newspaper clipping from the amanda shafer scrapbook
The following men from Polk county boards have been inducted into the army at Camp Dodge:
Board 2
Shafer Junior R 4034 Fifty-first st.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Pvt. Junior R Shafer
newspaper clipping from the amanda shafer scrapbook
Pvt. Junior R Shafer, husband of Mrs J.R. Shafer, 4034 Fifty-first st., and son of Mrs Maude Shafer, 662Fourteenth place, has been awarded the combant infantryman badge in Italy.
Pvt. Junior R Shafer, husband of Mrs J.R. Shafer, 4034 Fifty-first st., and son of Mrs Maude Shafer, 662Fourteenth place, has been awarded the combant infantryman badge in Italy.
Old License
newspaper clipping from the amanda shafer scrapbook
When Cecil Dean Shafer of 2218 E. Eighteenth St. applied for renewal of his Iowa drivers license, he turned in one that had had used legally for more than 22 years.
He was in the military service since June, 1946, and Iowa law provides that drivers licenses remain valid until six months after honorable discharge from service.
When Cecil Dean Shafer of 2218 E. Eighteenth St. applied for renewal of his Iowa drivers license, he turned in one that had had used legally for more than 22 years.
He was in the military service since June, 1946, and Iowa law provides that drivers licenses remain valid until six months after honorable discharge from service.
guests of Mr and Mrs Floyd Frisbie
newspaper clipping from the amanda shafer scrapbook
Mr and Mrs E.H. Greif, Larry and Sharon of Woodward, Iowa, Mrs Harry Varisco, Linda and Carol of Des Moines, Mr and Mrs Floyd Frisbie Jr and Eugene of Dexter, Iowa, were week end guests of Mr and Mrs Floyd Frisbie. Sunday guests were Mr and Mrs Willis Francis.
Mr and Mrs E.H. Greif, Larry and Sharon of Woodward, Iowa, Mrs Harry Varisco, Linda and Carol of Des Moines, Mr and Mrs Floyd Frisbie Jr and Eugene of Dexter, Iowa, were week end guests of Mr and Mrs Floyd Frisbie. Sunday guests were Mr and Mrs Willis Francis.
G.I's Give Viet Hamlet Two Santas
from amanda shafers scrapbook....
Des Moines Tribune Dec. 22 1966
XOM HUE, SOUTH VIETNAM (AP) "Blaster 8-4, code name 'Jo-Ho-Ho' coming in for a landing, let me see your smoke, Ho-ho-ho."
"rog, Blaster 8-4, take 'er down."
In Christmas colors, green and red smoke flares indicated the landing zone across from the Buddhist temple. The bubbletop helicopter made a turn in the listless tropical air, set down in a peanut field, and Santa Claus came to the tiny hamlet of Xom Hue, 35 miles northwest of Saigon.
There were two of htem, in fact, a Vietnamese Santa Claus and his American couterpart, so the 1000 kids in the hamlet were doubly delirious with delight.
"You're No.1' they kept telling helicopter pilot Richard Salzarulo of Pittsfield, Massl, the American Santa Claus.
Actually, he was No. 2, because the US 25th Infantry Division, whose artillerymen were sponsoring the big Christmas party, was out to stress the Vietnamese aspects of the celebration.
From Xom Hue, a bitterly contest hamlet all the way back to the days of the French, it was the biggest day since the Viet Cong pulled out bag and baggage eight months ago.
The 25th Infantry Division band paraded down the muddy main street oom-pah-pah-ing Jingle Bells. Half the hamlet followed happily along behind.
In the words of Ebeneezer Scrooge, "There never was such a Christmas" as Buddhism and Christianity got together in a bizarre Christmas pudding.
There was a lifesize Nativity scene in front of the pagoda, with Vietnamese schoolgirls dressed as angels and wearing enormous silver wings fashioned from old newspapers.
