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VOLUME NO. LXX
WHEAT YIELD IS
SURPASSING PRE
SEASON FORECAST
Early Reports Indicate Yield
from 35 to 40 Bushels
Per Acre
’Grain is of Good Quality Deal
ers Promised Cars to Move
Crop
Marketing of a bumper wheat
•crop, described by farm observers as
one of the best in many years, is
well under way in the Bluffton
district this week.
Pre-harvest estimates of returns
•of 25 bushels to the acre have prov
ed a low on the basis of the first
returns reported after marketing got
under way here last week.
First of the 1945 crop of wheat
was sold last Thursday to the Farm
ers Grain Co. by Amos Reichenbach,
three miles north of Bluffton, who
reported that the yield from his
stand ran 35 bushels to the acre.
On Friday, Wade Augsburger,
four and one-half miles southw’est of
town, marketed wheat at the Bluff
ton Milling Co.
between
acre.
which averaged
40 bushels to the
35 and
Is Good
marketings was 59,
Test
on both
Tests
with 14% moisture. Dealers pointed
out this is excellent quality wheat
with .low enough moisture content
to be stored in bins. Wheat sold
here the first of the week continued
to show similar test ratings.
W’heat is coming onto the market
this year two weeks later than in
1944 when the first wheat was sold
to local elevators on July 1. Last
year’s crop, how’ever, was harvested
unusually early and this year’s wheat
was slower than usual in reaching
maturity.
Price received for the first wheat
sold here this season was $1.55 per
bushel, in comparison with $1.52
paid last year.
Combines Busy
wheat on
combined,
being cut
Major portion of the
Bluffton farms is being
altho some of the crop is
with binders. Harvesting is progres
sing rapidly, with rain last Saturday
delaying cutting of the crop for the
first time after it started on a broad
.scale at the first of the week. With
-a resumption of favorable weather
permitting cutting without interrup
tion, harvesting is believed to have
passed its peak in the area.
So far, there has been no jam at
local elevators because of inability
to obtain sufficient cars for shipping,
a situation that was generally ’fear
ed a few weeks ago. Bluffton dealers
«ay they have been promised suf
ficient cars to handle the local crop,
and farmers who are combining their
wheat are hauling the grain direct
to market.
This year’s wheat enjoyed un
usually favorable grow’ing conditions
from the
fall. A
protected
period of
moisture and cool growing weather
this spring and summer produced a
-crop that grew’ fence high, with the
heaviest stand of straw in years.
time it was seeded last
heavy blanket of snow
it during the severest
the winter, and plenty of
Produce Firm Sells
Business Interests
The Gray & White company of
Tiffin, dealers in farm produce have
^disposed of their branch interests in
Bluffton to the
pany in a deal
week.
The K &
K & Produce com
closed the first of the
company is a locally
owned partnership consisting of Rob
ert Murray and Charles Kinsinger.
They announced that business of the
Gray & White company would be
handled at their station on North
Main street and that truck routes
previously operated thru the country
for the buying of produce would be
continued.
Triplett Company
Director Is Dead
Albert A. Frederick, 66, director of
the Triplett Electrical Instrument
company died at his home in South
Bend, Ind., Sunday afternoon. His
death followed a six months’ illness.
He was a former executive of the
Oliver Plow company of South Bend
and at the time of his death was
partner in a Chicago sales agency.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at South Bend fol
lowed by burial at that place.
Surviving are a son Lee Frederick
and daughter Mrs. Dorothy Ander
son, both of South Bend. A brother
is Dr. H. O. Frederick of Ashtabula,
-former Bluffton dentist.
Continue Religious
Education In Schools
Mrs. S. F. Pannabecker, religious
education instructor in the Bluffton
schools was re-hired for the coming
year at a meeting Sunday afternoon
of the Board of Religious Education
composed of the various sponsoring
local churches.
She will receive a monthly salary
of $80 for the nine months school
term. The salary has been under
written by the participating churches
and the Bluffton Ministerial associa
tion.
JEFFERSON STREET
MAY BE IMPROVED
BY HIGHWAY DEPT.
