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Show LOCAL WAVE IS ONE OF FIRST TO GO OVERSEAS Lois Hales of this city, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hales of Salt Lake, one of the first four Utah girls to enlist in the WAVES recently volunteered and has been accepted for overseas duty, according ac-cording to word received here and she is one of the first 200 to leave the United States for overseas duty. Miss Hales, a storekeeper first class, enlisted in the WAVES on Sept. 25, 1942. She received her initial training in Indiana, and her first assignment was in the disbursing dis-bursing offices at Cleveland, Ohio. Later, she did Public Relations work for the service, and assisted assist-ed in the publication of the first WAVE national song book. She was later sent to Bainbridge, Md., and received her present rating. Recently she was transferred to Shoemaker, Calif., and her latest address is in care of the Fleet Post Office at San Francisco. With Miss Hales on overseas assignment, is Lila Watson of New York City, a close friends who was inducted at the same time and who was accepted with Miss Hales for overseas assignment. |