THE HERALD-RECORDER, Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, California Friday, June 8, 1945 PAGE SIX Marines May Get New Discharges Herald-Recorder The ARROYO GRANDE Turneys Eleetrie Shop Phone 41 for Electrical Repairs and Installations Published every Friday at Arroyo Grande San Luis Obispo County, California NEWELL W. STROTHER, Owner-Publisher Ail ex-marines who have been discharged since March 1, 1945, and have received an Under Honorable Conditions Discharge certificate are requested to contact the Los Angeles Marine Corps Recruiting Office, 215 West Fifth in person, by letter or telephone Michigan 2352. Colonel Frank P. Snow, officer in charge, said that in many cases Honorable Discharge certificates will be awarded in place of the ones they now hold. Entered as Second Class Matter in the Postoffice at Arroyo Grande, California, Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year (in advance) $2.50 Six months (in advance) $1.50 Outside California One Year $3.00 Advertising Rates On Application Cards of thanks, resolutions of condolence, notice of concerts, social, bazaars, to which an admission is charged, are advertisem*nts, and must be considered and paid for at advertising rates. 23 years in business in Arroyo Grande 124 Branch St. NATIONAL EDITORIAL. ASSOCIATION Address All Communications to 309 Branch Street, Arroyo Grande Telephone 21 Native girls make our beds while I we're at breakfast, and unless' we hide the things we want to wear, they are whisked away and washed. Most of the natives on this island were born here.
Their parents came here to the Mission and were taught, so this generation speaks English very well, and are clean and neat. Fact is, Im liking this better every minute a pitcher of lemonade just walked in for our mid-morning nourishment. (Two days later she added:) At 9 a.m. (yesterday) we all went out on a Navy sub-chaser. Had a nice ride and then anchored off another island and decided to go ashore by small boat for a swim as the beach looked so nice.
Off we started four girls and two boys. When we got almost to shore, we saw those lovely waves were about eight or ten feet high, breaking on the beach. But it was too late! Caught on top of a breaker, we really flew onto the beach. The boat filled with water and we all flew out, quite like shipwrecks you read about. The boys tried several times to get the boat back out past the breakers, and they shot lines from the ship, but the water was too rough.
Finally some natives came along and said they could do it. It really was something to see the way they took that boat out. Of course, we girls couldnt get to it, so we had to walk across the island to a dock and the ship came around to get us. It was then about 3 p.m., and we were overjoyed to find a steak dinner waiting for us, as we were starved. I might add, pretty well sunburned, too.
I had had visions of going hand-over-hand out on one of those lines to the ship in all that rough water. Now I have an idea what it would be like to be really shipwrecked in a storm. (Next day.) Today we visited the school. Amazed to see how much like ours it is. They teach English, history, arithmetic adding and subtracting in pounds, shillings and pence had me pretty confused) and Bible.
I really hated to come back today, as I enjoyed our week on the island so much. Saturday went fishing and caught my first fish 15 pounds! Saturday night the natives had a party games like we have, and danced the Virginia reel. Sunday had church, singing as we do. The sermon was partly in Papuan and partly English. We really did enjoy the meals fresh fish loads of fresh fruit.
Love, Maxine. Letters From OUR BOYS John Loomis is in 'the Marine Corps, and a recent letter from him to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Loomis, tells of conditions on Okinawa before the toughest of the fighting began. Dear Mom: I guess you know by now that Im on Okinawa.
Things arent so tough, but Im kept pretty busy. This is a funny place. The women and kids do all the work. They carry more than I can, and weigh half as much. There are a million dirty little kids.
All the Jap houses have grass or mud roofs and the houses are all dirty and smelly. The fleas and flies are bad. This island has a good climate. It is a lot like California in winter. The roads are bad, but we are working on them.
I drive (an ambulance; all the time. Last night it rained, so the roads are muddy and the going is slow. I had dirt to contend with yesterday. There is never a happy medium. The principal crops are sweet potatoes, rice, barley and cab-Dage.
All in a place about 10 feet square. Not many of these people have ever seen machinery. and the transportation is on foot or by horse-cart. You should see them thresh grain. The women beat it with sticks.
It is all cut by hand. The people are hard-working but stupid. I dont trust any of them. The women age fast, and you cant tell how old any of them are. They look like witches or lepers and weigh about 40 pounds, and just hobble around.
I am living in a Jap school-house. You know I never liked school, and this is no exception. The only thing that bothers me is getting out of the sack when there is bombing, shelling or strafing. Its a bother, but very necessary. The anti-aircraft and flack are hice to svatch at night, and it is nice to watch their planes get shot down.
