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THE WYANDOTTE NEWS-HERALD
PAGE FOUR
I TRENTON NEWS
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to Attend a
FALL MUSIC
FESTIVAL
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 at 7:30p.m.
on Biddle Ave., between Maple and Elm
THE MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING ARE:
RIVER ROUGE HIGH SCHOOL BAND
MAC E« CARR, Director
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MELVINDALE HIGH SCHOOL BAND
CARL O. SWEET, Director
MT. CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL BAND
SISTER PAULETTE, Director
ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL BAND
KENNETH HAUER, Director
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Starting at 7:00 P.M.
LED BY THE
WESTERN HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION
FRANCIS FLOCK, President
Come
Down Town
SEE HEAR
These Brilliant High School Bands
HAVE A GOOD TIME!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1945
A typical infantry division was
supplied with 700 miles of tele
phone wire when It went Into ac
tion.
Sponsored by
Trenton War
Chest Drive in
Second Week
Red feather workers In Trenton’s
War Chest drive are in their sec
ond week of canvassing every
home, industry, business and school,
according to Mrs. Oren Grayes,
Trenton chairman.
The drive is being promoted by
the Trenton Woman's club. No re
port is yet complete, Mrs. Graves
said Tuesday.
Other chairmen include Mrs.
Henry Vickery, treasury gifts; Mrs.
Leslie A. Doan, governmental; Cyril
F. Letter, schools.
No definite amount has been set
foi Trenton and it is the hope of
the club that the amount set for
last year will be fir exceeded, Mrs.
Graves said.
NAMED TO HEAD
DE MOLAY MOTHERS
Mrs. C. Deibel of Wyandotte was
named president of the Downriver
DeMolay Mothers club at a recent
election. Others elected were Mrs.
Harry 8. Mentzer of Trenton, vice
chairman; Mrs. Inkfer, treasurer,
and Mrs. F. H. Dassey, Trenton,
secretary.
The mothers sponsor all dinners
and luncheons for DeMolay activ
ities.
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Honor Trenton Navy Dead Saturday
In honor of Trenton’s World War
IT dead who will be honored on
Navy Day, October 27, Raymond G.
Bates, Trenton village president
and members of the village council
approved the sending of a single
flower to three U. 8. seaports. The
ports recommended were San Fran
cisco and San Diego, California and
Chicago, Illinois.
The blooms will honor Trenton
boys who lost their lives at sea.
Henry Vickery, commander of
Trenton Post No. 1888 V.F.W. has
requested all Trenton residents and
businessmen to observe Navy Day
Saturday by displaying a flag.
No particular ceremony is plan
ned for the village, Commander
Vickery said, but a dinner and so
cial meeting for members of the
Post and its auxiliary will be held
that evening at the Lookout on
West Jefferson. The dinner will be
served at 6:30 pjn.
TRENTON WOMEN’S CLUB
TO HEAR J. C. THORNTON
Mrs. Russell Raupp of Trenton
will be hostess for the November
5 meeting of the Trenton Woman’s
club. John C. Thornton will be the
guest speaker end will have as his
subject, “The Story of a Stone."
Mrs. Donald G. Morrison is pres
ident of the club and will preside
at the meeting.
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TRENTON MUSIC
CLUB MEETS
Mrs. Theodore Olson of Helen
street, Trenton, president of the
Trenton Music club, opened her
home, Wednesday night for the
club’s first , fall meeting.
The musical program for the
year will begin with November’s
meeting at which time Mrs. Eugene
Kaitala and Mrs. Harold Jarock
will present a group of piano duets.
Speech students from the Trenton
Slocum-Truax high school, under
the direction of Cyril F. Leiter,
will be present at that meeting!
Mrs. Q*vin Lehmann will be hostess
November meeting.
NAMED TO FILL TERM
J. H. Bonham has been assigned
to fill the unexpired term of Tren
ton village garbage collection con
tract, following resignation of the
former collector who stated he was
unable to continue. Bonham’s ap
plication was approved by the
Trenton village council.
TRENTON METHODISTS
PLAN FAMILY NIGHT
The first “family night" of the
new season for Trenton Methodists
will take place at 6:30 p.m. Tues
day, October 30. It will be a pot
luck dinner.
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Mendus Home After Four Years in
Aleutians With Secret Bomb Squadron
Just returning to the United
States after 10 months in the
Aleutian Islands is S/Sgt. I. R.
