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PAGE TWO I Bluffton Plans Home Gardens This Summer To Meet Food Needs Intensified Gardening Program Seen as Aid to Food Production Residents Here Beginning to Plan Gardens for Spring Planting With every evidence that farm fields alone will not be able to meet the nation’s food needs, Bluffton resi dents are making preliminary plans for an intensive spring and summer gardening program here. This together with the rationing of processed foods will likely stimu late home gardening here on a scale considerably larger than previous years. Not only will home gardening save a considerable amount of money with rising food prices, but it will enable families to obtain a balanced diet of vegetables which would be difficult to obtain otherwise, it has been pointed out. Preliminary Plans Many Bluffton people are begin ning to buy seeds and to plan their gardens in order that they may be prepared to get under way as soon as the weather permits the first spading. Vegetable gardening should never he a hit and miss enterprise but es pecially in 1943 is it urgent to plant ■wisely and according to a carefully conceived plan. A well arranged garden will supply fresh vegetables from May to late October, which is half a year. In addition to the continuous har vest to be anticipated, plans should he made to sow enough of such crops as carrots, beets, cabbage, and others so a supply can be stored over win ter. Canning or freezing will pre serve peas, corn, beans, tomatoes and some greens so enough of these veg etables should be planted to provide food during the growing season and surplus for winter. Other Factors Victor Reese, extension specialist, Ohio State university, points out that the amount of food which can be produced on a garden plot is not the only factor to consider. Vegetables are one of the most economical sources of vitamins, and a variety of vegetables will supply more vita mins and also will permit selection so the family does not become tired of being served the same one day after day. Vitamin A can be obtained from yellow, green, or leafy vegetables. There are many of these. For vita min C, plant spinach, beets for greens, peppers, cabbage, kale, Swiss chard, collards, and hrotali. Most of these have a relatively short pro ductive season so plans should be made to plant several of them which mature at different periods. Succession plantings of lettuce, fpinach and mustard can be made so one planting will be ready for food as soon as the previous planting has been harvested. It is possible to make two or three plantings of these crops, spaced widely enough apart so tender greens will be avail able all summer. Growing Period The gardner should know the grow ing period needed by all vebetables before they are ready to eat. Quick crops such as radishes, green onions, lettuce, mustard, beet greens, Swiss chard, spinach, garden cress, and parsely will be ready for the table in as little as six weeks after plant ing, if conditions are favorable. No gardner can make plants hurry, so those people who grow Brussels The March fill? Issue of PTHE SATURDAY EVENING OST Tells the Story of PITTSBURGH'S Every home owner will find it to his interest to read about this re markable paint development. Our store has a dependable stock of Pittsburgh’s Live Paints for every surface. We would appre ciate the opportunity to show you the tests which prove the long term efficiency of Live Paint Protection. You can make your homes and equipment last for years to come. Steinman Bros. Lumber Co. sprouts, parsnips, squash, corn, on ions, tomatoes, late cabbage, and many others, will have to wait for three or more months after planting to get their vitamins. Not only are town families urged to intensify their garden production but farm gardens are also expected to produce vegetables for the mark ets Garden-Use Plan A plan is being worked out in the county whereby people with unused i garden plots make them available to those who would like to garden but 'do not have the land. More detailed announcement of this plan will be made at a later date. There are numerous pamphlets available concerning home gardening and many of these may be obtained through Harry Barnes, instructor in vocational agriculture at Bluffton High school. Those who plan and start gardens should be prepared to take care of them consistently through the season as the country can not afford to waste seed, fertilizer, insecticides and effort this year. Things we’ve seen..........housewives trying out their new ration books.... and believe it or not soup beans seem to be favorite on the ration list here .........and that worried look around the high school since Bluffton is slat ed to meet undefeated Middlepoint in the opening round