Chinese mission field
for the past 27 years. Rev. and Mrs.
Steiner, accompanied by their 16 year
old daughter, Mary Elizabeth visited
relative and friends in the Bluffton
district in the summer of 1938 when
they were forced to return to the
United States because of the fierce
ness of the fighting as Japanese bat
tled to take Hainan from the Chinese.
Discarded Binders Being Fitted
Up For Work In Harvest Fields
Girls at Wooster
Mrs. Steiner and daughters Geneva
and Mary Elizabeth are living in
Wooster where the girls are attend
ing college. Rev. Steiner returned to
the mission field on the island of Hai
nan in the summer of 1939.
In China, the Steiners were located
at Hoihow, on the island of Hainan,
lioihow is a city about the size of
Findlay and Hainan is a little more
than twice as large as the state of
New Jersey. Lying 250 miles south
of Hongkonk the island is in a very
strategic location since it is near
French Indo China and Hongkong.
Living in this district are one
brother, J. E. Steiner and sister, Mrs.
Armin Steiner of Pandora. He has
three other brothers, Rev. Paul Stein
er of Pittiville, Fulton county, Prof.
Oliver Steiner, Bluffton college grad
uate in the class of 1930 and an in
structor at Bob Jones college, Cleve
land, Tenn., and Dr. J. C. Steiner of
Willard and another sister Mrs. Ar
chie Abeglin of near Findlay.
Rush Repairing of Old Equip
ment as Time for Wheat
Cutting Nears
New and Used Equipment Not
To be Had, Bluffton Imple
ment Dealers Say
With wheat harvest expected to
begin the last of this week, farmers
are casting a critically appraising eye
at the old binder and figuring how
good will be the chances for making
it last for another season.
For upon the present equipment,
bolstered by repairs, rests the task of
getting the harvest this summer.
Wheat harvest in the Bluffton
district will start the last of this
week unless weather conditions
interfere. Several farmers north
west of Bluffton are planning to
start cutting Friday.
New machinery, available on a re
stricted basis last summer is now
completely out of the picture, Bluffton
Implement dealers declared and even
used machinery has been swept from
the warehouses by the insistent de
mand. “We just havn’t anything in
machinery to sell” was the statement
of one dealer here the first of the
week.
Rush Fitting Up Binders
Binders, many of which have been
discarded several seasons ago under
ordinary conditions are being fitted
up for operation and dealers are find
ing their greatest volume of business
consisting of sales of repair parts.
Adequate stocks of repair parts is
the one bright spot in the farm im
plement situation. Production of re
pairs, permitted under the OPM cur
tailment order has made available all
ordinary replacement parts on stand
ard equipment.
Although this summer will see
much outworn equipment in the har
vest fields, indications are that the
whaet crop will not be unusually
large. Farmers in the Bluffton dis
trict the first of the week said the
outlook was for about an average
crop, with yields around 20 bushels to
the acre. Straw, too, will not be par
ticularly heavy, they say.
Hugh Eaton Gets
Army Commission
Hugh M. Eaton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Eaton, of Lima, a
grandson of Mrs. Lou Eaton, of this
place, has been commissioned second
lieutenant in the cavalry, it was
learned this week
A graduate of the Officers Candi
date school, Eaton will be stationed
with an armored division as a com
munications officer.
Lodge Honors Two
Going Into Service
Bluffton Masonic lodge held an in
formal reception and farewell Mon
day night honoring two of its mem
bers who are entering the country’s
armed services this summer.
The two honored were Stanley Ba
singer and Paul Martinka.
Basinger, a funeral director here,
left Wednesday morning for Toledo
with the Allen county draft quota.
Martinka, mechanical engineer at
the Woodcock generating plant of
the Central Ohio Light and Power
company has made application for
enlistment in the navy and expects
to leave later in the summer.
In New Locations
Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Bigelow who
are expected to arrive here next
week will reside in the Miss Martha
Steiner property on North Lawn ave
nue. Rev. Bigelow who was gradu
ated two weeks ago from Yale Divin
ity school, New Haven, Conn., has
accepted a call to the pastorate of
the Bluffton and Rockport Presbyter
ian churches.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wiebe have
moved into the Fett apartment va
cated last week by Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Gratz who are now’ occupying
their home at North Main and Jef
ferson streets. Mr. and Mrs. Wiebe
came here from Beatrice, Nebraska,
a year ago and have occupied the
Hughes property on the county line
since that time.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Barber and
daughter are occupying the I. W.
Bauman property at Jackson and
Kibler streets this summer while
Prof. Bauman and family are in
Wayland, Iowa.
