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AND THE M AéEDpN JOÜRNÁL ^^M^iWAR KOMM ' ‘A ' < *7.» ^ J2.00 P Ë R YEAJ&—S T f ilC T L Y IN ADVAN C E • LETTERS FROM THE BÓYS IN THE SERVICE OF ÚNCLE SAM PALMYRA, N. Y.~ MAY 20, .1943 S I N G L E e O P I E S F I V E C É N T S - L ittle Creek, Va. ^ M ay 1, 1943 . 'jhe Editor Palmyra Courier-Joumal “palmyra, N. Y. ’Dear Editor:- ^J^w a n t to thank you and the \people that make^ i t -possible fo r j^ e t o receive the town paper ev- -\-«ry. week. -It sure is»nice to read r about the many things the people of Palmyra are doing for us. ; The Campus Column brings back memories of m any of the pupils and happenings a t school. Having Ibeen comiected w ith school I really appreciate the news Uiul ,1 find in tkia column. - .Thank you, once again, for the paper. Your tru ly . Victor J . Hill, C’. sp. Wednesday, May 5, 1943 ■ Palmyra Courier-Journal iPalmyra, New York >Dear Sirs: ’ I wish tc> thank you for each and «very edition of the weekly paper, •wliich you have been sending, and .want you to know th a t I thorough ly-enjoy its contents. •- kindly change .your record of ::jny mailing address. With kindest thanks I remain, Lt. Bernard Kirchhoff Btere’s an Inquiry. .Dear Red Cross Members: ,*A wish to send my sincere tl^gRs ■ in the swell box you send me eaoti .¿onth, and also fo r the birthday '/<ar<L :• I’ve been wondering if you could help me find or let me know Glenn /Warren’s address? He and I were , always close friends, and now I ■would like to w rite him a line. Jfith appreciation I thank you. Yours truly ' Corporal John Jordan , Camp Davis . Port Lawton ^ ' Washigton \ Gentlemen, .. 7 ‘ I recently received my / i r s t Pal- ; myra paper and w ish to thank you' for it and the welcome reading ma- ■.ierial it contains. Wherever I go, I ’ll welcome news from old Palmyra, as I know all the other service men from there do. So once again, I join with the others in thanking you and hope ■we all may soon return to a post war Palmyra. Sincerely P v t. Donald^Soule Camp Gordon, Ga. M ay 7 , ’43 ¿ear Sir: I have been receiving your pap- <r regularly for several weeks now \ -and enjoy it very touch. ’ It seems good to be \able to read 'news from home. Xt makes me wish •'I was back there. Thank you very Tnuch. Very truly yours ■ -------------------- William- H—Scliultz- , Camp. Wheeler, Ga. May 9, 1943 Dear Sirs: I am very sorrfy that I haven’t written this letter before to thank you for the Palmyra paper, as it is sure good to be able to read w h a t is happening at home and to see hpw everyone at homo is buying bonds to back the boys who are in- the service, and to help get this war over right away. We won’t let them down.\ So again 1 tha'nk you for the paper with the hopes of seeing you all soon, _ . \ Yours sincerely ^ Pvt. Reginald Rigglesford Friday, May 14 Dear Sirs^ i do hope, you will pardon my negligencej for not writing you be fore this in bider to thank you for sending me your fine paper. The opportunities to buy a paper on this field are very few and so you can imagine how nice it' .is to be able to have your mind| free of such a burden. Reading the news has been, in the \past one of my fav-. orite pastimes a'rid is a vocation | which I am hapjpy to be able to continue. | I suppose with so many young men from our community in the armed services, it is difficult to obtain a Targe and competent s taff to operate your paper. But I’m sure you are well repaid for your ‘endless efforts to edit a good pap-1 er by the comfort and nearness to 'Defense Co. Starts Summer Program Last Wednesday, M ay 12th, pre sented the first oppprtunity pf the season for the Home Defense Com pany to leave the school gymnas ium and drill out-of-doors on, the playground! This w a s a welcome event for most members of -the £ompany since drilling in open per m its'the execution of more varied maneuvers. A good turnout added further to the success of the meet ing'. It is planned to devote current Wednesday evening drills ^ ..p r e paration for com ing parade ap pearances^ An occasional session will also be devoted to instruction extended order drill in open ihis torm of drill covers AIRPLANE ACCIDENT IN FLORIDA TAKES LIFE OF RICHARD L. SMITH Richard, L. Smith, second lieut enant in the Army Air Corps, lost his life Tuesday morning just be- ïo r e 9:00 o’clock in a plane acci- m country. home which it gives many men in tape and inconvenience of register- my same position. ! ¡ng— done fn the past when £ou Thank you ever so much again appUed for W a r Books 0ne and for sending me this fine sheet and T wo _ 0 p a has prevailed on the you may be sure that I enjoy it'ilM ted States Post office to dis. greatly. ^ tribute more than 120,000,000 cop- Sincerely yours |jes 0j w a r Ration Book Three by Robert N. Blazey, Air Cadet j ujy Maxwell Field, Alabama I _ , ‘ • . ... 