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VOLUME NO. LXIX
ASK BIDS MAY 16
FOR HOT MIX TOP
ON MAIN STREET
Estimate Cost of 1 l/i Mile Proj
ect $25,730 Town to Pro
vide $5,000
Resurfacing will consist of
phaltic concrete top one and
quarters inch in thickness on
the present brick pavement.
Jobs
Two Other Resurfacing
near Bluffton Scheduled
for This Summer
Main
Assurance that Bluffton’s
street will be resurfaced this summer
was seen here Tuesday with announce
ment that the state highway depart
ment would receive bids in Columbus
for the project on Tuesday, May 16.
The work here will extend from the
Bentley road junction on South Main
street to the north corporation bound
ary, The Allen-Hancock county line,
a distance of one and one-half miles.
an as
three-
top of
Other Projects. Too
The Main street resurfacing, how
ever, is only part of a major road
surfacing project scheduled for this
section, both north and south of Bluff
ton, for all of which bids are asked
on May 16.
North of town the resurfacing will
contiue on the 20 foot roadway to the
intersection of State Route 69 near
Mt. Cory, a distance of three and one
half miles.
Both of these projects are to be
completed by August 15, the state
highway department has announced.
Cost of the Bluffton resurfacing pro
ject is estimated at $25,730. Of this
^amount the Bluffton town council has
agreed to provide $5,000. The re
mainder will be paid from state high
way department funds. The Hancock
county resurfacing portion is estimat
ed at $35,700.
The third project will consist of a
three and one-half mile stretch of road
south of Beaverdam in Richland, Jack
son and Bath townships. The cost is
estimated at $45,700 and is to be com
pleted by July 31.
Goes To New Jersey
Joy Huber, former Bluffton man
now in Chicago and connected with
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft com
pany has been transferred to New
ark, N. J., it was announced the first
of the week.
His wife and daughter Sondra and
also his mother,
residing south of
move to Newark
school here next
Mrs. Cora Huber,
Bluffton expect to
after the close of
month.
Two Graduating
Recitals At College
Graduating recitals by two Bluff
ton college seniors in the music de
partment will be presented during
the next w’eek in Ramseyer chapel
on the college campus.
Gertrude Detwiler, of Souderton,
Pa., will appear in a piano recital
in the chapel at 8:30 p. m. Friday,
and Wanda Suter, of Columbus
Grove, will give a voice and piano
recital at 8:30 p. m. next Tuesday.
Kenneth Luginbuhl
Is 2nd Lieutenant
Kenneth Luginbuhl, of Bluffton,
who served in the South Pacific from
May, 1942, until August, 1943, has
been commissioned a second lieuten
ant in the Signal Corps,
pleting training at Fort
New
He
after com
Monmouth,
Jersey,
is the husband of
Luginbuhl, former Bluffton
school teacher, and the son of
Mrs. Har-
riette
High
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Luginbuhl, of
near Bluffton.
Lt. and Mrs. Luginbuhl are spend
ing a furlough here visiting his par
ents and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Crib
lez, parents of Mrs. Luginbuhl.
They will leave Thursday, return
ing to Ft. Monmouth. Mrs. Lugin
buhl is now employed in the govern
ment publications laboratory at that
place.
Begins Women's
Marine Training
Miss Amanda Pifer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ami Pifer of Orange
township who recently enlisted in
the women’s marine corps at Cleve
land will report for duty next Mon
day.
She will go to Washington and
then to North Caiolina to begin
training. Miss Pifer, a Bluffton
high school graduate, has resigned
her position as bookkeeper in the
Elk’s club at Findlay.
X.
Bluffton College Commencement
Week Will
Eldon Tschiegg New
Manager Of Elevator
Eldon Tschiegg, farmer, residing
west of Bluffton, has been named
manager of the Farmers Grain com
pany here. Tschiegg was selected at
a meeting of the company’s board of
directors last Wednesday night and,
assumed his new duties Monday.
He succeeds O. E. Bowers who re
signed after 15 years here to accept
the position of manager of the
Farmers Elevator company at Beav
erdam which was made vacant by the
death of I. M. Jennings last March.
BLUFFTON CLOCKS
TO BE SET AHEAD
ONE HOUR SUNDAY
Change to Fast Time Will Be
come Official At 3 A. M.
