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¡¡¿.WAR BONDS A N D TH E M A C E D O N j o u r n a l ¿KU4.WX* BONM 52.00 PEft YEAR^-STRICTLY ÌN A D VANCE ' c • PALMYRA; N. Y c .F ^ R t lA R Y 18, 1943 ' 14 _ !_________ i __ * *~1 '' ■ W r W V - T n r ^ -------------- - SINGLE CORIES FIVE CENTS Letters From Boys In The Service of Uncle Sana February 11,1943 •Dear Sirs: I wish- to.express to you m y grat itude \and thanks for sending me the home town newspaper. I t sure seems good to get the hom e town news Once In a while. Somewhere In North Africa ------- Jan—14—1943 ------- — — 7 ; - Dear Sirs:— \ This is to notify you of a change in address. The paper is rather old by the time it gets here (Nov. l?th issue arrived here yesterday), •Tim. not very far away from j b u t i t is new to us- and we devour home but I expect to be goon. W e ! it. Papers and magazines here are must remember that there- is a big not. w ritten in English so all we 'job to do, and somebody h a s got to do it, so I chose the N a v a l Air Corps. I’m having a lot of fun, and I don’t think I could g e t any better training anywhere, have to read are our all too few letters, the papers and occasional- magazines th a t get through. So, you can see how it is appreciated. Saw Howard Bryant a t the Red I express my thanks again i dr j Cross in Belfast before we left for tliira winter in the South. Thanks again, . Sincerely Corp. d . J. Griffin the newspaper* -reading it thoroughly all the way through. Sincerely yours ______ A/C Clinton Baker Scouts Will Collect Books Saturday The Boy Scouts, tinder the lead ership of G. E. Hdughton and Rob ert Lowe, will make a house to house collection of books for the Victory Book Campaign which closed March 6 th. Your books are needed to make this drive a success, and the Scouts Feb. 9/43 Dear Sirs: • This is to notify you of my change of address, as I sure \would like to continue reading the local paper. f Yours truly M. Vasseur i * — * - ' 1 The Internal Revenue Department advises that a deputy collector has been assigned to the Pal myra Post'Office on Feb-- iruary S3 and S4 to assist local residents with their current income tax Registration Next Week For Ration Book II re- turns. .Truax Field Madison, Wisconsin' February 10, 1943 I v ^ ___ __________ Palmyra Courier-Journal' j will'make collection February 20th,! Dea5 F ri®nds' ' I this Saturday. Let’s make this „ 1 ha/ e receiving your paper i drive a success. 1 for a few weeks-and like to express ----------- --------------- - — I my thanks. Besides keeping me posted with recent events in Pal myra, your paper finds an Interest | in-the hands'of my buddies. Red Cross Announces Local Service Committees i. Frequently local residents d ^ Coates, 232 Cuyler S t , 139 isire help or information from tho Blood Donor—F. T. Deci, Bird- During the short period that I local Red Cross Branch and we sail Parkway, G4-R have been in the Army Air Forces, furnish below a list of the officers Home Nursing- __ Mrs. Edgar N. Make Final Plans For Red Cross War Fund On Saturday Final plans 'for the county American Red Cross W ar Fund Drive to raise §49,900 will be com pleted at a meeting at the New ark Chapter House at 10:00 o’clock this Saturday 4 morning, -wherr^branclr^htrirmenr-and—locaV W ar Fund chairmen -will discuss details with- George L. Abbott, Palmyra, county Red Cross War Fund chairman. Quotas for the various committees are to bo an nounced a t this meeting. Branch Chairman Alson A. Upham, War Fund Chairman Lewis B. Black and Vice-chairman Mrs.. C. . L. Johnson will attend the meeting. Also called to meet Saturday at the same time and place by Floyd K. Winegard, Newark, county Blood Donor chairman, are the various county branch chairmen of this project; and the board of directors of tho County Chapter, F. T. Deci, local chairman, ‘will a t tend, . The national campaign to raise $125,000,000 will be conducted