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Show BEAR RIVER Page Two VALLEY LEADER at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of t Each Week for Friday Distribution s Phone 23 First Wast Street PubCished Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Class Matter October 15, 1925 A. N. RYTTING, SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR - $2.50 Editor-Publish- er home. Miss Florence Getz to Study Music in Europe LOOKING BACK BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER -- arrived Miss Florence Getz Tuesday from Chicago to make a short visit with her parents. Miss Getz will leave in SeptemOpen Air Dam Floor ber for Europe, and spend the Now on Fair Grounds next year at the important musicenter. cal CounElder August 24, the Bor Augnst 24, the Box Elder Fair Fair grounds was adorned Coriiuie Community September 6th e with one of the finest open air dance floors in the The 2nd Annual Community state. The floor was erected Fair promised to be even better who secured than that of last year. by T. D. Harris, a lease from the fair officials for Considerable interest was the grounds upon which it is shown throughout the community built. and neighboring towns gave' their The approximate cost is $2100 support, which was appreciated. The Bear River City Military Band was engaged to play Trucks Crash Head-O- n the day. during T. E. Sandal Injuring; The sport program included Thomas E. sand-il- l received a novelty races, a greased pig race. broken arm and numerous cuts and a calf riding contest for the about the head and body when his boys. a The attendance during the day gasoline truck collided with truck load of wheat about 4 J mile3 was expected to reach eight or north of the Blue Creek store. nine hundred. Small daughters, Dell and Mau- rine, were with him but did not receive any injuries. Esteemed Lady of Elwood Dies Annie A. Hansen, 72, widow of the late Peter M. Hansen of the COLUMN Bear River Stake, died Monday THROUGH THE LEADER FILES OF FIFTEEN YEARS AGO out-sid- RATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES - $1.75 FOR HEALTH'S SAKE The recent inspection by Sanitary engineers from the State department of health, resulted in a rather severe criticism of sanitary conditions in several places of business which are not being maintained, according to standards approved by the board of health and in violation to city ordinances. In company with members of the city health and safety committee, the engineers visited places serving food and drinks to the public, as well hotels, tourist cabins and motels. The chief complaint was "Careless housekeeping methIn fairness to all, it must be observed that certain establishments were regarded quite satisfactory, while others were of such a nature as to put the average of the city on little better than a fifty per cent rating, which is a lamentable reputation for our city to have. ods and lack of ordinary cleaning." x ASSURANCE-NO- W! Americans are asking that they be given the assurance of postwar jobs. They want jobs that are worthwhile that contribute to a total prosperity and security greater than we have known before. Such jobs can be provided onl.v through private employment, on the farm, in the factory and in all other fields of endeavor. Elaine and Mrs. J. O. Hacifield and Sunday. Blaine returned to hi! daughter Doiis went to Ogden on post at Kingman, Arizona and Ra Nee remained to visit for Monday. a week with relatives. The family of William J. atwere home to visit and Mrs. Melva King and baDV tend the rodeo. Their daughter, daughter came home from Lorella Sanford and family went Valley hospital and are at the back to Nevada on F"ricLay. home of Mr. and Mrs Jesse DaMrs. Karl Welling; axul daugh- vis, parents of Mrs. King. Mr. Bow-cu- tt Willi Ernie Pyle at the front Bombers March Across Sky, CrackTro ops'Brealuhrough' Ernie Joins Infantry and Finds Tops and General Real Leader By Ernie Men Pyle The great attack, when we broke out IN NORMANDY. Normandy beachhead, began in the bright light of midday, not at the zero hour of a bleak and mysterious dawn as attacks are supposed to start in books. PUBLIC HEALTH The attack had been delayed from day to day because of poor flying weather, and on the final day we hadn't known for sure till after breakfast whether it was on or off again. morning of general debility after When the word came that it was an illness of several days. They were to bomb only on the on, the various battalion staffs of For the week ending August side of that road. far Their home and surroundings our regiment were called in from Our kickoff infantry had been will ever stand as a monument to 18, local health officers reported their command posts for a final re the integrity of her and her good a total of 187 cases of communipulled back a few hundred husband who of life. Proper sterilization of eating and drinking utensils was strongly urged to prevent spread of contagious diseases. The inspectors stated that shortage of labor would not be accepted as an excuse for these unsanitary conditions. Full cooperation between the proprietors and city and state health organizations should be had, so that this condition can be remedied, immediately. Continued violation of the sanitary laws will result in revoking a license to operate, members of the city council stated. Mrs. Nielson and are sisters. Thursday, August 24, 1944 ter