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v -C- v«!TtO STAIR* ' o t r t i i s i B O N D S ’ AND % .S T A M P S v U | I / A N D T H E M A C E D O N JO U R N A L B U Y .^ilHITED.STATES DtFINSE R O N D S <AKO S T A M P S V I | l ' j {2.QQ PER YE AR--STRICTL Y IN ADVANCE ; letters From Boys In the Service Of Uncle Sam PALMYRA, NEW Y ih i m . THURSDAY, JULY 16, JU942 SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS Palmyra Red Cross Will Reorganize A meeting will be held to reor ganize the Palmyra Chapter of the c . . , . . , ,American Red Cross at the school jneiy Riddle School of Aviation.. ter things this country can offer 'house Wednesday evening, .July C’aSS, T ^ , Miami, Fla. you! They really treat you accord-r22, at_Zi30..olcloek. - July 871942 I ing to your abilities. Mrs. Phoebe Murdock Wayne P*ta5?a Courier Journal . Sincerely yours, County Executive Secretary will pjlmyrfli N. • Act. Sarg*. A. T. Muchard jaddress the audience on plans for Dar Sirs ,, __ _____ , , . .. (W estern Auto Again to war work. Officers will be elected. most of you when this is over) “TRemember the ' “Caught in the pjjft Sale” ? Well thanks millions forJhe publicity. It surt pays to •y^ge^J^onJt-Joiow ^ w h a t—I- ,joofd have done without all thc Koiderful cooperation the towns people gav.e me. Thank you every- HI be glad to hear from any one. I’m still in the bree 2 e in the air tirps). Its a wonderful place down T eTWe'live in apartments, have ired men clean our rooms eat \jj a civilian restaurant, waited- on by civilian waitresses. The food is mnderful, served’ first class. We lire ico cream once a day. Can (Tea .complain if we don’t like the fooiL The best part of it is they do something about it. Go to school eight hours a day. Get up at 7:30 i m. through at 6:00 p .m. have from then on off till 11:00 p. m. ticeptfor Saturday have until 2:00 im. Sunday. We have all day Sun day to ourselves. There are plenty (ef things to do evenings. Dances every night. The best part of it is they even round up enough women to go around for everyone to dance vith. “Wine, women and Song” go u far as your money down here. It's really a resort town eyen for tie soldiers. The women are really friendly down here. I strongly advise any other draftee to take the exams, given it thc induction center seriously as they only select those with a rather I. Q. for aviation schA'ol. The lir corps is heaven compared to just plain infantry. Take it ser iously draftee if you want the bet- World’sDnlyLarge Circus To Come Soon Four long silver-enameled rail road- trains, streamlined in redr »hite and blue, and carrying 160 \people; 50 elephants 1009 menag erie apimals and hundreds of hor ses, are steaming into this terri tory. The Ringling Bros, and Bar- Mm & Bailey Circus will exhibit in Rochester, Friday, July 24, of fering a multitude of stunning novelty production spectacles, cre- ween and allied arts. Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great, world famous gorillas, will •gain receive \the public in their (aleless red, white and blue tent. Alfred Court, internationally1 ac claimed trainer, will offer simul taneously three new mixed groups ^■performing wilcl animals, feat uring his revolving treadmill tig ers. Among the 800 world famous artists in the performance are: the Wallehdas, • high wire champions; tie three troupes of Flying Con dos; the Pildaes, acrobatic m ar vels; the DeOcas, aerial sensation- *ts; Roberto de Vasconcellos,, ^8 of horseman; Truzzi, jug- Sling wonder; the three Fernan da aerial troupes; Elly Ardelty, tying trapeze s tar; LaLouisa, aer- *1-thriller; the incredible Cristianis wreback riding headliners, and ^ e s of others. Contributors and workers are all eligible to vote. --------------- \Smnlay- Deal* friends, I am w riting this letter to. in - ; o l . » r , form you of my change in address u O U g l l t A f t e r so I may continue to receive the ! rv« home town newspaper. Even j U l S a p p e a r a H C e though I ’m in the Trig city, I’m still interested in what goes on at home. I have been in he army better' than’ a year now and have been -v.ery lucky in spending the entire time at Pine Camp and was able lo get home many times. Now I’ve had another streak of luck in being sent to school here in New York City. I t is just like a vacation. We ^WT,610 