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Show BEAVER PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER Jerome Willden of Beaver; James IN OUR COUNTRY'S NEWS ABOUT TOWN . . Short and Interesting Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clifton son on Dec. 18. Beaumont a 10-l- b. 24, 1943 MILITARY SERVICE (Continued from Pge 1) The soldier recently completed his course in technical radio work, and finds it most interesting. He Mr. and Mrs. John Idol and Mr. will leave for his station December and Mrs. Dale Sly expect to leave 30th. a today for California to spend the John K. Barton, as, who is Christmas vacation with relatives a student at the officers training and friends. school of the U. C L. A.,' Los AnMiss Zora Moyes arrived early geles, arrived home Wednesday yesterday from Salt Lake City to on a short furlough to visit with spend a short Christmas vacation his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth with her parents, Mr., and Mrs. Barton, and other relatives and James A. Moyes and other rela friends. He will return to his training school the first of the tives and friends. E. Willden of Caliente, Nev., and Lavell Willden of Oregon City, Ore. Cpl. Willden has been serving with the U. S. Army for the past three years and is now stationed at Camp Polk, La. Mrs. Willden is residing with her mother while he is in the service. Brain Surgeons Flout Tradition Army Doctors Wipe Out Fear, Mystery That Once Attended Surgery. -- Roy Harris went to Ely to attend the funeral of his aunt, Lois Farnsworth. Hex Pearce is home on furlough visiting with his sister. Wanda White and Grandmother Jones. Art Huntington of Needles, Cal itornia, is home to spend the hol idays with his wife and family. Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Robinson have gone to Salt Lake City to FOUND Two Mens Hats. Iden- bring their daughter, Miss Barbara tification and payment of adver- Robinson and Miss Barbara Farns tising will recover them. Milton worth, home to spend the Christ mas holidays with their parents. Gentry, Finder. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Crosby and daughters went to Salt Lake City ter, Wanda White and Grandma Tuesday to bring their daughter Virginia home for the Christmas Jones. holidays. Miss Virginia has em Clone Robinson epent the past ployment out at St. Johns, Ariz. week in Salt Lake City with her The first special or "spare" war mother, Mrs. Maxwell and daughration stamp in book four to be ter Barbara. validated was made available for Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Griffith of five points, good for the purchase Springville, Utah, are spending of all pork products. Just a little some time with their father, Jas. Christmas Present from the OPA. The first stamp in the book was Robinson, who Is very ill. the one designated. lone Blair and children left on On Wednesday, December 22, Monday .for Salt Lake City to join her husband and expect to make the teachers of the Belknap school took their pupils to a picture show their home there. each teacher paying admission for Otto Schwab and Charles all the students in their respective Whornham will he home to spend rooms. This was the teachers' Christmas with their respective present to the students. It apfamilies. They are both employed pears that these teachers would make good Santas. by the Railroad. Ruth Perkins of Brazoria, as, Is here visiting with her Texsis- Mr. and Mrs. Arch Hoopes will leave Wednesday for California to spend the holidays with their children Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Goodwin. George Wilson is leaving Wednesday for Sacramento to spend the holidays with his children at that place. Mrs. Mary F. Goodwin, star lo cal reporter for The Press, boarded a south-boun- d bus last Sunday afternoon for El Paso, Texas, via Riverside, California. Mrs. Goodwin expected to be gone about two weeks, and will visit her son, Ralph B. Goodwin and family, at that place. If our local news columns are not as replete with local happenings as usual, you, will un- Wanda Yardley has been under derstand the reason. the weather with flu and absent from her school work, but is out again much improved in health. MANDERFIELD By Mrs. Melvin Edwards LOST Mrs. Clark Prince entertained Five snapshots of Gene Fother-Ingha- Wednesday evening the 15th at and others. Please return the home of her parents, Mr. and to Faye Fotheringham. Reward. Mrs. Will Munford, in honor of her mother's birthday. The even Beaver County Schools closed ing was spent in music and old