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Show With the Colors Mrs. Fred Jefferson, writing to local friends from their present home in Eureka, tells briefly of a ' most enjoyable vacation trip iwhich i took her and her husband to Lake j Tahoe and to Nevada City, Cali- f ornia, where thy made their home i for several years.'- Mrs. Jefferson 1 also tells of the recent promotion ; i to the rank of captain of their j ! son, Harry Jefferson, popular i former Milford resident. He is serving in the field artillery in the 1 south Pacific theatre and the pro-' motion came to him June 22. Also, he has joined the Veterans of Foreign Wars, taking this step while in New Zealand. The J. M. Hughes family motored motor-ed to Salt Lake City last week accompanying their son, Pvt. Wallace Wal-lace Hughes, U. S.M. C, that far on his return to the University of Colorado, where he is studying as a marine corps engineer. Technical Sergeant Ralph. E. Bonner, son of Mrs. Alta Bonner Kelsey of Minersville, and a former Milford boy, has been awarded the second oak leaf cluster to the air medal, according to word received from the European Euro-pean theatre of operations. This would indicate that he had accomplished accom-plished with distinction at least 15 operational missions over enemy occupied territory. He has been in the army since November 1942. Mr. and Mrs. Amos I. Blasin-game Blasin-game of Milford, formerly of Greenforest, Arkansas, are enjoying enjoy-ing a visit from their son, Chief Warrant Officer Jack Blasin-game. Blasin-game. Entering federal service with a national guard unit some three years ago, he has been serving serv-ing as instructor in the engineer corps at Camp Houze, near Gains-ville, Gains-ville, Texas. The elder Mr. Blasin-game Blasin-game is a car inspector locally for the Union Pacific railroad. Sergeant Val E. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thompson of Minersville, is now overseas and has participated in a course designed de-signed to bridge the gap between training in the states and soldiering soldier-ing in an active theatre of war according to a news release from an air service command station, "Somewhere in England". At one of the air service command stations, sta-tions, known as control depots, Sergeant Thompson was carefully processed by classification ex-was ex-was well fitted for the job assign-perts assign-perts who made certain that he ed to him. Security training, personal hygiene, hy-giene, a talk by a special service officer, informing him of facilities facili-ties for healthful recreation, and a lecture by the chaplain are all in turn a part of the soldier's preparations prep-arations for duties overseas. His next station will be one from which America's . fightinsr planes take off to smash the Nazi war machine. ' Before entering the army he was a student at the Milford high school. The, News recently carried brief mention of the award to Ensign Truitt Morrell, former Milford ! boy , of the distinguished flying cross. His mother, Mrs. Pearl Morrell Rassmussen, now living in Cedar City, has sent us a more complete account of the honor in the form of a letter from Lieutenant Lieu-tenant General George K. Kenney, commanding officer in the southwest south-west Pacific. Ensign Morrell was given his rating as ensign in August, 1943 and he is especially to be complimented as he attained it "the hard way", coming up from the ranks. The letter from General Kenney Ken-ney follows: "Dear Mrs. Rasmussen: "Recently your son, Ensign Truitt C. Morrell, was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross. It was an award made in recognition of courageous service to his combat organization, his fellow American airmen, his country, coun-try, his home and to you. "He was cited for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flights in the Southwest Pacific area from September 13, to December 30, 1913. "Your son took part in sustained ! operational flight missions during which hostile contact was probable and expected. These flights aided considerably in the recent success in this theatre. "Almost every hour of every day your son, and the sons of other American mothers, are doing just such things as that here in the Southwest Pacific. "Theirs is a very real and very tangible contribution to victory and to peace. "I would like to tell you how genuinely gen-uinely proud I am to have men such as your son in my command, and how gratified I am to know I that young Americans with such courage and resourcefulness are fighting our country's" battle against the aggressor nations. "You, Mrs. Rasmussen, have every reason to share that pride and gratification." |