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VICTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
EFEMSE
ONDS
AMD
STAMPS
VOLUME NO. LXVII
74 YOUTHS 18-20
ARE REGISTERED
HERE ON TUESDAY
1942 Bluffton High Graduates
Make Up 18 of Group in
Registration
No Lottery for New Regist
rants Will be Called in
Order of Birth
In the fifth and concluding draft
registration Tuesday, 74 youths
from Bluffton, Richland, Jackson and
Monroe townships were registered at
the Bluffton High school library.
Of the 74 between the ages of 18
and 20’2 years, 18 were graduated
from Bluffton High school in the
Class of 1942, draft registrars re
ported.
Young men under 20 are not liable
for military service under the pres
ent selective service act, but the
law provides for their registration.
Questionnaires Soon
Those registering Tuesday who
have reached the age of 20 will re
ceive their questionnaires soon, with
classification to be made on the basis
of the date of their birth.
No lottery is being held to deter
mine the order in which the new
20-year-old group will be called, with
the date of birth being the govern
ing factor in induction.
Names of registrants in the fifth
registration will be added to the bot
tom of present lists, and when avail
able single men are exhausted, the
new group will be called. As those
now 18 and 19 reach the age of 20
they also will be called.
With the conclusion of registration
Tuesday, all men between the ages
of 18 and 65 have registered under
the selective service act.
Quinten Burkholder was chairman
of the Bluffton registration commit
tee, Tuesday, assisted by Sidney
Stettler, A. J. B. Longsdorf, Verena
Ba’mer, Mrs. Hiram Burkholder,
Mrs. Howard Stager and Mrs. Edwin
Niswander.
Many Must Get
Auto Stamps Yet
Many Bluffton area motorists were
without the required $5 federal auto
stamps Tuesday night when the
deadline for operation of cars with
out them was reached.
Adding to complications of the
customary last minute buying was
the fact that the supply of stamps
available at the Bluffton post office
was exhausted twice this week.
After 650 stamps had been sold
here, no more were left in the post
office last Monday noon, and a new
supply was not obtained until 2:30
p. m. Tuesday.
From 2:30 until 5 p. m. more
than 200 of the 250 additional
stamps had been sold, and the sup
ply was exhausted again Wednes
day morning.
Postmaster Ed R. Reichenbach
estimated that at least 400 more
stamps will be sold here. Additional
stamps are expected Wednesday for
those who have been unable to ob
tain the stickers earlier.
Motorists operating their cars
without the $5 stamps are liable to
arrest and fines.
Farmer Breaks Arm
In Buck Rake Mishap
Alvin Lugibill, 59, is convalescing
at his home four and one-half miles
northwest of Bluffton, from a frac
ture of the left arm and a severe
finger injury which occurred in an
accident at his farm last Wednes
day afternoon about 2:30 o’clock.
The accident happened when his
arm was caught in a cable on a
buck rake. He was taken to the
Bluffton hospital after the accident
and removed to his home on Monday.
Another buck rake accident occur
red this week when Noah F. Steiner,
70, suffered painful injuries as the
long tines of the rake entered his
right thigh at the John A. Diller
farm, three miles west of Bluffton,
Saturday afternoon.
Births
The following births at the Bluff
ton hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Clayton, Ada,
boy. Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Holman, La
fayette, a boy, Thursday.
Word has been received of the
birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Hixon at Hillsboro.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Mot
ter, a baby girl, Deborah Ann, June
19, at Englewood, Tenn.
Stoodt To Be School
Head At Beaverdam
Paul Stoodt, Bluffton college grad
uate in the class of 1926, will be
superintendent of Beaverdam public
schools next year, it was announced
the first of the week.
Stoodt taught at the Beaverdam
High school during the past year
filling out the teaching term of Mel
vin Yoder who was drafted last fall.
He had taught previously in the
Beaverdam schools eight years ago
but has been engaged for the most
part in the insurance business since
that time.
