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Show LOCAL OFFICER LOSES LIFE IN PLANE CRASH Services Friday At 2 P. M. For Lt. LeVere Clegg; Killed Saturday In Nebraska Townspeople and relatives will pay final tribute Friday afternoon in the First ward chapel to Lt. LaVere Wadley Clegg, 22, army pilot, of this city, who is believed to be the first Springville man to lose his life in the service of his country during the present war. The services will be conducted with full military honors at 2 p. m., and in special tribute, practically all of the business houses of the city will be closed during the services. ser-vices. The body arrived here Wednesday Wednes-day from Harvard, Nebr., and friends may call at the family residence, res-idence, 548 South, Third East St., before the services. Burial will be in the Provo City cemetery. Lt. Clegg lost his life Saturday evening in an airplane accident in which fourteen airmen were killed. While particulars of the accident are not yet known, meagre reports re-ports stated that two army bombers bomb-ers collided while on routine flight near Harvard air base, Harvard, Nebraska. Lt. Clegg had been at the air base approximately three weeks, having been chosen one of fifteen from a group of 200 flyers to take the special training at the Nebraska Nebras-ka base. He was born in Vineyard, Dec. 2, 1921, a son of J. Wallace and Mary Wadley Clegg. A graduate of the Springville high school, he entered the Utah National Guard, Springville unit, in April of 1940, and in March of 1941, he left with the unit for training at San Luis Obispo, California. In April, 1942, Lt. Clegg transferred trans-ferred to the air corps, taking his preflight training at Santa Ana, Tulare, and Lancaster, Calif. He received his commission and pilot's wings last April 19, at Roswell Field, N. M., and later, transition training at Hobbs, N. M. From Hobbs, N. M.( he was transferred to Moses Lake, Wash., and was a t this camp when he was selected to take special training at Harvard. Har-vard. The latter part of July he spent a short furlough in Springville, Spring-ville, visiting relatives and friends. Surviving, besides hla parents, are three brothers and two sisters, Eugene Clegg, stationed with the army air corps at Clovis, N. M., Howard and Don Clegg, and Helen Hel-en and Marilyn Clegg of Springville; Spring-ville; also a grandmother, Mrs. Rosella Wadley, of Pleasant Grove. |