Lt. Carpenter Tells
Life of Army Nurse
Near Norman Front
An Interesting picture of the'
life of an army nurse in France!
is given in a recent letter writ-!
ten by Second Lt. Mary Louise
Carpenter, a niece of Alfred S.
V. Carpenter, Topsldes, and
Leonard Carpenter, Veritas
orchards. Lt. Carpenter who
has visited in Medford many
times, went overseas first in May
of 1941 with the Red Cross
Harvard unit and later trans
ferred to the army nurse corps.
Describing her departure from
England, the nurse worte, "As I
remember, I arose in the morn
ing of the day we left at 3:30 or
so. We'd had so many 'dry' runs
and had, spent so much time sit
ting fully dressed in battle
clothes on top of our luggage
in front of our tent that I didn't
think we'd be going that day,
either. Fortunately, I had a good
murder story to read during
those times. It certainly was ex
citing when we finally piled in
to trucks. It was a warm day
and we had the canvas sides
rolled up, so we were much
cheered by other truckloads of
our soldiers. Even British wom
en in the streets waved and
cheered us as we went by which
surprised me. We landed here
just about 24 hours later and
reached our hospital for supper."
Likes Night Shift
Explaining her work, Lt. Car
penter wrote, "I rather like
nights, especially when I can
get a good sleep in the daytime,
as I can when it s not rainy and
I take my bed out under the ap
ple tree. Sleeping in the tent
with tie other four coming and
going and various others stop
ping in is a bit like sleeping in
Grand Central station, as the
saying goes. We keep busy all
night; most of our patients are
so sick they need lots of atten-
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tion only one last night slept
the whole night through like a
normal person. Nursing usually
isn't very sad here it's just the
reverse; If there's one patient
you don't need to worry about,
he's the exception.
"It was a great crisis one day
when one of our patients was
ordered up, because the hospital
provides no sort of slippers and
all the patients' clothing is
turned in to Q. M. when they ar
rive here.' Fortunately, this pa
tient had small feet, for a man,
so I lent him my bedroom slip
pers. Of course, there are lots of
minor injuries to soldiers, but
other sorts of hospitals get them.
Fox Holes Tried
"A few nights some of us have
slept in fox holes (they get them
dug under their beds in the tent),
but most of the noise we hear
here is that of our own artillery.
Occasionally a Jerry has come
over, but they'd not bomb a hos
pital by day and it would be only
an accident if one dropped here
at night, so I feel safe and much
more comfortable in my bed."
The writer described the unit's
social life and in this connection
wrote that she and a nurse com
panion had visited an ordnance
unit nearby twice, the second
time "supposedly for steak, but
civilian affairs division had
moved into the nearby town and
closed the black market where
the little French boy was going
to get the meat for the officers.
I think the French boy, who is
16 but looks 12, had tonsillitis
when the ordnance company ar
rived, and they got an army doc
tor to go to him, so he s been
their middleman ever since." Lt.
Carpenter then described how
they entertained visitors one eve
ning and "had a lot of fun pop
ping corn and toasting marsh-
mallows on a gasoline stove be
longing to a nurse in the other
platoon."
Patient Recovers
Later she wrote: "I had an
othe night on duty and it made
me quite happy as two of the pa
tients who the night before had
looked like certain for death
were doing well. It was the third
night I'd had one of them the
first-night he got oxygen the
whole time and, except for
coughing spells during which I
was sure he'd choke to death,
he just lay breathing with dif
ficulty and looking waxy. He
was a chest wound. The second
night he was better, but still
didn't respond, although by
morning he would drink water.
So it seemed wonderful when
this morning he really emerged
into a reasoning being and a
personality. I keep my fingers
crossed about chest cases,
though.
"There's a fairly prosperous
farmer family next to us of
whom we see a bit (we live in
their cow pasture and sometimes
the cows feed here, also the
geese and a couple of donkeys).
The family came to our Fourth
of July party. Bastille day we
had a banquet, with veal (half
dollar sized pieces) and flowers
that they provided, to which
they came and there were
speeches and singing. It was a
nice affair. One of our officers
told us that the youngest son of
the farmers, when the Germans
were here, had to go to the near
est town three days a week to
work. A German general was
in the second story of one of the
buildings and when he watched,
they had to work, but otherwise
they loafed. So it took them
three weeks to dig a very little
ditch. The French around here
had given up hope that the Al
lies would come, but on D-day,
when they awoke to the noise of
the great bombardment, they
knew we had come and the boy
decided he needn't go to work
for the Germans that day.
"Mail certainly means more
in this kind of existence than it
ever did before more even than
in England, as it's the only
warm, human thing reaching in
to us from the outside the real
world."
In closing, the nurse asked for
copies of certain books and for
some popcorn.
THE GRANGE
Talent Grange
At the last regular meeting o'
Talent Grange, August 3, a good
crowd was in attendance. Tne
program included an article read
by Mrs. W. W. Robison regard
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clover seed. Another article, read
by C. E. Berg, told of plans un
der way for disposal of surplus
foodstuff at close of the war.
