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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 22, 1945
TWO
Not Our Affair
Ill-Will
V
a
couldn’t
get
PHONE 233
think,
but
that
My Old Home
Kaiser — “U-m-m-m, they’re
don’t
think
of friendship
are
Should Be Thankful
Ruth
don’t
The friends
1
never
What
they’re low
Pool Hall Truancy
the
gar.!
the
01
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—The
e
An Alabama farmer,
farm boy organization
Court Martial
Death, Edict Cut
To Print, Or
Not to Print
War And The
Birth Rate
Big Electric Co.
Gives Future Farmers
$10,000 Check
McKinney Boy Flying In
U. S. Army Air Force—
Alaskan Division
McKinney Examiner
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
almost
Since
Sherman Democrat
Remedy for the situation of minors
loitering about pool halls lies in see-
ing that proper COMPLAINTS as to
law violations are filed, giving specific
dates, names and places, Olan R. Van
Zandt, county attorney, said Friday
IT IS ESTIMATED that, by the
end of the war, the United States will
hav? more than 60,000,000 tons of mer-
chant shipping. The rate of shipbuild-
ing is indicated by the fact that con-
struction during 1944 totaled 13,000,-
000 tons.
AFTER ALL this old world will
find that the Golden Rule is the best
plan by which man may enjoy life. It
is an old rule, hue ever new.
But there are many parents
who will think carefully before send-
ing their boys and girls to T. S. U.
troubles
Here is
GOOD MORNING,
ed for U
cigarettes?
an’s
Outfit Holds Route
To Front In Italy
Poet’s Corner /
Bert Lockhart Hears
From a Subscriber
What Each Thinks (McKinney M;
About The Other
Salt Water Vital
To War Effort
SUBSCRIPTION RATE:
Inside Collin County (1 year)____$1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.)____$1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.)____60c
Outside Collin County (1 year)__$2.00
Outside Collin County (6 mo.)___$1.25
Outside Collin County (3 mo.)___75c
Man takes from friends and strangers
near
A thousand favors through the year,
Which, by the morrow, he’ll forget,
Thinking a “Thank you” squared the
debt.
' of University
j taking a hand.
iner along with this letter,
to you.
Clyde is a grandson of Mrs.
Close and a great granson of
Harris Nichols of this city.
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
a discouraging
It is the TRE-
Sidney will not run afoul of Joseph
Stalin. He will remain over on this
side of the Atlantic where the picking
is better. When we, ovex* here let
men like Hilman, Browder, Bridges,
Inc., run our affairs, why should we
fear Stalin, who has actually saved
us from Hitler so far. If Stalin had
not been our friend, for the good of
his country, of course Hitler would
have been in control of America by
this time, or on his way to take over.
For neither England. France or the
United States were prepared. Stalin
should be given credit, and it looks
like those who are trying to stir up
hatred against Russia now are trying
to help the Nazis.
worked. At another time he had al-
most half of the Russian officers,
trained by Prussians, executed.
He did all that, and then when war
"ime. it was found that Russia was
the only nation engaged in war which
did not have a gigantic Fifth Column.
Hillman had better think about this.
HERE is another one: The OPA has
ruled that farmers selling wood are
subject to a “ceiling” price.
The new ceilings will be set at the
highest prices charged by the wood
handlers for the same types of wood
in March, 1942, or as otherwise deter-
mined under the general maximum
price regulation. Specific area ceil-
ings already have been issued for
more than a score of Texas counties.
We do not know what has been done
about Collin. Corn cobs next.
tion Comnyttee did cut quite a factor
in *&e national election last Novem-
ber. But, like most dictators, Mr.
Hillman may be letting temporary
success go to his head.
So long as Joseph Stalin is at the
helm in Russia, the Russian people
are going to do what Joseph Stalin
tells them to do—and like it. If
Hillman runs afoul of Stalin he is like-
ly to come off a bad second-best.