For Summer Months
Council Sets Up Time Change
In
Response To Requests
of Residents
Bluffton residents will set their
clocks ahead one hour Saturday
night when they go to bed, to con
form with the town’s adoption of
fast time for the summer season.
The change in time will be effect
ive officially at 3 a. m. next Sun
day, and the town clock will be
moved ahead at that hour by Albert
Benroth, caretaker.
Bluffton churches will convene one
hour earlier Sunday morning in keep
ing with the new time, and
industries, schools and
places will begin operation
time on Monday.
Bluffton
business
on fast
time in
Decision to adopt fast
Bluffton from April 80 to the first
Sunday in September was voted on
April 17 by the municipal council
after sentiment over a two-weeks
period indicated most Bluffy resi-
slow time for the summer.
In an ordinance drafted at the
session, councilmen set up a perman
ent schedule whereby the town will
be on slow time from the first Sun
day in September every year until
the last Sunday in April.
Other cities in this area also are
going to fast time for the summer,
and there will be an additional
advantage inasmuch as the new time
will conform to railroad schedules.
Under slow time, railroad schedules
were one hour earlier, which general
ly was confusing to those planning
trips by train.
Canvass Town For
Legion Honor Roll
Solicitation to provide funds for
erection of Bluffton’s honor roll is
announced by the American Legion
and the Legion Auxiliary.
Canvass which will start on Fri
day will continue until May 9 during
which time a house to house visita
tion will be made. Those in rural
districts desiring to contribute and
any in town who may
by solicitors are asked
tributions at the home
Steiner.
be
to
of
overlooked
leave con
Mrs. J. S.
of an honor
Project for erection
roll bearing names of men of Bluff
ton and vicinity in the armed serv
ices was announced recently and the
memorial will be located on the high
school grounds, it was stated.
Pacific Area War
Veteran Visits Here
James Althaus, who saw’ action in
the southw’est Pacific war area, to
gether with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Althaus of Lew’isburg,
visited last Thursday w’ith Mrs. Alt
haus’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Amstutz and Mrs. Moses Steiner.
James who was in the Pacific area
for nearly two years holds a rating
of chief pharmasist’s mate in the
naval hospital corps and participated
in the Guadalcanal invasion and later
in action at New Guinea, New Bri
tain and Cape Gloucester.
He returned home on furlough last
March and has "been assigned to a
post in Los Angeles.
Army Promotion
Word has been received here that
Norman Luginbuhl, in England, has
been promoted from sergeant to staff
sergeant. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Luginbihl of North
Spring street.
Open Friday, May 12
Seventeen Seniors To Graduate
This Year May Queen
To Be /rowned
Commencement Speaker Will Be
Dr. Elmer E. S. Johnson,
Hartford, Conn.
Varied features on a busy four-day
calendar Bluffton college com
mencement activity will get under
way on the campus, Friday, May 12,
one month earlier than the usual
schedule in peacetime.
Highlights of the season will be
the crowning of the May Queen in
Bluffton Day festivities and presen
tation of a Thespian play on Satur
day, May 13 baccalaureate services
on Sunday, May 14, and commence
ment exercises on Monday, May 15.
Opening event of the commence
ment
on a
Glee
12.
week will be a cantata,
Summer’s Day”, by the
club at 8 p. m. Friday,
17 Will Graduate
Bachelor of School Music degrees
will be presented to Viola Amstutz,
Pandora
ton, Pa.
Lehman,
Pandora
Gertrude Detwiler, Souder
Ruth Fenwick, Lima Earl
Pandora Wanda Suter,
and Ruth Zuiderhoek, Troy.
Joan Weaver Schertz, of Blooming
ton, Ill., will receive a Bachelor of
Science in Nursing degree.
summer’s
will have
Arts de-
At the close of next
session, six more students
qualified for Bachelor of
grees. They will be Viola Amstutz,
Pandora Eleanor Berky, Bluffton
Jeanne Habegger Boehr, Dallas, Tex
as Trella Bosserman, Rawson
Frank Hamblen, Columbus Grove,
and Elizabeth Locher, Bluffton.
