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FACE TWO
Eight Gallons Of Gas
Per Acre For Farmers
Eight gallons of non-highway gas
oline per tillable acre will be grant
ed to farmers this year for their ag
ricultural work, it was announced
last w’eek by the Toledo district OPA
headquarters.
First issue of the gasoline may be
up to 70 per cent of the total year’s
allotment after March 1, and a new
application will be required for all
or any part of the remaining 30 per
cent.
Elrose
Pvt, Ortho R. Stratton is enjoying
a furlough at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Strat
ton. Thursday evening callers at
the Stratton home were Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Elzay, daughters Dorothy
and Joan, Mr .and Mrs. Arthur Non
namaker, son Roderick, Floyd Hart
man and Anna Mary’ Crow.
Miss Martha Ann Koontz of Bluff
ton spent the week end with Kaye
Eileen Nonnamaker.
Callers at the Ami Nonnamaker
home the past week were Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Kramer, T/Sgt. Gene
Bish, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Klingler,
Howard Nonnamaker, Chas. Nonna
xnaker, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hamil
ton and daughter Betty’ and Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Moore.
Mrs. Howard Stauffer of Bluffton
spent Monday evening at the Em
maline •’Nonnamaker home.
Sunday dinner guests at the M. J.
Stratton home were Mr. Russell
Stratton, sons Scott and Denny of
West Jefferson, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Clymer and Mr. and Mrs. Wright
Klingler and family. Other callers
throughout the week were Pvt. Ortho
Stratton and Anna Mary Crow and
T/Sgt. Gene Bish.
Kaye Nonnamaker spent Thursday
evening with Janet Sites in Mt. Cory.
Honoring Pvt. Ortho R. Stratton,
a family diner was enjoyed at the
Wright Klingler home, Monday
evening. Those attending were Mr.
and Mrs. Myron Stratton, Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Clymer, Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Stratton, daughter Elaine
and son Larry, Miss Anna Mary
Crow and the honored guest.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nonnamaker,
son Roderick, daughter Kaye called
at the Rolland Koontz home in Bluff
ton, Monday evening.
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Office, 118 Cherry St.
Phone 120-Y Bluffton, Ohio
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BLUFFTON PANDORA
BEING
PREPARED
IT 15 FITTING THAT THE
lighthouse service,
OLDEST PART OF THE
COAST GUARD, WAS
FATHERED BY GEORGE
WASHINGTON HIMSELF.
THE COAST GUARD RULE IS
ALWAYS BE PREPARED*
WASHINGTON WAS A REALIST
WITH VISION.. HE THEREFORE
COUNSELLED PREPAREDNESS
AND PERSONAL THRIFT.
Individual Americans
The Washington monument, 555
feet high when it W’as dedicated on
Feb. 21, 1885, has sunk only six
inches since that time, and settling
in recent years is estimated at about
one-fortieth of an inch per year.
Engineers say that its 81,120 tons
are so well distributed that it w’ould
take a wind of more than 145 miles
an hour or probably a severe earth
quake to overturn the gigantic me
morial to our first president.
Its dedication by President Ches
ter Arthur in 1885 came 102 years
after Congress first proposed erection
of a monument to the “Father of
His Country”.
In 1843 after Congress had failed
t? raise funds, Chief Justice Marsh
all vras selected first president of the
Washington National Monument So
ciety, which chose a design submit
ted by Robert Mills, of South Caro
lina.
This called for an obelisk 600 feet
high surrounded by a circular col
onaded building and surmounted by
The February faculty discussion
meeting was held last Friday’ night
in the Mosiman Room of the Mussel
man Library. Dr. C. Henry Smith
led a discussion on the Mennonite
Historical Library.
Special chapel services will be held
February 27-March 2, during the
week of pre-Easter services at the
First Mennonite church. Rev. Earl
and Waltner, pastor of the Bethel
Mennonite church at Mountain Lake,
Minnesota, will speak for both
groups of meetings. Rev. Waltner,
a native of South Dakota, was pastor
of the Second Mennonite church at
Philadelphia, before his present
charge.
Tw’o faculty members attended
Armorsville
Sunday evening visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Stratton and Mr. and
Mrs. Lamar Basinger and daughter
were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Zeranti
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Mc
Carty and son all of Lima, Mr. and
Mrs. Marion Fox and son, Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Hover and son all of
Ada and Miss Ethel Downey.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clauss and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Armin Hauenstein.
Nelson Steiner and Dallas Berry
were Sunday afternoon callers at
the Horace Stratton home.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore and
family and Raymond Tuttle were
Sunday dinner guests at the Bernard
Stratton home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Basinger and
daughter were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huber. After
noon callers were Mr. and Mrs.
Lyman Barnes.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Ervin Moser and family were
Miss Ethel Downey, Mr. and Mrs.
