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'BIueberry Day in Ireland
Observed by u. S. Soldier
Other Letters Tell Of Catching Shorks
In Howoii and Flying in China

the South Sea islands as far back
as I can remember.
Did I tell you that I was going
to Honolulu Saturday. I'm going
for special reason and that is to
listen to the program OF Hawaii
Calls, a musical put on by the
people OF Hawaii. They sing old
and new Hawaiian songs. I've heard
the program at home and never
missed any of them.
We'll, 1 guess I'll send you my
Aloha:
"Owau hoouna oil pau loa hoopo-
maikai ana, ma he hoaloha Ia he
hoaloha-which means
Il send you every blessing, as .
friend to a friend"
From somewhere in China comes
word of 1t. George v. Pyles. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Wilmer Pyles Of
Temple Hills, Prince Georges
County. Md Alter attending Oxon
Hill elementary and high schools.
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financing. Prior to enlistment Pvt.
OShinsky was an accountant for
Benjamin Regardie, CPA. Pvt.
Windham was employed by the Re-
construction Finance Corp.
At Camp Lee, Va.
The following District men have
graduated from the officer candi-
date course at the Quartermaster
School:
1t. Jackson Jones, 160 Todd place
NE; 1t. Stephen B. Lane, 1448 T
street Sc; 1t. Robert E. Shanahan,
1906 Thirteenth street NV. and
1t. Eugene A. Austin, COOL Thirty
fourth place NV.
At Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
-Four Washingtonians graduated
yesterday from the Medical Field
Service School. They are First 1t.
George D. McAfee, Medical Corps,
5325 Reno road NV; First 1t. Cary
H. Freeman, Medical Corps, 5211
Dix street NE; First 1t. William
G. Best, Medical Corps, 1874 Colum-
bia road NV, and First 1t. Dwight
Parkinson, Medical Corps, 3707 Mil
itary road NV.
At jefferson Barracks, Mo.
First 1t. Edward B. Smith, son of
Mrs. Carrie R. Smith, 222 c street
NV, has been recently stationed
here. He was formerly employed
as veterinarian by Robinson's
Veterinary Hospital. He attended
the University of Pennsylvania.
At Gulfport. Miss.
Pvt. Chauncey Thomas James,
1902 Queensbury road. Riverdale,
Md, has been assigned to special
duty with the Office of the provost
marshal at Gulfport Field, Army
Air Forces Technical School. Pvt.
James, inducted May 5, 1912, is at
tached to the 629th Technical
School Squadron.
At Maxwell Field, Ala.
Aviation Cadet Edward M. Lyman,
1907 South Edgewood street, Arling-
ton, Va, son of Mrs. Katie Lyman,
has been appointed captain and
group commander in the cadet corps
of the Army Air Forces Pre-Flight
School for Pilots, Maxwell Field,
Ala, where he is completing an in
tensive nine-week ground course
preparatory to his flight training
as future pilot officer in the Ma
tion's air forces. Cadet Lyman is
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sions directly from civilian life, who
will receive instruction at the Air
Forces Training School for execu-
tive positions in Air Forces main
tenance are: First 1t. Martin Luther
Dellinger, 1882 Alton place NV,
former teacher and principal of
Shenandoah County, Va; Capt.
Randolph Cromwell Richardson,
6154 Thirty-first place NV, former
District lawyer; Second 1t Edward
F. DAILY, 7 Drummond avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md, former District attor-
ney;; Second 1t. Stanley E. True,
311 Cumberland avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md, former traffic and cargo
representative for the Government,
and Capt. Friedrich Vosburgh, 1917
Hampden lane, Bethesda, Md, for
mer writer and editor.
Others include: Second 1t. Martin
S. Hayden of Michigan, former
newspaperman of the Detroit News.
whose wife, Mrs Elizabeth Hayden.
now resides at l Lenox place, Chevy
Chase, Md: First 1t. Samuel S.
Wilson, apartment $50 Arlington
Village, Arlington, Va, former law
yer and principal claims examiner:
Second 1t Jerry Noel Griffin, 1915
Kalorama road, NV, former attor-
ney for Reconstruction Finance
Corp; Second 1t. John Neadham
Tolar, PIP Thirty-fifth place NV,
former investigator of the United
States Department OF Agriculture;
Capt. Bishop Perkins Hill, 1921 s
street NV, former first vice presi-
dent Of Waggaman-B -Brawner Realty
Corp; Second 1t Walter D. Nc
Daniel, former assistant clerk of
Senate Finance Committee, of Balm
bridge, Ga, whose wife, Mrs. June
Mcdaniel, now resides at 35O7
Macomb street NV: Second 1t.
Thomas Goode Baptist 4637 Win
dom place NV, former senior stat
istician at Material Command Head
quarters, and First 1t. Harrison D.
Blair, brother of 1t. Col. w. P. Blair,
2l2l Virginia avenue NV
Also now receiving instruction at
the Air Forces Training School for
executive positions in Air Forces
maintenance are: First 1t. Gordon
c. Wiseman, Ill Aspen street, Chevy
Chase, Md, former ASSISTANT super
visor of District representatives:
Capt. Wilfred P. Champlain, 1915
Morris road Sc, former transporta-
ton accountant; First 1t. Wallace T.
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Staff Photo.

