Iowa Old Press
Sioux Center News
June 12, 1941
THREE SIOUX CENTER BOYS FILL CALL NO. 15
LEAVE FOR DES MOINES JUNE 17
The following two men are to leave Orange City on Tuesday, June 17th, at 3:15 P.M. for the induction center at Fort Des Moines, towit:
V-1250 William A. Van Steenwyk, Sioux Center
V-163 Stanley R. Roelofs, Sioux Centerville, S.D.
Both boys are volunteers, Mr. Roelofs having been transferred from Buchanan county to Sioux county for induction.
Request for transfer for delivery for William M. Sneller, V-532 from the Marion county board to the Sioux county board for induction has also been received, and if proper arrangements can be made in time, Mr. Sneller will also leave for Des Moines at the same time.
The local board has also received a call for June 25th for fourteen men and a Replacement call for June 25th calling for two men. The names of these men will be published next week.
Wm. Beernink Hiked With Marines On Regimental Test
San Diego, Calif., June 11—During a test of the physical stamina of troops on a practice march over the trails of California, Pfc. William R. Beernink, of Sioux Center, Iowa, took part in the 180-mile hike made by the Eighth Regiment of the U. S. Marines.
The object of the march was to acquaint the Marines with the conditions they would be required to meet under campaign conditions, and every phase of a mass movement of troops was worked out in detail.
Marches of from 15 to 18 miles a day were made for a 12-day period, while armored cars screened the front and flank of troops to prevent an imaginary enemy force from interrupting the planned schedule. Airplanes, circling overhead, followed the ground troops.
Sioux Center News
June 19, 1941
SIXTEEN BOYS DRAFTED TO LEAVE JUNE 25
BIG CALL OF 21 MEN FOR JULY 8
The Sioux County Local Board has issued order to report for induction on June 25th, 1941, to the following sixteen men:--
56—Vernon Van Donslear, Hospers
179—Lawrence E. Van Wyk, O. City
249—Harold E. Thode, Hawarden
493—Thomas L. DeJong, Orange City
516—Adrian H. Scholten, Hull
652—Bert J. Hubers, Hull
658—Wilfred G. VanBergen, Alton
676—Robert A. Griffith, Ireton
747—Floyd M. Clark, Lake Park
986—Eugene Huffman, Hospers
1151—Lambert M. Termaat, Hull
1197—William L. Rens, Hull
1203—Lavern J. Anderson, Canton, S.D.
1220—Vincent A. J. Stubbe, Hudson
1229—Raymond Reinders, Orange City
1237—Herman Schoellerman, Hawarden
Raymond Reinders and Herman Schoellerman will leave Orange City at 3:15 p.m. for Des Moines. The rest of the men called will leave Alton at 5:15 p.m. for Fort Crook, Neb.
Three of the sixteen men called will no doubt ask for transfer induction as follows: Harold E. Thode to Vancouver, Washington; Robert A. Griffith to Hamilton, Montana; and Eugene Huffman to Long Beach, Calif., as these men are at present residing at the above named places.
The regulations provide in such cases that upon request of such transfer, the Local Board shall send all papers pertaining to the registrant to the Board having jurisdiction over the area in which said registrant resides, and said registrant will then in turn be inducted from that Board instead of being compelled to return to Sioux County for induction. In all such cases, however, the Sioux County Board will get credit for the induction of said registrant.
Tuesday the board received its largest call fro 21 men to leave on July 8. The names of this group have not been drawn yet.
GOLDEN JUBILEE
Get Floats Ready Now
The Celebration Committee this week announced that all business places planning to have a float for the Golden Jubilee parade should start work on them at once. There is less than six weeks left before the big two day celebration and it takes time to get materials, work out plans, and get the float built and in working order. Billy DeBruin, chairman of the parade committee, has complete information on sizes, styles, materials, and costs. He has a full line of sketches and patterns by which merchants can be guided in making selection as to the type of float they want to make. The committee urges every merchant or business place to get busy and see Billy DeBruin this week, so that the materials can be ordered all at once and so save a lot of inconvenience and delay.
CHURCHES AND CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD BE WELL REPRESENTED
Every church and as many organizations connected with the churches in Sioux Center should be represented by significant floats in the parade. There has been some comment about combining the Jay Gould feature and the churches in the same parade, the committee wishes to state that there will be at least three separate classifications or sections to the parade, each one independent of the other two. It feels that each group has equal importance in it’s field for this occasion, and that it is unfair for one group to demand the exclusion of the other. Therefore the music section, the business men’s section and the religious and civic organizations will be distinctly separated into sections.
TOWNSHIPS ASKED TO HAVE COVERED WAGONS IN THE PARADE.
LETTERS.
Headquarters Detachment.
Fort Omaha, Omaha, Nebr.
June 13, 1941
Dear Folks,
I had the afternoon off so I laid around and read, I would have much rather stayed at the office, but if I had done that they would think I didn’t appreciate it and wouldn’t give them to me when I wanted them. I am getting more used to Army life, and it does take a little time to catch on. It is run differently than civilian life in many ways. For one thing you don’t necessarily get promotions by doing all you can, but just do a very little and do that perfect. Also one should never volunteer for work while in the Army, because they never ask for volunteers, if they have anything that is at all important to do.
I am setting the books for a new system of classification we are going to use in the seventh corps area. It really is fun to do some creative work, and know you will get credit for it because I will have to keep them myself, then I can make necessary changes which are needed as they come up. I really am enjoying my work more and more, as I get farther in to it. I always did like psychology, and personnel work, and now I am in the heart of it.
We were issued gas-masks the other day—just training masks, boy, they are hideous looking things. It is part of a soldiers regular equipment but chances are we will never drill with them. Also we are going to get rifles, they will be the old ones, because we won’t need them. But we who are working in offices are going to drill with them, and also go to the rifle range at Fort Crook. I was afraid I was going to miss it, because I guess it really is fun to go out and shoot one of them.
Ed Wesselink called me up last night. I was very surprised. He lives 53 blocks down the street. He came out in his new Ford and we went for a ride.
Well, so much for that side of my life here.
Love, your son, Al Brunsting
P.S.—Tell the folks around home to write sometime and if they come thru Omaha to be sure to stop in and see me.
LOCAL NEWS.
~The H. H. Jensen family of Brewster, Minn., were guests at the Fred DenBeste home for the day Sunday. They also visited at the Nick Balkema home after services Sunday evening.
~Mrs. Dave Roelofs and children and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dykshorn, Sr. paid a farewell visit to Martin Sneller at the John Sneller home Monday afternoon.
~Rev. and Mrs. Aberson and daughter of Rock Valley called on friends here Monday afternoon.
~Dick A. Roelofs and family of Rock Valley and Mr. and Mrs. Davis Roelofs spent Monday night at the D. D. Roelofs home.