Remember this—Stalin would tol-
erate no such foolishness as alien la-
bor leaders have gotten by with in
this country. Stalin is going to toler-
ate no rule by organized minorities, as
this country has done.
It is well to remember that Stalin
brought Russia to the front the hard
way. Once he starved millions of
Russians to death because he woula
GEN. MacARTHUR said Japanese
casualties in the four weeks of the
Luzon campaign total approximately
48,000, while American casualties
were 1,609 killed, 191 missing and
Pfc. Jack G. McGarrah has return- 5,276, wounded, a total of 7,076. Somfc-
ed to Greensboro, North Carolina, af- times we wonder if the figures printed
ter spending a fifteen-day furlough in the newspapers are correct. If
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs-. C. R. the above figures are true, this war
McGarrah. j should end soon.
Mrs. Alta Rawlings, of Allen, was
in town Saturday and subscribed for
Examiner to go to her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Nettie Raylings, McKinney
Ave., Dallas, as a birthday gift.
------— o-------
Mr. and Mrs. George Robertson and
Mrs. Fred Biggerstaff were here from
Frisco Friday.
How strange it is that men contrive
To keep the little wrongs alive
And let, as time go%s winging by,
The little acts of kindness die.
—EDGAR A. GUEST.
Possibly Too
Big a Chunk
I
Ill-will and hate ar£ poisons vile
In that they run so long a while
And, in his memory, all too long,
Freeze man’s remembrance of
wrong.
THERE are so many stories appear-
ing in the newspapers telling of hor-
rible conditions in the war ridden
countries overseas that we hesitate to
print any of them. Some are simply
unbelievable. One can not conceive of
any human being being guilty of such
horrible treatment of any other hu-
man being. To print them even if
we knew them to be absolutely true
would only add to the distress of
our readers.
SAY TH#T AGAIN
8
Prehistoric ?nan fought over
possession of salt springs, so essen-
tial to his existence. Now modern
man employs salt to wage war, says
Grit Magazine. It is used more in
the manufacture of important chem-
icals—soda-ash, chlorine, and other
products—than any other .basic ma-
terial.
Sodium from salt (sodium chloride)
is combined with lead to form an
alloy, and chlorine from salt is react-
ed with alcohol to form ethyl chlo-
ride. Then, ethyl chloride and sodi-
um-lead alloy together produce tetra-
ethyl lead. A few drops of this add-
ed to gasoline converts it into avia-
tion fuel.
Motor vehicle gear surfaces are
hardened in a chemical bath made of
a salt compound thereby making it
possible for tanks, ships, and guns
to operate in the full fury of modern
warfare. Chlorine compounds are
employed to clean the metals that go
into military equipment and war ma-
chinery. Salt compounds are used to
plate steel shell casings for our army.
Neoprene synthetic rubber requires
chlorine as an essential ingredient.
Paint remover,- fire extinguishing
fluids, refrigerants and sprays to
control mosquitoes employ a variety
of chlorine compounds.
In recent years sodium has been
consumed in increasing quantities in
preparation of sufa drugs.
Caustic soda is used in the manu-
facture of rayon, serving many war
purposes. It finds- extensive use in
reclaiming rubber from used tires.
It is employed in making phenol, a
necessary item in the production of
plastics.
Other uses of salt are more com-
monly known. These include table
salt, preserving of foodstuffs, tanning
hides, refrigeration purposes, melting
of ice on streets, prevention of hear
cramps, and many others.
The United States produces about
16,000,000 tons of salt a year in war
time, Texas and Michigan have long
led the 13 States engaged in its pro-
duction.
In this country, salt is obtained by
rock salt mining and by the evapora-
tion of brines. Rock salt is mined
like coal, is crushed at the mines, anu
screened into four or five sizes re-
quired by the trade.
Brines are of three kinds: Salt wa-
ter from lakes, natural, and artificia.,
We have a letter from Pvt. Clyde
O. Pierce enclosing $2.00 for the Ex-
aminer. He wants to hear from the
old home people and says:
February 11, 1945, U. S. Army Air
Force, Alaskan Division:
“When I was stationed at Scott
Field, Illinois, I was a regular reader
of the Examiner and found very much
of interest about all the home town
people. Now that I am at a ore per-
manent address—and away from
home, too—I would again like to
read about my friends and what they
are doing.
