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BUY
UNITED
•TATE*
VOLUMB 9. LXIX
SCH
FOR
TUES
Four New
Teachin
TO OPEN
ALL TERM
Y MORNING
structors Will be
Staff During Com
Year.
Changes in Courses Are
nounced Assignments
Teachers is Made.
An
of
Bluffton public schools will open for
the fall semester with a full day of
class work starting at 8:30 a. m. next
Tuesday morning, it was announced
this week by Superintendent Ralph
Lanhan.
Schedule of classroom operations
will be from 8:30 a. m. until 3:30 p.
m. daily, slow time, with one hour al
lowed at noon for a lunch period.
Wartime shortage of instructors
will be reflected here in one depart
ment, for the board of education has
been unable to obtain a teacher in
manual training and mechanical draw
ing. As a result, the industrial arts
department will be discontinued for
the first semester, but Supt. Lanham
said no efforts will be spared to ob
tain a teacher for the second semes
ter.
Otherwise the public schools will
have a full staff of teachers, and
classroom offerings w’ill differ little
from the schedule of previous years.
French Discontinued
French and general mathematics
will not be taught in the high school
this fall, however, because of lack of
sufficient enrollment, and students
who had registered for those courses
are requested to rearrange their
schedules with Principal Gerhard Buh
ler before Friday of this week.
Teachers’ meetings will be held next
Monday morning and afternoon for
members of the grade and high school
faculty at which Supt. Ralph Lanham
will outline his policies for the com
ing year.
Elementary instructors will meet in
the Grade school building at 10 a. m.,
.and those on the high school staff will
meet in Room 2 in the high school
be four new members of the public
schools teaching staff this year. Oth
ers are Mrs. Ruby Murray in the
grade school and A. C. Burcky and
Carl Twining in high school.
Class assignments of the instructors
were announced this week, as follows:
Teachers Assigned
High school—Ralph Lanham, super
intendent and seventh grade aritheme
tic Gerhard Buhler, principal, physics
and general science Harry F. Barnes,
agriculture and farm shop Miss Flor
ence Duffield, commercial courses
Wilford O. Geiger, chemistry, biology
and science Andrew C. Burcy, coach
and physical education W. A. Howe,
social science, English, commercial
law and economics Miss Mildred
Keel, Latin and English Miss Theres
sa Slusser, English and social science.
P. W. Stauffer, debate, dramatics
and English Sidney C. Stettler, math
ematics Annabell Weed, home eco
nomics Miss Harriet Brate, music
Mrs. R. A. Lantz, art and grade school
one-half day Miss Theola Steiner,
girls physical education and grade
school one-half day Miss Ocie Ander
son, librarian and library science
Garl Twining, band.
Grade school—Miss Meredith Ste
pleton, principal and first grade Mrs.
Ruby Murray, first grade Miss Floy
McBain, second grade Miss Levada
Balmer, third grade Miss Minerva
Hilty, fourth grade Mrs. Adella S.
Oyer, fifth grade, and Miss Theola
Steiner and Mrs. Russell Lantz, each
half-days in sixth grade..
Schedules for school buses operat
ing thru the rural areas will be the
same as in previous years. Drivers
will be Aaron Messinger, No. 3 Ray
mond Roseboom, No. 4 W. O. Geiger,
No. 1, and Arthur Keiser, No. 5. El
don Beery and Chris Gratz are substi
tute drivers.
Operation of the cafeteria in the
high school building will be started on
the opening day of school, with Mrs.
J. W. Eversole in charge.
Parents interested in the establish
ment of a private kindergarten are re
quested to leave their names at
high school office.
the
New Locations
In
Miss
her
Theressa Slusser and
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Slusser
moved from their farm
parents
have moved from their farm on
Bentley road into the Cherry street
property which Miss Slusser pur
chased from the T. A. Kitchen es
tate.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hauenstein
and family have moved into the Ray
Johnson property on North Jackson
street.
Find Boy Unconscious
In Fall From Haymow
Roger Mayberry, 17, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Glen Mayberry of Rock
port was found unconscious in the
barn at his home Sunday night
when a stationary ladder which he
was climbing became loose and he
fell a distance of some twelve feet
to the floor below.
The youth, engaged in doing the
evening chores, was climbing to the
hay mow when the accident occurred.
He was removed in the Diller am
bulance to Bluffton hospital whefe it
was found that he had sustained
back injuries, none of w’hich are be
lieved serious. His condition was
reported satisfactory Wednesday
morning.
BLUFFTON COLLEGE
TO OPEN FOR FALL
TERM ON SEPT. 11
Enrollment of Men, Anticipated
as 15, Will Reflect War
Conditions.
