Two Close Friends Meet Overseas Story of Service Bonds
Mrs H E Christensen of La Grange recalls a tale from Thanksgivings when her son Pfe Victor Christensen, 26, and family friend Staff Sgt Gilbert H Hiscox, 29, met abroad. Both served in the engineers corps and crossed paths in England and later France, sharing wartime duties and correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Christensen
la Grange
Pfe
Victor Christensen
Gilbert H. Hiscox
Engineers Corps
England
France
Two Soldiers Locate Each Other After Long Secrecy
Christensen family reveals two sons, Victor and Gilbert, who served overseas in the armed forces, found each other through shared AP O numbers and letters. They finally met for Thanksgiving dinner after learning they had been corresponding under a cautious censor, a Christmas surprise to their families. Victor served two years with the 106th port marine maintenance command. Gilbert has about three years of overseas service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christensen
A.P.O
Christensens
Gilbert
Victor
106Th Port Marine Maintenance Command
Arthur Hiscux
Dehn Road
Western Automatic Machine and Screw Co
Proposed Food Locker Plant For Grafton To Be Discussed
Plans for a frozen food locker plant at Grafton will be discussed at 2 40 p m Sunday in the Grafton high school auditorium. Donald Colmin of the Ohio State University extension service will speak. Five residents were named to obtain incorporation articles and prepare work. The Grafton Cooperative Service Association was formed and papers filed in Columbus. The plant would handle cutting wrapping freezing storing meats blanching vegetables grinding hamburg and sausage rendering lard and other operations. The meeting is open to all interested.
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Grafton
Grafton High School
Donald Colmin
Ohio State University Extension Service
Fabher Mandeville
R. D
Columbia Station
Bert Nesbitt
C. L. Lehman
Henry Schriver
Gerald Webber
Grafton Cooperative Service Association
Columbus
Hamburg
West River Road honor roll lists many local students
The West River Road Elyria township honor roll shows grades one through eight with teachers and student names including Lanny Clark, George Delimiper, Miss Welsh, Miss Van Wayuien, Mrs Ming, Ethel Cale, and Donald Keller. Also noted is a 30 day leave for Abel P Adam of Shadden road with family, and a farewell gathering at Markley school for the McGucken family moving to Chestnut Ridge.
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Runware Krull
West River Road
Elyria Township
Mrs. Brown
Lanny Clark
Ne Hinkleann
Rosann Hallmuer
Jane Meitzke
Joger Merkhe
Susan Sinchar
Landa Smith
Ciee
George Delimiper
Denna Hazel
David Karnes
David Miller
David Rostkoski
Gerald Smith
Terry Woodings
Cosby Winningham
Ella June Bahl
Son
Thomas Reun
Jean Beckwith
Miss van Wayuien
Gerald Gath
Robert Dost Ceeurge van Niet
Renu Yutuwe
Bernice Waris
Nancy Chervenki
Nadine Higgena
Carol Kodniin
Ming
Wayne Durdue
Richard Melatie
Bertram Provegnik
Mary Brockelhurst
Doris Danforth
Delores-Ditt- Mer
Betty Art Edwards
Ethel Cale
Ha Smith
Eugene E Smith
Hetty Hem
Marianne Kokotylo
Joyce Penson
Dorothy Zyosecz
Donald Keller
Patricia Gibbens
Beverly Nairy
Joan Schaber
Betty Ann Sova
Abel P. Adam G
Paul Adam
Shadden Road
Chicago
Martha
Adan
Vera Barnhardt
Dorothy Barnhardt
Helen Shabos
Bol. McGucken
Markley School
McGuicken
Peter Kekotsky
McGucken
Joyce McGucken
Pecords
McGueken
Elaine
Sprague
Wolfe
River Road Social Notes On West River Road
Hollis and family joined Mr and Mrs Emil Struck Sr in Elyria for supper Saturday. Mrs 0 B Rea Mrs Frank Papenbrook and Reanette visited Mrs J G Morrin. C F Melntire and daughter Shirley arrived home from Downey California after three months with Earl Planett and his baby daughter.
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L. H. Keller
J. G. Morrin
C. F
Melntire
Shirley
West River Road
Downey
Calif
Earl Planett
Radio Programs and Evening News Highlights Saturday Schedule
A dense listing shows WAM radio segments including news, music, and dramatic features across morning to night. Notable items include World News, Army Hour, Parade of Music, and station-wide program changes on Saturday December 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary WO
Voice of the Army
Dot Club
Hadla
Light Is World News
World Front
LLM
Stradivac Oreches
Rhaw Pere
Medtay
Unin
Chicago
John Charles Tho Vauf
Jere
Lenedah
Mae
Edgar Bergen
WNQ
Verar Geerchinger
Montezuma
Quincy
Bohemian Music New Service Unlimited
America
Belton
Xeo Mynter
Chienga
al Pearce
London Colum
Rhady Valley
Treasury
Monroe Band
Bermade
Amherst A Elects Amherst Christmas Party Highlights
The annual Women's Benefit Association Christmas party at Mrs. H. A. Monger’s home featured a dinner for one guest, officer elections to be installed in January, and a gift exchange with Mrs. Monger honored for her service. Eastern Stars and R.N.O. Club events, military announcements, and parish plans also noted with multiple residents and organizations named.
