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Show With Ac Colors Richard C. Johnson, former Pacific Pa-cific Fruit and Express employe, who was inducted into army service ser-vice some two weeks ago at Fort Douglas, now is attached to an infantry in-fantry training unit at Camp Hood, Texas, according to word received by his wife, Marie Angell Johnson, and other relatives. Thus far, no word of the assignment given to Walter H. Muir, former local Union Pacific machinist, who was called up by the Iron county selective service board, with whom he was registered, has been received. re-ceived. The News will go to Dick at Camp Hood with the compliments compli-ments of Miss Ann Marie Outzen, a niece and outstanding student in this year's JM. H. S. graduating class. Ross Cottrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cottrell, was home for a few days ' last week, visiting home folks and friends. He has an assignment aboard a ship in transport trans-port service and seems to be doing allright as he appears fine and fit, with his usual cheerfulness. George A. (Tom) Horton and Bruce Fotheringham, 1945 graduates grad-uates of Milford high school, passed pass-ed through Milford last Saturday on heir way to enter navy training train-ing at San Diego. Both boys originally signed for the army air corps, but, when abandonment of the program recently was announced an-nounced and they were given their release, they made every effort to get into the navy, finally succeeding succeed-ing after several attempts. They were on their way from Salt Lake City to San Diego when they passed pass-ed through Milford. MSgt, and Mrs. Walden Blackburn Black-burn left Sunday for Fort Lewis, Washington. From there Sergeant Blackburn will go to Santa Monica, where he will be reassigned to some base or school in the United States. Their young son Dennis is staving with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bingham, until his mother comes for him later. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Martin have received word that their son, Lieutenant Robert R. Martin is in a hospital in the China-Burma theatre of operations with a cast on his foot, which was shot early in May. "Bob", now a first lieutenant lieuten-ant in the army air corps, has been flying a helicopter with a jungle rescue unit for some time. Mrs. Ireta Albrecht Friday of last week received word from the navy department stating that her son. Jack Fotheringham, quarter master third class, had been seriously seri-ously wounded about the nose and cheek May 25 in action in which his ship, a destroyer, was engaged. i I Fortunately the wire was preceded by letters to his wife and mother, 'which made the shock less severe. 1 j He first was flown to Guam from j the scene of action and now is be-' be-' lieved to be at Pearl Harbor naval i hospital. His wife is the former I Hannah Gale of Beaver and she is 1 employed at Castle Dale in farm ! security work. I Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes and I son, Staff Sergeant Nolan Hughes, ! returned home this week from a i visit of several days in Lincoln, i Nebraska, with another son and his wife, Lieutenant and Mrs. J. Stanley Hughes. TTe latter accompanied ac-companied them to Milford but returned re-turned again Wednesday to be with her husband until he goes over seas. D Mordell Lund, who joined the navy a few months ago and has been receiving boot training, has been spending the week with home folks and friends. |