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Show Olcjn ava Campaign Toughest Says Pacific Veteran lC Veteran of four initial landing on facmc uianas, major naipn W. Morgan, East 8th North. Provo, was pack homo today. Ha declared the Okinawa campaign was the "bloodiest and toughest battle of the entire war in the Pacific." I Maior Morean. who left Oklna- wa last month, returned to the United States for reassignment after more than four years of active combat service in the Pacific. Pa-cific. "Japs are plenty touch sol idlers," the field artillery maior ' a At 9 At. . ii. sara, una utoec woo urreruicr are but a -drop In the bucket. We thought we had a tough battle on nr hands An Salnan Kit Dlrina. va is much worse." f Describing some of his ezperi- fences Major Morgan said that ev rv resource of the army was cal- led upon to dislodge the Japs from their fortified caves on the island, even road building machinery, ma-chinery, "Combat bulldozers are a hybrid hy-brid tank, bulldozer, and tractor. Often we used them when ordi nary means high explosive shells, flame throwers, and so on failed to bring the Japs into the open. In such cases, the combat com-bat bulldozer would drive right at the cave, pile rubble in front .'tof it and seal the Jap in. v . v. a . v. - J m- ww mm graduated from Brigham Young university in 1930. He later was employed as assistant chief chemist at the Columbia Steel's Ironton plant Called to active duty in 1941, he. left for overseas on December 6 of that year, one day before Japan struck at Pearl Harbor. J It was a happy reunion for Major Morgan, his wife, Mrs. Bessie F- Morgan and four children, chil-dren, after four years of separation. separa-tion. At the conclusion of his leave, he will report to the army ground forces at Santa Barbara, California. Vermont Yard Entry Winning Orem Bond Queen Miss Betty Jacobs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Jacobs of Vermont ward, Orem, was named queen of the Orem war bond queen contest today, after ballots were counted. Miss Jacobs won the honor with a total of 53$ votes, closely fol- lowed hjr co-candidates Miss Cleo Harding and Hazel Ontn. vineyard, vine-yard, who are credited with having hav-ing had more bonds bought for them than any other queen candidates candi-dates of the area. Total combined votes for the young ladies from Vineyard, equaled 649. Miss Harding Hard-ing is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Harding, and Miss Orvin the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Orvin, Freshman student at the BYU, Miss Jacobs will represent Orem in the final election of the coun- M. l- - I 1 1 A1 Tt-. - . theater in Provo, Tuesday. June 26. The queen of the county will be chosen on a basis of 79 per cent bond sales and 25 per cent personality. Vineyard and Sharon areas have cone "over the top" of their . bond Quotas to date, while other districts are nearing their goal. bond ofifcials of Orem said today Other contestants and their total votes are as follows: Beatrice Gappmeyer, 464; Rosa Mae Firichr 406; Peggy Pyne, 282; Wal Dean Olsen. 270: Thelda Wright, 252; , Ellen McKay, 244; Aleen Johnson, ' Wr MM (f. V, iat, jenore jvouoro, ioi, xvciiee Bliss, 90; Helen Woffinden, 72; Sheryl Young, 62; and Helen Bun nell, 40. . if Provo Man In Okinawa Battle Turman B. McBride, water-tender, water-tender, 3c of the U. S. naval reserve, re-serve, is now serving aboard a heavy cruiser off Okinawa in the Pacific. His ship is estimated to have killed 2.000 Jap troops, demolish ed 10 trucks, five tanks, a sup- dIv dumo. one hanser. a UBht house, three road junctions and four attacking aircraft. The veteran cruiser has harried har-ried Japs for the past three years, and has earned the reputation as a top fighting unit in battles of Bougainville, Salamaua, Guadalcanal, Guadal-canal, the Aleutians, Gilberts, Marshall, Carolines, and Mari anas, Iwo Jima and Ryukyus. XT ..... I- milUX r 1 1 i i . m . n wiui ngvine Knoctra out heavy and light anti-aircraft em' t placements, eight heavy and light gun batteries, and a number of automatic weapon revetments! thus far, the release said. Mr. McBride formerly lived at .t 646 A. street, Provo. Too Late For Classification FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS . LADIES wool tailored suit. Sis 14 Tennis racauet. scoutmasters hat, new. 1929W. 37S North University Avenue. South apartment. JZl FOLDING baby buggy, baby bed, fas range, gatetef taDie, oresaer. outlet, rolled edge prewar kitchen sink, beda and springs, odds and end. 40 North 4tn West J24 FOR RENT FURNISHED COOL, main floor anartment for two. Private bath. 387 North 3 East. j24 RECENTLY remodeled 3-room apart ment. Can work i lor part ot rent. Phone zss Before a. m. jz FOR RENT UNFURNISHED THREE rooms with electric stove and refrigerator; bath, washroom. Non- smoker. Appiy e norm Best 134 WORK WANTED HAVE your old painted furniture look like new. Kitchen and dining sets repaired and repainted. Will call for and oeuver. are estimates, can 098R3. 