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Show Local Serviceman Tells Of Conditions In Occupied Europe . . . r More covered wagons passed by today. It is the same old story or the returning refugees. They will no doubt be on the move for a long time yet and most of them will find their homes destroyed when they reach their final destinations. desti-nations. The immediate future isn't too bright for them as yet, in spite of their newly acquired freedom, but at least it is a beginning begin-ning and we all hope for the better. bet-ter. After seeing such sights day after day one would think that the number would start to show a decrease, but as yet it doesn't. There seems to be just as many each day if not more. Germany certainly did transport a lot of people into this country. If you get a chance to see the show that Is being put on the screen in the States about the camps, etc., over here, go to it. I understand there are plenty of drastic scenes in the film but I'm still of the opinion everyone in the States should at least try to see it and then no one in the future will have any excuse to put off raising their voices against wars and such treatment to any peoples as has been done by Hitler and his mob. I'm sorry that I didn't get to see the actual sight as it was originally origi-nally but I saw enough to be able to judge about how everything was. Let me tell you a bit more about the people still alive as I saw them at the camp I visited. It was one of the worst camps but there are some more notorious. What I say about one person will hold true for all of them, on the whole. You know how thin and delicate a newborn babe looks, even a healthy heal-thy one. Little arms, little legs. One of your fingers may even be able to encircle these parts without with-out hurting the child. It's neck may appear a little long for its body (or it may be short) while its head seems to be quite large. Well, multiply all these things to a person who is grown to maturity matur-ity in years. He has his size In height and maybe in breadth, but other than this, he is just as much like a baby as the baby itself. I could put my hand around the biggest part of the fellow's arms and legs without pinching him. Standing side by side, I could put my arm around his waist and be (Continued on Page Twelve) Local Serviceman . . . (Continued from Page One) front-line action. Another passing thought. I very well remember the last time I was in Springville, just prior to my overseas assignment. Verl Whiting, Whit-ing, our much respected president of the Jaycees, gave me a ride over Utah valley in the local club's airplane, for which I promised prom-ised him a ride in one of our aircraft. air-craft. That promise still holds due to present circumstances he will have to wait for a few weeks but he will still get his ride. My question is : Is the local Jaycee organization, The Springville Herald, Her-ald, and Springville as a city, backing the future of aviation for Springville? My experience in five years of flying indicates that an air-minded committee on aviation could do a great deal for a city like Springville. There are a lot of "home town" Springville folks that have done a great deal of flying. fly-ing. There are still more that have served as aircraft mechanics, specialists spe-cialists in aviation, engineers in runway construction, and innumerable innum-erable other phases so closely related re-lated to the future of aviation that they will all want to do some flying, fly-ing, and it definitely will be Springville's loss if some provision provi-sion is not made in Springville, for these ex-servicemen to not find a place in their own "home town." Best wishes, and until my return re-turn to Springville, Sincerely, Capt. Don Anderson. |