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Show I Letters from Servicemen... connects the Burma Road and goes into Kumming, China. Already 10, 000 trucks alone have gone into China acros this road, not to men-lion men-lion the tons of supplies, jeeps, half-tracks, tanks, guns and cu.-nient. cu.-nient. Along the road runs that famous pipeline, one of the largest, if not the largest in the world pumping pump-ing gasoline into China for use by our planes and equipment based there. India is a very different country than America. The Indians are content con-tent to sleep all day. There is plenty of game, fish and sports. On the way up here from Calcutta we closed one of the large rivers and watched a couple of natives land a 3411-pound tiger fish. They look just like the cat fish at home in the reservoir only there's more to look at and a little harder to land. The last time we went to Makan to church. (There's a few of us Mormon boys here that within a radius of 35 miles can get together and hold church). We saw a herd of elephants that the natives have working for them. I left my camera at camp so I didn't get a shot of them or the water buffalo. There are- a few of us boys (Mormon) that I hate to refuse anything they ask me to do so they take advantage of me. I am in charge of the singing, they have me giving lessons, giving the closing clos-ing prayers and now for the special meeting we have the first of every month, they want me to give a vocal number. I hate to disappoint disap-point them but I'm afraid it would be more of a disappointment if I give it. Everything is as well with me as can be expected in the climate of 130 degrees, 110 in the shade and no shade. Give my love to everyone along with my address and ask them to write and I'll guarantee to answer everyone as it's really great to hear from the home folks. I hope you can find time to answer an-swer and if you do send Reed's address ad-dress that I might write to him. I say again thanks for the swell column and I hope to hear from you soon. As ever and Always, One of the Hometown Kids, Vaugh Allen. Tex Searle S 2c wrote the letter below to his parents, M-S Del Searle. Tex joined the Navy in February, and after his boot training, train-ing, had a short leave home, and in March went into the Pacific area from where he writes: August 5, At Sea Dearest Mom, Dad and Ned, I just got another nice fat letter from home, so here comes the answer. an-swer. I got a nice letter from Mel-vin Mel-vin Beckstead, too. He's out here some place on a Liberty ship. I have been studying quite hard. The work I do is fixing the lights on the ship, fix motors, run cables and anything to do with electricity. 1 like my worV and after I get out of here I want to go tq college and learn to be an electrical engineer. I'm in the engineering department depart-ment of the ship, and we have our own electrical workshop to do our work in. The boys are a pretty swell bunch and most of them are from back east, so they call me the "westerner." f I can't tell you where I am, but I am not in combat yet. I am out here in the ocean, all I ever see is water, water, water, occasionally land. The name of this aircraft carrier I am on is the Antietam, the largest up-to-date they-ve made, I hope the war with Japan will soon be over. I want to come back and go to school some more. Don't worry about me, as I am safe and quite happy. Think of me when you are eating that nice fresh steak. I sure miss it, and I'll never get used to powdered milk. Once a country boy, always a country boy, and I would give five dollars, and I mean it, for a gallon of fresh milk. Nevertheless, Nev-ertheless, the food is good. Tell old Sid and Arch to shove those engines, but keep them on the rails. Mostly the sea is calm, but some-, some-, times it rolls until I want to get down on my hands and knees to walk. Love to everyone, Mom, and to the best dad who ever swung a razor strap. Tex Dear Mrs. Stewart, I suppose thai yuu are rather surprized sur-prized to hear from me, but I just had to write and tell yuu how murh I enjoyed your "Hinckley" column in the Chronicle. Mother i'ut the clipping out and sent it to me in one of her letters, and it really brought back good memories of all the folks back home. I guess I will always think of Hinckley as "home." I wasn't born there but that's where I spent the happiest years of my life thus far and I know I'll never forget how good it was to see everyone again when I came home on leave. It was all anyone could ask for, to have all your friends around you and to be happy again. Then when they asked ask-ed me to speak in church I was too full of appreciation for all that the good people there have done for all us boys. It is for all this that we are fighting to come home and take up our lives where we left off and all be at peace to do as we please, when we please and how we please. I heard that Ward Petersen, Alio Skeem, and a few of the boys are home God Bless them. I take my hat off to them for the grand job they and all our fighting men are doing. I certainly am glad to hear that they have at last been liberated. libera-ted. There isn't much to do here on the Ledo Road or you may have heard it called "Uncle Joe SlilweH's Road." We escort convoys to China and do the regular military police duty. My regular job is keeping records on the Indians hired on this base and forward area by the U. S. Government Gov-ernment and issuance of passes. We are stationed at Ledo the beginning of the Great Road into China. Here is where the railroad ends and the Road begins. Two long years to build this road and it's really a great tribute to modern engineering. The road stead of the outer side, he interpreted inter-preted the position of the old flow to the north, instead of the south of the Butte. The flow of lava from Pahvant Butte overran the walls of the outer out-er ring, and in two places, cascaded cascad-ed down in sheets; in innumerable other places, it dripped down like "gooey" frosting on a cake, making mak-ing a very pretty lace effect as it froze in situation. It makes an outstanding out-standing photo, always of interest. Gilbert says that Pahvant Butte itself it-self (not the outer ring) was started start-ed in formation under water, during dur-ing the presence of Lake Bonneville. Bonne-ville. That with successive eruptions erup-tions it was built up to its present height of 850 feet above the plain. But during the presence of water, he says it became water worn, and shows the Bonneville water level on the southeast. Then the water I retired to the Provo level, and was cutting for a longer period than at the Bonneville level. Out a respectable respect-able distance, this Provo shore line may be seen at the base of the Butte. Try to visualize the great lapse of time between the first burst of volcanic activity, huge, violent, and then a very long period of sleep, when the giant wakes, and again becomes active. A much longer interval than from the flow that made Pahvant Butte to now. So, if we ask, "Will it start up again?" who can answer what the term of sleep of the giant will be? May it be long. Merely because a crater is now inactive, is no criterion it may not start up again. Vesuvius did, and disastrously. Many oth-have oth-have wakened after a slumber. Pahvant Butte, in relation to the outer ring,, is a case of "piracy," a geologic term which means the intruding in-truding late comer stole from its elder. In this case it stole another conduit close, and the edges of the two flows touch at the north, like a small circle drawn within a larger, larg-er, not concentric, but touching at some point. In our loose soil, . it was easier to force a new chan-. chan-. nel for the conduit than to re-melt : the already established one. The later flow built up the cone. Ice sheets lay over much of Utah after the first (outer) ring was e- rupted. A great lake was formed I here; during the term of that lake, Pahvant Butte started. All activity activi-ty ceased at some indefinite time after the lake disappeared. Pahvant Butte is not the latest in that area. A later flow occurred west of Fillmore. Time geologically geological-ly is measured in so vast a number num-ber of years as to be almost incomprehensible. in-comprehensible. The early ring was in some portion of the preceding pre-ceding era whatever thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago that is. Guestimates are futile. The crest of Pahvant Butte is a jagged line, sharp, of hard lava. A series of overflows may be seen by air or even in a ground position, as a welling-up followed a preceding preced-ing one. Huge blocks show that the violence was considerable. The editor of the Chronicle feels that he is the first to correctly interpret in-terpret the significance of the outer out-er ring. |