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Show Johfl A. Israefseo j 4? rpopojjs The Cozy The Best Town By A DAM Corner Site BYW.L.C. VOLUME XXXIV Veil folks here we 11. Oa Tuesday. July election of the primary again! day and that is 5c per single copy is the when you on vote for Some of your choice. ticket and people vote a straight even never stop times they lots of vote for, ,nd consider who they election they say because after the voted for were that the men they wanted. During not the ones they been a num have there week tbt in this office ber of the candidates nd they are fine fellows and they all seem like vote getters to me. Harvey A. Sjostrom our present District Attorney called on us the He has an opponent other day. but we wouldnt know it over here as we have never seen him, well will put our money on anyway we then we had John And Sjostrom. Schenk of College who is running Mr. Representative. for State and Schenk is out for a very good he seems to have Then we had chance of winning. the present County Commissioner of the Central District, Mr. A. J Fuhriman to see us. It is of my of these men opinion that all have the qualities of making good in their respective offices and we hope they win. been reminded to ask of Hyrum by people town where are what they did with their civic ability. On the fourth of July people of Hyrum went to Logan, nothing to do here. On the 24th of July the people will go to Ogden because there is nothing to do here. It is too bad that we cant get together and do something at least for the little children of our town as they are the ones who want to celebrate anyway. Hyrum is big enough to have a celebration and they can afford it too, they are It would only take a Dot broke. little money to give the kiddies of the town a celebration and I for one think they deserve it. If the city wont do it the bishoprics of the three wards should ge t together and do something. But if they wont do it lets appoint a celebration committee and have them put it on. It wasnt so many years ago when A. D. Allen was appointed chairman of a celebration committee by the city council and we had a big celebration every year, either on the 4th or 24th of July and did we have a big time? Well folks you are not doing the boys in the service any good by not having a celebration as thev like to see people happy instead of setting at home feeling bad. There is still two weeks to plan a little celebration so lets do it. We have the people of out of Darwin Baxter experiences he has had. He states that Italy is t beautiful country. He had always supposed that the people there were dark complexioned, but they are blondes and red heads as well as brunettes. Darwin stated that he has seen many interesting sights such as the Kings Palace Ciserpa, volcanos in Silicy, and the Isles of Capric, and many others. On the farms the people live in .he upstairs and the goates, oxen and chickens live down stairs. The women and gifls carry heavy loads on their heads, some even carry a barrel. Almost all the farmers go barefooted. A hair cut and shave osts 8c from the best 'barbers. The aeasants are ragged and half starv d, especially the children The farmers are out cutting their jrain with small half circle shape olives, they havent started thresh-.n- g yet, he stated but it must be just as difficult job. They are far behind times in all their methods of labor. Entertainment is provided or them out in the open field, and the only seat they have is their helmet. Fruit and wine is very cheap, jut other food is sky high. He has nly had 2 bars in two months, candy is so scarce. They have lept on the ground so long that they have forgotten how a bed really Harvey A, Sjostrom CANDIDATE FOR Distric! Attorney Served Office is a Public Trust. you as District Attorney since 1941. A man of proven ability and integrity. Consistent. World War Veteran V Primary, July Pql.Adv. 1 1. Due to f ' didnt Yours with the low down, JO SERRA Receives War Medal Award last-minu- te '.arrive the-bea- ch 23-ye- ar and shell-shatter- ly-n- Wick . still ccirient half-hidde- n 1 work-wear- In Legislation all-vit- al Utah sportsmen served notice on the present administration, as well as candidates for political offices, that they expect to have a voice in the running of their fLh and game am-odepartment, when the board of FedWildlife Utah the of directors eration recently passed several aimed plainly worded resolutions you primarily at the present methods of door on the drivers side Harold what the opening of the Second handling the depaitments finances couldnt get out and was hit by the street car. Besides Harold was his Front in this one sector entailed and personnel. o that you can know and apIt is our contention that the little two year old son and his dauand forever be humbly preciate One of the little boys reportsmen who create this fund by ghter. mateful to those both dead and purchasing approximately 90,000 ceived some very bad cuts about alive who did it for you. hunting and fishing licenses shojld his head, and is reported to be Ashore facing us were more uve a more definite voice in how getting along nicely. The other than we had in our enemy troops emis two children or the mother were the money is spent and who assault The advantages waves. declaied few for minor not hurt, the cuts a only department, ployed by were all theirs, disadvantages all R. E. (Bob) Hebbeler, president of and bruises. Dr. Burgess who was at the dam ours. the state federation which repreThe Germans were dug into posboat sents some 50 local sportsmens riding was called and left imitions they had been working on render medical at mediately to groups. for months. Still they were not yet tention the to injured people. The resolutions which are