State Proposes Improvements
To Part of Street Traversed
By Route 103
Municipal Council Approves
Suggestion If Without Cost
To The Town
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Sgt. John Romey One Of Three G. I.
Soldiers Governing A German City
street
Re-surfacing of Jefferson
from North Main street east of the
city limits loomed this week as a
distinct possibility for inclusion in
an extensive summer improvement
program on State Route 103, which
follows that section of the street into
Bluffton.
Negotiations between the State
highway department and the munici
pal council are under way, with
projected improvement providing
application of a new surface
heavy asphalt tar and chips.
Proposed re-surfacing of
the
for
of
the
street had its inception in a request
from the state highway department,
asking the municipal council’s per
mission to improve that section of
Jefferson street over which State
Route 103 passes. A distance of ap
proximately one-fifth mile is in
volved.
Permission to complete the work
was granted Monday nighty at a
meeting of the council, on condition
that the town would not be asked
share any portion of the cost.
to
Council Attaches Rider
Council stipulation that the village
wxiuld not assume
any share of the
tached as a rider
form request sent
department and returned to them.
responsibility for
request was at
in answer to a
by the highway
Estimates by the state indicate
the cost of improvements within
municipal limits w’ould approximate
$535, and under ordinary procedure
the town’s share of the expenditure
would be about $90.
Altho no official action has been
forthcoming so far from the high
way department with regard to the
rider, unofficial belief here is that
the department will assume the
entire cost because that part of
Route 103 within the corporation
limits is a comparaticely small part
of the larger project mapped
Route 103 east of Blilffton.
for
Pfc. Byron Betz
Home On Furlough
Pfc. Byron Betz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Betz, of south of Bluffton,
arrived home Monday morning for a
30-days furlough after being *n
Europe with United States troops
for nearly one year.
In Europe he w’as a member of the
347th Infantry, First Battalion of
the 87th Division, w’hich received a
presidential citation for its services.
Following the close of his furlough,
Pvt. Betz will reporte at Camp At
terbury, Ind., from where he will go
to Ft. Benning, Ga., for further
training before reassignment.
Soap-making at home—an art
half-forgotten since pioneer days—
may be
summer
shortage
practiced again here this
should the present soap
continue.
there has been no improve
the laundry soap famine
So far
ment in
which first struck Bluffton nearly
three weeks ago, and shelves of
dealers are bare of any semblance
of a supply of soap or soap powder.
Occasional small shipments are
received at irregular intervals, but
all the available soap or soap powder
is quickly snapped up by eager
Three-Man Tribunal Acts As
Investigator, Police, Prose
cutor and Judge
difficulties of Administration.
Factional Rows Described In
Letters Home
Staff Sergeant John Romey of
South Main street is one of three
American G. I.’s who have the
responsibility of operating the only
municipal court functioning in Gross
Umstadt, a German city of some
5,000 population about 30 miles
south of Franfurt on the Main.
None of the three speaks the Ger
man language which is one of the
minor difficulties which besets them
in keeping in operation a court for
which they must serve as investigat
or, prosecutor and arresting officer,
as well as judge and jury.
A graduate of the law school at
Ohio State university, Sgt. Romey
has an excellent background for the
assignment, but with Nazi and
Nazi factions bitterly hating
other and attempting to gain
§nds by bringing pressure to
thru the American occupation
the three American soldiers charged
with dispensing justice have their
hands full.
anti
each
their
bear
court
Serving on the three-man court
Tribunal are Sgt. Romey, Lt. George
L. Kiley, of Paris, Ill., and Corp.
Bill Rosentreter, of Peoria, Ill.
Some of the difficulties encounter
continued on page 8)
Don Smucker Resigns
Wadsworth Pastorate
Don Smucker, formerly of Bluffton
who has been minister of the First
Mennonite church in Wadsworth, has
resigned his pastorate at that place
and will enter Princeton Theological
seminary at Princeton, N. J., for
graduate study in the fall.
He and his family are spending
several weeks
mother, Mrs. B. D. Smucker of South
Lawn avenue after which he will
spend the summer visiting civilian
public service camps and churches
thruout the western states as a rep
resentative of the Mennonite Central
committee.
at the home of his
His wife and little son Timothy
will spend the summer at the home
of her parents in Newton, Kansas.