Reformed Brotherhood
Banquet On Thursday
Rev. R. Wobus, of Sidney, will be
the speaker of the Father-Son ban
quet of the Brotherhood of the St.
John’s and Emmanuel’s Evangelical
and Reformed churches at 7 p. m.
Thursady in the St. John’s church.
Rev. Wobus has spoken here on
other occasions, and a good turnout
is expected for the meet. Special
music will be provided.
Earl Matter, president of the Bro
therhood, will give the address of
welcome and Arden Baker will serve
as toastmaster.
Surgical Dressing
Room Is Closed
The Red Cross surgical dressing
room at the Grade school building
will be closed until May 15, it is an
nounced by Mrs. J. S. Steiner, local
chairman,
ished their
date, Mrs.
The local unit has fin
quota assigned until that
Steiner said.
Births
following births at Bluffton
The
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs.
dora, a son, Paul
Eldon
Gene,
King, Pan
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elva Dilts, Jenera,
a son, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Burner, Find
lay, a daughter, Eileen Sue, Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dillman, a
son, Larry Ray, Monday.
Word has been received of the
birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Wil
bur Lauer of Philadelphia.
Lauer, the former Miss Lucille Nis
wander, is the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. W. M. Niswander of South
Jackson street.
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“Pan
Girls
May
com-
Closing the week’s activity,
mencement exercises will be held for
17 graduating seniors Monday morn
ing, May 15. Dr. Elmer E. S.
Johnson, professor emeritus of Hart
ford Theological seminary, will be
the speaker.
A busy schedule on Saturday, May
13, will include class programs, spe
cial luncheons, crowning of the May
Queen, Mrs. Wilma Nonnamaker
Mumma, followed by the alumni
banquet, and presentation of a play
“Letters
pians dramatic society.
to Lucerne” by the Thes-
Baccalaureate services on Sunday,
May 14, will be addressed by Presi
dent L. L. Ramseyer, following which
the president’s reception will be held
and the girl’s glee club will present
a concert.
List
of
Graduates
Included in the graduating class ol
17 are Mary Bowman, Lima Holly
Burkhalter, Middletown Grace Gels
singer, Allentown, Pa. Ellis Guthrie,
Lafayette Helen Habegger, Busby,
Montana Ellwyn Hartzler, Bloom
ington,. HL, Eulg. Locher, Pandora
Wilm^ IHumjfca, Bluffton James
Welly Lima, nad Edmund Zehr,
Gridley, HL, all to receive Bachelor
of Arts degrees.
Mrs.
fHE NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944
CORN DISAPPEARS
OFF MARKET HOGS
FACING EMBARGO
Freezing
Corn
of Sales in Mid-West
Beit has Serious
Effect Here
no
With Hogs and
Find Shippers Re
fusing to Buy
Farmers
Corn
not
Although the Bluffton area is
included in the government’s order
freezing sale of corn in five midwest
ern states, it is having serious re
percussions throughout the farming
section here where corn and hogs are
the backbone and mainstay
operations and prosperity.
of farm
onto the
“freeze”
counties
In an effort to force corn
market, WFA has issued a
order on all sales from 125
in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illin
ois and Indiana.
The order effective the first of the
week and continuing for 60 days
makes the government the only pur
chaser of corn from this area, the
nation’s top corn producing district.
Corn Disappears Here
Corn which has been Scarce here
since last fall has disappeared com
pletely from the market here. Farm
ers who have corn in their cribs are
refusing to sell at present ceiling
price as they can get a larger re
turn by feeding their corn to hogs.
Dealers here pointed out that the
hog price is a stumbling block in
the present situation and cannot be
remedied unless the hog price is re
duced to correspond to the grain ceil
ing.
Meanwhile farmers lacking corn
to continue their hog deeding pro
jects have encountered an embargo
on hog shipments which are flooding
into central terminal markets.
No Hoc Shipments
Because of this embargo, shippers
in the Bluffton district were reported
as refusing to buy hogs, Tuesday.
How long this situation would con
tinue could not be determined. How
ever for those farmers with hogs in
their feed Iqtf for wh^K they have
insufficient corn the siiitation Is
admittedly lerious. There is no ac
ceptable substitute for corn in hog
feeding projects, farmers pointed out.