134 1- - ! .TV -f , , MAJOR RALPH W. MORGAN Liberated Orem Man Comes Home Grateful to be alive and none the worse for his 20 months spent in a German prison. First Lt. John W. Downs of the U. S. air corps, has arrived ohme and is with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Downs of Orem He was liberated May 29, from the Mooseburg prison by the 14th armored divi sion of Patton's Third army. A navigator on a B-17, his plane was shot down over Bremen Oct.. 8. 1943. AU of the crew parachut ed. with only slight injuries en- countered.- All I l' w were taken I prisoners and! . .JT, I rl the four offi- ! 'A I f cers were held L-. VfMJ I S.M ,. HI in the same . compound. Lt. Downs Lt. Downs reports the treat ment as fair, and .that the boys suffered mostly from lack of food. He lost 60 pounds during his imprisonment, im-prisonment, but has now gained them back. He has bitter memor ies of their long march through terribly cold weather, from Jan. 29 of this year to March, when they moved from Stalag Luft prison 3, Sagan, to Mooseburg prison, from which they were liberated. The Orem man had been shot in the leg before the plane crash ed and it was a month before he was given medical aid, and then only surface treatment, he re ports. , He served overseas lor two years and has been in the service since October, 1941. He has been awarded the air medal with three oak-leaf clusters, the distin guished flying cross, the purple heart and the presidential cita tion. He attended the BYU and received a BS in chemistry. ;r0ld Folks Day rrT i Elated rnaay At Spanish Fork SPANISH FORK Friday will mark observance of the annual old folks' day of Palmyra LDS stake. All residents past 70 years of age will be guests of their re spective wards and each of the nine wards of the stake will be responsible for its own old folks. William C. Beckstrom is the gen eral chairman of the old folks committee. The opening event, a program of entertainment at the Second LDS ward chapel, will be followed fol-lowed by dinner at the Palomar ballroom in the city park. Ange-lus Ange-lus theater will entertain old folks at a free movie. City Briefs Dr, Paul D. Boyer, graduate of Brigham Young university, topped top-ped in Provo Wednesday on bis way to accept a position as assistant assist-ant professor In the department of agricultural biochemistry at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota. Francis Miles Johnston will leave Monday to return to San Bruna, CaL. where he will receive re-ceive assignment as a motor machinist's ma-chinist's mate 3c with the U- S. navy. In Provo on a 10-day leave, he visited with his narents Mr. and Mrs. John A. Johnston; at their home, ( 695 North Seventh East, wife, the former Ardls Muhlstein, and children, Karen and Johnny. His father has been ill for the past few days, but is recovering at present Mrs. Ardls Johnston and their two youngsters young-sters were in San Diego, Cal-, during the time that he was re ceiving naval training there, but are now re-setued in their provo borne. Miss Lila iosie of Orem, left WwlnAcHflv tar alt Lake CitV. where she will spend the next 10 days visiting with friends and relatives. Mel D. Close received a belated Father's day cablegram from bis son, Cpl. Wayne Close, serving with the Third army. Wayne is now in France. Lt. (J..) and Mrs. Maurice E. Smith (Gloria Tanner) have ar rived from Beaufort, North Caro Una, and are spending a week here en route to San Diego, where Lt. (i.g.) Smith will receive re assignment. They are at the home of Mrs. Smith's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Vasco M. Tanner. Mrs. De Brown underwent a major operation at the Utah Val-lev Val-lev hosDital Tuesday and is re ported to be doing fine. Mrs. Sterling Allred of Santa Monica. Calif., a former Provoan is visiting at the home of Mrs. James Judd. Mrs. Allred is expecting ex-pecting her husband, who is with the merchant marines. He recently recent-ly arrived in New York from sea duty. Set. Beth Spalding of the WAC, left Wednesday to return to Fort Wayne, lnd., where she is a lab technician; She has been home on 21-day furlough to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Spalding of 194 North First East street Sgt Spalding has been in the service for 30 months. Mrs. David Morgan and her granddaughter Miss L a D e a n Markham, have returned from Santa Ana, Calif., after a delight