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Show time-consurninj? tris to and from the continental United States. Sta-tes. Seaman 2 C Jimmy Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown ol Copperton, was outstandingly uccesfful in his participation in the basketball tournament at the San Diego naval training base. Hi ended tourney play as high point man and was one of the big reasons his team, Seamens Guard, defeated Ship Service 39-31 39-31 and 57-25 to win the base i hampiottahip. Jimmy's competition compe-tition included college basketball basket-ball players, coaches and specialists. Fightin1 Binghamites Report I Signalman 3C Russell Boren has written home that his ship had a part in the Okinawa invasion in-vasion and was responsible for shooting down of a Japanese plane. Seaman 1 C Barbara Cnwdell ol Clearfield spent Mother's day With Mr. and Mrs. E, J. Cowdell of Copperton. Pvt Robert Davis of Camp Roberts arrived home last Friday Fri-day on 10-day furlough, He leaves next Tuesday to report at Fort Old, Calif. Sgt. William K Denver arrived arriv-ed Monday from March Held. Calif., where he report:' al eon-elusion eon-elusion of a two-week furlough. Seaman 1 C Gail Davies Fartis-worth Fartis-worth writes from the Marianas that the scenery is beautiful and the climate agreeable, HM 2 C Benny Perea. son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Garcia, arrived arriv-ed home on a five-day leave from San Diego to be present at graduation grad-uation exercises from Bingham high school Wednesday evening and received his diploma as a member of the class of 11)45. S 2C JIMMY BROWN Two years in the WAVES is behind Jackie Winzella Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs James Jackson of Copperton. who was rated as petty officer third class preceding an honorable discharge from service. Miss Jackson trained train-ed at Hunter college and Stillwater. Still-water. Okla., A. & M. Her assignment assign-ment at Washington, D, C, was u secretarial position. Ernest Martin Prigmore, fireman fire-man second class, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs Ernest Pnemorc of 10 Heglund Ave., whose wife,! Mrs. Olive Prigmore. resides at Sandy, now has duty in the Ship Repair Unit at Naval Drydocks, Hunters Point, San Francisco. The SRU's, as thev are known in navy parlance, that are pre- ' sently in service overseas, have proved invaluable in saving cost j ly time in getting fighting shins back to the fleet. Thev effect repairs re-pairs at bases in the advance areas and thus eliminate the Jimmy wrote Coach Warren G. Allsop that he was thrilled to be on ceremonies stand with such players as Talmage Christensen from B.Y.U. and doubly excited to have the base commodore shake his hand, kid him about being small among the six-foot four-inch men and present him with an eight-inch gold basketball basket-ball trophy. The audience included in-cluded ten thousand navy personnel. per-sonnel. DelMar Shick was drafted draft-ed for the finals but was in action ac-tion but a short time during the last name of the tournament. Alter two years in Australia and the Pacific, M. M. 2 C Or ley E. Bills arrived Monday from the Admiralty islands to spend a 30-day leave with his wife Joy and daughter Janice Irene at the Arthur Bent ley home and in Mid-vale Mid-vale with relatives and friends Ll Walter P. Bolie is now stationed sta-tioned at Honolulu, Hawaii |