LMD News Clippings from 1940s

LMD News Clipping Collection

Clippings from the 1940s

Birth Announcements

Mr. and Mrs. Newton Hovey are parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born in Troy [Rensselear Co. NY] last Saturday [May 1943].  Mr. and Mrs. Hovey are former residents of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

Daughter, Linda Jo, to Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Camp, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], May 21 [1946], at Conamore Nursing Home [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].

Daughter, Carolyn Sue to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Linkroun, of R.D. 1 Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Aug. 30 [1946] at Bainbridge Hospital [Chenango Co., NY].

Daughter, Linda Alene, to Mr. and Mrs. Dannie A. Stevens, of R.D. Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 17 [1946], at Bainbridge Hospital [Chenango Co., NY].

Miscellaneous Clippings

July 2, 1943:  Vincent Ryan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ryan of Deposit, who is stationed at Camp McCoy in Wisconsin, has been promoted to sergeant.  A former electric and telephone lineman, he is instructing soldiers in the signal and communications department.  Sergeant Ryan's brother, Lawrence is in Africa with a tank battalion and two other brother, Bernard and Paul, are in the army and navy, respectively.

September 1943:  Mr. Gus N. Shellenberger receiving the $4,000 in war bonds purchased from Miss Hazel Provost, Bond Dept.

Margery Oliver

April 1944:  At Camp Sutton:  Corp. Margery Oliver, WAC, daughter of Mrs. Flossie Oliver, 410 Massachusetts Avenue, Endicott [Broome Co., NY], is serving in the photography department at Camp Sutton, N.C.  Entering the service in April, 1943, she received her basic training at Daytona Beach, Fla.  She is a former IBM employee.

Private Carlton E. Kinch

1944:  Private First Class Carlton E. Kinch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Kinch of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], is a veteran soldier.  He was at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.  He is now in North Africa.  Private Kinch enlisted in the regular army in 1940.  The family formerly lived at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

August 29, 1946  

Sidney tomato growers face a complete loss of their late crop if stricken by the late potato blight spreading alarmingly in this area.  The potato blight affects the flavor of the tomato and makes it unsuitable for canning.

Funeral was held for Melvin Iverson of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], who was killed instantly Sunday when the car in which he was a passenger left the road and crashed into a tree.

In a spectacular fire last night the large barn on the Russell Quackenbush dairy farm below the Sidney Airport was completely destroyed.  All livestock was saved, but all machinery and 150 tons of hay were lost.

May 24, 1948:  Word was received Monday morning of the death of Betty Joanne Stevens, daughter of Mrs. Lillian Grace Stevens, and a member of the graduating class of the Newark Ohio High School.  Betty was accidentally shot by a gun which was supposed to be empty, early last week.  Mrs. Fred Chamberlin and Mrs. R. Clay Wilcox of New York left Monday night for Newark, Ohio.

Plan Sports Dance:  Committee members making arrangements for the sports dance, sponsored by Troop 7 of the junior Catholic Daughters, and to be held Friday night in the auditorium of St. Patrick's School, are, left to right, Miss Marie Brown, Miss Louise White, Miss Mary Foley, Miss Phyllis Lannon and Miss Alice Haus.

December 23, 1944

A few of the friends of Harold W. Gillett of 742 Chenango St., Port Dickinson [Broome Co., NY], have read with much interest his poem "I'll Carry On," recently published in a Buffalo paper.  Others who have heard about it, have expressed a desire to read it and have requested tat it be published in the Binghamton Sun.

Mr. Gillett, who is engaged in war work in Buffalo, had lived in Binghamton 35 years and had been engaged in the carpentry contracting business during a long period of those years, in this city, until he was called into war service to perform similar work.  With the exception of his son, Dana, 17 years old, who is in the India-China-Burma area, serving as a gunner on Major Humphries' B-29, Mr. Gillett's family lives in the Chenango st. residence.  He expects to be able to come home to spend Christmas with his wife and two daughters, Jane, 19 and Marilyn, 15.  The family has notes and trophies sent home by the fighting flyer.  These include a bomb pin from one of the first bombs which hit Japan, as the B-29 bomber on which he is flying was the first of its type to strike Japan.

The friend who told a Binghamton Sun representative about Mr. Gillett, had this to day:  "In these days of bonds to prevent absenteeism and bonuses for war workers who stay on the job, it occurred to me he is one worker who deserves credit for not needing any reward for doing his part now."

His Poem follows:

When my last little job has been finished,

When I've turned down tight the last screw,

When my last time card has been passed on,

When my last pay check has come through,

Then I'll start and, yes you can guess it,

I'll start for a home-bound train

And I will make one last resolution,

That I never will roam again.

My work has been more than just working.

For I've made new friends, quite a few;

So, I guess it's because,

Perhaps I am homesick, too.

For, alone in the stillness of evening,

I think of an easy chair.

And, clustered around, are my loved ones,

And I wish, with my heart, I was there.

Then I think of the boys in kakhi

And I think of the boys in blue,

I know they long for their loved ones,

I know they are homesick, too.

And it gives me a sense of smallness

I wrap my soul in shame.

And I offer a silent apology;

I'll never again complain.

I would face my loved son soldier,

With a conscience as clear as dawn

So, when we clasp hands in peacetime.

He can say, "Dad, too, carried on."