Two Draft Inductions
Postponed By Board
Allen County Draft Board No. 3
announced Tuesday* that postpone
ment had been granted to two se
lectees who were scheduled for induc
tion into military service this month.
They are: Harold James Crawfis of
Columbus Grove and Miles V. Whit
ling, Jr., of Lima.
Richard Wenger Is
Home From Europe
Sgt. Richard Wenger, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Wenger who was with
Patton’s Army in Germany is home
on a thirty day furlough. Sgt. Wen
ger who was overseas for ten months
brought with him a l*ge collection
of Nazi trophies, including a flag
which are on exhibit in
of the Basinger
and pistols
the window
ture stere.
hospital:
Mr. and
Bluffton, a
Thursday.
Shortage Of Soap May Revive Lost
Pioneer Art Of Making Soap At Home
furni
Births
births at Bluffton
following
The
Harold Thiessen,
Elizabeth Renette,
Mrs.
girl.
Mrs. Orval Clymer, Mt.
Mr. and
Cory, a girl, Sunday.
Pfc. and Mrs. Robert Wilson, Ar
lington, a boy, Philip Charles, Sun
day.
housewives and the incoming supply
in no way comes near measuring up
to answer the demand.
Home soap making, on the other
hand, would require kitchen fats
which housewives have been turning
in at the local meat markets to aid
in the war effort. Altho use of fats
in soap would reduce the total
amount provided from Bluffton
households, the procedure would per
mit soap makers to further conserve
their fats by reducing their outlets,
thereby releasing those fits for the
armed forces.
rHE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE iNTgHESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, July 119, 1945
PARTY CAUCUSES
NILE BE HELD ON
FRIDAY,JULY 27
Candidates For Richland Twp.
Offices and School Board
To Be Named
general election will come to
climax Friday night, July 27,
members of both parties
caucus meetings to name
for the Richland township
ton school board tickets.
Democrats and Republicans Willi of the Danube river below Regens
Meet on Same Night In High I berg, Germany, Sgt. Richard R.
School Building I Cookson, of Bluffton, has received
the Bronze Star medal.
(Continued on page 8) I
TOWN’S OPERATION
TO COST $129,148'
DURING NEXT YEAR
approved last Monday night at
meeting of the town council.
This year’s expenditures also
greater than those anticipated
1946, with the 1945 total $8,490 in
excess of what is expected
coming 12 months.
Political activitjBharking the final I across the Danube on April 26. Car
phases of Democratic and Republican I rying parts of a heavy army radio
preparations for j^^xt November’s I on his back, Sgt. Cookson supervised
a I the installation of telephone wires
w’hen I across the river.
will hold I When infantrymen were pinned
candidates I down by machine guns after cross
and Bluff-1--------------------1------------------------
The Republican caucus will be held
in the high school study room, ad
joining the library and Democrats
will meet in Room 211 in the old
section of the high school building.
Both meetings wia start at 8:30 p.I Amateur Gardeners Who Never
M. I Regarded Efforts Seriously
Places will be open six offices
I
With expenditures for 1946 esti-|the stand in lowlands on some farms
mated at $129,148, a balance df $14,-1 were “drowned out” this year by ex
694 is expected on hand at the close I cessive moisture, but this condition
of 1946, most of w’hich will be re-1 was not encountered in the average
fleeted in the balance of the munici-1 back yard garden.
pal light and water works fund, the I In addition to potatoes from vic
budget prepared by Towm Clerk Wil-1 tory gardens, a supply from Bluffton
ford O. Geiger shows.
in the I
Bonded debt of the towm
start of the next year will
to $20,000. This is reflected
funds, as follows: Fire apparatus I
bonds, $8,000 Main Street Resurfac
ing bonds, $5,000 Water Works
bonds, $6,000 and Refunding bonds,
$6,000.
Expenditures for 1946 are estimat
ed as follows, with 1945 figures in
parenthesis: General fund, $17,768
($17,258.60) Street Maintenance and
Repair, $3,000 ($3,000) Gasoline
Tax Receipts applied to Street Main
tenance, $2,500 ($3,500) Bond Re
tirement, $5,880 ($13,880) electric
light and water works, $100,000
($100,000).
