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Show Come to the BUY BONDS M. I. A. To Bring Back The Rest of . Grand Opening Social on OUR Centerville Boys and Girls Tuesday Evening, September 12th Vol. 1, No. 10 In Safety CENTERVILLE, DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH September, 1944 "Tily Cjleatest 'Thrill By Clint Barber It was while playing basketball Killed In New Guinea Lt. Joseph Wendell Nessen Gives Life For County The tragedy of war struck Centerville with stunning force during August as two of our boys made the supreme sacrifice. Closely following receipt of a letter to the people of this community from Wendell Nessen in New Guinea, came news of his death in that land on August 16. Although the War Department didnt state the manner in which Wendell met his death, we do know that according to his last letters home he was working on a special assignment booby traps and land mines. He had received special schooling in this work before going overseas last March. Wendells passing robs Centerville of one of her choicest and finest young men. An ordained elder, he had served as secretary of our Sunday School previous to his enlistment in the army. In manner quiet and genuinely friendly, he had a host of friends. His particular hobby was the study of the German language which he de-activat- ing TURN TO PAGE FOUR Clyde Decker Losses Life In Naval Plane Crash One of the finest young men who have paid the supreme sacrifice for us in this war was Lt. ( j. g.) Clyde Decker. Although he was born in Malad, Idaho, and Centerville cannot claim him as a native n son, we claim him as a e d and resident. He came here in 1929 when his father was put in charge of the Lund Home. He attended Davis High and then the Utah State Agricultural College. In 1936 he married Terese Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Roberts. As auto mechanics instructor, Clyde taught in Price at the Carbon College for two years, at Cedar City Branch Agricultural College for a year and then at Weber College for several years. Anything mechanical Clyde loved, and after working with automobiles for several years he became interested in airplane mechanics and began flying in 1940. Next to mechanics, hunting and fishing were well-know- well-love- one-tim- TURN TO PAGE FOUR in the days of the old Alberta Hall, that Billy Tingey got his biggest thrills. In the year that the Centerville team won all of their games in the South Davis stake, then went on to the Interstake tourney, Bill and Ves Harrison were just starting in M Men basketball and they were too young to participate in the tourney. The ultimatum was given to captain Orval Leek that if Bill and Ves played, Centerville would have to forfeit the game, even though they should win. Well, we got beat pretty badly by 20th Ward in that game. Bill also well remembers the tough conditions under which they It played in the Alberta Hall. was so crudely built that you couldnt keep the place warm in the winter time even with the two big stoves in the building. We would get in there some good cold night and have to keep on the go constantly to keep warm, while the spectators would huddle as close to the stoves as possible. The floor was slick as ice, and many a time we came up with floor burns as there were no knee pads in those days. But we had an advantage over most other teams, as we were used to it. Then when we went to play in places such as Farmingtons crackerbox, we were at a disadvantage. The playing in those days was really rough; you had to have stamina, and there was hardly a game go by but what some unfortunate player would have to leave the game because he was banged up. Ed Brown was somewhat of a phenomenon in those basketball days with his ability to pot shots from remote distances. The old Alberta Hall was very long and high, and according to some of the boys, Ed used to really arch the ball for long shorts. Ed tells us that was the way he got his TURN TO PAGE TWO |
