Christensen Elected McGinleys Get Safe The Wiscon.§ig4§tate Journal HAROLD I MeCLILLAND Grant County Son's Decoration MADISON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1945 Fair Cancelled Stoughton Treasurer Delbert Pettit Blaketield, Fellow Officers En Route Home By DOROTHY BUEHLER Silver Star Given War Delayed Plan (Slate Journal Correspondent) ..STOUGHTON—C!iTK"ry ChrlHtrnscn, deputy city InMMurer, was for Richland Hero to Be 95 for Improvement rlrrli-U .StmiKlXiiii city tri-iit.uri.-r lit. u iricclliiK of the common council RICHLANt)CENTER — The LANc'ASrieil _- Tlw board nt TurMliiy ninlit to succeed Hans P. f'cterxon, who died lant week. Silver Star decoration award- Friday directors of the Crmtl County A«- (.'liM.slcnson. who also is city assessor, served as deputy treasurer ed to First Lieut. Everett riculturnl Cooperative has voted 10 W. McGinley, killed in Saipan, CAZENOVIA — Delbert Peltit, cancel the annual fair, scheduled curing Mr. Peterson's illness. July 1, 1944, was received this Carr Valley, who has given a to- here for Sept. 7-10. Walking Business Sold week by his parents, Mr. and tal of 46 years service to town of- The reason for the cancellation, Lavcrne Johnson, 1014 Vernon Goes to Wyoming Mrs. Mike McGinley. They also fices, will observe his 95th birth- is the inability under wartime st.. has purchased the Watkins; received the citation, which read: day Friday at the home of his son, conditions, to complete a $10.000 business operated the past two 'For gallantry in Chester, Carr Valley. grounds improvement program, yrfirs by the late Kdon Onsrud, .... 1 July, 1944. the Pettit spent most of his lite as according to A, S. DcBuhi, presi- who had bought (he business platoon of which, a farmer, but for 21 years served dent of the cooperative. linrn George Gilchrist. Johnson, Lieut. McGinley1 as school clerk of district No. 18, Instead of the fnlr, the |roup MHI of Mi. iind Mrs. Julius John- was leader at- Irontown township; for 10 years has planned to hold a one-day sun, has been employed by the tempted to de- as a member of the town board county-wide <-H club fair at the Highway Trailer Co. stroy Japan e s e and eight years as chairman, and fun-grounds lute in September or Hospital Note* positions which 15 years as a health officer for curly in October, the exact dale Mrs. Odin Olson, Route 2. en- were delaying the town. He also aided in build- depending on word from the state tered Community hospital Mon- the progress of ing the Carr Valley church." department of agriculture. Cash day as a medical patient. an impor t a n t He was born in Watertown, N. premiums will be paid to exhi- Mr. and Mrs. Royce Hitchcock, mission assigned Y., coming to Appleton with his bitors as in the past. Route 1, Oregon, announce the to the unit, parents when a year old. In 1859 Work on a new half-mile race birth of 'a daughter Tuesday at Lieut. McGinley, the family moved to Carr Valley, tract has been under way since the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Erie disregarding his where he is the oldest settler. spring, and when completed will Courtier, Route 2, Brooklyn, are personal safety, He was married in 1871 to Mar- be one of the best in the state the parents of a son born Tues- exposed himself MCGINLEY garet Smelcer, who died in May, with good visibility across (lie day. to order the 1880. They had four daughters, field nnd one ot the longest horn* Mrs. Seymour Dimziner, Chi- Japanese to surrender. When the Mrs. Bertha Rourke, Texas; Mrs. stretches anywhere. A new grand- ename was first on the list, he After Three Crash Landings, J«n:en. Warren*. AllaMc-Paclfte «a«» school census recently completed leave the last week in August. said. tor. entered service Oct. 1, 1*M. by Mrs. Virginia Brown. Of the Mr. Bultena in May received his Staff Sit. Russell L Richmond. Tun- number, 455 were girls and 494 Ph.D. degree from the University nel City. Asiatic-Pacific theater, *n. were boys. The 1944 census re- o£ Wisconsin, where he majored Dutton Prefers McCoy Job tered service Apr. 17. 