PAGE TWO ‘THE POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1944 THE OUTPOST Where those at home and the men and women in the armed services from the Back Mountain Region—in camps and on the fighting fronts—Ikeep contact with their fellows throughout the world. i FROM CAMPS AT HOME | cowracs A Long Cheer for Dartmouth Dear Howard: Here I am again-this time to re-| much to occupy her mind and is Service port a change of address. You|what she needs now that Sammy ” know the saying that the Marine| is in England. | Men Corps lives in a suit case. often inclined to believe it. completed. We were many months. like a half-breed. cooking for us. Well, even we here at home are very|a short furlough in Conn. It| home with one of my roomates seems they need more girls in D. C.| who lives near New Haven. than they first believed, so We| went to the Yale-Dartmouth foot-| Sargeants had to move out on sub-| hall game where I had the pleasure gineer, who” was injured” August sistence to make room for the new of meeting one of Yale's cheer- 14, while “operating a bulldozer, “boots” until the new barracks are Jeaders-a Marine Guadalcanal vet. somewhere in Italy, telephoned his recently eran who is there on Navy V-12. wife, Mrs, Dorothy Banta of Mt. given a new recreation hall and He brought their mascot over to Greenwood, that he arrived at uniform shop which. I am going see me (it is a bulldog as is the Stark General Hospital, South Car- ‘to miss, but I guess I can adjust MC's) and then posed with him olina on Sunday, myself, I always have before. They promised us we wouldn't be out I hope not-I feel Half Marine, half civilian, I am in a small apart- ment with two other Marine girls and that Sis of mine is down here She’s been here | For almost a month now and is crazy about Washington. There is so I just got back this week from I went We | Banta in U.S. Hospital November 19. for me to take pictures while on-| Since then, he has been transfer- lookers whistled. It was fun. We! red to Wakeman General Hospital, also went to the Beach at Bridge- Indiana, where he is now under port where we ate popcorn snd gome treatments for paralysis of took pictures of sea gulls. And, the right arm. to top it off we had a turkey din-| Pfc. Banta enlisted in the service ner because none of us are going on September 8, 1943, and arrived to be able to get home Thanksgiv- in Africa in March, 1944. Pfc. Banta jing or Christmas. We had all the and Mrs. Banta, the former Dorothy ‘trimmings and it was delicious. |Updyke of Mt. Greenwood Rd. have WOUNDED IN ACTION Hospital addresses of Back Mountain boys wounded in action are carried weekly in this column. Parents and rel- atives are asked to keep us advised of any address changes so that letters from friends will not be misdirected. Unless otherwise indicated, patients discharged from hospitals are presumed to be back with their old outfits. Their addresses cannot be published because of censorship regulations. F. 0. W. GLENN KNECHT Dallas, In France Serial T-50749 Ward 10 England General Hospital Atlantic City, N. J. SGT. MADARA M. KRIEGER Trucksville, in France Serial 33056332 4105 U. S. Hospital Plant Co. E 2nd Trainee Bn APO 872 c/o P. M., New York PFC. ELMER LAMOREAUX Lehman, in Italy Serial 13100025 Room 325 England General Hospital Atlantic City, New Jersey S/Sg. THOMAS J. NEYHARD Fernbrook, in France, June 19,1944 Serial 7022126 158 Genl. Hospital APO 519 ¢/o P. M., New York. PVT. AMOS SWIRE Serial 33847715 Det. Of Patients Ward 10 TU. S. Hosp. Plant 4165 APO. 508 c/o PM New York Hospital Patient Sgt. Harry P. Beck Shavertown Woodrow Wilson Hosp. Stauton, Va. Pvt. Milton Z. Huey Dallas, in Texas Serial 33613,980 Ward A-15 Regional Hospital Camp Barkeley, Texas. P. F. C. WARREN JOHNSON U. S. Naval Hosp. Ward 804 Bainbridge, Md. S/Sgt. KENNETH. P. JONES Serial 33137514 U. S. Hosp. Plant 4177 APO 121-B C/O PM New York City T/5 RAYMOND H. LOVELAND Trucksville, Georgia, Ward 16c Lawson Genl. Hosp. Atlanta, Georgia PRISONERS OF WAR Regulation P. 