Fire Threatens St. Anne's Church ' Following instructions issued j imve traveled quite extensively. | and committee chairmen who may p ox ,-r 150 W °Jackson S t° 118-T ! throughout tho country during the cajmly by Rev. Wil larnA . °ran, Leaving the sunny south, I have be able to assist you or to tell you ami’ jyjr's_ q jj Wehi-lin 228 W inlonttl of March, but it is believed pastor of St. Annes Ohurch, 150 aIn r e ^ e d the cold northern what to do: Jackson St l^ - W ’ ----- *■t T,rayne ------ n — *” n ---- persons a t t e n d i n g a so c ial clu b ■ cUmate> to c a m p a t r m a x P leld( * ’ W meeting- in ^ S t_ Anne s H all last j j^adison, Wisconsin. I am attend- Friday evening quietly filed out of ; jjjg -school and making fine prog- the hall as fire was discovered in the\ basement of the church. When -lights in the hall attached to the rear of the church went out, F a th er Doran tested the fuse box and then went to the basement where .hr. discovered the fire, the origin of ■which is undetermined. F ite Chief DeWrtt'Cullip and his fellow fire men were able to confine the fire to the basement ceiling and a large section of the ^church floor, the In terior of the church itself being damaged by smoke. Damage is estimated at about $ 10,000 which is covered by insurance, services will be held in the hall. ress. Despite the cold weather,' I enjoy living here. Thanking you again, I remain— • Yours truly Pvt. Robert L. Allen See “Lidice” At Strand Theatre Pearsall Bowlers Beat Recreation Keglers Don’t fail to see the Murder of Lidice at the Strand Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday. This story was published in Life last fall and is a government sponsor- Sunday.^¿-subject. I t should be seen by all true Americans. The other feature is Calling Dr. Gillespie. Carmon Reynolds, located at Camp Roberts, California, who only a short while ago received his commission as W arrant Offi- C(rt, has again received a promo tion to that of Chief-W arrant Offi cer. Private F irst Class Seguard O. | Keerps, brother of Mrs. Edson Personnel of Palmyra branch , -.-Volunteer'-'‘Nurse^s'\Aides-i-MTsr Chairman—Alson A. Unham. r>~. > tJlU..:--' 233 ■lef _ .... ................ __ ............. .. v u-n.' or& •\A> 8 a ste)r,,'-R'eIiel^H a rtt.$H t^iiv Tvesbitt, 133 Cuyler St., phone *\df V ^ h a t r m a n - M « . J. W hittaker, 336 E. Mam St., P ^ n e 17o-W. —A '*J-— -• Treasurer—George L. Abbott, . 123 W. Main St., phone ?00 W ar Pund Drive— Lewis Black, Secretary—Lewis B’Sck, 250’ 250 Cuyler s t - Phone 246' W and Cuyler St., phone 246-W . M‘'s- c - L- Johnson, 330 Canan- Committees and Chairmen daigua St., phone 171-M F irst Aid—Miss Alice Govenor, Home Service—Mrs. Raymond Post Office Building Smith, Yellow Mills Road, phone Sewing—Mrs. Ed Bowe, Vienna 284. (The term “Home Service\ is St., phone 69-J that W County Com- mos rnujiiti.es.. .will , streamline their iks period, the W ar Fund .DiSve^-^tfliiii'viifidounced in this Registration for W ar Ration Book II, designed to insure to cvr eryone a fair share of certain can ned and processed foods, will take place \locally next week Tuesday through--Saturday in tho Palmyra High School. < Hours of registration will bo from 2:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. 111 . each day except Saturday when tho hours will be from 9:00 Ho 12:00' the morning. Registrants -may visit tho school on any of the days specified. It will take an average of 8 to 10 minutes per person |o get W ar Ration Book II. Driving to the registration “site is permissible according to OPA officials, but persons living ^rith- in a reasonable distance arc ex- .pected to walk. To register and obtain War Ra tion Book II persons must produce their War Ration Book I (Sugar Book) and fill out ajjd sign the declaration form which appears elsewhere in this Issue of tho Pal- Inductees Left Today For Fort Niagara The following boys from Pal m y ra left Lyons for Fort Nia gara on Thursday of this week from Local Board No. 614: Leonard Bennett Robert Fletcher Earl .Geer, jr. Roger I-Iackett Russell Vane Raymond Martens Raymond Leuwen of East Pal myi-a and H arry Sapienza of Mac edon also leave with this group. Mácfc’áwieV.