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Show FORMER MILFORD GIE NAMED QUEEN OF U. S. FIGHTING VESSEL (The following item ap- peared in a recent issue, of the Deseret News. Mrs. Sexton Sex-ton is a daughter of Sheldon (Shay) Zabriskie, and formerly former-ly lived in Milford). A seafarer's dispatch from Tsingtoa, China, which is 10,000 nautical miles from Salt Lake, today notified a Salt Lake girl of her selection as queen of one of Uncle Sam's fighting ships. The lucky girl is comely Mrs. Eleanor Sexton, 24-year-old wife of W. N. Sexton, a storekeeper aboard the light anti-aircraft cruiser USS Oakland. Confronted by a Deseret News photographer, Mrs. Sexton said: "This is the first I've heard ?bout it. I don't believe you " Handed the dispatch, she read lhat: "after much bickering by seven very competent judges, she has been chosen 'Miss USS Oakland Oak-land of 1947." "I'm not a miss," she reflected, "I have a six-month-old baby girl. But I guess that doesn't matter." Reading further, the dispatch said at the earliest opportunity Mrs. Sexton will receive a large bouquet of roses and will be invited in-vited to attend the ship's dance when it reaches the United States, and reign as queen of its homecoming ball. The Sextons have been married mar-ried 16 months. Seaman Sexton has never seen his child, his wife remarked, adding he will have t plenty of time for that after he j leaves the navy in November, I after five years' service. J |