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Show News From Our Washington County People At Service Camps and in the Zones of Occupation By MABEL JAKVIS Receives Field Promotion A field promotion came recently to JMelvin Prince, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Prince of St. George, who was advanced from sergeant to staff sergeant. Serving on Luzon following other combat participation for a long period, he has spent the past few weeks at an island rest camp, where he reports re-ports having received very excellent excel-lent treatment. Si S H Returns to Unit SSgt. Gene Gregerson was wondering what had happened to those copies of his County News which had failed to reach him for several weeks. Returning to his unit recently after, being in a rest camp, he found all the back issues awaiting him, and reports his leisure time is all taken up now in catching up with back news. By this time he may be enroute home, says his mother, Mrs. A. W. Gregerson Greg-erson of St. George. At least she hopes so. s pa la Participates in Boxing Recent letters from Pvt. Peterson Peter-son Charles, son of Foster. Charles of the Shevwit Reservation, tell briefly of his participation in boxing box-ing bouts at Fort Slocum, New York. He says some of the boys there are plenty good, and feels he did a fair job himself. He -is still looking forward hopefully for a furlough home, having been absent ab-sent more than four years. Awarded Swimming Certificate Bryan F. Church of St. George just recently received the official certificate awarded to his son, Frank M. Church Slc as runner-up runner-up champion of the swimming tournament staged by the Radio Schools Command, San Diego, on May 3. Seaman Church's only competitor was a boy who had been trained previously in AAU, and manipulated his turns with a trifle more smoothness, which isn't much to shout about against one who has had no expert train- ing. By now, Seaman Church has probably landed on Guam or elsewhere. else-where. Pa pa fa 115th Engineers Participated On August 23, the 40th Infantry division, comprised of elements of the Utah, California, and New York National Guard, celebrated its third anniversary in the Pacific, Pa-cific, taking inventory of five major operations. This division included men of the 115th Engineers Engin-eers which left St. George in March, 1941 for training. The report re-port of their anniversary came from Iloilo, Panay, in the Philippine Philip-pine Islands. Since embarking for the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands early in 1943, the 40th has set up an enviable record of accomplishment, both in combat com-bat duty and in the construction and reconstruction of vast military mili-tary locations. They have figured in campaigns of New Britain and Luzon, the Vasayan Islands, Leyte and Mindanao in the Philippines. They have helped to liberate more than one-tenth of the entire islands, is-lands, a total of 15,455 miles, captured airfields, and won distinction dis-tinction both as a unit and for smaller groups as well as individuals. indiv-iduals. t-3 ra Its Wendell Hall With Seabees WITH A SEABEE DETACHMENT DETACH-MENT IN THE PHILIPPINES Wendell Pickett Hall, carpen-' carpen-' ter's mate second class, of Hurricane, Hurri-cane, is a member of this naval construction battalion attached to Service Force, Pacific Fleet, which was engaged in building a huge staging area for U. S. military forces here when news of Japan's surrender was received. This battalion landed with invasion inva-sion forces and fought its way through Jap snipers and mortar fire for its share in the successful Philippine conquest. The unit was on its second Pacific Pa-cific tour of duty when hostilities ceased. During the first 21 months overseas, the battalion personnel built a large supply and repair base on Midway Island and an airfield and base in Hawaii, which remains one of the world's largest and most widely used air terminals. ra m Ensign Judd Here Visiting Ensign Donald S. Judd is visiting visit-ing with his grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Judd, in St. George, and with his sister, Mrs. Schearril lirunson, who is also here visiting. He h;is just, completed his training train-ing (it Delnnd, Florida, and is on a .'',0-day leave, after which ho will H-port to San Diego for further assignment. Terry Given Service Plaque WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY Sgt. Gordon F. Terry of Toquerville recently received a special sleeve insignia symbolizing the Meritorious Service Unit Plaqu presented to Service Company, Com-pany, 361st Infantry Regiment. The 91st "Powder River" Division Divi-sion unit, which saw action in Arno River, Gothic Line, Apennine and Po River campaigns on the Fifth Army front, was awarded the decoration dec-oration for "superior performance of duty in the accomplishment of extremely difficult tasks." Pa Pa Fa On His Way Home After more than three years in the service without any furlough, Pfc. Shelby D. Frei is on his way home. This encouraging news was received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vivian J. Frei and his wife, Mrs. Jewel G. Frei, just recently. Pfc. Frei has served in the 16th Field Hospital since going overseas over-seas in February, 1943, and has seen a year's service in Egypt. He left Egypt in February before "D" Day and has been in Patton's Third Army since that time. He holds the Plaque for meritorious service and has received unit citations cita-tions and