The approved budget will be sub
mitted to the county budget commis
sion, for their review and approval.
Chemicals Extinguish
Blaze In Automobile
of Jefferson street.
Prompt action in operating al.
inactive status, under the
chemical fire extinguisher saved al
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burning automobile parked on North I
... —. I an officer in the air force.
Mam street Thursday before much1
damage was done.
The blaze originated from a short
circuit in the car’s electrical wiring.
In the automobile at the time w’ere I George Rauenbuhler of Cherry
Mrs. Donald Stratton and children
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I
A chemical fire extinguisher ob-|from Miss Marcella Basinger of this
tained from the fire department near-1 place and Mrs. Lilas Looker
by was operated by Jesse Wiess. The I Wheeler, Ind. The property is
car sustained only minor damage. I copied by Mrs. Brice Henry.
Sgt. Richard Cookson Wins Bronze
Sgt Cookson is the husband of
Mrs. Betty Cookson and the son of
Mrs. Mabel Cookson, both of 327
South Jackson street.
I Relieve Famine
Expenditures Of Bluffton Forline existing here for the past six
1946 Will Be $8,490 Less I weeks
Than In 1945 I Scores of back yard plots—each
I
ieceipts For Coming \ear Esti-|uatjon *ba* found many local fami
mated At $143,812 Bonded I lies going without potatoes.
Debt Is $20,000- I Victory gardeners who w’ere fore-
I
Bluffton’s municipal expenditures! digging tubers for the last week to
during the 1946 edtndar year will I supply their own tables, with the re
aggregate
$8,490 less
marked to
cording to the 1946 municipal budget
I
Commercial growers report that
I area
Expenditures of $137,638 by the I marketed directly to consumers t?
town in 1945, based on actual first-1 help ease the shortage. Altho the
half reports and estimates for the I crop is not fully matured, town resi
balance of the year, will be $34,4271 dents are going to the country and
more than last year, because of in-1 buying potatoes in quantities suffi
creased cost in operating the many cient for day-to-day needs,
municipal services, and including
amount paid out for a new’
truck, and increased expenses
Buckeye lake and park.
commercial growers is being
the Meanwhile food stores are report
fire ling slightly improved commercial
at I supplies, but sales are being limited
I
to five-pound lots. Ceiling prices for
are I
that quantity are 29 cents for south
forlern potatoes and 31 cents for those
grown in California.
Minister To Speak
at thj On World Charter
amount
in four
Rev. Charles Donaldson, pastor of
the Bluffton and Rockport Presbyter
ian churches will speak Sunday
morning on the topic “The United
Nations and the Christian Citizen”.
The sermon will be in support of
the United Nations Charter adopted
at San Francisco last month. Church
services are held at Rockport at 9:30
and at Bluffton at 11 o’clock.
The sermon to be delivered on the
possibilities of the charter as a step
toward world peace is part of the
program of the Presbyterian denom
ination supporting the document
which is now’ before the United
States Senate for ratification.
Lt. James Whooley
Gets Army Discharge
First Lt. Jimmie V. Whooley, of
Route 1, Bluffton, was released Fri-
,, a. day from Camp Atterbury,
adjusted service rating plan,
Star ^°r ^ero'c ^erv*ce Under Fire
For maintaining wire and radio
communications between artillery for
ward observers and their batteries
during the hotly-contested crossing
A liaison sergeant with the 869th
field artillery battalion, Cookson ac
companied the first infantrymen
Early potatoes raised by amateur
victory gardeners who have always
regarded their crop more or less as a
hobby are credited this summer with
finally relieving an acute potato fam-
one small—but large in the aggre
I
gate are producing enough to break
the deadlock in the tight supply sit-
I
several rows of potatoes have been
$129,14& approximately! suit that the demand at food stores
than Be amount ear-l for commercially grown potatoes has
be sJyO this year, ac-| been relieved to a marked degree.