Stoodt will fill the vacancy cre
ated by the resignation of I. C. Pau
previous superintendent, who has re
entered the ministry in the Church
of the Brethren.
Mr. and Mrs. Stoodt will live on
the Bed Kidd farm near Beaverdam.
The house is being rebuilt this sum
mer. Mrs. Stoodt will teach next
year in the Cairo schools.
TURBINE READY
FOR OPERATION
BY NEXT WEEK
Second Unit is Installed at
Municipal Plant Here
Wednesday
Await Final Inspection and
Checkup Dismantle Old
Equipment
With installation completed, the re
cently- purchased 1,250 KW turbo
generator will be in operation at the
Bluffton municipal electric light and
waterworks plant- next week, it was
stated by John W. Swisher, superin
tendent in charge.
Only final checkup and approval of
an engineer from the Westinghouse
company of Pittsburgh, manufacturer
of the equipment is required to place
the unit in regular operation on the
line.
An engineer from the Westing
house company is expected here next
Monday for final inspection which will
require two or three days, after which
it will be ready for operation as the
second of a battery of two turbo-gen
erator units at the plant.
The turbine and condenser instal
lations were completed the first week
in June and the tame since then has
been required for final pipe connec
tions.
Sell Old Engine
One of the old Skinner 300 KW
engines was sold to the Pet Milk in
terests in St. Louis, Mo., whose engi
neers were here the first of the week
dismantling the unit and generator
preparatory to shipping it to one of
their plants.
The other Skinner 300 KW engine
and generator located near the door
facing Harmon road, will be used as
an emergency unit, Swisher said.
As an auxiliary, the Skinner unit
can be paralleled w-ith the turbine if
the peak load should ne near the 750
KW capacity of present turbo-gener
ator. Test runs have proven this en
tirely feasible, Swisher stated.
Operating Efficiency
It makes for greater generating
efficiency to have several units of dif
ferent sizes available for the produc
tion of electrical power, it was pointed
out. If the generator is too large the
machine runs under its capacity and
economy is lost because more steam
per KW is required.
Plant engineers must anticipate the
peak load and provide sufficient pow
er to meet the peak. If only one
large generator of sufficient size to
meet the peak were used the expense
of operation would be unecessarily
large on days like Sunday, when the
load is very light.
The power load in Bluffton has in
creased sharply- in the past several
years. Increased installation of elec
tric ranges and refrigerators in Bluff
ton rensidences together with the
stepped up industrial tempo have
combined to create an unanticipated
need for electric qnergy.
Industrial Power
The largest consumers of current
in Bluffton are the Triplett Electrical
Instrument Co., The Bluffton Stone
Co. and The Page Dairy Co. The
hammer mills in local milling compan
ies arc large users of power also, it
was stated.
With the recently purchased 1250
KW turbo-generating unit, the pres
ent 750 turbo-generator and the 300
KW Skinner engine, the plant has
adequate facilities in both boiler
(Continued om page 8)
Hogs Go To Record 16 Year High
Wheat At Lowest Mark Since War
I
Quotation of $14.20 Held On
Market Here All Week for
Top Hogs
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Price of $1.05 for New Wheat
Crop Quoted on Local Mar
ket Wednesday
Bluffton livestock and grain mark
ets parted company the first of the
week and moved in opposite direc
tions with hogs soaring to the high
est point in sixteen years while
wheat prices sagged to the lowest
point since before Pearl Harbor.
Hogs were steady Wednesday in a
strong market which has maintained
a top price of $14.20 per hundred
pounds all week. Wheat on the
other hand displayed a weak under
tone.
Altho none of the new- crop is ex
pected on the market this week,
dealers said the price for grain
would be $1.05 per bushel on basis
of Wednesday morning's quotations.
Shipments Up
Wednesday’s hog shipments were
above average for this season of
year, buyers said, reflecting top
market prices together with the fact
that Tuesday night’s downpour tem
porarily halted work in the fields.