Wednesday evening for the Christ- time songs. At 11 o'clock sixteen mas holidays, and will reopen on guests were seated at table where a two course dinner was served. January 33rd. The table was prettily arranged Doris Whornham, who has em- with a large bowl of pink carnaployment in Salt Lake City, will tions for the centerpiece. be home Friday to spend the holiMrs. Marriet Edwards was also days with her parents, Mr. and an honored guest. She is mother Mrs. Charles Whornham. of Mrs. Munford and grandmother The weather has been somewhat to Mrs. prince. mild but' unsettled the past few Mr. and Mrs. Cavel Edwards days, and it is quite possible that and children Lorrie and Sally of we will have a "white Christmas" Milford were guests over Saturday all. after and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Edwards. All Beaver L D S Sunday schools will hold Christmas tree and Santa Mr. and Mrs. Dell Sly left for Claus entertainments this evening Los Angeles yesterday, where they in their respective chapels. The will spend the Christmas holidays public are invited. with their children, Lenore, and Mr. and Mrs. Jo Sly, and grand Alice White, Annie Joseph and daughter, ValDene. Ernest Joseph were called to Ely, Mrs. Thuiiand Sly and son Rus Nevada, on Tuesday to attend the funeral of Lois Farnsworth. Mrs. sell, of Milford, visited over the with their mother and Farnsworth is the sister of Mrs. week-engrandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel White and Mrs. Joseph. vin Edwards. Michael Arthur Gale, S. F. 1 c of the 3rd Naval Construction reg- Hurricane Quintet iment, sends word to his sister, Alice Farnsworth, that he is well Bests II. S. Beavers and enjoying his work as a Sea The basketball game last Sat Bee. urday night between the Beaver and Hurricane High Schools, was Many Reaver people have been the fastest and most exciting pracon (lie sick list with flu during the tice game of the year. Will-depast week or two. William Hal christensen started the ball made a check on the absent through the hoop for Bearolling school children and found most of ver. The score was very close them ill with colds and flu. throughout the game, but ended in Hurricane's favor, 24 to 19. The Despite the war, it seems appar- Beaver High School still has the ent that the local merchants are good old lighting spirit win or enjoying some brisk Christmas lose they can still play ball. trade. Not, however, what they score The by quarters was: could have done if merchandise BEAVER HURRICANE bad been more plentiful. m d n Miss Geneveve Romney left on Friday of last week for her home town to spend the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Naomi Baker is taking her place as teacher this week at the high school. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Wheeler returned Tuesday from Nevada, where they have been for the past few days visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Roy potter and others. Mr. and Mrs. Cannegieter and baby left Wednesday afternoon for Salt Lake to spend the Christmas holidays with their home folks tnd other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wilkinson are expecting their daughter and granddaughter, Mrs. Vera Gray and daughter Margery to arrive from Salt Lake today to spend the Christmas holidays with them in Beaver. Nothing to Shoot at, Complains Tec. Sgt. Ralph Walbeck DENVER. Equipped with the latest instruments and trained in latest methods,' a staff of army docADVANCE HDQTS., Till A. A. tors is engaged these days in wiping p. Technical Ralph Walbe?k of j out the mystery and fear that traGreenville, Utah, waist gunner an.": ditionally has surrounded surgical radio operator on "Naughty Nan-- 1 operations on the human brain and ette," one of the Seventh Air nervous system. Force's big Liberator bombers, is Their patients are soldiers who week. becoming a veteran combat flyer, come from training camps and batbut he has one complaint: tlefields by plane, train and ambHe never finds anything to shoot ulanceto this largest army medCpl. Bill Kessler, from some where in England, writes that he at. In three raids during the cam- ical center in the nation, Fitzsimons is well and is treated fine over paign which took the Gilbert Is- hospital. Some have brain tumors, others there, but that he would surely lands from the Japs, he has flown have like to be, home for Christmas. He over thousands of miles of the Pa spinal injuries, and even morewhich received all of his Xmas packages cific Ocean. For a good many ot suffered paralyzing wounds or O. K., and