Iron County Record | 1951-01-25 | Page 11 | Local Army Officer Prepares to Leave for Overseas

Local Army Officer Prepares to Leave for Overseas rrii't llai-ht. son of Mr. and Miv Herbert 1. ll.tiphl of O-dur City, will leave in the near future fu-ture fur eie.is iluu with a Tennessee National (Hianl unit, according to word received here today. Holding the rank of captain. Priee was called to dut in November No-vember as a reservist and assigned as-signed to a field artillery unit, and has been transferred to a point of embarkation, preparatory prepara-tory to leaving for overseas duty. He has been living in Yuma. Ariz. Mrs. Haight has moved to Price. Utah, to be with her parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baker. Bak-er. By coincidence ('apt. Haight has been assigned to an APO No. identical with that of local National Na-tional Guard members. As far as is known he is the only Utahn with the unit to which he has been assigned, and his parents are hopeful that he may come in contact with some of his Cedar friends in the theatre to which they may report. Capt. Haight is a veteran of World War II. having spent 27 months in China during the last war.