Offerings during the next sixty
days will be light due to the fact
that the bulk of last fall’s pig crop
has been marketed and the spring
pigs will not be ready until abou
September. Restricted volume to
gether with continued heavy demand
is expected to make a strong under
pinning for the market during the
summer.
Quotations in the wheat market
reflect effects of a record carry over
of grain which together with restric
tion of foreign shipments due to
wartime lack of transportation is
making the disposition of the crop
a pressing problem.
This carry over, plus the oncoming
crop makes a record supply in sight.
Dale Reichenbach To
Be Officer In Navy
Dale Reichenbach, son of Post
master and Mrs. E. R. Reichenbach
of West Elm street, has enlisted in
the United States navy with a rank
as petty officer and will begin an
eight weeks’ training period at Nor
folk, Va., starting August 12.
Reichenbach was sworn in at the
Navy recruiting center in Cleveland
on Monday. He will be a naval
physical training director in the pro
gram under the direction of Gene
Tunney.
He has been athletic coach for the
past year at Bucyrus township
school. He graduated from Bluffton
high school in the class of 1937 and
from Bluffton college in the class
of 1941. He is well known here as
an athlete.
Rev. Unruh Resigns
Bluffton Pastorate
Resignation of Rev. H. T. Unruh,
pastor of the First Mennonite church
for nearly seven years, was an
nounced at a congregational meeting
of the church Sunday, to be effective
September 1.
Rev. Unruh came to Bluffton from
Halstead, Kansas, in January of
1936 and is returning to Kansas as
pastor of the First Mennonite church
in Hillsboro.
His daughter Miss Mildred Unruh
will be teaching at Lehigh High
school, six miles from Hillsboro. The
town is 18 miles from Newton,
Kansas.
Taber college, a Mennonite insti
tution, is located in Hillsboro.
Noah F. Steiner
Injured By Rake
Noah F. Steiner, 70, retired Rich
land township farmer, was injured
in an unusual barnyard accident at
2:45 p. m. last Saturday on the farm
of a neighbor, Marion Boutwell,
three miles west of Bluffton.
Steiner was standing in the barn
when Boutwell drove into the build
ing with a buck rake loaded with
hay. The machine, for an undeter
mined reason, swerved, and long
tines of the rake entered Steiner’s
right thigh. Wounds were several
inches deep.
Taken to the Bluffton hospital for
treatment. Steiner was removed to
his home on Tuesday.
MOVE TO ILLINOIS
Mrs. D. E. Dailey and family
moved the first of the week from
their farm south of town on the
Dixie highway to Decatur, Ill., where
Mr. Dailey is employed.
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BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUL
WHEAT CUTTING
BEGINS AVERAGE
CROP FORECAST
Yzield in Bluffton District Ex
pected 20 to 25 Bushels
Per Acre
More Farmers to Combine this
Year Because of Harvest
Help Shortage
Although the forecast is for only
an average wheat crop and prices
are sagging, shippers here are an
ticipating a large volume of early
marketing of the grain because of
the possibility of an embargo later
in the season.
With binders already at work in
the fields and combines ready to
start within a few days, marketing
of the crop is expect to begin dur
ing the coming week.
Possibility of an embargo more
stringent than that of a year ago is
seen due to the fact that storage
terminals already have a record
carry over of wheat.
Early Marketing Assured
However, farmers here are assured
of an outlet for at hast the early
portion of their harvest, it was stat
ed by local dealers the first of the
week.
Terminal warehouses have given
assurance that they will buy wheat
from elevators here until their stor
age facilities reac hcapacity. This
in past years has been sufficient to
accommodate the bulk of the crop
marketed here with little or no con
gestion.
However, in past years a large
part of the American wheat crop has
flowed thru the terminals to foreign
markets. At present wartime ship
ping restrictions have practically
eliminated this type of business.
Smaller Crop May Be Solution
Indications that I the current crop
will be the smallest in recent years
may provide a solution for the prob
lem and enable ‘the elevators to
handle without congestion that por
tion marketed during harvest season.
