Nisqually Valley News
Many people who now live here as well as many former residents were in attendance at the Memorial Service, held at the Yelm Cemetery on Memorial Day, sponsored jointly by the American Legion and Auxiliary and the Yelm Garden Club. The program opened with a flag raising ceremony, with the Boy Scout Troop, and [...]

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Ernest McVittie, a resident of Yelm about ten years ago, and a son of Alf McVittie, who passecd away some fifteen years ago, was killed in action in the Philippines between April 16th and May 12th, according to word received here. He had lived in Klamath Falls in recent years. His mother, Mrs. V. C. Johnson [...]

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Some prankster with a misquided sense of humor, called a number at random, on the new dial phones, very late, a few nights ago. It proved to be the number of an invalid woman. She was expecting a call from her son who was due to leave any day for overseas service. She managed to get [...]

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Sergeant Ray E. Jones, brother of Miss Lamby Jones, of Yelm, has been promoted to the grade of technical sergeant, it was announced at the Infantry replacement training center at Camp Wolters, Texas, this week. Sergeant Jones is assigned to Company C of the 56th battalion, which stresses heavy weapons training.
David E. Lindenau, Headquarters Company, 322nd [...]

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What is the matter with the good people of Yelm? Here you have a chance to be in the army for two hours or more a week, without the fuss and bother that our boys go thru and you don’t do it. Our boys leave home, give up all their ordinary ways of life and stand [...]

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The little jeep which is serving so nobly from Guadalcanal to Africa has become the symbol of the gigantic efforts of millions of American school children in their War Savings program.
Thousands of public, private and parochial schools soon will be displaying a certificate of honor from Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., signifying that they have [...]

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Guard duty, an abomination to most members of Uncle Sam’s Army, proved to be an angel’s blessing to Ed Laramie, who arrived home last week. The ship on which he sailed, supposedly for Australia, last December 24th, was destroyed in the Pacific. The sinking occurred at 2 o’clock in the morning, and only those who were on [...]

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Bill Mosman, premier correspondent from North Africa to the Nisqually Valley News, writes again to say that he is working hard. “We work seven days a week, and most of the nights,” he says, “and there is no place to go these days. I received 17 letters one day last month. Nothing to buy but [...]

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Word comes from the Carlsbad Army Air Field, at Carlsbad, New Mexico, that John D. Vandermay, of Yelm, was commissioned a second lieutenant on Saturday, January 15, after completing bombardier training at that place.  Lt. Vandormay now becomes one of the Army Air Forces new “triple threat men” - airmen who have completed training in dead reckoning [...]

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Kenneth Seaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Seaman, of Yelm, has been selected at the U.S. Naval Training Station at Farragaut, Idaho, for additional specialized training and has reported at the Radio Service School operated in connection with the Training Station.
Lieut. Abbie Huhndorf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Huhndorf, formerly of Yelm, was recently [...]