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Show News from the Washington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts Bv MABEL JARVIS Do You Know His Addrosn? Anyone knowing the address rif Pvt. Karl S. Wood, is asked to get in touch with the News Office. Our records show his address is: Pvt. Karl S. Wood, Pit. 916, R. IX M. C. B., San Uirgo, Calif., but the post office of-fice department, informs us that he cannot be found under this address. Ml IM ra ( pi. Prince Homo on Furlough C'pl. Melvin F. Prince was home last week on furlough from Camp Bowie, Texas, to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Prince,' his wifi', the former Berdie Houston of Bunkerville, and to make the acquaintance of his four-month-old son, Donald Melvin. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hemenway, entertained at a family dinner in his honor last Friday, his father and sinter, Laurel, coming com-ing from Boulder City and another an-other sister, Virginia Carlson, attending. at-tending. This was his first visit home in several months, and was granted a furlough that he. might altend the funeral services of his mother-in-law, Mrs. George A. Huntsman in Bunkerville last wcck. D. J. C. Grant Harris Promoted Grant B. Harris is now a Captain. Cap-tain. Announcement of his promotion pro-motion was awaiting him when he returned last week to his post at Camp Sutton, North Carolina. Mrs. Han-is received word word Monday of his promotion. Capt. Harris has been in all but one of the states in the United States, as well as in Canada and Mexico during his three years in military service, training in numerous camps. His hobby for dull moments mo-ments is writing verse. Pi Rs Pa Seaman Crosby Visits Here Seaman Arthur Crosby arrived late Sunday evening from Boulder, Colo., for a surprise visit with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Miles and other relatives. He says going to school at Boulder is a real opportunity for a young fellow, fel-low, and he's glad to be doing his part. Ho has two brothers in the service, SSgt. Wendell Crosby and Lieut. Paul M. Crosby. Pa Pa fca Write from England Writing from England, Cpl. Franklin Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Anderson of Pin-tura Pin-tura admits he is one Dixieite who hates to miss his "longest letter each week", so wants to make sure the News has his address. He figures there are plenty of Washington county boys in England, Eng-land, if they could just get together, to-gether, to discuss with interest a few deer hunting tactics on old Pine Valley mountain". However, for military reasons, the News cannot publish the addresses. Pu P.a Pa AC Lang At Santa Ana AC Eldon Lang, former clerk at the local O. P. Skaggs store, who is now located at Santa Ana air base, writes: "I am sorry to hoar of Joe having to leave but am sure he will be a very good man for 'Uncle Sam' to have on his side." He asks as to the Editor's Edi-tor's health, sends "hello" to the staff, wonders if Archie has any new "stones" (? ?), and says the "News of the Armed Forces" is his only means of "keeping track of all the guys". (Operators' comments: com-ments: No Eldon, I'm glad to have passed the Navy physical requirements, re-quirements, but 'one little Joe' isn't going to turn the tide of tattle to our side, because I'll only be one of around ten million men in this hub-bub.) ' Pa Pa Pa Son Born to H. Carters Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Carter received announcement by telegram tele-gram Friday of the birth of a son to Cpl. and Mrs. Howard H. Carter. Feb. 17 at the Clarks-ville, Clarks-ville, Tenn., hospital. This is the first of 12 grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Carter to carry the family name, Howard being their only son. The baby's mother is the former Fern Chadburn of Veyo. She has been fortunate in locating near her husband at each of his training train-ing camps in California, Texas and Tennessee. Mrs. Chadburn is leaving this week end to spend several weeks with Cpl. and Mrs. Carter and the baby boy. The military baby is a great-great-grandson of Utah's first plowman, William Carter, and includes other stalwart pioneers among his an-centry. Lt. Rex Bleak Writes "If my luck holds out a little longer, I will be seeing you in a few months." That is the cheering cheer-ing message received recently by Instructor M. J. Miles from Lieut. Rex Bleak, one of his former students, stu-dents, who has been with the U. S. Army air forces in England for several months. With more than half of his missions completed, Lieut. Bleak was advanced to the position of squadron leader in December, after flying on the wing four trips, and later as element leader. He writes: "I named my ship 'Pickle Dropper' and under my pilot's window I have "Dixie Flyer". If I can ever get a picture pic-ture taken of it I will send it to you and you can tell my old Alma Mater that they are well represented in this battle." He says he'd like to swap rides with Instructor Miles, a ride in his B-17 for one in the Cub. He's proud of his bomber crew and says they get along fine. And he sends special regards to Pres. Glenn E. Snow, Uncle Urie and Coach Hafen, and of course to all the others back home. fcB tel 1931 Pfc. K. Church Writes Having a cousin on the Dixie basketball team and an uncle coaching the. Hurricane team rather involves situations for Pfc. Karl Church, who is somewhere overseas with the U. S. Army, but in his love for athletics he says, "May the good work continue". con-tinue". The last word lie had up to Feb. 7th was the Christmas News so he had not learned what Hurricane did to Dixie. He was writing from his bunk, where he had spent a couple of restless days and says when a soldier gets time off that way he does some serious thinking. His special thoughts were of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Church of LaVerkin, whose wise guidance has helped h i m over many rodgh places, when he might have stumbled. Pa Pa Pa Receive Special Citation . The War Training service personnel per-sonnel of Washington, D. C, received re-ceived a special citiation this month for their activity in the Fourth Bond drive, having gone over the top by nearly 200 per cent, raising their full quota the opening day of the drive. Frank Holland of St. George was chairman of the Fourth War Bond drive for the W. T.S., and was given special recognition for the way he put the drive over through the offices. In his letter of commendation John P. Morris wrote: "I was greatly impressed by the fact that the W. T. S. was the first division of the C. A. A. to go over the top on the War Loan drive, and also the first division in the entire Department of Commerce." Com-merce." Mrs. Holland is back' in Washington Wash-ington with her husband and is working in the same office with him. Their children are in St. George with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bentley. Pa Pa Pa Sgt. Smith Writes from Italy rrom somewhere in Italy Sgt. H. C. