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BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live
VOLUME LXXI
WHEN WILL MEAT
MARKETS BE OPEN
IS $64 QUESTION
Bluffton Shops Adopt Stagger
Plan to Spread Available
Supply
Establishments Open for Limit
ed Time at Different Hour
Each Day
When will the meat markets be
open is the 64-dollar question that
is facing Bluffton housewives daily.
Frankly, no one knows the ans
wer—not even operators of the meat
markets themselves, they admitted
the first of the week as they took
such emergency measures as they
could to spread as evenly as possible
the limited supply.
With the present meat supply to
tally inadequate «to meet normal re
quirements, Bluffton’s two markets,
operating under restricted quotas
are being opened daily until they
sell the amount of meat earmarked
for that day.
Vary Opening Hour
Hour of the daily opening, how
ever, is changed every day and no
announcement will be made in ad
vance. Meat market operators
pointed out that in opening at a dif
ferent hour each day everyone will
have a more equal opportunity to
get meat.
“If we opened at the same hour
every morning, people who are free
to shop at that tiime always would
have first choice,” they said.
Operating on a staggered schedule
will in a measure spread the chance
of getting meat among different
groups. Those who can shop in the
mornings will get the meat on some
days and on other days afternoon
shoppers will be lucky.
Daily Quotas
A certain amount of meat will be
allocated for each day’s sales, and
when the quota is sold the shop will
be closed, it was announced by the
operators. About half of the week’s
supply will be held for next Satur
day morning, it was announced by
the management of the establish
ments.
Meanwhile all kinds of devices
were being resorted to by shoppers
to supplement the meat shortage.
Locker patrons who filled their cold
storage space when meat was plent
iful last month already have been
forced to dig into the caches.
Fish is proving popular but hard
to get luncheon meats, canned
meats and canned soups are in heavy
demand. Poultry sales have soared
upward, and last Saturday the
A & store had dressed chicken in
its refrigerator counter, something
that has happened in the past only
during holidays easons.
Squirrel hunters are out with a
vengeance this year, in the hope
that their daily bag limits may help
stock the family’s meat larder.
Juveniles Held In
Store Pilfering
Three juveniles held on charges of
pilfering from downtown business
places were dismissed with warnings
Tuesday after restitution had been
made to some 10 merchants who suf
fered losses.
Business men involved declined to
prosecute the cases, but requested
Mayor W. A. Howe to request that
parents caution their children
against loitering in stores over the
noon hour recess from school or
after classes are dismissed.
Those who have business in stores
are welcome, they pointed out, but
loitering in them merely to pass the
time presents too many complica
tions in usual business procedure to
be permitted.
Funeral Services
Held For Infant
Services for the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Laurence Burkhalter of
East Kibler street were held at the
Paul Diller funeral home Monday
morning.
The child died at Bluffton hospital
Sunday morning shortly after birth.
Rev. J. N. Smucker of the Men
nonite church officiated at the fun
eral services and burial was in Zion
Mennonite cemetery.
“Messiah” Rehearsals
Begin At College
Bluffton College Choral society
will begin rehearsals for the annual
Messiah concert next Tuesday night
at 7:30 o’clock in the chapel. All
singers in the community are invit
ed to participate.
Easing Of Livestock
Indefinite Closing
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Augsburger,
Bluffton, a girl, Miriam Ruth, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Boutwell,
Bluffton, a girl, Barbara Jane, Sun
day. Mrs. Boutwell is the former
Rachel Schaublin.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wineland,
Jenera, a boy, Wayne Everett, Fri
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kindle, Mt.
Cory, a boy, Gary Richard, Friday.
Mrs. Kindle is the former Beulah
Huber.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Reichenbach,
Jr., Bluffton, a boy, Michael Wil
liam last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Geiger,
Pandora, a boy, Robert Gene, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fowler, Tiffin,
a boy, Steven James, Sunday. Mrs.
Fowler is the former Gladys Fett.
Funeral On Thursday
For Ami Nonnamaker
Funeral services for Ami Nonna
maker, 85, retired farmer will be
held at the Basinger funeral home
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Mr. Nonnamaker died at his home
in Orange township Tuesday even
ing following a three weeks’ illness.
