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Show I around the C 0 R i j SUGAIUIOUSE Ej Wkh the Editor j Bill McDougall, former Salt Lake newspaperman, and later Oa United Press war correspondent, correspond-ent, talked on a few of his experiences expe-riences in the Pacific at yesterday's yester-day's meeting of the Rotary club. His talk was swell, but it wasn't the real story of Bill, which naturally, he couldn't very well tell, being the modest fellow he is. There is a guy who really went through the war. Captured on Java at the time of the Jap invasion, Bill was marked mark-ed by the enemy for 'special treatment." (He'd been a corespondent co-respondent in Tokyo before the war and had incurred the displeasure dis-pleasure of some of the big fellows.) Bill escaped from 0 Japanese hands several times during the course of the war, spent days swimming and clinging cling-ing to timbers in the water when a prison ship was sunk, survived months of starvation and ill treatment in a dozen different dif-ferent tropical prison camps, was given up for dead by family and friends for over two years, and finally came out of the war a fever-ridden bag of bones. (He wasn't very chunky to begin be-gin with) . Briefly, Bill survived sur-vived the ordeal by sheer guts and a reporter's refusal' to give up. Now restored to health aft-' aft-' er nearly a year of rest, he's going go-ing to Harvard on a Neimann fellowship, one of twelve granted grant-ed to outstanding journalists of the country, for a year of advanced ad-vanced study in his chosen profession. pro-fession. After the year's up he plans on returning to the orient. Dr. and Mrs. 1orin L. Richards Rich-ards are in the Hawaiian Islands Is-lands with the T. J. Parmleys. The ' ladies are alien jiifStjRftc special chnrch assignmt...is there, and the husbands tagged tag-ged along to keep them company. com-pany. Sgt. Robert T. Divett, U. S. Marine corps, a veteran of Okinawa Okin-awa and several other major Pacific engagements and for the past nine months stationed in China,' dropped into the Bulletin Bulle-tin office Wednesday to see how things were going in the southeast. A son of Mf . and Mrs. Robert W. Divett, 1768 S. State. Bob was raised in this section, attending the Irving and South high schools and later the U. of U. and B. Y. U. before joining the "Leathernecks." He re-enlisted at the end of his first hitch, and will report in Pocatel-lo Pocatel-lo about Oct. 5 for his next assignment. as-signment. He has been at home for about a month. The L. H. Stratfords are on J the go again, this time to the west. A card from Soda Springs, Calif., said they were leaving Tuesday for San Francisco and heading thence to Los Angeles. The Stratfords' son Charles and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Nichols and their boy Garry are with them. Just returned from a vacation trip down south are Mr. and Mrs. Seldon N. Heaps of 1781 Redondo. They visited the Grand canyon and Zions where Sel entertained with a little impromtu organ music. |