Personals
June 8--Mrs. Milton Poucher returned last week from San Diego, Calif., where she had been since her marriage a few weeks ago. Her husband has now been sent to the Pacific area, and Mrs.Poucher will remain here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Collins, and finish high school.
Servicemen
The Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa., graduated another large class of officers of the medical department on May 31. Among the list of graduates was First Lt. Leffie M. Carlton, Jr., MC, of Wauchula, who received his degree from Duke University School of Medicine.
Cadets at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn. were graduated and commissioned June 6. Carl F. Hanna of Wauchula was one of the graduates.
Lt. Lorimer Hendry, who has just been promoted to first lieutenant after spending four months in the Marianna Islands and three weeks at his home base at Boca Raton, Fla., has been sent to Warner Robins Field, near Macon, Ga.
Aboard a new U. S. Cruiser in the Pacific--Buford A. Prescott, motor machinist's mate, third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Prescott of Wauchula, helped take this new ship into battle for the first time against the Japanese.
Mrs. Mollie Hancock of Fort Green recently received letters from two officers of the battalion her son, Lt. Joe Pringle, belonged. Lt. Pringle was killed in an automobile accident April 5, 1945. He was in charge of a convoy of trucks on a black-out march and, as a result of poor visibility, his vehicle ran off a blown-out bridge outside of Frankfurt, Germany.
Mrs. Thomas C. Wingo was the recipient last Sunday of a wire from her husband, Sgt. Wingo, who has been in Battle Creek, Mich., telling her that he would be home the last of this week. He is getting a medical discharge from the Army because of wounds received in action in Germany.
Weather
Weather since January 1 to May 31, 1945, as recorded by H. L. Carlton, cooperative observer, two miles northwest of Wauchula, follows:
Total rainfall: January, 2.85 inches; February, .19 inches; March, .18 inches; April, .22 inches; May, .29 inches.
Lowest temperature recorded was 33 degrees on January 11, February 1 and 3; highest temperature recorded was 104 degrees on May 31.
Dual Professions
June 15--T. Hoyt Carlton, who returned to Wauchula last fall from four years military service, announces that he is opening law offices in the Stenstrom building on June 18. Office hours will be from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 daily as his time must be divided between his law practice and his school duties as director of physical education and athletic coach where he occupies his time from noon until late in the afternoon.
Servicemen
Lt. Walter W. Moore of the U. S. Air Corps, co-pilot on a Flying Fortress who was shot down over Germany several months ago and made a prisoner of war, arrived in Wauchula Wednesday evening for a short furlough with his parent, Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Moore, Sr.
Range Station Field Day
June 22--More than 200 cattlemen and farmers saw first-hand evidence of the value of pasture fertilization and learned something of the important part played in livestock nutrition last Friday at the Hardee County Range Cattle Experiment Station, located a few miles south of Ona.
Stockmen from all parts of the peninsular attended the meeting, which drew former Governors Doyle E. Carlton of Tampa and Spessard L. Holland of Bartow, both of whom addressed the gathering. At the conclusion, a tour of the cattle lots and experimental pasture were conducted by Dr. W. G. Kirk, director of the station, and Dr. E. M. Hodges, associate agronomist.
Servicemen
A memorial service in memory of Olin C. Boney, who lost his life in service of his country on March 26, 1945, was held in the First Presbyterian Church in Wauchula last Sunday morning. He attended school in Bowling Green and shortly after the outbreak of the war removed to Avon Park.
Personals
June 29--J. W. Crews, president of the Wauchula State Bank, returned the latter part of last week from New York City.
Thomas Underwood, popular salesman at the J. W. Earnest & Company's department store, returned to Wauchula last weekend from Knoxville, Tenn., where he spent a couple of weeks visiting old friends and attending to business matters.
Racing Victory
Joe Palooka, claimed to be the fastest cow pony in Florida, scored another victory Sunday at LaBelle when he defeated Louisiana Girl by a good three lengths. The LaBelle quarterhorse, owned by Joe B. Hendry, ran in Wauchula last Labor Day and was an easy winner.
Servicemen
Capt. Merle Albritton, who has been stationed at Charleston, S. C., has been sent to Homestead, Fla., where he is attending Air Transport Command School. Mrs. Albritton is spending some time with her mother, Mrs. Louise Carlton.
Pfc. Delaney A. Farabee of the medical corps and attached to the A. T. A. and stationed in Clewiston, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dolan Farabee in the Oak Grove section.
Pvt. William Leslie Metheny, husband of Mrs. Carmen Metheny of near Wauchula, has begun his basic training at the AAF Training Command's Basic Training Center at Keesler Field, Miss.
S/Sgt. John E. Moseley, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess B. Moseley, of Rt. 1, Wauchula, will soon arrive in the United States after completing numerous combat missions on a B-24 bomber in Italy. Sgt. Moseley's group will undergo a period of special
training before embarking for the Pacific theatre to carry the strategic air war to the Japanese.
Last Sunday was reunion day at the home of Commissioner and Mrs. Barney Prescott at their home east of Wauchula.
During the first of last week, Lt. Robert L. Prescott, after four months with the A. A. F. in Southern Europe, landed in Bradley Field, Conn. He is a pilot of a B-24 and flew the Atlantic both ways. He was granted a 30-day furlough and left immediately for visit with his parents.
Another son, Bedford Prescott, Jr., M 3/c, United States Navy, is home from active duty in the Pacific area, mostly Guam. He was here just for the week and left on Monday for Princeton University where he will enroll in the R. O. T. C.
The first of the boys was Barney Prescott, Jr., Y 1/c of the U. S. Coast Guard, stationed at St. Petersburg, and his wife, also spent the weekend with the former's parents.
Lt. Milton D. Durrance, a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Prescott, a P-51 pilot stationed at Thomasville, Ga., learning that his cousins were at home, motored down to spend Sunday with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Dow Durrance, and to visit in the Prescott home and join in the reunion.
This article was published in The Herald-Advocate (Wauchula, Fla.) of June 8, 2000.
May 12, 2001