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BUY UNITED •TATES SAV1NOS /ONDS VOLUME NO. LXIX EGGS PILING UP ON MANY FARMS IN BLUFFTON AREA Produce Houses Refuse To Buy From Any But Regular Egg Suppliers Government “Support Price” Fails To Alleviate Flood of Eggs Available With cold storage warehouses pack ed to overflowing and other outlets flooded by heavy marketing, eggs are piling up on many farms in the Bluff ton area. Many produce houses ,including the Bluffton branch of the Gray and White Co., large wholesale dealers, with headquarters in Tiffin, are re fusing to buy eggs from any produc ers except their regular trade. This practice seems to be followed generally by egg buyers thruout the entire district, a survey indicated this week. Refuse to Buy- Last Saturday, Charles Kinsinger, manager of the Bluffton branch of the Gray and White, said he had to re fuse to buy eggs brought here by farmers from near Lima, who were offering them at 22 cents a dozen, three cents less than the price now offered by the produce house to its regular trade. Fanners who have no regular deal er outlet for their eggs now find them selves in much the same situation as the overstocked produce dealers. They can find no ready market for eggs they have on hand, and must have fa cilities to store only a small quanti ty. Most fanners in this quandary are finding a solution in selling their poultry’ flocks, but the present flood of chickens on the market may bring similar poultry pointed restrictions on the buying of if the trend continues, it out. Stop Support Buying was one buy |The Gray and White Co. was I nine Ohlp firms selected to eggs at tha government support price of 26 cents a dozen, but was forced to stop buying when the warehouse became filled to capacity and efforts to get the government to take some of the eggs failed, the management explained last week. Kinsinger said that after loading a car thre is too much delay in getting a government order for a shipping destination, and since the cars are not refrigerated the eggs seriously de teriorate. During the last week, however, the government increased its support price from 26 to 27 cents a dozen, with the government agreeing to buy them from the deals at 30 cents. How ever, this price is only nominal, aS produce houses have discontinued buying under that arrangement in this district, Kinsinger said. 24 Cents Dozen The Gray and White now is buying eggs from regular suppliers at 24 cents a dozen for run of nest eggs when the truck calls at the farm, or 25 cents a dozen delivered here There is no demand for brown eggs which are sold on the regular commercial market. Possiblity of breaking the surplus eggs and freezing them is eliminated by inability to secure as many break ers as are needed and the lack of tin cans for storage. Housewives are not using a nor mal supply of eggs for cooking be cause of the rationing of sugar and farmers, unable to sell their eggs, are refusing to buy chicks, which makes it impossible for hatcheries to use as many eggs as they did last year. Farmers say poultry flocks will dwindle during the coming year. Many say they will sell all their poultry stock except enough for family use. Man Struck By Auto Here Saturday Night Edgar McElwain, of Lafayette, suffered minor cuts and bruises when he was struck by an automobile at the alley intersection between Barnes Grocery and the Gamble store on North Main street at 11 p. m. last Saturday. Darrell Carr, 17, of Union town ship, was driver of the automobile. The mishap occurred as Carr was turning into the alley. Ebenezer Broadcast Weekly broadcast of the Ebenezer Mennonite church will feature a mixed quartet to be heard over Find lay station, WFIN, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Members of the quartet are Mrs. Milo Lora, Mrs. Myron Luginbuhl, Clayion Bucher and Chris. Gratz. Mrs. Wm. Althaus is accompanist. Demand Greater For Canning Sugar Applications for canning sugar are increasing at the office of the Allen county war price and ration board in Lima, with the strawberry and cherry canning seasons in the offing. In connection with