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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1945
Page
1
A column explains how U S Navy ship names reflect class and function the Pennsylvania being a destroyer is misnamed and follows a system where battleships bear state names cruisers after cities destroyers officers and enlisted ships and other vessels follow varied naming conventions with occasional wartime exceptions noted.
Pattie Brewer will be guest soloist at the Sunday morning service at St John’s Evangelical Church in Lafayette on July 29. Edith Sanders will accompany on organ. Brewer, a sixteen year old Delphi High School student, sings unusually and has performed at local events and twice for the Purdue University Music Club in Lafayette.
Garl Minnear, previously Cutler school's principal and basketball coach, will become Lucerne schools principal this fall and also teach social studies. His wife Georgiana will teach music and English at Lucerne, having taught at Cutler before. He succeeds Gilbert Smith, who led Lucerne for ten years and resigned to another post.
During a heavy rain Friday evening the home of Mr and Mrs Gurnie Buis in Yeoman caught fire after a lightning strike. The house, owned by Paul Ortstadt of Monticello, suffered melted wiring and several light sockets blown out. Mrs Buis wearables were scorched and Mr Buis sustained light burns while trying to extinguish the blaze.
The 40 acre farm owned by the late Frank Clingenpeel was sold at auction Saturday to Harry Spitler for $240 an acre. Ralph Rinehart acted as auctioneer. Mrs. Mary Haugh and her son Jerre visited Lafayette Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haugh and children Richard Mary Patricia and Stephen.
The Bowman brothers Donald H. and John R. Bowman of Delphi route 3 have finished service in Europe as Army Air Corpsmen and are assigned to the Pacific. Donald flew ten missions on a B-24 Liberator with the Eighth Air Force earning the Air Medal. John completed 42 European missions as a bombardier navigator on B-26 and later flew B-25 and now A-26 in the Pacific. Both are Purdue alumni and Delphi High School graduates.
Carroll County 4-H held judging and demonstrations at Flora Community Building on July 11 with 41 senior and 29 junior girls. Senior winners included Bet ty Spring in food preparation and Melba McIlraith in clothing. junior winners included Sue Ann Landes in judging.
Grace L. Holmes 66 mother of Frank L. Holmes of Flora died last Thursday evening in Flora nursing home after three months illness. Born May 16 1879 in Tippecanoe county daughter of James D. Stranahan and wife of Walter Holmes who died in 1937. Survived by son Frank and four other children James A. Peru Mary Long Cutler Benton T. South Bend Edward N. Peru and six grandchildren. Services Sunday 2 p.m. at Carter Funeral Home Flora led by Rev Louis Kitzmiller burial in Delphi Odd Fellows cemetery.
Rensselaer Ind associates say Representative Charles A. Halleck will return to Indiana about July 20 for conferences and rest. As National Republican Campaign Committee chair and House leader, he plans to tour each county in his district during the stay and will meet Carroll County residents at the Delphi court house on July 26 from 1 30 to 4 p m to discuss legislative business.
Delphi and surrounding area will gain frozen food lockers once the new addition is finished. The structure measures 21 by 66 feet and all equipment has been contracted for. Over 400 residents have already registered for the lockers, the first of their kind here. Alma Peirce has returned home from Logansport hospital where she was treated for rocky mountain spotted fever, a rare disease.
Staff Sergeant James R. Cole, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cole of Delphi, describes bombing raids over Germany from England aboard a B-17. He details March to April missions including Giessen Siegen Berlin Hamburg and others, a risky April 7 fight, and notes on crew endurance and formation flying.
Paul Edward Dishon aged 13 died Monday afternoon from a heart attack suffered two weeks earlier. A Delphi high school student, he lived with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William Roark after birth in Carroll county on August 27 1931. Survived by sister Rachel Joan brother David and several aunts and uncles. Funeral services Wednesday at Pilgrim Holiness church with burial in Odd Fellows cemetery.
Bill Smith yeoman second class USNR of the CASA Administrative Office at Naval Air Station Edenton North Carolina received the Purple Heart last week from Lt Comdr K C Huffman. He served aboard the sea plane tender USS Lapwing during a convoy bound for Russia when off Greenland one enemy submarine surfaced and shelled the AVP on 21 September 1944. Smith recalled I forgot to duck and took shrapnel wounds down his right side. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Smith of Delphi and enlisted July 27 1942 after attending Delphi High School.
