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Carlisle: Wounded Veteran Seeks nomination Carlisle, April 10. Among the large number of nominating peti tions filed yesterday, the deadline, forthe June primary, were those of Pvt. Ivan M. Kauffman, wounded veteran of World War II, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for prothonotary. Kauffman, 38, and the father of three children, was wounded on December 5, after 27 continuous days the front lines in Europe.

He is now convalescing at Battery General Hospital in Rome, Ga. Home on a brief furlough, Private Kauffman expects an early release from the Army. He was wounded in the left thigh by a rifle bullet and is forced to walk with a cane. Before entering the service a year ago, he was in business with his brother, Kenneth E. Kauffman, Shippensburg plumber.

Petitions filed yesterday in cluded: Republican, North Middle ton, Earl Wert, H. J. Dick, W. Roth and George Henry, school directors; Mark Roth, tax collector; Norman Shughart, super visor; Fred Orris, assessor; A. H.

Baldwin, judge of elections, and William DeWalt, inspector; Upper Mifflin, Elmer Stoke, in spector; Samuel Miller, judge; Blain Davison, auditor; Ira Diehl, assessor; George Coover and Elton Clevenger, school director; Mt, Holly Springs, David Myers, Marion Stoner, Lynn McCullough and Carson Nelson, council; Rus sell Clark and Earl W. Dowd, School director; Newville, Cleo Mowery, school director; H. Koser, North Ward, council; P. J. Kammerer, burgess, and Walter Hard, assessor; Carlisle, Ruth Bridge, Fifth Ward, inspector; M.

L. Braught, Fifth Ward, judge; William A. Warner, Fifth Ward, assessor; Albert Shuman, tax collector, and Asa Zook, supervisor; Hampden, J. E. Fogelsanger and Marshall Branther, Hopewell, school director; Raymond Bear, Dickinson, supervisor; F.

H. 'Sowers, and Walter Howell, Shippensburg township, school di rectors, and Ray E. Hutter, Me chanicsburg, burgess. Democratic: Upper Frankford township, George Cohick, school director; W. E.

Bailey, supervisor Robert Jacoby, inspector; Wayne Salisbury, election judge; Winfield Scott, auditor; Charles Baugh man, assessor; Charles Snyder, tax collector, and P. L. Baughman justice of the peace. Mt. Holly Springs: Aaron Sheaf fer, James J.

Cranga, Ira Gleim and John E. Peterson, council Cook township, Charles Smith Hugh Peffer and Lester Kutz: school directors; Paul Wolfe; Dickinson, school director; Diller Stine, Carlisle, Second Ward, as sessor; Allen Albright, Middlesex, supervisor; Oscar Gutshall, Mid dlesex, inspector; Oscar Starner, South Middleton, supervisor; Mrs. Charles Starner, Dickinsdn, South, inspector; Fleta Shoemaker, Car lisle, Third Ward, Second Precinct, inspector, and L. A. Good ling, Monroe, tax collector.

Birth Announcements Mr. and Mrs. Norman Howe, Mt. Holly Springs, a son, April 5. Mr.

and Mrs. Emerson MCLoy. Mt. Holly Springs, a son, April 5. Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph LePere, New Bloomfield, a son, April 5 Mr. and Mrs. Japtha Woolums, Spring Road, a son, April 5. Officers Chosen The annual business meeting of the Second Presbyterian Church was held recently with the fol lowing election: W.

I. Gait and Norman Stambaugh, re elected as elders, and W. H. Garland chosen to fill a vacancy. John M.

Rhey was re elected as a deacon, and the following were elected to three year terms on the board of trustees: Paul Teitrick, W. J. Fetter, Charles Cams, J. P. Mc Keehan and Paul Masland.

Lower Allen Pupils Finance Six Jeeps Students of the Lower Allen Township school since the beginning of the present school term have purchased enough in War Stamps and Bonds to buy six jeeps for the Army, S. Mabel Zimmerman, principal, announced today. War Stamps sales for the past week were $461.10. The State Department of Health last week conducted eye and hearing tests for students. An assembly program, under the direction of Mrs.

