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Show With the Colors i From Jessie U McCulley, L'. S.' Navy j , Siattle, Wushinj-ton, Si-ptember o, 11M3. De:.r Mr. Williams: I received the Milford News yesterday yes-terday and it fiiro ci icl make me feel gooI. I can never thank you i enough for the writeup you gave me in The New, i I am going back to duty this week. I have been in the hospital here for aIout a month, being treated for my nerves. I feel all right now ar.d hope that I keop that way. I hope thit all of you in Milford are all right. j ' Will you plea.se do mc a fatr. i if it is not out of your way' Ij j would like to get some of the ad-j I dresses of boyii that have entered, the services. I can never tell when jl might meet up with them. I just missed seeing Richard Ilamcs jr.n (one of our battleships) just , because I did r.ot know that the ship wns in. Please gvp my regards to nil. JF.SSIE I, M.-CULLFY (A reprint of the complete list ; of the nearly T0 Milford and Min-(irsviMe Min-(irsviMe lxiys receiving The News, jail with current nddrvssrs, is holing ho-ling sent Seaman McCulley. Kdi-j Kdi-j tor.) Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Smith have I ns'eived word that their son Hill. :who enlisted in the navy several ' months ago, is now at sen in the I'. cifir, assigned to one of I'nrle Sam's , latent carriers. Following tnot training nt Farragut, Idaho. Bill ha lei-n located at a west coast port pending commissioning I of the carrier of which he is a ; member (f the crew. i J Wrord has come to the families of Mr. mid Mrs. Charles F. HomTiI. Milford and Mr. and Mrs. George I Davis of Minersville, that their sons, Harold Benrd anil Jack Dm vis, have passed the mental and physical examinations necessary neces-sary for designation ns aviation cadets and soon will Imi sent to a college or colhges for work prep-aratory prep-aratory to classification. These boys were inductis:! into army ser-Jico ser-Jico several weeks ii'g0 and were designated for air forces training, in accordance with their expressed preferences. They have- been in training nt Slii-ppnrd field, Witchiln Fulls, Texas, since induction in-duction at Fort Douglas. Lioul ennnt, Albert. Thorpe Weid- diiighani, son of Mr. and Mrs. I,. II. Waddingham, wdio lias boon making a furlough visit with home folks, left Thursday for Salt Lake City on his way lo Clovis, New Mexico, where ho will undergo training in piloting 11-2-1 bombers lit, the operational achool nt Clovis. Ho riiconlly received his pilot's wings and commission as n nerond lieul enant n't. Alius, Oklnlhomn, where lie rireived training I n flying t wo-engine j era ft. J Lieutenant Jonnillinn .Stanley Hughes, whose gradual ion In June ns n pilot at Itlnokln'ud field , Texas, whs iiHi'iidi'd by his parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes, and family, arrived home Tuesday for a visit of n few days with homo folks and friends. Since being awarded his wings and coin-mission, coin-mission, he has been located lit Columbus, Ohio, where he has been receiving training in flying heavy bomilcrs. He flew a 11-17 cut to the Salt Ijike nir kiso and will return by train to Columbus, where ho will serve as Instructor. Owen R. Sinilh jr. was promoted promot-ed to stoi'okooei' first class September 1, according to wold ns'eived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Owen K. Smith. He has been in navy service some three years, serving on a cruiser in Pacific wii'tci-H until his recent furlough isit home. His present address curries a Now York fleet post of fice number, however, and it Is presumed he is swing service off the Atlantic const. George A. Council, son of Mr. rnd Mrs. A. A. Council and husband hus-band of Kilo-en Gillins Council, is home for a HI) day loave. A veteran vet-eran of navy service ill the Pacific as water lender iJhoard n heavy cruiser, young Council suffered si en tn burns sliorlly nfler his recent re-cent assignment to mini her ship, ami has been undergoing treatment treat-ment for some tinio prior to coining coin-ing home. |