He was a native of Orange town
ship, born Feb. 3, 1861 the son of
Eli and Elizabeth (Swoyer) Nonna
maker, and was married Feb. 23,
1889, to Frances Grieser who sur
vives.
Also surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Bernice Klingler of Ada and
Miss Faery Nonnamaker at home
and two sons, Howard of Jenera and
Glenn at home one sister, Mrs. Lu
cinda Koontz and one brother,
Charley Nonnamaker of Bluffton.
Rev. Irvin Kaufman will officiate
at the funeral services and burial
will be in the Hassen cemetery.
Word From Bluffton
Man Now In Syria
Charles Hankish, Bluffton confec
tioner, who left late in August to
visit relatives in Syria, landed in
Beirut on September 13, according
to word received by his family here
this week.
From there Hankish went to his
native village of Zahle, some 25
miles distant where he is visiting at
the home of his brother.
The Bluffton man made the trip
overseas in company with a party
of three Toledo men, one of whom
was a cousin. This is his first visit
to his native town since he left 42
years ago as a youth of 19.
New Boy Scout Troop
Being Formed Here
An explorer Scout troop is being
formed in Bluffton for older boys of
15 years or over, it was announced
this week. The unit, sponsored by
the Methodist church provides for a
type of senior scouting which
stresses exploration of hobbies and
vocations, community service and
social development.
The troop committee will be or
ganized at a meeting this Wednes
day night consisting of W. O. Geig
er, Millen Geiger, Ed Waitermire,
Edwin Rice, Dallas Berry and Geo.
Carmack.
College Grass Fire
Gets Out Of Control
Bluffton firemen extinguished a
grass fire which had gotten out of
control Tuesday afternoon at 4:30
while a heavy swath of dead grass
was being burned on the Bluffton
college football field.
Only damage was where the fire
got into shrubbery along the Col
lege road border of the athletic
field, it was reported.
Ry the time the fire department
arrived, the college football team,
working out on the field at the time,
reportedly had the conflagration
fairly well under control.
Deadline Is Monday
For Drivers' Licenses
Leadline for the 1947 drivers’ li
censes is next Monday, it was point
ed out by Harold Montgomery, of
Montgomery’s News stand in charge
of sales here. A total of 1,200 li
censes was sold here to date, Mont
gomery stated the first of the week.
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
Grain (bushel prices)—Wheat $1.
93 com $1.60 oats 71c soys $2.15.
Situation Averts
Of Meat Market Here
Swank Bros. Shop Reopens
Monday After Week-end
Shutdown
Operation of Establishment to
Continue for Current
Week
Easing somewhat of the tight
livestock situation in the Bluffton
district attributed to OPA price reg
ulations averted at least temporarily
closing for an indefinite time of
Swank Brothers Meat Market, the
town’s oldest butcher shop operat
ing until three months ago as Bigler
Brothers.
The market was closed over the
week end by George Swank, man
ager in charge, who said he was un
able to purchase livestock to keep
the establishment in operation.
The market was closed from Fri
day morning until Monday after
noon by George Swank, manager in
charge when his supply of meat was
exhausted with no livestock supply
to replace it.
Open This Week
Purchase of livestock over the
week end, however, made possible re
opening of the market Monday
afternoon. Swank said it would be
open part time every day this week
including Saturday.
However, he added, operations are
on a hand to mouth basis and what
will be done next week and there
after will depend upon the avail
able supply of cattle and hogs under
existing price ceilings.
There is plenty of livestock in the
Rluffton district, he said, but few
farmers will sell at price ceiling
set by OPA.
Aggravates Situation Here
Closing of the Swank market over
the week end vastly aggravated
Bluffton’s already critical shortage
of meat for Saturday shoppers, leav
ing the town with only one market
open, that of Basinger Brothers.
Counters at the Basinger market
were crowded thruout the morning
on Saturday and heavy buying for
the week end exhausted their sup
plies by noon despite the fact that
each customer was limited to a pur
chase of not more than three pounds.