Kathryn Pentz, teacher, will be presented tomorrow morning by fifth graders. Pastor Returns Home The Rev. S. E. Vance, pastor of the Wormleysburg Church of God, has returned to his home, 113 South Second street, Wormleysburg after five weeks in the Carlisle Hospital.

His condition is reported improved. The Rev. Myrtle Lefever, Harrisburg, will continue to conduct services at the church Sunday at 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p.

m. Banquet For Club The Chartier Club of New Cum lhaffand last night held a father Cumberland Airport restaurant. Mrs. Alvadee Hutton Adams spoke. Irving Smith, president, presided.

New Cumberland Notes Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Forry, Blue Island, 111., recently arrived in New Cumberland to reside at 315 Fifth street. Mr.

Forry, a re tired passenger conductor on the Rock Island Railroad, served four years with this company. Mary Katherine Miller, 1010 Brandt avenue, will be hostess to the Win A Chum Bible Class at St. Paul's Lutheran Sunday School tonight. Midweek prayer services will be neju ncuiiudv in me tnurcn oi uuu. SSgt.

Gallius Shelley and Mrs. Shelley are visiting Mrs. Edear Wiro' r4 1 Ins 1 fir I i 1 WEST SHORE WINS BRONZE STAR Pfc. Lloyd S. Myers, grandson of Mrs.

Mary E. Myers, West Fair view, received the Bronze Star Medal for heroic achievement in action during the period of November 27 to December 31 in eastern France. At the time, his regiment was engaged in stubbornly resisted assaults upon fortified Maginot line positions. As driver of a medical vehicle during the at tack upon Forts Freudenberg and Schiesseck, Pvt. Myers repeatedly placed the welfare of his wounded comrades above his own personal safety in exposing himself to intense hostile mortar and artillery fire while evacuating casualties from forward areas to the battalion aid station.

His unit was also awarded the Presidential Unit Citation recently. Pvt. Myers entered the Army in March, 1943. Mrs. Adams Speaker At Grcle Session Mrs.

Alvadee Hutton Adams, New Cumberland journalist, will speak at the meeting of the Ladies' Circle of the Camp Hill Presbyterian Church tonight at 7.30 in the church social rooms. Mrs. J. Earl Buch is hostess chairman. The Prayer Fellowship Group win meet weanesaay at 9.30 a.

m. at the home of Mrs. W. C. Enter line, 2129 Market street.

The Couples Club will meet in the church social rooms Wednesday at p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Price, Mr.

and Mrs. Wallace Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Peeling will be in charge. The congregation and corporation of the church will meet Monday at 7.30 p.

m. in the social rooms. Elders, trustees and deacons will be elected. Twenty eight persons were received into membership at communion serv ices Sunday by the Rev. Spencer B.

Smith, pastor. Dr. Bookstaber Speaker For Rotary Meeting The West Shore Rotarv Cluh will meet tonight at 6 at the West Shore Restaurant. The program will be in charee of the international service com mittee, the Rev. Howard F.

Bink. chairman. Dr. PhiliD David Bookstaber, Ohev Sholom Temple, will speak on "Palestine's Day." Birthday night will be observed and roses will be presented to all members present who have birthdays in April. The chairman of the Allied clothing drive will give a report on the progress of the campaign within the club area.

Plan Public Auction Mrs. Leroy Sweigert, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Civic Club of New Cumberland, announces a public auction win De neid Thursday from 2 to 4 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m.

in the Citizen's firehouse. flt MOTHER AND BABY OBSERVE BIRTHDAYS Mrs. Joyce George and her son, "Artie," observed their birthdays recently. Mrs. George was 21 on April 5, and "Artie" celebrated his first birthday on April 7.

Mrs. George's husband, MSgt. Arthur C. George, has served overseas in Russia, Egypt and "England for the last 16 months. Entering the service in January, 1941, he trained at Lowry Field.

His parents are Mr. and Mrs. W. F. George, South Enola.