holds five battle stars, which make him eligible for his discharge. Leaving the United States for San Francisco, Pfc. Frei has made an almost complete tour of the world. They stopped at the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands, Australia, Indian, and were based at Egypt. His next move was to England, and then with the invasion which took him through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Luxem-bourg, Germany and Austria. His brother, Howard, who entered en-tered the service a year ago, was finally based just 25 miles from Shelby and the two brothers got to see each other in Germany for the first time in three years. Howard How-ard is stationed at Mainsburg, Germany, and is the baker for a company of 240 men. He was there to spend the last night with Shelby before he left, and to wave him good-bye as he drove homeward. home-ward. a Pa Ba Bundy Here on Furlough It isn't difficult to forget all of the miseries of war when one gets back home again, says Pfc Newell Bundy, who returned recently from eight months in Italy, four of them in almost constant combat. He is spending part of his 30-day furlough fur-lough in St. George and the remainder re-mainder with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bundy, at Mt. Trumbull. His brother, Sgt. Clarence Bundy, came up over the week-end from Los Angeles and the entire family enjoyed the Peach Day festivities at Hurricane. Pfc. Bundy has had the exciting and dangerous experience of being actually blown out of his foxhole and given up as hopeless, but recovered. re-covered. On one hazardous mission with the mountain infantry, only four of the 14 members of his regiment regi-ment returned. "That was a tough experience," he says, "but it's all in a day's combat, and he is glad to be alive and home again. P3 fa P3 Judd Assigned to Santa Ana SANTA ANA, CALIF. 1st Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Gene Judd, 22, son of Mrs. Mary Ann Judd of Washington, is currently assigned to the AAF Redistribution Re-distribution Station No. 4 at the Santa Ana Army Air Base. Lt. Judd, a B-24 pilot in the 15th Air Force, with 24 combat missions mis-sions to his credit, entered the service on January 6, 1943, and went overseas last December. He has been awarded the Distinguished Distin-guished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the European Theatre Ribbon with three battle stars. h (9 n Bamum Writes from Berlin Things aren't going so bad with Sgt. Andrew H. Barnum, from whom we had a letter this week. He says in part: "I am now stationed sta-tioned in Berlin and am with the United States Group Control Council Coun-cil in General Eisenhower's Headquarters. Head-quarters. And considering the present pres-ent situation, this is by far the best set-up I have had or have seen in the army. "Berlin is indeed 'the city of death.' After walking for miles one is lucky to see a single room that is livable. And from the flooded subway comes the strange smell of death to settle over the entire city. "Although my combat days were short-lived (120 in all) I managed to come out, with three battle stars, the Bronze Star medal, 1he Purple j Heart, the Combat Infantrymen I Badge and the Combat Medal." WHAT'S NEW IN RATIONING An approximate 30 per cent reduction re-duction in the point values of most cuts of beef was announced this week by the OPA. Hamburger dropped from four to two points a pound. Margarine, which was 14 points, and butter, which was 16, both have a value of 12 points now. Canned milk Mas been removed from the ration list and may be obtained point-free. Reductions- in point values also extended to many cuts of lamb, veal, pork, lunch meats and cheese. OPA's program to help returning return-ing veterans has been extensively revised during recent months to enable them to make adjustments to civilian life. Restrictions preventing pre-venting the establishment of small businesses making use of rationed foods have been revised to make it possible for veterans to go into business for themselves. Since files of institutional food users will be transferred from local war price and rationing boards to the district office in Salt Lake City after September 15, proprietors propri-etors of cafes, restaurants, hotels and other eating establishments should apply as soon as possible for rationed food allotments for the September-October ration period, per-iod, OPA advises. Transfer of the files is part of the plan to consolidate consoli-date activities of Utah's WPR boards. ' A plan to include men's women's wom-en's and children's clothing made of rayon and wool in the "pre-ticketed" "pre-ticketed" pricing program was discussed dis-cussed September 5 at a meeting of OPA officials and retailers. One of the most far-reaching steps ever taken by OPA, the plan will put more clothing into inexpensive price lines needed by low and middle mid-dle income families. Motorists probably will have difficulty dif-ficulty finding tires in dealers' stocks for at least a month more, E. H. Azbill, OPA mileage rationing ration-ing representative, predicted today. Utah's September quota of 13,430 grade one passenger tires was the same as the August quota, despite an anticipated increase. Truck tire quota, size 7.50 or smaller, is 1778; for size 8.25 or larger, 1158. The program setting maximum prices which auto repair shops may charge for 56 common passenger car repair jobs will go into effect October 10 rather than September 1, as was previously announced. |
