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Show Armed Forces The following letter was received receiv-ed by Mayor John I. Holley of Ma-pleton Ma-pleton and expresses the appreciation apprecia-tion of a Mapleton man for the Christmas gifts sent to Mapleton men in the armed services. The letter is given in part as follows: "Dear Mayor Holley: "You are surely making a number num-ber of men very happy by making them a present of a year's subscription sub-scription to the Reader's Digest and the Springville Herald. "I didn't realize before how much it helps to read about what is going on in the 'Old Home all be back in your midst. "Wishing you, your family, and all my aear menus ui vi.ayic(,un a Happy and enjoyable New Year, "Sincerely, "Don Bird." Carl W. Jackson, son of Mrs. Mary Jackson of this city, has come from Alaska to spend a few days furlough with his mother and other relatives. A first class private pri-vate in a radio station with the coast artillery corps, he has been in the army 18 months. He is one of four sons which Mrs. Jackson has in the armed forces. Town.' My second Herald came today, to-day, and the first a week ago today. to-day. I want to extend my deepest deep-est appreciation to all of you who are responsible for doing such a good deed for the men in the service ser-vice from Mapleton. I'm certain you'll all be well rewarded for your efforts, by the type of work being done by the men in service for the country. "Even though I've written to any of you but very little, I think of all of you often, and hope you are in the best of health and enjoying enjoy-ing life as much as possible under such trying conditions. "It will soon be two years since I came into the service. When I Ted Thorn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orland Thorn, has been spending an 8-day leave of absence from the navy with his parents and other relatives here. He enlisted in the navy in July, 1939, and since that time has served on a destroyer and a mine sweeper. He received his early training at San Diego, Calif. He is a second class gunner's mate and this is his first trip home in more than 18 months. Virgil Ostler, who is stationed with the army at a camp in Colorado, Colo-rado, spent the holidays with his family and other relatives here. Douglas Brown of this city has been promoted to first sergeant in the TJ. S. army, according to word received by relatives here. Sergeant Ser-geant Brown is station at Camp White, Oregon. He left with the National Guard unit in 1940. Floyd W. Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stewart, who was recently inducted into the army, is stationed at Camp Perry, Ohio, in the ordnance department, according accord-ing to word received here. Interesting stories of the fighting fight-ing zone in the vicinity of the Solomons, Solo-mons, were told here one afternoon during the holidays by B. A. Tiet-jen Tiet-jen of Salt Lake City, a brother of Mrs. Dell Humphrey, who visited them here. A fire controlman, third class, he enlisted in the navy early in January last year, and it was his firsfc visit home. He brought think back it doesn't seem long, but at the same time it seems quite awhile since I was at home, living under very different circumstances. circum-stances. No matter where I've been or what I've been doing, I've never seen a place yet that could compare with our beautiful and peaceful Utah valley, or the people peo-ple who make it what it is. One has to get out and see how other people live to realize how much different dif-ferent our ideals and standards are. They far surpass any I've ever had the opportunity of seeing. "Would you please thank Mrs. Holley for me, for that wonderful cake she sent me? We surely enjoyed en-joyed it, and something of that nature helps a great deal when spending Christmas away from home. I said 'we' enjoyed it, because be-cause we always share and share alike when we receive any cake, candy, etc. Some of the boys were really enthused about that 'cake from Utah.' "I've just finished my third week here. It is very interesting, but plenty of time has to be spent in hard study. My class starts to fly and drop bombs next week. I'll be glad when we'll be able to drop them some place other than on these desert prairies around here. "It is my hope and prayer that this New Year will see all the necessary ne-cessary changes we are all wanting want-ing to see, and that when another year has rolled around that we'll with him souvenirs of a Jap bomb and of a Jap plane with the rising sun insignia, together with a store of experiences received in battles of Guadalcanal and Santa Cruz. He was anxious to return to the battle zone and to get the thing over with, according to his sister. Cadet Morris H. Bird, who is attending at-tending officers' candidate school at Fort Monmouth, N. J., spent a ' few days of the Christmas holidays holi-days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Bird. John Wainwright, stationed with the navv at Fnrrncmt. Tdnhn. in spending a few days leave of absence ab-sence with his family in Springville. |