t 01 s’x wee^f* 1136 lbs., and has dark eyes, dark When I say vacation, I really [complexion and dark ,mh. streaked mean that. Sure, we go to school with gl.ey. A ql)ite definite mark or Palmyra Resident Albert 'F- Tomes, 30 years old, disappeared from his home on Claremont Park Monday afternoon. Since then his wife and fam ilyhave been trying to locate him. The only clue is that a delivery, truck gave him a ride to the' Stop 35 road, and at that time he said he was going to Newark, He is 5 | feet 11 inches tall, weighs about eight hours a day but going to school now is a pleasure as nearly everyone' finds out soon after they (Continued on Page Eight) , The Garlock Factory Has Blackout On Tuesday night a complete blackout reh'earsal was staged at The Garlock Packing - Company plant at 9:30 p. m. This test was carried out entirely independent of the local district blackout, which happened to occur on the same ev ening. For the first time the en- identification is a spot on tho back of his head about the size of a nickel from which the hair has dis appeared—When last seen, he was wearing brown shoes, light shirt, tan work trousers, light tan cloth jacket and no hat. Anyone hav- Palmyra Fair To Be Held In September As Usual There* will be a Fair this year. This^word followed a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Fair Prior to tho meeting of tho Board tho fnir m ight not bo held, various farm organizations passed resolu tions urging the continuanco of tho THAT THOSE WHO FIGHT MAY EAT New War Activities Center Opeiis Soon j Work is being nished on the re- ipair and decoration of the rooms ing seen a man of that description | adjoining the Volunteer Offico on should get in touch with the Pal- ] M arket Street, for the use of the myra police. Rebekah Lodge To Hold Steak Roast newly established War Activities Center, which will be run in con- junetioft with the Volunteer Office I This will be a community center i to take care of the wur activities 'of any agency which wishes to use will it. There will be a Red Cross rep- Palmyra Rebekah Lodge tire plant'was in darkness with the : hold a steak roast, in the Union j resentative on duty to give infor- exception of the power plant, which J Club Park, Wednesday evening, : m ation about work needed, to give functioned normally, having been July 22> a t 6:30 o’clock. Members .out yarns and sewing, and to re supplied with blackout windows; !are requested to furnish table scr- Iceive finished materials. the war machine. Ho definitely there had been a great many con-. needs tho educational opportunities |*flicting rumors regarding the hold-.1 and the relaxation vJliich tho F a ir pmgrpf-tht^-Fnir. The announcement—af-fmxlar-In-deciding tu huld- thc .however relieved the speculation Fair in spite of the difficulties ex- nntl uncertainty which had prov- isting today, the Board of Diroe- ] iously existed due to nn Associated tors of the Fnir Association are F r ss release by’ the Director of surely perform ing a patriotic ser- 1 Transportation to tho effect that vice. 'F a ir s would not be held b e c a u s e T h e Board made it .plain how- |o f the present transportation dif- ever, that should future national f:cuK\es. developments qyike jt appear in- | A fter a cnreful. study of tho tex t advisable to hold the Pair, they I of the release from the office of would have no hesitation in order- the Director of Transportation tho \>g a cancellation in spite of the local Fair officials decided that the preparations which are now being holding of tho Palmyra Fair wo.uld made. , in no wise conflict with the rules ilhid down by the Director. \For years the Palmyra Fair has cat e r ’d to local exhibitors and no longer are large strings of poultry, cattle or sheep shipped into tho F a ir from out of the County by hold a party in the Main Street railroads. None of the exhibitors park Friday afternoon of this week use railroad transportation. A sim- at 3:00 o’clock for the 30 children ilar situation exists in reference from New York Citv who Fresh Air Children Will Hold Picnic The Fresh Air Committee will Palmyra Educator Dies In New York Citv!t0 the patron3 of the Pair* is a Ku“sts in Palm y ra fo / two weeks . ' | Wayne County Fair and draws nnd their littlo hosts nnd hostess- Helen Louise Young, 64 years practically