Show NAVY I I Continued from Page Inge One Ono I of ot milk around their plates We i had md our choice of ot roast beef beet and beet stew or both There were half halt aalf a dozen vegetable dishes and I I Ithe the he salad table would have done credit to any hostess Three or tour lour different 8 salads lads half halt a dozen dozen dl different terent pickles and relishes and all the side delicacies Best Dost of ot all all this general mess is open 24 hours a day A man can eat all day long iong if It he can get away No wonder we put on weight No wonder our Navy is the finest in all the world I Career at 22 The he ships ship's Public Relations man mant t picked up a dozen Utah boy the crew and arid paired us off ort for tor our visit to the general mess We had hada a ball bail My pa partner ner was s Eddie Hernandez of or one ol or Ot the grandest kids Ive I've met 1 Only 22 22 he is already a career I man He entered the Navy after atter his junior year at D Davis vis and the I Navy put him his senior I year and he got his diploma from Davis Now he ho Is a yeoman office worker just back from three v II years yeats with lb the TAr T Ni l S. S Italy aM M i M t l Naty t lot Ag 0 0 C C CIt It was wan my privilege to tb aU attend n two church services Sunday Both were packed There were were wr two tw chaplains aboard one Pr Protestant and one Catholic Each Bach ave ave ae A short sermon which affected m ma deeply deeply deeply-a a strange mixture of ot sophistication soph soph- and piety and pride In Ia Navy when obviously Impressed t the thousands ot of worshippers Something Unreal There was WM something stiff and ant unreal about the chin of ot Father Griffin However it did not affect his Ms speaking voice Not Nt until wo we reached Pearl Harbor and I be became became be- be came camo a friend and admirer of ot Father Jather Mahler chief chaplain cn ot or the entire Western Pacific did X I. learn what caused the tho strange strang immobility of ot the lower jaw It Is 19 not his chin It Ls to the tho re result result ro- ro sult suIt ot of plastic surgery In tho the Korean War Father Griffin was on the battlefields battlefield bestowing lost last rites to the tho dying of ot all alt faiths He Ito was accompanied accompanistS by an aide Caruso A sniper sigh sighted led In In and Caruso CarUM leaped in front of ot the priest just in time timo timeto to be killed The sniper fired tired again and nd shot away the tho bottom half of Father Griffins Griffin's face tace The Incident was photographed and widely publicized in national magazines at the time Meeting and getting to know men such as these added constantly constantly con con- to my pride in the tho organization organization organization or or- which is our greatest the onrush of ot Com Corn u Meeting of ot us were window shopping shopping shopping shop shop- ping at a ships ship's store there aro are five on the Midway when wa we were approached by a seaman Pardon me me Is It true you men are from Utah Do you happen to tobe tobe tobe be We introduced him to the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon publisher in our trio He lie was arranging an art LBS meeting Lot for Sunday evening They packed the tha chapel and we were proud that Publishers Jack Warner of ot SpanIsh Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish Fork and Bill Dill WalUs of ot Vernal 1 I gave outstanding talks l I Where you from Sailor I asked the lad L L. A little town In Ar Arizona zona you yoa answered never heard of of he ha Egar Arizona I what you think I salt saId while whUa My folks lived there for tor a and I visited them there several times In fact tact my niece graduated t from high school there Further one married an Egar Igar gar DOY boy name was Egar Welt Well Ill I'll be d darned said tha the sailor My grandmother wa was was a ar aI I Egar Small world huh hub I Next week week Pearl Pearl Harbor and aUlI Waikiki Beach and those clothes and a a. night hind be the s scenes enes i |