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Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - December 11, 1945, Oakland, California
12 Oakland Tribune tuesday Deo. 11, 1945 yuletide cheer Hospital need some of the boys who will Gree Christmas from a Hospital bed this year will never Greet another. Some will be too sick perhaps to realize fully the Effort T.A. has been for their happiness. Some will Jook with unseeing eyes on the cheery signs wishing All a merry the present wrapped in Gay paper May go unopened the Ward parties and the entertainment unnoticed. To some of the men boys no longer it will be another Milestone in a Long fight against tuberculosis a fight which in some cases has kept men for More T.A. 10 years in the veterans Hospital at liver Raore. The group of people banded together in the Veteran hos Pital s Christmas committee has arranged for the Holiday of the ill and wounded in Alameda county s five military hospitals Well know T.A. some will die T.A. some will be too ill to know of peace on will to they also know the Worth of a Small bit of cheer the fragrance of a Christmas tree perhaps to a Man no longer can see the sound of or the Happy laughter of other men. They remember the men who died Happy after years of hospitalization because he at last had received the travelling bag he Long had coveted. They remember the Young Marine who breathed his last while an accordion softly played silent for them As Well As for those who will gather around their own fire Side next year Well and Happy the Christmas program has been . The ones who will not get Well share with those who will each will receive his individual present a present which if the. Hopes of people mean anything he will some Day be Able to use and enjoy. For those who cannot leave their Beds travelling acts of entertain ment have been planned along with Ward Christmas parties. A Santa Glaus will visit the boys and music will be of both the hot variety _ and carols of season. Greens decorations and Trees will add to the Holiday background and for the More daring Mistletoe will be Hung in appropriate places. It will be a Christmas week Calm and1 a week in which vet Erans will know Friendship and hospitality and T.A. they have not been forgotten. It will be. A week in which All can participate by sending contrib. Tons to committee Headquarters to make the program possible. Dona be sent or brought to 415 13th Street the Tribune Tower to the veterans memorial building Gold Star Mother Yule fund donor two of the boys who. Carne Back will have a happier Christmas this memory of one who did Tom 2c Byron e. Casey of Hay Ward us uie . Junker .tii.ll. A j Check for from Casey s Mother has been added to the Yule fund of the Veteran a hospitals Christmas committee assuring other mothers sons of the merry Christmas her own son missed. New., contributors or. Jewel Francisco. S5.00 u. C. Meyers. Placerville. 2.50 m. Morcom Novelty shop Oakland. e. B. Switzer s pharmacy Berkeley. 4.00 Mickey s inn Oakland. 5.00 Gall furniture co., Oakland. 4.00 Berkele chapter no. 25. . 5.00 ladies auxiliary Shasta aerie. Eagles Berkeley pump co., Berkeley. 12.00 Sherwood Swan 50.00 Helen c. Lund san Leandro. 2.00 Haeglin Grant Post s21, american lesion. Bio Linda. 15.00 or. A. M. Field san Leandro. 5.00 Yos mitc Post no. 258. American lesion Yos mitc National Park. 18.00 american Luceion auxiliary child welfare fund. 5.00 Edwin a. He agcy. Oakland. 5.00 Dagmar no. 2, Dania ladies society Danne Borer Oakland. 25.00 Willis a. Ward. M.d., 5.00 Emory l. Hammond Oakland. Murphy motor co. Oakland.50.00 Oakland High p.-t.a., Oakland. 5.00 Oakland folding paper Box co., 10.00 or. Hobert w. Case . Berkeley 8.00 0. C. Jones sons Berkeley.25.00 Alfred b. Berkove ., Oakland. 5.00 Unity grocery Al Norris proprietor Oakland. 1.00 go rare a. Scott. San Francisco. 20.00 Easuke Oakland kiwanis club. 50.00 Scorce v. Mann Oakland. 5.00 f. Rae Berteaux. Berkeley. 1.50 Lorimer diesel engine co. Oakland 40.00 Jacuzzi bros., inc., Berkeley. 10.00 the Campus Josephine min re Oakland 5.00 Anonymous. Oakland. 1.00 1. San knit co. Oakland.25.00 Nathan Goldwater. Oakland. 