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Fork. 3-16-3tp-tf. -With Our Boys- ort Douglas, Uiah Discharged Discharg-ed from the Army under the ad- ; Justed service rating plan at the ; Fort Douglaj Separation Center ; Sgt. Earl M. Clark whose wile ! : rs. LaVern Llston Clark lives at . 745 South Seventh East, Provo, Utr. 'i wearing bronze eta: . for 1 seven campaigns pursuant to op eratlons In Philippines Defense and Philippine Liberation. Sgt. -Clark was a prisoner of war for three years. Incidental to his 42 months service overseas, he Is authorized to wear the unit Presidential Citation, Ci-tation, American Defense Ribbon. i Asiatic Pacific, Philippine Defense De-fense and Philippine Liberation Ribbons and good Conduct Medal. i Before entering the army In I Octobe , 1940, Sgt. Clark was em i ployed as miner for Un Snyder Mining company at Mercur, Utah. He is a son of Mrs. Law rence McCandless. Merrill J. Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lot Robinson. has. writ ten his wife, Vivian Merikofer Robinson, that he is now staM Ltd in the Philippines with the Navy Sea Bees, that he is strlv' for the rating of .water-tender. This work has to do wit the gaugelng of the engines of the sh'p. He also said he was learn lng the HUplnQ language, a d that one of the natives had given him a pet monkey, which he hop ed to bring home. Sgt. Ira Barr Nelson, so - of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Nelson of Idr.:-o Falls, Idaho, spent last week visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Nelson and Miss Sadie Nelson. The previous prev-ious luek he was in Divide -d with ther members of the Nel son family. Sgt. Nelson, who is now plain Mr. Nelson, was recently re-cently given a medical discharge from the US Marine corps after serving for five years. He has seen service from the North Atlantic At-lantic area through the South Pacific Bruce and Lynn Nilsson, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nilsson have met for the first time in three years. Bruce, Yoeman lc, Is stationed . t Bremerton, Wash., and Lynn, radioman 1c, Is with! V. l ii I we uuvai cummuiucauons ue partment at Seattle. Pvt. Clifford Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Peterson, arrived home July-12 from Fort Berinlng, Ga., for a ten days furlough. fur-lough. Just before leaving 1 for home he received his paratrooper wings. Pvt. Peterson has been in the service 10 months. He will! report for duty back at Fort Benning, July 22. SSgt and Mrs. Theron S. Beck are home Cor a 15 days furlough from Kingman, Ariz., where he has b"en stationed for the past several months. He has now been transferred to Camp loe, Vlc- jtorla, Tex. Sgt. Beck returned nome last uctODer irom acrve bomber duty In Europe. Mrs. F'- Is the former Fay Nicholes of Lehl. Utahns Asked To Create NewUtah Stampi To all Utahns who have any ability In designing or drawing, to all who have any: ability to portray in a single drawing the history and the drama of Utah's development, there Is a chance to attain national fame, to win ;enown, and to obtain a share t f $100 in war bond priaes in the Vteh Centennial stamp contest. Through the Utah Covered Wagon Days of Salt Lalce City, a prize of $100 has been offered for the best idea for a stamp to commemmorate the 100th anniversary anni-versary of the founding of Utaiu There will be a $50.00 bond awarded for the first prize In design, and $25.00 for each of the second and third prizes: " SkeUhes must be submitted by January 1 to the Centennial Commission,. Box 329, Salt Xake City 8, Utah. Each contestant must be a Utah native or a citizen of the state for 20 years. Sketches Sketch-es must be. 6x4 Inches either upright up-right or lateral. In addition to the winning of a prize, the winner will have the honor of having his Idea being emblazoned upon a national postal stamp which will be sold all over the nation. In addition, according .to Gus P. Backman, director of the Utah Centennial he will rceive the first sheet of scrmps, autographed by" Postmaster Post-master General Robert E. Han-ncgan, Han-ncgan, and possibly by President Harry S. Truman, nd that would truiy be n museum piece. Any sketches should be submitted sub-mitted to the Utah Centennial Commission, Box 329, Salt Lake City C, Utah. They should be submitted with J narpe attached at-tached separately. The artistic ability of the contestant is secondary sec-ondary to hlf ideas. For instance, in-stance, the entry will be judged 7f per cent, upon idea and 25 per cent sketch. Pfc. James B. Nelson, son of cm. na airs. w. u. weison, leit 'Sunday to report for duty at Lake Charles, La., after a 20 days furlough at home. CpU Olen Haslcrr Is home on 3r days furlough after several mc " "3 In the uropean theatre of operations. H will report for Cut at Sioux Fa' s, South Dakota. Dako-ta. He has been visiting with his grant'- iother( Mrs. E. N. Wag-staff, Wag-staff, and in Lelu w - his wife, Barta Jones Haslem, and two sons. Dee Hunter, son of Mr. 'and Mrs. Walter Hunter, has been transferred from Tulane Univer sity at New Orleans. La . to Bayonne, N. J., wh;re he will be witn uie Naval supply Depot. Dee has been stu '"ine under the V-12 nary program 'for the past AC Lloyd H. Hayward will leave tomorrow, .ugust 4, t- re turn to Fredericks, Okla.. after spending "1 days home with his mother, Mrs. Martha Hayward. Sgt. Loyal H. ortensen. vet eran of" months overseas in the European Theater of Operations where he served in the Army Air Forces and was awarded the ETO Ribbon with six campaign stars, the Presidential Unit Citation and Good Conduct medal, return ed to the U. S. TiuY 23 abroad an Air T ansport Command t-ms Atlanta plane landing him at LaGuardla Held, N. Y. He was met in Ogien by his wife Elizabeth Eliza-beth Hutchlngs Mortensen, who has ac -panied him to Nevada. WITH THE FIFTH -ARMY: ITALY Sergeant Jack E. Mavr.e. son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph E. Mayne; recently w cited for outstanding: oe. mance of dutv in combat In Italy. He serve on the Fifth Army front in the 346th Field Artillery of the 91st "Powder River" Division. , Sgt. Mayne has been In the service -ce October. 