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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1943
Page
6
Friday the Mizpan Chapter held an installation led by Mr Cooper manager Lena Jeffer son and narahall Hazel Lytle. Refreshments were served by two captains Vera Wetrich and Gladys Rudloff. The next meeting on Christmas featured a party with a gift exchange.
A wave of community notices covers meetings and events in Huron. Degree of Honor Juveniles and Sunday B of R units schedule gatherings, while Lincoln PTA hosts carols and a book review. WAC Charlotte Lenzner overseas dispatch brings family news.
Ensign Alice E Terrill of the SPARS will visit Hur on Monday to interview young women for Coast Guard reserve service. Applicants meeting basic enlistment requirements may test at the XWCA cottage and, if successful, travel to Omaha for further evaluation and possible swearing in. Training in Palm Beach or Florida may follow, with assignments in office work or various support roles.
Over 300 attend the Last Man's Club annual meeting of the American Legion in Huron. William Heavis: Fest No. 7 featured pheasant dinners and guests including furloughed servicemen and army aviation students with Lt. James Conlon. Treble Clef girls sang as L. H. Cornell presided and Henry Van derhart spoke.
Highest temperature record for this date and the lowest on record are noted. Precipitation totals for the month and year to date are given with normal comparisons. Sun rise and set times are listed. Forecast calls for fair conditions in the west, cloudy in the east with snow flurries this afternoon, then colder with strong winds tonight. Huron expects partly cloudy today, cooler tonight, and a fair Saturday with lows 10 to 20 degrees.
The report details widespread devastation in Oberhausen Cologne and Berlin from Allied air raids. It cites 15 20 thousand killed and 350 thousand homeless, with factories and railway property severely damaged and mass evacuations and flight to the countryside.
Born to Mr and Mrs Mike Hofer of Yale a son weighing eight pounds ten ounces at 12 15 Thursday afternoon December 8 in a Huron hospital. The baby arrives as community notes mention other local items and ads.
Lt. Herbert Bowden of the Air Wac recruiting team visited Huron this week to urge South Dakota women to enlist 843 for combat support roles in the U S Army Air Forces. He said qualified women can serve and will be trained for technical jobs shaping postwar aviation careers. The team invites Borrows residents to the Post Office Building room four headquarters from 8 30 a m to 9 Beth.
Altar Society members gathered at Mrs. Ed Hottcher’s home in Highmore on Tuesday evening for a social with a brief business meeting. Bingo games followed, with white elephant prizes awarded to winners and Mrs. John Hardesty assisting the hostess.
Hans E. Holien 77 longtime Aberdeen resident and Brown County commissioner was honored in funeral services held Wednesday in Aberdeen.
In Blunt, the local Farmers Union voted in officers for the coming year. President is V. Van Der Kolk and secretary is Guy Carey.
Uniform notes from South Dakota and beyond list soldiers on furloughs at home or newly arrived. Chuck Lamp at Perrin Field Texas spends a 30 day leave with parents. Pvt Russell Levien visits from the University of Oregon for seven days with his family. William Kirsch left for Camp Hahn after a furlough with relatives. Raymond Whalen’s address is AP0 New York. Elmer Bush arrived overseas. Cadet Jim Bush returns from Manhattan Kansas with Betty Amo and Inez Bush visiting. Sgt Blaine Rosenberger in North Africa hospitalized with jaundice.
The War Department released the names of 513 U S soldiers wounded in action. From South Dakota entries, individuals include Pvt Felix G Cowan and Pvt Henry J Gronau along with relatives listed in notices from Madison and Milbank. Other names reference residents of Sisseton and Herrick with family contacts provided.
Cedar Rapids Gazette special correspondent Tom Treanor quotes a Huron soldier and Private Kopplin from Nebraska Avenue about Neapolitan kindness. The dispatch notes how Italians in Naples readily offer candy to American soldiers as a sign of friendship.
Two thousand ships sighted off the United States coast according to naval state communications as tense tension rises along shore. Official sources confirm ongoing maritime activity and vigilance near harbors and busy routes.
Senator Bushfield in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Wickard expressed strong disagreement with a 10 percent capital gains resale tax he says would harm farmers. He argues most midwest land sales are farmer to farmer as they recover land lost in hard times and calls for no tax on these transfers.
Grain producers from the northwest spring wheat belt will gather for the sixth annual stockholders meeting of the Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association at the Lowry Hotel in sv. The guest speaker is W. A. MacLeod director of publicity for the Canadian cooperative wheat producers in Winnipeg Manitoba.
The column argues a Muscovite mission in Sofia signals potential shifts in the Balkans. It notes Bulgarian steadfastness, Hitler’s Balkan troop build up, and the risk to the Nazi southern flank if the Balkans destabilize, with implications for the Russian front and a possible Allied invasion of France.
Frances Carey worthy matron of Ris ing Sun Chapter OES hosted officers at a 6:30 dinner at the chapter hall. The table displayed a rose centerpiece and nut cups with home made candies as favors for the guests. The regular session followed the dinner.
Reports describe the world’s largest frogs called go liaths grown for consumption. Their bodies reach about two feet in length excluding powerful hind legs.
Clifton reports show air offensives crippling German industry and morale. Major targets include Krupp works, Dusseldorf, Emden, Bremen, Lubeck, Rostock, Kiel, SS Hamburg shipyards, with extensive destruction and high homelessness rates. Submarine bases suffer from utility shortages, reducing output to about 20 percent efficiency.
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