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Show flEW of M By MABEL JAR VIS Hex Terry SO 2c Honio Rex Terry, Ship's Cook 2c, accompanied ac-companied by his wife, arrived last Friday in St. George to visit his mother, Mrs. Bessie Terry and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Terry were married shortly before he went over seas two years ago. I lis recent months of service have been in France, since invasion day, and he says he is back in the U. S. now, he hopes, for keeps. They will visit for two weeks in St. George and vicinity then will leave for Aburn, Idaho, to visit Mrs. Terry's family before going to his new post in Rhode Island. lie says he is happy to report definitely, that he was never wounded, but he was hospitalized hospi-talized for several weeks, during the early invasion period. Rl 161 B Kn.siifii Cox VLsIIm Knsign El Myrrh L. Cox, pilot with the U. S. Navy Air forces arrived Nov. 5 from Corpus Christ i, Texas, to visit his parents, par-ents, Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Cox and oilier relatives in St. George. lie has just completed one phase of his training and will go from here to Green Cove Springs, Fla. for his advanced training, d (a 151 "Wlmt's Cook m'?" SSgt. Mark Imlay has been without news from home since Sept. 1, and wonders wha't going on back there. He has been in the European theater of operations opera-tions for an extended period. When he returns, he says, he might get to be Mayor of Hurricane Hurri-cane and he wants the County News so he can keep informed, just in case. Fa Fa- Pa At Duke TJ. Recognition has just been given Israel Junior Larkin, brother of Herman Larkin of St. George and former Dixie College student. He is apprentice seaman and has been transferred from New Hampden, Hamp-den, Sydney, Va. college, under the V-12 program, to Duke Uni-versty Uni-versty in North Carolina. This new assignment should give him two years schooling at Duke, which would be a difficult assignment assign-ment to get in peace times. Nice going, Junior. t m mi Cpl. Carter Visits Cpl. Howard Carter had 48 hours home during last week, having come from Harvard Field, Nebraska to bring his wife and small son, Lloyd, to remain for the present in Veyo with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Chad-burn. Chad-burn. He is the. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Carter of St. George and is in the supply department of the air force, in the operation of the B-29. a n iq Ready to Fight From headquarters of the Air Service Command of U. S. Stra-getic Stra-getic Air forces in Europe, comes word that Cpl. Francis L. Leany son of Wilford Leany of Hurricane, Hurri-cane, has completed the orientation orienta-tion course designed to bridge the pan between training in the States and actual combat. His next station will be one from which America's fighting planes cover enemy Europe. Fa n Fa Awaiting Husband's Return Awaiting the return of First Lieut. Ivan J. Hansen, are his wife and ten - month - old son, Stephen Leslie, who are making their home in St. George with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Standing. They were former residents resi-dents of San Bernardino, but came to St. George to engage in the laundry business. Lieut. Hansen is a native of Utah,, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hansen of Milford. He is a transport trans-port pilot with the air forces and has been stationed in India' since June, 1943. He has never seen his baby boy. On recent routine flying to deliver de-liver supplies into China, Lieut. Hansen's plane was shot down. Transport planes are not equipped with arms, hence the crew has no protection from the enemy. Lieut. Hansen was wounded in the back by shell fragments, but with his co-pilot parachuted to safety, walking several days until they reached a Chinese village where they were given food and directed to an American air base. He is to receive the Purple Heart and should be home by mid-January, perhaps sooner, for the reunion re-union with his wife and son. F F IBi Two Meet In L. D. S. Meeting Wilford Leany received word from his son, Francis Leany, who is stationed in England that he received a great thrill when he went to an L. D. S. service and met his old pal from home. Clell Covington. lie was the first person per-son he had seen from home for many months. I-ttr from Li-eut. Snow The latest letter received by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Snow from their son Lieut. Dean Snow, who flies a B-24 from an English base, reported he is now getting his County News regularly. He says, "I think I enjoy it more every time. I am a little behind on things, but I still enjoy the paper." pap-er." Lieut. Snow and his entire crew have just finished a ten day rest in London. He says he is ready now to finish those last nine missions. . Flying a lead crew, their missions are slow chalking up. His brother, Stafford, is located at Amarillo, Texas with several Dixie boys. He says he is well and plenty busy and insists that the wind that blows at Enterprise is a mere whisper compared with what blows in Texas. However, he could think of worse places than his present location. Fa Fa Fa Hears from Two Sons Mrs. Lillie M. Slade of Central had a telephone visit Nov. 6, with her son, James B. Slade, S 1c, who was on the mainland at San Francisco after several months active duty in the Pacific. His wife and two small daughters are visiting him in San Francisco during his short leave. On Nov. 7, Mrs. Slade received a cablegram from another son, Cpl. Clark B. Slade, who had just reached his destination somewhere some-where in Europe.' He said he was well and everything was okeh. Her daughter, Arlene and her husband of Brigham City visited her last week, prior to his departure depar-ture Nov. 10 to enter military service. This gives her two sons and two sons-in-law in the service. Pa Fa Fa Homo from Aleutians In St. Geoge over Tuesday and Wednesday for his first visit in two and one-half years, Cpl. Bliss Jarvis said it was mighty good to be back in Dixie after nearly 18 months in the Aleutians. His parents par-ents are Mr. and Mrs. B. Jarvis. Accompanying him. from Salt Lake City to St. George, were his sister, Mrs. P. E. Parsons and three children, Carol, Kaye and Bliss J. Prior to entering the service in April, 1942, he was distributor for Scowcroft's in the northern part of the state. He was assigned to the anti-aircraft division of amphibious am-phibious operations and was in training in Inglewood and Fort Ord, Calif., before being transferred trans-ferred to the Aleutians at the time Attu and Kiska were retaken from the Japs. He is now on delayed orders, enroute to Edge-wood, Edge-wood, Maryland, where he will enroll in the U. S. school of chemical warfare, having completed com-pleted the required examinations and three weeks preliminary training train-ing in the Aleutians. He says the Island weather was not so cold, except when the wind blew and sent snow whirling. He brought several souvenirs made from heavy Jap shells. |