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Show News from Our People Li fhe Armed Services By MABEL JARVIS (Held Over From Last Week) Civilians Again Rumell Reber SlC and Pfc. Gerald Reber, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Reber of Littlefield are both home to stay. Seaman Reber spent 40 months in the navy, a gunner on Liberty ships, he has docked at almost every allied foreign port. His brother Gerals has been in army uniform almost three years, most of the time in the Mediterrianean area on a hospital ship, making four trips back to the US with wounded wound-ed soldiers. a n Home's Still Okeh The present snow and .cold in Dixie wasn't exactly what Pfc. Bowden E. Kenworthy had been boasting to his buddies about, but St. George is still his choice, after a really cold winter in Italy where he served 15 months with the 88th Division. He wears the ETO, American and Victory ribbons rib-bons with the Combat Infantryman Infantry-man badge and two battle stars. Mrs. Kenworthy and their infant daughter have been in St. George with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Barton, during his absence, ea ca es Enroute From Pearl Harbor , Enroute from Pearl Harbor are three Washington county service- men who might even arrive in time for Christmas if the" separation separa-tion centers are not too crowded. They are Austin V. Iverson SSML2C and T5 LaVoid S. Leavitt and TSet N. Reardnn all of St. George, and all high point men. Seaman Iverson is coming aboard the USS Nevada. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Victor Iverson. T5 Leavitt is husband of Harriet Har-riet Anderson Leavitt of St. George. They have one child who knows "Daddy" by his picture. He is aboard the USS Shamrock Bay along with 1199 other servicemen ser-vicemen who are anxious to be home. Sgt. Beardon is one of 2100 veterans returning on the USS Colorado and with the other two has had long term overseas duty. Pa , Down In Texas Private Vendon P. Ence had enough time off last week to come as far as Las Vegas and get Mrs. Ence and their small daughter, Venda, who returned with him to Fort Bliss, Texas, where they will remain for the present. Their small son, Randy, is with his grandparents in Ivins. It will be a lot more like Christmas Christ-mas having them at the Post. P Fa P Home From Shanghai Serving on the USS Hocking are two St. George veterans, Wm. T. Morris PhM2C, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Morris, and Austin Aus-tin M. Gentry S2C, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gentry. The Hocking, Hock-ing, an attack transport, left Shanghai Nov. 11, for the States with 1400 high-point servicemen to be discharged. The Hocking took part in the invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and in the occupation of Korea. Seaman Gentry was home over the week end, which he says was better than not coming at all. (a Grandson Arrives Pfc. Eldon R. Bennett, son of James H. Bennett of Salt Lake City and grandson of Mrs. Sarah Jacobson of St. George has been honorably discharged after 25 months service in France and Germany with the 146th Engineers Engin-eers Batallion. With his ribbons he wears five battle stars the Presidential citation, and Bronze Arrowhead as evidence of his participation. Bs 'Free-White and 24' By Uncle Sam's orders Clinton Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-ford Wil-ford Knight of Santa Clara is again 'Free, White and he admits '24' after 3Vi years in uniform. He was discharged at Fort Douglas Doug-las Wednesday, having just returned re-turned from 29 months in the Southwest Pacific where he was a mortarcrewman with the 33rd infantry. Asked as to his plans, he said he hoped to return to the employment of Rocky Mountain Service, for whom he drove truck before he began soldiering. T3 F3 r-i On The Farm Pfc. Marion Beckstrom served 17 months with the 81st Division of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations and among other decorations dec-orations wears the Combat Infantryman's In-fantryman's Badge. He is glad to be discharged to resume his farming at Pine Valley. |