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Show i Armed Forces Keith Bulkley Joins Navy Word has been received that ; Keith Bulkley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bulkley of Maywood, Calif., former residents of this city, has joined the Navy and is stationed at San Diego, Calif., for his boot training. Grant E. Palfreyman Sends News Item An interesting account of the Seabees, of which he is a member, was sent in recently by Grant E. Palfreyman from somewhere in the Pacific, and gives the folks back home an idea of their work. The third anniversary of the workingist, fightingest bunch of men in the nation of armed forces, the Navy Seabeas, was observed on Dec. 26 by some 240,000 officers offi-cers and men of the U. S. Naval construction battallion. Born just three weeks after the Pearl Harbor disaster with an authorized au-thorized strength of 3,000, the Seabees won their spurs at Guadalcanal Guad-alcanal and have been with the assault troops in every major American Amphibious operation. They can now boast that they built the network of air' and naval bases in the Pacific that have pushed the Japs back 3,000 miles; that they developed amphibious equipment equip-ment and technique that helped carry the day on the African, Sicilian, Sic-ilian, Italian and Normandy beachheads. General MacArthur recently said of the Seabees, "the only trouble with the Seabees is that we don't have enough of them." Lt. Mark C. Whiting Sends Greetings From Lt. j.g. Mark C. Whiting stationed somewhere in the Navy, this week came a Christmas greet-i greet-i ing and also a note of appreciation apprecia-tion for the Springville Herald. Local Man Is RIade Lieutenant Allan Stewart, son of Mrs. Bertha Ber-tha Stewart of this city, has graduated grad-uated from officers' training at Fort Belvoir, Va., and has been commissioned a second lieutenant, according to word received here. An interesting item in connection connec-tion with his graduation was the fact that his sister-in-law, Phyllis Weight, who is stationed with the WAVES in -Washington, D. C, attended at-tended the graduatioin and pinned the bars on Lt. Stewart. His wife, the former Dorothy Weight, left on Saturday to join her husband, who expects to soon go to Fort Lewis, Wash. |