Thanking you in advance for send-
ing it to me, I am
Pvt. CLYDE O. PIERCE,
Minneapolis. Minn.”
Thanks Clyde, you will get Exam-
Good luck.
vriiT~
Mrs.
Paris News
Opinion of Judge D. F. Strickland,
a Regent of University of Texas,
that eighty-five per cent of the people
of Texas are not interested in the ai-
fair of the University and President
Rainey, is probably correct. Much
noise has been made by a number or
people directly interested, and by
others who are of that busybody class
that just has to get into every dis-
cussion that arises, but the mass of
the people are not interested. They
are willing to leave it to the Regents
who are appointed to manage the Uni-
versity.
The general public is not qualified
to intelligently discuss such matters
as this tempest in a teapot. Not be-
cause the general public is not intelli-
gent but because it does not give the
time ncessary to a clear understand-
ing of such matters. In the recent
controversy no one seems to have had
a clear understanding, there being as
many different statements and claims
as there were claimants, all based on
different items of action either by the
Regents or the President or a mem-
ber of the faculty.
Certainly the episode is not going
to affect the University adversely.
Young men and women can still at-
tend, join fraternities or sororities, en-
gage in football and other games,
have parties and other amusements,
get more or less education, and go out.
into the world as well prepared to
open that oyster as any who went out
before the ruckus came into the open.
The people of Texas will go about
their daily affairs with little or no
thought about the University, which
is just as well, for few of us are com-
petent to suggest any remedy for
such affairs and more than a few
are willing to leave the government
of the University to the Regents—
where it belongs.
BERT LOCKHART, of the Pitts-
burg Gazette, has been receiving let-
ters from his subscribers, just as all
good newspaper men do. He says:
A kind, keen-witten subscriber down
in East Texas sends in the following
squibs which are fairly dripping with
philosophy:
“It never occurs to a boy of 18 that
som° day he will be as dumb as his
father.”
“Mr. Anonymous says: “Flattery is
soft soap and soap is 90 per cent lye.”
“Always listen to the opinions of
others. It probably won’t do you any
good, but it will them.” .
“The more arguments you win, the
not permit them food unless they less friends you’ll have.”
“When you stop to think, don’t for-
get to start again.”
The Examiner thinks the above
from the Paris News is just about the
finest comment on the State Univer-
sity Tempest in a Tea Pot that we
have read. In fact, as stated by the
News, it has been a puzzle to “85 per
cenA of the people” as to just what it
is all about. For the masses of people
have little time to study the matter.
They have all they can do to “get the
children off in time to meet the
school bus.” But from what we think
and what many others have told us, it
is mostly “political wind,” and a
number of politicians of this state
who have disgraced themselves are
at the bottom of it trying to dig up a
big stink so they can get back to
fresh air. While hundreds of men
and women have been honestly work-
ing to prevent an educational let
down in the University, the vast ma-
jority have little care as to what may
be done about re-employing Dr. Rain-
ey or getting a suitable man to take
his place. Dr. Rainey has been draw-
ing down $17,500 a year as president.
And now we find some one declaring
that we ought to get a real able presi-
dent and pay him more salary—$25,000
1 You have noticed a National Society
, - i or university Presidents has been
m comment on a letter received from ,
taking a hand. Trying to “save” Dr.
i Rainey and poor old benighted Texas.
1 We appreciate what the News has
POOT HALLlsaid about 5t- The University has
... L_ suffered in prestige perhaps tempor-
- ~ arily.
Stung by a real or fancied slight,
He’ll toss upon his bed at night
Or lie in wait for years to find
Some way to pay it back in kind.
