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VOLUME LXXI
RESTAURANTS WILL
OFFER RESTRICTED
MENUS HERE SOON
Official OPA Notice of Price
Rollback to Eliminate Many
Items Ordinarily Served.
Restaurants in Cities May Close,
But Bluffton Eating Places
To Juggle Menus.
Many items are due to disappear
from the menus of Bluffton restaur
ants as soon as they receive official
notification of the OPA’s cutback or
der on prices of meals to June 30,
1946, levels, according to operators
of the eating places, who discussed
the situation Tuesday night.
Following the rollback in prices of
meals, restaurant owners said they
simply will not be in a position to
continue listing many items ordinar
ily included on the menu in view of
what they have to pay to obtain
them.
Many restaurants in the state have
indicated plans to close their doors
as soon as official OPA notices are
received, but Bluffton’s reaction for
the most part will be confined to
juggling of the menus to permit con
tinued operations free of deficits.
One Restaurant Unchanged
One local restaurant reporting that
there have been no price changes in
the establishment faces no problem
at all, other than that of attempting
to get meat now that supplies have
grown more critical than at any time
during the war.
In a blast at the OPA order, rep
resentatives of the Northwestern
Ohio Restaurant association charged
this Week that the rollback to June
30 prices of this year actually repre
sents a return to April 10, 1943
prices.
The charge embodied a claim that
on March 11, 1946, an 18 per cent in
crease was absorbed by restaurants
and that on Sept 9 of this year an
other 12 per cent was absorbed.
In the meantime, restaurant oper
ators are awaiting receipt of official
orders, altho an OPA announcement
on the price rollback was made Mon
day night.
Woman Dies One Day
After Her Arrival Here
One day after the family’s arrival
from California to establish their
home in Bluffton, Mrs. John Hilty,
68, died last Thursday morning in
the Community hospital, after suf
fering an attack of heart disease
during the preceding night.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilty had arrived
in Bluffton Wednesday evening with
their son, James David, who had en
rolled at Bluffton college in the mu
sic department.
They were establishing their resi
dence here and had rented an up
stairs apartment at the Ross Bogart
residence on Cherry street. During
the night Mrs. Hilty became critical
ly ill and was taken to the hospital
where she died on the following
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilty had been en
gaged in home mission work for the
Mennonite church during many
years, and at one time lived in West
Liberty where they were in charge
of a Mennonite orphanage.
Mrs. Hilty was born Nov. 9, 18J7,
at New Stark, the daughter of Rev.
John and Magdalene (Brenneman)
Blosser. She had a number of cous
ins here including Mrs. A. L. Baum
gartner, Mrs. E. C. Romey, Miss
Rhoda Hilty, Menno Geiger, Edgar,
Sidney and Armin Hauenstein.
Survivors include her husband,
whom she married in 1912 two sons,
John M. Hilty, Coleville, Calif. and
James, who accompanied the family
here an adopted daughter, Mrs.
Ruth Braden, Los Angeles, Calif.
two sisters, Mrs. Leffe Yoder, Larch
mount, N. Y. and Mrs. Mary Gerig,
Washington, D. C. two brothers,
Mark and Timothy Blosser, both of
Goshen, Indiana.
Mrs. Hilty was a member of the
First Mennonite church of Goshen,
Ind., where she resided before mov
ing to California 40 years ago.
Funeral services were held last
Saturday afternoon in the First
Mennonite church, with Rev. J. N,
Smucker, pastor officiating. Rev. G.
T. Soldner assisted.
Burial in the Hassen cemetery was
postponed until Sunday afternoon
awaiting the arrival of her son,
John, from California.
Body Posture
Body postures are not trained by
movements, but by static positions
held frequently. The only way to
get good posture is to repeat it un
til it becomes natural.
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New Surface Water
Sewer Authorized
A surface water sewer along Har
mon road from the Amstutz Hatch
ery property at the street’s inter
section with the Bluffton Stone
Quarry road to the Page Dairy
sewer was authorized by the muni
cipal council at its meeting Monday
night.
Action on the matter followed a
request made at the meeting by
officials of the Amstutz Hatchery,
who were seeking relief from dam
age caused by water draining from
Kibler street and Harmon road into
their building.
Level of the two streets has been
raised above the hatchery property
by succeeding years of street re
surfacing, and during heavy rains
water draining into the building
presents a serious problem for the
concern.
Slightly more than 500 feet of
drainage sewer construction will be
required, and new catch basins will
be installed to eliminate the com
plaint.
