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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Page Two at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Ve-for Friday Distribution Phone 23 West Street First Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Class Matter October 15, 1925 k A. N. RYTTTNG, Editor-Publish- er SUBSCRIPTION KATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES ONE YEAR - $2.50 WHY CAN'T WE ... retail for $1.05 and $1.15 have been added to the list of garments in the program of garments that meet W. P. B. specifications. . . . Ceiling prices for flaxseed have been increased five cents a bushel at the basing points of Minneapolis, Duluth, and Red Wing, iin Minnesota ; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; and Portland, Oregon. . . . Express or mailing expenses may be added to ceiling prices on mail order retail sales of pork cuts and sausage products. WFA says: When you get a basket containing fruit or vegetables, give the empty basket back to the peddler or the groceryman from whom it came so that he can send it on its way to the fanners, who this year will have to send part Alif not all of their crop to market in used containers. one survey most none of 800 housewives interviewed in well- a with off families of members workinsr their started balanced breakfast, the needed fruit or cereal generally being missing. WPB savs: Only in extreme emergencies such as dam age caused to dwelling by fire, flood, tornado, eathquake, storm or similar catastrophe, may home owners get pre ference ratings from their nearest Federal Housing Admin istration Field Office to obtain lumber for repair work. . . . In no month have waste paper collections met the goal set by WPB, and the drive is 450,000 tons short of its 1941 ob . jective. low-pric- ed BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER PubCihhed Thursday, August 51.75 ... . "Why can't we buy some?" is the familiar question now asked at local as well as all lumber yards in the nation, since thte War Production Board order went into effect August 1st. From what information we have been able to gather, there is a decided overall shortage of lumber, and the demand now greatly exceeds production; that there has been a constant drain on the lumber supply for uses, and there has been considerable waste, both by civilian and government agencies. The new order applies a dual control, first at the producer level and also at the distributor level. In short, no lumber dealer may sell to anyone who cannot furnish a certified order, either in the rated or unrated brackets. If you should go into your favorite lumber yard and see a quantity of lumber of the type you desire, and the dealer refuses to sell to you without a certified order, don't rant and tear your hair . . . because he is in a spot very similiar to the grocery man and the gas man, he has to have your approved certificates before he can replace his stock. He may, out of consideration, grant you a few feet, but you still have to sign the application for such lumber, and if the WPB refuses to recognize your purchase as essential, that dfcaler has just sold7 out that much of his business, and if he keeps it up, he will soon be entirely out of material, with no chance of replacement, and the closing of the lumber yard is inevitable. The consumers are placed in different catagories. Class 1 represents large industrial and manufacturing plants, farm equipment manufacturers, railroads and steel mills. Class 2 consists of less essential groups consisting of smaller equipment and manufacturing plants, chemical. plants, food manufacturers, industrial plants, utilities and construction contractors on WPB authorized projects. The farmer consumer is governed by" regulations of the War Food Administration which is empowered to issue rat-- j ings for lumber to be used for purposes. The substantial amount allocated to this division indicates the importance placed on the farm's part in the war program and civilian economy. Any of the local lumber dealers will gladly assist in filing your application for lumber, the County War Board will pass on lumber applications for farm use, and the War Production Board on material for home and non-faruse. So don't get all riled up the next time your dealer has to turn you down when you want a few feet of lumber, he is only trying to do his part in preserving one of the nation's greatest industries, the lumber business. L-3- 35 non-essenti- al L-3- 35 : ' seriously injured. Firm Of Pope and Burton Get Library Job Friday evening a meeting was held by the Library board at which Mr. H. C. Pope, of the firm o: Pope & Burtons Architects, of Salt Lake, presented tha. plans for the new proposed library building. The cost was estimated at Vith S. NORMAN LET ABSTRACTOR Established 40 Years BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH Ernie Pyle at the Front: Median ical Wizards Do Army's Toughest Job Keep Machines Going Is Job of Ordnance Day Under Fire 12-16-Ho- ur By Ernie Pyle SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY I moved over to an ord- nance evacuation company. These men handle the gigantic trucks, the long, low trailers and the heavy wreckers that go out to haul back crippled k tanks and wrecked guns from the battlefield. The ordnance branch's policy on these wrecking companies is that if they don't have a casualty now and then, or collect a few shrapnel marks on their You have contributed to this war More than your share, There are very, very few Who could ever compare. First before this war the invasion that they were about to be put up for Presidential cita. tion. But one day they got in a bomb crater and started shooting captured German guns at the opposite bank then vehicles, Just for fun, which Is against the they're not doing rules, so the proposal was torn up. effitheir job about it which is They laugh just ciently. fellow can do. about a all must be Tanks Corp. Grover Anderson of Annls-toretrieved just as Ala., is one of the drivers. quickly as possi- He swears by his colossal machlnt ble after they cusses but it, too. You see tht have been shot French roads are narrow for heavy first the In up. traffic and an place, we don't is big andmilitary awkward and slow. Gewant the Ernie Pyle "You get so damn mad