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Show 12 ' .Tucsdr August 1 1949' DAILY HERALD Xcurf Salutes.. GAR National Encampment Is Last One FoivBoysIri Blue By MONTE M. KATTERJOHN 1 NEA Special 'CerrMMndent ."' . .year's national , encampment of , tM Grand Army of tne Republic . "will be the 83rd and the last. : The organization of yeterana of the Union Army of the Civil War 4 disbanding .forever. Their declining numbers is the ' reason for the decision to hold a ' final muster in Indianapolis. Of the 3,500,000 men who comprised; , . ' -the Union Army, there are be- : Ueved to be only 23 atill living. Of the 23, perhaps only five will! be able to make the final en- icampment."5'-. '-X' -"' - r'- On nt . thm f iv who -m-omises he'U be there' is the GAR's Na tional Commander, Theodore- A. Penland. A native of - Indiana, 100-year-old Penland now lives in. La Jolla, Calif. V T11 ntake it to Indianapolis, Penland says. "If only the na tional secretary and myself are present we will march in a great parade to the reunion, hall where J will declare the Grand Army of the Republic-has completed its mission." i, r. x . ' I: Penland recalls the first na- .tional encampment, A which was (held in IndUnapolis in 1866. t - "Our comrades camev by thous-. thous-. ands in long special trains," he remembers. "It was a tremendous and" tumultuous gatherihg--sort 'of like the American Legion con tentions of today." ' . ?' . The GAR's last national com ,'mander was Just under 18 when '.he left Goshen, Ind, to join the , Union Army. He was sent to the .Army, of. the Potomac a few 5'j months before the fall of Rich 'IJmond, Va. "1 did guard duty," he says. Nothina- very heroic' v Penland hopes to4 meet an old r comrade-in-arms' from Indiana at the final gathering. Michael J -Thralls. 108. who was born in St Mary-of-the-Woods, now lives in Nampa, Ida. He is going to try to attend and "smoke a few big ' black cigars with Old - comrades! t and sing the good old marching . t songs. i ' Mike. Thralla reclU his outfit, i Company C of the 57th Indiana Infantry Battalion, was "the toughest war outfit that ever shouldered muskets an cursed its food. . ' He believes veterans ' of later -wars who griped , about C-rations and the Spanish-American War's . lAtt One-'Woy: Windows Get Twisted Up SALT LAKE CITY (U.W There was some quick changing of win dows.in.the new Rose Park sub division in Salt Lake City.. The: contractor bought a. batch of "one way", glass for bathroom windows. , . Home buyers, not knowing of the. glass, were -pleased to note that light came into their bathrooms bath-rooms but they couldn't see clear ly through the panes. ' But one owner round, . to nis ife's embarrassment that, per sons outside couia see into ine houses clearly, i A The. "one way . windows had been installed the wrong. way.. om U. S. llinois PENLAND: "I will declare ? the Grand Army of the Re- , public has completed its mission." mis-sion." ' "bully beef had it soft. He still thinks that the Union Army's "sowbelly and hardtack" was much worse. . Indiana's Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins is general chairman of the . committee planning . the GAR's final muster. Last Memorial Mem-orial Day a holiday first sponsored spon-sored by the GAR the commit- ftee arranged tributes to the sur viving -Doys in Diue mrougnoui the; nation. The encampment itself will, - if Penland has his way, inolude a last parade. During the pa"st few annual gatherings, the parades have dwindled as the number of able-bodied marchers declined. Most rode in cars, or' were pushed in wheelchairs. ',. The Union Army's faded battle streamers of states and regiments will be. on hand, with the few remaining men who carried them. Banners that survived the Bloody Angle at Gettysburg and were carried in determined char ges at Chickamauga will be unfurled un-furled for the last time hef ore the eyes of the men who held them up, ' The decision to disband this OldLoa Worrying SPRINGFIELD, Ilk (U.O The state of Illinois is afraid, that some day the federal government will demand .payment on its loan of $477,919 made back in; 1837. The loan was made when w U. S. Treasury, finding its coff well filled, lent needy states some of its surplus. Illinois drew $477,- 919 in three installments. A panic the next year made the government halt the loans. Con gress told the states to hang on to the money they had borrowed until it decided . what to do about the matter. Then the senators and represen tatives, along with the Treasury, apparently forgot all about this outstanding money, State Treasurer Ora Smith has just discovered the old debt. . He said the state wouldn't mind paying off the principal so much but the four per cent interest worried him. If the governmend demanded full payment, it. would collect $2,-141,077 $2,-141,077 in interest alone. year ..was reached at the 82nd en campment, held last year in Grand Rapids, Mich. Six veterans of the 52 then , alive, voted that their ranks were becoming too thin for more than one more solemn - reunion. Four of those six were in wheelchairs. . All were attended by physicians and nurses. The combined age of the six was 611 years. Although Penland, Thralls and the others will miss the spirit of theencampments in the . years they haVe remaining, they are certain that the GAR's traditions are in good hands. Their last salute sa-lute will- be a thankful one. "New heroes will carry oh, guarding our nationhood." says Penland. , ress Remains Secluded In Italy ; Awaiting Divorce' ROME. Aug. 16 (U. Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie director and reputed husband-to-be of ac tress Ingrid Bergman, said today that Miss Bergman would remain in virtual seclusion in Italy until her divorce from Dr. Peter Lind- srom is t inaL .. - In an interview with the United Press, Rossellini described the Swedish actress as. a "shy, timid spirit" hurt by terrible publicity on heri divorce, and her reported romance with him. Asked about his own . marital status, Rossellini said: "I am a free man." i But he refused to confirm or deny the reports of hi$ close friends that he would manpr Miss Bergman. . Shorter Hours For Egg -Layers Urged Arthur Hanna, secretary of the United States poultry breeders federations believes pedigreed chickens are working too long for the number of eggs they produce. He-urges that growers of pedigreed pedi-greed flocks amend thelrrecord of performance" rule bookto set higher production standards and ta snorter worxing year for blue-blood blue-blood poultry breeds. v . 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