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Newspaper
Camden Record News
Location
Camden, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1945
Page
4
Jim Gray, famed with 145 knockouts in 305 fights, rushes to help his ailing son pneumonia by catching a flight but snowbound mountains force him to trek on. He clings to a bell bought for his boy and fights fatigue toward a last round in a perilous, snowbound quest.
A Soviet documentary on Maidanek near Lublin details the death camp’s 144 bar racks and 45 000 prisoner capacity. It cites mass shootings, Zyklon gas, ovens, and vast piles of belongings and remains, with trial scenes and mass burials at Lublin.
J C Yunker of Monroe township won the Carroll County schools superintendent post on the 27th ballot announced by the county board of trustees. A Republican and Hanover and Columbia educated former teacher, he succeeds Democrat Harry Hatton who served eight years.
Local citizens without gardens were urged to obtain plots and others with home or industrial plots to expand. With world food shortages and a Truman statement stressing more and better gardens, planting now can boost winter supplies.
An emergency Indiana OPA local board chairmen advisory committee meeting is set for Friday in Indianapolis with James D. Strickland to accelerate a plan for easing the sugar rationing freeze. Strickland, after conferring with regional officials in Cleveland, will report to a region wide session next Monday on Indiana’s distribution method amid increasing May applications.
The following young men became 18 in May and registered with the Carroll County local board Vernon Hubert Hall Delphi Kenneth Lee Caldwell Camden Jessie Richard Viney Monticello William Hutchel Perkins Canden Gerald Wayne Smith Rockfield.
Capt John B Smith, Philippine scout from Houston Texas, buys War Bonds after three years in a Japanese prison camp. He was wounded on Bataan and lost 55 pounds. Now on a War Bond tour he buys bonds at every meeting, saying civilians jab Hirohito with each purchase.
The Camden Community Churches Boy Scouts meet at the Lutheran church with ten boys reported. Rev George W Schuette was chosen Scoutmaster with Jess Zook and Murry Tesh as assistant leaders. Dr C L Wise elected chairman of the Scout Committee with several members named. A June 8 meeting hosts Rev Aschanhart to aid organization. boys 12 and older invited to join.
The Christian Science Board of Directors addressed the annual meeting in Boston praising California peace conference aims to outlaw war. Mrs Myrtle Holm Smith was elected President, with Roy Garrett Watson reappointed as Treasurer and Mary G Ewing as Clerk, highlighting wartime travel restrictions and the church's focus on divine law guiding world peace.
The Camden Woman's Literary club will be guests of Delphi Woman's club on June 22.
Herbert S. Frye of Pendleton and Howard R. Gift of Camden serve in the 151st Infantry Cannon Company on Luzon. They supported an infantry assault with a rolling barrage, shelling cave mouths to clear enemy positions as the 38th Division advanced to liberate Bataan.
The Atterbury Separation Center discharge list includes Charles F. Segravas of near Deer Creek and Paul Hicks of southwest of here for scoring 85 or more points under the army's adjusted service rating plan.
The 4-H Junior Leaders of Carroll County will meet at the Flora Community building on June 7 at 8 00 P M. They organize into a county group to promote 4 H club work. The first meeting is organizational and for acquaintances.
The Jackson Township Livewire 4 H Club met at Camden school May 24 at 7 45 P M. President Raymond Newby led. eight members attended. Officers' meeting report given. plans for a joint meeting and year program laid out. 4 H pledge and America sung. meeting adjourned. Next meeting set for June 21 at 7 45 P M at Donald Shanks home.
Oak Grove Christian Church hosts a Children’s Day program featuring performances by Bobby Webber, Bobby Fry, Jon Fowler, Nina Long, Molly Ann Leech, Donny Long, Norma Jean Grassmyer, and other students. Activities include songs, recitations, poems, a prayer, and an offering.
Carroll County Local Board No 1 lists twenty seven registrants referred for induction in June including Raymond Seward Lafayette Walter A Skiles Elmo W Dodson and others. An additional group was referred for preinduction examinations in June with names like Robert Eugene Scholl Ross Glen Jr Jordan and Keith Wayne Clawson.
The Jackson township home economics club will meet on the afternoon of June 14 at hostess Mrs. Mary Bryan's home with helpers Mrs. Hilda Edging Mrs. Bernice Wise and Mrs. Blanche Baker assisting. Mrs. Sophia Case to lead devotions and Mrs. Mary Wilson to sing the club song Old Black Joe. Project leaders will present a lesson on Furniture Arrangement.
The Future Farmers 4 H club of Washington township met at Bob Downham's on Friday June 1 at 8 30 PM with president Kenneth Yeakley calling the meeting to order. After roll call, games were played and refreshments served to ten guests. The next meeting is set for Friday June 29 at 8 30 PM at Paul Hile's home.
Certified seed growers who have not sent in their application for certification should do so at once. This applies to wheat oats barley rye clover and bromegrass. Applications for soybeans and lespedera are due by August 1. Application blanks are available at the County Agent's office.
Four year old registered Guernsey cow King's Roe of Carroll Land owned by Richard W. and W. H. Lane achieved a herd improvement record of 9,271.3 pounds of milk and 489.2 pounds of butterfat with twice daily milking over one year. Roe, first daughter of St. James Philosopher's King, was supervised by Purdue University and submitted to the American Guernsey Cattle Club for approval.
Community members and relatives joined Mrs. Sylvia Cripe of Flora for a sixty third birthday celebration at Flora community park featuring a picnic dinner. The event followed Old Settlers Day in Delphi with local school openings planned for September 6.
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