CANDACE ARSERS JOINS WAACS
Osage -- Candace Arsers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Linton Arsers, was accepted into the service as a WAAC Tuesday and was sworn in Tuesday afternoon. She is the first women from Osage to enlist in this branch of the service. Miss Arsers is now pubic music instructor at Leland and has handed in her resignation as she expects to be called soon. She is a graduate of the Osage high school and of Upper Iowa university at Fayette.
Source: Globe-Gazette, Mason City IA - December 10, 1942
RECRUITER -- Third Officer Candace Arsers of the WAACS is in Davenport on temporary recruiting duty during the absences of Officer Margaret Murray, who has gone to her home in New York on a ten-day furlough. Officer Arsers is a native Iowan having been born and raised at Osage, Ia. When she leaves Davenport she will got to Waterloo, Ia., to take charge of the WAAC recruiting in that territory.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - May 6, 1943 (photo included)
MISS HELEN E. FOCHT, CENTER, IS ADVISER ON WAR SERVICES FOR women on the University of Iowa campus. With her, Second Officer Reva Startzer, left, of Des Moines recruiting office and Third Officer Candace Arsers of the Cedar Rapids recruiting office, discussed plans for presenting facts about the women's army auxiliary corps to the university's women students, when WAAC representatives recently visited Iowa City.
Source: The Des Moines Register, June 13, 1943 (photo included)
Record for Lt. Carman; Whole Year in Station
Lt. Candace A. Carman officer-in-charge of the Cedar Rapids army recruiting station, set a new record Wednesday when she became the first Cedar Rapids WAC recruiter to complete a full year in the city.
A former school teacher who hails form Osage, Ia., Lt Carman has been advanced from a second lieutenant to first lieutenant since she arrived in Cedar Rapids on May 17, 1943. Her year's service in Cedar Rapids is a longer record than those of most of her mate predecessors in the office and much longer than the tenure of the enlisted personnel of the WAC in the Cedar Rapids station.
Source: The Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 17, 1944
DAVENPORT WAC RECRUITING STAFF -- With the closing of several of the WAC recruiting stations in Iowa and the concentration of enlistments centered in six stations over the state, the Davenport office staff has been increased to six to handle the added territory assigned to this office. Six members headed by Lt. Candace A. Carman now constitute the Davenport area staff.
Shown above they are front row, left to right: Staff Sgt. Betty Buynak; Lt. Carman and Sgt Rachel Michaelson. Back row, Pvt. Marjorie D. Manuel and Cpl. Catherine Bartlett. The sixth member., Cpl. Howard Davis, was unable to appear in the picture.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport, IA - October 26, 1944 (photo included)
Osage - First Lt. Candace A. Carman, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs Linton Arsers, spend the weekend at home and left Monday on a tour of Iowa in charge of a recruiting unit. She received special training in Omaha, Neb., for this phase of recruiting. There is a corps of four in the unit. Lieutenant Carman, as Candace Arsers, taught public school music before enlisting in the WAC in 1942. Her husband, a navy petty officer is in foreign service.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - November 22, 1944
OSAGE WAC BACK AT 1ST STATION
Returns to Scene of Beginning of Career
Fort Des Moines -- Lt. Candace A. Carman, Osage, returned to the scene of the beginning of her career in the woman's army corps this week with an assignment to company work at the First WAC training center, Fort Des Moines.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Arsers, Osage, the lieutenant has managed to stay within the boundaries of the state of Iowa since she entered the corps in January 1943 with the exception of a 6 month tour of duty in Minnesota which she has just completed.
After basic training in Fort Des Moines she entered officer candidate school and was commissioned in April, 1943. For more than a year and a half she was in the Iowa recruiting district in charge of Cedar Rapids and Davenport recruiting sub-stations.
Before enlisting in the WAC, First Lt. Carman taught English and music at the Oxford Junction school near Cedar Rapids. She earned her bachelors degree in music at Upper Iowa University, Fayette, in 1940 and is a member of Beta Sigma Phi, national business women's sorority.
Her husband, Chief Petty Officer Eldon Carman, has been in the navy for 8 years, going through such major campaigns as Guadalcanal, Munda and Rendova.
Source: Mason City Globe-Gazette, June 25, 1945