canning sugar, housewives are warned there are two No. 37 stamps to be used for sugar. The No. 37 spare stamp is to ac company the application for canning sugar, and not the No. 37 sugar stamp which will be used later to purchase regular household sugar. Many No. 37 sugar stamps have been mailed to the ration board in stead of the No. 37 spare stamp. COMMENCEMENT AT HIGH SCHOOL WILL CLIMAX BUSY WEEK Commencement Activities Will Open With Senior Class Play Thursday BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT WEEK Thursday and Friday— “Jane Eyre,” auditorium 8:30 [p. m. Sunday— Baccalaureate, gymnasium, 8 p. m. Monday— Class Night, gymnasium, 8:30 [p. m. Tuesday— Commencement, rHE BLU New Order Will Reduce Army And Navy Draft Quotas This Week Class baccalaureate Sunday Night Monday: With Grad uation Tuesday Opening event of a crowded week of Bluffton High school commence ment activity will be the presentat ion of the senior class play, “Jane Eyre”, this Thursday and Friday in the school auditorium, with gradua tion exercises next Tuesday coming as the climax of the season. Baccalaureate services Sunday will be a union church meeting in the high school gymnasium, starting at 8 p. m. Rev. J. A. Weed, pastor of the Methodist church, will give the class sermon, “What About That Debt?” at the baccalaureate, and special mu sic also will be provided. gymnasium, [8 p. m. Wednesday— Alumni reunion, gymnasium, [8 p. m. Class night exercises will be held in the gymnasium at 8:30 p. m. Monday, with the program including informal introduction of the graduating seniors and presentation of the varied talent of the ctaiss. Commencement exercises will be in the gymnasium at 8 p. m. Tuesday, with Dr. Frank D. Slutz, of Dayton, giving the class address. His subject will be “On Being a Person In These Times.” Closing event of the commencement season will 'be the 63rd annual high school alumni reunion in the gymnas ium next Wednesday night at 8 p. m. Due to wartime conditions light re freshments will be served instead of the regular banquet. Bluffton High Listed As 1st Grade School Bluffton High school has been con tinued on the list of first-grade high schools approved by the Ohio Depart ment of Education, Supt. A. J. B. Longsdorf was advised last week. In part the state report said, “The school is well organized and properly administrated. The instruction, con sidered as a whole, Is above average. Pupils are orderly, interested and attentive in the classrooms, riculum is broad and well to the needs of the pupils.” The The cur adjusted Births Bluffton following births at Community hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Burnet Powell, Raw son, a daughter, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Gilbert, Bluff ton, a daughter, Sunday. Mr., and Mrs. Harold Grant, Bluff ton, a daughter, Thursday. BLUFFTON MARKETS Wednesday Morning Grain (bushel prices) $1.60: corn $1.10 oats 75c $1.80. Wheat soys BUY MORE WAR BONDS. A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO Cancellation Notices to Men and Over Sent by Allen County Board Navy on Contingent to Leave Friday Army Group Will Go on Saturday Induction notices to an undisclosed number of men who were scheduled to report for service this week have been cancelled, it was announced by Allen County Draft Board No. 3, Wednesday morning. Cancellation notices, it is explained by board attaches were sent in con formity to the recent order from state headquarters to send no man over 25 years og age for induction or for pre-induction examination. As a result of this order it is in dicated that two draft quotas to be filled this week will be reduced sharply. Board No. 3 is scheduled to send a contingent Friday on a navy quota and another on Satur day for the army. Cut Not Disclosed Size of the quotas given the board was not disclosed, neither was any announcement made as to the portion which the board will be able to fill under the new regulation. However, Hancock county draft boards announced the first of the week information relative to current calls which it is assumed is sub stantially the situation which