
James Thompson, Rock Port, recently brought this photo to the Atchison County Mail. An article was published in the Tarkio Avalanche on March 20, 1942. “Shown here are the thirty-three men who left Rock Port Saturday morning for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where they were inducted into the army. From left to right they are: front row – Gene Wesley Turner (Rock Port), Leonard Hicks (Tarkio), James Franklin Hodge (Tarkio), Averalle James Taylor (Rock Port), Conley Mark Bennington (Rock Port), Robert Herman Resler (Tarkio), Harlan Hedrick Noffsinger (Skidmore), Dovel Richard Addington (Watson), and Ralph Merle Risdon (Hamburg); middle row – James Edward Craven (Tarkio), Ezra Clinton Adams (Tarkio), Joseph Frank Ottmann (Rock Port), James Carroll Noe (Fairfax), Henry C. Krome (Westboro), Emil Anthony Lange (Fairfax), Jasper William Stanford (Rock Port), Donald W. Baker (Westboro), Ross Herbert Million (Watson), John Henry Fahseler (Rock Port), Delbert LaVern Simpson (Elmo), and Hugh LaVerne Scrimsher (Hamburg); and back row – Christopher Columbus Dunfee (Fairfax), Orville Monroe Osborne (Tarkio), Jesse Burrel Hicks (Tarkio), John Paul Haun (Fairfax), James Harold Trayer (Tarkio), Merle Eugene Walter (Rock Port), Alvin Keith Waggoner (Hamburg), Harry Marshall Johnson (Westboro), Alva Clifton Barnett (Tarkio), Fred Earl Guenther (Tarkio), John Merritt Hartman (Watson), and Max Claude Moulder (Rock Port).”