How effective corn stocks have
been swept from the market is indi
cated by the fact that local grain
dealers have for
scoured all the
markets seeking
without success.
the past two weeks
principal terminal
a carload of corn
Mlevators in this area indicated
that they either had no corn or had
at most from three to ten days sup
ply of mixing grain on hand. This
grain is a combination of govern
ment wheat, barley and Canadian
oats totally inadequate to meet the
need.
Action in freezing corn sales in
the mid-west area was taken by the
government in order to relieve the
pressure on textile mills, war plants
and wet processing plants, manufac
turers of commercial alcohol, syrups
and gluten feed which require corn
for their operation.
This district, one of the principal
hog raising sections of the state has
never raised sufficient corn for its
own requirements, the deficit being
ordinarily made up by shipments
from the corn belt
impossible because
order.
which now are
of the freezing
especially acute
The situation is
this spring because the corn crop
here last year was described as “only
fair” by farmers, Wednesday.
Future Farmers To
Meet Here Thursday
Allert county units of Future
Farmers of America, an organization
of boys in high school agriculture
classes, will hold a county meeting
here Thursday night.
Members of the Bluffton high
school Future Farmers club are in
charge of arrangements and high
school delegations are expected from
Spencerville, Shawnee, Lafayette,
Beaverdam and Harrod.
The group will meet in the Com
munity Sportsmen’s club on the third
floor of the town hall for a program
followed by a recreation period
the high school gymnasium.
at
Mary Jane Carr
Staff Sergeant
Mary Jane Carr, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Will Carr, of near Bluff
ton, has been promoted from ser
geant to the rank of Staff Sergeant
in the WAC at Wright Field, Day
ton, Ohio.
S/Sgt. Carr is working in the
Army Air Forces Material Command
laboratory at Wright Field.
Twenty-fifth anniversary of Rich
nd Grange will be celebrated at a
eeting in the Grange hall at 8 p. m.
is Wednesday, with Joseph E.
of Oxford, State Grange
as the principal featured
ichter,
J. T.
Morris, of
Allen County
and Grange To Celebrate 25th
Anniversary At Meeting Wednesj
Sugar Creek
Grange Dep
Henry Huber
the Richland
ty, also will speak,
ill give a history of
range, which was organized April
4, 1919, by Lawrence Huber who
?rved as first master. Huber is now
n the faculty of State College, Pa.
Charter members of Richland
range who have retained active
icmbership continuously for 25
ears include Mr. and Mrs. Henry
[uber, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz,
lr. and Mrs.-Orton Stratton, Mrs.
kill Hilty, Mrs. I. M. Jennings, Mrs.
loah Moser, Mrs. Amos Moser and
ided Soldier At
Allies Will Win
ier Wounded In Sicily Talks
At Presenteeism Rally
of Triplett Company
esenteeism Award Ribbons
Are Given To 400 By Presi
dent R. L. Triplett
Confidence that the war
vill end abruptly later
ifter the Allied invasion
in Europe
this year
gains full
amentum was voiced here Saturday
ght at the presenteeism rally of
ie Triplett Electrical Instrument
by T/5 Don Chambers, a wound
war veteran who came here for
e meeting from Crile hospital at
jrea, Ohio.
T/5 Chambers landed at Casablan
on the first day of the African
vasion, and was overseas for
onths before
in four major
was wounded once
n Africa and again in Sicily.
American soldiers are as good as
he best of any other country, and
,re superbly commanded, T/5 Cham
bers told the gathering. He said
hat Germans in Africa and Sicily
rould hold their ground bravely for
i time, but that American persever
mce always won the day.
At the presenteeism rally, 400
nembers of the Triplett organization
rere honored for their performance
n winning presenteeism pledge bars
or being on the job at least 96.5%
if the regular hours they are sched
iled to work.
awarded the rib
talked and N. A.
as chairman. Spe-
R. L. Triplett
ons, Leo Fenn
Criplett presided
music was provided by the Bluff
High school orchesetra, directed
Sidney Hauenstein. A war film
was shown.
it. Patterson
Advanced In Rank
Second Lieutenant Charles A. Pat
terson, husband of Mrs. Carol Pat
terson, of 327 S. Jackson street, was
advanced to the rank of First Lieu
tenant recently at the air base in
England where he is stationed.
up
Lieutenant Patterson came
through the ranks, having entered
the Army as a private in 1941. He
was first commissioned in July, 1943,
and has been overseas with
Army postal unit for two years.
an
Josephine Steiner
Now 1st Lieutenant
Josephine Steiner, daughter of
Mrs. Augusta Steiner, of South Main
street, has been advanced to the rank
of First Lieutenant at the base hos
pital where she is stationed in New
Zealand.