Holding livestock on farms for
higher prices is a general condiition
thruout Ohio and other states, ac
cording to impartial surveys. In ad
dition slaughterers say they cannot
kill under present OPA margins and
country slaughtering plants as well
as big city packers are suspending
operations.
Rites On Monday For
Mrs. Rosina Amstutz
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon in the Ebenezer Men
nonite church for Mrs. Rosina Am
stutz, 71, of near Beaverdam, who
died Saturday in the Bluffton hos
pital.
Cause of the death was attributed
to pneumonia.
Born February 8, 1875, in Canton
Bern, Switzerland, Mrs. Amstutz
spent most of her life in the Beav
erdam community.
Survivors include 11 children:
Mrs. Ella Best, Beaverdam Mrs.
Harley Grant, Lima Route 5 Mrs.
John Weller, Lima Melvin, at home
Albert, Lafayette Mrs. Jess Truax,
Weirton, W. Va. Mrs. William
Wiedeman, Toledo Noah and Jess,
both of Rluffton Oliver, Lima, and
Mrs. Sidney Burkholder, Beaverdam.
Rev. Charles Warren and Rev. W.
H. Lahr officiated at the funeral
service, and burial was in the Eben
ezer church cemetery.
Varsity Scrimmage
Under Lights Friday
Bluffton college football team will
stage a practice scrimmage under
the lights at Harmon field, Friday
night at 8 o’clock it is announced by
Coach A. C. Burcky. Nominal ad
mission charge will go toward a
fund to purchase new football uni
forms.
Mayor’s Notice
Complaints have come to this office
that school children loitering about
stores during the noon hour and
after school have been involved in
pilfering activities. Parents are
asked to caution their children
against such loitering.
W. A. Howe, Mayor
LICENSE ISSUED
A marriage license has been issued
to Chester Huber of Bluffton and
Miss Ruth Ghaster of Mt. Cory.
Rev. John Evans Knox to officiate.
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUE TX)N, OHIO THURSDAY. SEPT. 26, 1946
DROUGHT IPS
BLUFFTON AREA
Light Showers Monday Prove
of Negligible Benefit
Grass Fire Menace Looms
Wheat Sowing Hampered
Monday’s light shower of rain
produced virtually no results in al
leviating drought conditions that
have continued in this area since
late June.
A grass fire on the Bluffton col
lege athletic* field Tuesday afternoon
demonstrated rainfall had not been
sufficient to wet even the top of
the ground, and lawns are retain
ing their parched appearance.
With free date for wheat seed
ing set for Friday, farmers gener
ally have been unable to get their
ground into shape for the start of
sowing, it was pointed out. Those
who must plow groand have been
able to make little headway, altho
those who can disk oats or corn
land are in a slightly more favor
able situation.
Reflecting the summer’s drought,
the water level of the National
quarry, used by the. Central Ohio
Light and Power Co., has dropped
approximately five feet. Level of
Buckeye lake is down about 18
inches.
Mary Lou Shafer,
James Deppler Wed
Miss Mary Lou Shafer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Shafer and
James Paul Deppler, son of Mrs.
Mary Deppler, all of Bluffton, were
married in a ceremony at the Meth
odist church here Sunday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock.
Rev. Paul Cramer, minister of the
church, officiated in the double ring
ceremony before an altar of flowers
illuminated by candlelight.
The bride worth a street length
dress of pastel blue wool jersey
trimmed with harmonizing lace with
black half-hat and matching acces
sories together w ith Hrsage of white
roses and blue gardenias. Her or
naments were a strand of pearls and
ear rings to match, the gift of the
bridegroom.
Her attendant, Miss Geraldine
Montgomery, wore a blue street
length dress with black sequins and
accessories and a red rose corsage.
Janies Steiner was best man.
The bride, a Bluffton high school
graduate, has been employed as an
inspector at the Triplett plant for
the past year.
Mr. Deppler, also a Bluffton high
school graduate is a veteran of the
air corps with three years service
in the South Pacific. He is now em
ployed by the Shell Oil company in
Lima.
