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BUY VNITBB aTAta* STAMM VOLUME NO. LXX Rin WMF AT PROP Bib WntAI LKUr| JAMS ELEVATORS LACK BOX CARS Crop Surpasses Early mates Top Yield Bushels Acre Elevator men declare that there a huge storage Double-Normal Yield is Flood- I'" recent years is in prospect in the .. n .... I Bluffton district, it was learned Med Marketmg Facilities nesday. Bluffton Bumper wheat crop of the -area, which is turning out to be one of the largest in recent years has glutted local elevators and searched, often in vain, for space for the grain. Scores of farmers in this reported that the flood of grain from the double-normal crops have found facilities totally inadequate to take care of the harvest. it the wheat belt and a wheat belt and box cars suitable for harvest to terminal Elevators Jammed a’ result of this situation de already jammed to the limit grain are accepting more only reight cars are supplied tc en them to load wheat from their dy overtaxed storage bins. vator•s Altho adequate transportation facilities had been promised elevat ors here, the number of cars re quired to move the crop has proved far greater than previously estimat ed. Meanwhile favorable weather for harvesting has kept grain flowing from combines and threshing ma chines in an uninterrupted stream making more headaches for elevator and railroad men while farmers are filling every available bin on their farms, dumping the grain on barn floors and in some cases fitting up temporary storage facilities. Yields Uniformly Good Yields are uniformly good, run ning generally from 35 to 40 bushels per acre. Best yield of the district was reported Tuesday when Fred Mueller residing north of Blufftdh on the Dixie highway got a yield of over 51 bushels per acre. Mueller marketed 563 bushels from an 11 acre field Adjoining the Kermit Kibele residence. Despite the large crop the price Is holding steady, being quoted at $1.56 per bushel, Wednesday ing. Test is generally from 59, slightly under last year was exceptionally good. morn 57 to which Altho the major portion of the! Politics Lacks Appeal •stand is cut, there remains much! With evervone busv with threshing to be done and threshing! usu,al vocations, local’ elective of rings will be busy until .well into! fices none of which carry large aiext month. I salaries, have lost much of the ap peal they had in depression days Head Of New HaVen\''K^n Junior Commerce Body Roland M. Bixler, formerly of ed m) renumeration. ha8 a sa|arv Bluffton son of Mr and Mrs. D. W. jtait of only *30 a year per member. Bixler of West K,bler street last I At th1 caucuses this week Dcm„. week became pres.dent of the New crats a„d RepubHcans are to name Haven, Conn., Junior Chamber of candidates for tK0 posts on th„ Commerce, an organ.zation of ap- township of trustees. two proximately 425 young men between 1 jus,ices of the peace and two con_ the ages of 21 and 35. I stabies About 125 of the members are in j]ej on the armed services. The rest carry gdueation on a heavy program of civic activi-1 candidates ties, such as work with boys, bond] rallies, get-out-the-vote campaigns, and pop concerts. Bixler, who is president of J-B-T| National newspaper coverage was given to the unique mosquito control for the concerts. The committee ob tained the use of a helicopter and an experimental supply of the new in secticide, DDT, as used so success fully during the war. The plane sprayed the huge stadium and acres surrounding from a height 25 feet. Not a mosquito showed for the first concert. Home From Germany On Month's Furlough Here I Although none of the crop has yet I been harvested early testing snm I pies from stands in this area showed Esti-1 a test of 44, which grain men here 51 I said was extremely high. Average I test for oats is around 32, they stat led. average and a good yield per acre is anticipated. Believed to be reflecting prospects for a bumper crop, price of the grain armer? I on ^he Bluffton market, be s orage I quoted at 62 cents a bushel, Wed .. Inesdav morning. The price a week distnet ago was iOc. LAGGING POLITICAL .,. |INTEREST SEEN IN CAUCUS PICTURE No Activity Apparent As Time Nears For Party Caucuses This Friday Situation May Be Same As That For Municipal Offices Which Went Begging Lack of interest in the November election, which resulted in no con tests for municipal offices and can cellation of the August primary here, apparently also is prevalent in Rich land township. With Democratic and Republican caucuses slated for this Friday night in the Bluffton High School building, there so far has been no indication of political activity leading to candidacy for Richland township or Bluffton Board of Education offices. Both caucuses will be held Friday at 8:30 p. m., with Republicans meeting in