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Show LETTER BOX . .. . Dearest sister I hope you don't think I have forgotten everyone back there. It seems like the time is going by so fast I can't get caught up on all of I my writing: j How is everything with you and your family- I am alright and hope this letter finds you likewise. You will probably find out where I have been before I tell you but just the same it adds up to something some-thing to write about. My land base is New Caledonia now. It is pretty nice 4iere except I can't talk French. I was in Hawaii for awhile then Marshals, Admiralty, New Guinea and the Solomons. I was also in the invasion of the Philippines; so now I would like to see San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Well, Sis, I can't think of any more news so will close for this time. Write soon. Loving brother, Mel (Melvin Church S 2c) Lt. Keith Melville is stationed in Italy at present and is a pilot of a fi-17. He writes that he has completed com-pleted 14 missions over enemy territory. ter-ritory. Wayne Banks, Personel manager of the Fort Wingate Ordnance Depot De-pot passed through Lynndyl on route to his home in Gallup N. M. He visited'with his parents a few hours. He was accompanied by Capt. Buttler and wife, who is manager ma-nager of the. Fort Wingate Depot. They had been attending a convention con-vention of the officials of all the Ordnance Depots in the Western States. Convention was held in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Mae Miller received words that her husband Major Warren Miller is now safe and in the Phil-lipines. Phil-lipines. The shortage of cigarettes experienced ex-perienced throughout the Country reflects the bad distribution due to war time conditions and the fact that the Armed Forces are now smoking a fourth of the Country's total production, but no rationing of them is contemplated, the Office Of-fice of Price Administration states. The War Food Administration reports re-ports that the number of cigarettes cigaret-tes being manufactured for civilian and soldier consumption is the greatest in the history of the tobacco to-bacco industry. Only a negligible amount of tax-free cigarettes is sent abroad for consumption other than by our Armed Forces. Black market operations and hoarding are also believed to be factors contributing con-tributing to the spotty distribution and civilian shortages. Jobs were found for 60,064 veterans ve-terans of this war and for 10.S92 for the last war during the month of September by the United States Employment Service, the War Manpower Commission reports. Of the total of placements, 12.492 involved in-volved disabled veterans whose skills, aptitudes and experiences enabled them to perform man types of productive work. |