pre vails in Allen county. Members of Hancock county Board 1 said that the pre-induction call ordered for this week has been reduced almost half by the order. Board 2 of that county said that the new order reduced the next pre induction call, which was the largest the board has ever had, to a little more than one-third of its number. However, men from 2-C classification were added bringing the call up nearly the original number. J. W. Jackson Dies Funeral On Friday James W. Jackson, 76, died at his home on South Main street Tuesday afternoon following a week’s ”1110688. Death was due to complications. He was a boilermaker and machin ist by trade and operated a machine shop at South Jackson and Grove streets. Funeral services will be held Fri day morning at 9 o’clock at St. Marys Catholic church of which he was a member. ber, the pastor will officiate and in terment will be in Maple Grove cem etery. POST N NEW! 26 3oard No A Sei Resign dorf as schools w night at Bluffton action was a successor No further scheduled session on peculation superintend dorf is retd 35 years in Two cours in the sei head. One I of the teachers, a naming of side the So far given no ir may be exp should be the time of There are past history permit the ach Supt. Long here in 1921 accept the instances, have been school’s Several to towns al ative to no formal intendency there is e plenty of Rev. Albert Schei- The son of Thomas and Louisa Jane (Keller) Jackson, he was born May 4, 1868 in Van Wert county and come to Bluffton from Lima 25 years ago. On June 28, 1890 he was married to Olive Coate who died last March 15. Surviving are four daughters: Mrs. Carl Koch of Lima Mrs. Earl Monson of Peoria, Ill. Mrs. J. J. O’Toole of New York city and Mrs. Pearl Schmidt at home. Also sur viving are two brothers Elmer Jack son of Ft. Recovery and Charles Jackson of Flint, Michigan. The body will remain at the Paul Diller funeral home until time for the funeral services.. Bluffton High Reunion To Be Next Wednesday Closing event of the Bluffton High school commencement season next week will be the Alumni reunion at 8 p. m. Wednesday, May 24, in the school gymnasium. ,Dr. Helen Barnes, of Findlay, only living member of the first graduating class in 1881, as honorary president, will preside. In the program, tribute will be paid to Bluffton High school gradu ates and former students in the armed forces. Members of the sen ior class will present a skit, “Show Boat”, and special music will be pro vided. Town Softball Play Will Start On May 25 First night of play for the sum mer season in the Bluffton softball league will be at Harmon field at 6:30 p. m. next Thursday night, May 25. Leagues will be organized for old sters, youngsters and more exper ienced players if enough interest is shown in the practice sessions that will open the season. All equipment will be provided free of charge except gloves for indi viduals. All interested are urged to report for the first night. ‘ION OF Supt. Regarding !W Head ools i. J. B. Longs lluffton public “cepted Friday ting of the tion, but no five to naming ing of the board is regular monthly and meanwhile ”to who the new B. H. S. Senior Class Play Thursday, Friday “Jane Eyre”, a three-act play adapted from the novel written by Charlotte Bronte, will be presented in the Bluffton High auditorium this Thursday and Friday nights as the annual dramatic offering of the sen ior class of the school Both presentations of the play will start at 8:30 p. m. Action of the play closely follows the narrative of the celebrated novel, which is one of the classics of Eng lish literature. Leading roles are played by Jane Howe, appearing as Jane Eyre, and Varden Loganbill, as Edward Roch ester. Members of the supporting cast are Lois Oyer, Ruth Burkholder, Janice Hankish, Levon Wilch, Mada lene McCune, Glenna Swick, Joan Buckland, Beverly Biery, Florence Ann Biome, Robert Burkholder, Mary Margaret Basinger, Bill Mericle, Rob ert Amstutz and Earl Dean Lugin buhl. Committees are as follows: Varden Loganbill, Robert Burkholder and Joan Buckland, stage Levon Wilch and Florence A. Biome, advertising