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Show Hews from the Washington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts Home for Thanksgiving Pfc. Karl (Kay) Caldwell arrived ar-rived home from Camp Adair, Ore., just in time to enjoy Thanksgiving Thanks-giving dinner with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Caldwell of Leeds. This is his first furlough in a year, most of his time having hav-ing been spent at Camp White, Ore. Besides their happiness in seeing see-ing him home, Pfc. Caldwell's friends are congratulating him on his medals, which includes awards in sharp shooting, rifle and carbine car-bine practice. The young soldier admits he is proud to have won the honors and worked hard to get them. He was a special speaker in Sunday school and meeting at Leeds last Sunday, ta B B Major Moss Returns To Post Major Clarence -M. Moss took the early bus Monday for Salt Lake City, from where he will go by airplane back to his post in Tennessee, where he has been located for several months. Mrs. Moss and their children will remain re-main in Santa Clara for the duration. dur-ation. During his ten-day leave, Major Moss has been variously entertained; enter-tained; a party at the home of his mother last Friday evening bringing many of his relatives to- n 3 t I. geiner ior visiting anu x en comments. com-ments. Major Moss also visited at the News office one day last week. Pa ?a Pvt. Reidhead Visits Here Pvt. Horace Reidhead, son of Mrs. Frank Jackson of this city arrived Wednesday morning from Camp White, Ore., for a short furlough with his mother and two sisters, and with friends and relatives rela-tives in Washington. lej M Wilbur Hardy Marries A military marriage of local interest in-terest is that of Wilbur Hardy, Fireman 2c in the U. S. Navy, and son of Mr. and Mrs. David Rogers Hardy, formerly of St. George, and now of Boulder City. Fireman Hardy was married in Brooklyn, Nov. 5th, to Miss Lillian Lil-lian Nash of that city, according to a short letter his Barents re ceived recently. Details of the marriage otherwise other-wise are lacking, and Fireman Hardy said these would have to be supplied later, as he had only two days' furlough, following their marriage, before he reported to his ship for a six-month's voyage, fa . pa Earl Hafen Promoted Recent letters from Earl Hafen to his wife, the former Joyce Welker, and to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hafen of this city, make known his promotion to the rank of First Lieutenant, as well as the addition of the Oak Leaf cluster to his previous two Air Service awards, each of which indicates he has served on five air raid missions. Lieut. Hafen has been overseas for some time, bombing out of England and on his return can report first-hand some of the spectacular events in which he is now participating. He reported w -" f.-.-ta J- -' J busy and sent best wishes to his many relatives and friends in Dixie. pa pa Pa Completes "Boot" Training Murray Madsen, Fireman 2c in the U. S. Navy completed his "boot" training recently at San Diego and is now enrolled in the U. S. Naval air technical training school in Chicago, where he arrived ar-rived recently. He expects to receive re-ceive two months of intensive training before being assigned to another post. Chicago is giving Fireman Mad-sen Mad-sen a real thrill he says, and his line-up at the school is giving him an opportunity he had never hoped to gain. He also reports the many special considerations given the servicemen in Chicago, which include free bus fare after 7 p. m., and on Sundays, unusual U. S. O. centers and other concessions conces-sions that make the servicemen feel that people do really care about them. Fireman Madsen's sister, Sgt. Velma Madsen is still on the job at Camp Lee, Va., in special officer of-ficer service. In a recent letter she told of having had a three-day three-day trip to New York, where she and another WAC were guests of former Camp Lee WAC's, who! have resigned from the service, but who did a royal job 'of showing show-ing Velma and her companion the big city. 1 T5 M. Gibson Writes Writing his parents from Italy, Malin J. Gibson, T5 of Hurricane makes interesting comments on the countries he has visited during dur-ing his ten months overseas, first in Africa and now in Italy. Italy, he says, appeals to him much more than did the African desert, and if he were just visiting countries coun-tries he could spend a lot of time in Italy, but he wouldn't trade one square foot of American soil for the best places he has seen over there. Mr. Gibson has been with the Army air corps for 18 months, having entered the service in July, 1942. He trained first at Geiger Field, Wash., and has been with thousands of men, but none he ever knew before entering the service. His brother, Winston Gibson, is also in the air corps, having just completed three month's training at Buckley Field, Colo., and he is now at Pullman, Wash. He says he is sure working hard, but getting get-ting the training he has wanted so is happy and well. Pa Pa pa Has Letter of Commendation Among the keepsakes that will go into Pfc. Leslie Ashby's scrap book of his service with the U. S. Army overseas is a letter of commendation from Major Gen eral Hugh J. uattey to tne jrort Battalion with which Leslie serves. In his letter the entire organization organiz-ation was commended for the superior manner in which they loaded and unloaded the vehicles of sub tank force for the Sicilian invasion. The copy given each member of the battalion also included words of appreciation from Lieut. Col. Chester Kath, commanding officer of the battalion, which will grow to mean more as time goes on, and expresses the fine standards stand-ards of the U. S. Army and of the commanding officers. A personal letter from Leslie to his brother, Nat, and wife, written from Sicily Nov. 14, tells of his having received his first letter from them in more than two months. He says the natives come to sell the camp green peppers, pep-pers, radishes, onions, oranges and nuts, but the weather is rather cold and the land reminds