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Show )dmmetnorates Hill CeremonilK FieL,ai,wv tHouse Mother in B iitories Mothers Girls Living There With a heart almost too large for ner slender body, Mrs. Jennie B. Collins, affectionately known to her friends as "Aunt Jennie", has for two years served as- - house mother and mother confessor for the endless number of girls who have come and gone in dormitory 527. She restores instead of making blueprints, circulates good will instead of teletypes and stock reports. fane is 75 vears old but with hfr keen, blue eyes and irrepressible wit sne is almost as alert as she was years ago when she hunted ducks in Canada and her native lowa. A horseback ride last fall to the Ogden foothills was only one sample ot the activity she advocates as a cure-a- ll for aches and pains and distempers. i really leel Quite vounff in side," she says. And when you talk with her. you feel that she has inaeea nurtured some imperishable bit of youth there which exists not v. much in configuration nf form and feature but in some delicate and elusive quality of the spirit 0.? v. .iX .& So Mrs. Jennie B. Collins useii. Left Home at 18 At 18 she left her home in Shel to don, Iowa, and Canada, where she became a Ca nadian citizen and for 20 years was engaged in social and institutional work. She was a Y. W. C. A. worker and matron of an English school for foreigners where with her foreign pupils she was even then admiring the pluck of the Russians. She also helped institute a hos pital for mentally deficient children at Edmonton, Canada. She has pioneered so much, she says, that nothing short of an earth quake could upset her any more. When she returned to the United States she received her citizenship papers. Suffers Poor Health In spite of the fact that she scorns "sitdown strikes" and arm- - journeyed . . '. In the airpower game, Corp. John R. Parkes and Brigadier Genpral Mnrria shown exchanging pleasantries as General Herman congratulates Parkes for his valor in help- me iamous ouij'e uismim at m ncm on August, a, isaa, wnen a gasoline Dlaze Drone out on iic piaiic. iurp. raritts was awaraea me soiaier s meual. ri. fWNFEDERATES Cmun are to save " . I Folks in Nazi Prison; et Glad to Be Home Again AC's - Former HF Soldier Is Decorated s Award Conferred For Heroism At OATSC Fire at Hill Field reached its final chapter at an Air Service Command depot in England when Corp. John R. Parkes, son of Mr John H. Parkes of Salt Lake City, received the Soldier's Medal for bravery exhibited in combatting a major gaso line blaze here on August 2, Heroism ifc. Pfc. Marie Hill ributes Marie Kimes Kimes, mail clerk' of Field WAC MSgt. E. Earl Brasel MSgt. E. Earl Brasel, squadron AAF of the 4135th detachment, her reason for enlisting sergeant major said it is real- 1943. OATSC of unit base we corps to the fact that at the ni time ner mother, lather ly "swell" to be back in the states By happy coincidence, the twin brother are interned at a after having served in Panama, the Ecuador and general who conferred the the domination of the nazis. Galapagos islands, 1941 until award was none other than Fvt KilYlPR who fama Vio Guatemala from August r ited States from Denmark in July 1943. Gen. Morris Berman, H. enlisted in the corps Novem-fAmerican defense Brig. the Wearing at OATSC while 1943, and received her basic theater ribbons, the commanding ng at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, and American Parkes was stationed om there she was assigned to good conduct medal, sharpshooter, Corp. u id, where she has been sta- - machine gun and marksman here. neQ for 9nnrntritv...4.'.n. 1 Q medals, Sgt. Brasel has been staCorporal Parkes was one of three OATSC for 14 months No- soldiers who helped save the fa at W Civilian.a tioned D,4-L. JVilllCO He enlisted in the air corps his mous from the "Suzy-Q,- " role in civic af- - vember Iyea an activelilt, 25, 1940 and received Field, Maxwell at s drives, basic training classes in irom mere am and instructing accident prevention Ala., and at Ft. Logan, Colo. school clerical tabuting seven times -j th. d In his album oi pvorVZ jeu ross Dlod bank. She IIllfcLUI. KrQCPI ivw THURSDAY-FRIDAILr Red Cross training vivid" human interest experi- i ?pecia! 