Local Notes Show Holiday Visits Across Pella Area
Ottumwa visitors A. Sadler and daughter Lita join Sunnyside guests. Ter Velt family from Des Moines stay with Pictenpols. Central College staffer Kooiker enjoys holidays at Hull Town. Many relatives travel from Sioux City Sioux Falls and Des Moines to celebrate Christmas with Pella residents. Military families reunite as Philip Sybenga and others on leave visit home. Central College and area residents attend church events and plan travels for new year.
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Charles Sadler
Lita
Ottumwa
Sunnyside
Alvin Ter Velt
Allen
W Dex Moines
Pictenpol
News from the Home for the Aged Holiday Visits Gathered
The Home for the Aged recounts numerous visits by relatives and friends to residents including Mr. and Mrs. De Jong, Den Hartog families, Van Zee, Keuning, and others from Peoria Knox ville Holland Michigan Grand Rapids Osceola and Des Moines. Gifts arrive from Jake Verduin Platte Vande Voort and Dr. Fox as Christmas cheer is shared.
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Martin de Jong
Tom Vander Hart
P. Jonker
John de Jong
Peoria
P. de Jong
Joe van Baalen
Dirk Rietveld
Anne de Bruin
Anna de Vries
Knoxville
C. de Leeuw
Holland
Michigan
Almere van Gorp
Grand Rapids
Sully
John de Vries
Walter Heyveld
Cornie Roordu
Gertie Vogelaur
M. Ver- 108
Henry Keuning
Monroe
Pvt
Walter Lepeliuk
Gerrit Gosseliuk
Earl Klein
Kansas City
Arthur Kaldenberg
Des Moines
Cornie Roorda
J.P. Klein
Cornie van Zee
Ruth Keuning
R. Keuning
G. Bosma
Nick Dykstra
Oskaloosa
Sarah van Ryswyk
Ben Jansen
Gerrit Marinus
Tom Vander Linden
Andrew van Houweling
Peter Lubberden
Delos Vanden Berg
Neal den Besten
Fulton, Ill
Walter Ver Dught
Dorothy Ver Dught
Wm. den Hartog
Joe Vanden Berg
G. W. den Hartog
Gene
W. den Hartog
B. Welle
Joan of Newton
Henry Welle
Jake Verduin
Platte’s
Vande Voort
Mrs. C. Fox
Beth Kempkes
Washin
Veterans' reassignments and recreation program in Hot Springs hotels
Service men undergo physicals and updates to records including back pay before interviews for job reassignment. Army hotels in Hot Springs host a broad program of athletic, recreational, and entertainment activities. Diligent planning ensures military duties fit into a few hours per day and wives share hotel rooms at low cost. Mrs Swank travels with her husband to Hot Springs.
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Hot Springs
Van Duren Couple Learn Son Reached England
Mr and Mrs A A Van Duren of Bil North BSt Oskaloosa Ta received a letter from their son Lt Henry W Van Duren stating he arrived in England during service in the Army Air Corps. Van Duren is a Pella High School graduate and attended Central College before joining the Army Air Corps as a B 2 pilot.
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Dave Welle
Ft. Madison
Pella
Helene
David Jr
A. A. van Duren
BIL North Bst
Oskaloosa, Ta
Henry W. van Dueren
England
van Duren
Pella High School
Central College
Army Air Corps
JAMES KOOPMAN SENDS HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM SOUTH PACIFIC
The Chronicle received a holiday greeting card from Baker 1/c James Koopman dated December 12 1944 from the South Pacific It expresses thanks for home paper service and wishes a Merry Christmas plus hopes to see everyone soon The message includes a poem wishing peace and happiness with victory.
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Ber
James Koopman
South Pacific
The
Chronicle
Baker
Jimmy
Pilot Lt Billy Core Nears Navy Air Medal Milestone
Publicly honored veteran Lt William Core, a Perth native and former Central College student, has flown eighteen missions in the Pacific with the Seventh Air Force. He earned the Air Medal for numerous strikes on Japanese bases and the Purple Heart for wounds from Marianas bombardment. In a letter to Mrs. B D Gee, Core recounts a dawn air raid, intense anti-aircraft fire, and witnessing a Japanese bomber explode at close range as allied forces attacked the Marianas and nearby volcanic islands.
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William
Billy” Core
Perth
Central College
Knoxville Express
Core
Seventh Air Force
Jap Island
Marianas
Bowen
Volcanic
Unclear extract hints at wartime supply delays and missions
Fragmentary text references slow strikes and a goal of twenty five by year’s start. Mentions water, the Pacific, and weather. Includes a hopeful line about hello to someone and Lt Core in good health eager to complete missions.
