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Show Fightin1 Binghamites Report Chief Gunners Mate Hosmer Peterson, son of Mrs. Edith Peterson, Pe-terson, recently received promotion promo-tion to his present rank. Electrician's Mate 3C Robert Harris is now stationed at Tibur-on, Tibur-on, Calif., taking floating Dry Dock training. Seaman 2'C Norton and wife, the former Sylvia Marshall, are announcing birth of a son at LDS hospital August 2. "Both doing well" was the message flashed to the father in the South Pacific. Pvt. Francis Owen Boulware, whose wife, Mrs. Oradell Boulware, Boul-ware, resides here, has been assigned as-signed to the army service forces training center at Camp Plauche, New Orleans, for basic military training. After his basic work he is to receive nine weeks specialized special-ized training in the transportation transporta-tion corps. lie is a former Utah Copper company employee. Pfc Burt Allen, with three years' army service behind him, recently was given a 15-day furlough fur-lough from the Aleutian islands, where he has been stationed 18 months, lie and his wife, whose home is at Long Beach, visited Pfc Allen's aunt, Mrs. S. T. Ner-din, Ner-din, last week end. A dinner Friday, Fri-day, complimenting Pfc and Mrs. Allen, was at the Nerdin home and Mrs. Louis Babcock and daughter, dau-ghter, Shonnee, Ogden attended. Mr. and Mrs. Jack V. Householder House-holder and son, Jimmy, left Saturday Sat-urday evening for Pattonsburg, Mo., where Mrs. Householder and little boy will remain with her mother, Mrs. Virgil Stitt, for the duration. Jack, an FBI man at Washington, D. C, the past four years, will report August 12 for induction into the armed forces, Pfc Stanley Planas, formerly of Castle Gate, Utah, and more recently of New York, and Coxswain Cox-swain George Gardikis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gardikis of Copperfield, arrived Monday to spend a 20-day furlough at the Gardikis home. Coxswain Gardikis Gar-dikis has taken part in seven major engagements (Santa Cruz, New Guinea, Saipan, Palau, Marshall and Gilbert islands, Truk) and wears service stripes denoting North African, European, Euro-pean, American theatres of operation. op-eration. Merchant Marine Eugene Ro-gerson Ro-gerson recently wrote Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rogerson from New Guinea that "this is an awful hole worse than the V-level on the Utah Copper mine." Tech. Sgt. Frank R. Begley, formerly in North Africa, writes that he recently mailed his mother, mo-ther, Mrs. Thomas Rogerson, some dishes he had watched being be-ing made and that he is now stationed sta-tioned close to a seashore and enjoys watching about 15 varieties varie-ties of beautiful singing birds, lie especially appreciated a recent re-cent gift from his mother, packages pack-ages of different flavors of Kool Aid which made the most refreshing re-freshing drinks Tech. Sgt. Begley Beg-ley had in many a day. Seaman 2 C Lynn Woolsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Nepolis of Lead Mine, left Saturday morning morn-ing to return to duty at San Diego. Merchant Marine Max Johnson is recovering from an illness which has kept him confined to a San P'rancisco marine hospital, according to word received by Mr. and Mrs. Christ Apostal. Sgt. Robert Crellin arrived last Saturday to spend a week with his wife and daughter and his mother, Mrs. James Crellin. Bob has been stationed at Fort Ord, Calif., the past two months, and plans to leave Sunday by plane for Camp McClellan, Ala. Before being stationed at Fort Ord he was in New Guinea for 26 months. mon-ths. Frank Serassio of Lark, Bob's buddy, has left Fort Ord and is now at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. Missis-sippi. Frank also served in New Guinea for 26 months. Mr Robert Rob-ert Crellin came from California, where she spent two weeks, wim her husband. "Rain in Texas", that's something some-thing to talk about, writes Pvt. Theodore C. Dimas, from Camp Wolters, Texas. Rain for one whole day is something even more unusual than California's publicity admits. A S Carlyle Carter of Farragut telephoned his wife, Betty, at Lark, that navy life is swell and to tell his friends "hello". Seaman 1C Max B. Salazar, a veteran of South and Central Pacific Pa-cific engagements, writes that his outfit has been recommended for a presidential citation. |