one of the play, "The Rains Came", for rains have come plentifully, and the boys appreciate the hot showers provided. pa Pa Pa Studying In No. Carolina Pfc. Ruth Falck, daughter of Mrs. J. G. Falck of Ogden, and former Dixie junior college piano and business department teacher, who is with the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, is now studying in the non-commissioned officers' school at Camp Lejeune, No. Carolina. Car-olina. The report from this school states that when Miss Falck graduates grad-uates she will be promoted to the rank of Sergeant or Corporal and will be assigned to line duty at some Marine base in the U. S. Pa Pa Pa Reports Safe Arrival Bishop and Mrs. Lorin D. Squire have just received word of the safe arrival on an island in the South Pacific of their son, Pfc, Don S. Squire. Another son, S.Sgt Phil E. Squire is somewhere some-where in England and a third son, Pvt. DeLance Squire is training train-ing at Sheppard Field, Texas, for the Army air corps. Pa Pa Pa Returns to Navy Post Seaman Wendell Seegmiller has returned to his Navy post after a short furlough with, relatives in Springdale. Seaman Seegmiller has served actively in the Pacific for several months and reports having had many wonderful experiences ex-periences and has seen many places of world interest, but still says, "Give me the good old U. S. A." e sb Awarded "Flying Cross' Mrs. Bert Hall of Washington was advised this week that her brother, T.Sgt. Robert L. Bern-eck Bern-eck of Newport, Wash., is one of seven of a bomber plane, each of whom has been awarded the "Distinguished "Dis-tinguished Flying Cross", for "heroism in flight and exceptional and outstanding accomplishment in the face of great danger", over Wewak, New Guinea, Aug. 29, 1943. The Newport Miner of Nov. 25 gives details of the engagement in which the crew of the B-24 participated as one of a flight formation. In spite of anti-aircraft fire, interception from enemy (Continued on page eight) Hews from Our People j In the Armed Services (Continued from page six) fighters and an eventual direct hit on their plane, which became separated from the formation, the pilot skillfully flew back to the home base, with a wide gap in the engine and one wing on fire. Five enemy planes were destroyed. B R ft Son and Son-In-Law Overseas Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cot tarn now have a son and son-in-law overseas. Their son-in-law, Sgt. Neil H. Adams arrived in England Eng-land one month ago, and their son, Lieut. Alma Cottam, who has been stationed with the Army air corps, medical division in Buckley Field, Colo., since Sept. 1942 is now overseas. Mrs. Cottam and their two sons, Stephen and Bruce will make their home in Salt Lake City for the duration. a Pa Pa Has Surprise Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Carl Burgess, had interesting news over the week end from their son, S.Sgt. Carl Burgess Jr., who has been in active service in the Central Pacific Pa-cific for more than a year. Carl said they had a genuine surprise recently when Earl Cox and Ernest Pulsipher, both of St. George, dropped in for a visit. Earl is with the submarine service and Ernest, a Navy air force mechanic. The three boys had been associated at school. Sgt. Burgess said both boys were full of pep and looking fine. He was permitted to give over to the acting Sergeant for the day .and celebrate with the visitors from home. ' B B h Pfc. Dodge Visits Parents Pfc. Lyman Dodge has been home on a 15-day furlough visiting visit-ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dodge in Toquerville, and with his sisters in Cedar City. Since 'his induction one year ago, Lyman has trained at both Camp White and Camp Adair, Ore., and is interested in that part of the country. He reported having an enjoyable visit home. Pa Pa n Letter from Adrian Bunting-Following Bunting-Following is a short quote from a letter received by Mrs. Sina Bunting, from her son, Pfc. Adrian Bunting, who is now overseas with the Engineers. "Well, here I am in jolly old England. Am well and feeling fine. The weather is very much the same as on the Coast, only not as much sunshine. Hello to everyone. I do hope the Washington Wash-ington County News soon catches up with me." Pfc. Bunting left St. George in March, 1941, and after training in various camps spent 18 months working on the Alcan highway, then came back to the U. S., and after training at Camp Sutton, N. C, was sent across. pss Pa P Cpl. Stratton Visits Here Cpl. and Mrs. Albert Stratton are returning next Monday to Camp Roberts, Calif., after two weeks furlough with their parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Stratton Strat-ton in St. George and with Mr. and Mrs. James Tanner in Washington. Wash-ington. The couple were unable to be here for the regular deer hunt, but 'Cpl. Stratton took in the postseason post-season doe hunt and said it was sure great to be back in the hills again with his Dad and the other fellows. During their year at Camp Roberts, Mrs. Stratton has been employed at the post dental clinic, and will return to that work. Pa Ps pa Correction . . . In our soldier stories last week we listed Rodney Chadburn as Rodney Truman. However, Rodney Rod-ney Chadburn and Spencer Truman Tru-man are cousins. pa Pa Pa D. Worthen Leaves for Service Leaving Wednesday morning with the boys who make up Washington county's November quota for military service, is Don Worthen, formerly of Salt Lake City. He has -made his home in St. George for several years and says he is going to miss the town and his associates. Mr. 'Worthen is a grandson of Samuel Worthen, early Dixie pioneer, pio-neer, his father being James William Wil-liam Worthen, who was born in St. George but later moved to Salt Lake City. Don came to St. George as an employee of Standard Stand-ard Stations and after several moves to other locations returned to serve 18 months as manager of their big station on Main and street and Highway 91. For , the past two years he has been employed em-ployed by Pioneer Motors, but from here on out, he belongs to Uncle Sam. |