being Harold died two hours after be- all complete. One hundred - foot are ent to member organizations duff couple of hundred yards ing admitted to the Cache Valley as follows: ack from the beach had great 1. Whereas practically all funds Hospital at Logan. The account of his funeral and concrete gun emplacements built f the fish and game department are right into the hilltops. They openderived from the sale of fishing and a history of his life will appear in ed to the sides instead of the front, hunting licenses and not by any our next issue. thus making it very hard for naval form of taxation, we, as the organfire from the sea to reach them. ization representing the people who The pigcrop of Utah for the sprThey could shoot paraded with provide these funds demand a voice ing season (December to lune 1) the beach and cover every foot of over the expenditure of these fund:. of 944 is estimated at 90,000 head it for miles with artillery fire. We object to have and state departand last falls crop (June to DecThen they Jaad hidden machine-gu- n ment other than the fish and game ember nests on the forward slopes I) amounted to 152,000 department handle these funds, The spring with crossfire taking every inch of 0 crop of 943 was adhereby entailing unnecessary head The number of sows farh beach. These nests connected ministrative costs. in the spring season of 1944 networks of trenches so that Gerrowing the of 2. That' the appointment was 14,000 compared with 28,000 man gunners could move about personnel of the fish and game de- last spring. Hog raisers of Utah without exposing themselves. partment be made entirely on a expect to have 8,000 sows farrowImmense Ditch of asis of ability and knowledge to ing in the fall season (June the length of the Throughout this fish and game, organization December ) compared with 23,000 beach, running zig-za- g a couple aving a voice in these appoint- farrowed in the fall season of of hundred yards back from the ments, and political affiliations 1943. shoreline, was an immense and recommendations of political ditch, 15 feet deep. Nothing considered. shall be units not could cross it, not even men afoot, To prevent d 3. That inasmuch las winter eggs until fills had been made. from becoming tough, simmer, dont of neck big bottle is the range And in other places, at the far boil them. .This will also prevent game production and preservation, ends of the beach, where the a dark green layer from forming on we urge that the ifish and game dewas ground had great flatter, they the yolk. partment conduct an aggressive concrete walls which had been program for the acquisition of moie blasted by naval gunfire, or by )ig game winter range. and definitely did not keep its pro- handset explosives after we got 4. That we favor a continued mises. We therefore urge all Utah ashore. Our only exits from the study of fish propagation to the end sportsmen to support candidates for beach were several swails or valthat fishing in Utah Lakes and state offices who will support the leys, each about 100 yards wide. streams be made as good as poss- foregoing program and who will The Germans made the most of ible. these funnel-hk- e keep theif promises. traps, literally The committee drafting the re- sowing their bottom sides with President Hebbeler further stated Wild-if- e solutions included Frank G. Mar- buried mines. They contained, that the directors of the Utah Federation passed these resolut- lines, Richfield; Fred Bruhn, too, barbed-wir- e entanglements subN. C. the W. mines of discussion full Woods, Ogden; ions after attached, hidden ditches and from jects and after considering the fact A. Walker, Salt Lake City; A1 machine-gun- s firing the Cliff Huss, slopes. that the present administration pro- Turner, Tremonton; That is what was on the shore. mised to carry out important re Ogden; land Verdell C. Ritchie, But our men had to commendations of this federation Charleston. go through a j 1 1 1 1 79,-0G- 15-Fo- ot 1 1 ed hard-cooke- Pan-guitc- . . 1 have been reading where somebody here and there is losing 100 lollars or 300 dollars every day or so leaving it in an unlocked car or misp'acing it somehow or other. As she looks to me, this just anoth-- r argument for a sales tax. If money is so plentiful that people can kick it around, then Uncle Sam iust as well be getting his cut of it. That Old Boy certainly could use it. Any time anybody is carrying 200 01 300 dollars aroun in his jeans, le is carrying too much. The safe plac6 for that much money is either in a bank or in a war bond, and if it is in a war bond, the the bond hould be in the bank, too. And while we are on banks, you will go long ways before you will find y place where they have more alert employes, and where you get nicer treatment. If you have a hundred dollar ond or a few 20 dollar bills under the mattress or in a fruit jar, you letter take heed and go down to the lank with them. No banker is paying me a nickel for writing this, but think it is time somebody gave thee boys a kind word, and a boost, so I do so. S' y, - I Wayne James arrangements at the beachhead afuntil the morning after ter dur first wave of assault troops had hit the shore. By the time we AN EIGHTH AAF FIGHTER got here the beaches had been takThe Air England en .and the fighting had moved a STATION, for Medal, reexceptionally meritorcouple of miles inland. All that mained on were some ious service has been awarded to . sniper and artillery fire and an Lieutenant Wayne W. James of occasional startling blast of a mine Hyrum, Utah it has been announced geysering brown sand into the air. by the Eighth AAF Fighter ComThat, plus a gagantaic and piti- mand Headquarters. ful Jitter of wreckage along miles Accompanying the decoration to old flyer was a citation line. Submerged the of the shore which stated, The courage, cooltanks and upturned boats skill and ness burned trucks and displayed by Lieutenreflects James sad ant the and little great credit upon jeeps personal belongings strewn forever on these himself and the Armed Forces of. the United States. bitter sands, f Lieutenant James, son of Mr. and That, plus bodies of soldiers g in rows covered with blankets Mrs. William H. James of 419 Vall-aj- o he toes of their shoes sticking up Street, Crockett, California, is n a line as though on drill. And a graduate of South Cache High ther ' uncollected bodies School, Hyrum, Utah, in the class prawling grotesquely in the sand of 39. He left his studies at Utah ' :r by high grass be- State Agricultural College to enter the Air Corps in October, hind the beach. 