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Pacific
Core
William G Louwsma Misses Winter Weather at Sea
William George Louwsma serves in the Pacific theater after boot camp and a 15 day leave. He travelled from Farragut Idaho to the navy shoemaker station in California and is now somewhere in the Pacific noting cold and heat. His address appears as William George Louwsma 2/e FPO San Co Calif.
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William George Louwsma
Farragut
Taho
Shoemaker
California
Pacific
William George Sma
Sanco
Calif
Dors
Leighton PFC Raymond Den Hartog Wounded in Germany
PFC Raymond G D Den Hartog son of Mr and Mrs J Den Hartog of Leighton was slightly wounded Nov 30 in Germany. He sent a telegram to his parents via the War Department and wrote two letters, though he did not disclose the wound’s nature. A Central College student he joined the Army March 10 1943 after training at Camp Barkley Lafayette College Virginia Tech and Camp Claiborne. He went overseas in October and was in England before Germany.
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Raymond G. D
den Hartog
Leighton
Germany
War Department
Don Hartog
Central College
Army
Camp Barkeley
Texas
Lafayette College
Easton, Paly
Virginia Polytechnical Institute
Blacksburg
Camp Claiborne
den ‘Hartog
England
Oskaloosa Herald En Hartox
Marine corporal returns to Harrison Township on leave
CPL. MELVIN VAN ZANTE of the Marines is on a thirty day convalescent leave at home in Harrison Township Mahaska County after service in the Central Pacific. He helped in Guam and Tinian, was wounded, and is currently at Great Lakes Illinois. He voted on Tinian Island for the first time and found both his father and mother on local ballots, noting civilian life feels strange but promising. He is over six feet tall and remains a sturdy Marine.
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William Vander Lugt
Central College
University of Indiana At Bloomington
Jellema
Vander Laggt
Vander Lugt
Central
Jennie Harrison
Mitchellville
Bap
John C. Hiemstra
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
John Dwayne
Pella
Harry Barnes
Omaha
Nebraska
Nellie Vander Wilt
Home For
Russell van Zante
D. A . Township
Mahaska County
Melvin van Zante
Marines
Melvin
Pacre
Guam
Tinian
Great Lakes
Illinois
van Zante
Tinian Island
Truste
Harrison Township
Prince Hezekiah and Hepzibah Romance in Kidron Valley
A dramatic biblical tale follows Prince Hezekiah of Judah who meets Hepzibah in the Kidron Valley near Jerusalem. The story unfolds through stormy romance and peril as fate tests their devotion. Claire Niesen portrays Hepzibah in the production titled The Light of the Claire Miesen World airing weekdays at 9:15 am.
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Hezekiah
Judah
Hepzibah
Claire Niesen
Kidron Valley
Jerusalem
Claire Miesen
New Year Radio Lineup Features Burns and Allen
Local listings advertise George Burns and Gracie Allen starting Mondays at 7:30 p.m. on KBNT with the first show that night, plus Tulsa and Miami sports call-ins by Ted Husing and Jimmy Dolan. Other programs include Elmer Blurt, Grace Lenard on Crime Doctor, Radio Readers Digest, Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood, and Hedda Muppet sessions on KRNT.
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George Burns
Gracie Allen
KBNT
Kent
Tulsa
Golden
Georgia
Ted Husing
Jimmy Dolan
Miami
Grace Lenard
KRNT
Hedda Hopper
Hollywood
Filmland
Hedda Muppet
Radio Operator Serves With Transport Wing in England
Pfc Arthur D Vriezelaar of Otley Iowa serves as a flying radio operator with Air Service Command Transport Wing in England. The unit flies gasoline ammunition blood plasma signal equipment and automotive parts to front line bases in Europe and evacuates wounded on return trips aboard Douglas transports and converted Fortresses.
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Air Service Command
England
Arthur D. Vriezelaar
Ottey
Iowa
Air “Service Command
Douglas
Vriezelaar
Arthur Vriezelaar Otley native joins Army radio unit
The son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Vriezelaar of Otley Arthur Vriezelaar graduated from Monroe High School Iowa in 1937. He attended Central College Pella and worked for Orcutt Hybrid Corn Co. before entering the Army in February 1943. He completed radio operator training at Scott Field Illinois and has been overseas one year.
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Chicago
M Lloyd Warner
Virgil
Whiting Engineering Co
Chicago University
Pella
Uated
Monroe High School
Monroe
Iowa
Central College
Orcutt Hybrid Corn Co
Art
Scott Field
Ilinois
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