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Show tews from Our Washington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts By MABEL JARYTS Lieut. D. Gubler Home Again Lieut. Donworth Gubler is back in the U. S. once again and says it is a wonderful experience. He called at the News office Monday to report "once more" his change of address, and thinks from here on out he will have a more. permanent perm-anent location. He has completed his bombing missions and has his star for major combat mission, three oak leaf clusters, the purple heart and other recognition. As bombardier of the lead plane on one raid over Munich he had his most exciting experience. They encountered plenty of flak and two large groups of fighters. Their bomber lost its nose and was badly damaged otherwise. The temperature was 45 degrees below, be-low, freezing their hands to the controls and it looked like they might not get back, but as the boys say, "luck was with them". cs I TS Pvt Duncan Visits Family Pvt. Willard Duncan, an engineer engi-neer in the 16th corps of the 2nd Army is very happy to be home with his family and friends. The region near Camp McCoy, Wis., where he is stationed, is very beautiful, he says. Pvt Duncan tells of the, many things that he has done in the fours months he has been at that station. He will return there for further training. M H Burgess Boys Report Location Pvt. Rodney Burgess and wife are here from Fort Douglas, where he has been stationed since his induction, hoping for an improvement im-provement in health. He will remain re-main with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Burgess for another week. His brother, Robert Burgess, Burg-ess, who left in March, 1941, with the 115th Engineers, is one of the few of that original unit still intact He is in the New Britain area and recently sent his parents par-ents a box of souvenirs including a native comb, a bushman's club, strings of beads, a sandal wood box and other interesting items. He is supervisor of the timber-cutting timber-cutting in one section and says he has helped build a bridge recently re-cently with timbers that would bring thousands of dollars in the United States. Mi la Hyatte Hold Reunion Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Hyatt had occasion for reunion at their home over last week, with all of their children except one here to visit them. Captain and Mrs. Ivan Hyatt and two children came from Camp Carson, Colo., returning on Monday. During the previous wk they visited in Los Angeles wth Mrs. Hyatt's parents, Mr. and Mrs Frank Sills, and in San Diego with a brother, Seaman Milton Hyatt. Here also for the januly dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Crawford and children of dar City, Mrs. V. W. Jones of fovo and Miss Reva Hyatt of Jnglewood, Calif. 1BJ E- Pulsipher Marries Postmaster and Mrs. William brooks received word last week 0 the marriage of their son, jonard Ernest Pulsipher, AJM.-F.3c AJM.-F.3c and Miss Margie Johnson, John-son, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson ,of Burlington, Wyo. The Wmony took place May 29th in ?n Francisco, with the L.D.S. shop officiating at his home. he couple met while both were students at the B. Y. U., the year wiore he enlisted with the U. S. Jnh rve. Since then, Miss in has been teaching school sL wyming. She was visiting a t; ln San Francisco at the ln"e of their marriage, in !6r servinS for several months ' "Piil v. Central Pacific, A.M.M.F. "Cipher was returned to the "niand for four months special tnenTi before his next assign-nt- For the present, the couple 1 remain in San Francisco. SSgt. Imlay Awarded DPC A news release from an Eighth AAF Bomber station in England brought word over the week end of awards recently made to SSgt. Mark E. Imlay, son of Mrs. J. W. Imlay of Hurricane. Tail gunner of a B-17 Flying Fortress, Sgt. Imlay recently added the Distinguished Distin-guished Flying Cross to his previous previ-ous awards of the Air Medel with four Oak Leaf Clusters and the Purple Heart. Graduate of Hurricane high school, Sgt. Imlay was employed as machinist at Tollars Mechanj-cal Mechanj-cal Works in Los Angeles before enlisting in the U. S. Army Oct. 23, 1940. He attended a machinist school in Springfield, Mass., and shipped to England with an ordnance ord-nance company, receiving his gunnery training after reaching England. fa M n W. Jensen Inducted Into Navy Moroni Jensen, manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Beet Seed production, pro-duction, returned Sunday from Salt Lake City, where he visited his son, Whitney, prior to his induction in-duction into the U. S. Navy Saturday Sat-urday evening. Mrs. Whitney Jensen, Jen-sen, the former Helen Segmiller of St. George,' and their daughter, Judy Lynn, came with Mr. Jensen to Richfield, where they will make their home with her husband's parents for the duration. Whitney is the third son of the Jensen's to enter military service. Their son, Gilman, has been on duty overseas for more than two years, first in the Aleutians and now is in the Pacific area. Their son, Donald, is with the U. S. Coast Guard. fias ?K Pa Fair Enough Among the recent soldier visitors visit-ors in St. George was Pvt. Bruce A. Barton, who figures Uncle Sam is fair enough with his 'boys. His furlough was just about concluded when word came that his sister, Mrs. J. J. Carroll, who has resided in Fairbanks, Alaska for three years, was coming home with her two small sons. This information was wired to his commanding officer who gave his okeh for the extra days, to make possible the visit with his sister before he returned re-turned to his post at Fort Bragg, N. C. pa o Subscribes To the News Amos Hunt of Enterprise called in Wednesday to subscribe for the paper for his son, Leonard B., the third of his boys to enter the service. Now Uncle Sam will have to wait six years before he has another boy old enough for the service. His eldest son, SSgt. Clawson, graduated from Fort Knox, Ky., in May. The second boys, Pvt. LeGrande Hunt, has been overseas for most of a year, pa Ba Pa Pfc. W. Schmutz Graduates Pfc. DeWayne Schmutz and wife arrived Tuesday morning from Las Vegas to visit for two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marcell Schmutz of St. George. He graduated last week end from the Army aerial gunnery school at Las Vegas, and when he returns to that post will be employed as instructor in the use of air weapons weap-ons for the present. (a R Merrill Kunz Visits Merrill B. Kunz, who is Carpenter's Carpen-ter's Mate second class with the U S Navy, returned last Friday to his base at Tiburon, Calif, after spending two weeks in St. George with his wife, the former Alma Morris and in Cedar City with his parents and other relatives. Member of a floating dry dock crew it will be his duty to ply his trade as carpenter on the open sea when occasion requires. Mrs Kunz will remain for the present in St George with her mother, Mrs Nettie K. Morris. She is employed em-ployed at Snow's Dress Shop. |