Madalene McCune, house chairman, and Bill Mericle, stage manager. Paul W. Stauffer is directing the characters. H. S. Baccalaureate Next Sunday Night “What About That Debt?” will be the subject of the class sermon to be delivered by Rev. J. A. Weed, of the Methodist church, at Bluffton High school baccalaureate services at 8 p. m. Sunday in the school gym nasium. The processional will be played by Jean Ann Steinman, and a vocal trio consisting of Sara Louise Amstutz, Alice Jean Bixel and Jean Steinman will sing. OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY AY, MAY BLUFFTON, 18, 1944 ICTION HEAD Accepts Supt. Longs- August 31 after profession, to the board new school advance one ool staff of would be the 6nt from out re. e board have what action the situation rystalized by ting. Way edents in the n schools to either course, mple, came Baltimore to In other rintendents the local from other inquiries rel re, and altho the super received will be Longsdorfs salary was $2,800 a year, wheter the superintendent’s salary will be continued at that figure is not known. However, in view of the pres ent stringency in the school’s -financial situation, it is believed unlikely there will be any material advance over the present level. Ann Pres in vo- Rev. E. N. Bigelow, of the byterian church, will give the cation Rev. V. C. Oppermann, of the Reformed churches the prayer Rev. J.* N. Smucker, of the First Mennonite church, will read the scripture lesson, and the benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Stanley I. Rupp, of the Defenseless Mennon i ite church. a ON NEWS Council Casses Three Hour Parking Bluffton’s street parking regula tions will assume legal status be ginning June 1, passed Monday council becomes when the ordinance night by the town effective. provides for a three The ordinance hour limit on parking in the busi ness section on Main street between Elm and Franklin streets from 6 A. M. to 6 P. M. on week days. The measure as originally consid ered by the council limited parking time to two hours. This period, how ever, was extended to three hours when the ordinance was finally passed. Dr. 'ommencement Exercises Will Be Held In School Gym nasi urn Tuesday Diplomas will be presented to 43 Bluffton High school seniors in com mencement exercises to be held in the school gymnasium at 8 p. m. next Tuesday. Dr. Frank D. Slutz, of Dayton, who was the Bluffton High class speaker in 1932, will give the ad dress at the commencement again this year. His subject will be “On Being a Person in These Times”. directed by Sidney Hauenstein, will! LaDonna Johnson. Madalene McCune, Virginia Miller,! satisfactory. Lois Oyer, Schaeublin, Glenna Swick, Alice Augsburger, Levon Wilch, Joyce Young. I nJ n ormer O tun ton tfoy Heads Lima Council Bluffton Kempf, a native of the son of the late Rudy Kempf learned the barber trade here. moved to Lima in 1912 and continued in that business at the same place for the last 24 years. Betty Lou, is a freshman at Miami" university, Oxford. Francis Hochstettler Now First Lieutenant Second Lieut. Francis L. Hoch stettler recently was promoted to rank of First Lieutenant, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Hochstettler, of] south of Bluffton. Lieut. Hochstettler is an army transport pilot, and has been overseas for 21 months. At present he is stationed in Sicily. Ordinance To Be Effective June 1| To Open Red Cross Work Room Monday] The Red Cross work room will be open beginning next Monday night at 7:30 o’clock and every afternoon thereafter Monday thru Friday from 1 to 4 o’clock. Mrs. J. S. Steiner has announced Bluffton’s quota of 120,000 surgical dressings for the next three months and asks cooperation of al! women in the town and vicinity. diplomas VI ill Be Given To 43 Seniors At Bluffton High Graduation Tuesday Frank D. Slutz, of Dayton To Give Class Address Again This Year Notice In notifying this office of change of addresses of service men receiving the Bluffton News, please give the former address as well as the new address to which the paper is to be sent. rr n Ar* j. [Nine 1 o Graduate At Beaverdam Thursday