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Amherst
Flarty
Women’s Benefit Association
H. A. Monger
South Main Street
Nina Leuszléer
Clara Schroeder
Cynthia Monger
Mary Fullmer
Bessie Avery
J. Roemer
Indy-at-arms
Louise Torino
Ella Jaeger
Lucy Henes
Nellie Wells
L. Roemer
Monger
Ella Seger
Nellie Weiss
Park Avenue
Stone City
Eastern Stars
Elyria
Walter Schulz
R. L. Menz
Mesdomea Lee Piper
C. E. Baker
Willard Mengel
J. R. MacKenzie
Lawrence Zu
Henry Ruesler
North Main Street
Charles Miller
Melvin Jackson
South Pacific
C. Jackson
Woodhill Drive
Newa
Joseph Lahiff
E. W. Lahiff
Cleveland Avenue
France
D-Day
Patton
Third Army
Catherine Balzer
Women's Army Corps
WAC
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Army
AAB
Lake Charles
Sadie Hoffer
Milan Avenue
Harry
Pacific
Howard Mellen
Howard B. Mellen
England
Robert Aebersald
A. F. Aebersold
Pearl Street
Great Lakes
Christmas Party and Nominations at Local Clubs
Mrs Lucy Roemer hosts a Christmas party with a 6:30 tureen supper and a 50 cent gift exchange while the nominating committee selects new officers. Universal Bible Sunday features talks at two churches, youth groups meet, and Pythians plan officer elections. A new Millikan Physics club forms at Amherst High with plans to fund physics equipment. various PTA and Grange activities follow, including a January Pomona meeting and club parties.
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Edgar Smidt
C. Schroeder
Foster
Jenne
Gus P. Zilch
St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church
Bellena
Knights of Pythiang
Hickory Tree Grange
David Woodings
Fred Slumska
Grange Hall
Oliver Kolbetree
Arthur Gringle
Charles Urig
Russell Slumska
J. McLoda
Trent
Pomona Grange
Kipton
Marian Knittle
National Grange
North Carolina
Russell Stumaka
Poward Stang
George Knittle
Misa Marian Knittle
W.E.A
H. A. Monger
South Main Street
Amherst High School
Millikan Physic
Floyd Lodge
Jack Bruce
Jane Darling
Bill Fenton
Pat Penton
Don Gormley
Robert Herbst
Joanne Sharp
Mrs Parkington at Rivoli Theater Elyria
Elyria theatres announce Mrs Parkington a film adaptation of Louis Bromfield novel arriving at the Rivoli next Thursday. Gareson stars as a dominant social figure in a Central American era tale beginning 1872 in a Nevada boarding house with Major Augustus Parkington and advancing into the late 1990s, supported by Walter Pidgeon and Greer Gorson.
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Nevada
Augustus Parkington
New York
Suburban 2 Calendar Saturday Activities and Meetings
Eaton Grange Home Ec committee hosts a party at Mr. and Mrs. B. Munns home. Attendees bring sandwiches or pie and their own table service. Ice entertainment. North Ridgeville Grange card party at Grange Hall at 8 p.m. Saturday. War Dads chapter 4 meets at town hall Sunday at 2 30 p.m. Avon Lake Congregational Sunday school 9 45 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. Avon Lake Christian Science Services 11 a.m. at the school. North Ridgeville Girl Scouts Investiture at town hall Monday 7 30 p.m. Civic League meets 8 p.m. at town hall. Avon Lake Council meets at Park Hall 8 p.m. Avon Group 56 League.
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Eaton
Grange Home
B. Munn
N. Ridgeville
Grange Hall
North Ridgeville
Avon Lake
Johnren
Christian Scientist
Girl Scouts
Town Hall
North Ridgeville — Civic League
Community Church Events and Village Social Calendar
Eaton Youth Fellowship hosts a Town Hall gathering Sunday evening. Columbia hosts a Christmas party at 8 pm with AL Brd and Hi grades performing and a reading by lor. Avon Lake residents attend a 8 pm party at Park Bus. Columbia school children hold a Sales Tax Stamp Contest. Avon Lake Women’s Republican Club meets at 1 30 pm. North Ridgeville Grange meets at 8 pm presenting the playlet Home Sect Home.
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Lulumbia
Avon Lake
Women's Republc Club
N. Ridgeville
Grange
Funeral Arrangements in Denison for William Finnicum
William Finnicum died after an accident when he fell from a moving truck after hitching a ride home from school. Denison funeral arrangements were announced today for the youth whose death followed a ride mishap.
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Denison
William Finnicum
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