The Flora Rotary Club, organized with twenty five members on its charter roster, will observe charter night Thursday July 26 with a banquet and official presentation of the charter in the Flora community building. Philip Lovejoy of Rotary International will give the principal address as delegations from Logansport Peru Kokomo Frankfort Lafayette and Delphi attend.
Children of the Delphi grade schools plan a flower show on August 3 and 4 in the Delphi library basement. Further details will be printed later.
The will of Irvin Flora was probated in Carroll circuit court. It leaves all property to his widow Bertha L. Flora who is named executrix. Viola Barns, housekeeper at Rev Father Paul Andersons residence, is ill in St Joseph hospital Logansport with stomach ulcers. Lucy Baer admitted to St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette for observation and treatment.
Staff Sergeant Robert Leroy Sylvester a 21 year old veteran of the European war, shot himself at his mother's Flora home after returning from 22 months overseas with the 322nd Bomb Group. He was a tail gunner on a B 26, had 65 combat missions, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, and had been honorably discharged for medical reasons. He married Mary Catherine Eikenberry on June 19 and returned to work at the Aluminum Company of America plant in Lafayette. The body was found Wednesday morning after Wayne Lee reported the scene.
Lt. W. A. Peterson of Delphi on leave in the States after serving as a communications officer on Rear Admiral Hendersons staff in the South Pacific. He took part in Paleus Leyte Lingayen Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns and entered the Navy in 1942. Married to Opal Ellen George, he is a Purdue University graduate active in campus groups.
Captain Raymond Todd leaves a ten day leave with parents to enter the University of Virginia for a two month course in Charlottesville. He will then begin a six month program at another university to study languages and other subjects for Allied Military Government work, with a possible assignment to China after completion. Todd spoke at a Delphi Rotary luncheon outlining AMG plans for the Pacific. He has served four years in the Army since his junior year at Purdue University and holds a diploma from the Henry Ford National Youth Foundation.
Joe Sanderson AMM 1c a crew member of the destroyer USS William D. Porter is home on a 30 day leave after his ship was sunk off Okinawa by friendly fire. He is married to Nina Sterrett and is the son of Mrs. Edythe Dickison of Delphi. The Sandersons have two children, Barney Joe and Barbara.
Five year old Wendell Whittinghill, grandson of Mr and Mrs C A Davies of South Delphi, was rushed to the Home hospital Lafayette Wednesday evening after being bitten in the mouth by the fox terrier belonging to Mr and Mrs Ed Wingard. The child was returned home after treatment.
Mr and Mrs Charles Flora of Delphi welcome a son John Marshall born Saturday July 14 at St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette by caesarean section. Also born to Mr and Mrs Lawrence West Flora a daughter Charlotte Sue weighing seven pounds fourteen ounces.
Sgt. Joseph S. Been son of Mr and Mrs Jason Been of Delphi received the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters and the Presidential Unit Citation for months of exemplary service with the Eighth Air Force in the European theatre. Overseas the past year as armorer gunner on a Flying Fortress he completed one two hundred hour tour of deep penetration missions into Germany and part of another when the war ended. He earned a pre Pearl Harbor ribbon Sharp Shooter’s medal Armorer’s Badge Good Conduct medal ETO ribbon three years longevity stripe and silver wings. Enlisted August 1941 trained at many fields including Will Rogers and Lowry. A pilot before service he trained under Capt Lawrence Aretz. A Miami Military Academy graduate and former Delphi National Guardsman, he served with the 390th Flying Fortress Group which has flown over 400 missions and claimed 375 enemy fighters destroyed. His parents expect him home on furlough.
Miss Blanche Zaring Extension Specialist from Purdue will speak to the Economics Club Project Leaders in Delphi at the County Extension Office conference room on Tuesday July 24 1945. The session includes Dressing Windows in 45 and Care and Making of Curtains. Meeting starts 10 00 a m and leaders should bring pencil and paper.
Miss Roberta Ayres of Flora has completed boat training in the WAVES at Hunter College New York and received a medical discharge. She is expected to return home soon.
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