Auto Chief Risk
In answer to the question: "What
is the greatest risk in flying today?"
student aviators at Orlando, Fla.,
reply: “The auto ride to the air
port."
1HE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942
YOUTHS OF 18-20
AGE GROUP WILL
REGISTER TUESDAY
Registration to be Held at High
Schoo! Library, 7 A. M.
To 9 P. M.
Richland, Monroe and Jackson
Township Youths to Regis
ter Here
Registration of young men between
the ages of 18 and and 20 under the
Selective Service act will be conduct
ed in the Bluffton High school library
from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. next Tuesday,
for Bluffton, Richland, Monroe and
Jackson townships.
In the fifth and final registration
the procedure followed will be the
same as that prevailing in the first
four listings of prospective selective
service candidates.
Affected by next Tuesday’s regis
tration order are youi men between
the ages of 18 and 20 years born on
or after Jan. 1, 1922, and on or be
fore June 30 1924.
May Register Saturday
Those unable to register here Tues
day may complete their registration
this Saturday at Allen County Draft
board No. 3 headquarters, Room 201
National Bank building, Lima, from
noon until 6 p. m.
Anyone unavoidably away from
home on June 27 or June 30 may reg
ister at the most convenient registra
tion place on those days, it was an
nounced.
Young mon under 20 are not liable
for military service under the present
selective service act, but the law pro
vides for their registration.
With the conclusion of registration
next Tuesday all men between the
ages of 18 and 65 will have register
ed with the selective service board.
Livona Harris Weds
In Home Ceremony
In the home of the bride’s par
ents at 3:30 o’eteefc Sunday after
noon, marriage vows were exchanged
by Miss Livona Elizabeth Harris,
only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I.
Ray Harris of north of town, and
Marion Glenn Forney, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Forney of Forest.
Rev. Paul Zimmerman of Rawson
officiated for the single ring cere
mony which was performed before
a double window with an arch of
pink roses and banked with ferns
and baskets of pink rambler roses.
White tapers in seven branch can
delabra burned at either side.
Miss Doris Forney, sister of the
groom, dressed in a floor length
gown of black and white pique,
played as the opening nuptial selec
tions, "Indian Love Call’ ’by Friml
and “Intermezzo” by Heinz Provot.
Miss Arietta Rickly of Columbus,
cousin of the bride, sang as her first
number “The Sweetest Story’ Ever
Told” by K. M. Stults. Miss Rickly
wore a pink taffeta floor length
gown.
Miss Forney then played a varia
tion of the hymn “Jesus Savior Pilot
Me”. Miss Rickly sang “Oh Prom
ise Me” by DeKoven. The wedding
party assembled while “Liebstraum”
by Liszt was being played.
To the strains of the Bridal
Chorus from Lohengrin the bride
descended the stairs. She was at
tired in a pearl white satin gown
fashioned floor length with fitted
bodice and full skirt, three quarter
length sleeves and a sweetheart neck
line. Her bridal veil was floor length
and bordered with chantilly lace.
Her only ornament was a strand of
pearls, a gift of the groom. Her
arm bouquet was pink tea roses with
baby’s breath tied with pink satin
bow.
The bride was attended by her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Donald Harris,
who wore a dress of light blue taf
feta and carried an aim bouquet of
yellow roses and blue delphinium.
The groom wore a light tan palm
beach suit and was attended by his
only brother Donald Forney.
Donald Harris, brother of the
bride, served as usher for the oc
casion.
The bride’s mother chose a blue
and white bemberg ensemble and
wore a shoulder corsage of gardenia
and red tea roses. The groom’s
mother was dressed in rose lace and
wore a corsage of gardenia and
roses.
The men of the bridal party wore
white carnation boutonnieres. Softly
through the ceremony “I Love You
Truly” by’ Carrie Jacobs Bond was
heard.
Folowing the ceremony a three-tier
wedding cake topped by a miniature
bride and groom was cut by the
(Continued on page 8)
Starting next Monday morning
Bluffton housewives may purchase
two pounds of sugar with war ra
tion stamp No. 5 for a period ex
tending until midnight July 25, it
was learned this week from an an
nouncement by price administration
officials at Washington, D. C.
War ration stamp No. 4, now good
for the purchase of a single jiound
of sugar, will expire at midnight
on Saturday. At that time the two
pound stamps will go into effect.
Stamp No. 6 will also be good for
a two pound purchase and may be
used from July 26 to August 22.
This does not change the individ
ual consumer ration of a half pound
per person per week, it was pointed
out. Reason for the change in ra
tioning procedure was seen in the
desire to alleviate a sugar storage
problem that has become critical in
the past month.