Ra Nee, and Mr. and Mrs Blaine Welling went to Salt Lak of whom, 22 has lived a fullness cable diseases were listed as nonresidents. This is an increase of H cases over those reported for the previous fa LOOMS tt$ideMt-JartiH- g College iearcjr. tmnsat I. reported as compared with Vanishing Jobs One day in the outskirts of Chicago I witnessed a traffic accident. A grocer'i delivery car struck one of several children playingin the street and injured him painfully. Play- mates scattered in excited disorder seeking the boy's parents, a doctor, a policeman. Each child tried to do what he thought needed most to be done. The father, a hairy specimen, was the first "help" to arrive. No sooner had his dark eyes taken in the situation than he began to scold the injured boy. He week. Utah and Weber counties each reported one case of poliomyelitis. According to the attending physicians, one of the patients is an infant and the other a young man, 17 years of age. Since January 1, of this year, only 11 cases of this disease have been didn't 51 cases for the corresponding period in 1943. According to a re cent report released by the United States Public Health Service, poliomyelitis continues to spread in epidemic proportions throughout some of the eastern and southern states. For the country as a whole, 3,992 cases were reported during the first 31 weeks of 1944 as compared with 2,766 cases for the corresponding period in 1943. a case or tularemia was re ported from Duchesne county and Cache county reported a case of undulant fever. Of special interest in this week's bulletin is the report of a case of malaria fever from Utah coun ty,; According to the attending physician, the infection was con tracted within the State. This case emphasizes the importance of mosquito abatement measures Previous surveys have shown the presence of the Anapheles mos; quuo tnrougnout the central portion of the State. With hundreds of our boys returning from the armed service infected with ma laria it will be possible for us to have a great many cases among of the of Each view the battle yards this side of the road. Evin the area had been eryone one was the strictest orders to be given given a mimeoof in foxholes, for high-levbomgraphed sketch bers can, and do quite excusably, the frontline area, make mistakes. showing exactly We were still in country so level where and when and with hedgerows so tall there bomb each type was no high spot either hill simply s''' I er was to ham' or building from where you could I German mer the f t ahead of get a grandstand view of the bomblines ing as we used to in Sicily and them. Another Italy. Ernie Pyle So one was as good as mimeographed another unless place went you right up and page was filled with specific orders sat on the bomb line. for the grand attack to follow. Having been caught too close to Officers stood or squatted in a these things before, I compromised circle in a little be orchard 1 plan. el apple a ramshackle stone farmhouse poor French family who had left before us. The stonewall in the front yard had been knocked down by shelling, and through the or chards there were shell craters and hind of a tree limbs knocked off and trunks sliced by bullets. Some enlisted men sleeping the night before in the attic of the house got the shock of their lives when the thin floor collapsed and they fell down into the cowshed below. Chickens and tame rabbits still and picked a farmyard yards back of the kickoff about 800 line. And before the next two hours had passed I would have given every penny, every desire, every hope I've ever had to have been just another 800 yards further back. Our frontlines were marked by long strips of colored cloth laid on the ground, and with colored smoke to guide our airmen during the mass bombing that preceded our break- actually cuff his son but he said Dut to have jobs, there must be employers To have some really harsh things for any paout from the German ring that held to bear along with an injury. employers there must be investment. To have investment, tient around the farmyard. us to the Normandy beachhead. (It turned out to be a broken arm.) scampered thre must be incentive to invest the possibility of fair The unhappy deliveryman took some Dive bombers hit it just right Dead cows lay all around in the We stood in the barnyard of a fields. abuse oral loss. to also. conThe offset the of father possibility profit French farm and watched them bartributed nothing else. He vented his rel nearly straight down out of the Foundation stones for this house of jobs must be sought anger freely with profanity in thick The regimental colonel stood in They were bombing about half the center of the officers and went sky. in certain stimulants which the government can give now. dialect. a mile ahead of where we stood. Doesn't Make Sense over the orders in detail. Battalion They came in groups, diving from Maybe some learned expert on huProvision now, for example, that when hostilities cease, man commanders took down notes in behavior could have explained direction, perfectly timed, one every little books. government-owne- d materials will be promptly removed that father's actions. A suffering after another. Everywhere you right The colonel said, "Ernie Pyle is looked separate groups of planes from private plants, and contractors paid. Assurance now child wept; unknown injuries waited with the regiment for