0. W. station- ery may be obtained from any U. S. Postoffice. All letters to prisoners must be written on such stationery and handed to the postmaster rather than being mailed through regular channels. LT. PETER SKOPIC U. S. Prisoner of War Stalag Luft III Germany S/SGT RAYMOND F. SUTTON U. S. Prisoner of War No. 2105 Stalag Luft III Germany Now, I am back at the grind, one daughter, Dianne. and on a new job. I'm located" in the Discharge Section and it is| Bob Niemeyer writes from the my job to figure out answers to, Pacific war area that he has been letters people write in wanting 40 see Alden LeGrand several times their sons and husbands discharg- and he is getting along nicely. Al- ed for one reason or another. It'den who is serving with the Mar- is very interesting and keeps me ines was wounded several months so busy the days really fly. I hope! ago and is a hospital patient. they do fly, though, even faster be-| cause I expect to come home in! Mr. and Mrs. William Dierolf, 53 January after the ban on holiday E. Center street, Shavertown, have travel is lifted. | received a Purple Heart Medal sent So long now, and keep mili. | to them by their son First Sgt. Wil- I do-am-==-- y | liam Dierolf, Jr., who was wounded Sincerely, | EP 4 le action. They also received the Thelma Gregory,” MCWR infantry combat badge. Sgt. Dier- Washington, D. C. olf has been in service four years. P. S. I live in the building that] : used to be the Chilean Embassy. @® Holy smoke! What a season and Mrs. Marvin Moss, Mt. Airy to see Dartmouth play. There was Road, Shavertown, who was a day a good many years ago when wounded in action when he was a Yale-Dartmouth game was a real| exhibition. That was when the! y Yale jinx rooked us out of some’ hard fought victories in the last I miss an issue, I get behind on minutes of play. Dartmouth cer-| the hometown news. {tainly hit the skids this year, but. I met Ernest Krause, (formerly there’s one consolation, Hank Pet- of Dallas), .at the P.-X. the other erson tells me they licked Brown, night; the first time I have seen his old alma mater. Brown musta him since he moved to Tunkhan- had an awful outfit. The Hotel nock. Taft in New Haven used to be. So long for now, Howard, and great hang-out nights before the thanks again for the wonderful ser- games, but the beach at Bridge- vice you are rendering to us boys Pfc. Lawrence Moss, son of Mr. (Continued on Page Five) you went on Sundays after you| Sincerely, were licked. I can see you were Willis Ide Pfc. Louis Banta, Aviation. ~En- port or New Haven was the place: in service. iL cheering for Dartmouth.—Editor Camp Shelby, l address through to us just as soon Dear Editor: as you get it, Willis. Hope its It's about time for me to let Hollywood or some place where you know that I've been receiving there are plenty of nice girls (white the Post regularly and certainly ones). —Editor. appreciate all of it’s welcoming news of the folks at home and Speaking of Snowballs servicemen and women at home Dear Sir: » and abroad in the Outpost section. As very few lines to inform you Tm still » dist cook hore ab the 1 haven't had ihe pleasure of yor Red River Training Center Hos- ceiving the Post in several months. pital and I like my job very much. Of course, I realize that is not due It's still warm and rainy here and to any fault of yours, whatsoever. I don’t expect any real cold weath- The fault lies in the duties of the er till the latter part of December. mail clerk in my former company. While’ Tm ot it ond being, that The point is, he never has had the Christmas will soon be here, I'd ambition to forward the papers to like to wish the Post's staff and Mo: Then, too, I should have used it's employees, and all my friends 2 few minutes of my time and sent at home and; overstes a "Very Jou my change of address, Howard. Merry Christmas and a Ha New Y oy you having to keep track of chang- Year”, in closing. A 3 Sincerely, {es in addresses all the time. Pvt. Harry Boehmd _~ My brother, Bob, will undoubted- ily be home by the