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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. 23, 1948 Hyrum, Utah, Friday, April Chamber, Mayors To talk Valley Thought Dead, USAC Health Projects Attending Several Aggies stil health committee The Ex-Marin- " public of the Logan Chamber of Coin-me- re e will meet with Mayor Ernest Maughan of Providence and the committee of mayors this (Friday) evening at 7:30 p.m. at the chamber to discuss plans for the proposed Cache county health center. The public health committee has been inter ested in the establishment of a health center since the Oldham Will set aside a certain amoun for such a project several years e, 1 Logan stare at Palmer Duff with oFr they were marines wonder. who attended memorial services for him on Iwo Jima, and mourned him for dead. Then, at Utah ,when he registered State Agricultural college You must be a ghost! Or, You surely look like a man such were who got it on Iwo. the exclamations he heard in the halls of Old Main Duffy owes his life to his brother, an unsung ago. At a meeting of the health hero of as dangerous a rescue This committee Friday evening, it was as World War II saw. the love to tale with fraternal of nearly cooperate agreed Logan city department and the ended with the death of both representatives of the fish and brothers. wildlife service of the departSergeant Duffy Palmer and ment of agriculture in a special Corporal Belton Palmer were national urban rat eradication both in the same outfit, in the in Logan to serve as a guide Fifth Marine division. In Febfor other cities of the state. It ruary 1945 they were inching is not to be Inferred that Logan forward on Iwo, against blightis greatly infested with rats, ing Jap resistance. but because of the effective work Duffy and his platoon were that has been carried f on here ;rying to take a hill in the for the past several years, the northern part of the island. He representatives of the interior was up ahead. As he rose out department decided that Logan of a shell hole to study the would be a good place to con- terrain, two machine gun slugs duct a demonstration to show ;ore through him, knocked him what can be accmplished with flat. One tore open his cheek and lodged in his jaw. The other coperative effort. Officer Health Evan plowed through his neck City and Western recommended that as downward, to come out his all resident jack. On the way through, this fast as possible renters owners and provide ullet chipped his collar bone themselves with regulation gar- and struck a large artery above bage cans that can be closed. his heart. The garbage collection in Logan Cpl. Belton saw his brother with the new equipment is ex- go down. In the face of machine cellent and has helped a great gun and mortar fire he ran to deal to free the city of rats the shell hole. There he saw and other undesirable conditions. life ebbing rapidly away for Citizens in the city - who have Duffy. He pinched off the flow livestock or chickens can assist of blood in one wound and as very materially by having closed swiftly applied bandages metal containers for the feed best he could. He forced big People who have lumber and sulfa pills tiown the other materials directly on, the sufferers throat. He ran back to the Americans. ground would do well to have these elevated to prevent rat Soon he returned with a game nests. navy medical corpsman. They Chairman Val W. Palmer of the administered plasma and other health committee stated it was treatment. the purpose of the committee to Then, across that lead-bittcoordinate the efforts of the plain, they carried the wounded committee to coordin- man. They had scarcely laid central ate the efforts of the central him down back of the lines the when a mortar shell killed the beautification committee, clean-u- p of the city corpsman and wounded Belton campaign fire department and the health in the foot. Stretcher-beare- rs committee in accomplishing three bore Duffy major objectives: making the city to the beach and got him aboard more cleanly a hospital ship. He was landed more beautiful, and more healthful. These ob- on Guam and hospitalized there. jectives will be discussed with But he didnt know much about the heads of these groups at the this, and didnt know that at meeting this evening at the of- this very time his wife was in fice of the chamber. the hospital in - the states Professor A. J. Morris, a mem- bearing her second child. Those marines on Iwo didnt, ber of the city hetalth board, of the health know about Duffy either. They is were sure he was dead. They committee of the chamber. held memorial services and he ic was listed as killed. Doctors aboard ship and on Guam didnt see how he lived. In fact, he was again listed as dead. But now Duffy Palmer, once State foresters of Logan of Idaho, Nevada and Ltah will is Taylor and Winslow, Arizona living in Logan, majoring in meet at Utah State Agricultual science at U.S.A.C. He political common probcollege to discuss worked time at a neighborpart lems on April 23 and 24: Prof. hood grocery J. Whitney Floyd, Utah State G.I. subsistence to eke out his for his wife and forester-fir- e warden, .is making of whom children, there are arrangements. now three. in educate to How people 4r methods of fire prevention will Visits Provo forstate be discussed by the Mrs. Rulon Nielsen Hyrum esters and their assistants. State week-en- d the spent covisiting at fire programs and methods of Provo Mr. with Mrs. and Thomas operation among the states will Petit and famly. also be treated. states these three of Foresters have been cooperating along sisted by .William Hayes. Idaof hos state forester is Stanton several lines for a number said. They Ready. years, Prof. Floyd Others who expect to attend have produced two motion picand teh conference are regional fortures on fire prevention ester C. B. Rice and Dr. L. M. fire fighting. are Turner, dean of U.SA.C. school assistants Prof. Floyds John E. Burt, Jr., and Don M. of foregts, range and. wild life in management. Prof. Floyd is proDrummond. State forofeter - fessor of forestry at U.S.A.C, asis Nevada Wayne McLeod, o 0 fl Theatre ive-I- n Friday ril 23rd, 7:30 p.m. 5 WITH THE EXCITING RANDOLPH - - - SCOTT MOVIE AIL STREET - With an Excellent Supporting. Cast half-stunn- ed LOGAN THEATRE DRIVE-I- N Features All These Advantages en vice-chairm- New Low Prices for 1948 O Adults O Complete privacy of your own O Family privacy for children. O Refreshments while watching car. 50c Children (12 - 15) 25c Children (Under 11) Free JOIN 11$ AT OUR an Foresters Meet Today, Tomorrow IMS the movie. SEASON OPENING COMING ATTRACTONS SUNDAY and MONDAY TUES. - WED. - THUR. The Farmers Daughter HUMPHREYS BOGART with LORETTA YOUNG - JOS. COTTON LAUREN BACALL in Dark Passage An Exciting Drama you wont want to miss. A daring adventure story. The picture which Loretta Young! Plan on seeing this one. starred for her Academy 'Award A Warren Bros. Picture. was |