of the basketball tournament at Celina.........Sid would draw a tough one......... and with Schmidt added to the injured list doesn’t help prospects......... and that wild rumor Saturday about impend ing clothes rationing resulted in a lot of foolish buying......... some of it bordered on hysteria—and yet we pride ourselves on being fairly intel ligent—or are we?......... and seed buying has started......... looks like a lot of home gardening..........or may be it’s just early spring enthusiasm that will evaporate as the days get i warmer......... and the town council making “fast” time official—the farmers still don’t like it....just a friendly advance tip—the glue is on the right side of the new paper auto license tags, even if it doesn’t look like it. Biggest surprise since the ration ing program went into effect this week has been the demand for soup beans. Mrs. Bluffton housewife evi dently was caught short of one of the old standbys which was a late addi tion to the list of rationed foods. While most families had their allow ance of canned goods, beans, appar ently were overlooked. If these jeejps run as wild on the battlefield as they do on the highway it looks as if enemy casuulty lists will mount. Another of them got coltish and out of control Friday morning going thru the business district and struck the corner of the Risser Sand wich shop. Nobody hurt but the jeep got the worst of the encounter with the brick building. Worried new mothers combing the town for baby buggies—another war time scarcity—and used baby car riages like used farm machinery are bringing top prices. If you hve a baby buggy stored in the attick it’s a good time to dispose of it—and you will also be helping some young moth er out of difficult situation. And while we’re on the subject of wartime scarcity—just remember that you don’t throw away your old license plates this year—and if you happen to lose them it may be difficult to get a replacement. To help solve this dif ficulty finder of license plates are re quested to turn them in at the Mayor’s office and officials will con tact the registrar who issued them, who in turn will be asked to notify the owner. Chalk up another one for the small towns—since wartime food rationing the big city eating places are exper iencing difficulty with their menu and traveling men are deserting them for smaller places where foodstuffs are more plentiful. Bluffton has lost none of its eating places and the quality of its rstaurant meals is making the town an increased favorite with the traveling public. Not all prices are up—as one farm er learned to his sorrow the other day. It all happened when a calf died on his place and the farmer paid a dollar to have the animal skinned—but he only received a quarter when he sold the hide. Seventy-five cents loss charged up to experience. Comments on the News’ Fifty Year subscribers club brings to light what we believe to be the only living orig inal subscriber—J. Neiswander of Williamstown—who has been reading the News every week since it was founded in 1875. Mr. Niswander, 86, recalled that he helped “Dick” Cun ningham in canvassing for subscribers 68 years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Neiswan- A MERICAN girls who do not worry about dishpan hands”, and can stand the odor of frying doughnuts in their hair and clothes, are winning popularity with U. S. troops in the British Isles and North Africa. They are the girls who operate the Red Cross “clubmobiles”, newest de vice of the American Red Cross to carry the longed for “home away from home” atmosphere to service men overseas. One of the services made possible by the contributions of the American people to the Red Cross, the club mobiles are equipped with a dough nut-making machine, coffee urns, radio, public announcing system, a phonograph and records, and a li brary of books and magazines. Staffed entirely by Red Cross girls der moved from Bluffton in 1880 to their present farm west of New Stark where they have since resided. Congratulations to the couppie who are well remembered by many of the older Bluffton residents. Congratulations to Mrs. Cliff Strat ton on her birthday anniversary Tues day—and one of the appreciated gifts was a yer’s subscription to the Bluff ton News from her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Don Stratton. Comes word from Fred Herr, erst while Bluffton insurance man now in army training out in Vancouver, Washington. His camp is in sight of Mt. Hood, one of the high peaks of the west coast. Fritz says the army surely makes a man out of you with strenous drills—even on Sunday. Well, New York city has heard of Bluffton—the other day in the New York Times appeared an account of that old stove, an heirloom in the Anderson family, which Hary donat ed to