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‘Romance Began In High Sthool

By LOUISE E FLETONER

1945 Ir “WAS no time for tears, perhaps. Yet something glistened in _ Pat Herold's eyes as she bent close to the radio, ~ Bhe twisted the volume control until sound vibrated through the modest Evans-

words that pounded from

der.” Set It was V-J Day—Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1945. In a little while Pat would turn off the

would be home for dinner.

But for a few moments she did not move.

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people hovering to catch the breathless words. She wondered if the fighting men in the Pacific were hearing the same words. 8he thought in particular of one named Jim, somewhere in

. the Pacific theater with the 1st

Marine Air Wing. Had he just turned from loading bombs on a plane to learn those bombs would not be dropped? And she wondered when Jim would be home,’ Patricia was only 17 that summer, with a year to go before ‘graduation from Reitz Memorial High. Young as she was, she and Pfc. Kenneth James Rodewald were engaged . . . not “officially,”

but engaged just the same.

— They'd been “going “since they both attended Warren Central High School here. It seemed a long time before Jim came home, He and some other Marines who had beéen on Mindanao, in Zamboanga, were having a

She thought 6f other radios ce. She” thought of “other

Day, 1945

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On Aug. 14, 1945, V-J Day, Pat Herold began waiting for a man named Jim to come home to her. He came ot

last . . . and in 1946 she was married to Kenneth James Rodewald, former Plc. in the Marines. Today, five years later, she is about to start waiting again. Soon Jim is going ~ back fo war. This time she will not wait alone. Now Mike

and Ka oar vo

‘wfew Moros ~~ after Christmas that he

ible with afew up in the Trine hills. The Moros hadn’t heard the war was over, November 31 came before Jim landed in San , Cal., and it was not until the day

*Pre-Nuptial Parties Dot the Calendar

KATY ATKINS VIOUSLY THERE IS NO one season for brides.

Late summer finds them as busy as in early June.

A number of parties honoréd brides-to-be this past

week. Hostess for one gives oF Elizabeth Arensman last

Wednesday was Mrs. Richard T This was a luncheon and neous shower.

flowers, predominantly pink and white, decorated the table.

One of the novel gifts was a snack-bar accessory in the

form of -a-dachshund whose

long tail was obviously a pretzel rack. Betsy Barth is in a gay whirl preparatory to her wedding next Saturday afterLast Wednesday Mrs,

The shower a small wagon gay with

wedding bells and swathed

in green and pink. On the center of the luncheon ‘table stood’ a bridal doll that, "when wound up, played the wedding march. Betsy, taking advantage of the unsea-

Be were in

Benjamin D. Hitz, who came home for the event, has returned to her cottage in Leland. Jeannette Bowen has gone back to Northport. She and her children are visiting her sjster, Lucille Martindale, up there,

Northport to Walloon where they picked -up Mrs. Otto

=. Frenzel en route to Mackinac

at which point they met Otto Frenzel and sailed with him. The old Grand Hotel "at Mackinac has been rejuve-

nated. The red carpet is still . " rolled out when guests arrive - Dt HOw the Steps are’ BOTs

ored and

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Thursday night Dona Dean

‘had a bathroom shower for the future bride. Mrs. Thomas L. Wilcox and Mary Lou George will have a party tomorrow while Mrs. Richard Kreusser has one planmed for ‘Wednesday.

Shower Notes MRS.. FREDERICK SHUMAKER is in a pleasant dither whipping up a wedding on short notice. Her daughter Gloria and William Foresman Jr. have pushed their marriage up several months because of the war and will be married on the 26th. Jerl Church and Patricia Ent had a shower for Gloria fn Jeri's house Wednesday evening. A tipped sprinkling can poised over the presents showered green satin ribbops instead of water. A flo was tied to each ribbon so that the pile of presents was covered with posies. The hors d'oeuvres were in the shapes of wedding and engagement rings. Gloria wore a dress with a red top and .white linen skirt which was accented by red pockets lined with white. She is a petite brunette to whom the costume was especially becoming. - » .

HAVING gone to Tudor with Gloria's mother and watched Betsy Barth grow up across the street, these weddings make me aware of the passing of time. Hardly as mich, however, as the arrival last Sunday of my second

' grandchild, Kathy. She is the

. daughter of Eli and Ann Atkins of Woodbridge, Conn.

