LETTER TO THE EDITOR Our own townspeople and the surrounding towns and country for miles around have contributed most generously of food, time and money. As treasurer, I know they would all be pleased to learn of the funds that have passed through my hands since last Christmas, the day the Canteen opened.
After seven weeks away, Rae Wilson returned as the Canteen shoestring was stretched nearly to its breaking point. Telegraph | May 4, 1942 Miss Rae Wilson, commander, returned to work at the Canteen after some weeks’ absence due to illness. She reported that the Canteen was in need of money and decks of playing cards. She also said that the Canteen had all the ingredients for popcorn balls and all they needed was some- one to make them. Telegraph | May 5, 1942 Canteen funds are again depleted, Rae Wilson, commander, stated this morning. Unless immediate contributions of cash are received, she said, the Canteen will be forced to close. At present, there is $33 in debts outstanding and no funds to meet them. Daily Bulletin | May 9, 1942 The Canteen is still seriously in need of more funds and other donations. Numerous individuals and clubs have responded since The Bulletin called attention to the almost exhausted treasury this week, but more money will be need- ed to carry on. Donations should be left at the Canteen. Japan, which had forced the surrender of Bataan in the Philippines in April, accepted Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright’s surrender of the last Philippine stronghold of Corregidor on May 6. Five days later, Philippine President Manuel Quezon, exiled from his homeland in February, ar- rived in North Platte.
Total amount received to date: $1,497.74. Total amount checked out: $1,348.46. Total amount in bank (First National), $149.28. …
Besides these supplies that have been purchased, there have been hundreds of bushels of apples, and oranges, candy, gum, pop, cookies, doughnuts and cigarettes and popcorn balls donated, and an unbelievable supply of magazines disposed of. The emergency fund has taken care of stamps, postal cards, stationery and telegrams for the men, all supplies needed, telephone, etc. Soldiers whose pay check had not reached them and who had not a dime have been given a good meal, and some on their way back to the army from furlough have been given a night’s lodging. Medicine has been bought and refugees assisted. …
Sincerely, Daisy C. Hinman Daily Bulletin | March 26, 1942
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