1 Tackling this huge task this ikrletter carriers throughout th.ie- nation were loaded down with ap proximately 40 million application bards, the f ir s t step in seeing to it the fundamentals\ of deployment and control of men f o r combat pur poses in the field. Several men are now taking the company’s pre-induction training course, previously announced, and are making very satisfactory pro gress. This course is still open to any interested new comers, who should report at the schoolhouse on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 o’clock. They will receive the same individual instruction given to oth er enrollees. Dairymen Invited To Meeting-Banquet All Wayne County dairymen ,are invited to- attend the dairy 'meeting and banquet which is to Ibe held on Tuesday, May 25, at . 7:15 o’clock at the Presbyterian g^ away with all thei red _ application on which you write the t Church in Sodus. The meeting is WAR RATION BOOK. THREE WILL BE MAILED TOXONSUMERS IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE RED TAPE San Bernardino, Calif. ; . May 8, 1948 f-'The-Palmyra Gourier-Journal =PgLmyrS7New Y o r k 1 ° — -Bear Sirsr i Very recently m.y address chang- «1 trom the iorm e r McClellan\ Tield address to the above, and I \wish to inform .you to that effect. ;! I certainly do appreciate receive Ing the weekly issue of the paper _ aid don’t want to miss out on i t in the future. Again I express my thanks for , 7oor consideration in sending i t to 1 -We, thank you. Sincerely yours t’.,/’ - Pvt. Doyle E. Denosky . S a n ta Monica, Calif, ^ a r friends, • Just a line to ask ya all to ad- ; jdress niy paper o u t here. Sorta had * feeling I’d end up out here in - .'Calif., and here I am. They still ■c*« gjve me gCod 0]di New York ' ^ ew York S tate1 sui'e would i oe like heaven to me, after being • i^ough forty other states. I-wantrto s^ y th a n k s _s g a i n 7 -fo r sending ms thp papprJ—It— sure- May 10, 1943 Palmyra Courier-Joumal Palmyra, N§w York Dear Sir. j ; o.'th a t you and I receive all the W a r I wish to thank you for sending _ , _ „ „ „ Books Three we need for our fam ine the “Pal paper all these mon- ,, . , r u „ __ * , 'ilies before we run out of stamps- ths. As.you know I have not w rit- . , . , r _ in our two current ration books, ten to you before to thank you for . , _ your thoughtfulness, but sometimes t These postcard applications are we aren’t in the position to do so. good for a single individual or an Palmyra can be well proud of entire family. All applications, its long list of service men. Also which are pre-addressed, m u st be from the list of grades and ranks, filled out and mailed back to New the boys are doing alright for York City, mail center for this dis- themselves too. Most of the fellows ^ trict, by not later than midijlght, on the Palmyra list I remember June 10. Those postmarked later well because I went to school with will not be processed until after them i August first by local rationing I also want to thank the p e r s o n boards, who bought a bond in my honor.] You. will receive your applica- Let’s hope those who are honoring tion' by not later than June 6. You servicp men with bonds will keep then H ave'five days in which to it up. Let’sHee if they can buy-as 'filH t ovit and mail it to New York many as the soldiers are buying. ' for your copies of W ar Book In closing, please accept my Three. t hearty thanks for the paper. I t , More than GOO volunteer work- comes regularly every week. When ers, along w ith experienced mail I gat over there the good old “ P a l” clerks will handle the job f o r this nauer will be even more than a ' district in New York City. I t is es- treasure. I will keep you inform ed timated that 3,984,200 pieces of whenever my address changes: mail containing W ar Book Three Hoping this ' feacheS~all—my^-oldywill7be_handled-at-this-center. ------- - gang, I remain | Additional _ supplies of post-card Staff Sgt. Leslie E. Neale applications wiU be given io< each post office i n ‘the event you_.do riot receive one.