I degrees. Valedictory and salutatory orationsI of Menno Simon in Holland win be given by Mary Margaret Ba- ()ther mcmbcrs of the c) are: subsequent singer and Bevedy B.ery respective- Robert Dow„ Ethel Downi le and later in ly. Who qualified on the baa.a of Evcritt, Betan Lamb, Eilee„ prow Other members of the class are: Robert Downey, Ethel Downing, Lyle Everitt, Helen Lamb, Eileen Prow ant, Ruth Van Meter and Junior Yant. as lc s an ant. Ruth Van Meter and Junior satsfactory Musical numbers on the program I Yant I announced in the annual statement include a vocal solo by Jane Howe, I _______ I of the president. Increases in giving and $ cello solo by Rarl Dean Lug-1 I by friends of the institution have inbuh|. The high school orchestra, Dinner Held In Honor Nine seniors will be graduated at I Class Address commencement exercises of Beaver- I K PeaK*ng on the subject “Redeem dam high school to be held in the I,ng ^ur Heritage Dr. Elmer E. S. auditorium at that place, Thursday Johnson- Professor emeritus of Hart night at 8:30 o’clock. ford seminary, Hartford, Conn., de C. Opperman and Rev. E. N. Bige-|honor of A Longsdorfi super. past gifts for current operation and ,O^ u I intendent of the public schools, who I imProvernent fund total over $24,000, Members of the graduating class I ia retjrjng this summer. I besides gifts on endowment pledges. ara: ... I Following the dinner an informal Am°n« larK!r Kifts this year Rev. W. E. Bradley of Findlay de’ivefed the c!ass addreSS, will deliver the class address. I bls address Dr. Johnson traced Scholastic honor ranking members I Present Mennonite church from of the class are Marion Lenney, vale- I *ts or’gio in the middle of the six dictorian, and Glen Andrews, saluta- centurj under ^the leadership tori an. Slipt. Longsdorf play the processional |md recessional.I I Debt Sharply Reduced John M. Tosh, Pjsident of the I Bluffton Teachers association and Indebtedness of the college is now boarof education, |ill present the Board of Education members held a about one-tenth of what it was eight j| 4Upldinas, and the invocation and cnvPred d{sh dinner in thp high P®*” the president stated, benediction will be given by Rev. V. schtRd cafeteria Mondav night in With two-thirds of the fiscal year Robert Amstutz, Wayne Bader-1 program was he|d, an(i Supt I onKs. I listed in the president's statement Burkh0,der’ David dorf was presented with a 15-year Dear..Dale Huber, Roger Klay, Jack- memhership in the National Educa son Koontz Maurice Kohli. Raymond tion association. Kohli, Varden Loganbill, Earl Dean! Luginbuhl, William Mericle, Harry I Minck, Evan Neiswander, Kenneth] High School Girl Is Reichenbach, Robert Stratton. Nadine Allman, Mary Margaret Basinger, Beverly Biery, Florence Anne Biome, Imojene Bronson, Joan|man ,s jy wjth Spinal meningitis at I III With Meiningitis 2^23. Buckland, Dorothy Burkholder, Ruth I \ome of 'her parents, Mr. and I library on the campus together with Burkholder, Aileen Diller, Freda Mrs Peter Lehman eio-ht milos west I funds for its endowment represents Fritchie, Helen Greding, Margaret I of Bluffton jt was announced the I a larKe portion of this amount, the Griffith, Mary Elizabeth Habegger,! fjrg^ of vpeek I president said. Janice Hankish, Anna Hochstettler, The gjri first became ill last I Taking a look at post-war condi Jane Howe, Clare Reagan, Miriam! I present faculty Mary Gene Siefield, Emil Kempf, former Bluffton boy,I will take possession on June 15. was elected president of the Lima Long has announced no plans for the city council, Monday vote was unanimous. The I future. .night. II ri)in L^Ong iSellS Restaurant Here\\ war« I Irvin Long, Bluffton restaurateur,! by a" schools. LaFayette A lumni He I Kempf’s political career started! dance in the high school auditorium,l| Bluffton James ^Welty, ^Lima. less than a year ago when he was al Saturday night at 8:30. write-in candidate for ward council-! short business meeting will be man at the Lima city primary. Hel followed hy dancing during the even was named president of the council, a^ whcih time the incoming sen succeeding William Ferguson, formerl ’or elasa will be guests of the asso council president who ascended tol Nation. Refreshments will be served the mayor’s chair after the death of I and other guests are welcome. Mayor A. L. Metheany. I Officers of the association are: Kempf’s family consists of hisl Bres,» Harvey Badertscher vice wife, one son and one daughter. The! Pres-» Walter Oberdier sec.