Then the children of the village marched in a colorful "star procession", proudly showing off huge colored stars they had made of bamboo and rice paper.
The reviewing section was a colorful blend of village elders, government officials, church and pagoda dignitaries, military leaders.
There was Col. Daniel Williams of Boonville, SC, the artillery commander, in his steel helmet. There was the Rev. Tran Van Phin, Catholic priest from the next village, in his broad-brimmed French cure's hat. There were Le Van Auh, the hamlet chief, in his black mandarin coat, and Capt. Ho Van Hiep, the district chief, in his spotless khaki uniform, resplendent wtih decorations.
There were the pagoda venerables in their saffron robes and wispy beards, lovely ladies in long flowing ao-dais and streaming jet black hair, toohless mamasans spitting out betel nut and sucking on pipes or cigars, G.I.s standing by with M16 rifles
All agreed, after due deliberation, that 9-year-old Nguyen Van Nhan, whose father pedaled a cyclo cab, had made the best Christmas star. It was fully three feet tall, almost as tall of Nguyen himself, and bore the inscription: "Mung li giant sinh" which is Vietnamese for "We Wish you a merry Christmas."
For his star making talents, Nguyen recieved a huge model airplane carved and painted by the surgeons at the Army's 7th Surgical Hospital.
The rest of the kids surged around and at one point threatened to overrun the two Santas to get at $3,300 worth of toys the artillery-men had flown over, at their own expense, from the States.
D.M. MESS SERGEANT
While Mess Sgt. Cecil Shafer of Des Moines, Ia. served up a mountain of cakes and cold drinks, a Bietnamese drama team entertained on a stage set up across from the little school that the American artillery men had provided with desks and benches.
(Shafer, 40, son of Mrs Amanda Shafer of 933 Forest ave., has been in the Army 19 years. He has two children, both of Des Moines, Mrs. Donna Lynn Hessletine, 22, of 6740 Townsend dr. and Roy Dean Shafer, 20, of 4217 Bowdoin st.)
Lt Ted Root of Stow, Ohio, stepped up to the microphones provided by the Vietnamese propaganda team, and sang "O Holy Night" with sich silvery sweetness as to lay to rest forever the canard that all artillerymen are tone-deaf.
He was backed by a 25-voice G.I. Choir.
With the division band and a Vietnamese string band combining for "Silent Night" and the whole hamlet singings along, it was difficult to realize that less than 18 months ago the hamlet had provided 90 to 100 recruits to the Viet Cong.
After the ceremonies, the two Santas, Warrant Officer Salzarulo and Dao Nguyen Thong, a local student for the Catholic priesthood, climbed back into their bubble chopper and headed out over the rooftops.
Just then a flight of armed Huey helicopters busted past, lifting 25th Division infantrymen into heavy fighting in the Boi Loi Woods eight miles away.
Santa Salzarulo's last words of radio contact, as he disappeared in the clouds, were: "It's 130 degrees up here, and I ho-ho-hope I never draw this mission again!"
Des Moines Tribune Dec. 22 1966
XOM HUE, SOUTH VIETNAM (AP) "Blaster 8-4, code name 'Jo-Ho-Ho' coming in for a landing, let me see your smoke, Ho-ho-ho."
"rog, Blaster 8-4, take 'er down."
In Christmas colors, green and red smoke flares indicated the landing zone across from the Buddhist temple. The bubbletop helicopter made a turn in the listless tropical air, set down in a peanut field, and Santa Claus came to the tiny hamlet of Xom Hue, 35 miles northwest of Saigon.
There were two of htem, in fact, a Vietnamese Santa Claus and his American couterpart, so the 1000 kids in the hamlet were doubly delirious with delight.
"You're No.1' they kept telling helicopter pilot Richard Salzarulo of Pittsfield, Massl, the American Santa Claus.
Actually, he was No. 2, because the US 25th Infantry Division, whose artillerymen were sponsoring the big Christmas party, was out to stress the Vietnamese aspects of the celebration.