at it," rmans to get Anderson says, "because convoys them to them; secondly, we want get pile up behind you and can't get ourfor action in back and repaired around and you know everybody's selves right away. and that makes you madhating The Job of an ordnance evacuation der. you They're aggravating, but if you alcompany is often frightening, let me leave the trailer off I can casualties though this company's anything out of anywhert with have been amazingly low. In fact pull it." still and it's they've had only four Anderson has grown a red goatee a mystery what happened to them. which he is not going to shave off a In The four left one day Jeep, till war is won. He used to be a the just on a normal trip. They didn't taxi driver; that's another reason ha come back. No trace could be found. finds an so "aggravating." Three weeks later two of them came "Because it hasn't got a meter on in just discharged from a hospital. it?" I asked. On the same day a letter came from "Or the third from a hospital in Eng- have maybe because you don't any female passengers," anheard been land. Nothing yet has. other driver said. from the fourth. To which Brother Anderson had a And the strange part is that wholly satisfactory GI reply. neither the two who returned nor He said, "(remainder of column the one who wrote from Engcensored) ." voluntarily land can remember a thing about it. They were just riding It was just beginning dusk along in their jeep and the next when the order came. A soldier thing they woke up in a hospital. came running up the pasture and All three were wounded, but how said there was a call for our they don't know. Friends ordnance evacuation company it was a shell hit. to pull out some crippled tanks. We had been sitting on the At any rate, a sergeant In charge and we jumped up and ran grass of one section of the mammoth movdown the slope. Waiting at the took me around ers, known as 9 truck and gate stood an to see some of his crewmen. They behind it a big wrecker with a all go by the name of "The Diesel crane. Boys." The day had been warm but Their vehicle is simply a gigantic dnsk was bringing a chill, as altruck with a long, skeletonized trailways. One of the soldiers loaned er behind. me his mackinaw. Like all our army over here they were strung out around the hedgeSoldiers stood atop their big marows of the field under camouflage chine with a stance of impatience, nets, with the middle grassy fields like firemen waiting to start We completely empty. pulled out through the hedgerow My friend was Sgt Milton Rad- - gate onto the main macadam highcliff of Newark, Ohio. He used to be way. It was about 10 miles to the a furnace operator there. He and all frontlines. "We should make it before full the other former employees still get a letter every two weeks from the darkness," one of the officers siid. We went through shattered Caren-ta- n company, assuring them their Jobs will be there when they return. And and on beyond for miles. Then Radcliff, for one, is going to take we turned off at an angle in the his when he gets back. road. "This is Purple Heart corner," Sgt Vann Jones of Birmingham, the officer said. Ala., crawled out of his tent and sat Beyond there the roadside soldiers Indian fashion on the ground with thinned out. Traffic ceased altogethus. On the other side of our pasture er. With an increasing tempo, the lay the silver remains of a transport big guns crashed around ui. plane that had come to a mangled Hedges began to make weird shadows. You peered closely at sentries despair on the morning of in every open hedgegate just out ol It was a peaceful and snnny nervous alertness. evening, quite in contrast to most of our days, and we sat on The smell of death washed past the grass and watched the sun us in waves as we drove on. There is nothing worse in war than the go down in the east, which we all agreed was a hell of a place foul odor of death. There is no last for the sun to be going down. vestige of dignity in it Either we were turned around or We turned up a gravel lane, and France Is a funny country. drove sowly. The dusk was deepenThe other boys told me later ing. A gray stone farmhouse sat that Sergeant Jones used to be dimly off the road. A little yard and the company cook, but he driveway semicircled in front of it wanted to see more action so he x Against the front of the house stood transferred to the big wreckers five German soldiers, facing Inand is now In command of one. ward, their hands above their His driver is a smiling, tall young heads. An American doughboy stood fellow, with clipped hair, named In the driveway with a tommygun Dallas Hudgens from Stonewall, Ga. pointed at them. We drove on for He was feeling stuffed as a pig. for about 50 yards and stopped. The he'd just got a big ham sent him drivers shut off their diesel motors. from home and had been having at One officer went into an orit with a vengeance. chard to try to find where the There are long lulls when the retanks were. In wartime nobody triever boys don't have anything to ever knows where anything is. do besides work on their vehicles. The rest of us waited along the .They hate these periods and get restroad beside an old sione less. Some of them spend their time Jeepa were parked beside fixing up their tents homelike, even It. The dusk was deeper now. though they may have to move the Out of the orchards around at next day. roared and thundered our own One driver even had a feather bed . artillery. An officer lit a cigaret he had picked up from a French A sergeant ilh a rifle slung en family. The average soldier can't Tils shoulder walked up and said. carry a feather bed around with . "Yen better put that out, sir. him, but the driver of an could There's snipers all around and carry 10,000 feather beds and never they'll shoot at a cigaret." know the difference. la The officer crushed the cigaret W ' U to drop his fingers, not waiting The boys are all pretty proud of the ground, and said, "Thanks. sertheir company. They said they did "It'a for your own good," the such good work in the early days of geant said, apologetically. n, 11 Had even touched our hearts, Two of your blessed sons Had signed up to do their part. hated to see them go For they were so young and so alive, But then little did you know That the total would