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Show Garth Cottam Sends Telegram from Australia "I am well and happy," thus read a telegram received this week by Mr. and Mrs. James F. Cottam of Veyo. The telegram was sent by their son Garth from Australia. Garth is in the U. S. Air Corps and is the first local boy to be heard from Australia. Garth sailed from San Francisco on Jan. 12th and this is the first communication they have received from him since that time. ; He is a graduate of the Dixie ; college. He received h i s first ; training in the air corps in Santa Maria, Calif. From there he went to Moffatt Field and then was graduated at Luke Field, Ariz., on Oct. 31, 1941. |