1M1. port showed a total of 1,110 or Corp. Orvillc L. McCumber. Toman. in sociology and carried a minor State Prison CAMP McCOY—After three of| the Boston attack bombers in Asiatic-Pacific, entered »*rvic« Oct. 161 more than this year, of which in economics. He will return next which Ralph Dutton was gunner. 15. 1940. 562 were boy.s and 548 were summer to resume his charge his 47 bombing missions ended in Sgt. Orlando Adams. Kendall. «u- toreed crash landings, Ralph L. Enemy fighters were no trouble, ropean and African theater*, entered girls. here. Inmates Let for the American A-20 bombers, service July 8. 1041. Larson Honored at 81 The Rev. Herbert Ivens, Kings, Dutton, Sparta, former technical flying between 280 and 320 miles Technician Fourth Grade Wallace Olaf Larson, Hamilton st., who 111..' will occupy the pulpit at an hour, were faster than enemy J. Erlckson. Sparta. A*uutc-Paci«*. observed his 81st birthday Aug. 6, Cottage Grove during the fall and Loose-in Din tack bomber, thinks his new job fighters at that time, Dutton ex- entered service Feb. 10. IMS. winter while he also attends the as a power shovel operator at P(c. Harold Hefieman, Norwaut. was honored by a family gather- finest plained. His three crash landings Asiatic-Pacific. Entered aervice June ing recently at Colladay's park, University of Wisconsin. WAUPUN-i— The blowing of DELBERT PETTIT is were the result of peppering by 14. t94r Lake Kegonsa. A picnic dinner whistles at the Estate prison at small tne neavv Nazi anti-aircraft fire. MB. and MRS. CHRIS was served at noon, and several Waupun was the signal tot three a rear gunner in a KARTMAN speedy "Boston Bomber," he has In one case the left wing-tip 111. this week after spending a 64- gifts were presented to Larson. Historic Fire Bell, full hours of cheering, shouting, Brothers Meet was shot off, the left engine , day furlough with his parenU. All of his nine children were and singing Tuesday when the more than 200 CASSVILLE — Postmaster combat hours to I knocked out, the bomb bay doors and Mrs. Chris Kartman, Sgt. Appell, who was shot down present. Taken From Hiding, prisoners learned the news of the j shot open, and the canopy over and taken prisoner by the Ger- Those attending included Mr. surrender of Japan. his credit. His 32 Cassville, will observe their months overseas the pilot and Dutton perforated, golden wedding anniversary mans, being held for nine months and Mrs. Elmer Larson, Jersey Rings at Oregon ' Prison officials made no effort and the hydraulic landing gear Sunday with a family dinner. before he was freed by the Rus- City. N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Har» to quell the celebration, but "let were spent in smashed. After flying four hours vey Larson, Earl Larson and OREGON—Oregon's historic old them blow off all the steam they E n g land, North They were married Aug. 14, sians, hopes to be granted a re- Africa, Sicily, on one engine, the plane was 1895. lease from the air forces. A gun- son. Olaf. Madison; Mr. and Mrs. fire bell rang again Tuesday night wanted to." No damage was done. skidded in on its belly. ner on the Flying Fortress "Miss Albert Skolas and daughters, as it led an impromptu parade The din did not die down until I't a 1 y, Malta, Corsica and Sar- "We were bruised up a bit, but Ponca City," Appell was wounded Janet and Mrs. ' Harold Stai, celebrating Japan's surrender. The after 9 p. m. we got out of it okay," Dutton plied to the question "What was when he was shot down. Burke: Mrs. Thomas Hanson and bell, which had been in storage The city celebration lasted dinia. After com- commented. your biggest thrill?": "Coming children. James and Larry, Mc- since it was taken from the village three