- MAde up in three partBr-your-TaHpllgation~haijir f lrst7 I a n ‘identification-stub whichL you name of the head of the family and sponsored by the W ayne County the address to which W ar Books Dairy Herd Improvement As 30 cia- Three are to be sent and third, a card on which you list the names of all those for whom application is being made. Each of these three parts will bear a serial number. A fter filling out the card and de taching the identification'stub, just -put-letter-postage-on-it^and-drop- in your mail box between June 1 and June 10. tion, The Wayne County Guernsey Club and the W ayne County Hol stein Club. The principal speaker will be Chester C. DuMond, president of the New York S tate Farm Bureau Federation.* P e ter Longrod of dent about 10 miles west M ars, Florida. Richard was 22 years old and the only son of John and Lena Brom- Us Smith who reside just west of the Villago' of Palm y ra. Ho was graduated from ^Palmyra. High School, class of 1940 and later at tended the ScKool_of “Commerce at Rochester. For 'a timo he was em ployed a t the Union Trust company JBank in Rochester, lator. going to . the Hawkeye Division of the. E a s t man Kodak Company as an inspec tor. He was accepted as an avia tion cadet on March 8, 1942 hut was not called ‘for service until June 8, 1942 wh<yi he was sent .to Maxwell Field, Ala. He was trans ferred to Jackson Tenn., and later •to Gunter Field, Ala., and Mari- timia-A-ii^-Basei -Fla-., where-lie-re— ceived his wings and was commis- siioned a second lieutenant late in March of this year. Aftor spending a °short furlough with his parents he returned to Florida on April 8 and was transferred to Dale-Ma- bry Field, Tallahassee, Fla. Besides his parents, he leaves his maternal grandmother, several aunts and uncles and more distant relatives. Funeral services will be held on Monday morning at 8:15 o'clock from the home and at 9:00 o’clock., •from St. Patrick’s Church, Mace- don, Rev. John E. Masseth officiat ing. Interment will be in Palmyra cemetery. UNEMPLOYMENT LAW AMENDED AT RÉCENT LEGISLATIVE SESSION * . ------------------ ; -------- Effective June 7, the minimum | which his claim is based and a t unemployment insurance benefit least $250.00 in the entire year to qualify for benefits. rate in New York State will be $10.00 a week as a result of an amendment to the Unemployment Insurance Law enacted at the 1943 session of the legislature. A t the This increase is coupled with a tightening of .eligibility, require- -ments-in^the-lower-wage-bracketsr F o r instance, a person must earn a t „least $100.00 in the highest quarter of the calendar year on Amended Regulations recently announced inclu'de the following: The nmended Regulation,.UI 7- 41 provides th a t employers must submit information upon request regarding the employment record hchofit claim ants “wltliln four of I business days in all cases. The amended Regulation UI 17- 41 establishes uniform reporting requirements fo r all benefit clai mants by providing for^immediate filing of a claim upon loss of em- Lyons will act as toastmaster. The program w ill include re ports of the activities of the Uiree A t the mail center in New York, ¡ duiry organizations, announce- volunteers will file for permanent j menfc of d.H.I.A. records for 1942, ~ I : ~ record the card listing members o f : reporfc of moninating committee C a l l e d T O r I n d l l C t l O n your family. Your application card and eiection of D JÍ.I.A . officers I The following men will leave will be placed in a special window- fe r 19 4 3t Mr. DuMond will discuss from L s for the Rochester In-'ploy1™1'1. regardless of whether it envelope thru which your name,]the National A g ricultural outlook duction station on May 22nd: ¡>» a or subsequent claim. Ex serial number and address will be |With particular reference to the palm y ra — Merrick R. Cook,' coplions are provided for the hand- plainly visible. This envelope will Government’s A g ricultural Pro- E a r , j clem ent Francis G, Rush, >>ng of specific cases in which ap- contain all family books. If for¡gram> I H arold F CorHblius, Earl Mack, pcarance at local offices _imm6d- any reason you do not receive W ar j Enlertainmont by tho Bourbon Charles McClelland, Gordon D e -m tely upon loss of a job can >bo J .ee y/ . U7 ’ , G r Ur|Ti-io will include music, group !Cann, Nelson S. Leno, Frederick ehmmated as-needless. identification stub to your local ra-Jg. . ^ an(j piclúres. The Nichols, Elman Cowell, Oscar ' The amended Regulation UI 21- t,™ ,«» v „ ........ .. #,ii . . . c Bdw¡n Corneliugi L,oyd B> 4t repealg the requirement that tioning board You will fill out an- will be servcd by the i a . other applicafon which :s for- church warded to New York for re-check. Shove, William Hill, John D e - .claimants who failed to report at y r ies- ¡placement offices m ust give notice Macedon—Leslie H. Miller, John'within six days in order to preserve? Zimmer, Henry Breese. | their rights to benefits. Lyons^—Frank II. Lewis, Jo h n 1 I C overt, H i , , » Ochs, E v c . t t W u».¡ ^ R e c e ¡ y e )Var Ration Book Three contains _ 1 n J four pages of point stamps, sim- [LiO C al D O ä r f l S W i l l ilar to the point stamps in W ar n .* f i • C , „ B o o k two . i t also p o n t a i n s f o u r K a t i o n c a n n i n g o u g a r pages-of unit stamps for the type; In B t e a d o f g 6 [ n g t o ] o c a l r a t i o n 'der, Charles R. Hartman, George of rationing now used for sugar, ,)oards to obtain .<sugar alloWance J- Sapp, Thomas A. Morandi, El- p r e f e r e n c e F o r G a S coffee and shoes. Printed in brown 0 „ for use in buying can- ™er Laudenslayer, Roccp i'abnz. ninp sucar ___ as w as previously an- Frank Ferndino, Leonard Schice,, Vernon S. Cator, Chairman of nounced,-consumers will now use R ichard H. Hilfiker, Clarence W. the 'Wayne County USDA War W a r Ration Book Raymer, Edwin Bullock. | Board announces that there has of their Clyde — Roy Moulton, Joseph .been an amendment to the Petro- « ■ « » I I I M M I I M I M I I f l H FREE CANNING LÜSSÖNS“ There wül be free lessons fresh\ canning vegetables, ----- , ( fish and chicken a t the school house by an expert in canning. W atch your paper for dates. •- % °n detach’ and keep/Second, a simple meat, Gets Mail Messenger Contract amluulll; Ford Palmer has been assigned fo,lows. the mail messenger contract a t the FoodgT ' Palmyra Post Office starting June | 1. Mr Palmer occupied the same! position from 1920 to 1926 a t the ^ old post office under Ralph D. Ses sions as postmaster, i Home BureauProgram Fjor Years 1943-44 The local Home BvlreaU U n its announce the 1943-,44 program as .siakes a feller forget his worries, . -after a hard day’s work. Thanks ®gain, and so long. Tours truly ( Pvt. Robert J. Koinmer Family Meals in Wartime Bread M aking Canning \and; Preserving, which- will be , a community project, as will Pressure Cooker' G uage Testing- Clothing: „ • Making Fabric Gloves / Sewing Machine School H o u s in g :,.,;. 1 Every member of Palmyra l/xige | jia ^ n g Slip Covere of Moose is expected to be present, Anyone 'interested in joining the a t the regular meeting to be. held H o m e Bureau get in touch with Friday evening, May 21, a t 8:00 nny AT1P nrf the following: Mòose To Hold ^ Important Meeting ink, each page of 48 stamps bears the design of a different war jna- chine including guns, tanks, air craft carriers and planes. sugar stamps in One for obtaining p a r t _ No immediate use will be made canning allotments. of the new book. U n it stamps in j Although «W n ila .n£lhe-£or. 'Ferindino, John F. Tracy, A lbert leum Administrators Order JÍA9-1. iMarble. ________ |effectivo immediately, which plac- Book Three~will be used when fthcominE&n ^ n ^ a r e _not~yet avail-' Wolcott — Chester D; Beebe, ces users of non-highway gasoline stamps run out in Book One this a b l e 'i t is understood that two (transfer), Adrian S. Hollenbeck, for farmvjnirposes m a preferred fall. A t the present r a t e of spend- „t’g in Book One will be Clifford VanHorn, Raymond W al-, position. Each prim a ry and second ing, red stanips in Book Two w i l l 'j . <5:trnated as “canning sugar” ker, Ernest A. Reynolds, Wilson G. ary supplies shall in making any • . . . , ^ . ■- I withdrawal