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>rU-*.WÀ* Í0MD8 AND THE MACEDON JOURNAL . '\.-i , ' ‘ « ' ___ . it* i4.W A * »0H M r V 2 .5 o .P E R Y E A B - r - S T R Ï C T L Y i n a d v a n c e PALMYRA,,N-Yv APRIL'8,1943 fetters From Boys In _ The Service of Uncle Sam fMarch 17, 1943 p.»r Friends, •Vrie been receiving the~troumal- and sure enjoy reading in a new squadron now, & would like you to ad&ress me /¿hire.' ym getting along swell out here ijn'Oklahoma, and the .weather’s flne'. ' ' l sure hope you’re all gefc- i itae'good weather now. -‘ Well, I ’ll say so long^for^now,' ‘jud I sure hope to keep right on getting the home paper regu- ^ l y . Thanks -a million. < , , Sincerely Pvt. Robert J. Kommer Camp Breckinridge, Ky. ;£.o March 19, 1943 jDear Sir: 1\ x am taking this opportunity to .•flunk you.for sending me the pa mper.' I appreciated i t Very much. • It seemed good to be able to \keep ’-track of so m any in my home ' town. .yl- have been here in Camp Breckinridge for about four weeks, /iiike it much better than when I ’ tpm in Virginia. / j hope you will continue to send ¡’¿e the paper at my new address, ind thanking you again Sincerely yours Pvt. Roy P. Hood I have been awful busy here and haven’t had too much tim e to w riting before, to express m y sin cere feeling. I w n here.for my basic train ing.’ This, camp is a very nice 'brie’ a n d I will hate to leave It, but there is a big job ,to do an d thè quicker it is over with, th e sooner we will be able to get b a c k 'to our friends. We^all wlirtoeTcoking to the' day when cQmplete victory is won. The paper is'o’he th e best tilings the' people back hom e can do, for the boys in the service, outside of. buying bonds\' and stamps. In closing I wish to th a n k you again for sending the p a p e r to me. Sincerely Pvt. Lloyd Ginegaw' San Antonio, Texas M arch 23, 1943 -Dear Sirs: : - I am sorry I have n o t written to you before, thanking you for send-' ;'ing me the Palmyra paper each w«k. I read every bit of it and enjoy very much reading about ; the’ news of my home town.' The weather here now is warm ¿.during the day and cool a t night »nd during the early morning. I >sure . did. miss the winter and the snow you had back home. - 'I see that within the last ■thrEicJ weeks some of the Palm y ra . t o s have been sent to T§xas. EdwSrd ' Murray is only about seventy miles from me, so maybe some day we will get to see each other. We are hoping to a t least have a little time together. ; Thank you again for sending me the home town paper. Sincerely Nelson Walton S I N G L E C O P I E S F I V E : C E N T S - THEY GIVE THEIR UVES Jacksonville, Fla. 3/22/43 ■Dear Sirs: ‘ \ Thank you very much for the paper. I have enjoyed every is- . sue of it and read i t from cover to cover. I also wish to thank all the ■>. organizations In Palmyra that have made my stay here more „pleasant. '■■'•I leave here next week so my 'address of course will change. Til ; let you know as soon as possible as 1 don’t want to miss the news ; Iroifl-home. _ Sincerely i: ___ Reinald E. Smith, S2/c The following letter was re ceived by Mrs. Ann Eggleton of Macedon from her brother, Sgt. H arry J. Makey, and is being printed as of interest to th e pub lic: Feb. 3, 43 Southwest Pacific Dear Ann, Don & Bobbie: Ju s t a few lines to say “Hello” and to let you know I am O. K .1 and I hope this letter finds you folks all well. It is real h o t trop - ' ical weather here. Our only wa-j ter supply is the rain. I t rains, every day and night fo r a few days and then it goes a weekj w ithout raining. There are miles of cocoanut trees here. W e eat a ■ lot of them and have the milk to drink. There are also lots of jungles around here. T h e re are a few natives around and they speak some English. They are black and live way back in the hills. Last night while we were asleep a m onkey came in an d threw things around and woke up one of the boys. There are five of us in a te n t all Drivers. T h e onlyi time th e monkeys come around Is a t riight. I go swimming every day in the Coral sea. W