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Show WE W of MM Bv MABEL JARYIS Graduates Among the recent graduates from the Naval training school (Yoemen-W) at the Iowa State Teachers College campus, was Miss Rae Hirschi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hirschi of Rockville. Her studies included sliorthand, typing, Naval correspondence, records re-cords and form and current event. She won her chance at this work as a result of her Visit in St. George Preston Empey ac, returned last week to Camp Scott, Farra-gut, Farra-gut, Idaho after visiting in St. George with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Empey and other relatives. He has just completed his boot training. His brother, Wendell Empey is with the Merchant Marines and has also been home on leave. He left Sunday for Salt Lake City accompanied by his parents who will visit there with him until he returns to his post to report on Dec. 26. 3 Pa 1 I'll Have Vanilla! Sgt. Thomas Stirling called at the office Monday to say "Greetings." "Greet-ings." He is home from Fort Benning, Ga. to visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Stirling and other family members mem-bers over Christmas. He will then return to continue his training as high jumper and being a paratrooper, para-trooper, he really means jumping. How does he feel when he jumps ? Just like his tummy was full of butterflies, he says. What a feeling! feel-ing! K ft Brothers in New Guinea Pfc. Vernon A. Leavitt and Pfc. Rex A. Leavitt are both in New Guinea with the armed forces, but neither has even seen the other thus far. Rex has been over since July after a year in Hawaii and is with the Infantry. Vernon is with a Medical unit and has been over since October. A third brother,, Pvt. Verle Leavitt, was inducted in November Novem-ber and is training at Camp Mc-Quaid, Mc-Quaid, Calif. They have just one more brother at home, aged 15, and they are hoping the big job will be over with before he reaches draft age. , :. P3 fs K Promoted , Promotion of Cpl. Barnard Seegmiller, son of Mrs. Mary A. Seegmiller of St. George, to the grade of sergeant, is announced by the 12th Air Force Headquarters. Head-quarters. " He is serving as an armorer with a veteran B-25 Mitchell Mit-chell group in the Mediterranean area. This unit has made an enviable en-viable record in air campaigns in support of amphibious operations. opera-tions. la fa To Visit Ensign DeVere McAllister will arrive in Blanding from Boulder Colo, in time to spend Christmas with his family. Mrs. McAllister and their two children left St. George early Friday and will join him at the home of his parents Mr: and Mrs. Richard McAllister. From there, they will accompany him to Boulder, Colo, where he will continue his training. fl S Gifts From Overseas You can't buy much silverware in the U. S. just now, but it can be had in Italy. Sgt. Ashby Reeve has managed to send several pieces of Kings Crown ware to his wife in Hurricane. Overseas gifts from her husband also in-mammoth in-mammoth bath towels, a glass drinking set, perfume, a pair of English spurs and some small statuetts. These are appreciated, but she and their three month old daughter are hoping the sender send-er will arrive in person before many months. elude three fine bedspreads, two Pa Pa Pa In Service and Defense Work Three sons in military service and one at Lockheed, is the report re-port of Mrs. Effie Barnhurst of St. George. Her son, Scott Pris-brey Pris-brey who has the artistic hand, is designer at Lockheed where he has worked for three years and they need him most. Pvt. Ford Prisbrey is in France and says the setup is not so bad except he wonders how they can read their leters and papers with no lights. He is with the armoured armour-ed Infantry. Just give them time and they'll construct their own lighting system. Sherley is a member of the Coast Patrol and has been on active duty since soon after Pearl Harbor, having been based at that time in the Panama area. Since then he has been in the Bermudas and elsewhere. He is aviation machinist mate of the Navy air forces and is now chief of his crew and admits that it's really some job. over. The youngest. Dale, is also with the Navy air forces as machinist mate 3,'c and is awaiting assignment assign-ment on the Pacific coast. The four are looking forward to a real celebration when the war is ability evidenced through the aptitude apt-itude tests she received as well as because of her civilian experience. She is now awaiting further assignment. Persistance