Iowa Old Press
LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Friday, September 18, 1942
LIBERTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL NEWS NOTES.
High School.
The Liberty Township Consolidated school opened on August 31, 1942. This year our total enrollment is better than a year ago, especially in the grades. The present school faculty is as follows:
J. J. Rance, superintendent and teacher in business law, geometry, manual arts and electricity and radio.
Mrs. Delores Dorsey, principal and teacher in English, typing and shorthand.
Mrs. Edna Clemensen, teacher in home economics, English and science.
Frank Yoerger, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
Miss Freda, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.
Miss Betty Coombs, kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades.
Friday of every week is Defense Stamp day. Pupils are urged to buy stamps. Carol Blades and Mildred Borchers are the Stamp Committee for the high school. Over five dollars worth was sold the second week of school. The school’s goal is $100 for the school year.
[Transcriber Note: This goal dollar amount is blurred on the microfilm of this news issue. It may actually be $400 instead.]
Three manual arts boys have started making wagon boxes. They are Bob Kovarna, Roger Yoerger and Floyd Brown.
Supt. J. J. Rance attended the coaching school held at Spirit Lake from August 17 to August 23. There were 235 coaches in attendance, and it was reported by Lyle Quinn, Secretary-Treasurer of the Iowa Athletic Association, to be the largest coaching school in the United States. The coaches do not say anything about fishing.
Mrs. Eugene Emma, daughter of Superintendent and Mrs. Rance, spent one week visiting at the home of her parents. She returned to Spencer last Sunday, where her husband is the instructor in the aviation school.
Junior Class officers are as follows.
President, Patricia Clarey;
Vice-President, Evelyn Tooker;
Secretary, Donald Brown;
Treasurer, George Stastny.
The freshman and sophomore home economics classes are canning tomatoes and fruits.
Superintendent J. J. Rance has reviewed news of the week each Monday morning at 9 o’clock.
School board members and their wives, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rance, entertained at a reception for the teachers, Thursday evening, September 10. Games were played and lunch was served in the school gymnasium.
The following people were elected to class officers in the Freshman-Sophomore group:
Dorothy Lehman, President; Joyce Richardson, Vice-President; Dolores Kovarna, Secretary-Treasurer.
There is good interest shown in the commercial field this year. Nineteen students make up the typing classes and there are eight in the shorthand class.
Grammar Room:
There are three grades represented in our room, with eight pupils in the eighth grade, four in the seventh grade, and eight in the sixth grade.
We have selected two Defense Stamp salesmen to sell stamps on Fridays. The two pupils chosen were Patrick Mansfield and Francis Tooker.
The two news reporters for the first semester are Shirley Swanberg and Leo DeRocher. They plan to publish the names of all students in the respective grades sometime in the near future.
We have learned the American Creed and found it quite easy to memorize.
One of our classmates, Alfred Clarey, had the misfortune of falling off a rake and hurting his arm last Thursday afternoon.
Intermediate Room:
With school in full swing the interment room is off to a good start.
The enrollment in this room is 18 this year. The third grade has the most with 11 boys and girls.
All the boys and girls are working hard in spelling to earn a gold star which is awarded to the ones having 100 (a perfect paper) on Fridays. Also little paper racers on a green paper background show where each speller stands. To win the race, a person must have 100.
The spelling gold star winners this past week were Ray Clarey, Joan Gorman, Phyllis Swanberg and Margaret Huls. We are sure some of the racers will try harder this Friday.
Primary News.
Fourteen pupils enrolled in the primary grade this year. They were as follows:
Second grade: Clifford Lehman;
First grade: Ruby Lee Berger, Darlene Christensen, Lucerne and Lucille Clarey, Carol Dorsey, Lawrence Hecht, Robert Kuehn, Verda Tullis, June Yoerger;
Primary: Eugene Huls, James Kuehn, Larry Rosenow, Janet Trometer.
The past two weeks we have been busy as bees. Our Health lessons have been concerning the cleanliness of our bodies.
Primary students are learning names of colors. Jimmie Kuehn, Larry Rosenow and Janet Trometer can print their names.