In contrast to ttongestion in the
terminals, storage bins on farms are
mostly empty, it was revealed in a
local survey of the Bluffton district
the first of the week. Much of the
record wheat crops of the past sev
eral years stored by farmers was
liquidated during the price rise last
winter.
Bluffton Residents
In Teaching Posts
Several Bluffton district residents
have secured new teaching positions
during the past week.
These are: Miss Ruth Steinef, who
taught at New Washington for the
past two years, will teach at Mc
Comb next year: Miss Rachel Beagle
will teach home economics and Eng
lish at Perry township rural school.
Mrs. Rollan Rader, a Bluffton col
lege graduate, will teach in the ele
mentary school at Harrod. Mrs.
Paul Stoodt who taught at Findlay
last year will teach in the elemen
tary school at Cairo.
Song Festival At
Ebenezer Church
Four district Mennonite churches
are combining services for the an
nual song festival to be held at the
Ebenezer Mennonite church Sunday
night at 8:15 o’clock.
Joining in the service are the
Grace church of Pandora, the Eben
ezer, St. John and First Mennonite
churches. Dr. Samuel Flueckiger,
music professor at Manchester col
lege, North Manchester, Ind., will di
rect the group singing.
Dr. Flueckiger is a graduate of
Bluffton college in the class of 1922.
There will be a pulpit exchange
among the four churches for the
services Sunday morning.
In addition to the group singing
Sunday night there will be two spe
cial musical numbers contributed by
each church. The public is invited.
Ivan Geiger Enlists
In U. S. Coast Guard
Ivan Geiger, graduate of Bluffton
High school and Bluffton college, has
enlisted in the Coast Guard, with a
rank as lieutenant junior grade.
In the service, Geiger is detailed
to special duties in physical training.
He has been teaching at Van Buren
High school, Hancock county, where
he held the position of principal.
Rank Advanced
Donivan Berry was advanced to
the rank of Tech. Sgt. in the Medi
cal Corps at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.,
where he has been in training.
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Standing fields oats in the
Bluffton area were blown down by
a heavy wind and electrical storm
which swept this section Tuesday
night.
Altho it was too early Wednesday
morning to make an accurate ap
praisal of the damage, farmers were
agreed that the loss will be consid
erable and the tangled stand will
add materially to the labor required
to harvest the crop.
Smaller Crop and Farm Stor
age May Offer Solution to
Grain Problem
With an early wheat harvest get
ting under way in the Bluffton area
this week, farm observers report an
average crop of from 20 to 25 bush
els to the acre is expected from most
fields.
Wheat scab damage, heavy in some
parts of the state, is comparatively
light in this district, altho there are
some reports of crop damage from
the disease. Wheat scab causes a
shriveled head and smaller kernels.
Farmers have not been expecting a
bumper crop of wheat this year be
cause of winter freezing and unfav
orable early spring growing weather.
Indications have not pointed to a
better than average crop at any time,
and it is not expected that many
fields will yield more than 30 bushels
to the acre.
Much Custom Harvesting
Custom harvesting with combines
is more prevalent than ever this year,
because of the shortage of farm labor
and the rush of other farm work, it
was reported.
Altho practically unknown here a
decade ago, combine harvesting is
growing in favor with farmers each
year. Its greatest advantage is the
simplification of work for the farmer,
permitting him to get at other duties
particularly pressing this year be
cause of an acute shortage of farm
labor.
With most farmers far behind in
their work, it is a common sight to
see women on tractors in the fields
this year, and children also are tak
ing over work that they can handle.
Wheat scab damage in some parts
of the state has been very severe.
The disease was caused by rainy, cold
weather at blossoming and wheat
heading time. Extent of the damage
varies from four per cent in some lo
calities to 15 per cent in others, ac
cording to state agricultural author
ities.