Evy and Harley Rhode-

" pamel— have a second boy, Nicholas. Evy's mother, Mrs.

white “flower pots. The interfor decor is very gay and modern;

» ” ” MR. AND MRS. Guy Chester 8m ‘nh of Grosse

Pointe have been with friends at Illinois Point, Mich. She is the former Anna Louise Griffith of Indianapolis and enjoyed seeing Hoosiers in the neighborhood. ; Mrs. Harry Wilson has returned from Harbor Springs where she spent a few days with Mrs, Henry Buttolph. Mrs. Noble Dean, after a month at Leland, visited Mr. and Mrs. Hérbert Woollen at Les Chenaux and & : been at Harbor Springs with Mrs. Sylvester Johnson. Elizabeth and Vest Johnson have been at the cottage, too, though they were in Pointé au Baril, Ont., last week-end, leaving the children in Michigan with

their grandparents,

Resort at Home IT IS VERY pleasant being

- at home this lovely cool sum-

mer. One of the pleasantest spots to be is in, or on the

. edge of, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph

J. Daniels’ new swimming pool. It lies at ths foot of an open terrace surrounded on three sides by a green garden. At the far end, three dainty statues of .children have a background of fir trees. Deep borders of myrtle come to the edge of the narrow strip of lawn around the

. pool. At each corner, gray and

white wooden tubs filled with ivy stand on wooden pedestals. ‘dozen love birds hangs from a big tree with a canary in lone splendor proudly perched i a cage on top. of A,

INFORMAL

Garden

culation department,’ a single

profusely. filled ..-

« of these are female, A cage housing half a

funéheon is

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reached Evansville, He and Patricia and her father, Harry Herold, celebrated New Year's Eve together, Then Jim had to

report to Cherry Point, N. C.

Toma bed will be with her, ps. for their.

+ Photos by Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer.

MARINES FAMILY , . . Pat Rodewald spoons cereal into young | Matt while Kathy and Mike wield _their-own eating tools.

1946 DISCHARGED on May 2, 1946, Jim headed back for Indignapolis and his job at Lilly's — operating a still and svaporatc= in An. penieillin

department. He had worked

at Lilly's following graduation from Technical High which he attended after Warren Central. * He was a civilian again ...

Jim Goes Back To Marines

a civilian with big plans

ahead. ra Sata 4 core‘mony on Saturday, pt. 14, 1046, jn Bt. Philip Neri Cath. olie Church, It was early — 6:45 am, — “because there four other weddings there that morning.” Pat recalls, She remembers, as what bride wouldn't, her long, white dress, and the pink and blue bridesmaids’ dresses of “her-two-sisters; and the wedding breakfast in the home of

Jim's aunts. i Then. 4 Was. the, hooey ET moon co at Lake Nyona.

Alter that they came home to live for three months with Jim's sister, Mrs. Herbert Schakel, 1313 Linden St. “We didn’t have much furnfture yet , . . just our own bedroom suite.” Later thers was an apartment on Raymond St. near 8, Meridian St.

1947

"MOVING “DAY

Te the

for couple came again in January 1947 when they went to Greenfield to live with Jim's step-

father and mother, Mr. and

Mrs. H. D. Paynter.

There still wasn't much furniture to move, It takes a while for an ex-Marine's budget to get its land legs. Besides that, young Mike, who made his debut Aug. 19, 1947, was en route,

1948

FOR 15 MONTHS Jim and Pat lived with the Paynters, Jim commuting to his job at Lilly's. Five Mike's birth, his papa became a “part-time” Marine again. Jim joined the reserve unit here, the 16th Infantry Battalion. After that he spent each Friday or Wednesday evening attending classes, drill and rifle practice with Company “A. ”» Still “before Jim and Pat

Libraries Have Farm Systems Just as Baseball Has

And 'Top Players’ Are Develo

P AGNES y OSTROM BASEBALL may think it has a priority on this farm system

business. Surprisingly enough—without a

ny formal set-up on

anyones THA. ~developing right here in the Indianapolis

Library.

ati local organization is serving as a spring-hoard for trained librarians in administrative jobe to dive right into the

executive swim. It is fast assuming an Indianapolis Indians’ position minus the hook-up with any Pittsburgh Pirates club. An exampe is Miss Thelma Grover who is headed today for her native state, Iowa. Since March, 1947, Miss Grover has served as assistant head of circulation for the local library. Now she’s to become city librarian in

Ft. Dodge, Iowa, just 120 niles from her home, In-

-dependence,

She's in the process of two transitions — going from a large to a small library and going from an administrative. Ft

branch and one hospital sta-

Alon...

