Dale News, Volume 6, Number 20, Dale, Spencer County, 9 July 1943 — Page 1

LIVING UP TO TRADITION

THE DALE NEWS

American doctors have long been leaders in alleviation of human suffering. True to tradition, they are now giving unparalled medical service to our soldiers at the front.

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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1943

NUMBER 20

Brig. Gen. George F. Lull, personnel officer in the Surgeon General’s office, estimates that 3,000 American doctors will be disabled every year in service, and be returned to civilian life. The doctors are right with the fightng men getting the wounded off the battlefield and from there to base hospitals. It is the remarkable rapidity with which men are cared for after their injuries that has caused the miraculously low mortality rate in American casualties.

MAN KILLED IN BUS WRECK BURIED AT GENTRYVILLE

Women’s Land Army Helps Save Crops

Elmer Hopkins, 40, of Indianapolis, was killed in a bus wreck in that city Sunday morning. His body was brought to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stephens at Gentryville for burial by the Fuller Morticians. Surviving are the wife, Grace of Indianapolis; mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stephens of Gentryville; sisters, Mrs. Ethel Johnson of Poplin, Mass., and Mrs. Francis Hall of Rockport; brothers, Ernest Hopkins of Colfax, la., George of Chrisney, and John and Charles of Indianapolis.

Housewives, office workers, students, and professional women have enrolled with the American Women’s Voluntary Services in the Women’s Land Army which will help save vital food crops. Last year 763 workers were sent out in the Washington, D. C., area alone to pick the apple crop that was rotting on the ground. Women for the Land Army need to be strong and healthy. They are paid prevailing wages. RPS-OWI

Based on the initiative American medicine has shown in bringing the benefits of medical science to all the people, the record it is making in this war is but logical progress toward the goal it is constantly seeking to reach—the maximum saving of life and elimination of suffering.

Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the home of the parents, with Rev. W. R. Lathom of the Gentryville, Methodist church officiating. Burial was in the Garden of Memory cemetery.

SOIL CONSERVATION DIST. BOUNDARIES ESTABLISHED

CHRISTMAS MAIL FOR ARMED FORCES OVERSEAS

Boundaries for the proposed Spencer County Soil Conservation District have been established according to Dudley S. Bishopp, local representative of the Soil Conservation Service. Mr. Bishopp has met with committees of farmers in each township to help him draw in these boundaries.

Christmas parcels and Chrstmas cards for the army personel overseas must be mailed during the period beginning Sept. 15, 1943, and ending Oct. 15, 1943, the earlier the better, while Christmas cards for members of the naval forces may be mailed as late as Nov. 1, 1943. No request is needed when mailed during this period only. Each parcel should be endorsed Christmas Parcel. Special effort will be made to deliver all Christmas parcels mailed during this period in time for Christmas.

MOTHER OF LOCAL SON DIES AT HOME NEAR HOLLAND

FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN VETERANS’ HOSPITAL

One hundred eighty four thousand seven hundred twelve acres or approximately 75 per cent of the land and farms within the county will be included within the district.

Mrs. Louise Sickbert, 82, died at 10:30 o’clock Sunday morning at her home near Holland. Surviving are: the husband, Herman; three sons, Arthur of Huntingburg, Edward of Dale, and Walter of Holland; two daughters, Mrs. Hilda Kirkhoff of Dubois, and Mrs. Aaron Meyer of Stendal, and 15 grandchildren.

Harold Miller, 53, of Huntingburg, and formerly of Dale, died last Friday evening in the Veterans’ Hospital in Indianapolis. Although he had been in poor health for several years and had been in the hospital for treatment at other times, he had returned to the hospital only a few days before his death.

Included within these boundaries are all of Harrison and Luce townships, 15,423 acres in Carter, 5,583 acres in Jackson, 20,197 acres in Clay, 16,149 acres in Huff, 14,311 acres in Hammond, 21,436 acres in Grass, and 23,670 acres in Ohio township.

SIZE AND WEIGHT—5 lbs. in weight or 15 inches in length or 36 in. in length and girth combined. The Department urges you not to send food and clothing as the forces are ample supplied. Only one parcel may be sent in any one week to same addressee. PREPARATION—Owing to the great distance, it is absolutely necessary that parcels are packed in metal, wooden or solid fiber board or strong corrugated cardboard boxes. Perishable matter will not be accepted. Intoxicants, inflamable material are not mailable. Addresses must be legible. MERLYN ELLIOTT, P. M.

He is survived by his wife Selma; one son, Harry William; a sister, Mrs. Fred Bottenfield, and a brother, W. Ford Miller, both of Memphis, Tenn.

She was a member of St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed church near Holland, where funeral services were held at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning, with Rev. Louis Schnuck, the pastor, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Maps showing areas included in the district are available to the public through the County Agent’s Office. Final determination of the legality of the district will be made when all land owners have had an opportunity to vote in the referendum about August 21.

The deceased was a member of the Huntingburg Methodist church under auspices of which funeral services were held on Monday afternoon in the Finke Funeral Home of that city, with Rev. R. E. Badger, pastor of the church officiating. Burial was in the Fair mount cemetery of Huntngburg.

Rev. O. A. Beanblossom, who has been quite ill the past week and who has been in the Wel-born-Walker hospital in Evansville for treatment, was able to be brought home Wednesday afternoon.

Sgt. and Mrs. Charles Bays of Pacific Groves, California, announce the arrival of a 7 lb.

Dr. and Mrs. Claude Lomas and daughter were in this neighborhood during the July 4th holidays.

Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Conway of Indianapolis spent Sunday and Monday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. William Schaaf.

daughter, Sandra Sue, born to them on July 1. Mrs. Bays was formerly Miss Betty June Medcalf of Dale.

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