The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-30
Soldiers Having Holiday
Helping Local Farmers
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a calf were entirely new and fas-
cinati1g experiences.
When the reporter mt them in
the fields they were stripped 10
the waist, tanned sweating, and
happy. 1t was almost time to
knock off for lunch and they were
looking forward to another swell
session with Aunt Norma's cook
ing. Aunt Norma is the colored
cook VINO has been On the Leeu-
weinberg farm for many years,
and the GI's had plenty to say
about her culinary skill.
"Boy, you ought to sink your
teeth into her stewed chicken
That's really something!" ex-
claimed one of them.
And her shrimp salad" "And
old-fashioned bi scuits." "And
swell pies"
Corp. F. A. Henry, 138th Ba. Hq
battery, who had managed a
truck farm in Connecticut before
entering the Army, had this to
say: I'VE are treated very well.
The food is swell, the farmer is
a fine man, and it sure feels good
to get out and work in the fields"
The other three soldiers ex-
pressed themselves similarly.
They are Pfc. Ed Stritar, 13Sth Bn.
D Btry; Pvt. Herman Miller, 18Th
Bn., c btry; and Pvt. Coffe, 138th
Bn., B btry.
Pvt. Stritar, who was a dairy
man in civilian life, said, I'D
sure like to get another crack at
this when my three days are up"
The Otto Leeuweaberg dairy
farm comprises about $50 acres
and over 200 head of cattle. It is
located on Route II a few miles
north of Wilmington.
A large soy bean crop was be.
ing taken in by six soldiers on the
John LeeuWenberg dairy farm, sit
uated on the outskirts of Whining
ton along Wrightsville avenue.
'The boys are doing a fine job.
The Army is doing us a very val
liable service" declared John
Leeuwenberg. Like his brother s
farm, his place is about $50 acres.
The six Camp Davis soldiers
working there are T/5 Dick Lewis,
E. c. P; T/5 A. T. Andrews, E.
c. P; T/5 Claude Bronson, E. c.
p; Pfc. VIM. Haywood, E. c. P;
Corp. Fred Gerlack, 18Th Bn.; ;
and Pvt. T. J. Cedar, 13Sth Bn.
They were encountered having
lunch in the Leeuwenberg farm.
house, and the ample and tempt.
. ing meal of roast beef, creamed
potatoes, macaroni, vegetable sal
: ad, lemon cream pie, and milk
, went far toward explaining why
the boys liked the farm SO well.
'I'd like to keep On staying here
This farm stuff is really the life!'
, exclaimed Corp. Gerlack, who
halls from Brooklyn and had new
er worked on a farm before.
Pvt. Cedar, who was farmer
before entering the Army re
marked, "It's something like go
ing back home for me. I'm en-
joying myself very much
'They can send me back here
! any time they want to-" put il
T/5 Lewis, who had gotten TASTE
of farming on his uncle's farm
several years ago.
1 Between mouthfulls of food ant
t gulps of milk, the soldiers con
: tinued to sing the praises Of lif'
on farm.
They also spoke of the farming
ability of the dairyman's 10-yea-
J. old son, Johnny, who taught som
: of them to drive tractor.
s After lunch the GIs went bacl
r to work feeding truckload of so.
beans into silo. The rustic seen
with its pitchfords and barns AM
T. COWS and chickens was far c.
y from an army camp.
R. w. Galphi1, agricultural de
- partment agent for New Hanove
8 county, where the Leeuwenber
- brothers farms are located, wa
of the opinion that the GI ventur
7 on the Leeuwenberg farms woul
be the foreruaner of large
movement to help farmers of tn
area whose crops are facing rui
because of a serious farm labo
shortage.
III ct believe more and more farm
ers are going to have to call upo
/ soldiers to help them harvest thel
| crops. The Army is filling the ga
in the farm labor emergency,
Mr.. Ga1phin said.
II He referred to Col. Potts as "o-l