this attack on treatment while duly constituted auand will be with one of the ba- were back the way down, or on the that government-owne- d equipment and supplies will not be thority did a loud job of attaching way up, or slanting over for a ttalions, so you'll be seeing him. or circling, circling, circling the government blame without investigation. Underdive, dumped on the market. Assurance now The officers looked me and over our heads, waiting for their will not operate plants in competition with private industry. standing this might help explain why smiled I and felt embarrassed. turn. t J I t people, openly committed to the in- the civilians unless active measi Then Maj. Gen. Raymond 0. assurance now mat wartime controls win ue eliminated as terests of labor, work so effectively ures are taken to get rid of the The air was full of sharp and dis Barton, Fourth division com-- tinct sounds of cracking bombs and mosquitoes and their broodin economy in the federal government. Reduction of the tax making jobs scarce. mander, arrived. The colonel the heavy rips of the planes' majobs does not help la- places. rapidly as consistent with military needs. Insistence cn bor.Destroying called, "Attention!" and echine guns and the splitting screams Workers are never so well off Sanpete county and Ogden city burden. And establishment of a national labor relations as when there are plenty of jobs. An each reported one case of typhoid verybody stood rigid until the of diving wings. It was all fast and General gave them, Carry on." furious, but yet distinct, as in a during 1944, onlv policy that will fairly recognize the mutual interests of employee's right to quit his job and fever. To-dat-e, An enlisted man to the take a better one makes pay good, 3 cases of this disease have been musical show in which you could mess truck and got a folding employers and employees. also working conditions. Employ- reported in the State. One of the distinguish throaty tunes and words. canvas stool for the General to x ers who are liberal and considerate patients was a nonresident and sit on. He sat listening intently of their employees get the best men died from the disease. And then a new sound gradually while the colonel wound up his and head the best organizations. droned into our ears, a sound deep One case of lethargic encepha instructions. This is as much a part of America's litis was reported from and all encompassing with no notes Drager- men the General stepped into in it just a gigantic faraway surge Free Enterprise system as owning ton, carbon county. property. The totals for the week were the center of the circle. He stood of doom-lik- e sound. It was the Perhaps the most ambitious extra-militar- y program Where the Jobs Are as follows: chickenpox, 28; polio- at a slouch on one foot with the heavies. They came from directly ever undertaken by any Army is the work of rehabilitation other leg far out like a brace. He behind us. At first they were the Not many years ago competent myelitis, 2; measles, 24. Germs-workmen often merest dots in the sky. You could their he talked jobs with measles, 3; mumps, 19; pneumonia looked all around him quit among soldiers maimed or disabled in battle, which is now He didn't talk long. He said some clots of them against the far in business 3; scarlet see to big go corporations 11; fever, tuberculosis, being canned out by the War department. The success with for themselves. They did it, not be- 1; heavens, too tiny to count indi1; typhoid fever, 2; thing like this tularemia, which this vast undertaking is already meeting deserves cause they were sure to earn more. undulant fever, 1; whooping ihis is one of the finest reel vidually. They came on with a tercough In fact they knew they might earn 20; m me nmencan armv. It was rible slowness. ...c.iij mention. There seems a the likelihood gonorrhea 19; the special (residents), strong that, as less. They did it for liberty to use last regiment out of France In They came in flights of 12, 10; result of this program, by far the larger part of these men their own ideas. They had self con gonorrhea, the last war. It was the first regi three flights to a group and in amoebsyphilis 9. mem into ranee in this war. It has will be capable of useful and productive lives. The pro- fidence and faith that their plans ic dysentery, groups stretched out across the 1; would prosper. The element of spearheaded every one of the divi- sky. They came in "families" of lethargic encephalitis, 1; malaria sion s since it provides for physical, psycho- chance made it fun to gram is attacks in Normandv. It will operate busiabout 70 planes each. rheumatic 1; fever, and fever, 1, logical, intellectual and technical training. nesses of their own. For manv spearnead this one. Maybe these gigantic waves chancroid. 