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Show Tvy News from the .Yashington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts Summer Weather Now Hot Summer weather, while the folks at home are having winter, is being the experience of Ralph F. Nisson, F3c, who is somewhere some-where in the South Pacific. Quite a contrast from the weather back home this time of year, he says. Seaman Nisson is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edw. F. Nisson of Washington Wash-ington who were happy to have word from their son that he has reached his destination. With him is another boy whom he trained with at Farragut, Ida., and he is glad of this companionship, where everything is so different. Pa ra Pa 2nd. Lt. Guerrero Visits Greeting friends and relatives in St. George Tuesday, was Second Sec-ond Lieut. James W. Guerrero, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Guerrero Guer-rero of Motoqua, who arrived that day on a delayed orders stop over from Williams Field, Chandler, Chand-ler, Ariz., where he was graduated with his silver wings Saturday, Dec. 4th. Lt. Guerrero went first to Santa Ana for his preliminaries, from there to Ryan Field, Hemet, Calif., next to Merced Army air base, Merced, Calif., and then to Williams Wil-liams Field, where he has just completed requirements for his graduation, and will go on to his next assignment. FBI M 1S Graduates As 2nd Lieut. Graduating last week from the A. A. F. pilot school of Fort Sumner, Sum-ner, N. M., was Cadet Lorin C. Covington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Covington of Hurricane. Cadet Covington received his silver sil-ver wings of the flying officer and the rank of Second Lieut. He is a member of Class 43-K at this advanced two-engined school, says the report of his graduation. Sgt. Clay Williams Writes Writing home from the Central Pacific area to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kumen D. Williams, Sgt. Clay Williams reports he is well and getting along fine. He reminds re-minds them that he has not been home since two years ago on Thanksgiving, and wishes he could visit them again soon. Thanksgiving Day there, he says, was like any other day, except for the very good-dinner appropriate for the occasion. He expressed appreciation for the variety of reading material, newspapers news-papers and such his parents send him, but urged them not to miss sending the County News, if others had to be omitted. He says all the boys depend on their home paper more than any other reading, read-ing, except letters. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have another son, K. D. Wililams Jr., m me service, now is m training at Camp Roberts, Calif. He also sends appreciation for the News. He reminds his parents that there is a big job ahead, but assures them that if the home folks will keep the implements of war rolling, roll-ing, the boys in the service will see to it that victory will soon be our reward. , Sa isa 19i Located At Albuquerque Returning next week to his post in Alburquerque, N. M., is Cpl. James H. Hardy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gile Hardy of this city, and his wife. They arrived early last week for a 15-day furlough, which he reports they are enjoying en-joying immensely. Cpl. Hardy is with the Army air corps. Pa Pa JBi Pf c. Bringhurst Visits Here Monday night and Tuesday Tues-day for just a 24-hour visit with his mother, Mrs. Nellie W. Bringhurst, Bring-hurst, was Pfc. Frank Bringhurst of the finance department, Camp Adair, Ore. This was scarcely long enough to say "hello" and "good-bye", and still it was much better than no visit at all, agrees Mr. Bringhurst. His wife, the former Margery Done of Los Angeles, went on to spend a day or two with her mother, Mrs. Virginia Bone, and Pfc. Bringhurst will join her there for the immediate return to Camp Adair. la (s Lynn Miller Promoted Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pectol of Washington report having received word that their grandson, Lynn Miller has been promoted recently from Second Class Seaman to Third Class Torpedoman. Lynn reports having served on his fifth sea mission and says he surely likes his work. The Pectols have a son, Wan-las Wan-las Pectol, who is having his first experience on the sea. Also another an-other grandson, Gene Pectol is with the Marines, having entered the service in January, 1943. 1S3 ' Pa pa Ross Bleak Transferred Mrs. Tina Macfarlane received word that her grandson, Ross Bleak, son of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Bleak of Salt Lake City, who i 1 3: T" U il lias ueen ciiieiiuiiig duuiuci Allege, Al-lege, in Colorado as a Navy reserve, re-serve, is soon to be transferred to a military hospital to continue his medical studies. According to reports from his instructors, Ross is one of the few students who have carried straight "A" grades in their class work, which is one of the factors entitling him to the advanced training he will receive. Ross spent his early childhood in St. George. Mrs. Macfarlane has another grandson, Pvt. Donald Clark Macfarlane, Mac-farlane, who belongs to a motion picture unit and is now training at a post in California. Clark is a former Dixie college student. His father, Donald C. Macfarlane of Denver, is a U. S. Engineer and served over an extended period per-iod on the Alcan highway in Canada. Receive Gratifying News Gratifying news was received last week by Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Hafen concerning their son, Cadet Arlo Hafen, who is in the Army air corps, and at present training at the San Antonio air cadet center. A personal letter from Major Gen. G. C. Brant of Randolph Ran-dolph Field, praises Cadet Hafen for his personal advantages, including in-cluding mental and physical alertness, alert-ness, sound judgment, coolness and other qualifications which give him a good chance to become be-come a military pilot. Cadet Hafen entered the service Mar. 2; 1943, training first at I Camp Swift, Texas, with the Signal Sig-nal Corps. Later he was transferred trans-ferred to the Air Corps, taking his preliminary work at Shep-pard Shep-pard Field, Texas, later studying at Xavier university, Cinncinnati, and from there to his present location. lo-cation. pa &a Pa Lieut. II. Morris Writes Mrs. Howard A. Morris has just received letters from her husband, Lieut. Morris, who is now somewhere some-where in Italy. He has been in North Africa since August and was only moved recently. Italy seems to be much more to his liking than the wilderness of Africa, although Lieut. Morris could say little else about his present location or his work. He did say, however, that he would like to see someone he knows. So far, that hasn't been his good luck. |