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FAGE TWO
With most of Ohio’s cities return
ing to Fast Time for the summer
season, a new battle over War Time
is shaping in the state legislature
this week.
Newest development in the time
controversy which has arisen period
ically since the clocks of the nation
were turned ahead one hour at the
start of the war, is a proposed law,
backed by a rural bloc, which would
deny state funds to any city which
does not adhere to slow time.
The bill already has been recom
mended for passage by the house
committee, and it may pass the house
which is controlled by rural mem
bers. However, it is expected to en
counter strong opposition in the
state senate where city legislators
TVo New Shoe Stamp
Until Next August 1
Validation of a new shoe stamp
next August 1 was announced in ad
vance last week by the OPA, with
airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 in Ration
Book 3 continuing good indefinitely.
The new stamp will come into use
nine months after the last previous
stamp was validated last November
1. This eliminates the two pairs of
shoes a year policy that had been in
effect since November 1, 1943.
OPA said the principal emphasis
this year will be on production of
shoes for children under 14, and that
adults shoes likely will continue
scarce for some time.
Farm Slaughterers
Must Have Permits
Effective last Tuesday farmers
who slaughter meat that is to be
sold or transferred to the possession
of others must obtain a Class 3
slaughterer’s permit, providing they
did not sell or transfer more than
6,000 pounds of meat during 1944.
Farm slaughterers must abide by
the following rules, beginning on
May 1, it was announced by OPA:
1—Sell and transfer no more meat
in any one calendar quarter than
LOCAL AND LONG
DISTANCE HA
Every Load
STAGER
Bluffton, 01
New Battle Over Fast Time Looming
In Ohio State Legislature This Week
include meat in your enu.
'OU.
Always ready to serve
Mea
Fresh and Salt
Ly
are in the majority.
Two years ago rural members of
the legislature forced thru an act
making central war time (slow time)
the official time of the state.
Most municipalities conform to
slow time during the fall and winter
months but practically all of them
revert to the hour faster eastern war
time during the spring and summer.
Proponents of the new bill now up
for consideration in the legislature
contend that operation of cities on
fast time causes great inconvenience
to the residents of rural areas who
set their clocks by slow time.
Should the bill become a law, cities
of the state would have to operate on
slow time or face the loss of 117 mil
lion dollars a year received from the
state for their various funds.
they did in the corresponding quar
ter of 1944.
2—Collect red points for every
pound of meat sold or transferred.
3—Charge no
prices for meats
ties.
more than ceiling
and other commodi-
should be able to
of the meat supply
Every civilian
obtain his share
in exchange for the proper red ration
stamps. The person who lives in the
non-meat producing areas depends
upon his meat supply from the meat
supplying areas.
OPA points out that the more
meat slaughtered on farms, and of a
necessity sold in the producing areas,
the less meat there is available for
the non-producing areas. As a re
sult a reasonable limitation must
be imposed on the sale and transfer
of farm slaughtered meats, OPA
said.
LAFAYETTE JACKSON SCHOOL
NOTES
The P. T. A. officers for next year
were elected at the last meeting. They
are: President, Rev. W. S. Arthur
Vice-President, Harold Bixel Secre
tary, Miss Leta S. Jump Treasurer,
Harvey Badertscher. The Band Boost
ers organization has been made a part
of the .T. A. with the following
band committee named: Fred Clum,
Mrs. Mark Emerick, Mrs. Russell
Hawk and Mrs. Doyt Yoakum.
The highest ten scores in the re
cent eighth grade tests were receiv
ed by Jean Sumney, Joan Hefner,
Frank Nulf, Max Bassett, Robert
Nungester, Hugh Long, Jean McEl
wain, Marjorie Worrell and Richard
Stoodt.
The cafeteria will close May 4. Miss
Bernice Vandemark, the Home Eco
nomics teacher, and Mrs. Esther
iShrider and the student assistants
have been responsible for the good
meals this school year. They have
served an average of 200 meals a day.
The pre-school clinic will be held
at the school May 3. Children who
will enter the first grade next year
may be vaccinated for small pox.
The Lafayette F. F. A. Chapter held
their electrion of officers at the sched
uled meeting Tuesday evening, April
3, at the school. The officers for the
coming year are: President, Jack
Wildermuth, Vice-president, Cledith
Long reporter, Franklin Rhulen,
Treasurer, Dick Kersker Secretary,
Wayne Anspach Student Advisor,
Harold Vermillion Watch Dog, Elmer
Bible.
Pictures...
