Marion Sentinel (Newspaper) - March 1, 1945, Marion, Iowa NOT JUST WAR BONDS BUY MORE BONDS 5th The Walker News Consolidated with The Sentinel May 1942 VOLUME 66 MARCH NUMBER 31 Arp Listed Among Those Lost When Prison Ship Sunk More and more this community is feeling the wars terrible By official announcement from the government to his comes word that First Lieutenant Don ald son of and Hen ry of was aboard the Japanese freighter carrying sunk in the Pacific last September by an American sub Several hundred other escaped some to be and aome to have joined the Philippine And aome have found their way back to the Donald entered military service Continued on Page 9 Baptist Church Bids New Pastor Welcome At Thursday Dinner Last Thursday evening the First Baptist church congregation of welcomed its new the Charles of Chica his wife and young with a dinner and recep tion at the Marion About one hundred persons and a few in guests were seated at the decorated with Lager acting as master of The boys sectional basketball tournament is occupying the board floors of the high gym this picking out the teams will go on higher in tournament The first round games are sel dom good In some way the pairings usually pit a fairly The same strong contender against a weak time in this unfortunate But and that proved to be the J case at Marion Tuesday Springville and Alburnett had survived Wednesday The opening game found Wai ford no match at all for Atkins and the score of 8 to 2 at the 20 to 6 at the showed the strength of the two rather than the 37 to 20 Stark with 16 was the star for and Snell was the leader for The second game was between Toddville and Central old time and each team had a goodly bunch of rooters on after a slow proved an easy win ning 32 to The scores were made by Stephenson Bow ers Eaton and Holsinger were also in the French did stel lar work In Central City scores were made by Ford Falcon Zimmerman and An derson Others In the game were Hutchins and The outstanding performers for Central City and the hardest work ers were the three busy girls who acted as cheer They did not waste a displayed good made themselves heard as well as and really deserved to take home a They were Joanne Mildred Johnson and Betty The last game between Palo and was by far the best in the with the lead changing several ending with a palo 37 to a re turned soldier with overseas exper cut quite a swath for He is bigger and older than most of his playing Wednesday nights four games drew a larger and saw some exciting Atkins outclassed Toddville in the open ing leading from the start and winning easily 49 to It will be well to watch Stark In Fridays game with In the second game Palo start ed like a winner and had a 7 to 2 lead the first but Nor way came back strong in the sec ond stanza and won 44 to though Langton of was the high man of the tournament so with 20 But the battle between Center Point and Springville was the one people came to Both teams had ample support or each with cheer and there was tenseness in every moment of the with more defense than drew first and kept the lead until the final The DEBATE TEAM TO WAUKON Marion high school ig sending a team to Waukon Satur ay to compete in the northeast of the Iowa Forensic which is to settle the ques on that the voting ge should be lowered to 18 The negative team from Mai ion vill be Barbara Seger and Louise The team is ranees Ford and This will be a round robin debate vith plenty of and tie winners will get to compete in he state contest at Iowa City the ast week in Marion will have one certain cn ry in the final Helen an oratorical has already been certified as an ora ory three quarters were Continued on Page 16 Legion Post Will Entertain School Athletes March 9 Marion American which annually does some thing nice fo high school boys who carry on in will enter tain all the athletic men of the basketball and on Friday March Usually this entertainment takes the form of a but this year the event will be staged at the high school and will be a dancing with the Legion furnishing the orchestra and the A good orchestra has already been and Legion men will be on hand to show the young peo ple how to have a good case they do not already know Implying the hope that the new pastor had come to La expressed the hope that it would be a long time between such The program opened with con led by Miss Helen with Lager quist at the Miss Lager quist later sang a and other musical features of the evening were songs by a ladies composed of Nelson Miner Henry Miss Enic Miner and Miss Betty of Cedar Rapids also a solo by Cedar Rapids man with the kind of a tenor voice you love to The main address of the evening was brought by the Rodney C pastor of Calvary Baptist church in Cedar It was while holding a pastorate in an Illinois town that the Gould was instrumental in leading the Reverend Moore into enure and probably it was through his suggestion that members of the local church first established con with Moore seeking for a The Reverend Gould spoke feel ingly of the young man being in traduced into Marion He little he at tha first that he would late be introducing the Charle Moore to a neighboring congrega tion as its He spoke o the sacred relation existing be tween pastor and urged th people to pray constantly for thei Get before him with you presence and get behind him wit your urged The James spok briefly in behalf of the Congrega tional church in extending a we come to the new th Ira of the Jordan Grove church also extended best wishes and promised Another speaker was William Dyk who has been a very pop ular supply pastor since Reverend Shaw Herbert chairman of the board of also spoke briefly of the happiness of the church in finding one whom they thought would fill their utmost de sires and He mentioned the vote given the Rever end Moore in his call to the church and expressed belief in successful days ahead for Moore responded graciously to all these nice things gave evidence of a vigorous campaign against the forces of evil and promised cooperation in all good Moore also spoke Graduated From Naval Air Gunner School in Florida TWENTYFIVE MEN INDUCTED Twentyfive men answered an call of Linn