OCR Text |
Show NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Thursday, May 24, 2007 Page 8 Aboard veterans M y orders were tut, and I was supposed to go on the USS Kastwind, an icebreaker. When the ship was ready for commissioning, I was assigned a berthing compartment compart-ment There were four bunks in each compartment, metal frames with lashing holding some canvas We each got a little tick sleeping bag, and blankets on top of that. The bunks started at the floor, and when vou left your compartment, you tipped the bunk up on its ( hams and hfjoked it to the bulkhead. We went on our shakedown cruise, running trials and tests on our guns We fired at a submarine sub-marine what was called dummy dum-my "hedgehogs" loaded with sand. The submarine crew would later tell us how many hits or misses we had. While we were in San Diego Harbor, an airplane went up and pulled a big canvas sleeve, which we fired at with our 20mm guns. The bullets had colored paint on the tips, so you could tell afterwards which bullets had hit the sleeve. On the forepart of the ship, we had a twin five-inch turret, and behind that we had a gun deck, which held a quad-10 a four-barrel 40mm gun. There was also a five-inch .'58 gun turret on the aft of the ship. What we called "K guns" fired off .'500-pound depth charges from the sides of the ship. We had two racks of charges, twelve charges in each rack The hedgehog charge was shaH'd like a bomb, only with a blunt nose and a propeller pro-peller in the front. A frame held 24 charges in a pattern, which you could change from a square to a diamond, or other kinds of patterns. As the charge hit the water, the force would pull the firing pin back and make the charge ready to explode. When it hit the water, and propeller would start to turn, and as it went down in the water, if it hit something solid, it would explode. If you got a couple of hits on a submarine, you knew you had him. After our shakedown cruise, I made first class sea- 1 - 800 It2 m fir Wfi y ' i i;''-:r' i " v. i' . I ... ..jlJ& r- zzzz lii yr . YOUR BEST DEAL IS njlf 260 E. Main St. always at duffs! (0trtfil M0WHLiHG American Fork JFKs. mmimm- ia; n.v;. imn 756-3613 Oua.gr flrff) MWMHCim ' .. ,t 'm It mm ? m i-'l .lyUf Ti JT .... m .. UUIcLUl'l SI'iJ' ifr m . - a - - a g,. j .gliMjBidMii iln rtmirf m JbririWiirfiMirhi lit iif ii"ft r'riniit-nTtimi--Ariiiriiiininii-a lhnwfn the ship Editor's note: This is the second of u five-part series uhout Wayne Wood, of I'leusunt Grove. This week, Apprentice Seumun Wayne Wood goes aboard .ship. man and was made a gunner's mate. We took the East wind down through the Panama Canal Ca-nal and came up to Host on, our home port. When I got leave in Boston, I just hiked all around New England Vermont, Maine. Hitchhiking was very common com-mon in those days, and I never had trouble getting a ride. I was in uniform, and I just carried a little duffle bag with some clean underwear and shaving equipment. Then I was out on the road. I usually stayed in servicemen's service-men's centers, and almost every little town you came to had a center, or there would be some kind of hotel or bed and breakfast. I got off the train in one little town called Great Bar-rington. Bar-rington. I went into a tavern and ordered something to eat (all the taverns had a bar on one side, and an eating area on the other side). When I got ready leave and pay the bill, the guy said, "Oh, don't worry about it. It's all paid for." One place in Maine, I got a ride with a couple. When they asked where I was going, I said, "No place in particular. I'm just seeing the country. What's beyond the next little town?" "You can't go any further," the man told me. "This is as far north in Maine as you can get." My pay at that time was $65 a month, which included 20 percent overseas pay. I ended up serving during two solid winters. We'd go on patrol up on the east coast of Greenland, to protect the coast from any German activities or occupation. The (jermans established weather stations in northern Greenland, so they could radio weather forecasts back to (iermany. That gave them a two-day chance to plan (heir war strategy. I Next week: Bitter-cold weather and Germans. Some veterans may wish, on their own, to tope or digital record their memories of military service. These will he transcribed and archived. For instructions on how to do this, e-mail Don Norton, at donnorton(i hyu.edu. Colon Caneeiv Get the test. Get the polyp. Get the cure. - ACS - 23f5 or cancer.org Utah County Cathy Allred NOK1H COUNTY SWF The first graduation ceremony cer-emony for the Utah County Academy of Sciences in Orem will was held Wednesday at the Provo Tabernacle at 7 p.m. Amanda McClellan of Orem, senior class president; Derek Gurr of American Fork, National Honor Society secretary; sec-retary; and Alyssa Mulliner of Alpine, student body vice president; were scheduled to speak for the Class of 2007 along with UVSC President William Sederburg as a guest speaker. Dean Briant Farms- Camp Floyd plans Civil Charlynn Anderson MOKIHCOUNrYSfAif A Civil War era encampment encamp-ment complete with carlvas tents and costumed re-enac-tors will allow visitors at Camp Floyd State Park in Fairfield to step into the past during Memorial Day weekend. week-end. Camp Floyd State Park in conjunction with the Utah UVSC hosts Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant as-sistant Utah Valley State College will be getting a visitor visi-tor who will most certainly not wear out her welcome. An application to the Fulbright Ful-bright Association by the Foreign Language Department and the International Center resulted in UVSC being selected select-ed for the third year in a row to host a Fulbright award winner. win-ner. This is the second year in a row to have a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) in Mandarin Chinese. "This is going to enrich the classroom experience for our students," said Boyd Bauer, director of the International Center. "The presence of such visitors on the UVSC campus provides an important global component to engaged learning learn-ing activities for students." Visiting scholar Ouyang Hong, who will arrive in August, Au-gust, has never been to the Academy of worth, UCAS board president and UVSC representative, who certified the graduates for presentation; and Principal Clark Baron gave the welcoming welcom-ing speech. Baron took