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Show News from the Washington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts rromoted To First Lieut. Glade Wittwer is now a First Lieutenant, according to reports just received by his wife, the former Phyllis Lightner, and other relatives, he having attained this rank August 18 at Camp Van Horn, Miss., where he has been under maneuvers for the past four months. Lieut. Wittwer phoned Mrs. Wittwer Wednesday morning from Camp Swift, Texas, having arrived ar-rived at that location. Among other items, he reported his happiness hap-piness that his entire company had been selected from the 164th Engineers Combat battalion as demonstration troops for an officers offi-cers mine school at Camp Swift. The day they left Camp Van Dorn, after undergoing inspection, Lieut. Wittwer rejoiced that his entire battalion was presented to Company 'A', which is a coveted distinction. Mrs. Wittwer says Texas seems much closer than far off Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, and Lieut. Wittwer says he relaxed the minute they crossed big river and he had hopes of breathing western air once again. Pa fas )Ba Cpl. Riding Writes Parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Riding received re-ceived word Tuesday from their son, CpL Mryle Riding, stating that he had arrived safely in England, Eng-land, after a pleasant voyage. This was their first word in six weeks. Cpl. Riding enlisted Jan. 5th, in the . Army air corps and was stationed first in Florida for seven months' intensive training. He was then chosen as one of eleven of his company to go to Chicago for training in handling mechanized equipment, and is now an operator. Although he is enjoying his Army life and travel experience, Myrle writes that .he will be glad to get back to dear old Dixie. ftS IBS SB Capt. Pickett Sends Cablegram A cablegram received Wednesday Wednes-day morning from Capt. Evan S. Pickett assures his wife and parents par-ents of his well-being, although they are still doing guess work as to his location which was not divulged in the cabled birthday anniversary greeting to his brother, broth-er, Charles. This is the first direct word the Picket ts have had from their son in a month and with what is going on in the combat area, this came as an assurance that he was still doing well on Sept. 13, when the cablegram was dated. Si la r Enter Service On Birthdays Birthdays anCf the Army seem to go together for the Las Vegas Earl brothers, as three of them have joined the Army on their birthday anniversaries, and the fourth brother plans to join the Navy air corps on his 18th birthdays, birth-days, June 21, 1944. First Lieut. Murdell Earl, now at Fort Lewis, Wash., in the infantry, in-fantry, was inducted into the Army on his birthday, Oct. 21, 1941. Corp. Tracy Earl, in the air corps at Fairfield, Calif., was inducted in-ducted on his birthday, Nov. 11, 1942. Sept. 12th of this year, Lyman Earl, received his Second Lieut, commission at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, also on his birthday. He was a member of the R.O.T.C. at the University of Nevada, and is now in the signal sorps. Each of the brothers entered the service through the routine classifications of the draft boards, and by coincidence their "greetings "greet-ings from the President", turned out to be "Birthday Greetings". The youngest brother, Wayne, not to be outdone by his older brothers, plans to join the Navy air corps on his ISth birthday. He is a senior student at Las Vegas high school this year. They are the sons of Joseph W. Earl of St. George. Sa IBs Pa Writes from England Writing from England, to his uncle, John H. Bowler and wife, Sgt. Rodney Chadburn, son of Mr. and Mrs. June Chadburn of Veyo, says he is receiving his Washington County News quite regularly and expresses thanks to the people of Veyo for this courtesy cour-tesy in sending the paper to their soldier . boys. He remembers that there is possibly only one army-sized boy remaining now in Veyo and anticipates an-ticipates he will also be called soon. Sgt. Chadburn says he hears from home folks by letter often and he and the other boys are appreciative and surprised at the good mail service in England in this war time. Cadet Milne Transferred Cadet Earl Milne, son of ' Mr. and Mrs. Jos. J. Milne of St. George and husband of Ora Sand-berg Sand-berg Milne of Washington, has just been graduated from a four-months' four-months' training school course at the State Teachers' College at Wayne, Neb. He has now been transferred to Ihe Santa Ana Army air base in California where he is continuing his training. He hopes before long to have a furlough and get to visit his wife and baby and other relatives, but especially the baby whom he has not yet seen. IBs Pa Jos. Woodard In Arkansas Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Woodard have just received word that their son, Joseph S. Woodard, who has: been located at Jonesboro, Ark., since entering the Army air corps, has been transferred to Sheppard Field, Texas, and is now a full-fledged full-fledged aviation cadet. Joseph completed the primary flying courses at Dixie college before entering military service. The Woodard's other son, Cres-ton Cres-ton