hours longer, until mid- pleting 47 mis- Wears Parachute ! back to the United States and Farland: Mr. and Mrs. John hall, was hauled about the streets night, with an area of the Main sions with the In another instance, he wore his j landing at Newport News!" Hauge and sons, James and Dar- on a service truck. st. blocked off by police where 47th bomb parachute for the first time. | SKIN'OUCHEr: rell Lee, Cottage Grove Mr. and A crowd of 1,000 persons the people milled, threw confetti, groups 12th air "A chunk of flak almost the size j For prompt, alntoat Mrs. Gerald Larson, son, Verne, watched a victory bonfire in the and danced on the pavement. force, Dutton relief, uKtragraitt.iniMlyniea> VINCENT and STANLEY t r a n s f erred to of your fist tore through the para- icated Cuticura Ointment. and daughter. Mrs. Frank Leeder, square. BURTNESS DUTTON chute, where I would have been Ends Furlough j /ft/My tKceeujM and daughter. Sharon, Mr. and The Presbyterian and Methodist Wolfgram, Viroqua, the 31st fighter had I not been sitting on it," Dut- -Mrs. Oscar Drogsvold, Mr. and churches were to hold a joint serv- ORFORDVILLE—Sgt. Vin- group as an armorer in the 15th GRATIOT—Sgt. Robert Appell, j air force. ton said. "I guess I'm just lucky." Gratiot, \vill report lo the rede-j CUTICURA OINTMENT Mrs. Henry Holtan and daugh- ice at 8 p. m. today with the Rev. Returns From Pacific cent and Pfc. Stanley Burt- But the hottest spot he recalled ployment center at Camp Grant,! ters. Betty and Donna, Mr. and I W. Clyde Wilson, Madison, Pres- ness, who had not met for 15 With exactly five years in the being in was not in the air. "It Mrs. Obert byteria' ' --' n pastor-'- , an•- d' the Rev. VIROQUA—Marine Corp. Her- months, are at the. home of army, he served from July 1, 1940, was on the beach at Salerno Sept. Lund, and Franklin Knouse, Methodist, of- man Wolfgram, son of Mr. and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. to July 1, 1945, when he was dis- 12, 1943." Dutton said. He ex- Evelyn Cornish, ficiating. The Rev. Andrew Staby Mrs. George Wolfgram, Viroqua, Eddie Burtness, Orfordville. charged at Ft. Sheridan, 111., and plained that an air field was sup- all of Stoughton. was to officiate at Lutheran serv- arrived home Monday after hav- Sgt. Vincent has been dis- hired through, the civilian per- posed to have been taken imme- New Scientific Findings About Kravick Visits ices at 8 p. m. Catholic masses ing spent three years in the South charged after two years in sonnel office of which Guy Strat- diately, but it wasn't for nearly a Home were held this morning. Pacific area. Corp. Wolfgram took Australia and other South ton is chiefr Walter Dutton, chief week of bloody fighting. "The T e ch n i cian All business places, including part in the battles of Tarawa, Sai- Pacific posts, while Stanley is of the roads and grounds section Germans kept counter-attacking S g t. Raymond' taverns and banks, were closed pan, and Okinawa. Prior to en- home on a 15-day furlough. of the post engineer division, is with tanks," he recalled. "Wej today. the* young air force veteran's fath- HAY FEVER Kravick, son of listing in the marines he was a didn't have much artillery. There j Arthur Kravick, student at the University of Wis- er. weren't many left o£ the original Hay ferer auffererrf You'll be thrilled anonnli of .Uamln C-pI« N. Van Buren Ford Sends Pictures The Duttons are a fighting fam- 9,000 who landed." la read about thi. new way that may laeton of the B*o«lex— fceMn tthat St., recently Mrs. Manthe*' ily, for two other of Ralph's •ubstanlially relieve your bay fe»er have la da with mind mrm*. goo* From Horror Camp brothers are still in the service Without hesitation, Dutton re- •ymptomt.vmptoun*. aMllap, goad mtftO*, a** •nae spent a furlough and a fourth was killed in action cood health* at his home Will Be 91 Ridge way Hires RIO—Corp. Norman