1042. and w. t overseas In March. 1043. Ha is wearer of the Purple Heart for wounds received while la Ital. He Is expected home In September Septem-ber when the Blst division u slated to return. Delux Car Constructed For Railroad Use A glimpse of post-war travel luxury on the railroads will be provided when the "vista dome" car, a radically new type passenger pass-enger coach, travels Saturday from Denver to Salt Lake via the Moffat Tunnel Route of the Rio Grande Railroad during Its first trans-continental journey. The car, first of Its kind and featuring many interior refine ments as well as its revolutionary new oasic cesign, is 1 1 a "test run" Oi the Exooslt- Fiver be tween Chicago and San Francisco under Joint operation bv the Rio Grande, the Burlington and the Western Pacific Railroads, ac cording to H. L Scofleld, pass-, enger traffic manager for the Rio Grande. The car features a class-en closed compartment In the roof which enables passengers to en- Joy a "penthouse" view in all di rections, a feature which should prove Darr.icularlv nonular in the scenic territory served by the Rio . Ciande. The upper deck of the new car," reached a . short stalrwav. seats 24 Dersons in deeo cushion ed chairs. Its glass-enclosed roof ana sides are made of non-glare heat-resistant glass: Beneath the upper level are 18 s j, tour oi which form a card playing section, sec-tion, and 12 are placed back to back against a glass partition to fuee toward the windows. There are spacious' . baggage comuartmcnts and large attrac tively-appointed washrooms. The entire car. is air-conditioned. . - THE ADVERTISED ARTICLE is one in which the - ' merchant himself has implicit faith-else faith-else he will not advertise ad-vertise it. You re safe in patronizing the merchants whose ads appear in this paper because their goods art up to date and not shop worn. Spotlighting UTAH Gnnther Sees Inside -Utah John Gunther, nationally known author and commentator and now doing his latest book. "Inside America" visited Utah this month for material Piloted by the department of Publicity arid Tndustrial Development, Mr. Gunther when he saw "Geneva" said, "you can thank Hitler for bringing the steel industry to Utah". At Bingham Canyon, gazing gaz-ing into the great "copper pit" he said, "it's beyond anything I ever imagined". Utah Draws Explorers Fifty student explorers under the tutorship of Ansel F. Hall, well known explorer and former national parks director and his staff are doing extensive exploring explor-ing In southern Utah. The party is now camped at Mancos, Colorado, Colo-rado, - State Revises Tour Book The State Publicity Department Depart-ment has just completed a re vision of the Utah chapter in the National Automobile Associa tlon tour book. The request for a revision was made to the department de-partment by the A. A. A. who stated they were doing, the book over in anticipation oi tne great tourist migration expected to start at the end of the war. The revised chapter on Utah will give the tourist a more comprehensive idea of what to see in Utah and how to see it. The Publicity Department De-partment has also been called upon to provide information to a large New York publishing con- . cern who is starting a series of booklets to be distributed in Europe and which will treat the political and economic conditions in the U. S., and in which Utah's agriculture, mining, trade and industrial activities will be fully told. Tells Polio Symptoms Utah . parents . are advised by Dr. William McKay, st&e health commissioner not to get panicky over the present spurt in Polio cases in the - state. Children shouK'. be watched for symptoms, which start with fever, accompanied accom-panied by regular influenza pains and aches. A doctor should be called If the fever persists. Utahns Get Fire Warning "Watch the Sparks" Is the warning Issued by Forest officials regarding Utah's timberlands. Of the 108 fires in Utah In 1944, 66 were caused by human carelessness. careless-ness. Utah Sheepmen Promised Subsidy James A. Harper, secretary Utah Wool Growers, advises that a bill to give a $2.00 subsidy to producers of lambs has been passed by both houses and is awaiting presidential approval. This means $40,000,000 to the sheep raisers and will put more, lamb on the meat counters, it was said. O. W. I. Corresponds A letter has been received by the State Department of Publicity Pub-licity from Mr. Elmer Davis, O. W. L Chief, thanking the department depart-ment for sending detailed information infor-mation for the preparing of a corrected article in the, forthcoming forth-coming issue of the Russian magazine, "America Illustrated." To Map Canyon By Air orjhe:,fjrgLtlme..;rn hlstgry. the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Colo-rado, including the Moab, Utah area will be mapped from the air. Grand county is preparing an airport and a new air field at Moab will be used as a base. Eddie Drapela, Colorado flyer will take the pictures from r. lx-passenger lx-passenger airliner. Greater AVar On Flies Urged This Year Farmers were given another reason for a war on flies this summer In a report " -?ued today by .livestock health authorities. - Flies,the' report states, have been found to be carriers of the deadly cattle disease, anaplav..o-sl3, anaplav..o-sl3, which is causing heavy cattle cat-tle losses in a sumber of Western states. "Recent tests show that horse flies which suck the blood of rattle carrying this disease, can readily transmit it to healthy cattle," says thereportieleased here today by the American Foundation for Animal Health. "Anaplasmosis Is caused by a minute, parasite which attacks the blood cells of Catt' caur'ng severe anemia. Cattle which contract the disease rem' 'n carriers, car-riers, and during the horsefly and hornfly season such 'carrier' animals ani-mals can endanger all heal.liy cattle In the locality. 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