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Show Our Servicemen . . Kdilor's Nd(c: (onl ribiitionx to this column each week from the families, mid friends of servicemen, service-men, will he apprcciatiMl. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ticrnard Robertson, Matt and Lee Kohertson have each received an 1 ' i j- .... , Diego, Calif., serving as seaman guard and also as a fireman. He was assigned to his ship on June 4, and is now barbaring in the ship's barber shop. Mr. and Mrs. DeMoyne Blackley are spending a 15-day furlough with Mr. Blackley's mother, Mrs. Blanch Blackley Brown and other relatives here. They also spent a few days in Las Vegas, with Mrs. Blackley's sister. They are to return re-turn to Fort Sill, Okla., August 16. Ron Roylance, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Roylance, taking his basic at San Diego, Calif., recently recent-ly passed his mathmatics test placing third highest in his company. com-pany. This is not only a nice thing for Pun but it also speaks well of his math teaclier in high school here. He has been in basic four weeks. Echoes of the recent Oklahoma cyclone which did a million dollars dol-lars damage, was heard in Springville Spring-ville this week, when Mrs. Blanch Blackley Brown roceived a letter from her son Leon, who is now in the hospital at Fort Sill, Okla., as result of the cyclone. Leon was one of the boys who hearing the cyclone coming dived into a nearby near-by stream of water pulling a mattress over him. He stayed in the water through the night but the effects prpved as bad as a cyclone. He has had to have his spine tapped and had been confined con-fined to the hospital 12 days when the letter was written. Seaman Boyd Sorensen, Jr., returned re-turned to the United States last week aboard the U. S. S. Duncan, the ship on which he has been stationed. sta-tioned. With him were Ray Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Barker, also of Springville and Sheldon Elmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Elmer of Payson, who have both been on duty aboard the Duncan. The Duncan, a Radar destroyer, has participated in the shelling of shore batteries in Korea, and has been active in many of the major actions at Wanson harbor. On hand to greet Seaman Sorensen Sor-ensen when he docked in San Diego were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Sorensen, Sr., and his brother Dick. They made the trip to the coast especially to see him, and remained in San Diego for five days while the boys had shore leave. The Duncan will soon go into drydock, and the boys expect to remain in the training. Seaman Sorensen went into service in the navy last January and after eleven weeks of boot training was shipped overseas where he has been in some of the thickest fighting where the navy has taken part. Mr. and Mrs. Sorensen also visited vi-sited Duane Roylance of Springville, Spring-ville, who is stationed at San Diego, working in the office of the naval officers there. Springville instructor Omar M. Hansen has recently been promoted pro-moted from the rank of Lieutenant Lieuten-ant (jg) to a full Lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve. Lieutenant Hansen received his promotion while serving as an instructor in-structor in the Navy's Reserve Officer Candidate School at Treasure Trea-sure Island, Calif., the past several sev-eral weeks. Robert D. Herbert, telsman, second class, USN, husband of Mrs. Beth Herbert of 98 A St., Brookside, is serving aboard the Military Sea Transportation Service Ser-vice Ship USS Thomas Jefferson. Lee Robertson, F. N. . v.- - .. t Pvt. Matt Robertson Herbert, a Naval veteran of World War II, was ordered to active duty in September, 1950. Lt. Keith S. Mendenhall and his wife and little daughter, are expected ex-pected to arrive in the United States the latter part of this advancement recently in the two separate branches of the service in which they are serving. Pvt. Matt received his wings on July 20 after completing five successful suc-cessful jumps to qualify him as a paratrooper. He went into the service ser-vice on November 20, 1950, and took his basic at Fort Riley, Kan. He joined the paratroops from the base and was then sent to Fort Campbell, Ky. Here he enrolled in an ordinance school, still at Fort Campbell. Lee Robertson, F. N. was recently recent-ly assigned a ship and is now aboard the USS Fulton, a submarine submar-ine tender craft which is presently pres-ently tied up at Norfolk, Va. We went nito the Navy April 7, 1919, and took his basic at San month, Aug. 26 or 27 from Japan, where Lt. Mendenhall has spent the past three years. Mrs. Mendenhall Menden-hall joined her husband in Japan two years ago. They set sail Aug. 15 Lt. Mendenhall, who is the first pilot on a C-54, has been making two and three trips to Korea each week for the past few months. His plane is a troop carrier and it takes troops into Korea and brings back wounded men. After a few days furlough, Lt. and Mrs. Mendenhall and daughter daugh-ter will go to Alexandria, La., where he expects to be enrolled in a jet flying school, to learn to fly the biggest and fastest jet planes. Lt. Mendenhall received his senior phot's wings several months ago, which signifies his ability as a flyer and the many hours of flying time he has to his credit. |