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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1944
Page
1
Bond drive in Carroll County narrows gap to within 50 000 dollars of the 729 700 dollar Fifth War Loan quota. Farmers and individuals urged to invest as farm solicitors push to complete solicitation. counties statewide lag behind.
Letter excerpts describe harsh train travel for civilians during wartime, with soldiers on furlough receiving favorable Pullman service and meals. Crowded stations, long lines, and tight security at Los Angeles Union Station are noted, while personnel in England share brief updates from home including a dentist to a dental hospital and soldiers reading while stationed overseas.
Two Delphi youths, Staff Sergeants James R. Clifford and Robert E. Baum, served on a task force of the 15th American Air Force in Italy for the first US shuttle mission to Russia. They flew B 17 sorties from Italy to Hungary and Romania, then to Russia, and back to Italy. Clifford, a waist gunner from Delphi, and Baum, an armorer gunner from Delphi, have substantial combat records and family ties in Delphi. Rev Wilbur Day, former Delphi Methodist pastor, spent time in Battle Ground with his family visiting Methodist work.
Carroll County Young People sponsor a vesper and campfire at Delphi city park on Sunday July 23 at 8 30. Rev H C Stolldorf of Holy Trinity Lutheran Lafayette will speak. Devotions around the fire, musical numbers, community singing, ice cream and cake social, candle light close. Bring blankets. In rain, move to shelter house. Attendance urged for all ages and leaders.
Hundreds attend funeral of 2nd Lt Robert A Balser at Delphi Methodist church for the flyer killed when his C47 cargo plane crashed near Oneida Lake Syracuse New York. Military honors given at Masonic cemetery with local American Legion members and firing squad.
Lorabell Gustin died after an eight month illness at her home in Lenoir Tennessee. Funeral services were conducted at Lester funeral home Flora at 3 o clock last Thursday. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Will Gustin a former Flora resident. Her father formerly served on the Logansport police force. Survivors include her parents a brother a sister and an uncle. Burial was in Zion cemetery.
Miss Mary Haun daughter of Mr and Mrs Chase Haun of Lafayette former Burlington residents has graduated from Hunter College New York as a WAVES member. She is among 30 picked from 1800 to serve on shore patrol for two weeks before permanent assignment. Mr and Mrs Jack Norris of Chicago visit here with the latter's parents Mr and Mrs Frank Norris.
Howard Gish among 239 IU students named to the scholastic honor roll for the second semester of the past school year announced by Assistant Registrar Charles E. Harrell. Gish placed in the junior division with 48 students in the top one percent and 191 in the next nine percent.
Delphi community canning center, the first of its kind in the state, installs new cooking kettles two electric sealers hot water bath gear and 15 000 tin cans. Washing vats lowered for convenience and blanching vats enlarged. Center operates by appointment. contact Paul Carney at phone 77.
The Globe Valve softballers of Delphi edged Logansport 3 to 2 with a late eighth inning run on Delphi’s diamond. B Goyer had two hits for Delphi and W Chapman hit a homer for Logansport. Lehman scored twice for Logansport as they led 2 1 after four innings before Delphi tied it in the sixth and won in extra innings.
Following the Saturday factory fire in Delphi Indiana workers may file unemployment compensation claims on Thursday July 20 at 1 30 PM in the Carroll County Court House assembly room Delphi A special representative will handle work registrations and claims Registrants may be referred to nearby towns if local jobs are unavailable Benefits range from five to eighteen dollars weekly eligibility requires availability to work ability to work and insured earnings prior to unemployment protection under the federal program
Carroll county youths preparing for a July 22 to 25 4-H camp at Camp Tecumseh with twenty nine registrants from Carroll and nine neighboring counties. Funds from a forthcoming community auction will go toward paying the Delphi Sea Scout launch Raymond Brookshire bought for 200 dollars. Scout leaders Hubert Van Slyke and Clyde Robbins note a busy schedule including morning drills, boating and dining duties.
Lt Col Howard V. Hiett U S Marine Corps of Lafayette was wounded on Saipan June 17. Letter from at sea states a hip injury from a shell and evacuation to a base hospital seems likely. Mothers of World War II urge donations of plain white handkerchiefs for Atterbury Hospital Indiana with a July 27 collection at Quick and Clifford and a meeting.
Charles Flagler of Delphi has joined WKMO Kokomo Indiana as commercial sales manager after resigning from General Electric. He will continue to broadcast for Med O Bloom each evening at 5 30 p m. The Flaglers are well known in the area for their entertainments. Lawrence Drake returns to Farmersburg after a week with his brother Ben Drake and Mrs Drake in Delphi.
Charles E. Moore and Gordon J. Moore are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Moore of Delphi. Charles, 24, has four years in the Navy since 1940 and served on the USS Maryland at Pearl Harbor. He later served on the USS Pathfinder in the Southwest Pacific. Gordon, 23 this August, left for Camp Shelby with the Delaware national guard in 1941 and served at Camp Carabelle Florida Camp Livingston La and Hawaii. He is married with a daughter Rosellen.
Lieutenant Loyal D. Hoshaw has returned with his wife Mrs. Hoshaw and their son Bud and daughter in law to Rensselaer from Los Angeles where they had been since November 1942 after his discharge from the coast artillery anti aircraft branch at Fort Bliss Texas on July 1 He was formerly Delphi junior high principal and later Rensselaer high school principal and is staying temporarily at the Hoosier Inn Their son Lt Charles Hoshaw is stationed somewhere in the South Pacific.
Clarence McKinley of Delphi received the Purple Heart posthumously awarded to his brother Sgt. John H. McKinley. John H. McKinley was listed missing after Corregidor fell in May 1942 during World War II. He had served thirteen years with the U S Army Air Corps before being sent to the Philippines.
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Delphi street department barn behind the former Quick property on Front street. Lost were a concrete mixer, street-cleaning gear, a fire hose cart, and many track hurdles from the Delphi high school athletic department, plus $22 of scrap paper. Insurance coverage reduced the loss. The alarm came at 1:30 a.m. Monday from Indiana Service Corporation employees.
Mr and Mrs Louis Neibert of Frankfort announce the marriage of their daughter Bernele to Charles Coghill son of Mr and Mrs Ortiff Coghill of Delphi. The wedding occurred Sunday July 9 in Delphi. The couple will reside in Lafayette where he is employed by Standard Oil Company.
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