ful visit at the home, of Mrs. Mor gan's son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Morgan, Also, they were entertained by Mrs. Stanley Morgan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Somo, former' ly of Provo, and Miss Markham was in Los Angeles, part of the time, as guest of Mrs. Anita An derberg Stockton. Mrs. Paul B. Pearson and daughters, Paula and Marilyn, have arrived from their home in College Station, Texas, to visit her parents, Dr. and Mrs. William J Snow. They will be here for the remainder of the summer. Mrs. Alameda Veater of El Paso, Texas, is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Blythe Wall of Pleasant View, and her cousin. Mrs. Me' lissa Lewis. A number of dinners have been given in her honor. MARINE OFFICER ON LEAVE Lt Clifton Mortenson of the U. S. Marines arrived home yesterday yester-day by plane on' a surprise "delayed "de-layed orders" leave to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mqr-tenson, Mqr-tenson, of 145 East First North street. He has recently completed combat crew training on the Pacific Pa-cific coast, but will remain here about a week. Pilot To Speak At Rotary Session 1st Lt Creed Brlmhall, recently liberated and returned air force pilot, will recount many of his experiences in the bombing of Germany at the luncheon-meet ing of the Provo Rotary club, Fri- iay, 12:15 p. m., at Joseph Smith building cafeteria. . Ernest Salerno has been named a director to succeed Wayne Driggs, who has resigned to go to cewar City. Provo Liquor Case Is Bound Over Sid Johns, Provo, today was bound over to the Fourth district dis-trict court for trial on a indictable misdemeanor. Mr. Jchns Is alleged to have sold whiskey to a person whose liquor permit has been cancelled City Judge W. Dean Loose bound the case over to the higher court after he had studied the case sev eral days. Utah County CAP Boys Training at Ogden y ' ) t 1 - i 4 v i- . M) ;vVw""'"" i Of ' 7 1 . i W Imm. - i 1 -"," L 1 J f " 4 , JW A group of Utah county civil air patrol cadets in Service Command, Hill Field, are assimilating inf Jack M. Fink of Hill Field, one of their Army ins Loveless, Pay son; Fred Houston, American Fork; Payson. This is one of many classes being cond who are participating in the Hill Field training training for a week at the Ogden Air Technical ormation about an "automatic pilot" from Corporal tructors. The group Includes, left to right: Arlen Conrad Stone, Provo; Cpl. Fink, and Roy Crook, ucted for CAP cadets from throughout the state session. Provo School Budget Estimate Upped $761106 Estimated school budget revenues reve-nues for the Provo school system were increased by $76,806 for the 1944-45 school year, it was announced an-nounced ' today by H. J. Boyack, after a public . hearing Tuesday night At the end of this school year revenues were found to be over the budget estimates of $575,370.-19 $575,370.-19 and therefore the school board found it necessary to make a revised re-vised estimate of $652,176.30, which was approved. Areas whereithe revenue is expected ex-pected to be increased over the original estimates as approved by the board last year are: Local district school tax, assessed valuation valu-ation of $11,545,337, making an increase of $3001.10; state district school fund, census enumeration, increase of $1430.40; uniform school funds, increased by $30,- 000; state equalization, $20,000; house bill No. 28, $50 TO; state high school fund, $1500; forest re serve fund, by $164 61; school lunch revenues, by $9800; vocational voca-tional and incidental federal funds, by $4000; federal funds in lieu of taxes, by $1200; refund on teacher retirement $100; and rent and miscellaneous, $600. Expenditures will remain the same as in the adopted budget, and any additional revenue will be placed in the sinking fund for new buildings. If final tabulations tabula-tions of revenue hit the revised estimates the sinking fund for new buildings will jump from $13,421.20 to $90,047.31, a difference differ-ence of$2&806-11- RevenCcpQrom all sources has not yet come in, Mr. Boyack aid, and a final tabulation will not be ready until after the first of the month. Revised budget revenue reve-nue estimates were placed high in order, to provide for unexpected additional revenue. VOCAL RECITAL Mrs. R. Gam Clark is presenting present-ing some of her advanced vocal students in a recital Sunday at 3 o'clock in the Fourth ward chapel, and she cordially invites the public pub-lic to attend free of charge. The program will include op eratic, clasic and popular numbers, num-bers, Mrs. Clark announces. Civil Air Patrol Boys In Training OGDEN AIR TECHNICAL SERVICE COMMAND, HILL FIELD, Utah Outstanding civil air