Following the ceremony the couple
left on a trip thru the south. For
traveling the bride wore a white
embroidered eyelet dress with bridal
corsage and black accessories. Upon
returning they will reside at the
home of the bridegroom’s mother on
Bentley road.
In New Locations
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zehrbach will
move this week to an apartment in
their block at North Main and Vine
streets above Vel’s Beauty shop. The
apartment which they are vacating
above Barnes grocery in their North
Main street block will be occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Spayth,
teachers in the schools here.
Mayor’s Notice
Burning of rubbish or leaves is
forbidden on Bluffton’s streets sur
faced with asphaltic concrete or
other hard surface streets in the
town. This practice damages the
surfacing materials and greatly
shortens the life of the pavement.
Please cooperate in our program
for better streets.
W. A. Howe, Mayor
ENTERS COLLEGE
Marion Marquart, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Marquart of Orange town
ship left Tuesday for Columbus
where he will enroll in the Ohio
State university college of agricul
ture.
Mayor’s Notice
Monthly collection of trash and
rubbish will start Thursday noon.
Have everything in containers
placed easily accessible for loading
on the truck.
W. A. Howe, Mayor
Perfect football weather, a Bluff
ton team that has been showing
plenty of color, and the traditional
rivalry with Ada drew a banner
crowd to Harmon field last Friday
night to watch the Pirates trounce
their opponents by a 19 to 0 score.
Faculty Manager Sidney C. Stet
tler reported Saturday that the 1450
single admission tickets sold for
Friday night’s contest set a new
Bluffton record, topping even the
largest Pandora turnouts of the
past.
In addition to the single ducat
sales for the night, there also were
in the stands an unestimated num
ber of season ticket holders, mem
bers of the band and grade school
pupils who are admitted without
charge to all home games.
Last Friday’s record turnout top
ped by 202 a mark of 1248 estab
lished in the season’s first game
against Kenton, and gave the local
school its two best consecutive
crowds in history.
So if you’re one of those who had
to stand on someone’s toes, or vice
versa, at last week’s game, try to
console yourself that you were in on
the making of a new record, and
that it can’t happen again for an
other three weeks, for the Pirates
play their next two contests away
from home.
Funeral For Former
Pandora Man Here
Record Turnout Of Fans Jams-Harmon
Field For Grid Tilt With Ada Friday4k
Services for Albert Deitler, 59,
former Pandora resident, later of
Minneapolis, were held at the Paul
Diller funeral home, Tuesday after
noon.
A veteran of the first World war,
he died in Percy Jones hospital,
Battle Creek, Michigan, last Friday.
Rev. Walter Purdy officiated at
the funeral and interment was in
Pleasant Ridge.
Surviving are three sisters Mrs.
Wm. Carr, Pandora, Mrs. Clara
Chambers and Mrs. Mary Thomas,
Toledo, and a brother, Joseph of
Bell, Calif.
BRIDAL SHOWER
Honoring Mrs. Ralph Garrrett, a
recent bride, a group of neighbors
held a miscellaneous shower at the
home of Mrs. June Trippiehorn,
Tuesday night. The evening was
spent in appropriate contests after
which the honored guest received
many beautiful gifts.
Those present were:
Ella Duff man, Gaynell and Mary
Anu Rockey, Esther Kirtland, Doro
thy Swank, Treva Matthewson, Vir
ginia Emans, Golda Wiess, Juanita
and Ronnie Zimmerly, Wava Poe,
Elsie, Minnie, Izora, Emma and La
Donna Basinger, Pet Cunningham,
Georgia Irwin, Meredith Stepleton
and the honored guest, Thelma Ba
singer Garrett.
Those not present but sending
gifts were Julia Herr and Edith
Tschantz.
Receives Degree
In Library Course
Degree of Bachelor of Science has
been conferred by Western Reserve
university of Cleveland upon Miss
Madeline Bixel who completed the
librarian’s course at the university
the past summer.
Miss Bixel, who formerly taught
in the schools at Rittman has ac
cepted a position as librarian in the
Fostoria' schools. She is a sister of
Dr. M. R. Bixel of Cherry street.