Mrs. George is the former Miss Joyce King, Marysville. Marysville Class To Present Play "The Red Spider," a mystery in three acts, will be presented by the senior class of Marysville High School Friday, April 13 at 8 o'rlork in the hizh school audi i a i lonum ine piay is unaer me direction of the dramatics adviser, Miss Ethel Woodward. The cast includes Richard Dis singer, as Dr. Arthur McHarge; Joyce Painter, Valeria McHarge; Gloria Schrauder, Josephine Glover; Audrey Wagner, Miss Piney; Robert Finicle, Zeb O'Kelley; Paul Metz, Tony; Jesse Knaub, Jack Mayo; Kenneth Miller, Ralph Graves; Mildred Mes singer, Mrs.

Marie Stecker; and Hester Bitting, Mammy Hannah. A matinee lor school children will be presented in the high school auditorium Thursday at 2.15 p. m. Reserved seats for Friday's per formance are on sale at the school. Men's Brotherhood Will 3Ieet Tonight The Men's Brotherhood of St.

Paul's United Brethren Church, Wormleysburg, will meet tonight at 7.30 in the church. The Women's Missionary Society will meet Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the church and the Crusaders' Club the same day at 6.30 p. m.

ihe Rev. Paul D. Emenheiser, pastor, will conduct midweek prayer services Wednesday et 7.30 p. m. in the church.

Mem bers welcomed into church dur ing Holy Week by the Rev. Mr. Emenheiser were Phyllis Ann High, Ruth Arlene Hummel, William Philip Miller. Jo Anne Syster, Mrs. Ruth Hummel.

Mr. ana Mrs. oeorge E. Myers, Mr. ana Mrs.

Faui Drummond. Highland Park Wnm Will Elect Officers The Highland Park Women's Club will elect officers at a meeting tonight at 8 in the clubhouse at the community playgrounds. Plans will be discussed for the dinner next month, at which the new officers will be installed. Present officers of the club fol low: Mrs. D.

D. Spence, president; Mrs. Robert Lawrence, vice presi aent; Mrs. Lester Duttinger, secretary; Mrs. Paul Magaro, treasurer.

Club Croup to Meet The Literature group of the Camp Hill Civic Club will meet Thursday at 8 p. m. at the home of Mrs. John J. Helff, 1819 High street, Camp Hill.

I SM I f' COMMISSIONED SSgt Edward J. Sawyer, 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester C. Sawyer, 2 State Highway, West Fairview, has been promoted to second lieutenant with an armored division in Germany.

Lt. Sawyer was recently wounded in action on the Western Front. He entered service January 11, 1941. Gunner Returns After Completing 35 Raids on Reich Set. Robert E.

Kapp, 19, ball turret gunner on the "Weary Bird a 17 Flying Fortress, recently spent a furlough at his home, 3102 Yale avenue. Camp Hill, after completing 35 missions over Ger many. He is now at Santa Ana, Calif. Sgt. Kapp, who wears the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters and the European Theatre Ribbon with three stars, recalls a mission over Berlin was one of the worst he ever experienced.

Heavy flak hit under the left wing of his ship which the crew later found they could stick their heads and shoul ders through, and three other big holes were torn in the ship by flak. The plane landed with a flat tire when they returned to their base but no one was injured. In another raid over Merseburg, flak ripped 12 holes in his ship and the engine was shot out. His plane was forced to leave its formation but made a good landing at inenaiy new. At Frankfurt, he KaoD reside at the Yale avenue remembers the sky was filled with address.

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Nevada, April 10, (JP) Eleven thousand acres of rich Missouri farmland which once belonged to Lord William Scully, an Irishman who owned more farms than any other man in the United States, soon will revert to ownership by small farmers. The Federal government will receive sealed bids on the land today. Scully owned 45,000 acres of land in Missouri back in the 90s, and provided farms for 350 tenant families. He charged cash rentals of $1.25 to $2 an acre and tenants made their own improvements. He had even larger holdings in Central Illinois and in Kansas, a total of 200,000 acres valued at $10,000,000.

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