he is waiting until the those miles he was stationed at have severed nerve channels on the brain. Many caused pressure more done never has his but gun, morning of Christmas before op of them cannot walk, see or hear, ening them. He sends Christmas than limber It up. and others show symptoms of in"We got plenty of greetings to all hia Beaver friends. so great is their pain or the sanity, fire," he said. "One shell burst of their wounds. effect Tech. Sgt. Harry Cartwright, in the open bomb bay but didn't surgical "We use common-sens- e stationed at Fort Douglas, where hurt anyone. It was too close for on these men," said Maj. practices he is working as a Liasonj officer, comfort. Another put a hole in J. M. Cameron, surgeon in charge states that he would much enjoy a wing. But I'm still waiting for of the neurosurgical section of the being home for Christmas with his my first Zero." giant hospital. "There is little difSergeant Walbeck participated ference between an operation to remany Beaver friends, but circumin raids on Nauru, Tarawawa and move a tumor on the brain and one stances would not permit.) Seaman escaped to remove a tumor elsewhere in the 2c Andrew Cart- - Jaluit and on the last one wright, serving with the Navy in injury when the plane landed with body. Often the brain operation is a Virginia base, in a recent letter no nose wheel and crashed. Only more simple." to hfs parents, states that he is one of the crew of ten was hurt Locating the Trouble. very enthused with his work, but and his injury was only a dislocatThe first step in treating a patient would surely like to be home to ed shoulder. with a brain injury is the exact locaHe is 24 and the son of Mr. and tion of the trouble. Sometimes tuspend the Christmas holidays with Mrs. W. L. Walbeck of Greenville. mors, abscesses and brain lesions his relatives and friends. Pvt. Omni Cartwright also sends He is a graduate of Beaver High are located by ordinary phoChristmas greetings to the home School and has been in the Army tographs. Sometimes it is necesfolks and his many friends here. Air Forces since September of sary to introduce air into the spinal He, too, has had visions of a 1942. He was assigned to the canal and brain ventricle before takChristmas at home, but was un Seventh Air Force in September ing the "pictures." Another amazing new device is able to gratify his desires in this of this year. which is the respect the present season. imthe receives so it sensitive tiny American Legion Meets off electrical of given energy pulses Three Paxton Boys in Service Last Monday night the memthem and the brain, magnifies by Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Paxton bers of the American Legion met shows them as a series of wavy of Layton, Utah, sends greetings in session with a good at- lines on a chart. Variations in the regular to The Press family and through tendance of members. lines disclose the nature of the trouthe medium of our columns to and its location to the trained ble enlivened Merchant the' Darrell their many friends. several fine solos, scientist-surgeowith meeting "Our three sons in service join with Next comes the actual operation. banjo accompaniment. us in sending greetings to our An outstanding feature of the Pieces of broken bone, are cut away many friends in Beaver. Corp. and replaced with plastic lucite. was a condensed CongresWallace and Corp. Baker Paxton program sional Record report of the doings Pressure is relieved by skillful reare in Camp Polk, Louisania, and of moval and insertion of bones. Tuprepared and present- mors are cut Arthur Paxton is in Camp Rob- ed Congress, away with knives by Mr. Brown, a comparatively use electric sparks instead of erts, California. All want to be recent comer to Beaver, The which steel as their cutting edge. remembered to all their town members were highly pleased with One soldier came to Fitzsimons folks." this feature of the program, and with his leg completely paralyzed expect it to become a regular part the sciatic nerve had been cut when Sgt. Helen Joseph Enters of their program. Tan bombers strafed Pearl Harbor. anti-aircra- ft TlnMnrc fnrmoi-l,- , ...... , WUU1Q tated-to- day RavB Pu" they brought ends back together. But it possible to stretch the nerve cIm cable, too much. Three Operations Made. Three operations were nece'iw-Eatime the nerve ends ch a brought closer together and 2 youth waited until the stretched U sition became the DOsit? for the nerve the't finally ends were the cwerinn the nerve cables were sewed toeeth er with tantalum wire, thinner than