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Show With the Colors Albert Thorpe Waddingham of Milford, along with nine other i Utah aviation cadets, was grad-i grad-i uated June 26 from the army , basic flying school at the Strother I army air field, Winfield, Kansas, class1 of 43-H. Following 70 hours aloft in Vultee Valiants and many more hours in ground school . and instrument instruction, spread over their 9 weeks there, these i Utah boys and others move on to an advanced field for either ! single-engine pur-suit or twin. engine bomber training, Thorpe going to Altus, Oklahoma. Walter D. Griffiths, 17, son of ' Mrs. Juanita Melton of Milford, : now wears the silver wings of an : Army Air forces' reservist following follow-ing his enlistment into the aviation avia-tion cadet program at Salt Lake i City. He will be called to active duty to begin pre-cadet training i sometime after his 18th birthday, ; according to a release from the ' cadet examination board. ! Harold La Marr Morris, son of : Mr. and Mrs. William Morris and I a radio operator on one of Uncle j Sam's o'l tankers, is home for an. j other furlough visit. Originally , set for 10 days, it is understood ; he has secured an extension of j five days. Last minute word from two of our latest inductees, Harold Beard of Milford and Jack Davis of Minersville, is to the effect that they have been assigned to the air forces, as they desired, and are located at Sheppard field, near Wichita Falls, Texas. V |