The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1944 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 5*—NUMBER 29
THE CLIFTON RECORD, CLIFTON, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 1, IM4
Blood Donor
Be Here In October
Lt. Joel C. Jorgenson
At New Post Of Duty
For the second time the citizenship
of Bosque County, will have an oppor-
tunity 'to give its blood to save the
lives of our wounded seryicemen when
the Red Cross Blood Donor Unit from
‘Fort Whrth will make ifs beadquar-
Lieutenant Joel C. Jorgenson has
reported for duty at the Carlsbad
Army Air Field, Carlsbad, New Mexi-
co.
He' is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Jorgenson, Clifton, Texas.
His wife is the former Mildred J.
White, 6834 Vineland Ave., North
Hollywood, Calif.
He is a graduate of Clifton'Junior
College, Clifton, Texas.
He was commissioned February 8,
1944, upon completion of cadet train-
ing at Ft. Sumper, N. M.
ters in Clifton at bhe Trinity Lutheran
Church Parish Hall the week be-
ginning October 9, according to Miss
Christine Christenson, Bosque County
Chairman.
Last j Thursday night community
chairmen met at the Parish Hall in
Clifton to discuss plans for the Blood
Unit’s second trip to Bosque County.
At that meeting it was decided that
donors may sign up for the givT^ of
their blood the week beginning Octo-
ber 9 by registering with their local
chairman—in Clifton’s case,. Mrs.
Harry Womack. Facilities will be put
into readiness in each community for
everyone who desires to do so to regis-
ter Saturday, September 2, and on
each subsequent Saturday through
Pfc. Arnold A. Siepfert,
Wounded In Action, Is
Home From New Guinea
Air Medal Awarded
Sgt. Doyle Borchers,
German Prisoner
Rolf Maakestad In Pilot
Graduating Class
Clifton Schools
Open Sept. 11
FOSTER FIELD—Ranks of flying
men from the Centennial state now
Fighting the Axis in the shies have
been further swelled with the gradua-
tion <rf the 30th Aviation Cadet Class
from this AAF Central Flying Train-
ing Command fighter pilot school.
Including those in the current grad-
uating class, 78 men from Colorado
have entered Foster Field for ad-
vanced pilot instruction since the
field started training fliers late in
1941/ „
Forty-two states and. the District
of Columbia are represented in the
class. Hlinois leads with 23 members,
Pennsylvania next With 21, California
19, Michigan 15, Ohio 14, and Texas
13.
Those graduated from this school
after extensive pursuit pilot training,
including precision formation flying,
synthetic gunnery and navigation, are
awarded silver pilot’s wings and be-
second lieutenants or flight odf-
The Clifton Public School will open
the 1944-45 school year Monday, Sep-
tember 11, 1944. The usual procedure
V»f enrolling and classifying all stu-
dents will be on that day and the reg-
ular class work will start the follow-
ing day. The faculty for the coming
year will be twenty-two. in number,
•the largest that Clifton Public schools
have ever had. There will be a meet-
ing of all faculty members at the
school building Friday, September 8,
at one o’clock p.m.—Kent Appleby,
Supt. -
Gap; B. L. Hudson, Eulogy; J. W.
Parks,. Iredell; W. C. Pallmeyer,
Kopperl and Steiner; Mrs. Charles W.
Fuqua, Meridian; Mrs. Ruth Norman,
Morgan; Mrs. Pat Jones, Mpsheim;
Miss’ Belle Rogstad, Norse; Mrs. L.
M. Ellison, Valley Mills; H. G, Simp-
son, Walnut Springs; and B. I. Dahl*
Womack, Register with your own
chairman so that your blood may be
counted from the correct community.
Reasons for ineligibility are the
same as they were when the Blood
Unit was here ^ before, but the fol-
lowing reasons are given for the
reader’s information:
1. If you have a cold at the time
you are to donate blood. • •
2. If you have a blood pressure
over 200.
3. If you have diabetes. J
4. If you have had tuberculosis.
5. If you have had malaria within
fifteen years.
