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Show With the Colors Lieutenant Thorpe Waddingham and Johnny Grimshaw motored to Salt Lake City Sunday of last week for a visit of a few days. fa pa pa Private Leland Thompson, who left Milford September 5 for army induction, has been assigned to a personnel detachment at Fort Douglas, at least for the time being. In this capacity his work is with service men who are being given their discharge from military mili-tary service. Leland, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Thompson and third son in army service, graduated from Milford high school last spring. Writing home to his folks, one of the first things he requested was The News and a subscription in his behalf has been entered by Mrs. Thompson. Thomp-son. pa m pa Mr. and Mrs. Roy F. White sr. have received word from their son, Corporal Thorold White, indicating indicat-ing that he is coming home for discharge and asking that The News going to him be discontinued. Corporal White, former Pacific Fruit Express inspector, has been attached to the 1393rd Engineer construction brigade. Pa Pi Pa ! Johnny Gower is a guest at the Dick Jones home enxoute to his homo in Baxter, West Virginia, after having been discharged from a naval hospital in San Diego. Mr. Gower is friend of Jimmy Jones and received injuries on, the Birmingham Birm-ingham at the time Jimmy received receiv-ed his. r- rv.i p3 George Connell, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Connell, returned home last week with an honorable discharge dis-charge from a long period of service ser-vice in Uncle Sam's navy. George was one of the early boys from Milford to volunteer for navy duty and saw plenty of action. He was badly scalded aboard ship at one time and was hospitalized for several months. Pa fa F-j Excerpts from Letters Written by Warren Thompson, U. S. Navy Okinawa, Aug. 20-22-28, 1945 Dear Mother and Dad: I am about (censored) miles from home right now and it took about 24 days to get here. It is awfully rainy and plenty of mud everywhere. It hardly ever misses a day here and when it rains it doesn't fool around, but one gets used to it. It probably will be quite some time before I will be on the return journey home, so don't expect too much because the war is over. It isn't bad where I am, so a little longer won't matter much. The Okinavans live on rice, fish, and probably sweet potatoes, as there are plenty of them growing around here. Also, there is a little sugar cane growing 0n the island. (Continued on last page) With the Colors (Continued from first page) It is only about 60 miles long and 15 miles wide, but at that it is a fairly large island and the rain keeps everything nice and green. (Continued next week) M .. |