More Women Students
Usual Expected: Ropp
Will be Filled.
tion, it is expected that the total num
ber of students will be about half
what it is in normal years. Most
colleges, however, are experiencing
similar and even greater reductions, it
was pointed out.
Registration, orientation of new
students, freshmen tests, etc., will be
completed on the first two days of the
college year,.and the opening chapel
services will be held on Wednesday
morning. Classroom instruction will
be started Thursday morning.
Three new instructors will serve on
the faculty this year.
Three New Teachers
Frank J. Batterson has been em
ployed to teach Spanish and history’,
and Rev. Paul Shelly, who is complet
ing his doctorate at Columbia univer
sity, will take over the Bible depart
ment.
Oarl Smucker, who is associated
with the state welfare department in
Columbus, will teach some of the
classes in social science. Included
will be a new course, “Introduction
to the Field of Social Work.”
Part-time students also are welcom
ed at the school, President L. L. Ram
seyer announced this week, and some
persons may want to continue present
employment while taking a few col
lege courses. If there is sufficient
demand special evening classes also
will be offered.
Dr. Pannahecker To
Leave For China Soon
Dr. S. F. Pannabecker, who will
leave soon for China to set up a re
lief organization under auspices of
the Mennonite Central committee,
will return to Bluffton this week to
await completion of arrangements
for his steamship passage to
Orient.
fHE BLUF
Than
Hall
s field of
apparent
Impact of the war in the
higher education will be
when Bluffton college opens its doors
for the fall term on Monday, Septem
ber 11.
Wartime disparity of enrollment
totals of men and women will be evi
dent with the number of women above
average while the estimated number
of men to be in attendance is fifteen.
This latter figure reflects the drain on
manpower thru army calls and em
ployment in war industries.
While the estimated number of men
will be the smallest ever to be enroll
ed, the women’s dormitory, Ropp Hall,
will be filled to capacity. The incom
ing freshmen class, estimated at 40,
will be about the same number as last
year.
Half Normal Enrollment
the
has
first
sea-
Dr. Pannabecker tentatively
booked accommodations on the
ship to sail from the eastern
board and he expects to be able to
leave for China sometime early in
September.
His new assignment will take him
to the Orient for two years where
he will be in charge of setting up
a relief organization among the na
tive population of China.
Lima Pastor Is Union
Service Speaker Here
Rev. J. Ira Jones, pastor of Trin
ity Methodist church Lima, will ad
dress Bluffton’s monthly union church
service to be held in the Presbyter
ian church, Sunday night at 8
o’clock. The service is under aus
pices of the Bluffton Ministerial as
sociation.
SHARP UP-TURN IN
REAL ESTATE AND
BUSINESS DEALS
Increased Activity Here as Many
Properties Are Changing
Hands.
Deals Reflect Confidence in
Bluffton’s Future as Com
mercial Center.
Business deals are on the upswung
in Bluffton with a marked increase in
the volume of buying and selling of
both commercial and residential prop
erties at prices which reflect confi
dence in the town’s future as an in
dustrial and commercial center.
Activity which for the past six
months has been marked principally in
the buying and selling of farm real
estate has spread to town and the vol
ume of buying and selling not only be
tokens present activity but plans for
future busiess expansion.
A number of deals which have been
pending closed during the last week,
while others are still in the making
with good prospects of consumation.
Current sales of properties in the
residential district include the pur
chase of the L. L. Clymer property on
South Main street by Earl Nonnamak
er of near Lafayette. The property
has been vacant for several years and
Nonnamaker who is employed in Lima
expects to occupy it this fall.
Buys Filling Station Site
How’ard Stager disposed of his
estate holdings at North Main
Jefferson streets. The corner
formerly occupied by a filling station
was purchased by Clark Frazier of
Rawson who operates a string of fill
ing stations in this district. Frazier,
it is understood expects to open a fill
ing station the site.
real
and
•lot
The residence property facing Jeff
erson street adjoining the filling sta
tion lot was sold by Stager to William
Gaiffe w’ho now occupies the place.
Mrs. Gertrude Fields has purchased
the William Leiber property on North
Main street now occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Herrman. She expects to
occupy the place moving from the
which is up for sale.
Two deals in the business district
were closed when Leland Sechler,
Bluffton restauranteur sold his news
stand to Harold Montgomery and the
Rosebowl, both on North Main street
to Russell Tripplehom.
Corinne Badertscher
Weds Kenneth Diller
Miss Corinne Badertscher, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Noah J. Bad
ertscher, residing west of Bluffton
was married to R. Kenneth Diller,
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Diller, in a quiet ceremony last Fri
day morning at the Ebenezer Men
nonite church parsonage.