Lysle McCarthy and son, Mr. and,
Mrs. Howard Hover and son. After
noon callers were Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Zeranti and family of Lima.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clauss and
family called Friday evening at the
George Clapper home.
Sunday afternon callers at the Levi
Hauenstein hoi. were ?!r. Ed Ver
Bluffton College Notes
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have practiced personal foresight
BEYOND ANY PEOPLE. FOR EXAMPLE.THEY OWN TOGETHER
TWO-THIRDS OF ALL THE LIFE INSURANCE /N THE WORLD«• AND
AS A NATION AMERICANS TODAY CONCENTRATE ON TN/S
COAST GUARD PRINCIPLE OP BE/NG PREPARED.
Washington Monument Completed
In 1885 Has Interesting History
a colassal figure of Washington.
Statues of the signers of the De
claration of Independence vrere to
be placed around the rotunda.
Because of construction costs, the
plan was simplified to conform with
the present, classic proportions we
know today.
By 1848, the society had raised
about $87,000 and the cornerstone
was laid with Masonic rites on July
4 of that year. The trow’d used was
one Washington had used in laying
the capital cornerstone in 1793.
During the Civil war work on the
monument was paralyzed, but con
struction was resumed after the war
and finally completed in 1885. Total
cost was $1,200,000, with the monu
ment society furnishing $300,000 and
the federal government the remaind
er.
An average of 40,000 visitors per
month now ride the elevator to the
top of the monument, but the steps
are closed for the duration of the
war.
meetings in Chicago over the week
end. Dr. L. L. Ramseyer attended
a meeting of Mennonite college
presidents. Miss Edna Ramseyer at
tended a meeting to plan summer
units for conscientious objector girls
at mental hospitals.
“Post War Problems” was the
theme of the Fifteenth Annual In
ternational Day at Wilberforce Uni
versity in Ohio, on Lincoln’s birth
day. Bluffton students attending the
conference were Harriet Jean Scher
tz, freshman from Metamora, Ill.
Marie Smith, freshman from Kalida
Mary Locher, junior from Bluffton
Evelyn Johnson, senior from Bucy
rus Christine Burkhard, sophomore
from Orrtanna, Pennsylvania and
Harvey Mitchell, senior from Pan
dora.
million. Mr. and Mrs. John Good,
Mrs. Roily Moser and sons, Mrs.
Warren Moser.
Mrs. C. E. Klingler spent several
days last week with her daughter,
Mrs. Wm. Coldiron and family of
Detroit.
Monday evening callers at the
Clyde Klingler home were Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Moore and Mr. and Mrs.
Carl McCafferty.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Klingler called
on Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Klingler of
Findlay, Friday. Mr. Klingler w’ho
has been quite sick was somewhat
improved.
Navy Recruiter To
Be Here On Friday
Chief J. B. Sanzenbacher, Navy re
cruiter from Lima, will be in Bluff
ton Friday to discuss Navy enlist
ments with young men interested in
a naval career
He will meet Bluffton High school
seniors at 10:30 a. m., and will be
in the local post office from 1 to 2:30
P. M.
Chief Sanzenbacher said that the
needs of an expanding fleet have
made necessary the continued enlist
ment of radio technicians w’ho will
be trained to maintain and service
radar equipment.
News Want-ads bring results.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
.Allen county agricultural leaders
and members of the County USDA
War Board will meet next Monday
in Memorial hall to discuss 1945
farm crop and livestock goals.
With the farm labor force at its
lowest level since the outbreak of
war, farmers of the nation have been
called on for a 5.3 million-acre in
crease in cultivated crops during the
coming year. Livestock goals pro
vide for an increase in milk produc
tion, the number of pigs farrowed,
and the number of cattle and hogs
available for market.
In Allen county the three crops
topping the list of those for which
increased production is sought are:
Sugar beets, 407 per cent over 1944
The Bluffton News presents
another in the series of features
of Latin American republics.—
Editor.
One of the great Spanisht radi
tions that is still followed in certain
regions of the Western Hemisphere
is that of bullfighting. However,
while some of the Latin American
countries are as ardent fans of the
sport as their forebears, to other
nations of the New World, bullfight
ing is as unknown—and in fact as
alarming a spectacle—as it is to
the citizens of the United States.
It is probably because Mexico and
Lima were two of the richest and
most important cities of the Americas
and both of them seats of vice
royalties that, ever since the early
days of the colony, bulls were fought
there—Spanish-style—for the amuse
ment of Viceroys, nobles and the
general public.
As the enthusiasm of the popula
tion for this type of sport increased
with the years, it became—without
losing its Spanish flavor—part of
the national life of Mexico and Peru
as w’ell as that of Venezuela and
Columbia.
