Twenty – Two Men Sent to Custer on Tuesday

Isabella County Times-News, Thursday, January 28, 1943

Nine Others Inducted Directly or Enter Service Through Other Boards

 

   Isabella County’s second 1943 contingent of Enlisted Reservists left Mt. Pleasant Tuesday, reporting for active duty at Fort Custer.  The group, headed by Ralph H. Stork, acting corporal, was composed of 22 men.

18 from Mt. Pleasant, two from Blanchard, and one each from Rosebush and Farwell.

 

   Seven other men waived furloughs and were inducted directly into the armed forces on January 19, at Fort Custer, while two other residents of the county entered the service through other boards.

 

   Seven other men waived furloughs and were inducted directly into the armed forces on January 19, at Fort Custer, while two other residents of the county entered the services through other boards.

 

   The Tuesday contingent that left Mt. pleasant, was composed mostly of young men in the 18-20 age bracket, a large number of them were volunteers.  The group consisted of:

 

   Ralph H. Stork, Vernon E. Grewe, Luther D. Hetherington, Wilbur A. Mead, Nelson X. Bernice, Walter H. Von Doloski, Clarence R. Trussell, Thomas J. Connors, Edward D. Von Doloski, Ralph C. Lueder, Harry H. Price, Francis E. Varney, Orville T. Smith, Michael O. Long, Harry C. Mitchell, Randall M. Keyser, Harold Jackson and Clifford Shawano, all of Mt. Pleasant.  Martin Tater, of Rosebush, Robert Phipps of Farwell, and Darrell Drake and Kenneth L. Conklin, both of Blanchard.  Jackson and Shawano are Indian volunteers.

 

   Those who were inducted at Fort Custer the previous week were:

 

   Milton Brown, Russell Lethorn, Paul Kennedy, Josiah Mitchell and Ivan Herring of Mt. Pleasant; Blain Whitmore and Marshall Howe of Shepherd.

 

   David Cohoon,  of Mt. Pleasant, was inducted into the service through the Stutsman County, North Dakota board, and Willard Scott, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, was inducted in Detroit.

 

   Lowell Slocum and Alburt Sebring, both of Mt. Pleasant, reported to Detroit Tuesday for induction into the

Naval forces of the United States.

 

   To date the Isabella draft board has not received its February quota for volunteers in the Navy but already many youths have signed, and it is presumed that the quota will be easily filled.

 

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