That is the best sight in the world. The other night when Jap planes were strafing, I jumped into my foxhole and nearly drowned. There was two feet of water in it. I dont mind seeing shells go up; but it's net so good when they come down. I never knew I could move so fast.
Im living on and rations and sweet potatoes. We get tobacco and candy from the Red Cross. They are doing a swell job. The medical end of the deal spends a lot of time disinfecting with oil. Planes spray the area.
They have opened hospitals for civilians. Dont worry about me. Im fine. Love. John.
Island Outposts Military and naval men are telling us that we must have various islands in the far parts of the Pacific for the protection of the United States from further attacks by aggressors. We should be thoroughly aware of what we are getting into if we take over those islands. There is no use taking them over unless we are going to provide adequate armament to make them real fortresses that can provide strong defense for the men who will have to hold them. We will have to be generous in expenditures to make those outposts strong enough to hold for many months against the massed attack of enemies closer to those pin-point islands than we are. Half-way measures are worse than no fortifications at all.
If we have islands which we well know are not at all fortified, we do not depend upon them. But if we hold islands which we only half-way fortify, we may be laying the groundwork for another sneak attack. We may be but fooling ourselves with a false sense of security. And not only must expensive permanent installations be erected, and constantly improved, but we must be prepared to maintain a sufficiently large force of men to hold the islands. And then there is the matter of colonial administration.
We Americans are strong believers in the ideal that all peoples should be independent and self-governing. How are we to reconcile that ideal with occupation and possession of islands inhabited by alien peoples? Doubtless we shall console ourselves with the idea that it will be for their own good. The foregoing is not intended as an argument against holding strategic island outposts, but it is to emphasize the belief that we should enter upon such occupation with our eyes open. Sftic and SffUUt ELECTRIC COOKING PLAN NOW to oave a modern iJltitomatic Electric Range Youll like automatic electric cooking. It lets you get things done about the house or you can sit down and rest while a whole meal cooks by automatic control.
No wonder, the thousands of California women who use electric ranges like them whole-heartedly. Plan to go modern go electric in your kitchen of tomorrow. Youll soon see many fine new electric ranges on the market. atch for them. SEE YOUR DEALER OR I 5 PACIFIC OAS A EUCTRIC COMPANY PRISONERS MAKE PROFIT Prisoners of war working in agricultural fields under private contract earned $22,000,000 for the Treasury of the United States during 1944, headquarters, Ninth Service Command prisoner of war division announced at Fort Douglas, Utah.
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To find a Job, he will have to find an Employer. Here is an Employer. He wants to make Gadgets in his Gadget Factory. The Employer will employ the Man to make the Gadgets. Each week he will pay him some Money.
The Employer has enough Money to pay the Man for One Week. What about the Second Week? To get Money to pay the Man for the Second Week, he will have to sell some Gadgets. How will he do that? Maybe he will Ped-fie them from Door to Door, seeking Buyers. When he finds a Buyer, he will tell him how good his Gadgets are, and how much Good they do the Buyer. Thus he will create in the Buyer's mind a Desire to buy a Gadget, so that he can sell the Gadget and get some Money to pay the Man.
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EmiUe Bruce of this city, a letter, parts of which we are permitted to share with our readers. Dear Mother: We started out yesterday morning by small boat five Army nurses and two Navy nurses (and; proceeded for a number of hours to a small island named Kiwato. There is a mission there which is run by two Australians. Guess I shouldnt call them that, as they were born here. Their parents came here as missionaries from England.
Their wives were evacuated when war broke out. and soon will be back, they say. Its really a lovely spot and they have plenty of room for us in a real house, with honest-to-goodness overstuffed furniture, silverware and all. Four of us have beds on the veranda. The island is a mountain jutting up out of the ocean, with a small beach at the bottom all the way around.
The house and church are built right on top of the mountain, so that when you walk around the veranda you can see the ocean on all sides. Its so good to get away from Army and hospital life and be in a home again. They wont let us. lift a finger to do a thing. More beauty and longer-wearing protection with SERO-COTE than any house paint selling at anywhere near Sears low price! Made in Sears own factories and sold direct through our stores to you thats the way we give you so-much-bet-ter, for so-much-less! Choice of colors.
The truth is that the competitive enterprise system as it has evolved in this country under our representative form of government, is the thriftiest user of natural resources the world has ever seen and the greatest. This thrift is not the result of any particular altruism on the part of industry. It is the direct result of competition. Oak Hill Press, Jackson, Ohio. Accidents will decrease when more drivers look out the road ahead, and fewer for the cop behind.
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