Marshall Jennings
To Address Lions
Observations on Bluffton and the
farming community and bits of per
sonal philosophy will be presented
in a talk by Marshall Jennings of
Richland township at a meeting of
the Lions club to be held at the
Walnut Grill Tuesday night at 6:15
o’clock.
Leave For Young
People’s Meeting
Several young people from the
Bluffton Church of Christ will leave
Sunday for a week’s conference of
that denomination at Lakeside.
Attending from here will be: Mary
Lou Carr, Freda Fritchie, Sara Mae
Miller, Roberta Mangus, Earl Dean
Luginbuhl. Transportation will be
provided by Rev. and Mrs. Gerald
Bright and Mr. and Mrs. Byron
Mangus.
Real Estate Dea]
Philip Basinger, residing south of
Bluffton on the Dixie highway has
purchased the residence property on
East Kibler street belonging to the
late John J. Badertscher. Price
$2,250. The property was offered
for sale by Dan R. Trippiehorn, ad
ministrator. The transaction does
not include a vacant lot adjoining
the property.
Enlists In Navy
Gerald Swank, operator of a North
Main street barber shop has enlisted
in the navy, it was announced the
first of the week. Swank expects to
be called to active service July 27.
Standing Oats Is Levelled By
Heavy Wind Storm Tuesday Night
Oats, it was pointed out are heavy
Anticipate Early Wh
Rush Because
Embargo Prospect Expected to
Spur Sales in Face of Sag
ging Prices
t-his year and for that reason sus
tained more than ordinary damage
as a result of the storm. Wheat, on
the other hand which is the lightest
in recent years showed comparative
ly little effect.
The storm brought relief from a
week end of hot and sultry weather
with temperatures reaching a maxi
mum of 93 degrees, Monday. Fol
lowing the storm Tuesday night
temperatures dropped to the low
seventies.
sat Marketing
Of Possible Embargo
BLUFFTON WILL
OBSERVE QUIET
4TH SATURDAY
Noisy Independence Day Ban
ned for First Time Under
State Law
Business Generally Will Be
Closed Post Office Will
Be Open
Bluffton will observe the Fourth
of July quietly on Saturday, for the
first time under the new state law
which bans the sale or discharge of
firecrackers and pyrotechnic dis
plays.
The state law became effective
last August 1, and prohibits the old
time noisy Fourth of July celebra
tion. Fireworks and firecrackers are
allowed only under official supervi
sion.
Bluffton also has a two year old
municipal ordinance whose purpose
is the same as the fireworks law in
the Ohio code but now unnecessary.
No Observance Here
No special observance is planned
for the day altho many Bluffton
residents will go out of town for
holiday and week end trips and
others are making arrangements to
entertain visitors here.
Stores will close and business
generally will be suspended. There
will be no rural mail deliveries but
otherwise the postoffice will be open
for business and mail will be dis
patched as usual. Town mail de
liveries will be made in the morning.
The public library will be closed for
the day.
The Buckeye swimming lake and
picnic grounds will be open on the
Fourth and some residents here are
planning to take advantage of these
facilities.
Presbyterian Youth
Conference At College
More than 100 delegates from
Northwestern Ohio Presbyterian
Young People’s organizations will
register on the Bluffton college cam
pus next Monday for a week’s con
ference to discuss social problems
and religion.
This is the fifth year for the con
ference here and delegates from
Lima, Toledo and Dayton Presbyter
ies will be in attendance. The con
ference will last through Monday
noon, July 13.
As in the young people’s confer
ence of the United Brethren church
the girls will be quartered in Lincoln
hall and the boys in Ropp hall.
Classrooms in the college admin is
tration building will be used by dis
cussion groups.
Classes will be held each morning
with afternoons devoted to recrea
tion, including baseball, tennis and
swimming.
The conference here is one of
three youth gatherings held in Ohio
by the Presbyterian church. The
others are at Western college, Ox
ford, and Wooster college, Wooster.