Ford, who Remit* are Jam in on • clinical te« here. Kravick, in France last spring. Sgt. Laverne made by a noted doctor. And the amaz- ronenuitre. Bnl certainly itj»m i ABLEMAN—Mrs. August Man- Avis Vivian has been with the Third armored Dutton is with the marines, Chief i IK fact In thin. Whm k* Ravt a nut* ranch and are juM niterable tram may who is stationed they, Ableman division in Ger- Petty Officer Eldon Dulton is with CALLOUSES •lirrial vitamin perforation to hit pa KRAVICK at Scott Field, RIDGEWAY — Avis Vivian, many, Belgium, Relieve painful choc praiur* 111., as a radio in- resident for the the navy, while the late First oo the »ore ipot and quicfcly gratifying rttief. past half cen- Dodgeville, a graduate of a three- and France and Lieut. Kenneth Dutton gave his remove callouaei by iuin« it may mean in contort for >o*. structor, served overseas for year primary course at Platteville part icipated in thae soft, cushioning, sooth- Hare TOO e»er heard of »ch remit*? Kead Ihe direettoaa «* Ik* MM many months. He wears the tury, will ob- life while fighting with an ar- Sold everywhere. 8552? The product he Pierce'a package nemt time roa're at r«*r drjw- serve her 91st State Teachers college, has been the Aachen push, mored unit. Special Vitamin Formula. No ilraa or a;iit'iandi|eta|Mefca«e.A>|[farPlc ' Distinguished Flying Cross and birthday Friday. engaged to teach the primary has sent his medication, it'* a combination of Urg« Special Vitamin TonraU. Air Medal with three Oak Leaf mother, Mrs. Flak Worst clusters. Well and grades in Ridgeway school, accord- Flak was the worst enemy of live, she ing to O. B. Christenson, super- Bessie Ford, pic- Clubs Meet been living with intendent. tures which he Mrs. Palmer Hagen entertained took- in a Ger- trie Utica circle Tuesday after- I her dau.ghter noon at her home.. Melrose Paper Buys . m a n concentra- n d tion camp. The Saturday Nighters club was! "*'• ? z mD entertained last weekend by £> 11 Lz m ?n ' Norwalk Star It was hard to Melvin Elvekrog and Arthur Sun Prairie. She believe that such .lonnson at the Elvekrog Home also has rela- MRS. NORWALK—The Norwalk Star conditions exist- FORD southeast of Stoughton. Cards tives in Madison. MANTHEY has been sold by William, Norton, ed, he wrote, were played and a lunch was of Camp McCoy to Helmer L. Gil- adding that conditions were far bertson of the Melrose Chronicle. worse than shown in the pictures A Grand Old Canadian Name served by the hosts. Guests were Master Sgt. Gilmore Rorge, Rus- Brecklens to Mark Mrs. Norton, who has edited the He also sent a picture he had tak- scl! Rorge, Mr. and Mrs. Obert paper, will, be in .charge of the en of a whipping post. He expects Lund, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond 50th Anniversary Norwalk paper. to be home in September, he told Aordhe. Stoughton; Elda Hougan, SOUTH WAYNE—Mr. and Mrs. his mother. Madison, and Ellen Johnson, Min- August Brecklen, former residents nesota. of the South Wayne vicinity, will Released by Army Peterson Home Mrs. Trace Christenson recent- observe their golden wedding an- ly entertained the members of niversary at their home in Win- After Sea Duty PRODUCED IN U.S.A; her birthday club at luncheon at slow. 111., Saturday. her home. The couple was married at SOUTH WAYNE—Marine Corp. Milder riM direct M|MrvitiMi •* A large group attended the Monroe and farmed near Wood- Gerald D. Peterson is spending a •w expert Cmeilm Mender. meeting of the Universalist Ladies' ford for a time, later moving to 21-day leave with his parents, Mr. Aid society last weekend at the a farm southeast of South Wayne and Mrs. Leo Peterson, South Corby'c, the light, lociable home of Bertha Bitter, town of which they farmed until about 35 Wayne, after returning from over- whiskey with th« grand old Dunkirk. Mrs. Harry O. Hale years ago. seas. Corp. Peterson enlisted in Canadian name, may well wa. s. in .charg - e of the-.