From Xom Hue, a bitterly contest hamlet all the way back to the days of the French, it was the biggest day since the Viet Cong pulled out bag and baggage eight months ago.
The 25th Infantry Division band paraded down the muddy main street oom-pah-pah-ing Jingle Bells. Half the hamlet followed happily along behind.
In the words of Ebeneezer Scrooge, "There never was such a Christmas" as Buddhism and Christianity got together in a bizarre Christmas pudding.
There was a lifesize Nativity scene in front of the pagoda, with Vietnamese schoolgirls dressed as angels and wearing enormous silver wings fashioned from old newspapers.
Then the children of the village marched in a colorful "star procession", proudly showing off huge colored stars they had made of bamboo and rice paper.
The reviewing section was a colorful blend of village elders, government officials, church and pagoda dignitaries, military leaders.
There was Col. Daniel Williams of Boonville, SC, the artillery commander, in his steel helmet. There was the Rev. Tran Van Phin, Catholic priest from the next village, in his broad-brimmed French cure's hat. There were Le Van Auh, the hamlet chief, in his black mandarin coat, and Capt. Ho Van Hiep, the district chief, in his spotless khaki uniform, resplendent wtih decorations.
There were the pagoda venerables in their saffron robes and wispy beards, lovely ladies in long flowing ao-dais and streaming jet black hair, toohless mamasans spitting out betel nut and sucking on pipes or cigars, G.I.s standing by with M16 rifles
All agreed, after due deliberation, that 9-year-old Nguyen Van Nhan, whose father pedaled a cyclo cab, had made the best Christmas star. It was fully three feet tall, almost as tall of Nguyen himself, and bore the inscription: "Mung li giant sinh" which is Vietnamese for "We Wish you a merry Christmas."
For his star making talents, Nguyen recieved a huge model airplane carved and painted by the surgeons at the Army's 7th Surgical Hospital.
The rest of the kids surged around and at one point threatened to overrun the two Santas to get at $3,300 worth of toys the artillery-men had flown over, at their own expense, from the States.
D.M. MESS SERGEANT
While Mess Sgt. Cecil Shafer of Des Moines, Ia. served up a mountain of cakes and cold drinks, a Bietnamese drama team entertained on a stage set up across from the little school that the American artillery men had provided with desks and benches.
(Shafer, 40, son of Mrs Amanda Shafer of 933 Forest ave., has been in the Army 19 years. He has two children, both of Des Moines, Mrs. Donna Lynn Hessletine, 22, of 6740 Townsend dr. and Roy Dean Shafer, 20, of 4217 Bowdoin st.)
Lt Ted Root of Stow, Ohio, stepped up to the microphones provided by the Vietnamese propaganda team, and sang "O Holy Night" with sich silvery sweetness as to lay to rest forever the canard that all artillerymen are tone-deaf.
He was backed by a 25-voice G.I. Choir.
With the division band and a Vietnamese string band combining for "Silent Night" and the whole hamlet singings along, it was difficult to realize that less than 18 months ago the hamlet had provided 90 to 100 recruits to the Viet Cong.
After the ceremonies, the two Santas, Warrant Officer Salzarulo and Dao Nguyen Thong, a local student for the Catholic priesthood, climbed back into their bubble chopper and headed out over the rooftops.
Just then a flight of armed Huey helicopters busted past, lifting 25th Division infantrymen into heavy fighting in the Boi Loi Woods eight miles away.
Santa Salzarulo's last words of radio contact, as he disappeared in the clouds, were: "It's 130 degrees up here, and I ho-ho-hope I never draw this mission again!"
Eide Warns Bikes Must Be Lighted
Plice Chief Howard Eide ordered a crackdown Tuesday on bicyclists riding without lights at night and riding double as a result of three recent accidents here involving bicycles.