entirely from Wayne os. The afternoon will be spent in old, daughter of the late onWay County and from the bordering playing gam es nnd supper will bo and Mary B. Young passed away I d istricts of adjoining counties. ’ 1 ----- ‘ ' Sunday evening in St. Luke’s Hos- j As sooll as jt wa8 rumored that pital in New York City and also the cafeteria, which was similarly treated for the temporary occupancy of the night operatives. The four hundred men and yomen working on the night shift at the 'time were marshalLed by their floor wardens and proceeded under- ground to the blackedout cafeteria, where' they remained for the dur ation of the test. Officials who wore on hand, to observe the functioning of the test expressed themselves as highly sat isfied that all the preparations that had been made for such an emergency were adequate and op erated smoothly, and also that the\ blackout wardens, as well as the behavior and cooperation of all hands were all that could be de sired. - vice, steak or hot dogs for family. : Tho Center can giye information m * * | to volunteers who wish\ to supply Moose to Have Third Roast in one of the Protective Services, | A representative of the Volunteer | Office will be glad to refer any 'yolurrteer to the proper agency for Don’t forget the hot and ham- j volunteer work. Tho Center will burger roast sponsored by the be glad to give advice and mioi- Moose Thursday, July 23. This is ' mation to any church or neighbor- to be the third in a series of sum- hood group who might be interest- mer roasts. Tickets are on sale by ctl ’n forming discussion groups Moose members for a very small f°r a n y phase of “Fighting thc War ^ sum. !at Home”. American Legion Elects O’Hair as New Commander She was graduated from Million Collegiate Institute in 1S9<> and from Cornell University in 1900. She received her Th. D. degree fiom Yale University in 1910 ijnd that same year joined the faiulty of Hunters College in New York City and in time was promoted to ! ^ ,n*el 1 O’Hair, civil service a professorship there. In 1939 she em p loye on the New York State was elected head of the Modern Ba r ge Canal. Luck 28A, was elect-1 European which capacity sne serveu uimi jiei .. ........... . ^niw ii ■ m retirem ent the past June. “ S aturday :it~Oie annual convention Miss Young travelled abroad ex- held at the Bry Sc'out Camp, Pros- tensivcly -studying European con ditions nnd spent one year in France. She collobornted in writ- served about 5:00 o’clock.. The children will lcnve for their homes in New York next Wednes day morning, July 22, on the 9:21 train. Chiefs and Cardinals Meet Red Wings During Next Week History Department in e<l commander of the Wayne Coun- j{ , lyin'p^Stndiuni''^3 l,ClUUI j'0 :city she served until her ty Committee, American Legion,, Trrg—the—well-known—“Iconography- of M anhattan Island” by I. N. Phelps-Stokes. She has published various tracts on French condi tions Her club activities irtcluded mem- Legion-Wants Old Records to Buy New ;of 1 Music!for Soldiers NURSE EXPECTS TO GO SOON TO ARMY CAMP 1 Miss Betty Armstrong of Syra- ™se and Miss Beatrice .East, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred £ast, attended a banquet in the Starlight Room of the Sagamore *J°tel, Rochester, Monday evening 8JTen in honor of the Nurses Base Unit No, 19 and nurses from Rdch- «ter General Hospital. Miss E a st “** received her papers, and is Lieutenant U. S.- Army ! e expects to leave soon for Camp ktfagston, La. Red Cross Graduates To all Red Cross First Aid grad- who have not enrolled, will please do so at your earliest “ ovenience at the Civilian Mobil- tion Volunteer Office .Tuesday Saturday from 2:00 to 5*80 P-m.’ War Service Unit Named for County Sanford Young, chairman of the Wayne County War Council has appointed the following members of the Community Service section of the Council: Rev. Charles W. •Walker, Newark, chairman; Elmer G. Butts, Cyons; Mrs. Virginia C. Hill,' Palmyra; the Rev. J. J. Gan- ey, Dr. James L. Davis, William A. Marks and George L. Richmond of Newark; M. E. Buckman, Sodus; J. A. Ameele, Williamson; E. A. Ayer, Clyde; Paul J. Edinger, North Rose; Martha Simms, Wol cott Alden E. Bevier and Mrs. Thel ma S. Ellis of the Rochester office of the State Department of Social Welfare will meet with this com mittee in the office of the Wayne County Commissioner of Public Welfare this Friday evening. Former Business Man Dies in Lyons Will P. Gillette, for many years in business in Main Street, died Friday in a Lyons hosiptal after a long illness. He is survived by a niece, Mrs, Earl White of Syracuse. Funeral services were held Sun day in a funeral home at 122 Cuy- lpr Street, at 2:30 p. m. Interment' was in Palm yra Cemetery. 