Pictures are always apjjfopriate
for Mother’s Day .Z-^lfere are the
intimate family "pfHures, of course
but also pictures which brighten
the home—pictures which mother
will see every day, bringing back
loving thoughts of the giver.
We are now showing a large selec
tion of pictures for Mother’s Day.
Pictures of inspiring religious
themes, as well as those with floral
and landscape motifs.
Also some exquisite water-color
and oil reproductions.
News Want-ads bring results.
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The Bluffton News presents
another in the series of lesser
known aspects of South Amer
ica.—Editor.
The second highest capital in the
world—next to La Paz, Bolivia—
Quito, metropolis to Ecuador, sits in
the heart of the Andes, almost two
miles above sea level.
Believed by many to be, from an
artistic point of view, the most
important city of the New World,
Quito is one of the oldest seats of
civilization in the Western Hemi
sphere.
Its history goes back not only to
four centuries of Spanish influence
but further to the time when it was
the capital of the Inca Empire and,
before that, a settlement of the
Caras Indians.
Quito’s geographical situation is
greatly responsible for the fact that
the city is today an artistic shrine.
While the vicinity of Pichincha
volcano—at the foot of which the
famous battle for the independence
of Ecuador was won by Sucre—has
caused tremors and earthquakes
which occasionally rocked the city
and cracked buildings causing exten
sive damage, the mountains have, on
the other hand, proved to be for
Quito a protective barrier from the
world.
Thus it has retained more of the
characteristics of the Spanish colon
ial period than perhaps any other
South American city.
Only in 1908 was its modern
development hastened by the arrival
of the railroad. For centuries be
fore, the capital of Ecuador has
practically lived a life of its own,
remote, isolated, aloof in the heart
of its mountains, guarding its
treasurers from the passing world.
Because of its high altitude, Quito,
located almost on the equator, has
an ideal climate. It combines days
and nights of equal duration with a
temperature which recalls spring,
summer and autumn, all in one day.
Rich and picturesque, basking in
the sunshine to the sound of its
hundreds of bells, the city looks
MoikeA'i.
Some unusual gifts in
MIRRORS
Mother will treasure one of these mirrors—Venetian or cir
cular—in genuine Pittsburgh plate glass with beveled edge.
Many other gifts here for Mother’s Day—stop in for sug
gestions.
Basinger's Furniture Store
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
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Quito, Capital Of Ecuador, High In
Mountains Retain Much Spanish Charm
The Hancock County Chorus of 60 voices, one of the outstanding vocal ensembles of Northwestern
Ohio which will appear at Bluffton’s union church service, at the First Mennonite church, Sunday night
at 8 o’clock.
from the air like an undulating
checkerboard br Ken by the domes
and spires of its many churches.
Like most tow ns of Spanish origin,
this capital is laid out in squares
with streets intersecting each other
at right angles. The houses are
generally two or three stories high,
pointed in vivid colors and built in
the old Spanish style with a central
patio and red-tiled roof.
The public buildings, also, are con
structed in the Spanish colonial
manner and are heavy square, mas
sive in a robust way, contrasting
somehow with the light colorfulness
of native markets where swarms the
poncho-garbed Indians crowd.
For in Quito the old and the new
world meet and blend as nowhere
else,—and while the architecture of
its fifty
asteries
Spanish
mudejar
there is
about them perhaps due to the native
Indian artisans and laborers, that
gives the city’s buildings a unique
character and is the reason why, in
colonial times, a “Quito Style” was
spoken of.
seven churches and mon
again is based on the
Baroque Byzantine and
or Moorish-Spanish styles
a further indefinable quality
A city of churches, Quito is parti
cularly famous for those of La
Companfa and
contain many
works of art.
Jesuit church,
est and most
facades in Latin America.
San Francisco which
rare treasurers and
La Companfa, the
boasts one of the rich
beautiful sculptured
Inside the church, the stone is
elaborately carved throughout with
high-reliefs gilded and recesses
painted red, a combination which
produces one of the most sumptuous
effects imaginable.
Ten side altars, carved and covered
with gold plate surround the magni
ficent glittering high altar whose
tabernacle used on special occasions,
is a mass of precious stones.
San Francisco church (1534) the
most important in Quito for its size
and richness is not as impressive in
its ensemble. It may, however, be
considered Quito’s best art museum
for it contains not only the work of
Manuel Chile Caspicara, the poor
Indian who was Quito’s master wood
carver, but also many valuable
paintings among which are some by
Miguel
greatest
founder
believed
de
of
of
to
Santiago, one of the
Latin American painters,
the Quito school of art,
have died in 1673.
