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Show - .-' News from Our Washington County People At Service Camps and the Nation's Battle Fronts By MABEL J All VIS Visiting VO and Mrs. J. R. Squiers and daughter, Judy, arrived Friday from Long Bench, California and will spend the holidays with Atty. and Mrs. LeRoy Cox, parents of Mrs. Squiers. FO Squiers returns re-turns next week to his new assignment as-signment and for the present, his wife and baby will remain in St. George. h n h Receives DltM'hurgn Pvt. Gerald Stout, who for the past several months has been in training at Fort Francis K. Warren, War-ren, returned lo his home in Hurricane Hur-ricane Dec. 19, having received his permanent discharge recently, lie says this will he no let down, as he will devote his time to food production. Ho served with the transportation unit. h fa R Second Xnms in Hawaii Pfc. Morgan Bringhurst is this year spending his second Christmas Christ-mas in Hawaii driving the military mili-tary mail truck. He says it is interesting employment and a fine job to be delivering mail to the service men, but he hopes he can spend next Christmas at his home in Toquerville. ft ft R Military Guard Pvt. Elmer Hardy who has been in the service for a year is now in Riverside, Calif, as a military mili-tary guard. His wife and three children live at LaVerkin. ft B S Visiting Parents Pvt. Robert Smith arrived last Thursday from Spokane, Wash, where he has been stationed the past year as a prison camp guard. Mrs. Smith preceded him to St. George. They willl spend two weeks with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Cox and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith. Mrs. Smith has defense employment in Spokane and will return with him 'after Jan. 1. This is their first visit home since their marriage in Spokane last June. la (s n Tvt. Smokey Visits Pvt. Lyman Smokey arrived Saturday from Camp Swift, Texas to spend the holidays with his uncle, Albert Smokey and his sister, Nevada. He reports he has had a good set-up at Camp Swift and he is looking well. He will leave Tuesday to report back to Camp Swift. fS f3 S Vacation in Calcutta Fifteen days at the rest camp in Calcutta, was the "time off" allowed Pfc. S. C. Turner during late November from his duties in Burma. He has been in Burma for more than a year and this is his first furlough during that time. He said it was so good to really rest that he couldn't write letters. Every minute of his time was devoted to seeing the wonders of Calcutta and eating food such as he has never before tasted. His letter home to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Turner of Washington, Wash-ington, tell of his many experiences. experi-ences. He even saw the famous "burning place" where people bring their dead to the open park to be cremated. However, most of the other sites were more impressive. im-pressive. For Christmas, he is sending his mother a fine table cover and to his sisters, sandal wood elephants. ele-phants. He is a member of the airborne engineers. n R n Seaman Brooks Visits Grant Brooks S 1c arrived last Thursday for a seven-day leave with his wife and children. He will report back to the Naval hospital at San Diego, where he says they are giving him the best of attention for his eyes. He hopes to be on active duty soon, ?a isi Navy Aircrewman Headed for the silver wings of a Navy aircrewman, is Lester Gubler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Gubler of Santa Clara. He has just completed a course in preparation for the rating of aviation avi-ation radioman and will now attend at-tend a gunnery school. He holds the rating of Seaman first class. After completing the lower division di-vision of the Dixie junior college, Seaman Gubler enlisted in the U. S. Navy at Salt Lake City, May 17, 1944. Entering the Naval Air technical training center at Memphis, Mem-phis, Tenn. on July 4, he has successfully suc-cessfully completed the requirements require-ments of the preliminary courses. Hospitalized On Friday of last week, Mrs. Leo Holt received her first letter in many weeks from her husband, Pfc. Holt. It was just a brief V-mail from England reporting that he was in a hospital there and saying that he would write more later. There were no details de-tails as to why he was hospitalized, hospital-ized, but he said he would soon be all right and the folks back home are not to worry. At least it added a little sparkle to Christmas Christ-mas to have a letter after the long silence. Pa fa r Receives Commission Among the group who received commissions as second lieutenants in the Medical Administration Corps at the Camp Barkeley Officer Candidate school graduation gradua-tion Dec. 22, was Gilbert Tobler, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Tobler of Santa Clara. This graduation marked the completion of four months training train-ing in a variety of related subjects sub-jects such as sanitation, first aid, chemical warfare, tactics, training train-ing and logistics. Each of the officers have been granted a ten-day ten-day leave prior to reporting to their next station for assignment. Pa P3 P3S DeWayne Emett in Midway DeWayne Emett SSM.3c is now in Midway and thoroughly agrees with the fellow serviceman who wrote verses about that intriguing in-triguing location where moonlight moon-light and such would promote romance except that there are no girls. Pshaw! Seaman Emett ate his Thanksgiving Thanks-giving dinner in Hawaii with his brother, Leonard LM 3c who was formerly with a maintenance crew and is now helping to operate the unit's laundry. Right after the big dinner DeWayne's group left for Midway and there they are. Pa isa Pa Gifford Brothers in Service Erwin Gifford SC 3c is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Gifford of Springdale. He has seen active ac-tive duty for more than two years in the Pacific area. Now he is in the Marianas and says things are comparatively quiet there. One brother, Pfc. Cleo Gifford is in the European theatre. He has been in the service four and one-half years and overseas for 20 months as a truckdriver. When he wrote last, he was at a rest camp in Paris. Just try to imagine im-agine a rest camp in Paris. Another brother, Leon Gifford S 2c is in training at Oakland, California and making a good record. |