the scrap iron drive here last summer and hauled in from Orange township. Beats all how Bluffton do ings get around in this world. Another snow Tuesday afternoon— and the old timers predicted when it snowed on the 28th of last November that there would be 28 snows this winter. And they say that the count is now in the lower twenties. Bluffton spent in round numbers $64,000 in its schools during the past year, according to reports compiled recently. Of this amount slightly over $40,000 went for salaries—etach i ers, administrators, janitors, etc. The largest amount spent in one year was $69,000 in 1929. Enclosed with a subscription re newal was the comment from Mrs. John J. Reiss of Columbus, former Blufftonite, that “the News is always a welcome visitor every Thursday.”.. ..and from Roger Hauenstein at the Maxton, North Carolina air base, “it’s the proverbial letter from home.” Sgt. Edwin Rice, now with the armed forces in West Africa, maV be a fighting Yankee soldier hut he’s wearing a British uniform, so we hear from correspondents. It’s this way— a ship bearing supplies of uniforms for the American soldiers in Africa was sunk and the British supply or ganization furnished the American soliders in Rice’s unit with the Eng lish military outfits. When people complain about ra tioning here they should think of their English brothers across the wat ers. They are on much stricter ra tioning on all commodities. A ten room house can get at the most only two tons of coal which means heat ing only two or three of the rooms and then keeping those at a temper-, ature of about 60 degrees. Generally, however, people here have taken their restrictions in stride but there are always a few who com- THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO Red Cross Clubmobile Hostesses Must Ba Skilled Cooks And Mechanics A Red Cross worker examines the doughnut making machine. part of the equipment of the “clubmobile” of which ■she is a crew member in the picture at left. At right: Miss Fern Maddox of Oklahoma City, serves doughnuts to a soldier at an airfield “somewhere in England.” Center: Members of a Red Cross mobile unit distribute coffee and doughnuts to U. S. soldiers in the British Isles. who are skilled drivers and trained in motor mechanics, the clubmobiles visit isolated j«sts in the British Isles and North Africa, where the girls distribute free doughnuts, coffee, chewing gum, and cigarets to the men. Often the posts they visit con tain a personnel no larger than a platoon. Sometimes they are inland air bases, staffed by hundreds of men. Men at these stations rarely get leave and frequently are far from a city or town where there is a Red Cross club. The girl-crews operate from a central point from which they can cover five or six of the isolated out posts. Rising at 6 a. m. they mix their doughnut batter, start coffee urns boiling and head for the sta tion to be visited that day. If pos sible, they visit two posts a day. Once at their destination, the dough The Men’s Gospel team quartet will conduct services in Lafayette at the Church of the Brethren on Sun day morning. Stanley Hostetter, freshman from Dalton, will give the morning address and the quartet will have ch^^e of devotions, and will provide spet ial musical numbers. Personnel of the quartet includes: Ed Zehr, junior from Gridley, Ill., first tenor David Weaver, freshman from Danvers, Ill., second tenor Hostetter, baritone and Ben Rider, freshman from McComb, bass. Ellis Guthrie, vice president of the Gospel team, and son of Rev. J. L. Guthrie, pastor of the church, will accompany the group. Mrs. Rosa Page Welch, colored Mezzo-soprano from Chicago, will be heard in sacred concert at the monthly Vesper service in Ramseyer chapel, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. She has given concerts of both sacred and secular music throughout the country, and is fast approaching the goal set for her by many who have heard her perform ances—that of ranking with Marian Anderson in the musical world. Mrs. Welch’s program will include two groups of Negro spirituals, and also, such favorites as Shubert’s _“Ava Maria,” and Adams’ “Holy City”. Miss Edythe Cupp, home eco nomics instructor at Bluffton high school, will speak to members of the Bluffton college Home Economics club, at their monthly meeting this plain about “inconveniences and sac rifices’ ’they are making. It was interesting to see the large number of different newspapers rep resented in the declaration forms pre sented at the high school to obtain War Ration Book No. 2. Most of the people clipped the form from the Bluffton News, but there were others from the Unia News, the Findlay Re publican-Courier, the Toledo Blade, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and some from papers