Extremely interesting, as well, is
the monastery of San Francisco,
which adjoins the church and in
whose library twelve thousand vol
umes, many of which ancient parche
ment-bound tomes, are conserved in
the shadow of the arches surround
ing an old garden with a fountain.
Some of Quito’s renowned gold and
polychromo rotablos (altar pieces)
and colonial wood sculptures are also
found in many other churches and
shrines of the capital of Ecuador.
Among these are the Cathedral, the
Monasteries of Santa Domingo, of
San Diego and of San Agustin where
the treaty of independence of Ecua
dor was signed.
Of quito is has been said that its
medieval color, its patriarchal cus
toms, the calm and repose of its
atmosphere, the mildness of its
climate, the splendor of its equator
ial sun and its eternal springtime
make it the city of tranquillity,
where a discriminating and cultured
spirit may find what is with much
difficulty discovered in this world:
peace, the best food for body and
soul.
In the state contest among Ohio
school pupils for drawing the most
effective farmers’ institute posters,
winners of the first three places in
each class announced by J. P.
Schmidt, supervisor, farmers’ institu
tes, Ohio State University, are Lois
Jean Staley, Ashley Leslie Buehler,
Latty and Junior Bowersox, Mt.
Cory, in high school classes Elaine
Stitz, Alliance Edgar Rohrer,
Waterford and Margaret Baker,
Ashley, in i,r per grades and Arie
Whipple, Ashley Joan Paver, Marys
ville and l).ris Schilling, Wilkes
villle, in lower grades.
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Vocal Competition
Winners Announced
Winners in the Northwestern Ohio
High School vocal contest held at
Blufftdn college, Saturday, are an
nounced by Prof. R. A. Lantz, gener
al chairman as follows:
Class A
Soprano Solo—
First—Marilyn Wren and
Gillespie, Lima South.
Second—James Clark,
tral.
Baritone Solo—
Mary
Second—Betty Waggoner, Findlay
Dorothy Yoakam, Lima Central
Donna Ferguson, Lima South.
Alto Solo—
First—Catherine Johnson, Lima
Central Charlotte Clark, Bowling
Green.
Mezzo Soprano Solo—
First—Mary Morris, Lima Central
Second—Rosemary Rhodes, Lima
Central
Thelma
South.
Marianne Fuller, Findlay
Hyman, Peggy Cook, Lima
Solo—
Tenor
First—Jeff Morris, Lima Central
Joe Evers, Findlay
Lima Cen-
Findlay
Ward Lee,
Koch, Lima
First—Robert Swisher,
Second—David Jones,
Lima Central Paul
South
Bass Solo—
First—Joe Stimmel, Findlay Per
ry Beaumont, Lima South
Second—James Parmenter, Richard
Odell, Lima Central Glenn Young,
Lima South
Girls Vocal Ensemble—
First—Lima Central, Findlay,
Bowling Green
Second—Lima South
Boys Vocal Ensemble—
First—Findlay, Bowling Green
Second—Lima Central, Lima South
Class
Soprano Solo—
First—Joan Bercaw, Kenton
Second—Mary Ashburn, Van Wert
Delores Hodgdon, Maumee Dona
Brown, Delta Ruth Campbell, Bowrl
ing Green Jeanne Scott, Ellen Mc
Carty, Defiance
Alto Solo—
First—Joan Schumann, Fostoria
Second—Joan Lourash, Defiance
Eileen Overmeyer, Delta
ar Ration Book No. 5 is in pre
paration
plans to
or early
week.
No final decision has been made
yet whether the new book wall be for
a one or two-year period, but those
preparing it say that probably it will
follow the pattern of current book
No. 4 and be good for about 24
months.
Preparation of Book No. 5 is based
on official estimates that meat, dairy
products, canned fruits, canned vege
tables and sugar will remain scarce
after Germany’s defeat.
At the present rate of use, Book
No. 4 red stamps for meat and dairy
products will last until about De
cember 1. Blue processed food
stamps will do until about October 1.
Announcement that rationing likely
will continue until the close of the
Japanese war w-as made at the same
time that OPA broadened the ra
tioning of meat, to bring 9914 per
cent of all meat under the ration
program.
Beginning this week, all meats ex
cept mutton take red ration points,
including cull and utility
veal and lamb, and all
less popular cuts of veal
such as breasts, shanks,
flanks.
