Chester County PA Archives News.....With Our Men in Armed Forces of United States July 30, 1942
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Daily Local News July 30, 1942
Private Norman C. MCCARDELL, of West Chester, son of Mr. and Mrs. William 
Granville McCardell, of Downingtown, arrived home last Friday to spend a 
fifteen-day furlough from Camp Livingston, La., where he is stationed in the 
Medical Detachment.  Upon his return to camp, he will enter an Officers’ 
Training Camp in the South.  Private McCardell has two brothers, Granville C., 
of the Message Center at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, and Robert L., who is doing 
police patrol work in the Hawaiian Islands, also serving in our armed forces.  
A dinner was given on Sunday by his parents in his honor and he will be 
entertained this Saturday at the Mansion House by his sister and her husband, 
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel SELDOMRIDGE, of West Market street.
Technical Sergeant Harold PENNINGTON, former secretary to the Judges of Chester 
County, now in the field in the Carolina maneuver area, writes the following 
reminder to the folks at home:  “The morale and the spirit of the soldier in 
the field cannot be better maintained than by his receiving letters from home 
and friends.  Overseas or on maneuvers, a soldier’s only contact with home and 
loved ones is by mail.  When a fellow’s ‘down-in-the-dumps,’ there’s one sure 
cure – and that’s a real newsy letter from home.  So, come on, homefolks, help 
chase his blue with the hometown news!”  Sgt. Pennington’s address is:  104th 
Q.M.B.N., A.P.O. 29, Dilworth, North Carolina.
Private Barclay RUBICAM, son of Jacob Rubicam, West Chester, R.D. 6, and local 
artist of note, has turned his talents from the palette to the gun, according 
to recent reports from Camp Wheeler, Ga., where he is stationed.  He won the 
army’s sharpshooter medal for outstanding rifle marksmanship by scoring 171 out 
of a possible 200 points.
First Class Private C. Earle JOHNSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Johnson, 2 
East Mercer avenue, Llanerch, is home on a ten-day furlough.  He is stationed 
at Fort McClellan, Ala., in the 37th Evacuation Hospital Corps.
Ensign Samuel S. HOLLINGSWORTH, son of Dr. and Mrs. I. P. P. Hollingsworth, 411 
North Walnut street, left last night on an assignment, after spending a short 
furlough with his parents.
Sergeant Michael J. DOYLE, of West Grove, is now enrolled in the air forces 
officer candidate school at Miami Beach, Florida.  After a twelve weeks’ course 
of instruction in administrative, personnel and supply duties, he will be 
commissioned a second lieutenant.
Private Norman E. KENT, whose wife, Margaret, makes her home at 8 Prospect 
avenue, West Grove, won the army’s sharpshooter medal for outstanding rifle 
marksmanship at Camp Wheeler, Ga.  He scored 168 points out of a possible 200.  
He is now serving with Company D, 11th Training Battalion.Word has been 
received from Private Horace E. BROWN, 315 West Miner street, that he is 
located at Camp Forrest, Tenn.  His work will be in connection with the 
Quartermaster Corps.  His address is Hq. and Hq. Co., 405th Q.M. Bn., Camp 
Forrest, Tenn., A.P.O. 80.
Private Alfred C. HAYDEN, son of Mrs. Anna B. Hayden, who is stationed at Camp 
Wheeler, Macon, Ga., expects to be transferred sometime in August.
Harold G. HUNSBERGER, of Boyertown, formerly of West Chester, and Clarence 
Harrison RENOLL, of Pottstown, a Chester County school teacher, were among a 
group of eight volunteers who left Pottstown this morning for Fort Meade, Md., 
for assignment to basic Army training centers.  The eight men, sent by the 
Pottstown draft board, will seek commissions as Second Lieutenants upon 
completion of their basic training and courses in officers’ schools.  Mr. 
Hunsberger is a graduate of West Chester State Teachers College, Class of 1931, 
and until recently was employed as a bookkeeper in the college business 
office.  Mr. Renoll was principal of the West Whiteland Consolidated School, 
near Exton, last year.
Sergeant William J. PETERSON, of Pine Camp, N.Y., spent the weekend with his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Peterson, of Valley road, Malvern.
Private John A. MORRISON, son of Mrs. Bertha A. Morrison BITLER, 600 West 
Nields street, has recently been transferred from Camp Berry, Nashville, Tenn., 
to Crookston, Minn., where he is a student at the University of Minnesota.  His 
new address is Army Air Forces Training Detachment. L. Millar-Wittig Glider 
School, Crookston, Minn.

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