Here she. has been directing

16 or 17 staffers. In Towa her -

staff will include seven persons. One advantage of the smaller group will be the pos_Bibility of everyone

sitting down and talking over book

“selections” together.

In a Personal Vein—:

. be the swing from carrying

Valuable E Ewe srience

Laps Up Hints AG UATE of the Uni‘verity of Iowa and the Western Reserve Library School, Miss Grover was connected primarily with school libraries before she came to Indianapolis, When World War II ended in the summer of 1945; she was head librarian in the Wright Field Aeronautical Library, Dayton, O These past few . weeks Thelma has been lapping up some valuable hints on being city librarian from Miss Marian McFadden, head of the Indianapolis Public Library. “The biggest change,” opined Miss McFadden, will

out apg already Se lored

AS FOR hy farm system?

“Well,” Miss “McFadden ex-

plains; “it's always our policy here to offer experience which will develop -policymaking individuals. We hope anyone: who: comes here

—turns —into—a—

wh

librarian,” One <Indianapolis pattern

ed Here

city librarian to another.’ Miss Grover is certain to

“steal” is the staff co-opera-she's

tion—and—

een In action, “It has meant

a great deal to me,” she says.

Miss Marian McFadden and Miss Thelma Grover , . . one

According to her superior she's done a good job of

— streamlining €irculation

~Jmethods. No. doubt ¥1. Dodges. is in for some of the same.

An Outfit That Wants to Give Girls the Air...

“Civil Air Patrol Needs Women Volunteers for Its Program

By MARJORIE TURK : WANT a $1000 air education for free? You: won't have to’ give up your present job or schaoling and join the _ Armed Forces to get it. The Civil Air Patrol is accepting volunteers in both its cadet and. senior programs and it's as interested in enlisting the support of women and girls as it is in men. The CAP doesn't discriminate against the fairer sex. Right now the local group needs 40 adults (persons over 18) and 50_ cadets (teenagers between 15 and 18) to

bring it up to full strength.

The patrol would be glad if all the newcomers were women,

THERE'S: a good reason why women are needed in this coed outfit and it’s not

for KP duty. At thé present.

time there are 575 persons in the state organization and 53

even the male officers admit that women are excellent in communications, personnel and on flight maneuvers, (Some go so far as to -say they are best in’ the jobs.) Among the gals who have been holding down officer ratings in the auxiliary to the USAF are Miss Betty Pettitt, wing operations offi-

- eer, sky writer and former WASP; Lt. Rosa Arns, assist-

And

ant personnel officer, and Lt. Mary Jo Cassady, assist-

- ant PIO officer.

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THE CAP, which was founded during the first years’

-- of World War II, has been

‘active ever since training a new crop of girls, and men, of course, for the operation. It has two: functions

* training=-People in aviation . and helping out in emerlost persons, fires,

gencies . . .

* Leatha Ferguson (left) and Shirley Gard receive Sight orion :

floods, broken communica~ tions, etc. Naturally with the current emergency it is anxious to come up to full strength and

to expand. ” » ”

TO BE a member of the

. cadets or the regular CAP

it's only necessary to meet the age requirements, be physically able and a U, 8 citizen. If you are already

..checked out as a solo pilot

tation from Mist Baty Pye (right).

that's OK with the group, but there are places for norifiying | members as well,

Once you are assigned to

the proper group, flight or squadron the training begins. This classroom work takes about two hours a week. The complete info is available in in AF-CAP liaison office, 2. Massachusetts Ave,

THE GIRLS in "the cadets ‘have already started their fall promotion program.

They're having maneuvers

_ Baturday and next Sunday on the Clark Farm, R. R. 5 Martinsville. : Leatha Ferguson, Washington High School student, is in charge. Leatha came by her CAP Interest naturally. She has a brother, Charles, and a sister, Mary, both former cadets and now USAF

—members. Leatha reports, “I

think the cadets is about the finest activity a girl ean have.” Also on the maneuver from Indianapolis will be Sgt. Barbara Bowman, Tech High School senior. Barbara is using her CAP education to further plans for a career in * aeronautics. She'll be going to Purdue for her degree.

Completing the active wing

of the local female cadet conHingent are Donna Johnson, who is combining her CAP course with flying instruction, and Nancy Foxworthy, who hopes to solo this fall. , Both

et

months after .

RETR OR

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gy Our Country's Battles’ -1950, Korea

Pfc. Rodewald.

was the dream of a household

of their own. It came true in

March, 1048, whist they rented an apartment in Greenfield.