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Smith of St. George, reports re-ports he is well, but says food is plenty expensive. And he wants his candid camera, for he is where he could get beautiful pictures. Overseas since Jan. 18, 1943, with the Army air corps maintenance main-tenance group, he was first in North Africa and since November in Italy. Previous to entering the service he worked at Douglas aircraft. air-craft. He says' the girls are nice, but where he is now he doesn't like the climate. Pa Pa Pa Has Straight A's In Studies Maintaining an "A" average in his studies at DePaul University, Chicago, where he is on duty with the Army specialized training unit, entitles Pvt. William E. (Ernest) Bradshaw to wear the blue star of award authorized by the War Department. Less than five per cent of those enrolled at the institution in-stitution attained an "A' 'average, states the report issued by the school Feb. 16. The term for which this recognition of academic aca-demic achievement was issued by the Commandant, Major Joseph j. Peot, ended Jan. 29. Pvt. Bradshaw is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bradshaw of St. George. He has been in military training for more than a year, in the basic engineering program, and won on merit this privilege of specialized schooling. i Cpl. Hastings Writes A card from Cpl. Ether Hastings Hast-ings and wife announce the birth of a baby girl, Cheryl Lynn, at their home Feb. 12 at 9:30 a.m. The young lady weighs eight lbs. 2'i ounces, and is almost 21 inches long. Cpl. Hastings is stationed sta-tioned at Fort Rosecrans, Calif., but the couple have their own home at Spring Valley and invite in-vite all Hurricanites in the vicinity vicin-ity of San Diego to visit them at their home. Their mailing address ad-dress is Rte. 3, Box 360-1, San Diego, Calif. They are plenty proud of the new baby girl and being formerly of Hurricane, they would like the hometowners to see her. pa pa Pa Cannons Give Report On Sons Mr. and Mrs. Claud Cannon were in St. George over the week end from Henderson, Nev., and Mr. and Mrs. Cannon took time off to bring in a report of their two sons in the service. The older boy, Pfc. Richard H. Cannon Can-non spent the first week of February Feb-ruary with them in Nevada, where he was joined by his wife, the former Valera Smith of Boise, Ida. He has just completed one phase of his training in communications communi-cations at Davis college, Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Calif., and made his stopover stop-over enroute to his next training base somewhere in Virginia. He was featured recently in a Sacramento Sacra-mento paper, busy operating a teletype, a job he particularly enjoys. en-joys. The other boy, Willard H. Cannon Can-non is Seaman 2c. He had his boot training at Farragut and has recently completed his elementary training at the U.S.N, torpedo station at Keyport, and is now in San Diego for the advanced training. train-ing. tos pq P. E. Harris' Visit Son Dr. and Mrs. P. E. Harris and daughter, Patricia, spent part of last week in Overton, at the home of their son-in-law- and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robertson and baby. Here they were met by their son, Sgt. P. E. (Bud) Harris, who had two days off before be-fore being transferred to Camp McCain, Miss., where he will continue con-tinue his service. Sgt. Harris has served more than a year in the Central Pacific with the Engineers and since his return, spent several sev-eral weeks in hospitalization. Since his recovery he has been assigned to headquarters intelligence service. serv-ice. He was junior member of the' 115th Engineers, when they left St. George in March, 1941. Pa Pa Pa SSgt. Gardner Home SSgt. Dean H. Gardner arrived ar-rived Sunday from California for a two weeks' furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gardner. Gard-ner. His company arrived recently at Hunter-Liggett Field in California Cali-fornia after extensive maneuvers in Louisiana. In excellent health, Sgt. Gardner figures two years of Army life have not been hard on him, but he's looking forward to getting back home to help his father with the cattle and farming which will always be his special interest. Pa Pa Pa Town Honors Two Soldiers A town social was held in Virgin recently honoring Second Lieut. Edward Cornelius and TS Thomas Semmons. Lieut. Cornelius Corn-elius brought his bride with him. He graduated recently at Stockton, Stock-ton, Calif. This is his first furlough fur-lough home since he enlisted in the Army air corps in Aug. 1942. Sgt. Semmons was also accompanied accom-panied by his wife, the former Beulah Earl of Virgin, who has been with him at his training camp. Both boys returned Friday to their respective posts to await their next assignments. Mrs. Semmons wil remain with her parents in Virgin. pa pa pa W. Worthen Returns to V. S. In Las Vegas recently for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Claud Worthen, was their son SSgt. Wayne Worthen, who has been returned to the U. S. after spending several months in the Hawaiian Islands. His wife, the former Helen Cosslett, and his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Vendon Ence of Santa Clara, visited in Las Vegas while Sgt. Worthen was home. While there he was advised of his promotion and was assigned to Mississippi for cadre duties. He said being on furlough was like being a bird set free from its cage, and while he likes his military job no end, he will be glad to get the work done and come back to stay. Pa Pa Pa Enrolled At Notre Dame Enrolled recently at the U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen's school, University of Notre Dame, Ind., as an apprentice seaman, is John Clark Ballard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher Ballard of Hurricane. This boy may had dreams of some day enrolling at Notre Dame, but his country's need of him has brought the opportunity op-portunity with expenses paid, and he's really going to school. After one month of indoctrination he will he appointed a midshipman, and upon successful completion of the three month course, he will be commissioned an ensign jn the U. S. Navy. |
