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The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 15

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THE PALM BEACH POST-TIMES, Sunday, April IS, 1945 Pg. IS IN THE SERVICE tt--- xj: i 1 LiJ JKA. fer' Fv, Albert Sims, aviation mate 2c, Naval Reserve, son Robert B. (Bobby) Riggs, electrician's mate 3c, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas P. Riggs, 425 1st participated in the invasion of Iwo of Mr. and Mrs. Earl V. Sims, 1216 Spruce is now serving with Jima aboard an LSM.

The young petty officer, who entered the service in November, 1943, soon after If. graduation from Palm Beach High a Navy carrier-based fighting squadron in the Pacific. Petty Officer Sims was graduated from Palm Beach High School and attended Palm Beach Junior College for a year before he School, where he was president of his class for four years, has been on sea duty since November. Recently, while un RECEIVE SERVICE EMBLEMS These are 11 employes of the U. S.

Sugar who received emblems for continuous service from five to 10 years at the harvest dance enjoyed by some fi50 workers of the company at the Sugarland Park Auditorium at Clewiston Wednesday evening. From left to right are: Frank Jacobs, mechanic; G. E. Townsend, welder; J. Van De Velve, carpenter; H.

C. Carlton, welder; Mrs. John J. Kettl, stenographer; E. Harris, mechanic; Jay W.

Moran, executive vice president, who made the emblem presentation, and J. J. Geiger, K. O. Shows, H.

B. Ma-gill, and B. B. Wilson, all machinists. entered the Navy in September 1041.

loading a transport, he saw Ensign James Y. Arnold, Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Arnold, Palm Beach.

Later Ensign Arnold visited his friend on his LSM. A 9TH AIR FORCE BOMBER BASE, France Disregarding the danger from a heavy concentration of flak batteries Major Louis S. Rehr, Delray Beach, a B-26 Marauder medium bomber squadron commander, led DELRAY BEACH NEWS Richmond H. Oldford has been advanced to specialist photographer 2c, Navy, and is stationed in the Bath And Tennis Club Hawaiian Islands, his parents, the Rev. and Mrs.

Walter Oldford. 316 Pilgrim have learned. Petty Open To Convalescent Mrs. Abrams Named Woman's Club Head DELRAY BEACH Mrs. T.

De-Witt Abrams was reelected president of Delray Beach Woman Club at its annual meeting Wednesday afternoon, at the clubhouse. Other officers elected wefe Mrs. J. R. MeFee, first vice president; Mrs.

W. B. Davis, second vies president; Mrs. L. W.

Currier, secretary; Mrs. A. W. Holroyd, treasurer: Mrs. C.

R. Yanson, corresponding secretary and Mrs. L. C. Hand, parliamentarian.

i formation 6,000 feet below the briefed altitude to bomb the target. He has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for this act. HUE TO PROPERTY SOUGH! BY DELRAY DELRAY BEACH J. W. Now- .3 Officer Oldford entered the service Dec.

11, 1942, and has been on overseas duty for the past 13 months. THE LOCUSTS DESCEND ON WINDSOR Folks ud in Windsor. Ontario, are our DELRAY BEACH Convalescent service men from Boca Raton Field' will be guests at the Gulf Stream Bath and Tennis Club when club facilities will be turned over to them Monday and Friday afternoons from 2 to 4 p. m. Mr.

and Mrs. William T. Jebb, recent purchasers of the club, have extended this courtesy to convales- lin, city attorney, has presented three bills to the State Legislature asking acquisition by the City of Delray Beach, of Seagate properties. Hoffman Village and the Bur- Major was leading a formation of 36 Marauders last Nov. 19 on an at-1 tack against Mer- good neighbors, but they're beginning to wonder on what side of the meat eight-ball they'll wind up if Detroiters continue their raids on Windsor's meat supplies.

Typical of the city's markets is the scene above, showing a store crowded with Detroiters who, with meat almost unobtainable on their side of the line, buy up everything in sight. TSgt. Frank L. Kremer, whose wife, Mrs. Dorothy C.