Rev. A. C. Schultz pastor of the
Ebenezer church, received the vows
of the young couple in a double-ring
ceremony. They were unattended.
For the occasion the bride wore an
aqua blue dress suit with black ac
cessories. Her jewelry consisted of
a single strand
the groom, and
pink rose buds,
navy blue suit.
Following the
couple left for
Michigan.
of pearls a gift of
her corsage was of
The groom w'ore a
ceremony the young
a wedding trip to
a graduate of Heav­
Mrs. Diller is
erdam High school and is employed
by The Triplett Electrical Instru
ment Co. in Bluffton. The groom at
tended Bluffton High school and is
employed at the S. S. Bixel farm.
For the present they will reside
with the groom’s brother, Melvin
Diller west of Bluffton.
Announce Legion
Of Merit Award
Lt. Col. Raymond Schaublin, form
erly of Bluffton now in the Army
Signal corps has received the Legion
of Merit award, according to word
received here by his sister, Mrs.
Mary Deppler.
The award was presented to the
former Bluffton man for outstand
ing service as officer in charge of
heavy wire line communication line
construction in the Persia gulf area.
The work was completed last month.
Previous to the war Schaublin was
employed in telephone line construc
tion work and is widely experienced
in that field.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Don Kirtland, Bluff
ton, a son, John Allen, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wirries, Ada,
a daughter, Genevieve Ann, Sunday.
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VI ITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1944
Jerome Herr, son of Mrs. Alice
Herr, of Bentley road and a former
Bluffton school bus driver, has been
ordered home from1 the Southwest
Pacific war theatre and is now in a
U. S. army base hospital at Oak
land, Calif., for treatment of a skin
infection. I
Herr is expected to return home
early in September on an extended
furlough.
A holder of the Purple Heart
medal, Herr was wounded in the
battle of Munda. After recovery he
was in other fighting in the South
Pacific before being sent home,
left this country for the South
cific nearly two years ago.
RATION BOARD
AWAITS ARRIVAL
OF GAS BLANKS
1
No Application Ferms for “A"
Gas Coupons Received by
County Office.
Blanks Will be Distributed to
Filling Stations as Soon as
Received.
Applications of Bl n motorists
for renewal of their gasoline ra
tions have been delayed because no
blanks have been received for distri
bution by the Allen county ration
board in Lima.
As soon as blanks are received they
will be distributed to filling stations
where Bluffton motorists may obtain
them.
Regulations of thc^XTice of Wee
Administration have been revised to
permit motorists to apply for new “A”
books thru the mail, but they still
must file applications to obtain new
stamps, it was announced by M. M.
Bogart, Bluffton member of the com
munity
County
board.
Jerome Herr, Who Won Purple a
Heart Medal, In California Hospital
I
service panel of the Allen
War Price and Rationing
Two Bluffton Women
To Teach At Rawson
Miss Bettye Lewis and Mrs. Mag
dalene Oyer Suter, both of Bluffton,
have accepted positions on the teach
ing staff of the Rawson public
schools for the coming year.
Miss Lewis will be in charge of
the music department at the school,
and Mrs. Suter will be instructor in
Latin and English.
During the last year Miss Lewis
was employed in the purchasing de
partment of the Westinghouse Man
ufacturing plant in Lima, and Mrs.
Suter was an instructor during the
past school year at Payne, Ohio.
Both graduated from Bluffton col
lege in the class of 1943 and from
Bluffton High School in 1939.
Navy Schooling Ended
By Kenneth R. Henry
Kenneth R. Henry, 27, husband of
Mrs. Evelyn Henry, 211% N. Main
street, recently was graduated from
the Naval Training School (Diesel)
in the University of Illinois campus
at Urbana Ill inois.
Henry now is awaiting further as
signment orders to sea or to some
shore station. He is a former em
ploye of The riplett Electrical In
strument Co. of this place.
Bluffton hardware stores are
awaiting new supplies of ammuni
tion this week following
ment that the War
Board has lifted the ban
ammunition to hunters.
M. M. Bog
Ration
M. M.
C. Arnold,
appointed
community
len County
ing board.
Included
He
Pa­
was
A brother, Olan Herr who
wounded in the Italian campaign,
also received the Purple Heart med
al. Olan now is on active duty with
invasion forces in France.
erate on
announce
Production
on sale of
Unusually good hunting in the
Bluffton district last fall was ham
pered by the federal ban on sale of
ammunition to hunters and such
meager supplies as hunters possessed
were carefully husbanded and fre
quently used as a medium of ex
change more valuable than money.
