| OCR Text |
Show K''i ACROSS THE WORLD W f 1 With The LA y I. Southern Utah Federalized I NATIONAL GUARD H OV by klien rollo Editor's Note: After an unavoid-j able delay of several weeks we are glad to be able to resume publishing this column. If the stress of battle does not become too great we hope to continue the column regularly. 'Two On and Four Off The phrase "two on and four off", for those of you at home that haven't heard, is In refer-ence refer-ence to guard posts, 24 hour guard posts, and covers the activities acti-vities of the 213th to a "T", as the saying goes. Since we have moved Into our new area, 80 per cent of the men have to be on guard duty and as a result the phrase, originated by Dan Corry, has been the talk of the battery. I also understand that Corry Is planning to write a book with the same title, upon his return to the states, something some-thing for the folks at home to look forward to. . Since 80 per cent of the battery bat-tery Is outdoors, oft of the tents, sometimes during the day it should be worthwhile to mention men-tion that the weather Is getting quite a bit warmer here in Korea. The daylight hours are very pleasant now and the sun has been 6hining for the past week. We had had rain one day In two weeks, and that was Just a sprinkle The evenings, however, are quite chilly and toward morning it sometimes gets very cold, but they are all gradually warming up and it shouldn't be too long before our letters home are complaining com-plaining about the heat rather than the cold. Now that the weather has improved im-proved somewhat, our next and possibly our greatest morale booster is mall. Everyday of the week a representative from one of the batteries makes an approximate ap-proximate 100 mile round trip, via-jeep, to send out and pick up mall. To date we have not been able to pick up much mall because be-cause it hasn't completely caught up with us since we made our last move, but we expect it to catch us within the next couple of days. Mail is one thing that men look forward to every day, so you at home keep it coming, as you have in the past, and spirits spir-its in Headquarters Battery will be kept high. Believe me those letters are appreciated. Today, April 17, some of the men have been pitching a squad tent to be used as a theatre. That's right, we're going to have a motion picture, entitled "Jolson Sings Again". The tent will hold approximately 40 men and the picture will be run continuously until every man In the outfit gets a chance to attend. Three changes were made in our officers today. Captain James Hoyle, Jr. has moved into the position of Battalion Adjutant Adjut-ant to fill a vacancy caused by the transfer of Capt. Norton B. James, Jr. to Service Battery, as Battery commander. Capt. Grant M. Tolhon of Beaver, who was Service Battery commander, has taken over as Headquarters Battery Bat-tery commander, replacing Capt. Hoyle. WOJR Ephralm E. Puffer, who has been acting mess officer of-ficer of Headquarters Battery, has been transferred to Service Battery in an administrative ca- pacity. During the past few weeks we have been thinking about the usual trips of Cedar City people to Dixie to see the spring blossoms. blos-soms. How we would like to see some blossoms and a green field of alfalfa instead of rice paddies. When we read about the Cedar high schol activities, band contests, con-tests, ball games, dances, debates, de-bates, assemblies and even classes, we can't refrain from urging the students to remember these happy events well, because in the future they will be the happiest memories of their lives. Some day they will realize what grand experiences they were. |
