And ‘ did you know that G-enoral Mark Cl.nrk was a Lieutenant in
our division then. Same outfit, we were i J
Sgte Cecil G-* Whitehurst; located in an air corps cani.) in Sioux
Falls, S, Dakota, was a very welcome visitor to H?N, Cecil is
the nephew of Chief of Policy RolDcrt VJor'iley and has been in the
service for about 3~ months. He cays it ifould not offeirid him if
this thing was over and he could return to civilian life«
Mr* 8c Mrso Leonard Nobles report a very fine visit x/^ith Warrant
Officer _J. G-o Newsome at port Story, Sallio vxas tolling the ed
itor of , a session with Lt, Or ay son P. Lewis and Capt. I«S.
Mikowski, I gathered from the confab that some Canadian Club
was visited and a grand time X'v^as had by a].l nt the club. And
judging further from what Sallio said about these liosts i fail
to see why they are not with Eisenhower and his ^taff over in
England.
Ruth Ballard, of Red Cross organizatiion, a most welcome HFN'vi
sitor, Just out of hospital, Ruth says shcs recovering health
rapidly and ready for foreign service. She related most inter
esting livelyhood of Americans on Iceland ,v/here Bhe was station
ed, prank, ”J, ?,.» and James, brothers are all in Navy and m.ak~
ing splendid record,.. We salute this most patriotic family and
wish for them all God Speed, (incidently,' Ruth made a cash con
tribution to HPN to show her ap’Preeiation.) •
R, T, Conyers and John T. Sanderson paid the HEN a call. Both
finished boot training at Car*p FearV and are home on 10 day fur
lough, Said the most beautiful thing they had seen in months
was the town clock.
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Dear Boys: ■*
¥e are all proud and happy to be a'/le to report to our husb
ands that we made our goal in the bond drive. We sold 699
bo nds (6^5 ^ere E bonds) totaling 1^1-6,557* 50 - addition to
^125*00 in stamp sales. We were awarded a citation by the Sur
geon General which was presented to the club by Carl Goerch
during the Swimming Meet, The Service Wiveis-were honor guests
pt the Meet on Saturday night, July 15t^h, and Mary. Lib .B.ryari.
accepted the citation (occomj>anied by Mary Vanice Barnette pnd
Katie Norris, who are our co-chairmen for the Bond Drive), It
m.eans a great deal to all of us to know that we are doing some
thing really necessary and instrumental in helping you win the
v/ar. We are still on the Job and have not let cur “citation’^'
slow.dov/n our efforts to get more bond pledges and stamp sales.
Some of -the younger, girls here in town helped us with our bond'
: booths down tov/n- they ,, v/ere a great help to us and wo think
you should know who they were,
Winnifred Rosenbaum, Betty Edwards, Ruth Spier, Olivia;.’,/"
. Sollee, Betsy Ausbon, Doris Willey, Jean Darrow, Bernice .
Bunn, Mary Marshall Farrar, Ruby; Hudson,, Pat Cherry,;:
Jean Cherry, Mamde Lois F'^ucette, Senora Lindsey, Alice
Howard, 'Sue Gaines, Kate Irvin Johnson,. EVelyn Shugar,
Virginia Hagans, Barbara Moore, Ruth Clark, and the GiVl . . ..
Boy and Cub Scouts, By way of parentheses boys - these '
girls we’ve na^od are the future Service Wives- probably
in High School when most of you left, but now all lovely
5"cung ladles. Tar boro had more than its quota of pretty
gii'ls. . -
We met\ on Wednesday night of this week at which time Ruth
Ballard .told us about her Red Cross work in Iceland, It was
very interesting to us- for we all appreciate the wonderful
work the R.ed Cross is dning for you boys, '
^ Now for t^io chatter- our girls hnve been' traveling around
this^ month. Lois. Jean Blanchard haS' moved to Nevj Orleans to
be v/ith Hank. Bip Carstarphen is home ' on''furlough and'he and
Marion G-ray . a're at Va. Be«|ch, Alice Evans has just returned