Mendus, of 1046 Eureka road, Wy
andotte, who served as an Engin
eer Gunner with the 77th Medium
Bomber Squadron, first aerial com
bat unit to go overseas after dec
laration of war by the United
States and veterans of Japanese
attack again* Dutch Harbor, Alas
ka, and the Attu, Kiska and‘Jap
anese Kurile Island campaigns.
The r i7th Bomb Squadron, alerted
for overseas shipment two days
after Pearl Harbor, were still
fighting the Japanese in the Kuriles
when the enemy finally offered to
surrendered. During this period,
the Squadron set up an enviable
combat record. Battling the Aleu
tian weather as much as the ene
my, they rose up from secret Aleu
tian bases to intercept a Japanese
carrier task force attacking Dutch
Harbor June 3 and 4, 1942. They
then drove the enemy back to
Kiska and Attu, where the Japs
settled, and where they were given
no rest by the 77th until Americans
regained those Aleutian Islands.
Of the many notable firsts of
the 77th Bomb Squadron was the
July 10, 1943 Mitchell bomber raid
on Paramushiru and Shimushu
Islands in the Kuriles. That was
the flr*t time Japanese home
islands were raided in the war, with
the notable exception of General
Doolittle’s famous Tokyo raid from
the Carrier Hornet the year before.
Itself virtually wiped out four
times during overseas service (49
medium bombers lost), the 77th
conducted 51 bombing missions
against Kiska, seven against Attu,
and 146 missions against the Kur
iles, for a long time the longest
overwater mission of the war.
During this period, 77th Bomb
Squadron shipping sweeps cost the
enemy at least 22 cargo and war
ships and transports sunk, seven
probably sunk and 30 damaged. At
least six Japanese aircraft were
shot down, nine probably destroyed
and 30 damaged.
Because of the secrecy of Aleu
tian warfare, the existance of the
77th Bomb Squadron was never
made known publicly from that
day in Spring of 1942 when they
flew out to their secret Aleutian
bases, until the war’s end.
S/flgt. L R. Mendus reported for
duty with the 77th on Nov. 14, 1944.
Since that date, he has seen ar
duous and courageous service,
whether flying against the enemy
oi servicing aircraft or otherwise
maintaining the squadron in the
lonely, weather-whipped Aleutians.
Inducted into the army at Jef
ferson Bks., St. Louis, Mo., Oct.
29, 1942, he attended Army and AAF
schools at Sheppard Field, Texas,
Engineering School, Fort Meyers
Gunnery School Field, R. T. U.,
Greenville, S. C.
In civilian life he was a sheet
metal worker at the Murray Cor
poration, Detroit.
S/Sgt. I. R. Mendus has been
awarded the Aid Medal, the Bronze
Star to the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon.
Trenton Residents
Asked to Donate
Gifts for Veterans
Tremon residents were asked this
Week to contribute gifts to be dis
tributed at Christmas time to vet
erans at Percy Jones hospital.
The gifts will be collected by
the Trenton-Riverview branch of
the American Red Cross, chair
maned by Mrs. William J. Bailey.
Among the gift suggestions are
pen and pencil sets and Brownie
cameras. Other gifts included $1
articles to be used for birthday
gifts, are also needed as well as
bingo prizes ranging in price from
25c to 50c.
County to Receive
T hird-Qua rter
Tax Returns
Wayne county will receive $780,-
179.89 in third quarter weight tax
returns for 1945, Highway Commis
sioner Charles M. Ziegler reports.
The Commissioner has sent vouch
ers to Auditor General John D.
Morrison for payment to the coun
ties and cities of Michigan of the
third uqarter weight tax amounting
to $2,813,786.20.
All weight tax money is returned
to the counties and cities for use
or city streets and country roads.
The third quarter return makes a
total of $21,104,326.03 returned to
the counties in weight tax for the
first three quarters of 1945, com
pared to $21,051,115.65 for the same
three quarters in 1944.
FILM ON DISCHARGED
VETERANS TO BE SHOWN
In addition to a short film on
Paraguay, which tells the story of
the country’s sturdy and indepen
dent people who have survived a
devastating history of warfare and
disadvantage, the film, “Michigan
Welcomes the Veteran,” will be
shown at the Rackham Educational
Memorial at 1:30 and 6 p.m. on
Wednesday, October 31, the Uni
versity of Michigan Extension Serv
ice announces. The latter film,
though unrelated to the main
theme of this series of programs,
is so timely that it is being includ
ed at this time. It demonstrates
the steps to be taken by servicemen
from the time of their discharge
until they find employment is
available for showings by commun
ities, service clubs, and other or
ganisations. Reguasts for hookings
of this film, however, daonld be
addressed to Michael Church, 107
Haven Hall, Ann Arbor.
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