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Show PageA2 TIMES Submit a Guest Editorial or Opinion at our office, located locat-ed at 538 Soutfi State in Orem. Deadlines are Monday 10:00 a.m. All submissions are subject to editing for length, and The Orem-Ceneva Times reserves the right to publish or not to publish a submission. & Opinion COMMENTARY IRS set to begin hiring in Salt Lake City The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is accepting applications for hundreds of new jobs as part of a nationwide multi-phase hiring program. In January 2005 the agency expects to hire approximately approxi-mately 500 tax enforcement enforce-ment personnel in 70 cities across the country. IRS is seeking qualified candidates to become revenue rev-enue agents, revenue officers offi-cers and tax compliance officers who are responsible responsi-ble for enforcing America's tax laws. Beginning salaries vary by location but typically start at $33,071 - $58,903 per year. 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All letters must include the author's name (printed AND signed) and a telephone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, punctuation, taste and length. Letters are welcome on any topic. f V;, . J, f anogos Green '7S t k I Class Reunion 2004 Orem's Lincoln High School Class of 1974 will hold its 30 Year Reunion on Saturday, September 25th, 2004. The activities will include golf at 8:00 a.m. at the Cascade Golf Center. The picnic will be held at 1 p.m. at the SCERA Park. The dinner will be held at 7 p.m. at Orem High School. Class members will meet together, talking about old times and people at Orem's first high school, which was completed in 1919. It's class reunion time, again. We go to "tell and see." I look at all the girls and men, And then, they look at me. Sometimes, I do not recognize The guy who lost his hair; The girl who's now a different size; The teacher who's not there. What happened to our special class That very special breed? Where is the laddie and the lass: "most likely to succeed?" Well, Shirlee was a movie star. She married Freddie Kool. They drank themselves beneath the bar: The saddest kids in school. Our Student Body President-He President-He ran a hot dog stand. His life became the precedent For those that take command. Then, Jimmy Jones, our quarterback, Has had a dozen wives. He never drove a Cadillac: His alimony thrives! Our football team's best water boy Achieved his claim to fame: As college coach, he was a joy. The stadium bears his name! Our music classes really soared. The drama classes droned. Our Tiger Mascot really roared. The dances: chaperoned. Our principal, we always knew, Would be a Harvard Dean. He was our inspiration, too: The best we've ever seen! That singing gal, to Nashville went, And won the "Country" prize. We always knew the songs she sent Would soar into the skies! Remember all the love affairs, We never knew about? Our classmates mingled into pairs, And some of them worked out! Sam married Jan. Beth married Scott. (They all are very gray.) Both Dave and Mary tied the knot. Malinda moved away! The only one who didn't wed Was gorgeous little Nell. She wrote the books we all have read, And won the prize, Nobel! Just when I thought, our class achieved A triumph over sin, I realized, they all believed Our football team would win! Orem-Geneva Times 538 South State Orem 225-1340 Fax: 225-1341 Kirk Parkinson 225-1340 Publisher kparkinsonhcraldcxtra.com Russ Presfwich 225-1340 General Manager rprestwichfeheraldextra.com Landon Olson 225-1340 Editor lolsonheraldcxtra.com DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Robert King 225-1340 Art director IT rkingheraldextra.com Sydney Walker 225-1340 Office Manager ssumnerheraldcxtra.com f f Ik I ''pi r .t s J - J Cf hv -qpxd I 0 Ralph Steele Ralph Steele served as a sergeant in the infantry in Europe, "on the front lines for 117 days straight -no relief, no break." Ralph died last January, but Gareth Seastrand and Vance Calder fortunately videotaped his story a few years ago. My unit was an anti-tank unit. Our weapons were 57mm guns, firing a six and a half pound projectile, with pierced borings and roll-plate armor. I had three of those guns in my platoon, plus a complement of men to go with them ten men on each squad, plus a truck driver, jeep driver, driv-er, radio operator, and medic. With these guns, you could hit a bumble-bee at 3000 yards. We never saw much action with those guns, though it became necessary to use them against some fortified forti-fied positions. The Germans had a big coal factory in France, which manufactured coal briquettes. It was our job to take out the town and secure the factory. It was tough. There was a six-foot wall around the entire factory. We didn't know it at the time, but there were 1500 Russian prisoners inside doing the work. They'd never seen daylight for sixteen months. We made an assault on the wall. Four men went up on top, trying to make a ditch through it. They were immediately shot and fell down on top of the wall. We had a little guy who crawled up onto that wall and got those men off. How he did it, I don't know. As a platoon sergeant, I got a call from an information infor-mation officer to the regimental commander: "You'll take this factory." He gave us a battle plan to do it. We'd been inflicting casualties and taking casualties, but we were not progressing the way the Army wanted us to. Bright and early one morning a red flare went up, and we attacked. Everybody took off. Our guns were in position, and we fired on targets of opportunity. oppor-tunity. In the meantime, the Army had contacted the Air Force, and P-47's came in gave us a hand. We'd been told they would be there at just about daylight. Each P-47 carried two 500-pound bombs and had eight 50 caliber machineguns. One plane didn't did-n't make it. He got hit, smoke started coming from his fuselage, and he went right into the factory and blew up. Then our field artillery started pumping in phosphorus shells, and we could hear the Germans screaming from being burned up. They finally surrendered, and we took the factory and liberated the prisoners. I'll never forget one poor soul who hadn't eaten for I don't know how long. I fed him five cans of Army C-rations, enough to kill two ordinary men, but he ate them and wanted more. He showed me a picture of his family in Russia. Going down the road in a convoy, with the prisoners pris-oners in the trucks, I got a radio call: "Stop the convoy. We've got problems." The Russian prisoners prison-ers in a truck with a German guard had beaten him to death. The guard had been their guard in the coal mines. We got that straightened out and continued on. After the war, a lot of our boys were not doing exactly like they should have. Twice I had to arrest soldiers who were taking advantage of German women and children. I hollered at one guy in a German house and told him to lay down his weapon and come out, because he was under arrest. We'd been told to kill him if he resisted. He just called me a bunch of names. I went across to the door, while my guys covered me. As I heard the door creak, I was right to the side of him. I reach over, grabbed his carbine, jerked him out, and hit him with my.45 pistol. POOR |