Lieut. Steiner .graduate of the
nursing school at Yale university
hospital, has been overseas eighteen
months.
Recordings of Mrs. Agnes Birch
naugh’s interview as Ohio War
Worker of the Week on a War De
partment broadcast originating from
Radio Station WTAM in Cleveland,
last Sunday morning, will be sent
to her two sons, James and Joe, who
are in the South Pacific war theatre
with the famous 37th Ohio division.
Transcriptions of the broadcast
honoring the Bluffton woman employe
of The Triplett Electrical Instru
ments Co. were made for the prin
cipal purpose of forwarding to her
two sons on Bougainville a record of
Rally Predicts
In Europe This Yei®j
PRIMARY ELECTION
WILL BE HELD ON
TUESDAY, MAY 3
IMM
Walter Schaublin.
Richland is one of the
Granges in Allen county, but
active membership of 60
Representatives from the 13 othftjr
Granges in the county are
to the celebration here. ,7 v\\V
Present officers are Rayjta^ud
Stratton, master Willard Jenx/ite^
overseer Mrs. Willard Jennings^
turer R. E. Griffith, steward
mond Roseboom, assistant steWareX
Mrs. Leonard Gratz, lady assitft^V
steward Ernest Gratz, gatek^hhW
Mrs. Roscoe Trout, chapl^Vd
Rachel Schaublin, secretary I.vouailt
Gratz, treasurer Orton Strafriqw
Walter Schaublin and Roscoe T|,wS
trustees Mrs. William Amstu&t
pianist and chorister Mrs. Raymvivt
Stratton, Ceres Mrs. Chau&^?
Spallinger, Pomona and Mrs. VaxJ
Faze, Flora. A YY A
Candidates for County, State'
and National Nominations/
on One Ballot
1
18
returning to
He took part
igements, and
the
en-
AV
Repubicans Run Full County.
Ticket No Democrats File
for Three Offices
r!w
Candidates for nomination to w
tional, state and county offices Willet
listed on one ballot to be presented
Bluffton and Richland township elqdn
tors when they go to the polls to caSK
their votes in the Primary electurtl,
Tuesday, May 9.
A full list candidates will be op
the Republican ballot, but there ate
no Democrats seeking nomination to'
three Allen county offices. No one
filed on the latter ticket for Clerk of
Courts, Judge of Common Pleas Court
and County Recorder.
Heading each ticket will be the
names of candidates to the national
presidential nominating conventions of
Democratic and Republican parties.
Democratic candidates are pledged
to Joseph Ferguson and Republican
candidates to Gove. John Bricker.
Offices for which nominations will
be voted on the county ticket include
recorder, clerk of courts, treasurer,
two members of the board of com
missioners, prosecutor, coroner, engi
neer, sheriff, state representative,
state senator, judge of probate and
common pleas courts, judge of court
of appeals, representative to Cong
ress, state central committeemen and
precint committeemen.
Candidates on state ticket will be
for nomination as governor, lieutenwit,
governor, state secretary, state autbf
tor, state treasurer, attorney generaL.
United States senator, representative
to Congress (at-large) Chief Justf
of the Supreme court, and Judge
the Supreme court.
Raise $2,933 For
Red Cross War Fund
Recordings Of Bluffton Woman’s
Broadcast To Go To Sons In Pacific
Bluffton contributed $2,933 for the
national Red Cross War fund, ac
cording to Mrs. Edith Mann, local
treasurer, after final checking of
local solicitor’s reports.
Music Program At
Mennonite Church
A special music program will be
presented at the First Mennonite
church Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock
it is announced by the pastor Rev.
J. N. Smucker. It will be under, di
rection of Prof. Otto Holtkamp and
consist of choir numbers, quartets
and instrumental selections.
the proceedings.