3 March many ,wt ivunn. me 7 and 9 "L t iT10.? t her civic activi- - IShing among mem Evenings and bass for tuna, sea Friday Matinee 1 f macrnt- which v mes "gured out that "Earl Carroll Vanities' ster, tne inue at the heels of the im!f ,as in her Possession ap Dennis O'Keefe foUowed closely in war i finw Constance Moore one "boys" to the fA, shuub d each payday, pen-anthe many SATURDAY IVes T)nr outdoor movies and seals which wandered March 24 Matinee 1 ' sne is tne casually about. u8 'over, ll ttrLrUK ,Success kennels in No Land Planes iost Evening 7 and 9:20 ans- where over"House of Fear" of hrLJ re ent dogs penoa are raised and shiDDed During, his Basil Rathbone one " seas-ia,,v not the country. Prior to Nigel Bruce duty was which went out on patrol -Tough and Ready" "Rough, several However, lost. "'"Yost at Vt"s? and several to Germany, Chester Morris to known were mes 50 is Victor McLaglen e mother of planes snn . r uja nnr- Sea. . .. riic'o0ne of whom was a While relating 6 March r from the navy, row gi. 2 escapes, ,f-Sunday Matinee and the her nWerKenneth Ogden, five Evenings 7 and 9 "Hotel Berlin" Knsas City. Massey Raymond nure at i, assignment Peter Lorre Wo holds the destination, which was approxi VA. Emerson Faye H,,;; ,ct navmg Deen absent one nine awej. TUESDAY Fed n..noF has she ever re- - mately Brasel flew back to tne Set. March 27 " A memoer states in a 7 frora the son, N tau Matinee 1 nsas rue Lutheran church in to Brownsville, Texas in one day -w Evening 7 and 9 lira wai a9 a t "Even thougn n w xjnited in-- f "Molly and Me" Kctor ft ft, S"nday jschool Monty Woolley has V chapel, where Gracie Fields FW rKiuI v"iprisea oi oi- WEDNESDAY. and March 28 former HiU Field employe) 7 and 9 Eariene Evening daughter, "Utah" Rae, reside in Layton. Roy Rogers Dale Evans govern-Sand THURSDAY-FRIDA-conc.se 0 agen?iesywith a March n addmon Matinee veteran. 01 each forms the arl"ies of Friday 7 and 19 prepared re ef a br 3 data Evenings certificates of disto personal 6,ge fnr "Sudan" and enlisted rVuna- of the mans Maria Montez the consolidation Jon Hall rding tn ik Previously used, ac- - -received awards and ew forms - schools attended will be presemeu. wUl suppV; ' " - w, - X V V!n B-1- 7. Post Movies Y , chair loafers, she is still battling against the poor health bequeathed her when for ten years she was not expected to live. This fact makes her presence at Hill Field an even greater tribute to her fortitude. Her affections are warm and spontaneous but she is no sentimentalist, stripping away sentiments in favor ol beauties and values more to her liking mountains, sunflowers, big dogs, old churches, old politics. In summer she is sole proprietress of a small garden outside her dormitory which, with its riot of bloom, acts as community morale builder. Once she even planted a corn and made it plot of Iowa seems to make all grow, as she things expand and develop under her tutelage. lace-trimm- ed . General Berman Commends Soldier Formerly at HF Repairman Pvt. .f relations news release, he has just Jay L. Nichols, formerly cm merited highest commendation ployed at 'Hill field in instrufrom his commanding general, ment and repair section, maintenance division, can relate tales Brigadier General Morris Berman, e which would send his formerly commanding general, maintenance colleagues scramOATSC, for helping to send into bling after their tools. action more than 7500 front-lin- e According to an overseas public' aircraft in e record. 1944, an Each one of the planes he has possible destruction and prevented helped repair, says the release, other damage and loss of life when represents scores of completed a bomb-ba- y tank filled with 30 modifications. And in the huge air service command depot somegallons of gasoline accidentally crashed to the floor of repair where in England, he and his felhangar two and created an alarm- low soldiers have toiled over viring fire and explosion hazard. tually" every type of aircraft figin the European theatre of Helped Put Out Flames At great risk, Corporal Parkes, uring operations. then a private, fearlessly rushed Vigilance Praised into the flaming gasoline with a Brigadier General Berman comfire extinguisher. After, he had mended the vigilance of Pvt. Nichblockthe control flames helped soldier comrades by ing the entrance to the broken ols and his"These men have out-ditank nipple, he placed his hand declaring, themselves in the tedious job over the hole, stopping the flow of gasoline until the fire was en- of backing the 1944 aerial offensive against Germany." They have tirely extinguished. The courageous action of Parkes worked "for months without days they have and the other two Hill Field sol- off before diers brought a recommend for "stepped up their output to meet the Soldier's Medal from this com- the demands of airborne operations in Holland"; and they have mand to the War Department. The award, specified by a cita- "sweated night and day to get tion published in a War Depart- planes into the air for every raid ment general order of July 12, 1944, over Germany." . Pvt. Nichols was inducted into, was conferred at the direction of President Roosevelt on August 2, the army in July, 1943, and has 1944. The actual presentation did been overseas for ten months. His home is in Rexburg, Idaho not occur until recently. Full-fledg- ed one-tim- all-tim- ne D-da- 22-2- t. The Wolf C.pr'l1" IW tMMi4 Swmm. 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