Show t. t Tepee a a T Topics i M rBy i By TOMMIE PORTER Many Many irany folks think because a feIl fellow w is in the coast guard he I hash has hasa I a comparatively soft job and never gets into real action writes Eli Elie former Utah all-Utah prep basketball and football star at Brigham who joined the coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard two years ago hoping to get duty among the waving palms displayed on the posters but was assigned to service in Alaska Well WeIl those folks are simply all wet he continues for the coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard does practically everything and automatically be becomes omes an integral in integral integral in- in part of the naVy nary when our country goes to war Why in World War I the guard lost a greater percentage of personnel in iii action than the army or the navy Weve Veve got tradition too datIng dating dating dat dat- ing back to 1790 when the guard then called the Revenue Cutter Service was organized by George Washington then president of the ol of U. U S S. S Of course we have been officially called the coast guard only since 1915 but the traditions are still tops Did you know that we take care of more than miles mUes of coast line including a lot of inland service on the Great lakes and such stick streams as the Mississippi Mississippi l sippi And Chief I mean it when I Isay Isay Isay say we do everything for our duties include enforcement of laws and rules on liquor narcotics and other contraband which at one onetime onetime onetime time included checking the slave trade movements of vessels in harbors and coastal waters immigration immigration immigration gration and quarantine convoy of transport and supply vessels vessels' in tim time pf of war whale sponge and seal fishing ice patrol which in includes includes includes in- in blasting of iceBergs which drift Into shipping lanes lighthouse lighthouse lighthouse light light- house and buoy service and now the submarine p pat patrol a t r o 0 l 1 flying duties Life saving while an Important important important tant part of our dut duty is just a small portion of our regular work At that It keeps plenty of us busy and last year the guard saved sa some lives in rescue duties at wrecked or disabled disabled disabled dis dis- dis- dis ships Sure I caught Alaska duty in instead instead instead in- in stead of the palm-lined palm south Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- concludes Eli but in this outfit things are great no matter where a fellow is located We dont don't have the strict discipline of the navy and while we are kept busy manage to get time for some fishing and even hunting or sight sight- seeing Its It's a great outfit and Im I'm proud to be in it Elwood Rusty Davidson former Bingham high school football flash has returned to active duty with the U U. S S. S navy after a brief visit isit at his home home Rusty has little or nothing to say about It but wears a long scar as mute evidence of his action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion with whit the Japs at Pearl harbor harbor harbor har har- bor where he lie was credited with downing an enemy plane Friends and relatives recently spotted Bob Crellin former Bingham prep baseball and basketball basketball basketball bas bas- star In an Associated Press of American troops disembarking in Australia Bob had not written home for some time but within a few minutes after The Telegram was distributed in Bingham C Canyon nyon scores of friends had identified him in the and telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned his family or other friends Steve Amicone another former former former for for- mer Bingham prep athlete Is also I on active e duty in Australia |