Mrs. Birchnaugh’s nephew, Willard
Dillman, son of Mrs. Harl Dillman,
also is on Bougainville, and will
have an opportunity to hear the
recording. All three youths, who
have been in the South Pacific Over
two years, were mentioned in tfce
broadcast.
Mrs. Birchnaugh went through the
radio interview by Hank Keene, of
the War Department, without any.
trace of nervousness and was heard1
by many Bluffton residents.
BUY
9BIMN
NUMBER 1
KM YOUTHS ARE
I DRAFT QUOTAS
U.LED TO CAMP
Fpjty Men From Allen County
A.^Board 3 Inducted into
7.’Aw4 Armed Services
Call Takes Nearly All
18 to 26 Y ear Old
Age Group
in
into the
and Sat
of Allen
with 40 men inducted
cervices last Friday
r)*u.y jn the April call
tyiQr’ Draft Board No. 3, officials
7,the board announced they are
the bottom of the barrel in
.to 26-year-old group.
/y/AlhWg the 40 men sworn in were
from Bluffton, three of whom
ito the Navy and three into
In filling their April quota and
Hh/Ug up registrants for possible in
in May, the board has care-
Scrutinized all present defer-
-.Wpts id new claims for deferment.
Many Farm Youths
How’ acute the situation has be
coYne- is indicated by the number of
farm'youths sent to the Army and
the April calls.
e same k°ar(i officials
(X^Qmed earlier reports there will
C'lC$ half enough men in the
age group to fill the May
mDMy&hould the call be as large
for April.
¥D)nj&v-|iumber of men needed in
tak/iliaa not yet been announced to
hv/iYvard. There are few regis
■jHimaining under 26, however,
4&s national directives order-
Mbntinuance of the drafting
tW/MR’Xiwen over 25 are changed,
•wm® ill not be in a position to
quotas.
men inducted into the Navy
®WICd° Recruiting station last
three were from Bluffton
.Ctfjd-others from the surround-
Inductees were Kenneth
Bluffton eldon Deppler,
-Bluffton Jule Gust Basing
2» Bluffton Wilbur Dale
Columbus Grove Route 2, and
Jack Lester Graymire, Route 1, La-
fayette.
Three
in
Army
Six from Bluffton and the adjacent
area were inducted into the Army at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianap
olis, Ind., last Saturday.
From Bluffton were Delbert Lug
inbuhl, Maynard Badertscher and
Raymond Clark. Others included
Herbert Eugene Downing, Route 2,
Columbus Grove Donald E. Dunlap,
Route 2, Columbus Grove, and Clar
ence R. Salsbury, Route 1, Rawson.
John G. Furry, Route 6 Lima, left
for a conscientious objector camp at
Kane, Pa., last Friday.
Chorus Here
Sunday Night
Rev. Victor Paul Wierwille, radio
pastor, and The Chimes Hour Young
Radio Chorus will appear in
pdKt. John’s Evangelical and Re
formetX church at 8 p. m. next Sun
day, under auspices of the young
^h^ties organizations of the Em
'jMihuel’B and St. John’s churches.
Bertha Marie Johnson, soprano,
singing “The Lord’s Prayer” and
“The Holy City” is featured in the
chorus. Membership of the chorus
is made up entirely of young per
son B.
The Chimes Hour is broadcast over
Radio Station WLOK in Lima every
Sunday at 12 Noon. It is directed
by Rev. Wierwille, pastor of “The
Church With the Open Door and the
Open Bible”, a Reformed church at
Payne, Ohio.
Pvt. James Basinger
Starts Air Training
Private James H. Basinger, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Basinger, of
South Lawn avenue, has arrived at
Middle Tennessee State College,
Murfreesboro, Tenn., for a five
months course of study prior to hia
appointment as an aviation cadet in
the Army Air Force.
On completion of his course he
will be classified as a navigator,
pilot. or bombardier.
High School Spring
S (Concert Wednesday
Four Bluffton High school musical
organizations will appear in their
spring concert at 8 p. m. this Wed
nesday in the high school auditorium.
Participating in the concert will
be the high school orchestra, band,
boys and girls glee clubs. Sidney
Haqenstein directs the instrumental
organizations and Miss Harriet Brate
the vocal groups.