25 Nov 1943
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1943
Page
1
Commissioner Robert E. Hannegan urged all taxpayers to determine if they must file original or amended Declarations of Estimated Income and Victory Tax by December 15. Most taxpayers have no further filing until the March 15, 1944 deadline. a subset must amend if estimates were too high or if circumstances changed.
Preparations for a Loveland school district special election on a proposed three mill levy fund current expenses, set for December 14 with Clermont board providing ballots and costs. The 37th annual Christmas Seal sale opens, sending about 5 000 letters with 100 seals each, aiding tuberculosis work locally.
Batavia Junior Woman's Club reports more than six thousand dollars in war bonds credited to its buy a bomber campaign begun two weeks ago. First National Bank sold bonds totaling five thousand seven hundred dollars, with purchasers asking club credit. Postmaster Coyle adds five hundred twenty five dollars in bonds designated to the club. The drive continues to December 15, linked with Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs Southwest District, headquartered in Dayton. Mrs Paul McAfee chairs. Amelia Woman’s Club also participates. The movement supports a Red Cross blood unit costing eighteen hundred dollars.
Batavia council moves to install a complete sewer system after the war starting with a right of way purchase at Wood and Water streets to connect to a future disposal plant. Engineer Walter Manion will advise on site and plant details as council considers disposal location at December meeting. The 76 by 136 foot parcel, bought for 315 dollars from Mrs. Keturah Gomien, lies between Water street and the East Fork adjacent to Allen B. Nichols and Dale Miller. The move aims to address stream pollution concerns while preparing for postwar execution and to widen Water street to reduce accident risk.
Public debate set for Sunday evening November 28 at 7 00 p m in the Christian Endeavor meeting at United Brethren church Debaters John Dial Barbara Hall defend the affirmative side while Robert Maddox John Eisnau argue the negative The resolution claims the world will be richer in brotherhood after the war The students have shown strong debate ability and the public is invited.
Batavia born Corporal Gordon Barker son of Mrs. G A Helmkee is featured in the Akron Beacon Journal for a birthday letter he sent from Sicily. After high school he worked at Goodyear and joined the air corps as crew chief on a troop carrier plane. Barker's diary recounts North Africa and Atlas mountains in wartime, with hopeful lines to his mother on her birthday.
Funeral services were held in Williamsburg at 2:00 PM for Harry Donaworth 43 a longtime Williamsburg auto dealer and civic supporter who died Monday at his home after a brief illness. He leaves a wife and son Harry Jr in the Army two daughters Gloria and Mary his mother Mrs Elizabeth Waits two brothers Jack and Victor and a sister Mrs Helen Blocher.
Batavia city council, in a called meeting, moved toward buying a new fire truck with 95 hour pump, ladders, hose and racks. Clerk Majewsky to contact firms and report by December. Estimated cost three to four thousand dollars, paid from the general fund. The current 1 1/2 ton, 24 horsepower truck is sixteen years old and failed on a barn fire near Summerside.
Newly inducted Army personnel have been sent from the Reception Center at Ft Thomas Kentucky to Field Artillery RTG Fort Sill Oklahoma and to addresses in Williamsburg New Richmond Batavia and Bethel Ohio.
Edwin Baum of the Social Security Board Cincinnati field office announced that holiday help must have social security account numbers to ensure wages are credited to the correct account. Workers should apply when certain of employment and can obtain Form SS-5 at a post office or the Cincinnati office, with a duplicate if needed. The field office is located at 221 Post Office Buildings, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Staff Sergeant David W. Schneider of Bantam married Miss Frances Arvilla Meekma of Garden City Kansas on September 1 at the Presbyterian church in Garden City Their attendants were Miss Marjorie Ann Meekma and Pfc James T Means The bride a Garden City High School graduate, the groom a Bethel School graduate and former machinist with Towsley Truck Corporation at Norwood are now stationed at Garden City Army Air Field They will reside in Garden City for the present
The Amelia P. T. A. will hold its monthly meeting December 7 at 8 00 p m in the school auditorium Judge Halbisch will be the guest speaker and Mr Wallace is arranging Christmas music and carols
Sergeant Roscoe Tyler departed Saturday afternoon for Atlantic City after a three week furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs R S Tyler of Olive Branch. He reported to a rest hotel in Atlantic City and will be assigned to a US air base to train bomber crews for overseas service. In his career he completed his twenty fifth bomber mission aboard Buckshot and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross.
The Women's Society of Christian Service at Summerside, led by Mrs. George Nash, volunteers to assemble a Christmas box for Clermont county child welfare wards. Members sew and knit, raise funds for materials and toys, and support Red Cross activities while learning from Frances Reese about the board’s needs.
The Batavia Woman's Society of Christian Service will hold its regular meeting on December 1 with a covered dish luncheon and installation of officers. A Christmas party follows with gift boxes opening. attendees are asked to bring a ten cent gift.
About 500 people from Clermont county farm groups gathered in Batavia school auditorium to honor Roy Battles, retiring Agricultural Agent now with WLW Farm Hour. Don Riehl, the new agent, asked for farm cooperation as he steps into the role. Battles received several gifts amid a festive program of stunts, music, and dance.
Clermont County friends of Dr A Gordon Schulze heard of his advancement in the Teeseke Nimacen Corps of the United States Army. Schulze joined as a vice lieutenant in September 194 and served at the Army and Navy hospital Hot Springs Arkansas then studied Tropical Medicine at the University of Tennessee. He attended classes at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and graduated in August before rejoining his unit in San Bernardino California this fall.
Hugh Boyd of the Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative Association forecasts continued gasoline scarcity next year with about 60 percent reserved for armed forces and 40 percent for essential civilian uses. He says passenger car supplies will be very limited but farmers retain AAI priority ratings for non highway needs to support food production.
Miss Viola Sue Miller of Amelia, a former medical missionary in China, now serves as a volunteer Red Cross home nursing instructor. She recalls Chungking's Gamble Memorial hospital work, building prenatal clinics and nursing training, while noting the hospital was bombed and public health persists.
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