Kremer, resides at 728 Talladega has arrived in Belgium, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franz Kremer, 301 N. Lake Worth, have been Informed. Sgt.

Kremer is in a tank destroyer company and has been in the service sine November 1943. He was formerly employed at Morrison Field. well Smith development west of; cents. zig, Germany, a strongpoint op Miss Betty Ball, swimming in Ocean south of the city. structor, will be on hand to assist with the program and hostesses from the Red Cross Canteen and Motor Corps will be present.

Agreement to provide city services to these subdivisions in exchange for becoming part of the town, came after long planning ana mucn aiscussion in pasij jj THE SF.RVICE SIM'S EXPENSE FUND BILLS SOAR TALLAHASSEE. (JF) The Flor fund and not a drain on general revenue. The rest of the approved or partially approved expenditures will come from the general fund, though that would wipe out the balance the Governor hopes to lock up for postwar public works, and against which there already are several million dollars in old construction appropriations. Nearly every important bill on A happy reunion was recently held in France by two brothers, Sgt. A.

Earl Foreman, and SSgt. Robert A. (Bob) Foreman, sons of THE SITUATION: When you posing General Patton 3rd Army near the Rhine, when he encountered a heavy undercast covering the target. Although the town was known to be heavily defended by flak batteries the pilot took his box down to approximately half the briefed altitude to bomb with excellent results. The major's unit, the 9th Air Force's "White Tailed" 323rd Bombardment Group, won a commendation from General Patton for the effectiveness of this attack, which virtually destroyed the enemy's positions as well as hitting a factory.

Major Rehr, who has been overseas 11 months, has more than 50 montns. All inree Dins were passea DELRAY BEACH Ned Hager. as one resolution to be presented storekeeper. 1c, son of Mr. and to the Legislature.

lMrs Hager, is home on leave The proposed acts mean that from Camp Peary Va the city will acquire 1.300 feet First Lt JameJ sjnks wnQ south of the Seagate property and witn Army enginee.s in Portland, Hoffman Village, situated in the Qre arrived home Thursday to are a newcomer to a neighborhood i Mrs- Dorothy F. Rogers 3930 Lake and Canal Point. It was their ida Legislature, in only seven day one oi your neignoors Drtngs you irst in three years. Sgt. Earl Fore northeast section of town on the spend several days leave with his mother, Mrs.

I. J. Sinks canal. According to the agreement, the city will furnish water man was a member of Company National Tiies to NEW ORLEANS 6 Hours 32 Min. Major Roland Wilcox is on leave to certain of the Burwell Smith visjting his parentSj Mr and Mrs Guard, and was properties which are not included a piate or cookies or something else for your family to eat.

WRONG WAY: Feel that it is not your place to return the gesture of friendliness. RIGHT WAY: The first time you bake, take your neighbor something, or else take her flowers or vegetables if you have a garden. W. E. Wilcox.

He was accompanied combat missions to his credit. In by Mrs. Wilcox and their two young sons. in the agreement, when there is a surplus. Rate for these consumers will be higher.

called to active duty in December 1940. He was stationed at Craig Field, as op addition to his latest award he has For information and reservations call Airport Ticket ito erations clerk be 1 1 I won the Air Medal with nine bronze Oak Leaf Clusters. He served as a flight commander and squadron operations officer before being promoied to his present post. of actual sessions, has appropriated $10,838,000 to be spent for new-purposes in the next two years, and another $3,911,000 has been approved by one House or the other. Nothing has been provided yet for regular operations of State agencies and institutions, which Gov.

Caldwell estimates will take $3,000,000 more during the next biennium than at present nor for a two-year $9,850,000 increase in welfare funds he requested. The amount already appropriated largely for schools is almost Identical to the $10,836,343 balance in the general revenue fund on the day the Legislature convened. However, the $2,728,000 distributed Friday for increased school teachers' salaries this year came from a surplus in the county school SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED DELRAY BEACH A representative of the area rent control office in Ft. Lauderdale will be present at the city hall from 9 to Office Phon 4276. (f amwer Phont Miami 10(l fore going over $830 Netted In Drive For Children's Fund 0 seas in December 1943 and since hich the Legislature has completed action so far has involved an appropriation.