Under this plan people will buy
more sugar at one time and every
household pantry will become a small
storehouse tending to empty the
bulging sugar warehouses.
Along with this announcement was
the issuance of a regulation permit
ting institutional and industrial
users to obtain their sugar for a
two month period—a one month ex
tension over the original limitation
governing such allowances.
The heavy’ demand for sugar from
Great Britain and Russia together
with the serious shipping situation
will likely cause sugar quotas to re
main on the present basis, according
to price administration officials.
Children and Adults Bring in
Quantities of Miscellaneous
Rubber Items
Request Residents to Bring Re
maining Rubber Soon
Tuesday Last Day
Approximately 20,000 pounds of
scrap lubber have been taken in at
the various Bluffton filling stations
which have been serving as collection
depots in the nation wide collection
campaign, according to estimates
made here Tuesday.
The stations have averaged about
a ton of rubber each collected in the
campaign which is little more than
a week old, having started Monday,
June 15. The drive will continue
through Tuesday, June 20.
Company tank trucks, in some
cases supplemented by trailers, have
been gathering the scrap, loading it
on after gasoline has been delivered
to the local stations.
Many Items
Every conceivable type of rubber
item has been turned in during the
present drive, station operator here
report. Some of the residents have
been donating their rubber but most
of them have accepted payment of
one cent a pound, it was reported.
Many children are taking advant
age of the opportunity to get pen
nies for ice cream and candy.
Youngsters have been bringing in
such items as can rubbers, rubber
heels, rubber balls, baby nipples and
other small articles. In some cases
the children have dug the articles
out of refuse piles.
Sugar Quotas Can Be Bought Ahead
Of Time With Stamps Nos. 5 And 6
20,000 Pounds Of Scrap Rubber Are
Collected Here By Filling Stations
Contributing most to the scrap
piles are tires, tubes, arctics and
boots. One resident brought in two
old truck tires each weighing 110
pounds. Another delivered a trailer
load of old automobile tires weigh
ing more than 500 pounds.
Crude Rubber
Another resident brought a large
portion of crude rubber about 20
years old. He had foi-merly worked
in a tire factory and put the piece
of crude rubber in his garage where
he had practically forgotten about it
until now.
In case there are metal pieces on
the rubber such as buckles on arctics
or metal connection on lawn hose the
station attendant has been cutting
them off in order to facilitate the
use of the rubber for war produc
tion.
Proprietors here urged local resi
dents to bring their scrap rubber in
as soon as possible in order to avoid
a last minute rush next Tuesday.
Real Estate Deals
M. M. Murray sold three of his
North Main street residence proper
ties during the past week. Chas.
Gazette purchased the property which
he occupies. Wm. Leiber purchased
properties occupied by J. F. Herr
mann and Ross Irwin.
Bluffton Woman With
Garden Hobby Grows
Bumper Early Cabbage
Bluffton woman who has
A taken lip gardening as a
hobby—and more than ordin
arily successful—is Mrs. Clay
ton Murray of West Elm street.
That she can successfully
grow standard gardenstuffs was
demonstrated Tuesday when she
cut a head of cabbage measur
ing 25 inches in circumference
raised in her garden.
The bumper head of early
cabbage taken by Mrs. Murray
from her garden is ten days in
advance of the Fourth of July,
usual date here for first cabbage
of the season from Bluffton
gardens.
One of her major interests,
however, is the growing of un
usual varieties. There is cel
tuce—one of the latest novel
ties brought out only this spring
by one of the large seed firms.
It is a combination of celery and
lettuce—with stalks like celery
and leaves similar to lettuce.
Other not-to-common garden
stuffs are edible soybeans now
being grown for the third suc
cessive year and a pole type of
Lima bean much superior in
yield to the usual variety.
ELECTION BOARD
SCRATCHES THREE
LOCAL PETITIONS
Technical Errors Found in Peti
tions Filed by Candidates
For Committeemen
Names of Three Bluffton Re
publicans Will Not be in
August Primary
Names of three Bluffton Republi
cans, all candidates for precinct
committeeman, will not appear on
the ballot of the August primary as
the result of action by the Allen
county board of elections because of
technical errors in their petitions.
The candidates and reasons for
disqualification are:
A. E. Kohli seeking re-election in
precinct B, petition circulated before
candidate declared himself.
Forest Mumma’s petition listed
his residence as precinct C, whereas
he resides in precinct D.
Ralph Dunifon’s petition gives his
residence as precinct while he
lives in precinct C.