as far away as Newton, Kansas. We were pleased to overhear sever al people speak of their appreciation of the service rendered by the Bluff ton News in presenting a complete and accurate picture of the rationing procedure. One woman remarked that she learned more about the pro cedure from the Bluffton News than any other paper. Further evidence of the changing conditions. From the early files of the Bluffton News there are many ac counts of numerous Bluffton people who went on prospecting trips to var ious points in the west and south where land was undeveloped and cheap. With the frontier gone and the country fairly completely settled such a situation is never heard of anymore. nuts are cooked to the tune of the latest phonograph records, accompan ied by the “hurry, hurry hurry” calls from impatient soldiers. A home-like touch is the china coffee cups in contrast with the soldiers’ mess tins. Although many of the clubmobiles are already in operation, additional units will be outfitted from funds obtained through the $125,000,000 Red Cross 1943 War Fund. Red Cross officials plan to have 48 of the clubmobiles, named for the 48 United States, in Great Britain. Twenty-five more will be sent to North Africa. Perhaps the greatest thrill Amer ican soldiers get from the clubmo biles is that of hearing and seeing an American girl. If she comes from the home state, it’s something. If she comes from the home town, it’s terrific! Bluffton College Notes Wednesday evening. She will talk to the club concerning careers for home economists. Members of the college Vesper choir appeared in sacred concert at the Rawson tinted Brethren ghurch last Sunday evening. Other engage ments scheduled for March and April include concerts at Salem high school near Upper Sandusky, on Friday evening, March 12 at the St. John Mennonite church, north of Bluffton, on Sunday evening, March 14 and at the Bluffton Presbyter ian church, Sunday evening, April 11. The choir will also appear at the monthly college Vesper service, Sunday afternoon, April 4. Four one-ace plays will be pre sented in the Ramseyer chapel at Bluffton college on Saturday even ing, as the second annual college one-act play contest gets under way. Directors for this year’s plays are: Stanley Hostetter, freshman from Dalton Miss Treva Arrants, sopho more from Lima, and Miss Evelyn Johnson, sophomore from Bucyrus Miss Viola Amstutz, junior from Pandora and Miss Dorothy Becken bach, senior from Canfield, directing the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior presentations, respective ly. The contest is sponsored by the college Thespian society. Miss Lucia Grieser, president of the society, will act as hostess. The Amil Tellers Dramatic club of Lima will furnish the judge. Pandora Missionary Expected This Week Miss Irma Schneck, missionary stationed in Nigeria, West Africa, is expected to arrive at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schneck of Pandora this week. A telegram was received by her parents Sunday from Miami, Florida, stating that Miss Schneck arrived in Miami from Africa by plane. She had been stationed in Africa as a missionary for the Mennonite church for the past four years. The telegram was a surprise as her parents were unaware that she was coming home. Nancy says— Guess what Sluggo! My dad just did the sw el lest thing ... he signed up 10% of his pay for War Bonds and it ain't even New Year's yet! "Up That 10% by Naw Year's" The Dluffton News presents another in the series of inter esting, but lesser known aspects of South America.—Editor. So close to the sky that fleecy white clouds appear to dip into its cold, bluegreen waters, Lake Titicaca approaches the celestial not alone in physical location. For Titicaca has been interwoven into the whole fab ric of Aymara-Quechu religious wor ship and, today, is a paradise for the tourist. Situated high in the Andes moun tains between Peru and Bolivia, at an altitude of some 12,500 feet, Lake Titicaca is the largest lake in South America and the highest steam-nagi gated lake in the world. It is vir tually a sea imprisoned between snow and rocks, 140 miles long and 70 miles wide. When its waters are lashed by winds that sweep from peak to peak, Titicaca’s fury rivals that of turbulent seas. Lake Titicaca is the legendary birthplace of the “Children of the Sun”, the rulers of the ancient Inca people, for legend says it was upon the island of the Sun, in the lake, that the Sun placed Manco Capac, first rulei’ of a mighty realm which included most of the west coast of South America when the Spaniards arrived there. Religious festivals of the Indians have always centered about Lake Titicaca, and amazing remains of stone temples still exist on the islands of the Sun and Moon, the two most important of