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of Electlom , t ' ' ■ Sfamtlton Cmuntu iRpcorJi CARL L. FRY ESTATE. Pwprietor, Wells, N. Y “A PAPER FOR THE PEOPL^OF H A M ILTO N CO U N T Y ” ARTHUR A. HOYT. Editor, Weila> N. Y. VOL. XLXII NO. 32 WELLS, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945 With 155 Years of Outstanding Service In Wars and Peace Coast Guard Has Been Big Factor in Present Successful Operations sary of its founding, proud of be- the nation’s “first fl6et” and wear the cos shield on their uniform sleeves will celebrate the service’s birthday The United States coast guard A u g u st 4 celebrates the 155th anni-( versa] ing the nation’s proud of its “firsts” and its- distin guished service on all fronts of ■World War. II. Most of the 172,000 m en who wear the coast guard ^ce’s -overseas, for the coast guard, cre ated primarily to prevent smug glers from reaching the coast, ranges far from hom e in tim e of war to fight alongside the army,* .navy and marine corps. The coast guard’s story gm s in 1787 when Alexanc' ton, first secretary of the treasury, while urging adoption of the then pending constitution, wrote of the need for a sea-going service which would prevent “material infractions upon the rights of the revenue.” “A few armed vessels,” he wrote, ^‘judi- j really be- ider Hamil- •ciously stationed at the entrance to our ports,' m igtt at small be made useful sentinels exp( the With the constitution adopted, the first congress elected under it, in fhe spring of 1790, approved Hamil ton’s idea for a marine law en forcement agency, and on August 4, 1790, the service’s birthday, appro priated money to build 10 cutters '.ariesi to their officers and nnd pay sala For six years the small cutters -were the only armed vessels under the United States flag. .(The navy was created in 1794 by kct of con gress, but its ships were not in serv ice until 1797. Given Naval Rank. The possible defense value of the cutters was recognized early. In suggesting establishment of the service, Hamilton asked that offi cers of the cutters be given military or naval rank, ■‘whidh,” ^ ' he said, ^‘will not only induce fit men to en- but attach them to their duties a nicer sense of honor.” In 1797, congress passed a temporary •act to increase the strength of the cutters “and, cause said revenue- cutters to be employed to defend the sea-coast and repel any hos tility to their vessels and commerce within their jurisdiction, having due regard to the duties of said cutters in the production of the revenue.” In 1798, during the “unde- islared” naval war with France, the President, “with a-view of producing a concert of action of the naval forces of the United States,” placed the revenue ves sels at the disposition of the secretary of the navy. In the next year, congress passed an act providing that the cutters were to co-operate with the navy whenever the President should so direct—a precedent since fol lowed in every war. The cutter Taney went through Pearl Harbor unscathed and the next day left the stricken Pacific base on antisubmarine patrol.. Th( 165-foot Icarus received credit sinking the first German submarine in United States waters when she blasted a U-boat and took 33 pris oners off the Carolina cqast. (A coastguardmanned destroyer escort, with several navy ships, was in at the kill on the last U-boat sunk in the Atlantic by American forces.) Many Ships Lost. A tragic “first” of the coast guard was the loss of the cutter Hamil ton, torpedoed off Iceland in Janu ary, 1942, the first American rhe for I lost to ; start of the war• submarine after 1 and, unfortunately, line of coastguard- A seaman is ill, requiring immediate niedical attention. Coast guard bp I t r a n c f o r c rin n tn r nn a T tnatcw a in’c .pfiaii- in ihn -Bfiin. isel transfers doctor on a boatswain’s chair to the merchant ship, example of the work done by the coast guard in their 155 years of service. manned ships lost as the war pro gressed—the Acaccia, the Muske- get, the Natsek, the Escanaba, the Leopold, and the Serpens. - To many, in peacetime, x o m Aliy I in pcA v c iim C | coast guard was known as “Mercy Fleet,” and there is longlong traditionradition behindehind itsts repveput tion for the saving nflife life and Back in t b i r ............................................ 