IT IS not likely anything will be
done now in connection with wide-
spread discussion of providing ANNU-
AL FIXED COMPENSATION for
members of the legislature. The legis-
lature itself does have the power to
REDUCE the present large member-
ship to a smaller total. Hardly any
one doubts but that the legislature
CAN reduce its membership, but who
ever heard of a bunch of men voting
themselves out of good, fat jobs?
The legislators made their race be-
fore the people, spent their money
and time to get the positions they now
hold and the legislator who makes a
real efforts to cut down the number
will be No. 1 man blamed for the
reducing^ precess.
The $10 per day is pretty good pay.
The trouble is the class of legislators
sent down to the legislature. Many of
them are not competent. They simply
are in the way of men who would do
some good work. But the claim that
paying high salaries would secure fet-
ter legislation will not, in most cases,
hold good. The people just don’t vote
that way. The trouble is not alto-
gether in the low pay. The number
of members in both house and senate
ought to be reduced and the pay
ought to be reduced and the pay doub-
led for competent men who would do
more and better work. But DON’T
INCREASE the pay until the member-
ship is reduced at least one-half.
LON BOYNTON in his Lamar Coun-
ty News says:
“Stray dogs in Paris have received
the death penalty from the City
Council, and beginning next Monday,
all dogs running at large will be shot
—whether they have vaccination tags
or not. This action was taken as a
result, of the serious spread of rabies
among the animals. This should be
a warning to Blaze to stay out on the
Pacific Coast.
WHEN politicians take control
of institutions of learning and use
them as stepping stones to office, the
school is sure to suffer in prestige.
Just as when two or more factions get
started in a church. No congregation
can grow in membership and Christian
endeavor with a few contrary, hot
headed, arbitrary men and women
stirring hate and suspicion. First
class funerals often save churches
and cities from destruction. That is
where the Lord takes a hand.
THIRTY-SEVEN Texas schools
have departments giving, courses in
training for nurses. The war has
brought a gigantic problem to be solv-
ed. Hundreds of thousands of wound-
ed men and women must have the
care of nurses for an indefinite time.
which is made by pumping water into , listed man to superior authority.”
wells drilled into the rock salt bed. I L..........1.......... < .
In the little town on the great high-
way
Where I meet old friends most every
day,
That’s where I want to live.
Where the stars shine bright in a sky
of blue,
Where the ties
strong and true,
And everyone smiles and speaks to
you,
That’s where I want to live.
Where the yards are wide and full
of trees
And flowers that scent each summer
breeze,
That’s where I want to live.
Where you’ll never feel that no one
cares,
And each with the other his sorrow
shares,
Where the well-to-do don’t put on airs,
That’s where I want to live.
Where the farmer comes to trade
with friends
With whom the social hours he spends
That’s where I want to live.
Where they still believe in the Gold-
en Rule.
And the community boMis church
and school, |
Where the fifes of friendship
cool,
That’s where I want to live.
—Anonymour.
“Have you ever served on a jury?”
he was asked.
“No, sir,” answered the man. I’ve
been drawn a good many times, but
I was always too smart to get caught
on a jury.” tA
“What’s that sir?” inter”unte'i Aid
judge sternly. “Do you boast pf yfn’r'
smartness in escaping mr- duty*?”
“No, your honor,” said the farmer.
“Not at all. When I said I was too
smart I meant that I was always ex
cused because the lawyers thought I
wasn’t ignorant enough.”
War
Department has reduced the original
death sentence imposed by an army
court-martial on Pvt. Henry Weber
to five years imprisonment with dis-
honorable discharge, it was disclosed
Wednesday.
The War Department’s overruling
of the Army court-martial was reveal-
ed in a letter from Maj. Gen. Cramer,
judge advocate general, to Senator
Thomas, chairman of the military
committee.
After protests from Senator Wheel-
er, the courtmartial itself had reduc-
ed the death sentence to one of life
imprisonment.
Weber was convicted by the army
court for his refusal to drill. He re-
fused to carry out orders on the
ground that he had a "revolutionary”
mind and was opposed to killing.