Three times a 4-Fer and the fourth time a 100 per center was the record made by Price Workman, Work-man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nephi Workman of Hurricane. Pvt. Workman has just completed his first six weeks at Camp Roberts and says the Army is okeh even if he does get lonesome at times. In any case he's glad his mother can now have a service flag in her window. She took one home with her on Monday. s la F Promoted Wendell Snow who is somewhere some-where in the South Pacific was promoted to the rating of S 1c on December 1. In his Christmas letter home to his mother, Mrs. Jetta Snow, he says he would like so much to be home for Christmas, but there is a big job ahead out there and that must come first. I Pa Pa Figures ? Pvt. Brian Graff's serial number num-ber would make a story for the Ripley column. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Graff of St. George and is in training with the air forces at Lowery Field, Colo. His serial number combines his birth year 1917 with that of his father, 1894. Believe it or not. fa Pa Inducted Bevalere Cox, the youngest son of Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Cox, who has enlisted with the U. S. Navy, was formally inducted at Fort Douglas Dec. 2. His parents have since been advised that he is assigned as-signed to San Diego to begin his training. Pa Pa Pa Meet in Marianas Two neighbor town boys met recently in the Mariana Islands. They were Raynel Jennings of Rockville and Ervin Gifford of Springdale. It was the first time either boy had seen anyone else from this area during the more than two years they have been across. Both have been away from home since late in 1942 and are wondering if they will be able to find their way around when they get home.. Pa Pa & Transferred Mrs. Wm. Thompson returned Sunday from spending three months at Truax Field, Madison, Wis. with her husband, Pvt. Thompson, who has been in training train-ing at that location. He is being transferred to a new post shortly and she came home to be with their two small children for Christmas. Life at the Truax Post has been very interesting, says Mrs, Thompson, & Pa Pa Alls Well That Ends If anyone wants' & real thriller" diller, just let them try ditching in a plane in a wild electrical storm with full crew aboard, thinks David Gale Behunin, grandson grand-son of Mr. and Mrs. David J. Teeples of Hurricane. "Ditching" means crash landing on the ocean and it can be both exciting and dangerous. He knows, because he was there when it happened Oct. 24, and was also in on the balance of the fun of reaching a treeless, waterless island on a raft, and waiting for three days to be picked pick-ed up. On night training flight with one woman aboard, they struck a terrific storm. Lightning was so vivid and constant they could read a paper in the plane. Radio, compass and everything jammed. The plane tossed like it was drunk. In the blinding storm they took the wrong direction and were forced to either ditch or jump. They chose ditching because be-cause it would keep them together. togeth-er. They threw everything overboard over-board possible and braced for the impact with the plane still at 100 mile speed. The girl was a real soldier, said the men. Watch Ship Sink The final crash tore out the bottom of the plane then came a scramble to release the life raft and get into it. This was finally accomplished, but since they had no oars, Sgt. Behunin and a companion used their arms and legs to row the boat. From the raft they watched the plane sink. They finally landed on a long narrow island where even digging down five feet, they found only salt water. Second day on the island, they found a few clams which they ate raw to retain the moisture, though it was also salty. Six times a day they went in swimming to cool off. Always, they wore looking for passing ships. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday went by. and at 10 Saturday Satur-day morning, they sighted a Mexican Mexi-can fishing boat. With a signal mirror they drew attention and by 11:30, the boat reached them, took them aboard and gave them fresh water, coffee and mush, then took them to a Mexican outpost out-post from where they radioed their base. The Mexicans killed three chickens chick-ens and fed them broth, cookies and salmon sandwiches and gave them beds to sleep in. A home base hospital plane came for them Sunday forenoon. Weary and flea-bitten, flea-bitten, and Sgt. Behunin with a broken ankle, they were plenty glad to reach the home base and rest. |