Lifting of the order against the
sale of ammunition will have no
immediate effect here, it was stated
Wednesday by local dealers who
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On
ard Panel
Bluffton, and C.
yette, have been
newly organized
panel of ti» Ai
rice and hMtion-
o
Wa
in the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the panel are re
porting news of War Price Ration
board activities, communication of
information thru press, radio and
periodicals, distribution of materials
to the public, handling public in
quiries, and the development of local
all-community programs for further
ing participation in OPA programs.
Appointees assumed their duties
this week, it was announced.
locks In Bluffton To Be Set Back
One Hour Early Next Sunday Morning
Town Will Make Change to
Slow Time Officially at
3:00 A. M.
Churches^ Business and Schools
Charge to New Time
Schedule.
Bluffton families will gain an hour
of sleep next Sunday, for they will
go to bed Saturday jhignt by fast
time, which has Be veiled here dur
ing the summer moo||n, and will get
up the next morning ay slow time.
Officially the change in time be
comes effective at *3 a. m. Sunday
when the town
one how, but
make the change on
pieces before retiring
Churches will conv
Sunday morning,
business houses wilUoperate
new time schedules i
gin ope
back
will
time
night.
time
and
the
that
the opening of school are on
basis. This permits daylight oper
ation for school buses.
The post office will adjust its
hours to slow time and mail de
liveries to homes fill be on a slow
time schedule begining Tuesday,
Monday being observed as a holiday.
Slow Time Until April
Bluffton will continue on slow time
until the last Sunday in April when
a municipal ordinance provides for
a return to fast time for the four
summer month of May, June, July
and August.
Railroad trains will continue to
operate on fast time, however, and
Bluffton residents who plan to travel
will have to keep in mind that
time schedules of trains will be
hour earlier than Bluffton time.
the
one
will
Radio stations generally also
continue on fast time, and beginning
Sunday many radio programs
be heard one hour earlier than
ing the summer months.
will
dur-
Soldier Sends Purple
Heart From War Zone
Mr. and Mrs. William Amstutz,
of Route 2, have received the Purple
Heart medal awarded to their son,
Pvt. William Amstutz, Jr., after he
was wounded in the European
theatre.
Pvt. Amstutz also sent hoine
piece of shrapnel that lodged in
thigh.
Dealers Here Await Supplies As Ban
On Sale Of Ammunition Is Lifted
the
his
During the last week Mr. and
Mrs. Amstutz also received a tele
gram from the War department ad
vising them that their son has re
covered from his wound and return
ed to active duty on August 4.
Pvt. Amstutz has been in the Europ
ean theatre since last October.
pointed out that their stocks of am
munition have long been exhausted.
Although they have been promised
shipments in time for the opening
of the hunting season, there is no
certainty as to when these will ar
rive.
College Alumni
Reunion Speaker
Smith of
week end
Dr. Smith
Dr. and Mrs. C. H.
Campus Drive spent the
in Wayne county where
was the principal speaker at the
annual reunion of Bluffton college
alumni held at Wooster, Sunday.
Eileen Wenger To
Train With WAVES
Ardythe Eileen Wenger, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wenger of
Beaver street, has enlisted in the
WAVES, it is announced by the
Office of Naval Officer Procurement
in Detroit.
At present shelly on inactive duty,
awaiting orders to report at Hunter
College in New York City for her
’‘boot” training.
Before enlisting she was employed
by the Army Signal corps at Wright
Field Dayton. She is a graduate of
Bluffton High school.
A brother Cpl. Richard Wenger,
is serving with the Army.
PUPILS MAY WORK
PART TIME FOR
INDUSTRIES, FARMS
Students Excused From School
To Relieve Shortage of Man
power Locally.
Those Wishing to Work
as classroom work is carried with
passing grades, Supt. Ralph Lanham
said this week, and hard-pressed local
employers saw in the announcement
at least a partial answer to the cur
rent manpower shortage problems af
fecting their operations.
School authorities will cooperate in
arranging schedules that will permit
students to be excused from school
part of the day in order that they may
work part-time in local factories or
business places, the superintendent
pointed out.
To continue working, however, stu
dents must maintain passing grades in
all courses, and full scholastic sched-
Help On The Fl
perm high schoo oys n
on farms during the fall harvest sea
son. Under provisions of a state law
adopted last year pupils may be ex-
duvu xui laim wviK I OF
a period up to 30 days, without having
state funds withheld from the school
for the absence.
Payment of the funds is based on
daily attendance, and absences other
wise result in reduced payments of
state financial aid, it was pointed out.