General Cramer disclosed three al-
terations in the original death sen-
tence. First, the court-martial chang-
ed it to life imprisonment. The re-
viewing authority then cut it to 20
years and finally the judge advocate
general cut it to FIVE YEARS.
The War Department, however,
maintained that the original sentence
was legally justifiable.
“In' time of war deliberate diso-
bedience of an officer can not be jus-
tified,’ said the judge advocate gen-
eral. “The success of the Army and
the security of the Army are depend-
ent upon instant and unhesitating
obedience by every officer and en-
a man pos-
Denison school authorities asking
LEGAL ASSISTANCE in halting such
practice.
The letter stated that 1
LOITERING is contributing to school
truancy.
“The county attorney acts on infor-
mation and complaints of citizens and
peace officers on violations of law,”
Mr. Van Zandt said.
“GENERAL STATEMENTS only
add to CONFUSION, and tend to les-
sen law enforcement. Definite com-1
plaints with willingness of citizens to
back them are needed for action.”
No public official can enforce the
laws UNLESS he has the BACKING
of PUBLIC OPINION, Mr. Van Zandt
added. He stated that personally he
is in favor of strict enforcement of
the school attendance law and against
any LOITERING AROUND POOL
HALLS or other places, during school ot)mmittee
hours. : ' -
“The purpose of this office is to !
enforce all laws and Denison school ,
officials and citizens shall have our i
full cooperation in enforcement,” he
said.
Have you call-1
that long missing package of [
~? The OPA administrator ' sessing a great deal of native shrewd-
in' New York has demanded of the ness, was being examined for jury
Cigarette Manufacturers that they duty,
place cigarettes back on the counters
throughout the country by Feb. 19—or
else.
THEY HAVE financial
over in Italy and Sicily, too.
a news item:
Smashing a vast counterfeit ring in
Palermo, Sicily, and the seizure of
approximately a half million dollars
in spurious currency is credited to
United Nations’ intelligence agents.
The ring had laid plans to pour the
coins into large Italian cities. Thirty-
seven persons were arrested.
Greenville Herald
Still taking things in his stride
and boasting that the CIO’s Political
Action Committee won for the Demo-
crats a victory at the polls last No-
vember, Sidney Hillman, head of that
Committee, is quoted as looking for-
j ward to the day when Russia’s 27,000,-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—A check
for $10,000 was today presented by
the General Electric Company to the
Future Farmers of America, a nation-
ci organization to stimulate interest
and knowledge of farm boys in elec-
tricity and its application to the
farm.
This farm boy organization has
|R.9(E ACTIVE CHAPTERS IN HIGH
SCHOOLS of the country with an ac-
tive membership of 240,000 and is rec-
ognized as the largest farm boy or-
ganization in the country.
Since the organization in 1928, more
than 1.0*00,000 boys have been mem-
bers while taking high school agricul-
tural courses.
IT IS SAID railroads are now hand-
ling about two and one-half times the
amount of freight traffic and more
than four times the volume of pas-
senger business they did before the
war.—News Item.
But sometimes we feel that the
world is heading for the greatest fi-
nancial depression ever known in
history—which would make the de-
pression following World War No. 1
as a gentle zephyr in comparison with
a cyclone. But when we consider the
vast changes that have taken place
and the reconstruction that must be
carried on, it encourages us to hope
that there will be no depression. But
‘bat the populations of al] the coun-
tries of the world will he so relieved
over the wars close that they will
take up the work with renewed zeal
and a greater period of prosperity of
a more permanent nature than ever
known will result. The railroads and
the air planes, the ships and the au-
tomobiles will all be taxed to their
utmost.
Johnson—“I
about all of them.”
Jimmy Lee Hayes—“I think they’re
good looking.”
Mr. Caraway—“There are as many
classifications of women as there
are women—they are all different.”—
J. J. H.
“What Do You Think About Men?"
Aurelia Penny—“Well—you can’t do
with them and you can’t do without
them.”
