Show I With Our In the Service From South PacI Pacific lc Major and Mrs John H Clark and daughter arrIved Tuesday Tue da from Salt Lake CIty for a visit with his mother Mrs Elberta Clark and fam family lly ily Major Clark who saw e ex extensive serVIce m in the army medical corps at Guadalcanal and other othel South Pacific points for more than a em ear recently recent l ly 1 returned ned to the U S Sto Sto to recuperate from flom a serious senous Illness Ses Se eral months ago Major MaJol Clark was as officially awarded a citatIon from flom the commanding general of the area alea for conspICUOUS service and bravery at the Guadal Guadalcanal Guadalcanal canal front Nathaniel Nathamel B Knight KnightJr Jr Jl has arrIved m in Australia according to a letter dated Aug 15 and received by hIS parents yesterday He states that hIS outfit IS living m in a tent camp at present We are having lots of fun learning how to spend AustralIan mon money money ey he states It It s sure a crazy system but I guess we will get used to It tIme in ime Mrs Maude l Moore and famIly now no residing at Van Wash Vash have receIved a number of interesting let letters letters from flom her son S J KIrk Reid who recently was transferred from Australia Austraha to New Guinea He states m in part New Guinea IS now m in inthe the spotlight here m in the southwest PacIfic I have seen many interesting things since an arriving m in this area probably the most interesting place as asfar asfar far as scenery ary goes as I have ever been since going over overseas overseas seas The natIves are ex- ex extremely extremely interesting and quite educatIonal to talk to and try and understand what they are saying and learning about their many peculiar habits and customs Also Alsoe we e have haVa many coconuts and we get the natIve boys to clImb up the high trunks which are about 40 to 60 feet high and cut off the coconuts that grow m in bunches or rather on the tops of the tI trees ees There Isn t much to a coconut tree e except the high palms and a afe afew few fe coconuts I d say about 10 palms and 15 or 20 nuts grow on each one of them The na buIld huts entirely by themselves without the aId of nails or 01 any other metal These huts are ale really sub tan tl teal l and can stand almost almot any kind of weather eather and that IS certainly saying something because around here hare they ha have hae e all 11 kinds of It from the tumultuous hurrIcane lIke storms you have heard about in the south seas to the peace ful qUIet waters of the lakes back home I bought a grass skirt from one of the natives the other day and will try and send It home as soon as possible a but methinks It Will have to be pre medicated by bythe bythe the medICal officers before It goes out |