SCHNEIDER, "a Darwin avenue, Tako-
ma Park, Md, former demonstration
technician and salesman for photo
graphic supplies, and First 1t. Carl
A. Larsen, 4994 Newport avenue,
Friendship Heights, NV.
Others in training at the Miami
Air Forces Training School in Air
Forces Maintenance are Second 1t.
Albert A. Evans, 1924 Sixteenth
street, Arlington, Va, former admin
istrative procurement-budget ac-
countant for the Bureau of Prisons;
1t. Carl M. Andrews, 4011i North
Fifth street, Arlington, Va, former
insurance agent; First 1t. Joseph E.
Jones, 1901 South Barton, Arlington,
Va, former insurance company
owner; Second 1t William j. Tate,
6733 Lee highway, East Falls Church,
Va, former assistant to the chair
man of the National Inventors
Council, and Second 1t. Carl Pergler,
son of Charles Pergler, 1861 Crescent
place NV, former District lawyer.
DR.. Mitchell Dreese, former pro-
fessor of educational psychology and
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a former student of the University
OF Virginia.
Nineteen District boys are now
enrolled as aviation cadets in the
Army Air Forces School for Pilots,
Montgomery, Ala. They include
Cadets Henry w. Atkinson, 1870 M
street NV: Hal H. Bakes, 21S Elev-
enth street S.W.: Isauro T. Bazan,
1882 Ingleside terrace NV; George
T. Beattie, 25l1 @ street NV:
William H. Bell, jr., 249 Longfellow
street NV; Martin E. Brown, 1929
@ street NV: Jerry c. Browning
2026-A Thirty seventh street Sc;
Edward H. Cole, 4110 Fessenden
street NV; Lewes w. Fleming, 2129
Eighteenth street NV; John H.
Frank, 1886 Forty fourth street
NV; Roy H. Herring, 1901 Argonne
place NV: George J. McCloud, 1911
o street NV: Dudley L. Mask, 1854
Eleventh street NV; Louis E.
Nowlin, 6226 Blair road NV; Ray
mond I. Oxendlne, 217 Peabody
street NE: Llewellyn N. Pope, 4103
Twelfth street NE; Roy Austin
Stephens, 1924 Chaplin street NV;
Howard w. Sweeny, 47O1 Connect
icut avenue, and James F. Waffle,
2l16 Huidekoper place NV.
Hugh Clyde Jones, jr., 1900 Key
boulevard, Arlington, Va, former
personnel classification officer for
the Federal Works Agency and Dis
trict lawyer, and Miller G.. White.
ir., 3101 Legation street NV, son of
1t Col. Miller G.. White, have been
appointed officers in the cadet corps
of the Army Air Forces Pre- Flight
School for Pilots. Cadet Jones, a
graduate of National University Law
School, has been appointed a lieu
tenant and group supply officer
while Cadet White has been named
a captain and squadron COM
mander.
At Miami Beach, Fla.
Capt. Ralph P. Dunn, former at
torney at law of Elgin lane and
Selkirk drive, Bethesda, Md, is now
enrolled in the Army Air Forces
Training School. After a six-week
course of military instruction and
physical conditioning Capt. Dunn
who was commissioned directly from
civilian life, will be able to take over
executive duties in Air Forces main
tenance.
Other officers, receiving commits
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254s Fourteenth street NV, on fur
Tough from Pacific duties. Ensign
Toothman was formerly stationed
on the Yorktown. He is graduate
of George Washington University.
Prior to his joining the service he
was employed in the Accounts and
Collections Unit of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue.
At Army War College.
Capt. Holman D. Hoover, 2229
Bancroft place NV, has been pro-
NOTED to the rank of major, it was
announced this week at Headquar-
tiers, Army Ground Forces. Born in
Riverside, Calf, Maj. Hoover grad
uated from the University of Cali
fornia in 1885 and later took grad
uate work at George Washington
University and the American Insti-
tute of Banking He served in the
Office of the Chief of Infantry until
March of this year. He is now as
signed to Headquarters of the Army
Ground Forces at the District Army
War College.
At Fort Washington.
Sergt. Frank S. Hassell, jr., son
of Judge and Mrs. Frank S. Hassell,
2126 Connecticut avenue NV, has
recently arrived to attend the Ad-
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LETTERS WANTED

