60 years ago
JUNE 17, 1943
The Fritz Alder dairy herd of Holsteins suffered heavy loss Sunday afternoon when a special troop train on the Santa Fe, traveling at high speed, plowed into the heard, killing 16 outright and injuring one that had to be killed.
Of interest here was a news item about the recent opening of the Mostyn R.C. Club in London which was attended by a number of former KU students. Two of them, Vic Trussler of Emporia, well known here, and Menno Unruh, who rode a bike 100 miles to attend, helped give the famous old KU "Rock Chalk" yell. A telegram was sent to General Eisenhower, Kansas man, telling of the KU gathering.
The Office of War Information offers these pointers for home folks writing to soldiers, sailors and marines based on information gathered in a survey among servicemen at home and overseas in cooperation with the Special Service Division of the Army Service Forces. TELL HIM — How the family is doing everything possible to win the war. How anxious the family is for his return. How busy the family is. Give details. How the family is getting along financially. What's going on in the community: news about girls (single) he knows, who's marrying whom, exploits of the home team and other sports events, social doings, effects of the war on the home town. Reminisce a little about past events and places the boy used to visit. Enclose clippings from the hometown paper. DON'T TELL HIM — Your troubles. He has troubles of his own. Your complaints. He can't do anything about them. About things you are deprived of. He can't supply them. Doleful predictions of the future. He's fighting for that future now. Unnecessary details of financial troubles. If there are things that he should know about family finances and he is in a position to do something about the situation, tell him. But don't string it out.
Harry Chill and Orville Van Buren went to Wichita the first of the week where they will work on the addition to the Municipal Airport.