patrol cadets from Utah county coun-ty are participating this week in the seven-day training session being be-ing conducted at Hill field. They were among 61 youtha from all over the state selected for this event at Utah's largest army installation. in-stallation. A feature of the encampment is rigorous military training and instruction in-struction patterned after the army air forces aviation cadet program. From "first call" to "taps" the cadets follow a schedule smiliar to the aviation cadet routine. To stimulate military efifciency, the cadets have been organized into three separate flights and are competing for the "superior" designation which will be award ed the outstanding flight at the end of the week. Utah county youths have been placed in different dif-ferent flights,, as the separate groups represent no geographic division. A full program of practical training and instruction is sched uled for the rest of the week under supervision of Captain Arnold T. Spencer and Lt John A. Mazzoni, Hill field officers. In addition, the men are participating with military mili-tary personnel at Hill field in various va-rious ceremonies and inspections. The cadets will break camp Sunday" and return to their homes throughout the state. Final War Bonds Cake Auction to Be Held Friday All cakes entered in the A. and KH. Market war bond cak con test must be at the market before 3 p. m. Friday, when judging will be held. Prize winning cake-bakers will be awarded: First, a $25 war bond; second, $10 in war stamps, and third, one skinned ham, by the A. and H. sponsors. The public is invited to attend the war bond cake auction Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, when the three prize cakes entered will be DAILY HERALD FBOVO, TJTAH COUNTY. tTTAH . THURSDAY. JUNE 11. 1943 PAGE 3 Lehi Man Serves In 4th Campaign LEHI Master Sgt Chester E. Jacobs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jacobs of Lehi is participating in bis fourth Pacific campaign against-the' enemy in Okinawa, having seen previous action on Sainan and Tinian in the Mari anas, and Leyte in the Philip pines. He is a motor sergeant in the 225th field artillery battalion. He was awarded the bronze' star medal for outstanding supervision supervi-sion of vehicle maintenance during dur-ing the Saipan and Tinian oper ations. He was a members of the Utah National Guard when called to active service early in 1941, and has served overseas since September, 1942. Two $100 war bonds pay for a TT fi KfMiaa tent. v " Two Carloads Of Paper Goal Set By Minute Yomen Two carloads of paper is the goal set for Provo city during tne current paper salvage drive being conducted through July 9, by Minute Women of the county and the Provo Daily Herald. Receipts from the paper collect ed will be used for improvements in library facilities at Bushnell general hospital, stated Mrs. George Worthen, county minute women chairman, today. The drive will be called "Double-V paper drive" because it is for Victory and so that veterans at the hospital may have a wider choice of books in the permanent library collection, and book carts on which a variety oi reading material may be taken to bedside readers. "This is a women's drive, so II urge housewives of Provo to cooperate co-operate by making up their bun dles and having them on the nearest street corner on the morning of Monday. July 9. by o a.m. Mrs. wortnen said. Newsnaners. magazines anil backless books will be accented. but must be tied in packages of convenient size and snap, col Iprnnn will t iifulM- th, him -. - - - - - U. fc. V. tion of Citv Commissioner Rlaka Palfreyman, in charge of Provo saluasre. Co-directors of the city are Mrs. A. L. Booth and Mrs. Clark All-red, All-red, while Mrs. L. B. Tackett is chairman of publicity. Minute women leaders throughout th en tire county are also working for me success ox mis campaign, Mrs woruien concluded. II ftj"iiin niGT l "-,i " ,MfiC-A- Wjlpga NOW READY! f0'i Sten Midsummer &. 3 Book Full of Ask to Set It! I II sftJraaBal arnaiMa- t r si t? M t feattftfta 1J A I II II typa and portable. wood slate. 17 In. ad, pr sd-eut less, I II Chatter-proof lens, wide, 64-ln. Wgh, , panel back. Com- II II aluminum Mflaensr- aaav.ta. te-tahla seat. Un. II 5.95 6.98 SSK 99c H Althoush snakes nrefer Aw jana, an oi tnem are able to swim. No one has ever seen a snake wmch has been drowned. sold to the highest bond bidders to help carry Utah county over her bond quota. ther cakes contributed con-tributed in the contest will be donated to the Provo Veterans' center for service men and worn en. The A. and H. Market is located on Third South and Seventh East streets. 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