is Good
victory garden po
producing excellent
Yield
al
Practically all
I
tato patches are
Receipts for the coming year, to-1 yields, and even the rankest ama
gether with balances that w ill be on I teurs have had surprising results be
hand next January 1, will give the I cause the spring and early summer
town a total of $143,842.53 during I provided unusually good growing
the next 12-months period, according I weather.
to the budgetary forecast.
ing, Sgt. Cookson continued to move
forward setting up his radio and
calling for fire missions whenever
necessary despite complete lack of
protection from enemy snipers.
sighted enough last spring to plant
«„«k
His radio antenna, sparkling ini Deferments Granted by
the sunlight, drew fire from snipers
I Appeals Board
occupying the high ground beyond
our lines. At times, according to
Potatoes From Victory Gardens Bt
Help Ease Acute Shortage Here
I
I
the 65th division citation accompany--1 jjOca| V )d A4
ing his aw ard, Cookson operated I „.
within 150 yard of the enemy. I lassification of Five
The citation continues: “Thruout
OCAL HOUSEWIVES!
ACE FURTHER CUT
N SUGAR SUPPLIES
Stores
in this
Little Sugar in
a- -a
Ind., on
Army’s
He was
Real Estate Deals
street has purchased the former
Close property on North Main street
of
oc-
Sugarless Canning I tion of 1-A upheld
Failure locally to go along with al board.
sugarless canning program stems I Emmett
from two factors: I Classified
about one-third of the oca family ..
a
pounds until August 31. There has Ik
I Registrants
the operation Sgt. Cookson was sub-1
jected to continuous enemy fire. He
I
coordinated and controlled the work I Allen County Draft Board No. 3,
of his men during night operations! announced Tuesday decisions in 9
so that even tho they were working I cases handed down by the Board of
at different places none was lost. I Draft Appeals.
Sgt. Cookson’s leadership and deter-1 Of the 9 cases classified A-l by
mination reflect great credit upon I the local board, the appeals board
himself and the military service.” I continued 5 in this classification
OPA Warns That Gut Of 25% I Appeals until Dec. J. 1945. Regis
May Be Expected For 1trant 25 years of age and engaged
Last Quarter in agriculture.
use in the third
This prospect of a further reduc
tion in the meagre supply of sugar I b^ ard
1 allotted to civilians this year was!
disclosed by OPA officials on the I
basis of reports that retail stores inf
many sections of the
run out of sugar and
honor ration coupons.
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NUMBER 13
MOST OF DRAFT
DEFERMENTS GO
TO FARM YOUTHS
I Farm Boys Get Three of Four
I w’hile in the 4 remaining cases de-
three of the four deferments were
1 to selectees engaged in
agriculture.
agricult
Board’s Rulings
Rulings of the board are as fol
lows:
Robert Eugene Shaw, Lima, Clas
sified in Class 1-A by the local
board. Registrant appealed. Clas
ed in Class 2-C by the Board of
I Joe Dwight Rose, Harrod. Classifi
I
Canning Programs Are NowUlair. chai™an Alien
i nu
I
ed in Class 1-A by the local board.
County LSDA War Board appealed
Being Tailored To Fit Re- I the case classified in Class 2-C by
stneted Sugar Available I the Board of Appeals until Nov. 1,
11945. Registrant is 25 years of age
land engaged in agriculture.
Bluffton housewives who are at- Daniel AHen A(fa c!assified
tempting to do their home canning I in Class VA by the local
on drastically restricted sugar al- john Long father appealed Clas
lotments were warned this week that I sified in class 2-C bv the Board of
sugar released to civilians for the I Appeals until Dec. 1, 1945. Regis
last three months of the year prob- trant is 18 years of age and engage4
ably will be 25% less than that al-ljn agriculture,
lotted for home
quarter.
James Otto Lang, 111 Sutter
Street, San Francisco, California.
Classified in Class 1-A by the local
J. Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation, ap
pealed. Classified in Class 2-A until
Sept. 14, 1945 by Board of Appeals
country have N„ tl San Franci Ca,.f
are unable to trant js yeara rf ag(.