Bessie Jo Russell—“Gosh, they’re
grand!”
Ruth Maddux—“Woo-woo.”
Billie Ruth Holcomb—“I
think.”
Edith Biggerstaff—“Now that’s not
a fair question.”
Katie Kincaid—“You’d be surpris-
ed!”
Mrs. Beazley—“We need them-”
Betty Bryant—“I quit cussing yes-
tetrday.”
Jimmie Ruth Burks—“Gee, I think
they’re swell.”
Dale Fields—“Wonderful!”
Marcelene Blanks—“’Men?
men? On second thought, the Navy’s
wonderful!”
Mrs. Kilgroe—“Why sure, they’re
all right.”
Jean Neal—“I think
down and sweet.”
Willanell Badgett—“What would I
do without them?”
Edith Neal—“One’s okay.”
Mrs. Kent—“No man is worth the
salt that goes into his bread.”
Henrietta Jackson—“Curtis is all
right.”
Nina Hood—“They're nice to have
around, sailors especially.
Mrs. Blanton—“Oh, I think their
kinda’ nice.”
Joan Huseman—“Oh—brother.”
Betty Darwin—“I think they’re won-
derful ! ”
Betty Kay—“Two-thirds cup of su-
(This was heard in the home-
making class while Mrs. Blanton was
giving out a recipe )
Betty Lou Reeves—“They’re fine,
but most of them are conceited.”
Patsy Pannell—“I don't like
rest of them.”
Irene Kent—“They’re okay.”
Norma Smith—“We need more
them. Civilians.”
The Lamar County Echo says:
“We should all be thankful when
our Commander-in-Chief has RE-
TURNED SAFELY to this country af-
ter attending the “big 3” conference
recently held at the Russian winter
resort in the Crimea. In our opin-
ion, TOO MUCH PUBLICITY was giv-
en to this event regardless of rigid
censorship regulations. The harmon-
ious meeting between Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin will undoubtedly
hasten the destruction of our enemy.”
The Echo is correct.
of Hitler, Tojo and all other enemies
of civilization are disappointed that
the “Big 3” did not wrangle, but seem
to have agreed in every way. They
were UNANIMOUS in their decision
that Hitler, Goering. Hinder and the
leaders of the Jap savages must be
thoroughly pulverized and thus pave
the highway for civilization.
000 members of the Workers’ Union
i will be united with the CIO. HILL-
MAN presumably believes the COALI-
i TION CAN CONTROL THE WORLD.
"The county probation officer makes I“d “.s T?.™ca.‘.
periodical surveys of pool halls and
such places and reports to the coun-
ty attorney’s office and the county
judge.
Greenville Herald
War changes from generation to
generation, the method of warfare
ever being improved, if any warfare
may be said to be an improvement
except to enable those who want
peace to defend themselves and their
liberties from DICTATORS and VAN-
DALS who seek to conquer the world.
The present war, sanguinary as it
has been, reveals that one accompani-
ment of warfare that has endured all
through the pages of recorded history
has never changed. That is the
BIRTH RATE DURING WARTIME.
This country has LOST MORE
MEN TO DATE than it ever lost dur-
ing any war except the American Civ-
il War when Americans were aligned
against Americans.
American casualties were
eight hundred thousand men.
the casualty reports usually run a
fortnight or so behind the action, it is
entirely possible that American cas-
ualties—which included dead,, wound-
ed and captured—may have gone to
the million mark by this time.
But vital statistics show that SIX
BABIES HAVE BEEN BORN in this
country FOR EVERY’ AMERICAN
CASUALTY". In every war in which
this country has been engaged it. has
been the same. There is NO RACE
SUICIDE in this country, race suicide
which fox' years has seen the French
republic witness MORE DEATHS
IN PEACE TIMES than babies born.
However there is
thing about this war.