What do you hear from the
Districts fighting men?
That letter you got recently
there are details in it that
10ould be OF interest to friends
and relatives OF other Wash
ington men ,0ho are 1pith the
same outfit.
The Star inpites readers of
this page to mail to the city
editor copies OF serDicemen's
letters they bclieDe OF general
interest. Letters directly from
men on serutce duty espe-
ctdlly tDtH be ,Delcon,ed.
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cerge h~sSeA' university Wnen
he was inducted into the service.
At Will Rogers Field, Okla.
Technical Sgt. Thomas Alexander
Newman, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Robert Newman, 125 P street
NV, was promoted last week to
the rank of master sergeant at the
Air Force bombardment base. He
has been on duty here since April
is, 1912.
At New River, N. C.
The family of w. K Reeve, build
ing contractor, 824 10Th street NV,
is represented in each division of
the armed forces. His son, F. Mel
son Reeve, Is now major in the
Marine Corps and is stationed at
the base at New River, N. G. His
grandson, w. K. Kalbfus, was ac-
cepted as a naval aviation cadet
on August 5. His son-in-law, Maj.
Stanley F.. Steele, is the dental
surgeon for Camp Pickett, Va.
At San Diego, Calf.
1t. Thomas L. Turner, 3046 r
street, son of Mrs. Thomas Cald-
we'll Turner and the late Col.
Turner, U. S. M. c., received his
commission last week. He is now
stationed in San Diego. Calf. He
is the fourth of his family to be
In the Navy service. Both his father
and grandfather were in the Marine
Corps and his great-grandfather,
Thomas Turner, was an admiral in
the Navy. A graduate of the Naval
Academy in 1887, 1t. Turner was
freed to resign because of severe
eye injury received at the academy.
Prior to his joining the service he
was assistant to the works manager
of the recruitment Aircraft
Corp. Miami, Fla.
At Paris Island.
Thomas c. Embrey, 1925 Rose
dale street NV, son of Mrs Thomas
F. Embrey, has just completed his
training and has been made a drill
instructor in the Marine Corps.
-Four Washingtonians have re-
Gently enlisted in the Marine Corps
and are now in training here. They
are Pvt. Harry 1. Goodwin, son OF
Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Goodwin, 4603
Georgia avenue NV; Pvt. Charles
D. Ritenour, brother of Mrs. Haze
Willingham, 1910 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NV; Pvt. John A. Pritchard
whose wife lives at 3l07 Sixteenth
street NV, and Pvt. Thomas M
Buckler, son of Mrs. Mary D. Buck.
Ter, 1907 w street Sc.
At Savannah, GA.
William E. Wootton. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Wooton, 308 Fall
road, Rockville. Md. has been pro
moted from staff sergeant to the ranl
of warrant officer (junior grade) il
the Finance department at Hunte
Field Army Air Base. He has beer
on duty in the Savannah Air Bas
Finance Office since March, 194l
Prior to his induction into TIN
Army in May, l94l, he was EN-
ployed by the General Accounting
Ofice in Washington from 1885
1941. He also served as auditor TO
the Maryland State Firemen's AS
sociation in 1898, was representative
on that organizations legislativ
committee for Montgomery Coun
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D. c. Man, Once Thought Lost,
Now Serving in India
First World War Lieutenant
Assigned to England as Major

