Show With Our Boys In the Service EIght Local Bo Bobs s Leas Lel e for ServIce EIght Moab young oung men men- members of the September selectIve service quota from Grand left county Monday night to report fOl foi duty m in inthe the armed forces following a 21 day furlough spent at home hom-e In the group were Leon Stocks Billy Perkins RICh RIChard Richand and ard Stewart Burke Wright Robel t Burr Lo Lowell Loen en BaIley I David Allen and Bruce Will lams cams The boys were eloe panted to Thompsons by a large group of relatIves and friends Writing from Somewhere m in Sicila A D Sheek of Moab gives Ives some someI I interesting facts regarding NOI th Africa and the Medi l Mediterranean Islands lie He states m in pal pait t Since I last wIOt sou ou I have traveled ov 0 el ei 15 miles In North Africa and practIcally the whole hole of the SIcIlian island Was In Casablanca at the time of the Roosevelt and meeting these thele Rode in a narrow gauge bo box cat eal f that held 32 to 40 men Ol oa 8 horses aU all over north Africa and the sun was as blistering hot not saying how thick the flees files le aie around do a battlefield Don t let any one teU telly j- j jou ou th that t tI north Africa IS desert for It I Isn t Some wonderful there and large plantations of ga apes of anges and grain m Othel places me are semi desert but never did get g-et into the big bag Sahara and as hI fat 1 as that th goes I don t want w to The peo pIe ovel here hele me aie hungry and andas andas as w e came through the IS ISland island land they would save ave Cl and cheer at us They s ele ei e so eJ big beg buttons of teal s 11 tolled lolled down Vl their faces face It really IS pathetIc This coun country I try IS really reany cough lough and rug rugged rugged ged and nd all their towns are built of the natIve rock high upon a rocky plateau Old buildings dating way back to toB toB B C are as yet standing and andin m in use They use every Inch of their ground for cultIvatIon and It IS marvelous what they raise on a rock pIle pale VolcanIc Mt Etna can be seen se-an all the time on a clear day with a steady pour of smoke from her crater M E Charlie New Newen Newell en ell was In the thick of fight ng on Attu Island m in the AleutIans he wrote hIS par parents parents Mr and Mrs George A Newell In a letter received this week We We were clear up to our necks m in mud and J Japs aps but I made It except fOI one foot frosted and massing out on a lot of sleep N Newell awell wrote I spent eIght days and nights In a snow bank b the battle Carroll Junior Meador of the U S marine manne corps ar arnved arrived rived from Sap San Diego Calif to spend a short furlough wIth home folks Douglas N Chris Christensen temen was an arrIval yes yester yesterday tel day from Camp Cook Calif to spend a furlough with his father Neldon S Christen Christensen Christensen sen and other othel 1 relatives cs at home Lieu Christensen was as recently commissioned an officer in the U S mm aims engineers corps |