or delivery of motor b o . o x h a u 8 t e d - a r o u n d - O c t o b e r - l - a n d ¿ s t a m p s ^ e a c b _ s t a n T j 2 — t o — b e ^ w o r t h ^ E Ê t - t y s _ blu e - B taw p s b y th e e n d o f U c t o b e r . |f ¡v e po u n d s . C o n s u m e r s w h o re - ! R o c h e s t e r — E v e r e t t Present plans call for the dis-¡quire more than the ten pounds Rueben Wagner. tribution-of-W ar-Book-Four-dt August or September. I t will con ( per perSön Tör”caiTnlng w lllnpply to their local ration boárds for an Savamîalr—“Milltrrd- T . ïoung,'fucl or fuel oí- 17 'gtve profercncc-to— I the requirements of any person us- —-T-ownsondr-i ng—motor—fuel—£or._ non-highwoy ___ tain red and blue point stam p s, 'a d d it i o n a l allowance much thd. same as those in Book Two, and will be used for the same programs, processed foods and meats and fats. o’clock. . , 1, This m e e ting\iST n o st-im p o r tant- and all members who are sincerely (gtreet interested in the welfare of the. Mrs wiHiam Avery, phone 104- lo d g e should be present. Iw « Remember the date Friday ev- MrS- W a lter Smith, phone 12-F-S sning, May 21 a t 8:00 o’clock. , ) Blood Donor Unit WiU Visit Palmyra Soon ’The fourth visit\ of-the Mobile Blood Donor Unit of the Red Cross t> Palmyra .will be made on Mon day and Tuesday, June 7th and 8th. this- time all residents be tween the ages of 18 and >60 who are in a .healthy condition will be asked to contribute a pint of blood fcr the boys iii service who have been wounded. - --------- « Now that our boys are actively Mrs. Dorothy Page,'phone 431 -J'engaged on severaF lronts tnere\ Mrs. Leon D. Molner, 127 Church ha 5 -free;i a Ucmendous-increaserin the requests for blood plasma be cause it has proved- to be such a Syracuse—Matthew Allen. Red Creek—Paul A. O’Brien. North Rose—William G. Acker. _ £ \ The following men will leatfe for This change in plans-is- expected to relieve ration 'boards of the need for handling thousands of applica-, tions for sugar fo r home canning, the Rochester Induction Station and a t the samé tim e make i t eas-;from Local Board 514'on May ,28, ier for consumers to obtain the 1943: canning sugar they need. I Palm y ra—Donald J. Chisholm, What stamps arid when to use H a rry Cornwall, John Toumois, them will be announced within a Duane Fox, DeClaire Snyder, P e ter few days. ----- jR ienstrar Charles Chittenden**Paul Gassier, Guy Young. Macedon—Marvin Ebert, Francis resented directly or indirectly by someone in the service, and in Zimmer, Jacob Bushart. Lyons—Irvin Facer, Howard miraculous life-saver. - N early ev ery family in Palmyra is now- rep- ' bo<v3 jvi service. each family there should be one ghuler, Clarence Bowler, ClosSen or more who are willing to volun- p ay, W illard Soggs, Edward Oh^t, teer as blood donors. ! H a rry Chapin, jr. Send your name and address on | • Clyde—Norman Lippert, Charles a postal to the principal’s office ghafer, Roscoe Slade, Wallace i- the Palmyra H igh School\ or Carr. phone to that offjge—Palmyra 89. | -M^rth R o s e — Peter Barton^ M ar- Register -early 'so th a t you may ¡on skinner, pick the most convenient~time for ( Wolcott—A rthur RoHinsoru your appointment. Don’t delay and j Rgd Creek-r-James Bacon, don’t forget the dates—June 7th . R o h e s ter—Everett McCloud, and- 8th. Give Bomie blood for the pregent tim e the minlmniri r a te is ‘ $7.00 per week. farm u b c s , who presents valid E. It. or bulk coupons which is evi dence of such use. Mr. Cator adviseB farmers who are having difficulty. In. securing gas for non-highway uses,- should present their E. R . ,o r .bulk coupons - to their supplier, who in tuni will -present the. coupons to the primary or secondary supplies for gasoline to be delivered ■' for non-highway farm use, The total number of cou pons presented*by any. individual farmer a t any one tim e should not exceed a supply needed fo r ' ten days. Deliveries of gasoline and fuel oil, Mr. Cator, points' out, will be made against these coupons in pre ference to any other business. « Fire in G. L. F. ~Flre of ^unknown—origin broke1 - •out 'thir'afternoon-'in-tHe'i'ear e n d f - of the Palmyra\'. G: L'. F;> where baled straw 'an d ^shavings v>e'-c stored. Damage' Vvas \slight The fire Was conUx>lled-\by.;:pxtInj;uish- crs ~ ’