e n t swim ming this afternoon an d we thought we saw a couple of sharks but they turned out to be a cou ple rays about 12 ft. long and six ft. wide. I was In a boat and one came close enough for us .to see all of it. I haven’t got the Palm y ra pa per for some timé. Mike Button from Palmyra Isn’t far from me. I also was where Billy Duvelow was but didn’t see him. And then I, got m o ther’s letter saying he had [ \ • S f a r f s M n i l H a V ' the fever. There are n o ' towns 1 / l l V C O l a l l a l U U l l u a j ; around here and I won’t see any for six months if then. T h e sea ha? a lot of salt in it Appeal To Use V-Mail Made By Naval Headquarters A plea for the use of V-mail as , all other types of personal mail. Ihe speediest and surest means of It is p u t aboard ahead of air mail. MooseTo Install New Officers April'16 ‘ The Palm y ra Lodge of Moose will in s tall’their new staff of offi cers a t th e ir next regular meeting on the evening of April 16th with P a s t Governor Roy Pullman as in stalling officer. -A t—the—last—meeting held on April 2nd the following men-were elected foi> tho coming year: Governor:—Jam es Patridge Junior Governor - Raÿmond Gannon P relate Roy Young Secretary—Leo Cullen . T reasurer—Lewis' Green — -^Trustee-for-thrce years - ’ - J. Em m e tt Gorcorap D elegate to tho Supreme Con vention—J. Emmett_Corcoran A lternate—James Webster D elegate to State- Convention D. Cullip, L. Green A lternate G. Olsen, D. McIntyre The p a s t year has been a busy and successful one w ith many so cial activities and events taking place which were of much interest to the members and were well at tended. The meetings were also well attended and through tho splendid cooperation of members (Continued on Page Four) Collection Of Scrap Metal Starts Today Provided enough potriotic Pal m y ra boys and men volunteer their services, the county-wide collec tion of. scrap metal and rubber will begin today., as scheduled. Up to press time very few had offer ed th e ir services to Chairman La- Rue. The committee lias spent a great- deal of time, and energy in getting letters to men a t sea or a t foreign shore stations has been is sued »by Third Naval District Headquarters. ~ The appeal is part of a nation wide Navy campaign to build up the use of photograph-reproduced. V-mail and to emphasize its im portance in the war effort. The message from the Navy is this: V-mail gets there. It gets there fast. It’s simple to use. And it saves priceless cargo spaie. Generally, V-mail is considered almost as important as ammuni tion No. 1 priority in loading goes, of course, to ammunition. And V- n'ail rates a No. 1 priority ovfr Second War Loan April 12 The Second War Loan Drive, and it is no good for washing. | the largest war—financing—cam= — Jefferson Barracks, Mo, . . 3/27/43 j-Oourler-Joumal 7 -Palmyra, New York _ \\ Gentlemen: v . leaving my former residence, I *m forwarding, my new address, I _flnd-the paper a-great enjoyment ^during my spare time and want ^tp-recelve lt~Here as~soon~a5 pos sible! '„••It seems I have been on’ the r move since my enllstnfent and- j Till.say this, my present home is V not permanent. While waiting • for training in school for aviation - cadet, I am receiving some pre- --- flight basic training. •/. 'Thanking you for your atten- tion, i remain ^ •S' ■ ' Yours truly Pfc. Robert L. Allen You can float on It easy. I t Is a h a rd job to sink in It, an d i t Is so clear ycu can see the b o ttom most of the places. The cocoanuts fall a lot a t night and make a lot of noise. Tell Mother, yes, I . .wear short pants, no shirt. Sometimes I get real dark from the sun. I have had a tan for a long tim e. I have been a- lot of places and have seen a lot. The last place I was at I paidj.12 .dollars for a fifth of gin. The^flrst and last. I will have a lot of stories to tell wlren-X-gefr home. TSeie are- a- -lbt -of ants and mosquitoes here, an d they fh a v e imported flies and they sure are thick.