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Show Hubba, Hubba, Hubba! Service News and Notes From The Mail Bag We received the following from Lt. Kenneth Nessen in Carolina: Well, every month without fail Ive received The News-ettIts really very welcome and never fails to make me a little homesick for Centerville. I read the whole thing from front to rear and I guess the best I can do is write my appreciation. Id surely like to see all of the fellows that are getting out and I guess they surely deserve it. As for me I guess Ill just stay here for a little while as yet and maybe I might go someplace I havent been. I cant tell if any accomplishments because I havent any and the battles fought in this country are pretty easily won. So for me I just want to say its a real nice little paper and I surely appreciate it. P. S. Could you please put a list of all Centerville service men and their addresses in your next issue? Including discharged veterans. (Ed. Note: In response to Kenneths appeal, we ask that the families of each serviceman and woman, released or otherwise, please send in the addresses requested above by November 15. Our December issue will be happy to print all names and addresses thus received before the deadline.) Harold S. Steed writes us from Misawa, Honshu, Japan: A letter from the family and another welcomed issue of The Newsette arrived this evening, for which I am greatly appreciative. I dont believe that the people at home will ever fully realize the good thajt has been disseminated through this little publication. Nor will we who have been the recipients ever be able to express in words our heart-fel- t gratitude for the happiness and joy that we have experienced from within its pages. I always have to read the paper through once rapidly and then through again very slowly the first time for all of the news and secondly for fear that there is something I might have missed. A strong nostalgic feeling sweeps over me, my stomach constricts, and a lump forms in my throat as I read the current events of the home town which recall to memory many experiences of the past. Nothing has been more instrumental in retaining the home town spirit than this edition, and I for one greatly appreciate the interest that has been expressed through your worthy time and efforts in maintaining contact with the servicemen. It can truly be stated hat The Newsette has been a Home Misg youth. sionary to its After a three and a half year struggle we suddenly found our secondary goal thrust upon us with the final goal in sight. Japan is much more beautiful e. S-S- November, 1945 THE CENTERVILLE NEWSETTE Page Four gt. far-flun- than I had ever previously anticipated and I am sure that 1 am going to enjoy my stay here. Our eventful landings were far different than we had been looking forward to less than two months before. For that I am very grateful. We are located approximately three hundred miles north of Tokyo near the city of Aomori. With the exception of one 9 raid on that city and a thousand-plan- e carrier strike on the Misawa Naval Air Base, which is just adjacent to our quarters, this part of Japan has been litle affected by the terrors of war. This particular airfield, however, looks like it had been hit by a combination and prior to two-hothe strike the Japs inform us that it was in A-- l condition. I am certainly grateful that I wasnt on the receiving end of that one. This particular area is high in lumber out-pand farm produce. Their forest of tall, stately fir trees and their large rice paddies, so free of weeds and divided off like a crazy quilt, are really beautiful B-2- cyclo- ne-earthquake ur ut to behold. Well, on the first of November I will be eligible for discharge and from then on will sweat out the time until I am called into a replacement center for redeployment home. Enclosed you will find a small sum to help you a little in defraying a few of your expenses of publication. This is all of the good American cash that I have left unless perchance you could use a little of this Jap currency. o Pioneer History Of Centerville AND NO GIRDLE, EITHER! William Bettis, Nampa, checks charms veteran, Returning of back-hom- e Florence Fornelius, against pin-u- p girl girl. (The above picture recently appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune, and features one of our home-grow- n girls who moved to Salt Lake City Anyway, she got her start in Centerville!) S-S- From page three shrubbery, trees and vines, everything that would please the eye and gladden the heart. Also the best stock of birds, beasts or fowls of every kind; the best tools of every description; machinery for spinning and weaving and dressing of wool, cotton, flax, and silk, or models of description of the same by which they could be constructed; and the same in relation to all kinds of farming utensils and husbandry such as corn shellers, grain threshers and cleavers, smut machines, mills and every implement and article within their knowledge that could be used to promote comfort, health, happiness and prosperity of the people. Thus each community had its different industries. Centerville had its first saw mill at the mouth of the canyon on Duel creek owned and operated by gt. Billie Williams. The lumber was sawed with a pit saw operated by digging a large hole or hollow, with logs across each end so the large logs could be rolled on it. One man standing in the bottom of the pit and one on top operated the saw. Later Atwood Brown had a steam engine that he operated a saw with. The first blacksmith shop was owned and operated by William Deuel. Simon Dalton also did blacksmithing at a very early date. The second was on the lot where the Fred Walton home now stands, John Myers was the blacksmith. The third one was built by Henry Yates on the Waddoups lot across the street, east of Bishop Tingeys home; and the fourth was owned and ELDERS PLAN STAKE BASKETBALL LEAGUE Bert Mann, president of the Elders quorum, announced that the new stake plans to have an Elders league, for anybody from 20 on up, besides the M Men league. This means that a lot of the men who were robbed of M Men play by entering the service will still be able to play. operated by James Baird across the street east of the Millie Smiths home on the main highway. It was here B. H. Roberts learned the trade of blacksmithing, being apprenticed to James A. Baird; later Henry Rampton was the town blacksmith in the same building. (To be continued next issue) |