a few minutes during an interview to reflect on the 2007 graduating class. "This senior class that is graduating is my class of free spirits," he said. "It's a motivated moti-vated group of very bright students." One of his graduating students stu-dents is also getting an associate's asso-ciate's degree in engineering having taken some 80 hours of credit at UVSC. Another of Civil War Association and the American Legion will host a Civil War encampment and patriotic events May 26-28. The public is invited to visit Camp, Floyd during the event and enjoy music performances, performanc-es, staged battles, historic medical demonstrations, and casual one-on-one history encounters en-counters with the Civil War re-enact ors. Visitors are invited to United States. She currently teaches English in Nanjing, China and Ls also working on a Master's of Art Degree in Applied Linguistics. As an FLTA, Hong is required by the Fulbright Association to be enrolled in two classes. "But her primary responsibility is to serve as a teaching assistant assis-tant to Trudy Owens, a UVSC Chinese Language instructor," Bauer said. Awards from the Fulbright Association are considered the most prestigious given in international education. Being repeatedly selected to host Fulbright Ful-bright visitors provides recognition recog-nition for UVSC as a globally engaged institution and is a reflection of the quality of the UVSC experience. More information on the Fulbright Association can be found at www.fulbright.org. I Faculty member awarded Fellowship in Ethics Award .l':'STWSi&rl1l'r.l, -iTl II, ....! briefs 7 days. 4 lines and a photo. Includes Classified Marketplace & online. If it doesn't sell, renew for 7 days FREE. ilaiiiliKi AllliijISiUl -mi mtmm m j Sciences holds graduation his high school students took 70 hours for an associates in physics. Three from the initial class of 2007 have graduated from high school already, with two juniors also graduating a year ahead of schedule with their associates and a high school' diploma. In partnership with UVSC, Alpine, Nebo and Provo school districts, UCAS is a charter high school organized under un-der former governor Mike Leavitt's New Century School program in 2005 and allows students to take UVSC classes across the street from their War era encampment spend an hour or two, join in historic games, learn to drill and march, load and fire a Civil War period rifle, and bring a lunch for a picnic in the park. On Saturday evening members mem-bers of the American Legion will conduct a flag retirement ceremony at the Camp Floyd cemetery. Members of the American Legion will also conduct the devotional tribute For the 2007-2008 academic year, UVSC faculty member Laura Hamblin was awarded the first annual Fellowship in Ethics Award by the UVSC Center for the Study of Ethics. The award is designed to promote research among faculty. fac-ulty. Hamblin plans to utilize the fellowship when she travels trav-els to Iraq this fall. Hamblin's project focuses on female Iraqi refugees. "Women traditionally have not been given a voice (or have not been listened to) during dur-ing the planning, execution and aftermath of war," Hamblin Ham-blin said. "Yet they inevitability inevitabil-ity are the ones who pay the greatest of the costs of war: the loss of family, friends, home, culture, economics, support systems and place in society. I believe their stories need to be told, and we need to listen." Hamblin was chosen for the award by a committee of .W.Nn So Much More Than Just a Skylight! .-4- 1 t SOLATUOE. Daylighting System Professional Installation in about 2 hours We do Swamp Cooler switchouts Toll Free 877-873-7652 SLC 566-1264 Braght Concepts llc www.brighterrooms.com (i)u - Hfiilir4iit0fni1t UCAS campus. Some 80 percent of the students stu-dents will graduate with their UVSC associates degrees as well as their high school diplomas. diplo-mas. Nearly half of those students stu-dents will graduate with National Na-tional Honor Society honors. The students attending the school have made a choice for academics. "It is so exciting, the kids are exceeding my expectations," expecta-tions," he said. "We were hoping hop-ing with this first graduation if half the kids could get their associates as-sociates we would be pleased, but the kids have been just superb." to veterans on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Camp Floyd Cemetery. Cem-etery. On Monday, Utah Civil War Association re-enactors will engage visitors with historic demonstrations and re-enactments throughout the day. Camp Floyd State Park is located in Fairfield, 22 miles southwest of Lehi, enter from SR 73. For more information call the park at 801-768-8932. her peers. "There was a lot of quality to choose from," said David Keller, Ethics Center director. di-rector. "A lot of work like this goes unnoticed around our campus. Faculty especially go about quietly and unappreciated, unappreci-ated, so this award is good to recognize the high-quality work that goes on around our campus." Hamblin, an associate professor, pro-fessor, has taught at UVSC for more than 11 years, teaching the subjects such as poetry, creative writing, women's literature and English composition. com-position. She has conducted various seminars, and has published poetry and essays in various journals. Hamblin will give the University Uni-versity Ethics Faculty Fellow Keynote Address during Ethics Eth-ics week, which is the third week in September, where she will present the results of her research. G5I? heraldextra.com taU)TVIrm!l "Medical Breakthrough For Sciatica" UTAH - A new free report has recently been released that reveals how breakthrough medical technology is offering surgery free new hope for disc pain sufferers. Research has proven that FDA approved nonsurgical non-surgical spinal decompression decom-pression has an amazing success rate for treating debilitating back pain including in-cluding sciatica and multiple mul-tiple herniated disc. It looks like another NASA discovery has lead to the most promising non-surgical disc treatment today. to-day. For your free report entitled, "How Space Age Technology Is Solving Solv-ing Back Pain Without Drugs Or Surgery!" call 1-800-650-1104 and listen lis-ten to the toll-free 24 hr recorded message for all the details or go to www.91 lbackpaininfo. com. These free reports are available for a limited time. H3H : l Fobs: cc |