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Show Wendell Crosby Visits Friends, Relatives Here Arriving in St. George Tuesday to spend a part of his brief furlough fur-lough from Army life is Sergeant Serg-eant Wendell Crosby, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Miles of this citv. He comes from the camp at Galveston, Texas and visited vis-ited his Crosby relatives in Springerville, Arizona, enroute. Sergeant Crosby joined the Army in June, 1940, and has seen camp life on three coast lines to date. Enlisting in Arizona, he was stationed first in California, going from there to Ft. Lewis, Wash., thence to Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, and the last move was to the camp near Galveston. Perhaps it isn't the easiest life in the world, but Sergeant Crosby says he has no regrets in having offered to do his bit in the Army. Camp Lewis was having one of its rainy season, the winter was cold in New Jersey, and with spring coming they moved to sultry sul-try southern Texas, but it is all a part of the Army man's training, train-ing, and being in the motor vehicle ve-hicle line-up of what is termed the tactical division, he is able to do the type of work for which he is bst qualified. The Army and varied construction units find plenty to do whatever camp they are located, establishing t'dfphone and other communication lines and Uncle Sam's Army is well-hou-.od and well-fed, even if each day's routine demands "every-Iwly "every-Iwly up" at five o'clock in the morning. While hen"' Sergeant Crosby is f Continued on page eight) Wendell Crosby Yisits (Continued from first page) taking time off to visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. Karl Larson and his brother, Arthur Crosby in Hurricane, Hurri-cane, and with Mr. and Mrs. Alton Jones in Rockville. He will return via San Juan Capistrano, Calif., to visit his father, Charles Crosby. |