ty in 1899 and was active in the
Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment and the Montgomery County
Association of Volunteer Firemen.
A graduate of Rockville High
School, Warrant Officer Wootton
took special course in the Strayer
College of Accounting.
At Hondo, Tex.
Navigation Cadet Jack P. Fire
stone, 81, son of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Paul Firestone, 2627 Newton street,
NE, and 1t. George r. Land jr..
student officer, son of Mrs. Louise
G. Land, of the District. reported
last week for navigation training at
the Army Air Force Navigation
School. Pvt. Firestone, a graduate
OF George Washington University,
served recently as corporal in the
Air Corps, Key Field, Miss. Prior
to his entrance into the service he
was a wholesale company clerk.
1t. Land is graduate of Citadel
College, Charleston, S. c.. where he
was member of the ROTC for
four years. In civilian life he was
an adjuster for a finance corpora
tion.
At Fort Riley, Kans.
Col. Rufus S. Ramey, 1902 Surrey
lane NV, formerly executive Off
Ger of an infantry division, will
succeed Brig. Gen. Robert C. Rod
gers as commandant of the Cavalry
School. Gen. Rodgers has been as
signed to take command of a
cavalry field unit. Col. Ramey has
previously served at Fort Riley, hav-
attended the Cavalry School there
in 1886.
At Camp Bowie, Tex.
James E. Holland, private first
class, has been promoted to the rank
of corporal He is now assigned to
the 10th Field Hospital. Mrs. Hol-
land, his wife, lives at 518 Ninth
street NE. Prior to his induction
into the Army March II, 1941, Corpl.
Holland was a newspaper reporter.
He is a former student of the Uni
versity of Chattanooga.
At Fort Knox, Ky.
Pvt. Victor w. Newton, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Newton, l4OO
,tvy ut
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beIlnlng, Jd. A'1' Ne"s""'
Pvt. Henry j. Klein, jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry j. Klein, 522l Edge
moor lane, Bethesda, Nd, also grad
uated from the school as radio
operator. He entered the service in
December of 1941.
Second Lit. Henry A. Swayze, son
of Mrs. Carroll Furman, e28 G
place NV; Second 1t. Edward H.
Schmidt, jr., 6106 D street, Capitol
Heights, Md; Second 1t. Leroy c..
Hackett, son of Mrs. Esther E.
Hackett, 48 Rollins avenue, Seat
Pleasant, Md, and Second 1t. Adolf
P. Schramm, jr., son of Mrs. Regina
Schramm of La Plata, Md, grad
uated this week from the Armored
Force Officer Candidate School,
They will be assigned duty with an
armored division or tank battalion.
At Langley Field, Va.
Paul R. Payne jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul R. Payne, Warrenton, Va,
has been made flight instructor in
the Army Air Forces, after taking
his examination and flight test here.
Payne began his flight training at
zieger Field in Warrenton. He will
shortly fly to Lochbourne Field,
Lochbourne, Ohio, where he will
attend the Officers Flight Training
School for five weeks. Upon COM
pletion he will be commissioned a
first lieutenant flight instructor in
the Army Air Forces. For the past
two years he has been a member of
the Virginia State Police Force,
working out of Newport News, Va,
from which he has been granted an
indefinite leave of absence to enter
the service.
At Pensacola, Fla.
Thomas A. Hall, son of Mrs. James
A. Hall, 1857 Rhode Island avenue
NE, and Louis A. Knight, son OF
Mrs. Louis A. Knight, 3940 Pennsyl-
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MORE CREWS FOR THE FLYING FORTRESSES- group
of local prospective flying officers strong
at 919 street NV where the Aviation Cadet
mentally physically the qualifications wishing
become aviation cadets The officers picture
right Maj Earl " Compton, Capt c. Mueller
berg.
This group will first to the Army Air
center at Nashville Tenn where they will take additional
physical examinations and classification tests
viewed issued uniforms
personal inclination provide the basis for their
either pilot bombarde are
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Grinnell College, where he had been
director of personnel He became
associate professor in 1888 and a
full professor in 1888. He was made
dean of the summer sessions in 1899.
Dean Dreese is the 42d member of
the faculty to leave the university
since the beginning of the war.
Second 1t. Bernard j. Duffy, 2701
Fourth street NE, has received his
commission after a three month
course at the Air Forces Ofi1cer
Candidate School at Miami Beach,
Fla. His duties will be to direct
administrative and supply opera
(See POST NEWS, Page B-8.)
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In India.

