The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1944 Page: 3 of 8
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Darlington,
| Jr., have as their guests this week,
I hut. parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. P.
[Hammer, her brother and wife, Mr.
fund Mrs. P. A. Hammer and Miss
f Elaine Hammer, a niece, all of Nor-
i way, Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther McComb of
JmLean, were business visitors In
f Shamrock Monday afternoon.
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I WANT TO BUY kodak, pre-
ferably a small one, for service man
ov^|seas. What have you? Earl
Koger, school office, phone 104. tfc.
Jenny Lynn McCathern, thrcc-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
j. E. McCathern who reside In the
ndth part of the county, was struck
by a truck, and sustained a broken
leg last week. She was taken to the
Wheeler Hospital for emergency
treatment and on Tuesday morning
removed to a hospital In Oklahoma
cm.
Hundreds of Lone Star fighting
men are coming home to Texas.
By plane and train, on stretchers
or crutches, they arrive dally at the
army’s great McCloskey General
Hospital at Temple. They are the
heroic wounded, the boys who know
the true meaning of sacrifice In
this war.
With Capt. F. J. Moss, McCloS'
key’s affable and capable public re-
lations officer, the writer of this
column visited the hospital and
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Blackburn of
Perryton, visited relatives and
friends here over the wek-end.
Alfred Bryant, farmer, residing
about four miles southwest of
Wheeler, had the misfortune to fall
from a windmill and suffered a
broken hip, leg and both ankles.
| accident occurred about noon
Frfflay and he was taken to Okla-
ThA
Frfna
a trip to Ohio and West Virginia.
They were accompanied by L. R.
Martin to Canton, Ohio. Mrs. Cora
George of Shirley, W. Va., returned
with them and will spend the win-
ter with her sister, Mrs. H. L. Mc-
Laughlin.
Miss Essie Holmes of Amarillo,
spent the week-end with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holmes.
Mrs. Glenn Goodson
relatives in Wellington.
t homa City to a bone specialist for
[ treatment.
Miss Edith Adkins of Longview,
|t<®is, was a guest in the home of
I her brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Thurman Adkins, the past
f week. She left Sunday for Amarillo
where she will visit relatives before
earning home.
Mrs. Kermlt W. Feist of Ama-
[ rillo, was a guest in the home of
I her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D.
Dland, last week.
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UTS. W. L. Allison of Phoenix,
I Ariz., left Thursday evening after
I visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. 8. Price, and other relatives.
Aphn i
frron a
Cullers returned this week
■ from a vacation trip to visit his
grandmother, Mrs. Ida Ballow of
Jacksboro, Texas. A highlight of the
trip was a seven-pound bass which
he caught.
I
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith and
two children, of Austin, returned
home Sunday after visiting with
relatives and friends in Shamrock.
Mrs. Irene Kuykendall of Blair,
Okla., has returned home after
visiting with Mrs. Gaylord Russell
for the past two weeks.
Bobby Jack Taylor is on a vaca-
tion trip to Roswell and Carlsbad,
N. M„ and El Paso, Texas.
Mrs. Cordle Gill and daughter,
Louise, left Friday for their home
in San Antonio, after visiting In
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Meadows and other relatives.
Irs. Bob Cadenhead of California,
j and Mrs. R. W. Cadenhead of
| Springtown, Texas, are house guests
in the home of Mr and Mrs. Dean
McMurtry.
^ W. Sullivan of Oklahoma City,
former Shamrock resident, visited
friends here this week.
Misses Ruth TUley and Lois Du
BAp returned last week-end from
a trip to Washington, D. C„ where
they served as brides maids at the
wedding of Miss Doris Beth Dar-
lington and Lieut. Gerald Gaffney.
gjiss Jean Barnard of Floydada,
Texas, and Miss Barbara Barnard
of Dnllas, are guests of Miss Ruth
Tilley.
I WANT TO BUY kodak, pre-
feObly a small one, for service man
overseas. What have you? Earl
Koger, school office, phone 104. tfc.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Palmer and
daughter, Helen, have returned from
la^h
Mrs. Lucy Darling was called to
Amarillo recently because of the Ill-
ness of her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Paul Darling.
