From the files of Jan. 18, 1945
North Vinemont News
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Drake visited Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Blackmon, Sunday afternoon.
Pauline and Louise Norris of Enon visited their sister, Mrs. Verlon Drake, and Imogene Drake and Wilda Moon, Sunday afternoon.
Hollis Wilhite and Verlon Drake left Saturday night for Knoxville, Tenn.
Joe Harris of Bowling Green, Ky., spent last week end with John Wilhite.
Mr. and Mrs. Cordie Norris and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Atla Drake and Mrs. Clara Lindsey.
Mr. and Mrs. Alice Lindsay of Cullman spent Friday night with Mr. and Mrs. Atla Drake.
Hanceville to Play Cullman and Hartselle
The Hanceville Bulldogs have had a successful season so far in basketball. They have lost only two games and will try to keep that record as they face the Cullman quintet Friday night, January 19, and the following night, the Bulldogs play Hartselle. Both games will be home games with each team playing A and B teams. The B team game starts at 7:30.
Hanceville will open with Joe Davis and Johnnie Mann at forwards, Capt. Maurice Webb at center and Wallace Whitaker and Earl Webb at guards according to the coach, V. C. Lambert.
WALTER ROYALTY – Jimmie Fant, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Fant, and Nelda Fae Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Baker, were recently crowned king and queen of Walter School. The popularity contest, which they won was sponsored by the Walter P. T. A.
Ration Calendar
SUGAR—Stamp No. 34 good for 5 pounds of sugar.
FOOD—Blue X5, Y5, Z5, and A2 through G2 in Book 4 valid, at 10 points each.
MEAT—Red Q5 through X5 in Book 4 valid at 10 points each, for use with tokens.
SHOE—No. 1, 2, and 3 airplane stamps in Book 3 good indefinitely.
GASOLINE—No. A-14 coupons valid through March 21.
FIGHT THE GASOLINE BLACK MARKET—Endorse your coupons—use only your own coupons—buy no gasoline without coupons.
The People Say:
Somewhere in the Philippines
January 6, 1945
Cullman Tribune
Cullman, Alabama
Dear Mr. Arnold:
Have just finished reading every line of the Tribune issue of October 26. Although the papers are a little old when they get out here to us, they are very much appreciated. I have been getting the paper quite regular for some time and there is no way of telling how much I enjoy reading it. Thanks to my dad, W. R. Daniel, and you for sending it. I have been overseas almost two years and the paper helps a lot to keep me informed about people I use to know.
I am enclosing a copy of our Battalion paper. It might be of some interest since we have several Cullman County boys with us.
Sincerely,
D. L. Daniel
To and Fro
By EAGLE EYE
A fox fur, a dozen bottles of perfume, silverware, bracelets, ear rings and the book, “On the Road to Rome” are some of the gifts recently received by Mrs. Annie Searcy of Route 1, Cullman, from her son, S/Sgt. Clarence E. Harrison. He has been with the Infantry in Italy for almost a year.
Recently when the tank destroyer battalion to which Sgt. Fred D. Robinson of Route 1, Cullman, and Pvt. James E. Hendrix of Route 1, Logan, belong was fighting in France they captured dozens of tanks. In one of them was a Nazi major, who was dead. On his body was found a map showing where the big German attack. These T. D. men had nipped it in the bud, stopping the Germans at the first of three towns they expected to take.
The Marines can’t be beat for imagination and ingenuity! Marine Sergeant Carl Melvin Hightower has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Hightower, of Route 3, Cullman, a description of Christmas at sea. “… Uncle Sam gets the credit for trying to make our 1944 Christmas a merry one. They unloaded more than three hundred bags of mail and Christmas packages for us yesterday. And our dinner was wonderful. … Believe it or not, we also had a Christmas tree. It was made from a board about 6″x8″, trimmed down with holes bored all the way up and down with small boards stuck in the holes. They tapered out at the top. For leaves we dyed wood shavings dark green. … Honestly, when the lights were added she looked real” writes Sgt. Hightower.
Recent winner of a $100 War Bond was J. Alston Branscomb who is a chemist with the Reynolds Metal Company at Listerhill, Ala. Mr. Branscomb, who is the husband of the former Blanche Price, daughter of Mrs. L. E. Price, of Garden City, won this first prize for a suggestion as to the invention of a certain piece of machinery in the Metals Labors Management Committee Contest. Mr. and Mrs. Branscomb and their daughter, Eugenia, are at home in Sheffield.
After twenty-nine months in the European theater of operations, T/Sgt. Lewis R. Berry has arrived at Fort McPherson, Ga., and will spend a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Enoch M. Berry, of Route 5, Cullman, before receiving a new assignment with the Air Corps.
Wearing the Purple Heart with one Cluster and the Expert Infantryman’s Badge, Sgt. Joseph C. Lowery has arrived for a furlough with his wife of Route 1, Cullman. Sgt. Lowery served as mortar squad leader in the European theater for a year.
“Last Friday was certainly the happiest day of my Army life”, writes S/Sgt. Moye King from Camp Myles Standish, Mass. “My cousin, Pfc. Hudson D. Baggett, with whom … for such a long time, brother, arrived at Camp Edwards, Mass., Hospital on Thursday after being wounded in Italy with the Red Bull Division of the Infantry. We had not seen each other for over two years so the reunion was wonderful”, writes the sergeant. Pfc. Baggett is being transferred to a Texas hospital.
Five Cullman County soldiers recently assisted in taking 3,000-foot Mount Pratone in the Gothic Line in Italy. They dug the German soldiers out of elaborate concrete pill boxes and earthworks on these forested slopes. Included in this Infantry Regiment were Pvt. Richard J. Schnur an ammo bearer; Pvt. Cecil R. Malchow, a rifleman; Pfc. Hoyett D. Walker, an ammo bearer; Pfc. John J. Evans, a rifleman; and Sgt. Henry J. Smith, squad leader.
Sgt. Ernest F. Johnson, who is stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, recently spent a twelve day furlough at home with his wife and parents and 14 months old son. Sgt. Johnson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Johnson of Cullman. Mrs. Johnson is the former Minnie Florence Cain of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