- Homei Bureau Meets Next Thursday The Scotch and East End Home Bureau Units will meet at tho home of Mrs. Leon Molner on Church Street Thursday, February 25, a t 2:00 o’clock. Mrs. Ruth Guile will review the lesson on the re- applied to all service rendered by j p airing of elebtrical equipment and I Knitting—Mrs. Gordon Fish, 325 Chapters and Branches in behalf- 1 v/jn a]so gjve the second lesson on W. Main St., phone 71-R of persons in .a ll branches of the ¡this project. Sht^ry member is urg- Nutrition and Canteen—Mrs. military and naval service and le(j to be present. L u l u Butler, 5 Mill St., phone 123-R their families; and for ex-servicc,' Surgical Dressings—Mrs. F. W. persons and their fam ilies). _ __________________________________________ _ _______________________ \ Volunteers Eligible For Service Corps Ensignia Briefs About Soldiers Wednesday, Pearsalls Style Shop invaded the Palmyra Recrea tion and defeated them four points to take over'second berth, hitting 2024 to Recreations 1800. Gar- locks tossed the maples to the pit to take Cooks Service for three points, defeating Cooks by a score , of 2024 to 1956. Finns Auto de feated the Palmyra Hotel by a close score of 1922 to 1914 to i Shaw of this village, is now Sta- take three points. , J tioned a t Camp Gordon Johnston, Louise' Mumey set the pace for j Florida, where he is on duty, with the evening, -hitting high three ¡the Medical Detachment as a hos- jjames of 497; Marion Johns hit 5 pital attendant. He was inducted second high of 464, Schultz hit j jnt 0 the -Army at Fort Niagara on high third place of 457, M ary De- j October 23, 1942. - Buyser hit 424 for fourth p lace, Under the command of Colonel and Emma Cnrrnn hit 419 f o r f ifth | — S mitV-Cam p—Gordon-j-ffpH-HavA-r^ived-thrfr-ai-m b an ■place. . j Johnston—formerly „known as RATIONING SUGAR—Stamp No. 11 in Book I is good for 3 lbs. through March 1C. COFFEE—Stamp No. 25 in Book I is good for 1 lb. through March 21. . SHOES—Stamp No. 17 in Book \ __ High single.game.gO£S_te Louise ¡Comp. Carrabelle-^-is located on * Mumoy with 182, second berth to Onlf nf Mtyxir.n, 50 miles-south- -Marion Johns -with 175, third berth V e s t of Tallahassee, FloridaV stnte to Mary DeBuyser with 162, fourth j capital. Camp Gordon Johnston is place was taken over by three howlers hitting' 167, Schultz, Cur ran and Brownell. Betty Breen rolled in a high 123, a new bowler this year, and-'O- new member of Cook’s Service tearp. Team standings: r _ - ' ’ W Cooks Service . .. ................... 64 iearsalls ............................. 61 Palmyra Recreation .......... 60 Garlocks .................... ,s 6 .Finns ”Auto ........................ 32 Palmyra Hotel ..............• 23 Individual averages: L. Murney—149 R. Breese—148 E. Brownell—147 G. Martens—143 M. Johns—142 Kathryn Downey hit a high av erage, h<?r second night of bowling ■oi 152. Pearsalls Style. Shop won the $ 2.00 for this week’s bowling. of the nation’s outstanding centers for training in amphibious warfare. • Kenneth E. VanDerWall, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. VanDerWall, has been promoted to Private First L j class and is now stationed at Fort 28 .Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. 311 ----------- ------------------- when they have completed train ing. U s - members \ o f tlïë^-Cltlzeiis ■Defense-Gorps.