While action on the expenditures has been speedy and virtually without objection, the Legislature has proceeded slowly on new tax measures designed to supply the money. The Governor's proposed one-cent a package cigaret tax, increase has been referred to a House subcommittee for study, and his suggested three ccnts-a-bottle beer tax has been set down for a public hearing by the House Finance and Taxation Committee next Thursday. Gov. Caldwell estimated a year extra could be raised by those two measures. He has not sent up to the Legislature the.

bill embodying his controversial recommendation for a 10 percent utilities gross receipts tax The major is the son of Mr. and DELRAY BEACH A total of, 11:30 a. m. each Wednesday until that time has Mrs. Paul A.

Iehr of Delray further notice. $830 in contributions has been re been in the 8th Beach. Prior to entering the air ceived by the local committee for the Florida Children's Home So force he attended Washington and Lee university three years. census and $250,000 for livestock disease prevention were not in the Governor's program as he outlined it to the Legislature, but he has signed them into law. The census fund is new in that it has been ten years since one was necessary.

The hog cholera and cattle bang's disease expenditure is $75,000 above the appropriation for similar work during the past two years. ciety, Mrs. Samuel Ogren, chairman, reports. Robert I. Kern, seaman 2c, Sea- Air Force Flying Control in England and France.

SSgt. Robert Foreman enlisted in the Air Corps in February 1942 and was an instructor at Barksdale Field. before going overseas last August. He Recent donors are Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Butts, $10; Mrs. H. Butler, $10; Mr. and Mrs. Flovd JlioAe J-inat JouclieS bees, Camp Endicott, R.

who has eompleted his boot training at Bainbridge. is spending "his leave with his wife. Mrs. Geraldine Kern. 636 Gardenia and his father, George C.

Kern of the Lake Court Apartment Hotel. W. Pixley, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, SI; Dr.

and Mrs. G. has been awarded the Air Medal and seven Oak Leaf Clusters and King. Mrs. George Boyd.

to raise the other $6,000,000 annu Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hall.

$10; Mrs Indian Sign Guards ally he figures is necessary-In addition to the Governor's tax Lucy McLeod Smith, $50; Mr. and has completed 35 River Of Death missions. Both Mrs. C. F.

Deshler, $10; Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Johnson, $10: Mr.

and program, legislators have submitted bills for increased levies on whiskey, chain stores and cigarets; new taxes on amusement ticket. Mrs. Thomas J. McKay, $15 anonymous, $1. AP N'ewsfeatures RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Untamed Chavante Indians are leav young men were associated with the Southern Bell Telephone and Unwanted Hair Permanently and Painlessly REMOVED from Face, Legs, Chest, Etc.

By A Registered Electrologist Phone EVE FLETCHER 2-1249 for an Appointment ing gentle reminders in the path soft drinks, cigars and race track telephone privilege licenses: and I Tpleoranh Cn hp. Jerry Rehm. son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rehm, 306 Marlborough left Wednesday for Pass Christian, Miss, to enter the Merchant Marine cadet basic training corps.

Young Rehm, who has been associated with the circulation department of The Post-Times, was graduated from Palm Beach High School in 1944 and has been attending Marion Institute in Alabama for the past year. of explorers to stay out of their CLOTHING DRIVE NETS Vases and Bowls, Trays and Waste Baslcefs, Figurines and Background Pictures, odd pieces of Glass and Pottery. 1.300 POUNDS SO FAR tore entering tne service. Sg. Bob one proposing State operation of uncharted jungles.

Dispatches from all liquor stores. Consideration of I Goiana, in deep west central these independent revenue meas- I Brazil, report that members of the DELRAY BEACH The United National Clothing drive is meeting foreman wne. the former Betty ures has been almost completely withheld, though. Koncador Xingu expedition are finding small Chavante warclubs with enthusiasm in Delray Beach G. R.

Hartman, chairman, reports. Sue Friday, is with her family in California, and Sgt. Earl Fore 1:11 A. P. M.

11:00 A. M. M. to P. M.

