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Show UTAH SOLDIERS IN TEXAS TO BE ENTERTAINED Several hundred soldiers from the state of Utah, including a great many from central and southern Utah, are planning "Utah State Night" on the evening of November Novem-ber 14 in order to provide an. opportunity op-portunity for all the men from the Beehive state in service at Shep-pard Shep-pard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, to get together for a reunion and some really western entertainment. entertain-ment. This is to be the third in the series of "state nights," to be held for soldiers of Sheppard Field, the basic training center for the army air forces. "Utah State Night" is being handled by an all-soldier committee commit-tee with the cooperation of unstinted unstint-ed help of the USO club in nearby Wichita Falls. The affair will be held in the Lamar USO. Music, singing, refreshments and entertainment enter-tainment of all sorts will feature the program for the evening. Chairman for the event is Pvt. Monitor C. Noyce, of the 62nd air base squadron, and Salt Lake City. In the past, the volunteer response re-sponse from civilians of the respective res-pective states has been most gratifying gra-tifying in the form of messages of greeting from individuals and groups, a variety of edibles, and personal articles such as shaving cream, handkerchiefs, socks and many other items the contributions contribu-tions have been spontaneous In all cases. Committee members of the "Utah State Night" are: Corresponding Corres-ponding secretary, Corp. Frank Owen, Hq. & Hq Sqd., BTC, Kenil-worth; Kenil-worth; publicity, Pvt. Virgil Coombs, 405th Sch. Sqd., and Corp. Nelson Jack, 401st Sch. Sqd., both of Salt Lake City; entertainment, Pvt. Earl W. Orton, 403rd Sch. Sqd., and Pvt. Donald F. Duce, 403rd Sch. Sqd., Provo; artwork, 'Corp. T. Milton Wassmer, 404th Sch. Sqd., Salt Lake City. The committee, which expects "Utah State Night" to excell all previous efforts, is receiving the full support of all the soldiers from Utah. |