IN lnOla.
Staff Sergt. w. v. De Rosa, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Angelo De Rosa, 932
Ingraham street NV, who was er-
roneously reported killed in action
in the Philippines several months
ago, is now on active duty some
where in India Sergt. De Rosa,
graduate of George Washington
University, left a job with the War
Department Procurement Division
to enlist in the 260th Coast Artil-
lery in 1910 and was sent for train
ing to Fort Bliss, Tex Later he
was stationed at Boiling Field His
younger brother, Daniel De Rosa,
is now serving at the Naval Air
Station in Anacostia.
In England.
Maj. H. w. Longfellow, Army Air
Forces, who, asa first lieutenant of
the infantry in World War I. was
officially reported dead from wounds
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q e a n OF the
summer sessions
at George Wash
ington Univer-
sity, has been
m a d e a first
! i e u t e nant in
the Arm y Air
Forces and is
now stationed at
officers train
ing q u a r t e S,
Miami, Fla. DR..
DreeSe entered
the university in
1881 as assistant
professor of ed
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signs in the Naval Reserve or second
lieutenants in the Marine Corps
Reserve.
At Fort Harrison, Ind.
Pvts. Sol Oshinsky, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Oshinsky, 300
Gallatin street, NV, and James c.
Windham, son of Mrs. Eula Wind
ham, 1904 Chase avenue, Bethesda,
Md and husband of Mrs. Lorraine
Windham. l437 Rhode Island ave-
nue., Bethesda. Nd. recently ar
rived at the Finance Replacement
Training Center to study Army
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jutant Generals
Officer Candi-
date S c h o o !
Prior to this
n e W appoint
ment Candidate
HasSell was sta
toned at Camp
Croft, S. c.. for
one year. He is
the grandson of
Chief j u S t i c e
Eugene B. Gary
of South Caro-
lima. He was at
tending George
w a S h ing t on
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vania avenue S.
E., have been
appointed Naval
Aviation Cadets
and transferred
to the Naval Air
Station here for
flight training.
Prior to en-
tering the Naval
service Cadet
Hall received his
BIS. degree from
the University
of M a r y ! a n d
and was a mem
ber of the Re-
serve officers
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lCSClNCb Ala az"
ton, has been
assigned to Gen.
E / S e n h o wer's
staff in England.
For six months
preceding h S
enlistment he
was an official Of
the United Air
Line S in this
city.
In the Pacific.
Ensign James
Toothman, U. S.
N. R., is visiting
his aunt, Miss
II n44-
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L NCIGS lilli1il
street Sc, has
S uc c e S S f u | ly
graduated as a
qualified radio
operator ro m
the communica-
ton department
of the Armored
F Force School.
Pvt. N e W t o n,
who left his job
at the Willard
Hotel to enter
the service jan
uary, 1942, will
now go to Fort
PoppipU 70
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az AIldCOSIld III
May and sue
cessfully COM
pleted the elm
ination training
course in Au-
gust. Upon COM
pletion of the
course at Pen
sacola, Cadets
Hall and Knight
will receive their
Navy wings of
Gold" with the
designation of
Naval Aviators,
and will be CON-
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be pilots then face 80 weeks training primary
and finally advanced flight instruction train
weeks and navigators 20 weeks each devong addition
study OF his particular subject to
gunnery the art Of knocking down Zeros
from gun turrets 18 years old
and not 26 when they enlist
specimens On completion training the commits
stoned second euenants and with the exception
will be pursuit pilots find themselves together again. pilot
bombardier and navigator forming the nucleus
which will fly large bomber.
Star Photo
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-10-29

