Show News Mews of Manti Men EVIen In Uniform Ends Active Duty Bob Hill son of Mr and Mrs LaVar Hill arrived home Friday with a discharge from I the army given him at bury Indiana Bob entered the army three years ago and served served served ed 23 m months o 0 n nth t h s overseas 13 months of that time in Korea and the remainder in Japan He served as a mechanic with the Engineers Brothers Home Airman Arlo Bahr and Airman Airman Airman Air Air- man Max l Bahr sons of Mr and Mrs M. M H. H Bahr have both been visiting home this p pas past a s t week Max arrived home a week ago Monday from his base in New York and left again the middle of this week Arlo ar arrived arrived arrived ar- ar rived home last Friday from Mississippi 1 and has until t the thelast thelast h e last of the month before he re reports reports reports re- re ports in California for overseas assignment in Japan Arlo joined the Air Force in May 1 1952 and Max joined six week later The brothers have enjoyed their visit home together They and Bob Hill were part of a group of six Manti men and their girls who made an Easter trip to the southern part of the I state I I Set For Basic I Carl Warwood has written his I Ito mother Mrs 1 Francis Warwood to tell that he has been sent from Fort Ord to San Luis Obispo Obispo Obispo O- O bispo for basic trai training ing in the army In San Francisco Francisco- Keith Madsen 1 has been sent from Fort Ord to the Presidio in San Francisco for a weeks 6 course in administration He expects to be assigned back to Fort Ord on completion of this course Keith called home the first of the week for a short telephone conversation with his folks Mr 11 and Mrs 1 Stanford Madsen Tells of A V Bomb Kenneth Chapman has written written writ writ- ten h his i s mother Mrs Stella Chapman to tell of his experience experience experience exper exper- at the Atomic tests He lie writes Well VeIl I am here safe and sound and I saw one of the most beautiful sights in the th world the atomic bomb You cant can't imagine in your wildest dreams just what it is like For Forone Forone Forone one thing it is the most beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- thing I have ever seen The colors that come from it are so pretty that it is unexplainable unexplainable unexplainable you would just have to see it to know And at the same time it is so powerful that when you think of the destruction destruction destruction tion it can can cause it makes you shudder I was thinking what if one should hit a town the size of Manti I will give give- you an idea of what it might do For ex example example ex- ex example ample We Ve were yards from the bomb when it went off and in trenches six feet deep At the time of detonation detonation detonation detona detona- tion the whole ground shook and there was such a blinding flash that I was looking at the ground and couldn't see anything anything anything any any- thing for about five seconds and I was clear in a hole They estimate the brightness to beabout beabout be beabout about times the brightness of the sun so you can form forman an idea of the flash it puts off The heat from it started fires in behind us about three or four miles away I could go goon goon goon on all night and still tell you about it so I will stop for now Kenneth is now back at Ft Knox Kentucky with an Engineer Engineer Engineer En En- Construction group Has lias Furlough Delbert Boyington his wife and child visited in Manti last las t week while Del Delbert ert was on furlough furlough furlough fur fur- lough from the army He lie has just completed 16 weeks of ba ha basic basic ba- ba sic training in heavy weapons weapon s at Port Ord He lIe will return to Fort Ord for a leadership school at the end of his fur fur- lough Mrs Boyington who formerly formerly formerly for for- merly was on the Manti High I School faculty is now teaching g In Ogden |