6. If you are anemic at present.
7. If, you weigh less' than 110 lbs.
8. If you are pregnant. .
CITY CLEAN-UP DAY, MONDAY"5
SEPTEMBER 4, 1944
Monday, September 4,. 1944, is* the
next regular Clean-Up Day for the
City of Cliftoh. All citizens
come
ficers.
. Atnoirg those graduated are Rolf H.
Maakestad, who attended Clifton Jr.
College, Clifton, and North Texas
State Teachers College, ,Denton.
City' of Clifton. All citizens are re-
quested to collect their trash and
refuse-which they wish to be carried
off, placing same in container con-
veniently. located near street forv the
oity track to pick up. Your usual fine
cooperation is asked in this service.
C. G. Bronstad, Mayor Pro-Tern.
Staff Sgt. Doyle J. Borchers
AN EIGHTH AAF BOMBER STA-
TION, England—Staff Sgt. Doyle J.
Borchers, Clifton, Texas, waist gunner
on a B-17 Flying Fortress, who has
been missing in action over Lechfeld,
Germany, sinde July 19, 1944, has
earned the Air Medal for ‘meritorious
achievement’' while participating in
sustained combat operations over
enemy occupied continental Europe,
it recently was announced by the
Commanding General of the Eighth
Air Force.
The citation accompanying the
award read in part: “The courage,
coolness and skilf displayed by this
enlisted man upon these occasions re-
flect great credit upon himself and
the Armed Forces of the United
States.” a
S-Sgt. Borchers is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Borchers, Weslaco,
Texas. He is a graduate of San Mar-
cos Military Academy, Sail Marcos,
Texas.’ He also attended Texas Luth-
eran Junior College, Seguin, Texas.
Before entering the Army June 9,1942
he was employed by Bell Telephone
Co., San Antonio, Texas. His with,
Mrs. Dorothea Haugen Borchers, is
from Clifton, Texas.
According to an announcement by
the War Department Staff Sergeant
Edgar C. Finstad, Air Corps, has been
awarded the "Air Medal for meritorious
achievement’while- saving on a heavy
bomber in missions over enemy occu-
pied' Europe. The citation reads:
“For exceptionally meritorious
' achievement while participating
in five separate bomber combat
missions over enemy occupied
Continental Europe. TV courage,
coolness and skill displayed by
. this enlisted man upon these occa-
sions reflect great credit upon
himself and the Armed Forces of
tV United Staten.”
The award wall be presented to Mrt.
Edgar C. Finstad, according to the
letter from the War -Department,
since the award cannot be formally
presented to Sgt. Finstad at this time,
IdkAe has been listed^ss missing in
Brown Mfins
Senate Race
Results of the race for Senator
from the 21st Senatorial District
which «u won by Buster Brown rf
Temple, over the incumbent, Senator
Karl L. bovelady, of Meridian, are as
follows:
County Brown Lovelady
Bell —_____ 5,062 2,172
Hamilton ------ 612 . 719
Brath ______ 1,468 2J566
Coryell ______I- 688 747
last nine months.
*10. During the first two days' of
menstruation.
Anyope in good health may donate
his-drher blood if he or she is be-
tween 21 and 66 years of age. Those
between 18 and 21 may donate with
the written consent of parents or
guardians. Donating is painless and
has no harmful aftereffects, the body
quickly restoring the blood given.
Blood is processed into plasma
which is bottled and sent to each of
the fighting fronts where it is ad-
ministered to wounded jnen even on
.the battlefields themselves.
The Civic Improvement Society
will meet at three p.m. Wednesday,
September 6, at the Mity Hall with
Mesdames H. C. Dahlens and W. B.
Oswald as hostesses. ,
Return of the Red Cross Blood
Donor Un1t~-in October will be dis-
cussed, and every member's presence
is needed. When the Blood Donor
Unit was here for the first time in
May, members of the Civic Improve-
ment Society took an active part in
arranging for and serving food to the
donors and workers, and they will
engage in-similar activities when the
Unit returns to Clifton the weejc of
October ».
The Registrar’s office ie opeg^for
enrollment any time but Sept. 5 ib the
day aet for the enrollment. A convo-
cation of students and others who
will be held in the col-
Lonnie Kelly Promoted
At Station In Italy
action.
