THE CENTERVILLE NEWSETTE Pago Two THE CENTERVILLE NEWSETTE Issued Monthly at Centerville, Utah Editor Vestil S. Harrison Features Lois Clayton Clinton S. Barber . Sports & Service News Clubs and General Alta Blood Cleveland Cook Organizations Statistics and News Eva Cardall .... .... SEND NEWS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANY OF ABOVE OR TO THE EDITOR, BOX 143, CENTERVILLE Quest Editorial By hnor Wallace Walton Let's Make Centerville More Beautiful Communities are for people. The prime objective is to create healthy, convenient, and enjoyable places for people to live in, to have jobs, to bring up families, to have privacy, and community contacts. Everyone needs a decent place in which to live, but a home in its broadest sense means more than parlor, bedroom and bath. It also means elbow room, freedom from hazards, clean fresh air, sunlight, greenery, and many community facilities. Planning a good home will include relief from congestion, noise, and dirt of the industrialized centers. The physical setting, viz., the appearance of buildings, streets, vacant lots, public parks, and personal property are the visible standards by which a community will be judged. The intelligent home builder will consider the facts very carefully. A prediction was recently made by the American Builder, that at the end of the war private home building will rapidly reach a sum of four billion dollars a year, with homes being built at the rate of one million a year, averaging in cost about four thousand dollars. Many things are needed to make Centerville an community. Yet the quality of liv- ing conditions far overshadows the lacking resources. The hopes of a community must be grounded in its g will depossibilities. Its pend on the skill and leadership of its people, on its position in competition with other areas. Therewell-bein- lets make Centerville inviting through pride in our surroundings, by keeping yards in order, fence lines and vacant lots clean, and fore, buildings in repair and painted. The January, 1944 Service News and Notes Community Letter Writing Bee One young man home on leave recently was Ens. Spencer F. Hatch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hatch. Spencer enlisted in the Navy Air Corps June, 1942, going to Carbon ng success for those who wrote letters and those who received them. I nose who attended really got into the spirit of it and some wrote as many as three letters. Some of them also took names home for someone who didnt come. We have a lot of boys and girls in the service from Centerville, so even after all this there were about 20 names left. Leonard Mitchell passed these remaining ones out in Sacrament meeting that evening, so every service man should have received a letter. If your son or daughter It was an undisputed didnt receive a letter, heres how you can make sure that they will next time: Come yourself and bring your friends and neighbors every person attending raises the chances of your service man receiv- ing a letter. Do you want your son or daughter to be disappointed? Remember, if you are there, that makes one more chance that they wont be disappointed. Bring your pen and paper, your friends, and your enthusiasm (we will supply the name) for an afternoon of real enjoyment next Sunday, January 9, at 2:30 in the chapel. College for Civilian Pilot Training. From there he went to St. Marys Preflight and Pasco, Washington, for Pirmary Flight training. After Advanced Training at Corpus Cnristi, Texas, he graduated as a Naval Aviator September 15 of this year. Other moves were to Jacksonville, Florida for eight weeks Operational Training and Great Lakes NTS at Chicago to check on carrier landings. He recently visited his sister, Elaine, in Washington, D. C., and then flewr home. On Christmas Day he was to leave for San Diego. One fellow who says he has been through plenty of the ropes of hikHarold Stuart ing, etc., is Steed, son of Mrs. Mary Steed Porter. Sgt. Steed was on leave the wreek before Christmas. He enilsted in the Army June 5, 1942, and has since been stationed at four different camps; Camp S-S- gt. Rucker, Ala., Camp Horn, Ariz., Camp San Luis Obispo, Cal., where he was until his recent leave; and Springfield, Mo., at which base he took a course in Special Medical Training. He wras promoted to his present Book of Mormon Pageanf The Sunday School presented a Book of Mormon pageant on December 5. It was in commemoration of the prophet Joseph Smiths birthday, and the restoration of the Book of Mormon. The pageant was well done and was presented to a large audience. spirit is catching; if you do, your neighbors will follow' suit. Cen- terville has the distinct advantage of its nearness to a large city where employment, hospitals, clinics, colleges, and all the cultural activities may be enjoyed. Postwar projects no doubt will bring improvements that will enhance the value of community life. Through personal and civic pride lets make Centerville a desirable place for the prospective homebuilder. rank December 13 of this year. We are happy to print news of twro boys who wrere born in Centerville and spent their childhood here before moving to Bountiful. Both are now in the Service. Sgt. Venice J. Carr enlisted as a radio man July, 1942. He has since received training at Salt Lake City, Camp Crowder, Mo., Fort Monmouth, N. J., Presque Isle Army Air Field, Maine, and at present is stationed on an island in the Arctic Circle as a weather technician and radio signal man. AC Haven R. Carr enlisted in April, 1943, in the Air Corps. He trained at Kearns and Logan, Utah, prior to being transferred to Santa Ana Air Base where he is at present located. He is rated as a pilot with an average of 95 per cent. (continued on page three)