Titicaca’s many islands. Indeed happy is the traveler who is there to witness the fiesta of the Aymara Indians, a gay and colorful ceremony influenced by his contact with the white man and by legend handed down from ances tors. A truly picturesque sight it is to see balsa boats ferried along by the breeze, guided by the sure hand of a stoical Indian, as Lake Titicaca mirrors surrounding mountain peaks I and seemingly absorbs the rays of a sun which seems so near at hand. Balsa boats are children of necessity, for when Nature failed to provide trees in the region, the Indians turned to the reeds, called totora, found growing along the banks, and fashioned them into boats. The reeds are first woven into rolls and they are then bound together to form the “planks” for balsa boats. Pushed through shallow water by a long pole, the boat also has a sail for deep water travel. These sails are raised and lowered much as blinds. When balsa water soaked they are an| dried. YES’ our Venetian boats become hauled ashore existing Ancient civilization by side with the modern—steamers play the same waters as the balss boats, here in Lake Titicaca, thous ands of feet above the sea. The Inca, queen of the fleet, is largf enough to accommodate passengers and carries a thousand tons. Built in land, the Inca was sent Atlantic in parts, assembled, and pu into a service from which there ii THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943 Lake Titicaca, Idyllic Spot High In Andes Mountains Is Scenic Attraction eighty-six cargo of a Hull, Eng across the no escape except the vessel’s utter exhaustion. An older sister-ship, the Yavari, was carried up the tortorous ascents of the Andes on the backs of mules and sturdy Indians, in the days before a railroad was constructed. Lake Titicaca serves Bolivia well. Products of her mines and soil are transported along and across the lake, particularly to and from Gua qui, the chief lake port. Even balsa boats bear a share of this commerce. As an ever-popular tourist attrac tion, Lake Titicaca provides addition al revenue to the people and gov ernment of Bolivia. Romantic names and picturesque places—Lake Titicaca, Island of the Sun and Island of the Moon, ruins reminiscent of past glories—all with an allure that is difficult to resist. Pandora Pvt. Earl Steiner, who had a 15 day furlough, left Saturday return ing to Camp Carson, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Philemon Huser and family were Sunday dinner guests in the Melvin Hilty home at Bluff ton. The dinner was in honor of Mrs. Huser’s mother, Mrs. Theo. Basinger, who celebrated her birth day. Peter Hilty is ill at this time. His daughter, Margaret who teaches at Old Fort, Ohio spent the week-end at her home. “Week of Dedication” services are being held at the Methodist church this week. Mrs. Ruth Geiger Reilly of Nap anee, Ind., spent the past week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Geiger. Earl Grismore who is in the U. S Marines is home on a furlough. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lennos Grismore. Armstrong’s Linoleum AT PRE-WAR PRICES The “Spiritual Crusade” at the Missionary church with the Amstuta Brothers of Royal Oak, Mich.r preaching and singing, closed Sun day evening. Miss Irma Schneck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schneck, mis sionary to Nigeria, Africa, arrived in this country unexpectedly a week ago last Friday. Miss Melvena Gerber of Berne, Ind., spent the week-end here with her parents. The local Red Cross chapter is giving a program at the school house this Wednesday evening. A play will be given and a moving picture shown. 140 AHO cOV __ there are many things and prices on many items BUT YOU CAN STILL BUY QUALITY LINOLEUM FLOORS .... and at Thrifty Prices Perhaps, because of government restrictions on many building ma terials and home furnishings, you thought you had to postpone all home improvements until after the war. Well, you don’t. Come in today and let us show you how you can use many of the things you already have, and give your rooms the effect of a complete redecor ating job with a smart new linoleum floor. Yow can save a lot of valuable time these busy days, too, with easy-to-care-for Armstrong's Linoleum in your kitchen. EXPERTLY CEMENTED OVER LINING FELT Large Supply Inlaids and Printed Patterns Basinger’s Furniture Store Mr., and Mrs. Noah Amstutz aniL family who lived in the Amstut^ apartment moved close to Bluffton, Monday. Pre-Easter services will be held at the Grace Mennonite church during the week of March 7 to 14 with Rev. Paul Ross Lynn of Portland, Conn., as the speaker. Ohio farmers will need to take extreme precautions to prevent de structive disease epidemics among hogs in 1943. A' 3 k A you can’t buy today, are way up