While today there remain in Latin
America only a half dozen countries
where this diversion is allowed, the
land of the Aztec and that of the
Inca still are, after Spain, the
principal strongholds and centers of
bullfighting in the w’orld, with Co
lombia and Venezuela as close
seconds.
No great “Matador” feels his
career complete until he has come
to the Western Hemisphere to try
his luck and his sword in Mexico
City’s Plaza de Toros or swished his
cape and smile at a beautiful
senorita in Lima’s Plaza de Acho.
A bullfight starts long before the
fight itself with the breeding of the
bull and the training of the bull
fighter or “torero”. Much time is
dedicated to the care and selection
of the animal which must be fierce
and brave and present certain physi
cal characteristics such as fine hide,
upright ears, long tail and small,
fine horns.
As for the torero he must have
first of all an overwhelming desire
to succeed in this field, for the road
to fame is one of the hardest and
crudest of any sport.
Absolute fearlessness is the most
important characteristic of the bull
fighter just as it is of the bull.
Agility is also indispensable and a
knowledge which is gained through
many years of close association with
bulls.
From the small boys who grow
up on stock farms generally spring
the famous toreadors, who have be
gun as children to practice with an
old blanket. It is as common a
sight as marbles in the United States
to see small boys playing ‘toro’ on
the streets in Mexico.
The young torero will most prob
ably start out by having a minor
role in the “corrida” (bullfight) and,
if he succeeds in this, will be pro
moted to the rank of full-fledged
matador, reaching even, maybe, the
title of “torero de alternativa” given
only to those who have attained a
high standard of proficiency in the
artistic and skillful handling of the
bulls.
For bullfighting is considered an
art as well as a skill, and a toreo
in his rich gold-embroidered costume
produces on the audience the same
effect as a ballet dancer.
In the regular corrida—which
generally takes place on Sunday
afternoons—six bulls are killed
(twenty minutes to a bull) by three
matadors working alternately with
their own subordinate team of pica
dors and banderilleros.
When the bull first comes in, he
is played by banderillero and mata
dor with capes. Then the mounted
picadors enter, the bull charges
them, often kills the horse but al
ways gets a wound in the shoulder
muscle from the picador’s lance.
Next four pair of banderillas,
(barbed wooden shafts) are stuck
into the top of the bull’s neck by
the banderilleros or, with musical
accompaniment, by the matador him
self.
Then the matador takes the bull
alone, plays him with the muleta
Farm Crop And Livestock Goals For
1945 To Be Discussed In Lima Monday
Crowds Throng Mexico City’s Famed
Plaza de Toros For Sunday Bullfights
In a few’ other Latin American
countries bulls are played with but
never killed.
acreage wheat, eight per cent in
crease, and hay ,six per cent in
crease.
Clair Patterson, chairman of the
USDA board, will preside at the
session. Other members of the board
are James H. Warner, county agent
Bert O. Marshall, farm security ad
ministration, and Walter E. Barber,
production credit administration.
All board members will appear on
the program. Marshall w’ill discuss
1945 production possibilities Barber
will interpret goals on an individual
farm basis Warner will recommend
efficient crop and livestock practices,
and Patterson will explain support
prices and talk on the outlook for
new’ farm machinery.
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(red cloth) and kills him with a
sword.
The scene of this tragedy—and
tragedy it is, for the man as well
as for the bull,—is the bullring, a
round circus-like construction, whose
arena is surrounded by a wooden
wall (la barrera) which forms a sort
of alley or safety area between the
ring and the grandstand.
There, bullfighters await their
turn, and to that alley, too, assist
ants in the corrida sometimes jump
to safety—the matador himself, of
course, never leaving the ring until
the bull has been killed.
Under the grandstand are stables
for the bulls and horses and an in
firmary where doctors and nurses
are always in attendance.
The Mexico City bullrihg, one of
the most famous and the largest in
the world after that of Madrid Spain,
seats 23,000 while that of Lima is
famed for its antiquity, having been
built in the 18th century and being
the third oldest in existence.
An undoubtedly cruel and bloody
spectacle, from w’hich a large portion
of the hemisphere turns away in
horror, bullfighting must, however,
not be judged harshly by those to
whom it is not a tradition.
Ernest Hemingway in his famous
book on bullfighting “Death in the
Afternoon” admits that, in spite of
its essential cruelties, it cannot be
entirely condemned in the countries
of w’hose background it is part.
“The essence of the greatest
emotional appeal of the bullfight,”
he assures, “is in the feeling of im
mortality that the bullfighter feels
and that he gives to the spectators.
He is performing a work of art
and he is playing with death.”
The spectators no longer see the
actual cruelty of the game. To
them it is—maybe—more than any
thing else a symbol. A symbol of
man’s fight with evil, fight against
death, pursuit of immortality.