a hair. Then the nerve fiber, together, and the scldior will b walking again within a short time The recuperation period come, next and Major Cameron disclosed a that revolutionary new method "was discovered as an inj.rect res. of the Battle of Britain. Formerly it had beei thought i patient should lie in bed for a Ions time after a brain operation But during the German raids on London, hospitals were so crowded that had to leave their beds within two or three days after an operation to make way for others, it soon was found that the paiients who were forced to sit up and walk around recovered more rapidly than those who remained in bed. '"The answer is simple," said Ma. jor Cameron. "The injured brain heals better in its normr.l position, the position where blood supplies reach the various parts in a normal way and there is no unnatural pres. sure on the brain as a result of being in one position for a long time." 1 Don't Fool Yourself Fooling other people is but anybody who gets the habit of fooling himself is a goner. Robert Quillen. y h, n. The word "salary" is derived from the Latin salariiim meaning "salt money," the allowance given Roman soldiers to buy salt. About one-ha- lf one-four- th one-seven- th i Officer Training School Sgt. Helen Joseph, who recently was home on furlough, is now stationed at Camp Lyciene, New Ri ser, North Carolina. Her brief furlough was cancelled to report for officer candidate school at that place. While she was here 6he talked to the pupils at Belknap School, but was unable to keep her appointment at the High School. Sgt. Joseph has been stationed at Camp Elliott in San Diego, Cal. for the past five months, where she enjoyed her work immensely She says she would not consider any other occupation as long as there is a war to be won. Pres. Aviation Cadet Board Captain Russell G. Gentry of Camp Dodge, Iowa, is president of the Aviation Cadet Board which examines eacn applicant and ac cepts qualified ones for the aviation cadet training program and is the sole representative and only air corps officer there for that pur pose. He is in charge of accept ing volunteers for the aviation cadet program, and supervises the inductees being physically exam ined and gives them the screening menta examination. Captain Gentry reports that he has been very busy setting up the above testing and board, but Is very happy in his work. Mr. and Mrs. Jeddie Atkin re ceived a letter from their son, Cpl John LaVor Atkin, Friday, Decern ber 17th. He Is somewhere in England, and is employed as a carpenter in the Air Force. He states that he has been do over there, ing some sight-seein- g and thinks England Is a very wonderful place. Stated he was well and enjoying his work. Mr. and Mrs. Jeddie Atkin also 4 6 received a letter from their son 8 9 3rd-- 4th 14 22 Cpl. James Albert Atkin, written December 11th. He is employed 24 1!) as a mechanic in the Air Force, and has been stationed In Pyote, SALT LAKE WAK Texas, for the past two or three LOAN CONFERENCE weeks, but stated that he expected to be moved again in the next few (Continued from page one) days. He was also well, and ining of county chairmen, after terested in his work. which the conference will reassemble at the Hoof Garden to hear an Willden-Maha- n Nuptials inspirational message from Dr. The marriage of Miss Mary ElAdam S. Bennlon. izabeth Mahan to Cpl. Russell The Fourth War Loan drive will Willden, on November 14th. in open January 18 and continue un- Rossvllle, Georgia, is announced til February IS. It is expected that by the bride's mother, Mrs. Vergie state and county quotas will be Elizabeth Mahan. announced a! the conference. Mrs. Willden is the sister of Mrs. Glen Loppinger, Miss MargaDiscourage kitchen insect pests ret Mahan and Burl Mahan. by The bridegroom is the son of keeping cereals, crackers, bread and cookies in tin or glass Mrs. Rose Bowman and James E. containers. Clean up carefully Willden of Beaver. He Is the broaftr each meal so no crumbs ther of Miss Lois Willden of will call them in. Utah; Miss Iona Willden and Og-de- n, THIS CHRISTMAS Please help keep crowded Long Distance circuits clear for necessary war calls. Thiere are no holidays for ivar or the telephone. jnjjjmm states telephone and of the food wasted in homes is vegetables, over is fruits, and is baked goods. about Some food waste is in preparation for cooking and in allowing spoilage before cooking, but a large part is on plates returned to the kitchen, or is leftovers forgotten in the refrigerator. 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