time this letter Texarkana, Texas 5 : s P. S. I was wondering if Bob Gar- reaches you. It certainly is nice to know he is back in the states butt is still here in Amarillo? I : read Len Hooper's last letter in ORCC again. i) the Post and have been correspond- There isn’t much to write about, ing with him for quite a while, I Much:less to do, here. I'm just sure would like to see him at His- hoping I can get home before win- lop’s, or the Tally-Ho again, where ter passes by. It never snows here Wo used to hang oat ‘and I'm kind of anxious to make ‘a “snowball”, I haven't seen any ® Harry, did you notice in one ; : of the letters uo few weeks ago, P0W in so long, I almost feel like ’ a foreigner. Here’s hoping I re- where one of the boys in the Pac- ™ ific area said that you had married €eVe & paper soon. 2 | the old flame of one of his Texas Gratefully, {/ friends. It was a coincidence that Pfc. Bill C. Price, JI. | he should have read the announce- oe Benning, Ga. ment of your marriage in The Post. ® Bob's home and he must be So far as I know, Bob is still in making snowballs--we’ve had plen- (ty of snow--but we haven't seen Armarillo.—Editor. 4 : : hide nor hair of him. Seems, strange. He must have a couple Merry Christmas Everbody On The Move Dear Mr. Risley: Just a few lines to ask you to please cancel my subscription to the Dallas Post until you receive my ‘change of address” card. As soon as you receive my new ad- dress, your sending me the post, again. It’s really a swell paper and whenever the string. Darned if I ever saw such a country anyway. You can pretty much put your finger on a or France, but just as soon as he 1 would wopredute gets home he disappears. There's overseas. We're beginning to get @ Don’t forget to shoot that ew) ! § I guess it gets kind of monotonous, of women or maybe just one on Matthew Legosh fellow when hé’s in India, Guam Joseph J. Szela John Seletsky Dec. 1} less self-addressed, stamped envelope Harry E. Thomas Den, 151, | enon, an ane at Warren M. Stanton Dec. 16!| more than 30 days. William G. Knecht Dec. 17 ainiignal display advertising rates 7 per column inch. Robert Miller Dec. 17 i display advertising rates Ord. F. Trumbower Dec. 17 A oS pln . ie Frank Dennis Der: IB wr ree de ’ Leo Niezoda Dec. 18 Unless paid for at advertising Robert J. Pritchard Dec. 18|| [U5 re, Sh, E58 f°, sminee | Joseph J. Casey Dec. 19 Bes, rummage sales a any pdb John LeRoy Chappell Dec. 19|| pectic issue. Tn no case will such Alford H. Jackson Dec. 20 items be taken on Thursdays. Karl M. Kunkle Dec. 20 : : 2 , Editor and Publisher Stephen Laincz Dec. 20 Hlias W. Miller Dec. 20 HOWARD W. RISLEY Robert B. Lewis Dec. 21 Editors William Frederick Dec. 22|| | oo . ida Eugene G. Lavelle Dec. 22’ Xx S/8zt Howell 1. Bees, U.8 A, Palmer A. Lewis Dec. 22i % Lieut Warren Hicks, U.S.A. long Zot er Associate Editor : oren E. McCarty ec. RA ZEISER RISLEY Samuel K. Antrim Dec. 23 VYRA 3 George H. Ray. Dec. 23 Contributing Editors Kenneth Brace Dec. 2) MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Phillip H. Cease Dec. 24] i Walter McKeel Dec. 25 Advertising Department { Lawrence Newhart Dec. 26'| % Harry Lee Smith ! Dec. 27!! American Red Cross Foreign Ser. || William J. Thomas Dec. 28 Meochariical Department Alvan Jones Dec. 29/1. s/sgt. Alan C. Kistler, U.S.A Raymond L. Pritchard Dec. 8 | g" : ERE Des. 20° % Norman Rosnick, U.S.N. William C. Lerch Dec. 30, * ih Des Lewis G. Sax Dec. 30) % Pvt. Wm, Helmboldt, USA, | Dec. 31] % Pvt. Joseph Riehl, U.S.A. been more men lately “missing in' Albert Siperko action” at home than there has Harold W. Bogart | | | A WOUNDED YANK COMES HOME } ! 1 | { @ THIS IS AN AMERICAN street scene. It might have been taken anywhere, and the people might be your neighbors—just down the block some- where. That's why you may feel that little choke in your throat when you look at this picture. As it happens, the photo was made in New York. Pvt. Sam Macchia, who has spent 17 months overseas, has come home and Mamma and Pappa Marchia are greeting him. No words are needed to describe their emotion. Sam is home— wounded in both legs at the Battle of St. Lo, in Normandy —but he’s home. (International) worried about casualties on the seemed to cut this program down home front.