Two of the early appropriations He said that already 1.300 near their camp traditionally the Indian sign not to come any man's wife, the former' Alice Beh- $235,000 for taking the State ervice rens, is here with his mother. farther. pounds of good used clothing have been received at the various depots in town. The town's quota The full-sized counterpart of the "signs" are made of -hardest jungle woods, sometimes weigh 20 is 2,000 pounds. -Komrtm 306 Clematis Almost 6,000.000 pairs of Army Crude Pottery, Cups and Saucers, Mexican Glassware, Wooden Salad Bowls and Trays.

SSgt. Wallon A. Carrien Is spending a 19-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Nellie Carden, 810 Talladega St. Sgt.

Carden is assigned to the personnel and base services section at Brookley Field, headquarters of the Mobile Air Technical Service Command. Now It's Mice WASHINGTON, iP) A thousand mice were in latest cargo to be flown into Burma by an American combat cargo plane. They had been flown from here for use in medical field tests. Males were crated in one cage and females in another to make sure only the required number arrived. Dogs, cats and monkeys also have been flown for similar purposes.

Horses and donkeys have been carried by the same outfit shoes were rebuilt by the Quartermaster Corps last year. pounds, and are used by the Cha-vantes to crush enemy skulls. The Roncador-Xintm expedition, headed by Col. Matos Vjniquc hopes to explore, develop and open Brazil's interior plateau to colonization. It hopes to establish friendly contacts with the Indians who have so far resisted all friendly overtures.

They recently shot arrows and threw spears at an observation plane flying over one of their villages. The expedition entered hostile territory when it crossed the River of Deaths several weeks ago. T4 George J. Henderson, Signal has written his mother, Mrs. C.

C. Chapman, Fitzgerald, formerly of this city, that he has been sent from France to Repair Swiss and American Watches to advanced troops. in Ceramics, Glass, Wood and Plastics. A flying meteoroligical station is being used by the Royal Air Forces which flies into the heart W. S.

North, electrician's mate 2c, U. S. Navy, and his wife, the former Lulu Scott, who has been Our Slocks residing in Fort Myers, are visit Lloyd Y. Moffitt's Watch Hospital 2nd Floor Comeau Bldg. Phone 5397 of an impending storm, and through the use of its instruments can inform the Air Forces more correctly than any ground station ever could of the conditions of the storm, where it is moving and ing Mr.

North mother, Mrs. fc. B. North. 615 St.

Mr. North The U. S. Army has developed goggles which are virtually how it will strike. are built up once more, in spite of a season that has drained them again and again and a market in which everything is hard to get.

has just returned from 19 months in the Pacific, where he participated in the action at Tarawa. Kwajalein, Saipan and Leyte. He and Mrs. North are spending a 30-day leave here, Mr. North's first leave home in 26 months.

A graduate of the Palm Beach High School. Mr. North was connected with the Community Gro-ery before entering the Navy Nov. 13, 1942. PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Th Slum of Hilly) Glihrrt and Sullivan Jn.fnt4d by Coani.ton Junior High School on Friday Kvrnlnf, April 27, at Eight oTIock at Junior High School Auditorium MONOGRAMMED GLASSWARE Swiss HJea flier -ropliei The old fashioned method of foretelling the weather.

Predicts right to 24 hours in advance. hi iL'i is" "5P.M." SB SALE Beachwear and Accessories Wow Is The Time To Buy Your Summer Needs LIDO BEACH SHOP Lido Poola Palm Beach C. J. HERGOTT MASTER GLASS CUTTER Square Ash Tray Monogrammed 35c 8 10 oz. Highballs Monogrammed $1.79 Special at 89c GLASS AND CHINA DEPT.

2ND FLOOR Nicked Glasses Repaired For gala playtime hours an attention-getting twosome in Cohama "5 P. Bur-Mil quality rayon crepe. Cut for easy action and impeccably detailed with a two-toned braid belt, lustrous pearl buttons and smart tucks on the freedom-giving bodice and separate skirt. In sunny shades of coral, cherry red, American absinthe (lime), ice blue. Sizes 12 to 20.

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