county lo cal board February Four Marion men were in The group Paul Central City Everett Batcheld Central City Edward Coop Winterset Lumir Swisher Robert Cedar Rapids Lloyd Ely Roy Cedar Rapids Preston Alburnett David Frank of Cedar Rapids William John Marion Ralph Cedar Rapids Forrest Walker Marvin L Cedar Rapids Raymond Wayne Kiek Marion Marion Central City Charles Ce dar Rapids Carl Mt James Marion James Chris Marion Ernest Allen Toddville Ear Central City John Claire Coggon and James Carl Central Band Is To Present Annual Concert At Lincoln Tuesday Eye Next Tuesday night the Marion public is invited to the Lincoln au to attend the annual band The band is smaller than this and is younger in years of but in tonal quality and and excellence o there is nothing the community need be those who take the trouble to go to the will come away with increased pride in what young folk are doing in Mar Seaman First Class Leland of who is raining to become a naval aircrew graduated this week as one of ten honor students in his class at he naval air gunners school t Son of and Clifford the 20 year old bluejacket previously complet ed a technical course at He will next undergo eight weeks operational training at Ban ana as gunner in navy after which he will re his Burns was congratulated at gradu tion by Commander Dole commanding officer of the gunners for his honor grade and marksmanship with aerial He enlisted in the navy April Ration Points Up On Cheaper Meats Some Fruits Raised The OPA has been busy and we poor folk who eat the cheaper cuts of meat will have to pay more in points beginning Mon While the point cost of the better steaks and roasts are re chuck will cost 6 points in stead of and flank will cost 10 instead of On the other hand you can now buy sirloin steaks for 9 points instead of 12 while the poor mans is hiked to 6 points instead of is a point general with bacon increased from 4 to 6 and ham from 8 to 10 Most processed fruits are a can of or or fruit cocktail that took 30 blue points now takes with 270 foi a 10 The only fruit tha is cheaper is canned But then who wants to buy apples in a LIONS TOLD OF RED CROSS JOB The Marion Lions Tuesday night heard John of Cedar make a darn good talk on the Red so much a plea for but telling something of what the Red Cross is how it does and something of the great need for such One of the reasons we are mak ing such a remarkable showing with the recovery of our wounded n this per due to lood This is strictly a Red Cross project Death from wounds is largely due from plasma administered early alleviate Blood for plasma purposes does not need to be Blood from a negro or Indian is equally but is the blood plasma idea in the first place is directly due to the research of a negro The blood from donors is sent to processing all the corpuscles the serum dried and carefully sealed into containers together with the nec essary quantity of pure water and a and is ready to be into the veins of the wounded by any first Another Red Cross service is to the more than American prisoners now held in prison camps in foreign It often offers their only hope and comfort in their dark hours of suffering and The Red Cross helps through the letters and pack ages from helps with toilet It also offers a mighty service to a million of Allied pris of war in prison Much of the Red Cross work is being done and to be done here at getting information through to parents from absent and for soldiers about loved ones on this When all other sources fail the Red Cross is call ed Its work is caring for unfortunate and incapable relatives of soldiers at home is in itself ft great And one of the will be to help care for the returning soldier who needs help of any kind reestablish him as a useful This iob will last for many no matter when the war briefly and gave evidence of abili ty to be a pastors help Marion Lost Final Game to Monticello Last Friday Night final WaMaC confer ence basketball game with Monti cello last Friday night ended rath er ingloriously in a 26 to 33 Marion would have won it could they have found some place to have successfully hidden that first which ended 2 to They must have been scared of those big Monticello They held Mon ti to 4 points in the second quar But it is all and wo were licked so why dwell on the The junior game was a different The Marlon freshmen play ed a mighty nice game and won out 23 to Page made 9 points and McConaughy 8 Marion is tied for second from the In the conference for this Garrison Victim Of HitRun Driver Monday Morning If manager ol the Marion Cleaners and Launder is not already well coverei with accident he shouk be a good prospect for a For the second time this month he has been in an auto accident Very early Monday 3 he was crossing Sev avenue at Tenth he was struck by a car coming from the and knocked to one sid like a When he picked himself up in a condl the car was rapidly vanishing down the the driver no stopping to see what the damages Garrison says that he saw the car coming as he was crossing and leaving plenty of lee way for the but for some reason it took a swerve directly towards He landed on his shoulder for one of them Is badly and there are oth er sore He had been over to the to start the fires under the boilers to have heat ready when the work force Cub Scouts Given Awards At Meeting Held Monday Night At a meeting of Cub Scout pack held in Legion hall Monday awards were given a num ber of the cubs for advancement Ray Long was received into the pack Awards announced by were as fol lows Larry Silver arrow and gold arrow for wolf badge Rich ard gold arrow for bear badge Richard wolf badge Jerry wolf badge Russell silver arrow for wolf badge and gold arrow for bear badge Floyd wolf badge Roger wolf badge Donald wolf badge James silver arrow for bear Leslie wolf badge fil bert wolf badge Charles wolf badge David wolf badge Philip wolf badge Edwin bear badge Jim gold arrow for wolf Iowa City Program Friday at the school assembly the entertainment and pro gram will be furnished by the stu dent body of the University high school of Iowa The pro gram will consist of a At future date Marion will be obli gated to put on a similar program at Iowa
