THE LOBO TANK BUSTERS
By: Stan Jordan
On today’s mission, we went north up to southern Belgium. This is fall now and most of the leaves are gone from the trees and the Germans are fighting hard against Patton’s troops as they are nearing some German soil.
The German border in this area is close to Belgium. The first German city is named Aachen. Hitler has told his troops to hold this town till the death, don’t let the allies get a foothold on German soil.
The fighting for this town has been going on for many weeks: the buildings are down to just rubble and there is a Kraut behind every pile of rubble.
The fighting is room to room and both sides have lost a lot of boys. The Germans are sworn to keep the village and the allies are determined to take it. We have been told to destroy everything we see that the Germans can use.
The railroad yards in town have already been blown to bits, so we followed the rails here to the German home land and up to the Rhine River.
We caught a freight train going east with a lot of flat cars loaded with all sorts of vehicles. The first thing we got was the engine, and the train stopped and became like a sitting duck. The rail cars were loaded with old tanks and some big guns and trucks.
We used our machine guns on the trucks and smaller stuff. The tracer started most of them to burning. We had dropped our extra fuel tanks when we got here and were running low on ammo and fuel and we met up around 500 feet and started back to our Anthony air base. We got home without any trouble and the crew here loaded up our P51’s for our morning patrol.
Down at the mess hall, they had army stew. That is one of my favorites and I had my share. We didn’t play cards tonight, we talked about today’s mission and tomorrow’s mission will just be another seek and destroy.
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SOME NOTES ABOUT THE LOCAL ELECTION
By: Stan Jordan
(6) There will be an issue for Carryall Twp. for the renewal of a levy of .6 of a mill. for the operation of the cemeteries. This is a renewal, not a new tax.
issue (7) In Carryall Twp. they will vote on 7. This is a new levy of 1 mill. for a number of expenses for operations operating appliances, building for fire fighters and a lot of expenses incurred in a township. This will be for 5 yrs.
(8) An income tax renewal of .75 of a mill. for the operation of the Antwerp Local School District. This a renewal, not a new tax.
(10) A renewal for a levy of .7 mill for the continued operation for the Vantage Career Center Joint Vocational School. This is not a new tax.
(11) A replacement tax levy of .05 mill for the operation of Paulding County Senior Center. This is like a renewal, maybe a small increase on tax, but not much.
(12) An additional tax of .25 mill for the operation of Paulding County OSU extension.
There are other things to vote on, but these are ones that might raise your taxes.
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OUR NEWEST EMPLOYEE @ THE WEST BEND NEWS
Crystal Rider
By: Stan Jordan
Crystal Rider is the new girl at the front desk.
She was born in Defiance, Ohio in 1970. Her parents are John and Rose Willitzer. There was 6 in the family. She attended school in Defiance and graduated in 1989.
She has worked at Beckman Chevrolet and Service Master. She married Jeff Rider in 2014 and they live in Paulding. There is a total of 5 in the family and she will be a grandmother in February.
Her hobbies are baking, sewing, walking and she even likes to fish a little.
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SOME MORE ON MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL USE
By: Stan Jordan
A few weeks ago I took a negative stand on the legalization of marijuana in the State of Ohio. I have never been told of anyone who had been helped by using marijuana for medicine.
My co-worker Sarah Klingler brought me a few pages of a story off the CNN News by Sandra Young about a baby girl being helped by a type of marijuana for her severe seizures. This was dated August 7, 2013.
The little girl was three weeks old and started to have an unknown type of seizure affliction. They would not stop and no one knew what her trouble was. She made many trips to the hospital and was near death a number of times.
Her name is Charlotte and they call her Charlie. Her parents have left no stone unturned to find some relief for her and them. She is a twin and her twin is fine with no problems.
After five years of terrible seizures without any help, they figured she has a rare form of seizure called Dravet Syndrome. She had been in and out of hospitals for two and a half years. She had been close to death a number of times and she was slipping away again.
When she was 2 ½ years old her parents took her to a children’s hospital in Colorado. They told her she didn’t have a SCNI gene mutation that is common in Dravet Syndrome cases. Then they took her to Chicago to see a Dravet specialist. He put her on a special diet and this helped her a little bit but the side effects were very bad.
In November of 2000, the State of Colorado voted in an amendment to which required the state to set up a medical marijuana program. There are eight medical conditions that allow doctors to use cannabis strain of marijuana but the average of these users are 42 years old.
Her father heard of a boy who had been taking cannabis that was low on THC, a compound in marijuana that is psycho active.
She had lost the ability to walk, talk and eat. Her parents were about at the end of their string again.
They had heard of a place in Colorado where some people with seizures have been helped, but none of her doctors would sign off and let Charlie be treated with marijuana because no one knew what the side effects would be.
They met with a Dr. Margaret Good and she said Charolette had been so close to death so many times, she has much brain damage by other medicine that it was easy to recommend the use of cannabis. The mother, Paige, soon heard of the Stanley brothers, one of the states largest growers and distributors of marijuana. They breed all types of and know and understand its use better than anybody else.
To make a long story short, they are very pleased to help the girl if they can.
There will be more on this next week.
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