CITY FOLK SCOUR
RURAL AREAS IN
SEARCH FOR FOOD
Auto Caravaners of Out-of-Town
Food Seekers Seen in Stores
Here Daily
Discouragement Is Not in Vo
cabulary of Shoppers Who
Even Go to Farms
No Family Life, Private Property In
Rutterite Colonies, Lions Are Told
Bluffton has become the “happy
hunting ground” for an increasing
number of larger city shoppers lured
here by the town’s unique advantage
of being a rich agricultural com
munity near to farm producers of
meat.
Current meat shortage conditions
affecting larger centers much more
severely than small towns is the
spark which has set off the caravan
of food seekers which apparently are
visiting all small towns in the area
on regularly planned tours.
The strangers you see in Bluffton
stores these days are part and par
cel of the small army on the road
in search of food, and local retailers
(Continued on page 2)
Bluffton Man, Wife
Take Teaching Posts
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Reichenbach,
of Riley street, have joined the fac
ulties of schools in this area, with
the former teaching history in Alger
High school and his wife serving as
an instructor in commercial subjects
at Ada High school.
Reichenbach, a Navy veteran, is a
graduate of Bluffton High school
and Bluffton college.
With Service Men
David Stearns S 2/c who recently
completed his recruit training at
Bainbridge, Md., was selected honor
man of his company during the
training period. The honorman is
selected on the basis of neatness,
cleanliness, naval bearing and lead
ership. He has been spending leave
wuth his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Stearns of Spring street.
Mr., and Mrs. Chancey Spallinger
and son Donald and Mrs. Howard
Spallinger motored to Dayton, Fri
day to meet Howard Spallinger, stu
dent in the officer candidate school
at Ft. Belvoir, Ya., who is home on
furlough.
Liveweight poultry prices zoomed
to record highs in the Bluffton area
Wednesday morning with increases
averaging from 8 to 10 cents a
pound.
Current quotations were: Heavy
hens up eight cents from 26 to 34
cents heavy broilers up from 29 to
37 cents leghorn hens, 28 cents
leghorn broilers 33c young ducks
24c roosters 35c.
These prices, paid to farmers are
said to be the highest ever paid for
live fowls in this area with possible
exception of broilers in scarce sea
son certain years. Even higher
prices were paid in some instances
for extra choice offerings.
Dr- C. Henry Smith Describes
Visit to Unique Communal
Colonies in Dakotas.
Children Separated From Par
ents at Five No Autos, Ra
dios or Social Contacts.
Unique aspects of the Hutterite
colonies of South Dakota, one of
America’s most unusual social and
economic sects, were detailed Tues
day night at a dinner meeting of
the Bluffton Lions club by Dr. C.
Henry Smith, who visited the colo
nies last summer.
Each colony comprises an average
of 10,000 acres populated by 25
families who live in a central vil
lage made up of community houses.
Each colony is an independent
economic unit and there is no pri
vate ownership of property. There
are no money transactions within
the group and all business transac
tions are handled by a business man
ager.
The colonists have no automobiles,
no radios, no telephones and no mu
sic. Social or political contacts with
the outside world are banned, and
the only connection with established
government is their payment of
taxes.
Children are separated from their
parents at the age of five and
thereafter live in separate dormi
tories. Each colony has a separate
dining room where everyone eats.
Profits are large from farming op
erations and all money is deposited
in banks to buy additional colonies
for surplus population.
In the United States and Canada
there are 72 Hutterite colonies, with
the origin in this country dating
back to 1874 when the first members
of the sect came here from Russia.
Three original settlements with a
total of 250 persons have since
grown to the present group of 72
independent colonies.
Poultry Market For Live Fowls
Goes To New Record High Here
The Hutterite sect is an out
growth of the Anabaptist movement
founded in 1535 by Joseph Hatter,
who was burned at the stake in
Innsbruck, Austria, in 1536.
Contract Renewed
For Town Dump
Contract for use of an abandoned
quarry at the rear of the Amstutz
Hatchery property on Harmon road,
for use as the municipality’s dump
ing ground, was renewed for a
three-year period at Monday night’s
meeting of the town council.
Rental for the property for dump
ing purposes is $35 per year.
In New Location
Mr. and Mrs. Harry O. Luginbuhl
have moved from the former Dill
man property on North Main street
to the Menno Burkholder farm,
formerly the Amos Welty place, two
and one-half miles north of Bluffton,
where they have rented the house.
Mr. Luginbuhl will continue to work
at the municipal electric light plant
here. Stanley Bixel operates the
farm.
Real Estate Deals
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lora of South
Main street sold their 60 acre farm
four and one-half miles northwest
of Ada to Harold Long of Ada,
Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Moore
occupy the place which is the form
er J. W. Stonehill farm.