the high school study room adjoining the library, and Democrats gathering in Room 211 in the old section of the high school building. Lack of interest in the forthcom ing caucuses has led to the belief that township and school board tickets may offer a repetition of the situation which arose with respect to municipal nominations, fall tion. From Here Enlist In Navy nrCe Instruments, Inc, has attracted wide| attention to the Junior Chamber this] summer by heading the Jay Cee pop] Two Bluffton youths and one from concert committee. A crowd of 8,0001 Columbus Grove have unlisted recent to 9,000 turned out for the first of |y at the U. S. Navy recruiting office five outdoor concerts in the Yale| jn Lima, Chief Fletcher P. Meade Bowl. The programs feature the 80-1 announced this week. They are Rob piece New Haven Symphony Orches-| ert E. Gratz, Route 2, Bluffton tra and various radio and operatic] Donald F. Root, 156 N. Mound street, guest artists in well-known musical] and Pleyel D. Fett, Route 2, Colum selections. bus Grove. 80 I ()fl Second Lieut. E. R. Augsburger, Up|son of Elias Augsburger, of 212 S. PfC. Earl Montgomery who spent! Converted bombers are used in 21 months overseas in France and transporting passengers from an air Germany is spending a 30 day fur-|be^ near Naples to Port Lyautey, lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. French Morocco. There, the passeng Frank Montgomery of Orange town-1 ers board C-54 transport planes for ship. Pfc. Montgomery who saw the final phase of their trip to this service with Patton’s army wears] continen^ five campaign stars. The B-17 planes in the home-bound a I Hot Weather May Break Unusual Top Quality Oats Crop In Prospect I One of the best quality oats crops Season Of Heavy Milk Production Jeaviest Production for This Month in Seven Years Price Goodof Acreage of oats in this district is The most-favored season for milk|otber Marines production since 1938, yield from I Island fell to dairy herds has continued at high days of the wa levels until this week. week I*? two A Ordinarily the amount of milk re-1 escaped from ceived from cows begins to taper off and the latter part of June, after reach ing a peak early in the same month. This year’s unusually heavy milk production is attributed to cool weather and abundant -rainfall which kent pastures in good condition and provided pie herds. the Bluf of the vear, according to manager of the plan more than 75 tons i 900 farmer summer’s susta is the longest from slome This ductiori Fillinff Station Is elec their political interest was greater. X. the only one which formerly provid- Three places must also be the Bluffton Board of i in the fall election, with to be named this week. Assistant prosecutor Lt. Augsburger With Air Group Ferrying Home-bound Veterans Jackson street, a 15th Air Force Fly ing Fortress navigator, is now serv ing with a home-bound task force carrying Fifth Army combat veter ans on the first leg of their home ward air journey from Europe. I Looted Second Time] Over 75 Tons of Milk Being Received Daily at Page Plant Here 11 IE BLUFFTON NEWS A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE I ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY BLUFFTON, OHIO, Marine Lieut Bluffton Captured Hot weather in its first sustained assault of the summer is expected to bring a break in an unusually long continued season of heavy milk pro duction, farm observers pointed out] Japanese tre i of Lt. David this week. Kliewer, forme details of the Wak' Lt. Kliewer, son P. A. former with s during of 0,000 pounds more than volume at this time of The milk record in In addition, the volume handled here is materially than in 1938, reflecting a continuance in this area’s trend toward greater emphasis on dairying, Turned pointed out. 0» perpetrat- Promoted William Klass of the Navy who has been in England since June has been promoted to seaman first class, it was announced the first of the week. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klass living west of Bluffton on the Col. Grove road. to French Morocco in approximately] six and one-half hours. j.p, _____ f®W specialist military personnel] For the second time in less than|le^t behind as a labor battalion and| three weeks thieves broke into the I® too ill to move, the island’s! office of the Hi-Speed filling station garrison was put aboard a Japanese] on North Main street operated by|Hner on the afternoon of Jan. 12.