- They are fo r the co coanut trees. We never have any thing over us at night. I t is al ways warm or hot. Tell Mother and H a rry I said “Hello”. How does It seem not to have- your beauty shop? It m u s t seem funny after having It paign in the world’s history, will start on Monday, April 12, and will run fo r approximately three weeks. The goal is 13 billion dol lars. During the drive a complete assortment of seven Government securities will be sold. . _ To be successful this campaign must reach into every home in the land, because money must come primarily from individual Americans. Will you do your share ? -— Palmyra'sBondOuota Camp Croft, S. C. ■j.'- March 26, 1943 Palmyra Courier-Joumal Palmyra, N. Y. ; J )ear Sirs: I am writing this letter to thank r,:.;411 the people, who have made It _j>ossible,‘ .to'send the Palm yra pa- .ier to all ‘the .boys In service, \.. around your vicinity. I am sure , that ill the other-soldiers who \'l^®.ve received the paper, feel the way as I do. «My buddies also enjoy the paper. < At Village Election Even though there was no con test in the Village Election 'on Tuesday o f this week, 54 more votes were cast than in the pre vious year, tho total 'number being 118. Shenvood W. Mate, member' of the Village Board for tho past four years, who this year ran for th$: office of Village President on the Republican ticket,^received 110 votes: P. Fairm an Smith received 114 votes for - village trustee for four years; J. Francis Linos, n3 candidate for polico justice,' re ceived 111 votes, and Alvin E. La- Rue was elected assessor for three years with 112 votes. - The, complete vote was as fol lows: v ^ vm age President Sherwood W. Mato ............... 110 Robert El, Waplea ................. 1 Void aftd blank ........................ 7 Trustee for 4 years F Fairman Smith ............. T7'*114 Void and b la n k .......................... 4 Police Justice, I year J. Francis Lines ..................... I l l Void and blank ...................... 7 Assessor, 3 years Alvin E. L a R u e ....................... 112 Void and blank ........................ G 94 0 - a 92 * ‘ 1 * 4 92 - 1 4 Annual Joint Meeting Of Wayne County Legion Committee After having skipped its regu lar March meeting, because of Rusoline restrictions, the Wuyne organizing and running these cam- j County Committee, American Le- psigns. Tho least the rest of Pal- igion has decided to stage its an- m y ra can do is join a gang on one n'lal joint meeting with the Aux- of the collection trucks and work 'jliary in the rooms of the Wolcott a few hours. This collection can- ' P ost, Tuesday evening, April 13, not be made by those who “haven’t j Commander Daniel L, O’llair said much to do.” Everyone is busy Wednesday. these 'days, but not as busy as the | Recentiy'-returned from Wash- boys in Tunisia. So regardless o f , whore he consulted with how busy you are try to plan a Government; officials over affairs few ex tra hours helping on this wnI. veterans, Commander campaign. Phone Alvin LaRue a t (0vHnir ntln0uncccl ti,nt the meet_ 890. ing in Wolcott will partly concern According to the Wednesday pa- American Legion participation in p r rs Ontario County is having t jle war effort. difficulty persuading anyone to hTSct its salvage com mittee' the form e r chairman having resigned. We, in Palmyra, are fortunate in Y-m ail has arrived- from Aus tralia in seven days, from Hawaii in th r e e days and from -Africa as fast' as planci:'Kav<?' tiaen able to speed it across. the stretcfies of w a ter. The Navy’s chief m ail problem has to do with the saving of space. Mail for the United States often is delivered quickly because home- wardbound letters are promptly put aboard ships which in many instances have plenty of room. But outward-bound ships always arc- loaded to capacity with urgently needed war materials—which ’ h aving Mr. LaRue acting as our m e ans that only V-mail, requiring .chairm an. He has given up many little space, may be carried. ■ V-m ail weighs only l/65th as much as ordinary mail. Some 1,G00 letters (more than half a bag of regular mail) can be convèrted to V-m ail film which make3 a pack age scarcely larger than a