D. Woodward, who has been in the military service for more than a year, was promoted to the rank of Sergeant at his training 'camp in Tonopah, Nev., recently. He is in the radio department and expects to receive additional special spe-cial training in this line of work, las Pa Pa Group Returns from Training Home for a 15-day furlough with their families, having completed com-pleted their "boot" training at Camp Farragut, Ida., are Glenn Kenworthy, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Kenworthy; Phil Reid, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Reid, and husband of the former Glenda Morris of Kanab, who is here with him; Austin Norvel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Norval; Ashley Cannon, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Q. Cannon; and Kent Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hansen. The boys are all looking "tops", some having added a needed few pounds in weight, which they should according to Seaman Kenworthy, Ken-worthy, who says Farragut is a great place where they give the boys plenty of good food, plenty of sleep, plenty of opportunity and really plenty of work. All five boys are now ranked as Seamen Second Class, and will return to Camp Farragut shortly to be assigned as-signed to their next phase of training. Pas pa pa Dick Morris Promoted Pharmacist Second Mate is the title now held by Richard "Dick" Morris, son of Mrs. Nettie K. Morris, who has fully recovered from his illness and was happy to find his promotion awaiting his return from escorting a group of boys from San Francisco to Texas. Being under age - for the profession pro-fession when he entered the service, serv-ice, Richard could not rate the grade his training otherwise entitled en-titled him to, but from here on he will be less restricted. Mrs. Morris and their baby are residing re-siding in Cedar City and he is still located in San Francisco. Pa Pa m Roger Pickett In Colorado Buckley Field, Denver, is the location of aviation student Roger Pickett, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Pickett, who phoned home last week end that he is really among friends at that place, having found ten boys he knew in Dixie. His buddy is Hal Hammond from Nevada, and in the group of ten are Duke Aiken of Kanab, Stafford Snow of St. George, and Keith Terry of Rockville. He reports re-ports they are having interesting times together and "no chance to get lonesome when a fellow is among friends.". Pa ta Pa Cousins Meet In No. Africa Own cousins, and reared in homes separated by a mere three city blocks, Capt. Evan S. Pickett and his cousin Lieut. Howard "Hap" Morris met for the first time in three years, two weeks ago in North Africa. This information came to Mrs. Carl Hafen, sister of Howard, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Morris. Often together until they graduated grad-uated from Dixie junior college, Evan left with the 115th Engineers Engi-neers in March of 1941, while Howard was going to B. Y. U., from which he graduated before entering military service. From their time of leaving the U. S., the boys may have gone across in the same convoy, but did not meet until many days after their (Continued on page eight) News from Our People In the Armed Services (Continued' from page six) arrival on the foreign shore. Also in that vicinity is another of Evan's cousins, Lieut. Elmer Pickett, who went across before the other two, but they seem as yet not to have made contact. Pa Pa Pa Pfc C. Russell In No. Africa The first letter in six weeks to reach Mrs. Lindau Foremaster from her brother, Pfc. Cyril Russell, Rus-sell, came Sunday and reports his safe arrival somewhere in North Africa. This was cheering news after the long wait, says Mrs. Foremaster. Reporting h i s voyage over somewhat extensively, Pfc. Russell Rus-sell appeared to have enjoyed the ocean travel immensely and told of special places of interest along the way including a close-up of Giberalter, which until then was merely an advertising picture. P3 fsa P5 Sgt. Booth Calls By Phone Sgt. John Woodrow Booth telephoned tele-phoned last week from Salt Lake City to his father, William Booth in St. George, and Mr. Booth says the 20-minute visit by phone was interesting and thrilling but too short. Back in Salt Lake City to report re-port for assignment to his plane after his months of training at Camp Haring on the Mexican border, Sgt. Booth, said he and buddies had a great trip to Salt Lake City. The Sgt. is gunner of the crew and says the Army air force is the best place for him. Pa ft tsi D. Lund Promoted ;To Sgt. Mrs. Joseph Lund was advised last week of the recent promotion promo-tion of her son, Dilworth Lund to the rank of Sergeant. Dilworth Dil-worth has just graduated from the gunnery school at Tyndal Field, Fla., where he has been stationed for several weeks. Along with the report of his graduation, Mrs. Lund received the year book of Sgt. Lund's school, showing the large groups of boys being trained at this location lo-cation and giving her son a high rating for his work as a gunnery gun-nery student. pa pa To Train at Kansas Field News release from the Garden City Army air field, Kansas, reports re-ports the arrival of a new class of aviation cadets