Kingston Daily Freeman
Kingston, New York
Tuesday evening, September 16, 1941
Page 3

Mayor C. J. Heiselman several weeks ago received a letter from Captain Robert O. Alquist, commanding Headquarters Battery, First Battalion, 156th Field Artillery, informing the mayor that the Kingston boys in the 156th needed a washing machine to do their weekly laundry. The captain stated that the monthly laundry bills which the men had to pay made a big dent in their monthly army pay and that they could save this monthly bill if they had a washing machine and could do their own wash.

The mayor thereupon purchased a modern washing machine, which was sent to Fort Dix and is now in use. Word has been received from Fort Dix that Headquarters Battery uses it Monday, Wednesday and Fridays, and Battery "A" uses it Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Mayor Heiselman thanks Harry Kaplan, of the Kaplan Furniture Co., for his part in providing the washing machine by selling the machine to the mayor at wholesale price.

The following local soldiers are shown grouped about the washing machine:

Left to right across the bottom row are Pvt. Arthur Bonse, Pvt. Lyle Dimier, Pvt. Peter Short, Pvt. Carl Simmons, Pvt. William Gemmell, Pvt. Richard Fairbairn, Prv. Michael Eigo, Pvt. Michael Gilyardi and St. Thomas Larkin.

Standing in the same order are Sgt. Charles Cole, Pvt. Charles Luedtke, Pvt. William Kain, Pvt. Sidney North, Pvt. Peter Kelderhouse, Pvt. Ralph Scism, Pvt. William DeWitt, Pvt. John Krakowski, Sgt. Ralph North, Sgt. Frank Fabbie, Sgt. Thomas Turck, Pvt. Raymond Morgan, Pvt. Charles Zeager, Pvt. George Barringer, Pvt. Alva Van Kleeck, Pvt. Gilbert Lockwood, Pvt. Stanley McDaniel, Cpl. Felix Buboltz and Sgt. Robert Schiavone.

Alvah Van Kleeck (1923)