-treas., son, Pfc. John Kempf is stationed atl ^rs- Kathryn Smith. Camp Perry as a technician in al medical company. The daughter,! Mt. Cory School wool r» xx II Lima Holly Burkhalter, Middletown and I Dance Saturday] To Hold May Day Crowning of the Queen will fol low sports events in the morning and a basket dinner at noon. Treva Kempf is the May Queen and Mar jorie Oberly the Maid of Honor. Master of Ceremonies is Richard Schaller. Following coronation of the Queen songs will be sung by the various grades, directed by Mrs. Isabelle West. BUY RUM NUMBER 4 FIFTEEN SENIORS COLLEGE DEGREES MONDRY President Voices Optimism ia Annual Report at Gradua tion Exercises Class Address Delivered by Dr. Elmer Johnson of Hartford Seminary Commencemen* exercises of Bluff ton college held in the First Mennon ite church Monday morning concluded a year which President Lloyd Ramseyer told the assembled gather ing marked “the most difficult time for colleges since the Civil War”. Notwithstanding inroads made in the student body by requirements of selective service and other wartime conditions a class of sixteen candi dates received degrees at the con clusion of the exercises. One of the degrees, that of Bachelor of Science in Nursing was the first ever to have been conferred b.v the college here. Of the others, I nine received the Bachelor of Arts I *nd five the Bachelor of school Music I Finances and its Europe development in America. of the college condition, Dr. Ramseyer are in I more than offset falling off of I rt*ceipts due to decreased enrollment, Iwere A. C. Ramseyer of Smithville, I $8,000 Mrs. C. H. Musselman of I Biglerville, Pa., $5,000 Wm. Moore I of Bethlehem, Pa., $2,500. I Mrs. Musselman, together with her I husband who died last January were I amonE the chief benefactors of the 1 I school. During the past ten years Wanda Lehman, high school fresh-1 c°uple have contributed more tban1 The girl first became ill last I Thursday. Her condition is reported Ij Gons, the president called attention $135,000. The Musselman I to the necessity faculty has been tion to leduced personnel. The reduced in propor needs. After the large increase in however, a I has sold his North Main street estab-1 Following the president’s statement I li8hment to Harvey Wilch in a deal I degrees were conferred upon the closed the first of the week. Wilch graduating seniors. Members of Class enrollment is generally anticipated Members of the graduating class include: Bachelor of Arts—Mary Bowman, I Grace Geissinger, Allentown, Pa. ElUs Guthrie, Lafayette, O. Helen I Habegger, Busby, Montana Ellwyn Alumni of Lafayette high school I Hartzler, Bloomington, Ill. Eula will hold their annual reunion and I Locher, Pandora Wilma Mumma, .. Crowning of the May Queen will be the feature event of the last day I ton. of school program of the Mt. Cory I Pa., will get a Bachelor of School rural school district this Friday. Bachelor of School Music—Viola Amstutz, Pandora Ruth Fenwick, Lima Earl Lehman, Pandora Wanda Suter, Pandora and Ruth Zuider hoek, Troy. Joan Weaver Schertz, of Bloomington, Illinois, received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nurs ing. At the close of next summer’s ses sion those who will qualify for Bachelor Edmund Amstutz, Bluffton Dallas, Texas Rawson Frank Hamblen, Columbus Grove and Elizabeth Locher, Bluff- of Arts degrees will be Zehr, Gridley, Ill. Viola Pandora Eleanor Berky, Jeanne Habegger Boehr, Trella Bosserman, Gertrude Detwiler, Souderton, Music degree. Milton Badertscher Named As Corporal Milton Badertscher, Jr., son of Mr. Milton Badertscher, of near has been promoted to the corporal and also has re- and Mrs. Rawson, rank of ceived a medal for good conduct. He is stationed with an army unit in In dia.