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Show Vj-f ' 1 ACROSS THE WORLD g fnA With Tha A Southern Utah Federalized J IffiM NATI0NAL GUARD P VVp BY KLIEN ROLLO Southern Ufah National Guard Contingent Stops at Yokohama on Way to Pusan, Korea Yokohama. Japan, Feb. 13 The members of the Cedar City National Guard unit spent a couple cou-ple of hours in the city of Yokohama Yoko-hama today, a brief respite in a king voyage that started at San Francisco on the afternoon of Jan. 29, and will end at Pusan, Korea, in a couple of days. It was a long tiresome trip, in which most of the G0O0 men on board spent their time doing nothing absolutely nothing. Of course, they had books to read, and cards with which to play, and that occupied most of the lime of the men. Theie were motion mo-tion pictures on the ship, but in order to get to see ami hear it was necessary to get in place by about 4 p. m., which meant that those who saw the show would have to miss their evening meal. It was a change anil to many of the men the show was much more attractive than the food served on ship. Most of the southern Utah boys were assigned to a compartment in about the middle of the ship and at water level. This compartment compart-ment was about as long as the Record office and mayb? three times as widt? (90 by -18 feel) and 3M men lived in that room, sleeping in bunks racked up four deep, with barely enough room for a man to move along between the bunks. It was rather hot and with that many sleeping in that much space the air was not exactly ex-actly invigorating. Personally, I was rather fortunate fortun-ate in that I was given an assignment as-signment that took me out of the compartment for several hours a day. I was given the assignment of editing and publishing a daily dai-ly paper throughout the trip. With the help of four other fellows, fel-lows, particularly Bill Wilson of Fillmore, who had worked on the Millard County Progress, we published a mimeographed paper of from two to four pages each day. We had access to Associated Associat-ed Press news that came in over the ship's radio, and were able to keep the men informed on what was going on in the world. We tried to give them a smattering smat-tering of war, national and international in-ternational news, and a few sports items each day. We also published instructions and advice ad-vice from the ship's officers, a "Chaplain's Corner", and a lost and found column. We left San Francisco at about 2 p. m., Jan. 29. sailed under the Colden Gate bridge, and out Into the blue, rough Pacific, for a destination that we could only guess. Land was soon out of sight and we had no idea w hen we would see land again, or what land it would be. The ocean was rather rough during the first few days and as a result many of the land lubbers from Cedar, Beaver, St George. Richfield and Fillmore, Fill-more, got their first real taste of seasickness, and were pretty shaky and fed up with ocean life before they reached calm seas. By the time they were rearing Japan they were ready and anxious to land, anywhere-Just anywhere-Just so they could get onto land. Three days of the trip will stand out In the memory of most of us, .Sunday. Feb. 4. when they .aerved us a real good turkey din-; din-; ner, Monday, Feb. 5. when we wached the International date line and suddenly lumped to Feb. 6, and Sunday, Feb. 11, when they served us chicken dinner. Monday, Feb. 5, was perhaps the most Interesting dav of the trip, because the day came to an abrupt stop at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and all of a sudden sud-den it was not Monday the 5th anymore, but Tuesday the 6th. We had crossed the International Internation-al date line, and quite a celebration celebra-tion had marked the event. A ceremony was broadcast and each man was presented with a certificate of having crossed the line. Earlier that same day we had passed Midway Island, just a dot of land in a vast expanse of water. wa-ter. A spot that had gone out of siht in the short space of a half hour. It was the first land we had seen since leaving San Francisco, and because of that, and that alone, it looked good to us. We were told that we passed right over the spot where a major naval battle was fought during World War II, but that little piece of land didn't look like it was worth fighting for. One other experience that wn interesting to most of us southern south-ern Utahr s was the fact that we saw a school of Tuna one afternoon, af-ternoon, and it was really something some-thing to s?e. Everywhere a'ong the side of the ship the fish wore jumping out of the water and following thp boat along. Most of th? days for most of the fellows could be summed up as follows: Breakfast, fire and boat drill, lunch, read a couple of books, supper, cards, and to bed. Church meetings have been arranged ar-ranged on ship for the various groups, and we fellows from Utah have enjoyed a couple of very Intreesting and very pleasant pleas-ant meetings. When we left the states we heard a lot of rumors of some stops along the way, but they all turned out to be duds, for our first stop was at Yokohoma. a non-stop trip from San Francisco to Japan. Our brief visit into Yokohoma was interesting, although we did not see too much because most of us headed for the PX. Our biggest surprise was the prices of items of merchandise. We could hardly believe that they could be so cheap. We don't use American money anymore. We trade It In for either ei-ther scrip, which is good only in the PX, or for Yens Japanese money. $1.00 in American monev is worth 360 yens. It seems hard to believe you are in Japan, because everywhere you go the signs or anything that Is printed has been done in English. Eng-lish. Really the only thing to give you any indication that you are in a foreign land Is the number num-ber of Japanese you see. They wouldn't be so noticeable if they weren't so small, but they are so tiny that they naturally attract at-tract your attention. It gives me a peculiar feeling feel-ing to realize that we are in a foreign country, and gave me an unexplainable feeling when as we walked down the streets In groups, the Japanese would move out into the street to let us pass. I hope that I will be able, from time to time, to send home some Interesting information on what the gan.t from southern Utah Is doing in this far away land of Korea. UTAH STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Logo! Notice of Election of Three SuperrUora for the Iron County Soil Conservation District Notice is hereby given by the Utah State Soil Conservation Committee to all landowners or occupiers of land lying within the boundaries of the Iron Coun-I , ty Soil Conservation District that Nominating Petitions for the election of three supervisors of ! the said District have been received re-ceived by said State Soil Con-I Con-I servation Committee. Please tawe turther notice that on the 8th day of March, 1951. between the hours of 10 a. m. and 7 p. m., an election meeting meet-ing will be held at the see below be-low for polling place) County of Iron, Utah, to elect three supervisors sup-ervisors for the Iron County Soil Conservation District of the State of Utah. All eligible landowners or land occupiers within the boun daries of said District shall have the tight to vote at the said election meeting. By order of the Utah State Soil Conservation Committee. Polling places: Courthouse at Parowan, Utah. Wells School House at Beryl, Uth. 170 North Main at Cedar Citv, Utah. TRACY R. WELLING, Acting Chairman. (Feb. 22. Mar. 1, 1951) |