soon be five. Oh, how you two-wa- y For in such a little while Your third son had to go, To help his fellow countrymen Wipe out their bloody foe. You cried yourself to sleep at night But to the world you put on a brave face, Because you wouldn't let them know That you were so afraid. M-1- 9 M-1- 9 And when they called your beloved twins And took them away to fight You wanted to cry out to the world That this was so unright. "They're just children," you said Just beginning their life. You thought they were cruel To put them through such a strife. But you took it like your soldier twins - quite remarkable that he was not anti-tan- A TRIBUTE To Mrs. Alben Borgstrom "on-the-far- m x 17, 15 For never once did you complain Although you knew deep down in your heart That things would never again be the same. Each day you wait for the mail to come From one of them you'd wait for a letter And when the letter would at last arrive You'd feel ever so much better. sap-po- se M-19- s, M-1- FREE SCHOOLING FOR VETERANS So many people are asking for information ss to how veterans can get free schooling from the government, that it seems advisable to discuss the rule set up by the Veterans' Administration to carry out the intent of the "GI Bill of Rights." All of this is important for thousands already released from service and the thousands released weekly who want further education. Veterans desiring further education or specialized training may apply to the Veterans' Administration office for his region (for Utahns the address is: Mr. A. E. Littlefield, Veterans Administration, Salt Lake City), to the Veterans' Administration for the region in the State where he plans to study, or directly to the school he wants to attend. Any of these offices will supply the veterans with application Form 1950, which must be filled out and approved by the Veterans' Administration before the government will begin to pay his expenses. If the veteran is eligible for training he may attend any accredited school of his choosing. It might he high school, college, or trade school. He may train to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher, tradesman, etc. He may attend school from one to four years at government expense depending on his length of service and progress in school. If approved for these benefits his tuition, and laloratory, library, health and infirmary fees, books, supplies, and all actual school costs up to $500 will l)o paid. Then he will receive as veteran-studean allowance of $50 per month if he is single, plus $25 p. month if he is manned r has dependents, from which he must pay his board, lodging, and personal expenses. There are of course some restrictions as to who is entitled to these benefits. A veteran must have served 90 days since September 15, 1910, or, if he served less than 90 days, he must have been discharged because of a d disability. He must be an "Honorably Discharged" veteran. Any veteran who quali fiefs as to length of service and discharge is entitled to the refresher or retaining course up to one year, regardless of age. If ?i veteran was over 25 when he entered the secrvice he must show that his education was interrupted or delayed by his going into the service, if he wants more than one year of free schooling. You were so very proud of your soldier boys They were all so handsome and strong. Always you had a prayer in your heart, That they wouldn't be gone very long. You prayed they would always have plenty to And would always be happy and well, But mostly you prayed for their safe return Back from that terrible hell. eat But your prayers were not fully answered For one of your sons was killed You would never see that dear face again; His mission on earth was fulfilled. Why did it have to happen to him? couldn't possibly be, But the message was right before you He was killed by a fallen tree. It You felt like you'd like to die yourself, But you carried on just the same; And prayed the war would be over soon And bring the rest of them back again. But now you have had bad news again For another has been taken away; Killed in action .the message said He would never be home to stay. This is such a hard blow for you But he is happy now, I'm sure. For he has met up with his brother again; They have met on that golden shore. By Verlene Nelson nt LOOKING BACK THROUGH THE LEADER FILES OF FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Editor Jam Walton Weds Isabella Pack Things in the Leader Office left pretty much up to were the back office help, when the editor k "me long enough to join the benedicts. Isabella, accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs victim of the . wooing. The wedding took place in the Logan Temple, Friday. Auir ft tte th bride spent a few days at PuCrest inn, in Emigration Play Ground Opened Officially During the day of August 14, hundreds of children and grownups visited the play grounds at the City Park, where the official opening of the play grounds were held under the direction of the W. C. T. U. organization. Ice cream and light lunches were served. The children were made welcome F. W. to come and enjoy the play From Welling Falls Haystack grounds as often as they would What might have proved a serlike to. ious fell was had U. S. A. ROUND-U- P by Frank W. Helling while working on a hayStudy Water stack in the fields of Melvtn Gro-veOPA announces: Mark-up- s ranging from $3.50 to $8.00 Meters Mr. Welling missed his footPlans for a meter system to pre- ing and fell a hundred pounds for quality cleaned grass and legume seed. to the ground some vent the waste of water were dis- 25 feet below, but when sold by the farmer-producto a planter. . . Maximum cussed at a City Council meeting Welling he was nothappily for Mr seriously inAugust of 1929. prices to be established on cabbage sold by growers on the in The jured. In fact Mr. Welling stated decision was to Install water that he did not so much as reaverage will cause no increases in retail ceilings. . . Maternity meters and quit wasting water ceive a scratch from dresses that will retail for $1.89 and $2 and slips that will Instead of getting more water and The. fact that Mr.the fall Welling is . paying more for more than 60 years of age, it was service-connecte- rk' llf Jr """ 25-Fo- ot r. er it bam-Thre- e , M-1- 9 |