| Dick Habegger and looted the cash I No one was allowed to take morel register of its contents. than the clothing they wore and all| The latest theft occurred about "ere locked in holds below deck,j daybreak Saturday morning it was! sleeping on the bare floor. I stated by police, between the hours| Arriving Jan. 18 in Yokohama, a| of 4:15 a. m., when Habegger ar-1 few enlistQl men and officers wen-1 rived at the station with a load of| taken off, and the rest went on ice and found nothing disturbed andj Shanghai before debarking. Foodj 8 o’clock in the morning when he I I® the prison camp consisted of I opened the station for the days busi-| small portions of rice and occasion-] neas found the cash register rifled. ally some cabbage or carrots, with] The loss is reported to consist of I a tiny piece of meat about every! about $20 in cash', a quantity of gas-1 third meal. Red Cross pr.ckagesl oline ration stamps and flashlight! helped supplement ibis meagre di t.| batteries. Kliewer is believed to have been Entrance to the station was gained! among the group removed from the by breaking a panel of the front] prison ship at Yokohama and is door, the same as was done in the| thought to previous robbery three weeks ago. petty thefts between Lima and Find-| iV CtC lay recently. In the previous robbery ed the night of July 2, the cash reg ister was carried off. It was later found lying at the side of the Dixie highway near Van Buren and re turned by the State Highway Patrol to Habegger. SDAY, JULY 26, 1945 NARRATE CAPTUREl Kliewer of Albany, residents here, was nking a Japanese s the spirited defensi outpost. 4|r Escaped Pris s Tell of Treat-1point of the summer 96 degrees ment at Hands of Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Ja ese I credited bmarine of the Details of Japanese trea the American captives were toh First Lts. John A. McAlister, John F. Kinney, who only recc escaped from their captors. Before giving up to the Japs Dec. 23, 1941, the little garrisoi Wake island had!survived 23 attacks from overwhelming er sea and air forces. Finally surrendered to prevent fui slaughter of unarmed civilians. the price of raw milk is considerably I Hans were lost Jkb the Japanese, higher. Present base price is $2.80 admitted that their own casual per hundred, plus a government sub-I totalled about sidy of 35 cents per hundred and a The escaped Mtutenants said production bonus allowed by by the (Japanese killed two wounded Page company. |in a surrendered hospital, of milk their captives to Strip and tied them to posts for hours. The Americans were allowed no food and little water| housewives ar for two days. canning as a nd Survive 23 Attacks thev Lives of 50 marines and 70 who Except for loo civilians and al Clarence! the island of Shikoku, Fischer stated that he believed it to| Japanese home islands. be the work of a juvenile have been perpetrating a gang who I series of I i i ICrK 10 I CLKC' Over Duties Aug. u AND LT. KLIEWER Showers Bring Break In Summer’s Showers early Wednesday brought a moderation of temperature after the thermometer reached the highest m°deraGon in temperature, (however, was more theoretical than real, as there was an increase in p. humidity which added to discomfort as irs I wea|ber and offset any soner to be I measure of relief brought by the rain. Relief, however, is promised with a weather forecast of scattered thund er showers and cooler Wednesday Bluffton *nd|njg||t and Thursday. ured when Wake ly in the first was described last i officers who only recently, Ifecounted the first nd surrender. lev. and Mrs.| Vegetable Canning Undertaken To Offset Limited Home Can ning of Fruit .Custom Canning Popular With The Housewives To Supple pient Home Canning by good gre y of moistUn summer cai wives during July and August. honorably discharged from the arm Early indications are to the effect ed forces from July 1 to July 15, that housewives are capitalizing on I according to a report released this the bumper yields from gardens to|week by Draft Board No. which offset limited canning of fruit occa-1 has jurisdiction of rural Allen county sioned by the sugar shortage, and as| including Bluffton and Richland a hedge against possible si men I commercially canned goods On ChristnMR^Blight the captured| their supply of marines were moved to barracks and conserving ration thereafter receded two meals u] ing themselves of day from their oWn stores. working over a I ship I a Japanese Zentshji on one of the be now in prisoner of war camp at 7 Paul Augsburger newly appointed!