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Show OurServiraen . . Lloyd Madsen Is Back in Germany He gets the newspaper from home a month or so late, but it is still news from home to him reports re-ports Lloyd Madsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Madsen, in a letter this week to his parents. Lloyd has been on maneuvers in Tripoli, Trip-oli, northern Africa for about six weeks, making the trip in plane over the high Alps. He has now returned re-turned to his station at Munich, Germany. While he enjoyed the Mediterranean Sea, the terrific dust storms at Tripoli were miserable, miser-able, he said. Since coming back to Germany, he has enrolled in night school taking a course in international political relations. Lloyd was recently promoted to corporal and is serving with the air force. 55 seperate curricula. The training Capt. Laney receives re-ceives in this school will extend over approximately a 40 week period. When graduated he will be assigned to field duty or to another school for advanced training. James D. Gore, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gore of Springville, is home on a 30-day leave from the Navy, where he served as baker. He is to report back to his naval station at San Diego, Calif., on November No-vember 15. While in Springville he called in at the Herald office to express his appreciation for the Herald, which goes to all servicemen service-men with compliments of Ralph E. Child and the Springville Herald. Assigned Ron Roylance, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Roylance, who has been training at the naval base in San Diego, Calif., has received his assignment to remain at the base and will be in the welfare and recreational department. On Furlough Pfc. Ira Neil Allen of Mapleton, has been home on furlough for the past 24 days and has reported back to Camp Stoneman. He was accompanied ac-companied on the return trip by his sister, Margene and cousin, Helen Stanley of Heber City. Horace Crandall. formerly of Springville, is the bombadier. Dean Allen of Mapleton is the left gunner and Russell is tha right gunner. These two boys have been fortunate in being together since going into the service nearly ten months ago. The radio operator oper-ator is from Salt Lake, and the pilot from Logan. Russell states that Capt. Funk's wife is a relative rela-tive of the Cherringtons in Springville. Spring-ville. He further reports that Theron Laney was down to dinner and he saw him. He is going to electronics school in Mississippi, soon, he said. The tail gunner on the plane is Jay Lundell of Spanish Fork. He said the- Mormon chaplain chap-lain from Lackland was planning on sending over his I. & E. officer to take pictures of the men now they are all crewed up. CAMP DESERT ROCK. Nev., Oct. 17. . .1st Lt. Donald P. Frand-sen. Frand-sen. husband of Carma Hopla Frandsen and son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Frandsen, of Springville, is one of the 5,000 men of the Armed Forces participating in "Exercise Desert Rock" near Las Vegas, Nev. He is a member of the service troops supporting Third Corps, which is headquarters for the operation, op-eration, under the command of Mai. Gen. William B. Kean. "Desert Rock" is a training exercise ex-ercise conducted by the Army to familiarize ground troops with the tactics, organization and problems prob-lems of atomic warfare. The exercise ex-ercise will take place at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Ne-vada test site, but is separate from the scientific developemental work at the site. Tho service troops will not take part in the actual tests. A battalion bat-talion of combat troops will establish es-tablish a battle position, including entrenchments, barbed wire and emplacements of weapons. Prior to the actual detonation, the combat com-bat troops will withdraw to predetermined pre-determined positions of safety. General Kean has stressed that the troops will not be exposed to unnecessary un-necessary danger. "The Army si leaning over backward" to insure the safety of troops in the test maneuvers, the general stated. Keesler AFB, Miss., October 18 . . .Capt. Theon Laney, son of Mr. and Mr. George C. Laney, 348 North 1st. Street West, Springville, Spring-ville, recently reported to Keesler Air Force Base to begin training in the Ground Electronics Officers School, an integral part of the "Electronics Training Center of the World" located only a few hundred hun-dred feet north of the Gulf of Mexico, at Biloxi, Mississippi. Housing the 3380th Technical Training Wing, Keesler is "also known as the "Push-Button College Col-lege of the Air Force." Here, incoming in-coming students will attend one of 16 different schools, offering over |