First grade have had combinations numberland through five.
June Yoeger brought a collection of butterflies to school. They were very pretty.
Clifford Lehman treated the room last Friday in celebration of his birthday.
Those receiving a perfect spelling paper Friday were: Clifford Lehman, Ruby Lee Berger, Lucille Clarey, Carol Dorsey, Lawrence Hecht, Verda Tullis, June Yoerger, Jimmie Kuehn, Larry Rosenow and Janet Trometer. ~Miss Coombs.
[transcribed by LZ, Nov 2019]
LeMars Sentinel, September 25, 1942
Paul Dull of Cherokee, who attended Western Union College and is a brother of Burton Dull, graduates October 2 from the naval aviation school at Kingsville, Texas. He was recently transferred to Kingsville from Corpus Christi, Texas, and is at present a dive bomber squadron leader. After his graduation as an ensign, he will take advanced training at Miami, Florida, and then hopes to get a furlough and come home for his first visit since he enlisted last March.
Mr. and Mrs. George Pehler received a cablegram from their son, Max, a few days ago stating he had arrived safely overseas and was well. Max, who went into the army early in July, took his basic training at Miami Beach, Florida. He is attached to an aviation supply company.
Capt. James B. Gillespie of Urbana, Illinois, who was recently commissioned a captain in the army, reported for duty at the U.S. Air Base in Salt Lake City, Utah, this week. Dr. Gillespie, a former LeMars man, has been a member of the Carle Clinic at Urbana for ten years.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hawkins of Grant township received a V-mail letter Monday, September 21, from their son, Duane, written September 12, with location a military secret. His last letter was written September 3, and stated that he was fully equipped and was ready to leave the training station early next morning. His chief pride and joy then was a new Reising hand machine gun with lots of cartridges but his V-mail letter had as his joy—being on land again even if it was in a hospital. He had contracted a touch of fever similar to flu aboard ship but which he thought wasn’t any excuse for keeping him in the hospital as he felt well enough to be at work. Life for the marines doesn’t get monotonous from staying in the same place too long. Duane has gone to the marine base in San Diego, to the rifle range, to the naval air station at North Island (near San Diego) and now overseas somewhere since June 16, when he left Des Moines.
Robert David Mullikin of LeMars enlisted in the army last week.
Bernard J. Geary, Vincent E. Geary, Bernard H. Mohan and Orville Bonnema enlisted in the marines at Des Moines, Wednesday. The first two named are brothers.
Recent army enlistments reported to the Selective Service board are Glen A. Breitbarth, LeMars; John L. Cameron, Kingsley; and Fred A. Groves, LeMars. Charles Wormley of Kingsley enlisted in the navy.
LeMars Sentinel, September 29, 1942
Elmer J. Theisen, who enlisted in the navy last May, is home on a furlough. He has been in the navy less than five months, but has already been on a ship that was sunk. He is enroute to the east coast to report for duty.
Dean Hess, of Kingsley, and Joseph Krogman, of Remsen, enlisted in the army last week.
Westfield Correspondence in Akron Register-Tribune: Of interest to F. J. McKay, operator of the Standard Oil station here, is the account given by a Hawarden boy, Roger Taylor, radioman first class, U.S. Navy, who was prisoner of the Japanese for almost eight months. During his imprisonment he was allowed to return to his lodgings in Canton, China, but was not allowed to leave his apartment except about once every two weeks. His hobby, amateur radio, led to his acquaintance with one Vilroy McVay, radio operator for the American consul at Foochow, China. They talked by way of radio many evenings. “Where are you from?” Roger asked one evening. “I’m from South Dakota,” Vilroy replied.
“Where in South Dakota?”
“Little town of Hudson.”
“Well, I’ll be hanged,” Roger shouted back. “I’m from Hawarden, Iowa.”
Vilroy is the son of Mrs. James McVay, of Hudson, and a brother of F.J. McVay, of Westfield.
Roger thought McVay got out of Foochow before the Japs got there, and the last Roger heard of him, somebody said he was in Chungking.