Speed Fiend: “It’s great speeding
along like this. Don’t you feel glad
you’re alive?”
Passenger: “Glad isn’t the word
I’m amazed.”
Harvest Home Sunday
At Emanuel9s Church
Annual Harvest Home and Home
coming festival of the Emanuel’s
Reformed church will be observed
at all-day services in the church,
Sunday.
Rev. Harry W. Bredeweg, of Clay
City, Ind., will be the guest speaker
at the services. A basket dinner
will be held at noon.
Dislikes Water
The vicious little animal called
the fisher is misnamed for he dis
likes water almost as much as a
cat does.
Bluffton
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON. OHIO THURSDAY, SEPT. 19. 1946
BUYERS JAM MEAT
SHOPS AS SUPPLY
GOES TO NEW LOW
Less Fresh Meat Available Now
Than During Wartime
Rationing
Canned Meats and Fish Bought
As Substitute for Beef and
Pork
In the wake of resumption of
OPA price controls, Bluffton’s avail
able meat supplies last week slump
ed to their lowest levels in local
history.
Meat shortages w'ere worse than
at any time during war years, and
the town’s two meat markets are
open only when they have meat to
offer the public. No regular business
hours can be observed under present
conditions, and housewives have to
be alert to obtain meagre stocks of
meat for the family table.
A jam of buyers seeking meat
for over Sunday was experienced
here Saturday morning, when mar
kets re-opened after feing closed
most of the time on Thursday and
Friday.
Buying reached a hysterical level
in the jammed shops, with customers
taking whatever they saw, paying
scant attention to weights or prices.
Hysteria In Buying
If they asked for a three-pound
roast and the butcher happened to
put four pounds on the scales they
took it gladly, and in some cases
market operators had to apply
customer limits when purchasers
wanted too much.
Anticipating the Saturday morn
ing rush, the two local markets
refused to accept telephone order's,
and householders who put in calls
were told by telephone operators
they had been instructed not to ring
the markets.
By mid-forenoon on Saturday,
not a scrap of pork remained to be
sold and at noon nothing was left
for buyers except Aold luncheon
meats.
Reports that markets might not
re-open until the middle part of this
week spurred the rush for meats on
Saturday, and with pork unusually
short there simply was not enough
fresh meats to go around for those
who wanted to lay in a supply. The
markets however were open part
time the first of the week.
Poultry Plentiful
Poultry, however, appeared to be
in fairly good supply, possibly due
to the fact there are no price con
trols or quota restrictions as in the
case of meats.
Reflecting the heavy selling of
cattle and hogs late in August, to
beat resumption of OPA controls,
meat market operators reported
they are unable to buy livestock in
sufficient quantity to measure up to
the restricted quotas allotted to
them, further complicating the short
age situation.
Meanwhile the frantic search for
meats has overflowed into grocery
stores, with shoppers switching to
stocks of canned meats and fish, as
a supplement to their menus.
Fortunate persons now are those
who have well-filled frozen food
lockers, and many who stocked up
on meat during August’s month of
plenty already’ are drawing on their
caches to supplement their current
table supply.
Births
The following births at BlufTton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Lingel,
Bluffton, a boy, Jonathan Carter,
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bartz, Col.
Grove, a boy, Thomas Dale, Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Badertscher,
Col. Grove, a girl, Dian Kay, Fri
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Moser, Ada,
a girl, Joan Louise, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Houghtlen, Ben
ton Ridge, a girl, Linda Jane, Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kidd, Ot
tawa, a girl, Cheryl Anne, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Weller,
Ada, a girl, -Cheryl Denise, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rossman,
Jenera, a boy, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peterson, Mt.
Cory, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Alderfer,
Harrisburg, Pa., a boy, Walter Hen
ry, born in that city last Thursday.
Mr. Alderfer formerly lived in
Bluffton.
World War II veterans took over
the reins of guiding the destiny of
the Bluffton American Legion post
in the election of officers for the
organization at Monday night’s
meeting.
An all GI slate of officers was
selected by the post, with the thot
that younger men will instill new
life in the organization.
Elected as new officers were Fred
erick Reichenbach, commander Stan
ley Basinger, rice-commander Ber
nard Jacobson, Bluffton college, adju
tant Maurice Fett, finance officer
Rev. Paul Cramer, chaplain Gail
Rakosky, sergeant at arms James
Fett, service officer and Raymond
Greding and Robert McCune, his
torians.