Now they had a new baby -

plus new furniture to move into the new apartment, Sharing it with them were Pat's brothers, Thomas and Robert.

The latter is now in the Marine Corps, too. "We're a ‘Marine’ family,” Pat says.

“My two sisters are married to Marines. One brother-in-law, Bobby L. Richardson, is in the same outfit Jim's in.” ‘With a second Rodewald on the way, her parents decided it was time for one of the biggest plans of all—owning, not just renting, a home.

S80 in July, 1948, they

started buying the house at

1741 8. State-Ave.-It had be longed to Jim's brother-in-law, Mr. Schakel. When Kathy, born Dec. 12, came home from 8t. Francis Hospiul, it was to the 8-room, twoframe house which Jim pi Pat—and Mike—hoped

Ss a

—— te

Dream of Home Comes True

someday would be all thelr

own, 1949

LAST Nov EMEER the family welcomed one more

__ member. Matt arrived on the ~*~

25th, 17 days after his father's 24th birthday. Jim spent most e (except those nights Ma-~ rine Armory) putterin around the house and pi StL. future and for his family, “ Pat was too busy with her trio of I to do

Ey og

8 That was up to Jim anyway,

1950

THAT'S THE WAY #t was up to Thursday, July 20. On that day the newspapers carried a story that said: “Indianapolis’ 16th Iuthutly -Marine Battalion -

Was

tivation orders. .. . Selected units of the organized Marine Corps Reserve will be ordered to active duty on date to be announced by Marine Corps Headquarters,” On July 31, Jim was back on active duty at the Marine Armory, 2830 E. Riverside Drive, He is personnel classi fication clerk for Company “A,” bringing data on the company’s men up to date. Members of that outfit will move out Aug. 28 for Camp Pendleton, Cal. How long they'll be there is anybody's

guess, Pat is close beside the . radio again ... just as.she

was five years ago tomorrow, Again the news is from the Pacific ,

five years ago. This time, though, Pat isn't crying. If she should, 8-months-old Matt probably wouldn't notice. But Mike and Kathy would . . . and they might not understand.

Freezer Foods Line ~ Road to Luxury

“4% By JEAN TABBERT FREEZER FOODS are the road to luxury living, They insure fresh fruits and vegetables on-dinner tables all winter long, promise strawberry shortcake in Jan. uary and homemade pumpkin pie in August, All this on budget

terms spent when costs are low.

Freezing takes advantage of plentiful foods, rock bottom prices. It means homegrown foods are quickly stored and pre served without losing an fota of their flavor and tenderness, Mrs. Fred R. Monger, W. 34th St, knows the streamlined

route to garden fresh frozen vegetables, For a good many seasons she's been preserving them from the family plot by the side of the house,

From the 100 by 150 square foot area have come green beans, beets, cabbage, lima beans and corn on the cob. And at one time or another

* Mrs. Monger has buried them

all In the 16 freezer that stands ki

cubic foot handily

HER FORMU LA? Pick young, tender and sweet veg-

“etables, she advises. IT théy're

past this stage, they become tough and tasteless when frozen. Bpeed. is essential.

If the.

-plans forthe «-—w-

“= oday to" re by for ace

just as it was

This is the second in a se. ries on the canning and freezing of fruits, meats and pastries. The Information Is planned to aid veteran homemakers as well as beginners.

the family likes it best. Blanch to protect against loss of . vitamins and flavor as well as to stop enzyme active ~ ity. (Blanching means to drop the vegetable in water at a

green beans there threé to four minutes, Actually the

time depends on their size, Bn

“longer for heavier ones, a . shorter period for the young er, Use a gallon of water to every pound of vegetables, Cool quickly. This preserves the color, texture and flavor,

— produce comes from the mar Ket, it's siready hours old, A

few more hours in the freezing container of the refrigerator is the maximum the food should be held over. Never pick more from the garden than can be easily preseryed at a single time, Monger recommends.

Mrs, Immediate treatment is al-

ways preferred, Wash thoroughly. Then fix the vegetable as it will appear on the table—the way

Package or wrap in molisture-

Rroaf, containers. Mrs. Mong~ er uses boxes she buys from a frozen foods locker, but there are many other excellent ones available. A good idea is to pick a container that's the size of a family’s naeds for a single meal, says Mrs, Monger, When completely cool, freeze immediately. The speed stymies the harmful bacteria, “freezing” them into ineffectiveness. Set the freezer at 0 degrees F. The vegetable will stay frozen for six months to a year,

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Mrs, Fred Monger ‘oq her frozen green beans are plump and tasty.

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