pack age of cigarettes. And there’s al ways room for one more package o f th n t . RÎ7S. -------------------------------------- If a roll of V-mail is lost on route to its destination, another rcll is reproduced and forward ed without delayi To date, with the method in use only a few months, more than 10,- j 000,000 pieces of V-mai. nave been delivered. And the itee of V-maH is expected to boom as more and m o re service-men and \their fam ilies and friends learn how well it does' the job of conveying mess- a g e s . ___ ___________________________ T h e Navy stresses, th a t V-mail hours from his business to carry on th e salvage work. Will you de vote a few spare hours to the same project? <• Collection schedule for rural area: Thursday afternoon and early _ evening. F riday afternoon and early cv- .eaing- for so many years. It will soon be dark so I have to h u r r y up and fnish this as we have no lights at night. Tell Don, I said “Hello\ and I am waiting to h e a r from him. How about K e n Hughes; have you heard anything from him? Tell Mother to w rite When she can, and you also. So I will close for now with loads of love to all. _ • - Your brother If you haven’t gotten around > to bnyinf a Second War Lean | Bond, stop and think what It would mean to yon if our sol diers hadn’t gotten round to > thp fight. Raised For April The sale of W ar Bonds and Stamps in our community for Jan uary, February and March has av-. eTaged about $40,000 each month. For April our quota has beeh rais ed from 9% to 21.5% of the Wayne County quota. A '“Buy\ a Buddie Bond” drive will s ta r t Monday and continue to April 30th. Everyone who can possibly purchase an extra bond daring this period is encouraged to ilo so, Our quota f o r each week is S26.875.00, and we need the coop eration of everyone to meet the goal In this “Back Our Buddies With Ronds” campaign each person^who buys a bond before April 30th' may dc-signate the name of any boy on our Honor Roll whom he would like to honor. Businessmen will hand you slips when you enter the store fo r you to\ Till out after reading. Let’s back our Buddies with lots of Bonds. Can you be 1 countod ox? Monday afternoon and early ev ening. Collection in village* * ~ Saturday all d a y . _______ Called For Induction The following men will leave-for 'the .Rochester Induction Station on A p ril ICth, 1943: Palm y ra—Milton Pulvcr, Thom as Mahoney, Leonard Cornelius, Roy Allen, Charles. Chittenden, 'The appropriations totalled $10,- 850, $1250.00 less than last year, and all were carried. The following votes wore cast: s For Regular and. I Special Police $3v500 Yes ........... ..... ......... 88 No ............ - .................................. 5 Blank and void' ............ ;1 For General Repair and Mainten ance of Streets, $-1,500 Yes ........ ............. .*...................... No ,...............: ............ ................... Blank and v o id ............................ For Fire Companies $•150.00’ Yos .............................................. No ................... .. ........................... Blank rind v o id ........................... For Snow Removal $800.00 Yes ............................................. No ................................................ Blank and void ....* . ............. For Pruning, Topping and Care of Village Trees, $450.00 Yes .............................................. 87 No ................................................ 5 Blank and void ........................... 5 For Care and Maintenance of City Dump $<100.00 Yes ............................................. 90 No ................................................ 8 Blank and v o id ....... .. ................ 4 For Foster ^ t r e e t Storm Sewer $750.00 Yes ................................................ 86 No ............................................... <5 Blank and void ......................... 