---« program, ,, and Brecklen then was engaged in the marine corps a few months merit your full approval one* rt lunch was served by the hos-1 the pump repair business. Breck- after finishing1 high school, and you meet thii palatable blend. .ess, assisted by Mrs. August j ]on js now 73 and his wife, 71. was sent to San Diego, Calif, for PRE-WAR QUALITY Kruckcnbcrg. the silver cake hos- Both enjoy . fairly good health. his basic training. te.ss. Mr*. Joe Cook will serve! Mrs. Brecklen is the former Jen- He then was transferred to San tne silver cakes at the next meet-! nie Maddrell, South Wayne. francisco, where he acted as a ing. i lavy prison guard until February, Odland Honored ! SpOftO Band tedder SMITH THOMPSON 344, when he was put aboard Mr. and Mrs. Ted Krekling.! hip on convoy duty. Peterson ' School Job ' POTOSI—Three Rio men in made 20 crossings of the Atlantic service have been discharged nd six of the Pacific, visiting man Second Class Owen Odland, SPARTA—Beldon E. La Ban- from the army. Cuba, England, Honolulu, Pana- home on leave from Norfolk, Va. sky, a member of the Sparta high They are Sherman Thomp- ma, New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, Guests at the dinner included Mr. school faculty for 16 years serv- son, son of Mr. and Mrs. amaica, France, Italy, and North and Mrs. O. A. Odland, Roger Od- ing as bandmaster, has resigned George B. Thompson; Robert Africa. land. and Alice Lorum, Deerfield- to take over a service station, pur- Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brenhaug. Mrs. chasing the interests of Clair M. Guy Collins, and Glenn Smith, John Rodge and son_ .., Joh_ n Mark,, Van Antwerp. La Bansky's son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom 0ESTROT Evansville, and Mrs. Owen Od- \ Basil, who has been employed at Smith. All three were with land and A. S. Thompson, Stough- the station for two years, will be the 32nd division. Thompson ton. an associate of his father in the Hermanson Baby Christened enterprise. and Collins were in the South ANTS Roger Wayne Hermanson, in- La Bansky will continue to di- Pacific for two and a half fant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester I years and Smith was wounded Petttman's Aatlood is quick death rect the city band and will aid in action. to ana. It kills by contact or swi> Hermanson. was christened this with the high school band until lowing. EffectiTe 24 hour* a day. week at Our Savior's Lutheran his successor is chosen. No odor. OTCT 1,MO,OOO can* church by the Rev. 'L. L. Nesvig. Van Antwerp^ will represent an of Peterhua'i sold bit ytar. Get Sponsors were Mr. and Mrs. Lle- insurance company in Monroe Got Acid Stomach Pain? P«termaiTi today. wellyn Onsrud and Mr. and Mrs. and Vernon counties, headquar- Willard Bublitz. tering in Sparta. lOc Trial Of f« Williams CASA Tablet* contain DI ASTE, an Enzyme. The same chemi PETERMAN'S Milton Lansverks Marriage Licenses cal substance Nature uses to digest SAUK COUNTY—James H. Wipper- starchy foods. Used for decades, based ANT FOOD Visit in Rio furth, Ashton, and Helen AH. Sauk on a successful prescription as an aid City. for digestion. Designed to relieve acid RIO— Staff Sgt. and Mrs. Mil- stomach pains, sourness or distress ton Landsverk are visiting at the after meals. NOT a candy. No bak- home of Sgt. Landsverk's parents, ing soda or caustic alkalis. Try tt to- TRUSSES Mr and Mrs. Thor Landsverk, State Weather day Lame family size $1 50 Western Electric Hearing Aid* I*;o. Fair and continued cool today and AnkU Supports - Knea Supports S«t. Landsverk completed 50 toniftlit, Thursday fair and a little Blastle Stocking! warmer. ABLETS missions over Kuropp ,-is gunner GRSR THE PRESCRIPTION 86 Proof—68.4% Grain Neutral Spirits. Jas. Barclay St Co.. Limited, Peoria, HI. on ;i B-24 bomber anrl has been PHARMACY F!;<:mned recently ;