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Show Hurricane and Cedar City Doped As Teams To Beat In '43 Hurricane and Cedar City appear to be the teams to beat in the Dixie league scramble this year, as a result of their wins last week end. By a display of uncanny basket shooting the Tigers defeated the Flyers at Hurricane last Friday 30-21. Cedar City dropped Valley and Kanab 50-40 and 33-22, respectively, res-pectively, on the losers' floors. At Hurricane, Dixie started out with a burst of speed, when Norman' Nor-man' Hafen dropped in a foul pitch and a set-up, but the two teams fought on even terms for the rest of the quarter. After that the Flyers "flew", but with no visible means of transportation. transporta-tion. They were slow to, get the ball into play, passed poorly and could not make their baskets count. The team's defense was its only strong point. The boys did well to hold their opponents to 30 points, with the display of basket shooting of the Tigers. The Hurricane team started slowly, but gained momentum as the game went on. They passed well, gave the Flyers a minimum opportunity to pile up points, and (Continued on page eight) . Soldiers' Hews (Continued from page three) tion was received over the week 1 end by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. ' Pickett. A member of the 2Sth Combat Engineers, Lieut. Pickett graduated gradu-ated last summer from Fort Bel-voir, Bel-voir, Va., and later took intensive training at Edgewood arsenal in Maryland, returning to Camp Gruber as instructor in his de-j de-j partment. He left St. George in March, 1941, as a member of the 115th Engineers, and has made rapid progress right along. Mrs. Pickett, the former Fawn Schmutz, is at Muskogee, Okla., j and writes home interestingly of home life in the military areas. U. S. A. Creston Woodard Writes Writing his parents from the U. S. Army air corps school at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Creston Cres-ton Woodard says he was quarantined quar-antined over Christmas, but was able to get out for a show by January 1st and is feeling great. He includes a report from the camp showing that with 16,000 boys off duty at once during the holidays, "to the amazement of all Army officers there were no arrests made, no riots, no rapes, no disorder, except overcrowded transportation". This announce ment was made over the radio by General Cote, who said it was the first time in military history that no arrests were made among so many men on leave, saying "such behavior set the highest example ever known to military experts". Creston pays high tribute to his companions and officers and says they are all anxious to dig in j and get this war over with for the benefit of all. No one, he is ' sure, prefers military to civilian life, and all are serious ahnnt fin ing a good job. U. S. A. John Nordin Promoted Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nordin of Motoqua have word this week of the promotion of their son, John A. Nordin to the rank of Corporal at Camp Haan, Calif. Cpl. Nordin has only been in the Service a short time, but says he likes his job and he means to make the best use of his time while there. U. S. A. C. Hartman Sends Greetings Pvt. Gerald C. (Clive) Hart-man Hart-man sends greetings to the folks back home from Camp Robinson Ark., where he was transferred from Fort Douglas some time ago. He reports everything okeh except his singing voice has sidestepped side-stepped h i m since he reached Arkansas, but he is enjoying playing play-ing the piano for others to sing andlikes his officers and com- panions in that camp. In sending this information Clive's mother re-subscribes for the News which she says she has ' taken for the past 20 years, until very recently. These days, she especially enjoys the information about soldier boys, perhaps more,' because her own son is in the Service. U.S.A. Word from Harold Anderson Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Anderson received re-ceived word from their Df Harold A. Anderson Wednesday from England, telling how he had enjoyed reading the first issue of the Washington County News from the subscription his family sent him for Christmas. His letter let-ter was written Dec. 16, and the paper he received was the mid-November mid-November issue, but he said most of it was news to ' him and he had read every word of it. Their daughter, Fae Guarda, has been transferred recently from Santa Monica to Oakland, Calif., where she is continuing her tower air control courses, which she reports are intensely interesting. |