I Paul Anthony Rahrig, Delphos,
I Classified in Class 1-A by the local
cate-1 board. Lima Locomotive Works,
more I employer, appealed. Classification
able I of 1-A upheld by the Board of Ap-
Bluffton stores fall
gory, for during a period of
than a month they have been
to proride sugar for their pdtrons I peals by Vote of" 3-1. Registrant ap
only on a basis of if and when sup-1 pealed to the President. Presidential
plies are available. I decision Class 2-B to Dec. 13, 1945.
Housewives who have been ac-1 Registrant is 29 years of age.
CUMomed to a liberal use of sugar Alva Crumr,n(?.
for home canning and table use are te, classified in Class 1-A by local
experiencing their worst year of the Uard. Mrs. Everett Crumrine, em
war, from the newpomt of home ploy„t appealed. Classification „f
Canning plans and their iltt.ly menus. I upheld bv the Appeal board.
Canning of fruit this summer has jamM Bernard Klausing, Delphos,
been tailored to fit the household's classified In Class 1-A by local
sugar supplies, and altho home can-appealed. Classifi
upheld by the Appeal
ning experts have stated that can-|cation of ^.A
ning may be done successfully with-1 board
out sugar their suggestions have I Ejza Basil
met with little enthusiasm from the|jn C|a8s j_A
average housewife.
0 I Hall, employer, appealed. Ctessifica-
First, housewives fee? that the I board. R. H. Setters, employer, ap
practice runs contrary to all previ-1 pealed. Classification of 1-A upheld
ously accepted methods of canning. I by Board of Appeal by vote of 3-1.
Second, when the fruit is used I
next winter it will be necessary to I
add sugar to make it palatable at a Rev. Bigelow With
time when prospects are that sugar OcCUDation Tronns
supplies will be even more restricted! UlLUpUllOn 1 VOOpS
than at present.
I v.
Hall, Lima, Classified
by’ local board. Elza
by the Appeal
Penrose
in Class
Setters, Lima,
1-A by local
x- r*
.i .. I First Lt. Ernest N. Bigelow,
Most housewives in this district I. e *. 7 ,1pas
tor of the Bluffton Rockport
received canning sugar on a basis of|r vand
fix-xx u t. 1 I Presbyterian churches before he went
five pounds for each member of the I A.
... .. a mto the service, is chaplain of
family, for it is estimated that on yl,,.)., v ,the
,k 1
./Ik
I H32nd Engineering Group which has
.. .. -'I been assigned to the U. S.„
groups had applied for and obtained I A ....
k a .■ Army in handling the military gov
ration stamps before rations were I
,, ernment of occupied Germanv.
cut from 15-pound aOtments fori
-.J<p></p>Fifteenth
a.„^ .•
1 xi. I Among the duties assigned to the
each individual. Besides the canning I
.. I 1132nd are construction and repair
sugar allotment, there is one sugarl
.. I of roads, reconnaissance of German
ration stamp now good for 5k
u
ij a a
,. .. I bridges and air fields maintenance*.
been no indieat.nn as tv the amount river ,tati„ns g| the
o sugar to be allotted on any stamp Rhine. and e8tablithment of watcr
after that time nor for the period
it is to run. I *k 1 ..
n
I border patrol areas building of
I Among the tasks completed by the
I Unit since it joined the Fifteenth
Rlllfftan I Army are revival of operations in 50
Diunion Ui erseas I sawmills, removal of tactical bridges
Veteran Discharged! across the Rhine and construction of
I permanent bridges operation of
Cpl. Harold Andrews, overseas vet-1 stone quarries repair and construc
'eran and son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul I tion of railroad trackage, etc.
Andrews residing south of Bluffton! Members of the unit are veterans
has received a discharge from the I of combat operations with the Ninth
Army, it was announced the first of I U. S. and Second British armies in
the week.-----------------------------------I France and Germany. Its principal
Cpl. Andrew’s arrived here from I duty was to keep roads and bridges
Camp Carson, Colorado, where he I open for combat traffic. The group
was taking treatment for trench foot! crossed the Rhine with Ninth Army
ailment contracted while in service in I units shortly after the airborne in
the European theatre of war. I vasion at Wesel.