1 Use your W ar Activities Center, bership in the Women’s University iWe hope th a t it will prove useful,Club of New York, Cornell 1 in centralizing all civilian war ac- Women's Club of New York, the Uivitv and effort, for the benefit American Historical Association ' t^ whole_eOIIHmm|ty. ---- - ---------- which is a national organization, and the Foreign Policy Association of New York. She is survived by three sisters. Miss Josephine and Miss Mary of ICast Palmyra and Mrs. Arthur E Uebb of Wolcott and two brothers, George B. and Kingsley F. of East B Group Leaves Friday James R. Hickey Post, No. 120, i * American Legion, working in co- The following registrants wi operation with a group of national- leave for Rochester, Friday, Ju y ly eminent musical artists, haS|l'«'th: ----- ^ — I mapped plans for a nationwide Palm y ra — Gerald L. Rolland, paimyra door-to-door canvass of old phono -1 Bernard Vandewater, Ernest Ben-, Funeral services were held al graph records as a means of pro- nett, W illard Wright, Carlton Den- the f am j]y home in East Palmyra viding new records a n d 'a perm a -,nie, Donald Beach thjs (Thursday) afternoon at 3 00 nent supply of good music to men] Lyons—Robert Whitcomb (trans- 0>c]0c)cj the Rev. Edward Clark of of the armed forces for the du r a - .f e r from Morrisville, N. Y.) How- Rochester officiating. Interment tion. The canvass is known a s ' ard Barclay, Charles Shelters, W.IS made in Marion cemetery “Records For Our Fighting Men.” Robert Ohmann, Chester Smith,1 ------------ ------------------ The campaign, beginning July Oscar Anderson, A rthur Brooks, 17, and extending through A u g u st Peter Yaskow, Robert Shaffer, S c h o o l D i s t r i c t WO. 1 2, has as its goal the collection and Robcrt Wadsworth, Ralph M. Rog- salvaging of 37,500,000 old* records ers> Joseph Pitzeruse. ^ by American Legion Posts, Auxil-i Clyde Rocco Cimineri iary Units, Forty and E ight Voi- Colasurdo, ■foi^finntht* ternoon double bills which are pro ving so popular with Rochester areu baseball fans. On Monday, July 20lli, the St. Louis Cardinals hendcil hv Billy I) W IK I. I. O’HAIR Soutlnvorth will meet the Wings in tln ir annual exhibition game, nnd • many old Rod Wing favorites such 'as Jimmy Brown, Johnny Uopp, Marby Marion, Ilowie Krlst and .Stan Mtisial will again sec action in the Norton Street Ball yard. Tuesday, July 21, will bring a twilight-night double header, with the first gam e starting nt fi 30 -p. ni. and the second gnmc to be- \ gin at H:30 p m. under the lights. Appearance of the 1942 season nt the Red Wing Stadium on Wednes day, July 22. This also will be a night game. After the Syracuse series thc Red Wings go to Baltimore for five games witli the Orioles, re turning home Monday, July 27th, for a three-day stand with the star- studded Newark Bears. As thc team s swing Into the pect IIill. Palmyra. There was no opposition to Mr. O’Hair. . , . . ........................ L, , . . . . stretch of nn International League The new rmnmand**r immediate- . . , * , Clarence Judson, tures and of \the ° Legion Frank A. Buttaccio, Benjamin Squadrons. Proceeds, from the dis- (Sears, jr., Anthony Caraso. ■posal of the old records as scrap ' Savannah will be used in purchasing new ,Thom as Winters. _ n , discs and phonograph players, to W olcott — i iam a oc , be sent to ev.ery camp, base, post Clarepce Flynn, enry merson, there aro Samuel Vezzose, William Garrad, i Donald Burcroff, LaVerne Chat- Palmyra High School , Anthony J Frederick Dejohn, Annual Meeting At the Jinrmal .school .m eeting of Union Free School District No and station wherever Americans in uniform. A non-profit agency, Records For Our Fighting Men, Inc., organized early in June by ■si field. i N o rth Rose — Barton Hayes, Softball News ay Harold Ghent. Kyser, Kate Smith, Fritz Reiner,] Rose—Marvin Shufelt. Sigftiund Spaeth and Gene Autry, | Red Creek—Charles Dudley, acting as