Presbyterian Pastor
Assumes Duties Here
Re\. Ernest Bigelow who has beer,
called to the pastorate of the Bluff
ton-Rockport Presbyterian charge
arrived here Monday accompanied by
Mrs. Big.-low. also atunued
meeting of Lima Presbytery at Ala,
Monday afternoon.
He will begin his ministry Sunday
morning, preaching at Rockport at
9:20 o’clock and- in Bluffton at 10:50.
Rev. Bigelow was graduated in June
from Yale Divinity school at New
Haven, Conn. He and Mrs. Bige
low are also graduates of Wooster
college.
They will occupy the Martha
Steiner property on S. Lawn avenue.
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
/BONDS
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NUMBER 10
TOWN IS REQUIRED
TO ADVERTISE FOR
BIDS OVER $500
Deputy from State Auditor’s
Office Explains Law to
Town Council
Recommends Town Make Esti
mate of Material Needs
Every Six Months
Advertising for competitive bids
is required on all purchases made
by the municipality when the
amount of money involved aggre
gates $500 or more, the town council
was informed by M. O. Armstrong,
deputy state auditor who is here
this week making an examination of
the corporation records.
Armstrong was invited by Mayor
Howe to meet with the council for
a general discussion of municipal
finances and procedure.
Advertising for competitive bids
which Armstrong pointed out is re
quired by the Ohio code will effect
principally three items—stone and
oil purchased by the council for
road repair and maintenance and
coal purchased by the board of
public affairs for use at the munici
pal electric light plant.
Not Present Practice
The town has not been following
this procedure in the past, it was
brought out in discussion at the
council chamber, purchases being
authorized by both the council and
board of public affairs as the need
arose.
Purchases of fuel, including
freight, for the municipal light plant
last year were $20,007. Materials
for the town’s road repair program
the past year represented an ex
penditure of around $7,000, it was
estimated during the discussion.
This figure, however, is considerably
above the average, it was stated by
Lee Coon, street commissioner.
Armstrong suggested that com
petitive bids be invited on a basis
of the estimated amount of these
materials needed every six months.
In this connection the deputy ex
aminer pointed out that the town
would be under no obligation to ac
cept the lowest bid, but rather the
lowest and best bid.
No indication as to how these
recommendations would be followed
was given at the meeting Monday
night.
Funeral Thursday
For C. E. Thompson
Funeral services for Chester E.
Thompson, 70, prominent farmer
and Orange township official, will be
held at the Bethel Church of Christ,
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Mr. Thompson died Tuesday morn
ing at 5.30 o’clock in the home in
which he was born in Orange town
ship. He had been ill with heart
trouble for seven weeks and had
been in failing health for several
years.
He was born March 27, 1872, on
the Thompson homestead, the son of
Isaac and Louisa McKinley Thomp
son. He was married on Sept 1,
1898 to Maud George, of Ada, who
survives.
There are three children: Dr.
Otho Thompson of Alliance Mrs.
Ruth Morgan of Middletown and
Mrs. Dorothea Parrish of Toledo.
There are six grandchildren. A bro
ther, J. Allen Thompson, lives on an
adjoining farm.
Two sisters, Mrs. Lattia Zoll and
Mrs. Mary Jane Crawford, and two
brothers, Freeman Thompson and
W. H. Thompson preceded him in
death.
C. E. Thompson was a member of
the Orange township school board
for 12 years and served the same
number of years as a township
trustee.
He had been a member of the
Bethel Church of Christ for 50 years
and was an elder of the congrega
tion at the time of his death.
Officiating at the funeral services
will be Rev. Lee Remaley of Arling
ton and Rev. Lee Moore of Ada.
His lifetime occupation had been
that of farmer. The body is at the
residence where it will remain until
time for the services. Burial will
be in the Thompson cemetery in
Orange township.
Woman On Visit
Injured in Fall
Mrs. E. C. Althaus of this place
is in the Aultman hospital at Can
ton as the result of a fractured left
leg between the knee and hip. She
was injured in a fall while visiting
at the home of her daughter Mrs.
A. M. Rickert in Canton.