—Editor. a little and I am now waiting to go to Primary where I will learn, I Wants To Fly hope, how to fly. Well, that is Dear Mr. Risley: Jabout all that there is from here Well, we have been on the move so ru have to close. again and I guess that it is time! Sincerely yours, L- for me to change my address. The; Thomas J. Metz Post keeps up with me pretty well Montgomery, Ala. and I am very glad to receive it. I enjoy reading it quite a bit, as it tells me all of the news I like to hear. I'was reading it the other night, and I see that Carl Dykeman is down here where I am, Gunter Field. i® We hope, too, Tommy, that [you'll soon have your chance to | fly. lan awful lot of infantrymen out of cadets lately. Let's both keep our I ain back for some more fingers crossed.—Editor. on the line training. They have] “More than a newspaper, BIRTHDAY BOOK! a community institution” The Post assumes no responsibil- ESTABLISHED 1889 ity for the accuracy and complete- A non-partisan liberal ness of this list, compiled each progressive newspaper pub- week from the card index of soldier || lished every Friday morning information on file at the Post. at its plant on Lehman Ave- Donald Davis Dec. 1|| nus, Dallas, Penna., by the James Harris Dec. 1|| Dallas Post. Nelson E. Nelson, Jr. Dec. 1 Co a Arar 11a. ,: G Entered as second-class matter at 1 niin J. Jennings Dec.2 the post offles af Dallas Pos, der rma the Act o arch 3, 1879. ubscrip- o 7 Oney, Jr. Dec. 2 tion rates: $2.50 a year; $1.50 six Henry H. VanHorn Dec. 3 months. No ssabseriptions accepted | Donald Smith Dec 2 for Ios Jpn oh i 4 Out-of- . state subscriptions: $3.00 a year; Nor Blaz $2.00 six months or less. Back Va ne ec. Ch 1 M. D 6 issues, more than one week old, 10¢ B grees, okie ec. » Single copies, at a ty of 6c each, alp. aylor De. C. can be obtained every Friday morn- ° in at the following newsstands: Walter I. Weiss Dec. 8 Dallas—Tally-Ho Grille, Hislop's Res- Frank B. Kamor Dec 9 iaurantp Shavertowd: Bvans: —2 2 * store; Trucksville—Leonard’s re; August F. Walters Dec. 9'| 1detown—Caves Store; Huntsville— Ralph C Garris Dec 12! Hontgs re Hersera Ike B4 s . wards’ Restaurant; erson—Dea- Sherman W. Kunkle Dec. 12 toe Store. i . Yi : en requesting a change of ad- Earl Mason Dec. 12 dress Sr ge asked to give Chester Tutak Dec. 183i] their old as well as new address in Herb T Usk 4 D : 13, order to prevent delay. erbert T. Uskurait ec. | We will not be responsible for the Elwood Martin Dec. 14 return of unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and editorial matter un- , something about the weather. The army has been making! % In Armed Serviee. Dec. FROM FIELDS AFAR Proud of Old School Dear Editor: can realize how much it means to whoever is in the service. I still haven't received the Post Signed, since I left the states, but it isn’t Cpl. Glen T. Kocher your fault, since I have been doing Lovee quite a lot of traveling. I want to; ®@ It's good to hear from you let you know where I am at so when I do get somewhere that I will stay for a while I will get the Post again. I am interested in knowing how Lehman’s football team is doing this year. I heard they beat D.T.H.S.,, so it sounds like a good start, possibly like ’42.; There isn’t much I am allowed to say about France, but I can say It hag ybeen raining almost every day since I have been here, and I am glad I had swimming lessons. Glen. We know the Field Artillery has been kept pretty busy lately and hasn’t had much time to write letters or parlez-vous with French girls. .