— - ------ 32 56 •60 69 Enlists In Merchant Marines Ralph Contant, son o£ Mr-._and Mrs. Will jam Contant of Fayette Street, has enlisted in the Mer^Ttheir-work In the year, chant Marines. About 286 womerfTiave under-, taken 600 Jobs, as registrars, as canvassers for the Village Salvage ai}d Emergency Food & Housing Committees, as clerical help for OPA a t the Rationing Board in Newark, and for them in Palmyra, for ODT, as typists tor various war agencies; One group types the wrappers and sends out the Cour- 'ler-Journal to men In the Service. The \Volunteer Office Executive Committee and staff comprise 16 women, a few of whom have given from 300'to 700 hours apiece' to _ The lapel pins are 25c apiece. . -K As these m ifet be' paid for b e f o r e \ *>r 1 pair until June 16. t h e order can be accepjted, will the This stamp is interchangeable following women w h o are e l i g i b l e , ' ? ™ members of same fam.ly. In case of possible hardship ap- flce before February 25th, and The Civilian Mobilization Volun teer Office In P alm yra has been es tablished a. year, and-has regis tered 753 m en and women who have volunteered to do whatever emergency war work they were capable of and willing to do. Two hundred and flity men and women have been placed with the Office of Civilian Protection, as air-raid wardens, auxiliary police, Emergency M e t o l C .W , etc I tanis sboes ballet ,1I | T O I —- v —. __r-» - ________ it ; Leave Monday For Induction Into Army The ^following men will leave for the Rochester Induction Sta tion on Monday, February 22nd, 1943: Palmyra—Edward T. Green '(transfer), William Hill, Waite Palmer, William Padgham, Andy Mincer, Oscar Coeny, Cliarles Gunkler,\ Russell Scott, Charles Howell, Marinus VandenBout, Al vin Orbaker, Edward Murray, Don ald McGuire, Ralph Contant, Perry Nicholas, Bernard Downey, Reg inald Rigglesford. Macedon—Francis Zimmer, Ken neth Bumpus, Richard Lynch, Rob ert Alderman, Leo Tranka. Macedon Center—Robert Morri son. Walworth—William VanBortel. Lyons — Donald Wilkinson, George Cabrielse, Francis Milli- ken,*-Howard Reiter, James Davis, Carl Goodonow, Jean Rago, Don ald Hutchinson, W alter Engels, Byron Nellis, Rudolph Avoli, Wayne Maxson, Louis Salerno, H a rry Hobkirk, jr., Joseph DeSain, Benjamin Evangelist, Lyle De- myra Courier-Journnl. * Any adult may -register for everyone in tho household, but mugt-submit all of tlieir W ar Ration Books I at tho time. R e g istrant must declare .the-’ number of cans of rationed food\ of 8 ounccs or larger, which they havo on hand in excess of five pcy- pc-rson, and one 8 -point stamp will be removed from War Book II for each 8 -ounce can. in excess of this allowance. Also to be -declared is all • thc\ coffee the household had on hand' on November 28,, 1942, in excess of one pound for ^eacli-per son over 14 years of age. For each excess pound, one coffee stamp will bo taken from Ration Book I, This is being done now because there was no consumer registra tion for-coffee last November when this product was- rationed. Rationed under War Book II ■o canned, bottled and frozen fruits and vegetables, dried- fruits, juices and all canned soups. This book will probably also be used ¿ater for meats. From midnight of Saturday, JFebnmry 20,_ through Sunday, February 28, nono of the newly rationed processed foods will bo sold at retail. This does not affect sugar, coffee and shoes which will continue to be sold on coupons from W ar Ration Book I. Tho new W ar Ration Book I I is based on a point system which will allow each person, including infants, 48 points during ench per iod of approximately a month for- most canned goods and processed (Continued on Page Fivo) P. 0 . Closed Monday ■The Palm y ra Post Office will be closed all day, Monday, Wash ington’s Birthday. Brotherhood Week Governor Dewey has -proclaimed February 19-28 as \Brotherhood Week,” in conjunction with a* na- .. - _ lionwide observance which he said Rationed are all shoes made in Newell Whitcomb, Raymond Nfllis. ^ voujj «giVc strength and unity to whole or in part of leather, or with 1 Clyde—Anthony L. Petocchi please contact th e Volunteer Wolfe, Robert Allen, Mark Blanch, .