In the case of students employed in
war industries or in stores no deduc
tions will be made from state funds
because the pupils must attend all
regular classes and will be permitted
to leave the school during free periods
only.
Students desiring to make arrange
ments for part-time work are asked
to see Supt. Lanham before the open
ing of school. A number already
have made applications, school author
are cooperating where the situa
is warranted.
tion
Many Will Work
In
to day work during
some students are plan
at night. A number of
teachers have been em-
addition
school hours,
ning to work
students and
ployed at The Triplett Electrical In
strument Co. and other places about
the town during the last year, some
of whom will terminate their employ
ment with the opening
Others, however, want to
working part-time during 1
Supt. Lanham this week
the following regulations
part-time employment:
1—A student to be eligible for part
time work must have received a pass
ing grade ii. all subjects during 1943
44.
2—A student must 'be a good citizen
at all times to be eligible to leave
school for part-time employment.
3—A student must show proficiency
and receive a passing grade on all
subjects pursued during 1944-45 to be
eligible for part-time employment.
4—If the above requirements are
met, students will be eligible for part
time employment when their class
program is completed for the day.
5—A student eligible to work must
furnish a definite schedule to the su
perintendent, approved by the employ
er.
Open House For
Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Stratton of
Orange township will celebrate their
Golden Wedding anniversary on Sun
day. They will hold open house at
their home three miles east of
Bluffton in the afternoon from 2 to
5 o’clock when friends are invited
to call.
different in
Must
Maintain Passing Grades,
Superintendent Says.
Bluffton High school student.-
long
BUY
VNITBB
NUMBER 19
CORN CUTTING ON
BLUFFTON DISTRICT
FARMS UNDER WAY
Stand is Spotty Average Yield
of 40 Bushels Per Acre is
Expected.
Youths Helping With Work in
Cornfields During Last
of Vacation.
Week
district
a spotty
Farmers in the Bluffton
started this week cutting of
corn crop ranging all the way from
stands barely worth harvesting to
promise of a
other
normal
years has the corn
Jon been so widely
This, it is point-
received
iroximately forty
at critical
The stand as a whole has ma
tured early this year as a result of
the unusually hot and dry weaiher
which seriously cut yields. On the
other hand the early maturity has
eliminated almost entirely the dan
ger of frost damage.
Average, Estimate
he uneven stands in
farmers are giving
of
widely divergent estimates as to the
corn yield. How’ever, a composite
opinion indicates that the average
yield this year will be about 40
a decrease of ap
per cent from the
stands, generally!
Due to shorter
the acreage required to fill silos will
be materially larger than last year
when abundant rainfall resulted in
a uniformly tall stand thruout the
smaller quantity,
quality of the fod
be unusually good
to livestock feeders
gravely concerned
which is a boon
who have been
over prospects of a feed shortage
this wi
vacation, furnishing much of the
labor for corn cutting.
Because of the help shortage, com
cutting will proceed with little in
terruption for the Labor day holiday
next Monday. Some farm youths, it
is reported, will request excuses
from school at the opening of the
fall term to assist in work at home.
Ellen Basinger Wed
To Ivan Johnson
Miss Ellen Basinger, eldest daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Basinger,
jf Bluffton, became the bride of
Ivan Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Johnson, of South Main street,
in a ceremony at the
ren church parsonage in North Bal
timore, last Saturday evening.
house on
continue
the school
announced
governing
in Lima.
United Breth-
Rev. Hilliard Camp, pastor of the
North Baltimore church, who for
merly served a charge in Rawson,
received the vows of the contracting
parties.
The bride wore a street length
rose dress for the occasion, and her
corsage was of roses and gardenias.
Following the ceremony, Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson left for Shelly, Mich.,
where they will spend a few days.
On their
return here they will live
bride’s parents until their
an adjoining lot is com-
Mrs. Johnson completed nurse’s
training at the Bluffton Community
hospital this summer and was grad
uated from Bluffton High School in
1941. The groom is a milk truck
operator for the Swift Co. plant
Bluffton Air Gunner
Gets Silver Wings
Pfc. Robert Koontz has been
transferred from Kingman, Arizona,
to Lincoln, Nebraska. He was grad
uated from the flexible gunnery
school in Kingman and received his
silver wings. Enroute to his new
station in Nebraska, he recently vis
ited for ten days at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Koontz of Orange township.
Bluffton Girl Is
Lakeside Soloist
Miss Jean Ann Steinman, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Stein
man of South Lawn avenue was
soloist on the vesper program given
in the Central Auditorium at Lake
side last Sunday evening.
Miss Steinman together with her
parents and sister, Miss Betty Stein
man spent the week end in Lakeside.