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Show Hews from Our People In the Armed Services Alpine DeMille I'romoted Mr. and Mrs. Oscar DeMille received a letter last week from their son, Alpine, telling of his recent promotion to the rank of Sergeant. He was home on furlough fur-lough the first week of January and on his return to his post at Camp Guernsey, Wyo. Sgt. DeMille entered the Army in May, 1942, and trained first at Camp Warren, Cheyenne, Wyo., where he was assigned to the truck division and was in charge of convoy work and driving instruction. in-struction. In October, 1943, he was transferred to Camp Guernsey, Guern-sey, where he completed the requirements re-quirements for his present promotion. pro-motion. Pa fc-j fa Requests County News A letter this week from Pfc. Elvin Hafen of Santa Clara brings a definite request for the County News, which his wife subscribed for Wednesday. He has been overseas since August and says it will surely be good to get the paper along with letters from home. Pfc. Hafen has been in military service since November, 1942. In may, 1942, he had married Miss Helen Sharpies of Long Beach, and for the first period training was located at Las Vegas and Mrs. Hafen could be with him. Prior to his departure overseas he was in San Diego and Mrs. Hafen was with her parents at Long Beach, and although he was never granted a furlough home, he was able to spend week ends with his son, who is now 13 months old. His , wife and baby are with his mother, Mrs. Selina Hafen in Santa Clara for the winter. fa Pa . pa G. Andrus Leaves for Service Mrs. A. B. Andrus returned last Saturday from Provo, where she spent the week with her son, George Andrus, who left last Thursday for a military training post somewhere in North Carolina. Caro-lina. George enlisted in the Navy reserve re-serve two years ago and received his orders to serve with the Navy aerial photography detachment. He is thrilled to have been assigned as-signed to this branch of the service. While attending the B. Y. U., he has been earning his way with part-time work for Standard Stations Sta-tions in Provo, and on the Tuesday Tues-day before his departure for the Navy service, had received his pin as station manager. fa pa ' fa Returns To New Orleans Post Pfc. Lester J. Carpenter left Sunday to return to his post in New Orleans after enjoying a ten-day furlough with his parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Carpenter Carp-enter and other family members. He was accompanied as far as Boulder City by his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Bracken. A family dinner and social was given in his honor last Saturday evening at the home of his parents. In the service since April, 1941, Pfc. Carpenter trained first in Texas and from there was transferred trans-ferred to the base hospital at New Orleans, where he is now Wardmaster. He is appreciative of the opportunity this has given him in a line of work he particularly particu-larly likes, and says he enjoyed the two months of technical training train-ing last summer at the Lawson general hospital at Atlanta, Ga. He said he was happy with the thoughts of coming home to sunshine, sun-shine, because he has been for so long where there is so much rain. However, he thinks there is maybe a jinx, as stormy weather wea-ther has prevailed each time he has been home. He was elad tc have a partly sunny day the Saturday Sat-urday before leaving. fa Pa fa N. Abbott Li Central Pacific Back in school somewhere in the Central Pacific, Nathan K. Abbott, R.D.M.3C and that means Rador Man, says he feels he is plenty lucky. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George N. Abbott, formerly of Bunkerville, and now of Idaho, and husband of the former Hannah Terry, who is in St. George for the duration. Inducted in the U. S. Navy, April 1, 1943, Mr. Abbott has been on active sea duty since early October. Before going into active ac-tive service he had a few weeks of training at the Rador operator oper-ator school at San Diego, and says he is glad to be assigned to additional addi-tional training at this Central Pacific schooL |