„-U Board for additional shoe certifi-; Samuel Raguso, James .Alvaro, leave the money if they wish the i P e te r DeLork, Joseph Trombino, cate pins. 1 Mildred Amidon, Josephine Bas- s p e H lza b ^ h Beal, Korence r]ibber Exempt are house(transfer), Thomas DeVito, Leon Beatty, Belle Beck, Elizabeth Beel, H soft-soled mocassins, in- Chalker, Charles Baudcr, Angelo Alice Benjam in, A n n Bennett, Jane , ^ ^ , lnf c,.ntv)ru lCagtnano, V ivian-L o dcr, Alfred OUR MEN NEED * BOOKS * S£ND 4 L t Y O U CAN SPARC That book you’ve enjoyed ■— pass It along to a man In uni form. Leave It at the nearest collection cente\?—of public library for the 1943 VICTORY BOOK CAMPAIGN. Simmons, Arthur Braccio, Herbert Inman. Red Creek- -Donald Pitts, Char- Gladys Brokaw, Bess Buck, I TIRES—Meeting of official in- -Emily-Gadwallader; E dnar Cambler,; spectorS scheduled\ for last Mon- Mvm a Clark. In a Davis. Dorothy day wap .postponed to_Wednesdayj 4 _ T-, -------- ------------ ^ „ EVeland— -Dorothy- Fishr Alice F e b r u a r y 17, at 8:00 p ; m. The ,les Lunkenheimer, William Cro .- Fisher, M a rian Forshay, Estelle nieeüng will be at the County Ra- Fox. Uioning Board office. • Bertha G erm a n , Dorothy Gil man, Mrs. F r a n k Hammond, K athleen H am ilton, M ildred Hunt, Mabel Jackm a n , M a ry Johnson, Pauline Lazerson, Norma Lock- O.E.S. Meets Monday Palmyra O.E.S Monday evening, will meet next February 22. in, Edward Starks. North Rose—Aaron Gillette, Sherman Goodrich, William Acker, Donald DcVall. SaVannah—Ned Pulley, Millard Townsend, AUe Brown. Wolcott—Donald Kljne, Edwin Buy War Bondi Every Pay Day * * * L o t’s D o u b le O u r Q u o t a wood,-'M arjorie M a te , H a Moore, Tlie committ.ee for the evening in-.(-Cook,—Albert Hilsinger, William \Hulda -MorhousT D o rothy Mosher, c)u(ics Marjorie Mate, Elda PoT-1 Harrison. Florence Moseley, Doris Nesbitt, M jklra] ^ \ .... 1 R u th Newell, Lillian Orlopp, Fran- ces Sabedra, Ju lia Salem,» Justa Wallace and Alice , Rose—Clifford Taft. Spier, Muriel Taylor, Doris Traut- manrAnfaie It. W a lker, Lucy Ward- j the Volunteer Office so th a t they low.'Lorene W a rner, Eleanor Web ster, Mildred W h ittaker, Presbyterian Y P m ay check the error. The Office 1 To Repeat Play of Civilian Mobllizätion (Volun- - 0ne act play, W ith Wings teer Office) hopes that all who are As Eagles, will beJiresented again will wear the insignia, [this Sunday evening at 7:30 our national war program. ObservationsOfAn— Observer a. -Thanks foe—the _clabk^-aU-tha south end Obcsrvatlon Post; “ I t is easy toTorget to take, a watch. It pays to advertise in the C. J. Of these 286 women, V o t o t e e r , e ct ^ -palmyra Office r ^ . show that about 75/c h er 0f the- R e d Cross -with are eligible for membership in the % ours volunteer, service, Citizens Service Corps, having and whQ enro] ln the_Volun. completed a minimum of fifty [ teer office Is elegible for the c V d - roud of lt hours of volunteer service. They . . . .. 1 proua 01 ij,, iare eligible to wear the pin of t h e ‘ 1 „ nfVl‘ I Volunteer Office, 110 ICitizens Service Corps. The I n - U ^ v e U s t which shoSd Street, 2:00 to 5:30 P. M.. except .over. Everyone is urged to sec.this signia Is cVd. j be on it, will you please notify j S aturdays. ' -thrilling ' drama of w ar-torn China. eligible *>«* - ----- 1 They, have earned it, and. pan be o’clock. The stormy weather on I la s t Sunday prevented niany from Market I attending so the play is being held Somebody has been- setting the alurm to go off about 3:00 a. m. Ju s t as if our observers were not awake. It is about the time of year for some carrot eating observer to claim they have seen the first rob- in. Why, doesn’t Jerry furnish us with carrots to nibble on? Maybe we would see- more night planes. We still 'need more observors with .cars. Two hourS- a week is not too much to ask yet thcro aro plenty of isolationists left who will not aid. . , .