TO WED SATURDAY
Wedding of Margaret Jane, young
est daughter of Mrs. Noah Basinger
of Bluffton and James J. Mayer, son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Mayer of
Shelb.v will take place at St. Mary’s
Catholic church here Saturday morn
ing at 10 o’clock.
Wedding breakfast will be served
at the Walnut Grill for the bridal
party following the ceremony and a
reception will be held in the after
noon at the home of the bride.
Miss Basinger attended Bluffton
college and also studied in the Chi
cago Academy of Fine Arts.
Mr. Mayer, a senior in the Ohio
Northern university college of law
at Ada is an ex-service man who
served with the Army in the Pacific
theatre of war.
LEGION AUXILIARY ELECTS
The following officers have been
elected by the Bluffton Legion Aux
iliary for the coming year: Pres.,
Guyneth Rockey sec.', Christine Har
ris tretas., Ina Amstutz executive
com., Rhea Geiger, Jessie Basinger,
Marie Stonehill.
Flies From Paris
To New York City
Lynn Byers, grandson of N. E.
Byers of East Kibler street arrived
Tuesday night in New York city,
making the trip by air from France,
it was learned here Wednesday
morning.
Young Byers, formerly in the
Army remained in Paris for six
months after his discharge from the
service being employed as a civilian
in settlement of French property
claims against the United States
during the war.
He expects to return to Purdue
university of Lafayette, Ind., to re
sume his engineering studies which
were interrupted when he was called
to military service. Byers is the
only son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Byers of Goshen, Indiana.
Minister To Assume
Duties On October I
Rev. Howard Landis of Philadel
phia who last summer accepted a
call to the pastorate of the Eben
ezer Mennonite church here will
take up his duties on October 1.
Rev. Landis and his family have
arrived here and are occupying the
church parsonage on Grove street.
The church pulpit was filled dur
ing the past summer by Rev. Chas.
Warren, as temporary supply.
Physician Announces
Opening Office Here
Dr. Franklin Rodabaugh an
nounced the first of the week the
opening of his office for practice of
medicine and surgery in the former
Mrs. Eva Patterson property at
South Main and College avenue
which he recently purchased.
Dr. Rodabaugh, a native of New
Stark is a graduate of Findlay col
lege and Ohio State university col
lege of medicine and spent a year
as interne at Lucas county hospital,
Toledo.
During the war he served 28
1 months in the China theatre as med
ical liaison officer for Chinese troops
and later was attached to Chinese
occupation forces in French Indo
China. For his services he received
the Legion of Merit award from
China theatre headquarters and Com
mendation of Merit from the Chinese
combat command.
Since his discharge from the
Army he spent three months in
graduate work at the University of
Illinois Medical center and the past
summer assisted his father-in-law,
Dr. H. A. Neiswander, Pandora phy
sician.
Mrs. Rodabaugh, the former Lois
Neiswander, a graduate of Bluffton
college and the Western Reserve uni
versity school of nursing will assist
her husband. She spent one year in
Flower hospital, Toledo, as instruct
or and supervisor and later was in
structor in physiology' at Oregon
State college. Until recently she
has assisted her father in his office
at Pandora.
Bluffton Nurse Will
Leave Soon For Italy
Miss Doris Garmatter, assistant
superintendent at Bluffton hospital'
will leave this fall for Turin, Italy,
where she will engage in public
health nursing service under the
Mennonite Central committee, it was
announced this week. She expects
to be gone for two years.
Miss Garmatter was graduated
from the school of nursing at the
Mennonite hospital at Bloomington,
Ill. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Cal Garmatter of near Bluff
ton.
HORSES AND MULES DECREASE
Ohio farmers who want to save
alfalfa fields for meadow or pasture
next year should not mow or
pasture them after September 10.
Alfalfa plants store food for winter
and early spring in their roots, and
part of this reserve store is manu
factured in September and October.
Tests at Ohio State University in
dicate third cuttings for hay or late
pasturing of Ohio alfalfa are likely
to weaken the plants so they are
killed by severe winters.
