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Nile Kinnick correspondence, June-August 1942
1942-08-30: Page 01
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Omaha, Nebr. August 30, 1942 Dear SB. Your letter which came yesterday outlined your plans for coming home, and naturally we are rejoicing that you will have a generous leave. It will permit you to make many contacts in the home territory that will lend pleasure and comfort to all concerned. Please keep us posted on your movements an the northbound leg. In the belief that you may be cramped for time to plan a route home, I have scanned the charts and herewith offer a suggestion as to highways together with the distances between points. In making the selection of routes the primary consideration was to use the main roads and avoid change of road numbers. Driving at night and with your companion probably catching some shuteye leaves little opportunity to study the charts. Thses suggestions embrace only five different highways to Kansas City, and being all U.S. highways, should be la good condition. Taking the east coast to Jacksonville, and thence west to Lake City, puts you on U.S.#41 in 28 miles less than if you retraced your path from Pensacola, and, if you are driving it in the day tine, should prove of new interest. Perhaps you can see King and Mary J. as you pass thru W. Palm Beach. Another time you may not be stationed so close together. Note that the road north from Lake City takes you thru Adel and Perry, Neither is in Dallas County, however. You will not have much time for side excursions but you will be passing thru some historic points in Georgia and Tennessee. Salem, Ill. is on highway #50 about halfway between Vincennes and St. Louis, and a man named Lincoln once lived there. Observe that a choice of routes is offered between Nashville, Tenn. and Hepkinsville, Ky. #41W seems to look better than #41E, being a little shorter, but both lead to the same destination, Hopkinsville. I am wandering haw you manage the gas rationing while in that area where it is effective? Perhaps the Navy makes arrangements for an X card. They should, under the circumstances. Inasmuch as you will be based at Norfolk for something like four months, I should think you might find your car very useful there. That, as you suggest,can be discussed at more length when you are home. We have two or three more letters from Ben, but they will be held until you arrive. He expects to finish at St. Mary's about the 19th of September, and anticipates assignment to a west coast training base. His choice would be somewhere in the midwest, as you might guess. By the way, all reports have it that Ellie is cutting a generous swath in her job on the Trib. Most of my recent info came from her dad, who may be slightly prejudiced, but it seems reasonable to me too. On Thursday noon I embarked on the first of my territorial excursions; taking the Hiawatha to Marion, and that is a very nice train. A fieldman met me there and thenceforth I rode with him or Willy, to Vinton for our meeting and then to Newton for the night. Friday was absorbed in a sojourn in Des Moines for a little business in the association office there, and in traversing the western half of the sovereign state on our drive back to Omaha. Crops everywhere look great, and in Benton County the com is immense. I am glad that you will be seeing your homeland in its greatest glory; with evidence of fecundity and bounty on every hand. The native heath of a good and generous people, too. While in DM I went in to see a tire rationing board re some recaps for our fieldmen's cars. Being near the intersection of 8th & Walnut I mounted to the top
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Omaha, Nebr. August 30, 1942 Dear SB. Your letter which came yesterday outlined your plans for coming home, and naturally we are rejoicing that you will have a generous leave. It will permit you to make many contacts in the home territory that will lend pleasure and comfort to all concerned. Please keep us posted on your movements an the northbound leg. In the belief that you may be cramped for time to plan a route home, I have scanned the charts and herewith offer a suggestion as to highways together with the distances between points. In making the selection of routes the primary consideration was to use the main roads and avoid change of road numbers. Driving at night and with your companion probably catching some shuteye leaves little opportunity to study the charts. Thses suggestions embrace only five different highways to Kansas City, and being all U.S. highways, should be la good condition. Taking the east coast to Jacksonville, and thence west to Lake City, puts you on U.S.#41 in 28 miles less than if you retraced your path from Pensacola, and, if you are driving it in the day tine, should prove of new interest. Perhaps you can see King and Mary J. as you pass thru W. Palm Beach. Another time you may not be stationed so close together. Note that the road north from Lake City takes you thru Adel and Perry, Neither is in Dallas County, however. You will not have much time for side excursions but you will be passing thru some historic points in Georgia and Tennessee. Salem, Ill. is on highway #50 about halfway between Vincennes and St. Louis, and a man named Lincoln once lived there. Observe that a choice of routes is offered between Nashville, Tenn. and Hepkinsville, Ky. #41W seems to look better than #41E, being a little shorter, but both lead to the same destination, Hopkinsville. I am wandering haw you manage the gas rationing while in that area where it is effective? Perhaps the Navy makes arrangements for an X card. They should, under the circumstances. Inasmuch as you will be based at Norfolk for something like four months, I should think you might find your car very useful there. That, as you suggest,can be discussed at more length when you are home. We have two or three more letters from Ben, but they will be held until you arrive. He expects to finish at St. Mary's about the 19th of September, and anticipates assignment to a west coast training base. His choice would be somewhere in the midwest, as you might guess. By the way, all reports have it that Ellie is cutting a generous swath in her job on the Trib. Most of my recent info came from her dad, who may be slightly prejudiced, but it seems reasonable to me too. On Thursday noon I embarked on the first of my territorial excursions; taking the Hiawatha to Marion, and that is a very nice train. A fieldman met me there and thenceforth I rode with him or Willy, to Vinton for our meeting and then to Newton for the night. Friday was absorbed in a sojourn in Des Moines for a little business in the association office there, and in traversing the western half of the sovereign state on our drive back to Omaha. Crops everywhere look great, and in Benton County the com is immense. I am glad that you will be seeing your homeland in its greatest glory; with evidence of fecundity and bounty on every hand. The native heath of a good and generous people, too. While in DM I went in to see a tire rationing board re some recaps for our fieldmen's cars. Being near the intersection of 8th & Walnut I mounted to the top
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