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Show "Mom" To Service Men Makes Roosevelt Visit To seventy-five American soldiers sol-diers who were stationed in Alaska Al-aska during World War II, Mrs. Art Waldron was just plain, "Mom". Every Sunday and holiday holi-day her home was thrown open j to G. I s and at the end of the war she had entertained Ameri-' Ameri-' can boys from forty six states. Last week Mrs. Waldron was a visitor in Roosevelt; she had come to pay her compliments to Miles Dillman who, during his( army service in Alaska, had spent many Sundays and holidays at the Waldron home. The wife of a prominent Anchorage Anch-orage businessman, Mrs. Waldron is the owner and manager of a ' ladies' and childrens' ready to wear store in Anchorage. It was early in the war that she decided to open her home every Sunday and holiday to servicemen. As a self-styled hostess and "Mom" to American fighting men, her rep-, utation for hospitality spread until un-til each Sunday an increasing ' number of G. I.s gathered at her home to help prepare and eat the day's meal, pop corn and enjoy all around good fellowship. Prior to receiving her guests on Sunday, Mrs. Waldron would drive forty miles to the Matanu-ska Matanu-ska valley, agricultural center of Alaska for fresh milk. One by one, as the armed forces forc-es in Alaska were demobilized servicemen who had partaken of Mrs. Waldron's hospitality urged her to visit them in the States. In January she left Anchorage to fulfill the promises that she had made. After visiting the homes of her former guests on the Pacific coast she arrived in Roosevelt on Thursday, June 6, where she was a guest of Miles Dillman at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dillman. She left Roosevelt to continue her tour last Sunday and upon completing her trip, sometime some-time in October, will have visited in forty six states. Her itinerary will also cover most of the national nation-al parks and monuments. With the Dillman's as guides she visited visit-ed the Dinosaur National Monument, Monu-ment, the Rangley oil fields, the Whiterocks Indian school, the Whiterocks fish hatchery and Uintah canyon. |