1833, the cutters were as signed to aid distressed vessels and save lives; a duty they had property at sea^ I some of the cuiti Adra. Russell R. Waesche, com mandant of the U. S. coast guard. If-inch stripe, whici with his third half-inch s designates him as a full admiral. erformed incidentally from to time. Congress made this a regular duty by enact- perfc his a regnlai nent in 1837. The combination strengthened the service’s devotion to the saving of life and property—a devotion arnplj demonstrated during this war. ; In the Normandy invasion, a fleet of 83-foot coast guard vessels (con sidered small craft now, but more than twice the length suggestea. by Hamilton in his recommendation for the first cutters!) which had beeii on antisubmarine duty in the A.tlaritic was designated as Rescue Flotijla 1 and, in the first days of the invasion, pulled more than 4,000 men to safety Coastguardmanned LSTS are among the first to drop their ramm at Manila after American forces had driven the Japs from the Philippine capital. from channel waters. The coast guardmanned assault transport Bay- field, flagship, for “Utah” beach, x iciu, xux u ictu ca^ed for more than'600 casualties id. Also Serve in Air. during the three weeks chored off the beachhead Outstanding also has been the coast guard's initiative in the experi mentslents withith airplane,irplane, parachuteichute annd ' 5.. Adm.dm. Ru!us w a pai helicopter rescue \ll R.. Wa«aesche, a le groups A R se R W first full admiral to head the coast guard, also sits with the Joint Air-Sea Rescue commit tee set up by all of the armed serv- -iees—to-inveatigata and- experim ent with rescue techniques. From the life saving stations, the coast guard acquired person nel well versed in the knack of handling small boats, in battling surf, windl and tide. The nation leavily on these men tee inn everyvery invasion nd to train others in to participat i e of the war and to train amphibious landings. Many surfmen were among the personnel of the boat pool set up imder Coast Guard Comdr. Dwight H. Dexter at Guadalcanal and Tul- agi in August, 1942, the Allies’ first successful amphibious operation. Aboard the coastguardmanned assault transport Samuel Chase, formerly the passenger ship African Mieteor, the technique of loading small landing barges at the rail was first used in the invasion of Sicily on July 10, 1943. The technique was decided upon after the vessel’s earlier experience in the African inva sion in November, 1942, and speeded up such operations by many precious minutes. The coast guard also has been called “A-sea-going handyman” and in war or peace the service has her used to having new duties and ions added to its work. After the Titanic disaster, nations of the world formed the International Ice Patrol and the duty of patrolling was delegated to the coast guard.. come u functioi Glass ‘Ornaments’ Save Lives in War If you talk about prisms, Grand- lig lt .......... ■e ' ornaments decorating her delier. But her grandson, if he’s a vjxctai ma migh think you mean th gla: decorating h< G.I. Joe; is aware of the fact that solid glass prisms have been the means of saving many lives during the war. It was early in the War that the army wanted a tank periscope supe rior to the old-style,type made of mirrors and flat glass windows. As a result, glass technicians here de veloped a new plate glass prism that supplied about- a 50 per- cent in crease in visibility. And equally, if not more iniportant, this superiority was achieved in a unit that could be jduced to take care of the mass-proc the optical industr: When the firstt^'U.^s’ i tanks went into In those first tanks, cc to stand in the hatch, loped. lommanders had posed to combat, however, a great need for prismatic viewing blocks develope iniper fire if they wanted a full view of their surroundings. An alarming number were killed. The answer was a new type of bullet- tesisting viewing panel developed by Libbey-Owens-Ford <51ass company. 1945 RESTAURANT ; INTERLUDE ^ Three B-29 superfortresses are seen in flight over Fujiyama, Japan, during recent strike against the enemy. The famous Fujiyama volcano forms a colorful backdrop for the big bombers. Some “authorities” claim that the entire island can be the mouth of Fujiyama e wrecked by unloading tons of bombs into id other Japanese active volcanos. , Fishes in His Private Pool pool. This resres too fishish inn thehe family It is not every boy that has his own private fishing pool. ^oung farm boy baits hook hopefully and prepa t f i t 1 pond. Private waters like these can he used the year around, and hun dreds of inland farm kids who never had a chance to fish are grow ing up into a larger generation of sportsmen. The government has encouraged building of private ponds. Some states, such as Missouri, offer special inducements for farm pools, not only stocking with fish but supply ing at cost shade trees and water plants for the pools. Even in postwar, the addition of fish to the farm diet will be welcomed. Bringing Them Back Home Again With thousands of U. S. troops scheduled to fly home from Europe each month, the most effective air-sea rescue system ever devised V ttu a fUUUiUi in safeguarding the men has been put into effei ’ ” the Axores to the U. S. many well protected, while from guard. ive air-sea rescue system ever ( been put into effect. (1) The wat( ................ ..... ships Waiter (lazi ily) - Yesterday’s, to-' Recruiting of 65,000 additional workers for railroads, needed ur gently to • carry out the army’s re deployment program, gets tinder with Cpl. Edward ice command M.F., out as Santa Claus in this Christmas in July crisis. ' Man of War One of the busiest men in the ad ministration, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, relaxes, whenever he^ can get away from Washington, by running his farm at Cold Spring, N, Y. Postman and His Pal 1 “Butch,” who belongs to Joe Ham mer, 13, a patient in Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, has not missed a day in meeting his postman pal, Arthur Pritchard. He makes the daily rounds with the mailman, grabbing his trouser leg to urge more speed. day’s, or tomorrow’s? Customer—Today’s, I think. Waiter—^Yesterday’s will be just; as useful. And tomorrow’s will da- you as much good. Customer—I still think I’ll take* my chances on today’s. Waiter—Oh, be a sport and take yesterday’s. Customer — 'What makes ordering from yesterday’s menu more sport ing than from today’s? Waiter—You go back further for what you can’t get. . Customer — Gimme today’s 1 And. I want one with the scratches! (The waiter hands him a menu,^ through which pencil has been heav ily drawn.) Customer (reading the scratches!; -^Hamburger . . . lamb chop . . .<1 diicken with noodles . . . broiled mackerel . . . ham and eggs ..... corned beef and cabbage . . . frank furters and beans! Hmmm! Well,: I’ll try some'hash. Waiter—That’s not ruiming todaj^ cithGi** 1 Customer—It’s 'still listed. ' Waiter—Yeah. That’s a ppst-time scratch. Customer (after further study) How is the liver? Waiter (surprised) — Is that on there? The chef told me we didn’t have it. I Customer—Why wasn’t it markedf out? ; Waiter-rit was coupled with thej ham and eggs and 1 guess the boss! thought that when you scratched one; ypu scratched the other. | . Customer — Iffi try the codfish^; -cakesi apd b e a n s . - - — - Waiter (returning, after 10 min-K' uteis)—^No codfish and beans. J Customer—Well, just bring me the-’ codfish and forget the beans. Waiter—It’s the codfish we ain’t; got; the beans are stiH an outside^ possibility. r Customer—How’s the chicken sal ad? ' Waiter-T^-It’s 0;K, if you like cel-, ery aiid lettuce leaves. Maybe you w.ould like griddle cakes and sau sage, if we have any sausage. Customer — Personally I prefer, sausage in cases where you haven't* any griddle cakes. • Waiter impatiently) — How about honeycomb tripe? ' Customer—Can I get that today?,| , Waiter—I can put you on our wait ing list. CHANGE IN LINE-UP (“The famous Nuremberg stadi um, where Adolf Hitler used to make Kis most boastful speeches be fore tens of thousands of goose-step ping Nazis, is how being used as ft baseball field by CJ.I. Joes.”—Newst What, oh, what is that cry rising ^ Where the Nazis used to strut . . * “Germany gives solemn warning,**^ “I wiU Uck the world!” ? Tut! Tutt From the Nuremberg inclosure Comes no Fuehrer’s frenzied call; Just a roar from grinning doughboyat And the stirring yell, “Play ball!” Once “Der Fatherland is marchings To new glories” filled the air, With “1. promise greater triumphs’* And “With me the world you’ll share! . . . Now a corporal from Bronxville Sits where Adolf loved to ^ s e And yells “Pickle one for popper! Sock that next one on the nose!” Gone are all the smart goose-step- And where once the “Master Race” Stood to hear their leader praise ’enx ISiere's “a close one at third base” ; And if Adolf’s dead he’s writhing In his' grave as echoes come Of a cry to him quite painful^ “He struck out, the great big bum!” Summer Scene A meadow in majestic green Spreads out before my gaze; Delightful rolling hills recede Into the distant haze. ^°\brook tree-lined, winding Some horses run and caper While cows and sheep graze happily . . . What beautiful wall-paper!