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August 8, for a picnic dinner at
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Talent. Mr. and Mrs. Vic Stew
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GOLD ILL WAVE
WILL BE TRAINED
To prepare her to release a
trained man for service at an
advance base or a fighting ship,
Miss Laurene Katherine Kell,
hospital apprentice second class,
in the WAVES, has been selected
for advance training in the U. S.
navy hospital corps at the U. S.
navy medical center, Btthseda,
Md., Herbert W. Crain, recruiter-
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navy recruiting substation which
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Miss Kell Is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kell, Gold
Hill, Ore. She is a graduate of
Gold Hill high school.
On completion of basic train
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New York city, Miss Kell was
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Experience as a stenographer
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her enlistment in the WAVES
was a determining factor in her
selection for the special training.
Miss Kell is the fourth mem
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armed forces. One brother, Leon
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the Fifth army in Italy; another
brother, Ernest Kell, is a ser
geant in the AAF in England and
a third brother, Clarence Kell,
is a sergeant in the medical corps
at Fort Benning. Ga
Salt LaJte Lion
Named President
Of Organization
Chicago, 111., Aug. 7 D. A.1
Skeen of Salt Lake City. Utah, j
was elected president of the In- i
ternational Association of Lions
Clubs at the closing session of
the twenty-eighth international j
annual meeting this week. The
association, which added 368 new i
clubs and had a net increase of
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ZOOT SUITER SOUGHT
St. Louis, Aug. 7. tU.R)
Police today searched for an un
identified n'egro "zoot suiter"
who beat to death a white man
tentatively identified as Charles
N. Case, 41, Salinas, Cal., on a
public service streetcar last
night.
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In accepting the presidency,
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ever, is our opportunity for serv
ice. We have seen in a short
space of time our very right to
serve our fellow man chal
lenged. Community life in the
world has felt most the impact
of this cruel orgy of death and
destruction.
"Basically our community life
must go on We as Lions have
before us, under world condi
tions, the great opportunity
yes, responsibility to heal the
wounds and remove the scars of
war impact on our respective
communities and to make the
communities better and life
there such that opportunities
will attract and bring back with
oiive :s3-i
Barber's
Observations
From hotel life In a city of
almost a million population to
a logging camp 24 miles from
the nearest postoffice. Such is
the change I've made in the last
few days. Strangely, this change
was not made because I dis
liked city life. I love feeling
myself a part of the hurrying
throng; loved knowing I had a
real and interesting role jn that
life. Too, I found to my sur
prised delight that city people
are as kindly, as courteous and
as warmly human as are coun
try people.
But Destiny, lt Is said, shapes
our ends rough-hew them how
we will. So it must have been
that Destiny, seeing my pleasure
In paths so foreign to those on
which she had established me,
feared I might be permanently
affected. So to offset my pleas
ure in the crowds and my new
job, 1 was never allowed to find
an apartment adequate to my
needs. And always homesick
ness stood ready to engulf me
ill idle moments, in the still
watches of the night.
I would like to think it was
authority over me in my new
the tender hearts of those in
work which caused them to re
lease me frtm my given word,
with the vague promise that
maybe they could arrange for
me to do the job from the home
town. Yet I'm afraid vthoir
hearts were cowardly rather
than tender, and that they wish
ed only to get rid of me before
I cast my weeping self on their
assorted shoulders. I'm no April
shower, when I burst into tears.
In rural vernacular, I do not
weep, I bawl.
At the first word of consent,
I went into high gear, headed
not for Hillside, but my hus
band's logging camp. And If
this column is to be, as it al
ways has been, an accounting of
life as I live it from day to day,
then for the next two months
there will be little of either
city or the country motif in it.
Instead, sometimes it will be
about the protesting roar of the
litle creek as it hurdles boul
ders and rocky ledges on its
way to the river. Or of the
even louder roar of donkeys and
whine of cables.
A few months ago I watched
a donkey doctor at work on a
cat. He asked me to hand him
a ratchet from a nearby tool
box. What I handed him, it
seemed, was not ratchet. By
the way, what is a ratchet?
CHARMED LIFE
Guam, July 28. (U.P.) Maj.
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racks near Orote airstrip here,
escnped unharmed today when a
Japanese shell hit a tree trunk
under which ho was standing
with 11 other marines, nine of
whom were killed or wounded
by shrapnel.
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should keep uppermost in his mind . t
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your first day of training until you get up
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never been stopped . . . that never will be
stopped . ; ; the 'greatest team in the
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Liberators and Fortresses are blacking
out the skies over Germany. Japan is
already beginning to feel the awful power
of the Superfortress. Swarms of heavy
bombers, medium
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spearheading the at
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the AAF. do to your nearest AAF
Examining Hoard . . . lee if you can
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