Senior high school quartet, accompanied by Helen Robinson. Announcers for the broadcast are Dave Button and Jack Wells, regular KODY staff members. The program will be closed with the singing of the North Platte high school fight song “Onward North Platte” by the high school quartet. The Sunday night broadcast of “Let’s Go To Town” is for the home folks and will be heard over KODY. Daily Bulletin | Feb. 7, 1945 Few mercy calls carry the drama presented almost daily at the North Platte Canteen, and yesterday a Red Cross car on the rear end of train 87 brought home again the horrors and tragedy of war. On that car were 27 boys and men with ampu- tated arms and legs. The crew advised the Canteen workers the car was on the train, and women scurried out to offer the hospitality of the Canteen. It was just in the events of the day, but everyone wondered if maybe a friend would arrive here some day on such a car. The workers were moved, and rightly so, by the wounded veterans. Telegraph | Feb. 14, 1945 Valentine’s Day at Cleveland [elementary] school this year is more than an exchange of valentines among the students. The boys and girls have chosen this day to send cheer to the wounded servicemen who go through North Platte on hospital trains.
Another scene of military personnel congregating outside the Canteen.
consisting of Jack Johnson, Conan Castle, Bob Antonides and Art Hickman, singing “Stout- hearted Men.” John Alexander, manager of KODY, and Charles Craig, editor of the Daily Bulletin, will recall for the boys familiar scenes and sounds and enumerate for them the changes made around town since they left. Station KODY has transcribed the whistle of the Streamliner, the shouts of basketball fans and the hub-bub of the North Platte Canteen during a train stop for the “familiar sounds” portion of the program.
Jimmy Kirkman, sports editor of the Daily Telegraph, and Joe di Natale of station KODY will tell the servicemen of the sports in the community and inform them about the new swimming pool to be built in North Platte. KODY announcer Jack Wells will interview Mrs. A.M. [Helen] Christ, Canteen officer, to give them the highlights and the sidelights of the North Platte Canteen. Interspersing the hometown news, musical en- tertainment will be furnished by Jack Wells, sing- ing “Exactly Like You,” Mrs. F.H. [Emma] Wanek, playing “Jolly Caballero” on the accordion, and the
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