—Editor. : In Pacific Area Dear Mr. Risley: Just a few lines to let you know that I have been receiving the Post quite regular and wanted to send you a word of thanks. It has many interesting articles in it. I : l only hope that you are able to I have seen a lot of the effects keep up the good work of publish- of war and they are not exaggerat-| ing the paper, for I know that all ed in the stories you read or see in the fellows who receive the Post the movies. There are some pris-| like it very much. I used to get oners of war camps around, and of: the Posts from Ralph Parsons after all the Hitler supermen I saw, I he read them, so then I sent for am not too impressed. ° | it. Although I am not with Ralph I will close, once again hoping POW: I get the Post myself and it that the Post will catch up with me Means a lot to get it, too. I read soon. I will try and keep you in- those letters from different fellows formed of my changes of address. it the service and I notice some of Yours truly, ’ the fellows are close to me, so Col John Stofkor | maybe I will meet up with them. ‘@ From pictures we've seen in I have been overseas for 16 the newspapers the winter weather months and Ralph Parsons is the along the French frontier is pretty only fellow I met that I knew back rugged, Johnny. Hope you have a home. If possible, I would like to good warm place to bunk and that have Allen Pritchard’s address. He your Christmas will be a safe and and I were very good friends back pleasant one.—Editor. there and I would like very much to write to him. I hope that this war will be over soon so I can go back to my wife and baby in Ala- Three Months In France Dear Editor: I have been a long time getting around to let you know my change of address. Here it is nearly three now 14 months old. So, you can months since I landed somewhere see I have a lot to come back to. in France and am just getting a- I will close for now. { round to it. Hope you don’t mind, Ajeryesincerely, { me taking so long. But, I guess Arthur Lasher, Jr. you have a slight idea how things Postmaster, Calif. : are on this side of the pond. le The boys down at Shell Evans’ I have received two papers so Drug Store often speak about you, far and certainly was glad to get Art, and keep checking up on me them. One of them was an Aug-i to be sure your name is on the ust issue and the last one is Sep- mailing list. I'm going to take a tember. I don’t think there was chance and give you Alan’s address. a word in either paper that I didn’t Here it is: Alan Pritchard read. In fact, most of it I read 3605066, 155th Gen. Hosp. APO over twice. There isn't anything 515 C/O Postmaster, New ‘ York. like reading about the good old Maybe I'll get shot at sunrise for Back Mountain news. Especially that.—Editor. : when you are so far away and; ’ | I i In Hospital Se : Hello Mr. Risley: I have filled ott one of the Free I have sometime on my hands Posts For Soldiers’ form and am’ ) : 3 > : i now that I'm h in sending it in this letter, so guess 2 ® sre the hospital { came overseas and the baby is > so I'm trying to catch up on some there is no need to tell you my long ee ora My change of address. | reason for being where I am is Have to come to a close for this not because of some battle-gotten time. I want to thank you and wound, but because of a simple, your staff once again for sending natural cause like appendicitis. My the Post. There isn’t anyone that (Continued on Page Three) FREE POSTS FOR SOLDIERS Application And Change Of Address Form Date. Soldier's Name Home Address Parents’ Name Address... Telephone Number or nearest Telephone Soldier's Birthday No Free Posts will be sent to any soldier unless this coupon is completely filled out, properly signed by sender and filed at the Dallas Post. : ; fv bama, as I was married before I . \ Month Day Year Agel Teed or Date of Entering Servioe iio. il loi ion ah ee Occupation Before Service... i... on Lin ee School Attended... i ite a sie LEPRE Church Aonded.....0 oi eg If married, wife's maiden mame... ll Soldier's Present Address.......o.... nanan me J ra yas MW : of Submitted by: % 0 Name oi i SS i de id dare el CS LE | ARIEEES wie ionamin SS EE Th Telephone Number or Nearest Telephone No... T fy
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