i ~~ J The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, July 27,1994 5 | The wartime nation ran on | Letters St | udents. 1 b; L |] . [ ] | Major Glenn Miller's music priyers: Please slow down [J ee - : and two passengers including > And ih groar army band war . : iller.” orn, under newly-commissione a struggle in Glenn Miller. Hit civilian band’s wh e Nn travel Nn J | | O Nn ee I Ave . 1937 (the Miller band made only first trumpeter, Zeke Zarchy, Don't leave home $200 playing from 8p.m.to3a.m. became the Army Miller band’s Editor; : : J at the Playland Casino in Rye, Ny) first sergeant. Drummer Ray I have a request. Back Moun- people and rural mail boxes. without The Post. J to late 1942 when it disbanded McKinley joined, as did bassist tain residents, please slow down If those commuters to the Back k it: 4 grossing up to $20,000 weekly, Trigger Albert and arranger Jerry on Pioneer Ave. Mountain would observe the law, Use the coupon 4 Jack Hilsher its music was implanted forever Gray. From the Goodman band The speed limit is posted as 35 perhaps other would also. : in the minds of millions. There came pianist Mel Powell, others mph all the way, except between Traffic has been substantially on page 13 to order ? are probably more romantic came from the bands of Artie Newberry and Main St., Dallas. increased because of the highway 3 During the recent D-Day cere- memories associated with Miller Shaw, Harry James, Tommy There it is 25 mph. construction. d school-year @® monies held at the American music than any other kind. Dorsey, Will Bradley and Jan Pioneer Ave. is a residential J.C. Rockla Sg “Cemetery near Cambridge in Miller himself was an unlikely ~ Savitt. street with many children, older Dallas subscription. England, an AirForceband played image of a bandleader - he had During the band’s formative ““In The Mood,” reminding many more of a schoolteacher look. Yet Stage a post commander objected * present of the most popular band ‘of that era - the Glen Miller or- chestra. ' Miller'sname is among the 5126 names listed on a 472-foot “Wall "of the Missing” at the cemetery. On December 15, 1944, his cross- #» channel flight to Bordeaux was ' officially reported missing. Major “Miller was in a Norseman UC-64A aircraft, Serial #44-70285, pow- ered by a Pratt & Whitney radial engine. His companions on the flight were Lt. Col. Norman F. Baesseland Flight Officer John R. Morgan. .. In accordance with the War Department regulations, the re- . quired “Miseing Air Crew Report” Oo was filed in triplicate by the Ab- , botis Ripton command, and Adj. General Ma'cr Albert Buchow “telexed SHAR Hq VIII AF con- firming verbal information that: . “Airplare mussing and unreported "since departure ‘"winwood Field , 1355 for France pilot FO Morgan Pa Tell our » advertisers you . saw them in The Post. o They'll be glad 2 you did, * and so will we. « Computerized Prescription Service + Russell Stover Candies “1 | « Greeting Cards “1 | * PA Lottery Ticket @® | | + Newspapers ‘1 | + Magazines 159 N. Memorial Hwy., Shavertown, PA 675-1191 PHARMACY | | his was a brilliant mind, artistic and imaginative, traits which show up ina letter he wrote to Washing- ton in 1942. Some excerpts fol- low: “...letters and reports all show that the interests of our soldiers and sailors lie in modern, popular music, as played by an orchestra such as ours, rather than in the music to which their fathers lis- tened 25 years ago, and which is still being played by army bands as in World War I days.” “...I should like to go into the army ifI could be placed in charge of a modernized army band. Iam 38 years of age and in excellent condition, registered for the draft but not yet classified. I would suppose ultimately it would be 3A, and I mention this only be- cause my suggestion stems from a sincere desire to do a real job for the army and that desire is not actuated by any personal draft problem..." to those great marching arrange- ments like “St. Louis Blues March.” His argument was, “We played Sousa marches in the last war and we did all right!” Miller fired back with, “Tell me Major, are you still flying the same planes you flew in the last war too?” (Obection overruled!) Famous band chronicler George T. Simon wrote that Glenn Miller was never a man who would or could stand still. 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