Files Complaint
The board of elections took action
in throwing out the petitions after
Robert Lewis, Bluffton elector, filed
the complaints against the Bluffton
candidates and five other Republican
candidates in the county.
The board’s ruling has eliminated
all contests on the Republican ticket
except for precinct A where J. A.
Thompson, seeking re-election, and
Mrs. Robert Lewis are candidates.
Throwing out of Kohli's petition
will leave precinct without a
Republican candidate. The other
Republican candidates are E. C.
Ludwig in precinct A and Earl
Lugibill in precinct D.
Other Candidates
In Richland North, Sidney Huber
has filed as the only Republicaji
candidate. No one filed in Richland
South.
Republican candidates in Beaver
dam are Stanley Vertner and J. C.
Yant.
There are no contests on the
Democratic ticket with the following
filed:
Precinct A., E. L. Diller precinct
B, Fred Getties precinct C, A. D.
Wells precinct D, Homer Bracy.
Richland North, Albert Winkler
Richland South, J. I. Luginbuhl
Beaverdam, Ed. Bogart.
In case of Mumma’s and Dunifon’s
petitions it has been pointed out that
the confusion was probably due to
the fact that a number of years ago
the two precincts were reversed. The
present districting of precincts was
made by the county’ board of elec
tions only a year ago.
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
ffiONDS
AM) STAMPS
NUMBER 9
TOWN PROTESTS
WPB RULING ON
FIRE TRUCK HERE
Congressman Robert F. Jones
Making Representations to
Federal Agency
Local Business and Manufac
turing Units Urge Re
versal of Ruling
Vigorous representations against
the War Production Board’s order
cancelling delivery of Bluffton's new
fire truck are being made this week
by Congressman Robert F. Jones at
Washington, D. C.
Letters have been written by score
of local business and manufacturing
establishments to Congressman Jones,
of the 4th Congressional district, re
questing that he urge the WPB to re
consider its action in making the
cancellation.
War Protection
Bluffton’s extensive civilian defense
organization was set up on the basis
that the town was an important de
fense and war production center. In
this connection it was pointed out that
the town should take extraordinary
precautions against the interruption
of the program.
It was anticipated that the addition
of the fire truck would materially
strengthen the town’s resouces in re
spect to necessary’ civilian defense
and protection of the town’s war in
dustries.
Had it not been for the WPB can
cellation order the fire truck would
likely be in Bluffton by this time as
delivery was scheduled for early sum
mer.
Refuse Priority Rating
A letter received by Mayor W. A.
Howe from the office of the WPB in
Washington early in May indicating
that it would be impossible to give
Bluffton the proper priority prefer
ence rating for purchase of the truck
because of “critical materials” involv
ed.
The fire equipment, consisting of a
Mack truck was purchased by the
town council early in March at a cost
of $7,950. Funds for the purpose
were provided by a bond issue ap
proved by the voters at the polls last
November.
Sale of the bonds, in the amount of
$7,950 to the Citizens National Bank,
has been ordered suspended until the
proper priority classification is ob
tained for the purchase of the truck.
Demonstration On
Canning At School
Bluffton women are invited to at
tend a canning demonstration to be
held at Bluffton High school Thurs
day afternoon at 1:30 o’clock.
The demonstration is sponsored by
the welfare division of the Bluffton
civilian defense council. In charge
will be Miss Ruth Barns, the Allen
county demonstration agent and Miss
Dorothy Scott, home management
supervisor of the farm security ad
ministration.
Miss Eddythc Cupp, Bluffton High
school home economics instructor,
will assist in the local arrangements
for the demonstration.
The demonstration will deal with
canning corn, peas and other vege
tables, and how sugar substitutes
may be used most effectively in war
time canning.
The entire demostration will be in
formal and opportunity will be given
for questions about individual can
ning problems.
Births
The following births at the Bluff
ton hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Zimmerly,
a boy, Ronald Lynn, Thursday. Mrs.
Zimmerly was formerly Mis Juanita
Weiss.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dukes, Leip
sic, a boy, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Crawford, a
boy, Friday. Mrs. Crawford was
formerly Miss Irene Augsburger.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Stahlman,
Grove Hill, a girl, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ream, Colum
bus Grove, a boy, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Donivan Gratz are
the parents of a seven and one-half
pound boy, Brett Alan, born Friday
at the Grandview hospital in Sellers
ville, Pa. Mrs. Gratz was formerly
Miss Gayle Amstutz of Bluffton.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. David Jones,
of Sherwood, a baby girl, Barbara,
at the Defiance hospital, Friday.
Mrs. Jones was formerly’ Miss Naomi
Welty of this place and Mr. Jones
is a Bluffton college graduate.