who have completed com-pleted the primary schools of the Central Flying Training Command and are standing by for their basic training at that field, where they will be located the next nine weeks. Cadets from Utah include Hal-vor Hal-vor K. Jones, son of Mrs. Katie Augason of St. George, who has already served 16 months in the regular Army gaining the rank of Sergeant. He is one of four brothers still in the service, a fifth having already given his life over Germany while on a bombing bomb-ing mission. He completed his elementary training at Victory Field, Vernon Texas, and is headed head-ed for his silver wings. Pa Pa Pa A Letter To the News Six Dixie boys joined Sept. 12 in writing a "Thank You" letter to the Editor of the News and to tell of their happiness in being together and give an idea of their locations at Miami Beach, Fla. The signers were: LaRaine Woodbury, Wood-bury, "Chick" Terry, Ralph ' J. Hafen, Derald A. Slack, George Fry and Lloyd Hewett. Expressing appreciation "for the weekly issue of the News, the boys write, "many things of interest inter-est transpire during our absence from home, which would pass us unnoticed if it were not for the News. Therefore we wish to thank you for your interest in events and happenings in the land of Dixie". Florida's sticky heat has taken the edge off the one-time complained com-plained of Dixie sunshine. The routine of training keeps them too busy to worry, and when opportunity op-portunity affords, the six have great times together. Housed in former swank seashore hotels, they enjoy swimming, but note the take-over by the Army included in-cluded the removal of most of the hotel luxuries, so that military mili-tary inspection of quarters is made easy. But some day these boys may be heard telling their children how they once put up at such a hotel on Miami Beach. Just now, though, their thoughts are mostly of home. Pa Pa ta Sgt. V. Prince Visits Here Sgt. Vivian Prince arrived last Tuesday from Camp Robinson, Ark., on an unexpected 15-day furlough, which he is spending with his parents, Mr. and" Mrs. James L. Prince, at New Harmony. Inducted June 26, 1942, Sgt. Prince is serving with the field artillery. He was first stationed at Camp Carson, Colo., and later was transferred to Camp Bland-ing, Bland-ing, Fla., to help form a new di- vision. His work there included that of chief of section on the : 104 m.m. howitzer, and instructor in other basic classes. Having completed their basic training the entire division has been transferred to Camp Robinson Rob-inson for secondary training. He reports he likes his work very" much but is happy to have this furlough to visit relatives and friends. pa Pa PS Seaman 2o 3. Randall Visits June Moe Randall, Seaman 2c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brigham Randall is home this week on a furlough from Tacoma, Wash. Seaman Randall enlisted last April and is now a Bugler. This is his second visit home during the past several months, and he is reported looking well and feeling feel-ing "tops". Pa Pa la. Advised of Birth of Daughter A special telephone message to Lieut. Robert L. Edwards at Camp Gruber, Okla., Wednesday noon, Sept. 23rd, advised him of the birth of a daughter at the McGregor hospital at 11:30 a.m. The mother is the former Toni Watson, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. D. C. Watson of this city. The glad tidings were also telephoned tele-phoned to the paternal grandparents, grandpar-ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Edwards Ed-wards of Hillsborough, Calif. Just how soon the soldier daddy will get to see his daughter is a question, ques-tion, but he's keeping his fingers crossed and hoping. Pa Pa Pa Clarence Theobald Writes Reactions of a Dixie boy to soldiering, sol-diering, to standards of living, to weather in England, and a dozen other items is revealed in a letter written by Cpl. Clarence W. Theo-Ibald Theo-Ibald of Toquerville, to his uncle, Frank Johnson in early September. Septem-ber. A hunger for the soil, for vitalizing farm work, for the privilege priv-ilege of going ahead on one's own, instead of waiting for the barked orders is revealed in this letter, as well as a deep appreciation for having been taught certain standards stand-ards of living that mean more to him as he notes the indifferences of people in other walks of life, and especially in some situations! England's fogs and cold have awakended in this soldier a keen appreciation for the sunshine back home, meaning Utah's Dixie, since he realizes many parts of the U. S. are as foggy and as cold as England. But, being a soldier, there is no opportunity for those extra minutes of slumber under warm blankets on cold mornings, for when the whistle blows, a soldier gets to moving. It isn't the big things, but the trivial things that are always happening that he finds difficult, but he still likes his way of life best in spite of the reactions of the majority. ma-jority. Cpl. Theobald is intrigued by England's everlasting line of bicycles bi-cycles and her cars that are so different but praises the people for their friendliness and their great effort to make the boys feel comfortable and happy. However, he will be glad to come back to Dixie when the war is over. |