DON’T MOW MEDOWS
The number of horses and mules
on Ohio farms dropped from 1,000,
000 in 1915 to less than 400,000 in
1945. Crops from about three and
one-half acres are required to feed
a horse for a year, so the decrease
in horses has released crops from
over 2,000,000 acres.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 23
14 CENT DROP IN
POULTRY MARKET
DRIES UP SUPPLY
Prices Goes Into Tail Spin From
45-Cent Live Weight Quota
tion to 31 Cents.
Flooding of Market Halts Up
ward Trend of Price in Wake
Of Meat Shortages.
Poultry prices went into a 14
cent tail spin over the week end,
after soaring to a season-high of 45
cents a pound live weight, on Satur
day.
Top quality heavy springers
moved readily at the 45-cent live
quotation on Saturday, with some
farmers, however, holding out for
50 cents, but re-opening of market
ing transactions Monday morning
found the price down to 31 cents.
With poultry bey’ond OPA ceiling
control, prices moved steadily up
ward during the last week, until
Saturday’s high mark of 45 cents*
flooded the market with top quality
fowls.
Little Poultry Moving
The break in prices the first of the
week found much high-priced poul
try on the retail market, and re
maining there because of a lack of
demand at the present level of quo
tations.
Farmers aren’t selling at the 31
cent price now being paid, and with
a lot of high-priced poultry remain
ing to be moved dealers will not be
in a mood to do much buying even
at the low quotation.
Prior to the market break over
the last weekend, poultry prices had
moved steadily upward since the
meat-scarcity began pinching this
area at the start of the second
week in September.
Ask Thursday Night
For Church Affairs
Continuance of cooperation be
tween churches and other organiza
tions of the community in keeping
Thursday night for church activities
is suggested by the Bluffton Minis
terial association.
It is understood that churches
will, as far as possible, arrange
their meetings for Thursday night,
leaving other evenings free for secu
lar community activities.
MINISTERIAL ASSN. PICNIC
The Bluffton Ministerial associa
tion will hold its annual picnic Fri
day evening at 5:30 o’clock at Buck
eye Lake .Ministers, their wives and
families who recently have moved
into the community are special
guests and are asked to bring their
service only.
Settlement
S/Sgt. Howard Diller is spending
several days in the home of his par
ents.
Jean Diller, oldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Diller is in
nurses’ training at the Bluffton hos
pital.
Mr. and Mrs. Alcus Pate of De
troit spent the week end at the
home of Mrs. Josephine Moser and
War la Weltv and familv.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wehrly left
home the latter part of the week
for a few days stay in Canada.
While putting up for the night at a
*ou»-ist camn near Paris, Ontario,
their Chevrolet sedan was stolen.
The sorghum press owned by
1 Homer Wenger has been in opera
tion since last week and an average
run is expected for the season. The
yield is somewhat lower than the
average but quality of the molasses
is excellent.
The Advisory Council No. 2 met
’at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fran
cis Sommer Monday evening.
Paul Stuckey of Morton, Ill., bro
ther of Mrs. Earl Lehman and
Harold Schertz of Metamora, Ill.,
i arrived here by plane the last of the
week and returned home Tuesday
I morning. The trip from their home
to Pandora was made in two hours
and fifty-two minutes.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Steiner
and daughter Nanette of Chicago,
arrived here Saturday evening and
spent Sunday with relatives.
Rev. and Sirs. Richard Reilly and
family of Nappanee, Ind., visited
over the week end in the Hiram
Geiger home.
Rev. and Mrs. Frank Harder and
son. Roger, were Sunday dinner
V-nests in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Wizard Moser.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cook are at
home in the trailer camp near Find
lav where Mr. Cook is employed.
Harrv Smith, who for a number
of rears onerated various farms in
th s localiity and of late years re
sided on a large farm near Dola,
has recently purchased the farm of
Harry Baker west of Benton Ridge.
Francis Geiger who is an employe
of the Rig Four railroad at Indian
apolis, Ind., and his sister, Marcella,
nurse from Dayton, are spending
their vacation at the home of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter D.
Geiger.