Iowa News Briefs

(By INS) Waukon—As more than half the population of Waukon turned out to honor Cpl. Dale Reeder as he returned home from a Communist, prison camp in Korea.

Frank Baxter received word that his son, Cpl. Donald Baxter, had died, in a Korean POW camp. A freed prisoner, Paul C. Smithy of Mertens, Tex., wrote that he had been, with Cpl. Baxter when he died and that the Waukon soldier had asked him to send his wallet to his father. Smithy said Baxter died in 1951. He was captured Dec. 1, 1950.

Mount Pleasant News September 1, 1953