Fourteen Men and Women Are
Stationed in Many For
eign Lands
Work Being Done Under UN
RRA and Mennonite Cen
tral Committee
World-wide requirements for ex
panded relief and welfare activities
find 14 former Bluffton college
students engaged in some form of
social service work, principally under
auspices of the UNRRA and the
Mennonite Central Committee, ac
cording to a news release from col
lege alumni headquarters.
In all parts of the world, Bluff
ton graduates are serving in a field
that provides little remuneration but
plenty of hard work, as their contri
bution toward shaping better post
war living conditions for under
privileged and war-ravaged human
beings.
The Mennonite Central Committee,
with which many are associated, is
the federated relief agency for most
of the American Mennonite churches.
(Continued on page 2)
Carl Oglesbee Dies
Formerly Lived Here
Carl Oglesbee, 57, former Bluffton
boy who for more than thirty years
lived in Dearborn, Mich., where he
became prominent in politics, died
at his home in that city September
10.
Oglesbee, engaged in the restau
rant business in Dearborn served
several terms on the city council and
became a well known figure in coun
ty politics.
He was the son of the late Charles
Oglesbee of Riley street and at
tended school here.
Masonic funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon at Dearborn fol
lowed by burial in Acadia cemetery
at that place.
Surviving are his son Cameron
and daughter Shirley of Dearborn,
sister, Mrs. Wanetta Carter of Lima,
and brother John Oglesbee of Dear
born.
Let us read with method, and
propose to ourselves an end to what
our own studies may point. The use
of reading is to aid us in thinking.
—Edward Gibbon.
Thomas Conaway of West Elm
street who served as second class
seaman aboard the U. S. S. Essex
during the war has received a fac
simile and ribbon bar with star of
the Presidential Unit Citation award
ed the vessel “for extraordinary
heroism displayed by her crew in
action against enemy Japanese forces
in the Pacific War area.”
The citation continues:
“Spearheading the concentrated
carrier-warfare in forward areas,
the Essex and her air groups struck
crushing blows toward annihilating
Japanese fighting power they pro
vided air cover for our amphibious
forces they fiercely countered the
enemy’s aerial attacks and destroyed
his planes and inflicted terrific loss
es on the Japanese in fleet and mer
chant marine units sunk or dam
aged. Daring and dependable in
combat, the Essex and her gallant
officers and men rendered loyal serv
ice in achieving the ultimate defeat
of the Japanese empire.”
news
World War II Veterans Will Fill
All Offices In American Legion
Former Bluffton College Students In
Far-Flung Post-War Relief Projects
Bluffton Man Receives Decoration For
Heroic Action Of His Ship In Pacific
Since his discharge from naval
service Conaway has been associat
ed with his father, Edgar Conaway
in operation of a North Main street
filling station.
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Traffic Lights Here
On “Caution” Signal
A break in the automatic control
of Bluffton’s three Main street traf
fic lights has put them out of oper
ation temporarily.
The lights have been set to dis
play unchanged the yellow "caution”
signal until the broken part can be
replaced, which probably will not
be until the end of this week at the
earliest.
It is pointed out in this connection
that this is the first repair expense,
other than replacement of lights,
which the system has required in
more than 17 years since they were
installed.
WILD GAME HELPS
OFFSET CURRENT
MEAT SHORTAGE
Modern Hunters Follow Example
of Early Settlers to Fill
Larder.
Record Number of Hunters
Afield Game Reported as
Plentiful.
With meat shortages pinching the
menu of a majority of Bluffton area
families, opening of the squirrel sea
son last Saturday found hunters
more interested in adding to their
meagre table supplies than in hunt
ing merely for the sport of it.
The situation virtually represent
ed a throwback to pioneer days when
early settlers had no meat markets,
and w^ere forced to shoot wild game
for their meat if they wanted any.
A record number of meat-famished
hunters were afield early Saturday
morning when the season opened,
and guns could be heard banging
away until twilight. Despite the
large turnout of nimrods surprising
ly good success was reported by
most of them.
Unusually heavy hunting can be
expected until the close of the sea
son on Saturday, Sept. 28, because
of meat shortages, making this one
year in which the joy of hunting is
counterbalanced by an actual need
for the food that daily bag limits
represent.
Water Chlorinating
Bids Are Due Oct. 1
Bids for equipment to be used in
chlorinating Bluffton’s municipal
water supply will be opened at 8
p. m. Tuesday, October 1, by the
board of public affairs.
Decision to chlorinate the town’s
water supply was reached last
month by’ the board, upon recom
mendation of the state department
of health, and advertising for bids
has been carried out during the in
tervening period.
