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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1943
Page
1
Dentonians were set to meet Seaford Sunday at the local grounds starting at 3 o’clock. Ft. Miles failed to appear last Sunday with no reason given, while Seaford prepared to face the Nylon team in a campus matchup as the Nuttle squad will host Army teams in upcoming Saturday games.
Ezra B. Whitman announces the Romancoke Claiborne ferry will halt operation on September 15 after two years of losses surpassing 100000. The service carried no freight or passengers, while the Bay ferry to Matapeake remains profitable. A new Sandy Point terminal will open between October 15 and November 1, cutting Matapeake distance to four miles and reducing trip time to about twenty minutes.
The Weather Bureau notes the year’s peak warmth occurred on Tuesday with 99 degrees, after a 77 degree start and oppressive humidity around 82 percent. The day’s high was recorded at 4 45 p m and followed a June 26 near 67 degree reading.
Letters from July 1945 reveal Lindsay Clendaniel, son of George W. Clendaniel of Denton, leaving St John’s College in junior year to enlist as an aviation cadet. Training began in Ellisville Mississippi then Athens Georgia, now in Memphis Tennessee with a brother serving in North Africa and another brother finishing a year’s service.
In Jewisonville Florida the Navel Aw Technical Training Center is now under C. H. . with alumni spread through the school and stations. Alfred Smith F38e and Vernon Patson S2c join the aviation training ranks while William Behlke USMC class ’10 and Gilbert Pip pin S2c and Gilbert Emerson S2c in class ’12 and ’10 move through Aviation Machinist Mate's School. The group, still studying hard, sends a greeting to home folk.
Oscar Everett Kelley Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. Kelley, moved from Goldsboro to Denton and joined the U S Navy in 1937 at age 20. He serves as a diesel engine instructor in Cleveland Ohio, after graduating Greensboro High School in Caroline County. His brothers John Osmond and Clinton Ray Kelley also enlisted, serving with amphibian forces in North Africa and the Seabees in Honolulu. He has a wife Eleanor Edwards and daughter Gail Lee, residing in Cleveland.
A letter received by Mrs. T Tester Towers in Denton from her sister Lieut Pauline E Adams of the Army Nurses Corps describes life in Australia in July 1923. Adams notes broadcasts by Bing Crosby Dinah Shore and Glen Gray and mentions leave in Sydney calling it a fine Americanlike city.
Two men from Company A of the Caroline County unit of the Maryland State Guard were promoted to sergeants at the recent Fort Meade encampment. J A Kormunph of Ridgely and Thomas Cruikshank of Denton earned sergeant stripes, with other promotions for G D Neal Otis H Wharton G B Heald J Frank Lane Jr and F H Roberts.
Ordnance Pvt. Frederick W. Hickman son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hickman of Greensboro Maryland was drafted March 10 1943. He trained at Fort Meade Kearns Utah Hammer Field Fresno Hamilton Field and is now with the 2066th Ordnance Company stationed at Paine Field Everett Washington. He hopes for a furlough with relatives and friends back home.
Honorable discharge awarded to Emory F Walston of Denton for physical disability after service from Ft Meade to Ft Custer and Ft Devens where illness led to medical discharge. He returns home to resume duties with State Roads Office and had been elected Denton Volunteer Fire Company president awaiting next meeting.
Service Shorts Burdette Nuttle of Denton is ordered to report to Princeton University on Aug 16 for a six week gunnery and navigation course after his ensign commission. Since 1934 he has worked with Nuttle Lumber Co. He is the son of Mrs Frederick B Nuttle and the late Mr Nuttle, and he has a wife and daughter. Madeleine C Cooper of the WAVES, on short leave, spent time at home in Denton before duty at Pensacola. She recently graduated from the Naval Air Technical Training Center at Norman OK and holds Aviation Machinist Mate third class. Her brother, Lieut Ernest G Cooper, is stationed at Pensacola. Ensign John Webster Smith visited his parents in Federalsburg. he has served aboard a mine sweeper in the Atlantic and will attend the US Naval Mine Warfare School at Yorktown VA. Ensign Smith’s wife will accompany him. Cpl James W Steward of Yuma AZ is home on furlough with his parents near Greensboro.
Venton Rotary Club announces committee appointments for the coming year led by president Beata of Wicvetus Cemre W. Beck and a large slate including George W. Beck T. Corner Crouse Fred Asilton and Rev. Francis J. Hensel. Committees cover Aims and Objects Club Service Vocational Service Community Service International Service and more with numerous members named across roles and chairs.
Old St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Cordova Maryland hosts the annual tournament on Wednesday September 1. Activities include a morning horse show and afternoon riding and jousting, crowned by Queen of Love and Beauty chosen from top points. Country dinners served by parish ladies. Senator Wilmer Davis delivers the coronation address. Don Riley to give the knight charge. Slaughter trophy presented by Mayor Joe Barnes.
The mobile unit of the Army and Navy blood donors service, Baltimore Chapter of the American Red Cross, will visit Denton and Federalsburg in October to collect blood plasma for the war wounded. Denton’s Daw son O. George and Federalsburg’s Herman Noble lead local committees with Mrs. William F. Wolf chairing the Caroline County Chapter. In Denton the unit aids donors from upper and middle Caroline, in Federalsburg from Preston and Federalsburg and nearby areas. The team can process six donors every fifteen minutes, about 150 daily.
Governor Herbert R. OConor announced Maryland reduced bonded indebtedness to 33.619 million by June 30, down from 48.157 million on January 11, 1939, due to wartime deferrals and restrained capital spending. Bond issues totaled 6.596 million with 21.134 million redeemed over 4.5 years, while real estate tax fell from 23.35 to 12 cents per hundred, aiming to eliminate taxes.
Mr Clem Melaney of Bridgeville Delaware formerly of Denton a carpenter working for Rufus Wright near Harrington swallowed a nail while coughing the nail slipped down his throat. He coughed for an hour then resumed work. After seven hours the nail emerged while he was lighting a cigarette. The nail measured one inch and a quarter. He felt no lasting effects and considers himself lucky, vowing to avoid chewing nails.
Clayton Wessell, 18, died after a brief brain infection at his Templeville area home. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Busie Church near Templeville with Rev. A. H. Ruark of Dover and Rev. Horace Carter of Wilmington presiding. Burial followed in Templeville cemetery. He leaves his parents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wessel and one sister.
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