1. years this was my regiment and I Running your own business is no were two miles apart, maybe reel very close to you. and very Physically of course, the men are provided with tho fun now; more like a headache, and they were 10 miles, I don't know. jjroua. But I do know they came in a latest in mechanical and vocational therapy, systematic this sad fact is closing the doors of e little entermany uciicrai 9 iinea lace was a constant procession and I exercise, and specially directed recreation, all of which wii prises. Seventy-fiv- thriving e study in emotion. Sincerity and dteo per cent of all thought It would never end. sentiment were in every contour and help to develop compensatory functions. While "reorient?. American workers are engaged in What the Germans must have they shone from his eyes. General thought la beyond comprehention", or readjustment back to civilian life becomes tht small business. If, in the post-wa- r Mr. Mrs. and George Bowcutt uarxon is a man of deen affertinn. small employers are hopesion. task of the psychologist. Every man is induced to take an periods, Vera The tragedy of war, both personai less; if they find no reason to stay and daughter Elaine and Their march across the sky wf to went Salt Lake Friday and Impersonal, hurts him. At the active part in news conferences and forums. All this tends in business, see no chance to excel, BuUer, and studied. I've never known slow to the funeral attend of ena no ms fun Judith voice almost broke, and I a from competltliV jobs get to help the soldier make this social adjustment gradually will storm, or a machine, or any Elaine Wagstaff, small daughter of lor one nad a be realty scarce. lump in my throat. resolve of man that had about it the under skillful supervision and direction. Mr. Donald and Mrs, He ended: Wagstaff, Thinking Time Now aura of such a ghastly relcntlesi- a granddaughter of the "That's all. God bless you and ness. Working people in this country, if ana You had the feeling that even Likewise, the final phase of technical training is as well they are wisely looking out for their George Bowcutt good luck." God had appeared beseechingly beJack L. Reveal and small son Then we broke up and I went with handled. This training prepares a soldier in some particular own Interests, have no bigger stake them in the sky with palms outfore in anything than in small enterJimmy, of Sebastopol, Calif., spent one of the battalion comrnnnderi. to trade or craft or skill, which can be reasonably expected to prises, ward persuade them back they be they farms or factories. a few days at the J. O. Hadfields Word was passed down by field not would have had within them the provide him a livelihood. The variety and choice of such What good is all the oratory about this week. phone, radio and liaison men to the to turn from their irresistible power Mrs. Tubbs schooling discharged service men to Henry returned very smallest unit of troops that the course. training is limited only by the nature of his handicap and fit them for certain Jobs if most of home from Salt Lake Friday after attack was on. most of tnese are found to I stood with a little group of men, more apparent than real. the Jobs are doomed to vanish, leav a pleasant visit with her There was still so hour before the daugh ranging from colonels to privates, While the soldier is convalescing he is also able to resume ing two men waiting for every posi- ter, Mrs. Lila Metzgar. bombers, and three hours before the back of the stone farmhouse. Slit tion that's left? Mrs. Leland Capener, Mrs. Flay infantry wera to move. There wai his education at whatever point he may have left off. Araround the were trenches There is no certainty that thera Opener and Mrs. Helen Lee, went nothing for the to do but die of the farmyardalland a dugout edge! infantry with rangements have been made with high schools and univer- will be enough Jobs a little deeper and wait. A cessa-tio- n after the war to to Salt Lake Thursday to attend wera we But roof tin a was nearby. sities so that courses may be completed and degrees in the employ service men and former war a dinner at the Hotel Utah, given of motion seemed to come over so fascinated by the spectacle overIn pursuits of peace. There by Mrs. J. A. Capener for the workers brown-claand her Its countryside arts and sciences can be conferred. d occurred to us head that Is no assurance in the words of inhabitants a sense of last that we it never an. the daughter, daughters-in-la- w foxholes. the need might minute sitting In silence before the getting tough with crippled their mothers. The first huge flight passed di Fortunately we have in Utah just such a hospital located politician holocaust. of industry laying, "Big Business must Salt Lake City Faye Hadfleld at Brigham City, that is doing outstanding work in re- put rectly over our farmyard and others them all to work or support m came up to attend the rodeo. The first planes of the mans followed. Wt spread our feet and- WPA to A large crowd of friend employ them." It and came over habilitating the maimed bodies of our soldiers. beonslaught the occa- isgigantic little far leaned back trying to look like the voice of the benighted fa. relatives from Riverside attended fore 10 a. m. They were the sion should ever arise whereby you have an until our steel hei up, to straight ther his opportunity maimed child. The the wedding reception Monday evcursing and dive fighters The bombers. fell off. mets We'd cup our fingers visit FiUshndl hospital you should do so, and then you will right steps taken will assure nlent ening In Garland for Elaine Bowmain road running crosswise in field glasf" l"r our around like of eyes Jobs. Next w week will start to cutt and Andrew have an appreciation of the work Scothern. front of ns was their bomb line. It is being done. a clearer view. ouUlne those steps. was held at the Marvin Nielson that & It 1 ill at ran VETERANS REHABILITATION as (non-resident- s) t) ve ' one-tim- RIVERSIDE ; iinittt.. le all If that a |