The latest accident was about 7:30p.m. Monday when 8-year-old Steven L. Wales of 1012 Third St., suffered slight body bruises when his bicycle was struck by a car at Second and Indiana avenues.
CLEO LIONEL OSBORNE, 59, of 1104 Wade St, driver of the car, told police he did not see the boy on the bicycle because the bicycle did not have any lights on it.
Eide pointed out that city and state laws require lights on the front and rear of bicycles whwen they are ridden at night and prohibits more than one person riding on a bicycle at any time.
The latest accident was about 7:30p.m. Monday when 8-year-old Steven L. Wales of 1012 Third St., suffered slight body bruises when his bicycle was struck by a car at Second and Indiana avenues.
CLEO LIONEL OSBORNE, 59, of 1104 Wade St, driver of the car, told police he did not see the boy on the bicycle because the bicycle did not have any lights on it.
Eide pointed out that city and state laws require lights on the front and rear of bicycles whwen they are ridden at night and prohibits more than one person riding on a bicycle at any time.
from Greatgrandma Amanda's scrapbook
DM Tribune Feb 1 1967
Flynn's Percherons Much Loved-Old Stable's Farewell Triggers Memories
full page of newspaper clippings about Linley S Grisell-with a handwritten note that he was Amanda's landlord, she had an apartment over his store. at the top of the page in pen "To Betty Jean From Mother Dec 1st 1971"
Druggist, 80, Gets Own Gun, Routs Armed Hold up Man
Linley Grisell Rites Tuesday
LS Grisell, 81, of 1203 University Ave. told police he was struck by an auto driven by a woman as he was walking across University Ave. at 13th St about 7:30a.m. he had bruises about the hips and right hand.
D.M Death Mrs Hattie Gay Grisell, 92
Off To Summer Camp, Older Folks headed to Salvation Army Fresh Air Camp Near Madrid For Five Day Vacation
Arrest 2 Men On Beer Charges
CW McQuade, 62, Street car supervisor
Fred Willis of Pleasanton,IA never shaved in his life (he never grew whiskers)
Elmore Gets 10-Year Term
School Man Found Guilty
Elmore Appeals Sentence, Fine
WAC Pvt Patricia A Teas, daughter of MRs Alta Berthelsen of 107 E Fifteenth St, is spending an eight day furlough in Des Moines.
Miss Teas, who enlisted last August, has been transferred from Fort Lee, Va. to San Antonio, Tex., where she will enter nurses' training at the Brooks army medical center.
3 Are Admitted As Polio Patients
Flynn's Percherons Much Loved-Old Stable's Farewell Triggers Memories
full page of newspaper clippings about Linley S Grisell-with a handwritten note that he was Amanda's landlord, she had an apartment over his store. at the top of the page in pen "To Betty Jean From Mother Dec 1st 1971"
Druggist, 80, Gets Own Gun, Routs Armed Hold up Man
Linley Grisell Rites Tuesday
LS Grisell, 81, of 1203 University Ave. told police he was struck by an auto driven by a woman as he was walking across University Ave. at 13th St about 7:30a.m. he had bruises about the hips and right hand.
D.M Death Mrs Hattie Gay Grisell, 92
Off To Summer Camp, Older Folks headed to Salvation Army Fresh Air Camp Near Madrid For Five Day Vacation
Arrest 2 Men On Beer Charges
CW McQuade, 62, Street car supervisor
Fred Willis of Pleasanton,IA never shaved in his life (he never grew whiskers)
Elmore Gets 10-Year Term
School Man Found Guilty
Elmore Appeals Sentence, Fine
WAC Pvt Patricia A Teas, daughter of MRs Alta Berthelsen of 107 E Fifteenth St, is spending an eight day furlough in Des Moines.
Miss Teas, who enlisted last August, has been transferred from Fort Lee, Va. to San Antonio, Tex., where she will enter nurses' training at the Brooks army medical center.
3 Are Admitted As Polio Patients
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