Mr. and Mrs. Argus Nix, daugh-
ter, Katherine, son, Eugene, and
grandson, Richard Woollard, re'
turned Saturday from a trip to
Happy, Tulia and Canyon. They
were accompanied on the trip by
Mary Lou Wilson.
Mrs. J. W. Shaddlx of Lubbock,
was in Shamrock over the week-
end visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Q. Scott, daugh-
ter, Barbara, Jo Anne Draper and
Barbara Nell Laycock spent the
week-end In College Station, where
they visited Wendell Scott, who Is
a student of A. & M. College.
Miss Mary Smith spent the week-
end In Abilene, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Agan and
son, have moved from Sunray to
Shamrock to make their home.
Mrs. Charlotte Jackson returned
last week from Temple, Texas.
Mrs. Frank Willingham of Cle-
burne, Texas, sister of Mrs. W. O.
Morrow, spent last week In the
Morrow home.
spent hours chatting with the boys
about their parts in the fighting.
And don’t get the idea that these
returned, wounded veterans are
spending their time in the hospital
griping or feeling sorry for them-
selves. There’s not a cry in a car-
load I
As a matter of fact, there prob-
ably is no more cheerful group of
men In Uncle Sam’s army. With
fingers off, feet and hands off, and
other terrible wounds, the lads in
McCloskey face the future with a
smile and a wise-crack and the
painful present with a type of
courage that is an Inspiration to
everyone who visits them.
There are two miraculous facts
that you will discover if you visit
this great army establishment,
where wounded men are given new
health and new hope. The first is
the cheerful courage of the men,
themselves. The second Is the con-
sideration and skill of the officers
and hien who administer to them.
As we walked through the long
wards, Captain Moss waved and
quipped at the boys, calling almost
every lad by name. And the pa-
tients quipped back, their smiles
showing plainly the friendship and
confidence that exists between the
wounded veterans and the officers
and men of the hospital staff.
We talked with many of the pa-
tients. Corporal Leland Grohman of
San Antonio told of heavy fighting
In Italy, but forgot his own troubles
is visiting”! to praise the home-folks who sent
USO-Camp Shows across to enter-
tain the boys.
We met Sgt. Charlie Rummell of
Waco, who spent months in a Nazi
prison camp after losing his legs
from machine gun wounds. Charlie
talked about the National War
Fund, too, telling how sports equip-
ment, books and other anti-boredom
materials sent over by War Prison-
ers Aid helped the captured men
fight off “barbed wire sickness.”
And Lt. Marjorie Gray of Killeen,
who served through 77 days under
constant shell fire at Anzlo, before
being sent home to recuperate at
McCloskey. The petite nurse told of
the black day when the Germans
bombed the hospital, killing scores
of patients, doctors and nurses and
wounding many more. She was close
by when Lt. Helen McCullough, an-
other nurse of the Baylor Hospital
Unit, was seriously wounded. Lt.
MoCullough, who wears the Purple
Heart, was released from McClos-
key Hospital last week, well again.
Here's a note to mothers, wives
and sweethearts of the wounded
lads at McCloskey—a note that may
ease their worries about the boys:
Don’t worry about theml They
are being cared for better than any
soldiers ever were cared for before.
They are cheerful, happy and con-
fident of the future.
They are getting the best medical
and surgical attention that can be
had. And, best of all, they are loved
and lovingly cared for by the of-
ficers, nurses and men who staff
this great army healing unit. There
is nothing impersonal about the
way McCloskey Hospital takes care
of its boys. Every patient is a per-
sonal responsibility of those who
staff the great institution, and
nothing is left undone to return
them to health, happiness and use- J
fulness.
It’s hard to tell which to admire j
most, when one visits McCloskey-
the heroic wounded veterans or the I
human, capable and kind men and [
women who care for them so well.
But one thing is certain: thanks
to the skill and patience of the Mc-
Closkey medics, thousands of men
who might have died or been help-
less cripples for life will return to
their homes happy, healthy and
useful citizens of the Lone Star
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1944, newspaper, August 31, 1944; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528902/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.