the alert for any dessert that
comes within sight or smell.
3. To report any bread sliced
to thin to the Mess Sergeant.
4. To repeat all calls for Sec
onds.
5. To quit the table only when
satisfied that there is nothing
left to eat.
6. To receive, but not pass on
to the next person, tapioca, or
beans left by the cooks.
e Z. To talk to no one when I am
busy eating.
8. To allow no one to steal any
thing in the line of chow.
9. To call the Mess Sergeant in
any case not covered by instruc-
lions.
10. To salute all chickens,
steaks, pork chops, ham and eggs,
and liver.
II. To be especially watchful at
the table and during the time of
eating, to challenge any one who
seems to be getting more than
myself.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Shorty" -Palmiotti
= Chief of Staff
4th Div. Hq. Co. Mess
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-10-29
REWARD!
TRAPPERS
$4,000 in Cash Awards!

Trappers! This season is your big oppor-
tunity! Fewer men on the trapline means
a bigger catch for you. Big prices and
awards through Sears, too! 600 added
awards! 942 in all-raising the total in
cash awards to 81 $4,000 for careful pelt
handling in Sears 18th National Fur
Show.
Think! 918 daily awards ST, 10000
First Major Award! Other big major
awards besides. And Gllof them tn addi-
tion to the TOP market prices Sears
Roebuck gets you for your pelts Only
handling of fur counts, not kind or value
of skin. So you may easily be winner!
Win your share of these extra fur
dollars! Every pelt you ship to Sears
Roebuck during the Fur Show period
is automatically entered, so don't delay.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-10-29

The New River Soil ConserVa-
ton District furnished farmers in
Ashe county $4,000 tree seed
lings last year to be planted on
their farms. The district is max
ing plans to begin tree delivery
early this year. Farmers cooper
ating with the district should. no.
tify the District office, or the
county agents office when they
are ready TO rthe trees.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-10-29
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT

Following a shooting which &C.
Cured on Fred edwards farm
near Jefferson, Saturday, a war
rant has been issued for Glen
Dishman charging him with as
sault. Officers have not located
Dishman, who has apparently left
the county. Property damage but
no personal injury is reported
from the shooting.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-10-29

Pvt. John Rowe Gentry, who Is
stationed in California with the
)U. S. Army, recently visited his
parents at Nathan's Creek. He
reports an interesting trip home
or while enroute he rode some
distance on bomber piloted by
a co-pilot who helped to bomb
Toxic. While at home he was
entertained at dinners by his pa
rents and others including Mr..
and Mrs. A. B. Hurt and Mr.. and
Mrs. James Miller.
Pvt. Howard ID. Roark, son OF
Mrs. Lucy Roark, of Milan, IS
stationed at Camp Barley, Tx
as. He writes that he likes Army
life fine. Pvt. Gene Roark, broth
er of Howard, spent last\ week
end at home, from Fort Jackson,
S. c.
Pvt. Elmer ]. Faw, Of Fort De-
vens. Mass, has been spending a
few days in the county with his
family.
John Weaver, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Weaver, ST., OF
West jefferson, has recently been
promoted to the rank of a Ser
geant.
Pfc, Paul Swanson, of Scott
Vile and Winston-Salem, who is
in training with an engineer am
phibian command, located near
Camp Edwards, Mass, is at home
spending his first furlough.
Pfc. r. F. Blevins, son of Mrs.
Greedy Blevins, who has been
located for over two and one half
years in Panama, has arrived
safely back to the States. He is
now located in Station Hospital,
New Orleans, La.
Pvt. Delmer G. Stewart, Ashe
county boy, is now located at
Station Hospital, Fort Bliss, Tex
Cpl. Reeves Owen, of Indian
town Gap, Pa, was home for a
short while last week end visiting
his parents at Crumpler.
John Eastridge, son of c. S.
Eastridge, of Clifton, and broth
er of Ted Eastridge, who is now
in foreign service, is now on man
euvers with the U. S. Army, in
La. - @'
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-10-29
:. Conservation
Farming News

w. H. and George Mcmillan,
whose farm is located in Chest
nut Hill community, increased
hay yields on one half of a grass
meadow by one stack, over that
cut on the other half, by not graz
scut on the other half by not graz
ing after the hay was cut, or not
feeding out on the land during
the winter.