the original incorpora tors. Some one hundred outstand ing instrumentalists, orchestra conductors, bandleaders and sing- j Games for the week of July 20: ers have pledged their support. |July 20—Merchants vs Metal Pro- Following the formation of the.' ducts new agency, the national organiz- July 21—Cleason’s v3 Warehouse ation of The American Legion^-as-yJuly 23— Sundries vs Sehool sisted by Legion Auxiliary, o f - , This ends the second half- and ly announc'd appointment of Nich- - olas-.A. DeJohn of Lyons, as his V\\ Jor adjutant, and this choice was ap proved by the committee Elected vice - presidents were Webster Shafer, Commander of tho George Aden Brown Post, ( l\<je. and Adrian VanKouwenberg season which has been somewhat limited by w a r conditions, Newark, sey City and Montreal aro brnckted in a tight \racc for’ the 1912 gonfnlon, with tho surprising Toronto Maple Leafs, perennial tail-end outfit, given an outside chnnce to finish. All of the first division teams will come to Rochester for ono more series of games before tho regular international League sea son closes early in September. 1 of the Town pf Palmyra, New of Williamson York, held Tuesday evening, July The new officers were - installed 14, 1942 at 7:30 o’clock in the aud- bv Distri-t Commander George itorium of the school on Canan- Monogan of Rochester, who was daigua Street) Mr Abbott presid- accompanied at the meeting by his in?, thc three trustees whose term s adjutant, Francis Smith, also of of 'office had expired, were each Rochester. rr-elected for a term of three Elected delegates to thc State years. The trustees referred to Convention to be held at Syracuse, are David H. Levis, H a rt B. August 13 and 14 were: William Pierce and. Charlotte S. Sessions. L-vis. Sodus: Abraham Tack. So- Report of last year's receipts dus Point I.:o Bailey, Macedon; and disbursements was approved, Francis lole, Newark; also statement of estimated ex- Vcrhow, Williamson; and ------ r ' nditurcs for the coming school tV m r ^ r Ralph L. Hill and Ad- thc l™st week or two* As 80°\ v'-ar and resources to cover. Fol- ju tan t Frank Orlopp \of Palmyr*. ^ ’ \ - Alternates named were E. M. feirrod to the Nc,w York s t»te Elec- trie &-Gas window and tho second Pictures of Service Boys Mount Rapidly The display of pictures of “Our Boys in Service” now nearly covers Edward t*lc f'rst b°ard which has been in Past t*le H|,nman Insurance Agency f o r this is completed, i t will be trana- low rne this, the resolution to levy Alternates named were E, M. a tax this fall of $55,500,00 as pub- Fox, N. A. DeJohn and George H. u ?8 ™ ow, ln“ Becon,a Hshod was adopted without oppo- Use of Lyons; JosepT Compitello, b°?rd started at Braman’s S No further business being Clyde; Adrian VanKouwenberg, » you have not aheady done so fered to jJSvide full assistance in results and standing of League to j presented, the meeting adjourned Williamson; Duarte Tinklepaugh, Sy b ov ’ p cture of __ _______ ________ • _____ j __ ii-. „.;n novt wppk’« Hauer. 1 . . . _ 1 .- 1 » i,»,„ Soedus, nnd B. G. Thorpas, W o lcott * Ten per cent of your Income In Wur Bonds will help to build 'the planes and tanks that will insure defeat of Hit ler and Ills A mi ’ s partners. I \tost~*ttd~foima“ coliunns“6f\ Toklo newspapers are crowd ed these days. Every time an American bays a War Bond, the Japs lose face. Boy your 10% every pay day. The attendance ,was regrritably imallr — - --------- - ----- : --------------- mobilizing canvassing and collec-^Iate will be in next week’s paper, j w ithin the half-hour, tion operations. Through Lynn U. j Stambaughj—National—Gommanderrl the Executive Committee of th e , Legion agreed to undertake the drive, throwing all the resources of tho organization qphind a nation- continued on Page Four) j Thq Ulster County 4-H service flag sftows 38 boys now in the ser vice, and one girl in a hospital unit. in Service\ at tho Cour ie r —Journal Office or at Braman’s THANKS MR. POWERS ~ I with Jane Rolston who is so kindly A vote of thanks is due Charles giving her tim e to this work. F. Powers for cleaning up and Look theso pictures over and burning the remains of the Christ m as trees left in tho parking lot on Williams Street. then when you are asked to con tribute, do your share to help th< so boyB who are offering Uieir all.