Four More Teachers
Added At College
Four additional instructors have
been added to the Bluffton college
staff on a part-time basis, to cope
with a post-war near-record enroll
ment on the campus.
A. J. B. Longsdorf, former super
intendent of Bluffton schools, is
teaching Latin, taking over classes
formerly assigned to Miss Agnes
Amstutz, who resigned last spring.
Dwight Spayth, Bluffton High
school vocational arts instructor, is
in charge of a college class in en
gineering drawing.
Miss Ruth Fenwick, Bluffton col
lege graduate in 1945, now a music
instructor in Springfield, has a class
in music methods here every Satur
day, to round out the music program
of the school.
In the French department, Mrs.
Harriet Luginbuhl is substituting
for Prof. Kathryn Moyer, head of
the department, now in Lansdale,
Pa., with her mother, who is ser
iously ill. Miss Moyer expects to
return to the college staff soon.
NUMBER 22
CORN CROP RACING
FOR MATURITY TO
BEAT FALL FROST
Corn Cutting Started in Bluff
ton Farm Area This
Week
Crop Is Expected to Make
Average Yield Despite
Handicaps
Corn cutting under way in some
fields in the Bluffton area while un
matured stands in adjoining land
will make a full crop only if killing
frost holds off until the end of
September, this week, represented
another unusual development in a
season of decided agricultural con
trasts.
Inclement weather of nearly a
month’s duration right in the middle
of the planting season last spring
accounts for this year’s pronounced
difference in the ripening of corn, a
situation that is rare in this section.
Corn cutting was started during
the last week in stands which were
seeded early, but fully half the crop
is not yet ready for harvesting, farm
observers report.
Farmers Jittery
As the weather veered from one
extreme to the other in the first half
of September farmers’ hopes have
alternately soared and fallen, for
every day without killing frost
means thousands of bushels of corn
added to this year’s yield.
In the first two weeks of Septem
ber, temperatures have ranged from
the high eighties to a low of 36 and
termers have had their fingers
crossed, realizing that a frost u’ould
be disastrous to a major portion of
the corn crop.
No frost damage has been report
ed so far in this area, one of the
state’s top corn growing sections,
and assuming that the crop matures
before killing frost it is expected to
produce an average yield. This will
be less than the bumper* returns of
some of the war years, but an ex
cellent one in view of the many’
handicaps encountered this summer.
Estimate 50 Bushels Acre
With yields of 50 bushels to the
acre expected, there will be plenty
of com to supply the feeding needs
of the district, for the livestock
population on most Bluffton farms
will be the lowest in recent years.
Feeding cattle and hogs have been
virtually cleaned out on most farms,
sales being made last month before
OPA ceilings were put back into
effect. Consequently, it appears that
there will be a less than normal
demand locally for corn designated
for cattle and hog feeding.
There will be increased feeding
needs, however, for dairy cattlemen
and for those who are raising
poultry. Expanding dairy opera
tions in the district have been
spurred by the prospects of good
heturns, with butterfat bringing 79
cents a pound and in face of the
increasing demand for raw milk.
Barbara Hauenstein
Married In Scotland
Miss Barbara Joyce Hauenstein,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Hauenstein of Campus Drive became
the bride of William MacFarlane
Cox Tod, son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Buchannan Cox Tod of Edinburgh,
Scotland, in a service last Thursday
afternoon at 4 o’clock in the St.
Paul’s and St. George’s church in
Edinburg. Pastor of the church,
Rev. Phillip Harvey, officiated.*
The bride wore an ivory lace
dress, princess style with long
sleeves and long circular train. She
carried her maternal grandmother’s
and her mother’s wedding handker
chief. Her bouauct was yellow rose*
and white heather. She was given
in marriage by Rev. Arthur Bailey,
a Presbyterian minister of Minne
apolis, now- studying at the Univers
ity of Edinburgh.
Her attendant was Mrs. Leslie
Lyall of Hawick, Scotland, sister of
the bridegroom, who was gowned in
pomegranite liberty velvet. Capt.
Douglas Tod, cousin of the bride
groom was best man.
Following the ceremony a recep
tion was held at the Scotia hotel
after which the couple left on a
wedding trip through the Scottish
lake district. They will be at home
after September 23 at Galashiels,
Scotland, where the bridegroom is
secretary-treasurer of a woolen mill.
The bride is a graduate of Bluff
ton college and Vanderbilt univers
ity, Nashville, Tenn., and for the
past 18 months taught in the Near
East where she met her husband
who was then a lieutenant in the
British army stationed in Jerusalem.
He is a graduate of the University
of Edinburgh.