LaFayette
Members of the Farm Bureau Ad
visory Council No. 3 w’ere entertain
ed by Mr. Harry Patterson at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Pat
terson, Tuesday evening. Present at
the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Hefner and family, Mr. and Mrs.
John Thayer, Mr. and Mrs. Roy An
drew’s and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Obenour, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Brackney and Mrs. Florence Rodney.
Mr. and Mrs. E .L. Roberts and
Jennie Roberts were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Moy
er of Shawnee.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Staley, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Rudy and son Ned of
Lima, Mrs. Edith Staley, Mr. and
Mrs. Parley Clum, Mr. and Mrs. John
Fleming, W. E. Binkley of Ada, Mrs.
Delma Watt, Lem Burkheimer, Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Hall, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Hall, Bob Leeweller of Lima,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Hinkle, Betty
Lou Hull, Jennie Roberts, Alice Al
bert, Milt Burden, Mrs. Martha Pat
terson, Mrs. Raychel Rex, Tom Lud
wig, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Watt, J. P.
Staley, Mrs. Etta Guthrie, Mrs. Dor
othy Hall, Joey Hall, Philip Hall,
Mrs. Ho Bailey of Wapakoneta, Paul
Pitchford of Lima, Lony Treglia,
Paul De Rosa and son of Lima, M.
C. Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Smith of Lima were recent callers
of T. W. Desenberg.
Mrs. Elizabeth Routson and Mrs.
Mildred Williams of Ada and Mrs.
Dorothy Bierly were Wednesday
luncheon guests of Mrs. Raychel Rex.
Mr. and Mrs. Weaver and Mrs.
Mary Hahn of Leipsic were Thurs
day guests of Mrs. Helen Weaver.
Mrs. Josie Hall was a Friday guest
of Mrs. Marie Wingate of Ada.
Mrs. Lucy Yoakam w’as a Sunday
dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Peterson.
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have your trailed
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Bluffton Welding Shop
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Pre-Easter Speaker
Rev. Erland Waltner of Moun
tain Lake, Minn., speaker at the
pre-Easter services at the First
Mennonite church from Sunday
until Friday of next week.
Richland Center
Miss Bernice Zimmerman was a
week end guest at the Andy Hoch
stettler home.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher
and family were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr .and Mrs. Sam Bader
tscher.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bame spent
Sunday afternoon at the Robert and
Amos Gerber home.
Past week callers of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Gratz were Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Matter and family, Mrs.
Arthur Miller and daughter Grace
Mrs. D. Strunk, and Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Gratz.
Mrs. Harold Stevens and daughter
Elaine of Sandusky, Ohio, returned
home after spending the past three
weeks with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Amstutz.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Marquart
and Ray Hirshfield w’ere Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Marquart and son.
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Moser and
Mrs. Helen Krouse of Columbus
Grove were last Thursday evening
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. War
ren Moser and son.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz and
daughter Sharon Kaye were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Schaublin and daughter. Afternoon
callers were: Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Schaublin and family and Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Strahm and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and daughters spent Sunday after
noon with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zim
merman and family and H. P. Zim
merman.
Ralph, son of,Mr. and Mrs. Clar
ence Bame of New Stark returned
home Sunday after spending the
past six weeks with his grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rusmisal.
Mr. and Mrs. Reno Gratz and
daughter, Mrs. Richard Core and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Coon, Mr.
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and Mrs. Wilford Gratz and daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boegli and
daughter, Mrs. Norma Haines spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Gratz. Evening callers were
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gratz and
sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
son spent Sunday evening with Mr.
and Mrs. John Marquart and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Roily 1 loser and
sons, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Matter and
daughter, Mr. and Mis. W. C.
Schaublin and daughter spent Satur
day evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Wilford Gratz and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Hochstettler
and family, Miss Bernice Zimmer
man spent Sunday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. David Zimmerman and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Detw’iler and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Yoakum
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Gratz and daughter Joan w’ere week
end callers at the Otto Amstutz,
home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schaublin
called Sunday evening on Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Jennings.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Balmer and
daughters spent Saturday evening
w’ith Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Matter
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Wingate and
family of Temperance, Mich., spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Wingate and daughter.
Staff Sargent Marvin Hilty of
Nebraska and Miss Edna How’ard of
Reading, California w’ho have been
visiting at the home of his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hilty and
daughter will return to their places
tomorrow.
Mrs. Cliford Steward and daugh
ter Judith Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Matter and family w’ere Sun
day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs..
Harry Leddy and family of Shaw’
nee.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hilty and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Amstutz
and family, Staff Sgt. Marvin Hilty
and Miss Edna Howard of Reading,.
Mich., were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hilty and
daughter.
Dw’ain Leiber, son of Mr. and Mrs..
Russell Leiber W’ho has been quite
sick is improving.
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