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Show Utah Publisher Visits Springville Navyman Aboard Ship Near Norway aboard, but a pharmacist's mate I in the USS Brownson was so skil- . I led in sotting Mickle's leg that doctors aboard the Midway pronounced pro-nounced it satisfactory, and placed a cast on the injured member with- out further work. By Albert XV. Epperson Publisher of the Morgan County News, serving as an observer on Operation Main Brace, being held in the North Sea, off the shores of Norway. Up and around again after an attack of acute seasickness is Fredrick H. Clark, 22, of Springville, Spring-ville, who, on September 3 was transferred via "highline" from the destroyer USS Roberts, to the giant aircraft carrier USS Midway. Seaman Clark, who has been in the navy a little more than a year, is serving his first tour of sea duty. He became ill shortly after leaving Norfolk, Va. on the Main Brace operation, and was unable to eat for nine days. When it became apparent that . young Clark's condition was critical, criti-cal, the destroyer Roberts pulled along side the Midway and the "highline" was rigged. Asked what he thought as the stretcher bobbed above the sea between two shins, Clark said, "I expected any minute min-ute to be turned upside down in the water." Placed in sick bay immediately after coming aboard the Midway, Clark was soon able to start eating eat-ing normal rations. The Midway, a 45,000-ton aircraft carrier, "is like shore duty" compared to riding rid-ing a destroyer, seamen assert, so the Utahn should not have any more trouble for the duration of the cruise. A sen of Mr. and Mrs. Horace W. Clark of Springville, the young seaman is married to the former Maureen Richmond of Gary, Ind. She lives with his parents in Springville and attends the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young Universitv at Provo. Clark attended BYU for three and one-half years, where he majored in music. Commander V. W. Senter, ship's surgeon and senior sen-ior medical officer, learning that Clark is an accomplished organist, has prescribed sessions at the ship's organ for convalescent therapy. ther-apy. Following boot camp, Clark spent six months at the navy Sonar school at Key West, Fla., and ho was serving aboard the Roberts as a sonarman. "My only regret at leaving the Roberts is that I won't now get to compete in the crew's beard-growing contest," the seaman said, in exhibiting a substantial growth of dark whiskers. "We were competing compet-ing for a $150 watch," he said. Clark was the second ailing seaman to be brought aboard the Midway from a destroyer since the cruise started August 26 from Norfolk. Jeffie Mickle of Cordcs-ville, Cordcs-ville, N. C. was brought over on the "highline" on September 1, suffering from a broken leg. None of the destroyers have doctors |