5.00 John , ., Oakland. 5.00 a. B. Johnson Oakland. 12.00 Arthur j. Jensen ., Berkeley. 12.00 Anonymous. Berkeley. 1.00 Alfred j. Dana. Decoto. 5.0ft . 5.00 Nehru Ari to male no. 17, daughters of the Nilo. Oakland.25.00 mrs. L a. Struble 1.00 Oakland teachers association. 15.00 Pioneer club of Argonaut. Review is. San la Nitro 6.35 Fruitvale chapter Scowins club. Oak land 50.00 a Friend. J. A., Oakland. 2.50 mrs. H. B. Belden Oakland. 2.00 a Friend. Oakland. 1.00 Glenn l. Tomplins 20, Houston and s in Gerald l. Bergstrom 20, Santa Cruz a radio gunner Are two of the patients at Oakland naval Hospital who Mil have a merry Christmas with your help. Interested now in leather work Tompkins is partially Para lazed from shrapnel picked up at Pel Eliu. Bergstrom was Hurt in a philippine crash. Previously reported.26.670.42 to Date .s27.264.27 Western air names four Oakland agents w. M. Tegerdine station for transcontinental and Western air inc., at Oakland municipal air port yesterday announced the appointment of four new passenger agents at Oakland As part of T.A.s expansion program in the san fran Cisco Bay Region. Appointed were Kenneth Pearson. 780 Vicente Avenue Berkeley a for Mer army air forces b-24 Pilot Victor j. 2130 35th Avenue former . B-29 instructor Rich Ard Sabotka. Formerly with pan american airways and Stanley l. Smith 2240 Macarthur Boulevard former army finance officer. Two Odd Fellows lodges will merge evening Star Lodge no. 263. . O.f., will consolidate with no.270, i.o.o.f., in a Cere Mony thursday at 8 . In the Odd Fulton Street and Bancroft Way Berkeley. Harry g. District Deputy grand master no. 96, has been appointed by Harry b. Dahlem state grand master to effect the Consoli Dation. John Johns jr., Noble grand of the , will Welcome Mem of the Oakland Lodge. . To hear safety expert appearance of John e. Curley director of the Bureau of Accident prevention of san Francisco Public utilities commission As speaker at he monthly membership luncheon of the Oakland chamber of com Merce wednesday will have the Point sponsorship of the Oakland ions club and East Bay chapter of he National safety Council. Curley former Field represent Ive of the International association of chiefs of will speak at Lotel Leamington on traffic mor or Clifford b. Allen chairman of the chamber s membership committee will be chairman of the Day with Gerald h. Hager chamber president John Champion Lions club presi Dent and John f. Hassler safety Council president at the speakers table special guests will include mayor Herbert l. Beach City manager Charles h. Schwanenberg police chief Robert Tracy Lieut. Leslie divine of the traffic division Thomas e. Caldecott chairman of the Alameda county Board of supervisors and the three vice presidents of the Oakland chamber of j. Breuner Orton Lucas and Edgar b. Jessup. How to Aid veterans1 Christmas those who who Are interested in bring no Christmas cheer into the country s military army regional Hospital Oakland the naval hospitals in Oakland san Leandro Shoemaker and the veterans hos vital asked to do so through the veterans contributions May be at committee Headquarters Tribune Tower lobby 415 13th Street or at the veterans memorial building. Two volume set of United nations documents on Sale Berkeley dec. Tion of the United nations charter and related documents in a two volume set costing was Dis closed today by Samuel t. Farquhar manager of the University of California press. The printing at the University comprises an edition of 1000 copies about 500 of which already have been sold. The first volume contains the charter and statute of the inter National court of Justice while the second includes the interim arrangements concluded by the delegations at the san Francisco con Ference. The original copies of these Docu ments were printed at the univer sity press although the Type for three languages English. French and set in san fran Cisco. Omen in san Leandro dec. 11. For the new year will be outlined at a meeting of the san Leandro sportsmen s club tonight at o clock at 1950 Davis Street. Moa Way 11. F m. O k i h 0 our 92nd Tor a
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