OCR Text |
Show Will Make d Record of All Persons in Service in Stale i ... In harmony with a written request from Governor Bamberger, the State Council of Defense has assumed the task of collecting and preserving a record of all persons in service from the State of Utah, and the compilation of information and material relative to Utah's participation in all the war activities. The task of collecting record of the persons in service is one of the largest larg-est and most important that could possibly be assigned to the State Council of Defense. It Is the feeling of that body that the . persons who have gone into the service are entitled enti-tled to a place in the official records of the State of Utah which will be made permanent for all time. j The State Council of Defense plans to use flie County Councils of Defense and community councils in gathering by canvas of the towns a complete list of those in service from the state. It is the experience of other states that the record of local draft boards, and local recruiting offices, will not be sufficiently complete to justify the depending upon these records for a complete list of persons In service It is felt that a canvass of each community com-munity will be necessary to obtain a complete service record. The local committees will submit to the State War 'Historian names and addresses of persons in service together to-gether with name and address of the nearest of kin. Upon receipt of this information the State War Historian will have mailed to the nearest of kin, a questionnaire which ' will require re-quire complete Information relative to person in service. This questionnaire question-naire will be made the basis of permanent per-manent record. Pictures and letters of persons in the service, and other Interesting facts connected with their service will also be requested by the State War Historian. It is the determination of the State Council of Defense that the service record of Utah will be as complete as any in the nation, and that the future citizens of this state will have available avail-able at any time records which will show the participation in the war by citizens of this state and the activities activi-ties of the state in the present crisis. The War History Work will be under un-der the direction of the Secretary of the State Council of Defense, Arch M. Thurman and Mary Gilmer Rankin. The State Office will be very pleased to receive communications and information infor-mation from any citizen of Utah, relative rel-ative to persons in service.. It is the hope of those in charge of this work that the people of Utah will respond at once and send to the office of the State Council of Defense, material which should be made part of the State Record. We hope that parents and other relatives will take it upon themselves to be sure that the persons per-sons from their home are properly represented on this war record in order that there shall be no omrals-slons omrals-slons when the record is finally complete. com-plete. It is the plan of the State Council of Defense that this work shall begin at once. 'AH preliminary organization has now been completed and filing of names should begin within the present pres-ent week. |