ERNIE PYLE: Eugene R. Brechtel of Johnsonburg sends along
another photo related to the great war correspondent Ernie Pyle. He
writes, “I have been reading with interest the articles about the
late war correspondent Ernie Pyle who was killed on Ie Shima. I was
in the 27th Infantry Division when we went into Japan as the Army
of occupation.”

“After the 27th division was deactivated, I ended up with the
720th MP Battalion in Tokyo in the fall of 1945. It was at this
time that I took these pictures of the theater in Toyko named after
the war correspondent Ernie Pyle!”

MARCH ’37: Our column the other day on St. Patrick’s Day
snowstorms jogged the memory of Herb Schueltz of Bradford who
remembers enough snow falling on March 17, 1937, that the roof on
the Warren airport collapsed.

SMALL WORLD: Dave Mills sends along a note and photo take in
Daytona Beach, Fla., this February during Speed Week for the
500.

“I sat down to eat and the lady came up to my table and sat down
on her jacket. She had a patch, Zippo, and I asked her where she
was from and she said Bradford. We talked about days gone by. It’s
a very small world. Here I was at Daytona, approximately 400,000
people there, and a lady from Bradford sits down. I’m from
Limestone and spent most of my time in Bradford, and a patch
bearing the name Zippo introduced us – Lois Schimp Tyler and
me.”

Our readers might remember news stories we’ve carried on Lois.
She is a “NASCAR living legend,” a participant in the Women’s
National Championship Race, 1960, at the Daytona International
Speedway. Her late husband, Carl, was a driver in the first Daytona
500 on Feb. 22, 1959.

IT’S WHAT?: Gary Bacha of Rixford dropped by to show us what
looks like an old corkscrew found in a box of items taken from a
bar he used to own. It says in the side, “Compliments of H.M.
Plague, McKean Club Rye and J.H. Cutter Whiskies, Bradford, Pa.”
Those names are new to us.