^ clerk of the Board of Public Affairs! The Board of Public Affairs open its permanent office on street at the rear of the Basinger furniture store as soon as remodel ing of the room is completed. Start Promotion Foj. buckeye Lake Planes used to carry passengers __ Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith, Ar-1 of a Tate. starf, but prospect usuall I good. Tomatoes require no sugar, only a little salt, and a record num ber of cans probably will be in Bluffton area fruit cellars by fall. Sufficient labor to handle canning I has I this I ng will O8t Office Ob O Beginning next Wednesday when expected from Washington within the the new clerk assumes his duties,1 x--- the office of the Board of Public Affairs will be moved from the Hau enstein pharmacy temporarily to the I to this country Mayor’s office. The clerk will be at (nearly three years the mayor’s office to receive ment of July electric current water bills. pay and Compile Record Of County Service Men The Allen County Historical so-1 ciety is compiling a record of service men who have been killed or missing! in action, wounded or prisoner of I war. Gardens Spur Bumper Yields From Record Vegetable Canning In Area among period papers Supplementing home canning, many turning means of canned points the tedious task of I neth L. Gable hot kitchen stove] E. Downey, during the warm days of summer. to custom I quired increasing! Those from foodstuffs, I charges in the and reliev-l elude Ralph E. Operators of the Amstutz cannery,1 Andrews, Route 2, Bluffton. north of Bluffton, said that the vol-] Discharges for the first half of the| ume of custom canning handled by] month, according to the report, are| them so far this year is much larger considerably greater than the nurn-|| than in any other season. I bet of men drafted in July by Dran Housewives prepare the fruit and| Board No. 3. vegetables for canning and take] Only 17 men were taken into the them to the cannery where they are! armed forces in the July call, one placed in tin cans, without ration] of the smallest in recent months, in I points being required. Principal I comparison with 31 discharges for] a|^ead items now being canned are peaches! only the first half of the month, ill .Z and string beans. Last month the| was pointed out. Proyi e emphasis was on peas. Tomatoes require no sugar,| First appearance will be a concert at the Defenseless Mennonite church on Thursday night at 8 o’clock. I Returned Veteran will assume the duties of his office] Plane to Guam where he is instructor I August 1, it was announced Tuesday.] Edwin Rice, World War II veter-1in a radar training school, it was an-1 tnwnRhin March 10 1RV2 Augsburger, a veteran of two! an, discharged last month, has been|nounce^ this week. Lt. Baumgartner! years in the Pacific war area, sue-1 appointed substitute city mail car-|’s son °f ^r‘ an^ ^rS- Lyslel ceeds Edgar Hauenstein who re-|rier it was announced Tuesday by| Baumgartner of Mishawaka, Ind., I signed as clerk of the board after! Postmaster Ed Reichenbach. Final I f°rmer Bluffton residents. I 25 years of service. confirmation of Rice’s appointment is| next few days, the postmaster said. Rice, veteran of campaigns in Af rica, Sicily and Italy was returned last March after B* overseas service. He and his wife, the former Ethelyn Oyer are residing for the present with her mother Mrs. Adella Oyer in will I the Hauenstein apartments on North Vine I Main street. Births ... .» i i The following births at Bluffton] tary. |and 14 step great grandchildren, task group make the 1250-mile trip! hospital ton, a girl, Marcia Waring, Friday. are stripped cf all combat equipment! gaje of sponsoring memberships| lington, a girl, Elaine Dee, Saturday.] I evening. and fitted with seats to accommodate! for promotion of Buckeye iake,| Mr. and Mrs. Paul Amstutz, Bluff-| Pvt. Clarence Jones, son of Mr,| 20 passengers and a five-man crew. I Bluffton’s municipal swimming spot, (ton, a girl, Marjorie Eileen, Mon-| and Mrs. C. E. Jones, of Route 1,1 Lt. Augsburger is a graduate of will be started this week by the day. Bluffton, has received the expert n-| Bluffton High school, and a former] Lions club and the Community] fantryman badge after a rigorous] Residence of the late Jack Filhart student at Ohio State university. (Sportsmen’s club. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Johnson, Jr., course in the infantry replacement at North Jackson and Washington Flying seven combat sorties before] Sponsoring memberships, which] of Malenta, a girl, Martha Jane,] training center at Camp Blanding, streets was purchased Saturday by VE Day, Lt. Augsburger has re-| carry with them swimming privileges] June 30 at Heller Memorial hospital,] Florida. Clarence W. Grismore of Pandora, ceived the Air Medal, and is author-! for the summer are being sold at $2| Napoleon. Mrs. Johnson is the form-| Before entering the service in for $2,500. The property was sold ized to wear the distinguished unit] for adults and $1 for children. Pro-1 er Lenore Amstutz of this place. Mr.| March, 1945, he was employed by the in settlement of the estate of Filhart badge and the European-African-] ceeds from the sale of memberships] Johnson is the eldest son of M. B.