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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
1
Dolton Village Trustees met to discuss funding, road work, and safety upgrades. They asked railroads to station watchmen at Main Street crossings to shield schoolchildren and to address flickering signals.
A Mother’s Day ceremony dedicated the new World War II honor roll on Dolton village hall lawn. Paul Gali Post No 308 American Legion led the service with Rev M J Freeman presiding as townspeople watched a brief parade and dedication.
Seaman Albert R. Miller Jr describes seventeen months in Alaska and the Aleutians with the Seabees. He recalls bleak weather, crude Japanese warehouses on Kiska, and constant work. Recreation, mail from home, and good cooks boosted morale in the harsh outpost setting. He also notes meeting Marine Sgt Edward Brookfelt on Adak.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. from Bachmann Funeral Home for Raymond W. McGrew of 13739 Illinois Street Riverdale who died this morning at Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey. Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery Dolton.
The notice states the May 13 holiday alters the Pointer announcements schedule with a moved deadline to Monday noon for next week's issue. It urges cooperation from readers and contributors to meet the advance deadline.
A War Department letter confirms Riverdale youth Pvt Louis Corsello Jr was killed in action in Italy on April 23 after serving eighteen months overseas. Born May 14 1922 he attended Washington school and enlisted March 16 1941 training at Camp Forrest Camp Bowie and Fort Sill. He leaves a wife Mrs Virginia Corsello parents five brothers six sisters and many Riverdale relatives. The death places the first gold star on St Marys church and Riverdale community service flags.
Officer Lester Soupie Brookfelt spotted a lighted truck at a gas station near 138th and Halsted. He confronted the driver, was knocked aside, and only recovered the thief’s hat as the suspect fled toward the railroad yards. The Normal Wet Wash truck, stolen from 7200 State Street, Chelago, was recovered after six o'clock Thursday evening.
Marilyn Lane hosted a farewell party Saturday for Nancy Ingwerson who is moving with her family from Ivanhoe to Jackson Michigan.
On Tuesday May 30 residents and patriotic groups will pause to honor comrades of this and past wars. Paul Gall Post No. 303 of the American Legion organizes a parade at 1 30 p m from Riverdale village hall to Oakland cemetery Dolton where Rev Milton Freeman will deliver the Memorial oration. The Acme Steel concert band will participate and volunteers are asked to transport marchers from the S turn on Lincoln Avenue Dalton to the cemetery.
Lt. Milton J. Younker, navigator in the Pacific, writes from the Marshall Islands describing Easter at Little Tokyo and hopes to fly within a few hundred miles of Japan before year end. He lists missions to the Phoenix, Ellice, Canton, Wallis, Palmyra, Johnston, Samoas, Gilberts, and Marshalls, after five weeks at Kwajalein and Eniwetok and over 500 mission hours covering 63,000 miles, crossing the equator 56 times. He praises Hawaii spring, Honolulu stadium baseball, and the ideal lighting and moonlit views, noting a reunion with acquaintances and word of Kenneth Maxwell and Smitty nearby.
Riverdale Reserve Police chose Keith Lyria to head the force at a May 17 meeting in the Riverdale village hall. Edward Tucht was named vice-president and Howard Nelson was re-elected secretary-treasurer. William Allison and retiring president Arthur Ruff were elected directors for a two year term. A youths activity program was announced with William Reaugh, superintendent of School District 148, speaking on juvenile delinquency. A committee chaired by Mr Tweit with M. E. Whitebread Owen Roberts Robert Rohlman Lester Brookfelt and Dr A J Bailey will lead the project with Mr Reaugh advising.
The Riverdale Dalton Lion Club held its annual school declamation contest with prize badges for preliminary winners and war stamps for final winners at a May 2 dinner at the Pipe O Peace golf club. Winners were Virginia Perguss St Pauls Luther School first Richard Evers Curtiss Branch School second Norman Besley Washington School third Hoffman Bowen School fourth.
Thanks are given to Poppy Worke The American Legion and its At jary for help in selling poppies. Appreciation extends to the Woman's Relief Corps Mothers and others for cooperation. Four thousand six hundred poppies were sold locally with proceeds supporting veterans work and related charities.
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