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Show Six "Page enlisted in the Air Corps January 16, Blake WE rmy t ing his comission at assigned YOU oversj,s in gust and vies over a year WANT iian 1943, he IT' we MAu Au- In November gru d to where he s aT Ac 3 j Blake w s 4 engaged Hiss Virginia McArthur, THESE K: VE U.- DE THE SUP.LME S.' Cxi PICE 3- The - third sketch in this tells Dixie graduate the first two, series also also of a Dixie graduate, N YOUR CUN HONEY? IF jEr, SEE SO 0y "LF jNC & prisoners and h: s decided that in order to "boss:" them more effectively he must learn some Gerirun. letter in his asks for a Germ-- to f culty and the Hafen who, was a me- YOj yiRED 0F SPeNdTv So a "JASPER" '.MITES like TO HIS FA IENDS HERE AL0 aR E wt.-.- dress ShqtAG D0 YOU SpEw.D LONESOME EVENINGS stationed for in '.the Hawa- Central Pacific, Janwas in combat duty, uary 16, 1944 his plne, a fighter plane, went down and he crashed into the The sea. department listed him as killed in the service of his country just 2 years from the .day of his enlistment, t t Islands. ani:0ye: 0 at the Luke Field, in Phoenix, Arizona, He was in July, 1942. WHAT WANT ars Yu his train- ing at Visalia and Bakersfield, California, receiv- HAVE .'MEN YOU end took 1940, aLVAYS , n Mr. no booklet. Pfc. Orson Trenthcm re- By the way, his letter was of- - ports from Barstow, Calif-fere- d written in Spanish. sends his his life for what he fornia where he is working "Jasper" to and a 1 of us hold dca. , the He students in the camp kitchen. greetings him. 6 german and faculty, Wesley 'Blake Empey, ''son h s hcXpi-fig of Kate B. and the late of the air corps fought valiantly and and mber Martin J. of St. Empey, ftp high school 1936 and a in graduate junior college graduate in George was a Let Blake pa rents moved from Piochc-- Nevada, 1940. shortly after Blake was born, and St, George bedame their His home father died Blake-wa- s years old. While school here he worked 2 J. at . in at Penney' s store, and Reno ho worked in Scars ; . . thereafter. when '( ft , 'ft 4 C. Roebuck's store to assist him in gaining his education. interested Always outdoor 7ft in activities, from elmontary school on, he participated in athletics. He was a member of sket high school and the college foot te-at Dixie. b- the ball ball 7WE CAN MAKE IT LftOK LIKE 11 NEW |