| Page Dairy Co. in Bluffton. He is a| who was killed in an accident here Middle East theatre ribbon. go toward development of the lake. Johnson of South Main street. In order to make this record as I Resurfacing of Harmon Road complete powible, blanks havel And North strMt been left at the public library here! and members of families of such I Hl11 First Projects service men are asked to call and fill! them out. Anderson blanks to ... With heavy The librarian, Miss Ociel ,, ... .. now available will then forward the I the historical society. 1 ment program for being mapped this cipal authorities. FIVE DISTRICT MEN DISCHARGED FROM I ARMED SERVICES?? Draft Board No. 3 Reports Honorable Discharges For 31 In First Half of July Arm July Number Discharged From ed Forces Greater Than Induction Call men from this district were 31 released during that who presented their discharge to the draft board, as re by selective service procedure. here receiving Augsburger and Ken of Bluffton Marion Beaverdam Dwight I Yarger, Beaverdam and Harold IL Gospel Quartet Will Appear Here Can Sweet Corn, Tomatoes Height of the canning season at the cannery and also in the kitchens of housewives is expected when the sweet corn and tomato crops ripen. A women’s quartet from Grace I tomato crop is late, because! Bible Institute, Omaha, Neb., will! are un-| appear in two programs here, it wa good and the crop should be] announced the first of the week. The quartet will also appears at the Ebenezer Mennonite church Sunday been available at the cannery] night at 7:30 o'clock in conjunction year. Twelve persons are work-|with an address by Dr. C. H. Suckau. there now, and the force likely] be doubled when the peak 'A Former Bluffton season arrives next month N Guam I Lt. Neil Baumgartner, formerly of Bluffton "’as recently dispatched by Ras,inirer the former \fjOligsdorf Is Named Library Board Head\ She was married A. J. B. Longsdorf, member of the public library board was named pres-1 ident for the coming year at a re organization of the board, Monday night. He succeeds Edgar Hauen stein who resigned the presidency but will continue as a member of that body. Other officials elected for the com- Leland Diller I I ClareUCC JOUCS president and Leland Diller secre- grandchildren 18 step grandchildren pr andM-s w Travis Bluffly xv. E. Basinger funeral home in Bluffton Gets Infantry BadgC Columbus Grove this graduate of Mt. Cory High school. last fall. BUY NUMBER 14 PUSH PLANS FOR SUMMER STREET REPAIR PROGRAM OF WAKE ISLAND* With Tar And Asphalt Avail able Street Improvement Plans Are Made road tar and asphalt for street construction I and repair, Bluffton's street improve the summer was week by muni available funds will reach in cover I ing the costs of projects under con I sideration, Mayor A. Howe re- Mayor improvement schedule of Harmon road treet to the Bentley North Spring street and Riley streets, of considerable ex mapped on College surfaicing improvements to other also will be considered as a the summer program, it was out. road tar and asphalt avail part of pointed With able for the street work, fears which arose early this summer that mater ials might not be available for improvements because of new gov ernment restrictions appear to have been groundless. The only material which cannot now be obtained is light road oil, used as a primer coat in the initial preparation of unpaved roads for I hard surfacing. Only the tar and are required where streets have a hard surface to a suitable base. Mother Of Bluffton Dentist Succumbs Mrs. Jacob W. Basinger, 93, moth er of Dr. Evan Basinger, Bluffton dentist, died at her home in Colum bus Grove, Tuesday night at 11:30 o’clock. Death resulted from infirmi ties of age and followed a nwu days* illness. Funeral sendees will be held Fri day from her late home in Columbus Grove at 2:30 o’clock, fast time, and at 3 o’clock at the Reformed Men nonite church northwest of Bluffton of which she was a member for 75 years. Rev. William Rupp of Archbold will officiate at the sendees and in terment will be in the church Hottest Spell street improve two months Extent of local ments during the next will depend principally pro- i last ■t and Estimates Asked of the work prepared by Commis nitted to heir bid. nd the I ir to be rei municipal ing. are expected fission to the ts next meet- fund ditional ad- ceme- Mary Rich She was a granddaughter of Michael Neuenschwander II, what is now the Swiss Settlement northwest of Bluffton. The family resided on what is now th Marquart farm. February 21, 1892 to Jacob \\. Basinger who died September 5, 1924. Besides her son of this place, she survived by a daughter, Mrs. Floyd Myers of Fayette, Ohio. stepchildren: Rufus Basinger of Pan dora, Dr. Francis of Bluffton and Clarence of Columbus Grove a sis ter, Mrs. Sarah Basinger of Pan dora seven grandchildren, 2 great The body was taken to the Stanley and will be returned to her home in Wednesday Real Estate Deal