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Show Home Town Boys Get Together In icw Guinea Proving that the world isn't so large after all, two Springville Spring-ville men, in different branches branch-es of the armed services, met ' recently "way down under" in New Guinea, renewed their friendship and talked about happenings in their home town. The two men, Lt. Joe Salisbury, Salis-bury, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G Salisbury, with the army air corps, and Sgt. Floyd "Chet" Crandall, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Crandall, stationed sta-tioned in New Guinea with the army, were mighty happy to get together, according to a 4 letter received by Joe's parents. par-ents. The letter, in part, reads: "I am away from my home base for a few weeks. You must have heard by now that Chet Crandall and I . got together. to-gether. He heard about my outfit and sent me a note, so as soon as I arrived I looked him up. It was his day off, so he came over to my area and helped us get our camp settled. Boy, it was good to swap stories and then talk of everyone we knew at home. I wish I could send you a picture pic-ture showing Lt. Salisbury and Sgt. Crandall digging a straddle trench in the jungle of torrid New Guinea. Boy, we worked up a sweat, anyway." Lt. Salisbury is attached to the 46th Troop carrier squadron squad-ron and has been based at Australia for the past few months. Sgt. Crandall has been in New Guinea for the past several sev-eral months. |