MENDOUS NUMBER OF DIVORCES
that are being granted, most of them
because of “incompatibility,” which
means simply that the couple just
couldn’t adjust themselves and get
along. American entry into war was
not the cause of this howevef. For
years before the war the mounting
NUMBER OF DIVORCES in some
sections of the country EXCEEDED
THE NUMBER OF MARRIAGE LI-
CENSES issued. The war has stumu-
lated early marriage on the part of
boys who know they are going to have
to enter service and who want to mar-
ry their sweethearts and provide for
them while thev are away. The di-
vorces have STEADILY INCREASED,
but certainly not in proportion to the
number of marriages.
This country at least has that for
which to be thankful. If restrictions
on divorce were tighter in a number
of Mates of the union we should be
much better off than we are under
the marry-in-haste, repent-at-leasure
plan.
It is to be hoped that the fate of
Germany and Japan will be SO EF-
FECTUALLY SEALED that the ba-
bies of today will not, WITHIN A
GENERATION, have to fight as their
fathers are doing today.
Someone left the following “news
item” on our desk. Seems to have
been a quiz in some school in which
the students were asked what they
thought of each other. Do you recog-
nize the school?
“What Do You Think About Women?”
Douglas Judd—“They’re all right—
sometimes.”
L. V. Conner—“Just
along without them.”
Bobby Golden—“Well, do you really
want me to tell you?”
O. G. Bow—“I don’t
they’re cute.”
Don Newman—“Oh! They’re the
smartest people in the feminine sex.”
Mr. Gentry—“Well, goodness, they-
’re all right.”
Fred Murphy—‘<1 don’t think when
I see one.”
Odell Neal—“I don’t think
should be put in the paper.”
David Lynn Brooks—“They’re all
right in ways and in ways they’re
not.”
Bobby Dale Blanks—"When they’re
in a good humor, they’re all right.”
Donald Neal—“Sometimes they’re
all right.”
Billy
grand.”
David
a day for
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, Italy-
Corporal Doyle W. Odil, of McKin-
ney, is a member of the 39th Engineer
Combat Regiment, the unit currently
holding open Route 65, main supply
route to the Fifth Army front in Italy.
Odil is a carpenter and bridge
builder. Besides building bridges
and repairing roads, the 39th has
three amphibious operations to its
credit and has often functioned as in-
fantry.
Its 1st Battalion landed on D Day
at Gela, Sicily, with Ranger units and
was soon afterward joined by the
rest of the regiment. The 1st Bat-
talion again went ashore with spear-
head units that established the
beachhead in Italy at Salerno. The
entire engineer regiment was employ-
ed as infantry on the Anzio beach-
head, where it was landed January 24,
1944, two days after D Day, and held
the right flank, along the Mussolini
Canal, until- relieved by Special Ser-
vice forces.
The 39th has, in Italy alojie, built
125 bridges, 77 bypasses, 123 culverts,
24 major roadblocks, seven airstrips
and a floating footbridge.
The engineers built 97 bypasses and
shoveled rubble in seven cities during
the 38-day Sicilian campaign.
Men of the 39th piloted assault
boats across the Volturno River in
Italy as the 3rd “Marne” Infantry Di-
vision established bridgeheads over
the river and built one of the first
treadway bridges to span the Vol-
turno.
They strung 90 miles of conccrtine
wire and planted 40,000 mines on the
Anzio beachhead under German shell-
fire and assembled an 80-foot Bailey
bridge across a canal in seven hours,
as enemy mortar shells and small
arms fire covered the area.
The 39th built an 8000-yard roaa
through a valley to Highway 7 to ex-
pedite the breakthrough from the
beachhead, then moved north from
Rome along Highway 1. Among the
first troops in Piombino, they had the
port in operation four days after their
entry and themselves operated it for
30 days. They set up a 410-foot Bail-
ey bridge across the Arno River at
Florence in five days.
It required less than
them to reopen Highway 65, connect-
ing Florence and Bologna, when the
traffic artery was washed out in five
localities.
The 39th was set ashore in Janu-
ary, 1943, at Oran, Northern Algeria,
and assigned tasks in French Morroco
and Northern Algeria.
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