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Show Springville man travels with U.S. Marines Marine Private Jefferson K. Miner, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson K. Miner of 839 South -2nd East, Springville, was among 900 Marines who spent Thanksgiving Day in the Caribbean, Christmas in Southern South-ern California, New Year's Day in Hawaii and is now in Okinawa. Oki-nawa. The Marines were among 18,000 men called from the West Coast for the United States quarantine operations in the Caribbean during November. Novem-ber. They returned to Camp Pendleton, Calif., early in December De-cember and departed Dec. 27 for Okinawa. New Year's Day was spent in Hawaii. The unit in which the Marines Mar-ines serve is the First Battalion Battal-ion of the Seventh Marine Regiment. Re-giment. The Battalion has joined the Third Marine Division Divi-sion on Okinawa as part of the Seventh Fleet's force in readiness readi-ness in the Far East. Their training will take them to Japan, the Philppines and Hong Kong. Utah: Growers reported 174,-000 174,-000 cwt sound onions in storage stor-age on Jan. 1, 1963, or 62 percent of the 1962 crop. This compares to 78,000 cwt. on hand a year ago and 108,000 cwt. as the 5-year average for January 1, 1957-61. |