5 Loan Money Now Available To Farmers Money with which to purohase fertilizer, seed, feed, spray mater ial and supplies is now available to farmers, poultrym en and dairy men In amounts up to $400;00 at 4% per annum who aro ready to carry out their p a r t In the \all out for food for victory” program and who lack satisfactory local production or bank credit, accord ing to Mr. C. B e rt Sm ith, whd supervises the m aking and col lecting of crop and feed loans for the United States D epartm ent of Agriculture, Farm C redit Admin istration, In Wayne County. All who depend upon this Source of credit and those who de sire more inform ation concerning loans should make definite plans to see Mr. Smith a t F a rm Bureau, Sodus, on Monday, April 5, be tween the hours of 9‘00 A M. and 3:00 P. M. W ar Time, and in the Interest of tire and gas conserva tion, are urged to m e e t with tlio supervisor promptly a t tho Jtlme and place stated. There Is no fee charged for filling out papers and interest Is chargcd only from date .of loan check and n o t from date of application. Therefore, appli cations may bo completed weeks prior to date loan funds are actu ally required w ithout additional cost td the borrower. DANIEL L. O’lIAlR I 1 All persons honorably discharg ed' from service in the present war entitled to hospitalization. keeps its privacy as it moves cen(. th r o u g h - th e —photographing jna-4 M a^ dcin Charles chln.e_at_bigh Sfieed and that °nly_Rjchard. Gorman- Jam es Everett; Donald Nussbaum- (]orril]n]ary care'and burial berte- er. David Scribner, Charles Vin- - f authorized* for veterans of the censor sees the j e t t e r . Letters sent ’’ tn is -w a y areaddressed like other mailr and. are handled auto m a tically by the Navy; whether there is a V-mail station at- the destination or not. I f there is no station at the delivery point, tho m'essage is transmitted in its ori ginal form by the m o st expedi tious means available.' Currently, the Navy :is‘ establish ing small portable V-mail station^ w h e revir possible. ’ >. V-m ail stationery m a y be had World War I, according to- Nicli- Gridleiy, olas A. DcJohn, county service of ficer and adjutant. W alworth—H a rry Palmer , Such ]awS( ,)e Mlacedon Center—Harold Rowe. jn Wflpld been Ly°n r RuSSe l Oaklea^ R y d d to j to the ncw yct_ Beal, Chester Nye, Jesse Bonnell, | 1 ; .... George Gabriclse, Ricnard Hilfi- erans. The few applies to WA^CS, her, Charles Ste'ele, Peter Santelli, WAVES, SPARS and _Mflrijie OrftiMo Martin, Harold “ Bastian, Corps Women’s Reserve. Mr. De- R o b e rt Dangler, Vincent Vele- j 0},n sa}d .that he will be glad to St!llti. W olcott—Franlc Shove, Adrian Hollenbeck, Hale Griswold, An- . drew Ticka, Clifford DeweyT A id b e r t D.obbin> George Lewis, Sam- 1 uel Vezzose, Robert-Plummer J Gor- p-ive information* on this m a tter to all who ask for it. fre e a t any-post.office or. m a y L b e ^ bought inexpensively a t drug, de- G1_ de_ LMjchaei -DiSanto, James partm e n t and specialty stores. - Jamcs MctZ( Gi:orge Cram- To implement the campaign to ghafer( Charles Baud- speed up the exchange of letters *■ - between men and their liome folk, er.' Irving Snyder, William Au rand., Camp, Richard Harper, the Navy Department has rioti- Gardncl. Thoma3 Triano, fied personnel atrall ships and sta- i tiens that in advising their corns Ben Franklin To Open New Department Friday, April 16 The Ben Frrfnklin Store announ ces that they will open their new and complete upstairs department A l t o n — Jacob Ticconi.. !on Friday, April 16. A full line of 2* vSS. a z r z s i g s r s % £ \ „ra kiw' V r 5- - a-.ties to their own d i s t a n t : - . . ! Rose_ Frankiin Turner ,vcrtisom<Jnt next W°ck> John Brophy’s “Immortal Ser geant,” the new film a t the Strand Theatre, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, depicts the stirring stbry of how a great love spurs a fighter to glory. Henry Fonda and T^aureon 0 ’Hara~'are co-starred in the’ film which features Thomas Mitchell and a cast of favorites. + + + + 4> * * -J- •SCRAP PILE t The official scrap pile is locat ed at the T.own Building, formerlv the Clifford Dry House on Rail road Avenue. Please do not put scrap.on the Old scrap pile. <{* ❖ 4* •i1 ■§> 4* 1f' <y’ 4» + ♦.