New Ration Book No. 5 In Preparation
Indicates Continuation Of Rationing
in Washington and OPA
put it in use late this year
in 1946, it was learned this
grades of
grades of
and lamb,
necks and
Other changes provide increase of
Mezzo Soprano Solo—
First—Mary Kordenbrock, Kenton.
Tenor Solo—
First—Dean Niswfcnder, Bluffton
Second—Richard Metzger, Delta
Baritone Solo—
First—Marvin Blanchard, Defiance
Second—Kenneth Clay, Van Wert
Joe McCullough, Kenton Herbert
Yenser, Fostoria Karl Whitmer,
Delta Lyle Wright, Russell McCon
nell, Bowling Green
Girls Vocal Ensemble—
First—Defiance
Second—Defiance, Bluffton,
ler, Van Wert, Delta
Desh-
Boys Vocal Ensemble—
First—Bluffton, Defiance
Second—Van Wert
Mixed Vocal Ensemble—
Second—Defiance, Grand Rapids
Class
Soprano Solo—
First—Joan Fetz, Lima St. John
Nancy Jacobs, Shawnee Mary Go
ings, Paulding Mary King, Wayne
Jane Nicodemus, Grand Rapids
Second—Mary Spore, Ada Janice
Welty, Pandora Helen King, Arling
ton Mary Baker, Gilboa Metha Bur
roughs, Lyons Marilyn Moore,
Paulding Barbara Eply, Salem
Alto Solo—
First—Joanne Heyme, Lima St.
John Patricia Clayton, Shawnee
Wanda Hahn, Hamler Phyllis Sch
latter, Archbold
Second—Jessie Burkholder, Gilboa
Ann Boehr, Pandora Lelia Reed,
Paulding Sara Moore, North Balti
more
Mezzo Soprano Solo—
First—Bernadine
Center
McCabe, Liberty
Second—Martha
Giovanna Modica,
Shirley Jones, Shawnee
Oren, Gilboa
Lima St. John
Girls Vocal Ensemble—
First—Paulding, McComb,
NOTICE TO
COAL USERS'
On or before May 15,1945 all coaJ^clSSGmers are com
pelled by the Solid Fuel Administration’s order te sign a
declaration with your coal dealer stating how much coal
you consumed last year, etc.
Your dealer is prohibited from delivering during the
period April 1, 1945 to March 31,1946, more than 80% of
the consumer’s normal annual requirements and not more
than 50% before September 1, 1945.
Regardless of whether or not you have coal in your
bin it is compulsory to sign a declaration before any coal
can be delivered.
Declarations are available at your coal dealers.
Make it a point to fill out your declaration today.
The Bluffton Milling Co.
The farmers Crain Co.
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945
one to two points a pound for lamb
and veal one point for most beef
steaks and decreases of one to two
points on beef roasts and most other
cuts of beef.
Ration point value of margarine is
boosted four more points and
ration cost of Grade 1 cheese is
creased two points.
The only
the
in­
re-
Butter and hamburger points
main unchanged, as do the ration
values of lard, shortening, cooking
and salad oils.
At the same time, some cuts were
announced in the blue point values of
some processed foods, with the re
ductions applying to canned snap
beans, tomato catsup, chili sauce and
apricots.
In addition the point value of to
mato juice and vegetable juice com
binations was lowered for the
ounce can only.
24-
will
10
A No. 2*4 can of apricots
cost 30 points, a reduction of
two No. 2 cans of snap beans 10
points, instead of 10 points each, but
a single can will continue to require
a 10-point coupon.
A 14-ounce bottle of catsup or
chili sauce will cost 20 points, down
10 a 24-ounce can
or vegetable
points, down
of tomato juice
combination,
10
juice
10.
point
A pint bottle will
for
he-
increase is
grape juice,
quire 30 points, up 10 a quart, 50
points, up 20
Blanchard
Second—Arlington, Gilboa, Hask
ins, Ada, Liberty Center, Columbus
Grove
Tenor Solo—
First—Howard Brown, North Bal
timore Edward Wallace, Lima St
John
Second—Howard Reddick, Arling
ton Donald Pacey, Gilboa
Baritone Solo—
First—Myron Nelson, Ada John
Marshall, Beaverdam Jos. Baldwin,.
Hamler
Second—Chas. Rettig, Holgate
Duane Lau, Swanton Donald BaneyM
North Baltimore
Bass Solo—
Second—Paul Shall, Paulding
Boys Vocal Ensemble—
First—Mt. Blanchard, Pandora
Second—Lyons, Arlington, Lima.
St. Johns
Mixed Vocal Ensemble—
First—Delta
Second—Milton Center
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