Reverend J. U. McAfee, of Valley
Mills, is reported having visitors at
the Goodall-Witcher Clinic now. He
underwent a major operation here on
Monday of this week.
wish to come
lege auditorium in the afternoon at
8:00 o’clock, where a short program
will be. presented.
It is expected that the enrollment
will be completed Wednesday morn-
ing, in which case the classes will be
organized in the afternoon.
All are invited to attend the pro-
gram, at which there will V special
music and an address by Rev. Walter
T. Gigstad. .
15TH AAF IN ITALY—Lonnie M.
Kelly, Star Rphte, Clifton, Tex., crew
chief on aB^24 Liberator bomber, has
Ven prtfnoted to the rank of master
sergeant at his Mediterranean bomber
base. His wife, Mrs. Mildred C. Kelly,
lives at 1870 Ayres street, Corpus
Chrinti, Tex.
Sgt. Kelly’s handier group, com-
manded by Col. Robert E. L. Baton,
119 S. Charles street, Belleville, 111,
has bean engaged in operational
bombing against the enemy in this
theater for the past seven months and
has over 96 combat bombing missies*
to ita credit.
Service Man In Padfic
Sends Gift To College
Prominent Newspaper
Publisher Dies At
Kenedy Friday
sands of Parisians were thrown into
panic as ifae French capital’s great
liberation parade broke up in wild
Hurries of gunfire along the four-
mile fine of march. French patriots
in the parade began firing at roof
tops from which French Fascist mili-
tia had sniped at them. Certainly, ni-
ter so many years under the Germans,
K is not enough merely to take a
town. A number of additional ad-
justments must be made in, every
French city and town before again the
population can live a life of freedom.
G. W. Anderson Ends
Technical Schooling
We take the liberty to quote in full
the following letter:
Dear Prof. Tyssen:
Enclosed find a check for, 850.00
from Neal G. that he wanted me to
send you for the Clifton College Dor-
mitory Fund.
He is now somewhere in the South
Pacific. He left the U. S .shortly be-
fore Christmas- He gets the Clifton
Record and noticed where money is
being collected for Maiding a Girl’s
Dormitory and wanted to help a little.
The letter is signed Mrs. N. G.
Grimland, who is Neal G.’s mother.
Neal G. Grimland will be remembered
as a fine looking young man, over six
feet tall, who attended tbs College
HOUSTON, Tex.—Graduates of the
Naval Air Technical Training Cottar,
Norman, Oklahoma, include Gustav
Wilhelm Anderson, Seaman first
class, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. An-
derson of Cranfilli Gap, Texas.
Graduates from tills school will
now be transferred to a naval unit
afloat or to another shore station for
further instruction and work.
Mr. and Jfre. Robb L. Baldridge
attended fnnerml services in Beeville
Monday morning at ten oelock for a
newspaper friend of long standing, S.
D. Chesnutt, of Kenedy.
Veteran Southwest Texas news-
paper publisher and former president
of the Texas Press Association, Mr.
Chesnutt, 68, died in Kenedy early
last Sunday morning of a heart ail-
ment, the effects of which had been
serious for some time, brtt MsE] con-
finement in a local hospital was but
for a few days.
Owner and publisher of the Kenedy
Advance since 1911, Mr. Chesnutt al-
so had been in newspaper work in
Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Hallettaville,
and Beeville. HF served on the execu-
tive committee of the Texas Press
-Stadent Sends
It To College
Tuesday 'morning, Aug. 29, the Col-
lege office received a fine letter which
we take the liberty to publish:
“Enclosed you will find a check
which I want yoti to add to the Clifton
College building fund.
“I understand you are making fur-
ther progress to complete the neces-
sary fund for rebuilding a new dormi-
tory.
“Maybe I can help some more later.
Sincerely yours,
:ul Rain Falls Here/
ng The Past Four Days
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and pfayed football. He gi
with an excellent record, both
tically and otherwise.
Dear friend Neal G.—Sinei
not know where you are, but
from your mother’s kind let
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1944, newspaper, September 1, 1944; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth796556/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.