942.. That, plus a intense grim deter- He won his wings and commission mination of y men to get just one year later. Lieutenant James scored his first the chaotic beach One of the most terrible accients organized and over the Luftwaffe when and victory rethat has ever occured in Hyrum get the supplies was the one last Sunday in which inforcements moving more rapidly he registered a .Double Kill when ever it from the stacked-u- p ships he shot down two Stuka-div- e JLtrold Nordick lost his life. " It bombers and damaged two others in droves out to sea. , happened down in'West Hyrum landing that were bound for the invasion when Mr. Nordick was going to 4 Pure Miracle Now that it is over, it seems to coast of France. his land to irrigate. I have two very fine pictures of He had to cross the tracks of the me a pure miracle we ever took fhe after his flight if any of you all. For beach Wayne at it I. U. some C. Rairoad and as he was gowas folks ill would but like to see them just this sector the his tracks easy, stalled special car ing over ur and then seeing the street car com- where I now troops faced call in at this office. ing he told his wife to jump which such odds that our getting ashore she did dragging one of her little was like me whipping Joe Louis maze nearly as deadly before they boys with her. Unable to open the down to pulp. ashore. The underwater obgot In this column I want to tell I -- ,'eels. Invasion of France Bloody Battle Article Written at War Zone By Ernie Pyle -- It really helps the VOTE FOR By COLLIER Avay, Boys ! Darwin Baxter who is stationed in Italy tells some very interesting Low Down From Hickory Grove town to see many fine lights on the park aad to know that the young people are playing soft ball. Say folks have you sen the kids play they re Plenty good. We hope to have a game With Wellsville this coming week. So watch for it and yu will see a good game. i From Itlay , the Ycko Writes Letter Last week he met Dee Savage nd both 'boys were thrilled beyond expression. They had a good visit or a day. Dee gave him two Im srovement Eras and the next day Darwin received the Courier and luiried over to Dees camp to let lim read it, but Dee had already moved on. He says it is a rugged life, but he tougher it gets the better he ikes it. He has met some very fine ellows, they would do anything for aim and he would for them. The ioys watch anxiously for news from France and the other fronts. He tates that he is proud of every minute he has spent in the United States Army. Darwin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. The thing that I think is the J. B. Baxter of this city. most awful thing in the world is The Baxters also received word to see children who their his week th.it their son Alden had parents have neglected running around the been made radio man on a big ship streets dirty with their hair ind that he was put out to sea. and clothes torning and barefooted. To me this could be 'brought under control by people who care. We dont see much of this in little towns but when vou o to the city you see plenty of it. A Public 3 g( the day the mart DEMOCRATIC NUMBER FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1944 Hyrum Utah, hl stacles were terrific. The Germans had whole Helds of evil devices under the water to catch our boats. Even now, several days after the landings, we have cleared only channels through them, and cannot yet approach the whole length of the beach with our ships. Even now a ship or boat hits one of these mines every day and is knocked out of commission. The Germans had masses of those great spiders made of railroad iron and standing shoulder high in places ' just beneath the surface of the water for our landing craft to run into. They also had huge logs buried in the sand pointing upward and outward, their tops just below the water. And attached to these logs were mines. Our first waves were on that beach for hours instead of a few minutes before they could begin Men were killed working inland. as they stepped out of the landing craft. An officer whom I know got a bullet right through the head just as the door of his landing craft was let down. Some were drowned. The first crack of the beach was finally accomplished by terrific and wonderful naval gunfire which knocked out the big emplacements. They tell epic stories of destroyers that ran right up into shallow water and had it out point, blank with the big guns in those ' concrete emplacements ashore. When the heavy fire stopped our men were organized by their officers and pushed on inland, circling mlachine-gu- n nests and takinig them from the rear. And so we took that beach and accomplished our We landing. did it with every advantage on 'the enemy s side and every disadvantage on ours. In the light of a couple of days retrospection we sit and talk, and call it a miracle that we ever got on at all or that we were able to stay on. de-fen- se. Call 51-- J with your news,' i . - |